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Nurses's Bill of Rights
Registered nurses promote and restore health, prevent illness and protect the people entrusted to their care. They work to alleviate the suffering experienced by individuals, families, groups and communities. In so doing, nurses provide services that maintain respect for human dignity and embrace the uniqueness of each patient and the nature of his or her health problems, without restriction with regard to social or economic status. To maximize the contributions nurses make to society, it is necessary to protect the dignity and autonomy of nurses in the workplace. To that end, the following rights must be afforded:
- Nurses have the right to practice in a manner that fulfills their obligations to society and to those who receive nursing care.
- Nurses have the right to practice in environments that allow them to act in accordance with professional standards and legally authorized scopes of practice.
- Nurses have the right to a work environment that supports and facilitates ethical practice, in accordance with the Code of Ethics for Nurses and its interpretive statements.
- Nurses have the right to freely and openly advocate for themselves and their patients, without fear of retribution.
- Nurses have the right to fair compensation for their work, consistent with their knowledge, experience and professional responsibilities.
- Nurses have the right to a work environment that is safe for themselves and their patients.
- Nurses have the right to negotiate the conditions of their employment, either as individuals or collectively, in all practice settings.
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Anna Hibiscus
Written by: Atinuke
Illustrated by: Lauren Tobia
Before Reading
K-W-L Chart
Anna Hibiscus is a book about a young girl who loves living in Africa with her large family. Work together to create a K-W-L chart that will help your child think about the story before you dive in. Under the "What I Know" section, write down your child's answers to questions like, "What can we learn from the cover of this book? What about the book's description on the back? Have you heard anything about this book?" In the "What I Would Like To Know" section, write about what your child would like to discover in this story like whether or not Anna Hibiscus will actually get to see snow, why she likes living with her whole family, and what it's like to live in Africa.
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Make Predictions
Allow your child to make predictions about what will happen in the story by asking "What do you think will happen in this story?" You can even add an extra column for "Predictions" on your chart to keep track of which of your predictions are accurate.
As You Read
Take Turns Reading
Even if your child is able to read on his/her own, it is still beneficial for you to alternate reading pages or chapters. This will allow you to have discussions about the story as you go along, and enable your child to address any questions that s/he might have throughout the book.
Vocabulary Building
As you and your child go through the story, encourage him/her to stop when s/he comes across a new word. Allow him/her to use context clues in the sentence to discover what a word might mean. An example of a new word in Anna Hibiscus is CASSAVA.
Make Connections
Help your child connect to the story as you go along by asking how different events in the book may relate to events in your child's own life. For example, when Anna Hibiscus' family discusses how Auntie Comfort goes by another name, talk to your child about the significance of his/her name and whether or not s/he likes it.
After Reading
Use these discussion questions to help your child think about the story you have just read, as well as how it relates to your child's life.
Why did Anna Hibiscus like living with her whole family?
What happened when they went on their vacation?
Ask About Your Child's Life
Who lives in our home? Do you like having a big/small family? Why or why not?
Where is our family from? Are there any traditions that we have from our culture?
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. How is her life in Africa different from yours in _______?
Activity: Virtual Adventure to Nigeria
Tell your child that you are going to go on a virtual adventure to Nigeria! Use the internet to do some research on the country and its people and write down all of your findings! You can also print out pictures of interesting images that you might find and create a collage.
 1. Start off by planning what kinds of clothes you would pack! This would require you to learn about the climate and the different landscapes to figure out if you'll need some ski pants or some shorts.
 2. Next, discover what languages they speak to see if you will need to learn some new phrases.
 3. You can also try to learn about any interesting traditions or cultural differences that may exist. This includes the yummy foods that you would eat if you were there!
 4. Look at a map to see how far Nigeria is from where you live.
Use resources like National Geographic and Time for Kids to figure these things out! Go on to discover more countries throughout Africa and explain to your child that Africa is a vibrant continent made up of many different countries.


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Middle-class children: Squeaky wheels in training
A study by Indiana University sociologist Jessica McCrory Calarco found that working-class and middle-class parents often take very deliberate -- but different -- approaches to helping their children with their school experiences.
Working-class parents, she found, coached their children on how to avoid problems, often through finding a solution on their own and by being polite and deferential to authority figures. Middle-class parents, on the other hand, were more likely to encourage their kids to ask questions or ask for help.
These self-advocacy skills taught by middle-class parents not only can help the children in school -- because these parents know that in educational settings teachers often expect and reward such behavior -- but they could help later in life in other institutional settings.
"Youth who do not learn to advocate for themselves might have more difficulty interacting with social service providers, financial service providers, legal authorities and other bureaucratic institutions," said Calarco, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology in IU's College of Arts and Sciences.
Calarco will discuss her research on Sunday during the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Denver.
Her study focuses on the interaction between parents, children and teachers during the students' fourthand fifth-grade years at a public elementary school. Her school observations took place at least twice a week, and then she interviewed the students and parents the summer following their fifth-grade year.
Conducted while Calarco was a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, the study is among the first to provide evidence that parents from different social classes teach their children different lessons about interacting with institutions. It also shows that parents help to perpetuate inequalities not only through what they do for their children, such as equipping them with different resources or opportunities, but also through what they teach children to do for themselves.
Calarco characterized both working-class and middle-class parents as "relentless" when it came to teaching their children important lessons. This sometimes even involved role-playing, when the middle-class parents wanted their children to solve their problem on their own -- but couldn't quite leave it to chance. She also found the students very receptive.
"Even very shy middle-class children learned to feel comfortable approaching teachers with questions, and recognized the benefits of doing so," she said. "Working-class children instead worried about making teachers mad or angry if they asked for help at the wrong time or in the wrong way, and also felt that others would judge them as incompetent or not smart if they asked for help. These differences, in turn, seem to stem not from differences in how teachers responded to students -- when working-class students did ask questions, teachers welcomed and readily addressed these requests -- but from differences in the skills, strategies and orientations that children learn from their parents at home."
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Religious Genius
Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions
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This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of "Religious Genius" as an alternative to existing categories, primarily "saint." It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals, suggesting key characteristics such as love, humility, and self-surrender. Religious geniuses transform their traditions and their legacies endure through these very transformations. They also inspire changes across religious boundaries and traditions. The study of religious geniuses in various faith traditions therefore advances interfaith engagement today. The book complements existing, primarily historical, studies of saints by offering a phenomenological approach that seeks to touch the subjectivity of these individuals, and how they have affected the unfolding of their religious traditions.
Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the Executive Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, Israel.


I bet everyone has that dream of dusting off that musical instrument, they bought years ago only to have it sit in storage, and finally get some lessons, especially as COVID has us vegetating at home anyways. Israeli company Tonara, the makers of the popular music practice app Tonara Studio, announced the launch of Tonara Connect, a music education marketplace that connects music teachers and students worldwide on a digital platform.
Technology around music education often looks to cut teachers out of the picture, while Tonara puts teachers right at the center. Tonara's app, Tonara Studio, launched in 2018, helps thousands of teachers stay connected and engaged with their students while motivating practice in between lessons.
"The future of music education is being driven by innovation, connectivity, and empowerment. We strive to deliver on all three in the products, content, and global communities that we build." - Cara Katzew, VP Marketing of Tonara.
While Tonara Studio helps teachers manage and motivate their students, the newly released Tonara Connect, allows music teachers to grow their studios by removing geographical limitations and making it easy for students from around the world to find them. This becomes especially prudent as many millions around the globe face quarantine or lock-down restrictions due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, and find themselves with nothing to do.
On Connect, music teachers are able to create rich, professional profiles, showing potential students who they are, and how they can help them achieve their goals. Music students entering the marketplace can then find the teachers that match their music learning needs, and initiate lessons.
The marketplace currently boasts over 800 teachers and is growing every day, connecting people worldwide through music education on a digital platform.
"We have the potential to do something truly big here. Not just in scale, but in impact. We've all witnessed the power of music education, how it unites, and how it heals. This is something that everyone in the world should have access to and Tonara is here to reshape the future of music education and make that possible". - Tonara CEO, Ohad Golan.
The company was founded in 2008 by Yair Lavi and Evgeni Begelfor. To date, Tonara has raised almost $10 million as of last Series C funding round.


