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Buyers discovered their flats were substantially smaller than property company Persimmon's brochure had promised.
Among those who consulted their lawyers were Antonella Montresori and Philip Madams, who measured their £290,000 flat and found the floor space was about 10% smaller than stated. Although the flats had the same number of rooms, some had been reduced in size.
The couple found three other residents in the same situation and when Persimmon refused to pay compensation, they complained to Tower Hamlets trading standards.
In what is thought to be a legal first, the company has now been convicted of selling flats that were smaller than their description - by the size of a double bedroom.
Persimmon (City Developments) Ltd pleaded guilty to four offences of misdescribing flats in the Icon development and was fined £1,000 for each offence and ordered to pay costs. The company now faces multiple actions by residents for damages.
Ms Montresori, 35, and Mr Madams, 40, both computer programmers, are delighted by the verdict. She said: 'We measured our flat and found that it was 11% smaller than th esize that appears in the legal documents. It was meant to be 108.5 square metres but is less than 96.8 square metres.
'Andrew Storey of Persimmon first tried to deny it, but then conceded and said he would offer compensation. But nothing happened.
'We finally met Mr Storey face to face in January 2003, but he said he would not accept a payment 11% smaller than agreed to reflect the true size of the flat.
'We think that at least a third of the flats at the Icon are smaller than the buyers thought.
'We helped two other buyers measure their flats and found both were smaller by around 12 square metres, which is the size of a double bedroom.'
The dispute over the size of the 151 flats was not the only problem at the L-shaped development of interlocking 10-sided towers in Westferry Road on the Isle of Dogs.
The flats, which cost between £275,000-£750,000 and included many with double-height windows and balconies or roof terraces, were sold in 2001.
Buyers had been told by Persimmmon to expect to move in before the end of the year. But they were faced with a succession of delays, followed by the discovery of a series of major defects.
These included faulty lifts, missing front doors, plumbing left unconnected, unfinished walls and exposed electrical wiring. The Icon also failed to comply with important building regulations.
Persimmon said in a statement: 'Following the inclusion of factually inaccurate information within certain Icon literature, we pleaded guilty for this mistake and apologised fully.
'An independent expert's report presented to court and accepted by the prosecutor clearly demonstrates that there was no diminution in value caused by our misrepresentation.'
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About Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible
A spiteful boss, a defiant employee, a manipulative mother, a desperate housewife, an envious sister…honey, we know these women. We've lived with them, worked with them, or caught a glimpse of them in our mirrors.
Now let's take a look at their ancient counterparts in Scripture: Sarah mistreated her maidservant, Hagar despised her mistress, Rebekah manipulated her son, Leah claimed her sister's husband, and Rachel envied her fertile sister.
They were far from evil, but hardly perfect. Mostly good, yet slightly bad. In other words, these matriarchal mamas look a lot like us.
"A Slightly Bad Girl is simply this: a woman unwilling to fully submit to God. We love him, serve him, and worship him, yet we find it difficult to trust him completely, to accept his plan for our lives, to rest in his sovereignty." —from Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible
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Liz Curtis Higgs has one goal: to help women embrace the grace of God with joy and abandon. Liz is the author of more than thirty books, with more than 4.6 million copies in print. In her best-selling series of Bad Girls of the Bible books, workbooks, and videos, Liz breathes new life into ancient tales about the most infamous—and intriguing—women in scriptural history, from Jezebel to Mary Magdalene. Biblically sound and cutting-edge fresh, these popular titles have helped more than one million women around the world experience God's grace anew. The Bad Girls books include Bad Girls of the Bible, Really Bad Girls of the Bible, Unveiling Mary Magdalene, Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible, Rise and Shine, and Embrace Grace.
Liz also offers a twenty-first century take on the Biblical book of Ruth in The Girl's Still Got It, dishing out meat and milk, substance and style, in a highly readable, always entertaining, and deeply personal journey with one of the Good Girls of the Bible. And you'll find a heartwarming Bible study wrapped inside a beautiful gift book with The Women of Christmas. Verse by verse, Liz unwraps the biblical stories of Elizabeth, Mary, and Anna, who each welcome the Christ child into the world in a marvelous and miraculous way.
