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Oppo N1 Review: Future-Looking Phablet Or Oversized Flop?
by Matt Humrick July 14, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Page 1:Oppo Dreams Big: The N1 Phablet
Page 2:Look And Feel: Primarily Plastic, Positively Premium
Page 3:Regarding The Phablet Experience
Page 4:Camera: Hardware And Software
Page 5:Camera: Photo And Video Quality
Page 6:Notable Hardware Features
Page 7:ColorOS Software Tour
Page 8:CyanogenMod Software Tour
Page 9:How We Tested Oppo's N1 Phablet
Page 10:Results: CPU Core Benchmarks
Page 11:Results: Web Benchmarks
Page 12:Results: GPU Core Benchmarks
Page 13:Results: GFXBench 3.0
Page 14:Results: GPGPU Benchmarks
Page 15:Brightness, Black Level, Contrast Ratio, And Gamma
Page 16:Results: Battery Life And Performance
Page 17:A Phablet For A Niche Market
Results: Battery Life And Performance
Basemark OS II
Basemark OS II comes with a demanding battery test that almost completely drains the phone from 100% power to calculate a final score that represents its power and longevity.
The N1's large, non-removable 3610 mAh battery provides excellent run-time and leads the pack by a significant margin. It scores about 30 percent better than the iPhone 5s, which is known for its endurance.
What's bad for performance is a boon for battery life. The Note 3's overly aggressive frequency scaling algorithm helps it outlast the higher-clocked Nexus 5. It also lasted about 20 percent longer than it did when running Samsung's benchmark-gaming version of Android 4.3.
BatteryXPRT 2014
BatteryXPRT 2014 for Android estimates battery life. It's modeled in part after the MobileXPRT benchmark, which consists of ten real world test scenarios encompassing various photo operations and encryption.
BatteryXPRT 2014 can be run in two different modes: Airplane mode, which estimates battery life for a device with no Internet connectivity, and Network mode, which estimates battery life for a device connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi or cellular data connection.
Both the Note 3 and N1 perform well. Samsung's offering lasts the longest in Network mode (an hour longer than the N1 with ColorOS). When connectivity is turned off, however, the Note 3's advantage over the N1 drops to about 18 minutes.
Operating system choice impacts the N1's battery life by a small amount, as ColorOS lasts seven percent longer in Airplane mode and 12 percent longer with Wi-Fi turned on than CyanogenMod.
The N1's brilliant battery life loses some of its luster when we take performance into consideration, though. While it outlasts the Nexus 5 by four to seven hours, the N1 is also 33 percent slower. Considering the large advantage in battery life, this might not be a bad tradeoff.
Even though the N1 with ColorOS lasts longer than the alternative OS, CyanogenMod performs 37 percent better. In this light, CyanogenMod appears to be the better choice for performance per watt, since it provides a big speed boost for a 12 percent battery life hit.
GFXBench 3.0
GFXBench 3.0 measures battery life and performance stability by logging frame and battery discharge rate as the T-Rex test loops at least 30 times. The results are given in two scores: estimated battery life in minutes and the number of frames rendered on the slowest test run (to gauge if a device is throttling).
Looking at battery run-time in isolation, the N1 makes a lasting impression. With ColorOS installed, the N1 runs for 4.7 hours. That's nine percent better than the 4.3 hours from CyanogenMod.
Once again, taking performance into account affects our perception of the battery life results. The iPhone 5s might only run for 1.9 hours, but it maintains a minimum of 41 frames per second without even a hint of thermal throttling.
If the iPhone 5s is the hare, sprinting towards the finish line, then Oppo's N1 is the tortoise, plodding along at 39 percent of the hare's pace. However, this tortoise stays in the race nearly 2.5x longer. To gauge who truly wins the race, we need to calculate the "distance" each device travels. In this case, the distance traveled is really the total number of frames rendered and velocity is analogous to frames per second. Thus, the total number of frames rendered is simply FPS times battery life.
The overall winner then is the Note 3 with 312,780 frames rendered before its battery gives out. Behind the Note 3, the finishing order is: iPhone 5s (285,360), Oppo N1 (269,760), Nexus 5 (204,240), Xiaomi Mi3 (159,720), and Meizu MX3 (98,670).
These results illustrate the complexity of battery life discussions. There are numerous variables like battery capacity, screen size/efficiency, CPU speed/efficiency, GPU speed/efficiency, etc. that factor into the equation, making it nearly impossible to guess overall performance by looking at the specs for any single piece of hardware.
Oppo Dreams Big: The N1 Phablet
Look And Feel: Primarily Plastic, Positively Premium
Regarding The Phablet Experience
Camera: Hardware And Software
Camera: Photo And Video Quality
Notable Hardware Features
ColorOS Software Tour
CyanogenMod Software Tour
How We Tested Oppo's N1 Phablet
Results: CPU Core Benchmarks
Results: Web Benchmarks
Results: GPU Core Benchmarks
Results: GFXBench 3.0
Results: GPGPU Benchmarks
Brightness, Black Level, Contrast Ratio, And Gamma
A Phablet For A Niche Market
Matt Humrick
wavetrex
Just a small comment about OLED, even if this might not be the place to write about it.
Probably due to to imperfections in the transistors that control the OLED pixels, there is a very faint but perceptible in deep darkness leakage of energy toward the pixels.
Yes, doesn't compare to the obvious light bleed of any TFT display, but the OLED "off" pixels are not truly off, they have a 0.00something-small level of light which could theoretically be measured by some very sensitive equipment.
The eyes are certainly capable of seeing it...
InvalidError
Putting both flash LEDs on the same side so close to the image sensor seems like a missed opportunity to me: putting one LED close to each hinge with the camera in the middle would provide more even lighting and softer shadows.
With the mostly passable image quality, that would not help the N1 much though.
Onus
Please don't put the letters "p" "h" "a" "b" "l" "e" "t" together in that order and treat it like a word.
WyomingKnott
@onus
First time I read the term I had the image of holding my 10" Asus pad up to my face and talking into it. I suppose it's better than a shoe; cleaner, too.
shahbaz200
Bad GPU, doesn't works well on this device, poor performance, other than that its good device.
