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==Formal and Informal Proofs== In general, a proof is a demonstration ... symbols. These type of proofs are called informal proof. A proof in mathematics ...

Formal logic can be distinguished from informal logic, which is logic outside ... for those few dealing only with informal logic present formal logic ...

A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of fallacies, corresponding to the distinction between formal and informal logic ...

form of the bartering system, which is more informal in nature than that of formal barter exchange organizations. These informal bartering systems ...

as logically organized and clearly worded informal arguments intended to demonstrate ... ==Formal and informal notions== [[Image:4CT_Non-Counterexample_1.svg ...

Philosophers who study informal logic—logic based not on the form ... have large lists and discussions of informal fallacies. ...

In colonial America, informal social controls in the home and community ... the effectiveness of their system of informal and formal controls in a ...

of portraiture, with subjects set in informal ways such as playing chess ... least two years Sofonisba continued this informal study, receiving substantial ...

*Walton, Douglas N. Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation. Cambridge. 1989. ==External Links== All links retrieved November 9, 2022. ...

in which proofs are studied is itself less informal than the usual habits of mathematicians suggest. To contrast with the metalanguage, or language ...

=== Informal, formal and symbolic logic === The crucial concept of ... * Informal logic is the study of arguments expressed in natural language ...

of the national Bard. It ranges from an informal gathering of friends to ... A piper generally greets the guests, who gather and mix as at any ...

===Informal presentation=== An informal explanation of Russell's paradox may be given in ...

were directed toward martyrs around whom informal cults had developed. While ... regional variations existed in these informal "canonization" ...

Under slavery, marriages were informal; slavery disrupted many families, as did wartime chaos. Many Freedmen attempted to find their spouses ...

explicit command and control rather than informal custom; in barter or market ... coercive authority and his position is informal and often unstable. It is ...

" and is also sometimes used as an informal and increasingly archaic ... of girls, when it existed, was usually informal and at home. In most ancient ...

A function problem consists of a partial function f; the informal "problem" is to compute the values of f on the inputs for which it ...

Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not ... disuse. Numerous slang terms pass into informal mainstream speech, and sometimes ...

containers might be used for plants with informal shapes. Most evergreen bonsai ... styles include: Formal upright, slant, informal upright, cascade, semi-cascade ...

nature, intended for recitation at symposia and informal gatherings; and it is perhaps a result of this clearly oral quality to his poetry that so much ...

these subspecialties are given their own informal names, typically (but not ... century. Given the voluminous amount of informal and formal study of insects ...

Newts (also called efts when terrestrial) are an informal grouping of salamanders within the Salamandridae family that may have rough-textured ...

most child labor occurs in the informal sector, "selling on ... in the household, or in the urban informal sector. In order to benefit ...

on these themes. He was one of the leaders of this informal movement that worked to undermine official Soviet reality by exposing its lies. ...

During the time of Shinran Shonin, followers would gather in informal ... because practitioners see Shinran in a more informal setting. ...

* Walton, Douglas. Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation. Cambridge, 1998. ==External Links== All links retrieved August 12, 2023. ...

is typically accomplished through either an informal or formal approach to learning, including a course of study and lesson plan that teaches skills ...

behavior or productivity. However, the informal group dynamics studied were ... The next point of interest describes the impact of informal organization ...

cedu.niu.edu/blackwell/dror01.htm Progressive Informal Education]. Retrieved November 29, 2006 from Progressive Informal Education Interpreted by ...

Christie’s is a world-famous auction house and the informal name for the London firm of Christie, Manson & Woods, the oldest fine-art auctioneers ...

*Community organizations: Range from informal family or kinship networks ... Community]. Encyclopedia of informal education. Last updated: ...

American Civil Liberties Union and served as an informal advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on many New Deal measures. ...

establishment. In 1840, he gave his informal public debut at the new St. Charles Hotel. Only two years later, he left the United States and sailed ...

and organizing both formal and informal consultations with its civil society counterparts. ==Strengthening Ties With Civil Society== ...

New Hampshire, in 1852. As an informal football league, the Ivy ... Before the actual establishment of the Ivy League, an informal agreement ...

family (parental authority), small groups (informal authority of leadership), intermediate organizations such as schools, churches, armies, industries ...

1) In the oldest usage, which survives in informal form to the present day, a serenade is a composition performed for a lover, friend, or other ...

treaties that compose the Union's current informal Constitution, to codify human rights throughout the EU, and to streamline decision-making in what ...

These are on-going informal learning networks that focus on skill ... autonomy, and self-reliance, and feature informal, non-authoritarian learning ...

New World monkeys are one of three major informal groups of the biological order Primates, the other two groups being (1) prosimians and (2) ...

restraints of society, both formal and informal, that encourage and limit ... defined laws and regulations and in the informal customs and social norms ...

of the city lives in abject poverty in informal settlements that lack proper ... such as Soweto and Alexandra, and informal settlements like Orange Farm. ...

horizon. It is the lived realm of informal, culturally-grounded understandings and mutual accommodations. Rationalization of the life-world is ...

zaibatsu in that their collaboration was more informal, and the financial interdependency among the member companies was limited. The cooperative nature ...

complex history. It is a combination of the informal signs that were already in use by the deaf in America, French Sign Language, and efforts by Gallaudet ...

and purity of color, a kind of gay informal spontaneity which is new. Even the sketchiness and inconsistencies seem virtues at this stage... ...

