The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities, involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

Of course, sons and daughters want to visit the facilities, talk to the administrators and residents and other families, and do everything possible to fulfill their duties.

In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they live in.

At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

A resident's satisfaction with a care facility has much to do with whether they had participated in the decision to move in and how long they had stayed there.

Beyond my career, my facility?with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.

Display and sales restrictions: California has a rule prohibiting alcohol displays near the cash registers in gas stations, and in most places you can't buy alcohol at drive-through facilities.

That day he ran into a roll-up door at the Lummis facility in Valero, causing significant damage to the door.

They set up cooking facilities near it.

Make full use of community facilities.

Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.

It also has a special innovation facility for its employees.

Last year, supporters pushed for Pedals to be moved to a shelter, but New Jersey officials have said they won't allow the bear to be captured and transferred to the facility.

Sometimes its employees are released from their daily jobs for weeks and spend their time interacting in the innovation facility instead.

The two patients aboard will be transported to a medical facility that can provide a level of care that is not available at Amundsen-Scott.

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.

Facilities management has greatly improved in recent years.

Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers .

With several monitoring stations operating in Antarctica, Russia is trying hard to counter America's dominance in the field of worldwide navigational facilities.

Other studies show that simply providing the facility for people to compare their energy use with the local average is enough to cause them to modify their behaviour.

But there may be a cost to such facility.

In mature, fully developed countries such as the UK, more-efficient farming practices and better transport, storage and processing facilities ensure that a larger proportion of the food produced reaches markets and consumers.

Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built

updates teaching facilities in universities

Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

While college facilities sit idle, they continue to generate maintenance expenses that contribute to the high cost of running a college," he has written

college facilities could be put to more effective use

Generously share their facilities with those short of funds.

How to update the basic facilities

Their basic facilities are good

It won't be a problem, but I need to send them over to our main cleaning facility.

The man has to go to the main cleaning facility

I'll give you a free path so that you can try out the facilities before you decide.

The woman asked for a free pass to try out the facilities

The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member.