The Bears baseball team shares 7, 986-seat Hammons Field, located a few blocks north of the MSU campus, with the Springfield Cardinals of the AA Texas League.

To help members stay sober AA must, they argue, provide an all-encompassing world view while creating and sustaining an atmosphere of transcendence in the organization.

However, this was quickly disproved ( if only by the time factor ), and following an autopsy that he witnessed, Blake became a strong proponent of the view that an AA machine gunner had killed Richthofen.

A difficulty with this point of view is that humans are established to conditionally require certain long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids ( LC-PUFAs ), such as AA and DHA, from the diet.

In 1937, light AA guns were added, the RAF's view that small-calibre artillery were unsuitable having been finally overturned.

The Radeon 9700 demonstrated that anti-aliasing ( AA ) and / or anisotropic filtering ( AF ) could be fully usable options, even in the newest and most demanding titles at the time, and resulted in the widespread acceptance of AA and AF as standard features.

If that is one's preference, then AA is an ideal program.

Several of the Twelve Steps of AA involve identifying and dealing with resentment as part of the path toward recovery, including acknowledging one's own role in resentment and praying for the resentment to be taken away.

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 generally avoids discussing the medical nature of alcoholism ; nonetheless AA is regarded as a proponent and popularizer of the disease theory of alcoholism.

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.

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.

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

* SEAD, Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, the mission of finding and destroying SAM and AA gun installations.

Bromley and his men destroy four AA guns so the a proper air strike can be done, and Tanaka and Joe infiltrate the temples, and rescue Raj.

Some damage might be done to the bombers by AA guns, and by fighters as the bombers returned to base, but that was not the same as a proper defence.

Although all his older brothers were lawyers he enrolled at the University of the Philippines as a pre-med student where he obtained his AA ( Pre-Medicine ) and was admitted to Medicine proper but after two years decided to shift to Law.

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.

As aircraft started to be used against ground targets on the battlefield, the AA guns could not be traversed quickly enough at close targets and, being relatively few, were not always in the right place ( and were often unpopular with other troops ), so changed positions frequently.

In 1941 the first prison meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous took place at San Quentin ; in commemoration of this, the 25-millionth copy of the AA Big Book was presented to Jill Brown, of San Quentin, at the International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The following season, the team sank to a 27-111 record and a last place finish, and Davidson surrendered control of the team to the AA.

The rechristened New York Giants finished second in the National League in 1885, while the Mets slumped to seventh place in the AA.

Some cordless telephones now utilize two rechargeable AA or AAA cells in place of the more expensive traditional proprietary telephone batteries.

With new manager Butch Henry on board the Diablos were expected to be a much better team for the 2007 season, and they did finish the first half of the season in first place in the Southern Division with 28 wins and 23 losses and 4 games ahead of second place Sheveport and automatically getting a spot for the league play-offs-their first play-off appearance since the 2000 season when they were in the AA Texas League.

In 2009 – 10, there was a heavy battle for the second place in the Belgian Pro League between AA Gent and Club Brugge and the Champions League ticket that comes with it.

* Seitzer was a member of Lincoln Community High School's fourth place finish ( Lincoln, IL ) in the 1980 Class AA Illinois High School Association basketball tournament.

The basic premise is to place the largest 64 schools into Class AA and the remaining high schools in Class A.

Graduating in 1986, as a senior Gill led Rich Central to a 2nd place finish in the IHSA class AA state boys basketball tournament.

# Subsections: At Subsections, all Class A or class AA ( respectively ) competitors are invited to compete for a place at their Section tournament.

At the 26th Annual North Stafford Invitational the Marching Stallions won Colorguard, Percussion, Music and ended up 2nd place in its class ( AA.

) The Marching Stallions swept their class, winning Percussion, Colorguard, Drum Majors, Music, GE, Marching, and 1st place in Class AA at the 23rd Annual Hermitage Classic Marching Band Festival.

At the 25th Annual Oakton Classic Invitational Marching Band Competition, the band won 1st place in class AA, Best Guard, Percussion, Brass, Woodwind.

) At JMU ’ s 23rd Parade of Champions, the Marching Stallions won 4th place in class AA with a score of 79. 1.

" The Marching Stallions took first place in their class ( AA ) with taking all but the Colorguard trophy and been the top band at the 27th Annual North Stafford Invitational.

In a recent report by the AA Trust on UK motorway service stations, the quality of its food selection gave it bottom place.

A few years later, this designation was put in place with the AA Highway being co-signed with KY 546 and KY 694, however, many motorists were soon confused by the ever changing designations.