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2 unusual facts about Self-Reliance


Self-Reliance

In the CBS TV Show Elementary Season 1X06 episode The Red Team, Sherlock Holmes uses Emerson's quote, although he leaves out 'A foolish' and just says "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Watson" to his female assistant, Joan Watson, in a conversation about conspiracy and murder.

A single woman, portrayed by Hope Davis, who is familiar with the Emerson quote, goes on dates with several men, each of whom tries to impress her by quoting the line, except they misattribute it to W.C. Fields, Karl Marx, or Cicero.


Adelaide Botanic Garden

In order to reduce the Gardens' reliance on potable water from the River Murray, a new wetlands system was constructed south of the Bicentennial Conservatory to hold stormwater diverted from First Creek.

AEC Reliance

The AEC Reliance was a single-deck bus or coach chassis with a mid-underfloor-mounted engine, built by AEC in Southall, west London, England between 1953 and 1979.

Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun

Despite his acceptance of his uncle's succession, Abbas became the focus of the factions opposed to Mu'tasim, and in particular his increasing reliance on and favour shown to his Turkish slave-soldiers (ghilman).

Ambani

Anil Ambani, an Indian businessman and largest shareholder of Reliance communications

Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian businessman and founder of Reliance Industries in Mumbai

André-Daniel Laffon de Ladebat

He escaped the Revolutionary Tribunal thanks to the government's reliance on his credit in order to finance its operations.

Ann Davison

Her second book, Home was an Island, describes their life after the sale of their airfield and before the purchase of Reliance, during which time they bought and farmed the small islands of Inchmurrin and then Inchfad on Loch Lomond.

Augustinian theodicy

In God, Power and Evil: A Process Theodicy, published in 1976, David Ray Griffin criticised Augustine's reliance on free will and argued that it is incompatible with divine omniscience and omnipotence.

Bansdroni

Now it houses some important retail stores like Reliance Digital, Monte Carlo and others.

Biswajit Saha

Moreover, IMG-Reliance, the organisers of the proposed IPL-style football tournament Indian Super League, and Eagles F.C. will facilitate a two to six week training stint for the eight players with UK based Reading F.C. Academy.

BM Habitat Mall

Some of the branded mercantile establishment in the mall includes, Reliance Time-Out, Fastrack, Puma SE, Univercell etc.

British and Malaysian English differences

Most computer software in Malaysia including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office come pre-set with English (United States) as the default and these settings are seldom changed to English (United Kingdom) resulting in the proliferation of American English in many places of work, local universities and other places with heavy reliance on documents and content created by using computers.

Carnaxide

Its principal economic activities reside in the presence of large international companies like EFACEC, Sumol, and Mota-Engil, and in the strong reliance on the small commerce.

Charles Manegold, Jr.

In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.

Crystal City, Texas

By March 26, 1937, the growers had erected a statue of the cartoon character Popeye in the town because his reliance on spinach for strength led to greater popularity for the vegetable, which had become a staple cash crop of the local economy.

Cutter Boat – Over the Horizon

It is designed to pursue and interdict fast, non-compliant vessels and is carried aboard the Coast Guard's Maritime Security Cutters, Hamilton class High Endurance Cutters, and Famous and Reliance class Medium Endurance Cutters.

Digicable

In July 2010 Reliance Communications announced it agreed to acquire Digicable and would rename it Reliance DigiCom.

Duty of care in English law

the House of Lords recognised that such a duty may be owed, where a relationship of reliance exists between two parties.

DWNB-TV

and currently is the flagship station of the Philippine television AksyonTV; The station is operated and co-owned by ABC Development Corporation, Its studios is located at TV5 Media Center, Reliance cor.

Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act

This Act enables simplified procurement procedures where the procurement is limited, facilitates reliance of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, and promotes the use of fixed-price Performance Based Contracting.

Harold Mackintosh, 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax

This takeover of Caleys helped the Mackintosh company to expand its range of products notably changing its reliance on toffee to products with chocolate toffee such as Quality Street in 1936 and Rolo.

Henry Silverman

In 1984, Silverman joined Reliance Group Holdings, which was run by corporate raider Saul Steinberg.

