Savers also solicits the Minnesota public to donate household itemsâsuch as toys, appliances, books, and furnitureâostensibly to benefit the charities. It calls these donations âbricaâ (short for bric-a-brac).
Gatestone is a small organization, and corporations don't write papersâhuman authors do. Case in point, Bloomberg explicitly discusses Soeren Kern, the individual author of the report mentioned in the article.
Millstones or mill stones are stones used in grist mills, for grinding wheat or other grains. Millstones come in pairs. The base or bedstone is stationary. Above the bedstone is the turning runner stone which actually does the grinding. The runner stone spins above the stationary bedstone creating the scissoring or grinding action of the stones. A runner stone is generally slightly concave, while the bedstone is slightly convex.