In fast-growing Texas, both of those fulcrums are tipping toward Democrats.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads China is one of the major fulcrums of globalization.
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Samba schools are social clubs, really, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
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Understanding the significance of that count — what "45 Fulcrums at Aleysk but none at Krymsk" actually means — takes even more data.
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The subtle beauty of each piece is both deliberate and misleading, and the sculptures function as fulcrums for a larger conversation.
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Several of Hinkie's high-profile draftees — Jahlil Okafor, Nerlens Noel and Dario Saric — fell well short of becoming the sort of fulcrums teams build around.
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"I do believe one of the fulcrums of unrest will be in Europe," David Marsh, managing director and co-founder at think tank OMFIF, told CNBC Tuesday.
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As covered in a recent article, samba schools in Rio de Janeiro are more like social clubs, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
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Ronald Rael of the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello of San José State University — who designed the initial fulcrums in 28500 — teamed up to create the fluorescent pink seesaws.
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Not a few of these have acted as fulcrums in its history — among them Hurricane Flora in 249, whose deft handling by a young Fidel Castro helped secure his grip on power.
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Regardless, all five of these companies, and in fact, the majority of companies to make LinkedIn Top Attractors list, are known for feeling like fulcrums of buzz: places like Uber, Tesla, and even Twitter.
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It's important to know all of that going in because, in the wake of this morning's Chris Paul trade, Eaves sprinkled some kernels of knowledge on his Facebook page about the fulcrums that engineered Paul's exit.
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Garage-hobby engineers get a real kick from stringing several feet of levels, fulcrums, swinging arms, springs and spinny things together from the junk drawer to accomplish an action that's otherwise doable by a human hand.
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The police pushed back, and for about 10 minutes, the two sides formed a heaving scrum with metal barricades being used as fulcrums and both police officers and protesters losing their footing and tumbling to the ground.
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The rest of its fighter jet force is made up of smaller, short-range, widely exported Mig-2500 Fulcrums and a small contingent of Mig-230 Foxhounds, big and extremely fast interceptors designed to defend the vast expanse of Russia's Far East.
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To more accurately describe the mechanics of drumming one must define multiple fulcrums within a 'system of levers'.
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The district is unique in that two big-band era ballrooms, the cultural fulcrums of the early 20th century social scene, still exist within the district: the Monticello and the Vanity Ballroom.
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Treatment may include analgesic and/or anti-inflammatory medications, regular breaks while using the small devices, muscle strengthening and stretching, massage, spinal manipulation and mobilisation, posture instruction and spinal fulcrums. Biomechanical analysis suggests a combination of approaches is best and gives more lasting results.
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The amount the force is amplified is called mechanical advantage. This is the law of the lever. Two levers connected by a rod so that a force applied to one is transmitted to the second is known as a four-bar linkage. The levers are called cranks, and the fulcrums are called pivots.
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In January 1978, the squadron moved on to its new location at Chabua where it was to remain for the next seven years. In November 1980, Wg Cdr MS Vasudeva VM intercepted, identified and photographed an intruding Chinese IL-18. In May 1985 the Black Archers was relocated to Hashimara. Switching to Fulcrums The squadron re-formed on MiG-29s at Pune in May 1987.
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2008: Finished studies on "The Two Cornerstones of a Free Democratic Society and the Three Fulcrums of a Normal Human Society". 15 November: published the book A Survey of the Normal Human Social Order in Hong Kong. 25 September 2009: Launched the signing of the "Peace Agreement", a public letter to leaders across the Taiwan Strait, aiming to build a constitutional democratic China based on "The Three Haves of Citizens".
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A rocker arm and two types of links open the intake-valves by transferring the rotational movement of a drive shaft with an eccentric cam to the output cam. The movement of the output cam is varied by rotating the control shaft with a DC stepper motor and changing the fulcrums of the links. This makes the continuous adjustment of the amount of the valve's lift (e.g., the amount of intake opening), during the intake valve event in the four-stroke cycle, possible.
