John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

It is also stated in the book Contents Under Pressure, that the song " I Think I'm Going Bald " was written as a homage to KISS's " Goin ' Blind ".

After Lucifer's Heritage signed a contract with No Remorse Records, the band changed their name to Blind Guardian to avoid any speculations about Satanism ( in a bio it was stated that they also wanted to distance themselves from the black metal movement, as their demos were placed in with black metal albums at local record shops ).

Pushing the date back even earlier, blues researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow has stated that " Crazy About My Baby " by Blind Roosevelt Graves and his brother, recorded in 1929, " could be considered the first rock ' n ' roll recording ".

The high priest of Blind Io in Ankh-Morpork is, as stated in the book Reaper Man, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully's brother Hughnon Ridcully.

* Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind has stated that the band's hit song " Semi-Charmed Life " was meant as a response to " Walk on the Wild Side ", but from a San Francisco perspective.

Noted Ole Miss historian David Sansing has stated that " Blind Jim may have been the model for Colonel Rebel.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

Arguments made by legal experts stated influence on art style is not copyright infringement. Glass warfare from the website of the St. Petersburg TimesThe Seattle Times: Local News: Glass artist Chihuly's lawsuit tests limits of copyrighting art, a 2005 article from The Seattle Times ; Chihuly settled the lawsuit independently with Rubino initially, and later Kaindl as well. Chihuly, rival glass artist settle dispute a 2006 article from The Seattle Times

The American Psychological Association's report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that in the United States IQ tests as predictors of social achievement are not biased against African Americans since they predict future performance, such as school achievement, similarly to the way they predict future performance for Caucasians.

Critics claim that existing tests do not adequately measure student mastery of the stated objectives.

Summing up, he stated that in all these tests, the use of ebonite plates covered with copper or mixtures of copper and tin was less satisfactory than the use of filings ; with the plates, he was unable to obtain the initial resistance of the body after the action of the spark or of the current, while with the tubes and filings, the resistance could be brought back to its normal value by striking a few sharp blows on the support of the tube.

The U. S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1984, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.

Yet as D. H. Lehmer stated in 1951: " A random sequence is a vague notion ... in which each term is unpredictable to the uninitiated and whose digits pass a certain number of tests traditional with statisticians ".

Using a RISC design with a 32-bit CPU, at its launch in June 1987, the Archimedes was stated as running at 4 MIPS, with a claim of 18 MIPS during tests.

The U. S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied hundreds of thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.

Some consumers complained that the taste was different, but the company stated that in the company-sponsored blind taste tests, approximately half of consumers preferred the new versions.

Some sexual health specialists have stated that the condition can probably be carried in the vagina for years, despite standard tests being negative.

Following the 1904 Thompson-LaGarde pistol round effectiveness tests, Colonel John T. Thompson stated that the new pistol " should not be of less than. 45 caliber " and would preferably be semi-automatic in operation.

Ted Wallace, president of MAPI, stated that the company tests its products before and after shipment from India to the US, and that its products are examined for purity, heavy metals, residual pesticides, and biological contaminants.

The stated aim of the new tests is to consider " an integrated Airbus programme ".

She has stated: " We had rings, we got blood tests, the whole shot.

The International Paralympic Committee ( IPC ) stated that the exclusion would continue until there are sufficient tests for the disabilities and a way to measure the effect they have on a sport.

Any conditions not stated in specified integration tests, outside of the confirmation of the execution of design items, will generally not be tested.

In 1842 at meetings held by Remond and his sister in New Brighton, Massachusetts, Remond stated " When the world shall learn that " mind makes the man "-- that goodness ; moral worth, and integrity of soul, are the true tests of Character, then prejudice against caste and color, will cease to be.

In Locabail, the judges stated that in a large proportion of the cases, application of the two tests would lead to the same outcome.

Cambridge started requesting that its applicants achieve at least one A * grade if they were taking A-levels, letting students earn a place through their performance in public examinations ; Oxford initially stated that it relies more on its own internal aptitude tests and waited to see how effective the A * grade is at highlighting the best candidates, before deciding to implement it as a requirement for most courses starting in 2012.

However, the discrepancy of 575 stoppages between the Summer and Fall 2007 tests of the M4 had Army officials looking into possible causes for the change such as different officials, seasons, and inadequate sample pool size but have stated that the conditions of the test were ostensibly the same.

English stated that " Frank Lampard scored one of the highest set of marks ever recorded by the company doing the tests ".

Matrix Reasoning also tests this ability as well as the ability to start with stated rules, premises, or conditions and to engage in one or more steps to reach a solution to a novel problem ( deduction ).

These objectives are stated here because of their importance in understanding the current activities of the Planning Division.

Our objectives, as we have stated many times, are -- ( 1 )

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

Scores are stated in grade-equivalents on a national norm.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

Editor Foss stated, `` Of their guilt there can be no doubt but they are entitled to sufficient time to prepare for trial, and a fair trial ''.

Here again laboratory approaches are being evolved, for it is recognized how `` elastic '' these readings can be, how they can apply to many people, and are often stated in general terms all too easily applied to any individual's own case.

Or, on the other hand, are unlikely facts being stated, facts which are in themselves significant and not easily applicable to everybody??

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

The Administration's proposals, complex and sweeping as they are, all deal with fringe areas of the housing market rather than its core, stated Caron S. Stallard, first vice-president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

It has been stated that most amoeboid are now grouped in Amoebozoa or Rhizaria.

The Armenian government ’ s stated efforts to strengthen and reform the military are called into question by continuing non-combat deaths and other violent incidents in the army ranks, which have come under greater public scrutiny in 2010.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

Rogers stated that " one may see that Solitude and Retirement from the World is not such an unsufferable State of Life as most Men imagine, especially when People are fairly call'd or thrown into it unavoidably, as this Man was ".

Areas are seldom stated to sufficient accuracy for the different definitions to be detectable.

United Kingdom Health Protection Agency has stated that " most isolates with NDM-1 enzyme are resistant to all standard intravenous antibiotics for treatment of severe infections.

It may be applied, as it is stated in article 1 of the convention in case of: offenses against penal law ; acts which, whether or not they are offenses, may or do jeopardize the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property therein or which jeopardize good order and discipline on board.

One notable modification of oxygen theory was provided by Berzelius, who stated that acids are oxides of nonmetals while bases are oxides of metals.

He stated, " We are raising a study to make the financial schedule of the entire project.

In his speech to the House of Commons on the Inquiry, British Prime Minister David Cameron stated: " These are shocking conclusions to read and shocking words to have to say.

In the Airbus-Boeing WTO dispute, Airbus ( which receives outright subsidies from European governments ) has stated Boeing receives similar subsidies, which are hidden as inefficient defense contracts.