Just like Joaquin, they are reference points for the team.
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What were your reference points for that in the studio?
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The film's reference points, invented and otherwise, are faultlessly deployed.
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What reference points were you drawing from when recording "Win"?
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What were some of your musical reference points for Animal?
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It just needs to gesture at all the right reference points.
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Are there classics you use as reference points for the music?
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And her original songs have became reference points for a generation.
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But my reference points are based off of my life experiences.
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The reference points here are clear: Beastie Boys, early Run-DMC.
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But you can't deny the association, or the subliminal reference points.
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One investor pointed to Cambridge University and EDF as reference points.
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We tend to share similar reference points, inspiration and, political views.
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In the show's most exciting art, firm reference points slip away.
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It offers the viewer more reference points and more imaginative possibilities.
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The Aston Martin notes (B2200/B-) provide the best pricing reference points.
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The market gains reference points that your company isn't worth applying to.
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Once aligned, the key frames are locked and used as reference points.
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Were there real-life reference points for how Becky should sound offstage?
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Did you all have the same reference points as far as influences went?
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This set of reference points doesn't quite result in a unified aesthetic, though.
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As such, our ability to comprehend the bleeding edge requires familiar reference points.
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A lot of my reference points [are] the music that I've already made.
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How do you have a society without shared reference points, he said Thursday.
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Companies going public look to competitors as reference points for their own valuations.
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The staffers also emphasized that the reference points are other wealthy, developed countries.
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Its services are essential for maintaining reference points for broken hyperlinks and deleted websites.
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One of my favorite cultural reference points on the subject is the movie Rambo.
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We also had very different reference points like experimental Welsh language and electronic music.
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Whatever the reference points it feels decidedly un-Monday which is a great compliment.
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"We are newcomers to this business, and there are no reference points," he said.
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Yet east Germans' reference points have been Hamburg and Munich, not Bratislava or Budapest.
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But also, unfortunately, I could use a lot of American examples as reference points.
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I think it's O.K. to have moments that are reference points in your life.
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It's really inclusive, it references old geezers and all sorts of mad reference points.
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Most of our members here are former Catholics, so that makes for different reference points.
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VR: Yeah, that's what our reference points were, so that's where it all came from.
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We had to have certain set pieces just so our actors could have reference points.
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All three works have mesmerized large audiences, even though they avoid obvious tonal reference points.
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These changes will necessarily produce tensions and dialogues between generational identities, traditions, and reference points.
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But both Russia and Ukraine will now constitute key reference points in framing Trump's presidency.
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What were some records that served as reference points for you when creating After Hours?
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It's cool to see all these reference points come to you as the record went on.
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Each ship contains a pair of cubes which serve as reference points, and lasers between them.
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Other similar-rated sovereigns, such as Abu Dhabi and Qatar, will be used as reference points.
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Thus, any cutoffs chosen by ACOG and WHO can only be considered as rough reference points.
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But the problem here is some of the reference points hit so cleanly it rings hollow.
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Or is it more about enjoying its mashup of reference points, like DeLoreans, WarGames, and Rush?
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Herewith, a nearly look-by-look breakdown of what Abloh's Princess Diana reference points may be.
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Rebasing the economy broadly means changing the reference points used to calculate the country's gross domestic product.
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The 12 swimsuits ahead are for those of us seeking reference points from anywhere but the '50s.
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These reference points and their coordinate system of latitudes, longitudes and heights are called a geodetic datum.
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Those artificial stars form reference points for the telescope, helping its internal mirror correct for pesky twinkling.
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But culturally we grew up with a lot of the same reference points of melodic guitar music.
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Their interviews and press materials are full of an ambitious laundry list of reference points and influences.
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The parents' bedroom ups the stakes of the narrative by offering more reference points for the family.
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But our cultural reference points have shifted since then, and the universe has shifted to match them.
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And, to some extent, encouraged those in the city to revert back to those miserablist reference points.
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Using data from FaceWarehouse, the team was able to create six dozen reference points across the human face.
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But exchanges and websites like Wine Searcher, which gathers merchant quotes from around the world, provide reference points.
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It detects visual features that it can use as reference points, then calculates your motion based on them.
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To me, your work is distinctly American—from the reference points and influences to the things you've collected.
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For many people, PWR BTTM's sparkly essence, regardless of its theatrical reference points, is what pulls them in.
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It functions on a 3-axis control unit, which has several internal reference points plus 12 propeller fans.
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The second is to generate two globally significant price reference points over the course of the trading day.
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But even with those reference points informing his work, from the very beginning his music was strikingly direct.
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Less-expected reference points: the Florida State Seminoles basketball team, household cleaning product Lysol, and insurance company Geico.
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Anders Celsius, whose lifetime overlapped Fahrenheit's, set those reference points at 100 for freezing and zero for boiling.
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Anders Celsius, whose lifetime overlapped Fahrenheit's, set those reference points at 100 for freezing and 0 for boiling.
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The weirdest part of this Twitter caning is one of the reference points that the company gave to media.
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Later, the dots are used as reference points to animate the character and create what we see on screen.
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He tells Wired that a flat area requires hundreds of reference points, while a more complex region uses thousands.
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And let's just say the two have different reference points for a discussion about the Trump-China-LiAngelo affair.
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But even with these reference points, the album's jazz affinities feel less meaningful than its resonances with New Orleans.
