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"We're fiddling with the emotions of the American people, fiddling with the markets, fiddling with our health care," he said.
He also felt that fiddling with the mask was pointless.
There are people reading newspapers or fiddling with electric lights.
She regrets that politicians are still fiddling with the facts.
Instead, he finds cinematic texture by fiddling with narrative structure.
Each party gropes for advantage by fiddling with the franchise.
Although the CAP is unpopular, fiddling with the system provokes nervousness.
Such fiddling with policy is a good part of modern politics.
The twins were fiddling with the pitches of two butternut squashes.
His fiancée sat in the corner listening, fiddling with her necklace.
On Sunday morning, I heard Mr. Levine fiddling with his radio.
He pauses briefly to examine the machine before fiddling with it.
He has been fiddling with this grenade since he took office.
And I find I'm always fiddling with them at all times.
In low light, no amount of fiddling with the options will help.
Apparently, Joya was constantly fiddling with Adora's body in an inappropriate manner.
You'll probably have more fun fiddling with the Data Analysis Tool, however.
Instead, he turned to the big machine and started fiddling with it.
"Yeah," I say, my hands fiddling with the zipper in a panic.
Kaitlyn: Instagram's fiddling with doing the follows you, follow back, whatever prompts.
There was some audible fiddling with the balance of the amplified sound.
Fiddling with your phone in bed, after all, is bad sleep hygiene.
One Iraqi was playing dead, fiddling with the pin of a grenade.
"We probably need to airplane mode," Turner said, fiddling with her phone.
Fiddling with the placement of two microphones, Longstreth seemed not to notice.
He's fiddling with the zipper on his hoodie, and squatting against the wall.
No fiddling with amps, no guitars swaps and not a roadie in sight.
My first impression after a solid half-hour session fiddling with Canon's latest?
A lot of times fiddling with a screen is just too much work.
Fiddling with the rules and the timetable can have a way of backfiring.
He has been incessantly fiddling with line combinations because of injuries and inconsistent performance.
At Monday's forum, finding the right pitch also meant fiddling with the volume dial.
According to her Patreon page, Lee has been fiddling  with YouTube covers since 2009.
If staff were fiddling with their smartphones, they were not listening to their colleagues.
Or fiddling with actual physical buttons and trying to navigate less consumer friendly menus.
However, the industry leaders are just fiddling with the edges of a broken system.
He was fiddling with a pile of black and green olives on a tray.
Andersen connected a laptop to the projector, and began fiddling with photos and text.
When preparing foods in a kitchen, fiddling with a phone screen is not ideal.
There is a palpable sense of denial to all this fiddling with the numbers.
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Climate change could give fiddling with bank capital a good name.
Another technician knelt on the floor, fiddling with the alignment of the new foot.
They're sitting at the bar, fiddling with their phone, and not wearing a hat.
Doctoring images and audio by fiddling with film or using photo-editing software requires skill.
He'd also told Sequoia about a project that his friend Ev Williams was fiddling with.
"They are basically fiddling with the dials," said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research.
That is a contradiction that no amount of fiddling with the regulatory structure can fix.
He had his head down and was fiddling with the brim of his Sox cap.
I've spent hours fiddling with menus, crafting new technologies, and scouring caves for precious resources.
The frustration of fiddling with a device that keeps falling off could counteract its utility.
Yet few people regard measles or polio shots as unacceptable fiddling with the natural world.
After fiddling with Francis's Prismizer, Vernon enlisted his engineer, Chris Messina, to tweak the software.
Nelson came up with the melody on a trip to Ireland, while fiddling with his guitar.
There's no fiddling with camera stands or running wires all over the room to power them.
Wolfram Franke looked out the window for a long time, fiddling with his ring, saying nothing.
When they do, it will be only a little removed from fiddling with the real us.
Because she was always fiddling with her own work, rewriting it, or leaving poems out altogether.
Clay is smiling at her still, his thumb now fiddling with the waistband of her jeans.
I pour a glass of wine and start fiddling with some of my own creative writing.
A puff of warm air sighed into our faces as we, hands fiddling with wallets, peered.
"We just don't know what to do about this," Mr. Baheu said, fiddling with a screwdriver.
You can see how fiddling with the numbers could generate some very complicated math very quickly.
Hands-free speaker Fiddling with the background music means you're not focused on your significant other.
It gets your hands dirty, too, which is a good deterrent to fiddling with expensive electronics.
Take the video for "Heaven," which begins with the singer anxiously fiddling with things in her apartment.
If this season is a chess match, then showrunner Scott Gimple is still fiddling with his pawns.
Just put your phone down, and it does the rest, no fiddling with buttons or wires needed.
The French president is a lot less willing to spend time fiddling with the existing Brexit deal.
The simple act of fiddling with these buttons and knobs in each level brings its own amusement.
The experience had very little in common with the hours I've spent fiddling with timelines in FinalCut.
Well the Third Way was all about redistribution instead of fiddling with wage levels and profit levels.
Sometimes, though, someone just bluntly asks for assistance, as Marion did when fiddling with an attendance sheet.
Mr. West sat next to her, head down, fiddling with his phone, seemingly uninterested in the minutiae.
There are stories of violence against women; of old men fiddling with young men in movie theaters.
Or you're on your phone and I have my hand out but you're fiddling with your phone.
I just wish I didn't have to spend so much time fiddling with everything out of the box.
The cradle's unweighted base means you'll be fiddling with its cable to keep it flat on your table.
Many stare at screens that magnify the tiny components, so they can see what they are fiddling with.
I spun around and saw nothing but my son and the dive master fiddling with their own lights.
At the very least, fiddling with this thing is an excellent distraction from today's other, more heinous events.
In fact, fiddling with your hangnails can create more problems around your cuticles, like infection and cuts (yikes).
Local bank DBS has a QR code P2P payment option, but again it requires fiddling with 2FA codes.
By fiddling with positioning, Rothemund and Gopinath found they could create checkerboard patterns of "hot" and "cold" spots.
Porte, after fiddling with his bike, remounted it and wobbled past Froome, who kept looking backward for salvation.
I spend most my time writing fiddling with the balance on events and stuffing puns into flavor text.
It's a fairly simple process in Adobe Audition, involving fiddling with the song's elements, like reverb and amplitude.
Once Ms. Gauthier picks up the guitar and begins fiddling with a melody, that's when the floodgates open.
I usually spend it sitting on my bed reading or stuck in my bedroom fiddling with my robot.
Bernie Sanders sat with an empty yellow legal pad, fiddling with his hands and shuffling in his chair.
Putting directions in the real world (well, a screen displaying it) means no fiddling with levels of zoom.
Indeed, fiddling with the map, it's really tough to see any halfway plausible future for new conventional coal.
Fiddling with the hoop, over the course of a few minutes, Kaplan installed a brand new, bright gold net.
I have tried the Pixel 2 with different settings, fiddling with both the "Display size" and "Font size" settings.
It could be argued that the mere idea of fiddling with an increasingly popular health care program hurt Trump.
Years and years of experience fiddling with denim means you're likely to stumble upon new tricks before anyone else.
