Google search on recycled leather

The process of recycling leather involves treating and recycling leather residues that are discarded by tanneries and other leather product industries and using it in the production of composite materials.  To recycle leather, first the leather residues and scraps must be shredded.  Next, the resulting blend of shredded leather material is glued together with resin and catalysers.   This product is then pressed between metallic molds of various shapes and sizes, or directly on sublayers to form plywoods, and then structured into the desired item.  The final product has a very polished appearance and there is no need for any additional finishing.  Recycled leather products are esthetically pleasing, soundproof and even have heat insulation properties. They can be used in a variety of ways, from furniture to floor tiles to car interiors and have the look of natural leather.  http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/91891.aspx

Million Short search on recycled leather

"Imagine a search engine that simply removed the top 1 million most popular web sites from its index.  What would you discover?"  Basically the results for recycled leather were ads, so in this instance a better search would be from one of the following choices: 
100k Sites

10k Sites

1k Sites

100 Sites

Go Long - Don't Remove Any Sites

Start your search at:  http://www.millionshort.com/  Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set.  Thanks, Julie.

cull  (kuhl) verb tr.
1.  To select the best.
2.  To select inferior items for removing.
3.  To reduce the size of a herd.

From Old French cuillir (to pick), from Latin colligere (to collect).  Ultimately from the Indo-European root leg- (to collect), which is also the source of lexicon, legal, dialog, lecture, logic, legend, logarithm, intelligent, diligent, sacrilege, elect, and loyal.  Earliest documented use:  1330.  
redound  (ri-DOUND)  verb intr.
1.  To contribute to (someone's credit, honor, etc.).
2.  To come back upon.
From Old French redonder (to overflow), from Latin redundare (to overflow), from red-/re- (back) + undare (to surge).  Ultimately from the Indo-European root wed- (water, wet), which also gave us water, winter, hydrant, redundant, otter, and vodka.  Earliest documented use:  before 1382.
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From:  Tony Augarde   Subject:  Words with opposing meanings

Words with opposing meanings are also known as autantonyms, antagonyms or even Janus words (from the notoriously two-faced deity of Roman myth).  For example, cleave can mean to split apart as well as to knit together, while quite can mean moderately as well as completely, and sanction can indicate allowing something as well as refusing to countenance it (the latter sense being clear in the Peace Pledge Union's historic pledge: "I renounce war, and will never support or sanction another").  In his Spoonerisms, Sycophants, and Sops (1988), D.C. Black listed several other contronyms, such as scan, let, moot, wound up, and commencement.  If you lease or rent a house, are you occupying it or letting someone else occupy it?  If you trip, have you stumbled or are you walking gracefully?  If you screen a film, you show it, but if you screen a garden shed, you hide it.  If the stars are out, you can see them, but if lights are out, you cannot see them.  Does literally mean precisely or is it being used merely for emphasis without being literally true (as in "They were literally killing themselves laughing")?  Phrases, too, can have opposite senses.  First-degree murder is the most serious kind of slaughter, but first-degree burns are the least serious.  The opposing senses of dispense with were presumably not noticed by the pharmacist who advertised that he "dispensed with accuracy".  Nowadays, if you say you are going to take care of somebody, it may suggest that you are going to kill them rather than care for them.  The phrase 'waste no time' can mean that you are eager to start something, but that was not the intention when someone (was it Disraeli?) wrote:  "Thank you for your manuscript.  I shall waste no time in reading it".  My favourite such phrase is with respect, which is often used in conversation or interviews to imply that the speaker has little or no respect for the person addressed!  This is an extract from my new book, Wordplay.  

Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political economist who in 2009 became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics by demonstrating that local communities can manage imperiled natural resources as well as or better than the government or private business interests, died June 12.  She was 78.  Ostrom, a Los Angeles native who taught at Indiana University for nearly five decades, made her reputation by challenging a concept in the social sciences called the "tragedy of the commons."  Ecologist Garrett Hardin coined the phrase in a famous 1968 paper that argued that the depletion or pollution of shared resources such as forests and streams could be avoided only through top-down government regulation.  By studying diverse groups around the world, including Japanese fishermen and Swiss cheese makers, Ostrom showed that it was wrong-headed and often counterproductive to assume that those who used the resources could not set their own conservation plan.  She stressed the importance of working on multiple levels to solve complex problems such as global warming.  Ostrom wrote several influential books, including "Governing the Commons" (1990), which Whole Earth magazine called "the intellectual field guide" for conservationists involved with small communities.  Ostrom shared the $1.4-million Nobel Prize for economics with Oliver Williamson of UC Berkeley.  Working independently, they each showed how economics could be expanded beyond the conventional analysis of market prices.  The Ostroms donated millions of dollars to Indiana University, including her Nobel Prize funds.  In 1973 they founded the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.  Elaine Woo  http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-elinor-ostrom-20120613,0,2391643.story

Flag Day is celebrated on June 14.  It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777.  The United States Army also celebrates the Army Birthday on this date; Congress adopted "the American continental army" after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.  In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day; in August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress.  Flag Day is not an official federal holiday, though on June 14, 1937, Pennsylvania became the first (and only) U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday, beginning in the town of Rennerdale.   See picture of 1917 Flag Day poster at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day_(United_States)

Flag timeline including picture of flag with 20 stars and 13 stripes (it remains at 13 hereafter) honoring admission of Tennessee (June 1, 1796), Ohio (March 1, 1803), Louisiana (April 30, 1812), Indiana (December 11, 1816), Mississippi (December 10, 1817) at:  http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagfact.html