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GRAPHENE NEWS
Graphene belongs to a group of new materials which are heavily researched in order to understand their qualities and possible uses. Our website keeps an eye on news and breakthrough research and we select only the most interesting news on graphene, at least in our opinion. This list is not automated. If you have an interesting topic you would like us to cover, do not hesitate to write to us at CONTACT at Our_Domain.NET!
30.5.2013. Graphene could be used as a means to define the ampere
The SI system of measures consists of many units, of which seven are considered base units. These base units are meter, kilogram, second, kelvin, mole, candela and ampere. Most of these units are well defined and constant, with the kilogram being an exception (kilogram is still defined as the mass of the International Kilogram Prototype).
Ampere is well-defined as well, but its definition is a bit clumsy for practical use. The ampere is defined as the constant current which, if maintained in two parallel conductors of infinite length, 1 meter apart and straight, would produce a force between these two conductors equal to 2x10-7
Graphene could come in handy in the re-definition of the ampere. Scientists have managed to create an electron pump which can emit individual electrons at command using graphene. These graphene electron pumps could be used to produce a current of exactly one ampere. Since the charge of a single electron is well-known, the ampere could be prototyped on site as needed as a flow of one couloumb of charge per second using one single electron pump, or many individual graphene electron pumps.
Aside from this metrology use of the graphene single-electron pump, there are many potential uses in experimental quantum physics. These uses could lead to some interesting experiments and proofs. We find it exciting that graphene could offer to change our world in such a fundamental way as changing the definition of one of the base units of the SI system.
Source: M. R. Connolly et al. Gigahertz quantized charge pumping in graphene quantum dots
Published: 12.5.2013.
4.5.2013. Resonant tunnelling and negative differential conductance in graphene transistors allows terahertz operating frequencies.
Graphene's chemical stability combined with properties of other free two-dimensional crystals allows scientists to stack these crystalline materials and create novel devices using advanced functional materials. Scientists have managed to induce a tunneling effect which produces a negative differential conductance at room temperature using a layer of boron nitride a few atoms thick, sandwiched between graphene electrodes.
The tunnel effect has been known for almost half a century, however conventional tunneling devices were tens of nanometers thick, while these new graphene-boron nitride tunneling transistors are merely a few atomic layers thick. Their miniscule thickness allows these transistors to achieve ultra-fast transit times. In theory, these devices could be applied to high-frequency logic circuits.
This device can be controlled by applying a variable gate voltage. The current through the transistor rises with the applied gate voltage increase until it reaches a maximum value, after which it decreases steadily. This area of output current decrease as gate voltage increases can be used similarly to the way tunneling diodes are used, only at much higher frequencies.
Source: Britnell, L. et al. Resonant tunnelling and negative differential conductance in graphene transistors. Nat. Commun. 4:1794 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2817 (2013).
24.4.2013. Synthesis of graphene oxide/polyacrylic acid nanocomposite hydrogel
A review of studies focused on enhancing the thermal conductivity of phase change materials (PCM) for thermal energy storage upon introduction of nanostructures is presented. These emerging materials have only been studied since 2005 and represent a clear departure from previous/existing practices of utilizing fixed, stationary high-conductivity inserts/structures into PCM. Carbon-based nanostructures (nanofibers, nanoplatelets and graphene flakes), carbon nanotubes, both metallic (Ag, Al, C/Cu and Cu) and metal oxide (Al2O3, CuO, MgO and TiO2) nanoparticles and silver nanowires have been explored as the materials of the thermal conductivity promoters. Emphasis of the work so far has been placed on the dependence of the enhanced thermal conductivity on mass fraction of the nanostructures and temperature for both liquid and solid phases, however issues related to modifications of the degree of supercooling, melting temperature, viscosity, heat of fusion, etc. are also reported.
In general, carbon-based nanostructures and carbon nanotubes exhibit far greater enhancement of thermal conductivity in comparison to metallic/metal oxide nanoparticles due to the high aspect-ratio of these nanofillers. Utilizing a figure of merit for the observed thermal conductivity enhancement, the majority of 340+ measured data points in both liquid and solid phases are summarized.
Original resource text: Thermal conductivity enhancement of nanostructure-based colloidal suspensions utilized as phase change materials for thermal energy storage: A review
23.4.2013. Growing better nanowires on graphene
Researchers at the University of Illinois produced III-VI compound semiconductors. This was previously not feasible using silicon, and researchers used a graphene substrate instead of the old-fashioned silicon. They used a process called MOCVD (MetalOrganic Chemical Vapour Deposition) to deposit In-Ga-As (Indium-Gallium-Arsenic) semiconductors onto the surface of graphene. The semiconductor atoms self-assembled into a nanostructure resembling a crystalline form. This is the first time that these three semiconductors were merged in this fashion.
This discovery will allow scientists to grow coaxial core-shell structures in a single step instead of a two-step process. A single step process ensures a better interface between the nanostructure and the substrate, since the growth process is spontaneous. This is because the distance between the atoms in a InAs crystal structure is the same as the distance between carbon atoms in graphene. Therefore, the InAs fits into the space perfectly, like the final piece in a puzzle, allowing gallium to form a shell around the InAs core.
Original research text: InxGa1-xAs Nanowire Growth on Graphene: van der Waals Epitaxy Induced Phase Segregation
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Q: Typescript - how to correctly type a member of abstract generic class based on possible extra implementations This is really hard to describe in words, but essentially I want to have a base abstract class that describes an abstract interface that needs to change depending on whether or not a derived class is implementing a certain interface or not.
Here's a TS playground showing the issue - everything is working fine, and the types are correct outside of the class, but internally typescript is reporting type errors.
playground

A: Polymorphic this is not really helping you here; there's no way to mark a class as final in TypeScript the way you can in, say, Java... so it's always possible that polymorphic this has to refer to some narrowed type in some as-yet-unknown subclass.  For example:
class Foo extends Derived {
  map(val: number) {
    return "oops";
  }
}
new Foo(7).getDefaultVal().toUpperCase(); // error at runtime

Here we have, with no compiler errors, extended Derived.  But Foo.getDefaultVal() is just inheriting the implementation in Derived, whose return type is supposed to be DeriveMapVal<this, number>, where this is going to be Foo at the call site.  And DeriveMapVal<Foo, number> is string.  But Foo's implementation is just returning a number and not a string, which is why you're getting the error: the compiler simply cannot verify that number is assignable to DeriveMapVal<this, number>.