Downstairs from Keith's Harvard office, there is a lab cluttered with students fiddling with pipettes and arcane scientific instruments.
The gunman can be seen in the clip lying on the ground, fiddling with a detonator before blowing himself up.
Now Katrina was on the couch, one hand fiddling with her limp ponytail, the remote control dangling from the other.
Looking through the viewfinder and fiddling with his camera, Gust said that the fists looked funny — he didn't like it.
I am sitting in my car, fiddling with the knob, switching between channels because there is nothing else to do.
But while fiddling with a stack of fabric scraps she'd collected over the years, unusual humanoid forms began to emerge.
This is the kind of innovative thinking we need: not more hand-wringing and fiddling with rules while people die.
VandenBerghe — a large, big-bearded man with a wooden sword strapped to his back — started fiddling with an imaginary controller.
It took 18 months of fiddling with different flours to develop his line of bread (as well as some sweets).
"That's my side with the hip replacement," she said, fiddling with a large clip-on earring that had popped off.
If you're reading this, you've probably spent enough time fiddling with Snapchat to know how most of this stuff works.
Down to his last day, Apple was still fiddling with the design - after a year and a half of debate.
He spent plenty of time fiddling with his earpiece, though the heavily auto-tuned vocals didn't suffer as a result.
Fiddling with her necklace, she spoke of sleeping on the floor, eating only leftovers and being denied any days off.
Fiddling with a cheap wine opener can be super annoying when you're in a rush to get to the grapey goodness.
The camera app allows for full manual control, so you can have a bit more fun fiddling with the camera settings.
Critics accused him of doing nothing on stage but fiddling with the volume on prerecorded playlists, otherwise just jiggling and smiling.
Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo)Even in my limited fiddling with the Osmo Action, a few annoying elements became quickly apparent.
I was grabbing scraps of paper, sneaking through doorways, fiddling with fuseboxes, and looking for clues in my personal detective playscape.
No amount of fiddling with Windows 10's settings, drivers and trouble-shooting (next to useless) will then fix the problem.
By fiddling with the rules, you can shave points off of who counts and what the outcome of the vote is.
At $110, it's a good piece of technology if you're tired of buying ice or fiddling with trays in the freezer.
The man with the book seems skeptical of learning, the boy fiddling with the cage wonders about the meaning of freedom.
As always, she seemed to be mid-task, her eyes rearranging great swaths of air, her hands fiddling with imaginary clasps.
Hekker's next trick could be the punt he has been fiddling with: It spins as if kicked with his left foot.
When Italy's political leaders started fiddling with the electoral system back in the early 1990s, they opened the proverbial Pandora's box.
Any fiddling with a $4.5 trillion batch of bonds, then, could have major consequences if it's not done the right way.
You can turn on the video camera before it happens, and then watch the sky show without fiddling with any buttons.
Over the last few days, I've spent hours fiddling with the front-facing "TrueDepth" setup that makes the Face ID magic possible.
She's been fiddling with the idea of a #MeToo movement song for a while, but she wasn't sure how to approach it.
The best thing about the Waze Audio Player is that it makes it easier to follow traffic directions while fiddling with audio.
But once they open the phone and spend five minutes fiddling with the new emojis, will it actually bring them true happiness?
We've all been there: fiddling with your smartphone because it's there, or reaching for it when you hear a text message notification.
Ultimately, fiddling with the News Feed results in nothing more than a fiddled-with News Feed, not something fundamentally different and better.
The idea is that you spend less time tapping around on screen and fiddling with hardware buttons to access these same options.
Some of it shows him experimenting, even if that just means fiddling with the camcorder's special effects en route to Burning Man.
You'll probably want to make sure you wash your hands before fiddling with a thing designed to blow directly into your face.
The team had begun fiddling with a web redesign back in 2017, and opened it up to beta testing in September 2018.
" But I think most people who are fiddling with their Facebook or their Snapchat think, "I would like to have that problem.
And while the company continued fiddling with the aforementioned Mac Pro reset button, it remained the sole representative of Apple's new offensive.
Even its Italian coach, Claudio Ranieri, 64, is considered a dull journeyman, known as "the Tinkerman" for constantly fiddling with his lineup.
It's time for politicians to quit fiddling with maps and keep faith with a country that's much less divided than its leaders.
It also uses gyroscopes to see how fast their drivers are going, or whether they are fiddling with their phones while driving.
I'm old enough to know that even fiddling with an ancient push-button car radio from the 1980s could lead to death.
There seemed to be more crocheters fiddling with needles on the subway and pillows embroidered with girl-power motifs in storefront displays.
"Everyone else was fiddling with chicken breasts and coriander, boning out quail and making food look like something it wasn't," she said.
The whole world needs to understand every household need to understand that fiddling with security of supply of energy is a taboo.
Mr. Zhou, wearing a bumblebee-yellow uniform and fiddling with a pencil, surveyed the vast stretch of immobile turbines from his desk.
"There have been times when I'm fiddling with my purse or carrying my children, and I walk past the driver," she said.
I wait around on set for a few hours, as expected, still practicing my only line and fiddling with my fake gun.
I spent three weeks fiddling with some of the more cutting-edge vapes out there to explore what's trending and what's not.
That means you can ask it to cook you stuff, instead of fiddling with microwave controls and digging through cooking pre-set menus.
"Dyn got everyone's attention," says Peterson, especially as it represented a new evolution—and a new unknown player fiddling with Anna-senpai's code.
The men worked without speaking for several minutes, Eldwin returning to his computer and Brian fiddling with his book but not really reading.
They won't get tired, drunk, have fits of road rage, or become distracted by texting, chatting, eating or fiddling with the entertainment system.
And the ability to check your location or view satellite and sonar data without fiddling with a wrist-mounted display is definitely streamlining.
As you wander around, talking and fiddling with a special radio, facts about these people and the world they live in become clear.
Interfering with the music or fiddling with the heating controls or air con are also distracting, as are frequent disagreements with the SatNav.
No BAT and no replacement means fiddling with — rather than fixing — taxes, and a Republican majority that is unlikely to stay a majority.
That machine changed the course of Gates' life and he spent much of his time at school fiddling with computers, hacking and coding.
With night listening mode, Roku will bring the two audio tracks closer together, so you don't have to keep fiddling with the volume.
" It included among its laments that historians today are "fiddling with footnotes rather than bringing the past to light for a broader audience.
There isn't much to look at along either route, and as my phone's connection drops out, I find myself fiddling with the radio.
It's far easier to operate on than the right one, and it will serve as an intro to fiddling with Joy-Con internals.
Fiddling with trade policy while the dollar climbs and manufacturing employment falls means overlooking the warning signs flashing red on America's economic dashboard.
Now, the Fed is fiddling with the dials, trying to determine precisely how much cash is needed to keep the system operating smoothly.
Scientists in the US may be fiddling with similar sorts of heritable modifications in mice but have no plans to do so in people.
Electric wine opener Fiddling with a cheap wine opener can be super annoying when you're in a rush to get to the grapey goodness.
If all goes well, maybe riders will be distracted from aggressively fiddling with radio dials, falling asleep, or puking all over the leather interior.
