If you are trying to write poetry like Shel Silverstein, there are some things you can do to capture his unique style:
1. Write about everyday subjects- Shel Silverstein had an uncanny ability to take the simplest of things and turn them into something fun and enjoyable to read. He wrote about everyday objects like a missing sock or an imaginary friend. So, try taking something simple and common from your life or surroundings, and weave it into your poem.
2. Use humor – Humor is one of the most significant elements that define Silverstein’s writing style; he had a knack for making people laugh through his work. You can use puns, wordplay or absurd situations in your poem to bring out the funny side of things.
3. Use rhyme – Rhyming is another essential feature in Shel’s poetry that made it so memorable- it gives his poems musicality and structure; it helps create rhythm while making reading fun for people of all ages.
4. Try using illustrations- One of the distinctive features associated with Shel’s poetry was his use of illustrations that complemented his poems’ themes incredibly well; they helped enhance the reader’s experience visually while giving more depth to the content.
5. Keep it simple – Shel’s writing style emphasized simplicity; he used language that was easy for children as well as adults to understand without losing its charm or humor. So remove any complex vocabulary from your poem while keeping its essence intact.
In conclusion, writing poetry like Shel Silverstein requires creativity, imagination, humor, simplicity- attributes that he embodied flawlessly in his work. His timeless poems continue to inspire new generations of readers and remain a benchmark for quality children’s poetry. So, pick up a pen, observe the world around you, and start creating your own fun, quirky and meaningful poetry like Shel Silverstein.


Access to affordable and clean energy is one of the basic requirements for sustainable growth. Bangladesh, as one of the developing nations, currently faces rapid growth in the electricity sector. However, limited potential of indigenous natural resources might jeopardize energy security in long-term. Adoption of modern clean energy sources like nuclear power, renewable energy generation technologies have their own economic and technical limitations.
In this study, we analyzed all available and potential energy sources for electricity generation considering techno-economic limitations and applied linear programming to obtain the best electricity generation mix that would ensure low cost and limited emission simultaneously. The whole country is geographically divided in to nine regions to obtain a high spatial resolution of current installed capacities and future potential for expansion. Moreover, hourly demand for all different nodes is projected so that high temporal resolution can be achieved. This dynamic optimal power generation mix model provides optimized generation and capacity mix from 2025 to 2050 at five years intervals with hourly dispatch schedule. Different economic growth scenarios for electricity demand projection and policy scenarios including carbon-emission limits and adaptation of new technologies have been considered for sensitivity analysis. This analysis provides a clear pathway for low-cost optimum electricity sector expansion by incorporation of modern technologies like nuclear power and renewables with storage capacity.
Keywords optimal power generation mix, electricity, nuclear power, renewable energy, carbon emission, Bangladesh


Research objectives and content
The basis of this project is the fact that the permafrost regions of northern Eurasia are being subjected to increasing levels of oil pollution, yet very little is known about the distribution and behaviour of oil spills in these areas. The objective of this project is to develop a new and powerful method of characterising oil spills on frozen ground. This method will be combined with the results of linked research in Canada to help define new remediation strategies. These objectives will be met through an evaluation of the potential of spaceborne and airborne remote sensing data and methods to characterise high-latitude terrain (topography, soil, vegetation, thermal regime) before, during and after an oil spill, as well as characterisation of oil spills themselves.
Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)
Training content and potential impact will be very high. This is a virtually unexplored application of remote sensing, with large scientific and industrial potential, and the applicant's technical expertise will be broadened substantially in a number of areas, especially familiarity with radar remote sensing. A thorough grounding in the state of the art will be provided by attendance at an international conference to be held in Cambridge in July 1997.
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- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar
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Helen Kafka was born in 1894 to a shoemaker in Moravia and grew up in Vienna. At the age of 20, she joined the Hartmann Sisters, or Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, and took the name Maria Restituta after St. Restituta of Sora, who was beheaded in the third century, foreshadowing her own martyrdom.
Seasoned by World War I, she gained renown as an operating room nurse and anesthetist in Modling, Austria. When the Germans took over the country, she became a local opponent of the Nazi regime. Her conflict with them escalated after they ordered her to remove all of the crucifixes she had hung up in each room of a new hospital wing.
Sr. Maria Restituta refused and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. She was sentenced to death for “aiding and abetting the enemy in the betrayal of the fatherland and for plotting high treason.”
She spent the rest of her days in prison caring for other prisoners, who loved her. The Nazis offered her freedom if she would abandon the Franciscan sisters, but she refused. She was beheaded March 30, 1943, in Vienna, the only nun so sentenced in the Nazis’ German territories. Pope St. John Paul II beatified her on June 21, 1998.


Best Practices for Sharing Results
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Without some context for understanding their reports, students who have College Board accounts might rush to look at their scores and stop there. As a best practice, set up student information sessions to discuss online score reports before the students' scores are released.
Information sessions can include the importance of score reports and how to interpret them. To help students understand the information without the distraction of their own scores, we'll provide a sample score report.
Students with College Board accounts will have access to a robust online reporting portal that includes scores from all tests in the SAT Suite. On the portal, students can interact with their score report, filtering test questions by difficulty and skill and viewing complete answer explanations.
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- Show students how they can use results to get free, personalized SAT® practice on Khan Academy®.
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Carmen Fernandez-Panadero (UC3M - Spain) takes the stage and immediately dives in with enthusiasm. Content cration and technical deployment are the two keypoints she will focus on. But first the abstract:.
Abstract: The adoption of mobile devices and context-aware technologies offers the opportunity of designing educational mobile-based games across multiple spaces that enrich the learners’ experience. But producing these games is challenging from both the authoring and technical points of view. This paper proposes a framework to facilitate the design of these games. The framework consists of two elements: (1) a narrative structure, and (2) a platform for its deployment. Both elements defined as a set of templates to be completed for facilitating both the authoring of the narrative and the design of the platform. In order to show a usage example, the framework has been used to develop a mobile-based game for a museum. The game designed has been piloted with 10 students between 6 and 12 years old. The results of the pilot show that it is technically feasible to use this framework to design a mobile-base game across three spaces: a museum, home and a classroom. The students found the activity a good and engaging learning experience.
How to extend the museum experience to other spaces (home, school)?
How can we reinvent permanent exhibition and provide different experiences with the same modules.
Learning experiences: 3 phases: before/during/after
Before: record video illustrating the main experiment (science experiment). The teams are 5 - 6 students. Each tema prepares and uploads a self-contained video.
During the visit: presenting an adventure delivered to mobiles
1st act: adventure.
5 missions, with 5 teams.
All the teams need to find out who was kidnapped.
In order to solve the adventure tthere is an 'agent kit': tablet, map and decoder.
2nd act: conflict rising: each team member has a role to solve part of the mission.
3rd act: denoument
After the visit: in-class activities, personalized reports (e.g. a comic illustrating the full process of the adventure and solving it).
This led to Content creation and Deployment
The Hero Journey is a book that was build once the author realised that adventures are always solved in similar narrative patterns.
the technology used: [m]Gauge: mobile games for augmented education
Ruby on rails, php for server technology and mobile gap for tablets


” You can love what you see in the mirror, but you can’t self esteem your way out of the way the world sees you.”
“Ugh, I bet she thinks she’s all that!” “Oh she’s pretty for a dark skin girl!” From slavery, to Jim Crow, to the Civil rights movement, to present day these familiar phrases have violently been woven into a common language amongst communities of color, specifically black women. Admiration, wrapped in sarcasm and self loathing. Acceptance bundled with self hatred.
While African American history is rich in themes that collectively allow us to vibrate on higher levels together (shared experiences, spirituality, culture), there are some undeniable factors that contribute to our demise and failure to move forward as a unit such as colorism. Colorism is defined as prejudice or discrimination of individuals of darker complexion, usually amongst people of the same ethnicity. Far too often comparison of our physical attributes keeps us on the proverbial hamster wheel.
Women of lighter complexions represent a group of women that are highly misunderstood. Frequently judged by their outward appearance, and very seldom given the opportunity to change the narrative of their personal experience. Their westernized Eurocentric features derived from the diabolical behavior of our slave masters. From the brown paper bag test to the doll study, systems have been established to create a gap in our spectrum so that we cant see our sisters for who they really are.
Hard, angry, aggressive, brash are terms repeatedly used to describe the disposition of the dark skinned black woman. History tells a story of a women that is mocked, brow beaten, pushed beyond natural limits of pain. Used a science experiments to test theories that we don’t experience pain like out fair skinned counter parts. Dark skin women are femine yet strong, delicated but unyielding, assertive yet forgiving.
The x-factor for being a person of color is that our depths can simply not be weighed by skin color alone. Yes, the spectrum of our beauty is vast but our commonalties are greater than the natural eye can see. My goal with this project is that we allow ourselves to reconnect. Reconnect to the idea of sisterhood, self loving, and uplifting each other. No matter our journeys we are all beautiful #worksofkolor


In Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, sits a solar powered water wheel that’s sole purpose is to remove garbage from the Jones Falls River before it hits the ocean.
Mr. Trash Wheel (Website), as the locals call it, lifts trash and debris from the water and dumps it into a connected dumpster barge that can be switched out once full. The solar panel on the top of the apparatus keeps the creature operating.
Since its launch in 2014, Mr. Trash Wheel has removed over 406 tons of trash from the river. That breaks down to 234,820 plastic bottles, 302, 859 polystyrene containers, 7,209,000 cigarette butts, 4,684 glass bottles, 150,180 grocery bags, and 218,719 chip bags. To see the complete Mr. Trash Wheel collection data, click HERE.
Trash collected by the wheel is incinerated to create electricity.
You can also follow the machine on Twitter, at @mrtrashwheel.
Imagine if we had mini machines like this on our lakes or on the St. John’s River. Or even if we could have one in the Indian River Lagoon.
Yeah. And they are also bringing back the googly eyes for Light City festival this week!


