Kindergarteners have much homework because they are still malleable enough to learn fast and learn to enjoy learning. They have homework because they also need validation that they are doing a good thing and is making Mom and Dad proud and happy with their effort. Not perfect results, but effort.
I have a ten year old daughter that has just completed eighth grade math online through an accredited provider while she sat in her fourth grade classroom. When we saw she had an easy time learning arithmatic concepts, we started her on Kahn Academy learning and I took a look at the Common Core standards which were published on my states Department of Education pages. Kahn tracks well with the standards.
She has been introduced to basic statistics, column and row arrays, and dozens of tricks to estimate values and reality check her estimates. The online class demanded many pencil miles, but I stopped making her do every problem because I believe much grade school and middle school math is designed to make children hate math as much as their parents.
When the commenter above expressed outrage that 3x5 is five sets of three not three sets of five, he was imprinting a basic disrespect for the precision of order of operations. Yah, I know it doesn't matter in that problem, but the habit of thinking that way will serve in good stead not only when his son encounters linear algebra, but also when he is trying to understand legal documents or engage in basic communication with someone of the opposite gender.
Our challenge is finding teachers for elementary or middle school who understand where all this is going, as almost none of them have see linear algebra or approximations or other useful algebras. For what it's worth, I believe many folks are uncomfortable with math because they are uncomfortable with a language in which one may not lie and get away with it for long.
I'm a building official and can tell you that building regulations are prescriptive and at minimum standards for safety and longevity. The age of barely restrained building practices brought the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire and the events fictionalized in the novel "Christ in Concrete"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I hope the restraint my office provides keeps all of the residents and craft workers in my town safe and that their grandchildren will also be safe in a well maintained home or apartment.The "Nobody" who doesn't know what's going on hasn't done his homework and should not build. More likely he is feigning ignorance hoping someone with thew city or county will let him do less than the minimum in building that he might maximize his own profits and the public be damned. Of course I'm more than a little cynical from having developers and builders lie to my face day after day.
I had high deductible ACA insurance for two years. During that time, my little girl broke her arm and my wife had emergency appendectomy surgery. Yes I shelled out $4500 for each of them, but thaqt was far far less that the $12,000 ER bill for my daughter and the $44,000 ( no, really) for my wife. Yes, I was insured, but the high deductible kept me fropm using the system much. Great for my provider, easy money.
This seems as useful for refrigerators as Cortana is for a PC, which is to say,"Not at all." there is no description of what the features might do for the consumer, and the only real benefits listed above are for advertisers, much like Cortana. when I purchase one of these things, will I be required to pay for the bandwidth it uses? What about my IoT range, Washer,Dryer, hot water heater and microwave? What do I get? A shopping list with dry spices, fabric softener, dryer sheets and an add for a water softener which can tell me to buy salt? Unless some appliance maker can show me how I do better because something is connected, and enough better that I am compensated for the bandwidth I pay for, I will never buy a connected appliance.( I believe unconnected appliances will still be produced and sold in underdeveloped countries for the foreseeable future.)
I see this article as a confirmation that gravity is conserved. Since America is becoming more obese, all that mass gained has to be offset by loss elsewhere. More workouts= more Antarctic land ice !!?!
Please reread your source carefully. You might get more exposure downwind from a coal plant, but there are no large quantities of highly active waste which must be disposed of or stored for a many generations. I'm reminded of the assertion not long ago that nuclear electricity is the cheapest of all sources....as long as you don't burden the palnts with waste disposal costs etc. All the facts matter if we are to make good decisions..
Like the swallows to Capistrano and the buzzards to Hinckley, these sort of stories return every spring. We can't get enough good workers to fill the positions we have open...at substandard wages. So a welder somewhere is making 150K . How many welders left to do something less dangerous and more lucrative while companies were offering less than median incomes?
The construction industry is also whining about the labor shortage, but their complaint is about getting workers as skilled as the Russian and Mexican immigrants who will work for $10-15 per hour.
I weep huge tears for the poor company owners who " Built this themselves" who are trying to gin up a surplus of trained workers drive wages back down.
One other problem with the whole article is the notion that welders or plumbers or whatever skilled craftsman is in no way worth $150K so this must be a labor supply problem. Is there any non-emotional argument against a welder earning six figures?