Clubgoers are drinking, mingling and fiddling with their phones when a shooter approaches from the top of the screen, a short video clip shows.
He smiles thinking about it, fiddling with the frames and using his index finger to push the glasses up the bridge of his nose.
You just drop the phone into the Dex dock, which uses NFC to to launch the desktop mode—no fiddling with plugging anything in.
You can quickly connect to the speaker with a smartphone or laptop and enjoy that loud thumping bass without fiddling with wires or amplifiers.
Pablo Uma Sound Lantern | $479 The best bedside items are multitaskers—you don't want to be fiddling with stuff while trying to wind down.
With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool's errand.
Still, the magpie score amusingly flits around various pop styles, as if Mr. Sullivan was fiddling with the dial on a vintage AM radio.
Folks will have their own preferences, but I personally find swiping and tapping easier than fiddling with an array of buttons, especially while exercising.
I've only had the new MacBook Air for about a day, so I'm still fiddling with battery life to see how long it'll run.
In a Season 2 episode titled "The Injury," for example, fans may recall Pam sitting at her desk fiddling with a mysterious MP3 player.
Distracted driving incidents from texting or fiddling with other technology in the car are dangers that most older generations of drivers did not experience.
Woodworth also intends to show the lander's exit from the moon, though that might require some fiddling with the electronics to get it working.
If trends hold, about 3,000 people will die this year in car accidents caused by distracted drivers, many of them fiddling with their phones.
Fiddling with your glasses, rattling your papers, scratching yourself, and so forth will distract the audience from your message and "cancel out" your eloquence.
However, as the overwhelming portion of statistics show, fiddling with interest rates will only have a marginal effect in the greater scheme of things.
It's completely wireless — there's no receiver — so your friend can just whip it out and start clicking without fiddling with their computer's USB port.
By fiddling with the actual amount of electricity being fed to the chip, an attacker can trick it into giving up its innermost secrets.
While there are a few multimedia options that I don't mind using, Sync may be the only one that I genuinely enjoy fiddling with.
Club goers are drinking, mingling, and fiddling with their phones when a shooter approaches from the top of the screen, the short video clip shows.
However, unless you're someone who is constantly fiddling with manual camera settings in pro-mode, the differences between the two apertures are hard to discern.
It also has a 5-inch touchscreen that lets you control a variety of settings without fiddling with dials (though you can if you want).
Fiddling with a voice slider helps fade out background noise quite a bit, though it does leave a somewhat dampening effect on the voices themselves.
Father Pedro Arriaga tells a story about how he once inadvertently snapped a photo of a local indigenous leader while fiddling with a new iPhone.
Those of us sensitive to this kind of thing spend forever fiddling with settings and getting everything just right for exactly this kind of situation.
More importantly for accessibility, the mechanics by which you invoke Split View or Slide Over are infinitely more accessible than fiddling with a mouse pointer.
One minute, Lu was on the concrete roof of his two-story house, the next he was fiddling with fireworks or skating down an alley.
Before you get to fiddling with your smartphone's settings, look through the apps you've got installed—particularly if one or two keep interrupting your slumber.
Francois, who is petite and blondish, sat cross-legged on the carpeted floor fiddling with the sensor, a small black box, like an oversized Lego.
It was around this time that viewers, fiddling with their own devices, began to receive notifications about some sort of shooting on the Champs-Élysées.
If you start fiddling with the controls, the Pause Ad either won't appear at all, or if it's already on-screen, it will immediately disappear.
That will seem counterintuitive to Trump haters, but fiddling with tax rates, however necessary and beneficial, can't sustain a political movement, let alone a nation.
That step, she explained, is a routine data-entry task that involves fiddling with two computer programs, plugging in codes and navigating drop-down menus.
A recent conversation in his East Village studio had to wait while he finished fiddling with an image on his computer for a new project.
Within months, they were in Syria under the watchful eyes of hooded, Kalashnikov-wielding militants, doing push-ups, fiddling with weapons and imbibing the ideology.
I work from home, so my dog and I spend every day together, fiddling with the best electric bikes and being frightened by robot vacuums.
The brilliance of Hockney's early paintings, regardless, still acts as a yardstick that his forays into fiddling with digital manipulation never come close to surpassing.
After a couple of months with a Roku TV, I have to admit that fiddling with a tablet just to watch anything felt like a hassle.
Even in dangerous situations—when he's cutting something with a knife, walking down the stairs, or fiddling with the TV—the confetti explosion ends in laughter.
"I just felt so different to everyone else," she says, fiddling with a stray curl which has let itself loose from her huge pile of hair.
How likely is it, I wonder, that parents who see their teen fiddling with a computer and a printer will be alerted that something is amiss?
Through a combination of fiddling with your phone's settings and being a little smarter about how you use data, you can avoid going over your limit.
And if you catch yourself fiddling with the model to get something else out of it, that should set off a little alarm in your brain.
If your list of necessary text editor features consists of fiddling with fonts, adjusting margins and changing your justification, you have no idea what you're missing.
"I already talked about it, me and my agent," deGrom said, sitting at his dressing stall Monday morning in the Mets' clubhouse, fiddling with his smartphone.
When the game — a soporific 963-0 win for England — failed to capture the fans' imagination, though, a few creative minds started fiddling with the cards.
Leafing through a catalogue, fiddling with the radio, rinsing out a juice glass, all the while a man is walking by and looking at her windows.
The other school says that the Avengers will negate the snap, fiddling with time and space to ensure that the snap never happened in the first place.
Apart from fiddling with clichés, he delights in creating characters and then testing them in fiendish ways (sometimes literally), ratcheting up the tension and the body count.
Which means getting HDR content on your TV can be a nightmare of testing ports, fiddling with the television's settings app, and haunting home theater enthusiast forums.
To speed up the process, a second lens was added near the first, through which framing and focus could be adjusted without fiddling with the primary one.
I don't know the first thing about perspective or lighting, and fiddling with all of these various aspects of a video game screenshot just isn't much fun.
But in reality, our hair looks more like we've been fiddling with some wiring with soaking-wet hands after we've walked two blocks in a winter breeze.
This printer needs to just work because it's much harder to do anything in zero-g and you can't be fiddling with an app to use it.
Greenhouse gases are the master switch behind our planetary thermostat—and by fiddling with their atmospheric concentrations, we've already locked ourselves in to decades of future warming.
And, though I had no interest in this, you can even poke around in the weeds, fiddling with things like DNS, NAT, port forwarding and so forth.
He needs to be found accountable, said Mr Ellenhorn: that would send a message to other CEOs that they cannot get away with fiddling with the books.
Instead of fiddling with a phone, a customer can simply give the speaker commands like, "Alexa, play the new Bruno Mars song," and the track starts immediately.
Have people ever walked up to pay for their parking and been surprised to find you sitting there with headphones on fiddling with a bunch of knobs?
Debates ensue that involve fiddling with the various permutations of choosing between a lot of cheaper, less-capable systems versus a smaller number of more advanced systems.
Here's a GIF: Connection and compatibility: Google apparently did some fiddling with the Bluetooth on Pixel Buds so that it's easier to connect them than normal Bluetooth headphones.
