In the book she simply says "count to forty" which I took to mean 40 Mississippis.
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"Outlook not so good" we took to mean regarding the question, aka she is likely going to survive.
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The police were friendly, which Farmer took to mean they knew there was money to be gleaned from the gringos.
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" He said, "Thank you too much," which I took to mean, "We are so grateful to be here for you.
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Woodson remembered Savage drove past her house, promising her a surprise — which she took to mean something innocuous, like ice cream.
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At some points, Mr. Trump closed his eyes in what people in the room took to mean he was dozing off.
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Adi said, "The dirty bastards are back again," meaning the Allied forces, but which Rudi took to mean him and his family.
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"Get off the X," he had said, which Lee took to mean move away from the site where she experienced the pain.
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The company also placed advertisements on CCTV, the state broadcaster, which Mr. Luo took to mean it had passed some level of official scrutiny.
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Later, Diana noticed the prince was wearing a pair of gold cufflinks engraved with interwoven Cs — which she took to mean Charles and Camilla.
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I was also "fair," which I took to mean blond, and, though I wouldn't have thought this through at the time, I played fair.
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"I reckon you can keep selling your white powder [crying-eyes emoji]," the comment continued, in what Sintash took to mean his fitness supplements.
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There were headers every six rows in the building, which Enzweiler took to mean that it was constructed around the beginning of the twentieth century.
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After showering, shampooing, and towel-drying, I applied a "coin-sized dollop" (which I took to mean a quarter-sized dollop), concentrating it on the ends.
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What happened: Uber said that it was "due to human error," which many took to mean that a safety driver was in control of the car.
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It said it would lower rates again "if needed", a phrase some analysts took to mean an additional rate cut was less likely than previously thought.
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It said it would lower rates again "if needed," a phrase some analysts took to mean that an additional rate cut was less likely than previously thought.
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While chatting during the game, Fabian told the witness that he was going to "smash" the girl at his house, which the witness took to mean having sex.
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She took part in an LGBT outreach project and said her sexuality fell somewhere on a "vast spectrum," which many took to mean she was announcing her sexuality.
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One of the police officers said he received verbal orders from his commander to "go and clear" areas where Rohingya lived, which he took to mean to burn them.
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Though Nicki and Cardi both appear in the video, they weren't on the set at the same time, which some fans took to mean that they disliked each other.
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In a statement the central said it would lower rates again "if needed," a phrase some analysts took to mean an additional rate cut is less certain than before.
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Draghi added the central bank was ready to do its part, which many market watchers took to mean that more stimulus is forthcoming at the ECB's meeting later this week.
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He called him a con artist and said among other things that he had small hands, a charge that Trump took to mean as questioning the size of his manhood.
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The bank in its March policy report called for a rate rise "after the summer", which most economists polled by Reuters took to mean a hike was pencilled in for September.
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Jobs apparently thought that his vegan diet caused him not to emit any sort of body odor, which he took to mean he didn't need to wear deodorant or shower regularly.
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The biological stratum, which I naïvely took to mean life in general, is in certain ways a long process of demise — we are all dying all the time, just at different rhythms.
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Privately, Gianforte expressed (in a leaked audio tape) that he was happy the Obamacare repeal and replace process is in motion, which Democrats took to mean that the House passed the bill.
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He explained that the hydrolyzed proteins on the ingredient list are similar to proteins that have already been digested by your body, which I took to mean proteins broken down into amino acids.
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But before he left, his fellow contestant, David Bowie's ex-wife Angie, was informed of the glam rocker's death – which some in the house took to mean their fellow competitor David had died.
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The show, titled #DaddyWillSaveUs, was pitched to at least two potential host galleries as pro-Trump performance art, a description both took to mean as a satirical sendup of the Republican presidential nominee.
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The influential official said in a speech that the Fed should act quickly and forcefully when it seems economic headwinds building, comments the market took to mean a 50 basis point cut was coming.
