> What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid?
> There were no ballots distributed for Lincoln in ten of the Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Oops, never knew that.
Could have some US state exclude Trump from the ballot?
Bought enough vitamin D to last me till spring at the rate of 30 thousand IU/week
I hope I have some intact bones remaining by spring.
Males for some reason withstand high doses of vitamin D better, loosing less bone matter:
> After 3 years, females lost 1.8% (400 IU), 3.8% (4000 IU), and 5.5% (10,000 IU), whereas males lost 0.9% (400 IU), 1.3% (4000 IU), and 1.9% (10,000 IU) at the radius.
Edward G. Nalbandian (December 29, 1927 – February 22, 2006) was the owner of Zachary All Clothing, a store he opened in the 1950s at 5467 Wilshire Boulevard (just west of La Brea Avenue) in Los Angeles, California. The store was located in the Miracle Mile shopping district of Wilshire Blvd.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Nalbandian became a minor celebrity, making frequent appearances in commercials for his store and even on talk shows such as The Tom Duggan Show. Most of these commercials featured the line "Come on down to 5-4-6-7 Wilshire Boulevard". In one commercial, Nalbandian said of his low...
@CowperKettle I found a site (had some content blocked by IT security, so I won't link) saying cadet is a style of golfing glove with shorter fingers and wider palms. not sure why it got that name
perhaps cadet trousers are shorter in the leg and wider in the waist?
Thank you! I also think that "cadet" must be a shorter size designation for clothing items.
> early 17th century (in cadet (sense 2)): from French, from Gascon dialect capdet, a diminutive based on Latin caput ‘head’. The notion ‘little head’ or ‘inferior head’ gave rise to that of ‘younger, junior’.
> George Wallace's neglect of his family and frequent extramarital affairs resulted in his wife filing for divorce in the late 1950s; she later dropped the suit after he promised to be a better husband.[6][7] By all accounts, the two had a very happy marriage for the rest of her life.
Divorce is a good way to fix your love life.
> As was common at the time, her physician told her husband the news, not her. George Wallace insisted that she not be informed. As a result, she did not get appropriate follow-up care.
Oh, that's a very happy marriage, with your husband hiding your cancer from you for 4 years.
> When she saw a gynecologist for abnormal bleeding in 1965, his diagnosis of uterine cancer came as a complete shock to her. When one of her husband's staffers revealed to her that Wallace had discussed her cancer with them, but not her, during his 1962 campaign three years earlier, she was outraged.
The US history is very interesting.
Democracy forces people to at least state their opinions and fight for them openly.
> Therefore, clinical recognition of cerebral folate deficiency is critical to our understanding of neuro–developmental as well as neuro–psychiatric disorders.
I don't understand the meaning of clinical recognition
It either means "it's important for doctors to be able to recognize the disease" (that it, to make a diagnosis).
Or it may mean "it's important that doctors recognize that such a disease exists and is worthy of further study".
The whole article is written is a slapdash way, with sentences open to different interpretation, and many empty turns of phrase seemingly added just to pad the volume up. mdpi.com/2075-4426/11/8/710/htm#B62-jpm-11-00710
This particular sentence starts in a way "It's important for the clinicians to be able to detect the diease".
But it ends in a such a way as if it mean to say that "it's important for the clinical community to accept the existence of this disease".
Hastily written, probably. Or written by a student.
@CowperKettle The extra context doesn't really help. That's poorly written, but that's also about par for scientific literature. I suppose asking the authors what the hell they are talking about is not an option?
Life is an old casino in a park.
The bills of the swans are flat upon the ground.
A most desolate wind has chilled Rouge-Fatima
And a grand decadence settles down like cold
@FaheemMitha Yes, but the Post Office is not part of Royal Mail. I was looking on Wikipedia and they officially split in 2012. A load of government shenanigans.
Manifest destiny was a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America. There are three basic themes to manifest destiny:
The special virtues of the American people and their institutions
The mission of the United States to redeem and remake the west in the image of the agrarian East
An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential dutyHistorian Frederick Merk says this concept was born out of "a sense of mission to redeem the Old World by high example … generated by the potentialities of a new earth for building...
@Robusto In Russia, Cossacks wanted to run away from Ivan the Terrible, and they ran into Siberia, and bumped into the khanates there. And destroyed the khanates, and settled there.
The Russian conquest of Siberia took place in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian explorers. Although outnumbered, the Russians pressured the various family-based tribes into changing their loyalties and establishing distant forts from which they conducted raids. To counter this, Kuchum Khan attempted to centralize his rule by imposing Islam on his subjects and reforming his tax-collecting apparatus.
== Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir ==
The Russian conquest of Siberia began...
@FaheemMitha I found out when we tried to setup redirection after moving house and the Post Office made a mistake, which they wouldn't admit to, and said it was down to Royal Mail. The puzzled look on my face almost became fixed.
I loved traveling to Crimea in the USSR. It took three full days on the train, moving from Siberia to the almost-subtropical climate of Crimea. It was so interesting to see the nature change the other side of the window pane. It really beats the plane in this regard.
