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a brave boy from Minnesota

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THE ERIC NEUHOFF CHRONICLE – The writer takes us into the life of the narrator of the great gatsbye before his meeting with the flamboyant billionaire.

Name: Carraway. First name: Nick. These sweet syllables immediately evoke something. That was the name of the narrator of the great gatsbye. About him, we knew almost nothing, before his meeting with the flamboyant billionaire. Michael Farris Smith fills this gap. The idea is fun, original, bordering on sacrilege. In the cinema, it is called “prequel”.

He’s a good boy from Minnesota. His father owned a hardware store. The mother sank into a deep depression, stayed in bed for days on end. Nick has only one goal: to escape his native Midwest. The First World War is in full swing. To engage under the flags constitutes the solution. Here it is shipped to France, under the bombs. The trenches are crawling with rats. The battlefields are littered with rotting corpses. The forest hides enemies behind every tree trunk. The tunnels offer the face of hell (“It was war under war“). Direction Paris, for a permission. The café terraces welcome the…

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women of power, women power

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Par Jean Sevillia

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Simone Bertiere. © Louis Monier

Not to be missed: the reissue of the historian’s great books on the queens of France from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment.

Simone Bertière’s career is not trivial, since this great lady of history, a former student of the École Normale and Agrégé, began as a professor of literature, and remained so for a long time. It was only at the age of sixty (it is the interested party who gives this precision) and a widow, that a second career, almost a second life, opened up to her through the publication of a series of works devoted to the queens of France, work that prompted him to also write the biographies of other characters encountered during his research (Condé, Fouquet, Louis XIII, Richelieu, Henri IV, etc.).

Thus she became a historian, a title that no one contests, and also a writer (and not a “writer” because, exercising a non-“gendered” job, she says mischievously, she sticks to the masculine). A writer whose pen knows how to camouflage erudition behind an agile style, sometimes flirting with humor. Between 1994 and 2002, Simone Bertière published, with Fallois, six volumes evoking the destiny of…

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The writer of the famous song “If people sleep, we will come to the sensitive date.” Saleh Al-Ramali: “I wrote the song for my fairy lover.” Video

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Al-Marsad newspaper: Documented a video clip of the poet Saleh Al-Ramali, revealing details of his famous song “I love the night and the evening”.

Al-Ramali said that the reason for this poem and that he was summoned to write it was his fairy lover.

He added: “The fairy brings me to the sea every year.”

Echoing verses from the poem, he said: “If people’s eyes sleep, we will come to the sensitive date.

It is worth noting that this poem gained wide fame after it was sung by the singer Badr Al-Lemoni.

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A Lebanese researcher invents a wireless camera that works under water without a battery

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The oceans cover an area of ​​more than 360 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface of 510 million square kilometers. Despite the vast area covered by these massive flats, more than 95% of the ocean area has yet to be explored.

Underwater photography is a key to understanding marine environments and revealing their diversity. Imaging makes it possible to discover new marine species, understand the impact of climate change, global food production, and even aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector.

Despite the advancement of imaging techniques in general, there is a major obstacle to underwater photography and observation. Existing cameras must be attached to either ships or drones, as they consume a lot of energy, require constant batteries to be changed, and must also be pulled out to empty their content. These are things that would make it difficult to photograph and monitor underwater.

The high cost of operating an underwater camera for an extended period, by attaching it to a research vessel or sending a ship to recharge its batteries, presents a formidable challenge preventing large-scale undersea exploration.

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However, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States were able to overcome these obstacles by designing a new camera without a battery, and can transmit images wirelessly.

The scientific team led by the Lebanese researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fadel Adib, was able to design this camera and test it in marine environments at a low cost of no more than $100, according to what Adib said in exclusive statements to Al-Sharq.

According to the scientific paper published in the journal “Nature Communications The new camera works by harvesting sound waves. That is, it converts mechanical energy from sound waves traveling through the water into electrical energy that powers its imaging and communications equipment.

After capturing and encoding the image data, the camera also uses sound waves to transmit the data to a receiver that reconstructs the image.

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Adeeb told Al-Sharq that the camera consumes about 100,000 times less energy than a mobile phone camera. It can also capture color photos even in dark underwater environments.

Because it doesn’t require an external power source, the camera can run for weeks on end before it can be retrieved, allowing scientists to search remote parts of the ocean for new species.

The camera can also be used to take pictures of ocean pollution or monitor the health and growth of fish raised in aquaculture farms.

One of the most exciting applications of this camera comes in the context of climate monitoring. When scientists build climate models, there is no data from more than 95% of the ocean.

In his interview with Al-Sharq, Adeeb explained: “This technology can help us build more accurate climate models and a better understanding of how climate change affects the underwater world.”

To design such a camera that would operate independently for long periods of time, the researchers needed a device that could harvest energy underwater on its own.

So, the researchers designed a transducer of piezoelectric materials, which are materials capable of generating electrical potential when subjected to mechanical force.

How does the wireless camera work?

In the case of the newly designed camera, when a sound wave hits the transducer, the particles of the piezoelectric material vibrate, converting that mechanical energy into electrical energy. Sound waves are generated in marine environments from many sources, such as transiting ships or marine life.

