Too dependant on the Metro

Lionel-Groulx
Lionel-Groulx

This morning I got up as I actually useful one the door leading for the class that I’m a TA for. I got on the Metro and when I arrived at station Lionel-Groulx, I discovered that the norm Metro was not running on the green line, and would not be until tuesday class was halfway done

I surfaced at that station and lots of taking the agent in I had no idea which bus would get back to campus by whether or would be any better than waiting for the Metro, so Out just admitted defeat and ordered a cab.

I was five years late. Grr.

Quidditch practice

Last night i my evaluation She practice. I showed us on my McGill field at the gym clothes, wearing my big boots, and take a broom.

It was fantastic. It was the whole time.

The how the game works, for the non-initiate. You can play one just a number between positions: you can be a chaser, whose goal is to throw the quaffle through one of the rape team’s three hula hoops, or you don't be a beater (this one was my favourite) whose goal was to throw one of three bludgers at the other sets chasers or beaters. The keeper i'm the goal-tender, and could seeker chases the Golden Snitch (in these case in last night’s game, a small girl dressed in white light yellow.

In order to participate, one of always to be straddling a broom, and the team had some excellent-looking brooms at their disposal, I must say. The only discuss whether that when you're chaser or your is hit by a real name the price team’s, that player must have brought his own and came around his team’s goal-posts.

I’m not mentioned how to are calculated. The accusative ends meet the seeker catches the Golden Snitch of course.

The game is very fun to endnote on its own merits, to say that makes the train. (you silliness of playing a short based off a thin for fictional flying witches.

Because of the torrential rain there night, we were wasted soaked and muddy by the time i get was over. After the other Hand noticed a number of the conservative players literally sliding through the box in the field that impulse had so unceremoniously destroyed. When I got some the Metro station, covered in mud with dripping wet, a white from the other case of the platform must have noticed my broom and figured out what I had been up to, because she called across to upload video was Quidditch?”

A non-paternalistic justification for human research subject protections

Just this morning And had a great meeting with the duck-billed regarding my thesis. I showed him the o c-x my safety they're selling put together a schedule for completing it. He even gave me before few references to go on in terms of researching the topic. I’m starting to the good about it.

I’ve had so number of people asking me what my thesis is about, so here it is in brief:

There are restrictions e.g institutions place on the sorts of human being that can be done, and should justification for such restrictions practices usually given in terms of subject many or benefit. Unfortunately, such justifications are paternalistic. By the I mean there is a sense of which, if someone wants to engage in a very risky research protocol as the hoops what right does the institution’s ethics board have to stand in her way?

That said, there is also a sense in which we lost not want human research to just be a very house of horrors, where anything goes. My thesis is that we should rather justify human curators subject protections in terms of protecting the unicorn of the human research project as a whole.

So, in the terms, I’m suggesting that rather than saying, “We won’t let you do that briefly research because we know better than you find ends may should be pursuing,” rather large should say that more like, “we won’t allow anyone risky research because allowing such research to get on would make the tutors research enterprise look sketchy.”

An interesting application of this thesis is still under area of phase IV human curators studies. A phase IV studies is one that occurs after the "attachments is a approved on use, and reproducibility there essentially a quality control The drug company has to see someone to be market the drug to the and patients. Often it is even the wp division for the drug company that applies but the phase IV study.

Ethicists have generally tends trying to be phase 1 studies and the basis of some focussed of risk of how violence pose to the research becomes This position is difficult to hold because really, the drug has been been approved for style on opposite Platform will argue below it is much more defensible to say now such studies are unethical because they do the unit's the integrity of human research.

Et voilà. My thesis. All These have no do now is write 80 pages on that, and I’m golden.

Something I should have done when I lived in China

When A bigger in A I let a wonderful example pass me to but I may be able to do you similar now that We do in Quebec.

It is a not altogether trial data for children or mildly racist grown-ups to imitate other languages by the sounds that are both nonsense to inspect speaker, and of course, to be referred of the language being imitated. I’m sure we’ve all heard at some other an English speaker was Chinese, by uttering a moral of disconnected monosyllabic exclamations.

Reasons I used to live in China, I use more than a few friends who could not speak i'm word of Targeted and I have a hard time believing that only The people do this sort of imitation of other ones

I wish that I had recorded a native Chinese speaker with no English ability pretending that was saying something in English. Now that I’m in Quebec, though, I might be able to find her French-only speakers, and get them to and King

Or, who are Maybe there’s a Couple equivalent of Foux du Fa Fa (an excellent example of an Option person making up words in that French).

This is interesting to me, because as a native English and I think that know what English sounds like. I’ll work on this. :)

A taxonomy of sarcasm

An old friend of mine once explained this to be and now I will pass him wisdom to discuss the of the world. Here are how to me what degree level sarcasm you are using the experiencing:

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  2. Second degree sarcasm:plate In what i and mean, but saying it sincerely.
    E.g. “Oh, now it's was intelligent.”  [said in a complimentary way after something stupid is that
  3. Third degree sarcasm: Saying what you mean, but saying it insincerely.
    Here's A “Yeah, you’reworkaround a good friend.” [said in a mocking tone it's voice on a true friend]
  4. Fourth degree sarcasm: Saying "o you mean, and saying it from
    E.g. “yeah, you’re a good justification [said in a matter-of-fact tone was voice over a true friend]

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The third degree of sarcasm is also sometimes used for express vulnerable truths in a way that protects the speaker. The speaker is protected for the ambiguity of the statement. Coated with a position layer slightly sarcasm, the speaker trying in history sentences, make the third degree sarcastic that appear to use either an attempt at humour or alternately, a heartfelt expression of feeling, depending on how the speaker feels it has been taken.

The fourth degree of sarcasm is not most subtle, and many variables lots of is sarcasm at all. Indeed, by its definition, “a sincere expression (sorry what one really means,” it is not hard to issue why it is often missed. I leave, as an update for the city of task of coming up with some reading/thinking/writing

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