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Flexible assessment practices: 4th Year Social Work Students develop ePortfolios for final assessment
By CIECT on November 13, 2013 | Leave a comment
Social Work lecturer, Anna-Marie Beytell, contacted the CIECT team to conduct an ePortfolio workshop for her fourth year students. Previously, Social Work students were required to complete and submit their paper-based teaching portfolios. After attending the staff ePortfolio workshop, Dr Beytell realised the affordances of the ePortfolio tool. Hence, Dr Beytell enhanced her conventional assessment practices with ePortfolios, reviewed by an external examiner.
In mid July 2013, sixty-one (61) Social Work students attended the ePortfolio workshop offered by CIECT. This workshop enabled students to:
Subsequent to the training, Dr. Beytell, requested that students develop their ePortfolios, highlighting their professional development within the field of Social Work. Students were expected to capture and collate evidence of their field work experiences.
Furthermore, the CIECT team offered ePortfolio support workshops which enabled the students to develop their final assessment task. The following support intervention were offered:
– Uploading evidence to Google Drive,
– Embedding video clips; audio-recordings; PowerPoint slides; and Word documents,
– Uploading evidence related to Exit Level Outcomes,
– Changing privacy settings; and
– Sharing the ePortfolio with the relevant stakeholders.
The ePortfolios were shared with the Social Work lecturer, and an external examiner for final assessment/examination purposes.
**It should be noted that this ePortfolio assessment task can be conducted anywhere; at any time; and place. The ePortfolio can continuously be updated and reviewed; and shared in ‘real time’ with peers; lecturers and prospective employers.
Digital Academic Literacy Programme: Infusion of ICTs across various Departments
By CIECT on November 8, 2013 | Leave a comment
The Centre for Innovative, Communication Technologies (CIECT) offers a Digital Academic Literacy (DAL) Programme to novice users (UWC undergraduate students).
Many of our students come from homes, schools and communities where computers have simply not been a part of their lives. Due to this challenge, the DAL programme offers basic ICT packages; and customised programmes as per Faculty requirements. The following Departments have integrated the DAL Programme:
• EMS (ALC111 and ALB131, Accounting 237, IFS 231 and IFS233)
• ARTS (Arts Foundation, Library and Information Science 121, INF221)
• Education (All first year students that registered for EDC101 and EDC111)
• Dentistry (Oral Hygiene and BCHD students)
• CHS (Physiotherapy, Sport science, Social work, School of Natural Medicine and Occupational Therapy)
• LAW (ILS111 and FLS111)
Following are comments from students related to the DAL Programme:
“I had Computer Applications Technology on school and doing the DAL course I’ve learned even more and did a few new stuff extra”.
“I finally know how to use Excel! This course has helped me a lot, i am very glad we had to attend these classes. I will use these skills every day, as well as for assignments”.
“I enjoyed this course and i have gained lot of information about it, and its now easy for me to understand computer”.
“I enjoyed the course it is has been a great help to me. Keep up the good work ”.


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Screening of Pride: Ruskin College, 16th Oct @ 6pm
To mark the end of the series of events at Ruskin which have celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1984-85 miner's strike, I've organised a screening of the hit film Pride for 16th October. The film unpicks the important role of the support group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in supporting the strike and local mining communities. On the night we will hear from Mike Jackson (one of the original founders of LGSM and now Secretary to the group) and Bridget Bell and the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. The event is free and all are welcome to attend the screening and contribute to the panel discussion afterwards. The event will fundraise, via donations, for the hardship fund for trade union students at Ruskin College.
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By CHARLES V. BAGLIJUNE 6, 2006
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Keith Bedford for The New York Times The Knickerbocker is only the latest item the royal family has picked up during a gold-plated shopping spree in Manhattan. Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai, the oil-rich Arab emirate on the Persian Gulf, has been eager to diversify his investments.Istithmar expects to close today on the $1.2 billion purchase of 280 Park Avenue, a 43-story, 1.2 million-square-foot skyscraper between 48th and 49th Streets. In the last eight months, it has closed on the 40-story tower at 450 Lexington Avenue at 45th Street for $600 million and the 34-story, gold-crowned building at 230 Park, between 45th and 46th Streets, for $705 million. Last year, a separate Dubai company bought the Essex House, an Art Deco hotel on Central Park South, for $440 million.
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Whatever one makes of their policies, there is no denying that the new 115th Congress is set to be historic. In many ways— from its myopic obsession with repealing Obamacare to claiming its “stolen seat” in the Supreme Court— it is one of outright reaction to the outgoing Democratic administration. After 6 years of grandstanding about the abuses of government and unprecedented obstruction, the anti-government coalition is now in control of the government itself.
But while the “new normal” brashly asserts its own self righteousness, often in 140 characters or less, something more sinister is lurking just beneath the surface. What the incoming administration appears ready to change is not just the content of politics in Washington, but the form. Far from Trump’s characteristically opaque promise to “drain the swamp”, what is emerging from the 115th Congress is instead a consensus so spiteful of its opposition that is trying to rewrite the very rules of engagement not just with the other party, but with the Civil Service itself.
What the incoming administration appears ready to change is not just the content of politics in Washington, but the form.
The attack began even before the 115th was sworn in. First, the Trump team circulated a 74-part questionnaire through the Energy Department seeking the names of any employee involved in ongoing efforts to combat Climate Change, whether through calculating its social costs or even simply attending international seminars discussing it. Similarly, they issued a one-page memo throughout the State department seeking to determine the scale of resources directed to any “existing programs and activities to promote gender equality”. Finally, they issued an immediate notice of termination for all politically appointed ambassadors without exception, leaving the United States without ambassadors to crucial allies like Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Alongside respecting personal differences, it appears the Trump team has no interest in upholding professional decorum.
Trump giving a speech at the Marriot Marquis, September 7th
But while the intensely partisan nature of the incoming administration has never been in doubt, the worst stunts were yet to come. Whether it was Trump’s choice of an evangelical crusader against public schools for education secretary, an oil executive with an opportunistic relationship with Russia at State, or Rick Perry for Energy, assuming he can remember its name, the spectacle of appointments sadly conforms to expectations.
What was really unprecedented occurred the day before the swearing in on the 3rd, when Republicans moved to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). The Committee, consisting of four Democrats and four Republicans, was formed in response to corruption from the 2008 crisis and became a thorn Republicans soon mulled pulling. Nonetheless, their swift reversal after Trump aired strong criticism of the move also suggests, as former Democratic staffer David Axelrod noted, the OCE stunt may have been little more than a “big, fat zeppelin” for Trump to deliberately shoot down.
Alongside professional distance, it appears the Trump team has no interest in upholding decorum.
But that same day another move, hidden beneath the zeppelin, also took place. This time, however, the move was not merely symbolic, and it faced fierce criticism. It involved the adoption of the Holman Rule into House procedure, an arcane 1876 House appropriations rule that has gone unadopted by Congresses since 1983, which enables legislators to surgically target the pay rate of individual civil servants or programs by simple majority.
Championed by “Freedom Caucus” Congressman Morgan Griffith as a way to cut spending, the real intent of adopting the Holman Rule is obvious. By granting themselves the power to target funding to specific programs and even individual employees within departments, Congressional Republicans achieve two things. First, they can directly channel resources within departments and even specific programs, and thereby erode their independence. Second, they can exert influence on the formal standing of prominent Federal employees, attacking those that disagree with Republican orthodoxy on climate change, environmental protections, and healthcare with extreme prejudice.
