Microsoft has also announced that Windows SBS 2011 Standard will be available to Volume Licensing in Early January and as a Trial in Mid-January.

** Direct liquid injection CVD ( DLICVD ) – A CVD process in which the precursors are in liquid form ( liquid or solid dissolved in a convenient solvent ).

* 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.

* Direct surface to syntax mapping LFG – leafs are words

" A Direct Demonstration of Perceptual Asynchrony in Vision ," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 264, pp. 393 – 399.

A brief analysis of Reverse Polish Notation against Direct Algebraic Logic – By James Redin

The IWW founded the Anti-Conscription League ( ACL ) in which IWW members worked with the broader labour and peace movement, and also carried on an aggressive propaganda campaign in its own name ; leading to the imprisonment of Tom Barker ( 1887 – 1970 ) the editor of the IWW paper Direct Action, sentenced to twelve months in March 1916.

The alternate Direct Form II only needs N delay units, where N is the order of the filter – potentially half as much as Direct Form I.

“ Direct psychological therapies for nightmares: A review .” Clinical Psychology Review, 7, 501 – 523.

The numerical solution of the Navier – Stokes equations for turbulent flow is extremely difficult, and due to the significantly different mixing-length scales that are involved in turbulent flow, the stable solution of this requires such a fine mesh resolution that the computational time becomes significantly infeasible for calculation ( see Direct numerical simulation ).

# Direct biological effects – involves changes in the abundance and distribution of species caused directly by the physical conditions near the edge

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

: May 14 – 15, San Antonio-The Texas State Convention of Germans adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* The Party of Internet Democracy – Direct democracy party in Hungary

* Orr Akiva e-books, Free download: Politics without politicians – Big Business, Big Government or Direct Democracy.

An Interactional Model of Direct Democracy – Lessons from the Swiss Experience.

Direct manipulation interface –

* Action figures, beginning with the Super Powers Collection ( 1986 ), and continuing through DC Direct ( 1999 – present ) and DC Universe: Justice League Unlimited Fan Collection ( 2009 ).

1976 saw the withdrawal of the Paris – Athens direct service, and in 1977, the Direct Orient Express was withdrawn completely, with the last Paris – Istanbul service running on May 19 of that year.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

An Athenian inventory from 330 – 329 BC includes catapults bolts with heads and flights.

* 2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China ( from Guangzhou ) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei.

* 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport ( now John F Kennedy International Airport ) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.

* 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for " about 360 meters ", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.

* Redstone ( height 83 ft ) – 1-stage rocket for suborbital ( ballistic ) flights.

* 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

According to Erik Sakkov, board member of Tallinn Airport, the future plans include expanding the runway by 600 – 700 metres to serve regular long-haul flights, also building of a brand-new taxiway, new storage facilities, a new point-to-point terminal and expansion of the existing passenger terminal, so it can serve arriving and departing passengers on two different levels.

Both experimental programs proceeded to flight status and completed test flights 1954 – 1955, when the contracts were cancelled.

* March 22 – Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles titled Man Will Conquer Space Soon !, including ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

* September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

* September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.

* June 18 – Southwest Airlines, a low cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston, And San Antonio.

It handles on average 20 – 25 flights a day, although this number triples during the Hajj season and school holidays.

Because of this, the oxygen generators are thermally shielded and are only allowed in commercial airliners when properly installed – they are not permitted to be loaded as freight on passenger-carrying flights.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

Under Parthian and Sassanian Iranian empires, scholars concentrated on exchanging knowledge and inventions by the countries around them – India, China, and the Roman Empire, when it is thought to be expanded over the other countries.

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50, 000 people.

* 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China ( Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607 ).

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

* 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1, 400 people.

* 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

* 1378 – Hongxi Emperor of China ( d. 1425 )

* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

* 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

* 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9, 000 people.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer ( McClain Sisters )

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.