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A total of 348 initial hits were obtained from six databases. In total, 268 unrelated and 22 duplicate titles were excluded after their titles and abstracts were screened (Fig. 1). Up to 48 of 58 full-text articles were excluded because of the following reasons: 1) ineligible study designs (single-arm study: n=8, retrospective study: n=5, observational study: n=2, and feasible study: n=3); 2) incorrect interventions (head positioning: n=1, general stretching: n=5, core muscle training: n=7, spinal manual therapy: n=3, electrostimulation therapy: n=2, and traction: n=1); 3) inappropriate patient population (n=3, adult participants); 4) inappropriate outcomes (n=2, Cobb angle was not compared); 5) full-text was not in English (n=4); and 6) duplicates (n=2, same cohort with multiple publications). Finally, 10 articles were included in this review (Fig. 1).
Evidence hierarchy and methodological appraisal
Eight articles with an RCT methodology (80%) were classified as providing level II evidence(35-37, 41, 45-48), and two articles with prospective CCT methodology (20%) were classified as providing level III evidence(38, 40) (Table 1). The PEDro scale was ranked from 5 to 9, with an average score of 6.9/10 for overall articles (Table 1). Specifically, the average scores of Schroth studies(35-38, 45), scientific exercise approach to scoliosis (SEAS) studies(41, 47, 48), and alternative SSE(40, 46) studies were 6.4 (n=5, score: 5–8), 8 (n=3, score: 8–9), and 6.5 (n=2, score: 6–7), respectively. Criteria 4 (blinding subjects) and 5 (blinding therapists) were not met for 80% (n=8) of studies(35-38, 45-48). However, one RCT(41) reported participant blinding, whereas one CCT(40) reported therapist blinding.
Characteristics of included studies
Five trials adopted the Schroth method (Table 2). In particular, three RCTs compared the Schroth method alone with standard care(45), Pilates(35), and home exercise(37); one CCT compared the Schroth method and bracing with bracing alone for moderate scoliosis (38); one RCT compared the Schroth method and respiratory exercises with the Schroth method alone for mild to moderate scoliosis (36). Three trials adopted the SEAS method (Table 2). These included one RCT comparing SEAS with core stabilization exercises in patients with moderate scoliosis(47), one RCT comparing SEAS with bracing for moderate scoliosis(48), and one comparing SEAS with traditional exercises for mild scoliosis(41). Another two studies adopted alternative SSE (body awareness, and Xinmiao approach)(40, 46): one was an RCT comparing traditional exercises and body awareness exercises with traditional exercise alone for both mild and moderate scoliosis(46); a CCT study grouped participants by age (<10 years, 10–12 years, and 13–15 years) to determine the relationship of age, skeletal maturity, and gender with intervention effects(40).
Variations in intervention dosage were found, from daily to every other day (Table 2). Four trials reported >1-year follow-up, whereas six trials had study periods of 2–6 months (Table 3). However, only five studies reported exercise compliance in percentage values of prescribed dosage (Table 3).
Six studies compared the truncal asymmetry pre- and post-intervention (Table 3). Four of them showed that SSE was not superior to core exercises, traditional exercises, and bracing for ATR improvement(38, 46, 47) or shoulder balance(48). Two studies showed better improvement of ATR in the study group(37, 41). For QoL (Table 3), five studies adopted the SRS-22 questionnaire(38, 41, 46-48), and one study adopted the SRS-23 questionnaire(37). However, a high initial score (mean score: 3.8–4.2) was noted in all studies (Table 3), with three studies reporting better QoL outcomes in terms of function and mental domain, favoring the SSE group(41, 46, 48). Two studies found no significant differences of QoL between the groups in either adding SSE to bracing treatment or comparing supervised SSE with home exercises(37, 46). Another study found improved pain domain outcomes in the core exercise group only(47).
- Can SSE improve scoliotic deformity?
Ten studies with 494 participants were enrolled in this review (Table 2). Five trials (three RCTs and two CCTs) with moderate study quality showed significant curve regression in terms of reducing Cobb angles beyond the measurement error of 5° (Table 3). Three studies(35, 40, 41) enrolled participants with mild scoliosis (Cobb angle: 10°–27°): Monticone et al. reported a decrease of 5.3° with SEAS but an increase of 1.7° with general exercise at skeletal maturity(41); Kim et al. found a large curve regression from 23.6 ± 1.5° down to 12.0 ± 4.7° in the Schroth group, whereas a reduction from 24.0 ± 2.6° to 16.0 ± 6.9° was observed in the Pilates group after 3 months of exercises(35); Liu et al. grouped participants according to age and revealed that notable curve regressions were favored in patients younger than 13 years (a decrease of Cobb angle: 6.8 ± 5.5° for age <10 years; 3.1 ± 4.2° for age 10–12 years) and with Risser stage 0 (a decrease of Cobb angle: 5.7 ± 5.6°) at 2-year follow-up(40). Another two studies involved brace-wearing patients with moderate scoliosis(38, 46). Kwan et al. found that 17% of the participants showed improvement with Schroth exercises, whereas only 4% improved with no exercise at 1.5-year follow-up(38). Yagci et al. adopted body awareness exercise with bracing and revealed a significant Cobb angle reduction (−7.33 ± 2.78° vs 0.63 ± 4.34°, p < 0.05) of the thoracic curvature between the groups(46).
Three RCTs showed statistically significant reductions in Cobb angle, but differences were not of clinical significance (Table 3). Kim et al. conducted an 8-week-long study and reported a reduction of Cobb angle by 4.26 ± 1.36° after Schroth with respiratory exercises(36). Schreiber et al. conducted a 6-month-long study and demonstrated a 3.5° decrease in the largest curves but only a decrease of 0.4° in the sum of curves (root mean square value) with Schroth therapy(45). Kuru et al. performed a 6-month-long study with three groups and found greater Cobb angle reduction (−2.53°, p = 0.03) in those who relied on supervised Schroth therapy(37).
Furthermore, two RCTs concluded that SSE was not superior than either bracing or core muscle exercises in improving scoliotic deformity (Table 3). Yagci et al. compared the SEAS with core muscle exercises in participants wearing a brace and revealed comparable effects between the thoracic (−5.3 ± 2.2° vs 4.8 ± 2.6°) and lumbar (−4.1 ± 2.5° vs −3.5 ± 3.0°) curvatures(47). Zheng et al. compared the SEAS alone with bracing for moderate scoliosis and suggested that a notable reduction in Cobb angle only favored the bracing group (bracing: 5.58 ± 6.37° vs SEAS: 2.24 ± 3.19°, p = 0.01)(48).
- Effects of age, skeletal maturity, curve magnitude, and exercise compliance with SSE in reducing Cobb angle.
Two studies investigated the relationship between age and intervention effects(40, 41). One RCT with a high study quality (PEDro: 9) revealed that in the SEAS group, participants aged ≥ 13 years had better results than younger patients (−5.8° vs −4.8°)(41). One CCT with moderate study quality (PEDro: 6) revealed the opposite result in terms of better outcomes (−6.8 ± 5.5°/−3.1 ± 4.2° vs −1.5 ± 4.8°), favoring younger patients (<13 years)(40).
One study analyzed the interaction effect of skeletal maturity, in the form of Risser sign, with SSE in improving scoliotic deformity(40). This study suggested that subjects with Risser stage 0 significantly benefited from SSE in curve regression compared with those with Risser stage 3 (Risser stage 0: 5.7 ± 5.6° vs Risser stage 3: 2.1 ± 4.7°).
Two studies compared decreasing values in Cobb angle between thoracic and lumbar curves (Table 3). One study demonstrated that only body awareness therapy could significantly improve thoracic curvatures, and yet, no difference was detected in comparison with the traditional exercise group(46). Another study revealed that both thoracic and lumbar Cobb angles decreased in all participants wearing braces regardless of the exercise strategy (SEAS vs Core muscle training)(47).
No study investigated the correlation of exercise compliance with intervention effects. Five studies reported exercise compliance in the percentage value of the prescribed dosage (Table 3: 58 ± 0.27% to 88%)(38, 45-48), of which three trials reported significant intergroup differences in Cobb angles that were beyond measurement error(38, 46, 48): one study showed greater Cobb angle reduction in patients undergoing brace with exercise(38); another study showed that bracing was superior to exercise alone for moderate scoliosis(48); and the third study suggested body awareness exercise with bracing could effectively improve scoliosis(46).

