I think that this is a problem of the usage of adjectives and adverbs (that's why I chose this title):
I have a sentence in my presentation, which clarifies that a procedure uses only observations which are known, so I write:
Uses only known observations.
or do I have to write:
Only known observations are used.
or is the long version necessary:
Uses only observations(,) which are known.
(I'm not sure about the comma)
The word to describe a person's interest in a process related to a certain situation but does not necessarily convey their interest in the situation itself.
To provide context: Over the last 4 years I have dealt with the unrelated and untimely death of three close family members. And while I have no morbid fascination or obsession with 'death', having dealt with it on three seperate occasions I have developed an 'interest', a 'curiosity', a '???' in the grieving process in general, the various methods and processes others use to cope and eventually heal from their loss. I think the above words come across as slightly ghoulish or creepy.
I've read a suggestion provided on this site to a similar question (but not the same, so I hope this isn't a re-question issue) of "benevolent curiosity", but that term would seem to warrant it's own explanation to the reader. Something like...
Me: "I have a benevolent curiosity about grieving and the grieving process."
Listener: "I'm sorry, but can you explain what you mean by that?"
So what would be the best (and hopefully least creepy) word to use?
So a few years ago I read a young adult book about a female human who crash landed on a planet and meets some aliens who help get her somewhere, but I forget where. The aliens are described as being reptilian, and I think near the beginning a passing reference is made to one of the alien POV character's relatives regrowing a limb. The POV shifts between the human and the aliens, and they have to find ways to communicate across a language barrier. I think, but I'm not sure, that the human protagonist's name was Hannah, but I know the aliens thought it was funny because in their language, her name meant either "twig" or "little twig". I'm pretty sure that the world the story takes place in is heavily forested or thick swampland, or at least the part the human lands in. The atmosphere is breathable to the human protagonist. I'm pretty sure the story starts from the POV of the aliens, and that they are harvesting some sort of plant. I don't think they have a high tech society, I think it was more of a subsistence agriculture kind of thing. I'm pretty sure the aliens help get the human back with the use of a tool the human had, which may or may not have beeped when pointed in the direction of wherever the human was trying to get to. Sorry a lot of the details are so vague, I can't remember a lot of it.
Many reviews are calling this a black comedy or dark comedy, which is comedy that makes light of a serious subject or a comedy with gloomy or disturbing elements. If this film was just a drama, it would be a serious depiction of four girls going on spring break and the tragedy that unfolded when they got mixed up with a gangster. Instead, there are pink ski masks, bikinis in court, lots of sex, references to Britney Spears, the mere existence of a drug dealer named Alien who shows up to bail the girls out of jail... The basic premise is ridiculous, and the way that violence is interspersed with this ridiculousness sets up an uncomfortable edge that seems to keep audiences talking about this movie. Mostly the characters are flat and the story is not that gripping, but the edge that Harmony Korinne keeps the audience on - never knowing which direction it would go - seems to keep viewers engaged, whether they are engrossed or repelled.
The phone Irene uses to text Sherlock is different from the one which has secret info. When John hands him the phone he slips it into his pocket. His own phone is lying on the table, next to the microscope.
SHERLOCK: Please.
(He extends his hand a little further. John looks at him, clearly wondering what to do, then finally he reaches into the wallet, takes out the phone and lays it gently into Sherlock’s hand. Sherlock closes his fingers around it, draws his hand back and puts the phone into his trouser pocket before returning his hand to the microscope.)
SHERLOCK: Thank you.
When john leaves, Sherlock checks his own phone and it shows messages from The Women.
JOHN (softly): Huh.
(He paces around in front of the kitchen door for a few seconds, wondering if there’s anything more he can say, then eventually turns and heads off down the stairs. As soon as he’s out of sight Sherlock raises his head and gazes across the room for a moment, then he reaches down to his own phone which is on the table and picks it up, calling up his saved messages. Getting up and walking into the living room, he scrolls through the messages sent by “The Woman,” all of which he has kept.)
Source for Transcript: Ariane devere
It may come from the earlier "knocked for a loop", in boxing meaning to be hit in the head causing confusion.
(1922) "Kelley, the next time that guy comes back to my desk I am going to knock him for a loop!" exclaimed the Hotel Stenographer. —Logansport Pharos-Tribune (Indiana), 17 March, page 4
Google Ngrams shows "knocked for a loop" appearing around 1918, and "thrown for a loop" around 1945.
The Word Detective also places its origin at about 1920:
To be “thrown for a loop” or “knocked for a loop” refers to being bewildered, dazzled, disoriented and shocked by some event (“AT&T and T-Mobile were thrown for a loop last week when the Department of Justice sued to block AT&T’s planned acquisition of T-Mobile,” CNET, 9/5/11). The phrase first appeared in print in the 1920s, and comes from what the Oxford English Dictionary terms “a centrifugal railway,” but which is, no doubt, better known as a “roller coaster.” The “loop” on roller coaster runs is the point where the coaster arcs upward through a complete circle, leaving passengers upside down at its apex. The term was initially used in the literal roller coaster sense and then to describe aerobatic maneuvers by pilots “looping the loop,” and finally in boxing to mean a powerful punch that downed an opponent, before acquiring its modern “OMG!” usage.
Other sources disagree with the OED theory, preferring to link it to "loopy", which first appeared in the 1820's. The first roller coaster with an inverted loop was built in the 1950s.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has saturation limits at around 13th or 14th magnitude. You are looking at $phi$ 1 Cancri, which is a 6th magnitude star. It is hardly surprising that SDSS fails to morphologically classify it correctly.
No idea what your second question is about. You have given a link which has a latitude and longitude in the url. Longitude and latitude are not valid ways of expressing the coordinates of a celestial object. When I open this link, I see an image of your star and in the bottom left of the screen there is a display which gives the RA and Dec of where the cursor is.
Searching around, I found an interesting detail. When Jules and Vincent are going to Brett's apartment, they open the trunk of the car in order to get the guns, and this is what they say:
JULES
We should have shotguns for this
kind of deal.
VINCENT
How many up there?
JULES
Three or four.
VINCENT
Counting our guy?
JULES
I'm not sure.
VINCENT
So there could be five guys up there?
JULES
It's possible.
VINCENT
We should have fuckin' shotguns.
Vincent says "Counting our guy?", and indeed, they are talking about Marvin. This explains why they don't kill him in the apartment and they take him with them. He's not an hostage, he's an accomplice. This is not a 100% attack-proof evidence, but if he's their guy, it might be that the shot could be indeed an accident.
Furthermore, on the IMDb page about Pulp Fiction, it is stated that:
According to an interview with Phil LaMarr1, it was he who came up with the idea of his character Marvin being shot in the face. Marvin was originally supposed to be accidentally shot in the throat and survive. Knowing that Marvin would die a slow, painful death, Vincent and Jules decide that Marvin should be shot in the head and put out of his misery. Knowing that this would make the characters unlikeable, LaMarr took his idea to Quentin Tarantino and he agreed to it, figuring that a single-bullet kill would be funnier.
This kind of proves the accident way, since originally he was meant to be accidentally shot, not in a fatal way, and then be killed by the two hitmen in order to avoid a slow and painful death. But here the death is sudden, yet still accidental. I'll add the interview if I find it. If someone finds it, please post it.
1: The actor who plays Marvin.
I think the only reason I could think of presently is the fact that Nolan wanted to preserve the memory of the character created by Heath Ledger and decided to end it with Dark Knight. Any reference to him in the movie would've created a scene portraying him since he isn't alive the creators would've refrained from making any reference to it which could've resulted in negative publicity / reception because of his iconic portrayal in Dark Knight.
Given the Fact "Spoilers below"
We see Liam Neeson's character speaking to Bruce again even though he was killed off in the First movie, had Heath Ledger been alive I think we could've seen a different take on the whole movie with Joker probably playing another major role (Because of Heath Ledger's dialogue in Dark knight "I think you and I are destined to this forever")
As for what could've happened to Dark knight. THe last scene where he is shown is the scene where is hanging on the building towards the end of Dark knight where the swat team enters pointing their gun at him.