In attacking the independence of the federal government at the root, via the appropriations process, Republicans now have the ability to ensure that the Holman Rule either proves a weapon for administrative coercion or, should Democrats resist fiercely enough, that it simply becomes a powerful tool for gumming up the appropriations process. In any case, the inclusion of the rule into this years legislative cycle is an ominous sign to those already concerned with the petty authoritarianism of the President-elect.
As Republicans now gain the confidence to go back on the offensive, their penchant for majoritarian tactics is reflective of their wider distain for the comparatively modest reforms of the Obama era, and their desire to maximize their gains before the 2018 midterms. 2016 was widely regarded as a referendum on the Obama years, but it is better understood as the culmination of the steam engine of popular discontent with public institutions Republicans have been powering for nearly two decades. Midterms are rarely kind to the incumbent party, and with the President-elect entering office with historically low approval ratings, Republicans are aware that time is of the essence.
Bereft even of a figurehead on which to offload responsibility for the culture of dysfunction they have helped produce, the onus is now on Republicans to prove that they can represent the American people. Trump has made clear his desire to expunge all influence of Democratic control from his administration, alongside the economic, environmental, and social realities which bear an unacceptably Leftward bias. In so doing he has already proven a profoundly divisive figure, but his tactics are far from extraordinary compared to the mainstream of the Republican party.
Now a more philosophical question looms. Obama is to be denied a legacy at nearly any cost. This is taken as given.
But with these opening moves, what will Trump’s legacy be?
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01/10/2017 at 02:43
OMG – shades of McCarthyism – if not overt fascism. God help us ALL.
I fear that the election of this short-sighted and corporate-capitalism-focused regime marks the end of America as we know it, and that many will not survive the domino effect of the actions of this incoming administration. Literally.
Either way – there are limits to what we can do about it now. It’s ON!
But please, God, don’t let DeVoss end up as Secretary of Education. Did you see Diane Ravitch’s press release re: same? The comments on her blog posting are worth reading too.
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01/10/2017 at 02:45
I have not seen Diane Ratvich’s press release, although the NYT article I linked into my reference of her was scary enough for me.
Go to her blog – it is well-reasoned though strongly stated, as it makes one aware of some truly frightening implications, should DeVoss end up in charge of our public schools.
Meanwhile, I’ll check out the NYT article as soon as my heart can take another scare.
01/10/2017 at 04:06
After reading the NYT article, I came back to reread yours again and I’m now ready to pull the covers up over my head or hide under the bed for the next four years. Jumping around the internet, I am further terrified by the number of blogs and bloggers who are still posting in support of Republican lies put forth about Clinton and Obama, further fanning his flames of hatred.
This is a situation more frightening to me than the Cuban Missile Crises (and I was in Florida!) Although still a child at the time, my father was in a leadership position with our space program, so I believe I was aware of the implications more than many children my age – during and following.
Looking back, I can touch that potential horror at the other end of my life, and my fear is greater still that the “heart” of this administration portends NOTHING good for our nation or the world, and that the end they will be responsible for creating through the actions they envision will be neither just nor swift.
01/13/2017 at 00:06
Madelyn, For some reason I’m encouraged lately that Trump won’t make it a year or two before impeachment or something. That funny feeling (blind hope) is in my gut 🙂
01/13/2017 at 00:18
I hope he’ll just lose interest and step down – I doubt that the Republicans in charge would ever go along with impeachment.
01/13/2017 at 00:24
Well some of the top Repub leaders paid to get dirt on him.
01/13/2017 at 00:35
Maybe the checks and balances system will work after all. One can only hope.

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September 1, 2013	Multiple Intelligences – (Vu Thi Thao k33 Spa)
Hello everyone! My name is Vu Thi
I am joining the PELT course in this semester. I discover many interesting and helpful things about this course. Today, I want to share something that I learned recently: “Multiple Intelligences” (MS).
Howard Gardner initially formulated a list of seven intelligences. The first two have been typically valued in schools; the next three are usually associated with the arts; and the final two are what Howard Gardner called ‘personal intelligences’ (Gardner 1999: 41-43). There are seven kinds of intelligences which have been identified by Gardner: Linguistic, Logical-mathematical, Musical, Bodily-kinesthetic, Spatial/ Visual, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal intelligence.
Normally, each of us has some types of these intelligences. In addition, there are the differences in form among individuals, and student can acquire knowledge effectively by many diverse ways. Therefore, it is important that teacher need to indentify the patterns of intelligences in their student. Teacher should take advantage the strengths to help student get knowledge better.
Firstly, teacher can observe children in an English class and classify their student’s strong points through a MIs test. This step is essential for teacher in finding an optimal method of teaching. If the majority of student in class have the capacity for visuality and music, teacher use songs and pictures as the useful tool to introduce new knowledge. Teaching vocabulary by pictures and sounds is a sensible suggestion.
Secondly, although student may be good at some factors, teacher shouldn’t tend to encourage only student’s strength without care other things. The intelligence of children is not a constant which can be changed by training. Thus, teacher shouldn’t miss a chance to help children gain the full development. Changes in learning methods will give student time to discover and improve their ability what they didn’t realize. For example, when teacher want to introduce a text in new lesson, they can show a video which contains information of the text. They ask student to see this video and then do some tasks. These tasks often relate to the use of other elements to do like mathematical ability, visual intelligence.
Lastly, to sum up, I think that there is no method for perfection. The suitable way to teaching English effectively is base on teacher’s understanding about student that will be helpful for teacher in constructing the plan of teaching. Does MIs theory mean anything to you?
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2 thoughts on “Multiple Intelligences – (Vu Thi Thao k33 Spa)”	hoangsen says:	November 3, 2013 at 1:51 am	Hi Thao
thanks for your writing. After reading your writing I have some comments for you. Firstly from your writing I realize that the children have a lot of intelligences, So being a teacher it is very important for me to know how my childen owe which intelligences, which plays an important in teaching my students.What are the reasons for this? In fact, if I know my students are good which intelligences I should encourage them to develop this intelligences.and according to the period of development of children I should have suitable strategies to teach my them.Another one is that I should have combine various methods during the process of teaching, I should not only use one method to teacher because there are a lot of children in the class and each person has different intelligences. If I only use a method I can’t help children to develop their ability. Your writing is good but I think you should analyse children’s brain and mutiple choice intelligence in more details. I think this suggestion is useful for you. Thank for your posting
Reply	loveagain92 says:	November 3, 2013 at 7:03 pm	Hello Thao, I’m Lien. I have just read your post about multiple intelligences after passing it a long time. It makes me recall many things that will be very useful for me in teaching. I want to say that it’s very good point of you to give information with the quotation of its author. This helps your writings more persuasively.
As you said that each of us has many kinds of intelligences. Therefore, if the teachers can indentify what field their students are good at, the success of studying will be improved. We can observe the students or have students take part in Mls test. However, I think just observing student to find out what they’re excellent at is not enough. Because as you know, each student has their own intelligence. Some are obvious but some are hidden. It’s the reason why I strongly recommend that teachers should have their students join in a variety of activities so that they can discover what they are good at. Then, there should be a combination between the multiple intelligences so that students can have a complete development.
That’s just dome of my points that I want to add to your writing to make it more details. Once again, Thank you very much for your meaningful sharing !


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Sandcastles: Fellowshipping, a lost art?
I remember my parents having friends from church over after church for dinner or a snack if it was after the evening service. My sister and I would watch late movies on Saturday or Sunday evening with our friends while our parents chatted. This was a good way to mentor our younger friends and encourage our peers. I miss that. We seem to be too busy with our lives like Martha when Jesus visited. We forget to be like Mary when our fellow Christians are available.
