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2.2: Effects of Force
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2: Force
Contributed by Tom Weideman
Lecturer (Physics) at University of California, Davis
Newton's Second Law
Combining Newton's Second and Third Laws
A Summary of Concepts Related to Newton's Laws
We have built some tools for analyzing situations where forces act on objects (force phrase, FBDs), and we know that there can only be accelerations when forces are present (first law). But we still are not yet able to describe the motion of an object under the influence of one or more forces. That's because the first law only tells us qualitatively what is happening. In physics we seek to develop quantitative models, and that's where the second law comes in. It is really just a more detailed description of the first law, or alternatively, the first law is just a special case of the second law.
We know that force is related not to velocity (because the first law says that constant velocity exists in the absence of force), but rather the change of velocity. More specifically, the rate of change of the velocity – the acceleration. Newton defined force in the simplest possible fashion in terms of acceleration – with a linear relationship. He knew that pushing equal amounts on two objects of different masses resulted in different changes of motion, so he stated that the relationship between force and acceleration as a simple proportionality:
\[ \text{acceleration of object} = \dfrac{\text{force acting on object}}{\text{mass of object}} \]
The idea is that for a given force, the reaction of the object (in the form of an acceleration) is inversely-proportional to the amount of mass the object possesses. Let's take a moment to mention units:
\( \left[ F \right] = \dfrac{kg \cdot m}{s^2} = \; \text{"Newtons"} \; \left( N \right) \)
There is much more detail lurking in here. First of all, acceleration and force are both vectors, while mass is a scalar, so the second law is actually a vector equation:
\[ \overrightarrow a = \frac{\overrightarrow F}{m} \]
This means that the acceleration experienced by an object is just a scaled vector of the force exerted on the object. That is, the acceleration and the force always point in the same direction (mass is never negative). Of course, the scaling also changes the units.
Most people first encounter Newton's second law expressed as \( \overrightarrow F = m \overrightarrow a\). While this is mathematically equivalent to what is above, it is very dangerous to write this way, as it encourages a very common misconception. We write it as we do above to emphasize the interpretation: "the effect on the motion (the acceleration) results from the cause (the force), moderated by a property of the object experiencing the effect (the mass)." The danger of using the other expression is that it reads like, "the force of the object equals the mass of the object multiplied by the acceleration of the object." This turns the quantities of force and acceleration into properties of the object, rather than cause and effect, and this leads to subtle but important misconceptions.
We aren't done modifying the second law to its proper form yet! We know from our discussion of force diagrams that a large number of forces can be on an object at the same time. Which force is the one that causes the acceleration? All of them. Do we figure out the accelerations of each force and then add them up? That makes no sense physically – objects do not experience lots of accelerations at once. Instead, we take all of the forces together and add them as vectors to create a single composite force we call the net force, and that is what goes into the equation:
\[ \overrightarrow a = \dfrac{\overrightarrow F_{net}}{m} \]
Still not done! Suppose only a single force is acting on a specific point of an extended object? Remarkably, it doesn't matter where the force acts on an object, if you measure the motion of the center of mass of the object (a quantity we will examine in more detail later on), it is the acceleration of that point that is determined by the force and mass.
Figure 2.2.1 – What Part of an Extended Object Accelerates According to the Second Law?
So finally we have arrived at the full-blown version of Newton's second law of motion:
\[ \overrightarrow a_{cm} = \dfrac{\overrightarrow F_{net}}{m} \]
Now perhaps the main point of the free-body diagram is clear: The diagram facilitates our ability to add force vectors (all of which are on the object, not by it), giving us the net force acting on it. We use the usual tools for vector addition to obtain this net force, perhaps expressing it in terms of its components in some coordinate system. Then we divide this vector by the mass of the object, and we have the acceleration of its center of mass, which could also be expressed in terms of its components. Then the acceleration is used to describe the object's motion as we have used it in kinematics.
Example \(\PageIndex{1}\)
A driver steps on the brake pedal of her car, slowing the car down, and her body experiences an acceleration as a result. Which of the following forces does Newton's 2nd Law include when determining her acceleration?
normal force by driver's foot on the brake pedal
friction force by the car tires on the road
friction force by the road on the car tires
(e) One must be very precise when it comes to identifying forces, as ultimately they must be plugged into a mathematical formula. It is not enough that a force sets off a chain of events that leads to an acceleration, it must be the direct effect of that acceleration in order to be the force that is featured in the second law. In addition to being a direct force, it isn't even sufficient to isolate the correct interaction – the specific "twin" from the third law force pair must be identified. That is, the force must be on the object in order to accelerate it. The problem asks what force slows down her body. The normal force on the brake pedal affects the motion of the brake pedal. The friction force on the road affects the motion of the road. The friction force on the tires (which are part of the car's system) affects the motion of the car system. While parts of the car system (namely tension by the seatbelt, friction by the car seat, and normal force by the steering wheel do slow her down, and the friction force on the tires slows down the car, this chain of events does not mean that the friction force slows her down. If you plug the friction force on the tires and her body's mass into the second law, the acceleration you calculate for her will not be correct.
A boy throws a ball straight up, and catches it when it returns. Which pair of diagrams best represents the directions of the net forces experienced by the ball when it hits the peak of its flight (i.e. when it isn't moving), and while the boy is catching it (i.e. not after he has caught it)?
(d) Gravity is always acting on the ball, no matter where it is. When it reaches its peak, there are no other forces on it (the boy's hand is no longer in contact with it), so the gravity force is the net force, and it points down. When the ball is in the process of being caught, there is a force up on it by the boy's hand, and since the ball is moving downward and is slowing, it is accelerating upward, which means the force from the boy's hand exceeds the force of gravity and the net force is upward.
We already saw in the case of the tug-o-war how the second and third laws work together: Each participant exerts an equal tension force on the other. These forces don't cancel because according to the second law, it is only the forces on the system that cause it to accelerate, and these two forces act on different systems. One individual feels this tension force on them, and if it is the only force, it will accelerate them forward (i.e. they will lose). To counter this, this person pushes the ground forward with their feet. But this is a force on the ground, which can only affect the acceleration of the ground, not the person, according to the second law. But now the third law comes to the rescue – when the person pushes on the ground, the ground pushes back equally, and this force is on the person. This opposes the pull of the rope, and if it is stronger than the rope's pull, the net force on the person is backward, and that person wins.