My assumption is that they could've taken him to Arkham because of his instability as the reason, where he could've been mourning over the failure of his plan and also since there was no activity about Batman finding no inspiration he could've died at Arkham or broken free and leave the city for good. or He could've been killed by the SWAT team because he killed many cops, blew up hospitals. I dont think he was put along with Dent's prisoners because if that was the case he would've been brought back out during the war sequences towards the end, so i think he died at some point during the peaceful times in Gotham and if he had left gotham definitely the war at Gotham would've prompted him to come back to join in on the fun.
From Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher by Irving Singer (p 55-56):
The miracle of the gushing water in the Virgin Spring alerts us to the
fact that everything we have seen is a reflection strictly controlled
by the aesthetic parameters of a religious legend. From the very first
shots of the movie…each scene and every event in the narrative has
beguiled us with its surface realism…Only later, when the couple finds
the body of the dead daughter and the father eventually repents his
violence, does the tone transcend the neorealism that has been
dominant until this point. Bergman establishes through the miraculous
spring the reflective import of the realistic images we have been
watching. We recognize then that they were more than merely realistic…
When he had finished murdering [the brothers and the boy], the father
looked at his two hands with dazed astonishment at what he had done.
After the miracle, he holds up his hand as the offending member that
performed the deed, and that he will now use to build the chapel. This
alerts us to the fact that we have perceived the unfolding of a fable
that is partly realistic but also designed to provide an explanation
of how our body, and specifically that much of it with which we
identify ourselves, can play its roles in a universal search for moral
and spiritual redemption.
So the spring is our cue to look deeper at the story. It also marks the point where redemption is possible and suggests that in our own lives, we should look beyond the events for the spiritual lesson.
Singer is a philosophy professor at MIT who has studied and written on the works of Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles. The Virgin Spring won the best foreign film Oscar for 1960.
I've gotten a staggering amount of use out of my copy of Fields Virology as a general reference for "getting me up to speed" on whatever pathogen I'm currently looking at. I don't know of a similar type of reference for bacteria, but I only became aware of Fields as I was moving out of the field, rather than into it, so it's possible I've simply never heard of a suitable reference.
Any suggestions?
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
Imagine it's a week before the opening scene. Bane is scheming on how to destroy Gotham, learns of Wayne's fusion reactor/neutron bomb via Miranda/Talia, and decides it will be his main device to hold Gotham in fear while he lets them destroy themselves from the inside.
Bane also comes to learn Dr. Pavel is the only living person who can defuse this bomb. He feels it will be easier to capture Pavel earlier than later; that way no one will be able to call on Pavel in Gotham's upcoming dire moment of need. (It's likely at this point that Bane already had some plan to fake Pavel's death, albeit in a less grandiose way than what he ends up having to do.)
But wait. Uh-oh. The CIA is looking for Pavel too! Bane and his men quickly adapt to this new information. Little does the CIA know that the man bringing Dr. Pavel in is actually Bane's top lieutenant, injected into the operation by Bane when he realized the CIA might capture Pavel first, severely diminishing the chances for his operation's success.
Now we're at the opening scene. Bane and his militia don hoods and fake their own capture, and Bane's lieutenant hands off Pavel to the CIA. In this dialogue, we hear Bane's lieutenant explain, "They were trying to rack a price [on Pavel]. They worked for the Masked Man [Bane]." The CIA agent, being the smart cookie he is, realizes he has an opportunity to track down a lead on Bane, probably hoping to eventually capture him. Little does he know that the hooded men are actually Bane and his militia, who have anticipated his wanting to board them on the plane after hearing such a juicy tidbit.
This is where things start to go sour for our poor CIA agent.
Some more of Bane's militia now take control of the CIA's plane from the outside, necessary for two reasons:
Bane now breathes a huge sigh of relief. He can rest easy knowing that when the plane goes down, a body containing Dr. Pavel's blood signature will go down with it, thus tricking whatever poor sap has to investigate the plane wreckage into thinking Pavel went down with the plane.
The only remaining task: make sure Pavel stays alive. Bane grabs a hold of Pavel, fastens him securely to the rope extending from Bane's plane, and, just before releasing the CIA's plane from any further duty, assuages Pavel's concerns:
Calm down doctor, now is not the time for fear. That comes later.
tl;dr: This scene was necessary because it foreshadowed later events.
Well, the bible is not just from Chicago, but especially from the Drake Hotel in Chicago, where Jim lived as he said earlier. This is quite a coincidence, considering that Jim wouldn't have any reason to steal a bible from the hotel. On the other hand Job surely needs a bible for the communication cypher with Max based on bible quotes.
So it is the mere coincidence, that the bible is exactly from the hotel Jim lived in and he probably took it with him. Together with the fact that he surprisingly survived it is a strong indication of Jim being the traitor.
I'm not sure he immediately believed Jim to be the traitor when reading the stamp, but he gets suspicious. Then seeing Jim alive (and denouncing Kittridge, which isn't that believable to Ethan, I guess) substantiates the suspicion.
We seem to have three very different versions of Orthanc from Tolkien's pictures:
First a very 'man-made' Orthanc, but that was dropped quite soon, and is obviously incompatible with the book.
There is a description of Orthanc in the "The Road to Isengard", TTT:
To the center all roads ran between their chains. There stood a tower of marvellous shape. It was fashioned by the builders of old, who smoothed the Ring of Isengard, and yet it seemed a thing not made by the craft of Men, but riven from the bones of the earth in the ancient torment of the hills. A peak and isle of rock it was, black and gleaming hard: four mighty piers of many-sided stone were welded into one, but near the summit they opened into gaping horns, their pinnacles sharp as the points of spears, keen-edged as knives. Between them was a narrow space, and there upon a floor of polished stone, written with strange signs, a man might stand five hundred feet above the plains.
"Riven from the bones of the earth" seems to suggest (to me) that it is not as 'decorative' and spiky as in the movie, and more 'streamlined'. In that case, 'many-sided stone' probably means that it looks like a regular polygon seen from above.
Here we have a natural design, looking rough and stony
Then, this is what Tolkien drew on front cover of The Two Towers, which was then published:
I would say the latter one is what it looks like, since the walls are described as being 'smooth', the walls were black, and it was published.
I think the movie model is not natural enough, since all of Tolkien's designs seem very organic, except the first.
The second is very rough, but not in the 'spiky' way the one in the movie is. Also, the spikes are part of the building, and not 'added' on top.
First, the video you download can be edited. Those stupid advertisements can be cut out, or "Downloaded from *" added.
Next, after many container conversions (HD->mkv->streaming->mkv again)the alignment of tracks can shift due to bugs in software.
Finally, some older subtitles where keyed not by time, but by frame number, and modern codecs have variable frame rate.
I use VLC player on my PC, and it allows me to adjust timing of all tracks.
If we consider the context
Several readers point out another key difference between Bachmann and Palin — their approach to criticism. Bachmann, at least so far in the campaign, has shown a willingness to acknowledge mistakes she makes on the campaign trail. Palin is notorious for doubling-down on perceived missteps, typically blaming a biased media for not telling the whole story.
I think the meaning is clearer. Palin not only makes political mistakes, but then further compounds those blunders by blaming the media for misrepresenting her, instead of admitting that she said something nonsensical about Paul Revere.
It's a gamble to blame the media, not only because the media is the outlet for her message, but also because if people don't believe the media is to blame, then she looks even worse.
To answer your other question, I have occasionally heard double-down to refer to a situation where someone takes a bold risk when they are already gambling. For instance, I had not studied for an exam and I doubled-down by sleeping until fifteen minutes before class.
I hope this question survives and is not a dupe so I am happy to improve if required.
I know that Jackson and the film crew picked suitable existing locations but which real life places most closely resemble the style and architecture from the worlds of Tolkien especially those in which filming would have been barred, inaccessible or otherwise unworkable due to political, economic and infrastructure considerations.
Does a mountain citadel exist which can accurately be considered a real life Helms Deep? Is there a Lonely Mountain,a Lake Town, Mirkwood or Angmar on earth?
First, a nitpic. You said:
But clearly Voldemort was smart enough to see that there was no mechanism that would kill him just because Harry stayed alive.
