The main problem seemed the strangely torpid conducting of Pacien Mazzagatti.
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Without competition, capitalism is torpid and favours the few, not the many.
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By now, Credit Suisse is used to shrugging off torpid investment banking results.
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COLUMN: Nickel is enlivening an otherwise torpid summer for the base metals complex.
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The decision to combine bloody-minded perversity with a torpid tempo is certainly daring.
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Lively one moment, torpid the next, the show is utterly overstuffed yet winsome anyway.
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To the surprise of many analysts, protests have broken out in politically torpid Belarus.
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But the success of his presidency depends on whether he can revive the torpid economy.
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The prestige of the Senate does not, in her estimation, offset its torpid pace of change.
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But, he pointed out, Georgia was still emerging from the torpid days of the Soviet Union.
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Washington in July was the capital of torpid and in 303 the action felt very far away.
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They date, awkwardly, and fall into bed almost lethargically; their physical connection is torpid rather than torrid.
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After years of torpid centrism under Mrs Merkel, the sharp differences between the candidates portend an intriguing contest.
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Hamsters, for example, can instead enter a torpid state that actually protects their cells from ageing over winter.
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In fact, it has shown that central banks and governments do have the capacity to stir a torpid economy.
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The taste of whisky in my grandfather's mouth was as torpid and flat as his life and his outlook.
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He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
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It will be a trick hard to pull off, but at least an injection of optimism into a torpid continent.
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Starting with this minor puzzle, Naishtat progressively thickens the provincial calm, until it approaches the torpid atmosphere of a swamp.
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Mr Macron's campaign vows to shake up the more torpid parts of France's economy secured him a mandate to reform.
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Having watched the catastrophe in lower Manhattan from across the East River, I'd had a night of torpid non-sleep.
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So it is hardly coincidental that the hitherto-torpid KPRF is suddenly beginning to look like a real opposition party again.
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Marshall has a preternatural feel for building life out of torpid textures, whether he's playing with hip-hop or off-kilter jazz.
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Mr. Beane offers his usual hilarious zingers and, beneath the noise of Mark Brokaw's busy yet torpid production, something to think about.
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After an initial spurt, economic growth has dropped to a torpid 21% or so, less than half the Central American average (see chart).
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Round three, finally, saw the two torpid heavies pelt each other with slow, looping punches, with Colombo appearing to land the better blows.
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Off-Center summer season, is guaranteed to leave you feeling windblown, hyped up and ready to race through the most torpid summer night.
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I stepped out of the car in the torpid heat and walked around the monument, which dominates this strategic corridor known as Elephant Pass.
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Such hindsight belies the actual experience of seeing an entire region—and the world's most politically torpid region, at that—whirl into sudden, synchronised motion.
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Editorial It has been a week since Puerto Rico emerged from a double battering by hurricanes, and it is caught in a painful, torpid recovery.
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The mayor put a new team in charge of the city's torpid sewerage and water board, but it has a lot of work before it.
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Investors fear that the world is turning into Japan, with a torpid economy that struggles to vanquish deflation, and is hence prone to going backwards.
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My toes remained torpid for about an hour after I got out of the river, my feet like two slabs of blubber From Hampstead to Cambridge.
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Mullin was hired by a new president to give a torpid program a jolt, and he inherited a bare roster he could remake in his image.
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Barnes sets his tale in its twilight, among what he calls "furrow-dwellers," the torpid English middle classes, but he refrains from deriving much comedy from it.
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The provinces south of Rome came to be known as the Mezzogiorno, the land of the midday sun—a dry, torpid expanse stretching from Abruzzo to Lampedusa.
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In their assessment, the military has evolved into a torpid bureaucracy with few leaders capable of engineering the type of mass mutiny that Maduro's opponents long for.
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During her monologues that guide the plot's action, Rue narrates her torpid feelings in a way that is rarely enumerated so accurately on a major television show.
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And he interrupted himself during his torpid remarks to a few hundred Iowans in Cedar Rapids to testify to Mr. Obama's character in the face of adversity.
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It was easier to shut myself down for years over this, and I'm relieved (for once) that they hype cycle has pulled me out of that torpid repose.
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Sometimes it feels like my mind is in a torpid state all day long, only to be awakened by a febrile imagination long after the sun goes down.
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Futterman isn't trying to be dismissive; he admits in an author's note that he, too, is torpid compared with the elite athletes at the center of his story.
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But the combination of the payroll news with the prospect of torpid first-quarter growth and stubborn trade disputes cannot be brushed off, said Mr. Tannenbaum, the Northern Trust economist.
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HOUSTON — Not long after a pair of New York real estate speculators founded this city on the banks of a torpid bayou in the 1830s, every home and every business flooded.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Andy Home LONDON, July 22022 (Reuters) - Nickel is enlivening an otherwise torpid summer for the base metals complex.
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After a torpid start, Williams recovered from a 2-4 deficit to take the first set and then opened the second set by winning the first 11 points of the second set.
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The attendees, many of them students, had packed themselves shoulder to shoulder on yellow chairs; hand-held fans stirred the torpid air as a drizzle fell on the palm trees in the courtyard.
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REAM, Cambodia (Reuters) - Trying to rebut a report of a secret deal to give China access to a naval base, Cambodia's defense ministry took reporters to see the torpid jetty and outbuildings on Friday.
