The reasons continue to perplex those who follow the team.
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Will Thiel's unusual brand of politics perplex or inspire the crowd?
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Yet liberal stalwarts perplex those pundits by voting against GMO labeling. Why?
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It is just that what they find good will often perplex their elders.
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Forcibly juxtaposed, the two manipulated female bodies perplex, considering their incomparable contextual histories.
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Threaded together, the scenes both perplex and greet the eye as fantastically mundane.
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Berkshire is enough of a conundrum to perplex even the world's greatest value investor.
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Produced in 2012, his series Incarnations draws on issues and tensions that perplex modern Japan.
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Biscoito Globo is thus part of that grand culinary tradition of regional edible darlings that perplex outsiders.
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THE SENATE HAS RULES THAT PERPLEX US AND FRUSTRATE US BUT IT'S THE WAY OUR SYSTEM WORKS.
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This new film suggests looking to naked mole rats, which have remarkably strong genes that perplex researchers.
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As Ian Bogost recounts in The Atlantic: This line of thinking seemed to perplex Cooper, and rightly so.
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The vagueness of that little word, "links", is likely to perplex investigators for a long time to come.
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Yet reports of the PIF's discontent have drawn attention to three interrelated problems that perplex other investors, too.
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Nevertheless, it is the stock market perceptions of Blackstone that perplex Mr. Schwarzman, who routinely complains about them.
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Given the cultural mishmash of Beloved's programme, this approach may perplex some, but other transformational festivals do the same.
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This enthusiasm for civil partnerships might perplex gay-marriage advocates who for a long time regarded them as inadequate.
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And in a decision that might perplex certain American politicians, Mr. Zelensky signed a law establishing a procedure for presidential impeachment.
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At its core, though, a project like "Dark" sheds light on the commonality of themes that fascinate and perplex, frighten and entertain.
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Elvis Presley's early career is a textbook example of the phenomenon of screaming teenage girls that still seems to perplex adults and critics.
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In future, similar outfits could be tasked with handling other internet issues that perplex governments, such as cyber-security and invasions of privacy.
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The European Union is complex by design, a fact that can perplex voters and vote-watchers alike, often resulting in a low turnout.
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MAUREEN GAZELEYLondon Schumpeter claimed that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is "enough of a conundrum to perplex even the world's greatest value investor" (March 10th).
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They're not harmful to humans, but they perplex physicists, who are trying to figure out where the very most powerful cosmic rays come from.
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In the future, they say, similar outfits could be entrusted with other internet issues that perplex governments, such as cyber-security and invasions of privacy.
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Not all values are moral ones, and in ways that can vex and perplex, human relationships involve unbidden currents of affection, loyalty, intimacy and care.
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In exchanges that at times seemed to perplex the executives at the witness stand, Kennedy eyed whether tech companies could form intricate dossiers about their users.
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Still, it will delight readers of a certain age who worked in the media and perplex readers of another age who still work in the media.
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No preaching even as they dispatch anti-black bias, anti-Native American bias, consumer fetishism, global warming, and the trans bathroom perplex in one 100-second interlude.
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Four, he would perplex, frustrate and divide Republican establishment figures, most of whom were hostile to Russia, but a divided major party serves to disrupt the democracy.
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Twenty years ago a 22012 call reporting a missing and possibly kidnapped 21992-year-old girl launched a murder mystery — one that continues to endure, fascinate and perplex.
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I nudged and squeezed to see Tintoretto's earliest portraits and religious scenes, hesitant, yet already exhibiting the sketchy, speedy brush strokes that would later so perplex his contemporaries.
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Jefferies analyst Michael Yee said the data "will perplex investors," and Spark's "competitive profile will be debated again" compared with data from a more advanced drug from BioMarin.
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As a pollster who studied the electoral behavior of women, she served as a bridge between the right wing and a demographic that often seemed to perplex them.
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This might perplex anyone who's never given a second thought to such things after tying a pair of shoelaces, but knots have a rich history and take many forms.
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Twenty years ago, a 6 call to the emergency dispatch center in Boulder, Colorado, launched a mystery that continues to perplex, confound and fascinate: What happened to JonBenét Ramsey?
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Kaufman, of course, was a comic like few others, featuring an act that possessed a peculiar current of performance art, designed as much to confuse and perplex as elicit laughs.
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The ground floor will feature the Comme des Garçons spring collection titled "Three-Dimensional Graffiti," which includes a multicolor polyester inkjet-printed coat ($24,223) housed in a tilted perplex structure.
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It's a question just as likely to perplex a child as a grown adult, so Carroll took WIRED up on the challenge of answering it at five levels of complexity.
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The rationale for this inconstancy is that unfamiliar routines should perplex and discombobulate our bodies and muscles and prevent them from settling into a groove or reaching a training plateau.
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A good number of Williams's stories turn, I now see, on the question of hallucination, on facts and details that perplex the reader but make private sense to the characters.
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As if this wasn't enough to perplex athletes and sports fans around the world, the I.O.C. then had the audacity to reinstate the Russian Olympic Committee just days after the closing ceremony.
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If you think President Donald Trump's crisis-management methods are hard to understand, I can tell you that they utterly perplex those of us who plied the trade in the Clinton White House.
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Do you think it might perplex his son to not really know his daddy's name when he is eating his anynut sandwich in his preschool dungeon (that's what I call a cafeteria now).
