AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ), which had little experience in managing an undertaking of the scope and magnitude of the CA / T Project, hired a joint venture to provide preliminary designs, manage design consultants and construction contractors, track the project's cost and schedule, advise MTA on project decisions, and ( in some instances ) act as the MTA's representative.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

This variant too detects any single-bit error, but the probability that a two-bit error will go undetected is a little less than 1 / n.

Typically when business people and economists talk of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed in the buy / not-buy decision.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

* Saint Nicholas Day, where St. Nicholas / Santa Claus leaves little presents in children's shoes.

" / " To think philosophically is good, but in little doses "-Quoted by Cicero in " Tusculanes ", book II, part 1.

Often, if just a little bias is permitted, then an estimator can be found with lower MSE and / or fewer outlier sample estimates.

The El Niño winter of 2006 / 2007 was unusually mild in Europe, and the Alps recorded very little snow coverage that season.

Class 2. 1 fax devices are referred to as " super G3 "; they seem to be a little faster than Class 1 / 2 / 2. 0.

John Elliot, however, suggests that the notion of Silvanus as secretary or author or drafter of 1 Peter represents little more than a counsel of despair and introduces more problems than it solves because the Greek rendition of 5: 12 suggests that Silvanus was not the secretary, but the courier / bearer of 1Peter.

The once resplendent theatre is now little but planks and scaffolding ( Prologue / Overture ).

This knowledge coupled with insight into the handler's own capabilities makes it easier for the handler to make appropriate decisions about whether to discharge or not, even if given little time and / or put under severe stress.

He demonstrated CP / M to Intel, but Intel had little interest and chose to market PL / M instead.

Once the actors are onboard the Protector, they finally realize the truth, but Sarris prevents them from leaving, so they assume their television roles in order to save the Thermians, who have very little concept of deception, or the art of acting / theater.

This provides protection for the base of the bullet, and allows velocities of over 1500 ft / s ( 450 m / s ) in handguns, with little or no leading of the bore.

In some extreme cases the insulin delivery will appear to have no / little effect on lowering blood glucose levels and the site must be changed.

In others, the major currency unit has so little value that the minor unit is no longer generally used ( e. g. the Japanese sen, 1 / 100th of a yen ).

This event was a little late in the evolution of the Internet, but it cemented TCP / IP's dominance over other protocols, which eventually disappeared.

With the other two original X-Men, Cyclops and Phoenix, Bobby has a little brother-big brother / sister relationship, with the latter being much more pleasant.

In Grant's 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, Europeans who were not of Germanic origin, but who had Nordic characteristics such as blonde / red hair and blue / green / gray eyes were considered to be a Nordic admixture and suitable for Aryanization.

" In 1962, he filmed Panic Button ; ( not released until 1964 ); playing opposite blonde bombshell / sex symbol, Jayne Mansfield.

Quimby also is frequently noticed in bed with the same or similar blonde woman / women, at least one of whom was Miss Springfield.

Three of the remaining original pilot characters differed from those of the series ( including the actor / actress cast ): In the pilot, the Professor was instead a high school teacher played by John Gabriel ; Ginger the movie star was instead Ginger, a practical secretary with red hair, played by Kit Smythe ; and Mary Ann the Kansas farm-girl was instead Bunny, a stereotypically cheerful " dumb blonde " secretary, played by Nancy McCarthy.

According to Stephen Cannell, in a DVD extra, they were developed initially as a promo, filmed and assembled by Ralph Hemecker in a single day of filming, and featuring a leggy blonde actress / model whom Cannell said was named Avalon Jones .< sup > 1 </ sup > In the very first two episodes of the series, Kapture was shown first, and then Estes ; they alternated after that, except for Kapture's final episode, in which she ( and not Estes ) appeared in the opening montage, followed by the two new co-stars.

* Rhonda Lee ( Leslie Easterbrook )— A ditzy blonde actress / singer / dancer / model trying to make it big.

* Physical Description: blonde hair, slightly green skin, yellow eyes, tall / slender figure.

She also wore a long blonde ponytail hairpiece for the Japan / US leg of her tour.

In The New 52 continuity, a blonde earth-powered heroine named Terra / Tara is part of Caitlin Fairchild's team The Ravagers.

The commercial featured two extraordinarily beautiful women, a blonde ( Tanya Ballinger ) and a brunette ( Kitana Baker ), discussing the classic " Great Taste / Less Filling " debate, except they both ended up stripped, soaked, beaten and covered in mud.

Free-spirited Debbie " Deb " Dunham has turned from Old Harper to marijuana and has given up her platinum blonde persona for a hippie / groupie one in a long, strange trip that ends with her performing with a country-and-western music group.

The stereotypical image was formed as a variation of the dumb blonde / bimbo persona, with references to the Estuary English accent, white stiletto heels, silicone augmented breasts, peroxide blonde hair, over-indulgent use of fake tan ( lending an orange appearance ), promiscuity, loud verbal vulgarity and to socialising at downmarket nightclubs.

A dermatoscope must be used to detect " ugly ducklings " among those with light skin or blonde / red hair.

One of the characters in the Wein / Adams story is a blonde female scientist called " Dr. Barbara Morse ".

Her signature trademarks were her blonde, smouldering good-looks and a small beauty mark / mole just to the right of her lower lip.

" The catchers respond with a specific stipulation ; " Only if you're wearing blue / have blonde hair / have an S in your name!

The rate of oxygen transfer at 1.0-mg. / l. dissolved oxygen concentration and 10-degrees-C for various rotor speeds is given in Table 3.

The gallium / germanium ratio is higher than that for ordinary igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary matter as a result of selective volatilization of the components of the tektite.

The luminous gain of a single stage with Af ( flux gain ) is, to a first approximation, given by the product of the photocathode sensitivity S ( amp / lumen ), the anode potential V ( volts ), and the phosphor conversion efficiency P ( lumen/watt ).

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

An acid ( from the Latin acidus / acēre meaning sour ) is a substance which reacts with a base.

Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.

Even though it's not up to him / her to make laws ( only to promulgate them and make edicts ), the President is the leader of the winning party.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

This is often done in advance of the update of reporting databases and / or the issuance of official documents.

Typically, when an algorithm is associated with processing information, data is read from an input source, written to an output device, and / or stored for further processing.

But Minsky shows ( as do Melzak and Lambek ) that his machine is Turing complete with only four general types of instructions: conditional GOTO, unconditional GOTO, assignment / replacement / substitution, and HALT.

This means that the programmer must know a " language " that is effective relative to the target computing agent ( computer / computor ).

* James Atlas ( born 1949 ), is a founding editor of the Lipper / Viking Penguin Lives Series