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Does anyone here have experience with “Veterans Airlift Command?” https://www.veteransairlift.org/ On their home page they state, “The VAC provides free air transportation to post 9/11 combat wounded and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes through a national network of...

When legumes are harvested for their seed (usually dried), they are called “pulses.” Lentils would be a common example.

Rome

Quiet

Hair

Yes, eventually.

I will log that as the "comment of the day."

I don't notice any speed difference with iOS10 on my two year old 6+. Most of the features I will use are relatively minor. I like the shortcut to "close all tabs" in Safari.

If you choose to think that it makes an ass out of you, I won't argue. But it still doesn't make it etymologically correct.

No, that is a silly "backformation," not an etymology.

Sure: Assume (v.) early 15c., assumpten "to receive up into heaven" (especially of the Virgin Mary), also assumen "to arrogate," from Latin assumere, adsumere "to take up, take to oneself, take besides, obtain in addition," from ad- "to, up" (see ad-) + sumere "to take," from sub "under" (see...

And, before you go, listen to CW McCall sing "Wolf Creek Pass" (their run ends in Pagosa Springs).

Has Mount Whitney been re-surveyed in the last 45-50 years or is the summit continuing to uplift? When I was there a couple of times in the late 1960s, the first order survey marker at the peak read 14,495.811.

Very much the same here, though my wife's 5 was hers since new; she just waived the last few upgrades. She will be getting a 7+ (or whatever they will call it) and I will wait another year to upgrade my 6+. I suggested to Apple that they adopt a "year" designation instead of model numbers...

I saw the "Call Center Wallboard" in use at the company where I was working as a Data Analyst (the work of the company was under contract to AT&T). It was in direct support of the call center operations in that building. Sorry I don't know the name of the software that drove it; if I think of...

Does anyone know what brand of brushes Michelangelo used? I want to get some like his.

Unnecessary apostrophe.

That was good. The narration gave it the feel of a 1960s junior high school shop class video, but still useful. Thanks for posting it.

People who write "baited breath" when they mean "bated breath." I always imagine someone smelling like salmon eggs when I read that they are "waiting with baited breath."

People who use the word "desert" when they mean "dessert."