Coffee table – a necessary stuff for enjoying coffee.

What is coffee table referring to?

The term coffee table not only refers to a table for placing and enjoying coffee at home, but also indicates living room furniture put in front of or next to sofas to support beverages and magazines, newspaper or books.

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What are common shapes for a coffee table?

Coffee table is usually designed in small-sized, short height (as short as sofas) with different shapes such as round, oval, rectangle, square, four legs, three legs, etc. Coffee tables are incredibly various in materials, styles, decorations and prices. It is usually placed in the living room or sitting room.

How is a coffee table made of?

In term of material, a coffee table can be made of numerous kinds of materials, including wood, glass, metal (stainless steel and aluminum), upholsterer, etc. The most common material to manufacture a coffee table is wood because of its good-looking and elegant appearance. However, wood is kind of material which is easy to be damaged by water or other liquids and we have to use waterproof coasters to protect it. Metallic coffee table is also very popular. This material is more and more favorable because it is stainless and easy to clean. A lot of coffee tables are made of glass or placed a plate of glass on table’s top. Glass can provide the modern and luxurious look for your table, but it is also very susceptible. However, the most favorite coffee tables are the ones combined some materials together such as wood and glass, wood and stainless steel, stone and metal, etc.

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Coffee table is various in styles and shapes to meet different customer’s demands.

About styles, a coffee table varies in so many different models and decorations. The traditional coffee tables are the small and short tables with various ornamentations on both legs and table surfaces. However, there are many exotic coffee tables with unique styles such as coffee tables having a fish tank underneath or a coffee table is featured with a drawer to store book and stuffs, etc. Besides, a lot of coffee tables are designed as an art work with skillful decoration and genuine creation of artists.

About shapes, a coffee table can be made in distinguishable shapes, including round, oval, rectangle, square, and trunk. Each of them has to fit your place and your sofas (or chairs). For example, if you have a long sofa, you may need a rectangular coffee table so that everyone seated on the sofa can reach the table. If you have kids, an oval or round table without sharp edges may be the ideal one. If you prefer the vintage style, you can choose the trunk coffee table, especially the traditional suitcase trunk.

Coffee tables are sold popularly at any furniture stores or online retailers as a common household item. They provide any coffee table models and styles that you need at any available materials in a wide range of prices. You can choose what style which is suitable for your living room and your sofa such as traditional, modern, classic, vintage, simple, etc.

To sum up, a coffee table will fulfill your feeling of drinking coffee. It makes a cozy and comfortable experience at enjoying coffee. A coffee table has different shapes and materials which it was made from. It can be oval, rectangular, square, etc, in shape and can be made from wood, stainless steel, plastic or glass. Finding a coffee table is not much difficult as it is sold everywhere.


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Pfeiffer Klein Water Feature

Water is life, and in the garden, especially when the water moves in a rhythmic sound, it quenches the soul. More than half of the human body is liquid. No wonder we gravitate to it. We are water; water is us.

Garden Show Water Feature
Water Feature at the Yard, Garden and Patio Show in Portland, Oregon

Humans have long been attracted to the sound, the flow and the reflections of water. Many people listen to recorded water sounds for relaxation. Many take vacations to the beach to sit next to a lake or an ocean.

The added dimension water brings to the garden is the gentle sound of softly falling liquid as it flows over rocks and drops into pools. Reflection pools create a place to gather around and contemplate, meditate or pray. We slow down near a babbling creek that soothes, a soft bubbling fountain that amuses or a gushing waterfall that excites. Nearly everyone loves the sound of water.

Water fountain
Disappearing water feature

Why not bring water sounds into the garden?

In today’s world, water sounds mask the sounds of modern life, although having a Niagara Falls sound effect in a backyard would be overly ambitious and not too restful. Fountains, waterfalls and streams effectively turn distracting noise into white noise. Fountain noise helps tune out the sound of a highway or your neighbor’s irritating leaf blower that starts up just as you are relaxing in the garden.

History reveals a long-standing tradition of adding water features to community spaces and private landscapes. Birdbaths, ponds, trickling fountains and mammoth community installations are a testament to their staying power as features in the garden.

One of five submarine fountains at Bremerton’s Harborside Park

Harborside Fountain Park, next door to the Bremerton ferry terminal, hosts a series of five hefty copper fountains that unmistakably mimic a submarine when it first emerges from the depths. The shape of the shallow pools that hold the fountains mimics ships.

Initially installed and opened as water features in 2007, the fountains and pools quickly became a favorite wading pond for children and adults during hot weather. The fountains flow intermittently between trickling streams to geyser-like spurts. Bremerton Parks and Recreation refitted and plumbed the fountains to accommodate human aquatic use. The five pools are now sanitary for those who wish to wade. The entire installation in a lush landscape is a brilliant tribute to a town that hosts the Navy on its shores and is a destination point in the city.

Adding Water Features to Your Garden

Floating Glass
Any watertight container can quickly stand in as a water feature. Here an urn is filled with floating glass globes.

Water features most likely don’t come in such colossal proportions for the average home garden. However, there are many styles of fountains and ponds to fit in with any landscape. Any imaginative person can create a water feature out of found objects. Anything that can hold water or flow water is a likely candidate.

Adding water to the garden begins with an initial first step. A shallow ceramic dish filled with water and floating glass balls is simple enough. A birdbath placed as a focal point is nearly uncomplicated and an entertaining bonus when watching the feathered friends use it.

Grass and water
The shishi-odoshi’s spout hits a rock as it empties a water load with a distinct clacking noise. The water flows down into a bowl where it overflows into a catch basin hidden under the rocks.

Water features are often functional as well as artistic. Fashioned from bamboo, the shishi-odoshi fountain (Japanese for deer scarer) origins came out of the need to scare deer away. Typically found in a Japanese-style garden, the deer scarer also fits in naturally with many Northwest landscapes.

The hollow spout fills with water pumped from below and dropped into the hollow tube. When full, the liquid weight drops the spout forward, empties the load, and hits against something like a rock or bowl.

In the Jackson Meadow Garden, a shishi-odoshi’s spout hits a rock as it empties the water load with a distinct clacking noise.

The water then flows down into a bowl, where it overflows into a catch basin hidden under the rocks. The surrounding garden is planted in a mass of Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’) that appears to flow down a slight incline like a grass waterfall.

Many garden nurseries carry these inexpensive fountains.

Disappearing water feature
Water fountain with disappearing water feature

A disappearing water feature means the water-holding apparatus can be anything from a watertight basin sunk into the ground to a hole dug and covered with a pond liner. The pool with the pump hides under rocks while the water disappears into it. Large or small pots turned into water features stand at ground level on top of concrete blocks.

Water Feature
An authentic-looking waterfall installed near a front entry of Patty and Leonardt Pecchenino’s garden.

Natural-looking waterfalls are probably the most complicated to achieve, especially with a flat property. Patty and Leonardt Pecchenino’s garden has a slope reaching down almost to their front door. A waterfall perfectly nestled into the hill is artificial, yet it looks like a natural phenomenon. Instead of a large lawn, the falls empty into a large pond you walk by on a concrete deck to the front door.

NWFGS-Water Feature
Iftikhar Ifti’s display garden at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show

There are so many styles of fountains and creative ways to use them in the garden. It is easy to find a style that matches the garden. Water sculptures often used to move liquid in artistic ways, come in many shapes and sizes. A wall-hanging or tabletop fountain trickles soft sounds near a favorite place to sit and within reach of an electrical outlet to run the pump.

