Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

* One central point of divergence is Steiner's views on reincarnation and karma.

DSL can be used as an access method for an ATM network, allowing a DSL termination point in a telephone central office to connect to many internet service providers across a wide-area ATM network.

Naming the central ray passing through the entrance pupil the axis of the pencil or principal ray, it can be said: the rays of the pencil intersect, not in one point, but in two focal lines, which can be assumed to be at right angles to the principal ray ; of these, one lies in the plane containing the principal ray and the axis of the system, i. e. in the first principal section or meridional section, and the other at right angles to it, i. e. in the second principal section or sagittal section.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

The central dogma of molecular biology where genetic material is transcribed into RNA and then translated into protein, despite being an oversimplified picture of molecular biology, still provides a good starting point for understanding the field.

Other forms may include a radial structure, in which main roads converge on a central point.

The Vajrayana system states that the central channel ( avadhūtī ) begins at the point of the third eye, curves up to the crown of the head, and then goes straight down to the lower body.

A contact centre, also known as customer interaction centre is a central point of any organization from which all customer contacts are managed.

In Part Two, the author acknowledges the criticism of his digressions in Part One and promises to concentrate the narrative on the central characters ( although at one point he laments that his narrative muse has been constrained in this manner ).

The light is not focused to a point but forms an Airy disk having a central spot in the focal plane with radius to first null of

The central importance of dukkha in Buddhist philosophy is not intended to present a pessimistic view of life, but rather to present a realistic practical assessment of the human condition — that all beings must experience suffering and pain at some point in their lives, including the inevitable sufferings of illness, aging, and death.

However, over the last hundred years or so, authorities have recognized that the dagger, in its contemporary or mature form, has come to incorporate certain definable characteristics, including a short blade with a sharply-tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and ( usually ) two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so.

The central idea of Diophantine geometry is that of a rational point, namely a solution to a polynomial equation or system of simultaneous equations, which is a vector in a prescribed field K, when K is not algebraically closed.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

At that point, Madero would declare himself provisional President of Mexico, and called for a general refusal to acknowledge the central government, restitution of land to villages and Indian communities, and freedom for political prisoners.

Hayek's work on the microeconomics of the choice theoretics of investment, non-permanent goods, potential permanent resources, and economically-adapted permanent resources mark a central dividing point between his work in areas of macroeconomics and that of most all other economists.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

High-energy electron-scattering experiments show its charge to decrease exponentially from a maximum at a central point, exactly as does the charge density of helium's own electron cloud.

Despite his imperial claims, Frederick's rule was a major turning point towards the disintegration of a central rule in the Empire.

His point of departure is Freud's Oedipal theories, and the central theme of mourning that runs through Hamlet.

It is the starting point of the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line and also the central hub for the Hanover S-Bahn.

The central point of Irenaeus ' theology is the unity and the goodness of God, in opposition to the Gnostics ' division of God into a number of divine " Aeons ", and their distinction between the utterly transcendent " High God " and the inferior " Demiurge " who created the world.

* 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.

At each valid point ( a point that is awarded, with a legal part of hand or foot to legal targets and with legal technique ), the central referee halts the fight and at the same time as the two judges, shows with his / her fingers the number of points in the direction of the fighter who is being awarded points.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

As a spiritual basis for the refounded movement, Steiner wrote a Foundation Stone Meditation which remains a central meditative expression of anthroposophical ideas.

Since most Western economies are now considered " open " with free capital movement, this essentially means that central banks may target interest rates or exchange rates with credibility, but not both at once.

Albéniz and Granados were central to this movement ; their evocation of the guitar was so successful that their compositions have been absorbed into standard guitar repertoire.

One of the central beliefs of Theosophy is that humanity is undergoing a cycle of evolution, towards increasing " perfection ", and Gardner recognised the potential significance of the photographs for the movement:

In Taiwan in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century a movement tried to prioritize reasoning over mere facts, reduce the emphasis on central control and standardized testing.

The central movement ( of three ) is a highly ingenious set of variations, which are grouped to suggest the characters of slow movement and scherzo.

The chalice of wine became the central identifying symbol of the Hussite movement.

The new government gave shelter and support to South African ( ANC ) and Zimbabwean ( ZANU-PF ) liberation movements while the governments of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia fostered and financed an armed rebel movement in central Mozambique called the Mozambican National Resistance ( RENAMO ).

* blurriness in the central visual field that affects only one eye ; may be accompanied by pain upon eye movement ;

The rotation and sliding movement central a mechanical system is modeled mathematically as Euclidean, or rigid, transformations.

The later north-to-south movement of central power in Ethiopia led to Oromos in Shewa holding power in Ethiopia together with the Shewan Amhara.

" McLaren envisioned the Sex Pistols as central players in a new youth movement, " hard and tough ".

During 1976 – 77, in the midst of the original UK punk movement, bands emerged such as Manchester's Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Leeds ' Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats that became central post-punk figures.

The riot grrrl movement foregrounded feminist concerns and progressive politics in general ; the DIY ethic and fanzines were also central elements of the scene.

* A large central vacuole, a water-filled volume enclosed by a membrane known as the tonoplast maintains the cell's turgor, controls movement of molecules between the cytosol and sap, stores useful material and digests waste proteins and organelles.

Functional movement is central to what it means to be healthy.

During this same period, a movement began that would change the organization of the school curriculum in Protestant and especially Puritan circles and lead to rhetoric losing its central place.

As evidence of this, Jaffé has pointed out that the central movement of Sonata No. 7 opens with a theme based on a Robert Schumann lied, ' Wehmut ' (' Sadness ', which appears in Schumann's Liederkreis, Op.

This observation did not originate with the structured programming movement ; these structures are sufficient to describe the instruction cycle of a central processing unit, as well as the operation of a Turing machine.

Although the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended shortly after the American Revolution, slavery remained a central economic institution in the Southern states of the United States, from where slavery expanded with the westward movement of population.

Theobald ( 1994 ) suggested that " etymologically, the word tour is derived from the Latin, ' tornare ' and the Greek, ' tornos ', meaning ' a lathe or circle ; the movement around a central point or axis '.

Taking Children Seriously ( TCS ) is a parenting movement and educational philosophy whose central idea is that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without either doing anything to them against their will, or making them do anything against their will.

In late 1911, President Taft called for a “ central organization in touch with associations and chambers of commerce throughout the country .” Just four months later, on April 12, 1912, Taft created the United States Chamber of Commerce as a counterbalance to the rise of the labor movement at the time.