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This reconstruction differs from others, Mr. van den Bout said, because of the absence of many physical reference points.
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Obviously Atif, not having the same condition, is coming to the table with a different set of reference points.
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But Mr. Abloh's reference points seem to have more to do with his peer group than any larger idea.
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Both women considered the long, sunny lunches of their childhood vacations to be important reference points for great meals.
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Not surprisingly, we do it all the time, and then make big decisions based on those faulty reference points.
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Listen: The duo 100 gecs's debut album, "1000 gecs," smashes dozens of rapid-fire reference points into something exhilarating.
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Navigating both scenes is a challenge with "no precedent," she noted about the lack of art-world reference points.
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We write for an audience we think we know, in a vernacular they'll understand, using reference points they're familiar with.
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However, the place is so ridiculously large that they make for useful meeting/reference points when in a busy crowd.
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The 1969, produced by the winemaker Philip Togni, and the vintages that immediately followed became reference points for Napa cabernets.
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These new standards don't just matter for North American trade — our trade agreements become reference points for other trading blocs.
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And I sort of view everything as... all my reference points were just all across the board this time around.
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That is to say — you might not know Pokémon, but you'll likely know one of the movie's other reference points.
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Her reference points were the restaurants she loved in France, yes, but also the way things were done at home.
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It captures the face's topography as a collection of reference points—anywhere from 173,000 to 15,000 points in proper, even lighting.
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Where there any particular reference points for The Neon Demon or was it a purely organic process based on Nicholas's script?
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Each artist's composition is an "independent, self-contained concept," though the works will use ambient and drone as sonic reference points.
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The security of recognizable characters and a built-in community that understands the same reference points can supersede the material itself.
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With increasingly outlandish reference points, and thanks to the direct fan contact afforded by the internet, this scene is evolving rapidly.
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But this approach isn't super generalizable because a lot of photos simply don't have enough parallel lines to act as reference points.
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All of us are black, and throughout our friendship we have adopted certain slang and reference points that color our daily conversations.
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Noise Patterns replaces those tones with spikes and waves of chaotic, rowdy interference, and its reference points are more challenging and distant.
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But it's rare for war and the experience of soldiers to be such explicit reference points, as they are in these dances.
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For the system to track so precisely, the performer needs to wear a special outfit with a few dots as reference points.
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We both came on the scene around the same time, we have crossed paths many times, we have the same reference points.
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Untangling these two reference points — the world of fictional archetypes and the world of real crime and ethnic stigma — is nearly impossible.
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Starting out with no reference points for the actual sound, the only thing that I knew I wanted to be was honest.
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For reference points, you might check previous Wine School units on St.-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage, both syrahs from the Northern Rhône.
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The combined mass and distance of globular clusters make them excellent tracers, or reference points, for measuring the mass of the Milky Way.
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But there are a huge range of reference points for the global financial markets, Australian stocks, and economic forces both global and domestic.
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"My reference points are so tight, I was so into strategic composition, and then here was instant dance, which fascinated me," she said.
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The invigorating, breathless "1000 gecs" is a pure palate annihilator of an album — 10 songs, 23 minutes, easily more than 100 reference points.
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Businesses influence how we think about pricesRoyal Caribbean is far from the only business that uses reference points to influence your spending behavior.
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There are scattered melodies and rhythms, but largely, it's music without repetition or easily recognizable patterns, reference points by which to orient yourself.
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She and I, fittingly, stand at the junction between betrothed and bereft, beginnings and endings, reference points in a most unlikely of romances.
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Comey added that Trump could be a more ethical leader if he surrounded himself with people who could serve as external reference points.
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Those two historical reference points are telling, coinciding as they do with the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the global financial crisis.
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And binge-watching is "accessible, it provides social conversation or social reference points, it's a stress reliever, and it can be positive," she said.
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As a result, Lifetime's sound could be described as pop-punk, hardcore, or even emo, refracted in whatever way matched a listener's reference points.
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To create the panning 3-D effect, he stitched the images together along his reference points and rendered them as frames in a video.
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Geolocation devices determine their location in relation to known reference points – stable survey marks that have been fixed in the ground and precisely measured.
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"Nose shape would vary individually, and I give a customized nose to each patient depending on many reference points and facial structure," he says.
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On a related note, did Mr Anderson have to pack "Isle of Dogs" with such obvious orientalist reference points as sushi, sumo and samurai?
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Anthony Gonzalez is working with the same reference points you'd hear in Todd Terje's music, but he's handling them with an unrelenting, disarming sincerity.
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The record's sub-30-minute runtime makes it feel brief, but its dramatic whirlwind of reference points and high-speed glitchiness is overwhelming anyway.
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T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "The Goonies" gives way to reference points intended for more grown-up audiences, like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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Kwan is an example of one of these unique individuals who picked the right reference points, and that helped her on her Olympics journey.
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Inside-out tracking is the opposite: the beacons are scattered around the room and detectors on a user's body employ them as reference points.
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Sometimes he has very specific ideas about certain scenes, tonal reference points, or in some cases specific ideas about a new piece of music.
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Six years later, our tweets are weaponized to an audience we don't know, thick with terms they understand differently, with the reference points completely absent.
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Even when paired up on Long Live Mexico's squirmy banger "Million Dollar Mansion," he finds his own cadence while accumulating his own distinct reference points.
