rill
verb flow in or
as in a rill: the springwater rilled over our cold hands
(as adjective rilled) indented with small grooves: blocks of butter
pounded into artful shapes with rilled paddles
Origin: mid
16th century: probably of Low German origin
As a body of water, a kill is a creek. The word
comes from the Middle Dutch kille, meaning "riverbed" or
"water channel." The term is
used in areas of Dutch influence in the Delaware
and Hudson
Valleys and other areas of the former New
Netherland colony of Dutch America to describe a strait, river, or arm of the sea. Examples are Kill
Van Kull and Arthur Kill, both separating Staten Island, New York from
New Jersey,
Dutch Kills and English Kills off Newtown Creek, Bronx Kill between The Bronx
and Randall's Island, and used as a composite name, Wallkill
River in New York and New Jersey and the Schuylkill
River in Pennsylvania. Fresh
Kills is the primary waterway that leads to the former Fresh Kills landfill which
serviced New York City in the second half of the 20th Century and was once the
largest in the world. Peekskill is a city on the Hudson River settled by the Dutch, founded by
one, Jan Peake, a fur trader and sea captain. The creek, or "Kill" that fed the
Hudson at this wide bend in the river, and gave the city its name, was abundant
with fish, surrounded by game, and became an early settlement and trading
center. Humorously, in Delaware, there
exists a Murderkill River. "Kill" also shows up in location
names as in the Catskill Mountains and the town of Fishkill, New York, which was the subject of a
campaign against etymology by animal rights group, PETA, which wanted a
more animal-friendly name.
More and more Americans are outliving their ability to drive safely. As a result of impairments in three functions
that are important for driving – vision, cognition and motor function – older
drivers have a higher crash risk than middle aged adults. To address this issue, many states have have
enacted laws that contain specific licensing requirements for older drivers. 33
States and the District of Columbia have
special provisions for mature drivers. These
include: Accelerated renewal
frequency; Restriction of online or mailed renewals; Vistion test; Road test;
or Reduced or waived renewal fees. See
charts and requirements at: http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/olderdriver_laws.html
A compass is an instrument containing a freely suspended
magnetic element which displays the direction of the horizontal component of
the Earth's magnetic field at the point of observation. The magnetic compass is an old Chinese invention, probably first made in China during the Qin dynasty
(221-206 B.C.). Chinese fortune tellers
used lodestones (a mineral composed of an iron oxide which aligns
itself in a north-south direction) to construct their fortune telling boards. Eventually someone noticed
that the lodestones were better at pointing out real directions, leading to the
first compasses. They designed the
compass on a square slab which had markings for the cardinal points and the
constellations. The pointing needle was
a lodestone spoon-shaped device, with a handle that would always point
south. Mary Bellis http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Compass.htm
Over thousands of years China has produced a
great stream of inventions, ranging from the mundane chopstick and wheelbarrow,
to sophisticated earthquake detectors and the advanced concept of bank notes. But in China there are four inventions
traditionally referred to as the Four
Great Inventions. These are
paper, gunpowder, the compass and printing.
http://www.sacu.org/greatinventions.html
Treasure fleet
may refer to:
Spanish treasure fleet, a convoy system in
the Spanish Empire transporting treasure and other cargo from 1566 to 1790 or a
Chinese treasure fleet, a fleet of ships
led by the 15th-century Ming Dynasty admiral Zheng He. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_fleet
Rebooting legal research in a digital age by Steven A. Lastres
Research has always been
core to the practice of law. However, we
are seeing a “New Normal” in today’s
business climate, and profound change in legal education and the delivery of legal services
that impacts how research is conducted. New
technologies, resources, and methods of
conducting research are evolving faster than ever before. How have new attorneys,
law schools and employers adapted, and what is the state of legal research
today? In a recent survey, law firm
associates indicated they spend nearly a third of their working hours
conducting legal research, or about 15 hours per week on average. Much of that research is conducted online
using a variety of sources and particular methodologies. Associates believe their employers expect them
to have strong legal research skills
when starting their first position out of law school. With this in mind, many feel that legal
research should be a larger part of the law school curriculum. See eight-page article at: http://www.llrx.com/files/rebootinglegalresearch.pdf Thanks, Julie
scrut- (Latin:
search, investigation, inquiry;
examining, examination; inspect, inspection)
Find nouns (scrutator,
scrutineer), adjectives and verbs using strut at: http://wordinfo.info/unit/1920/ip:4/il:S
The Romans did not count days in the month as a simple number, as we do, but backwards from one
of three fixed points in the month: the
Kalends, the Nones, and the Ides. The
Kalends are always the first of the month. The Nones fell on the 7th day of the long
months (March, May, Quinctilis, October), and the 5th of the others. (Note that this long-short distinction refers
to their length in the republican calendar, not the later version.) Likewise, the Ides fell on the 15th if the month
was long, and the 13th if the month was short.
http://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=calhistory/earlier/roman/kalends
In the ancient Roman calendar,
Quintilis or Quinctilis was the month following Junius (June) and preceding Sextilis (August). Quintilis is Latin
for "fifth", that is, it was the fifth month (quintilis mensis)
in the earliest calendar attributed to Romulus, which began with Martius ("Mars' month," March) and had 10
months. After the calendar reform that
produced a 12-month year, Quintilis became the seventh month, but retained its
name. In 45 BC, Julius Caesar instituted a new calendar
(the Julian calendar)
that corrected astronomical discrepancies in the old. After his death in 44 BC, the month of
Quintilis, his birth month, was renamed Julius
in his honor, hence July. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintilis
“True wisdom comes at great cost.
Only ignorance is free.” Taoist
proverb http://www.nextreads.com/display2.aspx?recid=3544107&FC=1
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