This may be applicable to a muggle world. But in magical world, Prophesies are basically seen by everyone - with reason - as causative (e.g. if it's prophecied that Harry's survival will kill Voldemort, that WILL happen, as far as Voldemort knows). This is fully normal in magical universes, starting with Greek Mythology (and before) - see Perseus prophecy, Cassandra, Oedipus, etc...
So Voldemort WAS smart by taking the Prophecy seriously.
Second, to address your 2 valid points:
"Harry can't live while Voldemort survives and vice versa." - It clearly worked until the end of book 7.
This is a very good observation. I will put it down to language impreciseness - what was meant by "neither can live" wasn't "neither can avoid dying" but "neither can lead the life they want/need". This matches well with what actually transpired.
"and either must die at the hand of the other" - Again: Why? If somebody else destroyed all Horcruxes and then killed Harry, Voldemort would be just as vulnerable and could be killed by anyone. On the other hand, Harry could have been killed by anyone - his mum's protection transferred to Voldemort by Harry's blood was only helping against Voldemort.
Another valid observation. I can't really prove anything with canon facts, but "entering the realms of guesswork and speculation" - to quote Professor himself- I can venture a guess.
As you yourself noted, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, Harry could have been killed by someone else (heck, Barty Crouch Jr. wanted to try). But Voldemort wanted to kill him himself, to prove he was The Boss... so he worked hard to make sure nobody else among Death Eaters did.
I'd suggest "inverse" or "inverse functions"
adj. Inverted in position, order, or relations; that proceeds in the opposite or reverse direction or order; that begins where something else ends, and ends where the other begins.
For example, the inverse of left is right. Mathematically, the inverse of the derivative is the integral. Etc.
The River of Dancing Gods by Jack L. Chalker
Life had not been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to the stranger who met them on a road that wasn't there, they were due to die in nineteen minutes, eighteen seconds. But the ferryboat that waited to take them across the Sea of Dreams could bring them to a new and perhaps better life.
There lay a world where fairies still danced by moonlight and sorcery became real. Joe could become a mighty-thewed barbarian warrior. Marge could be beautiful and find her magical self.
And it was even as Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, the strange wizard, had promised. But there was a great deal more, as they soon learned.
This is the text:
Erin scanned the room for a moment. She suddenly stopped, and
went over to the bookshelf. Then, as if she were searching for a secret
passage, she examined each book carefully.
(By stopped, it means that Erin suddenly stopped scanning the room and fixed her eyes on the bookshelf).
I'm not very sure about this but I think words like stopped and came to an halt are more commonly used to refer to someone who stopped walking or running (not sue if came to a stop sounds better).
Is there any other word or phrase that I can use in my example above? (unless stopped is perfectly right in this situation).
Yes, there is a Huntsman in the original tale:
Then [the queen] summoned a huntsman and said to him, "Take Snow-White out into the woods. I never want to see her again. Kill her, and as proof that she is dead bring her lungs and her liver back to me."
The huntsman obeyed and took Snow-White into the woods. He took out his hunting knife and was about to stab it into her innocent heart when she began to cry, saying, "Oh, dear huntsman, let me live. I will run into the wild woods and never come back."
Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child."
He thought, "The wild animals will soon devour you anyway," but still it was as if a stone had fallen from his heart, for he would not have to kill her.
Just then a young boar came running by. He killed it, cut out its lungs and liver, and took them back to the queen as proof of Snow-White's death.
Flight of the Navigator is pretty much like that.
Davey is told that his parents reported the young boy missing in 1978, the evening that he went searching in the woods for his younger brother, referring to the incident in the past tense because it is 1985. Only Davey is still exactly the same age and everything he was from 1978, while time has passed for everyone else. His little brother is now his big brother (Matt Adler). His parents are old. Everyone is confused and the scientific world find the situation fascinating.
The scientists turn Davey into their personal guinea pig, running tests and probing him and soon they discover that Davey was abducted. Davey breaks loose, and hops aboard the spaceship that took him through time before. While it is an escape from the scientists and their security, it also holds the answers to what happened to him. It is also an opportunity for Davey to learn everything from this spaceship. The spaceship is essentially controlled by Max, which is like it's CPU, a CPU with a cool sense of humor who likewise tries to learn about human emotions and condition from its passenger, Davey.
I think that it also ties in with a larger theme in the film, one that was not necessarily intended by the filmmakers.
The Vietnam conflict was a pointless war that the US didn't win, and it was played out within the context of the larger Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union (with China also a player). The war was about fighting Communism. The irony is that the men who go to the war are Americans, but they happen to be of Russian descent.
In one scene, Nick is sitting on a balcony in a hospital in Saigon when a doctor comes to verify his identity. He is "shell shocked" and clearly suffering from survivor's guilt having been rescued by the helicopter while his two friends fell back into the river. The doctor calls him by the Russian name on his record. He doesn't answer until the doctor asks him if his name is Russian. He says "no, it's American."
The point here is that these were hapless, working class Americans from all backgrounds who were sent to this futile war to fight and suffer and die for the benefit of larger powers involved in an ideological and global economic/political struggle. The Russian Roulette isn't Russian, but its name makes us think of Russia. And it is a deadly game of chance that is played, ultimately, by people who exchange money as bets on human lives, much like the powers that control wars.
Unless you regard the envelope as containing two copies of the information. That is the original is also a (hard)copy of the file stored electronically, which will be archived to serve as the ultimate reference in case of dispute.
In which case, it is entirely reasonable for the recipient to retain one copy (the original) and to sign and return the other copy (the duplicate).
Why headlines are the way they are is usually very simple:
There are two possible sentences that could have lead to this headline:
The Government has asked about the safety of the northeast community.
The Government has been asked about the safety of the northeast community.
Obviously all the articles were dropped, and part of the verb. Also, the word government has been abbreviated. This definitely makes the headline more concise.
Now, you are observing very correctly, we do no longer know if the government was asked, or if they did the asking. You will have to read the article to be sure. And hey, that is what the headline maker wanted: make you read the article. So, this headline is successful on both counts!
Now, even without reading the article, we can make an educated guess as to who did the asking.
If the government would be doing the asking, I would assume a present tense. After all, if the government asked something, and they have answers, I would not expect to be informed about their asking, I would expect to be informed about what they are doing or have done with the answer that they got. Of course, if someone has claimed tat they did not show any interest, it might be news-worthy to tell us that they asked.
However, if the government is asking now, the headline could simply sate "Govt. asks", even shorter than it is now.
So, without being able to be sure without reading the article, I would guess that someone, or some organisation asked the government about a situation; the implication being that the government now finds itself obliged to come up with information that it did not earlier share on its own accord.
Is there a technical term for combination, in error, of similar or related words? This question is prompted by the following malapropism or solecism, from an article by Elizabeth Montalbano in InformationWeek:
The project also serves as a segueway into the next-generation Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), a program by NOAA that also will collect weather and climate data.
The writer presumably formed segueway by miscegenation of segue with Segway. The problem does not seem to be a simple typographical error, which "includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger, but usually excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors." It also seems unlikely to be a neologism. Some processes of word formation -- agglutination, back-formation, blending, etc. -- of course are in play here, but those terms don't imply error.
There are a handful of phrases in English that would qualify but they all depend on what you mean by "evil." If you mean a literal evil as in evil spirits, evil powers or evil forces than the only one I know of is:
God bless.
This is a generic well wishing. More specific religious phrases, blessings and rituals are beyond the scope of this forum.
If you are less concerned about the supernatural and more concerned about random happenstance:
Best of luck / good luck.
All the best.
May fortune smile upon you.
I wish you well.
And if you are worried about people causing evil:
Stay safe / drive safe / safe travels.
Godspeed.
I agree with @Kevin - there are no ultimate statements in science. The answer is 'its all relative'.
With radiation and risk, more radiation means more risk of cancer or any number of other types of damage that can result. The question is is this significant? And this is a somewhat subjective question.
When someone says:
'there is no health risk from XYZ'
what they mean is..