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Chart Position: #215 Spotify Plays: 22.0 MillionOne fascinating thing about this kind of music is how effectively it's been scrubbed of any identifiable reference points.
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There are few reference points or landmarks for the drivers to use when learning how best to drive the track, which is another added difficulty.
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Any band that reorients its reference points on every new outing should rightly be uncertain about what the results could yield, but Murphy is confident.
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It's similar to how a hiker uses a compass, locating and relocating reference points like trees or peaks, as they appear and disappear from view.
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He used screen grabs and photos of the creature costume from various angles as reference points to create an accurate duplication of the merman's look.
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If much of the administration still channels Wall Street (the Oliver Stone version), Ms. Sanders offers visual reference points of Main Street (the Fox version).
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Probably because Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," in which James Stewart trails Kim Novak to a San Francisco flower shop, is one of Scorsese's recurring reference points.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini and Catherine Breillat are other apparent reference points, but those artists, for all their sophistication, produced work seemingly animated by raw anger.
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You can call it a human touch or you can call it confusing — either way, Google Maps has started using businesses as reference points for directions.
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But seeing Ma recall horror classics (and fellow Riverdale reference points) like Carrie and Halloween underlines just how thinly conceived some of Riverdale's homages can be.
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"I know we're going to have problems with Americans on this album because it has no reference points for them," Albarn would tell writer Graham Reid.
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Yet if east Germans do not always appreciate their good fortune, it is because their reference points have been Hamburg and Munich, not Bratislava or Budapest.
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Generations of Africans have already lost incalculable history and cultural reference points because of the absence of some of the best artworks created on the continent.
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There are so many more stories out there that Stranger Things could tell if it would just look a little outside its most obvious reference points.
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Not all GIFs have concrete reference points, but these were from an artists work so I wanted to write them even tho I really didn't need to.
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Eating simple food growing up, and then being trained at such a high level, gave me the reference points for my New American food-based menu now.
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An absence of reference points for Asian identity in popular culture has helped create a perpetual stream of hackneyed encounters, for men and women, children and adults.
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Mostly, the movie has a cascade of images and ideas, reference points and glimpses of everyday beauty that flow and swirl and, over time, gather tremendous force.
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After I worked in restaurant kitchens, I learned to be more careful and precise, archiving all the tactile and visual reference points that would work like cues.
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Powerful software then stitches together the photos and identifies unique features, creating billions of reference points that help to calculate the location of corals in 3D space.
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It's a completely foreign concept to them and the fact they have no cultural reference points to relate it to, they just find it impossible to comprehend.
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If there's a problem, it's that the good humor has the effect of lowering the film's dramatic stakes, and risks turning its cultural reference points into cartoons.
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It reached back and grabbed onto Coleman's own reference points: the chirruping bebop of Charlie Parker, Southern soul saxophone, the old Jewish prayer songs that he loved.
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A series of pink "3D Target Markers" have been attached to the module's walls, allowing Int-Ball's navigation camera to establish reference points and enable its autonomous mode.
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Embracing the over-stimulating lifestyle that social media and Netflix have thrust upon us, Aminé uses characters and plots as reference points to contextualize life's highs and lows.
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"It's these historical reference points that make photographing the Royal family so unique and remind you of the centuries of tradition that remain at their core," Jackson wrote.
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If all of these cultural reference points sound mixed-up and unlikely, that was, in a way, the whole point of Blueprint's bring-together-the-varying-disciplines approach.
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The slide also features a quote from Stacy Crook, the Research Director for IoT at IDC, providing additional reference points for investors who aren't as familiar with IoT.
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To keep on track, right now many satellites use reliable fixed sources of light, like bright stars, as reference points when calculating various things relating to their operations.
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But the reason why Sarah became a permanent singer was because we got on very well, her voice suited our music perfectly, and we had similar reference points.
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Both raucous and exquisitely poised, the music was decked out with some broadly perceptible reference points — including traces of classical modernism, jazz improvisation and the attack of punk.
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We started our investigation by mapping these towers; they provide identifiable reference points that we linked to images in the first videos from the morning of the attack.
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Critic's Pick This duo's debut album, "2100 gecs," smashes electro-pop, dance music, punk and dozens of other rapid-fire reference points into something genuinely new and exhilarating.
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Hammering out a common set of global reference points on climate-related disclosures is seen by many as a crucial step to helping investors allocate capital more effectively.
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So hammering out a common set of global reference points on climate-related disclosures is seen by many as a crucial step to helping investors allocate capital more effectively.
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Researchers utilized a model that generates 3D human heads and used a program developed at Carnegie Mellon University, which helps to identify over 70 reference points across the face.
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That the latter exists would explain, in part, why these advertisements expect 100 million Americans to share all the same reference points, spread across six decades of mass culture.
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One of the historical reference points that's been cited with regard to democratic norms is the peaceful transfer of power from Federalist John Adams to Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson.
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It'd already be successful in conjuring a vibe, but the video might be the capstone on the whole thing, a simple collection of hangout seshes and Scarborough-specific reference points.
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"Many people find its take on games and so-called genre art to be a dull, pandering tableau of reference points as an end unto themselves," the A.V. Club informed.
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But the reference points have been dragged forward a few decades, her doo-wop influences having been replaced by the sounds of teen-pop's turn-of-the-millennium golden age.
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Of course, they don't actually appear on the record (not even Frank Ocean can raise the dead) but they serve as reference points; footnotes of influence buried within a track.