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Sweet Corn Fun Fest at Lucky Ladd Farm
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Late summer brings super sweet fun for all! We'll be serving up everybody's seasonal favorite - fresh roasted sweet corn on the cob dripping with warm butter and covered in your favorite flavored seasoning. Test your skills and win prizes in the Corn Eating, Corn Shucking and Sweet Corn Snapshot Competitions. Kids can cool off on the inflatable water slides, splash pad and bubble blast. Fresh picked sweet corn available for purchase - great for grilling up for your next summertime party.
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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Carlo Carluccio
– 1988: Monaco – The greatest ever qualifying lap
“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Papa?” the young boy asked as he selected another mayonnaise covered fritte and consumed it greedily. “Yes, Pascal?’” he turned to his son and placed his arm around his shoulders.
“Do you remember the first time you came to see Formula One? Was it the same as today?” he questioned.
“Yes – I remember it.” His eyes misted over, “Twenty-six years ago. On this day, in fact. I wasn’t much older than you when Grand-papa brought me to Monaco.” He reminisced, “It was very different then, the cars evolve but so do the circuits.”
He pointed, “You see those candy-striped kerbs that the cars were riding. On the track? Well, that used to be concrete walls and you could really tell who the best drivers were back then…”
His first visit to a Grand Prix with his papa; just closing his eyes alerted his senses once more to the sounds, the smells and most of all the unfocused sights. He still remembered. He still recalled feeling his spine tingling for days afterwards at the memories.
That Thursday had been a shock to the system as he experienced Grand Prix cars in their most brutal form for the first time. They shredded his senses as they navigated the funnelled streets at mind-blowing speed – how could anyone control these things.
When a driver crashed out the cars seemed to disintegrate – such was their fragility – and yet like a spider their tenacious grip of the tarmac contradicted what the mind could process. By the end of the day he could barely identify the different drivers and their cars but one name stood out when the tannoys could be heard – Senna.
He and his father had spent the Friday in Nice but all he could talk about was the previous day’s events and his questions were answered with smiling patience.
On the Saturday they walked around sections of the track, taking photos at will before they found their seats in the grandstand at the entry to the Swimming Pool complex. His father had been coming for years and said this was the best vantage point – this daunting and unforgiving section showed the drivers commitment fully.
Neither the warmth of the sun nor the scent of the sea – lazily floating past on the breeze – distracted him from flicking through the race programme trying to learn the names of the cars and drivers. When asked if he was hungry, he merely shook his head oblivious to the question but he always returned to the page – the bright yellow helmet captured his imagination.
About fifteen minutes before qualifying the sounds of engines could be heard just over the avenue of trees beyond the swimming pool. Computers attached by their umbilicals pulsed the engines and monitored the data. Despite it being a balmy afternoon he sat shaking and listened to the commentator running through the previous session’s times.
When they were finally unleashed he heard the bass of countless horses rumbling the ground which mortals normally walked over. The cars could be heard all around the track, the cacophony of noise reverberating off of the ponderous apartment buildings. Flashes of colour could be seen navigating up the hill to Casino Square before they were caught again as they flashed through the Harbour chicane. The noise raced ahead of the projectiles and as they emerged from Tabac they roared straight towards him.
As they prepared their aim towards the apex they lifted, braked and settled the car to turn into the left hander. Barely inches from the walls they threaded their way through and roared away in pursuit of a goal unseen.
The variety of technicolor that passed through seemed endless. The V8 in the rear of Mansell’s car screamed out its pain in comparison to the baritone rumble of the turbos… and in the confusion a red and white Mclaren slipped past.
He’d missed which one it was but the hillside scoreboard showed number 12 with a time of 1’25’6. Barely three minutes later this had shrunk to 1’24.4. The sister car was struggling to get within two seconds.
As the car emerged from the Harbour chicane, he focused intently on the flashes of bright colour piercing the gaps in the Armco barriers and he watched it swing into Tabac.
As Senna approached the first corner of the complex it seemed as though the actual track straightened up, the corner morphed into a shallower radius and as he glanced both the barriers with the sidewalls of his tyres he left behind a sliver of rubber on the concrete. It transcended physics and seemed almost surreal as he brushed through with barely a lift. He was on a different plane to everyone else.
The following lap he coasted through, seemingly scared of the same concrete he had previously embraced with a lovers touch.
That was it. His final time of 1’23.998 shook the Principality. 1.427 seconds quicker than his team-mate. Everybody present knew they had witnessed greatness.
Some years later he listened to Senna interviewed about Monaco 1988.
“When I am competing against the watch and against other competitors, the feeling of expectation, of getting it done and doing the best and being the best, gives me a kind of power that, some moments when I am driving, actually detaches me completely from anything else as I am doing it…corner after corner, lap after lap. I can give you a true example I experienced and can relate it to you…
“Monte Carlo, ’88, the last qualifying session. I was already on pole and I was going faster and faster. One lap after the other, quicker, and quicker, and quicker. I was at one stage just on pole, then by half a second, and then one second…and I kept going. Suddenly, I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. And I suddenly realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously.”
“I was kind of driving it by instinct, only I was in a different dimension. It was like I was in a tunnel, not only the tunnel under the hotel, but the whole circuit for me was a tunnel. I was just going, going – more, and more, and more, and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more. Then, suddenly, something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and I realized that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. Immediately my reaction was to back off, slow down. I drove back slowly to the pits and I didn’t want to go out any more that day. “It frightened me because I realized I was well beyond my conscious understanding. It happens rarely, but I keep these experiences very much alive in me because it is something that is important for self-preservation.”
The sound of engines accelerating stole him from his memories and he glanced at his son and smiled. He would experience today through his son’s eyes.
Great one. That description still gives me chills. Thanks.
Beautiful writing Carlo – loved the different style and different point of view. Perfect videos too:)
You lucky beast to have witnessed that first hand.
Another point resonates with me –
“the bass of countless horses rumbling the ground which mortals normally walked over”
– reminds my of my first race meeting at Oulton Park, the way my body felt the rumble of the big V8s in the Ford Galaxies as they passed – motor racing should be an assault on the senses

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Jacks score early but fall to Topeka
Published 5:31 pm, Friday, October 26, 2012
ODESSA -- The Topeka RoadRunners used a pair of power-play goals to take the lead in the second period on the way to a 5-2 victory against the Odessa Jackalopes on Friday night at the Ector County Coliseum.
The Jacks (3-8-1, 7 points) scored the game's first goal when Tyler Cayemberg scored just over five minutes into the game of assists from Johan Sjoden and Taylor Portner.
But the RoadRunners (11-2-2, 24 points) scored four minutes later when Michael Pastor scored on the power play, and then Tyler Poulsen added another power-play goal just over three minutes into the second period.
Topeka added three more goals in the third period as Curt Rau scored the Jacks' other goal on the night.
RoadRunners goaltender Spencer Viele stopped 26 of 24 shots, and Andrew Pikul stopped 47 of 42 for the Jacks.
The two teams will continue their two-game weekend series at 7:05 p.m. today at the Ector County Coliseum.

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Devastated by years of mismanagement and a cocktail of ever-tightening Western sanctions, revitalizing Iran’s economy is President-Elect Hassan Rohani’s biggest challenge once he takes office next month. Mr Rohani appears to agree judging by his address to parliament this week.
Speaking on 14 July, Iran’s incoming president gave a damning verdict on the country’s stagnating economy, stressing the problems Iran faces are far greater than those admitted to by the Islamic Republic’s current administration led by the outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Mr Rohani assumes office on 3 August). “We asked current officials about the situation of the country, but their reports and those of our team were very far from each other,” Mr Rohani said referring to a number of working groups he had assembled to analyze the country’s main economic concerns. (CONTINUED - 375 WORDS)