Another question that can be very confusing at first about the third law is this:
Another Puzzling Question: If the gravity force on a rock by the earth is equal and opposite to the gravity force on the earth by the rock, then why doesn't the earth accelerate upward when a rock is dropped to the ground?
As you might have guessed from the title of this section, it is the second law that comes to the rescue here. The answer is that the earth does accelerate up toward the rock! It feels the same net force that the rock feels, thanks to the third law. But when it comes to the acceleration, we need to divide this net force by the mass of the accelerated object, and since the mass of the earth is so much greater than that of the rock, it experiences a much, much smaller acceleration – so much smaller that it is imperceptible.
Finally, for a complete combination of all three of Newton's laws of motion, consider this: You are floating by yourself, untethered and weightless in outer space, mere feet from the hatch to the space station. To get there, you think of the idea of grabbing your own space suit and pulling yourself toward the hatch, and naturally it doesn't work (how you made the space program with such nutty ideas is a mystery). Why doesn't this work? Clearly you can exert a force on your space suit, which should result in an acceleration of that object, right? Well, in this case the relevant "system" is your entire body (you can remove your space suit and accelerate it to the hatch if you like, but that is not advisable). The system of your entire body includes your hand, which is doing the pulling, and experiences the third-law-pair force of the space suit pulling on it. If you draw the free-body diagram of your body and include the force on your suit as well as the force on your hand (both are acting on the system), then they clearly cancel. This had better be the case, because if it wasn't, it would mean that objects can just accelerate themselves, which violates Newton's first law of motion!
Much of what we have discussed in this section and the one before it will be repeated below, but putting all of these idea in one place may help the reader consolidate the ideas into a cogent "big picture."
Force is not a quantity contained within an object.
Forces are push or pull interactions between two objects. If one looks at the two individual forces that make up the interaction, then those two forces are always equal in magnitude and opposite in direction (Newton's 3rd Law).
To avoid confusion, we learned the all-important "force phrase," which reminds us that the individual forces that make up the interaction force pairs always act on one object and by another.
Forces are the cause of accelerations. It is impossible to have one of these without the other. This means that forces (if the vectors don't all cancel each other out) speed up, slow down, or change the direction of an object's motion. And conversely, if an object's motion slows down, speeds up, or changes direction, then it must be experiencing a (net) force. (Newton's 1st Law)
Forces are vectors, which is to say that they have magnitude and direction.
The force vector that causes an object to accelerate is the net force on that object, that is, the vector sum of all of the individual forces exerted on the object. A net force is a combination of one or more real forces, but is not itself a type of force.
Only the forces on an object can contribute to its acceleration (i.e. added together to give the net force), never the forces by it. Forces by an object only affect the motions of the other objects that they act on.
The amount of net force on an object is proportional to the amount of acceleration it experiences, and the constant of proportionality is the mass, a measure of how much stuff is present in the object. (Newton's 2nd Law)
The fact that net force and acceleration are proportional means that as vectors, they must point in the same direction, since mass is never negative.
Mass is sometimes called "inertia," which can be loosely thought of as resistance to acceleration. But this must not be confused with resistance to motion – the smallest net force will cause an acceleration of the largest mass. If a mass at rest doesn't start to move when a small individual force acts on it, it is because there is another force balancing it out, causing zero net force, not because the inertia of the object cannot be overcome.
The part of the object that experiences the acceleration described in Newton's 2nd Law is the center of mass of the object, not the point on the object where the force is acting.
A useful tool for analyzing forces is the force diagram, which consists of isolating an object (which is why it is called a "free body diagram"), followed by drawing in all the force vectors acting on it. Careful use of the force phrase helps us avoid putting incorrect forces on this diagram.
2.1: Properties of Force
2.3: Types of Forces
Tom Weideman


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It's our next Books and Bridges event! On September 20, WBW welcomes Nathan Devir and his presentation "Strained Boundaries: Exclusivism versus Pluralism in the Literature of Chaim Potok".
The award-winning novelist and rabbi Chaim Potok often referred to himself as a zwischenmensch (Yiddish: an "in-between person") with respect to his own religious and social identity; and the characters that populate his novels also exhibit this same existential malaise. Finding Orthodox Judaism too restrictive, and secular American culture too permissive, they are unable to belong wholeheartedly to either milieu. This lecture by University of Utah Jewish Studies professor Nathan Devir will use Potok's literary works to showcase what it means to be an "in-between person" in modern society, regardless of one's particular faith group, especially when the loyalty to that group often proves difficult to reconcile with the freedom to explore one's own personal spiritual and artistic visions allowed for in secular culture.
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OPINION: Capital region needs shared policing
Published: Nov 05, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.
Ray Murphy
Businessman says Charlottetown, Stratford, Cornwall make up a manageable geographic area for a capital region police force that would benefit taxpayers of all three communities
After reading Premier Dennis King's first mandate letters to his ministers, I feel compelled to share some thoughts about our growing capital region.
First, I must commend the recent strides made towards a more collaborative approach to governing from different levels of government. There's a growing appreciation among lawmakers that even though there are several levels of government, at the end of the day, there is only one taxpayer to fund all of their programs and services.
That really makes it prudent for governments to partner and collaborate where possible, and provide quality public services through the efficient use of hard-earned tax dollars. There are many examples that can be pointed to where governments have partnered through common interest, benefiting the public.
The public transit system that serves the capital region is made possible through the cooperation of three municipal governments, the provincial government, the federal government, and of course, the operator. Less than 15 years after transit service began, we are seeing new records set for daily ridership along with all of the social, economic and environmental benefits that come from public transit use – fewer carbon emissions and more social and economic mobility.
The communities of Charlottetown and Stratford, the province and the federal government are collaborating on upgrades to sewage and wastewater infrastructure that will better protect our environment, spur economic growth and enable needed investments in public and private housing. A project that many said would never happen, but it is.
