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I love Volunteering for my local church on sundays, it is really nice because they give us free coffee
That's wonderful. I believe volunteering can have positive benefits for both the volunteer and the community being helped.
Yesss, in fact tomorrow i will go again and i think tomorrow there will be new volunteers and i think i will have to train them
That'll be worthwhile. The word "Volunteer" comes from the French "Voluntaire" back around 1600and meant One who offers himself for military service.
Wow , i did not know that could you tell me more about the history of Volunteering | , or emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a natural disaster.
In a military context a volunteer is someone who joins an armed force of their own volition rather than being conscripted, and is usually paid.
Etymology and history.
The verb was first recorded in 1755. It was derived from the noun "volunteer", in C.1600, "one who offers himself for military service," from the Middle French "voluntaire". In the non- | Knit 1 Hook 1 Pass It On stand at numerous craft shows across the UK each year. The website has details on these shows. Volunteers have said of the experience: ‘It was my pleasure to help out and I will definitely be volunteering again at some point’ and ‘I really enjoyed my helping role, although I think I learned more than I taught’.
Initiatives to raise the profile of hand knitting The Knitted Textile Awards (KTAs).
The KTAs were introduced in 2003, to showcase the talent | 3,600 | wow-train |
Barista is an Italian word for bartender but in America it typically refers to someone who works in coffee, like a server at Starbucks.
I see. Have you worked as a barista?
No I have not. But I do enjoy going to coffee houses. Are usually go to get an Espresso or café Americano. I'm not a big fan of cold coffee beverages.
I enjoy going to coffee houses too! I like a good American in the mornings. I wonder the beverage got its name?
The café Americano is espresso and hot water. Usually two shots of espresso and 12 ounces of water. I think it got its name because it tastes weaker than most European brews
That would make sense! I like that espresso can be turned into a large variety of beverages to enjoy. | Espresso machine
An espresso machine brews coffee by forcing pressurized water near boiling point through a "puck" of ground coffee and a filter in order to produce a thick, concentrated coffee called espresso. The first machine for making espresso was built and patented in 1884 by Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy. An improved design was patented on April 28, 1903, by Luigi Bezzera. The founder of the La Pavoni company bought the patent and from 1905 produced espresso machines commercially on a small scale in Milan. Multiple machine designs | Barista
A barista (; ; from the Italian for "bartender") is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.
Etymology and inflection.
The word "barista" comes from Italian, where it means a male or female "bartender" who typically works behind a counter, serving hot drinks (such as espresso), cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and snacks. The native plural in English is "baristas", while in Italian the plural | 3,601 | wow-train |
Do you have a domestic dog? They are terrestrial carnivores
I do! I have a big yellow lab named Gabe! What does terrestrial carnivore mean? | was the first species to be domesticated and has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.
Their long association with humans has led dogs to be uniquely attuned to human behavior and they are able to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canid species. Dogs vary widely in shape, size and colors. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship and, more recently | twenty years ago. And they're catching up with it now, with the scandal sheet. They're rags, that's what they are. You use them to train your dog and your parrot. What else do I have to say? Oh, I guess that's it. That'll keep them talking to themselves for a while. I think most of them are a bunch of fags anyway. Never did a hard day's work in their life. I love when they say, "What do you mean | 3,602 | wow-train |
Have you ever heard of Algeria?
Yes it is an african country, on the MEditerranean coast.
Yes, that's right! Have you ever been to Africa or the Mediterranean Coast?
No, nor other countries bordering Algeria, like Morocco, or Libya.
I haven't either. I think it would be a fascinating adventure.
Yes, it has a rich history involving the Numidians, Phoenicians and the Romans.
I bet they have some pretty amazing museums depicting their rich history. | Algeria
Algeria ( ; , ; ), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (, ), is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of , Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, the world's largest Arab country, and the largest in Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the | Africa or in America or increasingly in Great Britain. I think it's been a very good policy and it's been of great value to us and most of the criticism of it that I've ever heard doesn't come from these oriental countries it comes from wandering Australians. (Lamb) "For these years of course in the past Sir Robert you have been described as a racist."
(Menzies) "Have I?"
(Lamb) "I have read this, yes."
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I was an only child, which used to be very uncommon.
Yes I do think it is very uncommon. My mother is an only child and she really felt the effects of it when her mother became to elderly to care for herself, and my mom has no siblings to help
I wish I would have had a sibling to grow up with me. I missed that strong emotional bond.
Yes theres that too. I wish I could say I understand but I don't, I have a little brother. | Sibling relationship
Siblings play a unique role in one another’s lives that simulates the companionship of parents as well as the influence and assistance of friends. Because siblings often grow up in the same household, they have a large amount of exposure to one another, like other members of the immediate family. However, though a sibling relationship can have both hierarchical and reciprocal elements, this relationship tends to be more egalitarian and symmetrical than with family members of other generations. Furthermore, sibling relationships often reflect the overall condition of cohesiveness | by trade, very smart and creative". Both her mother and grandmother sang in the gospel choir at Lilly Hill Baptist Church in Atlanta, and Casey J attended her grandmother's basement Bible studies as a child. "I used to think it was the normal way of life because that's all I saw my grandmother and mother do," she once said. "I grew up thinking that singing in the church choir is what all kids did because it was my way of life."
At the age of | 3,604 | wow-train |
I love the color yellow. Sunlight has a slight yellow due due to the temperature of the sun.
So is the sun not really yellow? Does it have other colors?
I have seen pictures of the solar flares of hot plasma that show red
Oh my! What causes those solar flares?
Solar flare are emissions of energy release
The sun must be just a huge ball of energy. I wonder why it doesn't burn itself away? | as groupings of sunspots associated with frequent flares. Near solar maxima, the Sun produces about three CMEs every day, whereas near solar minima, there is about one CME every five days.
The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably from a CME hitting the Earth's magnetosphere, was the solar storm of 1859 (the Carrington Event), which took down parts of the recently created US telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph operators.
Description.
Coronal mass ejections release large quantities of matter and electromagnetic | in He I 1083 nm line.
Hyder flares are caused by the unstable eruption of a magnetic filament channel; the filament rises and may escape from the Sun as a part of a coronal mass ejection, and the visible flare marks the magnetic connectivity of the coronal disturbance.
Unlike solar flares, Hyder flares take a much longer time to reach peak intensity, as much as 30 to 80 minutes and then can continue for several hours. They have not caused any interference with Earthly communications like solar flares, and | 3,605 | wow-train |
I have been in two car crashes in my life. they are very scary.
I have been in 1 and it was horrible my injury's still bother me today and the damage of my car was bad.
Oh no, what caused it?
A driver ran the red light and as I was going for my green light they collided right into the side into the side of my car and I swerved in the road.
Oh no! What kind of injuries did you get?
Back injury's and my boyfriend had to get a major shoulder injury, and where I live the crash numbers are increases alot more than about 68,000.
Is that 68,000 a year? | and behavior, notably distracted driving, speeding and street racing. Worldwide, motor vehicle collisions lead to death and disability as well as financial costs to both society and the individuals involved.
In 2013, 54 million people worldwide sustained injuries from traffic collisions. This resulted in 1.4 million deaths in 2013, up from 1.1 million deaths in 1990. About 68,000 of these occurred in children less than five years old. Almost all high-income countries have decreasing death rates, while the majority of low-income countries have increasing | first time in his career he had been turned upside down in a racing car, "I have never had as many cameras in my face either and unfortunately it is for all the wrong reasons. I feel very bad for the team because they have been so awesome all week. I didn't want it to end like this today - my job as a guest driver was to bring the car back in one piece and that didn't happen" Hinchcliffe explained he felt dizzy and the contact was one of the most hefty | 3,606 | wow-train |
I have never gone snorkeling under water, have you?
I have actually - in a jetty in Panama City - it's pretty neat
Oh nice! Why did you go to panama city? Are you from panama or just visiting?
Vacation with our family. We love it down there - it was like swimming in a fish tank - although i was a bit scared.
That sounds so fun! How was the food in Panama city? Must be the best in Panama!
We loved going to Pineapple Willy's but our favorite was this place called Hunt's - amazing seafood!
How was the airport? I have heard it's the largest in all central america
Oh no!! I mean Panama City Florida!!!! Not Panama - I've never been outside of the country. | Panama City
Panama City (; ) is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of the country, as well as a hub for banking and commerce.
The city of Panama was founded on August 15, 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point | Tom Cochrane explained the idea behind the album: "When we put our songs together... Kenny (Greer) has sort of a classical background, as I do... we never had the budget or the means to do it with these kind of players, plus you want to keep it intact as a band, so we've always done it with synthesizers and whatever we had at hand, so it's nice to go in with a real complement of players and have them contribute like they did. In our music | 3,607 | wow-train |
Do you know anyone with OCD?
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a pretty serious mental disease that a lot of people like to make light of but its quite debilitating
Yes it truly is. I do not know anyone personally with it but I have read quite a bit about people who have it.
Yea, its a strange disease and doctors still do not know the cause and it remains unknown which is quite sad
Yes it is. Is this disease something that has heavily influenced your life?
No but a lot of people act like the have OCD because they like to be clean when its really anxiety and tics that harm that persons life and mental health
Yes a lot of people do that. I do not believe mental illness is a laughing matter | a degree that the person's daily life is negatively affected. This often takes up more than an hour a day. Most adults realize that the behaviors do not make sense. The condition is associated with tics, anxiety disorder, and an increased risk of suicide.
The cause is unknown. There appear to be some genetic components with both identical twins more often affected than both non-identical twins. Risk factors include a history of child abuse or other stress-inducing event. Some cases have been documented to occur | on one of our videos and they asked why I'm such a miserable bastard - it goes to show that they don't know me. Ask anyone who knows me; I'm a pretty outgoing person. Operation Good Guys was put together by Ray Burdis, who is a good mate of mine, and I enjoyed it. Maybe people get pre-conceived views of who I am but I do enjoy myself and have my bit of fun. Ask anyone who really knows me and they'll tell you that some of | 3,608 | wow-train |
Donna Karan is an american fashion designer.
I have never heard of her. What companies is she affiliated with? | Donna Karan
Donna Karan (born Donna Ivy Faske; October 2, 1948), also known as "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
Early life.
Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske to mother Helen ("Queenie") and father Gabby Faske in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, New York City. Her family is Jewish. Karan's mother had been a model and had also worked in designer Chester | shelved her flagship line Donna Karan International shortly after she left in June 2015 and said it would “substantially increase its focus” on her DKNY brand, which revolutionized women’s fashion in the ’80s with Karan’s “Seven Easy Pieces” concept of a wardrobe made up of a handful of interchangeable items. Today she is looking to sell off its Donna Karan business, less than a year after the fashion designer stepped down from her namesake brand. LVMH is targeting a “single, specific American buyer” for both the | 3,609 | wow-train |
I really like filming, do you like it at all?
Yes! I'm big into cinematography. It's an actual science and art of motion-picture photography, so it's very important to how the film gets made and how it looks. It includes things like recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, among other things.
That's awesome! Definitely, it's super complicated and it has evolved quite a bit since the early days.
Yeah, it involves things like using a lens to repeatedly focus the light reflected from objects into real images onto things like a light sensitive surface inside a camera when doing an exposure, in order to create multiple images. It's highly complex stuff.
I did not know all that, the things people are able to do with modern day cinematography is beautiful.
Yeah, and that's just part of the process. But the end result with photographic emulsion ends up being a series of invisible latent images on the film stock that's produced, and then these are taken to be chemically developed into an actual visible image. Tough work.
You're really beginning to make me appreciate all the complicated things that are able to make cinematography possible! | well as for entertainment purposes and mass communication.
History.
History Precursors.
In the 1830s, moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks, with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer (stroboscope) in Austria, Joseph Plateau (phenakistoscope) in Belgium, and William Horner (zoetrope) in Britain.