The reprocessing canard has gone on long after plenty of information about it's future pitfalls has been in public record. See Here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energ...
"MOX is also three times as hot as spent uranium fuel, thanks to an accumulation of transuranic isotopes such as americium and curium, making it less fit for underground storage.
Therefore, according to a 2000 consensus report on reprocessing prepared for France’s prime minister, spent MOX must cool for 150 years( in a water pool) before it can go into an underground waste repository... "
A newer report :
http://fissilematerials.org/li...
says"Reprocessing has not led to a simplification or expedition of radioactive waste disposal;"..."France, which has the most extensive reprocessing and recycling program, does not
attempt to recover the plutonium from the spent MOX fuel. In effect, it has exchanged
the problem of managing spent fuel for the problem of managing spent MOX fuel, high
level waste from reprocessing, plutonium waste from plutonium recycle, and eventually
the waste from decommissioning its reprocessing and plutonium fuel fabrication
facilities."
As we are thinking about these issues and what the fire at WIPP means, we have no flip, easy answers. That doesn't mean the problems are insurrmountable, but we need to acknowledge their scope and work from reality.
My wife taught Historical Geology lab at the local University, and for last class had the students eat pizza and do an MST3K treatment of the Core. She thought it was pretty good as an example of how science can be suppressed by introducing emotional elements that make us slide down the brainstem. I thought it was a Homoerotic mess, but when they were launching the Inner Space vehicle and a girl said" Ribbed for her pleasure"...
Odd comment. Do You have Cable TV? I mean do you live in the US and have Cable? If so, then I'm sure you have seen the ads for Worlds greatest cat litter, made entirely from corn. If ethanol has caused higher food prices, what is letting cats defecate in our food going to do? Or is there really a surplus of corn?
None of this is simple.
It would be good to update your post above. the concerns mentioned have been difficult to overcome, but many of them have been . KL Energy, for example, has a cellulosic ethanol process, and appears to have shelved plans to build plants around the Black Hills of South Dakota intended to use Ponderosa pine slash as feedstock in favor of building a plant in Brazil and using sugar cane bagasse as feedstock. I suspect their location keeps most from hearing about them, but they have what looks like a good process.
* neither I nor anyone in my family work for KL nor am I acquainted with anyone on staff.
I have heard this argument for years and it is always made by someone relatively healthy with insurance. Your premise would suggest we might control disaster relief costs by insisting that victims carefully choose among relief providers or that we can control defense costs after an attack by questioning our military provider before we let them into combat.
If I'm looking at a provider while I'm healthy, I might be able to choose a less expensive provider, but when My wife miscarries and Hemorrhages, I'm not a smart consumer... and neither are you or anyone else. When you 3 year old cuts her knee, you don't call ahead to see if they will use dental floss instead of those hundred dollar sutures.
Some things are not susceptible to consumer pressure. We call them public utilities and ask government to regulate therm, or, in many cases, to provide them. Until there is some analog to the cellphone to compete with the present health care delivery system as cell service has with land lines, market forces are useless.
So, if we do away with all but catastrophic coverage and force folks to pay out of pocket, what happens? What would happen if we did that with car insurance. Only pay if your car is totaled?
We would see a lot more deferred maintainence and gradually fewer people driving and more rusting hulks on blocks n every yard because of a slow speed collision that disabled but did not total the car.In time, only the very rich would drive and there wouldn't be as many very rich as an economy based on mobility crashed.
I am somewhat describing the condition of the uninsured Americans who need, but don't seek, health care now.
All that said, this bill is an immoral giveaway to a parasitic industry that has shown itself far to morally challenged to deserve continued existence, let alone an infusion of government dollars as income.
This is interesting as a reply because we have been so often disappointed and wish something would pan out.
There is no hype here, and only an incremental step forward, so speculating about applications is foolish, but...
This looks like an application in places where vibrations are strongest such as Hydro sources and Natural gas power plants. Think of Niagra Falls using the ground vibrations to generate hydrogen in addition to electricity. Wave energy, small plants near rail yards and so forth come to mind.
Our problems with Hydrogen are more complex than cost of generation through electrolysis, but this might be a step.
