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Often, scientists see large chunks drifting in polar seas, and then have to work backwards to figure out the point of origin.

The ears of a small gray doves, as if into the cotton, with a tree-like chunks stamp there, there is no move.

Moreover, some of these use cases might turn out to be large enough that they will have to be decomposed into smaller chunks.

dimmed, and he looked up to see Luclin broken apart in the sky , a wave of energy carrying chunks of debris rapidly toward Norrath.

Sharks: If it's trying to take chunks out of your boat, hit it with a paddle or a pole.

Not the kind that wipes out whole chunks of our lives, but to wipe out the ones that have caused us so much pain and suffering.

Today, I woke up from sleeping at my friends house with a bunch of other people, with my waist long hair cut into chunks on my pillow. FML.

Look for chunks in the word that you know.

At the far end of our table a woman chops pork fat into big chunks and tosses them into a huge wok.

He would be running down country road. He could feel the rocks and chunks of dirt at his feet.

As you know from the previous installments in this series, my contention is that every piece of software includes reusable chunks of code.

In fact, like dark chocolate, small chunks here and there can be good for you, or at least give you a reason to get of bed in the morning.

It is trying to keep its businesses stable and its employees motivated while also laying plans to sell off big chunks of the company.

It lets information flow freely and ubiquitously -- like water through a town's plumbing -- by metering it out in usable chunks.

The first relates to the question of large cross-border banks which cannot be easily dismembered into country-sized chunks.

Ecstatic crowds immediately began to clamber on top of the Wall and hack large chunks out of the 28-mile (45-kilometre) barrier.

after the thunderstorm we found a tree with a split trunk; they tore big juicy chunks from the heart of the split watermelon.

Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each one releasing the energy of a one megaton nuclear bomb.

Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands.

The chunks of brick and concrete that had buried him and his wife were pressing tighter by the hour, crushing them.

Behind the simple, so I did not notice big chunks dark cloud in the wind storm.

Approaches that help applications scale tend to break them apart, dividing their logic into separate chunks that can be hard to understand.

He manages to introduce his work, his findings, his accomplishments, all in bite size chunks, easy to follow, easy to swallow.

The purpose of these wrappers is to give jQuery UI Tabs hooks so it knows which chunks of markup to turn into tabbed content.

Caching can be a good idea in programs that continuously allocate and release chunks of only a few sizes.

Now I'm trying to train the little beast, using little chunks of meat as treats.

While it's nice to have that pineapple cut up in chunks , that extra convenience costs money.

Then his wife brought out steaming bowls of soup. It was chicken soup thick with vegetables and chunks of meat.

Big chunks of that money are beginning to flow into countries such as China, India, Russia and the emerging economies of eastern Europe.

To carry out the fermentation, the tofu curd is cut into small chunks and dipped into a solution of salt and citric acid.

But the most notable features of the Field are the shattered chunks of a fallen airship that lie scattered across the map.

One open performance night in London encourages mature people to stand up and read out chunks of their old diaries.

Chromosomal instability leads to a condition known as aneuploidy, in which chunks of DNA are either missing or duplicated.

Agile teams work very quickly -- sometimes in as little as a week -- to create small chunks of code.

Huge chunks of Africa and parts of Asia where the light of the information revolution has yet to shine.

TopCoder chops up IT projects into bite-sized chunks and then serves them up to a worldwide workforce of freelance coders.

The company has run out of easy growth opportunities and must now find big chunks of new revenue.

All the large chunks of new-type building material used for constructing crooked house are irregular.

"Each mealtime has turned into a frantic feeding frenzy as they fight for meaty chunks of trout, prawns and mussels, " she added.

The pineapple chunks and coconut jelly rest on the bottom of the dish, providing a base for the frothier layers to come.

Also, break your A items into small manageable chunks, so they're easy to accomplish.

It has no memory overhead for chunks that are in use by the process.

The shark tore two chunks from Cull's left leg, ripping off half his calf and leaving him with deep lacerations to his knee and thigh.

The Long Tail approach, by contrast, is to simply dump huge chunks of the archive onto bare-bones DVDs, without any extras or marketing.

Incomes taxes are chunks that the federal government takes out of the money we make.

You've got to break skills down into manageable chunks so that children learn at the right pace.

His biggest scores over the years have come from buying large chunks of out-of-favor investments.

M. had large chunks of the temporal lobes of his brain surgically removed in a last-ditch effort to relieve chronic epilepsy.

But the data are the data; it is not scientific to leave out large chunks of evidence.

