Sentences with phrase «oldest use of fire»

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In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

The shooter, whom police have identified as 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, using the elevated vantage point to fire into the crowds across the Las Vegas Strip at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

While owners of Amazon's Fire HD 10 will be able ask Alexa to make calls without using their hands, people who bought older models like the Fire 7 or Fire HD 8 tablets will have to first tap their device's home button.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

«We have a Signal 7 in Room 229,» Hollywood Fire Rescue units said of 92 - year - old Miguel Antonio Franco, using their code for a deceased person, according to emergency radio calls provided by the audio streaming website Broadcastify.

Therefore, when the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed...

My old man used a razor strop on me from time to time and having no success once paddled himself, with me watching, to demonstrate his failure to rectify my attitude (I had set a vacant lot on fire, smoking cigarettes I'd salvaged from the steps of the Catholic church across the street) In school, you had to bend over and grab your ankles in order to take your licks.

When Jesus, therefore, pictured the finale of the universe in terms of the contemporary mythology, with fire, worms, wailing, and gnashing of teeth for sinners, and bliss for the righteous, he was using an old form of imagination.

To designate it, we should need the old term «element,» in the sense it was used to speak of water, air, earth, and fire, that is, in the sense of a general thing, midway between the spatio - temporal individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle that brings a style of being wherever there is a fragment of being.

Authentic Jamaican jerk chicken made in jerk joints use a jerk grill made out of old oil drums or barbecue grills, they use pimento wood to fire it up.

Instead of a spit Stefanie uses a plain old baking pin and instead of the open charcoal fire she recommends the oven broiler.

It is one of only a few distilleries that still uses traditional malting floors and dries and infuses its own malt with the thick blue smoke from old peat - fired kilns.

You never really know what to make of all the Arsenal transfer rumours doing the rounds of the football media, but I tend to keep an open mind and use the old saying about their being no smoke without fire most of the time.

Old Sturbridge Village historians will dye wool as it was done in the early 19th century — in kettles over an open fire using natural dyes that produce a variety of colors.

I used this item on the bottom edge of my fire place as my children are old enough to not need a fire guard but still fall over all the time.

In fact, just one site earlier than the 400,000 year mark has strong evidence of controlled fire use, the pair says: the 780,000 - year - old Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site in Israel.

The oldest indications of fire use come from Koobi Fora in Kenya where researchers found patches of discoloured sediment.

The oldest evidence of fire use by hominids is around 1 million years ago.

Whether you're using an old favorite or looking for a sure - fire sales buy, a cream or Winter white sweater will earn it's keep as one of the most versatile items in your wardrobe.

Whether you're using an old favorite or looking for a sure - fire sales buy this season, a cream or Winter white sweater will earn it's keep as one of the most versatile items in your wardrobe.

Whether you're using an old favorite or looking for a sure - fire winner this season, a cream or Winter white sweater is one of the most versatile items and set to become your go - to Winter essential.

Most radical, though, the new hire at his company, 23 - year - old Natalie (Anna Kendrick), has come up with a plan to slash the cost of doing business by having Ryan and his colleagues fire people over the internet using TI lines and computer screens.

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To this day, Breath of Fire II remains one of the most enjoyable old - school 2D tales ever told with its beautifully rendered world, endearing cast of characters, newfangled «Monster Meter», and satisfying battles that allow you to use more strategy than before.

Some of the tributes to the almost 75 year old original film include a gingham dress, the witches crystal ball, a bunch of singing munchkins, the wicked witch's cackle, horses of a different color, fire balls, the poppy field, crows of caution, Glinda's bubble, creepy wicked green skin, a lion and creative use of scarecrows.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

The prosecution's suggested replacement to the «old» way of doing this, of course, was to use value - added scores to make «better» decisions about which teachers to fire and whom to keep around.

Blindly connecting charger negative to chassis and positive to either pole of the battery would have caused problems (read fire, smoke, brokenness) in the charger, battery or car - especially in the old equipment we used back then.

Regular usage declines in older children but even then, more than half of 12 - 14 year - olds (67 %) and 15 to 17 year - olds (52 %) say they frequently use a tablet like an iPad, Amazon Fire, or LeapFrog Epic Tablet.

