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This set of Embedded Systems Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on "Task Swapping Methods".
1. Which task swapping method does not require the time critical operations?
a) time slice
b) pre-emption
c) cooperative multitasking
d) schedule algorithm
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Explanation: Time-critical operations are not essential in the time slice mechanism. Time slice mechanism describes the task switching in a particular time slot.
2. Which task swap method works in a regular periodic point?
a) pre-emption
b) time slice
c) schedule algorithm
d) cooperative multitasking
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Explanation: The time slicing works by switching task in regular periodic points in time, that is, any task that needs to run next will have to wait until the current time slice is completed.
3. Which of the following determines the next task in the time slice method of task swapping?
a) scheduling program
b) scheduling application
c) scheduling algorithm
d) scheduling task
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Explanation: The time slice mechanism can also be used as a scheduling method in which the task to run next is determined by the scheduling algorithm.
4. Which of the following can be used to distribute the time slice across all the task?
a) timer
b) counter
c) round-robin
d) task slicing
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Explanation: The time slice based system uses fairness scheduler or round robin to distribute the time slices across all the tasks that need to run in a particular time slot.
5. What do a time slice period plus a context switch time of the processor determines?
a) scheduling task
b) scheduling algorithm
c) context task
d) context switch time
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Explanation: The context switch time of the processor along with the time slice period determines the context switch time of the system which is an important factor in system response, that is, the time period can be reduced to improve the context switching of the system which will increase the number of task switches.
6. Which can increase the number of task switches?
a) time period
b) frequency
c) time rate
d) number of cycles
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Explanation: The time period can be reduced to improve the context switching of the system which will increase the number of task switches.
7. Which mechanism is used behind the Windows 3.1?
a) time slice
b) pre-emption
c) cooperative multitasking
d) scheduling algorithm
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Explanation: The cooperative multitasking mechanism is used the Windows 3.1 but it is not applicable to the real-time operating systems.
8. Which of the following provides an illusion of multitasking?
a) single task operating system
b) multitasking operating system
c) cooperative multitasking
d) pre-emption
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Explanation: The cooperative multitasking co-operates between them which provides the illusion of multitasking. This is done by periodically executing the tasks.
9. Which task method follows a currently running task to be stopped by a higher priority task?
a) scheduling algorithm
b) time slice
c) cooperative multitasking
d) pre-emption
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Explanation: The pre-emption is an alternative method of the time slice where the currently running task can be stopped or preempted or switched out by a higher priority active task.
10. Which of the following requires programming within the application?
a) time slice
b) scheduling algorithm
c) pre-emption
d) cooperative multitasking
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Explanation: The cooperative multitasking requires programming within the application and the system can be destroyed by a single program which hogs all the processing power. Therefore, it is not applicable in the real-time operating system.
11. What does RMS stand for?
a) rate monotonic scheduling
b) rate machine scheduling
c) rate monotonic software
d) rate machine software
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Explanation: The rate monotonic scheduling is a method that is used to assign priority for a pre-emptive system such that the correct execution can be guaranteed.
12. Which of the following task swapping method is a better choice in the embedded systems design?
a) RMS
b) pre-emptive
c) cooperative multitasking
d) time slice
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Explanation: The pre-emptive method of task swapping is the first choice for embedded system design because of its better system response.
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Saturday, 19 January 2013
Fairtrade Christmas Fair
I'm a bit late with this one, but I only just thought to check out Hay TV to see what videos they are showing at the moment. There's a five minute video of the Fairtrade fair, with interviews with many of the stall holders, including Chris, who has taken the lion's share of organising the Fair up to now. Here's the link to the video (I can't manage workable links on this blog - I'm afraid it's a case of cut and paste): http://www.hayontv.com/musicvideo.php?vid=038f2a4f8
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Spectators at the Salomon Superpipe and Playstation Big Air, the last two events of the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, got a good look at the latest progression in skiing and snowboarding, with athletes trying and landing new tricks while raising the bar once again.
Last year a switch 1080 on skis was the top trick in the big air events, but in 2006 it seemed to be the minimum requirement for qualifying for the finals.
Crispin Lipscomb also pushed the boundaries in snowboarding, landing three 1440s – four complete rotations, landing switch – in the superpipe. For the women, a 720 in the halfpipe, landing backwards, was also becoming a stock move, and several athletes managed to squeeze 900 spins into their runs.
Putting skiers and snowboarders together definitely didn't solve the "who's better" argument, but instead provided a good contrast of skills and talents.
Salomon Superpipe
After a week of rain, snow and fog during training and qualifications, riders and skiers awoke to blue skies and sunshine on Saturday.
The snowboarders went first on a pipe that was well groomed but still ice hard, making for some fast transitions and big air.
In the women's heat the momentum from the start belonged to Soko Yamaoka of Japan, who posted a big but safe run to take an early lead. Dominique Vallée, a Whistler rider who lives in Squamish, followed up with a strong first run of her own, while Tricia Byrnes of the U.S. had a little more trouble figuring out the pipe but still managed to rank third.
Things stayed the same through two more runs, although Trica Byrnes' last run was almost good enough to knock Vallée out of second place.
The men's competition was nothing short of amazing, with Whistler's Crispin Lipscomb, who has been on the podium in the TWSSF three times, setting the bar high from the beginning with a stock run that went from a big straight air, to a 1080, to a cab 720, to a frontside 900, to another backside air, and finished with a stylish air to fakie. The run was worth a score of 9.0, and nobody would touch it through three more runs.
"Sunny days are always good, it was so cloudy for so long," he said. "When I woke up and it was sunny I was so excited, I felt ready to land everything."
Although it's the end of a long season, Lipscomb says if Blackcomb was open another three weeks he'd be up every single day because the conditions were so good.


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Ode to the Mini Van
She's more than just a mom-mobile. We are putting our beloved Honda Odyssey up for sale. It's going to sit on the "lemon lot" at Ramstein Air Base hoping to find a new owner. It's a sad day for us, but an inevitable one. We have purchased a fancy European car after being here two years. It's not without a few tears and a bit of regret that we must pass our amazing family mobile to another deserving military family overseas. Nearly ten years ago we purchased it, I cried then, … [Read more...]
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Spring Night at Ginza
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signed Shiro with artist's seal Shiro saku, the title on the upper right margin, Shun no yoru, Ginza, and dated below, Showa kyunen yongatsu (Showa 9 [1934], 4th month), with publisher's Hotei 'D' seal Hanken shoyu fukyo mosha Watanabe Shozaburo (Copyright ownership, reproduction not allowed without permission, Watanabe Shozaburo), ca. 1934
oban tate-e 15 1/4 by 10 1/8 in., 38.8 by 25.7 cm
Koyama Shuko, Beautiful Shin Hanga- Revitalization of Ukiyo-e, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2009, no. 3-32
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|Lisson Grove
Church Street Market, Lisson Grove
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Lisson Grove is a district and a street of the City of Westminster, London, just to the north of the city ring road. There are many landmarks surrounding the area. To the north is Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood. To the west are Little Venice, Paddington and Watling Street. To the north east is Primrose Hill and south east is Marylebone, which includes the railway station and Dorset Square, the original home of the Marylebone Cricket Club. It is west of the London Planetarium, Madame Tussaud's, Baker Street and Regent's Park. The postal districts are NW1 and NW8.