A friend called me up last week to see if she could come over to share a frozen latte, she knew I was laid off and wanted to encourage me. It made me feel valuable that she would want to come over to fellowship, to help mentor me and nurture our friendship. My mother would often have her friends over for coffee, I normally work so I have little time to do this, but I'm going to be better at this. Maybe if we all do better we will see each other as more caring and nurturing; and who knows maybe fellow shipping will make a comeback!


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When God Winks on New Beginnings: Signposts of Encouragement for Fresh Starts and Second Chances by Squire Rushnell, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
The best is yet to be. . ."GodWinks" are the so-called circumstances andthat are delivered directly to you, one of nearly seven-billion people on the planet, at particularly needed moments in your life. Like the wink you received from a loved one as a child that meant, "Hey, kid, I'm thinking of you right now," . . . GodWinks are messages of encouragement
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The best is yet to be. . ."GodWinks" are the so-called circumstances andthat are delivered directly to you, one of nearly seven-billion people on the planet, at particularly needed moments in your life. Like the wink you received from a loved one as a child that meant, "Hey, kid, I'm thinking of you right now," . . . GodWinks are messages of encouragement from above.With more incredible-but-true stories about how God communicates with us througheverday circumstances,SQuire Rushnell delivers another powerful book geared toward people at a crossroads in life—a time when these winks are most needed!
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When GOD winks on NEW BEGINNINGS Signposts of Encouragement for Fresh Starts and Second Chances By Squire Rushnell Thomas Nelson Copyright © 2009 SQuire Rushnell All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4041-8696-5 Chapter One WHICH ROAD TO TAKE? When I'm experiencing a fresh start in my own life, when I'm sorting through the options of what's needed to reach my desired destination, my first step is always this: pray. It may sound like a simple exercise, but I've found that when I ask God for enlightenment about which route to take or what preparations I need to make, He always provides signs-godwinks-along the way, reassuring me that I'm on course. Mindful that my ultimate purpose is to serve Him, I also ask for the divine placement of people and circumstances along my journey to help me get where I'm going. Surely we all encounter hurdles and pass through valleys of disappointment. Each of us will be tested-whether with financial challenges, medical emergencies, closed doors, or family issues. I know of no one who isn't! But I can honestly tell you this: God has never let me down. Through faith and the patience He gave me, I have reached just about every destination I've set out for. So can you. Many of the most successful people I've met or read about had inklings about where they wanted to go in life at an early age, and a lingering desireburned in their hearts even until long after they had reached their goals. Tiger Woods, one of the world's top golfers, wanted to play golf starting at the age of five. By the age of ten, my wonderful wife Louise DuArt, one of the world's top comedic impressionists, saw herself as a star on stage. Howard Jonas, founder of the large long-distance company IDT Communications, was a preteen entrepreneur. Cheryl McKay was also one of those early determiners. In kindergarten, no less ... Cheryl: Signs of Destiny At the age of five, Cheryl demonstrated a love for writing. By the time she was a teenager, Cheryl paid special attention to the actors' dialogue in every film and TV program she saw. One particular ABC Afterschool Special so impressed her that she figured out how to get in touch with the writer/director, a woman named Susan Rohrer. "How do I do what you do?" Cheryl boldly asked. "Go to a place like Regent," Rohrer replied, explaining that she was currently employed by a production company housed on the campus of Regent University. But soon after, Cheryl's laser-sharp focus on writing was suspended by another interest she wanted to explore-acting. Both fields seemed exciting to her, and she needed to figure out which road to take. She and a future actress-of-note Ali Hillis performed in The Children's Theatre, an ensemble company in their hometown of Charlotte, and wowed audiences with a singing duet. After that, Ali was encouraged to pursue acting as a career, while Cheryl-dismissed from a subsequent theater program-received a different message. "Getting kicked out was my confirmation that I was meant to be a writer," concluded Cheryl. Cheryl went on to graduate from high school at age fifteen, do her undergraduate studies at a trio of colleges in the South, and eventually follow Susan Rohrer's counsel: She went to Regent University's School of Communication and the Arts for graduate study. "I applied for an internship with Susan. She didn't take me on right away, but when she did, a lifelong mentoring relationship began between us." Cheryl always wondered about those coincidences that she'd later come to call godwinks. She thought, Are they God's way of communicating with us? A significant godwink occurred when, after college, she returned home to Charlotte and raised enough money to shoot one of the scripts she'd written at Regent. "Most days, I had two crew members on set, including me, and I supervised a fifty-member cast of actors and extras," she says, acknowledging the audacity of her statement. One of her extras was a girl named Kasey Eldridge. "You should meet my dad, Rick," said Kasey. "He produces movies and kids' specials." Little did Cheryl know then how prophetic Kasey's statement was. After finishing her shoot, Cheryl went on to save up enough money to follow her dream-to go to Los Angeles and begin a career as a screenwriter. It was then that her godwink was finally fulfilled. "I had just arrived in L.A. when I got a call from Rick Eldridge's Charlotte-based production company The Film Foundry." They had a writing opportunity for the audio series Wild & Wacky Totally True Bible Stories that they were producing for publisher Thomas Nelson, and they wanted her for the job! "I had taken a leap of faith to go to Los Angeles, and everything fell into place," she says with amazement. "I found an apartment and got a writing job in my first week." Remaining in Los Angeles, Cheryl worked with Eldridge's company off and on over the next few years when another opportunity emerged. Eldridge acquired the rights to a book by Jim Stovall called The Ultimate Gift. During one of their conversations, Eldridge asked Cheryl if she, among other writers up for consideration, would like to pitch for the project. She did. And she thought she did well by keeping the heart and soul in the script and suggesting a love interest for the principal actor. But Eldridge ultimately chose another writer. Cheryl was disappointed, but she also began to understand that all career pursuits are going to produce a certain number of rejections. And when they happen, it's simply time to reposition your attitude and your actions, be glad for the lessons you've learned, and keep moving forward with enthusiasm. Nine months later Cheryl was suddenly called home to Charlotte. Her dad required immediate heart surgery. As her concern mounted, Cheryl e-mailed everyone in her address book asking them to pray for him. Not only did God see her dad through heart surgery, but Cheryl learned that her prayer request had produced an additional blessing: One person on her e-mail list was producer Rick Eldridge. It was an auspicious time. Eldridge was reconsidering his script options for The Ultimate Gift. By divine alignment, Cheryl's e-mail arrived just in time to jog his memory of her heartfelt approach to the drama. It also made him aware that, at that very moment, Cheryl was right there in Charlotte. He called to see if she could come in for a meeting. Skipping on air, Cheryl returned to Los Angeles as a screenwriter. Eldridge had given her the chance to write her first produced movie, which also meant she had earned a coveted pass to membership in the Writers Guild of America. One night, halfway through writing the film, Cheryl awoke from an odd dream. "I dreamed that the movie starred my childhood friend Ali Hillis. That puzzled me." Cheryl wrote down the dream, which was her habit, suspecting that God uses dreams as one of many means to communicate with us. Exactly one year after Cheryl got the nod to write the movie, she was invited to the set for the filming. And as a sweet outcome, the feature was being shot not in Boston, as portrayed in the book, but in Charlotte. Can you imagine the thrill? Cheryl's very first movie, filmed in her own hometown?! To top this off, she arrived on the set to find a director's chair bearing her name, placed next to other chairs with such famous names as James Garner, Brian Dennehey, and Abigail Breslin. "Who did you cast for Alexia?" Cheryl asked Rick, revealing her favoritism for the mother of a critically ill child, a character not found in the original book but one she had created for the screenplay. Rick replied by saying they had hired a terrific actress who had starred in the film Must Love Dogs and who was the runner-up for the lead in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. Her