While at Wham-O, Headrick redesigned the Pluto Platter reworking the rim height, disc shape, diameter, weight and plastics, creating a controllable disc that could be thrown accurately.

While there are many different grips and styles to throwing the disc, there are two basic throwing techniques, backhand and forehand ( or sidearm ).

While there are many audiophiles who still prefer vinyl records over digital music sources ( primarily compact disc ) for superior sound quality, they represent an enthusiastic minority of listeners.

While disc brake rotors can be machined to clean up the friction surface ( i. e. ' turning '), the same generally cannot be done with brake drums.

While similar to a helicopter rotor in appearance, the autogyro's rotor must have air flowing through the rotor disc to generate rotation.

While colours and detail specifications were modified in the ensuing 42 years, the biggest mechanical change was the addition of front disc brakes in 1981 ( from the discontinued Citroën Dyane ), for the 1982 model year.

While it also peaked at Number 3 in the UK, it was less successful than her debut, earning just a Gold disc.

While performing at local radio station KCKY they met disc jockey Lee Hazlewood, who produced the duo's single, " Soda Fountain Girl ", recorded and released in 1955 in Phoenix.

While the 75mm Sonnar could be used with the aperture set to f / 22, the Tele-Xenar suffered from some shutter disc vignetting unless opened more.

While " MEAT :" was originally released on cassette in 1987, Bad Is Beautiful was their first compact disc, in 1991.

While promoting " Fool For Love ," Stewart met with Memphis disc jockey and R & B singer Rufus Thomas, and both parties were impressed by the other.

While working in Memphis, Tennessee as a disc jockey, Lawler's artistic ability attracted the attention of local wrestling promoter Aubrey Griffith.

While this puts Palau in common with the Federated States of Micronesia and other neighboring island groups, the disc on the flag ( similar to that on Japan's flag ) is off-centre like that of the flag of Bangladesh, but in this case represents the moon instead of the sun.

While most of the artists from this disc remain unknown to most, Hoodoo Gurus, Crash Test Dummies, The Wedding Present, The Primitives, and Henry Rollins have all produced well-known albums and many of the other artists are popular amongst rock fans.

While in Cleveland, they met local disc jockey Bill Randle.

While professional racers may be obligated by their sponsors to use disc brakes, it remains to be seen if their use will be adopted by the rank and file.

While stationed overseas, Schonely transferred to Armed Forces Radio, where he was a disc jockey as well as doing news, sports and interviews.

The disc included a version of Melissa Etheridge's " You Can Sleep While I Drive " and Tammy Wynette's " Till I Get it Right.

While working as a milkman he heard the disc jockey at his local radio station resign during a broadcast.

While not first in Boston to adopt a popular music and disc jockey format with hourly newscasts ( WORL was the first ), a combination of a powerful signal, top-notch personalities like Ray Dorey, Fred B. Cole, Bob Clayton, Norm Nathan, news anchor John Day, and a mid-morning woman's show hosted by Christine Evans ( also billing herself as Chris ); along with live coverage of Boston Red Sox baseball, Boston Bruins hockey, and Boston Celtics baskletball, made WHDH one of the most popular stations in the region in the post-World War II era.

While one of the few widely circulated recordings of Ries's music was for some time that of his third piano concerto, all of his symphonies and a number of chamber works are now available on compact disc and his surviving music for piano and orchestra and chamber works are the focus of ongoing projects on various record labels as well.

While Mangan and Celestia were politely ignored by the superpowers, there is evidence that at least some others were prepared to entertain his claims with a greater degree of seriousness ; the first unfurling of the Celestian flag-featuring a blue sharp symbol within a white disc against a blue field-was broadcast in June 1958 to a television audience of millions across the U. S., and the following day the flag was raised at the United Nations building in New York City, to fly alongside those of the member nations of that organisation.

While serving as a Corporal in the US Army, he was a disc jockey in the American Forces Network in Germany, hosting the shows Music in the Air and Melody-Go-Round.

While a character with Pattern, Logrus or Conjuration can acquire virtually any object, players can choose to spend character points to obtain objects with particular virtues-unbreakability, or a mind of their own.

While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

While scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

While players may spend most of the game in a specific position, there are few restrictions on player movement, and players can switch positions at any time.

While male players are in the majority at club level in the UK, the opposite is the case in Australia and New Zealand.

While the roots of the game are very casual and laid back the newer generations of players are taking course design as well as the other elements of the game to a new level.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

While a truly characteristic euphonium sound is rather hard to define precisely, most players would agree that an ideal sound is dark, rich, warm, and velvety, with virtually no hardness to it.

While the game is turn based, human players move simultaneously.

While few players " play Goren " exactly today, the point count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.

While the population of LambdaMOO once numbered close to 10, 000 with over 300 actively connected at any time, these days it is rare to see more than a few dozen actively participating connected players at one time.

While the music is playing, the players in the circle walk in unison around the chairs.

While the victory condition in Suber's initial ruleset is the accumulation of 100 points by the roll of a die, he once said that " this rule is deliberately boring so that players will quickly amend it to please themselves.

While the deal for the players beside Templeton and Smith went through, Herzog flew to San Diego to meet with Smith and Gottlieb over the Christmas holiday.

While steals don't win much money per hand, they can accumulate to considerable profit if the players to the left of the stealer are tight enough not to contest enough steals.

While the central company was responsible for feeding in moves and mailing the processed output back to players, players were also provided with the mailing addresses of others so that direct contact could be made and negotiations performed.

While no longer as common now that turntables are absent from the cheap all-in-one stereo, this type has made a resurgence in nostalgia-marketed players.

While deathmatch maps are designed for up to 16 players, tournament maps are designed for duels between 2 players and in the single-player game could be considered as ' boss battles '.

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.