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DJ Press Play
About The Artist
DJ Press Play was born from a unique fusion of social media savvy and a passion for music. His career started through the viral Instagram page Friday Beers, founded by creative director Max Barrett. After witnessing the explosive growth of the Friday Beers account which had amassed one million followers in just eight months during 2020, Max approached his friend and music producer (who prefers to remain nameless) about an idea to create a new EDM artist by leveraging Friday Beers’ significant social reach to promote his music. As a tribute to their favorite musicians Daft Punk and Marshmello, they branded the act an enigmatic mask-wearing artist called DJ Press Play. The name was conceived as a tongue-in-cheek response to the public misconception that the art of DJing lacked technical prowess. DJ Press Play began by creating and releasing remixes and hour-long mixes on SoundCloud, gaining millions of streams, which started to cultivate a fan base online. He rose in popularity after the release of his first original song, Xtasy, leading to collaborations with prominent acts like Two Friends and David Guetta. DJ Press Play’s influence extended beyond music, as he played a crucial role in expanding the Friday Beers and Almost Friday brands beyond social media and into real-world experiences. He spearheaded the brand’s live event circuit, helping to sell out Friday Beers sponsored shows and concerts at venues across the nation. His ability to draw crowds and deliver captivating performances propelled the success of over 30 sold-out events. Soon after that, artists like Tiesto and Lost Kings invited him to open for some of their shows. Further cementing his rising popularity, a podcast interview with Cody Ko in March went viral when Cody praised DJ Press Play for his music making ability and the electrifying energy of his live performances. Another pivotal moment came recently when DJ Press Play produced a track with Gryffin called “Oceans”. As of May 17th, it’s #29 on Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. It was also featured by ESPN during the F1 Miami Grand Prix. This summer, DJ Press Play is dropping his debut EP Press Play, consisting of five original songs, which will be released with Mad Decent. Each track showcases his exceptional songwriting skills and melodic prowess with a blend of catchy pop hooks and energetic EDM beats. The project is more than just dance music; it’s a celebration of the joy that music can bring. DJ Press Play stands as a symbol of what can happen when you embrace misconceptions, flip the narrative, and combine the power of social media and the love of music in unexpected ways.
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Even at Eighty-seven!
So I played golf today. I usually just go out by myself and if it is busy get paired up with other golfers. Today I was paired up with three old geezers. Well two of them were 76 and one, Tim, was 87, so at 75 I was the youngest and I called them old geezers.
The 87 YO had a deformed right hand, I believe from polio and was recovering from an operation which relieved a nerve situation. He weighed maybe 110 pounds, and he hit his drives from 190 to 230 yards. Pretty damn good for an 87 YO man with a deformed right hand. He probably scored under 100.
Pretty damn good for anyone over 65.
Tim was a bit on the salty side and he regaled me with stories of his youth caddying during WWII at age 12, earning .25 a round carrying bags. If he found a ball, he could sell it for more than he earned hauling the bags around. Apparently during the war, golf balls were not a priority and they were hard to come by.
Tim was full of bad jokes, most dirty and many highly socially incorrect. I love it when someone says,
“I’ve got a good joke for you…you’re not Jewish, are you?”
I mean, if I was Jewish, I’d already be insulted just because you had a joke that you knew was offensive to anyone that was Jewish. Actually, the joke was not really offensive to Jewish people, it was mostly offensive to Gay people. It was also just corny, but hey the dudes 87 and he’s gone through some stuff in his life, he’s not about to turn all politically correct at this point. I also don’t really think Tim has an actual mean or racist bone in his body.
What really struck me about Tim and what I consider to be a life lesson, was that even at 87, golf was able to get the better of him from time to time.
He hit an occasional flub, which I suspect that as a younger man he hardly ever would hit, and he let out a string of profanities that would make a porn star cringe. He would slam his club into the ground as he let the profanities fly, then he would pick up his club, walk towards his ball and smile like it didn’t really matter.
Because, it really doesn’t matter. It’s just a game, it’s just one bad shot, it won’t make the evening news,
“This just in, Tim hit a really bad golf shot on the 7th hole, took an 8 ruining a good round.”
No, it never makes the evening news because it is not important, except that for one split second, the game gets the better of even an 87-year-old man with a deformed hand, and it seems very important.
Then he realizes he is never going to make the PGA tour, even the senior circuit, and he remembers that it is a pretty great thing that he can play 18 holes of golf with a bunch of young 76-year-olds, pee in the woods, tell dirty jokes and hit a golf ball 230 yards (ok, once).
Maybe in 12 years, I too will learn to not let a crappy shot fester, and just move on to the next shot.

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The Libertine (2004)
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life’s work.
High Road to China (1983)
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist’s daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

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Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Seraphima Bogomolova holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and English and American Literature, received in a private Institute of Foreign Languages in St Petersburg.
In addition to the degree in linguistics, Seraphima has studied as separate short courses screenwriting with Aaron Sorkin at the MasterClass, 'Introduction into Classical Music’ at Yale University, 'Psychology of Self-actualisation and Creative Identification' at Tomsk University, and 'Literary Wardrobe' - symbolism of clothes and fashion items in literature, at Moscow State University.
As a kid Seraphima went to a French language school but it never grew on her. On her own initiative she studied English language, dreaming of becoming one day an international affairs reporter, travelling the world and sharing cultural and social news.
Having graduated from the IFL, she, however, had set for a different kind of adventure, becoming involved with print media, promoting and marketing lifestyle publications. In 2006, her spirit of innovation, independent thinking and creative solution approach led her to launch her own publication - Avantoure, one of the first digital only magazines, utilizing the latest developments in digital publishing, such as inclusion of rich media into the layout of the publication, and selling digital subscriptions.
In 2013, Seraphima’s talent in visual creative writing and artistic streak combined brought her to the path of, first, staging story-based ballets to her own librettos, and, later, to screenwriting, with her current finished works being ‘A Tricky Game', 'Puzzled, and 'Головоломка' (in Russian).
Her other literary works include books – Головоломка (in Russian) and Puzzled (in English), Задача с неизвестными (in Russian), and Загадка Восточного Экспресса (in Russian).
Currently, Seraphima is working on her non-fiction book 'Menabilly, My Love...' - a literary detective research focused on uncovering mysteries and solving plentiful riddles of the phycological thriller 'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier.
Seraphima's life circumstances have allowed her to visit and live in many cities and countries of the world, including London, New York, Moscow, Dubai, Geneva, Berlin. But her all-time favourite remains London – a melting pot of creativity, individualism and quirky ideas.


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Five capitol reporters across different news outlets made predictions about several trending political issues while on a panel during a packed Capital Tiger Bay luncheon Wednesday.
The reporters included Christine Sexton of Florida Politics, Matt Dixon of POLITICO Florida, Dara Kam of News Service of Florida, John Kennedy of USA Today and Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times. They made predictions about the upcoming Special Session and 2022 election cycle, while also touching on issues they covered during the Legislative Session.
All five panelists agreed that they don’t expect the Special Session to expand beyond redistricting due to its short three-and-a-half day length and the distance between legislative leadership on pressing issues, like property insurance reform.
Kennedy said legislators would have to quietly negotiate to get bills passed in the timeframe, something he doesn’t believe is likely.
“I don’t know if this Legislature, after failing to cross the finish line in two months on some of these issues, is ready to quietly negotiate a plan that they could pass in three-and-a-half days,” Kennedy said.
According to Kam, such negotiations would have to happen before the Session convened, as the process of watching the sausage being made no longer happens in the public eye.
“There is none of that anymore. The sausage is cooked and made and curdled and fried long before a bill ever even pops up,” Kam said.
While Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he is open to dealing with more issues during the Special Session, Klas said stating that position was the right political move, but other issues are unlikely to be tacked on. She said she wasn’t confident that the redistricting issue will even be resolved, or avoid a second DeSantis veto.
However, Sexton pointed out that a possible November Special Session that DeSantis has been signaling could come to fruition. She said Speaker Chris Sprowls has been hesitant to tackle property insurance, meaning legislators may want to revisit the issue in November when Sprowls is no longer Speaker.
When the topic on the panel shifted to the 2022 election cycle, Kam predicted that while Charlie Crist will win the Democratic gubernatorial Primary, Republicans will win in every executive race on the ballot, including re-elections for DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody and CFO Jimmy Patronis. Kam also said Senate President Wilton Simpson, a Trilby Republican, was the favorite to be the next Agriculture Commissioner.
Every panelist agreed with her prediction, highlighting the historical significance of an all-Republican executive office and what that demonstrates about Democratic opposition in the state.
“Those predictions, if true, will mark a remarkable point in Florida history too, because you will have no Democratic statewide office for the first time since pre-Civil War, since the Whigs were around,” Kennedy said. “I similarly don’t see an avenue for Democrats to win at this point.”
Sexton said Republicans pushing for culture war related bills — like the 15-week abortion bill and the controversial Parental Rights in Education bill — has energized their base in an election year. She added that Republicans are more comfortable that the legislation won’t be shot down because of the Republican appointment-dominated U.S. Supreme Court and a Florida Supreme Court in which DeSantis appointed three judges.
Dixon said rinse and repeat efforts have fueled Democratic failures in the state for the last two decades. He said they have been unsuccessful at mobilizing their supporters to the same level as Republicans, and groups like the Democratic Governors Association don’t think Florida is winnable anymore
“Every year going into an election cycle we talk about, ‘Can Democrats do that this year?’ And every year the panel is like, ‘No.'” Dixon said. “The Republicans will campaign and register voters and talk to voters in off years. Democrats don’t.”
Kennedy said that Florida is turning into a red state. Several of the panelists interjected that it already is.
In a statement to Florida Politics after the event, RNC Spokesperson Julia Friedland agreed with the election predictions.
“Just remember, things could always be worse. You could be a Democrat campaigning in Florida in 2022,” Friedland said.


I’m trying to develop a robot that is able to run a defined parcours on his own.
The robot is running on a FEZ Panda II microprocessor.
The following sensors are attached:
- odometry sensors to mesure the covered distance
- infrared sensor for distance to pylon
I am trying to use the returned signals to assign the current position of the robot on an onboard map.
Has anyone any experience with this?
Help is much appreciated. ;D
Attached you can find the parcours I am trying to get through.