For a history of the etymology behind the district's street names see Street names of Lisson Grove
Lisson Green is described as a hamlet in the Domesday book in 1086, the edges of the settlement defined by the two current Edgware Road stations facing onto Edgware Road or Watling Street as it was previously known, one of the main Roman thoroughfares in and out of London. Occasionally referred to as Lissom Grove, originally Lisson Grove was part of the medieval manor of Lilestone which stretched as far as Hampstead. Lisson Green as a manor broke away c. 1236 with its own manor house. Paddington Green formed part of the original Lilestone estate
One of Lisson Green village's first attractions would have been the Yorkshire Stingo, a public house probably visited by Samuel Pepys in 1666 on a visit with a flirtatious widow. Stingo was the name of a particular Yorkshire ale. On Saturdays during the 1780s, lascars, former sailors from Bengal, Yemen, Portuguese Goa employed by the East India Company left stranded and destitute in London would gather to receive a small subsidy.
Until the late 18th century the district remained essentially rural. The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn moved briefly to a farm in Lisson Grove in the spring of 1791 in order to have quiet surroundings in which to compose during his three-year stay in England. The historical painter Benjamin Haydon described a Lisson Grove dinner party with William Wordsworth, John Keats and Charles Lamb at which Lamb got drunk and berated the 'rascally Lake poet' for calling Voltaire a dull fellow.[1] In 1792 The Philological School was opened on the corner of Lisson Grove and Marylebone Road.
Nowadays Lisson Grove is a much improved section of West London, but for over a hundred years it was one of the capital's worst slums.[2] The area was notorious for drinking, crime and prostitution, as well as the extreme poverty of the people and the squalor and dilapidation of the homes they lived in. Local police officers only patrolled the district in pairs, and they described the women of the area as the most drunken, violent and foul-mouthed in all London.[3] The Grove being between Marylebone and Paddington railway stations, and on top of a busy midsection of Regent's Canal, the industrialisation of the area was swift during the 19th century transforming the area from a pastoral outpost on the north western edge of London into a crossroads for goods, cargo and passengers. In 1880 the most substantial building in the road, Portman Buildings, was erected.
Regent's Canal arrived in rural Lisson Grove in 1810 and with the construction of Eyre's Tunnel or Lisson Grove Tunnel under Aberdeen Place in 1816 and Marylebone railway station by H W Braddock for the Great Central Railway on the Portman Nursery site at the end of the century, the rural Lisson Grove was quickly engulfed by the expanding city during the 1800s.[4]
It was during the early 1800s that painters from the Royal Academy, including a coterie of various student artists calling themselves the Shoreham Ancients inspired and congregating around William Blake, began to settle in and around Lisson Grove. In 1812, John Linnell, who was to become a major patron of Blake's work, visited his friend Charles Heathcote Tatham, an architect who had built himself a majestic house in the open fields of the area of Lisson Grove between Park Road and Lisson Grove (the road) to paint the view of the surrounding fields of his garden.[5] No. 34 Alpha Cottages is memorialised in the name of a block of flats on Ashmill Street, opposite Ranston (formerly Charles) Street and Cosway Street.
One such friend and colleague of Blake was Richard Cosway whose studio on Stafford Street was renamed as Cosway Street. "Cosway was not only a famous and fashionable painter; he was also a mesmerist and magician who practised arcana related to alchemical and cabbalistic teaching. There are reports of erotic ceremonies, the imbibing of drugs or 'elixirs', and ritual nudity. Blake was no stranger to the symbols or beliefs of a man such as Cosway – the manuscript of the poem he was writing contains many drawings of bizarre sexual imagery, including women sporting giant phalli and children engaged in erotic practices with adults."[6]
In 1829 the Catholic church of Our Lady was built. Designed by J.J. Scoles in the new Gothic style, it was one of the first Catholic churches following the Catholic Emancipation Act. Nearby on Harewood Avenue the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy was also established as part of the Catholic Mission in St. John's Wood, serving the large Irish community attracted by the railway, canal and construction work. The same year George Shillibeer operated the first London omnibus from the Yorkshire Stingo taking passengers to Bank.
Lisson Grove hosted the first of London's Victorian Turkish baths—which were to become a fashionable trend towards the latter half of the 19th century—when Roger Evans established one in 1860 at his house on Bell Street.[7]
A critical social commentary reads:
This is the side of Lisson Grove which is supposed to contain the decent poor; and on the other side, in the streets leading into the Edgeware Road, is a more densely crowded and even lower population. Bell Street, now famous in history as the spot where Turkish baths were first established, is the main stream of a low colony, with many tributary channels. There is no particular manufacture in the neighbourhood to call the population together; a great number are not dependent upon St. John's Wood or the Regent's Park for a living; and they come together simply because they like the houses, the rents, the inhabitants, and the general tone of living in the settlement.— John Hollingshead, 'Social London', 1861, [8]
Hollingshead was, of course, referring only to the first such bath in London. The first Victorian Turkish bath was actually built near Cork in Ireland in 1856, while the first in England opened in Manchester in 1857.[9]
During the latter part of the 19th century a number of artisans and workers' flats and cottages sprang up from social housing initiatives spearheaded by Octavia Hill and the Peabody Trust. Across the road from The Green Man Inn, in 1884 Miles Building was built by the Improved Industrial Dwellings Association, facing Bell Street and Penfold Place.
John Nash as a director of the Regent's Canal Company formed in 1812 began building detached villas set in gardens facing onto either side of the section of the canal running parallel to Lodge Road. Ultimately destroyed in 1900 in order to make way for St John's Wood electricity sub-station (North Bank) and Lisson Grove housing estate (South Bank) the enclave of distinctive white villas bisected by the picturesque banks of the canal attracted a literary and journalist set such as George Eliot, along with East India Dock Company employees with a working interest in being near the villas along Lodge Road.
"North and South Bank, have charming, if somewhat dilapidated streets of small villas standing in their own gardens, that ran down to the water and towpath either side of the canal. Incidentally these streets, owing to the eccentricities of some of the inhabitants, and the secrecy provided by the high walls of the gardens, had acquired a somewhat sinister reputation."[10] In 1836 the North Bank was mentioned as being associated with scandal in a local history 'at this point the East India Dock Company whose employees were fairly thick on the ground in St John's Wood'.
