Amina Arraf has seen a quick rise to fame. Blogging pseudonymously, as Amina Abdullah, she writes about politics, the recent uprising, and being a lesbian in Syria.

It's got a needle, like a record needle, that goes back and forth over the surface, bumps up and down, and feels the height of the first surface.

The needle method has the advantage that the needle can be placed at the bottom of the flask to better flush out the atmosphere of the flask.

It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

A magnetic needle is placed parallel with the copper strip.

In short, no central banker can be the Oracle of Delphi.

Aref Farris decided to use the word needle on a kid, and it freaked him out. Farris I told him how it is.

The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.

And he said, That's ridiculous. You can't make a needle by rubbing a lump of iron with a cloth.

This article by Jane Arraf originally appeared on PRI.org on July 19, 2016, and is republished here as part of a content sharing agreement.

Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit.

The gas can be introduced through the side arm of the flask, or via a wide bore needle (attached to a gas line).

Such devices were universally used as compass until the invention of the box like compass with a 'dry' pivoting needle sometime around 1300.

Since reports emerged that a Syrian blogger named Amina Arraf, known as Gay Girl in Damascus had been seized by authorities on Monday, 6 June 2011, serious doubts have surfaced that the blogger may not be who she claims.

In this test, a needle is inserted into the space at the very top of the vagina, behind the uterus and in front of the rectum.

However, according to Kreutz there is only a single Chinese reference to a dry mounted needle (built into a pivoted wooden tortoise) which is dated to between 1150 and 1250, and claims that there is no clear indication that Chinese mariners ever used anything but the floating needle in a bowl until the 16th century.

Periodically, this drill, like a biopsy needle, plunges thousands of feet deep into the ice to extract a marrow of gases and isotopes for analysis.

The force on the compass needle did not direct it to or away from the current carrying wire, but acted at right angles to it.

A lubber line , which can be a marking on the compass bowl or a small fixed needle, indicates the ship's heading on the compass card.

Update (June 9, 2011) Since this post was published questions have been raised about the true identity of Amina Arraf . The photo below proved to be of a Croatian woman who lives in London.

One first reads the scale that shows the angle subtended by the lid of the compass, and then depending on the colour shown (red or black) the end of the compass needle with the corresponding colour.

In thoracentesis, a needle is inserted through the back of the chest wall in the sixth, seventh, or eighth intercostal space on the midaxillary line, into the pleural space.

This typically involves the insertion, under local anaesthetic and ultrasound or CT guidance, of a core biopsy needle into the kidney to obtain a small sample of kidney tissue.

One of the reasons he chose to take this rather large video camera with him was because he didn t want the doctors and nurses thinking he was actually sick, and sticking something into him that he was going to regret later.

As he was setting up his materials, he noticed a compass needle deflected from magnetic north when the electric current from the battery he was using was switched on and off.

Whether to say needle or sleepy juice Dr. Sarah Aref and Farris Barakat help a Syrian boy at the temporary Syrian American Medical Society dental clinic on the Turkish Syrian border.

They ask you to work no less than 15 hours a day with a salary that will not be enough to cover even rent.

The most common method of tattooing in modern times is the electric tattoo machine, which inserts ink into the skin via a single needle or a group of needles that are soldered onto a bar, which is attached to an oscillating unit.

Key points on the compass, including the north end of the needle are often marked with phosphorescent, photoluminescent, or self luminous materials to enable the compass to be read at night or in poor light.

Most manufacturers balance their compass needles for one of five zones, ranging from zone 1, covering most of the Northern Hemisphere, to zone 5 covering Australia and the southern oceans.

In short, no central banker can be the Oracle of Delphi. Indeed, many academic economists believe that central bankers could perfectly well be replaced with a computer programmed to implement a simple rule that adjusts interest rates mechanically in response to output and inflation.

When a sample of tissue or fluid is removed with a needle in such a way that cells are removed without preserving the histological architecture of the tissue cells, the procedure is called a needle aspiration biopsy.

Because your choice now is either I use my own needle now, or I could share a needle now and get a disease that's going to possibly kill me 10 years from now, or I could use my own needle now and go to jail tomorrow.

In this technique, a drop of the culture on the end of a thin, sterile loop of wire, sometimes known as an inoculator, is streaked across the surface of the agar leaving organisms behind, a higher number at the beginning of the streak and a lower number at the end.