In her book The Women of Easter, Liz Curtis Higgs shines a spotlight on three Marys who play vital roles in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. 31 Verses to Write on Your Heart explores the favorite verses chosen by more than a thousand women. It's Good to Be Queen encourages readers to become as bold, gracious, and wise as the queen of Sheba, who journeyed across the desert to test the mind and heart of King Solomon.
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Jencks says that Edin's work also represented a "methodological innovation." Rather than obsessing about getting a perfect sample for her study, he says, "she figured out that it was really better to get interviews and observations of people who were willing to trust you and would tell you the truth than it was to get interviews of people who were a random sample of the population who'd lie to you. That came as something of a shock to social scientists. The question of whether people were telling the truth had sort of slipped away."
Next Edin took up the question of why low-income mothers so often put childbearing before marriage. Far from eschewing marriage as an institution, she found, poor women idealized it to such an extent that it became unattainable. They didn't believe that a marriage born in poverty could survive.
In a society that increasingly saw marriage as a choice, not a requirement, low-income women were embracing the same preconditions as middle-class women. They wanted to be "set" before marrying, with economic independence to ensure a more equitable partnership and a fallback should things go bad. They also wanted men who were mature, stable, and who had mortgages and other signs of adulthood, not just jobs.
"People were embracing higher and higher standards for marriage," Edin explains. From a financial standpoint alone, "the men that would have been marriageable [in the 1950s] are no longer marriageable now. That's a cultural change." The low-income women in Edin's study reported that decent, trustworthy, available men were in short supply in their communities, where there were often major sex imbalances thanks to high incarceration rates. This, Edin found, was why low-income women were willing to decouple childbearing from marriage: They believed if they waited until everything was perfect, they might never have children. And children, says Edin, are "the thing in life you can't live without." As one subject explained, "I don't wanna have a big trail of divorce, you know. I'd rather say, 'Yes, I had my kids out of wedlock' than say, 'I married this idiot.' It's like a pride thing."
Marriage was so taboo among her subjects that Edin discovered two couples in her sample who claimed they were unmarried at the time of their babies' birth but were actually not. One of the women had even been chewed out by her grandmother for marrying the father of one of her children.
All through this research, Edin says, she'd never been interested in studying men. "It's fun to write about people with a strong heroic element to the story," she says. "Women have that. Men don't have that. [They're] more complicated; they're dogged with bad choices." In addition, she admits, "I felt hostile after writing about the women. I really had their point of view in my head."
It was Nelson who, after years of working on a book about religious experience in a black church, convinced her otherwise. Together, they spent several years canvassing Camden in search of dads to interview. They stopped men on the street and asked if they'd talk—sometimes right there on the spot. They put up flyers and worked with nonprofit groups and eventually knit together a sample of equal parts black and white men they interviewed at length over the better part of a decade.
Again, what they discovered surprised them. Rather than viewing unplanned fatherhood as a burden, the men almost uniformly saw it as a blessing. "It's so antithetical to a middle-class perspective," Edin says. "But it finally dawned on us that these guys thought that by bringing children in the world they were doing something good in the world." Everything else around them—the violence, the poverty, their economic prospects—was so negative, she explains, a baby was "one little dot of color" on a black-and-white canvas.
Only a small percentage of the men, black or white, said the pregnancy was the result of an accident, and even fewer challenged the paternity. When the babies were born, most of the men reported a desire to be a big part of their lives. Among black men, 9 in 10 reported being deeply involved with their children under the age of two, meaning they had routine, in-person contact with their kids several times a month. But that involvement faded with time. Only a third of black fathers and a quarter of white fathers were still intensively involved with kids older than 10. Among the reasons, Edin identifies unstable relationships with the mothers—the average couple had been together only about six months before conceiving a child. The men also frequently struggled with substance abuse and stints in prison.
Government rules also stood in the way of meaningful fatherhood. The welfare system tends to view an unwed father solely as a paycheck, not as a coparent. In many states, even unwed fathers who live with their children and pay some of the bills can be sent to jail for failing to pay child support. And men who do pay don't necessarily get to see their child.
"At every turn an unmarried man who seeks to be a father, not just a daddy, is rebuffed by a system that pushes him aside with one hand while reaching into his pocket with the other," Edin and Nelson write.
