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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A secretariat is the body that keeps a large organization organized. The Secretariat is the office of the secretary.[1] Organizations that have secretariats include the US Navy and Interpol. The European Union's Council of Ministers has a secretariat th...
Elves were originally thought of as ambivalent beings with certain magical abilities capable of helping or hindering humans, but later became increasingly sinister and were believed to afflict humans and livestock in various ways. They are found in the mythology of many cultures, including among the Old Norse gods. Th...
Tzarich Iyun: Davening with a Minyan Misconception:The main purpose of davening (praying) with a minyan is to be able to recite devarim shebekedushah (prayers with the status of sanctity), such as Kaddish, Kedushah and Barchu. Fact: There are many advantages to davening in shul with a minyan: creating community; dave...
Facebook Diplomacy means harder work - fewer wars “People-to-people exchanges create a positive relationship among nations upon which government diplomats can build,” Federman says.  “The more far-seeing diplomats recognize this.  In fact, it was a State Department officer, Joe Montville, who decades ago create...
Web Development - Hello Webapp World Okay, so let's move on to some live web applications. So, at the end of your last homework, you should have Google App Engine running on your machine, and you should have a basic site online. We're going to start with basically the simple hello world example that Google has on thei...
Health Encyclopedia Trypsin (Blood) Does this test have other names? What is this test? Your pancreas is an organ in your abdomen (belly). It lies behind your stomach. One of its jobs is to make enzymes that go into your small intestine to help you digest foods. The pancreas can become inflamed, a problem called ...
Climate modeling and the media Interview | Karen Akerlof, George Mason University 11 March 2011  •  Weather and climate communication was the theme of the 2010 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Among those addressing the topic at the meeting was Karen Akerlof, a GMU doctoral student in environmen...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 This just in - literally - I found it in comment moderation: "On sodomitic foreplay"... So gross! "Whether a man sins mortally by beginning intercourse in the posterior receptacle (the anus)..." Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1871, was the founder of the Redempt...
Take the 2-minute tour × Many of us often talk about Bachelor's and Master's students, PhD students, researchers, professors, and postdocs. But, do we know what we actually intend when we say "Post-Doc"? We all know that a Post-Doc is a person who, after finishing his/her PhD, works for one or two years as a scienti...
OECT Test Guide Download Test Guide (PDF). Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) The following instructions are like those you will find in the test, and the sample questions are similar to the test questions. To get the most benefit from these sample questions, try to answer them just as you would during the actual tes...
Question: How do animals know when to adapt to a new environment? How do they do this? 1. Animals adapt to gradual changes in their environment through natural selection – the animals best suited for the changing environment will survive and those that cannot do not pass on their genes to the next generation. I...
Jump to: navigation, search Convolvulus, Cuscuta (lat.) Medicinal purpose For medicinal purposes the whole plant is used. It is gathered in blossom season and immediately dried in cool and windy place, then put in a gauze bag and stored in dry place. Avicenna has used convolvulus against headaches, melancholia, me...
Egyptian Past: The Lady of Terror By: Dr Stan Florek, Category: Science, Date: 08 Aug 2014 How the rampaging Goddess of destruction was pacified. Sekhmet - Luxor Sekhmet - Luxor Photographer:  © Presumed Pubic Domain Egyptian Past is a blog series containing stories related to Egyptian antiquity, focusing on the a...
IBM Still Dominates Supercomputer List IBM continues to dominate the supercomputing industry, according to the Top500 Organization's latest list of the most powerful computers in the world. Altogether, Big Blue's systems comprise 219 of the 500 systems included in the bi-annual survey. IBM manufactured the top three ...
Take the 2-minute tour × Every now and then I got a glimpse of this bird which I'm pretty sure is not native to Northern Germany where I live. There are at least three of these birds around but I usually only see something quick and green somewhere in the trees. I finally managed to get some decent pictures so I'm hop...
Sep 24 2006 A. afarensis, as imagined at Archaeologyinfo.com A recently discovered juvenile Australopithecine skeleton has been dug up, to which mouldy old fossil the New York Times warmfuzzily alludes as a “little girl.” The author goes on to refer to adult females of the species, who very likely swung from trees, ...
Jupiter Rejuvenated First Pluto lost its status as a planet, being downgraded to a planetoid. Now Jupiter has lost a stripe. In effect it’s been busted down a rank. Nature seems to have stripped a stripe. Yes, it’s still the largest planet in our solar system but it is not its old self. Is it a new self? Jupiter nor...
