The Metal Gear Solid series of video games has a recurring character known as Grey Fox or the " Cyborg Ninja " who is a person wearing a cybernetic exoskeleton ( either worn as a suit or grafted directly to the character's body ) and wielding a high-frequency blade.

Solid body guitars are also used.

The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, formerly known as the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council ( JEDEC ), is an independent semiconductor engineering trade organization and standardization body.

He generally plays a Paul Reed Smith McCarty Double Cut Solid body, but he also plays Paul Reed Smith Single Cuts and Gibson Les Pauls and also a Gibson X-Plorers studio ( Alpine White ).

Solid body guitars with a piezo pickups.

* Solid body instruments, such as the Les Paul standard, with a carved but non-sounding belly.

* Solid body ( alder ) fretted electric bass guitar, 6 strings in 6 courses tuned E-A-D-G-B-E an octave below the normal guitar tuning.

She shows up later as Chroma, CIS body, to warn Batou to stay away from the " Solid State Society.

* Video game series Metal Gear Solid include a character in it called Vamp, who drinks blood and appears to be immortal ( though in Metal Gear Solid 4, it is discovered that this is due to nanobots in his body ).

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

From the inception of Bob Jones College, a majority of students and faculty were northerners, and therefore many were already Republicans living in the " Solid South.

A variety of topics in Physics such as crystallography, metallurgy, elasticity, magnetism, etc., were treated as distinct areas, until the 1940s when they were grouped together as Solid state physics.

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

All of the added content from the Japanese and European versions of those games were included in the expanded editions titled Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

In the Solid Gold line or re-releases InvisiClues were integrated into the game.

Five games ( Zork I, Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wishbringer and Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) were re-released in Solid Gold format.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Plans for the new network were scrapped when sufficient advertising slots could not be sold, though Paramount would contribute some programs to Operation Prime Time, such as the mini-series A Woman Called Golda, and the weekly pop music program, Solid Gold.

Solid rockets were invented by the Chinese, the earliest versions were recorded in the 13th century.

Bell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for their new invention: " Semiconductor Triode ", " Solid Triode ", " Surface States Triode ", " Crystal Triode " and " Iotatron " were all considered, but " transistor ", coined by John R. Pierce, won an internal ballot.

The Dixon Solid Crayons were offered in as many as 15 colors by 1902.

American professor of religious history Randall Balmer believed that the causes of the demise of Solid Rock were " Idealism, marital difficulties, and financial naivete – as well as changing musical tastes ".

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Fallen Angel includes interviews by many who were close to Norman more than thirty years ago including his first wife, Pamela Newman, Randy Stonehill, Terry Scott Taylor, and Philip Mangano, the business manager of Solid Rock.

The original Mobile Service Tower ( MST ) was lowered in height and two new flame ducts were added for the shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters.

Similarly, Metal Gear ( 1987 ) laid the foundations for the stealth game sub-genre, which would later be popularized by Metal Gear Solid ( 1998 ).

Although stealth gameplay had appeared in a several games in the 1980s and 1990s, 1998 is seen as a turning point in gaming history because of the release of Metal Gear Solid, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, and Thief: The Dark Project.

Based on what distances the progeny of the sires so designated excelled in during their racing careers ( the distance preferences displayed by the sires themselves while racing being irrelevant ), each chef-de-race ( the list released in the early 1980s identified 120 such sires, and 85 more have been added ) is placed in one or two of the following categories, or " aptitudinal groups ": Brilliant, Intermediate, Classic, Solid or Professional, with " Brilliant " indicating that the sire's progeny fared best at very short distances and " Professional " denoting a propensity for very long races on the part of the sire's offspring, the other three categories ranking along the same continuum in the aforementioned order.

Most of these " Solid Gold " stations began to either evolve into other formats or abruptly drop the format altogether from the late 1970s to early 1980s.

Solid State Interlocking ( SSI ) is the brand name of the first generation microprocessor-based interlocking developed in the 1980s by British Rail, GEC-General Signal and Westinghouse Signals Ltd in the UK.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s, Teri made three TV appearances including American Bandstand with the Captain and Tennille and KC ( Dec / 29 / 1979 ), The Midnight Special with Tom Jones ( Feb / 08 / 1980 ) and on Solid Gold hosted by the Pointer Sisters ( Jan / 17 / 1981 ).

