To remember how to use the volatility index, think of this simple rhyme:Simple indeed. If you can figure out how to pronounce it, that is.
When the VIX/VXO/VXN is high, it’s time to buy.
When the VIX/VXO/VXN is low, look out below.
I read it as "vicks vox vuxen".Me too. After all, if VSEPR is read "vesper," this one is easy.
My boss just used the word "miscellaneously" where she clearly meant "mistakenly." :huh:I miscellaneously used the word "miscellaneously" for "mistakenly."
Receive $2.25 per share from the sell of the optionUtah English strikes again!
How can they rhyme without being pronounced the same?I'm confused. I didn't say that they rhyme without being pronounced the same.
And if they are pronounced the same, how can you tell which one was said?Because one is a verb and one is a noun. It's easy to tell from the context which one was intended.
Receive $2.25 per share from the sell of the optioninstead of
Receive $2.25 per share from the sale of the optionif "sell" and "sale" sound the same?
In that instance, the word in question is obviously a noun. "Sale" is a noun and "sell" is a verb, so you know that they meant "sale."So how do you know they said "sell" instead of "sale"?
Ah. I think I realize why you're confused. This quote was written, not spoken, so I know exactly what it said and exactly what it should have said.Huzzah!
Field Dirt Wanted:lol:
Ah. I think I realize why you're confused. This quote was written, not spoken, so I know exactly what it said and exactly what it should have said.
I understood right away, if it makes you feel better.I feel much better now. <_<
At least this misunderstanding didn't come from a genuine misinterpretation of the initial post, but from a genuine misinterpretation.There. I fixed it for you. :pirate:
Done sent to team for comments.
"vicks vox vuxen"What the Swedish gentleman said when he took his pet fox to the vet to be neutered.
Whenever I synergize, I get a strange tingling sensation. Should I be concerned?This is an indication that the sync cable for your PDA is leaking electricity. Time for a new cable!
To listen empathically is to listen with the heart. The word “heart” also contains the words “ear,” “hear,” and “art.”
To listen empathically is to listen with the heart. The word “heart” also contains the words “ear,” “hear,” and “art.”It's like numerology.
The whole idea of a self-help guru is an odd one. If the idea is to help myself, why do I need to buy your book?Don't get me started . . .
Especially since many of them have pretty sucky track records when it comes to their own personal lives. Not Covey particularly. But a certain divorced-his-wife-of-25-years-and-married-his-assistant-who-was-half-his-age person comes to mind.It sounds like he actualized his goal.
It looks to me like he helped himself to whatever he wanted. How appropriate for a self-help guru.QuoteThe whole idea of a self-help guru is an odd one. If the idea is to help myself, why do I need to buy your book?Don't get me started . . .
Especially since many of them have pretty sucky track records when it comes to their own personal lives. Not Covey particularly. But a certain divorced-his-wife-of-25-years-and-married-his-assistant-who-was-half-his-age person comes to mind.
:P
Love is a value that is actualized through action. So, is love a verb or a feeling? The proactive mind subordinates feelings to values. Pssst . . . make love a verb!*wallbash*
Really, really tall guy. Featured in Shallow Hal.Now I'm going to have to see Shallow Hal out of morbid curiosity. Was it actually him or someone based on him?
I'll agree on the accurately, but to me at least, it commicates very clearly and precisely."Love is an action" is just as clear and precise, with the added bonus of not making you look like you flunked English class. ;)
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart. Live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
—Henry Ford
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
—Igor Stravinsky
Here's one for Porter:It's true. :cool:QuoteChop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
—Henry Ford
This one's a bit of a head-scratcher.How so?
This one's a bit of a head-scratcher.Those nutty Russians.QuoteTo listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
—Igor Stravinsky
He can be frustrating and annoying, but I don't think he's done anything wrong per se.The meaning here is that being frustrating and annoying are not intrinsically wrong, or that they are not wrong by themselves. But in a looser sense, you can replace "per se" with "technically."
He can be frustrating and annoying, but I don't think he's done anything technically wrong.But this doesn't work in reverse—you can't (or maybe shouldn't) replace "technically" with "intrinsically."
I don't technically have a ride.
*I don't intrinsically have a ride.
*I don't have a ride by itself.
Or do we just care more about giving people warm fuzzies than we do about giving them real advice?Um, DUH!
Or do we just care more about giving people warm fuzzies than we do about giving them real advice?DING, DING, DING! Welcome to the world of self-help publications. :P
Accepting your limitations is not the same as fighting to not overcome them.But what it is is not fighting to overcome them.
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours"To me, that implies not merely accepting your limitation, but actively fighting to stay limited.
I accept it. Now, if someone tells me that I can do it if I try, I could easily argue with them and tell them why I can't.Why you can't, or why you won't?
So perhaps the real point isn't that the quotes contradict each other, but rather that they're just trite fluff that only partly applies to real life.Oh, that I agree with. ;)
The Arbitrator, after hearing and consideration of this party’s briefs, if any are submitted, shall select the last written proposal of either party as the award, such award being issued within thirty (30) days after submission of briefs, if any, together with an opinion explaining the Arbitrator’s reasons for his selection.
The most influential proponent of the distinction was John Wallis, whose 1653 Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae stated "The rule is... to express a future event without emotional overtones, one should say I shall, we shall, but you/he/she/they will; conversely, for emphasis, willfulness, or insistence, one should say I/we will, but you/he/she/they shall".But this rule is completely baseless. It's not supported by etymology or by any historical usage.
It does appear things began to deteriorate from the write-ups I read that were in her file.
I want to use my healing talents to keep hope alive and express my vision courageously in word and action.I was fine until I got to the last sentence. Well, the second-to-last one is weird, too, but the last one made me laugh. I don't even know where to begin.
In my family, I want to build healthy, loving relationships in which we can each become our best selves.
At work, I want to establish a fault-free, self-perpetuating learning environment.
In the world, I want to nurture the development of all life forms, in harmony with the laws of nature.
I want to nurture the development of flesh-eating bacteria.Just so long as you don't violate the laws of nature (whatever those are), you have my blessing.
I don't want any of those things. I wouldn't mind a nice tuna sandwich, though.QuoteI want to use my healing talents to keep hope alive and express my vision courageously in word and action.
In my family, I want to build healthy, loving relationships in which we can each become our best selves.
At work, I want to establish a fault-free, self-perpetuating learning environment.
In the world, I want to nurture the development of all life forms, in harmony with the laws of nature.
I want to use my healing talents to keep hope alive and express my vision courageously in word and action.It is reminiscent of something the Borg Queen would say.
In my family, I want to build healthy, loving relationships in which we can each become our best selves.
At work, I want to establish a fault-free, self-perpetuating learning environment.
In the world, I want to nurture the development of all life forms, in harmony with the laws of nature.
That's not very nurturing to the tuna, is it?It is the tuna's mission in life to nourish ME! You know, as part of the interconnectedness of all life forms, harmony, nature, nurturing. Yadda yadda ya.
You forgot about the sparks of holiness eating the tuna raises.QuoteThat's not very nurturing to the tuna, is it?It is the tuna's mission in life to nourish ME! You know, as part of the interconnectedness of all life forms, harmony, nature, nurturing. Yadda yadda ya.
Grammatically speaking, they work the same way—they're both future modals. Semantically, there's a fair amount of overlap, but shall is sometimes used to express obligation or some sort of imperative (compare "thou shalt not steal" to "thou wilt not steal"). But because there's so much overlap in meaning, they're to some extent interchangeable. As you suspected and as Rivka confirmed, the supposed distinction is meaningless here because it doesn't go back to the original.Would it be fair to say that if someone claimed that "I will" is declarative and "I shall" is permissive that that someone has no clue what he is talking about?
And as Porter said, it has sometimes been taught that the distinction is reversed for the first person and second/third persons. According to the Wikipedia article:QuoteThe most influential proponent of the distinction was John Wallis, whose 1653 Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae stated "The rule is... to express a future event without emotional overtones, one should say I shall, we shall, but you/he/she/they will; conversely, for emphasis, willfulness, or insistence, one should say I/we will, but you/he/she/they shall".But this rule is completely baseless. It's not supported by etymology or by any historical usage.
Basically, if one wants to become the type of person to go about correcting people's mistaken notions about grammar, it's probably a good idea to have a book or two that you are then willing to stick to in the future where you can show people.I disagree. Case in point, the current case. I knew that at one point, shall/will was taught to have different levels of emphasis, and that they were reversed for first person. I had no problems sharing that notion even though I have no book which says that, and I couldn't give any references. If somebody had challenged the veracity of what I said, all I could have done is shrugged and said "I know I've read it somewhere", which I have.
The legal dictionary defines the term “shall”: “As used in statutes, contracts, or the like, this word is generally imperative or mandatory.” Black’s Law Dictionary, 1541, Henry C. Black, 4th ed. (West 1951).So it's peculiar to legal jargon.
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actual is meaning : Hanukkah
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Dear Ecdrury,
According to dictionary.com there are three accepted spellings:
"Hanukkah or Hanukah also Chanukah."
But now I have a vote from you for the longer spelling.
Thanks for sharing your comment.
Cordially,
Dr. Bill
p.s. By the way, "langauge" is actually spelled, "language." (Grin.)
Objective: To provide above and beyond customer service to all FranklinCovey associates and tenants. To create a positive, proactive working relationship that willThat's exactly how it appeared, including the colors and the randomly quoted and title-capped bit on the next line.
“Deliver Case-Worthy Customer Results”
Treavor Holdman is an artist with a passion for glass. He grew up in a family of artists and teamed up with his brother Tom to become part of Holdman Studios at the age of 15. Since then Treavor has been one of the key artists for many large art glass installations. Several of the pieces he has been heavily involved with as a key artist have priced at over a half million. His work is literally seen by thousands everyday in many public spaces including churches, universities, and city centers all over the globe. Treavor has the unique ability to let the glass sing the song it was destined to sing. In his own words, "I let the glass speak for itself. As the fire and flame take hold of it, I feel what direction the glass would like to go to shine, and I take it on that journey. Then, in the end, the glass will do a much better job of taking your breath away then I ever could." Treavor has truly found his life's journey and invites us all to come along.
The punctuation looks fine to me. I think I would cut "as a key artist"—it sounds repetitious, and I don't think it's really necessary. Also, you should only use one space between sentences.As a typist who learned, very, very long ago, to put two spaces after the end of a sentence, I still have a hard time just using one space.
The act of seeing is literal too. :PI didn't say it was incorrect or that people would misunderstand it, I said I would remove it. It doesn't sound professional to me at all.
And I think anyone reading it would take "literally" to have wide scope over the clause, so I don't think anyone is going to have trouble understanding it. Such is the beauty of adverbs.
Besides, adverbs are often a sign of lazy writing. :P:blink:
I think I broke the habit in only a few weeks.Ditto.
The act of seeing is literal too. :PNot for the blind!
In fiction. Adverbs are often used with weak verbs, when often there is an actual verb that means the same thing as the verb-adverb pair. Or they're used paired with the word "said" as a way to state how a character is feeling, when that should have been established in other ways (behavior, thoughts if we're in that character's POV, prior history, etc).QuoteBesides, adverbs are often a sign of lazy writing. :P:blink:
Really? Why in the world do you think that?
There are techniques that could be effective. A piano student who's inclined to overuse the sustain pedal -- it can cover a lot of finger sins -- might be told to play some pieces without the sustain pedal, either a few times or for some period, after which the sustain pedal is reintroduced. Similarly a sports player who's inclined to favor one particular move very heavily might be told not to use it, either for one practice or for some period, after which the ban is lifted. The aim is to expand a repertoire.
Even with the caveat that I'm speaking of fiction writing?I don't see why fiction writing is that special or different.
--Mel
Can you point me to any fiction that doesn't use adverbs?That's false logic. An irregularly shaped mole can be a sign of skin cancer, but pointing at cancer-free patients who have a lot of moles and saying that therefore moles are meaningless for predicting cancer is pretty ludicrous.
If all fiction uses adverbs, than the presence of adverbs in fiction isn't a sign of anything.
I don't see why fiction writing is that special or different.
That's false logic. An irregularly shaped mole can be a sign of skin cancer, but pointing at cancer-free patients who have a lot of moles and saying that therefore moles are meaningless for predicting cancer is pretty ludicrous.If all humans had moles, then the existence of moles on an individual would not be a sign of anything.
Now granted, in my first statement, I was being a bit flip (hence the sticking-out-of-tongue). However, I did clarify several times that I was referring to excessive usage, and I never stated that ever using an adverb was wrong.OK. If you throw in the word "excessive", then it's a totally different situation. Just like irregularly-shaped moles could be useful for predicting cancer while the mer presence of moles wouldn't be, excessive adverbs can be a sign of poor writing while adverbs in general aren't.
