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Do not eat jellyfish. Or fish that have spikes. Or fish that have parrot like beaks. Of that puff up like balloons.

I looked up to see a cute, baby-faced boy, his pale blond hair carefully gelled into orderly spikes, smiling at me in a friendly way.

Meanwhile, 'if oil spikes above $100, I expect a severe deflationary impact on the U. S. economy and world economy, ' he said.

Kratos realizes the only way to reach Jason is to stop a giant wheel of spikes blocking his way.

A crowning spire was a key feature of the design from the beginning, including a topmast and a ring of spikes.

Unfortunately, that's a problem. They get a little too close -- and when you're in a dirigible you have to be very careful about spikes.

Known as the "Iron Hammer" for her powerful spikes , Lang has appeared on her own postage stamp.

Then they strew steel spikes over the road to puncture the tires of any police cars that try to get through.

If the equipment is not used for a long period of time, disconnect the equipment from the power source to avoid damage from power spikes.

Once per week, a bladeling can cause a piece of her outer skin to explode, sending blade like spikes up to 15 feet forward.

The top of the Ankylosaurus was covered with thick plates. It also had 2 rows of spikes on its back and large horns on the back of its head.

Though there have been sporadic spikes, it has never stayed at such an elevated level for as long as it has lately .

One such area, located on the surface spikes used by HIV to attach to immune system cells and infect them, is called the CD4 binding site.

Coming with a host of long spikes, these sandals are a sure shot way to aerate the garden without trudging along any heavy tools.

How long do you think you could stand on your tippy-toes before you had to rest your heels on those iron spikes?

Underneath the ice, spikes meet spikes as an Alaska king crab the size of a nickel crawls over a knobby sea star.

These spikes were highly experiential, often involving two or more students sitting side-by-side.

Bony excrescences (horns, spikes) constantly "erupt" from his body, to be almost instantly "reabsorbed" .

The signal can be processed internally with buffering of up to 30 seconds, thereby making it possible to diminish pressure spikes in pipes.

Curious people came from far and wide to see him hammer steel spikes through the hard earth.

Caster spikes had one tactic and one trick only -- win or lose there was no tactical adjustment.

Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in spikes, usually with a pair of bracteoles.

Because metal wires cannot be rerouted , he decided to reroute spikes instead.

Extraordinarily high response times, or spikes (as shown in Figure 1), can be a concern if they occur frequently.

I don't have a photo but there black high heel booties with spikes all over the front of shoe.

Even Greenpeace does not suggest that there will not be temporary squeezes on demand and price spikes.

Just walk on the surface and push the spikes into the ground using your body weight.

In the past, spikes in the price of oil have created a "waiting" effect, where firms stall investment to see if prices will fall back.

And for benchmarking purposes, we were only running the router task (except where noted) to avoid spikes in the data from other activity.

Mr MacKerron told the Sunday Times: 'Through April we see a series of spikes due to the bank holidays.

Scheduled spikes, reading group meetings, and visiting luminaries are posted on the door.

An obstacle composed of barbed wire or spikes attached to a wooden frame, used to block enemy advancement.

Please wear suitable clothes and soft-soled leather shoes or rubber shoes. Do not wear shoes with steel spikes or high heels.

The frequency response of a comb filter consists of a series of regularly-spaced spikes, giving the appearance of a comb.

It would be a huge relief if those 9 billion could be fed without large disruptions of supplies or price spikes.

Indeed, Janine's model had gigantic spikes shooting out from all angles of her head.

But the price spikes have lit a " For Sale " sign atop the coal mining sector , and a range of assets could change hands this year .

The close-up above looks like nothing less than the scaly hide of a terrifying dragon. Check out those spikes!

"We didn't want to scare people, " she said, explaining that spikes in asbestos readings tended to return quickly to acceptable levels.

This new investigation shows temperature 'spikes' within some of the interglacial periods over the last 340, 000 years.

Spikes in testosterone levels are both the cause and the consequence of a profitable day on the trading floor.

Are There Any Other Causes Resulting in Surges and Spikes Besides Lightning?

However, this would lessen the ability of the server to respond to load spikes in which a large number of threads were actually needed.

If you could intervene and prevent these spikes, you could mitigate many of the effects of this damaging disease, " said Strano. "

With iron spikes they lever them into position, hack out any stones embedded in the pungent orange flesh and heave the logs on to a runner.

