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Step Up & Down Voltage Converter Transformers Here is a 1500 Watt transformer for $67.99 220 V from two 110 V circuits Here is a commercial device, but very expensive:  Quick 220 Systems 15 Ampere Straight Blade Outlet  ($195) from Quick 220 Systems some comments about this solution in Cool Tools , but not sure what to make of it "Convivial cooking" "Crepe party" Tefal TEFAL WokParty Duo can't find any of those in the US/Canada Coffee "A Coffee percolator  is a type of pot used for complex brewing of coffee by continually cycling the boiling or nearly boiling brew through the grounds using gravity until the required strength is reached. […]  coffee brewed with a percolator is susceptible to over-extraction ". " Drip brewing , filtered coffee, or pour-over is a method which involves pouring water over roasted, ground coffee beans contained in a filter, creating the beverage called coffee. Water seeps through the ground cof...

The Megaprocessor is a micro-processor built large. Very large. uses about 40,000 uses discrete transistors about 10m long and 2m tall similar-but-very-different:  The MOnSter 6502 four layer circuit board, 12 × 15 inches 4304 components on the board, 3218 transistors, 1019 resistors Q: How big would a 68000 microprocessor be at the scale of the MOnSter 6502? A: Also about 19 square feet ( 1.7 square meters ) Q: How big would a modern CPU be at this scale? A: The Apple A8X , found in the iPad Air 2, contains about 3 billion transistors. […] would take about 885,000 square feet ( 82000 square meters ) — an area about 940 ft (286 m) square Talia Nespresso Compatible Capsules On Amazon:  Talia 60 Nespresso OriginalLine Capsules/Pods, Variety Pack Screenagers  (2016) IMDB: 4.9/10 but only 8 reviews

The Third Tunnel of Aggression "or Third Infiltration Tunnel, is one of four known tunnels under the border between North Korea and South Korea, extending south of Panmunjom." La zone rouge  "est le nom donné en France à environ 120 000 hectares de champ de bataille où, à cause de dégâts physiques majeurs sur le milieu pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et en raison de la présence de milliers de cadavres et de millions de munitions non explosées, certaines activités ont été provisoirement ou définitivement interdites par la loi." Takata Airbag Recall - Everything You Need To Know

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The Striped Pig , a gastropub in Redwood City, takes reservations on Yelp In French, the word  culot  is used to designate a light bulb base . From Wiktionary: "base d’une ampoule électrique servant à la liaison avec la douille".

Amazon Prime Now has items from Sprouts Philips 60W LED , $9.97 for a 4-pack at Home Depot Tesla driver sleeping at the wheel while car drives itself on YouTube EepyBird.com : the Coke & Mentos guys video with 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints

Gari  is a pickled vegetables made with thinly sliced young ginger, often served and eaten after sushi.

Lead Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) "was an American geochemist. […] Patterson developed the uranium–lead dating method into lead–lead dating and, by using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, he calculated an age for the Earth of 4.55 billion years ; a figure far more accurate than those that existed at the time and one that has remained largely unchanged since 1956. […] Patterson had first encountered lead contamination in the late 1940s as a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His work on this led to a total re-evaluation of the growth in industrial lead concentrations in the atmosphere and the human body, and his subsequent campaigning was seminal in the banning of tetraethyllead in gasoline and lead solder in food cans ." 'Cosmos' Recap: What Lead Poisoning and Earth's Age Have in Common Poisoned water - That Flinty taste - How Michigan’s state government endangered the people of Flint (Economist ar...

Back In Black  beer, 21st Amendment Brewery. The Sweethome : great sites with serious reviews for everything home-related. Also see its sister-site for tech products, The Wirecutter . Discontinued Toyota RAV4 EV Toyota site Wikipedia "Since May 2010, Toyota Motor Company and Tesla Motors worked together to develop the second generation RAV4 EV using Tesla's electric motor and batteries and Toyota's platform and body. […] On July 15, 2011, Tesla entered into a supply and services agreement with Toyota for the supply of a validated electric powertrain system, including a battery, charging system, inverter, motor, gearbox and associated software, which would be integrated into an electric vehicle version of the Toyota RAV4. The RAV4 EV began assembly in 2012 at Toyota's facility in Woodstock, Ontario alongside the regular gasoline version. Tesla builds the electric powertrain at its plant at Tesla Factory in Fremont, California, and then ships them to Canada . ...