Beans for Books (Incorporated) is a nonprofit organization created by five students from Chariho High School located in Wood River Junction, Rhode Island. Beans for Books takes money given through donations and uses the funds to purchase new and updated textbooks.
About Beans for Books
The concept for Beans for Books came to founder David Lanning, Jr. in October 2007 while working at his family's coffee shop. Involvement with the coffee business lead to the resources and experience necessary to start Beans for Books. Through the help of teachers at Chariho Regional High School and Dave's Coffee Shop (where Lanning works), Beans for Books became an official, state approve nonprofit organization in December 2007.
New Year's 2008 marked the first week of operations from the organization. To date, roughly $400 has been raised for the purchase of new and updated textbooks.
The organization has seen recent media exposure, most notably with a featured article in The Providence Journal and a new segment on NBC 10 WJAR.
Members
David Lanning, Jr. (Founder, Lead Director)
Jacob Struzik (Web Design, Supporting Director)
Michael Niemeyer (Management, Supporting Director)
Samantha Parente (Organization, Supporting Director)
Neal Beaudreau (Organization, Supporting Director)
About Beans for Books
The concept for Beans for Books came to founder David Lanning, Jr. in October 2007 while working at his family's coffee shop. Involvement with the coffee business lead to the resources and experience necessary to start Beans for Books. Through the help of teachers at Chariho Regional High School and Dave's Coffee Shop (where Lanning works), Beans for Books became an official, state approve nonprofit organization in December 2007.
New Year's 2008 marked the first week of operations from the organization. To date, roughly $400 has been raised for the purchase of new and updated textbooks.
The organization has seen recent media exposure, most notably with a featured article in The Providence Journal and a new segment on NBC 10 WJAR.
Members
David Lanning, Jr. (Founder, Lead Director)
Jacob Struzik (Web Design, Supporting Director)
Michael Niemeyer (Management, Supporting Director)
Samantha Parente (Organization, Supporting Director)
Neal Beaudreau (Organization, Supporting Director)
Known as the Ancient and Honorable Union of the Tion Hegemony, the Hegemony is a collection of 27 star systems in the fictional Star Wars galaxy and the most powerful state in the Tion Cluster. It is one of the oldest and most ancient human civilizations in the galaxy, and was the domain of the pre-Republic tyrant Xim the Despot.
Origins
Sometime between c.28,000 - 25,500 BBY, an off-course 'sleeper ship' from the Core Worlds deposited its human passengers within future Tion space. The human settlers eventually built hyperdrives (somehow fusing Rakatan technology with fixed hyperspace beacons), forming a 'lighthouse' system that allowed for safe FTL travel - as long as one stayed within the network.
Without any knowledge of the Perlemian hyperlane the humans had no means of contacting human worlds in the Core. The Tionese did eventually encounter the Hutts, whose economic 'empire' was a dominant force in the pre-Republican galaxy.
Xim the Despot
About 150 years before the formation of the Republic (25,150 BBY), Xim the Despot's father, himself a pirate, carved out the Kingdom of Cron, presumably from the Livien League which had previously controlled the Hegemony. Xim, the tyrannical 'pirate prince', vastly expanded the Tion's borders between 25,130 and 25,100 BBY, through raiding planets and appointing governors to manage the newly conquered worlds. Among his conquests, in addition to all of the Tion Cluster, was the present-day Corporate Sector. Uncountable treasures were plundered and housed in a voluminous facility on Dellalt, while atrocities such as mass 'spacings' were common.
Xim's decline began 25,105 BBY when the Hutts demolished one of his fleets at Vontor. Five years later, at the Third Battle of Vontor, Xim's war droids were crushed by Kossak the Hutt and his allied/slave conscripts. Xim's ultimate fate (killed in battle or death in Kossak's dungeons) is disputed, but the Tion Cluster split into competing states following his passing.
The Tion and the Republic
As the Republic's explorers mapped out the Perlemian Trade Route, communications between the Tionese and their ancestral homeworld(s) were reestablished. Relations between the Republic and the Tion soured swiftly, and the Force-users of Ossus became a bulwark against the declining Tionese and Hutts, preventing the Perlemian from becoming an invasion highway.
War erupted between the Tion and the Republic approximately 24,000 BBY, and Republican/Tionese armadas raged up and down the Perlemian hyperlane, raining pressure bombs on their respective capitals of Coruscant and Desevro. The Republic emerged victorious when its agents stirred the Hutts against their old enemies in the Tion, and within a century most of the Tion Cluster had joined the Republic.
As the Republic grew and the Tion Hegemony was increasingly marginalised, the sector saw a decline in its fortunes. However the Hegemony remained the breadbasket of the Tion, providing foodstuffs for all three of the Tion's sectors. Both the Empire and the Yuuzhan Vong seem to have left it alone during the turmoil that followed the Republic's downfall (19 BBY - 30 ABY).
Worlds of the Tion Hegemony
*Brigia
A poor planet. The university of Rudrig has been providing guidance and aid to Brigga's development and modernization initiative.
