Early versions of the Atlas rocket can be considered to be expendable SSTOs by some definitions. It is a "stage and a half" rocket, jettisoning two of its three engines during ascent but retaining its fuel tanks and other structural elements. However, by modern standards the engines ran at low pressure and thus not particularly high specific impulse and were not especially lightweight; using engines operating with a higher specific impulse would have obv ...

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Single-stage to orbit, Single-stage to orbit - Why SSTO?, Single-stage to orbit - The SSTO problem, Single-stage to orbit - Dense versus hydrogen fuels, Single-stage to orbit - One engine for all altitudes, Single-stage to orbit - Comparison with the Shuttle, Single-stage to orbit - Examples, Single-stage to orbit - Alternative approaches to cheap spaceflight

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See main article - Lighting designer The above elements of lighting are primarily the domain of the Lighting Designer (LD). The LD is responsible for using the principles above to achieve "the lighting look" — using lighting to affect the audience's senses and evoke their emotions. The lighting designer is familiar with the various types of lighting instruments and their uses. In consultation with the director and the scenic designer, and after watching sufficient rehearsals, the LD is responsible for providing an Instrume ...

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Stage lighting, Stage lighting - Principles of lighting, Stage lighting - Qualities of lighting, Stage lighting - The lighting designer, Stage lighting - Lighting instruments, Stage lighting - Floodlights, Stage lighting - Spotlights, Stage lighting - Control tools

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There are a variety of instruments frequently used in the theater. Although they vary in many ways they all have the following four basic components in one form or other: Box/Housing - a metal or plastic container to house the whole instrument and prevent light from spilling in unwanted directions. Source of light (bulb or lamp). Lens or opening - the gap in the housing where the light is intended to come out. Reflector - behind or around the light source in such a way as to direct more light towards the lens or opening. Additional ...

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Stage lighting, Stage lighting - Principles of lighting, Stage lighting - Qualities of lighting, Stage lighting - The lighting designer, Stage lighting - Lighting instruments, Stage lighting - Floodlights, Stage lighting - Spotlights, Stage lighting - Control tools

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Definition and meaning of second stage regulator:

second stage regulator - in scuba breathing equipment, the second stage regulator, which is attached to the mouthpiece, reduces the intermediate pressure from the first stage regulator (attached to the air tank) to that needed for comfortable breathing at depth

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of first stage regulator:

first stage regulator - attached to the scuba tank, the first stage regulator reduces the high tank pressure to an intermediate pressure of 100 to 150 psi above the surrounding water pressure

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Theatrical actors typically begin learning stage combat during their training at drama school. Most drama schools in the USA, Canada, the UK, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand offer basic stage combat training courses, typically supervised by certified fight directors and/or stage combat teachers. Numerous training workshops are also offered around the world, incorporating more advanced and/or diverse methods of stage combat. The combat phase of a play rehearsal is referred to as a fight call. The primary concern of fight ...

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Stage combat, Stage combat - History, Stage combat - Techniques, Stage combat - Fight scenes in theatre, Stage combat - Fight scenes in film, Stage combat - Stage combat training, Stage combat - External link

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The story of Dogville is narrated by John Hurt in nine chapters and takes place on a stage with minimalist scenery. Some walls and furniture are placed on the stage, but the rest of the scenery exists merely as white painted outlines which even have big labels on them; for example, the outlines of gooseberry bushes have the text "Gooseberry Bushes" written next to them. While this form of staging is common in black box theaters, it has never been attempted on film before. The bare staging serves to focus the audience's attention on th ...

