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One thing is for certain: education will never disappear. I think it will just take up different forms. Children will be equipped with different devices and they will have more opportunities to learn. Technology will facilitate opportunities for remote self-learning, and the most amazing part is that it will allow everybody, everywhere in the world to have access to education.
Technology will facilitate opportunities for remote self-learning… It will allow everybody, everywhere in the world to have access to education.
Technology and coding are the new languages of tomorrow. Virtual reality can already make learning truly immersive. 3D printing is allowing children to bring their ideas to life. Machine learning is making learning adaptive and personalized. Artificial intelligence can create new ways of learning! We will focus more and more on soft skills, such as empathy, passion, ethics, critical thinking, persistence, imagination, experiences, curiosity, storytelling, entrepreneurship, and more. I hope we will be able to provide all children with an education through which they can believe in their abilities, regardless of their conditions and circumstances. An education that makes them excited about the world!
Amélie Jézabel Mariage is a co-founder of Aprendices Visuales and advocates for children rights to access inclusive education in Spain and around the world. Aprendices Visuales is an award winning tech non-profit whose use the power of visual learning to teach children.
The family of a Trader Joe’s assistant manager who was fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer during a gun battle with a fleeing suspect outside the store in Silver Lake filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and two LAPD officers on Thursday.
In their suit, Salvador Albert Corado and Albert Corado Jr., the father and brother, respectively, of manager Melyda “Mely” Corado, allege civil rights violations, battery, excessive force, negligence, infliction of emotional distress, failure to adequately train officers and conspiracy to cover up misconduct.
John Taylor, an attorney for the Corados, said the family sued because the Police Department has not provided the family with all of the video it has of the shooting.
Corado’s father said his family has not even gotten access to his daughter’s autopsy.
“We have been stuck in a time capsule of pain and distress,” he said.
The slain woman’s brother said he spoke with LAPD Chief Michel Moore the day after his sister died and Moore said the police would provide more answers. But that hasn’t happened, he said.
“We have had nothing but empty gestures and empty words from the LAPD and Chief Moore,” Albert Corado Jr. said at a news conference.
Corado was fatally shot on July 21 after two police officers pursued a man suspected of shooting his grandmother in South Los Angeles and taking a young woman hostage.
Gene Evin Atkins led the officers on a lengthy car chase with the hostage in his grandmother’s car, officials said. The chase ended at the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s on Hyperion Avenue, where he stopped the car ran toward the store, which was crowded with Saturday afternoon shoppers.
As he dashed toward the store, Atkins shot at officers, who returned fire as he ran inside the store. One of the officer’s bullets struck Corado, killing her.
Atkins was also wounded in the arm, but he held shoppers and employees hostage inside the store for three hours before surrendering.
Atkins, 28, has been charged with 51 felony counts, including murder, kidnapping, premeditated attempted murder and attempted murder of a peace officer. Under California law, Atkins is considered criminally responsible for Corado’s death.
The LAPD has released video and audio clips in two batches to comply with a new policy requiring recordings to be made public within 45 days of shootings by police officers. Moore released the first video just days after the shooting. It showed the pursuit with shots fired by Atkins and the gunfight outside the grocery store.
The edited releases, like others under the policy, include voiceover commentary by Los Angeles Police Department officials and are stitched together from footage that includes body cam and dash cam recordings and 911 calls. The editing has been criticized by the Corado family’s attorneys and others as attempting to shape the story favorably for the LAPD.
Josh Rubenstein, a spokesman for the LAPD, has previously said the department cannot comment on pending litigation but continues to express sympathy for the Corado family.
Rubenstein asserted that all videos have been released publicly and they capture the moments when the two police officers, Sinlen Tse and Sarah Winans, fired their weapons.
But Taylor disputed Rubenstein’s statement, pointing out that video has not been released from LAPD officers who pulled up to the scene as the shooting was happening.
