Whether you’re hunting for a new home to rent or buy, real estate listings love to use specific design terminology like “traditional ranch,” or “craftsman.” If you have no idea what those mean, Part Select put together an infographic that runs you through the basics.
The chart walks you through many common housing types in the United States, then talks about specific features like siding style, roof type, window type, and more. For example, a mid-century modern is often characterized by a flat or gabled roof, oversized windows, open spaces inside, and a double-wide entry door. Meanwhile, a cottage style home takes a different approach with a steep overhanging roof, cross gables, window boxes, and smaller panes. It’s an interesting set of knowledge that’s useful not only if you’re looking for a new place to live, but also if you just enjoy wandering around neighborhoods to look at houses.
Most Popular and Iconic Home Design Styles | PartSelect via 99 Percent Invisible

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Children are listening. During the election, messages of hate, fear and intolerance were propagated across different media and into communities. And the messages continue. While parents view and listen to these ever-present messages, alongside them are their children, hearing these same messages through a lens ill-equipped to discern the implications of negative stereotypes and incorrect portrayals.
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Throughout the election, children heard such things as Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and are “bringing drugs… bringing crime ” and that African-Americans are “thugs” and “living in hell .”
These messages, no matter their voice, were designed and intended to target adults. As pediatricians, we’re now seeing, however, that children were listening and they are responding in ways we might not have anticipated.
As parents, caretakers and citizens, we have the power to turn this tide. And with the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, now is the time to explore ways to teach children to communicate with love and respect.
One response to the messages children hear is to incite more hate. In April 2016, a now well-cited survey of 2,000 teachers conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance Program found that more than half of respondents reported seeing an increase in uncivil discourse in their schools. This, along with other findings from the survey, was used to coin “The Trump Effect,” a term denoting the hateful acts performed by children and adults alike.
The change we’ve seen in children’s behavior may be happening for the same reason they react to the violence they see in media. Prior research has shown that children exposed to media violence have higher levels of violent behaviors, hostility and that they are more desensitized to violence, including a lower likelihood of intervening in an ongoing fight and less sympathy for the victims of violence. Media violence itself can instill fear in the young viewers that may be persistent for years.
Hate and intolerance touted in the media is no different. As is their nature developmentally , children adopt what they hear as truth, adapting it to their lives, and in many cases across the nation, acting upon it.
Another response can be love. Recently, a Facebook group was started by a Seattle-based mom, encouraging children to write letters to the president-elect explaining the importance of being kind. To date, 10,000 children have joined, from across the country, writing how kindness should guide the future administration. To quote one sixth grade child, “Please show kindness to people, no matter their race, religion, beliefs, or most importantly, who they are as a person.”
This dichotomy of responses begs the questions: Why are children uniquely positioned to respond to messages of hate strongly, and how do parents guide their children to respond with love over hate?
Children’s actions may depend heavily on their developmental stage. Older teenagers are generally better able to discern the meaning and implications of the strong emotions conveyed in the media, but younger children often are unable to decode them.
Emotions like hate, fear and intolerance are complex. Younger children are not equipped to understand the context and ramifications associated with these complex emotions, especially when seen in an abstract form, such as media. In addition, we know that young children are not developmentally able to discern paralanguage , the complex, emotional undertones of speech. Without these underpinnings, it’s nearly impossible to understand when messages are rooted in sarcasm or are based on fallacious assumptions.
Older children may be able to think more critically about what they hear, but may have a hard time deciding what they should believe. Children who identify as a part of a minority group based on their race or ethnicity, nativity status, sexual orientation or ability status may also internalize the messages, which can lead to increased distress. This distress may be associated with concerning behaviors such as withdrawal, anger, anxiety and conduct problems.
In 2015, over 65 percent of Americans had a smartphone and over 95 percent of homes had a television. In 2016 The American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of over 66,000 pediatricians, revised its policy statement to encourage the use of these types of media for children as young as 18 months in a structured way to facilitate learning.
However, many families feel conflicted on how to select for beneficial content, while filtering out the harmful content, such as stories that highlight hate and intolerance. A study published in the November issue of Annals of Family Medicine found caregivers felt they had less and less control over the content their children viewed in today’s age of rapidly evolving technologies.
This effect was seen increasingly in families with lower socioeconomic status and lower income. These caregivers wanted their children to be exposed to the advantageous aspects of technology, but worried about how to set limits and make the right choices for their children.
As parents, we know it is hard to totally shield our children from the media, so how do we silence the noise of hate and usher our children toward actions of love and respect?
The strongest change you can make is in your own home.
Here are four ways you can scaffold the messages our children hear, providing them with context and skills beyond their developmental stages to filter and respond to the hate and intolerance seen in the media.
And remember, children are listening. While we may not be able to change the messages in the media, we can change how our children respond to them, and that change starts with you.
To Honor Dr. King, Pediatricians Offer Four Tips to Teach Kindness to Kids | The Conversation
Nia Heard-Garris is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan. Danielle Erkoboni is a National Clinician Scholar and General Pediatrician, University of Pennsylvania.
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In our rapidly globalizing business environment, enterprises often are spread across multiple international offices with remote workers distributed all over the map. Companies constantly are searching for new ways to accommodate these widely dispersed offices and remote workers while still maintaining a unified company culture. With a multitude of new office collaboration tools and cloud software, it’s possible to work from almost anywhere. But it can be difficult to preserve some semblance of a tight-knit culture that successful companies value. « Out of sight, out of mind » still might be an issue for those who don’t work at HQ. Thankfully, new platforms and applications are making it easier to boost company culture and bridge the distance between international team members. This eWEEK slide show, based on information from Scopely IT Manager Miguel Espinosa, explains how to bring remote workers together and ensure they stay productive and connected. Scopely, which has offices and partners in the United States, UK, Canada, Brazil and Romania, is a gaming and entertainment company.

