One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.

To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name.

AA groups are self-supporting, relying on voluntary donations from members to cover expenses.

AA receives proceeds from books and literature that constitute more than 50 % of the income for its General Service Office ( GSO ).

Following the helper therapy principle, sponsors in AA benefit as much, if not more, from their relationship than do those they sponsor.

This undoubtedly inspired their Morris C9 / B ( officially the " Carrier, SP, 4x4, 40 mm AA "), a Bofors 40 mm AA gun mounted on a chassis derived from the Morris " Quad " Field Artillery Tractor truck.

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.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

Thirty-nine local authorities in the UK either imposed an outright ban, or imposed an X ( 18 years ) certificate ( effectively preventing the film from being shown, as the distributors said the film could not be shown unless it was unedited and carried the original AA ( 14 ) certificate ).

* 1997: Land Rover introduces the Special Edition Discovery XD with AA Yellow paint, subdued wheels, SD type roof racks, and a few other off-road upgrades directly from the factory.

Both DGLA and AA can be made from the omega-6 linoleic acid ( LA ) in the human body, or can be taken in directly through food.

Omega-3 EPA prevents AA from being released from membranes, thereby skewing prostaglandin balance away from pro-inflammatory PGE2 ( made from AA ) toward anti-inflammatory PGE1 ( made from DGLA ).

* AM, The Pentagon reports recovering both black boxes from flight AA 77 which crashed into the Pentagon.

" Among the Oxford Group practices AA retained were informal gatherings, a " changed-life " developed through " stages ", and working with others for no material gain.

One of the alcoholics he brought into the Oxford Group was Ebby Thacher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of Bill Wilson, later co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ).

Wilson later acknowledged: " The early AA got its ideas of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others straight from the Oxford Group and directly from Sam Shoemaker, their former leader in America, and from nowhere else.

In 2007 the AA merged with Saga Group to form Acromas Holdings.

In 2007, the AA was sold to, and merged into, Saga Group to form Acromas Holdings.

He was a Parade All-America selection and named Virginia's Group AA Co-Offensive Player of the Year as senior at Matoaca High School in his hometown and birthplace of Ettrick, Va. also selected first-team All-Conference at both FB and LB, also earned All-Metro and All-State honors, he was The Richmond Times-Dispatch's co-Player of the Year after posting 78 tackles, 11 sacks, five blocked kicks, four forced fumbles and two interceptions, he rushed the ball 105 times for 1, 006 ( 9. 6 avg.

The largest group of schools are in Group AAA, the next largest group in Group AA, and the smallest group in Group A.

Group AA schools are somewhat more widely distributed than the other two and found in rapidly growing areas like Loudoun County, in and around cities such as Roanoke, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, and Charlottesville, and in smaller cities and counties which have a single high school.

Several schools in the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas elect to play in Group AAA instead of Group AA due to a reluctance to travel long distances.

In Southwest Virginia, some schools elect to play up a class in Group AA due to traditionally being part of that group.

Schools can be granted a special dispensation from the VHSL to play down in Group A or AA due to being far away from the nearest schools in their class and being relatively close to the dividing line, so a school with 800 or 1, 600 students might get this dispensation, while a school with 1, 000 or 2, 000 students would not.

Divisions 1 and 2 are for Group A with Division 2 being the larger one ; 3 and 4, the AA schools ; and 5 and 6, the AAA schools.

In 2008, the division format was adopted for basketball in Group A, and in 2009 for basketball in Group AA.

The VHSL academic season continues with the Group A and AA One Act Theatre Festivals, traditionally held the first week of December in Charlottesville.

At this tournament, Group A, AA, and AAA competition occur separately, but simultaneously.

Group AA

* Members of VHSL Group AA

In 2001, Mandalay Sports Entertainment, owner of the Shreveport SwampDragons Class AA baseball team, reached an agreement with Southwest Sports Group to move the team to Frisco for the 2003 baseball season.

