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None of us are getting any younger, so it's probably a good idea that we all start paying into a pension scheme before it's too late. That said, many people are reaching retirement age very soon, and those who've been paying into schemes all their lives will promptly be asked to make a rather life changing decision within the next year or two.
Most pension schemes will ensure the individual receives a weekly or monthly cash payment for the rest of their lives, so this isn't something soon-to-be OAP's need to worry about. However, providers usually offer an annuity option, and this can be where some people make their biggest mistakes.
So, if you're currently approaching retirement age, and you're a little unsure as to how this annuity thing works, take a quick read through the rest of this article and i'll do my best to explain it all as simply as possible.
What Is An Annuity?
Basically, this is a lump sum that can be paid to an insurance company upon you reaching retirement age. It protects you against living too long and ensures you receive a weekly or monthly payment for the rest of your life, regardless of how much you have in your pension scheme. Usually it can range from 10% to 60% of your entire pension pot. Now, although the decision to receive this payment is generally up to the individual, you really need to research before buying an annuity, as the best choice will depend upon your current situation.
Why Do People Take A Personal Lump Sum From Their Pension?
This can be for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the individual still has a few thousand pounds to pay off their mortgage, or maybe they've promised themselves a quality round-the-world cruise when they reach 68. Whatever the reason, you're allowed to take up to 25% for yourself and some people just find the money comes in handy.
However, if you've already got extensive savings, there really is no need to take a lump sum and purchasing an annuity could be a far better option, as there's nothing stopping you from paying for anything you need – and it will also mean your pension payments stay as secure as possible.
Do I Have To Pay Tax On A Lump Sum Payment?
No, you do not, and this is why so many people consider them to be a very good idea. Presuming you buy a rather attractive annuity, you'll end up paying tax on each of your monthly payments, yet this can be vastly reduced if you accept a 25% lump sum. That said; some people in the UK have pensions payments that equal far less than the current tax threshold, so it really is something you need to assess and work through yourself.
Well, there you have it my friends. I hope now you're a little more in the know when it comes to your pension options.
Good luck with everything, whatever you decide to do.
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My Time at Canna Care Docs
Prior to officially opening Nature's Way Medicine®, I spoke with a gentleman who was cofounder of Canna Care Docs for at least two hours. This was mid August 2015, and I was already registering and planning my own clinic at the time. I proposed that I work for Canna Care Docs' Delaware clinic in the meantime to provide help since they had no doctor and to later mutually assume a collegial relationship as medical marijuana clinics. This man used a different name for his email address, John Smith was the name attached to his email that contained LarryDavid1989 but his real name was Larry Einhorn… a red flag… He was very happy to have me on board. The only info I can find about him is from this article exposing their shady practices in 2014, stating him as co-owner along with Michael Maloney, their chief legal representative who later harassed me with letters threatening to sue me. Even his personal profile describes himself as "aggressive" (twice) and a "fierce litigator."
The COO of Canna Care Docs, Marta Downing, wanted me to start immediately. The following week, I started on verbal promises with the expectation that everything was clear about my conflicting interest in my own clinic. Their desperation for a doctor was evident to the point that they had me working prior to signing a contract, and they hadn't even arranged malpractice insurance for me. Which was not told to me until I asked during the job.
The facility
That Delaware Canna Care Docs clinic is located at 9 Germay drive, Wilmington Delaware. It's right across the street from a car wash that was busted for heroin large-scale distribution. As we know, the opioid epidemic and the prevalence of heroin use in the public is at a level never seen before. This road is like the red light district of Wilmington, hosting it's compassion center, the only distributor in the state that is also now trying to secured the other two distributor licenses for itself and is owned by a retired state trooper ironically. Across from that is a vape and smoke shop.
The Canna Care building had a banner hanging over it made of cheap plastic that said the clinic's name, and its logo. The facility was shared with an EMS company. Inside, it smelled of damp mildew. The room assigned to me had a desk and a patient examination table. As I saw patients I couldn't help but think about that table because it looked like an antique relic. Finally, it dawned on me what it was. It was an antique autopsy table for embalming bodies. That made me super uncomfortable.
Empty promises
The staff there were very friendly, because the office manager was on leave for half the time I was there. Maggie Berg Fauver, is also a board member of the nonprofit organization Delaware NORML. it was obvious from the moment she arrived that she was not interested in medical care but rather a factories assembly line of patient approval followed by my quick talk and signing of the Delaware medical marijuana application. I was told that I took too long speaking with patients, despite only talking for 5 to 10 minutes. It was especially unnerving how awkward and disappointed this staff was when I declined the patient who was not a candidate for medical marijuana and especially at risk of psychological side effects if started on the therapy. It was like there were no patients that should be disapproved even under my judgment and experience as a board-certified physician.
Mind you, at this point I was still on a verbal working agreement. The way I saw it, this was just a sign of my dedication to them. And I made it very clear to the co-owner that I was willing to give them the chance of hiring me if I were to receive some sort of partnership, and then I would drop my plans for my own clinic. Since nothing was signed, on my second shift I was told that I was only going to get paid for new patients, not follow-ups. Later the compensation was to receive was decreased.
Unethical Expectations
On my fourth shift there, I was already having doubts in my mind about being there and my career path in general. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I was handed a stack of patient charts, probably between 50 and 100, which had been approved for medical marijuana by Canna Care's prior cardiologist, who I have not been able to reach. My understanding is that he was fired for not complying with their requests.
Now these stacks needed my signature, which was to be on verification forms stating that it was I who signed the initial application approval, and that I had had a bona fide relationship with these patients. But I never even met or spoke to any of them. What they were asking me to do was to sign something that was false. This would be illegal. Worse, I realized those patients were not being verified (the second step of the process to get the card approved) AND they were not being told that there was no doctor at all prior to my arriving there.
By now I had learned to be politically correct in the office place so I did not decline to sign the charts but instead asked about my malpractice insurance. The company was now obviously the type of operation that would leave a doctor uninsured without knowing. My instincts were confirmed and I was told that I was indeed still uninsured. Despite having already been practicing medicine. But before starting I was told that I WAS insured and in my opinion that unethical and possibly illegal how they treated me.
So I walked out, sometime around lunchtime.
That's when I got a call from President, Kevin Kafka. He asked me to finish the day, told me I would receive a new contract that would be impossible to say no to. I spent a long time preparing for that negotiation and unfortunately after I started it by asking what his values and goals were, I was never really given any time to speak myself. What really concerned me was this guy's attitude and who he was as a person. He's a ghost online; I can't seem to find him anywhere. The way he spoke to me was like a fraternity brother, manic with greed and a mission to monopolize medical clinics for marijuana. He boasted his successes and I agreed to return the next morning after he promised to send me the new contract that evening.
Needless to say, the contract was a joke, an insult. In bold writing, all that was added was something along the lines of, "if all goes well you will be made director of X,X,and X states." I didn't go to work the next day to sign those stacks of charts. And the contract didn't arrive in my inbox until after 11 AM the following day.
Stay Tuned
Stay tuned for the next part of this story and why I think it's important given the recent events surrounding Canna Care Docs and the suspension of their physicians' licenses.
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Reforms Improve Literacy and Academic Achievement in Northeast Ohio
February 28, 2014
Franklin Elementary School in Elyria is locally notorious for its low test scores. But beginning next fall, the school will embark on a 5-year program to enact experimental education reforms.
A grant from the locally based Stocker Foundation, Franklin plans to extend the instructional day by 45 minutes, as well as increase the use of technology, incorporate more art in the classroom, raise parental involvement and implement a preschool program.
Franklin teacher and intervention specialist Cynthia Boyd said she believes that the extra time will positively impact the students' learning.
"I think they're going to do a great deal of good for our kids at Franklin," said Boyd. "Forty-five minutes is a long time to … have extra practice in reading or math or whatever skills our students really need to work on. The forty-five minutes are going to be a lot of time to work with kids that really need the extra help to get up to grade level."
Franklin's faculty has also expressed strong support for the reforms, particularly the extended school day.
"One of the really neat caveats to this is that the teachers voted overwhelmingly, at 82 percent, to extend the day," said Schloss. "We had to have a vote and they voted to extend their work day because they know it's what's best for kids. The more time on task, the more time they have to work with these children, the more prepared they're going to be."