He says penitentes might also increase glacial melting as sunlight bounces around the spikes and heats them.

Building resident and hawk supporter Mary Tyler Moore said she expected that the spikes would be put up on Wednesday.

A woody Eurasian plant(Hyssopus officinalis) having spikes of small blue flowers and aromatic leaves used in perfumery and as a condiment.

However, the number of servers can also be increased to accommodate short-term spikes in traffic or decreased during periodic lulls.

Drink water instead of coffee or soda all day to avoid energy spikes.

because spikes in demand must be met, firms run with costly spare capacity much of the time.

Baseload power is delivered at a steady rate around the clock, while diesel is more suited to meeting spikes in demand.

Thegear has been experiencing electrical current spikes and must be repaired over the coming months to continue station construction.

At the right edge of the chart, the alternating spikes of Force Index warn traders that the days of relatively easy money are over.

Spikes in workload demands for the retail industry are usually predictable (like Christmas buying crunch season).

The simulation results showed that, in every layer of the visual network, the neuron spikes appeared synchronization phenomena.

Eventually, Marzullo says, they realized that "if the objective is to show spikes, you don't need a million dollars and a clean room. "

Then, wham, danger spikes as those hungry lions can now operate in darkness for the rest of the lunar cycle.

These effects are still much smaller than recent food-price spikes, but would they, on balance, help or hurt the poor?

There will also be two sets of spikes on triggers for when the pillars move, which will deal damage and also block line of sight.

Introducing. . . Bluto! The strongest man in the world! Hurry, hurry, hurry! He bends spikes with his naked teeth, folks!

He came to sit by me, the tidy spikes of his hair shining golden in the light, his grin stretching across his face.

By applying a voltage of 200 mV across the graphene membrane, a series of spikes are observed in an electric current that scales the gap.

perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers.

To allow for unforeseen spikes in inflation, developers typically price in higher-than-expected levels of inflation as a hedge.

In addition, stainless steel spikes can be easily inserted to hold bread, vegetables and meat securely, ready for slicing and chopping.

The tree can reach up to 15 meters high and has a greyish bark, with shiny green leaves, and spikes of small greenish flowers.

Offers more cushioning than other distance spikes, yet is still light and responsive.

Each type of atom and class of molecule emits its own individual type of radiation, which shows on spectrum charts as "spikes. "

These tall spikes on glaciers cast the snow into shadow, which may slow the overall rate of sublimation compared with flatter regions.

The news barely raised eyebrows in Nigeria, where voters are used to spikes in violence at election time.

"Sir, something! " Lieutenant Joe Yang hunched over his sensor station, energy spikes dancing on-screen.

The crop-price spikes are set to echo through the food chain, as corn and soya are the two main feeding crops.

A metal frame with a spike or spikes, attached to a shoe or boot to prevent slipping, especially on ice.

We're still getting used to coping with the traffic and various spikes in traffic so bear with us.

In some ways, advisers say, the gold boom is easier to deal with than past spikes like the Internet-stock bubble in the late 1990s.

I asked, pointing to one of the spikes, which indicated that the rate had shot up.

Even without obvious clinical seizures, may also prove lower seizure threshold, which appears EEG spikes or spike and wave discharges.

Capturing both Tiberium Spikes is also extremely beneficial and made easy with the games only tier 1 garrison clearing unit the Buzzer.

The spikes, covered with sticky tissue, appear to capture food as it passes by.

For benchmarking purposes, only the router task is run (except where noted) to avoid spikes in the data from other activity.

This reduces the probability of supply bottlenecks and of price spikes.

CAN Portugal, Ireland and Greece get through the latest spikes in their bond prices without some help from Brussels, or from the IMF?

Male flowers in thyrses, female flowers or bisexual flowers in spikes; young leaves not covered with trichomes.

They used gloves studded with spikes or weighted with lead, and fights often ended in death, like other entertainment of the day.

Johnny Black had brought the three spikes to Peenoo-Peenee, and left them at German Oscar's but how and where he found them he never told.

We talked about before the H and M spikes on the surface of the flu virus.

Studies by German scientists showed that the skin is covered with microscopic spikes .

Bank lending typically spikes in the first quarter of each year, although analysts say the size of 2010's increase is unusually large.

