text: Whether from marshes in DuPage County or from lakes, swamps, and rivers in Costa Rica, freshwater turtles that face potential challenges in their environment have been a focus for Dr. Rodney Scott, associate professor of genetics. By analyzing the DNA of these turtles, he hopes to contribute to their long-term survival. In the work he has done in Illinois, Dr. Scott has studied mating patterns in the endangered species, Blanding's turtles, since making the transition to conservation genetics about six years ago. "I felt that in order to do science for the benefit of God's creation, I wanted to find a project with a much more direct application to my work," he says. Having taught at Wheaton since 1989 and conducted research in the field of botany during most of that time, Dr. Scott moved from basic research to more applied research. For the past several years, he and his students have worked with the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County to gather blood samples from baby Blanding's turtles for DNA analysis. Two years ago while in Costa Rica, Dr. Scott connected with the biology department chair at the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) who, after hearing of his research, encouraged him to come back on sabbatical. That opportunity was realized in early 2012 when Dr. Scott returned to Costa Rica, on sabbatical sponsored by a Wheaton Alumni Association Faculty Grant, the administration of Wheaton College, an Aldeen grant, and a Fulbright grant. He worked at the university for five and half months, on three different research projects in conservation genetics. Project 1 In his first project, Dr. Scott examined the DNA of two species of freshwater turtles to evaluate how closely the two species are related to one another. In the past and among some scientists still today, the two species were considered to be different subspecies of a single species. Dr. Scott recently received the DNA samples he collected in Costa Rica (after a long wait to obtain the necessary permits to have them shipped), and he hopes to complete this project by the end of summer in 2013. He says, "These freshwater turtles have never been studied this way, and even though Costa Rica is still a very natural place, there's a lot of development going on. Scientists need to be able to figure out in more detail what genetic conditions exist in populations of all sorts of animals in Costa Rica." Project 2 The second project involves trying to identify genetic markers that will function with nine freshwater turtle species in Costa Rica. UCR colleagues will collect specimens from turtles in Costa Rican zoos and forward those DNA samples to Dr. Scott who plans on having Wheaton students help test the samples. He hopes to have sufficient results to publish a small paper on the study in the next two years. Looking at what molecular markers will work with these species "will open the door for me, some of my students, and even the wider community to do work that hasn't been done before," he says. Project 3 Dr. Scott's third project developed organically. A UCR graduate student was extracting DNA from macaw feathers. A Fulbright grant student at a different location who was working on a project with toucans e-mailed Dr. Scott to see if he had any use for the leftover toucan feathers. Dr. Scott and the UCR graduate student gathered molecular markers that have been shown to work in woodpeckers and started testing those on the toucan DNA. Dr. Scott is serving as a consultant on the project that is still in development stages, but has yielded some promising results. He hopes this project will conclude in the next year or two, and he plans to contribute to writing the results for publication. Before heading to Costa Rica, Dr. Scott contacted a number of biological supply companies and secured more than $10,000 worth of donations of chemical reagents and equipment vital to his work. Getting the donated supplies to Costa Rica proved to be a more creative task: connecting with Wheaton alumni working in a Christian school in Costa Rica to pick up supplies that were dropped off by a missions team from College Church, and picking up items from the American Embassy. Dr. Scott donated all the leftover supplies to UCR, including a PCR thermal cycler used to amplify DNA. "Here at Wheaton it's something that's really not hard for us to come by," he says. "But in Costa Rica the programs are not well supported, so it really felt good to be able to leave something that would help that lab be more productive." While on the trip, Dr. Scott also visited the University of Georgia field station at Monteverde and lectured at the Whitworth University Costa Rica Center, catching up with former Wheaton faculty member Dr. Lindy Scott who now serves as a director at Whitworth. While at the two campuses, Dr. Scott hoped to find out ways Wheaton might interact with the institutions in the future. After discovering that Wheaton's Spanish department will use the Whitworth campus for the Wheaton in Costa Rica trip in May 2013, Dr. Scott is now working to see if he might take several biology students on that trip as well. Back at Wheaton, Dr. Scott appreciates being able to bring a deeper level of enthu- siasm into the classroom. Reflecting on the trip he says, "At different steps along the way, there were choices that I made and things I pursued that, for whatever reason, I feel as though God was at work directing me." The opportunity to work in another culture sparked fresh insights. He says, "In Costa Rica, a lot of times things don't go according to plan. A machine breaks down that's crucial to your research, and you just have to wait and see what's going to happen. "I think in Western culture we find ourselves often trying to live our lives as though we have control over everything," he says, adding that he appreciates these "good lessons." President's Perspective >


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Lung dendritic cells (DC) play a fundamental role in sensing invading pathogens, as well as in the control of tolerogenic responses in the respiratory tract. Their strategic localization at the site of pathogen entry makes them particularly susceptible to initial viral invasion. Human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) belong to the
Human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) are classified within the
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hRSV was first isolated in 1956 from an infected chimpanzee [
Knowledge of the critical aspects of the host immune response to these infections has been crucial to understanding the pathology associated with hRSV and hMPV infections. In that regard, dendritic cells (DC) play a pivotal role in shaping antiviral immune response in the respiratory tract, as they represent the perfect link between innate and adaptive immune response [
Dendritic cells are professional antigen-presenting cells within the immune system. They arise from both myeloid and lymphoid progenitors within the bone marrow and are widely distributed (as immature DC) into both lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues [
DC maturation is necessary for the transition from innate to adaptive immunity. In human monocyte-derived DC (moDC), hRSV and hMPV are able to induce cell maturation, indicated by an upregulation of MHC class I and class II molecules, as well as the overexpression of CD80, CD86, CD38 and CD83 [
In understanding the mechanisms of activation and maturation by hRSV, Munir
Interferons (IFNs) are a heterogeneous family of cytokines with demonstrated antiviral, antitumor and immunomodulatory activities. The IFN family includes type I (IFN-α, -β, -ε, -κ and -ω), type II (IFN-γ) and type III (IFN-λ1, -λ2 and -λ3) IFNs [
As previously reported, both hRSV and hMPV induce a robust response of IFN-α in human pDC, and this production is dependent on viral replication [
Although the mechanisms underlying the differential activation of IFN response by hRSV and hMPV in moDC have not been fully elucidated, some experimental evidence indicates the involvement of several viral proteins. Munir
hRSV and hMPV infections are also known to subvert the immune responses by interfering with DC functions. The modulating mechanisms of DC immunity by these viruses have been investigated in several
Overall, these data indicate that hRSV and hMPV activate and inhibit the IFN responses in DC, most possibly through different mechanisms. This critical knowledge contributes to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of hRSV and hMPV immunopathogenesis and may help to explain the lack of protective immunity after natural infection and the multiple reinfections by these viruses.
