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M O N I TO R OCTOBER 27, 2016
Winter is approaching, and fashion styles are changing. Turning the closets upside down, people are taking out winter clothes, and storing the summer shorts. Talking about winter clothing, these days ‘cardigans’ are becoming a ‘thing’ for both genders.
What is a “cardigan”? A cardigan is a kind of open-front knitted garment. The modern version of cardigan might or might not be knitted. It can also either be with or without buttons. The length of a cardigan varies according to its design. However, women mostly wear long cardigans, since they give off a feeling of fuzzy, cozy, warm and cuddly.
Where do they come from? Well, the word “cardigan” was named after a person from early 1900s called, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army general. Lord Cardigan led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during Crimean War. During those wars, British officers wore knitted wool waistcoats. Then, people
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than a foot tall. “We really didn’t know how to think about the factors that actually happen, or what we could come across. Until we finished the design, we couldn’t do the coding, since it depended on our design. Then we had to do the coding and testing,” said Johar. According to Johar, the design for the first robot was a shovel-like system like a truck. It would pick up objects, and then a bar at the end would pull them back. The robot had three wheels, two tire wheels at the front and a ball wheel at the back. “The tires were super fat and big, so if we put four tires, it was going to have too much friction to turn. So, we used a ball-wheel that could turn in any direction to give the robot the ability to turn more efficiently,” said Johar. Johar and the team decided to use a gyroscope because it would measure the rotation. At the end, their robot didn’t
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Alee Makhani in a cardigan named the British officers’ waistcoat “cardigan” as in honor of Lord Cardigan’s achievement.
Why are knitted cardigans popular for all ages? Most people do not have time to fold their coats neatly or hold their big fur coats or trench coats after they take them off while commuting either by bus, BART, train, or even by foot. However, knitted cardigans are different. Not only they are light weighted, but also they are wrinkle-proof. They can be worn as a sole outer layer, and they can be worn underneath of succeed as they expected. “It picked up the rock. But the rock was heavy, keeping the back ball wheels from touching the surface. The robot was tilting, and so the robot didn’t turn,” said Johar. “The first robot wasn’t that great and we were disappointed. But it was fun. At that moment, it was interesting. You realize what actually happens, what actually you have to consider, and what actually is a real life project, and how it is like to feel defeated,” said Johar. The second robot was named “Redemption.” They named it because they were defeated on the first mission, and now on the second mission, they decided to redeem themselves. They built it on budget, spending $400 million. They even earned some bonuses. “If we had an unlimited budget, we could have built the best robot ever, but we had some budget issues… (laughter),” said Johar. For this robot, they switched the gyroscope to the ultrasound sensor, since it could measure distances easily. NASA set up Hot Wheels
business suits. Cardigans are also suited for all three seasons unlike thick trench or fur coats. Of course, no one will actually wear cardigans on hot summer days, but you can bring them for indoors, in case the AC is on in a classroom or a movie theater, or something. They are convenient and fashionable as well, depending on how you wear and how you look in them. There are no worries about where or when or how to wear cardigans. They can be in formal, classic, either casual, or sleepwear.
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cars as broken parts of previous robots on Mars. So, the objects were small. Johar said that because of the size
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Yash Kumar Johar standing in front of NASA logo. of the Hot Wheels cars, they had to put the ultrasound sensor very close to the surface, near the bottom of the robot. They tried putting it horizontally, but the ultrasound sensor had a blind spot. They couldn’t put it at
The season has just started, and now cardigans are everywhere. Of course, at Ohlone College as well, they are far from rare. Almost every woman is wearing a cardigan, both long and short. Short cardigans look very light, thin, and easy to move around with. However, long cardigans give off a cozy, fluffy, and fragile vibe. Moreover, as the modern version of cardigans takes over, long cardigans usually have hoods for more warmth and coverage. For men cardigans, mostly they are short. Short means the length of the cardigan is above the hipbone or a bit below the hipbone.
The color comes in various choices and depending on the brand, the price differs. The average price range for a cardigan is around $30 to $60. This week, Makhani is featuring in this fashion column for topic “Cardigan”. He is wearing black jeans, and a black top and a light beige cardigan as a sole outer layer. For shoes, he is wearing Wyndings Loafers. Contact Info: stephanie. sein@gmail.com If you have any questions, or if you want to talk about fashion, or if you would like to feature on Ohlone newspaper in the future, let me know through my Gmail.
an angle since it would just measure the ground. So, the decided to put it vertically, which turned out fine. This robot was designed with a rake to drag the Hot Wheels cars. Yet again, the team decided to abort the turning command, and decided to just go back and forth, dragging the object and then coming back. The coding for this robot was that when the sensor scanned the object within 5 centimeters distance, it was to stop, rake the Hot Wheels cars, and go back to its position. When the time came to deal with Olympus Mons, the team measured the distance between the car and the surface using the Pythagorean theorem. They made the rake’s length long enough to drag the Hot Wheels car without actually climbing up. He also said, “Now we finally knew how to think about this. We saw how it was working, and how things work. After that moment, I think I am ten times smarter than how I was before. Because I now know how to think, how to work around things, and to see the
practical application of everything. Because in reality, you can’t make assumptions as we do theoretical stuff. We had to think of drag, air friction, and all that stuff which we couldn’t assume.” On the final day, each team did their 10-minute presentation on “what we did for the first rover, how, what, and why we used something in our first rover, what limitations we had, what we did for the second rover, based on the experiences we gained on the first rover, how we did and what we changed on the second rover, and lastly, how we were going to reach out to the public, to show our education to the next generation, and how we are going to have them involve in these projects,” said Johar. “As a team, we needed to work together, we needed to blend our weaknesses and strengths. We had to work around our advantages and disadvantages. And as a team, there were 10 brains working on this project, instead of individual brain working on it. So it is 10 times more efficient.”