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A Tahk-heesh Indian preparing to carry a load on his back adjusted the head and breast bands in a specific manner. The breast band was held at its center with the palm of the hand and pulled taut until the packer’s elbow touched the load—whether a box, bag, or bundle—indicating it was properly set. Once the breast band was adjusted, the head band was also pulled out, leaving a gap between the two equal to the width of the packer’s hand. The head band, which was not always used, was typically longer. I had observed this method of arranging loads among my Chilkat packers as well. A notable aspect of this setup was that the breast band passed over the arms, pinning them to the sides and seemingly rendering them useless when they might be needed most. | AI |
Baby boomers are putting significant visibility on the elderly population of the United States, as well as significant stressors. The overall U.S. population age rises with the retirement of Baby Boomers. Currently, there are about three million LGBT seniors above 65, with that number jumping to over six million by 2030. According to a 2010 study of over a thousand LGBTQ+ 45to 64-year-olds and a comparative group of the same amount of baby boomers, drawn randomly from the general population, "all boomers have the same fears about aging, are struggling to finance their retirement, have similar caregiving patterns, and similar desires for end-of-life care. However, in some respects, LGBT boomers will approach retirement differently. | HUMAN |
However, since most of our work will be done on a coordinate domain, which is an orientable manifold, this assumption is not a severe restriction upon the class of SVT field theories we are investigating. Nevertheless, when we consider coordinate transformations, it will be assumed that the Jacobian is positive. Another aspect of this theorem that you may have noticed, is that no assumption 9 was made concerning the differential order of the SVT field theories under consideration. That is because I shall prove that all theories which satisfy the assumptions of the theorem must have differential order less that or equal to four. You should also note that all theories satisfying the assumptions of the theorem can be obtained from Lagrangian which is at most of second-order. | HUMAN |
Rory McIlroy's recent victory at the Dubai Desert Classic mirrors his first professional win in 2009. During the proceedings, McIlroy expressed his wishes for success to Mr. Ridge in his future career as a sports agent, while Ridge reciprocated by wishing McIlroy continued success on the golf course. Prior to the adjournment of the High Court case on Tuesday, McIlroy reportedly offered Ridge nearly £8 million to settle the dispute. However, Ridge declined the offer, confident that his company held a legally binding contract entitling them to 15-20% of McIlroy's endorsement earnings until 2017. McIlroy's lucrative £150 million deal with Nike, signed during his time with Horizon, provided significant motivation for the company to pursue a larger settlement. | AI |
NYISO Operations should oversee the 150 MW limit, as they are best positioned to address real-time issues and should have full authority to determine which generators are activated based on current conditions. Attempting to establish a fair rotation system for unit dispatch at this stage, especially with uncertain operating hours, would likely be inefficient. Additionally, it is important to acknowledge and appreciate the DEC’s decision to expand the exempt generator definition. | AI |
It was previously Camp Pedricktown an Air Defense Base Construction under the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers transferred to the New York District on July 1, 1960. The station had a Missile Master installation with an Army Air Defense Command Post, and associated search, height finder, and identification friend or foe radars. The station's radars were subsequently replaced with radars at Gibbsboro Air Force Station away. The obsolete Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System,a 1957-vintage vacuum tube computer, was removed after command of the defense area was transferred to the command post at Highlands Air Force Station near New York City. The Highlands AFS command post controlled the combined New York-Philadelphia Defense Area. | HUMAN |
The Commission says that the policy pursued by the EU and its Member States on employment has brought 'noteworthy results'. Naturally, it regards as a 'noteworthy' result the extension of 'employability', in other words the transfer of responsibility for employment to working people and their various qualifications and not to the state and the employment policy it implements. It even regards as positive the imposition of part-time work, the continual spread of the phenomena of poverty and social exclusion, and the decline in the standard of living of working people, who are bearing the brunt of the 'new employment policy' and its recipes. | HUMAN |
PG&E continues to control Path 15 and tells the ISO what's left after PG&E allocates the capacity and decides what the rating is and when it changes. There is no transparency. PG&E has the ability to use Path 15 to advantage Diablo Canyon given the existing contracts. Carl has looked into it somewhat and doesn't think PG&E is, but;... The ISO says it can't interpret PG&E's contracts with the munis and filed some funky thing with FERC about how it's some kind of overseer -- we protested and have now appealed. The munis have been receiving preferential access since Day One -- their contracts were generally subservient to the IOU rights -- more like interruptible -- but once the ISO started, all of a sudden, the muni rights became super firm superceding the IOU rights (as far as we can tell from sketchy filings and discussions with ISO staff). | HUMAN |
The tops were large, and were railed about with what had once been octagonal net-work, all now in sad disrepair. These tops hung overhead like three ruinous aviaries, in one of which was seen, perched, on a ratlin, a white noddy, a strange fowl, so called from its lethargic, somnambulistic character, being frequently caught by hand at sea. Battered and mouldy, the castellated forecastle seemed some ancient turret, long ago taken by assault, and then left to decay. Toward the stern, two high-raised quarter galleries—the balustrades here and there covered with dry, tindery sea-moss—opening out from the unoccupied state-cabin, whose dead-lights, for all the mild weather, were hermetically closed and calked—these tenantless balconies hung over the sea as if it were the grand Venetian canal. But the principal relic of faded grandeur was the ample oval of the shield-like stern-piece, intricately carved with the arms of Castile and Leon, medallioned about by groups of mythological or symbolical devices; uppermost and central of which was a dark satyr in a mask, holding his foot on the prostrate neck of a writhing figure, likewise masked. | HUMAN |
Consequently I do not understand and do not support the stance of the Polish government, which wants an exemption from the duty under the provisions of Chapter IV of the Charter, entitled Solidarity, where Polish citizens are concerned. This Chapter contains provisions that are particularly dear to the Polish and European left, relating to employee and union rights. Any wise government should care about providing the citizens of its country with greater and more effective protection of employees' rights, especially in a country like Poland, whose freedom was brought about by the workers' uprising of the Polish Solidarność. I therefore call on the Polish government to change its stance on this matter. | HUMAN |
The effective use of this method for separating and identifying food and foodstuffs depends on access to detailed reference sequence libraries, such as the Barcode of Life Database (barcodeoflife.org). DNA barcoding is especially valuable for authenticating seafood products, as highlighted in [6]. This is primarily because seafood encompasses a diverse range of species, many of which share similar physical traits. Additionally, the structural and visual features of raw materials are often altered or lost during various food processing steps, such as heat treatment or cooking. | AI |
A few small communities took it upon themselves to address this issue, recognizing that no one else would prioritize their needs and that the average map user, globally, is unlikely to contribute much input. If the goal is global coverage and reliance on user-generated data, the challenge becomes significant. While the idea is admirable and the hope for widespread generosity is genuine, the reality is that most people prioritize a functional, complete service over contributing their time and effort. Without automation and open data exchange, OpenStreetMap is unlikely to become the primary choice for the general public. | AI |