Third, the infrastructure does not exist to deliver it without unmanageable price spikes.

Sulfuras is covered with many vicious spikes of varying sizes, each white hot and surrounded by the distortion of shimmering heat.

Flower clusters axillary, those of terminal clusters erect spikes or complex thyrsoid structures.

South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers.

As long as potential spikes in inflation can be controlled without too much cost, China has a lot to gain from higher wages.

annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally.

But Amazon's entire business model is built around handling intense traffic spikes, especially for the holiday seasons.

Also there are the huge bud-spikes of the stout, thick- flowering pink orchid, huge buds like fat ears of wheat, hard-purple and splendid.

Erotic words, pictures, and videos have been around a long while, but the Internet makes possible a never-ending stream of dopamine spikes.

This can be avoided by using a three-point FIR differentiator, but the estimating spikes have a tendency to be negative.

Spikes terminal; bracts conspicuously larger than leaves, pubescence as on leaves, marginal teeth acute to acuminate.

The price spikes are hurting users, who have little option but to continue buying the small amounts of antimony available.

DataPower is self-optimizing, and spikes in CPU unassociated with traffic levels may occur as the device performs background activities.

Inflorescences axillary, simple or branched spikes crowded toward branchlet apex and forming a large, often dense, bracteate panicle.

Immoderate speculation in commodities is blamed by some people (not all) for the recent sharp spikes in food and metal prices.

Mr. Woods spikes television ratings significantly when he plays.

So let's take their advice and free our families and our businesses from painful spikes in gas prices once and for all.

They say that she is blood-thirsty, that those who speak against her are impaled on spikes to die lingering deaths.

Local officials saw promising projects turned into half-built skeletons, while banks saw spikes in nonperforming loans.

The price spikes over the past century were linked to interruptions in supply, notably during the first world war.

Male spikes usually clustered in leaf axils or along leafless, axillary shoots, drooping, sometimes branched.

Shippers utilizing air freight and trucking are particularly vulnerable to coming rate spikes, Wilson warned.

reticulate veins large, conspicuous, veinlets ascending Spikes leaf-opposed.

Bract keeled; bracteoles distinct; inflorescences of spikes, flowers sunken into rachis.

At the micro-scale, similar-looking spikes help solar cell surfaces maximize their sunlight absorption.

Actual usage patterns (for instance, Monday morning spikes) may be even more aggressive.

Individual cells of E. coli bacteria generate electrical spikes that resemble the firing of neurons, researchers say.

leaflet blades with margin entire. Inflorescences generally axillary thyrses or spikes.

Spikes terminal; bracts similar to leaves in shape and size, slightly wider, sparsely to rarely densely glandular hairy.

More significantly, it likely helps avoid price spikes or gas shortages during the coming winter.

This physiological rig amplifies neuronal spikes from biological specimens.

Equipment of the center allows repairing any damages of the wheel but it is impossible to restore spikes with the help of welding.

A new study in seven cities across South Korea has uncovered a clear association between suicide and spikes of particulate pollution.

Plotting traffic over time helps separate true spikes from possible overall increase in web traffic.

Male inflorescences spikes, solitary or clustered, or grouped into axillary or terminal panicles.

It is an important approach of increasing the wheat yield by breeding the wheat varieties with bottle-green spikes.

It writhes and spits, the spikes protruding from its underbelly digging into Bob's skin.

This will eventually lead to spikes in your glucose levels coupled with a slow or delayed insulin release. This results in diabetes.

high-strength steel structural bolts, nuts, track bolts, screw spikes and various non-standard fasteners.

genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs.

Flowers in axillary glomerules or spikes, small, sessile or sometimes shortly pedicellate.

succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with hemp-like fiber and spikes of showy flowers; chiefly Africa.

They explode from their bodies like spikes and attack indiscriminately anyone who has the misfortune to be standing beside them.

Most players forget that foxholes with missile squads in can cause serious havoc to expansions and tiberium spikes.

Retractable Spikes (Basic): It is said that nothing is more painful than a compound fracture, when pieces of bone pierce through the skin.

Do not be concerned with spikes in CPU performance.

these may be manifest as horns , spikes , elongated limbs , or even tentacles.

The driving wheels had broad tires in which steel spikes could be fixed .

If the converter lacks an internal buffer at the reference pin, you will notice incoming or outgoing current spikes.