@FaheemMitha none taken. the problems the Tories have created within the last decade alone. This latest thing about imperial weights and measures is just preposterous.
@FaheemMitha oh, well I don't know how recent it is, but I only heard about it last week. The Tories want us to start using imperial units again. Not that we're totally metric, but really unnecessary to go backwards
@tchrist Quite so. Perhaps the USPS will take inspiration from that and split into the United States Postal Service and the President's Mail. Or perhaps, White House Mail.
But variant spellings in English signify nothing. It's as if there was a rule that no words that sound alike can be spelled the same, and none that are spelled the same can be pronounced that way.
@MattE.Эллен I'm not sure that it makes sound sense to characterize arbitrary changes in terminology using metaphors that assume words occupy some well-ordered number line with assigned numeric meanings of forwards and backwards, positive and negative.
Can I ask about legal terms here? Does anyone know the generic term is for submissions from the plaintiff/petitioner, in the British system? Assuming such a term exists. I actually want to know about India, but I figure the British system would be close.
For example, it could be a Writ Petition. One of the few legal terms I know.
@FaheemMitha You will never convince some 330 million Americans who will never travel the thousands of miles needed to leave their own country and its customs and language that for some reason they need to use all those completely different numbers which all those people chilliads of klicks away use. They'll never go there, they'll never talk to them; it will never matter to them, so you won't convince them.
@MattE.Эллен I can't imagine seeing apothecary measures of grains and drams and such ever re-appear for vitamins and medications now labelled in metric, but it's really bulk fresh produce and flesh products that gets labelled only in English, and that only because there is no hand-label on those: people just grab a bunch and put it in a bag. Printed labels always have both English and non-English on them, like for pints or gallons of milk.
I get it. it'll be easier to trade with the US if we're using the same weights and measures. Which means it would make sense not to revert, but to progress to the US system
@MattE.Эллен Yes, here milk and cream and such come in whole pints, quarts, gallons. It's the size of the container. Most other liquids like cough syrup or soda pop come in integer grams with floating-point ounces. Something like that. :)
You can buy a half-gallon container of milk. Or apple cider, this time of the year.
@MattE.Эллен I think we have to include the metric numbers on labels for things that aren't "fresh produce" of the sort of mentioned.
The newton (symbol: N) is the International System of Units (SI) derived unit of force. It is named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, specifically Newton's second law of motion.
A newton is defined as the force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 metre per second, per second, 1 kg⋅m/s2.
== Definition ==
One newton is the force needed to accelerate one kilogram of mass at the rate of one metre per second squared in the direction of the applied force.
The units "metre per second squared" can be understood as a change in velocity per time, i.e...
Blaise Pascal ( pass-KAL, also UK: -KAHL, PASS-kəl, -kal, US: pahs-KAHL; French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian.
He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In...
mac(tchrist)% perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect=NUMWORDS -E 'say ucfirst(join(", ", NUMWORDS(3.7935175e+11)))'
Three hundred and seventy-nine billion, three hundred and fifty-one million, seven hundred and fifty thousand
@MattE.Эллен SI and decimal units are an abomination of human-centered speciesist kindergarten finger counting, exacerbated by faux-enlightenment francophlilia. Imperial measures, despite its misleading imperial and iconographic naming (feet, yard, ounce, pint, acre) is the universal unit measurement system because of its binary and ternary number system. Everything is base two or three.
Every time in the movie somebody says that a plane flies at 20 thousand feet, and you need to mentally divide by 3 in order to understand. Roughly 6 kilometers.
> In 1825, the Exchequer of Pleas heard the case of Tyson v. Thomas, regarding an unfulfilled 1823 contract for the delivery of 20 hobbits of barley in Llanrwst, at 10 shillings each.
@tchrist Not only has someone been there well before us and explored many variations never before considered, -many- people have looked over that code, adding a new unit or factor.
As stupid as wikipedia is, if you have a question for it, multiple people have done multiple hours of work each to make that available.
@tchrist oh. Maybe? no, I was thinking more abstractly. like the units command is kinda like a wikipedia page in that many people know a lot more about it than you do, or rather a lot of people have had the same questions as you and already answered them.
> Tom Jefferson, who has led Cochrane Collaboration reviews of flu vaccines, has called clinical evidence concerning flu vaccines "rubbish" and has therefore declared them to be ineffective
Tom Jefferson is a British epidemiologist, based in Rome, Italy, who works for the Cochrane Collaboration. Jefferson is an author and editor of the Cochrane Collaboration's acute respiratory infections group, as well as part of four other Cochrane groups. He is also an advisor to the Italian National Agency for Regional Health Services.In 1999, Jefferson was one of the founding members of the Brighton Collaboration along with Harald Heijbel, Ulrich Heininger, and Elisabeth Loupi. He has worked on Cochrane reviews examining the effectiveness of the anti-viral oseltamivir and the influenza vaccine...
Wow. I went to sleep and woke up because I could only breathe through the mouth. Total sinus congestion. It has gotten milder now. Only the right passage is completely blocked.