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Private Pilot PPL
This course provides a means of training pilots with little or no previous flight experience to a standard well above the minimum accepted for FAA Private Pilot certification.
The primary objective of ground training is to provide students with well above normal Private Pilot level knowledge, in understanding the following subjects.
Aircraft Systems, Airworthiness, Aerodynamics, Loading, Performance, Airspace, Airports, Air Traffic Control, Safety of Flight, Aviation Weather, Federal Aviation Regulations, Aeronautical Information Manual, Flight Physiology, Navigation Planning, Avionics, Flight Physiology, Navigation planning.
There are 5 ground training curriculum segments that include a total of 37 modules. The end module in each segment is a testing module. The testing module is a knowledge test, which includes questions drawn from a question bank pertinent to the segment being tested. The passing grade for each knowledge test is 70%. Upon successful completion of Ground Training Curriculum Segment V, the student will be ready to take the FAA knowledge test for the Private Pilot Certificate, which is the sole activity in Ground testing segment VI. Ground training is programmed to require 50 hours of instruction.
There are 3 flight training curriculum segments, which include a total of 29 modules The student must successfully complete all flight training maneuvers outlined in the FAA practical test standards before the final evaluation for the Private Pilot Certificate.
Systems Integration Training correlates aircraft systems training with light aircraft normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures and checklists. Students become familiar with the cockpit layout, checklists, and American Flight Training Center procedures prior to and during flight training. Flight training is programmed to require 50 Hours dual instruction and 5 Hours solo.


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Lewis Hamilton edged the Red Bulls to gain pole position for the German GP but it was a poor day for Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg who didn't make it into Q3.
Hamilton set a 1:29.398 just one tenth faster than that set by Sebastian Vettel and two tenths ahead of Mark Webber, with both Lotus following behind – Raikkonen ahead of Grosjean.
However, the story of the session was the failure of Rosberg to make it into Q3 – from the outside looking in, it appeared the team had misjudged the required time and the German was sat idle in the garage as Button, Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo took advantage of a change in track conditions to slip ahead.
Ricciardo made the most of the Q3 opportunity sending his Toro Rosso up into sixth – ahead of both Ferraris with Massa claiming team honours. Rounding out the top ten were both Button in the McLaren and Hulkenberg in the Sauber – both deciding to save a set of tyres for Sunday and not setting a time.
McLaren second driver Sergio Perez will start thirteenth in what is probably the best the Mexican set with the tools at his disposal. He is just behind Paul Di Resta, in what – considering the last few GPs – will be a good result for the Force India and with a strong race could be in with a podium shout.
Rounding up the rear of the grid are the usual suspects – Max Chilton pulling the short straw and starting from last in the Marussia. Also joining those dropping out in Q1 were both the Williams cars – Pastor Maldonado able to go out after his car was, at one point of the morning, on fire due to a KERS issue.
The German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring takes place tomorrow starting at 13:00


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Get to know a cloth diaper… and you will be repaid
Filed under: Community, Starting out
Diapers stink. A veteran diaper changer knows how to settle a baby for a quick routine of changing the pad covering their bottom from dirty to clean. But we do tire of it. Diaper fatigue sets in and parents want to know how to get those little bottoms to clean up themselves! Consider cloth.
Cloth diapers have snuck up under the radar of big box merchants as a fantastic cottage industry in the last decade. The products available for cloth diapers and their accessories are numerous. Technology has crept into the cloth diaper industry with amazing variety and results for style and leak protection.
Get to know the who, what, where, and why of cloth diapers for 2012 with 5 great benefits!
- Get to know your baby – count, look, predict
When a baby is brand new, your doctor, doula, or midwife will direct you to count the dirty diapers and feeding times as it is the best tool to communicate how baby is doing. Parents learn to watch for the signals baby gives when they are creating a messy diaper. These signals connect parents with the baby and it can benefit right through to potty training! You can get repaid with less wasteful diaper changes!
- Get to know your community – shop, support, advocate, network
Getting into cloth can help you figure out who sells diapers beyond the grocery store and pharmacy. There are diaper retailers and resellers in every community. When you find someone to talk about cloth diapers with, you start building a support community and seek out others to share with. You can gift, give, ship (termed fluffy mail), and reuse cloth diapers for more than one baby! Encourage other parents to start with reusable swim diapers. You can get repaid with new friends and a new hobby!
- Get to know what you spend – money: build, change, sell your stash, time: with baby/family
Having children can cost a lot of money. In diapers alone, you can spend $2,500 from newborn to potty training for 6,000 disposable diapers*. Let's take $1000 of that diaper budget and trick your baby out with some great cloth diaper fluff for wash at home! A cloth diaper stash will be made up of about 3 dozen diapers per baby, a pail, tote bags, and lotions. The cost on this can run from $150 to $1000 – with you setting the budget! Get repaid by putting good money into good gear.
- Get to know your laundry machine – detergent, stains, cycles for efficiency
Cloth diaper manufacturers recommend using safer products to wash with which translates to, cleaner machines, and reduced wear & tear on machine. You become a pro at knowing the best routine and when you stick to it you will have great success and enjoy your cloth diapering.
- Get to know healthy options – where does your diaper come from, what fabric works best for baby, what happens to a disposable, what other choices are healthy? Ask these questions and more as a new parent. It helps you learn what is best for baby and translates into other areas of your life – without you hardly noticing! Get repaid – with dividends!
Reusable Diaper Care Tips from Real Parents | Real Diaper Association
Filed under: Diapers, Experiences, Laundry
Reusable Diaper Care Tips from Real Parents | Real Diaper Association.
Does Laundry get the better of you some days?
My goal in our house is to have enough socks and underwear to keep us all at 3 weeks between laundry visits. Then, when I get to process 7 loads of laundry it is done fast and furious so those big machines can sit around until the next demand comes through!
A recent article from the Peterborough's Greenzine called Is Energy Efficiency an Oxymoron? pointed out you can get maximum efficiency from a device – when you don't use it!
- Keep the car at home, not just getting the most fuel efficient!
- Turn the light off, not just buying more fancy bulbs before the old ones burn out.
- Wash the dishes by hand if you can't fill the dishwasher.
- Clean cloth diapers with other clothes if your routine can handle it.
- Consume less and reuse what you have more seems to be the bottom line.
As we enter a very consumable time around Christmas, let's see what good deeds we can do for the maximum efficiency, instead of adding to our woes and worries.
A New Year's Resolution?
Change 3 Things – a cloth diaper revolution for 2011
Filed under: Advocacy, Diapers, Experiences
Here's the challenge: reduce our impact on the world by using 3 cloth diapers on your baby each day. I found this Cause off of Facebook and the link to the blog to describe the cause.
The challenge does not ask parents to convert from disposable to cloth. It does not offer any monetary incentives other than obvious savings for not using the disposable diaper. Get some cloth diapers and use them 3 times a day on your baby – just 3 times.
Why take on this challenge?
