"; Best in Show, in which he portrayed " Buck Laughlin ," a dog show announcer who offered up an unending stream of bad jokes and off-color comments ; Waiting for Guffman, in which he played " Ron Albertson ," a travel agent who performs in amateur stage productions with his wife ; This Is Spinal Tap, in which he played a lieutenant on the military base where Spinal Tap play ; and For Your Consideration as an obnoxious entertainment television show anchor.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

He could also hear the stream which he had seen from his position.

Soon they were picking their way along the edge of the stream which glowed in the night.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

a stream or pond which is attractive in the springtime may become stagnant or dry in late summer.

A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.

Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.

For protein identification, fractions from the column were concentrated by pervaporation against a stream of air at 5-degrees-C or by negative pressure dialysis in an apparatus which permitted simultaneous concentration of the protein and dialysis against isotonic saline.

As he applied the applicator extending from the machine -- which consisted of seven differently colored neon tubes superimposed on a rectangular base -- to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs. Shaefer's body, Lee kept up a steady stream of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

In the Greek tradition, the constellation became represented as simply a single vase from which a stream poured down to Piscis Austrinus.

The Black Warrior River is a considerable stream which joins the Tombigbee from the east.

The Alcotts hosted a steady stream of visitors at The Hillside, including fugitive slaves, which they hosted in secret as a station of the Underground Railroad.

Peter B. deMenocal, has shown there was an influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the stream flow of the Tigris and Euphrates at this time, which led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire ".

This was clearly unacceptable for speech traffic, which needs to have low jitter in the data stream being fed into the codec if it is to produce good-quality sound.

Field ion microscopy techniques were initially construed as a modification of field emission, a technique which allows for a stream of electrons to be emitted from a sharp needle when subjected to a sufficiently high electric field (~ 3-6 V / nm ).

In data transmission systems a byte is defined as a contiguous sequence of binary bits in a serial data stream, such as in modem or satellite communications, which is the smallest meaningful unit of data.

A small stream, the Nebel, ( the ground either side of which was soft and marshy and only fordable intermittently ), fronted the French line.

The French left flank was protected by broken country, and by a stream, the Petite Gheete, which runs deep between steep and slippery slopes.

On the French side of the stream the ground rises to Offus, the village which, together with Autre-Eglise farther north, anchored Villeroi ’ s left flank.

During the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, the BBC presented a service which allowed viewers to select a video stream of different matches, and access additional information such as player profiles, scores and interactive quizzes.

) in his or her blood stream, which were introduced by the shared circulatory system of the placenta ; neonatal milk, the milk from a lactating infant, is also known as witch's milk.

In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey ; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques ( Botstein, § 6 ).

The device in use today safely burns a continuous stream of a flammable gas such as natural gas ( which is principally methane ) or a liquefied petroleum gas such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both.

In a stream that turns a mill-wheel there is a lot of water ; ;

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

The objective function is some measure of the increase in value of the stream by processing ; ;

The essential characteristic of an optimal policy when the state of the stream is transformed in a sequence of stages with no feedback was first isolated by Bellman.

These will be numbered in the direction opposite to the flow of the process stream, so that stage R is the T stage from the end.

For any choice of admissible policy Af in the first stage, the state of the stream leaving this stage is given by Af.

In the third column is given the optimal policy for stage R, and in the fourth, the resulting state of the stream when this policy is used.

Hence P is the increase in value of the stream minus the cost of operation, that is, the net profit.

In this case the stage R operating with conditions Af transforms the state of the stream from Af to Af, but only the probability distribution of Af is known.

In many cases it is not possible to divide the process into a finite number of discrete stages, since the state of the stream is transformed in a continuous manner through the process.

A `` mental image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought, or consciously in light sleep, is actually not an image at all but is comprised of realities, viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream, but within the depths of the fourth dimension.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

Thus, an analog signal is one represented by a continuous stream of data, in this case along an electrical circuit in the form of voltage, current or charge changes ( compare with digital signals below ).

Reduction of jitter ( and also end-to-end round-trip delays ) is particularly important when carrying voice traffic, because the conversion of digitized voice into an analogue audio signal is an inherently real-time process, and to do a good job, the decoder ( codec ) that does this needs an evenly spaced ( in time ) stream of data items.

The valleys in the north and northeast are usually deep and narrow, but in the Coastal Plain they are broad and in most cases rise in three successive terraces above the stream.

* By whether they work on blocks of symbols usually of a fixed size ( block ciphers ), or on a continuous stream of symbols ( stream ciphers ).

The existing stream usually acts as the water source and its banks provide a path for the new body.

To cross a stream or road, the solution is usually to bridge with an aqueduct.

Not all audio codecs can be used for streaming applications, and for such applications a codec designed to stream data effectively will usually be chosen.

The first step is usually to convert the signal from an analog to a digital form, by sampling and then digitizing it using an analog-to-digital converter ( ADC ), which turns the analog signal into a stream of numbers.

A stream of usually low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming threats from " outside ": alien invasions and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects.

An ISIS interface can run scanners at or above their rated speed by linking drivers together in a pipe so that data flows from a scanner driver to compression driver, to packaging driver, to a file, viewer, or printer in a continuous stream, usually without the need to buffer more than a small portion of the full image.

Mass transfer is the net movement of mass from one location, usually meaning a stream, phase, fraction or component, to another.

From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards ( often arranged quite different from the original ), her own compositions, and material from young artists.

In early tape drives, non-continuous data transfer was normal and unavoidable-computer processing power and memory available were usually insufficient to provide a constant stream.

Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream ( usually via a wound ).

The term usually applies to a single parity bit per bit stream,

Block ciphers must be used in ciphertext stealing or residual block termination mode to avoid padding, while stream ciphers eliminate this issue by naturally operating on the smallest unit that can be transmitted ( usually bytes ).

A flow of argon gas ( usually 14 to 18 liters per minute ) is introduced between the two outermost tubes of the torch and an electric spark is applied for a short time to introduce free electrons into the gas stream.

A flow of argon gas ( usually 14 to 18 liters per minute ) is introduced between the two outermost tubes of the torch and an electrical spark is applied for a short time to introduce free electrons into the gas stream.

Camcorders that offer video transfer over USB usually do not deliver full DV quality-usually it is 320x240 video ( except for the Sony DCR-PC1000 camcorder and some Panasonic camcorders providing transfer of a full-quality DV stream via USB ).

A framing error in an asynchronous stream usually recovers quickly, but a framing error in a synchronous stream produces gibberish at the end of the packet.

Mandatory collection laws set recycling targets for cities to aim for, usually in the form that a certain percentage of a material must be diverted from the city's waste stream by a target date.

When the thoracic duct-venous communication is blocked, however, the resultant raised intralymphatic pressure will usually cause other normal non-functioning communications to open and thereby allow the return of lymph to the blood stream.

On the receiving side, similar steps ( usually in the reverse order ) such as reception of the IP packets, decoding of the packets and digital-to-analog conversion reproduce the original voice stream.

While such interfaces as Ethernet, FireWire, and USB all send data as a serial stream, the term " serial port " usually identifies hardware more or less compliant to the RS-232 standard, intended to interface with a modem or with a similar communication device.