Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

Today, many Ainu dislike the term Ainu because it had once been used with derogatory nuance, and prefer to identify themselves as Utari ( comrade in the Ainu language ).

Today anyone can use the term " Arbor Day " as well as hold their own Arbor Day celebration.

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, the term " utility knife " also includes small folding or retractable-blade knives suited for use in the modern workplace or in the construction industry.

Today the term is generally understood in the biochemistry sense, which excludes compounds with only one or two carbons.

Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices from the Reformed churches, where Calvin was an early leader.

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 term design is widely associated with the Applied arts as initiated by Raymond Loewy and teachings at the Bauhaus and Ulm School of Design ( HfG Ulm ) in Germany during the 20th Century.

Today, the term is used to describe steel that mimics the appearance and performance of Damascus steel, usually that which is produced by either crucible forging or pattern welding.

Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.

Today, however, game theory applies to a wide range of class relations, and has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of science, to include both human and non-humans, like computers.

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 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.

)' ( Rosen 2000 ). Today, many musicologists no longer distinguish between musicology and New Musicology, since many of the scholarly concerns that used to be associated New Musicology have now become mainstream, and the term " new " clearly no longer applies.

" In 2010 National Public Radio reported that young members of the Unification Church " bristle at the term ' Moonie '", while USA Today reported that " the folks who follow Rev.

Today it is usually used to refer to mainstream economics, although it has also been used as an umbrella term encompassing a number of other schools of thought, notably excluding institutional economics, various historical schools of economics, and Marxian economics, in addition to various other heterodox approaches to economics.

Today, philosophers have adopted the term philosophy of religion for the subject, and typically it is regarded as a separate field of specialization, although it is also still treated by some, particularly Catholic philosophers, as a part of metaphysics.

Today the term " priest " is used in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and some branches of Lutheranism to refer to those who have been ordained to a ministerial position through receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders, although " presbyter " is also used.

Today the term quaestor is used as a senior police rank in Italy and Romania, and as the title of an office of financial oversight in some organizations.

The term quasar was coined by Chinese-born U. S. astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu in 1964, in Physics Today, to describe these puzzling objects:

Today the term rhetoric can be used at times to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth.

Today the term republic still most commonly means a system of government which derives its power from the people rather than from another basis, such as heredity or divine right.

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, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Today, the core vocabulary ( including both the most commonly used vocabulary and function words ) is Semitic, with large numbers of loan words.

Today the mission grounds function as a museum ; the church is a chapel of ease of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Today the population is mainly to the north, but the sewer function continues, in addition to which much of the river is siphoned off, and the water table is tapped, for irrigation.

Today a modern road built over or replacing the ancient, Leoforos Knosou, serves that function and continues south.

Today, most congregations have paid pastors, but their function is still somewhat limited, with the laity still taking a very active role in ministerial work.

Today the river has a tourist function.

Today, the term MEMS in practice is used to refer to any microscopic device with a mechanical function, which can be fabricated in a batch process ( for example, an array of microscopic gears fabricated on a microchip would be considered a MEMS device but a tiny laser-machined stent or watch component would not ).

Today, terriers are often informally categorized by size or by function:

On August 5, 2003, she did finally auction off the information to the winner of a charity function for a grand total of US $ 50, 000, with the condition that the winner ( a television executive, Dick Ebersol on NBC's Today Show ) not reveal who it is.

Today, Götaland has no administrative function and is thus an unofficial entity, but it is generally considered to be one of three Swedish lands or parts.

Today, Northallerton's main commercial function is a mixture of light industry, commerce and agricultural services, such as the regular livestock auction market and the production of high grade manure.

Today the Academy is with a dual function: to elect to membership finest minds and most influential leaders, drawn from science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts, from each generation, and to conduct policy studies in response to the needs of society.

Today, the house is still the protagonist for a number of local ghost stories ; however, its official function is that of a cultural center called the Instituto Javier Barros Sierra.

Today, sophisticated technology is pervasive, and cuts across all activities ; it is not just an R & D function.

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Today the company manufactures clusters based on Xeon and Opteron processors and GPUs from ATI and Nvidia, ultra quiet GPU and gaming workstations, diagnostic software for clusters and InfiniBand, FasTree IB switches and TriCom-three function HCAs.

Today only the church portion retains its original function and serves as the parish church for the municipality.

Today, it continues to function as the Military Centre for Physical Education and Sport (), since 1993, in the Largo General Conde Januário and the Infantry School (), in the Convent of Mafra.

Today, the problem of determining an unobserved variable ( by whatever method ) is called inferential statistics, the method of inverse probability ( assigning a probability distribution to an unobserved variable ) is called Bayesian probability, the " distribution " of an unobserved variable given data is rather the likelihood function ( which is not a probability distribution ), and the distribution of an unobserved variable, given both data and a prior distribution, is the posterior distribution.

Today the Mission Estate Wineries Mount St. Mary Seminary building has recently been completely refurbished to accommodate a first class restaurant and function rooms.

Today, its function is primarily as a gossip magazine, although the Spanish version still relies heavily on royalty for their gossip, whilst the English and Latin American versions focus more on Hollywood.