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"spanner" Definitions
  1. a metal tool with an end with a special shape for holding and turning nuts and bolts (= small metal rings and pins that hold things together)

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The new spanner wrench support also includes features designed into the face plate to allow for the use of various spanner wrenches.
The latter states Cloud Spanner databases will have 99.999% (five nines) availability, a level of downtime that translates into less than five minutes per year, according to Cloud Spanner product manager, Deepti Srivastava.
But the contamination has thrown a spanner in the works.
But this latest spanner thrown into the works is troubling.
Then an academic shaped spanner was thrown in the works.
Today, many of its popular services are running on Cloud Spanner.
In a statement to Mashable, easyJet confirmed that a spanner was discovered.
But the issue of finance has thrown a spanner in the works.
The Maltese obsession with EU red tape on its plug spanner industry.
The GA of Cloud Spanner comes less than a week after Microsoft announced its Cosmos DB service, which features many of the same advantages of Cloud Spanner but with the added benefits of a wider range of consistency models.
If elected, the spanner-wielder would resign and cede power to his namesake.
Another spanner has been thrown into the works in the countdown to Brexit.
Which throws a potential future spanner in the works of this rights-based challenge.
The spanner was removed and the plane eventually took off after a short delay.
A spanner was discovered and removed and the flight departed with a small delay.
"This has really put a spanner in the works on an international level," he says.
Today, products like Google Photos and many of Google's mission-critical applications run on Spanner.
When Google announced the Beta of Cloud Spanner earlier this year, it sounded almost magical.
The plan is to bring Cloud Spanner to every new GCP region as they come online.
With Cloud Spanner, Google is making this same database service available to outside developers, as well.
Badham also revealed the man had used a spanner to hit a crocodile over the head.
The CIA's finding threw a spanner in the works of White House policy, at least temporarily.
It is a rare combination and companies like Evernote and Marketo are using Cloud Spanner today.
Google also today noted that the Blogger infrastructure has moved to Cloud Spanner, Google's newest database service.
What they don't realize is that by throwing a spanner in its works, they could sink it.
BONHÔTE I am fascinated by people who reinvent the rules, who throw a spanner in the works.
It has put a spanner in the works of several EU projects we were thinking of partnering on.
"This is not the moment to throw a spanner into the works, with growth picking up," Sapin said.
I asked Mayor whether this will throw a giant spanner in the works of the "new electricity ecosystem".
But sometimes this setup seems to work better than unstacked grid, esp when there is a central spanner.
The export rules are also the latest spanner to be thrown into the machinery of US-Chinese relations.
The U.S. presidential election in November may still throw a last-minute spanner into the already tense negotiations.
Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications.
Projects like the globally distributed Cloud Spanner database are now allowing Google Cloud to put its stamp on this market.
The real trick is that, even though Spanner stretches across the globe, it behaves as if it's in one place.
With this update, Google is adding to the Cloud Spanner lineup Hong Kong (asia-east2), its newest data center location.
The International Monetary Fund has already cut its forecast for global growth after Brexit threw "a spanner in the works".
It is only after Brianna reveals her family connections (and suspicious foreknowledge) that Laoghaire throws a spanner in the works.
However, continued failure to work out who will pick up the bill could yet throw a spanner in the works.
She'd found our theme angle for sure, and her example was even 15 letters for a terrific central grid-spanner.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday that Brexit had "thrown a spanner in the works" of its global growth forecast.
With this move, Google is also making Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Managed Instance Groups, and Cloud SQL available in the region.
McGarry momentarily backed off, apologizing...and then shared another screenshot of tweets in which the author commented positively to Brian Spanner.
However, a consortium of bondholders threw a potential spanner in the works in late May, offering to buy the bank themselves.
There is currently no worthwhile technique to position and hold the heavy spanner wrench in place on the nut while tightening.
But the product lacked support across multiple regions, meaning you could only house a Cloud Spanner database within a single location.