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The Americans were shockingly torpid in the heat and humidity at Trinidad and Tobago, wilting in a 18-228 defeat that kept them out of the World Cup for the first time since 22002.
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No matter who replaces him — and a young, ambitious coach to re-energize a torpid club is the order of the day — that person will have to rebuild morale, reshape the squad and restore purpose.
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Following the gloomy, torpid market environment in 2017 captured by the Coalition data, the world's top investment banks are assessing the impact of a dramatic last two weeks in global markets that saw frenzied trading return.
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Demonstrations erupted on the island when Puerto Ricans -- already incensed over a floundering economy, corruption and the torpid pace of Hurricane Maria recovery -- learned of nearly 900 pages of leaked chats from the governor's private messaging group.
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Will Mousasi dispatch Santos and maintain his standing at middleweight, or will he show up torpid and under-motivated for this low-reward bout, and have his top-10 spot usurped by an opportunistic Santos as a result?
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The film, which benefits from a moody piano-based score by David Shire, suggests a torpid, updated spinoff of "Ordinary People" by way of "The Bad Seed," as reimagined by Todd Solondz, with the parent-child roles reversed.
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SHANGHAI, May 14 (Reuters) - - China's banking regulator has sent an urgent notice to banks telling them to clear bottlenecks slowing lending to private firms, sources with direct knowledge told Reuters, highlighting rising concern in Beijing about torpid private investment.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's factories showed few signs of returning to health in August, as torpid activity in the region's biggest economies, China and Japan, suggested world demand remained fitful at best even as global policymakers scrambled to restore momentum.
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Echoing a conversation we'd had last week with another IPO expert — IPOScoop founder John Fitzgibbon — Renaissance Capital Principal Kathleen Smith told us today that a handful of pre-IPO companies could soon inject new life into the torpid IPO market.
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The woozy, torpid sounds they transmit are based on audio samples of the many different frequencies that have defined concert pitch A over the centuries, from Bach's era through the 227s—thus obliquely referencing a huge swath of Western music.
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The three form a torpid triangle for a time (Kate befriends Inez and has an affair with Bill, without knowing Inez is his daughter), propelled less by desire than by a desire for desire; for any kind of strong feeling, really.
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The second largest declines were seen in the FAO's Dairy Price Index which dropped by 3.0 percent in the same time period "on the back of large supplies, in both the EU and New Zealand, and torpid world import demand," the FAO noted.
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In the meantime, we have a treatment called "therapeutic hypothermia" that approximates at least some of effects of torpor, with scientists rapidly and unrelentingly pushing toward putting humans in a true torpid state, essentially mimicking cryosleep that you commonly see in movies.
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So, BEDSORES notwithstanding, I liked POODLE (mostly for the clue), the entire center staggered stack (PURPLE STATE, DEPECHE MODE and SENIOR PRANK), RON RICO, SANDLOT, ARETHA, MESONS, TASTE BUD, SWOOSH, LENA HORNE, TORPID (just for the way it sounds), KNEECAP and PRANCE.
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That is followed by a concern that the market is a draw for terrorists, who I can only hope will stuff themselves with so much artisanal pastry that they will become so torpid with artisanal pastry that they will forget their purpose.
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Radio Flyer, which makes of the infamous red wagon for kids, came out with their latest car this week: the Tesla Model S. Sure, the Flyer Model S doesn't hit quite the same speeds the Tesla does (it maxes out at a torpid 6 mph).
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I can perceive all the value systems encoded here: sapped by the torpid decadence of India, with its eternal servitude, Mary can be healed only by contact with the rugged moors and wholesome English Nature, and by learning to respect the robust English working classes.
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A steady majority of analysts has largely seen the central bank as likely to cut rates in the near-term to lend the torpid economy a further boost before additional rate hikes in the U.S. make it more difficult for the South Korean bank to act.
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As I sat in a tearoom trying to warm up my extremities—my toes remained torpid for about an hour after I got out of the river, my feet like two slabs of blubber—I thought of the BMJ study, and the chemistry of my brain.
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It's an outdated, reductive portrayal of a character that seems to exist only to serve her boyfriend's wants and needs (or complain about him), and while Woodley does her best to bring some life to the role she can't work miracles when faced with Stone and co-writer Kieran Fitzgerald's torpid script.
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Many are studies for the works in the show, and aside from a few that sink into torpid academicism, all are executed with an unerringly fluid line, trembling across the contours of a form — a hand, a pleated gown, an open, inquiring face — setting it aglow in the gallery's protectively dim light.
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Trump essentially daring Kim Jong-un (just a hop, a skip, and a Pacific away from my house in Seattle) to prove his nuclear capabilities is what finally pushed me over the edge, but the cliff itself was built of years of accumulated grievances with Twitter's culture of harassment and its leadership's torpid failure to fix it.
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Take a look at this 90 second timelapse of lentils growing, for example: Lentils Growing Time Lapse from watchplantsgrow Or take two full minutes out of your day to watch this green onion blossom: Green Onion Growing Time Lapse from watchplantsgrow What makes r/watchplantsgrow so torpid isn't just the length of the videos themselves, it's the actual content itself.
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The artist, in The Official Museo Salinas Guide, provides the following reasoning for this work: […] considering the torpid state of Mexican museums — immersed in a colonized and elitist agenda, with an atrophied bureaucratic corps, and fearful of confronting the smallest figment of reality — I decided that it would be a healthy and necessary act to preserve these original testimonies of contemporary Mexican history in the space of a museum: I wanted to 'activate' these objects.
