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	Flatland BMX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flatland is BMX riding that is mostly performed on smooth flat surfaces, with flatland specific frames, front and rear bolt on axle pegs, and a hollow front stem to facilitate the bars being able to rotate endlessy without tangling the brake cable.
		When flatland riding first came into being, most riders would do one trick, and then get back to the pedals and that was it, but by combining different body, and bicycle positions, into "combos" and "linking" them together, riders challenge themselves further by doing several tricks in a row without stopping inbetween each move.
		Flatland riding is usually a combination of many different kinds of moves, often linked together in a non-stop fashion as the rider goes through as few as 2 or 3, or as many as 10-12 moves, and position or direction changes in a row, and then finally returning their feet to the pedals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flatland_BMX (816 words)

	Flatland
		But Flatland is still unready to cope with concepts such as the curvature or expansion of space.
		Whereas in Flatland the inhabitants are polygonal shapes sliding about on an idealized tabletop world, in The Planiverse the denizens walk on the one-dimensional surface of a circular planet (much like Hinton's Astrians), must climb over one another to pass, and build complex machines of springs and hinges.
		Whereas Flatland, boiled down to the core, teaches the single lesson that other dimensions are conceivable as mathematical constructs, Sphereland introduces the notions of curved and expanding space and how they apply to the real world.
	www.calormen.com /Flatland (2131 words)

	Flatland Ski Association: ski council for Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, & Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Flatland Ski Association membership consists of non-profit voluntary membership clubs in which snow skiing, in various forms, is a major activity.
		The Flatland Ski and Snowboard Race will be held at Copper Mountain in Colorado January 31, 2006 through February 4, 2006.
		Participation in the Flatland Ski Association races has grown from the original 40 racers in 1965 to one of the largest and oldest amateur alpine ski events in the United States.
	wichitaskiclub.com /fsa (799 words)

	Flatland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) is a classic 19th century novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of other dimensions.
		In the world of Flatland, classes are distinguished using the "Art of Feeling" and the "Art of Sight Recognition".
		Feeling, practiced by the lower classes and women, determines the configuration of a person by feeling one of their angles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flatland (594 words)

	Flatland as a Social-Political Space
		Flatland is an imaginative story focused on the complexities of conceptualizing spatial dimension.
		It is a crime in Flatland, but not because it is physically dangerous for Flatlanders to imagine or infer the existence of a third dimension, or for anything at all that has to do with its physics, but because of Flatland’s social and political reality.
		A Flatlander with a great effort of imagination would only be able to infer the existence of a third dimension as a way to explain how such appearances were possible.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~pa34/FSS.htm (5854 words)

	Flatland Consulting - Home
		At Flatland Consulting we have the skills and the experience to help you achieve peace of mind.
		Whether it is a network that just won't seem to cooperate or a software package that was old in the 1970s, we can provide you with a solution.
		Flatland Consulting offers simple 'Complete Care' solutions that allow you to use your time the way you want.
	www.flatlandsoftware.com (143 words)

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		Flatland is over one hundred years old, and it has never been more popular than it is now, with five new English editions in the past six years, and translations into eight foreign languages.
		This book, Flatland, has undergone several periods of popularity, including our present day, when five new editions have appeared in as many years and when several authors have written new books with Flatland as their inspiration.
		Abbott specifically identifies Candler as 'the H.C. to whom Flatland wasdedicated' in the introduction to one of his theology volumes written just after Candler died in 1916, and the first edition in the Trinity College library, donated by one of Candler's grandsons, is inscribed simply 'To H.C., in particular'.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /~banchoff/ISR/ISR.html (5390 words)

	Computer Graphics World - Flatland
		A good example of Flatland's potential can be seen in an application related to one of the more difficult problems in scientific visualization: the folding of protein molecules in a solution, a key process in the search for new drug therapies.
		Subsequently, one of Alsing's students examined a data visualization in Flatland of the parallel processors running the simulation and was able to localize the problem to one out-of-sync processor glowing green, an indication that it was still at work while the other processors shown in red were at rest.
		Taking advantage of Flatland's scalability and the self-similar structure of the network connecting the processors is a representation that can be ramped up from a single node to the whole machine comprised of 4096 nodes and 6144 switches.
	cgw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=152712 (1758 words)