With the disposable diapers today's parents wore still stuck in landfill, we are adding to the waste created by our disposable society. Reduce your consumption by 3 diapers a day. It is a choice you can make.
With Changing Ways, you can start small and meet this challenge. Set up with one dozen cloth diapers – either new or retired plus 2 diaper covers. At the low end your investment is $40 and as high as $83 or more if you try more gear. One purchase can last you until baby is out of diapers. Hey, there's a neat concept – paying for diapers once, at the beginning.
I have done cloth diapers part time, full time, and not at all. I got into cloth because of the waste and my purchasing power. I would have rather fixed my diaper cost each month and have someone else deal with the mess environmentally than have my own baby be responsible for all that landfill.
Cloth and disposable have their place. Disposable diapers were originally intended for travel. They took over the diaper marketplace only 30 years ago ! Since then, women have started a revival in cloth diapering just as they have gotten better stuff for periods (remember those yucky Kotex with the belt?), and for nursing (who can't love an electric breast pump!). We are putting ourselves first again in some parts of our lifes. We want efficiency, tidiness, and a pretty factor!
How to make this challenge possible?
Research is a mom's best friend. We want to know the options, compare the reviews, test drive the products before we really commit. Do you shop online? Most Canadians do a lot of research online, but not as much shopping as those to our south. So, check out the products listed under the Cloth Diaper Products tab above to see what Changing Ways offers locally. Are you interested in more diapers out there? Click on the link to the blog All About Cloth Diapers.com to see all the parent conversations over all kinds of cloth diapers! Do you want to actually touch and feel the diapers before settling on a brand or diaper system? Cover over to Diapering Darlings or Toddlers in Training cloth playgroups I host to see it all. There are All in One diapers, Flip diapers, pocket diapers, and 2 part diapers. All will support an absorbent liner with a waterproof cover.
Then decide what cloth diapers you want to test drive and order them in! Or sign up for a month's diaper service trial! Taking away the washing aspect lets some parents continue to love using cloth diapers on baby. I, for one, hate laundry of any kind.
There will be a minor learning curve as you figure out the snaps or aplix closures and how to get the laundry routine started. You will not be alone though! Peterboruogh and area have many households already using cloth and by asking questions you may find some new friends!
How would this challenge benefit my baby?
With cloth diapers, you know exactly what material you are exposing your baby too. Many of their own clothing is made of the same/similar fibres already such as cotton, micro fleece, and waterproof polyesters. With disposable diapers, there are some fancy chemical reactions going on underneath that protective padding.
In using cloth diapers, your child will know what the feeling of being wet is and the diaper can get changed when its soiled instead of when you believe its time for a change. This small change will help prepare your child for earlier toilet training – even with using just 3 cloth diapers each day.
You can travel and overnight with cloth diapers on baby so you won't be limiting your activities in choosing cloth.
Will you take the challenge? Have you already been challenged?


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How Writing Helped Me Conquer Real-Life Anxiety
Anxiety, or mental unease, can be seen as the crying out of the internal artist: Let me out! Let me speak!
~ Frances Krsinich
My path toward healing from anxiety has not been easy or straightforward. I tried many different avenues, from traditional therapy and medication to acupuncture and herbs. But it wasn't until I turned to the written word that I was finally able to conquer the everyday angst of ongoing anxiety.
The healing first started by simply reading about it. I devoured many self-help books on the subject, including Lucinda Bassett's From Panic to Power, finally understanding that I wasn't the only person leading a normal life while fighting the undertow of fear. This fact alone helped me become more hopeful and empowered. I realized that if people with thoughts just as scary — if not more so —than mine could climb out of their anxiety, then I could too.
Still, my mind remained uneasy, quite ready to spin another tale of worry into a sleepless night of fear.
Then one day I was lamenting to my friend Eve about my latest obsession, and she suggested I write a novel. I had been content publishing how-to and travel articles and had never thought I had a novel in me. Yet, the second she said it, I nodded in complete agreement. With so many helpful nonfiction books about how to battle worry and anxiety, why not write a novel about a protagonist struggling with this disorder? Why not write a novel that could help others?
I already knew from my own experience how I relate to and empathize with fictional characters and their journeys, and since so many people talk about how cathartic reading a good novel can be, I knew a story could provide more than just entertainment. Alongside traditional and alternative therapies, fiction can serve as a very functional kind of tool. It can take us out of our heads in such a way that it can enhance healing with the comforting ease we've been longing for.
I had started writing "The Grace of Crows" with that goal in mind. Then, after several months of working on it, I had developed a passion and determination I never possessed before. I found myself turning down lunch dates and weekend hikes because I actually started to enjoy the challenge of crafting, revising and even editing this long, challenging thing called a novel more than my leisure time.
And one day it dawned on me. The anxiety had decreased so much that it no longer felt like a major disease in which I had to battle, but rather like an annoying allergy I merely had to tend to from time to time. Interestingly, the more I worked on this fictional story about a woman learning to overcome her irrational fears, the more my own worries and dread diminished.
As one of my characters says to the protagonist, Saylor, early on in the novel: "—the creative part of your brain goes over to the dark side when you don't give it the outlet it needs." So unlock your positive passions, fellow anxiety warriors, whether they are writing, reading, or art, web designing, interior decorating, or math. Use them alongside whatever traditional and alternative therapies that are helping you, and then really engage in them. With time, you may find that your brain will have less room to go "to the dark side," allowing the space for your creativity, talents, and yes — even happiness — to blossom.
This post provides more information about the psychological and scientific reasons behind why fiction reading can reduce emotional turmoil.
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Shawn, T. (2018). How Writing Helped Me Conquer Real-Life Anxiety. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 28, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/how-writing-helped-me-conquer-real-life-anxiety/
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Editor, Manteca Bulletin,
In light of what happened in the Phoenix VA Hospital and what is happening around the nation, I felt I must tell my story. I am a Vietnam veteran and have several Agent Orange related health issues. In 2007 I had a baseball sized tumor removed from my shoulder at the Mather Airbase Hospital in Sacramento. The surgery went well and I received great care there, but I was advised I would need a complete shoulder replacement surgery. It would have to be performed in Palo Alto, I was told.
Jump ahead to March 2013. I went to Palo Alto's VA Hospital and did a CT sand and MRI and was immediately prepped for surgery. Then they told me to return the next day (Friday). On Friday I was told to return Monday. They informed me Monday that there was no surgeon available to perform the surgery and sent me home with pain pills and recommended I exercise the shoulder. It was a shoulder that was continually popping out of the socket.
The VA in Palo Alto scheduled an appointment for me in July for the San Francisco VA where I would be examined and put on a waiting list for "possible shoulder replacement" surgery.
I contacted Congressman Jeff Denham's office in March and met with a staff member on a Friday at the Manteca Chamber of Commerce office. (Denham was unavailable due to the Boston Marathon bombing incident.) Denham sits on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. I met with another member of Denham's staff assigned to my case on a Tuesday. Thursday night at 6 p.m. a posting appeared on my computer that my shoulder replacement surgery was scheduled in a few weeks and the physician that would perform it at Stanford Hospital had been assigned.
