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1st Man in Space

It features vocals by Philip Oakey of The Human League on what is essentially an update of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Elton John's "Rocket Man" The song was written by another Sheffield musician Jarvis Cocker of Pulp.

8×56mmR

The updated cartridge coincided with an update to the Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle in which the barrel length was reduced and the chamber re-cut to accept the new cartridge, and was the cartridge chosen by Hungary for the 35M rifle as a replacement for the Mannlicher M1895.

Anthony James Barr

Assigned to work with the National Military Command Center, the information processing branch of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Barr rewrote and enhanced FFS, implementing three of its five major components: retrieval, sorting, and file update.

Apple HD SC Setup

Introduced with Apple's first SCSI hard drive, the Hard Disk 20SC in September 1986, Apple HD SC Setup can update drivers and partition and initialize hard disks.

Arabica Magazine

Regular columns included Washington Update by Maya Berry, Lama At Large by Lama Bakri, Pet Peeves by Chris Rizk, New York Newsline by Saladin Ahmed, Writing in Restaurants and Last Word by Karim Alrawi.

Bill McCord

In his later years with the network, up to his retirement in 1980, McCord's announcing work largely consisted of sub-announcing on NBC Nightly News and the one-minute NBC News Updates (as a frequent fill-in for regular announcer Bill Hanrahan), as well as occasional booth announcing duties for the local flagship station, WNBC-TV.

Claudius Clavus

It is believed he travelled as far north as the 70°10' N. lat. In Rome he became friends with the cardinal Giordano Orsini and the pope's secretary Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, who were among those working to update the old Roman cartography.

Confederate Stamp Alliance

Editor-in-chief of the project is Patricia A. (Trish) Kaufmann of Lincoln, Delaware who is responsible for collecting philatelic inputs for the catalog update from members as well as non-members.

Contractual Delivery Date

When a customer requests the provisioning of a new network circuit based on Metro Ethernet technology, Openreach will normally conduct a survey and then will supply a KCI (Keeping Customers Informed) update with the estimated Contractual Delivery Date.

CPanel

Auto Installers are a bundle of scripts which automate the installation (and update of) web applications such as WordPress, SMF, phpBB, Drupal, Joomla!, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, Geeklog, Moodle, MagicSpam WHMCS, and ZamFoo.

Database trigger

Triggers in Sedna were designed to be analogous to SQL:2003 triggers, but natively base on XML query and update languages (XPath, XQuery and XML update language).

EncFS

This option creates a large amount of CPU overhead, as each block's checksum must be calculated when data is read (to verify integrity) or written (to update the checksum).

Energy Star

Martin Hellman revealed that Energy Star standby mode requirement can be compromised when an electronic device uses Download Acquisition Mode (DAM) feature to update TV Guide listing during standby mode.

Europe Tonight

New features introduced included The Editor, where the editor of a European business publication discussed how they will be covering notable events, and an update on the U.S. markets which came live from the NASDAQ MarketSite.

Frito Bandito

Pressure from the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee and others prompted an update to the character; his gold tooth and stubble were eliminated and his hair combed.

Gayle Mill, North Yorkshire

Restoration's host Griff Rhys Jones returned to Gayle Mill in 2009 to film an update on the restoration work.

Generalized selection

In SQL, general selections are performed by using WHERE definitions with AND, OR, or NOT operands in SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

Generational accounting

"Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update" in James M. Poterba, ed.

Geothermal power in Italy

While the update of Rancia 1 and Le Prata (in the towns of Radicondoli (SI) and Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina (PI) respectively) are in progress, the total renovation will also start soon for the three geothermal plants located in the town of Piancastagnaio (SI).

Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars

This update provided revised J2000, epoch 2000 coordinates cross-matched with 2MASS sources where possible.

Gregory Webb

In October 2008, SPIKE TV's revived "Unsolved Mysteries," hosted by Dennis Farina, featured Webb's case again and provided an update on his case.

History of the Actor model

Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl developed the idea (first described in an IFIP workshop in 1967) of having methods on each object that would update its own local state based on messages from other objects.

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

The AR5 will provide an update of knowledge on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change.

