After running a beta community moderator election on math.stackexchange, and launching 2011 community moderator elections on the trilogy sites, we are now rolling out community moderator elections to all the public Stack Exchange 2.0 sites.
When we selected Moderators Pro Tempore on the public beta sites, we tried to be quite clear that the eventual goal was always to have the community elect its own moderators.
That’s why I am in the process of identifying and organizing a team of provisional moderators from within each community (about three per site, starting about seven days into the public beta). This is a temporary, short-term appointment. Pro tem moderators focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site. By the end of beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections. …
Le lasagne al forno sono un tipico piatto della cucina italiana, principalmente dell'Emilia-Romagna. Si cucinano anche in tutto il centro Italia. È diffuso in tutta la penisola e conosciuto nel mondo. Viene preparato componendo, in una teglia, un congruo numero di strati di lasagne lessate, alternandole a strati di condimenti vari; il tutto ripassato in forno per un'ultima cottura o una gratinatura atta ad amalgamarne i sapori.
Spesso chiamate semplicemente lasagne o lasagna essendo il piatto più diffuso preparato con la pasta alimentare omonima. In Venezuela, la lasagna è chiamata "pa...
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A highly composite number (HCN) is a positive integer with more divisors than any positive integer smaller than itself.
The initial or smallest twenty-one highly composite numbers are listed in the table at right.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" align="right"
|-
! n
! number of divisors of n
|-
| 1
| 1
|-
| 2
| 2
|-
| 4
| 3
|-
| 6
| 4
|-
| 12
| 6
|-
| 24
| 8
|-
| 36
| 9
|-
| 48
| 10
|-
| 60
| 12
|-
| 120
| 16
|-
| 180
| 18
|-
| 240
| 20
|-
| 360
| 24
|-
| 720
| 30
|-
| 840
| 32
|-
| 1,260
| 36
|-
| 1,680
| 40
|-
| 2,520
| 48
|-
| 5,040
| 60
|-
| 7,560
| 64
|-
|...
The arithmetic rope, or knotted rope, was a widely-used arithmetic tool in the Middle Ages that could be used to solve many mathematical and geometrical problems.
An arithmetic rope generally has at least 13 knots—therefore, it is often called thirteen-knot-rope—placed at equal intervals. More knots were beneficial, especially for multiplication and division.
In medieval architecture, the knotted rope was indispensable for architects, because it allowed the construction of equilateral and right-angled triangles, as well as circles.
In the depiction of the liberal arts in Hortus deliciar...
Pasquale Cicogna was the Doge of Venice from 1585 to 1595. He supported the claim of Henry of Navarre to the French throne, and convinced Pope Sixtus V to support Henry in exchange for his conversion to Catholicism.
He broke with tradition by scattering silver coins, rather than gold ducats, to the crowd during his coronation procession. These coins were known from then on as cicognini. As his reign of Doge continued his popularity increased because he was very diplomatic and able to tackle major problems with great success.
Arguably, one of his greatest successes was converting the Ri...
Mont Saint-Michel () is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometre (just over half a mile) off the country's north coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The population of the island is 41, as of 2006.
Formation
In prehistoric times the bay was land. As sea levels rose, erosion shaped the coastal landscape over millions of years. Several blocks of granite or granulite emerged in the bay, having resisted the wear and tear of the ocean better than the surrounding rocks. These included Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombel...
The two tabs have following tooltips
Active : "Questions that have recent activity"
Hot : Questions with recent interest and activity
They seem to display different questions with some common ground.
What is the exact difference between hot and active ?
I'm all for the reflexive property, but this seems off somehow:
EDIT: As @Jon points out below, it's possible that this is covered in this question, although Jeff's response to that question suggests that the issue raised there was corrected:
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of morphemes and other units of meaning in a language like words, affixes, and parts of speech and intonation/stress, implied context (words in a lexicon are the subject matter of lexicology).
Morphological typology represents a way of classifying languages according to the ways by which morphemes are used in a language —from the analytic that use only isolated morphemes, through the agglutinative ("stuck-together") and fusional languages that use bound morphemes (affixes), up to the polysy...
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How bad is the f-word really?
I fucking love this man! It's awesome, keep it up!
Is it not a bad word sometimes?
Can it be used in formal article?
hyperbole /haɪˈpɜrbəli/
(Evidently it's not the next step after the Super Bowl.)
The negation of I spent is build by adding the basic form of the verb (in this case spend) to the negation of did.
I didn't spend.
Spent would be used in the present perfect.
I have spent $100.
I have not spent $900.
Russian dressing is a salad dressing invented in the United States in the late 19th century or early 20th century. Typically piquant, it is today characteristically made of a blend of mayonnaise and ketchup complemented with such additional ingredients as horseradish, pimentos, chives and spices.
History
Some claim that the dressing's name derived from caviar being included as an ingredient. Early recipes sometimes included gelatin or aspic,, resulting in a clearer dressing than is typically found today. Modern Thousand Island is a variant of Russian dressing.
Uses
*Russian dressing is ...
The Reuben sandwich is a hot sandwich of layered meat, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese, with a dressing. These are grilled between slices of rye bread. The meat is either corned beef or pastrami, and the dressing is either Russian or Thousand Island dressing. Several variants exist.
Origins
One account holds that Reuben Kulakofsky (sometimes spelled Reubin, or the last name shortened to Kay), a Lithuanian-born grocer from Omaha, Nebraska, was the inventor, perhaps as part of a group effort by members of Kulakofsky's weekly poker game held in the Blackstone Hotel from around 1920 through 1935....
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