BlankInsanity
please respect my opinion, but I don't see why phones need to go bigger. i the 90s phones used to be huge and this was a problem for mobility and so as the years went by they created smaller form factor phones. Now here we are repeating that mistake. A phone is ment to make a small footprint when hidden on it's user such as a pocket. You don't put your tablet in your pocket, I don't see why'd you make a phone out of it. this is just my opinion
jankeke
"please respect my opinion, but I don't see why phones need to go bigger. i the 90s phones used to be huge and this was a problem for mobility and so as the years went by they created smaller form factor phones. Now here we are repeating that mistake. A phone is ment to make a small footprint when hidden on it's user such as a pocket. You don't put your tablet in your pocket, I don't see why'd you make a phone out of it. this is just my opinion "
True but people couldn't watch porn on their phones back then so it made sense to make them as small as possible. Not so now ... ^^
Matthew DiGiacomo
No offense Tom's Hardware but why are you reviewing this phone now? It's outdated and been on the market for almost 8 months.. No one really cares about it anymore.
The Camera is a smart solution meaning you won't need 2 cameras. Obviously it will need tilt support to tell it which direction is up.
No removable battery is a shitty solution. Its the issue all phones face after 2 years, their batteries no longer hold a charge.
The Camera is a smart solution meaning you won't need 2 cameras. Obviously it will need tilt support to tell it which direction is up. No removable battery is a shitty solution. Its the issue all phones face after 2 years, their batteries no longer hold a charge.
lol that's a scam the companies do to force you to buy a new one
zakaron
@WyomingKnott - reading your comment about using your Asus 10" pad, reminded me of those using their n-gage like a taco: http://www.cheatcc.com/images/news/oldngage.jpg
Guess it is a little better than the shoe...
MasterMace
Sorry, this is behind at this point. 1080 screen is over a generation old, Sub-2.0 GHZ quad core is over a generation old, micro USB 2 is over a generation old, and it's not being helped by a non-removable battery.
1080-1200p is a pretty reasonable balance between cost and benefits under 10" and micro-USB is not going anywhere any time soon simply because the micro-USB3 connector is huge and it will take a while for USB3.1 ports to become widespread... and then you have the problem of many countries such as the EU choosing micro-USB as the universal charger spec, guaranteeing that micro-USB will stick around well beyond the new USB3.1 connectors.
Amen to that, bro. Phones are made to be mobile PCs, and phablets are just not mobile phones...
ry470
touch based smartphones existed long before icrap came along. You make it sound like they invented the whole smartphone concept. I used windows mobile for a long time and i loved it. Had a HTC wizard and TyTn and they were great.
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==Genome Structure==
[[Image:D_cinnamea.gif|400px|right|frame| Figure 1. Neighbour-joining tree showing the position of strain IMMIB RIV-399T (=DSM 44904T=CCUG 50875T) within the radiation of the mycolic acid-containing taxa. Thetree was based on a comparison of sequences that were at least 90 % complete (with regard to E. coli sequence). Bar, 10·0 % sequence divergence (Yassin, 2006).]]
The full DNA code for ''D.cinnamea'' has been partially sequenced and contains 3,555,295 bp (NCBI Nucleotide):[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=nuccore&cmd=DetailsSearch&term=dietzia+cinnamea&save_search=true].
2 Description and Significance
3 Genome Structure
4 Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle
5 Ecology and Pathogenesis
Actinobacteria
Actinomycetales
Corynebacterineae
Dietziaceae
Dietzia
NCBI Taxonomy ID:[1]
Species: Dietzia cinnamea
Description and Significance
Samples of this organism have been extracted from petroleum contaminated soil characterized in acidic sandy loam Cambisol soil in a protected habitat in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil as well as the perianal swab from a patient with a bone marrow transplant (Yassin, 2006; von der Weid, 2006). Multiple strains of Dietzia have been found in soil, deep sea sediment, and soda lakes (Gerday & Glansdorff, 2007).Dietzia cinnamea is rod shaped in the medical swab while the P4 strain from the soil samples produces a coccoid shape. The organism is approximately 1.4 micrometers long, forms smooth, yellow to orange colonies on agar plates once isolated and is single or arranges in small connected colonies (Von der Weid, 2006). It is gram positive and has a high G+C content, meaning a high number of Guanine and Cytosine linkages in its DNA(Von der Weid, 2006). It displays snapping division, which is the arrangement of cells in a palisade or angular manor after binary fission (Prescott, 2002). This is a characteristic of the genera Arthrobacter and Corynebacterium.
D. cinnamea is capable of degrading a range of petroleum hydrocarbons which can have beneficial environmental implications in today's world. Other genera that have hydrocarbon degrading strains include Mycobacterium, Rhodococcus, and Dietzia. The strain P4 is able to degrade a range of n-alkanes (C11-C36), pristane, and phytane and is able to grow in the presence of carbazole, quinoline, naphthalene, toluene, gasoline, and diesel (Von der Weid, 2006).
Genome Structure
The full DNA code for D.cinnamea has been partially sequenced and contains 3,555,295 bp (NCBI Nucleotide):[2]. D.cinnamea has a GC content of 72.3% (Von der Weid, 2006).
Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle
D.cinnamea is an aerobic organotroph. It's optimal growth temperature is between 22-45⁰ C and extracts carbon from acetate, D-glucose, maltose, and 1,2-propanediol (Yassin, 2006). Capable of growing between pH 6 to 10 and is slightly halotolerant effectively growing in 10% NaCl concentration.
Reduces nitrate to nitrite.
D.cinnamea displaying coccoid to ovoid shape and colonies (Von der Weid, 2006).
Ecology and Pathogenesis
Dietzia has been found in multiple habitats including soil, deep sea sediment, and soda lakes.
Gerday, C., & Glansdorff, N. (2007). Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Mircrobiology Press.
Prescott, L., Klein, D., & Harley, J. (2002). Microbiology. Retrieved from Online Learning Center: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072320419/student_view0/glossary_s-z.html
Von Der Weid, I., Marques, J. M., Cunha, C. D., Lippi, R. K., Dos Santos, S. C. C., Rosado, A. S., Lins, U., et al. (2007). Identification and biodegradation potential of a novel strain of Dietzia cinnamea isolated from a petroleum-contaminated tropical soil. Systematic and applied microbiology, 30(4), 331-339. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1717450
Yassin, A., Hupfer, H., & Schaal, K. (2006). Dietzia cinnamea sp.nov., a novel species isolated from a perianal swab of a patient with a bone marrow transplant. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology , 641-645.