For six years I've been dealing with scheduling problems, supposed unavailability of surgeons, lost paperwork necessitating restarting the surgery request over and over again, insufficient medical care (I mean, come on, pain pills and exercise for a shoulder that pops out of socket?)
Anyway, In just six days Congressman Jeff Denham and his able-bodied staff members Wendy Rodman and Mike Anderson cut through all of the bureaucratic red tape and B.S. and accomplished what I could not do.
We veterans are fortunate to have champions such as these fine folks in our corner, fighting for the rights and benefits put veterans deserve.
As a grateful Vietnam veteran I salute them!
Chester W. Pacheco


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[8/22/2012] Support width input when hinged/pinned supports are used (Bug 4901)
If the option for "no columns" is used leading to an automatic hinged support and you enter a support width in the 'Boundary Conditions' input, the program resets the support width values to zero as you navigate through the input windows. The workaround is to not go back to the support width input prior to execution or if you do pass through the support width input, you need to go back to this at the end of your input and modify and then execute. This will be fixed for PT 2013.
[11/3/2011] Geometry input for two-way slabs composed of 'T' sections in ADAPT-PT (Bug 4418)
When lateral loads are input they will not be considered in the initial analysis. As a workaround you must go back to the lateral load input and re-enter the joint moment values.
[5/23/2011] Cantilever loads on left cantilevers (Bug 4318)
In some instances, when a point load is applied at the tip of a left cantilever, the load is not considered in the analysis. To make certain that load is considered, enter the point load just to the inside of the edge of cantilever. For example, if the cantilever is 10′, apply the load at 9.9.' This bug has been fixed for ADAPT-PT 2012 soon to be released.
[3/15/2011] Geometry input for two-way slabs composed of 'T' sections in ADAPT-PT (Bug 4215)
When a 'T' section is used for a two-way slab in combination with drop caps or panels, the depth of section must be less than the depth of cap otherwise the drop will be ignored. For example, if the drop is 22″ deep, the depth of section must be 21.99″.
[3/9/2011] User-defined stress diagrams in ADAPT-PT (Bug 4209)
After execution of a model and exiting the Recycler screen the program will revert back to the "shell" allowing the user to review graphical/tabular/summary output. If you select the graphical stress results, you can review stresses for a user-defined combination and input specific load factors to any load case.
The problem is that there is a mismatch between the sequential order of load cases where you input the factors and the Combination for combined stress factors at the bottom of the graph. This combination is LF*DL + LF*LL + LF*SDL + LF*XL + LF*PT. The factors that you input are applied in this order. So, when you input factors the solution for SDL will show LL result, XL will show SDL and LL will show XL. As a workaround you must "trick" the program by inputting factors in the position of the load combination. For example, if you want solution for 1.0*SW + 2.0*LL + 1.0*PT, you would put a 1.0 for Selfweight, 2.0 for Superimposed Dead Load and 1.0 for Post-tensioning.
[2/15/2011] Minimum Reinforcement incorrect for rectangular beams when modeled with flanged beams (Bug 4195)
When rectangular beams are modeled with flanged beams, the program is calculating a larger Areq for minimum rebar (0.004*Act) for the rectangular beams. The results are conservative. The workaround is to model the rectangular beams as flanged beams where 'bf' is equal to or slightly greater than 'b.'
[11/16/2010] Data Section 10.3 of the Concise Report is shifting into Section 11 (Bug 4134)
If the amount of base reinforcement plus prestressing steel is enough to satisfy the demand for strength and service rebar, the program is shifting the tabular output for base rebar (Data block 10.3) into Section 11 of the concise report from Report Generator. The data in Sections 10.1, 10.2, 11.1 and 11.2 are blank since no reinforcement is necessary in this scenario. The same is happening in ADAPT-RC 2010.
[11/16/2010] Calculation of Icr when Base Reinforcement is used
The program does not consider base reinforcing when calculating the cracked moment of inertia (Icr). Only calculated reinforcement and PT steel are used. This will affect the deflection results when Ma>Mcr (when cracking exists for a given load stage). This bug has been reported and will be repaired in the next update.
[11/5/2010] ADAPT-PT 2010 report mispelling
The word "Center" is mispelled in Table 7 of the PT output.
[11/5/2010] ADAPT-PT 2010 shear reinforcing summary
When the stress ratio at a given section is greater than 1.0 and requires shear reinforcing, the program will report **** indicating that the maximum shear stress (5sqrt*f'c) is exceeded. The program does not report any reinforcing in the tabular output for this condition. The user needs to manually calculate the quantity and spacing. The summary sheet will show a spacing value at the same location. This value is determined using the calculated value for Vc from Equation 11-9 in ACI 318-05. The tabular results control over summary. This has been reported and will be resolved shortly.
[7/9/2010] ADAPT-PT 2010 cracking moment calculation
When ADAPT-PT 2010 calculates the cracking moment (Mcr = S*(P/A + ft) for deflection calculations, it is using the allowable sustained stress value (e.g. 6 sqrt f'c) instead of the total stress value for the term 'ft' in the above equation. This is typically OK since the allowable stress values are the same for "Sustained" and "Total" service conditions.
If a design requires you to modify this value for a condition where you are checking deflection for a beam in which stresses can exceed 7.5 sqrt f'c, be sure to modify the sustained value. This bug is scheduled for repair in the next update to PT2010.
[7/7/2010] ADAPT-PT 2010 HELP menus
In ADAPT-PT 2010, the HELP>Contents menu does not appear when pressing it. As a workaround, their are two HELP files located in the program files directory. You can copy these files to any location and access the HELP contents from double-clickin on these files. They are "PTinput.CHM" and "PTshell.CHM."
[6/16/2010] ADAPT-PT 2010 uses the "Sustained" service combination for determining the required PT force (Bug 3875)
In ADAPT-PT 2010, the program is using the allowable stress value for the sustained condition in determining the required PT force. Three scenerios are presented:
1. If the multiple of sqrt f'c for sustained and total are the same value (i.e. 6, 7.5 or 12), the results in recycler are correct.
2. If the multiple of sqrt f'c for sustained is less than that for total, the required force in the PT recycler screen will be greater than what it needs to be. This is conservative. The stress results in Tab 4 are still correct and compared to the input values for the associated service condition.
3. If the multiple of sqrt f'c for sustained is greater than that for total, the required force in the PT recycler screen will be less than what it needs to be. This is unconservative. The stress results in Tab 4 are still correct and compared to the input values for the associated service condition.
If you have different values for sustained and total allowable stresses at tension fiber, it is recommended to review the stress level carefully and adjust the force according to the stress level, such that allowable stresses are not exceeded.
[6/8/2010] Elongations are not calculated correctly when "Force Selection" method is used in Recycler
In ADAPT-PT8 and PT 2010, the user has the option to select either "Force Selection" or "Calculated Force" for the calculation option. If "Calculated Force" is selected and the model is executed, the Recycler screen will show both methods as being active. If the user toggles to the "Force Selection" method in the Recycler screen and executes the analysis, Report Section 15 will show erroneous values for elongation.