name was Ali Hillis. The statement took her breath away! What a major godwink! If Cheryl McKay ever received a heavenly confirmation that she was on the right track with her destined purpose in life, that was it. The two old friends welcomed each other and rekindled the friendship that had started years before during their performances at The Children's Theater of Charlotte. Hugging each other on the set, Cheryl underscored the obvious. "I had to go to Hollywood to make it in Charlotte," she said with self-deprecating humor. It's fair to say that if Cheryl McKay had not started her life with a road map marked by signposts revealing the true passions of her heart-if she had not been absorbed with writing starting in childhood-she would not be where she is today. She'd be where most people are who have no idea where they want to go ... after driving around in circles, they're sitting right where they started. If you are facing a crossroads and feeling uncertain of your journey-it doesn't matter whether you're in high school or commencing retirement-know that it is never too late to begin mapping the course to your dreams. Today ... right now ... is the time to start charting a concrete path of pursuit. So ... let me ask you. What do you want to be when you grow up? Assessing What You Were Born With Some of you were born into homes of comfort and affluence. People might look at you and say, "Boy, were you lucky! You didn't have to struggle like the rest of us." But this latter group may actually feel sorry for you. After all, if you've never known want, if your parents gave you everything you needed-food, clothing, medical attention, schooling, and nearly every toy you wanted-you may have a disadvantage. You only need to study the number of highly successful people who have risen from backgrounds of difficulty to clearly see that it was their struggles that made them stronger. Many of you will identify with a kid named Tommy Harken who had a hard time in school and an even harder time in life. But, if you're like me, you'll be flabbergasted by what he made of it.... Tom: Yes, Someone's Watching The first time I heard of Tom Harken was when he stepped up to a microphone at an awards banquet I was attending in Washington, D.C. It was the annual Horatio Alger Awards that recognizes ten Americans who have lifted themselves up by their underprivileged bootstraps and pressed on to a place of honor and achievement in our society. Many of the other recipients were familiar names: Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State; Wayne Huizenga, the founder of Blockbuster Video; Maya Angelou, the wonderful poet. But the name Tom Harken ... that was brand-new to me. Little did I know, it was a name I would not forget. "I can't believe I'm here," said Tom, his eyes apprehensively panning a room of one thousand luminaries ready to hang onto every word. "I'm just a guy who peddles tacos." Everyone laughed. Moments later, these same people would be struggling with golf-ball-sized lumps in their throats and eyes that became uncontrollably misty. Even as a kid, blond towheaded Tommy Harken had an engaging smile, and his handshake was like a young man's. "Before I was six, I was welcome in the kitchen of every house on the block and knew every kid and canine in the neighborhood," he recalls. But a confident exterior can hide a soft interior. It hurt when others called him "stupid." "I was painfully aware of being slower than the rest of my class." Unlike kids today who learn numbers and letters on Sesame Street, Tom didn't have that advantage. His folks didn't have a TV, which was in its infancy when he was young. Besides, he was a kid long before those kinds of educational programs had even started. "Learning disabilities were virtually unheard of in those days. Children were considered smart or dumb," says Tom, "and I had a tendency to gaze out the window while the other kids learned their ABCs." Other than shooting baskets, what he did best was talking to people ... like the customers in his dad's tiny grocery store. That, and getting into mischief. If he could have only figured out how to get graded on monkey business, he'd have had straight As. Tommy, his older brother, and his two younger sisters grew up in a simple house on a small lake in Michigan; the town was called Lakeview and his street could have been the set for Leave It to Beaver, the homey TV series. His mom and dad were similar to those quintessential TV parents too. They loved each other and weren't afraid to display it. And they taught Tommy and his siblings that God was always watching over them and that when they pray, God hears them. But when he was only eight, Tommy's budding faith was about to be severely tested. His life was about to go into a tailspin.... He was feeling tired. At first, his folks thought he might be dreaming up a way to get out of going to school. But, when his breathing became labored, the doctor sadly recognized the signs of an epidemic sweeping the country at the time: It was the terrible disease called polio that killed or paralyzed children. Doctors couldn't tell if the disease was contagious ... how it started ... or how to get over it. The only solution was isolation. At a hospital seventy miles from home. "They tried every treatment you could think of," says Tom, "but I kept getting worse, and people in the isolation ward were dying left and right. I was struggling to just take a breath, so they put me into an iron lung-big tank that looks like something out of an old science fiction movie. I lay there on my back with just my head sticking out, while mechanical bellows forced oxygen into my lungs." He was captive in the iron lung for months. With only a small mirror reflecting his own little face to keep him company, he was consumed by thoughts that he was about to die. There were nurses who occasionally entered the room wearing masks, but he could tell they really didn't want to be there. Fearful they might catch what he had, they weren't likely to stop and chat. They would just come in, officiously look him over, and leave. Is God really watching over me? Tom wondered again and again. Why would God want to do this to a little kid? He prayed anyway, the prayers of a lonely child: "Please, God, just get me out of here. I'll be good from now on. I promise to do what my parents tell me to do." One night Tommy got sick. He threw up. Lying on his back, he struggled, but couldn't get his hands out of the iron lung to wipe his face. He was afraid to call a nurse, certain that he was a bother to them. So he just lay there, all night, in his own vomit. The next morning the doctor was making his rounds. Wearing a surgical mask, a white cap, and a long white coat, he bent over Tommy. His eyes filled with concern. "Tommy, what happened to you?" "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it," stammered Tommy. "You didn't do anything wrong, son. My goodness, didn't anyone come to help you?" "I didn't want to bother anyone." The doctor pulled off his mask and, as best he could, used it as a towel to wipe Tommy's face. He pulled Tommy from the iron lung, then sat with him on the floor, just holding him tightly, deeply pained that the nursing staff had neglected this child. Into Tommy's ear he whispered, "Tommy, I want you to know that God loves you. Even when you wonder about God, He's there, He's watching over you, He's protecting you. Keep your faith, Tommy. Keep your faith." As the doctor rocked slowly, Tommy felt safe. It was a comfort that he had not felt for a long time. The hugs of that caring doctor prompted feelings that he carried inside him from that day forward. And that experience, as terrible as it was at the time, was a godwink-a clear answer to a little boy's prayers-and a few days later Tommy's breathing became better. His hope was beginning to rise. Before he knew it, he was in the backseat of the car as his mom and dad took him home. It was an indescribable thrill. For years, when thinking back on that day, he could still relive the joy he felt while driving home, the joy of watching the treetops, the houses, the people they passed along the way. He was out of prison at last. Out of isolation. (Continues...) Excerpted from When GOD winks on NEW BEGINNINGS by Squire Rushnell Copyright © 2009 by SQuire Rushnell. 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SQuire Rushnell, a former television president and CEO, was an executive with the ABC Television Network for twenty years. He was a creator of such programs for young people as Schoolhouse Rock and the ABC Afterschool Specials, which together won seventy-five Emmys. He also led Good Morning America to the number-one spot and is the author of a book series started by the word-of-mouth phenomenon When God Winks.

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“Daddy Cereal” Oatmeal | Roz's Scrumptious Recipes
“Daddy Cereal” Oatmeal
Posted on June 20, 2010 by rozmena
When I was a little kid, my daddy made us oatmeal for breakfast so often that we called oatmeal “Daddy Cereal.” I’m posting this on Father’s Day in his memory.
These days I make oatmeal for my family. We only like the regular kind, not the quick oats, which taste mushy. (We really dislike the flavored packaged stuff, which is overly sweet and tastes artificial.) Oatmeal really does lower cholesterol, so if you need to keep yours down, it is a delicious choice.
I mix the cinnamon and raisins with the water and oats, which adds a natural sweetness. 1/8 cup raisins per person is 70 calories.