That's false logic. An irregularly shaped mole can be a sign of skin cancer, but pointing at cancer-free patients who have a lot of moles and saying that therefore moles are meaningless for predicting cancer is pretty ludicrous.Your original statement sounds to me like saying that since some moles are cancerous, moles in general are often a sign of cancer.
I could list off quite a few "rules" for fiction writing that, if followed, will generally improve a writer's prose.I'd be interested in what other rules you'd list, if you don't mind.
That's not to say that someone who thoroughly understands the rules and why they exist can't break them; on the contrary, judiciously breaking the rules is often necessary in great writing. However, the new writer who breaks them out of ignorance usually will find that their prose is better if the rules are followed.I honestly have a hard time wrapping my head around that. If "breaking" the rule can be a good thing, then doesn't that mean that maybe there's a problem with the rule? Like, shouldn't they perhaps be "rules for novice writers" rather than "rules for all writers, though you can break the rules once you've learned them well enough"? That seems to me like saying that as a rule everyone should have training wheels on their bikes, but you can break the rule and take them off if you're good enough.
OK. If you throw in the word "excessive", then it's a totally different situation. Just like irregularly-shaped moles could be useful for predicting cancer while the mer presence of moles wouldn't be, excessive adverbs can be a sign of poor writing while adverbs in general aren't.Exactly. But I get the feeling that CrowsWife and I have very different ideas about what constitutes excess in this situation, and I think that's the key.
Of course, it's practically a tautology that excessive anything is bad.
If you're writing in limited omniscience POV, you can't tell us what non-POV characters are thinking.Bujold cheats with this one. Her characters are able to more information that seems humanly possible from a glance or a nod.
Don't hide information that the POV character knows that is important to the story. ESPECIALLY don't taunt the reader by having the character think about the information, but not actually share it.Few writing tricks are liable to piss me off like this one. I don't see it that much in books, but it's quite frequent on the screen.
Jonathon, what you're saying about adverbs not being a predictor of poor quality writing probably is true in the abstract. But, like Brinestone, I have read and critiqued a lot of amateur writing in the last few years (I'll add here that I consider myself to still be an amateur, although a more knowledgeable one than a few years ago). In actual practice, over-use of adverbs (specifically -ly ones, as Brinestone noted) is so common amongst beginning writers that it is actually a predictor.I've read my fair share of amateur writing too (and written some). Yes, I know the problem exists, but I still think "adverbs are often a sign of lazy writing" to be a gross overstatement. I'd be surprised if there's really much of difference between good adverb use and bad adverb use, statistically speaking.
Could you please respond back to me “today”, and let me know . . .
And there is "someone" on Hatrack who is working on their third year's worth of days.Rivka, sometimes you just "crack" me the "heck" up.
Tante, please "knock it off.""pouts"
Using quotes for emphasis kills no kittens. However, I devoutly believe that you lose a day of your life for each offense. (And there is someone on Hatrack who is working on their third year's worth of days. :P)Make that fourth.
I think quotes on signs make a lot of sense... they're used for emphasizing a word where no other method of emphasis exists.They could use an apostrophe-ess.
Often those things aren't available or are hard to use. McWhorter (http://www.nysun.com/article/61711) calls it an "underground alternative punctuation."Really? I can't imagine why any of those things would be unavailable on billboards or other signs. If they can typeset a regular font they can just as easily do bold or italics at the very least.
Really? I can't imagine why any of those things would be unavailable on billboards or other signs. If they can typeset a regular font they can just as easily do bold or italics at the very least.
Also, though I like McWhorter, I don't really find the analogy of quotes for emphasis and "impact" as a verb compelling at all. One is a shift from one part of speech to another, which really throws some people, and the other is a misuse of punctuation marks, which are by nature artificial and thus, in my opinion, more easily subject to arbitrary rules.
Sometimes the keeper of the vision gets in the way of progress
I can see why people think they need quotes for emphasis or for whole slogans. I just don't think they really do, because sometimes it causes unintentional alternate readings, and sometimes it's just visually distracting. I think that in general, the average layperson overestimates the amount of visual emphasis or adornment they need to apply to text.I'd agree with that. I still like them tho.
Marquees? There are red letters available for these signs. I find that a red word stands out more than a word with quotation marks around it.QuoteReally? I can't imagine why any of those things would be unavailable on billboards or other signs. If they can typeset a regular font they can just as easily do bold or italics at the very least.
I was thinking of those signs with the premade letters you have to slot in, but yes.
Bah! You're both nutty descriptivists!QuoteI can see why people think they need quotes for emphasis or for whole slogans. I just don't think they really do, because sometimes it causes unintentional alternate readings, and sometimes it's just visually distracting. I think that in general, the average layperson overestimates the amount of visual emphasis or adornment they need to apply to text.I'd agree with that. I still like them tho.
It is definitely regional. I know other people who say it, but they land up being from the area near Tante.I'm campaigning to expand the region.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.”I wonder if he said this before or after Rathergate. I'm guessing before.
—Dan Rather
If you're in a cave and you have a candle and someone comes along with a flashlight, you think you're in tall cotton.
Another of his more memorable utterances was "that's the greatest thing since Jesus invented bread!"I'm guessing that before that loaves and fishes trick, it was all matzah, all the time.
The truly great general views reverses calmly and coolly.That's three words in a row that could be interpreted as multiple parts of speech. Of course, if you hear it read properly out loud, there's no potential misparsing.
I got it right off the bat, and had to reread a couple of times to misunderstand it. Perhaps I ought to buy one of those day planners after all.Ditto, but I'm fairly certain I have heard it said aloud before.
Commemorates Russia's 1812 defeat of Napoleon.This made me do a double take. Why would anyone commemorate a defeat? It seems more natural to me to talk about commemorating a victory. Does it strike anyone else as just a little off?
I understand what point they hoped to make, but it only succeeds in suggesting that the cartographer was dropping acid or something.No kidding.
A common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day; Mexico's Independence Day is actually September 16 (dieciséis de septiembre in Spanish), which is the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.
But unless there's some sort of space-time anomaly going on south of the border, July 4th only ever falls on July 4th.July 4th is a metaphor.
Your mom is a metaphor.That could cause some problems for her students. And my dad.
A man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green.What the crap?
—Francis Bacon
Aren't they pretty much interchangeable?It depends on what you mean by that. They both mean "third-person singular indicative present tense," so in that sense they're interchangeable. The -th ending used to be the norm (indeed, the only option). Then the -s ending came along and eventually replaced it (and is now the only option, unless one is trying to sound archaic). I imagine there was a period of time when both were in use and were thus more realistically interchangeable.
The subtle, classic design of these pages will assure you are only focused on your most important responsibilities.Is there a word missing here?
The subtle, classic design of these pages will assure that you are only focused on your most important responsibilities.
Should it be ensure instead?Yeah.
Should it be ensure instead? I'm not really sure what the sentence means.I think they mean that the simple design won't distract you. I don't think it has to be ensure. I think it's just plain awkward.
ppt is insiment that we initiated a transfer of funds without her premission per above event
by the Warehouse Employees, Dairy, Bakery, Softdrink, Laundry, Linen, General Sales Drivers and Allied Employees, Local Union No. ###, a/w International Brotherhood of TeamstersI thought that was just their letterhead, but they really use that in a document.
I am fully aware that orientate is technically correct. But it's still WRONG! :PWrong on the grounds that it's unnecessary? If that's the standard you're going to use for deciding what's right and what's wrong, then you've going to have to scrap whole swaths of the language.
And it's unnecessary -- orient works perfectly well as a verb. Ostentatious Brits. :angry:
This wasn't a Brit. It was an engineer.I was just saying that it's far more common in Britain, not that it's exclusively British.
Like the less/fewer distinction. :PQuoteI am fully aware that orientate is technically correct. But it's still WRONG! :PWrong on the grounds that it's unnecessary? If that's the standard you're going to use for deciding what's right and what's wrong, then you've going to have to scrap whole swaths of the language.
And it's unnecessary -- orient works perfectly well as a verb. Ostentatious Brits. :angry:
Wrong on the grounds that it's unnecessary?No, wrong because it warps the fabric of space-time.
No, wrong because it warps the fabric of space-time.Ah, so you're going to even try to come up with a good reason for your dislike of it, eh? :P
The unnecessary aspect was a separate issue; hence the use of "and."So you don't think that being unnecessary is bad?
When does anyone say "orient" in daily speech? Perhaps in furniture arranging?The opposite, with "dis," is somewhat more common. But I certainly have heard people talk about becoming oriented to their surroundings, or new job, or whatever.
My opinion is this: if you don't like a word like orientate, don't use it. But don't try to tell me there's something innately wrong with it, and don't judge and ridicule those who use it. Ruth told me that she naturally uses orientate, and I have never felt like her speech was ostentatious or pretentious or affected.I'm embarrassed that I may have insulted anyone here. Surely my use of language and my pronunciation are not quite standard, and I'm a hypocrite to criticize anyone else's usage.
And really, isn't the word ostentatious more ostentatious than orientate, and erudite more erudite than orientate?
I don't think you or Rivka or anyone else were insulting. I wasn't insulted, at any rate, and nobody else has said that they were either.Thanks for that, Jonathon. It's been bothering me for days, the chagrin.
(sorry for all the hyphens, JB)I don't know why they should bother me.
Okay - just overheard this at work and it made me ROFL. Ought to use it as a sig.Meaning the blood splatter would blend in with the paint? And I really hope they didn't say "kinda of," but very intelligent sounding people either way.
Two co-workers talking about cars.
"This car wasn't just red, it was RED. It was a kinda of 'you-can-kill-someone-in-this-car-and-get-away-with-it' red!"
(sorry for all the hyphens, JB)
Inasmuch as we had not previously utilized I was concerned about what it would mean.As am I.
In Paul's discussion in verse 3, the KJV "benevolence" (Greek opheilen) literally means "that which is owed" or "one's due or obligation," which was also a euphemism for pleasing a wife conjugally.Which is itself a euphemism for having sex.
Please be "advised" that on Thursday August 14 and Friday August 15 the Lobby Entrance Road will be "Closed" to make necessary repairs. There will be Contractors resurfacing the the road. Pedestrians are asked to "Used Caution" when entering and exiting the Building. The River Road Entrance should be used for dropping off and picking up People.
In our era of large cities and electric lights, it is hard to picture how much these celestial bodies were part of Egyptian life. Most students do not regularly see starry nights because of light pollution. The natural nocturnal luminaries were particularly striking in Egypt, where most nights were cloudless and very clear. The lustrous bodies of the night sky were overlarge; they dominated the night landscape and forced their way into the minds and visions of every Egyptian soul. They were a much greater and pressing presence for these ancient inhabitants than most of us would naturally assume. Because of this powerful, intrusive sight, the stars spoke loudly to the Egyptians, whether they wanted them to or not. Their movements and power were an inescapable noise raining upon the eyes of our ancient counterparts.I'm not sure I've ever seen such purple prose in my life. The awkward second references (http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2008/08/that_elongated_yellow_fruit.html) are pretty good, too.
I'm not sure I've ever seen such purple prose in my life.You've been reading Sakeriver over the last few months, haven't you?
What he did notice was that the number of women far outnumbered the number of men in the audiences.What I noticed is that the number of instances of "numbers" far outnumbers the number of times the word "number" needs to be there.
There were almost as many "visions" as there were hundreds of denominations.So . . . there were hundreds?
No, no. There were slightly more than 100 times as many denominations as there were visions. I don't see what's so confusing about that!Aha! I don't know what I was smoking before. Now it's really clear. So if, for example, there were seven hundreds of denominations, then there'd be almost seven visions. It makes perfect sense.
Overall, the research and definition of culture has shifted over the past 40 years, and this has been heavily influenced by the academic fields of sociology and anthropology. Old definitions from Webster (Mish, 2001) included the 'cultivation of soil' or the 'raising, improvement, or development of some plant, animal or product.' Today, the meaning has gone from Arnold's 1869 view of culture having characteristics of beauty, intelligence, and perfections to the idea of culture being very ordinary in how each human society shapes its own purposes and meanings.If you're trying to say that the meaning of the word culture has changed, shouldn't you leave the "growing things" meaning out of it altogether? That's still an alternate meaning for culture, and has nothing whatsoever to do with what we mean when we say "culture" in the sociological context.
That's as bad as using "jive" instead of "jibe".Huh. I never knew that was wrong.