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And in 2017, an Israeli couple was found guilty of leading on a landlord by texting this 💃🏻👯✌️☄️🐿️🍾 emoji combo, which the landlord took to mean they wanted his apartment.
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Her breathing grew labored and her voice was practically inaudible when she told my wife, Amy, and me that she didn't want to die with a "stranger," whom we took to mean the aide.
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"In [Asking Alexandria's] song 'Run Free' they have the lyrics 'escape your inhibitions', which I took [to mean] 'Don't let anyone stand in the way of what I want to do in life,'" says Shannon.
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The easy explanation for all this is the Fed's promise last week to act "as appropriate" to support the economy, which the market took to mean a near-certainty of a rate cut next month.
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The outrage seems to stem from the fact that users felt misled by Adobe's marketing of the app as "real Photoshop," a term many took to mean that the app would mirror the desktop experience.
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The women rated the scented spray guys as hotter those who didn't apply deodorant, which researchers took to mean that the guys in the scented group were behaving differently than the guys in the unscented group.
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The dollar index fell from levels above 97.200 following remarks from the Fed Chair earlier this week which some market watchers took to mean the central bank may stop hiking rates sooner than it had previously signaled.
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The Fed also removed reference to "further gradual increases" to the federal funds rate in its statement, a signal some market participants took to mean that it may slow the pace of interest rate increases in 2019.
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The investment also comes months after Uber sold its China operations to Didi — a move many of its international competitors took to mean Uber might refocus its efforts and its newfound resources on its other important regions.
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Despite the tough market backdrop, the company reiterated its intention to maintain its dividend per share "during the period of transformation", which KBW analysts told clients they took to mean 2020, when the cost-cut plan ends.
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The news alert came as the United States and its East Asian allies have been on tenterhooks after Pyongyang's warning this month of a possible in what experts took to mean a possible long-range missile test.
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Mulvaney, citing Kelly, said that Schumer told Trump he would agree to "all the money for the wall," which Trump took to mean the full $20 billion that building a partial border wall is expected to cost.
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The central bank also removed reference to "further gradual increases" to the federal funds rate in its statement, a signal some market participants took to mean that it may slow the pace of interest rate increases in 2019.
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Within the VICE office, a quick poll regarding whether anyone knew a person who had ever taken a turkey on a plane was met with assorted versions of "what?" or "lol" or "wtf," which I took to mean no.
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But the stock market sold off aggressively after Powell said during a news conference that the move was just a "mid-cycle adjustment," which traders took to mean this is not the start of a longer-term easing period.
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Minutes from the Fed's November meeting showed that members are wary of the effect trade tensions and corporate debt could have on economic growth, a sign some took to mean that the FOMC could pause regular rate increase in 2019.
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At the two Asian markets in town, my parents usually skipped the dry goods aisle, which, for a long time, I took to mean that whatever boxes of twiggy herbs, flowers, roots, and seeds that made it over didn't do much.
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And I also recall some Twitter users highlighting that fact that my name is Matt Stevens, which I took to mean they thought I could not possibly have borne in mind an Asian-American point of view, given my name.
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The news alert came as the United States and its East Asian allies have been on tenterhooks after Pyongyang's warning this month of a possible "Christmas gift" for Washington in what experts took to mean a possible long-range missile test.
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Skier 7, also an avalanche survivor, had lost his father, a Libertarian, to bone cancer in January, and his father's final admonition was, "never cave to the mediocrity of groupthink," which Skier 13 took to mean that caution equals cowardice.
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The Fed also removed reference to "further gradual increases" to the federal funds rate in its statement and held its benchmark rate steady, a signal some market participants took to mean that it may slow the pace of interest rate increases in 2019.
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So I emailed Ruge again asking if it was true that Amazon was getting information about my "transactions and experiences," which I took to mean everything I buy with the card and how much I spend, giving Amazon insight into people's spending outside of Amazon.
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He said it rang in his ears as "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest," paraphrasing a quote attributed to English King Henry II that courtiers took to mean he wanted the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket murdered in the year 1170.