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Torpid is an album by the Canadian comedy music group, The Arrogant Worms. Torpid was the twelfth album for the band and was released on September 30, 2008. Torpid was recorded in the year 2008 during three shows at the Kingston Brewing Company. All three shows were fundraisers for the Music Instrument Lending Library, which lets Kingston residents borrow musical instruments for free.
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Puerto Rican Todies can lower their body temperatures by 14 °C. This physiological response varies by both season and sex; only females in breeding season are capable of becoming torpid, although not all individuals become torpid at the same body temperature. During this torpid stage, they are unresponsive, have their eyes closed and erected plumage, but are capable of taking flight soon after an increase in temperature.
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Energy requirements when euthermic and torpid, as well as the frequency of arousals, vary strongly with ambient temperature.
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Finn has taken his share of the money and disappeared. Several torpid days of inactivity follow, to the despair of Dave.
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Being in a torpid state could make them easy prey, but the large groups are apparently effective enough to deter most nocturnal predators.
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For the first time a St Peter's Torpid entered the First Division in 1950. In 1955, the First Torpid went up 6 places, ending up as number 6 in the First Division (where they stayed for two years). In Eights Week the College's five boats achieved a total of eighteen bumps without being bumped with the First Boat ending up as number 1 in the Second Division.John Milward: 1955.
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New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson had both praise and criticism, calling it "scrupulous" and the characterization, "written...of knowledge and integrity", but the play "boneless and torpid.".
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Megabats were generally believed to be homeothermic, but three species of small megabats, with a mass of about , have been known to use torpor: the common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis), the long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), and the eastern tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni). Torpid states last longer in the summer for megabats than in the winter. During hibernation, bats enter a torpid state and decrease their body temperature for 99.6% of their hibernation period; even during periods of arousal, when they return their body temperature to normal, they sometimes enter a shallow torpid state, known as "heterothermic arousal". Some bats become dormant during higher temperatures to keep cool in the summer months.
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These birds require frequent feeding while active during the day and become torpid at night to conserve energy. Because of their small size, they are vulnerable to insect-eating birds and animals.
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The Observer felt that the album was a retreat of the "chilly synths and affectless monotone in torpid, ever-decreasing circles without even the sparks of energy that livened up this year’s Warlord album".
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Twisted or winding. Torpid. Half unconscious or asleep, as a snail during hibernation. Translucent. Not quite transparent; light is seen through the thin edges of the object. Transparent. Objects may be seen through the substance. Transverse.
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Similarly, David Benedict of Variety wrote that the show "wants to be a tragic romance, but it's simply torpid. Only a radical rewrite will give it even the remotest chance of emulating its predecessor."Benedict, David. Love Never Dies Variety.
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Zebrida was described by Arthur Adams as "a torpid, though elegant little crustacean". It is "the most unusual" of the genera in the subfamily Eumedoninae, with long spines projecting from the body, and a distinctive pattern of stripes across the exoskeleton.
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Until 2009 the wearing of Boat Club Jackets (ivory with navy blue piping and cuff rings, bearing the three ostrich feather emblem on the left breast) was limited to the 1st and 2nd Summer VIII's and Torpids and the Oriel College Boat Club Committee. At that time cuff ring designations were: Three rings for 1st Summer VIII and 1st Torpid; two rings for Boat Club Committee; one ring for 2nd Summer VIII 2nd Torpid. These now obsolete designations can still be seen at the Walters of Oxford website. Changes brought about in the Oriel Blazer Act of 2009 to become more inclusive of lower-boats' alumni (3rd, 4th, and sometimes 5th VIII's as well as boat coxswains) reformed the cuff ring designations as follows: Three rings for 1st Summer VIII; two rings for 1st Torpid and those awarded Tortoise membership at the Tortoise Council's discretion; one ring for general boat club members (no specific distinction for committee members exists today).
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Mysteries & Marvels of the Animal World, p. 15. Despite its name, it prefers hedgerows to woodland. During the colder months, wood mice do not hibernate; however, during severe winter seasons they can fall into a torpid state, a decrease in physiological activity.
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The bird has a crest of brilliant green feathers. These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue, or catch insects on the wing. They require frequent feeding while active during the day and become torpid at night to conserve energy.
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Not much is known of this possum's behaviour, but what is known is that this species is both nocturnal and arboreal. In cold weather, it becomes torpid and looks and feels dead, but wakes at night. Not much is known on the origin of this torpor.
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"'Bloodline': Plotting in Vain". The Washington Post. C1. Jack Kroll wrote in Newsweek that "if I were Sidney Sheldon, I'd demand to have my name removed from the title of this torpid turkey ... Junk movies should be fun - this one is just dumb."Kroll, Jack (July 9, 1979).
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Ribero ran twice as a four-year-old without success. He finished third to Torpid in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket and third again to Remand in the Westbury Stakes at Sandown. He was sent to Epsom to contest the Coronation Cup but was withdrawn before the start.
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One natural enemy of this ibis may be the black-collared hawk Busarellus nigricollis, one individual of which has once been observed to pursue a sharp- tailed ibis over a flooded marsh. Further, the ibis flew with a rapid twisting flight which was unusual considering its normally torpid wing beating.
