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stock and devices
Mr. Brown made important additions to the arts in screw machine design by drastically improving the means for revolving the turret, by introducing automatic feeding devices for the stock, and reversible tap and die holders.
The label of formula fiction is assigned because of the reuse of plot, plot devices and stock characters.
Despite the move away from physical film stock – much editing is now based on digital media – devices such as the Lightworks non-linear film editing controller and archives still use the Steenbeck physical layout for controlling the process.
Ambient Devices has produced an " orb ", a " dashboard ", and a " weather beacon ": these decorative devices receive data from a wireless network and report current events, such as stock prices and the weather, like the Nabaztag produced by Violet Snowden.
Informix TimeSeries is a unique feature of the database system that allows for efficient and fast manipulation of time series data, such as that generated by devices such as smart electric meters, or as found in financial trading systems with time stamped stock ' ticks '.
In Don Procopio Bizet followed the stock devices of Italian opera as typified by Donizetti in Don Pasquale, a work which it closely resembles.
Gate-array design is a manufacturing method in which the diffused layers, i. e. transistors and other active devices, are predefined and wafers containing such devices are held in stock prior to metallization — in other words, unconnected.
The devices ensure that loads stacked on open or flat wagons stay within the height / shape limits of the line's bridges and tunnels and prevent out-of-gauge rolling stock entering a region with a smaller loading gauge.
This includes the reader's knowledge about literary types ( e. g. stock characters that reappear over centuries ), knowledge about literary genres and its conventions or stylistic devices
The term ticker tape originally referred to the use of the paper output of ticker tape machines, which were remotely-driven devices used in brokerages to provide updated stock market quotes.
* Open joint stock company " Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant " — produces optical devices ;
The site enables testing of freight and passenger rolling stock, vehicle and track components, and safety devices.
In 1955 Textron acquired American Woolen, significantly increasing its net worth and stock price, and, in just a few months, Ryan Industries ( maker of mechanical and electromechanical devices such as a pistol that fired triangular bullets ), Homelite ( chain saws, power generators, blowers, and pumps ), Camcar Screw and Manufacturing Company, Coquille Plywood, and Kordite Company ( plastic clotheslines, garment bags, and shower curtains ).
The expanding use of the Internet and personal communication devices has made penny stock scams easier to perpetrate.
Combining witty parodies of early opera's stock scenes ( and self-importance ) with moments of surprising emotional intensity, the score shows Caccini to have mastered the full range of musico-theatrical devices in her time, and to have had a strong sense of long-term musical design.
Trans-Lux is a company that specializes in designing, selling, renting, installing and maintaining multi-color, real-time data and LED large-screen electronic information displays, but is primarily known as a major supplier of national stock ticker display devices for stock exchanges.
They stopped selling the devices, but the stock was never confiscated.
Using their super-technological devices, the alien women probe the boys ' minds, in the process learning about Gamera — who, they discover ( again via stock footage ), has a terminal soft spot for human children and is hurtling toward Terra on a rescue mission.
The Electronics and Mechanics Plant ZEIM ( joint stock company, JSC ), is a leading Russian company specializing in manufacturing electronic devices and controlling equipment.
The publication found the game to use " overarching narrative arcs " and " stock melodramatic devices " among the Sandersons ' dysfunctional interactions, " emotional crisis points, downtime, and rhythms and cycles of action " between its day and night events, and " evocative music " as a way for characters to communicate their feelings.
In the Pāli Canon, statements regarding the use of loving-kindness ( metta ) traditionally employ one or more of the following devices, often using a stock formula:
The Camping World Truck Series does not run restrictor plates, devices used by the Nationwide and Sprint Cup stock cars to reduce horsepower and slow the cars down at Daytona and Talladega.