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During a pelvic exam, she said, Dr. Tyndall inserted several fingers inside her and told her "you know what they say about tall women, right?" which the woman, who is more than six feet tall, took to mean she had a large vaginal opening.
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The other market-moving part of the interview came when Mnuchin said he is looking closely at the border adjustment tax, a comment some traders took to mean the proposal was less likely to happen and therefore the administration's tax reform may add to the deficit.
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But over the past 12 years the government has ceased providing such figures (a report in a state-controlled journal said the number had doubled between 2006 and the end of that decade, which many analysts took to mean that about 180,000 incidents occurred in 2010).
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Most recently, on August 22, Lohan posted a picture where she was wearing a rather large diamond on the ring finger of her left hand which many took to mean that her engagement with Tarabasov was back on, but that seems to not have been the case.
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After weeks of simply ignoring the products and being unresponsive to Nest, Amazon informed the company of its decision by phone late in the year and said the directive "came from the top," something Nest took to mean it had been handed down by CEO Jeff Bezos.
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But Trump did return to campaign themes on foreign policy besides the need for NATO to pay more, saying that the US "is willing to find new friends" -- a reference that many took to mean Russia, with which the President has often said he wanted to improve ties.
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But it was also shortly after Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollack, tweeted #WAR, which some traders took to mean that Breitbart was gearing up to go after the White House and other aides, like Cohn and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, already the subject of many Breitbart articles.
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Most important to Peck, who is fundamentally devoted to classicism, he felt he had fully absorbed the conventions of musical theater, and now he could remake them for his purposes — which I took to mean taking large, telegraphic, stylized movement and shading it with all the complications of private conversation.
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Shares of Tesla gained Thursday after the car maker told Reuters it was shutting down its California assembly plant to prepare for production of the new Model 3 sedan, a move traders took to mean it was likely to meet its production target start date of July for the highly anticipated vehicle.
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Rather, the suit claims, Mr. Chihuly "repeatedly and consistently" promised him future compensation, saying that his studio kept careful records, and that he would at some point "take care of him" which Mr. Moi took to mean that his share of the profits of works they had created would be ascertained and awarded.
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The evening's moderator, Michelle Coffey, executive director of the Lambent Foundation, asked each of the panelists how they avoid getting in the way of the work, which I took to mean how they avoid putting themselves and their art practice above the voices of their collaborators and the urgent need to transform the criminal justice system.
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After posting a now-deleted comment on Instagram regarding Lena Dunham's involvement in #MeToo, actress Tessa Thompson has clarified her words which some took to mean there was tension between the Girls writer and the rest of the women behind Time's Up. Dunham appeared in a photo with fellow Time's Up creators and collaborators that Thompson had posted to her social media.
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In a classic bait and switch PR briefing on Tuesday — pitched as Robinhood introducing its investing platform to U.K. customers, which a number of local journalists, this one included, took to mean an actual launch — co-founder and co-CEO Vlad Tenev and President of Robinhood UK Wander Rutgers revealed that Robinhood UK will be opening its doors early next year.
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He had signed the poem "Motherless child" which the government took to mean that it had deprived the Newars of their mother tongue.Bajracharya, Phanindra Ratna (2006). Kavi Keshari Chittadhar Hridaya. Kathmandu: Nepal Bhasa Parishad.
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King remained in the car. When he emerged, he was reported to have giggled, to have patted the ground, and waved to the police helicopter overhead. King grabbed his buttocks, which Officer Melanie Singer took to mean King was reaching for a weapon,Cannon. Official Negligence: p. 27.
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Of these witnesses, Edward Elliott said "living confessors are intended"Horae Apocalypticae Vol 2 p. 206 but, because of the long timescale involved, he referred to G. S. Faber's suggestion of two lines of witnesses which he took to mean the anointed priests and the more irregularly constituted band of prophets.
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Jerome Carcopino thought that it came from a Celtic, specifically Gaulish, word for plough. David Daube argued that it represented a Hebrew or Aramaic rendition of the Greek , or "Alpha-Omega" (cf. Revelation 1:8) by early Christians. J. Gwyn Griffiths contended that it came, via Alexandria, from the attested Egyptian name Ḥr-Ḥp, which he took to mean "the face of Apis".
