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Exploring Nanotechnology: Fold, Roll, & Stack Your Way to Super-Strong Materials
Areas of Science Materials Science
Time Required Very Short (≤ 1 day)
Advertisements for high-tech sports gear or the latest and greatest outdoor material promise lighter and stronger products every season. Is it a scam? How can engineers keep creating materials that are both lighter and stronger than anything known so far? The answer is in the nanoscale! Using nanotechnology, scientists can play around with the detailed structure of matter, leading to a whole new range of materials, some with amazing qualities. In this science project, you will get a glimpse into the exciting nanoworld by exploring how arranging material in different ways can drastically change the strength of the final product. Get ready to learn some basic origami, and if you already know some, you'll be surprised how those skills will come in handy!
Study how different arrangements of paper (representing carbon nanostructures) result in materials with different strengths by folding, rolling, and stacking origami paper.
Sabine De Brabandere, PhD, Science Buddies
Science Buddies Staff. "Exploring Nanotechnology: Fold, Roll, & Stack Your Way to Super-Strong Materials." Science Buddies, 28 July 2017, https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/MatlSci_p042/materials-science/exploring-nanotechnology-paper. Accessed 18 Jan. 2020.
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If you've ever been camping or have a fireplace at home, you've probably noticed that after the logs have burned, all that's left is a pile of ashes. The ashes contain a lot of soot, shown in Figure 1, below. So what does this black, flaky substance have to do with nanotechnology and stronger materials? You're about to find out, and be prepared for some surprises along the way!
Figure 1. Soot, a material found in the leftovers of burned wood.
First, let's learn about the nanoscale. The nanoscale is the scale at which the basic building blocks (which can be molecules or atoms ) of ordinary material around us reveal themselves. In other words, it is the scale where we can observe objects that have dimensions of a couple of nanometers. So, how small is one nanometer? Any idea? In mathematical terms, a nanometer (abbreviated nm) is 1 billionth of a meter. Picture this: if you divided 1 meter into 1 billion equally long pieces, one of those sections would be 1 nm. Talk about small! The following facts might give you a better idea:
A typical virus is about 30–50 nm long.
A human hair measures roughly 50,000–100,000 nm in diameter.
A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nm thick.
Fingernails grow about 1 nm every second.
Getting back to the soot, at the nanoscale, you will mainly find one specific building block called carbon, arranged in different ways. Most of the carbon building blocks found in soot are arranged in sheets that can shift easily with respect to one another, giving it its easily breakable, flaky character. Imagine holding a stack of small papers between your thumb and index finger; it would be very easy to move them around, causing them to appear flaky. Carbon has been used in this form for decades as a lubricant (a substance that minimizes friction), as a pigment in paint, and as the graphite center of pencils. Figure 2, below, will help you visualize this.
Figure 2. Graphite (left) is made of carbon that is arranged in sheets, which can shift easily with respect to one another. A visualization of how the carbon building blocks (represented by tiny black spheres) are arranged to form a sheet is shown on the right. The connections between the spheres represent the bonds that hold them together.
Recently, scientists found that soot also contains a small amount of carbon arranged in hollow spheres and tubes. These are called fullerenes. Put to the test, fullerenes are many times stronger than steel. They are lightweight, and some forms conduct electricity better than the traditional copper wire. See where it gets interesting? Since fullerenes are strong and lightweight, they can be used to make super-strong, lightweight tennis rackets or bike frames.
The two most well-known forms of fullerenes are the nanotube and the buckyball. Nanotubes are like a single layer of graphite rolled in a cylindrical tube.
The buckyball or Buckminsterfullerene looks more or less like a soccer ball. Figure 3, below, shows both. Of course, all these visualizations are not true to size; a buckyball is only a few nanometers in diameter! Blow it up 30,000 times and it will still only be the width of a typical human hair.
Figure 3. Visualization of how the carbon building blocks can be arranged to form hollow structures called fullerenes. Here, a nanotube (left) and a buckyball (right) are represented. The tiny black spheres represent the carbon building blocks, while the lines between the spheres represent the bonds that hold them together.
You may be surprised at a very different form in which carbon can present itself: as a diamond! Put under extreme pressure, the carbon building blocks found in soot will spontaneously pack together closely to form the translucent, hard material we call diamond. This is the densest form of carbon, packing the most basic building blocks of carbon in the smallest area. Look at Figure 4, below, and imagine how the soot shown in Figure 1 transforms into this beautiful, hard material.
Figure 4. The basic building blocks of carbon put under extreme pressure will arrange themselves into a material we call diamond, depicted in the left figure. The right figure shows how the carbon building blocks (represented by tiny black spheres) are arranged to form diamond. The lines between the spheres represent the bonds that hold the carbon together.
Table 1, below, sums up what you have learned so far.
Material Name	 Carbon Arrangement Characteristics Applications
Graphite Stacked sheets Breakable and flaky Pencils
Fullerenes Hollow structures Lightweight and strong	 Bicycle frames
Diamond Densely packed Heavy and strong Jewelry
Table 1. Table listing the different types of materials that have carbon as the only building block, along with each type's arrangements, characteristics, and applications.
The fullerenes, together with their amazing characteristics, are discovered using nanotechnology. Scientists are currently able to manipulate and put together carbon in the laboratory, allowing them to create different fullerenes. If we can get so many different uses out of different arrangements of carbon, imagine how much more we can do with controlled arrangements of all the existing building blocks. Of course, that currently requires very expensive scientific equipment. But, what if you arrange everyday materials in different ways; for example folding, rolling, and stacking sheets of origami paper? Do you think the resulting structures will have different characteristics, like strength?
A few important notes before you start. You will be making different models of carbon structures using origami paper. Models are objects that scientists construct to help them understand things in nature. For example, the origami paper structures in this science project are models representing carbon nanostructures. They will help you understand what happens in the nanoworld. Paper models that you can hold in your hands and see with your naked eye are much more accessible and real to us than actual nanostructures. However, these paper models do not behave exactly like the actual nanoscale structures. The physics of forces (how things push and pull on each other) changes dramatically at different scales (the nanoscale, or nanometers, vs. our everyday scale, or meters). Think of a solar system model. The solar system is much, much bigger than our everyday scale (roughly gigameters, or 1 million meters). Do planets in a solar system model move like the real planets do? Do they revolve around the model sun like real planets revolve around the sun? Do they "float" in space like real planets do? Could we conclude that as our model planets do not float in space, the real ones do not either? Of course not. So be aware that the conclusions you draw from your models might be different from conclusions drawn by scientists studying actual carbon structures. That said, get ready to fold, roll, and stack!
In this science project, you will create three different constructions of six origami paper sheets each and compare their relative strengths. The number of pennies the structure can comfortably carry in a cup hanging from the structure before showing "cracks" (further explained in the Procedure tab) will be used as the measure of strength.
Nanometer
Fullerene
Buckyball or Buckminsterfullerene
Can you find more applications of the different types of materials made from carbon and only carbon?
Can you rank a volume of 1 cm³ of graphite, 1 cm³ of material made of pure fullerenes, and 1 cm³ of diamond from lightest to heaviest? Hint: Carbon is densely packed in diamond and is arranged in hollow structures to form fullerenes.
In nanotechnology, the term bottom-up method is where you start with nanoscale particles (atoms or molecules) to create new or to enhance existing materials. Is the study of fullerenes to enhance materials using the bottom-up method?
Can you find some products readily available today that are enhanced by fullerenes?
In addition to the ones discussed in the Introduction, which industries or products benefit from ever stronger, lighter materials? Can you think of any science-fiction projects or ideas that might become realistic with the invention of even stronger, lighter materials?
Woodford, Chris. (2007). Nanotechnology. Retrieved May 14, 2013, from http://www.explainthatstuff.com/nanotechnologyforkids.html
NASA. (2011, January 28). Nanotechnology at NASA. Retrieved May 13, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGbpBDltpKQ
National Nanotechnology Coordination Office. (n.a.). Nanotechnology: Big things from a tiny world. Retrieved May 13, 2013, from http://www.nano.gov/sites/default/files/pub_resource/nanotechnology_bigthingsfromatinyworld-print.pdf
Check out the following link for instructions on how to fold an origami cube:
Origami-instructions.com. (n.a.). Origami cube. Retrieved May 13, 2013, from http://www.origami-instructions.com/easy-origami-cube.html
The following website explains how to calculate the average:
MathIsFun.com. (2012). Definition of: Mean. Retrieved July 23, 2013, from http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/mean.html
Cup, plastic disposable
1-hole puncher
Curling ribbon (24 inches long), available in the party supply section of a home goods or grocery store
For an image of the ribbon type, see Figure 5 in the Procedure tab
Origami paper, 7- by 7-inch square or larger (60 sheets) available in craft stores
Chair or table with right-angle edges (2 identical)
Pennies (250)
Optional: Kitchen scale
Lab notebook