I still won, but fiddling with a bulky headset is the last thing you want to do while you're trying to punch out an opponent in the ring.
Someone has even manhandled over from the Royal Academy an 18th-century plaster cast of a nude portrait of Cincinnatus fiddling with his sandal that Blake drew from.
Maybe so you can change songs or raise the volume without pulling out your phone or fiddling with a stereo, if you still use that sort of thing.
Fiddling with knobs until the water is at the perfect temperature is a waste of valuable time in the morning that could have been used for more sleeping.
Many newcomers to Germany are experienced car mechanics, for example, but Germany's shortage is in mechatronics, which requires knowledge of information technology rather than fiddling with fuel pumps.
When he waits on a pitch at the plate, he grips and re-grips his bat handle like some bleary-eyed high school student fiddling with his pen.
The Hero24 can take a dunk as deep as 4 feet without a case, so fiddling with little doors is a small price to pay for less heft.
The tentacles of the disinformation apparatus, thought to be rooted in the Kremlin, have been found fiddling with elections everywhere from Ukraine and Bulgaria to France and America.
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But on Friday, as she turned into the medical clinic where she works in Kiryas Joel, it didn't stop her from fiddling with a music video on YouTube.
It works with just about any TV with an HDMI connection, and even lets you search with your voice instead of fiddling with the remote all the time.
"When I come to train, I don't want drama," she said, fiddling with a National League championship ring belonging to her father, the former baseball player Ted Uhlaender.
He reached over, pushing another female guest aside, and took the liberty of fiddling with her jacket to get a closer look at the fit of her pants.
In the breakups' aftermath, the girls became friends — "the best thing that came from those relationships," Hilmer says, fiddling with her camera in Smith's kitchen in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
It analyzed the following driving behaviors: Phone use (handheld, hands-free; texting/emailing; and simply fiddling with a phone while vehicle is moving), rapid acceleration, and hard braking.
For a partner like Lyft, this is an advantage in terms of driver and passenger safety – updating routes before was handled manually, which involves fiddling with the phone.
It'd be revealing to see what the brain's activity is comparable to while playing a Souls game: punishing arithmetic, or just fiddling with your own belly button fluff.
The user interface replicates the functions of your iPhone, and fiddling with its screen or digital crown will be just as annoying to anyone you're sitting across from.
But it's pretty easy to pick up when you're older, while fiddling with an insult generator during high school, or fixing a small bug at your day job.
" Gray was fiddling with the second verse of a song he'd recorded, called "Pro Life Pro God Pro Trump," for his forthcoming album, " MAGA Ain't Got No Color.
On an unusually mild Monday morning in December 2015, Heather Purdin was fiddling with the ponytail securing her dark brown hair, just as she always does when she's nervous.
After eight months of meticulous pruning, tending to his soil, and fiddling with his vines, winemaker David Dunkenberger woke up Tuesday morning ready to finally start harvesting his vineyard.
For the most part today's historians remain isolated in their professional cocoons, spending more time fiddling with their footnotes than bringing the past to light for a broader audience.
A close-up shot centers in on the happy ass duo; Otto fiddling with a controller of sorts, clearly amped to bring the world of mechanical prosthetics to life.
In addition to fiddling with the status bar, you can now customize the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, do not disturb mode, and the lock screen.
I gathered with the "real runners," nervously fiddling with my shoes until a woman decked out in running gear stood before us and introduced herself as our run leader.
Multiple people even brought up the ClimateGate "scandal," involving hacked emails and accusations of fiddling with data, which was investigated to death with no evidence of wrongdoing years ago.
When do you see a movie or a story in which a mom is fixing a non-working device or fiddling with the cables to get something to work?
Werner, dressed as Monopoly's Rich Uncle Pennybags, sat just behind Smith for the entirety of his testimony, fiddling with a monocle and mopping their brow with oversized $100 bills.
"He showed me how to make our first five cocktails, which included the blackberry mojito that we're going to make today," says Gibson, fiddling with an old milk bottle.
No amount of fiddling with income tax rates is going to adequately address the alarming wealth inequality in this country or fund the radically transformative programs our country needs.
Instead of fiddling with a knob or slider, you simply point this at a surface and the system projects a bullseye focus ring until the picture is in focus.
Finally, the price tweak underscores how Fiber is fiddling with various methods in its expansion into new cities, something it has set out to do much of this year.
How it works: Bloomberg explains that banks have been fiddling with so-called repurchase agreements, a kind of short-term loan, close to the end of financial reporting periods.
But mostly he loved his job — the fiddling with clauses and numbers, the anticipation of the day when he could administer the estate he had planned for so long.
Sean Lawrence, 241, a freelance producer, said he preferred hailing a cab because it was less complicated than fiddling with an app and because cabdrivers knew their way around.
When the program first debuted, he says, the team wasted about ten minutes at the beginning of each meeting fiddling with technology and making sure everyone was accounted for.
I didn't even think to cover up or hide or anything, I was just lying on my back fiddling with my phone while my girlfriend tried to rectify the situation.
In other words: All our content is encrypted in transit from our servers to your browser, and this ensures no one is fiddling with that content before it reaches you.
The only destination is Athens International, so anyone who gets overwhelmed by choice or fiddling with Google's Travel tool may want to jump in on this no-nonsense journey ASAP.
The path towards a third term involves fiddling with the constitutional court, which ruled in 2016 that Mr Kabila could stay in office while waiting for elections to be organised.
Getting that coveted seal requires constant fiddling with the earbud, opening your mouth just so, winding cords behind your ears and shoving the earbuds back in after each minute slip.
BumbleBFF is a extension of Bumble I discovered one lonely Friday night spent fiddling with my phone: It matches you with other adults who are equally eager befriend new people.
Laws across the country prohibit certain actions while driving, like talking on the phone, texting, eating, drinking or fiddling with the stereo, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Meanwhile, the company has responded to this hardware headache of its own design like the proverbial thief in the night, quietly fiddling with the internals when no one was looking.
Amazon knows its target audience and knows that its customers don't want to be fiddling with a bunch of wires and gadgets to get a smart home up and running.
Someone is going around New York, fiddling with the city's public LinkNYC internet booths, and making them blare out ice cream van music according to social media posts and LinkNYC.
No one has made that blueprint public, though many have suggested it relies on fiddling with the toothed metal rings that lock the bottle, which likely produced the microscopic scratches.
The micro-management can get pretty intense, to the point where you're basically backseat driving for the length of a race by fiddling with your drivers' fuel and tire strategies.
It hopes that if you equip guests with a pre-made Custom Lens, they'll use it instead of fiddling with creating their own special effects on competing apps like Instagram.
In the conversation that followed, Navarro pointed out that Cuddy's own body language, during her presentation, signaled insecurity: She was fiddling with her necklace, wrapping her arms around her torso.
"This is what I can do with it, but you gotta be real careful," he shouts, fiddling with the dial on one set as if to fine-tune a picture.
The rapport was "totally platonic," she stresses, furrowing her eyebrows and fiddling with each of her five rings, but it was still one of the longest relationships of her life.
It has been a surprise, after so many years, to have again stepped away from the cameras, the microphones, the people always fiddling with her hair and makeup and clothes.