Note that if "Force Selection" is selected initially as the caculation option, the program does not activate this report to begin with since using the force method the designer assumes all losses have occured and are using the effective force for design.
[5/20/2010] Calculation of reinforcement when initial tensile stresses are exceeded (this is a known limitation, not a bug)
At each design section for each span the program calculates stresses, tensile and compressive, for the initial condition, as specified by the user. This is typically 1.0*SW + 1.15*PT. If the stresses at a section exceed the allowable for tension AND compression, the program WILL NOT calculate the required reinforcement for the tensile overstress.
It is the responsibility of the user to check the initial stress values in the recycler screen and determine if a compressive overstress occurs. If so, the initial concrete strength, f'ci should be increased or some other measure should be taken to acheive an acceptable solution. Once the stress is below the allowable for compression, the program will report the reinforcement if tensile ovestress still occurs at the same section.
[5/7/2010] Graphical Anomoly for One-Way and Two-Way Slabs when Rh is set as greater/lesser than "0" (Bug 3832)
This bug is related to PT8.00.5 and PT2010. When the reference height, Rh, is set as some value less than or greater than zero (default value) and transverse beams, drop panels or drop caps are modeled, the graphical representation of the slab and initial control points in the Recycler screen appear incorrect. As a workaround, exit the Recycler screen and open the geometry input for transverse beams or drops and re-analyze. The program will correct itself and the correct graphical view and control points will appear in the Recycler screen.
[4/23/2010] Tendon Import from ADAPT-PT 2010 to Floor Pro 2009 results in errors (fixed in Builder 2010 build 0/PT 2010 build 1)
When importing tendons from ADAPT-PT 2010 to ADAPT-Floor Pro 2009, the program will report two error messages stating the the following files are not found:
Unlike earlier versions of ADAPT-PT, the new version now compiles all intermediate and result files inside a MODELNAME subdirectory where the MODELNAME.ADB is located. This bug will be fixed for Builder 2010. As a workaround, the two files listed above need to be moved or copied to the directory where the .adb file and the subfolder is located.
[4/8/2010] Column Stiffness % reduction in ADAPT-PT (fixed in PT 2010 Build 0)
for PT2010, when the column stiffness is changed (%) in the column geometry input, this value is used for the analysis. The next time you open the input editor the values are reset to 100%. The user must reset the value each time input is changed if using a value other than 100%. NOTE: This only occurs when you have multiple % values. If you modify all columns by one particular value, these do not reset. For PT8, the same problem occurs as above, however, when multiple values are input, the % value of the first column is used for analysis.
[3/31/2010] PT steel is being used for strength calculations when UBC code check is selected for one-way slabs or beams. THIS IS SPECIFIC TO ADAPT-PT v2010 Build 0
When the UBC code check is used for one-way slabs or beams, the program uses the PT steel in determination of moment capacity. This is not permitted for this code check. As a workaround, you can choose to ignore PT for strength check in DESIGN SETTINGS and run this as an individual run to give the correct amount of reinforcement for this particular load case (UBC DL + 0.25LL).
[2/12/2010] Shear Reinforcement for 'I' sections
When 'I' sections are used, the top flange width must be greater than the stem width for the shear reinforcement calculations to be initiated.
[2/1/2010] Deflections of One-Way Slabs with Transverse Beams (fixed in PT 2010 Build 0)
When transverse beams are used as the supports for one-way slabs, the deflection output is incorrect. A workaround is to use pin supports in lieu of transverse beams.
[2/1/2010] Report Generator compatibility with 64-bit systems (fixed in PT 2010)
Report Generator is not compatible with PT8 or earlier versions on 64-bit systems. This issue has been resolved and will be included in the next release for PT2010. Update: As a workaround for PT8, you can open the XXX.cre file in Word, Notepad or Wordpad and print the report.
[2/1/2010] Tendon B not activating (fixed in PT 2010)
When data for Tendon B is input in the RECYCLER screen the graphical view will show a straight tendon with no profile and the output will not include the affect of Tendon B. As a workaround, in the TENDON PROFILE input box where the inflection points are set, simply click on the "Tendon B" tab and continue with the input. This will activate the tendon. This has been repaired for the next release.
[2/1/10] Anchorage of tendons B and C (fixed in PT 2010)
If the anchorage tendons B and C are located away from the centroid of section, the balanced loading for the tendons is not correct. As a workaround, anchor the tendons at the centroid. This has been repaired for the upcoming release.
[1/20/10] Minimum rebar for one-way system (fixed for PT 2010)
The program calculates and places the minimum rebar (As=0.004A where A is the area of that part of cross section between flexural tension face and center of gravity of gross section) for one-way system based on the tensile zone of the moment curve. However, it should be based on the stress curve. We are working on this issue and will have it fixed in a future release. In the meantime, please review the stress curve in PTsum to find out whether the tension is on top or bottom.
[1/20/10] Rebar in models with steps
In case where you have a step in your structure with negative Rh (reference line is on top of your slab/beam), you might receive an incorrect amount of rebar in some cases. Workaround: use a positive Rh (meaning the reference line is on the bottom of your slab/beam) to model your structure and you will receive the correct amount of rebar. We are working on this issue and will have it fixed in a future release.
[1/20/10] Skip pattern of live load not considered for deflection calculation
The skip pattern of live load is not considered for deflection calculation. The reported deflection is based on the pattern where the live load is acting on all the spans.
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Because my son has been away, he has not held a job in Canada yet, although he will seek one after moving back to Canada. What is his minimum financial requirement for sponsoringhis wife? He has earned good income during his working years in China and the assets he has accumulated are enough to support his family in Canada for years. What documents are required to show the immigration office that he has enough financial ability? Also, some Canadian immigrant agencies with offices in Beijing offered their services (for a huge fee). We are not sure whether hiring this kind of immigrant agency in China is necessary. What is your advice? Where I can find out whether the immigrant agencies are official?
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Braininvat » March 14th, 2018, 11:39 pm wrote:- HyksosYou have an outdated, non-scientific understanding of race that is borrowed from 19th century slave trading societies.
Worry not! I have arrived to this thread to get you "up to speed" on our current understanding of human genetic groupings.....
Worry not, Forrest Dump posted early in this thread on the obsolescence of the concept of race. I've stopped following the thread, as it's hard for me to really care about all these vague and unsupported metrics. As Serpent (IIRC) pointed out earlier, a competent elementary school teacher can spot aptitudes and help students build on those, while filling in cognitive gaps.
BadgerJelly » March 14th, 2018, 11:43 am wrote:Yes, an assumption and prejudice that likely carried far more weight in the past than today.
The margin of difference is likely smaller than we assume.
The difference may be a few percent between people who have or have not attended university,
but to the top end of the scale we can, I think, say the higher up we go that the distinctions in IQ become more apparent.