Oberlin City School District received a $28,668 grant from the foundation [in 2010] in order to fund literacy programs such as KinderCamp, America Reads, as well as Eastwood Elementary's Read at Home and Book Buddies. The grant was among twenty others totaling over $500,000 aimed at improving literacy in Northeast Ohio.
Franklin's standardized test scores repeatedly come in below the state average. In 2013, 53 percent of third grade students were considered proficient on the math portion of the Ohio Achievement Assessments. This marks an increase from 48 percent over 2011, but scores are still well below the 78 percent state average.
Franklin also struggled on the reading portion, with only 50 percent of students reaching proficiency in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, this number improved to 64 percent.
Ann Schloss, the director of Academic Services at Elyria City School District, said that the various reforms applied to Franklin might also be implemented elsewhere around the district.
"Franklin is [the school] that has the highest need academically, so we thought this was the best place to start," said Schloss. "A lot of the things that we're going to put into place [are] in Franklin, though we will be doing bits and pieces of them all around the district. We really want to make Franklin a model school and the preschool units model preschool units. So once we have those in place, absolutely we're going to look at ways to spread that throughout the district."
Ohio's Third Grade Reading guarantee, an Ohio education reform passed in the spring of 2012, prevents students who do not score at reading proficiency level from graduating the third grade.
In order to improve scores and academic achievement, Schloss and Franklin Principal Lisa Licht, worked together to propose a set of reforms.
"Our needs … [are mainly based on] technology — incorporating it into the curriculum and getting the [students] ready for the technology that they [will] need to be prepared for later years — and better prepared students in kindergarten," said Licht. "Also, our teachers always telling us we need more time. We put everything that we set out as a need into one grant proposal."
The school currently runs a kindergarten skills clinic during the summer and, in an effort to expand this program and further prepare students for elementary school, the reform will add of two preschool units for four-year olds. Boyd said she believes that the school's twenty first century upgrades and new tech coach will take the school in a new direction.
"Technology is being more incorporated into the classroom and a lot of students that we work with don't have an opportunity to use it outside of school. These kids will be able to learn in different ways and hopefully for the better," said Boyd.
Franklin will implement these reforms through a grant they received from the Stocker Foundation, an organization that, according to their website, "aims to lessen the achievement-gap for under-resourced prekindergarten through third grade public school students by investing in programs that strengthen reading literacy."
Stocker Foundation Executive Director Patricia O'Brien said that she hopes this five-year reform program at Franklin will serve as a model for future projects.
"We'll be tracking this to see what happens over the five years and based on the results will help us to determine whether or not we will move forward in terms or replicating in Elyria or Lorain County schools or in other communities," said O'Brien.
The Stocker Foundation is an organization that "aims to lessen the achievement-gap for under-resourced prekindergarten through third grade public school students by investing in programs that strengthen reading literacy," according to it's website. Based in Elyria, the program provides grants to schools in select counties across the nation including Pima County in Arizona, King County in Washington and Connecticut's Hartford County.
The reforms require the involvement of not only school faculty, but also parents, community partners, and volunteers.
"It's going to take the entire community to make this reform work and so we are going to be asking for a lot from our community in every aspect," said Licht.


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Heesen 42.4-metre superyacht Alive has completed her sea trials.
The vessel, which boasts a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, reached an impressive top speed of 16.4 knots, exceeding the contractual speed by 0.5 knots, according to Heesen. Conditions were slight with a sea state of 70cm and 3-4 SW winds. The contractual fuel consumption prediction proved to be correct – 4,000 nautical miles at 12 knots. More than 750 miles of this comes free of charge, claims the yard, thanks to the boat's frugal fuel consumption, which is said to be 30 per cent less than on a conventional displacement yacht.
Heesen were especially excited with the speed tests because Alive is the first luxury vessel from the Oss manufacturer equipped with new Dutch design Hull Vane. A fixed foil beneath the boat's stern, Hull Vane influences the stern wave pattern and creates hydrodynamic lift, reducing resistance through the water.
Van Oossanen Naval Architects worked with Heesen on the boat's naval architecture, while Omega Architects took care of the interior and exterior styling.
With a nine-metre beam, Alive, which was launched in September, weighs 54 tons at half load and with twin MTU 12V M72 engines has a 4,000 mile range at 12 knots. She can sleep 12 and carries 10 crew including the captain. Superyacht Alive was delivered to her owners on November 4.


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Instant pots are great for anumber of things from cooking meats fast, creating flavourful soups or even whipping up a quick and easy breakfast. But you might discover over time a metallic taste within your food.
An easy to way prevent a metallic taste when cooking food in an instant pot is to make sure that the pot is clean and has no surface scratches as this can lead to the metallic taste. Make sure you are using a stainless steel pot as these are the best and less likely to produce a metallic taste.
In this article we are going to be covering the reasons you might have a metallic taste in your food, why it is happening and how to prevent it.
Why Might You Experience a Metal Taste from Food in an Instant Pot?
Generally, a stainless pot is the most common type of cookware and is widely regarded as the best material for cooking because of its non-reactive nature. This means there is no chemical reaction when you're cooking acidic foods.
Reactions occur most often in cookware made from aluminum. However, there will also be reactions in pots and pans with a low level of nickel when cooking acidic foods.
If you're using a low-percentage nickel pot and experiencing a metal-like taste in foods like lemon juice and tomatoes, it's because they have acidic contents.
The longer you leave your food in the instant pot, the more time it has to react with the metal. Even leftover food will continue to react and possibly affect the future contents of the pot.
How to Prevent Metal Taste in an Instant Pot
Of course there are ways in which you can prevent the metal taste in an instant pot. If these don't work I suggest heading back to the place you bought it or contacting the manufactuer.
Buy Quality Wares
The first important step you need to take to avoid tasting metal flavor in your meals is to buy top quality cookware or instant pot. Most stainless pots or cookware are known to contain a good percentage of chromium and nickel.
It's imperative that you purchase pans and pots with a high nickel percentage as they're less reactive and produce little or no metallic taste.
Basically, if the nickel percentage is higher than 8% then you're in the clear, but any lower and you're likely to taste metal in your foods.
Look Out for Surface Scratches
While purchasing a pot with high nickel content is a good move, you still have to ensure isn't damaged. If the surface of your pan or pot is damaged, it won't matter if it has a high nickel percentage.
You cannot be too careful about surface scratches. Although stainless pots and pans are known to be stain-resistant, they're not immune to scratches. Even the tiniest amount of scratch is enough to expose your pots to metal substances that adversely affect the taste of your meals.
Be Careful When Washing Your Pot
If you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to take action against stuck-on food particles while doing the dishes, the best course of action is to dip your pot in hot and soapy water to soften the stranglehold of the food.
This method will ensure you don't have to scrub too hard and scratch the surface of your pot.
When washing your pots, it's best to do so with mild dish detergent and a soft cloth. Using abrasive sponges and detergents will further increase the risk of scratching the surface of your pots. You should also be careful, when using your stainless spoons, not to leave scratches on your cooking pot.
Mineral buildups from your water is another hazard to worry about. This may seem a long stretch, but it might be best to wash your pots with distilled water.
Wash Your Pot On Time
You need to avoid leaving your food in the pan after cooking to reduce the time your pan has to react with the metal. Washing your pan and pots immediately is another way to remove any leftover acidic contents.
Another important point to note is to always wash and dry your pots and cookware immediately after purchase. A metallic taste is likely to be present in new cookware regardless of its quality.
This is because cookwares are cleaned and polished before they're packaged and shipped out to retail stores. There's a good chance that metallic taste particles are still lingering around because of the cleaning process.
Avoid Cooking Acidic Foods in Your Instant Pot
The stainless steel in an instant pot tends to react with foods of an acidic nature. I'm talking about your regular vinegar, tomato, as well as lemons and their juices. The more you cook these foods, the more the instant pot contaminates your meals with metal. Hence, you shouldn't use an instant pot for such items.
Try to use vegetable or canola cooking oil in food preparation. These oils are known to fill the microscopic pits in your pots. That will create some sort of fence between stainless steel and food.
If you think it's normal or "okay" for your meals to keep having a metallic taste, you couldn't be more wrong.