Since whole chunks of speeches and presentations form a fair part of the book this suggests he is blessed with a perfect memory.

For hours, this ad hoc rescue team formed a line and passed along bricks or chunks of concrete in an attempt to clear debris.

I always find annotations a bit hard to follow, and Listing 2 is no exception, so I'll break it down into manageable chunks.

So now you can rest safe in the knowledge that you don't need to watch out for flying chunks of frozen poop when a plane flies over you.

Russian oil-and-gas companies have bought up large chunks of energy industries in eastern Europe and are trying to buy more.

It would indeed be folly for large chunks of the world economy to embark on an immediate and draconian set of budget cuts.

Many of these will use bite-size chunks of software known as "apps" , some 18 billion of which are likely to be downloaded this year.

jQuery UI Tabs turns ul elements into a tabbed interface and turns chunks of inline or Ajax markup into the content for those tabs.

The storage pool can be used for more than just adding chunks to existing spaces; it can also be used to create spaces from scratch.

It's better to just go to bed early and take advantage of the longer chunks of sleep an infant typically experiences at night.

In a large basin in front of the altar, several dozen chunks of charcoal, piled up like a mountain, glowed hotly with a bright red flame.

This allows you to get more done in less time, as phone calls can eat up chunks of your day if you let them.

It provides the end user with a familiar path through what can be a complex series of steps with each step broken into smaller chunks.

The first chunks of concrete have been removed from the dams, which will slowly be eaten away over the next few years.

The main advantage of sitemap index files is, of course, a means to partition sitemap files of very large Web sites into smaller chunks.

I would love to save these foursquare feeds in discrete chunks like this for future reference.

In addition to promoting code reuse, it can also break complex transforms into chunks that are easy to understand.

Reading the genome had required its breakup into thousands of manageable chunks that needed to be reassembled.

You can think of them as "chunks" or "linear ranges" , but in XFS terminology each region is called an "allocation group" .

Douglas lay watching his feet, free of the heavy shoes, the chunks of winter fallen away from them.

To make sure the perspex cage attracts the monster reptiles' attention, chunks of meat are tied to the bottom.

When contiguous chunks of the same data types are allocated, the memory region is known as a buffer.

All markup chunks, along with hidden fields and any error information, are packed into a response stream and passed to the client.

Doing so provides a design for the class that the test will exercise, allowing you to focus on small chunks of code.

The schematic moves and lexical chunks of these abstracts were identified and compared regarding disciplines and cultures.

The cross-shareholdings have been unwound: Deutsche Bank, for instance, no longer owns chunks of insurers, carmakers or sugar processors.

Over time, the zeal to sell big-enough chunks of these firms to enable them to become more independent has dissipated.

He arrived a day later, to find the shaking children drawing pictures of the chunks of her corpse.

The goal at this stage is to give development a good sense of what is required in the release in smaller chunks to estimate.

"What actually happens is the CPU redlines, and the data are transferred in 1024 byte chunks. " , Adam found out in his first analysis.

Everything from prawn powder to carrot chunks comes out of the freeze-dryer (6), a clever way of concentrating flavor without heating food.

The Tungurahua volcano spews glowing chunks of lava during one of its largest eruptions since last Friday.

With dwindling oxygen levels, marine animals were unable to survive, wiping out large chunks of their population.

Chunk: a part of a UMF file, chunks are used to gradually process the UMF files by the pipelines.

If none of its current chunks are extendable, Informix can automatically allocate a new chunk to the storage space using the storage pool.

You need to be able to copy the chunks in parallel using archive custom programs like dd and gzip.

FLASH erases in much larger chunks of memory commonly referred to as sectors.

As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself wrapping more than three disparate chunks of code in a category, consider making it an expando.

would be left with soap heads together in the summer soap with water will become soft, shape into chunks can be reused.

More recent versions instead sort chunks by size within bins, with ties broken by an oldest-first rule.

Yesterday during gardening we had to chop up a whole bunch of chunks of dirt with a pick axe.

The boys were baiting them up with chunks of marlin meat from a fish one of the boats had brought in early that afternoon .

Large chunks of stone and brick fell from the facade of a church in Lorca as Spanish state TV was broadcasting live from the scene.

Fannie tripped over the chunks of gravel scattered between the ties and Ellen realized that her daughter was tired.

Don't be afraid to cut out chunks of your work that appear out of place or don't advance the plot.

You'll be dazzled by the tastes of thousands of thrilling possibilities lurking behind the heavy green chunks of doors.