José Luis is scheduled to arrive in Miami on the afternoon of Friday, October 1. I plan to meet him there and stay at a hotel we agree on. I would appreciate it if you could join us to share your input and provide transportation. We can then return to Houston around lunchtime, arriving in time for Saturday night and Sunday. Saturday night is the SPCA ball, which may be the only evening we can attend a party. | AI |
Most people strive to do their best each day, given their circumstances and knowledge. However, no individual can know everything or handle tasks on an industrial scale alone. Hierarchical management structures serve as a practical solution to this limitation. They address two key constraints: first, no single person can oversee everything or achieve large-scale output independently, and second, humans tend to function more effectively within a structured chain of command. This structure ensures that no individual is overwhelmed, as direct management typically works best with around 8 to 15 reports. | AI |
More than a decade after the collapse of the USSR, these kinds of misadventures and alibis cannot be tolerated. Although there are still reservations regarding the European Union's vigilance with regard to these Central Asian republics over the past few years, the Union must now show genuine firmness in order to promote its principles and its values in this region of the world. Tomorrow, certain former Soviet republics will join our Union. Today, already, the Union is concentrating a key economic and industrial force in Europe and the world. It must use this as a political lever to demolish the non-democratic regimes of these third countries that are so eager to obtain Community investment. | HUMAN |
Yes [X] No. If Yes, provide the release numbers of the Commission’s notice and order or, if no notice or order has been issued, include the file number and the date the application was filed. V. Conclusion of Fund Business. Is the fund involved in any litigation or administrative proceedings? [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, describe the nature of the litigation or proceeding and the fund’s position in that matter. Is the fund currently engaged in, or planning to engage in, any business activities beyond those required for winding up its affairs? [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, describe the nature and scope of those activities. VI. Mergers Only. (a) Provide the name of the fund surviving the merger. (b) Provide the Investment Company Act file number of the surviving fund. (c) If the merger or reorganization agreement has been filed with the Commission, provide the file number(s), form type, and filing date. (d) If the merger or reorganization agreement has not been filed with the Commission, attach a copy of the agreement as an exhibit to this form. | AI |
She grabbed a glass framed picture off my wall (a huge one) and smashed it on the ground and hundreds of shards of glass flew everywhere. She proceeded to grab kitchen knifes and pointed them at herself (which I would dangerously got away from her). I was desperately trying to just calm her down, trying to get her to go get coffee and out of my apartment. She locked herself in the bathroom and then proceeded to like pretend cut her wrists with my razor blade - I popped the door open with a coat hanger and got that away from her. Long story short, I eventually got her out of the apartment and back in the common area. | HUMAN |
Most patients found that a Valsalva-type maneuver effectively stopped phantosmia. Techniques included leaning the torso over a sofa while holding their breath or crying, snorting tap water or saline into the affected nostril, or inducing vomiting. Initially, this method consistently ended phantosmia, and the effects typically lasted for hours. During this period, actions like sneezing or shouting did not trigger a recurrence. Over time, however, while the Valsalva maneuver still halted phantosmia, the duration of relief gradually shortened, and it became less effective at preventing reinitiation by activities such as crying, shouting, nose-blowing, or sneezing. | AI |
As 0870 numbers had been adopted on a large scale by public services, healthcare providers, banks, utilities and other companies, the relatively high cost of calling such numbers became a matter of public concern. By 2004, the website had been established to help callers find alternative contact numbers for companies, and in 2005 BT suggested scrapping 0845 and 0870 numbers entirely. BT believed the public were being misled about their call prices from other operators and Ofcom proposed removing revenue share from 0870 numbers and capping prices at less than "national rate" - but such changes were delayed by several years. | HUMAN |
I have been wearing fake gages for about a month now to see what I would look like with them in my ear and now im super excite about starting this process. As of right now im ordering my starter kit online and I happen to see this product under recommended items. After reading these reviews, I think im going to buy this. I just hope it works as well as ppl are saying. But wish me luck, I will come back to tell you how this product worked for me. | HUMAN |
Deepa Mehta, Arundhati Roy, and others labeled as intellectuals often gain recognition by portraying India and Hinduism in a negative light, with Mehta profiting from such depictions. Hindus, perceived as either too gentle or hesitant to protest as forcefully as other groups, are frequently subjected to misrepresentation without significant pushback. It is worth noting that during the 1930s, widows in the West also faced mistreatment, yet such issues are rarely highlighted in discussions about Western societies, unlike the focus on India and Hinduism. Mehta’s portrayal of India and the plight of widows is misleading, and it fails to acknowledge that child marriage has been illegal in the country for decades. | AI |
Biospheric values reflect the belief that nature has intrinsic worth and should be protected. Altruistic values focus on the well-being of others, particularly those close to an individual. Egoistic values, in contrast, prioritize personal welfare and are often negatively linked to green consumer behavior, while altruistic and biospheric values show positive associations (De Groot and Steg, 2008; Nordlund and Garvill, 2002). According to the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory, these three values influence the next variable in the causal chain: beliefs. VBN theory identifies three types of beliefs: (1) the new ecological paradigm, which reflects an individual's ecological worldview and their perception of their ability to impact nature (Dunlap and Van Liere, 1978); (2) awareness of adverse consequences, which refers to recognizing environmental threats (Han, 2015); and (3) ascription of responsibility, which involves the belief that one's actions can mitigate these threats. | AI |
In his scientific work, he focuses on Serbian art from the Middle Ages to the modern era. His interpretations draw on the insights of the French research school from the interwar period, presented in a polished style with detailed analysis. This work connected him with prominent Serbian artists and collectors, including Milan Konjović and Pavle Beljanski. Kašanin also contributed significantly to the understanding of Serbian medieval literature. Starting in 1924, he published art criticism in outlets such as Politika, Vreme, and the magazine Reč i slika. | AI |
3) Political ideologues have hijacked this issue to push their pet issues like automobile emissions and firecrackers. These are obviously important issues which most reasonable people will agree ought to be curbed. Sadly a lot of otherwise intelligent folks have a blind spot when it comes to these issues, so there is a temptation to let it slide when these kinds of politics are being played dishonestly, even though their motivations are different. By emphasizing one's biased issues, the root cause is ignored, which helps nobody. | HUMAN |
In reciprocating piston engines of the kind described above, a great variety of auxiliary units, including balancing masses which, in the context of the present invention, are considered as constituting auxiliary units, are driven by the crankshaft either directly or with the interposition of kinematic, positively engaging connections. Balancing masses for the balancing of free forces of gravity of a reciprocating piston engine of the above kind are provided in the form of rotating balance weights which, depending upon their intended use, are also provided in gear wheels connected to the crankshaft for driving supplementary and/or other auxiliary units. | HUMAN |