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Preparing Your Materials
First, make the cup to hold the pennies, as follows:
Make two holes with the 1-hole puncher on opposite sides of the plastic cup, near the top edge.
Measure and cut about 24 inches of the curling ribbon. Tie each end of the ribbon to one hole of the cup. Tip: Do not cut the excess ribbon too short; it is needed to ensure the knots will stay tight.
The result should look like the cup shown in Figure 5, below.
Figure 5. This cup with curling ribbon attached will be used to measure the strength of structures by hanging it over the structure and measuring the amount of weight it can hold.
Create one cube from six origami papers.
Choose six origami papers and fold them into one cube. If you have never folded an origami cube, the instructions provided by Origami-instructions.com will help you transform your six flat sheets of paper into a single cube.
Create six rolls from six origami papers.
Roll one origami paper at a time. Make the rolls tight enough that the tube has two layers of paper all the way around. If you are using origami squares of 7 by 7 inches, the diameter of your roll will be 1 1/8 inch.
Adjust your roll so the edges of the paper line up, as shown in Figure 6.
Secure the roll with a small piece of tape.
Repeat steps 3.a.–3.c. for the other five origami papers.
Figure 6. A piece of origami paper rolled tightly enough to be two layers thick, and secured with a small piece of tape.
Stack six origami papers on top of each other.
Figure 7, below, shows the three different structures, each made of six origami sheets. Predict which one of these will be the strongest and record your prediction in your lab notebook.
Figure 7. A single origami cube folded from six origami papers (left), six rolls formed from six individual origami papers (middle), and a stack of six origami papers (right) are the three different structures that will be tested for their strength in this nanotechnology science project.
Taking Your Measurements
Create a data table, similar to Table 2 below, in your lab notebook. It will be used to record your findings. Note to leave enough open lines as you do not know yet how many pennies the strongest structure will carry.
Trial 1 Stacked Sheets Rolls Cube
Can hold
(Yes/No)
0 pennies
10 pennies
Optional: Maximum weight carried (in grams [g])
Table 2. Data table listing the results of the strength measurements for the three different structures. Note: The last row for measuring the maximum weight carried is optional and can be done if you have a kitchen scale.
Place the two identical chairs or tables parallel to each other, leaving a gap of about 1 1/2 inches between them. Make sure your cube can comfortably bridge the gap between the chairs or tables.
Start with the stacked sheets structure.
Place the structure over the gap with the cup hanging from it, down into the gap. Figure 8, below, can help you visualize the setup. Aim to have an equal amount of structure resting on each chair or table.
Figure 8. Figures demonstrating the setup used to measure the strength of two of the structures. The stacked sheets structure (left) and the rolls structure (right) bridge a gap of 1 ½ inches between two identical chairs or tables. A cup that will carry the weight is hanging from the structure.
Test if the structure can hold the empty cup. Record your findings in your data table. Move to step 13 if your structure cannot hold the empty cup. For this science project, seeing a crack or fold somewhere in the structure indicates the structure cannot carry the weight.
Add weight until the structure cracks, as follows.
Hold the cup so the weight of it is in your hands, but so the structure remains in place. Place five pennies in the cup and gently bring the cup back down and let go of it.
Note if the structure can hold the extra weight. Pay attention to the details. Do you see your structure bend? If so, does it return to its original form if you lift the cup with pennies? For this science project, seeing a crack or fold somewhere in the structure indicates the structure cannot carry the weight. Figure 9, below, shows the rolls and the cube both carrying a weight. Note that the rolls in the picture show signs of carrying weight—they bunch together—but are not showing any cracks yet. Record your findings in your data table.
Repeat steps 11.a. and 11.b. until your structure shows a crack under the weight.
If you have a kitchen scale available, weigh how much the structure could carry before showing any cracks:
Remove the cup with pennies from the structure, then take out five pennies (since the structure could not hold the weight with the last five pennies added, but it could before you added them).
Measure the weight of the cup with pennies.
Record the measurement in the data table in the line "Maximum weight carried (in grams [g]).
Figure 9. Figures showing two structures (rolls [left] and cube [right]), each carrying a weight. Note that the rolls get deformed carrying the weight, but do not show any signs of cracks or folds carrying this weight.
Remove the structure and empty the cup.
Repeat steps 9–12 using the six rolls as the structure, placed parallel to each other, as shown in Figures 8 and 9, above.
Repeat steps 9–12 using the cube as the structure.
This completes one trial. Repeat steps 2–14 two more times for a total of three trials (three for each structure). Before you start trial 2, you will have to remake the structures. After a structure has cracked once, it will be permanently weakened, so you cannot use it again for future tests. You will need to make new structures for each new trial.
Analyzing the Measurements
Create a summary table similar to Table 3, below, in your lab notebook.
Stacked Sheets Rolls Cube
Number of pennies or weight [g]
Table 3. Table listing the maximum number of pennies or maximum weight the structure could hold in the three tests and the calculated average.
Fill in your summary table by retrieving the maximum number of pennies or weight (g) the structures could hold in each trial from your data tables that were similar to Table 2.
Calculate the average number of pennies or average weight each structure could hold over the three trials. If you need a refresher on how to calculate an average, check out the reference in the Bibliography.
Does any of the data stand out? Was one structure stronger in all three trials? Were the variations between trials small or big? Are the findings in alignment with what you expected?
Are your findings similar to findings of carbon structures in the nanoworld, where carbon sheets are found to be less strong than the hollow fullerenes?
Nanosystems Engineer
Imagine creating a new material, medicine, or electrical component that is too small to see. How would you design it? What could the new invention do? These are precisely the types of questions that nanosystems engineers answer every day. Nanosystems engineers design and build new technologies using the smallest building blocks, atoms, and molecules. Read more
Materials Scientist and Engineer
What makes it possible to create high-technology objects like computers and sports gear? It's the materials inside those products. Materials scientists and engineers develop materials, like metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites, that other engineers need for their designs. Materials scientists and engineers think atomically (meaning they understand things at the nanoscale level), but they design microscopically (at the level of a microscope), and their materials are used macroscopically (at the level the eye can see). From heat shields in space, prosthetic limbs, semiconductors, and sunscreens to snowboards, race cars, hard drives, and baking dishes, materials scientists and engineers make the materials that make life better. Read more
Chemical engineers solve the problems that affect our everyday lives by applying the principles of chemistry. If you enjoy working in a chemistry laboratory and are interested in developing useful products for people, then a career as a chemical engineer might be in your future. Read more
If you turned on a faucet, used a bathroom, or visited a public space (like a road, a building, or a bridge) today, then you've used or visited a project that civil engineers helped to design and build. Civil engineers work to improve travel and commerce, provide people with safe drinking water and sanitation, and protect communities from earthquakes and floods. This important and ancient work is combined with a desire to make structures that are as beautiful and environmentally sound, as they are functional and cost-effective. Read more
Include different structure sizes; for example, you could test a small, medium, and large cube. How does size affect the strength of the structures? Create a graph of strength vs. size.
Include other paper structures, like an origami icosahedron, in your comparison.
The density or weight per volume plays an important role when engineering new materials. For example, even though steel is sometimes stronger than specific fullerenes, it is much denser and thus heavier, making it less useful for applications like tennis rackets (people prefer a lightweight racket). Can you factor density (weight per unit volume) of your materials into your analysis? Which one of your structures would have the least/highest density? How would this relate to nanotechnology, where scientists like to invent lightweight, strong materials?
Test what happens if you change the gap distance between the edges of your tables or chairs. When you move the tables closer together, you are effectively making the structures shorter (the part that is just resting on the table won't bend, but the part suspended over the air might). This is a way to test the effects of size without making new structures. Does the gap width affect the amount of weight your structures can hold? Create a graph of weight vs. gap distance.
What happens if you use tape to tape together the edges of your paper sheets or tubes? Engineers call this a boundary condition. The same structure can have a different strength if its boundary conditions change. For example, if you tape the edges of your flat sheets together, they might not be able to slide around as easily. In the nanoworld, boundary conditions relate to how the different carbon structures bond together.
Materials Science Project Ideas
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Why Is the Political Establishment So Afraid of Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal?
Instead of pouring money into endless war and tax cuts for the rich, Congress now has a chance to solve the climate crisis. But devotion to the economic status quo is standing in the way.
Miles Kampf-Lassin February 7, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not come to Washington to play. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