Anyone who has read the book „Thinking Fast and Slow“ by Daniel Kahnemann knows that humans rarely make predictions by first principle thinking, but use mainly heuristics and Bayesian inference. Learning or comparison with humans is still the most important metric for machine learning performance. In this context, probabilistic modeling provides a framework for understanding what learning is and has therefore emerged as one of the most important theoretical and practical approaches for the development of machine learning. Using probabilistic programming, Bayesian optimization, data compression, and automatic model discovery, we describe in the following work how uncertainty in models and predictions can be represented and handled.
Originally, the model was developed using quality data from industrial production as a prediction of product quality or product. Of course, this data set could not be used openly in the paper. It is now all the more interesting that, using a public dataset as an example, we have implemented a probabilistic neural network for predicting the malignancy of breast cancer cells, whose features are used to formulate and train a model for a binary classification problem.
We, that is Dr. rer. Nat. Anastasia-Maria Leventi-Peetz (AI expert at BSI) and Dipl. Phys. Kai Weber. And now have fun reading.


Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancers found in men where abnormal cells grow out of control in the prostate gland.
What is Breast Cancer?
A woman’s breasts are made of specialized tissues supplied by blood vessels, lymph nodes and nerves. Breast cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the breast. This mass of abnormal tissue is called a tumor. Breast cancer can develop in both men and women, although female breast cancer is more common.
Cancer is a disease that results from abnormal growth and division of cells that make up the body’s tissues and organs.
Under normal circumstances, cells reproduce in an orderly fashion to replace old cells, maintain tissue health and repair injuries. However, when growth control is lost, and cells divide too much and too fast, a cellular mass or ‘tumor’ is forme
Gastrointestinal cancer is cancer that affects the organs in the digestive system including the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, gallbladder, liver, small and large intestine, anus and rectum. It is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of normal cells that make up the digestive tract.
The abnormal and progressive growth of cells in any part of the body is known as cancer.
Cancers are named after the part of the body from where they originate. Cancers that occur in the female reproductive system are called gynecological cancers and involve the organs such as the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, peritoneum, cervix, vulva and vagina.


Bring back the wolves - but build a fence
New research suggests that large fenced reserves could be the answer to wolf reintroduction in Scotland.
Scientists simulating the hypothetical reintroduction of wolves to Scotland have found that large fenced areas would work best for managing red deer numbers.
"Reintroducing the wolf has long been suggested as part of the solution to large red deer populations but there will always be concerns about how wolves interact with people in any rewilding project like this,” says Dr Christopher Sandom from the University of Sussex. “This research shows that they could actually have an extremely beneficial impact in terms of making the rewilding process more effective."
The fenced areas allow the wolves to achieve the high population densities required to directly reduce the high red deer numbers creating an over-grazing problem in the Scottish Highlands. This method would also help limit encounters with residents, farmers and workers.
The current red deer densities are preventing tree regeneration and ecosystem restoration in parts of Scotland, with more than one third of all native woodlands in an unfavourable condition due to herbivore impacts.
The team’s analyses show that a barrier capable of retaining 75 per cent of dispersing wolves within the reserve would be optimum in allowing for rapid wolf population growth that could lead to reduced deer numbers without the risk of having so many wolves that the red deer population would be threatened.
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Sandom adds: "Fences are a common but unpopular tool in biodiversity conservation and would ideally be avoided. But where there are conflicting interests, compromise is needed. A fenced reserve in Scotland could be a fantastic opportunity to return large predators to Britain, ecologically restore a large part of the Scottish Highlands, and promote tourism."
The authors noted that the reserve would require human management to help mitigate risks such as inbreeding depleting the health of the wolf packs, while the construction of the fence would require very careful management to minimise potential negative impacts on birds in flight and the movement of non-target species.
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Major: Animal Sciences
Ever wonder how the shrink-wrapped steak at the supermarket made it to the shelf?
Students of animal sciences know where your food comes from. They learn how to make sure that the nation’s supply of cows, chickens, pigs, and other food animals is as healthy and productive as possible. Among the challenges of animal science: discovering which breeds of cow produce the best milk and coming up with new ways to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease.
Animal sciences majors learn about the nutrition, breeding, behavior, and management of food animals. Topics covered include dairy science, poultry science, livestock production, and aquaculture (fish production).
“I take great [pride] in keeping the world’s food source growing.”Travis, sophomore, animal science (concentrations in agriculture biotechnology and pre-vet), University of Delaware
Are You Ready To...?
- Work closely with ranchers and farmers
- Work with animals larger than you
- Take field trips to dairies and poultry farms
- Keep up with new technologies
It Helps To Be...
Organized, self-motivated, interested in both animals and people, and respectful of the time-honored work of farming. You should also like math and science. The tough requirements in these subjects can be a challenge for many students.
- Does the department offer courses in your area of specialization? Is it influenced by the local agricultural economy?
- Does the program meet the admission requirements of vet school or other graduate programs?
- Will you have the chance to take part in faculty research?
- Will you have access to well-equipped labs and animal facilities?
- Does the department have an internship program so you can gain hands-on experience?
Did You Know?
New developments such as growth hormones, bioengineering, and even vacuum hoses for milking cows keep animal sciences in the news.
As an animal sciences major, you'll study the anatomy and physiology of healthy animals. One of the challenges of this course is mastering the medical language used to describe the parts and workings of the body.
You'll probably spend most of your time listening to lectures and looking at diagrams. But beware: the course could include a lab where you'll dissect animals. Your grade will probably be based mostly on quizzes and exams.


UV disinfection is used for multiple applications in the marine industry, including to treat ballast water before discharge into the ocean, to provide potable drinking water on passenger and commercial ships, and to treat wastewater from on-board laundries, kitchens and bathrooms.
Many large shipping vessels such as container ships, military vessels and cruise liners use enormous amounts of ballast water for balancing their loads and therefore ensuring high levels of stability when they are at sea. Ballast water is pumped into the ships tanks at its port of origin and may then be pumped out hundreds or thousands of miles away, when the vessel docks or changes are made to its load.
Ballast water carried by a ship will contain organisms and pathogens commonly found where that water was loaded, but that could be harmful or invasive to native flora and fauna where the ballast water is dumped. As global shipping traffic increases and environmental science highlights the potentially destructive impact of these practices, shipping companies are being encouraged to address the problem.
On-board UV disinfection systems have proven to be a safe, commercially-viable and environmentally-friendly method of treating ballast water, killing organisms or rendering pathogens unable to replicate. This helps to protect ecosystems around the world without the use of harmful chemicals.


Speeding is a major cause of fatalities in road traffic accidents. Getting drivers to remain within permitted speed limits is not an easy task, but it is a necessary one, and can help to prevent unnecessary deaths and injuries.
According to the World Health Organisation:
Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years.
Approximately 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
The Risks of Speeding
Many of us have heard the term “speed kills” but have we really considered why this is true? It is a simple fact that the faster you go the higher the risk and severity of traffic collisions, and their related injuries become. This is due to many factors including the following:
Speed increases the distance needed to stop the vehicle.
Speed increases the likelihood of losing control of the car.
Speed increases the crash energy exponentially.
Consider the Consequences
The latest THINK! campaign (March 2023), specifically targets younger male drivers as this demographic is “over represented in speed-related deaths and injuries.” The campaign asks these drivers if “pushing it [is] worth it,” getting them to reflect on their driving and consider the consequences of speed. This is a lesson that we should all consider. Is it worth a possibly fatal or life changing collision just to arrive a few minutes earlier? Can we change our habits and mentality to help ensure less accidents happen? Can we adjust our speed to ensure we all remain safe in worse weather or difficult road conditions?
Speed Limit Signs
Effective signage can also help to raise speed awareness and allows road users to easily see the maximum speed limited in a related area. This signage must be clear, well placed and not ambiguous, in order to avoid any confusion.
Class 1 reflective signs are the best to use in these situations, as they are designed to reflect light from wide angles, giving a higher grade of reflectivity. Take a look at our full range of Class 1 ReflectiveSigns, including speed limit signs, warning signs and stops signs. They are all vital to help the road network function, allowing road users to consider their speed, minimise risks and travel more safely.
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Pituitary macroadenomas, which are pituitary tumors larger than 1 centimeter, are caused by mutations in the DNA of the cells in the pituitary gland. The exact cause of these mutations is not fully understood. Some people inherit gene mutations that may make them more susceptible to developing pituitary tumors, while others may develop genetic mutations later in life. Called “acquired mutations,” these changes can occur due to exposure to radiation or carcinogenic chemicals. Still, many pituitary tumors have no apparent cause.
Symptoms of a pituitary macroadenoma
Pituitary macroadenomas can cause symptoms for two reasons. First, a person with a pituitary macroadenoma may experience symptoms if the tumor makes too much of a certain hormone. When this occurs, the tumor is said to be functional. Functional pituitary macroadenomas can cause a wide range of symptoms depending on the type of hormone it produces, potentially affecting growth, weight, sexual intimacy and more. Second, if the tumor presses on a normal part of the pituitary gland or surrounding nerves like the optic nerve, symptoms may also develop.
Pituitary macroadenoma treatment
Many pituitary macroadenomas do not require treatment. If the tumor is secreting hormones, medication may be prescribed to control the hormone production. However, if the tumor causes severe symptoms that cannot be managed with medication, a patient’s physician may recommend surgery to remove it. Most often, a surgeon will remove a pituitary tumor by making an opening in the skull or the upper lip, or by accessing the tumor through the nasal passages.
Radiation therapy may also be used to treat a pituitary macroadenoma. During radiation therapy, high-energy X-rays are delivered directly to the tumor to shrink it. For patients with pituitary tumors, a physician may recommend stereotactic radiotherapy, during which a high dose of radiation is delivered to the tumor once, or a series of smaller doses are delivered over the course of several weeks.
To speak with an oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center about which pituitary macroadenoma treatment option is best for you, request an appointment by calling 1-888-663-3488 or submitting a new patient registration form online. We do not require referrals.