As for how to deal with it, I guess it depends on what you want to do. The easiest solution I can think of is to narrow the subclass implementation to refer to the actual self-class and not this:
class Derived extends Generic<number> {
  getDefaultVal(): DeriveMapVal<Derived, number> {
    return 0; // okay
  }
}

This should work, although it's a bit strange that you can still subclass Derived as before, and the compiler correctly sees that Foo is not assignable to Derived:
class Foo extends Derived {
  map(val: number) {
    return "oops";
  }
}

new Foo(7).getDefaultVal().toUpperCase(); // error at compile time too, now
const d: Derived = new Foo(10); // error
const g: Generic<number> = new Foo(20); // error

I mean, class Foo extends Derived apparently does not guarantee that Foo extends Derived is true.  Weird stuff.  As long as you can handle that wrinkle then this might be a way for you to proceed.
Okay, hope that helps; good luck!
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MDI and Ellsworth Games on the Radio January 26-30
Chris Popper Published: January 24, 2021
COVID-19 has reared its ugly ahead and impacted our planned basketball schedule, as the Ellsworth-GSA games that were scheduled for this week have been postponed as GSA has transitioned to remote learning for a short period. We hope that everyone is safe, and remind everyone to wear your masks.
Here are the games we plan on broadcasting this week, January 26-30. We will be broadcasting the Ellsworrth and MDI Varsity games on WDEA AM 1370, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP as well as any Alexa enabled device
The Ellsworth-MDI Girls Games on Tuesday will be streamed on the Ellsworth High School You Tube Channel
The MDI games Wednesday, Friday and Saturday will be streamed on the MDI NFHS Channel (subscription)
My hope is that I will be down at Katsiaficas Gymnasium to broadcast the JV games on the Ellsworth High School You Tube Channel and also the JV games for MDI on the MDI NFHS Channel
MDI JV Girls at Ellsworth 4:30 p.m.
MDI Varsity Girls at Ellsworth 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday January 27 - Postponed until February 11th
EHS JV Boys at MDI 3:30 p.m.
EHS Varsity Boys at MDI 7 p.m.
Bangor JV Girls at MDI 4:30 p.m. (Postponed as Bangor is remote all this week and won't return to in person schooling until 2/1)
Bangor Varisty Girls at MDI 6:15 p.m. (Postponed as Bangor is remote all this week and won't return to in person schooling until 2/1)
Brewer JV Boys at MDI 2 p.m.
Brewer JV Boys at MDI 3:45 p.m.
Brewer Varsity Boys at MDI 5:30 p.m.
We will have box scores, recaps of all of these games on our website along with the MDI-Bangor Boys Varsity game on Friday, January 29th
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April 2019, Volume 22, Issue 2
Special Issue on "Language Learning in the Modern Digital Era"
Guest Editor(s): Yu-Ju Lan
Language Learning in the Modern Digital Era
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan // yujulan@gmail.com
Cite as:Lan, Y.-J. (2019). Guest Editorial: Language Learning in the Modern Digital Era. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0001
In a World of SMART Technology, Why Learn Another Language?
Robert Godwin-Jones
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA // rgjones@vcu.edu
The rapid developments today in artificial intelligence (AI), supported by massive language data collection, are resulting in ever better digital language assistance/translation. Advances in the capabilities of intelligent services lead naturally to envisioning a future where there might be a quite different context for second language (L2) use and therefore for second language acquisition (SLA). A central aspect of that future will be the respective contributions of formal, institutional language learning and informal, largely autonomous language development. While a number of future scenarios can be imagined, I will be arguing here in favor of a framework of "structured unpredictability" (Little & Thorne, 2017) as the optimal future pathway for L2 development, with the guidance and self-reflective possibilities of formal instruction (face-to-face or online) combined with the cultural and pragmatic learning available from online encounters and exchanges. In such a vision, SMART tech (intelligent, networked devices operating autonomously and synching continuously) will enhance individual learning but is not likely to replace the essentially human character of person-to-person communication.
Informal language learning, Second language acquisition, SMART technology, Artificial intelligence
Cite as:Godwin-Jones, R. (2019). In a World of SMART Technology, Why Learn Another Language? Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0002
Current and Future Directions in TELL
Dorothy M. Chun
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA // dchun@ucsb.edu
Based on my role as Editor in Chief of the journal Language Learning & Technology since 2000 and on my experiences as a technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) researcher, developer and teacher, I will provide an overview of recent cutting-edge research on the uses of technologies for second language teaching and learning. I suggest that the "L" in TELL should represent "languaculture" rather than just "language," as the field of second language education is increasingly placing greater emphasis on the inextricable link between language and culture. I will also look to the future and suggest promising trajectories for TELL development and research.
CALL, Digital literacies, Languaculture, Telecollaboration, TELL
Cite as:Chun, D. M. (2019). Current and Future Directions in TELL. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 14–25. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0003
Creating Digital Stories: EFL Learners' Engagement, Cognitive and Metacognitive Skills
Shao-Ting Alan Hung
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan // alanhung123@gmail.com
Creating digital stories refers to the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, animation and video, to create a short movie. Although studies on digital storytelling abound in the literature, few focus on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' story development process or explore the skills they employ to complete their multimodal stories. Moreover, the understanding of the extent to which learners engage in composing multimodal stories remains limited. Hence, the current study bridged the research gaps by (1) exploring the cognitive and metacognitive skills EFL leaners develop when composing digital stories, and (2) examining if the utilization of these skills changes with respect to levels of engagement. Eighty-eight learners participated in a multimodal project in which they generated linguistic, audio and animated contents for their digital stories. Instruments included three scales on cognitive skills, metacognitive skills, and engagement and students' reflections. The results revealed that learners frequently employed cognitive skills (e.g., analyzing, generating) and metacognitive skills (e.g., planning, monitoring) when composing multimodal texts and gathering digital elements for their stories. Moreover, highly engaged learners employed more cognitive and metacognitive skills than less engaged students at a significant level. Hence, it is concluded that digital storytelling can help EFL learners develop skills that facilitate multiliteracies practices.
Digital storytelling, Multimodal composing, Cognitive and metacognitive skills, Engagement
Cite as:Hung, S.-T. A. (2019). Creating Digital Stories: EFL Learners' Engagement, Cognitive and Metacognitive Skills. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0004
EFL Learners' Intercultural Communication in an Open Social Virtual Environment
Meei-Ling Liaw
National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan // meeilingliaw@gmail.com
This study investigates the effects of using open social VR for university English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' intercultural communication learning. The project involved two stages: (1) carefully designed activities for students to practice different language-learning tasks with their peers; (2) implemented in an open social VR environment for intercultural interactions. Data from multiple sources, including surveys, video-recordings, and oral reports, were collected and analyzed. Findings reveal that the participants perceived the social and physical presences afforded by the VR environment positively. Occurrences of intercultural communicative competence were identified in the participants' interactions with international interlocutors in open social VR spaces. Whereas the participants were doubtful of the effectiveness of the approach when practicing language tasks with their peers, they greatly enjoyed the interactions with international interlocutors via the VR technologies in the digital wild context, i.e., applying the resources outside of the classroom setting. Based on the findings of this study, focuses and directions for future research are discussed and suggested.
Virtual reality, Social presence, Physical presence, Intercultural communicative competence, English as a foreign language