* Festinger, Leon. 1950. Informal social communication. Psychological ... Back (eds.). 1950. Social Pressure in Informal Groups: A Study of Human ...

there was no international law or even informal statements that differentiated ... human experimentation, there were both informal and formal codes of ethics ...

of a VAT is, essentially, a tax on the purchase of informal operators—who in developing countries form 40 to 60 percent of the GDP—from the formal ...

some second-round characters appear in informal contexts, as many people ... characters that have existed in informal writing for centuries have ...

Some parents also have informal or voluntary agreements or arrangements that do not involve the courts, where financial child support or other ...

the Old World, comprise one of the three major informal groups of the biological order Primates, the other two groups being prosimians and New World ...

century. During this period hundreds of informal associations were established ... "] The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education, 2010. Retrieved ...

the Pope (prior to this, election took place at an informal gathering of the people and clergy of Rome). From 1241, the tradition of secluding the Cardinals ...

writing history. The language used in Shiji was informal, humorous and full of variations. This was an innovative way of writing at that time and thus ...

titled The Tiger Wore Spikes: An Informal Biography of Ty Cobb that ... * McCallum, John. The Tiger Wore Spikes: An Informal Biography of ...

likely, due to the influence on Lollardy of the informal lay communities, originating in Deventer in Overijssel around the teaching of Gerhard Groote ...

a child is performed by a parent, or through informal arrangements with relatives, neighbors, or friends. Other families may choose to hire an in-home ...

population. The response was a huge "informal economy" to provide ... but by Brezhnev's inner circle at an informal meeting. It led to the sudden ...

McCurry. The girl was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women ...

pursue theology instead. In 1640, he joined an informal group of intellectuals associated with the Port-Royal convent, whose ranks included Blaise Pascal ...

within the Ritsu school in Japan, employing more informal, self-imposed vows. The teachings of Ritsu were accepted by most Japanese Buddhists, and there ...

and that there was no international law or even informal statements that differentiated illegal from legal human experimentation. For this reason, there ...

and the linguistic elements, formal or informal, that generate quantification are called quantifiers. Examples of quantifiers in a natural language ...

be. Kimono worn for festivals and other informal events can be only two layers ... * Yukata (浴衣): informal unlined summer kimono usually made of ...

the Old World, comprise one of the three major informal groups of the biological order Primates, the other two groups being prosimians and New World ...

words in Urdu: the singular forms tu (informal, extremely intimate, or ... # آ‏و āo/[aːo] (informal and intimate with less degree) ...

*The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (1966) *The Shackles of Power (1966) *The Portugal Story (1969) *Century's Ebb: The Thirteenth Chronicle ...

and taught philosophy. He participated in an informal discussion group with some of the leading philosophers of his day, including J. L. Austin and ...

pandeiro, pagode is sung at many parties and informal meetings, being almost universally found at open-air bars and cafés. Lyrics are playful, usually ...

information in an unstructured and informal way. For example, the owners of a new restaurant may eat out at competitors' restaurants in ...

is unknown. They are also referred to in informal Latin as the Fungi imperfecti, and more recently as mitosporic fungi, and the "imperfect ...

a media critic, and a philosopher. He was an informal adviser to several presidents. In his work, such as his 1920 book Liberty and the News, Lippmann ...

Generally, performances can be classified as either formal or informal. Formal performances follow a traditional set of rules that govern playing ...

| caption = Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A ... The book features two major religions: the Handdara, an informal system ...

troubles and private issues] The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education (1999, 2009). Retrieved October 9, 2019. Mills also drew the ire of his contemporaries ...

In 1951, the three women established their own informal cooking school L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes (The School of the Three Gourmands) ...

use "gang" to refer to small, informal, and disorganized "street gangs," while "syndicate" or "organized crime ...

tablets of wood for taking notes and other informal writings. The first recorded Roman use of the codex for literary works dates from the late first ...

monkeys. New World monkeys are one of three major informal groups of the biological order Primates, the other two groups being (1) prosimians and (2 ...

Lending libraries provide inexpensive informal access to books and ... orientations, others are more informal associations of teachers ...

monkeys. New World monkeys are one of three major informal groups of the biological order Primates, the other two groups being prosimians in addition ...

"Informal recruitment," as the name suggests, is much less structured. New members are introduced to the fraternity's members ...

A more informal salute to Ertegün took place on July 31, 2007, the anniversary of his birth, at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood ...

Despite its long formal and informal use with a sexual connotation, the word still retains the meanings of "inspiring disgust" and ...

economic and administrative record keeping. Informal inscribed texts are "graffiti" in its original sense. It should be noted that the ...

began secretly training young men into informal armed bands called Interahamwe ... National Court system and through the informal Gacaca village justice program. ...

" as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic, and practical, in which he emphasized the ...

Suwar ad-Dahhab. In consultation with an informal conference of political ... including Juba, Wau, and Malakal. An informal cease-fire in May broke ...

grams in the former USSR. In some countries, the informal cup measurement has become 250 mL, and prices for items are sometimes given per 100 g rather ...

until the early twentieth century. Hundreds of informal associations were established for the purpose of improving the social, intellectual, and moral ...

Jousting is thought to have originated as an informal friendly contest between knights and was later included as a prelude to the main melee ...

subjects, the study of which he pursued on an informal basis with the help of a retired physician named Buch who had taken up an interest in physics and ...

lend themselves well to more informal plantings and woodland gardens, or as specimen plants. In some areas, larger rhododendrons can be pruned ...