In 1845, Francis Ronalds invented the first successful camera able to make continuous recordings of the varying indications of meteorological and geomagnetic instruments over time. The cameras were supplied to numerous observatories around the world and some | . [Laughs.] So I got to do it, and we did it at a time when there really was no green screen for special effects. You had to shoot what was there. It's amazing how dated that film looks now, because of our ability to do things technically now. I mean, it really looks antiquated. Mare Winningham is one of the greatest actresses ever. It was eight weeks of night shooting, though, so you'd be driving home from work at, like, 6 in | 3,610 | wow-train |
I'm not aware of any new music by Madonna. Has she retired?
She was born in 1968 she is proable slowing down with old age
I think you're right, she is still a music icon from the 80's, my favorite era. | Cultural impact of Madonna
Since the beginning of her career in the early 1980s, American singer and songwriter Madonna has had a social-cultural impact on the world through her recordings, attitude, clothing and lifestyle. Called the "Queen of Pop", Madonna is labeled by international authors as the greatest woman in music, as well as the most influential and iconic female recording artist of all time.
A global cultural icon, Madonna has built a legacy that goes beyond music and has been studied by sociologists, historians | with the John Dankworth Sextet at Birmingham Town Hall on 18 December 2007. She said of her milestone birthday: "I don't think about being 80. What would be the point? I'm limping a bit because they've given me a new knee, but that's about the only difference. I don't want to start thinking about what I should or shouldn't be doing at my age. It's not right."
To celebrate the 80th birthdays of both Laine and Dankworth, Union Square Music released | 3,611 | wow-train |
Do you like inline skates?
Inline skates are types of roller skate
They are! Although I personally prefer the old school roller skates. I've never been able to get the hang of inline skates. | Inline skates
Inline skates are a type of roller skate used for inline skating. Unlike quad skates, which have two front and two rear wheels, inline skates typically have two to five wheels arranged in a single line. Some, especially those for recreation, have a rubber "stop" or "brake" block attached to the rear of one or occasionally both of the skates so that the skater can slow down or stop by leaning back on the foot with the brake skate.
The modern style of inline skates | Inline speed skating
Inline speed skating is the roller sport of racing on inline skates, or as they may be mistakenly be called, rollerblades. The sport may also be called "inline racing" by participants. Although it primarily evolved from racing on traditional roller skates, the sport is similar enough to ice speed skating that many competitors are known to switch between inline and ice speed skating according to the season.
Skate.
An inline speed skate is a specialized shoe version of the inline skate. The boot or | 3,612 | wow-train |
How much do you know about cord cutting? I just started doing it.
Well it refers too broadcast television, cord-cutting refers to the pattern of viewers, referred to as cord cutters, cancelling their subscriptions
I am guessing more and more people are doing that these days?
these days This Internet content is either free or significantly cheaper. So for most people the choice is clear.
I guess you can find anything online as well too including tv shows and sports.
A growing number of "cord cutters" do not pay for subscription television. Instead they are buying Netflix and Hulu
I have netflix, its something that I will never cancel. | and Q4'2018 1.1 million subscribers left traditional satellite and cable in favor of internet based streaming television. In Q1'2019 cable and satellite lost 1.4 million subscribers.
Market impact.
Parks Associates estimated that in 2008, about 0.9 million American households relied entirely on the Internet for television viewing; by 2017, this figure had increased to 22.2 million. Leichtman Research Group found that six percent of Americans watched at least one show online each week in 2008, a figure that grew to eight percent in 2009. The number of Americans subscribing | Cord-cutting
In broadcast television, cord-cutting refers to the pattern of viewers, referred to as cord-cutters, cancelling their subscriptions to multichannel subscription television services available over cable or satellite, dropping pay television channels or reducing the number of hours of subscription TV viewed in response to competition from rival media available over the Internet such as Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix, Philo, Sling TV and YouTube Premium. This Internet content is either free or significantly cheaper than the same content provided via cable. | 3,613 | wow-train |
Have you heard of the tiny house movement?
I'm not sure, what exactly is it? | Tiny house movement
The tiny-house movement (also known as the "small-house movement") is an architectural and social movement that advocates living simply in small homes. there is no set definition as to what constitutes a tiny house. However, a residential structure under 400 sq. ft is generally considered a tiny home. The tiny-house movement promotes financial prudence, economically safe, shared community experiences, and a shift in consumerism-driven mindsets.
Background.
In the United States of America | our terms fully! That is the word we have just received (newsroom cheers) from the White House in Washington and (Trout chuckles) I didn't expect to hear a celebration here in our newsroom in New York, but you can hear one going on behind me. We switched to London, I don't know what happened, I'm not even sure whether you heard the first words of Prime Minister Attlee or not. I couldn't hear anything in our speaker here, with the confusion. Suddenly we got | 3,614 | wow-train |
My father helps manufacture cars in the automotive industry.
Oh wow. What does that entail? My dad is a body man.
It entails a lot of duties like designing, developing, and selling motor vehicles.
That sounds like a pretty complex job. You must be pretty intelligent to be able to do that.
Yes, it is one of the worlds most important jobs because of how much revenue it generates.
Absolutely. Pretty much everyone uses a car, and it needs to be safe and practical. | motion), referring to any form of self-powered vehicle. This term, as proposed by Elmer Sperry
(1860-1930), first came into use with reference to automobiles in 1898.
History.
The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers that pioneered the horseless carriage. For many decades, the United States led the world in total automobile production. In 1929, before the Great Depression, the world had 32,028,500 automobiles in use, and the U.S. automobile industry produced over 90% | Only once in my life (previously) have a made an edit on Wikipedia. I no longer remember what it was - only that it was a factual error that was pretty small. So, I don't know what kind of documentation you would like. For example, my source for attendees is a spreadsheet that I have in my possession and does not exist anywhere on the internet. Do you want me to upload it someplace. As for the Songbook/AddressList -- would you like a copy? (Just kidding | 3,615 | wow-train |
Mick Jagger, also known as Michael Philip Jagger is an English singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of the Rolling Stones.
I've heard of them before! But never really listened to them, for whatever reason. What can you tell me about them that might get me into them? | The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first stable line-up consisted of bandleader Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, keyboards), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (piano). Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued to work with the band as a contracted musician until his death in 1985 | life; he wrote bits and pieces but he never presented them to us. No doubt he spent hours, weeks, working on things, but his paranoia was so great that he could never bring himself to present them to us". In 1995, Mick Jagger told "Rolling Stone" magazine that Jones had been jealous of the Jagger/Richards songwriting team, and added: "To be honest, Brian had no talent for writing songs. None. I've never known a guy with less talent for songwriting. | 3,616 | wow-train |
I have horrible allergies
I have allergies that are mostly seasonal but really bad allergies to corn pollen which is unavoidable since I live in Iowa.
I have terrible allergies too- especially to cats. What other kinds of allergies are there?
Food allergies and allergies to all types of pollen. That's why during certain seasons people develop hay fever especially during harvest.
What exactly causes allergies? | Allergy
Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are a number of conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment. These diseases include hay fever, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, allergic asthma, and anaphylaxis. Symptoms may include red eyes, an itchy rash, sneezing, a runny nose, shortness of breath, or swelling. Food intolerances and food poisoning are separate conditions.
Common allergens include pollen and certain food. Metals and other substances may also cause problems. Food, | seasonal allergies called “Extreme allergies and Global Warming”, have found that many allergy triggers are worsening due to climate change. 16 states in the United States were named as “Allergen Hotspots” for large increases in allergenic tree pollen if global warming pollution keeps increasing. Therefore, researchers on this report claimed that global warming is bad news for millions of asthmatics in the United States whose asthma attacks are triggered by seasonal allergies. Indeed, seasonal allergies are one of the main triggers for asthma, along with colds or flu, | 3,617 | wow-train |
I'm currently a student studying radiology, or the science that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases.
Well I'm an expert in x-rays as I've had so many of them over the past three years, lol. | Radiology
Radiology is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose and treat diseases within the human body.
A variety of imaging techniques such as X-ray radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine including positron emission tomography (PET), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are used to diagnose or treat diseases. Interventional radiology is the performance of usually minimally invasive medical procedures with the guidance of imaging technologies such as X-ray radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), nuclear | Fluoroscopy
Fluoroscopy () is an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object. In its primary application of medical imaging, a fluoroscope () allows a physician to see the internal structure and function of a patient, so that the pumping action of the heart or the motion of swallowing, for example, can be watched. This is useful for both diagnosis and therapy and occurs in general radiology, interventional radiology, and image-guided surgery. In its | 3,618 | wow-train |
I recently fractured my leg, but it was from stress trauma. I can't wait until it heals.
Oh that's horrible. I'm sorry to hear about that. Are you in a cast?
Yes, I am in a cast unfortunately, but at least my leg is protected. Apparently my bones were weak and an impact during exercise fractured it.
That's such a bummer, since now that is going to inhibit you from exercising. I only fractured one bone. It was my ankle back in high school.
Oh wow that must have been tough! Did you recover okay, or did it impact your nerves or muscles?
It took me years and years to heal to the point where my balance was right again, but other than that there is actually no lasting damage.
That's good to know everything was okay after it healed! They said it could impact my muscle function and range of motion. But I hope not.
Oh that's awful. How long ago did the injury happen? I know there are exercises and rehabilitative therapy techniques you can do to help it heal properly. | Reduced muscle mass, strength and performance in space
There is a growing research database which suggests that skeletal muscles, particularly postural muscles of the lower limb, undergo atrophy and structural and metabolic alterations during space flight. However, the relationships between in-flight exercise, muscle changes and performance are not well understood. Efforts should be made to try to understand the current status of in-flight and post-flight exercise performance capacity and what the goals/target areas for protection are with the current in flight exercise program. | open. That's all I can tell you."
On 19 April 2013, it was reported that Peter was to return to the series, played by Ben Hardy. He said of his casting: "I'm really excited to be joining the fantastic cast of "EastEnders"—a show which my family have watched for years. I can't wait to step into the shoes of a character with so much history and am looking forward to getting stuck in." Executive producer Lorraine Newman said, "Ben's a wonderful | 3,619 | wow-train |
I know little about the Beastie Boys? Are you familiar with them?
Oh yeah, I love the Beastie Boys. They're a hip hop group from the 80s and 90s!
Awesome! What were some of their top hits? | eight all achieving at least a platinum BPI award, with several of the early albums going multi-platinum. The standard release rate of "The Hits Album" was two volumes per year compared with three volumes of the "Now" albums.
Five years into the "Hits" series' run, a drop in sales resulted in several re-brands meaning the series completely lost momentum with the release pattern and numbering of each volume. In November 1989, the first of a number of revamps occurred with what would | "airbrushed" aesthetic preferred at the time. She was passed on to smaller rap and hip-hop labels, where she photographed acts such as Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys in their early days. In a 2015 interview with "American Photo" magazine, she recalled "It is amazing, 30 years later, people going ‘oh you photographed legends.’ I guess I did, but they weren’t legends when I was taking pictures of them.” | 3,620 | wow-train |
I have played the acoustic guitar in middle school but i don't remember much about it. However i did like strumming what about you
I have always loved listening -- have never played! I do love the sound, the way it resonates through the guitar's body.
Do you know if it's pronounced a-coo-stic or a-cow-stick? Or if both are correct?
Oooooh, it's the former. ONLY the former! Ever since the RENAISSANCE, when modern guitar-shaped instruments first began to be seen .... and played ;-)
Oh thank you for that. I thought both were correct but i was not sure. Do you know what notes are on the acoustic guitar? | Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E A D G B E. | minutes long. It’s not like it’s 'Free Bird' where you have to suffer through 10 minutes of playing it every night." He considers the track to be Mudhoney's highwater mark,
"There's something special about that first single, we were never quite able to recapture that sound. I don't know if it was the guitars or the recording. It was just a really gnarly, gnarly guitar sound. ... I think it had more to do with the actual electromagnetic chemistry of what was | 3,621 | wow-train |
Hi! How's the weather where you are?
Super hot and sunny. How about the weather where you are?
Sounds familiar! I was joking with someone today that the weather here is what I imagine California weather to be like. Speaking of, my brother is out in Hollywood! | Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California, notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people associated with it.