The 50K debt is nothing. You only pay it back once you're earning X amount
Anyway, now we've at least established that IQ does say something about intelligence, as we've both presented it, how would we go about finding data on blood samples from pregnant mothers? Is this available? My thinking is that the quality of blood will have a far greater effect on IQ than the colour of ones skin!
What I can say is that the things I have seen and heard puts emphasis on environment rather than genetics.
Given that male and female genetics are different enough on a basic biological level IQ shows no difference except in the high of bell curve.
Where do you see that? There was a moment - May 21, 1972, about tea-time - when we thought we were within reach of a prejudice-free society.
What "quality" are you testing the blood for? We already know that fetal alcohol and heroin addiction will make babies stupid. We already know that poor nutrition, anxiety and disturbed sleep interferes with children's ability to learn. We already know that damage caused by neglect and lack of stimulation in the first three years is impossible to repair in later life. We already know that better child-care produces stronger students and better schools turn in higher overall test results.
If you really want to know how smart people are, make sure they get decent prenatal care and early childhood nurturing. Throw away the IQ tests and ask grade-school teachers what they need to make all the schools best serve the needs of all the students.
I still don't understand what you mean by difference in the high end. Difference between what specific areas? Between which groups of people?
Rather the makeup of the white population in the USA , being so German and Irish and italian, just naturally score at world-record levels on these tests.
BadgerJelly » March 14th, 2018, 2:02 pm wrote:[ Throw away the IQ tests and ask grade-school teachers what they need to make all the schools best serve the needs of all the students. ]
That is the kind of information I was fishing for. I don't know what studies there are on this subject and was hoping people here might be able to present some.
Rejection of IQ tests? Sorry, now I am confused. You say it does help show intelligence, but reject the results? What is it that is being "rejected"?
Here I was still talking about genetics, but on the level of how environment effects genetics. This would be more in the area of epigenetics; my general ignorance abounds here! I was thinking about stress levels of mother, general psychological disposition and how endocrinal systems actively effect the genetic predisposition of the growing baby.
I am aware there are different tests and some have cultural bias (but certainly not all.) We'd struggle to get accurate results from some remote tribe because their way of life is not comparable.
I also think it is reasonable to say some people are smarter than others.
What is it that makes them smarter and what things are lacking due to higher intelligence
[difference in the high end]
I said men and women so I meant men and women? I thought that was clear enough. There is a suggestion that the curve of IQ for women is not as flat as for men; even though the average is the same - so there are more men with lower IQ's and more men with higher IQ's.
We need IQ tests to help us work out how to boost people's intelligence, and thus to boost their productivity.
None of that will be measured by an IQ test. By the time this baby is 16, there will have been so many other factors to affect his performance you still won't get meaningful results.
I suggested two ways to make equitable tests, but you weren't interested.
Can we have a reasonable discussion about race and IQ or are we forever going to be running away from inconvenient truths and holding to wishful claims that suit our personal positions.
I find this area intriguing for a number of reasons both ethically and statistically. The data is far from conclusive, yet there is enough data out there for people to select certain parts in order to insinuate X or Y.
Intelligence and personality have some common features; for example, they both follow a relatively stable pattern throughout the whole of an individual's life, which is genetically determined in different degrees.
Openness shows the strongest positive relationship with g among the Big Five personality traits, ranging from r=.06 to r=.42. Individuals with a high level of openness enjoy the experience of learning and prefer an intellectually stimulating environment. Therefore, openness shows a significant moderate association with crystallized intelligence (r=.30), but a non-significant low association with fluid intelligence (r=.08), and these results are consistent with those of other studies.
Some psychologists have recently pointed out that previous instruments used to measure openness actually assessed two distinctive aspects. The first is intellect, which reflects intellectual engagement and perceived intelligence and is marked by ideas, while the second is emotion, which reflects the artistic and contemplative qualities related to being engaged in sensation and perception and is marked by fantasy, aesthetics, feelings and actions. On this basis, intellect was found to be associated with the neural system of the working memory, which is related to g, whereas openness was not. In addition, according to a study of genetic behaviour, intellect is genetically closer to intelligence than openness
BadgerJelly » March 15th, 2018, 1:41 am wrote:[None of that will be measured by an IQ test. ]
I think you'd be surprised how seemingly "tiny" biochemical influences can alter the development of an organism. Given that plasticity of the brain is at its highest in the earlier years it doesn't seem like an extraordinary leap to say that biochemical effects could be extremely drastic (showing the opposite to be true would be quite astounding.)
My question was more aimed at whether people, especially scientists, were brave enough to tackle this issue
BadgerJelly » March 15th, 2018, 9:54 am wrote:I have no idea what you're talking about now? Two years olds? I proved you with a video that talked about how evironmental conditions 5 days after conception that people infer to have an effect on IQ.
Elitist? Huh?
I am guessing your idea was to blindly provide mothers with better care.
Do you not see that looking into this helps us understand what constitute "good wholesome food"?
Given that two idenetical twins differ in IQ due to, what I imagine is, differences in blood supply it would be worth considering and looking into?
[two ways to make equitable tests]
Can we have a reasonable discussion about race and IQ or are we forever going to be running away from inconvenient truths and holding to wishful claims that suit our personal positions.
I find this area intriguing for a number of reasons both ethically and statistically.
The data is far from conclusive,
yet there is enough data out there
for people to select certain parts in order to insinuate X or Y.
Intelligence and personality have some common features; for example, they both follow a relatively stable pattern throughout the whole of an individual's life, which is genetically determined in different degrees.
What I have read shows that IQ cannot be increased,
but it can be decreased.
The strongest correlation between personality and intelligence is this:
This wasn't originally on the table, afaik.
(BTW Where did race and ethnicity go?)
BadgerJelly » March 15th, 2018, 8:25 pm wrote:I was dealing with the concept of IQ here not race because you seemed to latch onto the IQ aspect
which is important to accept as a valid form of measuring intelligence (which was why the conversation has gone down the lines it has.)
I was presenting evidence that there is measured differences in IQ that are traceable to the instance 5 days after concept from two humans with identical genetic make-up. You question this and I provided some information.
- the evidence shows here, and most people agree, that the genetic difference between human groups is minute and that within these groups the variation is far greater than by comparison.
It is clear enough to me that the differences in IQ scores (which I take to be a reasonably good enough representation of human intelligence as previously stated) show differences that relate to the Grandma effect (other possible personality habits) and social conditions.
The issue of ethics and politics I would've thought is quite obvious.
Plenty of political organisations use group identity to shift the socio-political landscape in their favour.
The question, for me, then becomes what is there that can be done
, other than education,
and in what manner education can help humans interact rather than merely polarize society based primarily on cosmetic differences.
The very culture of "race" seems to be something to tackle, yet by tackling it we draw attention to it and people get upset or act in a reactionary way.
And again, further in the lecture I posted, there was plainly a correspondence between stress levels and how this can play out in cognitive functioning.
So even if we could suddenly give different groups the same environment
IQ can be decreased simply by bad parenting and/or bad schooling.
Why mention personality?