	Flatland (English version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1884 he wrote "Flatland", a small but very amusing book which is not only about spatial dimensions, but also houses an entire Victorian society of two-dimensional creatures.
		Amusing, because Flatland society reveals itself to the careful reader as a subtle satire of the Victorian society in which Abbott lived: it is, for example, clearly hierarchically organized.
		What makes "Flatland" fun to read, is that it is a popular scientific work and a social satire at the same time.
	www.strw.leidenuniv.nl /~quanta/Jaargangen/1995/November/en_flat.html (639 words)

	Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
		Thus, in the most brutal and formidable of the soldier class - creatures almost on a level with women in their lack of intelligence - it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating power to advantage, so do they wane in the power of penetration itself.
		Many are the enactments made at different times in the different States of Flatland, in order to minimize this peril; and in the Southern and less temperate climates where the force of gravitation is greater, and human beings more liable to casual and involuntary motions, the Laws concerning Women are naturally much more stringent.
		What you style Flatland is the vast level surface of what I may call a fluid, on, or in, the top of which you and your countrymen move about, without rising above it or falling below it.
	www.geom.umn.edu /%7Ebanchoff/Flatland (16440 words)

	FlatLand Piano Movers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FlatLand Piano Movers, as part of their Total Quality Management project, has decided to focus on the job estimation process.
		Part of this process involves walking the proposed paths that are to be used to move a piano to see if it will fit through corridors and around corners.
		FlatLand building codes require all turns in corridors to be right angle turns and prohibit ``T'' intersections.
	acm.uva.es /p/v4/427.html (340 words)

	Flatland
		I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
		The far-off land may have bays, forelands, angles in and out to any number and extent; yet at a distance you see none of these (unless indeed your sun shines bright upon them revealing the projections and retirements by means of light and shade), nothing but a grey unbroken line upon the water.
		As there is neither sun with us, nor any light of such a kind as to make shadows, we have none of the helps to the sight that you have in Spaceland.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /20th/txts/abbott/flat01.html (515 words)

	Amazon.com: Flatland: Books: Edwin Abbott Abbott,Thomas Banchoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flatland, as he describes it, is about as rich as a two-dimensional story can be.
		Flatland is a timeless classic; a great book for the mathematician and non-mathematician alike.
		"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions," by Edwin A. Abbott, is a marvelous tale that I regard as a pioneering piece of science fiction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691025258?v=glance (2556 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Flatland
		These Flatlanders were intrigued by the beauty of the fragments, which could be found scattered all over Flatland.
		After 2,000 years of labor by the finest minds of Flatland, they were finally able to fit many, but certainly not all, of the fragments together into two chunks.
		Although they Flatlanders were rightfully proud of their progress, they were dismayed to find that these two chunks did not fit together.
	fusionanomaly.net /flatland.html (1339 words)

	Flatland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I believe that the view described is meant to be biased a little to express the true beliefs and practices of males in his society.
		I think that "Flatland" is making paralells with the issues that we had to deal with as a growing society.
		To me it seems that the society of Flatland is not as developed as we are now, but are at a medival point there history.
	las.alfred.edu /~agrove/spring00/egl281/abbott.html (1365 words)

	Flatland
		Flatlanding is the most difficult form of bicycle freestyle and it is the least understood and respected.
		That is one of the great things about flatland (and BMX freestyle for that matter), there is no set way of doing it.
		If your going to ride flatland, street, dirt, or ramp, just remember this the only way you are ever going to get better at it is to ride.
	members.aol.com /michbmx/ibmxaflatland.html (405 words)

	Muse: Views from Flatland
		Head of a school for boys in London, Abbott imagined a world in which the inhabitants are geometric shapes: straight lines, triangles, squares, pentagons, circles, and other figures, all living on the surface of a perfectly flat world.
		Curiously, though Flatlanders are two-dimensional, they appear to one another to be straight lines.
		The length of the line would depend on the size of the circle, so to a Flatlander, a sphere rising through Flatland would look like a dot that grew longer and longer, then shorter and shorter, until it became a dot again and vanished.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /pages/puzzlezone/muse/muse1000.asp (410 words)

