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It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.
The last essential to the beginner's gymnastic program is the somersault, or forward roll.
For most small children, learning a forward roll is simply a matter of copying another child who can.
The latter resembles a sort of roll pastry whose main dough ingredient is either butter or fat and which may be simple or stuffed with dulce de leche, milk, jam, crema pastelera, or quince or apple jelly, among other fillings.
The creature is capable of flying but does not appear to roll into a hoop.
For a Gaussian response system ( or a simple RC roll off ), the rise time is approximated by:
Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.
Bowls ( also lawn bowls, variants include flat-green bowls and crown-green bowls ) is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a " jack " or " kitty ".
Once it has come to rest, the jack is aligned to the centre of the rink and the players take turns to roll their bowls from the mat towards the jack and thereby build up the " head ".
For any roll, if a player can move both dice, that player is compelled to do so.
If players cannot move either die in a roll, given the position of their checkers then that turn is over and the turn passes to the opponent.
When removing checkers from the board (" bearing off "), the exact roll must be used unless a die is greater than any checker can use to bear off ; in that case the die is played by taking a checker from the highest-numbered point off the board.
When bearing off, a player may also move a lower die roll before the higher even if that means ' the full value of the higher die ' is not fully utilized.
For example, if a player has exactly 1 checker remaining on the 6-point, and rolls a 6 and a 1, the player may move the 6-point checker 1 place to the 5-point with the lower die roll of 1, and then bear that checker off the 5-point using the die roll of 6 ; this is sometimes useful tactically.
When the cube is centered, the player about to roll may propose that the game be played for twice the current stakes.
" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.
The roll of 1-2 is given special consideration, allowing the player, after moving the 1 and the 2, to select any desired doubles move.
Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as " the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.
" After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous " four-eyes " in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.
BRP is similar to other generic systems such as GURPS, Hero System or Savage Worlds in that it uses a simple resolution method which can be broadly applied, in this case an attempt to roll under a certain number with percentile dice.
He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.
For example, if a game is played by wagering on the number that would result from the roll of one die, true odds would be 5 times the amount wagered since there is a 1 in 6 chance of any single number appearing, assuming that you get the original amount wagered back.

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This is normally eaten as part of a full Scottish Breakfast or on a Scottish morning roll.
With the town hosting the G8 summit in June 2007, it was decided on April 2 that Hitler should be removed from the town's roll of honour, although normally an honorary citizenship of this kind ends upon the death of the person involved.
A perforated roll of paper towels is normally mounted on a rod a little longer than the width of the roll, or in an alternative type of hanger that has protrusions on ears, the protrusions fitting into the ends of the paper towel roll.
* The Flexible heat shield is normally made from thin aluminium sheeting, sold either flat or in a roll, and is bent by hand, by the fitter.
Technically, there are different metacentric heights for any combination of pitch and roll motion, depending on the moment of inertia of the waterplane area of the ship around the axis of rotation under consideration, but they are normally only calculated and stated as specific values for the limiting pure pitch and roll motion.
You grab twice as many dice as you normally would and roll them and take the better ( Pushing is the one of two ways to Overwhelmingly Succeed: simply, both dice meet or beat the target )
When performed on the ground it is normally called a roll.
Considered very handsome, due to the lack of the usual roll bar that convertible normally require, these cars are now collector's items and command a heavy premium over the normal models they are based upon.
A few specialized printers will unload the head pressure and stop advancing the ribbon when there are longer unprinted label areas to be fed through to reduce ribbon consumption, this complexity is only warranted for large volumes applications but can make the ribbon stock run out partway through a label roll whereas normally a ribbon will be finished after an integer number of label rolls.
The hollow shell roll rotates over a stationary suction box, normally placed at the top center or rotated just down machine.
Pickup roll presses normally have a vacuum box that has two vacuum zones ( low vacuum and high vacuum ).
The song proved to be a huge hit, a surprise for the station, as they catered mainly to a more staid audience, which would normally be expecting songs from singers such as Andy Williams or Bobby Vinton instead of rock and roll.
Though normally produced in sheet form, by interlacing simple images or different colors throughout the artwork, lenticular images can also be created in roll form with 3D effects or multi-color changes.
This motion is normally well damped in most light aircraft, though some aircraft with well-damped Dutch roll modes can experience a degradation in damping, as airspeed decreases and altitude increases.
This is normally catastrophic for larger ships, and smaller yachts can be dismasted ( i. e., lose their masts and rigging ) due to the drag as the boat is forced to roll over.
In these operations the pilot had acquired full visual reference, normally well above decision height, but instead of fully disengaging the autopilot with the thumb-button, called for the second officer to latch off the roll channel only.
The device used to roll the elevator base was actually a Moviola camera dolly normally used on the small sound stage in the old USC Cinema building ( itself once a horse stable ).
The book details new ways to use skills, as well as how to extend skills, use skills untrained that you normally couldn't, or make a skill roll harder for more reward.

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A roll of 1 may be used to bear off a checker from the 1-point, a 2 from the 2-point, and so on.
Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll.
In addition, it is used in other genres such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly / psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music.
The twelve-string guitar usually has steel strings and is widely used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll.
The electric guitar is used extensively in jazz, blues, R & B, and rock and roll.
Rolls are also used for snacks, or as a hotdog-style roll for Bratwurst, Brätel, Fleischkäse or Schwenker / Schwenkbraten.
For FMJ bullets mounted in bottle neck cases, roll crimping is generally not ever used unless a cannelure is present on the bullet, to prevent causing bullet deformation when crimping.
Crimps for straight wall cases may be taper crimps, suitable for rimless cartridges used in autoloaders, or roll crimps, which are best for rimmed cartridges such as are used in revolvers.
Taper crimps are used for cases that are held in the chamber by the case mouth, while roll crimps may be used for cases that headspace on a rim or on the cartridge neck.
The harmonica, also called French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
A hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R & B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.
* MEMS gyroscopes used in modern cars and other applications to detect yaw ; e. g., to deploy a roll over bar or trigger dynamic stability control
An example of the three parameters that specify a spatial rotation are the roll, pitch and yaw angles used to define the orientation of an aircraft.
There is a small collection of transparencies at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris which shows a two-piece slide he used with one glass showing the face of a phantom and the other which had the image of the eyes, which when used meant the eyes could roll back and forth.
Pianos have also been used in rock and roll by entertainers such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Elton John, and Billy Joel to name just a few.
Rollout or roll ' em out is poker jargon used for a game phase in certain poker variants.
Thus " pop music " may be used to describe a distinct genre, aimed at a youth market, often characterized as a softer alternative to rock and roll.
Although only a minor hit when first released, when used in the opening sequence of the movie Blackboard Jungle, a year later, it really set the rock and roll boom in motion.
Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term " R & B " became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music.
* Offset printing web, a roll of paper is used, rather than individual pages
An early Minuteman first stage used a single motor with four gimballed nozzles to provide pitch, yaw, and roll control.

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