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But, interestingly, the 488 has managed to sever my expectations, those definitive reference points which began with the 360 and evolved to the 458 Speciale (probably my favorite Ferrari ever).
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Cramer recommended waiting for reference points from Carmax, the largest used car dealer in the United States, and Lennar, one of the country's largest homebuilders, in their Wednesday earnings reports.
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Psychic Hearts is still true to what its founder is known for, though—there will continue to be T-shirts with obscure reference points, as well as original, colorful graphics.
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Despite the brooding selfies, and the melange of reference points, and the hyperbolic forum posts, Burial at his best is an artist capable of wringing emotion out of the everyday.
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Scientists are developing reference points to measure the ecological role that menhaden serve as forage fish and how changes in their numbers would affect the predators that feed on them.
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Companies must find ways to help employees realize that diversity means we come from different reference points and building shared understandings in the face of potential conflict is not easy.
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But removed from misplaced seasonal expectations, Crimson Peak is a visually rich director's showcase that calls to mind lurid reference points like the works of Roger Corman and Mario Bava.
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To distill, say, Sagittarius and all its quirks, inclinations, and preferences down to even a handful of everyday reference points requires a well-trained eye (and a keen sense of humor).
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Not just the electronics, not just the editing, but also a lot of reference points towards other genres, things like techno and juke—electronic mainstays that I'm sure they're familiar with.
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Martin would give him a few words of direction—moods and vibes rather than tangible musical reference points—and Russo would come back to his neighbor with carefully arranged piano pieces.
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Fröjdman, also an R&D engineer and certified hot air balloonist, spent three months arranging data from 33,000 reference points on stereoscopic 3D images taken by the HiRISE camera orbiting Mars.
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Before starting, you're asked to do a few things to correct your posture: Doing all this creates a series of reference points for the program to use when checking your posture.
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Growing up in New Delhi during the 1980s, Ms. Kapur knew of no gay women, no reference points from Bollywood movies that could provide the vocabulary for what she was feeling.
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On moments like "Million Dollar Mansion," where the two artists trade verses, he supplies his own cadence and reference points, demonstrating unequivocally that he's more unique than some credit him for.
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The Bedford Canal Rowbotham used was the stage for Wallace's experiment, which relied on a telescope, a sheet of fabric, and two red discs for reference points as detailed by Scientific American.
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As suggested by those true-story reference points, there's some tissue connecting Trial & Error to the fabric of reality, what with Lavinia's wealth and status giving her seeming immunity to the law.
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I never expected the music to cross over the way it did, because its reference points like the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, and Syd Barrett hadn't been successful [by the early 70s].
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But his preference for them provided a point about how the legend endures in the internet age, a time when soccer coverage has become increasingly saturated and reference points ever more accessible.
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If the company could achieve its goals in "priority" markets like Japan, it would provide "good reference points to other countries," said the 211.9 Philip Morris presentation on reduced-risk products like iQOS.
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"I think that that's something that I think about a lot, because on the one hand, my reference points have been people like [fashion designer] Rei Kawakubo, who are effectively artists," she says.
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There's almost no dialogue in this 75-minute documentary about a failing Oregon goat farm where you're emerged in near-darkness with no coherent reference points for probably the first full five minutes.
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It's like an abstract painting inspired by the Canadian Arctic, but it's not a picture of a typical polar scene where the viewer is given reference points on which to base their experiences.
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The reference points were the button-downs of the 1940s and '50s, when the Brooks Brothers shirt was firmly established as a crucial element of insouciant collegiate style, the more frayed the better.
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The reference points were clear—Television, Wire, Devo—but it was more than just the post-punk aesthetic that dragged people there; there was a minimalism and a concision that pulled it together.
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The best bits are on songs like "Terrarium," where all the reference points blur together, when rave airhorns accompany blurry ambience, chattery Jersey-ish vocal chops, and bass drops befitting big-tent performances.
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Remember that the people around you don't necessarily know more; given that you're an expatriate, removed from your natural element, they likely possess a different (as opposed to superior) set of reference points.
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Thanos' lines in both films became instant reference points, and Tony Stark — the heart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe who kickstarted it all — became the guy to throw himself on the live grenade.
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In a widely shared article on the Bellingcat website Friday, the journalist Robert Evans notes that the document contains many white supremacist reference points that are likely accurate representations of the shooter's views.
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Where once a handful of newspapers and television channels commanded the nation's attention, the media's fragmentation and the rise of more individualistic competitors (social media the prime example) mean ever fewer common reference points.
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"I was afraid at first because I'd never done anything like that, and you know actors like to have costumes and props and things to rely on that way as reference points," he said.
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Rather than subjectively attempting to distill conceptual ideas or his personal life into his work, Stott's drawing inspiration from raw materials: musical reference points like the Slimzee track, as well as his studio equipment.
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She credits much of her growth as an artist to her taking time out from the tried-and-true musical reference points of New York City and the West Coast, and decamping to Asia.
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What went into it musically — to use those reference points and extract them, in order to expose the organs and limbs, the samples and the loops and the things that went into the album.
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There are a few reference points for her work — the sensory assault of Matthew Barney, Robert Gober's eerie domesticity, Darren Bader's madcap ready-mades — but, for the most part, she is unlike anyone else.
