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  Jade - James' DSSSL Engine
Jade is licensed under the same terms as SP.
Jade doesn't check whether a flow object is occurring in a context where it is allowed.
Jade does not prevent flow objects being attached to the principal port of a flow object when the flow object shouldn't have a principal port.
www.jclark.com /jade   (2423 words)

  
  Jade
Jade was used not only for the finest objects and cult figures, but also in grave furnishings for high-ranking members of the imperial family.
In other regions and cultures too, jade was regarded as a lucky or protective stone; yet it had nowhere near the significance that it had in Asia, which was presumably due to the fact that people knew relatively little about this fascinating gem.
In general, the value of jade is determined according to its colour and the intensity of that colour, the vivacity and texture, and its clarity and transparency.
www.gemstone.org /gem-by-gem/english/jade.html   (1346 words)

  
 MP3.com Search Results for: [ Jade ]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jade's lead singer, Marian Segal (who also played acoustic guitar), had a very similar voice and style to that of Fairport's woman singer of the...
Jade Warrior was an eclectic group led by Jon Field and Tony Duhig, who met during the 1960s while working in a factory.
Swedish singer/songwriter Jade Ell developed her musical style slowly, as she moved from country to country collecting memories that became material for her songs.
www.mp3.com /search.php?action=Search&stype=artist&query=Jade   (642 words)

  
 What is Jade and how is it used?
Jade of one type or another is found in Burma, Central America, Brazil, Canada, Japan, India, Siberia, Finland, Tanzania, and elsewhere; in this country, it occurs in California as well as in the northeastern and southwestern states.
But jade is also brittle, and the forms that have survived appear to have been used for symbolic, rather than utilitarian purposes.
Jade's spectrum of colors is the result of trace elements - such as magnesium in green jade or iron in jades with a yellowish hue - mixed in with the snowy white of the pure mineral.
www.holymtn.com /jade/whatisjade.htm   (592 words)

  
 The History of Burma's Jade Mines
He taxed every piece of jade at Bhamo and Mandalay that did not bear plain marks of the stamp of his predecessor, and he declined, contrary to the practice of all his predecessors, to make allowance in cases where the stamp had been obliterated through frequent washing of the stone or by long storage underground.
Jade is a green stone which is found in large blocks or slabs in the mines and in the bed of the Uyu river.
Jade continues to be mined and worked by extremely primitive methods, with the only sop to the modern age being electricity, motorized vehicles, backhoes and dynamite.
www.ruby-sapphire.com /burma-jade-mines.htm   (13118 words)

  
 Jade
Jade often possessed not just symbolic but belief-system significance -- as seems the case with the mysterious bi discs and cong tubes found in Neolithic Chinese grave sites (the former are discs with a hole in the center, the latter a tube that, in section, is square on the outside and round on the inside).
Jade's spectrum of colors is the result of trace elements -- such as magnesium in green jade or iron in jades with a yellowish hue -- mixed in with the snowy white of the pure mineral.
During this period, jade objects for the scholar's studio began to be produced, such as brush rests, paperweights, and seals.
www.rightreading.com /writing/jade.htm   (1838 words)

  
 Jade Software Corporation
Jade Software Corporation Limited (Jade) is an information technology research and development organization with over 25-years experience in supplying innovative software solutions and services.
For administration or teaching, Jade has solutions and services that ensure excellent operational outcomes for educational institutions.
Jade Software Corporation partners with Xelocity to provide end to end Student Management Solutions - Jade Media Release, 10 September, 2007...
www.jadeworld.com   (497 words)

  
 JADE, a gem variety of both Jadeite and Nephrite
Jade is a name that was applied to ornamental stones that were being brought to Europe from China and Central America.
The two minerals are both exquisite for the purposes that jade is put to task and are hard to distinguish from each other.
It was later that jade became a symbolic stone used in ornaments and other religious artifacts during the eons.
mineral.galleries.com /minerals/gemstone/jade/jade.htm   (304 words)

  
 JADE main
Most jade on the market is composed of nephrite; jadeite jade is quite rare and in its emerald-green, translucent form is referred to as Imperial Jade or "gem jade".
Nephrite and jadeite jade ranges in color from a somewhat greasy-appearing, white ("mutton fat jade") to dark and light shades of green, gray, blue-green, lavender, yellow, orange, brown, reddish-brown, and fl.
The name jade has been, and continues to be, applied to a variety of materials that superficially or closely resemble jade but are not composed of either jadeite or nephrite.
www.geo.utexas.edu /courses/347k/redesign/gem_notes/jade/jade_main.htm   (1098 words)