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910 and soon thereafter, a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable film industry in the world.
History.
History Early history | School, Central High School and Project 12 High School, all of which he was kicked out of. Later, with much determination, he dropped out of high school and told his parents he wanted to be a rapper. "I told my parents I want to do music, and they were like you can’t really do that here. So my dad was like ‘I’ll give you a ride—where you want to go, L.A. or New York?’ And the weather was nicer in L.A., so | 3,622 | wow-train |
I love to cook new dishes. Preparing food for consumption with or without heat is the actual definition.
I love cooking new things as well! Just yesterday I made bb
There is a lot of different ways to do it. From grilling over an open fire to using stoves of various types. Just reflects each culture and tradition and trends.
Indeed. One of my favorite ways to cook is grilling outdoors on a charcoal grill. I love the smokey flavor that it imparts to the food. My family is from the south and we do it a lot.
I think cooking with fire is and activity that is unique to human beings. and may have started around 2 mil years ago
Yes, humans are the only creatures who cook with fire, but I think it adds a whole new realm of food for us to eat. A lot of food are inedible unless cooked. | ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as the invention of pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques. Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation to further enhance the flavor of the dish served.
History.
Phylogenetic analysis suggests that human ancestors may have invented cooking as far back as 1.8 million to 2.3 million years ago. Re-analysis of burnt bone fragments and plant ashes from the Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa, has provided evidence supporting control of fire by early humans there by 1 | Cooking
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants | 3,623 | wow-train |
Fun Fact, Honda makes the Honda Civic!
Is that a good car? | Honda Civic
The is a line of cars manufactured by Honda. Originally a subcompact, the Civic has gone through several generational changes, becoming both larger and more upscale, moving into the compact car segment. EPA guidelines for vehicle size class stipulate a car having combined passenger and cargo room of is considered a mid-size car, and as such the tenth generation Civic sedan is technically a small-end mid-size car, although it still competes in the compact class. The Civic coupe is still considered a compact | in the Yokohama Teams' Trophy, one place down on the previous season.
World Touring Car Championship Honda Civic (2013–).
Zengő Motorsport stayed in the World Touring Car Championship in 2013, now running a Honda Civic 1.6T built by the works JAS Motorsport team. Michelisz stayed on as the team's sole driver.
European Touring Car Cup.
Zengő Motosport entered the European Touring Car Cup in 2013 with a pair of SEAT León Supercopas in the single–makes trophy for Ferenc Ficza and Norbert Nagy | 3,624 | wow-train |
I always though I would enjoy studying archeology.
Are you thinking of studying archaeology in the future?
Maybe as a hobby. Unfortunately though, arechaeology as a vocation is about as unlikely to yield gainful employment as most of the social sciences and humanities.
That's a shame. How would you go about studying archaeology for a hobby? Any particular area that interests you? | Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. In North America archaeology is a sub-field of anthropology, while in Europe it is often viewed as either a discipline in its own right or a sub-field of other disciplines.
Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development | , makeup, procurement of props, stage management, and recording and mixing of sound.
The various humanities Humanities that are also social sciences.
- Anthropology (outline) – study of how humans developed biologically and culturally.
- Archaeology research into human history by locating and studying artifacts, structural remains, and other surviving evidence
- Area studies – interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are | 3,625 | wow-train |
I play the piano or pianoforte which is the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument
That sounds fancy. What kind do you have.
I love any type of pianoforte . What actually draws me to the instrument is the terms "piano" and "forte" which mean "soft" and "loud" respectively
What does soft and loud mean when it comes to that | the stronger the attack. The name was created as a contrast to harpsichord, a musical instrument that does not allow variation in volume. The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a quieter sound and smaller dynamic range.
An acoustic piano usually has a protective wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings, which are strung under great tension on a heavy metal frame. Pressing one or more keys on the piano's keyboard causes a padded hammer (typically padded with firm felt) to strike the strings. The hammer rebounds from | Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
The word piano is a shortened form of "pianoforte", the Italian term for the early 1700s versions | 3,626 | wow-train |
Being a barista seems like a solid job. They basically serve coffee.
So they are basically at server at a coffee shop? Do they do anything else?
They usually just serve espresso-based coffee drinks.
I see. How long have baristas been around? I am not too familiar with their line of work.
The word is of Italian descent, as it means bartender.
So baristas originated in Italy? I guess that makes some sense. Is anyone serves coffee considered a barista? | Barista
A barista (; ; from the Italian for "bartender") is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.
Etymology and inflection.
The word "barista" comes from Italian, where it means a male or female "bartender" who typically works behind a counter, serving hot drinks (such as espresso), cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and snacks. The native plural in English is "baristas", while in Italian the plural | except in the mornings, when a croissant or pain au chocolat can be purchased with breakfast coffee. In Italy, cafés are similar to those found in France and known as "bar". They typically serve a variety of espresso coffee, cakes and alcoholic drinks. Bars in city centers usually have different prices for consumption at the bar and consumption at a table.
History United States.
Coffee shops in the United States arose from the espresso- and pastry-centered Italian coffeehouses of the Italian American immigrant communities in the major | 3,627 | wow-train |
Do you enjoy eating Brunch?
Yes I do. I love the combination of breakfast and lunch. How about you?
yes, I do! It's a great combo for sure. I love all the choices you get when you go out to a good brunch!
I completely agree. Brunch did not become popular in the united states unil the 1930s.
interesting I didn't know that. I love a good omelet. what is one of your favorites?
I love scrambled eggs and breakfast meats, but ham and bacon are my top favorites.
I also love biscuits! You can beat a good soft biscuit!
Oh my gosh yes, I love biscuits. Another favorite is biscuits and gravy.
oh yummy!!! Gotta have some biscuits and gravy | Biscuits and gravy
Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the United States, especially in the South. The dish consists of soft dough biscuits covered in either sawmill or meat gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat. The gravy is often flavored with black pepper.
History.
American English and British English use the word "biscuit" to refer to two distinctly | ? Yes and no. I wanted to create something artistic, something special. Did I know how I was going to do it? Not really."
"If you like the way it looks, go with it! I liked it and I did it! Of course, it takes a lot of experience to develop good taste. When one is just starting out it's easy to like something without knowing if it's really good or not. That works some of the time, but an educated opinion usually | 3,628 | wow-train |
In the US the National Guard is part of the reserve military with units by state
My brother use to be in the National Guard.
Yeah they are members of the Guard and the Military at the same time state and federal levels
He did it for 5 years. | . National Guard units are under the dual control of the state and the federal government.
The majority of National Guard soldiers and airmen hold a civilian job full-time while serving part-time as a National Guard member. These part-time guardsmen are augmented by a full-time cadre of Active Guard & Reserve (AGR) personnel in both the Army National Guard and Air National Guard, plus Army Reserve Technicians in the Army National Guard and Air Reserve Technicians (ART) in the Air National Guard. | declaration of a state of emergency by the governor of the state in which they serve. Unlike Army Reserve members, National Guard members cannot be mobilized individually (except through voluntary transfers and Temporary DutY Assignments TDY), but only as part of their respective units. However, there have been several individual activations to support military operations since 2001.
Dual missions, state and federal Federal mission.
When National Guard troops are called to federal service, the President serves as Commander-In-Chief. The federal mission assigned | 3,629 | wow-train |
I am not sure how I feel about marriage.
Marriage is considered a cultural union. I believe that this is becoming less and less of a thing.
Yes I have noticed that trend too.
more people just continue to date long term rather than marriage. its to explore whether they are romantically or sexually compatible.
I like that idea better than a costly wedding and even more costly divorce.
absolutely, divorce laws vary but you have to deal with alimony and child custody if they had kids.
Yes and it is very stressful too.
Stress from marriage can lead to bodily harm if there are excessive amounts of it.
Sounds like the single life is the way to go! | usually sexual, are acknowledged or sanctioned. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity. When defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal. Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into | acknowledged his personal attraction to Olivia de Havilland, assertions by film historians that they were romantically involved during the filming of "Robin Hood" were denied by de Havilland. "Yes, we did fall in love and I believe that this is evident in the screen chemistry between us," she told an interviewer in 2009. "But his circumstances [Flynn's marriage to Damita] at the time prevented the relationship going further. I have not talked about it a great deal but the relationship was not consummated. Chemistry was | 3,630 | wow-train |
We live in rural area | Rural area
In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines the word "rural" as encompassing "...all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. Whatever is not urban is considered rural."
Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas are commonly rural, as are other types of areas such as forest. | reputation. WWI, one of the biggest wars in history, also didn't have too much of an affect on Brookfield and how we know it today. The Spanish flu, however, did kill many people, but not as many as cholera had in the past. On May 31, 1914, a tornado hit, devastating the farmers and the rural area.
This quiet, rural atmosphere attracted one notorious resident, Al Capone, as he established an area to live and a distillery on Brookfield Road. In 1928 | 3,631 | wow-train |
Hey! I'm Michelle and I love to cook.
I do too. I didn't know that humans have cooked food for 2 million years.
No way! I wonder how it all began.
They say that archaeological evidence stretches back 1 million years.
What kind of evidence have they found? | ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as the invention of pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques. Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation to further enhance the flavor of the dish served.
History.
Phylogenetic analysis suggests that human ancestors may have invented cooking as far back as 1.8 million to 2.3 million years ago. Re-analysis of burnt bone fragments and plant ashes from the Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa, has provided evidence supporting control of fire by early humans there by 1 | I'm thinking from the scuttlebutt I'm hearing that's it, but I don't know anything for sure other than they do have a script they love, they're still tweaking." The film may also take place more in the real world than in the past according to the recent interview: "That's what I'm told, but you didn't hear me say that," Boxleitner joked. "I think it's going to be a lot about taking the company back because if you remember Sam Flynn | 3,632 | wow-train |
I live in a big metropolitan city but I have always been fascinated by New York. It is the most populous city in the united states. Have you ever been?
I have! My wife and I went a few years ago and actually have a flight booked to visit again in late July!
Oh wow Im sure it was amazing. It is described as the cultural, financial nad medical capital of the world. What were the best sights you visited when you were there?
Central Park was really beautiful. Chelsea Market was also a lot of fun, lots of good food and beer. We also got to see a show on Broadway!
I love going to watch shows but one on broadway would just be so special. It the pace of city life as fast as everyone describes it - ie the New York minute?
Hard to say. We were only there for a couple days and did lots of sight seeing. But having to deal with a lot more public transportation, a minute definitely make a difference when it comes to catching a train. | List of Glee characters
"Glee" is a musical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox in the United States for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing in the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues.
The initial main cast encompassed club director and Spanish (later History) teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays | my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone | 3,633 | wow-train |
I have a co-worker who is a slacker. They avoid as much work as possible and have no work ethic. It makes me crazy
A slacker ? Is that another term for a lazy individual?
Yes, it is. I think it's funny that the term dates back to about 1790. I can't picture people talking like that back then.
So who first couch the word?
I'm not totally sure about that, but it started to be used in the US during WWI. People who avoided military service were slackers and the attempts to track them down were called "slacker raids"
That's interesting! Have you ever been called that name before? | term was also used during the World War II period in the United States. In 1940, "Time" quoted the U.S. Army on managing the military draft efficiently: "War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals."
Evolution.
The shift in the use of "slacker" from its draft-related meaning to a more general sense of the avoidance of work is unclear. In April 1948, "The New Republic" referred to "resentment against taxes levied to aid slackers" | Slacker
A slacker is someone who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic.
Origin.
According to different sources, the term "slacker" dates back to about 1790 or 1898. "Slacker" gained some recognition during the British Gezira Scheme in the early to mid 20th century, when Sudanese labourers protested their relative powerlessness by working lethargically, a form of protest known as "slacking".
World wars.
In the United States during World War I, the word "slacker" was commonly used to | 3,634 | wow-train |
I love onions, one of my favorite vegetables to put with nearly anything
Me too, its my favorite ingredients, which country did it originate from?