"to the extent that we can determine, we can't see any more chance of adverse health if you are exposed to XYZ conditions than if you weren't"
DNA damage happens all the time. The frequent flier study you cite is trying to see if the additional exposure to cosmic radiation while flying, which is largely blocked by the atmosphere, causes a change in the rate of some cancers.
Radiation and cancer is like a lottery. If you buy just one ticket you might win. If you step outside, the thousands of extra gamma rays you get outside might start a cancer that will eventually take your life. If you buy 20 million tickets you will very likely win. If you hang out next to high levels of radiation, even for a short while, you will get so much damage you will not live long.
Its difficult to study the effect of low levels of radiation. The lower the levels of radiation we are asking about, the longer you will have to wait to see if there is an effect. If 10% more people get cancer, you have a very real concern that some of these folks might have done something else, like sunbathe or live in a poorly ventilated basement for too long.
The real question is, what is significant? I once saw a 60 minutes segment where a dermatologist said that she simply never directly exposes her skin to direct sunlight. I'm betting she never got a melanoma. She carried a parasol and wore light gloves outdoors. (sorry I can't find the link) She was at least in her 50s and she had the skin of a teenager. I still go out in the sun. I assume my risk of melanoma is 5-10 times more than hers was (this was a pretty old broadcast). (mine is 0.03% in the next 5 years btw). Its just not worth it to me.
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One that is holding a conversation
Currently I am trying to develop a mail software and I want to find the right word (if it exists) for people who are in a conversation. It is not contact list or mail list. It should be a word for the people.
So, what is it called in English? Is there any word for these people?
I'd like to know the name of the movie pictured in this video (at the time I've linked to). The one with the lady in front and knight-soldiers behind.
The short scene shows a medieval setting in some sort of castle with a woman in expensive clothes (possibly a queen). She is walking down a sunlight hallway, accompanied by several men with swords.
Having just read through it, it does indeed seem to be “The Fort Moxie Branch” by Jack McDevitt. It was first published in 1988 in a short story collection called Full Spectrum and was nominated for a Hugo award in 1989.
The story is told from first person view, and starts with a man, Mr Wickham, who first notices a glow in the window of a house that had been empty for 3 years while he is putting boxes of his book, Independence Square on the curb for trash collection. He later sees the back of the house ballooning outwards and forming a whole new section. He goes to investigate and finds himself in the titular Fort Moxie Branch of the John of Singletary Memorial Library along with a librarian woman (not a man). On looking around he finds book by people he's never heard of and books he's never seen by famous authors. It's then that the librarian reveals the nature of this library branch, collecting lost masterpieces, book forgotten about or underappreciated.
After the spending some time looking through the books, Mr. Wickham realizes that reason he is the only one who can see the library at all is because the librarian is there to ask him to put his book in the library because, as she puts it,
"We think it unlikely that you will be recognized in your own
lifetime. We could be wrong. We were wrong about Faulkner.... But it
is my honor to invite you to contribute your work to the library."
Wickham refuses to add his book to the library and leaves. Later, he moves the boxes back into his home.
I pulled one of the copies out, and put it on the shelf, between Walt
Whitman and Thomas Wolfe. Where it belongs.
No time travel though.
It makes more sense if you look at the problem in a different way. The union are abolitionists, but with fabricants comes a unique issue. Are they capable of thinking their own thoughts, like a human, or is their very nature that of a slave, unable and unwilling to change?
According to the book (which i have literally just put down) purebloods had been experimenting with ways to make fabricants 'ascend' for their own scientific purposes for some time. Students in Sonmi-451's time were very lazy, however, and paid for their research to be rehashed. One of these lazy students, unwittingly ends up with one such 'ascended' fabricant, Sonmi 451.
To the Union, Sonmi 451 is a hugely powerful ally. Not only does she represent proof that fabricants are more than just slaves, but she wants to learn, is intelligent, and has a real thirst for life, which allows her to become the one person who can create a set of catechisms designed for fabricants who have ascended.
The Union plan was to introduce huge amounts of the chemical agent - which allows fabricants to ascend - into the 'womb tanks' where they are created. Sonmi 451's catechisms are designed as a guide on how to live once ascended.
Sonmi 451 does not play a smaller role in the novel, but the circumstances were different. Her meeting with the Union was more chance, which the Union capitalised on, rather than the whole thing being a plan from the start.
We are never told whether the union plan works, whether it is responsible for the 'fall' (mentioned in Zachry's story) or whether it was abandoned. The book also contains no speech by Sonmi 451, or even a written version of her catechisms, although they may have been similar to that in the movie, i highly doubt it, as this story was modified to contain much more sentimental and emotional content for Hollywood purposes.
Hope this helps.
I always thought of it this way:
Gandalf knows that in a contest of wills between Saruman and Sauron, Sauron won. He has no reason to believe he's that much stronger than Saruman. That answers the question as asked.
However consider the risks.
Sauron is no fool. He knows who Gandalf is, and possibly his greatest fear is that Gandalf will claim the ring for himself (it never occurs to Sauron that the council would try to destroy the ring, for him it was a question of who would claim the ring first). He knows that Gandalf, of all people, probably knows where the ring is.
Let's say Gandalf picks up the palantir for a bit of banter with Sauron. Sauron will immediately see that Gandalf isn't wielding the One Ring, and he will bend every bit of mental muscle he has to wrinkle its location out of Gandalf's head. He'd see the actual plan (hobbit to throw ring in Mount Doom), he'll see the battle before the gates as the diversion it is. Any hope for Middle Earth is extinguished.
Sauron also learns that Gandalf carries one of the three, and will learn also that Galadriel & Elrond also carry rings, compromising those two and their realms.
So the single greatest asset the good guys have (Gandalf) is compromised, as are their only allies.
The risks for Gandalf using the palantir are astronomical, but to what end? What will Gandalf learn that's worth the risk?
Aragon is the safer choice, going for shock and awe, the bloodline & the blade that slew Sauron's corporeal form and diminished his spirit. There were still risks, but as you say, they are mitigated by Aragon's innate right as master of the palantir.
Also consider that Gandalf (like the other Istari) is forbidden from tackling or confronting Sauron directly, he can only help (direct and encourage) others in their struggles against the dark lord.
You are already starting to get it.
That would make sense at the poles
What about one meter from the poles?
Or a kilometre?
As long as you can see the celestial pole in the sky, you can see the stars revolve around it at night.
Let us see if you are able to see the celestial pole.
Texas was about 30 degrees north last time I checked:
That explains the circular movement of the stars, the Sun and the Moon.
This is true for all locations on the Earth, except for the equator:
Is the Earth spinning? That depends, you can always choose a frame of reference that suits you. However, only one of them are non-rotating, the Inertial frame. In all the others we have fictitious forces acting, like centrifugal or Coriolis forces.
We can test if the Earth rotates by watching a pendulum throughout a day. The pendulum would then seem to slowly rotate during this period of time, meaning some fictitious "force" is acting on it. That means that we are located in a rotating frame of reference, and thus the Earth rotates.
— The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. (eg) The cherry trees are in bloom.
— A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms. (eg) the bloom of youth
— Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness
Hyperspace travel is a norm in Star Wars universe. Even small ships have that capability and without this capability galactic-scale economy isn't possible.
My educated estimates say that at any point of time at least billions of ships are in hyperspace across the galaxy. Now, talk about economic hubs like Coruscant during Clone Wars Era. The number of ships arriving here should be enormous. Millions in an hour? If one person small ship can have warping capability, then the number can exceed even billions in a peak hour. You can go shopping on a neighbor planet five times a day or you can live on a cheap planet even if you have a job on Coruscant (there are public transport cabs featured in Rebels TV show in case you aren't rich enough to have own ship).
Now, the famous quote:
"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"
That's fine. Calculations prevent you from hitting a star, supernova or planet which are already on map, but how does a ship avoid hitting another ship? Provided that number of ships arriving near a planet is that much high, the probability of two ships jumping to the same co-ordinate can't be zero. In fact, the probability should be very very high.
Is there a central body which controls the traffic by coordinating the hyperspace calculations of different ships? This seems unlikely because everyone seems to go anywhere they want while maintaining the destination privacy (there are countless examples). Or, is there really a traffic control body and those who travel privately actually gamble? Is there any other protocol if not traffic control body?