Cite as:Liaw, M.-L. (2019). EFL Learners' Intercultural Communication in an Open Social Virtual Environment. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 38–55. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0005
Effects of a Personalized Navigation Support Approach on Students' Context-Aware Ubiquitous Learning Performances
Wei Li, Chuang-Kai Chiu, Judy C. R. Tseng
Department of Educational Technology, Wenzhou University, China // Ph.D. Program in Engineering Science, Chung Hua University, Taiwan // liweiwzu@qq.com
Chuang-Kai Chiu
Department of Educational Technology, Wenzhou University, China // akite.chiou@gmail.com
Judy C. R. Tseng
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chung Hua University, Taiwan // judycrt@chu.edu.tw
In context-aware ubiquitous learning, the learning resources of the learning environment are limited, and the learners need to frequently move between learning targets. Therefore, how to provide appropriate learning paths for students in the real world is essential in context-aware ubiquitous learning. In this study, a personalized navigation support strategy considering learners' individual learning styles is proposed for context-aware ubiquitous learning. To evaluate the effectiveness of the newly proposed navigation support strategy, a context-aware ubiquitous learning system conducting the personalized navigation support strategy was developed, and a field experiment of context-aware learning activities was conducted in a museum. The experimental results revealed that although the personalized navigation support strategy did not significantly enhance the students' learning achievement, it did significantly improve their learning efficiency. Further analysis showed that the conforming learners greatly benefited from the personalized navigation support mechanism, while the transformation learners and the performing learners were less affected.
Context-aware ubiquitous learning, Navigation support, Learning styles
Cite as:Li, W., Chiu, C.-K., & Tseng, C.-R. (2019). Effects of a Personalized Navigation Support Approach on Students' Context-Aware Ubiquitous Learning Performances. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 56–70. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0007
From Social Interactions to Strategy and Skills Promotion: An ASQI-Based Mobile Flipped Billiards Training Approach to Improving Students' Learning Engagement, Performance and Perceptions
Yen-Nan Lin, Lu-Ho Hsia
Yen-Nan Lin
Department of Physical Education, National Pingtung University, Taiwan // lynnpue@gmail.com
Lu-Ho Hsia
Office of Physical Education, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan // share.holder0130@gmail.com
Billiards is a sport that not only requires numerous skills, but also emphasizes the strategies of planning the path of the contact and shot. Traditional billiards training mainly focuses on skills practicing, while the strategies for facing different kinds of challenges in billiards competitions are usually ignored. Therefore, referring to social constructivism, the current study proposed an ASQI (annotation, summarizing, questioning and interflow) mobile flipped learning approach to strengthen students' pre-class learning effectiveness via engaging them in social interaction contexts to share experience and strategies of dealing with different billiards competition cases. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The participants were 80 university students from two classes; one class learned with the ASQI mobile flipped learning approach while the other adopted the traditional flipped learning approach. The results showed that ASQI could significantly enhance students' billiards skills performance and online learning engagement with no influence on task load. In addition, according to the students' feedback, ASQI could help students "make effective use of strategies," "improve learning performance" and "promote reflection."
Flipped learning, Mobile technology, Teaching/learning strategies, Billiards
Cite as:Lin, Y.-N., & Hsia, L.-H. (2019). From Social Interactions to Strategy and Skills Promotion: An ASQI-Based Mobile Flipped Billiards Training Approach to Improving Students' Learning Engagement, Performance and Perceptions. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0008
Impacts of Concept Map-Based Collaborative Mobile Gaming on English Grammar Learning Performance and Behaviors
Hui-Chun Chu, Chun-Chieh Wang, Lin Wang
Hui-Chun Chu
Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Soochow University, Taiwan // carolhcchu@gmail.com
Chun-Chieh Wang
Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Soochow University, Taiwan // jie809@gmail.com
Lin Wang
Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Soochow University, Taiwan // goodjobwl@gmail.com
EFL (English as a foreign language) students usually learn by rote when they study English grammar. They usually memorize all the grammar rules mechanically instead of learning grammar in a structured way. Researchers have suggested that students can internalize knowledge via using knowledge construction tools and collaborated learning activities. Therefore, in this study, a grammar concept mapping-based collaborative English mobile gaming approach has been developed. A quasi-experiment on an English course was carried out in an elementary school to evaluate the learning achievement of the low- and high-achieving students. Moreover, the students' learning behavioral patterns were explored by analyzing their interactive logs in the mobile discussion forum. The results showed that the students using the proposed approach revealed significantly higher English grammar achievements than those who learned with the collaborative English gaming approach; moreover, the grammar concept mapping strategy can help the low-achieving students to have better learning achievements, and to realize the concept structure of English grammar to internalize their knowledge. In addition, it was also found that the low-achieving students had significantly higher mental load than the high-achieving students, implying that the use of the grammar concept mapping approach provided a challenging but helpful task to help the low achievers focus on the gaming process and successfully organize the grammar structures they had learned.
Grammar concept mapping, Game-based learning, English grammar, Behavioral analysis, High- and low-achieving
Cite as:Chu, H.-C., Wang, C.-C., & Wang, L. (2019). Impacts of Concept Map-Based Collaborative Mobile Gaming on English Grammar Learning Performance and Behaviors. Educational Technology & Society, 22(2), 86–100. https://doi.org/10.30191/ETS.201904_22(2).0009
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Published On: Mon, Apr 22nd, 2019
Politics / Top Stories | By Tony Korbe
Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling billions in student loan debt
FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to supporters in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election, wants to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt and make college cheaper for students going forward.
Warren, in a post on the website Medium, proposed canceling $50,000 in student loan debt for anyone with annual household income under $100,000, which her campaign said would amount to 42 million Americans. It would also cancel some debt for those with household incomes between $100,000 and $250,000.
Warren, who has long advocated in Congress for providing debt relief to students, called student loan debt a "crisis." She said canceling debt for millions of people would help close the nation's racial and wealth gap, and also proposed making all two-year and four-year public colleges free.
"The first step in addressing this crisis is to deal head-on with the outstanding debt that is weighing down millions of families and should never have been required in the first place," Warren wrote.
Warren is competing in a crowded field of more than 20 Democrats vying for their party's 2020 nomination and has sought to distinguish herself by offering numerous, expansive policy proposals.
Anticipating Republican criticism that her proposal would be too expensive, Warren said her debt cancellation plan and universal free college could be paid for through an "Ultra-Millionaire Tax," which would impose a 2 percent annual tax on families with $50 million or more in wealth.
Education has been a topic on the campaign trail for some of Warren's rivals as well.
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, another contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, released a plan last month that would use $315 billion in federal money over 10 years to give the average teacher a $13,500 raise, or about a 23 percent salary increase.
(Reporting By Yasmeen Abutaleb; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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On October 20, 2012, over 100 parishioners took part in our first Parish Service Day. The main project of the day was the assembling and packaging of meals that would be sent to Burkina Faso in Africa. Many volunteers also worked at several service sites around the area, delivering meals and helping to clean. The day concluded with a talk from Thomas Awiapo, a Catholic Relief Services worker in Ghana.