Recently, we saw the mayors of Charlottetown, Cornwall and Stratford unite on an issue of common interest to call on the next federal government to return Prince Edward Island to a single zone for employment insurance (EI).
The provincial election this spring has added to the spirit of collaboration with the election of a minority government under the leadership of Premier King. We are seeing a new approach to governing at the provincial level with a greater collaborative spirit than Islanders have been used to.
This creates the climate for further collaboration to benefit Islanders. An area I would encourage elected officials to look at is shared delivery of police services. With the capital region being less than one-hundred square kilometres between Charlottetown, Stratford and Cornwall, it provides a manageable geographic area for a capital region police force to provide a community-based model of policing that would be a benefit to taxpayers of all three communities.
For being the fastest growing community in P.E.I. and the second fastest in the Atlantic Provinces, I feel that Stratford is under-policed. It requires highly visible and quick response policing, and we deserve full and regular police protection. As a long-time resident of Stratford who has also operated a business there for 33 years and in Cornwall for 15 years, I am well aware of, and can attest to, the need for increased police presence around the clock in these communities.
Protection is critical; however, crime prevention through education is equally important. Stratford and Cornwall need regular outreach and engagement of our youth – by police and in our schools, such as Glen Stewart and East Wiltshire.
Along with the benefit of improved service, residents would also see financial savings through the shared cost of police services between all three communities. This would be a positive development for the taxpayers of Charlottetown, Cornwall and Stratford, and one that I believe merits further consideration by civic leaders.
Now is the time.
Ray Murphy is a business owner and resident of Stratford.
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The Flint House is a historic First Period house at 28 Lexington Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts.  The oldest portions of this house have very early colonial construction, and its main block either is, or contains portions of, a "mansion" built by Ephraim Flint and mentioned in a 1709 deed.  This main block appears to have portions of two older structures that were joined; the exact sequence of construction is difficult due to extensive alterations of the building over the 18th and 19th centuries.  The property includes a barn which is thought to have been built before 1750, and is remarkably unaltered despite having been moved a relatively short distance on the grounds.  The house has been occupied by nine generations of Flints, who have been a major force in the civic life of Lincoln.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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anne-richard » Literature » A Heart So White
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by Javier Marías,Margaret Jull Costa,Javier Marias
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Another great book from Javier Marias
Another great book from Javier Marias. His writing tells me of an interesting story, it tells me of his intimate life and his public life. 7 people found this helpful.
A Heart So White A Heart So White. Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays
Translated by MARGARET JULL COSTA, with an introduction by JONATHAN COE. PENGUIN BOOKS. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne.
Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco (the father of the protagonist of Your Face Tomorrow was given a similar biography). His 1992 novel Corazón tan blanco was a commercial and critical success and for its English version A Heart So White, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Marías and Costa were joint winners of the 1997 International Dublin Literary Award.
Javier Marías is a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, Los dominios del lobo (The Javier Marías is a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist.
A Heart So White by Javier Marías was first published in Spain in 1992 (original title Corazón tan blanco. Margaret Jull Costa's English translation was first published by The Harvill Press in 1995. The book received the International Dublin Literary Award in 1997.
Javier Marias is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. Margaret Jull Costa has translated into the English more than 35 books, including Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's "All the Names" & "The Tale of the Unknown Island", Antonio Perez Reverte's "The Flander's Panel", Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet" & Luisa Valenzuela's "Bedside Manners". Библиографические данные.
Margaret Jull Costa). I often reread a favourite book during the dark days of winter. A Heart So White is narrated by Juan, a translator and interpreter living in Madrid with his new wife, Luisa, also a er. It's usually something like The Great Gatsby, but this year I chose A Heart So White by Javier Marías (first published in Spanish in 1992) with a view to writing about it here. The novel has one of the most intriguing openings I can recall from my recent reading.
English Translations (All translated by Margaret Jull Costa unless otherwise indicated): All Souls (1992) A Heart So White . Javier Marías is a spanish novelist, translator and columnist. Javier Marías is one of the most important narrators of contemporary literature.
Javier Marías is a spanish novelist, translator and columnist.
In A Heart So White Javier Marías examines the commonplace yet peculiar institution of marriage and all its .
In A Heart So White Javier Marías examines the commonplace yet peculiar institution of marriage and all its attendant secrets and betrayals. Juan is a newlywed translator who shuttles between the UN in New York and the Hague for six to eight weeks at a time, while his young bride Luisa, also a translator, remains behind in Madrid to establish their home together. Margaret Jull Costa is at the height of her powers here, rendering an excellent translation of what many of Marías's followers deem his best work-indeed, it received the 1997 Dublin IMPAC Prize for the best novel published worldwide that year in English.
A breathtaking novel about family secrets, winner of the 1997 Dublin IMPAC Prize for the best novel published worldwide in English, and arguably Javier Marías's masterpiece.
Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy―its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility―hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"―Shakespeare's Macbeth.)
Subcategory: World Literature
Author: Javier Marías,Margaret Jull Costa,Javier Marias
Publisher: New Directions (November 2000)
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Marias is a very good writer and this is an exemplary instance of his craft. The book is dense and philosophical and, in my opinion, requires at least 2 readings. I liked the "Your Face Tomorrow" trilogy a bit better but Marias is a must read for those interested in "serious literature".
Sharpbinder
Another great book from Javier Marias. His writing tells me of an interesting story, it tells me of his intimate life and his public life. He has become on of my all time favorite writers. This is the third book of his that I've read. I look forward to his other books. If you like good literature, you won't be disappointed.
Mr Freeman
I should state upfront that while I am very taken with the writing of Javier Marias, I can well understand that it will not appeal to everyone. Relatively little seems to occur in his novels, and what does happen often proceeds at a glacial pace, as Marias or his narrator painstakingly examines rather mundane situations, occurences, even gestures, and spins out various possible causes and consequences, possible pasts and futures. The writing often is dense, but (for me) it always is engaging, and the reader's reward is a cascade of insightful ideas and perspectives on modern cosmopolitan life.