Rupp's career as well. In addition to this informal legacy, James A. Naismith was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, Naismith ...

monkeys. New World monkeys are one of three major informal groups of the biological order Primates, the other two groups being (1) prosimians and (2 ...

norms for a society, based upon formal and informal collective agreement. Through the ages, the biggest drawback with the status quo is that, when ...

such as Jacob Riis to photograph informal subjects indoors. By 1897, it became possible to reproduce halftone photographs on printing presses ...

up for the lack of such training, despite his informal education during his years with The Mighty Handful. In 1883 Rimsky-Korsakov worked under ...

movements, although his ties to each were informal. Modern art is typified by self-awareness, and by the manipulation of form or medium as an ...

a member of the genrō (elder statesmen), an informal body of confidential advisers to the Emperor. In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War broke out and ...

offered by contemporary settlement houses include informal family counseling and home visits, the sponsoring of social clubs, classes, recreational activities ...

Common-law marriage (or common law marriage), sometimes called informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute is, historically, a form of ...

movement was founded over these informal meetings, which was directed against the Spanish colonial government, and foreign rulers of the Viceroyalty ...

is conducted behind closed doors in "informal consultations." ... Chamber. The room was used for "informal consultations," which ...

Keiji, 1991. Although the group was largely informal, traditionally the occupant of the Chair of the Department of Modern Philosophy at Kyoto University ...

=== Formal versus informal approaches === Another of the questions ... for conflict between the formal and informal approaches is far from being ...

formed the basis for the United Nations. The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter ...

systems of thought that could transcend the informal rules of the various tribes. This process formed in various cultural spheres, for example, in the ...

[[Image:Informal Economy Cartagena Colombia by Joachim Pietsch.png|thumb|right|250px|The informal economy in Cartagena.]] Cartagena had a total ...

Society. Camp meetings contributed to the informal American style of worship and were instrumental in the establishment of various non-denominational ...

793 in 1996. Given the importance of the informal sector, accurate economic ... are having an impact on the informal sector. Despite difficulties arising ...

often also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as a baseball diamond, a skating rink, a basketball court, or a tether ...

office for direct, private gain) and blat (the informal, indirect exchange of favors between members of a social network).Stephen Lovell, Alena Ledeneva ...

court) which attempted to serve as an informal advisory committee to the Jewish congregations throughout the United States. At a meeting held ...

While these three or four groups, loosely circumscribed, are an informal arrangement, they probably contain several distinct clades in their ...

Nachman's death, Nathan also recorded many informal conversations he and other disciples had had with Rebbe Nachman and later published Nachman ...

by the safety nets became proud members of the (informal) Halfway to Hell Club. ===Festive opening=== Weeks of civil and cultural activities called ...

==Free trade and "informal empire"== [[Image:Yorktown80.JPG ... and political influence through "informal empire" underpinned ...

tastes. In his early years, he received an informal education, but records show that by 1865 he was attending Ushaw Roman Catholic College, Durham. ...

an evident progression from a relatively informal and decentralized relationship between the people and God in the "J" account, to ...

law or by municipal bylaw, or by informal agreement among major retailers, in order to provide a day of relaxation following Christmas Day. In ...

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal society for recovering alcoholics. Members meet in local groups that vary in size from a handful to ...

struggle in the 1980s and early 1990s, a large informal economy developed. [[Image:Mujeres aymara con siku y caja - flickr-photos-micahmacallen ...

observe a few common practices on an informal basis. These include keeping ... Gatherings of Baba followers, when they occur, are typically informal ...

* Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. New York: New American Library, 1968. ...

Churches took on greater formal and informal responsibilities for health and education and for communications and financial services in remote ...

the third column contains an informal definition, and the fourth column gives a short example. Be aware that, outside of logic, different symbols ...

Chinese writer, linguist, and essayist. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his ...

Social movements are large informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues. They are a ...

local clergy, who became sympathetic. After an informal gathering where the Báb debated other imams, his popularity soared. However, after the ...

learning, and although Freire advocated an informal teaching style based on dialogue, his method still requires a certain type of curriculum administered ...

among the junior philosophers of an informal dining group known as the "Wee Teas," at which philosophical discussions were carried on. ...

Japanese politicians and opened channels of informal diplomacy which would bear fruit later. (Japan had allied itself to the Great Britain during World ...

Instead, her education was for the most part informal, deriving from her mother, a series of non-Native governesses, a few years at the small school ...

*Rosser, J.B. "An Informal Exposition of Proofs of Godel's Theorem and Church's Theorem" Journal of Symbolic Logic 4 (1939). ...

Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard University who met to discuss their work. She went ...

although their playing generally took place in an informal context and was not specifically encouraged. The didgeridoo was also used as a means ...

Dialogue and conversation, the encyclopaedia of informal education] *[http://www.implicity.org/democracy-technology/index.htm Distributed Dialogue ...

*Knopf, Alfred A. 1949. Some Random Recollections; An Informal Talk made at the Grolier Club, New York, 21 October 1948. New York: The Typophiles. ...

Contrary to common wisdom, an informal exchange of promises can still ... Ltd (1995) 185 CLR 410 shall apply to informal contracts: ...

society. The institution had previously been in informal existence; in 1635, however, Cardinal Richelieu obtained official letters patent for the body ...