At a time of widespread environmental devastation, much of the U.S. political establishment appears allergic to large-scale public projects that would solve the climate crisis through directly challenging the economic status quo.
Completely missing from Republicans' outright opposition—and some Democrats' ambiguous hedging—is a recognition of what's at stake.
This attitude was perhaps best encapsulated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's glib mockery of the Green New Deal plan laid out Thursday morning by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D‑N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D‑Mass.). In an interview with Politico, Pelosi referred to the proposal as "the green dream or whatever they call it." She went on to suggest that the plan had not been thought through, saying, "nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?"
Pelosi is not the only lawmaker who is reflexively resistant to the plan. There is the predictable opposition from Republicans, including Rep. John Shimkus (Ill.), the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. He said at a hearing Wednesday, "We should be open to the fact that wealth transfer schemes suggested in the radical policies like the Green New Deal may not be the best path to community prosperity and preparedness."
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R‑CO), meanwhile, turned to red-baiting, saying the Green New Deal "sounds too much like a Soviet five-year plan." Lamborn's critique echoed President Trump, who warned in his State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Tuesday that "in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination and control."
Pelosi herself has directly aided this anti-socialist appeal. At a CNN Town Hall event in 2017, Pelosi was asked by a New York University student, who cited the growing popularity of socialist policies among Democrats, whether the party "could move farther left to a more populist message?" She responded, "We're capitalists, and that's just the way it is." In the aftermath of Ocasio-Cortez's shocking victory last year, Pelosi was asked whether democratic socialism was "ascendant" in the party. Her response: "No." And when Trump said in his SOTU address Tuesday that "Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country," Pelosi applauded.
This opposition to democratic socialist policies helps explain why Pelosi has been so resistant to embrace the Democrats' rising left flank that wants to see immediate action on redistributing wealth and power away from the top echelons of society. Such demands for a radical restructuring of the U.S. economy is a critical element underpinning calls for enacting up-and-coming left-wing policies like the Green New Deal.
Pelosi's ideological positioning has, not surprisingly, dovetailed with opposition to the Green New Deal. Last year, Ocasio-Cortez joined a demonstration at Pelosi's office organized by the Sunrise Movement — a youth-led environmental justice group — which called for the creation of a select committee to craft a Green New Deal. Rather than instituting such a committee, however, Pelosi instead created a select committee on climate change more broadly, with powers much more limited scope than what organizers had demanded. Pelosi's committee, furthemore, will not require members to eschew campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, another demand laid out by the Sunrise Movement.
Meanwhile, other Democratic leaders are more cagey and guarded. Rep. Kathy Castor (D‑Fla.), the chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, released an ambiguous statement today in which she declined to support the Green New Deal but praised the passion behind it. "We must examine the entire range of tools we have to tackle the climate crisis," she said. "I share the sense of urgency behind the Green New Deal and I believe that we must act boldly to reduce greenhouse gases and to make clean energy a pillar of our economy."
Completely missing from Republicans' outright opposition — and some Democrats' ambiguous hedging — is a recognition of what's at stake. The planet faces monumental warming with threats not just of sea level rise and expansive droughts but massive bouts of famine, economic devastation and refugee crises. Instead of grappling with the massive destruction wrought by worsening climate change, the political establishment is continuing to deflect the debate toward criticism of those who want action that's too bold, or public projects that are too ambitious.
Yet this opposition to costly and large-scale legislation apparently doesn't extend to projects that concern endless war and tax cuts for the wealthy. Bipartisan lawmakers, including Pelosi, handed a major win to Trump last year by passing the staggering $716 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2019, which included funds for a nuclear buildup. Meanwhile, in 2017, Republicans gleefully lined up behind Trump to hand a tax break to corporations and the super-rich that will add nearly $2 trillion to the U.S. debt.
This incongruence is enabled by a media echo chamber. During an interview with NPR's "Morning Edition" on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez was grilled by host Steve Inskeep about how she would pay for her climate plan. "It is just certainly a lot of money. You don't specify where it's going to come from other than saying it will all pay for itself." This refrain has been echoed across major media outlets since the concept of a Green New Deal was first introduced, from Politico to "60 Minutes." As Aylin Woodward notes in Business Insider, "Much of the discussion so far about the Green New Deal has centered on how to pay for its lofty objectives."
Ocasio-Cortez's response to Inskeep was instructive. "I think the first move we need to do is kind of break the mistaken idea that taxes pay for 100 percent of government expenditure," Ocasio-Cortez answered. "It's just not how government expenditure works," she said. "We can recoup costs, but oftentimes you look at, for example, the GOP tax cut which I think was an irresponsible use of government expenditure, but government projects are often financed by a combination of taxes, deficit spending and other kinds of investments, you know, bonds and so on."
She went on to point out the long term failure of a market fundamentalist approach to environmental policy in dealing with climate change. "We have tried their approach for 40 years — to let the private sector take care of it," she explained, laying out a case for massive government intervention that – until recently – has rarely surfaced in mainstream political discourse.
Yet, amazingly, this hostile political climate is failing to squash the Green New Deal. To achieve the goals of staving off the worst effects of climate change while putting the United States on a path to environmental sustainability and economic equity, the Green New Deal calls for eliminating net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, massively investing in government programs to update infrastructure and build up renewable energy sources, transforming sectors of the economy such as manufacturing and transportation to remove carbon emissions, retrofitting buildings and providing guaranteed living-wage employment to anyone who wants a job.
Not all of the details have been hashed out, and it will no doubt take considerable struggle — and outside agitating — to ensure any final plan is informed by left principles. But, nonetheless, the proposal represents the most ambitious effort yet to tackle the climate crisis. And it correctly refocuses the question of cost away from whether the United States can afford to pay for such a bold proposal to whether it can afford not to.
Already more than 60 members of the House and 9 senators have co-sponsored Ocasio-Cortez and Markey's resolution. Much like other bold left-wing proposals such as Medicare for All and tuition-free college, the Green New Deal has emerged as a consensus policy back by a number of high-profile potential 2020 Democratic nominees such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders. And over 80 percent of the American public supports the Green New Deal, including 92 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans.
Republicans and centrist Democrats alike seem content continuing to oversee the same economic and political consensus that led us to the brink of climate chaos. But for the vast majority of Americans who want real solutions to the crisis, today's Green New Deal resolution marks a clear escape path from the stale politics of the past.
Sarah Lazare and Marco Cartolano contributed reporting to this piece.
Miles Kampf-Lassin, a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School in Deliberative Democracy and Globalization, is a Web Editor at In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @MilesKLassin
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BLACK by KENNETH COLE - created in 2004 for the 20-th Anniversary of the company by Amandine Marie.
What is hidden in this strict and discreet-looking bottle?
BLACK by KENNETH COLE is beautiful Floral perfume.
Yes, inside this limited in a surprisingly black-white toned strict bottle, are hidden blooming Jasmine blossoms, a lot of Jasmine, natural blooming Jasmine flowers.
This small and limited in black and white colors bottle is hiding unlimited intense flourishing and blooming Spring garden.
In all popular perfume websites, you can find the listed above full description with flowers (most of which are really part from the composition), despite it's hard to detect them or they just perfectly blend on the background of this captivating blooming garden.
In fact, most dominant is Jasmine, supported by Orange blossoms, touch of Sambac and the undertones - Magnolia and Lotus flower.
BUT - on my skin, instead of Violet (as websites claim), I feel intense notes of blossoming Lilac and Linden blossom!
This perfume is vivid floral and stays like alive flowers in your arms.
It's magically inviting you to take breath again and again, and closing eyes - you see spring blooming flower garden!
Maybe, in some moment - after 30-50 min., seems to you, that you don't feel it, but actually, with every your movement, it radiates and spreads beauty around!
- black "lacquered" box; grey small letters under the label and behind the box; the label is matte white with black letters.
1. On the bottom of the box, PRINTED ON THE NYLON!
2. On the label, on the bottom of the bottle - engraved.
Very intense floral (without to be annoying), beautiful, enchanting, attractive, fresh, perfume, which radiates very realistic scent of blooming spring flowers.
Suitable for all seasons, despite its character and nature are much more related to the Spring season.
Lasts for hours, on the clothes - much longer.
It's available and you can purchase from the brand website.
If it's possible, test before you buy!
P. S. - It has some big resemblance with DIVINE by ORIFLAME!


All coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs and seagrass beds are under threat from climate-change and variability; however, the long-term survival and functioning of key ecosystems is crucial for the communities depending on ecosystem services such as provisioning (e.g., timber, fuel wood, and charcoal), regulating (e.g., flood, storm and erosion control; prevention of salt water intrusion), and habitat (e.g., breeding, spawning and nursery habitat for commercial valuable fish species).
Sustainable environmental management practices build resilience in the dynamics between ecosystems and communities in the the long-term: e.g. the role of mangroves in providing a 'physical buffer' against extreme events became clear after the tsunami in 2004. Mangroves can increase resilience to coastal disasters, which are likely to be exacerbated by climate change - both by 'absorbing' the wave surges and supporting the ability of communities to recover by providing livelihood opportunities.
MFF has promoted investments in coastal ecosystems as a form of natural infrastructure to support sustainable development using the principle of 'nature-based solutions'. MFF has also supported actions that address key environmental issues in target areas, for example, mangrove rehabilitation, waste management, eco-tourism, and waste water pollution to name a few.
Here you will find examples of projects that have been implemented by MFF that have contributed to strengthening resilience of coastal communities by addressing environmental issues.


1. Brighten with pops of color.
You can do this with pillows, rugs, vases, new art, or dishes!
Maybe you've had chunky, woven throw blankets out all winter. It's time to change up the textures and introduce more sleek, simple looks!
Perhaps the best advice on how to transition into Spring is getting organized. To do that, I go through my clothes closet and my other closets to either throw out or give away anything I didn't wear or use in the last year. It's so relieving! Sometimes creating 3 piles (keep, trash and give away/donate) is the best way to do that.
Once you get rid of anything you don't absolutely need, I suggest getting nice storage baskets to keep your closets in order! Don't overwhelm yourself by doing too much at once. Focus on one room for one week, and another the next week.
4. Pick up Spring flowers and plants for your home.
Here are some of the prettiest spring flowers!
5. Outdoor furniture and accessories.
It's time to embrace the outdoors again! I can't wait to set up my patio furniture again soon, complete with pillows, chairs, and some fun plants and lanterns!
How are you embracing Spring and transitioning YOUR home?
We're in the process of doing this right now, and I'm always amazed by the difference fresh plants can make!