While Nash was developing his villas in the north east of Lisson Grove, nearest Regent's Park, Sir Edward Baker (who gave his name to Baker Street) acquired the southern part of Lisson Green in 1821 and built large blocks of flats as an extension of Marylebone.[11] From 1825 Sir Edwin Landseer moved to No 1, St John's Wood Road on the corner of Lisson Grove in a small cottage on the site of Punker's Barn. The journalist George Augustus Henry Sala born in 1828, recalls growing up in Lisson Grove during the 1830s "when the principle public buildings were pawnbrokers, and 'leaving shops', low public houses and beershops and cheap undertakers."
The fictional Eliza Doolittle was born and raised in Lisson Grove and had to pay "four and six a week for a room that wasn't fit for a pig to live in" before coming under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins. These characters from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion are best known to modern audiences from the Lerner and Loewe musical and film adaptation of the play, entitled My Fair Lady. In 1885 the case of 13-year-old Eliza Armstrong, who was sold to a brothel keeper for £5, caused such an outcry that the law was changed and so was the name of the street where she lived (from Charles Street to Ranston Street), such was the dishonourable reputation it had gained.[11]
Lisson Grove was then an area of slum housing with single room tenements. According to the Medical Officer in 1881 "Charles Street contains 33 houses and has a population of 423 all told, that the rooms are let out in tenements, nearly every room being occupied by a family".[12]
In 1881 an editorial in the Marylebone Mercury during an outbreak of typhus fever gives a description of the area.
|History repeats itself. On Thursday the 8th of February, 1877, a discussion took place in the St. Marylebone Vestry on a report brought up by the late Medical Officer of Health as to the sanitary state of certain houses in Charles street, Lisson Grove. Dr. Whitmore then reported that Nos. 1, 2, and 3, in that street were unfit for human habitation, and the surveyor stated the repairs necessary to make the tenements habitable. On the 29th September, 1881, Dr. Whitmore's successor reported to the St. Marylebone Vestry that Nos. 1, 2, and 3, and others, in Charles street, Lisson Grove, were unfit for human habitation, and the surveyor testified to the fact that he had examined some of the houses, and under the boarding in the kitchens of these dwellings, which were crowded with families, lay soil to the depth of five feet; that an outbreak of typhus fever was the result of this accumulation of filth of the worse description; and that fourteen cases of typhus had already occurred in this wretched street. Five years ago, when first reported upon, a Mr Oborn rose up as the ostensible landlord of the premises; but this year a summons is taken by the Vestry Clerk against the "owner", whose name appears to be veiled in obscurity, and a magistrate's order to clear two of the houses (Nos. 2 and 4) of the tenants has, we believe, been served upon the occupiers, although a Mr Ashby appeared in answer to the summons. But we have further evidence as to the unsanitary state of the houses in Charles street; for Mr Thomas Lloyd Lightfoot, an old and experienced – that is, if age and length of service brings experience – inspector of nuisances, told the magistrate that he had been inspecting these houses for a long time, and that more than once notice had been sent prohibiting habitation. And, notwithstanding all this, there appears to be no amendment. At last that terrible scourge, the direct offspring of foul emanations, breaks out, and the Vestry, who are responsible for the conditions necessary to preserve health of the parish, take tardy action. This something akin to locking the stable door after the steed has been stolen. For five years, as we have shown, the same condition of things has prevailed in the houses in Charles street, and the inspector of nuisances has, accepting his own statement, never ceased during that long time to report upon their filthy condition, and yet only now does the Vestry wake up from its lethargy and send its surveyor to examine and report. Thus, things having gone on from bad to worse action of some sort could no longer be delayed. Is it not a fact, may we ask, that when that dreaded scourge smallpox was at its height, Charles street was a very hotbed for propagating the epidemic? So bad at one time did this disease rage in the street, that black flags were actually hung out to warn wayfarers of the danger. This was but last summer; and yet, although those filthy emanations from the closets of the houses which have now been discovered, must have been fermenting then, we know of no action having taken to bring the owners or occupiers of the houses to book. It took a second epidemic in the same year to wake up the parish authorities to the danger of these stinking dens of disease, and now that typhus runs riot in the street, and day after day fresh cases are showing themselves, there is a fear that the work of both Medical Officer and Surveyor will be thwarted, unless the powers given by the Act of Parliament are brought to bear with full force on the parties immediately and directly concerned. The real owner of the property must be got at; a proxy will not do. The fact is, that house-grabbing propensity, which prevails in Marylebone more than in any other parish in London, is a bar to good sanitary arrangements.
It is no uncommon thing to find an owner, lessee, sub-lessee, and landlord all connected with one dwelling house. The rents are gathered in every week from the occupiers by a collector, the only man the tenant ever sees or knows, and to get at the man responsible for repairs is never even attempted by the occupier, who can only grumble to the collector and pay – and sure enough he does pay for his wretched tenement, for it is a common thing to find a family huddled together in a kitchen for which four or even five shillings a-week is demanded. This system of letting, sub-letting, and sub-sub-letting should be rooted out. So long as it exists with such tenfold force, as in Marylebone – so long as leases are so greedily run after, farewell to repairs or sanitary arrangements, house grabbers following up a rule of screwing as much as they can out of the poor, and often doing absolutely nothing to conduce cleanliness or health, comfort or convenience being entirely outside their range of consideration. And they are quite independent; for, notwithstanding all the drawbacks, these wretched dwellings are never without tenants.[13]
The Medical Officer employed by the Board of Guardians, Dr Norman Kerr, wrote a letter to the local paper about the outbreak:
|The Fever Dens
Extraordinary Revelations
|Sir,—Permit me to give an emphatic contradiction to the Report of the Sanitary Committee to the St. Marylebone Vestry yesterday, that at recent Interview with the Committee I stated I had no charge to bring against the Sanitary Authorities. What I did say was that I did not blame individuals, but the system pursued for the past, for the failure of the Sanitary Authority of the parish (in other words the Vestry) to prevent the epidemic of typhus fever (still spreading), and to arrest it immediately after its outbreak. There have been 41 cases in all, with six deaths up to the present. The Sanitary authority, typhus being at once the most contagious and the most easily preventable of diseases, ought to have suppressed the epidemic more than a month ago, and thus saved several lives. Had I not stepped in, at some detriment to health and private practice (keeping up only with the aid of professional assistance, constant Turkish baths, extra diet, and the non-use of stimulants) and discharged the duty the Vestry neglected, the cases would have numbered hundreds, and the deaths at least twenties. Typhus cannot survive fresh air, and the removal excellent hygienic conditions of Homerton Fever Hospital has saved probably 17 lives that would have been lost had the patients remained in their insanitary homes. Of the cases so removed a number ought to have been attended to by the Vestry. I had nothing to do with these, but had not the heart to see them die without a chance of life. The paupers are the care of the Guardians, and right well do these gentlemen fulfil their trust. But no one seems to care whether struggling ratepayers, who are not paupers, live or die. In March last from a non-pauper case of smallpox, which was not removed by the Vestry, 11 cases followed in Charles-street. I also told the Committee that their professed disinfection was but an outside cleaning of the cup and platter, and was a delusion and a snare. Where attempted it was practically valueless; and I instanced 2 recent cases where no attempt was made. One was a man who was allowed to sleep on the infected bed from which a case had been sent the week before. The other was the poor woman on whom the inquest was held, and who slept and died in the disinfected bed from which her child had been taken seven days previously.