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Boil, then cook for 5 minutes on medium flame, stirring often. When it’s done, add maybe a teaspoon of maple syrup if you want it a bit sweeter. Serve with milk (or soy milk for a vegan version.) I like to add walnuts to the oatmeal. It adds a delicious crunch as well as extra protein for making it through the morning.
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Having the same Dad as Roz, I absolutely considered Daddy cereal to be the best!


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Patent US7542345 - Multi-bit memory cell having electrically floating body transistor, and ... - Google Patents
There are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions, for example, multi-bit memory cell and circuitry and techniques for reading, writing and/or operating a multi-bit memory cell (and memory cell array having a plurality of such memory cells) having...http://www.google.com/patents/US7542345?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7542345 - Multi-bit memory cell having electrically floating body transistor, and method of programming and reading same
Publication number US7542345 B2
Application number US 11/703,429
Also published as EP1987520A2, EP1987520A4, US20070187775, WO2007098044A2, WO2007098044A3, WO2007098044A8
Publication number 11703429, 703429, US 7542345 B2, US 7542345B2, US-B2-7542345, US7542345 B2, US7542345B2
Inventors Serguei Okhonin, Eric Carman, Mark-Eric Jones
Patent Citations (102), Non-Patent Citations (73), Referenced by (185), Classifications (13), Legal Events (8)
US 7542345 B2
There are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions, for example, multi-bit memory cell and circuitry and techniques for reading, writing and/or operating a multi-bit memory cell (and memory cell array having a plurality of such memory cells) having one or more electrically floating body transistors in which an electrical charge is stored in the body region of the electrically floating body transistor. The multi-bit memory cell stores more than one data bit (for example, two, three, four, five, six, etc.) and/or more than two data states (for example, three, four, five, six, etc. data or logic states. Notably, the memory cell array may comprise a portion of an integrated circuit device, for example, logic device (for example, a microprocessor) or a portion of a memory device (for example, a discrete memory).
25. The integrated circuit device of claim 16 wherein the data sense circuitry includes means for sensing the data state of the plurality of memory cells.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/774,275, entitled “Multilevel Memory Cell and Method for Programming and Reading Same”, filed Feb. 16, 2006; the contents of this provisional application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present inventions relate to a multi-bit memory cell, array, architecture and device, and techniques for reading, controlling and/or operating such cell and device; and more particularly, in one aspect, to a semiconductor dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) cell, array, architecture and/or device wherein the multi-bit memory cell includes a transistor having an electrically floating body in which an electrical charge is stored.
When memory cell 12 is implemented in a memory cell array configuration, it may be advantageous to implement a “holding” operation for certain memory cells 12 when programming one or more other memory cells 12 of the memory cell array to enhance the data retention characteristics of such certain memory cells 12. The transistor 14 of memory cell 12 may be placed in a “holding” state vial application of control signals (having predetermined voltages) that are applied to gate 16 and source region 20 and drain region 22 of transistor 14 of memory cell 12. In combination, such control signals provide, cause and/or induce majority carrier accumulation in an area that is close to the interface between gate dielectric 32 and electrically floating body region 18. (See, FIG. 9). In this embodiment, it may be preferable to apply a negative voltage to gate 16 where transistor 14 is an N-channel type transistor.
With continued reference to FIGS. 11 and 12, in this exemplary embodiment of the '188 application, control signals having predetermined amplitudes may be applied to memory cells 12 b and 12 c to write or program logic state “0” therein. In this exemplary embodiment, the source pulse may be applied to source region 20 of memory cells 12 b and 12 c before the gate pulse is applied to gate 16 of memory cells 12 b and 12 c, or simultaneously thereto, or after the gate pulse is applied to gate 16 of memory cells 12 b and 12 c. In this exemplary embodiment, a drain pulse (0.5V amplitude in this example) is applied to drain regions 22 of memory cells 12 b and 12 d to prevent, prohibit, limit and/or retard a bipolar current (if any) from causing or generating a sufficient charge in the floating body region of memory cells 12 b and 12 c to program or write a logic state “1” into memory cells 12 b and 12 c. The drain pulse may be characterized as a “blocking” pulse.
In the '188 application, the memory cell in many embodiments is described as having two memory or data states: the high-conductive “1” state and low-conductive “0” state. Under these circumstances, the memory cell capacity is one bit per cell. In one aspect, the present inventions may store more than one bit per cell (i.e., more than two states in each memory cell). The present inventions, in other aspects, are directed to a combination of the programming/reading methods, which allow storage of multiple bits of data and/or reading of memory cells containing same.
FIG. 16 illustrates exemplary timing relationships of selected write control signals to (i) program or write a logic state “0” into an N-channel type transistor comprising the multi-bit memory cell, (ii) program or write logic state “1”, “2”, or “3”, etc. into an N-channel type transistor comprising the multi-bit memory cell, and (iii) read one or more N-channel type memory cells according to an embodiment of the present inventions;
FIG. 17 illustrates exemplary timing relationships of selected write control signals to (i) program or write a logic state “0” into an N-channel type transistor comprising the multi-bit memory cell, (ii) program or write logic state “1”, “2”, or “3”, etc. into an N-channel type transistor comprising the multi-bit memory cell, and (iii) read one or more N-channel type memory cells according to another embodiment of the present inventions;
FIG. 18 illustrates exemplary timing relationships of selected write control signals to (i) program or write a logic state “0” into an N-channel type transistor comprising the multi-bit memory cell, (ii) program or write logic state “1”, “2”, or “3”, etc. into an N-channel type transistor comprising the multi-bit memory cell, and (iii) read one or more N-channel type transistors comprising the memory cells according to another embodiment of the present inventions;
At the outset, it should be noted that there are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions. The present inventions are directed to multi-bit memory cell and circuitry and techniques for reading, writing and/or operating a multi-bit memory cell (and memory cell array having a plurality of such memory cells as well as an integrated circuit device including a memory cell array) having one or more electrically floating body transistors in which an electrical charge is stored in the body region of the electrically floating body transistor. The multi-bit memory cell stores more than one data bit (for example, two, three, four, five, six, etc.) and/or more than two data states (for example, three, four, five, six, etc. data or logic states). (Compare FIGS. 14 and 15). The techniques of the present inventions may employ intrinsic bipolar transistor currents to control, write and/or read a data state in such a memory cell. In this regard, the present inventions may employ the intrinsic bipolar transistor current to control, write and/or read a data state in/of the electrically floating body transistor of the memory cell.
The present inventions employ aspects of the control, write and/or read described and illustrated in the '188 application. For example, with reference to FIG. 6, in one embodiment, electrically floating body transistor 14 controlled according to the present inventions may be schematically illustrated as including a MOS transistor “component” and an intrinsic bipolar transistor “component”. In one aspect, the present inventions employ the intrinsic bipolar transistor “component” to program/write as well as read memory cell 12. In this regard, the intrinsic bipolar transistor generates and/or produces a bipolar transistor current which is employed to program/write the data state in memory cell 12 and read the data state of memory cell 12. The contents of the '188 application are incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
With reference to FIGS. 15 and 16 in one aspect, the present inventions describe a method to program/write data or logic states “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, etc. In this embodiment, the memory cell may be programmed to one of more than two data states by applying a control signals having predetermined voltage amplitudes to the gate (via the associated word line 28 i), the source region (via the associated word line 30 i) and drain region 22 (via the associated bit line 32 j). In response, an intrinsic bipolar transistor current or band-to-band tunneling may write or program a data state in the electrically floating body transistor of the memory cell. Here, majority carriers may be added to, stored in or removed from the electrically floating body region of the transistor of the memory cell. In this embodiment, the memory cell may be programmed to one of more than two data states by applying a predetermined voltage V1 to the gate of the transistor of a predetermined memory cell. The amplitude of voltage V1, in this embodiment, defines the amount of the majority carriers stored in the electrically floating body region of the transistor of the memory cell. As noted above, the data or logic state is determined by the amount of the majority carriers stored in the storage node (for example, the floating body region) of the transistor which impacts the current read from the memory cell in response to read control signals during a read operation.
