In addition to horoscopes for allies and foreign leaders, the emperor sought Kepler's advice in times of political trouble ( though Kepler's recommendations were based more on common sense than the stars ).

* Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, astronomical method of using multiple guide stars and deformable mirrors to sense and correct for the distortions produced by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere

It is a noble star among other blue supergiant stars in a sense that its pulsations are powered by the nuclear reactions in the hydrogen burning shell.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and praised it for allowing " all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense.

In a less formal sense, the word is used for high-profile non-diplomatic representative of various entities ( rarely states ), mainly cultural and charitable organizations, often as willing figureheads to attract media attention, e. g. film and pop stars make appeals to the public at large for UNESCO activities ( see UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors ), sometimes during press-swarmed visits in the field.

Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars and wrote, " The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them " and criticized its liberties with historical facts: " There is no sense of history, strategy or context ; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve.

The website http :// pbskids. org / arthur has been given a rating of 5 / 5 stars at website common sense media, and has been advised for viewers 5 and up.

Even light itself does not have a " velocity " of c in this sense ; the total velocity of any object can be expressed as the sum where is the recession velocity due to the expansion of the universe ( the velocity given by Hubble's law ) and is the " peculiar velocity " measured by local observers ( with and, the dots indicating a first derivative ), so for light is equal to c (- c if the light is emitted towards our position at the origin and + c if emitted away from us ) but the total velocity is generally different than c .( Davis and Lineweaver 2003, p. 19 ) Even in special relativity the coordinate speed of light is only guaranteed to be c in an inertial frame, in a non-inertial frame the coordinate speed may be different than c ; in general relativity no coordinate system on a large region of curved spacetime is " inertial ", but in the local neighborhood of any point in curved spacetime we can define a " local inertial frame " and the local speed of light will be c in this frame, with massive objects such as stars and galaxies always having a local speed smaller than c. The cosmological definitions used to define the velocities of distant objects are coordinate-dependent-there is no general coordinate-independent definition of velocity between distant objects in general relativity ( Baez and Bunn, 2006 ).

He referred knowledge ( episteme ) to that essence which is the object of pure thought, and is not included in the phenomenal world ; sensation ( aisthesis ) to that which passes into the world of phenomena ; opinion ( doxa ) to that essence which is at once the object of sensuous perception, and, mathematically, of pure reason-the essence of heaven or the stars ; so that he conceived of doxa in a higher sense, and endeavoured, more definitely than Plato, to exhibit mathematics as mediating between knowledge and sensuous perception All three modes of apprehension partake of truth ; but in what manner scientific perception ( epistemonike aisthesis ) did so, we unfortunately do not learn.

After almanacs were devised, people still saw little difference between predicting the movements of the stars and tides, and predicting the future in the divination sense.

In this sense, materials are the parts required to make something else, from buildings and art to stars and computers.

" Setia points out that most of the learned, and the astronomers, said they were solid spheres " on which the stars turn … and this view is closer to the apparent sense of the Qur ' anic verses regarding the celestial orbits.

The number of suns in the Andalite star system is never specified, but the stars are always referred to in the plural sense.

Alternative Press gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, commenting that " with new guitarist Jade Puget adding a sense of brooding, thespian eloquence to the disc's shadowy post-hardcore, AFI all but reinvented themselves ," and " With longer, deeper, richer, more complex compositions than they've ever attempted before, Black Sails tackles everything from brooding hardcore ... to shimmering balladry ..." The publication also went as far as to say that Black Sails is " their first epic.

Russell would later recall in " My Mental Development " that " with a sense of escaping from prison, we allowed ourselves to think that grass is green, that the sun and stars would exist if no one was aware of them ... ".

Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it three stars out of five and said that " Sponge's sense of alternative rock goes back as far as Pearl Jam, or maybe only Stone Temple Pilots, judging from the hit single ' Plowed.

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" Anish Khanna of Planet Bollywood rated the film 9. 5 out of 10 stars, stating that " Karan Johar makes an impressive directorial debut, has a good script sense, and knows how to make a film with S-T-Y-L-E ." Fuad Omar called it a phenomenal debut for director Karan Johar ; he said that the film has a memorable " feelgood factor ".

Similar to Daffy's relationship with Bugs Bunny, Plucky also sometimes found himself at odds with the two main stars of Tiny Toon Adventures, Buster and Babs Bunny, though the three managed to remain friends ( the rabbits were generally indifferent to Plucky's egotistic personality when not using it to their advantage ) and Plucky occasionally displays a sense of loyalty to them.

Although not a clock in the traditional sense, the 2nd century BC Antikythera mechanism of ancient Greece was used to calculate the positions of the sun, moon, and stars at any given point by use of complex mechanical gears.

The narrator describes a character who is beautiful: " your eyes are like two jewels in the sky " but for whom the narrator's love and admiration are not reciprocated (" but I don't sense affection no gratitude or love, your loyalty is not to me but to the stars above ").

In the formal sense used here, asterisms are groups of stars that have not been categorized as something else.

For his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert gave the film three stars, writing " I guess I sort of liked the film, although I wonder why it couldn't have spent more time on natural history and the sense of discovery, and less time on tragedy.

