That's partly because the UK is less than the size of one US state, Oregon, whose population is under 4 million persons. You pack more than twice that many persons in London alone. When we say long distance, we mean long distance.

To your credit, when you say "a long time ago," you mean a long time ago.

From a fashion perspective, they were wrong about the tutus but right about the yoga pants.

And it's cool for Intel if it gets others thinking, "What could I do with a Galileo or Edison?" Maybe someone puts sensors under his bottles of liquor, to know if anyone has taken them off the shelf temporarily... or a new home security system, helping you confirm that all windows are shut at night... possibilities are endless if you start to think about it.

And this box lets you know who it was that didn't put it back, without spending a bunch of time to visually inventory every time it's taken out. (And don't assume visual inventories are perfect either...) My bet is that a production toolbox has more than 6 tools, and I sure as heck don't count all the sockets in my socket set when I pull it out. It's reliable because I'm the only one who uses it. But if I shared it with three other folks working other shifts, how do I expect them to remember, "Which of you used the 10mm socket?"

There's probably some lost time too, besides the cost of the tools. If they have to walk across their football-sized factory to get another whosit, it's a productivity cost, and that can add up. If they eliminate time spent at the start and end of day checking tool boxes for accurate contents, more time savings = more money savings.

I didn't know that the study had specifically taken kids from broken homes and compared them against kids from intact homes. If you can point me to that info, I'll happily concede that the study has too few controls to be clearly identifying results about identical versus fraternal twins. I would expect that well-cared-for kids from wealthy families would be more likely to have the opportunity to develop great drawing skills than those from poor homes where art supplies are a scarce luxury. But absent some clear methodological gap and failure to control for some variation between siblings (Rich Girl A got art lessons while her identical sister B got soccer lessons, or Poor Boy C received a scholarship to an inner-city after-school art program while his twin sister D had to wash dishes at a restaurant), I don't understand what besides genetics would drive a difference in demonstrated artistic ability between siblings.

Please explain what are the other impacts on a person's ability to draw a picture. The primary difference between identical twins and fraternal twins is genetics. Each family may choose how much to treat its children identically versus differently, but that is a very complex item likely orthogonal to genetics.

Transient Occupancy Taxes are generally higher, for exactly that reason. And note that TOTs are not normally set at the state level but instead at the city level.

So if someone steals your phone and buys something with it, they can receive and delete the text confirming their purchase?

Fear and cost held me back for a long while too. Then I had kids and found myself crouching low, turning upside down, glasses moving as I looked under things to find lost pacifiers, being unable to see the one-year-old crawling on my tummy while I lay on my back, or was caught off guard by little fingers approaching me from the side of my glasses -- it became a safety hazard and I signed up quickly. Rarely regretted it. Maybe once a month, I wake with the physical feeling that there's something in my eye. It tears up for 10-15 minutes. But I can see better, without fingerprint smudges and eyebrow grease and dust on my glasses; the nosepads are never out of alignment nor do the earpieces cause aches. I look and feel different. It is weird in a sense to see so many years of photos of me with glasses, but I like being glasses-free.

I got LASIK. Now I can buy a $10 pair of sunglasses rather than get prescription sunglasses, wear eye protection in the woodshop, and walk indoors on a cold day without losing my vision temporarily to fogging lenses.

Current LASIK is NASA-approved. And they make it sound like a selling point, as if by having laser eye surgery, I qualified to be an astronaut.

If your cornea is naturally very thin, you're ineligible for LASIK because the whole point is to ablate away part of the cornea. I had IOL surgery instead, which is like an implanted contact lens. The trouble with IOL surgery is that there's a 1% chance you'll get a cataract from the lens accidentally rubbing against your natural lens. This ended up happening to me in one eye 12 months after surgery. To their credit, the clinic where I had it done got me back in and gave me a complete lens replacement in that eye at no charge.

Now, a post-cataract-surgery eye is not as good as a normal eye. I would need glasses again were it not for the fact that my other eye is working perfectly with the IOL. So I have one 20/10 eye and one 20/80 eye, but to be honest it's not something I actually notice day to day; the visual cortex sorts it out for you. I do use reading glasses for long computer sessions.

If I had it to do again, I would still do it, because for me life with glasses and contacts was full of daily annoyances and constraints that I no longer have to put up with. Even if I develop presbyopia, my vision will never again be anywhere near as horrendous as it was before surgery. I had a diopter around -8, plus astigmatism. The convenience of life without glasses is worth the hassle of having one post-cataract eye.

Also, one option people often don't think to explore is that you can have _just your astigmatism_ corrected in an outpatient procedure. This procedure is quick and easy and it allows you to use cheaper glasses and contacts (no more "toric" contacts).

It's been standard knowledge for home gardeners that growing just one thing (e.g. tomatoes or carrots) in a certain space makes it easy for the bugs that feed on it to find it, but if you mix things up then the pests are confused and less successful. To protect against plant-specific pests, put a variety of things together in your garden: flowers, herbs, vegetables. The good pollinators like honeybees will love it; the carrot fly and tomato hornworm moth will have a much harder time finding the carrots and tomatoes to land on and lay their eggs.

Match.com's press release includes a hilarious "heat map listing where the smartest singles live," by mapping where Ivy League grads live. Apparently graduates of Stanford, U Chicago, CalTech, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, etc. aren't as smart. More likely, they're just not as rich and historically connected to Daddy's alma mater. http://blog.match.com/wp-conte...