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unusual facts about stepping


Stepping-stone squeeze

It was analyzed and named by Terence Reese in the book "The Expert Game", also titled "Master Play in Contract Bridge".


A Postcard from the Day

The Psychedelly, Bethesda, Maryland ("Goin' All the Way/Glendora", "Stepping Stone", "Mean Screen", "Reverse Psychiatry", "When We Were Kids")

AMD 10h

In November 2007 AMD stopped delivery of Barcelona processors after a bug in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of stepping B2 was discovered that could rarely lead to a race condition and thus a system lockup.

Auckland Lions

The New Zealand Kiwis coach at the time, Brian McClennan, served as Director of Football for the first few weeks of the season before stepping down to concentrate on the National side.

Bevrijdingsbos

On these stepping stones are written the Ten fundamental rights of children.

Big Dig ceiling collapse

On July 13, 2006, the leaders of the state legislature, Senate President Robert Travaglini and House Speaker Sal Dimasi, called upon Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew J. Amorello, who provided oversight of the project, to consider stepping down from his position and accepting a diminished role.

Bill Ayer

On February 16, 2012, Ayer announced that he will be stepping down as CEO of Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air, and its parent company on May 15, 2012 and will be replaced by Brad Tilden, the airline's president.

Bob McMahon

After four years as an assistant coach in Arizona, McMahon was announced as the new head coach of the Colorado Mammoth in September 2007, after Gary Gait announced that he was stepping down.

Borland Turbo Debugger

Although Borland's Turbo Pascal (TP) had useful single-stepping and conditional breakpoint facilities, the need for a more powerful debugger became apparent when TP started to be used for serious development.

Bothal

There is a castle, a church, a vicarage opposite the church gates, some stepping stones over the River Wansbeck, and a few houses.

Craig Spangenberg

Spangenberg gained national recognition for his firm by stepping forward to represent Canadian children injured by the birth-defect-causing morning sickness medication Thalidomide.

Daniel Akerson

Shortly after stepping down as CEO of Nextel in July 1999, Akerson was brought in by Craig McCaw to run Nextlink Communications, later rebranded as XO Communications.

Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine

After Gregoire moved to Florida to be with family, Antoine paired with fellow Stepping Out Studios instructor Joanna Zacharewicz.

Federalist Papers

John Jay, who had been secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation from 1784 through their expiration in 1789, became the first Chief Justice of the United States in 1789, stepping down in 1795 to accept election as governor of New York, a post he held for two terms, retiring in 1801.

Franz Budka

He committed suicide during an attempted breakout from Breslau on 6 May 1945 - after being seriously wounded after stepping on a mine, he shot himself.

Giles Duley

In 2011 he was severely injured after stepping on an IED whilst in Afghanistan and as a result became a triple amputee.

Hanover Stadtbahn

This scheme sometimes also recurs in the architecture of the stations, for example the station Kröpcke used to feature tilework that changes colours when stepping over between lines, i.e. yellow elements would be introduced in the red tiles when walking from the B to the C part of the station.

Hewitt Associates

On Thursday, June 15, 2006, it was announced that CEO and Chairman Dale L. Gifford would be stepping down.

Ho Ching

On 6 February 2009, Temasek Holdings announced that Ho Ching will be stepping down as CEO and Charles W. Goodyear will replace Ho as Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2009.

Howell Davies

Like many successful Victorian and Edwardian businessmen, Davies was eager to serve his community through municipal politics and at the same time provide himself a stepping-stone to further advancement.

Instruction step

OLIVER (CICS interactive test/debug) for IBM CICS, allowed both instruction and HLL statement stepping

Jimmy Boswell

In January 1966 he took over as caretaker manager after the resignation of Freddie Cox, and guided the team to two victories before stepping down upon the arrival of new manager Basil Hayward.

Joanna Zacharewicz

She first began competing in the American Rhythm division with Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine, a fellow instructor at Stepping Out Dance Studio in New York.

John Hoskyns

Hoskyns was interviewed about Stepping Stones and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

Joseph Roswell Hawley

A few months after stepping down from that office, he bought the Hartford Courant newspaper, which he combined with the Press.

Lost in Wonder: Voices of Worship

This project reunites two of the three, with the long-absent Michelle Tumes stepping in for Becker.

Lupe Pintor

Stepping up, he immediately beat former WBA World Bantamweight Champion Jorge Luján and then, on December 3 of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the Carnival of Champions in New Orleans.

