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The team captain or " skip " always plays last and is instrumental in directing his team's shots and tactics.
India is now developing technologies that will skip land based telephone and internet lines.
This code defines a new word ( again, word is the term used for a subroutine ) called using the following commands: duplicates the number on the stack ; places a 6 on top of the stack ; compares the top two numbers on the stack ( 6 and the ed input ), and replaces them with a true-or-false value ; takes a true-or-false value and chooses to execute commands immediately after it or to skip to the ; discards the value on the stack ; and ends the conditional.
Once the basal rate is matched to the fasting basal insulin need, the pump user will then gain the flexibility to skip or postpone meals such as sleeping late on the weekends or working overtime on a weekday.
The volume descriptor is constructed in this manner so that if a program reading the disk does not understand a particular descriptor, it can just skip over it until it finds one it can read, thus allowing the use of many different types of information on one volume.
If a skip list is used, the insertion time is brought down to O ( log n ), and swaps are not needed because the skip list is implemented on a linked list structure.
The unstated noun the kenning refers to is called its referent, in this case: skip “ ship ”.
Note that zero, which is not needed in the other systems, is of crucial importance here, in order to be able to " skip " a power.
The conditional skip operations compare register and memory contents and skip the next instruction ( which is often an unconditional jump ) depending on the result of the comparison.
A more elaborate example is TLCE A, LOC ( read " Test Left Complement, skip if Equal "), which using the contents of LOC as a mask, selects the corresponding bits in the left half of register A.
This congregation / presbytery / synod / general assembly schema is based on the historical structure of the larger Presbyterian churches, such as the Church of Scotland or the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .); some bodies, such as the Presbyterian Church in America and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, skip one of the steps between congregation and General Assembly, and usually the step skipped is the Synod.
A more modern example is a cassette tape ( sequential — you have to fast-forward through earlier songs to get to later ones ) and a CD ( random access — you can skip to the track you want ).
The binary is then modified using the debugger or a hex editor or monitor in a manner that replaces a prior branching opcode with its complement or a NOP opcode so the key branch will either always execute a specific subroutine or skip over it.
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a " hop, bound and jump ": the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.
This idiom is relatively common for computer security reasons: a client obviously cannot be trusted with the logic that determines how trustworthy they are ; an adversary would simply skip the logic and say " I'm as trustworthy as possible!
This is so obvious, in fact, that most people verbally ( and mentally ) skip over it.

skip and team
Pete Fenson, the skip of the U. S. curling team that took the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympics, is a native of Bemidji, as is Natalie Nicholson, who was the lead for the United States women's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Some of the staff members, the team led by director and designer Hidemaro Fujibayashi that was responsible for tasks other than the storyline, wanted to skip the remake and create an original Zelda title right away.
The team unanimously voted to skip the bowl because the team's two black players would not have been allowed on the field.
The Express Pass, introduced in season 17, is given as a prize on the first leg which allows the team to skip any task ( including Roadblocks, Detours, and miscellaneous tasks, but not the Fast Forward task ), once, during the race.
If a team used the Express Pass to skip a Detour and that team is U-Turned, the U-Turn is void.
Prior to his career in broadcasting, Cole was a successful curler, playing in the 1971 and 1975 Briers as the skip for the Newfoundland team.
At first Betker refused to skip the team following the death of her longtime skip Schmirler.
However, in 2003 Betker took over as skip and took her team to the Canadian Championship.
To make things a little easier, each team may be allowed to skip one phrase per turn if they think it is too hard to describe in the time available.
It is considered good sportsmanship for the passing team to skip to the next phrase before passing the device as quickly as possible to the next team, and to start giving clues as soon as possible after receiving the device.
As skip of the team in 1990 and 1991, Dordi reached the pinnacle of her career to date by leading Norway to back-to-back gold medals.
Although she has yet to quite recapture that form, the Norway team she has almost invariably continued to skip at major championships has maintained a remarkable consistency, netting bronze medals in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2002, and a silver in 1997.
He qualified as well for the 1977 team, but decided to skip the competition in order to go big-game hunting.
; Fourth: The player throwing the last two rocks for a team ; since the skip almost always throws the last two rocks, this term is rarely used
This was the first provincial Girls ' Curling win for St. Pat's since 1976, when Colleen Jones played skip for the team.
" This handpicked team: Captain Roke, a typical captain with a solution to every problem ; Ensign Adam Hargraves, a young space cadet always ready to shoot first and skip the questions ; compassionate Cadet Tina Culbrick ; and their computeroid Carl ; roamed the planets protecting galactic citizens and warding off the repeated plots and attacks of the evil humanoid Zodian and a rebel scientist Platonus.
In the 2004 season, Vodičková was faced with a tough choice, as her home country's Olympic team demanded that she skip the WNBA season if she wanted to play in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