Something nasty is going one between Delhi Municipal Corporation and AAP Government of Delhi. MCD workers are on strike since Monday and Delhi has become Litter Capital. Litter is everywhere on roads.
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namespace verilog {

using verible::Symbol;
using verible::SyntaxTreeLeaf;

std::vector<verible::TreeSearchMatch> FindAllModulePortDeclarations(
    const Symbol& root) {
  return SearchSyntaxTree(root, NodekPortDeclaration());
}

std::vector<verible::TreeSearchMatch> FindAllActualNamedPort(
    const Symbol& root) {
  return SearchSyntaxTree(root, NodekActualNamedPort());
}

std::vector<verible::TreeSearchMatch> FindAllPortReferences(
    const verible::Symbol& root) {
  return SearchSyntaxTree(root, NodekPort());
}

std::vector<verible::TreeSearchMatch> FindAllTaskFunctionPortDeclarations(
    const Symbol& root) {
  return SearchSyntaxTree(root, NodekPortItem());
}

const SyntaxTreeLeaf* GetIdentifierFromModulePortDeclaration(
    const Symbol& symbol) {
  const auto* identifier_symbol =
      verible::GetSubtreeAsSymbol(symbol, NodeEnum::kPortDeclaration, 3);
  if (!identifier_symbol) return nullptr;
  return AutoUnwrapIdentifier(*identifier_symbol);
}

const SyntaxTreeLeaf* GetDirectionFromModulePortDeclaration(
    const Symbol& symbol) {
  if (const auto* dir_symbol =
          GetSubtreeAsSymbol(symbol, NodeEnum::kPortDeclaration, 0)) {
    return &SymbolCastToLeaf(*dir_symbol);
  }
  return nullptr;
}

const verible::SyntaxTreeLeaf* GetIdentifierFromPortReference(
    const verible::Symbol& port_reference) {
  const auto* identifier_symbol =
      verible::GetSubtreeAsSymbol(port_reference, NodeEnum::kPortReference, 0);
  if (!identifier_symbol) return nullptr;
  return AutoUnwrapIdentifier(*identifier_symbol);
}

const verible::SyntaxTreeNode* GetPortReferenceFromPort(
    const verible::Symbol& port) {
  return verible::GetSubtreeAsNode(port, NodeEnum::kPort, 0,
                                   NodeEnum::kPortReference);
}

static const verible::SyntaxTreeNode*
GetTypeIdDimensionsFromTaskFunctionPortItem(const Symbol& symbol) {
  return verible::GetSubtreeAsNode(
      symbol, NodeEnum::kPortItem, 1,
      NodeEnum::kDataTypeImplicitBasicIdDimensions);
}

const verible::SyntaxTreeNode* GetUnpackedDimensionsFromTaskFunctionPortItem(
    const verible::Symbol& port_item) {
  const auto& type_id_dimensions =
      GetTypeIdDimensionsFromTaskFunctionPortItem(port_item);
  if (!type_id_dimensions) return nullptr;
  return verible::GetSubtreeAsNode(*type_id_dimensions,
                                   NodeEnum::kDataTypeImplicitBasicIdDimensions,
                                   2, NodeEnum::kUnpackedDimensions);
}

const Symbol* GetTypeOfTaskFunctionPortItem(const verible::Symbol& symbol) {
  const auto& type_id_dimensions =
      GetTypeIdDimensionsFromTaskFunctionPortItem(symbol);
  if (!type_id_dimensions) return nullptr;
  return verible::GetSubtreeAsNode(*type_id_dimensions,
                                   NodeEnum::kDataTypeImplicitBasicIdDimensions,
                                   0, NodeEnum::kDataType);
}