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But the fact that my closest reference points were an almost catastrophically unpopular '90s TV series and a moderately successful '00s B-movie should indicate that there's still quite a lot of room for exploration.
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To ensure diners, who might subscribe to time-honored traditions, aren't unseated by the newfangled concepts, Leung deconstructs traditional foods and picks reference points, preserving the essence but twisting the presentation or the accompanying flavors.
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Still, anecdotal reports suggest that many people, for lack of other reference points, learn about sex and intimacy — develop ideas on what it's normal to like or to do — by watching porn or cam shows.
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Recreate a look on a dime Once you've done your research and have reference points for a look or pieces you want to find, you can begin shopping at thrift stores and searching the web.
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But these are all more reference points than comparisons, because Tuca & Bertie — despite the existence of plenty of other comedies that seem to share some of its DNA — manages to feel like something completely new.
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Even Tarantino's most obviously pastiche-heavy films, like Kill Bill or Death Proof, tend to play fine on their own terms for his many fans who might not actually share any of his reference points.
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Reference points can arise from several factors — for example, you might compare a TV against other TVs in a store, the last TV you bought, and the total price of the goods and services you plan to purchase in addition to the TV.Read more: A former Royal Caribbean employee reveals the one question you should always ask cruise ship workersMichael Bayley, the CEO of Royal Caribbean International, uses reference points to increase how much money customers spend on the company&aposs cruises by emphasizing pre-trip purchases.
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Freetown Sound is deeply personal, an R&B-new wave mixtape named after the birthplace of Hynes's father that samples POC reference points including Paris Is Burning amidst Hynes's multi-instrumental genius (two words: synth guitar).
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This post leaves you with a prioritized to-do list of which channels might work for your product, and reference points for how much you can expect to pay if you get those channels to work.
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Toxic Holocaust, Inepsy, and Midnight are obvious reference points; ragged howls and howling leads dominate while the bass handles the heavy lifting, and tracks like "Within the Everlasting Hellfire" rumble in with a decidedly Teutonic stomp.
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And you're almost making reference points from his dialogue and his voice and the multitude of talks that you've had with him about who this character is and what kind of movie he wants to make.
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But these massacres deserve to be more than mere reference points, if only to underscore the protracted inaction of Congress to respond — an inaction that, judging by the Capitol Hill partisanship on display Thursday, seems concretized.
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The importance of having healthy reference pointsIn one of my favorite episodes, "Episode 3: A Silver Lining," figure skating champion Michelle Kwan shows up in a fantastic interview about the importance of having healthy reference points.
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Throughout the four-part "Jeru Concerto," he states many of the melodies on the baritone; it's constantly swirling and refocusing and changing its reference points, but his low, fibrous horn never gets lost among the stars.
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Raghubir says that being aware of your tendency to use reference points still won&apost make you immune to pricing strategies designed to increase your spending, not even for the economists and psychologists who study them.
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Then he borrowed and refined other reference points from an existing scale, which is how other commonly used points ended up with untidy values like 32 for water's freezing point and 212 for its boiling point.
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The internet however, with its unlimited access to the entire sum of recorded history, has changed all that, making it possible for people to form their own unique personal map of musical reference points to draw from.
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So, when dealing with any of Mizulina's initiatives, the most popular method to defame them seems to be a comparison with the Middle Ages, while homophobia, anti-Semitism, and particularly the Holocaust appear as additional reference points.
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The Asian-American fraternity is not much more than a clumsy step toward finding an identity in a country where there are no more reference points for how we should act, how we should think about ourselves.
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Scattered reference points for this habit we have of affording teenagers both too much and too little credence — making them into celebrities when it serves us, and dismissing them as puppets of adult interests when it doesn't.
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If your only reference points for orgies are the Seinfeld episode where Jerry Seinfeld has an existential crisis about becoming an "orgy guy," or the infamous True Blood orgy of season 2, then chances are you have questions.
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While food and art have a relationship that extends throughout history, whether thinking of Warhol's soup cans or the bountiful still lives of Cézanne, they are often incidental parts of the works, albeit generally important as reference points.
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Monday evening futures were pointing to another sell-off on Tuesday but overnight, China's central bank set the yuan's official reference points at stronger than the key 7 yuan-to-the-dollar, calming fears of a currency war.
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Whether or not the classic rock reference points are by design, it feels structured in the same way—a series of guitar riffs scorching a sneering vocal, all of it designed to provoke lighters-in-the-air abandon.
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Ocean scores have been used in a wide swath of social science research including many of the long-term studies we now use as reference points to assess what people with long, healthy lives might have in common.
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It relies primarily on front-facing cameras to detect edges in the environment and use them as reference points, so the headset can tell how far you've walked in real space and translate that into virtual motion as well.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England (BoE) has revised its proposals for reforming how a benchmark for lending between banks is calculated, as part of its attempts to stamp out the manipulation of key reference points for financial contracts.
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This is a record constructed in seeming tribute to the culture that birthed it: Britain as a national entity, as well as microcosmic Britain that gave rise to the particular set of musical reference points the album is quoting.
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Coming out of country's tepid gentleman era, full of edgeless men with thin voices singing about romantic fealty, Brown was a refreshing alternative: His voice is lustrous, if not especially powerful, and his reference points are often historically minded.
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She said the company would work to update signage, reference points and online information with the new name as construction progressed, adding that the area had been a car park for more than 40 years after the council blocks were demolished.