Activation and inhibition of IFN responses by human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in dendritic cells (DC). pDC, plasmacytoid
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Current characterization of human lung DC populations includes three types of DC: two myeloid DC (mDC) in the lung parenchyma (mDC1 (BDCA-1+/HLA-DR+) and mDC2 (CD11c+/BDCA-3+)) and one pDC subset (CD11c−/BDCA-2+/CD123+/CD14−/HLA-DR+) [
There have been a limited number of studies focused on the DC response to hRSV or hMPV infections in humans. In fact, the response of pulmonary DC in hMPV-infected individuals has not yet been reported. However, despite the human sample limitations, analyses of nasal washes from young children with acute hRSV infection have revealed that hRSV attracts both mDC and pDC to the site of viral entry. The number of pDC, and, to a lesser extent, that of mDC, positively correlates with the viral load in the infected individuals [
Because the study of the human DC at multiple stages of respiratory viral infections is technically and ethically difficult, the experimental mouse model has provided an excellent opportunity to investigate the response of DC
Mouse lung DC activated during hRSV and hMPV infection.
pDC are identified by the expression of CD11cint/B220+/Gr-1+/Siglec-H+/mPDCA1+. They are best known for secreting large amounts of type I interferons (IFN) in response to viral infections [
cDC are identified as major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II)hi/CD11chi. They are considered the main antigen-presenting cells of the immune system [
IKDC are characterized by the expression of CD11cint/Gr-1+/DX5+ or NK1.1+. They are present in the lung and express cell surface markers of DC, as well as NK cell markers [
More recently, the TNF-α/inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)-producing DC (tipDC) have been identified and found to control viral infections in the lung [
Several studies have reported the trafficking and function of respiratory DC in response to hRSV or hMPV infection. Experimental evidence indicates that hRSV induces the recruitment of DC into the lungs and LN of BALB/c [
Upon viral challenge, lung cDC are activated and acquire a mature phenotype [
It has been demonstrated that the balance between the numbers of pDC and cDC in the lung is important for the regulation of the immune response against hRSV. Smit
The specific role of pulmonary pDC in hRSV infection has also been explored by several other groups [
Infection by hRSV and hMPV is characterized by short-lasting virus specific immunity and, often, long-term airway morbidity. Previous studies have revealed that hRSV or hMPV impair the capacity of human DC to present antigens to T-cells
The production of type I IFN and other cytokines by lung DC is also altered by hRSV and hMPV infection
Lung DC participate in the innate and adaptive immune response to hRSV and hMPV infections, indicating their critical role in the antiviral immunity to these paramyxoviruses. hRSV and hMPV can induce similar DC responses, as DC can be activated by both hRSV and hMPV infections
Although many aspects of the immune mechanisms involving DC in hRSV infection have not been elucidated, considerable progress has been made with respect to our understanding of the role of pulmonary DC in hRSV infection. However, less is known regarding the interaction of hMPV with the lung DC, and in general, the mechanisms that regulate the host immune response to hMPV infection remain largely unknown. Additional studies are necessary to better understand the mechanisms that regulate the DC response in hRSV and hMPV infections.
This work was supported by Grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases AI081171, the National Center for Research Resources 5P20RR020159-09 and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences 8P20GM103458-09 from the National Institutes of Health and the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute YCSA grant. The author thanks Dawn Simms for critical reading of the manuscript.
The author declares no conflict of interest.


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Mitt Romney vows to make his "closing argument" for the GOP presidential nomination, including drawing some sharp distinctions from new front-runner Newt Gingrich.
Romney has led or been near the top of national public opinion polls this year, only to lose ground to Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain and now Gingrich. They have been viewed as more conservative than Romney, who has drawn the ire of some in the GOP for the health care law he signed as Massachusetts governor.
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The surge by the former House speaker comes as voters in Iowa and New Hampshire gear up for the first real votes of the 2012 election, which are weeks away.
"We're making our closing argument," Romney said as he campaigned Tuesday in Arizona. "You'll see me campaigning aggressively."
As for Gingrich, Romney said in a Fox News interview yesterday, "I will not be quiet. I am going to make sure my message is heard loud and clear. Speaker Gingrich is a friend ... I respect him, but we have very different life experiences."
Romney frequently emphasizes his mix of private-sector experience along with his work at the 2002 Winter Olympics and as Massachusetts governor as preparation for handling today's rough economy.
He has portrayed Gingrich as a "career politician," but Gingrich pushed back, saying Romney could be considered that, too, since Romney has run for the presidency twice and lost a 1994 U.S. Senate race to Edward Kennedy.
Romney's ramped-up campaign means he'll spend more time on the ground in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida trying to sway voters as well as taking more questions from journalists. All four states will hold caucuses or primaries in January.
He'll do a Sunday morning talk show interview Dec. 18 with Chris Wallace of Fox News -- his first appearance of that kind since March 2010 -- and promised, "You're going to see me on a lot more shows."
In an appearance on CNBC last night, Gingrich seemed to take responsibility for helping to make Romney wealthy. He "should be thanking me because I did the macroeconomic things to make his career possible."
Romney, whose net worth is about $190 million to $250 million, made much of his money during his years heading up Bain Capital, a venture capital firm he started in 1984 and left in 1999.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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USB mode supports all Android phones. You need to download and install the desktop client on the computer from here.
If you are trying to tether an Android tablet, it is best to install the PdaNet Tablet client from Play Store and use Bluetooth mode.
Also check out the WiFi Share feature below and see if it suits your need.
We do not. All phone models are different and we do not know when or if your carrier update can be worked around.
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This feature allows you to create a WiFi hotspot from your computer so that you can share its PdaNet connections with
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This is really a bug in the Android firmware. It only happens to some users but what triggers that is still
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Try to go to phone Lock Screen Settings and select "Password",
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You can install the app apk file from here. This app will NOT work on Samsung phones with 5.0 (Lollipop) or later,
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If you no longer need to use FoxFi, follow steps below to remove the "FoxFi Certificate". After that you will be allowed to set Lock Screen to "None"
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In order to skip the mobile hotspot plan (an extra $20/month) FoxFi needs to install a certificate to bypass the carrier blockage.