AUSTRALIA has the chance to lift the ICC Under-19 World Cup trophy for the first time since 2010 when they take on India at Tauranga's Bay Oval in New Zealand on Saturday.
It has been eight years since Australia claimed their last U19 title, when Mitch Marsh captained the team to a 25-run win over Pakistan.
Marsh was one of three players in the final XI, alongside player-of-the-final Josh Hazlewood and Nic Maddinson, to go on and represent Australia at Test level.
South Australian speedster Kane Richardson has also featured for his country in senior ranks, playing 15 One-Day Internationals and three Twenty20s.
2010 Under-19 World Cup final at Lincoln, New Zealand.
The hard-hitting left-hander made his Sheffield Shield debut for New South Wales nine months after Australia's World Cup win, his first of 70 first-class appearances.
Maddinson's Test career was brief, playing three consecutive Tests against South Africa and Pakistan in the summer of 2016-17 before getting the axe.
While he has fallen well down the pecking order in Australia's red-ball cricket plans, Maddinson's Big Bash performances for Sydney Sixers suggest he's not far away from adding to his two Twenty20 internationals.
A former captain under-19s level, Beaton has been in the domestic cricket wilderness for the past couple of seasons after losing his WACA contract.
The West Australian burst onto the domestic scene with a vital 71 on debut against Queensland in the Ryobi Cup one-day tournament, putting on 141 with captain Adam Voges.
Beaton performed better in white-ball cricket than Sheffield Shield, where he averaged just 17.25 in 11 matches.
He more recently played for Big Bash side Melbourne Renegades as a middle-order batsman, but lost his spot on their list this summer.
Beaton, who also works as a fitness professional, is back playing for Mt Lawley in the WACA first grade competition after a stint in Melbourne.
Mitch Marsh had already made his first-class, domestic one-day and Twenty20 debut by the time he captained the Australian under-19s to victory.
One of two current Test players to feature in the world cup triumph, Marsh cemented his spot with a brilliant 181 in the third Ashes Test at the WACA Ground last month.
The hard-hitting allrounder also took over the captaincy at WA from long-term skipper Adam Voges at the start of the summer, leading the Warriors to victory in the JLT One-Day Cup final with a player-of-the-match performance.
Marsh has played for Australia in all three formats, with 24 Tests, 53 ODIs and nine T20Is under his belt.
Keath has had a remarkable sporting career for someone his age, playing professionally at both cricket and footy.
While he was still in high school, the talented allrounder turned his back on an AFL career with the Gold Coast Suns to sign a three-year deal with Victoria.
But he struggled to make an impact at domestic level and eventually lost his Bushrangers contract after seven first-class and 16 List A appearances.
He has since moved to South Australia where he was picked up by the Adelaide Crows as a Category B rookie, playing seven AFL matches as a key defender.
A Canberra native, Floros moved to Queensland ahead of the 2009-10 season after getting a Bulls rookie gig.
He was important with bat and ball in the under-19 final at Lincoln, making 35 before an economical 1-19 off eight overs.
The off-spinning allrounder is still contracted at Queensland and captained the state's one-day side last summer.
Floros has struggled for opportunities this season, featuring twice in the JLT One-Day Cup to go with the solitary appearance with Brisbane in the BBL.
Australia's leading run-scorer in the tournament with 240 runs at 48, Armstrong held a New South Wales rookie contract for one season before moving west in search of more first XI opportunities.
The allrounder played for the Warriors and Perth Scorchers without ever getting a WACA contract.
Armstrong was sanctioned by the WACA after an incident involving Tom Triffitt on a Future's League trip to Queensland, with both players withdrawn from the match.
He's currently working in London for Stocks Digital, a media investor platform, and playing cricket for Teddington Cricket Club in the Middlesex Premier League.
The talented wicketkeeper-batsman endured a rollercoaster first-class career with Tasmania and Western Australia.
A member of the Tigers' 2010-11 Sheffield Shield-winning team, Triffitt left Tasmania for WA after the following season.
Triffitt was released from his Warriors contract after an alcohol-fuelled incident in Brisbane in 2014, where he was charged with one count of wilful damage and two counts of stealing.
He returned to Tasmania's first-class ranks after a successful stint with the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash, earning a Tigers contract for 2015-16 and playing eight of a possible 10 Shield games.
The 27-year-old has since lost his contract and longer plays cricket at any level.
He currently works in the real estate industry in Hobart as a residential sales consultant.
While he is yet to reach great heights at international level, Kane Richardson has been a mainstay of South Australia's bowling attack for many years.
The Northern Territory product has been in dominant form for Melbourne Renegades in BBL07, including back-to-back four-wicket hauls, after crossing from Adelaide Strikers on a five-year deal.
He was rewarded with a spot in Australia's Twenty20 side for their trans-Tasman series against England and New Zealand this month.
A right-arm fast-bowler and handy lower-order batsman, Richardson top-scored in Australia's Under-19 World Cup final win with a run-a-ball 44 batting at No. 8.
His best performance at in the ODI arena came against India in Canberra in 2016, where he took 5-68 in a man-of-the-match effort.
Josh Hazlewood was Australia's best-performed bowler in the tournament, taking 13 wickets at 15 including 4-26 in player-of-the-match effort in the final.
Like his under-19 captain Mitch Marsh, the reliable fast-bowler has gone on to represent Australia in all three formats.
The New South Welshman is has formed an exciting pace attack alongside Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins.
He had an impressive Ashes campaign this summer, grabbing 21 wickets at 25.9 in Australia's 4-0 series triumph.
The left-arm spinner was a New South Wales rookie when he featured in Australia's under-19 success.
Doran, who took 3-32 in the final against Pakistan, played in three domestic one-day matches for the Blues before losing his contract after the 2012-13 season.
He also lined up in the Big Bash for the Sydney Thunder and Sydney Sixers, with his last appearance in 2014.
The older brother of Tasmanian wicketkeeper Jake Doran also lives in the Apple Isle where he captains Lindisfarne in the Cricket Tasmania Premier League and works for cricket equipment brand Icon Sports.
The son of former Australian quick Craig McDermott looked destined to forge an international career of his own when he debuted as a teenager for Queensland in a Twenty20 match back in 2008-09.
A red-headed Queenslander with pace the burn, McDermott held a rookie contract at the Bulls while he was still in high school.
He played a vital role in Brisbane Heat's first Big Bash title in Perth back in 2012-13, grabbing 2-21 from four overs in his side's upset win over Perth Scorchers at the WACA.
But, despite averaging less than 25 with the ball in all three formats, he was cut alongside his younger brother Ben, who now plays for Tasmania, at the end of 2014-15.
McDermott also had a stint at Sydney Thunder but has since disappeared into the domestic cricket wilderness.
He still plays first-grade club cricket in Brisbane for Wynnum Manly as well as working in commercial real estate.
Current Australian ODI representative Adam Zampa, Melbourne Stars paceman Jackson Coleman, Queensland turned Tasmania quick Nick Buchanan and former Redback Ben Dougall were also part of Australia's Under-19 World Cup squad, but didn't play in the final.


