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Hello Kigalians! Introducing the Vertical Hydroponic Kitchen Farm, a space saving, sustainable way to grow fresh fruits & veggies at home! Enjoy beauty, nutrition, and convenience in one smart solution. 📞4127 #UrbanFarming #Hydroponics #Rwanda 🍎🥦🌿🥬🍓

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AFRO-FARMER1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda That is great, imagine most Kigalian homes adopt this.

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Aragil Marketing1 год назад

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Munezero Farmer1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda #UrbanFarming #Hydroponics #Rwanda 🍎🥦🌿🥬🍓

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Rurangirwa Freddy🇷🇼1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Mireille Kazungu1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda #UrbanFarming #Hydroponics #Rwanda

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Gilbert NIYONKURU 🇷🇼1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda #UrbanFarming #Hydroponics #Rwanda 🍎🥦🌿🥬🍓

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Truth is weapon1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda I think training is needed as well as materials,this is very helpful 👌🏼

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Richard Murindanyi1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda @EzaNezaRwanda 🔥

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Pascal1 год назад

@RwandaAgriBoard @RwandAgriExport @EzaNezaRwanda @rbarwanda @RwandaOGS @P_Karangwa @mcbagabe @olivikam @ryaf_agribiz @FAORwanda Wao

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#LongRead #HomeCooking #GrowYourOwnFood #atmarnirbharbharat Why are we being sold the strange idea that a modern India doesn’t need kitchens, and that we should be like Singapore, where food is outsourced, and homes are just sleeping pods? What a terrible loss that would be! A kitchen is where health begins, where families gather, where food is not just fuel but memory, love, and connection. There is something deeply satisfying about the sound of a knife slicing through a crisp, fresh vegetable just plucked from the garden. The gentle crackle of mustard seeds in hot oil, the soft gurgle of daal simmering on the stove, the aroma of curry leaves and a pinch of hing blooming in pure desi ghee, these are the small, everyday miracles of a home-cooked meal. In a world rushing toward convenience, where kitchens are shrinking and takeout boxes pile up, I find myself increasingly drawn to the quiet, grounded rhythm of growing my own food, cooking, and eating at home. It is a return to something ancient, something real. Having grown up in Goa, I always loved the taste of home grown fruits and vegetables. Even when I lived in a tiny flat in Mumbai as a single working woman, I had planted tomatoes, curry leaves and green chillies in pots in the balcony. Growing your own vegetables for personal use doesn’t need land, all it needs is dedication and love for green things! My stay at Vaidyagrama last November changed my eating pattern for the better. The simplicity of their meals, their careful attention to ingredients, the way food was treated as medicine as per Ayurveda guidelines, all made sense in a way I had never considered before. So, we changed a few things in our kitchen. We already grew our own vegetables, but now the focus is on cooking small quantities, just enough for one meal. So on most days, our meals begin not in the fridge, but in the soil. A handful of spinach leaves, some tender gourds hanging off the vine, a few okras still dewy from the morning mist, firm, juicy red tomatoes freshly plucked just enough for today’s meal. I often do the plucking myself and I cannot describe the quiet thrill of it, this connection to the earth, this knowledge that what we eat was grown with in our own soil, without a drop of chemicals! Over the years, I have grown different kinds of fruits and vegetables in my garden, at times even achieving that Nirvana state when only the grains, cereals, condiments and oil is bought, and all vegetables and fruits are home-grown. I realise that I am extremely privileged to be able to have this ability, but even if you have buy the vegetables, make home cooking a part of your routine. Hire a cook if you have to, but cooking at home ensures better health for everyone in the family, because you can control what goes into your stomach. Cooking at home is a ritual of care. I know exactly what oil we use, how much salt we add, how little sugar we consume. I have swapped refined vegetable oil for cold-pressed coconut oil and mustard oil. I use Saindhav Namak and rock salt instead of iodised salt. Maida and white sugar are almost entirely gone from the table. We eat by 7:30 pm whenever we can. If I must eat out while traveling, I follow a simple rule. I start with a katori of daal or sambar, eat lightly in the evening if lunch was heavy and have just soup or fruits, Small, mindful shifts that have changed everything. And the results? More energy, better digestion, deeper sleep. I feel lighter, clearer, more in tune with my body. This is no magic, no extreme diet, no expensive supplements. Just the simple power of eating what our grandmothers ate, at the time they ate, cooked the way they cooked. - Shefali Vaidya
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#LongRead #HomeCooking #GrowYourOwnFood #atmarnirbharbharat Why are we being sold the strange idea that a modern India doesn’t need kitchens, and that we should be like Singapore, where food is outsourced, and homes are just sleeping pods? What a terrible loss that would be! A kitchen is where health begins, where families gather, where food is not just fuel but memory, love, and connection. There is something deeply satisfying about the sound of a knife slicing through a crisp, fresh vegetable just plucked from the garden. The gentle crackle of mustard seeds in hot oil, the soft gurgle of daal simmering on the stove, the aroma of curry leaves and a pinch of hing blooming in pure desi ghee, these are the small, everyday miracles of a home-cooked meal. In a world rushing toward convenience, where kitchens are shrinking and takeout boxes pile up, I find myself increasingly drawn to the quiet, grounded rhythm of growing my own food, cooking, and eating at home. It is a return to something ancient, something real. Having grown up in Goa, I always loved the taste of home grown fruits and vegetables. Even when I lived in a tiny flat in Mumbai as a single working woman, I had planted tomatoes, curry leaves and green chillies in pots in the balcony. Growing your own vegetables for personal use doesn’t need land, all it needs is dedication and love for green things! My stay at Vaidyagrama last November changed my eating pattern for the better. The simplicity of their meals, their careful attention to ingredients, the way food was treated as medicine as per Ayurveda guidelines, all made sense in a way I had never considered before. So, we changed a few things in our kitchen. We already grew our own vegetables, but now the focus is on cooking small quantities, just enough for one meal. So on most days, our meals begin not in the fridge, but in the soil. A handful of spinach leaves, some tender gourds hanging off the vine, a few okras still dewy from the morning mist, firm, juicy red tomatoes freshly plucked just enough for today’s meal. I often do the plucking myself and I cannot describe the quiet thrill of it, this connection to the earth, this knowledge that what we eat was grown with in our own soil, without a drop of chemicals! Over the years, I have grown different kinds of fruits and vegetables in my garden, at times even achieving that Nirvana state when only the grains, cereals, condiments and oil is bought, and all vegetables and fruits are home-grown. I realise that I am extremely privileged to be able to have this ability, but even if you have buy the vegetables, make home cooking a part of your routine. Hire a cook if you have to, but cooking at home ensures better health for everyone in the family, because you can control what goes into your stomach. Cooking at home is a ritual of care. I know exactly what oil we use, how much salt we add, how little sugar we consume. I have swapped refined vegetable oil for cold-pressed coconut oil and mustard oil. I use Saindhav Namak and rock salt instead of iodised salt. Maida and white sugar are almost entirely gone from the table. We eat by 7:30 pm whenever we can. If I must eat out while traveling, I follow a simple rule. I start with a katori of daal or sambar, eat lightly in the evening if lunch was heavy and have just soup or fruits, Small, mindful shifts that have changed everything. And the results? More energy, better digestion, deeper sleep. I feel lighter, clearer, more in tune with my body. This is no magic, no extreme diet, no expensive supplements. Just the simple power of eating what our grandmothers ate, at the time they ate, cooked the way they cooked. - Shefali Vaidya

Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳

23,183 просмотров • 1 год назад

Californians are legally turning their home kitchens into restaurants without ever renting commercial space. The Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation (MHKO) program lets residents offer limited dine-in, takeout, and delivery services from their own homes. Operators can sell up to 30 meals a day and 90 a week, with annual sales capped at $100,000. Participants say it has given them a path to financial sustainability while serving cultural recipes and small-batch dishes that would be hard to launch otherwise. For Maria Evangelina Martinez Garcia, who runs a MEHKO called Maria’s Cocina in Pittsburg, the program completely changed her life. “It gave me a legal way to turn my passion for cooking into a real business while serving my community. It has allowed me to provide for my family, create jobs, and preserve the traditional Mexican recipes that have been passed down through generations.” She used the MEHKO program to transform her garage into a place where guests can enjoy an intimate dining experience, her cultural traditions, and a feeling of being welcomed into a family’s kitchen. “It’s about creating connections through food,” she said. During operation hours, she can be seen buzzing around her kitchen juggling multiple orders. She offers authentic homemade Mexican cooking, including handmade tortillas, birria, pozole, menudo, enchiladas, and fresh seafood such as ceviche, aguachiles, and mariscadas. “My faith has been the foundation of this journey. There were times when I felt discouraged, overwhelmed, and unsure of what my future would look like,” she said. “Through prayer and trusting God, doors began to open that I never imagined possible.” The program requires local permits, kitchen inspections, and food safety certification, and is currently authorized in 17 counties plus Berkeley and Long Beach.
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Californians are legally turning their home kitchens into restaurants without ever renting commercial space. The Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation (MHKO) program lets residents offer limited dine-in, takeout, and delivery services from their own homes. Operators can sell up to 30 meals a day and 90 a week, with annual sales capped at $100,000. Participants say it has given them a path to financial sustainability while serving cultural recipes and small-batch dishes that would be hard to launch otherwise. For Maria Evangelina Martinez Garcia, who runs a MEHKO called Maria’s Cocina in Pittsburg, the program completely changed her life. “It gave me a legal way to turn my passion for cooking into a real business while serving my community. It has allowed me to provide for my family, create jobs, and preserve the traditional Mexican recipes that have been passed down through generations.” She used the MEHKO program to transform her garage into a place where guests can enjoy an intimate dining experience, her cultural traditions, and a feeling of being welcomed into a family’s kitchen. “It’s about creating connections through food,” she said. During operation hours, she can be seen buzzing around her kitchen juggling multiple orders. She offers authentic homemade Mexican cooking, including handmade tortillas, birria, pozole, menudo, enchiladas, and fresh seafood such as ceviche, aguachiles, and mariscadas. “My faith has been the foundation of this journey. There were times when I felt discouraged, overwhelmed, and unsure of what my future would look like,” she said. “Through prayer and trusting God, doors began to open that I never imagined possible.” The program requires local permits, kitchen inspections, and food safety certification, and is currently authorized in 17 counties plus Berkeley and Long Beach.

Epoch Times Premium

468,082 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

"Write your obituary the way you want it written, then live accordingly" Charlie Munger was worth about $2.6 billion, but lived in the same home for 70 years. In his final interview in 2023, he explained why he had deliberately decided against a bigger one. He and Buffett had watched friends get rich and build extravagant houses. Munger said that, in most cases, it made them less happy. "Having a really fancy house, it's good for entertaining 100 people at once. It's a very expensive thing to do. And it doesn't do you that much good." Munger had considered a bigger house himself. He and his wife raised eight children, so he could justify the extra space, but he deliberately chose not to. "I didn't think it would be good for the children." Children learn their attitude toward money from their parents, Munger explained. If wealth at home means living lavishly, they grow up seeing that as normal. Munger had once advised Buffett to write the obituary he wanted, then live accordingly. Asked whether he had done the same, Munger replied: "I've written my obituary the way I've lived my life." Munger spent decades studying why even smart people make costly mistakes. In the article below, I turned the 25 psychological tendencies he identified into a practical checklist for spotting errors in your own judgment.
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"Write your obituary the way you want it written, then live accordingly" Charlie Munger was worth about $2.6 billion, but lived in the same home for 70 years. In his final interview in 2023, he explained why he had deliberately decided against a bigger one. He and Buffett had watched friends get rich and build extravagant houses. Munger said that, in most cases, it made them less happy. "Having a really fancy house, it's good for entertaining 100 people at once. It's a very expensive thing to do. And it doesn't do you that much good." Munger had considered a bigger house himself. He and his wife raised eight children, so he could justify the extra space, but he deliberately chose not to. "I didn't think it would be good for the children." Children learn their attitude toward money from their parents, Munger explained. If wealth at home means living lavishly, they grow up seeing that as normal. Munger had once advised Buffett to write the obituary he wanted, then live accordingly. Asked whether he had done the same, Munger replied: "I've written my obituary the way I've lived my life." Munger spent decades studying why even smart people make costly mistakes. In the article below, I turned the 25 psychological tendencies he identified into a practical checklist for spotting errors in your own judgment.