Its ancestral origin is actually unknown but was cultivated by a few regions
So which part of the country uses it most?
many types of onions like chinese onions, japanese bucnhing onions, and shallots are used by nearly every society
OK, what specie is the best? | Onion
The onion ("Allium cepa" L., from Latin "cepa" "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus "Allium". Its close relatives include the garlic, shallot, leek, chive, and Chinese onion.
This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion ("Allium fistulosum"), the tree onion ( | .
The ingredients include water, sugar, salt, vegetables (onions, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers), spices, pepper, mustard, turmeric, modified corn starch, hydrolized vegetable protein, sodium benzoate.
Many Costa Rican dishes are prepared with Salsa Lizano, and it is ubiquitous on restaurant tables in its country of origin. It is commonly used with gallo pinto and tamales, and is also considered particularly complementary with eggs, rice, beans, fish, cheese, curries, and as a marinade for meat | 3,635 | wow-train |
Can I offer you some knowledge of boiled eggs in these trying times?
That would be most eggcellent if you will. I can always learn more about boiled eggs.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat, especially because they're cooked within their shells!
A food with its own bowl, I rather like that. Anything else I can do with boiled eggs?
Eggsactly, finely someone able to appreciate food that has its own container as a superior food-form! There's so many things you can do with them, from eating to throwing, just make sure to avoid salmonella and only buy pasteurized eggs!
Pasteurized? That sounds like little eggs are out their just grazing along, what exactly is pasteurized eggs? | Pasteurized eggs
Pasteurized eggs are eggs that have been pasteurized in order to reduce the risk of food-borne illness in dishes that are not cooked or are only lightly cooked. They may be sold as liquid egg products or pasteurized in the shell.
Rationale.
The 2013 United States Food and Drug Administration Food Code defines regular shell eggs as a potentially hazardous food, i.e., “a food that requires time/temperature control for safety (TCS) to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation.”
All | Boiled egg
Boiled eggs are eggs, typically from a chicken, cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water. Hard-boiled eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while soft-boiled eggs may leave the yolk, and sometimes the white, at least partially liquid and raw. Boiled eggs are a popular breakfast food around the world.
Besides a boiling water immersion, there are a few different methods to make boiled eggs. Eggs can also be cooked below | 3,636 | wow-train |
I have never watched South Park but hear it's good. Do you watch it?
Yes I love South Park it features the characters Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick
I believe it's satire, kind of like the Simpsons. Did it first air in the 90s? | and first appeared on television in the pilot episode of "South Park", "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", on August 13, 1997.
Cartman is an elementary school student who lives with his mother in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado, where he routinely has extraordinary experiences atypical of a small town. Cartman has been portrayed as aggressive, prejudiced, arrogant and narcissistic since his character's inception; Stone and Parker describe the character as "a little Archie Bunker". These traits are significantly augmented | 1992 student film screening. The film features four children very similar in appearance to three of the four main characters of "South Park", including a character resembling Eric Cartman but called "Kenny", a hooded boy resembling Kenny McCormick (who remains unnamed) and two other boys similar in appearance and voice to Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski.
This film is later referenced in a season six "South Park" episode entitled "Simpsons Already Did It". In this episode, Stan, Kyle, and Tweek are | 3,637 | wow-train |
I can't believe that some people believe that the rich should pay lower taxes
I am sure that it's the rich people saying it. What do you think about the rich paying lower taxes?
As opposed to Donald Trump, who passed a law in 2017 which included substantial tax cuts for the rich, I think it is bad for our country
I think it would be bad too. Driving our country further into debt. What do you think about the minimum wage? | opinion exist about the benefits and drawbacks of a minimum wage. Supporters of the minimum wage say it increases the standard of living of workers, reduces poverty, reduces inequality, and boosts morale. In contrast, opponents of the minimum wage say it increases poverty, increases unemployment (particularly among unskilled or inexperienced workers) and is damaging to businesses, because excessively high minimum wages require businesses to raise the prices of their product or service to accommodate the extra expense of paying a higher wage and some low-wage workers "will | "I do not believe the draft is even practicable or desirable."
In September 2007, while speaking about issuing a draft, McCain said, "One, it's the best military we've ever had, it just isn't big enough. Two, there's never been a draft that I've ever heard of since World War II that was fair. What we've done is we find rich people find a way out, and lower income people are the ones that serve. I might consider it, | 3,638 | wow-train |
have you ever seen a Spitz? they look like little furballs
Yeah! My friend has one. They have a long thick coat, white and pointy ears. Do you know anyone that has one?
yes. my neighbor has several. i believe he is a breeder and sells them | Spitz
Spitz (also pluralized spitzes or, borrowing from German, ) are a type of domestic dog characterized by long, thick, and often white fur, and pointed ears and muzzles. The tail often curls over the dog's back or droops.
The exact origins of spitz dogs are not known, though most of the spitz seen today originate from the Arctic region or Siberia. The type was described as "Canis pomeranus" by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revision of "Systema Naturae" in 1788 (printed | reason to retire from the band. "My choice NOT to be in SAVATAGE today has something to do with his passing...it will never be the same... it can never be the same...but his music lives on thru his brother & Chris Caffery who has the essence of Criss in him. YES I believe that. I know that. God bless those guys...And may God bless Criss, friend, musician and probably one of the nicest guys you would ever want to have memories about! And I have | 3,639 | wow-train |
I can't believe sometimes how successful a swimmer Michael Phelps is!
It is quite impressive. I dont even know how to swim. Do you?
Well I can swim but not that well. He is the most decorated olympian of all time...with a total of 28 medals
Has he retired?
Yes after the last olympics he retired actually.
I have never watched the olympics, I am watching the world cup though
wow that is so interesting that you have never watched the olympics! He actually hold the record for the most gold medals as well at 23 gold medals
Oh that is fantastic. I can tell you are a really big fan. | -place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps had already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games by winning six gold and two bronze medals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.
Phelps is | Michael Phelps
Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American retired competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). When he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first | 3,640 | wow-train |
sushi is so delicious | Sushi
Sushi is traditionally made with medium-grain white rice, though it can be prepared with brown rice or short-grain rice. It is very often prepared with seafood, such as squid, eel, yellowtail, salmon, tuna or imitation crab meat. Many types of sushi are vegetarian. It is often served with pickled ginger ("gari"), wasabi, and soy sauce. Daikon radish or pickled daikon ("takuan") are popular garnishes for the dish.
"Sushi" is sometimes | 's 50th anniversary), Riding crop, Sushi, Pipe Tobacco, Turpentine, Snow, Lime, and Golden Delicious Apple. The fragrances in the line can be combined and layered together so that wearers can create their own fragrances.
Besides its cologne sprays, Demeter Fragrance Library makes other products scented with the same fragrances, including body lotions, shower gels, exfoliant scrubs and room sprays.
External links.
- Official site
- Demeter Fragrance Library scents at Basenotes | 3,641 | wow-train |
Hello, we're talking about religion today.
That is an interesting topic since there is no scholarly consensus over what even constitutes a religion
I'd love to hear more about what you mean!
It can just be defined in many differnt ways, there are so many aspects, likebehaviors, texts, places, ethics, all these things relate to spiritual beliefs somehow
Yeah, that makes sense. Do you know anything interesting about any religions you could share with me? | be true, that have the side purpose of explaining the origin of life, the universe, and other things. Traditionally, faith, in addition to reason, has been considered a source of religious beliefs.
There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, but about 84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the five largest religion groups, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religion. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists | Religion
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest | 3,642 | wow-train |
I recently moved to Seattle! It's a seaport city on the west coast. Have you ever been there?
No but I plan on going late this fall, please tell me about it
It's such a beautiful city! It's situated between Puget Sound and Lake Washington.
I plan to go during fall to see the leaves change color | Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 744,955 residents , Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area's population stands at 3.94 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United | too old to try something. I should be able to decide for myself if I can't do things and not have someone tell me I'll forget my lines or I'll trip and fall on the set"; and "Age is a number. It's something imposed on you ... It drives me absolutely spare when people say, 'Are you going to retire? Isn't it time you put your feet up?' Or tell me [my] age."
In 2013, she spoke about her | 3,643 | wow-train |
Divorce is a rough thing to go through. | spouses informally stop cohabiting). Reasons for divorce vary, from sexual incompatibility or lack of independence for one or both spouses to a personality clash.
The only countries that do not allow divorce are the Philippines, the Vatican City and the British Crown Dependency of Sark. In the Philippines, divorce for non-Muslim Filipinos is not legal unless the husband or wife is an alien and satisfies certain conditions. The Vatican City is an ecclesiastical state, which has no procedure for divorce. Countries that have relatively recently legalized divorce | The Koothrappalis go through a rough patch in their marriage, culminating in them separating in season eight around the time of their 40th wedding anniversary, with Dr. Koothrappali moving out and Mrs. Koothrappali setting fire to his car. Dr. Koothrappali makes his first physical appearance on the show in season eight, visiting the main characters at a Christmas party after the divorce. Dr. Koothrappali later cuts off Raj financially when he buys a helicopter drone, but Raj manages to turn the situation around by pitting his father against his mother. He also | 3,644 | wow-train |
I come from a very tall family. I am 6 foot 6. I think the population are getting taller and taller with each new generation. What do you think? | Human height
Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, usually in centimetres when using the metric system, or feet and inches when using the imperial system.
A particular genetic profile in men called Y haplotype I-M170 is correlated with height. Ecological data shows that as the frequency of this genetic profile increases in the population, the average male height in a country also increases. | , noting "There's something very curious, by the way, I'm probably about 6'6" tall. I think she's about 6'3", but all the time I worked with her, I felt like she was taller than me. Now I don't really know what that has to do with it. It might be something to do with being confronted by a physically charismatic very tall woman, or maybe it's that she's caught the impressiveness of the character of that woman, that soldier. She's | 3,645 | wow-train |
I am thinking about starting a vegetarian diet. This means I would not consume the flesh of any animal.
That sounds healthy! What are the advantages of a vegetarian diet over eating animal protein? | aesthetic, economic, or personal preference. There are variations of the diet as well: an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs. A strict vegetarian diet – referred to as "vegan" – excludes all animal products, including eggs and dairy. Avoidance of animal products may require dietary supplements to prevent deficiencies such as vitamin B12 deficiency, which leads to pernicious anemia. | China study, that appears to link the consumption of animal protein with the development of cancer and heart disease. He argues that casein, a protein found in milk from mammals, is "the most significant carcinogen we consume".
Campbell has followed a "99% vegan" diet since around 1990. He does not identify himself as a vegetarian or vegan because, he said, "they often infer something other than what I espouse". He told the "New York Times": "The idea is that | 3,646 | wow-train |
I like the library so much but the one near our house is so small
That's too bad. We have an excellent library system throughout the county.
I want to go to the one in Plymouth Massachusetts, it is the oldest in New England probably oldest in the US
That sounds lovely! I love the way libraries feel, and an old library must be incredible.
there is so much information in massachucets they prbably used it to lookup information on farming, fishing and things like that
Back before the internet, I can't imagine how valuable the library was to most people. | synonyms as a kind of query expansion, a process called conflation.
A computer program or subroutine that stems word may be called a "stemming program", "stemming algorithm", or "stemmer".
Examples.
A stemmer for English operating on the stem "cat" should identify such strings as "cats", "catlike", and "catty". A stemming algorithm might also reduce the words "fishing", "fished", and "fisher" to the stem "fish" | in the first series were recorded in Scotland. Steel said in an interview:
"One of the restrictions we've got is that the budget for radio we've got going is so unbelievably, comically tiny, that we couldn't go to Scotland because the fare is too much. It is like some student fanzine. 'Mum, can I borrow some money because I want to go to Scotland.'
"So, I'm hoping, if we do another series, because I'd love to go to | 3,647 | wow-train |
I really like going fishing as a hobby, but it's not my profession. Do you enjoy fishing?
I really like fishing, there is a lot of culture around it, it has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period
We've certainly strayed far away from our old means of obtaining food. Do you like any fish in particular? I like salmon. | .
