Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

Today, the catalogue most often used is USNO-B1. 0, an all-sky catalogue that tracks proper motions, positions, magnitudes and other characteristics for over one billion stellar objects.

Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.

Today riverine deposition at the coast is often blocked by dams and other human regulatory devices, which remove the sediment from the stream by causing it to be deposited inland.

In his online column, Best of The Web Today, James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal often uses the phrase " Homer Nods " as the title of a retraction or correction.

Today, German conservatism is often associated with Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose tenure has been marked by attempts to save the common European currency ( EURO ) from demise.

Today, Columbia has a highly diversified economy, and is often ranked high for its business atmosphere.

Today, crannogs typically appear as small, circular islets, often in diameter, covered in dense vegetation due to their inaccessibility to grazing livestock.

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.

Today, the numeral is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine Greek ligature σ-τ ( ϛ ), which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century.

Today, however, that system is often referred to as Euclidean geometry to distinguish it from other so-called non-Euclidean geometries that mathematicians discovered in the 19th century.

Today FAQ is more frequently used to refer to the list, and a text consisting of questions and their answers is often called a FAQ regardless of whether the questions are actually frequently asked, if they are asked at all.

Today, thanks to the advent of desktop publishing and self-publication, there is often little difference between the appearance of a fanzine and a professional magazine.

Today most guitarists undergo rigorous professional training and often can read and play music in other styles: many dancers take courses in ballet and contemporary dance as well as flamenco.

Today, handheld computer s with GPS and geographic information systems software are often used in geological field work ( digital geologic mapping ).

Today, many people eat only a small meal in the middle of the day at work, often also a second breakfast, and enjoy a hot dinner in the evening at home with the whole family.

Today, the standard version of the opera is the version most often performed around the world.

Today, the term is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new separate plates.

Today, Greenlanders display both the Erfalasorput and the Dannebrog — often side-by-side.

Today, these latter two operas are most often performed in their revised Italian versions.

Today the term " Soft Science Fiction " is often used to refer to science fiction stories which lack a scientific focus or rigorous adherence to known science.

Today, law enforcement agencies, popular media, the United Nations, other nations and even some medical practitioners can be observed applying the term very broadly and often pejoratively in reference to a wide range of illicit substances, regardless of the more precise definition existing in medical contexts.

Today ISDN ( BRI ) and ADSL / VDSL are often bundled on the same line, mainly because the combination of ADSL with an analog line has no cost advantage over a combined ISDN-ADSL line.

Today, the most used edition of the King James Bible, and often identified as plainly the King James Bible or King James Version, especially in the United States, remains the standard text of 1769, edited by Benjamin Blayney and Francis Sawyer Parris at Oxford.

Today the Negro must discover his role in an industrialized South, which indicates that the racial aspect of the Southern dilemma hasn't changed radically, but rather has gradually come to be reflected in this new context, this new coat of paint.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

Today we have side-looking radar which has such high resolution that the radar picture clearly shows individual buildings, runways, taxi-ways, separate spans of bridges, etc..

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

Today, social anthropology in Britain engages internationally with many other social theories and has branched in many directions.

Today, that distinction has mostly disappeared and the terms " astronomer " and " astrophysicist " are interchangeable.

Today the Rotokas alphabet has only twelve letters.

Today, the word has largely shed this radical political meaning.

Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 speakers of the language remain, while other research places the number at fewer than 15 speakers – the language has been regarded as “ endangered ”.

Today the fort has been recreated and is now a national monument.

Today, the Valley is still largely dominated by agriculture but also has a growing diversity in its economies, partly aided by the importance of post-secondary education centres provided by Acadia University in Wolfville, and the Nova Scotia Community College campuses located in Kentville, Middleton, Lawrencetown, and Digby.

Today the BHS has over 30, 000 members in 800 chapters across the United States, and the barbershop style has spread around the world with organizations in many other countries.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written.

Today it has been transformed into the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre.

Today, the British Museum has grown to become one of the largest museums in the world, covering an area of over 92, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 990, 000 sq.

Today, Balsall Heath has one of the largest Muslim communities in Birmingham.

Today it has been superseded in the English part of the United Kingdom by Halsbury's Laws of England that covers both common and statutory English law.

Today, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches has 75 million believers .< ref >

* Omega and why maths has no TOEs article based on one written by Gregory Chaitin which appeared in the August 2004 edition of Mathematics Today, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Alan Turing's death.

Today, Cairo is the centre for many government offices governing the Egyptian educational system, has the largest number of educational schools, and higher learning institutes among other cities and governorates of Egypt.

Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).

Today, curling is played all over Europe and has spread to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Korea.