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As Bitcoin transforms from a revolutionary concept to a mainstream crypto asset, visionary wallet designs are actively enhancing its core cryptographic defenses, preparing for the potential challenges of quantum computing. The advent of quantum-secure Bitcoin wallets is approaching, thanks to innovative solutions emerging in the United States, ensuring the sovereignty of private keys even in the face of quantum advancements.
Addressing Quantum Computing Risks to Bitcoin
While the likelihood of quantum attacks directly impacting Bitcoin's blockchain is considered low, the cryptographic functions protecting Bitcoin's private keys could theoretically become vulnerable to advanced quantum algorithms.
Quantum computing breakthroughs pose a potential threat to the secp256k1 curve standards safeguarding keys. What would take classical supercomputers millennia to crack, quantum computing could achieve in a matter of months or minutes.
Revealed keys could grant malicious actors irreversible control over corresponding wallet balances and Bitcoin transactions—an unacceptable scenario that requires technical immunity as quantum computing transitions from experimental labs to widespread use.
Securing Bitcoin Wallets with Quantum-Resilient Measures
To fortify private keys against quantum threats, the latest advancements in Bitcoin wallets are focusing on integrating four crucial quantum-resistant safeguards:
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD): Utilizing quantum signals for cryptographically secure key exchange, QKD ensures that even quantum algorithms cannot penetrate or reveal keys during transmission. The direct key transfer avoids exposure risks through immutable quantum mechanical principles.
Quantum Random Number Generation (QRNG): Generating secure random numbers through quantum processes, QRNG prevents any statistical defects that could compromise security. Impenetrable entropy sourcing eliminates predictability as a basis for key generation.
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Implementing quantum-secure digital signature schemes and cryptographic hash functions resilient to prospective quantum algorithm capacities, using lattice, code, hash, or multivariate theoretical models.
Quantum-Driven Blockchain: Applying quantum principles across identities, consensus, and encryption, this approach bestows resilience against cloning, entanglement, and algorithmic attacks through innate quantum advantages.
By combining these technologies, quantum-aware Bitcoin wallets ensure foolproof custody by integrating cutting-edge sciences into cryptography.
Key Players in Quantum-Protected Bitcoin Wallets
Leading projects secure Bitcoin's cryptography leadership through interdisciplinary quantum innovation:
Arqit: Merging quantum physics and crypto, Arqit enables quantum cloud encryption safeguarding private keys through quantum key distribution frameworks and symmetric encryption fortified against prospective quantum and classical threats.
CryptoQuantique: Leveraging quantum sensing with blockchain, CryptoQuantique introduces QRNG innovations originating from European nuclear research cooperation, delivering robust real-world entropy.
QAN: Making quantum-powered blockchains commercially usable for Bitcoin via proxy quantum processors and platforms, QAN promises efficient scaling with hybrid quantum-classical networks.
These solutions render Bitcoin wallets effectively quantum-proof, re-encrypting keys using quantum mechanical fundamentals and post-quantum cryptographic protections before potential quantum threats.
User Journey with Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Wallets
The user experience with a quantum-hardened Bitcoin wallet remains user-friendly:
The wallet generates quantum-assured keys, leveraging groundbreaking sciences beneath intuitive interfaces.
Users securely back up keys as usual, shielded by permutation combinations of quantum cryptography, quantum sensing, and post-quantum algorithms.
Transaction signing and verification operate as usual, devoid of any functional overhead.
If existing keys ever get compromised, wallets simply rotate to new quantum-secure keys.
By seamlessly integrating innovative quantum-resistant cryptography within turnkey wallet software, ongoing initiatives promise frictionless, future-proof experiences, safeguarding user Bitcoin.
Broader Launch Implications
Upon optimized performance, Quantum-Resilient Encryption (QRE) wallets may emerge as premium professional offerings before integrating across consumer platforms as quantum proliferation timelines become definitive.
Proactive inoculation is of utmost importance before risks become existential. The imminent upheaval in cryptography will be neutralized through visionary quantum readiness.
Quantum-secure wallet innovation signifies a significant milestone in guaranteeing decentralized ownership rights against the potential overpowering computing capabilities on the horizon. By seamlessly uniting quantum physics fundamentals with cryptography today, the forthcoming epoch stands fortified through primordial principles underpinning reality itself. This fusion promises a launch pad securing crypto's trajectory to unprecedented heights tomorrow by preserving its foundational premises of self-custody from conception through quantum-age fruition.

