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RIPEMD RIPEMD-160 (RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest) is a 160-bit message digest algorithm (and cryptographic hash function) developed in Europe by Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers and Bart Preneel, and first published in 1996. It is an improved version of RIPEMD, which in turn was based upon the design principles used in MD4, and is similar in performance to the more popular SHA-1.
RIPT Scan An RIPT scan is a fictional medical brain scanning procedure in the science fiction novel Passage by author Connie Willis. It is a procedure in which chemical tracers are used to "simultaneously [photograph] the electrochemical activity in different subsections of the brain for a 3-D picture of neural activity in the working brain".
RISCOS Ltd RISCOS Ltd is a UK limited company, created in January 1999 and managed by Paul Middleton. It was formed to continue user-focused development of the RISC OS operating system after the de-listing of Acorn, following Acorn's effective purchase by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in order to benefit from the shareholding that Acorn held in ARM Ltd.
RISE against Racism London’s biggest free music festival, Rise has taken place in every year since 2000. With an eclectic mix of hip hop, indie, pop, jazz and reggae it is aimed to bring together the diverse community that is London and is partly organised by the National Assembly Against Racism.
RISE-PAK RISE-PAK stands for Relief and Information Systems for Earthquakes Pakistan and is an information-sharing web portal developed and maintained by a consortium of experts from American and Pakistani universities, the World Bank, Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority, and World Online, Pakistan's largest Internet service provider which is hosting the website.
RISKS Digest The RISKS Digest or Forum On Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems is an online periodical published since 1985 by the Committee on Computers and Public Policy of the Association for Computing Machinery. The editor is Peter G.
RITS The Information Network for The Third Sector or just RITS, is a private, independent, non-profit organization founded in 1997 as a virtual information network focused on strengthening civil society organizations and social movements and by encouraging the interaction of initiatives and projects through effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) - especially those involving the Internet. RITS is also an APC (Association for Progressive Communications) member.
RIVA 128 Released in late 1997 by NVIDIA, the RIVA 128, or "NV3", was one of the first generation of integrated consumer 3D chips. Following the less successful "NV1" accelerator, it was the first product to gain NVIDIA widespread consumer recognition.
RIVA TNT The RIVA TNT (For TwiN Texel), codenamed NV4, is a 2D, video, and 3D graphics accelerator chip for PCs that was manufactured by NVIDIA. It was released in late 1998 and cemented NVIDIA's reputation as a worthy rival within the developing consumer 3D graphics adapter industry.
Rjukanfossen Rjukanfossen is a waterfall of 104 meter in the western part of the Westfjord valley in Tinn, a municipality in the county of Telemark, Norway, west of the industrial town Rjukan. The waterfall is a part of the MĂĄne river, earlier a major tourist attraction, being one of the first floodlighted waterfalls by electricity produced by the same waterfall.
RJ Harris RJ Harris (born in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an Operations Manager and host for a morning radio program for WHP-AM (580 AM) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which he presents with Dan Steele from 5 to 9 am every weekday morning.
RJ Sherman RJ Sherman is now studying as a triple major at Syracuse University. Throughout his younger years, he raced off-road motorcycles (dirt bikes) at both the regional and national level previously carrying over 30 corporate sponsors while competing at the expert level.
RJ's Latest Arrival RJ's Latest Arrival is an R&B, dance, and soul music band from Detroit, Michigan. Their biggest hit came with the 1984 single Shackles or "Shackles On My Feet" which was a fusion between rap from RJ, soulful singing from lead singer DeDe and synthesized music from the group Craig Lane & Dean DiPierro on Keys, Paris Reese on Drums, and Paul Munroe on Guitar.
RJ21 RJ-21 (or RJ21) is a registered jack standard for a modular connector using 50 conductors, usually used to implement a 25-line (or less) telephone connection. It's also known as a 50-pin telco connector, or an Amphenol connector.
Rk-92 Savage Rk-92 Savage is an Arm Slave, a fictional mecha from the light novel, manga, and anime series Full Metal Panic!. Savage is a NATO reporting name later adopted by the armed forces of the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc.