The opening chapter of A HEART SO WHITE is a brilliant six-page account (all one paragraph) of the suicide of a young woman in the middle of a dinner party, at the end of which it is revealed that she was the narrator's father's wife. Shortly, we learn that the narrator's father, Ranz, later married the suicide's sister, who then became the mother of the narrator. In a sense, the remainder of the book is a quest, somewhat reluctant and oft-diverted, to find out why Ranz's previous wife (and the narrator's aunt) committed suicide, something that Ranz has kept secret for the 35+ years since. In the course of this quest, Marias explores many aspects of secrets and poses the question, Is it better not to know? -- which leads to the related question, Is it really possible to suppress the desire to know?, and then the further question, of course, is, In the end, is knowledge really possible at all?
The novel's title comes from one of several lines from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" that recur throughout the novel and add depth and complexity to the work. Another recurring line from that play is Macbeth's "I have done the deed." Near the end of A HEART SO WHITE, Ranz says, "What I did was done, but the big difference about what happened afterwards is not whether I did or didn't do it, but the fact that no one knew about it. That it was a secret."
In addition to secrets, other themes (some familiar to readers of other works of Marias) are the evanscence and serendipity of events in life, truth and the distortion of narrative, silence and how it can be as deceptive as speaking, and the obligations of/from the past, or the "weight of the past."
A propos, perhaps, given the preoccupation with secrets, the novel features a lot of eavesdropping and instances of peering down into the street from overlooking windows and, conversely, spying from the street on upper-story windows, all of which intensifies a certain voyeuristic character of A HEART SO WHITE. This voyeurism is extended further in one of the humorous episodes of the novel (in my experience Marias always has his funny or witty moments) where the narrator assists a woman friend in her search for a mate through a dating service and the making and exchanging of videos, which, of course, conceal and distort as much as they reveal. The funniest episode in the book is when the narrator (a translator) first meets his wife Luisa (also a translator) as the team assigned to be the interpreters at a meeting between a senior Spanish politician and a high British politician (who appears to be a lot like, and perhaps is, Margaret Thatcher), a meeting at which the narrator occasionally takes huge liberties in mis-translating and thus re-directing the dialogue between the two politicians.
A HEART SO WHITE (published in 1992) is similar to "Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me" (1994), and like that novel and "The Dark Back of Time" (1998) it is highly seductive and very much a novel of ideas. But those ideas are not quite as well-considered or on the mark as in the two later works, and the style not quite as mature and accomplished. The intellectual discussion tends a tad more towards cleverness than profundity, and the observations of human life tend more to concern its everyday conduct than its essence. Nonetheless, A HEART SO WHITE is a highly recommended installment in Marias's ongoing exploration of the secrets and meaning of life and the human obsession with knowing in the face of the impossibility of truly knowing.
Ckelond
Brilliant. A penetrating, fearless introspection of human psyche, and especially of our ways of relating to time. I first had a hard time getting into the book, so I set it aside for a few months, and then when I picked it up up again the chemistry and time was just right and I devoured it. And the book has kept on growing on me, which is quite exceptional.
A remarkable exploration of the human condition. The translation seems to capture the style, grace and nuance of his writing.
I don't quite know how it is, but reading anything penned by Javier Marías is like slowly entering catacombs or hearing echoes reverberating in a mausoleum that abide with one and continue to reverberate long after the reader has turned the final page and reascends, as it were, to what is called life, realising how much of life is not life - commonly understood - but a sort of play-acting, that what is of import is and must forever remain unsaid, interred in the reader's heart and mind, for to speak of it is to inevitably deceive, to lie.
As Marías puts it better than I, "Sometimes I have the feeling that nothing happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, and even the most monotonous and routine of existences, by its apparent repetitiveness, gradually cancels itself out, negates itself, until nothing is anything and no one is anyone they were before, and the weak wheel of the world is pushed along by forgetful beings who hear and see and know what is not said, never happens, is unknowable and unverifiable."
This is the central meditation of the book, but not its central trope which, as per usual with Marías, is taken from Shakespeare, Macbeth in this case, and throughout the book, with our narrator, his newly wed wife, and, mostly I should say, the extended lives of his equally extended coterie of family and friends, we come to see ourselves as some version of bloody-handed Macbeth or, perhaps much worse, cold-hearted Lady Macbeth, or both at different times.
Again to Marías, "Macbeth dared to say: `I have done the deed,' he said it at the moment he'd done it, who would dare to do as much, not so much do it as say it...Our mind is all vacillations and ambiguities and always prey to suspicions, for our mind there will always be areas of shadow and it will always think in that brainsickly way." - "Brainsickly" - The manner in which Lady Macbeth, who says that she shames to wear a heart so white, accuses Macbeth of thinking.
Those new to Marías may be wondering just what I'm on about in this review. It's an attempt to convey the feelings and reverberations that this master stylist imparts to the reader who is drawn to his work.
But, for those longing for something of a hint of a plot, the novel begins with a suicide, or, perhaps it were better to rephrase, the story of a suicide. I'm not giving anything away. It's what happens when the previously secret and unknown becomes known, after a fashion, that fascinates and ensorcells.
For, prospective reader, "...it's not easy to know why people kill themselves, not even people close to us, everyone's crazy, everyone's having a rough time of it, sometimes for no reason but almost always in secret, people just turn their face to the pillow and wait for the next day. Then one day they stop waiting."
Enter these catacombs, reader.
Prinna
Javier Marias is one of my favorite novelists. A Heart So White is brilliantly written and plays with some very intriguing concepts. I especially love the main theme about how we can know if we want to know something (spoiler: we can't until it is too late).
A challenge worth reading several times in order to grasps the depths of Marias focus on silence, knowing, language, memory, loss, time, and love.
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Walter T. Pattison (*1903), hispanista estadounidense.

Se doctoró con una tesis sobre los trovadores, de la que publicó fragmentos como artículos. Concentró sin embargo su atención en la literatura del siglo XIX y publicó Benito Pérez Galdós and the Creative Process (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1954) y un estudio, On Espronceda's Personality. También compuso una antología de literatura española, Representative Spanish Authors (Oxford University Press, 1942).