In a garden created by Iftikhar Ifti, who designs gardens around the globe, including Puget Sound, there is a modern-style metal sculpture shaped into three broken circles nestled inside each other. The water completes the ring with several streams of water coming out of each one. Light bounces off the metal and changes the hues of the metal throughout the day.

Adding a water feature to a garden may not add monetary value to a home. Nevertheless, it adds a place for tranquility, which is priceless.

Water Plants of Note

Plants add to water features with little to no water movement. Basic, shallow and wide water bowls hold a surprising amount of floating plant life, such as fairy moss (Azolla caroliniana), water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) and water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes).

Water Hyacynths
Water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes) float on top of the water and come into bloom in the summer.
Walking On Water
Playful floating feet made out of pumice makes it look like someone just fell in.
Fairy moss (Azolla caroliniana)

Azolla is a tiny, true fern that turns red in spring and fall in cooler temperatures and green in the heat of summer. It quickly covers the top of any size body of water, whether a pond or container. When the water becomes too crowded, it is easy to scoop out access plants and throw in the compost or use as a strange-looking mulch under garden plants. Fairy moss fixes and stores a lot of nitrogen from the air with the help of symbiotic cyanobacteria. The fern also controls algae by reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the water.

Water bowl
A pygmy water lily (Nymphaea pygmaea ‘Rubra’) is at home in a shallow water bowl. Fairy moss (Azolla caroliniana) and water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) float on the water.

In smaller bowls, dwarf water lilies (Nymphaea pygmaea) do not need as much depth as the standard-size water lily and fit into smaller, confined water spaces. Many larger plants in containers sunk into the water — taro or elephant ears (Colocasia) and many Canna lilies thrive in shallow water.

Bronze water feature
Birdbaths are always popular in a garden. This one adds a bubbling fountain for a bronze girl to gaze in fascination.
Water Fountain
Water Gusher
A gushing water feature helps turn the noise from a busy street into white noise.
Water fountain
A water fountain that drips into a deeper container that holds a number of taro plants (Colocasia esculenta ‘Illustris’)
Annies Annuals Water Feature
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Dunston pillar with george iii statue

Historical Description

Dunston, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire and district of North Kesteven, on a branch of the river Witham, near Duns Dyke, close to the B1188 between Nocton to the north and Metheringham to the south. It once had a station called Nocton and Dunston on the G.N. & G.E. joint railway, but is now serviced by the station at Metheringham 1.5 miles to the south. It is 8 miles SE by S from Lincoln, with a post office under Lincoln; Metheringham. Acreage, 3372; population, 752.

Much of the land, novi-inclosed and cultivated, was formerly a dismal waste, and a pillar, 92 feet high, close to the public road through it, was erected in 1751 as a landmark. Dunston Pillar is 3 miles (5 km) to the west on the A15. It is a Grade II listed tower and former land lighthouse built by Sir Francis Dashwood to guide travellers across Lincoln Heath.[2] In 1810, at the jubilee of George III, the lantern was removed and replaced with a statue of the king, and in the 1843 Journal of the Agricultural Society it was described as the "only land light-house ever raised". This was reduced to a stump during WW2 for the safety of aircraft from local airfields. The head of the staue was removed to the grounds of Lincoln Castle.

In Domesday the village is written as "Dunestune", meaning 'Dune's farm'.

The parish church is dedicated to St Peter, and is a Grade II listed building dating from the 12th century of stone in the Gothic style. It was restored by R. H. Carpenter between 1874 and 1876. There is also a Methodist chapel.

The Red Lion public house on Middle Street offers accommodationa and food.

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What are the Washington Commanders being investigated for?

A congressional committee has written the Federal Trade Commission, saying they believe the NFL team Washington Commanders might have broken financial laws.

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The US House Oversight and Reform Committee has written the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a 20-page letter, saying that they believe the Washington Commanders may have engaged “in a troubling, long-running, and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct.”

The victims of this questionable behavior include thousands of Commanders fans and the National Football League.

Unreturned deposits, underreported profits

The committee found that the Commanders may have kept up to $5 million in deposits that were meant to be returned to some 2,000 season-ticket holders, and that the organization may have actively prevented fans from getting these deposits back.

They also found evidence that the franchise hid ticket revenues that were due the NFL. A percentage of ticket sales is collected from league teams to form a pool for later distribution, as part of the NFL’s commitment to profit-sharing.

According to the testimony of a former employee, the Commanders had two sets of financial records- one with underreported earnings for submission to the NFL, the other with the real numbers, which team owner Dan Snyder was well aware of.

The letter said that a former employee had informed the committee that “it was known and/or rumored in the office that there was ‘moving around’ of money regarding tickets,” and that she had told an independent investigator contracted by the franchise about the practice in 2020.

The oversight committee is asking the FTC to take any steps needed to ensure that any misappropriated money is returned to the aggrieved parties, and that those who have engaged in any wrongdoing are held accountable for their actions.

Investigation into workplace misconduct expanded

The congressional committee uncovered the information as they were investigating allegations of workplace misconduct at the Washington Commanders organization.

The NFL had refused to release the findings of an independent investigation it had earlier launched into allegations by former employees that the workplace environment was toxic, citing incidents of sexual harassment and abuse.

The NFL had said they could not release their documents because the Commanders refused to give their consent for them to do so. Washington denied this, saying the organization has never prevented the league from obtaining non-privileged documents.

Congress heard testimony from former employees regarding workplace misconduct allegations, and sifted through evidence that included emails, documents, and statements from former employees.

After what they discovered earlier in the probe, they expanded the investigation to include the Commanders’ finances.


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Tax calculation incorrect

Is the 614.36 a single item or is it the sub-total figure for several items.
VAT is calculated per line item rounded and then added up.
VAT is “not” calculated on the sub-total figure

So if you have several individual items rounded down, then you can end up with such a variance

you are right - this is how is done in the manager however in my country they calculate the VAT on the total of the invoice
is there a way around to this?
after all the vat is not shown in every line of the invoice…

Not that I am aware of, except individual invoices per item which probably isn’t practical.
The majority of countries do it as Manager does it for the following reason:

If you invoice 10 items on individual invoices - their VAT adds up to xx.xx
Therefore if you invoice the 10 items on a single invoice - the VAT should still add up to xx.xx
If you use the Invoice total then the VAT could calculate to xx.xy

Another reason taxes are calculated on individual line items is that the same invoice could include items taxable at different rates or excluded from tax entirely. A calculation based on the total could not accommodate this.

Likewise, if a single line item on a sales invoice with many line items is returned, only the tax from the returned item is calculated and rebated.

In most tax jurisdictions, there are explicit regulations permitting line by line calculation, and sometimes requiring it. This is the way virtually all modern accounting software works.

Pretty old case this is I know but one International company we engage has their Ariba system rejecting our invoices over 1c difference in GST calculated,

Invoice example below:

GST Calculation

Manager calculates as follows in Server Version 20.2.64

GST Calculation 1

Calculating on Total according to Ariba and the calculator should be $809.97 not $809.98

A few of these is causing money to be realised 40 plus days later in the company bank account.

Maybe there can be some check on GST calculation on excluding GST total to circumvent the issue?

@compuit, you just happen—on your example invoice—to have 3 of 4 line items for which the tax rounds up and 1 on which it rounds down. Would the customer have insisted on your matching their antiquated calculation method (calculating tax on the subtotal instead of each line item) if your invoice happened to round 3 of 4 down and charged one less cent than their calculation? Probably so, because many companies habitually look for any excuse to delay paying their obligations.

