His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

The Portland GMB also hosts many social and educational events, notably Music for the Working Class, a free event that occurs on the last Wednesday of every month at the Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th St. Acts that have appeared include Brendan Phillips and Fast Rattler, David Rovics, and the unofficial band of the Portland branch, I Wobble Wobble.

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

Fast techniques in widespread use include neutron scattering, ultrafast mixing of solutions, photochemical methods, and laser temperature jump spectroscopy.

Notable racehorses from New Zealand include Cardigan Bay, Carbine, Nightmarch, Sunline, Desert Gold and Rising Fast.

Other notable sketch-based series include Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, The Goodies, French and Saunders, Absolutely, Little Britain, The Catherine Tate Show and The Fast Show.

Authors and writers who have lived in Redding include Mark Twain, who lived on present-day Mark Twain Lane and owned property in town until his death in 1910 ; Joel Barlow, a poet and diplomat, born in town ; Howard Fast ( in the 1980s ); Flannery O ' Connor ( who wrote her novel Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of fellow writer Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road from 1949 to 1951 ).

Fast food establishments include McDonald's and Pizza Hut.

Besides his cat, women in his life include Lela Liu ( played by Lotus Long in the film Think Fast, Mr. Moto ), a hotel telephone operator whom he asks out on a date, and who proves to be an agent who helps him in his investigation.

Tullahoma High School Alumni include former NFL QB Steve Matthews, former NFL LB Antonio London, Red Sox draft picks OF Tony Sheffield and 3B Sam Melton, 3rd Overall pick in the 2001 MLB draft Dewon Brazelton, former Giants minor leaguer Gary Phillips, former Mariners minor leaguer Marshall Nisbett, 2006 Dodgers 1st round draft pick Bryan Morris, actress Samantha Burton, star of The Sandlot 2, Don " Fast Hands " Felts, world jacks champion and Lawson Binns Jordan, " The Voice of Tullahoma.

DRAM technologies used in SIMMs include FPM ( Fast Page Memory, used in all 30-pin and early 72-pin modules ), and the higher-performance EDO DRAM ( used in later 72-pin modules ).

Writers whose first story was published in the magazine include Isaac Asimov, Howard Fast, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Thomas M. Disch.

Other future projects include the Fast Track program, to include the widening of the Capital Circle Southwest entry and exit road to airport, internal road network, airport maintenance complex and security improvements.

Chamber works during this decade include his first two string quartets, the Six Pieces for Violin and Piano, Fast Fantasy for cello and piano and two large works for the Tashi ensemble, Tashi and Fortune.

These include Fast Lane in Massachusetts, I-Pass in Illinois, i-Zoom in Indiana, and the defunct M-Tag in Maryland and Smart Tag in Virginia.

Some of the most notable appearances include the Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Need for Speed, and Midnight Club series of video games and the 2001 film, The Fast and the Furious.

Other penalty times include but are not limited to two hours for bartering goods for services, up to four hours for not completing any or all parts of a miscellaneous task, four hours for not completing a Roadblock or a Speed Bump, six hours for not completing a Detour or completing the Fast Forward incorrectly, and twenty-four hours for flying outside of economy class unless the upgrade is complimentary on top of the economy class fare paid.

Although based on the Windows Server 2003 code base, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition does include client features of 32-bit Windows XP such as System Restore, Windows Messenger, Fast User Switching, Welcome Screen, Security Center, Games, etc.

His major works include My Dear Victorious Stod ( a biography of A. E. Stoddart ), a lavishly illustrated history of England versus Australia, Silence of the Heart ( on cricket's suicides, an expansion of his earlier book ' By His Own Hand ), The Fast Men, The Slow Men ( about fast bowlers and spinners ), Pageant of Cricket ( the only cricket book to have as many as 2000 pictures ), Caught England, Bowled Australia ( autobiography ), The Trailblazers ( the first English tour of Australia, in 1861-62 ), The Archie Jackson Story ( biography ) and Bodyline Autopsy.

1970s TV appearances include The Incredible Hulk, Six Million Dollar Man, two episodes of The Rockford Files and the TV movie Fast Friends.

