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Registries of capoeira test practices existed since the 18th century in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife, but the huge increase of urban slaves and social life in Brazilian cities gave capoeira a greater notoriety and diffusion capacity.
Prior to that, Del Rio was the Baltimore Ravens linebackers coach, participating in that capacity on the Ravens ' record setting championship 2000 defense.
In this capacity he encouraged the United States to participate in the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, but shortly afterwards he was appointed Home Secretary in a 1993 reshuffle initiated by the sacking of Norman Lamont as Chancellor.
Their home stadium is São Januário, with a capacity of 25, 000, the third biggest in Rio de Janeiro ( after Maracanã and Engenhão ), but some matches ( especially the city derbies ) are played at the Maracanã ( capacity of about 80, 000 ).
Rio Tinto exports large volumes of iron ore through the port, and in September 2010 announced plans to expand capacity.
The port has an annual capacity to handle 140 million tonnes of iron ore, in comparison to Rio Tinto's other iron ore port, Cape Lambert, which is able to handle 80 million tonnes.
After moving to Rio, Chateaubriand worked as a journalist and lawyer, and it was in the latter capacity that he made friends with influential people, especially magnates connected with the interests of foreign corporations who wanted to hedge through lobbying against nationalist politics, among them the public utilities trust Light & Co's CEO Alexander McKenzie and the American mining magnate Percival Farqhuar.
Duarte Costa was awarded the title Monsignor for his publication of a catechism for children and was later named Protonotary Apostolic and General Secretary of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, serving in this capacity until 1923.
The Feevale University inaugurated on 20 September 2011 the largest theatre in the state of Rio Grande do Sul with a capacity to 1. 805 spectators in Novo Hamburgo.
The Rio PMP300 from Diamond Multimedia was introduced in September 1998, a few months after the MPMan, and also featured a 32 MB storage capacity.
One such company is Rio Tinto Alcan, which owns and operates 7 hydroelectric generating stations in Quebec and British Columbia, with a combined installed capacity of 3, 300 MW.
The Estádio Ítalo del Cima is a football stadium inaugurated on April 29, 1960 in Campo Grande neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro ( state ), with a maximum capacity of 18, 000 people.
The Estádio Raulino de Oliveira, also known as Estádio da Cidadania, and Estádio General Raulino de Oliveira is a football stadium inaugurated on March 14, 1976 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, with a maximum capacity of 21, 000 people.
The Estádio Luso-Brasileiro, also known as Arena Petrobras, and Petrobras Lubrax Arena is a football stadium inaugurated on October 1, 1965 in Ilha do Governador neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state, with a maximum capacity of 5, 994 people.
The stadium originally had a maximum capacity of only 5, 000 people, but, in 2005, Maracanã stadium is being reformed, Luso-Brasileiro stadium was also reformed, with the help of Flamengo, Botafogo, Petrobras, and the state of Rio de Janeiro government.
If the inflow to the reservoir exceeds the groundwater recharge capacity of the spreading grounds along the Rio Hondo or the bed of the San Gabriel River downstream, this water is stored temporarily in a water conservation pool.
If the water conservation pool on the Rio Hondo side is exceeded, flows are released into the Rio Hondo at a rate which not exceed the downstream channel capacity of either the Rio Hondo or the Los Angeles River.
As long as the pool on the Rio Hondo side of the reservoir is below elevation 61. 4 m ( 201. 6 ft ) NGVD, releases are made to accommodate the capacity of the spreading grounds downstream along the Rio Hondo.
When the water conservation pool on the Rio Hondo side of the reservoir is exceeded, the releases to the Rio Hondo are increased to match inflow until either the capacity of the Rio Hondo or the Los Angeles River downstream are reached.

capacity and Hondo
The capacity of the Los Angeles River downstream of its confluence with the Rio Hondo is approximately 3, 596 / s ( 127, 000 ft³ / s ), and the capacity of the San Gabriel River downstream of the dam is approximately 371 / s ( 13, 100 ft³ / s ).

capacity and downstream
This was important because it was very expensive to provide high speed in the upstream direction, while the CATV systems already had substantial broadband capacity in the downstream direction.
As well as producing electricity, the dam is intended to increase the Yangtze River's shipping capacity and reduce the potential for floods downstream by providing flood storage space.
For centuries there was a ferry link between the two counties just downstream from the current bridge, but the ferries did not have sufficient capacity to transport large numbers of vehicles as traffic volumes increased.
By using state of the art coding and modulation techniques, DVB-C2 should offer greater than 30 % higher spectrum efficiency under the same conditions, and the gains in downstream channel capacity will be greater than 60 % for optimized HFC networks.
By the 1880s, logging companies were damming the river to ensure the river had enough capacity for the logs being floated downstream.
To increase traffic capacity, the engineers also laid pontoon bridges upstream and downstream of the Ludendorff Bridge.
As it is the furthest downstream of the major reservoirs on the Murray River system, and has the capacity to release water at the fastest rate, Lake Hume is used by the irrigation authorities as the storage of first resort.
Its capacity is three and a half times that of Sydney Harbour and supplies water for irrigation schemes downstream.
Flows above would have caused serious damage downstream of Vaal Dam and the situation during the 1996 flood became extremely tense as the storage in the reservoir peaked at 118. 5 % of Full Supply Capacity on 19 February 1996 i. e. only of flood absorption capacity remained before the full inflow would have been released causing massive damage.
* to accept flood flows, even if caused by inadequate capacity downstream, but there is no duty to improve the drainage capacity of a watercourse
The Nihewa and Laowangpo flood diversion areas downstream of the dams soon exceeded their capacity and gave up part of their storage on August 8, forcing more flood diversion areas to begin to evacuate.
As the Boshan Dam, with a capacity of 400 million , crested, and the water released from the failures of Banqiao and Shimantan was rushing downstream, air strikes were made against several other dams to protect the Suya Lake dam, already holding 1. 2 billion of water.
The water inflow due to Hurricane Agnes exceeded the storage capacity of the reservoir and it was necessary to release water through the gates of the dam, causing minor downstream flooding.
However, there is no indication that China ’ s joining the MRC would provide downstream riparians with any real capacity to challenge China ’ s development plans, given the dramatic power imbalances exhibited by these countries ’ relations with China.
The existing Jamestown Ferry service about downstream between Scotland in Surry County and Glass House Point in James City County was already operating at capacity, with delays during peak commuting hours.
As of 2005 work to increase the downstream channel's capacity from per second is ongoing.
The existing Jamestown Ferry service about 35 miles downstream between Scotland in Surry County and Glass House Point was already operating at capacity, with delays during peak commuting hours.
Bandwidth capping on the other hand limits the total transfer capacity, upstream or downstream, of data over a medium.
( Cable and other broadband services tend to be asymmetrical, making upstream capacity scarcer than downstream.
In 1878 a large splash dam was built at Little Falls ( modern Holcombe ), with so much capacity that when fully opened it could raise the Chippewa three feet 100 miles downstream.
In contrast, however, Burrendong has mitigated potentially devastating floods downstream by using its flood capacity and releasing water in accordance with downstream tributary flows, safely reaching 160 % of capacity in 1990 and 152. 8 % in 2010.

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