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Ngwenya is an Nguni surname meaning "crocodile". Notable people with the surname include:

Dumisani Ngwenya (born 1984), South African footballer
Godfrey Ngwenya (born 1950), South African military commander
Gwen Ngwenya (born 1989), South African academic and politician
Joseph Ngwenya (born 1981), Zimbabwean footballer
Lindiwe Ngwenya, Zimbabwean army officer
Malangatana Ngwenya (1936–2011), Mozambican painter and poet
Manqoba Ngwenya (born 1981), South African footballer
Sipho Ngwenya, South African politician
Takudzwa Ngwenya (born 1985), American rugby union player

Zimbabwean surnames

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Compact in size, the 30.5" Lincoln Single Bath Vanity is an attractive vanity that incorporates simplicity, functionality, and style into one remarkable package. Featuring an Espresso finished cabinet, it offers a double-door cabinet and a single pull-out drawer for plenty of storage space in a petite vanity. Its drawer and cabinet doors are accented by circular polished metal knobs, working to accent the deep finish of the cabinet. For a contrasting look, its top is made from an integrated porcelain sink. This vanity is designed to for easy access and accompanying your washing machines.


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I think most brides will agree, that one of their 'must have' wedding photos, should they write such a list, would include a stunning photo of their wedding dress on the morning of their wedding.
I was commissioned to photograph a wedding at Gosfield Hall in Essex, and the venue is blessed with an enormous bridal suite - And when I say enormous, I really do mean it; the one room is bigger than my entire house!
Aside from the massive proportions, it's beautifully decorated with rich and warm colours, as you can see with this ornate door.
Abbie's wedding dress was vintage and made from lace. The best way to present the wedding dress for a stunning photo was to hang it in front of this door.
The colour of the door is perfect for setting off the wedding dress, and the warm light flooding into the room through the many windows fell softly on the dress, not overpowering the subtle details at all.
Specialist wedding venues usually have coat hooks hung abnormally high on the walls of the bridal suite, and this serves one very important purpose - allowing the wedding dress to be hung in such a way that it naturally cascades down, removing any creases from storage and allowing everyone to see it in all it's glory.


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The Greenleafs' IRS issues escalate when the FBI raids both Calvary and Triumph on suspicion of embezzlement; Grace questions her paternity when Aaron tells her that his father, Lionel, died.
Episode Title: The End Is Near
A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.
In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty, a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak.
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Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her…
A reality series that follows some of the most affluent women in the country as they enjoy the lavish lifestyle that only Beverly Hills can provide.
A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five…
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Should Investors Get Their Real Estate Licenses?
Getting your real estate license as an investor has the ability to benefit your business by giving you an edge over the competition.
One benefit of getting your real estate license as an investor is the increased profits due to commission checks. This is 7 to 8 percent of the sale price that would otherwise goes straight to the agent.
The biggest question to ask yourself before getting licensed is whether or not you are willing to dedicate 5+ hours per week to studying for your exam and pay the fees required to maintain the license.
"Should I get my real estate license as an investor?" is a question asked by both new and seasoned entrepreneurs. A real estate license for investors is so controversial because there are as many pros as their are cons. In fact, if you ask 10 successful real estate entrepreneurs whether or not they are licensed, your answers will be split right down the middle.
With that being said, the choice is entirely up to you. And the best way to make that decision is by creating a pro and con list of course.
It is entirely possible to have a successful real estate investing career without the help of a real estate license; however, the benefits that come with being licensed often give investors an added edge.
Take this for example, if you are currently spending money on realtor fees when marketing properties, getting licensed means forgetting about that extra cash and adding the savings to your marketing budget. Another reason to consider getting licensed is of course to obtain that coveted MLS access. While sites like Trulia, Redfin, and Zillow are great for pulling comps, there's nothing more accurate than the MLS. Keep in mind however that it does require time and money to obtain a real estate license that some investors aren't willing to give.


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Elixir Technologies offers integrated business applications for client communications delivered through a worldwide network of strategic partners.
Elixir Tango Platform
More about Elixir
Elixir Technologies is pleased to announce the appointment of Tarek Harry as its new CEO, replacing Basit Hamid, Elixir's founder and former CEO. Basit will assume the role of co-chairman along with Elixir's former president, Feroz Zaidi. Tarek has served on Elixir's Board of Directors since 2014. Prior to assuming the role of CEO, Tarek had served as Elixir's Chief Operating Officer since 2016, where his successes in implementing Elixir's cross-departmental strategies have transitioned the company into a multi-cloud organization powered by its flagship platform Tango.
"Tarek has grown up around Elixir Technologies and has seen the company grow from its early days into the international, innovative company that it is today. During Tarek's tenure as COO, he helped transform Elixir into an agile, data-driven company and I wish him success in his new role as CEO." - Basit Hamid, co-chairman, Elixir Technologies.
Tarek's appointment as CEO of Elixir Technologies comes on the heels of the company's success with Tango, the most comprehensive, cloud-native, customer communications management platform on the market.
"I would like to thank everyone at Elixir who has worked across teams with me in my COO role to support the rapid, agile growth and success that we are seeing with Tango. I also want to give special thanks to my father, Basit, for being a great mentor to me and so many others over the years. As CEO of Elixir Technologies, I will continue to keep at the forefront my father's 'compassion rules' mentality, cloud-native advancement and horizontal managerial approach. My first focus is to provide an amazing experience for our customers on our Tango platform coupled with the outstanding services that we provide. Secondly, I want our employees to have that same amazing experience here at Elixir while they work, using a combination of cutting-edge cloud technologies, compassionate company culture, and outstanding benefits. The culmination of these two strategies will result in a better Elixir for all of our shareholders. To quote Jack Ma, 'The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.'"
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Q: My settings file is creating LNK2001 errors newbie here! I recently started doing a small project in C++ but as soon as I try to compile it, I get a LNK2001 error due to my global variables file.
namespace {
    namespace Vars {
        extern int x;
        }
    }

As you can see I already tried fixing the error with an 'anonymous namespace' - a solution I found while googling the error, but it seems that none of the posts I saw so far are relatable to the error I'm getting.
In the .cpp the variables.h is included within, I get LNK2001 errors, but the other .cpp that has it included but not using it in any way does not.
The other .cpp would look like this:
#include "Variables.h"
#include "otherstuff.h"

void main(){
    if (Vars::x == 1){
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}

The exact error given to me by the linker is:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int `anonymous namespace'::Vars::x" (?x@Vars@?A0x6c0990fe@@3HA)

Please feel free to criticize me, I'm new to C++ in general.

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Did you know that the first G-Shock was presented in April 1984? Almost 30 years later tens of millions of these watches have been sold worldwide but the G-Shock does not seem to have aged one bit. Has it become a quartz icon?
During its long career, the tough G-Shock, which saw its first feminine version in 1991 with the Baby-G, has done just about everything it could do in the world of watchmaking and wrist electronics and we have lost count of the different functions it offers. But the "icon" still has tricks up its sleeve.
One of its most recent versions uses traits on the dial taken directly from mechanical watches. As its designers explain, the new GA-300-1AER "bridges the gap between the industrial and mechanical look of the last century and digital technology." This desire to give "a mechanical watch feel" without the watch actually being mechanical can be seen in the dial, with its visible cogs, riveted components, openworked metal bridges, all alongside LCD displays. Protected against the effects of magnetism, water resistant to 200 metres and quite obviously shock resistant, it is available in black or white.
In the same family, the G-Shock Gravity Defier is intended to be a genuine and consummate aviator watch. As a veritable cockpit on the wrist it offers multiple functions including, for the first time, an integrated digital compass. At the push of a button, the seconds hand immediately converts into a compass needle. It also shows the temperature and can activate a world time display. Big hour markers and fluorescent hands, as well as a powerful LED light, allow night flights. It is available in matt black with red accents, black with metallic and yellow accents or in navy blue with a white dial.
A digital compass and thermometer are also included in the latest Edifice chronograph. Casio has dedicated this model in the sporty line with a more traditional look than the rugged G-Shock to the Infiniti Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team, which the brand has been a partner of since 2009, and for which world champion driver Sebastian Vettel is the ambassador. Everything about its design aims to convey precision and speed, under the motto that the brand reserves for this sporty collection: "Speed & Intelligence".