He lunged at Cebriones with the force of a lion attacking a stockyard, though such boldness often brings its own peril—so too did Patroclus fiercely charge at Cebriones. Hector leapt from his chariot to the ground, and the two clashed over Cebriones' body. Like two lions battling fiercely on a mountain over the carcass of a stag they had brought down, Patroclus, son of Menoetius, and Hector, the brave Trojan, struck at each other relentlessly over the fallen warrior. Hector gripped Cebriones' head tightly, refusing to release him, while Patroclus held firm to his feet, as the surrounding Danaans and Trojans waged their own violent struggle nearby. | AI |
Helping girls recognize how their legal classification as ‘children’ made them structurally vulnerable could enable them to see themselves not only as vulnerable but also as resourceful and resilient individuals who had managed to live independently with the means available to them. By understanding the political, financial, and structural constraints they faced, young women could contextualize their past decisions within these limitations, shifting from self-blame to planning future pathways with professional and structural support. While enrichment activities were designed to engage and occupy young people, residents often found them lacking in value, feeling these efforts underestimated the complexity and trauma of their lived experiences. The unit’s isolated environment temporarily removed them from their usual hardships, but its packed schedule left little room for sharing experiences or developing coping strategies with peers. | AI |
The signage and printed instructions were exclusively in English, and customs officers often reprimanded people in English—many of whom did not understand the language—for issues like standing in the wrong line, which they couldn’t have known due to the language barrier. In some instances, officers would guide individuals, who were unaware of where they were going, into a line and then leave them there. The wait for translators could extend for hours. After clearing customs, passengers were hurried through another security line and required to place their bags on one of five conveyor belts for additional screening, even if they weren’t taking a connecting flight. However, there was no clear signage indicating which belt to use, and only a few attendants shouted instructions in English as crowds of people moved past. | AI |
The Obama administration went into bunker mode on Tuesday after news leaked that the president had selected former Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as his next Pentagon chief. An Italian Internet hoaxer created a fake Twitter account in Carter's name Tuesday morning and tweeted that he had gotten the job. And two major news outlets claimed to have inside information that the Carter pick was a done deal. But White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was tight-lipped in his press briefing. ' What I can tell you is – not much,' he told reporters. ' | HUMAN |
It is from this circumstance alleged, that Mr. Creech contracted a melancholy, and moroseness of temper, which occasioned the disinclination of many towards him, and threw him into habits of recluseness, and discontent. To this some writers likewise impute the rash attempt on his own life, which he perpetrated at Oxford, in 1701. This act of suicide could not be occasioned by want, for Mr. Jacob tells us, that just before that accident, he had been presented by the college to the living of Welling in Hertfordshire. Mr. Barnard in his Nouvelles de la Republiques de Lettres, assigns another cause besides the diminution of his fame, which might occasion this disastrous fate. Mr. Creech, though a melancholy man, was yet subject to the passion of love. | HUMAN |
She was registered blind in 1988, but this did not diminish her enthusiasm for life, even as she grew older. She enjoyed going into town and would ask others to describe buildings and landmarks to her, as she disliked being confined indoors. Born during the time of the Marquess of Salisbury’s premiership, she was the youngest daughter of Charles Lancaster, a miner, and his wife Sarah. She spent her entire life in the Worsbrough area of Barnsley and left school at the age of 13 to begin working at Sudgen’s shirt factory. | AI |
For instance, 40 was an Open Reporting initiative launched by Huffington Post and News Assignment to cover the 2012 election. It invited readers to attend political events, record them, and submit their content to the online platform. Over 12,000 people participated. This approach allowed the public to gain insight into the projects being reported, fostered trust among readers, and enhanced communication with the audience. Leveraging reader contributions in this manner can strengthen trust and enrich storytelling, as participants may possess access or knowledge that the news organization lacks. | AI |
For the 1989 season, the name of the club was changed to Redbridge Forest, in preparation for a move to a new site bordering both Redbridge and Waltham Forest borders. However, the move to a new site collapsed and the club remained at Victoria Road. Incidentally, Dagenham and Redbridge Forest were both in the Isthmian League Premier Division for that season and the two matches between landlord and tenant saw 2–2 and 1–1 draws between the clubs, clubs that now play as one. Redbridge Forest won the Isthmian League in 1990–91 and with the ground now passing Conference regulations, the club were now allowed to move up to the Conference for the 1991–92 season. | HUMAN |
I also want to share the assignment I used with the first full draft of this book. I asked teams of students to select a section and revise it, and their contributions are acknowledged in the sections they worked on. While the assignment had some issues (and I plan to revise it in the future), most students became deeply engaged in the revision process. As one student noted, “I didn’t expect my feedback to be taken seriously because I didn’t feel on the same level as the book’s author, but my input was actually valued.” I gained valuable insights from their work, lessons I intend to keep applying to this project. | AI |
The summit brought together diplomats, officials, and representatives from over 100 countries, all advocating for the rights of victims of sexual violence, including women, men, and children. Angelina Jolie leaned over the podium to embrace a delegate after addressing the international group. She spoke warmly with Neema Namadamu from the Democratic Republic of Congo and later traced the outline of her hand alongside others who had pledged their support for the campaign. With global attention on her, Jolie expressed her dedication of the conference to a rape survivor she and Hague had recently met in Bosnia. | AI |
The film includes a reference to "making it with monkeys." Gavin's exaggerated reactions to minimal physical contact, paired with her peculiar seduction routine involving a bonfire and a haddock, lack any notable appeal. The haddock, in fact, seems more engaging. By 1968 standards, the content was relatively mild, despite the controversy it stirred at the time. A character mentions "getting stoned," though it only refers to drinking bourbon, and despite its original "X" certificate, the film contains no explicit nudity. | AI |
I will briefly respond to Mr Barón Crespo. The dialogue of last week had only one definitive context as far as Parliament is concerned: an opportunity for me to confirm in person what I had already done in writing, that Parliament would insist that no definitive decision on the question of dates should be arrived at without having an adequate dialogue and understanding between the institutions including Parliament. Thereafter, because there is, from my own appreciation of the points made by different colleagues here, a diversity of parliamentary views, I was not in a position to express a definitive view except the view that there should be no final decision without our consent. | HUMAN |
"Well, grandmother didn't die of homesickness, nor the rose either. The transplantin' was good for both of 'em. She lived to be ninety years old, and when she died the house wouldn't hold the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren that come to the funeral. And here's her rose growin' and bloomin' yet, like there wasn't any such things in the world as old age and death. And every spring I gether a basketful o' these pink roses and lay 'em on her grave over yonder in the old buryin'-ground. | HUMAN |