But you cannot just insert an arbitrary tax adjustment. If the program allowed that, users could put in any bogus number they wanted.

I suppose we will have to live with it … The situation is not limited to one or two invoices in our case so the number gets crazy and to think it is over a few cents.

@compuit It maybe worth checking exactly what round is required in your jurisdiction. In Australia the requirement is clearly stated in, an extract of which is:

  • Total invoice rule – under this rule, the unrounded amounts of GST for each taxable sale should be totalled and then rounded to the nearest cent (rounding 0.5 cents upwards).
  • Taxable supply rule – under this rule, you need to work out the amount of GST for each individual taxable sale. Where the unrounded amount of GST has more decimal places than your accounting system can record, the amount should be rounded up or down as appropriate. You then need to add the individual amounts and round this total to the nearest cent (rounding 0.5 cents upwards).

You and your customers don’t need to use the same rounding rules.
End Quote

Managers compliance requires interpreting “more decimal places than your accounting system can record” as Managers ability to record line item GST only to the minimum legal tender, and as a result the final rounding at the invoice level always produces no change.

Importantly for your negotiations with your supplier is the last paragraph “You and your customers don’t need to use the same rounding rules.” providing both comply with the tax offices rules.

Guys just so I understand what is going on here. I understand that GST in Manager is calculated on a line by line basis and then summed, correct?

So using the example above I manually calculated the GST on Total and Line by and then summed to give the GST inclusive total.

Am I totally messed up here because processing both ways I get the same result but Manager calculates slightly different? How does Manager sneak in the extra cent to give $809.98? Look at the rounding it is already rounding up.

OK here is a bit more… rounding at each line then summing

I get the horrible feeling these guys / Ariba are right at rejecting my invoices and Manager is wrong?

By the way the Head Office we deal with is in AU.

Look at example … I do not think so.

if you round each line and then add them you will get 809.98 which is how Manager calculates.
Manager will round each line as per the number preference the user has set.

your third example is wrong because you have rounded the line items to two decimal places. yet you assumed the total to be three decimal places and rounded it separately.

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OK great so this how Manager behaves when adding line items… as in the red box, thank you for clearly pointing it out.

The test as to tax amount is this

If you invoice 10 items on “individual” invoices - their tax adds up to xx.xx
Therefore if you invoice the 10 items on a “single” invoice - the Tax should still be xx.xx
If you use the Invoice total then the Tax could calculate to xx.xy

@compuit I find it easier to work with tax inclusive numbers that way rounding errors change the distribution between tax and not tax but not the line item total value. Doing it that way decreases reconciliation errors.

This idea would probably also help

Hi all, have been having the same problem with multiple invoices having a difference on the third decimal of 1 digit up/down.

Following this discussion, i did try 4 different ways to try matching the supplier invoice ( 1,111.572) but could not get to match, see below.

1st TRIAL - STANDARD WAY (unit price + discount + TAX)

2nd TRIAL - (unit price with TAX inclusive + discount)

3rd TRIAL - (unit price discounted + TAX)

4rd TRIAL - (unit price discounted with tax inclusive)

I guess the solution is the same as what i have been doing for the past invoices with the same problem, enter all items without TAX, and add a line entry using the GL account “Tax Payable” under Liabilities with the total TAX value, in this case 52.932.

Is this a good workaround? or there is a better solution to make it work???

Thank you.

You are never going to get Manager to match this particular invoice, because either:

  • Your supplier’s arithmetic is incorrect, or
  • The supplier’s presentation method does not match the calculation method.

The total of VAT amounts for individual line items on the supplier’s invoice should be 52.933, exactly as Manager calculates it with any of your methods. The total amount of the invoice should be 1111.573, again exactly as Manager calculates.

The invoice makes it look like VAT was calculated on each line and summed. But your supplier appears to have actually calculated VAT on the total tax-exclusive amount, which yields 52.932. Most automated accounting systems calculate tax on individual line items and add those amounts. This is necessary because individual line items might later be returned or adjusted. Or they might be subject to different tax rates. The method your supplier appears to have used is what most old-fashioned, manual calculation systems used. The rounding difference between the two methods is only one fil.

Check your local tax regulations. You will discover either method is acceptable. Over time, such small differences are likely to average out, with some suppliers doing things one way and one the other, and with some differences adding to and some subtracting from your tax liability account. Your tax authority will be aware of the two methods.

If you really want to make the invoice match, you will have to create a 100% custom tax code and add a line item to the purchase invoice for the 1 fil adjustment.

Reduce the unit price on one of the line items until the amount matches the suppliers invoice

Hi @tut instead of your solution:

What could be the implications of doing this way:

See results of this way below:

Thank you.

@AJD i tried, could not match both (tax and total invoice value) at the same time.

  • You would give up the ability to track taxable transactions.
  • You would compromise your ability to enter debit notes if you return a single line item to a supplier.
  • Various built-in tax reports will not work correctly.
  • You will seriously confuse any auditor or inspector who examines your records.
  • You would lose the ability to enter tax-inclusive purchase invoices, which some of your suppliers might furnish.
  • While this will not impact purchase invoices, if you took the same approach on sales invoices, you would be breaking your jurisdiction’s tax laws, which require line by line indication of tax codes applied. But your purchase invoices will not match your suppliers’ tax invoices (sales invoices), making it very difficult to resolve any future disputes.

Overall, not a good practice.

Is your tax authority going to be concerned about a extremely small difference?

If they are then you need to do as Tut suggested.

.Or you could make the tax match the suppliers invoice and then use a rounding account in your P&L to make the invoice total match by adding another line in the invoice. This will avoid having to create a new tax code.


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Seniority in Government Services is an important factor in terms of promotion to higher posts. The Bottom Line. Author Yuriy Moshes, Esq. mon - fri 8.00 am - 4.00 pm #22 beetham gardens highway, port of spain, trinidad +1 868-625-9028 Classification Seniority is defined as the length of continuous employment since the date of the nurse's initial probationary appointment to the classification within the bargaining unit and the department. These may include: better decision making when employees have input. Illegal discrimination happens when employers make job decisions based on employees' protected characteristics traits that federal, state, or local governments have decided should not be the basis for employment actions. It can now be easily understood that seniority by itself is an incomplete criterion. In determining entitlement to seniority and seniority -based rights and benefits, the period of absence from employment due to or necessitated by uniformed service is not considered a break in employment. Seniority in the workplace: Seniority is determined by the duration of employment with one company, typically within a specific job classification. seniority. A seniority-based system rewards employee loyalty and is especially significant in union-represented workplaces. Traditional "personnel administration" and civil service systems were . The seniority system has been the target of numerous reform initiatives over the years, all of which have failed to prevent the most senior members of Congress from amassing tremendous power. Seniority is not accrued for time served in an emergency, provisional except as provided in E below, temporary or unclassified appointment. When an employee quits working for the company and then returns, that's called a break in seniority or a break in service. From which date the various provisions of consolidated instructions on seniority applicable? This promotion process does not honor capability. It is simply important that you understand your rights and understand that you are protected from discrimination. It is important to hire a diverse workforce to be competitive. Precedence of position, especially precedence over others. Discrimination in the Workplace. Workplace mobbing can be frustrating, insulting, infuriating, and depressing. The company provides certain privileges for their long service and loyalty towards the company. If someone refuses to perform an action that is unethical . Definition of seniority noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. 2. the property of being long-lived Familiarity information: SENIORITY used as a noun is rare. 1. Termination - Being let go from your position. Worldview: Self-identifying as digital device addicts; valuing independence and individuality; preferring to work with millennial managers, innovative coworkers, and new technologies. Seniority rights for the purposes of recall are the time equivalent to the employees' seniority but in no event to exceed twelve (12) months. Federal laws currently in place include: Seniority, defined broadly, means the length of service with an employer. The CO will make every effort to involve the union in the conciliation process and get its consent to the award of retroactive seniority. Seniority is a system often used by employers as a basis for granting job benefits. "I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense; I call it intelligence" Malcolm X. LABOUR RELATIONS - Employees - Seniority rights. Challenge your assumptions. seniority synonyms, seniority pronunciation, seniority translation, English dictionary definition of seniority. 2 : a privileged status attained by length of continuous service (as in a company) As an example, for the same issuer, bonds have seniority over preferred stock and preferred stock has priority over common stock.