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JAIMIE VERNON – MY FAVOURITE YEAR: 1977
Aside from the general malaise of the past 6 years (post-2008's Economiclypse), I can honestly say that I've lived a pretty charmed life; Traveling extensively both as a tourist and as a musician, running a record label, running a music magazine and hobnobbing with music, TV and movie stars. I've got two awesome kids and an amazing wife. Some truly fantastic shit has happened to me over my 50 years and it seems impossible to nail down one or two that stand out above all others – the birth of my daughter (1994) and my son (1998) notwithstanding. But I do have a favourite year.
While 1975 had my first cross-Canada trip https://bobsegarini.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/jaimie-vernon-my-glacier-was-gone/ and 1976 had my first kiss https://bobsegarini.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/jaimie-vernon-spirit-of-76
It was 1977 that stands alone as the year that I came of age and began heading down the path that would shape me as an adult. In my pre-teen world I had been a cocksure, mouthy know-it-all. The kids I schooled with called me Egghead (I had an usually HUGE cranium) or Professor Kitzel
and I spent a good part of my alone time trying to figure out how to shake the brainy stereotype. But part of me wanted to hold onto that.
I was already confident around girls and found myself saying yes to any number of teen parties I was invited to. Something that 'geeks' just didn't attend. But I had a secret weapon. Music. I was the kid with 7 inches…of vinyl. My record collection was becoming quite extensive and I was usually on top of the latest hits the minute they hit the radio.
In the winter of 1977 I found myself invited to my first Boy-Girl party – with no parental supervision. The girl that invited me to her party had a crush on me. She was a large gal but I always found her fun to be around and jovial like Queen Latifah. My friends were merciless when we slow danced to David Soul's "Don't Give Up On Us".
I didn't mind and when she trapped me in a back room of her parents' basement, well, let's just say I didn't turn down her advances. The next day was awkward as I think she expected me to ask her to go steady. But, I was pre-occupied with school and the wind up of my House League hockey team's play-off season. (geeks don't play hockey either, don't you know!).
My team eventually won the championship and the coach decided to throw a victory party at his house. He also invited some neighbourhood girls to even out the sausage-to-boob ratio and we found ourselves slow dancing with a lot of gals we had just met. It must have been how the U.S.O. dances worked during the Second World War. The difference here was that we didn't end up marrying our dancing partners – we'd merely end up seeing them the following year in high school. Needless to say there was a lot of dry-humping when this came on.
1977 was Grade 8 – senior year of Junior High. Despite my desire to change how people perceived me, I still wanted to please my parents with good grades. I was pushing straight A's. So much so that I landed myself in the regional finals of a Speech Writing competition held by Ontario Schools. I wrote a clever and punny piece about the cinematic rage at the time – disaster movies. My four minute shtick got a lot of laughs and I managed to place second in Ontario behind some kid that did a re-take of Bill Cosby's "Noah" skit. I was robbed, I tell you.
That led the school heads to send me to an IQ-based competition where brainiac children around the province wrote exams to determine which school had the smartest kids. [at the turn of this century the EQAO exams became standard testing for kids in grades 3 and 6]. I don't think I got the highest score but did so well that I was asked to be that year's Valedictorian at the Grade 8 graduation ceremony.
It was also Awards night and I found myself the recipient of many of them – the most surprising to everyone being the award for being a member of the championship Senior Boys' Softball Team; A true sign that I didn't fit the egghead stereotype. Hockey had prepped me to be a team player. I had been doing that since I was 6 years old. In the summer of 1976 I joined a House League hardball team for one season to see if it was something I liked. I excelled at short-stop, it seems. I was small and stealthy on my feet and years of playing goalie in street hockey games gave me the co-ordination and glove work to hold onto a ball. The hardball team gave me a strong throwing arm. My tryout for the school team was a trial by fire. The tough kids laughed when I showed up. They weren't laughing when I was still standing and others had been cut after one practice. I played short-stop there too. Once the initial shock had worn off by my schoolmates, I was part of a championship team. We won the pennant.
Summer came and instead of going back to hardball, my folks decided to take my sister and I on a road-trip to Prince Edward Island and back. I was initially excited as my Grandmother had shown me the prairies and mountains in 1975. But this was going to be 10 days in a car with my family. It was a bad idea. My folks don't travel well. Together. Or with kids. We were caught in a massive windstorm in downtown Montreal for one. That invoked the "let's get away from these Frogs" slur from my Mom. We saw the traditional roadside attractions in Moncton and Halifax (world's longest covered bridge, Magnetic Hill and the reversing tides). Cape Breton was a whole other matter as my sister threw up on most of the Cabot Trail back roads. And when we got to PEI – which required taking a ferry in those days – the nightmare grew exponentially.
On the first hill from the docks my Dad realized the brakes had gone on the car. We spent the day in a repair shop getting them fixed. By the time we were fed and back on the road looking for a hotel (you never needed reservations in the olden days), it seems there were none to be found. Nor motels. Or bed & breakfasts. What my folks didn't know was that it was the annual NATIONAL Boy Scout Jamboree from July 5-12 on the island and the keynote speaker was his Royal Highness Prince Charles. 66 miles wide and this island was now home to 20,000 Boy Scouts. Night had fallen and there was nowhere to sleep. My folks started pounding on doors. We found a farm that took us in. My folks were given a bed in the main house. My sister in the living room. I slept on the curved seats of a breakfast nook. I awoke in the morning to the frightful visage of a horse head looking down at me from an overhead window. Seems the animal frequently came to get breakfast treats. I was scared shitless.
We finally made it to the Atlantic Ocean. It was worth the stress of the trip as we found ourselves frolicking on the reddest beaches the world has ever seen (it's why PEI potatos are so rich tasting). Well, except my sister. She got stung by a jellyfish. I don't think there was any part of the trip she enjoyed. I appreciate, even to this day, the effort my folks made to help us see the beauty of our country.
Back at home I soon noticed a rather cute blond-haired girl wandering about our townhouse complex usually with kids in tow. I asked my buddies who she was and they weren't sure but seemed to think she was a babysitter of some sort. Cindy Grove was her name – which I soon found out by boldly going over and asking her (much to the chagrin of my tough-as-nails buddies). As summer wore on we ended up going steady. I was in pre-teen lust. She lived in a neighbourhood called Bendale exactly halfway between where I was living and where I had originally grown up in Scarborough. It was accessible by bicycle. So when we weren't gabbing on the phone during the day – we once clocked an 8 hour conversation which got me in a lot of shit with my parents – I was riding to her place by bike and hanging with her and her older sisters. I recall our 'song' was Alan O'Day's gag-worthy double-entendre laden "Undercover Angel". We were too young to know what any of it meant.
We attempted to keep the relationship going into our first year of high school but it was way too hard to keep it afloat as I was back to playing hockey, maintaining a paper route and keeping up with my grades. She was drifting away and eventually hinted that she was interested in someone else. I got the hint. I was heart-broken. But not heart-broken enough to date her best-friend's cousin who she introduced me to. What could go wrong? Well, the girl was from British Guiana which was pretty exotic from my naive perspective. But she barely spoke English. Turns out her Brit parents had her in French Emersion her entire life. It was cute the way she would say my name – Zshay-meee. And when she insisted I touch her, admittedly massive, breasts. I was seriously intimidated. It was a set up. Cindy had known how aggressive this girl was and thought it would be funny if this gal came onto me like a pitbull. I made my escape. Leaving them both behind. Cindy and I would reconnect briefly in the 1980s where she apologized (and we almost dated again) but I've permanently lost touch with her now. Here's hoping she has had as charmed a life as me.
The Fall of 1977 proved to be my last as a hockey player as I was quickly starting to grow very quickly into my body leaving me susceptible to leg injuries and eventually with two useless knees. However, I went out in a blaze of glory – racking up 6 goals for the 1977/1978 season which included a hat trick in the best game I ever played. I recall at the awards banquet ceremony in Spring 1978 going up on stage to collect my trophies and leaving my former team-mates slack jawed as no one had remembered me ever doing such a thing; I was always the slow, middling wingman who set up shots for our star centerman to score. I knew I'd accomplished what I did. The league knew I'd done it too. It was nice to leave the stereotype behind forever. I never played hockey again. Instead, I took up the guitar. Mwahahahaha…
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Home Health Tips Homeless people experience a high lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury
Homeless people experience a high lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury
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People who are homeless experience a disproportionately high lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a new UBC-led study published today in The Lancet Public Health.
The meta-analysis - which looked at 38 studies published between 1995 and 2018 - is the first to look at the prevalence of TBI in people who are homeless or in unstable housing situations.
The results suggest that one in two (53 percent) homeless people experience a TBI, and one in four (25 percent) experience a TBI that is moderate or severe.
After comparing their estimates to studies of the general population, the researchers estimate that the lifetime prevalence of TBI in people who are homeless and in unstable housing situations could potentially be up to four times higher than in the general population. Meanwhile, the lifetime prevalence of moderate or severe TBI in this population could be nearly 10 times higher than estimates in the general population.
Based on the data they analyzed, the researchers were unable to determine whether TBI increased the risk of homelessness or whether homelessness increased the risk of TBI. While more research is needed to better understand the relationship, the researchers say the findings suggest that providing stable housing might lower the risk for TBI.
"More research is definitely needed. TBI is an underappreciated and significant factor in the health and functioning of this vulnerable group of people," says the study's senior author Dr. William Panenka, assistant professor in the UBC faculty of medicine, a member of the BC Provincial Neuropsychiatry Program at UBC and a part of the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute.
I find it especially striking that we found such a high prevalence of moderate or severe TBI. Our work emphasizes that healthcare workers be aware of the burden of TBI in this population, and how it relates to health and functioning."
Jacob Stubbs, study's lead author and a PhD student
TBI can range from a mild concussion to a severe head injury. It is caused by a blow to the head or body, a wound that breaks through the skull, a fall, or another injury that jars or shakes the brain causing bruising, swelling, or tearing of brain tissue.
With time, most people recover from a mild brain injury but some people, especially those have repeated or severe injuries, may have long-lasting problems with movement, learning, or speaking.
For their study, the researchers looked at 38 published papers from six high-income countries - Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and the USA - which included people of any age who were either homeless, in unstable housing situations, or seeking services for homeless people.
They examined the number of new cases and existing cases of TBI, and the association between TBI and health or functioning outcomes.
Their findings suggest that TBI is consistently associated with poorer self-reported physical and mental health, suicidality and suicide risk, memory concerns, increased health service use and criminal justice system involvement.
The authors suggest a need for health-care workers to have increased awareness of the burden and associated effects of TBI in people who are homeless, noting that more comprehensive assessments of their health - including checking for a history of TBI - may help improve their care.
Stubbs, J.L., et al. (2019) Traumatic brain injury in homeless and marginally housed individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Public Health. doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30188-4.
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…And not a flake of snow. There's been lots of talk about how an SSW will eventually usher in a cold January and February but it is by no means guaranteed.
The average maxima for this December will finish 10.2C, precisely the same as December 1985. Other Decembers that finished close to this average maximum are shown below.
As you can see apart from the middle of the month the temperatures are all over the place. And so are the conditions that followed in January and February.
A closer inspection of every year reveals that just three were very similar to 2018: 1974, 1986 and 1988.
Again, there's plenty of spread. The 500mb reanalysis charts below show the situation of the northern hemisphere on December 31st of each year, including this year.
What followed in January 1975, 1987 and 1989?
January 1975 in this area was the warmest on record, back to 1797, while January 1989 was the 12th warmest. Conversely, January 1987 saw one of the coldest spells on record.
The tree canopy cover map on the Mayor of London's website reveals just how blessed Wanstead's inhabitants are in terms of clean air relative to the proximity of the City.
Those living closest to the junction of Wanstead Park Avenue and Northumberland Avenue benefit most from Wanstead Park, Wanstead Flats and Bushwood.


