Stucco, a cement material, is a common exterior for Southern California houses and it's fire-resistant. Reviewing AP photographs showing buildings still standing, Arnold Tarling, who has four decades experience in fire protection and building inspection in Britain, said houses...
It is war. When the person in question had moreover been working on something that nobody understood, something obscure to do with atoms and research and radiation, then surely he must have been a Nazi. The label was often applied for much less. In parallel with his activities in Hamburg ...
It’s important to remember that brainstorming is a creative, not a critical or analytical process. These rules are designed to encourage creativity. Postpone criticism and analysis, because they tend to stifle creativity. (Tom Arnold, Improve Your Brainstorming Sessions) During brainstorming sessions...
“Gray and Collins got short shrift.” During this same period Thomas De Quincey asserts that Johnson is “the worst enemy that Milton and his good cause have ever been called on to confront,” declaring that Johnson’s view thatParadise Lostis “wearisome has application only to the ignorant...
According to theGo Pestowebsite, no one is really sure how or why it started. There is a book, though, called "You Can Cook If You Can Read,"published in 1946, where this recommendation was discovered for the first time. While it may be fun to throw pasta against the kitchen wall,...
10% for the most robust protection.Many of these experts no longer use wood siding. Where it is used, or still allowed, it needs to have a fire-resistant barrier underneath, often made of gypsum, the same material used to make drywall. That way if the wood catches fire, it takes ...
A growing trend among those looking for companionship is what is being called "paperclipping." Cosmopolitan magazine recently shined a light on the topic of paperclipping, describing is as a someone who keeps minimal contact with someone else just in case they happen to need them in the future...
“I grew up on the bottom of the city, a small neighborhood called Visitacion Valley,” Beasley says. “I think more of the urban community, like blacks or Hispanics in the city, those people always grew up using that word.” Beasley says you hear it in Hunters Point, Lakeview, the ...
The answer is not a sudden profusion of expressly political films; didacticism doesn’t win elections any more than it does the box office. Still, the shuttering of Participant Media and the travails of Trump biopic “The Apprentice,” coming in tandem with C-suite fantasies of a politics...
He has yet to hold a press conference. Since the election, Trump has done a handful of one-on-one interviews and delivered public remarks at an event at Mar-a-Lago. In an interview Monday with Fox News Digital, the president-elect said “in order to make America great again, ...