Fairlight CMI - features was the so-called "Page-R", which was a real time graphical pattern sequence editor, widely copied on other software synths since. This feature was often a key part of the buying decision of artistes. The Fairlight CMI was very well built, and consequently very high-priced. A series 1 with all options sold for close to 1 million US dollars, though later models were significantly cheaper as well as more advanced. A Fairlight CMI can be seen in the Devo film, We Are Devo. Artistes using the Fairlight CMI ABC The Art of Noise Jon Astley Lindsey Buckingham Kate Bush Jane Child Stewart Copeland Elvis Costello Dire Straits Thomas Dolby Duran Duran Keith Emerson Eurythmics Fleetwood Mac Foreigner Debbie Gibson David Gilmour Hall & Oates Jan Hammer Herbie Hancock Heaven 17 Madonna.
Air-to-air missile - missile - WW2 design, MCLOS, never saw service International: MBDA Meteor - long range, active radar; design to replace AMRAAM IRIS-T - medium range IR; replacement for Sidewinder Israel: Rafael Python 3 - Rafael Python 4 - medium range IR Rafael Python 5 - medium range IR; improves on Python 4 UK: AIM-132 ASRAAM - short range IR USA: AIM-7 Sparrow - medium range semi-active radar AIM-9 Sidewinder - short range IR AIM-54 Phoenix - long range, semi-active and active radar AIM-120 AMRAAM - medium range, semi-active radar; replaces Sparrow.
Crop circle - people want to believe supernatural explanations for phenomena that are not yet explained. Methods to create a hoaxed crop circles have been well-documented on the Internet. A counter argument to hoaxing is that circles often appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage. Crop circle hoaxers counter that it is easy to leave dry seed pods unbroken during stomping and also leave no trace of entrance and egress trampling when the plants and ground are both dry and some care is taken while walking. Several crop circles that were later to have been determined to be hoaxes were at first certified as being genuine by cerealogists due the lack of seed pod breakage. Farmers are not very happy with crop circles, as they.
OpenGL Performer - OpenGL Performer OpenGL Performer, formerly known as IRIS Performer and commonly referred to simply as Performer, is a library of utility code built on top of OpenGL for the purpose of enabling hard real-time visual simulation applications. OpenGL Performer was developed by SGI, who continues to maintain and enhance it. OpenGL Performer is available for IRIX, Linux, and several versions of Microsoft Windows. Both ANSI C and C++ bindings are available. Performer came about in 1991 when a group from SGI's Open Inventor project, then known as IRIS Inventor, decided to focus on performance rather than ease of programmability. Whereas Inventor delivered easy-to-use objects and various UI elements to interact with them, Performer focused on a scene graph system that could be re-arranged on the fly for.
Iridium - General Name, Symbol, Number Iridium, Ir, 77 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 9, 6, d Density, Hardness 22650 kg/m3, 6.5 Appearance silvery white Atomic Properties Atomic weight 192.217 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 135 (180) pm Covalent radius 137 pm van der Waals radius no data Electron configuration [Xe]44f14 5d7 6s2 e- 's per energy level 2, 8, 18, 32, 15, 2 Oxidation states (Oxide) 2, 3, 4, 6 (mildly basic) Crystal structure Cubic face centered Physical Properties State of matter solid (__) Melting point 2739 K (4471 °F) Boiling point 4701 K (8002 °F) Molar volume 8.52 ×1010-3 m3/mol Heat of vaporization 604 kJ/mol Heat of fusion 26.1 kJ/mol Vapor pressure 1.47 Pa at 2716 K Speed of sound 4825 m/s at 293.15 K Miscellaneous Electronegativity 2.20 (Pauling scale).
Prince (artist) - name Prince Rogers Nelson, is a pop music performer. His music draws mainly on funk and rock and roll. Prince is generally considered an excellent guitarist, songwriter and composer, though he is also a capable pianist, record producer, film director and actor. He was born in Minneapolis to a white mother and an African-American father, and identifies himself as an African-American. His music has drawn on influnces including Sly Stone, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell. Ambitious, talented and hardworking, if sometimes overstretched, Prince brought modern ideas and attitudes into pop music and put on a great show besides. He first attracted attention with his spacy soulful sound topped with screaming guitar, not to mention the colorful clothes he put on his 5 ft 3 in (1.6 m).