Lubrication in baking oven chains
In the food sector, high temperature lubricants are used in baking ovens for the production of tortillas, waffles, pizza dough, and other baked goods. Proper lubrication of ovens reduces wear of the equipment, can prevent corrosion and contamination and saves energy costs. How? Lubrication lowers the friction between the elements of the machine. The higher the friction, the more electrical energy for the oven chain is needed to do its work.
Given that ovens raise to high temperatures during the baking process, it is important that the lubricants used in baking ovens have high temperature stability and lubricity. Additional requirements lubricants should meet include avoiding smelly or even toxic degradation of products, harm in case of incidental food contact, give an extended service intervals and reduce production scrap.
To meet these high requirements, especially at high temperature, lubricants based on PFAS - in this case per-fluorinated polyether oils (PFPE) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) greases- are used. PFAS lubricants are designed for extended life-time or even for-life lubrication. They help companies prolong the lifetime of their own technical products as well as their production equipment, as such they contribute to the sustainability ambitions set out in the EU Green Deal.
There are no alternative raw materials to PFAS that offer the combined properties of good quality lubricity over a broad temperature range, energy savings through extremely low friction, high oxidative and temperature stability, and hydrophobic and lipophobic /water- and fat-repellent.


Much of our life is spent in reaction to others and to events around us. The problem is that these reactions might not always be the best course of action, and as a result, they can make others unhappy, make things worse for us, make the situation worse.
Why would we want to make things worse?
The truth is, we often react without thinking. It’s a gut reaction, often based on fear and insecurities, and it’s not the most rational or appropriate way to act. Responding, on the other hand, is taking the situation in, and deciding the best course of action based on values such as reason, compassion, cooperation, etc.
How to Learn to Respond
The main thing to learn is mindfulness and the pause.
Mindfulness means watching ourselves when something happens that might normally upset us or trigger some kind of emotional reaction. Pay close attention to how our minds react.
Then pause. We don’t have to act immediately, just because we have an internal reaction. We can pause, not act, breathe. We can watch this urge to act irrationally arise, then let it go away. Sometimes that takes a few seconds, other times it means we should remove ourselves politely from the situation and let ourselves cool down before we respond.
Watch the reaction go away.
Now consider what the most intelligent, compassionate response might be. What can we do that will help our relationship, teach, build a better team or partnership, make the situation better, calm everyone down, including ourselves?
At first, you might mess up. But in time, you’ll learn to watch this reaction, and you’ll get better at the pause. Don’t fret if you mess up — just resolve to be more mindful when it happens next time. Take note of what happened to trigger your reaction, and pay attention when something like that happens again.
Be mindful, pause, then consider a thoughtful, compassionate response. (Leo Babauta)


Writing an academic paper can seem like a long and daunting undertaking. After you’ve finished your first draft, it’s hard to recognize what sections could use improvement. This simple guide will walk you through some basic tips and tricks towards improving the final grade of your paper.
This is a very necessary step in properly revising your paper. After spending so much time on a single draft, it’s hard to view the content within objectively. If this is the case, you’re still too close to your work to properly revise it. Take a day off and let your mind wander freely. When you return to your paper, you’ll have fresh eyes and be able to identify the strongest and weakest points within your paper more easily.
Often times, while writing a first draft, it’s very tempting to use unnecessarily long words or over-complicate your arguments and ideas. Remember, it’s not the length of the paper that’s important, rather it’s your ability to convey complex thoughts into an easy-to-understand document that will impress your professors. After stepping away from your first draft for a day or two, you’ll be able to more easily identify what’s necessary and what is not. Always aim for quality over quantity, as that’s what really counts. As Mark Twain once said, “I wanted to write a short letter but I didn’t have the time, so I wrote a long one.” The shorter and more concise your paper is, the more effectively you have conveyed your thoughts and arguments.
Nothing will lower your grade faster than spelling or grammatical errors. Instead of relying solely on your word processor’s limited spell check feature, consider investing in a more professional software. More advanced grammar-correcting software will recognize the difference between misspelled words and often-confused words, such as then vs. than. They will also recognize when you meant to type the word of instead of if by analyzing the surrounding sentence.
You know what they say about first impressions: you only get one. Spend a little extra time and effort in enhancing the presentation of your paper. This can include buying a binder or presentation folder, or even using specialized paper. Your professor will appreciate the extra effort and keep that in mind while grading your paper. Just be sure the contents of the paper are just as attractive as the exterior!


The term “portico” is a swank, perhaps pompous, expression for the common front porch. (Here I admit that I am ambivalent about using the term, because I do not care for pretension). A front porch is a boundary between the privacy of the home and the public street. The front porch or the stoop or the landing is the personal space where people gather and find a public way to express their otherwise private concerns. It’s a halfway point of mutual sharing, debate, and common vision.
Enclave is meant to be a virtual front porch for those interested in personal exchange. Comments to all posts are welcome.
However, the idea of a virtual “portico” is also broader than that of the front porch. (This is where I do not feel so ambivalent about the term). A portico is also a walkway or ramp or causeway where people can not only stop and interact, but move to important places. “Porch” and “portico” share an etymology: both come from the Latin porticus and from the Italian porta, meaning gate (Source). Gates represent access and passage.
Enclave is meant to be a passageway or an access to the everyday life, culture, and politics of north-by-northwest neighborhoods near Downtown Nashville. Comments are welcome but not necessary. All are welcome to peruse the dynamics of urban living and to consider the issues that affect urban life.
My intended audience includes neighbors in these urban enclaves, organizers, planners, or any other interested persons. Enclave is intended to be a resource for that audience.
And your resource is my outlet.
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Joseph Chamberlain was British Colonial Secretary from 1895 to 1903. He entered the British Parliament in 1876 as a Liberal. His sons Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain were also successful politicians, with Neville becoming the Conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain (1937-1940).
In 1900 Joseph Chamberlain met with an Australian delegation sent to discuss the proposed Commonwealth Bill. Although the Constitution had been conceived and drafted by successive Australian Constitutional Conventions, the Constiution Bill still needed to be passed by the British Parliament before Australia could federate. Chamberlain opposed a number of key aspects of the Bill including the Rights of the Privy Council and there was much tension during the negotiations.
The Western Australian Government appealed for British support for further concessions from the other Australian colonies. Chamberlain clearly indicated to their representative, attending the conference as an observer, that Federation would proceed without Western Australia if necessary. The Colonial Secretary also made clear that the prospects of future increased Imperial assistance to a dependent Western Australian colony were low. His intervention helped convince the Forrest Government that the concessions they asked for were not achievable.
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The president of the English club at Gabon’s Institute Superior de Technologie invited English Language Fellow Anne Barkow to present to the group. The president specially requested that Barkow target methods for quickly advancing one’s English level. Barkow has observed that this goal is always a “hot topic” for language learners and that students often seem to feel language teachers are withholding some great secret for learning the language. In her presentation, therefore, Barkow outlined four steps (or secrets!) to acquire proficiency in a new language fast:
- Immerse yourself in the new language
- Active practice makes perfect
- Mistakes happen
- Learn vocabulary
Barkow and the participants spent some time discussing (and chuckling over) the many unrealistic expectations that both students and teachers bring with them into the second-language classroom.
Barkow’s presentation’s biggest value may lie in its unstated message: real language learning takes place everywhere and all the time. Several attendees commented that they were taking away with them a new sense that they could practice and learn English throughout their days and lives, not just in the formal classroom. Barkow pointed out that just like you can’t learn to shoot hoops from a book without picking up a ball, real language acquisition comes from authentic experience. After the event, one the participating students mentioned, “The basketball example helped me understand the value of active practice. I can’t just listen to the teacher. I have to speak English.”