Isadore Gilbert Mudge

Around the time Mudge came to Columbia the American Library Association asked her to update Guide to Reference Books, which was desperately needing a supplement to go along with the original edition.

James L. Key

He was instrumental in getting Harry Hopkins and his WPA program to update the city sewer system and nearly a million dollars to remodel the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium and Cyclorama building.

Joseph Abruzzo

Additionally, Abruzzo worked with State Representative Joe Saunders to propose the Competitive Workforce Act, which would "update the state's Civil Rights Act of 1992 to include protections against discrimination for reasons of sexual orientation and gender identity," which a University of Florida poll suggested that 73 percent of Floridians supported.

Kendall Van Dyk

He is the author of the most recent update to the Montana Stream Access Law, an Act of the 2009 session giving the public the right to access Montana rivers and streams from public bridges.

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

In 2005 Blackwell published New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society, an attempt to update Williams' text.

Kiwee Toolbar

In 2010, American Greetings bundled the toolbar with the Webshots Desktop Application (a free program that users could then download from their site to manage their online pictures) to help install the controversial Kiwee Toolbar as part of a software update for this program.

Leica M9

In 2011 Leica verified a malfunction that may prevent the camera from saving images to certain SanDisk cards and issued a firmware update in July 2012 that made "further improvements of SD-Card compatibility".

Mac OS X Tiger

An updated version of Safari, included as part of the free Mac OS X v.10.4.3 update, can also pass the Acid2 web standards test.

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Version 2.0 retained the hard-coded VA checks, but replaced the Shavlik security assessment engine with Microsoft Update technologies which adds dynamic support for all Microsoft products supported by Microsoft Update.

Microsoft CryptoAPI

Windows Vista features an update to the Crypto API known as Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG).

Moshe Sanbar

Following almost two decades of David Horowitz's tenure, he was instrumental in the modernization of the bank and the update of the existing Banking Law.

Nippert Stadium

On December 18, 2012, President Santa J. Ono and Athletic Director Whit Babcock unveiled long-anticipated plans to update and expand Nippert Stadium.

Parkway Drive

On 3 May, Parkway Drive uploaded a new studio update including a video of their time recording with Joe Barresi.

Poisonous Candy Factory

The DVD was announced in January 2008, via the official Mailing list email update and shortly after, announced officially.

Pro/DESKTOP

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Prosumer

For example, Lego Mindstorms allows users to download software from Lego's website so that the users can edit and update software as they wish.

Radford Electronics

Mike Davis joined John as a partner in 1989, and they worked together to launch the CD player and update the range of valve equipment as part of the Renaissance series.

Samsung GT-B7330

From this device's default home screen, the user can check the weather, play songs, update CNN headlines, view photos, configure device settings, and go to social-networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and YouTube.

Shinichirō Watanabe

After joining the Japanese animation studio Sunrise, Watanabe supervised the episode direction and storyboards of numerous Sunrise anime, and soon made his directorial debut as co-director of the well-received Macross update, Macross Plus.

StoryBox

International schools that teach English as a Second Language (ESL - update of the previous English as a Foreign Language - EFL) allow their students to subscribe en masse to StoryBox as it aids their students improvement in English while they are at home.

Taiwan Security Enhancement Act

Its proponents intended the proposed law to strengthen and update the Taiwan Relations Act, which was passed soon after the US ceased official relations with Taiwan, and instead recognized the People's Republic of China.

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

An update on March 15 revealed a cast that indeed included June Lockhart, along with Steve Valentine, Todd Bridges, and Larry Thomas.

The Hot List

Ben Becker: Fill-In Host and Fill-In Update Anchor (2005–2007)

TrueSkill

Factor graphs are used to "pack up" each team into (\mu,\sigma) pairs on which the update formulas are run; the skill updates are then correctly distributed to each player.

WEZB

Cami McCormick (news director & host of the "B-97's 60-Second News Update;" worked alongside "Cajun" Ken Cooper in the mornings, and later "Walton & Johnson". Left for Moscow in 1991 to do an all-English radio show until its end in 1994, then became a CNN reporter. Now a dedicated journalist with CBS news. Received three Edward R. Murrow awards, as well as two Gracie Allen Awards, among others)


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