When don't we hear stories of women who face sexual violence, threats, abuse, random attacks by strangers and their own loved ones? Seniority as a Basis of Promotion: Seniority means length of service in the same organisation. Favoritism can occur in many different forms in the workplace, from certain favored employees being given coveted assignments, or better work schedules to being given raises and other accolades . Seniority can be used to determine promotions. Precedence of position, especially precedence over others. However, an unconscious bias works against this and keeps women from being equal, successful, and economically stable. The rights and benefits protected by USERRA upon reemployment include those provided by the employer and those required by statute. 2 the official advantage someone has because they have worked for an organization for a long time workers with longer seniority get up to three years of When there is respect in the workplace, the work environment becomes an enjoyable place to be rather than a burden. As obvious, senior debts need to be paid before the junior ones. Having employees motivated can be a significant factor in . 1. Staying ahead of the curve and keeping abreast with the latest trends can help companies stay ahead of the competition. In a seniority-based system, people who stay at the same company for long periods of time are rewarded for their loyalty. Precedence or preference in position over others similarly situated. Published, Nov. 7, 2018. Capable and ambitions employees think the organization as a training center and they always hunt for a better chance. Big Heroes of Small Business Christine Lagorio . Union contracts sometimes base employment protection on seniority, laying . Description: All securities, be it bonds or shares, are issued by the company with a certain seniority attached to them. An inclusion committee needs the financial support of the executive team. Staying ahead of the curve and keeping abreast with the latest trends can help companies stay ahead of the competition. While favoritism in a workplace is a bad practice, it is unfortunately very common. Seniority systems give preference to employees who have been with the employer, profession or job for the longest period of time. Seniority means a precedence of position, especially precedence over others of the same rank by reason of a longer span of service. Mark Cuban Says A.I. It limits the scope for favoritism, casteism, nepotism, etc. The core problem is three-fold: Unions solidly support seniority policies; Public employers have not transitioned from "personnel administration" to talent management; and, Employee performance management policies and practices fail to contribute to improved results. Appeal by Cherrier from the dismissal of his application for recognition of seniority by date of hire as a protected right under the Charter. Those with more history may be able to get a higher rank or status within their company and may enjoy additional privileges. Conn. Gen. Stat. It is job content and not job titles that determine whether or not jobs are substantially equal. The state of being older than another or others or higher in rank than another or others. . Assigning diverse groups to work together to help achieve a common goal. Updated, Dec. 14, 2021. Historically, those who had more experience with a task or in a job position managed those with less experience. Soliciting honest feedback about the company's efforts to foster a diverse and inclusive environment. Cases of seniority already decided (prior to issue of this O.M. Suzanne Lucas is a freelance writer who spent 10 years in corporate human resources, where she hired, fired, managed the numbers, and double-checked with the lawyers. Federal law looks to see that individuals performing jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort . OFCCP will invite the union to participate in conciliation of a violation that requires a retroactive seniority remedy. The state of being older than another or others or higher in rank than another or others. Seniority is an important part of being a Union member. dated 3.3.2008), with reference to any other interpretation of the term `available' as contained in O.M. Summary. Work unit seniority shall apply in the cases of scheduling of annual leave. Meritocracy in the workplace is the practice of hiring and promoting individuals solely based on their talents and performance. Most often, seniority relates to job postings, overtime, and layoffs. A "seniority system" is an employment system that allots to employees rights and benefits according to the length of their employment. This system is also based on tradition of respect of for older. As used, for example, with reference to job seniority, the worker with the most years of service is first promoted within a range of jobs subject to seniority, and is the last laid off, proceeding so on down the line to the youngest in point of service. Seniority is the state of being older or placed in a higher position of status relative to another individual, group, or organization. 46a-51, 46a-60. Once unconscious . There are a variety of sources of workplace conflict including interpersonal, organizational, change related, and external factors. They also serve the employees by giving great opportunities in the company for their career growth for serving the company. The advantages of seniority as the basis of promotion are as follows: time, selection for overtime work, and the like.1 In applying seniority, the major problems are: (1) Definition of the area within which seniority rights shall be exercised, that is, plant, department, or occu pational unit; and (2) the degree to which factors other than length of service shall be considered. The oldest son succeeded his father as king. SENIORITY (noun) The noun SENIORITY has 2 senses: 1. higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service. Seniority shall be determined for teachers under contract only. 3. Step one: Don't assume that you or your workplace are 100 percent immune to age discrimination. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination against a job applicant or an employee during a variety of work situations including hiring, firing, promotions, training, wages and benefits. 1. Seniority is the length of time that an individual has served in a job or worked for an organization. Every workplace can enjoy the benefits of taking a best practice approach to consultation and cooperation. Those with higher seniority have first choice of desirable shifts, transfers and assignments. better business performance during change, as less time is spent on responding to . Workplace discrimination of any kind is unacceptable and illegal, but promotion discrimination is especially damaging because it affects your career prospects, your income potential and your reputation. 4. It usually means that the senior employee gets more money than a new employee performing the same role. Respect can improve the bottom line. Seniority is the period of employment at the board. An arbitrator determined that seniority integration of . Definition Seniority refers to the length of employment or service. 2. In the workplace, seniority level refers to the level of responsibility and rank an employee holds in the workplace, especially considering how long an employee has worked in a particular field or at a certain organization. Founding Member of Moshes Law, P.C. Employers should: Offer opportunities to work on multiple projects at the same time; provide work-life balance; allow them to be self-directed and independent. If you are a target, know that many others have experienced similar situations to yours; a leading nonprofit recently estimated that almost 30 percent of American workers have personally experienced workplace bullying. Precedence or preference in position over others similarly situated. The first step in uncovering workplace conflict is to consider the typical sources of conflict. December 15, 2011. Salary reductions or loss of hours - Receiving a pay cut or losing regularly scheduled hours. Disadvantages of seniority basis of promotion: Disadvantages of seniority basis of promotion are as follows -. (Definition of seniority from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Cambridge University Press) seniority | Business English seniority noun [ U ] It should provide for the following factors: when seniority starts to accumulate, Stats: However, Employers can't discriminate based on gender identity or expression, unless there is a bona fide occupational qualification or need. Our brains work by relying on established stereotypes for faster processing and decision-making. Step 2: Get Executive Buy-In and a Budget. You can distinguish seniority from merit-based advancement because seniority is based only on a person's employment duration without considering other factors, such as accomplishments. Diversity and inclusion initiatives need to be employee-led to represent an organization's demographics, but they also need the support of human resources, legal, and finance departments. View the translation, definition, meaning, transcription and examples for Have seniority, learn synonyms, antonyms, and listen to the pronunciation for Have seniority Favoritism may not be illegal, except under certain circumstances, but it is certainly detrimental to a productive and happy work environment. There are some positions, such as Department Head ,person-in-charge (P.I.C), receiver, scan coordinator and bookkeeper that require special "skills and ability "and may be protected during a layoff. . Work unit seniority shall accrue as of the first (1st) day of employment or transfer into a new program. Failing to hire a qualified individual based on race. All they need is to work harder. If you're having trouble advocating for yourself, you might want to consider working with a . dated 3.7.1986 need not be reopened. Under federal law, for example, it's illegal for employers not to hire someone because of his race, to refuse to promote . Learn to recognize your own thinking patterns. For purposes of Article 12 - Hours of Work and Article 43 - Vacation Leave, and Article 30 - Positions and Appointments, seniority shall be defined as an employee's most recent date of hire into a job title within a department or transfer within the same job title into the Seniority-based promotions are based on an employee's length of time with a company and might not always focus as much on the person's qualifications in the same ways that performance-based ones do. Seniority: At the time of winding up or bankruptcy of a company, it needs to repay its debts. . During his years of practice, Yuriy has concentrated in litigation and real estate transactions as his areas of expertise. As an example of insubordination, a soldier who disobeys a superior officer in the military is likely to be disciplined. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Your seniority is usually based on your hire date - and sometimes it can come down to the minute you were hired too. 2. Your age shouldn't prevent you from having a career and making a living. Sex discrimination includes discrimination based on pregnancy, childbearing capacity, sterilization, fertility, and related medical conditions. Contracts can be: Full-time Part-time Teacher-by-the-lesson Employment in duties other than teaching duties Seniority shall be determined in terms of years and portions of years. Interpersonal. easier change implementation, as employees have been involved in the planning process. See more. If left unchecked, unconscious bias can thrive in hiring, promotions, and in feedback. Seniority is a system in which workers who have worked for a certain employer or held a certain position longer than others enjoy benefits over newer workers. Guaranteed Promotions and Benefits Interpersonal conflict is the most apparent form of conflict for workplace participants. The method of calculating seniority or length of service is an important part of a seniority plan. Dictionary entry overview: What does seniority mean? As a senior, you have the right to continue working in your job or to get a new job, even if you are "older.". Union contracts sometimes base employment protection on seniority, laying . It is based on that there is a positive correlation between length of service and talent. The order in which these are repaid is referred to as seniority. Work unit seniority is defined as the length of employment within the employee 's current program. The term "seniority system" is used to describe the practice of granting special perks and privileges to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives who have served the longest. And it generally means employees with seniority earn more money than other employees doing the same (or very similar) work. n. 1. Seniority is nothing but the experience of an employee working in a particular company. Seniority. 2. Note The seniority of direct recruits and promotees is delinked from the vacancy/year of vacancy. Seniority systems give preference to employees who have been with the employer, profession or job for the longest period of time. In a follow-up to their February 2021 article challenging the commonly understood definition of imposter syndrome, authors Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey offer actionable steps . Define seniority. Every employee, no matter what level of seniority is equally responsible for aiding in the success of the company. Seniority. Understanding Baby Boomers in today's complex workplace is never a simple proposition, but ditching tired HR jargon like silver tsunami is a great place to start. Pay/compensation discrimination occurs when employees performing substantially equal work do not receive the same pay for their work. As respect creates a fair environment, increases employee engagement, improves knowledge sharing, and reduces stress, it must help to improve the company's bottom line. For additional information contact Lori . The seniority system provides important employee benefits by creating, and fulfilling, employee expectations of fair, uniform treatment. Reassignment - Being reassigned duties or rescheduled in a way that .