One thing you learn very quickly when writing a driver is that NTSTATUS is used almost everywhere. The consistency is nice, especially compared to user mode where errors can be an HRESULT, LONG, or DWORD (yes they are all the same underlying type, but they have different meanings, particularly for success/failure check...
Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American Is It Possible to Keep Electronic Secrets? But here's the question: Can you actually keep your personal information private? The revelations about PRISM shake the foundation of privacy that is often guaranteed on sites such as Facebook and Googl...
Science Sushi Science Sushi Real science. Served raw. Observations | Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs This is the first in a series of post of mine about Evolution that I started posting in January of 2010. I'll be reposting the series over the next two months, culminating in a brand new post for the set in Jan...
Tax Implications of Gifting Money by Rebecca Lake, Demand Media Gifting money to someone can create a potential tax liability. Gifting money to someone can create a potential tax liability. Making a significant cash gift to someone is a generous move, but it may have serious tax implications for the give...
Carl Sagan Scientist, author and television personality (deceased). Popularly (and incorrectly!) believed to use and over-use the phrase "billions and billions." ChadMiller notes that he saw CarlSagan rebutt the idea at a speech at Florida State University's "Distinguished Lecturer Series" in the late '80s. Sagan clai...
Saturday, November 16, 2013 Two behavioral principles overlooked by free-market apologists 1. Establishing/Motivating Operations- EOs are antecedent factors which alter the value dynamic in behavior. For example, a starving man may kill for bread, not because he is less moral than the workaday man who buys it with pa...
Activist “comes out” for civil rights Keith Boykin, a former Clinton aide, spoke on the nuances of being of a minority race in the LGBT community. Photo: Ivy Zhang In celebration of National Coming Out Day, the Office of LGBTQ Student Life hosts author, television commentator, and former White House aide to the Clint...
Take the 2-minute tour × Chinese punctuation is a little bit different from European punctuation, for example: • The full stop (period) is "。" instead of "." • The ellipsis are six vertically centered dots (… …) instead of just three (…) • and others... Is the usage of European punctuation acceptable in Chines...
wind Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary Cambridge Dictionaries online Cambridge Dictionaries online The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English Meaning of “wind” in the English Dictionary "wind" in British English See all translations uk   us   /wɪnd/ wind noun (CURRENT OF A...
Date of Award Degree Type Degree Name Departmental Honors School of Teacher Education and Leadership First Advisor Sylvia Read Due to the dramatic increase of technology in our world today, in addition to being textually literate, students must learn to be visually literate as well. Visual literacy essential...
What is an Oral Fibroma? How is it Diagnosed and Treated? An oral fibroma affects approximately 1-2% of the population, and occurs in both adult men and women. Oral fibromas are sometimes referred to as traumatic fibromas. The term “traumatic fibroma” refers to when a person repeatedly bites or irritates the affected...
Arnold Kling The Seventies American Politics & Economics:... What I Think About Financial R... Bryan writes, I'm too young to remember much about the politics and economics of the Seventies. From books, though, I get the impression that American political economy was in complete disarray The first thing that I wou...
Why Do Movies Move? Movies are not smooth. The time between frames is empty. The camera records only twenty-four snapshots of each second of time flow, and discards everything that happens between frames—but we perceive it anyway. We see stills, but we perceive motion. How can we explain this? We can ask the same ques...
Take the 2-minute tour × "X is dreaded by Y", who is the one causing the dread - and who is on the receiving end? share|improve this question 5 Answers 5 up vote 2 down vote accepted Well, you could say X is dreaded by Y (where Y is the frightened one). But it sounds a bit odd. Y dreads X is shorter and easier to...
FAS | Nuke | Intro | Nuke || Search | Lithium Production Lithium is a very low-density metal, prone to spontaneous combustion. On the periodic table of the elements it lies directly beneath hydrogen and has but three protons. It is the lightest solid element, with a density only about half that of water. Lithium is s...
Fletcher in the News IBGC's Cost of Cash Study Highlighted in Quartz Cost of Cash, The Fletcher School, IGBC Physical Money Costs Americans More Than $200 Billion Each Year, So Why Bother? ...Physical money is its own platform wherever anyone acknowledges its value (a dollar is a dollar anywhere in the world) but ...