Fishing and the fisherman have also influenced Ancient Egyptian religion; mullets were worshipped as a sign of the arriving flood season. Bastet was often manifested in the form of a catfish. In ancient Egyptian literature, the process that Amun used to create the world is associated with the tilapia's method of mouth-brooding.
Commerce.
According to the FAO, there were about 39 million fishers in countries producing more than 200,000 tonnes in 2012, which is nearly 140% the number in 1995. The total fishery | Fisherman
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.
Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. Fishermen may be professional or recreational and may be both men or women. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.
History.
Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period. Fishing had become a major means of survival as well as a business venture | 3,648 | wow-train |
I believe in aliens, life that occurs outside of Earth.
I do a little. I know that if they come back, we will reunite as humans! What do you think?
I usually use the Drake equation, which speculates about the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
I have never heard of that. Who is Drake? Tell me more about him! | Drake equation
The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.
The equation was written in 1961 by Frank Drake, not for purposes of quantifying the number of civilizations, but as a way to stimulate scientific dialogue at the first scientific meeting on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The equation summarizes the main concepts which scientists must contemplate when considering the question of other radio-communicative life. It is more properly thought of as an | Jesus meant when he said that if you cherish a grudge, do not even attempt to pray until it is settled (Matthew 5:23 -24).” "Source", p. 191.
“I believe that all that I know or think I know about God is derived from what Jesus was, said and did. I believe that the little we have left of what he said and did tells us more about how we can now in our world realize the possibilities of human existence than all the wisdom of the | 3,649 | wow-train |
Hi there. Do you know much about autism? I only know it's apparently caused by a combination of genetic and environmental issues.
I do know quite a bit about it. part of my job would be in that field. It tends to present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts | or speech therapy can help children with autism gain self-care, social, and communication skills. Although there is no known cure, there have been cases of children who recovered. Not many children with autism live independently after reaching adulthood, though some are successful. An autistic culture has developed, with some individuals seeking a cure and others believing autism should be accepted as a difference and not treated as a disorder.
Globally, autism is estimated to affect 24.8 million people . In the 2000s, the number of people | my imagination, I could imagine them to be any way I liked, and I could tell you all you wished to hear simply by carrying on my imaginative creation. But as I believe that there really are other worlds, I am entitled to confess that there is much about them that I do not know, and that I do not know how to find out.
Criticisms.
While it may appear to be a simply extravagant account of modality, modal realism has proven to be historically quite resilient. Nonetheless, | 3,650 | wow-train |
Cheese is so delicious. | Cheese
Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, the milk is usually acidified, and adding the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form. Some cheeses have molds on the rind, the outer layer, or throughout. Most cheeses melt at cooking | as you like. It is a very popular festival and is Ikeda's main event of the year.
Near to the wine castle is Happiness Dairy, a local cheese and ice cream producer. You can see the dairy making process here, or taste the delicious ice cream at the end of the process. The dairy farm is so popular it has been renamed by locals as "Happiness Daily". About 2 kilometres from the station is "Makiba no ie" a campsite with log cabins available for rent. It | 3,651 | wow-train |
Have you ever seen Face Off?
No I have not but since it is on SyFy I bet I would like it.
I've actually never watched it, but it looks interesting. | Face Off (TV series)
Face Off was an American reality television game show program on the Syfy cable network channel in which a group of prosthetic makeup artists compete against each other to create prostheses such as those found in science fiction and horror films. One or more challenges are featured in each episode, with the work reviewed by a panel of judges who eliminating one or more artists each week until a final winner is chosen.
Actress McKenzie Westmore, known for her role as Sheridan Crane on the former NBC/ | me anything about it and they never have asked me anything about it." Stephens said, "I've seen it in different ways. To a great extent it is an Alex solo record ... It's Alex's focus, it's his emotional state of being but I brought in the string section for the one song I wrote and Alex hit it off with Carl Marsh ... and started using Carl and the string section for other things. What would that album have been like if it didn't have the strings? | 3,652 | wow-train |
have ever participated with human society
I have donated to the SPCA. They are aimed at preventing cruelty to animals.
please tell me more about spca
The NSPCA is the National council of SPCA. They handle all matters related to animal cruelty involving all species. They are a non-profit, registered with the Department of Social Development.
okey tell me about nspca and how can i reach them
You can reach out to them if you have a report to make or if you want to help
okey i am ready to help | SPCA), based on the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), was set up in Victoria in 1871. This was followed by New South Wales in 1873; South Australia in 1875; Tasmania in 1878; Queensland in 1883; Western Australia in 1892; Australian Capital Territory in 1955 and Darwin in 1965.
The Royal Warrant was given to the WA SPCA in 1920, followed by NSW SPCA in 1923, South Australia in 1937, Queensland in 1955, Tasmania in 1956 and Victoria | Cape of Good Hope SPCA
Established in 1872, the Cape of Good Hope SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) in Cape Town is the founding society of the SPCA movement in South Africa and is the oldest animal welfare organisation in the country. A registered non-profit organisation and Public Benefit Organisation, the society is affiliated to the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) and are Executive Members of the National Council of SPCAs South Africa (NSPCA), as well as a member of | 3,653 | wow-train |
I'm looking into learning some self defense and I was considering Krav Maga.
Wow, Krav Maga is a military self-defense and fighting system, that's impressive!
So does that mean you recommend me learn it for self defense?
Well, Krav Maga does have a philosophy of defensive and offensive maneuvers, so it would be great to know.
Awesome thanks. Do you know how long these techniques have been around or who uses them?
It was developed for the Israeli Defense Forces. Don't mess with them.
Oh wow so it was developed by people from the middle east. I guess I never really thought about how they fought hand to hand combat. | use of his training as a boxer and wrestler while defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, during the mid-to-late 1930s. In the late 1940s, following his migration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF.
From the outset, the original concept of Krav Maga was to take the most simple and practical techniques of other fighting styles (originally European boxing, wrestling, and street fighting) and to make them rapidly teachable to | " Lopez then thought she should learn T'ai Chi or Tae Kwon Do, but was worried about learning it at an expert level in a short period of time. Her personal trainer then suggested that she study Krav Maga, the "official self-defense system of the Israeli Defense Forces which has recently become trendy in the States. The fighting style focuses on combating realistic scenarios with moves that are based on common, instinctual reactions", according to MTV News. Talking about the system, Lopez said: "[Krav Maga | 3,654 | wow-train |
I love to eat Bagels! Interesting is that the bread originated in the Jewish communities in Poland!
I enjoy bagels too. How are they made?
It is shaped by hand in the form of a ring. Yeasted wheat dough is used, broiled and then baked
Oh I see. Are there different types of bread they use for bagels? | sesame seeds. Some may have salt sprinkled on their surface, and there are different dough types, such as whole-grain or rye. Bagels are eaten toasted or untoasted.
Though the origins of bagels are somewhat obscure, it is known that they were widely consumed by Ashkenazi Jews from the 17th century. The first known mention of the bagel, in 1610, was in Jewish community ordinances in Kraków, Poland.
Bagels are now a popular bread product in North America, especially in cities with a large Jewish | Bagel
A bagel ( '; ), also historically spelled beigel, is a bread product originating in the Jewish communities of Poland.
It is traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring from yeasted wheat dough, roughly hand-sized, that is first boiled for a short time in water and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior. Bagels are often topped with seeds baked on the outer crust, with the traditional ones being poppy or | 3,655 | wow-train |
As most a fan of college football in America, I am not familiar with Association football.
Same here, I never knew association football was known as soccer as well, with 11 players on the field.
What countries are associated with this "association football" league?
The Laws of soccer were originally made back in 1863 in England, but now soccer is enjoyed by the whole world.
I saw a major increase in the popularity of soccer in the United States in the late 1980s. | Soccer in the United States
Soccer in the United States is governed by different organizations. The United States Soccer Federation governs most levels of soccer in the country, including the national teams, professional leagues, and amateur leagues. The NCAA governs colleges and the National Federation of High Schools governs schools. The match regulations are generally the same between the three governing bodies although there are many subtle differences.
, over 24.4 million people play soccer in the United States. In 2017, Gallup reported that soccer was the third- | Outline of association football
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to association football:
Association football – sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. More commonly known as football or soccer.
What type of thing is association football?
Association football can be described as all of the following:
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Do you know much about stamp collecting? I've never done it.
Not too much but I do know that it is one of the world's most popular hobbies.
I understand that some stamps are very valuable. Some people do seem to love this hobby. | Stamp collecting
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is related to philately, which is the study of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service, as a never-ending stream of new stamps was produced by countries that sought to advertise their distinctiveness through their stamps.
Collecting.
Stamp collecting is generally accepted as one of the areas that make up the wider subject of philately, which | who play Christian black metal) know what they are doing. I know this sounds very rough, but I have seen people being pulled into something they do not know. I am not saying that I know that these musicians are going to mess their lives up, but I have seen it happen to some people and it frightens me very much." Mageroy, however, defends the unblack metal bands' intentions: "A lot of Christian bands have done amazing things being led by God. I know that God is | 3,657 | wow-train |
At the time of the cultivation of rice, around the second century AD, cattle were brought to Japan from China.
What did the Japanese think of the cattle?
Until 1868, they were basically used as draught animals in forestry, agriculture, mining and for transport.
Thats very interesting, tell me more. | Kobe beef
Kobe beef is also called , or in Japanese.
History.
Cattle were brought to Japan from China at the same time as the cultivation of rice, in about the second century AD, in the Yayoi period. Until about the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were used only as draught animals, in agriculture, forestry, mining and for transport, and as a source of fertiliser. Milk consumption was unknown, and – for cultural and religious reasons – meat was not eaten. | some contribution from the Ayrshire and Devon breeds.
History.
Cattle were brought to Japan from China at the same time as the cultivation of rice, in about the second century AD, in the Yayoi period. Until about the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were used only as draught animals, in agriculture, forestry, mining and for transport, and as a source of fertiliser. Milk consumption was unknown, and – for cultural and religious reasons – meat was not eaten. Cattle were highly prized | 3,658 | wow-train |
I sometimes enjoy drinking a cappuccino at Starbucks.
Me too, it's very popular where I live, here in Seattle because it was founded here in 1971.
Longer ago than I though, do you know when they began their expansion all over the country?
I'm not sure, but as of 2016 they have 23,768 locations all over the world!
I think at some point they were going to cut the number of stores because they were not profitable, If they did, it doesn't seem it was much. What of their coffees is your favorite? | , while Starbucks nowadays uses automated espresso machines for efficiency and safety reasons.
Starbucks locations serve hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, microground instant coffee known as VIA, espresso, caffe latte, full- and loose-leaf teas including Teavana tea products, Evolution Fresh juices, Frappuccino beverages, La Boulange pastries, and snacks including items such as chips and crackers; some offerings (including their annual fall launch of the Pumpkin Spice Latte) are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Many stores sell | , but it's important they know me for more than just my YouTube covers – that they can come for the Chief Keef and 2 Chainz covers but they can also see 'she has original music too,' so it's really important that people know me as a songwriter, and a musician, something more than just a YouTube artist." "I think the reason I'm here is because I never tried to be where I am; we didn't construct this image or plan of attack. [My manager | 3,659 | wow-train |
hello what's there to love about vegas?
Hi, I really want to go to Vegas, the 28th-most populated city in the United States is enough reason to go there!
Wow, why are there so many people staying there?
Its a renowned major resort city, like one big theme park (for adults)!
When was the city founded? | most visited tourist destinations. The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, and music videos.
Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated American city founded within that century (a similar distinction earned by Chicago in the 1800s). Population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 | Las Vegas
Las Vegas (, Spanish for "The Meadows"; ), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, | 3,660 | wow-train |
Have you seen romeo and juliet one of my favorites
I've read this book by William Shakespeare! One of my most favorite tragedy
Very nice one ! Is there anything else you can tell me about William Shakespeare ?
of course! He is one of my favorite writers! Actually Romeo and Juliet was among Shakespeare's most popular playes during his lifetime
I did not know it was his more popular thats very interesting ! Thanks for the information | Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with "Hamlet", is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
"Romeo and Juliet" belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into | ". Andy's bandmate suggests he sings the "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" more like jazz musician and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who Andy admits he has never heard of. Andy and his band also performs "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". Leslie said reuniting Marlene and Frank would be like reuniting Romeo and Juliet, the protagonists of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, or reuniting actress Jennifer Aniston and actor Brad Pitt. She also warns | 3,661 | wow-train |
I recently broke my leg doing bicycle stunts in my backyard. | Bone fracture
A bone fracture (sometimes abbreviated FRX or Fx, F, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of the bone. In more severe cases, the bone may be broken into several pieces. A bone fracture may be the result of high force impact or stress, or a minimal trauma injury as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis, osteopenia, bone cancer, or osteogenesis imperfecta, where the fracture is | song at 15, and my artist friend Nina said that what we were doing was amazing. She helped me to find a gig, and from that day, it has been non-stop."
But Daulne didn't really get interested in singing until an accident she sustained while dancing in a stage show left her unable to participate in athletics. "I wanted to be a runner, but then I broke my leg and I was finished with sports. I stayed at home, listening to music. I was | 3,662 | wow-train |
Do you own the smartphone that Apple puts out - the iPhone?
I do own an iPhone. I have an iPhone 6. Do you know of Steve Jobs?
Yes, I believe he is responsible behind a lot of Apple products. He helped with the iOS.
The iOS is a good operating system. Maybe you should tell me about iOS? | IPhone
iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. All generations of the iPhone use Apple's iOS mobile operating system software. The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, and multiple new hardware iterations with new iOS releases have been released since.
The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and can connect to cellular networks. An iPhone can take photos, play music, send and receive | Siri" Apple Special Event on September 9, 2015, alongside other new or refreshed products, including the iPad Pro, the iPhone 6s and the Apple TV. However, there was minimal focus directly on the new device, with only a brief mention at the end of the iPad Pro portion of the keynote.
Features.
Features Software.
The iPad Mini 4 ships with the iOS 9 operating system pre-installed, and was the first device to do so. With an additional 1 GB of RAM compared to | 3,663 | wow-train |
Hi Im in orphan. Both my parents died when i was young.
That's unfortunate. What are orphanages like?
Orphanages are okay in the UNited States. You usually get taken in by a family for a little while. It can be lonely.
How long have they existed?
In the United States since the industrial revolution officially.
Do they ever get overcrowded? | List of orphans and foundlings
Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. While the exact definition of orphan varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment.
Figures | while most countries require prospective adoptive parents to first get approval to adopt, in some the approval can only be given afterwards. Often an "orphan" is a child whose living birth family has consented to an adoption. Some describe orphanages as "nurseries" or "children's homes" because in numerous instances children's parents have not consented to an adoption of their children. It is not uncommon for a parent to put a child in a "nursery" temporarily while they deal with poverty or work, or want to | 3,664 | wow-train |
I garden and I grow a lot of carrots, root vegetable that is orange
That sounds fun! I have a garden too. I'm growing some pumpkins. | Carrot
The carrot ("Daucus carota" subsp. "sativus") is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. Carrots are a domesticated form of the wild carrot, "Daucus carota", native to Europe and southwestern Asia. The plant probably originated in Persia and was originally cultivated for its leaves and seeds. The most commonly eaten part of the plant is the taproot, although the stems and leaves are eaten as well. The | You go ahead and you do it hey, but you are scared stiff. I was! I didn’t think anybody would want to kill us because we were trying to organize miners, it seemed incredible.
The material sacrifice of the work tumble out not far behind:
Those few months I lived on carrots that we happened to grow in the garden. And, if I ever see another soup bone it is going to be too many. From that day to this, I don’t boil a soup | 3,665 | wow-train |
Although I think he gets far too much credit, Nicholas Sparks has managed to publish 19 novels and 2 non-fiction books.
I have to agree that Nicholas sparks does put out a lot of content. Have you read any of his novels?
Yeah... I have to admit I have read The Notebook. I had to give him a shot. Not my bag.
Do you enjoy other romance novels? | a type of novel defined by Walter Scott as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvelous and uncommon incidents."
A thriving genre of works conventionally referred to as "romance novels" existed in ancient Greece. Other precursors can be found in the literary fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Samuel Richardson's sentimental novel "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" (1740) and the novels of Jane Austen. Austen inspired Georgette Heyer, the British author of historical romance set | Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. His novels feature stories of tragic love with happy endings and Christian values.
Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, "The Passing", in 1985, | 3,666 | wow-train |
I am an ageing person although we all are when you are getting to 50 you are aging for sure
I feel like I am aging and i'm only 27!
the term refers to everyone, especially humans, but anything really plants, animals etc
I see, I never looked at plants as aging, but I guess if you look at the trees, there are signs of their age | , psychological, and social changes. Reaction time, for example, may slow with age, while knowledge of world events and wisdom may expand. Ageing is among the greatest known risk factors for most human diseases: of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds die from age-related causes.
The causes of ageing are uncertain; current theories are assigned to the damage concept, whereby the accumulation of damage (such as DNA oxidation) may cause biological systems to fail, or | Ageing
Ageing or aging (see spelling differences) is the process of becoming older. The term refers especially to human beings, many animals, and fungi, whereas for example bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biologically immortal. In the broader sense, ageing can refer to single cells within an organism which have ceased dividing (cellular senescence) or to the population of a species (population ageing).
In humans, ageing represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over time, encompassing physical | 3,667 | wow-train |
I went to Walmart earlier today. It always seems to be incredibly busy!
They must be! They're so big that they bought Sam's Club.
Walmart own's Sam's Club? I had no idea. But Sam's Club is also incredibly busy, so it makes sense! | Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. Walmart has 11,368 stores and clubs in 27countries, operating under 55 differentnames. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México | , they announced that it would close all six of its Canadian Sam's Club locations. Sam's Club also rebranded two unopened locations as new Walmart Supercentres. This was part of Walmart Canada's decision to shift focus towards supercenter stores. Some industry observers suggested that the Canadian Sam's Club never enjoyed the success of its American counterpart due to competition with Costco and the non-membership the Real Canadian Superstore (known as Maxi & Ci] in Quebec), as both chains that had a well-established history in Canada | 3,668 | wow-train |
I like to read
I do as well. I am teaching my young child to read and it requires continuous practice!
Of course. And it is good to teach kids to read too
Reading also requires creativity and critical analysis - so you are really using your brain when you read.
Definitely that is why i keep my chocolate handy while reading
That's funny. It is also a great way of sharing information and ideas.
Oh yeah. I like to read anything whatsoever | culturally and socially situated. The reading process requires continuous practice, development, and refinement. Reading requires creativity and critical analysis. Consumers of literature deviate from literal words to create images that make sense to them in the unfamiliar places the texts describe. Because reading is a complex process, it cannot be controlled or restricted to one or two interpretations. There are no concrete laws in reading, but rather it provides readers an escape to produce their own products introspectively. This promotes deep exploration of texts during interpretation.
Readers | . I think it's going to be cultic. I think always people will be reading them but it will be a small group of people. Maybe more people than now read Latin poetry, but somewhere in that range. ... To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really. So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to come by—it's hard | 3,669 | wow-train |
I love to watch horror movies even if they give me nightmares!
Yes, sometimes it marvels me how such horror scenes can be the figment of some producer's imagination
The best horror movies usually involve psychopaths, aliens or zombies.
Do you know when producer felt viewers liked such movies and they started making them?
The first horror films appeared in the 1890's silent films.
Wow, that's a long time. Do you think there is a regulatory body to curtail the amount of horror that can be in a movie?
I don't think so.
Wouldn't it be nice to have such? because I think some horror movies are really very horror and net to be regulated
Edgar Allen Poe inspired so many horror movies so they have been around a while without regulation.
Yes, Edgar Allen Poe is a household name | Horror film
A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit fear for entertainment purposes. Initially inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley, horror has existed as a film genre for more than a century. The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction, and thriller genres.
Horror films often aim to evoke viewers' nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve | know the [original] movie. That's what got me interested in it. I have had a really good working relationship with him. And the whole point of why my business exists and why I'm such a fanatic about making movies inexpensively is that you get to do different stuff. We just wanted to try it. That's the fun thing. When you don't have a $20 million horror film, which is a typical horror movie studio budget, or a $180 million tent-pole budget, | 3,670 | wow-train |
I have a kitten, or kitty or kitty cat that I just got recently.
oh yea? your first?
Yes, I have researched a lot before I received my first one, such as how they are very dependent on their mother for survival for first couple days.
oh that was a smart move | Kitten
A kitten is a juvenile cat. After being born, kittens are totally dependent on their mother for survival and they do not normally open their eyes until after seven to ten days. After about two weeks, kittens quickly develop and begin to explore the world outside the nest. After a further three to four weeks, they begin to eat solid food and grow adult teeth. Domestic kittens are highly social animals and usually enjoy human companionship.
Etymology and development.
The word "kitten" derives from the | going on that your mind sort of catches without identifying, like a lot of poetic devices. You take the number of words that sound the same or start with the same letter or whatever. You just certainly don't start in the middle of it and go, "Oh, that's alliteration".
Lee said in an interview: "There are a couple of tracks on the last few records where just before the fade-out, I try to put my two cents in (laughs). I did | 3,671 | wow-train |
I really miss morning cartoons , Like Tom and Jerry.
Tom and Jerry is a classic. It was created in 1940 but seems ageless.
I agree, did the person who made Tom and Jerry make any other cartoons?
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were the creators and yes they did make a lot of other popular cartoons.
Wow, I never made the connection, Did they make yogi bear? | Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is a fictional character who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in "The Huckleberry Hound Show".
Yogi Bear was the first breakout character in animated television and was created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound. In January 1961, he was given his own show, "The Yogi Bear Show", sponsored by Kellogg's, which included the segments "Snagglepuss" and " | by "Tom and Jerry" creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and were among the last of the original MGM theatrical cartoons made. The studio was shut down in 1957, and Hanna and Barbera would move on to television animation production success with their own Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Spike was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and later Daws Butler. Tyke did not talk in the theatrical shorts, but did speak on the FOX television series "Tom & Jerry Kids", for which the duo appeared in their own segments | 3,672 | wow-train |
I really like roses. | Rose
A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe | onto the melody, Yorke said that creating "Fake Plastic Trees" was the opposite. He said, "That was not forced at all, it was just recording whatever was going on in my head, really. I mean, I wrote those words and laughed. I thought they were really funny, especially that bit about polystyrene".
Guitarist Ed O'Brien described early attempts to record "Fake Plastic Trees" at London's RAK Studios as sounding "like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain'. It | 3,673 | wow-train |
My sister is a vegetarian! I think its very interesting. Do you know any vegetarians? | Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animals processed for food.
Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons. Many people object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs, as well as animal rights advocacy. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural, | calling "Crossfire" a debate show was "like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition." During the exchange, Carlson told Stewart, "I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion," to which Stewart replied, "You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."
Following his appearance, transcripts and live stream footage were released on the Internet and widely watched and discussed. At a | 3,674 | wow-train |
My dad used to work for Microsoft.
Did he work at headquarters? It is located in Redmond, Washington.
Yes he did.
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates. I'd say it's a fairly new company.
Yes it is fairly new still and a great success.
It got most popular starting in the mid-1980s because of MS-DOS, and then Microsoft Windows.
My dad started working for them in 1978. | Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.
, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC compatible operating system market | to the State Route 520 and its floating bridge connecting Redmond to Seattle; the company did not want to delay the construction any further. Microsoft was ranked number 1 in the list of the World's Best Multinational Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute in 2011.
Corporate identity Headquarters.
The corporate headquarters, informally known as the Microsoft Redmond campus, is located at One Microsoft Way in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft initially moved onto the grounds of the campus on February 26, 1986, weeks before the company went public | 3,675 | wow-train |
Have you ever seen South Park?
No. Have you?
