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2 unusual facts about Custom


Custom-fit

The High Viscosity Inkjet printing developed by TNO has the capability of printing with one or more materials with graded structures in a single process using additive technology.

This technique is based on the process principles of xerographic printers, (for example, laser or LED printers) that combine electrostatic printing with photography.


A Healing Art

It tells the story of two Ocularists, Christie Erickson and Todd Cranmore, who make custom prosthetic eyes.

A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

Albert L. Myer

General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Francisco Porrata Doria had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the custom for many decades under the old Spanish system.

AMT Hardballer

In the Hitman video game series, dual custom AMT Hardballers (called 'Silverballers' in Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money) are 47's signature weapons.

Annie Lim

Lim opened her first Canadian custom-cake shop, called "Chocolate Lover Cakes", in Richmond, British Columbia.

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles endorses: Paiste, Mapex, Evans, Pro-Mark, Audio-Technica, DW Pedals, Gibraltar Hardware, Zoom, Staff Drum, Santo Angelo, Urban Boards, Ciclotron, Shred Cases, AeroRic Custom Drums, Tander Tattoo Studio and Lady Snake Rock Wear.

Baby Let's Play House

Presley's version differs greatly from the original: Elvis started the song with the chorus, where Gunter began with the first verse, and he replaced Gunter's line "You may get religion" with the words "You may have a Pink Cadillac", referring to his custom-painted 1955 Cadillac auto that had been serving as the band's transportation at the time.

Brett Leboff

Within months of signing Big Strides they were booked to play in front of 000’ of people at Summer Sonic Festival, Japan signed licensing deal with Reservoir Records - EMI Japan for Strides first record “Small Town, Big Strides” then subsequent records “Cry It All Out” and “Super Custom Limited”.

Church of St Lawrence, Rode

It is an ancient custom that is traditionally held on Easter Monday or Shrove Tuesday in the United Kingdom.

Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis

The project aims to accelerate genomic research by amassing a large repository of metagenomic data generated by independent members of the research community at large, by developing a custom bioinformatics toolset optimized for cluster computing, and by offering the high-performance computing infrastructure on which to run it.

Darryl Starbird

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard (nicknamed Von Dutch), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

Dave Padden

He was seen to be using an Epiphone Prophecy Futura Ex custom with Seymour Duncan pickups.

Disability Challengers

Initially sessions for the children were held at a local leisure centre in Guildford, Surrey, but the need for services quickly grew and in 1984 the charity opened their first custom designed Playcentre on Stoke Park, Guildford.

Easter Drama

In giving directions for public services, the Ritual refers to this custom particularly as observed at Fleury-sur-Loire and Ghent.

Elise Hwasser

Elise Jakobsson was born in Stockholm 16 March 1831 – her father worked as a custom-caretaker – and became a student at Dramatens elevskola in 1849 and had already found employment by the following year at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where she was originally hired as a replacement for Aurora Strandberg.

Federfechter

In their Deutsches Wörterbuch, the Brothers Grimm hold it plausible that it derives from the custom of pinning feathers to one's hat or lance, but the coat of arms accorded to the brotherhood by Rudolf II displays two arms each holding a quill (schreibfeder), inducing the Grimms to speculate that the brotherhood may merely have originated as the fencing guild of the professional scribes.

Hauke-Bosak

The coat of arms awarded to them received in accordance to the Polish custom of naming arms the name "Bosak" (Grappling hook), which some, but not all, members of the family attached to their surname.

High sheriff

By contrast, Lord Campbell stated, perhaps without intention of publication, in February 1847, "it began in ancient times, sir, when sovereigns did not know how to write their names." while acquiring a prick and a signature from Queen Victoria as Prince Albert asked him when the custom began.

Ihr Häuser des Himmels, ihr scheinenden Lichter, BWV 193a

It was the custom for congratulatory works such as this to feature allegorical characters; in this case they are: Providentia (Providence), Fama (Fame), Salus (Well-being) and Pietas (Piety).

Janet Echelman

Echelman’s studio is collaborating with design software company Autodesk, who have developed custom engineering software to make this effort possible, and are sponsoring the sculpture.

John H. McConnell

As a young steel salesman, he founded Worthington Industries in 1955, using his car as collateral to purchase his first load of steel for custom processing.

Kaupeepeenuikauila

He was the Hawaiian Paris and Hina was the Hawaiian Helen and their story is dramatic record of the love and hate, wrong and revenge, courage and custom, passion and superstition, of mythical times.

Ken Huff

Currently Huff is the owner of an award winning, custom home building company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

MagicDraw

DSL allows custom derived properties to be created that allow extending a UML metamodel or its profile.

Marmon Motor Car Company

Actor Francis X. Bushman, at the height of his movie fame in the 1910s owned a custom built purple painted Marmon.