Additional case studies are needed to establish our results, using exemplary teachers as well as less good teachers from different universities and colleges and from different departments.
ZINC BRACE BAR
SISSY BAR! As thick as the STEEL BAR, but bends and solders much easier. Great for curvy bracing.
APRON
Ultra chic, apron with scientifically devised rear opening for fresh air circulation. One trendy size fits all.
Maude Dogge with apron
The final conditions of the surrender called for the Mormons to make an appropriation of property to cover any indemnities caused during the Missouri conflict . . .Uh, no. The Mormons did not appropriate any property; they surrendered it. The state of Missouri appropriated the property. And the appropriation did not cover any indemnities; the appropriation was the indemnity against the damages caused by the conflict.
3) He's using an indirect form to be polite.I don't get that. It sounds condescending and incorrect. I think I'm going to go with rivka's tapeworm theory. ;)
Whereas "How are we doing?" seems to require something....else. I'm not sure what. I know I'm just being silly, but there it is.Huh. I just respond with "Fine, thanks." Maybe you're responding to body language as well?
Although my personal pet peeve is when people say "we're pregnant." No... no, you're not.Do you find it annoying when the woman says that?
I do.QuoteAlthough my personal pet peeve is when people say "we're pregnant." No... no, you're not.Do you find it annoying when the woman says that?
Rather than requiring justice or compensation, a vendetta as seen in the concept of "an eye for an eye," this ransom functions as a substitute that allows the injured party to extend mercy and be reconciled.And turned it into this:
Rather than requiring justice or compensation, a vendetta is seen in the concept of "an eye for an eye." This ransom functions as a substitute that allows the injured party to extend mercy and be reconciled.The first one was awkward, but the second is simply ungrammatical and nonsensical. Argh.
It would probably take a conversation with a Christian to understand a Christian interpretation of it.Bingo.
Taking cues from the classroom environment researchers, we seek to place the current extant body of knowledge within a metaphorical framework that views computer technology as one of many factors in an ecosystem.
29: But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30: If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
And this is my humble opinion, but none of that is really about an ox at all. It's symbolism for an atonement for sin.That's the point where Jewish tradition disagrees with you.
Also, the ox's owner is only responsible if the ox is "an habitual gorer". Like how in American law they say every dog gets one bite?That makes sense, Rivka.
Also, did Jesse get confused, or is this one of the places where the numbering differrs between a Tanach and Christian Bible? To me, the verses Jesse quoted are 28 - 29.I'm the one who gave the reference, not Jesse. I don't know how the verses are numbered in the Tanach, but in the King James version the relevant verses were 29 and 30.
I know. But he provided the verses. I was asking if he got them wrong, or if the numbering was different.QuoteAlso, did Jesse get confused, or is this one of the places where the numbering differrs between a Tanach and Christian Bible? To me, the verses Jesse quoted are 28 - 29.I'm the one who gave the reference, not Jesse. I don't know how the verses are numbered in the Tanach, but in the King James version the relevant verses were 29 and 30.
The card is given out in the robbing room the day of commencement.*snicker*
With such results, the call for more computer access was the new rallying cry and school districts were quick to follow national trends. But in the late 1990s, it became apparent to researchers that increasing access was not being matched by increasing success, or even increasing use, in the average classroom (Cuban, 1999). By 1995, schools averaged one computer for every nine students, but the impact on instruction was minimal and a significant number of teachers didn’t use computers at all (Reiser, 2001). Since the turn of the century, the focus has shifted to the phenomenon of integration.
After receiving no governmental protection, Joseph Smith said "[the Constitution's] sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them."How do you say something after something that didn't happen and kept not happening? Receiving no governmental protection doesn't have an end point in time unless you start receiving no governmental protection, in which case Joseph Smith probably wouldn't have said that. (And anyway, then I'd word it something like "After receiving governmental protection . . .".)
Over the past 30 years, information and communication technologies have revolutionized the workplace and the home. In the classroom, however, computer technology has not had the same transformative effect (Davidson, 2007). Why hasn’t the use of educational technology kept pace? Researchers have been investigating this issue since the personal computer became widely available in the early 1980s. We attempt here a brief historical overview of the current of thought on the issue of computers in education, highlighting the shifting focus over the years from the ease of access to computer technology to the factors that influence successful integration once that access is attained; such as teacher qualifications, pedagogy, teacher attitudes and beliefs, and external environmental constraints. And yet, even after years of inquiry, it seems that “education … remains rooted in the practices of the past and continues to resist the lessons arising from educational research” (Desjardins & vanOostveen, 2008).
We propose that the underlying issue behind all of these findings is the concept of agentive valuation, the process by which goal-oriented agents willfully react to perceived benefits and threats within their environments. Agentive valuation is driven by motivations similar to those we find in organisms in the natural world, namely risk aversion and perceptive valuation of the surrounding environment. We conclude that the successful integration of technology is a function of its perceived contribution to the goals of the agents within the environment. In the case of education, these agents are teachers, administrators and students. We believe that recognizing this concept of agentive valuation reconciles the many facets of the issue that researchers have previously described into one whole.
technology implies belligerenceHuh?
"He folded like a cheap suitcase."WOW. I think I'm extra giggly today. That made me LOL. Again.
"We chased that like a dead herring."
Actual quotes from a co-worker.
It's a quote from a great short story by Peter Watts. I'm pretty sure the story is available on his website, but I can't remember the title. I'll try to remember to look it up in my anthology tonight and link you.Quotetechnology implies belligerenceHuh?
I need to know. Is the dead herring chasing or being chased? Is it red?I think it's a chaste herring.
How does technology imply belligerence?
The current rules for its and it's do not make zero sense.Explain to me the sense of why one has an apostrophe and the other does not, and why it's not the other way around.
Here's the answer I was looking for:QuoteHow does technology imply belligerence?
Porter, the story is called 'Ambassador.' (http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm)
Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into
unnatural shapes. They treat nature as an enemy, they are by
definition a rebellion against the way things are. In benign
environments technology is a stunted, laughable thing, it can't
thrive in cultures gripped by belief in natural harmony. What need
of fusion reactors if food is already abundant, the climate
comfortable? Why force change upon a world which poses no
danger?
Contractions with pronouns and forms of helping verbs, including be, always have apostrophes standing in for the omitted letters—for example, he's, she's, I'm, they're, we'll, you've and so on. There aren't any exceptions to this rule, so there's nothing nonsensical about that.QuoteThe current rules for its and it's do not make zero sense.Explain to me the sense of why one has an apostrophe and the other does not, and why it's not the other way around.
You could make a good argument that its is just it plus the possessive 's enclitic, just like one's.That's how I view it, but with the added bonus of somebody making an annoying rule that it's not supposed to have an apostrophe so as to avoid nonexistent confusion.
Yep.QuoteHere's the answer I was looking for:QuoteHow does technology imply belligerence?
Porter, the story is called 'Ambassador.' (http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm)QuoteTools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into
unnatural shapes. They treat nature as an enemy, they are by
definition a rebellion against the way things are. In benign
environments technology is a stunted, laughable thing, it can't
thrive in cultures gripped by belief in natural harmony. What need
of fusion reactors if food is already abundant, the climate
comfortable? Why force change upon a world which poses no
danger?
He was skinny, but he was pretty healthy. I didn’t know him. When he came home I was still in a crib. And he came home and my mom was so excited, and she came in—it was midnight, and he said, “Oh, look who’s home!” And I said, “Yeah, an uncle!” And my mom said, “No, it’s your dad!” And I said, “No, it’s an uncle!” And over and over my mom said, “It’s your dad!” and I said, “No, it’s an uncle!” And my dad had a salami that he had gotten somehow, and he showed me the salami, and I said, “That’s my dad!”
I wouldn't accept a strange man as my father for just a salami. I'd require some rye bread, some deli mustard, a nice cole slaw on the side, and a juicy pickle.:erm:
I have standards.
For those that have asked and for others that are still wondering, a bollard is a post or protective safety guard/barrier, i.e., Goggle will provide a plethora of information and pictures.
So that after only a few changes, the images start looking like absolute crud? Sounds good to me.Bingo.
Another surprise in table 1 was the high self-esteem reported among the Mexican LDS students, especially on positive items. . . . We have no reasonable explanation for this cultural difference. We actually anticipated that the LDS Mexican students would have lower self-esteem than other LDS students. Perhaps the Mexican [high school] seniors compare themselves to other Mexican students rather than to American youth and feel pretty good about themselves.
People like this are being published?Sadly, yes, though I should point out that we'll be deleting most of what I quoted.
* Chartreuse green carpeting will lead the way to the Medical & Scientific PavilionTo be fair, in the emails the carpet colors are color coded. But burnt orange carpet?
* Burnt orange carpet will be present throughout the Frame and Accessories area
* Teal carpeting with be the pathway to The Lenses & Processing Technology Pavilion
* The Galleria will maintain its bright refreshing pink carpeting.
(http://img-77.carmax.com/Images/Gallery/5/77/577-1-555-946b1862.jpg)Nah, more like:
I should get some fake wood paneling for my station wagon.No, you should get some real wood paneling. That would be awesome.
Avocado and maize! What the heck happened in the 70's that made everyone have to have an avocado refrigerator and a maize dishwasher?No clue. I grew up with kitchens those colors all around me, and I still haven't recovered from the trauma. ;)
Although it was kind of cool to ride around in a station wagon that was pretending to be carved out of a block of wood. It was like you were in a Pinewood Derby.:lol:
Nah, more like:But my car looks like the picture I posted (except that it's navy blue instead of dark green). Though when I'm done with it it might look more like your picture.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i_AovfzNXgQ/SHlVXCeiFxI/AAAAAAAATGk/RXYWfb8ZRhE/s400/IMG_5893.jpg)
Labels should be removed from performance reviews. The impersonality of labels is extremely demotivating.
What is written here is the result of many years of ponderous and solemn thought. . . .Ponderous is a word I would tend to avoid in describing my own writings and thoughts.
Now I wonder if she was talking about something like that, even though she did repeatedly call it chai.Very possible. I know some non-Mormons who are only familiar with herbal chai and were surprised when I told them the most common tea called that was real tea.
I should probably sic the Honor Code Office on her just to be safe.::nods::
It has long been a fundamental tenant of our consulting philosophyBZZ! Thanks for playing, but I think we'll stick with companies that speak English goodly.
We had a mother call and yell at us because:
1. The diploma we issued to her son looks so cheap.
2. It won’t fit in the frame she purchased from the school bookstore
After further conversation and yelling we managed to determine that the diploma she had for her son was 8 ½ x 11 and did not have a colored seal. Our real diploma is 12 x 15 and has a multicolored seal. We looked up the student and he is 2 credits short.
I have heard of forging a transcript, but giving it to your mother!
the kid with the fake diploma gets props for originality.Sadly, as further discussion on the listserv proved, nope.
Annie, I'd lose the "is".I didn't write it - I just read it on the bottle of water I was drinking. At work.
I was trying to figure out what they actually meant by leaving the "is" in there.Serving as the verb of the subordinate clause introduced by "like"?
The whole idea of a self-help guru is an odd one. If the idea is to help myself, why do I need to buy your book?I know that this is a really old quote-- Porter is probably dead and buried by now-- but this cracked me up.
David O'McKay
One of those images, taken in 1849 or 1850, shows him in a fine suit, clean-shaven with thick dark hair and penetrating but soft eyes.Like being stabbed with a teddy bear, I'd imagine.
"rectification for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude."For the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude.
We in the 21st century live in the digital age, thanks to the emergence and rapid
development of personal computers and other digital technology in the latter half
of the 20th century. The old sound spectrograph of the 1940’s1 has given way to
digital signal processing, just as phonograph records and other analog products
gave way to the digital revolution. Today, besides computers and software/hardware
for computer installation, other digital offerings include digital cameras and
camcorders; digital cell(ular) phones; DAT recorders (DAT = digital audio tape);
digital voice recorders (replacing micro-cassette recorders); checkbook-sized
e-dictionaries; PDA’s (personal digital assistant) and other handheld devices (or
“handhelds”) for retrieving email, reading an e-book, surfing the web, etc.; music
store-and-play formats such as “mp3”; full-size and portable CD- and DVD-disk
players; digital television, including HDTV, and the digital cable, satellites and
satellite dish-antennas that deliver it to our homes, offices, and vehicles; digital
home cinema; and of course, the digital projectors of business and academia, to
name just a few. And for research, teaching and learning, to facilitate search and
retrieval, a number of digital library projects2—some already accessible online—
have been working at digitizing and archiving textual- and sound-materials
(including music and spoken language data), as well as video and film media for
easy search and retrieval. The World Wide Web alone (WWW, or ‘The Web’)
offers an incredible array of resources and information (some of which may
require subscription or password registration), including online newspapers and
magazines, online dictionaries and encyclopedias, academic e-journal articles,
archived e-texts and sound-files, and more. Whereas in the mid-1990s there was
only a handful of Chinese-language programs available online, it is unusual today,
in 2003, to find any major Chinese program or association which is not represented
on the Web.