Extract from a speech in the House of Commons 1909
by Winston Churchill
On the effect of charity and social security
– when it becomes permanent
Some years ago in London there was a toll bar on a bridge across the Thames, and all the working people who lived on the south side of the river had to pay a daily toll of one penny for going and returning from their work. The spectacle of these poor people thus mulcted of so large a proportion of their earnings offended the public conscience, and agitation was set on foot, municipal authorities were roused, and at the cost of the taxpayers, the bridge was freed and the toll removed.
All those people who used the bridge were saved sixpence a week, but within a very short time rents on the south side of the river were found to have risen about sixpence a week, or the amount of the toll which had been remitted!
And a friend of mine was telling me the other day that, in the parish of Southwark, about 350 pounds a year was given away in doles of bread by charitable people in connection with one of the churches.
As a consequence of this charity, the competition for small houses and single-room tenements is so great that rents are considerably higher in the parish!
All goes back to the land, and the land owner is able to absorb to himself a share of almost every public and every private benefit, however important or however pitiful those benefits may be.
Read Winston Churchill’s speech – HERE


April 15, 2017
WHY: To Improve Student Learning Experiences.
#Hashtag180 began as one fifth grade science teacher’s journey to enhance and supplement curriculum. It grew into: Hashtag A Community Around Your Curriculum.
HOW: See: How To Hashtag North Carolina Science Essential Standards and North Carolina Curriculum Hashtags.Tweet one experience on each of the 180 school days of the year, and hashtag it with your learning objective and #hashtag180.
UPDATE: Also see: #Hashtag180 Central, including: Look Out for Learning and Hashtagging ISTE Student Standards
WHO: ALL Educators
WHAT: The #Hashtag180 Challenge was originally designed for educators to access and share learning resources very specifically by tweeting life and classroom experiences, hashtagged with learning objectives and #Hashtag180. Where does it go from here? The possibilities are endless…
WHEN: Beginning Saturday, April 15, 2017
1-Teachers Demonstrate Leadership, 2-Teachers Establish a Respectful Environment for a Diverse Population of Students, 3-Teachers Know the Content They Teach, 4-Teachers Facilitate Learning for Their Students, 5-Teachers Reflect on Their Practice, 6-Teachers Contribute to the Academic Success of Students
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I love this challenge! What a great way to archive what you have done all year and what a resource for others. Absolutely brilliant. I am sharing this with the admin and staff in my building – Wouldn’t it be awesome if principals did this as they walked the buildings and observed teachers. What a treasure trove of ideas we would all have!


How to Prep your Kids for Daylight Saving Time
On Sunday, November 6th at exactly 2 a.m. Daylight Saving Time will officially come to an end. Take time to prepare yourself for brighter mornings, and darker evenings.
Adults tend to do okay with this change, but younger children can have a harder time adjusting. With the right steps and preparation, this transition can be a little less painful for both you and your child. Here are some ways you can help.
Push their bedtime back
Leading up to Daylight Saving Time slowly change their bedtime. Starting at the beginning of the week push their bedtime back by 15 minutes or longer. Gradually adjusting your child's bedtime and internal clock can help minimize the abruptness of the change.
Prepare for those sunny mornings
One of the perks of Daylight Saving Time is a brighter morning. Prepare yourself for the light that will stream through your windows much earlier than before. To help keep the sun out of your little ones eyes make sure their windows have black out curtains or light blockers installed.
Adjust nap time and meals
Try to push everything back a little later this week. Similar to their sleeping cycles, children fall into routines with meals and their naps as well. The idea is to gradually push the whole day back, so that they're adjusted when the time change does kick in.
We hope these tips will help!


1.1 The telephone
In the 1950s, telephones represented the cutting edge of technology (Figure 1). However, they were not only large and expensive to purchase but also inconvenient to use. If you wanted to make a call over a distance of more than 15 miles, you first had to call the operator who would then make the connection.
Telephones were also expensive to use. In the UK, calls were charged in units of three minutes, each unit costing the equivalent of between 5 and 20 pence in today’s currency. (In comparison, in 1959, a pint of milk cost about 3 pence.) Few people had a home telephone and even fewer made long-distance calls. The high cost of using a telephone ensured that anyone who had one tended to use it infrequently, and then only for short calls.
In 1959, the General Post Office, which ran almost all of the UK telephone systems at the time, introduced subscriber trunk dialling (STD). This advance in technology allowed users to make long-distance calls directly, without an operator, and to be charged only for the actual duration of the call. The telephone became easier and much cheaper to use. As a result, more people began to use it and for longer calls.
Over time, the telephone has become part of the background of our lives, until today when it is extremely unusual to find someone who has neither a home telephone nor a mobile phone. Just as the telephone changed from a status symbol to become simply another piece of the modern world, so the computer has made a similar transition.


Increasingly, a dental technologies and innovations will be changing the way in which dentists buy and sell and handle patients. These innovations can democratize dental hygiene and make it less costly and available.
Some of the most significant innovations contain computer-assisted design and manufacture. This permits dentists to customize pearly whites enhancements, which includes caps and enhancements. In addition , it could possibly reduce the expense of dental lab products, and allow more procedures to be required for one relaxing.
Another advancement involves 3-D printing. This system allows dental practices to create custom pearly whites enhancements with regards to patients, and this can be used in plastic dental methods. Currently, dental practices have to make a mould of the dental, then send this to a dental care laboratory to make a permanent top.
Advanced image resolution technology is likewise making an improvement in dental care. These devices moved here let dentists to find the entire teeth, including the bone fragments tissue, at the same time. This is important in detecting early symptoms of gum disease.
Other innovations in dental treatment include intraoral cameras. These are small devices that are wifi and hook up into a computer. These kinds of cams permit orthodontists to see inside mouth, which often can alleviate not comfortable situations and improve the patient’s experience.
Some intraoral cameras are equipped with LED lights. This will make it easier to see the teeth and conditions belonging to the mouth. Several also have a wi-fi connection, to ensure that patients can observe the image.
Furthermore, there are several businesses that develop intraoral surveillance cameras. These include Durrdental, Kapanu, and Carestream Health care.


Mozambican horseshoe bat
The Mozambican horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus mossambicus ) is a species of horseshoe bat found in Africa.
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Its forearm length is 60–65 mm (2.4–2.6 in).It echolocates at a peak frequency of 35-38 kHz.
Its range includes the African countries of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.It has been documented at a range of elevations from 60–1,000 m (200–3,280 ft) above sea level.It is associated with savanna habitats.
As of 2017, it is evaluated as a least-concern species by the IUCN.It meets the criteria for this assessment because it has a relatively large geographic range, and it is unlikely to be experiencing rapid population decline.Its population trend is, however, projected as decreasing due to threats such as hunting for bushmeat, as well as roost disturbance due to guano mining.


In 2019, Chicago’s average air quality index (AQI) was 52 (“moderate”). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines “moderate” air quality as acceptable air quality, but for some pollutants, there may be a moderate health concern to a small number of individuals. AQI ratings are calculated by weighing six key criteria pollutants for their risk to health: (1) ozone, (2) particulate matter, (3) carbon monoxide, (4) nitrogen dioxide), (5) sulfur dioxide, and (6) lead. Particulate matter includes both PM10 and PM2.5, which are the numbers referring to the particle’s diameter in micrometers.
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The city of Joliet (“City”), the fourth largest city in Illinois, has decided to secure its drinking water from Chicago instead of Hammond, Indiana.[i] Joliet has historically been dependent on groundwater, pumping from the Ironton Galesville aquifer at an unsustainable rate.[ii] The City has known since the 1960s that the pumping rate exceeds the rate of recharge into the aquifer.[iii] Estimates show the aquifer will likely run dry by the year 2030, forcing the City to seek out alternatives.[iv]
Joliet examined fourteen alternative water sources in Phase I of its exploration.[v] During Phase II, five sources were studied in more detail to replace the existing water source in Joliet, including several municipal Lake Michigan intake systems and the Kankakee and Illinois Rivers.


Natural Number : These are the number that start from 1 and have no end . e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, …,
Whole Number : the natural numbers including zero are the whole number . e.g. 0,1,2,3,4….
Integers : All negative and positive natural numbers including zero are integers. e.g. …. – 4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
Even Number : The integers that can be completely divided by 2 are called even numbers.
Odd Numbers : The integers that can’t be completely divided by 2 are called odd numbers. e.g. -5,3,7,19 etc
Important Note: 1 is neither a prime number nor a composite number.
Prime Number : A natural number that can only be divided by 1 or the number itself.
e. g. 5, 23, 7 etc.
The natural numbers that have only two positive factors. 1 and the number itself.
Knowing kind of numbers is basic knowledge for doing good in mathematics. It is very much important to have clear cut idea about the number system. Keeping this view all the kind of numbers are collected on one page to avoid any confusion. I hope this will help students a lot.