Edin sees in these obstacles to full-time fatherhood a partial explanation for what's known as "multiple-partner fertility." Among low-income, unwed parents, having children with more than one partner is now the norm. One long-running study found that in nearly 60 percent of the unwed couples who had a baby, at least one parent already had a child with another partner.
Multiple-partner fertility is a formula for unstable families, and it's really bad for children, which Edin acknowledges in the book. But rather than view "serial dads" as simply irresponsible, Edin suggests that they suffer from unrequited "father thirst," the desire for the intense experience of being a full-time dad. Consciously or not, they keep trying until they finally sort of get it right, usually with the youngest child, to whom they devote most of their resources at the expense of the older ones.
Some of these insights came from friendships Edin formed while living in Camden. She first met Joe White when he was a teenager participating in an after-school program run by Urban Promise, a nonprofit that helped Edin with her research and on whose board she now serves. White grew up in the notorious (and since-demolished) Westfield Acres housing project; his mom, who struggled with addiction, was once affiliated with a motorcycle gang.
I met White, now 36, at Urban Promise in September with Edin and Nelson. Sitting in the old church building that serves as its headquarters, White is a hulking and jovial figure in gray sweats, a sparkling white T-shirt, and sneakers. Before I can ask him a question, Edin jumps in, and I get a look at her technique in real time. She interrogates White, leaning forward with her blue eyes trained on him, hanging on his every word.
She urges White to talk about his life circa 1995, when they first met. Of the 58 people killed in Camden that year, "I knew at least 20 or 25 of those guys," he says. "Because the city ain't but so big." He describes life in the projects: "Shoot-out right in front, come out to dead bodies." As a teenager, he thought that after high school, "either you're going to be a football player, or you look around and think, 'I'm going to be dead when I'm 18.' So when I got to 18, I was like, 'Yeah!'"
Around that time, White discovered his girlfriend was pregnant. Ecstatic, he told his friends, "I just created a miracle!" White thought he'd overcome some pretty grim odds. "I'm going to be a dad, I'm 18, and I'm still alive! I'm passing a statistic," he recalls.
White's response to impending fatherhood was to look for an income. A number of the men in Edin's book quit high school or college to work low-wage jobs trying to provide for their new children—giving up opportunities that would have helped them become better providers in the long run. Many turn to selling drugs because it pays better.
White began dealing as well. Eventually, he and his son's mother split, and a few years later he had a daughter with another woman. But meanwhile, he'd started using drugs. At 24, he landed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and got clean. "My kids were my saviors," he says. White's girlfriend stuck with him, they had another daughter, and in 2006 they got married.
Today, White works full time at a screen-printing company, where he's been for about 12 years, and spends his free time ferrying kids to sports practices and dentist appointments. He's even got a house with a white fence—PVC, not picket—he put up himself.
Getting here hasn't been easy. At one point, his first son's mother, who now has two more kids, applied for welfare benefits. Even though White had always supported his son, the state automatically took him to court for child support, just as he got laid off from his truck-driving job.
His unemployment benefits were slow to come, so for about four months he had no income. The state threatened to revoke his commercial driver's license. "My driving privilege was my job," he says. He was able to pay in time to save his license, but the experience reinforced his sense that the welfare system "discourages a lot of guys from wanting to do the right thing. I've got family members right now who don't even want to go work, because once child support gets done with their paycheck they've got $45, and that's not enough to pay their bills," he says.
Instead, they're driven into the underground economy. "Don't get me wrong," White says. "There are some deadbeats out there that deserve that treatment. I'm not defending those guys. I'm defending the guys who actually take care of their kids regardless of a court order."
As an academic, Edin generally shies away from policy recommendations. But she says the way to reunify families is not by beating up on men—particularly when the child support system doesn't recognize the realities of the labor market. "To establish a set of policies that require you to be a superhero doesn't make sense," she says. "These men have a tremendous amount to contribute if we can just find a way."
Not everyone comes to the same conclusions. Ron Haskins, a Republican architect of the Clinton-era welfare reform, is an old friend of Edin's but thinks she's being too kind to her subjects. Her book, he says, is "extremely valuable. But I think she put the best possible face on these young men. I think it's possible to be much less sympathetic than she is. Someone has to start demanding that these guys shape up."