This page was created by Jennifer Jury and Elizabeth ___, students of Prof. Jay Lennon's Microbial Ecology Class at MSU.
Retrieved from "https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php?title=Dietzia_cinnamea&oldid=61648"

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The bracelet measures approximately 7.25 inches long. The bracelet is approximately .25" wide.


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There's an upside to playing with modest ambition for minor stakes: You don't spend a lot of time in jail. Ramsey County
You might say Daniel Edward Nixon is the Walmart of the Twin Cities criminal set. Court records indicate he takes a decidedly high-volume, low-quality approach to his scores.
During his 55 years on this planet, Nixon has racked up 25 convictions for theft and burglary. If getting caught is the benchmark by which one's illicit skills are measured, his is a stat sheet that suggests additional training is in order.
But there's an upside to playing with modest ambition for minor stakes: You don't spend a lot of time in jail. Since only five of those convictions were felonies, Nixon remained free to carry on his trade among the finer merchants of St. Paul. Until recently, that is.
Over the last year, police investigated a string of low-rent burglaries in and around the capital city. They came with a similar modus operandi: Someone would break a window or a glass door, empty cash registers, steal cigs and lottery tickets, and maybe clean out a safe, then disappear into the night.
The mastermind behind the spree wasn't exactly hewing to the Golden Rule attributed to Hall of Fame robber Willie Sutton in 1952. When asked why he took down banks, Sutton is said to have replied, "That's where the money is."
But this practitioner of the criminal arts was hitting targets where the loot comes in much lower denominations. He was busting into The Ha Tien supermarket, the World of Beers, Big Discount Liquor, the University Buffet, and assorted other minor fiefdoms of commerce that couldn't be counted on for high-yield returns.
At one University Avenue Arby's, police discovered that he had unsuccessfully tried to saw open a safe.
The capers ran from February to September, when the roll came to an end in South St. Paul. Nixon was arrested inside a SuperAmerica, having busted a window to gain entry.
Through store videos and DNA, detectives eventually linked him to 12 burglaries. A search of his West St. Paul apartment only added to his legal woes. Police found hundreds of packs of cigarettes, lottery tickets by the row, broken cash register drawers, and a to-do list of greater Twin Cities convenience stores.
Worse, the evidence suggests that Nixon won't be able to skate lightly this time around. He's been charged with eight felony counts of second-degree burglary.
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The mission of the Exceptional Children's Program is to assure that students with disabilities develop mentally, physically, emotionally, and vocationally through the provision of an appropriate individualized education in the least restrictive environment.
An effort called Project Child Find is underway in the Granville County area to identify children and youth ages 0 through 21 who have disabilities and need special education and other services.
The local efforts to identify children and youth are part of a concentrated statewide effort to find children who need special help, which they are not currently receiving. Project Child Find is also an endeavor to inform the parent(s) and/or guardian(s) of these children about services available from their local school system and other state and community agencies.
According to the Director of the Department of Public Instruction's Exceptional Children Division, help is available for children with special needs. This help includes a complete evaluation, an individualized education program designed specifically for the child and a referral to other agencies providing special services.
Project Child Find is looking for children and youth who have been diagnosed or are suspected to have mental, physical or emotional disabilities and are unable to benefit from a regular school program without assistance.
Anikko Gorham, Exceptional Children's Program Director and Dr. Alisa McLean, Superintendent of Granville County Public Schools, encourage anyone who knows a child or youth who have disabilities and is not in school or receiving special assistance, to urge the parent(s)/guardian(s) to contact: the superintendent, the exceptional children director, principal, or the Department of Public Instruction's Exceptional Children Division.
"We need the help of all citizens in this effort to find children and youth who could benefit from special services… Without this help, a child with a disability may not be found. The right to a free appropriate public education is guaranteed to every child with a disability, ages 3-21."
For more information, call your local school system at (919) 693-1103, 693-4613 or call the Exceptional Children Division at (919) 807-3996. Parent(s) or guardian(s) may call the toll-free Information and Referral Service / CARE-LINE at 1-800-662-7030 and ask for the Exceptional Children Division; or the Family Support Network at 1-800-TLC-0042.
There is clear and concise classroom research evidence that the vast majority of students with disabilities can learn to read on grade level IF appropriate, research validated instruction and learning techniques are effectively employed. Not surprisingly, research has demonstrated that with students with reading difficulties comprehension continues to be highly dependent on word recognition skills (Stanovich, 1991. The amount of assistance readers receive from their ability to translate written words to phonological representations varies directly with the speed with which items to be remembered are encoded (Baddely, Thomson, & Buchanan; Case, Kurland, & Goldberg; Dempster; cited in Adams, 1990). Poor and young readers who are not yet facile at processing letters and sounding out words fail to recode words in meaningful groups and, therefore, are less likely to maintain the meaning of a clause or sentence in short-term memory (Adams, 1990). In effect, readers who are less able to generate high-quality phonological representations as a part of word recognition are at a disadvantage and at-risk for memory loss (Daneman, 1991). Thus, poor word recognition appears to limit (a) storage of and access to word meanings and (b) ability to access or remember sequences of words. The activities that served as the basis of the reading interventions can be thought of as more systematic components of activities that teachers always have done with kindergartners.
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has supported a systematic research program to conduct long-term, prospective, longitudinal, and multi-disciplinary work designed to better understand the causes of reading disabilities as well as effective treatments. To date, more than 100 researchers in fourteen research centers have been funded to study these issues. Because of more stringent scientific requirements, the studies have produced a growing body of similarly designed studies conducted by different researchers that consistently demonstrate the same findings.
For years educators have been puzzled by children with persistent reading problems, many of whom have average to above average intelligence and come to school with good oral language and rich experiences with books. Many of these students have identified disabilities. Since the early 1960's such students have been considered to have a specific learning disability and/or dyslexia and special educational services have been provided although little was understood about the nature of such disabilities and no consensus existed concerning philosophy of teaching reading or instructional methods.
Research focusing on the causes of "unexpected" reading failure indicates that, for many individuals, their difficulties are related to inherited brain differences. Several NICHD studies have found that deficits in working with the sounds (phonemes) of language is related to atypical functioning in specific brain regions. The strongest finding to date is that phonological processing is the primary area in which children with reading difficulties differ from other children. NICHD studies indicate that about 40% of the general population of students have reading problems sufficient to hinder their enjoyment of reading, although for research purposes an arbitrary cutoff point of 20% has been utilized to designate children as reading disabled. For most of these students, however, the primary problem is poor phonological processing and the difference between a student with a learning disability in reading and other poor readers is one of degree (severity) and not a difference in the nature of the problem.