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Winter is now upon us here in the Mid-Atlantic region and that means snow, and snow means snow removal. We at Alban CAT want you to be safe while operating equipment to remove snow and put together a series of tips for plowing snow.
Before You Startclick to learn more
- Before operating or servicing your snowplow or equipment, you should become thoroughly familiar with the owner's manual.
- You should make sure the following safety equipment is available: cellular phone or two-way radio, a fire extinguisher, tool kit, tow strap, flashlight, flares, first aid kit, ice scraper, lock deicer, a shovel and a bag of sand or salt.
- Dress for the weather, make sure you have warm clothes that include insulated boots, insulated underwear, a warm jacket, hat, gloves and sunglasses to combat snow glare.
- You should check your equipment's tire pressure, engine belts for cracks and tightness, hoses for leaks and fluid levels including the engine oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid, battery, radiator coolant and windshield washer fluid (if applicable).
- If your Equipment has headlights, brake lights and turn signals to be sure they are in good working order, and make sure your strobe light is working if you have one. Also, look under the machine for obvious signs of leaking fluid.
- You should never run out of fuel, so make sure your fuel tank is full before going out to plow.
- Check your equipment attachment to make sure all bolts are tight. Look for cracked welds and hydraulic fluid leaks. Check your snowplow cutting edge. An over-worn cutting edge can result in costly repairs to the blade later.
Good Practicesclick to learn more
- Never operate your equipment while transporting it to and from a job site.
- If you are moving the equipment on the road without a trailer then position attachments so they do not block headlights or your vision.
- If driving equipment on the road, if possible angle or lift your attachment so you don't catch on curbs or other obstacles.
- While plowing, check the temperature gauge often. Overheating the engine can be costly. If the equipment overheats, stop and correct the problem. Stop and adjust blade position to allow more airflow to the radiator or remove built up snow from the radiator.
- Before it snows, know your job site, walk around the area you will be plowing to check for obstacles that will become hidden when snow is on the ground. Look for things such as bumper stops and speed bumps, curbs, sidewalk edges, shrubs, water drains, fire hydrants, fences and pipes sticking up from the ground. To prevent damage to the area being plowed as well as to your equipment, mark any obstructions that will be hard to see when there's snow on the ground.
- Always wear a seat belt when operating equipment and never plow with your head out the window.
- When moving in reverse, don't rely on the equipment's mirrors. Turn around and look where you're going when ever possible.
- When plowing in dirt or gravel, and if your attachment has them, lower the plow shoes. This will raise the blade so you don't scrape the surface away. When plowing on asphalt or concrete, raise or remove the plow shoes so that you scrape as close to the surface as possible.
- When you're finished plowing, lower the blade to the ground this will also take stress off the hydraulic components.
Plowing Parking Lotsclick to learn more
- Make sure you know where the customer wants you to pile the snow.
- Use extra caution when plowing next to curbs.
- If a significant amount of snow is expected, if you can plow with the storm, rather than letting snow accumulate.
- Keep water drains and catch basins clear at all times.
- Do not stack snow by the road so as not to block the visibility of vehicles coming or leaving the parking lot.
- Use caution when plowing next to parked cars–as the snow can push you into the car.
- When pushing snow that is next to a building, push away from the building.
- If you are responsible for sidewalks, they should be shoveled first before you start plowing so that the snow can be plowed away.
- To start a pass, start the machine in motion. Then drop the blade.
- As you come to the end of a pass, lift off from the accelerator while starting to use the brake. At the same time, start to raise the blade to help stack the snow.
- Plow areas in front of buildings and overhead doors first. Drive up to the building, drop the blade, and pull the snow away from the building. Then turn your equipment around, back into the cleared area and push the snow to the outer edges of the lot.
- Push the snow banks back far enough to accommodate future snowfalls.
- After back-dragging snow away from the buildings, it's time to start plowing the lot. Start by making a pass down the center of the lot, and then push snow in windrows to the outer edges.
- If there has been a significant amount of snowfall, push as much bulk off the lot as possible. Then go over it again.
- In large lots it may be best to break your plowing down into smaller areas.
- Do not pile snow in the middle of the lot. It will be difficult to remove later.
- Do not pile snow near handicapped parking areas.
- Plow in straight lines whenever possible and push to the outer edges of the lot. Keep the wind direction in mind–and pile snow downwind to minimize drifting later.
- Plow snow during low-traffic hours and always be cautious of cars and people in the lot.
- Once the majority of the snow is removed from the lot, it's time to do the cleanup work. Start by plowing next to curbs. Be sure to square off corners where possible, and don't leave trails of snow behind.
Plowing Drivewaysclick to learn more
- Make sure you know where your customer wants you to pile the snow.
- Drive up to the garage; drop the blade; then back up–pulling the snow approximately two car lengths back. Turn the equipment around and back into the cleaned area.
- Push the snow to the end of the driveway.
- Finish by pushing the snow into the corners at the end of the driveway.
- Be careful to not leave snow on the road or on sidewalks.
Dealing With Snow Typesclick to learn more
- In deep snow raise the plow several inches off the ground to shear off the top layer.
- You should push just enough snow with each pass to get the job done efficiently without overloading your equipment.
- A good rule of thumb is to use a full blade width for two inches of snow or less, three quarters of the blade for four inches of snow and a half blade for six inches of snow or more.
- The best advice is this: Once you start, finish the job. Wet snow left on the sides of your job site overnight can freeze and turn into an ice rink by morning.
What Not To Doclick to learn more
- Never pile snow on someone else's property.
- Never pile snow on a street or on sidewalks.
- Never pile snow on top of any structure.
- Never pile snow by mailboxes, dumpsters, water drains, catch basins, electrical boxes or fire hydrants.
- Never push snow across a road without first checking the local regulations. In many areas it is illegal to push snow across a road.
- If it is allowed, push the snow far enough back to allow for upcoming snowfalls–being sure to not leave snow on the road.
We hope these general tips for pushing snow help you with a successful and safe snow season, be careful out there.
CAT® Work Tools and Allied Equipment Attachments have several tools that can help you quickly and easily remove snow from your job site, including plows and straight push boxes to supplement your standard bucket.
Residential Construction Equipment
CAT® Compact Construction Equipment (CCE) and Building Construction Products (BCP) like Skid Steers, Backhoes or Compact Wheel Loaders are perfect sized machines to help you push snow.
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I've been learning about the gene regulatory network (GRN) and protein-protein interaction network (PPI) recently. I've found a huge amount of extremely interesting papers about how biological network data is accumulated and how it can be studied.
However, what I haven't found is any examples where the network data was used to make a novel prediction which was later experimentally shown to actually exist. What are some of the cases where this has happened?
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There is very interesting work in this regard done by Ed Marcotte. An overview of the "machine" and its conservation across species is here. The point here is the machine or network is conserved, but used in different ways in different organisms. Hence, the phenotypes of mutants might be different, but they'd be consistent across many variants in the components of the machine.
One paper of his describes a tool, which uses well developed guilt-by-association principles upon a human gene network to identify associations of gene sets. This is available at _URL_
Look at their approach to prioritizing candidate disease genes by network-based boosting of genome-wide association data.
Some specific examples of the conserved "machine" are given in this elegant PNAS paper. It is nice how they tested the genes in Xenopus embryos.
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Eric Davidson should be your first port of call for GRN related work!
He published a great paper not so long ago demonstrating exactly what you're talking about. By including spatio-temporal dynamics of gene expression (e.g. differential equations modelling the time scale of gene expression) they constructed a boolean logic based predictive model for gene expression in early sea urchin development. Their results were not only accurate, but actually made predictions about genes that they hadn't experimentally tested...
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Southern Louisiana fisherman battle cold weather and drastic changes in barometric pressure as they fight to successfully catch fish.
Southern Louisiana is home to some of the coldest and most frantic weather changes in the United States. This leads to chaos and confusion not just on land but in the water as well. It has been recently discovered that the constant increase and decrease in weather climate creates a high level of pressure through out the bodies of water in the area. This contributes to, as stated by Jerald Horst, a retired Louisiana State University fisheries biologist, "the quelling effect on the feeding activity of speckled trout and redfish. There's no scientific proof that barometric pressure causes fish to feed less, but we can definitely show a cause and effect."
Horst continues in explaining that while there is no proof that barometric pressure is the direct result of a change in the eating habits of fish it does seem to correlate. Fish tend to be exceptionally sensitive to a change of environment and it would be fairly reasonable to assume that a change in barometric pressure would cause an alteration in their behavior.
Additionally effective is the relationship that fish have to cold water. As water temperatures decrease it is known that cold-blooded creatures have a hard time feeling energize. As water looses warmth it reaches a level that matches the same temperature as the bodies of cold-blooded creatures. This causes these animals to go into a lethargic "comatose state."
As soon as the cold front drifts in it is overtly noticeable that the fish stop biting the lures of fisherman. It has become a routine known to this area so often that fisherman now recognize the change and stay home for a day or two avoiding the sport all together until temperatures rise again. Anglers of Southeast Louisiana have even learned to cancel a whole fishing trip due to a drop in barometric pressure.
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Kids jump and fall and run and climb and play – and it's not unusual for me to get called when one of their tongues happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught between chomping teeth. Ouch!
A tongue bite can bleed a lot and look terrible, but still heal on its own fast – or it may need emergency repair.
Things to Consider
The rich blood supply to the tongue enables it's activity and rapid healing when damaged. Certain bites are most likely to need stitches:
- Goes through tongue from the top to the bottom
- Rips an edge of the tongue
- Splits the front of the tongue
- Gash longer than 1 cm
- Missing chunk of tongue
- Ongoing bleeding
Also be aware of possible problems apart from the bite:
- A possible foreign body in the mouth
- Damaged or loose teeth
- Injured jaw
- Swelling of the tongue
7 Things to Do
- Consider it an emergency if tongue swelling or bleeding might get in the way of breathing or swallowing.
- Contact your doctor or dentist right away if it's a bite that might need stitches, or of the tetanus shots might not be up to date. If you're not certain about either, get in touch. I would absolutely want my own patients to do this.
- I scream for ice cream! Avoid eating or drinking just before or after anesthesia (if needed), but otherwise, a soft diet for the next few days feels better and allows for easier healing. And go for the cold! Sucking on ice chips, popsicles or ice cream can be soothing.
- Drink water or rinse with water after eating while there is an open wound.
- Consider an oral pain reliever if the child seems uncomfortable.
- Revisit within 24-48 hours to reassess.
- In the meantime, be alert for signs of infections or other complications, such as fever, swelling, or increasing pain.
Things to Learn
Parents are often amazed to watch how fast a bitten tongue heals. It's a sped-up, time-lapse, visible example of an important underlying principle: Kids' bodies are designed to repair damage.
Our job as parents (and doctors) is to remove obstacles to healing, support the healing process as needed, and to provide comfort along the way.
This is true even with emergency care. And remember, it's not the stitches that heal the tongue; they just hold it in position so it can heal itself.