In particular, with reference to FIGS. 16, 17, 18 and 19, the data state stored in a selected memory cell may be read, determined, sampled and/or sensed by applying control signals having predetermined voltage amplitudes to the gate and the source region and the drain region of the transistor (for example, Vg=−0.5v, Vs=3v and Vd=0v, respectively). Such control signals, in combination, induce and/or cause a bipolar transistor current of a certain magnitude in a transistor. The bipolar transistor current is associated with a particular logic state. (See, FIG. 19). Moreover, the bipolar transistor current may be considerably larger than a channel current which is generated in response to the read operation control signals. As such, data write and sense circuitry (for example, an n-bit analog-to-digital converter (where “n” may be equal to the number of bits stored in the memory cell; notably “n” may or may not be an integer) and/or a plurality of cross-coupled sense amplifiers), senses the data state using primarily and/or based substantially on the bipolar transistor current (the sense circuitry may be coupled to the transistor (for example, drain region via the associated bit line) of the memory cell). Notably, for those memory cells that are programmed to logic “0”, the read operation control signals induce, cause and/or produce little to no bipolar transistor current (for example, a considerable, substantial or sufficiently measurable bipolar transistor current).
(7) U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 11/453,594, which was filed by Okhonin et al. on Jun. 15, 2006 and entitled “Method for Reading a Memory Cell Having an Electrically Floating Body Transistor, and Memory Cell and Array Implementing Same” (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2007/0023833);
For example, the data stored in or written into memory cells 12 of DRAM array/device 10 may be read using well known circuitry and techniques (whether conventional or not), including those described in the above-referenced nine (9) U.S. patent applications. The present inventions may also employ read circuitry and techniques like that described and illustrated in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/840,902, which was filed by Portmann et al. on May 7, 2004, and entitled “Reference Current Generator, and Method of Programming, Adjusting and/or Operating Same” (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,912,150).
In addition, the present inventions may employ the read operation techniques like that described and illustrated in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/515,667, which was filed by Bauser on Sep. 5, 2006, and entitled “Method and Circuitry to Generate a Reference Current for Reading a Memory Cell, and Device Implementing Same”. The entire contents of the U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/515,667 are incorporated herein by reference.
For example, with reference to FIGS. 20C, 20D and 20E, the integrated circuit device may include array 10, having a plurality of memory cells 12, data write and sense circuitry, and memory cell selection and control circuitry. The data write and sense circuitry reads data from and writes data to selected memory cells 12. In one embodiment, data write and sense circuitry includes analog-to-digital converter circuitry. (See, FIGS. 20C and 20D). In this regard, the analog-to-digital converter circuitry may include an n-bit analog-to-digital converter (where “n” may be equal to the number of bits stored in the memory cell).
In another embodiment, data write and sense circuitry includes a plurality of data sense amplifiers.(FIGS. 20C and 20E) Each data sense amplifier receives at least one bit line 32 and an output of reference generator circuitry (for example, a current or voltage reference signal). In one embodiment, the data sense amplifier may be a plurality of cross-coupled type sense amplifiers like the cross-coupled type sense amplifier described and illustrated in the Non-Provisional U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/299,590 (U.S. Patent Application Publication US 2006/0126374), filed by Waller and Carman, on Dec. 12, 2005, and entitled “Sense Amplifier Circuitry and Architecture to Write Data into and/or Read Data from Memory Cells”, the application being incorporated herein by reference in its entirety) to sense the data state stored in memory cell 12 and/or write-back data into memory cell 12.
It should be further noted that while each memory cell 12 in the exemplary embodiments (described above) includes one transistor 14, memory cell 12 may include a plurality of transistors (including one or more transistors having an electrically floating body region to store a charge which is representative of a data state). For example, the memory cell may employ two or more transistors, wherein each transistor includes an electrically floating body region to store a charge (for example, majority carriers in the storage node—i.e., the floating body region of the memory cell) that is representative of more than two states, for example, three states in each transistor. (See, for example, FIG. 21A wherein the memory cell in this exemplary embodiment is comprised of two transistors each capable of storing three states). The data or logic state of the memory cell is determined by the “combination” of the states of all the transistors. Thus, in this embodiment, the multi-bit memory cell is comprised of two or more transistors that each are capable of storing three, four, five or more data or logic states wherein the data or logic state of the memory cell is determined by the combination of the states of all of the transistors. (See, for example, FIGS. 21A-21C and U.S. application Ser. No. 10/829,877, which was filed by Ferrant et al. on Apr. 22, 2004 and entitled “Semiconductor Memory Cell, Array, Architecture and Device, and Method of Operating Same” (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2005/0013163, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,085,153, which is incorporated by reference herein)).
Further, the memory arrays may be comprised of N-channel, P-channel and/or both types of transistors, as well as partially depleted and/or fully depleted type transistors. For example, circuitry that is peripheral to the memory array (for example, sense amplifiers or comparators, row and column address decoders, as well as line drivers (not illustrated herein)) may include fully depleted type transistors (whether P-channel and/or N-channel type). Alternatively, such circuitry may include partially depleted type transistors (whether P-channel and/or N-channel type). There are many techniques to integrate both partially depleted and/or fully depleted type transistors on the same substrate (see, for example, U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 10/487,157, which was filed by Fazan et al. on Feb. 18, 2004 and entitled “Semiconductor Device” (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0238890)). All such techniques, whether now known or later developed, are intended to fall within the scope of the present inventions.
The encoding and/or decoding circuitry (for example, a state machine, discrete logic (for example, CMOS logic), and/or PGA) may be “on-chip” (i.e., on the same substrate as, for example, memory array 10) or “off-chip” (i.e., on a different substrate as, for example, memory array 10). Indeed, there are many different types and configurations of encoding and decoding circuitry that may be employed; all such circuitry (whether now known or later developed) are intended to fall within the scope of the present invention.
As noted above, there are many different types of encoding/decoding techniques that may be employed. For example, in one embodiment, sense circuitry may include a plurality of sense amplifiers which, in response to an input, output two signals. A first output signal may be designated as “L” (i.e. the charge in the memory cell is greater than a threshold value defining the difference between the least-charged state and the middle state) and a second output signal may be designed as “M” (i.e., the charge in the memory cell is greater than a threshold value defining the difference between the middle state and the most-charged state). Thus, the state table for sensing the three states of the memory cell may be characterized as:
Least charged state L = 0, M = 0
Middle charged state L = 1, M = 0
Most charged state L = 1, M = 1
RD2=(LA.LB)+(LA.NOT(MB))
RD1=MA+(LA.LB)
RD0=MA+(LB.NOT(MB))
LA, MA are the output signals L and M of the sense amplifiers from one memory cell of the associated memory cells, and
LB, MB are the output signals L and M of the sense amplifiers from the second memory cell of the associated memory cells.
The output signals may be logically combined using, for example, a microprocessor, microcontroller, state machine, discrete logic (for example, CMOS logic), and/or PGA; indeed, any circuitry whether now known or later developed is intended to fall within the scope of the present invention.