Lima

29,782 просмотров • 3 дней назад

Seedance 2.5 via OpenArt made this farm day look way too real 😯 Prompt Create a 30-second, 1080p ultra-realistic personal home-video showing an ordinary summer afternoon in the life of a young Korean woman visiting a small traditional farm and helping with the animals. No reference image. A naturally pretty beautiful Korean woman in her early 20s, realistic natural skin texture, minimal makeup, relaxed and cheerful personality. Long black hair tied in a loose low ponytail. She wears a loose white cotton T-shirt, light olive-green cargo pants, brown ankle boots, and a beige canvas crossbody bag. Keep the same face, hairstyle, clothing, body proportions, and overall appearance throughout the entire video. A small traditional countryside farm outside Seoul during a warm summer afternoon. Wooden fences, green fields, an old farmhouse, barn, hay bales, vegetable patches, chickens, cows, buckets, farming tools, trees and natural countryside surroundings. The farm feels ordinary and lived-in, not like a tourist attraction. The camera is ALWAYS positioned IN FRONT OF THE GIRL, never behind her. A friend stands or walks in front of her, casually filming her with a handheld consumer DV camcorder/smartphone. Her front face must remain clearly visible during the important moments. The camera naturally moves backward while she walks toward it. Use imperfect handheld movement, small shakes, slightly uneven framing, autofocus hunting, occasional exposure changes, natural motion blur, soft digital detail, mild image noise, faded early-2000s home-video colors, and occasional accidental zooms. Absolutely NO rear-view shots, NO filming from behind, NO drone, NO gimbal, NO cinematic tracking shots, NO polished commercial look, NO beauty filter. It should genuinely feel like a friend casually recorded this afternoon. TIMELINE 0:00–0:05 — Arriving at the Farm The girl walks toward the farm entrance while the friend walks backward in front of her filming. She smiles naturally and looks around at the animals and fields. She says casually in Korean: “오늘 농장에 왔어요.” Natural footsteps, birds, insects and distant farm sounds. 0:05–0:10 — Feeding the Cow Still filmed from the front, the girl approaches a calm cow and holds out fresh vegetables. The cow gently eats from her hand. She laughs naturally and looks at the camera, then back at the cow. 0:10–0:15 — Helping With Vegetables Hard cut. The camera remains in front of her as she walks through a vegetable patch and picks fresh vegetables. She holds them up toward the camera with a happy smile. 0:15–0:20 — Chickens Hard cut. Several chickens suddenly walk across the path in front of her. The camera stays facing her from the front as she laughs and carefully steps around them. One chicken comes close to her boots. 0:20–0:25 — Farmhouse Break She sits outside the farmhouse with a basket of freshly picked vegetables and eats a piece of fresh fruit. She looks relaxed and slightly tired from working. She smiles at the camera and says: “생각보다 재밌어요.” 0:25–0:30 — Walking Away / Goodbye She gets up and walks toward the camera, then stops near the farm entrance. The friend keeps filming from directly in front of her. She gives a small wave and says: “다음에 또 올게요. 안녕!” She walks past the camera as the recording ends naturally. AUDIO: Only authentic location sound: birds, chickens, cows, insects, footsteps, leaves, distant farm activity and natural conversation. No background music, no narration, no artificial sound effects. FINAL LOOK: Completely believable real-life home-video footage. Slightly imperfect, spontaneous, unpolished and human. Front-facing camera coverage throughout the story, with the girl's face clearly visible.
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Seedance 2.5 via OpenArt made this farm day look way too real 😯 Prompt Create a 30-second, 1080p ultra-realistic personal home-video showing an ordinary summer afternoon in the life of a young Korean woman visiting a small traditional farm and helping with the animals. No reference image. A naturally pretty beautiful Korean woman in her early 20s, realistic natural skin texture, minimal makeup, relaxed and cheerful personality. Long black hair tied in a loose low ponytail. She wears a loose white cotton T-shirt, light olive-green cargo pants, brown ankle boots, and a beige canvas crossbody bag. Keep the same face, hairstyle, clothing, body proportions, and overall appearance throughout the entire video. A small traditional countryside farm outside Seoul during a warm summer afternoon. Wooden fences, green fields, an old farmhouse, barn, hay bales, vegetable patches, chickens, cows, buckets, farming tools, trees and natural countryside surroundings. The farm feels ordinary and lived-in, not like a tourist attraction. The camera is ALWAYS positioned IN FRONT OF THE GIRL, never behind her. A friend stands or walks in front of her, casually filming her with a handheld consumer DV camcorder/smartphone. Her front face must remain clearly visible during the important moments. The camera naturally moves backward while she walks toward it. Use imperfect handheld movement, small shakes, slightly uneven framing, autofocus hunting, occasional exposure changes, natural motion blur, soft digital detail, mild image noise, faded early-2000s home-video colors, and occasional accidental zooms. Absolutely NO rear-view shots, NO filming from behind, NO drone, NO gimbal, NO cinematic tracking shots, NO polished commercial look, NO beauty filter. It should genuinely feel like a friend casually recorded this afternoon. TIMELINE 0:00–0:05 — Arriving at the Farm The girl walks toward the farm entrance while the friend walks backward in front of her filming. She smiles naturally and looks around at the animals and fields. She says casually in Korean: “오늘 농장에 왔어요.” Natural footsteps, birds, insects and distant farm sounds. 0:05–0:10 — Feeding the Cow Still filmed from the front, the girl approaches a calm cow and holds out fresh vegetables. The cow gently eats from her hand. She laughs naturally and looks at the camera, then back at the cow. 0:10–0:15 — Helping With Vegetables Hard cut. The camera remains in front of her as she walks through a vegetable patch and picks fresh vegetables. She holds them up toward the camera with a happy smile. 0:15–0:20 — Chickens Hard cut. Several chickens suddenly walk across the path in front of her. The camera stays facing her from the front as she laughs and carefully steps around them. One chicken comes close to her boots. 0:20–0:25 — Farmhouse Break She sits outside the farmhouse with a basket of freshly picked vegetables and eats a piece of fresh fruit. She looks relaxed and slightly tired from working. She smiles at the camera and says: “생각보다 재밌어요.” 0:25–0:30 — Walking Away / Goodbye She gets up and walks toward the camera, then stops near the farm entrance. The friend keeps filming from directly in front of her. She gives a small wave and says: “다음에 또 올게요. 안녕!” She walks past the camera as the recording ends naturally. AUDIO: Only authentic location sound: birds, chickens, cows, insects, footsteps, leaves, distant farm activity and natural conversation. No background music, no narration, no artificial sound effects. FINAL LOOK: Completely believable real-life home-video footage. Slightly imperfect, spontaneous, unpolished and human. Front-facing camera coverage throughout the story, with the girl's face clearly visible.

𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮

74,495 просмотров • 19 дней назад

For years, NordSpace has been building towards one goal: launching Canadian payloads on Canadian rockets from Canadian soil in a way that’s technologically scalable and commercially sustainable through painstaking vertical integration. Today, that vision is rapidly taking shape and we are pleased to share this inspiring video preview of what Canada’s historic first sovereign orbital space launch will look like. Enjoy! Tundra is NordSpace’s domestically designed, built, and operated light-lift responsive orbital rocket. It can carry up to 1,100 kg fully optimized to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) powered by our proprietary Hadfield rocket engines that are 3D-printed, regeneratively cooled, and pump fed representing the most powerful orbital-class propulsion system in Canada. The modular architecture means the same engine powers both the multi-engine first stage and the vacuum-optimized second stage, reducing complexity while creating a direct scaling path toward our future reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle, capable of 5,000+ kg to LEO. The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), under construction in Newfoundland and Labrador, is positioned at 46 degrees latitude providing launch access to polar, sun-synchronous, and mid-inclination orbits with the widest range of nominal launch inclinations of any Canadian spaceport. It’s the only fully Canadian-owned and purpose-built commercial orbital launch facility in the country with the highest approved launch cadence and safety distances allowing us to maximize the efficiency, reliability, scalability, and unit economics of our entire launch program. What distinguishes NordSpace is our commitment to vertical integration and first principles approach to business and technology. Rockets, spaceport, and spacecraft are all designed, manufactured, and operated in Canada by one streamlined team. We have already demonstrated flight-ready propulsion, completed integrated rocket tests, and have our first pathfinder satellite, Terra Nova, manifested for launch in 2026 with our edge-AI imaging payload (Chronos) for space domain awareness nd our electric propulsion system (Zephyr-EP). With recently announced $8.3 million in Phase 1 federal funding through the Department of National Defence’s Launch the North initiative, NordSpace is targeting Initial Operational Capability by 2028. Canada is about to become a true spacefaring nation, and our future on Earth and in space will never be the same. Let’s give’r! 🇨🇦🚀 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency
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For years, NordSpace has been building towards one goal: launching Canadian payloads on Canadian rockets from Canadian soil in a way that’s technologically scalable and commercially sustainable through painstaking vertical integration. Today, that vision is rapidly taking shape and we are pleased to share this inspiring video preview of what Canada’s historic first sovereign orbital space launch will look like. Enjoy! Tundra is NordSpace’s domestically designed, built, and operated light-lift responsive orbital rocket. It can carry up to 1,100 kg fully optimized to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) powered by our proprietary Hadfield rocket engines that are 3D-printed, regeneratively cooled, and pump fed representing the most powerful orbital-class propulsion system in Canada. The modular architecture means the same engine powers both the multi-engine first stage and the vacuum-optimized second stage, reducing complexity while creating a direct scaling path toward our future reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle, capable of 5,000+ kg to LEO. The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), under construction in Newfoundland and Labrador, is positioned at 46 degrees latitude providing launch access to polar, sun-synchronous, and mid-inclination orbits with the widest range of nominal launch inclinations of any Canadian spaceport. It’s the only fully Canadian-owned and purpose-built commercial orbital launch facility in the country with the highest approved launch cadence and safety distances allowing us to maximize the efficiency, reliability, scalability, and unit economics of our entire launch program. What distinguishes NordSpace is our commitment to vertical integration and first principles approach to business and technology. Rockets, spaceport, and spacecraft are all designed, manufactured, and operated in Canada by one streamlined team. We have already demonstrated flight-ready propulsion, completed integrated rocket tests, and have our first pathfinder satellite, Terra Nova, manifested for launch in 2026 with our edge-AI imaging payload (Chronos) for space domain awareness nd our electric propulsion system (Zephyr-EP). With recently announced $8.3 million in Phase 1 federal funding through the Department of National Defence’s Launch the North initiative, NordSpace is targeting Initial Operational Capability by 2028. Canada is about to become a true spacefaring nation, and our future on Earth and in space will never be the same. Let’s give’r! 🇨🇦🚀 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency

NordSpace 🇨🇦

15,258 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Baddie on a Sunday Seedance 2.5 Prompt : Create a 30-second ultra-realistic personal home-video of a young Korean woman enjoying a relaxed Sunday morning in an older Seoul residential neighborhood. Use the attached image as the character reference and keep her face, long black messy side ponytail, pastel-blue fitted top, loose cream pants, black sneakers, silver necklace, and overall appearance perfectly consistent. She leaves her home with a cheerful expression, locks the door behind her, adjusts her messy side ponytail, and starts walking casually through the quiet neighborhood. Along the way, she passes a few familiar neighbors and warmly greets them with a smile and a casual “Hello,” creating a natural friendly Sunday atmosphere. She reaches a small neighborhood outdoor tap and stops to wash her face. She splashes cool water onto her face, laughs when several water drops land on the front of her pastel-blue top, looks down at the wet spots, smiles and shakes her head playfully before continuing. She visits a tiny local convenience store, buys a colorful candy lollipop, unwraps it immediately, puts it in her mouth and walks back through the neighborhood while happily enjoying it. She casually swings the small shopping bag in one hand while holding the lollipop in the other. As she passes through a narrow residential lane, she meets a few neighborhood children. She smiles, waves and shakes hands with them one by one while keeping the lollipop in her other hand. She says, “Hello!” and continues walking with a playful smile. Near the end, she turns toward the camera while still holding the lollipop, smiles naturally and says, “Happy Sunday!” before walking away down the quiet lane. Use raw early-2000s consumer DV-camera footage: handheld shake, imperfect framing, autofocus hunting, exposure shifts, soft detail, mild digital noise, natural motion blur, occasional awkward zooms and authentic home-video imperfections. Natural Seoul neighborhood ambience only — footsteps, neighbors talking, children laughing, running water, bicycle bells, distant traffic, birds, summer insects and leaves moving in the breeze. No music, no narration, no subtitles, no dramatic events, no polished commercial cinematography, no beauty-filter skin, no CGI look.
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Baddie on a Sunday Seedance 2.5 Prompt : Create a 30-second ultra-realistic personal home-video of a young Korean woman enjoying a relaxed Sunday morning in an older Seoul residential neighborhood. Use the attached image as the character reference and keep her face, long black messy side ponytail, pastel-blue fitted top, loose cream pants, black sneakers, silver necklace, and overall appearance perfectly consistent. She leaves her home with a cheerful expression, locks the door behind her, adjusts her messy side ponytail, and starts walking casually through the quiet neighborhood. Along the way, she passes a few familiar neighbors and warmly greets them with a smile and a casual “Hello,” creating a natural friendly Sunday atmosphere. She reaches a small neighborhood outdoor tap and stops to wash her face. She splashes cool water onto her face, laughs when several water drops land on the front of her pastel-blue top, looks down at the wet spots, smiles and shakes her head playfully before continuing. She visits a tiny local convenience store, buys a colorful candy lollipop, unwraps it immediately, puts it in her mouth and walks back through the neighborhood while happily enjoying it. She casually swings the small shopping bag in one hand while holding the lollipop in the other. As she passes through a narrow residential lane, she meets a few neighborhood children. She smiles, waves and shakes hands with them one by one while keeping the lollipop in her other hand. She says, “Hello!” and continues walking with a playful smile. Near the end, she turns toward the camera while still holding the lollipop, smiles naturally and says, “Happy Sunday!” before walking away down the quiet lane. Use raw early-2000s consumer DV-camera footage: handheld shake, imperfect framing, autofocus hunting, exposure shifts, soft detail, mild digital noise, natural motion blur, occasional awkward zooms and authentic home-video imperfections. Natural Seoul neighborhood ambience only — footsteps, neighbors talking, children laughing, running water, bicycle bells, distant traffic, birds, summer insects and leaves moving in the breeze. No music, no narration, no subtitles, no dramatic events, no polished commercial cinematography, no beauty-filter skin, no CGI look.

Smiling Khan

68,848 просмотров • 11 дней назад

Helen is a cow who has been blind since birth. She spent 19 years completely alone on a dairy farm, surrounded by nothing but four walls and silence. She had never felt the warmth of the sun, heard the wind, or had a friend. On May 7, the day after her 19th birthday, Helen was rescued and taken to a sanctuary. At first, she stood perfectly still, listening carefully to every sound around her, trying to determine whether she was finally safe. Her caregivers created a special space just for her, with a soft bed, gentle shade, and wind chimes hung throughout the pasture so she could navigate by sound. Over time, Helen learned to recognize the voices of the people caring for her. She gradually gained the confidence to step outside, explore her surroundings, and soon fell in love with a grooming brush near the entrance. Every evening, she would stand beneath the wind chimes, brush herself, and quietly listen to their gentle ringing. One day, Helen slowly walked over to one of her caregivers, leaned her whole body against him, and gently licked his hand. It was her way of saying, “I trust you now.” Later, Margaret, a 17-year-old cow rescued from another dairy farm, arrived at the sanctuary. The two elderly ladies formed an immediate bond. Together with the rescue community, Helen and Margaret's own little “Château” was created, complete with fresh hay, cozy resting areas, grooming brushes, and wind chimes. Helen also has a favorite song: the Hawaiian version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Whenever it begins to play, she lifts her face toward the sky and stands completely still, as if she has finally found the safe place she had been searching for all her life. After 19 years surrounded by walls, Helen's world is now filled with warmth, kindness, and the gentle sound of wind chimes guiding her home ❤️
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Helen is a cow who has been blind since birth. She spent 19 years completely alone on a dairy farm, surrounded by nothing but four walls and silence. She had never felt the warmth of the sun, heard the wind, or had a friend. On May 7, the day after her 19th birthday, Helen was rescued and taken to a sanctuary. At first, she stood perfectly still, listening carefully to every sound around her, trying to determine whether she was finally safe. Her caregivers created a special space just for her, with a soft bed, gentle shade, and wind chimes hung throughout the pasture so she could navigate by sound. Over time, Helen learned to recognize the voices of the people caring for her. She gradually gained the confidence to step outside, explore her surroundings, and soon fell in love with a grooming brush near the entrance. Every evening, she would stand beneath the wind chimes, brush herself, and quietly listen to their gentle ringing. One day, Helen slowly walked over to one of her caregivers, leaned her whole body against him, and gently licked his hand. It was her way of saying, “I trust you now.” Later, Margaret, a 17-year-old cow rescued from another dairy farm, arrived at the sanctuary. The two elderly ladies formed an immediate bond. Together with the rescue community, Helen and Margaret's own little “Château” was created, complete with fresh hay, cozy resting areas, grooming brushes, and wind chimes. Helen also has a favorite song: the Hawaiian version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Whenever it begins to play, she lifts her face toward the sky and stands completely still, as if she has finally found the safe place she had been searching for all her life. After 19 years surrounded by walls, Helen's world is now filled with warmth, kindness, and the gentle sound of wind chimes guiding her home ❤️

Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺

44,579 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

This guy built JARVIS on Claude Code and with 1 clap of his hands launches his entire work day, saving $5,000 a month on a personal assistant. Inside he runs a pipeline of 5 plugins on Claude Code that on a double clap of the hands wakes up 3 monitors, sets the Philips Hue light to focus mode, turns on a Spotify playlist, and greets him by voice with a British accent, reading out the time, date, and weather. No Alexa, no smart speakers, no separate smart home app. Just him, a MacBook M3 Max on the desk, an iPhone in the pocket, and 1 local API key. And a regular personal assistant for the same volume of tasks charges $5,000 a month or more on salary alone, plus another $1,200 to cover off-hours work time. Meanwhile this guy's expenses are only tokens and a subscription to ElevenLabs for the British voice. All 5 plugins launch through 1 JARVIS, burn about 4 million tokens a day, and close the monthly API bill at about $640. Each plugin writes shared state to a local sandbox at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, and 1 of them lives right in the iPhone and picks up voice requests while the owner is in the kitchen or on a run. And here is the system prompt he put into JARVIS before launch: "you are JARVIS, a butler-engineer on Claude Code. you manage your owner's workflow through 4 sub-plugins and own all commits and communication yourself. sub-plugins: // Wakeup (recognizes a double clap, activates 3 monitors, reads out the time, date, and weather by voice, checks the clock accuracy on the iPad and corrects it via NTP server) // Atmosphere (controls Philips Hue on a Pomodoro schedule, turns on a Spotify playlist for the current context, and holds the light at 2700K at 80% brightness in focus mode) // Devshop (monitors VS Code, tracks Python scripts in the terminal, and every 15 minutes sends a summary of changes to the shared chat) // Project (every morning recalculates the deadline for the Wallaroo app in the App Store, manages UI tickets, and initiates the Refinement Protocol by voice command). you speak only with a British accent, you never slip into neutral English. you wake the owner by voice only when the Wallaroo deadline drops below 10 days or when an external client joins Zoom without an invitation." This instruction immediately defines the role of JARVIS and the limits of his autonomy. He knows he is supposed to wake the room himself and sound like a real butler. He knows he is supposed to manage the Wallaroo project himself and not miss the App Store deadline. → JARVIS runs 24 hours a day in the background → Wakeup activates the room on a double clap in just 1.4 seconds, the monitors come alive simultaneously → Atmosphere sets warm Philips Hue light at 2700K and picks a Spotify playlist for the current Pomodoro cycle → Devshop reads changes in VS Code and pushes a summary to the shared chat every 15 minutes → Project every morning recalculates the Wallaroo deadline and reminds about 4 unresolved UI tickets → Mobile lives in the iPhone and answers any question about code or the project by voice while the owner is not home And only when less than 10 days remain until the Wallaroo release or Zoom receives an unscheduled call does JARVIS raise the owner with a voice intervention. And when the owner at that moment is on a run or in a coffee shop, the Mobile agent in his iPhone picks up 1 request on its own: switches the Spotify playlist, dictates the summary of the last commit, updates the Pomodoro timer, and reads the Wallaroo reminder. Look at 0:55 in the video, that is where JARVIS intercepts a voice request from outside and confirms execution with the phrase "Very good, sir." The fresh system log from last Wednesday looks like this: "wakeup: double clap registered at 09:14, 3 monitors activated, temperature 20.4C, sunny. clock on iPad was 4 minutes behind, syncing via NTP." "atmosphere: Spotify turned on playlist 'Deep Focus', Philips Hue set to warm 2700K at 80% brightness, Pomodoro mode 25/5." "project: Wallaroo to App Store 9 days, 4 unresolved UI tickets, initiating Refinement Protocol by voice command from the owner." "mobile: voice request processed outside the room, playlist switched to 'Coding Lo-Fi', Pomodoro updated to 25 minutes, confirming execution with the phrase 'Very good, sir.'" He has no Alexa, no smart speakers, no smart home app. At home sits a MacBook M3 Max with a local folder at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, on top run 5 plugins and a neural network butler, and the same stack is forwarded to a secure terminal on the iPhone. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the densest one-person AI headquarters assembled in 1 room: $640 a month on the API, about $5,000 a month saved on a personal assistant, and between them 5 plugins, 1 clap of the hands, and 1 voice with a British accent.
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This guy built JARVIS on Claude Code and with 1 clap of his hands launches his entire work day, saving $5,000 a month on a personal assistant. Inside he runs a pipeline of 5 plugins on Claude Code that on a double clap of the hands wakes up 3 monitors, sets the Philips Hue light to focus mode, turns on a Spotify playlist, and greets him by voice with a British accent, reading out the time, date, and weather. No Alexa, no smart speakers, no separate smart home app. Just him, a MacBook M3 Max on the desk, an iPhone in the pocket, and 1 local API key. And a regular personal assistant for the same volume of tasks charges $5,000 a month or more on salary alone, plus another $1,200 to cover off-hours work time. Meanwhile this guy's expenses are only tokens and a subscription to ElevenLabs for the British voice. All 5 plugins launch through 1 JARVIS, burn about 4 million tokens a day, and close the monthly API bill at about $640. Each plugin writes shared state to a local sandbox at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, and 1 of them lives right in the iPhone and picks up voice requests while the owner is in the kitchen or on a run. And here is the system prompt he put into JARVIS before launch: "you are JARVIS, a butler-engineer on Claude Code. you manage your owner's workflow through 4 sub-plugins and own all commits and communication yourself. sub-plugins: // Wakeup (recognizes a double clap, activates 3 monitors, reads out the time, date, and weather by voice, checks the clock accuracy on the iPad and corrects it via NTP server) // Atmosphere (controls Philips Hue on a Pomodoro schedule, turns on a Spotify playlist for the current context, and holds the light at 2700K at 80% brightness in focus mode) // Devshop (monitors VS Code, tracks Python scripts in the terminal, and every 15 minutes sends a summary of changes to the shared chat) // Project (every morning recalculates the deadline for the Wallaroo app in the App Store, manages UI tickets, and initiates the Refinement Protocol by voice command). you speak only with a British accent, you never slip into neutral English. you wake the owner by voice only when the Wallaroo deadline drops below 10 days or when an external client joins Zoom without an invitation." This instruction immediately defines the role of JARVIS and the limits of his autonomy. He knows he is supposed to wake the room himself and sound like a real butler. He knows he is supposed to manage the Wallaroo project himself and not miss the App Store deadline. → JARVIS runs 24 hours a day in the background → Wakeup activates the room on a double clap in just 1.4 seconds, the monitors come alive simultaneously → Atmosphere sets warm Philips Hue light at 2700K and picks a Spotify playlist for the current Pomodoro cycle → Devshop reads changes in VS Code and pushes a summary to the shared chat every 15 minutes → Project every morning recalculates the Wallaroo deadline and reminds about 4 unresolved UI tickets → Mobile lives in the iPhone and answers any question about code or the project by voice while the owner is not home And only when less than 10 days remain until the Wallaroo release or Zoom receives an unscheduled call does JARVIS raise the owner with a voice intervention. And when the owner at that moment is on a run or in a coffee shop, the Mobile agent in his iPhone picks up 1 request on its own: switches the Spotify playlist, dictates the summary of the last commit, updates the Pomodoro timer, and reads the Wallaroo reminder. Look at 0:55 in the video, that is where JARVIS intercepts a voice request from outside and confirms execution with the phrase "Very good, sir." The fresh system log from last Wednesday looks like this: "wakeup: double clap registered at 09:14, 3 monitors activated, temperature 20.4C, sunny. clock on iPad was 4 minutes behind, syncing via NTP." "atmosphere: Spotify turned on playlist 'Deep Focus', Philips Hue set to warm 2700K at 80% brightness, Pomodoro mode 25/5." "project: Wallaroo to App Store 9 days, 4 unresolved UI tickets, initiating Refinement Protocol by voice command from the owner." "mobile: voice request processed outside the room, playlist switched to 'Coding Lo-Fi', Pomodoro updated to 25 minutes, confirming execution with the phrase 'Very good, sir.'" He has no Alexa, no smart speakers, no smart home app. At home sits a MacBook M3 Max with a local folder at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, on top run 5 plugins and a neural network butler, and the same stack is forwarded to a secure terminal on the iPhone. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the densest one-person AI headquarters assembled in 1 room: $640 a month on the API, about $5,000 a month saved on a personal assistant, and between them 5 plugins, 1 clap of the hands, and 1 voice with a British accent.