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When deactivated, solenoids mounted to those cylinders' rocker arm studs would disengage the fulcrums, allowing the rockers to "float" and leave the valves closed despite the continued action of the pushrods. These engines are easily identified by their rocker covers, which each have elevated sections over 2 cylinders with electrical connectors on top. With the valves closed the cylinders acted as air-springs, which both eliminated the feel of "missing" and kept the cylinders warm for instant combustion upon reactivation.
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Structural engineers, however, felt that the re-engineered steel sheet pilings would give way under the centripetal forces placed on it by the quicksand as well as the building's weight. This required them to alter their plan for the wall columns that supported the building's frame and upper floors. The new foundation's wall columns (now called "fulcrums") were set inward from the sub-basement wall. Each fulcrum consisted of two C-beams, each wide and held together by four cover plates.
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Thalamian, zygian, and thranite are the English terms for thalamios (θαλάμιος), zygios (ζύγιος), and thranites (θρανίτης), the Greek words for the oarsmen in, respectively the lowest, middle, and uppermost files of the triereis. Tholes were pins that acted as fulcrums to the oars that allowed them to move. The center of gravity of the ship is low because of the overlapping formation of the files that allow the ports to remain closer to the ships walls. A lower center of gravity would provide adequate stability.
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The leading Bissel bogie and the first two pairs of coupled wheels were equalising in one group, while the remaining three pairs of coupled wheels were equalised with the trailing bogie, on each side (not cross-connected); thus three groups. As is usual, cross equalisation (LHS to RHS) was provided between the leading Bissel bogie and leading coupled wheels. Instead of pins, case-hardened cotters were provided for fulcrums of the bearing spring equalisinging beams. The proportion of balanced reciprocating parts was only 6% which reduced the hammer blow on the rails to per wheel at .
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In addition, the cruiser intercepted Polish vessel Dajti, and her boarding team boarded and inspected the Eastern European ship as a possible smuggler (7 April). Two Cuban Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-29UB Fulcrums shot down two Cessna 337 Skymasters flown by the "Brothers to the Rescue," a non-profit organization opposed to the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, over contested international waters (24 February 1996). Mississippi led a surface action group that included guided missile cruiser and guided missile frigate during Operations Sentinel Lifeguard, Standoff IV, and Escort 1–96 in the Straits of Florida in response to the Cubans' downing the Skymasters (25–28 February and 1–7 March).
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Carew wrote novels, short stories, plays, memoirs and other non-fiction, as well as children's stories and books,Cynthia James (2009), "The Amerindian Presence in a Selection of Children's Literature from Jamaica, Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago in the Anglophone Caribbean 1". KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology. but he remains best known for his first novel, Black Midas (1958). His many other works include The Wild Coast, The Last Barbarian, Moscow Is Not My Mecca (US edition, Green Winter, 1965), Fulcrums of Change (1988), Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean (1994), and The Guyanese Wanderer (Sarabande Books, 2007).
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Calculation of the mechanical advantage of a nail clipper The distances used in calculation of mechanical advantage are measured perpendicular to the force. In the example of a nail clipper on the right (a compound lever made of a class 2 and a class 3 lever), because the effort is applied vertically (that is, not perpendicular to the lever), distances to the respective fulcrums are measured horizontally, instead of along the lever. In this example, W/F is Note that (7 + 1) cm = 8 cm is the distance from the point of application of the effort to the fulcrum of the first lever, perpendicular to the applied effort.
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Besides this > we require a number of more or less firmly established organisatory > fulcrums, which we can utilize for our further work, ensuring that we are > not condemned to the Sisyphus-like task of only influencing the masses > politically, only to see this mass influence constantly slip through our > hands. We must create a whole solar system of organizations and smaller > committees around the Communist Party, so to speak, smaller organizations > working actually under the influence of our Party (not under mechanical > leadership). The quote "solar system of organizations" is often wrongly ascribed to Lenin by red-hunting American anti-communists including HUAC chief investigator Robert E. Stripling and U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle.