MIT Chapel

The chapel has an excellent organ that was custom-designed for the space by Walter Holtkamp of the Holtkamp Organ Company, located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Multilingual titling

In the live performing arts, multilingual options (with possibility of individual choice) were introduced in 1998 at Santa Fe Opera by mean of custom individual displays set mainly on the back of the seats, as in airplanes.

Nikos Gounaris

His song; Pame Sta Bouzoukia is featured in a custom map on the MMOFPS Counter-Strike titled de plaka.

OpenAM

OpenAM has the flexibility to chain methods together along with Adaptive Risk scoring, or to create custom authentication modules based on the JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) open standard.

PlayStation 4 technical specifications

The PlayStation 4 uses a semi-custom accelerated processing unit (APU) developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony and is manufactured on the TSMC 28 nm process node.

Powder Day

A similar custom takes place in Alozaina, in which hundreds of people celebrate the “hariná”, in remembrance of the times when their ancestors covered young women with wheat flour from the mills to show their love.

Rich Page

At Fairchild Semiconductor, Rich developed test programs for Fairchild's microprocessors, memory products and custom chips.

Richard Trowbridge

The Premier Sir Charles Court in 1975 sought to revive the practice of appointment of British-born governors for Western Australia, contrary to the advice of Lord Goronwy-Roberts, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who supported the newly established custom that Australian State Governors should be Australian-born.

Ritz Camera Centers

In 2007 and early 2008, Ritz began installing Oki and Xerox equipment in their locations to enable the production of hard-back photo books, photo calendars, and custom greeting cards by customers via in-store kiosks or through RitzPix.com for in-store pick up.

Robosquirrel

The microprocessor was mounted on a custom designed, two-layer printed circuit board with a DB9 serial port for RS-232 communication and an SD card slot for data storage.

Roland XP-50

The XP-50's sound engine utilizes a custom 32-bit RISC chip to accommodate its sound generation and effects processing.

Rosherville Halt railway station

Although the Gardens were already served by steamer, the London, Chatham and Dover Railway decided to open a station in the hope of attracting some of their custom.

Saint Ouen, Jersey

The traditional nickname for St. Ouennais is Gris Ventres (grey bellies) - a reference to the custom of men from the parish to wear jerseys of undyed wool, which distinguished them from men from other parishes who generally wore blue.

Suhail Al Zarooni

He also has a large collection of life-size vehicles which include a custom-made Hummer H1, a Maybach, a red Bugatti EB110 GT and a rare BMW K1 Motorbike.

The Sum Of All Thrills

Sponsored by Raytheon, the ride lets park guests custom-design their own thrill ride using mathematical tools, an innovative touch-screen table and a robotic simulator.

Too Short

In the early 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs (called "special requests") for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1983, Too Short had his first release, Don't Stop Rappin' which, along with the following three releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine.

Trombetto

The final version was custom-crafted using additional tubing attached to a rare, antique 4th valve for the purpose of completing the horn’s lower registry capability, by brass technician, Ted Weir at the former Brass & Woodwind Shop in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

United States presidential inaugural balls

Franklin Pierce, who was mourning the recent death of his son in 1853, Woodrow Wilson, who in 1913 felt that inaugural balls were too expensive, and Warren G. Harding, who in 1921 wanted to set an example of simplicity, all opted to end the custom of inaugural balls.

V3 Gaming PC

V3 Gaming PC is a manufacturer of custom-built personal computers headquartered in Lomita, California.

West Australian Ballet

In April 2012, during WAB's 60 year celebrations, the company moved all operations and rehearsals to the West Australian Ballet Centre, a custom designed facility in Maylands, Western Australia.

Wolfssegen

In Vienna, there was also a custom known in which the text of the Liber generationis Jesu Christi (Matthew 1, viz. the beginning of the gospel) was known as Wolfssegen, chanted in a particular way after mass on Christmas night.

World in Motion 1

Special thanks: Mike Corkran, Bill Mueller, Gordon Miller Music, Edward S. Feldman & Bob Sellars for the custom guitars, Derek Sutton, Bob Goldstein (it's in the mail), Peter Sullivan, Elton, Marvin & Stevie, Don Wehner, Barton Kenney, Casey Dansicker, Nancy Scaggs, Jeff Miller (it's in the mail II), Walt Copeland, Randy, Paul, Jeep, and everyone at MSI

Worlds of Fun

Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights was a one million dollar investment that uses special effects and sound design, custom designed for Worlds of Fun by Emmy Award-Winning RWS and Associates.

Yann Goulet

He was commissioned to create public works commemorating the IRA and other republicans, including the Custom House Memorial (Dublin), the East Mayo Brigade IRA Memorial, the Republican Memorial (Crossmaglen), and the Ballyseedy Memorial (Kerry).


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