Servers may shoot their cuffs before fiddling with some small detail of the table setting, a fussiness that is not in keeping with the graceful, relaxed tone of the cooking.
The Magnifier utility has quite a few shortcuts of its own, which can save you from fiddling with the mouse while you enlarge parts of the desktop for easier reading.
I spent nine hours fiddling with my boss's camera, trying to figure out how to turn it on and how to change the focus and how to turn the flash off.
But in addition to all that, the 14-year-old also enjoys fiddling with a nuclear reactor that he keeps in his home—one that he built when he was 133.
So next time, instead of fiddling with the Bluetooth settings and waiting for your device to connect, you can do it with a quick and easy mouse click or shortcut command.
It is easy for investors to fall into one of two traps: making an arbitrary selection of assets in their 20s and never changing it, or relentlessly fiddling with their portfolio.
A checkpoint with armed guards, a barricade, a pothole or even a traffic jam will take away my freedom as much as any fiddling with software settings in an autonomous vehicle.
The decision followed experiments of the technology in Silicon Valley that showed test users napping, putting on makeup and fiddling with their phones as the vehicles traveled up to 56 mph.
Because people can't do anything productive or enjoyable while resetting their timepieces that do not adjust automatically, fiddling with watches and clocks twice a year is a complete waste of time.
And the power to reshape other species, scientists and bioethicists say, raises questions that are both unique to animals and may bear on the looming prospect of fiddling with our own.
In other words, fiddling with the buttons will make no difference to the temperature—although, given how effective placebos are, some people will feel a phantom cooling or warming in the room.
However, in the case of an emergency, many of us don't want to be fiddling with our smartphone just to unlock a gun, which is otherwise useless, when confronted with an attacker.
But it avoids all the complications of third-party tools, intermediary servers, logins and passwords, making a shortlink, worrying about making a file temporarily "public" or fiddling with permissions, and so on.
Apple's next version of its mobile operating system, called iOS 10, will have an impact on how you communicate and potentially reduce the amount of time you spend fiddling with the phone.
In fact, they've already been fiddling with the tiered format: In February, prices spanned a slightly wider range, with three, 10-day tiers (versus the two price points set out for March).
The younger of the two women, Dusha seemed nervous, fiddling with the many strings of glass beads around her neck, swinging her feet back and forth as they dangled off the bench.
"If I had reported him to the police, my family would have been in great danger," said Beauty, 19, fiddling with black-and-blond braids as she recalled the events of last summer.
"There are some days when I just don't like all the fuss and faff that can come with lots of people prodding and fiddling with your face and hair," she told the magazine.
When he worked at paper-intensive administrative jobs, he'd doodle incessantly; when he started a coding career last year, he took up fiddling with an SD-card reader that made pleasant snick noises.
Walter sits with Shrier, who is fiddling with a harmonica, as the camera pans to the plate of food in front of them — a pile of juicy, canned pineapple with a green garnish.
When the company offered me my current role three years ago, it took me almost an hour of fiddling with a spreadsheet to figure out how much money they were actually offering me.
The last option for control is filters (or profiles) for different situations, which the Doppler team have built out in advance so that you don't have to spend time fiddling with the equalizer.
Fiddling with a miscellany of instruments, encircling the room's profusion of mast-like wooden pillars, hopping, chanting or dancing in little tribes, they loosely weave and unweave an intermittently absorbing web of activity.
As I watched LG repeatedly raise and lower the display I had flashbacks to that time a friend kept fiddling with the window in my car until it collapsed straight into the door.
Mr. Holmes, who recently played the victim of a leveraged buyout in Mr. Hughes's production of Ayad Akhtar's "Junk," now gets revenge as the alpha moneybags gleefully fiddling with someone else's balance sheet.
Li's husband often came to Liang's office to work, and the books he had left behind still cluttered Liang's shelves — and as she spoke, Liang kept his eyes down, fiddling with a pen.
Along with WestJet and other airlines around the world, Air Canada has been fiddling with schedules to deal with the grounding of its two dozen Boeing 737 Max planes after two deadly crashes.
Android takes into consideration the app you're running and the ambient light levels to set the display brightness automatically, which saves you constantly fiddling with the slider yourself in something like a video app.
The novel's premise is wildly inventive and really scary: Some sadistic person is fiddling with the mechanics of the elevators that operate in the city's skyscrapers, and everyone is in a state of panic.
It just works and when you're sitting down in front of the TV with a hot bag of takeout you don't want to be fiddling with settings or navigating awful TV manufacturer specific menus.
Of course, manually toggling Car View on might not feel as seamless as the Bluetooth experience, but a feature like this could prevent accidents caused by people fiddling with their phone in the car.
Above all, there are the owners—puffy pink billionaires dictating mostly fictitious budgetary constraints, fiddling with hirings and firings, even sticking their ruddied noses in roster moves no matter how often they preach autonomy.
"I'm still not a big fan of people checking their phones at halftime," Jefferson said as he sat with his feet in a bucket of ice, fiddling with his phone, after a recent game.
Back there Tagliaferri found brothers getting their hair braided and their Afros picked out for the show, camera people fiddling with their equipment, and a whole lot of people dicking around on their phones.
It's worth keeping stuff like the cardboard rolls at the heart of aluminum foil (back-scratching), those plastic thingies on the end of bread (for fiddling with), and if I may be bold: glasses.
I always end up fiddling with something longer than I planned to, like changing clothes three times, getting mascara poked in my eye, or deciding a top-knot isn't going to cut it that day.
But when I wanted to talk more generally about his career, a heavy gray cloud seemed to glaze across his eyes, and he began a cycle of removing, fiddling with, and then replacing his cap.
I believe we all could get back a few minutes (or hours) of our day if we stopped spending so much time clenched in a bathroom stall fiddling with toilet paper to muffle our farts.
This translates to serious time saved on photo editing — so you can get back to living your best, unfiltered life as quickly as possible, instead of fiddling with third-party apps for hours on end.
This is true, but tantamount to an admission of guilt: politicians in some safely Democratic districts in the north have not been above fiddling with election rules and redrawing district boundaries to protect incumbents either.
"The court should not sit idly buy, shrug its shoulders and say 'that's just Roger being Roger,'" Jackson said as Stone closed his eyes at counsel's table, fiddling with a pen and shifting his weight.
Fiddling with a cheap wine opener can be super annoying when you're in a rush to get to the grapey goodness and there's nothing like a broken cork to put a damper on the night.
But having watched Britain's Spencer 'Gorilla' Ealing beat Germany's Kai Wollin and walk away with a $200,000 cheque last August, Gullit realized esports had evolved from "geeky" kids fiddling with their controllers in "stinky" bedrooms.
Having a single-purpose Spotify device that can be left in the car at all times could be more convenient than constantly fiddling with your phone to play songs over Bluetooth (or with an aux cable).
The small efficiencies of being able to just pop your computer open anywhere and start working without fiddling with wireless network credentials or setting up a mobile hotspot eventually add up to a big productivity win.
Photographers did their best to guess the next day's weather and launch timing while fiddling with camera settings, pointing them in the right direction, and trying not to attract gremlins that would mess with their gear.
