However, Alpha Centauri is a bright binary star, whose unresolved components to the naked eye are both fainter than Arcturus.

Although the Alpha processor family met both of these goals, and, for most of its lifetime, was the fastest processor family on the market, it did little to affect the bottom line or repair the company's status.

While enrolled in college, they both joined their campus chapters of the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi.

He created both the Alpha and Beta tests ancestors to today's ASVAB, a multiple choice test, administered by the United States Military Entrance Processing Command, used to determine qualification for enlistment in the United States armed forces.

The cyborg Alpha Lanterns ended up fighting a renewed assault from both sides and saw them unite to defeat an amalgam composite of a massive Manhunter.

In 1988 Linacre College was granted a coat of arms blazoned Sable an open Book proper edged Or bound Gules the dexter page charged with the Greek Letter Alpha the sinister page charged with the Greek Letter Omega both Sable the whole between three Escallops Argent.

By 2004, both Alpha Portland Cement and Allied Signal were gone, and Ironton had shrunk to the point where there were fewer people living in the whole county than had lived in the city of Ironton 110 years before.

He attended secondary school briefly at Upper Canada College, before transferring to Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, and graduated from university at University of Toronto, where both he and his cousin were active members in The Kappa Alpha Society, and Balliol College, Oxford.

He wrote a book Peregrinación de Alpha por las provincias del norte de La Nueva Granada en 1850-1851 ( Alpha's Pilgrimage ) describing what he found, and promoting the idea of developing a new Colombian culture based on both Indian and Spanish roots.

The Federation dispatches a rescue team that returns Sisko's group to the station, but while retreating back to the Alpha Quadrant a Jem ' Hadar ship launches a kamikaze run against the Odyssey, resulting in the destruction of both ships.

In 1992, both Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation broke the difficult 100 MHz limit with RISC techniques in the PA-7100 and AXP 21064 DEC Alpha respectively.

1974-Publication of The Alpha Syllabus: A Handbook of Human EEG Alpha Activity and the first popular book on biofeedback, New Mind, New Body ( December ), both by Barbara B.

The end of the Marchant Ridge ( after four hours of ' up hill, all the way, both ways ') leads to Mount Alpha, and onto The Southern Crossing.

Apart from being the closest star system to Earth's, ( 4. 1 light-years northwest of earth ) Alpha Centauri is home to both a local planning department office of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council and a race of small furry creatures ( who, during the times of the Galactic Empire, " were real small furry creatures ").

Alpha and Bravo taxiways lie parallel to the runway and both are nearly the same length as the runway.

Jal and Call had a decent fan following in India as well while Roxen ` s soundtrack from Indian film Awarapan made everyone felt their presence on both sides of borders as well. Also Arif Lohar made a huge success with a rock folk album in 2006 called 21st century Jugni: this album was successful worldwide, and in India won 3 awards at the Alpha Punjabi Awards ceremony for best International Punjabi vocalist and best remixed and best folk rock album.

Alpha Noir and Omega White were both produced and mixed by Tue Madsen, who had previously worked on the band's Under Satanæ and Night Eternal records.

The most popular styles in Ivory Coast are imported reggae from Jamaica and hip hop from the United States ; the country has produced notable musicians of both genres, especially Alpha Blondy whose brand of Afro-reggae became a national hit following his appearance on the TV show First chance in 1983.

In addition to activities with civic organizations, Moten Barnett served as a board member of both The Links, a service organization for African-American women, and her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Thus both organizations complemented each other and began to work towards the creation of the fraternity now known as Phi Iota Alpha.

On December 26, 1931, the first day of a three-day convention, Phi Iota Alpha was born as both groups agreed to the merger.

The supposed origin behind this series was an issue of Arcadia magazine in which there were articles covering both The King of Fighters ' 98 and Street Fighter Alpha 3, both of which were released at around the same time.

* The lyrebird is also featured atop the crest of Panhellenic Sorority Alpha Chi Omega, whose symbol is the lyre.

The Pansy is a symbol of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Sigma Lambda Upsilon ( ΣΛΥ ) or Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc.

* Lambda Chi Alpha and its symbol

File: SarcophagusSoissonFrance6thCentury. jpg | Sarcophagus with Chi-Rho symbol and Alpha and Omega, 6th century, Soissons, France.

The official symbol of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is the cross pattée, though the organization's founder thought it was a Maltese cross when the organization was formed in 1865.