By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
21 September 11
The Republicans’ latest ploy to keep the economy lousy through election day
hatever shred of doubt you may have harbored about the determination of congressional Republicans to keep the economy in the dumps through Election Day should now be gone.
Today, in advance of a key meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee to decide what to do about the continuing awful economy and high unemployment, top Republicans wrote a letter to Fed Chief Ben Bernanke.
They stated in no uncertain terms the Fed should take no further action to lower long-term interest rates and juice the economy. “We have serious concerns that further intervention by the Federal Reserve could exacerbate current problems or further harm the US economy.”
They didn’t threaten to “treat him pretty ugly” – as Texas Governor Rick Perry told his supporters last month he’d deal with Bernanke if he “printed more money” between now and the election.
But the threat was there. “It is not clear that the recent round of quantitative easing undertaken by the Federal Reserve has facilitiated economic growth or reduced the unemployment rate.”
Translated: You try this, and we rake you over the coals publicly, and make the Fed into an even bigger scapegoat than we’ve already made it.
Top Republicans believe they can block all or most of Obama’s jobs bill. That leaves only the Fed as the last potential player to boost the economy. So the GOP will do what it can to stop the Fed.
After all, as Republican Senate head Mitch McConnell stated, their “number one” goal is to get Obama out of the White House. And that’s more likely to happen if the economy sucks on Election Day.
To say it’s unusual for a political party to try to influence the Fed is an understatement.
When I was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, it was considered a serious breach of etiquette – not to say potentially economically disastrous – even to comment publicly about the Fed. Everyone understood how important it is to shield the nation’s central bank from politics.
If global investors suspect the Fed is responding to political pressure of any kind, investors will lose confidence in the independence of the Fed and its monetary policies. Even if the pressure is to tighten the money supply and keep interest rates high, it’s still politics. And once politics intrudes, lenders of all stripes worry that it will continue to intrude in all sorts of ways. Lending to the United States becomes a tad riskier. As a result, lenders charge us more.
The Republican letter puts Bernanke and his colleagues in a bind. If they decide against another round of so-called “quantitative easing” to lower long-term rates and boost the economy, they may look like they’re caving to congressional Republicans. If they decide to go ahead notwithstanding, they’re bucking the Republicans and siding with Democrats. Either way, they’re open to the charge they’re playing politics.
Congressional Republicans evidently don’t care. They want Obama out, whatever the cost. Besides, they’ve never met a government institution they don’t mind trashing.
Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including “The Work of Nations,” “Locked in the Cabinet,” “Supercapitalism” and his latest book, “AFTERSHOCK: The Next Economy and America’s Future.” His ‘Marketplace’ commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes.


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Written by: Melissa Levis
I am neither a dancer nor a track and field star, but after 10 years of indecision and unhappiness in my marriage, I took a running start, big breath and leapt. I clung to a scene in Indiana Jones where Sean Connery tells Indy as they hovered by the ledge of an insurmountable chasm that you must have faith; then as they leapt, a bridge of rocks magically assembled beneath them.
My friends and family have been my bridge. They called. They emailed. They liked my posts of Facebook. They bought me leopard pjs and pink sheepskin slippers. They told me it’s ok to eat bottomless boxes of cookies and wear the same sweatpants for days. They offered to buy me champagne at Sex and the City-type bars to toast my freedom but understood when I preferred to spend nights alone watching Remington Steele.
I leapt a year ago last November and almost a full year later, I have landed on the other side. I am overjoyed to define myself as a sister, daughter and mother and not as a wife. I traded having my son 100 percent of the time for the freedom to be 100 percent myself in the 50 percent of time we’re together.
I downsized from a three-bedroom, marble floored, 20-story doorman apartment for a one room, third floor walk up downtown, yet I could not feel more expansive. My son and I fill our days with excursions for the best bubble tea in Chinatown and artichoke pizza in hole-in-the-wall Greenwich Village joints. I am like Auntie Mame with my 10-year-old Patrick and I am determined to show him the world.
Eight years ago, I asked my friend who had divorced twice before finding happiness with husband number three, how she knew when to leave. I had read a library of books like Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay, and with five years of a wonderful marriage behind me, I just couldn’t decide when to call it quits. Her only advice was, “You’ll know when you know.” And so I waited, because although I could guess, I just didn’t KNOW. I held fast to a book that said, “Think of love as a tree; the leaves fall in autumn and are completely bare in winter, but life still pulses in the dormant branches.” I waited 10 full years for spring.
But after toasting new babies while knowing our marriage wasn’t strong enough for a second child, attending weddings while sitting miserably beside each other, while watching our extended family expand each year at Thanksgiving while feeling our love contract, I KNEW. Hope had vanished. I took a class in mindfulness and waited four more months to be sure. Then I leapt and never looked back.
To please my husband, I twisted myself into a self doubting, tear-laden, isolated person. I even dyed my hair blonde! To be fair, my husband morphed too: He took ballroom dancing lessons, he went to touchy-feely group therapy retreats, he even tried to be nice to my parents who made him so uncomfortable. Freed from our fights and frustrations, we are both gloriously free to be ourselves.
Arianna Huffington writes in Thrive that you can chose to thrive even when life is hard and uncertain. Though my divorce isn’t finalized, my finances are depleted and I’m achingly lonely on weeks without my son, I realized last week that I am thriving. I love my work. I love my family. I love my child, I love my friends and I love my new puppy who follows me around, worries when I’m gone, sleeps in my bed and loves me as a brunette.
To all of you on the fence, take your time. Have faith that you will know when you are ready to know. Then once you know, leap with abandon and never look back. You will land as I have on the glistening shores of beautiful, wide open life.


Salesbury professional Neil Hornbuckle did all he could to help his side avert disaster but the South African’s unbeaten knock of 68 wasn’t quite enough.
The Ribchester Road paid man restructured the innings after the visitors had slipped to 13-3 against Settle.
Joe Rawlinson (10), Scott Wharton (11), Liam Parkinson (13) and Andrew Mercer (13 not out) all reached double figures as Salesbury culminated the innings on 145-6.
Hornbuckle added two wickets to his afternoon statistics but the home side got over the line with six wickets and three overs to spare.
Meanwhile, Great Harwood professional Ashen Silva was the difference in the Twenty20 competition as he was the only one of nine players to hit the stumps in a bowl out.


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Coram Shipyard Historic District facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Coram Shipyard Historic District
2120 Water St.
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The Coram Shipyard Historic District is a historic district encompassing a colonial-era shipyard at 2120, 2125, and 2130 Water Street in Dighton, Massachusetts. The district includes two houses, built c. 1700, and the archaeologically sensitive site of a shipyard which operated for a roughly five-year period between 1698 and 1703. The shipyard site is now home to the Taunton River Yacht Club, whose property includes the wharf built by Thomas Coram and John Hathaway, the proprietors of the shipyard. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Description and history
The town of Dighton, located on the west bank of the Taunton River in central Bristol County, Massachusetts, was settled by European colonists in the 1680s and incorporated as a town in 1712. It became significant as a maritime shipping endpoint in the 18th century because seagoing vessels were unable navigate further up the river. As a result, shipyards and wharves were built in several places on the banks of the river. Its very first shipyard was established about 1698 in an area that is just south of the junction of Main and Water Streets along the midsection of the town's shoreline with the river. The surviving elements of this shipyard include the two houses of its principal operators, Thomas Coram and John Hathaway, and a stone wharf they built into the river.
The wharf that Coram and Hathaway built is now home to the Taunton River Yacht Club. The wharf, measuring about 50 by 75 feet (15 m × 23 m), is located behind the club's c. 1950 clubhouse, and is made of rough-cut stone now covered in grass. Modern pilings have been built around its edges to provide access to the river. Opposite the wharf stands the house of John Hathaway, with that of Thomas Coram just to its south. Both houses are now 2-1/2 story wood frame houses, with a central chimney and a side gable roof. It is unknown how the houses appeared at the time of their construction c. 1699-1700, because architectural analysis of their structure has not been conducted. The present appearance of both houses suggest mid-18th century Georgian architecture, the Coram house having been altered in the 19th century by an Italianate porch across three of its front base (rebuilt with less styling in the 20th century).
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Auja Environmental Center Guest House - Auja - Palestine, State of
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Palestinian Bedouin in the Jordan Valley - Ras Al-Auja
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Auja al-Hafir (Arabic: عوجة الحفير, also Auja, was an ancient road junction close to water wells in the western Negev and eastern Sinai. It was the traditional grazing land of the 'Azazme tribe. The border crossing between Egypt and Ottoman/British Palestine, about 60 km south of Gaza, was situated there. Today it is the site of Nitzana and the Ktzi'ot military base in the Southern District of Israel.