const SyntaxTreeLeaf* GetIdentifierFromTaskFunctionPortItem(
    const verible::Symbol& symbol) {
  const auto* type_id_dimensions =
      GetTypeIdDimensionsFromTaskFunctionPortItem(symbol);
  if (!type_id_dimensions) return nullptr;
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We developed Indicators for Sustainable Mobility to help answer that question.
Minneapolis emerges as a middle-tier mass transit role model while seven major US cities provide less than one eighth of their populations with "frequent transit" options.
Many US cities are failing to connect people to jobs through mass transit, according to our new report that uses census and employment data to establish 12 new benchmarks for how mass transit systems serve urban populations. More than one third of the US cities surveyed—all with significant climate change risk—have grown without developing any substantial mass transit systems to serve their populations.
The new report, Indicators for Sustainable Mobility, defines criteria to evaluate mass transportation systems and then uses the criteria to assess 20 cities in the US and compare the scores to those of eight cities in Canada and Mexico.
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Compared to major cities in Canada and Mexico, US cities, on average, lag in terms of transit access, speed, comfort and access to destinations. Toronto and Vancouver join Chicago and New York City as the only cities serving more than 85 percent of their populations with frequent transit.
Minneapolis also emerged as one of the best cities for mass transit, with 74 percent of its population, 89 percent of all jobs, and 84 percent of all low-income households all within a 500-meter walk or a 10-minute bike ride of frequent transit. Boston, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., were the only other US cities serving more than 70 percent of their populations, jobs, and low-income households with frequent transit.
More cities sat at the opposite end of the spectrum, however, with some of the fastest growing metropolitan areas relying almost exclusively on automobile traffic as the sole transportation option. Memphis stood out in this regard, with less than 10 percent of all jobs, 2 percent of all low-income households, and 2 percent of people overall within a 500-meter walk or a 10-minute bike ride of frequent transit. Nashville and San Antonio also served less than one quarter of all jobs, and less than one tenth of all low-income households and people overall served by frequent transit.
The report found many ways in which low-income populations were just as poorly served by transit as other communities, even though their needs are greater. ITDP measured low-income households near rapid transit as the percentage of the population that makes less than $20,000 a year that is located within about a 10-minute bike ride or walk of a rapid transit station. The report found that, although there is not a major difference in terms of proximity to transit, there is a lack of access to jobs that don't require a high school education with a 30- or 60-minute commute, putting them out of reach of the people who most need them.
Frequent—A bus or train every 12 minutes or less from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Increasing transit frequency is the single most important thing cities can do to increase transit ridership. It may not be sufficient alone, but it is the single most important predictor of transit use.
Rapid—Slow-moving buses stuck in traffic are not an appealing option. In addition to frequency, transit needs to have priority on streets—a dedicated tram or busway, off-board fare collection and all-door boarding are some of the features that make transit rapid.
Access to Destinations—You can't take transit if it doesn't go where you need to go. At a minimum, it needs to take you between home and work, but should also offer options for mobility overall—changing jobs, moving houses, taking children to school, shopping, health care. This is measured by a host of indicators: everything from people's daily access to transport, to jobs located near transit, to cycling infrastructure, to city characteristics such as block density, which makes for a more walkable environment.
First Street green bike lane in Los Angeles.
ITDP's analysis revealed that good biking infrastructure improves access to frequent transit. Protected bike lanes are an inexpensive way for cities to increase the number of people using frequent transit lines, often solving the "first-last mile" problem. On average, bike lanes increased access to frequent transit by 2.5 percent or about 21,000 people per city.
The researchers also found that the more access people have to transit and jobs, the more they tend to use transit. Those cities with higher transit mode share also tended to have high-capacity transit corridors, such as major arteries that cut through the city center, with dedicated lanes for buses, as well as metro or light rail. Lower transit mode share would include islands of coverage, such as a park-and-ride cluster in certain areas, requiring most people to drive at least part of the trip.
Interestingly, Los Angeles—famous for its gridlock and smog—placed in the middle of the pack, serving 45 percent of its population, 59 percent of jobs, and 57 percent of low-income households with frequent transit.
While the overall picture of transport access is dim, the city of Minneapolis stood out as a role model. Although a much smaller city, Minneapolis is close to Washington, DC, in terms of transit ridership percentage and Frequent Transit, and rivals Boston and Philadelphia in terms of block density, a key indicator of a quality walking environment.
Minneapolis' success is partly due to smart policies around an ambitious plan for transit-oriented development, Minneapolis 2040. This includes investing in a quality bike network, a system of off-street trails that the city is building on to create 35 miles of protected bikeways. Minneapolis significantly increased access to cycling and transit, growing the percentage of people living near frequent transit (PNFT) from 64 percent to 73 percent. This was the largest increase among all the cities that ITDP evaluated, and the city's scores were comparable to larger coastal cities like Boston and Seattle. In contrast, Dallas––a much larger city with a limited frequent transit network––serves only 41 percent of all jobs, 14 percent of all low-income households, and 11 percent of all people overall within a 500-meter walk or a 10-minute bike ride of frequent transit.


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AMC Entertainment to Expand Its Business Beyond Theatrical Exhibition and Enter the Multi-Billion Dollar Popcorn Industry
Company Release - 11/4/2021
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AMC to operate shopping mall retail stores, counters and kiosks serving freshly prepared AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn, starting in 2022
AMC is also preparing to partner with food delivery-to-home services, allowing movie lovers to order from a nearby AMC movie theatre location and enjoy AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn in the comfort of their own home
AMC will sell "To Go" packages of freshly popped popcorn at its theatres for takeout and/or pickup
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LEAWOOD, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States, in Europe & the Middle East and in the world, today announced that it is expanding its business outside of the traditional theatrical exhibition industry with plans to capture a piece of the growing multi-billion dollar popcorn market. AMC will sell its popular AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn, which has been available to consumers in theatres for more than a century continually since the year 1920, through four new platforms.
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Beginning in 2022, AMC will begin selling freshly made AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn at select mall retail locations around the country. Those new kiosks, counters and stores will feature real AMC movie theatre popcorn and other AMC movie theatre treats.
Additionally, AMC also plans to make its AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn, freshly popped in nearby theatres, available through food delivery-to-home services. In this way, consumers will be able to enjoy a slice of the AMC experience when being entertained at home.
AMC will sell "To Go" packages at its theatres of freshly popped popcorn for takeout and/or pickup.
Also coming later in 2022, AMC plans to offer prepackaged and ready-to-pop microwaveable AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn, which will begin hitting shelves in supermarkets and convenience stores around the country.
The U.S. multi-billion popcorn market is expected to grow significantly over the next several years. With the popularity of AMC Theatres' Perfectly Popcorn, and given AMC's current position as the largest freshly popped popcorn provider in the United States, AMC believes that an expansion into the sale of popcorn on a retail basis outside of theatres is a natural extension of AMC's core business.
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AMC is the largest movie exhibition company in the United States, the largest in Europe and the largest throughout the world with approximately 950 theatres and 10,500 screens across the globe. AMC has propelled innovation in the exhibition industry by: deploying its Signature power-recliner seats; delivering enhanced food and beverage choices; generating greater guest engagement through its loyalty and subscription programs, web site and mobile apps; offering premium large format experiences and playing a wide variety of content including the latest Hollywood releases and independent programming. For more information, visit amctheatres.com.
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LONDON – The legal fight is over: A hospital in the UK will take an infant off life support after his parents failed to convince a court that he could be saved with an experimental treatment.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that keeping 10-month-old Charlie Gard alive would do nothing but prolong his pain, reports the Guardian. He suffers from a rare disease known as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, and parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates wanted to take him to the US for experimental treatment.
His UK doctors, however, say it's hopeless, and parents' rights are not absolute in the UK in such cases, explains CNN. A number of courts ruled against them, with their last hope being the ECHR.
But the seven justices declined to overrule the British courts. "The decision is final," said the ruling. Charlie is currently on life support at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and a spokesperson said the hospital would not "rush" to take him off it.
"Our priority is to provide every possible support to Charlie's parents as we prepare for the next steps." The details on where Charlie's parents had wanted to take him in the US have been kept under wraps during the legal wrangling, and supporters had raised more than $1.6 million to cover expenses.
Medical experts in Britain said the treatment had no chance of saving the infant, but his parents made the case on their website that it was worth a try.


