East Providence should organize its civil defense setup and begin by appointing a full-time director, Raymond H. Hawksley, the present city CD head, believes.

In 1997, Power Computing began bundling BeOS ( on a CD for optional installation ) with its line of PowerPC-based Macintosh clones.

The first artist to sell a million copies on CD was Dire Straits, with its 1985 album Brothers in Arms.

For example, raw uncompressed PCM audio ( 44. 1 kHz, 16 bit stereo, as represented on an audio CD or in a. wav or. aiff file ) has long been a standard across multiple platforms, but its transmission over networks is slow and expensive compared with more modern compressed formats, such as MP3.

As early as March 1982 ECMA TC24 with its corporate members reached agreement on a standard for CSMA / CD based on the IEEE 802 draft.

It is also media-transparent due to its ability to retrieve packages from various media, including network / Internet, CD / DVD and local disk.

However, its lack of a " region lock ", and the fact that it could play older CD software, made it a popular import item for enthusiasts in both Europe and North America.

Sonic CD has been praised for its visual style, superior CD sound, and an innovative time-travel mechanic, allowing players to explore four versions of each stage.

Coordinadora Democrática ( CD ) also refused to file candidates and urged Nicaraguans not to take part in the election, the Independent Liberal Party ( PLI ), headed by Virgilio Godoy Reyes announced its refusal to participate in October.

Designers may use this term to refer to the writing of the final file to disk or CD and its subsequent transmission to the foundry ; however, in current practice the foundry will perform checks and make modifications to the mask design specific to the manufacturing process before actual tapeout.

When Parliament passed the first of the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1864 ( which allowed the local constabulary to force any woman suspected of venereal disease to submit to its inspection ), Josephine Butler's crusade to repeal the CD Acts yoked the anti-prostitution cause with the emergent feminist movement.

Many of the original mixes were used on the 2003 CD box set Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, and its companion piece Rancho Texicano.

The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD.

Noteworthy as well is that a secondary structure will also impart a distinct CD to its respective molecules.

Not until 1999 with the digital restoration supervised by jazz historian Phil Schaap was the actual concert not only released in its entirety but, thanks to the discovery of a Voice of America broadcast tape, in authentic stereo sound for the first time: Remastered 1999 CD: " Ellington at Newport " ( 1956 ) ( Complete ).

Also in that tour he recorded the stand-up performance released in its entirety on a double CD titled Salvation.

The " new " Psyche made its debut on Accession Records with their " Sanctuary " CD Single released in April 2001.

The group has gone on to record several different versions of Mbube ; however, the version heard in Coming to America has not been released on its soundtrack or on CD as of 2006.

In the 1998 election the CD lost all three of its seats.

In 2011, Opera Australia launched a new digital strategy in order to bring high-definition recordings of its operas to cinemas ( in collaboration with CinemaLive ), as well as launching DVD, Blu-ray and CD releases on its own label and broadcasting these recordings on ABC Television.

In 2007, the label celebrated its 60th anniversary with the May 2 PBS broadcast of the American Masters documentary Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built and the simultaneous Starbucks CD release of Atlantic 60th Anniversary: R & B Classics Chosen By Ahmet Ertegun.

# If the line extensions ( secant lines ) of chords AB and CD intersect at a point P, then their lengths satisfy AP · PB = CP · PD ( power of a point theorem ).

The CDS CD player has since seen two major revisions ( now in its CDS3 incarnation ) since its launch in 1991 ; while subsequent lower-priced extensions to the line are often used by hi-fi reviewers as references at their respective price points.

Mr. Hawksley said he believed there are a number of qualified city residents who would be willing to take the full-time CD job.

Adorning the CD artwork are two-headed arrows wrapped back pointing at each other, and underneath the CD are two worm-like creatures face to face forming a circle.

Many of these recordings survive today as the Tiffany Transcriptions, and are available on CD.

The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; they are sometimes used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio or delivering device drivers.

Compact Discs are increasingly being replaced or supplemented by other forms of digital distribution and storage, such as downloading and flash drives, with audio CD sales dropping nearly 50 % from their peak in 2000.

Written CD-Rs and CD-RWs are, from a technical standpoint, fully compatible with the Audio CD ( Red Book ) and CD-ROM ( Yellow Book ) standards, although some hardware compatible with Red Book CDs may have difficulty reading CD-Rs and especially CD-RWs.

Some drives use special techniques, such as Plextor's GigaRec or Sanyo's HD-BURN, to write more data onto a given disc ; these techniques are inherently deviations from the Compact Disc ( Red, Yellow, and / or Orange Book ) standards, making the recorded discs proprietary-formatted and not fully compatible with standard CD players and drives.

The pregroove is not destroyed when the data are written to the CD-R, a point which some copy protection schemes use to distinguish copies from an original CD.

There are pre-built CD images for KDE Software Compilation, Xfce and LXDE also.

The most striking examples of diffraction are those involving light ; for example, the closely spaced tracks on a CD or DVD act as a diffraction grating to form the familiar rainbow pattern seen when looking at a disk.

For example, uncompressed songs in CD format have a data rate of 16 bits / channel x 2 channels x 44. 1 kHz ≅ 1. 4 Mbit / s, whereas AAC files on an iPod are typically compressed to 128 kbit / s, yielding a compression ratio of 0. 09, for a data-rate savings of 0. 91, or 91 %.

( units are: BR in bit / s, W and H in pixels, CD in bits, VS in bits, T in seconds )

Digital effects designed for DJs are often sold in tabletop models, so that the units can be placed alongside a mixer, turntables and CD scratching gear.

* Football The island's main football clubs are UD Pájara Playas de Jandía and CD Corralejo, who play in Group XII of the Tercera División.

Some drives will simply regard them as an even larger CD, but many models, recognising that there are no dual layer CDs, only permitted access to the first layer.

* Level 3: Files are allowed to be non-contiguous ( i. e., fragmented ), principally to allow packet writing or incremental CD recording.

Alexander appeared on the Family Guy: Live in Vegas CD singing a verse in the song " All Cartoons are Fuckin ' Dicks ".

Most common machines are CD + G, Laser Disc, VCD or DVD players with microphone inputs and an audio mixer built in.

CD + G, DVD, VCD and microphone-based players are most popular for home use.