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Studio 5 contributor Courtney Orton talked with some bloggers about sharing your voice through blogging.
Some of the blogging world’s biggest names were recently in Salt Lake City, at the Altitude Design Summit (www.altitudesummit.com), a conference for design and lifestyle bloggers and we asked them to help us explore the blogging world.
Heather Armstrong, the woman behind Dooce.com says blogging has transformed her life, “even if you only have 10 or 15 readers, you know that can change your life. Those relationships are really, really strong. I have a large readership but I’ve met a lot of people through this.”
Armstrong is a well-known Salt Lake based blogger with a worldwide following. She started her blog in 2001 as a hobby. Now, she says, “it’s just a story of our crazy lives, living here in Utah.”
Her hobby is -now her full-time job. She writes about almost everything. “I like to write as if i’m talking to my girlfriends,” says Armstrong, “you know on a friday night or I’m relating a story to my brother and I want to make him laugh. It’s just kind of exploring what your passionate about.”
It’s worked for her. She just landed a deal with HGTV and last year was named one of Forbes Magazine’s most influential women in media.
Gabrielle Blair of DesignMom.com and Kirtsy.com says she writes about what she loves. She’s a St. George native who now lives and blogs in New York. “This was absolutely an outlet that I could do in the middle of the night, in my pajamas with my new baby, just to have something creative to do,” says Blair.
Her posts are a mix of design and motherhood. “Not all bloggers feel they’re writers,” she says, “I think i was one of those where I was going oh, I like the visuals and I like the pictures, and I don’t think of myself as a writer and so the idea of finding my voice hadn’t really occured to me. Then you do realize after you’ve been blogging for a while that oh, there’s a tone to my writing and I do have a voice.”
Grace Bonney of DesignSpongeonline.com fell into the blogging world after her husband suggested she use her art and writing background and give it a shot. “I sort of found my voice along with everyone else reading the site,” says Bonney, “I think i tested things out, got reaction from readers. You figure out, there are other people like me, you get more confident and I think the voice just grows naturally from that.”
All of them say, it doesnt matter if you have 5 readers or 5 million, everyone has something to share. Here are some of their tips:
1. Be Passionate
You can write about food, you can write about your kids. It doesnt matter, as long as youre passionate about it.
2. Grow as You Go
Learn by doing. Figure things out as you go. Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge said she found her voice as she was going by testing things out and getting suggestions and feedback from readers.
3. Be Authentic
A blog is the perfect outlet to be yourself. Dont waste your time trying to be something youre not. Readers will see right through that.
4. Be Self-Motivated
Gabrielle Blair of Design Mom put it best, “There’s no boss, no one saying it’s due today, it needs to be X number of words and published by 3 o’clock.”
5. Love It
Blogging is fun. Enjoy it.