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Condominium Mechanic's Liens
Practice area:
Mechanic's lien claims are complex in that each state's statutes differ dramatically. There are certain unique issues when a contractor seeks to commence a mechanic's lien proceeding for improvements made to a condominium.
What did you improve?
When assessing your rights under the applicable mechanic's lien statute, focus on the property that you improved. You are only entitled to lien the property interests for which you made an improvement.
For condominiums, there are common areas and units. The common areas are owned by the condominium trust/association and the units are owned by the individual owners. This year, I commenced a mechanic's lien action on behalf of a subcontractor against a new, 10-unit condominium in Rhode Island. My client performed improvements to the entire building — both common areas and in the units. The general contractor was hired by the developer of the condominium. By the time final payments were not released some of the units were transferred to individual owners.
We recorded six different mechanic's liens in the Land Evidence Records against the condominium association and the owners of the individual units. Sometimes it can be challenging to determine a separate value of the work performed per condominium unit. If you perform work for a condominium, it is good practice to keep specific records per unit regarding the labor, materials, and equipment performed so that you can have a defensible claim on the value of your lien. Without such records, you will have to apportion the value of the work performed in the common areas and in the individual units. In my case, we looked to the percentage ownership interest each unit had in the common areas as stated in the condominium declaration to arrive at a value of the various liens. We also adjusted some of the values based upon change order work performed in individual units. We commenced a single lawsuit against the condominium trust and individual unit owners.
For each lien, we had to follow the full process including obtaining legal advertisement in the newspaper. This process would be enormously cumbersome for work performed on a much larger condominium. For example, if there were 150 condominium units owned by different persons, you would have to record 150 separate liens. A couple of tips:
 1. Keep accurate records on the work performed per unit.
 2. Don't delay in recording the lien. The sooner you record it, the more likely there will be common ownership by the developer and you will not have to commence as many liens.
Can you lien improvements to common areas? Not in Massachusetts!
States take divergent views on whether contractors can lien work performed on common areas such as parking lots, hallways, landscaping, etc. Massachusetts is an example of such a state. For certain contractors, most of the value of their work is on the common elements. Those contractors effectively lose their ability to assert a mechanic's lien in Massachusetts. In this section, I discuss the Massachusetts law and summarize approaches taken by other states.
There Massachusetts' Mechanic's Lien Statute (c. 254) and the Massachusetts' Condominium Statute (c. 183A) have conflicting policies with regard to work performed by contractors on common areas of condominiums. The mechanic's lien statute provides security for those who improve the value of real property. The purpose is to prevent unjust enrichment and to benefit the contractor. A policy of the condominium statute is to avoid liens on the common elements. Section 13 of the Condominium Act states:
Claims involving common areas and facilities; liability
All claims involving the common areas and facilities shall be brought against the organization of unit owners, and all attachments and executions related to such claims shall be made only against common funds or property held by the organization of unit owners and not against the common areas and facilities themselves other than the leasehold of any lease included therein. After such common funds and property have been exhausted, individual unit owners shall be liable for the balance due, if any, provided, however, that the amount for which a unit owner is liable shall be limited to a sum equal to the amount of his percentage interest in the common areas and facilities times the balance due.
In Business Interiors Floor Covering, Inc. & Others vs. Basepoint Contracting and Trustees of 50-60 Longwood Avenue Condominium Trust, CA No. 2009-01752 (Mass. Super. Ct. Sept. 24, 2010), a contractor's mechanic's lien was discharged. The case arose from a dispute between a general contractor and subcontractors hired to do work on common areas. Id. at *2. The community association paid the contractor, but the contractor did not pay for all of the work performed by the subcontractors. Id. When the contractor went out of business and filed for bankruptcy, subcontractors filed mechanic's liens against the common areas, seeking to collect money owed them. Id. at *1, 3. The court discharged the mechanic's liens stating "the language of the Condominium Statute is clear: Claims cannot be brought against the common areas and facilities of a condominium." Business Interiors Floor Covering, Inc., CA No. 2009-01752 at *6 (citing M.G.L. 183A §13). The court further explained that "[w]hen two statutes are inconsistent, as the Mechanic's Lien and Condominium Statutes are here, they should be 'construed in a way that gives reasonable effect to both statutes and creates a consistent body of law.'" Id. at 5 (quoting City of Boston v. Board of Education, 392 Mass. 788, 792 (1984)). The court noted that "the use of a mechanic's lien against only the common areas of a condominium is akin to trying to insert a square peg into a round hole. It simply does not fit." Business Interiors Floor Covering, Inc., CA No. 2009-01752 at *5 (quoting Powder Mill Builders L.L.C. v. Powder Mill Square, L.L.C. and Powder Mill Square Condominium Trust, CA. No. 2008-00313A at *7 (Mass. Super. Ct., April 26, 2009)). "[C]ondominium owners own their unit exclusively while also possessing an undivided interest in the condominium's common areas." Id. (citing Berish v. Bornstein, 437 Mass. 252, 262 (2002)). Therefore, the court inquired, "'What value do the common areas have separate and apart from the unit owning undivided percentage interests in the common areas? What interest would be conveyed to a purchaser, even assuming there is any market…?'" Id. (quoting Powder Mill Builders, L.L.C., CA. No. 2008-00313A at *10). The court observed that "there is no practical way to sell the common areas of a condominium." Id. at *6. "Therefore… a mechanic's lien 'simply does not fit' on a condominiums common areas." Id. (quoting Powder Mill Builders, L.L.C., CA. No. 2008-00313A at *10). The court acknowledged that other states allow mechanic's liens on condominium common areas, but distinguished them on the basis that "those states' statutes do not prohibit attachments on common areas of condominiums, while Massachusetts' Condominium Statute does." Id.
The same result occurred in Michael Shea Co., Inc. v. Chellis, 81 Mass. App. Ct. 1105 at *1 (2011). court affirmed the motion judge and determined the statute plainly requires that "all attachments and executions related to [claims against common areas and facilities] shall be made only against common funds or property held by the organization of unit owners and not against the common areas and facilities themselves other than the leasehold of any lease included therein." Id. (citing M.G.L. 183A § 13). Because the subcontractor's notice of contract was clearly limited to common areas and facilities, the court held that the complaint was properly dismissed and the lien discharged, as the subcontractor had no entitlement to a lien against the property listed. Id. at *2 (internal citation omitted).
The subcontractor argued that nothing in the mechanic's lien statute prohibits the filing of a lien with respect to common areas and facilities. Michael Shea Co., Inc., 81 Mass. App. Ct. 1105 at *2. Noting the conflict, the Appeals court stated that "[s]o long as the two statutes covering the same subject matter, when read together, are not repugnant to each other, and there is some rational basis for reconciliation of the two, then the presumption against implied repeal shall stand." Id. (quoting Shrewsbury v. Seaport Partners Ltd. Partnership, 63 Mass. App. Ct. 272, 276 (2005)). The Court determined that Section 13 of the condominium statute's "incompatibility with the mechanic's lien statute does have a rational basis: namely, that there is no separate interest in common areas and facilities apart from the individual condominium units, and therefore, no interest that could be conveyed to a hypothetical purchaser to satisfy the lien." Id. (citing Berish v. Bornstein, 437 Mass. 252, 262 (2002)).
In my view, contractors should be permitted to assert mechanic's liens on common areas of a condominium. I do not see any rational basis to limit the mechanic's lien remedy. The value of


Thousands gather for Invasion Day rallies across Australia
People in major cities across Australia have gathered outside to attend Invasion Day rallies. The 26 January public holiday marks the date the British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788 to start a penal colony, viewing the land as unoccupied despite encountering settlements. For many Indigenous Australians and a growing number of non-Indigenous Australians, the day marks 'Invasion Day'. Chants of 'Black Lives Matter' and 'always was, always will be Aboriginal land' rang out during most rallies across the country.
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Effects of muscle strength and activation profile on foot drag in a simulated SCI rat
BMC Neurosciencevolume 9, Article number: P27 (2008)
Spinal cord injury (SCI) can lead to decreases in overall motoneuron output, changes in muscle activation patterns, and atrophy of the affected muscles. Depending upon the severity of SCI, foot drag can occur during the stance-to-swing transition during locomotion. Our preliminary experimental data suggests that muscles co-activate following SCI, which may cause foot drag. To assess the relative roles of neural and muscular changes, a 3D neuro-musculoskeletal model of the rat hindlimb is being developed. Initially, a 2D, one degree-of-freedom ankle model with gastrocnemius (GAS) and tibialis anterior (TA) muscles was developed. Given that GAS can produce more ankle torque than TA, this simulation study tested the hypothesis that GAS motoneuronal deactivation profile dominates the ability of the foot to transition from stance to swing. Our results suggest that even small changes in the ability to precisely de-activate muscles could lead to kinematic deficits commonly observed following SCI.
Anatomical data collected from female Long-Evans rats, supplemented with data from literature, was used to implement the musculoskeletal model in SimMechanics/Simulink using Virtual Muscle. Ankle and muscle dynamics were simulated using an imposed ankle trajectory from kinematic analysis of a normal rat walking on a treadmill. Relative GAS deactivation and TA activation onset times were varied within physiologically relevant ranges based on simplified locomotor electromyogram profiles. Three muscle strength (mass) parameter sets were analyzed: normal (100% each), moderate SCI (100%TA, 80% GAS), and severe (50% each). Positive moments coinciding with the transition from stance-to-swing phase were defined as foot swing and negative moments as foot drag.
As predicted, GAS deactivation dominated movement at the stance-to-swing transition. With normal muscle strength, GAS must be de-activated at least 0.2 sec before the TA onset to allow forward ankle rotation, preventing foot drag. Since GAS activity inhibits foot swing, the required transition delay was reduced in the moderate SCI condition. Under the severe condition only the magnitude of the moments was changed (Figure 1).
Confirming our hypothesis, the musculoskeletal model revealed that movement dynamics are not equally sensitive to different aspects of neural output. Failure to precisely deactivate GAS could result in foot drag following SCI. Although muscle activation is an important contributor to movement dynamics, intrinsic muscle properties also substantially affected motor output. Future models will examine the role of the stretch reflex, as it is known to change after SCI, possibly affecting foot drag.
Cheng EJ, Brown IE, Loeb GE: Virtual muscle: a computational approach to understanding the effects of muscle properties on motor control. J Neurosci Methods. 2000, 15;101 (2): 117-130. 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00258-2.
Hutchinson KJ, Linderman JK, Basso DM: Skeletal muscle adaptations following spinal cord contusion injury in rat and the relationship to locomotor function: a time course study. J Neurotrauma. 2001, 18 (10): _PHONE_. 10.1089/08977150152693764.
This work was supported by NIH R01-NS054282


