From 1899 on Satie started making money as a cabaret pianist, adapting over a hundred compositions of popular music for piano or piano and voice, adding some of his own.

Libraries face a number of challenges in adapting to new ways of information seeking that may stress convenience over quality, reducing the priority of information literacy skills.

Mosques evolved significantly over the next 1, 000 years, acquiring their now-distinctive features and adapting to cultures around the world.

Żuławski devoted over two years to the task of adapting the first two volumes to the screen.

Hairlessness is only an advantage for aquatic mammals such as whales and dolphins that have spent millions of years adapting to aquatic lifestyles involving diving, fast swimming and migration over long distances ; such animals show considerable skeletal and cardiovascular adaptations to an aquatic environment.

Since its commencement over 20 years ago, LETSystems have been highly innovative in adapting to the needs of their local communities in all kinds of ways.

The graph paper is what it is, a graph, but when it ’ s morphed over the car ’ s forms it becomes interesting, and adapting the drawing to the racing car ’ s forms is interesting.

However, the Germans were very late in adapting guns for them ( not until the Pillau class of 1913 ); Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's recalcitrance over the issue overrode the desires of others in the German Navy.

He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a very different philosophical outlook, teaching that the goal of life was to seek pleasure by adapting circumstances to oneself and by maintaining proper control over both adversity and prosperity.

The concept supports the goals of enabling " homeowners to occupy a dwelling for longer periods of time, perhaps over their entire lifetimes, while adapting to changing circumstances and meeting a wide range of needs "; Universal Housing in the United States and Lifetime Homes in the United Kingdom are similar concepts.

They are found predominantly in the forests and mountains of the Old World, in the jungles to the south and stretched across the steppes to the East, but their kin can be found all over the world, inhabiting almost all continents and adapting to their environments.

The commitments in ECYD vary over time, adapting to the ages of the members.

Jones had trouble adapting his style to Tom and Jerrys brand of humor, and a number of the cartoons favored full animation, personality and style over storyline.

Also included was Al Anders ' Western hero the Masked Raider ; the jungle lord Ka-Zar the Great, with Ben Thompson adapting over the first five issues the story " King of Fang and Claw " by Bob Byrd in Goodman's eponymous pulp magazine Ka-Zar # 1 ( Oct. 1936 ); the non-continuing-character story " Jungle Terror ," featuring an adventurer named Ken Masters, written by the quirkily named Tohm Dixon ; " Now I'll Tell One ", five single-panel, black-and-white gag cartoons by Fred Schwab, on the inside front cover ; and a two-page prose story by Ray Gill, " Burning Rubber ", about auto racing.

The original proposal was for a boiler from the BR Standard Class 7 Britannia 4-6-2, adapting it to a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement, but Riddles eventually settled upon a 2-10-0 type because it had been successfully utilised on some of his previous Austerity locomotives ; distributing the adhesive weight over five axles gave a maximum axle load of only 15 tons, 10 cwt.

Today, Castle Air is largely given over to aerial filming charter work, but it is also a helicopter sales business, importing aircraft from around the world and adapting them for British CAA certification.

The Welsh painter Richard Wilson returned to London from seven years in Italy in 1757, and over the next two decades developed a " sublime " landscape style adapting the Franco-Italian tradition of Claude and Gaspard Dughet to British subjects.

With adapting to DRI, the Mesa library finally took over the role of the front end component of a full scale OpenGL framework with varying backend components that could offer different degrees of 3D hardware support while not dropping the full software rendering capability.

Johannes von Kries, whose theory of rods and three color-sensitive cone types in the retina has survived as the dominant explanation of color sensation for over 100 years, motivated the method of converting color to the LMS color space, representing the effective stimuli for the Long -, Medium -, and Short-wavelength cone types that are modeled as adapting independently.

The final report estimated that the IGT vehicle would have a 10 % higher cost over the conventional piston engine, of which less than half of the cost penalty would be in the turbine engine, but the remainder would be the cost of adapting existing production of vehicles and systems.