Has the canon ever addressed it? What about Legends?
To spark off the Clone Wars, Palpatine/Sidious had the clone army ordered a decade in advance, so that when the time comes they are ready for battle, and all that is needed is for him to "make it legal" for him to form a Grand Army of the Republic which, to the Jedi, is conveniently ready to defend the Republic when the Separatist droid army was discovered.
During the Clone Wars, new orders of clones were voted and approved by the Senate. Since the Kaminoans are in league with Palpatine, it is reasonable to assume these new orders were intended by Palpatine to fan the flames of war. As such, are these new orders for new baby clones or for new fully trained clones born ten years prior to the vote?
It is a term used in gambling.
If a bookmaker accepts a large bet, let's say on a horse, he may want to cover himself against the possibility of paying out a large sum.
So he 'lays it off' with another bookmaker, by placing an amount on the same horse. So if the horse wins he collects money as well as pays out.
This is known as bet-covering.
The same principle applies in the field of insurance. An insurer who stands to lose heavily in the event of a risk materialising, covers himself by taking a policy with a re-insurer.
It's the difference between Latin and Greek. Four, five and six do have their own forms.
Latin: bi-, tri-, quad-, quin-, sex-, sept-...
Greek: di-, tri-, tetra-, pent-, hex-, hept-...
Generally, Latin prefixes are added to Latin roots and Greek prefixes to Greek roots.
Quadrilateral, quintuplet, September etc.;
Tetrahedron, heptagon etc.
You can easly calculate the absorbance from Beer's Law
A = εlc
Here you can get the values for Extinction coefficient by sequence at http://web.expasy.org/cgi-bin/protparam/protparam1?P02769@25-607@
So for your example 0.001 g/L 3 g/L with this R code, you can get the absorbance values for each concentration.
> PM <- 66432.9 #g/mol
> c <- seq(0.001,3,0.05) #get values from 0.001 to 3, by 0.05 increment
> V <- 1 #liters
> M = c((c/PM)/V)
> #Lambert Beer Law
> e <- 42925
> l <- 1
> A <- c(e*l*M)
> plot(A ~ c, ylab="A (280nm)", xlab="g/l")
> data.frame("conc"=c, M=M, A=A)
conc M A
1 0.001 1.505278e-08 0.0006461407
2 0.051 7.676919e-07 0.0329531753
3 0.101 1.520331e-06 0.0652602099
4 0.151 2.272970e-06 0.0975672445
5 0.201 3.025609e-06 0.1298742792
6 0.251 3.778248e-06 0.1621813138
7 0.301 4.530888e-06 0.1944883484
8 0.351 5.283527e-06 0.2267953830
9 0.401 6.036166e-06 0.2591024176
10 0.451 6.788805e-06 0.2914094522
11 0.501 7.541444e-06 0.3237164869
12 0.551 8.294083e-06 0.3560235215
13 0.601 9.046722e-06 0.3883305561
14 0.651 9.799361e-06 0.4206375907
15 0.701 1.055200e-05 0.4529446253
16 0.751 1.130464e-05 0.4852516599
17 0.801 1.205728e-05 0.5175586946
18 0.851 1.280992e-05 0.5498657292
19 0.901 1.356256e-05 0.5821727638
20 0.951 1.431520e-05 0.6144797984
21 1.001 1.506784e-05 0.6467868330
22 1.051 1.582047e-05 0.6790938676
23 1.101 1.657311e-05 0.7114009023
24 1.151 1.732575e-05 0.7437079369
25 1.201 1.807839e-05 0.7760149715
26 1.251 1.883103e-05 0.8083220061
27 1.301 1.958367e-05 0.8406290407
28 1.351 2.033631e-05 0.8729360753
29 1.401 2.108895e-05 0.9052431100
30 1.451 2.184159e-05 0.9375501446
31 1.501 2.259423e-05 0.9698571792
32 1.551 2.334687e-05 1.0021642138
33 1.601 2.409950e-05 1.0344712484
34 1.651 2.485214e-05 1.0667782830
35 1.701 2.560478e-05 1.0990853177
36 1.751 2.635742e-05 1.1313923523
37 1.801 2.711006e-05 1.1636993869
38 1.851 2.786270e-05 1.1960064215
39 1.901 2.861534e-05 1.2283134561
40 1.951 2.936798e-05 1.2606204908
41 2.001 3.012062e-05 1.2929275254
42 2.051 3.087326e-05 1.3252345600
43 2.101 3.162590e-05 1.3575415946
44 2.151 3.237854e-05 1.3898486292
45 2.201 3.313117e-05 1.4221556638
46 2.251 3.388381e-05 1.4544626985
47 2.301 3.463645e-05 1.4867697331
48 2.351 3.538909e-05 1.5190767677
49 2.401 3.614173e-05 1.5513838023
50 2.451 3.689437e-05 1.5836908369
51 2.501 3.764701e-05 1.6159978715
52 2.551 3.839965e-05 1.6483049062
53 2.601 3.915229e-05 1.6806119408
54 2.651 3.990493e-05 1.7129189754
55 2.701 4.065757e-05 1.7452260100
56 2.751 4.141020e-05 1.7775330446
57 2.801 4.216284e-05 1.8098400792
58 2.851 4.291548e-05 1.8421471139
59 2.901 4.366812e-05 1.8744541485
60 2.951 4.442076e-05 1.9067611831
And you can get this plot from 0.001 to 3 g/l for albumine
Now you can choose the desired concentration for the absorbance you wanna work with
I thought "provisionally" was what I was looking for, as in:
"As a provisional measure, I'd like someone with Volkswagen Corporate to follow up with me next week."
What I really mean is:
"Just in case anything remains unresolved, I'd like someone to follow up."
But "just in case" sounds too informal.
By this I mean, "just in case all my car's issues aren't solved by then."
But when I looked up "provisional" in the dictionary, the closest I could find was these:
- "accepted or adopted tentatively; conditional; probationary."
- "providing or serving for the time being only;"
- "existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary"
These make it sound like, unless something comes into conflict or I don't actually need them, then contact me, otherwise forget it.
What I'm trying to say is that "I want them to contact me no matter what because it might be that my issues are resolved, but I still want them to call me and that will not change." Maybe I would be better to say, "because of something uncertain that may turn out good or bad," I definitely want them to contact me to make sure everything is ok.
Such a "contraption" was indeed used for Skyfall:
Tight streets and alleyways meant the film crew couldn't tow a trailer carrying a vehicle while the actors were filmed inside.
Thus, the team used what is called a pod system.
Picture a stunt vehicle, in this case a Land Rover Defender, with a one-man roll cage welded to the roof. Inside the roll cage is a steering wheel, hand brake, and gas and brake pedals and a seat.
It was also used for The Bourne Ultimatum, although for a different reason:
A stunt driver couldn't be hidden in the car because he would be picked up by the 360-degree camera, which was filming almost every inch of the interior.
Remote control of the vehicle was also considered, but was deemed too dangerous.
So there was only one thing for it: place a stunt driver on the roof, give him control of the steering, acceleration and brakes, and leave the actor to play with his toy gun and toy steering wheel.
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The season covered about 1/4 of the book, the next season is expected to cover about the same (1/4), making it 2/4 of the third book. Some events that take place in the series are nowhere to be seen in the book, and some events are dragged forth from the fourth book (A Feast For Crows).
Some differences:
There is no Theon Greyjoy in the third book (The Storm of Swords) (he is only mentioned once, at the Red Wedding).
Some battles which should have taken place at this timeline in the book are missing from the series.
A lot of Arya, Jon, Bran, Sansa, Tyrion, Davos chapters/events are not shown in the series.
Osha and Rickon are not traveling with Bran and the rest of his party.
A character named Coldhands is missing from the series (mayhaps they will include him in the next season).
Davos doesn't teach himself how to read, he is thought by a Maester.
Davos actually saves another Roberts bastard and not Arrya's friend.
