When the front knee is straight and locked, allow it to bend again until you feel the bar come lightly into contact with the sides of the Power Stands.

If the giraffe wants to bend down to drink, it either spreads its front legs or bends its knees.

Because of its length ( 75 to 105 cm ) the instrument was generally made with a double curve, having the finger-holes on the inside facet of the lower bend ; thus in playing position the bell points downwards to the front, not outwards to the side as in the treble.

The universal tetrapod characteristics of front limbs that bend forward at the elbow and hind limbs that bend backward at the knee can plausibly be traced to early tetrapods living in shallow water.

When both springs are compressed on one side when travelling around a bend, or front and rear wheels hit bumps simultaneously, the equal and opposite forces applied to the front and rear spring assemblies reduce the interconnection significantly, or even completely.

Sound movement through the atmosphere is affected by wind shear, which can bend the wave front, causing sounds to be heard where they normally would not, or vice versa.

Whilst feeding, they often bend the front feet backwards and move around on the wrists.

In being forced to bend forward and stick their head and hands out in front of them, offenders in the pillory would have been extremely uncomfortable during their punishment.

If tendinitis involves the biceps tendon ( the tendon located in front of the shoulder that helps bend the elbow and turn the forearm ), pain will occur in the front or side of the shoulder and may travel down to the elbow and forearm.

The " Flying Tigers " of 14 AF ( who adopted the " Flying Tigers " designation from the AVG ) conducted highly effective fighter and bomber operations along a wide front that stretched from the bend of the Yellow River and Tsinan in the north to Indochina in the south, from Chengtu and the Salween River in the west to both East and South China Seas and the island of Formosa in the east.

The description is " in front of a horseshoe a mullet overall a hunting horn in bend ".

The front, gate-like, plate of the machine is hinged and may be lifted, forcing the material extended over a straight edge to bend to follow the plate.

It was easily possible at any time for a dishonest employee to swipe the card surreptitiously through a cheap machine which would take a couple of seconds to record the information on the card and stripe ; in fact, even at the terminal, the criminal could bend down in front of the customer and swipe the card on a hidden reader.

Its Turkish name comes from the sharp bend of the road in front of it to pass around a tomb which is supposed to belong to Hazret Hafiz, a companion of Muhammad who died there during the first Arab siege of the city.

Since the CRT can only bend the electron beam through a critical angle while still maintaining focus, the electron gun has to be located some distance from the front face of the television.

In 1964, a Lotus-Cortina leading around a bend with its inside front wheel in fresh air became a familiar sight, as the cars were set up with soft rear suspension and a hard front end.

They should bend as far forward as possible, resting their head against the seat in front if it is within reach and place their hands on the back of their head, with the hands one on top of another ( rather than interlocked ).

The design consisted of an S-shaped bend in the airflow, so that air entered the inlet, was bent back towards the front of the plane, and bent back again towards the back before entering the engine.

In a broad highway turn, if the front wheels lose traction, the car will suddenly drift towards the outside of the bend.

Then, Raj suggested the John, being the best looking of the group, go out, bend over, and tie his shoes in front of the group of gay men.

Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.

The Wesleyan School was near the bend in Cherie Street and the Methodist Church was on the south corner of Post office Lane at the northern boundary of Section 3.

The oldest church in the district is Drumcondra Church ( Church of Ireland ) located at the bend of Church Avenue, abutting All Hallows College.

Meyer was a well known eccentric and allegedly in 1947, Wellard who was even older than Meyer, was bowling rather well, when Northamptonshire batsman Dennis Brookes played a false stroke through the slips which Meyer, too crippled by lumbago to bend down, failed to catch.

Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation – combining the dexter half of one coat with the sinister half of another – because dimidiation can create ambiguity between, for example, a bend and a chevron.

However, Don Louis Lorimier, the Spanish Land Commandant of Cape Girardeau, had been impressed by Bollinger on an earlier visit and decided to bend the rules for him and his fellow settlers.

Unaware of the earlier publication, Toss called the butterfly bend the strait bend after the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The Oxford Guide to Heraldry states that earlier writers including Leigh, Holme, and Guillim favour one-third, while later writers such as Edmondson favour one-fifth " on the grounds that a bend, pale, or chevron occupying one-third of the field makes the coat look clumsy and disagreeable.

Halswelle was baulked by William Robbins in the first 50 m. Then, coming off the final bend, Robbins led John Carpenter by a yard, with Halswelle waiting to pass him in the last straight, as he had done to other athletes in the earlier rounds.

Woodcock sheds some light on the matter, stating that earlier writers such as Leigh, Holme and Guillim proposed that " honourable ordinaries " should occupy one-third of the field, while later writers such as Edmondson favoured one-fifth, " on the grounds that a bend, pale, or chevron occupying one-third of the field makes the coat look clumsy and disagreeable.

