At the start of the 2011 season, the longest continuous affiliations will be two 45-year links: between the Philadelphia Phillies and their Double-A Eastern League affiliate, the Reading Phillies ; and the one between the Detroit Tigers and their Single-A Florida State League affiliate, the Lakeland Flying Tigers.

Other more distant aspirations include resignalling and capacity improvements at Reading ; the provision of four continuous tracks between Didcot and Swindon ( including a grade-separated junction at Milton, where the down ( westbound ) relief line switches from the north side of the line to the south ); and resignalling between Bath and Bristol to enable trains to run closer together.

The station was opened in 1848, along with the Reading to Basingstoke railway line and both it, and the station buildings, have been in continuous use ever since.

This long-standing tradition on the show dates from the mid-1970s, when English-born segment producer George Somerwill once concluded a program script with a note that a small village mentioned in the preceding segment was located ' nine miles from Reading '.

The Moon System of Embossed Reading ( commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon type, or Moon code ) is a writing system for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Latin script ( but simplified ).

Reading depends upon an ability to code and decode script ( i. e., match speech sounds with symbols, and vice versa ).

Portions of the script were included in the anthology The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 edited by Dave Eggers.

Reading about famous oratory aroused Johnson's interest in political dialogue and private debates with customers having opposing views on issues of the day.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

In addition to his public service work for charitable organizations for the handicapped, Capp also served on the National Reading Council, which was organized to combat illiteracy.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Ecclesias are typically involved in preaching the gospel ( evangelism ) in the form of public lectures on Bible teaching, college-style seminars on reading the Bible, and Bible Reading Groups.

At the time, he was working on the " Reading of the Declaration of Independence Mural " which was later installed in the House Chamber.

Following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December, James and his wife fled the nation ; James, however, returned to London for a two-week period that culminated in his final departure for France on 23 December.

* Genesis Reading Room ( Tyndale Seminary ): online commentaries and monographs on Genesis.

Reading a newspaper article describing a gas attack on British forces which he hypothesized had employed chlorine gas, Garner remembered experiments he had performed while teaching at the University of Chicago, thus he set about creating the first gas mask which he tested on two of his associates in a gas filled chamber.

I enjoyed the Little House on the Prairie books and Little Women, and many others ... Reading gives you enjoyment throughout your life.

Each Reading Buddies session focuses primarily on the college student reading aloud with the child.

* New Testament Reading Room: Extensive on-line New Testament resources ( including reference works, commentaries, translations, atlases, language tools, and works on New Testament theology ), Tyndale Seminary

Reading your proof had a similarly pleasant effect on me as seeing a really good play.

* Reading The Singer on " Bestiality "

The additional word via indicated that the " passengers " were not sent on the usual train, but rather via Reading, Pennsylvania.

Heavy snows force the troops to take refuge in Fort Reading on the Pamlico River.

Sousa died of heart failure at the age of 77 on March 6, 1932, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

This was a time of innovation as electric lighting was introduced in the Reading Room and exhibition galleries.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Reading Atari 8-bit 130kB or 180kB disks was possible as well with special software, but the standard Atari 8-bit 90kB format, which used FM rather than MFM encoding, could not be handled by the 1571 hardware without modifying the drive circuitry as the control line that determines if FM or MFM encoding is used by the disc controller chip was permanently wired to ground ( MFM mode ) rather than being under software control.

Reading Korzybski extensively, I couldn't find anything that was not either trivial or false.

Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was instrumental in developing his interest in theater.

Reading or copying was normally done in the room itself.

Foot was educated at Plymouth College Preparatory School and Leighton Park School in Reading.

When the Phoenix Festival was cancelled due to low ticket sales, New Order instead played the last night of that year's Reading Festival.

In 1992, the group was one of the first rap acts to perform at the Reading Festival, in England, headlining the second day of the three day festival.

His interest in electronic music also resulted in his first meetings with Andy Mackay, who was studying at Reading University and who had likewise developed a strong interest in avant garde and electronic music.

* Kurzweil was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002 for inventing the Kurzweil Reading Machine.

A more recent translation of the Autobiography appears in D. Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works, Leiden: Brill, 1988.