  
 Jade
Jade simulants are natural gem minerals, glass or plastic substitutes that appear to have some of the visual characteristics as jade but lack jade's unique optical, physical and chemical properties, and include minerals such as aventurine, jasper, cornelian and rose quartz.
Jade is the second most important material after bronze in the history of Chinese culture, and the belief in its magical powers is very evident in Chinese mythology, religion, philosophy, folklore and social life.
Jade is a favorite material used for jewelry such as necklaces, rings, earrings, bracelets, combs and hairpins, and is also often set in walking sticks, caps and sashes.
the-vu.com /Jade.htm   (868 words)

  
 Chinese Jade, China Jade: Travel China Guide.com
Unknown to some, jade is found contained within the development of religion and civilization, having moved from the use of decoration on to the others such as the rites of worship and burial.
Jade craftworks were among the most precious and luxurious ones; people wore and decorated rooms to indicate loyalty, elegance, beauty, and eternity.
Serpentine jade, or Xiu yu in Chinese, is mainly from Xiuyan County in Liaoning Province.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/arts/jade.htm   (1224 words)

  
 Jade
Jade, though quite durable and once used like steel in early tools, is susceptible to breaking and should be handled with care.
Jade is well-known for its healing influence and it is a stone of primary importance to Orientals.
Jade is the associated stone with the deities Kwan Yin and Buddha.
www.carigem.org /jade.htm   (1201 words)

  
 Chinese Jade Art
The Chinese regard carved jade objects as intrinsically valuable, and they metaphorically equate jade with human virtue due to its solidity, durability and (moral) beauty.
White jade vessels with golden holders and white jade bowls with golden lids, which were unearthed in the Ming Tombs, reflected the dynasty's peak level in jade carving.
Jade in China is varied and can be divided into two categories: hard and soft jade.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2004-01/14/content_45671.htm   (621 words)

  
 Jade 6
JADE is delivering proven results to over 1900 organizations worldwide.
JADE entirely eliminates the development effort required to move objects to and from a database.
Jade Partner, Greentree have been recognized by MIS while Jade was voted one of the most strategically important ANZ 25...
www.jadeworld.com /jade   (347 words)

  
 Electrotap
Jade is a flexible, relatively easy-to-use, environment for composition and performance.
Jade is available via SourceForge as both source patches, and a standalone application for users who do not own Max.
Jade has LINK instructions to manage this (in Jamoma the LINK instruction engine is implemented in the jmod.mapper module).
www.electrotap.com /jade   (695 words)

  
 Jade   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jade may be worn when treating gallstones, the lungs, the heart, and the throat as well.
Set in gold and silver jewelry, jade is thought to prolong life and bring abundant riches to the wearer.
A Chinese tonic made of powdered jade, rice, and rainwater, when boiled in a copper pot and carefully filtered through a fine mesh to remove all impurities, may strengthen the muscles, harden the bones, quiet the mind, tone the skin, and clean the blood.
www.prcupcc.org /stones/el/jade.htm   (561 words)

  
 Jade condo Brickell
Jade at Brickell Bay's extraordinary seventh-floor Resort Deck will appeal to your senses, where 31,200 bay front square feet have been designated to refresh, relax, rejuvenate, inspire and serve you.
Jade's infinity edge pool and recreational area is perfect for relaxing and soaking in the beautiful South Florida sun and vistas of Biscayne Bay.
Jade include 9-foot ceilings in the tower residences and 18-foot ceilings in bay lofts.
www.miamicondocommando.com /jdae-brickell-miami.htm   (558 words)

  
 GemRocks: The Jades
Tomb jade - jade customarily buried by the Chinese with their dead; it is typically opaque reddish, yellowish or brownish, very likely because of oxidation suffered during burial.
In the past, several colors and hues of jade have been attributed different meanings or uses -- for example, in ancient China, bluish, yellow, green, red, white and fl jades were related to the heavens, the earth, east, south, west and north, respectively.
Emerald - that used as a jade substitute is typically translucent to subtranslucent and not of the quality used for transparent emerald gemstones - [inferior specific gravity].
www.cst.cmich.edu /users/dietr1rv/jade.htm   (4099 words)

  
 Jade Plant   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jade plants can live for a very long time and grow into small trees or shrubs up to 5 feet tall indoors.
The thick trunklike stems and branches of jade plants are usually brown.
Jades need a very well-drained soil mix to prevent root rot.
hgic.clemson.edu /factsheets/HGIC1507.htm   (754 words)