What seems less certain still is that fiddling with benefit rules will make much difference to the numbers of EU migrants coming to Britain, because almost all of them come to work, not to claim benefits.
But the lion's share of credit goes to China, which, rather than fiddling with tax breaks and credits and "market mechanisms," invested a boatload of money into production subsidies, scaling the industry up by brute force.
Fiddling with his smartphone, seemingly not in the mood for an interview, he was asked about the Armstrong court he had helped christen by taking apart Bjorn Borg in straight sets in its first men's final.
For daily coffee drinkers, they offer a fast and affordable alternative to investing in a professional-grade appliance like the $500 Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine, or fiddling with a manual espresso maker like the Flair.
As a result, Americans are familiar with scenes of lawmakers from a president's party giving rousing standing ovations to parts of his speech, contrasted with the opposition sitting on their hands or fiddling with their phones.
While checking in to someone's home on Airbnb can sometimes entail fiddling with a lockbox or coordinating a time with the host, I didn't have to specify a time to check in to my Sonder apartment.
In the weeks leading up to the parabolic flight, as Coblentz surveyed her prototypes, she decided she'd like to spend her precious moments in zero g actually eating stuff, not just fiddling with the spherification station.
However while encryption might technically remain intact in the scenario they sketch, their argument glosses over both the fact and risks of bypassing encryption via fiddling with authentication systems in order to enable deceptive third party snooping.
Anyone doing research on Eisenhower's America would be well served by studying Stern's footage of Newport's high-society ladies; suburban dads fiddling with cameras; and twenty-somethings dancing, clapping, drinking beer, and making out with each another.
Mr. Clemens's creative director, Babak Radboy, even created a logo for the capsule, a swooping "Telfar" over the looping Century 21, a design Mr. Radboy had been fiddling with long before Century 21 even came to call.
Under the theater's large white canvas geodesic dome, some young Afghan men were hanging out in the back in the freezing cold, fiddling with cellphones, while another dashed madly about with a video camera, filming all who entered.
"I'd never really taken photos before I bought an iPhone," he says, as he's fiddling with the camera strap on the Rolleiflex he brought with him to our interview — a very different type of camera than the iPhone.
I start fiddling with the diamond ring that still isn't quite accustomed to its new place on my ring finger -- one of the few pieces of evidence of my relationship status -- and sneak a peek at my phone.
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After winning his first match at the U.S. Open on Monday night, Tsitsipas sat in the main interview room and immediately started fiddling with the microphone, taking off its foam cover to find out what type it was.
Just a few months ago, it seemed more than likely that Pai's FCC majority was preparing to rubber stamp Sinclair's deal, especially after spending much of the last year fiddling with agency rules to specifically aid the deal.
Plugging in an iPhone, for example, loads a screen of apps like Apple Maps, Apple Music and Apple's podcast app, which you can then control on the console or with Siri instead of fiddling with your smartphone screen.
As for the question of screens distracting drivers from the roads, Jablonski says a bigger display can actually help by saving drivers from fiddling with the thing if it's showing the radio and they need to see directions.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Whether you are Googling on the couch, fiddling with Maps in the car or swiping through the Discover feed on the toilet, expect Alphabet Inc's Google to put ads in several new spots this year.
Electric wine opener Fiddling with a cheap wine opener can be super annoying when you're in a rush to get to the grapey goodness and there's nothing like a broken cork to put a damper on the night.
She manages to keep it together until what appears to be an accidental wide shot exposes some of the magic as we see a woman who's probably a member of the SNL wardrobe crew fiddling with Aidy's costume.
Fiddling with the radio in my car, I heard music from a Monterrey station, classical music I had not heard anywhere else in Mexico, and happened upon a lovely piece (violin, cello, piano) I'd heard before, but couldn't name.
Before Clark and a few handpicked collaborators got to fiddling with the Viking DGB, however, Mars 2020 wanted them to attempt something much more basic: Conduct an atmospheric test of the exact same parachute that Curiosity had used in 2012.
To the same extent, we were fiddling with format, and to compensate for that, to hold people's hands while we did this weird stuff, we gave them Old Man's War, which we already knew they liked and were comfortable with.
The report also suggests fiddling with terms on the loans, including by moving back the date at which they are written off, so that more people—especially middle-income types—will end up repaying the entirety of the cash they borrow.
Debauching the currency, poisoning relations with Europe and America, locking up tens of thousands of innocent people, muzzling the press, reigniting a civil war and fiddling with the constitution to gain the powers of a sultan surely ought to be enough.
That, I thought, would lend itself to a much more accurate through line between me fiddling with an iPhone for a few days and what the average buyer might be able to divine about how it might work for them.
As a lifelong beginner myself, I can speak to what a pain and expense fiddling with effects pedals is when you're just starting out, and this combo goes a ways toward bringing players closer to the sounds they're striving for.
There are better solutions to the problems of financial leverage and risk-taking, for example forcing banks to fund themselves with a lot more equity, than fiddling with a mechanism that has been at the heart of the world's prosperity.
The new model of BMW's flagship 7 Series sedan is getting support for controlling the Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Pandora apps on Android phones, making it possible to use the services through the car's user interface — no fiddling with the phone required.
In part a joke about how their engineers kept fiddling with their compressors, they chose the name for the way in which each of their practices condenses the immensity of existence in the age of the Extremely Online into music.
There is great danger, of course, in any engineered fiddling with the hair triggers, feedback loops, and checks and balances of an immune system evolved over millennia, and great trepidation in using experimental therapies on any patient, especially a child.
He had been fiddling with an unlit cigar (he just holds them these days) while talking about the euphoria that had greeted his new science-fiction epic, "Ready Player One," at the South by Southwest Film Festival three days earlier.
What happens when you realize your creator is no longer whichever being you believe in, but rather a scientist in a lab fiddling with your genetic code like a chimpanzee fitting star and triangle shaped blocks into the proper slot.
Without delay, I began fiddling with her ears and paws, a method I was told would desensitize her from future earwax extraction and toenail clipping, but when I finally went to cut her talons, she tried to nip my hands.
Fiddling with the mouth guard he began using after he lost one of his front teeth in Game 1, Thomas became the fifth player in the history of the Celtics to score at least 50 points in a postseason game.
There were almost no customers there, just an elderly couple at the counter eating soup, an unkempt, possibly homeless guy fiddling with a jukebox in the corner, and a girl in a bulky checkered coat sitting across the aisle from Vadik.
At the time, Abdurraqib was a teenager in Columbus, Ohio, where it would get unbearably cold during the winter; fiddling with the buttons on his Walkman to skip a song on the cassette entailed exposing his skin to the frigid air.
The source material is an astonishing 5,000 tape samples taken from familiar pop songs released in the "compact disk era," which pass by in a matter of seconds, resulting in a sound that's not unlike fiddling with a radio dial.
Just keep in mind that fiddling with your update settings could increase the risk of your computer becoming vulnerable to newly discovered bugs and malicious code if you do not install new security updates and other fixes yourself in a timely manner.