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In its third season, especially, Superstore has been so cognizant of all the sitcoms before it that it could be compared to; it would be easy for the show to constantly subvert our expectations based on those earlier reference points.
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The result of the new system may therefore be to push up EIBOR rates slightly, though the impact is likely to be small as some banks have already expanded their reference points for quotes in recent weeks, the source said.
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Sherry Justus, Elkins Park, Pa. Teju Cole's essay assesses Steve McCurry's work from within Cole's own postmodern academic analytical point of view, in which the value of a photograph is determined with regard to various compound conceptual and politicized reference points.
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But I would say that keeping a dedicated notebook and pen on my person at all times, to jot down ideas, theories, reference points and jokes to share with my co-host, Wesley Morris, is an essential tool for that job.
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The Copenhagen-based singer/producer may be working off tried-and-true 90s reference points like Timbaland, Sade, or Erykah Badu, but her songs couldn't be more suited for the present day, navigating the complications of relationships that live through iMessage.
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While she hails from Vancouver, her sound is smattered in weird ATL trap influences and eclectic sonic reference points, from the casual, heavy-lidded flow of Lauryn Hill to the trashy rebellion of Suicidal Tendencies (who she always reps on Instagram).
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And To All the Boys — the most successful of these three new movies, both artistically and through its cultural impact — works in large part because of the subtle way it updates familiar tropes while questioning the racial politics of its own reference points.
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It's an ephemeral, self-referential mode of discourse that is unfortunately not ephemeral or tied to reference points at all — in fact, it's designed to be broadcast, archived, searched, and embedded by anyone, in any context, at any point in the future.
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"I also suggest writing out a list of the things you enjoy about your current career, so you have two reference points of what you do want in your next career and what you don't want in your next career," Taylor said.
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Given the way audiences and tastes have shifted since, there will probably never again be a musical year as iconic — recognizable to everyone for a handful of undeniable reference points — as the Summer of Love (1967) or the year punk broke (1977).
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Often praised as a modernist architectural masterwork, the building actually included a hodgepodge of reference points: hanging light fixtures that evoke the factory floors that once dominated industrial Glasgow, and facades that at once refer to Scottish baronial castles and Italian Renaissance styles.
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If you ignore their technological attributes, a lot of video games are simply stuck out of time—they can tell you something about the history of games themselves, but as broader historical reference points, indicators of the bygone zeitgeist, they are rarely useful.
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Elsewhere there are soft-rock ballads and R&B songs, none of them subject to anything like the skepticism that has greeted Lil Nas X, whose reference points might in fact be more classically country (even if refracted through a kitsch lens).
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We tend to judge spelling mistakes and grammar errors more harshly when the messages are from people we don't already know—probably because we don't have any other reference points to judge the character of the person at the other end of the line.
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"You're creating different algorithms and you're using different data sets as your reference points, so it makes sense that you're going to get some different responses," the Harvard geneticist Robert Green explained to me, as I tried to make sense of my own DNA data.
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One of the reference points for the parliamentary inquiry into age verification is the UK's proposed porn block system, which would have forced operators of porn sites to implement systems verifying their users are over 18, or face being entirely blocked in the country.
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By the end of the last century, there wasn't one prevailing aesthetic, but many, from goth to dandyism to sportswear, converging on the street and in underground clubs — all important reference points for that era's iconoclast designers, most notably John Galliano and Alexander McQueen.
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Foreign palates didn't always agree with Li's most inventive creations, so in late 2016 he collaborated with award-winning local bartender Reeve Yip to create a more refined menu that continues to focus on local ingredients and nostalgic concepts, but with more digestible reference points.
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What's most noticeable off the bat is that Isle of Dogs is Anderson's love letter to Japanese cinema, in particular the films of Akira Kurosawa (keep an ear out for the Seven Samurai theme), though sharp-eyed cinephiles will likely spot many other reference points.
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Yes, they're a British doom metal institution—but they're also a celluloid wormhole, a reading list, an aberration in the fabric of space and time who have fed generations of freaks from a bubbling cauldron of cult cinema, bizarre literature, and subcultural reference points from the interzone.
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"The use of cognitive reference points [such as round numbers] is one of the more deeply ingrained and unconscious psychological tendencies, and so it may be more persistent even in individuals with financial training and education," authors Edward Johnson, Nicole Bastian Johnson and Devin Shanthikumar ventured.
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As time went on, I realized that our conversations had started reflecting that circular quality, with Vile riffing on the same reference points and subjects when talking about Bottle It In: Neil Young, the importance of experience, evolving while holding onto your roots, the weight of existence.
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Because the idea of hip-hop architecture is still very new, the design elements aren't quite apparent yet, though Deconstructivism and Postmodernism are probably the closest reference points in forms that emphasize the design of façades, different heights for different sections of buildings, and references classical architecture.
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"Furious Thoughts Live" will also feature opening acts, familiar faces and voices in the Kid Fury universe — his friends and fellow cultural commentators Dustin Ross and Assanté — followed by Mr. Fury's unfiltered, stream-of-consciousness style of stand-up that seems to pull from a million reference points.
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Article continues after the video below If you ignore their technological attributes, a lot of video games are simply stuck out of time—they can tell you something about the history of games themselves, but as broader historical reference points, indicators of the bygone zeitgeist, they are rarely useful.