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Weidman's jab looked brilliant through the early going, wherein he used a stuttering jab—pumping the arm half into extension, pausing, and then completing the extension off-rhythm—to perplex the rather rigid Jacare.
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It's a testament to the wild success of the Opportunity rover that what was supposed to be a 90-day period of exploration lasted over 14 years, uncovering Martian mysteries that continue to perplex scientists.
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Show creator Chris Carter told Reuters last year that "The X-Files" as become even more relevant in the present age where conspiracy theories still run rife on the internet and UFOs still perplex people.
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I freely confess that some interpretations of Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass" (1915–1923) perplex me; that many tantric Tibetian paintings baffle me; and that I don't really understand Hilma af Klint's much-praised theosophical paintings.
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Click here to view original GIFThere's no shortage of meticulously crafted illustrations and animations out there if you're looking to tax and perplex your brain, but sometimes optical illusions can happen naturally in the real world.
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"The current level of inflation may perplex central bankers and financial market participants, but in the context of a growing economy and job gains, it doesn't demand a Fed policy response in my view," she said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead Israeli electronic music DJ Ronen Dahan, also known as Perplex, during an attack at a dance club in the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi, authorities said on Saturday.
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Their existential struggle churned up issues that perplex us to this day, including individual liberty versus collective security, the proper limits on executive power, the obligations of citizenship and the elusive quest for a more equitable society.
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Urquidy used a variety of pitches and speeds to perplex the Nationals over five innings, and walked off the mound for good with a 4-123 lead, having allowed only two hits with no walks and four strikeouts.
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It's clear in this moment that the events that are about to unfold over the next six episodes will enthrall and perplex viewers who, as time goes on, will themselves begin to question what's fact and what's fiction.
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With each incarnation of the dreaded day, companies and celebrities attempt to out-clever one another with jokes that more often perplex, offend or just fall miserably flat, but here are a few that restored some honor to the unofficial holiday.
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"It really does perplex me how you expect this to end when you tell the president of the United States, 'you can't get ... $1 for a wall when in the past Democrats have appropriated billions for the wall,' " Graham said.
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Yeah. Partly. What I wanted to do is understand what are the primary issues both that women face, but also the things that perplex men about their female colleagues, and then I wanted to find solutions to fix these things.
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It's a question that has probably come up in every single sex-ed class (we hope, at least) — yet it remains one that continues to perplex many of us today: Can you really get pregnant if you have sex during your period?
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Richard Spencer, the white nationalist, has found a place in our political discourse precisely because his bland demeanor and khaki collection perplex those not accustomed to seeing a racist resemble a frat boy at a formal rather than a Klansman in a hood.
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This is the part that will immediately perplex most viewers, who will undoubtedly tune in to The Orville — a heavily advertised show from the creator of Family Guy — expecting a comedy that sends up space show tropes and lets MacFarlane do his dick-joke thing.
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" By this time entire hemispheres of my brain had shut down, and as the person kept talking, my entire existence slipped into a catatonic mist: "After that it's just six wheedles up the perplex and after a quick stop at the bolint it's the 27th driveway on the right.
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Kanye speeches are not the simplest to decode, and this one in particular will no doubt perplex and anger some fans—any endorsement of Trump's victory, no matter how intellectual or abstract it is, still feels like a co-sign of the xenophobia, homophobia, racism, hate and lies that fueled it.
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Clinton's loss in November continues to perplex voters, pollsters, and social scientists — everyone wants to know how an unqualified man, running on a xenophobic and racist platform with a seemingly unorganized campaign, beat a competent, highly qualified woman running on a platform similar to an extremely popular sitting president, with an incredibly professional and extensive team behind her.
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Getting back into the swing of things this week has been slightly jarring, but was eased by the beautiful inevitability that I'd eventually get lost in an album and start absentmindedly headbanging at my desk—a sight that my coworkers are now used to, but that still seems to perplex the randoms who trundle in and out of Vice's editorial floor each day.
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Children's Books Of the many strange paradoxes that bedevil our tween years — years that most of us would never, ever wish to relive — few perplex more thoroughly than the tension between wanting to be a confident, competent, standout individual, while at the same time yearning with a desire almost beyond expression to be accepted into a community, a group, a team, a club, a clique — anything.
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" During an event in Hollis, N.H., this month, a voter named Bob Beckett, 61, told Mr. Bush that he had seen him five or six times, then posed a question that has continued to perplex the Bush campaign: "How do you break through the personality noise in the next three weeks in Iowa and New Hampshire, in a way that resonates with a larger percentage of the populace?
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This includes Marta's strange psychological condition that causes her to puke whenever she lies (a very fun plot device to have in a mansion full of liars), or the way Knives Out continually turns its big questions into little ones, answering them immediately and moving on in a way that will initially perplex you before you think for a minute and decide, yeah, this movie knows what it's doing.
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The current Perplex City Stories logo Perplex City Stories is the planned second season of the alternate reality game Perplex City, run by Mind Candy. Although no plot has been revealed yet, the first wave of puzzle cards was released on March 1, 2007. On June 1, 2007, it was announced via the main Perplex City Stories homepage that the game was being delayed for an indefinite amount of time, but would certainly be making a return in the future. The following is taken from the announcement: > At Mind Candy we've always believed that a less than perfect game is worse > than no game at all.