Q. Please explain more about what you call the Three Bs.
A. The term, “The Three Bs,” has been attributed to a Jewish Rabbi. They stand for: belonging, believing, and behaving. They could be applied beneficially to family systems, almost any religious denomination, and perhaps to other organizations as well. The term is a way of describing the preferred order in which expectations and behaviors related to “membership” can be applied.
By way of example, writings from the Holy Bible invite people to belong to the family-of-God (2 Corinthians 6:18). Then ask them to believe (John 3:16). And finally offer guidelines to behave in a manner that is consistent with the beliefs and expectations of family membership (Romans 12:17-21).
Unfortunately, many family systems, religious denominations, and other organizations apply The Three Bs out of order, which can be detrimental to everyone. Concentrating first on expectations for behavior can interrupt one’s learning to believe. A failure to believe can interfere with one’s sense of belonging. And emphasizing believing before a sense of belonging is acquired can result in behaviors that, even if appropriate, tend to be exhibited conditionally rather than consistently.


In extensive field-walking we have recovered finds spanning the whole of prehistory, from the Ice Age around 12,000 years ago to the Bronze Age and perhaps Iron Age too. You can explore this in our archaeology timelines chart and suggested reading lists – mostly free downloads. Below are a few of our favourite finds so far, all recorded 3D using a GPS device so that we can plot spatial patterns and map surface finds against aerial images and the geophysical survey results which are due soon.
About the project | Maps and satellite images | Finds and latest results »
During our walk-over survey work some important field observations were recorded. The large oval enclosure (rather than a D-shaped enclosure), so prominent on LiDAR and aerial images, is also very visible in Field 2B – you can still walk around its large ditch and banks and see at last two entrances, together with large stone scatters and possible burnt clay in the ploughsoil. One 1m x 0.25m area at the base of a plough slot was cleaned to reveal burnt clay, charcoal fragments and possible stake holes and a single, eroded sherd of pottery. The cleaned area has been recorded with both images and a context sheet which describes the observations.
Is it Wet?
Elsewhere, one area of the ditch appears to be waterlogged and so holds potential for using an engine-driven auger to remove cores for environmental, finds and dating analysis. This is being planned for the Spring 2019 season, as well as coring the wetland area at Margrove Park below Airy Hill.
Some stone concentrations in Field 4, adjacent to the two known Bronze Age barrows (scheduled ancient monuments) and in Field 1 might, together with aerial image anomalies, also be remnants of previously unrecorded barrows or structures. Again, in Field 2B image right, there seem to be stone concentrations and possible structure platforms. We hope the geophysical survey results will reveal more!
Thank you for reading — more news soon!
Cleveland Archaeology Project Team


IIT KGP alumnus and his team incubate a start-up that can boost the success of root canals
Times of India (May 20, 2022)
IIT-Kharagpur alumnus and his team incubated a start-up that kill bacteria deep inside dentinal tubules with nano-sized robot
Professor Ambarish Ghosh ('92, '96), an IIT Kharagpur alumnus, and his IISc students incubated the start-up 'Theranautilus' that has successfully used nano-sized robots using a magnetic field to kill bacteria deep inside dentinal tubules and boost the success of root canal treatments.
Root canals are routinely carried out to treat tooth infections in millions of patients. The procedure involves removing the infected soft tissue inside the tooth, called the pulp, and flushing the tooth with antibiotics or chemicals to kill the bacteria that cause the infection. But many times, the treatment fails to completely remove all the bacteria-especially antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as Enterococcus faecalis-which remain hidden inside microscopic canals in the tooth called dentinal tubules.
In the study published in Advanced Healthcare Materials, the researchers designed helical nanobots made of silicon dioxide coated with iron, which can be controlled using a device that generates low-intensity magnetic field. These nanobots are then injected into extracted tooth samples and their movement is tracked using a microscope. (Read More)


Maersk Line, the largest shipping company in the world, is teaming up with tech company IBM to implement blockchain software in their cargo tracking. This joint effort could make it possible to track the activity, such as documents and transactions, of millions of shipping containers around the world, Shipping Watch reports. The partnership was announced in a joint press release.
Blockchain, which was first used for Bitcoin in 2008, logs transactions by linking entries together. According to The New York Times, this method is intended to be difficult to change after it is logged. The idea is that unrelated companies can mutually and securely keep track of their transactions. When the data is updated on one computer, it is simultaneously updated everywhere.
Using this technology in shipping would simplify tracking for buyers, sellers, and customs officials around the world, Engadget reports
The implementation of blockchain technology could reduce expenses in the shipping and logistics sector by billions of dollars. In addition to improving efficiency, it could help connect the global shipping market, said Maersk’s Chief Digital Officer Ibrahim Gocken in the press release.
“The projects we are doing with IBM aim at exploring a disruptive technology such as blockchain to solve real customer problems and create new innovative business models for the entire industry,” he said. “We expect the solutions we are working on will not only reduce the cost of goods for consumers, but also make global trade more accessible to a much larger number of players from both emerging and developed countries.”
Statistics show that ship cargo may hold a higher risk of damage than air cargo. This is because air cargo offers shorter transportation time, and thus a decreased risk of damaging or losing cargo en route.
Despite the potential benefits that this technology could have immediately, Engadget reports that the actual implementation could be five to 10 years away. This is because all of the parties involved in the global shipping of a product will need to sign on to the system.
The shipping world isn’t the only industry exploring the benefits of blockchain. Many experts in the U.S. health care sector believe that blockchain could revolutionize the way medical records are stored and shared as well.


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Jewish Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham
|Title||Jewish Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham|
|Publication Type||Book Chapter|
|Year of Publication||2001|
|Editor||Tvedtnes, John A., Brian M. Hauglid, and John Gee|
|Book Title||Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham|
|Publisher||Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University|
|Keywords||Abraham (Prophet); Ancient Judaism; Apocalypse of Abraham; Book of Jasher; Flavius Josephus; Judaism; Midrash; Nimrod (Grandson of Ham); Rabbinics; Talmud|
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"Jewish Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham." In Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham, edited by John A. Tvedtnes, Brian M. Hauglid and John Gee, 33-180. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2001.
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The glint of light in an eye, breakfast on the table, clouds gathering over fields—Dutch and Flemish master painters transformed everyday scenes into something lasting and beautiful. Step back into early modern Amsterdam with Rembrandt, Vermeer, Judith Leyster, Jacob van Ruisdael and others. Through guided museum visits, seminar discussions and walks among the city’s gabled roofs and shimmering canals, understand how these artists used light, colour and texture to capture their world.
It was a world of innovation and thriving trade, of fortunes built on shipbuilding, fishing, textiles and porcelain. Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan centre infused with a spirit of pluralism, a city populated by communities of Huguenots, Jews, and free Black citizens. Yet it was a world bound to the slave trade and colonial empire. How did Dutch painters see and understand the energy, complexity and contradictions around them?
The 17th century, often called the Golden Age, will be at the centre of our tour. We’ll explore its roots in the Renaissance painters of the court of Burgundy, which included much of the Netherlands and Belgium. The meticulous realism and brilliant colour of Jan van Eyck’s painting parallels the gothic architecture we’ll see in Ghent, Bruges and Brussels. We’ll explore these intricate masterpieces as well as the more visionary, even surreal, painting of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. Finally, we’ll follow the thread forward to modern masters, exploring how Rembrandt’s uncompromising realism influenced Vincent van Gogh and how gothic interest in natural forms was echoed by Victor Horta and art nouveau.
The many major exhibits on 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting in recent years show this art still resonates. What does it say to you? Find out on this Classical Pursuits tour that combines expert guidance with ample free time to enjoy the picturesque streets and squares and multicultural atmosphere of four dynamic northern European cities.
Image credits: Art nouveau staircase, Henry Townsend on Wikipedia; canal in Bruges, Poposky on Pixabay


