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5 unusual facts about Slow


Etizolam

During tests, there were not substantial changes in deep sleep; however, it may reduce REM sleep.

Slow-wave sleep

A study from the Department of Endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, indicated that regular deep sleep in children is helpful in triggering the steady release of the hormones that cause puberty.

Videotelephony

At the dawn of the technology, videotelephony also included image phones which would exchange still images between units every few seconds over conventional POTS-type telephone lines, essentially the same as slow scan TV systems.

Worked All States

Specialty awards are available for establishing two-way contact with stations in all 50 states using amateur radio satellites, Radioteletype (RTTY), or Slow-scan television (SSTV).

Worked All Zones

Specialty awards are available for establishing two-way contact with stations in all 40 zones using certain transmission modes including: CW, AM, SSB, amateur radio satellites, Radioteletype (RTTY), a digital mode other than RTTY, or Slow-scan television (SSTV).


...Like Cologne

The tracks include "Long Slow Goodbye", from 2005's Lullabies to Paralyze, and "The Vampyre of Time and Memory" and "I Sat by the Ocean" from 2013's ...Like Clockwork.

Abdalajís Tunnel

Although the AVE Class 102 is not speed-restricted in tunnels, but trains covering the Madrid-Málaga high-speed route slow down from 300 km/h to 160 km/h before entering the Abdalajís and Gobantes Tunnels, even though the Abdalajís Tunnel's curvature radius of 6900 m can theoretically support trains without tilting technology travelling at speeds of up to 392 km.

Abdur-Rahman al-Mu'allimee al-Yamani

Upon visiting his son, Yahya was dismayed to learn of his slow progress in studying Arabic grammar.

AGA cooker

Originally heated by slow-burning coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company (Swedish: Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator, English: Joint stock company Swedish Gas Accumulator).

Atlantic Crossing

The album was divided into a slow side and a fast side, apparently at the suggestion of Stewart's then-girlfriend, Swedish actress Britt Ekland.

Charles Brehm

The location was about 20 feet northeast from close assassination witnesses Jean Hill, and Mary Moorman, as the limousine rounded the 120-degree slow turn from Houston Street onto Elm Street.

Colin Brinded

Two recent occasions on which he officiated during key matches were the World Championship finals between Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams in 1999 and the match between Peter Ebdon and Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2005 (the so-called "slow-play" match).

Darlingtonia californica

Growing cobra lilies from seed is extremely slow and cobra seedlings are difficult to maintain, so these plants are best propagated from the long stolons they grow in late winter and spring.

Darren Stark

Shortly after the wedding of Steph Scully (Carla Bonner) and Max Hoyland (Stephen Lovatt), Darren and Libby finally sleep together after taking things slow for a number of weeks.

Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself

This slow dramatic piano ballad was described by Robin in the liner notes of Tales from the Brothers Gibb box set as "...the dawning, or the closing, of the 'gotta find out who I really am' era."

Elphinstone Road railway station

It has 2 platforms as of now, where both only cater to Churchgate and Borivali (Or Virar) bound slow trains.

Eric Rowan

But he remained dogged by controversy: in the match against Lancashire, Rowan and wicket-keeper John Waite were barracked for slow scoring, and responded by sitting down on the pitch until there was quiet.

Eric Varley

Varley continued the government's slow nationalisation programme by appointing Michael Edwardes to take over at British Leyland.

Ernesto Geisel

Having the aforesaid activities been stopped, Geisel and his Chief of Staff, Minister Golbery do Couto e Silva devised a plan of gradual, slow democratization that would succeed, in spite of all attempts and threats of the opposition offered by radical sectors of the military hierarchy and some terrorist movements the leftists would still try against the government.

Future Starts Slow

"Future Starts Slow" is the second single from indie rock band The Kills' fourth studio album, Blood Pressures (2011).

Gian-Carlo Coppola

Griffin O'Neal, who was piloting the boat, had attempted to pass between two slow-moving boats, unaware that both boats were connected by a towline.

Ginkgo

Given the slow pace of evolution and morphological similarity between members of the genus, there may have been only one or two species existing in the Northern Hemisphere through the entirety of the Cenozoic: present-day G. biloba (including G. adiantoides) and G. gardneri from the Palaeocene of Scotland.

High-speed camera

Television series such as MythBusters and Time Warp often use high-speed cameras to show their tests in slow motion.

History of Katowice

Following the annexation of Silesia by Prussia in the middle of 18th century, a slow migration of German merchants began to the area, which, until then was inhabited primarily by a Polish population.

HuaChanSu

HuaChanSu (bufo bufo gargarizans) is a traditional Chinese medicine extracted from the skin of the Bufo toad that is believed by some to slow the spread of cancerous cells.

Ian Fyfe

A bowler from his early cricket days at St. Pat's School under the watchful eye of Jacob Harris and as a leading wicket taker for Karachi Goan Association, he was among the top slow left arm spin bowlers of Karachi at that time.

Jay Darlington

In the Lord Don't Slow Me Down film's commentary, Gallagher refers to him as "Gandalf".

Jed Horne

He is also the author of two books: Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of an American City, which chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the slow Federal response to the disaster, and Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, which was nominated for the 2006 Edgar Award for non-fiction crime writing.