Tunis had a population of 1,200,000 in 2004. Informal estimates place the population of greater Tunis at nearly four million. Ninety eight percent ...

of "solidarity groups." These small informal groups apply together for loans and its members act as co-guarantors of repayment and support ...

of the human spirit. The stones also served as informal markers, allowing for sacrifices or offerings to be left. The religious beliefs of the ...

media, largely free from official or informal control, though there were ... them continue their religious studies at informal Arabic schools (majlis) ...

John Henry's lawyer then produced an informal "family pact" signed by Ted, John Henry, and Ted's daughter Claudia, in which ...

Country and western dancing is informal, relaxed, simple, casual, without affection, although not so casual as to be sloppy. Kate Van Winkle Keller ...

* Dorf, Philip. Liberty Hyde Bailey; An Informal Biography. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956. * Fairchild, David. Liberty Hyde Bailey. 1941. ...

Signac, along with several others, formed an informal literary society, which they named Les Harengs Saurs Épileptiques Baudelairiens et Anti-Philistins ...

as the Bloomsbury group. The group was rather informal and loosely-knit, but was committed to a number of diverse causes, among them modernism in the ...

a peer tutor or a first year mentor) or more informal (editor of a student publication or songmistress for one of Wellesley's many a cappella vocal ...

became known as the "New Left," an informal movement of dissident leftists closely associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament ...

Hutu, began secretly training young men into informal armed bands called Interahamwe (a Kinyarwanda term roughly meaning "those who fight together ...

– 200 C.E.) This period is characterized by the informal presentation of philosophical doctrines through nonsystematic literature, such as the great ...

* 1907: Boston Americans (informal nickname) formally renamed Boston Red Sox * 1913: New York Highlanders nickname dropped in favor of already ...

!colspan="4" style="font-size:105%;"| ASEAN Informal ... The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an informal dialog process initiated ...

Olmsted and Vaux continued their informal partnership to design Prospect Park in Brooklyn, from 1865 to 1873, Lancaster Clay, Prospect Park Handbook ...

a noun, was once common, but now denotes more informal usage. In academic circles, the term “hieroglyphs” has replaced “hieroglyphic” to refer ...

door-to-door, a phenomenon that led to the informal slogan, "Get clean for Gene." McCarthy's decision to run was partly an outcome ...

beat all six of Harvard's top golfers in an informal match. He later became a member of Harvard's Varsity Hall-of-Fame, although he never officially ...

*"Six" is used as an informal slang term for the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6 *In the military, six is used as slang for ...

with a struggling commercial sector, a large informal sector, and a large subsistence sector. There is sizable urban unemployment and under-employment ...

joined Dylan in Woodstock to create a series of informal demos and jams, subsequently released on LP as The Basement Tapes. ==='Music from ...

to each other, islanders have historically been informal both with each other and to visitors. The most noticeable aspect of this is the "Norfolk ...

no sign language skills have a deaf child, an informal system of signs will naturally develop, unless repressed by the parents. The term for these mini ...

Mount Lu-shan. Within a few years, he became the informal leader of the Southern Chinese Buddhist community. Shortly after Kumarajiva’s arrival in Ch’ang ...

The term business model describes a broad range of informal and formal models that are used by enterprises to represent various aspects of business ...

The term "Frankfurt school" is an informal term used to designate the thinkers affiliated with the Institute for Social Research or influenced ...

Meanwhile, Protestant hymnody has developed into a type of informal liturgical music in which songs by composers such as Martin Luther, the Wesley ...

and conditions of the training. Often some informal, theoretical education is also involved. Apprenticeships are available all over the world in ...

[[Image:Potrait of the Kangxi Emperor in Informal Dress Holding a Brush.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Kangxi Emperor at young age]] One of the greatest ...

institutions and society. Beyond informal and anecdotal evidence, ... schools, employers, students). This "informal culture of expectations ...

in criteria. However, there are informal policies to provide employment and long term welfare (which is usually not available to general public ...

Rum-running or "bootlegging" is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport of illicit goods. While the smuggling of alcohol ...

Orleans. Retrieved September 15, 2020. The first informal mystic society, or krewe, "Masque de la Mobile" was formed in Mobile in 1704; it ...

appeals from subregional and regional tribunals. Informal popular tribunals serve as courts of the first instance for minor disputes. The 1992 constitution ...

a noun, was once common but now denotes more informal usage. In academic circles, the term "hieroglyphs" has replaced "hieroglyphic" ...

his own. The collection was ideal for informal home entertainment. The arrangements lent themselves to various combinations and numbers of instruments ...

Customary (informal) adoption of children is a feature of the culture, and requests for birth certificates can cause discomfort within families. ...

* Five is an informal term for the British Security Service, MI5. * There are five vowels in the English alphabet: A, e, i, o and u. ...

Bedouin tribes, conflict resolution can be as informal as talks between families of the two parties. However, social protocols of conflict resolution ...

systems, wheat is often grown as landraces, informal farmer-maintained populations that often maintain high levels of morophological diversity. Although ...

company, the new Mitsui was characterized by informal collaboration in policy-making among the presidents of the various companies, supported by financial ...

an atom, is named after "immy," an informal term for the image orthicon tube that was common in early television cameras. ...

larger items such as vegetables and kimchi. In informal use, small, difficult-to-pick-up items such as cherry tomatoes or fishballs may be stabbed, ...

Typically, congregational churches have informal worship styles, less structured services, and may tend toward modern music and celebrations ...

is the head of government. Some elders exercise informal authority on a local level. There are no formal political parties and election campaigns are ...