The smell of roasted chillis filled the air as the chef moved the large chunks of charcoal around in the fire.

Working knee-deep in mud with the Vietnamese, our soldiers cut the mud into large chunks, took it to a nearby shed, and sifted through it.

Occasionally , these large chunks of ice smash into one another, releasing clouds of dust and fine ice crystals into space .

His idea is to use convicts, feeding them large chunks of meat at five-second intervals, with instructions not to chew before swallowing.

Truth does not always come in bite-sized chunks.

It also allocates chunks of its portfolio to other direct investments as well as private-equity and venture-capital funds.

Take things one week at a time. Break your schedule into manageable chunks and take on each chunk separately.

rather, they attempt to match whole chunks of speech with statistical models of phrases and sentences.

color smaller size, form a small point, small chunks, small color line, and so on, into a very compact form.

Finally she was forced into a pocket formed by broken concret chunks.

Components can be small pieces of code, such as modules, or larger chunks, such a stand-alone programs like database management systems.

By studying these chunks , astronomers can compare the material at the center of a comet with material at its surface.

Time pressure or other stressors can reduce the capacity of working memory to three or four chunks, even for the expert.

The chunks have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.

On top of the rice are large chunks of meat on the bone -- usually lamb (at least in the homes that can afford it).

Breakdown Delegation - If you're working with a team, cut the work into large chunks and quickly discuss what needs to be done in each.

The finding suggests one commonly accepted model of planetary formation, where icy chunks glom into a core, wouldn't work here.

Great chunks of the ice crust, which has covered the mountains through the winter, break off and drop heavily into the thawing sea beneath.

Rather than many simple operations with simple parameters, services produce and consume big chunks of a document.

Huge bowls of blue Coffee with chunks of white bread and no butter to go with it.

In front of her stall, two large earth-moving machines were scooping up chunks of the green algae that covered most of the beach.

However, it is possible to mark chunks in that space as extendable again.

But when it comes to actual chunks of material, antimatter is simply not to be found.

One test can lead you to further decompose the problem into smaller and smaller chunks, each testable.

S. ship. Crew members hurled chunks of wood into the Impeccable's path and used poles to try to snare its acoustic equipment.

Baghdad TV showed pools of blood and chunks of cinderblock from the explosion of a bomb in the Kurdish village of Sinjar, near Mosul.

"chunk-size" specifies the granularity of the chunks used for RAID-0 in kilobytes.

If it does, redesign your application by breaking the XML down into smaller chunks.

Chop the beef shank into large chunks, keeping some attached to the bone, as bone marrow is an important element of the dish.

Chunks provide administrators with a significantly large unit for allocating disk space.

Other protesters hope that, if the regime becomes even more brutal, chunks of the army may defect, as they did in Libya.

The secret, as with any computing task, is to break the problem into smaller, more manageable chunks.

The transcripts are, of course, laundered since unidentified larger chunks of conversation are reported missing throughout.

Pounding waves slowly chip away the bases of cliffs, forcing chunks of rock to crumble and slide into the sea.

Other unformatted IO operations deal with chunks of data at a time.

It is of course possible to read larger chunks of data on some targets with wider data bus and wider data registers .

The chunks mentioned in this section and the chunks mentioned as a part of the spaces section point to the same page.

By partitioning your disk, you are splitting the storage capacity of your hard disk into separate, differently-sized chunks.

Games, they say, ought to be more like television programmes, not films: delivered in small, short, regular chunks.

Since the 1970s, however, work on isolated chunks of nervous-system tissue has identified a host of molecular players in memory formation.

They might devote discrete chunks of time (say 30 minutes using a desk-top egg timer) to the single-minded pursuit of a specific task.

Which means that there is no maximum size and the view state will not be broken up into chunks.

Excess heat can cause rubber to soften and break away in chunks from the body of the tyre.

Instead of using the whole key value to walk the tree by way of comparisons, the key value is cut into small chunks of a few bits.

Calculate the sizes of the raw devices that are free (available) and save the results into the file named free_chunks. unl.

Storing 250, 000 equally sized chunks in a grid is likely to result in a more even distribution than storing a few 200MB data elements.

Breaking up your day into smaller chunks like this can help you get more done.

This view is similar to the card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few small chunks of content.

How about rewarding developers for following the best practice of breaking their work into smaller chunks and checking in early and often?

the language in real communication contains many lexical chunks , which are the center of language structures.

Chunks of the overlying rock may break off and become a part of a sill.