About nineteen years ago there was an outbreak of Typhus Fever in the same street and neighbourhood, when the relieving officer (then called Inspector) and the district medical officer caught the disease and died. The sanitary authorities ought to have at once remedied the insanitation; but, after repeated subsequent epidemics of contagious diseases, the sewerage from the houses is still semi stagnant and defective, and one house is actually built over a privy, which latter ventilates between the boards into the inhabited room above. I cast no reflection on my friend. Dr. Blyth and his staff, or even on the Vestry. The traditional conservatism of the ancien regime has been too much for them; but I venture to appeal to the latter intelligent and spirited body to immediately re-organise their system, and systematically ascertain the sanitary condition of the whole parish. By so they will earn the respect and gratitude of the community.[14]
Action was then taken by the Vestry.
|Now that the Vestry have got at the root of the matter, there is every probability of the scandalous state of things sanitary which has prevailed in Charles Street, Lisson Grove, for so long a time being remedied. Ground landlord, freeholder, leaseholder, and sub-leaseholder, have, after much research, been traced; and from the fat knight who owns the land on which the wretched tenements are built and the lean attorney and his clients who hold the freeholds and the leases, something more than promises have been made that sweeping changes will be at once carried out. For several of the houses there is not a shadow of doubt, but that to reform them off the face of the earth is the only remedy, and there is now every hope that the Vestry of Marylebone, in the exercise of power invested in them by Act of Parliament, will demand that those death-dealing dens be razed to the ground and habitable dwellings be erected in their stead. There is one thing in which special attention should be directed in the re-erection of these houses – that is, the foundations on which they are built, and for the best of reasons. Some quarter of a century ago, when open cesspools were prohibited and London landlords were compelled by law to introduce other conveniences into their houses, to save expense these open cesspools were frequently bricked over when filled with soil of the filthiest description. This soil, in many instances five or six feet deep, has now and again been found under Marylebone houses when occasion arose to examine the foundations and repair drains. It is not so very long ago since, in a street close to Charles Street, one of these yawning gulphs of filth was discovered which actually ran across the backyards of five houses, had sapped the foundations of all five, and when emptied was found to contain twenty cartloads of foul emanations, which had been fermenting close to these dwellings for over a score of years. And those covered up cesspools, we are told, are not restricted to the poor streets of the parish, but lie contiguous to the best houses in the finest streets and squares. May not the accumulation of foecal matter found under the condemned houses of in Charles Street be the remains of old cesspools, which instead of being emptied and filled up with earth and rubbish when the law to abolish such abominable nuisances came into force, were, to save the landlord's pocket, simply bricked over, their contents gradually working into the soil underlying the floors of the houses? And is it not probable that every typhus den in Charles Street has a bricked up cesspool close to it? Our Medical Officer of Health is new to London, and he may not be aware that a quarter of a century ago the cesspools and night cart were essentials of our civilisation; it is for this reason that we direct his attention to what might be the primary cause of the pestilence which – as scarlatina, smallpox, and typhus – has for years been familiar to Charles Street and neighbourhood. "Primary causes" are often discussed in the "Chronicles of the Health of St. Marylebone;" we are convinced that an investigation such as we have pointed out will lay bare a set of primary causes which will astonish sanitarians, and lead up to the conclusion that the real cause of these epidemics is not so much due to dilapidated and overcrowded houses as to the air which is daily and nightly breathed, the product of the foul odours of stored up filth.[15]
It was not until 1898 that major changes were recommended.
Healthy dwellings for the working classes to be erected
|An important and interesting discussion took place at last week's meeting of the Marylebone Vestry; when the Sanitary Committee brought forward a recommendation advising the Vestry to take drastic steps with regard to certain insanitary and unhealthy dwellings in the Lisson Grove district. The recommendation was follows:- That it appears to the committee the bad conditions and sanitary defects of the buildings in Nightingale street, Stamford street (excepting the school), are of such a nature that it is necessary to demolish the said buildings, and to construct on the site, suitable dwellings for the working classes , and that the area is too small to be dealt with under part one of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, and therefore, the committee recommend the Vestry to direct that a scheme be prepared for the improvement of the said area.
Dr Snape, in moving the adoption of the recommendation, said the matter had come before the Sanitary Committee, on the reference by the Vestry, of a report from the Medical Officer of Health. Dr Snape then proceeded to read extracts from the report; and said that although the landlords who owned most of the houses had been summoned, and he had persistently refrained from putting his property in order. The Sanitary Committee had visited the place and did not think that the Medical Officer had exaggerated the condition of the houses.[16]
In 1890 construction began on Marylebone Railway, completing almost a decade later in 1899. In 1894 Landseer's house was destroyed to make way for railway artisan homes. Penfold Street was to become dominated by the Great Central Goods Depot Yard,[17] along which a number of public houses sprang up: the Lord Frampton (now residential flats), the Richmond Arms and The Crown Hotel (known as Crocker's Folly since 1987). In 1886–96 the newly named Ranston Street saw a number of Almond & St Botolphs Cottages (nos. 14–19) built under the initiative of social reformer Octavia Hill.[18] As a strong advocate of small scale housing, cottages and mixed developments, she described these cottages as an experimental form of 'compound housing' e.g. maisonettes in her 1897 Letter to Fellow Workers.
In 1897, local entrepreneur Frank Crocker, who also owned The Volunteer in Kilburn, had architect C.H. Worley of Welbeck Street draw up plans for an ornately eclectic public house The Crown Hotel, to be renamed Crocker's Folly from 1987, on the corner of Aberdeen Place and Cunningham Place, housing several Saloon bars on the ground floor with a hotel, dining rooms and a concert room on the floors above.[19] Grade II* listed, it is currently under refurbishment as at September 2013.
In 1903 the Home for Female Orphans[20] was on the corner of Lisson Grove and St John's Wood Road. In November 1906 Henry Sylvester Williams (b.1867 – d.1911), a Trinidadian lawyer and anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner, was elected to the St Marylebone Borough Council for Church Street Ward as the first black councillor in what is now the City of Westminster. A green plaque at 38 Church Street marks where Williams lived from 1906-1908. Edgware Road (Bakerloo line) underground station opened in 1907 in a narrow parade of shops, with exits onto Edgware Road and Bell Street.