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Sometime back I had written a post on "How to sell your products online" and a lot of people asked me if there was anything else they could do after that, to further increase sales. As I had mentioned at the end of the post "There is a lot more that can be done to further increase sales, but then, that would be a topic by itself ." So here is the first one on the next steps to increase sales of your products online.
First let me begin by saying that the basics covered in my last post are not a onetime activity. In fact it is a continuous activity. Hence this is the first step to further increase sales.
Use Analytics. Marketplaces such as Amazon, provide analytics on your listings. Use those. Continuously monitor page views, clicks and sales of one's products and modify the Product Title, Images, Description, Keywords, and price based on what's working and what's not. Take the learning from one similar product and apply it to another. If something is not working try something different and again observe the data. Keep analyzing data, keep a track of changes made and progress and keep fine tuning till you have a winner. How?
Think like a customer while analyzing the data. Start by asking "is my product visible in search?" If not then tweak the Keywords and title. If Yes but clicks are less, then modify the Image, Title OR Price or all three. If Clicks are good and so are the page views of the Product detail page but sales are low, then check and work on the description, features and price. Keep an eye on the competition while doing these. Who are you competing against, how are their images, do they describe the product better? or are the cheaper? Follow the same process for products that may have sold well earlier but may not be selling well now. Also check customer reviews. Has someone written a negative review of your product? why? what can you do about it?
The reason this comes as a first step to increasing online sales is that this is basic. First sell to customers who are searching as they have the highest intent to buy. Then look at doing things to attract other customers. It's like having a shop in a mall. If your location, sign board, display and pricing are not enticing customers who are already at the mall, to buy, then it does not make too much sense in trying to get customers who are outside to the mall. Does it?
There are also a lot of tools available online to manage your listings, inventory, customer feedback and response & sales and get better data to help you increase sales. If your product categories and items are multiple and/or you sell on multiple platforms then these tools can really help you manage your process, your time and pricing strategy better and thus increase sales. So do look at them and choose what suits your current and future needs the best.
Once you have set systems in place to list products and then analyse data to tweak your listings then look at the next steps. Key ones here would be Social Media presence, Blogs, and online advertising, in that order. Let's start with Social media.
What Social media to choose and what to do there would depend upon your target audience, your products and what you want to achieve. The objective here is to increase sales so that is sorted. However, whether to use Facebook, or Twitter or Instagram or Google plus or Pinterest and what you do there will depend on your target audience - where they frequent? what they do there? and your products. My post "Does Social media Work" covers most of the basics for making social media work. So do refer to that. But keep in mind that social media is for engagement so don't sell too hard. Which means please do not just post your title of the product with the image and price and a link to where they can buy it from. Here talk about your product category, its advantage to the user, its uniqueness, similar products or items, the people behind it, etc etc. Engagement is the key. Think what a prospective customer would be interested in and engage with them on that. Here the fact that you are selling xyz product is secondary. The user and their interest comes first. Engage with them and then also let them know that if they are interested in buying they could so from xyz place. Also this is place to talk to your users to gauge their interests and concerns. This is the place to get feedback and act upon the same. This is the place to offer discounts, hold contests and build a community of current and prospective customers. And if you do this well sales will happen.
You may want to build a social media community from scratch over a period of time organically or if you have the budgets you could use social media advertising to ramp up fast. Which advertising options to use on a particular social media channel would again depend on what you are doing there. You may want to promote your posts or just build likes (FB) to your channel depending upon your short term or long term goals. My suggestion always is to first go the organic route and use your own networks to propagate the page, see what kind of posts and activity drives your desired goal and then decide on how to spend your money and do what to further your goals. Social media channels too, provide analytics on how your page is doing and what is working and what is not. use that data to tweak your posts and activity. Remember social media does take time to do it well so don't expect a jump in sales immediately. Work at it, analyze, tweak, change, see what others are doing, talk to your audience and you will see an impact over a period of time.
Blogs and online advertising come next. But will cover these in another post. So get started on using analytics to increase sales and start you social media channel pages. If you have questions or want to know something in more detail or just share your experiences, please feel free to comment below.


Have you ever abseiled the height of ten giraffes?
SOS Africa is a small charity which was founded by Matt Crowcombe, former Hazlegrove and King's Bruton pupil, to fund the education of township children to enable them to break the poverty cycle. The charity guarantees that 100% of all donations go to the children.
This latest abseil is a unique opportunity for groups and individuals to do something amazing for charity whilst having great fun with family and friends at the same time. It is also an ideal team building exercise for local businesses!
Why not make it a family day-out? Feel free to bring friends and family along to the event to witness your daredevil deeds! The tower is set in wonderful surroundings and it is the ideal venue for a family picnic. We also hope to have refreshments on sale. If your friends are not as adventurous as you, do not despair; there will also be time set aside for individuals to abseil.
For an added challenge why not come in fancy dress? It is a great opportunity to gain your business coverage in the local press or just get yourselves a bit more attention in the pub afterwards! There will be a prize for the best dressed group. A prize will also be awarded to the group that raises the most money for SOS Africa. There is pride at stake, as local pubs, businesses and friends compete to become the ultimate 'African Abseilers'. So whether you are a larey lion, a cheeky chimp, a cranky croc, a menacing meerkat or a prickly porcupine, you can be a hero for an underprivileged township child this summer!
To enter a team or individual into the event visit the website: www.sosafrica.com, contact SOS Africa by email: [email protected], by phone: 01749 340426 or visit our Office at Kilver Court, Shepton Mallet.


Inspection machines and markings on packs are beneficial in a number of ways. They help meet traceability requirements, assure consumers of product authenticity and help manufacturers save time and money. Food Manufacturing Africa looks at the new technologies to be released this year.


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Lottery Win Leaves Baltimore Caregiver in Tears
Claims $100,000 prize on Ravens X5 scratch-off
Yesterday was a blur, a Baltimore woman told Lottery officials on Wednesday. She could easily relate the details of her busy morning, but soon after meeting a friend for lunch, things get hazy. Winning $100,000 will do that to a person.