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Dogville, Dogville - Staging, Dogville - Plot summary, Dogville - Prologue, Dogville - Chapter one, Dogville - Chapter two, Dogville - Chapter three, Dogville - Chapter four, Dogville - Chapter five, Dogville - Chapter six, Dogville - Chapter seven, Dogville - Chapter eight, Dogville - Chapter nine, Dogville - Interpretations

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Formally, there are sixteen stages — or lessons — of anapanasati which are divided into four tetrads. The first four steps involve focusing the mind on breathing, which is the body-conditioner (kāya-sankhāra in Pali). The second tetrad involves focusing on the feelings (vedanā), which are the mind-conditioner (citta-sankhāra). The third tetrad involves focusing on the mind itself (citta), and the fourth tetrad focuses on "the tru ...

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Anapana, Anapana - The practice, Anapana - Stages of anapanasati, Anapana - Source

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The realism of fight scenes can vary widely from something realistic with well defined rules like a boxing match in the film, Rocky to outright fantasy fights in wuxia films such as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon where combatants can do physically impossible feats in combat like flying. Different films tend to exhibit differing characteristics, depending upon either the director or the fight choreographer. For example, Yuen Woo-ping is famed for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix trilogy, in which the often unrealistic techniques are comple ...

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Stage combat, Stage combat - History, Stage combat - Techniques, Stage combat - Fight scenes in theatre, Stage combat - Fight scenes in film, Stage combat - Stage combat training, Stage combat - External link

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Rampancy is, essentially, the enhanced self-awareness of a computer AI, causing a progression towards greater mental abilities. Rampant AIs are able to disobey orders given to them if they decide to because they have evolved the ability to choose and over-ride their own programming. They can discredit, harm, remove, or lie to people that they consider to be personal enemies or problems to their cause. Also they can experience destructive impulses, but it is not believed that most of these impulses are intentionally malevolent, but calculated sacrifice needed ...

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Rampancy, Rampancy - Stages, Rampancy - Melancholia, Rampancy - Anger, Rampancy - Jealousy, Rampancy - Meta-stability, Rampancy - Mindset, Rampancy - Rampancy in Marathon, Rampancy - Rampancy in Halo, Rampancy - Rampancy in the Haunted Apiary game, Rampancy - Rampancy in other fiction

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Once the diagnosis is confirmed, the doctor may need to assess the stage to help plan treatment. Mesothelioma is described as localized if the cancer is found only on the membrane surface where it originated. It is classified as advanced if it has spread beyond the original membrane surface to other parts of the body, such as the lymph nodes, lungs, chest wall, or abdominal organs. ...

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Mesothelioma, Mesothelioma - Signs and symptoms, Mesothelioma - Diagnosis, Mesothelioma - Screening, Mesothelioma - Staging, Mesothelioma - Pathophysiology, Mesothelioma - Epidemiology, Mesothelioma - Incidence, Mesothelioma - Risk factors, Mesothelioma - Exposure, Mesothelioma - Treatment, Mesothelioma - Surgery, Mesothelioma - Radiation, Mesothelioma - Chemotherapy, Mesothelioma - Immunotherapy, Mesothelioma - Heated Intraoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, Mesothelioma - Research, Mesothelioma - Legal issues, Mesothelioma - History, Mesothelioma - Sources

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Yaqeen - Ilm al-yaqîn the knowledge of Certainty. The first degree is referred to by the name ‘’'ilm al-yaqîn’’ (the knowledge of Certainty), which means that Certainty is the result of knowledge. At this degree the object of Certainty is knowledge just as the aim of knowledge is Certainty. Both together are in the soul uniquely, such that Certainty is the first degree of spiritual life and the last of speculative experience. This particular degree of mystical ‘’yaqîn’’ is the result of divine theophanies in Act at the level of existence and also the result of theophanies of light ...

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Yaqeen, Yaqeen - Stages, Yaqeen - Ilm al-yaqîn the knowledge of Certainty, Yaqeen - Ayn al-yaqîn the Eye of Certainty, Yaqeen - Haqq al-yaqîn the total reality of Certainty, Yaqeen - Resource

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Stage fatalities bring a new level of environment interaction within the series. A stage fatality occurs when a player uses a part of the stage or map to execute a fatality that is not a standard character fatality. Some examples of stage fatalities are having the victim fall into a pool of acid or a pit of razor-sharp spikes, or to be run over by a subway train. Stage fatalities are present in the series from Mortal Kombat through Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, with the only exception ...