Following World War One, Lloyd George announced "homes fit for heroes", leading to a housing boom from which Lisson Grove was to benefit. In 1924, Fisherton Street estate was completed by St Marylebone Council with seven apartment blocks in red-brick neo-Georgian style with high mansard roofs grouped around two courtyards. Noted for their innovation as some of the first social housing to include an indoor bathroom and toilet, in 1990 the estate was defined as the Fisherton Street Conservation Area[21] The blocks were named mostly for the notable former residents of Lisson Grove and its surrounding areas, which drew Victorian landscape painters, sculptors, portraitists and architects:
After the First World War dining rooms at 35 Lisson Grove became a fish bar, called the Sea Shell from 1964. Now on the corner of Shroton Street, the restaurant is one of London's most highly rated fish and chip shops.[citation needed]
In 1960 the first Labour Exchange was established on Lisson Grove to much fanfare,[22] and later featured in punk music history as the place where Joe Strummer was to meet fellow The Clash member.
The area has a long association with art, artists and theatre. In 1810 the Royal Academy catalogues give sculptor Charles Rossi's address as 21 Lisson Grove, where he had bought a large house. By 1817, Rossi was renting out a section of the house to painter Benjamin Haydon. A blue plaque on the corner of Rossmore Road and Lisson Grove marks the spot and in 2000 author Penelope Hughes-Hallett wrote The Immortal Dinner with the focus on Haydon's dining companions invited to his Lisson Grove abode on 28 December 1817.[28] Haydon's protégé Edwin Landseer lived north on Lisson Grove on the corner of St John's Wood Road from 1825.
The arrival of Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema at nearby 44, Grove End Road in the late 1870s inspired the naming of one of the Lilestone Estate apartment blocks built in the 1920s as Tadema House.[29] Eastlake House, situated opposite Tadema House, is possibly named for Charles Eastlake whose Eastlake Movement's underlying ethos of simple decorative devices that were affordable and easy to keep clean would have been of interest to those developing social housing in the 20th Century.
On Bell Street, the Lisson Gallery, established in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail, championed the new British sculptors of the 1980s and continues to show new and established artists, with expanded premises further along Bell Street. Mark Jason Gallery at No 1 Bell Street specialises in promoting contemporary British and international artists.[30] At No 17, Bell Street Vintage Wireless London has existed since 1979, selling a wide assortment of vintage turntables, radiograms, wirelesses, dansettes, reel-to-reels, amps and mikes.
In 2006 the Subway Gallery arrived in Joe Strummer's subway (an underpass for crossing beneath the Marylebone Road). Conceived by artist Robert Gordon McHarg III, the space itself is a 1960s kiosk with glass walls which creates a unique showcase for art, interacting naturally with passers by, visitors and the local community.[31]
The Show Room is on Penfold Street, next to the main Aeroworks factory. The Show Room[32] is a non-profit space for contemporary art that is focused on a collaborative and process-driven approach to production, be that artwork, exhibitions, discussions, publications, knowledge and relationships.
Church Street runs parallel to St John's Wood Road and plays host to a varied market Mondays–Saturdays, 8am–6pm selling fruit and vegetables, clothes, and bags amongst other items.[33] Towards the Lisson Grove end of Church Street is Alfie's Antique Market,[34] London's largest indoor market for antiques, collectables, vintage, and 20th century design is in the former Jordans Department Store, decorated with an Egyptian art deco theme similar to the Aeroworks – the indoor market, "houses more than 200 permanent stall holders and covers in excess of 35,000 sq ft of shop space on five floors."[35] Opened in 1976 by Bennie Gray, in the then derelict department store, the Antiques Market has since spawned twenty or so individual shops at the Lisson Grove end of Church Street specialising in mainly 20th-century art and collectables
The Metropolitan Music Hall, re-launched with great refurbishment and extended capacity in 1867, was situated at 267, Edgware Road, opposite Edgware Road (Bakerloo) tube station entrance/exit and Bell Street.[37] Paddington Green police station is now situated on this spot, having moved to make way for the Marylebone flyover.
The Royal West London Theatre was on Church Street, a commemorative plaque above the Church Street Library marking its place.[38] From 1904 onwards Charlie Chaplin trod the boards as a teenager.
Currently Lisson Grove has two theatres.
The Cockpit Theatre on Gateforth Street is a purpose built fringe theatre venue promoting "Theatre of Ideas and ensemble working. Its regular classes and workshops, comfortable bar and friendly team enable this creative hub to support performers, the industry, diverse audiences, the local community and free radicals alike."[39]
The Schmidt hammer lassen-designed City of Westminster College at 25 Paddington Green contains the Siddons Theatre, named for the much acclaimed 18th century tragedienne Sarah Siddons, buried at St Mary on Paddington Green.
Christ church, Cosway Street, designed by Thomas Hardwick in 1822–24 and closed in 1973, now used as business premises.[40]
There a number of nurseries in Lisson Grove, two run by London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) at Luton Street and Lisson Green.
Primary schools are St. Edward's Catholic Primary School, Gateway Academy on Gateforth Street and King Solomon Primary.
King Solomon Academy, an Ark school, was recently established on the site of the former Rutherford School for Boys. The main building of the secondary school is Grade II* listed, designed by Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker in 1957 and completed in 1960. Mannaseh's style has been described as displaying a digested influence of Le Corbusier with traits including "crispness", glazed or tiled pyramids (see the inverted pyramid on the roof of the school and the Egyptian sculpture garden), window walls with fine black mullions, "assertive" gables, and Baker's bold geometrical masonry forms, and grand symmetry and rhythms. The interior lobby is lined in Carrara marble, with corridors lined with Ruabon tiles.[41] When asked "Why the marble, Mr Manasseh?" he was reported as saying "Because it's boy-proof."[42]
Not a particularly popular name for a public house, this was named for the magical artefact, a speaking brass head, 13th century Friar Roger Bacon created, and the subject of legend circulating in the 16th century. The most famous Brazen Head features in James Joyce's Ulysses.
The legend is that the pub is named for a herbalist had lived on the site of the pub, due to the nearby spring which had curative properties. Noted for the eye lotion produced from the spring water, all subsequent leaseholders were obliged to sign a clause requiring them to offer the eye lotion for free on request, in his memory.
As recently as 1954 Stanley Coleman wrote in his 'Treasury of Folklore: London' "that you may ask [at the bar] for eye lotion and the publican will measure you out an ounce or two" though it no longer came from the well in the cellar which had dried up when Edgware Road Tube station had been built on the site.[43]
The nearest London Underground stations are Baker Street, Edgware Road (Bakerloo line), Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines), Paddington station, Warwick Avenue and Marylebone.
Bus routes serving the road Lisson Grove are 139 (West Hampstead to Waterloo via Trafalgar Square), 189 (Brent Cross to Oxford Street).[44]
Edgware Road bus stops for Lisson Grove are served by bus routes 16, 6, 98, 414.[45]
The nearby Lisson Green estate has gone through vital regeneration which saw a huge drop in crime. The estate was a no go area in the 90s and early 2000s due to robberies, drug dealing, violence and gang related activity. The local ward (Church Street) was named the most deprived in London and the South East of England in 2004.
