On January 20, 2009 the choir performed at the War Memorial Plaza in downtown Baltimore as a warm-up act to President Barack Obama's whistlestop tour speech.

Hoffnung then used the speech to ' warm-up ' the audience before each of six to eight broadcasts by the BBC Light Programme of One Minute Please ( now called Just a Minute ).

The Goon Show was recorded before a studio audience, and during the audience warm-up session, Milligan would play the trumpet, while Peter Sellers played on the orchestra's drums.

The choice to be server or receiver in the first game and the choice of ends is decided by a toss before the warm-up starts.

A warm-up session of about 20 minutes takes place before the endurance races.

In the last race of the season, Häkkinen won again with an unfortunate Schumacher who took pole position was forced to start from the back of the grid due to a problem encountered on his warm-up lap and had made a good recovery in the race before a puncture forced him to retire.

Purportedly Velázquez created this portrait as a warm-up of his skills before his portrait of the Pope.

The Bubble System required a " warm-up " time of about 20 seconds ( prompted by a timer on the screen when switched on ) before the game was loaded, as bubble memory needs to be heated to around 30 to 40 ° C to operate properly.

His car spun near the end of the warm-up lap, caused by too much throttle while warming the tyres, and if Fisichella had not stalled his Renault before the start of the race and triggered another formation lap, Montoya would have started at the back end of the grid.

An HID lamp requires a short warm-up time before it reaches full output.

Two days before, Yorke also played a " warm-up " show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles.

Tubes benefit from a heater warm-up period before the application of high tension anode voltages ; this allows the tube cathodes to operate without damage and so prolongs tube life.

Series 1 to 10 used a warm-up comedian before recording began, frequently Stephen Grant, credited as the Audience Wrangler.

Gordon Murray attempted to utilize carbon brakes for the F1, but found the technology not mature enough at the time ; with one of the major culprits being that of a proportional relationship between brake disc temperature and friction — i. e. stopping power — thus resulting in relatively poor brake performance without an initial warm-up of the brakes before use.

Grimsby players warm-up at Wembley Stadium before the 2008 Football League Trophy final.

He appeared as a guest on the last ever Parkinson show on ITV on 16 December 2007, making a return to the programme on which he'd been a warm-up act years before.

Abbott also became the " warm-up man " for the weekly broadcasts, chatting to the audience before introducing the rest of the cast.

Both stock and modified outboard classes run on a circular or triangular race course using a 3-minute " milling warm-up " period before a " flying " clock start.

After starting 2009 with two warm-up shows for their tour of Japan in Scarborough and Crewe, the band later on in May announced that Feeder " ended their partnership " with drummer Mark Richardson, before returning to his original band Skunk Anansie.

From the 2002 – 2003 season to the 2008 – 2009 season, there were only 3 questions, with a warm-up question before the contest.

It is also common for other international teams to play the island teams for warm-up games before they take on the combined West Indies team.

The first round in Amsterdam saw Yoong collide with a stalled car before the warm-up lap but set fastest lap and finished 17th and earlier ended up 12th in the sprint race.

The Lions ' campaign involved a warm-up match against Argentina ( which was retroactively awarded Test status by the International Rugby Board in March 2008 ) before the departure for New Zealand, three Tests against the All Blacks, and several tour matches, where the quality of the opposition was expected to be high.

Woodfull was forced to retired hurt and recovered just in time for the warm-up matches against Tasmania before the national team headed to England.

A warm-up is usually performed before participating in technical sports or exercising.

A warm-up will improve the effectiveness of training and should be done before every training session.

Jarre utilised the unedited version as an ambient audience " warm-up " in the hours prior to the Paris la Defense concert in 1990 ( and also in many concerts after this " first "), played on the specially installed public address sound system scattered throughout Paris for this event.

" He served on the writing staff of The Royal Family, Out of This World, Top of the Heap and What a Country !, where he did audience warm-up, a role he also performed on Grand.

After a warm-up tour they taped a TV-special predominantly miming tracks off their yet-to-release fourth album ( recorded with René ) including their latest single Pa about a father -/ son-dispute with the former mellowed out and the latter still carrying on regardless.

A warm-up comedian updated the studio audiences about any important plot detail, introduced them to the performers, and provided entertainment while cameras and sets were being repositioned.

Teams generally meet up about an hour before the show to warm-up altogether with the referees.

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

He saw himself before them delivering the speech.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

Soon after 21: 00 on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress.

The computer itself must first be " trained " before the first or second of these methods are used ; that is, the new user enters the system in a special " learning mode " so that the system can learn to identify his handwriting or speech patterns.

On the eve of the National Equality March in Washington, D. C., October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but he offered no timetable.

On October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but set no date.

The Rastafari claimed Selassie as God incarnate before and even more so after the Second World War ( see Rastafari movement ) because of his bravery in The Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the way he saved his country and his amazing speech to League of Nations.

The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln ( circled ) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before the speech.

Its text differs, however, from the written versions prepared by Lincoln before and after his speech.

Cleese continued after a break from laughter in the audience, claiming that Chapman had whispered in his ear the night before while he was writing the speech, saying:

She had been on the island of Utøya hours before the massacre there to give a speech to the AUF camp ; Breivik stated that he originally intended for Brundtland to be the main target of the attack, but he had been delayed while travelling from Oslo.

She believes his scar had nothing to do with his distinctive speech pattern, his " lip wound gave him no speech impediment, either before or after it was mended.

" The phrases " I am a Berliner " and " I am proud to be in Berlin " were typed already a week before the speech on a list of expressions to be used, including a phonetic transcription of the German translation.

Plischke wrote a 1997 account of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation ; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip (" a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President ’ s mannerisms ").

Kennedy's National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy thought the speech had gone " a little too far ", and the two revised the text for a softer stance before repeating the speech at the Free University later that day.

Only two weeks before Kennedy had spoken in more conciliatory tones, speaking of " improving relations with the Soviet Union ": in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that " one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents.

* 1789 – French revolutionary and radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gave a speech in response to the dismissal of Jacques Necker France's finance minister the day before.