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Kindergarteners have much homework because they are still malleable enough to learn fast and learn to enjoy learning. They have homework because they also need validation that they are doing a good thing and is making Mom and Dad proud and happy with their effort. Not perfect results, but effort.
I have a ten year old daughter that has just completed eighth grade math online through an accredited provider while she sat in her fourth grade classroom. When we saw she had an easy time learning arithmatic concepts, we started her on Kahn Academy learning and I took a look at the Common Core standards which were published on my states Department of Education pages. Kahn tracks well with the standards. She has been introduced to basic statistics, column and row arrays, and dozens of tricks to estimate values and reality check her estimates. The online class demanded many pencil miles, but I stopped making her do every problem because I believe much grade school and middle school math is designed to make children hate math as much as their parents. When the commenter above expressed outrage that 3x5 is five sets of three not three sets of five, he was imprinting a basic disrespect for the precision of order of operations. Yah, I know it doesn't matter in that problem, but the habit of thinking that way will serve in good stead not only when his son encounters linear algebra, but also when he is trying to understand legal documents or engage in basic communication with someone of the opposite gender. Our challenge is finding teachers for elementary or middle school who understand where all this is going, as almost none of them have see linear algebra or approximations or other useful algebras. For what it's worth, I believe many folks are uncomfortable with math because they are uncomfortable with a language in which one may not lie and get away with it for long.
I'm a building official and can tell you that building regulations are prescriptive and at minimum standards for safety and longevity. The age of barely restrained building practices brought the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire and the events fictionalized in the novel "Christ in Concrete" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I hope the restraint my office provides keeps all of the residents and craft workers in my town safe and that their grandchildren will also be safe in a well maintained home or apartment.The "Nobody" who doesn't know what's going on hasn't done his homework and should not build. More likely he is feigning ignorance hoping someone with thew city or county will let him do less than the minimum in building that he might maximize his own profits and the public be damned. Of course I'm more than a little cynical from having developers and builders lie to my face day after day.
I had high deductible ACA insurance for two years. During that time, my little girl broke her arm and my wife had emergency appendectomy surgery. Yes I shelled out $4500 for each of them, but thaqt was far far less that the $12,000 ER bill for my daughter and the $44,000 ( no, really) for my wife. Yes, I was insured, but the high deductible kept me fropm using the system much. Great for my provider, easy money.
This seems as useful for refrigerators as Cortana is for a PC, which is to say,"Not at all." there is no description of what the features might do for the consumer, and the only real benefits listed above are for advertisers, much like Cortana. when I purchase one of these things, will I be required to pay for the bandwidth it uses? What about my IoT range, Washer,Dryer, hot water heater and microwave? What do I get? A shopping list with dry spices, fabric softener, dryer sheets and an add for a water softener which can tell me to buy salt? Unless some appliance maker can show me how I do better because something is connected, and enough better that I am compensated for the bandwidth I pay for, I will never buy a connected appliance.( I believe unconnected appliances will still be produced and sold in underdeveloped countries for the foreseeable future.)
I see this article as a confirmation that gravity is conserved. Since America is becoming more obese, all that mass gained has to be offset by loss elsewhere. More workouts= more Antarctic land ice !!?!
Income Inequality?
Please reread your source carefully. You might get more exposure downwind from a coal plant, but there are no large quantities of highly active waste which must be disposed of or stored for a many generations. I'm reminded of the assertion not long ago that nuclear electricity is the cheapest of all sources....as long as you don't burden the palnts with waste disposal costs etc. All the facts matter if we are to make good decisions..
Like the swallows to Capistrano and the buzzards to Hinckley, these sort of stories return every spring. We can't get enough good workers to fill the positions we have open...at substandard wages. So a welder somewhere is making 150K . How many welders left to do something less dangerous and more lucrative while companies were offering less than median incomes? The construction industry is also whining about the labor shortage, but their complaint is about getting workers as skilled as the Russian and Mexican immigrants who will work for $10-15 per hour. I weep huge tears for the poor company owners who " Built this themselves" who are trying to gin up a surplus of trained workers drive wages back down. One other problem with the whole article is the notion that welders or plumbers or whatever skilled craftsman is in no way worth $150K so this must be a labor supply problem. Is there any non-emotional argument against a welder earning six figures?