This process results in the generation of a very small amount of energy. “Here comes the big challenge. The cameras need a lot of energy to operate them,” Adeeb says. Even with the harvested energy stored inside the transformer, the amount is still very small.

So, to keep power consumption as low as possible, the researchers used imaging sensors that were specifically designed for ultra-low power use.

But those sensors only capture grayscale images. Since most underwater environments lack a light source, the researchers also needed to develop a low-power ‘flash’. “Here came the new step,” Adeeb said.

According to Adeeb, the researchers used LED lights that have red, green and blue colors. They emit light sequentially, sensors capture the image during the light emission, and the images originally captured are processed in black and white in order to save energy.

“It took a fair amount of creativity to figure out how to do this,” the Lebanese researcher added. “Red, green and blue colored light is reflected in the white part of each image. When the image data is combined in post-processing, it can be reconstructed color image.

He continued, “The camera contains an innovative transmitting sensor that reflects the energy harvesting process, then we harvest the energy from the sound, and then we load the sound itself with data and send it to the receiver.”

Once image data is captured, it is encoded in bits (1 and 0) and sent to a receiver one bit at a time using a process called underwater backscattering. The receiver transmits sound waves through the water to a camera, which acts as a mirror to reflect those waves.

Thus, the camera either reflects a wave back to the receiver or changes its mirror to absorb the wave so that it is not reflected back.

A microphone next to the transmitter senses if a signal is reflected from the camera, if it receives a signal, this is “bit 1”, and if there is no signal, then it is “bit 0”, and the system uses this binary information to rebuild and process the image.

This whole process, since it only requires one switch to switch the device from a non-reflective state to a reflective state, consumes very little power, much less than the usual underwater communication systems.

Various uses

The researchers tested the camera in several underwater environments. In one, they took color photos of plastic bottles floating in a New Hampshire pond. They were also able to take high-quality images of the African starfish, so that the small tubercles along its arms were clearly visible. The device was also effective in repeatedly photographing plants that had been grown underwater in a dark environment for a week to monitor their growth.

Now that they’ve demonstrated a working prototype, the researchers plan to improve the device so that it’s practical for use in real-world settings. The researchers hope to increase the camera’s memory so it can take pictures in real time, or even shoot a video underwater.

They also want to expand the range of data transmission. According to Adib, “we succeeded in transmitting data 100 meters from the receiver after the study was published,” noting the need to improve that distance to use the camera in the real world.

In general, this camera can be used in many applications such as oceanography, marine archeology, robotics, military applications, and even during natural disasters.

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Abundance for wellness and happiness

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Fernando-Alonso Ramirez

@fernalonso

Abundantly – You are much more than what you think you are today. This is the title that Felipe López from Manizales has given to his first book.

It is a work that seems to be self-help, but that really has more to do with the way in which we must understand the world in order to assume it in a better way and be able to fulfill the things that we set out to do. Felipe describes himself as passionate about research on happiness and its application in business and in everyday life.

If someone believes that by reading these pages they will find the key to becoming a millionaire, they can avoid reading them at once, because what it is about is how to be abundant from the good decisions that are made in life for a better life. wellness. We talk to the author and he gives us clues as to why we should read it to better understand what he means and to better understand how we make decisions and how they affect us in our future.

what is abundance

– States that this is not a book with the formula to become a millionaire or attract positive things with the power of the mind. So what is abundance, according to Felipe López?

Abundance is learning to connect with the sources that allow us to have a life with meaning and well-being. If what you have accumulated (money, people, relationships, friends) does not bring you well-being and happiness, then it is not abundance. Abundance is also learning to disconnect from some links that no longer nourish you and wear out your life. Abundance is connection and prosperity, accumulation.

– Although it is not so explicit, it is obvious that this is a story of your learning in different ways. Why tell that process?

Because the only way to talk about something is when you are the example. I consider myself an abundant person, with the ability to connect and disconnect. Therefore, my story becomes the appropriate metaphor to convey what is achieved, when connected to an abundant mind.

– Emphasizes the danger of the ego, and also its power. How does the ego play a key role in the way each one perceives the world?

The ego has only one goal: to help us survive. Surviving is important, but not all of life. We must learn to survive in what is necessary, but transcend in life. A balance must be struck between survival and the ability to go beyond our mental limits and social constructions installed in our mind/ego. The ego is not our enemy, only sometimes we must heal it. The same as the body. The body is not our enemy, but if it is not healthy, it makes us have a complex life. The healthier the ego and the body, the better our life is.

to break the cycles

– We have all gone through stages of scarcity, but some fall back on it. What is the advice to get out of there?

Break the cycles through the opening of the mind and the reconfiguration of it. Cycles are due to closed minds that are not willing to open up to new information. Observing the mind, from consciousness, allows us to see what makes us relapse, to transform it.

– It would be foolish of me to say that the coach They don’t help many people, but it’s equally true that there are a lot of snakes in this role. For an unbeliever, like me, how to differentiate the one who contributes something to others, from the one who barely tells the story?