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For this reason, we're holding off from launching > Season Two for now. We want to reassure you that this is not the end for > Perplex City; we've invested far too much love, time, and energy in this to > stop now.archived from the Perplex City Stories homepage The Perplex City Stories site is also being complemented by the new "Perplex City—We Love Puzzles" site, which features new user-submitted puzzles and flash games. The site also allows users to enter the solutions for both Season 1 and Season 2 puzzle cards, as well as keeps a total of the number of puzzles solved, including site puzzles and puzzle cards.
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Moider Glacier () is a glacier flowing west into the east side of Dalgliesh Bay, Pourquoi Pas Island, in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1979 in association with nearby Perplex Ridge; the word "moider" can be a synonym for "perplex".
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She also introduced a new character, another tenant in her building named Gustaffsen. Gustaffsen is a scientist who was working on a new super-coolant, which was making the drips that Violet had noticed. Gustaffsen and Cassia, one of the newer puzzle scribes at the Perplex City Academy, had informed Violet that their mail was being delayed, despite the Perplex City postal service guaranteeing delivery within five hours. By contacting an employee of the Perplex City Post, players gained access to a 'testing' area for the Post.
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The Perplex City logo Perplex City was a long-term alternate reality game (ARG) presented by Mind Candy, a London-based development team. The first "season" of the game had players looking for "The Receda Cube" (referred to simply as "The Cube"), a priceless scientific and spiritual artifact to the people of a fictional metropolis known as "Perplex City", that had been stolen and buried somewhere on Earth. The game offered a real-life £100,000 reward (approx. $130,000 or €115,000) to whoever found it.
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An artifact called the Receda Cube (pronounced /Reh-kay- duh/) is stolen from the Perplex City Academy and makes its way to Earth. A Cube Retrieval Team (CRT) is formed to search for the Cube. Because citizens of Perplex City are unable to travel to Earth, the Master of Perplex City Academy, Sente Kiteway, asks for help in finding the Cube from the citizens of Earth, offering to share any leads or clues that he or the CRT may get. Clues to the location of the Cube are periodically left by the person who stole it, known only as Combed Thunderclap.
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The rules insert maintains an in-universe approach to Perplex City, giving background about its puzzle- loving citizens and a fictional history of the board game.
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Posner was the Chief Investigative Reporter for The Daily Beast, until he resigned over plagiarism charges in 2010.The Posner Plagiarism Perplex, by Jack Shafer, Slate magazine, February 11, 2010.
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Like most alternate reality games, the story of Perplex City is told through blogs, puzzles, and other various media. The game began in April 2005, and was won by Andy Darley of Middlesex, UK, who found The Cube in a wooded area in Northamptonshire, UK on 2 February 2007.Digital Treasure Hunt gets Winner, a BBC story. According to Mind Candy, the first wave of cards for the new game season, called Perplex City Stories, would be released on March 1, 2007.
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Notable for this is "Shy Guy's Perplex Express", where the train cars which make up the game board can be re-ordered as the result of landing on a certain space, potentially changing the relative positions of all players.
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It is discovered that an organization called the Third Power and a Cube-worshipping cult called the Reconstructionists are also looking for the Cube. While the people of Earth are left to search for the Cube on Earth, various citizens of Perplex City, particularly Kurt McAllister and Sente’s two daughters, Scarlett and Violet, attempt to find additional clues in Perplex City and to discover the identity of Combed Thunderclap. The former three discover the lab in which the Cube was made. They find that the Cube was built by Sente and can be used as a weapon and a teleporter.
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The Mind Candy cards were first released in select outlets arounds the world, but are increasingly readily available from retailers both on- and offline. On September 7, 2006, Mind Candy announced that GameStop was to begin carrying Perplex City cards in 700 stores in the United States.Perplex City News accessed September 26, 2006 As of September 26, 2006, some 682,425 cards have been marked as solved on the Perplex City leaderboard, with 45,215 players registered. Mind Candy received a round of venture capital worth $3 million from Index Ventures, an investor in Skype and other technology companies.
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In 2005, Phillips transitioned from being a player of transmedia and alternate reality games to being a designer of them. She was hired by Mind Candy as an "'ad hoc' polymath", doing "'a little bit of whatever it takes to keep the game rolling,' be it designing and writing puzzles, or live event coordination.". Perplex City was the first "freestanding" alternate reality game to run as a stand-alone project rather than as a marketing vehicle for a traditional media project and Phillips stayed with the project until Mind Candy announced in 2007 that Perplex City was being put on indefinite hold.
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The game was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2006. After three years (and $9M spent) Perplex City was placed on indefinite hold. In 2007 Acton Smith launched online world Moshi Monsters. Today, Moshi Monsters has over 90 million users around the world.
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Mark is back on familiar ground as he fits brakes, wheels and undercarriage to his aeroplane, Martin Dovey introduces us to his vintage kit plane, the Kit Fox, and it is the turn of navigation to further perplex Mark as he continues his flying lessons.
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Members of the Cloudmakers group went on to form ARGN, the primary news source for the genre, and Unfiction, its central community hub, as well as designing the first successful and widely played indie ARGs, such as LockJaw and Metacortechs, and corporate efforts such as Perplex City.
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VCs invest in alternate reality ZDNet News: December 6, 2005 In June 2007 Mind Candy announced that it would be putting season 2 of its ARG on hold indefinitely. Mind Candy's focus later moved to the Moshi Monsters franchise and the Perplex City project was abandoned.