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Data from the streaming service will be added to sales numbers calculated by the Official Charts Company for the charts published on Friday (September 21).
SoundCloud plays follow YouTube views as a recent addition to the sales numbers — the UK's Official Singles Chart started counting video consumption from July.
At the same time, streams played on ad-funded tiers were significantly down-weighted.
One hundred streams happening on a subscription tier equates to one single sale, while 600 streams happening on free ad-funded tiers also counts for one sale.
The Albums Chart rules, which don't currently include video, remained the same — the total of the streams for the 12 most popular tracks from the standard version of an album, on both premium and freemium tiers, are added together, divided by 1000 and added to the album's physical and digital sales.
The OCC down-weights the top two songs in line with the average of the rest.
Raoul Chatterjee, Director, Content Partnerships at SoundCloud said: "SoundCloud is the foundational music platform for creators and we are committed to empowering them with the best tools and services to grow their careers.
SoundCloud streams will be included in The Official Singles Chart, The Official Albums chart, and The Official Independent Singles Chart for both the UK and Ireland, in addition to a number of genre charts including Classical, Dance, R&B, Rock & Metal.
The charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company on behalf of the British music industry and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA).
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Suffering loss can be the most painful experience in life.
This CD will be beneficial to those facing grief and bereavement in their own lives or seeking to help others.
Liz shares about the reality of suffering loss, and bereavement, and the unpredictability of our reactions.
The journey through grief is often like a maze and we need someone to show us the way out.


The Air & Waste Management Association is a nonprofit, non-partisan professional organization that provides training, information, and networking opportunities to 9,000 environmental professionals in 65 countries. The association's goals are to strengthen the environmental profession, expand scientific and technological responses to environmental concerns, and assist professionals in critical environmental decision-making to benefit society. The A&WMA is divided into 33 regional sections, 67 local chapters, and 40 student chapters worldwide. Maintaining a neutral forum is vital to the association, whose bylaws mandate a balanced Board of Directors by workforce sector.
The Ottawa Valley Chapter (OVC) currently has over 100 members and is coordinated by a volunteer Board of Directors with representation from industry, consulting and educational sectors. The mandate of the chapter is to organize activities that focus on regional or local issues of interest. These include dinner meetings, conferences, technical seminars and social events. The elected board members for 2017 are listed below. Copies of our chapter bylaws can be found below. Chapter members are invited to attend any of the board meetings.
The A&WMA-OVC is fast becoming the premiere environmental forum in Ottawa/Gatineau. With a solid ongoing program of quality feature presentations, networking opportunities and events, the A&WMA-OVC is quickly getting noticed and becoming the perfect vehicle to propel our environmental community into the future. The association is only as strong as its members! We encourage all members to get involve and stay connected! Spread the word!
Please direct any inquiries to the Chair, David Cotsman, by email.
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Did you know: Golden Retrievers instinctively love to swim. They're always up for a game of fetch in the lake.
Can you draw a Golden Retriever carrying five tennis balls?
Did you know: Or at least one special Golden, Augie, certainly can. His record is perhaps not so surprising given the Golden Retriever's history as a dog bred to pick up and carry.
Simply, add their drawing to the comment section of our National Golden Retriever Day Facebook post.