Nonetheless, her research may already be prompting some changes. Joe Jones is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Families in Baltimore, which works with low-income men, and serves on Obama's Taskforce on Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families. He says Edin's work has helped inform his effort in Maryland to pass legislation overhauling the welfare system to focus not just on women and children, but on couples and joint parenting. The bill would also offer men more access to job training and other supports that now go almost exclusively to women.
Edin, for her part, is on to another project. This one involves scouring the streets of Cleveland alongside Nelson, on a pair of purple cruiser bikes, to find the growing population of Americans living on less than $2 a day—"a third-world measure of poverty in first-world America," Edin says.
In this pursuit, Edin has become obsessed with plasma centers. She now spends hours sitting in her car outside one, watching people come and go. She has zeroed in on a mother with no teeth who has raised herself since age 12 and recently lost her Walmart job after her aunt's car died and she missed work. Edin is talking to people so poor they're dependent on barter because they never have cash. One man she met is raising 12 children—four from his first wife, who just died of cancer, plus one of hers from another partner; three by his second, estranged wife, plus three of her kids from a previous relationship, and her niece. Since he lost his house in an eviction, they've all been squashed into his parents' three-bedroom home, and he's on the verge of losing the kids to foster care for lack of a bigger place to live.
Edin wants to tell stories like these to a larger audience to show how many people are not just struggling, but falling through the cracks entirely. When you lose the kind of low-wage, part-time work that dominates in places like East Camden, there are rarely unemployment benefits to cushion the blow. Welfare has been decimated, and food stamps can't buy diapers.
Over a steaming bowl of chicken soup near the Urban Promise headquarters in Camden, Nelson and Edin marvel at how little policymakers know about the economic realities that poor people face. "You hear people say there's not material poverty in the US," says Nelson; census data, the argument goes, shows that most of America's poor have TVs and air conditioning. But Edin—who is writing her first mass-market book on extreme poverty with colleague Luke Shaefer—*says the people they're finding in Cleveland and other study sites "aren't in the census." Even she has trouble keeping track of her subjects. "They can just fall right off the map," she says.
This is one reason why "people have been lulled into complacency thinking poverty is solved." With the new book, Edin says, "we're hoping to stoke the American conscience. These people are not a dependent class. They're trying to do the right thing."
Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly implied that Nelson is a co-author of the mass-market book Edin is writing on extreme poverty. Her co-author for that book is another colleague, Luke Shaefer.


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Temporal range: Early Eocene-Holocene, 55.8–0 Ma
|West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus)
|Scientific classification
Illiger, 1811
List of synonyms
The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. The Sirenia comprise the families Dugongidae (the dugong), Trichechidae (manatees), †Protosirenidae (Eocene sirenians), and †Prorastomidae (terrestrial sirenians). Currently, four species of sirenians exist. Sirenians are classified in the clade Paenungulata, alongside the elephants and the hyraxes, and evolved in the Eocene 50 million years ago. The Dugongidae diverged from the Trichechidae in the late Eocene or early Oligocene.
Sirenians grow to between 2.5 and 4 m (8.2 and 13.1 ft) in length and 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) in weight. The now extinct Steller's sea cow was the largest sirenian to have lived, and could reach lengths of 8 m (26 ft) and weights of 8 to 10 t (8.8 to 11.0 short tons). Sirenians have a large, fusiform body to prevent drag through the water. They have heavy bones that act as ballasts to counteract the buoyancy of their blubber. They have a thin layer of blubber and consequently are sensitive to temperature fluctuations, which cause migrations when water temperatures dip too low. Sirenians are slow-moving, typically coasting at 8 km/h (5.0 mph), but they can reach 24 km/h (15 mph) in short bursts. They use their strong lips to pull out seagrasses, consuming 10–15% of their body weight per day. While breathing, they hold just their nostrils above the surface, sometimes standing on their tails to do so. Sirenians typically inhabit warm, shallow, coastal waters or rivers. They are mainly herbivorous, but have been known to consume animals such as birds and jellyfish. Males typically mate with more than one female (polygyny), and may participate in lek mating. Sirenians are K-selectors, and display parental care.
The meat, oil, bones, and skins are valuable items sold in markets. Mortality is often caused by direct hunting by humans or other human-induced causes, such as habitat destruction, entanglement in fishing gear, and watercraft collisions. Steller's sea cow went extinct due to overhunting in 1768.