ti, -jr- / higher rank or advantage obtained as a result of the length of job service: Most of these workers have 20 to 30 years of seniority. The U.S. Seniority refers to employees' relative length of service, and the seniority promotion plan is as old as civilization. 1 : the quality or state of being senior : priority. Seniority can bring higher status, rank, or precedence to an employee who has served for a longer period of time. The principal feature of all seniority systems is time.

This means that people who have worked at a company the longest have the highest level of seniority. seniority synonyms, seniority pronunciation, seniority translation, English dictionary definition of seniority. n. 1. Exclusion - Being intentionally kept out of staff meetings, trainings, or other activities made available to fellow employees. The appellant was formerly employed as a flight attendant by a company that merged with Air Canada.

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Is it safe for breast cancer survivors to take collagen supplements?

What supplements should breast cancer survivors avoid?

“There are supplements known to interfere with anti-hormonal agents used for breast cancer.” If you take tamoxifen, it’s best to avoid red clover, St. John’s wort, and black cohosh.

Does collagen affect breast cancer?

They actually start building these collagen fibers perpendicular to the tumor border extending out into nearby tissue.” Researchers have found that this is an important way that breast cancer progresses to invasion and have linked these tissue-associated collagen signatures called TACS to breast cancer progression.

Does collagen feed cancer cells?

Collagen, a component of the ECM, also influences cancer cell behavior (Fig. 1). Cancer cells reversely reshape collagen to form a reinforcing cell-collagen loop, which gradually fosters cancer progression. Collagen interacts with cancer cells mainly by directly connecting to cancer cell receptors.

Is collagen bad for hormone positive breast cancer?

Conclusions. Our studies demonstrate that a collagen-I-dense ECM can potently alter hormonal signals to drive the progression of ERα + breast cancer, increasing intravasation and pulmonary metastases.

What foods should breast cancer survivors avoid?

Breast cancer patients should avoid foods that contain high amounts of os saturated fat such as organ meats, lamb, beef, ice cream, and butter. You should also avoid foods that have a lot of trans fatty acids, such as margarine or prepared baked goods.

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What is the best diet for a breast cancer survivor?

Studies have found that breast cancer survivors who eat diets high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, chicken, and fish tend to live longer than those who eat diets that have more refined sugars, fats, red meats (such as beef, pork, and lamb), and processed meats (such as bacon, sausage, luncheon meats, and hot dogs) …

What are the dangers of taking collagen?

While collagen may be effective in improving signs of skin aging and joint pain, drinking collagen powder poses the risk for two main side effects: allergic reactions and gastrointestinal upset. Collagen powder ingestion poses a risk for allergic reaction. This is especially true for powders including marine compounds.

Is it good to take collagen everyday?

Collagen is generally considered to be a safe and nontoxic daily supplement for healthy individuals, and most people won’t experience adverse side effects.

Does collagen cause weight gain?

Unlike many other supplements on the market, collagen has actually been proven to help with weight loss and reducing body fat! Collagen can help with not only weight loss, but improving skin texture, reducing inflammation, and improving GI health.

What type of collagen causes breast cancer?

A type III collagen (Col3)–deficient microenvironment promotes breast cancer cell proliferation and inhibits cell death.

Does collagen affect estrogen?

Our results show that collagen supplementation exhibits bioactivity in reducing body weight and adipocyte size similar to that of estradiol treatment. Thus, collagen supplementation may synergically act with estradiol to reduce the use of estradiol and consequently alleviate its side effects.

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You should avoid making (generating) multiple DB queries from the application if you can fetch the needed data in a single query. Always check what queries are executed in your (Rails) log.