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Men's 1st VIII Summer Eights 2007 coxed by Acer Nethercott In Summer Eights, the Men's 1st VIII has climbed steadily over the past decade from the middle of Division II. As of 2018, the 1st Eight is eighth on the river. The Women's 1st Eight meanwhile, achieved Blades in 2010, 2011 and 2015 and are now fifth in Division 1. The club is also highly successful lower-down the divisions, qualifying more boats for Eights 2012 and 2014 than any other college. The club's recent record in Torpids is less successful, with the Men's 1st Torpid currently towards the bottom of Division II. The Women's 1st Torpid has been stronger recently, achieving Blades in 2010 and 2011, and moving up four places in 2015.
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Interspecific competition occurs when two species require the same resource for energy production. Torpor increases fitness in the case of inter-specific competition with the nocturnal common spiny mouse. When the golden spiny mouse experiences reduced food availability by diet overlap with the common spiny mouse it spends more time in a torpid state.
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Jane Myddelton or Middleton (née Needham; 1645–1692), was a reputed English beauty of the Restoration period, one of the Windsor Beauties. Thomas Seccombe in the Dictionary of National Biography described celebrated portraits as "representing a soft and slightly torpid type of blonde loveliness, with voluptuous figure, full lips, auburn hair, and dark hazel eyes".
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The San Joaquin pocket mouse feeds on seeds of grasses and various plants, carrying them back to its burrow in its cheek pouches. It may also eat soft-bodied invertebrates. It stores seeds surplus to its immediate requirements in chambers in the burrow for use at times of year when food is scarce. It may become torpid in winter.
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They are active when ground surface temperatures are between 40 and 61°C. In experimental conditions they become lethargic at 20 ± 1°C, and at 5 to 10°C they become completely torpid. During mid-winter it is believed to become lethargic in burrows for days or weeks. Egg depositing has been recorded during early spring and late summer.
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In adult doves and pigeons, it can produce crop milk to feed newly hatched birds. Scavenging birds, such as vultures, will gorge themselves when prey is abundant, causing their crop to bulge. They subsequently sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food. Most raptors, including hawks, eagles and vultures (as stated above), have a crop; however, owls do not.
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Coupled with the daily torpor is a process called re-warming. The re-warming process demands a high amount of energy in order to raise the body temperature. After awaking from a torpid state, these marsupials actively seek out areas in which they can bask in the sun to aid in this process. Nesting is also used as a behavioral survival technique.
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Mistletoe in Eucalyptus woodland. Central New South Wales. Mistletoebirds are nomadic where movement is generally local and is associated with the fruiting of mistletoe. Mistletoebirds mostly occur in forests and woodlands dominated by any species of Eucalyptus from the dry interior to the coastal rain forests, but they do not frequent high altitude areas in winter as they adopt a torpid state when cold.
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2 Now let each torpid soul arise, that sunk in guilt and wounded lies; > see! the new Star's refulgent ray shall chase disease and sin away. 3 The > Lamb descends from heaven above to pardon sin with freest love: for such > indulgent mercy shewn with tearful joy our thanks we own. 4 That when again > He shines revealed, and trembling worlds to terror yield.
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Both finish results are now regarded as the highest achievement of a St Peter's First Torpid resp. First Eight. In the 1960s, the club used the facilities at the OUBC boathouse as well as Abingdon Boys School. Bump Suppers, still not a regular tradition at college, were only held celebrating a blade winning crew as it happened in 1972 for the Schools (Second) Eight.
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On her final task, she is to retrieve a dose of Proserpina's beauty from the underworld. She succeeds, but on the way back can't resist opening the box in the hope of benefitting from it herself, whereupon she falls into a torpid sleep. Cupid finds her in this state, and revives her by returning the sleep to the box. Cupid grants her immortality so the couple can be wed as equals.
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During the hibernating period, the mountain pygmy possum is capable of reducing its temperature to 2 ˚C. Individuals in torpid periods will curl their bodies up, tucking their heads into their chest or abdomen in order to retain body heat. In addition, females have been observed sharing nests constructed from moss and snow grass. Both males and females are noted to hibernate under an insulating layer of snow.
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In the fall, however, individuals of both sexes will congregate in the same roost in a behavior known as "swarming." Like several other bat species, males of this species exhibit homosexual behaviors, with male bats mating indiscriminately with torpid, roosting bats, regardless of sex. Although copulation occurs in the fall, fertilization does not occur until the spring due to sperm storage. Gestation proceeds for 50–60 days following fertilization.
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At night or when the weather is bad they seek shelter in caves or crevices in ravines. During the night they go into a torpid state to conserve energy. To protect from the weather, nests are often built in caves or on the walls of steep ravines, usually with an overhang for added protection from hail, rain, and the midday Sun. Some nests are built in protective bushes.
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Buchan was born in London the son of Baron Tweedsmuir and Susan Grosvenor. He was educated at Eton and in 1930 he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated with a fourth class degree in History. While at Brasenose College he was an active member of the Brasenose College Boat Club, and rowed in the College's 1st Torpid. As an undergraduate, he was also a close friend of John Gorton.
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Z. adamsii is a small crab, described as "a torpid, though elegant little crustacean" by the English naturalist Arthur Adams when it was first discovered by him and the Scottish zoologist Adam White during the surveying voyage of HMS Samarang in the Far East between 1843 and 1846. The carapace and limbs are smooth and hairless and are adorned with long spines. The colour is pink with dark, reddish-brown vertical stripes.