Sirenia, commonly sirenians, are also referred to by the common name sirens, deriving from the sirens of Greek mythology.[2][3] This comes from a legend about their discovery, involving lonely sailors mistaking them for mermaids.
Seekoei (sea cow) is also the name for a hippopotamus in Afrikaans. In some Germanic languages, see can mean either a body of fresh or salt water, so this follows from the species inhabiting lakes in southern Africa rather than the sea itself.
Sirenians are classified within the cohort Afrotheria in the clade Paenungulata, alongside the Proboscidea (elephants), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), and two extinct orders, the Embrithopoda and Desmostylia.[4][5][6] This clade was first established by George Gaylord Simpson in 1945 based on anatomical evidence, such as testicondy and similar fetal development. The Paenungulata, along with the Afrotheria, are one of the most well-supported mammalian clades in molecular phylogeny.[7]
|A cladogram of the Sirenia within Afrotheria based on molecular evidence[4]
|Species of Sirenia
Family Dugongidae[8]— View by clicking [show] —
Family Trichechidae[11]— View by clicking [show] —
†Family Protosirenidae[12]— View by clicking [show] —
†Family Prorastomidae[13]— View by clicking [show] —
|Extant Order Sirenia – two genera, four species
|Genus Trichechus (manatees) Linnaeus, 1758 – three species
|Common name
|Scientific name
|West Indian manatee
|T. manatus Linnaeus, 1758
|African manatee
|T. senegalensis Link, 1795
|Amazonian manatee
|T. inunguis Natterer, 1883
|Genus Dugong de Lacépède, 1799 – one species
|Common name
|Scientific name
|D. dugon Müller, 1776
The first appearance of sirenians in the fossil record was during the early Eocene, and by the late Eocene, sirenians had significantly diversified. Inhabitants of rivers, estuaries, and nearshore marine waters, they were able to spread rapidly. The most primitive sirenian known to date, Prorastomus, was found in Jamaica, not the Old World. The first known quadrupedal sirenian was Pezosiren from the early Eocene.[14] The earliest known sea cows, of the families Prorastomidae and Protosirenidae, are both confined to the Eocene, and were about the size of a pig, four-legged amphibious creatures. By the time the Eocene drew to a close, came the appearance of the Dugongidae; sirenians had acquired their familiar fully aquatic streamlined body with flipper-like front legs with no hind limbs, powerful tail with horizontal caudal fin, with up and down movements which move them through the water, like cetaceans.
The last of the sirenian families to appear, Trichechidae, apparently arose from early dugongids in the late Eocene or early Oligocene. The current fossil record documents all major stages in hindlimb and pelvic reduction to the extreme reduction in the modern manatee pelvis, providing an example of dramatic morphological change among fossil vertebrates.[citation needed]
Sirenians first appeared in the fossil record in the Early Eocene and significantly diversified throughout the epoch. They inhabited rivers, estuaries, and nearshore marine waters.[15] The sirenians, unlike other marine mammals such as cetaceans,[16] lived in the New World. The earliest aquatic sirenian discovered is Prorastomus which dates back to 40 million years ago, and the first known sirenian, a quadruped, Pezosiren lived 50 million years ago.[15] Prorastomidae and Protosirenidae, the earliest sirenian families, consisted of pig-like amphibious creatures who died out at the end of the Eocene. When the Dugongidae appeared at this time, sirenians had evolved the characteristics of modern variety, including an aquatic streamlined body with flipper-like front legs with no hind limbs, and a powerful tail with horizontal caudal fins which uses an up-and-down motion to move them through the water.[17]
The tail fluke of a dugong is notched and similar to those of dolphins, whereas the tail fluke of manatees is paddle-shaped.[18] The fluke is raised up and down in long strokes to move the animal forward, or twisted to turn. The forelimbs are paddle-like flippers which aid in turning and slowing.[17][19] Unlike manatees, the dugong lacks nails on its flippers, which are only 15% of a dugong's body length.[20] Manatees generally glide at speeds of 8 kilometres per hour (5.0 mph), but can reach speeds of 24 kilometres per hour (15 mph) in short bursts.[21] The body is fusiform to prevent drag in the water. Like cetaceans, the hind limbs are internal and vestigial. The snout is angled downwards to aid in bottom-feeding.[22] Sirenians typically make two to three minute dives,[23] but manatees can hold their breath for up to 15 minutes while resting[21] and dugongs six. They may stand on their tail to hold their head above water.[24]
