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Try taking pictures, at decreasing distances, of the same thing indoors and see if the quality improves with each shorter distance. If it does then you need a more powerful flash. From a fixed light source, like a flash or electric light, the rate of photons reflecting off a subject into the camera reduces with distance, so the pictures appear noisier and less saturated colours ie less clear...the sensor's performance is dependent on the rate of photons striking it and the spectrum of the light source.

The important thing, when absorbing information, is to filter out distractions and irrelevant data.

"A break-up would pose no threat to Earth, assures Yeomans. "Comet ISON is not on a collision course. If it breaks up, the fragments would continue along the same safe trajectory as the original comet." http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/18jan_cometison/

Your link doesn't work for me.

Even with the best of intentions news will always be biased in some way from any given source so it's best to have two or three sources I think and observe where they agree. I use the BBC and Reuters websites because they seem to present news in a relatively dry sort of way with the minimum of judgemental tone which is important when disseminating news. The BBC's default initial position of scepticism, mentioned above, is the right one if one wants to try to present news transparently and also good practice to help prevent being used as a vehicle to promote someone else's possibly ill-intentioned agenda.

What's wrong with having some sense of self worth (ego) from having applied much time and effort to become what they are now? AJB, and others here like him, likely feels good when they enlighten someone in their area of expertise ...they deserve it. What can be more laudable than to give time and share what one has worked hard for? As a counterexample I remember, years ago, working in the building trade asking a bricklayer something related to his job to aid me in my task and he said: " I've worked thirty f-ing years to know what I know today and i'm not giving it away." Give me people like AJB everytime.

Having signed the petition, I received this update about it today: Dear Tony , The e-petition 'Stop FGM in the UK Now' signed by you recently reached 86,113 signatures and a response has been made to it. As this e-petition has received more than 10 000 signatures, the relevant Government department have provided the following response: We regard female Genital Mutilation as child abuse and it is illegal. The Coalition Government is absolutely clear that political or cultural sensitivities must not get in the way of preventing, uncovering and prosecuting this terrible form of criminal activity. This Government recognises that tackling violence against women and girls, including FGM, requires a sustained, robust and dynamic cross-Government approach. Every department needs to play its part in addressing FGM. The Department of Health is working to improve the information collected by the NHS on FGM. The Home Office has recently announced it will help fund a new study into the prevalence rates of FGM in England and Wales. The Department for International Development has established an ambitious £35m programme to address FGM in Africa and beyond, with an ambition toward ending FGM in one generation. The Home Office is the lead on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and has captured FGM in our comprehensive VAWG Strategy, rather than in a stand-alone Action Plan. Recently updated, the Strategy (The Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls: Action Plan) has a renewed focus on protecting potential victims. Through the plan we are working closely across Government to help secure a FGM conviction, and with charities and frontline organisations to help improve awareness of FGM. As part of a continued effort to raise awareness, the Home Office has: Joined forces with the NSPCC and the Metropolitan Police Service to establish a dedicated FGM helpline, providing advice to anyone who is concerned about FGM: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/resourcesforprofessionals/minorityethnic/female-genital-mutilation_wda96841.html Launched the Statement Opposing FGM, which sends out a strong message to anyone involved in this practice - it is illegal and has no place in our society. To date, we have sent out over 37,000 of these leaflets. Continued to work closely with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure the Government is doing everything it can to help secure a prosecution. We are greatly encouraged by the Director of Public Prosecution’s assessment that it is only a matter of time before a perpetrator is brought to justice and the Minister for Crime Prevention will be discussing this matter with Alison Saunders shortly. Female Genital Mutilation is a human rights abuse with devastating consequences for victims. We are determined to work together across Government to protect victims, prosecute perpetrators and stamp out this abhorrent practice for good. This e-petition remains open to signatures and will be considered for debate by the Backbench Business Committee should it pass the 100 000 signature threshold. View theresponse to the e-petition Thanks, HM Government e-petitions http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/

I found this: http://phys.org/news200828132.html Paper : http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5431

That which can be measured is a dimension. Time can be, so it is.

Yes. I think they should. I should have thought where this might lead but I didn't think. For that I apologise.