Plenty of different tests for intelligence exist, and each is more tailored to this or that purpose.
Anyway, one of the things I never understood is how measured intelligence affects people's interaction.
I just never figured out what you are trying to find out.
BadgerJelly » March 15th, 2018, 10:26 pm wrote: so I added the race thing in within an ethical context to see what would happen and if anyone had anything interesting to say to counter these things that may help my personal research into "being human".
The main resistence came from IQ and then this was followed up by cloaked outrage about race
because it is. You've said so yourself.being meaningless
- even though there are distinctions genetically
I am more interested in the difference of what is happening in the brain (things like domestication and climate combined with epigenetics - the renewel of Larmarckian ideas.)
All this and the biology of ethics.
How aggression, stress and such plays into brain development. How certain groups with certain IQ's may still be in the same position for a generation or two simply due to epigenics and shifts from more domesticated living (that was one idea that grabbed me.)
The main point being the ethical issue scientists are faced with if they want to investigate this.
Political groups using these things as tools to push agendas (meaningfully or not.) For example patriotism is a clear example of poltical use of group identity and there is miniscule genetic differences here - no one would deny that because you can trace your genetic heritage to nations this way.
I don't see why it is a bad thing to ask what these small differences are.
By looking it may yield great things for the future of humanity.
One thing we can say is that IQ does differ across nations.
If we conclude, as I do and many others do, that there is no real difference between people we know there is a problem.
[/quote][/quote]How about coming to understand how this can be changed and how quickly we'd expect to see effects
hyksos » March 17th, 2018, 4:50 pm wrote:The United States of America brought over people from the most desolate, squalid, poor, desperate sections of the east coast of Africa. ....They were not importing the "best and brightest".
Fast-forward 100 years,
Despite the him-hawing (from a number of people in this thread ) the data on these IQ tests did in fact account for reading level, grade level adjustments.
Even after accounting for these cultural and societal factors, the black kids were still scoring lower than their white counterparts.
Jonathan Kozol s 1991 Savage Inequalities described the striking differences between public schools serving students of color in urban settings and their suburban counterparts, which typically spend twice as much per student for populations with many fewer special needs.
It is entirely unreasonable to believe that you import the worst people in the world from the worst place in the world, and then expect them to 'Turn on a dime' with a little care and education.
Even if things like "poverty" wete accounted for, I don't think factors like prenatal nutrition were. I havr already shown some pretty clear evidence that seemingly small prenatal differences, for merely 5 days after conception, is enough to present differences in IQ (which I do think is a marker for intelligence and I am more than willing to back that up and clear up the meaning of "intelligence" - which the main subject has been of the exchange with myself and Serpent.)
Your words are symptomatic of a person who has not completely detached yourself from the importance and scientific relevance of these IQ tests.
There is nothing particularly interesting or illuminating about the choice of questions on these tests
It is ironic that in kindergarten and first grade we measure children on their "Works well with others" and then later abandon this somewhere while we chase down IQ.
Such qualities do not tell us about someone's cognitive ability to solve complex problems.
Of course tests measure the ability of people's ability to take tests. The difference with IQ tests is they are designed to measure cognitive ability under duress. They measure the speed and ability to solve problems - some aspects of IQ measure fluid intelligence and others crystalline intelligence (the basic difference being crystalline intelligence is something like a "general knowledge" test where "common" knowledge is the primary issue.)
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"Consultation must move beyond structures of the ANC and move into the alliance. If you are not consulted, it means you are not an equal strategic partner," Ramaphosa said.
On Monday SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande expressed the same sentiments at the Cosatu meeting.
"War chests are being used to contest the ANC conference in December … But the ANC is not owned by those leaders, it's a people's movement. No one is going to tell us we can't talk about the ANC, it's our own movement."
Nzimande said SACP leaders faced intimidation over their public criticism of state capture, the Gupta family and their links to Zuma.
"We are being threatened because we are supposed to keep quiet. We are not going to keep quiet, this is our revolution, all of us," Nzimande said.
Ramaphosa encouraged Cosatu members to continue its demand for "ethical and honest" leadership.
"To remain silent on these matters is going to be a betrayal of the struggle. Stand by your demands to be honest and ethical. But stand by your demands that we need to have honest, capable and ethical leaders who are going to lead our alliance," he said.
In an address, which received several intervals of applause, Ramaphosa concluded by quoting the Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verde revolutionary poet, Amilcar Cabral.
"Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mask no mistakes, mask no failures and claim no easy victories. But more importantly, do not tell lies."
Ramaphosa said: "Quite a lot of these things have been happening in our own ranks. Some may say 'don't talk about them'. But we need to talk about them so that they don't continue to happen."


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Stephen Curry, Kevin Love, Paul George and Kyrie Irving were voted NBA All-Stars Thursday, putting four first-time starters in the Feb. 16 game in New Orleans.
Kobe Bryant was elected by fans to his 16th All-Star game, second-most in NBA history, but this one is shaping up as a kids' game.
Curry, perhaps the biggest snub last season, will join him in the Western Conference backcourt. Love passed Dwight Howard in the final days of voting and will start in the frontcourt along with Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant and the Clippers' Blake Griffin.
LeBron James was the leading vote-getter with 1.4 million votes and Miami teammate Dwyane Wade was also voted in Thursday. George, who has led Indiana to the league's best record, and New York's Carmelo Anthony are the other East forwards, and Irving will start at guard.
Bryant has been limited to just six games this season because of injuries and will be out until at least early next month, but remains one of the league's most popular players with fans. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 19, was selected to more All-Star games.
But even Bryant could finish only second to Curry among West guards, a remarkable turnaround for the Golden State sharpshooter. He was the highest-scoring player not chosen last year, but moved past the Clippers' Chris Paul in the third returns of balloting, then passed Bryant in the final days to finish with more than a million votes and become the Warriors' first All-Star starter since Latrell Sprewell in 1995.
Love also made a late move to surge into the top three, finishing about 8,000 votes ahead of Houston center Dwight Howard to become Minnesota's first All-Star starter since Kevin Garnett in 2007.
The reserves will be announced next Thursday.
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Stephen Curry, Kevin Love, Paul George and Kyrie Irving were voted NBA All-Stars Thursday, putting four first-time starters in the Feb. 16 game in New Orleans.


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the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Highly esteemed High Commissioner:
We are appealing to you regarding Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov, a refugee from Uzbekistan, who is currently in Turkey. On November 21, 2008, the Ankara office of the UNHCR registered Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov as a refugee. He was interviewed two times: on December 4, 2008 and April 16, 2009. He received a call from the UNHCR office in Ankara on May 13, 2009, and was informed that he was about to obtain the refugee status and required him to provide a statement on his illness. He has sent the statement immediately; however, no heard nothing back to date.
We are certain that Mr. High Commissioner, occupying such an esteemed and responsible position, is well aware of a strong stream of refugees originating from Uzbekistan alone, of all other former Soviet states, heading to Europe and other countries. This is no coincidence. Allow us to briefly explain it.
