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beevean · 1 year

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I'm thinking of getting into the Castlevania series. Are there any good games to play as a starting point (that's preferably not an NES game)?

Haha, yes there are :D

There are roughly three CV genres: Classicvanias, '80s and '90s platformers where you play as a Belmont, you only have a whip and subweapons at your disposal, the physics are stiff, and you're going to die a lot; Metroidvanias/Igavanias, the 2000s games where you explore the castle, level up, find equipment, and gain new abilities to proceed; and 3Dvanias, which it's self explanatory :P

I'm going to assume that by "NES game" you mean the Classicvanias, so I'm going to skip past them.

Symphony of the Night (PS1) is an excellent starting point, and it was mine. It's the first Metroidvania and by far the most beloved. It's the game that turned Alucard into the icon we know today and gave Dracula his tragic backstory. The game itself has a nice structure where it starts off as linear, then it slowly opens up, and the difficulty is on the easy side (perhaps too easy, if you know what you're doing: the game has a lot of little secrets). Add a great atmosphere and a superb OST, and you have a gem in your hands. (to note, though, SoTN is the direct sequel of Rondo of Blood, a Classicvania, and while it's not necessary to understand it I feel it enriches the experience. If you ever decide to play a Classicvania, RoB is a pretty good choice)

Aria of Sorrow (GBA) is the next most beloved game. It polishes all the little flaws of the previous games, including SoTN, and streamlines the experience. The main gimmick of this game is that the protagonist, Soma Cruz, has the power to absorb monsters' souls and use their power, so every playthrough is a different experience (unless you grind lol). Fun fact, this is the second to last game in the timeline, taking place in 2035, and it's very important for Dracula's character. It also has a direct sequel for DS, Dawn of Sorrow, which IMO was pretty good but not a first player's choice.

Portrait of Ruin (DS) is a personal favorite of mine :D you play as two characters at the same time, Jonathan Morris who is more focused on melee weapons and Charlotte Aulin who is more focused on magical spells, and instead of traversing a giant castle, you traverse a castle and go inside magical portraits à la Super Mario 64 lol. In my opinion a balanced, charming game. Some of the tracks were composed by Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage fame, btw!

3Dvanias are a bit of a special case: I think they're worth playing, just not as your very first titles. Maybe after you tried these three?

Lament of Innocence (PS2) is the first game in the timeline, and it narrates how the Belmonts became Dracula's sworn enemy. In the context of the games of the 2000s, it's a rather odd beast: you play as Leon Belmont, so again you mainly use the whip and subweapons (but you can combine those subweapons with orbs you collect and increase your attacks exponentially), and the structure is similar to Mega Man's, in that you choose which area of the castle you want to explore via teleporters. You don't level up, but you unlock new moves with the whip, and there is a lot of 3D platforming you'll have to do. Excellent atmosphere and music.

Curse of Darkness (PS2) is technically the sequel to Castlevania 3, but you only need to know that Trevor Belmont killed Dracula 3 years prior. You play as Hector, a Devil Forgemaster who can forge weapons and monsters to help him in battle. The structure is unique in that you'll have to go from point A to point B, but there is the occasional backtracking you'll have to do once you unlock the right moves. If you can get past the very flat level design, the main focus of the game is fighting enemies to gain materials to forge equipment with, and level up his Innocent Devils like Pokémon lmao. It's one of my favorites and I think it's super fun, but I may be biased. Also another game with a stellar soundtrack.

These are my picks. I hope you have fun <3

#castlevania #symphony of the night #aria of sorrow #portrait of ruin #lament of innocence #curse of darkness

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 3 years

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NEXT-GEN ASTRONOMICAL SURVEY MAKES ITS FIRST OBSERVATIONS TOWARD A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE COSMOS The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation collected its very first observations of the cosmos at 1:47 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (07:47 UTC) on October 24, 2020. This groundbreaking all-sky survey will bolster our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies -- including our own Milky Way -- and the supermassive black holes that lurk at their centers. The newly launched SDSS-V will continue the path-breaking tradition set by the survey’s previous generations, with a focus on the ever-changing night sky and the physical processes that drive these changes, from flickers and flares of supermassive black holes to the back-and-forth shifts of stars being orbited by distant worlds. SDSS-V will provide the spectroscopic backbone needed to achieve the full science potential of satellites like NASA’s TESS, ESA’s Gaia, and the latest all-sky X-ray mission, eROSITA. “In a year when humanity has been challenged across the globe, I am so proud of the worldwide SDSS team for demonstrating -- every day -- the very best of human creativity, ingenuity, improvisation, and resilience. It has been a challenging period for the team, but I’m happy to say that the pandemic may have slowed us, but it has not stopped us,” said SDSS-V Director Juna Kollmeier. As an international consortium, SDSS has always relied heavily on phone and digital communication. But adapting to exclusively virtual communication tactics was a challenge, as was tracking global supply chains and laboratory availability at various university partners while they shifted in and out of lockdown during the final ramp-up to the survey’s start. Particularly inspiring were the project’s expert observing staff, who worked in even-greater-than-usual isolation to shut down, and then reopen, operations at the survey’s mountain-top observatories. Funded primarily by member institutions, along with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Heising-Simons Foundation, SDSS-V will focus on three primary areas of investigation, each exploring different aspects of the cosmos using different spectroscopic tools. Together these three project pillars -- called “Mappers” -- will observe more than six million objects in the sky and monitor changes in more than a million of those objects over time. The survey’s Local Volume Mapper will enhance our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution by probing the interactions between the stars that make up galaxies and the interstellar gas and dust that is dispersed between them. The Milky Way Mapper will reveal the physics of stars in our Milky Way, the diverse architectures of its star and planetary systems, and the chemical enrichment of our galaxy since the early universe. The Black Hole Mapper will measure masses and growth over cosmic time of the supermassive black holes that reside in the hearts of galaxies as well as the smaller black holes left behind when stars die. “We are thrilled to start taking the first data for two of our three Mappers,” added SDSS-V Spokesperson Gail Zasowski of the University of Utah. “These early observations are already important for a wide range of science goals. Even these first targets cover goals from mapping the inner regions of supermassive black holes and searching for exotic multiple-black hole systems, to studying nearby stars and their dead cores, to tracing the chemistry of potential planet-hosting stars across the Milky Way.” “SDSS-V will continue to transform astronomy by building on a 20-year legacy of path-breaking science, shedding light on the most fundamental questions about the origins and nature of the universe. It demonstrates all the hallmark characteristics that have made SDSS so successful in the past: open sharing of data, inclusion of diverse scientists, and collaboration across numerous institutions,” said Evan Michelson, program director at the Sloan Foundation. “We are so pleased to support Juna Kollmeier and the entire SDSS team, and we are excited for this next phase of discovery.” SDSS-V will operate out of both Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, home of the survey’s original 2.5-meter telescope, and Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, where it uses the 2.5-meter du Pont telescope. “SDSS-V is one of the most important astronomical projects of the decade. It will set new standards not only in astrophysics but also in robotics and big data,” said the observatory’s Director Leopoldo Infante. “Consequently, to ensure its success, the Las Campanas Observatory is prepared to carry out the project with all the human and technical resources available on the mountain.” SDSS-V’s first observations were gathered in New Mexico with existing SDSS instruments, as a necessary change of plans due to the pandemic. As laboratories and workshops around the world navigate safe reopening, SDSS-V’s own suite of new innovative hardware is on the horizon -- in particular, systems of automated robots to aim the fiber optic cables used to collect the light from the night sky. These will be installed at both observatories over the next year. New spectrographs and telescopes are also being constructed to enable the Local Volume Mapper observations. “Carnegie has enabled SDSS to expand its reach to the Southern Hemisphere. I’m so pleased to see our role in this foundational effort expand with this next generation,” concluded Carnegie Observatories Director John Mulchaey. IMAGES....The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation made its first observations earlier this month. This image shows a sampling of data from those first SDSS-V data. The central sky image is a single field of SDSS-V observations. The purple circle indicates the telescope’s field-of-view on the sky, with the full Moon shown as a size comparison. SDSS-V simultaneously observes 500 targets at a time within a circle of this size. The left panel shows the optical-light spectrum of a quasar--a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy, which is surrounded by a disk of hot, glowing gas. The purple blob is an SDSS image of the light from this disk, which in this dataset spans about 1 arcsecond on the sky, or the width of a human hair as seen from about 21 meters (63 feet) away. The right panel shows the image and spectrum of a white dwarf --the left-behind core of a low-mass star (like the Sun) after the end of its life. Image Credit: Hector Ibarra Medel, Jon Trump, Yue Shen, Gail Zasowski, and the SDSS-V Collaboration. Central background image: unWISE / NASA/JPL-Caltech / D.Lang (Perimeter Institute).