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Year Zero, in turn, bled out into the real world through players flyering neighborhoods and creating graffiti supporting the game's fictitious Art Is Resistance movement. Monster Hunter Club, a promotion for the U.S. release of the movie The Host, launched by sending action figures and other items to prominent members of the ARG community. Perplex City concluded its first season by awarding a $200,000 prize to a player who found the game's missing cube. They plan to continue the ARG into a second "season" under the name Perplex City Stories, although they have said that there will not be a large grand prize this time around.Post-Game PM Chat Logs Accessed 21 February 2007.
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In late 2006, Mind Candy released Perplex City: The Board Game. Players solve anagrams, logic problems, visual puzzles, and trivia questions to collect a set of colored stones. Players can also challenge one another for their collected stones. To win, the last stone must be collected through challenging another player.
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In 1963, Crews published his first bestseller The Pooh Perplex: A Student Casebook that satirized the type of casebooks then assigned to first-year university students in introductory literature and composition courses. Derived in part from a play put on by Crews' English department in 1958, the book featured a fictitious set of English professors writing essays on A. A. Milne's classic character Winnie-the-Pooh, parodying Marxist, Freudian, Christian, Leavisite and Fiedlerian approaches to analyzing literary texts. Though urged by readers to publish a follow-up volume, Crews delayed writing one until after his retirement in 1994, producing Postmodern Pooh in 2001. While The Pooh Perplex parodies earlier trends in literary criticism, Postmodern Pooh parodies later trends in literary theory.
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And he was notable for his playfulness. He invented the Kruskal Count,J. C. Lagarias, E. Rains, and R. J. Vanderbei, "The Kruskal Count", 2001 a magical effect that has been known to perplex professional magicians because – as he liked to say – it was based not on sleight of hand but on a mathematical phenomenon.
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Matthews Peak () is a prominent peak, rising to northwest of Statham Peak in the southwest part of Perplex Ridge, Pourquoi Pas Island, in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1979 after David W. Matthews, a British Antarctic Survey geologist on Stonington Island, 1965–67, who worked in the area.
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The lack of a coherent plot structure, the juvenile humor and the abundant scatological details are all intended to aggravate, perplex and annoy readers. The desired result, according to West, is a book that is “a protest against writing books”.quoted in Raban, Jonathan. “A Surfeit of Commodities: The Novels of Nathanael West.” American fiction, 1914-1945.
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Pip 'hears' of Drummle's poor behaviour and accepts the information as truth. The relationship between Pip and Estella worsens during their adult lives. Pip pursues her in a frenzy, often tormenting himself to the point of utter despair. He makes writhing, pathetic attempts to awaken some flicker of emotion in Estella, but these merely perplex her; Estella sees his devotion as irrational.
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In abstract algebra, a split complex number (or hyperbolic number, also perplex number, double number) has two real number components x and y, and is written , where . The conjugate of z is . Since , the product of a number z with its conjugate is , an isotropic quadratic form, . The collection D of all split complex numbers for forms an algebra over the field of real numbers.
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On March 1, 2007, the site was updated with a video featuring Violet Kiteway—portrayed live, for the first time—and a news broadcast discussing a horrific murder in Perplex City. The on-scene reporter notes that bystanders were covered with blood. The news anchor who sees pictures of the scene faints at their sight. Violet finishes by asking players for help in solving the murder.
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"Malle Babbe", a cover of a Rob de Nijs and Boudewijn de Groot hit was his debut single. Cox had started at an early age as part of a children's choir "De Piccolo's". He studied music theory and later piano, vocals and playing the saxophone. After playing in Tovenaar van Oz, a Dutch version of Wizard of Oz, he formed a duo with pianist Toon Meuris called Perplex.
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A total of four prototypes were produced on Alfa 101 Sprint Speciale chassis. SSZ P1 has a steel body that is 3" wider and 4" lower than a standard SS, with a traditional hood and trunk.Alfa Owner P2 incorporated a one piece, fiberglass tilt front, perplex windows, and other lightweight components. The third prototype had tilt front and rear, side air outlets, a new taillight configuration and an elongated greenhouse.
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His poems have been parodied many times, including with the books When We Were Rather Older and Now We Are Sixty. The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name."The King's Breakfast (1963)". BFI. Retrieved 2020-01-04 The Pooh books were used as the basis for two academic satires by Frederick C Crews: 'The Pooh Perplex'(1963/4) and 'Postmodern Pooh'(2002).
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On May 4, VioletUnderground.com launched, with Violet asking players to help her locate a leak in her new apartment building. This began the first, non-replayable, 'episode' of Perplex City Stories. Through the new site's sections and posts following the solution of the puzzle, Violet revealed that, after her theft of The Receda Cube, many people sent her death threats, and she was forced to relocate to a new apartment building.
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Perplex City is a massive fictitious metropolis that has an unknown number of connections to Earth. It has a near-future feel to it, with advanced mobile technology, neuro-enhancing pharmaceuticals and kilometer-high skyscrapers. There is also a slightly more Utopian element to city life than we commonly find on Earth. The most important characteristic of the city's culture is the importance they place on puzzles and other mental pursuits.
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Andrea Phillips (born 20 July 1974) is an American transmedia game designer and writer. She has been active in the genres of transmedia storytelling and alternate reality games (ARGs), in a variety of roles, since 2001. She has written for, designed, or substantially participated in the creation of Perplex City, the BAFTA-nominated Routes (a project of Channel 4), and The 2012 Experience, a marketing campaign for the film 2012.