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"I was a eating a sandwich and my cap broke off… I was so embarrassed. I never thought it would be so simple to fix… My implant looks and feels so natural. I didn't think that that I would look so much better than before." - C.G.
Get your smile backThis patient came in with a fractured front tooth due to the breakdown of her previous endodontic treatment (apicoectomy). The gums surrounding the broken tooth were also grey. (It is usual for one's gums to turn this color after root canal therapy. Color changes can also result from the metal margins of a crown). In an incisionless, minimally invasive manner, the fractured root was removed and the dental implant was placed immediately. A white esthetic Zirconia abutment (post) and temporary crown were attached to it on the same day as well. The gums were adjusted to be the same height as the tooth next to it, restoring the patient's natural, symmetrical smile.
"I was going to redo my crowns and my dentist recommended that I even out the gums to make my smile look more symmetrical. My smile is so much prettier!" -A.W.
Perfect your smile!This patient's original smile showed an uneven gum-line. The two front teeth looked much longer compared to the adjacent teeth. To reduce the amount of gum showing on those other teeth, crown lengthening was performed. As a result, this patient has an even and symmetrical smile. The crowns/veneers were also applied to her teeth, brightening her new smile.
"I never liked my smile. When I found out I could have a simple procedure to improve it, I went for it. It was so simple and painless" - _._.
No more gummy smile!This patient was suffering from gingival excess (enlarged gingival papillae), which gave off the appearance of shortened teeth. A gingivectomy was performed to remove excess gum tissue and to restore a proper, even height to the teeth. The patient left the office with a new, attractive non-"gummy" smile.
"My teeth looked short, yellow, and thin and I had a lot of my gums showing. Now I can look pretty for the pictures." - C.W.
Perfect your smileThis patient presented with short, worn-down teeth. After esthetic crown lengthening, she received the smile that she was looking for - less gingival display and the proper contour of teeth.
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In 1986, a group of concerned citizens worked to save a two-family home from demolition and turn it into affordable housing for the Arlington community. While this project was not successful, out of this endeavor Housing Corporation of Arlington was founded to address Arlington's ever increasing shortage of affordable housing.
Twenty-seven years later, HCA is proud of its achievements and community support. With 58 units of affordable housing and the development of Capitol Square Apartments, a $9 million project to significantly renovate thirty-two (32) East Arlington apartments, HCA continues to improve the lives of low- and very low-income residents.
Over the past several years, surrounding communities have approached HCA to help them develop strategies to create affordable housing in their own neighborhoods. These requests are a testament to the Housing Corporation's reputation for creating high quality homes for families and individuals of modest means.
In 2011, after years of careful thought and discussion, HCA launched a new non-profit affiliate organization—Academy Development Partners (ADP)—to work with other non-profits, housing authorities and municipalities, to find regional affordable housing solutions. ADP will allow HCA share its expertise in project development and grow HCA's service area. This growth will help increase HCA's capacity, providing further opportunities for families and individuals to live affordably in the Commonwealth.
HCA and Academy Development Partners look forward to creating safe, environmentally sustainable and affordable housing in the next 25 years.
at 781-859-5211 or via email at phallett@housingcorparlington.org.