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General Assembly Resolution # 5
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice
Proposed by: Charlotte Ryberg
RECOGNIZING the existence of many specialized non-governmental organizations (abbreviated as NGOs), both at domestic and international level, focusing on providing humanitarian aid to both individuals and governments;
APPLAUDING the efforts of such NGOs for promoting international peace and strengthening the ties between nations;
OBSERVING that the World Assembly has not designated a single point of responsibility for coordinating the efforts of such NGOs;
REALIZING there are duplications of some relief efforts, and that communication problems may create inefficiencies in absence of a clear single point of responsibility;
The World Assembly,
RECOGNIZING that all citizens of member nations should be protected by such a humanitarian group.
1. ESTABLISHES the International Coordinated Relief Committee (ICRC), an organization whose sole duty is to co-ordinate of relief aid of NGOs in all member nations;
2. MANDATES that the ICRC shall be funded from the resources of the World Assembly, but;
3. PERMITS the ICRC to accept donations and grants from individual persons as a goodwill gesture;
4.1. DEFINES a major disaster as an event which may threaten lives and livelihoods, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks and war;
4.2. DEFINES the functions of the ICRC, whose role shall be to:
a) Provide international coordination of food, shelter, and humanitarian aid efforts in nations affected by a major disaster;
b) Co-ordinate the efforts of existing NGOs in member nations at an international level;
c) Provide training to volunteers of NGOs and the ICRC itself in preparedness for such disasters.
5. INSTRUCTS the ICRC to:
a) manage and prioritize the allocation of resources to specific situations or emergencies, based on the current inability of other governmental and NGOs to meet all of the needs of those situations;
b) not promote conflict or war in any way;
c) not abuse their budget, in any way that may hamper the true purpose of the organization itself.
ENCOURAGES member nations and existing NGOs to share recovery plans and aid each other through the halls of the ICRC.
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TITLE: MENTORING AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNERS
Mentoring is a facilitative, developmental and positive process requires effective interpersonal skills, time commitment and an open mind. Mentoring is recognized as a way to promote learners personal and professional growth and development, develop leadership, improve retention, and promote morale. Mentoring learners also helps in creating an appropriate environment where mentoring can take place.
In this workshop participants will learn about mentoring skills and what it takes to be a mentor. By the end of this workshop participants should have a much clearer idea of mentoring and more specifically, will be able to:
- Equip with important mentoring skills that will support the achievement of personal and professional goals
- Develop effective mentoring relationships between learners and mentors.
- Recognize from their own experience, problems of mentoring and what was done to improve it.
- Draft a timeline for a mentoring program
Methodology: This workshop includes interactive mini-presentation, plenary discussions, and hands on practice in small-group.
Length of workshop: Three hours
Who can attend: This workshop is ideally suited to educators involved in mentoring and/or supervision, faculty members and learners.
Maximum number of participants: 25 -30 attendees.
Take home message: A systematic understanding of the key aspects of mentoring learners provide learning opportunities within learning environment, offer learners information, advice and guidance on their roles and give them encouragement and support to keep themselves motivated.


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How the Healing Tradition of Ayahuasca Can Help
The tradition is so deep. There is just so much to learn and most of it goes beyond the field of healing, into a realm of consciousness, of existence itself. The lessons learned from ayahuasca and plant medicine can improve our lives on every level, in every aspect. Carlos Tanner shares some of those insights with the goal of presenting new concepts and perspectives that might nurture your soul.
EPISODE ONE: Carlos Tanner is the program director of the Ayahuasca Foundation, a Peruvian non-profit organization he started in 2009. He has organized healing retreats and educational courses attended by over a thousand people from all over the world. He has witnessed the treatment of a wide variety of health issues and the healing process within the Shipibo plant medicine tradition. In this series Carlos shares some of the most important lessons he has learned from studying the Shipibo tradition of ayahuasca and plant medicine for the last fifteen years. He hopes these insights will not only contribute to a deeper understanding of how the tradition of ayahuasca and plant medicine works, but also how we can all move closer to achieving our goals of health, happiness, and satisfaction.
EPISODE TWO: If you made a list of all the things you love, would you be on it? In episode 2, Carlos Tanner describes his experiences with healing trauma using ayahuasca and plant medicine. He discusses the importance of relationships and how we can improve our health and happiness by becoming more conscious of how we react to our experiences.
EPISODE THREE: When you get a cut, do you heal it? No. It just heals. All we need to do is keep it clean. In Episode 3, Carlos discusses the universal motivating principle within all living beings towards wholeness, health, harmony, and happiness. He describes a four step process for healing outlined in Leonard Laskow's book: Healing with Love, and explains a major difference between western and indigenous healing methods when responding to symptoms.
EPISODE FOUR: Do you love the medicine you're taking? In Episode 4, Carlos discusses how the healing tradition that surrounds the use of plant medicine enhances the effectiveness of medicine by cultivating the inner environment. He describes his observations of the power of belief and faith in the healing process and how those aspects of consciousness can be optimized to increase the likelihood of successful outcomes.
EPISODE FIVE: Are you willing to do whatever it takes? In Episode 5, Carlos describes a fundamental aspect of training to become a curandero, the plant dieta. He discusses the purpose of the dieta and what it means to give up something to demonstrate how much we care and how important our goal is to us. He continues to relate this concept to the nourishment of our inner soil and optimization of our inner environment. He also poses some interesting questions that he gained from his observations of over one thousand retreat and course participants.
EPISODE SIX: Have you ever felt like the universe was picking on you? We've all had those times in our lives when we've wanted to shake our fist at the sky and say 'why me?' In Episode 6, Carlos elaborates on his experiences with plant dietas. He describes the concept of being tested while on dieta and how that concept can be helpful in all aspects of our lives. He describes how obstacles and challenges in life can be viewed positively and how changes in perspective and attitude can turn challenges into opportunities to advance, to ascend to a new level of understanding and ability. He continues to relate these changes to the concept of optimizing our inner environments, and how everything will work out.
EPISODE SEVEN: Nature Heals. Nature Guides. Nature Knows. In Episode 7, Carlos discusses how through dietas he has learned to look to the forest for answers. He describes how nature is an immense collective consciousness with an evolutionary history of hundreds of millions of years. He makes the important point that we as humans often don't recognize ourselves as a part of nature, even though we clearly are, for we are living beings. By reconnecting with the whole that is nature, the earth, the universe, we can return to the natural guidance and healing of nature. It seems so simple, because it is, but by disconnecting ourselves from the whole, we lose our faith, our knowing that we will be ok.
EPISODE EIGHT: How do you see things? In Episode 8, Carlos talks about understanding perspective and how it relates to communication. He shares his experiences with ayahuasca that helped him remember that we are all children, and that how each person interprets and acts in the world is shaped by their influences, both positive and negative. Optimizing understanding in communication involves sharing perspectives, even when that communication is interdimensional.
EPISODE NINE: Forgiveness is a profound healing act that liberates to love again. In episode 9 Carlos discusses the importance of forgiveness to free ourselves to achieve our highest potential for love. He presents a novel understanding of forgiveness and the effect it has on our ability to realize true happiness and satisfaction in life.
EPISODE TEN: When you Trust the Process and commit to doing Whatever it Takes, you will achieve your goals. In episode 10 Carlos reviews the previous nine episodes and sums up each episode's message more succinctly. He'll put up another series with more helpful ideas and stories soon…


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 Apostrophe on the word fast.
 >Fastis a Germanic word. Primarily it means abstaining from food; secondarily it means eating sparingly or abstaining from some foods. It comes into the Slavic languages as post. The Greek word is nesteía and it means the same thing: not eating, and, secondarily, not eating some foods.
 >Everyone knows the basic meaning of the word fast. The doctor tells you he wants you to come in for a blood test fasting, you know he means that you should eat nothing when you get up on the morning and that you will have nothing to eat until after the test. Fasting is not eating. And, fasting is from the morning.
 >From antiquity Christians would keep a fast by not eating all day and then taking a meal in the evening. It's the original idea behind the Wednesday/Friday fast. This is biblical stuff.
 >One can imagine that whatever spiritual benefits derive from fasting would come to a person regardless of how he broke his fast, in other words, regardless of what he ate.
 >One can fast for a day. One can fast for a period of time. The Great Forty Days for example.
 >One may fast—not eat all day, then eat—Monday through Friday. One may not fast—not eat all day, then eat—on the Sabbath and the Lord's Day. The Church nixes Saturdays and Sundays. Not at first, but very early in her history. It's why the Liturgy is served Sunday mornings—to minimize and confine the Eucharistic fast.
 >The first ecumenical council (Nikaia, 325 A.D.) makes an exception for the Holy and Great Sabbath which, a thousand years ago, was a day of fasting that concluded in the evening with Vespers with the Divine Liturgy during which neophytes were baptized and the Resurrection celebrated—everyone took holy Communion. (One can appreciate that the fast on this Saturday—like the eves of the Nativity and Theophany—was a Eucharistic fast leading into the feast.)
 >So. One fasts—one does not eat all day, then eats—Monday through Friday. Additionally, at the same time, one abstains from certain foods—e.g., meat, dairy, etc.
 >This is the only aspect of a fast period that continues over Saturday and Sunday. To use more precise language for our situation today: one fasts—one does not eat, then eats—and one abstains—one does not eat certain foods. Together they make up the Orthodox Christian notion of keeping a fast. Interestingly enough, these terms turn up in the hymnography we sing during the time of the Great Fast.
 >For most of us today what "fasting" we do is better termed abstinence. Abstaining from meat. Abstaining from dairy. Unfortunately this has led to label reading as an exercise in seasonal piety. Furgedaboudit.
 >Fr. Meyendorff came down heavily on label reading. He called label reading hariseeism. "Do what you can," he would say. Want to do more? Do more of what the Church's tradition urges us to do. Enter more deeply into what the Church around the world is doing. Prayer. Fasting. Almsgiving. Eschew silly notions. Like "Giving up Coke." Or "Giving up chocolate." Or some such. Pious solipsism. What value can there be in that? Better, think of fasting as training for the race, for the Christian life. Think of it as the nourishment for a sovereign spirit (remember? Psalm 50?): for self-control, for prudence, and perseverance.
 >We are a community of dependent creatures. No food and we're done for. Fasting and abstinence have worthwhile spiritual and moral goals. …..
 >One last word. Illness brings its own asceticism.
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Do you want to grow turnip seeds in Ohio, but don't know when to start them?
Starting turnip seeds is not as easy as it seems.
- Turnip Seeds must be consistenly watered, receive at least 8 hours of sunlight a day, & be kept at room temperature of at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
So if you don't consistently water them they won't germinate. If they aren't in a room that is at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit they won't sprout. And if it receives 8 hours of sunlight the plant itself won't grow.
- Because Ohio's growing season is not long enough, turnip seeds cannot be sowed outside and should only be started indoors.
Because of this, I'm going to teach you the ideal time to start turnip seeds indoors in Ohio:
- To Learn More About HOW to Grow Turnips, Check Out This GUIDE!
When to Start Turnip Seeds Indoors
Depending on the type of turnip, it takes roughly 14-21 days (2 to 3 weeks) to grow turnips from seed indoors before you can transplant them into your garden.
The approximate date of when you should start your turnip seeds indoors can be found by:
- Finding the last average frost date HERE
- And then subtract 21 days from it
You can also find the average last frost date for most major cities in the below chart that I have created:
To help ensure the greatest success of your turnip seeds germinating you should:
- Use a heat mat to ensure the gardening pot remains at 70 degrees Fahrenheit
- Use a grow light to control how much light your turnip seeds receive
- Water your seeds with a spray bottle to ensure your seeds are not overwatered
It should also be noted that you will not want to introduce your turnip plants into your garden until 2 weeks after your last frost or else your plant will potentially die or not bear vegetables.
If you want to learn WHEN to start ANY Vegetable Seed in Ohio, head over to HERE and just type in the vegetable you want to grow.


