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City’s finance committee hears requests to appropriate funds

Cambridge City Council’s Finance Committee considered a number of requests from various departments, during its meeting this week. City Utility Director Lou Thornton made a request to appropriate $220,000 from the Unappropriated Sewer Fund. Of those funds $20,000 would go to sewer supplies, $20,000 to sewer miscellaneous service, $50,000 to sewer vehicle maintenance, $10,000 to sewer miscellaneous, $60,000 to sewer capital improvement and $60,000 to sewer equipment. “When we first put our budgets together in October of last year, it’s very difficult to anticipate what’s happened to the economy,” Thornton explained. “As a result between the budget being from last…

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Islamic finance provides an alternative to debt-based systems

The growth of Islamic banks provides Muslims living in North America with options that reflect their beliefs. (Shutterstock)For years, Muslims in North America have struggled to find ways to purchase homes while complying with Islamic law, or shariah. The Qur’an prohibits both the collection and payment of interest. For more than a million Canadians, these religious structures are limited access to conventional mortgages. Recently, however, companies such as the Canadian Halal Financial Corporation have emerged to fill this void. The creation of a vehicle in North America to enable Muslims to finance home ownership is part of an emerging…

by •13/10/2025

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Catch it, Kill it, Bin it… Then What? – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

Core messaging during the COVID -19 pandemic has focused on the role each citizen plays in bringing the situation under control. Good hygiene and social distancing have been spoken about widely and it is acknowledged that the latter is the primary risk control measure. The role of key workers has also been widely discussed, such as the value of NHS staff and care workers, the role of educators and the rapid transition to home schooling. And as I sit here at home thinking about the 27million households in the UK on lockdown, and the impact on people and their communities,…

by •22/09/2025

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What to Do After You’ve Over-Contributed to Your 401(k)

The most common basic personal finance advice anyone gets is this—max out your 401(k) contributions. But what does that mean? How much is the maximum, and what do you do if you exceed it? And yes, you can exceed it—under certain circumstances. Excess contributions, in fact, are double-taxed (in the contribution year and again when its withdrawn).Below we consider how an over-contribution to your 401(k) can happen, and what the repercussions are.Key TakeawaysThe most common basic personal finance advice anyone gets is this: max out your 401(k) contributions. Under certain circumstances, you can exceed this amount. For…

by •03/08/2025

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Congestive Heart Failure: Excessive Sodium Restriction is Dangerous

June 1, 2023 · 7:00 AMFrom DailyMail:Salt has long been seen as enemy number one for people with heart problems, with doctors telling patients to cut down on the amount of sodium they consume.But new research suggests that restricting salt too much may actually raise the risk of an early death in heart failure patients.Their work builds upon a growing body of research that posits the benefits of cutting out salt to this subset of patients may be overblown.And the findings could mean a more exciting diet for more than six million Americans with heart…

by •02/06/2023

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The Dementia/Fructose Link | Diabetic Mediterranean Diet

May 28, 2023 12:59 PMMRI scan of brain Colorado researchers theorize that fructose metabolism may be the driving force behind Alzheimer’s Disease pathology. Diets high in sugar and high glycemic index carbohydrates would exacerbate the problem. Salt may also play a role. Fructose is a simple sugar (a monosaccharide) typically found in fruit, honey, and some vegetables. Table sugar is sucrose, a combination of fructose and a glucose molecule. High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is added to many processed foods as a bulk sweetener. From the article linked above:An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose production in the…

by •29/05/2023

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Overweight US Adolescents Eat More Ultra-Processed Foods

September 21, 2022 · 7:00 PM“One little piece won’t hurt . . .” An article in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found an association between overweight/obesity and consumption of ultra-processed foods in US adolescents. The study looked at 3,600 adolescents who reported their food intake over a 24-hour period. The results are pretty strong: the more ultra-processed food consumed, the greater the odds of overweight and obesity. Jan at The Low Carb Diabetic blog reported that:Ultra-processed foods make up ‘two-thirds of calories consumed by children and teens’Experts from Tufts University in Massachusetts studied two…

by Wirya•02/03/202329/12/2022

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Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel says Jerome Powell is making one of the biggest policy mistakes in the Fed’s 110-year history, and it could lead to a major

Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Scott Mlyn/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty ImagesThe Fed is making the same exact mistake it made a year ago, and possibly the biggest mistake in its history.That’s according to Jeremy Siegel, who criticized the Fed’s inability to recognize that inflation is easing.“It makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever, way too tight!” Siegel said.Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel has a big issue with the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes in its bid to tame inflation, and worries that the central bank is making…

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