Sirenians exhibit pachyostosis, a condition in which the ribs and other long bones are solid and contain little or no bone marrow. They have among the densest bones in the animal kingdom, which may be used as ballast, counteracting the buoyancy effect of their blubber and help keep sirenians suspended slightly below the water's surface.[25] Manatees do not possess blubber, per se, but rather have thick skin, and, consequently, are sensitive to temperature changes. Likewise, they often migrate to warmer waters whenever the water temperature dips below 20 °C (68 °F). The lungs of sirenians are unlobed,[26] they, along with the diaphragm, extend the entire length of the vertebral column, which help them control their buoyancy and prevent tipping in the water.[27][28]
Extant sirenians grow to between 2.5 and 4 metres (8.2 and 13.1 ft) in length and can weigh up to 1,500 kilograms (3,300 lb). Steller's sea cow was the largest sirenian to have lived, and could reach lengths of 9 metres (30 ft),[26] and could weigh in at 8 to 10 metric tons (8.8 to 11.0 short tons).[29] A dugong's brain weighs a maximum of 300 g (11 oz), about 0.1% of the animal's body weight.[20] The body of sirenians is sparsely covered in short hair (vibrissae), except for on the muzzle, which may allow for tactile interpretation of their environment.[30] Manatees are the only creatures to exhibit corneal avascularity, and lack blood vessels in the cornea, which prevents optical clarity and vision. This may be the result of irritations from or protection against their hypotonic freshwater environment.[31]
Much like elephants, manatees are polyphyodonts, and continuously replace their teeth from the back of the jaw. Adults lack incisors, canines, and premolars, and instead have 8 to 10 cheek teeth in their mouth. Manatees have a virtually endless supply of teeth moving in from the back and shedding in the front, which are continuously formed by a dental capsule behind the tooth-row. These teeth are constantly worn down by the abrasive vascular plants they forage, particularly aquatic grasses. Unlike in manatees, the dugong's teeth do not continually grow back via horizontal tooth replacement.[32] The dugong has two tusks which emerge in males during puberty, and sometime later in life for females after reaching the base of the premaxilla.[20] The number of growth layer groups in a tusk indicates the age of a dugong.[33]
Sirenians are referred to as "sea cows" because their diet consists mainly of seagrass. They ingest the whole plant, including the roots,[34] although they will feed on just the leaves if this is not possible.[33] Manatees, in particular the West Indian manatee, are known to consume over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants, such as shoalweed, water lettuce, muskgrass, manatee grass, and turtle grass. Using their divided upper lip, an adult manatee will commonly eat up to 10%-15% of their body weight, or 50 kilograms (110 lb), per day, which requires the manatee to graze for several hours per day.[35] However, 10% of the diet of the African manatee is fish and mollusks.[36] Manatees have been known to eat small amounts of fish from nets.[37] As opposed to bulk feeding, dugongs target high-nitrogen grasses to maximize nutrient intake, and, although almost completely herbivorous, dugongs will occasionally eat invertebrates such as jellyfish, sea squirts, and shellfish. Some populations of dugongs, such as the one in Moreton Bay, Australia, are omnivorous, feeding on invertebrates such as polychaetes[34] or marine algae when their supply of seagrasses decrease. In other dugong populations in western and eastern Australia, there is evidence that dugongs actively seek out large invertebrates.[33] Populations of Amazonian manatees become restricted to lakes during the July–August dry season when water levels begin to fall, and are thought to fast during this period. Their large fat reserves and low metabolic rates – only 36% of the usual placental mammal metabolic rate – allow them to survive for up to seven months with little or no food.[38]
Despite being mostly solitary, sirenians congregate in groups while females are in estrus. Dugongs generally gather in groups of less than a dozen individuals for one to two days. It is thought male dugongs participate in lekking based on scars presumably from the tusks of other males. These tusks are unique to male dugongs among sirenians, suggesting they are important in courtship rituals. At the surface, dugongs lunge at each other, which is often interpreted as courtship battles. Since they congregate in turbid waters, little is known about their reproductive behavior. The age when a female first gives birth is disputed, with some studies placing the age between ten and seventeen years, while others place it as early as six years. Dugongs are K-selectors, so, despite the longevity of the dugong who may live for 50 years or more, females give birth only a few times during their life and invest considerable parental care in their young. The time between births is unclear, with estimates ranging from 2 to 7 years.[39][33]
Threats and conservation[edit]
The three extant manatee species (family Trichechidae) and the Dugong (family Dugongidae) are vulnerable species. All four are vulnerable to extinction from habitat loss and other negative impacts related to human population growth and coastal development.[36][40][41][42] Steller's sea cow, extinct since 1786, was hunted to extinction by humans.[43]
