txtDrop.com - Completely Free Text Messaging Glossary of Rhyme Usage - Schemes Have you ever wondered what types of rhymes there are or how to use them? Poetry is a common genre of literature where rhymes are used frequently. Many types of poetry require its authors to use specific rhyme schemes. This article will help explain what that rhyme scheme means and how to use it. When we first hear the word "rhyme", we automatically think of two words with an end rhyme. Assonant rhyme Rhyming of similar vowels but different consonants.example: dip/limp Consonant rhyme Similar consonants but different vowels.example: limp/lump Eye rhyme Based on spelling and not on sound.example: love/move Feminine rhyme (double, triple, extra-syllable, multi-syllable, extended) Differing beginnings followed by multiple rhyming syllables.example: drinking/shrinking Identical rhyme Uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning. Light line Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress.example: mat/combat Macaronic rhyme Masculine rhyme Scarce rhyme Wrenched rhyme
The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. EasyBib: Free Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago citation styles
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. Each passerby had a quick choice to make, one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of the cityscape: Do you stop and listen? On that Friday in January, those private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. The musician did not play popular tunes whose familiarity alone might have drawn interest. The acoustics proved surprisingly kind. So, what do you think happened? Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, was asked the same question. So, a crowd would gather? "Oh, yes." And how much will he make? "About $150." Thanks, Maestro. Joshua Bell.
The Alphabetizer How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly Translations: Belorussian Introduction: Four Types of Discursive Writing From time to time people express amazement at how I can get so much done. I, of course, aware of the many hours I have idled away doing nothing, demur. It feels like nothing special; I don't work harder, really, than most people. Nonetheless, these people do have a point. Begin by writing - in your head, at least - your second paragraph (that would be the one you just read, above). But how do you write this paragraph? You have more options because there are four types of discursive writing. These are your choices of types of article or essay: Argument: convinces someone of something Explanation: tells why something happened instead of something else Definition: states what a word or concept means Description: identifies properties or qualities of things An argument is a collection of sentences (known formally as 'propositions') intended to convince the reader that something is he case. Organizing Your Writing Argument:
Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source CHDK Firmware From Wired How-To Wiki An example of the amazing high-speed captures made possible by CHDK firmware. Photo by Keoeeit Digital cameras have powers beyond what is immediately available to the user. CHDK, the Canon Hacker's Development Kit, is an open-source software project that can be loaded on cameras using Canon's DIGIC II or DIGIC III firmware platforms. CHDK does not replace the existing firmware on your Canon, so the process is completely reversible. What You'll Need A compatible camera (see a list) An SD memory card An SD card reader (but see possible workarounds below) How To Install It It's best to start with a blank SD card, so if there are pictures on your card, remove them. There are numerous incarnations of the CHDK software, different builds incorporating different features. Determine which camera model you own, by looking at the model number on the camera. Tip: Note that the "Ixus" designation is European: what Americans call the Canon SD800, Europeans call the Ixus 850. 1.
Risky Business Comment Risky business Health-scare stories often arise because their authors simply don’t understand numbers Ben Goldacre Monday June 20, 2005 The Guardian Competence always looks better from a distance, but I have a confession to make: I’m a doctor, and I just don’t understand most of the stories on health risks in the news. I don’t mean I can’t understand the fuss. I mean I literally can’t understand what they’re trying to communicate to me. Last week, we were told that red meat causes bowel cancer, and Nurofen causes heart attacks, but I was no wiser. Article continues HG Wells, 150 years ago, said that statistical thinking would one day be as important as the ability to read and write in a modern technological society. Let’s say the risk of having a heart attack in your 50s is 50% higher if you have high cholesterol: that sounds pretty bad. I’m not alone in finding percentages unhelpful, incidentally.
Turn Google Docs Into an RSS Reader and Feed Aggregator Learn how to use any Google Docs spreadsheet as an RSS Feed reader. You can also use the technique to embed RSS feeds into web pages. This tutorial shows how to use a spreadsheet in Google Docs as an RSS Feed reader. You can fetch RSS news feeds from different sources into one spreadsheet – much like a simpler version of Feedly – and then publish your feeds as a public web page. No coding required. If you have a website, you can use the same trick to embed RSS feeds in web pages. Before we get started, let’s look at a real example. Here are the complete step involved for putting RSS feeds into Google Docs. Open a new Google spreadsheet and type the RSS feed URL in cell A1.
Guardian Unlimited | Life | Don't dumb me down Talk about bad science here. OK, here's something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are these two groups even being mentioned in the same breath? It is my hypothesis that in their choice of stories, and the way they cover them, the media create a parody of science, for their own means. Science stories usually fall into three families: wacky stories, scare stories and "breakthrough" stories. Wacky stories don't end there. A close relative of the wacky story is the paradoxical health story. At the other end of the spectrum, scare stories are - of course - a stalwart of media science. Now, even though popular belief in the MMR scare is - perhaps - starting to fade, popular understanding of it remains minimal: people periodically come up to me and say, isn't it funny how that Wakefield MMR paper turned out to be Bad Science after all? Why?
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