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This was widely interpreted as referring to a disc-shaped Earth.. Also in: An illustration from Isidore's De Natura Rerum shows the five zones of the Earth as adjacent circles. Some have concluded that he thought the Arctic and Antarctic zones were adjacent to each other. He did not admit the possibility of antipodes, which he took to mean people dwelling on the opposite side of the Earth, considering them legendaryIsidore, Etymologiae, XIV.v.17. and noting that there was no evidence for their existence.Isidore, Etymologiae, IX.ii.133.
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For a long time, R v Clarence was taken as an authority on the meaning of "inflict", which the court took to mean "an assault or battery of which a wound or grievous bodily harm is the manifest immediate and obvious result".(1888) 22 QBD 23 This narrow definition was extended in R v Martin(1881) 8 QBD 54 and R v Halliday[1886-90] All ER 1028 to include, for example, injuries sustained during an attempt of the victim to flee.Simester et al. (2010). p. 440.
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"Bob Seger: Hymns from the heartland." According to Seger, there was a financial misunderstanding with the musicians: they offered to record him "for $1500 a side", which he took to mean $1500 per album side. When he found out that they meant $1500 per song, he left after recording three songs but resolved to work with them in the future. The album contains the original studio version of "Turn the Page", a live recording of which would be released on Live Bullet in 1976 and would become a staple of classic rock radio.
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The book provoked some controversy, because of statements which some took to mean that a soul can become one with God and that when in this state it can ignore moral law, as it had no need for the Church and its sacraments, or its code of virtues. The book's teachings were easily misconstrued. Porete was eventually tried by the Dominican inquisitor of France and burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. The Council of Vienne of 1311 proclaimed them heretics and the movement went into decline.
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Throughout his years in the Senate, in which he would serve until his death in 1940, his idiosyncratic positions would limit his effectiveness as a reformer. After Roosevelt's hand-picked successor as president, former Secretary of War William Howard Taft, was inaugurated in March 1909, Congress battled over what became the Payne–Aldrich Tariff. At the time, tariffs were the main source of government revenue, and conflicts over them were passionate. The party platform had promised tariff reform, which progressive insurgents like Borah took to mean tariff reductions.
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In a statement to the Commons, Diefenbaker proposed sending representatives of neutral nations to Cuba to verify the American allegations, which Washington took to mean that he was questioning Kennedy's word. When American forces went to a heightened alert, DEFCON 3, Diefenbaker was slow to order Canadian forces to match it. Harkness and the Chiefs of Staff had Canadian forces clandestinely go to that alert status anyway, and Diefenbaker eventually authorized it. The crisis ended without war, and polls found that Kennedy's actions were widely supported by Canadians.
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Original Tay Bridge from the north Destruction of the Tay Bridge Airy was consulted about wind speeds and pressures likely to be encountered on the proposed Forth suspension bridge being designed by Thomas Bouch for the North British Railway in the late 1870s. He thought that pressures no greater than about could be expected, a comment Bouch took to mean also applied to the first Tay railway bridge then being built. Much greater pressures, however, can be expected in severe storms. Airy was called to give evidence before the Official Inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster, and was criticised for his advice.
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Ouimet directed the flight attendants to keep the lavatory door closed, then returned to the cockpit, where he told Cameron, "I don't like what's happening, I think we better go down, okay?" Cameron detected urgency in Ouimet's voice, which he took to mean an immediate descent was needed. Just after Ouimet returned to the cockpit, the cockpit "master warning" light lit up, warning the pilots of a loss of emergency electrical power. Cameron ordered Ouimet to switch to battery power, but the loss of main and emergency electrical power caused some electrical systems to fail, including power for the horizontal stabilizer.