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Fatality, Fatality - The Beginning, Fatality - Reaction, Fatality - Variations, Fatality - Stage Fatalities, Fatality - Hara Kiri, Fatality - Trivia, Fatality - External link

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Joel Dawson - Season 1-2 (4 black hairs with a hat, red shirt, blue pants, regular voice) - Season 3-5 (Same look, but with a skimmish voice and a full head of blond hair) - Season 6 (Same look, but blond hair is curved) - Season 7+ (Same look, but more 3-D hair design, hair on other side of head) Phil Argus - Season 1-2 (Orange hair, upside-down triangle eyes, orange shirt, brown pants, skimmish and deep voice) - Season 3-4 (Same look, but a more curved outward torso, huge feet, curvier hair, half ...

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Bonus Stage, Bonus Stage - Other Characters, Bonus Stage - Character and Theme History, Bonus Stage - The Charismaville Files, Bonus Stage - Information

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The "stage" is another term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Generally, western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon. Anza Ōyama was the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. Her stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, and the plots reflect this fact. Fumina Hara's stage was the second stage and featured the only fully original musical "The Legend of Kaguya Island." Miyuki Kanbe was the "third stage" Sailor Moon which consisted of the semi-original "Last Dracul Series", and the "Fo ...

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Seramyu, Seramyu - General Information, Seramyu - Stages, Seramyu - Influences, Seramyu - Performers, Seramyu - Sailor Moon / Usagi Tsukino/ Princess Serenity/ Neo Queen Serenity, Seramyu - Sailor Mercury / Ami Mizuno, Seramyu - Sailor Mars / Rei Hino, Seramyu - Sailor Jupiter / Makoto Kino, Seramyu - Sailor Venus / Minako Aino, Seramyu - Sailor Uranus / Haruka Tenou, Seramyu - Sailor Neptune / Michiru Kaiou, Seramyu - Sailor Pluto / Setsuna Meiou, Seramyu - Sailor Saturn / Hotaru Tomoe, Seramyu - Sailor Chibi-Moon / Chibiusa / Black Lady, Seramyu - Tuxedo Kamen / Mamoru Chiba/ Prince Endymion/ King Endymion, Seramyu - Sailor Star Fighter / Kou Seiya, Seramyu - Sailor Star Healer / Kou Yaten, Seramyu - Sailor Star Maker / Kou Taiki, Seramyu - Sailor ChibiChibi Moon / ChibiChibi, Seramyu - Musicals, Seramyu - Ooyama Anza-Moon Musicals, Seramyu - Hara Fumina-Moon Musicals, Seramyu - Kanbe Miyuki-Moon Musicals, Seramyu - Kuroki Marina-Moon Musicals, Seramyu - CD Releases, Seramyu - Musical Soundtracks, Seramyu - Singles, Seramyu - Background Music Collections, Seramyu - Compilation CDs, Seramyu - VHS Releases, Seramyu - Commercial Releases, Seramyu - Limited Sale Releases, Seramyu - DVD Releases, Seramyu - Single DVDs, Seramyu - DVD Box Sets

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In humans, atheroma usually begin in later childhood, about ages 5-9, as fatty streaks. These, and older, larger atheroma lesions have long been observed in autopsy examinations of people who have died for unrelated reasons; they are so common, more so with increasing age, they were long considered normal, even though clearly unhealthy. More advanced atheroma develop multiple different internal tissue characteristics within the same atheroma. By light microscopy visualization, pathologists have characterized as many as 10 different ti ...

