How many financial commentators does it take to change a light bulb?
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Partly because of their longevity -- no one wants to change a light bulb on the Moon -- but also their hardiness.
How many union electricians did it take to change a light bulb?
An exhibitor can now change a light bulb without an electrician present (so long as the job does not require a ladder) and set up his own display (so long as it can be done in less than half an hour, with no tools).
On a slightly smaller scale, I once went to change a single light in my kitchen and ended up replacing literally every bulb in the house with brand new LEDs.
Holiness thus doesn't require a change in external circumstances, but a change in attitude, seeing everything anew in the light of one's supernatural destiny.
Banks and corporations can be expected to resist a change that would present their earnings in a less flattering light.
She brought a school and a light and is trying to change old customs to help girls get a new, better life.
Those characteristics can include a brief dip in air pressure, a change in wind direction, a change in wind speed, a rise in air temperature or a dip in ultraviolet light reaching the rover.
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The Red Motion's drawback is that it'll cost you a stop of speed even when the ND is off, meaning you may have to change to a classic mount in low-light situations.
Roza Otunbayea, leader of the Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) movement, who was denied registration as a candidate, insists that yellow is the colour: it means ready for change, she says, as in a traffic light.
The key change was the addition of copper strips to the metamaterial that shields an object from incoming light to create a better material, couple with a slight change in its orientation to solve a problem caused by dividing the metamaterial of the cloaking device into quadrants.
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And then there is this, says DallePezze: No one likes change, even with something as humble and commoditized as a light.
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If all we do is change our light bulbs to compact fluorescents, we will face a catastrophic collision with reality.
The PCS believes the DfE has been given the green light to pilot a new way of dealing with civil service change.
Most importantly, she said she learned to ride with a light load and keep a set of professional attire at work to change into.
In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
Colors can change shade, or metamerize, under different light sources, so when Harfouch hits on a perfect match he has to be sure it looks the same under sunlight as it does under artificial, supermarket light.
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If we assume you have the correct exposure setting for a given scene, and you wish to change the aperture, you must also make a change to the shutter speed or ISO to compensate for the increase or loss of light.
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The signal preemption idea was born in the early 1970s, when 3M devised a system that let emergency vehicles change traffic signals with pulses of strobe lights (later, infrared light) transmitted to receivers mounted over roadways.
This involves shining light through a patterned mask and on to the surface of a chip, so as to change the chemical properties of the exposed parts of that chip.
The bait contains dye, which will be measured in a black-light examination of rat whiskers to reveal how quickly subway critters consume the ContraPest and whether a change to a more flavorful recipe might be needed.
When illuminated, these "opsin" proteins change the flow of electrically charged ions within the cell, to help the cell turn light into energy or as a sensory cue.
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