philosopher. They would strongly prefer to remain in the Intelligible World, basking in its sunlight and contemplating the Forms. They will return because, being just, they will do what justice requires of them, even when they do not want to do it. But make no mistake about it, they do not want to return, and ruling is ‘something compulsory’ (7.520e), not enjoyable in itself as doing philosophy is. And notice that ruling does not really fit into any of the three categories of goodness that Glaucon articulates at the beginning of Book II. | HUMAN |
"The error of the Pennsylvania rule is in failing to give due effect to a verdict of conviction, or in overlooking the vast change it effects in the attitude of the party. By it the legal presumption of innocence is overthrown, all doubtful questions of fact are resolved in favor of the state, and the credibility or noncredibility of witnesses is conclusively established. A verdict of conviction where no error of law has intervened will never be set aside unless manifestly wrong, or, as is sometimes said, if there be any evidence to support it. To say that bail will only be granted where there is no evidence showing guilt, or where the proof of guilt is so slight upon the whole testimony that a conviction would be manifestly wrong, is plainly inconsistent with the constitutional *Page 175 | HUMAN |
Among the Alexandrian grammarians of this reign was Apollonius Dyscolus, so called perhaps from a moroseness of manner, who wrote largely on rhetoric, on the Greek dialects, on accents, prosody, and on other branches of grammar. In the few pages that remain of his numerous writings, we trace the love of the marvellous which was then growing among some of the philosophers. He tells us many remarkable stories, which he collected rather as a judicious inquirer than as a credulous believer; such as of second sight; an account of a lad who fell asleep in the field while watching his sheep, and then slept for fifty-seven years, and awoke to wonder at the strangeness of the changes that had taken place in the meanwhile; and of a man who after death used from time to time to leave his body, and wander over the earth as a spirit, till his wife, tired of his coming back again so often, put a stop to it by having his mummy burnt. He gives us for the first time Eastern tales in a Greek dress, and we thus learn the source from which Europe gained much of its literature in the Middle Ages. | HUMAN |
In an old letter in the Mitchell Library, dated Liverpool, 20 September 1830, Cartwright is of the opinion that a better site might have been procured for St. Matthew's Church, and for which a legal title might have been obtained. Writing of the glebe land, evidently that at Clarendon, he says it was part of a common to which he had an equal right with his neighbours, as he had land adjoining. He complains that this land was neither fenced nor cleared, and that he should not be expected to do this work out of his private income, as it was for the benefit of his successors as much as for himself. As there was no parsonage house or glebe available for him, he mentions that he had to purchase a farm of 100 acres at Richmond in 1813, which was his principal establishment till he left Windsor in 1820. The above letter was addressed to Bishop Broughton in support of a claim for arrears of money due to the writer. | HUMAN |
Prime Minister, today you addressed the western Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, and northern Africa, yet you made no mention of northern Cyprus. This omission gives the impression that the issue has been ignored or erased, which is concerning. While it is commendable that you initiated a dialogue between cultures and religions in Ljubljana, Cyprus remains a critical area where such efforts could yield significant progress. A meaningful dialogue between cultures and religions in Cyprus is essential, particularly to ensure that the 200,000 innocent people there have a fair chance to join the European Union. | AI |
The effort to promote female education faced not only widespread indifference but also deep-rooted prejudice, a sentiment ingrained in the public mind for centuries. Resistance was further fueled by a general Oriental aversion to change, particularly when it came from foreign sources. The practice of female seclusion, rooted in Oriental traditions and reinforced by Islamic customs, presented another significant barrier. Additionally, religious suspicion cast missionaries as heretics and their influence as corrupting, creating a perception that such efforts would likely fail. However, the missionaries underestimated the level of trust they had already established within the community. | AI |
Critical response to Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at the time of release was mixed. According to Julie Bosman, criticism of the book "has escalated to a full-scale furor," much of which has focused on Carter's use of the word "apartheid" in the subtitle. Some critics, including several leaders of the Democratic Party and of American Jewish organizations, have interpreted the subtitle as an allegation of Israeli apartheid, which they believe to be inflammatory and unsubstantiated. Tony Karon, Senior Editor at and a former anti-Apartheid activist for the ANC, said: "Jimmy Carter had to write this book precisely because Palestinian life and history is not accorded equal value in American discourse, far from it. And his use of the word apartheid is not only morally valid; it is essential, because it shakes the moral stupor that allows many liberals to rationalize away the daily, grinding horror being inflicted on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza". | HUMAN |
Together with the general, he plans and executes bombings in public places that result in the deaths of dozens of innocent people, then leaves evidence making it appear that the Communists carried out the bombing. His purpose is to turn the Vietnamese people against both the French and the Communists, leaving them open to intervention by the US, who will of course put the renegade general in charge. The American is seen as so evil by Fowler, the pathetic English journalist who is his rival in love, that Fowler goes along with a plot to have him killed. The novel is intensely anti-American, as was Greene. By contrast, this film, released in 1958 at the height of the cold war and just after the McCarthy era, could not afford to appear anti-American. | HUMAN |
Holger Bec Nielsen and his team of scientists were working to refine Einstein's theories but found themselves at an impasse. To seek inspiration, they turned to older mathematical texts. In one such book, they discovered an image resembling a design often seen on t-shirts at particle physics labs. Intrigued, they investigated further, noting that the book predated the invention of centrifuges. The text explored how sounds produced by drums and stringed instruments would behave if they vibrated in spaces with more than three dimensions. | AI |
At the start of the long-term institutional development grant, the institution defines its objectives and priorities for enhancing research capacity in sexual and reproductive health. The grant facilitates training workshops focused on good research practices, proposal development, data analysis and management, and research ethics in this field. Tailored courses are also offered based on institutional needs, covering topics such as systematic reviews, research methods, scientific writing, and sensitive issues like gender-based violence. Additionally, HRP supports grantees in designing and conducting research, as well as in writing and publishing their findings in both national and international journals. | AI |
His initial major publication was his PhD thesis on Slavic loanwords in ancient Lithuanian. He intended to expand it with a second volume exploring Slavic-Lithuanian cultural interactions and the impact of Slavic on Lithuanian, but this was never completed. The thesis cataloged and analyzed 2,950 loanwords from 16th–17th century Lithuanian texts, though it was not comprehensive, as Skardžius did not examine all available texts from that period or include every Slavic loanword from the sources he used. Later, he published articles on specific aspects of loanwords, such as their accent patterns, Lithuanian loanwords in Slavic languages, Jewish loanwords in Lithuanian, calques, and detailed studies of individual terms. | AI |
My brother seems unhappy, but he struggles to express his feelings clearly. Communication has never been his strength, and when I ask how he’s doing, he often becomes defensive. Recently, he texted me to say he wouldn’t attend our cousin’s wedding because he feels ashamed, but he refused to explain further and insisted it doesn’t mean he’s unhappy. This difficulty in opening up is the main challenge I face when trying to understand or support him. | AI |