The extensive body of research on students with reading disabilities has uncovered two widely held beliefs among educators about children who are having serious and persistent reading problems. First, an IQ-achievement discrepancy, such as used in most states in identifying students with specific learning disabilities, is not important in the determination of reading disabilities. Second, there is very little relationship between learning to fluently decode and the child's measured intelligence level.
Phonological processing includes three basic components which have been found to be important for success in reading: (1) phonological awareness, (2) rapid naming, and (3) holding sounds in working memory. Of these components, phonological awareness is the most prevalent area of deficit in disabled readers.
Phonemic awareness skills involve the ability to segment words into sounds and to manipulate the sounds of words in different ways. For example, to be a good reader a student must first be able to: recognize that two words have the same beginning, ending or middle sound; segment words into syllables and phonemes; blend syllables and sounds into words; and count, add, and delete sounds within words. Students must also know that letters represent sounds and must be able to map speech onto print. Students with weaknesses in phonological awareness will have difficulty developing these skills which will impact their ability to develop beginning reading skills. Such students do not understand the alphabetic principle of English and fail to develop adequate decoding (letter to sound) skills for reading or encoding (sound to letter) skills for spelling. They may be unable to produce good invented spellings because they do not have the requisite skills necessary to segment words into sounds and map those sounds onto the appropriate letters. Such students tend to rely on their knowledge of words memorized as "sight words' and attempt to read new words based on context or by guessing based on partial letter cues (such as the first and last letters of the word). They may not recognize the common spelling patterns in words so do not benefit from the regularities that exist in the English language. Deficits in decoding (and encoding) are the most critical factors in poor reading for the majority of students. Studies clearly indicate that a major portion of the difficulty students have in reading comprehension is related to inaccurate identification of the individual words encountered which is, in turn, strongly related to decoding skills. It is, of course, possible to read words accurately and still have problems with comprehension and this is an area which is now being studied more carefully.
Students with difficulties in rapid naming are characterized by slow and difficult naming of items such as letters, numbers, and colors. Such students often have difficulty learning letter names/sounds in kindergarten and irregular, high frequency words in first grade; teachers and parents remark that these students seem to learn the information only to have forgotten it later. For such students, learning the names of items requires multiple repetitions over a long period of time and they may be slow to recall the names of the items even when they have been learned. Because they may not be able to accurately or quickly recall letter-sound associations, such children often make "reversal errors" such as hearing the sound of /b/ and writing the letter 'd'- such errors are not related to "seeing" the letter backwards. The result of naming problems is that learning to read is very difficult - decoding and encoding will be affected by the difficulty such students have learning letter-sound associations and memorization of sight words is equally difficult. Even when such students learn to decode accurately, they often have to decode the same words over and over rather than recognizing those words quickly and automatically. Thus, reading is very slow and laborious and these students typically hate reading and avoid practicing.
The NC SIP II staff development resource program has adopted a staff development program entitled Reading Research to Classroom Practice. The content and media in this program have been developed by Rebecca Felton and David Lillie in partnership with the Guilford County School System in North Carolina. The staff development program has been designed to introduce teachers to the knowledge, skills and procedures needed to provide effective instruction for students with persistent reading difficulties. The teaching principles, techniques and strategies presented in the program are supported by an extensive body of instructional research involving students with reading difficulties.
The program is designed to provide teachers with a solid foundation of knowledge and skills needed to deliver effective instruction for students, who, after several years of instruction and learning experiences in reading, still have difficulties reading fluently and are significantly behind their age peers. The program consists of nine units and provides a solid foundation on which to build an effective reading instruction program.
The content and teaching techniques presented in the program are derived directly from the extensive research-based literature available on teaching students with severe reading difficulties. The program reflects the findings of two recent National reports addressing the instructional needs of students with reading problems: Teaching Children to Read, a report of the National Reading Panel, and Preventing Reading Problems of Young Children, a report sponsored by the National Reading Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
The staff development program, Teaching Students with Persistent Reading Problems, is designed to be use as a self-directed learning program and a primary training resource in support of staff development programs for practicing teachers or as a supplemental program for pre-service teacher education courses. It provides a prerequisite solid foundation of knowledge and skills to begin using research-proven teaching strategies and to make long range decisions about the use of instructional procedures and materials.
For additional information, please contact Anikko Gorham, Exceptional Children Director.
To establish a plan that emphasizes inter-agency and parental participation in educational/behavioral planning for students with special behavioral/emotional needs.
Beginning in 1997, the State Board of Education implemented a statewide accountability system that sets annual performance standards for each school in the state to measure the growth in performance by students. Students in North Carolina have made significant academic gains as reported by the ABC Accountability Program since that time. Rigorous and relevant academic standards and assessment systems have been developed. The No Child Left Behind federal legislation has created a new way to look at academic progress. Schools have begun to use research-based practices to teach students reading, writing and mathematics. In addition NCLB is requiring that states identify "Persistently Dangerous Schools." Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Programs are a way to impact the learning environments in the schools in order to support high student performance and to reduce behavioral problems.
Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Programs provide a whole school process for teaching socially appropriate behaviors in order to optimize academic achievement for each student. Whole School Positive Behavior Intervention and Support is a systematic approach that establishes and reinforces clear behavioral expectations. It is a team-based system involving the entire school staff and must have the ownership of teachers, administrators, families, and students. The school staff must adopt a common approach to discipline that is proactive, instructional, and outcome-based. The data about the school is used to guide decision making. The school team looks at the entire school campus and the whole school day.
PBIS is a systems approach or process, not a specific curriculum. The goal is to help educate all students, even students with challenging behaviors. Because of the emphasis on continuous, data-based improvement, PBIS has to be individualized to each school. The adoption and sustained use of effective practices is emphasized throughout. PBS is also an instructional approach that focuses on systematically teaching social behavior using effective instructional methodology. There is an emphasis on teaching and encouraging prosocial behavior, as well as systematically teaching and implementing behavioral interventions for the most difficult students. Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Programs can be integrated with Safe School Plans and Character Education. According to GS. 115C-105.47 each local board of education has to develop a safe school plan designed to ensure that each school is safe, secure, and orderly, has a climate of respect and appropriate personal conduct for all students and all public school personnel. Parents and representatives of the community are to be included in the development of the plan. Similarly according to GS. 115C-81, each local board of education has to develop and implement character education instruction with input from the local community. This instruction is supposed to be incorporated into the standard course of study and include specific traits named in the legislation. Many of the requirements of both safe school plans and character education instruction can be incorporated into the PBIS approach at each school.