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Why are barn owls dying on the road?
A captive barn owl.
Creative commons photo by Tony Tea.
Q: Driving on Interstate 5 last fall, I saw at least 10 dead barn owls, apparently killed when they were blinded by headlights. Is this amount of roadkill alarming? [Rich, Albany]
A: It seems counterintuitive, but I would be more worried about barn owls if you saw no roadkill. The dead birds indicate owl abundance. Owls do hunt along roads, but mostly they cruise over fields, and sometimes over highways. With their extraordinary hearing, they fly low, listening for rodents. For millions of years this was beneficial, but the owls are not so well adapted to I-5!
Barn owls are the most widespread not only of all owls, but maybe of all birds. They have managed to get to most of the planet, even remote islands like the Galapagos, Madagascar, and Borneo (and Hawaii, where they were introduced by people). The owls' success is tied very closely to that of their rodent prey. Like most birds of prey, owls begin incubating eggs as soon as they're laid, so chicks hatch over a period of days. In times of abundance, there's enough food for all young, and the owls often have two broods. But when food is short, older chicks may outcompete smaller siblings.
Owl lore also abounds–including, in our culture, that owls are wise. Perhaps it's their large heads and eyes (like a certain primate we think wise). And I think barn owls may be the original ghosts. Church belfries are perfect nesting spots, often located next to cemeteries. If you have the good fortune to see barn owls flying low and silently across a cemetery, with white underwing, it's easy to imagine mistaking them for ghosts.
By the way, it's illegal to possess any birds, even roadkill, without a permit.
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Honors | Scandalous Books (HON)
H303 | 15672 | Oana Panaite
Literary scandals have always revealed hidden issues within society,
which go beyond the realm of art and artistsí freedom of expression.
For centuries, books have been banned and burned in public squares,
writers have been publicly condemned as pornographers, traitors,
prosecuted in a court of law, and forced into exile because they
cast light on important aspects of public or private life such as
slavery, social injustice, political corruption, religious
extremism, poverty, and homosexuality.
The course offers a historical and critical perspective on this
still current topic. The course aims to offer students the skills
required for reading, understanding and enjoying literary texts
while placing them in the general context of their time period.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tomís Cabin
Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil
Rachilde, Mister Venus
Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer
Assia Djebar, So Vast the Prison
The course final grade will be based on the following criteria:
Attendance and active participation
Exposť: This is a special exercise in which each student will
prepare and deliver a 10-minute individual oral presentation (on set
dates following the completion of primary readings). The exposťs
will be presented in pairs, as part of a series of debates around
topics decided together by students and professor. Each exposť will
be evaluated based on: 1. Relevance to the topic chosen; 2.
Originality and preparedness; 3. Clarity of delivery and
contribution to the debate on the chosen topic.


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What Does a Tree Surgeon do
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A tree surgeon has many responsibilities related to tree safety and management, including planting, pruning, felling and offering general treatment to care for and maintain trees. Depending on the services a tree surgeon is offering, they should be proficient with a range of tools, be able to work outside in all weather conditions and be physically fit.
A tree surgeon will offer professional advice on how you should take care of hedges, trees and other vegetation in your property. They have a responsibility for safety and care and can get into a lot of trouble for neglecting or failing to fulfil their responsibilities. Besides having an overgrown hedge on your property, there are a number of worse things that can happen:
- Do you need permission from the council?
- Do you live in a conservation area?
- What is the level of risk to you, neighbours and passersby for tree surgery on your property?
- Are there relevant Tree Preservation Orders (TPO)?
If you ignore any of these things, you might end up in a lot of trouble especially when you break the law. You don't have to hire anybody who owns a chainsaw or claims to be a tree surgeon without the right qualifications. The services might be affordable at first, but they can be very costly in the long run. Therefore, it is advisable to hire a professional tree surgeon to help you determine the right course of action.
It is the responsibility of a tree surgeon to carry out hazard assessments and inspections with the aim of assessing the health of trees and if there are any potential dangers. When tree surveys are conducted, they help a tree surgeon to determine the amount of work that needs to be done, how long will the work take and how will the work affect the public (if applicable). If the tree surgeons are handling private work, the survey will determine what's need to be done, what the client needs, the cost, amount of disruption and estimated time.
Tree felling is considered a dangerous activity as can lead to damages and causalities. It is the tree surgeon's responsibility to ensure that they consider all the factors before they fell a tree. This job is very technical because the equipment to be used and the process of felling the tree should be determined before everything commences. Here are some of the things a tree surgeon must consider before making a final decision:
- The location of the tree
- Where it will fall when it is finally felled?
- The best way of felling the tree?
- The manpower required
- Equipment and tools to be used
Depending on the location, trees that need to be felled might be very challenging and only accumulated knowledge and skills could be of help. Ensure you hire a professional tree surgeon if you need any of the services we have discussed above.


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if the length of one side of a square is doubled and the length of an adjacent side is decreased by 3,
the area of the resulting rectangle exceeds the area of the original square by 16.
The length of a side of the original square is?
Let s = length of the side of the original square
s^2 = original area
and the new rectangle dimensions will be
2s by (s-3)
New area - old area = 16
2s(s-3) - s^2 = 16
2s^2 - 6s - s^2 = 16
2s^2 - s^2 - 6s - 16 = 0
s^2 - 6s - 16 = 0
(s-8)(s+2) = 0
s = 8 units, the length of the original square
Check this by finding the areas
16(8-3) = 80
8*8 = 64


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Event Phases organize activities and modules to add workflow to your events. Each event is made up of a series of phases that guide end users through their recap completion.
This article will walk you through how to submit event phases.
- Submitting event phases
Submitting Event Phases
Each event phase is made up of a series of activities and/or modules. In order to submit your event phase for approval, you must complete all required items.
For example, the image below shows a phase that is not yet ready to submit. The Submit button is light red and the progress indicator is 0% complete. We can also see that several activities are required. These activities much be complete in order to submit the phase.
How to Submit a Phase
1. Complete all required activities. See How to Submit an Activity.
2. Complete all required modules. The Media Gallery and expenses are examples of modules.
3. Once all required information has been captured, the red Submit will turn deep red. Click the button to submit your phase.