Blender gave the album three out of five stars and stated, " There's rambling, digital fiddling and self-indulgent sprawl here, but a sense of purpose, too, even as her lips move on autopilot.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

And we had the uneasy sense that the cleavage between the moral and the political progressed amid the events which concern us.

Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.

He has employed from his section rich immediate materials which in a loose sense can be termed Southern.

In a sense, Einstein's theory is simpler than Newton's, and there is a corresponding sense in which Copernicus' theory is simpler than Ptolemy's.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

The only rules which I think we shall follow will be those of common sense, justice, and fairness ''.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.

In any inquiry into the way in which great literature affects the emotions, particularly with respect to the sense of harmony, or relief of tension, or sense of `` a transformed inner nature '' which may occur, a most careful exploration of the particular feature of the experience which produces the effect would be required.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.

But telegraph operators were already using typewriters with QWERTY keyboards to " copy " received messages, and at the time it made more sense to build a typewriter that could generate the codes automatically, rather than making them learn to use a new input device.

The Pauli matrices ( after multiplication by i to make them anti-hermitian ), also generate transformations in the sense of Lie algebras: the matrices form a basis for, which exponentiates to the spin group, and for the identical Lie algebra, which exponentiates to the Lie group of rotations of 3-dimensional space.

Conversely, the rejection of syncretism, usually in the name of " piety " and " orthodoxy ", may help to generate, bolster or authenticate a sense of uncompromised cultural unity in a well-defined minority or majority.

Complexity is about how a huge number of extremely complicated and dynamic sets of relationships can generate some simple behavioral patterns, whereas chaotic behavior, in the sense of deterministic chaos, is the result of a relatively small number of non-linear interactions.

Automatic poetry generators exist online, but they do not actually generate automatic poetry in this sense.

In some markets, a high-volume and low-margin approach makes most sense to maximize profit, while in others a higher margin will generate more profit.

Both episodic and semantic memory systems have been proposed to generate a sense of self-identity: personal episodic memory enables the phenomenological continuity of identity, while personal semantic memory generates the narrative continuity of identity.

According to the critical rationalist, if there is a sense in which humans accrue knowledge positively by experience, it is only by pivoting observations off existing conjectural theories pertinent to the observations, or off underlying cognitive schemas which unconsciously handle perceptions and use them to generate new theories.

In that sense pushing hands is a contract between students to train in the defensive and offensive movement principles of their martial art: learning to generate, coordinate and deliver power to another and also how to effectively neutralize incoming forces in a safe environment.

The department was never meant to generate any revenue as far as Jobs was concerned, but after the release of two shorts, Luxo Jr. ( 1986 ) and Red's Dream ( 1987 ), some of the engineers working on the company's products wondered whether it made sense to keep the animation group going at all.

Complex self-organized living systems are also governed by formal and final causality – formal in the sense of the downward causation from a whole structure ( such as the organism ) to its individual molecules, constraining their action but also endowing them with functional meanings in relation to the whole metabolism ; and final in the sense of the tendency to take habits and to generate future interpretants of the present sign actions.

Further extension seems likely, because it makes good business sense for organizations owning old works that still generate revenue to spend a portion of that money on campaign contributions and lobbying to extend the terms even further.

Tuberous receptors are electroreceptors that are specialized to respond to high-frequency electrical fields ( electric organ discharges or EODs ), and hence are found only in fish with an active electrical sense that can generate their own electrical fields.

To the extent that groups ' actions generate a sense in the larger community that they have " power ," they are often able to engage with and influence powerful groups through dialogue, backed up by a history of successful protest-based campaigns.

At the same time the increasing number of internal violent conflicts in Africa, Asia and Europe ( Balkans ) resulted in concepts of national and international security failing to reflect the challenges of the post Cold War security environment whilst the failure of neoliberal development models to generate growth, particularly in Africa, or to deal with the consequences of complex new threats ( such as HIV and climate change ) reinforced the sense that international institutions and states were not organised to address such problems in an integrated way.

This attention to detail allowed McEwan to use all the tricks of fiction to generate " a growing sense of disquiet with the tiniest finger-flicks of detail ".

Using TAE, it is possible to develop concepts that explicate the felt sense very precisely so that what was implicit knowledge can generate an explicit theory that can contribute to the field.

The strategy was not thought to make sense at most other times because, as mentioned above, allowing a team to shoot free throws typically will generate more points for them over time than does playing a standard defense.

She possesses various abilities stemming from the Darkforce dimension, most notably the power to generate absolute darkness in an unspecified radius, and the ability to displace individuals into the Darkforce dimension, subjecting to a metaphysical sense of cold and fear, much like the power of Cloak.

He established himself during this period as an in-demand artist with a unique visual sense and the ability to generate sharp, intimate messages.

His mutant ability allows him to generate a bio-EM field that wreaks havoc with electrical and mechanical systems, sense and perceive energy signatures, generate electromagnetic pulses, track others by their biological em signature, and can affect the neural chemical responses of a living brain to induce states such as pain, sleep, or confusion.

Despite shared linguistic heritage, few institutions among the Toubou generate a broader sense of identity than the clan.