"I play scratch tickets pretty often," the caregiver explained, "so when we were leaving the deli, I bought a few." One of those instant tickets – the $5 Ravens X5 game – would soon interrupt the flow of her up-to-then predictable day. "I scratched it later during a break at work, and… and… and…" As you can tell, this is where her recollections fail her.
According to our winner's friend, who was the first to hear the great news, the phone call she received was unusual. "She told me that she thought that she might have won the Lottery, at least that's what it sounded like through the sobbing." The tears are one of the few things the winner does remember.
"I've pictured how I'd react if I won big on a ticket, maybe dancing and yelling, but I never thought I'd start crying."
Despite having her Tuesday win confirmed by her friend, via an image of the scratch-off sent by text, and by a Lottery retailer, the winner didn't really believe her luck until she visited the Lottery's Customer Resource Center. The 35-year-old plans to use her Ravens X5 winnings to aid her search for a new home for her growing family.
This is the third $100,000 top prize claimed in the game and four are awaiting discovery. The Lottery's 2021 edition of its Ravens scratch-offs hit retail locations on Aug. 23. Players can try to win instant prizes on the $2 Ravens X2 and $5 Ravens X5 games and enter a second-chance promotion to win cash prizes and Ravens experiences. Enter non-winning tickets into your My Lottery Rewards account and pick the prize category you want to try to win. Prizes include seats for 20 years, $10,000 cash, a Pass for Cash on-field experience and more. Get details HERE. Upcoming entry deadlines are Nov. 15, Dec. 13 and Jan. 11.
Georgetown Deli & Convenience at 2829 Georgetown Road in Baltimore's Morrell Park sold the $100,000 life-changing instant ticket. The owners will receive a $1,000 bonus from the Lottery for selling a $100,000 top-prize winning scratch-off.
Categories: Scratch-Offs, Winners Tags: ravens X5, scratch-offs, baltimore
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Cooler temperatures have aided firefighters as they begin to turn the tables on a large wildfire that has torn across Southern California. The Holy Fire was 41 per cent contained by Sunday afternoon after burning over 35.5 square miles of dry timber and brush at Cleveland National Forest, around 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. "The weather out here in California seems to be cooling down today and over the next couple days, and that should hopefully help firefighters get even more containment," said Lynne Tolmachoff, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Jeremy Van Ert, 38, allegedly had 18 ounces of beer and several cans of Four Loko.
The Monroe Police Department said Goodwill employees believe the cooler was dropped off Monday night, but "they're not exactly sure how it was donated."


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Copyrighted Media in YuJa Livestreams
In some cases, digital video & audio content may have copyright protections built into it. This page details how that can affect YuJa livestreams.
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a type of copyright protection that can be built-in to digital video and audio content. Broadcasting copyrighted media, whether it's livestreamed or recorded, reproduces unauthorized copies of that content, so HDCP protections can automatically disable online streaming of that media. You should still be able to play the media in the classroom over the projector/screen, but the HDCP protection will prevent it from directly playing over the YuJa broadcast in these situations. Keep in mind that a majority of Blu-Rays and movies will have HDCP protections built-in.
If content is HDCP-enabled, YuJa's copyright protection will generally manifest in one of two ways over the broadcast: The media video feed will either turn a bright solid green or will disappear entirely until the copyrighted media is stopped. The classroom's webcam feed will still remain active even if copyrighted content is playing over the projector/screen. The media will still be viewable through the webcam's view, but the direct media feed will be blocked from streaming.
There have been some cases where screen mirroring a MacBook with the classroom's USB-C cable will automatically trigger the HDCP green screen response over the broadcast, the MacBook itself, and the classroom projector/screen. If you see the green screen appearing over the classroom projector/screen, please contact servicedesk@uwp.edu.
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Sending get well gift baskets and flowers convey your warm wishes of a speedy recovery to a friend, family member or loved one. For those special recipients who are younger, nothing cheers them up more than a teddy bear gift adorned with a colorful balloon assortment. Ordering Get well gifts and flowers with Jubilee Flowers & Gifts in Seymour, IN has never been easier.


Since I like to have a clean home : after you added all your templates, create a file named .hidden in your home directory and write in it "Templates".
F5 and the folder has disappear. CTRL H to display again your hidden files if you want to add another template.
And in french, the name for "Templates" is « Modèles ».
tried this in Hardy and didn't work. Any ideas? maybe this only works in 9.04???


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A Day of shame and embarrassment for the Catholic Church in Ireland. That's how Roy Jenkins described the impact of stories about Roman Catholic run institutions who failed the children and young people in their care. A day of pain and anger for survivors too, who recounted nightmarish, horrific stories of how they were treated- and the burden and scars mental and physical that they carry to this day. The church is ashamed ,and rightly so, and the whole Christia movement should be grieving about the way these young people were abused. We share in the rebuke for trust breached. It is simply not enough to say sorry and expect to retain any respect and credibility when claim to love and care for all people. We have a very real duty to protect those in our communities who are most vulnerable and at risk. We have shamed the Christ we represent. We have let him down and true repentance is what is called for.
This issue should not just be dealt with by our courts. I would like to see some sort of truth and reconciliation framework set up to help address the needs of these broken people and our broken faith. We need to show remorse and do what can be done to confront the pain of the past head-on. May we be brave enough to cope with the consequences.
This week is one of broken and failed institutions being found out for letting the people down. The people will have their say and their day. Who knows where this will all lead?
I share Roy's view that In the tears of the abused children Christ was weeping too.
In this morning's BBC Radio4 Thought for the Day Abdal Hakim Murad shared that a new survey by the Gallup organisation has revealed that Muslims are much more likely than the general population to have confidence in British institutions such as the judiciary, the political process, the media and the police. 77% seven percent of UK Muslims say that they identify with the UK, compared to only fifty percent of the general population.