Flowers axillary, solitary or forming short spikes, bisexual and female (plants polygamous), without bractlets.

All you need to do is cut a lemon in half and place each piece on both spikes of copper and zinc and you're good to go.

Medieval weapons tipped with steel spikes or sharp beaks probably caused these wounds, she proposes.

Objective: To summarize the clinical and EEG characteristics of benign epilepsy of childhood with centro- temporal spikes(BECTS).

Some masochists enjoy a form of aichmophilia (the love of needles and spikes).

Participants shall only wear rubber-soled sports shoes or running shoes with spikes not more than 6 mm long for the competition.

Spikes in food costs have led to riots in Tunisia and Algeria recently, much like they did during a food crisis in 2008.

Latency spikes greater than 50 milliseconds that last for more than a few seconds.

Clock timing affects crosstalk because it slightly changes the relative time of arrival of aggressive voltage spikes .

any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes.

This may not seem like much, given that the brain produces millions of spikes every second.

The new inductors handle high transient current spikes without hard saturation .

A novel method based on a combination of wavelet-based and non-linear energy operator is presented for the detection of neural spikes.

The manual network was trained and then identifies the spikes to different classifications.

Branches glabrous; leaf blade narrowly ovate to lanceolate, margin finely crenulate throughout; spikes very slender, to 26 cm.

Flowers axillary, solitary or in small clusters, sometimes forming lax leafy spikes.

Better information reassures markets and helps calm panic-induced price spikes.

Teenagers showed the highest spikes in these prediction error signals, which likely means they had the largest dopamine response.

The lines of its body follow the lines of the flower, while the detail of his carapace and the spikes on one leg are razor sharp.

Online traffic spikes as Web users hunt for the images with gleeful schadenfreude.

Comet was looking at one of the giant purple spikes, it felt soft and warm.

Expect huge damage spikes from both of them. Very difficult fight to heal, not very forgiving for mistakes.

Therefore it wants a substantial interest rate premium. That can be seen in the huge spikes in interbank lending rates.

Use start and end of the recorded file as timing spikes.

Flowers bisexual or female sterile, arranged in spikes or heads and pseudo terminal or lateral.

Changed Desert Eagle's base spell to improve performance and reduce spikes on slower computers.

Tellingly, the spikes in the novel's sales coincide with the news (see chart).

small deciduous tree of the Transvaal having spikes of yellow flowers.

Objective To investigate clinical characteristics of benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECT).

For waveform with spikes, the magnitude of spike will be random and different on consecutive waveform.

For example, suppose that the CPU use for a particular process suddenly spikes to 100% and then, just as quickly, goes back down.

Spikes in anxiety levels were followed, around three days later, by dips in the price of shares.

Spikes of Force Index identify zones of mass hysteria, where trends become exhausted.

Spikes cristate or feathery, much branched; perianth red, purple, or yellow.

The recent price spikes apply to almost all significant food and feedstuffs (see charts).

The planet looked very strange. It was purple and covered in huge spikes.

And along the way, the chances of damaging price spikes will always be lurking.

A spiny Asian tree(Acacia catechu) having bipinnately compound leaves, spikes of yellow flowers, and dark heartwood.

Unemployment among young adults usually spikes during bad times, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics economist Amar Mann.

there are plenty of cone-shaped spikes on the wall of urediospore.

FIXED RAILWAY EQUIPMENT. EXPANSION BOLTS WITH SPIKES FOR EXTRA FIRM FIXING.

Occasional spikes were seen in the transcoding service and other peripherally related processes.

Jewelers also are buying precious metals in bulk at fixed prices to hedge the risk of further spikes.

This method can identify trends in performance and performance spikes.

The mechanical platform of unregulated voltages, power and back-EMF spikes, and the electronic platform of clean power and 5-volt signals.

In the list of banned styles are included ponytails, mullets and elaborate spikes.

4 (3) Inflorescences compound spikes, flower-bearing part of spikes very condensed and forming obconical to hemispheric capitula.

Icicles are formed when water dripping from an object freezes, forming long, tapered spikes.

What is driving these oil price spikes when so little of the oil supply is affected? Why is the market so volatile?

In digital scope, if the spike is high: In sample acquisition mode, it will be shown as random amplitude spikes.

