-many countries of the Commonwealth, e.g. South Africa and Barbados do not have indexed pensions, which means that retried people get paid in local currency, but without the conversion taking iflation into consideration. However, if they go to the Phillipines or Jamaica or back to the UK, they'll be all right.
-retirement villages' contracts can be pretty harsh on their residents: e.g. you may move in with your pet, but if it dies you don't get to have a replacement; you can't resell you retirement appartment at the market price, you have to sell it back to the village organisers at the price you bought it; you may get kicked out to a nursing home if the village organisers decide that your "condition" is no longer good enough for the village; privacy is out the door, since people can just waltz in your appartment to "check for things that need repair"; etc.
-the new Wembley stadium will cover 2million square feet. It will have "something for the whole family": museums, bars, gyms, restaurants (including the 4 biggest ones in London consisting of 800 to 2000 seats each).
-a theory has been proposed to use the socio-economically disadvantaged schools in Australia as the proverbial cannary in the mine. If they are not coping then the whole thing is about to explode.
-aggression in children is observed at ages as early as 17 months old. Since such traits seem to be unavoidable, the suggested approach to combat onset of violence is to teach kids (as early as possible) to control the aggression in order to communicate better with their peers, i.e. a form of emotional intelligence.
-word of the day: excoriate: to express strong disapproval of; also, to flay.
Hopefully the word of tomorrow will be flay.
-quote of the day by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." and so we keep watching our TVs. Also let's not forget that looking is not seeing. I wonder where seeing rates in his scale. I think that it's close to thinking, so we've gone a full circle.
-retirement villages' contracts can be pretty harsh on their residents: e.g. you may move in with your pet, but if it dies you don't get to have a replacement; you can't resell you retirement appartment at the market price, you have to sell it back to the village organisers at the price you bought it; you may get kicked out to a nursing home if the village organisers decide that your "condition" is no longer good enough for the village; privacy is out the door, since people can just waltz in your appartment to "check for things that need repair"; etc.
-the new Wembley stadium will cover 2million square feet. It will have "something for the whole family": museums, bars, gyms, restaurants (including the 4 biggest ones in London consisting of 800 to 2000 seats each).
-a theory has been proposed to use the socio-economically disadvantaged schools in Australia as the proverbial cannary in the mine. If they are not coping then the whole thing is about to explode.
-aggression in children is observed at ages as early as 17 months old. Since such traits seem to be unavoidable, the suggested approach to combat onset of violence is to teach kids (as early as possible) to control the aggression in order to communicate better with their peers, i.e. a form of emotional intelligence.
-word of the day: excoriate: to express strong disapproval of; also, to flay.
Hopefully the word of tomorrow will be flay.
-quote of the day by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." and so we keep watching our TVs. Also let's not forget that looking is not seeing. I wonder where seeing rates in his scale. I think that it's close to thinking, so we've gone a full circle.
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