The remaining 15 players are generally either on the disabled list or play at some level of the minor leagues ( usually at the AAA or AA level ).

The eicosanoids derived from AA generally promote inflammation.

Mathematically, texture filtering is a type of anti-aliasing, but it filters out high frequencies from the texture fill whereas other AA techniques generally focus on visual edges.

* 1 — generally equivalent to grade AA

Since each AA operation generally creates a new symbol, the number of terms in an affine form may be proportional to the number of operations used to compute it.

Some meetings are devoted to studying and discussing the AA literature.

Alopecia areata ( AA ) is a medical condition in which hair is lost from some or all areas of the body, usually from the scalp.

It can be argued that their success drove legitimate black business and capital, such as the numerous successful African American owned banks, medical practices, stores, landlords, and other AA business to escape the city as segregation pressures faded.

They note that although AA's ideology denies AA is religious in nature, for an AA member to remain sober a high level of commitment is necessary.

In the AA Twelve-Step Program, confession is made in Step 5: " Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.

" Consequently, drug addicts who do not suffer from the specifics of alcoholism involved in AA hoping for recovery technically are not welcome in " closed " meetings unless they have a desire to stop drinking alcohol.

Although the two bonded over their shared alcoholism, Mike has coped with his own addictions by joining Alcoholics Anonymous and by becoming a compulsive gambler ; in between work on Coven, Mike goes to the gas station to buy lottery tickets, sometimes accompanied by his AA sponsor, who then drives them both to Gamblers ' Anonymous meetings.

Hutton and Schoen had both struggled with alcoholism and in the 1970s both were finally able to quit drinking and joined AA.

Keywords in AA were distinguishable from other text by being underlined ; there was also an " uppercasedelimiters " mode where all uppercase letters ( outside strings ) were treated as underlined lowercase.

AA Ceti is a triple star system ; the brightest member has a magnitude of 6. 2.

AA Ceti is an eclipsing variable star ; the tertiary star passes in front of the primary and causes the system's apparent magnitude to decrease by 0. 5 magnitudes.

The tradeoff comes in terms of power and accuracy ; AA # 2 is designed for small cases, and will burn inconsistently in the large 44 Magnum case.

These ranks are A, AA, and AAA ; AAA corporations are top tier.

Battery life was a much bigger issue before handheld systems had built-in rechargeable batteries ; gamers needed either a constant supply of six AA batteries, or a rechargeable Ni-Cd battery pack that was sold separately and clipped on a user's belt or onto the back of the Game Gear using the clips and screw holes.

In an August 2011 video documentary on the relative battery life of the 3DS and Game Gear, GigaBoots. com documents that their Game Gear, Model 2110g ( 2nd Revision ), lasted 7 hours and 26 minutes on 6 regular Duracell AA batteries ; this unexpectedly long battery life led them to speculate that battery technology must have improved since the Game Gear was launched.

Rating scales vary ; the most popular scale uses ( in order of increasing risk ) ratings of AAA, AA, A, BBB, BB, B, CCC, CC, C, with the additional rating D for debt already in arrears.

Government bonds and bonds issued by government sponsored enterprises ( GSE's ) are often considered to be in a zero-risk category above AAA ; and categories like AA and A may sometimes be split into finer subdivisions like " AA −" or " AA +".

Note that the Apple ISO 9660 Extensions do not technically follow the SUSP standard ; however the basic structure of the AA and AB fields defined by Apple are forward compatible with SUSP ; so that, with care, a volume can use both Apple extensions as well as RRIP extensions.

Under a light load ( 0. 5 ampere ), the starting voltage of a freshly charged AA NiMH cell in good condition is about 1. 4 volts ; This voltage falls rapidly to about 1. 25 volts at 10 % depth of discharge ( DOD ) and then remains almost constant until the cell is over 80 % discharged.

The AA Southern Association ( which never integrated ) died after the 1961 season and so the SAL was promoted to AA in 1963 to take its place ; a year later the name was changed to the Southern League.

* 2006 Ravenswood High School Boys Basketball team defeats Bluefield for the 2006 AA State Championship ; the first in Ravenswood history

However, while the shell was a bit light ( well under 2 lbs ) it had a good effective ceiling and fired 125 rounds per minute ; an AA carriage was developed and it entered service in 1939.

In January 1990, Vaughan gave a speech at an AA meeting ; a recording and transcript of the speech have been widely circulated on the internet.

The recruits are designated as Seaman Recruits ( SR ; E-1 ) and, uniquely to the Coast Guard among the services, advanced to the rank of Seaman Apprentice / Airman Apprentice / Fireman Apprentice ( SA / AA / FA ; E-2 ) upon graduation.

* BT-7M ( 1938, prototypes designated A-8 ; sometimes referred to as BT-8 ): new V-2 diesel engine replacing earlier gasoline engines, three DT machine guns: coaxial, in P-40 AA mount on roof and in a ball-mount on turret rear.

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) is an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith ( Bill W. and Dr. Bob ) in Akron, Ohio.

AA states that its " primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety ".

AA's data shows that 64 % drop out of AA in the first year, but its program is credited with helping many alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety.

The second half of the book, " Personal Stories " ( subject to additions, removal and retitling in subsequent editions ), is made of AA members ' redemptive autobiographical sketches.

AA says it is " not organized in the formal or political sense ", and Bill Wilson called it a " benign anarchy ".

The Twelve Traditions informally guide how individual AA groups function, and the Twelve Concepts for World Service guide how the organization is structured globally.

Each group is a self-governing entity with AA World Services acting only in an advisory capacity.

AA is served entirely by alcoholics, except for seven " nonalcoholic friends of the fellowship " of the 21-member AA Board of Trustees.

A spiritual awakening is achieved by following the Twelve Steps, and sobriety is furthered by volunteering for AA and regular AA meeting attendance or contact with AA members.

AA shares the view that acceptance of one's inherent limitations is critical to finding one's proper place among other humans and God.

As this tension is an integral part of AA, Rudy and Greil argue that AA is best described as a quasi-religious organization.