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A crime gang that hacked the accounts of Next Directory customers simply by culling login names and passwords leaked from other websites have been jailed.
The gang exploited people’s tendency to use the same password on multiple websites in order to break-in to their Next Directory accounts. The practice means that many people have the same combination of user name (their email address) and password across multiple different accounts, including ecommerce websites.
The fraudsters both exploited the credentials themselves and also sold the compromised accounts over websites such as Facebook, via groups called « Super Fun Happy Land » and « Exclusive Deals ». At one point, they had available credit on 280 accounts worth as much as £975,000, although only goods to the value of £64,000 were obtained.
Two women and three men pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Next Plc, between October 2015 and April 2016. A sixth individual admitted using the compromised accounts to steal goods to the value of £11,000.
In order to get round having to change address details, the fraudsters and their accomplices arranged to pick-up goods ordered via compromised accounts in-store. That would also have helped the company and police to track them down via in-store CCTV camera images.
The fraudsters may have been helped by Next’s internal procedures that, up until a couple of years ago, meant that account holders could obtain credit even if they gave incorrect personal details, such as a wrong date of birth*.
According to the Leicester Mercury newspaper , which covered the case, the account details were sold for between £25 and £80, depending upon the available credit on the account.
Prosecutor Matthew Lowe claimed the ringleader of the gang was Glasgow, Scotland-based Edward Mullen, who recruited mother-of-five Toni Louise Willis of Chelmsford, Essex to sell the information via PayPal or bank transfer.
Willis, in turn, recruited Dumfries and Galloway-based mother-of-two Leisha Johnstone, to help sell the information. Other defendants included Matthew Corry of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who operated one of the Facebook groups, Craig Ashley of Derbyshire and Rachel Wall of Great Yarmouth.
Wall was given a suspended sentence for obtaining £11,000 of goods by Judge Nicholas Dean QC, while the others were given sentences of between eight months and 18 months each. The defendents will face a proceeds of crime confiscation hearing in May.
Detective chief inspector Ed McBride-Wilding from the Cyber Crime Unit of East Midlands Police Special Operations Unit reiterated that the accounts were only compromised because users used the same password for multiple websites.
« The targets were customers who used the same login and password for other online accounts where their details had been stolen during data breaches involving other companies, » said McBride-Wilding. « This case emphasises the need to use different passwords for every business and home account or application.  »
* information obtained from personal experience

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