A mass exodus from our country has taken place twice between 1917 and 2012: following the establishment of the communist and Soviet rule in Central Asia and after the Islam Karimov regime ascended to power after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. During the last 23 years, Islam Karimov has applied every effort to turn the country into a 'police state' in the classical meaning of the term. It was for a reason that the UN Committee Against Torture concluded two times—in May 2002 and November 2007—that tortures are systematically and massively implemented in Uzbekistan.
The UN special rapporteur against torture Theo Van Boven came to a similar conclusion at the end of 2002, when he inspected penitentiary facilities in Uzbekistan. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people fled the country fearing repression. One of the two authors, Mr. Talib Yakubov, provided alternative reports to the UN Committee Against Torture (Geneva, Switzerland, 1999) and the UN Committee for Human Rights (New York, USA, 2001), while the Uzbek government was presenting its own reports.
In order to have a better understanding of the true scale of Uzbek
law-enforcement agencies' repressions against citizens based on political and religious motives, it is sufficient to look at the List of Arrested
and Convicted for Political and Religious Motives in Uzbekistan between
December 1997 and December 2003. The list a) includes only a 6-year
period, b) the list exclude those repressed between 1990-1997 and
2004-2012. Although the level of repression and numbers of those repressed were not lower that those between 1997-2003:
Memorial, the Moscow-based human rights organization, is one of the
largest organizations monitoring persecution based on political and
religious motives in Central Asia. Memorial was involved in Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov's case. We are therefore including a Memorial-issued document in English and Russian that highlights the causes and motives of Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov's fleeing from Uzbekistan.
Over the course of the last several years, the Uzbek authorities have
stepped up assaults and attacks on refugees to kill them. Assassins are
hired for that purpose and sent to Russia, Europe and other countries.
Allows us to provide the examples of one assassination and one attempt on life:
- the assassination of Fuad Rustamkhodjayev, who was shot near his home in Ivanovo, Russia, on September 24, 2011. He was one of the leaders of the democratic opposition of Uzbekistan.
- there was an attempt to take Obidkhon Nazarov's life on February 22, 2012: a killer shot him near the driveway of the house he was living in Stromsund, Sweden under political asylum obtained in 2005. He is still in coma in a hospital in this country.
The Uzbek authorities are exerting an enormous pressure on Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov's relatives, demanding he return and voluntarily turn himself in. During of the latest visits, a police officer told them: "We know his address and it does not take us much to send someone to Turkey to eliminate him." This is a daily practice these agencies resort to aiming at scare the population as much as possible.
Here is another example: in 1999, law-enforcing agencies searched the house of Tashkent-native Zafar Mavlyanov's parents. Fearing an illegal arrest and unfair trial, Mr. Mavlyanov left for Holland. He obtained Dutch citizenship in 2004. He married a Dutch woman and has 4 children. However, officers from the local prosecutor's office visit his parents every week demanding they tell their son to return to country and appear before a prosecutor.
Luckily, the Turkish authorities are not considering deporting, or even worse—extraditing, Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov to Uzbekistan. But given the criminal activities the Uzbek special services commit against their own citizens who voice even minor criticism of incumbent authorities. It is therefore imperative to remain alert given what police officers have done to his relatives.
Mr. High Commissioner!
Any form of expulsion of Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov from Turkey to Uzbekistan is unequivocally tantamount to exposing him to an illegal arrest, violent tortures, an unfair trial and long years of imprisonment, maybe even death. We believe this cannot be permitted. We are strongly convinced that only you and your organization are capable of preventing a very highly probable tragedy from befalling Mr. Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov
We are earnestly asking you to intervene into the case of the refugee Bakhriddin Khudoyenazarov, in order to prevent a probably tragedy and expedite the process of his refugee status of one seeking political asylum in a third country.
We sincerely hope for your understanding.
Respectfully yours,
Ms. Mutabar Tadjibaeva,
President of the Association Internationale de Dèfense des Droits de I'homme «Club des CoeursArdents»;
Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders;
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From 1948 until his passing in 1967, Poet, Langston Hughes lived at 20 East 127th Street in New York City. The building is an Italianate brownstone built in 1869 and located in Harlem.
I did a long search looking for photos of the interior, but these are all that I could find. The house was up for sale for a long time, but wasn't selling because of the huge price tag and amount of restoration needed. The house has been officially designated a historic landmark inside and out. I am not sure who owns this house now, but I sure do hope that it has been lovingly restored. HERE is an article by someone who was given a tour of the inside of this beautiful brownstone back in 2009.


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One year off was enough for Paul Marquis.
Less than a year after he resigned as the boys' soccer and girls' basketball coach at Traip Academy in Kittery, Marquis was hired recently as the girls' basketball coach at Noble High in North Berwick.
"It was a great opportunity last year to recharge my batteries," said Marquis, who will continue to teach chemistry at Traip. "Sometimes maybe you get a little stale and need to be recharged, whether you're teaching and need your summer vacation or taking a year off from coaching.
"Really, I had been straight out (coaching) since 1994. Now I'm really looking forward to November and getting back in the gym again."
Marquis, 41, was one of the best-known and most successful Western Maine Conference coaches for years with the Rangers. His boys' soccer team won the 2006 Class C state championship and his girls' basketball teams were perennial contenders, reaching six straight regional semifinals. He also coached baseball and softball at Traip for several years, making him a rare three-sport coach.
He resigned last year because of what he called "philosophical differences" with the direction the school's athletic program was taking. He still attended many games and when the opening came up at Noble, about 20 minutes from Kittery, he jumped at the chance.
Noble Athletic Director Blair Marelli said Marquis stood out among the dozen candidates.
"It was a combination of his personality, his expertise and his success," said Marelli. "He has an energy about him, this way of conveying that energy to others. It's contagious and I think other people will feed off him."
Marquis inherits a program that totaled six wins and 66 loses over the last four seasons. Last winter the Knights were 0-18.
"One priority is to get excitement around the program again, to get the numbers up," said Marquis. "I don't think Noble is unique in that the activity levels, the number of students playing sports, have dropped. If I can drum up interest, that's a start.
"And this is a program that has good support, its communities are excited about being successful. I'm hoping it doesn't take a long time. If I can get the kids excited, get them playing competitively night in and night out, it will be a great start."
Marquis doesn't expect to see much difference in moving from a Class C to a Class A school.
"Certainly the SMAA is a very competitive conference and I'll be drawing from more kids," he said. "But the schedule I played in the Western Maine Conference, with its combination of B and C schools, I would argue was one of the best in the state."
Marelli doesn't expect a turnaround to take long.
"That program has some of our best athletes in the school," he said. "Seeing someone new, seeing a new direction, I think we'll see success relatively quickly.
"He's been able to do it before. We hope he can replicate it here."
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"Beach hair, don't care!" A fun, catchy phrase, but is it true? Probably not.
If you love the sun and ocean or spending time in the pool, you know they all can wreak havoc on your lovely locks and, let's face it…you do care!
There are ways to prevent damage and keep your hair healthy throughout the summer season.