Additional videos, including those from the body cameras of other officers at the scene during the hostage standoff, have not been released.
Experts say the circumstances of the shootout gave officers limited options.
Charles “Sid” Heal, a retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s commander and expert on law enforcement shootings, said the video reflects the realities of the life-and-death decisions officers face when a suspect fires at them in a public place.
Heal, a former SWAT supervisor, said Atkins could have entered the store and shot those inside.
Members of Hambleton District Council’s Planning Committee were due to meet today to decide whether to allow Newby Wiske Hall, near Northallerton, to become a children’s holiday centre.
But after being told residents had not had access to certain key documents relating to the meeting, officials decided to delay the meeting until May 29.
“We have listened to what local people have told us about not having had sufficient time to consider the documents and feel that the best way forward to ensure that the planning committee is able to make a sound decision is to delay this meeting,” said Deputy Chief Executive, Mick Jewitt.
Members of Newby Wiske Action Group (NWAG), which was last year awarded legal costs against the district council over flawed planning procedures, said while it had published the officer’s report on one section of its website, the overwhelming majority of residents had been unable to find it as it was not published on the planning portal section.
NWAG member David Stockport said: “This is exactly a repeat of one of the issues that we took to judicial review after the last time the plan was considered. It is incompetent.
Are We Entering the Photovoltaic Energy Era?
The outlines of a global market for solar-generated electricity are beginning to emerge.
An industry that has long been little more than a dream for governments, environmental activists and other strategists hoping to find ways to curb global warming blossomed into worldwide reality last year. Nations from all regions reported to the International Energy Agency for the first time that their markets for what is known as photovoltaic energy were growing.
According to a “snapshot” of this spurt of activity released by the Paris-based agency, nations in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia reported the world market for “PV,” as it’s commonly called, is setting a variety of records. It grew by 25 percent in 2015 as the price for solar panels, the basic unit needed to make electricity, continues a stunning eight-year drop.
PV energy is a stream of moving electrons captured when sunlight excites certain materials. The main one being produced is polysilicon, which is primarily composed of silicon crystals. The phenomenon was first observed and experimented with by scientists in Bell Laboratories in the United States in 1953, and its development was pioneered in U.S. military and space programs to provide power for space satellites during the 1960s.
As the nation reached for the moon, it also began to develop domestic uses for PV, but for over 50 years, solar energy remained too expensive for widespread use. It made only a tiny dent in the United States, where conventional electricity was relatively cheap.
Since 2008, the price of solar panels has dropped almost 80 percent, and the main reason for that, according to the IEA, is China. For three years, it has led the world in manufacturing and exporting ever-cheaper solar panels. At the same time, its domestic market shot up from the minor leagues of solar buyers to pass Germany as the world’s leading market for installed solar capacity in 2015.
The swiftly plummeting prices, which some experts have dubbed the “solar coaster,” were not a good thing for companies that were not prepared for it. Some large U.S. panel manufacturers have been pushed into bankruptcy, and others appear to be heading in that direction, judging from the dramatic plunge in their stock prices. According to U.S. Department of Energy experts and reports, the remaining two large American panel makers are now outsold by at least six Chinese competitors. China produces 40 percent of the world’s panels versus 20 percent by U.S. companies, and it is continuing to expand its lead. Meanwhile, the world’s solar market is generally regarded to have grown into a $100-billion-a-year business.
According to Wilson, the United States will have to set policies to push innovation to stay in the rough-and-tumble PV market.
PVs, Wilson asserts, will usher in an era of cheaper, cleaner energy that will be used for powering and even heating our homes; powering electric cars; and splitting hydrogen out of water that serves as a feedstock for making synthetic fuels for cars, trucks and airplanes.
“We see a lot of opportunities in front of us, but we seem slow or even paralyzed when it comes to acting on them. We have not always been this way,” he said.