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"The way that I approached both of those projects was almost like a commercial idea where I pitched a particular 'look' to them I had envisioned, what my reference points would be, and when they were on board with that, we proceeded making the nail designs together," Cooper says.
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I'll be the first to admit that big beat is responsible for several pieces of music I think the world would be better without, and due to its "anything goes" attitude towards sampling and reference points is at least partially responsible for the abomination known as electro swing.
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The consultants analyzed how the agency could save money at detention centers beyond those where they helped renegotiate contracts — including several near the border, like ICE's largest family-detention facility, in Dilley, Texas — and Mr. Cox said these analyses remain reference points for future efforts to curb spending.
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In addition to the Marine A-4s, a pair of Air Force A-1 Skyraiders was dropping napalm — intending both to kill North Vietnamese troops and to create fires on the ground that the pilots in faster A-4s could use as reference points for follow-on bombing runs.
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Most had never met each other before, and they were there to discuss how the glaciers were changing and what tools would be best to measure the glacier fronts moving forward—mainly whether or not volunteers should increase their use of handheld GPS devices over reference points and measuring tapes.
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There are obvious reference points for their sound, like New Order and the the slow ooze of your more downcast shoegaze groups, but none of those bands ever really fully had to grapple with a world as burned out and automated and on the verge of collapse as we did.
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There's a specificity to the reference points Minhaj uses — such as a comparing a lota (a small water vessel commonly found in bathrooms in South Asian households) to toilet paper to help build a metaphor about effectiveness — that probably wouldn't be made by any other talk show host currently on air.
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After returning home to Paris, she met with the D.J. and producer Sebastian Akchoté, known for his remixes of Daft Punk and Justice, and gave him a mood-board-style list of cinematic reference points, many of which overlapped with the movies that shocked and thrilled her in her youth.
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While cultural reference points have changed over the decades — from 1944's "National Velvet" to two versions of "Black Beauty" to 2002's "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" — the Breyer horse has remained a constant, at the center of the horse girl universe for most of its nearly 70-year-history.
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The whole thing almost sounded like a fantasy incubated deep in a Twitter thread, but Rees later told me that she was inspired to combine the cultural legacy of "The Wiz" with the grandeur of the "Star Wars" franchise to create a kid-friendly movie as canonical as her reference points.
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The American public was still grappling with the O.J. Simpson case from two years before, but I can only vaguely remember that one—I was too young to comprehend the politics involved or even have reference points for the celebrity status that made O.J.'s trial such a stranger-than-fiction tale.
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If I had been a kid when this show came on, I would have been so—I mean, I'm not trying to brag, but I'd be so fucking psyched if this show came out and gave me some tools and reference points of the things that were happening to me and my friends.
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When we talk about Coachella and Stagecoach, and any major music festival, really, we're talking about the people that go to them—a sort of shorthand for cultural reference points, three-day stretches when various factions of young people emerge to reveal themselves like corpse flowers of youth culture: beautiful, rare, and disgusting.
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This last one, which is ingested by smoking the venom of the Sonoran Desert toad, was, I'd been told by a friend, "the Everest of psychedelics," a trip she promised would obliterate not only all sense of self (as many psychedelics can do) but also all reference points of time and space.
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And that is at the heart of what makes Live in London such a pleasure: Watching the Conchords bound between sounds, instruments, and comedic reference points as easily and amiably as they ever did offers an uncomplicated, comforting sort of joy that feels even more special today than it did a decade ago.
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He offered a six-prong approach to "tackling the root problems" of "our broken health-care system," according to his website, that includes: To lower prescription medication costs, Yang plans to give his administration the authority to "negotiate drug prices and use standard international price reference points," which would pressure pharmaceutical companies.
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Following the album's success they were lumped in with bands like Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects, yet the reference points on the album were far more obscure—they were just pushed through a pop filter so fine that you couldn't taste the bittersweet grounds that were always inherent in the band's sound.
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Much like The Skimm, a newsletter and media brand that breaks down the day's top headlines for a predominantly young, female audience, Ms. Sacks sees pop cultural reference points as a way to make stocks and bonds intelligible to a new generation of potential investors, particularly those often excluded from the language of finance.
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Current public company trading multiples (average of 18.1x for a group of public healthcare IT peers) and historical transaction multiples (13x median for software companies acquired since 2006) also inform the 7.0x estimate; Fitch believes ABILITY would receive a lower recovery multiple than these reference points given an assumption that stressed operations lead to the recovery scenario.
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Current public company trading multiples (average of 18.1x for a group of public healthcare IT peers) and historical transaction multiples (19.0x median for software companies acquired since 2006) also inform the 7.0x estimate; Fitch believes ABILITY would receive a lower recovery multiple than these reference points given an assumption that stressed operations lead to the recovery scenario.
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Other regional and ethnic reference points abound in Panther, from the otjize that coats the hair of one elder in the style of Himba women of Namibia, to the Basotho blankets in which members of the film's Border Tribe wrap themselves, to the lip disc worn by another elder, borrowed from Ethiopian groups like the Mursi.
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After starting with still-life paintings of your average Goldbären package, Mark's work got sweeter and stranger with her gorgeous acrylic freakouts that mix and mash personal reference points with the flamboyant wrapping, such as Gold Bear bags featuring characters from films like Alien or Brazil and nods to art history like the postmodern architecture collective Memphis Group.