If you no longer need to use FoxFi, go to phone's Security Settings, Trusted Credentials (or Certificates)->User->FoxFi certificate, scroll down and select remove. Now also select "Clear Credentials"
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In order to skip the mobile hotspot plan (an extra $20/month) FoxFi installs a certificate to bypass the carrier blockage.
On Android 4.4 the installation of FoxFi certificate will trigger this network warning message. However rest assured that the FoxFi certificate (and the VPN connection that utilizes
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If the warning message bothers you, you can remove the "FoxFi Certificate" (see steps above). However you will need to reinstall the certificate next time you turn on Hotspot.
Unfortunately your carrier has blocked WiFi mode in the latest phone update. You can only use USB mode or Bluetooth mode instead.
(also make sure you update computer side to PdaNet 4.15 or above)
You will need to hide tether usage from T-Mobile using USB mode. On the computer side click on the PdaNet tray icon
and select Settings->Hide Tether Usage->Level I. Also turn on flight mode and turn it off to reset the data session if you are already blocked.
PdaNet+ does not change over time. Sometimes WiFi handshake will fail at signal level, depending
on the quality of wifi hardware on the phone end. If WiFi mode ever worked for this phone before, One thing you can try is to reboot your phone and rename the hotspot, plus use an empty password, then
reactivate WiFi mode and see if it makes it more stable this way. This will also make sure the computer side will not keep using a bad WiFi channel.
Your connection speed is determined by your phone's data connection and WiFi connection. All PdaNet+ does is passthrough
network packets from your computer to your phone's data connection. It is very normal for cell phone's data speed to fluctuate greatly at
different times and area. It can not be predicted. In some rare cases the WiFi connection itself may be slow due ot signal interferance. If that
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We have started to see the Xbox connection issue reported recently from Verizon users even with older version of FoxFi.
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Liv Tyler dating Cumberbatch?
Liv Tyler is rumoured to be dating Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Armageddon actress was spotted on a date with British star Benedict at a cinema in Hollywood on Tuesday night.
British newspaper The Daily Mail reports the couple attempted to disguise the fact they were enjoying an intimate evening out together. They failed to remain undiscovered as they strolled out of the ArcLight Cinema on Sunset Boulevard after the movie.
It was reported earlier this year that Benedict and Liv would both be appearing in the movie adaptation of Scott Organ's play Phoenix.
Phoenix tells the story of a couple who have to deal with the circumstances following a one-night stand together.
As well as their rumoured attachment in the upcoming independent film, the two stars seem to have grown close at last weekend's Emmy Awards.
On Sunday night, 35-year-old Liv and Benedict were both spotted at party held at the Sunset Tower Hotel after the ceremony.
While they left the event separately, they were reportedly seen together inside.
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Pavone, a former book editor, pens a fast-paced, airport-ready thriller in a less-than-fast-paced setting: the book-publishing industry. His heroine is a fortysomething literary agent on the run from ex-CIA goons who are chasing down a manuscript about a felonious media mogul with political ambitions. Strangely, the mysterious author bypasses The New York Times, CNN, and even WikiLeaks to submit a typewritten manuscript to a book agent — and not even by email attachment. Despite his quaint premise and some frankly implausible plot twists, Pavone writes well about the politics of modern publishing, waxing nostalgic for a time when indie bookstores sold more tomes than scones. B-


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Beijing (UPI) Jul 28, 2013
The performance of Chinese decision-makers will be vetted in part by their environmental stewardship, a political document said.
A briefing issued Sunday by the Communist Party of China said the decisions and administrative activities of Chinese officials will be measured against social, economic and environmental impacts.
China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported the results of the audits are used to evaluate promotions or punishment for Chinese officials.
Beijing this year signed separate bilateral memorandums with the U.S. and British governments to advance the fight against climate-related issues. The United States and China in particular are at odds, however, over the climate responsibilities of developed and developing countries.
China is the world leader in emissions. Beijing says it's readjusted its economic structure in a way that promotes green energy and a low-carbon economy in an effort to combat climate change.
The Chinese audits were first launched by the government in the late 1990s.
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Four women were injured in a two-vehicle wreck at the intersection of Elim Church and Lee Place roads Saturday night, according to Long County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Shane Middleton. All four victims were transported to local hospitals.
Shoppers and cashiers, check your currency.
A well-known Midway business was damaged early Tuesday morning. The Midway Motel, which has been in operation for more than 30 years in the 200 block of North Coastal Highway, was damaged by a fire that gutted the living and operating section of the motel, Midway Fire and Rescue Chief Terrell Chipp said. No one was hurt.
A Fort Stewart soldier has been charged with shooting a neighbor's cats in Hinesville on Friday. He was arrested and charged with animal cruelty.
A soldier was airlifted to Savannah after she was struck by a vehicle and thrown off her motorcycle Tuesday afternoon.
Sept. 5: A grocery store on E.G. Miles Parkway reported receiving a counterfeit $10 bill from a customer. Police confiscated the bill.
SAVANNAH - Savannah-Chatham police say they found two men dead within three blocks of each other in west Savannah.
MACON - City leaders in Macon say they're trying to come up with a plan to stop a recent spree of gun and gang violence.
SAVANNAH - Carbon dioxide piped through gas lines to a soda fountain leaked in a McDonald's in Georgia and sickened 10 people, including a woman who later died after being found unconscious in a restroom, police said Wednesday.
Sept. 1: A rental store employee reported finding suspicious documents on the hard drive of a laptop that was surrendered for nonpayment. The documents included blank Social Security forms and templates for a Florida driver's license.
Long County residents commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and honored local first responders Saturday at First Baptist Church of Ludowici. Associate Pastor Durwood Miller welcomed the crowd and talked to those in attendance about how Sept. 11, 2001, changed the United States. Pastor Eric Rentz also addressed the group.
A man charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor after he allegedly attempted to drive his car into the Liberty County Justice Center is being held in a nearby hospital and was denied bond, authorities said.
ATLANTA - Motorists with medical conditions can now opt to list them on the back of their Georgia driver's license or state identification card.
Target on Thursday awarded the Liberty County Sheriff's Office a $750 grant, which Sheriff Steve Sikes said will fund community projects like neighborhood watch and Project Lifesaver.