Rkatsiteli Rkatsiteli (Pronounced "rkah-tsee-tely"; Georgian რქაწითელი; literally "red stem") is a kind of grape used to produce white wine. This ancient vinifera originates in Georgia and is one of the oldest grape varieties.
Rkhunter rkhunter (or Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits. It does this by comparing MD5 hashes of important files with known good ones in online database, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong permissions, hidden files, suspicious strings in kernel modules, and special tests for Linux and FreeBSD.
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation(RKB毎日放送株式会社)is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan. It is a radio station of Japan Radio Network (JRN), and a TV station of Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network.
RKKY RKKY stands for Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida and refers to a coupling mechanism of nuclear magnetic moments or localized inner d shell electron spins in a metal by means of an interaction through the conduction electrons.
RKO Forty Acres Forty Acres, or "the back forty""Back 40" is a term used colloquially in America to describe a parcel of land, specifically one sixteenth of a section, constituting the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed ("back 40," "front 40"); "back 40" also refers to an undeveloped plot of land (as on a farm, ranch, etc.) of unspecified size.
RKO General RKO General was the main holding company through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganization in the 1980s, GenCorp. Headquartered in New York City, RKO General's primary field was broadcasting; over the course of its history, the company operated six television stations and more than a dozen major radio stations around North America.
RKS Liblice 1 RKS Liblice 1 is a facility for commercial longwave transmission located in the Czech Republic about 33 km east of Prague near Liblice. It uses as antenna a T-antenna hung up on two 150 metre tall insulated towers built of lattice steel.
RKWard RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions. RKWard tries to combine the power of the R-language with the ease of use of commercial statistical packages.
Rlab Rlab is an interactive, interpreted numerical computation program and its core programming language, written by Ian Searle. Rlab (the language) is very high level and is intended to provide fast prototyping and program development, as well as easy data-visualization, and processing.
RL circuit A resistor-inductor circuit (RL circuit), or RL filter or RL network, is one of the simplest analogue infinite impulse response electronic filters. It consists of a resistor and an inductor, either in series or in parallel, driven by a voltage source.
RLB-Präsident RLB-Präsident, also known as Reichsluftschutzbund Präsident or Präsident der RLB, was a Nazi paramilitary rank which was held by the supreme commander of the Reichsluftschutzbund. The position of RLB-Präsident was the highest rank of the Reichsluftschutzbund and was also considered a senior ministerial position within the Aviation Ministry of the Nazi Germany government.
RLJ Companies RLJ Companies (RLJ), was founded by Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, provides strategic investment and direction in and for a diverse portfolio of companies in the financial services , real estate, hospitality/restaurant, professional sports, film production, gaming and recording industries.
RLM aircraft designation system The RLM aircraft designation system was an attempt by the aviation bureaucracy of the Third Reich to standardize and produce an identifier for each aircraft type produced in Germany. It was in use from 1933 to 1945 though many pre-1933 aircraft were included and the system had changes over those years.
RLP In computational complexity theory, RLP, often referred to as simply RL, is the complexity class of problems solvable in logarithmic space and polynomial time with probabilistic Turing machines that never accept incorrectly but are allowed to reject incorrectly less than 1/3 of the time; this is called one-sided error. The constant 1/3 is arbitrary; any x with 0 ≤ x < 1/2 would suffice.
Rōjū The , usually translated as Elder, was one of the highest-ranking government posts in Tokugawa Japan. The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council as a whole; under the first two shoguns, there were only two Rōjū.
RM-70 Multiple rocket launcher The RM-70 Multiple Launch Rocket System is a Czechoslovakian army version and the heavier variant of the BM-21 Grad Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), providing enhanced performance over its parent artillery system that was introduced in 1972.
RM-81 Agena The Agena (designated RM-81 by the USAF) was a rocket upper stage developed by Lockheed for the ill-fated WS-117L US reconnaissance satellite program. It lived on to see extensive use as the upper stage/spacecraft for the Corona spy satellite program and as an upper stage on the Thor, Atlas, and Titan boosters.
