Beginning in 1975, " Bert " was used for Jet Assisted Take Off ( JATO ) and short aerial demonstrations just prior to the main event at selected venues, but the JATO demonstration ended in 2009 due to dwindling supplies of rockets.

This is most likely due to their size, which meant they were less able to adapt during the aftermath of the extinction event.

Their application was refused due to the lack of a major motorsport event held wholly within Monaco's boundaries.

In gambler's fallacy, however, people predict the opposite outcome of the last event ( negative recency )-that, for example, since the roulette wheel has landed on black the last six times, it is due to land on red the next.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.

The publicity Hall received was due to unintended consequences ; the novel was tried for obscenity in London, a spectacularly scandalous event described as " the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian subculture " by professor Laura Doan.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

* Belief that an event is " due " to happen: For example, " The roulette wheel has landed on red in three consecutive spins.

Apparently, Luthor is no longer affectionate to the Boy of Steel after the event at his sister's house, and now seeing Superboy as a " failed experiment " due to using " a wrong alien DNA " to combine with his own.

In Northern Wu Chinese ( Shanghainese and its relatives ), it is pronounced as 麻將, but in actuality, 麻將 is the diminutive form of 麻雀, written as 麻雀兒, due to an erhua event.

Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as " hits " ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ).

It is now mostly gone ( in part due to the construction of the new circuit ) or converted to a normal public road, but since 2005 a vintage car event has been hosted on the old track layout, including part of the parking area.

There are several proposed mechanisms for the extinctions ; the earlier phase was likely due to gradual environmental change, while the latter phase has been argued to be due to a catastrophic event.

In May 2010, due to her half Lebanese ancestry, Elizabeth chose to play for Team Lebanon at the World Team event in Las Vegas.

Some people, including Steven M. Greer, have expressed cynicism that the general public might not be informed in the event of a genuine discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence due to significant vested interests.

In the event that due to circumstances that prevent communication, one cannot be notified of a close relative's death in a timely manner, and then one learns of a relative's death following burial, Shiva starts on the day of notification, and ends when other relatives finish Shiva.

Determinism is frustrated by the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical predictions, by the extreme sensitivity to initial conditions that leads to mathematical chaos, by the limitations due to event horizons, and by the extreme mathematical difficulty of applying the theory.

During every Washington Nationals home game at Nationals Park, the Theodore Roosevelt mascot ( a. k. a. Teddy ) earned a reputation of not being able to win the Presidents Race, a promotional event held in the middle of the fourth inning, due to various incidents.

The event, considered a failure at the time due to sound problems and bad organisation, has become legendary over the years as a " Woodstock for the baggy generation ".

Most wild cottons are diploid, but a group of five species from America and Pacific islands are tetraploid, apparently due to a single hybridization event around 1. 5 to 2 million years ago.

Moreover, if a fragment of an icy comet were to strike the Earth, the most likely outcome, due to the low tensile strength of such bodies, would be for it to disintegrate in the upper atmosphere, leading to an air burst explosion analogous to that of the Tunguska event.

* Delay ( game ), official ruling to abnormally stop a sporting event once it has begun due to circumstances that prevent fairness of play, such as inclement weather.

Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called " The British Heavyweight Championship ".

The Ottoman XV Corps urgently left the area to defend the Gallipoli peninsula against an expected Greek amphibious assault, which in the event never materialized.

Although the PRR urgently needed new and modern freight power, the War Production Board prohibited working on a new design, and since there was not enough time to trial a prototype in any event, the PRR cast around for other railroads ' designs that it might modify for PRR use.

The City of London Corporation has said the work will be carried out urgently to save thousands of lives which could be lost in the event of one of the dams bursting.

Followin' such an event there was usually a harvest of `` fallen hides '', and the ranchers needed skinnin' knives instead of brandin' irons.

The publication of the first six volumes of the Collected Papers ( 1931 – 35 ), the most important event to date in Peirce studies and one that Cohen made possible by raising the needed funds, did not prompt an outpouring of secondary studies.

He knew that he just needed to find a squad for the final stages as England were hosting the event and didn't need to undergo a qualifying campaign.

The most fundamental results of this theory are Shannon's source coding theorem, which establishes that, on average, the number of bits needed to represent the result of an uncertain event is given by its entropy ; and Shannon's noisy-channel coding theorem, which states that reliable communication is possible over noisy channels provided that the rate of communication is below a certain threshold, called the channel capacity.

But this method had several limitations: First, it required the occurrence of a specific astronomical event ( in this case, Mars passing through the same right ascension as the moon ), and the observer needed to anticipate this event via an astronomical almanac.

) To prevent this, the developer is responsible for cleaning up references after use, typically by setting the reference to null once it is no longer needed and, if necessary, by deregistering any event listeners that maintain strong references to the object.

“" The proposal an organ mutual insurance pool can be easily summarized: An individual would receive priority for any needed transplant if that individual agrees that his or her organs will be available to other members of the insurance pool in the event of his or her death.

Additional information may be needed in the event of ties.

To make sense of the mass chaos caused by Mao's leadership in the Cultural Revolution while preserving the Party's authority and legitimacy, Mao's successors needed to lend the event a " proper " historical judgment.

Other allegations were made about voter manipulation, and even the issue of how to interpret the votes became controversial, as it appeared that not just a majority of those validly voting but of those votes cast ( including spoiled votes ), was needed to reach an outcome in the event the monarchy lost by a tight margin.

In addition to controlling Centaur pressurization in flight, the CISS had to be able to dump propellants overboard quickly in the event of a Return To Launch Site Abort, a capability needed to permit the Orbiter to land safely.

Dee Rocks is a local fundraising music event bringing much needed financial support to the smaller local good causes that tend to get overlooked on a national, or county level.

Without a thorough engineering analysis of tornado damage in any event, the actual wind speeds needed to cause that damage are unknown.

This allowed for their team to compete in the event and give them the experience they needed for the next season.

The player earns points and money for high scores in each event, and doing well at the events earns you the cash needed to buy equipment that at shops that improve player performance, and a chance at a bronze, silver, or gold medal.

The facilities needed to accommodate the sailing event were simple.

Although FLEX paging networks tend to have stronger in-building coverage than mobile phone networks, commercial paging service providers will work with large institutions to install repeater equipment in the event that service is not available in needed areas of the subscribing institution's buildings.

Therefore, stress induced in one's arms is reduced meaning less muscle is needed in this event than events like still rings or parallel bars.

The Met would have likely needed replacing in any event, as it was not well maintained.

However, it is very likely that a new stadium would have been needed in any event, as the Met was not well maintained.

This event began a new chapter of history for the Mongols, as again a decision needed to be made on a new Great Khan.

Being emotionally connected was not enough for older adults to create flashbulbs ; they also needed to rehearse the event over the 11 months to remember details.

This is due to the nature of the variables needed for flashbulb memory research: the experience of a surprising event is hard to manipulate.