The reprocessing canard has gone on long after plenty of information about it's future pitfalls has been in public record. See Here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energ... "MOX is also three times as hot as spent uranium fuel, thanks to an accumulation of transuranic isotopes such as americium and curium, making it less fit for underground storage. Therefore, according to a 2000 consensus report on reprocessing prepared for France’s prime minister, spent MOX must cool for 150 years( in a water pool) before it can go into an underground waste repository... " A newer report : http://fissilematerials.org/li... says"Reprocessing has not led to a simplification or expedition of radioactive waste disposal;"..."France, which has the most extensive reprocessing and recycling program, does not attempt to recover the plutonium from the spent MOX fuel. In effect, it has exchanged the problem of managing spent fuel for the problem of managing spent MOX fuel, high level waste from reprocessing, plutonium waste from plutonium recycle, and eventually the waste from decommissioning its reprocessing and plutonium fuel fabrication facilities." As we are thinking about these issues and what the fire at WIPP means, we have no flip, easy answers. That doesn't mean the problems are insurrmountable, but we need to acknowledge their scope and work from reality.
My wife taught Historical Geology lab at the local University, and for last class had the students eat pizza and do an MST3K treatment of the Core. She thought it was pretty good as an example of how science can be suppressed by introducing emotional elements that make us slide down the brainstem. I thought it was a Homoerotic mess, but when they were launching the Inner Space vehicle and a girl said" Ribbed for her pleasure"...
Odd comment. Do You have Cable TV? I mean do you live in the US and have Cable? If so, then I'm sure you have seen the ads for Worlds greatest cat litter, made entirely from corn. If ethanol has caused higher food prices, what is letting cats defecate in our food going to do? Or is there really a surplus of corn? None of this is simple.
It would be good to update your post above. the concerns mentioned have been difficult to overcome, but many of them have been . KL Energy, for example, has a cellulosic ethanol process, and appears to have shelved plans to build plants around the Black Hills of South Dakota intended to use Ponderosa pine slash as feedstock in favor of building a plant in Brazil and using sugar cane bagasse as feedstock. I suspect their location keeps most from hearing about them, but they have what looks like a good process. * neither I nor anyone in my family work for KL nor am I acquainted with anyone on staff.
I have heard this argument for years and it is always made by someone relatively healthy with insurance. Your premise would suggest we might control disaster relief costs by insisting that victims carefully choose among relief providers or that we can control defense costs after an attack by questioning our military provider before we let them into combat. If I'm looking at a provider while I'm healthy, I might be able to choose a less expensive provider, but when My wife miscarries and Hemorrhages, I'm not a smart consumer... and neither are you or anyone else. When you 3 year old cuts her knee, you don't call ahead to see if they will use dental floss instead of those hundred dollar sutures. Some things are not susceptible to consumer pressure. We call them public utilities and ask government to regulate therm, or, in many cases, to provide them. Until there is some analog to the cellphone to compete with the present health care delivery system as cell service has with land lines, market forces are useless. So, if we do away with all but catastrophic coverage and force folks to pay out of pocket, what happens? What would happen if we did that with car insurance. Only pay if your car is totaled? We would see a lot more deferred maintainence and gradually fewer people driving and more rusting hulks on blocks n every yard because of a slow speed collision that disabled but did not total the car.In time, only the very rich would drive and there wouldn't be as many very rich as an economy based on mobility crashed. I am somewhat describing the condition of the uninsured Americans who need, but don't seek, health care now. All that said, this bill is an immoral giveaway to a parasitic industry that has shown itself far to morally challenged to deserve continued existence, let alone an infusion of government dollars as income.
This is interesting as a reply because we have been so often disappointed and wish something would pan out. There is no hype here, and only an incremental step forward, so speculating about applications is foolish, but... This looks like an application in places where vibrations are strongest such as Hydro sources and Natural gas power plants. Think of Niagra Falls using the ground vibrations to generate hydrogen in addition to electricity. Wave energy, small plants near rail yards and so forth come to mind. Our problems with Hydrogen are more complex than cost of generation through electrolysis, but this might be a step.
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