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It is supposed to have its home in Hyrcania in Persia and its swiftness is supposed to have given its name to "tygris", the Persian word for "arrow", and to the swift River Tigris. If pursued by a tyger, it was supposed to be possible to get away from it by leaving a mirror, which would perplex the tyger. As a result, tygers are sometimes depicted looking in a mirror.
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I have been around as long as the show so to be finally doing a role on it is quite an honour and everyone has been so welcoming." The identity of Drysdale's character was not immediately released. But Sophie Dainty of Digital Spy reported that she would "make life very difficult for a particular local resident." The serial's executive producer Jason Herbison said the character would be "eccentric" and will perplex viewers "with her antics.
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I shot at MC > Motors and as this location is used a lot, I didn't want it to look like > other videos but liked the textures and structure. We built a lockerroom > with a pink perplex floor, leopard printdrops and a circular red pouffe. The > contrast of the hot pink next to the red brought a contemporary fashion to > the video. Using red and pink neons sewn together with lots of pipes and > industrial props.
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Catoni, D. Boccaletti, R. Cannata, V. Catoni, E. Nichelatti, P. Zampetti. (2008) The Mathematics of Minkowski Space- Time, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel. Chapter 4: Trigonometry in the Minkowski plane. .Fjelstadt, P. (1986) "Extending Special Relativity with Perplex Numbers", American Journal of Physics 54 :416.Louis Kauffman (1985) "Transformations in Special Relativity", International Journal of Theoretical Physics 24:223–36.Sobczyk, G.(1995) Hyperbolic Number Plane, also published in College Mathematics Journal 26:268–80.
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In a letter that Edith Sitwell wrote to Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1959 she described Leavis as "a tiresome, whining, pettyfogging little pipsqueak".Wendy Pollard Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Work and Times (Shepeard-Walwyn, UK, 2014) . page 280. Leavis (as "Simon Lacerous") and Scrutiny (as "Thumbscrew") were satirized by Frederick Crews in the chapter "Another Book to Cross off your List" of his lampoon of literary criticism theory The Pooh Perplex A Student Casebook.
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It is generally assumed that Mansfield Park, being a newly built property, had been erected on the proceeds of the British slave trade. Fanny asks Sir Thomas about the slave trade but receives no answer. The pregnant silence (underlined the following day in conversation with Edmund) perplexed Fanny and continues to perplex critics. Austen here, as often in the novel, raises moral questions but invites the reader to make their own judgement.
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Fregley is Greg's acquaintance and neighbor noted for his many odd or disgusting eccentricities. He has been known to perplex others with his behavior and does not have any known friends. Greg has been forced to hang around with Fregley on several occasions, to his chagrin or aggravation. It has been mentioned that Fregley is prohibited from eating sugar by his parents, and the consumption of it in large quantities will send him into hysterical, uncontrollable frenzies.
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Instead, each card depicts a different puzzle, with the rarer cards also featuring more complex riddles. Cards are marked with unique identifiers which can then be entered onto the Perplex City website, earning points and a place on a leaderboard. Many cards contain hidden features, such as ultraviolet or heat-sensitive inks, and they cover a broad range of themes from pop-culture trivia to cryptography and logic brainteasers. Each card is a member of a four-card set.
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Betrayer is a stealth horror action-adventure played from a first-person perspective. It uses a monochrome art style that Eurogamer Dan Whitehead described as "undeniably striking". The game has no clear missions or markers for quest objectives, aiming to initially perplex players by not providing a defined sense of direction. Sound plays a central role in exploring the game world, as it is used to lead the player to clues and other points of interest.
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The grammar input format is different, to help prevent common coding errors. Other distinctive features include a reentrant, thread-safe output parser, and the concept of non-terminal destructors that try to make it easier to avoid memory leaks. SQLite uses Lemon with a hand-coded tokenizer to parse SQL strings. Lemon, together with re2c and a re2c wrapper named Perplex, are used in BRL-CAD as platform- agnostic and easily compilable alternatives to Flex and Bison.
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Chimi are said to be monsters that come about from strange atmosphere (miasma) in mountains and forests. Taking on an appearance with the face of a human, and the body of a beast, they would perplex humans. In the dictionary Wamyō Ruijushō from the Heian period, they were considered to be a type of oni under the Japanese name "sudama", and in the Edo period encyclopedia, the Wakan Sansai Zue, they were seen to be mountain gods (Yama-no-Kami).
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Your influence goes far beyond your own Episcopal Church, large > and powerful as that is, and you are equally at home among the rich and > poor. I have been looking to you to solve some of the social problems that > perplex us all. For my part, I am groping in the dark, but God give us > light. May you live far into the next century, and help greatly to make the > world purer, sweeter and happier than it now is.
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In a posh London gallery, Carolyn Dalgleish (Carolyn Backhouse) prepares a showing of the latest works by John Bolton; disturbing portraits of beautiful, vicious vampiric women he encountered whilst pot holing. The Interviewer (Marcus Brigstocke) collects information on Bolton, who seems to perplex those who work with him and collect his art (like radio personality Jonathan Ross (playing himself)). Bolton appears to review the placement of the paintings before the opening. Eccentric and detached, Bolton is uncomfortable with the amount of attention being paid to him.