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Both actors received excellent reviews for their performances. The most successful early-twentieth century staging was the 1935/1936 Theatre Guild production, which began on Broadway and subsequently toured all over North America. Starring husband and wife Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the show ran for a record 129 performances, and was remounted in 1940 as a fundraiser for the Finnish Relief Fund. Ostensibly directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, the production notes indicated that Lunt and Fontanne were responsible for the "scheme of the production," which most people took to mean they were the real directors.
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The latter was known as 'Guadelupe' by the Portuguese, which the Dutch took to mean 'Agua de lupe' which they translated accordingly. It is still known as 'aadelippu' in Sinhala and Tamil. The Beira lake in Colombo probably takes its name from De Beer who is believed to have been an engineer in charge of the Dutch water defenses. A granite plaque inscribed with the words 'De Beer 1700' recovered from an old Dutch sluice which controlled the flow of water from the lake has altered the hitherto accepted view that the lake takes its name from the Portuguese beira meaning 'bank or edge (of a lake)'.
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Walter had crossed over on the frozen ice of Reiden Lake in 1985 to administer the cure for the alternate version of Peter, but, after accidentally destroying a dose of the cure upon transport, he instead brought the boy across. On return, they fell through the ice but were saved by the Observer September (Michael Cerveris), who told Walter of the importance of "the boy", which Walter took to mean Peter. Walter's crossing is what caused the singularities in the parallel universe, with Reiden Lake at their center. Walter has been looking for a sign of forgiveness in the form of a white tulip.
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By the next episode, Sabine decides to stay with her family in order to help unite the clans against the Empire. Sabine returns to the group in "Zero Hour" when Grand Admiral Thrawn leads his forces to attack Atollon. In the series finale epilogue, it is revealed that Sabine stayed on Lothal, living in Ezra's tower. Earlier in the episode, Ezra told her that "I can always count on you", which she took to mean that he needed her to stay on Lothal and protect his people; however, in the epilogue, she understands what Ezra really meant and joins Ahsoka Tano in finding him and bringing him home.
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The misunderstanding came from the abbreviation "7bre" in her bulletin de naissance, which Diana took to mean "July" but is actually shorthand for "September", "7 does not mean July but seven, that is French 'Sept.'" (similar abbreviations are used for all the other months of autumn), according to Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, Diana Vreeland – Empress of Fashion, London: Thames & Hudson, 2013, p. 338. – August 22, 1989) was a French-American columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, being the editor- in-chief of the latter, and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Foraker noted that when he was retained by the corporation in December 1898, it had not yet come under federal scrutiny, and when Archbold had sought to retain him in 1906, he had declined. Standard Oil was wildly unpopular, and the controversy put Taft in a difficult position. Foraker sent a letter to Taft, hand-delivered by Senator Dick, expressing his willingness to avoid the Music Hall meeting. Taft said only that he hoped Foraker would meet with the organizers of the event and follow their recommendation, which Foraker took to mean that Taft was giving credence to Hearst's charges and did not want him there.
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Kennedy later described the uncomfortable meeting as being like "three whores at a christening". Nuclear weapons had become a political issue in Canada in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Canadian Bomarc surface-to-air missiles had sat idly by while the country was threatened with a nuclear attack due to Diefenbaker's insistence that their nuclear warheads be stored outside Canada, an arrangement which the Americans regarded as impractical. Macmillan briefed Diefenbaker on the Nassau Agreement, which Diefenbaker took to mean that manned bombers were now considered obselete. This gave him further cause to continue to delay a decision on the Bomarc warheads, which were intended to shoot down bombers.
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On July 1, 2013, Sim Tong Entertainment released album jacket photos for their upcoming 2nd digital single, "Because of You". "Because of You" was supposed to be released on the 3rd of July (with the release of Global Icon's first mini album to be later on in August), but the single was delayed to August 30 due to scheduling issues, and the mini album to September 3. The group was also chosen to become models for "94Street", a Korean restaurant. This drew some criticism from fans, as the CF features the members dressed in fancy dresses, something which many took to mean that the group was straying from their original "boyish" concept.