Jeremy O'Keefe

His next film, "Somewhere Slow" starring Jessalyn Gilsig, of "Glee (TV Series)", who is also one of the film's producers won the Best Narrative Feature prize at the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival.

John C. Waldron

Without fighter escort, his attack bombers vulnerably underpowered and lacking in defensive armament, and forced by the unreliability of their own torpedoes to fly low and slow directly at their targets, all of the Hornet's torpedo planes soon fell to the undivided attention of the enemy's combat air patrol of Mitsubishi "Zero" fighters.

Juan Camilo Mouriño

In November 2009 the Mexican government announced that the main cause of the crash was turbulence encountered because of the pilot's failure to slow down in time and approaching too close to the wake turbulence of a 767.

Laurie Zimmer

After playing the female lead opposite Darwin Joston and Austin Stoker in Assault on Precinct 13, Zimmer appeared (as Laura Fanning) in two 1977 French films: Jean Eustache's Une sale histoire ("A Dirty Story") and Charlotte Szlovak's Slow City, Moving Fast (also known by the French title D'un Jour a L'Autre).

Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Lord Don't Slow Me Down is a rockumentary film, looking back on British rock band Oasis' Don't Believe the Truth world tour which took place from May 2005 to March 2006.

Mannie Garcia

Garcia's photograph of President George W. Bush surveying the damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 from the high remove of Air Force One became a symbol of his administration's slow and detached reaction to the human suffering and wreckage below.

Moscow, Cheryomushki

With its mock medieval melody, the parallel fifths in the bass line and the use of a horn solo, the orchestral introduction recalls a retrospective style, reminiscent of Yaroslavna’s arioso from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor or the first bars of the “bardic” slow movement from Borodin’s 2nd Symphony.

Nanobatteries

"Liquid electrolyte is unstable in the presence of metallic lithium and will cause all sorts of problems. That is why it is imperative to observe the slow-charging rate rule with lithium-ion batteries," Donald Sadoway, MIT professor of materials chemistry and an electrochemistry researcher, explained to TechNewsWorld.

Neato Robotics

In 2011, a more expensive enhanced version was developed under contract for German appliance maker Vorwerk Kobold, distributed only in Germany as the Vorwerk VR-100, with some slow expansion later into other European locations.

Ninja Rabbits

Home of the Underdogs considers Ninja Rabbits to be horrendous due to bad controls, very easy gameplay, drab background palletes, and slow animations.

Noa Nadruku

He had a slow start to the 1993 NSWRL season, but against Cronulla in the fifth round Nadruku became a sensation with his compact build providing tremendous speed and power, and scored two tries, setting up several others.

Pecatonica River

The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words: Bekaa (or Pekaa in some dialects), which means "slow", and niba, which means "water", forming the conjunction Bekaaniba or "Slow Water".

Pitch shift

Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings with David Seville (aka Ross Bagdasarian) were created by recording vocal tracks at slow speeds, then playing them back at normal speeds.

Pseudotocinclus juquiae

The type locality, a small creek in Juquitiba, is clear, with a slow current, mud, and in some places, sand on the bottom.

RAF Ringway

Comedian Frank Muir, spent several years at the school in the photographic section taking slow motion film of jumps on a project intended to decrease the frequency of parachutes failing (sometimes called "Roman Candle").

Slow Shalt Be the Whole of the Law

Slow Shalt Be the Whole of the Law is an album by the Swedish funeral doom metal band The Funeral Orchestra.

St. Croix Boom Site

Its location at the head of Lake St. Croix, the broad, slow area of the river that stretches from Stillwater to Prescott, Wisconsin, where the St. Croix joins the Mississippi River, is undeveloped and features many islands and tall sandstone bluffs on either side of the river.

Stereocenter

Racemization by Walden inversion may be restricted (such as ammonium or phosphonium cations), or slow.

Stockton's Wing

The band took its name from a line in the Bruce Springsteen song, "Backstreets" - "Slow dancin' in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing..."

Super Mario World

It is slowed down and made to echo in caverns, whereas it moves in a slow, wave-like fashion (in 3/4 or waltz time) in underwater levels; in the athletic theme, it is played quickly and energetically to suit the more risky and lively nature of a level taking place in the air.

Telecommunications in American Samoa

Despite the millions of dollars that governor Togiola Tulafono spent into bringing fiber optic to American Samoa, the Internet is still as slow before.

The Forbidden Quest

The New York Times Janet Maslin praised the "honest power of the film's archival scenes" while condemning its narrative as slow-paced, portentous, and poorly written.

Tidewater goby

Juveniles have been found as far upstream as 12 km, e.g. in Ten Mile River, Mendocino County, and San Antonio Creek and the Santa Ynez River, Santa Barbara County, sometimes in sections of stream impounded by California Golden beavers (Castor canadensis subauratus) which provide ideal slow-moving water habitat for tidewater gobies.

Two Concepts of Liberty

He also defined it as a comparatively recent political ideal, which re-emerged in the late 17th century, after its slow and inarticulate birth in the Ancient doctrines of Antiphon the Sophist, the Cyrenaic discipleship, and of Otanes after the death of pseudo-Smerdis.

Untethered

Untethered regimen, a technique combining the use of an insulin pump with a slow-acting insulin analog

We Got the Funk

The song's beat, characterized by a slow funky guitar loop, deep bassline and pounding drums, samples "It's So Different Here" by Rachel Sweet.


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