He was stirred by the announcement of Volta's discovery of chemical electricity and he immediately applied the voltaic pile to experiments with acids and alkalis.

Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William A. ( ( Bill ) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

The announcement that the secrets of the Dreadnought had been stolen was made in Bow St. police court here at the end of a three day hearing.

Cuarón also directed the controversial public service announcement " I Am Autism " for Autism Speaks that was sharply criticized by disability rights groups for its negative portrayal of autism.

This announcement followed a five-year standardization process in which fifteen competing designs were presented and evaluated, before the Rijndael cipher was selected as the most suitable ( see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details ).

The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.

Consequently, there was little public concern with the issues and debate had been confined largely to academic circles until, in November 2010, the announcement that Prince William was to marry.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

In June 2009, an announcement was made that All Quiet on the Western Front will be remade.

The 7800 was initially released in southern California in June 1984, following an announcement on May 21, 1984 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

His voice became a fixture of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards, and his expression " Give that fan a contract ", uttered whenever a fan caught a foul ball, was one of his trademarks – the other being his distinct " Thank Yooooou ..." following every announcement ( He was also known on occasion to say " Give that fan an error " after a dropped foul ball ).

The announcement of the sale was also poorly handled, and a dive in business confidence ensued.

At the next performance at Lackland Air Force Base following the announcement the No. 4 or slot pilot, was absent from the formation.

Mirroring the circumstances of his first union, Lita Grey was a teenage actress — originally set to star in The Gold Rush — whose surprise announcement of pregnancy forced Chaplin into marriage.

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

The 11 / 74 was due to be introduced around the same time as the announcement of the new 32-bit product line and the first model: the VAX 11 / 780.

However, when it came time to introduce the Patriots ' starters, Pat Summerall, making the public address announcement, revealed that the Patriots chose " to be introduced as a team.

The pre-empted show announcement concept was borrowed from Saturday Night Live, which introduced their shows with similar announcements in the late 1970s.

This announcement was followed by another announcement in July, 1975, which introduced the IBM 3760 data entry station, the IBM 3790 communication system, and the new models of the IBM 3270 display system.

In 1997, following British Airways ' announcement that it was to remove the Union Flag from its tailfins in favour of world images, Virgin introduced a Union Flag design on the winglets of its aircraft and changed the red dress on the Scarlet Lady on the nose of aircraft to the union flag with the tag line " Britain's Flag Carrier ".

At its simplest, this is just a short phrase which is played back as necessary, e. g. the Mind the gap announcement introduced by London Underground in 1969.

One feature, which was not implemented at the Scarborough RT's opening, is the automated stop announcement system, which was introduced in January 2008.

Costello made the announcement that the bill was to be introduced when he was in Ottawa, during an official visit to Canada.

Both of these policies were flagship policies of New Labour and were opposed by large factions of the Conservative Party when introduced and indeed up until Portillo's announcement.

Laura Bush and Rae Leigh Bradbury ( formerly missing ) on April 4, 2007, in Austin, Texas, after the 8-year-old introduced Mrs. Bush during announcement of the future opening of the Texas Regional Office of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

On the PC side, the 8 " diskette disappeared with the TRS-80 Model II Business Computer ; the 5¼ " diskette became the IBM PC standard in 1981 and the 3½ " diskette was first introduced by IBM with the announcement of the PC Convertible in 1986.

" If a leap second were to be introduced, a further voice announcement occurred.

The characters may be introduced in a series of short speeches ( usually in rhyming couplets ) in which each personage has his own introductory announcement, or they may introduce themselves in the course of the play's action.

When Belichick was introduced as head coach to the media — the day after his hiring was publicized — he turned it into a surprise-resignation announcement.

The module system of Eve Community was introduced with the announcement that many modules would be made available ; UBB. x was one of the initial modules.

On July 19, 2005 he introduced CBS's coverage on the announcement of the nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr. for the Supreme Court of the United States.

Following the announcement of the Apple iPad on January 27, 2010 — a product that comes with access to the iBookstore — Macmillan gave Amazon. com two options: continue to sell e-books based on a price of the retailer's choice ( the " wholesale model "), with the e-book edition released several months after the hardcover edition is released, or switch to the agency model introduced to the industry by Apple, in which both are released simultaneously and the price is set by the publisher.

The lead-in announcement for the first show introduced the cast as the " The not for ready, prime time players " instead of their actual name as " The Not Ready For Prime Time Players.

At the same time the announcement was made, GAZ also introduced the Volga 311055, a long wheelbase derivative of the 31105.

It was introduced at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show with the announcement of the Zen Portable Media Center, which was co-developed by Creative.

Among the skits were " The Dealers ", a feature about a pair of urban drug dealers introduced by a wildly overdone, hip title segment, " Koko the Clown " featuring a jaded clown reading erotica to the kids, a public service announcement for venereal disease that covertly used a real penis, and a parody of sponsored television cooking shows ( it bakes up an inedible " brick " while repeatedly using the fictitious " Kramp Easy Lube " shortening, a spoof of the " Kraft " name ).

-- The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children wishes to commend the recent announcement by the Catholic charities of the archdiocese of Chicago and DePaul University of the establishment of the Institute for Special Education at the university for the training of teachers for physically handicapped and mentally retarded children.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

An automatic number announcement circuit ( ANAC ) is a special telephone number that is meant to be used by phone company technicians and other telecommunications technicians to determine the phone number of a particular line.

Moses is ordered by God to speak to a rock but disobeys, and is punished by the announcement that he shall not enter Canaan.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

A video game controller called the X-SKIN, using this system, was expected to be commercially available by 2010 to help make MMORPGs popular on console systems and ease entry of common data such as a username and password, but announcement of its release was available on the In10did website as of 4 March 2012.

As more execs and researchers left Commodore after the announcement to join up with Tramiel's new company Atari Corp., Commodore followed by filing lawsuits against four former engineers for theft of trade secrets in late July.

This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it.

Sometimes condemned by critics as an unimaginative way to end a story, the spectacle of a ' god ' making a judgement or announcement from a theatrical crane might actually have been intended to provoke scepticism about the religious and heroic dimension of his plays.

However, shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, the proposal to alter the Imperial Household Law was suspended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Appel and Haken's announcement was widely reported by the news media around the world, and the math department at the University of Illinois used a postmark stating " Four colors suffice.

Bragg's original announcement of the discovery at a Solvay conference on proteins in Belgium on 8 April 1953 went unreported by the British press.

His announcement of Sirius's " dark companion " in 1844 was the first correct claim of a previously unobserved companion by positional measurement, and eventually led to the discovery of Sirius B.

The announcement was made in the final days of the Owen Arthur administration by MP member Mia Motley.

Despite an optimistic announcement by Stallman in 2002 predicting a release of GNU / Hurd later that year, the Hurd is still not considered suitable for production environments.

However, according to some traditions, the announcement of the month of Aviv could also be postponed depending on the condition of roads used by families to come to Jerusalem for Passover, adequate numbers of lambs to be sacrificed at the Temple, and on the ripeness of the barley that was needed for the first fruits ceremony.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

This announcement was made during a surprise visit by the United Arab Emirates ' Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Baghdad on 5 June 2008.

With the announcement of Germany's surrender, Terboven committed suicide on 8 May 1945 by detonating 50 kg dynamite in a bunker on the Skaugum compound.