When Sam and Gilly are attacked in the village while fleeing from Craster's Keep, Sam doesn't actually kill an Other but a wight (a brother of the Night's Watch he used to know called Small Paul), it is here that he gets saved by the character Coldhands.
The Red Wedding is more brutal, and there are a lot differences around it, also Arya doesn't see the direwolf get killed, and The Hound fights some men of and lands an axe on Arya's head to prevent her from running to her death.
These are some differences, there are many more. It's really a clash of book chapters and series episodes. The series is just a jumble and a tease to the fans, it doesn't get into the core things happening in Westeros, a lot of the events around history of the characters are lost or thrown out, only key events are kept and even they are crippled.
As far as chapters are concerned, there is no chapter per episode or even several chapters per episode kind of thing, it's more of an events per episode kind of thing. And since some event have been omitted and some randomly thrown in, it is kind of hard to point at a chapter and tell exactly where it is in the series, it's more of a jumble of events. I can tell you from rereading the book that the first two or three episodes of the series roughly take the events and chapters from the first 400 pages of the book and jumble them up in those three episodes. Then they suddenly jump ahead to the events of 700-800 pages, and take it from there, but omit some events which will probably be in the next season.
In a paper of Scientific American, there is a sentence as follows
Einstein understood early on that they [the gravitational waves] were implied by his theory but for a time backtracked from his original, correct claims for their existence.
I understand the first sentence: "Einstein understood early on that they [the black holes] were implied by his theory", and I think the meaning of the rest should be "but for a time, they were backtracked from his original, correct claims for their existence".
However, I don't understand the meaning of the phrase "but for a time" and "backtrack", therefore I can't understand the whole sentence.
Please explain to me.
English is not my native language, so I beg your pardons for my poor one.
Thanks.
The relevant information can be found in the Lord of the Rings wiki here:. The description places the mountains:
The White Mountains formed the northern boundary of Gondor and the southern boundary of Rohan except in their easternmost provinces, where Gondor's province of Anorien lay to the north of the mountains.
The entrance to the Paths of the Dead is described as Dwimorberg.
Harrowdale is described as being near the Snowbourn River, hence on your map, near where the mountains and the river intersect, Edoras.
In short, It was a mix of make-up and CGI.
For Two-Face, Nolan decided to break new ground. "This character was
one of our major vfx challenges," recalls overall Visual Effects
Supervisor Nick Davis. "Chris was not interested in going the
traditional make-up route. He felt that it would be an additive
effect, rather than the subtractive effect that he felt the character
required. So, instead of adding a layer of material to the actor's
skin, we actually removed the skin digitally. It allowed us to reveal
the tendons, the cheeks, the eyeballs and to create unique textures.
The challenge here was that we were dealing with one of the main
characters, and that the digital make-up would be seen in full
close-up, including in dialogue scenes…
Framestore's White notes that the key to the Two-Face project was to
get enough detail into the CGI to give it realism. "In doing so, we
worked at much higher texture resolution than we normally use. We also
rendered our CG work at 4K, even for the regular 2K anamorphic shots.
A very large number of texture layers were needed, and displacement
maps from Mudbox were combined with bump maps and displacement maps
painted in Photoshop. It really took a significant amount of work to
get it right."
The full details are explained here.
Basic, is exactly that, basic. For example if you say a girl is a "basic chick" she's very ordinary, unoriginal, nothing special about her. The origin probably came from the real meaning of basic, but rappers started applying it to people.
In this song by Kreayshawn, she talks about expensive handbags, and says she doesn't want them because it's basic. The reason it's basic is because just about any female with the money to buy those bags are walking around with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4
*mild language in the video
What character/actor combo have appeared in the most movies?
I know Christopher Lee has done at least nine Dracula roles by my count, and a lot of Harry Potter actors reached eight movies in the same role. Hugh Jackman is about to have his seventh Wolverine, and Connery and Moore both have seven James Bond portrayals, but Desmond Llewellyn racked up 17 movies as Q. Does anyone beat that?
One of my pet hates, but no-one said that neologisms are unacceptable even if I'd scrub out my mouth with wire wool rather than use this one in real speech:
Ideator
A person who creates productive ideas, a conceptualist
One who ideates; one who holds or generates an idea, or synthesizes a concept
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ideator
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ideator
"Ideation". I ask you. Mutter, mutter, grumble.
During a discussion on AI, it was asserted that AI is not yet handling very well cases where an indirect, but quite adequate (unless prevaricatory) answer is given.
Examples:
Person A: Are you going to do that history homework?
Person B: I've just switched on my computer!
Person A: Are we leaving soon?
Person B: I'm putting on my shoes as we speak.
Both questions are answered yes, but without being explicit. I know there is a single word describing this. I just don't remember it. The word is similar to synecdoche or *-onym.
Did they literally expect a King to eventually return, or was it a hopeful legend, more like the hopes of the Ents that the Entwives would eventually return?
While most people in Gondor probably weren't sure if any Dunedain survived the fall of Arnor, some hoped that their True King's line survived. (RoTK, Appendix A, the Fall of Arnor). That the institution of the Steward survived centuries after an heir might have been found, and that both Imrahil and Faramir readily accepted Aragorn as True King demonstrates the power of this cultural symbol of Hope Fulfilled.
Each new Steward indeed took office with the oath "to hold rod and rule in the name of the king, until he shall return." ... Yet many in Gondor still believed that a king would indeed return in some time to come; and some remembered the ancient line of the North, which it was rumored still lived on in the shadows.
In Real Life, when the last of a royal line falls, a new royal line is established, either by a usurper or from various blood relatives. (Reference = history of European civilization.) Appendix A, RoTK describes a civil war in Gondor -- the Kin Strife, Third Age 1432-1447. When King Earnur later fell in Third Age 1944, his Stewards ruled in his stead. The office of the Steward was an old one: Kings often went to war, and the expectation/hope was that the King would return. This established the deep cultural tradition, based on the hope* of the King returning.
Boromir asked Denethor how much time must pass before a Steward could become a King, if the King did not return. Denethor II replied:
"Few years, maybe, in other places of less royalty … In Gondor ten thousand years would not suffice" (related by Faramir in The Two Towers Book IV, The Window on the West).
Now try to see this through the eye of the author, the role of the Steward. There's more to this than "the words of Appendix A," based on the none-too-subtle themes that Tolkien wove into his magnum opus. (The Red Book of Westmarch handed from Frodo to Sam is properly "The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King" (p. 307 Book VI, Ch The Grey Havens, Second Edition)).
Hope of the King's return was stronger than a legend or the vain hope of the Ents: it was a cultural touch point, a profound hope* of a people, a belief central to the culture of Gondor for over a millenium. It's not a stretch to say that it was as deeply interwoven into the Gondorian culture as Christian beliefs and symbols were interwoven into Medieval Western and Central Europe's cultures. Tolkien wrote what he knew, and his deep Catholic faith informed his work.
“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion’, to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. ~ Tolkien, Letters, 172~
The deeply held belief resembles the RL cultural touch point that Tolkien held to be a truth: his belief and Hope* in the Second Coming(return) of Christ (the King of Kings) in Christendom. (I use "Christendom" to cast the point outside of our current cultural setting and to avoid religious debate: LoTR uses the more or less Crusader-era society). Tolkien, a devout and lifelong Roman Catholic, mixed his religion's beliefs, symbols, and values with the folklore and legend of the Norse and English literary and linguistic traditions in which he was expert. While he protested against allegory, and said he didn't use in his own work, his protest is hard to swallow when looking at the structure of the lineage of the Royal House of Gondor and Arnor, and the Stewards who looked after it for centuries -- but we'll use his term, applicability rather than allegory.
The story of the good and faithful Steward who looks over the Master's domain is told in Matthew 25. When Tolkien published the LoTR, most people would "get" the common cultural (Western) reference to the Steward, so it's applicability would resonate.