#space #science #Astronomy #physics

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edda-blattfe · 4 years

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Hello, the dorm leaders reacting to Coco and Finding Nemo please ? Ps: I really love the way you write the characters.

You really wanna see those boys cry, huh? Sorry it took so long to answer, had to find time to sit and rewatch both of these masterpieces. Hope y’all enjoy!

Finding Nemo

- Azul takes a personal interest in the marine life displayed in the film. Occasionally slips some fun facts in about the different kinds of fish and oceanic biomes. Nerd. Gets all of the fish jokes.

- Not even five minutes into the film and Kalim is already tearing up because MARLIN LOST EVERYTHING EXCEPT HIS LIL BABY AND OH MY GOD WHY WOULD YOU START A MOVIE THIS WAY?!?! Everyone else is shaken, and oddly impressed by the writers’ bold choice.

- Marlin: *is being an ass, telling Nemo there are things he just can’t do*

Nemo: I hate you.

Leona: Oof, shots fired!

- *Nemo gets kidnapped*

Idia: This is why you should never leave home...

- *Dory is introduced*

Riddle: Short-term memory loss?

Azul: It’s like those times when you walk into a room but forget what your going for, except all the time.

Kalim: Do I have short term memory loss?

Vil: No.

- Azul: *narrows eyes at the first scene with the aquarium scene* Is this a representation of how living in the confines of a small enclosure without enrichment deprives animals of their basic social needs, thus leading to these mentally unstable fish?

Leona: They’re crazy fish! It’s funny! Stop over analyzing everything and watch the god damn movie!

- *Darla pic appears*

Vil: *shudders* Are they sure that little gremlin didn’t eat the fish after shaking it to death?

- *scene when Marlin watches the baby sea turtle get back to the current on his own*

Malleus: Children have got to be free to live their own lives.

Vil: Did you just quote from “The Little Mermaid”?!

- Kalim and Riddle are literally screaming when Marlin thinks Nemo is dead and have pillows clutched to their chest. Then papa clownfish leaves Dory after she literally told him that he helped her remember stuff and she didn’t want to forget anymore and they were freaking sobbing! After the second time Nemo nearly died the two of them needed to rehydrate.

- Idia likes the “just keep swimming” ditty. Hopefully Ortho will learn it and sing it to him whenever big brother starts stressing out.

Coco

- Miguel: “Sometimes I think I’m cursed.”

Malleus, Idia, and Leona: Same.

- They all have mad respect for Mama Imelda. Man left her, but did she cry and lose hope? Nope! She worked her ass off and established a family business focused on shoe making, of all things! She could stand to loosen up when it comes to music tho...

- The focus on Dia de Los Muertos in the film really gets Idia’s attention. It’s nice to see a culture that honors the dead instead of fear them, as many do, especially in such a beautifully bright way!

- *Abuela smashes guitar*

Azul: *gasps in horror* How could she?!

Malleus: Not even the original villains were that cruel!

Leona: I don’t know, Triton was pretty bad too, if I recall.

- *Miguel enters the spirit world*

Leona: *whispers* I see dead people.

- Kalim loves the close relationship Miguel has with his family, even the ones who’ve passed on. It kinda reminds him of home, you know, in that bittersweet way. He’s probably gonna be a little homesick after this.

- Leona, on the other hand, thinks Miguel needs to cut ties with the fam and strike out on his own. If they won’t support his dreams why stick around, right?

- Mama Imelda: “ That devil box tells you nothing but lies! *proceeds to beat computer with boot*”

Idia: Hey Mal, it’s you!

Malleus: *unamused*

- Vil is amazed by all of the detail the animators put into every single scene. It’s such a stark contrast to their earlier works, you can really see the refinement of their skills. Pretty boy just really appreciates the hard work that led to the completion of this beautiful film.

- You know that scene when Hector’s friend has his final death as the moon shone across the water, and Hector played him a song for the last time? Yeah, no one is forgetting that scene anytime soon.

- Riddle is the one who really gets into the music, something about the tune gets straight to his heart. Heartlabyul better be prepared to have mariachi music playing for the next month.

- Hector: *big reveal about how De la Cruz stole his songs*

Everyone: *gasps*

Azul: Does that mean that Hector could be Miguel’s great grandfather?

Everyone else: 😶

- No one expected that twist!

- Leona: That makes way more sense than his great grandfather running out on Imelda. Who could leave such a nice peace of-

Idia: *jumps out of emo corner* Respect the dead, you thirsty hoe!

Leona: 0_0

- *they finally figure out that Hector and Miguel are related*

Azul: Knew it!

Riddle: Stop spoiling the movie!

- I don’t care how hard your heart is, there isn’t a soul alive who doesn’t tear up when Hector sings “Remember Me” to his baby girl, and these kids are no exception! Kalim is clutching to a pillow while Riddle is holding onto his arm, balling their eyes out. Vil is dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief. Leona had buried himself into the couch cushions so no one could see that he has a soul. Idia is hidden in his hoody. Meanwhile, Azul and Malleus simply sit there misty eyed.

- *Mama Coco remembers her papa*

Everyone: *sobbing*

- Kalim: *with snot running down his face and tears streaming down his cheeks* Ma-*hiccup*-ma Coco got to see her papa again and Hector got to live and they’re all so happy! *ugly crying*.

Vil: Don’t get that on the carpets..ugh, here *hands a handkerchief*

Kalim: Thanks...

#twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #ask #finding nemo #coco

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rainyday-deer · 4 years

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vt-scribbles replied to your post: Speaking of Hector's voice though, Hector's little...