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On a bi-monthly basis, we at wattx, organize a two-day internal hackathon to work on projects around design, data science, and technology.
On a bi-monthly basis, we organize a two-day internal hackathon during which wattx-ers dedicate their time to working on side projects and get a chance to explore new trends in design, tech, and data science. In December, we hacked on projects involving coffee, Arcade games, Augmented Reality, as well as connected lights.
Here’s the digest of what we learned:
During the past couple of hackathons, Christian and Wen have been busy with developing a smart coffee scale for our office (read here and here for previous recaps of their work). For this hackathon, they set themselves the objective to add a sound sensor to their installation in order to know when the coffee is bubbling and ready to be served.
The idea was to continuously record one second sound bits and determine whether they are bubbling coffee sounds or just random office noise. To get some data for testing and training the model, they recorded some samples of office noise and the Bialetti, labeled them, and sliced them into one-second bits.
As a measure of classifying sound, they used the Mel-frequency cepstrum with 13 features. In the picture above, you can see the Mel-frequency cepstrum of a bubbling sound (left) and office noise (right). To facilitate the input for machine learning they applied dimensionality reduction using principal component analysis. In the picture below you can see that clusterings of the sound samples between bubbling sound and other noise are clearly identifiable using the first three principal components.
This input was used to train a Random Forest Classifier, which yielded good results in detecting the bubbling sound. Once some small issues with the Raspberry Pi and the microphone are fixed, the machine learning model can be implemented and tested live.
Here in the office, we own connected lights, but unfortunately, the stock application doesn’t work well. Therefore, our tech lead Mikhail decided to build his own app using react-native. To do so, he had to write a backend proxy that would talk to the lights first and was pleased to see how quickly he managed to create a simple application running in react native and expo.
It’s almost Christmas and Rafal and Pedro couldn’t have given us a better gift. Over the course of two days, the two of them built a complete arcade machine from scratch.
Knowing that they only had 2 days to do it, Rafal focused on placing all designs on cardboard sheets and then cutting them while Pedro was playing around with the Raspberry Pi and looked for a way to install games in the system. They ended up choosing RetroPie, an awesome project that makes it easy to turn Raspberry Pis into retro-gaming machines.
On the second day, everything started to take the shape of the machine we’re so familiar with. The Raspberry Pi had been wired together with joysticks and buttons and the cabinet was waiting for final design adjustments.
At the end of the day, people in the office stopped to play a game just before leaving for the weekend. Congratulations to our engineers who added a bit more fun to our office life thanks to their ingenuity!
Tassilo wanted to experiment with the Vuzix M300 Smart glasses for Augmented Reality (AR). As you might know, AR has many potential applications as diverse as gaming, education, or manufacturing.
The M300 consists of a small display plus a camera, a gyroscope, microphone, speakers, and a processor, all put into a single device you can wear like glasses.
His plan was to create a small app that shows off some of the AR capabilities, for example by detecting and annotating peoples’ faces in the office. To do so, he researched a few software frameworks such as ARCore, ARToolkit, OpenCV, and Unity3D. In the end, he ran a face detection example using OpenCV.
The major obstacle was setting up the libraries for Android. But some other challenges included:
In the end, OpenCV did not let him down. Next time Tassilo wants to expand on the OpenCV example and build something more useful.
The next hackathon is planned for January next year and we’re already looking forward to it! Feel free to reach out to us via email@example.com if you have any further questions on a specific topic, or if you simply want to grab a cup of coffee and discuss technologies, data science, or design.
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Seeds have actually progressed since they are much better at assisting plants to make it through than spores are Seeds consist of a food source to assist the brand-new plant grow.
When did seeds initially progress?
The fossil plant Elkinsia polymorpha, a “seed fern” from the Devonian duration ( about 400 million years back) is thought about the earliest seed plant understood to date.
How did the very first seed kind?
That is, from algae Plants are believed to have actually made the leap from the oceans onto dry land about 450 million years earlier. And, as seeds are believed to have actually established to keep plant embryos from drying, it makes good sense that the very first seeds we understand of are at least 360 million years of ages.
How did the very first plant develop?
Botanists now think that plants developed from the algae; the advancement of the plant kingdom might have arised from evolutionary modifications that took place when photosynthetic multicellular organisms got into the continents.
Why was the advancement of a seed essential?
The advancement of seeds permitted plants to reduce their dependence upon water for recreation Seeds consist of an embryo that can stay inactive till conditions agree with when it becomes a diploid sporophyte.
What is the advancement of a seed?
Seeds and Pollen as an Evolutionary Adaptation to Dry Land
After fertilization of the egg, the diploid zygote produces an embryo that will become the sporophyte when the seed sprouts Storage tissue to sustain development of the embryo and a protective coat offer seeds their remarkable evolutionary benefit.
Which progressed very first seeds or flowers?
Spores include a single cell, whereas a seed consists of a multicellular, fertilised embryo that is secured from drying by a difficult coat. These additional functions took another 150 million years to progress, whereupon the very first seed-bearing plants emerged. plants came initially, by a long method.
How do leaves develop?
About 350 million years earlier, plants initially progressed megaphylls, the leaf kind of modern-day seed plants and ferns A megaphyll usually has an intricate venation pattern, and emerges from a stem which has leaf spaces, or areas of parenchyma tissue where the vascular hair leads into the leaf base.
What precedes seed or fruit?
As pointed out previously, when pollination and fertilization take place, the zygote is formed and the ovary starts to separate into the fruit. The external wall of the ovary starts to separate into the pericarp whereas the seed establishes within the fruit itself
What did the seed like to end up being?
The seed itself resembles a survival bundle. It consists of the food the seed requires while it is growing roots and forming into a little plant The 3 things plants require to grow are light, food and water.
What are the 3 actions in the advancement of seed?
The 3 actions in the development of seed are: soil, water and sunshine
Do plants still develop?
There are over 500,000 plant types on the planet today. They all developed from a typical forefather How this leap in biodiversity occurred is still uncertain. Scientists now provide the outcomes of a special job on the development of plants.
What is the most progressed plant?
Orchids are at when unusual and the most extremely progressed of plants. There are 88 subtribes, 660 various genera and approximately 30,000 types, with many brand-new ranges produced daily, through anomaly, cloning and hybridization.
How are seeds various from each other?
As various as they might be from each other, all seeds are alike in 3 methods: in every seed there is an embryo (EM-bri-o) or infant plant; each seed includes some sort of food for the young plant; and every seed has a protective covering around the young plant and its food.
What did trees progress from?
Land plants progressed from a group of green algae, maybe as early as 850 mya, however algae-like plants may have progressed as early as 1 billion years back.
Do mosses have microphylls?
Microphylls. Instead of real leaves, mosses have microphylls These leaf-like structures with a single unbranched vein developed from little bits of tissue discovered on the stems of leafless, more primitive plant types.
Are ferns extinct?
The scientists concentrated on the variety of ferns and the aspects that affected it throughout the past 400 million years. Ferns have actually made it through no less than 4 mass terminations and throughout their incredibly long evolutionary history, the dominant fern groups have actually altered consistently.”
Do ferns progress?
While ferns initially progressed in the Devonian, they turned into one of the most dominant groups of plants on earth throughout the Carboniferous (299-369 mya). Growing along with the huge tree lycophytes (e.g., Lepidodendron) in large swamps, ferns prospered and diversified for numerous million years.
When did fruit initially appear?
Perhaps the earliest pictorial proof of fruit growing takes place in a 1 m high alabaster vessel called the Uruk vase discovered in Jemdet Nasr levels at Uruk that date from about 3000 BCE(Fig. 1).
What are the evolutionary adjustments of seed plants?
This increases the offspring’s possibility of making it through a lot more. Other reproductive adjustments that progressed in seed plants consist of ovules, pollen, pollen tubes, and pollination by animals An ovule is a female reproductive structure in seed plants which contains a small female gametophyte.
Which particular caused the development of seed?
The seed routine itself, in addition to vegetative characteristics such as the production of wood by a secondary meristem (cambium), contributed decisively to the evolutionary success of the gymnosperms and angiosperms.
How did fruit progress?
The proof recommends that big fruits are an evolutionary adjustment to bring in big animals that can consume the fruits and spread out the seeds Particular big mammals, such as bears and domesticated horses, consume apples and spread out the seeds today.
Can you propose the factor or factors that could promote coevolution?
Can you propose the factor or factors that could promote coevolution? Both pollination and herbivory added to variety, with plants requiring to bring in some bugs and ward off others What function did the adjustments of seed and pollen play in the advancement and growth of seed plants?
What is Plumule and radicle?
Plumule is the embryonic shoot of the plant. Radicle is the very first part of the seedling Plumule grows after the radicle. The radicle makes the root of the plant. Plumule makes the plant shoot.
What was the very first plant in the world?
Cooksonia is typically considered as the earliest recognized fossil of a vascular land plant, and dates from simply 425 million years back in the late Early Silurian. It was a little plant, just a couple of centimetres high. Its leafless stems had sporangia (spore-producing structures) at their suggestions.
How are seeds fertilized?
The launch of seed advancement in blooming plants (angiosperms) is started by the procedure of double fertilization: 2 male gametes (sperm cells) fuse with 2 female gametes (egg and main cell) to form the precursor cells of the 2 significant seed parts, the embryo and endosperm, respectively.
What is the primary function of a seed?
The function of all seeds is recreation Assist Sprout and Bud find the plants that originate from the following seeds.
Which evolutionary adjustments assisted plants?
The evolutionary adjustments that assisted plants prosper and spread out on land were vascular tissue and seeds They assist to distribute the seeds to a further location which assists plants to grow in other places.
What is the function of puncturing?
Pricking out’ your seedlings is a term that implies transplanting them. The factor you need to do this is to assist your plant carry on from ‘seed’ phase to ‘growing on’ phase, where it will need a larger pot or cell.
Which part turns into seeds?
After fertilization, each OVULE turns into seed and OVARY into a fruit. Each seed includes an undeveloped airplane, embryo. The ovary surrounding the ovules turns into a fruit. The Ovule establishes into a seed and the ovary into a fruit.
Why do seeds sprout quicker in the dark?
Most seeds sprout underground, so their very first phases of development are naturally in the dark. Seedlings can grow for a specific time in the dark as they have a minimal chemical energy shop in their cells As soon as these energy shops go out, they require light direct exposure to produce their energy utilizing photosynthesis.
How does germination work?
In the procedure of seed germination, water is taken in by the embryo, which leads to the rehydration and growth of the cells Quickly after the start of water uptake, or imbibition, the rate of respiration boosts, and numerous metabolic procedures, suspended or much lowered throughout inactivity, resume.
How does the seed ended up being inactive?
Physical inactivity is the outcome of impenetrable layer( s) that establishes throughout maturation and drying of the seed or fruit This impenetrable layer avoids the seed from using up water or gases. As an outcome, the seed is avoided from sprouting up until inactivity is broken.
Did people develop from plants?
Humans might have progressed with genes obtained from plants, micro-organisms and fungis according to a brand-new research study. The University of Cambridge findings challenge long-held understandings about development and recommend that the procedure might be continuous.
Why did angiosperms change gymnosperms?
The competitive success of angiosperms is partially due to animal pollination, which permitted angiosperms to exist as little scattered populations The wind pollinated gymnosperms required big adjoining populations for efficient pollination.
How old are Landplants?
All the analyses suggest that land plants initially appeared about 500 million years earlier, throughout the Cambrian duration, when the advancement of multicellular animal types removed.
Why did plants develop green?
Cyanobacteria and later on plants, have oxygen as the waste item of photosynthesis. Therefore gradually Earth ended up being oxygenized. This Great Oxygenation Event eliminated the majority of the anaerobic organisms consisting of the purple germs. Plants are green due to the fact that chlorophyll is more fit for a blue or a red sun
How did plants develop from water to land?
Plants developed from residing in water to habiting land since of genes they used up from germs, according to a brand-new research study which develops how the initial step of big organisms colonising the land occurred.
When did Sharks progress?
The earliest fossil proof for sharks or their forefathers are a couple of scales dating to 450 million years back, throughout the Late Ordovician Period.
How did conifers progress?
Modern groups of conifers emerged from the Voltziales throughout the Late Permian through Jurassic Conifers went through a significant decrease in the Late Cretaceous representing the explosive adaptive radiation of blooming plants.
What preceded the seed or the tree?
The seed begins to grow after it gets damp. It then can become a tree. If you would like to know how this occurs you can take a look at this post. Trees make seeds, which can then turn into other trees.
Did sharks exist prior to trees?
Fun reality of the day: Sharks are older than trees The earliest types that we might categorize as “tree,” the now-extinct Archaeopteris, lived around 350 million years back, in forests where the Sahara desert is now.
Does moss have DNA?
The green fuzzy part of a moss that is constantly there has just one set of DNA Moss waits till there is great deals of food and sufficient water. It produces spores that leave the moms and dad plant and drift away. The spores resemble dust.
Are ferns photosynthetic?
Ferns and fern allies have low photosynthetic rates compared to seed plants Their photosynthesis is believed to be restricted mainly by physical CO2 diffusion from the environment to chloroplasts.
Do all plants have sporangia?
Virtually all plants, fungis, and numerous other family trees form sporangia eventually in their life process
Is Cinnamon a fern?
Cinnamon Fern is called for the vertical reddish-brown fruiting spikes which emerge from its center in early spring and continue long after the spores are shed. Among the most significant of our native ferns, it forms big vase formed clumps that are an appealing addition to the damp forest garden.
How do people threaten ferns?
Pollution from metropolitan and farming waste likewise positions a severe danger to lots of ferns and lycopods. As an outcome, numerous terrestrial and water environments struggle with eutrophication– a boost in nutrients which triggers regional types to be outcompeted by other native or intrusive alien types.
How old are gymnosperms?
The gymnosperms stemmed about 319 million years back, in the late Carboniferous. It is a varied cluster of plants, consisting of cycads, ginkgos and the shrub Mormon tea. Without a doubt the most plentiful group of gymnosperms is the conifers: pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, cypresses, cedars, junipers, redwoods and loved ones.
Do horsetails have microphylls?
The clubmosses and horsetails have microphylls, as in all extant types there is just a single vascular trace in each leaf. These leaves are narrow due to the fact that the width of the blade is restricted by the range water can effectively diffuse cell-to-cell from the main vascular hair to the margin of the leaf.
Is hornwort vascular or nonvascular?
hornwort, (department Anthocerotophyta), likewise called horned liverwort, any of about 300 types of little nonvascular plants. Hornworts generally grow on wet soils or on rocks in tropical and warm temperate areas.
What is alternative generation?
alternation of generations, likewise called metagenesis or heterogenesis, in biology, the alternation of a sexual stage and a nonsexual stage in the life process of an organism The 2 stages, or generations, are typically morphologically, and in some cases chromosomally, unique. fern: life process.
Why was the advancement of a seed crucial?
The development of seeds enabled plants to reduce their dependence upon water for recreation Seeds include an embryo that can stay inactive up until conditions agree with when it turns into a diploid sporophyte.
What are 3 actions in the advancement of seed?
The 3 actions in the advancement of seed are: soil, water and sunshine
When did seeds progress around?
Seed plants appeared about one million years earlier, throughout the Carboniferous duration.
How did seeds progress from spores?
During Earth’s Devonian duration, a group of plants called progymnosperms began making 2 sets of specialized spores: male spores, and female spores– the living tissues inside these spores produced eggs and sperm Both kinds of spores were shed from the plant.


