![]() ![]() I look forward to hearing his thoughts about the characters, and the choices that they make. I have no doubt my avid Christian reader will finish this book in one day long sitting. Life as We Know It ADVERTISEMENT Rate/Catalog - Catalog Tags Review Reviews DireBrain I second fjording s observation: I spent my entire time watching this movie thinking that Katherine Heigl and Johnny Knoxville were doing this to make amends for the abomination that was The Ringer. We do not fear reading materials that make us question someone's devotion to God. I see this summer reading assignment as a great opportunity to approach important subjects with my son when he gets back from Christian church camp next week.yes, we are religious. The book makes us think about what is really important in life. I agree this book covers a terrifying subject, but the message in the book is strong. It is a book that a kid would want to read for entertainment. My aggravation disappeared when I read the book. Haven't we worked our overachievers enough this school year? What he really said: "No life as we know it.I wasn't too happy when I learned that my soon to be sixth grader has a summer reading assignment for his pre-AP English class next year. Mr Spock "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it." What he really said: "I don't think other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos." James Callaghan, 1979 "Crisis? What crisis?" Collecting them is a fascinating exercise, and in a lot of cases it also gives the real authors their due." Ms Knowles, who introduced a misquotations section into the latest Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, said: "Again and again we see misquotations flourish because they catch the tone of a personality more than the original remark. ![]() The future King Edward VIII had newspaper subeditors to thank for his supposed sally on unemployment: "Something must be done." He said: "The opposition of events." This was changed to "events, dear boy, events", by someone whom Ms Knowles is still trying to track down.Ĭelebrity adaptors include Princess Diana, who changed Charles's TV aside from "Yes, whatever that may mean" to "Whatever 'in love' means". Stream songs including 'You Know I'm No Good', 'You And Me' and more. The Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan also features in the book, with his reported but in reality never made response when asked to name the greatest difficulty facing a PM. Listen to Life As We Know It (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Various Artists on Apple Music. Ms Knowles said: "It's an example of a misquotation which sounds much more in keeping than the original." The full phrase was coined 21 years later by PG Wodehouse, in Psmith, Journalist, whose hero tacks on the remainder of the phrase. The nearest the fictional detective got to "elementary" was a single use of the word in one short story, The Crooked Man, published in 1894. Sherlock Holmes's trademark phrase is a key example in the collection, entitled What They Didn't Say, which Oxford University Press publishes this week. Misquotations are much more interesting than mistakes." The fascination lies in how and why they were altered. Ms Knowles said: "The last thing we want is to be seen as clever clogs, saying that these quotes are wrong. The exposé, by Elizabeth Knowles, who edits the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, is not intended to debunk the fabrications but rather show how quotations, like language in general, can subtly alter. all-out nuclear war seems to be receding as an imminent threat to life as we know it. No one ever said "Beam me up Scotty", and Mr Spock never said "It's life Jim, but not as we know it." Definition of as we know it in the Idioms Dictionary. The list includes many supposedly historical lines, such as Napoleon's "Not tonight Josephine", but also covers modern icons including Star Trek. Hundreds of pithy remarks from "Let them eat cake" to "Elementary, my dear Watson", turn out to be adaptations of comments that were more clumsy or more boring - or which were never said by those thought to have coined them. Some of history's most famous one-liners are about to be exposed as inventions by other writers with plenty of time to hone their prose. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The main obstacle appeared to be certain members of the band themselves. Their early years were a struggle, but given that Los Angeles was rapidly becoming the epicentre of the music industry, not that much of a struggle. Guns was too ambitious to quit now, and he reactivated L.A. And that was the end of me being in Guns N’ Roses.” “Except when it came to a head and we had a disagreement. ![]() It was a great experience and there was no downside.” He laughs. “We had places to stay, but we fancied being out on the street, hanging out and taking in Hollywood together. “Me and Axl were faux-homeless,” says Guns. The two who shared the driving seat became tight friends. Guns had merged with another local band, Hollywood Rose, and combined their names: Guns N’ Roses. “He opened his mouth and I was, like, ‘Holy shit, who is this guy?’” “I’ll never forget watching Axl walk up to the microphone for the first time in soundcheck,” he says. Tracii initially met Axl via Hollywood Rose guitarist Izzy Stradlin’, who was crashing at Guns’ mom’s house. Guns shared bills with other similarly hungry hopefuls: WASP, Poison, Hollywood Rose, the latter fronted by a red-haired wildcat calling himself Axl Rose. “That felt great, to look out into the crowd at the Troubadour and see David Lee Roth or Nikki Sixx standing there. “We were packing out shows right away,” he says. Mötley Crüe had become the first band from that scene to break big nationally, and everyone wanted a piece of their action. Guns together in 1983 – not old enough to drink legally (he was never a big drinker anyway). He was barely 17 when he put the first incarnation of L.A. “Being really competitive with each other, but loving each other at the same time.” “We’d walk to school every day, having these really combative discussions about music – what was cool, what was not,” he says. One of his best friends at junior high school was a curly-haired kid called Saul Hudson – later to rechristen himself Slash. As a kid, he loved rock’n’roll – Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Elton John. Unlike all those arrivistes that followed, he’s Los Angeles through and through. Guns himself wasn’t just there at the birth of the glam metal scene, he predates it. “After the first six hundred people it’s all the same anyway,” he says modestly (a polite and self-effacing man, he does ‘modest’ well). Around theat time the band were playing to two or three thousand people a night. Even at their commercial peak, around the time of their second album, 1989’s Cocked And Loaded, L.A. Guns himself is the first to admit that his band were never Sunset Strip A-listers in the way that Mötley Crüe or GN’R were. 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For example you can still cherry-pick commits between the histories, e.g. Yes, you should avoid rewriting history which already passed into other forks if possible, but the world does not end if you do nevertheless. I recently also had to rewrite a large git repository to get rid of some corruption in an early commit that started causing more and more problems. I usually also do a lot of very heavy history rewriting when converting some repository from Subversion or Mercurial over to Git, be it to enforce internal LF line endings, fixing committer names and email addresses or to completely delete some large folders from all revisions. Be it because of leaked sensitive information, to get rid of some very large files that should not have been there in the first place, or just because you want a clean history (I certainly do). However, sometimes you do want to rewrite the history. 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Power ratings are always referenced to the temperature of ambient (surrounding) air. High temperature is the mortal enemy of all semiconductor devices, and bipolar transistors tend to be more susceptible to thermal damage than most. Just like resistors, transistors are rated for how many watts each can safely dissipate without sustaining damage. At any given time, the power dissipated by a transistor is equal to the product (multiplication) of collector current and collector-emitter voltage. When a transistor conducts current between collector and emitter, it also drops voltage between those two points. What follows is an itemized description of some typical transistor ratings. Since transistors are more complex than some of the other components you\’re used to seeing at this point, these tend to have more kinds of ratings. 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