We in the 21st century live in the digital age, thanks to the emergence and rapid
development of personal computers and other digital technology in the latter half
of the 20th century. The old sound spectrograph of the 1940’s has given way to
digital signal processing, just as phonograph records and other analog products
gave way to the digital revolution. This new technology has had a profound impact
on the way we are able to analyze and study tone production of speakers of
Mandarin Chinese.
For instance, my own Morrow Micro Decision computer—
purchased in Seattle for one thousand, five hundred 1982 U.S. dollars—was an
8-bit, Z-80, 4 Mhz desktop computer with 64K memory and a CP/ M 2.2 operating
system, strictly text-based, with no “Graphic User Interface” or GUI, meaning no
little icons to drag about; its pre-LED (light-emitting-diode) phosphor screen was
monochrome green, and each of the two built-in 5-1/4” floppy-disc drives held a
total of only 200 KB, or about 1/6 of what the formatted and now obsolescent
floppy-disk would later on come to hold.9 No hard drive, no external storage. It did
have a full-stroke keyboard, but could only “beep”: there was no “sound card.”10
Furthermore, there were no ports for headphone jack, line-in, or microphone. And
as you might imagine, that little computer had no graphics or video support, nor
did it have an internal or external fax-modem.11 The early CP/M and DOS-based
desktop computers without a sound card could not be used for speech analysis and,
from there, harness speech technology for language teaching.
Due to limitations of space,
only a few aspects of Mandarin Chinese structure will be highlighted, but that
should suffice to demonstrate the usefulness of the software under discussion.
The Tower of Babel destroyed almost all hope of coming to a consensus of what love really means.
The opening line from one of the articles from our Student Symposium a few years back:Do they then launch into the Sapir Whorf hypothesis?QuoteThe Tower of Babel destroyed almost all hope of coming to a consensus of what love really means.
Choices are made every day by people. A young child decides whether to eat a cookie after being told not to touch the cookie jar. A teenager decides whether to join a gang, smoke, or drink alcohol. A young man or woman tries to determine what the meaning of life is. This story is about the choice that I made to attend Brigham Young University and how my choice to come to Provo was instrumental in my quest to discover a whole new life.
No, but that might have been interesting. Instead it was just a bad lead-in. Here's another awful one from a book called Finding God at BYU:Every time I want to be condescending towards folks at BYU for being dummies, I always get this nagging thought in the back of my head that says something like, "You didn't get into BYU."QuoteChoices are made every day by people. A young child decides whether to eat a cookie after being told not to touch the cookie jar. A teenager decides whether to join a gang, smoke, or drink alcohol. A young man or woman tries to determine what the meaning of life is. This story is about the choice that I made to attend Brigham Young University and how my choice to come to Provo was instrumental in my quest to discover a whole new life.
In these verses, Christ is warning his disciples not only of the deceptive nature of others but also of the self-deceptive nature of beams.
Alluding to Matthew 7:3–5, about failing to notice the beam in one's own eye:That should be grounds for immediate excommunication.QuoteIn these verses, Christ is warning his disciples not only of the deceptive nature of others but also of the self-deceptive nature of beams.
What would you do if you were king of the world?
Kill the person who don't like me.
Help poor people.
Build things for people.
Travel the world.
Sleep every day.
To make every one be a rich.
Don't care to eat, and happy forever.
If I was king I would like to eat people.
I will make everybody relax all the time.
I want to help many no house's people find a home.
Travel around the world.
Help all old man.
Eat all delicious.
I will make the world happily and safely, and everyone shares the stuff to each other.
Really? It's not huge to me... and I'm using Firefox
The prof I edit for uses "one" as a reflexive pronoun. At least once per manuscript, in addition to changing it, I put a comment on the fact that it is an indefinite pronoun and can't be used that way, but he keeps doing it.
In an 1845 letter written from Great Britain to his father, Aphek, he commented on his commitment to Mormonism.
Johnson became a member of the Council on 26 March and may have been the only meeting he attended with Woodruff, so it plausible that Woodruff simply forgot Johnson was present on that occasion or he may have believed he was dead.
During the Prophet's ministry, the Holy Order met semi-regularly for special prayer meetings, discuss doctrine and revelations and to initiate additional members into that Holy Order.
Wilford Woodruff was personally involved, not as a detached observer, but as a participant, both as an actor in the event deeply affected by the events
I'm not sure, but I think they were disoriented. Or should be. :POccidentally, your comment wasn't very funny. ;)
The use of these metaphors makes the differences immediately, emphatically clear, and vivid and concise, using far fewer words.
I'm sure you would have been remiss if you hadn't.QuoteThe use of these metaphors makes the differences immediately, emphatically clear, and vivid and concise, using far fewer words.
I deleted those last four words.
This one is just cute:I'm sure this is how my Chinese reads when I turn in my homework to my teachers.
"Play the piano can make me feel happy. Reading always let my brain full of fantasy feeling."
Q. Can I use the first person?
A. Evidently.
Soured by bitter consequences, God's character is often maligned by distraught humans.
If I could travel to another country it would be ______________ because ...
Canada. There is very beautiful and wonderful! The people is friendly and kind and there food is delicious.
Early cylinder-style phonographs were capable of recording sound.
Oh, duh. I don't know how I missed that.Probably because you were focused on the original meaning/etymology of the word, rather than modern usage?
Did anyone else have the Fisher Price record player? With those plastic records with little poky dots all over them that somehow actually worked? That was awesome.My parents still have mine. It sort of even still works, I think.
Did anyone else have the Fisher Price record player? With those plastic records with little poky dots all over them that somehow actually worked? That was awesome.I had it. It worked along the same principle as a music box. The records were also color coded.
Oh, duh. I don't know how I missed that.Probably because you were focused on the original meaning/etymology of the word, rather than modern usage?
We believe that federal regulation based on anecdote is a very bad practice.
Quote from work tonight: "Just because I don't know stuff doesn't make me ignorant!"It's true, maybe that stuff is just ignorant of her.
cows, skinning diseased, 172
Because most uses of indicate indicate some sort of indirect or nonverbal communication. Quite frequently it's a nonhuman doing the indicating, as in "Studies have indicated that people who use indicate to mean say are ten times more likely to be social deviants." I most often see indicate used to mean say in writing that is otherwise awkward or amateurish.Ah, I see.
“You were so good as to imply, on that occasion—”
“Excuse me, miss,” said Mr Guppy, “but we had better not travel out of the record into implication. I cannot admit that I implied anything.”
“You said on that occasion,” I recommenced, “that you might possibly have the means of advancing my interests and promoting my fortunes by making discoveries of which I should be the subject."
The problem I see with indicate is that some people think of something has more syllables, it is more formal. I see this a lot in people thanking the Lord for the "moisture" rather than rain or snow. Now, if there were a light wintry mix that morning, I could maybe see "moisture" as a superior reference.Bro. Groberg gave a talk about praying for favorable winds on a rickety boat. The captain chastised him for it because there might be a boat coming in the other direction, and for God to grant them that boon he would have to inconvenience the other boat.
in some, they pray for rain and dew, no matter the season.They're only one step away from praying for moisture. Be vigilant!
Well, I think the "moisture" thing started, at least it seemed so in the places I always lived, as a way to encompass both rain and snow. But the fact that we already have the word precipitation is what always puzzled me about it.Maybe people use the word moisture more often than precipitation.
If they use it to mean precipitation, though, I don't think that word means what they think it means.Well, I'm still trying to figure out when the heck Sundee is.
The relationships between sounds and meanings are arbitrary, yet they define the world, and it may be painful to notice that the good old world is disappearing with what was earlier considered good language.The descriptivist scores a blow.
Oliver recalled when they “received the office of the lesser priesthood” the angel had made a “promise” he would be ordained “to the Presidency.”
Oliver Cowdery wrote both he and Joseph “received the high and holy priesthood” from these Apostles.
I'm editing a piece by an author who is a chronic that dropper.QuoteOliver recalled when they “received the office of the lesser priesthood” the angel had made a “promise” he would be ordained “to the Presidency.”QuoteOliver Cowdery wrote both he and Joseph “received the high and holy priesthood” from these Apostles.
I'm adding in about five or six thats per page to help with readability. It's getting really annoying.
"Good. Item seven. The had had and that that problem. Lady Cavendish, weren’t you working on this?’(from The Well of Lost Plots)
Lady Cavendish stood up and gathered her thoughts. ‘Indeed. The uses of had had and that that have to be strictly controlled; they can interrupt the imaginotransference quite dramatically, causing readers to go back over the sentence in confusion, something we try to avoid.’
‘Go on.’
It’s mostly an unlicensed-usage problem. At the last count David Copperfield alone had had had had sixty three times, all but ten unapproved. Pilgrim’s Progress may also be a problem due to its had had/that that ratio.’
So what’s the problem in Progress?’
That that had that that ten times but had had had had only thrice. Increased had had usage had had to be overlooked, but not if the number exceeds that that that usage.’
Hmm,’ said the Bellman, ‘I thought had had had had TGC’s approval for use in Dickens? What’s the problem?’
Take the first had had and that that in the book by way of example,’ said Lady Cavendish. ‘You would have thought that that first had had had had good occasion to be seen as had, had you not? Had had had approval but had had had not; equally it is true to say that that that that had had approval but that that other that that had not.’
So the problem with that other that that was that…?’
‘That that other-other that that had had approval.’
Okay’ said the Bellman, whose head was in danger of falling apart like a chocolate orange, ‘let me get this straight: David Copperfield, unlike Pilgrim’s Progress, had had had, had had had had. Had had had had TGC’s approval?’
There was a very long pause. ‘Right,’ said the Bellman with a sigh, ‘that’s it for the moment. I’ll be giving out assignments in ten minutes. Session’s over – and let’s be careful out there."
I know that I usually hate language peeving, but I really hate the use of "indicate" to mean "say", as in "Elder Brown indicated that President David O. McKay wished to see Eldon." It always gives me the mental image of someone communicating solely through hand gestures and facial expressions.
Rallying to the cause, a formal organization composed of single young men and women under the age of thirty known as the Young Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Relief Society of Nauvoo was formally organized on March 21, 1843. (emphasis mine)
Pretty sure she doesn't know what simile meansThis occurred to me -- it's a pretty advanced word. But it would make so much more sense!
moodTo be fair, I think the student the student went wrong when they said, "good mood" instead of, "appropriate mood".
The teacher blamed us when we didn't do our homework. I think it's a good mood for us.
I think the word "coincidence" is a pretty hard word.
Jesus ChristI dunno, call it a sixth sense or something . . .
1.To save the world,he was nails tight in ten type cases.
I can always tell when my students use Google translateI wish I had a job where I could read funny things like that.QuoteJesus ChristI dunno, call it a sixth sense or something . . .
1.To save the world,he was nails tight in ten type cases.
He was just debating whether s could be added to air.Ah.
Holy cow!Winner!
Was it the Salt Lake Temple where one winter while it was being constructed they housed cattle inside?I'm willing to bet it was the Nauvoo Temple, after it had burned and partly collapsed.
edit: Nope nevermind, I believe it was the Kirtland Temple after the Mormons had left Ohio.
Actually it might have been the first Nauvoo temple. But I'm pretty sure it was burned after all that other stuff happened.Was it the Salt Lake Temple where one winter while it was being constructed they housed cattle inside?I'm willing to bet it was the Nauvoo Temple, after it had burned and partly collapsed.
edit: Nope nevermind, I believe it was the Kirtland Temple after the Mormons had left Ohio.
More comfortable? Or maybe they mean more accommodating to people with disabilities or, you know, fatness.Having sat in the SLC Tabernacle, I'm going to with "or, you know, knees".
Not really more comfortable, because they're still hard wooden pewsIncreasing the space between those wooden pews will definitely make sitting there for any length of time more comfortable.
This is really splitting hairs (and is probably just me anyway), but to me, "accommodates" implies number while "accommodating" implies ease/comfort.That's how it is for me too.
Though more accommodating than the originals, President Hinckley still quipped about the new seating at the building's rededication, "As you've already discovered, the new benches are just as hard as the old ones were."
Though the new pews are more accommodating, President Hinckley still quipped at the building's rededication, "As you've already discovered, the new benches are just as hard as the old ones were."