Financial Transparency & Equity
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires all states to collect and report per-pupil expenditures down to the school level. This reporting, which some states are starting as early as 2019, is expected to uncover inequitable distribution of resources within districts across the country.
The four videos shared here stem from a meeting we convened in February 2017, and are part of a larger conversation about the equity element in the financial transparency provision. The videos may help state education agencies better understand the equity implications of financial transparency as they define and tackle their own financial transparency goals.
- Per-Pupil Expenditure Data and Advocacy Groups: Sharonne Navas of the Equity in Education Coalition in Washington State explains why the advocacy community considers per-pupil expenditure data an important tool.
- Technical Challenges and Historical Perspective in Per-Pupil Expenditures: Sheara Krvaric of the Federal Education Group details technical concerns around meeting the financial transparency requirement and outlines earlier federal education accounting requirements.
- A State Perspective on Equity in Financial Transparency: Donna Nester (Mississippi) and David Blowman (Delaware) share their state education agency perspectives on the importance of communications and how stakeholders will perceive financial transparency.
- Using Student Based Allocation to Improve Equity: Weston Young from Indianapolis Public Schools explains how the district is using student-based allocation (SBA) to facilitate more equitable distribution of resources among Indianapolis schools.
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SOUTHERN TIER — As much as one-half of the local corn crop could be lost if northern corn leaf blight hits this year like it did last year, according to Cornell Cooperative Extension.
In 2019, northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) appeared throughout the Southwest New York region. This year, farmers might be faced with this disease yet again. Normally, NCLB is more of an issue in fields that have been planted with corn for more than one year in a row. However, this year has been especially challenging due to the consistent temperatures of 65-85 degrees, high humidity, and sporadic rainfall. These conditions all contribute to NCLB in corn production, officials warned.
Identifying corn diseases can be difficult. Early NCLB symptoms appear as long, narrow, tan lesions that form on the leaf surface of a corn plant. As the disease progresses, the lesions become longer, more oblong, or “cigar-shaped” and can appear grayish in color. These lesions can range from 1-8 inches long with multiple lesions forming dense, irregular areas of dead tissue on the corn leaves. Once this happens, the plant can no longer develop to its fullest potential, which may reduce crop yields.
Research shows there can be a 20 to 50 percent decrease in corn yields if lesions are present prior to or at tasseling, which is the start of ear development. Fields that have been planted to corn for multiple years in a row are at a much higher risk of NCLB because the disease survives the winter on infected corn stubble at the soil surface.
As temperatures rise in the spring and early summer, the bacteria that cause NCLB can be splashed or wind-blown onto leaves of the new corn crop. Tilling in old corn stalk residue after the corn is harvested, choosing disease-resistant corn hybrids, and strategic use of fungicides are ways to reduce potential yield loss from NCLB, officials said.
The Southwest NY Diary, Livestock and Field Crops Program is working with Cornell University faculty and staff to help producers properly manage this pest. For more information about corn diseases, disease management, or if one suspects their crop has NCLB, contact Field Crops Specialist Josh Putman at 716-490-5572 or email@example.com.
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The researchers find ‘a significantly declining AA effect on the millennial time scale’ — but then attempt to link that to anthropogenic forcing in recent times, according to the article at least. That seems illogical if the argument is that humans are playing a part. In any case if the effect has been shown to occur over at least a millennium, that in itself casts doubt on claims that humans must be the prime (or any) cause of the most recent observed changes.
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The recent amplified warming in the Arctic during the last decades has received much attention, says Phys.org.
But how Arctic amplification (AA) has varied on longer time scales and what drives these variations remain unclear.
Recently, a study has provided a new perspective on the AA effect during the past millennium based on the best available paleoclimate data and novel data assimilation methods.
The study was published in Nature Communications on April 6.
It was conducted by researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of CAS, the Lund University and the University of Gothenburg.
The researchers produced a new millennium-long temperature reconstruction over the Northern Hemisphere by combining climate model simulations with newly available paleoclimate proxy records from the Past Global Changes 2k Network (PAGES2k) consortium, resulting in physically consistent and spatiotemporally continuous temperature fields.
Additionally, to quantify the variations in the strength of the AA, the researchers reconstructed a millennial AA index series, which revealed a significantly declining AA effect on the millennial time scale.
The millennial AA index series revealed that AA exhibited strong variations over a broad range of time scales, which can be explained, to a large part, by the phase of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) and recent anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing.
Full article here.
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St. Brigid, Mary of the Gael (Irish: Naomh Bríd) (c. 451–525) is one of Ireland’s patron saints along with Saints Patrick and Columba. Her feast day is the first of February, celebrated as St Brigid’s Day or Imbolc in Gaelic Ireland. Saint Brigid is one of the few saints who stands on the boundary between pagan mythology, Druidism and Christian spirituality. Saint Brigid is the most famous female leader of the early Celtic Christian Church. Brigid’s cross, Brighid’s cross, or Brigit’s cross, often with the “Saint” prefix, or (in the Irish language) Cros Bríde, Crosóg Bríde or Bogha Bríde, is usually made from rushes or, less often, straw. It comprises a woven square in the center and four radials tied at the ends. St. Brigid is known to be pure, sweet, lovely & gentle, thus reminding people of our Blessed Mother. The St. Patrick’s Parade Association of Lackawanna County encourages all to celebrate Irish Heritage by taking a moment to offer a prayer in honor of St. Brigid, during February, the month of her feast day.


We all credit Henry Ford with "inventing" the assembly line and for ultimately changing the way the world made things for the next several generations.
The first Model T was the cheapest automobile on the market but it was still too expensive for most Americans to afford. History tells us that's when Ford came up with the idea of the assembly line. But where did he get the idea?
He was visiting a Chicago packing plant. The saw the carcasses hung from the ceiling and progress through the plant to different work stations where the cow was "processed." Ford's idea for an assembly line began by viewing a "dis-assembly" line. He stood there watching the beef going from station to station and processed by specifically trained workers only doing one task.
At some point the light bulb went on and he figured he could put together a car the same way these guys were taking apart a cow. This concept helped him slash the cost of an automobile from about $950 to $280–low enough for many, many more Americans to afford.
I think we can all agree to the benefits of connecting with others within our industry to solve problems. However, rarely will that "out of the box" solution that really brings about the change you need come from within your industry. You need to find another industry to look for solutions. An industry that's dramatically different by sharing a defining characteristic.
What can your camp or conference center learn from:
- cruise line industry
- amusement parks
- shopping mall developers
- hotel industry
Are there others? Chances are the best solutions are out there waiting to be discovered. You just have to know where to look.


Time in port
The ship’s time in port of a given vessel on a given call is an important concern in an efficient ship operation for shipping lines. The shorter it is, the better it is economically. Port time (or a ship’s time in port or ship turnaround time) is the time duration between a ship’s arrival at the entrance buoy and ship’s departure from the same buoy. It can be categorized as the following times:
- Waiting Time: The period the ship waits for berth availability.
- Manoeuvring Time: periods of manoeuvring in port either to reach anchorage or to reach berth or too leave the port.
- Berthing Time: Actual time at berth. Berthing time normally consists of two parts: productive time and idle times (preparation time and arrangement time). The preparation time is the time before starting cargo handling after the ship is berthed, while the arrangement time is the time after finishing cargo handling until the ship is un-berthed. To increase the productivity at the berth, these non-production times must be minimised. Further, to make productive time more efficient, there should be no stoppage time that is related to breakdown, maintenance, etc.
- Productive Time: Actual time from start of cargo handling operation to end of cargo handling operation.
- Idle Time: Times in berth where there is no cargo handling operations.
A reduction of any of “these times” will improve the overall productivity of the ship in port. Among these times, in particular ‘waiting time’ and ‘berthing time’ must be emphasized since they are crucial criteria in ports facing latent or acute port congestion (MariEMS 2017).


Did you see my post from yesterday? If not, go check it out. It gives the background on the flu vaccine and what influenza viruses are found IN the vaccine (if you should chose to get it this year…which I hope you change your mind after this week-long educational series!).
Today I’d like to dive deeper into the rest of what’s in the flu shot. When I gave a presentation last week about the flu vaccine mind’s were blown about the “other” ingredients. Maybe your mind will be blown too…
Thimerosal (aka Mercury)
There are plenty of studies out there showing that mercury at ANY level is toxic to humans, but did you know that there is 25,000ppb (25mcg) of mercury being injected into you with each flu shot?? 2ppb is the limit for drinking water!! In 2001, the EPA concluded that pregnant woman could consume 0.1mcg of mercury per kg of body weight daily without any ill effects to fetus. So for a 140 pound person that’s 6.5mcg of mercury….the shot has 25mcg.
The EPA has classified this as a carcinogen and there are several studies that it has been linked to certain types of cancer.
Although a tiny amount is found in the vaccine, but there has been evidence that aluminum can contribute to brain and bone disease.
Used as a preservative and stabilizer in the vaccine. MSG has always had a bad rep. Enough said.
Most flu vaccines nowadays are produced using egg-based technology which requires the CVV (candidate vaccine virus) to be grown in chicken eggs and then incubated for several days to a slow the viruses to replicate. Then, the virus is inactivated (killed) and the virus antigen is purified. So, if you have an egg allergy is the vaccine OK? Jury is out, but CDC claims you are OK.
Need more information? The CDC.gov has everything you need to know about what you are injecting into your body and/or your child. The CDC is also recommending TWO doses of the flu vaccine for children 6 months -8 years old this year. Ay yi yi.
Stay tuned tomorrow for the differences between a cold and a flu and a shocking statistic.


As of today, no single system of medicine has got a cure for all the health problems existing in the human body. Hence, an integrated approach An open mind is the best interest of humanity.
It is an undisputed fact that even though the man’s life expectancy has improved, the quality of health has definitely deteriorated during the last few decades. Whether it is a man or woman, cross the age of 35 – 40 years, Accumulates 4 or 6 chronic illnesses. The factors that preserve and restore Health is entirely different and mostly ignored by us. Not enough emphasis has been laid in the prevention of chronic diseases.
Most of the day-to-day ailments like flu, viral fever, sore throat, cold, cough, headache, indigestion, and vomiting, loose motions can be tackled by A simple method of fasting, rest and enema and the problems subside within 3days. As far as chronic ailments like peptic ulcers, constipation, dyspepsia, diabetes, hypertension, Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, allergic, respiratory and skin disorders, Cervical & lumbar spondylosis are tackled very effectively by following Naturopathy methods like lifestyle modifications and some physical natural treatments. It will bring the sea of Change in quality of life.
Naturopathy is a way of life in tune with nature requiring a certain physical and mental discipline in the conduct of our lives. Nature cure & Yoga aims at the readjustment of the human system from abnormal to normal conditions & functions and adopts methods of cure which remove the accumulation of toxic matter & poisons from the System without in any way injuring the vital organs of the body.