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Maize Tassel Detection from UAV Imagery Using Deep Learning
- 1University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
The timing of flowering plays a critical role in determining the productivity of agricultural crops. Flower too early and the crop would mature before the end of the growing season, losing the opportunity to capture and use large amounts of light energy. Flower too late and the crop may be killed by the change of seasons before it is ready to harvest. Maize flowering is one of the most important periods where even small amounts of stress can significantly alter yield. In this work, we developed and compared two methods for automatic tassel detection based on imagery collected from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using deep learning models. The first approach was a customized framework for Tassel Detection based on Convolutional Neural Network (TD-CNN). The other method was a state-of-the-art object detection technique of the Faster Region based CNN (Faster R-CNN) serving as a baseline detection accuracy. The evaluation criteria for tassel detection was customized to correctly reflect the needs of tassel detection in an agricultural setting. Although detecting thin tassels in the aerial imagery is challenging, our results showed promising accuracy: the TD-CNN had an F1 score of 95.9%, and the Faster R-CNN had 97.9% F1 score. More CNN-based model structures can be investigated in the future for improved accuracy, speed, and generalizability on aerial-based tassel detection.
Keywords: phenotyping, object detection, flowering, Faster R-CNN, CNN
Received: 29 Aug 2020;
Accepted: 22 Apr 2021.
Copyright: © 2021 Alzadjali, Veeranampalayam-Sivakumar, Alali, Deogun, Scott, Schnable and Shi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dr. Yeyin Shi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, 68588, Nebraska, United States, firstname.lastname@example.org


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I'm just a guy that likes to draw things. Prefer cartoon/comic style and that's what I practice myself.
I like dwarves. But I'm not a dwarf. But if I could, then I would definitely be a dwarf. With a huge beard. Yea. Dwarves.


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With his unique and playful design, Seymour is a limited-edition masterpiece that's set to redefine your gardening experience. Embracing a distinctive corrugated texture, he effortlessly stands out from the crowd. Available in white only.
Crafted with our signature polyresin blend, Seymour maintains the lightweight, waterproof, and durability synonymous with Slugg® garden pots.
*Each of our pots is meticulously handmade, and Seymour is no exception. Its visible join lines are not flaws but rather integral elements that contribute to its unparalleled uniqueness and character.


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An interactive story of love and adventure3.97 / 5.00 12,971 Views
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I have just completed an HTML5 game that I would like to share with the NG community, but it looks like the submit games forms are still geared towards flash bundles.
I have seen that NG has plans to publishing HTML5 games. Is it available yet? When is it likely to drop?
You can check out the game here...
World's Biggest Jigsaw

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The "2022 high-tech lithium battery materials conference" sponsored by GGII was held in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
Nantong Reshine New Material Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Lanzhou Jinchuan Science and Technology Park, was invited to the conference, and was listed in the top 50 in the lithium battery materials industry.
"Top 50 of 2022 lithium battery materials industry" was launched by GGII, to set outstanding enterprises as examples and set a leading brand in the industry.
Reshine New Material is listed in "top 50 of 2022 lithium battery materials industry" [Photo provided to en.jnmc.com]
Since this year, Reshine New Material has continued to expand its influence in power batteries, electric tools and other energy storage and consuming batteries. As a manufacturer of ternary cathode materials, relying on proprietary technologies, it has constantly made gains in research, development and production of battery materials. With the advantages of high safety factor, high energy density and low cost, its products are highly praised, and have successfully entered the supply chain of international mainstream automobile enterprises. Its products have achieved the certification of Volvo and other international automobile enterprises, and is one of the giant suppliers of lithium battery, achieving rapid growth in sales.
"Top 50 of 2022 lithium battery materials industry" has attracted more than 100 upstream and downstream enterprises and over 500 lithium battery enterprises. It conducted systematic research and comprehensive evaluation on the development vitality of lithium battery material industry chain enterprises. Reshine New Material will continue to drive its development with innovation. It is committed to becoming a world-class supplier of lithium-ion battery materials and contribute to the development of China's new energy industry.


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It won’t be a Party For One when popster Carly Rae Jepsen brings her summer tour touting her first new album in four years to Ottawa’s Bronson Centre Sept. 16.
Tickets for the 19+ show are $45 to $169 and go on sale to the general public May 31.
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The Mission B.C.-born Jepsen, who landed on music charts in 2012 with Call Me Maybe, starts her tour with two shows in Vancouver. She’s at MTELUS in Montreal Sept. 12 and the Sony Centre in Toronto Sept. 14.
Dedicated, released this month by Vancouver’s 604 Records, is Jepsen’s first album since 2015’s E*MO*TION, which was declared the pop album of the year by multiple outlets including TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, People, Stereogum, Vulture, Complex, and Noisey.
In the meantime, she’s taken on projects including playing Cinderella on Broadway and opening for Katy Perry.
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The film Maze Runner: The Death Cure is set to receive a graphic novel prelude courtesy of Boom! Studios.
The news was announced by ScreenRant on Friday, where the graphic novel's cover was also unveiled ahead of release. The adaption will serve as a prelude to the upcoming film, which will mark the third and final entry in the Maze Runner trilogy, which stars Teen Wolf actor Dylan O’Brien. While the film will hit theaters in 2018, the prelude comic will officially hit shelves this fall, with the book set to launch in comic book shops first. The graphic novel will be available in comics shops beginning on Nov. 1, and then a week later in bookstores.
The graphic novel will be written by Eric Carrasco (the CW's Supergirl) and features artwork from Kendall Goode. The prelude will run 96 pages and retail for $14.99 upon release.
Here's a full synopsis for Maze Runner: The Death Cure Official Graphic Novel Prelude:
They used to live and die by the Maze—a seemingly endless labyrinth of deathtraps that kept the Gladers prisoner and in fear. But the day Thomas arrived, he motivated them all to push back…and escape.But what they discovered was far worse than any maze—a world scorched by disease and controlled by the oppressive organization, Wicked. Thomas, aided by a band of rebels, now readies to take the fight right to Wicked’s doorstep in the hope of finding a cure for the plague that’s ravaging mankind.The events in this all-new, authorized graphic novel take place between 20th Century Fox’s second Maze Runner film, The Scorch Trials, and the upcoming third film, The Death Cure.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure was originally set to hit theaters earlier this year. However, following an accident involving O'Brien, Fox pushed the film to 2018 to allow him to recuperate before production resumed.
Based on the best-selling book by James Dashner, Maze Runner: The Death Cure stars O'Brien as Thomas, Kaya Scodelario as Teresa, Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt, Walton Goggins as Lawrence and Giancarlo Esposito as Jorge. The film was directed by Wes Ball from a screenplay by T.S. Nowlin and is set to hit theaters on Jan. 12, 2018.


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Long-Life Heat Transport Loop Material Test
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published July 01, 1991 by SAE International in United States
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In 1979, a test was initiated to evaluate the use of dissimilar metals in close conjunction with each other, including aluminum, stainless steel and an Al-Ti-Al laminate heat exchanger, in a closed deoxygenated water coolant loop over an extended vehicle life. The closed, sealed loop contained distilled, deoxygenated water initially supplied at <0.3 ppm by weight dissolved oxygen. The system involved a variety of dissimilar metals, including 300 series CRES, 6061 aluminum alloy, gold-nickel braze alloy and thermometer bi-metallics. Coatings were also used to provide added protection to the aluminum. A stainless steel to aluminum transition tube was sandblasted, passivated, alodined and coated with P.D. George epoxy coating No. 923. The heat exchanger was of plate fin construction with parting sheets made of an Al-Ti-Al laminate designed to prevent through wall pitting in case corrosion attack initiated. The test plan originally called for water samples to be collected periodically over three years at which time the test apparatus was to be disassembled for inspection. Favorable analysis of water samples and no evidence of filter obstruction from corrosion by-products delayed disassembly and prompted continuation of the test. The system experienced a total of approximately 10 years of operation. The system was then disassembled and visually/metallographically inspected. This paper presents a detailed description of the test system, test procedures and test results.