In doing so, the gap that exists between informal requirements from users, operators, and marketing organizations, and technical specifications ...

and often called himself a maverick. His informal and passionate style of writing and his emphasis on visual and geometric intuition (supported ...

introducing membership to replace ad hoc informal groupings. He created a ... mainstream political parties may form an informal cordon sanitaire which applies ...

and education] The Encyclopedia of Informal Education, January 7, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2021. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

The observance of a "Public Domain Day" was initially informal; the earliest known mention was in 2004 by Wallace McLean (a Canadian ...

Marx considers a retrograde class, live in the informal economy outside of legal employment: the poorest outcasts of society such as beggars, tricksters ...

of 1900, various French artists formed an informal collective known as, La Société des artistes décorateurs (the society of the decorator ...

languages), as well as through diverse informal meetings and social contacts ... and regional groups, as well as in more informal gatherings. This resulted ...

In colonial America, informal social controls in the home and community helped maintain that the abuse of alcohol was unacceptable. As the colonies ...

involves the collection of anecdotal evidence, or informal accounts of experiences. In contrast to empirical evidence, anecdotal evidence cannot be investigated ...

and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Nonetheless, his informal language is often paired with campy, scholarly language, to create a dreamlike, and almost ...

which is timpano. However, this is rarely used in informal English speech. A musician who plays the timpani is known as a timpanist. While the word timpani ...

Tamil words, it is used with relatives and for informal interactions. Réunion Creole is now taught in some schools. French is generally used in formal ...

by a square tower, and used by the Moors as an informal court of justice. A narrow passage leads inward to the Plaza de los Aljibes (Place of the ...

at 291; more of her work was shown there in an informal group show in August, and in April, 1917, Steiglitz organized O'Keeffe's first one ...

Those include dance and musical contests, informal events, quiz and a personality contest—Mr. and Miss Technopark. The parade crosses Technopark ...

also entertained her circle of friends at informal gatherings at the house. The site is now the home of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill. ...

Creole, an English-based dialect, is spoken in informal situations. The Virgin Islands Creole spoken on St. Croix, known as Crucian, is slightly different ...

either serving on its faculty or as formal and informal advisers on matters of faculty and pedagogy. ==Other authors== In addition to those discussed ...

gave Hemings her "time," a type of informal freedom which would allow her to continue to live in Virginia, where she lived out the rest ...

outdoors. Modern Rastafari ceremonies are very informal but democratic events. Important dates when grounations may take place are: ...

Because of his ill health, his education was informal until 1813, when he enrolled in a Presbyterian school in Columbia, Tennessee. Polk soon transferred ...

sovereignty, in a deliberately informal setting where he strolls so negligently that that he seems at first glance nature's gentleman rather ...

School, which while not an institution, was an informal group of like-minded painters, named by New York Tribune art critic, Clarence Cook, or the landscape ...

and most important buildings. The city's informal housing settlement is at Kroo Bay, on the coastline of central Freetown. == History == ...

took up in 1926. Carnap thereupon joined an informal group of Viennese intellectuals that came to be called the Vienna Circle, led by Schlick and ...

students, listen to student grievances, and set up informal groups for students, teachers, and other school personnel. In particular, they study and evaluate ...

involves a combination of formal schooling and informal acquisition of gender-related knowledge and skills. Formal education is mandatory and most children ...

Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport of illicit goods. The term originally referred to the illegal transport ...

have no official trail to the top, although rough informal routes, commonly referred to as "herd paths," have developed over the years and ...

However, the script was difficult to write, and an informal Qin script remained in use which was already evolving into an early form of clerical ...

pocket boroughs (constituencies subject to the informal but strong influence of patrons). In general the government made gains in England and Wales ...

flag; the winning design was adopted as the informal flag of the territory, and in 2002 it was made the official flag of Christmas Island. The blue ...

Hernando de Soto documented the growth of the informal economy around Lima, in which entire communities were built, roads were paved, and people prospered ...

For example, in Russia, Dedovshchina (дедовщи́на), the informal system of subjugation of new junior conscripts in the armed forces ...

Many of the simplifications adopted had been in use in informal contexts ... purposes. In Taiwan, there is also an informal body of characters used ...

Prior to the advent of Nazism, there were informal and formal codes ... there was no international law or even informal statements that differentiated ...

tripod.com/~hardbop/gilmore.html] He also took informal lessons from Gilmore. By the fall of 1965, Coltrane was regularly augmenting his group ...

In contrast, informal punishments, particularly in domestic settings, tend to lack this ritual nature and are often administered with whatever ...

century saw the transition from the "informal" imperialism of control ... of the world largely untouched by "informal imperialism" and "civilization ...

Both of these varieties are played mainly in informal settings such as intramural or youth games. Professional, intercollegiate, and varsity-level ...

with a few individuals also appears through his informal exchange with them, much of which is filled with spicy remarks. == Legacy == ...

of those activities within the potlatch. The more informal and social aspects are largely what remains today. One major difference in today's potlatch ...

time; numerous media outlets settled on the informal "Screenies." Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/the-screenies-are-upon ...

struggle in the 1980s and early 1990s, a large informal economy developed. Almost every street in the downtown area of La Paz and surrounding neighborhoods ...

The informal, social form of the dance is known as Raqs Baladi ("Dance of the Country" or "Folk Dance") in Egyptian Arabic ...

Children's museums are institutions that contain exhibits and experience-based informal learning programs for children. In contrast with ...