Further, data write circuitry may include three sets of input control signals. The first set of input signals may be designated as “Z” (i.e., a signal to store the least-charged state in the memory cell), the second set of input signals may be designated as “S” (i.e., a signal to store the middle-charged state in the memory cell), and the third set of input signal may be designated as “H” (i.e., a signal to store the most-charged state in the memory cell). Thus, the state table for writing the three states of the memory cell may be characterized as:
Least charged state Z = 1, S = 0, H = 0
Middle charged state Z = 0, S = 1, H = 0
Most charged state Z = 0, S = 0, H = 1
HA=WD1.WD0
SA=WD2+(WD1.WD0)
ZA=NOT(WD2).NOT(WD1.WD0)
HB=WD1.NOT(WD0)
SB=(WD1+WD0).(WD2+NOT(WD1.WD0))
ZB=NOT(WD1+WD0).(NOT(WD2)+WD1.WD0)
ZA, SA, HA are the write control signals Z, S and H for one of the memory cells of the pair; and
ZB, SB, HB are the write control signals Z, S and H for the second memory cell of the associated memory cells.
Notably, the encoding and/or decoding techniques described herein may be implemented in conjunction with any memory cell technology, whether now known or later developed. For example, the memory cells may include one or more electrically floating body transistors, one transistor-one capacitor architecture, electrically floating gate transistors, junction field effect transistors (often referred to as JFETs), or any other memory/transistor technology whether now known or later developed. All such memory technologies are intended to fall within the scope of the present inventions.
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Back in the next timeHello DAs,after a long time of being offline from the deviantart site, I will be back in the next time.I had a lot of work to do on my job, especially all around the xmas time, and no ideas to make new photos.I have found a new band to play in my free time. The band called: Tenpenny. We're on the way to make our first songs.It's a classical line up with Drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals...for playing some Rocksongs.And I will post some new photos, maybe on April or May, when the weather is going fine again.So please stay tune QBit71 × Back in the next time by QBit71,
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Journals / Personal Hello DAs,after a long time of being offline from the deviantart site, I will be back in the next time.I had a lot of work to do on my job, especially all around the xmas time, and no ideas to make new photos.I have found a new band to play in my free time. The band called: Tenpenny. We're on the way to make our first songs.It's a classical line up with Drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals...for playing some Rocksongs.And I will post some new photos, maybe on April or May, when the weather is going fine again.So please stay tune QBit71 10 Comments
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Journey By Starlight: Light of my Life (and almost every other living thing)
Light of my Life (and almost every other living thing)
Of course, wherever life came from there wouldn’t be much point in being alive if it wasn’t for us.
“That’s a bit dramatic isn’t it Albert?”
I mean us as light coming from a star, rather than you and me. Nearly every living thing on earth depends on the light from its nearest star, the sun.
Well I would have said all life until I read that deep in the oceans there are bacteria that live around vents in the ocean floor where hot volcanic water and gas bubble up. They live off the chemical hydrogen sulphide that comes out of these vents. So they are living off chemical energy not light energy and strange giant worms live off them. Mind you, as hydrogen sulphide has the smell of rotten eggs and is just as poisonous as hydrogen cyanide to most life forms, you can hardly call it living.
“Hold on Albert, the rotten egg smell chemical is also in stink bombs isn’t it? It can’t be that poisonous?”
It really is that poisonous, it’s just that it is so smelly that it only takes a miniscule amount to make a good stink. Even 600 molecules of hydrogen sulphide for every million molecules of air could kill you and at that concentration your sense of smell is paralysed so you can’t even smell it. So all in all I’d rather not live near one of the underwater vents. For all rest of life on earth sunlight is the power source. Plants trap the energy from light and with the gas CO2 from the atmosphere and water make sugars.
"But humans don't eat sunlight."
No, but they do eat plants that grow using the sugars they make out of sunlight. Even pure meat eaters like lions eat other animals, that might eat other animals, that might eat even smaller animals, but at some stage the smallest forms of life are ether green or eat something green.
“How do plants use sunlight if we can’t?”
The process that plants use to trap the energy from the sun into a chemical form is called photosynthesis, literally making things (the ‘synthesis’ bit) out of light (the ‘photo’ bit). A special molecule called chlorophyll captures photons and uses the energy to make water and CO2 stick together to make sugars and other more complicated molecules. This pigment is green which is why plants are green. The sugars can be converted into all the other things that plants are made of. In potato plants all the excess sugar that is manufactured in the leaves and other green parts of the potato plant is moved underground and stored as starch.
“So a potato is like bottled sunshine.”
That’s right and french fries are deep fried sunshine. When you eat a potato, you release the energy trapped in the sugar and turn sugars back into water and carbon dioxide.
"If animals reverse the process that makes sugar by photosynthesis, why don't they glow when they eat vegetables?"
What a great thought, but animals don't exactly reverse photosynthesis. If they did they would have to give back all the energy as light and so wouldn’t be any better off. Instead they have their own specialised pigments that break down sugar back into water and carbon dioxide but trap the released the energy in the form of a chemical called ATP (adenosine triphosphate) which is the energy currency used in cells. This whole process is called metabolism. The idea that animals might glow when eating is not as odd an idea as it seems. Some bacteria and fungi that live by digesting dead plants and animals do actually glow as they eat. Rotting wood or meat infested with certain bugs can give off a faint bluish light.
"What about fireflies, they glow don't they?"
Yes but when they're mating, not when they are eating. Animals like fireflies have evolved such amazing tricks to produce light that it leaves you wondering how evolution alone could have done it. Fireflies mate at night and use flashes of light to attract one another. Each species of firefly has its own code of flashes so that they can avoid an embarrassing meeting in the dark with the wrong sort of firefly.
“So light is important for reproduction too?”
Of course, light helps you to find food, avoid predators and to attract or even find a mate. The beautiful plumage of birds is only there to be seen by potential mates. Most humans choose clothes because of how they look in them. If there was no light, evolution wouldn't have evolved eyes and no-one would care what they looked like. So photons drive the entire fashion industry. Of course some animals live where there is no light or very little light and so they have little vision. There’s an old saying ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, and if there is no-one to do the beholding (or seeing) then why should evolution bother to make you beautiful? This is probably why you don't see many beautiful moles, bats or deep sea fishes. But apart from these creatures that live in very dark places, nearly all animals from the very simplest can react to light. Not all can ‘see’ as you might understand it, but even tiny microscopic organisms can detect light and move towards or away from it.
"So what do you need to be able to see?"
An eye, a brain and a bit of light. A fancy eye is useless if it is attached to a brain the size of a pinhead and any eye is useless if you live somewhere without light. Simple animals only need simple eyes because they are too dumb to need anything better. The simplest eye of all is something that can just tell light from dark, what’s called a light receptor. Next step up is an eye that can tell which direction light is coming from. Simple creatures like flies have compound eyes made up of lots of receptor cells that can tell light from dark. Each receptor points in a different direction so that the pattern of light can be used to see what things are and where they are.
“What about our eyes?”
Human eyes have evolved to a spectacular level of precision. But before you get too proud of your own visual apparatus, you should know that some animals can see things that you can't see. Birds like hawks and eagles can see better than humans. When lunch depends on spotting a mouse while hovering at a hundred feet, good eyesight becomes essential. Lunch for many humans seems to involve reading the label on a sandwich and then guiding it towards the mouth. Not too challenging after all. In many ways it is surprising that humans can see as well as we do. But then, there is more to life than finding the next meal. Seeing better than humans is one thing, but some animals can see the invisible.
“How can you see the invisible? That doesn’t make any sense.”