As politicians fret about social cohesion, and worry that our national identity is at risk. Some commentators mistrust religious and ethnic minorities, with their continuing desire to be distinctive. Yet if the concern is about our sense of belonging, the Gallup poll suggests that the Muslim minority is more part of the solution than part of the problem. Difference does not have to undermine cohesion. It is clear that one important part of being British is that there is no single way of being British. Pilgrims in Mecca, a city where the English language was never heard only a couple of generations ago, can now be heard speaking with the most perfect Glaswegian, Liverpudlian, or London accents.
Today the great hymn abide with me will be sung at Anfield and our prayer today surely is that the 96 will indeed be abiding in and with God as they are remembered . their deaths changed the face of football and, like the eternal flame burning outside the stadium at Anfield, their memories will never fade.
In last night's Lent talk on BBC Radio 4 George Pattison,Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, reflected on positive the benefits of God's absence when humanity no longer feels scrutinised by the eyes of God.
He talked about how unsettling it is thinking of God like this, with every move and dubious motive scrutinised from birth to death. Such an approach only gives us two responses – to choose between letting ourselves be crushed by this cosmic gaze or pulling down the blinds and shutting him out. It's impossible to pass into adulthood without at least one moment of abandonment – and many of us only want God back when the going gets rough. Yet St Augustine reminded us that God is not a spatially extended being- a here ,there and wherever metaphor. Where we really see the face of infinitely distant God is in those who cry out for better justice, the immigrant, the widow, the oppressed. All mens face yet no mans face. We need a God who helps us make something better from ruins of what might have been. Someone who invites us to reflect on what we are doing with our lives, and if we could be doing better – a true soul friend. A God who may be absent or present in ways do not know.
Sister Frances talks about how she sees miracles daily as people who don't have the comfort of faith react in amazing ways when faced with worst imaginable tragedies, discovering reserves of strengths they never believe they had.
What an amazing women and what amazing work our hospices do.
As I promised I did not blog on Wednesday, so I'm back after a day off and it really has been hard not to blog about something! So, I return to the BBC Radio 4'sLent talk- this time Richard Holloway on Lent- Crave for Less. Richard explores the absence of God presence and the invention of transcendence- beyond human understanding and experience. He suggests we are not verygood at living with uncertainces, and so have to try to invent explanations and facts the fit the vanishingly complex. If the universe came out of this, where did this come from and is God the name we have given to that hypothesis?
It's a bit more challenging to listen to than Martin Bell's broadcast, but you judge for yourself.


All Elite Wrestling has a ton of momentum as Double Or Nothing sold out as quickly as the tickets could be processed. The remaining amount of tickets are likely to sell out immediately as well.
Fans are excited about the idea of an All Elite Wrestling television show. Joe Peisich of Barnburner's No Holds Barred podcast revealed that The Elite plan to have something going by October.
Joe went on to say that Double Or Nothing is in May, they plan for a Jacksonville in July or August with "ALL IN 2" taking place in Chicago in August/September followed by their television show starting in October. We have heard these same dates speculated by Dave Meltzer without any mention of a tv show start date. However, we do know enough about what they're planning.
AEW was reportedly meeting with Turner over the Super Bowl weekend as well. It does seem like perfect timing to start an All Elite Wrestling show possibly on Tuesday night in October when WWE leaves for Fridays on Fox. However, television deals are unpredictable so nothing will be set in stone until we hear about it likely on an episode of Being The Elite.


Post Mom Passing Peacefully On . . .
Title And Location Unknown 1965 . . . . . . . . . It's Three AM in the peacefully muted morning as a sweet-faced young women lies in deep sleep exhausted from the household duties and chores of a long day. The night Is quiet, not a leaf moves on the trees near the street outside her bedroom window. Suddenly, the stillness is shattered by a loud gunshot blast in the street. The shocking echo reverberates throughout the women's home, but she does not stir. Ten minutes later police cars tear past the house as sirens were screaming. Still the women sleeps as her pretty face remains in complete tranquility. Almost on the heels of the chaos comes an ear-splitting crash? Two automobiles have collided head on not fifty feet from her bed. Her features maintain the same calm beauty of profound sleep. Once again the night is still. Then from a room in the back of the house comes a tiny, feeble cry, barely as a whisper! Like a bolt of lightning the young woman is out of her bed, through the house to her baby . . . . . . . . . . . . ."This Is Mother"


PURPOSE: We investigated the antitumor effect of the casein kinase II (CK2) inhibitor CX-4945 on cholangiocarcinoma (CCA).
METHODS: We assessed the effect of CX-4945 alone and/or in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin on cell viability, colony formation, and apoptosis of CCA cell lines and on in vivo growth of HuCCT1 xenografts.
RESULTS: CX-4945 dose-dependently decreased viability of HuCCT1, EGI-1, and Liv27 and decreased phospho-AKT/total AKT and phospho-PTEN/total PTEN ratios. CX-4945 significantly increased caspase 3/7 activity in a dose- and time-dependent manner. CX-4945 significantly enhanced the effect of gemcitabine or cisplatin on HuCCT1, EGI-1, and Liv27 cells and inhibited the phosphorylation of DNA repairing enzymes XRCC1 and MDC1. Further, CX-4945 alone significantly inhibited growth of HuCCT1 mouse xenograft tumors. Combining CX-4945 with gemcitabine and cisplatin was more potent than CX-4945 alone or gemcitabine/cisplatin. The effect of CX-4945 on cell proliferation, apoptosis, the PI3K/AKT pathway, and DNA repair was confirmed in the mouse xenografts.
CONCLUSION: CX-4945 has an antiproliferative effect on CCA and enhances the effect of gemcitabine and cisplatin through its inhibitory effect on the PI3K/AKT pathway and DNA repair.


Early on in your fundraising planning, you'll want to develop a Case for Support. This is a document that pulls together all the relevant information about a project or your organisations that might help persuade a potential funder to support you.
Your project fits well with their objectives.
Not only does the Case for Support form the basis of fundraising proposals, but it's also a useful way to check that you've really thought every aspect of your projects through right at the outset.


Don't Just Accept Failure, Expect It!