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In the course of his dual role, he shouts encouraging words to the pitcher before going back to the mound to make the next pitch, then returning to home plate to catch it. Next, Bugs decides to "perplex 'em with [his] slowball", throwing a pitch so slow that three Gorillas in a row strike out attempting to hit it. For his first time up, Bugs selects a bat from the batboy, a literal hybrid of a bat and a boy. As promised, Bugs starts smacking the ball.
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In October 2015, the California State Library opened a collection of Bernick's writings and papers. The Collection includes over 200 articles by Bernick covering 35 years, as well as background material on his five books and two additional book projects-The Jobs Perplex and Real Work. The main section focuses on job training and employment strategies. The collection also includes sections on the transit village movement in California, autism employment and inclusion, California government, and the long distance running sub-culture of Southern California.
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In 1998, Acton Smith co-founded online gadget and gift retailer Firebox.com with Tom Boardman. In 2004, Firebox was listed on The Sunday Times' 'Fast Track 100' list of the fastest growing, privately owned business in the UK. In 2004, Acton Smith secured $10M backing and launched Mind Candy. The company launched alternate reality game Perplex City, a global treasure hunt with £100,000 buried somewhere in the world that played out across various media including websites, text messages, magazines, live events, skywriting and multiple helicopters.
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Romeo and Don are having drinks in a bar. Don is telling Romeo about a woman he has been seeing that is cheating on her husband and how bad he feels. Meanwhile, Romeo is saying how he and his wife have a perfect relationship, and that Don should continue to fight for this woman because her husband does not rule her heart. Don then admits the woman he has been seeing is Romeo's wife, making Romeo sad and perplex, going away and saying they both betrayed him.
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This should be reflected in a care plan. In addition the Act puts in place safeguards when consent to treatment has not been given. On many occasions a patient's care and treatment becomes much to the opinion of any one person, with a psychiatric disorder (mentalis confusio), latest labels that of chemical imbalance or chemical disorder, perplex and confuse not only the patient, but those whom may be designated decision makers on a patient's behalf. Family members all too often are not given any information, nor the correct questions to ask.
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Moider Peak () is a peak, high, on the divide between Fleece Glacier and the upper reaches of Leppard Glacier, west of Mount Alibi, on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee; "moider" can mean to perplex or to confuse, and at the time of the survey, the area to the northwest of this peak was obscured by low cloud, and its relationship with other features in the vicinity could not be determined.
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Perplex Ridge () is a ridge, rising over 915 m, composed of four rocky masses separated by small glaciers, extending 6 nautical miles (11 km) northeastward from Lainez Point along the northwest side of Pourquoi Pas Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. First sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot. It was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) and in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). So named by FIDS because of confusion in attempting to identify this ridge from earlier maps.
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Juno Falls have often been compared to many of the New Acoustic Movement's bands spawned in the new century such as Elbow, Iron and wine, and Turin Brakes. Although accessible and crossover, Myles O Reilly is never predictable and delivers music that is always mature, quirky and unique. Affording at every turn to surprise and sometimes perplex the listener while staying within the boundaries of conventional immediate song structure. In recent times, O'Reilly has started to use a sampler / loop pedal to "sample" self-made sounds throughout songs in his live shows.
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ARGs generally use multimedia, such as telephones, email, and mail but rely on the Internet as the central binding medium. ARGs are growing in popularity, with new games appearing regularly and an increasing amount of experimentation with new models and sub- genres. They tend to be free to play, with costs absorbed either through supporting products (e.g. collectible puzzle cards fund Perplex City) or through promotional relationships with existing products (for example, I Love Bees was a promotion for Halo 2, and the Lost Experience and Find 815 promoted the television show Lost).
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Throughout the series, he serves as Permanent Secretary at the Department of Administrative Affairs, with Jim Hacker as minister; he is appointed Cabinet Secretary shortly before Hacker's elevation to the role of Prime Minister. Sir Humphrey represents, in many ways, the perfect technocrat. He is pompous, arrogant, elitist and regards his less-well-educated minister with some contempt. He frequently uses both his mastery of the English language and even his superb grasp of Latin and Greek grammar to perplex his political master and to obscure relevant issues under discussion.
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Little other understanding can I > have of him. The greatness and the suddenness of the misfortune doth so > perplex me, until I do hear from you how the matter standeth, or how this > evil should light upon me, considering what the malicious world will bruit, > as I can take no rest.Adams 2002 p. 136 Lord Robert Dudley c. 1560 Retiring to his house at Kew, away from court as from the putative crime scene, he pressed for an impartial inquiry which had already begun in the form of an inquest.
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It was followed almost immediately by a promotion, also rumored to be a 42 Entertainment production, for the release of the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero, in which fans discovered leaked songs on thumb drives in washrooms at concerts. Monster Hunter Club, a promotion for the U.S. release of the movie The Host, launched by sending action figures and other items to prominent members of the ARG community. Perplex City concluded its first season by awarding a $200,000 prize to a player who found the game's missing cube.
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One group of songs is "tinctured with the search for salvation": "I Shall Be Released" (on the demo, but not on the album), "Too Much of Nothing", "Nothing Was Delivered", "This Wheel's On Fire", "Tears of Rage" and "Goin' To Acapulco". "'Nothing' and 'nowhere' perplex and nag" in these songs, he writes. "The 'nothing' echoes the artist's dilemma: death versus life, vacuum versus harvest, isolation versus people, silence versus sound, the void versus the life-impulse." A second group, comprising "songs of joy, signaling some form of deliverance", includes most of the remaining songs in the collection.