This could throw a spanner in its macro direction, and make it more difficult to decide on large-scale M&A.
"Spanner does things from a consistency standpoint that you can't get from anybody else, so it's a place where we have to spend more, too," he said (and before my friends at Microsoft email me: yes, Cosmos DB also offers features that are comparable to Cloud Spanner, as well as a wider range of consistency options).
With your choice of a hammer, a spanner wrench, or a stilson wrench (whatever that is), we think he'll get the idea.
The political upheaval appears to have put a spanner in the works of a long-awaited U.S. proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
By reducing the manpower required to handle and position the spanner wrench, the entire tire change process now takes only three maintainers.
It's worth noting that before Google packaged Cloud Spanner as a service, it used it in-house to run products like AdWords.
But the liquid is a chilled broth made from spanner crab so pristine you can tell it never had an impure thought.
You can see that I needed a ninth grid spanner to hold everything together, and this wound up being a weakish entry.
The seizure of the Grace 1 threw a spanner in the works, not least because Britain was prodded into action by American intelligence.
While Cloud Spanner is obviously meant for global deployments, these new configurations are great for users who only need to serve certain markets.
This method can cause faulty torque readings along with placing the maintainer in an awkward and risky position underneath the heavy spanner wrench.
There have been no machinations over who gets drafted where, outside the acknowledgment that Roman Reigns' suspension throws a spanner into the works.
As far as the new query features are concerned, Cloud Spanner is now making it easier for developers to view, inspect and debug queries.
We obviously don't know what performance will look like, but Google promises that Cloud Spanner will be on par with other cloud database services.
The faceplate is mounted on a sealed ball bearing so that it can rotate with the spanner wrench while the nut is being tightened.
With this, Cloud Spanner is now available in 14 out of 18 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions, including seven the company added this year alone.
Google also promises 99.9999 percent uptimes for Cloud Spanner, and the project will launch with client libraries for languages like Java, Go, Python and Node.js.
Businesses are faced with enormous uncertainty concerning international production chains and the cheapest production locations; new tariffs could easily throw a spanner into the works.
With this update, Google is also making Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL generally available with a 99.95 percent SLA, and it's adding commit timestamps to Cloud Spanner.
Entities that don't want to play ball with a particular legal reform issue can sometimes also throw a delaying spanner in the works by impeding negotiations.
Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its globally distributed relational database service, is now generally available after what was a relatively short four-month beta period.
But Fairplane, a group representing airline passengers, threw a spanner in the works, filing legal cases last week to have Niki's insolvency proceedings shifted to Austria.
The big cloud providers are trying to adapt to the relational database trend, with Google's Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL, and Amazon's AWS SQL and AWS Aurora.
I'm sure there's a better example, but it's like the game Cluedo, I'm in the library with the spanner with Colonel Mustard — it's all the things together.
A footplate and an upright handle allow a single maintainer to apply a large axial force against the spanner wrench, keeping it seated while torque is applied.
Just as Saudi Arabia is about to switch the way it prices its oil exports, the new benchmark throws a spanner in the works by surging inexplicably.
Spanner crab is jumbled with ribbons of zucchini and slivers of chestnut, but it's the sweet, deep seafood-broth-based sauce that makes the fresher ingredients sing.
With its gloriously blunt and sweary range of Christmas cards, UK-based family design company Love Layla is hoping to throw a tinsel-wrapped spanner in the works.
"Nico's come back... I'm going to throw a spanner in the works and say Rosberg," he added when asked to pick one of the pair for the title.
You'll notice, though, that services like App Engine, the globally distributed Cloud Spanner database service, Cloud Functions, Bigtable and a few other services aren't currently available in Sydney.
Maybe the easiest way to think about Cloud Spanner is as an alternative for developers who are hitting the limits of traditional relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
If the name Cloud Spanner sounds familiar, that's probably because Google has long used a version of this database internally, and published a paper about it in 2012.