The street gang in the area known as the Lisson Green Mandem are thought to be one of the earliest gang in the area (although the names might have been different before). Police know the gang have altercations with other gangs nearby – Mozart SMG, ASA, Warwick Boys, and the Horror Road Alliance.
The murder of Jevon Henry in 2007 saw five men from the estate jailed for life. It was thought to be a drugs dispute between the two main gangs from the area. One of the gang which is predominantly Bangladeshi youths and another gang which was predominately Black youths.
Jevon Henry, 18, died in January 2007 from a single stab wound to the heart after being set upon by the five men in the Lisson Green Estate in Marylebone. Kamal Abdul, 21, Muhid Abdul, 25, Jubed Miah, 26, Toufajul Miah, 21 and Taz Uddin, 22, must serve minimum terms of up to 19 years.
A witness saw one of the men strike Jevon with a hammer, jurors heard. She called out in an attempt to make the attacker flee, before leaving the scene briefly to phone 999. When she returned she saw Jevon stagger across a car park before collapsing. He died of his injuries in St Mary's Hospital the next day.
Thugs from the estate are thought to have committed rioting and looting throughout the riots in August 2011. They teamed up with the Ladbroke Grove Bloods to cause havoc throughout west London. The 70 strong gang set off along Queensway, kicking their way into a Gala Casino as staff tried to push a sofa against the glass doors to block their entry. In CCTV footage, one member of staff can be seen trying to fight the yobs off with an umbrella, before fleeing into a back room. One worker had his arm broken by one of the attackers, who stole cash from behind the counter. 16 youths were arrested.
in Pygmalion, the leading character Eliza Doolittle was partly inspired by a child prostitution scandal in Lisson Grove and the West End,[46] and Higgins claimed to be able to pinpoint her way of speaking to Lisson Grove.
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Business conference among South African companies edged up just slightly in November, with the momentum seen since September slowing, a survey showed on Thursday.
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry's (Sacci) business confidence index (BCI) for November 2018 measured 96.1, up just 0.3 index points month-on-month.
Sacci said: "The upward momentum of the BCI since September 2018 appears to have flattened and it is the second time this year that the business climate hesitated after encouraging steps to develop and enhanced business confidence."
It said the economy continued to face various limitations due to inadequate growth, growing public debt, capital outflows, world trade tensions, fiscal constraints and several socio-political challenges that prevented optimal economic performance.
South Africa exited a technical recession in the third quarter, but overall growth is expected to be anaemic at 0.7% in 2018, much lower than the 1.5% of the National Treasury forecast in February.
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In the last quarterfinal matchup in the FIFA World Cup, hosts Russia look to continue their Cinderella story as they face Croatia in a bid to move on to the semi-final of the competition.
The Russians have been very impressive so far and are looking to topple another team who are heavily favoured over them as they try to give their home fans more to cheer for.
Their progression has been the narrative of an exciting FIFA World Cup so far, with minnows beating giants and matches have all been competitive for the most part.
Now with so much on the line, Croatia are looking to continue changing people's opinion on them as they charge to become real contenders.
Here are pointers for both squads and how the match might play out.
Despite being ranked the lowest among the initial 32 teams involved in the World Cup, Russia have continued to defy the odds and now see themselves one of the last eight standing.
They opened their campaign with impressive wins over Saudi Arabia and England, putting a total of eight goals past these two teams.
Despite losing to Uruguay, the Russians did enough to finish as runners-up in Group A and were given the daunting task to face the 2010 World Cup winners in Spain.
Being down 1-0, the Russians found the strength to battle back and eventually even the game, doing enough to neutralise anything that the Spaniards could have done to beat them.
With the match boiling down to a penalty shootout, Russia's Igor Akinfeev displayed why many touted him as the most important player for the nation as he stopped two Spain penalties to carry the team to the quarters.
Now they are set to face another challenge in Croatia and given their discipline especially in defence and their hard-nose style of play, it is extremely difficult to count the Russians out yet again.
Early on in the competition, many were wondering whether Croatia had what it takes to become contenders in the World Cup.
They had the talent with players like Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic, but they were being overlooked against teams like Germany, France, Argentina and even Portugal.
However, in the group stages, the Croatians suddenly showed their potential, going unbeaten in three matches to comfortably win Group D – dispatching teams like Nigeria, Iceland and Argentina.
In the round-of-16, they were pitted against a tough Denmark nation who stretched the Croatians to the limit, needing a penalty shootout to determine a winner after a 1-1 draw after regulation and extra time.
With a 3-2 win on penalties, the Croatians are now only a win away from reaching the semi-finals, and are slightly favourites over the hosts of the competition.
Many expect Mordic and Rakitic to carry the team again and they should be two players extremely difficult to stop and their creativity and ability in front of goal should be vital if they wish to progress in the competition.
This is a very intriguing match as momentum will definitely play a big role in this clash. For Russia, they have defied the odds and counting them out is a mistake.
A big win over one of the favourites showed their determination and that they are ready to take on an enormous task. Buoyed by the support of the crowd, the Russians may have more tricks up their sleeves against Croatia.
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Due to frequent flooding during the rainy season, the dwellings of these climates are mostly built on stilts. The living room is thereby also a lower covered area given. To withstand occasional violent storms, the cornerstones are attached by means of ground anchors.
During my stay in India I realized that would at long-term dry / hot conditions wall insulation with cooling effect evaporator walls mind. The preparation should be cost-effective, feasible in DIY and module components - be - ie locally transportable:
Wall module frames were covered this in three differents layers: Outwardly a shiny silver or white PVC fabric covering is applied. 5 cm deep is a 2 mm thin Earth fleece to absorb water hooked into the frame. For the flow-wetting in the hot and dry months a perforated water hose is installed above on the fleece. When sprinkler hose with valve timing these are commercially available.
The inside view wall (back to 5 cm distance) is also made moist resistant, pleasing decorative fabric. Top and bottom can be adjusted the desired circulation over narrow louvers. The upward as downward flow is now to the wet (in the rainy season dry unprocessed) fleece: down to one, up and evaporating, between the fleece and the outer skin, and on the other and a cooling in the inner level, between the wet fleece and the decorative fabric.
The slight sloping roof is made with only two layers. This form upwards beyond a hot air discharging duct. All this works without a fan or pump. By means of a mosquito net sliding door (added to the solid door) and a top hatch can dispense the room air exchange.
Several times a year the internal fleece is to be exposed to the sun and shaken afterwards and placed again. By cleaning all surfaces and parts of unhealthy germs development is prevented.
In the Lotus cloud be taxed with solar power and solar-generated hot water generate (with tank on top of the hut) energy. Also, a biologically operating small treatment plant is recommended.
