Sky polarization has been exploited in the " sky compass ", which was used in the 1950s when navigating near the poles of the Earth's magnetic field when neither the sun nor stars were visible ( e. g., under daytime cloud or twilight ).

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

An upgraded version with active radar seeker, called Active Sky Flash was proposed by BAe and Thomson-CSF, but did not receive funding because the RAF opted for other missiles.

Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year ( and later on BBC1 ).

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 ( which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free ) in preference to the commercial Sky News.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

The introduction of simulcasts of the main bulletins on the channel was to allow the news bulletins to pool resources rather than work against each other at key times in the face of competition particularly from Sky News.

A key claim made by Lord Lambert in his report had been that the channel was slower to react to breaking news compared with its main rival Sky News.

Along with Bubba Ho-tep, he also played a supporting role in Sky High, He also was featured in the Jim Carrey drama The Majestic.

His 2008 film The Sky Crawlers was met with similarly positive international reception.

In 1982 Uli Jon Roth developed the " Sky Guitar ," with a vastly extended number of frets, which was the first guitar to venture into the upper registers of the violin.

It was recorded by Doris Akers and the Sky Pilot Choir in 1958.

Their project attracted a great deal of attention, including from the Miami Herald and the final report was published in a book written by the boys called Big Sky, Little Bullet.

According to security analyst Jeffrey Carr, use of ICQ may cause security problems because it was purchased by Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies.

In keeping with the band's satirical nature, each member had a comical name: in addition to Kinky there was Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Wichita Culpepper, Sky Cap Adams, Rainbow Colours, and Snakebite Jacobs.

A graph from it was adapted and re-published in Sky and Telescope.

The term was notably coined by Renaissance Capital in their report-Mongolia ’ s " Blue Sky Opportunity.

It was covered by all the UK's leading television media ( BBC, ITN, Sky News ).

The idea of " Sky Soldiers " is by no means a recent thought ; Benjamin Franklin envisioned a time when soldiers would be delivered from the sky, with a crude, rudimentary understanding of parachutes:

The name of the show was originally planned to be Star Map, before The Sky at Night was thought of as a better enticement in the Radio Times.

It was a popular enough ballad that another poem was written in reply, " Mad Maudlin's Search " or " Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam " ( the same Maud who was mentioned in the verse " With a thought I took for Maudlin / And a cruise of cockle pottage / With a thing thus tall, Sky bless you all / I befell into this dotage.

" Sooner or Later " was recently described by Parsons himself as " the third attempt to try and get another hit with the " Eye in the Sky "- esque chugging guitar line-" Prime Time " from Ammonia Avenue was the second, which I thought was a little more successful in that respect.

immense stretches of wheatfields under turbulent skies, thought to be Wheatfield under Clouded Sky and Wheatfield with Crows, and the third is Daubigny's Garden.

It is thought the Sky Blues turned down a then-massive £ 4 million offer from Arsenal at the end of the same 1994 season for Ndlovu's services.

It is thought that this is due to the planner databases used for Sky + and Sky + HD being incompatible.

In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Crux and the Coalsack mark the head of the ' Emu in the Sky ' in several Aboriginal cultures, while Crux itself is said to be a possum sitting in a tree and a representation of the sky deity Mirrabooka.

Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra will be released on 8 October 2012.

FNC is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard-encrypted channel ; during major news stories it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free-to-air.

FNC is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard-encrypted channel ; during major news stories it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free-to-air.

She is shown to be fiercely protective of her marriage to Victor, becoming easily suspicious and jealous, for example, of a Dutch marionette that Victor becomes occupied with repairing in the episode " Hole in the Sky ", eventually leading her to destroy it.

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

Aside from a ritualistic chant in " The Sontaran Strategem "/" The Poison Sky ", they are never seen to engage in any activity that would be considered recreation, though a few offhand comments by Commander Skorr in " The Poison Sky " suggest they do consider hunting a sport ( according to their creator Robert Holmes, Sontarans do have a highly developed artistic culture, but have put it on hold for the duration of the war, while the opening chapter of the novelisation of The Time Warrior, based on Holmes ' incomplete draft, refers to Linx listening to the Sontaran anthem while his spaceship is in flight ).

The Single European Sky is a European Commission initiative by which the design, management and regulation of airspace will be coordinated throughout the European Union ( ECAA area ).

In 2009, Ono recorded Between My Head and the Sky, her first album to be released as " Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band " since 1973's Feeling the Space.

" As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by the line " tangerine trees and marmalade skies " from The Beatles ' track " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Their motto was: " The firmament has perished, the Yellow Sky will soon rise ; in this year of jiazi, let there be prosperity in the world!

When the network launched, Fox management, having seen the critical role that sports programming ( soccer programming in particular ) had played in the growth of the British satellite service British Sky Broadcasting, believed that sports, and specifically professional football, would be the engine that would make Fox a major network the quickest.

However, these Blue Sky laws were generally found to be ineffective.

However, these Blue Sky laws were generally found to be ineffective.

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

The Freund's Sky Club Supper Club in Plover, Wisconsin is believed to be the very first salad bar.

According to Tan Jing Quee in the book " Comet in our Sky ", Lee Kuan Yew was being deceptive at this time: while pretending to be on the side of the jailed labour members of the PAP, he was secretly in collusion with the British to stop Lim Chin Siong and the labour supporters from attaining power, whom Lee had courted because of their huge popularity, without which Lee would most likely not have been able to attain power.

Misunderstanding this sign, the later Greeks and Roman poets made Harpocrates the god of Silence and Secrecy, taking their cue from Marcus Terentius Varro, who asserted in De lingua Latina of Caelum ( Sky ) and Terra ( Earth ) " These gods are the same as those who in Egypt are called Serapis and Isis, though Harpocrates with his finger makes a sign to me to be quiet.