Q: Why do my dress-shirt elbows keep ripping? I seem to have a problem of my shirt elbows failing on me just about every year to two years.
A: You are hereby diagnosed with “Broker’s Elbow“. The term allegedly comes from business men who spend a lot of time at their desks working the phones.
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Among meanings for preposition per, wiktionary.org includes "in accordance with [ e.g.] I parked my car at the curb per your request." It defines as per as a preposition meaning "Consistent, or in accordance, with." Taking wiktionary as a guide, one can use either form with little difference in meaning, but I think some people will object to such use of per and others to such use of as per. My preference is for per because most uses of as per that I've heard seem pompous and verbose.
From http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/54864/use-of-as-per-vs-per
The 47 inch wide Wedge in Milport, on the island of Great Cumbrae in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 3.2 ft (1 m) wide by 32.8 ft (10 m) tall house of Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho with 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and two other rooms in Madre de Deus, Brazil
The Gap House on an eight-foot-wide (2.5 m) site by Pitman Tozer Architects, London, 2007
The 10.4 ft (3.16 m) wide Skinny House in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts
See full list and photos at http://io9.com/these-are-the-narrowest-houses-in-the-world-960593755
Fasteners and connectors are fixings used to create joints between timbers or to attach other materials to timber.
Fasteners include nails, screws, staples, dowels and bolts.
Connectors are available in a much wider range of shapes, including punched metal plates, joist hangers, split ring connectors and shear plate connectors.
See full article at http://www.tradatechnology.co.uk/fasteners-and-connectors
In horology, a tourbillon is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement.
… a tourbillon aims to counter the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece (thus the escapement) is stuck in a certain position.
Originally an attempt to improve accuracy, tourbillons are still included in some expensive modern watches as a novelty and demonstration of watchmaking virtuosity. The mechanism is usually exposed on the watch's face to show it off.
See full article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourbillon
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
For Langdon, the meaning of these words had never felt so clear: In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.
From Inferno, by Dan Brown
25 sheets = 1 quire
500 sheets = 20 quires = 1 ream
1,000 sheets = 40 quires = 2 reams = 1 bundle
5,000 sheets = 200 quires = 10 reams = 5 bundles = 1 bale
See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_paper_quantity