Evolutionary theory says nothing about how life started, only how it developed over time once it got going. The subject of how life began is the domain of abiogenesis. Scientists don't know know with a high level of confidence the mechanism for the initial stages of the formation from inert molecules to living systems. What we call "life" is a synergistic effect arising from the interactions between a large ensemble of molecules. The transition from 'lifeless' to 'living' is seamless and you can't say it starts at a specific level of inter- molecular complexity ...any demarcation can only be arbitrary. I think you are looking for a clear point of transition and it's not going to happen. It's like asking "when does a pond become a lake?". The boundary of transition is wide and fuzzy.

The mods do a fine job I have intended nothing more than to share, as you say, the humour inherent in the juxtaposition between the title and locked thread icon ... nothing more. I agree, and never intended, that anyone should not take this as an invitation to discuss the thread of that title itself or matter related to it. I do hope I haven't annoyed or offended anybody.

The thread deserved to be locked but looking at this in isolation made me smile.

If a photon's frequency imparts sufficient energy to an electron, the electron will be excited enough to raise to the next energy level and the photon is absorbed, rendering the material opaque. If a photon's frequency is too low, the photon will momentarily be excited but then drops back down to its base energy level and the photon is emitted to carry on through the material or until it meets another electron whereupon the same will happen again...this is transparency. If you think of energy levels as a series of rising steps, in a transparent material the distance between each step is greater than for opaque materials and thus needs more energetic photons to lift the electron to the next step. Because all of the visible light spectrum is not energetic enough, materials like glass appear transparent.

Yes I think you may well be right, depending on the writer's desired "focus", as Phi put it

Yes, you are probably right but it's quite subtle which would probably pass by a non-native speaker. I remember a TV advert: Eight out of ten cats preferred Whiskas. Thinking about it, if the first number is 1 then you say "One in a,,," but if the first number is 2 or more it seems to flow better to say "2 out of 10" rather than "2 in 10".

As the mood takes me. They mean the same thing. I would use both in any writing that required that kind of subject matter more than once for purposes of variety.

You could use 'clever', 'bright' or 'able' in that sentence. You might find this site useful for synonyms. I have put in the word 'intelligent' for you to see: http://thesaurus.com/browse/intelligent The words with pink shading are closest in meaning to the word.

The above is called quoting. When there is more than one part to reply to in a question it is better to break it up into smaller parts and answer each part on its own so that there is less chance of confusion and it is clearer to understand. I will quote and answer the other parts of your previous post here: 'Entirely comprehensible' means 'completely understandable'. The author completely understood the expression on their faces. Clever. On a side note, This is a 'letter': b . This is a 'word': dog. You are confusing "letters" when you should say "word" or "words". Letters are the alphabet symbols that make up the word and words are collections of alphabet symbols. The alphabet is our system of letters which is: a b c d e f...etc.

There was a big empty area with no trees in it. That would be the formal way to say it but to me, as a native English speaker, it is not necessary to add 'the' because nothing is lost in the meaning of that sentence leaving it out. I'm sure you have shorter ways of saying things in your language that are not formally taught.

Synonym for follow, in context of the text: Trail "Toward the end of the afternoon ,we trailed what seemed to be a large movement of chimmpanzees...". It means they were behind the chimps and going after them but keeping some steady or fixed distance away. Clear, in context of the text, means empty of. In use, an example would be: "...empty except for columns of nut trees." . It means there was nothing there except for columns of nut trees.

This means usually how logically well put together an idea is or the strength of the method of reasoning. An argument or idea with a strong conceptual rigor has a well thought-out path of arguments or line of reasoning. Another way of saying "suffice to explain" is: "It is enough to make clear", In the context of your extract, the use of 'Geneva 1910' and' Petrograd 1920' as references is enough to explain why Freud lacked this tool

Two other ways that can say the same thing as "Out into....": 1. They left the obscure passages to go into small openings. 2. They made an exit from the obscure passages to go into small openings. It usually means they are leaving one place to go into another place. or going outside from a space, or room, into another.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jeff Healey

Ignorance abounds...even amongst clever dicks. The default lower limit is set to help extend the usable life of the battery...the ideal is actually about 20%. Lithium ion batteries don't like to be run down flat unlike the old Ni-Cads.