There are currently major "barriers" identified in the literature that expose children to serious risk factors in their formative years which cause them to develop anti-social and aggressive behavioral characteristics. These major barriers, which we have also identified as widespread in North Carolina schools, are: failure to recognize and address emergent risk factors dependence on punitive and exclusionary tactics as a primary solution strategy failure to directly teach socialization/interpersonal skills and social responsibility competencies as part of the core curriculum to children, and ineffective home/school/inter-agency coordination and implementation of multi-component intensive "wraparound" interventions to the students with severe behavioral/emotional needs. Addressing these barriers through primary, secondary and tertiary intervention approaches is the essential focus NC SIP II.
Primary intervention approaches are universal and preventive in nature and include proactive efforts directed toward reducing the likelihood of problems emerging. School-wide discipline programs that combine clear expectations, close monitoring/supervision, and standardized consequences for rule violations, as well as social skills, anger management, and conflict resolution, are examples of such approaches that achieve prevention goals.
Secondary interventions require individually-tailored programs applied with specific students. Mentoring programs and individual behavior management programs are examples of secondary interventions.
Tertiary intervention strategies involve intensive intervention approaches applied to children and youth with the most severe behavioral/emotional needs. These are often referred to in the literature as "wraparound " approaches. Such interventions commonly require a case manager who coordinates, supports, and services across families, schools, mental health, juvenile justice, and various social service agencies.
Granville County Public Schools currently has 25% of their schools involved in training or implementing Positive Behavior Intervention and Support. For additional information contact Anikko Gorham, EC Director at (919) 693-1103.


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Helena és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat d'Ohio. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 236 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Helena tenia 236 habitants, 98 habitatges, i 76 famílies. La densitat de població era de 303,7 habitants per km².

Dels 98 habitatges en un 30,6% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 68,4% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 6,1% dones solteres, i en un 22,4% no eren unitats familiars. En el 20,4% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 8,2% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,41 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,75.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 24,2% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 4,7% entre 18 i 24, un 25,8% entre 25 i 44, un 28,4% de 45 a 60 i un 16,9% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 42 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 98,9 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 37.292 $ i la renda mediana per família de 35.938 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 44.063 $ mentre que les dones 22.500 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 18.440 $. Aproximadament l'11,3% de les famílies i el 12,4% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població d'Ohio

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> >> It's not a "half measure", it's providing a sane upgrade path.
> only the old names, then change their scripts to use pg_X.
fall into one of the two camps I outlined above.
assumption to begin with, but I'd say it's at least a minimum.
in every release, deprecating each prior version as we went.
if they don't wish to make changes every year.
> > time to adjust to changes that have been made in the latest releases.
> do not think there's sufficient reason.
code for dealing with different PG major versions either.
To be clear, I'm not in any particular rush to change them 'RIGHT NOW'.


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Appraisal and Analysis
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Types of Reviews
A typology of Reviews
Selected Review Types
Useful in tracing concept development
Scope is broad and comprehensive
Methodology is not standardized
Journal requirements vary - check the journal's instruction for authors. Collins JA, Fauser BC. Balancing the strengths of systematic and narrative reviews. Hum Reprod Update. 2005 Mar-Apr;11(2):103-4.
Reviews of Reviews (Umbrella)
Systematic review using only systematic reviews as subjects
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Assesses scope and quality of individual systematic reviews
Smith V, Devane D, Begley CM, Clarke M. Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2011 Feb 3;11(1):15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-15.
Realist Reviews
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Useful for complex policy interventions
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Rapid Reviews
Used on emerging issues needing quick answers
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Time constraints (often ≤3 months)
Khangura S, Konnyu K, Cushman R, Grimshaw J, Moher D. Evidence summaries: the evolution of a rapid review approach. Syst Rev. 2012 Feb 10;1:10. doi:10.1186/2046-4053-1-10.
Scoping Reviews
Looks at broad research question
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Daudt HM, van Mossel C, Scott SJ. Enhancing the scoping study methodology: a large, inter-professional team's experience with Arksey and O'Malley's framework. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2013 Mar 23;13:48. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-48.
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Requires a team and long term commitment
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Rohingya, Myanmar talks in Bangladesh end in deadlock
Md. Kamruzzaman
No repatriation without citizenship rights, safety under vigilance of international community, says Rohingya representative
Rohingya Muslims, fled from oppression within ongoing military operations in Myanmar's Rakhine state, wait for Bengali soldiers to come and take them to refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar in December, 2017 Fırat Yurdakul - Anadolu Agency )
The second phase of talks between a high-level delegation from Myanmar and Rohingya representatives ended in Bangladesh with a deadlock on citizenship rights.
"They [Myanmar government] have still not agreed to amend the controversial 1982 Citizenship Law to provide citizenship rights to Rohingya and they want us to return as new migrants or newcomers," said one of 35 Rohingya representatives took part in the dialogue on condition of anonymity.
The two-day dialogue between the Myanmar delegation, led by its Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary U Myint Thu, and representatives of Rohingya was held in Bangladesh's southern Cox's Bazar district on Saturday.
The three-hour-long meeting on the first day of dialogue ended without any breakthrough. The dialogue continued on Sunday for three and half hours, but no agreement could be reached on the citizenship rights.
"We don't want to be hopeless. The Myanmar's delegation team is committed to hold dialogue with Rohingya people again in Bangladesh over the pending issues after consultation with their government," Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Abul Kalam Azad told Anadolu Agency after the talks.
He added the delegation took note of all demands of the Rohingya in the meeting. "They will leave Bangladesh for Myanmar today and discuss with their leaders about the demands of Rohingya. They will come again to continue dialogue".
However, the Rohingya representative, without getting citizenship rights and safety guarantee under the presence of international communities, none of them are ready to return to their country.
"The delegation has assured us that we will be given security and access to our previous location. UNFPA [United Nations Population Fund] and UNDP [United Nations Development Program] are working there and we will be secured there", he added.
