Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

The second stage is to retain the nominal classification of `` neutralist '', while in fact turning the country into an active advocate and adherent of Soviet policy.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

: which is of the form suggested the previous year by M. J. Buckingham in Very High Frequency Absorption in Superconductors based on the fact that the superconducting phase transition is second order, that the superconducting phase has a mass gap and on Blevins, Gordy and Fairbank's experimental results the previous year on the absorption of millimeter waves by superconducting tin.

The importance of the theory lay in the fact that it confirmed the kinetic theory's account of the second law of thermodynamics as being an essentially statistical law.

Unfortunately in the literature the definition is given in two variants: Despite the fact that Bernoulli defined B < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 / 2 ( now known as " second Bernoulli numbers "), some authors set B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 (" first Bernoulli numbers ").

The fact that a catalyst does not change the equilibrium is a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics.

" The second, often treated as Clausewitz's ' bottom line ,' is in fact merely his dialectical antithesis: " War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

And in the top of the fifth inning, second baseman Bill Wambsganss executed the first ( and only, so far ) unassisted triple play in World Series history, in fact the only Series triple play of any kind.

In theory, this is due to an earlier expression of aggression, and the fact that coyotes reach their full growth in their first year, unlike wolves, which reach it in their second.

Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).

The variance — which is the second central moment — is likewise non-existent ( despite the fact that the raw second moment exists with the value infinity ).

In other words, deutero ( second ) applies to authority or witnessing power, whereas in Roman Catholicism, deutero applies to chronology ( the fact that these books were confirmed later ), not to authority.

If in the third identity we take H = G, we get that the set of commutators is stable under any endomorphism of G. This is in fact a generalization of the second identity, since we can take f to be the conjugation automorphism.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

This fact has several important consequences in science: first, it prohibits " perpetual motion " machines ; and second, it implies the arrow of entropy has the same direction as the arrow of time.

A second view, based on the fact that Greek fire was inextinguishable by water – rather, some sources suggest that pouring water on it intensified the flames – suggested that its destructive power was the result of the explosive reaction between water and quicklime.

Every access to the translated file, or files below a hierarchy in the second case, is in fact handled by the program.

Several factors figure into the decline: one is the fact that the average family nowadays consists of fewer people, so fewer people live in each house ; second, the town is virtually unable to expand because all the surrounding lands were sold to the Gooisch Natuurreservaat by city architect W. M.

Menzies ' domination of the party, and the fact that Holt's succession had been established for many years, meant that a secure second rank of leadership had not been developed.

The second law can only be salvaged if black holes are in fact random objects, with an enormous entropy whose increase is greater than the entropy carried by the gas.

The wide distance between the two stages of Grimm's development in these two editions is significantly shown by the fact that while the first edition gives only the inflections, in the second volume phonology takes up no fewer than 600 pages, more than half of the whole volume.

The only fact that can be adduced in support of the assertion that Grimm wished to deprive Rask of his claims to priority is that he does not expressly mention Rask's results in his second edition.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

A Colorado home run was called back early in the game despite the fact that it clearly cleared the fence, hit a chair, and bounced back onto the field.

The OFLC then attempted to have the game pulled from the shelves, but it was discovered that the distributor had notified them of this fact and the rating could not be surrendered.

Andy Slaven, author of Video Game Bible: 1985-2002, described Duck Hunt as being a quality game except for the fact that you could not shoot the dog.

It was in fact an alternate reality game.

In fact, the ESS has become so central to game theory that often no citation is given, as the reader is assumed to be familiar with it.

In fact, the main Fudge documents encourage players to " Just Fudge It "; that is, to focus on the story being created rather than on the game rules.

In fact, in the first three editions of the game, character rank is primarily a measure of the character's social prestige.

In the United Kingdom, game shows have had a more steady and permanent place in the television lineup and never lost popularity in the 1990s as they did in the United States, due in part to the fact that game shows were highly regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the 1980s and those restrictions were lifted in the 1990s, allowing for higher-stakes games to be played.

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

Commercial players have come down in price, though, and some unexpected devices ( including the Sega Saturn video game console and XBMC Media Center on the Xbox 1 ) can decode the graphics ; in fact, karaoke machines, including video and sometimes recording capability, are often popular electronics items for sale in toy stores and electronics stores.

) The game is in some ways modeled on modern government systems, and demonstrates that in any such system where rule-changes are possible, a situation may arise in which the resulting laws are contradictory or insufficient to determine what is in fact legal.

Curiously, in the case of Civilization, a player's chosen historical character is the same throughout the course of the game despite the fact that a campaign can last several hundred years before and after the lifetime of the real historical persona.

In fact, with all the new features, it's practically a completely new game.

In fact, the CD-i's various controllers were ranked the fifth worst video game controller by IGN editor Craig Harris.

The game controller resembles that of the Mega Drive in shape, only with more buttons and it is virtually identical to a DUO-RX controller except for the fact that the rapid fire switches have been changed into mode A / B switches.

QuakeC also suffers from the fact that many built-in functions ( functions prototyped in the QuakeC code but actually defined within the game engine and written in C ) return strings in a temporary string buffer, which can only hold one string at any given time.

Despite its advantages, the concept of implementing the game logic in a separate scripting language and writing an interpreter for it was soon dropped ( even by John Carmack who had implemented this concept ) because of the overall inflexibility of an interpreted language, the increasingly complex game logic and the fact that the game logic could be packaged into a native Dynamic link library whose source code could be released to the mod community.

It would in fact be Lombardi's last game as Packer coach and his ninth consecutive playoff victory.

In fact, Sports Illustrated had called the NFC Championship Game a game for losers, played by losers.

Despite the predicted blowout, and the fact that San Diego did not have as much national appeal nor a relatively large core fan base, the telecast of the game on ABC still had a Nielsen rating of 41. 3.

Just like the 49ers in the NFC title game, the Chargers advanced to the Super Bowl despite the fact that the Steelers had outgained them in many key statistical categories such as total plays ( 80 – 47 ), total offensive yards ( 415 – 226 ), and time of possession ( 37: 13 – 22: 47 ).