  
 SAM Distributed Shared Memory System   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jade is a parallel programming language (an extension to C) for exploiting coarse-grain concurrency in sequential, imperative programs.
The Jade implementation dynamically interprets this information to execute the program in parallel while preserving the sequential semantics -- if there is a data dependence between tasks, tasks run in the same order as in the sequential execution.
The structure of parallelism produced by the Jade program is a directed acyclic graph of tasks, where the edges between tasks are the data dependence constraints.
suif.stanford.edu /~scales/sam.html   (390 words)

  
 ProSun Tanning - Residential Beds - Jade Series
The Jade series are state of the art tanning beds including features like an advanced easy acrylic removal system, and an easy access timer in the canopy.
The Jade series is constructed with steel frames for long durability.
It still has the same steel construction, timer, and acrylic system as the Jade 24, but the lamp upgrades mean a higher quality tan.
prosun.com /jade.php   (151 words)

  
 Jade Primer and Tutorial
Jade (Jave Agent Development Environment) is a robust and efficient environment for distributed "agent" systems.
We used Jade for the programming assignments in a course on Agent technology at the Universite of Montreal (ift6802).
On the negative side, JADE may be disappointing to AI people because it lacks mechanisms for "intelligence", planning or reasoning.
www.iro.umontreal.ca /~vaucher/Agents/Jade/JadePrimer.html   (596 words)

  
 Jade Birthstone
Jade is one of the birthstones listed for the Star Sign of Virgo and is the Mystical birthstone for March.
In ancient China and Egypt jade was used as a talisman to attract good fortune and friendship.
Jade is known as a symbol of love and virtue.
www.bernardine.com /birthstone/jade.htm   (172 words)

  
 Jade Empire is no RPG... - BioWare's Official Jade Empire Site
Jade could only be considered an RPG by the standard's set by the previous generation games, on last generation systems.
Jade is a game of tactics, rather than strategy, again more this has common with action games than CURRENT RPG's.
I agree with mnijonas's earlier statement that Jade Empire is an evolution.
jade.bioware.com /forums/viewtopic.html?topic=425706&forum=79&highlight=rpg   (1115 words)

  
 LiveScience.com - Ancients Traveled 1,800 Miles for Pretty Axes
Harlow used new techniques to examine the mineral composition of the jadeite jade found in Antigua and the only possible match was a distinct source south of an earthquake fault in Guatemala.
Jadeite jade was worn and worshipped by the Maya, Olmec and Aztec people of Central America for at least two millennia before the arrival of Columbus.
The jade was found in the form of ten mottled, dark-green ornamental axes, or celts, excavated from an archaeological dig site on the island of Antigua in the West Indies, dating to about 250 to 500 A.D. Credit: American Museum of Natural History
www.livescience.com /history/060627_caribe_jade.html   (588 words)

  
 Jade and jade Jewelry - Jade Pendant, Jade Ring, Jade Necklace, Jade Bracelet and Jade Earring
Jade, for thousands of years, has been the most sought-after jewelry in the orient, especially in China where people treasure it more than any other materials.
There are legends and mysterious stories around jade about how jade leads the mortal to immortal, how it makes a poor to become rich and how it save a man from disaster and so on..
Gradually, jade is symbolized as an image of peace, kindness, elegance and eternity.
home.tir.com /~jadegift   (318 words)

  
 The Friends of Jade Warrior home page
Jade Warrior's two most recent releases, Breathing the Storm (1992) and Distant Echoes (1993), are no longer available from their original label Red Hot Records.
Jade Warrior fans in the U.K. might want to drop Compact Disc Services a line to check on price and availability of whichever album you're looking for.
Jade Warrior's first three albums are going to be re-issued on CD, by a company which seems to want to do it right this time!
www.radagast.org /jade-warrior   (6493 words)

  
 Jade - China's Stone of Heaven
Jade Overview: the two jades, nephrite and jadeite, and jade's role in the early cultures of China, Korea and New Zealand
jade artifacts from 8,000 year old slit jade rings thought to be earrings to dragons, ritual bi and cong, to objects with the taotie monster face [large images]
Jade is the official gemstone of B.C. Jade in Neolithic Europe: a look at jadeite and nephrite, including early use in axes, scrapers, weapons circa 2,000 B.C., but later forgotten, with Neolithic jade tools found in
www.workingdogweb.com /Jade.htm   (1837 words)

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