Oh god I can HEAR his stupid voice ghdslkghsdlkhg also of course he just ‘kay’, he’s been stuck in a tree for 25 years he needs ENTERTAINMENT

He’s BORED he needs ENRICHMENT

#vt-scribbles #'KAY >:D'#Feral Tree Man

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blazingxhero · 4 years

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Beau-tea and the Best tea

Host Club Starter for @healingmist

When Eliwood saw the ad for the host club, he immediately jumped at the opportunity despite knowing absolutely nothing about host clubs and how it operates. To him, it was imperative that he enrich himself with the land’s culture and cultivate his own life experiences. He believed that Pherae could stand to gain a lot from his learnings. Also, the idea of chatting with someone new over tea and sweets was a charming one, the perfect chance to gain new friends.

When the list of participants was announced and saw that he was going to be a host, he became mildly worried. If tea was the reason why their partner was excited, surely they were tea connoisseurs. In that case, he will have to allot some time to polish his tea brewing skills. Good thing he brought Lowen along, he’s the perfect person to practice on since he could get accurate feedback on the taste of his brew.

Another thing that caught the redhead’s eyes on the list were two names. Hector’s participating? Huh. Either the academy changed Hector so much that he now enjoyed tea time with strangers or some sort of mistake has been made. A prank, maybe? Whatever the reason is, he hoped that his friend would enjoy the event. As for the other name, Lyn...could it be? Could Lyndis also be around? He would have to ask Hector about her later. It’d be nice to see Lyndis again. He hasn’t heard anything from her since she left Caelin.

The day of the event came. At that point, Eliwood had enough tea brewing practice that he was close to being called a master. Still, he couldn’t help but feel nervous. He had been informed that as a host in a host club, he needed to flirt in order to entertain his guest. He was capable of a lot of things and flirting was not one of those things.

It didn’t take long for Eliwood to locate his designated table and wasted no time to set up. His partner could arrive at any moment. Sure enough, he heard footsteps approach him which prompted him to rise from his seat. He smiles at the new person. His eyes turning into little crescents as he did so. Whatever nerves he had been feeling was immediately thrown out of the window. “Hello, I am Eliwood.”, his voice gentle and pleasant. He placed a hand above his heart and took a little bow, “I am delighted to make your acquaintance.” Afterwards, he smiled rather charmingly as he gestured to the seat. “Please take a seat.” Hopefully, his guest was a gracious one and didn’t mind the lack of whispering of sweet nothings. But just in case, he had already prepared an apology for his impending lackluster performance.

#thread: Beau-tea and the Best Tea #healingmist #//i hope this is okay haha #//eliwood is more of a natural charmer. he has no idea how to flirt on command #//elsewhere lowen is bloated from all the tea that he had to taste test for eliwood

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jayden24blr · 4 years

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Global High-Availability Server Market Size, Status and Forecast 2019-2025

Educational technology is a means to enrich the learning experience. To that end, digital classrooms make use of advanced technological learning aids (such as interactive whiteboards and 3D printing) to boost student interactivity and to enhance knowledge retention. As a result, educational institutions have increased their budgets to include more collaboration, assessment, and enterprise resource planning systems in their delivery methods.

The adoption of active learning strategies in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education as one of the primary growth factors for this market. The introduction of innovative teaching pedagogies resulted in a major paradigm shift in the delivery of education. Educational institutions have started focusing on adopting effective learning strategies to enhance STEM education. Active learning allows teachers to have access to tools, which help create inquiry-based learning interfaces and assist students in enhancing their inquiry skills and enabling them to leverage the knowledge base. Additionally, active learning also faciltates instructors to change language settings, incorporate concept mappers, and operationalize theoretical concepts, which will drive its adoption among schools and colleges.

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North America is the major revenue contributor to the market throughout the next four years. The adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) program and the increasing technological investments in higher education institutions in the US, will fuel the growth of the market in this region. Moreover, the intensifying competition among higher education institutions will induce administrators to improve the quality of education, which will also drive the demand for active learning platforms.

In 2018, the global Higher Education Active Learning Platform market size was xx million US$ and it is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during 2019-2025.

This report focuses on the global Higher Education Active Learning Platform status, future forecast, growth opportunity, key market and key players. The study objectives are to present the Higher Education Active Learning Platform development in United States, Europe and China.

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The study objectives of this report are: To analyze global Higher Education Active Learning Platform status, future forecast, growth opportunity, key market and key players. To present the Higher Education Active Learning Platform development in United States, Europe and China. To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their development plan and strategies. To define, describe and forecast the market by product type, market and key regions.

In this study, the years considered to estimate the market size of Higher Education Active Learning Platform are as follows: History Year: 2014-2018 Base Year: 2018 Estimated Year: 2019 Forecast Year 2019 to 2025 For the data information by region, company, type and application, 2018 is considered as the base year. Whenever data information was unavailable for the base year, the prior year has been considered.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Report Overview

1.1 Study Scope

1.2 Key Market Segments

1.3 Players Covered

1.4 Market Analysis by Type

1.4.1 Global Higher Education Active Learning Platform Market Size Growth Rate by Type (2014-2025)

1.4.2 Technologies

1.4.3 Active Learning Platforms

1.5 Market by Application

1.5.1 Global Higher Education Active Learning Platform Market Share by Application (2014-2025)

1.5.2 Educational Institutions

1.5.3 Universities

1.5.4 Training Organizations

1.5.5 Others

1.6 Study Objectives

1.7 Years Considered

Chapter Two: Global Growth Trends

2.1 Higher Education Active Learning Platform Market Size

2.2 Higher Education Active Learning Platform Growth Trends by Regions

2.2.1 Higher Education Active Learning Platform Market Size by Regions (2014-2025)

2.2.2 Higher Education Active Learning Platform Market Share by Regions (2014-2019)

2.3 Industry Trends

2.3.1 Market Top Trends

2.3.2 Market Drivers

2.3.3 Market Opportunities

Chapter Three: Market Share by Key Players

3.1 Higher Education Active Learning Platform Market Size by Manufacturers

3.1.1 Global Higher Education Active Learning Platform Revenue by Manufacturers (2014-2018)

3.1.2 Global Higher Education Active Learning Platform Revenue Market Share by Manufacturers (2014-2018)

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biofunmy · 5 years

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How to Tell if That Peach Is Ripe? Ask Southern California’s ‘Produce Hunter’

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Shopping at the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, Karen Beverlin reached into a five-pound box of tart Belle Magnifique cherries, grabbed a couple and ate them.

Tart cherries are tricky to size up at a glance: Flavors can range from gently tangy to very sour, and just looking at them offers no reliable clues. All Ms. Beverlin had to go on was her palate. She ate a few more, and smiled.

She motioned to Tristan Aitchison, the chef de cuisine at Providence restaurant in Los Angeles. He hadn’t intended to buy cherries, but after seeing the look on her face — and tasting the cherry she held out to him — he decided he had to have five pounds. The stand, Andy’s Orchard, was already sold out, but Ms. Beverlin let him buy one of the boxes she had ordered.

“She’s the godmother of the market,” said Mr. Aitchison, who relies on her advice about what to buy as he plans his menus. Within a week, the roast duck entree at Providence sported a grilled cherry sauce.