The mathematics have long shown that solar power is the Earth’s most abundant energy resource. What is new is that the economics of making it into electricity have improved to the point where it is beginning to attract bigger buyers as the price for silicon panels falls.
In the United States, for example, electric utilities are now the nation’s largest customers for solar panels, constituting 60 percent of the market that was, until recently, dominated by homeowners and commercial buyers of rooftop solar installations.
Because utility-scale systems can be installed at lower costs when compared with commercial or residential systems, the price of solar-generated electricity by utilities is now close to competitive with conventional sources in some locations.
David Mooney, director of strategic energy analysis for DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said a swan dive from $20 a watt for an installed solar panel to under $2 has made it happen.
The Electric Power Research Institute, which works for the nation’s utilities, has tracked the emerging solar technology for over 40 years, but recently its work has expended to helping utilities understand the best ways to buy and get a better grasp on how to operate utility-scale solar power plants, according to Michael Bolen, a senior technical leader at EPRI.
For years, Bolen noted, U.S. utilities have been forced by some state regulators and federal legislation to buy solar power or to accept it when a homeowner or a solar company begins generating power in its area. Pressured by environmental groups, many states passed renewable energy portfolio standards requiring varying levels of renewable energy. A federal law, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), passed in 1978, requires utilities to buy solar power if the resulting electricity was cheaper than what they could generate, giving some producers a toehold in the market, especially in California.
“That was usually done with ‘thou shalt’ language,” according to Bolen, who said many utilities were less than excited about it. What’s new is that utilities are beginning to own and run their own solar sites to make a profit.
“Now it’s more, how can we take solar and put it into the generation mix and into the rate base in some form or fashion?” he said.
J. Charles Smith, an engineer, has been in the middle of this race. Five times a year, he convenes a national group to teach and share more experiences with generating and selling renewable energy. His group started 26 years ago as the Utility Wind Interest Group, but in 2013, as more power producers got interested in solar energy, it changed its name to the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group and is developing a new focus on producing and selling solar energy.
The group has over 200 members; two-thirds of them are from utilities, mainly the nation’s larger ones. “It’s a quickly changing world out there, and it is a shock to a lot of utilities. They’re traditionally very conservative, very slow-moving organizations, and probably rightfully so. Their job is to run a reliable, economic power system, not to join the latest and greatest of technologies there,” Smith explains.
“But the pace of the development of this technology is so fast, it’s taken the country and the world by storm,” he adds. The lines between companies in the utility industry are blurring. Many smaller utilities are not yet aware of the competitive threat of solar power. But some have become painfully aware of it because some larger utilities are forming unregulated subsidiaries that are free to use the PURPA law to invade other utilities’ territories. There, they can produce solar electricity and force the local utility to take it because it’s cheaper.
After many years of political hype and billions of dollars of government subsidies, the idea of a solar renaissance has earned its share of skeptics. As late as 2008, David Keith, who teaches applied physics at Harvard University, was one of them. He had seen installed capacity of solar panels rise, but the costs of the panels had not dropped appreciably.
He was fairly sure that generous government subsidies would simply freeze the technology where it stood, keep solar-to-electricity efficiency rates low, and prevent future breakthroughs that he was sure would be needed to reach the scale where solar energy had to be to become a factor in slowing the progress of climate change.
This will not be good news for everybody, he warns. Cheap solar electricity will “shake utilities,” force some big industrial customers of electricity to move to sunnier places, and eventually make wind power and nuclear energy look less interesting. It does not, by itself, “magically decarbonize the world,” he argues, because utility-scale solar power will still be vulnerable to intermittency and require supplementation by natural-gas-produced electricity to meet peak demands in the globe’s most populous places, such as the northeastern United States, northern Europe and coastal China.
Until more efficient long-distance transmission lines are built, Keith thinks, the cheapest solar power will be restricted to the world’s best solar locations, which include Southern California, parts of Mexico, the Middle East and Australia.