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In the words of film critic Roger Ebert, “Some filmmakers are born. Ingmar Bergman was made. Self-made.” Ingmar Bergman is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time. He directed over sixty films for cinematic release and for television, most of which he also wrote. He also directed over 170 plays and from 1953 forged a powerful creative partnership with his full-time cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Bergman was born in 1918 in Uppsala, was the son of a Lutheran minister and was raised with a strict and intense religious upbringing. Since Bergman’s father was a clergyman Bergman described his home as a fortress of restriction, repeatedly being locked up in dark closets for ‘infractions’ like wetting the bed. Growing up, young Bergman became fascinated by the morbid themes of death and the bleak side of humanity which brought upon his fascination with Adolf Hitler and the horrors of the holocaust. Even though he was raised in a devout Lutheran household, Bergman later stated that he lost his faith at age eight, and only came to terms with this fact while filming Winter Light in 1963. Bergman originally started out working in the theater, but it was only when he began to direct films, most famously his earlier works Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) and The Magician (1958), you could finally see Bergman’s brooding and ghastly themes start to seep into his storylines. His big break came with Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), which became not only one of the few comedies Bergman ever directed, but the one commercial success that made him finally known to filmgoers. Because of the films success, Swedish studios gave Bergman more artistic freedom to choose the projects he wanted to do. In 1957 Bergman directed two of his most acclaimed films, The Seventh Sealand Wild Strawberries. Both films were well received but it was The Seventh Seal that would forever establish Bergman as a world-renowned director. The boldness of The Seventh Seal’s religious, ethical concerns on death, illness, faith, insanity and the absence of God was immediately apprehensible to people who were just beginning to discover the art of cinema at the time. With the rise of the ‘Auteur Theory’ The Seventh Seal suddenly was the quintessential art film of high school and college literature courses, and the iconic shot of Death playing chess with a Knight became a landmark in pop culture. Throughout the 60’s and 70’s Bergman began to modify such grim and existential subject matters by choosing much more thought provoking, psychological and complicated films like Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973). When making his epic swan song Fanny and Alexander in 1982 Bergman brought both the world of the stage and the cinema together, creating his most richly orchestrated work and splendor. The brilliant and philosophical Ingmar Bergman who had long mediated on his fears of death, as it became the subject in many of his greatest films, died at the age of 89 on his remote island of Fårö.
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is one of those fascinating films that you keep returning to, trying to uncover more of its mysteries and hoping it reveals more of its secrets. The beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey captured the birth of man. Persona and its experimental beginning is said to have captured the death of […]
“And when the lamb had first opened the Seventh Seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.” -Revelation 8:1 Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal immediately became a classic staple in art film culture, and couldn’t have been released at […]
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This Superfood Chicken Quinoa Salad with Turmeric Tahini Sauce is super tasty and packed full of goodness!
Oh my, this Superfood Chicken Quinoa Salad with Turmeric Tahini Sauce (I know, I know, it’s a mouthful but let’s face it, you don’t have to say it out loud, just get it in your belly!). This is good stuff. I’m sorry things have been quiet around here lately – what with moving house and Christmas and all the other life stuff that gets in the way – but I hope this salad more than makes up for my absence! Nah, I don’t need to hope – it’s awesome.
This is proper oh-my-goodness-it’s-the-dead-of-winter-all-I’m-eating-is-carbs-give-me-some-food-that-isn’t-beige-now kind of food. You know you know what I mean! And if you don’t, well, hat’s off to you. This is one heck of a bowlful which can be served mostly warm (hurray!) and leaves you feeling so good! It’s packed full of protein (quinoa! chicken! edamame!) so really fills you up and the chicken is delish but you could easily veganize this and make it with tofu or similar instead (and sub coconut yoghurt for the Greek yoghurt). Or not at all, it’s great without too! It’s packed full of quinoa, chopped raw broccoli (trust me, it’s great, though you can steam it if you prefer), edamame, pomegranate and avocado. All the good stuff!
It’s all about the sauce really, which is like a ray of sunshine on these dreary January days. Is it just me, or is January extra dreary and grey this year? Although saying that, yesterday and today it was clear blue skies and gorgeous sunshine…but in general it’s been seriously dismal. Which is where this sauce comes in! You just can’t eat bright yellow sauce without it putting a smile on your face, it’s not possible! Ugh, it’s amazing! I’m kind of obsessed with turmeric right now (so predictable, I know) and it is largely down to the fact that it’s just so incredibly cheering. It’s pretty amazing in golden milk, too, I just love that earthy spiciness. Yum. Oh and yeah it’s supposed to be really good for us too, which is lower on my list of reasons for consuming it, but sure doesn’t hurt! Colour > taste > health benefits. Yup.
The sauce is made of lots of delicious things like turmeric (of course), roasted garlic, tahini, lemon juice and yoghurt, plus a couple of other things to balance it out and make it taste really great. I reckon you could use it on all kinds of different foods too, not just this salad. Chicken, fish and veggies all sound like good candidates. Go experiment!
I hope you love this Superfood Chicken Quinoa Salad as much as I do! It’s so good. It’s best eaten on the day it’s made but it will last for a couple of days in the fridge – great for work lunches!
Superfood Chicken Quinoa Salad
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoon rapeseed or olive oil plus extra to dress the salad
- zest of 1 lemon + juice of 1/2
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon sumac (optional)
- 2 cups broccoli florets
- 1 cup frozen edamame
- 1 pomegranate
- 1-2 avocados
- 2 cups cooked quinoa
Turmeric Tahini Sauce
- 2-3 cloves garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- 3 tablespoons Greek yoghurt
- 1/2 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon water (plus more to thin as desired)
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
- Toss the chicken breasts with the oil, lemon zest, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder and sumac, if using. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place in an ovenproof dish and bake in the oven for about 25 minutes or until cooked through.
- Wrap the garlic cloves for the sauce in foil and place in the oven to roast along with the chicken. They'll need about 25 minutes too.
- Meanwhile, finely chop the broccoli. You don't need to be too precious about this, you're just aiming for small bite-sized pieces. Cook the frozen edamame in boiling salted water for a couple of minutes. Remove the arils from your pomegranate and dice the avocado.
- Place the salad ingredients in a large bowl with the cooked quinoa. Toss with the juice of half a lemon, a drizzle of oil and some salt and pepper.
- Slice the chicken and add to the salad. Serve up the salad and drizzle with the sauce. Enjoy!
Turmeric Tahini Sauce
- Squeeze the roasted garlic cloves (see above) into a small bowl and add a pinch of flaky sea salt. Crush using the back of a spoon until you have a paste.
- Add the turmeric, lemon juice and tahini and mix well. Stir in the yoghurt, maple syrup and enough water to thin to your liking. Season, adding salt, black pepper and more maple syrup to taste. (And don't forget to add black pepper to aid absorption of the turmeric goodness!)

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Congressman Bob Turner (R-Queens and Brooklyn) is proposing a bill that he says would help relieve the financial burden of parents who send their children to private schools.
At a press conference held Friday at St. Margaret’s School in Middle Village, Turner introduced the Tax and Education Assistance for Children, or TEACH Act. The bill would provide a $5,000 tax credit to any family who chooses to send their child to a private school.
Turner argued that parents with children who attend religious or nonreligious private schools are subjected to “double taxation” by having to contribute to public schools through income taxes.
“My hope is that this bill will ease the financial burden faced by parents who choose to send their children to private schools,” Turner said.
Turner added that the tax credit “would make private schools a more attractive option for parents looking for an alternative to the public school system.”
“This bill is common-sense legislation that will save taxpayers money in the long run,” he asserted.
Asked about the potential negative effects the bill could have on the amount of state aid given to public schools, Turner said that it would be offset by having fewer students in the public school system to pay for.
Turner was joined by St. Margaret’s Pastor Msgr. Steven Aguggia and Philip Franco, the school’s principal. Both men praised Turner’s bill and the potential effect it would have on schools like theirs.
“I often speak with parents with children in the school and parents who want to send their children to the school, and the financial burden always comes up,” Franco said. “I think this bill presents a wonderful opportunity for faith-based institutions like ours and other private institutions.”
“This bill would be a huge benefit to schools like ours,” Aguggia added.
Parents from St. Margaret’s School were also present at the press conference and praised the bill. Kelly Redmond of Middle Village, whose son attends first grade there, said the bill is “a win-win proposition” for private schools and parents.
“This bill would be a tremendous help to the many parents like me who wish to send their children to a faith-based school,” Redmond said.
Other religious schools have expressed support for the measure. Rabbi Yaakov Lonner of the Yeshiva of Central Queens said that “a tax break such as the congressman proposes is sorely needed.”
When asked about the bill’s chances of passing both houses of Congress, Turner expressed confidence that it would clear the Republican-led House of Representatives by the end of the year. However, he conceded that the bill’s chances in the Democrat-majority Senate could depend on the November elections.
Turner also admitted to expecting some political opposition for the bill from the United Federation of Teachers and other teachers unions, but he expressed hope that a dialogue can be started and an understanding can be reached.
Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) who intends to run for the seat held by Turner, applauded the congressman’s efforts to make religious education more affordable to Queens residents.
“The bill is a more modest version of one that I’m co-sponsoring in the Assembly right now,” Lancman said. “As a parent with three children who have attended religious schools, I know the financial burden it imposes.”
“Of course,” Lancman added, “it would have helped the parents of students in religious schools if Congressman Turner and his fellow Republicans hadn’t cut security grant funding for religious nonprofits in half this year.”
Representatives for the UFT could not be reached for comment by press time.