Bieler, Dembrowski, and Sanders along with bassist Pat Badger of Extreme formed Super TransAtlantic ' and released the album Shuttlecock in 2000.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

Comparison of mean, median and mode ( statistics ) | mode of two log-normal distribution s with different skewness.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

However, some species with hairy seeds ( e. g. Eriospermum, family Asparagaceae s. l.

The juries consisted of over 1, 500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the film ’ s popularity over time, historical significance and cultural impact.

Since membership is based on a province's communion with Canterbury, expulsion would require the Archbishop of Canterbury's refusal to be in communion with the affected jurisdiction ( s ).

Christie wrote little of Poirot ’ s childhood though in Three Act Tragedy she writes that he comes from a large family with little wealth.

Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna ’ s farewell performance won ’ t be in it with yours, Poirot.

Japp is outgoing, loud and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the bourgeois Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot ’ s world.

Aaron ’ s function included the duties of speaker and implied personal dealings with the Egyptian royal court on behalf of Moses.

However, according to private tour operators and other individuals familiar with the country ’ s tourism industry, government claims that hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists visit Armenia each year are inflated.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with the European Union totaled $ 200 million.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

Political observers say that Armenia's economic cooperation with Russia has been one of the least transparent areas of the Armenian government ’ s work.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

* The Crow ( The Jay in Peacock ’ s feathers ) ( IV. 9 )

When alarmed, Bachman ’ s Warbler jerked its tail and raised its crown feathers.

The Long-eared Owl ’ s brownish feathers are vertically streaked.

The vulture ’ s head and neck are featherless as an adaptation for hygiene, though there are black bristles on parts of the head ; this lack of feathers prevents bacteria from the carrion it eats from ruining its feathers and exposes the skin to the sterilizing effects of the sun.

The dancers face is adorned with Tikka ( decorations made by hand with sandalwood paste ), Mathami or Matha Patti ( forehead ornament ), Allaka ( head piece on which the tikka hangs ), unique ear covers called Kapa in intricate shapes usually depicting a peacock ’ s feathers, an ear chain, Jhumkas ( bell shaped earrings ), a short necklace, and a longer necklace with a hanging pendant.

The Eagle Feather Law later met charges of promoting racial and religious discrimination due to the law ’ s provision authorizing the possession of eagle feathers to members of only one ethnic group, Native Americans, and forbidding Native Americans from including non-Native Americans in indigenous customs involving eagle feathers — a common modern practice dating back to the early 16th century.

The traditional bonnet of the Kilwinning Archers of Scotland There are several Scottish variants of the beret, notably the Scottish bonnet or Bluebonnet ( originally bonaid in Gaelic ), whose ribbon cockade and feathers identify the wearer ’ s clan and rank ), and which is a symbol of Scottish patriotism.

The male of the distinctive Kerala race, G. s. stewarti has all-chestnut plumage, including the head feathers.

In most of the range, males have a long green-blue tail, but A. s. nicobarica of the Nicobar Islands and the former subspecies A. vigorsii ( Western Crimson Sunbird ) of the Western Ghats of India lack the long central tail feathers.

The race T. s. somervillei of Maharastra has a very rufous tail and dark primary flight feathers. The Jungle Babbler can be separated from the White-headed Babbler by the dark loreal zone between the bill and the eye as well as the lack of a contrasting light crown.

They fasten red ( crimson red ) wool round a hook, and fix on to the wool two feathers which grow under a cock ’ s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.

The Crimson Rosella ’ s blue tail feathers are one of the favourite decorations of the Satin Bowerbird.

Additional problems include the fact that Kamehameha ’ s sash drags on the ground behind him like a royal European train ( an arrangement that would be considered degrading by Native Hawaiians and that would also damage the delicate feathers composing the sash ), and Gould ’ s decision to adorn the cloak with a European-style tassel.

C. s. normantoni is lightly brownish on the underside of flight and tail feathers.

The economy is based on fishing, tourism, copra, and bird feathers, though Palmerston ’ s extreme remoteness makes a cash market difficult to maintain.

The shafts of the male ’ s outer primary flight feathers are thickened and flattened to give the distinctive feature which gives the sabrewings their English and scientific names.

Just because the double-laced marking of the female ’ s feathers supported this opinion!

Pelican feathers, in that era, were used for women ’ s hats.

The szarawary were typical lower-body clothing, and the calpac, decorated with heron ’ s feathers, was worn on the head.

According to the Matsumae Clan ’ s Chronicles of Shiragi ( Shiragi no kiroku 新羅の記録 ), from the first year of the Genna Era to about Genna 7 ( 1615 – 1622 ) the region ’ s inhabitants ( referred to as the Ezo-people, or “ Ainu ”) traded with the Matsumae Clan, noting that the Matsumae received 100 small boats worth of eagle feathers and sea otter pelts.