Tolkien constructed the line of the True Kings of Gondor (and Arnor) from an ancient lineage that bears a striking resemblance to the template used in the Old Testament. The great King (David) established the Kingdom (with no end) of the special people. His line lasts through generations of defeat and turmoil and is revived in Jesus (called King of Kings) even when the line's roots were buried and the people were exiled from their homeland -- which itself was a gift from On High. (Numenor / Gondor mixed, original gift was Numenor from the Valar). Aragorn's lineage passes through the centuries and he emerges unexpectedly, the embodiment of a hope* unlooked for in Gondor. It is a eucatastrophe for the people of Gondor.** (Even if it seems a catastrophe to Denethor).
If this template wasn't a direct decision -- including the symbol of the tree in Minas Tirith with deep roots eventually blossoming in a True King blessed by the Almighty / Valar -- the symbolic theme still stands out.
Tolkien gave similar treatment to the Elves in terms of Gondorian cultural beliefs balanced against their daily lives. The folk of Gondor knew that there were Elves, and from lore knew that years ago Elves and Men made common cause against The Enemy. (Granted, there was fear as well: cf. Boromir's reluctance to enter the Golden Wood, FoTR, Book II, Ch. Lothlorien). When the Elves arrived in Gondor for the coronation of the King, (Book VI, Ch = The Steward and the King) it restores the linkage between legend, belief, cultural memory, and what becomes their new Truth: their hope* is fulfilled by the True King arriving out of legend. Faramir discharges the final duty of the last Steward.
In RoTK(book) during the narrative of the coronation scene, Aragorn is crowned King Elessar, the Elfstone -- all Tolkien omitted was calling him The Anointed One.
The Gondorians had almost lost Hope. Tolkien makes a play on words, as Aragorn is named Estel in Sindarian, which means Hope.
"I gave hope to men, I leave none for myself".
Onen i-Estel Edain, ú-chebin estel anim
(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept no hope for myself.) ~Appendix A, The Return of the King~
The line is from Aragorn's mother, Gilraen; (in the movie RoTK, it is a challenge and reply between Elrond (the first part) and Aragorn (the second)).
Whether spoken by his mother(book), or by Aragorn(movie) this none-too-subtle allusion is to the Messiah in prayer in the garden before the crucifixion. If not allegorical (we'll take Tolkien at his word) the symbolism and applicability is obvious, and fits Tolkien's deeper themes.
Likewise the healing hands of the King, a symbol of the True King noted by Ioreth in Return of the King where he uses kingsfoil to heal.
For it is said in the lore: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer. And so, a rightful king could ever be known. ~(Book V, Houses of Healing)~
In Gondor, the True King is their Hope. Whether any in Gondor outside of Denethor "knew" of an heir, their whole culture hoped for one.
Yet many in Gondor still believed that a king would indeed return in some time to come; and some remembered the ancient line of the North, which it was rumored still lived on in the shadows.
"Hope" used in this sense is not wishful thinking, but an expectation or belief of something better. That way that "Jesus brings hope to the world" in this sense isn't the same sense as "I hope the Jets win this weekend." This usage was explained to me by a Catholic Deacon when we discussed the nature of belief, and where Hope fits with Faith -- I saw the two as opposed.
Hope, in its widest acceptation, is described as the desire of something together with the expectation of obtaining it.~ The Catholic Encyclopedia, Entry, Hope;
** eucatastrophe:
“the ‘sudden joyous “turn”’ of apparently disastrous events, the moment past all hope when we know that everything is going to be all right.” ~ Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2002), 27.~
Tolkien on Allegory and Applicability:
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the
reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Foreward to Second Edition)~
The key to this question is in your statement: "at the time of the break-out the Dementors were still under the control of the Ministry." Were they?
Remember, Dementors served whomever they felt like serving. They worked for the Ministry since they were guaranteed to continue their existence by feeding off the misery innate within Azkaban's walls. They are first and foremost Dark creatures, and they definitely were not bound to the Ministry. As Voldemort told his followers, the Dementors are his "natural allies."
Additionally, this wouldn't have been the first dereliction of duty from the Dementors that year. Earlier in the year, they had attacked Harry and Dudley in Little Whinging, as seen in Chapter 1 of Order of the Phoenix.
As Dumbledore said:
‘If it is true that the Dementors are taking orders only from the
Ministry of Magic, and it is also true that two Dementors attacked
Harry and his cousin a week ago, then it follows logically that
somebody at the Ministry might have ordered the attacks,’
said Dumbledore politely. ‘Of course, these particular Dementors may
have been outside Ministry control –’
‘There are no Dementors outside
Ministry control!’ snapped Fudge, who had turned brick red.
I believe they felt Voldemort's return, a "disturbance in the Force," so to speak. If they were not yet in contact with him, they probably knew he was back. They go where the misery goes, so to speak. They facilitated the DE escape from Azkaban, in order to set loose more misery elsewhere.
Hermione echoes this suspicion, when she reads the Ministry's claim that Black helped them escape:
‘I don’t believe this,’ snarled Harry, ‘Fudge is blaming the breakout
on Sirius?’
‘What other options does he have?’ said Hermione bitterly.
‘He can hardly say, “Sorry, everyone, Dumbledore
warned me this might happen, the Azkaban guards have joined Lord
Voldemort” – stop whimpering, Ron – “and now Voldemort’s worst
supporters have broken out, too.” I mean, he’s spent a good six months
telling everyone you and Dumbledore are liars, hasn’t he?’
We will not find Galaxies that have existed before the big bang.
There's a principle in Astronomy that states: The further you look, the earlier you look. That means that the more distance the light had to travel to reach our telescopes, the more time it needed to reach us, because the speed of light is not infinite. Therefore seeing the first galaxies of the universe isn't some lucky coincidence, we are just looking the right distance away (13 billion light years). If we had lived earlier we could still see these galaxies, but they would be closer to us. And the same goes vice versa; If we had lived at an earlier time, we would still see said galaxies, but much farther away. I hope this helps.
In that scene, even if he did take Watson's help - I don't think injured Holmes + Watson would beat Moriarty.
Leaving aside the possibility of Holmes planning to fake his own death, I have an alternate and more Sherlock movie like theory as of why this happened:
I say that Holmes didn't expect Watson to come at the end of their fight and quite possibly - instead had the "area" under the hill (that valley) and the dynamics of his and Moriarty fall figured out (which Moriarty definitely wouldn't have thought about - according to Holmes) just before he made the jump. He also planned the jump in such a way that he would somehow escape the fall (quite possibly by falling into the water, while Moriarty falls on Rocks).
We can see Moriarty screaming all the way down, but Holmes keeping his cool while falling, which mildly indicates this.
Also, by the time Watson comes in, Holmes caught Moriarty in such a way that in a split second Moriarty knew what Holmes was going to do. Given a little more time, Moriarty would have managed to push Holmes down (because he is towards the wall) - So, Holmes didn't have enough time to change his plan - otherwise Moriarty would kill him, and most likely Watson too after that. This is why, he continued with what he planned before.
So, I guess through this scene - Sherlock is shown as more Intuitive and "outside the box" sort of planner when it comes to his "fighting simulations" compared to Moriarty. Clearly, Moriarty didn't expect the possibility of both of them falling down and Sherlock wins!!
Last year I've watched a trailer which starts like a classic horror movie; youth people go to a camp in a rural area and all the classic boring things happen. Then they find a building and an elevator in it and things change.
Can anyone recognize this?
Can someone remind me of the name of the author, the name of the hero and the name of the series if any?
This sounds like the Dumarest of Terra series by the English writer E. C. Tubb; the hero is Earl Dumarest. There is a Wikipedia page for the series. The quotations below are from the FAQ at Dumarest.com, except for an extract from a review at MPorcius Fiction Log.
Adventure Sci-Fi books . . . probably published late 50s?, early 60s? by Bantam? or Del Rey? I think at least 30, possibly more than 40 books in the series.
There seem to be 33 books, most of them published by Ace Books (#1-8, the first seven as Ace Doubles) or DAW Books (#9-31) in the United States. First publication dates range from 1967 for #1, The Winds of Gath, to 2008 for #33, Child of Earth.
. . . a secret potion that allows a person to change bodies with someone else and thus control them. . . . I remember the following detail about the potion: there are two nearly identical molecules that have to be assembled in a certain sequence. Two of the components had to be switched around and that determined who would be dominant and who would be controlled during the mind switch / body swap.