Also this: A handgun is designated single action or double action. A single action handgun, like the early rifles and revolvers one has to manually cock the hammer before firing and after loading the round in the chamber or barrel. The trigger does nothing but release the hammer letting it strike the primer in the ca...
 Heading Into the 'I' of the Knaidel - Culture – Forward.com Heading Into the 'I' of the Knaidel Image: Getty Images The point that has been missed in the great knaidel (knaydel? kneidel? kneydl?) controversy is that the real problem isn’t the spelling of Yiddish words in Latin characters. It’s the spelling of Engl...
In Wealth, Washington Was a Winner and Lincoln a Loser The presidents we celebrate today were very different men. Abraham Lincoln loved to talk and debate and write and read books and be boring. George Washington was quiet and dignified, never wasting words. Abraham Lincoln led the United States into war over slavery....
Walking abnormalities can occur for a number of reasons. Anything from an injury to a disease or even a spinal misalignment can cause you to walk irregularly. If you've known for years that you shuffle your feet or walk with your head bent forward, whatever the cause, you can do exercises to improve your gait. You'll b...
Monday, December 26, 2011 4 Types of investments (and which one is incomparabl the best) Many people in life think that the majority of their money will come from their job income. In reality, by investing your money correctly you will be able to earn more from your investments than from your job. While there is a la...
Thursday, November 21, 2013 Understanding the QWidget layout flow When layouts in a UI are not behaving as expected or performance is poor, it can be helpful to have a mental model of the layout process in order to know where to start debugging.  For web browsers there are some good resources which provide a descript...
Jump to Navigation Harvest Tales - Ellis County Submit your own at KansasMuseum@kshs.org. Elma Bamberg I Wanted to Know What the Boys Did I wanted to know what the boys did as their part in the harvest fields. So one year I got my wish and permission to ride in a header box and help pitch wheat. I found that it wa...
Take the 2-minute tour × I understand a radian is defined to be Arc/Radius, but why is it specifically defined this way? And how come this ratio works the way we expect angles to do? In wikipedia it says: "Angle is also used to designate the measure of an angle or of a rotation. This measure is the ratio of the lengt...
Take the 2-minute tour × We can compare real values if they were greater, lesser but we cannot do same for complex numbers. What if we map real values(within some small range) onto a sphere and declare each one of them as complexed, can we use their "angle($phi$) angle($rho$)"/"distance to origin" as components of a ...
Take the 2-minute tour × This is kind of a reverse question. A few years back I was presented with a functional equation problem, I don't remember it completely, and now I would appreciate the help of the math.SE hivemind to recreate it. It concerned a function $f:\Bbb Q^+\to \Bbb Q$, with $\Bbb Q^+$ being the stric...
Drexel dragonThe Math ForumDonate to the Math Forum Ask Dr. Math - Questions and Answers from our Archives Reducing Fractions Date: 5/30/96 at 15:44:39 From: Vivian McCraw Subject: Reducing fractions I was placed in ESE from Pre-k through grade 12 and they never had me learn to reduce fractions. What is the easies...
Take the 2-minute tour × In "Mackey - Unitary Group Representation in Physics, Probability and Number Theory" on page 326, George Mackey mentions a result of Ludwig Siegel, which was later generalized to semi-simple Lie groups by André Weil. In his words: "Now in one formulation Siegel's main result takes the form of...
Take the 2-minute tour × I believe the following statement is true: Given a complex analytic map $f:\Delta\to V/G$, where $\Delta$ is a disc in $\mathbb{C}$, $V$ a finite dimensional complex vector space and $G$ a finite subgroup of $GL(V)$, then $f$ admits an analytic lift $\tilde f:\Delta'\to V$ up to a ramified co...
Next Contents Previous 4.4. Dark Matter: What, and How Much? The nature of the dark matter - how much there is and what it is - still eludes us. It's embarrassing that 90 percent of the universe remains unaccounted for. This key question may yield to a three-pronged attack: 1. Direct detection. Astronomical searche...
Yellow means stop. The skin of South American golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis) contains enough toxin to kill 100 people. Frogs and Ants Share Poison Recipe The tiny poison frogs of Madagascar and the Americas get their chemical weapons from toxic compounds known as alkaloids. A new study shows that distant...
Quantum Cryptography Hits the Fast Lane Staff Writer A digital message consists of a long string of zeros and ones and can be encrypted in many ways. For example, each bit can be added with one from a stream of random zeros and ones called the key. Adding the key once scrambles the message; adding it a second time u...