Another of the facts that have changed for Keith is that he now teaches his theories in what is called a “MOOC," a massive open online course that is put on the internet from Harvard. The first session reached about 12,000 students around the world.
Plants versus Photovoltaics: Which Are Better to Capture Solar Energy?
The plan is to coach families and empower them with earlier and widespread access to cost-efficient information, education and support.
Florida State University researchers have been awarded a five-year, $10.2 million Autism Centers of Excellence network grant to test a two-part home intervention designed to bridge the gap between diagnosis and treatment.
Their plan is to coach families and empower them with earlier and widespread access to cost-efficient information, education and support.
The new ACE ACTION Network brings a unique interdisciplinary team with expertise in early detection, maternal mental health, clinical trials, health disparities, implementation science and policy from FSU, the University of Miami, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Kaiser Permanente, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the National Black Church Initiative. It is one of four ACE networks announced this month by the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
• Create a nimble, diverse, low-cost workforce of part-time community health workers called family navigators.
• Study a diverse group of families in Florida, Massachusetts and California, including those from low-income, minority and rural communities.
• Compare the individual and combined effects of two evidence-based interventions and use technology to adjust them along the way.
• Devise a system that can be adapted quickly for any community.
These family navigators might be home visitors for Early Head Start, part-time preschool workers or active members of a local church. Ideally, the researchers want people who know the community and can help families transition from learning that their child has autism to learning how to teach their child everyday activities for the child’s future.
“We want to look at a broad group of individuals who can increase the opportunities for children and their families to have early intervention,” said co-investigator Juliann Woods, professor and associate dean of FSU’s College of Communication and Information.
Early intervention is the key for autism spectrum disorder, a condition related to brain development that affects social interaction and communication. The younger the child is when diagnosed, the better the brain can respond to treatment.
Even though a diagnosis is possible as young as 18 months, the median age in the U.S. is still 4 to 5 years. For minority, low-income and rural children, it’s more like age 6 — when the opportunity to receive intervention early is no longer possible. That’s why Wetherby and her team keep searching for more effective, practical and affordable ways to diagnose and treat young children. They think family navigators could be a game-changer.
FSU’s Autism Institute has spent years developing online tools for everyone from health professionals to families. Chief among those tools is Autism Navigator. Some tools are free to the public. Courses are free to professionals in Florida because the Florida Legislature paid for its development.
“Through Autism Navigator we are now offering a How-to Guide for Families,” Wetherby said. “This online course will be part of this project. It will help the family navigators give families access to a lot of information and video examples to speed up their learning. The key is to teach the parent how to do this and do so really efficiently.
This is the second ACE project for the Autism Institute. FSU also is a partner in a recently renewed ACE center grant that the National Institutes of Health awarded to Emory University. The FSU team is working on one project to provide interventions — as early as six to 12 months — to teach parents to support their child’s early development.
Additional co-investigators on this project include Heather Flynn, associate professor and vice chair for research, College of Medicine; and Elizabeth Slate, the Duncan McLean and Pearl Levine Fairweather Professor, Department of Statistics.
Special thanks to the young girl and gentleman who gave support and blankets, so sorry I didn’t get your names.
Also many thanks to the barber from Breeze who allowed us to take shelter while awaiting the paramedic.
Thanks also to the paramedic and staff at Cramlington Hospital for your care of mum. She is recovering well.
ROSTOV-ON-DON (Reuters) - Brazil have shown all the signs they can rule the world yet again in Russia but they must make their excellent preparations count in their World Cup Group E opener against a resilient Switzerland side on Sunday in Rostov.
The five-times winners look to have returned to their thrilling best under coach Tite and were the first team to qualify for the tournament after ripping their way to finish top of the notoriously difficult South American qualifying phase.
They have continued that rampant form in their warm-up games and forwards Willian, Roberto Firmino, Gabriel Jesus, Philippe Coutinho and talisman Neymar all looked in good shape in wins over Croatia and Austria.
