These crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22 °.

* 1836 – U. S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.

Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire reported to Inpress magazine's Andrez Bergen that " I do think the manipulation of sound in our early days-the physical act of cutting up tapes, creating tape loops and all that-has a strong reference to Burroughs and Gysin ...."

Turning the truss rod counter-clockwise loosens it, allowing string tension to act on the neck and creating a forward bow.

Each strand can act as a template for creating a new partner strand.

In 1887 he signed an act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The former focus on creating new and improving existing infrastructure ( especially the software environment they work with ), while the latter primarily and strongly emphasize the general act of circumvention of security measures, with the effective use of the knowledge ( which can be to report and help fixing the security bugs, or exploitation for criminal purpose ) being only rather secondary.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

Karma is not fate, for humans act with free will creating their own destiny.

In such cases, economists may attempt to find policies that will avoid waste, either directly by government control, indirectly by regulation that induces market participants to act in a manner consistent with optimal welfare, or by creating " missing markets " to enable efficient trading where none had previously existed.

* 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In software development, obfuscation is the deliberate act of creating obfuscated code, i. e. source or machine code that is difficult for humans to understand.

For example, in Miles Gloriosus, the titular “ braggart soldier ” Pyrgopolynices only shows his vain and immodest side in the first act, while the parasite Artotrogus exaggerates Pyrgopolynices ’ achievements, creating more and more ludicrous claims that Pyrgopolynices agrees to without question.

The water from the mill-race entered the pit tangentially, creating a swirling water column which made the fully submerged wheel act like a true turbine.

Thus act creating the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, west of the State of Missouri and the State of Iowa.

* May 18 – New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

If the broader topic of product development " blends the perspective of marketing, design, and manufacturing into a single approach to product development ," then design is the act of taking the marketing information and creating the design of the product to be manufactured.

This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.

In settling the issue, George's first act as king was to confer upon his brother the title and style " His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor ", but the Letters Patent creating the dukedom prevented any wife or children from bearing royal styles.

On August 13, 1848, President James K. Polk signed an act creating the entire region as the Oregon Territory.

In North America, the Rocky Mountains act as a climate barrier to the maritime air blowing from the west, creating a semi-arid and continental climate to the east.

; Checkout: A check-out ( or co ) is the act of creating a local working copy from the repository.

Even though a long-term occupation is generally maintained as a means to act upon a territorial claim, this is not a prerequisite as occupation may also be strategic ( such as creating a buffer zone or a preventive move to prevent a rival power obtaining control ) or a means of coercion ( such as a punishment, to impose some internal measures or for use as a bargaining chip ).

In 1707 an act of union was passed between England and Scotland, creating Great Britain, and Carlisle ceased to be a frontier town.

One of the most interesting questions with respect to internal whistleblowers is why and under what circumstances people will either act on the spot to stop illegal and otherwise unacceptable behavior or report it.

An interesting type of illocutionary speech act is that performed in the utterance of what Austin calls performatives, typical instances of which are " I nominate John to be President ", " I sentence you to ten years ' imprisonment ", or " I promise to pay you back.

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

Given the more widespread social use, in the English language, of the word condom, it is interesting to note that the town is located on the river Baïse ; baise, without the diaeresis, is a French vulgarism for a sexual act.

However, while leptin is associated with body fat mass, the size of individual fat cells, and the act of overeating, it is interesting that it is not affected by exercise ( for comparison, IL-6 is released in response to muscular contractions ).

Especially interesting are those who do not perform, per se, that is, they don't do an Elvis act, they just ' live Elvis ,' dressing as The King and spreading His Word by their example.

One interesting act is Progressive act Katagory V who are still relatively unknown in their hometown of Salt Lake City but have had considerable success nationally.

We had taken a trip to the village of Hiro Mura, where formerly lived Hamaguchi Goryo, the benevolent patron of his village, whose act of self-sacrifice in burning his rice straw in order to guide the bewildered villagers to a place of safety when were being overwhelmed by a tidal wave in the darkness of midnight, has been made the theme of one of Lafcadio Hearn ’ s interesting tales.

An interesting fact about the circumstances of Holbrook's hiring is that she was picked not only for her dramatic aptitude, but also for her ability to look much older than she was ; the character of Sharlene was a plain farm girl and Holbrook proved she could act in the appropriate manner.

Thrifting refers to the act of shopping at a thrift store, flea market, garage sale, or a shop of a charitable organization, usually with the intent of finding interesting items at a cheap price.

It is utterly inactive and its sole purpose is to act as the inductive anchor on top of which more interesting processes can be generated.

Lil ' Beethoven, featuring quasi-classical arrangements strings and choirs, led to renewed interest in the band, for instance Record Collector magazine named the album as one of its " Best New Albums of 2002 ", describing it as "... possibly the most exciting and interesting release ever from such a long established act " and later in 2003 saying "... it really does feel like one of the best albums ever made.

He also encourages Heidi to act out his bizarre sexual fantasies to make their sex life more interesting for himself.

The second act of his next opera Venus ( 1919 – 1921 ) employs interesting polyrhythmic and bitonal effects.

Nichols has the interesting distinction of being the first artist to refuse an Academy Award, an act followed by George C. Scott and Marlon Brando.

One interesting property of a load-balanced switch is that, although the mesh connecting line cards to buffers is required to connect every line card to every buffer, there is no requirement that the mesh act as a non-blocking crossbar, nor that the connections be responsive to any traffic pattern.

One interesting aspect of the LaPD plasma source is its ability to act as an " Alfvén Maser ", a source of large-amplitude, coherent shear Alfvén waves.

As an interesting bit of trivia, David Touve, the primary contributor to these early blogs, would later act as Joystiq's features editor for a short time in late 2005 before resigning due to the birth of his child.