We hope in a very inauspicious way to structurally strengthen the building.
Colleagues -
Recently the language in our catalog referring to student classification was challenged.
We classify any student with "less than 30 credits completed" as a freshmen. However, some on campus feel the text should be "fewer than 30 credits completed".
I always assumed that because we're referring to a unit of measurement, less than was appropriate. But I haven't dug too deep into proper usage of less vs. fewer.
What say you?
Once, I too was an unrepentant prescriptivist. “Less coffee, fewer donuts!” I cried.
Then I started hanging around with linguists and reading the Language Log blog. See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004005.html
Summary: It’s more complicated than that. And there’s nothing wrong with saying “less than 30 credits”.
Upon entering the building, the entry is floored in white marble, and the walls are veneered with large blocks of golden travertine marble, both extracted from Utah quarries.
Oh, psh. You're going to make me ruin the joke by explaining it.No. I'm going to ignore the fact that I know your point is valid in favor of commenting on the literal meaning of what you said.
As part of today's vocabulary lesson from the US Department of Education, we turn to page 173 of the final regulations. The word of the day is "eleemosynary":
"the institution being authorized specifically as an
educational institution, not merely as a business or
an eleemosynary organization"
Pronounced el-uh-mo-sin-ary, it means "supported by charitable contributions" or "dependent on charity".
Well it is the US Government... They can make up any word they want, right?And apparently travel back in time. Dictionary.com had it as a word of the day in 2003.
Eleemosynary would make a great baby name.:blink:
Comment: One commenter noted that
most Pell-eligible applicants would not
benefit from the IRS Data Retrieval
Process since they are not required to
file a Federal tax return because they do
not earn enough. Therefore, this
commenter argued that these applicants
and the institutions that serve them
would not experience the reduction in
burden the IRS Data Retrieval Process is
expected to provide.
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Under a government that convinced or compelled more and more of its citizens to march to the same dark tune, members of a church that exalted the concept of freedom of choice (moral agency) were bound to feel at odds with the party line.
Or simply one that they're not familiar with.I meant the fact that they couldn't find it in the idiom dictionary.
Or simply one that they're not familiar with. But one girl kept insisting that it wasn't a real idiom. First of all, I'd disagree, and second, so what?Does an idiom have to be documented in order for it to be used? I mean if I make one up and its well put together well enough that its meaning is clear, would an editor still strike it?
But what really baffled me was the insistence that it didn't make any sense or meant the opposite of what was intended.
I meant the fact that they couldn't find it in the idiom dictionary.
Does an idiom have to be documented in order for it to be used? I mean if I make one up and its well put together well enough that its meaning is clear, would an editor still strike it?
Tell them it's imagery, not an idiom.
Where/how do you draw the line between editing and re-writing? What do you when you're pretty sure you could write the paper/chapter/book better but that's not really your job? Or how do you deal with the frustration of knowing that you could do it better but that that's not your job?
That could be a general or specific "you" up there -- anyone who edits other people's stuff feel free to answer. Other people's stuff other than school papers, that is. That's a much easier line for me to draw.
ETA: didn't mean to limit that. Anyone please answer what you would do, but those who do do please tell me what you do do.
But not what you doo doo, I get enough of that conversation with my kids.
I'm not the authors' research assistant or coauthor or ghostwriter. By default, I assume that they don't want me to be
I don't want to mention any names, but Huck was very well known as a Nazi.
Under a government that convinced or compelled more and more of its citizens to march to the same dark tune, members of a church that exalted the concept of freedom of choice (moral agency) were bound to feel at odds with the party line.
Where/how do you draw the line between editing and re-writing? What do you when you're pretty sure you could write the paper/chapter/book better but that's not really your job? Or how do you deal with the frustration of knowing that you could do it better but that that's not your job?
I haven't seen Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean. And now I don't need to.Why not? It sounds like you are saying you didn't see it.
I don't need to.I'm going to have to agree with Scott on this one.
That's not fair, Mr. Bean can't even state why you are mistaken.I don't need to.I'm going to have to agree with Scott on this one.
That's what YOU think. >:DI knew it, you two are the same person, namely Tom Davidson.
He was already a Wehrmacht soldier and as such was not free to visit her. In April 1943, he was given leave to go home to Bad Homburg and asked her to join him there. Just after they parted, she received a telegram with the text, "Do you want to be my wife? Please let me know immediately. Hans." Her reply was one word in the affirmative.
One of my coworkers noted that it's similar to asking someone to marry you in a text message.It's an apt comparison. Besides Hans being gutless, why else wouldn't he have just asked her while they were together? Is there some sort of cultural convention that it's improper for a man to ask a woman to marry him face to face?
One of my coworkers noted that it's similar to asking someone to marry you in a text message.Except that a telegraph was far more expensive, and thus a fairly extravagant gesture.
That's how it always works in the movies!But it often does not end favorably in the movies.
More often than not. They chase down the train, plane, automobile or what have you, and declare their love. Or follow after on the next train, plane, or automobile, and THEN declare their love.In a Chinese movie, he would have been shot down by Americans, struggled to get back to her, and been killed after trying to show someboy a kindness.
Sometimes the person who has left is on foot, even. For example, Two Weeks Notice.
I just keep thinking "Dear Rolfe. Stop. Don't Stop!":D
I really think you should give Not One Less a shot. I don't know if it is still in Instant Queue, but it is one of the few with a happy ending. Some other ones I have seen that end well that I highly recommend are Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. And, The Road Home, also, Together. I think you could really enjoy those. There is heart ache, but it's not as bad as some of the other Chinese movies I really enjoy.I just keep thinking "Dear Rolfe. Stop. Don't Stop!":D
BB, the closest I've gotten (or am likely to get) to watching a Chinese movie was The Joy Luck Club.
I really think you should give Not One Less a shot.It appears to be in the saved potion of my instant queue. Maybe when it comes back on instant.
Some other ones I have seen that end well that I highly recommend are Eat, Drink, Man, Woman.I saw the Hispanic version (http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Tortilla_Soup/60020787).
The ending to Eat, Drink, Man, Woman is one of the most powerful moments in film for me. I just love the actors expressions, it chokes me up every time.Tortilla Soup has a pretty good ending as well.
... If he had survived, she would have died or else married another. The movie would have ended with anything but them being married. Or if they were married, it would have inadvertently brought on horrible consequences.
I just came across an unfortunate name: Hugh Pugh. It's especially funny because the name Pugh comes from ap Hugh, which is Welsh for "son of Hugh".Sorta like John Johnson?
Or Ben benBen.I was going to suggest that or John Johnson, but obviously ended up on the latter.
Sorta like John Johnson?Johnny Johnson was the nemesis of Jimmy James in News Radio.
"The Road Home" was an excellent movie whose drama derives from emotion and not death.
"The Road Home" was an excellent movie whose drama derives from emotion and not death.I was with you until I realized you weren't talking about Road House with Patrick Swayzee. ;)
Also in my teaching I am going to scaffolding my children b/c that is not only the theory but the requirement these days in public schools, why else would you talk about the same theorist Vygotsky in like 3 classes in this Educational program. I mean he must be super improatnt to be mentioned in 3 different subjects. And in this educational program at BYU last fall I felt like I was reading the same text book for at least 3 to 4 classes. This Winter I feel I am reading the same text book for at least 3 of my classes why b/c you all love Vygostky.
During an air raid, . . . my mother and I came upon an elderly couple in the courtyard in the process of gathering propaganda leaflets, floating down from the sky. An American bomber had been kind enough to dump them on our property. The neighbors were aghast that we had caught them in a criminal activity. They asked if we would turn them in. I told them no, if they would share the precious leaflets with us, not to enlighten us, but for a much more mundane purpose. Toilet tissues had long been unavailable for purchase. Instead, we let the daily newspaper serve dual purposes. But since the newspaper printing plant had been bombed out, the leaflets, measuring about 8 ½ × 11 inches, cut into four sections, could serve not only cerebral but also posterior functions, courtesy of the 8th U.S. Air Force.
Insisting on having your name appear in all caps is stupid, I think. It just doesn't look good. I used to work for a place that had half of its name in caps, and now they just have an initial cap. I think it looks much better that way.
When the war began, the district president was ——— ——— (born 1902), a real estate agent dealing with nautical properties.
For most of my life, I was a nondenominational Christian, meaning I believed in Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, but I never did anything about it.
But for some reason I'm having a hard time coming up with a nice, concise substitute.The trouble is that you want it to be nice, concise, and accurate.
For most of my life, I was a nondenominational Christian. I believed in Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, but I never did anything about it.
For most of my life, I was a nondenominational Christian, meaning I believed in Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, but I never did anything about it.I'm going to go back and say that my original interpretation of this sentence was correct.
But your having to cook dinner is a necessary consequence of your spouse being gone.No it wasn't. I could have taken the kids out to dinner. We could have gone hungry. I could have convinced my kid to cook something they liked. (This is what actually ended up happening, BTW.)
His being inactive is not a necessary consequence of his being nondenominational.It wasn't a necessary consequence, but it was the consequence for him. I don't know why you feel that it has to be a necessary consequence for the word to be used that way.
But your having to cook dinner is a necessary consequence of your spouse being gone.No it wasn't. I could have taken the kids out to dinner. We could have gone hungry. I could have convinced my kid to cook they liked. (This is what actually ended up happening, BTW.)
QuoteHis being inactive is not a necessary consequence of his being nondenominational.It wasn't a necessary consequence, but it was the consequence for him. I don't know why you feel that it has to be a necessary consequence for the word to be used that way.
I think that the author would disagree with your claim that there's no causal relationship at all.
Both?You should object as forum administrator too, that way it's a trifecta.
Both?Heh. As a reader, I agree with your objection. But were I editing, I think I would not -- the intent he (apparently) wishes to convey is being accurately conveyed. The sentence says what he wants it to.
Both?Heh. As a reader, I agree with your objection. But were I editing, I think I would not -- the intent he (apparently) wishes to convey is being accurately conveyed. The sentence says what he wants it to.
Those sound contradictory to me.I don't consider myself an average reader.
Professor J you are a beast. Your tests are animals and there is nothing wrong with that just know you are a very difficult teacher, especially considering this is a 100 level class. Your T.A.s are the saving grace of the class. Without them we would be destroyed.
especially since it is his first name and not his sir name:D
This mannerism, however, was not dictated by revelation nor was it explicitly implied in journal accountsGiven the inherent difficulty in explicitly implying anything, I can see why it didn't happen.
However, the efforts of neither could be completed without the other.
It doesn't change the scope at all for me. How does it change for you?QuoteHowever, the efforts of neither could be completed without the other.
It's interesting how this reads to me quite differently from "neither one's efforts could be completed without the other's." Is it just me? I think moving the "neither" completely changes the scope of the negation.
Or maybe it's because I'm one of those people who think that "everybody doesn't like ice cream" is not the same as "not everybody likes ice cream".I can certainly see how those can be parsed to mean different things. Not so with the quote from work.
Overheard just now: "I have no less than at least ten cowlicks."I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Overheard just now: "I have no less than at least ten cowlicks."I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
I don't even know what the phrase, "I have no less than ten cowlicks" is supposed to mean. Is it not a phrase, is it just a statement of quantity they goofed up?Overheard just now: "I have no less than at least ten cowlicks."I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
It means the same thing as "I have no less than ten cowlicks" or "I have at least ten cowlicks". I just thought the combination was funny.
The speaker just inserted a superfluous quantifier. I'm not sure what part is unclear. Do you know what a cowlick is?Yes. It sounds like I was assuming the phrase had some special folksy meaning, when it doesn't. It's no different than somebody saying, "I have no less than at least $10".
Short of shaving it off, is a cowlick the sort of thing you can style around? I figured they were more like fingerprints.
BB, I'm really proud of myself for knowing the Chinese saying and thinking of it before you brought it up :)
I think the English quote is liable to be a passed-around translation of the Chinese saying.
BB, I'm really proud of myself for knowing the Chinese saying and thinking of it before you brought it up :)I'm quite pleased you were in the loop on it. :)
I think the English quote is liable to be a passed-around translation of the Chinese saying.
Huh?Jonathon: She's responding to the second part of my original post I made in response to yours. The part about it being more comfortable to cry in a Mercedez than on a bicycle, and the China stuff.
This volume is filled with gripping and fascinating stories of members of the LDS Church in West Germany and Austria during World War II. Learn about the conditions the German Saints faced during World War II. They did not have access to the many conveniences American Saints took for granted—including their local Church leaders, clean places to meet, cars, and temples. Germany was one of the war fronts where homes were destroyed and friends and families were killed. Unlike American soldiers returning to their homes, nearly half of the German Saints had no home to which to return. Hundreds of them served in the German military, while thousands more stayed home and endeavored to keep their families and the Church alive. Their stories of joy and suffering are presented in this book. Readers will be touched at the faith and dedication shown by these Saints—young and old, military and civilian.