Just as the memory of President John F. Kennedy's assassination nearly 50 years ago forever is woven into the fabric of society, anyone old enough to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America likely can recall exactly where they were and what they were doing when word came that the Twin Towers in New York City had been hit by two commercial jets.
A Walthourville man was shot several times early Sunday morning when he answered his door, according to Walthourville Police Chief Bernie Quarterman.
Motorists who think they can drive faster than the legal speed limit without getting pulled over could soon see blue lights in the rearview mirror ...
Investigators are unsure what caused a local man to run off South Coastal Highway Friday night. He was killed when his car hit a tree.
A murder suspect made bond this week while another murder suspect had his bond reduced and a convicted murderer requested a new trial.
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Stepping onto the grounds of Homestead Inn and Thomas Henkelmann in Greenwich, Connecticut is transcendant in that you are immediately, magically in Europe. I will save describing the beauty of a meal at Thomas Henkelmann and instead tell you about the most delicious drink I enjoyed last Saturday evening.
I stopped at Homestead's elegant bar en route to hear Barbara Cook at The Performing Arts Center in Purchase. Given the evening's classic entertainment and the buds on the trees, it seemed fitting to order a timeless drink that I usually reserve for warm weather: Campari & Grapefruit.
Bartender Astley, dapper as always in a crisp ivory traditional French waiter's jacket (de rigueur at Thomas Henkelmann), served me the very best I have tasted. Icy cold and a perfect balance of the bitter Campari and sweet-tart grapefruit juice.
He told me it was so good because he used a shaker to mix the juice and Campari. I'm sure that is in part the reason. But I like to think that it is because any drink Astley serves in that lovely setting is beyond compare.


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That's pretty much the limits of your recourse, unless you believe the corporation promoters defrauded you into purchasing the shares -- in which case you could sue for fraud.
Hope this helps.
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The stock I currently hold was issued by the corporation because I was the holder of a debenture bond which they converted into X shares of common stock in lieu of repayment, just weeks before the debenture was due. Assuming, for argument's sake, the debenture agreement was silent on the issue of conversion. Would this violate SEC regulations, or other securities laws?
The CEO of the corporation was recently indicted and pled guilty to an assortment of securities violations, which makes the common stock even less attractive at this point.


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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and coach Rex Ryan insist they aren't that team, the one re-branded as "The Circus Jets'' this summer in USA TODAY and New York's tabloid back pages.
It's a portrayal Johnson and Ryan bristled at Thursday, though it's one they invited with the March trade for ultra-popular backup quarterback Tim Tebow.
"The circus thing is kind of a little old for me,'' Ryan said. "If that's the way it is, I think our record (32-22, including playoffs) says otherwise in the three years we've been together. The experts think we're one team. We think we're different. We'll see who's right.''
They'll begin seeing it against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, when the Jets open the season at MetLife Stadium -- turned big top and likely to draw national television interest from fans eager to get a regular-season glimpse of the Mark Sanchez-Tebow quarterback sideshow.
After all, Sanchez is walking a tight rope, right?
"That's you guys (calling us a circus),'' Johnson said to the media. "We're deadly serious about what we're doing here, trying to win games and represent our fans. I'm not in this to create a circus environment or any kind of environment but a winning environment.''
And yet Johnson was the one pumping the Tebow acquisition last week from the Republican National Convention when he said, "I think you can never have too much Tebow.''
He explained himself before practice.
"I thought it was a fairly humorous quote,'' he said. "We have 53 guys on the varsity here. Everybody's important, including Tebow. We're glad to have him. But we're glad to have the other 52 as well, including Sanchez.
"Our job is to team-build. I didn't mean that to be anything but a kind of humorous remark. Because everybody's very interested in Tebow. But I meant it to be funny.''
Ryan sounded every bit the defensive coach he is.
"I'm not afraid to say it: I think this is going to be an outstanding football team, the best team I've had since I've been here,'' Ryan said. "I don't know if that's the national perspective, but it's my perspective.''
Johnson was asked if there is playoff talent on an offense that found the end zone just once in four preseason games.
"I definitely think so,'' he said. "If you take a look at our offensive line in terms of No. 1 picks and Pro Bowl status, we have three Pro Bowlers on the line. Nobody else has that.
"You've got a string of running backs, who all do something a little bit different, starting with Shonn Greene. You've got receivers who are as gifted as anybody. You've got a new coach (offensive coordinator) who is very, very good, Tony Sparano. You have a lot of very good weapons starting with the quarterback.''
He meant Sanchez, by the way.
But, for all the bluster, the Bills might be licking their chops, ready for the chance to take on a first-string offense that couldn't score a TD in the preseason. The Bills have a rebuilt front four, headlined by $100 million defensive end Mario Williams, free-agent bookend Mark Anderson and defensive tackles Marcell Dareus and Kyle Williams.
"Obviously, we're going to have a huge challenge in front of us,'' Ryan said. "It'll be interesting to see how we match up. Our offensive line is about as good as it gets. And it's going to need to be.''
Thing is, the Jets are three weeks into breaking in new right tackle Austin Howard, who last started the 2010 season finale for the Philadelphia Eagles when he surrendered two sacks to Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware. Williams had 53 sacks in 82 games with his former team, the Houston Texans.
"Everybody knows about Mario and he's a tremendous player,'' Ryan said. "But those two tackles are big-time as well. Dareus is a big man with good movement, not just a run plugger. Kyle Williams has always been one of the most underrated players in football.''
Said Greene: "It's going to be a challenge to run against them. But we just want to prove Rex right for believing in us.''
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Heightened interest from US and Europe-based investors has seen a surge in big money investment in tech and web companies in the Asia Pacific region, new numbers from market tracking firm internet Dealbook have shown.
The firm, which is the publishing arm of investment firm Right Click Capital, tracks deals globally and found that in the first quarter of calendar year 2013 total deal value and average deal values are down significantly on the same time last year. However the Asia Pacific region has bucked the global trends, with a world leading average deal size of $US22.8 million, up 34 per cent on the $17 million average for 2012.
These deals include investments in tech startups, as well as buyout. Asia Pacific is also the only global region to experience growth in the value of deals occurring in the first quarter of 2013 over Q1 2012, with deal value up 51 per cent. The Asia Pacific region also leads the way in the average deal size for investments (rather than acquisitions), average investment is $US24.1 million. The US meanwhile remained the king of big money acquisitions, with the average buyout coming in at $US166.4 million there.