A film featuring Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom at the peak of their beauty leaves this reviewer captivated, appreciating their exceptional acting skills in a movie previously unknown to me. Bibi Andersson, in particular, commands the screen with her presence every time she appears. The black-and-white cinematography is beautifully executed, often emphasizing an overexposed, almost dimensionless whiteness, and the performances remain consistently engaging. It is striking that a film so thoughtfully aligned with feminist ideals, advocating against reducing women to objects of desire, ultimately presents its 21st-century audience with a showcase of strikingly beautiful women. | AI |
Being a criminal and having ties to other criminals he could realistically know hookers, and never having a normal life, Stan/The Cable Guy never understood why Steven was so upset about receiving a hooker as a gift. I think the most damning evidence is during the last scene of the movie, when The Cable Guy was wrapped up in a blanket in the helicopter after a dramatic fight scene. His face was the only thing showing, and he did kind-of look like someone who originally looked like Ben Stiller but had facial reconstructive surgery. [ Jim Carry]( | HUMAN |
All three major Wall Street credit agencies have placed California under a ratings watch. At the same time, the state Public Utilities Commission has initiated an investigation into why hundreds of cogenerators and alternative energy providers have not resumed production, despite receiving payments again from Edison and PG&E. These generators, which supply over 20% of the state's energy, had shut down due to unpaid bills dating back to November, exacerbating California's power crisis. While the PUC has mandated that Edison and PG&E resume payments for new power deliveries starting this week, the generators argue the payments are insufficient to restart operations. As a result, PUC President Loretta Lynch stated the commission will examine whether to require the utilities to repay the hundreds of millions owed for past deliveries. | AI |
David sensed Nannie's doubts but chose not to allow them to solidify or take clearer shape. Over time, he believed she would grow accustomed to what seemed like a miraculous turn of events. For now, he planned to return to London, and if his father's recovery progressed fully, he would not visit home again until Christmas. Once his father was able to write, he would send David a copy of his birth certificate. David would also respond to any letters of reference or inquiry in the agreed-upon manner, confirming his apprenticeship in architecture with Praed A.R.A. and his subsequent decision to travel to South Africa. He would mention the minor injury he sustained—David insisted it was trivial, dismissing any exaggeration, as he had researched necrosis of the jaw and understood that even a recovery would have left noticeable marks on his face and throat. | AI |
AB18X is the focal legislative point for the proposed bailout plan, but=20 contains several problems. Per yesterday's morning report, the bill includes a plan in which the=20 utilities would issue stock warrants in exchange for financial assistance= =20 from the state. The bill will be subject to attacks from consumer groups, which will slow i= ts=20 passage. Timing is crucial because of the February 7th deadline for the FER= C=20 emergency order and the February 13th deadline for debt forbearance. The bill also contains little detail about costs. | HUMAN |
Diana Muldaur returns to Star Trek, this time portraying a new character, though no one on the ship appears to recognize her—perhaps due to her changed appearance. Unlike her previous role as a vessel for a deity, she now plays a renowned woman with unique abilities that allow her to interact with a Medusan without suffering the usual mental breakdown. However, her admirer, who is mentally unstable, attempts to harm the Medusan ambassador, who travels in a small crate—an unusual and uncomfortable arrangement. Unfortunately, Muldaur’s character also exhibits her own emotional instability. | AI |
Threat: If, as expected, the drones turn out to have come from North Korea, the South has already warned it will consider a military response, branding the drones a serious provocation. Distance: South Korea's defense ministry reportedly said the technical specifications of the drones and the photos found on their cameras suggest they had not travelled to the country from China or Japan. Viewing: South Korea's Agency for Defense Development put the three drones on display together for the first time during a press conference this morning. If, as expected, that turns out to be. the case, South Korea has already warned it will consider a military response,. | HUMAN |
Entrepreneurship differs significantly because practical experience carries substantial value and can often outweigh a lack of innate talent, such as in programming, or create opportunities for new roles. For example, someone who leaves school to pursue the NBA and faces rejection from recruiters may find themselves at a disadvantage. In contrast, someone who drops out to develop a prototype and encounters skepticism from investors or customers gains practical experience that surpasses their peers still in school. This positions them well to either attempt another venture or seek employment with the skills acquired from their initial failure. | AI |
Mr. President, I would like to highlight the implications of a split vote. Typically, parliamentary procedure dictates that the most detailed proposal is voted on first, followed by less detailed ones. However, this split vote reverses that order, starting with the least detailed and progressing to the most detailed. As someone relatively new to this Parliament, I am unsure how to address this situation. Nevertheless, I would advise anyone who prioritizes environmental concerns and supports the polluter pays principle to vote in favor of both components of the split. | AI |
Raheem Sterling fired one in to bring Liverpool back to within a goal of the Hammers. But at the back there was still no cohesion or organisation whatsoever, somewhat metaphorically reflected by the clash of heads between Mamadou Sakho and Lovren that left the Croatian requiring a lengthy period of treatment - and head injury that perhaps should have seen him withdrawn at half time. Going into the second half at 2-1 down, Rodgers decided the wisest course of action would be to throw caution to the wind and use his second substution to introduce the attack-minded Adam Lallana for Lucas. In attack they looked brighter, but every time West Ham broke away, Liverpool's three-man defence looked hopeless and helpless. With just over 20 minutes to go, Skrtel failed to control a simple backpass and let Diafra Sakho steal the ball off him on the edge of the area. | HUMAN |
The trial judge was correct in allowing the jury to consider the issue of Eggno’s comparative nutritive value. Given the statements on the label, the reference to baking and cooking does not limit the claims solely to appearance and flavor. Baking and cooking pertain to food, and eggs are a widely recognized food item, both on their own and as part of other dishes. While stating that a product can substitute for another does not imply it is equally suitable for all purposes, the label’s statements, taken together, reasonably suggest that Eggno would yield similar results to eggs in typical culinary uses. | AI |
Only individuals with a clean criminal record are permitted to work with children. Recent legal developments in Liechtenstein, such as prosecuting forced marriages without the victim's consent and addressing genital mutilation of minors, highlight the risks associated with the often-praised concept of multicultural enrichment. This trend should be carefully considered within the EU, particularly in relation to its implications for combating human trafficking. | AI |
The problem is that reputation is earned in context. So, reputation on a particular blog is useful, but trying to extrapolate that out to be useful on another blog is not as useful. Reputation gained in one domain is not really transferable to another. ( As an example - if Jon Skeet had a cooking.stackexchange beta account, he shouldn't be automatically the most reputable user just because he has the top stackoverflow account - cooking and coding aren't directly transferable skills.) The best you can hope for is saying that this person is not a troll or spammer. | HUMAN |
