Alfred Loomis gets in a last word: “This contest between Tally Ho and La Goleta was characterized at the time as the hardest fight between two yachts that had ever been sailed in English waters over so long a course and under such heavy weather conditions. As an epilogue I may say that...
Waiting our turn to go through ecluse #57, Écluse de Villedubert, we watched an experienced young captain of African descent as he masterfully guided a barge boat first through a lock sequence, spinning the large wheel and thrusting to a forty-five degree angle just to fit. Then, floating...
Interestingly the cotter pin is at a 90 degree angle, but does not pass through into the composite material on the other side. It is disappointing to see another of these fail... His post - (without videos or photos as spread across many posts) - TLDR: Nikon USA ordered Z8 with the...
Let’s examine two terms, “Hispanic” and “Latino,” and see if they make any sense etymologically. “Hispania” is the Latin word for Spain and might be used to refer to anyone who resided in what was formally aSpanish colony. ButFlorida was once a Spanish colony and so was Texasan...
Read a Test to Students without Saying a Word! Posted onSeptember 2, 2013bynapmath I’ve always thought there would be some very cool educational applications for QR codes. I’ve make QR scavenger hunts that are fun for students while being great learning activities. There is an example of...
Especially the statement of the Federal Reserve, it is not designed for translation, it is decided as the highest word play of the world. That is they wish to keep neutral in forecasting the future trend but still need to disclose some secret. So they use a lot of metaphors (隱喻). Tha...
But given the circumstance, I have not a better word for what we witnessed yesterday. Not able to walk by herself, nor to stand, nor to sit, nor to turn her head around, my wife got to Dr. Yali Li’s clinic with a set of Meniere’s symptoms: vertigo (not the worst this time,...
Then, a circle icon in the same color of the word was shown on the hand receiving the next stimulation (hand cue; 2000 ms). A jittered waiting period (5000 ± 2000 ms, evenly distributed in 500 ms steps) simultaneously displaying the hands with the two cues followed. The two cues and...
We then cut any sod inside the hide boundary with e-tools. We carry one per 2 man team. The e-tools are locked at a 90 degree angle and the sod is first cut into 2′ wide sections perpendicular to the hide, from the center of the pit toward the sandbag boundaries. When the secti...
Why, at the root of my spreading the word, was this feeling of reaching out for selfish “say it isn’t so” help? Two days later, in Phil Hughes’ death, that moment assumed an ironical life of its own. Those two days had been spent monitoring markets, stretching time with friends ...