"God, I love these trees!" he exclaimed periodically, on a field-trip in November, while unpacking climbing gear, fiddling with solar panels and trying to take his mind off the wreckage some curious bears had made of some of his humidity sensors.
But it seems as if he and his co-writer, Tony Grisoni, laboured over the screenplay for too many years, fiddling with different drafts until they could no longer remember which story they wanted to tell or which points they hoped to make.
The entire app is built around a simple UI for editing slides meant to let users focus on content instead of fiddling with fonts and layouts, with a robust drag-and-drop function for automatically generating content out of images, links, and videos.
Then again, putting a mic in your home naturally invites questions over whether it can be used for eavesdropping—which is why researchers at the security firm Checkmarx started fiddling with Alexa, to see if they could turn it into a spy device.
As a power user, who keeps fiddling with his phones all the time, I noticed no difference between the nova, the nova plus and the assortment of Android phones I normally use, which sport either the Snapdragon 2399 or Huawei's Kirin 2448.
A peaceful handover of power in Gambia would be a welcome surprise for African democracy at a time when many of the continent's leaders have been rigging polls, fiddling with constitutions to extend their terms in office and cracking down on peaceful protest.
That innate curiosity, researchers suggest, may explain some of Harambe's behavior seen on the video of his fatal encounter with the boy who fell into his enclosure — fiddling with the boy's clothing, taking a quick peek as he pulled the boy's pants upward.
As I waited in the non-citizen line to clear immigration at the airport, I noticed that everyone around me was a student: lined up one after another, we held our immigration documents at our chests, fiddling with our signal-deprived phones.
Click here to view original GIFGIF: Polaroid (YouTube)Focusing on the one feature smartphones don't offer yet, Polaroid's new Lab instant photography device creates hard copies of any digital photo on your phone without the need for wires or fiddling with wireless settings.
Sure, you might have a memorized cardio workout that you know and can tolerate, but when it comes to the other stuff — like strength-training and lifting weights — your "routine" might consist of strolling around the weight room and fiddling with your water bottle.
Photo: Gloria Sin (Gizmodo)In another plus, the connection between the headphones and my smartphone only randomly dropped once, when I was not playing any music while fiddling with an exercise machine for over 22.402 minutes, likely due to an auto-timeout to save battery.
It has also added other improvements, like boosting voice frequencies for better speech clarity and and automatic volume leveling feature to create uniform sound across content (no more blaring commercials or movies that go from quiet to loud, requiring constant fiddling with the remote control).
By fiddling with radio dials and paging through comic books, you can also find mini-stories within the game, which start as funny diversions — like the soapy romance comic Love is Nice, which Wilson will voice his disdain for when you pick it up.
"Our latest research has discovered that distraction 'latency' lasts an average of 27 seconds, meaning that, even after drivers put down the phone or stop fiddling with the navigation system, drivers aren't fully engaged with the driving task," say the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Any of the chaotic energy that can come from the beginning of an interview—brief introductions, ordering drinks, fiddling with a voice recorder—is soon quelled by the steady pace of our conversation, and the gentle, direct way in which she approaches every answer.
Simpson makes it sound like he was just calmly fiddling with the bat when it accidentally touched the rim of her car, and when Nicole protested, he hit "the front" of the car and said the ride was his 'cause he paid for it.
There's no denying that distracted driving is a major cause of accidents and deaths in the US. So it's natural that Uber wants to make sure drivers are focused on taking riders safely from point A to B rather than fiddling with their phones.
The PS VR headset is clearly the least well built of what's out there, in tech-specs terms, the feel of its assembly and the simple fact that I am always fiddling with it while it's on, yet to find that sweet spot of comfort.
Regulators have given extra scrutiny to addressing MMA's extreme weight-cutting practices, but until now it's been standard procedure to fine the offending fighter a percentage of his or her purse—no suspension, no fiddling with the results of the fight after it's done.
In Chana Porter's "Leap and the Net Will Appear," an exasperated critique of self-actualization presented by New Georges at the Flea Theater, Margie (Polly Lee) will spend an hour and a half fiddling with the ignition for a life that won't turn on.
The clone looks uncannily like the star pianist Yuja Wang and, after some fiddling with its control panel, plays like her, too, but on the Lang Lang setting, "it" delivers a few bars of Chopin deliciously heavy on rubato and ceiling-gazing demonstrations of ecstasy.
Many saw it as disrespectful when Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to Mr. Trump, was photographed sitting with her feet tucked under her on a couch in the Oval Office, fiddling with her phone, as Mr. Trump and the black leaders stood in the background.
On the tables, plenty are on their third bottle of merlot, and a large portion are busy fiddling with their smartphones—taking pictures of Schwarzenegger on stage, filming bits of the Q&A, or else just watching it through the fully-zoomed, pixelated screen.
Like MySpace at the time, it let you customize your own page to hell and back—though in this case, you were fiddling with the aesthetics of an inbox rather than the precise amount of sparkle on social network page white text sat on a black background.
LG's software shows you a sphere-shaped preview of what the camera sees, which is useful to make sure the camera sits straight, but 360-degree photography is more about finding a good spot to place the camera than fiddling with every little detail on the screen.
You can also modify and save sounds directly from the amp, but while the color LCD display and well-marked buttons aren't bad to use, the interface is better suited to making quick little adjustments than for fiddling with all the dozens of variables of a tone.
Therefore, the entire video demonstration features O'Brien taking every opportunity to figure out how his VR experience can somehow turn into sex, from fiddling with the privates of a dead guy to casting a lewd eye on a virtual tentacle monster ("That I could have sex with").
Not only do you need a Game Boy and its Camera peripheral, but also a few devices meant to hack the Game Boy as well as either an installation of Windows XP on a computer with parallel port or some fiddling with drivers on Windows 7.
In the half-empty arena, we didn't always know where to look — at our heroes, at the tumblers, at the direwolf eyes or at the people in our row eating their popcorn and often fiddling with their phones, as if the arena were just another, larger screen.
It's not often that it happens, but every once in a while, there's a trending styling move that looks good with a huge variety of outfits, takes like a second to put on, doesn't require much fiddling with throughout the day, and also costs next to nothing.
While Google tried to make using its routers as easy as possible by hiding a lot of the complexity, Synology also makes setting the router up extremely easy, but if you want to delve deeper, it doesn't stop you from fiddling with any of the settings.
So rather than galvanizing support around public transit or demanding more safety regulations to keep up with the rising average speeds, we hop into our cars—when we're drunk, stoned, or fiddling with our phones—and merge among the other propelled boxes of metal and gears.
After successfully fiddling with his putting technique earlier in the week, Spieth will try to repeat at the same course where Jean van de Velde blew a three-shot lead on the 72nd hole of the 1999 Open before losing in a playoff to Paul Lawrie.
"If people like to use them though, that's OK, but I worry that they are so uncomfortable that a traveler may end up fiddling with the mask and actually increase the risk of getting sick by forcing them to touch their face, nose and mouth," he said.
Instead of clipping it into the removable frame from cameras in the past, the Hero 8 has two pieces that extend down from the body of the camera itself, allowing you to attach it to the mount of your choice without fiddling with an extra case.