It could still be the egalitarianism event after the second world war when women got equal rights in regard to work, but then the data is not that clear cut. Sweden have had equal work force of both women and men for decades now but the trend of lower marriage rates, increased loneliness, increased disproportional amount of childless men, has not topped off and is still worsening. The question is why it then hasn't stopped when equal amount of both women and men are working and sustaining their own quality of life. Is it just culture moving slow or is it possible that something else is causing the change? | HUMAN |
The first is Little Kits Coty also known as The Countless Stones, it used to have a tree in the middle which was removed as it became dangerous. Legend has it they cannot be counted but if you did the devil would take you. One story is that a baker took a lot of loaves there and as he counted them he left a loaf on each one. As he went round the devil followed him picking up the loaves so he couldn't keep count. There are a lot more stones than what appear in this picture. | HUMAN |
Attached is the latest revision of the GE Turbine Purchase Agreement and a cover letter from yours truly. Both have been modified to reflect Lisa Bills comments on contracting entity, language used in the December TurboPark closing and good general editing cleanup. I would like to get this out to GE tonight so that I can put our best foot forward for GE's turbine process meeting on Tuesday morning. On another note, Lisa and Rose, could you take a quick look at the cover letter and get me comments. I will not send any of this out until Janet has gotten Dave Delainey's approval. | HUMAN |
The question therefore arises as to how to go about doing this: are we to set up a committee of wise men, or are we to consider that it is on an interinstitutional basis that we might perhaps be better placed to put the collective European intelligence to work? That, in any case, is the message that this House wants to convey in this debate today, and I am very grateful to the Council and the Commission for allowing the debate to be held in Parliament. | HUMAN |
Index returns, unlike Fund returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. It is not possible to invest directly into an index. cLipper's Closed-End Emerging Markets Debt Funds category represents funds that seek either current income or total return by investing at least 65% of total assets in emerging market debt securities, where "emerging market" is defined by a country's GNP per capita or other economic measures. Lipper figures represent the average of the total returns based on net asset value reported by all of the closed-end funds designated by Lipper Inc. as falling into the Closed-End Emerging Markets Debt Funds category. Category returns assume reinvestment of all distributions. | HUMAN |
The U.S. healthcare system is deeply flawed, with excessive costs that are unsustainable. If the country transitioned to a universal healthcare system where the government covers basic care for everyone up to a reasonable standard—beyond which additional care offers diminishing returns—it could be done without increasing current federal healthcare spending. This is because U.S. government healthcare spending already exceeds that of many single-payer systems in other countries. For those seeking additional care, private insurance would remain an option. However, since most healthcare needs would already be met by the government, consumers would be more selective about purchasing private insurance, reducing the overall inefficiencies and cost burdens in the system. | AI |
Effective adult education relies on two key elements: enhancing information access, showcasing successful initiatives, and sharing relevant experiences with participants. It is important to note that many older adults in new Member States have limited internet access, requiring the use of traditional methods to reach them. Local governments play a crucial role in this process, as they possess detailed understanding of regional conditions and specific needs. | AI |
Most DDR research has concentrated on physico-chemical factors causing genomic aberrations, with limited attention given to *in vivo* physiological conditions like inflammation and their role in DNA damage. Chronic inflammation has recently been recognized as a significant factor in increasing mutation susceptibility. Diseases such as colitis, hepatitis, and pancreatitis trigger the production of oxidant-generating enzymes like NADPH oxidase and nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), leading to excessive mutagenic compounds such as ROS and reactive nitrogen species (RNS; [@B8]). These ROS/RNS, generated by neutrophils and macrophages ([@B26]), can damage both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA ([@B111]). | AI |
I picked the ghetto as an example because decent jobs aren't available, good schools are impossible to get into due to substandard schooling in those communities, and then when you try and beat the odds you have to contend with things like racial or cultural discrimination from employers. There's a reason so many people in those communities believe in hopelessness, because ultimately a lot of it is hopeless. So if 'decent job' doesn't exit, why would UBI kids bother with school? I suspect they'll just settle for a leisure lifestyle. Remove the goals, then you'll remove the effort to get there. | HUMAN |
Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Madam Vice-President, it is important to recognize that the protection of citizens' fundamental rights remains a key priority. The Charter of Fundamental Rights offers safeguards similar to those found in traditional constitutional states. However, the European Union is not a state but possesses legislative authority. This legislative competence of the EU institutions is the specific area covered by the binding protection and oversight of the Charter. European legislation and the actions of EU institutions are guided by values and value-based decisions, as emphasized by the Charter’s opening and most significant statement: the inviolability of human dignity. | AI |
"The Charter Trustees having resolved to assert their corporate rights, and having, for this purpose, recently commenced a suit against their late Secretary and Treasurer, in the issue of which it is expected the question between them and their competitors will be finally settled, the undersigned, being united with them in opinion, in principle, and in feeling, cannot consent to abandon them, or to perform any act which may prejudice their claims, while this suit is pending. They must therefore proceed, as officers of Dartmouth College, to discharge their prescribed duties. They are sensible of their obligation to render submission to the laws, and their first inquiry, in the case before them, has been, What is law? The result is a full conviction in their own minds, that the course they have concluded to adopt is strictly legal, and that no other course would be consistent with their duty. If they err, their error will shortly be corrected by the decision of our highest judicial tribunals; and with this decision they will readily comply. | HUMAN |
Running a large project's main processing server on the head or login node may exhaust resources, causing slowdowns for other users and potentially leading to process termination. To facilitate bidirectional communication across firewalls, servers use a lightweight connection reversal protocol, allowing internal communication to an external server and enabling on-the-fly reversal. Figure 7 illustrates this setup, with servers positioned on both sides of the firewall. The internal server functions solely as a proxy for worker requests, ensuring minimal computational resource usage. | AI |
The Ember folks on IRC are hugely helpful and very friendly. There is a bit of "our way is the best way", but I think that comes from understanding Ember and everything you can do with it and knowing it's probably a more powerful framework in the end. However, the discussion forums are horrible. They're using Discourse, which was written in Ember, and it's nearly impossible to find answers to anything previously posted. Because it's in Ember it's all JavaScript, so nothing is indexed on Google, and the built-in search is awful. | HUMAN |