Here are 4 moisture-robbing culprits and what you can do to protect your hair with minimum effort:
- Sun Exposure – UVA and UVB rays can damage the hair cuticle (the outer layer of the hair strand). Dry, brittle, frizzy hair along with split ends and discoloration are sure signs of damage.
- Solution – Use a salon-quality shampoo and rinse-out conditioner, then apply a leave-in conditioner. This will coat the hair to seal in moisture and defend against the damaging elements of the sun. You could also make a fashion statement by wearing a hat to keep your scalp from burning or apply sunscreen and switch the part in your hair to avoid exposure at the same spot.
- Chlorine and salt water – These 2 elements can cause dry and itchy scalp, plus chlorine can affect the color of your hair, especially if it's color-treated.
- Solution – To help prevent this from happening, wet your hair before going into the pool or ocean since wet hair will absorb less chlorine or salt than if it is dry (think of a sponge). Afterward, rinse your hair thoroughly to remove chemicals. Another option – wear a swim cap!
- Heat styling – Take a break from the heat! The more damaged your hair is from the heat of the sun, the less heat you should apply from your styling tools.
- Solution – Use a medium or cool setting on your blow dryer and styling tools. If your hair doesn't hold your style for very long, you are clearly using too much heat.
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Good Sleep is just as important as not smoking!
Don't you wish you could just conk out like this little pumpikn? What happens to us as we get older? Kids just give in and let their bodies do the work. Adults, well we push the limits when it comes to sleep!
Overall health includes time to rest and repair so this week we focus on the importance of sleep! Not only does sleep do the body good, but also rest and recovery are equally important when it comes to brain function, memory, and accident prevention.
There have been many studies showing that a lack of sleep can be linked to weight gain and even obesity. However, one recent study went a bit deeper to explore exactly how sleep affects metabolism. According to a new study published in the journal Annuals of Internal Medicine, getting four hours of sleep a night for four nights made healthy people's bodies resistant to insulin — a condition that is a common precursor of weight gain, diabetes and other serious health problems.
In a healthy body, when you take in sugar, insulin is released from the pancreas and travels throughout the body, signaling to cells that they should absorb some of that new glucose. But when the body becomes insulin- resistant, cells are less responsive to that signal, and glucose levels rise in the bloodstream. That can lead to diabetes, which causes damage to the eyes, kidneys and nerves, and has been linked to heart disease, stroke and premature death.
In the new study, researchers recruited seven healthy, active adults — six men and one woman. Each subject went through a four-night period in which they got eight or nine hours of sleep and four nights in which they only got four to five hours. After each four- night block, the subjects underwent a glucose challenge, in which glucose is injected into the body to test for insulin resistance. They also removed fat cells from each subject to test their biochemical response to insulin.
The changes were huge: After sleeping four hours a night for four nights, the subjects' whole-body insulin response decreased by an average of 16%, and the fat cells' insulin response decreased by 30%. The researchers say that those levels are akin to the levels seen in diabetics or the obese. And when the team looked at the biochemical markers of an insulin response in the fat cells they removed, they found it took three times as much insulin to cause a normal response after four nights of limited sleep.
While more research is currently being done, we now know that a lack of sleep can cause serious health problems. The health problems related to a lack of sleep are just as serious as the effects of smoking or heart disease. A healthy amount of sleep is 7-9 hours per night, every night including weekends. Most Americans are currently only getting an average of 6 hours per night.
Why get your sleep?
1. Sleepiness Causes Accidents-Sleep deprivation was a factor in some of the biggest disasters in recent history: the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, and others. But sleep loss is also a big public safety hazard every day on the road. Drowsiness can slow reaction time as much as driving drunk.
2. Sleep Loss Dumbs You Down -Sleep plays a critical role in thinking and learning. Lack of sleep impairs attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning, and problem solving. This makes it more difficult to learn efficiently.
3. Sleep Deprivation Can Lead to Serious Health Problems -Sleep disorders and chronic sleep loss can put you at risk for: Heart disease, Heart attack, Heart failure, Irregular heartbeat, High blood pressure, Stroke, and Diabetes. According to some estimates, 90% of people with insomnia — a sleep disorder characterized by trouble falling and staying asleep — also have another health condition.
4. Sleepiness Is Depressing -Over time, lack of sleep and sleep disorders can contribute to the symptoms of depression. In a 2005 Sleep in America poll, people who were diagnosed with depression or anxiety were more likely to sleep less than six hours at night.
5. Lack of Sleep Ages Your Skin -Most people have experienced sallow skin and puffy eyes after a few nights of missed sleep. But it turns out that chronic sleep loss can lead to lackluster skin, fine lines, and dark circles under the eyes.
6. Sleepiness Makes You Forgetful -Trying to keep your memory sharp? Try getting plenty of sleep. When we sleep our brain is able to process and store all that we have learned throughout the day.
7. Losing Sleep Can Make You Gain Weight -When it comes to body weight, it may be that if you snooze, you lose. Lack of sleep seems to be related to an increase in hunger and appetite, and possibly to obesity. According to a 2004 study, people who sleep less than six hours a day were almost 30 percent more likely to become obese than those who slept seven to nine hours.
Recent research has focused on the link between sleep and the peptides that regulate appetite. "Ghrelin stimulates hunger and leptin signals satiety to the brain and suppresses appetite," says Siebern. "Shortened sleep time is associated with decreases in leptin and elevations in ghrelin."
Not only does sleep loss appear to stimulate appetite. It also stimulates cravings for high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods. Ongoing studies are considering whether adequate sleep should be a standard part of weight loss programs.
8. Lack of Sleep May Increase Risk of Death -In the "Whitehall II Study," British researchers looked at how sleep patterns affected the mortality of more than 10,000 British civil servants over two decades. The results, published in 2007, showed that those who had cut their sleep from seven to five hours or fewer a night nearly doubled their risk of death from all causes. In particular, lack of sleep doubled the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
9. Sleep Loss Impairs Judgment, Especially About Sleep – Lack of sleep can affect our interpretation of events. This hurts our ability to make sound judgments because we may not assess situations accurately and act on them wisely. "Studies show that over time, people who are getting six hours of sleep, instead of seven or eight, begin to feel that they've adapted to that sleep deprivation — they've gotten used to it," Gehrman says. "But if you look at how they actually do on tests of mental alertness and performance, they continue to go downhill. So there's a point in sleep deprivation when we lose touch with how impaired we are."


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I bought Little Yum-Yum an InnoTab Max a little while ago. I had forgotten about it until recently when I (re)discovered it.
A fun way to learn, he uses his 'tablet' (as he calls it) for various activities. On this occasion, he was using it to help with sums. The characters Cody and Cora are at the beach, when each sees a different number of crabs, sea turtles, shells and so forth. Once each group has been counted, Maximus must then add the two amounts together, then select the right total from the multiple choice option.
He got all the sums right by using his fingers to count.
Maximus now uses his 'tablet' everyday, completing activities without me having to tell him to do so. An ingenious device!