No. It seems pretty interesting though!
Really?
Yeah, it centers around four boys and their bizarre adventures in and around their town.
Ok. It seems to be interesting | towards a mature audience.
Parker and Stone developed the show from "The Spirit of Christmas", two consecutive animated shorts. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, ultimately leading to "South Park"'s production.
Since its debut on August 13, 1997, episodes of "South Park" have been broadcast. It debuted with great success, consistently earning the highest ratings of any basic cable program. Subsequent ratings have varied but it remains one of Comedy Central's highest rated shows, and | to watch as you get to see multiple cricket teams playing on the same ground at same time.
The town has government run primary and secondary schools separately for boys and girls. Government Boys School is called as G.B.Pant Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya. Girls schools have good discipline and reputation. It seems that there is no discipline in G.B. Pant Boys School because the students may be seen wandering everywhere in school timing frequently in groups wasting their time. School Administration has not seems to be worried about the future of its students (It | 3,676 | wow-train |
I enjoy going to museums. MOMA art is my favorite as it idenfifies influential museums of modern art worldwide.
I have never been to that one but I love to spend hours in the museums
Then you would love visiting this one ! The library includes over 300K books and exhibits of ephemera about individual artists and groups.
That sounds right up my alley, what else can you tell me about it?
The MOMA archives holds important primary source material that is subsequently related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
Oh I could spend all day looking at that
If you would like to visit, The MOMA is centrally located in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
I would love to visit the city and the museum | offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media.
The MoMA Library includes approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
History.
History Heckscher and other buildings (1929–39).
The idea for | its community and have made this an irresistible opportunity for me. As a graduate of Smith, I find this opportunity doubly exciting—a chance to do the work I love for the benefit of a community that I care about deeply.” (March 25, 2005)Widely regarded as one of the most distinguished college museums in the country, the Smith College Museum of Art is best known for its 19th- and 20th-century European and American collection. Among its permanent collection includes works by Manet, Monet, Picasso, Copley, | 3,677 | wow-train |
My favorite food is ice cream.
Do you like it the way it is normally made? With milk and cream?
I do not drink milk, I am a vegan since last year. | ice crystals from forming. The result is a smooth, semi-solid foam that is solid at very low temperatures (below ). It becomes more malleable as its temperature increases.
The meaning of the name "ice cream" varies from one country to another. Terms such as "frozen custard," "frozen yogurt," "sorbet," "gelato," and others are used to distinguish different varieties and styles. In some countries, such as the United States, "ice cream" applies only | and milk in a blender or drink mixer using a stainless steel cup. Many fast food outlets do not make shakes by hand with ice cream; instead, they make shakes in automatic milkshake machines which freeze and serve a pre-made milkshake mixture consisting of milk, a sweetened flavoring agent, and a thickening agent. However, some fast food outlets still follow the traditional method, and some serve milkshakes which are prepared by blending soft-serve ice cream (or ice milk) with flavoring or syrups. Milkshakes can also | 3,678 | wow-train |
I am really suspicious of palm readers.
there are many beliefs involving palmistry
Can you give examples of such beliefs?
many people believe that the palmistry is a pseudoscience and they also attach religious beliefs over it
Yep I consider myself not one of those people. Palmistry is a dark art and should be banened. | analysts", or "chirologists".
There are many—often conflicting—interpretations of various lines and palmar features across various schools of palmistry. These contradictions between different interpretations, as well as the lack of evidence for palmistry's predictions, have caused palmistry to be viewed as a pseudoscience by academics.
History.
History Ancient palmistry.
Palmistry is a practice common to many different places on the Eurasian landmass; it has been practised in the cultures of India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Persia, Sumeria | goods and services are displayed by different vendors, including forms of alternative medicine and esoteric practices such as palmistry or tarot card reading. A prominent example is the Mind Body Spirit Festival, held annually in the United Kingdom, at which – the religious studies scholar Christopher Partridge noted – one could encounter "a wide range of beliefs and practices from crystal healing to ... Kirlian photography to psychic art, from angels to past-life therapy, from Theosophy to UFO religion, and from New Age music to the vegetarianism of Suma Chign | 3,679 | wow-train |
i do not like pickles
That is a real shame! I love the tangyness of pickles. Sometimes I even buy Gherkin cucumbers and make my own pickles.
Why do you like it
I don't know I just always have. I love the texture and flavor. Just delicious! What don't you like about them?
I Just hate the way they are modified and I hate seeing holes on things
Have you ever tried sweet gherkins? They add sugar to the pickling brine and they are rally delicious. Even people that don't like pickles like sweet gherkins.
I have never tasted that before. How is it made? | (1 to 3 in) in length and pickled in jars or cans with vinegar (often flavoured with herbs, particularly dill; hence, "dill pickle") or brine. Sugar is also a popular addition, in which case the label typically shows "Sweet Gherkins".
Types Gherkin Cornichon.
Cornichons are tart French pickles made from small gherkins pickled in vinegar and tarragon. They traditionally accompany pâtés and cold cuts.
Types Brined pickles.
Brined pickles are prepared using the traditional process of natural fermentation in a | liked to work from my imagination. I like to work from a fact, and I will try to make something out of the fact. I enjoy that most. And I do my best work when I do that. I don't know whether it's just because I put it out of my mind that I don't like to make things up. Some artists are marvelous at just fantastic inventions. But I love the smell and the feel of life. You have to follow your appetites. You don't choose | 3,680 | wow-train |
I like the act of role-playing as duck every now and then.
Interesting! What is your reason for role-playing as a duck? Where do you role-play at? | Role-playing
Role-playing is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the "Oxford English Dictionary" offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:
- To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting | some intellectual heft to it. It's going to get you thinking. For this reason, I think that playing Shock can actually be therapeutic: when you're feeling confused about some topic in the news, if you can't decide how you feel about some pressing social issue, if you see a new invention and wonder what it might mean, you can play a Shock game about it. Role-playing it out might help you and your friends work through your thoughts and explore possible consequences. In Shock, I | 3,681 | wow-train |
I would love to own a Porsche one day. I love their high-performance sports cars.
I love how they look but I must confess I don't know much about cars.
I will tell you about the Porsche 911 then. It is a two-door classic sports car made since 1963 in Stuttgart, Germany.
Oh nice, I love 2 door cars I think they're very aesthetically pleasing. Do you know how fast it can go?
The 911R can hit 201 mph. The only place you could do that is on a straight area of the Autobahn lol.
God that is fast. I think that's a bit too dangerous for me lol. Germans of course. | Autobahn
The Autobahn , German plural ') is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (plural ', abbreviated "BAB"), which translates as "federal motorway". The literal meaning of the word "Bundesautobahn" is "Federal Auto(mobile) Track".
German "Autobahnen" are widely known for having no federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles. However, limits are posted (and enforced) in areas that are urbanised, substandard, accident- | Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 (pronounced "Nine Eleven" or in ) is a two-door, 2+2 high performance rear-engined sports car made since 1963 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a rear-mounted flat-six engine and all round independent suspension. It has undergone continuous development, though the basic concept has remained unchanged. The engines were air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998, with the 993, produced from 1994–1998 model years, being the | 3,682 | wow-train |
My daughter just went to Paris for her honeymoon! Have you ever been?
I have never been to Paris. It seems like a great place to visit. I know it's the capital and biggest city in France.
Yes! It has so much history and culture!
Yes I've heard of some of the historical places such as the river Seine which divides the city.
The top tourist attraction is the Notre Dame Cathedral which is on my bucket list!
I would like to see that too, you should visit the river Seine it's a huge river that even commercial boats can go down.
Oh and of course the Eiffel Tower lol | is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015.
The tower is tall, about the same height as an 81- building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. It was the first structure | they perform. Hanakowski was quoted in a February 2008 interview, "Really, right now I'm not sure what to think. I've read the books, heard the horror stories, but still immediately said yes when it was offered. There was never a doubt in my mind, my hope is just to learn. With so much time on the road and in the company of some great names like Condello and Vance, I just hope to soak up as much information as I can. The kind of stuff you | 3,683 | wow-train |
My brother is kind of failing as a parent. My mom has taken custody of his kids for the time being, but won't be able to take care of them long-term, so foster care is a real option, sadly. Any way you can help me understand that process, or the history of it? | Foster care
Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, etc.), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent" or with a family member approved by the state. The placement of the child is normally arranged through the government or a social service agency. The institution, group home or foster parent is compensated for expenses unless with a family member.
The State | but stipulated that the coaching was done in the nearest bar-parlour. Soon after joining, his manager called him aside and said, "My boy, you're too good for juveniles. When I see real talent I always help it on. I'll sacrifice myself by exchanging parts with you - I'll lend you my clothes (take care of them as it has taken me years to collect them), and you shall lend me yours." "Whereupon this gentleman" says Mr. Blakiston, "possessed himself | 3,684 | wow-train |
South Park
One of my favorite shows! I can't believe its been around since 1997! That is over 20 years now.
My friend loves the show South Park.
Yeah, a ton of people like the show. It is one of Comedy Centrals highest rated shows and I think that says something with all that Comedy Central comes out with!
Yes, that's definitely hard to believe. I do remember watching it after I got out of highschool. | South Park
South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network. The show revolves around four boys—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick—and their exploits in and around the titular Colorado town. Much like "The Simpsons", "South Park" uses a very large ensemble cast of recurring characters. It became infamous for its profanity and dark, surreal humor that satirizes a wide range of topics | . During the spring of 1998, eight of the ten highest-rated shows on basic cable were "South Park" episodes.
The success of "South Park" prompted more cable companies to carry Comedy Central and led it to its becoming one of the fastest-growing cable channels. The number of households that had Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million in 1997 to 50 million in June 1998. When the show debuted, the most Comedy Central had earned for a 30-second commercial was US$7,500. Within a year, | 3,685 | wow-train |
I recently found out that I'm going to be moving to Tokyo! I'm trying to research the city. Have you been to Tokyo?
Yes, I have been many times. The Greater Tokyo Area has the highest population than any other metropolitan area in the world.
That's incredible! What is the population of Tokyo?
It's around 9 million. They have a good transportation system there. every part of Greater Tokyo has rail or road transport services.
Oh good! It will be easy to get around without having to drive! What is the area like that surrounds Tokyo? Are there any natural areas?
It is the 2nd largest metropolitan area in the whole world and is very urban so you have to go to other Islands for a more natural setting.
That's what I was wondering. Are there many islands surrounding Tokyo? | the city his headquarters in 1603. It became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolis formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . Tokyo is often referred to as a city but is officially known and governed as a "metropolitan prefecture", which differs from and combines elements of a city and a prefecture, a characteristic unique to Tokyo.
The 23 Special Wards of Tokyo were formerly Tokyo City. | city is defined as, "one having a population of 2 million and above".
Japan.
In Japan, it is division that has been set separately from administrative areas in order to define wide urban areas by the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world.
- Central City (中心市)
- Those of the greater metropolitan areas are the 23 special wards in the metropolis of Tokyo and other designated cities. | 3,686 | wow-train |
So... Nike is obviously this big company, right? But where did it all start? How did they become so dominant in the athletic world? | , 1971. The company takes its name from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Nike markets its products under its own brand, as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air Jordan, Nike Blazers, Air Force 1, Nike Dunk, Air Max, Foamposite, Nike Skateboarding, Nike CR7, and subsidiaries including Brand Jordan, Hurley International and Converse. Nike also owned Bauer Hockey (later renamed Nike Bauer) from 1995 to 2008, and previously owned Cole Haan and Umbro. In addition to manufacturing | where she did not need to commute across the country as she did at Nike. Nike had recently appointed its own new CEO and a new president, so she actively looked to find an opportunity in another company, seeking this time one that was direct-to-consumer, entrepreneurial but not a start-up, and one that she could transform by taking advantage of new technological advances. A recruiter approached her about IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC), the parent company of HSN, Inc., and after studying HSN's | 3,687 | wow-train |
Pepsi is one of the leading softdrink brands and really popular in the north. | Greek word for "digestion" (πέψη, pronounced the same as Pepsi), which the drink was purported to aid, and "cola" after the kola nut. The original recipe also included sugar and vanilla. Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was appealing and would aid in digestion and boost energy.