Here's a list of some of the foods that could develop a metallic taste when cooked in an instant pot:
- Tomato sauce
- Vinegar
- Table salt
- Citrus juice
- Lemon juice
Ways To Prevent Scratches When Cleaning Your Instant Pot
There are 5 basic rules to follow when it comes to preventing scratches when you clean your pots and pans.
1. Maintain Room Temperature
Ensure your pan is under a stable room temperature condition before dipping it in water. Sudden temperature changes are not good for cookware and can significantly damage your pot or pan.
2. No Abrasive Materials
You shouldn't do your dishes using bleach, steel wool, or other abrasive materials since they can scratch your stainless steel pot easily.
3. Wash Your Pot On Time
You need to avoid leaving your food in the pan after cooking to reduce the time your pan has to react with the metal.
Washing your pan and pots immediately is another way to remove any leftover acidic contents. It's perhaps most effective to clean your pan while it's still warm because it will make your life a lot easier. Don't give the dirt and grease a chance to build up in the first place.
4. Avoid Scrubbing Your Pan While It's Hot
It has to be warm and should be done using soap and an ordinary sponge. Nothing too thick. However, if it's really dirty because you haven't washed it for ages, you may use baking soda.
I say baking soda because it's cost-friendly and there's a high chance it's already in your home. Moreover, baking soda clings to grease and makes scrubbing of dirt a lot easier. Remember not to let the baking soda dry out before you scrub off.
5. Bring On The Heat Only As A Last Resort
For stubborn and extreme dirt, you have to boil your pot, literally. Yes, you have to dip your pan in a larger pot and add water and baking soda.
After it's done boiling, you can take your pan out while it's hot and scrub away all dirt comfortably.
How To Remove Scratches From An Instant Pot
While it's a strong option to stop using or throw out pots with scratches, having an instant pot with a few scratches doesn't render it completely irredeemable. There are ways to successfully remove these scratches without having to purchase a new pot.
The most notable way to eliminate a scratch from your pot is by using scrotchbite. You carefully rub the pad on your pan following the grain of the metal. Ensure you don't rub it against the grain because that can lead to a more noticeable scratch.
As soon as the scratch becomes less visible, use a microfiber cloth to polish the area. Another option is to use a stainless steel lubricant to give it a dazzling, shiny look.
What to Do When You Taste Metal in Your Food
Like I said earlier, the first step is to ascertain that the metallic taste is indeed from the food. Try drinking water and see if a strong metallic taste persists. If it washes off with the water, the problem may be from the food and its preparation with an instant pot.
You may not need to throw out the entire meal because the metallic concentration is quite negligible and shouldn't harm you.
However, rectify the problem ASAP by using any of the preventive measures I mentioned earlier in this post. The sooner you take these steps the sooner you can return to enjoying the flavors in your meals.
Hi all! I'm Cora Benson, and I've been blogging about food, recipes and things that happen in my kitchen since 2019.


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Luz Coronado
Luz has been not only a long time seamstress for our group, but a corroborating designer of many of our costumes. We are so thankful for her immense talent and dedication to our group!
Isabel, the owner of Crafts by Isas, sponsors an Alma Latina dancer every year. Providing that dancer an opportunity to grow and explore their culture and art through folklorico dance. Isabel's daughter danced many years in the group until she went away to college. We are so thankful to have her continued support!


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We are in a world where everyone is searching the Internet on how to make a side income. But, what if we took up washing cars and other manual labor jobs to earn on the side, as we did in the old-fashioned way?
Is it a feasible side hustle? Can one make a decent income from this kind of business? The answer is a big Yes! However, building and coming up with this business idea goes beyond registering it and getting certificates.
Let's read on and find out more, as the following insights will help you get an idea of how much money you can make washing cars.
Costs Associated with Washing Cars
The important question is, how much do you need to invest to start a car-washing side gig? Well, you do not have to go all out with this business; you can begin with the fundamentals: soap, car shampoo, water, and a bucket. However, if you wish to provide more premium services, you might have to invest in more supplies.
Such supplies will cost from $20 to $100, depending on the brand. The good news is that if you start small, you might have to cut on these costs. Insurance is something you shouldn't forget, either, as your business starts. It's essential to know the risks associated with your business. What if you accidentally put a dent in a car while washing it? Are you financially prepared to pay for it? If not, insurance will be your savior here.
How Much Can You Make with a Car-Washing Business?
As long as you are offering quality services, be sure to get return clients. So, if a client is impressed, the chances are high that they will come back again. Aside from that, the best way to run your business is by setting up a starting price.
For instance, if you charge $15 for a basic wash and you get 10 clients in a month, that could be enough to pay your water bills and buy more supplies. The amount you earn highly depends on how many clients you will be able to attract to your business and how motivated you are towards your work.
Attracting Customers to Your Business
You have your business idea in a plan, business plan check, and have identified a location; the next thing to do is to find clients. So, how can you attract customers to your company?
Door to door kind of advertising and even offering discounts are some of the best ways to advertise your business. However, you need to have excellent interpersonal and marketing skills. Start with people within your area and convince them of how good you are at what you do. Offer a first wash for free and give it your best. After that, you can also offer discounts if they sign up for monthly washes, for instance.
Spread your ideas by word of mouth and put up flyers. This kind of advertising has worked for so many businesses that are still flourishing. Do you know people who own cars? Let them know about your business and give them your card. Do not sound pushy or desperate; let them know how you will offer great deals and fantastic work.
The business of washing cars is one of the most old-fashioned yet profitable businesses around. As long as you are focused and determined, this business will earn you a decent paycheck on the side. As a pro tip, ensure you are in good health and physically fit before you start. You want to be able to work on all levels.
Also read – How To Become A Tow Truck Driver


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How do you discover new music? Here at Music Feeds, we've been trying to dream up a meaningful way to bring to your attention some of the incredibly talented artists who fill our inboxes with new music every day to the fans who'll appreciate them most.
Enter 'For Fans Of': a new snack-sized series serving as your gateway drug to the freshest new music hitting the airwaves, Soundclouds and YouTubes. Engineered to smack your eardrums right in the sweet spot.
Check out today's 'For Fans Of' feature artist below.
Feature Artist: Destiny Rogers
For Fans Of: SZA, Khalid, Kehlani, Alicia Keys
Hometown: Lodi, California
Genre: Hip Hop/Pop/RnB
The 411:
Coming from Lodi in California, Destiny Rogers is a young, up and coming artist with huge RnB, hip hop, and poppy vibes.
Everything about Rogers is chill. From her skater look to her sound, and her vibe in general. She has a new EP out now. It's called Great Escape and it follows up her 2019 EP Tomboy.
Destiny Rogers has supported Ruel on his North American tour and played on Tyler the Creator's Camp Flow Gnaw lineup.
Live Dates:
Pending the end of the global pandemic.
Our Review:
Destiny Rogers manages to combine really fun energy with chill AF beats — especially on tracks like 'Kickin' Pushin". It's the perfect mix of vibes to accentuate her effortlessly catchy lyrics alongside her vocals. You can stream her latest EP, here.


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Every instrument has beauty. The beauty of materials. The beauty of shape.
In order to resonate the sound beautifully, in order to image a beautiful sound.
Beauty in electronic musical instruments.
A musical instrument has richness. There will be fun following practice period.
What is more important than the quantity of functions or sounds is the quality of the musical instrument.
Quality over number.
There is no musical instrument that everyone loves. Because people have different preferences and sensibilities.
Musical instruments without middle-of-the-road approach,
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Weddings are celebratory and memorable days in any culture.
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For Albanians, tradition has had a special place in weddings for centuries, and the Albanian couple's wedding is a community affair and everyone's involved!
Here are 9 Albanian Wedding Traditions to lookout for.
Weddings Last A Whole Week
That's right. This isn't a one-day affair with the party ending at midnight. Nacional Albania tells us the traditional Albanian wedding starts seven days before the actual ceremony. Think guests singing and dancing along and a "party that involves the whole village." The bride's celebrations are usually held on Wednesday or Saturday, and the groom the day after. Alaturka Cultural and Travel Portal says the future bride receives a gold coin as a sign of the engagement. The bride will receive gifts and sweets from participating guests followed by a second celebration at the groom's house where sugar-coated almonds are exchanged. The wedding gown, dowry and groom's gifts are also shown at some point during the week!