The meat, oil, bones, and skin of manatees are valuable items. In some countries, such as Nigeria and Cameroon, African manatees are sold to zoos, aquariums, and online as pets, sometimes being shipped internationally. Though illegal, lack of law enforcement in these areas induce poaching. Some residents of West African countries, such as Mali and Chad, depend on the oil of the African manatee to cure ailments such as ear infections, rheumatism, and skin conditions.[36] Hunting is the largest source of mortality in Amazonian manatees, and there are no management plans except for in Colombia.[44] Amazonian manatees, especially calves, are sometimes illegally sold as pets, but there are several institutions that care for and rescue these orphans, with the possibility of their releasing into the wild.[40] The body parts of Dugongs are used as medicinal remedies across the Indian Ocean.[33]
Environmental hazards induced by humans also puts sirenians at risk. Sirenians, especially the West Indian manatee, face high mortality from watercraft collision, and about half of all West Indian manatee deaths are caused by watercraft collisions. An increased usage of hydroelectric power and subsequent damming of rivers increase waterway traffic, which can lead to vessel collisions, and manatees may become entangled in navigational locks. The urbanized coastline of areas such as the Caribbean and Australia can result in the decline of seagrass populations. Reliable areas of warm water in Florida are generally the result of discharge from power plants, but newer plants with more efficient cooling systems may disrupt the pattern of warm water refuges, and an increased demand for artesian springs for water, the natural source of warm water, decreases the number of warm water refuges. Sirenians can be caught as bycatch from fisheries, and they can be seen as pests with the interference of local fishermen and the destruction of their nets.[36][40][41][42] African manatees have also been known to venture into rice paddies and destroy the crops during the rainy season, and these confrontations with locals may lead to intentional culling of the manatees.[45]
Weather disasters and other natural occurrences are also sources of mortality. The West Indian manatee and Dugong face risks from hurricanes and cyclones, which are predicted to increase in the future. These storms may also damage seagrass populations.[42][41] Exposure to brevetoxin from Karenia brevis during a red tide event are also sources of mortality; they may be able to be exposed to brevotoxin after a red tide has subsided, as it could settle on seagrasses.[41] African manatees can become stranded during the dry season when rivers and lakes become too small or dry up completely.[36]
All sirenians are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).[46] In addition to this, the four species are further protected by various specialty organizations. The Dugong is listed in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Coral Triangle Initiative.[42] In Florida, manatees are protected by the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978, which implements actions such as the limitation or prohibition of watercraft speeds where manatees exist.[47]
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Further reading[edit]
- Daryl P. Domning. "Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia".
- Shoshani, J. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Berta, A.; Sumich, J. L.; Kovacs, K. M. (2015). Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology (3 ed.). Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-397002-2.
- Garrison, Tom. Oceanography, 5th Ed., Brooks Cole, 30 July 2008. ISBN 978-0-495-55531-5
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In population of Undvik was forced to abandon the island after an ice giant appeared. Hjalmar led an expedition to kill it. Geralt's actions influence the events that take place on this expedition. During their Skellige campaign the Nilfgaardian Empire laid their fleet off the coast of Undvik and later made an encampment on the shore to assist Ciri against the Wild Hunt.
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Enjoy the living you've always wanted in this beautiful home in a highly sought after area. Walking distance to Avaxat Elementary School. It also located blocks from parks, shopping and freeway for your easy commutes. As you walk in thru the front door, you'll be greeted by open spacious living room with vaulted ceiling. Cozy fireplace in living room for those cold nights. Spacious, bright and airy kitchen with breakfast bar and open to dining room. Enjoy backyard view from your dining room through atrium door. Plenty cabinets for your cooking gadgets. As you walk to beautiful landscaping backyard, you will find pergola patio cover and fruit trees for you to harvest such as apple, avocado and lemon. It is a great gathering place for family and friend while BBQ-ing. Master bedroom suite has vaulted ceiling and sliding doors to access the backyard. It also has a spacious master bath with dual sinks. This home is a must see!