But I think the only thing that would really throw a spanner in the works would be if one of us got into a relationship with someone else.
Or, you could use the Spanner to combine the 5 and the 2, which (since these dice max out at 6) would become a 6 and a 1.
The problems with this plan were numerous, but the novelty-sized spanner in the works was that there was no good reason to have a Kinect at launch.
"Brexit remains a huge mess, and just when there was a hint of progress, yet again a spanner is thrown in the works," said AxiTrader analyst James Hughes.
He hit one crocodile on the head with a spanner and took spark plugs from the boat's outboard motor to throw at other crocodiles that also attacked the boat.
Indeed, Cloud Spanner is the core service here, and the team says it opted for it because it gives it a globally distributed strongly consistent database to work with.
Cloud Spanner is not a cheap service, and the team acknowledged as much, though, as Google Cloud Director of Solutions Miles Ward noted, providing the service isn't cheap either.
The anticipated short-term fiscal boost to the U.S. economy could also throw a spanner in the works for hedge funds betting that the dollar will continue to fall.
LONDON — An easyJet plane scheduled to fly from Geneva to Copenhagen was turned back to its stand last Friday after a spanner was spotted lodged in the aircraft's wing.
Obviously, those companies starting with a brand new application are going to get going faster than those rearchitecting an existing database system to work on Cloud Spanner, she said.
Finally, it throws another spanner into the works of a global oil market in which steady demand and reduced spare capacity had already left prices at $75 a barrel.
The International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast for UK economic growth, saying the vote to leave the European Union has "thrown a spanner in the works" of the global economy.
As Google's Deepti Srivastava told me, Google started working on Spanner in 2007 because it was looking for an alternative to MySQL, which previously ran many of the company's products.
While all the amplitudes physicists come across today may be periods of mixed Tate motives, "there are monsters lurking out there that throw a spanner into the works," Brown said.
Finally, it says that £2.4 billion's worth of car, engine and related exports come from the U.K. every year A possible Brexit could put a spanner in the works, however.
"Ultimately this is well within the time frame that Siemens and Alstom have communicated, so I don't think this is going to throw a spanner in the ointment," he said.
The spanner wrench, used to tighten the nut, weighs 15 pounds and has to be held accurately in position so the nut can be tightened to the appropriate torque specification.
The current method of engaging the spanner wrench involves a maintainer who has to lay on the ground while pressing their feet against the wrench to hold it in place.
The company claims you can be up and running in 4-clicks, but in reality if you are migrating an existing database to Cloud Spanner, it could be more complex.
I think I began with the grid-spanner, I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY, and had only the top half of the grid filled for months before settling on the rest.
Rosberg stunned Formula One, and threw a spanner in Mercedes' plans for 2017, when he announced his retirement on Friday five days after winning his first world title in Abu Dhabi.
OPEN a toolbox, pull out a spanner and you may be holding a bit of the answer to global warming: vanadium, a metal named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty.
Cloud Spanner, Google's globally distributed relational database service, is getting a bit more distributed today with the launch of a new region and new ways to set up multi-region configurations.
The IMF warned that Britain's decision in a referendum to leave the European Union had thrown a "spanner in the works", causing widespread economic and financial uncertainty that is still unfolding.
The wounded orphan Davy Spanner from The Instant Enemy steals cars to go "grief riding," and is cursed with a temper that, when it ignites, makes him imagine violent enemies everywhere.
This could throw a spanner in the works for GM mustard, which recently got technical approval from a panel of government and independent experts after multiple reviews of crop trial data.
But the seizure of the Adrian Darya 1—with its 2.1m barrels of oil—threw a spanner in the works, not least because Britain was prodded into action by American intelligence.
The hard right's numbers won't be nearly enough to command the Brussels-based locus of European democracy, but its combined forces could throw another spanner into the Union's already challenged machinery.
Legs, back, jugular is the go-to order of events for most successful attacks, however, when the neck is 1.8 meters (6 feet) long, that can put a spanner in the works.
