Before each solve, puzzles are scrambled according to a computer program, to ensure that all competitors begin from the same positions.
I don't do it to draw a facile link between sufferings, but to insist that we all begin from the same ground: that of being human.
The earlier McClure Report, tabled by Jocelyn Newman in 2000, began from the same premise; that we urgently needed to address the problem of "welfare dependency" because it, and people's lives, are seemingly spiralling out of control.
If a group of Bayesian individuals all had begun from the same initial probabilities, then simply sharing their evidence would lead them all to the same final probabilities.
Where this street meets Sharp Street at a 4-way roundabout, the highway turns east, while the western section of the Snowy Mountains Highway begins from the same point and heads west.
Each gesture was begun from the same relaxed, right hand position and was completed within 1 second of the video onset.
All the numerical experiments reported here begin from the same initial condition, whose preparation is described in the Methods section.
The lower doses of both extracts did not produce an appreciable effect, but, whilst the medium dose of the aqueous extract was able to produce significant effect beginning from the fourth hour, the same dose of the 80% extract was devoid of any effect until the end of the observation period.
"He began suffering from the same disease from which I used to suffer: self-assuredness," Mr. Gorbachev said at the time.
Both the Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise began forming from the same hot spot near the spreading centre as the South Atlantic was in its initial opening stages 100 to 80 million years ago.