Globally deals down
Globally the quarterly numbers showed $US9.6 billion of deals tracked in the first quarter, this was down 55 per cent on $21.5 billion in the first quarter of 2012. All regions except North America had experienced a reduction in the total number of deals, and the average deal value for acquisitions had dropped significantly, by 62.7 per cent, to $US124.5 million from $US333.6 million in 2012.
With much of the world's startup focus remaining on Silicon Valley, the US still accounted for the vast majority of the 910 deals tracked globally in the first quarter. It recorded $US7.2 billion, or 75 per cent, of the $US9.6 billion global total..
Media, e-commerce and software and services related companies were the only sectors to record an increased number of deals.
Intent Dealbook's Benjamin Chong, a partner at Right Click Capital, said Asia Pacific deal prices were being driven up by greater interest in the region from US and European based investors. He said these investors saw an opportunity to tap into high quality technology companies away from the saturated US market.
Locally he said companies innovating in advertising related technology, media and mobile gaming were hot targets for investors. This was true around the world he said. It is only a month since struggling internet giant Yahoo! announced it would buy mobile news reader app Summly from the London teenager who invented it, likely transforming him into one of the world's youngest self-made multimillionaires.
A number of funds are also operating locally, aiming investment at an increasingly vibrant local startup scene.
Mr Chong, who also sits on the Sydney Seed Fund said the quarterly statistics were positive for local entrepreneurs, but that the lure of the US was still present for many.
"In the last quarter we have seen a number of Australian companies get funded, and my expectation is that going in to the second quarter, as we head to the end of the financial year, there will be more activity," Mr Chong said.
"It probably does take firms a bit longer to get funding here than if they were elsewhere, but at the same time, those with good founding teams and great technology are getting funding. I know a company recently closed a round of funding in a matter of two weeks, so there is money around in Australia."
Despite the fall in global numbers for the quarter, the positive findings in the Asia Pacific region, showed there was plenty of scope for future growth in technology and internet related businesses locally.
"Anecdotally people are still very confident in tech and want to invest in something they believe will make a significant impact on people's lives," Mr Chong said.
"We are seeing a lot of opportunities to invest, and there is no shortage of people keen to start a tech business, so the lure of tech is very high for investors compared to other industries."
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French artist Camille Henrot (b. 1978) works in many formats, such as digital media, video installation, and sculpture. In her oeuvre she explores human bodies, information media, and layers of meaning.
This catalogue is published for the artist's first large-scale solo exhibition, The Pale Fox in Germany (Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munich, 2015). The exhibition is dedicated to our endeavour to make sense of our world and our existence via objects that surround us and the way in which they relate to one another.
Henrot orders and arranges over 400 photographs, watercolours, bronzes and artefacts according to principles that obtain from the most diverse cultural, philosophical and biological contexts, primarily demonstrating, in a superimposition of this kind, the excesses of this compulsive desire for order that purportedly leads to the acquisition of knowledge.
The 'Pale Fox' in the title is taken from an anthropological study of the West African Dogon tribe (Griaule/Dieterlen 1965). In their religion, the pale fox stands for disorder and chaos, but equally for genesis and becoming; disorder is judged thus not as a transgression but as a necessary condition for creativity.
At the same time, for Henrot, the figure of the pale fox represents a symptom of our digital age: the avid human driven by curiosity and impatience, whose pale complexion reflects the luminous play of the computer screen through which he peers at the world at night from the sanctity of his burrow.
Camille Henrot was awarded the prestigious Silver Lion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia in 2013 and garnered the Kunststiftung NRW's Nam June Paik Award in November 2014.
Texts by Michael Connor, Clara Meister, Kristina Scepanski
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A facile method was developed to synthesize in high yield dispersed silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with small particle sizes of less than 10 nm. Silver nitrate was reduced to silver nanoparticles by
Steel is widely used as part of our life in different applications in automotive, household appliances, machinery and heavy construction such as the marine, petroleum and chemical industries which make it very important to research corrosion and protection of iron and its alloys. The most issue of iron is how to improve its resistivity against corrosion phenomena, which is one of the major reasons for industrial accidents and consumption of material resources [
Polymer/silver composites have attracted much attention among the wide range of available hybrid materials due to their specific optical, electronic, catalytic, and antimicrobial properties [
It was previously reported that aniline is a weak reducing agent and did not easily reduce silver ions when isolated under acidic conditions [
In this respect, Ag ions form a complex with PCA and NMA. When the NaOH was added to the complex system the OH− ions neutralize the carboxylic groups of NMA and react with Ag to generate Ag2O aggregates
Synthesis of AgNPS.
The reaction system variation was monitored using UV-Vis spectroscopy as shown in
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to characterize the size, shape and morphologies of the formed silver nanoparticles. The TEM image of the silver colloid is illustrated in
UV-Vis spectra of (
TEM micrographs of (
XRD patterns of (
In previous work [
Synthesis of silver AMPS/NIPAm hybrid polymer.
The NIPAm/AMPS nanogels were prepared in the presence of semi-interpenetrating PNIPAm polymer network nanoparticles. PNIPAm was first prepared followed by the direct polymerization of AMPS and NIPAAm monomers in a water solution containing cross-linker MBA. In this case, It is expected that, the PNIPAm particles form micelle like aggregates when interact with NIPAm/AMPS, and that the aggregates have much more nanostructures and functionalities. The AgNPs were chemically bonded with the produced nanogel by interaction with the amide and sulfonate groups of the AMPS/NIPAm nanogel. This statement can be proved by the disappearance of Ag2O nanoparticle plasmon,
DLS measurements of Ag NPs and AMPS/NIPAm-Ag NPs were represented in
DLS measurements of (
The XRD of AMPS/NIPAm-Ag NPs was represented in
The chemical structure of the AMPS/NIPAm-AgNPs hybrid particles was further characterized by FTIR spectroscopy (
FTIR spectra of (
EIS measurements on a steel electrode were performed to get information concerning the inhibition process. The Nyquist plots for steel in 1 M hydrochloric acid solution, blank, containing different concentrations of AMPS/NIPAm-AgNPs inhibitors (50–250 ppm) are shown in
Nyquist plots for steel in 1 M hydrochloric acid solution containing different concentrations of AMPS/NIPAm-Ag NPs (square symbols represent experimental data and bold circles represent fitted data).