Basil Boothroyd, Prince Philip: An informal biography (McCall Pub ... *Boothroyd, Basil. Prince Philip: An informal biography. McCall Pub ...

through community music parties and other informal gatherings. Square dances were an important social avenue throughout the Ozarks into the twetieth ...

place more emphasis on the need for private or informal repentance, and less emphasis on the need for formal or public repentance. However, both Catholics ...

had always been the norm in Kolkata, and the informal sector has comprised more than 40% of the labor force. S. Chakravorty, "From Colonial ...

Lecturing on the Orrery (ca. 1766)Informal philosophical societies ... Another means for the spread of innovation was by the network of informal ...

Jimi's last public performance was an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho with Burdon and his latest band, War. ...

For example, courts generally consisted of informal public assemblies that weighed conflicting claims in a case and, if unable to reach a decision ...

scenes. He painted portraits, both formal and informal, and in later life painted several landscapes. He is best known for his masterful handling of ...

into day and night uses, and into formal and informal areas, had begun."last=Rybczynski |first=Witold |author-link=Witold Rybczynski |title=Home: ...

It also included, particularly in the later years of the regime, informal ... Fritsch were removed from office, but an informal network of officers critical ...

extended family or small clan. Bands have very informal leadership; the older members of the band generally are looked to for guidance and advice, but ...

(houses or flats), with 20.5 percent are in informal structures (shacks). 42.4 percent of the population described themselves as "Coloured ...

Factors associated with formal and informal help utilization. Paper presented at the National Council on Family Relations annual meeting, Vancouver ...

Field Researchers Organization began organizing informal searches of wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest area of the U.S and Canada where sightings ...

to enter into talks in September. Wałęsa was an informal leader of the "non-governmental" side during the talks. During the talks the government ...

stops, and sometimes at the end of sentences. In informal writing small versions of the five vowel kana are sometimes used to represent trailing off ...

Born in the Jeeves stories, it became its own informal series of short stories, mostly featuring club members Freddie Widgeon or Bingo Little, plus ...

Shinty) is a popular Canadian term for an informal type of hockey, either on ... red line between the goalposts; also the informal term used to refer to the ...

Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issues informal advisories in all basins except the Northern Atlantic and Northeastern Pacific. The Philippine ...

annual four-day event of conference papers, informal talks, question and answer sessions, films, dramatized readings, music, creative writing workshops ...

and that there was no international law or even informal statements that differentiated illegal from legal human experimentation. For this reason, there ...

ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicine. The informal economy is more important than the formal economy for most Central Africans. ...

students in formal classes, but women attended informal lectures and study sessions at mosques, madrasahs and other public places. Some men did not approve ...

of the labour force is found in the informal sector. Jose Miguel Guzman, Ann Pawliczko, Sylvia Beales, Celia Till, and Ina Voelcker (ed.), Ageing ...

and elaborate shape. Hence, in informal usage, the word baroque can simply mean that something is "elaborate," with many details, without ...

In the final informal poll on October 2, Ban received 14 favorable votes and one abstention ("no opinion") from the 15 members of the ...

of alumni. Stanford hosts monthly informal dances (called Jammix) and large quarterly dance events, including the Ragtime Ball (fall), the Stanford ...

11: Have no relations save the most casual and informal kind with the downtown schools”. [http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=archives/andiron ...

rights of the natural parent, legal guardian, or informal caregiver, and to act as the parent of any child or individual who is in need of protection ...

common action type used in hunting, plinking (informal shooting), and target competition, although they are now mostly obsolete for military use except ...

interact with students very frequently, in very informal circumstances, and he had never seen anything inappropriate, ominous, or anything indicative ...

of song prevalent throughout northwest China. The informal music is often competitive in nature, with singers interacting and improvising topical and ...

hence procreation was considered undesirable. Informal relationships were considered preferable to marriage among Cathar credentes. Perfecti were supposed ...

change in meaning of the descriptor and is an informal fallacy. ===Ethics=== Aquinas's ethics are based on the concept of "first principles ...

others representing a large portion of the informal sector. With high unemployment levels, many poorer South Africans resent immigrants, who are seen ...

are required to constitute a team. However, informal neighborhood "pickup" games are often played with less. Goalkeepers are the only players ...

quot; during papal conclaves. By an informal convention, each nation was allowed to veto not more than one papal candidate, with this decision ...

written with librettist F.C. Burnand for an informal gathering of friends. Public performance followed, with W.S. Gilbert (then writing dramatic criticism ...

creation over the past decade, although the informal economy is growing. Haiti consistently ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world on the ...

of human endeavor, Princeton seeks to fulfill its informal motto: “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations."[http://www ...

almost always used in formal situations. In informal situations, the de facto everyday language among Okinawans under age 60 is mainland Japanese spoken ...

work, inspired scholars of informal logic and rhetoric. === Metaphysics and Radical Empiricism=== [[Image:Chicago_Club_1896.jpg|thumb|right|250px ...

County, however, do have their own informal self-insured health plan, called Church Aid, which helps members with catastrophic medical expense ...

amateur groups in schools, theaters, and other informal stages. In addition to Britain and the United States, there are vibrant musical theater scenes ...

This informal style baffled yet amused the British public. She rallied the supporters of the current government, was pragmatic enough to moderate ...

* De Felice, Renzo. Fascism: an informal introduction to its theory and practice, an interview with Michael Ledeen. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction ...

extended family or small clan. Bands have very informal leadership; the older members of the band generally are looked to for guidance and advice, but ...