April is Oral Cancer Month…
Learn the symptoms and what areas your dentist should be examining at your next visit.
In 2021, some 53,000 Americans were diagnosed with oral cancer, according to the Oral Cancer Foundation. This number has steadily risen over the last decade, and the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the risk even more.
A study in the Journal of the American Dental Association found that tobacco and alcohol use has risen during the pandemic. Weight gain, poor diet and oral hygiene and a lack of treatment over the past two years have also increased the risk.
As with most cancers, early detection is a key to survival. If oral cancer is diagnosed at an early stage, the five-year survival rate is 85%.
Who’s at risk for oral cancer?
Oral cancer can include cancers in the gums, tongue and back of the throat. It occurs most often in people over the age of 40. Risk factors for oral cancer include tobacco and alcohol use, prolonged exposure to the sun and infection with certain types of the human papillomavirus (HPV). More men than women are diagnosed with it.
What are the symptoms of oral cancer?
- A sore in the mouth that doesn’t heal
- A white or red patch in the mouth or on the lip or tongue
- A sore throat or a feeling that something is caught in the throat
- Difficulty chewing, swallowing, or speaking
- Difficulty moving the jaw or tongue
- Swelling in the jaw that causes dentures to fit poorly or become uncomfortable
- Numbness in the tongue or other areas of the mouth
- Voice changes
- A lump or mass in the neck
- Ear pain
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends dentists check the following areas of the mouth for signs of cancer:
- Lymph nodes. Check the nodes in the neck and under the lower jaw.
- Cheeks and lips. Look for red or white patches.
- Gums. Notice any lumps or spots.
- Tongue. Pull the tongue forward and look for any swelling or abnormal color or texture. Also check the base of the tongue and underside.
- Palate and back of throat. Look for any abnormalities.
- Floor of the mouth. Check for lumps or sensitivity.


Android software program development is certainly an coming through field in the global marketplace that centers upon creating programs to help cellular device users access the preferred applications on the go. Android os is a fresh mobile operating system based around a heavily improved version of this Linux OPERATING SYSTEM and other open-source software, designed mainly for touchscreen mobile phones and tablets. The essence Android builders is to build user-friendly software applications that can run on top of traditional cell platforms just like BlackBerry OS, Symbian OS, Microsoft windows Mobile OPERATING SYSTEM, and Mobile phone Linux. To do this goal, they may have developed smart phone user extrémité that are extremely intuitive and give a great deal of control over the operating-system and the software installed on the product. Users can easily access these types of applications from almost everywhere using their mobile phone devices.
This groundbreaking open source program allows programmers to develop high-end Android programs that can combine with other Bluetooth devices, use the Web to deliver content, run on the native Android framework and much more. In order to build these types of apps, users need to download and install a particular piece of software that runs on the device’s CPU. As soon as the application is installed, it becomes visible towards the user’s smartphone or tablet. These programs are delivered to the units through the network’s Wi-Fi interconnection. Developers will then take the Android application and improve it to work on several platforms.
Android also offers several libraries and tools that developers can use to write code specifically for the device’s hardware and software. These tools produce developing apps easier and permit users to improve the look and feel with their applications. Android os offers many frameworks that support the most common scenarios and operations that users may well encounter with this their android mobile software mobile devices. Android os supports numerous types of hardware and software requirements, allowing designers to target varied devices with similar applications. With Android os software expanding becoming more popular, businesses are scrambling to create local android operating systems that will allow these to enter the lucrative market for the purpose of mobile devices.


Your teeth have deep grooves, pits and indentations where bacteria, plaque and food particles can hide making them hard to reach with normal brushing and flossing. The result: no matter how faithfully you follow your regular oral care routine, your teeth are still prone to tooth decay and cavities. This can be especially true for your back teeth, particularly if you have deep pits or grooves. To keep those cavities away, your dentist may recommend dental sealants for your teeth.
What does a sealant do?
Dental sealants are painted on to your teeth by a dentist, forming a barricade against unwanted invaders, such as plaque and food. Plaque and food together can cause cavities and tooth decay. A cavity is really the product of a perfect storm involving bacteria, food, saliva and the resulting acid. Bacteria in your mouth combine with food that sits on your teeth and creates plaque which includes acid. The acid in the plaque eats holes in your tooth (tooth decay) called cavities.
How long does it take to apply sealants?
Not long. The answer to this question depends on how many teeth your dentist needs to apply sealants to. The actual application of the dental sealants doesn’t take very long but the benefits are definitely long-term.
How long do sealants last?
Dental sealants can last for many years. Your dentist can check the quality of the dental sealants at regular dentist appointments.
Are sealants covered by my insurance?
Usually. Most dental insurance plans cover the cost of dental sealants as a preventative measure. Check with your dental insurance before you schedule your sealant appointment. If you have any questions about dental sealants, contact us or schedule an appointment. Our dentists can look at your dental history, do an examination and tell you if dental sealants are right for you.


The Congress has mandated that states and territories receiving “Fiscal Recovery Funds” from the American Rescue Plan cannot use the money, directly or indirectly, to offset tax cuts. Instead, those funds are supposed to lessen the pandemic’s economic harm. The money can fund bonus pay for essential workers, restore public services, and boost broadband, water, and sewer investments.
Those federal funds will join normal state revenue. So let’s take a look.
States get close to 80 percent of their money from taxes and federal funds. Taxes provide the most funding in 46 states while just four states–Alaska, Louisiana, Montana and Wyoming–get more money from the federal government.
State Revenue By Source: 2019:
Next, we can ask how tax dollars differ. As you might expect, a majority of states depend on their personal income tax. But for 16 states, the sales tax is more important.
State Revenue by Tax Mix, 2020:
Our Bottom Line: Fiscal Policy
Defined as a state’s (or any government’s) spending, taxing, and borrowing, fiscal policy takes us straight to the economic role of government. But it is not simply more or less. As we have seen with the pandemic, the destination matters. One goal was the robust recovery that state spending could stimulate.
As economists, the recovery takes us to aggregate demand (AD). On this AD/AS (aggregate demand/aggregate supply) graph, AD is composed of consumer spending, business investment (includes construction, research, and also residential housing), government spending, and net exports. Trillions of dollars of government spending shifts the AD line to the right and boosts growth as it increases real GDP:
Through our AD/AS graph, you can see the importance of boosting state revenue.
My sources and more: The CBPP (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) summarizes the destination of the American Rescue Plan’s State and Local Recovery Funds. Then, together with Pew’s infographics, we can see the sources of state spending. And finally, this NBER paper looked at who got what and why.


Handwriting is critical to a child’s development and in today’s electronics-driven world, the emphasis on handwriting is not a priority, especially for school-aged children. To rally Canadians, BIC – a leading manufacturer of writing, marking and correction products – is launching the BIC Fight For Your Write movement to encourage Canadian families to help save handwriting for future generations. The campaign includes a pledge, along with strategies and tips for making handwriting fun for developing minds.
BIC is also working with Breakfast Club of Canada to help ensure children go to school hungry for knowledge, not hungry for food. 60% of learning in school happens before lunch making breakfast food, brain food. That’s why BIC Fight For Your Write is donating $10,000 directly to Breakfast Club of Canada and giving an additional $10,000 (retail value) of stationery supplies to Canadian schools in need through the organization.
Here are five expert tips from Pam Allyn, literacy advocate, education expert and author and founder of LitWorld, a global organization that advocates for children’s rights as readers, writers and learners, to help make handwriting fun for developing minds.
1. Set aside specific times during the week for writing stories, songs or even jokes. Let your kids use their imaginations.
2. Have an assortment of colourful pens and pencils on hand that will make kids want to spend more time writing.
3. Make writing special for kids with their own personal table, desk, or designated area. Get them excited about their own writing space!
4. Give kids a fun assignment that requires them to write. Make a birthday wish list or write a letter to someone famous.
5. Make up games around writing. Practice signing their autograph to give to mom or dad.
Sometimes the perfect writing instrument can make all the difference in a child’s creativity and drive to succeed. BIC has a range of products that help make writing fun whether the topic is Math, English or Art. Some popular choices for the upcoming school year include: BIC Atlantis Original Ball Pen, BIC Extra-Fun Pencil, BIC 4-Color Ball Pen, BIC Extra-Craze Mechanical Pencil, BIC Velocity Gel Pen, BIC Briteliner Highlighters and BIC Kids Mechanical Pencil.
For more info and to sign the BIC Fight for Your Write pledge, visit www.BICFightForYourWrite.ca.


Many elderly adults that suffer from advanced dementia are sedentary, and it can be challenging to provide them with exercise, especially in long term care facilities like nursing homes. A study published last month investigated what methods of non-pharmacological interventions could be used to improve quality of life in adults with dementia.
The study compared music intervention, chair-based exercise, and chair-based yoga with participants who went to two 45-minute sessions weekly for a period of 12 weeks. The scientists found that participation in these activities was well-receives and more than 97% of the test subjects were fully engaged with each session.
Over the 12 weeks, the music intervention group did not fare as well, and there was a significant decline in quality of life in that group. However, the chair-based exercise and chair-based yoga group experienced significant improvements in quality of life, with decreases in depression. The physical effects of chair-based yoga reduced psychological symptoms and also improved balance and mobility, even increases the handgrip strength of the participants in that group.
There was an increase in agitation in the chair-yoga group, but the group overall reported a better quality of life, which the scientists believe is due to the meditative aspects of yoga. Chair yoga provides an opportunity for sedentary adults with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson disease dementia to engage in meaningful and beneficial exercise, while learning meditative practices and building routines.
Yoga has been touted as a very beneficial practice for people of all ages, and its benefits are available even to those with limited mobility.
- Park, Juyoung, et al. “Feasibility of Conducting Nonpharmacological Interventions to Manage Dementia Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.” American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias, 18 Sept. 2019, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317519872635.