Via alaturka.info
Brides Cry
Weddings are an emotional rollercoaster and this is no exception at Albanian weddings. The bride leaving her family's home en route to the new chapter in her life is a moving moment. Nacional Albania says that the bride and her family share tears of sadness (and joy) before meeting her groom.
The Flowers To The Bride
The youngest boy from the groom's family carries a bouquet of flowers to give to the bride. The national flower of Albania is the poppy, which is becoming increasing popular as the bouquet of choice for a quirky homage to heritage.
Firing Guns For The Bride's Arrival
Albanian Weddings fire shots when the bride arrives at the groom's house. This is to signal the joy of the moment, and also because the wedding is seen as a kind of victory.
In Western weddings, we focus so much on the bridesmaids that we're guilty of neglecting the groomsmen (krushqit)! That's not the case in Albanian weddings though. Nacional Albania tells us that they accompany the groom to take the bride from her family's home on the day of their wedding. The first groomsman is often the groom's uncle followed by a party of over 10 people singing and dancing! Getting to the bride's house means line-ups of decorated cars, the main car for the couple and the second holding the Albanian flag.
Via alaturka.info
Bride's Dowry
It is Albanian tradition that the bride brings her dowry to the groom's house. Nacional Albania tells us the dowry does not include money, instead it contains presents to all the groom's relatives, various embroidery, pillows, blankets, carpets and furniture. This tradition does vary from region to region. Don't worry though, it's not all gifts to the groom and his family – he too sends the bride and her family gifts and money including gold jewellery, watches and clothes for all four seasons!
Eating Honey and Bread
The groom's mother stands at the door of the house waiting for the bride to give her honey and bread to eat. This Albanian wedding tradition is performed to wish the relationship be sweet as the honey. We think it's meant to bee.
Placing Money Under The Bride's Sandals
According to Nacional Albania, a little boy waits to take off the bride's sandals when she enters her new home. After finding money that has been deliberately put under the sandals, the little boy will sit on the bride's lap in hopes of having male children.
Traditional Dance And A Whole Lot Of Money
The wedding ceremony involves a traditional Albanian bride-groom dance and all the family and friends get involved. In modern lingo, the guests make it rain on the bride and groom by throwing bank notes on them. What's the Albanian equivalent of Benjamins? We want them causing a flood at our wedding.
Cover image by Blerta Berisha Photography
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Insituform Shares Got Crushed: What You Need to Know
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of pipeline rehabilitator Insituform Technologies (NAS: INSU) fell another 14% today after being hit hard yesterday.
So what: Yesterday the stock fell on lowered guidance, and today analysts piled on with their own downgrades. Wedbush Securities cut the stock from outperform to neutral after yesterday's disappointment.
Now what: The lower guidance was bad news, but I would brush off this downgrade today. If the company hits the high end of the updated guidance for 2011, shares are trading at 11.5 times earnings, a reasonable value given the company's improved flexibility. I wasn't panicking yesterday and (deep breath) I'm still not panicking today over the move. Short term, the stock may come under pressure, but long term, the business is still solidly profitable.
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The literature on the association of intracranial aneurysms in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) consists mainly of case reports and small series of patients. To provide a more-detailed description of this association and its frequency, the records of all ADPKD patients with saccular intracranial aneurysms, all ADPKD autopsy cases including brain examination, and sex- and age-matched autopsy cases without ADPKD seen at the Mayo Clinic between 1950 and 1989 and of all Rochester residents with a diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage or ADPKD between 1945 and 1984 were reviewed. The presentation of the 41 patients (22 men and 19 women; mean age, 46.4 yr) with this association was subarachnoid hemorrhage in 33, transient ischemic attacks in 2, incidental angiographic or autopsy finding in 5, and discovery during angiographic screening in 1. Thirty-one, seven, and three patients harbored one, two, and three aneurysms, respectively, arising from the middle cerebral artery (N = 23), anterior communicating artery (N = 16), internal carotid artery (N = 11), and vertebral or basilar artery (N = 4). A family history of intracranial aneurysm, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or intracranial hemorrhage at an early age was present in 22% of the patients. Small aneurysms (<5 mm) were less likely to have ruptured or caused symptoms (P <0.04). There was a trend for hypertension to be associated with the severity of the subarachnoid hemorrhage. Aneurysmal rupture occurred before age 50 in 64% of patients. Of the 89 ADPKD autopsy cases with brain examination, 22.5% had intracranial aneurysms. Intact aneurysms, however, were found in only 4.2% of patients who died from causes other than aneurysmal rupture, which was not different from 2.1% in the control group. No clinical features useful in the identification of patients at risk for developing an intracranial aneurysm were detected. ADPKD was diagnosed in 1.7% of the 120 cases of verified aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in Rochester residents. The findings suggest that (1) intact intracranial aneurysms in ADPKD are less common than appears from the literature, (2) aneurysmal size correlates with the presence of symptoms and the risk of bleeding, and (3) aneurysms may rupture more often and at a younger age as compared with sporadic aneurysms.
Original language | English (US) |
Pages (from-to) | 88-95 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - Jul 1992 |
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine


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Twitter isn't ephemeral—each tweet is etched into the Internet ether as soon as you send it out. But sometimes it feels like tweets disappear, thanks to Twitter's historically awful search function.
That's all about to change. On Tuesday, Twitter announced it's indexing every tweet ever sent since 2006, which means everyone's tweet history is now searchable on Twitter proper. Previously, the only way to find old tweets was to use services like Apple-owned Topsy, Tweet Machine, or Snapbird.
The search feature was a massively technical undertaking, which began all the way back in 2012. Because of the huge amount of information and data that's produced on Twitter each day, the company had to figure out how to scale the search infrastructure to aggregate Twitter's history without using expensive RAM, or memory, and create an interface that thinks about all the separate data chunks (like tweets and engagements) as one endpoint.
According to a profile of Twitter's search indexing team in Wired, the guys behind the undertaking initially asked themselves if it was even possible—the hard part would be not only scraping the entire history of tweets, but also including the millions of tweets sent each day.
Twitter's new search feature can comb through half a trillion documents and display tweets and data in less than one second.
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By Brian Richards | News Stories | April 17, 2018 |
By Brian Richards | News Stories | April 17, 2018 |
Last Thursday in the Michigan area, Jeff Zeigler, a 53-year-old retired firefighter, heard his wife yelling at the front door of their home as she demanded to know who was attempting to break in. Upon hearing this, Jeff immediately responded by retrieving his shotgun and heading downstairs to the front door to fire a gunshot in the direction of the supposed intruder.
The person who was supposedly breaking into the home of Jeff Zeigler and his wife? The person who had the two of them fearing for their lives as if Jack Torrance was taking an ax to their front door with every intention of using it to chop them both into pieces?
That person was Brennan Walker, a fourteen-year-old African-American student at Rochester High School in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
The only thing that Brennan had actually done to terrify and infuriate Zeigler and his wife was knock on their door and ask for directions on how to get to his school because he had missed his bus and his cell phone had been confiscated by his mother. From Buzzfeed News:
…After [Brennan] knocked on the door, the woman began yelling at him and accusing him of breaking into her house before he could say anything."I was trying to explain to her that I wanted to get directions to go to my school," Brennan said. "I told her, 'No, I go to Rochester High, I'm just looking for directions to Rochester High.'"
Brennan said he put his hands up and began to run after he saw the man in the house holding a shotgun.
"I looked back behind me, I saw him aiming at me, and I turned back. I turned back and I heard the gunshot. And I tried to run faster," the teen told WXYZ.
Brennan's mother, Lisa Wright, told local TV stations that a security video at the suspect's house recorded the interaction between her son and the homeowners. She said that the woman in the video could be heard saying, "Why did these people choose my house?"
"After watching the video and hearing the wife say, 'Why did these people choose my house,' I knew it was racially motivated," Wright told WXYZ. She also described it as a hate crime.
Prosecutors said Friday that the home security video supported Walker's version of events.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard called the incident "unacceptable on every level."