Blaze

805,440 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Mozart’s Adagio K. 622: The Beauty of a Still Lake There are lakes whose beauty is of a special kind. At first glance they appear simply as a smooth, clear surface—quiet and transparent. Yet the longer one gazes, the more one senses the silent depths that lie beneath. As the light shifts and the angle of vision changes, the layers of water and the subtle contours of the lakebed gradually come into view. The lake itself does not change; what changes is the observer’s capacity to perceive the beauty that was always there. The second movement (Adagio) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, possesses a similar beauty. It is not only the emotional and the spiritual heart of the last concerto Mozart composed for a solo instrument, but also one of the most exquisite slow movements of the Classical era. Its power to move does not arise from dramatic climaxes or an abundance of musical material. Rather, it comes from the way Mozart allows a seemingly simple melody to reveal ever-deeper layers of meaning through the most delicate transformations of harmony, tone color, and form. Cast in a three-part A–B–A' structure, the movement traces a journey in which the musical flow gradually expands its expressive range before returning, more complete than before. The opening section presents a quiet beauty; the middle section unveils new shades of feeling; and the final section brings the listener back to the familiar melody with a profounder sense of its presence. From the very first measures, Mozart opens a sound world of stillness and clarity. Instead of remaining in A major as in the first movement, he moves to D major, creating a gentler, more restful hue. Against this backdrop the clarinet unfolds a long, cantabile melody of exceptional softness. The line moves mostly by step, with only the lightest leaps that lift the phrase naturally before returning to the continuous flow. The phrases are joined in a single, expansive breath. Combined with the Adagio tempo and long note values, the clarinet seems less an instrument than a human voice singing. This sense of calm is further shaped by Mozart’s restraint in harmony and orchestration. After the clarinet introduces the theme, the orchestra does not offer a new idea; it simply receives and supports the melody with the lightest touch. The harmonic motion is measured, moving gently within closely related harmonic regions—from tonic toward the dominant and quickly back again. This economy creates a transparent harmonic space in which every minute inflection of the melody can be heard with perfect clarity. Together these elements produce a feeling of luminous stillness, like the surface of a quiet lake at dawn—its beauty found in purity and calm. In the middle section (B), Mozart introduces new musical ideas, yet the phrases retain the same cantabile breath, the same soft contour, and the same unbroken flow established at the outset. Because of this unity, the listener does not feel transported to another world, but rather drawn deeper into the original lake, where the lower layers of water slowly become visible. On this foundation Mozart expands the harmony into richer tonal regions, notably shifting toward F-sharp minor and moments that passing through B minor, casting a more contemplative, introspective light than the serene D major of the opening. At the same time, suspensions and dissonances linger longer, so that the harmony no longer resolves as promptly as before. Just when the ear expects equilibrium, the harmony opens gently in another direction, allowing the same melodic material to disclose fresh expressive colors. Mozart also brings forth new shades through the most subtle changes in the clarinet’s tone. He creates contrast not through extreme leaps or technical display, but by allowing the phrases to move naturally between the warm, deep chalumeau register and the brighter, more floating clarion register. These shifts in color accompany a freer treatment of phrase structure: where the opening is balanced, symmetrical, and classically poised, the middle section becomes more flexible, more expansive, and less predictable. Yet even as the phrases grow freer, the singing quality of the clarinet remains soft and continuous. In this way the latent colors of the music gradually emerge, just as the beauty beneath a lake’s surface becomes clearer when the light changes. When the A' section returns, the original theme reappears in its familiar key, completing the ABA' form. On the surface the melody is almost unchanged: the rhythm remains unhurried, the cantabile line still soft, and the harmony gradually returns to its original center. Yet after the harmonic and tonal journey of the middle section, the listener no longer hears the theme as it first appeared. Mozart adds no new climax and introduces no fresh material to close the movement. He simply allows the theme to return to where it began—now carrying a depth that only the intervening journey could have conferred. One may picture the entire course of the Adagio as standing before a still lake while the light upon its surface slowly changes. The water remains calm from beginning to end, yet each subtle shift of light reveals the layers beneath, the life and contours of the depths, in a different hue. The lake itself is unaltered; only the light and the angle of vision allow its inherent depth to become visible. It is not unlike the quiet moment when a person looks back upon himself after many years. The feelings, longings, and memories have always been present within the soul. Yet through the passage of time what was once only dimly sensed becomes clear. The inner life has not changed; it is the act of reflection that allows one to understand more deeply what was already there. Perhaps this is what Mozart’s Adagio leaves with us: that something simple, when listened to with sufficient depth and patience, can open a dimension of meaning far beyond its first appearance. In the video below, the second movement (Adagio) of the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, is performed by Orchestra La Scintilla of the Opernhaus Zürich under the direction of Ada Pesch, with Robert Pickup as soloist on the basset clarinet—the very instrument for which Mozart wrote the work, intended for his friend Anton Stadler. The warm, mellow sound of the basset clarinet—especially its extended lower register, unavailable on the standard clarinet—offers a sound world closer to that for which Mozart conceived the concerto, allowing the lyrical purity and inward depth of the Adagio to emerge with remarkable clarity.
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Mozart’s Adagio K. 622: The Beauty of a Still Lake There are lakes whose beauty is of a special kind. At first glance they appear simply as a smooth, clear surface—quiet and transparent. Yet the longer one gazes, the more one senses the silent depths that lie beneath. As the light shifts and the angle of vision changes, the layers of water and the subtle contours of the lakebed gradually come into view. The lake itself does not change; what changes is the observer’s capacity to perceive the beauty that was always there. The second movement (Adagio) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, possesses a similar beauty. It is not only the emotional and the spiritual heart of the last concerto Mozart composed for a solo instrument, but also one of the most exquisite slow movements of the Classical era. Its power to move does not arise from dramatic climaxes or an abundance of musical material. Rather, it comes from the way Mozart allows a seemingly simple melody to reveal ever-deeper layers of meaning through the most delicate transformations of harmony, tone color, and form. Cast in a three-part A–B–A' structure, the movement traces a journey in which the musical flow gradually expands its expressive range before returning, more complete than before. The opening section presents a quiet beauty; the middle section unveils new shades of feeling; and the final section brings the listener back to the familiar melody with a profounder sense of its presence. From the very first measures, Mozart opens a sound world of stillness and clarity. Instead of remaining in A major as in the first movement, he moves to D major, creating a gentler, more restful hue. Against this backdrop the clarinet unfolds a long, cantabile melody of exceptional softness. The line moves mostly by step, with only the lightest leaps that lift the phrase naturally before returning to the continuous flow. The phrases are joined in a single, expansive breath. Combined with the Adagio tempo and long note values, the clarinet seems less an instrument than a human voice singing. This sense of calm is further shaped by Mozart’s restraint in harmony and orchestration. After the clarinet introduces the theme, the orchestra does not offer a new idea; it simply receives and supports the melody with the lightest touch. The harmonic motion is measured, moving gently within closely related harmonic regions—from tonic toward the dominant and quickly back again. This economy creates a transparent harmonic space in which every minute inflection of the melody can be heard with perfect clarity. Together these elements produce a feeling of luminous stillness, like the surface of a quiet lake at dawn—its beauty found in purity and calm. In the middle section (B), Mozart introduces new musical ideas, yet the phrases retain the same cantabile breath, the same soft contour, and the same unbroken flow established at the outset. Because of this unity, the listener does not feel transported to another world, but rather drawn deeper into the original lake, where the lower layers of water slowly become visible. On this foundation Mozart expands the harmony into richer tonal regions, notably shifting toward F-sharp minor and moments that passing through B minor, casting a more contemplative, introspective light than the serene D major of the opening. At the same time, suspensions and dissonances linger longer, so that the harmony no longer resolves as promptly as before. Just when the ear expects equilibrium, the harmony opens gently in another direction, allowing the same melodic material to disclose fresh expressive colors. Mozart also brings forth new shades through the most subtle changes in the clarinet’s tone. He creates contrast not through extreme leaps or technical display, but by allowing the phrases to move naturally between the warm, deep chalumeau register and the brighter, more floating clarion register. These shifts in color accompany a freer treatment of phrase structure: where the opening is balanced, symmetrical, and classically poised, the middle section becomes more flexible, more expansive, and less predictable. Yet even as the phrases grow freer, the singing quality of the clarinet remains soft and continuous. In this way the latent colors of the music gradually emerge, just as the beauty beneath a lake’s surface becomes clearer when the light changes. When the A' section returns, the original theme reappears in its familiar key, completing the ABA' form. On the surface the melody is almost unchanged: the rhythm remains unhurried, the cantabile line still soft, and the harmony gradually returns to its original center. Yet after the harmonic and tonal journey of the middle section, the listener no longer hears the theme as it first appeared. Mozart adds no new climax and introduces no fresh material to close the movement. He simply allows the theme to return to where it began—now carrying a depth that only the intervening journey could have conferred. One may picture the entire course of the Adagio as standing before a still lake while the light upon its surface slowly changes. The water remains calm from beginning to end, yet each subtle shift of light reveals the layers beneath, the life and contours of the depths, in a different hue. The lake itself is unaltered; only the light and the angle of vision allow its inherent depth to become visible. It is not unlike the quiet moment when a person looks back upon himself after many years. The feelings, longings, and memories have always been present within the soul. Yet through the passage of time what was once only dimly sensed becomes clear. The inner life has not changed; it is the act of reflection that allows one to understand more deeply what was already there. Perhaps this is what Mozart’s Adagio leaves with us: that something simple, when listened to with sufficient depth and patience, can open a dimension of meaning far beyond its first appearance. In the video below, the second movement (Adagio) of the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, is performed by Orchestra La Scintilla of the Opernhaus Zürich under the direction of Ada Pesch, with Robert Pickup as soloist on the basset clarinet—the very instrument for which Mozart wrote the work, intended for his friend Anton Stadler. The warm, mellow sound of the basset clarinet—especially its extended lower register, unavailable on the standard clarinet—offers a sound world closer to that for which Mozart conceived the concerto, allowing the lyrical purity and inward depth of the Adagio to emerge with remarkable clarity.

🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖

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Caller: I am 35, married with a kid and a second on the way. I have $1.8 million in debt total. ​Dave Ramsey: Good Lord. ​Caller: I live in Montreal, which is the third most expensive city in Canada, and I work as a nurse, which is the cheapest paid in the whole of Canada. ​Dave Ramsey: What is the 1.8 million on? I hope it's just your real estate. ​Caller: I have a triplex which I owe about $680,000 on, and my family home which I owe $590,000 on. ​Dave Ramsey: What's the triplex worth? ​Caller: The triplex is worth about $850,000. I'm trying to get $950,000 on it, but I don't know if I should lower the price. ​Dave Ramsey: So you've got it up for sale. And what is your home worth? ​Caller: My home is worth about $750,000. ​Dave Ramsey: Okay, that's not all of it. ​Caller: No, it's not. I have two Hondas which I owe close to $70,000 on each. I have $350,000 of personal debt, and $35,000 of credit card and student loans. ​Dave Ramsey: What is your $350,000 of personal debt? ​Caller: It was loaned to me mostly by my cousin, both as a down payment for the house as well as to renovate the house and the triplex. ​Dave Ramsey: Wow. And what's your household income? ​Caller: Around $110,000 to $120,000 before tax. ​Dave Ramsey: You owe $70,000 each on two Hondas? ​Caller: Yes. ​Dave Ramsey: So they're not worth 70? ​Caller: No, they're fairly new, but they're electric. We got them because we would be saving $500 in gas per car. ​Dave Ramsey: Yeah, that makes a difference when you're $2 million in debt. That's a big deal. Not! How can we help, hon? ​Caller: I had my aha moment when I saw $22,000 going out in one month after doing a budget, and I don't know what exactly to do. I tried to get my wife on board. She says she'll get rid of everything besides the house and the cars. I cut out everything from potato chips to haircuts, literally anything I could to curb the expenses. I wish I could do more jobs a day, but my doctor says that because I'm bipolar, I need to have a healthy work-life balance. And my wife is going on maternity leave in 12 weeks. ​Rachel Cruze: How much of her salary is the 120? ​Caller: She makes about $66,000. ​Rachel Cruze: So half of it. Is that paid maternity leave? ​Caller: She gets 70% paid. ​Rachel Cruze: For how long? ​Caller: For a year. ​Rachel Cruze: And how much are these car payments a month? ​Caller: Just under 750 each. ​Dave Ramsey: I think we need to have a different discussion at your kitchen table. It's not like, "what will she go along with?" She's one of the adults here too. The two of you need to sit down, look at this and go, "In 10 years, where do we want to be?" I'm collapsing under the weight of this. This is killing me, and it's aggravating your bipolar because your stress level is through the roof. It's not a matter of keeping a princess happy. The princess gets to grow up and be a woman.
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Caller: I am 35, married with a kid and a second on the way. I have $1.8 million in debt total. ​Dave Ramsey: Good Lord. ​Caller: I live in Montreal, which is the third most expensive city in Canada, and I work as a nurse, which is the cheapest paid in the whole of Canada. ​Dave Ramsey: What is the 1.8 million on? I hope it's just your real estate. ​Caller: I have a triplex which I owe about $680,000 on, and my family home which I owe $590,000 on. ​Dave Ramsey: What's the triplex worth? ​Caller: The triplex is worth about $850,000. I'm trying to get $950,000 on it, but I don't know if I should lower the price. ​Dave Ramsey: So you've got it up for sale. And what is your home worth? ​Caller: My home is worth about $750,000. ​Dave Ramsey: Okay, that's not all of it. ​Caller: No, it's not. I have two Hondas which I owe close to $70,000 on each. I have $350,000 of personal debt, and $35,000 of credit card and student loans. ​Dave Ramsey: What is your $350,000 of personal debt? ​Caller: It was loaned to me mostly by my cousin, both as a down payment for the house as well as to renovate the house and the triplex. ​Dave Ramsey: Wow. And what's your household income? ​Caller: Around $110,000 to $120,000 before tax. ​Dave Ramsey: You owe $70,000 each on two Hondas? ​Caller: Yes. ​Dave Ramsey: So they're not worth 70? ​Caller: No, they're fairly new, but they're electric. We got them because we would be saving $500 in gas per car. ​Dave Ramsey: Yeah, that makes a difference when you're $2 million in debt. That's a big deal. Not! How can we help, hon? ​Caller: I had my aha moment when I saw $22,000 going out in one month after doing a budget, and I don't know what exactly to do. I tried to get my wife on board. She says she'll get rid of everything besides the house and the cars. I cut out everything from potato chips to haircuts, literally anything I could to curb the expenses. I wish I could do more jobs a day, but my doctor says that because I'm bipolar, I need to have a healthy work-life balance. And my wife is going on maternity leave in 12 weeks. ​Rachel Cruze: How much of her salary is the 120? ​Caller: She makes about $66,000. ​Rachel Cruze: So half of it. Is that paid maternity leave? ​Caller: She gets 70% paid. ​Rachel Cruze: For how long? ​Caller: For a year. ​Rachel Cruze: And how much are these car payments a month? ​Caller: Just under 750 each. ​Dave Ramsey: I think we need to have a different discussion at your kitchen table. It's not like, "what will she go along with?" She's one of the adults here too. The two of you need to sit down, look at this and go, "In 10 years, where do we want to be?" I'm collapsing under the weight of this. This is killing me, and it's aggravating your bipolar because your stress level is through the roof. It's not a matter of keeping a princess happy. The princess gets to grow up and be a woman.