*Daluuj
A miserable, backwater Republic training outpost. The weather is constantly a storm, making visibility minimal and sensors almost useless.
*Dellalt
Possibly the capital of Xim's empire, this planet housed the famous vaults where the tyrant's treasure was supposedly stored. Now a destitute ruin.
*Desevro
Capital of the Tion Hegemony c.24,000 BBY. Bombed by Republican warships during the Tion-Republic war. Subsequent fate unknown.
*Kabal
A backwater world. Near a white dwarf star, surrounded by hundreds of derelict ships, held in place by the strong gravity.
*Rudrig
Education, science, research, space docks; technologically the more advanced of the Tion Hegemony worlds, it has become something of a tourist site.
*Saheelindeel
Saheelindeel is a backwater world inhabited by intelligent, green-furred primates. The high festival on Saheelindeel is a time for tribal hunting rituals and harvest ceremonies, and has recently begun to incorporate farm machinery exhibits, shock-ball matches, and airshows in an attempt to become more technologically sophisticated. The Saheelindeeli, led by a matriarch, have an affinity for grandiose actions.
*
Forest, cold, mining
*Vontor
The site of the Third Battle of Vontor, the final defeat of the historical tyrant Xim the Despot. During this battle, Xim's orbital fortress and nearly all of his war-robots were vaporized.
Origins
Sometime between c.28,000 - 25,500 BBY, an off-course 'sleeper ship' from the Core Worlds deposited its human passengers within future Tion space. The human settlers eventually built hyperdrives (somehow fusing Rakatan technology with fixed hyperspace beacons), forming a 'lighthouse' system that allowed for safe FTL travel - as long as one stayed within the network.
Without any knowledge of the Perlemian hyperlane the humans had no means of contacting human worlds in the Core. The Tionese did eventually encounter the Hutts, whose economic 'empire' was a dominant force in the pre-Republican galaxy.
Xim the Despot
About 150 years before the formation of the Republic (25,150 BBY), Xim the Despot's father, himself a pirate, carved out the Kingdom of Cron, presumably from the Livien League which had previously controlled the Hegemony. Xim, the tyrannical 'pirate prince', vastly expanded the Tion's borders between 25,130 and 25,100 BBY, through raiding planets and appointing governors to manage the newly conquered worlds. Among his conquests, in addition to all of the Tion Cluster, was the present-day Corporate Sector. Uncountable treasures were plundered and housed in a voluminous facility on Dellalt, while atrocities such as mass 'spacings' were common.
Xim's decline began 25,105 BBY when the Hutts demolished one of his fleets at Vontor. Five years later, at the Third Battle of Vontor, Xim's war droids were crushed by Kossak the Hutt and his allied/slave conscripts. Xim's ultimate fate (killed in battle or death in Kossak's dungeons) is disputed, but the Tion Cluster split into competing states following his passing.
The Tion and the Republic
As the Republic's explorers mapped out the Perlemian Trade Route, communications between the Tionese and their ancestral homeworld(s) were reestablished. Relations between the Republic and the Tion soured swiftly, and the Force-users of Ossus became a bulwark against the declining Tionese and Hutts, preventing the Perlemian from becoming an invasion highway.
War erupted between the Tion and the Republic approximately 24,000 BBY, and Republican/Tionese armadas raged up and down the Perlemian hyperlane, raining pressure bombs on their respective capitals of Coruscant and Desevro. The Republic emerged victorious when its agents stirred the Hutts against their old enemies in the Tion, and within a century most of the Tion Cluster had joined the Republic.
As the Republic grew and the Tion Hegemony was increasingly marginalised, the sector saw a decline in its fortunes. However the Hegemony remained the breadbasket of the Tion, providing foodstuffs for all three of the Tion's sectors. Both the Empire and the Yuuzhan Vong seem to have left it alone during the turmoil that followed the Republic's downfall (19 BBY - 30 ABY).
Worlds of the Tion Hegemony
*Brigia
A poor planet. The university of Rudrig has been providing guidance and aid to Brigga's development and modernization initiative.
*Daluuj
A miserable, backwater Republic training outpost. The weather is constantly a storm, making visibility minimal and sensors almost useless.
*Dellalt
Possibly the capital of Xim's empire, this planet housed the famous vaults where the tyrant's treasure was supposedly stored. Now a destitute ruin.
*Desevro
Capital of the Tion Hegemony c.24,000 BBY. Bombed by Republican warships during the Tion-Republic war. Subsequent fate unknown.
*Kabal
A backwater world. Near a white dwarf star, surrounded by hundreds of derelict ships, held in place by the strong gravity.
*Rudrig
Education, science, research, space docks; technologically the more advanced of the Tion Hegemony worlds, it has become something of a tourist site.
*Saheelindeel
Saheelindeel is a backwater world inhabited by intelligent, green-furred primates. The high festival on Saheelindeel is a time for tribal hunting rituals and harvest ceremonies, and has recently begun to incorporate farm machinery exhibits, shock-ball matches, and airshows in an attempt to become more technologically sophisticated. The Saheelindeeli, led by a matriarch, have an affinity for grandiose actions.
