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"Christopher Horner may refer to: *Christopher Horner (director) (born 1955) *Christopher C. Horner, American attorney and author *Chris Horner (born 1971), American bicycle racer See also *Christian Horner (born 1973), British Formula 1 manager "
"XTSR is a College radio station owned by Towson University and managed by the Department of Electronic Media & Film. Their Internet radio programming operates 24/7 with live student DJ shifts and a Broadcast automation system. At the station, radio students learn first hand about the basics of running a radio station. The station's music library includes alternative rock, local and underground acts, and music from different cultures. They also have contacts with most major and independent music labels. XTSR can be streamed through the website, www.xtsr.org, through iTunes under the College Radio tuner, or through the College Radio tuner App for the iPhone and iPod touch. Students living on Towson University's campus can listen on channel 26 on the campus cable television network. External links * XTSR's Official Website Category:Towson University media outlets "
"The se'ah or seah (), plural se'im is a unit of dry measure of ancient origin found in the Bible and in Halakha (Jewish law), which equals one third of an ephah, or bath. In layman's terms, it is equal to the capacity of 144 medium- sized eggs, or what is equal in volume to about 9 US quarts (8.5 litres).Herbert Danby (ed.), The Mishnah, Oxford University Press: Oxford 1977, Appendix II (Liquid and Dry Measure), p. 798 , who, like all the earlier and later rabbinic writers, prescribes 6 kabs to each seah; 4 logs to each kab; the content of 6 eggs to each log. Its size in modern units varies widely according to the criteria used for defining it. Biblical Seah The seah is found in Genesis 18:6 where Abraham orders Sarah to prepare three se'im of flour into loaves: :וימהר אברהם האהלה אל שרה ויאמר מהרי שלש סאים קמח סלת לושי ועשי עגות :And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures (se'im) of fine meal, knead it, and make loaves.' According to Herbert G. May, chief editor of two Bible-related reference books, the bath may be archaeologically determined to have been about from a study of jar remains marked 'bath' and 'royal bath' from Tell Beit Mirsim.The Interpreter's Bible, Buttrick ed., Abingden Press, Nashville, 1956, volume VI, p. 317 (p155 in the Internet Archive copy of the text) Using the standard of a bath unit, which has been established to be about 22 liters, 1 se'ah would equal about 7.3 litres or 7.3dm3. The Jewish Study Bible estimates the biblical seah at . Seah in Orthodox Judaism In the context of a mikveh, forty se'ahs are the minimum quantity of water needed to render bodily purification after an immersion. A mikveh must, according to the classical regulations, contain enough water to cover the entire body of an average-sized person. Based on a mikveh with the dimensions of 3 cubits deep, 1 cubit wide, and 1 cubit long, these were the minimal measurements needed to reach a volume of water that was estimated at being forty se'ahs of water.Eruvin 4bYoma 31a The exact volume referred to by a se'ah is debated, and classical rabbinical literature specifies only that it is enough to fit 144 eggs.Numbers Rabbah, 18:17 In some Orthodox Jewish circles there is a proclivity to follow the stringent ruling of Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, or Eliyahu of Vilna, whose view is that the size of eggs has progressively become smaller over the ages, therefore requiring a larger measure. According to this view, one seah is 14.3 litres, and therefore an ablution (mikveh) of forty se'ahs (the minimum measure needed to effect ritual purity) must contain at the least 575 litres, by their standard.about 3 Koku, about 116 qafiz, about 126 Imperial Gallons, about 143 Burmese tins, and about 150 U.S. liquid gallons Those dissenting and who hold the view that eggs today are the same size as the eggs used in measurement by the Sages are Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), author of the Aruch HaShulchan,Arukh HaShulchan (Yoreh De'ah 324:6-7) and Rabbi Shelomo Qorah, the late Chief Rabbi of Bnei Brak,Shelomo Qorah, Arikhat Shulhan - Yilkut Chaim, vol. 13, Bnei Brak 2012, p. 210 among others, who having tested the trigonometric calculations for the volume of flour needed to separate the dough-portion (= the volume of 43.2 eggs), and which, according to Maimonides,Code of Jewish Law Mishne Torah (Hil. Bikkurim 6:15); see Commentary Kessef Mishneh ibid. can be measured by filling-up a space 10 fingerbreadths x 10 fingerbreadths square (the finger's breadth being the width of one's thumb, appx. 2.5 cm), with a depth of 3 fingerbreadths and 1/10 of another fingerbreadth, along with a little more than 1/100 of another fingerbreadth, found that medium-sized eggs of our modern age have not diminished in size. See also * Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Notes References Category:Units of volume Category:Obsolete units of measurement Category:Ancient Israel and Judah "