" Again, in the words of a critic, Arthur McCalla, the growth in young-earth creationism occurred not only because modern fundamantalists were more ignorant than in previous generations, but also because young-earth creationism " better defended a plain-sense reading of the inerrant Bible than did the old-Earth creationism of Ramm and the earlier Fundamentalists .... Legions of Bible believers responded gratefully to Whitcomb and Morris because their system eliminated once and for all the need for interpretative contortions that twist and bend the words of the Bible in order to reconcile them with the findings of modern science.

In terms of circuitry, it is nearly identical to the earlier SH-101 synthesizers but lacks the noise generator, choice of LFO shapes and modualtion / pitch bend controls.

That on the north side shows a bend charged with 4 horse-shoes ( fer-de-cheval ), being the canting arms of Ferrers, overlaid by 3 ship's rudders in bend sinister, the badge of the Willoughby family, inherited from Cheyne, as evidenced by an appearance on the earlier Cheyne tomb at Edington Priory, Wilts.

This was made possible with the usage of technology and its replacement of the earlier system, which Menon refers to as ‘ the naked eye .’ Eventually, it was declared legal for the bowlers to bend their arm fifteen degrees for deliveries in cricket.

Each stands on a ridge within the river bend and two of the tombs, Knowth and Newgrange, appear to contain stones re-used from an earlier monument at the site.

The doctor had to bend close to hear ; ;

Intuitively, the process can be pictured as follows: first shrink the real line to the open interval (- π, π ) on the x-axis ; then bend the ends of this interval upwards ( in positive y-direction ) and move them towards each other, until you get a circle with one point ( the topmost one ) missing.

From the south his magister peditum Barbatio was to come from Milan and amass forces at Augst ( near the Rhine bend ), then set off north with 25, 000 soldiers ; Julian with 13, 000 troops would move east from Durocortorum ( Reims ).

One can identify three types of distortions that could occur in an oriented sample: ( 1 ) twists of the material, where neighboring molecules are forced to be angled with respect to one another, rather than aligned ; ( 2 ) splay of the material, where bending occurs perpendicular to the director ; and ( 3 ) bend of the material, where the distortion is parallel to the director and molecular axis.

The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.

When you bend backward the top ( base ) of the sacrum moves forward relative to the ilium ; when you bend forward the top moves back.

An alternative, and less painful way of applying this choke, is to bend the choking arm in a " V " shape and put pressure with the biceps and the forearm on the two sides of the neck, respectively ; this is a circulatory choke, which puts pressure on the arteries taking blood to the brain and thus deprives the brain of oxygen.

Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere ; long waves may cover a part of the Earth very consistently, shorter waves can reflect off the ionosphere and travel around the world, and much shorter wavelengths bend or reflect very little and travel on a line of sight.

Alpine skis are wider at the tip and tail than they are at the waist ; when rotated onto their edge, known as " edging ", this causes the ski to bend into a curved shape and allows them to " carve " a turn.

Therefore, the size the track will determine where the 200-meter line is ( for 250 m tracks, it is about two-thirds of the way through the first bend ; for 200-meter tracks, it is the finish line ; for 400-meter tracks, it is the start line in the back straight ).

Pacific Black Duck displaying the characteristic upending ' duck ' The word duck comes from Old English * dūce " diver ", a derivative of the verb * dūcan " to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive ", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending ; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen " to dive ".

Carving is based on the shape of the ski itself ; when the ski is rotated onto its edge, the pattern cut into its side causes it to bend into an arc.

In 1855 part of the fort was demolished so that the south bank of the Chicago River could be dredged, straightening the bend in the river and widening it at this point by about ; and in 1857, a fire destroyed nearly all the remaining buildings in the fort.

It is helical and has a sharp bend just outside the outer membrane ; this " hook " allows the axis of the helix to point directly away from the cell.

Each of the outer 9 doublet microtubules extends a pair of dynein arms ( an " inner " and an " outer " arm ) to the adjacent microtubule ; these dynein arms are responsible for flagellar beating, as the force produced by the arms causes the microtubule doublets to slide against each other and the flagellum as a whole to bend.

They contain a fortune ; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion.

The Horseshoe Falls, which are approximately wide, have also changed their shape through the process of erosion ; evolving from a small arch, to a horseshoe bend, to the present day gigantic inverted V. Just upstream from the falls ' current location, Goat Island splits the course of the Niagara River, resulting in the separation of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls to the west from the American and Bridal Veil Falls to the east.

Several secondary plateaus of lower altitude are also distinguished by geographers, The Katun valley begins as a wild gorge on the south-west slope of Belukha ; then, after a big bend, the river ( 600 km long ) pierces the Katun Alps, and enters a wider valley, lying at an altitude of from 600 to 1, 100 m, which it follows until it emerges from the Altai highlands to join the Biya in a most picturesque region.

From the Oxus ( 1, 000 feet ) to Faizabad ( 4, 000 feet ) and Zebak ( 8, 500 feet ) the course of the Kokcha offers a high road across Badakhshan ; between Zebak and Ishkashim, at the Oxus bend, there is but an insignificant pass of 9, 500 feet ; and from Ishkashim by the Panj River, through the Pamirs, is the continuation of what must once have been a much-traversed trade route connecting Afghan Turkestan with Kashgar of China.