Marty Russo

On December 15, 2010, Politico reported that Russo has accepted a "generous" buy-out and will be stepping down at the end of the year, as part of an overall shake-up.

Matt Murton

When stepping to the plate at Rockies home games, "Strong Tower" by Kutless plays over the speaker system.

Me Phi Me

on BMG/RCA Records, and featured classic funk samples from Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown, and others layered with the unprecedented use of live twelve-string folk guitars, performed by John M. Falasz III, live jazz bass, traditional frat stepping or stomp, harmonica solos (Rags Murtagh aka Rags Murtaugh), and other unique organic instruments, including the haunting Armenian Duduk as performed by Djivan Gasparyan (Gladiator).

Ophelia DeVore

In the agency's early days, it was a stepping stone for countless household names; Diahann Carroll, Helen Williams, Richard Roundtree, Cicely Tyson and others.

Pedro Sosa

Stepping into the starting lineup as a sophomore, Sosa made an immediate impact for Rutgers at his left tackle position, paving the way with Jeremy Zuttah and Cameron Stephenson for Ray Rice's successful debut as a freshman, the school's first 1000-yard rushing season since 1994.

Roger Wolcott Hall

Roger Wolcott Hall (May 20, 1919, Baltimore, Maryland - 20 July 2008, Windsor Hills, DE; congestive heart failure) was an American Army officer and spy in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and the author of a humorous memoir of his experiences in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), entitled You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (1957).

Ruins of St. Paul's

The carvings include Jesuit images with Oriental themes, such as a woman stepping on a seven-headed hydra, described by Chinese characters as 'Holy Mother tramples the heads of the dragon'.

Ryan Block

In July 2008 Block posted on Engadget that he would be stepping down as editor-in-chief to create a new company, leaving then Associate Editor Joshua Topolsky in charge.

Shadow Cabinet of Michael Howard

There was a minor reshuffle of the Shadow Cabinet due to the stepping down of Rt. Hon. David Curry MP as Shadow Secretary of State for Local and Devolved Government Affairs

Stanley Middleton

Middleton was an accomplished organist, playing regularly at St Mark's Methodist Church, Ravensworth Road in Bulwell and stepping in to cover others, often at Mansfield Road Baptist Church in Nottingham.

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Gröûp X released Stepping on the Crowtche owf Your Americain Presidaint in 2000 as a follow-up to 40 oz. Slushie and features new recordings of songs from the first together with some new songs.

Sweevo's World

Among the other characters inhabiting Knutz Folly are the Goose Which Laid The Golden Erg (sic), the Horrible Little Girls ("Minxes"), and the Goose-Stepping Dictators.

Tatton Brinton

He was re-elected twice, before stepping down at the February 1974 general election, when he was succeeded by the Conservative candidate Esmond Bulmer.

The Chiffons

With their trademark tight harmonies, high-stepping confidence and the hit machine of Goffin and King writing songs such as "One Fine Day", the Chiffons made music that helped define the girl group sound of the era.

The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck Finale

Leonard Garcia was set to fight Tyler Toner at this event, but withdrew from the contest, with Team Quest fighter & IFL veteran, Ian Loveland stepping in as Garcia's replacement.

Ushahidi

On 23 December 2010, Ushahidi Co-founder and Executive Director Ory Okolloh announced that she was stepping down from her role to become Manager of Policy for Africa at Google.

Virtual desktop

Scrolling desktops were made available to Macintosh users by a 3rd party extension called Stepping Out created by Wes Boyd (the future founder of Berkeley Systems) in 1986.

Waiting for the Worms

Following the images of the fascist crowd, the screaming face and a fascist breaking a man's skull from "What Shall We Do Now?", a dog biting meat off a hook then consumed by a larger one (from the Animals tour), and the famous goose-stepping hammer sequence, we see Pink yell "Stop".

William James Sawyer

Secretary/Manager of Everton F.C. in 1918-19 (until stepping down due to work commitments) - steering the club through tricky times as World War I ended.

William M. Gray

After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU's tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach.

WMV HD

The technology was considered a stepping stone to true high definition optical disc formats (HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc) and Microsoft never intended the discs to be played on anything but personal computers.

Zaharin Yusoff

Prof Zaharin bin Yusoff led the university for two years (2008–2010) before stepping down by the end of 2010, leaving the post to the third and current president, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Muhamad Rasat Muhamad, who officially took office on January 1, 2011.


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