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From 1975 through 1977, Di Lello created four related works: Peaches' Lament, Peaches' Beacon, Peaches' Perplex and Peaches Melisma, all originating in Di Lello's teaching at Harvard Summer School's Dance Center. In these dance/musical works, Di Lello developed his focus on performance by dancers/musicians, or performers trained as both dancers and musicians. Peaches' Lament was a 15-minute piece for four dancer/musicians who danced both together and alone, both in silence and to music they performed on four keyboards. In the January 1979 issue of Dance Magazine, Amanda Smith wrote that Peaches' Melisma created a “slightly eerie limbo” through which the work slowly emerged.
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Alderman was the lead writer for Perplex City, an alternate reality game, at Mind Candy from 2004 through June 2007. She went on to become lead writer on the running app Zombies, Run! which launched in 2012 and on the walking app The Walk which launched in December 2013. In 2018 The Walk was turned into a podcast and released through Panoply Media. Alderman's literary début came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received, if somewhat controversial, novel about a North London rabbi's bisexual daughter living in New York, which won her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers,"New Writers", Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Theatre credits include Perplex, Camping, Ngā Pou Wahine, The Wholehearted, Amadeus and When Sun and Moon Collide. In 2019, Forrester was nominated for the Billy T Award, an award named after iconic New Zealand comedian Billy T. James and awarded to the country's best up-and-coming stand-up comedian. As part of the 2019 New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Forrester performed her show Kura Shoulda Woulda at Auckland's Basement Theatre and Wellington's BATS Theatre. The award ceremony was held on 26 May 2019, and Forrester was awarded the Billy T. In doing so, she became the first woman of Māori descent to win the award, and the first Māori to win it since 2004.
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One tradition holds that he was so poor that he could not afford papyri to write on, and was constrained to avail himself of potsherds to write down his thoughts. His monicker ho dúskolos signifying "the difficult" or "crabby/grouchy" may reflect the sour temper of someone reduced to eking out a living in extreme indigence. Various interpretations have been advanced arguing the nickname was expressive of his highly compressed, difficult style, or as illustrating his cantankerously disputatious manner, or as alluding to his habit of citing arcane words in contests with other grammarians, in order to perplex them. He died in poverty in what was formerly the royal quarter of the city of Alexandria.
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The story section will, > however, be only one of many with which The Mirror will appeal to Australian > women. Every feminine interest and activity will be served in the best way > that long experience can suggest and money can command. Specialists will > help the paper's readers in their dress designing and building; others will > help them in the thousand and one matters that perplex the housewife; > doctors and nurses will give advice, especially to bush-mothers, with regard > to ailments and the sickroom; even the lawyer will be brought into the > service to make plain some of the problems that disturb women. But the woman > and the girl of to-day ask for more even than all this.
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Frederick Campbell Crews (born 20 February 1933)Profile of Frederick Campbell Crews is an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957), E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962), and The Sins of the Fathers (1966), a discussion of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He received popular attention for The Pooh Perplex (1963), a book of satirical essays parodying contemporary casebooks. Initially a proponent of psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews later rejected psychoanalysis, becoming a critic of Sigmund Freud and his scientific and ethical standards.
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He was "full of strong surging runs" and "would, when remembering to take the ball with him, completely perplex opposing defenders and cause havoc in the penalty area". In his first period at The Dell, Southampton had an abundance of strikers, including Channon and Steve Moran, together with Kevin Keegan, Steve Williams and David Armstrong in midfield, so his chances were limited. He spent the end of the 1981–82 season on loan at Oxford United and, after returning to Southampton for the start of the following season, he moved permanently to Oxford in November 1982. After two years with Oxford, he was rather surprisingly re-signed by the Saints' newly appointed manager, Chris Nicholl.
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Although the Beast ran for only three months, it prompted the formation of a highly organized and intensely engaged community that remains active years after the game concluded. Perhaps more significantly, it inspired a number of its participants to create games adapting and expanding the model, extending it from an anomalous one-time occurrence to a new genre of entertainment and allowing the community to grow even after the Beast itself concluded. Members of the Cloudmakers group went on to form ARGN, the primary news source for the genre, and Unfiction, its central community hub, as well as designing the first successful and widely played indie ARGs, such as LockJaw and Metacortechs, and corporate efforts such as Perplex City.
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She has consistently performed alongside many of Australia's great actors and actresses including Cate Blanchett (The Seagull), Geoffrey Rush (Exit the King, The Small Poppies, The Alchemist), Barry Otto (for Steve Martin's WASP and in Molière's Tartuffe), Julie Forsythe, and Jacek Koman. Rebecca opened the new theatre at Belvoir Street together with Catherine McClements and John Woods in It Just Stopped. Since 2010 she worked with the Malthouse Theatre, the State Theatre of South Australia in John Doyle's play, Vere (Faith), the Griffin Theatre Company in Kill Climate Deniers by David Finisgan. For the Sydney Theatre Company she has appeared in Travesties, Vere (Faith), Perplex, After Dinner by Andrew Bovell (which won a Hlep), Lucy Kirkwood's play Chimerica and Moira Buffini's play ‘Dinner’.