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This Bump Supper saw the burning of two old Eights in front of Hennington Hall, the erection of a brick stone wall in front of the chapel's entrance, an attempt to colour the Christ Church pond purple and an encounter with the local police.David Darling: 1969. 1979 saw the first admission of women to the College. In the same year, one Torpid and two Eights were entered for the St Peter's Ladies Boat Club.
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Time's Richard Corliss panned the film, finding that "the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid". Ken Eisner of Variety took a more neutral view, finding that "the film is too silly to offend". Jason Nolan of The Harrow deemed the production "horridly wonderful", although uneven, noting that "[w]ith a film like this, you want it to be bumpy". Film Threat's Eric Campos gave the film a generally positive review.
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Latua was used by the Huilliche as a fish poison as late as the early years of the twentieth century: the juice of the plant (plant part unspecified, but probably that of sappy, green branches) was placed into slow- flowing rivers, causing the fish in them to become torpid and easily caught.Pomar, L. 1901 An Account of the Fishing Industry in Chile, Pan American Exposition Publication IV, pub. Imprenta Moderna, Santiago. Page 33.
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Females are ovoviviparous, meaning they form eggs but do not lay them. The young emerge from the eggs within the body of the female, and she gives live birth. The young are called pups. The naval weapon known as the torpedo was named after this genus, whose own name has the same Latin origin as the English word torpid, meaning "sluggish" or "lethargic," presumably the sensations one would feel after experiencing the ray's electric shock.
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Although they may occasionally become torpid during cold nights, they do not hibernate. They have been reported to feed on beetles, flies, lepidopterans, and spiders. They are generally slow flying bats, flying low to the ground or water, and grabbing insects with their large feet. While hunting, they have been reported to use short, 2 to 5 millisecond, frequency modulated calls, sweeping down from 75 to 43 kHz, at sound levels of up to at least 111 dB.
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For bats, energy demands are particularly high during pregnancy or lactation. One way many bats are able to save energy is through the use of torpor, which is a controlled, substantial drop in metabolic rate and body temperature (metabolism). In addition to hibernation (prolonged torpor) during winter, temperate zone bats, such as Histiotus, often become torpid during periods of cold weather in summer (daily torpor) to save energy. By reducing metabolic rate, torpor prolongs gestation length and impairs lactation.
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She did not seek acclaim for her poems, but simply wrote them for enjoyment. Ironically, they have become better known than her plays. However, in an 1804 prefatory address in Miscellaneous Plays, Baillie defended her plays as acting plays. The criticism that she had no understanding of practical stagecraft and that her plays were torpid and dull in performance rankled throughout her life, and she was always delighted to hear of a production being mounted, no matter how humble it might be.
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During winter, the frog does become active for brief periods during warm or wet weather. In cold conditions, the frogs are thought to hibernate, based on observations of some being uncovered in a "torpid" state, but this has yet to be proven with rigorous physiological studies. Although the frog is active during the day, this is restricted to leaving its shelter to sunbathe. It tends to not actively feed or forage during the day, hunting insects only if they move into its vicinity.
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Heterothermic bats during long migrations may fly at night and go into a torpid state roosting in the daytime. Unlike migratory birds, which fly during the day and feed during the night, nocturnal bats have a conflict between travelling and eating. The energy saved reduces their need to feed, and also decreases the duration of migration, which may prevent them from spending too much time in unfamiliar places, and decrease predation. In some species, pregnant individuals may not use torpor.
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Anthony Clark of sci-fi-online.com criticises the pace of the episode, describing "Flight 104" as "torpid". According to writer Fred McNamara, the episode's "subdued, almost casual tone", which he regards as blending humour with spy themes, "brings a warm, approachable atmosphere to its intimate, neatly unfolding story." He describes scenes in which Joe secretly photographs Scarlet, only for the captain to show up as a black silhouette on the developed image, as "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.esque" in their absurdity.
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They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crops bulge, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food. These birds do not carry food to their young in their talons but disgorge it from their crops. The mountain-dwelling bearded vulture is the only vertebrate to specialize in eating bones, and does carry bones to the nest for the young, and it hunts some live prey. Vultures are of great value as scavengers, especially in hot regions.
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The honey possum is mainly nocturnal, but will come out to feed during daylight in cooler weather. Generally, though, it spends the days asleep in a shelter of convenience: a rock cranny, a tree cavity, the hollow inside of a grass tree, or an abandoned bird nest. When food is scarce, or in cold weather, it becomes torpid to conserve energy. In comparison to other marsupials of a similar size, T. rostratus has a high body temperature and metabolic rate that is termed euthermic.
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Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club Rowing Blazer The boat club has an ivory blazer with blue and gold piping and cuff rings bearing the Beaufort portcullis device in blue on the left breast. This may be worn by men and women who have rowed in the first Summer VIII or first Torpid. Prior to 2005 an earlier blazer had the college arms imposed on crossed oars on the left breast and navy piping and cuff rings. The blazers are supplied by Walters on Turl Street.
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Members of the men's and women's 1st Summer VIII and 1st Torpid are judged to have fulfilled these criteria but still must be approved by the Tortoise Council. All other potential members are at the Council's discretion. The unique emblem of the Tortoise Club is the tortoise badge. The College of Arms' narrative should not be misunderstood to imply the use of the Tortoise emblem by the general Oriel College Boat Club membership or members of the Oriel Society – these have their own appropriate emblematic devices.