In the Connecticut prison system, during the 1990s, the Ghetto Brothers and the Savage Nomads joined together to form Los Solidos ( the Solid Ones ), which is now one of the most powerful Puerto Rican gangs in the state.

In the 1990s, however, he began performing in the ' Solid Gold Rock ' n ' Roll Show ', appearing with artists such as Marty Wilde and Joe Brown.

This plant, with 15 independent anaerobic digestors will be the world's largest composting facility once fully operational in early 2011 and forms part of the Qatar Domestic Solid Waste Management Center, the largest integrated waste management complex in the Middle East.

The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol ( now part of Alliant Techsystems ), for the external tank, Martin Marietta ( now Lockheed Martin ), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne ( now Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, part of United Technologies ).

They also took part in the production of The Rolling Stones album, Bridges to Babylon and Sugartooth's album The Sounds of Solid.

In 1978, Dr. Jackson became part of the Scattering and Low Energy Physics Research Department, and in 1988 she moved to the Solid State and Quantum Physics Research Department.

* The character Sniper Wolf from the 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid is a Kurdish survivor of the attack, which forms part of her motivation for revenge against the world.

Similar series also included Soul Train ( 1970 – 2006, featuring R & B artists ), Club MTV ( 1986 – 92, featuring Dance Music acts ; hosted by Downtown Julie Brown, an alumnus of TOTP as part of the show's last dance troupe Zoo ) and Solid Gold ( 1980 – 88 ; like the early TOTP, it also used dance troupes ).

Metal Gear Solid elaborates on the storyline of the earlier games and reveals that Solid Snake is a genetic clone of Big Boss, created as part of a secret government project.

A radio drama based on the original Metal Gear Solid aired in Japan from 1998 to 1999 as part of Konami's syndicated clud DB program.

The series serves as an alternate continuation to the events of Shadow Moses, with Solid Snake, Meryl Silverburgh, Mei Ling and Roy Campbell going on further missions as FOXHOUND operatives ( Mei Ling and Meryl are depicted wearing a battle dress uniform and a sneaking suit respectively ), although the stories are not considered part of the mainstream Metal Gear canon.

Staten Island Transfer Station occupies a small portion of the site of the former Fresh Kills landfill near the old Plant # 2 The transfer station-an integral part of New York City's Solid Waste Management Plan-is expected to process an average of 900 tons per day of Staten Island-generated residential and municipal waste.

Also, in 2003, as the first time, the Argentine Navy ( classified as major non-NATO ally ) interoperated with an United States Navy battlegroup when destroyer ARA Sarandi ( D-13 ) joined the USS Enterprise Carrier Strike Group and Destroyer Squadron 18 as a part of Exercise Solid Step during their tour in the Mediterranean Sea.

Metal Gear 2 was later re-released as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

The 89-ton mockup is displayed as part of a complete Shuttle stack comprising the Pathfinder, the MPTA-ET external tank, which was used for propulsion tests with MPTA-098, and two prototype Advanced Solid Rocket Booster casings, which were developed after the Challenger accident but never put into production.

On 13 July 1985, Goanna performed three songs for the Oz for Africa concert ( part of the global Live Aid program ) – " Common Ground ", " Song for Africa ", " Solid Rock ".

In August – September 2006 Shane Howard performed " Solid Rock " as part of the Countdown Spectacular tour and was joined at the Melbourne concerts by his sister, Marcia, and Bygrave.

Lifestyles was created by Alfred M. " Al " Masini, who had also created Solid Gold, Entertainment Tonight, and Star Search ; all of these were part of his Operation Prime Time project, which he later renamed Television Program Enterprises and later merged with Rysher Entertainment to form Rysher TPE.

This was especially true in the Solid South, where the Republican Party was virtually nonexistent for the best part of a century, from the end of Reconstruction in the late 1870s to the 1960s.

Daytime announcer Macca had has last show with Solid Gold on 30 December 2011 and was not part of the new rebranded station.

In the following year, the second symphonic game music concert took place in Leipzig as part of the " Games Convention 2004 " opening ceremony, performed by the Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra, where Fabian produced three music pieces: The Secret of Monkey Island, Turrican and Metal Gear Solid and worked as synthesizer programmer for the concert.

Although once part of the Solid South, the last time Texas voted for a Democratic presidential nominee was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Currently ( 2010 ) the VAN team is part of the Solid Earth Physics Institute of the University of Athens, Greece and is headed by Professor Panayotis Varotsos.