"But, without citizenship rights, such assurances are not enough for us to return to Myanmar," he said, adding the Myanmar team proposed to provide Rohingya with cards identifying them newcomers or new migrants.
"It's nothing new to us. If we agree to this proposal it means that we again fall prey to Myanmar authorities," he said.
- 'Genocidal regime'
Meanwhile, Nay San Lwin, campaign coordinator of rights group Free Rohingya Coalition, told Anadolu Agency: "If Myanmar wants to take back Rohingya, they have villages map, houses photos and each family details. They can rebuild everything and send lists to Bangladesh to bring back the people who fled from the killing field."
He believed Myanmar is visiting Bangladesh to ease international pressure. "I don't think we will gain anything from dialogue with genocidal regime. They regime hasn't abandoned the genocidal policy against Rohingya yet," he added.
Myanmar signed a repatriation deal with Bangladesh on Nov. 23, 2017. In November last, the first scheduled Rohingya repatriation was halted as Rohingya refugees expressed unwillingness to return to their homeland, Myanmar, calling it "unsafe" for return.
A recent study conducted by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), an Australia-based think tank, said that Myanmar has "minimal preparation" to support a safe, dignified, and sustainable return of Rohingya refugees taking shelter in neighboring Bangladesh.
The research mapped the current status of 392 Rohingya settlements identified by the UN as damaged or destroyed during the 2017 crackdown and found more than 320 settlements with no sign of reconstruction, according to key findings of the report.
Based on the satellite images provided by the UN Operational Satellite Applications Program, the think tank claimed they also found new proof of crackdowns as late as 2019.
- Persecuted people
The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world's most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.
According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017, pushing the number of persecuted people in Bangladesh above 1.2 million.
Since Aug. 25, 2017, nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar's state forces, according to a report by the Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA).
More than 34,000 Rohingya were also thrown into fires, while over 114,000 others were beaten, said the OIDA report, titled "Forced Migration of Rohingya: The Untold Experience."
Some 18,000 Rohingya women and girls were raped by Myanmar's army and police and over 115,000 Rohingya homes were burned down and 113,000 others vandalized, it added.
*SM Najmus Sakib in Dhaka contributed to this story.
Link :https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/rohingya-myanmar-talks-in-bangladesh-end-in-deadlock/1543565?fbclid=IwAR2nSUZodTVhdaj17dwdFbHbgHsb7sbGolYKaDQaIQRM6-IQWezg9OGZ3Uk
Labels: 2019, Bangladesh, en, Myanmar, Nay San Lwin, News, Rohingya, Rohingya Camp


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Like many RVs, ours came from the factory with some awnings already installed. There's one over the bedroom window on the curb side and a long one covering both living room windows on the driver's side. Of course there's a large main patio awning and one over the door as well.
The only large window without a dedicated awning is in the living room on the curb side. Obviously, the manufacturer assumed that the patio awning would do the job of blocking the sun from that window.
But there are times when it's imprudent to have our main awning out, like on really windy days, or when we're away from the RV and don't want to risk damage in the event of a sudden weather change (considering the consequences, we'd rather not rely on our awning's wind sensor).
The worst scenario is a hot, windy day while we're dry camping, as we generally try to avoid running the generator for A/C unless it's absolutely needed. Blocking direct sun by using windshield screens and awnings makes a major difference in the comfort level inside the RV. As we always want the option of blocking the sun from the right-side living room window (especially since we often face that side of the rig to the south when we're boondocking), we need an awning specifically for that window.
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We've had our rig for over 9 years, and we're finally installing that awning that we've always talked about. It's the perfect DIY project and we'll show you exactly how it's done. It's such an easy job that we're not sure what took us so long to finally get around to it!
I also have a Mountain Aire – although a bit older than yours – with identical awnings. Last hurricane managed to "deploy" the long window awning over our driver side slide windows. Looks like the only damage is to the plastic end caps of the roller tube and the strap which is gone. Unfortunately, the tube end caps appear to be impossible to purchase. Any ideas?
Hey Michael! Wow! Must've been some winds in that hurricane! Sorry to hear you sustained damage! If you have A&E/Dometic window awnings and you're talking about the caps on the roller tubes through which the axle/rotation point for the awning comes through, we think you may end up having to replace the whole "torsion" assembly in order to get new ones. We'd recommend that you look at the labels on your roller tube (it's visible when the awning is completely extended) and arms (again, when extended you should be able to see the label inside the arm) to get the models & serial numbers off of them. With that information, you should be able to speak to a dealer and make sure that you get the correct part numbers for both end assemblies. Once you have those, you'll basically need to disassemble most of the awning in order to install the new parts (including being sure to pin the springs so you don't get hurt in the process). Hope this helps… and best of luck!! Let us know how you make out!
I used a 2.5 inch adjustable hose clamp to reattach the end caps to the tube. Part of the caps are missing and they were torn loose from the pop rivets. Cranking down on the hose clamp after carefully aligning the remaining portion of the end cap allowed the slightly bent tube to rotate. I had to drill out the riveted pins attaching the arms to the wall brackets so I could use the arms to re-tension the awning (I've only done the left end cause it's cold in FL this evening). I couldn't find 1/4 inch x 3 inch clevis pins which would be the correct pin replacement so had to use 1/4 x 3 inch stainless steel bolts and double nuts to replace the drilled out pins. With only the left end tensioned (17 turns per my 1996 documentation) the awning retracts tightly. Tomorrow I'll get a replacement pull down strap and re-tension the right end. Hopefully that will return the awning to operation until I can get replacement caps or machine some out of AL. I'm going to add 2 arm lock brackets so this doesn't happen again!
The large patio awning is Velcro strapped and bungee cord wrapped. I didn't open in the wind. Of course it has a rotation lock and latches.
This was great! I installed two awnings…Carefree of Colorado so a bit different…but pretty much the same, right down to the socks! The video made everything go so much smoother than just following the rather confusing printed instructions. Thank you.
That's awesome! So great to hear that we've been helpful. Thanks for letting us know. Enjoy your new awnings.
Awesome video! I've installed window awnings before but wish I could have watched this video first. Thanks again!


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Women's Tennis closes out regular season with 4-2 win over UC Riverside
by Rafael Medina April 25, 2021
After suffering a road sweep last week against UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly Women's Tennis bounced back by defeating UC Riverside 4-2 in the final game of their regular season on Saturday, April 24 at the SRC Tennis Courts.