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Cinder has lived since ancient times, and took part in many famous historical episodes including the building of the Tower of Babel, World War I and the Battle of Thermopylae. His origin, as well as his unearthly skills, were never explained by the authors. He has been described as "an unquiet conscience of humanity, a witness, sometimes sorrowfully torpid, of the great and small events of the Man, though often a rebellious one who never surrendered to those trying to silence him" (Alessio Lega).
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The animals are often torpid in the heat of the day, hiding in concealed locations such as hollow logs or holes. Reproduction has been little studied in this species, but the breeding season is between September and March. It is known that development can be arrested temporarily and the gestation period may vary between about 54 and 69 days. A litter consists of up to five blind, deaf and helpless young and these are weaned when between 21 and 33 days old, soon after their eyes have opened.
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In another poem, "Our Father," Cook speaks out against child labor at the time and once again compares child labor to slavery. She also implies how children working such vigorous jobs turn their brains "dull and torpid," engaged in hard tasks that do not allow them to be children. Along with these views Cook was a proponent of political and sexual freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her a great favourite with the working-class public.
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A litter normally consists of three to six young and there may be more than one litter in the year. At temperatures below Merriam's pocket mouse becomes torpid and in some parts of Texas it may become dormant or hibernate in winter. Animals caught by live trapping on a cold night can appear dead in the morning but soon recover when warmed. The diet consists primarily of seeds which it carries back to its burrow in its cheek pouches and consumes there, leaving a littering of husks on the floor.
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Rush argued scientifically that Negroes were not by nature intellectually or morally inferior. Any apparent evidence to the contrary was only the perverted expression of slavery, which "is so foreign to the human mind, that the moral faculties, as well as those of the understanding are debased, and rendered torpid by it." In 1792, Rush read a paper before the American Philosophical Society which argued that the "color" and "figure" of blacks were derived from a form of leprosy. He argued that with proper treatment, blacks could be cured and become white.
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The speckled mousebird is a frugivore which subsists on fruits, berries, leaves, seeds and nectar, and is fairly strict in its choice of food from area to area. These are conspicuously social birds, feeding together and engaging in mutual preening. They also accompany each other when they go to ground to dust bathe (also to occasionally to swallow pebbles to assist in grinding up vegetation as they digest it). Upon nightfall, they roost in very tight groups of 20 or so birds and on cold nights they can become torpid.
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In the winter most free ranging P. macdonellensis go into a state of torpor after midnight within the confines of rock crevices, and stay there until day breaks. In the morning, while they are still torpid, they move from the rock-crevices to basking sites exposed to the sun. Subsequently, this type of basking continues for the rest of the day. It appears that daily torpor is done in order to reduce the amount of daily expenditure by about 30%, and allows the species to live and reproduce in a challenging environment.
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In wild little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), males often mount other males (and females) during late autumn and winter, when many of the mounted individuals are torpid. 35% of matings during this period are homosexual. These coercive copulations usually include ejaculation and the mounted bat often makes a typical copulation call consisting of a long squawk. Similarly, in hibernacula of the common noctule (Nyctalus noctula), active males were observed to wake up from lethargy on a warm day and engage in mating with lethargic males and (active or lethargic) females.
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Conservation of the Lesser horseshoe bat in the Wye Valley and the Forest of Dean; a short video by NRW. The UK distribution of the lesser horseshoe bat can be found on the National Biodiversity Network website here, but they are mostly found in Wales and the Southwest of England. A torpid lesser horseshoe bat, Gloucestershire, UK A large breeding colony of lesser horseshoe bats populates the smallest SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) in the UK, a 7m² barn in Gloucestershire, England.Stuart Bell and Donald McGillivray, Environmental Law, 7th ed 2008, p.
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Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless".Leland, p. 173. Amuzie Chimezie, writing in the Journal of Black Studies in 1976, connects the Dozens to a Nigerian game called Ikocha Nkocha, literally translated as "making disparaging remarks". This form of the game is played by children and adolescents, and takes place in the evening, in the presence of parents and siblings.
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And yet, the ideas have just enough suction, somehow, to present an undemanding reader with some nice frissons." Elizabeth Hand, writing for The Washington Post, criticized the subject matter and wrote that "this novel’s pacing is so torpid that readers may feel that aged, too." Comparisons have been made between "A Discovery of Witches" and other popular fantasy series - namely Twilight, in the dynamics of Diana and Matthew's relationship, and Harry Potter in the co- existence of magical and non-magical creatures. It has been referred to as "Harry Potter for grown-ups.
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Upon its release, The Fool received critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." AllMusic's Heather Phares said that "The Fool has flashes of brilliance" and "darkly feminine songs with instinctive structures". Jason Heller of The A.V. Club noted the album "coasts instead on a humid, hazy, oozing pulse that's less ice age and more malarial swamp" and "with a torpid and feverish dreaminess".
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However, an efficient network of smaller community mental health clinics gradually developed to replace the old system. The president of the World Phenomenology Institute Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka states that Basaglia managed to pull together substantial revolutionary and reformatory energies around his anti-institutional project and created the conditions which within a few years brought to the reform of mental health legislation in 1978. This reform was introduced amongst great enthusiasm and bitter criticism, hostility and perplexity, critical and sometimes unconditional support. Basaglia thereby managed to inflict a salutary shock on Italian psychiatry, which had previously been torpid.