"It is just absurd that this happened," Bouchard told Fox 2 News. "I feel terrible for the young man; I feel terrible for the mom and the anxiety that they had to go through. We are going to ask for every charge permissible for this guy, who stepped up and fired a shotgun because someone knocked on his door."
From Huffington Post Black Voices:
"My mom says that black boys get shot because sometimes they don't look their age, and I don't look my age. I'm 14, but I don't look 14. I'm kind of happy that, like, I didn't become a statistic," said Brennan.
Zeigler was arrested and taken into custody at Oakland County Jail, where bail was set at $50,000. Despite being placed on GPS monitoring and forbidden from being within ten miles of Brennan and his family, he remained insistent that he was in the right for how he responded. Said Zeigler to the court during his arraignment:
"…[There's] a lot more to this story than what's being told…I believe that will come out in court."
If the details in this story about what happened to Brennan Walker and how he nearly lost his life all because he had the audacity to ask someone in his neighborhood for help sound both awful and awfully familiar, it's probably because a similar situation happened not too long ago that ended a lot more horribly.
On November 2, 2013, a 19-year-old African-American woman named Renisha McBride was driving through the predominantly White and middle-class Detroit neighborhood of Dearborn Heights at around 4 AM and ended up crashing her car. When she exited her vehicle, Renisha approached the home of Theodore Wafer, a 54-year-old White airport maintenance worker, and knocked on his front door to request some assistance. Wafer, believing that Renisha was trying to break into his home, took his 12-gauge shotgun and fired at her through the screen door, killing her with a single shot to the face, though he would later claim that the shooting was accidental. Wafer would then go on to be prosecuted for second-degree murder, manslaughter, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The following year, he was found guilty of all three charges and Wafer was sentenced to seventeen to thirty-two years in prison, fifteen to thirty years for second-degree murder, and two years for the felony firearms charge.
This is a fate that could have easily befallen Brennan Walker as well. All because he missed his bus to school and knocked on someone's door to ask for help.
Naturally, once the news broke on social media, there was no holding back on how furious so many people were about this:
Dear fellow white people:
— Alexandra Zafris (@AlexandraZafris) April 14, 2018
This is what a 14-year-old child looks like. His name is Brennan Walker. If he asks you for directions to school, all you have to do is say "good morning, let me google that for you." No need to attempt to murder him.
That's all for today pic.twitter.com/oFt7Khh9X5
To be black in America is to never be able to have your presence be benign, and to always be in danger, of unease, humiliation or even arrest (or death by arrest) because of it. That's what racism is, in a nutshell. https://t.co/sK1ct8PbFi
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 14, 2018
Every time I look at this story I think about the umpteen ways we make sure our kids know where they are going & how we don't take their phones away when they are going to be outside the house & I just wish people knew how much goes into parenting while Black because of fear https://t.co/As85QAu4Ts
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) April 14, 2018
The man who shot at the 14-year-old is a 53-year-old retired Detroit firefighter. A good guy with a gun, right @NRA?
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 13, 2018
An interesting fact about the 53 year old retired white firefighter shooting at that kid is that he worked in Detroit. Someone like that retired from "protecting" and "saving" citizens in the Blackest city in the country.
— Allowicious Beefsteak (@OG_Humble_One) April 14, 2018
Once a young black teen boy like Brennan Walker came to our door in Detroit. He had found my toddler baby brother who had wandered outside by opening the screen door unbeknownst to us, & picked him up, going door to door to find his family. We were so thankful he did that for us. https://t.co/COnJma3cVK
— Cindy Pika Chu (@iamcindychu) April 13, 2018
This having happened in Michigan, and in Rochester Hills, sadly doesn't surprise me. My friends who are mothers of black boys fear for their lives constantly. Why are white people so scared of our Black brothers and sisters? Of children!?! This is why we kneel. #BlackLivesMatter
— Cindy Pika Chu (@iamcindychu) April 13, 2018
As if that particular catastrofuck wasn't enough to make Black people fear for their safety and their lives (more so than usual, anyway) as well as feel infuriated for having to feel this way in the first place, another incident recently occurred that grabbed everyone's attention once it was posted on social media:
@Starbucks The police were called because these men hadn't ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it's never happened to us when we do the same thing. pic.twitter.com/0U4Pzs55Ci
— Melissa DePino (@missydepino) April 12, 2018
I just heard they were released at 130am last night. They are real estate brokers and were at Starbucks to meet their family friend. That's all I have for now.
— Melissa DePino (@missydepino) April 13, 2018
Ever since I posted this, I've had white strangers AND friends say "there must be something more to this story." That assumption is a big part of the problem. It does happen. All the time. Just not to you and me. Believe it and speak up.
— Melissa DePino (@missydepino) April 13, 2018
The only way they did nothing wrong is if they see their job as arresting black men who have committed no crime, which… well… I'll let you do the rest. https://t.co/lKK2vfMpUt
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) April 14, 2018
The two African-American men who were placed under arrest and removed from that Starbucks were waiting for their friend/business associate to arrive and meet up with them. But because they hadn't ordered anything and were simply sitting in that Starbucks, the manager wanted them to leave and contacted actual police officers to make that happen. Despite the fact that the two African-American men had neither said anything or did anything disruptive to merit such a response from the manager. Despite the fact that it's a well-known fact that in almost any Starbucks you walk into, the majority of people seated inside that Starbucks aren't doing anything and haven't ordered anything from the Starbucks employees to eat or drink. Despite the fact that such behavior from "customers" at Starbucks (and most other coffee shops) merited this article to be written and published by the New York Times earlier this year. Despite the fact that such behavior in Starbucks has become so notorious and widespread that even Family Guy touched upon it back in 2007 with this scene here:
It didn't take very long for Starbucks to try and put this particular fire out…
We apologize to the two individuals and our customers for what took place at our Philadelphia store on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/suUsytXHks
— Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) April 14, 2018
We regret that our practices and training led to the reprehensible outcome at our Philadelphia store. We're taking immediate action to learn from this and be better. A statement from ceo Kevin Johnson: https://t.co/kPav8bEeOX
— Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) April 15, 2018
…Even though they weren't very successful in doing so and simply reminded many people why their business wasn't worth frequenting in the first place, resulting in the hashtag #BoycottStarbucks being put to use by Twitter, as well as people suggesting other and better alternatives for coffee shops and cafes far more deserving of business and support.
The irony of the #Starbucks incident in Philly:
— M (dot) Brooks™ (@TheREAL_MBrooks) April 14, 2018
Remembering the #Racetogether campaign that wanted their baristas to randomly talk about race to customers.
Two black men were arrested in a Starbucks for the crime of waiting for their friend to show up.
— JRehling (@JRehling) April 14, 2018
It's a good thing they weren't holding anything or the police would have had to use deadly force.#BoycottStarbucks
I am 100% confident that as a white man in America, I could go to any coffeeshop and sit for two hours without ordering anything and the police would not be called. 100%.#BoycottStarbucks
— JRehling (@JRehling) April 14, 2018
1. Is the employee who called police being held accountable?
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 14, 2018
2. Is @Starbucks doing anything substantive to make amends to the two people who were arrested?
3. Will @Starbucks use its platform/resources to encourage systemic change in policing? https://t.co/pKKG6Q98cC
White people: watch the Starbucks arrest video. See the white folks arguing with the police and asking why two innocent black men were being arrested? THIS is how you use your privilege. Because if one of us had said something we'd get arrested too.
— Chris Evans 🩠(@notcapnamerica) April 14, 2018
To be black in America is to never be able to have your presence be benign, and to always be in danger, of unease, humiliation or even arrest (or death by arrest) because of it. That's what racism is, in a nutshell. https://t.co/sK1ct8PbFi
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 14, 2018
My dad sits around Starbucks for hours and nobody says a word to him about it.
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) April 15, 2018
He's a 69 year old white man, so that might have something to do with it.#BoycottStarbucks
The two black men arrested at Starbucks:
— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) April 14, 2018
-Asked to use the bathroom
-Were told it was for paying customers only
-Waited for their friend to show up
-Were confronted by police
-Politely asked why they were being told to leave
-Were taken away in handcuffs
And then there's this: https://t.co/PvyGQPTem6
You know what's interesting in the Starbucks story? All these white people admitting they loiter in Starbucks without buying anything all day, all the time. Who raised you??
