The singer suddenly switches into falsetto.

Fortunately, Dr. Felix Wankel invented the rotary engine.

This machine has a lot of switches and buttons.

She greets her mom in Farsi, then switches to English.

Do you remember that we had a phone with a rotary dial?

Likewise, a campaign led by Rotary International and several partners has nearly eradicated polio.

The proprietary switches should be moved to the premises of the telecommunication providers.

Inside were 120 controls 55 electrical switches, 30 fuses and 35 mechanical levers.

The only reason these people buy touch tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore.

takes over as the leading nation in the year 1900, when the line switches to red.

And yet these subtle switches at the top of the table are not the real story.

Computers, switches, cables, and software are general_purpose technologies, hence demand for them is likely to be extremely elastic.

Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is software used on most Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches.

Rotary took on the challenge of getting vaccines to the poor, in regions with weak or non existent public health systems.

This is crew compartment. It switches, so what's upside down is right side up when you go to artificial gravity mode.

Twenty years ago, a grass roots movement led by Rotary International, a voluntary organization with around 1.2 million members in more than 200 countries, decided to attack.

After the program was figured out on paper, the process of getting the program into ENIAC by manipulating its switches and cables could take days.

There's the solar panels of the cell, some switches that turn your genes on and off, the girders of the cell, motors that move your muscles.

Fortunately, the American Red Cross and other organizations have been following the Rotary model, using private donations and private volunteers to fill the gap left by our political leaders.

As the Bank switches from loans to grants, it can use some of its massive retained earnings to endow its knowledge bank function and related technical advice.

Red Cross chapters across Africa, in partnership with other organizations, are now distributing bed nets free of charge to impoverished families, in the same way that Rotary has been distributing polio vaccines.

Such buffer eliminates the major performance problems from microkernels that are slow on competing architectures (Pentium, PowerPC, Alpha) because of the need to flush the TLB on the frequent context switches.

When scientists figure out how to flip these switches, it might be possible to introduce stem cells into the body and activate them so that they correctly replace damaged tissue, whatever it is.

In this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hopes and foibles of history preserved in objects like light switches and signs.

My company has spent 35 years and many millions of dollars taking that rotary engine, which was invented in the late '50s, and getting it to the point that we get over two horsepower per pound, reliably, and critical.

Indeed, Article 22 of that charter reveals that Hamas views the Jews (together with the Freemasons and other nefarious organizations like Rotary International and the Lions Club), as responsible for the French and Bolshevik Revolutions, World War I, and World War II.

So if you affix some wires and switches to those tiles rather than to the staple strands, you affix them to the tiles then they'll self assemble the somewhat complicated circuits, the demultiplexer circuits, that you need to address this memory.

Hua Wei, based in Shenzhen with 14,000 employees (70 of whom are engineers), makes routers and telecommunications switches at half the price of most global companies. Many leading American and European telephone equipment manufacturers fear Hua Wei more than Fujitsu or NEC.

We'd complain for a couple of days, or a week, then we'd have to turn our attention to burying the remains of the dead as the Assad killing machine switches from bombing the Damascus countryside to bombing the city, sometimes with Scud missiles.

The Gates Foundation, UNICEF, Rotary International, and many governments have succeeded in bringing down polio deaths to one thousandth of the rate a generation ago, bringing the disease to the verge of eradication. Similar efforts are underway on many other fronts the control of worm infections and leprosy, and now a major global effort to bring malaria deaths nearly to zero by 2015.