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You could perhaps argue that there is our Australia—that is, a human Australia of streets, walls, and buildings—and then there is the machines' Australia, a parallel yet intersecting world of skewed reference points and offset walls, a kind of ghost nation, inhabited only by robots, departing further and further from the limits of human geographic experience every day.
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Until a few hours previous, my only reference points for Jamiroquai were the video for "Deeper Underground" which routinely pissed me off throughout my teens as it aired on MTV2 between what felt like every other song, and that scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Napoleon dances to "Canned Heat" in front of an auditorium of bewildered but also extremely impressed peers.
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Indeed, having been born in 1946, Trump is almost exactly the right age to have had his young brain steeped in a pop culture stew where both characters were well-known reference points — like how someone born in 1986 would almost certainly get a reference to "Grampa Simpson" or "Steve Urkel" (to choose a similarly nerdy sitcom character without a long-lasting legacy).
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Hk: * STANDARD CHARTERED PLC - NOTES PUBLICATION TODAY BY BANK OF ENGLAND OF RESULTS OF 2017 STRESS TEST EXERCISE * STANDARD CHARTERED - GROUP EXCEEDED ALL HURDLE RATES AND SYSTEMIC REFERENCE POINTS AFTER ALL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACTIONS * STANDARD CHARTERED PLC - GROUP'S LOW POINT CET1 CAPITAL RATIO OF 7.6 PER CENT AFTER SMAS REMAINED ABOVE GROUP'S HURDLE RATE OF 6.2 PER CENT Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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What Otis — or LaBeouf himself — might have once been tempted to toss off as a colorful, or at worst "tough," time growing up becomes something far more damaging, as he realizes that the sense memories and reference points he relies on to do his job involve excavating profound trauma — as well as the realization that what didn't kill him might have made him a better actor.
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Whether it's the representation of BoJack's mother's dementia (S4 E11), in which faces are blurred out or scribbled over; the hallucinatory violence of a particularly heavy drug bender (S1 E11); or an opioid-induced breakdown that causes BoJack to confuse his reality with scenes from the TV show he's shooting (S5 E11), animation is consistently experimented with to simulate experiences and emotions that the viewer may or may not have reference points for.
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Many of her works remain influential reference points today: her colorful Nuage cabinet (imagine a 212-D version of a Mondrian painting); the sleek chaise longue she designed with the cousins Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and Pierre Jeanneret, which was covered in a chic pony skin; her later collaborations with the architect Jean Prouvé; and the lodgings she created in the 1960s and '70s for the Les Arcs ski resort in Savoie, France.
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Quicksilver glorying in his powers in his high-speed action scene in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Star-Lord's swaggering little dance to "Come And Get Your Love" at the beginning of Guardians Of The Galaxy, Wade and Vanessa's lusty sex montage in Deadpool, Ant-Man thrilling to his own sudden power as a giant in Civil War, Spider-Man's entire Civil War character — these are the moments that become fan memes and critical reference points, because they show the cracks in the heroes' dull armor.
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For the music nerds who have followed this band's fascinating career over the last eleven years, there's still flecks of impeccable reference points that have cemented MGMT as quite possibly the strangest major-label act in existence: jittery opener "She Works Out Too Much" is a hat-tip to legendary Japanese pop aesthetes Yellow Music Orchestra, while "Days That Got Away" and "When You Die" bear the unmistakable splattered pastels of Ariel Pink (who, not coincidentally, has songwriting credits on the latter, as well as several other songs on Little Dark Age).
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"I told you from the start you was gonna turn on me," he sings at the beginning of "Turn on Me," then castigates himself for the relationship's mistakes and its fallout: I'm the one put all the rings on youI'm the one took all the blame for itI had to look at this lame happyTry to figure out again why I ain't happy On both albums, the reference points are the same — glistening, wet diamonds; Range Rovers purchased with pocket money; women from all parts of the globe getting celebrated and mistreated, often in the same breath.
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Hawthorne Heights' infamous lyric "Cut my wrists and black my eyes / So I can fall asleep tonight or die" from 2004's "Ohio Is For Lovers" has become one of emo's most immediate reference points, and "Play Russian roulette as we kiss / I'll be your cheap novelty / Blow your brains out on me" from Senses Fail's "Choke On This" and "Take this razor, sign your name across my wrists / So everyone will know who left me like this" from Bayside's "Synonym For Acquiescence" didn't do much to dampen a reputation that twinned death and romance in a way that reduced emo en masse to a vision of heartbroken dudes crying in Taco Bell.
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Coase's theory of the firm: a reading list1 "The Nature of the Firm" by R H Coase, Economica, 19372 "The Problem of Social Cost" by R H Coase, Journal of Law and Economics, 19603 "Industrial Organisation: A Proposal for Research" by R H Coase, NBER, 19724 "Production, Information Costs and Economic Organisation" by Armen A Alchian and Harold Demsetz, American Economic Review, 19725 "Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractural Relations" by Oliver E Williamson, Journal of Law and Economics, 19796 "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" by Sanford Grossman and Oliver Hart, Journal of Political Economy, 19867 "Multitask Principal-Agent Analysis: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership and Job Design" by Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom, Journal of Law, Economics and Organisation, 19918 "The Firm as Sub-economy" by Bengt Holmstrom, Journal of Law Economics & Organisation, 19999 "The Theory of the the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract" by Oliver E Williamson, 200210 "Contracts as Reference Points" by Oliver Hart and John Moore, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008
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