The Alpha course was founded by clergy at HTB who over a period of twenty years kept adapting the programme in accordance with feedback until in the early 1990s the Alpha course started gaining worldwide attention.

Jay Jay helps cover for her when it comes to adapting to the newfangled inventions of the past 60 years, and she eventually wins over the Prestons by helping them deal with their problems.

When a population acquires functional or sophisticated features, it is easy to think of that as a notional move away from the primitive state ; when a population remains apparently unchanged over a long period, while adapting ever more closely to an apparently unchanged ecological niche, that is less obvious, but not hard to understand as achieving a derived state.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present.

Darcsyde Productions produced a supplement for use with Chaosium's Stormbringer ( 2001 ) role-playing game adapting the characters and settings from the Corum series for role-playing.

As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.

Nehru observed that these attitudes and religious taboos were preventing India from going forward and adapting to modern conditions: “ No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded .” Therefore, he concurred, that religions and all that went with them must be severely limited before they ruined the country and its people.

Their sentences were supposed to be simple interpretations of the traditional customs, but effectively it was an activity that, apart from formally reconsidering for each case what precisely was traditionally in the legal habits, soon turned also to a more equitable interpretation, coherently adapting the law to the newer social instances.

The Common Kestrel's closest living relative is apparently the Nankeen or Australian Kestrel ( F. cenchroides ), which probably derived from ancestral Common Kestrels settling in Australia and adapting to local conditions less than one million years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.

April 6, 2008, p. 4 ; excerpt, "... a skyscraper that Nouvel ( adapting a term from the artist Brâncuşi ) called the “ tour sans fins ,” or endless tower.

Regan writes that Singer's position is a consequence of his adapting a utilitarian, or consequentialist, approach to animal rights, rather than a strictly rights-based one, and argues that the rights-based position distances itself from non-consensual sex.

A significant amount of the work in writing bindings to GObject from high-level languages lies in adapting GObject reference counting to work with the language's own memory management system.

Xena freely borrows names and themes from various mythologies around the world, primarily the Greek, anachronistically adapting them to suit the demands of the storyline.

Urban planning can include urban renewal, by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from decline.

One view of these trends is that a strong social consensus on political economy and a good social welfare system facilitates labor mobility and tends to make the entire economy more productive, as labor can develop skills and experience in various ways, and move from one enterprise to another with little controversy or difficulty in adapting.

The term is also used to refer to software that is ported from one computer platform or storage medium to another with little thought given to adapting it for use on the destination platform or medium, resulting in poor quality.

The magical texts that use Horus ' childhood as the basis for their healing spells give him different ailments, from scorpion stings to simple stomachaches, adapting the tradition to fit the malady that each spell was intended to treat.

For this comic parody of Italian opera, he wrote the music, adapting the words from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sang the role of Pyramus.

Industry policy forbade the use of pre-recorded programs ; adapting the advanced tape-recording brought back from conquered Germany, ABC attracted some big-name stars who wanted freedom from rigid schedules, among them Bing Crosby.

Around the same time a group of Māori migrated to Rekohu ( the Chatham Islands ), where, by adapting to the local climate and the availability of resources, they developed a culture known as Moriori — related to but distinct from Māori culture in mainland New Zealand.

AAH suggests that many features that distinguish humans from their nearest evolutionary relatives emerged because the ancestors of humans underwent a period when they were adapting to an aquatic or semiaquatic way of life, but returned to terrestrial life before having become fully adapted to the aquatic environment.

van der Heijden, ' Drijfzand koloniseren ' (" Colonizing quicksand "), prose, adapting Antigone's story using characters from the author's ' Homo Duplex ' saga.

Once the Edain settled in Beleriand, they eagerly learned Sindarin from its Grey Elven inhabitants, but retained their own tongue, probably whilst borrowing and adapting many Sindarin words to it.

* Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories also bases its format on Metamorphoses, adapting Ovid's poem to modern times with drug-addicted, teenage versions of many of the characters from the original play.