RMA Gold Airways RMA Gold Airways Ltd is a proposed Australian regular public transport airline to be based in Melbourne operating under the trading name of Gold Airways. It is planned that the airline will fly a modern fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft to Australian capital cities and major regional centres and eventually, with larger aircraft, to international destinations.
RMAS Colonel Templer (A229) RMAS Colonel Templer (A185) is an acoustic research vessel of the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service department of the Royal Navy, since November 2000 operated under contract by Serco Denholm, based at HMNB Clyde, Great Harbour, Greenock. Twelve scientists can be carried, and the ship is used in support of trials as well supporting RN diving training.
RMAS Faithful (A228) RMAS Faithful is one of four Adept class tugs based at HMNB Devonport, Plymouth previously working for the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service department of the Royal Navy, now operated under contract by Serco Denholm.
RMAS Salmoor (A185) RMAS Salmoor (A185) is a SAL Class mooring and salvage vessel still working for the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service department of the Royal Navy, until comencement of contract for Serco Denholm at HMNB Clyde, and based at Great Harbour, Greenock.
RME RME is a German company that designs and builds audio hardware, including audio interfaces, analog to digital convertors, and digital to analog convertors. While the majority of their audio interface solutions are PCI based, they have recently released their first FireWire based system, the Fireface 800.
RMITV RMITV is a not-for-profit community access television production facility based at RMIT University City Campus in Melbourne, Australia. It is one of the members of the MCTC; the not-for-profit consortium that operates the community access channel Channel 31 in Melbourne.
RMR layout In automobile design, an RMR or Rear Mid-engine, Rear-wheel drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed just in front of them, behind the passenger compartment. In contrast to the rear-engined RR layout, the center of mass of the engine is in front of the rear axle.
RMS Aquitania Aquitania was an ocean liner built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, for the Cunard Line. She had four stacks - like Titanic and Mauretania - but Aquitania was considered the most beautiful of all four-stackers, earning her the nickname "Ship Beautiful".
RMS Carpathia The RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. The Carpathia began its maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of the RMS Titanic after it sank on April 15, 1912.
RMS Cedric RMS Cedric was laid down in 1902 at the shipyard of Harland & Wolff, Belfast. RMS Cedric was the second of White Star's series known as the "Big Four", the other three being RMS Celtic, RMS Baltic and RMS Adriatic.
RMS granularity RMS granularity is a method developed by Kodak for measuring the grain of a given film stock at a given exposure density. It stands for the square root (R) of the arithmetic mean (M) of the square (S) of density variations.
RMS Laconia Two different ocean liners of the Cunard Steamship Lines have been named RMS Laconia. Although one was launched ten years after the other, they are easily confused; they had similar careers and met similar fates.
RMS Laconia (1921) The second RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor to the Laconia of 1911 to 1917. Like her predecessor, which was sunk during the First World War, this Laconia would also destroyed by a German U-boat.
RMS Leinster RMS Leinster (RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship), operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, served as the Dublin-Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 10 October, 1918, a month before the end of World War I. Having departed the Dublin ferry port at Kingstown (now re-named Dun Laoghaire) she was sunk by the German U-Boat UB-123 just outside Dublin Bay at a point four miles east of the Kish light.
RMS Lusitania The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, and launched on June 7 1906. She and her sister ship RMS Mauretania were built to compete with and better the fast German liners of the time.
RMS Mauretania (1906) RMS Mauretania (also known as "Maury"), sister ship of the Lusitania, was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and was launched on September 20 1906. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world.
RMS Mauretania (1938) RMS Mauretania was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead and was completed in May 1939. A successor to RMS Mauretania (1906), the second Mauretania was the first ship built for the newly formed Cunard White Star company following the merger in 1933 of the Cunard and White Star lines.
RMS Olympic RMS Olympic (or SS Olympic) was the first of her class of ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included the ill-fated Titanic and Britannic. Unlike her sisters, Olympic served a long and illustrious career (1911 to 1935) and came to be known as "Old Reliable.