What is Numerology? Numerology is the impure science of reducing names, birth dates and other significant dates down to their numerical equivalents in order to divine the future. However numerology is much more than an oracle. It is also a way of making profound investigations into your personality, your deepest drive...
The Bible Codes Are Bible Codes Real? The idea is simple: If one takes every 7th letter or every 10th letter or every 231st letter of the Hebrew text of the Bible (generally meaning the traditional Masoretic text used in most synagogues), these letters themselves sometimes may spell out words, either in Hebrew or in ...
Thursday, June 14, 2012 When Ethicists Fail: Some Thoughts on Abortion, Infanticide, and Personhood (Part 2) What makes you a person?  Is it your current ability to perform a specific function?  Or does being human automatically make you a person?  As abstract as these questions may sound, they're actually quite prac...
Change of perspective in the electronic landscape June 3, 2014 in Physics / Condensed Matter Electronic mountain range in the bismuth crystal: The relief map shows the energy distribution of the electrons as a function of the strength of the magnetic field in Tesla (T) and the tilt angle of the sample. Credit: MPI for...
Take the 2-minute tour × Why is the magnetic field along the length of a solenoid constant? (preferably in relatively simple terms) share|improve this question Why not? I mean, it does not look like a real question. If you know what the magnetic field is, of course. –  Misha Aug 27 '11 at 10:47 It's a perfectly sens...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Goal Setting and Human Psychology This evening, I was discussing with my wife the importance of focusing one's energies and setting goals. It occurred to me that goal setting is the most overlooked and most powerful tool for self growth. Studies have shown people who create goals and implem...
Take the 2-minute tour × I believe that the engine that drives us forward is our IQ. Increasing it will result in a higher productivity rate so I'd like to know what are the general steps that will put a person on that path. Thank you! share|improve this question More than likely, you're just learning how to be bette...
Sacred Texts  Gnosticism  Index  Previous  Next  Buy this Book at Amazon.com Diffusion of Oriental Culture The constant intercourse between Syria and Europe, maintained first by the flocks of pilgrims perpetually crowding to Jerusalem, then by the Crusades, and lastly by the establishment of the Frankish kingdom in ...
Which Jewish Chaplain first entered Dachau? Rabbi David Max Eichhorn and Rabbi Eli Bohnen were the first Jewish chaplains to enter the Dachau concentration camp; both arrived on April 30, 1945, the day following the liberation. The first Jewish religious service was held by Rabbi Eichhorn on May 5, 1945. Three weeks...
Take the 2-minute tour × Covert channels are normally used for communicating illegally or for some hidden communications, but I am trying to figure out what covert channel algorithms might be. Has anyone heard of this term before and what does it mean? How covert channel algorithms could be implemented in non-Comput...
Take the 2-minute tour × Suppose we have a 3.axis accelerometer in an aircraft. I would always need to know what is the vertical component of acceleration (towards the earth) no matter how the aircraft is orientated. I know I can do this if I incorporate additional gyro sensor. But suppose we don't have it - is it pos...
Take the 2-minute tour × I have used Euclid's method to find the L.C.M for two numbers. How can I do this without using this algorithm? I have an idea of first getting all factors of these two numbers and storing them in array. Then take 1 element from array 1 and search for it in array2, if it present there then re...
Feb 11 2013 The Evolution of Feathers Published by under Evolution Comments: 8 As a follow up to my post last week on feathered dinosaurs, I received this question over e-mail: How would a creature get feathers in the first place? I figure there would be some intermediary stages between no feathers and fully feathe...
| Share Synonyms for patent 1. patent, patent of invention, document, written document, papers usage: a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention 2. patent, letters patent, legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument usage: an official document granting a right or privilege 1. p...
Major events in Syria-Lebanon history Posted  | Comment  | Recommend E-mail | Print | 1920: France, the colonial power in Syria and Lebanon, declares a Lebanese state with its current borders, adding to it regions that were part of the Ottoman province of Syria. 1943: France grants independence to Lebanon. Syria becom...
Sunday, April 23, 2006 Under the covers of a memory access When someone writes a computer program, they use many statements that look something like A=B+1. This simple operataion retrieves a piece of data from memory location B, adds one to it, and then stores the result in memory location B. Statements of this form ...
Arctic Amplification Arctic Amplification • Credit: Credit: NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on GISS surface temperature analysis data including ship and buoy data from the Hadley Centre. Caption by Adam Voiland. As far back as 1896, the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius hypothesized that changes in the con...