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The usage of rough vacuum inside of refrigerators and reefers
This idea is meant to be a suggestion for the production of cooling facilities.
The technical approach: In an air-tight case a pump reduces a little the pressure which helps keeping the stored food fresh. Tupperware-effect®.
Upon opening the specially designed door, the previously drained air can immediately stream in again to restore a normal level of pressure. This way, the door can be opened without any hindrance. A sensor or a button reactivates the pump, once the case is closed. The condensed water, which comes up with every opening, is channelled off by a drainage that in turn is sealed when the pressure starts dropping again.
This idea and description was written by: © Michael Thalhammer, Baden bei Wien, 26.02.2013


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The Iowa City Noon Rotary Club is celebrating 100 years of service with its Rev Up for Rotary, Rev Up for Reading raffle drawing.
Buy your tickets now for a chance to win a 2015 Toyota Highlander XLE AWD. Tickets are $25 each or five for $100, with proceeds benefiting the Iowa City Public Library, the Coralville Public Library, the North Liberty Community Library, and Iowa City Noon Rotary community projects.
Tickets can be purchased at the libraries or from an Iowa City Noon Rotary Club member. The winning ticket will be drawn during the club's Centennial Celebration on Thursday, Nov. 5. Tickets are good for a chance at other valuable prizes, including a 7-day Winter Park at a Colorado condominium that sleeps up to eight people.
Winners need not be present to win.
The Iowa City Noon Rotary Club was established in 1915 to bring the ideals of Rotary International to the community, with club members supporting international, national and local efforts to improve health and wellness, education and literacy, and the lives of others. These include but are not exclusive to:
- Polio Plus Campaign – a fundraising campaign to eradicate polio worldwide
- Iowa MOST – funding cleft lip palate surgeries for patients in Central America
- I Can Read – an early literacy project with Sing-a-Long books, CDs and DVDs gifted to local schools
- 4th Grade Dictionary Project – dictionaries are distributed to every fourth grade student in the Iowa City Community School District each year
- Scholarship and travel expenses for local students participating in activities such as Special Olympics and We the People.
For more information about Iowa City Noon Rotary, visit iowacitynoonrotary.org or find them on Facebook under Iowa City Noon Rotary Club.


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The Houston SaberCats scored a try in the 13th minute and gradually increased their lead in the first half before pulling away in the second half to beat the James Bay Athletic Club last Saturday in a pre-season rugby match at Constellation Field.
The turning point in the game was the first 15 minutes of the second half as James Bay was constantly threatening to score but the SaberCats would only give up a penalty goal that made the score 20-13. After that it was all SaberCats as they went on to score three trys and a penalty goal, making the final score 42-13.
"We knew we could play better than we did in the first half," SaberCats' hooker Diego Maquieira said. "At halftime we talked about communicating better and playing together. The second half we played like we should be playing all of the time."
Connor Murphy put the SaberCats on the scoreboard when he scored a try in he 13th minute. Three minutes later, Zach Pangelinan scored a try to increase the SaberCats lead to 10-0. Sam Windsor kicked a drop goal from 40 meters out in the 25th minute to give the SaberCats a 13-0 lead.
James Bay then responded with a try in the 29th minute cutting the lead to 13-5, and after the SaberCats' Sam Windsor was given a yellow card and sent to the sin bin for 10 minutes, James Bay scored another try, and the score was 13-10.
The SaberCats ended the first half on a high note as Josua Vici scored a try and Pangelinan kicked the conversion as the half ended with the SaberCats leading 20-10.
James Bay scored a penalty goal in the 52nd minute, but the SaberCats responded with their penalty kick to make the score 23-13 after 54 minutes. From then on it was all SaberCats as Vici, Kenneth Hepburn and Osea Kolinisau scored trys, and Windsor made two conversion kicks. The final score was 42-13.
"We played much better in the second half," Jeremy Turner, Director of Team and League Affairs, said. "James Bay is the best club team in Canada and we were able to beat them. We were really strong though out the second half. We played like we should."
The SaberCats are 2-2 in pre-season play. They host the Capital Selects on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Constellation Field.


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uPPER sCHOOL Activities
The Graded Activities Program offers its students the opportunity to participate in a wealth of activities that complement but are not part of the regular curriculum. Through the activities program, students are able to pursue an area of personal interest in a collaborative setting, while building intercultural competence and the opportunity to become engaged, ethical citizens. We believe that:
- Activities are an integral part of Graded's overall curricular program.
- Every student should have the opportunity to become involved to some extent.
- Sponsors and students should, at all levels, develop and exhibit accepted attitudes of cooperation, citizenship, good sportsmanship, and dedication.
The program is intentionally divided into Academics and Leadership, Arts, Athletics, and Service. Students may sign up for activities at any time throughout the year, but keep in mind that some activities are seasonal, so asking earlier in the year is better.
Activities offered are listed below. Please note they may vary from semester to semester. Please consult the Graded Middle School Activities Handbook for the most current list, as well as for specifics such as times, location, requirements, and best ways to join.
|Middle School Activities Handbook
|Badminton Club
Baking for All
Beauty at Graded Club
Chess Club
Coding in Python
Debate Club
Destination Imagination
Drama Club
Film Club
Graded Happiness Club
Graded Instrument Learning Center (GILC)
Graded Live
Graded Mentoring and Tutoring Program (GMT)
Graded STEM Club
Graded Table Tennis Club
HACIA Democracy
Honor Choir
Investment Club


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We all have those certain songs that pump us up. You know, the ones you listen to when it's time to get chores done. There's also the opposite end of the spectrum: the songs that we listen to when we're sad (to get even sadder?), the ones we listen to help us sleep, the ones we listen to when we're feeling some kind, any kind, of way. Don't underestimate the psychological effects of music… it has the power to put us in just about any mood. So let's get in the mood to hit that PR on the squat or deadlift, and let's look at the powers of music.
Listening To Music May Increase Strength
That's right. A study was done to show the effects of music on grip strength, and the results were shocking. The group that listened to the more stimulative music (energizing music) performed with a much better grip strength. The group that listened to sedative music performed even worse than the group who just listened to white noise. Men showed better grip strength than women, but there was no interaction between gender and music condition.
The Right Music Stimulates The Nervous System
Another study showed that the right kind of music stimulates the nervous system. Notice how it's "the right kind of music." That's important. Sedative and calming music won't increase endorphins and energy to a great degree, and might even cause the opposite. We want music that is going to pump us up. This is individual preference, but try to stay away from calming music while lifting… unless it hypes you up.
Music Increases Adrenaline Levels While Exercising
A study done in 2003 shows increased adrenaline levels from listening to fast-paced music before exercising. While the type of music didn't have any effect on workout performance, the rhythm of the music did. Fast-paced music increased adrenaline while slow-paced music did the opposite, so be careful of what you keep on your workout playlist.