List of WOSM members - sex (United States) or race (Israel). World Organization of the Scout Movement Members Country Membership (from 2000 or most recent available info) Name of Member Organization Year Current Scouting Organization joined WOSM Year Member Organization was founded Albania 1,730 Besa Skaut Albania 1999 1922 Algeria 11,120 Scouts Musulmans Algériens 1963 1939 Angola 13,777 Associação de Escuteros de Angola 1998 1998 Argentina 44,981 Scouts de Argentina 1922 1912 Armenia 2,256 Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun 1997 1912 Australia 98,084 Scouts Australia 1953 1908 Austria 13,785 Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs 1922 1912 Azerbaijan 1,414 Azerbaican Skaut Assosiasiyasi 2000 1997 the Bahamas 729 The Scout Association of the Bahamas 1974 1913 Bahrain 1,820 Boy Scouts of Bahrain 1970 1953 Bangladesh 908,435 Bangladesh Scouts 1974 19 Barbados 3,032 Barbados Boy Scouts Association 1969 1972 Belarus.
List of English novelists - Thinks (2001) Doris Lessing, (born 1919), author of The Grass is Singing The Golden Notebook and Canopus in Argos: Archives Dornford Yates, (1885-1960), escapist adventure stories Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright, translator of Dante Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy E. M. Forster, (1879-1970) Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him. Elizabeth Gaskell Emily Brontë, (1818-1848) Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), comic novelist (Scoop), tragic novelist (Brideshead Revisited), sometimes in the same book. Fay Weldon Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers. Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal Frederick Marryat, (1792-1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories G. K. Chesterton,.
List of people by name: Fi - writer of novels, many of which have been turned into Spanish-language soap operas Fibak, Wojtek, (Poland) Fibonacci, (c. 1175-1250) Fichte, Gottlieb, (1762-1814), philosopher Fichte, Immanuel Hermann, (1797-1879), philosopher Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, (1762-1814), philosopher Ficino, Marsilio, (1433-1499), Italian philosopher Fiddler, Amp, (born 1958), musician (P Funk) Fiedler, Arthur, (1894-1979), orchestra conductor Field, Eugene, Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Field, John, (1782-1837), composer (creator of the nocturne) Field, Sally, (born 1946), US actor Fielding, Henry, (1707-1754), English novelist Fields, Gracie, (1898-1979), English music hall/vaudeville performer Fields, Terri Award winning teacher and book writer Fields, W.C, (1880-1946), US comedian Fiennes, Joseph, (born 1970), actor Fiennes, Ralph, (born 1962), British actor Fierstein, Harvey, (born 1954), actor Fiesole, Mino da, (c.1429-1484), sculptor Figg, James, Boxing's first world champion Figgis, Mike, film director Figini, Michela, (born 1966),.
Government of the United States - Reclamation manages scarce water resources in the semiarid western United States. The department regulates mining in the United States, assesses mineral resources, and has major responsibility for protecting and conserving the trust resources of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. Internationally, the department coordinates federal policy in the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and oversees funding for development in the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice represents the U.S. government in legal matters and courts of law, and renders legal advice and opinions upon request to the president and to the heads of the executive departments. The Justice Department is headed by the attorney general of the United States, the.
Fahrenheit graphics API - used in most applications, Fahrenheit Scene Graph, as well as a modified version for handling very large models from CAD applications, Fahrenheit Large Model. Microsoft would provide a new low-level rendering engine for Windows known as Fahrenheit Low Level, essentially a replacement for Direct3D. The project was officially announced at SIGGRAPH 1998 for release in late 1999 or early 2000. Fahrenheit became the primary focus of development at SGI. Their MIPS-based workstations were quickly losing the performance lead they had in the early 1990s, and the company was in serious trouble as the average PC slowly but surely encroached on the high-end graphics market. SGI saw Fahrenheit as an exit strategy; once complete they would be able to move to a PC-based lineup while still offering the best development tools for.
Youssou N'dour - Senegal's cosmopolitan capital, Dakar, had enthusiastically absorbed, were rediscovering their heritage and seeking out traditional performers, particularly singers and talking-drummers, to join their bands. (The griots - musicians, praise-singers and storyteller-historians - comprise a distinct hereditary caste in Wolof society and throughout West Africa.) As it emerged from this period of fruitful musical turbulence, mbalax would eventually find in Youssou N'Dour the performer who has arguably had more to do with its shaping than any other individual. Youssou is best known for his collaborations with Peter Gabriel, Neneh Cherry, and Wyclef Jean. His albums include "Immigres", "Set", "The Lion", "Eyes Open", "The Guide (Wommat)", "Joko", and his latest, "Nothing's In Vain". His early work with Etoile de Dakar in the 70s were the typical Latin style popular all over Africa during.