In a country starved of the chance to see world class golf regularly, the excitement is palpable, although a forecast for torrential rain on Friday could throw a spanner in the works.
The women went back and forth repeatedly, with McGarry insisting that Rowling explain why she supported a Twitter user called Brian Spanner, and Rowling insisting that McGarry provide proof of the allegation.
The image was clearly doctored to look as though Rowling had commented on the offending tweet; in fact, Rowling had mentioned Spanner — in the context of raising money for her charity, Lumos.
The AFRL JFWORX team has invented a new tool that allows a single airman to position and secure the spanner wrench in place, making it easier and safer to tighten the wheel.
The menu is always changing, but might include a slab of unctuous caramelized pork belly with black garlic and vermicelli, or savory custard with chunks of spanner crab and flecks of lovage.
Our national happiness is like an adjustable spanner that we open and close to calibrate our experiences against our recent past, with little lasting memory for the triumphs and tragedies of our age.
In addition to the Cloud Spanner news, Google Cloud today announced that its Cloud Dataproc Hadoop and Spark service now supports the R language, in addition to Python 3.7 support on App Engine.
Given that it's now owned by Google, it's no surprise that Apigee is also launching deeper integrations with Google's cloud services now — specifically services like BigQuery, Cloud Firestore, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Spanner.
In this respect, it's probably best to think of Cloud Spanner as an extension of Cloud Datastore, which is Google's highly scalable NoSQL database service that also offers ACID transactions and SQL-like queries.
These alterations throw a molecular spanner in the works, holding up fundamental processes such as copying DNA or reading genes, so they have to be fixed to keep the cell healthy and functioning properly.
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it had been planning to raise its forecasts for global growth until Brexit threw "a spanner in the works" and prompted the Fund to trim its forecasts.
The International Monetary Fund said last week that it had been planning to raise its forecasts for global growth until Brexit threw "a spanner in the works," prompting it to trim its forecasts instead.
"The June payrolls number threw a spanner in the works for those participants looking for a 50bp cut to the Federal Funds rate at the upcoming FOMC meeting," ANZ Research said in a note.
Spanner crab from Ballina in northern New South Wales has had its sweet meat picked and served in its own shell, in a pool of coral sauce — sauce, that is, made from its roe.
The region, which it first talked about last April, will feature three availability zones and support for virtually all of Google Cloud's standard service, ranging from Compute Engine to BigQuery, Bigtable and Cloud Spanner.
After Qwant won over Huawei to building a device with its search engine in prime position, Leandri says it was Google's changes to the licensing terms for Android that threw a spanner in the works.
The torque required to hold the wheel on the plane while using the long torque wrench exacerbates the problem, causing the spanner wrench to roll off the nut when an abundance of force is applied.
Warsaw, like most of Google's regions, will feature three availability zones and launch with all the standard core Google Cloud services, including Compute Engine, App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner and BigQuery.
But it was the damning verdict on the now-dead merger issued last week by PSA's boss, Carlos Tavares, who called it a "virtual takeover" of Renault, that may have thrown a spanner in the works.
Spanner also happens to spend a lot of his time on Twitter criticizing McGarry's policies and person, as well as sending her pictures of disturbingly misshapen fruit, so she saw Rowling's support of him as misogynistic. .
But they're trending upward, and they affect the EU's machinery, throwing a spanner in its works by forcefully objecting to European integration on issues from migration to energy -- where they have allies outside their own ranks.
Meanwhile, the UK supreme court's decision that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament was illegal has thrown a spanner in the works for his plans to have the United Kingdom leave Europe by October 31.
On Wednesday, however, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan threw a spanner into the works with a visit to Beijing, where he met with Xi in an apparent attempt to shore up support ahead of the Modi summit.
However, the Federation of International Motocycling (FIM) potentially threw a spanner in the works by last month announcing a rival series, the inaugural FIM E-Bike Enduro World Cup that will take place in France in June.