Indirect Benefits
Music increases adrenaline, and adrenaline works wonders for us fitness junkies. Adrenaline has been shown to do the following (along with more benefits of listening to music):
- Induces lipolysis (breakdown of fatty acids to be used for energy)
- May improve oxygen efficiency
- Helps with pace while doing cardio
- Can help your sprint times
What If I Don't Want To Listen To Music While Lifting?
That's perfectly fine. Some people (err, a lot of people), use the gym as an escape route, a way to tune out the world for a while. If you enjoy lifting without music, and just want to enjoy the lifting in silence, that's cool too. But if you enjoy listening to music, at least give it a shot once in awhile when you go to lift weights. Music has plenty of benefits for us weightlifters, and as a natural weightlifter, tiny, minuscule advantages can add up to something much bigger.
Take Home Message
Okay. Now you know all the lovely benefits of listening to music while exercising. Now's the time to take advantage of it if you haven't been listening to music prior to reading this article. Remember: keep your playlist uplifting and fast-paced, rather than slow and boring. I think you'll find yourself a bit stronger if you stick with it. As always, stay strong.


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|Location: Billericay, Essex
|Salary: £11 - £12 per hour + vehicle, overtime
|Sector: Highways & Highways Electricals
|Type: Contract
|Contact: Brogan McPake
Street Lighting Operative
I am urgently looking for Experienced Street Lighting Operatives, on behalf of my client, a major highways electrical contractor.
The successful Street Lighting Operative MUST have:
- Ipaf / mewp
- Ecs
- Manual handling
- First Aid
- Driving Licence
- Knowledge of 17th edition
Day to day duties of the Street Lighting Operative:
You will be working on 3 concurrent street lighting projects, including lantern conversions and some installation works. Ideally you will have experience in all aspects of street lighting (installation / maintenance / testing / LED upgrades)
** This contract will be on a temporary to permanent basis **
If you are an experienced Street Lighting Operative, please contact Brogan ASAP or send me your CV if you have the certs and experience required.
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview.


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Our Journey Together
About Debs
Full Name: Debbie Joann Glazerman (Clark)
Birthday/Age: September 11, 1977 - 27 yrs. old
Occupation: 2nd Grade Teacher
Children: 1 daughter, Rebekah - 10 yrs. old
Parents: Jim and Shirley Clark
Siblings: 1 sister, Sonja...brother in-law, Jimmie...a nephew,
Noah (age 5)...and a niece, Maggie (age 2)
Pets: A cat named Harley
Hobbies: Shopping, Scrapbooking, Reading, Watching Movies,
spending time with my two favorite people (Mark and Bekah!)
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Movies: Serendipity, Pretty Woman, and The Goonies
Favorite Type of Food: Mexican
Favorite Season: Spring
Favorite T.V. Shows: Pretty much any reality show!
Pet Peeves: Rudeness, People who drive with their turn signal
flashing when they are not planning on turning, females that call me "hun" or "sweetie" that are younger than me!
I think Mark's best trait is his patience. He is always calm
and cool about everything, which balances me very well!
Debs was born in New Mexico, but having a dad in the Air
Force meant she grew up living in several different places. After living abroad in the Azores, her family
finally settled in Lebanon, Illinois. Here Debs completed both grade school and high school. At the end of her
senior year in high school, she gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Rebekah Lyn. Debs then decided to get her Bachelor's
degree in Elementary Education at McKendree College in Lebanon. During this time, she married Rebekah's father, Glendon,
and remained married to him for the next five and a half years. Upon graduating college in May of 2000, Debs got
her first teaching job at St. Libory Grade School teaching second grade. It was towards the end of her marriage that
Debs started making use of internet chatrooms and here where she found someone that she could confide in about her troubled
marriage. June 2002 saw Debs finalizing her divorce and gaining the independence she'd missed out on for the past six
years. This also provided the perfect opportunity to take what had been an online friendship to the next level.
Now we're happily married and building our life together.
Love one another a little more each day!!


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Rebecca Boyette helps clients in the healthcare and manufacturing and distribution industries navigate the bumpy road of employment law. She advises on day-to-day issues such as employee handbooks, leave laws, discipline and terminations. When necessary, Rebecca defends clients in court and before state and federal agencies in claims involving discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour, family and medical leave, and disabilities. She works with employers of all sizes, from local businesses with a handful of employees to large national companies with hundreds of employees across multiple states.
Rebecca is a responsive, friendly and efficient practitioner who works collaboratively with clients to find workable solutions to employment issues. Whether crafting employment policies for a small dental practice, advising a large food distribution company on complex employee leave laws or zealously defending a surgical practice in a whistleblower lawsuit, Rebecca will customize her approach to reach clients' goals and respect their budgets.
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt is one of the Pacific Northwest's top law firms, representing individuals and leading companies doing business in the region, across the U.S., and around the globe in a wide range of business and litigation matters. The firm has more than 170 attorneys in Portland, Bend, and Salem, Oregon, and Seattle and Vancouver, Washington. Schwabe attorneys provide a broad range of transaction and litigation services to many of the Pacific Northwest's leading companies, from Fortune 500 industry leaders, to emerging and privately held businesses. The firm is regularly named as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon" by Oregon Business magazine, and as one of "Washington's Best Workplaces" by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Positive employment relations are essential to the overall health of any business. Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt helps employers develop and maintain constructive relationships with their employees. Federal and state laws governing employee relations have increased both in numbers and complexity in recent years, especially in the areas of retaliation, sex and age discrimination, wrongful termination, workplace safety, job security, immigration, business acquisitions, and management/union relations. The firm provides comprehensive employment relations representation to all types of financial, manufacturing, retail, and service businesses.
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As long as we were moving our family halfway across the world, I figured I'd give this blog a new home, too. Welcome to the new Bridget of Arabia!
As you can see, I'm still working on things. I hope to have time over the summer to spruce this place up.
A major change is that my old blogs from Jordan and Syria are now hosted here. You can find them by clicking on the words Jordan or Syria at the top of the page.
I considered changing the name of the blog, but I've realized that even though we won't be living in Arabia starting in August, Arabia is still very much a part of me.
I hope you enjoy the new site, and let me know if you have any problems or suggestions!


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Dress Line Video Shoot!
Tonight was a big, Big, BIG night for myself and the other Red Velvet kiddies. Tonight I finished up all of my samples, got dolled up (by this I mean just myself and watched Elsie doll everyone else up), and then we styled and shot our lookbook video! All of this happened with the help of many including all the Red Velvet usuals, Chris, the models, and Brandon the videographer.
Elsie just posted some photos here
And here are some more peeks from Rachel!
Look Morgan and I match... accident? :)
I also got to wear fake eyelashes, and I feel like I should wear them every day. They're really glam.
Love Mallory.
p.s. I'm really proud that my cruddy camera took this last and first photo (along with a few more that give too much away for now)!