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		Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland 3.
		Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland The greatest length or breadth of a full grown inhabitant of Flatland may be estimated at about eleven of your inches.
		Thus, in the most brutal and formidable of the soldier class -- creatures almost on a level with women in their lack of intelligence -- it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating power to advantage, so do they wane in the power of penetration itself.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext95/flat10a.txt (13168 words)

	Amazon.com: The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions: Books: Edwin Abbott Abbott,Ian Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flatland is a novel originally published in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott.
		While the preface begins with a question: "What is Flatland and why should it be annotated?" and continues with Professor Stewart's reasoning and motivation in tackling this subject, the introduction focuses on Flatland's author, Edwin Abbott Abbott.
		Flatland is for advanced students -seniors and up- who are participating in a physchological study class.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738205419?v=glance (1885 words)

	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (by Edwin A. Abbott)
		Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland • Section 3.
		Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland • Section 4.
		This complete text of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott is in the public domain.
	www.authorama.com /flatland-1.html (304 words)

	The Shape of Space: Dimensions - Exploring Flatland (hints) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A picket fence in Flatland would really be made out of lots of individual pickets.
		Flatlanders would play with a 2-D object, just like the Flatlander's sun in the Shape of Space video.
		Flatlanders' bodies would fall into two parts if they were cut by a digestive tract.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /video/sos/materials/dimensions/hints.html (377 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flatland is THE must-read for anyone interested in getting a feel for higher dimensions.
		Hidden within the philosophical and mathematical ideas is a satire of the social climate of the times: how women, the military, the upper echelons of society, and just about everyone else were viewed.
		Flatland makes you think, and think deeply, on many different and sometimes unexpected levels.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/048627263X (920 words)

	Canadian Freestyle Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Based out of Ontario, the Canadian Flatland Organization has setup shop to bring you everything from regional news and happenings to in depth jam /contest reports from across the land.
		I didn't like hearing the negativity surrounding flatland, so I figured it was time to put the imagination and positivity back into it.
		I've been putting on the Petorlia Flatland Jams for the past two years, and this summer will be the first Petrolia contest.
	www.cfobmx.ca (595 words)

	Amazon.ca: Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1884, an amiably eccentric clergyman and literary scholar named Edwin Abbott Abbott published an odd philosophical novel called Flatland, in which he explored such things as four-dimensional mathematics and gently satirized some of the orthodoxies of his time.
		Ian's style, both humourous and informative, brings the flatland characters into the context of this millennium and opens the readers mind to the rich complexity of the world of mathematics.
		Some people may find his playing with words excessive (his heroine is named "Victoria Line," combining the fact that she is literally a geometric "line" with the name of a subway line in London) but the book manages to cover a lot of territory in an amusing manner.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/073820675X (1125 words)

	Amazon.ca: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abbott's math fantasy Flatland is more than 120 years old, and that alone makes it an interesting reading for people interested in geometry.
		However, the explanation for the banishment of color in Flatland was very clever and one of the better parts of the story.
		Abbot was a Victorian and his description of Flatland is meant to be a parody (using wry humor and biting satire) of English Victorian society.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/048627263X (1706 words)

	The Shape of Space: Dimensions - Exploring Flatland Activity Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flatlanders have found their way into lots of books, like An Episode of Flatland, Sphereland, Planiverse, and Flatland.
		In Flatland, the main character is a square who gets sent to prison after his experiences with three dimensions.
		In groups, draw yourselves as Flatlanders and write a story about life in Flatland.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /video/sos/materials/dimensions/flatlandA.html (165 words)

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		SECTION 2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland As with you, so also with us, there are four points of the compass North, South, East, and West.
		SECTION 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland The greatest length or breadth of a full grown inhabitant of Flatland may be estimated at about eleven of your inches.
		Thus, in the most brutal and formidable off the soldier class-- creatures almost on a level with women in their lack of intelligence-- it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating power to advantage, so do they wane in the power of penetration itself.
	www.catawba.k12.nc.us /books/flat11.txt (15744 words)

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