RMS Queen Elizabeth RMS Queen Elizabeth was a steam-powered ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Company. She first entered service as a troopship for World War II, and later served in her intended role as an ocean liner until her retirement in 1968.
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. She was the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by the RMS Queen Mary 2 in 2004.
RMS Queen Mary RMS Queen Mary was a Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late twenties and early thirties.
RMS Queen Mary 2 The RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner Queen Mary, which was in turn named after Mary of Teck. At the time of her construction in 2003, the QM2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, and at 148,528 gross tons, was also the largest.
RMS Republic (1903) RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff, and was lost at sea in a collision six years later while sailing for the White Star Line. In her time, she was one of the largest, most modern and luxurious passenger vessels afloat.
RMS Titanic RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line.
RMS Windsor Castle (1959) RMS Windsor Castle was a passenger ship launched June 23 1959 by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. At the time of the launch, she was the largest liner built in England and the largest liner owned by Union-Castle Line.
RMS-009 Septem The RMS-009 Septem was a mobile suit of the Space Revolutionary Army which was in many points similar to the RMS-006 Jenice. One improvement over the Jenice was the addition of high speed hovering systems in the legs.
RMS-014 Octape The Octape was the best mass produced mobile suit of the Space Revolutionary Army during the 7th Space War. Featuring a wide selection of weapons, great agility and speed, for space, ground and even air combat, it completely outclassed the United Nations Earth’s DT-6800A Daughtress series.
Rn (newsreader) rn (short for Read News) is a news client (or 'newsreader') written by Larry Wall and originally released in 1984. It was the first (or one of the very first) newsreaders to take full advantage of character-addressable CRT terminals; previous newsreaders, such as readnews, were mostly line-oriented and designed for use on the printing terminals which were common on the early Unix minicomputers where the Usenet software and network were originated.
Rndc In computing, rndc, the "remote name daemon control" facility, forms part of the BIND suite of software and serves to manage BIND DNS servers in Unix environments. rndc uses a "shared secret" to provide encryption for local and remote terminals during each session.
Rng (algebra) In abstract algebra a rng is an algebraic structure satisfying the same properties as a ring, except that multiplication need not have an identity element. The term "rng" is meant to suggest that it is a "ring" without an "identity element", i.
Rnk telecom Founded in 1997, RNK Telecom (RNK) is a privately held telecommunications wholesaler delivering flexible, reliable, high-quality products and services. Through its operational efficiency, industry expertise and technical innovation, RNK offers custom-designed services and superior profit margins to its customers, which include broadband providers, carriers and retail distributors.
RNase H The enzyme RNase H () is a ribonuclease that cleaves the 3'-O-P-bond of RNA in a DNA/RNA duplex to produce 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-phosphate terminated products. RNase H is a non-specific endonuclease and catalyzes the cleavage of RNA via an hydrolytic mechanism, aided by an enzyme-bound divalent metal ion.
RNase protection assay The ribonuclease protection assay (RPA) is a highly sensitive and specific method for the detection of mRNA species. The assay was made possible by the discovery and characterization of DNA-dependant RNA polymerases from the bacteriophages SP6, T7 and T3, and the elucidation of their cognate promoter sequences.
RNase P RNase P is a type of ribonuclease and is currently under heavy research. RNase P is unique from other RNases in that it is a ribozyme – a ribonucleic acid that acts as a catalyst in the same way that a protein based enzyme would.
RNA dependent RNA polymerase RNA dependent RNA polymerase, or RDRP, is an enzyme that catalyzes the replication of RNA from an RNA template. In contrast to a typical RNA polymerase, which uses DNA as a template, RDRP is, as its name suggests, dependent on RNA.
RNA editing The term RNA editing describes those molecular processes in which the information content is altered in a RNA molecule through a chemical change in the base makeup. To date such changes have been observed in tRNA, rRNA and mRNA molecules of eukaryotes, but not prokaryotes.