The study finds that most chunks share the general characteristics of clear structure, transparent meaning and basically fixed form.

Google already has large chunks of our lives logged away in its giant omniscient filing cabinet.

The explosion cracks the earth' s surface and scatters ash and huge chunks of rock for many kilometers around the vent.

When used with bytes_to_skip in a stored procedure, this parameter allows messages to be read in chunks of 255 bytes.

We learned to manually do [data retrieval] in chunks of information so DCGS would not crash.

Inside the parser, a number of buffers store chunks of the document in memory as it is being parsed.

It has also scuttled chunks of the intelligence edifice that cast a long, dark shadow over its smaller neighbour.

Yet much of this area is well south of South Asia, big chunks of which are still north of the modern definition of East Asia.

The sender should do either pre-computation of the size of the payload or "chunks" the payload into records of fixed size.

One clue that you need to break your goal into smaller chunks is when you find yourself procrastinating.

"The most important thing you need to do, " mused Obama, "is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking. "

If the space contains no extendable chunks and the storage pool does not contain the requested space, the command will fail.

Its strong jaws, used to chop tough wood-moss chunks into pieces, can rend flesh and snap bones easily.

Very small particles of a substance often behave quite differently to larger chunks.

In each household, I was served a plate of tough, stringy chunks of meat, and I ate them dutifully, smiling in appreciation.

Let's break apart the compositePie. pl program into three main chunks and cover how each of these steps is done in detail.

The adapter reads the file as chunks (events) of that byte size.

Rather than coalescing freed chunks, leave them at their current sizes in hopes that another request for the same size will come along soon.

Imagine a sci-fi universe in which every letter, word and sentence is a commodity. Companies make money off chunks of language.

Even so, the book is pretty long and needs to be digested in discrete chunks. No way to read this in one evening.

So, if planned content violated infrastructure constraints relating to size, the content was optimized or split into several smaller chunks.

Even now, it is helping to prop up the weak American dollar by buying large chunks of American debt.

You could be getting clamshells. Or chunks of plywood.

But chunks of it are very conservative, such as the reliably Republican 26th congressional district in western New York.

Neuroscientists are finding that numbers and ideas are more easily processed when presented in three or four chunks.

That budget eliminates large chunks of assistance from the state to the city, even though the city provides half the state's revenues.

In particular, today, the ancient writer's reasoning can be described as diametrically two chunks.

Da pan ji features big chunks of chicken and potatoes cooked in a beer-based sauce and garnished with colorful bell peppers.

therefore, we have to treat allocations of contiguous chunks in a different way.

The quake was felt far afield, including in the Southern Alps, where great chunks of a glacier fell.

The previous chapter covered how to add special chunks of interactive content to your waves in the form of Wave Gadgets.

As I rocked the car and pushed the gas, large chunks of earth flew from the spinning tires which sank even deeper into the wet sod.

Moreover, existing sequencing techniques involve breaking DNA into small chunks of less than 100 base pairs.

Therefore, researches on second language prefabricated chunks have caused widespread concern in recent years.

This improves performance by allowing the application to access the memory in larger single chunks, instead of many smaller chunks.

The idea behind a finite state machine, therefore, is to decompose an object's behavior into easily manageable "chunks" or states.

Nevertheless, the Treasury is not expected to move quickly to offload big chunks of Citi shares.

HTTP pipelining is broken in many people's eyes since it does not permit out of order chunks across a single connection.

Because three-word chunks with the same total length will certainly have the same average length. Therefore we need another solution.

Packets are the fixed-size chunks of data that transfer requests and results between clients and servers.

Then the Informix database is queried to determine the location of already used chunks on the raw devices.

Executives who own big chunks of their company's stock often hedge their holdings to diversify and limit risk if the stock tumbles.

Because health, overseas aid, big chunks of education and defence were shielded, the cuts elsewhere were much deeper than logic dictated.

MP3s and audio MP4 work the same way by compressing large chunks of video into a smaller or more portable file.

Mr. Tepper sold large chunks of his holdings, fearing a market tumble.

This paper explores chunks' comprehensive pragmatic meanings and their multidimensional pragmatic functions in the use of business language.

Prefabricated chunks are the language units which exist with high frequency in language.

Mounting is to block or chunks of raw materials, or endorsement of hollowing out the middle piece.

All chunks can be traversed starting from any known chunk in either a forward or backward direction.

Chicken: The small chunks of chicken filet are thrown into the curry mixture and take only five minutes to cook.

