I always warmly congratulate the winners, but I never forget to end with a brief and heartfelt speech, in which I remind the contestants that there is really only ONE purpose of BAMO: to get them to spend four hours thinking about math, and, after the contest is over, to keep thinking.
It comes from House I.3.23 in Pompeii, and dates to between 59 and 70 A.D. And it purports not only to represent the Pompeii Amphitheater, which I remind you of here, and you'll recall the very distinctive staircase of the Amphitheater at Pompeii, and you can see how carefully that is rendered here by the artist to make sure that we know this is indeed the Amphitheater at Pompeii.
I also remember the play and leadership of Gary Walters (which I reminded him of when corresponding with him a couple years ago when he was AD).
A deal was a deal, which I reminded her of frequently the whole ride home.
I knew Claire in a past life, which I reminded her of last night, for she married my best friend, Hilly Elkins, after they met at a dinner party in 1968 at my 50 Central Park West apartment in Manhattan.
Further, I've learned to silence the rumblings of doubt, if only for one sentence at a time--which, I remind myself daily, is all it really takes to move forward.
So, you can find, again, the equation of this thing in cylindrical coordinates, which I'll remind you was z equals r.
Money to burn According to the Huffington Post (by way of the New York Times), it turns out that Marc Jacobs spent $1 million on his runway show, which I should remind you, only lasted nine and a half minutes.
In denying the permit, Mr. Jim Treffinger, the county executive, complained that the program was so rude that it had on occasion made Essex County -- the county seat of which, I must remind you, is Newark -- "the butt of jokes".
Speaking to the conference, Geer described the removal of links to oneself as like moving to a new town or changing one's name: "a definition of privacy that turns on whether you do or do not retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself, a right which I will remind you is routinely granted but to those who have especially helped governmental causes [such as] witness protection".
The increase to the license plate fee -- which I'll remind you is something that people freely choose to pay, if they so desire -- was something the Florida Wildlife Foundation hoped might bring back some revenue, which had dipped of late.