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McDonald's Sues Ousted CEO, Alleging Employee Relationships
McDonald's Sues Ousted CEO, Alleging Employee Relationships
McDonald's says it's suing Stephen Easterbrook, the CEO it ousted last year over an inappropriate relationship with an employee, alleging Monday that he covered up relationships with three other employees and destroyed evidence.
The company now wants to reclaim hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation paid to Easterbrook on his departure.
"McDonald's does not tolerate behavior from employees that does not reflect our values," said McDonald's President and CEO Chris Kempczinski, who was promoted following Easterbrook's departure, in a message to employees Monday.
McDonald's fired Easterbrook last November after he acknowledged exchanging videos and text messages in a non-physical, consensual relationship with an employee. Easterbrook told the company that there were no other similar instances. Easterbrook and his wife divorced in 2015, the same year he became McDonald's CEO.
Based on what the company knew at the time, McDonald's board approved a separation agreement "without cause" that allowed Easterbrook to keep nearly $42 million in stock-based benefits, according to Equilar, which tracks executive compensation. Easterbrook also collected 26 weeks of pay, amounting to compensation of about $670,000.
McDonald's Attempts to Block Easterbrook From Exercising Stock Options
McDonald's says in a lawsuit that in July, it received an anonymous tip that Easterbrook had engaged in a sexual relationship with another employee. After an investigation, McDonald's confirmed that relationship as well as two other physical, sexual relationships in the year before he was fired. Easterbrook also approved a special grant of restricted stock, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, to one of those employees, the lawsuit said.
The company said Monday that Easterbrook removed evidence of those relationships — including sexually explicit photos and videos sent from corporate email accounts — from his cell phone, preventing investigators from learning about them prior to his firing.
In a lawsuit filed in Delaware, McDonald's said it would not have terminated Easterbrook without cause if it had known of the additional relationships.
McDonald's is now attempting to block Easterbrook from exercising his stock options and said it will seek compensatory damages.
A message seeking comment was left with Easterbrook's attorney.
McDonald's shares were flat at $203.17 in morning trading.
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Here at TPB we're commonly asked how our cooktop works and there is a common misconception that the entire surface can be used for cooking and that pans can be placed anywhere and work.
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In addition to the features we've talked about, a TPB Tech cooktop is also the most multifunctional induction hob on the market today – it's the only one that doubles up a work surface. Plus, it's the most efficient on the market, and it's the only hob available can be built entirely to the customers' requirements.
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Representative McKinley has a "holy shit, I didn't think that anyone would notice" moment
Some follow-up on our congressman's "no" vote on the Great American Outdoors Act
From the Congressional Record, one day after Representative David McKinley voted against the Great American Outdoors Act:
Mr. McKINLEY. Madam Speaker, Yesterday, I mistakenly voted against the Great American Outdoors Act As cosponsor of the House companion to this bill, I support permanent, full funding for the Land and Conservation Fund and funding for deferred maintenance in the National Parks System. This important piece of legislation would protect and ensure safe access to important locations in West Virginia like the Monongahela National Forest or the New River Gorge National River. The continued operation of locations like these would further generate $9 billion annually in consumer spending and support 91,000 jobs across West Virginia.
Perhaps, this same-day article in the Highland Outdoors ("West Virginia's outdoor magazine") or a similar one elsewhere prompted his turnaround:
CONGRESS PASSES GREAT AMERICAN OUTDOORS ACT
On the passage of the legislation:
GAOA establishes a fund to support maintenance projects on federal public lands and ensures permanent, dedicated funding of the beloved Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The bill, sponsored by Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) also received overwhelming support in the Senate on July 17 with a vote of 73 to 25. U.S. House Rep. Miller (R-WV) of West Virginia's third district that includes the iconic New and Gauley rivers joined Sen. Manchin in supporting the bill. U.S. House Reps. David McKinley (R-WV) and Alex Mooney (R-WV), representing the two northern districts of the state, voted in opposition.
Back to McKinley's correction: the congressman provides no reason for why he "mistakenly" voted "no." Did he confuse this bill with the one he co-sponsored? I doubt it -- he would have obviously voted "yes" on that bill. Was his name called too early in the process so as not to allow him time to reflect (or see how other Republicans were voting)? No, he would have voted midway through the process and by then, many his fellow Republicans had voted for the act. Finally, did he simply get confused? Hopefully not – this was a very straightforward piece of legislation. My thought is that McKinley thought that his "no" vote would go unnoticed or confused with the legislation he co-sponsored. When it didn't, it was time for damage control.
McKinley gets more credit where it isn't due
As I noted previously, McKinley's Facebook page suggested that he supported this act and yes, some of the commenters praised him for it. They were not the only ones deceived by our congressman: Becky Sullivan, who is executive director of the New River Gorge Convention and Visitor Bureau, also gave him credit in an article, "Investing in the mountains," by Steve Keenan in today's Beckley Register-Herald about the Great American Outdoors Act:
"We want to give our sincere thanks to Rep. (Carol) Miller and Rep. (David) McKinley for their support of the Great American Outdoors Act," Sullivan said in the release. "Our local economy depends on the tourism dollars that our park sites generate."
I'd be curious as to how she learned that McKinley supported the legislation.
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Sun appealed to the public to create a more inclusive and kinder environment for both minors and adult victims of sexual as
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e economics professor at the University of Maryland, argued that if societies don't conti
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amples show that a nation that tries to protect its indus
try from competition just ends up with inefficient industries and a left-behind economy.
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hina and Japan should jointly resist protectionism and uphold mul
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ns and supply chains," said Zeng, now chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. 上海夜网
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of the two countries to enhance regional cooperation and reach the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partn
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k. Their mobile phone was powered off and the grandparents lost contact with them on July 7.
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l's photos on Liang's WeChat Moments. He got suspicious when he found Liang deleting his WeChat Mo上海夜网品茶微信
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. At 10:20 pm, the two tenants appeared on surveillance video without the girl. At 11:01 pm, they took a taxi and left.
In the early morning of July 8, the corpses of the two tenants were found at Dong
qian Lake in Ningbo. The two were tied together by clothes, according to Metropolitan Express.上海夜网
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Liang, a Guangdong native, had left his hometown for 15 or 16 years. His relatives didn't know what he had been doing for t
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The body of the missing girl taken by two tenants in her home in Hangzhou was found
at sea in Shipu county, Ningbo, at around 3 pm on Saturday, Metropolitan Express reported.上海龙凤1314
A member of the search and rescue team said a person fishing at sea found the body near Yushan Island, 30 kilometers away from the girl's last known location.
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heaven. We don't have chance to be father and daughter in this life. I hope she will be my daug
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上海龙凤1314女神会所g province. The two tenants, surnamed Liang and Xie, took the girl away on the morning of July 4, saying they wo
uld attend a wedding ceremony in Shanghai. On July 7, they didn't return home as promised and lost contact with the family.上海龙凤1314
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The girl's resident card was found along the Xiangshan coastline in Ning
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an rescue teams have taken part in the search on the sea and nearby mountains.
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They arrived in Qingxi village from South China's Guangdong province in the middle of June and stayed in a 7 Days Inn for half a month.
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The girl's father, who works in North China's Tianjin, didn't agree when the grandp
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2019年7月11日 by weimiaow·Comments Off on atellite positioning prot上海夜网ou's historical bui
The precise satellite positioning program organized in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang provi
nce, targeting 364 historical buildings in the city's central area, was completed by the city's hi上海夜网女神会所
storical building protection center recently, Qianjiang Evening News reported.