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They were thrown off store height in the castle tower on sharp stakes of lettuce work bearing, while the store down she was standing taking a gory shower. There is another legend telling a story of a rope bridge crossing built out of female braids of hair that princess used to take to get into the castle. To many well known narration about a tradition that Bona observed hiding out in a water well of underground palace and every Easter used to come out holding in her chin a golden key to a secret treasure chest filled with gold. Even though historian assert that Sforza owning the castle for twenty years had not visited it even once, motley canvas knit out of ancient legend perplex imagination.
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All around, there were monuments carved with armorial > bearings; and on this simple slab of slate—as the curious investigator may > still discern, and perplex himself with the purport—there appeared the > semblance of an engraved escutcheon. It bore a device, a herald’s wording of > which may serve for a motto and brief description of our now concluded > legend; so sombre is it, and relieved only by one ever–glowing point of > light gloomier than the shadow:— “ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES” Pain's headstone has "an engraved escutcheon" on which enthusiasts see the letter A (for adultery): it appears in the shield to the right of two lions.Petronella, Mary Melvin; Edward W. Gordon; Victorian Society in America New England Chapter (2004). Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours.
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As the genre has grown, there has been increasing interest in exploring models that provide funding for large-scale ARGs that are neither promotions for other products nor limited by the generally small budget of grassroots/indie games. The two major trends that have emerged in this area support through the sale of products related to the game, and fees for participation in the game. A third possible model is one using in-game advertising for other products, as in The LOST Experience, but at this time no large-scale game has attempted to fund itself solely through in-game advertising. The first major attempt (other than EA's failed Majestic) to create a self-supporting ARG was Perplex City, which launched in 2005 after a year's worth of teasers.
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As the genre has grown, there has been increasing interest in exploring models that provide funding for large-scale ARGs that are neither promotions for other products or limited by the generally small budget of grassroots/indie games. The two major trends that have emerged in this area are support through the sale of products related to the game, and fees for participation in the game. A third possible model is one using in-game advertising for other products, as in The LOST Experience, but at this time no large-scale game has attempted to fund itself solely through in-game advertising. The first major attempt (other than EA's failed Majestic) to create a self-supporting ARG was Perplex City, which launched in 2005 after a year's worth of teasers.
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Lineup: Hilltop Hoods, Grinspoon, The Cat Empire, You Am I, Apsci, Sneaky Sound System, Scribe, Chromeo, The Matches, Spank Rock, Shihad, Josh Pyke, Little Birdy, People Under The Stairs, Cog, Blue King Brown, Kora, Kisschasy, Buck 65, True Live vs Bliss N Eso, The Audreys, Howling Bells, Wolf & Cub, That 1 Guy, Ash Grunwald, Airbourne, British India, Dappled Cities Fly, Koolism, Horsell Common, Caged Baby, APSC, Mammal, Dallas Frasca, The Scare, Symbiosis, The Exploders, Young and Restless, Damn Arms, Lowrider, Bluejuice, Dardanelles, The Getaway Plan, Loren, Ben Quin, The Go Set, Ghostwood, The Currency, Sparkadia, Plastic Palace Alice, DJ Perplex, Spikey Tee, Smash Bang, Nic Nac, Bass Bin Laden vs Farmer Suitical, And Burn The initial line-up was announced on Monday 10 September, with the second line-up announcement being made on Tuesday 23 October. The Black Keys and Fun Lovin' Criminals were also due to play, but cancelled in late December.
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44–5 (original interview in the Guardian: Father of the 'God Particle', 30 June 2008) The nickname has been satirised in mainstream media as well. Science writer Ian Sample stated in his 2010 book on the search that the nickname is "universally hate[d]" by physicists and perhaps the "worst derided" in the history of physics, but that (according to Lederman) the publisher rejected all titles mentioning "Higgs" as unimaginative and too unknown. Lederman begins with a review of the long human search for knowledge, and explains that his tongue-in-cheek title draws an analogy between the impact of the Higgs field on the fundamental symmetries at the Big Bang, and the apparent chaos of structures, particles, forces and interactions that resulted and shaped our present universe, with the biblical story of Babel in which the primordial single language of early Genesis was fragmented into many disparate languages and cultures. Lederman asks whether the Higgs boson was added just to perplex and confound those seeking knowledge of the universe, and whether physicists will be confounded by it as recounted in that story, or ultimately surmount the challenge and understand "how beautiful is the universe [God has] made".
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Given I Trawl the Megahertz's unusual content, McAloon suspected the album would be "too unusual for a major label to release," although the album was ultimately released by EMI-owned label Liberty Records, the same label that Prefab Sprout were signed to at the time, on 27 May 2003, almost five years after the songs on the album were written, and by which point McAloon had completed the lyrics for the next Prefab Sprout album, and whose eyesight had largely improved thanks to the extensive surgery. Critics speculated that the album would confuse longtime McAloon fans; Kellman felt the album was "as likely to perplex and infuriate as it is likely to stun and spellbind," whereas Jones felt, despite Prefab Sprout's increasing eccentricity over time, "nothing will have prepared [McAloon's] fans for this." On November 8th, 2018, Rough Trade Records announced pre-order for a new remastered edition of the album on limited edition white vinyl double album, in a standard black edition, and in CD and digital download formats. The double vinyl album comprises one side with the full title track, one side of "etched vinyl", and the remaining tracks split across the second disk.
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