Also, when you work on a complex SQL calculation, avoid pulling intermediate results to your application, which will be used for the next step in your query. It can be a very resource-intensive operation.

When you use the UNION operator for combining result sets of two or more query statements, double-check if you should use UNION or UNION ALL.

The UNION operator is less performant because it removes all duplicate rows from the combined data set. To retain the duplicate rows, you use the UNION ALL instead.

A database VIEW is a pretty useful SQL mechanism. You can use it for:

A plain VIEW contains only a definition - that means the query will be executed each time you fetch data from the view.

The results can be "cached" by using a MATERIALIZED VIEW. Basically, a MATERIALIZED VIEW acts as a read-only plain table. To update data in materialized views, use the REFRESH statement.

REFRESH completely replaces the content of a materialized view. During the refresh process, the view is locked. To refresh a materialized view without locking, use REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.

Plain or materialized views?

So, the rule of thumb when you have to choose between plain or materialized VIEW is the frequency of data updates. VIEWs are generally used when data is to be accessed infrequently and data in the table get updated frequently. On the other hand, MATERIALIZED VIEWs are used when data is to be accessed frequently and data in the table does not get updated frequently.

You can add indexes to materialized views, but not plain database views.

Handling views from Rails

When using Rails and ActiveRecord, views behave like a plain models:

class Report < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :property

  def readonly?

Report.where(property: property)

Also, for managing (materialized) views in your Rails application, it's recommended to use Scenic gem. The gem adds methods for easier management (create, delete, update, and refresh) of database views.

When you want to work with geographical data, most likely you'll end up using PostGIS. PostGIS is an extension for the PostgreSQL database.

In the official documentation, you can find more information about data types, functions, and operators. Here's the list of some useful functions and geometry constructors, which can be your starting point when you start playing with PostGIS:

PostGIS might be overkill in some scenarios - read more here why you (probably) don't need PostGIS.


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An art movement promoting artist residences, discussions, and art exhibits on the end of Postmodernism and the birth of Metamodernism.

Art Movement

Jada consists of a group of artists promoting art discussions, talks, exhibits, and statements on Metamodernism.

Art Fairs

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Jada art residencies help to cultivate art practice, theory and artist discussions in a two-week intensive program.

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Jada offers its members art teachings and online courses by leading art professors and scholars in the industry.

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Jada art membership is for beginning and established artists seeking community, critique, and career development.

“Jada is a Metamodern Art Movement, as it mediates between aspects of both Modernist and Postmodernism theories. It diverges from Modernism as it defends absolute universal truths, and from Post-Modernism as it excessively embraces irony and the concept of l'art pour l'art."

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FrontierNav Report: October 2018

Progress Report

Changes in October

FrontierNav is now open source! I've spent most of the month planning this switch over and thinking about what it means for the project going ahead.

By virtue of being open source, I'll be more open about priorities and plans. There's an Issue Tracker for feature requests, planned changes and bug reports. I've also written some documentation for people to get started so that they can make their own code contributions.

You can find the code repository on GitHub.

Regaining Momentum

Now that Summer's over and things are starting to settle again, I can start putting time into FrontierNav. Even if it's just a few hours here and there, I'm slowly picking up momentum. This just feels like an annual flow now, so maybe it's best to accept that Summer is always going to be a season to rest.

Payment Model

I paused Patreon funding for the last 2 months due to the lack of progress. I'll be starting it back up from this month onwards again.

I've been thinking if I should change the payment model from "monthly" to "per post". So instead of pausing the Patreon manually on months I haven't made progress, maybe I should just charge for the monthly "FrontierNav Report". If I don't post a report, I won't charge for the month.

However, it looks like Patreon doesn't allow accounts that have "Charge Upfront" enabled to switch back to the "per creation" model. That sucks.

Being Upfront about Costs

Since FrontierNav is now open source, Maybe it's best to also make its finances more open. Moving over to something like Open Collective is an option. Though, that may exclude certain contributions since it's a different community to Patreon... Maybe have both? Either way, to apply I need the repository to have over 100 stars so it'll have to wait.

AniDB has an interesting way to manage its Patreon funds. Similar to Open Collective, they track their expenses publicly and only charge their Patrons when they need more funding (by making a post). But again, unless if I make a new Patreon account, I can't switch to "per creation".

Next Steps

I'll carry on sorting out the open source processes. The biggest one is to improve testing. I've relied on my memory to make sure everything still works as expected, but that only works for so long and doesn't scale to multiple contributors.

Also, I'll look into adding Xenoblade 2: Torna and sort out the design around adding new games.


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Emotion Analysis

In some circumstances, sentiment analysis may fail to capture the true feelings of the customer. The technique of discovering and interpreting the underlying emotions portrayed in textual data is known as emotion analysis.

Emotion analytics may gather text data from a variety of sources in order to examine subjective information and comprehend the emotions underlying it.

Emotion analysis is the technique of finding and interpreting the emotions conveyed in textual material.

Emotion detection and classification are straightforward tasks that can be completed depending on the types of emotions portrayed in the text, such as fear, rage, happiness, sadness, love, inspiration, or neutrality. The core intent is to analyze human language by extracting views, ideas, and thoughts by the assignment of polarities either negative, positive, or neutral.

These customers’ reviews contain information that encodes their feelings about their purchases. Reviews and ratings for certain businesses are critical preludes to supplying some intelligence in the decision-making process to assure corporate progress.

This short essay tries to completely guide beginners in the topic of emotion analysis, therefore it discusses benefits, applications, and tools.

Benefits of Emotion Analysis

  • Examine and weigh the emotions conveyed in text data by analyzing massive amounts of social media and feedback data.
  • Emotion analysis will assist you in determining your brand’s reputation as expressed by its users. Define notifications that could harm your company’s reputation.
  • Emotion analysis assists in identifying early problems and resolving them before they become more serious, so avoiding the loss of talented individuals.

Here are some interesting ways emotion analysis is being used.

Recognizing and Predicting Market Trends

It allows you to analyze large amounts of market research data to identify emerging trends and better understand consumer emotions. This type of practice can assist you in navigating the complex world of stock market trading and making decisions based on market sentiment.

Maintaining vigilance over the brand’s image

Emotion analysis is frequently used to investigate how users perceive a product or topic. It can also be used to conduct product analysis and provide all relevant data to development teams.

Taking a look at public opinion polls and political polls

Anyone can use emotion analysis to compile and analyze large amounts of text data, such as news, social media, opinions, and suggestions, to predict the outcome of an election. It considers how the general public feels about both candidates.

Customer feedback data is being analyzed.

Customer feedback data can be used to identify areas for improvement. Emotion analysis can assist you in extracting value and insights from customer feedback data and developing effective customer satisfaction strategies.

Observing and analyzing social media conversations

Social media conversations are a gold mine of information. With emotion analysis, look at conversations about your brand on social media to see what your customers are saying; this can help any company plan its future strategies much more effectively.

Reduced Employee Turnover

Analyze massive amounts of employee feedback data to determine levels of employee satisfaction. The sentiment analysis tool uses the insights to boost morale and productivity while also informing you of how your employees are feeling.

Tools to Use for Emotion Analysis

  1. BytesView

BytesView’s advanced machine learning techniques can help you analyze the emotions expressed by the author in a piece of text.

It can be easily done based on the types of feelings expressed in the text such as fear, anger, happiness, sadness, love, inspiring, or neutral. Gather and analyze large volumes of text data to analyze the emotions of your followers, customers, and more.