Some papers that use Dyer's column regularly include the Japan Times, The Courier ( Ballarat ), the Straits Times ( Singapore ), the South China Morning Post ( Hong Kong ), the Bangkok Post, the Canberra Times, the New Zealand Herald, The Pioneer ( New Delhi ), DNA ( Bombay ), Dawn ( Karachi ), the Tehran Times, Arab News ( Saudi Arabia ), the Jordan Times, Monday Morning ( Beirut ), Egypt Today, the Jerusalem Post, Hurriyet Daily News ( Istanbul ), the Moscow Times, Telegraf ( Kiev ), Lidove Noviny ( Prague ), Adevarul ( Bucharest ), Helsingin Sanomat ( Finland ), Information ( Copenhagen ), NRC Handelsblad ( Rotterdam ), De Standaard ( Brussels ), Zeitpunkt ( Switzerland ), Internazionale ( Rome ), The New Vision ( Uganda ), The Star ( Nairobi ), Zimbabwe Independent, The Citizen ( Johannesburg ), the Cape Times, Le Droit ( Ottawa ), NOW ( Toronto ), La Presse ( Montreal ), Georgia Straight ( Vancouver ), Dawson Creek Daily News ( Dawson Creek ), Fast Forward Magazine ( Calgary ), the Winnipeg Free Press the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, the Trinidad Express, the Barbados Advocate, Buenos Aires Herald, and the Visayan Daily Star ( Philippines ).

They include the Fast of Gedaliah, on the third day of Tishri, and Shabbat Shuvah, which is the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The standard bootloader for the HC11 family is called BUFFALO, " Bit User Fast Friendly Aid to Logical Operation " ( a BUFFALO prompt seen on the serial port at bootup is a sign that a board's flash memory has been erased ).

* Operation Fast and Furious, a 2010 U. S. gun-trafficking sting operation and resulting congressional investigation

The resulting project, Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control was released in September 2008 on One Little Indian Records, and saw I Monster co-write and co-produce over three quarters of the album.

Germany will deliver Fast Attack Craft for border protection from 2011.

In early 2011, the Kriola, the first of a proposed fleet of ferryboats belonging to the company Cabo Verde Fast Ferry ( CVFF ) arrived in Praia directly from Singapore.

In addition to her work as video producer, Beug also directed three music videos for country singer Dwight Yoakam: " Ain't That Lonely Yet ", " A Thousand Miles from Nowhere " and " Fast as You.

In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.

The Fast of Gedalia is a minor Jewish fast day observed from dawn until dusk.

While watching a preview tape of highlights from Enfield's show, Whitehouse and Higson were inspired to create a rapid-fire delivery comedy show, The Fast Show.

The Ekumen stories tell of the efforts to re-establish a civilization on a galactic scale through NAFAL ( Nearly As Fast As Light ) interstellar travel taking years to travel between stars, although only weeks or months from the viewpoint of the traveler, because of time dilation, and through instantaneous interstellar communication using the ansible.

In addition to the added readings from Scripture, spiritual books by the Church Fathers are recommended during the Fast.

* The Fast Draw: Biomimicry from CBS News

* Fast ( F ) and Advanced-Schottky ( AS ) variants of LS from Fairchild and TI, respectively, circa 1985, with " Miller-killer " circuits to speed up the low-to-high transition.

This album was more strident and political than its predecessor, including the pro-vegetarian title track ( Morrissey forbade the rest of the group from being photographed eating meat ), the light-hearted republicanism of " Nowhere Fast ", and the anti-corporal punishment " The Headmaster Ritual " and " Barbarism Begins at Home ".

* Elric, his homeland of Melniboné, and his sword Stormbringer are featured in German heavy metal band Blind Guardian's song " Fast to Madness " from their " Follow the Blind " album ( 1989 ).

In his best-selling 2001 book Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser leveled a broad, socioeconomic critique against the fast food industry, documenting how fast food rose from small, family-run businesses ( like the McDonald brothers ' burger joint ) into large, multinational corporate juggernauts whose economies of scale radically transformed agriculture, meat processing, and labor markets in the late twentieth century.

The Apostles ' Fast is variable in length, lasting anywhere from eight days to six weeks, in preparation for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( June 29 ).

The Dormition Fast lasts for two weeks from August 1 to August 14 in preparation for the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos ( August 15 ).

And, it provides compatibility with existing 10BASE-T systems and thus enables plug-and-play upgrades from 10BASE-T. Fast Ethernet is sometimes referred to as 100BASE-X where X is a placeholder for the FX and TX variants.

Fast Ethernet increased speed from 10 to 100 megabits per second ( Mbit / s ).

Fast forward to the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop turntablists, such as Kool DJ Herc, began using several Funk breaks in a row, using irregular drum patterns from songs such as James Brown Funky Drummer and The Winstons Amen Brother, to form the rhythmic base for hip-hop songs.