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If you've ever looked at the sky as a plane flies overhead, you've probably seen the long, white, cloud-like lines they leave behind. These lines are called contrails, and they're such a common phenomenon in aviation that most people don't blink when they see one in the sky. What are contrails?that's right? Contrails are more than just a by-product of aviation: they are a visible reminder of the complex relationship between air travel and the Earth's climate. As a travel journalist, I've traveled the world for years and often marveled at the beauty of contrails but never realized their deeper…
Why do fields of higher education vary so greatly in the amount of experiential learning typically offered to students and the pedagogies used? To give one example, the use of simulation is widespread and well-studied in nursing, but less so in pertinent fields such as business and legal education. Currently, there is a clear impetus for development in some fields and barriers in others. Fields such as nursing have professional associations that require extensive, evidence-based, and well-funded experiential learning programs. The impetus for simulation itself in nursing and other health professions has come about for a variety of reasons, including…
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Commerce on Tuesday announced $7 million in grants for early childhood education centers across the state.The grant, funded by the Early Learning Facilities Program, will provide financial assistance to cover health and safety improvements at the centers, including equipment and facility upgrades.Of 179 applicants, 64 licensed early childhood education centers were approved to receive funds.”These grants preserve critical facilities that give parents options to meet their family's needs and increase access to and availability of quality child care,” said Commerce Secretary Mike Fong. “We know child care is a barrier to employment…
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – For as long as she can remember, Kisa Vladomo has had a passion for playing the violin, but it's not just about playing her favorite instrument — she's also talking about life and the impact music has on the soul.”Music is very personal and I think it's very therapeutic in a way. Music has been great for me and I've met so many amazing people through music,” Vladomo said.Thanks to a supportive family, teachers and band director, the musical talent was nurtured in the King Kekaulike High School graduate in 2015. After graduating from the Eastman School…
A recent National Assessment of Educational Progress found that only about one-third of American elementary school students are reading at grade level, which has many schools rethinking how they teach kids to read.In a first-grade classroom in New York City, Melissa Jones Diaz teaches her students the specific rules that make up the English language, letter by letter. For decades, most schools saw no need to explicitly teach kids these rules, preferring to give students time to read with the belief that they would figure it out on their own.Nowadays, specific, detailed instruction is the norm. “This was a major…
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Phoebe has teamed up with Albany Tech to create a facility where students can become an RN, LPN, CNA or phlebotomy technician while living in new apartments on Phoebe's campus.Albany Tech nursing students spend their first semester at the community college and then, after completing prerequisite courses, spend their final four semesters at Phoebe.”At first, you spend most of your time in the classroom. Then you have skills labs where you learn specific skills and you practice what you've learned in books. Then in your second year of nursing, you start your clinical placement in a…
Authors: (1) Sebastian Dziadzio, University of Tübingen ([email protected]); (2) Çagatay Yıldız, University of Tübingen; (3) Gido M. van de Ven, KU Leuven; (4) Tomasz Trzcinski, IDEAS NCBR, Warsaw University of Technology, Tooploox; (5) Tinne Tuytelaars, KU Leuven; (6) Matthias Bethge, University of Tübingen. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Two problems with the current approach to class-incremental continual learning 3. Methods and 3.1. Infinite dSprites 3.2. Disentangled learning 4. Related work 4.1. Continual learning and 4.2. Benchmarking continual learning 5. Experiments 5.1. Regularization methods and 5.2. Replay-based methods 5.3. Do we need equivariance? 5.4. One-shot generalization and 5.5.…
TIFTON — Tickets are on sale now for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's annual arts and culture event.The season will kick off with the First Tuesday Concert on September 3. The ABAC Music Department will present a classical concert in Howard Auditorium at 7 pm. Johnathan Thurston, Dr. Andrew Peel, Marty Scheldt, Christopher Walker and Dr. Jennifer Huang will perform pieces ranging from the Baroque period to contemporary Broadway productions.On Thursday, September 26th, '80s tribute band The Breakfast Club will perform at ABAC Bainbridge's Charles H. Kirbo Regional Center starting at 7 pm. The concert is part of the Carter Arts…
Walmart shoppers across the country have increasingly encountered locked cases and cabinets in recent years, a strategy the retail giant introduced to combat rising shoplifting rates. Reports of locked merchandise vary widely from place to place, with some stores protecting entire laundry departments with plexiglass, while others even store underwear in locked containers. Do you store toys in a locked place? Walmart's anti-theft measures appear to extend to its toy department as well: A mother recently posted a viral TikTok video showing rows of locked toys at her local Walmart. The video, posted by TikTok user @radotv1029 on Aug. 4,…
On March 24, two young anti-coal activists were abducted from a tuk-tuk in San Carlos, Philippines, and forced into another vehicle. Francisco “Eko” Dangura III and Joxel “Jack” Tiong were later found alive but had both been assaulted. Their ordeal coincided with ongoing efforts across Southeast Asia to protect environmental activists through a region-wide declaration on environmental rights. According to Global Witness, 318 land and environmental activists were killed across Southeast Asia between 2012 and 2021, 18% of the global total. The Philippines has recorded 281 deaths since 2012, making it the country with the highest number of such activists…