The rice is blossoming, the golden spikes are shining, and the scarecrows are all smiling.

Amazon once saw spikes in traffic during the workday lunch hours.

Bracts like foliage leaves or distinctly smaller on axillary spikes.

We considered good luck, bad luck, the timing of luck and the size of "luck spikes. "

Choose your preferred weapons: mines, spikes, guns and armors .

Adolf persuaded U. S. sprinter Jesse Owens to wear the athletics spikes he designed.

This allows the storage and processors to handle spikes during peak periods.

annual or perennial of eastern North America with long spikes of blue or white flowers.

While capturing and maintain Tiberium Spikes is very important, if you need some fast cash, you can destroy Tiberium Spikes.

Then you put the longer logs on top of that, hammer in some spikes, and you have your bridge.

The output buffer circuit can reduce spikes of waveforms in the readout circuit.

The most dangerous parts - sudden spikes in volume - can cause instant damage.

In America, households borrowed against bubble-era housing-price spikes to pay for a consumer import boom.

Spikes in volume can validate a breakout or signify a potential turning point.

Still, more heads on spikes will certainly discourage others.

It's back has a row of large bony plates, and the danger with four tail spikes defense against predators.

Families have been held hostage to spikes in gas prices.

Female spikes thick, with congested glomerules in fruit.

The difference of physiological races leads to inconsistent intension and various sags of spikes. 3.

The World Bank estimates that recent price spikes for foodstuffs have pushed an additional 44 million people into extreme poverty.

But the price spikes are giving U. S. farmers an incentive to boost production.

twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.

It will performance object image compression, with the plane combine to make the image in the plane spikes.

Includes ten 6mm pyramid spikes and a spike wrench.

European orchid with spikes of green and pinkish or purplish flowers.

In fact, I don't even think it's traded above six, except for a couple of little spikes.

Spikes in workload triggered by promotions and sales events.

When a house gets robbed, the likelihood of that house or houses near it getting robbed again spikes in the following days.

Flowers in capitula, compact spikes, or loose panicles.

Figure 9: Pink highlighted areas show where the spikes in resources will appear.

The few spikes in media coverage of Yemen over the past few years are all related to fears of al-Qaida presence.

The spikes that jut from its body are sharps of stone ripped from the earth during the development of the creature.

Latency spikes over 50 ms that last for more than a few seconds.

These increases may prove temporary, as happened after the spikes of the 1970s, permanent or, worst of all, ongoing.

All previous spikes in volatility returned swiftly to calm.

The spires that appear to emanate from Venus are diffraction spikes caused by the camera itself.

The best example of this is the porcupine whose spikes stand up when threatened.

These spikes are driven by six individual large-loss incidents.

These laborers had the job of cutting holes in rock. They did this by hitting thick steel drills, or spikes.

clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers.

Spikes mostly leaf-opposed, often terminal in male plants.

But beware: spiders, bats, bears, skeletons, spikes and nasty falls all stand in your way.

If you use that number for planning a new server, you quickly run out of capacity on that box when the 95-to-100-percent spikes occur.

Furthermore, there will be no reverse spikes toward power supply when the invariable current being output.

millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes.

But you see spikes of activities.

Some had feathers, some had scales. Spikes and claws and whip-like tails.

Also, most cloud companies also charge more for spikes in usage, which may lead to unpredictable costs.

EEG has important diagnostic value in diagnosing BECT. The centrotemporal spikes tend to vary, shift or disappear sometimes.

Such products can include bats, racquets, balls and even clothing like spikes and boots.

Another bout of price spikes will focus minds eventually.

Their confidence in world markets has been shaken by two food-price spikes in four years.

a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lilylike waxy white flowers.

Glomerules forming short spikes on axillary branchlets.

For waveform with spikes, the magnitude of spike will be much more consistent than with TDS340.

Besides being very filling, fiber reduces spikes in your blood sugar levels.

Protruding down his back is a giant row of spikes - each as tall as six feet.

I normally leave things like fingers, claws or spikes for later.

please! No! Not the lasers and the spikes!

Each of the spikes, which represent the seven seas and seven continents, is about 9 feet long and 150 pounds.

Flowers appearing bisexual, 4- or 5-merous, in axillary thyrses, rarely spikes, sometimes borne on older branches or bole.

There are the oil men , still awash with profits after the recent price spikes.