On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

Also in case of Single Instructions Multiple Data — a case when a lot of data from the same type has to be processed, modern processors can disable parts of the pipeline so that when a single instruction is executed many times, the CPU skips the fetch and decode phases and thus greatly increases performance on certain occasions, especially in highly monotonous program engines such as video creation software and photo processing.

Because of these problems, various standardized tests, often called " benchmarks " for this purpose — such as SPECint – have been developed to attempt to measure the real effective performance in commonly used applications.

While the 6x86's integer performance was significantly higher than P5 Pentium's, it's floating point performance was more mediocre — between 2 and 4 times the performance of the 486 FPU per clock cycle ( depending on the operation and precision ).

The FPU in the 6x86 was largely the same circuitry that was developed for Cyrix's earlier high performance 8087 / 80287 / 80387-compatible coprocessors, which was very fast for its time — the Cyrix FPU was much faster than the 80387, and even the 80486 FPU.

However, EVM schedule performance, as illustrated in Figure 2 provides an additional indicator — one that can be communicated in a single chart.

In 1991 the performance of some Italian teams attracted attention-they had started using Agip's " jungle juice " Formula One fuel, worth an estimated 15 bhp — giving their drivers a significant advantage.

Blair's academic performance reports suggest that he neglected his academic studies, but during his time at Eton he worked with Roger Mynors to produce a College magazine, The Election Times, joined in the production of other publications — College Days and Bubble and Squeak — and participated in the Eton Wall Game.

The music itself is rather basic — church music at the time placed a large gap between written and performance practice — embellishments were largely placed in the hands of the performers ' tastes, although the Vatican score itself was altered largely by performers and visitors over the years.

The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus — ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope — on a floor area, with a much greater emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the acrobatic.

Those who reload with the primary goal of maximizing accuracy or terminal performance may end up paying more per reloaded round than for commercial ammunition — this is especially true for military calibers which are commonly available as surplus.

According to Alan Reid's account, Erwin had no concerns about policy — his anxiety was entirely focussed on Holt's leadership style, his parliamentary performance and his public image.

Also, in order to change a string from one tone to another during a performance, a harp player must take one entire hand off the harp for a moment and switch the lever — this may cause an acoustic gap in a performance, as for a brief moment only one hand will be in use.

The remainder of Abbadie's life was spent in writing and preaching, and in the performance — not too sedulous, for he was frequently absent from his benefice — of the ordinary duties of his office, varied by visits to England and to Holland, where most of his books were printed.

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Charles J. Cooper.

* ISO 11620: 1998 Information and documentation — Library performance indicators

Rock critic Mikal Gilmore said, " Led Zeppelin — talented, complex, grasping, beautiful and dangerous — made one of the most enduring bodies of composition and performance in twentieth-century music, despite everything they had to overpower, including themselves ".

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Devo also confirmed that they would be performing at All Tomorrow's Parties on May 6 and 8, with the May 6th performance featuring the band performing their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?

The highlight of the events is usually the live performance, featuring some of the best musical acts of the region on the last day of each of the editions.

* The Canadian Encyclopedia-Kain, Karen featuring a clip of Karen's performance in the National Ballet of Canada's 1976 production of Giselle

Berg suggested to Jobs to use his influence at Apple to create a " 3M " workstation for higher education, featuring more than one megabyte of random access memory ( RAM ), a megapixel display and megaflop performance ( hence the name " 3M ").

A triple CD live album and dual DVD, Rush in Rio, was released in late October 2003 featuring an entire concert performance recorded on the last night of their Vapor Trails Tour, November 23, 2002, at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In addition, new content featuring karaoke and shadow cast performance are included.

The halftime show was a " Salute to Hollywood's 100th Anniversary " featuring an introduction by George Burns ( who was only nine years younger than Hollywood at the time ) and a performance by the Southern California high school drill teams and dancers.

While the musical performance was more mainstream, the stage show was another over-the-top spectacle, featuring inflatable giraffes, dancers in eye ball masks illuminating the darkened stage with work lights, and a lead vocalist who seemed to change costumes throughout the show from wearing his eyeball mask to wearing a Richard Nixon mask, and at one point wearing only a wig and fake ears.

The original configuration of The Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities.

Mark Deming at Allmovie awarded the film four stars out of five, describing it as " As visually stylish as it is graphically violent ", and featuring " a strong performance from Jean Reno, a striking debut by Natalie Portman, and a love-it-or-hate-it, over-the-top turn by Gary Oldman ".

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Attended by approximately 1, 000 of the Bay Area's original " hippies ", this was San Francisco's first psychedelic rock performance, costumed dance and light show, featuring Jefferson Airplane, The Great Society and The Marbles.

" Open Your Eyes ", " Midnight Sun " ( featuring a strong vocal performance by Wetton ), and " The Heat Goes On " became concert staples.

December 21, 1984 was released, featuring recordings of the forbidden concert in the Ljubljana Malci Belić Hall, a February 1985 concert at the Berlin Atonal festival, and the April 1985 performance at the Zagreb club Kulušić.

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" At Castlemaine in April 1856, she was " rapturously encored " after her Spider Dance in front of 400 diggers ( including members of the Municipal Council who had adjourned their meeting early to attend the performance ), but drew the wrath of the audience by insulting them following some mild heckling.

During the 1980s, he worked in several films, receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, for his performance in Tempest, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for the latter.

The first model to be rolled out was the 360 Modena followed later by the 360 Spider and finally as a special edition, the Challenge Stradale: which was the highest performance road-legal version of the 360 produced by the factory, featuring carbon ceramic brakes the Enzo, track tuned suspension, aerodynamic gains, weight reduction, power improvements and revised gearbox software among its track focused brief.

The F355 Spider debuted in 1995, its Pininfarina-penned lines honed by 1, 800 hours in the wind tunnel, resulting in a blend of elegant style and aerodynamic performance.

Massimo and Pierce had previously been well known as artists in Switzerland and Italy, but they gained international attention when their performance piece, Plastic Spider Thing, became part of the industrial band Coil's European tour in 2002.