stock and comedy
A comedy of manners film satirises the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.
It can be noted that the doubling is a stock situation of Elizabethan comedy.
The comedy, thus, is in the unpredictable shifting of the scene's meaning, from two socialite ladies and a world-famous explorer mingling at a party, to a parody of O ' Neill's work, to a mimicking of a man reading out stock prices.
Phonofilm's stock in trade, however, was not original dramas but celebrity documentaries, popular music acts, and comedy performances.
Cuban Bufo theatre is an example: a form of comedy, ribald and satirical, with stock figures imitating types that might be found anywhere in the country.
Serious Money ( 1987 ), " a comedy about excesses in the financial world ", is a verse play that takes a satirical look at the stock market and received enormous acclaim, partly because it played immediately after the stock market crash of 1987.
Although primarily a live-action comedy, each episode included segments featuring puppetry, video animation and prepared sequences using Chroma-key and stock footage, e. g., when Pee-wee jumps into the Magic Screen, as well as inserted clay animation sequences ( some made by Richard Goleszowski and Nick Park, creators of Wallace & Gromit ) and excerpts from cartoons from the Golden Age of American animation, usually presented by the character " The King of Cartoons ".
Acting / theater / performing experience includes an ' extra ' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads ( May 2007 ); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ( September 2007 ); an ' extra ' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising ( November 2007 ); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, ( August 2008 ).
At this time the rake featured as a stock character in Restoration comedy.
One of Coca's early stock characters on the Caesar series blended comedy with socially conscious pathos as a bag lady, and she was frequently asked to reprise the role, including by Carol Burnett for her 1960s series and by Red Skelton as love interest to one of his own familiar characters in the 1981 TV special Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner.
* Heracles: A hero in myth, he is a stock joke for gluttony in comedy.
The comedy of manners is a genre of play / television / film which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class or of multiple classes, often represented by stereotypical stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus (" boastful soldier ") in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young.
Because of this, a frequent device of both comedy and parody is to wildly exaggerate the expected mannerisms of stock characters.
She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the " Theatre World Award " for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Examples of their innovations were the development of a whole series of distinct stereotype characters which were to become the stock characters of Western comedy and the contributions they made to the development of the play.
Mulloy exploits many of the clichés of the Western genre, minimalist Saguaro cactus dotted wilderness, stock characters like the Stetson wearing semi-nomadic wanderer, horses, lynchings and so forth drawn using brush and black ink in an intentionally primitive, silhouetted style to portray male violence, greed and rivalry using absurd black comedy.
The film also demonstrates the differences that Chaplin had with Keystone comedy --- this film is a coherent whole in which the stock characters actually fill some emotional center.
A recurring theme in the literary, theatrical and film tradition of comedy is the use of stock characters representing authority figures, designed to poke fun at officialdom by showing that its members are not immune to entanglement in the ridiculous.

stock and ends
If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.
Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.
The stock parasite in this play, Gelasimus, has a patron-client relationship with this family and offers to do any job in order to make ends meet ; Owens puts forward that Plautus is portraying the economic hardship many Roman citizens were experiencing due to the cost of war.
Even as the military offensive begins, Japan engineers the collapse of the U. S. stock market by hiring a programmer in an exchange firm to insert a logic bomb into the system, which ends up deleting all trade records.
Players alternate taking turns until one player ends the round by knocking, going Gin, or until only two cards remain in the stock pile, in which case the round ends in a draw and no points are awarded.
This process ends and play begins either at the point that the elder hand chooses not to propose, or the dealer refuses to accept, or the stock of remaining cards runs out.
So he would hammer the ends of the stock down into the bend, ' upsetting ' it at the point of the bend.
To these ends he initiated the Lieutenant-Governor's Book Program in 2004, and has collected over 1. 2 million books, donated from all corners of the province from both institutions and individuals, to stock school libraries in First Nations communities, particularly in Northern Ontario.
Play ends when either the stock is exhausted or either player's hand is empty.
The film ends with Ator destroying an ancient object of power ( the Geometric Nucleus ) that his mentor was guarding to protect it from evil men ( this scene used stock footage of a nuclear bomb.
* Bulkhead flatcar, a type of rolling stock designed with sturdy end-walls to prevent loads from shifting past the ends of the car
This new rolling stock was either converted from existing boxcars or built from scratch based on Association of American Railroads ( AAR ) standard 50 '- 6 " single-sheathed steel boxcar designs, and were constructed entirely out of steel with heavily reinforced ends.
The stock was of an American design, with a clerestory roof and open gated ends.
Thonet's more precise process allowed timber to be machined with a surface finish as raw stock ( usually as thick circular dowel ), steam bent to shape, then used as a component almost immediately, without further machining other than to trim the ends.
The Phillips shop converted two-thirds of the flat cars for loading with 4-foot-long ( 1. 2 meter ) pulpwood logs by installing high, slatted sides and ends loosely resembling a stock car with doors and roof removed.
The game ends when all moves have been made after the stock has been dealt the third time.
" But once the stock is exhausted, there are no re-deals ; the game ends sooner after this or later.
The game ends as soon as the stock runs out.
The game ends as soon as after the entire stock is dealt.
The game ends soon after the cards of the stock are dealt onto the wastepile.
The game ends when the stock has run out.
However, when the stock runs out, there is no redeal ; the game ends soon after.
It is a fairly large building of yellow stock brick, with east and west ends faced in Portland stone.

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