In order to survive for any length of time, and to perform the tasks needed to ensure future survival, humans need a regular supply of food and water.
Would have been better if he perhaps contrasted the difficulty (if any) in procuring food and water, whereas today in many cultures we take it for granted that those things are available?
Your mom is irrelevant to the article.Would have been better if he perhaps contrasted the difficulty (if any) in procuring food and water, whereas today in many cultures we take it for granted that those things are available?
I don't think so. It's totally irrelevant to the article.
And for that very reason, she is not mentioned in it even once.It's OK, go ahead and edit her into the acknowledgements section. Perhaps even the dedication page.
What was it on?
What was it on?Paper. :runs and hides:
Just like the Jones’, [omitted] has to keep up.ack!!!
The nomination for president of former general George McClellan, who hoped to arrange a “negotiated peace” with the recalcitrant Southerners, would ended the bloodletting concept of putting “ole Abe” out to pasture.
"The nomination for president of former general George McClellan, who hoped to arrange a “negotiated peace” with the recalcitrant Southerners to end the bloodletting, was made with the concept of putting “ole Abe” out to pasture."
The nomination for president of former general George McClellan, who hoped to arrange a “negotiated peace” with the recalcitrant Southerners, would ended the bloodletting concept of putting “ole Abe” out to pasture.
A reporter just tweeted about how surprised she was that many colleges misspell the word "FAFSA" as "FASFA".
Out of curiosity, I ran a specialized Google search to count the number of such typos on .edu sites, and found that there were 22,400 mentions of FASFA compared with 1,140,000 mentions of FAFSA. That's about a 2% error rate. Even the most elite colleges have such errors. I even found one college web site which had /fasfa/ as part of the URL.
The fact that FAFSA does not appear in the spelling dictionaries may contribute to the error, since both FAFSA and FASFA are missing. Also, the digraph "fs" is rare within English, mainly appearing at the end of plural words, while the digraph "sf" is much more common.
Another common typo is "finacial aid", appearing 6,830 times compared with 35,800,000 times for "financial aid". Other common typos include eduation, educaton, eligiblity, scholarsihps, scholorships, and scolarships.
Having typos like this isn't necessarily bad, since many students make similar typos, so the presence of the typos may make it easier for students to find the right pages.
Hello there,
This may be an odd question but I have 2 degrees and a minor from [school] (B.S. Criminal Justice, [other degree]). Can I get one of those degrees off my record? I'd rather not have the Criminal Justice degree I earned so I'm wondering if there's anything I can do? I ran afoul of the law so I'd rather not have that degree anymore :)
I would seriously and sincerely appreciate it if you could look into this matter.
Many thanks in advance,
[name]
So not having a degree means I can pretty much do whatever the hell I want with blatant disregard and no concern for my personal record? Woohoo!!!I think it was more he wanted to expunge the criminal justice degree so that when he had his day in court, that degree would not make him look worse.
Matsuri are festivals that center on the shrine. Generally they are attended by the whole village, and even if persons never darken the door of the shrine at other times of year, they turn out for matsuri, of which there is a variety. These are fun times.
"It's nice to just quibble about very small things."
"Isn't that what we get paid for?"
The Chinese enjoyed life and families, and so the Theravada form [of Buddhism], which required the ascetic life, was not especially attractive to them.
If it's a happy coincidence for you, do you want to edit this book for me?
QuoteThe Chinese enjoyed life and families, and so the Theravada form [of Buddhism], which required the ascetic life, was not especially attractive to them.
As opposed to all those other cultures that hate life and families.
Jonathon: 請接受她的建議！QuoteThe Chinese enjoyed life and families, and so the Theravada form [of Buddhism], which required the ascetic life, was not especially attractive to them.
As opposed to all those other cultures that hate life and families.
Will you please write this in the margin? Please?
"I can't hardly hear you." is perfectly understandable.If the person was indicating that the value representing their ability to hear me was anything but "hardly" then yes.
Intelligibility is not the only determiner of whether something is considered correct or standard.And thank goodness for that.
Outside of an instructional situation (teacher, parent, etc.), I think it would be extremely obnoxious to correct that sort of non-standard English phrasing.
I disagree with the notion that a double negative must logically mean a positive.
Could you elaborate? I'm not trying to trap you or anything—I'm just curious what your thoughts are.That way lies arguments about whether that horrible jumbled paragraph (the one that was ubiquitous for a bit a few years back) really is or is not readable, and just how hard it is or is not to decode. There are, IMO, enough accepted-usage ways to say most things that there is no reason to argue for the acceptability of most incorrect usages simply because it is possible to decode what the speaker/writer probably meant. Intelligibility is far too subjective and slippery to be the only (or primary) question.
I entirely agree. When I responded to the listserv post I quoted above (the "minus" one), I said nothing about her usage. I just vented here. ;)Outside of an instructional situation (teacher, parent, etc.), I think it would be extremely obnoxious to correct that sort of non-standard English phrasing.I'd agree. There are few cases where it's acceptable to correct someone else's language.
"I can't hardly hear you." is perfectly understandable.
That way lies arguments about whether that horrible jumbled paragraph (the one that was ubiquitous for a bit a few years back) really is or is not readable, and just how hard it is or is not to decode. There are, IMO, enough accepted-usage ways to say most things that there is no reason to argue for the acceptability of most incorrect usages simply because it is possible to decode what the speaker/writer probably meant. Intelligibility is far too subjective and slippery to be the only (or primary) question.
It's bugs me, and I imagine that won't change.
Dunno. I used to be the same way, but I got soft and mellow, like a stale malted milk ball, in my old age.I can't hardly parse your comparison.
It blows my mind that you can remember a random conversation from grade school....That particular remark really blew my mind.
When I was in grade school the teacher asked a classmate of mine if she had done something, and the kid responded by saying "I has done did it". It kind of blew my mind at the time, because it seemed so much more involved than just "I've done it" would have been. Is there a dialect in which you'll find a construction like that, or was she just spewing words randomly?
They cannot expect to have so many horses, cattle, and wagons to haul themselves and luggage over the mountains; and this will open up the way most effectually for many of the Saints to enjoy that anticipates, and, with many, long-desired privilege of walking over the plains.
Well, many of them had been moved off from place to place and they decided rather than keeping up with the 150 mile hops they'd just go a good long ways and be done with.So if you were driven from home to home you'd be looking forward to a big long trek across the plains where you could setup home again?
This is talking about emigrants from the British Isles. They hadn't been driven from place to place.
I hope never to find out. You don't think that had anything to do with it? (Talking here about my read of the original quote and not Jonathon's explanation that it was British immigrants)Well, many of them had been moved off from place to place and they decided rather than keeping up with the 150 mile hops they'd just go a good long ways and be done with.So if you were driven from home to home you'd be looking forward to a big long trek across the plains where you could setup home again?
Communication with students on subsidized elimination
Indeed.War certainly seems to be a form of "subsidized elimination".
I think "No one knows when Garn finished his translation of the Voice of Warning" or "There's no conclusive evidence for when Garn finished his translation of the Voice of Warning" are even more natural and readable (though believe me I understand a lot of academics would have apoplexy over using such phrasings).
I recently worked on a book in which the author almost always avoided the first person and instead referred to himself in the third person as "the author." Ugh. So awkward.
I know it's expected in some fields. I still think it's dumb.You mean, "This linguist thinks it's dumb".
I know it's expected in some fields. I still think it's dumb.
I don't know the real answer, but I like the lottery idea. And I'm amused at the use of the word "placed", as if getting married is no different from getting a job.Doesn't seem far off from many a marriage in America at that time.
That's rather awesome to know. Zal's sister and I were talking one evening about how marriage worked in the early Utah days and were wondering how much assignment and persuasion were going on. My then-boyfriend said, "Yeah, how did that work? Did the bishop just pull you aside and tell you that he needs you to take one for Zion?"
"Every female who has not been placed, can, by proper arrangements, demand to be married."
My great great grandfather was commanded my Brigham Young to marry a widowed mother and her daughter.
I know right?!
My great great grandfather was commanded my Brigham Young to marry a widowed mother and her daughter.
I know right?!
The certainty is that your body will, in due time, grow old and eventually become uninhabitable.
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.Even in regards to our spirits it's not true. Did Elijah's body become uninhabitable?
Maybe you should take it up with President Packer, who wrote the article. :pI have issues with President Packer I would resolve first before that one.
Well, I'll let you two work it out.Until one of us is uninhabitable then!
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.I like it.
Uninhabitable for our spirits, at any rate (which was clear from context). I just thought it was an amusing way to put it.I like it.
As used herein, the singular form of a noun or pronoun will include within its meaning the plural form of a noun or pronoun, and vice versa; the use of the masculine form of a pronoun will include within its meaning the feminine form of the pronoun, and vice versa; the use of the tense of any verb will include all other tenses of the verb so used; and the use of “and” will include “or” and vice versa.
“While this might be quote on quote easy to get, we make sure the families understand what they’re getting into,” Nutt said.*wince*
I find that both *wince* and :lol:.Quote“While this might be quote on quote easy to get, we make sure the families understand what they’re getting into,” Nutt said.*wince*
"The status of women is one of the questions of the day. Socially and politically it forces itself upon the attention of the world." To whom is this quote attributed, and when was it written? These questions will be answered as we discuss this timeless and timely topic.
Women have done, and continue to do, a variety of things, depending on the time, place, and circumstances of life. . . . Like the image of Rosie the Riveter and TV icons such as Donna Reed, women seek to maintain a balance in life, for themselves and their families, by doing whatever is needed.
Our society is built on the Yankee ideals of rugged individualism and social Darwinism.
Didn't you learn in history class that the Founding Fathers were all eugenicists?No! And now I want a refund for about twelve years of second rate history classes!
No mention of dusting off feet is mentioned in D&C 84:88–93 either.
LOL.QuoteNo mention of dusting off feet is mentioned in D&C 84:88–93 either.
I love it when mentions are mentioned.
QuoteNo mention of dusting off feet is mentioned in D&C 84:88–93 either.
I'm not sure what you mean. Nowhere in that passage does it mention dusting off feet.It mentions cleaning ones feet. Surely shaking the dust off one's feet fits some definition of cleaning.
Schechner’s interest in the ranges of performances in life from human behavior to the performing arts to ritual to play examined the same topics as Turner, but from a different lens.
QuoteSchechner’s interest in the ranges of performances in life from human behavior to the performing arts to ritual to play examined the same topics as Turner, but from a different lens.
I've read this three or four times and still don't fully understand it.
Should this read "her's" rather than "hers"?
In 1851, he reported of the celebration of the 4th of July in Salt Lake City of the people “whose flair is as amazing as their hard-work and energy.”
In accordance with Dan and I's correspondence . . .
One very important grammatical moment in my life was when a friend of mine pointed out that when I want to say, "Noun and I/me did something" to simply say the sentence to myself without the other noun. If it sounded weird, then I had it wrong.QuoteIn accordance with Dan and I's correspondence . . .
Ack! No! No no no no.
QuoteIn 1851, he reported of the celebration of the 4th of July in Salt Lake City of the people “whose flair is as amazing as their hard-work and energy.”
>_<
:DQuoteIn accordance with Dan and I's correspondence . . .
Ack! No! No no no no.
He told Brigham, “If it was his wish that I should go I would do so though to human calculation it seemed difficult.” He asked Brigham if he should prepare to leave in the fall, and Brigham replied, “he reckoned I could get ready and be off in four or five days.”
A fossilized, run-into-a-groove teacher, in short, a pedant, is an incubus upon the profession.
I thought it was clear. I was just taken aback by the use of "incubus".Why? I guess incubus is a bit too strong of a metaphor, since one teacher can hardly hold back the entire profession.
An incubus is literally a demon that rapes women in their sleep. More metaphorically, it's a nightmare or merely something that acts like a nightmare.I'm aware of what the word means. I was assuming he was using it in the "weighs on somebody like a nightmare" sense.
Right. I think it's clear that that's how he meant it, but the primary sense is disturbing enough that I think it overpowered the intended meaning for me.Sure. I actually initially only knew about the nightmare meaning (because of the band Incubus). A few years ago I learned the demonic definition which was weird because I had known about the succubus from a very young age.
Nephi tells his heart to rejoice: “Rejoice, O my heart” (2 Nephi 4:28).