When an artesian aquifer is tapped, pressure in the aquifer will force the water up the well without the use of a mechanical aid. The aquifer is surrounded by impermeable rock and typically made of sandstone or other porous rocks or sediment.
The pressure built up in a sloped aquifer will push water to the surface and may create a permanent fountain. Artesian water matches spring water's range of characteristics. Vendors often promote a brand's "artesian" quality as a distinguishing factor.


text: This project seeks to do the following:Determine whether USDA appendix A can be utilized for sous vide cooking. The lowest temperature in Appendix A is 130°F (54.4 °C) with a hold time of 121 minutes. This temperature is typically described as somewhere between Rare and medium, depending on the author. If a beef steak, in vacuum packaging, is submerged in circulating 55 ° water for 121 minutes, plus an experimentally determined come up time (the time for the center to reach 54.4 °C) will it show a 7-log reduction in Salmonella? If so, then it can reasonably be assumed that the table can be relied upon. If not, then additional work will need to be done.Determine whether lower temperature treatments can be extrapolated from Appendix A. Careful examination of the table shows that the USDA is using a z-value of 10°F. That is, for each increase in temperature of 10 °F, the required cooking time is decreased by a factor of 10. Likewise, decreasing the temperature by the same amount results in a ten-fold increase in required hold time. This simple logarithmic relationship for thermal death times should mean that one can determine the required cook time for lower temperatures. So for a 125 °F temperature, it should require a 173.1 minute cook (plus come up time). This would result in a steak described as rare, and should the process be sufficient to inactivate the Salmonella at the 7-log level, that would suggest the table values can be extrapolated across the range of common doneness levels.If temperature/ time combinations cannot be either directly gleaned from Appendix A, extrapolated from Appendix A, or both, then what time/temperature combinations will effect the required inactivation? Can this data be developed into a predictive model, and if so, what are the terms/ relationships? As an example, if the 54.4 °C/ 121 minute sous vide cook is insufficient, how long of a cook (if any) would effect the required inactivation.If one or more sufficient time/ temperature combinations are suitable for producing safe products (as determined by the levels of inactivation in previous experiments), then how do these combinations affect consumer opinions of desirable flavor, texture, and acceptability? Do treatments in excess of the minimum increase or decrease consumer scores? Sous vide has often been described as a means to improve texture vs traditional cooking methods due to increased holding at low temperatures, but does this hold true when the processes are of sufficient rigor to eliminate pathogens?


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|The time it takes to build a home depends on many variables such as square footage, design, time of year, etc. A standard home can take between six months to a year to complete. Weather can heavily influence the speed in which construction proceeds. A very wet summer, for example, can keep your builder from pouring the foundation, which can hold up the process for months. On the other hand, once the foundation is poured and the roof installed, construction is no longer influenced by the weather.
On the other hand, completing the interior of the home is a slower process due to the interdependence of sub-contractors, such as electrical, plumbing, heating, etc. to be able to complete their portion of the work. The exterior of the home can typically move forward much faster than finishing the interior of the home.


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In How fast is bit packing?, we saw how to store non-negative integers smaller than 2N using N bits per integer by a technique called bit packing. A careful C++ bit packing implementation is fast: e.g., over 1 billion integers per second.
However, before you pack the integers, you might need to scan them to determine the number of bits needed (N). Unfortunately, it is a relatively expensive process.
Given a positive integer x, we seek the smallest integer N such that the integer x is less than 2N. The value N is often called the integer logarithm of x.
There are several clever techniques to compute the integer logarithm using portable C code. Yet you can do better using processor-specific instructions. The GNU GCC compiler makes this easy with a special function that counts the number of leading zeros for 32-bit integers (__builtin_clz). Even so, it is relatively slow.
Thankfully, you can avoid computing the integer logarithm of each integer by a simple test involving a right shift:
b = integer_logarithm(x);
With proper loop unrolling, this is nearly as fast as bit packing.
Update: Preston Bannister correctly points out that you can do much better. Simply compute the logical or between all integers and then compute the integer logarithm of the result. It is much, much faster.
To experiment with this problem, I wrote a small program which finds the maximum integer logarithm of a large array of random integers. It then packs the integers using this logarithm.
- I find that I can pack between 1 billion and 2 billions integers per second.
- I compute the maximum integer logarithm at a rate of 3 billion integers per second.
When plotting the speeds as functions of the actual maximum integer logarithm, we see that the computation of the logarithm is not sensitive to the value of the actual logarithm, except for the approach based on the __builtin_clz function which is slower when the logarithm is less than 8.
In my tests, I used the GNU GCC 4.6.2 compiler on an Intel core i7 processor. My code is freely available.
Conclusion When packing an array of integers, finding the maximum logarithm can take anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of the running time. However, brute force techniques that compute the integer logarithm of every integer are much slower.


Being the Boss Isn't Really as Stressful as You Think
Written by DATIS Guest
July 18, 2018
Being the Boss Isn't Really as Stressful as You Think
This DATIS Blog Article, "Being the Boss Isn't Really as Stressful as You Think", was originally posted by Chantal BechervaiseTake It Personel-ly, on May 15th, 2017 and was reposted with permission.
As with any other thing, there are pros and cons to being the boss. While a lot of people think it is a glamorous position, more people are aware of how much stress such position can bring to an individual. This may be accurate in a different perspective, yet a recent study from Stanford University researchers has proved that there is actually less stress on leaders in higher positions than their subordinates. Come to think of it: the senior manager actually faces more stress than the CEO.
Neuroscience Tactic In a couple of research studies, neuroscience has played a part on business-related findings. The researchers have discovered a connection between leadership and the workings of the mind with the help of the SCARF model. In acronym it stands for Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness. These five factors determine which things or areas are threats and which ones are rewards.
Using the SCARF perspective, they've discovered that although leaders in top positions are under so much stress, they are compensated with lots of rewards, which counter this stress. Moreover, senior leaders have a lot more of the five SCARF elements to activate a great reward response and offset the stress.
Taking Over While you are in charge of every workload, you are also in total control of your earnings. Gone are the stresses of waiting until payday or a delayed salary — there's no limit to your pay check! Plus, you are the first to get paid in the company; how does that sound?
On top of financial benefits, being the boss puts you in charge of your decisions. When you own the business, you have the final say to everything, which places your decisions at the highest priority. No one demands from you or schools you on how to perform a certain assignment. Moreover, you will be able to accept and reject the types of jobs you would like to do. Since workload is one the major things that employees get stressed over, this makes being the boss sound less nerve-racking.
To lessen the amount of your worries, there's a need for you to determine whether or not your workers are being productive. One of the things that hinders work progress is if one of your members is abusing an illegal substance. As the boss, it is your responsibility to implement a marijuana urine test to help keep your team on the right track. You have to control how people under you behave, thus, activities like this needs to be applied.
Reaping what you sow One huge advantage that entrepreneurs enjoy is the thought that you cannot simply get fired. Unlike regular employees, who are constantly at their toes to keep their jobs, the boss cannot be unemployed in a snap. Sure, there may come a time when your business will need some overhauling, but you can always decide to keep it together. As a boss, you wouldn't need to worry about suddenly losing your job that could be your only source of income since you will be on top of everything, looking out for the welfare of the company. To keep up what you've planted as a boss, you have to make sure that you retain
Keeping these facts in mind, perhaps being a boss also entails that you constantly look out for every employee under your wing, as they are the ones receiving the blow of a stressful job. They will need relentless support that the boss, of all people, should be able to give. If you start thinking about them, it becomes stress-free for you in the long run.


