* At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, Zack Snyder, director of the screen adaptations of Watchmen by Alan Moore, and Miller's 300, expressed his love for The Dark Knight Returns, in response to a question about the more mature direction of comic book adaptations.

* Aberrant B cell receptor-mediated feedback-A feature of human autoimmune disease is that it is largely restricted to a small group of antigens, several of which have known signaling roles in the immune response ( DNA, C1q, IgGFc, Ro, Con.

Some individuals within the gaming community expressed disappointment about the decision ; prominent author and game designer Rich Burlew, for example, called it " insulting ," and the response by gamers led both the CCF and Gen Con to issue official statements explaining what had happened.

After receiving word of the accident from Met Ed, the NRC had activated its emergency response headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland and sent staff members to Three Mile Island.

However, in response, Ed says he " never saw " the movie, and indicates no interest in doing so.

In response, Libertarian Ed Thompson ( brother of Tommy ), publicly critical of the negative campaigning of both major party candidates, who became a more viable option for some voters, garnered 10 % of the vote.

It was beaten only by Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, a film that generally receives a warmer response from its audience than this terribly misjudged sequel.

In response to his death, Jones Cane Sugar Soda issued bottles of their soda with a picture of Honest Ed on them, with " Honest Ed Mirvish 1914 – 2007 " placed where normally a photo credit lies.

The term " Watergate Seven " was coined a few months later, in April 1973, by American lawyer, politician, and political commentator Ed Koch, who, in response to U. S. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr .' s indicating that one of the men in Watergate bugging case had been ordered in the spring of 1972 to keep certain Senators and Representatives under surveillance, posted a sign on the door of his United States Congress office saying, ' These premises were surveilled by the Watergate Seven.

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In 1985, New York City Mayor Ed Koch backed the New York City Health Department's decision to shut down the city's gay bathhouses, in response to concerns over the spread of HIV / AIDS.

The recommendations include " new standards aimed at strengthening operators ’ ability to deal with a complete loss of power, ensuring plants can withstand floods and earthquakes and improving emergency response capabilities ".

The rooms in which emergency response operators work are called Emergency Control Centres ( ECCs ).

Larger maritime search and rescue events, as well as reports of overdue aircraft, fall under the control of the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand ( RCCNZ ), based in Avalon, which coordinates response from local coastguard, helicopter operators, merchant marine, air force and naval resources.

Mine operators hired gun thugs during the 1912 – 1913 strike, prompting the intervention of the Ontario Provincial Police, which had itself been formed in 1909 partly in response to lawlessness connected with the gold rush.

In October 2004 it began receiving international flights, in response to a longstanding request from tour operators in the region.

These honeypots can reveal the apparent IP address of the abuse and provide bulk spam capture ( which enables operators to determine spammers ' URLs and response mechanisms ).

Canadian cable operators were prohibited from distributing the signal, however, by an October 1986 CRTC decision in response to broadcaster concerns about the " potentially damaging effect of this station by providing Canadian advertisers with access to large amounts of commercial airtime at rates substantially lower than those they would be obliged to pay Canadian television licensees in order to reach the same potential audience.

In order to deal with the quick response times needed, the fire control system was semi-automatic ; operators would view targets on the search radar and prioritize them, the fire control system would select ones within attack range and automatically slew the missiles toward them and launch.

The towing tank can also be equipped with a wave generator to carry out seakeeping tests, either by simulating natural ( irregular ) waves or by exposing the model to a wave packet that yields a set of statistics known as response amplitude operators ( acronym RAO ), that determine the ship's likely real-life sea-going behavior when operating in seas with varying wave amplitudes and frequencies ( these parameters being known as sea states ).

This was especially so on radio circuits, where operators often changed the cards many times each day in response to a loss of radio connectivity.

Fife had previously enjoyed being the sole operator throughout much of the region and its response to the new operators showed the company's intention to remain so.

In response, either Chaud or Baryl ( depending on the version ) create a team of elite net navis and operators.

This group gradually moved into more extensive action in response to the perceived abuses towards smaller operators engaged in by land speculators and massive cattle operations.

Nevertheless, blob descriptors often contain a preferred point ( a local maximum of an operator response or a center of gravity ) which means that many blob detectors may also be regarded as interest point operators.

ICSTIS was founded by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC, at the request of 3 network operators, British Telecom, Mercury Communications and Vodafone as a response to public criticism of their profiting from adult premium rate content.

