Four years earlier the Major took Stebbins to the finish of a Long Walk and now Stebbins feels that the Major has set him up to be " the rabbit ", motivating other runners to walk farther to prolong the race, just as rabbits are used in dog races.

Unfortunately, the Major apparently knew all along that Stebbins was his bastard son, and does not care, except as a means to manipulate Stebbins into making the race better by making him into a " rabbit "— referencing the mechanical lure used in a greyhound race to keep the dogs running — so that he will provoke the other Walkers into pushing longer and harder trying to " catch " him.

Stebbins used the new technique to investigate eclipsing binaries, the reddening of starlight by interstellar dust, colors of galaxies, and variable stars.

* Si Stebbins, a card stack system used in magic ( published by William Coffrin, AKA Si Stebbins )

Stebbins wrote, " If the paintings of the shore as well as the more conventional compositions ... might lead one to think of Heade as a Hudson River School painter, the scenes make it clear that he was not.

After five days and hundreds of miles, the Walk eventually comes down to Garraty and Stebbins, who revealed to Garraty and McVries earlier that day, that he is the illegitimate son of the Major.

* The Major-Little to no biographical information is presented about the Major within the book, but due to Stebbins ' testimony, it is inferred that he is at the very least in his mid-to-late thirties and has been running the Long Walk for at least 13 years, but likely much longer.

The botanist G. Ledyard Stebbins was another major contributor to the synthesis.

The name Stebbins was first recorded in 1900 ; the Yupik name for the village is Tapraq.

Michael Reindeer Corral Project was completed in 1993 for a herd on Stuart Island, just north of Stebbins.

The proportion of flowering plants which are polyploid was estimated by Stebbins to be 30-35 %, but in grasses the average is much higher, about 70 %.

In fact Stephen Stebbins was the first person to settle in the southern part of the precinct in what is today Hampden when he built a house on the north side of the Scantic River in 1741.

He collaborated with Philip Bliss and then later with James McGranahan and George Stebbins ) on a series of " sacred song " collections published in the United States by Biglow & Main ( a company of which he was president from 1895 to 1908 ), and in the United Kingdom by Morgan & Scott, publishers also of his most enduring work, the popular Sacred Songs and Solos ( widely known as " Sankey & Moody ") which eventually ran to over 1200 works and is still in use today.

Similar shifts in emphasis can be seen in most of the other participants in the evolutionary synthesis, such as Stebbins and Dobzhansky, though the latter was slow to change.

Writing about the difference between The Beach Boy's Candix Records single and their first Capitol Records release, Stebbins stated: Compared to ' Surfin ', this was metal.

Nonetheless, they were meaningful to her contemporaries and hymn writer George C. Stebbins stated, ' There was probably no writer in her day who appealed more to the valid experience of the Christian life or who expressed more sympathetically the deep longings of the human heart than Fanny Crosby.

Joel Stebbins ( July 30, 1878 – March 16, 1966 ) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy.

By late 1857, Cushman was secretly involved with lesbian sculptor Emma Stebbins.

Suspecting that the note was to Stebbins, Hays demanded to see it.

Although Cushman maintained that the note was not to Stebbins, she refused to show it to Hays.

Although Cushman maintained that she was devoted to Stebbins, she became involved with another woman not long after her relationship with Stebbins began.

Luray Caverns was discovered on August 13, 1878 by five local men, including Andrew J. Campbell ( a local tinsmith ), his 13-year-old nephew Quint, and local photographer Benton Stebbins.

It was produced after a fire at the Oldsmobile plant, when the prototype was saved by a nightwatchman named Stebbins, ( who later became the Mayor of Detroit ), and was the only product available to the company to produce, to get back on their feet.

Charles Stebbins Fairchild ( April 30, 1842 – November 24, 1924 ) was a New York businessman and politician.

Stebbins was a social studies teacher at Mayfield Woods Middle School, in Elkridge, Maryland, from the 1991-2 school year until what appears to have been his retirement at the end of the 2008-9 school year.

At the end of the book, having gone farther than any Long Walk in history-the Long Walkers reached Massachusetts for the first time in seventeen years-Garraty decides to give up after realizing that Stebbins has shown almost no weaknesses over the duration of the Walk.

Stebbins has many strange mannerisms, often talking in riddles to Garraty to teach him a vital lesson — and then later recanting them as lies.

