Here the absent sitter makes a `` date '' with a communicator ( someone close to him who is deceased ), asking him to `` come in '' at a certain hour, when a channel will be open for him.

These are used where the vessel is permanently or semi-permanently sited, for example in the case of lightvessels or channel marker buoys.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

Each channel is spaced from the adjacent ones by 8. 33 kHz in Europe, 25 kHz elsewhere.

In a 2D image element, which stores a color for each pixel, additional data is stored in the alpha channel with a value between 0 and 1.

If an alpha channel is used in an image, it is common to also multiply the color by the alpha value, to save on additional multiplications during compositing.

With the existence of an alpha channel, it is possible to express compositing image operations, using a compositing algebra.

and resulting alpha channel value is

For some applications, a single alpha channel is not sufficient: a stained-glass window, for instance, requires a separate transparency channel for each RGB channel to model the red transparency, green transparency, and blue transparency.

Flupirtine is a centrally acting K + channel opener with weak NMDA antagonist properties.

Some Anglicans accept that anointing of the sick has a sacramental character and is therefore a channel of God's grace, seeing it as an " outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace " which is the definition of a sacrament.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

A channel actually consists of two signals: the picture information is transmitted using amplitude modulation on one frequency, and the sound is transmitted with frequency modulation at a frequency at a fixed offset ( typically 4. 5 to 6 MHz ) from the picture signal.

In practice a technique called vestigial sideband is used to reduce the channel spacing, which would be at least twice the video bandwidth if pure AM was used.

Signal reception is invariably done via a superheterodyne receiver: the first stage is a tuner which selects a television channel and frequency-shifts it to a fixed intermediate frequency ( IF ).

Cytochrome c is also released from mitochondria due to formation of a channel, the mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel ( MAC ), in the outer mitochondrial membrane, and serves a regulatory function as it precedes morphological change associated with apoptosis.

The sound chip, named Paula, supports four sound channels ( two for the left speaker and two for the right ) with 8-bit resolution for each channel and a 6-bit volume control per channel.

The channel was named RTS News Channel of the Year in 2006 and again in 2009.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

The machine became known popularly in the Philippines as Minus-One ( named after the subtracted vocal channel when turned down ).

Two combined receptor / ion channel proteins control the transport of calcium: the InsP < sub > 3 </ sub >- receptor that transports calcium upon interaction with inositol triphosphate on its cytosolic side and the ryanodine receptor named after the alkaloid ryanodine, similar to the InsP < sub > 3 </ sub > receptor but having a feedback mechanism that releases more calcium upon binding with it.

An Italian pay-TV channel dedicated to motor sports is also named Nuvolari.

In signal processing, the Nyquist rate, named after Harry Nyquist, is two times the bandwidth of a bandlimited signal or a bandlimited channel.

On his third visit, he was accompanied by a young Captain by the name of Francis Drake in the Judith, for whom the central channel in the British Virgin Islands would later be named.

In the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, a dyke may be a drainage ditch or a narrow artificial channel off a river or broad for access or mooring, some longer dykes being named, e. g. Candle Dyke.

Prior to his character's appearance on The 11 O ' Clock Show, Baron Cohen had portrayed a similar character named MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume on a show he presented called F2F, which ran on a satellite channel called Talk TV ( owned by Granada Television ).

The strait is named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, who explored the channel in 1787.

The illusion of sound traveling across the speakers was achieved with a device named the " pan pot ", which directed the predetermined movement of each audio channel with the control track.

In the last half-mile ( 800 m ) of its progress it rushes down the hillside in a narrow, precipitous, rocky channel, creating the falls for which Fall River is named.

The inlet was originally " Barendegat ," or " Inlet of the Breakers ," and was named by Dutch settlers in 1614 for the waterway's turbulent channel.

The Pompton Lakes Council runs a Pompton Lakes informational channel named PLTV77.

Here the Thorp Gravels, which are named for the town of Thorp and the Thorp Glacial episode, are exposed along the ancient river channel in what is known as the " Slide Area ".

* Concrete River Days – A summer festival held on the second weekend in July, with a parade, sidewalk sales, and many outdoor activities ; so named because the Palouse riverbed in downtown Colfax has been lined with concrete for the sake of flood control, and the water descends into a narrow central channel during the dry season.

He also named the channel and created all the advertising.

The channel is named after the former Nick Jr. preschool program block on Nickelodeon that ran weekday mornings from January 1988 to February 2009.

Following the announcement, it was announced on June 12, 2006, that Dan Abrams, a nine-year veteran of MSNBC and NBC News, had been named General Manager of the NBC News 24-hour cable news television channel, effective immediately.

Although Three To Get Ready ( named after WPTZ's frequency of channel 3 ) was mostly entertainment-oriented, the program did feature some news and weather segments.

In 1994 / 1995 a comedy segment entitled " Rollie TV ", concerning a fictitious cable television channel devoted solely to the life of Rollie Fingers and helmed by a Rollie Fingers obsessed host named Greg Shuttlecock, aired once a week on The Steve Dahl Radio Show on WMVP AM1000 in Chicago.

", aired by the TF1 channel and was hosted by " a guy named Sydney who also was the first Leader of The Universal Zulu Nation of France.

The first was in Gloucester in 1950 and the process gathered pace over the next few years, especially after a second television channel, ITV, was launched in 1955 to compete with BBC.

Digimon continues to run in syndication on the new channel after Toon Disney, Disney XD.

However, they eventually added internet to their distribution channel portfolio after seeing how much business their online competitors were generating.

In 2004, after a Fox U. S. executive said there were no plans to create the combined channel, the CRTC approved an application to bring Fox News to Canada.

The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire around Cape Horn in 1616.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

But after one month as a money-losing venture, Turner sold it to MTV, who redeveloped the channel into VH1.

Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories.

The spin-off idea was cancelled after Five pulled out of the deal, which meant that the show could potentially screen on a rival UK channel, so Five requested that the new show developed as a stand-alone series and not feed off a series they own a stake in.

Somali National Television is the public channel, that started broadcasting in 2011 after 20 years halt.

The mutant plant Peco, a party member, becomes able to channel Yggdrasil after a time skip of several years, during which Peco made extended visits to Yggdrasil.

A remake miniseries, in the works since 2005, premiered on 15 November 2009 on American cable TV channel AMC, made in cooperation with British broadcaster ITV after AMCs original production partner Sky1 had pulled out.

Mergers and acquisitions have gradually become an important channel of investments in the economy, especially after 2005.

The team at the HIRFL, Lanzhou, China, are planning to restudy the reaction () after recent calculations indicated a measurable yield in the 4n evaporation channel, leading to the new nuclide.

The part of the sideband that would overlap the neighboring channel must be suppressed by filters, before or after modulation ( often both ).

They do have some drawbacks however: they are slower than more modern boxes with faster processors ( ONdigital receivers often take several seconds to change channel for example ) and lack support for the full Freeview Electronic Programme Guide, as this feature was introduced well after the ONdigital receiver software was written.

An agricultural drainage channel outside Magome-juku | Magome, Japan after a heavy rain.

Noggin soon after became a timeshare service ( in the same vein as Nickelodeon is by carrying Nick at Nite over the same channel space ) starting the teen-oriented The N that fall, which became a separate channel from Noggin on December 31, 2007 with Noggin becoming a 24-hour channel for preschoolers ; the Noggin channel was rebranded Nick Jr. on September 28, 2009.

The day after his death the BBC Parliament channel showed the BBC results coverage of the 1970 election.