— Louisa 🌹ðŸžðŸŒ¹ (@LouisatheLast) April 16, 2018
You guys have issued more heartfelt apologies for being out of scones & almond milk. The barista in question needs to be terminated, these gentleman need to be compensated, and there needs to be company wide diversity training. #BoycottStarbucks #BlackLivesMatters https://t.co/3zcObeDHiM
— Elgin Charles (@ElginCharles) April 14, 2018
I hope that more than just an apology, @Starbucks will use its platform to generate conversations about this. Why is it so ridiculously easy to call cops on blk men? Or shoot at a 14 year old who's knocking on a door. https://t.co/RL1hJR1IFL
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 14, 2018
"Our store manager never intended for these men to be arrested"
— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) April 15, 2018
They could have been killed.
Since few PDs have bothered to change their training to reduce implicit (or overt) bias, DO NOT CALL THE POLICE ON BLACK PEOPLE UNLESS YOU WANT THEM TO POSSIBLY BE KILLED. https://t.co/IpvOcArDpa
The Starbucks employee who called the cops put those men's lives in danger. Any time you call the police on a black person, you put their lives in danger. Any business that endangers its customers deserves no business.
— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) April 14, 2018
I hope the Philly Starbucks incident helps all of us acknowledge this fact:
— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) April 14, 2018
If you're a person of privilege, you need to learn to see it.
And we need to ask ourselves how to be better allies when it happens.#BlackLivesMatter
White people: when you call the police to deal with a Black person you are putting that Black life at risk. I've seen police called in too many small situations by Whites who don't know the danger they are invoking. Once police come, a small situation can escalate to Black death.
— Touré (@Toure) April 15, 2018
Next time I walk by Starbucks (because I'm never going in again) and I see white people without drinks in their hands I'm calling the cops. #BoycottStarbucks
— BurnDog (@BurnDog10) April 14, 2018
47 Black Owned Coffee and Tea Businesses That are Great Alternatives to Starbucks https://t.co/3Z3DkcWOPx
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) April 14, 2018
At 22 years old, I became part owner and Bo$$ of Village Coffee House in Little 5 Points in ATL. we black owned, black women owned all dat. Moms opened the shop when I was 3, now she calling me the boss. follow us and come see us. New changes OTW. 💛 #BlackOwnedBusinesses #ATL pic.twitter.com/NHc0gqBGvV
— Maraki Lotto (@rakilotto) April 3, 2018
Red Bay Coffee Roasters in Oakland @redbaycoffee is an excellent alternative to Starbucks. A company I am engaged with as we bring a store to Richmond CA. African American owned with respect for the community Starbucks has offended. #BoycottStarbucks
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) April 14, 2018
This particular tweet came from Okieriete "Oak" Onaodowan, who played Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in Hamilton, and who knows a little something about being a Black man who has to publicly deal with questionable behavior from others:
— The Incredible Oak (@OakSmash) April 16, 2018
As the protests against Starbucks, and against this specific Starbucks in the Philadelphia area where the arrests took place, grew in numbers as well as volume…
Protesters gathered outside and in at the Starbucks at 18th and Spruce in Philadelphia, where two African-American men were arrested on Thursday. Starbucks CEO wants to apologize to the men 'face to face' for the 'reprehensible outcome.' https://t.co/WPs1ZPd5jG pic.twitter.com/1SKyuVolXm
— Philly.com (@phillydotcom) April 15, 2018
Big mass of people led by the interfaith group Power are now entering the Philly @Starbucks not to buy anything but just to sit and wait for the next round of protests later on tonight. No police have entered with them yet. pic.twitter.com/s0hmxcHFbX
— Evan Birnholz (@evanbirnholz) April 16, 2018
At the Starbucks protest. The entire shop is filled with activists. The speaker here is emphasizing the problem of stop-and-frisk in #Philly is one of the sources of tension between the police and communities. #WaitingWhileBlack pic.twitter.com/1k8JHySjmS
— Waqar Vick Rehman (@WaqarVick) April 16, 2018
…it became even more clear that something had to be done to keep Starbucks from losing further profits to bring calm to the African-American community in Philadelphia. Kevin Johnson, the CEO of Starbucks announced that he had arranged a meeting with the two men who were arrested so that they could sit down and discuss their thoughts with one another in further detail.
He also appeared on Good Morning America for an interview with Robin Roberts in which he apologized for everything that had happened:
FULL INTERVIEW: "I personally apologize…" Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson one-on-one with @RobinRoberts in his first interview after two black men were handcuffed at a Philadelphia store.
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 16, 2018
FULL STORY: https://t.co/4CL5j2lPL7 pic.twitter.com/AVnguPqAxa
And then the news broke that the manager of that Starbucks who had originally contacted the police to have the two men removed from the store and taken into custody was no longer employed at that store. Though, there were some protesters who had questioned as to whether the manager's employment was terminated entirely or whether she was simply transferred to another location.
As horrible as both of these incidents are, it says a lot that we have to breathe a sigh of relief over the fact that neither of them escalated and ended with either Brennan Walker or the two African-American men losing their lives as a result of what happened to them. That Ziegler's shot didn't connect and that the two men in Philadelphia didn't end up being killed while taken into police custody. Because situations just like these have ended just like that, or even worse. And the names end up becoming hashtags, and numerous articles end up being written about them, and some of the people who write such articles can't be bothered to recognize the humanity in who they write about, and would rather point out that the recently deceased was "no angel" and that we should side with those who give us yet another reason on an increasingly long list of reasons to say that Black Lives Matter.
Because Black lives do matter. They always have. They always will. And as much as we can breathe a sigh of relief over the fact that Brennan Walker and the two African-American men in Philadelphia are still alive, it doesn't change the fact that reminding the rest of the world (even with another post like this, as this is not the first time I've written about it and I unfortunately suspect it won't be the last) that Black Lives Matter has become an absolute necessity. Because of Renisha McBride. Because of Alton Sterling. Because of Philando Castile. Because of Sandra Bland. Because of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Because of Freddie Gray. Because of Michael Brown. Because of Korryn Gaines. Because of Rekia Boyd. Because of Walter Scott. Because of Tamir Rice. Because of Tanisha Anderson. Because of Eric Garner. Because of John Crawford III. Because of Stephon Clark. And because of the countless others whose names and stories we don't know anything about.
Because when stories such as these about Black people become public knowledge, there are too many people who immediately feel the need to ask what these Black people did to deserve death and mistreatment, and immediately feel the need to assume that they could've and should've done more to avoid such a fate.
When your first response to such stories is to ask questions and make assumptions such as those, you're saying to the rest of the world that you don't think that Black lives actually do matter. Not as much as your life and the lives of those who look like you. And you're saying it to others who are willing to prove, in both word and deed, that they completely agree with you.
The fact that we still have to tell these people and tell the rest of the world over and over and over again that they're wrong, and that Black lives do matter, whether they want to hear it or not?
That really is some bullshit.


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What does the tango dance symbolize?
In the 40's and 50's Tango music became a symbol if physical solidarity in Argentina. Everyone in who was in good physical shape danced the Tango, and people used the Tango to stay fit. Tango was basically a part of the daily lives of Argentieans until 1952 and the death of Evita, the wife of the president.
Why was the tango banned?
When tango first emerged, the church banned it because it was the music of the immoral factions of society. It was no longer banned when the coup of 1930 occurred, but there was censorship of lyrics that supported populist ideas and used lunfardo, the slang of the working classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
What is the real type of tango?
Argentine tango is the root of all types of tango. It contains all the elements of the tango danced by European and African immigrants in 19th century Buenos Aires, including a flexible embrace, dramatic postures, and a ton a sensuality.
Is tango the dance of love?
"The tango is seen as the music of passionate love.
Where is the tango most popular?
Is Tango difficult to learn?
At first when you start to learn Argentine Tango it's very hard, then it becomes interesting and exciting. It takes some patience and commitment before you can start to appreciate where that hard work is going. People who do have an athletic or dance background are usually surprised at how challenging tango is.
What is the hardest dance to learn?
The Most Difficult Dances in the World – Shall we dance?Ballet en Pointe. The Pointe technique in classical ballet is perhaps one of the most difficult moves to execute. Synchronized swimming. This is indeed difficult simply because it entails more than just a simple dance. Capoeira. Aerial Dance. Can-can. Sayaw sa Bangko (Dance on top of a Bench).