The diameter of the capacitive loop increases obviously with the increment of inhibitor concentration, which gives rise to more protection indicating the significant contribution of inhibitors in maximizing the corrosion resistance of steel in 1M HCl solution. This can be attributed to the formation of a protective layer at the steel surface. The equivalent circuit used for fitting the data is shown in
Equivalent electrical circuit used in fitting EIS data.
Inhibition efficiency values for steel in 1M HCl with different concentrations of AMPS/NIPAm-Ag NPs calculated by polarization and EIS methods.
|Polarization Method
|EIS Method
|AMPS/NIPAm-Ag NPs Concentrations (ppm)
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|Ecorr (V)
|icorr µA/cm2
|Rct Ohm
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|− 0.4255
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Polarization curves of steel in 1M HCl solution without and with inhibitors at different concentrations are shown in
Polarization curves for steel in 1M HCl solution containing different concentrations of AMPS/NIPAm-AgNPs.
The polarization curves shift directly to lower current densities, and the corrosion rate of steel has been decreased significantly with increasing the concentration of AMPS/NIPAm-AgNPs. Corrosion current densities were determined from the polarization curves by extrapolating the Tafel lines to corrosion potentials. The Tafel slope can be obtained by the Tafel extrapolation method as reported previously in the literature [
Silver nitrate (AgNO3, purity 98%),
The ester product between NoigenRN-10 and MA was previously prepared [
In a typical synthesis, NMA (3.26 g, 10.0 mmol) was dissolved in distilled water (90 mL), followed by the addition of PCA (0.184 g, 2.0 mmol) under vigorous stirring until a transparent solution formed. Next, a AgNO3 aqueous solution (10 mL, 0.20 mol/L) was added to the solution, and the resultant mixture was stirred for 15 min to form a NMA-PCA-AgNO3 aqueous system (NPA system). The NPA mixture was heated to 50 °C, followed by the addition of aqueous NaOH solution (4.5 mL, 3.0 mol/L). The mixture was kept at 50 °C under stirring for 2 h until the white AgCl precipitate was not observed when a 1.0 mol/L NaCl solution was added to the above reaction system. This test was used to indicate that a nearly 100% yield of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were produced from the AgNO3 precursor. The Ag NPs were isolated after ultracentrifuge three time of solution at 21,000 rpm for 1 h. The powder was washed with ethanol five times to insure that the extra amount of NMA surfactants was isolated.
Silver AMPS/NIPAm hybrid polymer was prepared through a modified temperature programmed in the presence of water as a solvent and free surfactant technique. The NIPAm (13.3 mmol), AMPS (0.66 mmol) and MBA (0.67 mmol) monomers were dissolved in water (50 mL) and preheated to 50 °C for 30 min under a nitrogen atmosphere. The polymerization process was initiated by adding KPS (0.47 mmol) and AgNPs (0.1 g) dissolved in 50 mL for an interval of 2 h. The reaction temperature was increased up to 70 °C at a rate of 5 °C per 15 min, and then kept at 70 °C for 4 h. The resultant silver AMPS/NIPAm hybrid polymer was purified by ultracentrifugation at 21,000 rpm and the resultant particles were dispersed in water and re-precipitated in a 10-fold volume of acetone. The same procedure was applied to prepare AMPS/NIPAm nanogel but without addition of AgNPs.
Ultraviolet visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectra were obtained with a Techcomp UV2300 spectrophotometer (Shanghai, China). Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic analysis of the samples was performed using a Spectrum One FTIR spectrometer (Perkin-Bhaskar-Elmer Co., Boston, MA, USA). The morphology and structure of the prepared magnetic nanoparticles were determined using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). HR-TEM images of the nanocomposites were recorded using a JEM-2100 F (JEOL, Tokyo, Japan) at an acceleration voltage of 150 kV. The particle size distributions (PSDs) were determined from TEM microphotographs on representative samples of more than 1,000 particles of magnetic latexes and analyzed using the Bolero software (AQ Systems, Tyresö, Sweden). XRD analysis of the MMT and nanogel was performed using an X-ray diffractometer (X'Pert, Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) with Cu K
Particle size measurements were performed using a dynamic light scattering (DLS) instrument a NicompTM model 380 particle sizing system (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) with software version C-370 V-1.51a, and equipped with a fixed 90o external fiber angle and a 632.8 nm, 5 mW He-Ne laser.
Impedance measurements were carried out using a computer-controlled potentiostat (Solartron 1470E system) with Solartron 1455A as frequency response analyzer in a conventional three-electrode cell system. Steel specimens with composition (wt %): 0.14% C, 0.57% Mn, 0.21% P, 0.15% S, 0.37% Si, 0.06% V, 0.03% Ni, 0.03% Cr and Fe (balance) were used as working electrode (WE). A platinum electrode and saturated calomel electrode (SCE) were used as counter electrode (CE) and reference electrode (RE), respectively. Prior to any test, the exposed area of steel working electrode was mechanically ground with a sequence of silicon carbide emery papers of different grits (200, 400, 600, 800, 1,000, 1,200 and 2,000) and, then rinsed with distilled water. The AC frequency range was extended from 10 KHz to 10 MHz. Potentiodynamic polarization measurements were conducted with the same equipment used for impedance measurements leaving the frequency response analyzer out of consideration. Data were collected and analyzed using CorrView, Corr- Ware, Zplot and ZView software.
The TEM images of newly prepared AgNPs indicate the presence of monodispersed and isotropic spherical nanoparticles with an average size of 15 nm ranging from 10 to 18 nm size with the formation of twin particles. The twinned particles were identified the brightness shown in part of the particles as compared to the other parts. Generally twinning, a planar defect, is observed for face-centered cubic (fcc) structured metallic nanocrystals. The analysis indicated that there is probably some interaction between AgNPs and the polymer backbone of AMPS/NIPAm with the darker spots distributed in nanogel particles with size diameter ranged from 18 to 25 nm (blob-like particles). AMPS/NIPAm-AgNPs exhibit good inhibitory properties against steel corrosion in 1 M HCl solution and the inhibition efficiency increased with increasing inhibitor concentration. The addition of AMPS/NIPAm-Ag NPs to 1M HCl solution greatly decreases the cathodic and anodic currents and the inhibitor acts as a mixed-type inhibitor. The results of polarization and EIS measurements show good protection of steel by AMPS/NIPAm-AgNPs and a satisfactory agreement is obtained with the results of polarization and EIS methods.