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Wiggins was 12 seconds off Larsson's pace at the intermediate time check, which Larsson took to mean he could not beat his time at the finish line since Larsson is the better of the two in the downhills. He was nervous in watching Pinotti take the course near the end of the day, and the Italian champion posted a better time than Larsson at the intermediate time check, but he faded as the course went on and was two seconds slower than Larsson at the finish line, giving the Swede the stage win. Porte finished the Giro in seventh overall, winning the youth classification. The squad finished sixth in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and eighth in the Trofeo Super Team.
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His fears of Beresford's "power and influence" had been "too well founded: I found them incompatible with mine...and after the receipt of this, you will be prepared to decide between Mr Beresford and me and that the matter is come to this issue is well known here". Fitzwilliam asserted that he had already informed Pitt of his intention to remove Beresford and he had "made no objection, nor, indeed, any reply", which he took to mean the decision was at his discretion. If Pitt refused his advise, he should be recalled: "These are not times for the fate of the empire to be trifled with. ... I will deliver over the country in the best state I can to any person, who possesses more of your confidence".
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Yali now became informally employed by the Administration, to counter the anti-colonial belief that Europeans were withholding the secret to their material wealth from the native people. He began to give speeches to villages along the Rai Coast, urging them to collaborate with the Administration in exchange for promises of economic assistance after the war. But he made these promises in religiously ambiguous terms, which people took to mean that Yali had special cargo knowledge, and rumours began to spread that he was a spirit of the dead returned to bring cargo to the people. Yali proceeded to put in place, over the next few years, an administrative system with himself as leader with loosely associated 'boss boys' representing him in different villages.
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Silvestre tied the cloth around his head, with the long ends hanging down his back, and wore a cloak that had been given to him earlier. The men traveled out of the canyon, into a meadow and entered the Utah Lake Valley, and the lake which they called the Lake of the Timpanogos Tribe. They saw many plumes of smoke and meadows recently burnt or still burning, which they took to mean that the Timpanog Utes believed they were Comanches or another hostile Native American tribe. :After they had camped near present Spanish Fork, a small contingent including Silvestre, Joaquín, Muñiz and Domínguez traveled ahead to a Native American village on the Provo River, north of Provo and east of Utah Lake.
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Shin Chae-ho drew on irredentist themes from Imperial Japanese historiography, which argued for territorial expansion based on past control. To justify a Greater Japan, the Japanese historian Kume Kunitake criticized the notion of Japan as an island state, proposing that Japan had governed Korea and southeastern China in the past. Shin's historiography justified a Greater Korea with reference to territories Korea had supposedly held in the past, which Shin took to mean—from Baekje: western Liaodong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yue Prefecture, and the surrounding areas; and from Silla: northeastern Jilin. He felt that Unified Silla, Goryeo, and Joseon were not true "unifications" of the Korean people as had been previously thought, but only "semi-" or "half-" unifications (panp'yonjok t'ongil), with a full unification yet unfulfilled since the times of Dangun.
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Rabelais also relates that he drew the more optimistic Aeneid 6, 857,"He, when his country, threaten'd with alarms, / Requires his courage and his conqu'ring arms, / Shall more than once the Punic bands affright; / Shall kill the Gaulish king in single fight;" which he took to mean himself. Viscount Falkland once went to a public library in Oxford with King Charles I and, being shown a finely printed and bound copy of the Aeneid, suggested to the King that he use the Sortes Virgilanae to tell his future. The King opened the book but happened on Dido's prayer against Aeneas in Book 4.615,Nor let him then enjoy supreme command; / But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand at which he was troubled. Nevertheless, Falkland took his own lots, hoping to pick a passage that did not relate to him and thus stop the King from worrying about his own.
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These were found at the end of the Canons of the Apostles in the Abbey of Marmousier, and various canons were made at later councils and synods (such as the councils of London under Archbishop Lanfranc in 1075, and Corboyl in 1126) against the Sortes as superstition. However, they were still occurring in the time of St Francis of Assisi who, in denying himself any possessions except coats and a cord, wanted to check if he was still allowed to own books. He prayed and then drew Mark, chapter IV, "Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables", which he took to mean that he was neither allowed books nor needed them. While seeking divine guidance, St. Francis is also said to have thrice opened to a random page of the book of Gospels in the church of St. Nicholas.