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Giannis Ioannidis It was in the 1990s that the Reds made their biggest mark. The middle of that decade belonged to Olympiacos, not only in Greece, but also in Europe. In the 1991–92 season, record holding Greek basketball coach Giannis Ioannidis left Aris to manage Olympiacos, the torpid giant, and created a tough, team-oriented, offensive basketball team. In addition to this, Olympiacos left the old Papastrateio Indoor Hall, to move into Peace and Friendship Stadium (commonly called SEF), an indoor arena at that time of 17,000 seats and the biggest in Greece until the Olympic Indoor Hall was inaugurated in 1995.
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Levmoss began his four-year-old season by running unplaced in the Gladness Stakes and was then sent to France where he finished third behind Zamazaan in the Prix Jean Prat over 3100m at Longchamp Racecourse. He returned to Longchamp the following month and recorded his most important victory up to that time as he beat Zamazaan into third place in the 4000m Prix du Cadran. Having won the most important French staying race, Levmoss was then sent to Royal Ascot to contest the English equivalent, the Ascot Gold Cup. He started 15/8 favourite and won easily by four lengths from Torpid.
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The greater honeyguide feeds primarily on the contents of bee colonies ("nests"): bee eggs, larvae and pupae; waxworms; and beeswax. (Honeyguides are among the few birds that can digest wax.) It frequently associates with other honeyguides at bees' nests; immatures dominate adults, and immatures of this species dominate all others. Like other honeyguides, the greater honeyguide enters bees' nests while the bees are torpid in the early morning, feeds at abandoned hives (African bees desert more often than those of the temperate zones), and scavenges at hives robbed by people or other large animals, notably the ratel or honey badger.
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Poeciliopsis monacha is endemic to northwestern Mexico where it is present in the upper reaches of streams and arroyos on the western side of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range. Some of these watercourses dry up during the summer and the fish may have to survive in springs and pools. Conditions are harsh in winter in the headwaters of the streams at altitudes of around ; there may be frosts and snow may fall. The fish become torpid at temperatures below about , but there are some hot springs, and water exposed to the sun may warm up during the day.
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Swifts will return to the same sites year after year, rebuilding their nests when necessary, and pairing for life. Young swifts in the nest can drop their body temperature and become torpid if bad weather prevents their parents from catching insects nearby. They have adapted well to urban conditions, frequently nesting in old buildings in towns around the Mediterranean, where large, low-flying flocks are a familiar feature in summer. Alpine swifts have a short forked tail and very long swept-back wings that resemble a crescent or a boomerang but may (as in the image) be held stretched straight out.
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The Blessed Virgins Club was the female counterpart of the Tortoise Club. As of 2016, the women of Oriel College Boat Club are inducted into the Tortoise Club on the same terms as men and the Blessed Virgins Club is defunct. At the creation of the Oriel College Women's Boat Club in 1986, Oriel's female rowers in the 1st VIII and 1st Torpid became members of The Blessed Virgins Club, in like fashion and styling as their male counterparts in the Tortoise Club. The respective unique emblem of The Blessed Virgins was a pair of (angelic) wings.
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Although homeothermy lends advantages such as increased activity levels, small mammals and birds maintaining an internal body temperature spend up to 100 times more energy in low ambient temperatures compared to ectotherms. To cope with this challenge, these animals maintain a much lower body temperature, staying just over ambient temperature rather than at normal operating temperature. This reduction in body temperature and metabolic rate allows the prolonged survival of animals capable of entering torpid states. In 2020 scientists reported evidence of the torpor in Lystrosaurus living ~250 Mya in Antarctica – the oldest evidence of a hibernation-like state in a vertebrate animal.
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Farmhouse received mainly positive reviews. Jason Ankeny of AllMusic praised the album as Phish's "rootsiest and most organic effort to date... [and] also their most fully developed – these are complete, concise songs and not simply outlines for extended jams, boasting a beauty and intimacy which expands the group's scope even as it serves notice of a newfound pop accessibility." Rolling Stones Jon Pareles, however, gave Farmhouse a mediocre rating of only 2.5 stars. The review states that on the album the band walks "a thin line between mellow and torpid" with songs that "are going to need a lot of live (concert) resuscitation".
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Film critic Bosley Crowther lambasted the film and wrote, "Except for a few moody moments in a plaster night-club, called the Moulin Rouge, and some shadowy shots of sloppy Syrians lying around in dingy catacombs, the scene is no more suggestive of Damascus than a Shriners' convention in New Orleans, on which occasion you would see more fezzes than ever show up in this film. For the most part—indeed, for the sole part—Sirocco wafts a torpid tale of a slick, sneering gun-runner proving a painful thorn in a nice French colonel's side."Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, June 14, 1951.
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The film has received mixed reviews from critics. , the film holds a 37% approval rating on film review website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews with an average rating of 4.66 out of 10. Peter Bradshaw from British newspaper The Guardian and Wendy Ide from The Times both gave the film a negative review. Bradshaw said the film is "all over the place", also deeming that the acting is on the "torpid side", and Ide believed the film "might just claim back a small corner of the multiplex audience from the relentless onslaught of cynical Hollywood garbage" and described the film as "mostly" bad.