2. Talkwalker

Another excellent tool for emotion analysis is Talkwalker. It claims to have the best sentiment analysis technology available, allowing it to distinguish sarcasm and other ambiguous forms of negative mentions. This tool is best used in conjunction with your social media channels because it can tell you exactly how people perceive your company’s social media accounts.

3. Clarabridge

Clarabridge is a multifaceted platform that includes customer experience management. Emotion analysis is a component of this solution. The sentiment analysis in the tool is extremely detailed, taking into account parsing, framework, industry, and source.

4. Brandwatch

Brandwatch is also one of my go-to analytics tools. It analyses brand sentiment, displays trends, and includes a cool feature called “image insights.” In the same way that topics can be linked with your brand’s name, the feature recognizes images associated with your brand’s logo.

5. Lexalytics

Lexalytics is a business intelligence solution that analyses various types of text. Lexalytics works with social media comments, surveys, reviews, and any other type of text document. In addition to sentiment analysis, the tool performs emotion detection, theme extraction, and intention detection, which can help users see the full context.

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Ahh, that is not an easy question to answer. What do we normally think of as a fish? Well, they have scales, they live in water and they have fins.

These three things however, are not true of all fish. Some fish such as catfish don't have scales. Some eels do not have fins. Lungfish can spend a considerable amount of time out of water, breathing gaseous air instead of out of water, at times..

So what do all fish have in common? 1. Fish have a backbone or a notochord and 2. all fish breathe oxygen using gills. However, a lot of animals have a notochord (including us humans). Some animals that are not fish, such as the axolotls also breathe using gills. However axolotls have fully formed limbs that are lacking in fishes.

T. M. Berra (2001) states that "If we allow room for these and other exceptions, we can define a fish as a poikilothermic, aquatic chordate with appendages (when present) developed as fins, whose chief respiratory organs are gills and whose body is usually covered with scales." [Berra, T.M. 2001. Freshwater Fish Distribution. Academic Press. Pp. 604.]

People often get confused when to use the term fish or fishes. Here are the general rules:

1 fish of a given species is called a fish

a group of fish of the same species are called fish

1 fish or a group of one species with 1 fish or a group of other fish are called fishes.

A fairly large to very large group of fish of the same species is referred to as a school of fish.

If 1 fish of a given species swims with 1, a group or a school of another species, they are referred to as fishes.

Sometimes when fishing, if you catch several fish, vulgate language at least may refer to this as a "mess" of fish (the term probably derived from the housewife who had to clean the fish)

For example if you catch a "mess" of trout of the same species, you would say you caught some fish or a mess of fish.

However, if you caught some bass and a catfish, you would say I caught some fishes.

Now is that as clear as mud?

Fish are often divided into three main groups, totaling about 25,000 species of fish.
These are the Jawless fish; the Cartilagenous fish; and the bony fish, called Teleost.

Jawless fish are the last survivors of the world's first vertebrate animals. Vertebrate means that the animal has a "back-bone". Jawless fish lack both scales and jaws. They are very ancient and date back from over 500 million years ago. The hagfish and lampreys are the only two which remain.

Cartilaginous fish developed about 400 million years ago, and they were the ancestors of today's sharks and rays. Cartilage makes up the skeleton of these fish, which is softer and more pliable than bone. Cartilaginous fish have jaws, as well as teeth which are usually hard and sharp. Most Cartilaginous fish have rows of teeth in their mouths, so that when a tooth is lost another is already in place to roll up and forward and thereby replace the lost tooth. Their bodies are covered with denticles, which are somewhat like small hard scales, which is why shark skins are used to make shoes and other very durable leather. Shark fins are eaten, especially in the Orient and also are used in medicine in the Orient.

Male Cartilaginous fish fertilize the eggs of the female internal, often using what are called claspers on the underside back part of the male. In some species the eggs hatch internally so that the babies are born from the mother. Others lay the fertilized eggs in pouches to hatch later.

Cartilaginous fish have what is called the ampullae of Lorenzini, an electricity detecting organ, which are pores. These help the fish locate prey.

Bony fish have bony skeletons, as most other vertebrates, instead of cartilage skeletons, as the Cartilaginous fish. Bony fish first appeared at about the same time as the Cartilaginous fish. The Bony fish are the largest group of fish, with about 20,000 species. The Bony fish have an organ called a swim bladder, which gives the animal buoyancy, i.e. the ability to float.

Female Bony fish lay their eggs in the water and the male deposits milt into the water as well, which fertilizes some of the eggs. Because of the chance fertilization, many more eggs and milt (sperm) are produced than in the Cartilaginous fish, to assure a reasonable number of the eggs are fertilized. Some Bony fish then guard the eggs and some just leave the eggs unprotected, with the safety of numbers to resolve that some do hatch.

Fish have a sense organ which we do not have. It is a lineal line running from the front of the body toward the tail, called the

All fish live in water and breathe with gills. Fish are cold-blooded, which means their internal body temperature changes as the surrounding temperature changes. Fish live in fresh water, salt water, and brackish water. They vary widely in size, food, color, appearance, methods of predation and methods of hiding and survival. Some are egg layers and some are live baby deliverers. Fish habitats vary extremely in temperature, salinity, clear or muddy water and many other factors. They are found worldwide, in oceans, rivers, streams, lakes and ponds.

Fish are divided into four Classes as follows with some examples of members of that Class:

Class Cephalaspidomorphi--Lampreys

Class Myxini--Hagfish

Class Chondrichthyes--sharks, skates, rays, ratfishes

Class Osteichthyes--i.e. Teleost--Bony fish including lungfishes, lobe-finned fishes, and ray-finned fishes, and many others.

Another important division is between living fish and fossil fish. Both are found virtually worldwide, as fossil fish spread worldwide, just as living modern fish do today. Interestingly some of the most ancient fish still survive today.

Click here, for information on the living fossil fish called the Coelacanths (a descendent of the extinct Crossopterigian amphibian/fish).

At present we invite you to visit some pages on this Website, which pertain to fish:

Crossopterigian and Coelacanth--(same link as above)
Fossil Butte National Monument--for information on Wyoming fossil fish.
Fossils, then click on Fossil Fish--for information on various fossil fish.
Marine Life--for living and fossil links.
Plecostomus--an interesting, modern but prehistoric appearing, catfish
Prof. Robert Cross' Biographical Page--for fossil fish along with other of his fossils
Warfield Quarry--for information on fossil fish at Kemmerer, Wyoming.

This page is still under construction as are some of the above pages listed. Thank you for your patience as we build this website.


