Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
Light reflecting off the larger building to the right lighting up this wall in sunset colours.
Little Grenfell Street, Kent Town, South Australia
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
Lovely stonework on the rear of Wesley Uniting Church, Kent Town, South Australia
Hugo de Jonge kon wel écht niks. Avondklok was chaos, 2G- en 3G-plannen waren chaos, prikken was chaos, gele boekkie was chaos, boosteren was chaos, testen was chaos, de rapporten waren chaos, beleid was chaos en het was echt niet allemaal de schuld van Hugo maar het was wel voor een groot deel de schuld van Hugo. Hugo de Jonge zat gewoon op dossier ouderenzorg, maar toen Bruno Bruins een tukkie ging doen werd Hugo plots in het middelpunt van ons corona-universum gekatapulteerd. Hoewel hij dat heel gaaf en interessant en spannend vond en het liefst alles zelf wilde doen, was hij simpelweg een maatje te klein, onze Huug. Iedereen en z'n ziekenhuis vond Hugo de Jonge maar een enorme Hugo, met die gare schoenen van 'm. Hugo kon niks, niet tellen, het land was in crisis en Hugo was eigenlijk alleen maar bezig met Hugo. Tegenwoordig zit Hugo lekker ver weg voor de rest van Nederland, in Zeeland, maar nu mag hij nog even de coronacommissie laten ontsporen. Veel déjà vu-plezier!
Update - Hugo de Jonge heeft z'n huiswerk zitten doen. Zegt dat kabinet drie doelen had: kwetsbaren bescrhemen, virus in de smiezen houden, voorkomen dat zorg overbelast zou raken. Hij noemt dat 'koorddansen'. Wij noemen dat Koorddansen met Janssen
Instagram en Facebook zijn „verslavend” en dus handelt het moederbedrijf van deze sociale netwerken, Meta, in strijd met EU-wetgeving.
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Geopolitiek, handelsconflicten, digitaal geld en samenzwerende AI-agenten. De jaarlijkse denksessie van de Europese Centrale Bank gaf een fascinerend inkijkje in de denkwereld van de monetaire beleidsmakers.
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Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley for China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating the discovery of advanced materials. "Last week, Tsinghua University in Beijing welcomed Dr. Yaghi in an appointment ceremony, calling him one of the world's foremost chemists," reports The New York Times. "The university said he saw his new post as an opportunity 'not to slow down, not to repeat what has already been done, but to do science with more energy, more intensity, and more ambition than ever before.'" From the report: Dr. Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian refugees whose one-room home lacked electricity and running water. Early on, he became fascinated with a schoolbook's depiction of atomic building blocks. When he was 15, his father, a butcher, sent him to the United States. Last year, before flying to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, Dr. Yaghi in an interview with The New York Times voiced concern about Mr. Trump's immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation's system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence. "I think it's regrettable," he said of Mr. Trump's nationalism. "We have to know that people coming from different backgrounds improve the level for everybody involved," he added. "That's an amazing story. Great thinkers can improve not only the U.S. but the world."
Dr. Yaghi joined the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012, and while there earned many awards for his scientific advances. He received his Nobel Prize for helping discover a world of chemistry in which molecular building blocks are assembled into structures that possess vast internal surface areas -- the largest of any known substance. His porous structures can act like sponges that readily absorb, store and release gases and vapors. He named them metal-organic frameworks. The metal atoms form an adjustable framework that can hold chemicals associated with life -- carbon atoms in particular. While deeply theoretical, the frameworks are so radical, innovative and flexible in nature that materials experts and companies foresee many commercial uses for them. The frameworks can, for instance, harvest water from desert air. In 2018, Dr. Yaghi's students at Berkeley tested the idea in the Mojave Desert in California, finding that a small passive harvester could each day produce nearly three cups of pure, drinkable water. The device is now nearing commercialization.
In the interview with The Times, Dr. Yaghi credited the invention to his boyhood efforts to secure water for his family. The municipal pipes worked for only a few hours every week or two. That hardship, he added, shows how the diverse experiences of emigres can lead to unexpected breakthroughs. Dr. Yaghi has longstanding ties with Tsinghua University. In 2022, the Beijing school appointed him as an honorary professor and in that role he closely followed its work in chemistry, materials science and related disciplines. Now, on joining Tsinghua full time, Dr. Yaghi is being named as the head of a new A.I. institute for science research that will focus on the design and synthesis of new materials. Its underlying aim, the university said, is to "overcome the efficiency bottlenecks of traditional trial-and-error approaches" and shorten the usual cycles of discovery.
Dr. Yaghi joined the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012, and while there earned many awards for his scientific advances. He received his Nobel Prize for helping discover a world of chemistry in which molecular building blocks are assembled into structures that possess vast internal surface areas -- the largest of any known substance. His porous structures can act like sponges that readily absorb, store and release gases and vapors. He named them metal-organic frameworks. The metal atoms form an adjustable framework that can hold chemicals associated with life -- carbon atoms in particular. While deeply theoretical, the frameworks are so radical, innovative and flexible in nature that materials experts and companies foresee many commercial uses for them. The frameworks can, for instance, harvest water from desert air. In 2018, Dr. Yaghi's students at Berkeley tested the idea in the Mojave Desert in California, finding that a small passive harvester could each day produce nearly three cups of pure, drinkable water. The device is now nearing commercialization.
In the interview with The Times, Dr. Yaghi credited the invention to his boyhood efforts to secure water for his family. The municipal pipes worked for only a few hours every week or two. That hardship, he added, shows how the diverse experiences of emigres can lead to unexpected breakthroughs. Dr. Yaghi has longstanding ties with Tsinghua University. In 2022, the Beijing school appointed him as an honorary professor and in that role he closely followed its work in chemistry, materials science and related disciplines. Now, on joining Tsinghua full time, Dr. Yaghi is being named as the head of a new A.I. institute for science research that will focus on the design and synthesis of new materials. Its underlying aim, the university said, is to "overcome the efficiency bottlenecks of traditional trial-and-error approaches" and shorten the usual cycles of discovery.
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