Ms. Beverlin, who calls herself the Produce Hunter, tests, tastes and talks fruit and vegetables for a living: As the vice president of specialty sales for FreshPoint Produce, one of the nation’s largest produce distributors, she supplies schools, hospitals, restaurant chains and cruise lines.

Her job also includes forging relationships between small farmers and demanding chefs like Mr. Aitchison — “the ones,” she said, “who are known for their commitment to quality local produce.” They rely on her deep knowledge of the rhythms and quirks of Southern California’s bounty: what will be ready in days or weeks, and who will have the most flavorful crop.

On her Instagram, @fpproducehunter, she alerts followers to whatever is best in a given week — mixed summer squash, baby corn — as well as the dishes her client chefs make with them, like a salad of Little Gem lettuce and Cara Cara oranges at Tartine Bianco in Los Angeles.

Three times a week, Ms. Beverlin prowls farmers’ markets in Santa Monica and Hollywood, collecting intelligence and working with a handful of growers she has come to favor over time, while FreshPoint drivers load large orders onto two trucks parked at the market’s edge.

The Wednesday market in Santa Monica, the city’s biggest, runs one block by two blocks. Ms. Beverlin needs six hours to walk it.

At 59, after more than 30 years in the business, she is a market celebrity, interrupted every 50 feet by a young cook seeking advice or a veteran farmer eager to ply her with a sample. A tall, commanding presence with a rollicking laugh, she is easy to find: If a knot of people has gathered around a tomato or a plum, she is likely at the center of it, expounding.

Her first bit of advice, no matter where you shop: Don’t fall for a pretty face, because most produce has a different sort of “tell,” a visual giveaway that it’s ready to eat.

Tart cherries keep their secrets, but the best sweet cherries advertise with “tiny little pittings, in a cluster,” she said, and a matte finish rather than a patent-leather sheen. A great nectarine has “sugar spots, a bunch of little white freckles,” not a consistent hue.

As for peaches, she dismisses the red blush that may draw customers. The only color that matters, she said, is at the stem end, which should be yellow without a hint of green.

“Red exterior color was bred into peaches and nectarines,” she said, “because unripe fruit that’s red looks more attractive than unripe fruit that’s pale.”

Many people pinch fruit to gauge its ripeness, much to the horror of farmers. The standard five-fingertip squeeze bruises peaches, nectarines, apricots and avocados. Instead, Ms. Beverlin places a peach in her open palm, wraps her hand around it and barely flexes. If it gives just a bit, “firm, but not hard,” it’s ready.

On a recent Wednesday, she spent almost an hour at Andy’s Orchard — too much time, by her own admission — tasting and testing stone fruit with a portable Brix refractometer, which measures sugar levels in a few drops of juice. It’s the only objective measurement she relies on.

“It helps to communicate what I’m tasting,” she said. “All the chefs understand the Brix numbers, so it provides a baseline.”

She wasn’t looking for what most people think of as peak ripeness. She wanted fruit just shy of that point, when sugar levels are higher and it has the most flavor.

“It took me years before I realized what I was seeing: Tree-ripe fruit that’s firm tastes better than what is traditionally identified as ripe, when fruit is soft,” she said. “I think some consumers give up flavor to get juice running down their arms. But they don’t know what they are missing.” (She buys fruit that’s fairly firm, then lets it sit on the counter at home until it starts to yield. At that point it goes into the refrigerator so it won’t get soft.)

Ms. Beverlin headed down the street to visit her preferred group of stands — one for the best Burgundy plum, another for green beans, though none so far this season for “machos,” which is what farmers called male zucchini blossoms.

All the while, she kept up a running commentary: If the green cap at the stem end of an eggplant was starting to turn brown, it was getting dehydrated. If an artichoke wears a red heirloom sticker, which happens only in the spring and fall, “grab it,” she said, because it will outshine other varieties.

The farmers and chefs Ms. Beverlin works with consider her essential to their success, not only for her recommendations but also for logistical help.

Robin Koda, a farmer in South Dos Palos, northwest of Fresno, brings her rice to the market, but her truck is too small to handle 2,000-pound pallets for larger sales. So Ms. Beverlin arranged to send a FreshPoint truck once a month to pick up one or two pallets of rice and rice flour, increasing and stabilizing Ms. Koda’s business.

Mr. Aitchison said Ms. Beverlin is the main reason he and his boss, the Providence co-owner and chef Michael Cimarusti, order from FreshPoint. The restaurant buys all its organic dairy products from the company, as well as staples like garlic, fresh ginger, chives and shallots.

While Mr. Aitchison likes to shop the farmers’ markets himself, Ms. Beverlin occasionally adds special produce to his order — “an incredible advantage,” he said, for a chef who might not otherwise know that there were only two boxes of a particularly delicious nectarine.

When told of all the praise, Ms. Beverlin shrugged.

“These people,” she said, “are my family.”

She did not plan to end up here. At 18, she enrolled at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, intending to become a large-animal veterinarian, only to find, she said, that “I didn’t like the science and wasn’t good at it.”

During her senior year, she landed an internship at the nonprofit Fresh Produce Council (now the Fresh Produce & Floral Council), which led to 20 years on the shipping side of the business and 10 years at her current job. At first, it worked well for a single mother: Buying produce is an early-morning business, so Ms. Beverlin was able to be home when her young daughter returned from school.

That daughter, Amy Beverlin, grew up to be a lawyer. Last year, she gave her mother a birthday present: a two-tiered wheeled market cart, complete with cup holder and bell.

As Ms. Beverlin worked the market, she got an urgent text from Hector Salas, a FreshPoint driver, saying that someone had dropped a zero from an order for 100 pounds of lemon cucumbers. The farmer had set aside only 10 pounds. What should he do?

She dispatched Mr. Salas in one direction and lit off in the other, rattled. When he reported that he had found 80 pounds from another farmer, she asked him what color they were.

“A good lemon cucumber should be a lemon-chiffon color, a light yellow,” she said. “Then the yellow turns darker, like the highlighter on my computer. The skin gets thicker. They’re overmature.”

If the cucumbers were a dark yellow, she told him, “I’d rather not fill an order.”

The cucumbers were light in color, Mr. Salas said. They had saved the day.

Ms. Beverlin’s last stop of the afternoon was the Munak Ranch stand, which in her opinion grows the best tomatoes at the market. Tomatoes, like tart cherries, can be inscrutable, but Ms. Beverlin knows what to ask farmers and is happy to tutor anyone — a young chef or the overwhelmed customer standing next to her.

The first thing to figure out about tomatoes, she said, is your personal preference.

“You have to learn what you like. If you like a low-acid Japanese tomato, you’re not going to like a high-acid Sungold or Pineapple,” she said, because the flavors are so different. She prefers the assertive flavor combination of high-acid, high-sugar tomatoes and fruit, “the holy grail, the ones that make your jaw tingle,” but allows that others might prefer a more subtle taste.

“The point is to try different varieties,” she said, “so you can walk up to a farmer and say, ‘What do you have that’s low- or high-acid?’”