RNA interference RNA interference (also called "RNA-mediated interference", but abbreviated RNAi) is a mechanism for RNA-guided regulation of gene expression that is common in eukaryotic cells. RNAi involves double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) interfering with the expression of genes with sequences complementary to this dsRNA.
RNA Ontology Consortium The RNA Ontology Consortium is an international organization whose purpose is to create a standard vocabulary for studying ribonucleic acid.March 21, 2005 News release RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide The Consortium shall also provide a central system for organizing information related to ribonucleic acid.
RNA polymerase RNA polymerase (RNAP or RNApol) is an enzyme responsible for making RNA from a DNA or a RNA template. In all cells RNAP is needed for constructing RNA chains from a DNA template, a process termed transcription.
RNA polymerase III RNA polymerase III (also called Pol III) transcribes DNA to synthesize ribosomal 5S rRNA, tRNA and other small RNAs. The genes transcribed by RNA Pol III fall in the category of "housekeeping" genes whose expression is required in all cell types and most environmental conditions.
RNA virus An RNA virus is a virus which belongs to either Group III, Group IV or Group V of the Baltimore classification system of classifying viruses. As such, they possess ribonucleic acid (RNA) as their genetic material and do not replicate using a DNA intermediate.
RNA-induced silencing complex RNA-induced silencing complex, or RISC, is a multi-protein siRNA complex which cleaves (incoming viral) dsRNA and binds the antisense RNA strand to a protein which seeks out the complementary strand. When it finds the complementary strand, it activates RNAse activity and cleaves the RNA.
RNAS Calshot RNAS Calshot was originally set up in 1913. Its choice as a location for operating flying boats is clear: the landing area is sheltered by land on the three sides of Southampton Water and by the Isle of Wight, several miles away, on the fourth side.
RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar) RNAS Inskip or as it was otherwise known HMS Nightjar is a former Fleet Air Arm airfield near the village of Inskip, Lancashire. The site today is still owned by the Royal Navy and is now home to DCSA Radio Inskip a tri-service communication centre.
RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), was one of the primary shore airfields of the Fleet Air Arm. First established in 1919 after World War I, it served as the main training establishment and administrative centre of the Royal Naval Air Service, later the Fleet Air Arm.
RNAS Ronaldsway (HMS Urley) RNAS Ronaldsway (HMS Urley), (Urley, the Manx word for eagle), was a World War II naval air station. Ronaldsway airport was the civilian airport on the Isle of Man from 1934 to 1939 when with the outbreak of hostilities it was taken over by the Royal Air Force.
RNH Mtarfa The Royal Navy Hospital Mtarfa was a United Kingdom naval hospital in Mtafa, Malta. It was the main hospital for British Forces in the eastern Mediterranean until the British finally left the independent Malta in 1979.
RNLI hovercraft lifeboat Hovercraft serve the shores of the UK as a part of the RNLI inshore fleet.The hovercraft was developed to operate in tidal areas such as Morecambe Bay where strandings by incoming tides can have fatal consequences and where normal craft are unable to operate, for example due to mud flats.
RNS formalism In theoretical physics, the RNS formalism or Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz formalism is a particular method to describe the degrees of freedom of a string in superstring theory in which the elementary fields on the worldsheet are the bosonic scalar fields describing the embedding of the string in spacetime, and fermionic fields transforming as spacetime vectors.
RNSAP RNSAP (Radio Network Subsystem Application Part) is a 3GPP signalling protocol responsible for communications between Radio Network Controllers. It is carried on the lur interface and provides functionality needed for soft handovers and Save & Restore Network Configuration relocation.
RNTE Shotley RNTE Shotley, known in the Royal Navy as HMS Ganges, was a training establishment, initially for boys starting in 1905 and latter, men's service until it closed in 1976. It closed following the raising of the school leaving age from 15 to 16.
RNZAF Dip Flat RNZAF Dip Flat is the field training facility of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Located at the base of the Saint Arnaud Range in the Nelson Lakes District of the South Island of New Zealand, Dip Flat serves to train both enlisted recruits from GSTS and officer cadets from CTS in "out-in-the-field" practical military training.