At the top right-hand corner of the fragment is a deeply-cut motif consisting ( as visible ) of a letter A and another incomplete character on either side of a large diagonal cross ; the whole may represent a common Christian symbol, a Christogram -- the Greek alphabet letters Alpha and Omega flanking a large Greek letter Chi ( written like a Roman X ), the initial of Christos ( Christ ).

Today's Alpha chapter is decorated with prints of " The Temptation of St. Anthony " as well as the mythic symbol the " Owl of Minerva ".

Therefore the letters Alpha and Omega in juxtaposition are often used as a Christian visual symbol ( see examples ).

This symbol was suggested by the Apocalypse, where many believe that Christ, as well as the Father, is " the First and the Last " ( ii, 8 ); " the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end " ( cf., xxii, 13 ; i, 8 ).

Like Alpha it had no expansion symbol, and the text on the bottom left consisted of only the artist credit.

The symbol of the fraternity is the labarum and men of Alpha Chi Rho are commonly called Crows.

The Alpha Team symbol was changed, Crunch and Cam were replaced by Diamond Tooth and Arrow ( respectively ), and Ogel replaced his red hook with a transparent blue hook.

In 1992, Alpha Oumar Konaré won Mali's first democratic, multi-party presidential election, before being re-elected for a second term in 1997, which was the last allowed under the constitution.

, the Mayor of Alpha Borough is Edward Hanics, Jr. ( D ; term ends December 31, 2015 ).

The only significant previous use of the term " Syfy " in relation to science fiction was by the website SyFy Portal, which became Airlock Alpha after selling the brand to NBC Universal ( represented by a shell company ) in February for $ 250, 000.

One of the earliest pen-and-paper games to reference the term was Gamma World published by TSR in 1980 ( the same company that originated Dungeons and Dragons )., while its predecessor Metamorphosis Alpha, published in 1976 is classified as science fiction, highlighting some of the confusion between the two genres.

Early in his term ( October 1931 ), Alpha Phi Omega was formally recognized by the Boy Scouts of America.

He also coined the term " parallel universe retrieval ," meaning not just the capture of criminals, but the act of escorting them back to the Alpha Universe for trial.

It begins the U. S. Navy use of the term " Alpha strike ", meaning a large attack by an aircraft carrier air wing.

Alpha Delta Pi is one of the two " Macon Magnolias ," a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Phi Mu.

Knox College groups belonging to the sorority's Panhellenic Council ( Alpha Sigma Alpha, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Pi Beta Phi ) conduct a formal recruitment process during the winter term.

The term Alpha and Omega comes from the phrase " I am the alpha and the omega " ( Koiné Greek: τὸ Α καὶ τὸ Ω ), an appellation of Jesus in the Book of Revelation ( verses 1: 8, 21: 6, and 22: 13 ).

Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for students who have achieved a 3. 5 GPA or higher and are in the top 20 % of their class during their first year or term of higher education.

The term can also refer to the organization of protons and neutrons within an atomic nucleus, e. g. the Alpha particle ( a. k. a. as " α-cluster "), consisting of two protons and two neutrons ( as in a helium nucleus ).

The term was considered by occultist Aleister Crowley to represent a unity of beginning and ending by tying together the first and last letters of the alphabets of antiquity ; A / Alpha / Alef ( first character of Latin, Greek & Hebrew ), Z ( final character in Latin ), O as Omega ( final character in Greek ) and Th as Tau ( final character in Hebrew ).

Phi Mu is one of the two " Macon Magnolias ," a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Alpha Delta Pi.

The term " gas proportional detector " ( GPD ) is generally used in radiometric practice, and the property of being able to detect particle energy is particular useful when using flat arrays for Alpha and Beta particle detection and discrimination.

* Lisa Croston, Alpha term

The Alpha Cast ( Alpha Psi Omega's term for " chapter ") was founded at Fairmont State College ( now Fairmont State University ) on August 12, 1925 by professor Paul F. Opp.

In Dan Abnett's works, where the term first appeared, the Alpha Level psyker Esarhaddon ( also the name of the King of Assyria between 681-669 BC ) is powerful and able to control hundreds of Imperial citizens as puppets against the protagonists, but he is not described as being powerful enough to destroy a battle Titan, and is eventually subdued ( Many works of fiction show that psykers seem to specialise in certain areas of psychic ability, so it is possible that Esarhaddon specialised in mind control or mental manipulation ).