Supply and Demand Excise Tax
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This Demonstration shows the effect of an excise tax on a perfectly competitive market. When the tax is introduced, the consumer surplus (orange) and producer surplus (blue) shrink, while deadweight loss (purple), the inefficiency caused by the tax, increases. Additionally, the Demonstration shows and calculates the revenue for the government raised by the tax. Of course, this diagram is a representation of what a perfectly competitive market would look like, if such a system existed. The purpose of this simplified program is to introduce students to the basic effects of taxation on the efficiency of a market.
Contributed by: Nicholas Palmer (November 2014)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
The deadweight loss inefficiency is caused by the fact that there are transactions that are not able to occur due to the tax. In a hypothetical market system free of government intervention, there would be no deadweight loss. Note that the tax takes away both consumer and producer surplus; both parties pay a partial burden of the tax.
"Supply and Demand Excise Tax"
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: November 3 2014


German novelist and essayist Mosebach traveled to Egypt to learn about the hitherto anonymous twenty-one Coptic Christians martyred in 2015 at the hands of the Islamic State in Libya. There, he interviewed family members and local clergymen while taking in the culture and atmosphere of Coptic life.
His account alternates between tragedy and triumph, between senseless deaths and staunch perseverance. Because martyrdom is such a common aspect of Coptic experience, neither the Coptic Church (also called the "Church of Martyrs"), nor the relatives of the slain, understood the latter's martyrdom as something out of the ordinary or in need of elaboration. The martyred seem not to matter as much as individuals but rather as representatives of a collective. All but one of the murdered twenty-one were menial workers who spent most of their lives earning and sending money back home to their families.
The book deals with topics—Coptic history, language, culture, and liturgy—of interest to Western readers. According to Mosebach, "the Copts have fared badly or very badly ever since the Islamic conquest of the country in the seventh century." But things changed during the colonial era: "Among the English, we were able to come up for air again," recalls one Copt interviewed, "but we paid for it later on ... Today, we're considered a fifth column—subversives in favor of America."
The book also includes tidbits interesting to the non-expert such as the fact that "the Pharaohs' language lives on in the Coptic liturgy" and "the Patriarch of Alexandria has held the official title of pope since 249, which is nearly one hundred years longer than the Bishop of Rome [the Roman Catholic Pope]." Even so, unlike mosques, the Coptic Church does not receive Egyptian government funding. Despite its antiquity, no chair of Coptology exists at any publicly-funded Egyptian university.
The 21 contains a number of overly atmospheric descriptions and tedious digressions, but overall, the information about Coptic Christians and their place in Egypt, in the context of their latest martyrs, makes it an interesting read.


Space cadets at Newington Community Primary School in Ramsgate are seeing stars.
Year 5 children took a virtual trip into the heavens inside a planetarium as their space topic blasted off for the coming term. The countdown began when the Astronomy Roadshow touched down in the school hall and invited pupils to explore the universe projected in stunning detail over and around them.
They learned about constellations, orbits, satellites, the international space station and saw a collection of space rocks and astronaut badges.
Head of Year 5 Tom Broughton said: “To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landings this year, our science topic will explore the earth, moon and space.
“The visit of the astrodome was the perfect way to start our topic and it really ignited pupils’ interest. They were thrilled to experience the planetarium and become immersed in space and stars.”
In the coming weeks pupils will learn about the different planets in the solar system; the movement of the Earth around the Sun; the orbit of the moon around the Earth; and find out why we have day and night and how the Sun and Moon affect tidal movements.
Head Teacher Cliff Stokes said:” The astrodome is a terrific learning experience for our children. It engaged them immediately and has provided a strong platform for their space exploration research for the rest of the term.
“Opportunities like this enhance what they are learning in class and really enriches their overall education.”
And the final word about their astrodome experience comes from Year 5 pupils who said it was “out of this world.”


- Children learn through experience. It is our duty, as educators, to enhance and strengthen children’s opportunities to explore the world, while also modeling effective communication and positive relationships.
- Children are always listening, be cautious and kind with your words and actions. Model respect, kindness, and love. Words matter.
- Every child learns differently, feels differently, lives differently, and communicates differently. Acknowledge these differences WITHOUT shaming. Embrace these differences, learn from them, and teach acceptance.
- Children develop on a continuum and at different rates. Instead of comparing children to each other, we must take time to understand and know children as individuals. We should then tailor instruction and develop authentic assessment that meets each child’s specific needs.
- Children can sense judgement. Examining your own biases and beliefs is the first step in making intentional decisions to create judgement-free interactions with children and their families. You can Do THIS. Be brave. Reflect. Evolve.
- No child wakes up with the intention of ruining an adult’s day. Behavior is a form of communication that MUST BE TAUGHT!
- Lean in, listen, and figure out what your child/student is trying to communicate.
Take the time to teach and model behavior just as you would take the time to teach a child to read. Remember modeling is key.
- Children DO see color and it is OK. Instead of encouraging them not to see color, encourage them to have open and inclusive conversations that lead to understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of the differences they notice.
What do you know? Your turn, tell me!


Discover the golden history of India’s Hutti mine
A walk through the history of Hutti mines – one of the most ancient gold mines in the world.
The legend of the seven cities of gold
A walk through of the mystery of the 7 cities of gold
How India came to be called ‘sone ki chidiya’?
Learn about how India's voracious taste for gold gaining the epithet of the golden bird.
The role of gold in clean technology
Various ways gold is used to advance new-age clean technology.
Gold jewellery designs from Mohenjo-daro civilisation
A look at gold jewellery designs that were popular during the Mohenjo-daro civilisation.
Gold control period
The Gold Control Act in 1968 brought additional restrictions on gold businesses.
Alexander the great’s 1000 talents of gold!
While historians are still debating about King Alexander’s substantial gold acquisitions, legend has it that the Greek captured 100,000 talents (25,00,000 kg) of gold.
The golden chaos of 1991
In hindsight, the golden chaos of 1991 was solely responsible for bringing about distinct changes in the country. Read about it here
Sone ki Chidiya will fly higher
India is leaving no stone unturned in retrieving its top position in the world and becoming the golden bird it once was
India’s gold, England’s gain?
India’s gold played a key role in helping England shore up its public finances. Find the details here


The first step is to map out your expenses. If you’re not sure where your money is going each month or how much you have left over at the end of the month, then it’s time to take a closer look at your finances. understanding the importance of saving money long enough to live comfortably in retirement.
A budget should be an ongoing process that involves reviewing your expenses and adjusting your spending as necessary. The best way to create a budget? Start by looking at all of your income sources, including cash flow, investments, and other income sources like rental properties.
The most important thing you can do is to design your personal investment portfolio. In general, the higher the expected return, the more risk there is associated with that investment. If you want to play safe, start investing in high-interest savings accounts.
Managing your debts is one of the most important things you can do for your financial health. If you have too much debt, it can be hard to focus on anything else. It can make it harder to save money and make investments.
Planning for retirement can be a stressful and confusing process. Know how much money you want to save for retirement. This amount should be based on your goals, such as buying a home or sending children to college.
Tax planning is a key part of financial planning. It involves making sure you pay the right amount of tax at the right time, so you have enough money left over to invest in your future.
The most efficient way to manage your money is to do it online. You can easily create budgets and track your spending at the click of a button. If you’re not already using an online budgeting tool, then we highly recommend getting one.


Indian banks are one of the safest places to store money and get interests over saving it. Almost every person who resides in any part of India must have a bank account. Nowadays, even people under the age of 18 have a bank account. Every bank in India presents different benefits and services to its customers.
A person looking to open a bank account, irrespective of the bank, has to fill up the bank application form. A bank application form is a simple form that requires you to fill in personal details about yourself and some other essential information. They also require you to provide some documents like id proof, adhaar card, pan card, voter id, etc.
Many fields are needed to be filled in the bank application form. One such field is the R/O field. R/O field is also available in the voter ID declaration form. Here we will discuss what R/O means.
R/O Meaning or full form in Banking/Voter ID Form
Many people who fill up the bank application form face problems regarding some of the form fields. They need to ask the executive about these fields, and after understanding, they will fill-up the form. One such field is the R/O field.
R/O is an abbreviation of many different works. But here, we are talking about the bank application form. In the banking/Voter ID declaration form, R/O is the abbreviation of the ‘RESIDENT OF‘. It refers to the area of your housing address. Therefore, in this field, you need to add the area name that is closest to your housing address.
Having a bank account means assuring the safety of your money. Bank account creation requires you to fill a long-form. Some fields of this form are difficult to understand. In this article, we discussed one such field, i.e., R/O.
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