Well, we tried the lutefisk trick and the raccoons went away, but now we've got a family of Norwegians living under our house!

An offering or, as we now know it, a " treat ", would also be commonly left to placate roaming sprites and evil spirits — otherwise they might ' fiddle ' with property or livestock ( play a " trick ").

However, one can combine these remainders recursively to reduce the cost, using the following trick: if we want to evaluate modulo two polynomials and, we can first take the remainder modulo their product, which reduces the degree of the polynomial and makes subsequent modulo operations less computationally expensive.

If we watch from a fictitious past, can tell the present with the future tense, as it happens with the trick of the false prophecy.

However, if we restrict from this class to those equinumerous with X that have the least rank, then it will work ( this is a trick due to Dana Scott: it works because the collection of objects with any given rank is a set ).

In later comments made in August 2007, White expressed doubt that Zuffa can resurrect Pride in Japan, claiming, " I've we pulled everything out of the trick box that I can and I can't get a TV deal over there with Pride.

He said we will win game six and he has just picked up the hat trick!

She would not understand it and did not suspect us as being capable of a trick because we were so young.

Thus we have " glued " along the images of Z under f and g. A similar trick yields the pushout in the category of R-modules for any ring R.

" There was not a trick or a piece of business we asked the dog to do that he wasn't able to do ; it was uncanny.

Using the standard trick of adjoint creation and annihilation operators, but with this quotient trick, we come up with the free field vector potential operator valued distribution A satisfying

The trick was so new that we had to appeal to the Olympic Skiing Federation in order just to do it.

In regards to the former issue, at the 2011 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, the former Batgirl writer Dylan Horrocks said that the writers were told from the start that Spoiler would die in this crossover and she was made Robin " purely as a trick to play on the readers, that we would fool them into thinking that the big event Games was that Stephanie Brown would become Robin ".

( For example, the females of some species of birds will invite males to mate with them even after they have laid their eggs, but we ascribe a purpose to this behaviour: this is a biological " trick " to fool males into caring for hatchlings they didn't father.

In several episodes where the grown-up answered all five questions correctly, Dave played a trick on them by going to hand them the trophy and then suddenly stating, " BUT ... we cannot let you go away while you're nice and dry ", before throwing them in the gunge.

I explain ( 1 ) that we acquired it by a trick as disreputable as that by which the Italians collared the Dodecanese.

`` Hesperus, don't use this t-tau vector trick of yours, please.

The basic trick in a solar water heating system is to use a well-insulated holding tank.

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

The Frontline office showcases and satirises the machinations of the ruthless producers, the self-obsessed airhead host, and the ambitious, cynical reporters, all of whom resort to any sort of underhanded trick to get ratings and maintain their status – including the use of hidden cameras, foot-in-the-door, bullying interview techniques and chequebook journalism.

The earliest known use in print of the term " trick or treat " appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta, Canada: Hallowe ' en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun.

The trick with Kuiper's test is to use the quantity D < sup >+</ sup > + D < sup >−</ sup > as the test statistic.

Compared to its use in rugby, laterals and backward passes are generally rare in North American football, due to a much greater focus on ball control in American football strategy ; it is most commonly used as a last-minute desperation strategy or as part of a trick play.

The earliest known use in print of the term " trick or treat " appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta: Hallowe ’ en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun.

Vector processors use this technique with one additional " trick ".

This was not only the first use of trickery in the cinema, it was the first type of photographic trickery only possible in a motion picture, i. e. the " stop trick ".

However, it interferes with a trick some programs use to implement grayscale graphics by rapidly switching between two or more displays ( page-flipping ).

With pipelining the " trick " is to start decoding the next instruction even before the first has left the CPU, in the fashion of an assembly line, so the address decoder is constantly in use.

" However, both Haddon and Rivers were to use the string trick to scientific ends and they are also credited as inventing a system of nomenclature that enabled them to be able to schematise the steps required and teach a variety of string tricks to European audiences.

" You'll notice today some bands use the same trick on every introduction ; others repeat the same musical phrase as a modulation into a vocal ... We're fortunate in that our style doesn't limit us to stereotyped intros, modulations, first choruses, endings or even trick rhythms.

* During the flip of the board, the rider may use the top of the front foot to alter the trick.

Even as she professes her innocence, Qualtz continues to use her telepathic powers to try and trick officers into freeing her from captivity.

The film makes use of several trick photography scenes, with an emphasis on multiple exposures to convey information or emotions visually.

Eumenes had tried to use a similar propaganda trick.

Bölverk then suggested Baugi to use a trick.

Sadly, on the Astrocade the pins needed to use this " trick " were not connected.

A significant improvement is to use the following modification to the above, a trick ( due to Singleton, 1967 ) often used to generate trigonometric values for FFT implementations:

Users could disable all windows except Program and keep selecting " New Line " until over nine empty lines had been entered and thus their program could use 11 lines of code using this trick.

John Constantine cuts his own wrists, in order to free himself from consciousness, and plays a confidence trick on the beast, allowing his friends time to use the collective consciousness to rebuild the guardian that had kept the beast trapped.

But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.

What is the trick ''??

there is no trick involved.

Another trick is to cool the building's thermal mass at night, and then cool the building from the thermal mass during the day.

Experienced players will be aware of the trick and cautious not to move too early, but the attempted deception is still useful because it forces the opponent to delay his movement slightly.

The act of purposefully using this force to lift the rear wheel and balance on the front without tipping over is a trick known as a stoppie, endo or front wheelie.

The direction that each face down card is pointed indicates which side won each trick, so that at the end of the hand, the number of tricks taken by each side can be determined.

The contract is an undertaking to win at least the specified number of odd trick in the declared denonination.

The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a single card from their hand, and based on the values of played cards one player wins or " takes " the trick.

The other, using also fakes and feints, is to mislead, fool, trick the opponent, leaving them open for an attack or a counter-attack.

In Capoeira, malandragem is the ability to quickly understand an opponent's aggressive intentions, and during a fight or a game, fool, trick and deceive him.

Mandinga can be translated into magic, or spell, but in capoeira a mandinguero is a clever fighter, able to trick the opponent.

The international record is held by Jimmy O ' Connor, an Irish player who notched up his hat trick in 2 minutes 13 seconds in 1967.

To trick the eye and brain into thinking they are seeing a smoothly moving object, the pictures should be drawn at around 12 frames per second ( frame / s ) or faster ( a frame is one complete image ).

The trick to speed drinking is opening the throat.

( A similar trick is still used by many games to create huge outdoor environments.

Third, a variant of this conjugation trick, which is sometimes preferable because it requires no modification of the data values, involves swapping real and imaginary parts ( which can be done on a computer simply by modifying pointers ).

The conjugation trick can also be used to define a new transform, closely related to the DFT, that is involutary — that is, which is its own inverse.

If this operation has to be done in real time video games there is an easy trick to boost performance.

The two women suddenly seem to snap out of their possession, but it is revealed to be a trick when Ash almost releases Cheryl from the cellar and she tries to strangle him through the door.

Simple switched Ethernet networks, while a great improvement over repeater-based Ethernet, suffer from single points of failure, attacks that trick switches or hosts into sending data to a machine even if it is not intended for it, scalability and security issues with regard to broadcast radiation and multicast traffic, and bandwidth choke points where a lot of traffic is forced down a single link.