" his successors revived their informal role in the governing process. Like its predecessor the Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuchs would be ...

Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺, Golden Pavilion Temple), the informal name of Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺, “Deer Garden Temple”), was originally built in ...

(lit. reign of grandfathers) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today ...

In many informal folk beliefs among Christians concerning the afterlife, the souls of the virtuous dead ascend into heaven to be converted into ...

Romanization of Russian|Informal romanizations of Russian ===Orthography=== Russian orthography Russian spelling is reasonably phonemic in practice ...

textual records or within the large number of informal Egyptian texts still in existence. For instance, after the serious Egyptian setback at the Battle ...

The popular definition of the "South" is more informal and is generally associated with those states that seceded during the Civil ...

reshape the world. At this time Fuller began an informal, but long-term, relationship with the U.S. government. In 1940 Fuller left Fortune magazine ...

There are many variations as well played in informal settings without referees or strict rules. Perhaps the single most common variation is the ...

This system of apprenticeship and informal adoption extended into the nineteenth century, today seen as a transitional phase for adoption history ...

and back. All other characters, and officials on informal occasions, wear the chezi, a basic gown with varying levels of embroidery and no jade girdle ...

quot; (or "self pitch") often found in informal games where the emphasis is on the social rather than the competitive aspects of the game ...

readings of chamber music may take place at more informal domestic occasions. Its written transmission, along with the veneration bestowed on ...

motion is, however, often limited by informal agreements between the parties. Debate may, however, be restricted by the passage of "Allocation ...

popular spot to view the city skyline. Some more informal, semi-natural open spaces also exist, including the Hampstead Heath of North London. ...

Empathy is good at prompting prosocial behaviors that are informal, unplanned, and directed at someone who is immediately present, but is not ...

Informal negotiations for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan had been underway since 1982. In 1988, the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan ...

clubs and societies of both a formal and informal nature. {| class="wikitable" |+Organizations | Standards groups || ANSI, IEC, IEEE ...

although they may be common in informal, personal usage. TV, for example, may stand for a single word (television or transvestite, for instance ...

A town accomplishes common goals through informal agreements between neighbors or the leadership of a chief. A city has professional administrators ...

of musicians and passed on in both informal and formal contexts. ==Fiddle== When played as a folk instrument, the violin is ordinarily referred ...

work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin ...

He then served as an informal advisor for Bush's presidential campaign during the 2000 election. Shultz has been called the father of the ...

an Irish Protestant, and over the next few years informal gatherings by Irish immigrants were the norm. The first recorded parade in New York was by Irish ...

More difficult to assess, because of its covert and informal nature, was the significance of that part of the private sector called is the "second ...

* De Felice, Renzo. Fascism : an informal introduction to its theory and practice, an interview with Michael Ledeen. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction ...

types of settings. The first, the juerga is an informal gathering where people are free to join in creating music. This can include dancing, singing ...

ethnic languages spoken in and around Nairobi in informal settings. Sheng originated in the Nairobi slums and is considered fashionable and cosmopolitan ...

(CQ) Press. (Legislative procedure, informal practices, and other information) 0095-6007 * English, Ross M. The United States Congress. Manchester ...

#039;s money and Pompey's influence, and an informal alliance soon followed: The First Triumvirate (rule by three men). To confirm the alliance ...

his lifetime. A pose might be considered too informal, the exactness of his forms too real, or the lack of a heroic theme found disrespectful. Rodin ...

Political scientist Markus-Michael Müller argues that mostly informal ... In the center of the city informal street vendors are increasingly ...

honest broker in international conflicts; an informal network of Norwegian individuals with access and credibility among parties; and the willingness ...

youngest MP in the house and he sat with an informal grouping of Welsh Liberal members with a programme of disestablishing and disendowing the Church ...

During this time he became an active member of the informal group of writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla Group, an association ...

met the 14th Dalai Lama for "private and informal talks" in the Chancellery in Berlin amid protest from China. China afterwards cancelled ...

Frank Graham, The New York Yankees: An Informal History (New York, N.Y.: ... * Graham, Frank, The New York Yankees: An Informal History. New York ...

enforced laws. As a consequence, the informal sector now dominates the economy. The Congolese government has approved a new investment code and ...

Guevara soon became highly influenced by his informal Marxist studies. He concluded that the only solution for Latin America's economic and social ...

however, leaders of the Green Gang, entered into informal alliances with Chiang Kai-shek, and the capitalists of Shanghai acted against the communists ...

and Levi, as well as Seth Warner—recruited an informal militia, the Green Mountain Boys, to protect the interests of the original New Hampshire settlers ...

Many terms, some insulting and others informal, have been used to refer to people affected by alcoholism. Such expressions include "tippler ...

and then grouping their comments together in informal publications that became known as fanzines.Fredric Wertham. The World of Fanzines. (Carbondale ...

In the later period of his life, Krishnamurti had a number of informal, in-depth discussions with close associates about himself, the source ...

*Various informal romanizations of Cyrillic, which adapt the Cyrillic script to Latin and sometimes Greek glyphs for compatibility with small ...

of Cherokee religious practitioners was more informal and based more on individual knowledge and ability than upon heredity. In addition, separation ...

of the metric, but one that is more informal than a textbook presentation, see chapter 14.4 of Penrose|2004. The amount of stretching there is ...