On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin with grapefruit juice, guaranteed herself an epic bad - hair day by mistakenly using Dustin's shampoo instead of her own, broke a fingernail, burnt her toast, discovered ants swarming through the cabinet under the kitchen sink, eradicated the pests by firing a spray can of insecticide as ferociously as Sigourney Weaver wielded a flamethrower in one of those old extraterrestrial - bug movies, cleaned up the resultant carnage with paper towels, hummed Bach's Requiem as she solemnly consigned the tiny bodies to the trash can, and took a telephone call from her mother, Sabrina, who still prayed for the collapse of Martie's marriage three years after the wedding.

The older Kindle ereaders have more of a robotic TTS voice whereas the Fire tablets use more pleasant and human - like IVONA voices.

How it works is after you trade in your older tablet some money will be credited to your account, then you can use that money towards the purchase of a new Kindle Fire, if you want.

The tricky little buggers always show pictures of how the Kindle Fire looks great in the cover and at multiple angles, but they only use the same old picture (you know the one with the book cover of MadMen, as seen above).

My Kobo Aura One looks like it has bit the dust after 2 years of use, and speaking of dust, I dusted off my old Pocketbook Pro 602, and fired it up, transferred Fred Vargas» «A Climate of Fear» and barely a blip in the reading flow.

Since I needed a test subject for this article I chose to use my oldest Kindle Fire (first generation) to test out this trick... and take pictures of it too, of course.

I'd actually breathe a sigh of relief when going back to using the Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire, or even the year - old Nook Color.

While they will be thinner than the existing Kindle Fire, and slightly thinner than the original iPad, they will feature a metal case rather than the soft plastic that the older model makes use of.

Leesburg Police Chief Jim Brown should fire the part - time animal control officer who gunned down a pet poodle in a residential section of the city.Last week's report that officer Doug Berwick used a.22 - caliber rifle in June to kill the pet of an 11 - year - old disabled boy is unconscionable.

Tonight we have exclusive use of an Outback Sheep Station shearers quarters, 114 years old really rustic, great fun and if you like, you can drag your bed outside and sleep under the stars, toast a marshmallow on the camp fire or just sit and soak up the ambiance of the Outback Overnight, sheep station shearers quarters, twin share.

The aural quality and presence of Killzone 2 is evidently heard in every action you perform, be it reloading your weapon, firing said weapon, slashing your trusty knife, the crunch of the soil underfoot or the tapping of your boots on cold and hard pavement, the distinct sound of a rusty old Helghast assault rifle being reloaded from behind cover 10 yards away... regardless whether it's voice, sound effect, music (an orchestral style which hearkens back to Michael Giacchino's Medal of Honor days), or environmental audio, all of it was created and put to use in such a top - notch way that there is no ignoring the fact that you surely are jacks - of - all - trades, Guerrilla Games.

Fire Emblem still draws in a respectable crowd on the Nintendo portables, and roguelikes like Bedlam make good use of the good old grid - and - single - units battle system, but they're small beer compared to Final Fantasy Tactics and, arriving at last at the point, Advance Wars.

Using some of the updates seen in recent games Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia presents this 25 - year - old story with a fresh polish and amazing strategy - based gameplay — a staple of the franchise.

So while you'll be playing a lot of actual golf (9 hole courses, lowest score wins), «golf» also functions as a puzzle solving mechanic, be it hitting secret switches, using a nearby fire to flame - charge your ball to unfreeze a person 50 years away with a pin - perfect hit, start a lawn mower, or proving to an old geezer you can putt with the best of em»... even in the rough.

This work, which invokes humanity's age - old praxis of gathering around a fire, is especially well - placed in this wasteland of industrial debris, used by many different people.

The oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.

A model of clone growth with time was constructed and based on the relation between time - since - fire dates of tree - ring dated fires (recent) and 14C - dated fires (old) and the perimeter of the two largest clones in each site where genetic markers were used to identify genuine clones (figure 3).

Dating of relatively old fires (back to 450 years ago) was possible using fire scars on living and standing dead stems.

But biomass (plant material and animal waste) is the oldest source of renewable energy, used since our ancestors learned the secret of fire.

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The second emergency measure, which has so far not been used, would see a reserve of old power plants fired up.