Solid, horizontal lines of all black or all white tiles are erased, and the goal is to erase the entire grid in this manner.

Solid metal maces and war hammers proved able to inflict damage on well armoured knights, as the force of a blow from a mace is large enough to cause damage without penetrating the armour.

Solid epithelial cell tumors have been shown to cause both tissue and blood eosinophilia, with some reports indicating that this may be mediated by interleukin production by tumor cells, especially IL-5 or IL-3.

A Rock Solid plays off the various senses of the term rock: geological, musical, and etymological, with emphasis on its derivation from the Old High German rucken: “ to cause to move ”.

In one of the earliest cut scenes in the game Metal Gear Solid 4 Hal " Otacon " Emmerich cites " classic Werner syndrome " as the most apparent cause of Solid Snake's premature aging, though goes on to say that testing is inconclusive.

Solid areas can also cause the paper to ripple, especially on thinner sheets.

The Elektron system has required significant maintenance work, having failed several times and requiring the crew to use the Solid Fuel Oxygen Generator canisters ( also called " Oxygen Candles ", which were the cause of a fire on Mir ) when it has been broken for extended amounts of time.

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.

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.

Representatives of the Solid South, all white Democrats, would likely have stonewalled related legislation.

In Snake Eater 3D, Yoshi dolls replaces all the cartoon-like frogs, Kerotans, which that appear in all other versions of Metal Gear Solid 3.

The Winstanley Estate, perhaps being the most renowned of them all, is popularly known as being the birthplace to the garage collective So Solid Crew.

American Christian rock historian John J. Thompson identifies several factors in the collapse of Solid Rock, including possibly an over reliance on Norman's celebrity ; Norman's confrontational lyrics and music, which alienated both the Christian and mainstream music industries ; Norman's over-commitment, including producing almost all of the Solid Rock albums, contributing songs, and singing backing vocals ; and " by releasing high-quality music by the best bands, Norman doomed his label to almost certain failure.

I have very few plans for Solid Rock at all.

I've helped about fifteen people get contracts so far, and all the old Solid Rock crowd has graduated and I'm working with new and younger artists now.

However, soon after the CD pressings of White Blossoms from Black Roots had been sent to the distribution company, " the FBI arrested the head of the company for check forgery and seized all of the merchandise ", resulting in loss of access to his artwork, and digital tape masters, as well as to the material prepared for other Solid Rock Imports artists.

" Regardless of the pros and cons of Solid Rock and all the stories that swirl around Larry Norman, I do think he's made an immensely valuable, foundational contribution to the whole contemporary Christian music industry ... and I don't understand how someone that everyone nods towards and acknowledges as seminal ends up apparently scrabbling to pay for medical bills.

Metal Gear placed a greater emphasis on stealth than earlier games, with the player character Solid Snake beginning without any weapons ( requiring him to avoid confrontation until weapons are found ), limited ammunition for each weapon, enemies able to see from a distance ( using a line-of-sight mechanic ) and hear gunshots from non-silenced weapons, security cameras and sensors at various locations, and a security alarm which sounds whenever Snake is spotted and causes all enemies on screen to chase him.

A wide variety of feedstocks can be gasified, with wood pellets and chips, waste wood, plastics and aluminium, Municipal Solid Waste ( MSW ), Refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ), agricultural and industrial wastes, sewage sludge, switch grass, discarded seed corn, corn stover and other crop residues all being used.

Another team inside Konami ( in a collaboration with Silicon Knights ) began work on Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, a GameCube remake of the first Metal Gear Solid with all the gameplay features of Metal Gear Solid 2 and with cutscenes redirected by action / horror film director Ryuhei Kitamura.

A notable boss battle was The End from Metal Gear Solid 3 that was meant to differentiate it from all the other bosses in the franchise due to its strategic gameplay.

In Game Informer Magazines list of top 200 games of all time, Metal Gear Solid 2 ranked at # 50 on the list.

Solid State Society, all three of which were directed by Kenji Kamiyama, and the two theatrical film adaptations, which were directed by Mamoru Oshii.

His April 1980 Washington Monthly article " Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty " accurately forecast many of the Shuttle's issues, including an overambitious launch schedule and the consequent higher-than-expected marginal cost per flight ; the risks of depending on the Shuttle for all payloads, civilian and military ; the lack of a survivable abort scenario if a Solid Rocket Booster were to fail ; and the fragility of the Shuttle's thermal protection system.

Upon release, Metal Gear Solid 2 received a large amount of critical and fan praise, having sold over 7 million copies worldwide and maintaining a critical average of 96 % on Metacritic, where it is the third highest-rated game on the PlayStation 2, and the tied sixth highest-rated game of all time.

Gamespot gave the game a high 9. 6 rating, stating, " It all boils down to this: You must play Metal Gear Solid 2 ".

Solid carbon dioxide ( dry ice ) sublimes readily at atmospheric pressure at-78. 5 ° C ( 197. 5 K, ), whereas liquid CO < sub > 2 </ sub > can be obtained at pressures and temperatures above the triple point ( 5. 2 atm ,-56. 4 ° C ).

As such, Retro Gamer regards Metal Gear 2 to be " as close as anyone can get to playing Metal Gear Solid in 2D ", putting it above the Game Boy Color game released a decade later in 2000.

In recent years, however, several horses with no Solid or Professional chefs-de-race in the first four generations of their pedigrees — and indeed, a few with Dosage Indexes of above 4. 00 — have managed to win the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, highlighting the issue of increasing speed and decreasing stamina in contemporary American thoroughbred pedigrees.

Until 1980 Solid Rock records would be distributed by Word, giving them a more direct distribution into Christian bookstores.

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.

A report in July 2003 from the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response gave extensive documentation supporting many of the inspector general's conclusions, and carried some of them still further.

Since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty had several plot points unresolved, it was originally meant to leave it to players to discuss them to come to their own conclusions.

Solid mechanics extensively uses tensors to describe stresses, strains, and the relationship between them.

The game also included more dramatic cut scenes with symphonic music – the term " interactive movie " became less associated with games that made heavy use of full-motion video and more with games with an action movie feel to them, such as Metal Gear Solid.

Kitamura created many of the game's cinematics to look identical to those in the original Metal Gear Solid, but upon inspection Hideo Kojima had him redo them in his own style.

Other additional game modes includes a VR Training mode, where the player can test their sneaking and shooting skills in over 180 missions ( some of them based on missions featured in Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions ), and a 2-player Vs. Battle mode accessible via the use of a Game Link Cable and another Game Boy Color with a copy of the game.

Ever HopefulA November, 1924 cartoon depicts Bryan with his brother, William Jennings Bryan | William, sitting on a log marked " Almost the Solid South " looking at the sun marked " 1928 " where more hope might come for them.

* In the 1990 Babes episode, " Bend Me Shape Me ," Darlene Gilbert ( Susan Peretz ) makes a reference to the show after seeing a workout tape that her sister Charlene ( Wendie Jo Sperber ) bought, saying that the instructor on the tape made them look like " Fellini's Solid Gold " while trying to follow her lead.

The band's growing popularity with the releases of Fool Control and later Solid, gave them the opportunity to tour Europe with Soulfly.

* Interconnectivity with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence for the PS2 allowing users to take photos, then transfer and view them in 3D with the Solid Eye on their PSP.

By connecting a PS2 to a PSP, it is possible to take photos in Subsistence and transfer them to a PSP for viewing in 3D with the Solid Eye.

They refer to them simply as the Atlas V's Solid Rocket Boosters.

As an unsigned act, the group drew the attention of Solid State Records, a subsidiary of Tooth and Nail Records which signed them in 2004.