* Morgan, Murray. 1982. Skid road: an informal portrait of Seattle. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295958460 * Ochsner, Jeffrey ...

characterized by some historians as "informal empire." ... control. The transition from an "informal empire" of control ...

and other vernaculars are normally spoken in informal situations, and there is not yet a formalized system of writing (other than as in standard ...

of C. S. Lewis; they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the "Inklings." Tolkien used fantasy in the ...

in 1823, Stephen F. Austin organized small, informal armed groups whose duties required them to range over the countryside, and who thus came to ...

Lodges of Instruction or Research, and sometimes informal groups, Freemasons, and others, frequently publish—to varying degrees of competence—studies ...

of his court, Musa transformed Sankore from an informal madrasah into an Islamic university. This established close links with other great centers of ...

prayer that are heard five times a day have the informal effect of regulating the pace of everything from business to entertainment. Egypt is predominantly ...

exchange for the occasional ride in an airplane or informal flying lesson.M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom ...

History. eelavar.com. The performances have an informal air, performers often interacting with the audience, mocking them, or involving them in the dialogue ...

of the occupying force but was assigned to an informal Special Services band unit that would entertain nearby American forces. Subsequently, he sang ...

Quarterly, 1998. (Legislative procedure, informal practices, and member information) * Hernon, Joseph Martin. Profiles in Character: Hubris and ...

the four major Oirat tribes, was a decentralized, informal and unstable alliance. The Dörben Oirat was not governed from a central location, and it was ...

#039;s President Kim Il Sung and obtained an informal agreement that the North would freeze its nuclear program in exchange for provision of alternative ...

development funds were diverted through informal payments to government personnel and politicians, while a high level of “leakage” went to ...

slightly adjusted in the 1943 National Pact, an informal agreement struck at independence, in which positions of power were divided according to the 1932 ...

The Polish Communists were divided into two informal factions, named Natolin and Puławy after the locations where they held their meetings: ...

and amateur sindonologist, announced in an informal article in Books and Culture magazine that he had made a near-duplicate of the shroud image by ...

for male priests. Bhakti services are often informal, consisting of singing led by whoever is gifted musically, sometimes with spontaneous homilies ...

In the 1970s, some informal groups emerged that seem to either have been wholly new in origin, or to have been a new manifestation of an older ...

damage they caused. Although some informal blacklisting continued, the private "loyalty checking" agencies were soon a thing of the past. ...

Yen-ching) is and has been another popular informal name for Beijing, a reference to the ancient State of Yan that existed here during the Zhou Dynasty ...

concert, maybe with amplifiers. It was very informal, and you know, very intense. In 1973, Columbia Records released Cohen's first concert ...

The extent to which the process is formal or informal and makes use of computer based systems, documented norms or experience and judgement also ...

the Montagnards, who had long enjoyed an informal alliance with the sans-culottes—resented the action but felt compelled politically to permit ...

#The growth and dynamics of the informal economy. #The loss of social capital through emigration and disrupted education. #The evolving relationship ...

rather than public themes. It thus had a more informal poetic diction. By the thirteenth century, Tanka had become the dominant form of Japanese poetry ...

"useless" plants, the informal use of the word "weeds" to describe those plants that are deemed worthy of elimination is ...

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Image:Smm046.jpg|Reverend Moon addresses religious leaders at an informal gathering at the World Culture and Sports Festival, Seoul, Korea, February ...

with her children tends to be warm and informal. Women are responsible for the home, and men are responsible for providing the income and representing ...

The Invisible Committee advocate for small, informal affiliation groups, in which each member is responsible for their own actions but works together ...

The term "Frankfurt School" is an informal term used to designate the thinkers affiliated with the Institute for Social Research or influenced ...

often inherit houses. Kin groups tend to be informal networks of relatives. Physical discipline is uncommon, although children are brought up to defer ...

such as UNESCO, the OECD, the ICC, and the informal Paris Club. The Paris region has one of the highest GDPs in Europe, making it an engine of ...

Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based film industry. Bollywood and the other major cinematic hubs (Bengali, Kannada ...

Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a friend and informal leader there for many of his classmates,Robert Timberg, The Nightingale's Song (New ...

was invited to contribute to the plan during informal discussions, he proposed a radical and novel idea. Not only his army corps, but the entire ...

and supports the arts. Israelis are very informal, and their standards might be considered rude elsewhere. The words "please" and ...

well as a leading member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), WTO, APEC ...

national borders through loosely knit networks and informal relationships of trust and solidarity". Mark Bray, "Antifa isn't the ...

regular meeting, often weekly, and is marked by informal arrangement of both musicians and audience. Protestant Scottish traditional music is characterized ...

public accolades. Clerics advance through the informal acknowledgment of their peers. “Ta'arof,” a ritualized system of speech and behavior ...

through interactive workshops and informal learning experiences. Meanwhile, the concept of creative tourism has been picked up by high-profile ...

Party of China as a study society and informal network. Mao set up a Changsha branch and opened a bookstore for the purpose of propagating revolutionary ...

for some time through alliances, formal and informal, between princely rulers. The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process ...

The Irish regard their culture as egalitarian, reciprocal, and informal. While an English-style rigid class structure is absent, social and economic ...

crafts in architecture is symbolized by an informal, non-symmetrical form, often with mullioned or lattice windows, multiple gables and tall chimneys ...

in the economy; nevertheless, informal barriers kept Jews from careers in politics and public life. According to the census in 1910, 54 percent ...

on the Baltic Sea. Saint Petersburg's informal name, Piter is based on how Peter the Great was called by foreigners. The city's other ...