Geography and farm practices matter, too. The ideal climate for tomatoes is hot days and cool nights, which describes Paso Robles, where Munak Ranch is located. To enrich the soil, Munak plants cover crops for three months every year, a formula the farm foreman, Hugo Gomez, keeps secret even from Ms. Beverlin, though she believes it involves peas and vetch. The process loosens the soil, provides better drainage, yields stronger plants and produces more flavorful tomatoes.

She checked in with Mr. Gomez about the Celebrity tomato crop, which was supposed to arrive in two weeks. When he told her they might be ready sooner, she flipped into acquisition mode on behalf of her chefs: Could she have them in a week? Could he bring some to the weekend markets?

She could; he would.

“Bye, Pumpkin,” said Ms. Beverlin, who reserves that nickname for a select few.

“Mamacita,” said Mr. Gomez, who has been farming longer than Ms. Beverlin has been placing orders.

Only one thing gnawed at her as she headed for the parking lot. Two farmers had asked, incredulous, if she was about to retire. They had heard a rumor she might, though neither remembered the source. Maybe it came from a competing distributor, she said — who else would have floated such a ludicrous idea?

“I’m going to die at this market,” said Ms. Beverlin, with a defiant smile and that laugh. “They’re going to call my daughter and say: ‘Hey, Amy, your mom just went down. Can you come by to pick her up?’”

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isaactor hecula isaacula for the bingo? for fun, trevor/grant too

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The divorsties 🥰

I got in an Isaactor mood again after picking up my old WIP, which is funny because the chapter I'm working on is mostly Hector bashing Isaac like the bitter ex that he is :P but yeah. They have a relationship. Not sure what kind of relationship, but they definitely have one. I wish at least one of the prequels fed me more than the smallest of breadcrumbs.

... I'm just weak for that "we're fundamentally incompatible and we are toxic for each other and we are using each other for our deepest selfish needs and yet we are so close that we're part of each other and I can't imagine my life without you" thing that is rotating in my head. Then you add the divorce, and you have a beautiful mess <3

Hecula:

"It's not my OTP," I say, as I squee fangirl-style everytime I see someone fall in hell with me, or even better draw fanart/talk about it. I may be in denial :P

Anyway, yadda yadda, it's abusive, it's gross, it's Problematic™, it hits those very nice tropes that make my brain rot faster than fruit in summer (age gap, abuse of power imbalance, mentor/protégé, manipulation...), IMO it enriches Hector's character arc of finding freedom and agency in the human world, I am utterly fascinated by how Dracula's feelings for Hector are described in Japanese, it's Lenector done right.

(I was about to tick "it would never work in canon but", just to get that bingo, but I can't lie. After all, it's canon and I have proof :P although I admit there is a lot of heavylifting to do here since we know very little of what Hector thought of Dracula pre-betrayal)

Isaacula:

The mirror opposite of Hecula. Isaac adores his Lord and would nullify himself for him, and Dracula is, at best, only mildly amused to have a dog at his beck and call, but won't grant him the Special Treatment that Isaac craves :P I still rotate in my head various possibilities on what Dracula does to Isaac, from completely ignoring him, to only feeding on him but pretty much for necessity, to also using him as a toy but without any sort of fondness, just a way to manipulate him and keeping him happy and compliant.

Sidenote, I find somewhat amusing that Isaac is "merely" Dracula's loyal servant in canon, as in one that simply didn't even think of betraying his Lord, but it's just so, so easy to imagine him as being utterly, selflessly devoted to the point of self-destruction. It's because of the collar and tattoos. Because Isaac has a fantastic character design that tells you everything you need to know about him without anyone explaining it to you. (and personally, I've always loved his line "if you have a good weapon, you use it, don't you?", which just. says a lot about him. my broken boy <3)

And second sidenote, I honestly wonder why any combination of Dracula/Hector/Isaac seems to be so unpopular, even back in the day when people were far less picky regarding ships :\ (N!Isaactor is quite popular, but I haven't found anything for N!Isaacula and N!Hecula. The latter sucks so I understand, but idk, are people really afraid of some good lord/servant ship even when positive like in the former's case?)

Gravor (?)

I see them as fire-forged besties (or "besties" 😏), but I can absolutely see the romantic appeal! Also their relationship is underrated in general because Grant is underrated in general :(

#castlevania #yeah i'm tagging listen to my ramblings :p #isaactor #hecula #isaacula #gravor #i really need a better name for the latter lmao

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Abe Tries Wielding a Trump-Like Trade Hammer

(Bloomberg) -- Want to receive this post in your inbox every day? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more.Shinzo Abe is borrowing from Donald Trump’s playbook.Japan’s prime minister is tightening controls on exports of material vital to South Korea’s tech industry, shortly after Japanese companies were held liable in a Seoul court for cases of forced labor before and during World War II.While Abe denied it was retaliation, South Korean President Moon Jae-in warned today he would take further action if Tokyo didn’t reverse course.The melee shows how countries – China is another one with a track record here – are increasingly using trade leverage in political disputes, with potentially disruptive consequences for global supply chains.While the Trump administration officially cited national security concerns in blacklisting Huawei Technologies, the U.S. president has since used the company as a bargaining chip in his trade war with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.Trump’s actions are particularly risky when it comes to Japan and South Korea, both longtime U.S. allies with a history of conflict dating back decades. Instead of playing the role of mediator, he's used U.S. economic weight to demand better terms for basing troops in each country.As such, it’ll be hard for Trump to tell Abe not to put “Japan First” when it comes to South Korea ties.Global HeadlinesBiden’s mea culpa | Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden spent the weekend apologizing for his remarks about his civil relationships with segregationist senators in the hopes of putting the issue behind him. But Trump wasn’t ready to let it go. “Sleepy Joe Biden just admitted he worked with segregationists,” the president, who himself is often accused of using racially charged rhetoric, tweeted.Click here for more on why Trump is seizing on the issue, in the first installment of Campaign Update, which will provide up-to-the-minute news and analysis on the 2020 race, weekdays on the Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg.com.Facing the consequences | After removing Turkey’s central bank governor for failing to lower borrowing costs, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made clear he expects the successor to toe the government’s line on monetary policy. But the move is likely to backfire. 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Issoufou told Katarina Hoije that too little is being done to combat the fighters, some of whom have been linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State.Secret weapon | Hector Rodriguez has emerged as the fresh face of the middle-aged regime of Nicolas Maduro, Alex Vasquez reports. In some circles in Venezuela, Rodriguez’s name is whispered as the best chance of holding onto power if an international coalition forces new elections to break the stalemate with youthful opposition leader Juan Guaido. But even if Maduro somehow left, Rodriguez would bear the weight of his predecessor’s ruinous economy. What to WatchIran may choose to enrich uranium at 20% purity level as its next step in a new policy that’s gradually undoing the restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reports. Greece’s center-right New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won a healthy majority in Sunday’s election. The Harvard-educated former banker quickly needs to show he can tackle the country’s persistent economic problems when he’s sworn in today as prime minister. This could be a critical week for Trump’s lawyers in their fight to keep the president’s financial records out of the hands of congressional Democrats. And finally... Trump put his feud with the co-captain of the U.S. women’s national soccer team on ice following yesterday’s historic World Cup win, telling the players, “America is proud of you all!” On June 26, Trump took on Megan Rapinoe — a purple-haired LBGTQ rights activist whose goal helped clinch the team’s fourth title — for saying she wouldn’t go “to the f__king White House” if the team won, based on her opposition to Trump’s policies. 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Global Oxygen Concentrator Market to Exhibit Impressive Growth During 2018-2025

An oxygen concentrator is a device which concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply (typically ambient air) to supply an oxygen-enriched gas stream. Oxygen concentrators typically use pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology and are used very widely for oxygen provision in healthcare applications, especially where liquid or pressurized oxygen is too dangerous or inconvenient, such as in homes or in portable clinics. For other purposes there are also concentrators based on membrane technology.