Government-supported medical research using chimpanzees in the United States has come to an end, but now these bruised and battered closest relative to human are likely homeless for the time being. The 310 chimps that were ‘retired’ from genetic and behavioral studies are considered damaged, and their release back int...
Media centre New tools move polio eradication drive into final stage The recently introduced monovalent oral polio vaccine (mOPV1), which accelerates protection to specific virus types, appears to have stopped transmission in Egypt and most areas of India - the two greatest technical challenges to polio eradication...
Shortcut Navigation: World Hunger Of the world’s nearly 6.8 billion humans, almost 1 billion people are malnourished, and 6 million children starve to death every year. Feeding half the world’s grain crop (1) to animals raised for food instead of directly to humans is not only grossly inefficient, but a disastrous wa...
Efficacious in a Sentence Definition of Efficacious having the power to produce a desired effect Use Efficacious in a sentence 1. Because my medicine is efficacious, I expect to feel better soon. 2. Yoga is very efficacious at reducing stress. 3. Over the years, water therapy has proven quite efficacious a...
Clearing floated images in body text A problem that I've been running into more often in these days of CSS based layouts than I did back in the old table days is the "image-sticking-out-of-the-bottom-of-the-content-area" problem that often occurs when an image is floated left or right, and there isn't enough text to e...
May 022012 Copying is not Enough An appretice’s life in a studio meant copying the work of  a master artist.  But copying alone does not guarantee an understanding of design.  We need to bring “information to bear” as we organize the  chaos of life into a successful image.  L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp. Art...
Growing Bio-Bricks with Bacteria Saves Water and Energy Firing kilns up to 2,000 degrees for three to five days, brick making requires a lot of energy and spews millions of tons of CO2 into the air. For millenia, it hadn't occurred to anyone to improve the traditional process that transforms clay, sand, and water into...
Practical - Index > Companion Animals > Pet Care > Parrots > Routine Care Feathers Tell All by Sunny Feathers on our birds can be compared to having the structure of reptile scales. These feathers are needed in order for a bird to fly, regulate their body heat, and protect them against the environment. Knowing this i...
British Archaeology, no 6, July 1995: Interview Simon Denison talks to Clive Orton Inventing the warm heart of logic It is hard to know quite how to introduce Clive Orton. Nobody outside archaeology will have heard of, let alone care about, his major professional achievements, namely two new systems for quantifying ...
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In one magical decade, The Beatles made records built to last an eternity. The same might be said for the band's chart records. Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's remarkable Billboard coup, when their songs occupied the top five slots of the singles chart, a feat never repeated. The Billboard Hot 100...
User comments for Papa Key: Meaning/History Usage Pronunciation Famous Bearer Personal Impression Other The full name for this deity is Papatuanuku, not just Papa. The word 'Papa' is also used to address ones father in Maori, although the sounds of the a's are elongated as with a macron over them. [noted -ed] -- Kar...
The Truth About Cortisol (BeWellBuzz) Cortisol, also referred to as an adrenal cortisol hormone, is perhaps the most important hormone in our body as it affects nearly all the vital organs. Cortisol falls under a class of hormones known as glucocorticoids and is secreted by the adrenal gland. The most important job o...
Tapasin is a trans-membrane protein that is located within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) . Its primary function is to assist in the binding of the MHC I protein with its antigen peptide fragment. It acts as an accessory molecule, binding to both the TAP and the MHC I protein within the lumen of the ER. More specif...
China Today: Biogenerics in China: An Evolving Industry China's large domestic market potential and its competence in producing biogenerics are driving its future direction Jun 01, 2007 Volume 20, Issue 6 Development of biogenerics, perhaps more accurately termed biosimilars, today is more a function of intellectual ...
Robert Kerr (writer) The village at the entrance of the Sound stands on the side of a rising ground, which has a pretty steep ascent from the beach to the verge of the wood, in which space it is situated. The houses are disposed in three ranges or rows, rising gradually behind each other, the largest being that in ...
The Government Inspector Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard Buy The Government Inspector Lesson Plans Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________ Short Answer Questions 1. What does Khlestakov say was excellent? 2. What does Dobchinsky say the Inspector General talks like? 3. What does Anna say she has t...
Programming As Lifestyle This is a bad name--it brings up visions of late nights washing down stale pizza with caffeinated beverages while trying to find that one last bug, but... I would like to explore not so much programming itself, as much as its effect on the programmer. A subgoal is to enumerate how being invo...
