yp's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=yp2001-12-30T01:59:17Zsnow (thing)http://everything2.com/user/yp/writeups/snowyphttp://everything2.com/user/yp2001-12-30T01:59:17Z2001-12-30T01:59:17Z<p><a href="/title/Snow">Snow</a> <a href="/title/crystal">crystals</a> are created when <a href="/title/water">water</a> molecules collect and <a href="/title/freeze">freeze</a> onto a <a href="/title/dust">dust</a> particle, or <a href="/title/bacteria">bacteria</a> or some other <a href="/title/solid">solid</a> material inside of a <a href="/title/cloud">cloud</a>, <a href="/title/below">below</a> or at <a href="/title/freezing">freezing</a> point.</p>
<p>As <a href="/title/free">free</a> water <a href="/title/molecule">molecules</a> adhere to the <a href="/title/small">small</a> <a href="/title/snow">snow</a> crystal, a <a href="/title/hexagonal">hexagonal</a> <a href="/title/prism">prism</a> <a href="/title/crystal+lattice">crystalline lattice</a> <a href="/title/evolve">evolves</a>. <a href="/title/Snow">Snow</a> crystals may be as small as <a href="/title/microscopic">microscopic</a> <a href="/title/speck">specks</a>, or may grow to be a few millimeter in diameter. </p>
<p> <a href="/title/Snow">Snow</a> crystals vary in <a href="/title/pattern">pattern</a> and <a href="/title/type">type</a>, under different conditions of <a href="/title/moisture">moisture</a> and <a href="/title/temperature">temperature</a>. They can generally be <a href="/title/classified">classified</a> into six basic patterns and many
different types. Listed below are the types and their descriptions: </p>
<ol>
<li><a href="/title/star">Stars</a></li>
<li><a href="/title/dendrite">Dendrites</a> </li>
<li><a href="/title/column">Columns</a> </li>
<li><a href="/title/plate">Plates</a> </li>
<li>Column <a href="/title/cap">capped</a> with plates</li>
<li><a href="/title/needle">Needles</a> </li>
</ol>
<p>Stars, the most common crystals, form near -15 degrees C. They may<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Gershom Gorenberg (person)http://everything2.com/user/yp/writeups/Gershom+Gorenbergyphttp://everything2.com/user/yp2001-12-28T08:11:00Z2001-12-28T08:11:00Z<p>Gershom Gorenberg, the <a href="/title/senior">senior</a> <a href="/title/editor">editor</a> and <a href="/title/columnist">columnist</a> of the <a href="/title/award">award</a> winning bi-weekly magazine, “The Jerusalem Report”, <a href="/title/critically">critically</a> <a href="/title/analyze">analyzes</a> <a href="/title/Israel">Israeli</a> <a href="/title/religion">religion</a> in world <a href="/title/politic">politics</a>.</p>
<p>Gorenberg wrote many books. One of his most famous books is “<a href="/title/Shalom">Shalom</a>, <a href="/title/Friend">Friend</a>, The <a href="/title/Life">Life</a> and <a href="/title/Legacy">Legacy</a> of Yitzhak Rabin” which won the National Jewish Book <a href="/title/Award">Award</a>.</p>
<p>He also wrote a <a href="/title/nonfiction">non-fiction</a> book about the <a href="/title/Middle+East">Middle East</a> <a href="/title/crisis">crisis</a> for the <a href="/title/American">American</a> Reader
called “The End of Days : <a href="/title/Temple+Mount+Faithful">Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount</a>”.</p>
<p>I read "The End of Days" and I thought it was very
<a href="/title/well">well</a> written. It <a href="/title/feel">moved</a> me.</p>
<p>Gorenberg, originally from <a href="/title/California">California</a>, now resides in <a href="/title/Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>SOURCES:</strong></p>
<p>Grant, Gavin J. (Online).
http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/gorenbergg.jsp. Accessed Dec. 29, 2001.</p>
<p>Gorenberg, Gershom (Online). http://www.mille.org/people/ggresume.html. Accessed Dec. 29, 2001.</p>
Bad-Attitude (thing)http://everything2.com/user/yp/writeups/Bad-Attitudeyphttp://everything2.com/user/yp2001-12-27T01:00:38Z2001-12-27T01:00:38Z<p>Badattitude is a <a href="/title/newsgroup">newsgroup</a>/<a href="/title/mailing+list">mailing list</a> for <a href="/title/Disgruntled+Postal+Worker">disgruntled</a>
employees usually employed at the same <a href="/title/company">company</a>.
The list is a forum for people to vent regarding <a href="/title/anything">anything</a> and
<a href="/title/everything">everything</a>, related or not related, to their company -
without limitations or reservations.</p>
<p>In the words of <a href="/title/Jamie+Zawinski">Jamie Zawinski</a>:</p>
"The Bad Attitude newsgroup was a continuation of a <a href="/title/tradition">tradition</a> started at
<a href="/title/SGI">SGI</a>: it was an anything-goes forum for venting. It was a place to get things off your chest in as <a href="/title/inappropriate">inappropriate</a> and <a href="/title/vitriolic">vitriolic</a> a way as you felt like. It was for <a href="/title/catharsis">catharsis</a>, and telling the <a href="/title/truth">truth</a> <a href="/title/without+fear+of+reprisal">without fear of reprisals</a>."
<p><a href="/title/Originally">Originally</a> the first Badattitude newsgroup
began at SGI and was later on adopted by <a href="/title/Mosaic+Communications">Mosaic Communications</a>.</p>