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The market for oxygen concentrators has undergone significant changes and improvement with the introduction of portable technology. The devices have become lighter, more powerful and affordable, leading to increasing demand in the homecare department. Rising worldwide geriatric population means rise in homecare oxygen treatment. People with respiratory conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis and emphysema have benefitted greatly with innovations in oxygen concentrator technology. Some of the new and improved versions of the standard large and bulky devices include AirSep’s LifeStyle Portable Oxygen Concentrator, Inogen One G3, VBOX Trooper, EverGo, Invacare XPO2 and iGo. As the demand for lighter technology by consumers and need for better mobility support for the aged rises, new competitors enter the market, thereby driving innovations. This has resulted in high-quality devices at lower prices.

The U.S. accounts for the largest share of the global oxygen concentrator market, followed by Europe, due to growing consumer awareness, rising incidences of COPD and demographic changes. After the Federal Aviation Administration approved the onboard use of certain portable oxygen concentrators, its applications have widened. Among the Asia-Pacific countries, India, China, Australia and Japan have been identified as emerging markets, and Latin American nations such as Brazil and Mexico are expected to register substantial growth.

The global Oxygen Concentrator market is valued at 1300 million US$ in 2018 and will reach 2350 million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of 8.8% during 2019-2025. The objectives of this study are to define, segment, and project the size of the Oxygen Concentrator market based on company, product type, end user and key regions.

This report studies the global market size of Oxygen Concentrator in key regions like North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Central & South America and Middle East & Africa, focuses on the consumption of Oxygen Concentrator in these regions.

This research report categorizes the global Oxygen Concentrator market by top players/brands, region, type and end user. This report also studies the global Oxygen Concentrator market status, competition landscape, market share, growth rate, future trends, market drivers, opportunities and challenges, sales channels and distributors.

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CareFusion

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DeVilbiss Healthcare

Drive Medical

Respiration Equipment

Respironics

Providence Global Medical

Intersurgical

Eget Hi-Tech

Race Medical

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Market size by End User

Home Care

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United States

Canada

Mexico

Asia-Pacific

China

India

Japan

South Korea

Australia

Indonesia

Singapore

Malaysia

Philippines

Thailand

Vietnam

Europe

Germany

France

Italy

Spain

Russia

Central & South America

Brazil

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Middle East & Africa

GCC Countries

Turkey

Egypt

South Africa

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1.1 Oxygen Concentrator Product

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1.4 Market by Type

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1.4.2 Portable

1.4.3 Fixed

1.5 Market by End User

1.5.1 Global Oxygen Concentrator Market Size Growth Rate by End User

1.5.2 Home Care

1.5.3 Non-Home Care

1.6 Study Objectives

1.7 Years Considered

Chapter Two: Executive Summary

2.1 Global Oxygen Concentrator Market Size

2.1.1 Global Oxygen Concentrator Revenue 2014-2025

2.1.2 Global Oxygen Concentrator Sales 2014-2025

2.2 Oxygen Concentrator Growth Rate by Regions

2.2.1 Global Oxygen Concentrator Sales by Regions

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How to Introduce Engineering Principles Early to Help Inspire Interest in STEM

This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our newsletter.

QUINCY, Wash. — A few years ago, a young female engineer named Isis Anchalee was featured on one of her company’s recruiting posters only to be subjected to a barrage of digital feedback questioning whether she was really an engineer. People posting on Facebook and Twitter said Anchalee was too attractive to be an actual software engineer and must be a model.

Anchalee responded like the techie she is. She wrote a blog post about her experience and added a photo of herself with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer. Twitter exploded with selfies of female engineers of all backgrounds and male engineers of color declaring they looked like engineers, too.

If she had known about the hashtag campaign and taken a look, Alessandra Gudino Aguilar, age 8, might have seen a grown-up version of herself. Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science.

“I like the process,” Alessandra said after a lesson in which she and her classmates used simple machines to move a bag of potatoes in an attempt to find the potato-moving option that required the fewest newtons, the unit of measurement for force.

Third-grader Alessandra Gudino Aguilar, 9, adjusts the simple machine, a lever, that she and her classmates are experimenting with during their STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. (Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report)

“Ask, imagine, plan, create, improve,” Alessandra recited when asked what her engineering class was about. “You get to use a lot of your creativity more.”

Alessandra is the youngest of three siblings. Her father works in construction and her mother, she said, works making French fries. A Latina student living in rural America, Alessandra is not the stereotypical future engineer. More than many professions, engineering is still dominated by white men. Forty-nine percent of the jobs in science and engineering were held by white men in 2015, according to the National Science Foundation’s report on “Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.”

Black and Hispanic women together claimed less than 4 percent of jobs in science and engineering, according to the report. Less than a third, 28 percent, of scientists and engineers working in those fields are women. Black and Hispanic men held less than 7 percent, total, of science and engineering jobs in 2015.

And while science and engineering degrees earned by Hispanic people have been increasing over the past decade, that same National Science Foundation report found that the number of science and engineering degrees earned by black people has actually declined.

High schools and colleges have been aware of the imbalance, and tried to remedy it, for years: There are many programs aimed at pulling women and students of color into science and math fields as teens and young adults. Some, like the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, have been inordinately successful at guiding underrepresented students, including many young women, from middle school algebra through to a college degree in a STEM subject. Other efforts, like the Hour of Code challenge by Code.org, are more about exposing kids to the world of science and engineering than about shepherding individual students through years of education.

During their STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington, Emmett Bogle, 9, pulls a bag of potatoes up a ramp, while classmates Madilynn Mendoz-Felix, 8, and Mason Duran, 9, check the force reading and Hector Quintero-Ruesga, 9, records the result. (Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report)

The Museum of Science’s Engineering is Elementary curriculum is aimed at attracting potential engineers before they get distracted by whether or not they fit the stereotype. Since 2003, more than 15 million 6- to 11- year-olds at thousands of schools across the country have been taught how to think like engineers using the curriculum.

Initial findings from the first study of how well the curriculum works show that students taught with Engineering is Elementary learn both science and engineering better than those taught the same subjects without the eight key elements included in the Museum’s curriculum. It turns out that explicitly teaching students about the connections between engineering, science and math, teaching the engineering design process rather than just posing an engineering challenge, and helping students gather information from failed attempts all make a difference to students’ ability to absorb and retain science and engineering concepts. Researchers also found that kids’ attitudes about girls in engineering were more positive for both boys and girls after being exposed to the Engineering is Elementary curriculum.