*
Forest, cold, mining
*Vontor
The site of the Third Battle of Vontor, the final defeat of the historical tyrant Xim the Despot. During this battle, Xim's orbital fortress and nearly all of his war-robots were vaporized.
*2020
**Global oil production is expected to peak.
**World population is expected to reach 7.6 billion people.
**Flash floods are expected to increase in all parts of Europe.
**18 percent of the world’s coral reefs are expected to be lost due to climate change.
*2036
**India is projected to overtake China as world's most populous country.
**April 13 — Close approach to Earth by asteroid 99942 Apophis. The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean or the western United States near Denver, Colorado on Easter Sunday.
*2037
**January 31 — Near-Earth object 2002 OD20 will make a close approach to Earth.
**June 29 — Near-Earth object 2002 LT38 will make a close approach to Earth.
*2040
**World population will reach 8.5 billion people.
**Arctic Sea could become ice-free during the summer.
*2043
**The U.S. is projected to reach 400 million in population.
*2044
**May 18 — Near-Earth object 2002 QF15 will make a close approach to Earth.
*2050
**Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, "warned of a global collapse by 2050 of all species being fished, if fishing continues at its current pace."
**Scientists have warned that by 2050, the bonobo, chimpanzee, elephant, gorilla, orangutan, polar bear and other important species will be extinct in the wild if current trends continue.
**World population is projected to reach 9.4 billion people.
*2100
**12% (about 1250) of the bird species existing at the beginning of the 21st century are expected to be extinct or threatened with extinction.
*2150
**World population is projected to reach 9.7 billion.
**World coal supply presumed to peak.
*2183
**World populatiuon expected to reach 10 billion.
*2880
**March 16: Predicted potential impact date for asteroid , the near Earth object with the highest known probability of crashing into Earth, with 1/300 chance.
*c. 1,000,000,000
**The last total solar eclipse on Earth will occur.
*c. 3,000,000,000
**The Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy are predicted to collide.
*c. 6,500,000,000
**The Sun will become a red giant and any remaining life on Earth, and possibly Earth itself, will be destroyed.
**Global oil production is expected to peak.
**World population is expected to reach 7.6 billion people.
**Flash floods are expected to increase in all parts of Europe.
**18 percent of the world’s coral reefs are expected to be lost due to climate change.
*2036
**India is projected to overtake China as world's most populous country.
**April 13 — Close approach to Earth by asteroid 99942 Apophis. The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean or the western United States near Denver, Colorado on Easter Sunday.
*2037
**January 31 — Near-Earth object 2002 OD20 will make a close approach to Earth.
**June 29 — Near-Earth object 2002 LT38 will make a close approach to Earth.
*2040
**World population will reach 8.5 billion people.
**Arctic Sea could become ice-free during the summer.
*2043
**The U.S. is projected to reach 400 million in population.
*2044
**May 18 — Near-Earth object 2002 QF15 will make a close approach to Earth.
*2050
**Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, "warned of a global collapse by 2050 of all species being fished, if fishing continues at its current pace."
**Scientists have warned that by 2050, the bonobo, chimpanzee, elephant, gorilla, orangutan, polar bear and other important species will be extinct in the wild if current trends continue.
**World population is projected to reach 9.4 billion people.
*2100
**12% (about 1250) of the bird species existing at the beginning of the 21st century are expected to be extinct or threatened with extinction.
*2150
**World population is projected to reach 9.7 billion.
**World coal supply presumed to peak.
*2183
**World populatiuon expected to reach 10 billion.
*2880
**March 16: Predicted potential impact date for asteroid , the near Earth object with the highest known probability of crashing into Earth, with 1/300 chance.
*c. 1,000,000,000
**The last total solar eclipse on Earth will occur.
*c. 3,000,000,000
**The Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy are predicted to collide.
*c. 6,500,000,000
**The Sun will become a red giant and any remaining life on Earth, and possibly Earth itself, will be destroyed.
In the 1950's the Radio Electronics Television Manufacturers Association (RETMA), now part of the Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA)
Color - Circuit
Black - Grounds, grounded elements and returns
Brown - Heaters or filaments, off ground
Red - Power Supply B-plus
Orange - Screen grids
Yellow - Cathodes
Green - Control Grids
Blue - Plates
Violet - not used
Gray - AC power lines
White - Above or below ground returns, AVC, etc.
Most electronic manufactures of that era, including the popular Heathkit, used this color code for chassis wiring. When working on antique electronic equipment of that era, this color code can identify circuit wire functions without a schematic or wiring diagram.
Reference verification: Popular Electronics Magazine 1958 July, page 78
Color - Circuit
Black - Grounds, grounded elements and returns
Brown - Heaters or filaments, off ground
Red - Power Supply B-plus
Orange - Screen grids
Yellow - Cathodes
Green - Control Grids
Blue - Plates
Violet - not used
Gray - AC power lines
White - Above or below ground returns, AVC, etc.
Most electronic manufactures of that era, including the popular Heathkit
Reference verification: Popular Electronics Magazine 1958 July, page 78