Stebbins refers to Olson as a demonstration of the power of the mind to control the body, because although he has physically succumbed to fatigue, Olson can still walk.

It has been of major significance in plant evolution according to Stebbins.

" As Stebbins notes in his writings, Heade's work has also been copied and forged extensively.

But whereas professionals obtain licenses as their “ measurability of the excellence of service provided ” ( Stebbins, 1992, p. 21 ), amateurs break taboos by loving their work and not passing standardized tests.

Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included: B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall ( sic ), Grant C. Stebbins, Rev.

" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.

Lastly, the most alluring and mysterious Walker is a boy named Stebbins.

Throughout the Walk, Stebbins establishes himself as a loner, observing the ground beneath him as he listens to fellow Walkers ' complaints, seemingly unaffected by the mental and physical strains.

The only character Stebbins truly interacts with is Ray Garraty.

In one conversation, Garraty alludes to Alice in Wonderland, likening Stebbins to the Caterpillar.

Stebbins, however, corrects him: he believes himself to be more of a White Rabbit type.

Garraty catches up with Stebbins to tell him this, but before he can speak Stebbins collapses and dies ; thus Garraty is declared the winner.

If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.

This force is used in the formal definition of the ampere, which states that it is " the constant current that will produce an attractive force of 2 × 10 < sup >– 7 </ sup > newton per metre of length between two straight, parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible circular cross section placed one metre apart in a vacuum ".

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

Arminius states that " Justification, when used for the act of a Judge, is either purely the imputation of righteousness through mercy … or that man is justified before God … according to the rigor of justice without any forgiveness.

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

http :// uk. news. yahoo. com /​ oklahoma-says-running-death ​- penalty-drug-001238468. ht ​ ml reads: " Oklahoma was the first state in the country to use pentobarbital in 2010 after a shortage of another AESTHETIC, sodium thiopental, caused penal officials in death penalty states to look for an alternative .... Oklahoma could resort to another AESTHETIC never used before in executions, Massie said, or it could try to tap existing supplies of pentobarbital.

Abstractions sometimes have ambiguous referents ; for example, " happiness " ( when used as an abstraction ) can refer to as many things as there are people and events or states of being which make them happy.

The correspondence between these values and the physical states of the underlying storage or device is a matter of convention, and different assignments may be used even within the same device or program.

where is the Boltzmann constant, T is temperature ( assumed to be a well-defined quantity ), is the degeneracy ( meaning, the number of levels having energy ; sometimes, the more general ' states ' are used instead of levels, to avoid using degeneracy in the equation ), N is the total number of particles and Z ( T ) is the partition function.

Expression data can be used to infer gene regulation: one might compare microarray data from a wide variety of states of an organism to form hypotheses about the genes involved in each state.

b. Youatt states that the Southern Hound may have been native to the British Isles and used on hunts by the Ancient Britons.

On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.

An attempt by the French government to incorporate the independent Breton-language immersion schools ( called Diwan ) into the state education system was blocked by the French Constitutional Council on the grounds that, as the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the 5th Republic states that French is the language of the Republic, no other language may be used as a language of instruction in state schools.

Schaefer's dichotomy theorem states that, for any restriction to Boolean operators that can be used to form these subformulae, the corresponding satisfiability problem is in P or NP-complete.

Antipsychotics are not recommended for benzodiazepine withdrawal ( or other CNS depressant withdrawal states ) especially clozapine, olanzapine or low potency phenothiazines e. g. chlorpromazine as they lower the seizure threshold and can worsen withdrawal effects ; if used extreme caution is required.

The term is currently used in seven states.

The following states use, or have used, the word with the following meanings:

Sometimes the word country is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states.

Even though cadmium and its compounds may be toxic in certain forms and concentrations, the British Pharmaceutical Codex from 1907 states that cadmium iodide was used as a medication to treat " enlarged joints, scrofulous glands, and chilblains ".

The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic.

The difference is that the Cartesian product can be interpreted simply as a pair of items ( or a list ), whereas the tensor product, used to define a monoidal category, is suitable for describing entangled quantum states.

In Buddhist literature the Sanskrit term cakra ( Pali cakka ) is used in a different sense of " circle ," referring to a Buddhist conception of the Cycle of Rebirth consisting of six states in which beings may be reborn.