skip and member
The mutant plant Peco, a party member, becomes able to channel Yggdrasil after a time skip of several years, during which Peco made extended visits to Yggdrasil.
For example, in Britain it is unacceptable to queue-jump ( to push in, skip, or cut in line ), although it is sometimes acceptable for one member of a party, waiting in the queue, to allow a second member of the party to join the first halfway through the queuing process, without the second member having to join the back of the queue.
One of the civilians recognizes David and in a clear tone of voice identifies himself as a fellow member of the volunteer fire department, apparently also uninfected and trying to skip town.

skip and who
Nutritional experts have referred to breakfast as the most important meal of the day, citing studies that find that people who skip breakfast are disproportionately likely to have problems with concentration, metabolism, and weight.
* The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praises the album but maintains that it has " loads of self-indulgent filler ," identifying " Revolution # 9 " in particular as " justly maligned ," and suggests that listeners in the CD era, who can program digital players to skip over unwanted tracks, may have an advantage over the album's original audience.
Students who already possess a bachelor's degree or equivalent from another university are generally permitted to skip Part I, and thus can complete a Cambridge bachelor's degree in two years or less.
The film follows high school senior Ferris Bueller ( Matthew Broderick ), who decides to skip school and spend the day in downtown Chicago.
Those who wish to do can do and those who wish to avoid can skip.
However, as the song continues, he increasingly reveals cross-dressing tendencies (" I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers, I put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars "), which both distresses the girl and disturbs the confused Mounties, who continue to repeat and chorus his lines, albeit with increasing hesitance.
Kurosawa was originally going to skip the event, but showed up when an actress he knew told him of one actor who seemed especially promising.
As well, a viewer who wants to skip ahead to the end of a movie can do so much faster with a DVD than with a VHS tape ( that has to be rewound ).
Students with a DEC who choose to attend university in another province in Canada or outside the country are then eligible to either skip the first year and enter university as a second year student, or gain advanced standing or extra credit for their first year.
* Spanner and Trousers-Two stray dogs who hang around in a skip.
Benny Golson, who called Bostic " the best technician I ever heard in my life ," mentioned that " He could start from the bottom of the horn and skip over notes, voicing it up the horn like a guitar would.
Sometimes he presides over the Custom House run by corrupt public servants, who skip work to sleep, allow or overlook smuggling, and are supervised by an inspector with " no power of thought, nor depth of feeling, no troublesome sensibilities ", who is honest enough but without a spiritual compass.
; Artie, the Strongest Man in the World ( Toby Huss ): Little Pete's personal superhero, who is very eccentric but quite powerful — for example, he can skip stones on Neptune, move an entire house by an inch, and hit a golf ball 300, 003 yards.
Enrollment is generally offered to freshmen, although 8th graders who have had the equivalent of one year of Algebra and a 9th grade Science credit may be invited to skip ninth grade and enroll as sophomores.
As Melinda's depression deepens, she begins to skip school, withdrawing from her parents and other authority figures, who see her silence as means of getting " attention ".
This outreach targets homeless people who would normally spend their sleeping time on the Boston Common, and tries to get them into housing, trying to skip the step of an emergency shelter.
Baby talk phrases and sentences often skip out small words, imitating young children who can make little sense of sentence composition, such as to, at, for, my, so and as, and articles ( the, a, an ), thus resulting in an incomplete sentence, such as I need go potty or I want blanket.
It can also be 5th year or Cúigú Bhlian for students who skip Transition year or in schools without a Transition Year.
Organizations who skip the steps necessary to ensure the system meets the needs of the organization are often left with frustrated end users, costly support, and information that is not current or correct.
Another skip returning from last year is Heather Strong from Newfoundland and Labrador who is making her sixth appearance.
; Mate: The player who discusses strategy with the skip behind the house and holds the broom while the skip throws his rocks ; usually plays third ; also known as vice-skip or vice

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