The Museum of Science, a nonprofit, makes an effort to ensure both children of color and girls have access to this hands-on curriculum and are represented in the stories used to kick off each unit. The curriculum is designed to fit into a teacher’s regular schedule. There are 20 units featuring engineering design projects that can be purchased independently and used alongside or in place of science units on the same topic, like electricity, water or insects. The teacher’s guide for one unit costs $55; an accompanying storybook is $9. Materials can be also purchased from the museum, but most materials needed to complete the experiments — like rope, pulleys and cardboard — can be borrowed from home or bought cheaply at grocery or hardware stores.

Teacher professional development options run the gamut from a one-day class for teachers new to the curriculum to a three-day session for teachers learning to train other teachers. Costs for whole-school training sessions range from $2,500 to $10,000 depending on location. Independent workshops at the museum can cost as little as $450.

Teachers whose students are mostly from low-income families are eligible for subsidized curriculum materials and professional development.

First-grade students at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington, eager to try out the ramp their teacher is demonstrating during their STEAM enrichment class, raise their hands in hopes of getting a turn. (Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report)

Camille Jones, a teacher at Pioneer Elementary School, discovered Engineering is Elementary in 2014 when she went online looking for ways to teach her students engineering concepts. Jones had just joined Pioneer as a STEAM enrichment teacher. (STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.)

“I really loved what I saw,” Jones said of the stand-alone units. “I wanted a unit we could all do together [as a school]. I found a civil engineering unit on building bridges and thought that would be accessible to all.”

In one of her very first classes using the new-to-her curriculum, Jones said a struggling student blew her away with the model he built. She worked with his other teachers to pull him into the advanced STEAM class she taught despite his low grades in other subject areas.

“We talked so much about engineering and all the other fields and you could see him thinking, ‘Oh there is a future. I’m good at this and I want to live into that,’” said Jones, who was her state’s teacher of the year in 2017.

Engineering as a profession is expected to grow by 8.3 percent between 2016 and 2026 and to offer an average of 126,600 open jobs each year during that time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some engineering fields could grow even faster. The Bureau predicts we will need 10.6 percent more civil engineers and 15.2 percent more petroleum engineers. Engineering technicians, who need a solid background in math and science but not a bachelor’s degree in engineering, will also be in high demand with approximately 40,100 openings per year on average.

Perhaps even more relevant to students from low-income families: Engineering jobs tend to offer steady, upper-middle class employment. The annual mean wage for all engineers as of May 2017 was $96,670, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For children growing up in a school district like Quincy’s, where apple and pear trees are far more plentiful than bachelors’ degrees, exposure to engineering as a possible future job must happen at school, said Pioneer Principal Alesha Porter. “I just want our students to know it’s possible for them to become engineers and go to college,” Porter said.

Both Porter and Jones are from Quincy and attended high school together in the early 2000s. Porter was among the first in her family to attend college. Jones, who had grown up, she said, with “about as much privilege as anyone is going to have” in Quincy, got to college intending to major in engineering and found herself totally unprepared for the coursework. Both women aspire to better prepare their students to pursue engineering degrees, should they choose that path.

The Museum of Science in Boston isn’t the only provider of engineering curricula for elementary school students. The Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, offers Amplify Science, which incorporates engineering principles of problem solving. Various other organizations like TryEngineering.org, PBS Kids and NASA offer engineering resources for K-12 classrooms.

There are also several single-city pilot programs offered by colleges. One, from Purdue University in Indiana, trains elementary school teachers to teach science using engineering design principles. American University and Johns Hopkins University work together on another to offer a program at nine high-poverty schools in Baltimore that both trains teachers and instructs students in real-life engineering projects.

“What we tried to do was pick topics that were very relevant to the student to make it appealing to kids of that age group in Baltimore,” said Carolyn Parker, the director of the masters of arts program in teaching at American University, who leads the project. “Kids at one school,” she said, “were really bothered by the number of feral cats. They wanted to help them. So how could you build cheap structures to provide shelter for cats in the winter time?”

Building those structures got the kids in Baltimore excited, Parker said, and that’s what she wants to see at the elementary school level, especially for girls and students of color. “I love science,” she said. “I love imparting that excitement and interest in the world to young people.”

The National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency, funds Parker’s work and several other organizations that work to get engineering classes into elementary schools. The Foundation also pays for studies, like the one being conducted on Engineering is Elementary, that examine how successful these new programs are at teaching kids about science and how to solve problems like an engineer. One of the goals of the National Science Foundation is to keep the United States “at the leading edge of discovery.” That includes preparing America’s schoolchildren to take on the massive task of leading in science in the 21st century, something we are arguably not making a priority.

Lesson materials from the Boston Museum of Science’s Engineering is Elementary curriculum cover the bulletin board in teacher Camille Jones’s Pioneer Elementary School classroom in Quincy, Washington. (Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report)

American elementary school students currently get little exposure to math and science. Students in first through fourth grade spent an average of just 2.5 hours per week on science during the 2011-12 school year, the last for which data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Performance on measures of elementary students’ science proficiency reflect the minimum focus; just 38 percent of fourth-grade students performed at or above proficient on the 2015 National Assessment of Education Progress.

Numerous surveys have found that nearly half of elementary school teachers feel underprepared to teach science. Confidence in teaching engineering isn’t usually surveyed because engineering is not considered a standard elementary school subject. For that reason, teacher professional development is a critical part of the success of any engineering curriculum, said Christine Cunningham, founding director of Engineering is Elementary.

Cunningham said the elementary school teachers she’s worked with “really want those students to be able to understand the world around them and succeed. If [teachers] come in contact with a resource that engages a student who has struggled, they will bend over backwards to get those resources into their very full classrooms.”

Cunningham said teachers have guided her team’s curriculum development work from the beginning and that the curriculum has become so widely used because teachers have found it effective, especially with otherwise hard-to-reach kids.

Engineering lessons changed everything in her fifth-grade classroom in Lawrence, Massachusetts, said Nia Keith, now the director of professional development for the Museum of Science. Kids living in Lawrence, a mostly low-income community, weren’t often exposed to engineering concepts at home and many struggled to stay engaged with typical math and science lessons at school, Keith said.

But when she started teaching engineering, complete with hands-on projects and searches for creative solutions, “kids who didn’t speak up or show up as leaders were suddenly throwing out ideas,” she said. “It allows for all kinds of learning to shine.”

Back in Quincy, a ramp made of cardboard had collapsed and the top, stuck on with masking tape, kept coming off. Without missing a beat, Alessandra and a friend found some sturdier packing tape, fixed the ramp, and resumed collecting data on whether the short steep ramp or the long shallow one was a better way to move a bag of potatoes.

Alessandra said later she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do when she grew up but with her calm practicality and clear interest in the project, it isn’t hard to imagine her looking at herself in the mirror in 15 years and thinking: “Well, yes, I do look like an engineer.”