Dorset - of Hall and Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth is acknowledged as the first ever holiday resort, used by King George III, and is still a popular seaside resort. Jutting out into the English Channel is the Isle of Portland. Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust own Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woods east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Poet William Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré and P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. The author John Fowles lives in Lyme.
1953 - to use random access memory. November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax. December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars). Year in topic 1953 in film From Here to Eternity Julius Caesar The Robe 1953 in literature Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel published 1953 in music Elvis Presley records for the first time 1953.
Aerobot - weight and are potentially relatively inexpensive. They can cover a great deal of ground, and their view from a height gives them the ability to examine wide swathes of terrain with far more detail than would be available from an orbiting satellite. For exploratory missions, their relative lack of directional control is not a major obstacle as there is generally no need to direct them to a specific location. Balloon designs for possible planetary missions have involved a few unusual concepts. One is the solar, or infrared (IR) Montgolfiere. This is a hot-air balloon where the envelope is made from a material that traps heat from sunlight, or from heat radiated from a planetary surface. Black is the best color for absorbing heat, but other factors are involved and the material.
Talking to Americans - However, the prime minister's name (back then) was Jean Chrétien; poutine is a French-Canadian fast food dish of french fries and cheese curd, and also was potentially inspired by recent jokes about Russian president Vladimir Putin who has a similar name. Also, Chrétien had not endorsed any candidate at the time and, in any event, it does not behoove the head of a neighboring country's government to take such a stand regarding U.S. presidential races. Bush's opponent, Vice President Al Gore, also fell victim to Mercer, when he was asked about the Canadian capital Toronto (it is actually Ottawa). Read here for more info The special was a co-production between Island Edge Inc and Salter Street Films. Alliance Atlantis has shut the doors of Salter Street Films. Review Why Should Americans.
Amphetamine - Today it is officially admitted for treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and narcolepsy. General Info Amphetamine is a synthetic substance used to suppress appetite, control weight, treat narcolepsy and also ADHD. It is a commonly abused drug, usually bought on the street very impure or mixed with other drugs. Amphetamine can be snorted, taken orally, smoked, or injected. When the drug is snorted, smoked or injected, the effects can be felt within a few minutes, but the duration is usually lessened. When taken orally, the effects of the drug tend to feel “smoother” and are generally longer-lasting. Amphetamine was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical Benzedrine from the late 1920s. It was banned except for prescribed use in the late 1950s. It is also.
Temple of Set - of being a Nazi sympathizer, citing a recurrent use of Nazi imagery and symbolism, and frequent references to Nazi theorists and ideology, which they claim are found throughout the Temple of Set's literature. On at least one occasion, Michael Aquino provided the address for the Institute for Historical Review -- a leading proponent of Holocaust revisionism -- to the entire Temple of Set membership, saying that he had found "much food for thought" in their journal. Michael Aquino has filed libel lawsuits against critics. This civil recourse is a fundamental right within the U.S.A., but some of his critics say he has abused this right, calling the 1997 suit he filed against ElectriCiti.com a SLAPP. Some critics claim to have been subjected to campaigns of harassment by Temple of Set members.
Baal teshuva - parents were secular Zionists. While some Jews were hostile to traditional Judaism, a spiritual quest in the 1960s and 1970s caused some Israelis to seek answers in Jewish tradition. In Israel, schools for the intensive study of Torah have been flourishing especially designed for the newly religious students who want to devote quality time to intensive study of classical texts with the ancient rabbinic commentaries. These schools opened in the early 1970s, mainly based in Jerusalem. Two significant institutions have been the Aish HaTorah Yeshiva headed by Rabbi Noach Weinberg, and the Ohr Somayach Yeshiva headed by Rabbi Nota Schiller. Both of these rabbis have degrees from American universities and are well able to speak to the modern mind-set. Orthodox Jewish outreach organizations Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad.
Tomahawk missile - and storage, and to act as a launch tube. The submarine AUR is launched from torpedo or vertical tubes (e.g. the later Los Angeles class submarines). Surface ships employ a vertical launching system (VLS). A solid fuel booster with steering vanes in its exhaust is used for launch and to provide steering during the initial few seconds of flight while the wings and control surfaces are deployed. The Tomahawk is launched on a preset course above the water and, as it crosses over land, switches to an inertial and Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) system to guide the missile to its target with terminal guidance from the Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) sytem, producing an accuracy of around 10m. The Block III TLAMs, entered service in 1993, have an extended range.
