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is and conveyor
An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.
Chen is in charge of the engine room and operates the " digital conveyor ", a variant of the Star Trek transporter.
In the " conveyor belt " model of the thermohaline circulation of the world ocean, the sinking of NADW pulls the waters of the North Atlantic drift northward ; however, this is almost certainly an oversimplification of the actual relationship between NADW formation and the strength of the Gulf Stream / North Atlantic drift.
After soaking, the rice is steamed on a conveyor belt.
The longest conveyor belt in the world is long, from the phosphate mines of Bu Craa to the coast south of Laayoune.
The conveyor, which is a conveyor belt on a truck, brings in the awkwardly shaped, or late luggage.
Until recently much of the remaining internal crew space is taken up by a hydraulically powered conveyor system designed to allow the quick uploading of rounds or transfer of rounds to the M109-series howitzer.
The hydraulic conveyor system is removed by crews as it is slower than moving the rounds by hand.
It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin.
Conveyor transport is the broad category of transport modes that includes modes developed from the idea of a conveyor belt.
A conveyor belt uses a wide belt and pulleys and is supported by rollers or a flat pan along its path.
Conveyor technology is also used in conveyor transport such as moving sidewalks or escalators, as well as on many manufacturing assembly lines.
The longest belt conveyor system in the world is in Western Sahara.
The longest conveyor system in an Airport is the Dubai International Airport baggage handling system at 92 km.
The conveyor is actuated by 3 synchronized drive units for a total power of about 1. 8 MW ( 2 drives at the head end in Bangladesh and 1 drive at the tail end in India ).
Dedicated vehicles were designed for the maintenance of the conveyor, which is always at a minimum height of 5 meters above the ground to avoid being flooded during monsoon periods.
A screw conveyor is an Archimedes ' screw contained within a tube and turned by a motor so as to deliver material from one end of the conveyor to the other.
For instance, a WMS can tell the system it is going to need five of stock-keeping unit ( SKU ) A and five of SKU B hours in advance, but by the time it acts, other considerations may have come into play or there could be a logjam on a conveyor.
This is exemplified in one of many deeds ( particular one dating from 1925 ) that reads, “ That whereas the death rate of persons of African descent is much greater than the death rate of persons of the white race and affects injuriously the health of the town and village communities, and as the permanent location of persons of African descent in such places as owners or tenants constitutes and irreparable injury to the value and usefulness of real estate in the interest of public health and to prevent irreparable injury to the grantor or its successors and assigns, and the owners of adjacent real estate, the grantees, their heirs and assigns, hereby covenant, and agree with the grantor, its successors and assigns, that they will not sell, conveyor rent the premises hereby conveyed, the whole or any part thereof, or any structure thereon, to any person of African descent .”
The limestone is mined in nearby quarries and transported by conveyor belt to the Marblehead boat loading dock, where it is loaded on commercial lake freighters.

is and sacred
The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.
it is sacred.
Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
What he really wants is to find `` a sacred cause '' to which he can honestly devote himself.
One's daily work becomes sacred, since it is performed in the field of influence of the moral law, dealing as it does with people as well as with matter and energy.
It is unfair and unchristian to ask a person to take the sacred vows of Church membership before he has been carefully instructed concerning their implications.
`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??
One of its features attractive to the West is its irreverence for tradition and dogma and for sacred texts.
One patriarch is supposed to have relegated sacred scriptures for use in an outhouse.
Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.
An extension of this is the sacred cockfight, ” a popular form of fertility worship among almost all Southeast Asians ” considered by some in the Judeo-Christian ethic as a form of ’ fertility worship ’ or Baalim.
* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.
There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.
The subject has been popular in art since classical times ; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic sacred marriage, giving rise to the " princess and dragon " motif.
Whether this temple replaced an older one, or a mere sacred precinct or altar, is not known.
He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.
" It also uses sacred scripture in support of this practice, namely,, which states: " Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
In 1999 they brought a legal challenge to this patent which had granted a private US citizen " ownership " of the knowledge of a plant that is well-known and sacred to many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and used by them in religious and healing ceremonies.

is and reality
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
The `` reality '' to which they respond is rationally empty and their art is an imitation of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and empty world.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.
For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.
The corporation in America is in reality our form of socialism, vying in a sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy.
Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.
The reality of the situation, however, is described by Mr. Lyford: ``
Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.
An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.
If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.
To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.
He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.
True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;
For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.
It is difficult to draw the line between stereotype and the reality of the jazz musician.
What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.

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