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The Masons’ New Car - Earlier This Year, Paul Mason And His Wife Chardonnay Mason

Assignment 1: The Masons’ New CarNote: The company mentioned herein is merely a hypothetical organization with characteristics developed to enable students to respond to the assignment. You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment if those assumptions are consistent with the facts presented. Do not make assumptions which obviate the need to conduct a legal analysis of the issues. ScenarioEarlier this year, Paul Mason and his wife Chardonnay Mason went to Rivertown and Gregory Ford, Dodge and Chryslers LLC. to purchase a new car. Last time the Masons bought a car was in 1990 when they bought their current car, a 1991 Plymouth Voyager van. The Mason’s daughter, Rosé recently gave birth to the Masons’ first grandchild and the proud grandparents were excited to be taking a road trip from Macon, Georgia to Freehold, New Jersey, to see the new addition to the Mason family. They knew that the old Plymouth had seen better days and that it might not make the 2,000 plus mile round-trip. The Masons were leaving for New Jersey in the morning, so they needed a new car and fast. When the Masons met with the salesperson at R&G, they explicitly stated that they were on a fixed income and could afford no more than $400 per month in the form of a car note. They were, however, willing to trade in their old van toward the purchase of the new car. Hector Dosales, one of R&G’s most aggressive salespersons, convinced the Masons to buy a new Chrysler 200. By the time the Masons were ready to buy, it was after 9: 00 p. m. and the dealership was soon closing. To speed things along, Hector had the Masons sign blank form contracts that he would fill out the next day. Among the blank contracts that the Mason’s signed were a “Retail Installment Sales Contract”, a “Retail Buyer's Order”, and an “Odometer Disclosure Form”. When Paul Mason asked about the terms of the deal, Hector said not to worry about it. He would structure things so that the payments would be under their $400 limit. When Paul asked how much he was getting for his trade-in, Hector said, “Don’t worry about it. I’ll make sure you get a fair price. ” While the various forms were being signed, Chardonnay, who has a weak bladder, excused herself and in the confusion neglected to sign the Retail Buyer’s Order. The next day when Hector was filling out the sales documents, he was having difficulty getting the car payments under the $400 per month limit he had promised. While reviewing the forms, he noticed that the Odometer Disclosure Form indicated that the Masons’ van had only 58,528 miles on it. Due to the exceptionally low mileage on the vehicle, Hector was able to substantially raise the trade-in value, thereby reducing the car payments to just under $400 per month. The Odometer Disclosure Form had, in fact, been completed by Mary Jane, one of the clerks working at the dealership. After Hector had completed the sales documents and while the Masons were on their road trip, Hector attempted to place the sales documents with a third-party finance company. Because of the Masons’ low monthly income and poor credit history, no one was willing to purchase the contract. In the meantime, the Masons’ van was sent to auction. A Carfax report quickly indicated that the correct mileage on the vehicle was 154,000 miles not 54,528 miles. In fact, service records from R&G’s service department, where the Masons regularly brought the car for maintenance, clearly indicated that the car had over 100,000 miles on it. Because of the high mileage, the Van sold for $800 at auction, despite the $2,800 Hector had indicated as a trade value. When the Masons returned home, they were contacted by the service department of R&G and asked to bring in their new car for a complimentary service and detailing. When the Masons arrived, they surrendered the keys to the new Chrysler and were subsequently asked into a meeting with Hector and Felicia Fees, head of the finance department at R&G. Felicia informed the Masons that they did not qualify for financing the new car and that unless they had the cash to buy it, they would have to return the car. Of course, the Masons did not have the money to buy the car and told Felicia that they could just keep the car and they would take their old car back. Felicia informed the Mason’s that their van had already been sold at auction. Moreover, the Masons would be responsible for the usage of the new car at the standard lease mileage rates of . 45c per mile. Since they drove the car 2,500 miles, they owed the dealership $1,125. Subtracting the $800 R&G received for the Masons’ van at auction, Felicia demanded payment from the Masons of $325. Needless to say, the Masons refused. The Masons have filed suit against R&G in Magistrate Court in Macon, Georgia, to recover the value of their van which they claimed to be the $2,800 Hector listed in the sales documents. (Magistrate Courts are low level courts that handle, among other things, small claims matters. ) R&G has moved to dismiss the case and compel the Masons to arbitrate any claims they might have in accordance with the Arbitration clause contained in the Retail Buyer’s Order, which reads as follows: “Buyer and Dealer agree that all claims, demands, disputes and controversies of every kind or nature that may arise between them concerning any of the negotiations leading to the sale of the vehicle, the terms and provisions of the sale, the performance or condition of the vehicle, or any other aspects of the vehicle and its sale shall be settled by binding arbitration. . . . Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is the intention of the Buyer and the Dealer to resolve by binding arbitration all disputes between them concerning the vehicle, its sale and its condition, including disputes concerning the terms and conditions of the sale, the condition of the vehicle, any damage to the vehicle, the terms and meaning of any of the documents signed or given in connection with the sale, any representations, promises or omissions made in connection with negotiations for or sale of the vehicle, or any terms, conditions or representations made in connection with the financing, credit life insurance, disability insurance, and vehicle service contract purchased or obtained in connection with the vehicle. ”The Retail Buyer's Order also contained the following provisions: “If the purchase of the vehicle is being financed, Buyer understands that the sale is contingent upon obtaining approval of the financing by the financing agency. In the event that the vehicle has been delivered to Buyer but financing approval is not obtained, Buyer agrees to immediately return the vehicle to the Dealer. ”ClaimsYou are the Magistrate Judge in Macon County Georgia and have to decide this case. The Masons make the following claims in the complaint: There never was a contract in this case since the contract documents were not completed at the time they were signed. Since they did not contain the essential elements of a contract, no contract was formed. Since there was no contract, sale of the van was the tort of conversion and they are entitled to the value of the van which the defendant’s own statements value at $2,800. The defendant answered the complaint and moved to dismiss and to compel arbitration. The answer made the following statements: There was a contract because the actions of the parties indicated intent to make a contract. The Masons signed an arbitration agreement, and under the law are required to bring their claims before an arbitrator and not the courts. The Masons have been unjustly enriched by the use of the new Chrysler and must pay the reasonable value of that use. The Masons committed fraud by signing a false Odometer Disclosure Form. Because of their fraud, the Masons are estopped from recovering anything on the value of the van. Assignment RequirementsWrite a three to four (3-4) page court opinion in which you rule on this case. In preparing this opinion, you must: Decide whether this court should hear this case or dismiss the case and direct the parties to binding arbitration in accordance with the Retail Buyer’s Order. Support your response. Note: Please read the facts of the case very carefully as you attempt to resolve this issue. Decide whether or not a contract exists between the Masons and R&G. Support your response. Note: Be sure that you analyze the facts to reach your conclusion. Merely stating your conclusion without a supporting legal analysis is not sufficient. Decide one (1) of the other remaining issues presented above. That is, decide whether R&G committed the tort of conversion with the 1990 van, or whether the Masons were unjustly enriched by the use of the new car, or whether the Masons committed fraud and should be estopped from recovering the value of the van. Use at least two (2) quality academic or legal resources in this assignment, such as a government Website, Law school Websites, Restatements of laws, and other treatises of Law. Your paper must include internal citations indicating the sources of your legal statements. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic or legal resources. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Describe the legal environment of business, the sources of American law, and the basis of authority for government to regulate business. Explain basic court procedures, types of courts, and alternative dispute resolution methods. Explain the basis of tort law and describe the classification of torts. Use technology and information resources to research issues in business law. Write clearly and concisely about business law using proper writing mechanics.

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