This might seem impossible until you realise that invisible only means invisible to humans. It's just one of the many perks of being the dominant life form on the planet. You get to name everything and decide what is and isn’t invisible. Bees can see into the ultraviolet spectrum. Ultraviolet is where light gets bluer and bluer and after that seems to disappear. Some flowers, which look boring and white to us, are spectacular in ultraviolet light. Bees might be rather impressed if they knew that humans could ‘see’ red light that was invisible to them. Some snakes, like vipers can see even redder light than humans, what humans call the infrared. This allows vipers to see in the dark. They perform this neat trick with special pits next to their mouths. Handy for vipers, but I don’t suppose the mice they eat are that impressed.
"So are we infrared or ultraviolet or what type of light?"
We’re good old fashioned visible type of light.
“So will we be seen?”
Perhaps, if anyone is looking this way when we finally reach earth in the next few minutes. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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albert2.0 said...
How did eyes evolve in the first place?
if bacteria or something didnt know light existed,
why would they have evolved eyes to start with?
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category theory - Do pullbacks commute with filtered limits in this sense? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Let $A_n, B_n, C_n$ be directed systems in some abelian category. Denote by $A \times_C B$ the fibre product of $A$ and $B$ over $C$.
Is it true that $(\varprojlim A_n) \times_{\varprojlim C_n} (\varprojlim B_n) = \varprojlim (A_n \times_{C_n} B_n)$, if $\varprojlim (A_n \rightarrow C_n)= (A \rightarrow C)$ and similarly for $B$?
I know that "morally" limits preserve limits, but I don't know the exact statement I need here (i.e. limits in which categories?)
Edit: Analogously, what can we say after replacing filtered limits with filtered colimits? Edit2: I think in the case of filtered colimits, I just checked the universal property of a colimit. In case I didn't make a mistake, the statement holds. The other case (filtered limits), and arbitrary colimits/limits are not as important for my purposes, but if you have a nice statement, please feel free to post it.
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$\begingroup$ Limits commute with limits in the sense you suggest (always). The story about limits and colimits is more complicated. $\endgroup$ – Zhen Lin May 24 '14 at 22:17
$\begingroup$ Filtered colimits commute with finite limits in $\text{Set}$ and in categories that are sufficiently similar to $\text{Set}$. $\endgroup$ – Qiaochu Yuan May 24 '14 at 22:58
$\begingroup$ @Qiaochu Yuan Are categories of modules over rings sufficiently similar to $Set$? Also, I'd be happy to see a reference? Is there a statement in MacLane? Thank you! $\endgroup$ – user110071 May 24 '14 at 23:31
$\begingroup$ @user: yes. Any category of models of a Lawvere theory works. I don't know a reference; the statement for $\text{Set}$ at least should be somewhere in Borceux. See qchu.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/… for some details (I don't quite prove this statement but it can be inferred from things I do prove if you believe the statement for $\text{Set}$). $\endgroup$ – Qiaochu Yuan May 24 '14 at 23:38
Limits always commute with limits. Here is a precise statement. Let $J_1, J_2$ be two diagram categories and let $F : J_1 \times J_2 \to C$ be a diagram in a category $C$. Then whenever the limits
$$\lim_{j_1 \in J_1} \lim_{j_2 \in J_2} F(j_1, j_2)$$
$$\lim_{j_2 \in J_2} \lim_{j_1 \in J_1} F(j_1, j_2)$$
exist, they are canonically isomorphic because they are both canonically isomorphic to the limit $\lim_{(j_1, j_2) \in J_1 \times J_2} F(j_1, j_2)$ of $F$ itself. For a discussion see Section 2.12 in Borceux. (To be totally precise, those inner limits are taking place in the category of functors $J_1 \to C$ resp. the category of functors $J_2 \to C$, but limits in functor categories are always computed pointwise so I think the abuse of notation is forgivable. You can think of this as a statement about adjoints composing.)
The description of when limits commute with colimits is more complicated. Perhaps the most important case is that filtered colimits always commute with finite limits in $\text{Set}$, and hence in any category $C$ equipped with a faithful functor $U : C \to \text{Set}$ preserving and reflecting filtered colimits and finite limits; in particular, categories of modules have this property. For a discussion see Section 2.13 in Borceux.
The corresponding statement for arbitrary abelian categories is false; in particular, there's no reason for it to be true in $\text{Ab}^{op}$. To write down a counterexample in $\text{Ab}^{op}$ means to find an example where cofiltered limits fail to commute with pushouts in $\text{Ab}$; as a special case this means to find an example where cofiltered limits fail to commute with cokernels.
Here is an explicit counterexample. Consider the cofiltered diagram of morphisms $p^n \mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}$ where $p$ is some prime. The cofiltered limit of the cokernels is the $p$-adic integers $\mathbb{Z}_p$, but the cokernel of the cofiltered limit is $\mathbb{Z}$ (the cofiltered limit itself is $\mathbb{Z} \xrightarrow{0} \mathbb{Z}$).
This phenomenon implies in particular that the cofiltered limit fails to be exact in general, and in some situations this means one has to take its derived functor, often denoted $\lim^1$.
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$\begingroup$ Borceux actually does not prove the first statement in the way I suggest, so here is the proof I have in mind: recall that taking limits of a diagram of shape $J$ is (pointwise) right adjoint to the diagonal functor $C \to C^J$. The diagonal functor $C \to C^{J_1 \times J_2}$ factors in two ways, first through $C^{J_1}$ and second through $C^{J_2}$. Now use the fact that adjoints compose. $\endgroup$ – Qiaochu Yuan May 25 '14 at 16:23
Elementary proof that the category of modules is not self-dual
Canonical arrow between $\varinjlim _C \varprojlim _D F(C,D)\rightarrow \varprojlim_D \varinjlim _CF(C,D)$ in $\mathsf{Set}$
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Introducing a blind cat and a playful kitten
I am currently fostering Alex, a two year old cat who was left completely blind after a car accident about two months ago. He has only recently left the vet clinic but is already quite well adjusted and fairly confident around the house where he's allowed to roam.
In the meantime, I am caring for a kitten that was (mostly) abandoned by its feral mother (she sometimes visits to eat) outside my building. The kitten must be two months old or possibly older (can't know). The kitten is only allowed in the house when I can supervise, otherwise he is either outside or in another room. He does not spend nights inside.
I've been trying to get them to socialise but I'm not sure that I'm making the right progress. I've taken it very slowly, starting out with a few minutes of them being around each other at a time, and building up gradually over the last couple of weeks. Since the kitten is outside my building, I can't keep him indoors and do the whole "play through the door" thing regularly - though we've done that, it ended with hissing. The best I've achieved so far is to get them to take turns playing with the same toy (mouse and bell on a string) and that was going great until the older cat performed a small but angry attack against the kitten. The kitten hit back. Some more hissing ensued, then they both retreated.
Can I have advice from anyone who's had to deal with a similar situation? Or any thoughts on whether this latest one was a positive encounter? I don't want to give up but I'm becoming impatient.
cats behavior introducing-pets sight disability
One technique that may be helpful to you is swapping bedding. Cats really pay attention to scents, and a blind cat will only do so more. If you take the cat bed, towel or whatever the cats sleep on and swap them, the cats will get used to the scent of the other cat, which will mean less stress when they meet. You will still need to supervise interactions as well, though. The length of time for cats to adjust depends on the cats but in general younger cats adapt faster than old cats. I have a couple cats that have gone from mortal enemies to tolerating each other, and this took over a year. – Mark Ripley May 6 at 8:25
Yes I've been doing scent swapping too! Mostly with toys though so far. Will try it with bedding soon too. I do expect the blind cat to need more time, and I'm only fostering him at the moment, but if I don't end up keeping him I hope this experience with the kitten might open up more adoption possibilities for him. – Theo May 6 at 19:27
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