It made me and my coworkers laugh, too. I think that's a good sign that it needs to be changed.
Three Nephites walk into a bar...I wonder if the Three Nephites would be bound by the Word of Wisdom.
A beautiful example of the flexibility of the English language as is evolves over time.
"The logic is deeply embedded in the code."
Networking means contacting people I know who can either help me get a job directly or lead me to someone else for more information. It is the most effective way to find a job. In fact, a recent survey found that nearly 75% of jobs are found through networking. (It makes me wonder why anyone would spend much time job searching in any other way!) Often I have to network several layers deep to get real results.
...or do you just have to grit your teeth and endure it?
I have a sillybus and student guide which I created.
For example, water changes state when it freezes—it becomes ice. If you are making a cake, the batter changes state when it is baked and becomes a cake.
UGH. Baking a cake is often an example given of something that is NOT a change of state, but a chemical change. My guess is the slidemaker vaguely remembers the lesson, but has screwed up which examples go with what because they never really got the idea.QuoteFor example, water changes state when it freezes—it becomes ice. If you are making a cake, the batter changes state when it is baked and becomes a cake.
*sigh*
Someone didn't pay much attention in chemistry class. Granted, this is just a dumb Powerpoint slide full of management speak, not a science lesson, but it still irks me.
I changed state when I moved from Georgia to New Jersey.I always knew Tante was really Miss Daisy!
I work on a software project that has been around for decades.
Part of it was written back in the DOS days when you were limited to an 8-character filename plus a 3-character extension, so there was a lot of abbreviating in order to pack as much info into a few characters. This sort of abbreviation became embedded in the company culture and continued long after it was no longer necessary.
This is especially humorous when dealing with the "Analysis" code. Here are some of the labels dealing with analysis:
AnalDim
AnalView
AnalWin
AnalWinControlWrapper
ANAL_DIM_LIST
ANAL_VIEW_OPTIONS
ANAL_VIEW_PROF_OPTIONS
ANAL_VIEW_SHOW_OPTIONS
ANAL_VIEW_SIZE_OPTIONS
#define BEIZER BEZIER*twitch*
. . . which helps us draw near to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and to learn of Them.
The LDS Church style guide insists on capitalizing all personal pronouns referring to deity (with the curious exception of you/your/yours)Duh, because it's "Thee/Thy/Thine". We never say you/your/yours when referring to God. ;)
Avoid using the second-person pronouns you and your in references to Deity. However, if they are used, lowercase them:Quote“Heavenly Father, are you there?”
I guess if you're going to be so brazen as to use the informal and unsanctioned you, you should just forget about capitalizing it.:D
Make not thy gift known unto any save it be those who are of thy faith. Trifle not with sacred things.
Managers should never pry into what the employee’s medical condition is or share the medical condition with others, except HR.
Then read Doctrine and Covenants 128:8, looking for a different way Joseph Smith taught that this statement can be writtenWriters, please stop trying to cram so much into one sentence.
QuoteThen read Doctrine and Covenants 128:8, looking for a different way Joseph Smith taught that this statement can be writtenWriters, please stop trying to cram so much into one sentence.
. . . the law of witnesses was satisfied by the two Beings whose testimonies were irrefutable—the Father and the Son.
Jesus Christ is the only One to ever live on this earth who could accurately say . . .:rolleyes:
Yeah. If you're going to change words then paraphrase (with attribution of the idea) instead of quoting.
Set up chairs around the table (example on right)
Sometimes there was a little pride, then pride increased, and finally the people were waxed in pride.I wonder if a lot of Church members don't realize that wax is a synonym with increase or grow. It's funny that we insist on reading and using King James-esque English so much, but we don't really teach people how to.
Sounds messy.Quoteand finally the people were waxed in pride.
I would be surprised if most members did not know how to use "wax" in a sentence that way.QuoteSometimes there was a little pride, then pride increased, and finally the people were waxed in pride.I wonder if a lot of Church members don't realize that wax is a synonym with increase or grow. It's funny that we insist on reading and using King James-esque English so much, but we don't really teach people how to.
I would be surprised if most members did not know how to use "wax" in a sentence that way.
Maybe that person is an outlier?
*nods*I would be surprised if most members did not know how to use "wax" in a sentence that way.
Maybe that person is an outlier?
You're probably right. After all "were waxed" occurs not once in the LDS standard works, so it's not like the person who wrote that picked up the phrase without understanding it. They somehow made that up themselves.
waxed in pride.
Interesting. Do people from other churches and congregations use it better? Or do they just not use it?
:wacko:
Remembering its location can help you show others in their Bibles where to locate this important doctrine about marriage.
One principle can we learn from these verses about how we should treat the Sabbath day is the following
QuoteRemembering its location can help you show others in their Bibles where to locate this important doctrine about marriage.
Ugh. Who writes this stuff? It's just so clunky.
Since my first encounter with Jan Graf, he has helped my family, friends, and my Doctor clients with every condition common and uncommon known to man. Just to name a few: marital problems, dyslexia, headaches, emotional baggage about money and wealth, heart and lung conditions, as well as stress and emotional concerns too many to name.
The changes were astonishing. I lost 65 pounds in eight weeks, without dieting, medication or exercise. The diabetic and high blood pressure problems went almost immediately, likewise my leukemia problems.
As you know, we had been trying to have another baby for 4 years. The day my husband saw you for the problems that he was having due to stress you discovered why I wasn’t getting pregnant. According to my doctor I got pregnant that night.
It was a stormy, multicultural night to remember and, in the morning light of Sunday’s temple dedication, still on the minds of the youth.
Long recognized in recent years . . .
You can't make this stuff up.You're right, I can't. But someone clearly can. >_<
Oh, I've been tempted to write a great many things over the years. I have learned to sublimate those urges into snarky posts here and comments to my coworkers.Shvester!
Shvester!
Visualizing occurs as students picture what is taking place.
one in the same>_<
If a lack of sleep is keeping you up at night, read on for information and resources to help you get your zzz's.
I'm editing a short piece on computer literacy for people who work at Deseret Industries stores. It includes a link to this site (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/cpu-basic.htm) (and quotes from it without attribution, of course). Judging from its companion page on the WorldWideWeb (WWW), I'd say it has to be at least 17 years old. It references Windows 95 and the Mosaic browser, which was discontinued in 1997.
A computer can work as atelephone, a television, aVCR, aCD player, atypewriter...
Are we going to label each as did w/slide 13... Trade Position - Male in these notes
Your boss didn't know that the copiers are also scanners?Sounds like he didn't know the printer is a multifunction machine.
Your boss didn't know that the copiers are also scanners? Also, your timecards are on paper? Weird.Seriously.
If it's anything like ours, it looks like a big copier but it's also a printer and scanner. So yes, he didn't know that the printer/copier is also a scanner.I'm not.
I'm just surprised that someone's boss in digital media wouldn't know that.
S&I leaders fill out this report at the end of the term or semester and submit the form to their supervisor. This report should then be taken to each regular results discussion with your supervisor. At the end of the school year, submit the completed form to your supervisor.
S&I leaders complete regular results discussions with their employees at the end of each term. Based on those discussions, supervisors evaluate and record the progress of their program/area on this form. They then submit this form to their supervisor prior to having their regular results discussion with their supervisor.
Writing this principle on the board will help students see its importance.
Oh heavens.
Well, to be fair, if a teacher merely speaks a phrase it's more forgetable than when a teacher speaks a phrase and writes it on the board.QuoteWriting this principle on the board will help students see its importance.
I never knew teaching was so easy—all you have to do is write stuff on the board, and the students will automatically see its significance all on their own!
Jonathon, do you get the impression that a lot of your clients get away with their bad habits because they've been in their jobs for years upon years and the Church isn't a very cutthroat place to work? I get that impression. (And not just with clients, with some of the people in my department. It seems to me that their jobs are what you'd call in Chinese an "iron rice bowl.")
Oh heavens.
They probably taught you that in your PhD program, right?
Speaking the principle out loud will help the students hear its importance.
Book blurb starts: "A rouge planet".
Um . . .
Tradition holds that Isaiah died prematurely by being 'sawn asunder' at the hands of king Manasseh.Being sawn asunder is a well-known cause of premature death.
"The deeper the dark, the closer the dawn. However profound the suffering that envelops you, never forget the inner spark of hope and courage. Never lose the capacity to wait with patient enduring. Every hardship is an opportunity to strengthen ourselves, to temper our life and make it shine with greater luster. If you are going through a dark time, remind yourself that dawn is very close. Hope and courage will sustain you."
- Bishop Drew Rousse, Faith Cathedral
The argument with Dick Boulton is potentially embarrassing for the doctor since he loses his temper and is bullied by the bigger Dick . . .
When I first began, the financial aid director wrote checks from the federal account to students. But there was an incident when a financial aid director took all the funds, his secretary and his boat and was heading for Mexico. He got caught. Should have left the boat behind.
The last thing we want to do is build a product that nobody uses, so we're really trying to cover our tracks in the early stages of the project.
A long-time financial aid person explaining the history behind the federally-mandated separation of duties.QuoteWhen I first began, the financial aid director wrote checks from the federal account to students. But there was an incident when a financial aid director took all the funds, his secretary and his boat and was heading for Mexico. He got caught. Should have left the boat behind.
Suppose you see the sign in figure 5.1 at a local library. This sign would indicate that the library has handicapped parking or maybe a wheelchair ramp. This sign is a symbol indicating that there are certain accommodations for disabled people. There are many symbols in today’s world. Many of these symbols exist in mathematics.I hate this entire paragraph. It's just . . . ugh.
Mathematical expressions are a combination of numbers and operations. There are four operations. These are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In algebra we use different symbols for some of these operations. Let’s look at different ways these operations can be represented.
I kind of laughed when I got to the final sentence. I had NO IDEA from the preceding text that we'd be talking about math.
With a few notable exceptions, over the past 20-30 years, American elementary, junior high, and high school math books have become less and less about math, and more and more about all kinds of other stuff. Textbook indices used to have things like "multiplication". Now you're more likely to find "hamburger" (because a sidebar on one page talked about them).
Those quotes are not an exception to this dreadful trend.
The problem, as always, is in translating what we know works from research into what is actually achieved in the classroom environment.This I agree with.
of all the words I expect to hear while working in the COB, vulva wasn't one of them
From one of my friends at the Church Office Building:Quoteof all the words I expect to hear while working in the COB, vulva wasn't one of them
Focus for a moment on the rhythm of his lines. Notice how many words are in each line. In the first verse, there are seven words in each line, but in the second verse there are six words in each line. Now count the syllables in each line. When I first examined the rhythm in this poem, I was amazed. Despite the different word counts, the number of syllables in each line remains the same.
The lines have rhythm? If herky-jerky is a rhythm, I guess.QuoteMy dog Brandy,Yes, the above lines do make up a poem, and the lines rhyme and have rhythm, but because the poet focused so much on the rhyming and the rhythmic elements of the poem, the word choice lacks power.
Is often handy
When people come to prowl
Brandy starts to howl.
She also is quite sweet
And sits beside my feet
Making me feel love
More than a mourning dove
Therefore, students who apply themselves will be able to demonstrate competence in the following areas:
- The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the foundational or factual information essential for a basic understanding of LDS scripture, doctrine and history.
Complete the following reading assignments from The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World:
1. “Preface” (ix–x)
“The Ecology of Magic” (3–29)
2. “Philosophy on the Way to Ecology” (31–53, 57)
3. “Philosophy on the Way to Ecology” (62–72 (top))
“The Flesh of Language” (86–89)
“Time, Space, and the Eclipse of the Earth” (181–84 (top))
4. “Time, Space, and the Eclipse of the Earth” (201–23)
“The Forgetting and Remembering of the Air” (225–27, 258–60)
For each of the four reading assignments listed above . . .
Complete the following reading assignments from The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World:
1. Reading assignment 1
• Preface (ix–x)
• “The Ecology of Magic” (3–29)
2. Reading assignment 2
• blah blah
How about moving the instructions to the top, making it "For each of the four assignments below read the selections and . . . "
Then you can list them the first way.
One scholar (Remi Brague), for example, has proposed that a distinctive feature of the Greek language might have been a decisive factor.
This language, Brague tells us, possessed a rare grammatical feature that lent itself to the abstraction necessary to philosophy. It was possible in Greek, Brague explains, but not in other languages, to speak, not only of a “whole this” or a “whole that,” but of the concept of “The Whole” (ta panta). What if Greeks were able to speculate about “The Whole,” that is, “The Cosmos,” because they, unlike other peoples, were first able to say it? Is it not intriguing to consider that Western Civilization, and thus the revelation of certain fundamental human possibilities, might have sprung from such a linguistic quirk?
