The endlessly repetitive cropping and grinding becomes a whole way of life, dominating the daily routine of such animals as rabbits and hares, some rodents, marsupials such as kangaroos and wallabies, many ungulates and, among invertebrates, the grasshoppers and locusts.
Inventories are goods being held for sale, as well as supplies, raw materials, and partially finished products that will be sold upon completion. For example, a truck owned by an automobile dealer for resale to its customers is not inventory. A truck owned by an entity and used to transport its own goods is inventory.
Centuries before this, classical Greek culture, although the power of the Gods always hovered in the back ground, was fundamentally humanistic in outlook. That is to say, it placed special emphasis on the importance of human affairs in the world. It glorified the heroic spirit and deeds of man, as seen in The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer (8th Century, B.C.); it praised the beauty of the human bodyー as numerous sculptures, reliefs and paintings testify; it had profound respect for the wisdom and imagination of man's mindーas revealed in the words and works of Spcrates (469-399 B.C.), Plato (427-347 B.C.) and Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), the last of whom, incidentally, was the private tutor of Alexander the Great, the most cultured of all great military leaders.
The gnats didn't bite,but human beings found them annoying because of their great numbers. Efforts were made to control them,but they were useless until in the late 1940s,DDD,a close relative of DDT,was chosen for a fresh attack.
Entities buy insurance protection ahead of the period that the insurance policy covers. When they buy the insurance policy, they have acquired an asset. Since the policy covers only a short period of time, the asset is a current asset. Insurance protection can't be seen or touched. It is an intangible asset.
And thus,to close out my heart―brain analogy,the bottom line is simply that the microscopic level may well be ―― or rather,almost certainly is ―― the wrong level in the brain on which to look, if we are seeking to explain such enormously abstract phenomena as concepts,ideas,prototypes,stereotypes,analogies, abstraction,remembering,forgetting,confusing,comparing,creativity,consciousness,sympathy,empathy,and the like.
Discovering that the younger generation has taken to using thumbs in a completely different way and are doing so instinctively where the use our index fingers is particularly interesting.
She noted how, while those less accustomed to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad, younger people used both thumbs, barely looking at the keys as they made rapid entries.