Seriously. It's bound to happen.
Failure and success is something we all experience. In fact, failure and success are a matter of expectations. A matter of goals.
If you don't have a goal or an expectation—how can you tell if you succeeded or failed?
The only difference between success and failure is that success is something we embrace. We never expect failure nor accept it.
People say that you've got to fail in order to succeed but that is not entirely accurate. In fact, you have got to accept your failures in order to learn, grow and succeed.
Last summer, my life partner and I went on a long holiday which included a road trip on the West Coast and a week in New Orleans and New York.
When we first decided to go on this trip, our hearts were set on being as free as possible throughout it. Our goal was to get out of our comfort zone. To learn and grow.
The journey to accomplish this goal started as early as the preparation part.
We are both highly organized people, which usually comes handy in life, but we wanted to experience what it's like to let go. In other words, we planned to leave some things unplanned.
At first, we thought about being completely spontaneous, but we realized that we will end up wasting time and energy throughout our trip in search for accommodations. So, we booked the places we wanted to stay at but left all days completely unplanned. We were in no rush to see anything. We didn't have a 'must-see' list as we usually have when we travel.
We decided to stay only in Airbnbs so we could experience each place like locals. We also wanted to get out there and speak to people —our hosts and their neighbors. In fact, we were counting on their recommendations.
The truth is —even when you book and plan every part of your holiday, something is bound to happen. There are always things you cannot predict.
You get sick. Something gets canceled. There's rain. Snow. A hurricane. It was rather scary for us to follow our goal and plan as little as possible. But then we thought about it differently. We embraced the unexpected. After all, it is the unexpected experiences you remember for years to come.
Sunset at Venice Beach, LA. A minute after we took this photo, it started raining. In August. At 100F.
And so, in August 2017, with only our passports, flight tickets and booked Airbnbs, we flew to Victoria (BC, Canada), where our trip started.
We packed light, taking just one piece of hand luggage each for our three and a half weeks on the road.
My jet lag kept me up all night when we arrived. It was a cold and exhausting night, after over 20 hours of commuting.
I took a deep breath and reminded myself that everything was okay.
You see, it was easier than usual to accept this 'failure', an unpredictable thing that occurred because we were actually expecting it to happen.
I spent most of that day resting and drinking tea with ginger. I didn't feel like I was losing out on anything that day, because we didn't have anything planned. It was that simple. Not feeling stressed, I recovered almost completely in a mere 24 hours. It's amazing how our mental state can affects our bodies. I healed because I didn't stress out about being sick.
Three days later, we continued to Seattle where our road trip south to Los Angeles has begun. We talked to an Uber driver on the way to a car rental place. We were speaking about cultures and the beauty of people from all over the world. Within a few minutes, we really connected. When he dropped us off, only 15 minutes after we got on, he said: "having you guys in my car has made my week! Thank you!" We felt grateful.
The guy at the car rental counter recommended his favorite local spot — Snoqualmie Falls. This was the first stop on our road trip.
And it was amazing. We would have never picked that spot if we have scripted our trip. We felt truly blessed.
That night, we had a cabin booked in the woods by Mount Rainier. It was 9:30 pm, after a long drive of navigating in the dark (no phone signal) and with less than a quarter of a tank left, when we finally made it to our destination. The store where we were supposed to get our keys from was closed. Now what?
Had we known the store closes at 8 pm we probably would have made it on time. But this was yet another experience we took from this trip. The long drive, the lost yet then found dark campsite and the guy in his pajamas, showing us to our cabin with a small torch. Luckily, we had the booking details printed out.
The following morning we met two bikers by the Bridge of the Gods. They shared some valuable information about the Oregon falls. They gave us directions for the Historic Columbia River Highway and recommended their favorite trails.
And at night, another unpredictable thing happened. We arrived at the address given to us by our Airbnb host, but no one was there. We knocked on the door, we phoned our host, but there was no answer.
It's funny. I couldn't remember this incident until I started writing down this post. It's only because we didn't make a big deal out of it. Things that are out of our control were bound to happen.
If you were wondering, he did show up eventually and even recommended a local lake for a good night swim.
The day after we made more new friends who pointed us to a place where wild elks are to be seen. It was magnificent.
We traveled through many wonderful places during our trip (Redwood National Park and Yosemite to name a few) and made even more friends.
We've had conversations about life, spirit and religion, money, and politics.
We learned and gained insights from every single person we met. From the guy who's going to open an art studio for homeless teenagers, to the girl who left her home state, Kansas, and moved to LA.
We couldn't have planned to meet so many amazing people. It's only thanks to the goal we set ourselves to go against our nature.
When you go out of your comfort zone, you experience more than ever.
Many other things have gone wrong during our trip. But our approach was to welcome each and every unpredicted occurrence with open arms. We decided to embrace all failures. To expect and accept them.
That way, we turned those failures into little success stories.
Thanks to that we got to San Luis Obispo sooner and had more time to have a chat (and a beer!) with our lovely host and pet his cat, Flopsy (see below).
First and foremost it was a good laugh. A couple broke on the same day for no apparent reason. We filmed less and experienced more. And when we really wanted to film we just had to be creative.
Well, ouch! But also, kind of funny. Helped us with making a decision of buying and wearing some on the following days.
They might have ruined our early morning hike but thanks to those flies, we took a shortcut and met a lovely couple. The mutual interest that first got us talking: those annoying flies!
Thanks for some great ice creams! Luckily, we already had sunscreen when it was that hot.
It got us thinking about alternatives places to visit which might end up as our next trip!
Thanks for the vouchers, Delta! We have already used and enjoyed them thoroughly.
We got to see more of the city since we literally came there just to sleep.
That's the funny thing about failure. It's really just a matter of perspective.
If you never expect to fail — you will probably end up failing quite a bit.
If you don't accept failure, you won't experiences true successes.
The remarkable thing about the unpredictable is how it introduces you to new places, ideas, and people.
And the real question is — will you accept and expect the unexpected?
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Due to their use in tracking users and some security problems surrounding them, cookies have been a concern to many privacy and security advocates.
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