These two dimensions are reflected in the properties of an activity system, which generates goal-oriented or problem-focused situated knowing-in-action and provides shared mediating tools that offer stability and coherence to the distributed work of a potentially diverse, object-oriented community. In earlier research, I have suggested that in socially and geographically expansive activities, the distributed context can create contradictions with the situated nature of knowing, necessitating new ways of working and, consequently, new mediating tools (Vallance, 2011). The empirical analysis in this study, guided by the methodology, applies this dialectical understanding of the spatiality of knowing to examine how increasing team sizes and the outsourcing of production affect work practices in videogame development projects. The research, drawn from my PhD project (Vallance, 2009), is primarily based on interviews conducted before and during fieldwork in four videogame development studios, referred to here as studios A to D, based on the order of initial fieldwork visits. | AI |
Community-based organizations throughout the United States were sent information about the SL Cuídate Training of Facilitators opportunity via social media (eg, Facebook, Twitter), distribution lists, and newsletters. To ensure agency staff could feasibly participate in the SL training, an online portal and a screening process were established. Community-based organizations submitted contact information and answered screening questions to determine if their computer system capacity met SL's system requirements. The minimum system requirements for SL include at least a Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.6 operating system, a graphics card model NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better, an ATI Radeon 9500 or better, or an Intel 945 chipset for three-dimensional functionality, and a high-speed Internet connection \\[[@ref12]\\]. To identify possible SL installation barriers, access to the Internet (ie, wired or wireless connection) and availability of information technology (IT) personnel at their facility to assist in mitigating technical difficulties was assessed. | HUMAN |
Microlent System is an emerging agency in Dubai, providing a variety of services designed to support business growth and success in the digital landscape. With a team of experienced professionals and extensive industry expertise, the agency has assisted numerous clients in achieving their marketing objectives through tailored strategies that address specific needs. Their offerings include search engine optimization, social media management, web design and development, content marketing, and more. The agency prioritizes delivering high-quality results and maintaining exceptional customer service to ensure client satisfaction. | AI |
These work great for shining up my nails and getting rid of the ridges. I can either wear clean shiny nails or polish them because the glassy new surface of the nail provides a great base for polish. It takes seconds to smooth and shine each nail, and the file itself comes in its own individual case. Perfect for your purse, pocket, desk drawer, glove box, wherever you find yourself needing a buffer/polisher/file. I have used buffers in the past and they are multi-step and time consuming. | HUMAN |
A high school student from Oklahoma took it upon himself to ensure that no girl at his school felt excluded on Valentine’s Day. Dan Williams, who attends Edmond High School, anonymously wrote and distributed valentines to 1,076 female students, aiming to make each of them feel valued regardless of their relationship status. Each card, accompanied by a lollipop, included a message that read, "Remember there will always be people who care about you, and I will always be one of them!" Williams, an Eagle Scout, personally created over 1,000 valentines to reach every girl in the school. | AI |
This section examines a system consisting of a single substance distributed across two or more uniform phases, each characterized by distinct intensive properties. For example, one phase could be a liquid while another is a gas. It is assumed that the phases are not separated by internal barriers, allowing unrestricted transfer of matter and energy between them. (Systems where intensive properties vary continuously, such as a tall gas column in a gravitational field, represent a different scenario and will be addressed in a later section.) | AI |
Posterior iliac crest bone marrow aspiration was conducted under local anesthesia at the Department of Hematology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden, yielding 80–100 mL of aspirate. Clinical MSC production was carried out at Vecura, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden, adhering to good clinical practice standards and guidelines from the European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group. At the time of the study, MSCs were classified as tissue, and their production was approved by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. Following density gradient separation, bone marrow mononuclear cells were seeded at 160,000 cells/cm² in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Low Glucose Medium (DMEM-LG, Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) supplemented with 10⁸ platelets/mL of pooled platelet lysate obtained from healthy donors. Cells were detached using 0.05% trypsin-EDTA (ThermoFisher Scientific Life Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany) upon reaching near confluence (>80%) and re-plated at 4000 cells/cm². BM-MSCs were harvested at passages 1 to 2 and cryopreserved in 10% dimethyl sulfoxide (WAK-Chemie Medical GmbH, Steinbach, Germany) 3–6 weeks after bone marrow aspiration. | AI |
These songs are light, yes, a bit humorous (another foreign word to Floyd fans), yes, but even more so, they naturally evolve out of Fearless. Get a sense of what Fearless is about, how it “feels” and suddenly San Tropez makes perfect sense and so does Seamus. One, a light jazz shuffle (someone called it lounge music) has just been explained in Fearless if anyone cared to look! The other, a blues grind with a howling dog “singing” along is both the natural extension of what Waters was saying in San Tropez, and is a fitting end to side one of the vinyl record (originally). It gives you a bit of a comfort and a chuckle before treading on in your journey, you fool. | HUMAN |
Yesterday, the pensioner was found guilty in her absence at Birmingham Magistrates Court of three offences under the Environmental Protection Act. She was fined £400 and ordered to pay court costs of £1,747 as well as a £40 victim surcharge. The court heard Birmingham City Council had already brought a case against Kholi and she was fined in September last year for playing loud music. But she continued to blast out tunes from her radio and environmental health officers received more complaints about noise levels at her home. An environmental health officer visited her home on July 30 last year and heard loud music coming from Ms Kholi's home. | HUMAN |
Research has consistently shown that among individuals already using substances, certain personality traits—particularly those related to neuroticism and difficulties with behavioral inhibition—are linked to substance misuse. However, the influence of these traits on the initiation of substance use during early adolescence remains less understood. This study is among the first to investigate how the four SURPS personality dimensions predict the onset of substance use in early adolescence. As anticipated, structural equation modeling revealed that adolescents with higher levels of hopelessness and sensation seeking were more likely to begin using alcohol and tobacco within a 20-month period. Additionally, those with higher sensation-seeking tendencies were more likely to have used marijuana by the follow-up assessment. | AI |
Finally, it has been clearly shown that humans benefit psychologically from living in a biodiverse world. A chief proponent of this idea is Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson. He argues that human evolutionary history has adapted us to live in a natural environment and that city environments generate psychological stressors that affect human health and well-being. There is considerable research into the psychological regenerative benefits of natural landscapes that suggests the hypothesis may hold some truth. In addition, there is a moral argument that humans have a responsibility to inflict as little harm as possible on other species. | HUMAN |
It’s surprising that someone with substantial karma on HN wouldn’t grasp the issue. Simply being another instance of Service as a Software Substitute is problematic, but here, the situation involves exploiting user ignorance, which qualifies as a dark pattern. Firefox has traditionally operated as a local application, with remote features requiring users to opt in via an extension. The difference between Mozilla merely offering a button and the actual feature, which relies on a remote SaaSS, is only apparent to those familiar with the underlying technology. | AI |