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We have a database that stores events. Events are generated at a 1000 per sec rate. We need to keep these events accessible for some years.
Usual use of these events is selecting some of them from the last 1-2 months.
Each event corresponds to a resource_id (estimated 5000).
Since just keeping all these in one table gets all maintenance and selects quite slow and resource consuming I was thinking on improving it in some ways:
a) separate every resource_id to each table. 5000+ tables. Selects from multiple resource_ids (maximum 100) will need some rewrite and unions or something.
b) separate every day to a different table. unions or something would be required when selects will require data from multiple days.
c) both the above (too extreme I think)
d) partitioning in someway on timestamp index and maybe even resource_id index. Is it worth it? Or "manual" partitioning of above suggestions is better?
The database is PostgreSQL.
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We have something simular, ~5000 events per seconds. Tables are partitioned by month and we store 5 years of data. That gives us a 60 partitions, works fine. It runs on PostgreSQL version 9.1, works better than any older version when using partitions.
EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE are your best friends to get your queries right.
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This is a classic case for rolling partitions (or sliding window partitions). Before redesigning the table in thousands of children tables and rewriting your code please give a try to partitioning, like Erwin already advised.
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"See you later" and "bye" may be redundant in meaning; however, they have some meaning if you examine the different levels of discourse in a conversation.
Here are two discourse-level observations. First, the sentences in conversations tend to get shorter to signal its end. (For example, think of a couple having a conversation in which one party answers in monosyllables. He may be indicating that he wants the conversation to end.)
Second, there are no gestures or body language over the telephone. The parties are signaling their mutual desire to end the conversation without recourse to the gestures of shifting weight, pointing feet toward the door, closing a notebook, or getting up.
"OK, talk to you next week."
"OK, See you."
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Which material does the radome manufacturer use?
You may be familiar with radomes since you enter into this page. But, do you know what they are usually made from? First of all, let us think about what the antenna radome is and what it's used for.
1. Antenna radomes introduction
As we all know, radome is the compound word of radar and dome. Outdoor microwave or radar antennas are always placed in an open air. Also, storms, snow, ice, dust and solar radiation in nature can directly hit the radar antenna. As a result, it makes antenna precision reduction, shorter service life, and poor working reliability. Radomes are structural waterproof enclosures. Certainly, they protect the radar antenna from the effects of the external environment. Below are some advantages and disadvantages of radomes, which application including weather radar and satellite communications domes.
1.1 Radome's Advantages:
First of all, to protect the antenna system from the impact of wind, rain, snow, sand and solar radiation. So, the antenna system performance is relatively stable and reliable. Furthermore, radomes reduce the wear, corrosion, aging of the antenna system, and extend its service life.
Secondly, to eliminate the wind load and wind torque, reduce the driving power of the rotating antenna. Also, it can reduce the weight of the mechanical structure, reduce the inertia, and improve the natural frequency.
Thirdly, the relevant equipment and personnel can work inside the antenna radome. Therefore, they are free from the external environment. Another, it can help to improve the efficiency of the equipment and the custom manufacturing conditions of the operators.
Finally, for a high-speed flying plane, aircraft radomes are helpful. They can solve the problems caused by high temperatures, aerodynamic load and other loads on the microwave antennae.
1.2 Radome's Disadvantages:
Yet, radomes microwave are obstacles in front of the antenna. They absorb and reflect the radiation wave of the microwave or radar antennas. Also, they maybe change the free space energy distribution of the antenna system. To some extent, radomes affect the electrical performance of the microwave antennae. Reasons are as follows.
First of all, the reflection of the radome wall and the diffraction of the uneven part may cause the radar antenna main lobe electrical axis to shift. As a result, it may generate an aiming error.
Secondly, the radome's absorption and reflection of high-frequency energy cause transmission loss. It will affect the antenna gain. Even more, the antenna system noise temperature will increase while receiving.
Thirdly, the radome can cause distortion of the antenna lobe. It seems like it causes the antenna main lobe width to change, the zero depth to increase, and the side lobe level to increase.
Finally, the radome increases the construction cost of the antenna system. Hence, aircraft radomes are commonly used on aerocrafts, but not the ground radome.
2. Performance requirements for radome materials
To meet the design requirements and the realization of functions, antenna radome should have these properties. On the one hand, it's about precision composite structures, superior quality, long service life, etc. On the other hand, there are also some special requests of dielectric constant, mechanical properties and environmental resistance.
2.1 Dielectric performance.
The dielectric constant ε and loss tangent tanδ are core properties of radome material.
First of all, loss tangent tanδ embodies the ratio that the antenna radome material transforms the electromagnetic energy through it into heat energy. As we all know, the higher the ratio, the greater the loss of electromagnetic energy and the more pronounced the temperature rise of the material. As a result, it further causes a decrease in dielectric and mechanical properties. The dielectric constant ε has a negative correlation with the permeability of the material.
Thus, under the premise of satisfying certain mechanical properties, it is generally required that the ε and tan δ of antenna radome material should be as small as possible. What's more, high-performance radomes need that ε is less than 3.5 (10 GHz) and tan δ is less than 0.006.
2.2 Mechanical properties.
They include tensile strength, tensile modulus, compressive strength, and compression modulus. And the raw material of high-performance radomes should meet these parameters requirements. They should be more than 400 MPa, 19 GPa, 350 MPa, and 18 GPa correspondingly.
2.3 Environmental resistance performance
Radomes are applicable in many different environments. For example, high temperatures, low temperatures, alternating temperature humidity, salt atmosphere, molds and so on. Of course, radomes should work normally under these conditions. Thus, after the manufacture of the composite radome, it's necessary to do radome testing. And choosing the most suitable antenna radome material.
3. Radome material system
3.1 Reinforced materials
At present, radome's reinforced materials include glass fiber, aramid fiber, quartz fiber, and polyethylene fiber. The performance comparison of various fibers is as follow.
Table 1 Properties of some fibers
|Fibers||Density（g/cm³）||Tensile strength（GPa）||Elasticity Modulus|
|High silica glass||2.20||2.50||73.5||4.00||0.0048|
Aramid fibers have high strength and high modulus. However, aramid is easy to absorb moisture and affects dielectric loss. High modulus polyethylene fiber (Spectra 1000) has many excellent dielectric properties, advantages of low density, high strength, and high modulus. But, the interface between the fiber and the resin is poor, which affects the final performance of composite materials. In general, the traditional radome manufacturer uses glass fibers as the reinforcement material. These fiberglass materials include E-glass, S-glass, M-glass, D-glass and so on.
Among them, D-glass fiber has the best dielectric properties, but its mechanical property is poor. S-glass fiber has excellent mechanical properties and is widely used. The quartz fiber has the lowest tan δ, but its price is too high. Until now, some advanced radomes in the world start to use quartz fiber as a reinforcing material.
3.2 Resin matrix
The resin matrix of radomes and their properties are as follows.
Table 2 Properties of typical resins
|Resins||Dielectric Constant ε（10GHz）||Loss Tangent tanδ(10GHz)|
|Unsaturated polyester resin||2.7-3.2||0.005-0.020|
|Organic silicone resin||2.8-2.9||0.002-0.006|
|Polyether ether ketone||3.2||0.003|
Conventional resin substrates materials include phenolic resins, epoxy resins, and unsaturated polyester resins. Above all, the epoxy resin has excellent processability, adhesion, and excellent mechanical properties. Therefore, it is the most widely used resin matrix composite material. In recent years, performance requirements of radomes are continuously improving, especially advanced weather radar domes. Such as the whole frequency band, low dielectric loss, high-temperature resistance, and weather resistance. The radome needs to withstand harsher environments, especially in high temperatures environments.
For radomes operating near 100 GHz, the dielectric constant and loss tangent of the resin matrix should be less than 3.5 and 0.006. Besides, it also needs to have excellent moisture and heat resistance. Yet, epoxy resins cannot meet these requirements at the same time. There are two methods to get high-performance composite material with better dielectric properties and environmental performance. For one, radome manufacturers can make it come true by modifying the traditional epoxy resin matrix material. For another, choosing some advanced resin substrates. Such as cyanate resin, bismaleimide resin, polyimide resin, etc.
According to the cross-section shape of the radome wall, there are three types of radomes. Uniform and single wall structure, sandwich structure, and space frame structure. According to the forming method of the antenna radome, there are the ground radome is divided into an inflatable radome and a rigid radome.
In general, the inflatable radome of the spherical geodesic is coated with a polyester fiber film of Heparin rubber or neoprene. Rigid satellite communications and weather radar domes use glass fiber reinforced plastic. And the sandwich in precision composite structures is always a honeycomb core or syntactic foams. Aircraft radomes use fiberglass reinforced plastics, ceramics, glass-ceramics, and laminates.
5. Radome manufacturer
Most composite products manufacturers provide antenna radomes, including FRP manufacturers such as DOFRP. Because radomes use composite materials. DOFRP is a Sino-Japanese manufacturer of fiberglass. And we have been providing cost-effective composite radomes for over 20 years. The custom manufacturing process we use is the composite layup, resin transfer molding, and pultrusion. The materials we use also include UV grade abs korad capped abs for the radome cap. Also, manufacturing testing can be provided, such as transmission loss, mechanical vibration, and thermal cycling. DOFRP can provide carbon fiber products as well. If you want to buy fiber-reinforced polymer products cost effectively, our engineers are always glad to help.


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Step 2:
Pick a recipe that seems like a good fit and simply follow as well as you can.
If you're not sure about having the right ingredients for the dish you picked, (or feel adventurous enough to make it more fun), you can go shopping using only the list of ingredients in Spanish from the recipe.
Step 3:
Whenever you're stuck, simply make a guess and push through.
Looking up words you don't know can help but for this to work better, you'll be much closer to mimicking exposure by figuring it out as you go rather than getting the answer.
You might end up with a few alternative ways of cooking at first but when you make the connection you'll remember that word or phrasing very well in the future because it's tied to the cooking experience.
Plus it's a fun and 'low stakes' practice which you know by now is a great way to lean.
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Anyone can be get lucky, but to have consistent success in the whitetail woods you need strategy, experience, reconnaissance, and some understanding of how deer live. One today's episode I focus on how you can define deer movement in order to multiply your chances for success, while spending little to no money.
- Deer are creatures of habit, and to be consistently successful you need to both learn their habits and how to influence those habits.
- The main ways to impact deer movement are by cutting trails, building mock scraps, digging water holes, planting food plots, and adding cover.
- Cutting trails can help by creating a path of least resistance in areas that are thick and hard to move through.
- Mock scrapes can give deer a focal point to come to and stop at along a trail or in a movement area.
- Water holes help in the same way a mock scrap when used on dry parcels or on high ground.
- Food plots, especially small ones like 1/2 an acre to 1/8 of an acre, can give deer a place to browse on their way to more substantial food supplies. I recommend a perennial crop, something cheap and low maintenance, like clover.
- Adding cover can create bedding areas and give deer more peace of mind for traveling through or eating in an area. One of the worst habitats is open woods in all directions, deer need places to hide.
- Even if you are unable to add any of these habitat improvements, the more you know about them, the better you can read naturally occurring ones and use them to your advantage.