By comparing and analyzing multiple satellite images, people can get a more comprehensive understanding of the historical buildings.上海夜网
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But now, these checks have been supplemented with precise satellite positioning, which enables remote mo
nitoring of the historical buildings and fills in the inspection blanks in time and space.上海夜网
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ey may look normal from the outside, but may have already been pulled down inside," said a staff member in charge. "B
上海夜网女神会所ut now they can be inspected through images from the satellite and any destructive behavior will be discovered."
The historical conditions of these buildings in geographical space can also be reviewed back in time via the satellite imagery '
'system, which can provide pictures dating back to the early days after the People's Republic of China was founded.
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from financially strapped families were subsidized for nearly 100 million times in 2018. Taking higher educa
tion as an example, subsidies were offered 43.88 million times last year, amounting to 115 billion yuan in total.上海乌托邦
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ate wealth reaching $23.6 trillion in 2018, a 130 percent surge over the previous year, ac
cording to Global Wealth Migration Review 2019, published by the research company New World Wealth.上海乌托邦
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s top 10 richest countries' private wealth accounted for 74 percent of global private wealth.
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A gilded silver wine rhyton in the form of an antelope's head demonstrate
s the aesthetics of the Sasanian Empire (224-651), located in today's Iran. A gilded bronze 上海会所
standing Buddha bearing strong Greek influences is believed to have originated in what is currently Kashmir.
上海会所Six ewers from the period reflect the common influences shared acros
s the different cultures along the Silk Road, and one of them, a 50-centimeter-tall gold
ewer, represents a tasteful blend of their styles. It is believed to have been made by the Sogdian people for a c 上海会所
ustomer looking for a piece that combined Tang, Sasanian and Central Asian influences.
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es found on the ewers can be seen in some of the silk pieces on display. Some similar images can also be found in Cave 158.
"They are closely related, but this is the first time that they can be seen together," he adds.
According to Huo Wei, an archaeology professor from Chengdu-based Sichuan Universit 上海会所
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ced by the dominance of Buddhism, and it tends to overshadow other aspects. Nowadays, we are starting to
understand the importance of the cultural exchanges that went beyond religion."
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ram put forward by the local government, covering information technology, artificial intelligence and biological medicine.
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re in the past six years. The number of visitors to the district is expected to hit 10 million in 2017, Mao said.上海楼凤品茶微信
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The cultural and creative companies can get stipends of up to 500,000 yuan, it said.
"Tianhe district is open and inclusive enough to develop the cultural and creative industry," Mao said.
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From the depths of a parent's worst nightmare, Theresa Malloy-Miller has emerged as a tireless advocate for the patient's voice in Canadian health care.
As one of Canada's original patient safety champions, Theresa Malloy-Miller is also a full-fledged member of a club that no-one wants to belong to.
It's a sad fact that most of this country's strongest voices for improved patient care draw strength for their advocacy from a frequently tragic personal experience with the health delivery system. Theresa is no different. She and her husband Tim took their 17-year-old son Daniel to a London, Ontario hospital in January 2003 with what they suspected was a severe case of the flu. Four days later their boy was dead. An autopsy confirmed myocarditis, a heart infection that can cause rapid onset of heart failure.
That hospital experience left the Millers reeling with shock and grief, but also confounded by a succession of missed signals, poor communication and medical mistakes they fervently believe reduced their son's chances of survival. The hospital stonewalled at first, but the couple's ongoing search for answers eventually culminated in the first patient safety conference ever held in London. It also opened the doors for Theresa to become one of the two patient advisors on the Quality and Patient Safety Committee and the Co-chair of the Patient Experience Committee. After numerous internal and external reviews of Daniel's death, hospital procedures were modified and communication guidelines strengthened. It took four years and a change in hospital administration, but the Millers finally received an apology. Daniel's story is still used at London Health Sciences Centre in staff education sessions.
Theresa was still burdened with a mother's grief in 2006 when she first heard, almost by accident, about a conference being held in Vancouver later that year to create Patients for Patient Safety Canada, a group of committed individuals charged with promoting the patient and family voice in the health care system.
"Daniel had passed away in 2003; it was three years later," Theresa recalls over the phone from her home in Delaware, Ontario. "You know, your life stops, you search, and I was at that point of needing to do something." She contacted one of the conference organizers, Ryan Sidorchuk, then Canada's first global patient safety champion who was selected for a multi-national summit with the World Health Organization's World Alliance for Patient Safety in London, England, in 2005. He invited her to attend the inaugural Vancouver meeting. Theresa did and she's been an active member of Patients for Patient Safety Canada ever since, working on quality control and the patient experience at her local level while spearheading research and knowledge transfer initiatives nationally.
"I was really reaching for something," she says of those early days. "I think when you lose a child it just turns your life upside down. So my life was nothing like what it was before anyway. It was in disarray. "I think Patients for Patient Safety brought me back to a more similar style of how I approach things. Always if I set a goal and I have a plan I'm comfortable in that space. It brought me probably to a more familiar place at a time when nothing was familiar." Working alongside other volunteers, many of whom had suffered similar adverse experiences, was a healing experience for her. "You can't move forward in patient safety by yourself. The task is too large. So being part of a group is just more effective. You get inspired by what other people are doing and the group opens up opportunities."
The patient safety work also gave her a way to channel some of the anger she was still carrying, Theresa adds, "absolutely. The anger is indescribable. Anger that I never envisioned could be possible. Certainly it gave Daniel a voice which was really important to me."
Ask her what the most encouraging development she's seen in health care over the last 10 years is and Theresa is quick to answer. "The central thing I see is the acceptance and the need for a patient family voice in health care. It is so central now in how health care is going to progress." Allowing that the person who has the health needs to be at the centre of the health care equation is just a dramatically different approach from the way it used to be", Theresa says. At the time of Dan's ER visits Theresa felt that their views and information were not considered. "We knew a lot about Daniel and all of the people who interacted with us never wanted to hear our view. And it was the crux of why it didn't work out. The only way forward in health care is for the person who has the health need to be at the centre of that circle."
If she had but one message to pass on to health care providers, it would be, "as people we all have health needs and we're all on the same team. There's only one team when it comes to health."
Unlike many of her patient safety counterparts who regularly weave their personal loss into their public advocacy work, Theresa stopped telling Daniel's story at patient forums a few years ago. It was just too difficult for her. Every time she revisited the story she'd need weeks to recover. But she has no doubt that Daniel, who was always a peacemaker among his friends, would be proud of the positive force for change that his mom has become. Theresa has recorded Dan's story in video form, a long version with her husband Tim and a shorter version with the help of CPSI. Both of these videos continue to be viewed.
Theresa has put her focus into contributing to patient safety issues. She is the chair of the Knowledge Transfer Working Group of PFPSC. This group of PFPSC members, with the help of CPSI staff and in partnership with the WHO, has been able to bring many topics related to patient safety to an international audience. At a local level, she brings a patient voice to hospital safety and quality projects and measures. As part of the hospital-based Patient Experience Committee, she is able to add input into hospital policies like disclosure and family visiting, as well as contribute to local patient safety education sessions. There are many ways to contribute to patient safety.
When Theresa reflects on what pushes her to continue to be involved in patient safety, Dan's voice comes to her quickly. "His favourite thing that he'd always say to me was, 'you are so annoying,' Theresa says, with a little laugh. "It's something that's stuck in my head. As much as I was devastated, at those really low points I would hear him say that. 'You are so annoying.' I think he would expect me to do something positive and not just sort of wallow in the pit." Being part of PFSC has provided Theresa with a positive meaningful and way to contribute to patient safety.