Palisades Interstate Park and its creator, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, was formed in 1900 by governors Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Foster M. Voorhees of New Jersey in response to the destruction of the Palisades by quarry operators in the late 19th century.

While railroad operators attempted, throughout the war, to get assistance from the Confederate Congress, the response was either indifferent or hostile.

Various tone mapping operators exist, ranging from simple real-time methods used in computer games to more sophisticated techniques that attempt to imitate the perceptual response of the human visual system.

The response of the high command, ignoring complaints and blaming the operators, was also common to the U. S. Pacific Fleet's Submarine Force.

In response to Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, a number of online gambling operators including PartyGaming, Bwin, Cassava Enterprises, and Sportingbet announced that real-money gambling operations would be suspended for U. S. customers.

In response to suspected biological warfare development in Nazi Germany, the U. S., U. K., and Canada initiated a biological warfare development program in 1941 that resulted in the weaponization of anthrax, brucellosis, and botulism toxin.

The ELF initiated military operations in 1961 and intensified its activities in response to the dissolution of the federation in 1962.

An example was dollarization in Ecuador, initiated in September 2000 in response to a 75 % loss of value of the Ecuadorian sucre in early 2000.

When the fear or aggression response is initiated, the amygdala may trigger the release of hormones into the body to put the human body into an " alert " state, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc.

In response to the 2007 – 2008 world food price crisis, the IBRD initiated a Global Food Crisis Response Program which provided food assistance to 40 million people across 44 countries.

In response to very high motor fuel prices in Spring 2008, Dodge initiated a purchase incentive guaranteeing the buyer of a new Dodge would have to pay no more than $ 2. 99 per gallon of gasoline for three years.

In 1998, Qiao Shi, the recently retired Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, initiated his own investigation into Falun Gong in response to Document No. 555.

In response to this political threat and to growing popular calls for greater accountability within government, the king and the prime minister initiated an ongoing national debate on the constitutional and political future of Swaziland.

In response, the Soviet Union, along with the other Eastern Bloc nations, initiated what is known as the Molotov Plan.

In response, the Supreme Allied Commander — French General Maurice Gamelin — initiated " Plan D " which relied heavily on the Maginot Line fortifications.

The term " rhythm strip " may also refer to the whole printout from a continuous monitoring system, which may show only one lead and is either initiated by a clinician or in response to an alarm or event.

The main cause of atherosclerosis is yet unknown, but is hypothesized to fundamentally be initiated by inflammatory processes in the vessel wall in response to retained low-density lipoprotein ( LDL ) molecules.

The City Council passed the measure in response to an economic grassroots movement initiated in October 2008 by two Wilmington High School graduates aided by Pure Blue Energy, LLC a consulting firm out of North Carolina.

The UDF was initiated by John McMichael ( the then UDA / UFF commander ) in 1985 as a response to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

Earlier in 1974 the Americans had asked the Germans to redesign the existing Leopard 2 prototypes, considered by them too lightly armoured, and had suggested adoption of Burlington for this purpose, of which type the Germans had already been informed in March 1970 ; the Germans however in response in 1974 initiated a new armour development programme of their own.

In response, the United States initiated a bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese positions, supported regular and irregular anticommunist forces in Laos and supported a South Vietnamese incursions into Laos.

In response the postal service initiated a comparable Express Mail service.

In response to this one-time infusion "... the Federal Research Division initiated action to produce five new Country Studies, as well as a number of shorter, updated Country Profiles.

Unlike the British system, the German Chancellor does not have to resign in response to the failure of a vote of confidence, provided it has been initiated by herself / himself and not by the parliamentary opposition, but rather may ask the Federal President to call general elections-a request the President may or may not fulfill.

This example of immune evasion actually highlights NK cell importance in tumor surveillance and response as CD8 cells can consequently only act on tumor cells in response to NK initiated cytokine production ( adaptive immune response )

The Exarchates were a response to weakening imperial authority in the provinces and were part of the overall process of unification of civil and military offices, initiated in early form by Justinian I, which would lead eventually to the creation of the Theme system by Emperor Heraclius.

*** Leading up to the 2006 Assembly, a church wide process of response, reflection and preparation has been initiated.

They initiated a " Start the Healing " campaign in response to escalating levels of gun violence in the United States, and FOR is an organizational and founding member of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which advocates gun control.