I broke my jaw and dislocated my other jaw.
an alumni
She met her husband of almost twenty-five years at BYU and has lived in Orem ever since.
Most official documents now are stripped of all their special characters (and character!), so if a student declares it, we'll typically use it. So, yes, on our diplomas we have circumflexes, umlauts, tiles, accents, carets, and cedillas!
She met her husband of almost twenty-five years at BYU and has lived in Orem ever since.
QuoteShe met her husband of almost twenty-five years at BYU and has lived in Orem ever since.
So, out of curiosity, does anyone else think this is ambiguous?
Measures of Success: The ability to produce a report that will illustrate a percentage of knowledge/learning gained (from pre and post-assessment) through having taken courses in four discipline areas (Math, English, Languages, and Science). All courses in these four disciplines will have pre and post-assessments developed and deployed, and a goal for percent of knowledge/learning increase will have an established baseline and goal for each course and for the four disciplines.
Training on coaching involves goal-setting, empowering and inspiring their people
Within the department’s operations section the customer support team, comprised of 12 full-time employees and 94 student employees, interactions between students and the department are handled (enrollment counseling, registration assistance, providing course materials, answering basic questions and questions about department policies and procedures, overseeing exam and proctoring, resolving technical support issues).
Also within operations there are 8 full-time employees, 17 part-time employees, and 17 independent contractors that market the courses and program, manage enrollments – including promotion, advertising, public relations, and customer-partner relationships.
In short, as the course is built teachers plan into the assessments possible answers responses that discriminate as to whether or not the student knows the correct answer from, and as well as distracting answers possibilities. The distracting answer possibilities are used as and provide meaningful instructor guidance to clarify commonly misunderstood concepts, wrong answers, and poor responses.
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Fraud is illegal and it is against the law.
Quoteits'
*wallbash*
QuoteFraud is illegal and it is against the law.
But is it also unlawful?
Next time, try bashing the offending party into the wall. It's much more effective AND more satisfying.Sadly, it is also unlawful.
Named in Who’s Who in America for the last ten years . . .
From an author bio:QuoteNamed in Who’s Who in America for the last ten years . . .
:rolleyes:
Why is HACCP an improvement over food processing practices of the past?
- HACCP allows you to check for hazards during production rather than waiting until the end.
- HACCP allows you to detect every issue that comes up during production.
- NASA astronauts were healthier after eating food produced with the HACCP process.
- Food processing practices of the past did not allow you to test random samples.
Why is HACCP an improvement over food processing practices of the past?
- HACCP stresses identifying probable significant hazards before production and then verifying they are not present in the product during production.
- HACCP allows you to detect every issue that comes up during production.
- NASA astronauts were healthier after eating food produced with the HACCP process.
- Food processing practices of the past did not allow you to test random samples.
Also, it's not at all obvious that the response that's literally twice as long as all the others is the correct response.
often you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think....
-- A Healthcare Co-worker
Editing catch of the day: "differenchiate".
Welcome to today's episode of: What Does That Degree Really Mean Anyway? Today's contestant is the [specific degree]. (If you don't offer a [specific degree], then you may take your lovely parting gifts now.)
1. What differentiates the [specific degree] from the BA?
2. How many credits are in your [specific degree]?
Thanks for playing!
The bottom line is that food is super important.
"gliche"The quote marks were included in the original. >_<
We had a professor who did give all his international students a bit of extra time on exams. When the Americans complained he told them he would be happy to give them the extra time and they could pick the language [other than English] they would like to take the test in.
Many of you will have seen lines before.
"for your FYI"
From a math lesson on line equations:;DQuoteMany of you will have seen lines before.
I feel bad for those students from poor families who couldn't afford lines. They must have been so lost when they got to this lesson.
I don't think it was supposed to be funny. It was said in a meeting, and I'm guessing it was just an accident.I'm partial to "as a f'r'instance".
I'm still a big fan of "as a for example", though. I had a boss who used that all the time.
In 1884, Thomas Edison invented the vacuum tube. We know it today as the light bulb.
I like it. For your FYI, I got $60 from the automatic teller ATM so I could buy something for the bring your own BYOB party.
Oh my OMG!
Literally laughing out LOL.
Um, sorry, but if you don't know the meaning of those words and phrases and can't even figure them out from context, then I think the problem is you.>_<
. . . will now have to switch from January to October for the start of the FAFSA and perhaps also for Financial Aid Awareness Month.
So, instead of competing with National Soup Month, National Mentoring Month, National Stalking Awareness Month, Birth Defects Prevention Month, Glaucoma Awareness Month, Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, Data Privacy Month, Oats Month and National Book Month, we'll now have to compete with National Dyslexia Awareness Month, Crime Prevention Month, Vaccine Injury Awareness Month, Child Abuse Awareness Month, Cyber Security Awareness Month, Jazz Awareness Month, Vegetarian Awareness Month, National Bullying Prevention Month, Polish American Heritage Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
I was unaware that there was so much awareness. If only there were an Awareness Awareness Month to enlighten me.Funny you should say that . . .
What a privilege and blessing to study the works of God, rather than the works of man, as in some other disciplines!
"There are few of life's problems which cannot be solved with the proper application of a high explosive projectile." - - US Army
Becoming visually sensitive to these elements of design marks the threshold over which we must pass to the inside track of understanding what makes paintings great. Ideally, the “inside track” to deciphering the visual language of painting comes from the actual process of painting.
“Learning the Healer’s art in Taiwan was easy,” says [Name], “because the people practiced what they believed and exemplified this love through everything they did.”
The Healer of the Healer's art is the Savior so we capitalize it.
. . . the email has to really clearly demonstrate what they're "signing" for -- meaning we wouldn't take an email that just says "I approve" but would take an email that says "Harry Potter has my approval to register for MAGC 252 in Fall 2017."
I would never accept an email for Harry Potter to register for anything - Owl Post would be the only acceptable means of delivery.
When Church members increase in self-reliance, they “stand independent above all other creatures” (D&C 78:14), learn to rely on God, and
work toward their salvation and eternal life. (emphasis added)
Service brings a smile to most people’s faces, and [person]’s efforts are no exception. But the smiles he creates are literal and permanent.
But the smiles he creates are literal and permanent.I, too, have seen Tim Burton's Batman.
More than a quarter of BYU students are married, and many are handed a newborn before they are handed a diploma.
QuoteMore than a quarter of BYU students are married, and many are handed a newborn before they are handed a diploma.
I totally get what it's saying, but the image that popped into my head was graduates lining up to receive a baby and then their diploma.
I have a good one - seriously, this was written by an instructor as a reason for a grade change submitted this week:
"Student missed 8 am final. Said he went coon hunting last night, shot one, ate it, got food poisoning. Can't make this stuff up. He is taking the final as I write this."
The Dean signed it. I simply replied to the Dean, "seriously?".
Maybe they just didn’t cook it right……
Probably forgot to drive long enough to preheat the radiator.
As an institution, we seek and follow the counsel and guidance of inspired leaders in harmony with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its purposes, and in fulfilling our stated mission.
Strategic imperatives guiding [client] decisions and efforts:
1: Serving and blessing the lives of many more students on our Salt
Lake City campus.
2: Be a hub of educational innovation, educating more deeply and more
powerfully than ever before.
3: Be an integral contributor to the BYU-Pathway Worldwide effort.
She provided financial sales data and analysis to sales management and worked with sales representatives to forecast sales until she left in 2004.
[Name] said his biggest accomplishment is his wonderful marriage to his best friend and their six brilliant, meticulous, and understanding offspring.
[Software] possesses a high level of redundancy across the organization across different areas.
1. Who is responsible for [specific item] at your institution? The Registrar, the Faculty, or another office?Yup, sounds about right.
Registrar.
2. Based on your answer to #1, is there a specific reason this person(s) is charged with [specific item]?
No one else wants to do it.
Many nursing students will probably agree that their favorite class lecture from [professor's name] is her "cervix cookies" presentation, which includes sugar cookies that contain chocolate candy pieces that represent a 1cm dilation (and the circumference of the treat representing 10cm, or the size of a dilated cervix).
The nursing college here has robotic mannikins that can simulate childbirth. I really want to know how those work.
Conversely, saving it all for the end reduces the work you have to do as you go.True. However, if the source is one of those "how to make housework less onerous" books or the like, there are valid psychological reasons that doing work in small amounts, so you never have one huge pile of dishes to deal with, can seem less daunting.
Wow, that's interesting. I'd love to see that thing in action.The nursing college here has robotic mannikins that can simulate childbirth. I really want to know how those work.
My hospital has something like that. They use it for annual competencies (practicum for dealing with emergency situations) for the maternity stuff. It's really kind of freaky. She talks and blinks her eyes and all. In addition to simulating actually emergent conditions that can happen perinatally.
Organizational learning is the procedure utilized by an organization to achieve predetermined outcomes. Focusing on the factors that play into organizational learning can help determine parts of the procedure that are less effective and need to be changed. At a hospital unit level, organization learning is significant because the overall performance of the hospital is linked to the performance of individuals units.
Thing is the thing utilized by a[n] thing to achieve predetermined things. Focusing on the things that play into thing can help determine things of the thing that are less effective and need to be changed. At a thing level, thing is significant because the overall thing of the thing is linked to the thing of individual things.
For their first date, the couple went on a hayride. They were engaged three weeks later.
Pro Bono Boot Camps will facilitate service in areas such as domestic violence, housing discrimination, debt collection, and elder abuse.
Jonathon, Steve has asked that we temivecthe cooyvthat days exceotvfor obecso who went into hiding...we can end after “childten.”
Have you ever had a client or coworker make so many baffling typos that you have literally no idea what they're trying to say? I just got this comment in our project management system:QuoteJonathon, Steve has asked that we temivecthe cooyvthat days exceotvfor obecso who went into hiding...we can end after “childten.”
Mr. Stevenson is the author of Letters from an American Husband and Father: Championing Virtue as the Most Durable Empire, a compilation of his letters to the editor and essays written between 1998 and 2012.
The purpose of this document is to describe the unifying set of statements that provide an umbrella for the statements and activities of university administrative departments.
Something unusual about me is that I love to tie flies and catch fish with them!
From some employee bios I'm editing:QuoteSomething unusual about me is that I love to tie flies and catch fish with them!
Wow, how unusual! I bet there aren't that many people out there that share this strange and unheard-of hobby!
“I’m not very exciting,” claims [professor]. “I’m just kind of a normal person that comes in and gets her work done.” But anyone that knows about her dedication, her compassion, and her love of service finds the opposite to be true.
By acting upon the promptings and inspiration that the gospel brings to those who trust in the Lord, your generous gift demonstrates your love for God and His children.
Thank you for creating the life-affirming hope that comes to those who now have the ability to become self-reliant in spiritual and temporal matters.
One of my clients likes to write really complex sentences that don't actually make much sense or at least don't really say that much:Your opinion on the accuracy of a statement really has nothing to do with whether the statement makes sense or "says much".QuoteIs it really accurate to say that the gospel brings the promptings and inspiration, or does the Lord or the Spirit bring those things?
QuoteThank you for creating the life-affirming hope that comes to those who now have the ability to become self-reliant in spiritual and temporal matters.
What does it mean for this hope to be life-affirming? Why do we have to say that the donor created the hope and that the hope then came to those people? Why can't we just say that the donor gave them hope? But if we just say that the donor gave them hope by helping them become self-reliant, which is the most direct way to say it, then it kind of undercuts the message that these people are self-reliant, because they relied on someone else to become self-reliant.
At the very bottom there is a 4/20. What does this indicate? If it's a date, can we change it to 4/19 or 4/21 instead?
When we received the news for your new assignment, we all chanted, “Perfect, perfect, perfect.”
We’re out in different clothes. We’re at different levels of socioeconomic status. But you put all these people in a hospital gown, and we are all the same. And I think that’s how the Savior sees us.
Brigham Young University students are known for the light and positivity they bring to those with whom they interact. This is unquestionably true for student performers, who represent the university as living examples of its mission “to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life.”
Short answer: it isn’t possible:D
Long answer: it is not possible
When two scholars contribute equally to a paper, whose name gets listed first? Two Stanford scientists devised an unconventional solution to that problem for their newest work, which was published last month in Frontiers in Immunology.
Yunhao Bai and Bokai Zhu, who shared first-authorship duties, explained their methodology in the author-contributions section of their paper: “The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smash Bros.”
All sessions are pre-recorded and aired live during event week
Dear Faculty,
The year is about to start. Get your @#!$%! together, read your email and finish your grading on time.
Have a good year.