Sun Safety for America’s Youth Toolkit Image of front cover of the Sun Safety for America's Youth Toolkit CDC’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) funds states, tribal organizations, territories, and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands to develop and implement comprehensive cancer control (CCC) plans...
A lantern hangs suspended by two ropes as shown in the figure above. The angle the ropes make on each side is ? = 29o and the tension in the left rope is 77 N. What is the mass of the lantern? Give your answer in kg to three digits. Assume the ropes are ideal and that the gravitational constant is g = 9.81 m/s2. Get...
Breaking News, World News and Taiwan News. 'Green chemistry' sees bright future in detergents, makeup "The regulatory constraints are such that, together with the current cost of oil, it is already interesting for lubricants, resins and paints," said Professor Daniel Thomas, vice president of the IAR competitivene...
Star Guitar iPhone app helps you learn guitar, write songs Star Guitar, released by the creators of the Pro synthesizer program, lets you "play" a virtual guitar by choosing from 144 chords and various preprogrammed rhythms. You can even record vocals. Star Guitar is built around a calculator-like interface that lets...
Memoization (or memorization) is the technique of saving previously calculated values of an expensive function f(x). If a new request to compute f(x) uses a value x that was used previously, the value of f(x) can be retrieved from a table faster than it could be recomputed. Advanced CPU's may implement some memoizati...
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature Mark Isaak       specimen@curioustaxonomy.net Misc.: Unused Names These are names which taxonomists have considered but which have not made it into the scientific literature. Heroina cocaina (cichlid) Heroina Kullander 1996 is an existing genus meant to be the feminine form of H...
Dangerous Company The specialness of humanity is found only between our ears; if you go looking for it anywhere else, you’ll be disappointed. Lee Silver1 What I am and where in my body I am located is a very old puzzle. An early attempt to answer it by experiment is described in Jomsviking saga,2 written in the thir...
Civilization Conflict It is easy for us to think that our Western Civilization is the only one on this planet, but, of course, this is not true.  Samuel Huntington, author of The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of the World Order, points out that most civilizations view themselves as the center of the world.  T...
If you know how to maintain garage doors, you can ensure that they stay in good working order for years to come. Regularly maintaining your garage door can also prevent serious injuries and property damage. In fact, you should inspect and maintain garage doors at least once a year. Inspect wear and tear Proper mainte...
Every busy parent, wishing for more than 24 hours in the day, has tried to come up with ways to make more efficient use of their time. By establishing efficient routines and reasonable schedules in your home, you have the ability to do just that. You might even find yourself with enough time to plan fun extra activitie...
helix (n.) Look up helix at Dictionary.com "a spiral thing," 1560s, originally of the volutes of Corinthian capitals, from Latin helix "spiral, a volute in architecture," from Greek helix (genitive helikos), a word used of anything in a spiral shape (an armlet, a curl of hair, the tendril of a vine, a serpent's coil), ...
The Religious Autonomy Project: Finding Our Own Ways in Serving G-d By Rabbi Gidon Rothstein, WebYeshiva Introduction: The Question of Mitzvot Welcome to my new project for the WebYeshiva blog. In my Mission of Orthodoxy project, I shared what a wide range of sources identify as the core of the religion. Part of my ...
FAA May Allow E-Reader Use on Takeoffs, Landings Airline passengers have to shut all electronic devices off for takeoffs and landings now, but change could be coming for some devices. The Federal Aviation Administration is considering flight rules changes that would allow U.S. airline passengers to use their e-reade...
What's that Stuff in the Stream? The Water Is a Weird Color! blue dye in stream Occasionally we find a stream that is an unnatural crystal blue color. Typically, this is from a dye that may be applied by upstream lake or pond owners to intensify the blue color of the water and to enhance the appearance of their lak...
Among the signature innovations that combined to allow the Wright Brothers to create the first aircraft capable of heavier-than-air flight was an idea taken from observations of pigeons. The brothers noted that in order to initiate a turn or to keep flying straight in the air, the birds point their wingtips in one di...
My Recipe Box Cooking Eggs to Tender Perfection Learn how and why eggs overcook and how to get the best results when boiling, poaching and scrambling eggs. by Shirley Corriher fromFine Cooking Issue 59 When my former husband and I opened a boarding school many years ago, I found myself confounded by the simple pro...