The book is reallyon more written from science and studies in happiness and well-being. The coaching It has given me tools to have a higher level of consciousness, and this has allowed me to use tools in my life that have connected me with a greater meaning and a life with more well-being. I am grateful for what he coaching It has given me, however, I wanted to give the book a sustenance with studies, in order to understand that the end of abundance must be the happiness and well-being of those who acquire it. there is certainly coaches that they can do things that are not so healing, however not beinI who can judge them. I seek to give the best of myselfinthrough my example and my results.

– If I loved something, it is the value it gives to gratitude, I firmly believe in it. How does gratitude bring us to abundance?

Gratitude to you for taking the time to honor me with your reading. Gratitude is what allows us to realize that we are already abundant. Already with what we are and have, we are supremely abundant. That is the first starting point to recognize what we are and how wonderful it is to be able to live.

– Another theme in which the book is recurrent is that happiness is very far from success. When asked what I do to achieve happiness, what is the answer Felipe offers?

I could say that more than Felipe, science has advanced a lot in studies of happiness and well-being. I humbly offer in a simple way, what science reveals about the areas in which we must focus to have lives with greater well-being. The scientific theory that has the best results in terms of health, productivity, meaning of life, relationships with people, is Permaby Martin Seligman. Comparative studies have been done with two other positions of happiness (hedonistic and Eudaimonic), and it is the one that has the best results.

The data

The book is on sale in LA PATRIA with a special price for subscribers. Also in Manizales at Insspire, Intermúsica and Ágora Bookstore, in Palermo. Also in Pan American, Buscalibre, Amazon y booksellerinto National.

underlines

* Changing the way you conceive life does not make you a weak person, but it makes you a humble person.

* Abundance is far from being a mental reprogramming full of new beliefs that, in the long run, could generate more frustration.

* Only those who understand that pain is part of life, can become strong in it.

* I serve you, as long as you ask me. That yes, I will guarantee that you know that I am in service vocation.

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‘Little Women’ Orchid, a warning to Choo Ja-hyun and Oh Jeong-se? Plot summary up to episode 2

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Blue orchids were always staring at the deaths of Jinhwa-young and Shin Hyun-min. / Photo = tvN ‘Little Women’ broadcast capture

[내외경제TV] Reporter Jin Byung-hoon = The tvN drama ‘Little Women’ has stimulated curiosity with a mysterious development from the first broadcast.

▲Please note that this article was written by the reporter while watching the broadcast and investing time and contains spoilers.

On the 3rd, the first episode of the story aroused curiosity by showing an orchid made by Jinhwa-young (Chu Ja-hyun) of Orchid Construction. This blue orchid shown next to Oncidium and Cattleya looks like a crane called ‘Neo Marica gracilis’ on the outside, but coincidentally, the English word Orchid means orchid.

Oh In-ju (Kim Go-eun), who is being bullied in the construction of Orchid, follows Jinhwa-young as her older sister. Since Hwayoung was also a so-called ‘chosen woman’ with no spoon, not even an earth spoon, she relied on each other.

Later, as Jinhwa-young is found dead in his house, the flow of the play moves in a completely different direction.

Oh In-ju’s younger brother Oh In-kyung (Nam Ji-hyun) witnesses the death of the informant while trying to pursue lawyer Park Jae-sang (Um Ki-joon), a powerful Seoul mayor candidate. To make matters worse, Shin Hyun-min (Oh Jeong-se), the director of an affair with Jinhwa-young, dies in a car accident while heading to the prosecution to reveal the corruption of Orchid Construction.

A blue orchid was always watching the serial death of Shin Hyun-min following Jinhwa-young. Here, the same orchid was found at the scene of the traffic accident of the informant who was supposed to meet Oh In-kyung.

Unless this drama is an occult genre, the blue orchid can be interpreted as a warning message between Orchid Construction and Wonryeong Group, who is supporting lawyer Park Jae-sang. The death of the informant and Shin Hyun-min also has one thing in common: that they died due to a car brake failure.

Another interesting thing is that there was a blue orchid tattoo on the ankle of Jinhua Young. Jinhua Young engraved the date of her mother’s death, and it is highly likely that it will be used as a reversal device in the future.

A tattoo on Jinhua-young's ankle and a blue orchid at the scene of the death of the informant / Photo = TVN 'Little Women' broadcast capture
A tattoo on Jinhua-young’s ankle and a blue orchid at the scene of the death of the informant / Photo = TVN ‘Little Women’ broadcast capture

In the second episode, Shin Hyun-min denied having an affair with Jinhwa-young and claimed that he was only taken advantage of. She explained to the effect that Jinhua Young had been running her money errands for 15 years, that she had come up with her own plans, but that she had died unexpectedly from higher places.

In the 3rd episode on the 10th, Choi Do-il (Wi Ha-jun), who worked together at a European corporation with Jin-hwa-young, is expected to unravel the mystery of Jin-hwa-young little by little as he gets closer to Oh In-joo. In the meantime, the blue orchid appears in front of Oh In-kyung once again, increasing the tension of the play.

Meanwhile, ‘Little Women’ is a modern reinterpretation of Louisa May Alcott’s original novel, and it is also the next work of writer Jeong Seo-kyung of ‘Mother’.

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