Ro (title) Ro is a title used by Fijian chiefs in the Province of Rewa, as well as parts of Naitasiri, Namosi, and Serua. Both males and females are so styled; in other areas of Fiji, male chiefs are titled Ratu and female chiefs, Adi.
Ro-Busters Ro-Busters is a British comic strip that formed part of the original line-up of Starlord. Similar in premise to that of the Thunderbirds television series, Ro-Busters was created by writer Pat Mills and was drawn by Dave Gibbons, Kevin O'Neill and Mike McMahon.
Roa Island Roa Island lies just over half a mile (1 km) south of the village of Rampside at the southernmost point of the Furness Peninsula in Cumbria, though formerly in the area of Lancashire north of the sands. It is located at (OS grid ref.
Road A road is an identifiable route or path between two or more places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognisable routes without any formal construction or maintenance.
Road accident statistics on a model-by-model basis Although various 'theoretical' crash testing scenarios are popular in assessing car safety in UK the Department of Transport publish the actual level of road deaths in two car injury accidents in each type of car. These statistics are available tabulated in the form of the "Cars: Make and Model: The Risk of Driver Injury in Great Britain: 1996 - 2000".
Road Avenger Road Avenger (known as Road Blaster in Japan) was an arcade and Sega Mega CD (known as Sega CD in North America) release that took the style of Interactive Video (as seen in titles such as Dragon's Lair) and brought it to the world of driving. The on-screen action was a first-person perspective from the drivers seat of a sports car, as you raced through a wide variety of locales, responding to on screen directions in an allotted time limit to continue the action (if the game was set to 'hard' difficulty the on screen instructions would no longer appear, forcing the player to play from memory).
Road case A road case is a box specially built to protect musical instruments or other theatrical properties when they must be moved between locations. A large number of varying-sized road cases can be built to outfit the needs of an entire touring production company, or custom designed individually for a specific industry or technology.
Road course ringer Road course ringer (or road course specialist) is a term used to describe a non-NASCAR driver who is hired by a NASCAR team to race at a road course (Infineon Raceway, Watkins Glen International, or the now closed Riverside International Raceway).
Road crew The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel on tour, usually in sleeper buses, with musicians and who handle every part of the production except actually playing the music. This catch-all term covers Tour Managers, Production Managers, Stage Managers, Front of House and Monitor Engineers, Guitar Techs, Bass Techs, Drum Techs, Keyboard Techs, Security/Bodyguards, Lighting Technicians, and pyrotechnic technicians, amongst others.
Road Casualties Great Britain Road Casualties Great Britain (RCGB), formerly Road Accidents Great Britain (RAGB) is the official statistical publication of the UK Department for Transport (DfT) on traffic casualties, fatalities and related road safety data. It is a primary source for data on road casualties in the UK.
Road Crew Road Crew, formed in 1983, were initially a band that included then future Guns N' Roses members Slash and Steven Adler. Before splitting up, the band would briefly feature another future gunner, in Duff McKagan.
Road diet A road diet describes a technique of transportation planning in which the width of a road or lane is narrowed in order to achieve improvements to the transportation system. A leading proponent of road diets is former Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Dan Burden.
Road Dreams Road Dreams is a series of six television programmes, each of approximately 25 minutes duration, last shown on British terrestrial television in the early 1990s on Channel 4. The series does not appear to be available on DVD.
Road foreman of engines A road foreman of engines is the traditional title of the person in charge of and the supervisor of, a railroad engineer. An engineer who wishes to enter the management ranks on a railroad, becomes a road foreman of engines.
Road Fighter Road Fighter is a car-based arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1985 for the MSX home computer system. The goal is to reach the finish line within the stages without running out of time, hitting other cars or running out of fuel (fuel is refilled by hitting a special type of car).
Road Fools Road Fools is a 25:59 long album created by Anybody Killa in the year 2005. The album was highly disappointing to juggalos who loved ABK and were expecting another great album, this was lacking tracks most of the songs were short and not that great.

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