When I was ten years old, I had a dream about a weird house and when I woke up, I had to build it out of cardboard and whatever else I could find, so I guess I've been fiddling with this sort of thing for a while.
And I know how that makes me sound: My papou emigrated from Greece with nothing, entering the U.S. via Mexico after days spent scraping barnacles from ships in a Tampico harbor, and now I'm exhausted at the thought of fiddling with too many wireless settings on my cellphone.
The same compulsions that have him fiddling with a succession of wet wipes as he speaks can be identified in "Work No. 20016," which consists of a group of cactuses lined up according to height, or "Work No. 129: A Door Opening and Closing," which it does, ad infinitum.
I was with the raccoons of the rooftop, who were now down fiddling with the bicycle lock on the garbage can at the end of the road, with the red-shouldered hawk chicks breathing alone in the nest, with the armadillo forcing its armored body through the brush.
The others at the table were Zhang, a surly 27-year-old who spent most of his time fiddling with his smartphone; Hu, a 28-year-old woman married with two kids; and Guo, an affable 40-year-old with a set of pearly white fake front teeth.
Thandie Newton as Maeve and Jasmyn Rae as Homestead Girl Speaking of which, the designers fiddling with poor Maeve's personality in their attempts to make her more sexually attractive makes for a sad sight — but these scenes have the positive side effect of letting actress Thandie Newton demonstrate her skill.
"We were trying to make it more fun, so we thought about how we could make the experience of changing the battery interesting, not just pulling out the cover and the batteries," says Lee, fiddling with the pop-off battery cover of an LG V10 to exaggerate the action's awkwardness.
Portraying a gay young man who moves from composing songs for his father to composing them for himself, he transforms before our eyes from a rebellious boy fiddling with a recording console into a live-wire performer, half Tina Turner, half Mick Jagger and all strutting bravado and androgynous sex appeal.
At the end of all those decades of distortion: the new Republican tax plan, with its cuts in the corporate tax rate, an increase of the standard deduction, some fiddling with income tax rates in different brackets and absolutely nothing in the way of simplification, rationalization or believable revenue neutrality.
There's no actual science to back up this hypothesis, but we think if your headphones are on-point, you can spend a little less time fiddling with your earbuds and a lot more time being inspired by Beyoncé to do the actual exercises that you hauled yourself to the gym to do.
Long enough to hear the wind in the already wind-bent pines, the wind in his ears, the wind in his trouser legs, the pebbles under the soles of his shoes, his hand fiddling with coins in the pocket of his leather jacket, the oystercatcher's shrill, Morse-like biik-biik-biik-biik.
More generally, as Facebook has faced a drop-off in user growth in mature markets, it's been looking for more ways to engage those users it already has, in competition with a plethora of rival social media services and dozens of other digital distractions, from Netflix to games to fiddling with your smart home appliances.
They're full of little people-to-people interactions: a wave to let the dad behind the stroller that that you're going to stop and let him cross; a nod to tell the other driver to inform him that you're waiting for this woman fiddling with her keys to finally pull out of her spot.
To be fair, fiddling with the car on the show floor for 10 minutes isn't a comprehensive review, but when you're comparing it to the best that Mercedes, BMW, and Audi have to offer — not to mention new cars from Volvo and Hyundai/Genesis — I don't know that this Lincoln Continental is enough to win.
We're off south on a delivery job when I point out that we can listen to some tunes as we make our way across the desert, and we fall back into our traditional car roles: me, the annoying passenger who keeps fiddling with the radio; Dad, the grump who wants some peace and quiet.
Instead of fiddling with wires and circuits to do this (or solving a tired hacking mini-game) you instead sit down at a lathe (you'd be forgiven for seeing it as a pottery wheel, though) with a block of material, a set of specialized tools, several design templates, and of course some super chill tunes.
Much of the art is interactive, meant for lingering: a wall of scrapable sequins by Lara Schnitger, which never didn't have a few dozen teenagers fiddling with it; pastel industrial-collapse animal statue benches from Serban Ionescu, which provided succor for glum-looking shoppers; a psychedelic mural with embedded QR codes from Jeanette Hayes.
Newton finds further comfort in a Pew study released last September that showed 26 percent of Americans had deleted the Facebook app from their phones (44 percent of people ages 18 to 29), 42 percent had "taken a break" for substantial periods of time, and 54 percent had gone through the trouble of fiddling with privacy settings.
Whether you're an aspiring novelist who goes through reams of paper printing 18 versions of your latest manuscript, a student racing to finish a last-minute paper, or a design professional fiddling with various layouts for a piece of print collateral, there are a variety of scenarios in which home printing technology is a godsend in our modern day and age.
With his adaption of the popular fiction podcast Homecoming (a show mostly written by the podcast's creators, Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg), Esmail again plays with the elements of televisual storytelling, fiddling with the audio mix, the size of the frame, and the placement of the camera, as he tells an eerie, split-timeline tale about a shady, off-the-books program to rehabilitate returning soldiers.
If he is right, that could be a convenient solution not only for the climate (unless there are unintended negative consequences to fiddling with the atmosphere as some fear), but also for a slew of countries that rely on oil for their economic well-being across much of Africa and the Middle East, as well as Russia, Mexico and emerging producers like Brazil and Guyana.
While flying through an area of bad weather at 35,000 feet, the crew noticed discrepancies between the navigational systems; while fiddling with a solution, they switched off the autopilot unintentionally and drifted into a bank that turned into an uncontrolled spiral dive, during which the descent rate exceeded 50,000 feet per minute and the airplane approached the speed of sound before the captain pulled the wings off in flight.
Still, despite some of the frustrations with the user interface, I really like Hulu with Live TV. As a longtime Hulu subscriber, this gives me all the subscription content I've come to enjoy (which is especially important as Netflix continues to let content deals lapse in its push for original movies and TV shows), as well as access to live TV. No fiddling with an additional app like Youtube TV or PS Vue.
It's easy to take the trappings of one genre and make some changes, but what ultimately makes Foundryside a great read is that Bennett isn't just fiddling with the settings — he's using fantasy to touching on themes like the effects of rampant capitalism, artificial intelligence, and the ethics of technology, all to tell a story that's pressingly modern and relevant in 2018, and I already can't to see what he does in the next installment, Hierophant, which comes out August 2019.
New research lets would-be DNA origami masters design the shape — while an algorithm determines where to put our friends A, T, G, and C. DNA's structure doesn't have to be just a double helix: by fiddling with the order of bases or substituting other molecules, the strand can be cause to make a hard right turn, or curve around in one direction or another — and with enough foresight, a single strand can make enough twists and convolutions that it forms a useful geometric structure.
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Here are some of the ways he accomplishes that: He screams at children when they run into the shot; he stops his car at a red light and beeps at people walking on the crosswalk; he points a camera, with a stalker-length lens, in strangers' faces until they notice him; he arrives at an event and starts fiddling with the audio equipment; he imitates accents; he puts on a fluorescent vest, and with the aid of an orange cone, directs traffic; he jumps onto the back of a motorcycle that's not his; he tries to grab someone's cellphone in the middle of a call; he hurdles over toddlers; he asks a guy, not very politely, if he can fuck his dog.

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