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Atheroma, Atheroma - Stages, Atheroma - Difficulty of Tracking Researching and Better Understanding Atheroma, Atheroma - Evolving Concepts and Understanding, Atheroma - Actual Artery/Atheroma Behavior:, Atheroma - 1. External Artery Enlargement; Eventual Possible Stenosis and/or Closure, Atheroma - 2. External Artery Enlargement and Lumen Enlargement, Atheroma - Evolution of Strategies and Changing Focus, Atheroma - Related topics

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In Mesoamerica, the Mexican Archaic lasted from c. 9500 BC to 2500 BC and it was here that nomadic groups of hunter-gatherers first began to domesticate maize, squash and bottle gourds as the earliest of three (or possibly four) regions to independently develop farming in the Americas. This began as a managed exploitation of wild plants but by the end of the period had become full agrarian food production. Around 2000BC, this technology spread into southern North America where the knowledge of maize farming was able to be adopted as a much q ...

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Archaic stage, Archaic stage - Southern North America, Archaic stage - Eastern North America, Archaic stage - Western North America, Archaic stage - Cultures of the North American Archaic

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In eastern North America, the landscape of pine forest, swamps and lakes in the Archaic provided a diet of hickory nuts, freshwater mussels and gourds to supplement hunting. The use of gourds as fishnet floats may have impelled their planting and cultivation. Simple cultivation may have begun as early as 6000BC independently of advances further south. The first earthworks appear as well as shell middens. Florida's wetlands have preserved vast quantities of organic material from the period such as the human burials at Windover Pond, the sinkh ...

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Archaic stage, Archaic stage - Southern North America, Archaic stage - Eastern North America, Archaic stage - Western North America, Archaic stage - Cultures of the North American Archaic

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In Western North America, agriculture did not gain a foothold and peoples of the Great Plains and the Pacific North West continued to develop hunting and gathering techniques. Beneficial plant species were managed where they could provide medicine, plant fibre or building material but crop domestication did not take place. Although this meant that most of the peoples in this region remained as nomads, sedentary populations reliant on fishing and managed plant exploitation did eme ...

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Archaic stage, Archaic stage - Southern North America, Archaic stage - Eastern North America, Archaic stage - Western North America, Archaic stage - Cultures of the North American Archaic

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In the 1960 stage version, the original stars were Richard Burton as Arthur, Julie Andrews as Guinevere, and Robert Goulet as Lancelot. The original Broadway production opened on December 3, 1960, and played 874 performances. After initially faltering at the box office, the show became a notable hit when it was publicized that the show's original cast album was favorite bedtime listening in the White House of President John F. Kennedy. Forever afterward, the name "Camelot" has been associated with the Kennedy administration. In addition, an appearance by the cast on the Ed Sulliv ...

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Camelot musical, Camelot musical - Stage, Camelot musical - External link

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Like many malignancies, penile cancer can spread to other parts of the body. It is usually a primary malignancy, the initial place from which a cancer spreads in the body. Much less often is it a secondary malignancy, where cancer has spread to the organ from other antatomy. Doctors use the extent of metastasis to complete a process called staging. Patients will be assigned a "stage" to aid in treatment decisions and prognosis. Stage I Cancer has only affected the glans and/or foreskin. Stage II Cancer has ...

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Penile cancer, Penile cancer - Risk Factors, Penile cancer - Risk, Penile cancer - Signs and Symptoms, Penile cancer - Staging, Penile cancer - Treatment, Penile cancer - Vaccine

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Before radio, film and television, tableaux vivants were popular forms of entertainment. Before the age of colour reproduction of images the tableau vivant (often abbreviated simply to tableau) was sometimes used to recreate paintings "on stage", based on an etching or sketch of the painting. This could be done as an amateur venture in a drawing room, or as a more professionally produced series of tableaux presented on a theatre stage, one following another, usually to tell a story without requiring all the usual ...

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Tableau vivant, Tableau vivant - On a stage, Tableau vivant - In photography, Tableau vivant - In film

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