With the victory, Cal Poly secured a spot as the No. 2 seed ahead of the Big West Conference Tournament with a 7-2 conference record and 13-2 overall record.
The Mustangs started the day in doubles play with their duo of redshirt freshman Dominique Stone and redshirt junior Mackenzie Worsnop defeating UC Riverside's pair of Serina Saltzen and Sydney Tran 6-2 on the No. 3 court.
On the No. 1 court, redshirt sophomores Emily Ackerman and Kim Bhunu maintained the momentum and carried out a 6-3 victory against UC Riverside's duo of Tia Elpusan and Hahn Pham to clinch the doubles point.
In singles play, Bhunu sustained the upper hand for Cal Poly after winning consecutive sets of 6-1 at the No. 2 spot to extend the Mustangs' lead to 2-0.
At the No. 4 spot, redshirt freshman Delanie Dunkle added to the Cal Poly lead after winning straight sets of 6-2 and 6-1.
However, the Highlanders fought back to get their first point of the game after defeating Stone 6-4 in the first set and 6-2 in the second set at the No. 1 spot to cut the deficit to 3-1.
In a tough contested match at the No. 5 spot, Ackerman took an early lead after winning the first set 6-1, but ultimately fell after losing 0-6 in the second set and 4-6 in the decisive third set to bring the score to 3-2.
As UC Riverside looked to make its comeback, redshirt freshman Melissa Lamette secured the win for Cal Poly in another hard-fought match. LaMette let go of the first set, suffering a 4-6 defeat, but bounced back to win the second set 6-1 and finished off the third set with a 6-2 victory close the game out at 4-2.
Cal Poly awaits its Big West Conference Tournament opponent taking place in Irvine, California on Thursday, April 29.
Tagged: Cal Poly women's tennis, Delanie Dunkle, Dominique Stone, Emily Ackerman, kim bhunu, Mackenzie Worsnop, Melissa LaMette


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Photographer Alec Soth seeks the American South neither in traditional small towns nor in the cities and suburbs of the New South but in the forest. His portfolio "Black Line of Woods," 2006–2007, commissioned by the High Museum as part of its ongoing "Picturing the South" exhibition series, includes twelve images taken in secluded areas of seven Southern states. A sense of isolation dominates Soth's South. Single figures, all male (his backwoods world appears to be free of women), are engulfed by their natural settings. In S. J., Nubbin Creek, Alabama, 2007, lush greenery overtakes an elderly man in a camouflage T-shirt. An Eastern Orthodox priest in Resaca, Georgia, 2006, bearded and dressed in a dark cassock, wanders meditatively through a leafless autumnal forest. Though dwarfed by the trees' tall, slender trunks, he anchors the composition, standing where the image's diagonal axes meet. Soth's stated focus in "Black Line of Woods" has been social outsiders, and while his images risk romanticizing the loner, the scenes' stillness and quietude largely mitigate that effect.
Seven entries in the series do not feature men, but buildings or detritus imply human presence. A lone, simply built house at dusk, eerily lit by a single street lamp, appears against a looming dark forest in Bardstown, Kentucky, 2006. The forest floor in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2006, is littered with cardboard, beer bottles, a pill bottle, and a plank of wood bearing the messages LEPRECHAUN WAS HERE NOV. 1, 2006. and BITCH. J. J. I WILL KILL YOU. I AIN'T NO FAG. Though each of Soth's images seems to have a story to tell, any narrative is only hinted at, not disclosed.
In some cases, Soth's unpopulated pictures are so strange—and possess such formal refinement—that one wonders if they might not be staged. A giant disco ball hangs from a tree in Enchanted Forest (36), Texas, 2006. Just below, at the base of the tree, are an overturned Frisbee and a deflated basketball. These two round objects related to leisure activities form a triangle with the mirrored ball at its apex, a meticulous arrangement that seems more than coincidental. In Enchanted Forest (45), Texas, 2006, a lightbulb supported by wires hangs from the trees over a green blanket littered with dried leaves, referring, seemingly, to William Eggleston's famous photograph Greenwood, Mississippi, 1973.
Soth states that although "there is some direction" involved in his work, his photos are not fully staged. Nonetheless, tension inevitably arises between the presumptive documentary facticity of the photograph and recognition of the ease with which digital photographs are manipulated or that many photographers working today construct their scenes entirely. In the end, however, it makes no difference: Soth's images are rich, pithy, often poignant, and sometimes humorous—regardless of how they came into being.
—Philip Auslander


As the world spins faster with emails, tweets and Instagram, most humans need several ways to cope with the resulting pressures. We need to maintain some semblance of balance and some sense that we have it together. Otherwise we feel overloaded, overreact to minor annoyances, and feel like we can never get everything done. As far as I'm concerned, one of the best ways to relax is to seek and enjoy solitude.
From the start, I will make a big distinction between solitude and loneliness. Loneliness is a negative state, marked by a sense of isolation. I feel that something is missing. I have been with with people and still felt lonely—for me the most bitter form of loneliness. Loneliness is harsh and is a punishment of sorts. It is clearly a deficiency state marked by a sense of estrangement and an awareness of excess aloneness.
Solitude is being alone without being lonely. It is a positive and constructive state of engagement with oneself. It was an epiphany for me when I found that I was very good and sufficient company. Solitude is a time for reflection, a way to touch your inner yearning. Deep reading requires solitude as does experiencing the wonder of nature. Thinking and creativity evolve from periods of solitude as an awareness that everything has been created in oneness. The blade of grass, the tree that stands, the bird that flies, and the living, breathing human being all share a oneness with the divine.
Solitude permits peacefulness and a state of inner richness. It is a means of enjoying the quiet and drawing sustenance from it. This is something to be cultivated like a spring garden. Solitude leads me to contemplative prayer where I commune with the divine. It is refreshing; an opportunity to renew myself.
Almost all sandpipers migrate in flocks and nest on the ground, but the Solitary Sandpiper breaks both rules. In migration, as its name implies, it is usually encountered alone, along the bank of some shady creek. If approached, it bobs nervously, then flies away with sharp whistled cries, leave me alone! In summer in the northern spruce bogs, rather than nesting on the wet ground, the Solitary Sandpiper lays its eggs in old songbird nests placed high in trees.
