The Dow Jones Industrial Average is an indicator of how 30 large, U.S.-listed companies have traded during a standard trading session.  A stock market index is a mathematical construct that provides a single number for measurement of the overall stock market (or a selected portion of it).  The index is calculated by tracking prices of selected stocks (e.g. the top 30, as measured by prices of the largest companies, or top 50 oil-sector stocks) and based on pre-defined weighted average criteria (e.g. price-weighted, market-cap weighted, etc.)  When Dow Jones & Co. first introduced the index in the 1890s, it was a simple average of the prices of all constituents.  The second oldest index of the world since 1896, despite all of its known challenges and mathematical dependencies, the Dow still remains the most followed and recognized index of the world.  Shobhit  Seth  https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082714/what-dow-means-and-why-we-calculate-it-way-we-do.asp

Dow Gardens is located in Midland, Michigan.  https://dowgardens.org/

Dhow, also spelled Dow, one- or two-masted Arab sailing vessel, usually with lateen rigging (slanting, triangular sails), common in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.  On the larger types, called baggalas and booms, the mainsail is considerably bigger than the mizzensail.  Bows are sharp, with a forward and upward thrust, and the sterns of the larger dhows may be windowed and decorated.  https://www.britannica.com/technology/dhow  See also https://hideawaysafrica.com/the-history-of-dhows-an-ancient-art/ and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dow and https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dow

Zanzibar Dhow | National Geographic  A ship made without nails can withstand the force of monsoon winds.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnj1h_tM1w  2:31

Blest be the tie that binds.  Cream cheese is a wonderful binder.  Many items can be added:  diced fruit, fruit zest, lightly-whisked egg, sugar, salt, pickles, nut/cracker pieces, or spices.  

Owls don’t have eyeballs.  Instead, their eyes are shaped like tubes, held rigidly in place by bones called sclerotic rings.  Because owls can’t roll their eyes around the way we do, they have to move their entire head to get a good look around.  They frequently twist their head and “bob and weave” to expand their field of view.  Owls can turn their necks about 270° in either direction, and 90° up-and-down, without moving their shoulders.  An owl’s eyes can account for up to 3% of its entire body weight.  There is one drawback to their large eyes.  Owls are very farsighted.  They can’t focus on objects that are too close. Instead, sensitive whisker-like bristles around their beaks help owls detect objects at close range.  Like all birds of prey, an owl’s eyes face the front.  This allows them to have a much greater range of binocular vision than animals with eyes situated on the sides of their heads. An owl’s field of view, for instance, is about 110°, and about 64% of that is binocular.  Owls have “eyeshine.”  Eyeshine is a result of an animal’s tapetum lucidum—a layer of tissue behind the retina that reflects visible light.  This reflection dramatically increases the light available to the animal’s photoreceptors, and gives it superior night vision.  Like many animals, owls have three eyelids.  The upper eyelid closes downward when the owl blinks.  The lower eyelid closes up when the owl sleeps.  https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/birds-eye-view-wbt/

As a rule of thumb, the smaller the bird, the more food it needs relative to its weight.  A Cooper’s Hawk, a medium-sized bird that hunts other birds, eats around 12 percent of its weight per day.  For you, if you weigh … say … 150 pounds, that’s 18 pounds of chow—roughly six extra-large pizzas.  That perky little chickadee flitting back and forth for sunflower seeds from your feeder eats the equivalent of 35 percent of its weight.  You, as a 150-pound chickadee, will be munching 600 granola bars a day.  And a tiny hummingbird?  It drinks about 100 percent of its body weight per day.  That means you’ll be sipping 17½ gallons of milk.  Prefer wine or beer?  18 gallons.  Mary McCann  https://www.audubon.org/news/heres-how-much-food-three-different-birds-need-eat-daily

A Denver omelet is one of the first foods I've ever learned to cook professionally, as a line cook in high school.  Make it a complete lunch or dinner with arugula salad and toasted bread.  Chef John  Find recipe and link to other omelet recipes at https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/263567/the-denver-omelet/

The word omelette, also spelled omelet, is quite the scrambled word.  First served up in English in the early 1600s, omelette comes directly from the French omelette.  The French omelette derives from an older form, amelette, whose L and M were flipped (in a process called metathesis) from alemette. Alemette, in turn, is from lemelle, meaning “little blade.”  https://mashedradish.com/2017/04/17/etymology-of-the-day-omelette/

"Dog and pony show" is a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.  Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being presented or the efforts undertaken to present it.  The term was originally used in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to small traveling circuses that toured through small towns and rural areas that were too sparsely populated or remote to attract larger, more elaborate performers or performances.  The name derives from the common use of performing dogs and ponies as the main attractions of the events.  One was called "Prof. Gentry's Famous Dog & Pony Show", started when teenager Henry Gentry and his brothers started touring in 1886 with their act, originally “Gentry’s Equine and Canine Paradox” which started small, but evolved into a full circus show.  Other early dog and pony shows included Morris’ Equine and Canine Paradoxes (1883).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_pony_show

History and Etymology for oyez  Middle English, from Anglo-French, hear ye, imperative plural of oir to hear, from Latin audire — more at AUDIBLE  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oyez  See also https://www.oyez.org/

Corrida can refer to:  A word of Spanish origin meaning bullfighting; Corrida (horse) (1932--probably 1944), a French Thoroughbred racehorse; Corrida, a 1983 music album by the German disco group Dschinghis Khan; or Corrida (album), a 2006 album by Czech hard rock band Kabát.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrida

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