HIJRA

HIJRA's programs in Livelihoods cover a broad range of activities focused on enhancing self-reliance through non-formal education, income generation and cash for work programming.

Java Green

Java Green is operational at different locations including educational institutions like DA-IICT,SRM University and IIM Bangalore, hospitals like KDA Hospital, Mumbai and Fortis, corporate offices like DAKC, Mumbai and IBM, Reliance Web worlds and Spencer's retail.

Jerry Umberger

There was initially a heavy reliance on American players to make up the contingent of competitors - and Umberger appeared at the 1994 and 1995 WDC World Championship, but did not progress beyond the initial round robin stage.

Kharagpur

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, or BSNL, as well as private enterprises, among them Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular, Aircel, and Tata DoCoMo, are the leading telephone, cell phone and internet service providers in the city.

KTSD

KTSD-FM, a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Reliance, South Dakota, United States

Lehigh County Historical Society

4229 Reliance Street, off Route 329, Village of Egypt, Whitehall Township.

Luca della Robbia

These doors were not finished until 1469; their reliance on a few figures placed in simple, orderly compositions against a flat ground, contrasts sharply with the elaborate pictorial effects of Lorenzo Ghiberti's more famous Baptistery doors.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, is an analysis of the news media, arguing that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".

Margaret Nagle

In 2010, Nagle was selected by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to be a member of the first Imagine/Reliance Writers Lab, a group of screenwriters paid to generate scripts.

Megilp

Victoria Finlay cites Joshua Reynolds as an example of a painter whose reliance on megilp has detracted from the longevity of his paintings.

Modern convenience

:Processed foods, high-fructose corn syrup, and increased fat—the greater reliance on processed, packaged, microwaveable food has resulted in a rise in Type 2 Diabetes, obesity, and other health concerns.

Panna-Mukta oilfield

Following a privatization policy a Reliance - Enron consortium gained a 25-year lease on the oil field in February 1994.

Public call office

Reliance and Tata Indicom are CDMA based prepaid PCO connection provider and Airtel, Idea and Hutch are GSM based prepaid PCO connection providers.

Raj Singh Arora

Arora has done commercials for companies such as like Tvs Scooty, Samsung Guru Mobile, Reliance Big TV, Candi Biscuits, Mountain Dew, Mc Donald's, Philips Led, McVitie's Biscuits, Nestle Munch, Wheel Detergent, Anne French and Centuary Mattress.

Reliance Building

The Reliance Building is also part of the Loop Retail Historic District, a collection of over one hundred buildings that reflects the growth of State and Wabash Streets as the central retail district of Chicago.

Reliance Fresh

In November 2007, Reliance Fresh stores were attacked by Bharatiya Janshakti Party supporters headed by Uma Bharti.

Reliance Globalcom

Reliance Communications announced the $300 million acquisition of San Francisco-based Yipes Holdings in July 2007.

Rockwell Automation

On January 31, 2007, Rockwell Automation sold off their PowerSystems Division which consists of Dodge mechanical and Reliance Electric motors with headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina, to Baldor Electric Company.

SASVO

SASVO promoted values like volunteerism, Self-reliance, Love of Africa, Regional cooperation and unity, Interchange of people of diverse backgrounds, Responsibility towards community, Leadership development, Gender equality, and Physical involvement in development.

Shanghai Electric

In October 2010, Shanghai Electric and Reliance Power of India signed a US$8.3 billion agreement for Shanghai Electric to supply 36 coal-fired thermal power generation units to Reliance over the subsequent three years.

Skewness risk

He feels that the extensive reliance on the normal distribution for much of the body of modern finance and investment theory is a serious flaw of any related models (including the Black–Scholes model and CAPM).

Umroli

Tarapur Industrial Estate, Tarapur Atomic Power Station and a Thermal Power Station owned by Reliance Energy Limited are located close by.

Valentina Chebotaryova

Chebotaryova grew fond of the grand duchesses and had personal sympathy for the Tsarina, but also blamed Alexandra and her reliance on Grigori Rasputin for the political upheaval that followed.


see also

Calvin Helin

He is the author of the 2006 book Dances with Dependency: Indigenous Success through Self-Reliance, which is illustrated by his cousin Bill Helin.