As a lawyer, I think I'd actually be in favor of the opposite approach -- law school (maybe just one year) with no bar exam. I guess the bar has some value as a "last line of defense" against totally incompetent people entering the profession [1], but it's really just a giant memorization frenzy with no real practical benefit. It's expected that you'll get a large chunk of the test wrong and forget everything in a couple months. Law school, on the other hand, is where people are introduced to legal writing, reading opinions, legal research, and thinking logically (something that isn't a big deal for many undergrads.) | HUMAN |
Throughout all of this action, there is a cult of women on the home planet having some kind of a space age séance to bring the good sister back. Sadly a good portion of this film seems to be rather boring car chase scenes as they drive around Los Angeles (and what was that sound effect when the police car crashed???) The film culminates in another physical fight between the sisters with a predictable ending. It seems to borrow elements from Star Wars (the light sabers and the look of the girls' home planet in the opening and subsequent scenes), Dr. Who (the phone booth like means of transportation) and some of the costumes (from the cult on the home planet) could have been taken from Star Trek episodes. Ms. Dana Fredsti (the evil sister in the movie) in another user comment mentioned "the endless (and dull) wet T-shirt contest. | HUMAN |
Weir supported the couple as their relationship faced challenges due to Logan prioritizing Neve over Mac. She also appreciated the focus on Logan’s background, noting that his past has made him guarded, which Mac respects. However, she acknowledged the importance of understanding the person you share your life with, emphasizing that this was a valuable opportunity for Mac to gain deeper insight into Logan’s experiences. She described this knowledge as intimate and highlighted Mac’s eagerness to learn more about him. | AI |
In the first emergency meeting of the National Security Council on the day of the attacks, Rumsfeld asked, "Why shouldn't we go against Iraq, not just al-Qaeda?" with Wolfowitz adding that Iraq was a "brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily—it was doable," and, according to John Kampfner, "from that moment on, he and Wolfowitz used every available opportunity to press the case." The idea was initially rejected, at the behest of Secretary of State Colin Powell, but, according to Kampfner, "Undeterred Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz held secret meetings about opening up a second front—against Saddam. Powell was excluded." In such meetings they created a policy that would later be dubbed the Bush Doctrine, centering on "pre-emption" and the war on Iraq, which the PNAC had advocated in their earlier letters. | HUMAN |
A sustained commitment is essential to address the ongoing risks posed by the Chernobyl nuclear facility. This commitment must extend beyond words to include financial support and the allocation of skilled human resources for as long as the issue persists. While the full extent of the required financial contributions from Member States is not yet clear, without a deeper understanding of the problem, efforts to address it will remain largely superficial. | AI |
In 2003, at the age of 16, Lamar released his first full-length project, a mixtape titled Youngest Head Nigga in Charge (Hub City Threat: Minor of the Year), under the pseudonym K.Dot. The mixtape was released under Konkrete Jungle Muzik and garnered local recognition for Lamar. The mixtape led to Lamar securing a recording contract with Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), a newly founded independent record label based in Carson, California. He began recording material with the label and subsequently released a 26-track mixtape two years later, titled Training Day (2005). | HUMAN |
His character is the whole story. He has a mysterious past, appears to be well-to-do but prefers a shadowy existence in a lower-class dive, has nothing but good-will for the world, with a wry, wizened sense of humor, yet there is a strange underlying sadness or depression in his make-up that is never fully revealed let alone explained. All this is not just the writing at work, but is present in Cagney's powerful, understated performance. In fact, we're so conditioned by actors 'emoting' in dramas or playing stony strongmen in action films, that we have forgotten what 'subtle' really means in an acting style, but here Cagney exhibits it in spades. Unlike the 'method' actors of the same era as this film, who try to 'get inside' their characters as much as possible, Cagney recognizes the need to take the script as a blueprint for the actor's constructing character. | HUMAN |
In order to rule out eye saccade explanations of results in our spatial auditory attention task, one subject was invited back to perform a full auditory attention session in the MEG environment while eye gaze was monitored using high-resolution binocular eye-tracking. Real-time (1000 Hz sampling) binocular gaze position was determined using an Eyelink 1000 MEG compatible eye-tracking system (SR Research, Ltd., ON, Canada) calibrated using a 9-point fixation paradigm at the beginning of each block and drift corrected at the beginning of each trial. This system has a spatial resolution of 0.02° (RMS) and accuracy of (average bias up to) 0.25°. We used eye-tracking data from this system both to determine if there were significant differences between the eye positions in attend-space and attend-pitch conditions, and to test whether there was a correlation between eye position and FEF activation on a single-trial level. Since it is possible that single-trial MEG activations may be too noisy to provide a meaningful comparison between conditions, we also compared trial-averaged FEF activations and EOG levels across subjects. | HUMAN |
Another disease that that the P. racemoa is particularly receptive to is the Fusarium dieback which is carried and passed on through two kinds of invasive ambrosia beetles. Removing the tree itself is one way to prevent the significant harms of Fusarium dieback from spreading but a mixture of fungicides such as metconazole combined with an insecticide can additionally reduce the number of ambrosia beetles that transmit this disease. Close monitoring is required in order to prevent a substantial beetle infestation from occurring as that would damage the tree to the point of needing removal. | HUMAN |
'Mercatura raro aut nunquam ab aliquo diu sine crimine exerceri potuit,' shrewdly notes his biographer, who was most likely a clerk of Anderlecht, and that seems to have been the general opinion of the ecclesiastical authorities of the day. The Church looked askance at trade, the methods of the merchant were too nearly allied to the methods of the usurer, as she knew very well to her cost. When she wanted a loan she sometimes had to pay him fifty or sixty per cent. Yet, strangely enough, it was on Church land, and under the auspices of a collegiate chapter, that the most flourishing of the great commercial centres of Brabant gradually grew up: it was not by Lambert Longbeard's castle, but higher up stream, alongside the Church of St. Peter, that the wandering merchants who frequented Louvain first pitched camp. | HUMAN |
Turning to the issue of an acquired psychiatric disorder, other than PTSD, the Board notes that the Veteran has not claimed any other psychiatric diagnoses. Moreover, while a provisional diagnosis of mood disorder was rendered on one occasion at VA in April 2012, for the same reasons as noted above, the Board believes that a conclusive medical determination had not been reached regarding the appropriate diagnosis for the Veteran's psychiatric symptomatology at that time. Moreover, at a subsequent VA examination, a VA examiner explained why the Veteran did not meet the criteria for PTSD or any other psychiatric disorders. With regard to the diagnosis of alcohol dependence, the 2013 VA examiner specifically found that this disorder pre-existed service and was not aggravated thereby. Moreover, service connection for alcohol dependence on a direct basis is barred as a matter of law. | HUMAN |
She effortlessly reaches the High C's and E-flat with remarkable ease, executing the coloratura passages with precision and speed. For those who prioritize tonal beauty, her performance delivers it abundantly. Carlo Bergonzi, as her Alfredo, is also at his peak, showcasing a voice free from the dryness that would emerge in later years. Robert Merrill, portraying Germont, remains in his prime and excels in the role. | AI |
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