- Year Built: 1988
- 357 Days on site
- Single Family Home
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- Assessed Taxable Amount
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- Tax Amount
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- Last Transaction Date
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- Last Transaction Purchase Price
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- Property Type
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- Bedrooms
- 3
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- Floors
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- Home Size (Sqft)
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- Lot Size (Sqft)
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Online consultants. The thing is that most clients are not aware of all the nuances of real estate operations and may need qualified assistance. Add a feedback form, a live chat and other elements to enable them get online help any time of the day. The quicker a consultant will answer the questions, the higher the chances are that a user will become your client.
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You may also check out of what real Wix-based sites look like.
Pricing: from $4.50/mo to $24.50/mo with annual subscription. The first paid plan, called 'Connect Domain', allows connecting of own domain to Wix website, but ad-banner is still on it. To remove that annoying advert, you should upgrade your subscription plan to at lest 'Combo', which costs $8.50/mo. If you want to organize online store with real estate ready for sale, than you have to choose 'eCommerce' plan for $16.50/mo.
You may also try to see how your website will look like, using Wix free plan. There is no trial period here, but the most part of features will be unavailable. Besides, until you upgrade to one of premium plans, the web-address of your site will look like username.wix.com/yoursite.
uKit: The Website Builder with High-Quality Templates for Real Estate
uKit is a completely code-free site builder that's being targeted at small businesses. Its drag-and-drop interface provides a total WYSIWYG experience, making it possible to design and publish a professional-looking site in 30 minutes.
uKit offers various website templates that you can start with; make sure you choose the Real Estate category to get a template better suited to your needs.
Once you've chosen a theme, you'll be asked to enter a web address (this can be changed later) and your business information. Upon completion, you'll be redirected to the control panel where you can start customizing the chosen template using the site builder's visual interface.
Pricing: uKit has three opportunities of subscription: Premium, Premium+ and Pro plans. They only differs by the number of extra features you will receive.
- Premium: for $4/mo you receive a full-featured set of tools, which include all needed functional for creating a real-estate website too.
- Premium+: for $8/mo in addition to Premium features you gain Live Chat support, access to premium designs and goals in Google Analytics.
- Pro: for $12/mo in addition Premium+ you can insert or change a source code of your website. This could be useful when you decide to include IDX listing to your website.
uKit has no free plan. But you can test all of its main functions during 7-days trial period and than make a choice. To see what real websites can be made with uKit, take a look at my handpicked collection of uKit website examples. Some of them are of near-to real estate topic.
Specialized Real Estate Website Builders
Along with these versatile website builders that are suitable for creating any type of website, there exist narrowly specialized platforms geared towards building property websites only. These industry-specific site builders are pretty functional, yet in our opinion, they are overpriced.
On the average, it costs about $30-70 a month + set up fee ($100-$200) to run a site on such specialized platform. While this may be an affordable solution for a huge company, independent realtors will find it expensive.
Bottom Line
The use of a website builder allows reducing the time required to create a real estate website to the minimum without the need to hire professional web designers. The choice of the most suitable website builder should depend upon the type of a website you need.
If you have made up your mind to create a standard promo website with a photo gallery and the minimal set of functions, then uKit functionality will be enough to build the one. However, if you are going to create a full-featured real estate website with IDX integration option, then Wix is your top choice.


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Many companies are probably relaxing a little as dates for these regulations have now passed or are imminent. But what is next? Can Financial Service companies stop focusing on data and data governance?
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This is certainly not the time to stop managing your data proactively.
The new regulations may not spell out that "Data Governance" is needed but if you have implemented Data Governance properly, your Data Governance Framework should sit at the centre of all your data activities now, ensuring that everything is aligned with both each other and the corporate strategy of your company.
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No blog on this topic would be complete without mentioning GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation coming into force in May 2018. That may sound a long way off, but the requirements to manage personal data are likely to require a significant change in how you manage your data.
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