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From 1977 to 1988 he held the chair of the Advanced Course in composition at the Conservatory in Parma. Starting in 1989 he taught the special courses in composition at the School of Music in Fiesole. Amongst the most widely admired works from his post-Darmstadt period are the Charles d'Orléans settings, Rondeaux per dieci (1963–64), which acquires a "torpid expressivity" through the juxtaposition of the coolness of an extremely high lyrical soprano voice and the resonance of the instrumental bass register . It was awarded the 1965 ISCM Prize for chamber music . His last project was a trilogy of operas on texts by Georg Trakl, a poet whose works had engaged Togni’s attention since 1955.
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Phelps's current work is about the benefits and sources of a country's structural dynamism: the enterprise and creativity of entrepreneurs, the skill of financiers in selecting and supporting the best projects, and the knowledge managers draw upon in evaluating and making use of new methods and products. Every dynamic economy has its doldrums and even torpid economies may rise, perhaps with delay, to an extraordinary opportunity. However, great dynamism, he argues, brings advantages in virtually every dimension of economic performance, not just in productivity. For Phelps, the challenges presented in a creative and evolving business sector provide most people with their main vehicle for the exploration, exercise, and development of their talents.
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The lyrics discuss a wide range of personal issues Minaj has faced, from reflecting on fame and the speed in which her life has moved, to strained relationships with her family including the murder of her cousin Nicholas Telemaque, to her relationship with her mother and her own child which references an abortion. "I Lied" is a ballad that contains a torpid production that does not change tempo. Lyrically, the song revolves around a "complicated regret" in which Minaj admits she denied her love for a man in order to stop him from breaking her heart. "The Crying Game" features initially uncredited vocals from British musician Jessie Ware, before being officially credited at a later date.
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The long-time informal emblem of the Tortoise Club (1st Summer VIII and 1st Torpid crews), was formalized in a grant to the college by Letters Patent dated 20 April 2009 of Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster King of Arms. The Badge is blazoned A Tortoise displayed the shell circular Azure charged with two concentric annulets Argent. The grant is formulated to provide the college, the Boat Club, and the Oriel Society (Oriel's Alumni society) use of the badge in relation to Tortoise Club alumni activities; the Tortoise Club is not itself an incorporated entity and does not bear Arms in its own right; therefore it could not be granted such a heraldic Badge directly.
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However, he also writes that "as to swallows being found in a torpid state during the winter in the Isle of Wight or any part of this country, I never heard any such account worth attending to",White, 1898. pp. 27–28 and that if early swallows "happen to find frost and snow they immediately withdraw for a time—a circumstance this much more in favour of hiding than migration", since he doubts they would "return for a week or two to warmer latitudes".White, 1898. pp. 161–162 It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that migration as an explanation for the winter disappearance of birds from northern climes was accepted.
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Lacking fat reserves, but able to reduce their body temperature, exposure to cooler temperatures or lack of food induces one of two states of torpor. One response is a shallow and brief period, similar to torpid dasyurids, where the body temperature is above 10–15 degrees Celsius, and another deeper state like the burramyids that lasts for multiple days and reduces their temperature to less than 10 °C. The species is able to climb with the assistance of the prehensile tail and an opposable first toe at the long hindfoot that is able to grip like a monkey's paw. The bristle-like papillae at the upper surface of the tongue increase in length toward the tip, and this is used to gather the pollen and nectar by rapidly wiping it into the inflorescence.
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Naultinus are preyed on by a number of invasive mammalian species including cats, rodents (3 species of rat and the house mouse) and mustelids. While the larger predators such as stoats and cats are the normal focus of pest control efforts in New Zealand, it is thought that the effect that smaller predators such as mice and weasels may be just as great or even worse. After the removal of mice from Mana Island in the '90s, lizard numbers increased massively – demonstrating that mouse predation does serious harm to native reptile populations. Mice can squeeze into much smaller hiding places to take lizards as prey and they also forage year round, no matter how cold it gets - this is significant because below 5 degrees Celsius lizards become torpid and can't defend themselves against attack.
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Nothing seemed capable of living there but a colony of bats, some flapping about on lazy wing, and others torpid; no process to be active, but the cold one of petrifaction, which, in nature's own confused method, had elaborated throughout the cavern, columns and pinnacles and cushions ... and concretions, some as fleecy as snow, others as crisp as hoar-frost, and others of an opal hue as transparent as crystal. All was rich, beautiful, and sparkling. It was a marvel to adventurers, but unfit for habitation; yet, in later years, this hole of the mountain was possessed by a Spanish goat-herd, who reached his solitude by the same threadlike but dangerous tracks as his goats. There might the recluse have lived till his bones fell among the petrifaction, but he was at length expelled from its gloomy precincts on account of his contraband iniquities.
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Set in the "sybaritic if somewhat torpid atmosphere of the Ottoman Empire", The Palace of Dreams is, according to his own statement, a realization of Kadare's long-term dream to construct a personalized vision of hell, devised as a modern counterpart to Dante's Inferno, and usually likened by literary critics to Kafka's, Orwell's, Zamyatin's and Borges' similar literary inventions. Mark- Alem is a twenty-something (by the end of the novel, twenty-eight) Ottoman Albanian, a descendant of the (real) influential Köprülü family during the period of its greatest dominance. At the idea of his uncle, the Vizier, who holds the position of Foreign Minister, Mark-Alem is offered a job at the mysterious and feared Tabir Sarai, a government office responsible for the study of dreams. Even though inexperienced, on the back of a "recommendation that hangs between menace and patronage ('You suit us...')", he is hired in the "Selection" section of the Palace, where his obligations include making a longlist of interesting dreams and draft-interpretations of the more striking ones.
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