While, at the other end of the spectrum — for those really wanting to be really sure they totally nuke all message trace — there are a couple of practical pitfalls that could throw a spanner in the works.
Called Spanner, it was the first global database, a way of storing information across millions of machines in dozens of data centers spanning multiple continents, and it now underpins everything from Gmail to AdWords, the company's primary moneymaker.
"The June payrolls number threw a spanner in the works for those participants looking for a 20.6974 basis point cut to the federal funds rate at the upcoming FOMC meeting," ANZ analysts wrote to clients in a note.
By opting for the Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Spanner as the database to keep track of all moves, the average latency the team has seen during its tests is 138ms, which allows for plenty of wiggle room.
Because any change propagates across the global network within milliseconds, Cloud Spanner is actually a really interesting option for game developers who need low latencies and a ground truth that can be distributed between a global player base.
Little Miss Inventor, a female engineer who sports a spanner and pencils in her hair, aims to provide a positive role model and challenge stereotypes about STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - where women are often underrepresented.
The second minor detail might also throw a spanner into Lyft's engine: there are still many question marks hanging over how these services will grow relative to other macroeconomic forces, and specifically how government regulation will impact that.
They are a spanner in the EU's works, creating obstacles and dysfunction that Putin sees in Russia's interests as it attempts to become a resurgent international player, jockeying with the EU for power in places like Eastern Europe.
The high-stakes creative challenge that he has embraced here is to try to do the same thing with wattle seeds and spanner crab and magpie goose — ingredients that, until a few months ago, he knew much less about.
Others in Brussels say big pharma's motivation was to throw a spanner in the works of parallel-trade firms, which export medicines from low-price to high-price EU countries (a thriving business because countries often fix domestic drug prices).
CHINA'S SPANNER China is showing that two can play that game, with customs at the northern port of Dalian placing an indefinite ban on imports from Australia, and restricting those from other countries, according to an exclusive Reuters report on Thursday.
If Twitter comes up against these two behemoths – which have investors willing to give them time to invest money – it could find itself outbid on some content, which could put a spanner in the works of its 24/7 content plan.
SPEAKER'S SPANNER Bercow said his ruling, based on a convention dating back to 1604, should not be considered his last word and the government could bring forward a new proposition that was not the same as those already voted upon.
The recall follows the sudden resignation of Ford's China chief, Jason Luo, this week after only five months at the helm, a departure that throws a spanner in the automaker's attempts to turn around a sales slump in the market.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he would not sign any trade deal with Brazil if President Jair Bolsonaro pulled out of the Paris climate accord, threatening to put a spanner in the works of EU-Mercosur trade negotiations.
Cloud Spanner joins Google's other cloud-based database services, like Bigtable, Cloud SQL and the Cloud Datastore, but with the crucial difference of offering developers the best of both traditional relational databases and NoSQL databases — that is, transactional consistency with easy scalability.
"As a combined software/hardware solution that includes atomic clocks and GPS receivers across Google's global network, Cloud Spanner also offers additional accuracy, reliability and performance in the form of a fully-managed cloud database service," Google claims in its blog post today.
Placebo's "Nancy Boy" threw a sexually fluid spanner into a 90s music scene dominated by lads getting pumped up on WKD and Chumbawamba, simultaneously enticing a generation of teenagers to paint their nails black, take drugs and have loads of sex with all the genders.
If you don't spend your days thinking about globally distributed databases, then consistency models may not exactly be all that important to you, but most competing database systems (including Google's recently launched Cloud Spanner), only feature two consistency models: strong consistency and eventual consistency.
What made me perk up, though, was when I heard that Bandai Namco opted to use Google's Cloud Network to host all the infrastructure for the game and that one of the main components of this system is Cloud Spanner, Google's globally distributed database.
I mean, Donald Trump seems to have thrown a spanner in the works of the turbine blades on these very large windmills, by suggesting that the Paris Agreement isn't valid, and actually the world is pushing ahead in the wrong direction on climate change.
