Ceiling Fans The use of central or room air-conditioning (and the high electrical costs associated with each) can be reduced by deploying a time-honored strategy -- getting the air around you to move. A simple desktop or standing fan that sweeps the room every few seconds makes the air se...
You’re not trying to build a Tolkien-level world. You don’t need to worry about subplots. To focus your writing, think of a short story as a short series of events happening to a single character. The rest of the cast of characters should be small. “ When writing short stories, ...
By 2070, the destination of choice for the adventurous could be literally ‘out of this world’. According to innovations forecaster Shivvy Jervis, within 30 to 50 years we can expect short space-based holiday trips to become a reality. That could include astronaut-experience holidays to the Mo...
Anticipating a demanding finish regimen, Sweeney’s team had framed the ceiling to tight tolerances. When we checked the rough layout, we found no more than 1/8-inch deviations from the planned centerlines. After drawing a map of the layout to develop a cut list, we measured the diagonals ...
Brok was the first to lower his weapon. “Metal ceiling,” he said. “Probably just a bird.” He looked at Levit and his gun inched back up. “Stand down,” Grund said. “Both of you.” The two privates backed away from each another, weapons lowered, fingers still on triggers. Out...
I poked the closed shutter curtain's segments around a little with a cotton bud - as with ordinary sensor cleaning, this made me feel like a gorilla trying to build a ship in a bottle, orpossiblylike a Caucasian who'stoo damn tall- and then removed the battery from the camera. With ...
"Usually you have five plazas around the world, four crying and one celebrating," Garcetti told ESPN.com in late June. "This is going to be a slow dual win. The IOC will make an announcement that they are going to move forward with dual bids and then we wi...