This project was supported by King Saud university. The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this work through research group no RGP-VPP-235.
Abdelrahman O. Ezzat prepared the silver hybrid polymer, Ayman Atta suggested the idea of the work and interpreted the data, Gamal El-Mahdy evaluated the inhibitor and discussed the corrosion data and Hamad Al-Lohedan supported the work and discussed the data.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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A Closer Look at the Water Garden
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Modelling water droplet movement on a leaf surface
Oqielat, Moa'Ath, Turner, Ian, Belward, John, & McCue, Scott W. (2011) Modelling water droplet movement on a leaf surface. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 81(8), pp. 1553-1571.
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Modelling droplet movement on leaf surfaces is an important component in understanding how water, pesticide or nutrient is absorbed through the leaf surface. A simple mathematical model is proposed in this paper for generating a realistic, or natural looking trajectory of a water droplet traversing a virtual leaf surface. The virtual surface is comprised of a triangular mesh structure over which a hybrid Clough-Tocher seamed element interpolant is constructed from real-life scattered data captured by a laser scanner. The motion of the droplet is assumed to be affected by gravitational, frictional and surface resistance forces and the innovation of our approach is the use of thin-film theory to develop a stopping criterion for the droplet as it moves on the surface. The droplet model is verified and calibrated using experimental measurement; the results are promising and appear to capture reality quite well.
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The two-story, 16,600-square-foot building, which would replace the current structure that is deemed seismically unsafe, could be open for business in early 2012. The new design features ground-floor retail plus storage and office areas, with a second floor at the rear of the building and a basement.
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Would you take housekeeping off teen on a low paid apprentiship ?(58 Posts)
My son has a face to face interview tomorrow with a fairly high chance of starting on a full time apprentiship ... He'll be on roughly £100. A week
He's 17 years old
Would you take housekeeping from him ?
I'm unsure as its very low paid but at the same time I want him contributing towards the house as a young man he needs to start learning about contributing to the household somehow . At the moment he takes his sister in the morning and picks her up from school.
Obviously if he's doing 40 hours a week he can't do this
Should I just leave it for a year ? ( the apprentiship is 12 months )
We get absolutely no financial help with him whatsoever
Tbh whoever suggested taking £50 a week from £100 wages is taking the piss. ( I'm hoping anyway.) Why would you do that, except to breed resentment, and considering the other £50.00 would have to cover travel expenses/ haircuts/ toiletries/ phone etc he would be left with literally nothing to enjoy. I somehow doubt that will encourage a 17 year old to stick at a poorly paid apprenticeship.....Especially as you would not be £50.00 a week better off if he were to move out.
A far more reasonable approach would be to allow him to become self-funding, ( e.g. he now pays for phone, toiletries, food out etc) himself, with you providing basic/ family mealtime food and shelter, and an agreement he will pay a reasonable amount of board, (NOT a third ffs,) once he has progressed from the apprenticeship to a full-time job.
To end taking a third/ 50% of such low wages just makes you look petty, greedy and grasping.
As a side note I also really don't understand the mentality of "secretly," saving for your child. Surely it would be far more sensible and encourage a much more responsible attitude to encourage the ds in question to open a savings account for himself. Seeing his savings build will encourage a stronger work ethic than giving mum money which he thinks she's spending on herself and doen't realise is being saved.
Also completely agree with usual. So what if he blows his wages a couple oftimes at 17 ? when else can you lol
I wouldn't take any money.
100 a week is not much when you take out travel expenses, phone, clothes. toiletries etc.
If you can't blow all of your wages at 17 , when can you.
Good luck to him I say.
I got my first p/t job at 14 and at that age my pocket money stopped, as I got £20 a week for a Saturday job At 18 i began working full time in a gap year before uni and earned £120 a week. I gave my mum £30 a week without having to be asked. Once you start working, you contribute to the family if you are still living in the family home. That was how I was raised and it is how I'll raise my children.
Apart from obviously providing a home and food and clothes etc for him, were you giving him any money?
If it was me, I'd stop their allowance/pocket money but not take anything initially if I didn't need the money. If I did need the money then I'd take £10-20 a week and leave him the rest but he'd have to pay his way as regards his clothes, haircuts etc.
Or, I may take a token amount and save it for him if I didn't need it myself to put food on the table.
I don't allow myself £100 a week to spend on whatever I want, but then I am not a teenager with an important social life and a need to be wearing the right clothes etc ;)
I wonder if any of the "take £50 a week" brigade can remember what it was like to be a teenager! My first job I was earning £200 a month and I gave my mum £60 a month - but she needed it as my dad wasn't working after an op on his spine and she'd lost my child benefit etc too. I was £20 a month for my buspass and got a subsidised lunch at work or could take my own from home and I felt rich.......but we are talking about the early 1980s.
Well put stickaflake
Taking money from a child? At 17, and doing an apprenticeship, he is a young adult embarking on working life. Should mummy phone in sick for him when he has a tummy ache? Jeez....
No, I wouldn't.
Good posts Lacey. I totally agree that teaching the value of money should be instilled by the age of 18 anyway.
When I was earning £20 a day (same as OP's son) busting my arse in a crap job I would have resented my mum taking any of it from me as she didn't need it. If your family were poor and REALLY needed the money to survive a good kid would offer without being asked. If you don't need it I can't see any reason to take money off your own child. The 'learning the value of money' thing should be instilled before 16/17/18, unless the are spoilt.
Not a child at 18
He's 17.
eden - bit rude and judgemental that
Not a child at 18. And the vast majority of people saying they would take money are doing it for good reasons: to teach the value of money, or because they lose child benefit once they reach adulthood and can't afford adults to live for nothing in their house.
How can anyone be capable of taking money from their own child...
Mind you I'm of the mindset at the moment that she can stay at home until she is 57 and I will pay for the lot.
This is due to the fact she is probably moving away imminently and I will miss her a lot!
My daughter has just finished college but was working also about 25 hours a week, so earned a reasonable amount.
I don't take any money but I don't give her any - she funds herself, lunches, petrol, clothes, phone bill, car tax etc.
It all depends on personal finances though - if you are struggling for money it seems daft to let them have 100 quid a week spending money doesn't it? I don't think there are any hard and fast rules
It doesn't make any sense to charge him nothing now and then to come up with a figure next year. You will have already set a precedent (in his mind) that 100 quid a week equals a free ride. What happens if his wage after his apprenticeship is 120 a week? What are you going to ask him to pay then?
