A paddle is a tool used for pushing against liquids, either as a form of propulsion in a boat or as an implement for mixing.

He was also against mixing science with religion.

" She was also a believer and a practitioner of magic, performing curses against those whom she felt deserved it: as Ronald Hutton noted, " Once she carried out a ritual to blast a fellow academic whose promotion she believed to have been undeserved, by mixing up ingredients in a frying pan in the presence of two colleagues.

Kosher locations either have no meat or use imitation meat because of the Jewish religious dietary prohibition against mixing meat and dairy products, such as cheese.

Because it uses frequency modulation, SECAM is not linear with respect to the input image ( this is also what protects it against signal distortion ), so electrically mixing two ( synchronized ) SECAM signals does not yield a valid SECAM signal, unlike with analog PAL or NTSC.

The most significant such taboo restricts the allocation of stations 10. 6 and 10. 8 MHz apart, to protect against mixing products which will interfere with an FM receiver's standard 10. 7 MHz intermediate frequency stage.

Defense against the attacks included mixing de Havilland Mosquito night fighters into the bomber stream, attempting to pick up radar emissions from the German night fighters.

At the Convention, Turnbull cautioned against mixing the roles of President and Prime Minister and ultimately supported the Bi-partisan appointment republican model adopted by the Convention.

In this new phase, racist statements made by Hellhammer ( who spoke out against race mixing and foreigners in Norway ) and the use of Nazi imagery such as swastika flags in the rehearsal room, the Totenkopf emblem and band merchandise featuring the symbol of the military branch of Nasjonal Samling led to controversy and accusations of neo-Nazism.

During this phase, the male urethral sphincter contracts ( so as to prevent urine from mixing with semen, and guard against retrograde ejaculation ) and muscles at the base of the penis begin a steady rhythmic contraction.

He railed against the lifting of many so-called " petty apartheid " laws such as the law banning interracial sex and marriage ( the race relations act ), mixing of the races ( group areas act ) as well as the allowance of limited political rights to Indians and Coloureds ( Mixed race individuals ).

The play presents a mix of viewpoints, including arguments for and against the attack on Iraq, mixing verbatim re-creations of real speeches, meetings and press conferences and fictionalized versions of private meetings between members of the Bush and Blair administrations, and international figures such as Hans Blix and Dominique de Villepin.

The Fist of God is a 1994 novel by Frederick Forsyth, mixing known fact with fiction to tell a story of the coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War racing against time to discover the true nature of Saddam Hussein's secret weapon, ' The Fist of God.

His " cocktail approach " -- mixing more than one drug with other ingredients — was touted at news conferences in 2002 and 2004 by US Representative H. James Saxton ( R-N. J .), perhaps Alibek ’ s major government benefactor, as " a potential new defense against bioterrorism ".

Arguments against prohibition include it not being a dangerous substance, civil rights issues ( including religious ones ), loss of potential tax revenues, unnecessary criminalization of ordinary people and the enforced mixing of cannabis users with sellers of more dangerous drugs and the associated criminal underworld, the finding that because drug suppliers do not ask for I. D.

Church developed a special full-time unit mixing white colonists selected for frontier skills with friendly Indians to carry out offensive strikes against hostile Indians and French in terrain where normal militia units were ineffective.

Their activism mainly took the form of " zaps ", a form of guerrilla theater mixing street theatre and protest, where they used attention-catching and humorous public actions to highlight political and economic complaints against companies and government agencies, frequently involving the use of witch costumes and the chanting of hexes.

One Last Wish broke up shortly after mixing was completed, and as a result the album was not released until 13 years later in November 1999, on MacKaye's Dischord Records label ; Dischord had decided against the release in light of their growing reputation as a label of defunct bands.

Then, in a last gesture of defiance against Rassilon's rule, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Looms, mixing his genetic material into the banks.

Like-wise, other states ' legislation allowed lawsuits against real estate companies and brokers who cheated buyers and sellers with fraudulent representations of declining property values, changing racial and ethnic neighborhood populations, local crime, and the " worsening " of schools, because of race mixing.

A second Fronte Nazionale was founded in 1990 by Franco Freda and adopted a policy against ' racial mixing ' and immigration, whilst also opposing Zionism, what it called ' cosmo-politics ', Zionism and the influence of the United States and international finance.

However, upon discovering that the Mark of Void was never purged by his system, and upon finding Captain Atom embracing Nikola Hanssen, the current host for the Void entity, Angela turns against him, and mixing jealousy to anger and self-righteousness, attempts to slay him.

During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, some White Southerners stated that television was biased against White Southerners and in favor of mixing of the races.

Cole spoke against the " mongrelization " of the races and announced plans for a Klan rally on January 18, 1958, near the small town of Maxton, intended “ to put the Indians in their place, to end race mixing ”.

Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute suggests that both clear boundaries or thorough mixing can reduce violence, citing Switzerland as an example.

It can sometimes distort the boundaries between dark house, which is an offshoot of progressive house, and tech-house, a more techno-driven, " sharper " house percussion beat, as if mixing intelligent dance music and minimal techno.

In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.

The mixing of two or more of these three groups established other mixed ethnic groups.

This connection was established by Jean Pecquet in 1651, who found a white fluid mixing with blood in a dog's heart.