Deakin supported Barton's position over that of the Labor Party in drafting the Bill ( the ALP wanted more direct methods of exclusion than the dictation test ) and redacted the more vicious racism proposed for the text in his Second Reading of the Bill.

This model would soon be replicated, and branch churches worldwide maintain more than 1, 200 Christian Science Reading Rooms today.

Many more commute daily to the cities of Pottsville, Hazleton, Allentown, Reading or Harrisburg to work.

Even more recent activity focused around poets in Bloodaxe Books ' The New Poetry, including Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Glyn Maxwell, Selima Hill, Maggie Hannan, Michael Hofmann and Peter Reading.

Prior to the last Ice Age, the River Thames followed a more northerly route to the North Sea, from Reading via Marlow, Chorleywood, St Albans, Hertford and along the present Suffolk-Essex border.

The use of Pennsylvania German as a street language in urban areas of Pennsylvania ( such as Allentown, Reading, Lancaster and York ) was declining by the arrival of the 20th century, while in more rural areas it continued in widespread use through the World War II era.

On average, the middle 50 percent of first-year students received 1450-1550 on the SAT Critical Reading and Math Sections and a composite 29-33 on the ACT ; more than three-quarters of the entering students ranked in the top 10 % of their high school graduating classes.

A more ambitious proposal named " Superlink " was proposed in 2004, at an estimated cost of £ 13bn, including additional infrastructure work outside London: as well as Crossrail's proposed east-west london tunnel, additional lines would connect conurbations outside London, including lines to Cambridge, Ipswich, Southend, Pitsea, Reading, Basingstoke and Northampton.

McDormand has starred in six of the Coen Brothers films, including a minor appearance in Miller's Crossing, a secondary role in Raising Arizona and lead roles in Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, Fargo, for which she won an Academy Award, and more recently Burn After Reading.

At the end of the 1997 – 98 season the Loftus Road club avoided relegation at the expense of Manchester City, Stoke City and Reading but the club's directors and supporters expected more.

With the Beckett Gala Evening at the Reading Town Hall, more than £ 22, 000 was donated for the Macmillan Cancer Support.

In the 1984 – 85 season meanwhile they enjoyed more cup success before bowing out 2 – 1 to Reading in the first round proper, at a packed Jenner Park.

The tollgate on the Bath Road west of Reading was removed in 1864 as the outward pressure of urban development made rates a more acceptable way of financing the maintenance of what was now a sub-urban road.

The NYC had to compete with its two biggest rivals: the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ), and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ), in addition to more moderate-size railroads such as the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad ( DLW ), the Erie Railroad, the Reading Company, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

This type of memory has specifically come into focus when discussing “ Sight Reading ” since the process of looking at musical notes for the first time and deciphering them while playing an instrument can undoubtedly be considered a “ complex task of comprehension .” The main conclusion in terms of this idea is that, “ Working memory and short-term memory capacity and mental speed are three important predictors for sight reading achievement .” Although none of the studies discredit the correlation between the amount of time one spends practicing and musical ability, specifically, sight-reading proficiency, more studies are pointing to the level at which one ’ s working memory functions as the key factor in sight-reading abilities.

They played some gigs and produced a 4 track demo in Reading as British Air Powers, before relocating to Brighton in search of a more active music scene.

Reading for pleasure is actively encouraged ( Finland publishes more children's books than any other country ).

There is a railway station on the Cotswold Line, enabling direct travel to Paddington station, London, via Evesham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxford, Didcot and Reading, although Pershore station is more than a mile from the centre of the town towards Pinvin.

Ian Paice entertained more than 1000 people at a special charity concert in Reading on 13 January 2006.

He would later say of this time: " I stayed in Europe for more than twenty years ; I worked in an Industrial Chemistry Laboratory [...] attended some secret socialist-oriented meetings [...] studied a little literature ; learned languages and directed a Reading and Writing School in a small Russian town ".

Broad Universe created the Rapid Fire Reading with a small group of member authors who each read an excerpt from their work no more than 5 minutes long.

The Parliament emulated some of the more bizarre traditions, such as giving a First Reading to the Outlawries Bill immediately after the speech from the throne as a token gesture of defiance of Royal authority.