I'd have thought 20 a week as an absolute minimum to cover his food and he pays for everything else he needs himself. If his fares are 30 quid a week he'll still have fifty to himself to spend as he wishes. That's a lot more than some people have to themselves who live independently
I was thinking £10 a week, but after reading all these responses, maybe £20. But certainly not more than that
Why not?
Food has to be paid for by someone.
I was on a very poorly paid apprenticeship about 15years ago and earnt £40 per week. My parents had £10 for bills and I kept the rest. It didn't really go far though,my transport was £7.50 a week, I had to buy my lunches and I often got food in for dinner for the 5 of us, bought my own clothes etc. However, I always managed to scrape enough money together once a month to go out
I think if my ds was earning £100 I'd want to take about £25-£30 or for them to buy some food towards meals.
I'd take money off him to teach him money management and that your take home salary isn't just for spending on fun. I would only ask for a token amount, maybe £10 a week.
Couldnt agree more!
a house, with heat and light, council tax paid, food on the table, TV and internet provided, washing machine etc. £20 a week does not cover that.
Yeah £20 doesn't touch the sides, but how many of you are working for £100 a week? At the end of the day he is still legally a child, if he was in education you wouldn't take anything from him. If you are REALLY going to miss the CBA make him give you that per week.
I started working at 16 whilst still at school working sat and sun 6 hours each day for about £3.40ph as a hotel cleaner. Really tiring work for crap pay. Used to walk the 6 mile round trip. Why would my mum take money from me? I bought my own clothes/toiletries/majority of my food (mum didn't really cook much), travel etc.
I didn't need her ripping me off and or controlling my money by taking it off me to save to teach me about working life etc. I am now 22 been out of the house for 4 years and have 6k in savings. Share a nice flat with my boyfriend which costs us about £1400pm in rent and bills which we half, after travel of about £100pm month I have just less than half my wage left for me, so over £100pw. (In response to *do you have £80 - £100 a week just to spend on treats for yourself ???*) However I do have the luxury of just having me to pay for, not any offspring.
Basically OP if you think you son is mature enough to enjoy his money responsibly whilst saving then no, don't take any money. If you think he needs a reality check to wake him up to what life is going to be like after he leaves home then yes, take a token amount. He has his whole life to pay bills and worry about money, just let him enjoy his first job.
My DD is a student, currently signed off her work, and is still expected to contribute a token amount to housekeeping. She is more than happy to do this and annoyed that because of being signed off, the original deal that was made for her keep this summer fell through. Once she is back to work, things will probably change, but she will be paying for her own travel to and from her job, by public transport. she is also expected to do things around the house while at home, even though signed off.
It seems like apprenticeship around here would also pay about £100, which would be eaten up almost entirely by travel costs. So my answer is something like I'd ask for 1/3 of what's left after all work-related costs, which means £1 if I'm lucky.
Yes I would but if I could afford it I would stick the money away and offer it back when he needed to make a big purchase (thinking car) without telling him that was what I was doing.
He needs to get into the mentality of his pay being used for living expenses and paying them out first then budgeting the rest around his wants and it's a good way to teach him that.
My mum took about £15 a week from my college bursery of a similar amount when i was 18 and still living with her.
I was responsible for my own clothing, travel, phone bill, toiletries and snacks/extra food outwith the normal family meals.
I think it's good to take something, even if it is a token amount, it introduces the commitment involved in paying your way etc.
Pigwitch - as per another thread running at the moment, most of us don't buy clothes every week!
Yes you can get pedantic over toiletries (I tend to bung shower gel and deoderants etc in with the weekly groceries, but you can work out individual detail with each family) this is more about the principle.
They can take lunch from home, as dh and I do.
Travel - yes, it's about learning how life works, one of your first expenses of being at work, is travelling to work. By being responsible yourself, it's more motivating to seek out options such as young person's railcard, or looking in to cycling there, or whatever the options are close to you. My ds currently works in a shop around his A-levels, and has to fund his travel to get there from what he gets paid - it means on a short shift it's not really worth him going in, but he now understands that and it's given him the confidence to talk to the manager and explained how it works for him and he has now improved that for himself. I doubt if he would if it hadn't impacted on his pocket.
Driving lessons (as I did say in my original post, yesterday) would be something I'd be prepared to negotiate around. Point being, I'd start with the principle that they will be contributing a reasonable amount, and then sit down with them and work out what they needed (in terms of travel, say) and what was a reasonable amount.
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Well, long-time resident and all that, but WTF do I know about lake or mountains...Nice plugs for Eich's, though.
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Who's to say who can and can't enjoy our lake? Is it fair for the masses to continue to gather around small city lakes and be satisfied? Can someone not adventure to new places and inhabit new areas? Sure, it's unfortunate to all those who have enjoyed uninhabited Lake Pend Oreille. But, the lake is HUGE and has the capacity to be enjoyed by many. The lake will not suffer from growth alone, but it could suffer if government does not properly protect it.
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READ THIS> I completely disagree. We should welcome ALL to our great community. Certainly not all of the current residents were born in Sandpoint, Idaho. Why is it okay for YOU to move here, but not the next resident? Progress is inevitable. Let's help mold the future of Sandpoint rather than reminisce the days of old.
As for bathwater warm...well, they did say summer, not spring. The lake is going to be cold earlier in the year, but with 90degree weather in July
As for bathwater warm...well, they did say summer, not spring. The lake is going to be cold earlier in the year, but with 90degree weather in July
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This article is sadly lacking in accuracy. The most amusing fallacy is describing Pend Oreille as "bathwater warm". At best, the lake temperature rises to "icy cold". About the only thing the author got right was the need to bring work with you (aka telecommute). Sandpoint is a beautiful place. But unless you are willing to live on Idaho minimum wage, you may wish to visit rather then live there. As for "affordable", "powder", "unsightly sprawl", look elsewhere for those attributes.
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This article on Sandpoint is full of errors. Please do your homework if considering living here. Winters are long, wages are low housing
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I have lived in Sandpoint area for 30 years and the incredible growth of the last 5 years -- thanks to publications like yours -- are destroying our precious ecosystem. The lake has really suffered from all of this growth. Besides numerous gated developments, now we also put herbicides into the lake for invasive species thanks to all the jetskiers and power boaters! And the state wants to put a freeway in alongside City Beach. Progress sucks. As a writer, your report is one-sided.
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