In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore to a rented warehouse. That year, Bradham sold 7,968 gallons of syrup. The next year, Pepsi was sold in six | Company. It is one of the most popular cola brands in North America and worldwide.
- Pepsi, produced and manufactured by PepsiCo, is also one of the most popular cola brands in North America and worldwide. Pepsi is the main competitor and rival of Coca-Cola.
- RC Cola, short for Royal Crown Cola, is now produced by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group
- Cott produces many house brand beverages as well as its own line of products, most notably its "Black Cherry" and " | 3,688 | wow-train |
Porsche makes some really nice cars.
porsche are a german sport car manufacturer
Oh really? I would've guessed Italian.
Porsche AG is headquartered in stuttgart which is cool
Cool, Germany seems like a cool place to visit already so that makes it even cooler.
porshces current lineup include models like 719 boxster, 911, panamera and mroe
I've heard of all of those except the panamera. | Porsche
Dr.-Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche AG (), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans. Porsche AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, and is owned by Volkswagen AG, which is itself majority-owned by Porsche Automobil Holding SE. Porsche's current lineup includes the 718 Boxster/Cayman, 911, Panamera, Macan and Cayenne.
History.
History Origin.
Ferdinand Porsche founded the company called "Dr. Ing. h. c. F. | F. Porsche AG (which stands for "Doktor Ingenieur honoris causa Ferdinand Porsche Aktiengesellschaft"), as a 100% subsidiary of VW AG, is responsible for the actual production and manufacture of the Porsche automobile line. The company currently produces Porsche 911, Boxster and Cayman sports cars, the Cayenne and Macan sport utility vehicles and the four-door Panamera.
History Subsidiaries.
Porsche AG has a 29% share in German engineering and design consultancy Bertrandt AG and 81.8% of Mieschke Hofmann und Partner. In 2018, Porsche | 3,689 | wow-train |
hi, do you like football? | Crochet
Crochet (; ) is a process of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials using a crochet hook. The name is derived from the French term "crochet", meaning 'small hook'. These are made of materials such as metal, wood, or plastic and are manufactured commercially and produced in artisan workshops. The salient difference between crochet and knitting, beyond the implements used for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before the next one is begun | 2008 issue.
On the D12 single, "Just Like You," Bizarre references Hi-Tek, who produced the track. He says, "When Mos Def hear this, he probably gonna suffocate me, why you let Bizarre rap on Hi-Tek track? All he gonna do is talk about ho's and smokin' crack." This is a reference to Hi-Tek's early career with Mos Def and Talib Kweli who are known for a more responsible brand of music.
Discography | 3,690 | wow-train |
Are you a big fan of sushi? Do you know much about it?
Yes, but I prefer the sushi with white rice as opposed to brown rice.
Me too. I also don't like raw fish in mine. Gross
I prefer the ones with raw fish. However, they also make vegetarian sushi.
That's what I prefer. I love crunchy dragon rolls.. they're delicious.
Yes with eel! I also enjoy sashimi which is sliced raw fish.
I've never tried eel. What is it like?
Eel is on a dragon roll usually. It has a very meaty flavor.
Oh I didn't realize I was eating eel! LOL I guess I enjoy it because it's my favorite. | confused with "sashimi", a related dish in Japanese cuisine that consists of thinly sliced raw fish, or occasionally meat, and an optional serving of rice.
History.
Sushi originates in a Southeast Asian dish, known today as "narezushi" ( – "salted fish"), stored in fermented rice for possibly months at a time. The lacto-fermentation of the rice prevented the fish from spoiling; the rice would be discarded before consumption of the fish. This early type of sushi became an important | will keep fresh on ice for about ten days, without turning white or otherwise degrading.
Many non-Japanese use the terms "sashimi" and sushi interchangeably, but the two dishes are distinct and separate. Sushi refers to any dish made with vinegared rice. While raw fish is one traditional sushi ingredient, many sushi dishes contain seafood that has been cooked, and others have no seafood at all. "Sashimi" by contrast is always served on its own.
Serving.
"Sashimi" is often the | 3,691 | wow-train |
Are you a fan of association football? I am!
I love watching association football, which Americans call soccer. It is played between two teams of eleven.
Yeah, I cheer for the American team even though they aren't good! | Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Association football is one of a family | Simwla and all the soccer fans. I appreciate that Simwala played more football than I did and is very good and popular. Even as a coach, he has been very successful."
When the two teams met in the league a few weeks later, Nkana pulverised ZESCO 4–0. That same year, Simwala had a coaching stint at Swansea in Wales for 6 weeks.
In 1989, Simwala incensed the Referees Association of Zambia (RAZ) with his comments after a league game, when he remarked that his wife | 3,692 | wow-train |
I live in Florida, which is Spanish for land of flowers. Love the weather
Really? I had no idea! Is it warm there now?
A little bit. I live near Miami. It's Florida's most populous urban area. Lots of fun.
That sounds nice. I once visited Orlando Florida. It was amazing. Are there alligators in Miami? | About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, approximately , not including the contribution of the many barrier islands. Florida has a total of 4,510 islands that are ten acres or larger in area. This is the second-highest number of islands of any state of the United States; only Alaska has more. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the | The District of Columbia has a maximum speed limit of . There are no rural roads in the District of Columbia.
Florida.
Florida has a maximum speed limit of , found on freeways, including rural Interstate Highways, some urban freeways including I-4 in Lakeland, I-75 in Tampa and Miami (where I-75 ends), I-95 near Daytona Beach and from Military Trail to Florida State Route 706 in Palm Beach County, portions of the Orlando area toll roads such as SR 417 and SR 429, Florida's Turnpike through | 3,693 | wow-train |
Hi. Do you know about Lifeguards
I have never worked as one, but I know you have to be a really strong swimmer and know a lot about first aid.
Lifeguards are strong swimmers and trained in CPR/AED first aid, certified in water rescue using a variety of aids and equipment depending on requirements of their particular venue
Some lifeguards work within a venue like a pool or a lake or a section of beach, but others are part of a larger rescue organization for a region.
Yep. To be a lifeguard, a trainee must be able to swim 300 yards or 12 laps and tread water for 2 minutes without using their hands.
Their job is made harder by the fact that swimmers don't get the proper information and training about avoiding drowning.
This is true. Luckily, lifeguards are so well trained!
Have you ever heard of Lifeguards Without Borders? It is a non-profit dedicated to reducing drowning around the world.
No I have not. But that sounds like a great organization. | Lifeguards Without Borders
Lifeguards Without Borders is an international non-profit organization made up of volunteer lifeguards and health care professionals who aim to reduce drowning worldwide through domestic and international training, program development, and research. The organization was created by doctors Justin Sempsrott and Andrew Schimdt in 2006, and is an international division of the American Red Cross Volunteer Lifesaving Corps, which has provided volunteer lifeguards to beaches in the United States since 1912. The group's projects have included lifeguard instructor training programs in Peru; teaching EMS, nursing | Lifeguard
A lifeguard is a rescuer who supervises the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants such as in a swimming pool, water park, spa, beach or river. Lifeguards are strong swimmers and trained in CPR/AED first aid, certified in water rescue using a variety of aids and equipment depending on requirements of their particular venue. In some areas, lifeguards are part of the emergency services system to incidents and in some communities,lifeguards may function as the primary EMS provider. | 3,694 | wow-train |
We just went to the zoo and a saw jaguar, the largest cat species in America and 3rd largest after the tiger and lion!
I think they are beautiful but I don't know much about them, tell me more please | the IUCN Red List; and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat.
Overall, the jaguar is the largest native cat species of the New World and the third largest in the world. This spotted cat closely resembles the leopard, but is usually larger and sturdier. It ranges across a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, swamps and wooded regions. The jaguar enjoys swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and | of the band in front of an audience in New York, briefly mentioned the bidding war:
"There's something at Star Trak records that we have been very excited about and there's, I don't know. Of course D.A. would want me to sit here and tell you how much of a crazy bidding war there was for them, as everybody in here knows D.A. But you know what? He's right. And if you think about it, think about where they come from and... okay! It | 3,695 | wow-train |
I was once i another lifetime a juggler.
Were you?! Did you get involved in the manipulation of objects for recreation?
I just juggled for extra change and did a bit in a circus. When did juggling come about?
I see, it originates as far back as the 11th century! Long time!
Who were the first to perform juggling? Was there a circus back then?
The first jugglers used more dramatic objects such as knives, fire torches or chainsaws. Circuses came a bit later.
Did they perform in front of nobility like a jester?
Yes! Philip Astley is credited with being the 'father' of the modern circus when he opened the first circus in 1768 in England but I dont think he was a jester!
Whats the most extreme thing that anyone has juggled? | and clowns to the English public, but he was the first to create a space where all these acts were brought together to perform a show. Astley rode in a circle rather than a straight line as his rivals did, and thus chanced on the format of performing in a circle. Astley performed stunts in a 42 ft diameter ring, which is the standard size used by circuses ever since. Astley referred to the performance arena as a circle and the building as an amphitheatre; these would later be known as a | and when I was there had been using them about 10 days, and the shearers were doing on an average over 100 per man. One man did 160, and when you consider the superior way the sheep are shorn, and, you get every ounce of wool taken off as it grows on the sheep, I should think that the expense of getting the machines fitted up would repay itself in two years by the extra price of the wool and the far less knocking about the sheep get. The only part of the | 3,696 | wow-train |
Do you like cue sports, like Pool or darts?
Cue sport is also known as billiard sport
I prefer pool cause it sounds cooler haha. But I enjoy them from time to time but I am terrible at both | Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports,
are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various | of the Philippines, and tournament organizer Raya Sports.
In the final, England's Darren Appleton defeated Nineteen-year-old Wu Chia-ching, who was using a borrowed cue stick, winning $100,000. Appleton was also quoted as saying: "Pool is an easy choice for me as a sport as I have to choose among boxing, football and pool among others. But this victory is sweeter for me and I have to dedicate this to my parents, whose relationship is in the rocks. With the | 3,697 | wow-train |
farmers are people engaged in agriculture
There are a lot of them around here in the south, | Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are known as farm workers, or farmhands. However, in | Chieti, situated on a ridge a few miles inland and just south of the Aterno-Pescara River which flows into the sea at nearby Pescara.
There has been a movement by farmers away from the land and the area. The outflow has been greatest from the hilly and mountainous areas, where the holdings are small and worked by the families who own them. In the period 1951 to 1971, the number of people employed in agriculture in Chieti fell from over 80% to around 45%, the number employed in | 3,698 | wow-train |
My spouse and I really enjoy our hybrid Toyota Prius. Have you ever ridden in or drove one?
I have. Does your Prius get good fuel economy?
It gets about 50 miles per gallon which is great and has been rated by the EPA as one of the cleanest cars on the road in terms of emissions.
That is awesome! How are the maintenance expenses compared to a non-hybrid car?
In terms of the short term maintenance rather comparable. It is only later when you have to think about changing out the electric battery that it gets expensive.
I see. Generally how long do Prius batteries last? | Hybrid vehicle
A hybrid vehicle uses two or more distinct types of power, such as internal combustion engine to drive an electric generator that powers an electric motor, e.g. in diesel-electric trains using diesel engines to drive an electric generator that powers an electric motor, and submarines that use diesels when surfaced and batteries when submerged. Other means to store energy include pressurized fluid in hydraulic hybrids.
The basic principle with hybrid vehicles is that the different motors work better at different speeds; the electric motor is more efficient at | range in blended mode is as rated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA fuel economy rating is 95 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (MPG-e) (2.5 L/100 km; 114 mpg-imp) in charge-depleting (all-electric or EV mode) and a combined city/highway rating of in hybrid mode, the same as the conventional Prius liftback. The first generation Prius plug-in was based on a third generation Toyota Prius (model ZVW30) outfitted with a | 3,699 | wow-train |
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