This lovely bird forages in shallow water, moving about actively, picking items from the surface. It also loves to probe mud looking for something delectable. While walking in water, this creature may pause and quiver one foot, presumably to stir up small critters from the bottom. The Solitary Sandpiper feeds on many insects in the water and along the shore, including beetles, dragonfly nymphs, grasshoppers, crustaceans, spiders, worms, mollusks, and occasionally small frogs. They are happy birds.
A long-distance migrant, these birds winter mostly in South America, especially around swamps and riverbanks in the Amazon Basin. They apparently migrate mostly alone and at night. In the spring they reverse the pattern and prepare for mating season, a popular event among Solitary Sandpipers.
To be a happy and healthy person, most of us know that we need to sleep well, eat right, and exercise. But how important "human connectedness" is to our overall mental, emotional, and physical well-being is another matter. For a lot of folks there is a tendency to obsess over the past and worry about the future (instead of simply being present), and too much time alone may have mental and physical health consequences. Human connection anchorsour awareness firmly in the present (instead of worrying and obsessing when alone). But we seem to be following the path of the Solitary Sandpiper.
While the very best cure for loneliness is a strong "in-person" social network (i.e. not Facebook) and a loving family, this isn't possible for everybody. Unless we go back to tribal living like our ancient ancestors, a more realistic solution is ideal. For me, meditation has allowed me to lose my sense of self and creates a feeling of oneness with my surroundings. By making me feel connected to everyone and everything, meditation cancels the detrimental mental, emotional, and physical effects of my solitude. While friends come and go, meditation is there for me.
The strangest thing is that more and more people in our society and in all countries around the world are choosing to adopt a strange, never-before-witnessed lifestyle, on a very large scale … that of the lone creature. Who is this masked man?
In Stockholm (2017,) 60% of all households had just 1 occupant.
In the US (2017), solo dwellers constituted 31% of all households.
Most solo dwellers in the US are primarily women (about 19 million), compared to the 16 million solo men. Most are middle-aged (35 – 64 years).
In the 1950's 500,000 young adults (18-34 years) lived alone. In 2017 5,000,000 lived alone. Some 55% of 18-24-year-olds live in their parents' home and 16% of those 25-34 live with their parents.
The 4 countries with the highest rate of people living alone are Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. 40-45% of all households in these countries have just 1 person.
In 1996 an estimated 153 million people lived alone throughout the world. In 2017, of the world's two billion households, approximately 15 percent – or 300 million – are one-person households. What an astonishing social and cultural shift! Whereas once solitary confinement was given to criminals as a punishment, now more and more people are actually finding it desirable. A question we need to ask now is why? What on earth for?
Call it self-centeredness, or cloud-watching, but these days we have become interested in ourselves more than others. Our lives revolve around "my career", "my happiness", "my image", "my Facebook status", "my success". Our lives revolve around ourselves. We no longer care about selfless living to serve God, country or people.
Is this a necessarily bad phenomenon? Admittedly, it does does have the potential to create many problems both within and without ourselves if we don't take time to sincerely invest some in a spiritual life and the happiness of others. But there is a positive side to this social shift from group to individual– it gives us space to breathe, to look into ourselves, to do that which makes us happy and whole. We can discover more about ourselves – our strengths, weaknesses, desires, motivations, behavioral patterns – with little to no distractions. Essentially, living alone gives us more time to focus on ourselves, assisting us in developing our abilities that can ultimately better our lives, and the lives of others. My exploration of things spiritual began when I began living alone, which would not have occurred otherwise.
Living alone gives you the ultimate freedom to wind down and relax, helping you to recover from your busy and intense work days or volunteer activities as the case may be. Living alone gives us the time and freedom to explore and work on our passions. Most of the greatest writers, artists and musicians connected with their creative selves in solitude as it provides the best environment to think, to dream and to create. On the other hand, living in a house occupied with multiple people makes it very difficult to completely relax in peace and silence.
You can do what you want, when you want, where you want when you go solo. You don't have the drain and pressure of having constant, tedious duties to fulfill, and you never have to walk on eggshells around other people. This can be both a good and bad thing: while living with others can actually teach you beneficial life-skills, giving you first-hand experience in "how to get along" with other people and how to compromise peacefully, it can also repress and hinder you from living a harmonious and enjoyable life.
We live in a highly connected society that demands us to be present and engaged in the exterior world of gossip and news almost 24/7. There is a relationship between the demand for constant connection, whether online or on the job, or in your world, and the enormous increase in the amount of time we spend on our own. Living alone gives me the gift of time, time that allows me to focus on what means the most to me, rather than superficially dividing and throwing around my attention here and there.
Solo dwelling creates a harmonious balance in my life that allows me to enjoy and value the presence of other people more. It's human nature to take our friends, family and loved ones for granted. Living alone, devoid of the presence of others, helps me to appreciate these people more when they arearound.
When living alone, we have no one to cook for us, clean for us, wash our smelly undies or grubby socks. It's completely up to us to take care of ourselves – because if we don't, no one else is going to. When we realize that we canbe self-sufficient, and we cantake care of ourselves, we develop a lot more respect for ourselves. This in turn enhances our sense of self-worth and self-esteem. I cleaned my first toilet at age 62 and felt good about it.
Single life continues to be beset by notions that singles are less secure and more self-centered than married people. The belief is they tend to die sooner, alone and sad. Yet observations of people who live alone typically find that most are doing just fine; they don't feel isolated, nor are they sad and lonely. Reports of the early death of single people have also been greatly exaggerated , as have ideas that marriage transforms miserable, sickly single people into happy and healthy spouses.


I wanted to try out something new so I figured this neglected blog was as good as anyplace to do it. So, welcome to the blog on a new platform, Ghost.
It seems to be fast as heck running on node.js so I'm going to kick the tires and see how it goes.
I noticed that my server change on the old blog lost some photos, I know where they are but not certain I want to go through migrating them. So you might see some old posts with missing photos. I'll figure out if that's worth fixing or not.


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Tue, Jan 21 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Stone Avenue Library
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Tue, Jan 21 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Central Library, Info Commons Lab
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Learn to play or improve your chess game with instructor Reinaldo Duran. For beginers or advanced players. Tweens, teens and families welcome.
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Thu, Jan 23 10:00 am to 11:00 am Carroll Gardens Library
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