Brazil were left humiliated by a 7-1 defeat to Germany in the semi-finals of last World Cup as tournament hosts. The rot continued with two poor displays at the 2015 Copa America and the 2016 Centenario edition which resulted in the dismissal of the defensively-minded coach Dunga.
His replacement was the widely admired Tite, who had led Sao Paulo giants Corinthians to their first ever Copa Libertadores triumph in 2012 and an unlikely Club World Cup win over Chelsea.
Tite has a more attacking outlook than Dunga and previous coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who was his physical education teacher at school. His impact on the team has been remarkable, winning 17 of 21 games and only losing once.
The coach has also had a fresh approach to team morale, dispensing with the position of a fixed captain and sharing the role around in each game with the aim of giving each player extra responsibility.
One of their most impressive displays was a 3-0 win over arch rivals Argentina in qualifying while a recent 1-0 win over Germany, their tormentors in 2014, was particularly cathartic.
“The 7-1 is no longer in our heads, we have the level to be world champions again and re-write our history,” said defender Thiago Silva.
Standing in Brazil’s way is a Switzerland side who are ranked sixth in the world after winning nine games in a row in qualifying, although many of their best players go into the tournament following dismal campaigns with their clubs.
Talismanic attacker Xherdan Shaqiri was relegated with Stoke City, Granit Xhaka had an inconsistent campaign with Arsenal while centre forward Haris Seferovic failed to start a single game in 2018 with Portuguese giants Benfica.
SHENZHEN, China, and NEW YORK, May 23, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — With employees wasting 759 hours each year due to workplace distractions, and parents admitting that their children spend too much time on their gadgets, it’s little wonder that the country is facing a mobile phone epidemic. But a new platform called Spyzie aims to help rewind times back to before mobile phones dominated lives.
Spyzie has been expertly created for parents and employees who find themselves concerned about the amount of time wasted on mobiles throughout the day. A web-based phone monitoring system for Android devices, it helps employers keep an eye on their workers when in the workplace, while enabling parents to ensure their children are safe and secure on these internet-enabled devices.
Employers have reported mobile phones as one of the main causes of reduced workplace productivity. Potentially causing the economy to lose millions every single year to lost time, the best way to approach the use of mobile phones is still up in the air.
The Spyzie platform makes it simple to keep tabs on individuals. Monitoring data including all logs, text messages, contacts, GPS location, browser history, bookmarks, photos, apps, and calendar activities, it provides a 360-degree view of a person’s mobile phone activity when they need it. With a free account available that doesn’t require any credit card details, the platform is set to be a pivotal tool in the crackdown of mobile phone use in the workplace.
Nine in 10 children in the U.K. now own a mobile phone, and for many of these, they are becoming not only a luxury, but a necessity that they feel they cannot live without. Causing issues with concentration in school, being plugged in 24/7 can actually be dangerous. There have been reports of extreme bullying and grooming taking place over mobile phones.
From vicious text messages from peers and social media trolls causing children to be targeted, as well as the myriad of opportunities to be approached by predators, mobile phones can be a severe cause for concern for parents. But the Spyzie app allows parents to keep an eye on incoming and outgoing messages – whenever, wherever.
The platform couldn’t be simpler to set up; users must register for an account, install the app on the desired device(s), and complete the set-up process. The data can then be viewed on any web browser – or on the Spyzie app.
Note that the Android monitoring solution is currently available with the iOS monitoring solution set to be released imminently. There is also a limited-time discount available for new users.
To see Spyzie in action, view the live demo: https://my.spyzie.com/livedemo.html.
Notes: The Android monitoring solution is currently available with the iOS monitoring solution set to be released imminently. There is also a limited-time discount available for new users.
"Parents have also expressed concerns. Although they are great for keeping in touch and ensuring safety, there's also the more sinister elements of letting children have access to a mobile phone, day in, day out," said Pete Yang, Senior Product Officer, Spyzie.
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