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.

The influence of Jung thus indirectly found its way into the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the original twelve-step program, and from there into the whole twelve-step recovery movement, although AA as a whole is not Jungian and Jung had no role in the formation of that approach or the twelve steps.

The Homestead strike broke the AA as a force in the American labor movement.

AA members continue to point to this review as significant in the development of the AA movement.

We chose coffee over beer because of our support for the budding AA movement in 1960.

In his Chronicle, Eusebius gives the date of Ignatius's death as AA 2124 ( 2124 years after Adam ), which would amount to the 11th year of Trajan, i. e. 108 AD.

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.

Tim Connor was named the mental attitude award winner for Class AA after the game.

Theirs were the first heavy AA guns ashore after D-Day and they operated in the anti-aircraft and ground support roles across north-west Europe, including the defence of Antwerp against a V-1 flying bomb barrage.

Carnegie officials conceded that the AA essentially ran the Homestead plant after the 1889 strike.

For its part, the AA saw substantial gains after the 1889 strike.

Things did not improve for Charboneau in 1982: after only 22 games with the Indians, Joe and his. 214 average where shipped back to Charleston, then to AA Chattanooga again.

In the early 1990s, he bought the Charlotte Knights AA minor league baseball team and moved them to New Orleans, renaming them the " Pelicans " after New Orleans ' old minor league team.

* # 37-Stephen Obenchain-retired after a lack of success at the A and AA levels

He and Mack joined the Buffalo Bisons of the Players League in 1890, after which Hoy returned to the AA with the St. Louis Browns under player-manager Charles Comiskey for the league's final season in 1891, leading the league with 119 walks and scoring a career-high 136 runs ( second in the league ).

In the United Kingdom in 2001, the Ordnance Survey ( OS ) and the Automobile Association ( The AA ), a British motoring association, reached an out-of-court settlement of £ 20m after deliberate " errors " placed on OS maps were reproduced on maps by the AA.

Three of the teams that switched over from the AA to the NL after the AA folded following the 1891 Season, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals, have posted more than 10, 000 lifetime major league victories.

However, in August 2009, the Cardinals ' organization stated that 700 + victories posted by the Cardinals while they were members of the AA would be stricken from their records because they felt that only victories accumulated after the team joined the NL should count.

During the offseason of 1900, there was an effort to revive the American Association after three of the four AA teams that had been taken in by the National League in 1892, the Baltimore Orioles, the Washington Senators, and the Louisville Colonels, as well as the NL's Cleveland Spiders, were dropped by the National League.

Professional baseball declined in London after the war, with mostly amateur teams playing at Labatt Park in the following decades, until 1989 when an AA Eastern League affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, the Glens Falls Tigers relocated from Glens Falls, New York to London by investors / Board of Directors, President Dan Ross, Vice President Mike Tucker, Vice President and General Manager Bob Gilson, Vice President and Assistant General Manager General Manager Bill Wilkinson and Vice President Brian Costello.

They then joined the National League after the AA folded and played through the 1899 season.

ADGB was resurrected as a formal Command in 1943 for the rump of Fighter Command dedicated to the defence of the United Kingdom after the formation of the Second Tactical Air Force in 1943 and the still-large AA Command.

They began dating after running into each other at an AA meeting, thus discovering they were both recovering alcoholics.

Much of Season 5 also follows Tommy's extended family — Cousin Mickey ( Robert John Burke ), Cousin Eddie ( Terry Serpico ), Uncle Teddy ( Lenny Clarke ) and Teddy's wife Ellie ( Patti D ' Arbanville ) — as they all return to drinking after spending several unsuccessful months in AA.

After the AA folded, the Orioles joined the National League in 1892 and played in there until the league dropped the team after the 1899 season.

Sutton Garage also partly took control of route 200 at a yard in Colliers Wood ( AA ) in 1989, after Cityrama withdrew from their contract.