Appendix May 2018 Blog Entry
Grammar Websites for blog
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https://www.warrenhills.org/cms/lib/NJ01001092/Centricity/ModuleInstance/1332/The_8_Parts_of_Speech_Diagnostic_Assessment.pdf
Saturday, 13 June 2020
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
Commentary
A great article from the net about the robot vs. human war.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/926382/terminator-artificial-intelligence-killer-robots-google-Eric-Schmidt
"
Eric Schmidt, the former executive
chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, warns lethal artificially
intelligent machines are on the way.
Mr Schmidt says that the authorities across the globe need to start acting now if we are to protect ourselves.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the former high ranking Google chief said: “Everyone immediately then wants to talk about all the movie-inspired death scenarios, and I can confidently predict to you that they are one to two decades away.
“So let’s worry about them, but let’s worry about them in a while.”"
Mr Schmidt says that the authorities across the globe need to start acting now if we are to protect ourselves.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the former high ranking Google chief said: “Everyone immediately then wants to talk about all the movie-inspired death scenarios, and I can confidently predict to you that they are one to two decades away.
“So let’s worry about them, but let’s worry about them in a while.”"
"Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu
Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies
are likely to follow suit." China is investing heavily in a robot
workforce.
In a statement to the BBC, Foxconn Technology Group confirmed that it was automating "many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations" but denied that it meant long-term job losses.
"We are applying robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing technologies to replace repetitive tasks previously done by employees, and through training, also enable our employees to focus on higher value-added elements in the manufacturing process, such as research and development, process control and quality control. We will continue to harness automation and manpower in our manufacturing operations, and we expect to maintain our significant workforce in China."
Since September 2014, 505 factories across Dongguan, in the Guangdong province, have invested 4.2bn yuan (£430m) in robots, aiming to replace thousands of workers.
Kunshan, Jiangsu province, is a manufacturing hub for the electronics industry.
Economists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market, with one report, from consultants Deloitte in partnership with Oxford University, suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years.
Former McDonald's chief executive Ed Rensi recently told the US's Fox Business programme a minimum-wage increase to $15 an hour would make companies consider robot workers.
"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging French fries," he said."
In a statement to the BBC, Foxconn Technology Group confirmed that it was automating "many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations" but denied that it meant long-term job losses.
"We are applying robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing technologies to replace repetitive tasks previously done by employees, and through training, also enable our employees to focus on higher value-added elements in the manufacturing process, such as research and development, process control and quality control. We will continue to harness automation and manpower in our manufacturing operations, and we expect to maintain our significant workforce in China."
Since September 2014, 505 factories across Dongguan, in the Guangdong province, have invested 4.2bn yuan (£430m) in robots, aiming to replace thousands of workers.
Kunshan, Jiangsu province, is a manufacturing hub for the electronics industry.
Economists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market, with one report, from consultants Deloitte in partnership with Oxford University, suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years.
Former McDonald's chief executive Ed Rensi recently told the US's Fox Business programme a minimum-wage increase to $15 an hour would make companies consider robot workers.
"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging French fries," he said."
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Dr. Seus Racist Racism Madness
May 30th, 2018
IN the News (May 2018 30)
-Dr. Seus Racist ; apparently an issue of the last. Mrs Trump donated some Dr. Seuss books which were rejected on racial grounds. The argument goes on at least from 2017 and seems ridiculous on the face of it - but deals with at least one case of a traditional cartoon of a Chinese boy in clothing that most CHinese people wore at the time - but as we all know everyone looks like westerns now and any traditional dress is a sigh of high political incorrectness - one must be as racist as possible and deny history if it is not western looking to be politically correct.
-For days now Roseanne Barr has been in the news over her show being cancelled over racist tweets. It took some work to find the tweets as no one seems willing to republish them; which made me suspicious. The tweet was in this article
“itcom star Roseanne Barr apologized on Tuesday for her racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, in which she says the former Obama administration adviser is a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes. She also said she is leaving Twitter.
Barr posted the comment in response to a tweet alleging that Jarrett helped “hide” various Obama-era secrets.
“Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr wrote in the since-deleted tweet.”
Confusing to me since I do not think racist, but I know that in the USA uses evolution and the APE as an indication that black people are evolutionary lower than those born of other colours, much as Trump is a throwback to Nethrandral times to many. The Muslim Brotherhood one I don’t get yet. Trump is a big supporter of the Brotherhood since he supports Saudi Arabia; however the brotherhood is radically right wing and an advocate of theocratic rule in every state under Muslim law. My guess is that Muslims are bad and anti-Christian and that Rosanne is using this as a given which makes this a racist insult - like those of the alt-right that say Lauren Southern is Jewish; impling but not saying that this is a bad thing.
Of course intention matters. I have called children “monkeys” in the past implying they are are silly and machivous. In a hyper racist witch hunt it be advisable to get out of that habit least there be a child with dark coloured skin in the mix; or racist parents who do want to have implied that there children have darker skin. Insane mental gymnastics.
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Dr. Seus Racist, Trump, pc, political incorrect
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
For a letter of admission
For a letter of admission
By Ed Scholz
For a letter of admission the below is alright. However it would be much strong to give something you did for example from myself
"one of the toughest and foolish achievements I made while in Japan was agreeing to be a guest DJ on an English radio station at a major university. At the time I did not know that the radio station has millions of listeners and was made aware of the fact moments before I went on air. I froze for seconds but with help of the host I was able to pull together a decent show for the ESL community. My reputation took a blow as did my pride but I learned to be better prepared and rather than shying away from future embarrassments I embraced risk as long as I could grow as both a person and an educator."
This example is personal. It is a poor achievement actually, but the achievement was one of personal growth in narrative form. Pick something showing your strengths and tell the story. But it must show it is related to law - the above related to education.
