If you follow that rule in Oregon, you will flunk your driving test! When turning, you are not allowed to enter the intersection until you have a a clear path to turn. The rule is commonly ignored but just don't get into an accident, block the crosswalk, or be in the intersection when an officer is around! We also have some very strict rules when someone is in the crosswalk.

The Supreme Court has been my biggest concern after the death of Antone Scalia. Now I feel a bit of hope for the country. Washington, D. C. need to become the highest unemployment area in the country. #DrainTheSwamp

The direction the Supreme Court would go was the top priority for me.
I wish every state had independent delegates like Nebraska.

It's not necessarily an economical option. The trees are planted much further apart than standard graves and keeping the area in a park-like state for the families to visit is expensive. But it is a radical departure fror a solid bronze casket and a private marble mausoleum.

My wife is a funeral director. One of my favorite options is the body buried in a shroud or only a simple wooden coffin in a memorial park and then a tree of the selected specie planted over the grave.

For safety, I drive with lights on all of the time. Oregon and maybe others require motorcycle headlights to be on at all times.

It all depends on the degree and its relationship to the job. A degree in "Underwater Basket Weaving" isn't going to help a bit when you apply for an engineering position. To many people are hung with huge debts just to get a fluff degree and aren't smart enough to figure out why they can't land a a six-figure job right out of college!

Just try getting it out of the rug if didn't notice that you had had dropped a piece.
My mom was mad about that for months!

http://hint.fm/wind/

Check out this wind map. The circle of winds are showing up in Florida.

I work in Salem, Oregon where the "old shed" containing thousands of unclaimed cremains from the State Hospital were stored. A new memorial has now been erected and efforts continue to identify the individuals whose lives ended at the hospital.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2014/07/07/oregon-state-hospital-cremains-memorial-unveiled/12306023/
http://familyresearchlibrary.com/resources/us/oregon_cremains.htm

As I said, it is all a matter geometry. If a full round hood causes cropping of the corners of the image it is because the outer diameter is too small for the full image area. Making the full round hood large enough to avoid vignetting, might have made the hood too cumbersome for everyday use. So oft-seen solution is to use a smaller physical diameter for convenience and make the outer rim into a petal shape to avoid obstructing the light (or getting the edge of the hood in the picture) in the corners of the image.

The perfect solution to avoid as much incidental light is to make the hood in a rectangular shape to match the image area -- but then we would complain about the hood being too big and bulky. The petal shape allows a compromise of reasonable protection from stray light and also have a fairly compact hood.

I personally like the collapsible rubber hood I use on one zoom. At longer focal lengths it provides great protection, but at wider angles it can get "into the picture." In those case I just collapse it part way or all of the way as necessary. It's an aftermarket hood I've had for years and I just looked at it to see who made it. It either never had a maker name on it or it has long since worn off.

It's simply a matter of geometry -- no matter what kind of lens -- at what point (length and diameter) does the hood interfere with light getting to the corners of the film plane or sensor. A shade for a variable focal length lens must be designed for its widest angle (shortest focal length). Thus the the dips in the edge of the hood to accommodate the corners of the image while still retaining maximum protection in the center of the sides and keeping the overall hood diameter as small as possible. On some larger format and video cameras you will see a rectangular lend hoods. Lenses with long fixed focal lengths can have very deep hoods because their field of view is very narrow. A hood designer considers what maximum length and diameter a user will tolerate. A long solid hood provides the best protection against stray light, but solid hoods for wide-angle lenses get very large in diameter very quickly. The "petal" shape allows for a overall smaller diameter by putting "notches" in the hood rim to let light get to the corners of the image. Few stop to think that when attaching filters, etc. to a lens, the attachments are acting the same as very short lens hoods and can impact the corners of photographs very quickly -- especially at wide angles.

If you look at the design some ampersand characters -- especially in the italic and cursive fonts -- you can clearly see the letters "et" of the original Latin word.

Over the years there has been extensive mining in SE Kansas for lead and zinc. Huge "mountains" of tailings dotted the area. Those tailings are "mined" for there residual metal content and provided the "chat" for many a road project or concrete project. I haven't been in the area for years but I hear most are gone now.
I remember that in the fifties one Sunday afternoon a city block-sized area dropped straight down into collapsed mine tunnels. Nobody was hurt, but a church was in the area and if the collapse had been in the morning, probably many would have been killed. My grandfather wanted to see it so he drove about a hundred miles the next weekend to see it and I was one of the grandkids riding along. It was kind of strange seeing the tops of huge cottonwood trees and the top of the church steeple well below ground level.

Don't blame Ronnie too much -- the push to change to metric started long before all but a few living today were born! I was reading an article in a 1908 printing magazine extolling the virtues of how much would be saved by moving to metric. There have been waves pressure to change ever since pretty much to no avail unless there was a financial benefit. Car parts are the biggest jumble around with metric wrench sizes but the screw threads being American Standard. One locking nut is used worldwide -- metric shaft sizes, metric wrench size but the threads are American -- everyone just describes them by number -- forget the actual dimensions!

If you walk into a hardware store and ask for metric socket wrenches, the clerk, without batting an eye will ask, "Quarter-, three eights-, or half-inch drive?" Socket wrenches are an American tool so if you go to Europe, the sockets will be metric but the drives are still based on inches -- they just don't call them that!