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Regulation of Striatal Acetylcholine Transmission by Choinergic Interneurons

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Project Summary The striatum is central to motivated behaviors and goal-directed actions. Neuromodulation by acetylcholine (ACh) plays a major role in regulating striatal circuits and resulting behaviors. ACh levels within the striatum are the highest in the CNS. Cholinergic transmission is involved in multiple basal ganglia based functions including the control of voluntary movement, motor and associative learning, as well as reward. Dysfunctions in acetylcholine (ACh) signaling in the striatum are associated with a variety of neurological movement disorders including Parkinson?s disease, Huntington?s disease, and dystonia. Identifying how these dysfunctions occur is limited by a lack of understanding of the basic mechanisms of cholinergic transmission. While both nicotinic and muscarinic receptors are expressed in the striatum, ACh does not directly evoke post-synaptic events at most synapses that can be detected with conventional electrophysiological approaches. Instead cholinergic receptors modulate striatal inputs or indirectly alter the excitability of post-synaptic neurons through multistep intracellular cascades. This proposal will examine the dynamics of ACh at muscarinic synapses using the viral expression of GIRK channels that was developed in the last funding period. The dynamics of ACh will be compared in control and disease states following loss of dopamine. The proposed studies are expected to be significant in that they have to potential to determine specific mechanisms that regulate cholinergic transmission and identify the dysregulations that occur in an animal model of Parkinson?s disease.
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3 Autonomous Position Control of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based on Accelerometer Response for Indoor Navigation Using Kalman Filtering

Authors: Syed Misbahuddin, Sagufta Kapadia

Autonomous indoor drone navigation has been posed with various challenges, including the inability to use a Global Positioning System (GPS). As of now, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) either rely on 3D mapping systems or utilize external camera arrays to track the UAV in an enclosed environment. The objective of this paper is to develop an algorithm that utilizes Kalman Filtering to reduce noise, allowing the UAV to be navigated indoors using only the flight controller and an onboard companion computer. In this paper, open-source libraries are used to control the UAV, which will only use the onboard accelerometer on the flight controller to estimate the position through double integration. One of the advantages of such a system is that it allows for low-cost and lightweight UAVs to autonomously navigate indoors without advanced mapping of the environment or the use of expensive high-precision-localization sensors.

Keywords: accelerometer, indoor-navigation, Kalman-filtering, position-control

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2 Impact of Lifestyle and User Expectations on the Demand of Compact Living Spaces in the Home Interiors in Indian Cities

Authors: Velly Kapadia, Reenu Singh

This report identifies the long-term driving forces behind urbanization and the impact of compact living on both society and the home and proposes a concept to create smarter and more sustainable homes. Compact living has been trending across India as a sustainable housing solution, and the reality is that India is currently facing a housing shortage in urban areas of around 10 million units. With the rising demand for housing, urban land prices have been rising and the cost of homes. The paper explores how and why the interior design of the homes can be improved to relieve the housing demand in an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable manner. A questionnaire survey was conducted to determine living patterns, area requirements, ecological footprints, energy consumption, purchasing patterns, and various pro-environmental behaviors of people who downsize to compact homes. Quantitative research explores sustainable material choices, durability, functionality, cost, and reusability of furniture. Besides addressing the need for smart and sustainable designed compact homes, a conceptual model is proposed, including options of ideal schematic layouts for homes in urban areas. In the conclusions, suggestions to improve space planning and suitable interior entities have been made to support the fact that compact homes are an eminently practical and sensible solution for the urban citizen.

Keywords: compact living, housing shortage, lifestyle, sustainable interior design

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1 Immune Modulation and Cytomegalovirus Reactivation in Sepsis-Induced Immunosuppression

Authors: G. Lambe, D. Mansukhani, A. Shetty, S. Khodaiji, C. Rodrigues, F. Kapadia

Introduction: Sepsis is known to cause impairment of both innate and adaptive immunity and involves an early uncontrolled inflammatory response, followed by a protracting immunosuppression phase, which includes decreased expression of cell receptors, T cell anergy and exhaustion, impaired cytokine production, which may cause high risk for secondary infections due to reduced response to antigens. Although human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is widely recognized as a serious viral pathogen in sepsis and immunocompromised patients, the incidence of CMV reactivation in patients with sepsis lacking strong evidence of immunosuppression is not well defined. Therefore, it is important to determine an association between CMV reactivation and sepsis-induced immunosuppression. Aim: To determine the association between incidence of CMV reactivation and immune modulation in sepsis-induced immunosuppression with time. Material and Methods: Ten CMV-seropositive adult patients with severe sepsis were included in this study. Blood samples were collected on Day 0, and further weekly up to 21 days. CMV load was quantified by real-time PCR using plasma. The expression of immunosuppression markers, namely, HLA-DR, PD-1, and regulatory T cells, were determined by flow cytometry using whole blood. Results: At Day 0, no CMV reactivation was observed in 6/10 patients. In these patients, the median length for reactivation was 14 days (range, 7-14 days). The remaining four patients, at Day 0, had a mean viral load of 1802+2599 copies/ml, which increased with time. At Day 21, the mean viral load for all 10 patients was 60949+179700 copies/ml, indicating that viremia increased with the length of stay in the hospital. HLA-DR expression on monocytes significantly increased from Day 0 to Day 7 (p = 0.001), following which no significant change was observed until Day 21, for all patients except 3. In these three patients, HLA-DR expression on monocytes showed a decrease at elevated viral load (>5000 copies/ml), indicating immune suppression. However, the other markers, PD-1 and regulatory T cells, did not show any significant changes. Conclusion: These preliminary findings suggest that CMV reactivation can occur in patients with severe sepsis. In fact, the viral load continued to increase with the length of stay in the hospital. Immune suppression, indicated by decreased expression of HLA-DR alone, was observed in three patients with elevated viral load.

Keywords: CMV reactivation, immune suppression, sepsis immune modulation, CMV viral load

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8 Surprisingly Effective Ways To Whatsapp Web

Having staff members or freelancers numerous thousand miles away in a various time zone can offer its very own set of issues, despite the problems of simply trying to get everyone on the same web page with a growth.

The Agile and Scrum processes were direct actions to the requirements of modern businesses, where staff members could be clocking in in the morning as their sidekicks left for the night. Having actually tasks cut down right into workable and also (really significantly) trackable portions implied that it was unexpectedly possible to collaborate complicated tasks across continents and also obtain a result.

Interaction is Secret
There are a number of interaction platforms that everyone can make use of with each other to maintain communications as well as jobs in one place. Skype, WhatsApp, Google, they’ve all got ways of making sure everybody gets the message and recognizes what they’re doing. Uploading jobs to the cloud so everybody can access it, talk about, examination as well as examine it makes successful advancement much quicker and also much more detailed. You require a revision quick? Push it right into the cloud and see who can be alloted the task.

Yes, meetings. They should not be what everyone fears, and also with Agile they’re intended to be maintained to a minimal 10 min “stand” at the start of each job session. Not often the situation actually as there’s usually a great deal to talk about, when done right they can ensure everyone recognizes what they’re doing as well as when to do it. Outsourced tasks are dealt with mostly the like jobs taken inboard with the Scrum procedure, making it a (ideally smooth) process.

When a development job is broken up right into little pieces as well as designated in the Scrum process, staff members are generally disappearing to work with their task and also reporting in when they need aid or have completed. To avoid this being separating, having a conference where everybody gets to report both helps people really feel part of a group as well as sees to it everyone is doing the best thing. It’s not uncommon for someone to say in a meeting “no, that’s not what I asked for!” And that’s the advantage.

Job it out
What requires to be contracted out and what requires to be kept onshore? That is the inquiry. An analysis with Agile can reveal you who has what abilities and also what time offered, providing you a quite quick response to the inquiry. You can after that Scrum it as well as assign where requires be. It seems much simpler than it typically is, however it is effective when you get it right.

Time Distinctions
If you can, manipulate the moment distinction. If they’re doing it right, at the end of the day all your staff members and consultants will report in at given times, suggesting you can odd job for the “graveyard shift” to do to prepare for your “day shift”. This benefits everybody as it maintains nobody waiting and also makes everything much quicker.

Know the Objective
Every person on every group requires to recognize what they’re functioning in the direction of and a harsh course of exactly how to get there. Particularly your outsourced assistance, talk with them as long as feasible, as typically as possible regarding advancements, improvements, modifications and also the tasks at hand.

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