Your version is good but it does not take a specific event and show how it goes. The person you did notes for, how did it help them? How did it make you feel? Adjectives.. That being said what you have id ok.
I would recommend reading one of the books that I suggested in the past with sample letters of people who did get in law school. The good news your letter is better than the majority of them but the majority of them had very high LSAT and GPA.
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Haematophagy
There are many modes of feeding that animals exhibit, including:
- Filter feeding: obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in water
- Deposit feeding: obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in soil
- Fluid feeding: obtaining nutrients by consuming other organisms' fluids
- Bulk feeding: obtaining nutrients by eating all of an organism
- Ram feeding and suction feeding: ingesting prey via the fluids around it.
- Extra-cellular digestion: excreting digesting enzymes and then reabsorbing the products
- Myzocytosis: one cell pierces another using a feeding tube, and sucks out cytoplasm
- Phagocytosis: engulfing food matter into living cells, where it is digested
"Polyphagy" redirects here. For increased appetite as a medical symptom, see polyphagia.
Polyphagy is the ability of an animal to eat a variety of food, whereas monophagy is the intolerance of every food except of one specific type (see generalist and specialist species).
Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as:
- Carnivore: the eating of animals
- Araneophagy: eating spiders
- Avivore: eating birds
- Durophagy: eating hard-shelled or exoskeleton bearing organisms
- Haematophagy: eating blood
- Insectivore: eating insects
- Myrmecophagy: eating ants and/or termites
- Invertivore: eating invertebrates
- Keratophagy or Ceratophagy: eating horny material, such as wool by cloths moths, or snakes eating their own skin afterecdysis.
- Lepidophagy: eating fish scales
- Molluscivore: eating molluscs
- Mucophagy: eating mucus
- Ophiophagy: eating snakes
- Oophagy: eating eggs (but also see "Intrauterine cannibalism" below)
- Piscivore: eating fish
- Spongivore: eating sponges
- Teuthophagore: eating mainly squid and other cephalopods
- Vermivore: eating worms
- Herbivore: the eating of plants
- Exudativore: eating plant and/or insect exudates (gum, sap, lerp, etc.)
- Gumivore: eating tree gum
- Folivore: eating leaves
- Florivore: eating flower tissue prior to seed coat formation
- Frugivore: eating fruits
- Graminivore: eating grasses
- Granivore: eating seeds
- Nectarivore: eating nectar
- Palynivore: eating pollen
- Xylophagy: eating wood
- Exudativore: eating plant and/or insect exudates (gum, sap, lerp, etc.)
- Omnivore: the eating of both plants, animals, fungi, bacteria etc. The term means "all-eater".
- Fungivore: the eating of fungus
- Bacterivore: the eating of bacteria
- Planktivore: the eating of plankton
The eating of non-living or decaying matter:
- Coprophagy: eating feces
- Detritivore: eating decomposing material
- Geophagy: eating inorganic earth
- Osteophagy: eating bones
- Scavenger: eating carrion
There are also several unusual feeding behaviours, either normal,opportunistic, or pathological, such as:
- Cannibalism: feeding on members of the same species
- Intrauterine cannibalism
- Oophagy or Ovophagy: the embryo/foetus eats sibling eggs
- Embryophagy: the foetus eats sibling embryos
- Filial cannibalism
- Self-cannibalism: feeding on parts of one's own body (see alsoautophagy
- Sexual cannibalism: cannibalism after mating
- Intrauterine cannibalism
- Kleptoparasitism: stealing food from another animal
- Lignophagia: eating wood, typically a pathological condition in some domestic animals
- Paedophagy: eating young animals
- Pica: appetite for largely non-nutritive substances, e.g. clay or hair, sometimes in pregnancy or in pathological states, typically a medical or veterinary concern.
- Placentophagy: eating placenta
- Trophallaxis: eating food regurgitated by another animal
- Zoopharmacognosy: self-medication by eating plants, soils, andinsects to treat and prevent disease.
An opportunistic feeder sustains itself from a number of different food sources, because the species is behaviourally sufficiently flexible.
Some animals exhibit hoarding and caching behaviours in which they store or hide food for later use.
Alcohol—it is widely believed that some animals eat rotting fruit for this to ferment and make them drunk, however, this has been refuted in the case of at least elephants.[2]
- ^ Sahney, S., Benton, M.J. & Falcon-Lang, H.J. (2010). "Rainforest collapse triggered Pennsylvanian tetrapod diversification in Euramerica" (PDF). Geology 38 (12): 1079–1082.doi:10.1130/G31182.1.
- ^ Bakalar, N. (2005). "Elephants drunk in the wild? Scientists put the myth to rest". Retrieved May 24, 2013.
Friday, 22 April 2016
Mesocarnivore
Mesocarnivore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A mesocarnivore is an animal whose diet consists of 50–70% meat with the balance consisting of non-vertebrate foods which may include fungi, fruits, and other plant material.[1] Mesocarnivores are seen today among the Canidae(coyotes, many foxes), Viverridae(civets), Mustelidae (martens,tayra), Procyonidae (ring-tailed cat), Mephitidae (skunks), andHerpestidae (some mongooses).
Mesocarnivores represent the earliest Miacoidea family of Miacidae. They are best represented by Prohesperocyon, species P. wilsoni, with 3 incisors, 1 canine tooth, 4 premolars above. The jaw has 3 molars below, and 2 molars above on each side.[2]
Dentition[edit]
Mesocarnivore cheek teeth are heterodont and their different shapes reflect distinct functions. Incisors and canines are used to apprehend food and kill prey, pointed premolars pierce and hold prey, and molars are involved in both slicing and crushing functions. The slicing function of the molars is produced by occlusion between the carnassials, the lower first molar, and the upper fourth premolar.
See also[edit]
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