Divide the large amount of information into smaller chunks, and then focus on memorizing those chunks as individual pieces.

Like a frozen asteroid belt, it's littered with chunks of ice and frozen methane and ammonia.

She shows that in large chunks of life, the simplistic search for the perfect choice is not only impractical, but leads to misery.

The impact caused the cores of the two planets to melt together and chunks of earth's crust to thrown out into space.

What matters most is that you stay authentic and don't waste big chunks of your life chasing things that don't really matter.

Fortunately, Web services transformer uses XPath to extract data from the response document and supports XML chunks output.

Initially, Ms. Chua said, she wrote large chunks about her husband and their conflicts overchild rearing.

The site uses traditional pop-up windows to present small chunks of contextual information about each product and product option.

Asteroids are chunks of rock from "failed" planets, which never managed to coalesce into full-sized planets.

For example, chunks could be checked to see if they belong to a larger aggregated space via address comparisons.

Named templates are particularly useful for dividing your code into smaller chunks and avoiding code duplication.

I paid five bucks to look at a funny navigation for couple of ads with unreadable chunks of content?

Prefabricated chunks are fixed or semi-fixed formulaic frames between traditional grammar and lexical items.

Moving the old process chunks to the home section, and changing their access permissions to supervisor-only.

make sure the area is large because little chunks might jump off the base when you crack the glass.

CBC is a mode of cryptographic operation in which the plain text data is divided into chunks of equally sized data blocks.

Component Developer: A Component Developer codes self-contained chunks of code called components.

With longer data chunks , the protocol would then only carry a one-byte header per fragment, thus incurring very little overhead.

The Earth was made by the collision of billions of planetesimals, chunks of rock and ice much like today's asteroids and comets .

Japanese pumpkin: He steams chunks of Japanese pumpkin until they soften, then purees them in a blender.

And Western banks bought chunks of the leading Chinese state banks when they were listed.

simple segregated storage only can allocate memory chunks of a single size.

The first is a general-purpose allocation and can serve requests for any number of contiguous chunks.

Together, the broken chunks of ice equaled an area of 125 square kilometers, about two times the size of Manhattan Island in New York.

Our kids would spend the night with friends or relatives, and it was hard to find good chunks of time to spend together, as a family.

Figure 2 shows a sample set of three raw devices that contain both free chunks and chunks that are in use.

Working amid acrid fumes, miners excavate chunks of sulfur from the base of the caldera of Mount Ijen in East Java.

The dog ended up ripping off huge chunks of her scalp.

Structure your supporting argument into "digestible chunks. "

More recently, the theory that humans slept in two distinct chunks has resurfaced, but in the rather less likely field of history.

Subs are useful because they allow you to break your program into small, reusable chunks.

The rest has been commoditised, chunks of concrete communism distributed for capitalist gain.

The forest bird singing, big chunks of sunflowers in garden with a smile.

Beijing argues that the measures are needed to prevent cars being imported in chunks to escape the higher duty payable on finished vehicles.

On the long table were rosy apples and chunks of maple sugar.

Large chunks of one iceberg have broken off, exposing a rare sight--the normally hidden underside of the iceberg.

Lexical Chunks; Lexical Approach; Senior High School Students; English Writing.

If you can't set aside time for a longer workout, try 10-minute chunks of activity throughout the day.

This allows for the project management team or yourselves to manage the deployment in smaller chunks.

Schedule chunks of time throughout your week for all the things that are important.

Chunks of glass stick out of bodies and others have limbs missing.

Behind the scenes, the LVM system allocates storage in equal-sized "chunks" , called extents.

Interlacing is a technique that displays a file in horizontal chunks, something like venetian blinds.

Its sheikhs sit on an array of big European boards and own choice chunks of London.

In ditching these chunks of DNA, our ancient ancestors lost facial whiskers and short, tactile spines on their penises.

Programs relying on large but approximately known numbers of very small chunks may find it profitable to build very simple allocators.

Since January they have published various chunks of a draft manifesto.

FFTW also includes software that automatically generates code tailored to chunks of specific size.

Purposefully applying lexical chunks into writing can better students writing skills step by step.

Out: Resumes that are "grey, " with large chunks of unbroken text that require recruiters to slow down.

In some of the families, they found large chunks of missing DNA regions that followed that recessive rule.

Eventually pressure builds up and enormous chunks of ice fall into the lake.

We see the book chunks that we share on the Hub as prototypes that we test with the members of the platform.

"It's easier to manage your email in chunks of time rather than continuously throughout the day, " Domeyer said.