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Sometime during the early to mid-1290s, Marguerite Porete wrote a mystical book known as The Mirror of Simple Souls. Written in Old French, the book describes the annihilation of the soul, specifically its descent into a state of nothingness—of union with God without distinction. While clearly popular throughout the Middle Ages and beyond (perhaps dozens of copies circulated throughout late-medieval western Europe) the book provoked some controversy, likely because of statements such as "a soul annihilated in the love of the creator could, and should, grant to nature all that it desires," which some took to mean that a soul can become one with God and that when in this state it can ignore moral law, as it had no need for the Church and its sacraments, or its code of virtues. This was not what Porete taught, since she explained that souls in such a state desired only good and would not be able to sin.
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According to historian Edmund Morgan, > Columbus was not a scholarly man. Yet he studied these books, made hundreds > of marginal notations in them and came out with ideas about the world that > were characteristically simple and strong and sometimes wrong ... Throughout his life, Columbus also showed a keen interest in the Bible and in Biblical prophecies, often quoting biblical texts in his letters and logs. For example, part of the argument that he submitted to the Spanish Catholic Monarchs when he sought their support for his proposed expedition to reach the Indies by sailing west was based on his reading of the Second Book of Esdras (Ezra): see 2 Esdras 6:42, which he took to mean that the Earth is made of six parts of land to one of water. Towards the end of his life, he produced a Book of Prophecies in which his career as an explorer is interpreted in the light of Christian eschatology and of apocalypticism.
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On May 8, cantaloupe pickers at other Imperial Valley ranches refused to work. According to scholars, there does not seem to have been any pre-planning of the strike by the union, but was a spawned by spontaneous actions of dissatisfied workers that decided to take a stand. Employers feared the loss of profit because of the limited time span of harvesting season, so they enlisted the help of local law enforcement. “The County Board of Supervisors ordered Sheriff Gillett to arrest agitators”, which the Sheriff took to mean arrest any Mexicans gathered in public spaces. Sheriff Gillett’s exploits left many workers in jail on trumped up charges of vagrancy or disturbing the peace. According to one story, on May 8, “he saw a group of Mexicans gathering outside the county Courthouse...fearing the worst, the sheriff arrested the group, only to discover that it was a delegation of workers invited to discuss the crisis with District Attorney Heald”.
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During the closing stages of the Alpocalypse tour, Yankovic stated in an interview with The Morning Call that he had one more album on his contract; the paper and other sources took to mean that this album would be his last. Yankovic later clarified that this was the last album on the current recording contract with his label, that he is currently "weighing his options" for renewing the contract or looking to another publisher, and made it clear that he was not retiring from music in the foreseeable future. In a later interview with NPR's Weekend Edition, he stated that this might be his last conventional album, turning instead to more frequent releases of singles and EPs. For an LP, Yankovic stated that given the time lapse between the beginning of the process and the release of the finished product, "chances are a lot of the material is going to be somewhat dated by the time it comes out".
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"The New Life", one of many Scott songs which are both optimistic and touch upon spirituality, contains a phrase "Are you under the mercy?", which Scott explains as "a phrase I nicked from a Christian fan who wrote me a letter and signed off with "under the mercy", which I took to mean (and this is what I intended in the song) "under the mercy of spirit/the sacred/the presence of love" – though Christians would say under the mercy of Christ". "Glastonbury Song" was released as a single, backed by the songs "Chalice Hill", "Burlington Bertie And Accrington Stanley", and "Corn Circle Symphony". Scott, discussing the song in 2003, described the song as "one of the most commercial, radio-friendly songs musically that I've ever produced", and ascribes its lack of success to its theme, "..the chorus is 'I just found God where He always was'... In many countries it was successful, but in Britain, they wouldn't play it because of the chorus.".
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