These bands, along with Detroit's MC5, set a precedent for mixing radical politics with rock music, and established the idea of rock as agent of social and political change in the public consciousness.

Afterwards, he was unwilling to lead his tribe to the reservation established, since mixing Duwamish and Snohomish was likely to lead to bloodshed.

Nowadays, All Star tours extensively and successfully with shows mixing British Wrestling tradition with family entertainment, while another company, John Freemantle's group Premier Promotions, ( established in 1987 ) presents a more purist version of British Wrestling.

He ’ s worked with a virtual “ who ’ s who ” of the entertainment industry, whether they ’ re a local talent looking for guidance from a man who ’ s seen it all, or an established artist seeking out the meticulous production ingenuity and mixing brilliance of “ The Big Badass ” Ant Banks.

A complex mood is established by mixing a proposition constituting the description of a single psychological observation mixed with another such proposition.

When Jats moved into this area they established their own Panchayats ( circles of villages ) and married only within them, however there was " mixing in " with Gujjar groups such as Parihars when they first moved in, which would explain why they look somewhat different from Haryanvi Jats.

She also established a training school for nurses and founded the Lafayette Dispensary to serve the health care needs of local residents, often mixing medicines herself for their use.

The researchers believe that the Indo-European speakers entered India from the Northwest, mixing with or displacing proto-Dravidian speakers, and may have established a caste system with themselves primarily in higher castes.

In 2002, American writer Daniel Pipes established an organisation called Campus Watch to combat what he perceived to be serious problems within the discipline, including " analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students ".

In addition to its lasting effects on other genres, it marked the first modern large-scale mixing of musical traditions from multiple ethnic and religious communities within the Celtic diaspora.

Musicians of note in this genre include Collegium Vocale Köln ( who first began using this technique in 1968 ), Michael Vetter, David Hykes, Jim Cole, Ry Cooder, Paul Pena ( mixing the traditional Tuvan style with that of American Blues ), Steve Sklar and Kiva ( specializing in jazz / world beat genres and composing for overtone choirs ).

The mixing of these two radically contrasting genres generates the sophisticated humor and ironic tone of Satyricon.

But what makes The Ruling Class exceptional ( and difficult for some ) are its outrageous mixing of genres and its sheer ambition.

Zeb Turner's February 1953 recording of " Jersey Rock " with its mix of musical styles, lyrics about music and dancing, and guitar solo, is another example of the mixing of musical genres in the first half of the 1950s.

Born Osbourne Ruddock, Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be influential across many genres of popular music.

" Bruce Fretts of Entertainment Weekly speculated that mainstream success eluded the show because of its mixing of genres.

The critical and public receptions largely could not or were unwilling to comprehend the film's crystal clear expression of a moribund age, represented through a mixing of genres to create Renoir's satirical, yet realist style.

Ghettotech was born as a DJing style, inspired by the eclecticism of The Electrifying Mojo and the fast-paced mixing and turntablism of The Wizard, with DJs mixing genres including Miami Bass, Ghetto House, Electro, HipHop and Detroit Techno.

Teddybears ( formerly Teddybears STHLM ) is a Swedish band formed in 1991, known for mixing pop, rock, hip-hop, electronica, reggae, punk and many other genres.

His work is marked by a mixing of genres that aims to produce a literary equivalent of jazz music.

Although this had been typical for 17th-century Venetian works such as Cavalli's original setting of the libretto, by the 1730s an opera seria was expected to be wholly serious, with no mixing of the genres of tragedy and comedy or high and low class characters.

Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music ; with country and western and Pop.

Alan Stivell began ( in the mid 60s ) recording Breton folk, Celtic harp and other Celtic music, mixing influences from American rock and roll and the main musical genres.

As this mixing of both genres is becoming increasingly popular in anime, it is often difficult to classify mecha as either real or super, although they often tend to lean more in one direction than the other.

These Singspiele were comedies mixing spoken dialogue and singing, influenced by the similar genres of the ballad opera in England and the opéra comique in France.

Contrary to the scrupulous severity and order with which the rules were observed in the 18th century, the romanticist writers combine the genres and verses of different measures, at times mixing verse and prose ; in theater, the rule of the three units ( place, space and time ) is despised and they alternate comedy with drama.

Sometimes described as " multifaceted and chameleonic " due to his ability to switch tones and genres between movies, To is nonetheless seen as having a consistent style, which involves mixing subdued realism and social observation with highly stylized visual and acting elements.

Though pastiche commonly refers to the mixing of genres, many other elements are also included ( metafiction and temporal distortion are common in the broader pastiche of the postmodern novel ).

Some groups seeking a wider audience started mixing vallenato with other international genres, like salsa, merengue, rock, classical music, reggae, reggaeton, ranchera, techno music, house music.

Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music ; in addition to country and western.

Early alternative metal bands mixed a wide variety of genres with hardcore and heavy metal sensibilities, with acts like Jane's Addiction and Primus utilizing prog-rock, Soundgarden and Corrosion of Conformity using garage punk, The Jesus Lizard and Helmet mixing noise-rock, Ministry and Nine Inch Nails influenced by industrial music, Monster Magnet moving into psychedelia, Pantera and White Zombie creating groove metal, while Biohazard and Faith No More turned to hip hop and rap.