What do you wear to tango?
What should I wear for tango? For class and práctica: Wear comfortable clothes that let you move. Flowing skirts or capri pants are a good option for women. Depending on the milonga, men may either wear a suit and tie or dress slacks and a collared shirt.
Can you learn tango by yourself?
Learning to tango is not easy and requires the right skills and teacher. But the basics can be learned on your own, and you can start learning by yourself. With a little practice, you can master this elegant and romantic dance. Once you've got it down, you could even teach it to others as well!
How do dance with tango for beginners?
13:31Suggested clip 75 secondsWorkshop – How to do Basic Tango for Beginners | Ballroom Dance …YouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clip
Is Tango and Salsa the same?
Tango and salsa are easily distinguishable from one another. If a couple appears to be gliding across the floor in an intimate and sensual embrace, that's tango. Salsa, on the other hand, is more of a party, open kind of dance where there's a lot of spinning and hip wiggling.
How many steps are in tango?
five steps
What is a female tango dancer called?
What is a boleo?
The boleo is an embellishment caused by the 'whip' action of the follower, executed when an ocho is quickly reversed in the middle. The follower's free foot is thrown to the side and wraps around her leg at the knee.
Who is the best tango dancer?
An Argentinian couple have won the Tango World Championships which were staged in Buenos Aires. Max Van de Voord and Solange Acosta wowed the judges with their performance and beat 19 other couples to the title.
What is the most famous tango?
La Cumparsita
Why is tango so popular?
Tango is one of the most famous and influential dances in the world. Originating in Buenos Aires in the 18th century, tango brought together working class European immigrants, indigenous Argentinians and former slaves. As a result, tango has shaped Argentinian culture and society.
What country dances the tango?
What country is famous for the dance mambo?
What is a tango rhythm?
Tango has two distinct accompanimental rhythms: marcato and síncopa. The most basic marcato in four literally marks the beat. Síncopa is an off-beat pattern that includes a number of variations. 1-4, with marcato piano accompaniment arrangement. "El choclo" by Ángel Villoldo (1861–1919), mm.


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3.3: Covalent Bonds
- Page ID
- 209977
Learning Objectives
- Define covalent bond.
- Illustrate covalent bond formation with Lewis electron dot diagrams.
When valence electrons are shared between two atoms, they make a bond called a covalent bond. The driving force behind bond formation is stability - a lower potential energy state. There is a continuum of bonding between covalent bonds and ionic bonds (discussed in detail in Section 4.4) Let us illustrate a covalent bond by using H atoms, with the understanding that H atoms need only two electrons to fill the 1s subshell. Each H atom starts with a single electron in its valence shell:
\[\mathbf{H\, \cdot }\; \; \; \; \; \mathbf{\cdot \: H}\]
The two H atoms can share their electrons:
\[\mathbf{H}\: \mathbf{: H}\]
We can use circles to show that each H atom has two electrons around the nucleus, completely filling each atom's valence shell:
Because each H atom has a filled valence shell, this bond is stable, and we have made a diatomic hydrogen molecule. (This explains why hydrogen is one of the diatomic elements.) The shared pair of electrons is represented as a dash between the two atoms. It is possible for the same two atoms to share two pairs of electrons forming a double covalent bond or three pairs of electrons forming a triple covalent bond.
Because two atoms are sharing one pair of electrons, this covalent bond is called a single bond. As another example, consider fluorine. F atoms have seven electrons in their valence shell:
These two atoms can do the same thing that the H atoms did; they share their unpaired electrons to make a covalent bond.
Note that each F atom has a complete octet around it now:
We can also write this using a dash to represent the shared electron pair:
There are two different types of electrons in the fluorine diatomic molecule. The bonding electron pair makes the covalent bond. Each F atom has three other pairs of electrons that do not participate in the bonding; they are called lone pair electrons. Each F atom has one bonding pair and three lone pairs of electrons.
Covalent bonds can be made between different elements as well. One example is HF. Each atom starts out with an odd number of electrons in its valence shell:
The two atoms can share their unpaired electrons to make a covalent bond:
We note that the H atom has a full valence shell with two electrons, while the F atom has a complete octet of electrons.
Example \(\PageIndex{1}\):
Use Lewis electron dot diagrams to illustrate the covalent bond formation in HBr.
HBr is very similar to HF, except that it has Br instead of F. The atoms are as follows:
The two atoms can share their unpaired electron:
Exercise \(\PageIndex{1}\)
Use Lewis electron dot diagrams to illustrate the covalent bond formation in Cl2.
- Answer
When working with covalent structures, it sometimes looks like you have leftover electrons. You apply the rules you learned so far and there are still some electrons hanging out there unattached. You can't just leave them there. So where do you put them?
Multiple Covalent Bonds
Some molecules are not able to satisfy the octet rule by making only single covalent bonds between the atoms. Consider the compound ethene, which has a molecular formula of \(\ce{C_2H_4}\). The carbon atoms are bonded together, with each carbon also being bonded to two hydrogen atoms.
two \(\ce{C}\) atoms \(= 2 \times 4 = 8\) valence electrons
four \(\ce{H}\) atoms \(= 4 \times 1 = 4\) valence electrons
total of 12 valence electrons in the molecule
If the Lewis electron dot structure was drawn with a single bond between the carbon atoms and with the octet rule followed, it would look like this:
This Lewis structure is incorrect because it contains a total of 14 electrons. However, the Lewis structure can be changed by eliminating the lone pairs on the carbon atoms and having to share two pairs instead of only one pair.
A double covalent bond is a covalent bond formed by atoms that share two pairs of electrons. The double covalent bond that occurs between the two carbon atoms in ethane can also be represented by a structural formula and with a molecular model as shown in the figure below.
A triple covalent bond is a covalent bond formed by atoms that share three pairs of electrons. The element nitrogen is a gas that composes the majority of Earth's atmosphere. A nitrogen atom has five valence electrons, which can be shown as one pair and three single electrons. When combining with another nitrogen atom to form a diatomic molecule, the three single electrons on each atom combine to form three shared pairs of electrons.
Each nitrogen atom follows the octet rule with one lone pair of electrons and six electrons that are shared between the atoms.
- Covalent bonds are formed when atoms share electrons.
- Lewis electron dot diagrams can be drawn to illustrate covalent bond formation.
- Double bonds or triple bonds between atoms may be necessary to properly illustrate the bonding in some molecules.
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We have never tested such a powerful skimmer yet! We measured over 1.300 l/h of sucked air, never happened before this ATB Medium Size of 25 cm of diameter.
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First of all we want to remember, in particular to those who don't know, that ATB is the acronymous for Aquarium Technik Burian, an Austrian company and its head quarter is Czech Republic. It produces accessories for marine aquarium since 2001. We tested the skimmer in a 600 liters aquarium specifically dedicated to hard corals with small polyps, in particular Acropora. The aquarium is Jonathan's beautiful one, that you will have the chance to see as aquarium of the month in these pages… and a glimpse in this very article.
As usual we tried the ATB Medium Size 25 for several months, so that we could know every pros and cons. We can affirm that, even thanks to the provided accessories, the skimmer really amazed us. The automatic cleaning is addictive right from the start, and the power of the skimmer is simply incredible.
Speaking of the assembling the skimmer doesn't hide its artisanal origin. Beautiful, well built, but it doesn't shine compared to other skimmers we've recently seen (Ultra Reef, Red Sea, Vertex, Nyos for example). The declared sucked air is 1.500 l/h while the treated water 2.500 l/h, for a air/water relationship of 0,6 with the Askoll pump.
Technical characteristics of the ATB Medium Size
ATB with pump Airstair | ATB with pump Askoll | |
Treated water volume | 2.800 l/h | 2.500 l/h |
Treated air volume | 1.500 l/h | 1.500 l/h |
Pump consumption | 38 w | 38 w |
Dimensions | 390x340x560 mm | 390x340x560 mm |
Water height in sump | 18-19 cm | 18-19 cm |
Warranty | 24 months | 24 months |
Price | 980 euro | 980 euro |
The construction is very well done, there are minor flaws, but nothing that could affect the yield. Even though there's a little detail… but we will discuss about it later, because it regards the cleaning accessory and not the skimmer itself.