ANTANANARIVO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a small boat off the coast of Madagascar, Idrissa Tsirvelo struggled with a spanner on his rusted dive cylinder, then put a regulator in his mouth and disappeared under the water, risking death illegally harvesting sea cucumbers from the ocean floor.
For him show business had liberating power, whether in the shape of the brave little clown with a spanner, like Chaplin in "The Great Dictator", or of the fantasy operettas of his boyhood, with their backstage smells of make-up and sweaty tights, violets and beer.
But, more significantly, Amazon threw a spanner in the works when it purchased Whole Foods just days before Blue Apron's debut, giving investors concerned the alliance would negatively impact the company, piling on more doubt that had surfaced around the viability of its customer retention strategy.
Still, the U.S.-China trade war threatens to throw a far more existential spanner in European Commission efforts to reset the competitive planning field for smartphone services — certainly if Google's response to Huawei's blacklisting is to torch its supply of almost all Android-related services, per Reuters.
I don't mind, though, as it's inevitable—Dallas doesn't make it, and Isolation being canon, one of only two video games to be so (beside the still-so-bad Colonial Marines), naturally its makers aren't going to toss too significant a spanner into the established, overarching narrative.
GENDER REVEAL GOES WRONG WHEN BASEBALL SMACKS GRANDFATHER IN THE FACE The mum, who moved to the US in 2006 from Syria, said morning sickness early on in her pregnancy threw a spanner in the works but she was determined not to let it affect her academic performance.
The addition of Alooma, subject to closing conditions, is a natural fit that allows us to offer customers a streamlined, automated migration experience to Google Cloud, and give them access to our full range of database services, from managed open source database offerings to solutions like Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable.
Equally, individual European governments appear to have little appetite to throw a spanner in the 5G works, given the risk of being left lagging as cellular connectivity evolves and transforms — an upgrade that's expected to fuel and underpin developments in artificial intelligence and big data analysis, among other myriad and much-hyped benefits.
Kubernetes, and indeed all of the open source projects being generated by Google, such as TensorFlow for machine learning, Spanner for launching massive distributed databases or Draco for 3D graphics compression, to name but a few, were part of a concerted and deliberate effort in-house to be a more open organization.
As the world seeks to understand the alleged Russian hacking that rattled last year's election, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threw a spanner into the investigation, saying earlier this week that Russia wasn't the source of Democratic Party emails that his secret-spilling group published—a claim then amplified in a tweet from president-elect Donald Trump.
As VW's sales chief, Jürgen Stackmann, unveiled a new version of the Up city car, Simon Brodkin, a comic whose past targets include FIFA's former boss, Sepp Blatter, gatecrashed the presentation in overalls, with a spanner and a "cheat box" which he tried to fit to the car (see picture), before being led off by security men.
After weeks of intense scrutiny of the company's business model and the 40-year-old CEO's personal life that has thrown a spanner in the works of the company's attempts to go public, Neumann has been replaced by two new co-CEOs, Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham — seasoned executives with years of management under their belts.
The source of the photos isn't clear, but the images do fall into some recurring categories, including medical procedures ("Varicose veins treatment cell phone cover case Samsung S5"), beauty treatments ("Eyebrows tinting treatment with natural henna dye cell phone cover case Samsung S5"), drugs ("Medical Cannabis Marijuana oil ready for consumption cell phone cover case iPhone5"), and DIY ("Plumber hands fixing water tap with spanner, faucet and tool cell phone cover case iPhone5").
Turning to companies that are associated more with apps and software, the Ubers of the world have thrown a spanner into the works not just by becoming a force for getting transportation on demand — but by doing so efficiently enough that some might even start to question whether they need to own a car for themselves in the first place, pointing to a direct threat to the likes of GM. And with the advances of machine learning, artificial intelligence and sensors that can read and parse more and more data, the number of tech companies getting involved is only growing.

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