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It has been suggested that timber A-frames were erected to raise the stones, and that teams of people then hauled them upright using ropes. The topmost stones may have been raised up incrementally on timber platforms and slid into place or pushed up ramps. The carpentry-type joints used on the stones imply a people well skilled in woodworking and they could easily have had the knowledge to erect the monument using such methods. In 2003 retired construction worker Wally Wallington demonstrated ingenious techniques based on fundamental principles of levers, fulcrums and counterweights to show that a single man can rotate, walk, lift and tip a ten- ton cast-concrete monolith into an upright position.
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Soviet MiG-29 In 1979, the Soviet Union supplied Iraq with 240 fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft, along with military advisors, initially stationed at as-Shoibiyah Air Base 45 km SW of Basra.Exhumating the Dead Iraqi Air Force In early 1987, the Soviet Union delivered a squadron of twenty-four MiG-29 Fulcrums to Baghdad. Considered to be the most advanced Soviet fighter, the MiG-29 had previously only been provided to Yugoslavia, Syria and India. The MiG-29 export deal to Iraq gave a more advantageous payment schedule than any offered by the West: Iraq was caught in a financial crisis and needed the low-interest loans provided by the Soviet Union.
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PZL W-3A The separation saw a large reduction in types, numbers and bases. In 1994, 3rd Corps of Tactical Aviation was created. The newest fighter in the Czechoslovak Air Force arsenal was the MiG-29 (Izdelie 9.12). As there was only one general maintenance kit, which was given to newly created Slovak Republic, and all the material was split 1:1 with Slovakia, maintenance costs for the Czech Fulcrums would be too high. Along with the unreasonably high costs, speculative costs for spare parts imported from Russia, which were realised through third-party companies (Mil Mi-24 rotor blades acquisitions were over-priced by 400%), led to exchange of 10 MiG-29s with Poland for PZL W-3A Sokół rescue helicopters with avionics and ground support.
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The Five's arrests set off a firestorm of political implications and finger pointing and allegedly some South Carolina officials were using the arrests as political fulcrums to further their careers. In October 2001, the case's prosecutor, South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon publicly compared the Charleston Five to the terrorists who had destroyed the twin towers and world trade center the month before. The backlash from this comment was such that Condon soon removed himself as prosecutor and appointed 1st Circuit Solicitor, Walter Bailey as his replacement. With mounting worldwide protest and international solidarity for the Charleston 5, they were finally freed of all charges in November 2001, after one year of trial, throughout which they were kept under house arrest.
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After the 4477th TES was inactivated, the remaining assets were reconstituted as a detachment of the 57th Fighter Wing at Nellis AFB. It later became DET 2, 57th Fighter Wing in October 1991 and DET 2, 57th Wing in April 1993; in October 1996, DET 2, 57th Wing, became Detachment 3 of the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group. It is believed that Air Force Material Command operates MiG-29 Fulcrums and Su-27 Flanker aircraft somewhere in Nevada flying against Fighter Weapons School instructors, 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron aircrews and F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon "Aggressor" aircraft flying from Nellis AFB. It is known that the USAF continues a Foreign Materiel Acquisition/Exploitation program, although the extent of acquisitions and operations of that program is not available.
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Under Kuusinen's name came the Comintern concept of a politically organized "solar system" in an influential piece called "Report of the Commission for Work among the Masses" (1926): > The first of our task is to build up, not only communist organisations, but > other organisations as well, above all mass organisations sympathising with > our aims, and able to aid us for special purposes. We have already such > organisations in some countries, for instance the International Red Aid, the > Workers' International Relief, etc. Comrade Zinoviev has expressly > emphasised the importance of this task in his closing speech. Besides this > we require a number of more or less firmly established organisatory > fulcrums, which we can utilise for our further work, ensuring that we are > not condemned to the Sisyphus-like task of only influencing the masses > politically, only to see this mass influence constantly slip through our > hands.
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