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Peanut Butter Grape Bites: Add a special touch this holiday season with simple yet stunning small plates that add beauty and flavor to gatherings with friends and family.

Weathering the Storm – 5 tips for disaster preparation: Over the past year, homeowners from coast to coast have experienced tussles with Mother Nature from arctic storms and heat waves to powerful hurricanes.

Why taxing US billionaires’ wealth – as Biden tried to do – will never work: The speed with which a tax on billionaires came and went as a means to pay for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda shows why it’s so hard to tax wealth in the U.S. Democrats unveiled their proposal on Oct. 27, 2021, and it was nixed that same day, replaced with a surcharge on millionaire incomes. The idea of taxing the richest Americans’ fortunes has been batted around for some time, and perhaps with good reason from a tax perspective. The total wealth of U.S. billionaires soared by US$1.8 trillion during the COVID-19 pandemic as of mid-August. And recent reporting has found that despite their massive riches, billionaires tend to pay very little in taxes. As an expert on tax policy, I have observed that there’s a big obstacle standing in the way of a wealth tax: the Constitution.

What Vaping Does to the Body: What vaping does to the body. In this video, Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses the anatomy of the lungs, and how vaping can affect it. E-cigarettes get FDA approval: 5 essential reads on the harms and benefits of vaping

What causes ADHD and can it be cured? : Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is a common, yet often misunderstood, mental health condition. Symptoms include inattention, overactivity and impulsivity – behaviors everyone experiences at one time or another. For people with ADHD, these behaviors happen frequently and interfere with everyday life at school, at home and everywhere else. ADHD affects more than 6 million U.S. children. People who have ADHD develop symptoms by age 12, and it usually continues into adolescence and young adulthood. The condition can affect people throughout their whole life. On average, two students in every U.S. classroom have it. It is important to note that ADHD is just one way of defining a person’s behavior. It has nothing to do with how smart you are or whether you can make friends or excel at sports, music or art, or about any other strengths. What does and doesn’t cause ADHD

If you feel as if there’s been an uptick in the frequency and lethality of mass shootings in recent years, you’re not imagining it. The time between mass shootings (involving four or more casualties) in the U.S. has been shrinking since the 1990s, and the death rate in these massacres has almost tripled since 2000. And if it also seems that reports of sexual assault on the part of celebrities, politicians and journalists are coming in almost daily, you are, once again, not mistaken. It is probably not coincidental that the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network reports “a record number of survivors [who] turned to RAINN for help,” with a 26 percent increase in hotline traffic in November alone. No, I’m not equating sexual assault and mass murder. But as a psychiatrist, I think there is an indirect connection between the rising rates of each. https://ardelles.com/from-cowboys-to-commandos-connecting-sexual-and-gun-violence-with-media-archetypes/

Smoked Chicken and Grape Bruschetta : Smoked Chicken and Grape Bruschetta Send guests home with Easy Grape Compote, or give it as a fun host or hostess gift for friends and family, so they can enjoy a little taste of the holidays even after all the excitement winds down.

Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic today : Most perfume ads suggest that the right scent can make you sexy, alluring and successful. A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell

Tricolor Grape Pizza with Goat Cheese and Thyme: Tricolor Grape Pizza with Goat Cheese and Thyme – Amaze Guests with Great Grape Appetizers. Along with the delicious food, gift giving and cheer of the holiday season, getting together with friends and family is also cherished.

Taiwan: what is China’s long-term strategy? Podcast: As military tensions run high once again between China and Taiwan, The Conversation Weekly podcast talks to two experts about China’s longer-term strategy – and what that means for Taiwan. And we hear about North Americans who pretend to have Indigenous identity.

The future of work is hybrid – here’s an expert’s recommendations for success: COVID-19 has changed the way we work. Even before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce increasingly relied on remote collaboration technologies like videoconferencing and Slack. The global crisis accelerated the adoption of these work tools and practices in an unprecedented way. By April 2020, about half of companies reported that more than 80% of their employees worked from home because of COVID-19.

Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on what’s changed – and what hasn’t : Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated profession. Fifty years ago, it looked like that might change. In 1970, the percentage of women majoring in engineering was less than 1%. In 1979, that number was 9%. Many hoped women would continue to enter the field at the same rate. But that’s not what happened. Today, only 21% of engineering majors are women, a number largely unchanged since 2000.

Special Centerpieces for Holiday Celebrations: Few things bring family and friends together quite like the holidays, and serving up an elegant, seasonal meal centered around a mouthwatering main dish is a recipe for creating lasting memories with the ones you love.

E-cigarettes get FDA approval: 5 essential reads on the harms and benefits of vaping: After being on the U.S. market for around 15 years, an e-cigarette has, for the first time, been authorized for sale by the Food and Drug Administration. The government agency announced on Oct. 12, 2021, that three products from the vaping company Vuse had been given the green light to be marketed, along with one device in which the approved cartridges are placed.

4 reasons Americans are still seeing empty shelves and long waits – with Christmas just around the corner: Walk into any U.S. store these days and you’re likely to see empty shelves. Shortages of virtually every type of product – from toilet paper and sneakers to pickup trucks and chicken – are showing up across the country. Looking for a book, bicycle, baby crib or boat? You may have to wait weeks or months longer than usual to get your hands on it.

3 Ways to Make a Positive Impact in Your Community: Acts of kindness, big and small, have the ability to change the world, one community at a time. After more than a year of isolation for many people across the country,

Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media: “Freedom of expression is full of paradoxes,” the Nobel Committee’s Reiss-Andersen observed, in an interview after awarding the Peace Prize. She made it clear that the award to Ressa and Muratov was intended to tackle those paradoxes too.

If You’re Tired of Fighting the Squirrels, Feed ‘Em: Tips to feed squirrels and birds to create harmony in your backyard Countless backyards are battlegrounds between die-hard homeowners and squirrels fighting over bird feed. Squirrels need not be an inevitable element of bird feeding; even though keeping squirrels out of bird feeders is an age-old problem, there are ways to thwart these thieves.

Brain over the body – Hacking the stress system to let your psychology influence your physiology: The body’s drive for balance Behavioral modification techniques like yoga and mindfulness seek to modulate physiological equilibrium – what scientists call homeostasis. Homeostasis is a basic survival need and crucial for an organism’s physical integrity.

Changing your mind about something as important as vaccination isn’t a sign of weakness – being open to new information is the smart way to make choices: Culturally, this is an era in which people are held in high esteem when they stick with their beliefs and negatively labeled as “flip-floppers” or “wishy-washy” when they change what they think.