About the functioning, we have an old style set that suits more the powerful pump that these diameters requires. In fact the pump is external, so there's more space for the bubbles in the body of the skimmer. The pump pushes inside the central body where the water and the air mixed together are pushed through the perforated diffusion plate. The central body is conical. The pump in question is an Askoll that draws at many cm from the bottom of the sump.
The body of the skimmer had a diameter of 25 cm and it's almost 56 cm of height glass included.
One of the added value of this skimmer is the possibility to buy an automatic cleaning system, built with a little brush implanted on a pivot, that is activated via a timer (not provided) that keeps the neck of the glass perfectly clean. Thanks to this you only have to empty the glass through the inferior cap and… that's it, without ever disassembling the glass.
The assembling system of the skimmer ATB Medium Size is very simple and it allows to be disassembled in a short time. This also thanks to its dimensions and because the pump is external.
Given the dimensions, the glass is pretty heavy even it sticks perfectly in the base where it has to be placed and pushed a bit. The holding is assured also by a red gasket. At the base of the glass there's the classic through hole, from which begins the PVC curve closed by a silicon end and a stopper.
The provided pump with the ATB medium size 25 is a Airstair, an adjustable pump of 2.800 l/h of treated water and 1.500 l/h of treated air. In our test conditions there was a second non-adjustable pump by Askoll, to be purchased separately, or to order from Askoll itself, of 2.500 l/h of water and always 1.500 l/h of water. The second should be more quite and with less vibrations. Even if we were thrilled by the double possibility we had to adapt to the dimensions of our sump, so we couldn't help but try the skimmer with only the Askoll, that is the only pump that could fit the room available.
Being a monopump configuration we don't have to manage the water entering the skimmer and the water/air relationship because they've already been decided in our place. The suggested level in sump should be about 20 cm, managing heights between 18 and 24 cm, as the builder designed.
The functioning scheme is, as we've said, simple and linear, even more compared with other skimmers we've recently reviewed. Moreover, this ATB has an external pump that allows to use more volume of the body of the skimmer, rather than in configurations with internal pump, increasing also the contac time inside the cylinder. The comfort of the external pump is given when it's time for cleaning. Water and air are mixed together and, from below, they enter directly in the body of the skimmer. From here they pass through the classic perforated plate.
The only way to intervene on the calibration of the skimmer is to rotate the drain pipe, which adjusts the slider that determines the level of water inside the body.
Set up
The set up is pretty complex, it doesn't depend on the skimmer itself but on the various accessories, that anyway have to be purchased separaterly. The brush inside the glass has to be assembled, the float inside the glass has to be connected to an external controller that will then switch off the skimming pump when the level in the glass is dangerously high.
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Compiling and installing a recent version of Mesa on Debian
This post is about how (and why) I recently produced my own Debian packages for a recent
upstream release of Mesa to work around a bug on my own machine. Though the
specifics are not specifically interesting, you may extrapolate my story to a more
general guide of what to do when you need to run an upstream software release that's too recent to
be packaged by Debian, and too complex to be easy to install by hand with make
I recently tried to figure out the source of weird crashes on my machine, which
runs Debian testing. I
understood from /var/log/syslog
that I was probably affected by
Bug #771045. From
the linked discussions it seemed that a
in Mesa had a good chance of fixing the problem. The patch was part of
version 10.3.4 of Mesa, but Debian
testing only had 10.3.2-1, judging from the output of:
dpkg-query -l | grep -i mesa
So, if I wanted the patch, I needed to install manually a newer version of Mesa.
A first thing to check was whether it was not packaged in Debian unstable. I
have the unstable repository set up and pinned at a lower priority with the
following in /etc/apt/preferences.d/prefs
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
I use this to manually install a recent version of iceweasel from unstable. Could it be the case that a recent Mesa was packaged in unstable? Alas, no, checking on a random mesa package among those at version 10.3.2-1:
apt-cache policy libegl1-mesa
Installed: 10.3.2-1
Candidate: 10.3.2-1
Version table:
*** 10.3.2-1 0
650 http://debian.proxad.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
600 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
So here is how I manually compiled a more recent version. I was surprised to see how simple it turned out to be, in fact: precious little manual intervention is required.
Of course, a word of warning applies: make sure you will know how to fix your system if it gets broken by the home-made packages that you installed or by anything else you did.
I'm assuming that your machine's architecture is amd64
, otherwise what I say
later about compiling for i386
may make no sense.
You may need to start by installing some packages such as build-essential
you don't have them. Then, issue:
sudo apt-get build-dep libegl1-mesa
This will install1 the packages needed to compile Mesa.
Then, go to a fresh folder and download the sources for Mesa:
mkdir -p ~/mesa
cd ~/mesa
apt-get source libegl1-mesa
The source for the packaged version (10.3.2-1) should be downloaded.
You could then go in the source tree and run uscan
from the devscripts
cd mesa-10.3.2
This would automatically search for a newer release on the Mesa website and
download it. However, it would pick the latest version (10.4.1
as of this
writing) for which the packaging wouldn't work as is. So instead, download
Mesa 10.3.4,
the version that we want, from the official website,
and symlink it to the conventions used by the Debian tools.
cd ~/mesa
wget ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/older-versions/10.x/10.3.4/MesaLib-10.3.4.tar.gz
ln -s MesaLib-10.3.4.tar.gz mesa_10.3.4.orig.tar.gz
Now we can go back in the source tree for the old version, and use uupdate
unpack the new version and migrate the Debian-specific stuff. Then go to the new
source tree thus created:
cd mesa-10.3.2
uupdate ../mesa_10.3.4.orig.tar.gz
cd ../mesa-10.3.4
Now we are ready to start the compilation process:
debuild -us -uc
This should compile everything and take 10-30 minutes. If a problem occurs, you should have copious output to try to understand what went wrong. Otherwise, if all goes well, all the deb packages for the new version will have been generated in the parent folder. That was easy!2 :)
That's all nice and well, but then I realized that I needed the i386 version of
the packages, because I use Skype, whose "multiarch" package is actually i386.
How to cross-compile the packages? In fact, it's quite easy.
We will use pbuilder
to create a
chroot where the compilation can take place,
but everything is automatic:
sudo apt-get install pbuilder
sudo pbuilder --create --architecture i386
Now go in the source tree and issue3:
sudo pbuilder --build ../mesa_10.3.4-1.dsc
This should take care of everything. The packages will be produced in
Now you just have to figure out which packages you need to install (using
dpkg-query -l
) and install them with sudo dpkg -i
, then correct any
dependency problems with sudo apt-get -f install
. Alternatively, you can just
issue sudo debi -u
from the source tree, which should do those steps
automatically. However, I haven't tested it. Of course to install the i386
packages in this way you will need to move them, or let debi
know where to
find them.
Note that to avoid problems
it looks like it is safer to install all packages at once. If you run into file
conflicts between the i386 and amd64 packages, a solution may be to apt-get
all the old versions and then install the new ones. Of course, this will
probably remove a bunch of useful packages on your system that depend on Mesa;
if you do this
should make sure that you have kept a trace of the packages that you will want
to reinstall afterwards, and also that you are confident using a tty or ssh if
your graphical environment breaks.
And, well, that's it. If you have installed the packages successfully, you can
just reboot. Then you can check in dpkg-query
that you are indeed using the
newer version of the packages, and double-check using:
glxinfo | grep -i version
Of course, if something went bad, maybe your system will not boot (or at least not boot graphically) and then it will be up to you to investigate. Hopefully removing the new packages and installing back the Debian ones should make things work again. :)
One last thing: hopefully, as the version numbers of your home-made Mesa packages correspond to
the actual version number of the release, apt-get upgrade
should move you to
the more recent versions as soon as they start getting packaged by Debian.
Note that the packages installed by
apt-get build-dep
will be marked as "manually installed" and clutter the output ofapt-mark showmanual
. If you care, you may want to save it before proceeding. ↩ -
If you're wondering how this automated process could take care of things like updating the changelog, have a look at
in the source folder. A dummy entry will have been generated. ↩ -
If you don't have the file
, it should have been produced when compiling foramd64
before. ↩