From Kalin he unknowingly obtained the knowledge of the “affinity twin”, a molecular
sequence of genetic units that, when properly assembled and injected into the brain cortex
of two living beings (Dumarest has even used the affinity twin on a large space alien),
allows the “master” to control the body of the “servant” and experience the world through
all of its senses. When the “servant” dies, the intelligence is returned to the “master”.
A powerful organization does not want the secret to be known, because they use the potion to control politicians on many planets.
That organization is the Cyclan:
The affinity twin formula was stolen from the laboratories of the Cyclan by Kalin’s first husband, and the Cyclan are bent on recovering the correct sequence of the formula. The Cyclan already possess knowledge of the 15 molecular units, but placing them in the correct sequence and testing them could take the Cyclan over 4,000 years, so having learned that Dumarest has the information on the correct sequence, the Cyclan have been hunting him in order to recover such information.
The organization's goons are people who had surgeries to remove their emotions, and function like organic computers. They can communicate over interstellar distances and follow and murder anyone who learns the secret.
The Cyclan is an organization composed by many logic-driven cybers who are developed
when young men undergo an operation at puberty which removes their capacity to feel
emotions and are engrafted with the Homochon elements (which are apparently obtained
from blind creatures which live in some underground caverns, possibly on Earth). Mentally
reviewing a particular complex mathematical equation, a cyber can place himself in a
trance-like state which activates the dormant Homochon elements and thus permits him to
have instantaneous communication across light year distances with Cyclan headquarters.
One book in the series starts like this: hero is on very hot planet, diving for valuable marine life, catches a deadly fungus disease and is rescued last moment in exchange for his catch...
That sounds like #5, The Jester at Scar, reviewed by MPorcius Fiction Log:
Scar is a planet with an ecology and an economy based on fungi, and Tubb relates to us all the details on how people have to adapt to live on Scar, how people make a living on Scar, the means of harvesting and the industrial uses of the many kinds of fungi, and so forth.
One of the themes that returns often is that the hero is an excellent knife fighter.
He is not particularly muscular but is blessed with extraordinary reflexes (even
when young) and a special sensitivity to circumstances and opportunities which is often
described as “luck”. . . . Dumarest has been employed in a number of odd jobs but, when down on his luck, he sometimes resorts to participating in publicly staged fights featuring knives or unarmed combat with another opponent, and virtually always Dumarest wins the match and promised reward (except in Angado).
Of course he's a womanizer
The grown Dumarest is especially attractive to women, and indeed many of the early books
in the series are titled after the leading female character (e.g., Derai, Kalin, Veruchia) with whom he develops a relationship.
In the second (or close to 2nd) book in the series, he's involved with a woman who rules a planet.
The second book is Derai. Derai is one of Dumarest's great loves, but I can't tell from the MPorcius Fiction Log review if she is a planetary ruler or not. In one of the books Dumarest is involved with a woman who not only rules, she is a planet:
Dumarest has even been loved by a sentient world, which created a
female human simulacrum to interact with Dumarest.
To travel to another world, he usually takes the cheapest dead-sleep passage, and there's always a 10-25% risk you won't wake up from that.
Rich travellers often travel “high”, which means they are injected with a drug (“slow time”)
that subjectively slows down their perception of time and biological processes so that a
trip of 20 light years can take place in about two weeks or so. Poor travellers have to opt
for “low passage”, which means they are doped up and ride in casket-type containers which
slow their metabolism (they ride 90% dead), which often proves fatal to such travellers
(15% mortality rate). Most spacers travel in “Medium”, which means that they are neither
slowed down nor doped up and stored away.
I don't know where you heard the second one, but it is incorrect. For as long as (or just as long as) is the only correct choice from your examples:
For as long as it takes...
For as long as we have a future...
As long as (see def. 37) is an idiom which has the following three meanngs:
a. provided that: As long as you can come by six, I'll be here.
b. seeing that; since: As long as you're going to the grocery anyway, buy me a pint of ice cream.
c. Also, so long as. during the time that; through the period that: As long as we were neighbors, they never invited us inside their house.
I'm assuming definition c for the two examples, but definition a also fits the second example. If that is the definition intended, then the for should be removed:
As long as we have a future...
The Matrix is not a movie with an overdose of realism.
But parts of it take place in the normal "real" world. We see Neo at work in his software company in his cubicle before the Agents come to his workplace to arrest him. Neo is a programmer in his day job. So why does his cubicle not look like a programmer's? Whatever your view of what a programmer's workplace should look like, it should not be a sterile empty cubicle with no sign of any actual activity. There is no paperwork, no notes and no signs of any sort of activity on his desk. There are no reference books, manuals (and this is set before such resources as stackoverflow went online) or any other sign of activity. Moreover, his computer is turned off.
What explains this? Is it meant to mean something, or were the film makers just being lazy?
In the film, Johner says, "Earth? I'm not going to that fucking slum."
A deleted final scene actually shows us the state of the planet - and it doesn't look pretty. It would appear that a cataclysmic event has left the planet a barren wasteland.
I, too, would be reluctant to return to Earth.
In Star Trek Voyager the character Seven of Nine is supposed to 24 years old when "liberated" from the Borg by Janeway et al.
She was assimilated by the Borg in 2356 at age six, along with her parents, but was liberated by the crew of the USS Voyager in 2374.
This, however, doesn't seem to jive with when the Federation became aware of the Borg. The Federation is first exposed to the Borg in Q Who?, which took place in 2365. This puts Seven and her parents being assimilated 9 years before the Borg and the Federation were introduced. But if this was the case, then the Borg would have "been aware" of the Federation prior to Q Who?, which would be at odds with Guinan's warning to Picard.
Reflecting upon events in Ten Forward with Picard, Guinan says that the encounter with the Borg happened before it should have, and for the moment, the Borg are only capable of seeing the Federation as "raw material to them". And because they are now, Guinan begins, "aware of our existence," "they will be coming," Picard continues. Guinan ominously says, "You can bet on it." [emphasis mine]
The only explanation that keeps these details from countering each other is that the Borg had been attacking the Federation prior to Q Who?, and for some reason the upper echelons of the Federation and Starfleet kept this threat hidden from the Captain of the current Starfleet flagship, which in my opinion seems unlikely. Therefore, the only remaining explanation is that Seven lied about her age for some reason. If this is the case, then how old is Seven of Nine really?
It is based on the claims of Travis Walton that he was abducted. Whether the story is "true" or not is dependent upon whether you believe the story or not. Some do not believe it.
Travis Walton is an American logger who claims to have been abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton could not be found, but reappeared after a five-day search. The Walton case received mainstream publicity and remains one of the best-known instances of alleged alien abduction.
I don't have a single-word answer for you. Well, ok... I do, but it's pretty darn obscure.
So the answer that comes to my mind may not be what you're looking for.
Generally one way of pointing out the insincere nature of instances like this is the pre-pend the word backhanded.
"Backhanded compliments" is the most common usage of this. (Perhaps the initiate phrase of such usage? Comment if you have research to add.)
But, "backhanded apology" and "backhanded comment" appear in general usage as well.
Some usages are more obvious than others, those tend to be the intentional ones (note the "Especially: Sarcastic" in MW). But the subtler insincerity of subconscious "passive aggression" speaks just as backhandedly as sarcasm ever could.
There are lots of sentences here.
(1) In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.
This is a fragmentary sentence. Consider "A humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate" ... and what? The whole verb phrase is missing. This is poetic language. To my knowledge there is not a specific word for this.
(2) This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished.
"This dog, no mere poodle, is a an example of the "poodle" breed, (which is) now vanished." There's nothing particularly odd about that one.
(3) However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
"However, this poodle has vowed to defeat the cats, (who) are at the forefront of vice and (graciously allow?) the oppression of those who make their own choices."
Nothing syntactically odd here.
(4) The only verdict is vengeance;
Normal.
(5) a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Another fragment. There isn't a top level verb phrase here. "A poodle, doing doggy things, for doggy things are useful and ought to be done as often as possible."
That's not to say that there's anything wrong with these sentences.