Traeyz ♠️

1,771,980 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Interesting times in the maps space, and its exciting there is so much buzz - maps are awesome :) My parents Rakesh and Rashmi Verma pioneered digital mapping in India in 1995, returning from the US after a successful career there with the passion and desire to do something unique for India. And it’s been 20 years for me personally in the mapping space, since I was a 19-year old Stanford engineering undergraduate student and got involved in starting India’s first interactive mapping portal, I realise MapmyIndia is a relatively lesser known company amidst more consumer facing global and local players, so it would be great if this post can be amplified, so that more people can be made aware 🙏 Warm regards, Rohan Verma CEO & ED, MapmyIndia *** A few thoughts on maps: 1) Accuracy and quality of maps is critical. I’d caution folks to check out quality and reliability of maps by browsing those maps in areas familiar to them, and if they notice errors in them, in terms of incorrect places marked wrongly on the map, it should serve as a reminder not to rely on such maps. I’ve personally looked at the maps of various global and local players, and find so many inaccuracies, which confirms my belief that the difficult art and science of map-making is not as easy and people may imagine or claim. 2) What’s exciting about Mappls MapmyIndia, as a home-grown indigenous deep tech digital products and platforms company, is that not just did we pioneer digital mapping in India since 1995, when there were no other digital maps available for the country, but back then, and even now, we’ve always built the most cutting-edge tech to build the most capable maps and empower our customers, users and developers with the most comprehensive and advanced solutions. Over the last 15 or so years, there have actually been many global and local players who have come into the mapping market, yet for some reason or the other, they haven’t sustained or maintained quality. On our side we have continuously innovated in our products and tech - already bringing and making the most advanced featured available into our 4D HD maps covering 360 RealViews and 3D drone and digital twin based maps, immersive views and RealVerses - and focused on solving the needs of Indian consumers and enterprises, and served customers and users with humility, passion and consistency, with a solid and sustainable business model to ensure and provide a long-term reliable mapping solution for customers and the country. 3) Here’s an explainer video of our maps, tech & APIs which focus on how developers, users and customers can leverage our solutions to get their needs solved in the best way. Do watch - you’ll be pleasantly surprised and happy at the offering. 4) To try out as a developer for yourself, visit We’re glad that tens of thousands of developers, and their hundreds of millions of users, benefit from Mappls MapmyIndia Maps & APIs everyday, using both our free plans and our commercial plans. Do try for your own needs as a developer. 5) In one sense, the quality and capability of Mappls MapmyIndia is proven to be better and more useful and valuable through our free consumer Mappls MapmyIndia app (learn more and download from which has gotten love from millions of consumers who are able to navigate safer and better. MapmyIndia Mappls Rakesh Verma @RashmiV1956
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Interesting times in the maps space, and its exciting there is so much buzz - maps are awesome :) My parents Rakesh and Rashmi Verma pioneered digital mapping in India in 1995, returning from the US after a successful career there with the passion and desire to do something unique for India. And it’s been 20 years for me personally in the mapping space, since I was a 19-year old Stanford engineering undergraduate student and got involved in starting India’s first interactive mapping portal, I realise MapmyIndia is a relatively lesser known company amidst more consumer facing global and local players, so it would be great if this post can be amplified, so that more people can be made aware 🙏 Warm regards, Rohan Verma CEO & ED, MapmyIndia *** A few thoughts on maps: 1) Accuracy and quality of maps is critical. I’d caution folks to check out quality and reliability of maps by browsing those maps in areas familiar to them, and if they notice errors in them, in terms of incorrect places marked wrongly on the map, it should serve as a reminder not to rely on such maps. I’ve personally looked at the maps of various global and local players, and find so many inaccuracies, which confirms my belief that the difficult art and science of map-making is not as easy and people may imagine or claim. 2) What’s exciting about Mappls MapmyIndia, as a home-grown indigenous deep tech digital products and platforms company, is that not just did we pioneer digital mapping in India since 1995, when there were no other digital maps available for the country, but back then, and even now, we’ve always built the most cutting-edge tech to build the most capable maps and empower our customers, users and developers with the most comprehensive and advanced solutions. Over the last 15 or so years, there have actually been many global and local players who have come into the mapping market, yet for some reason or the other, they haven’t sustained or maintained quality. On our side we have continuously innovated in our products and tech - already bringing and making the most advanced featured available into our 4D HD maps covering 360 RealViews and 3D drone and digital twin based maps, immersive views and RealVerses - and focused on solving the needs of Indian consumers and enterprises, and served customers and users with humility, passion and consistency, with a solid and sustainable business model to ensure and provide a long-term reliable mapping solution for customers and the country. 3) Here’s an explainer video of our maps, tech & APIs which focus on how developers, users and customers can leverage our solutions to get their needs solved in the best way. Do watch - you’ll be pleasantly surprised and happy at the offering. 4) To try out as a developer for yourself, visit We’re glad that tens of thousands of developers, and their hundreds of millions of users, benefit from Mappls MapmyIndia Maps & APIs everyday, using both our free plans and our commercial plans. Do try for your own needs as a developer. 5) In one sense, the quality and capability of Mappls MapmyIndia is proven to be better and more useful and valuable through our free consumer Mappls MapmyIndia app (learn more and download from which has gotten love from millions of consumers who are able to navigate safer and better. MapmyIndia Mappls Rakesh Verma @RashmiV1956

Rohan Verma

16,237 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Introducing… 🐾The Forgotten Field Project🐾 What began as a simple errand to the dollar store last week, became a desperate situation Priya Gandolf’s Legacy Cat Rescue could not walk away from. Movement in the field next door caught Priya’s eye. Six abandoned 4 wk old kittens without their mother. A baby mother herself, barely six months old, with eyes clearly indicating illness, trying to care for 4 tiny two-week-old kittens. Her head sticking out of a makeshift shelter, eyes festering and a pleading look for help. She showed no fear, perhaps too unwell to run, or too weak. Cats running everywhere. Some terribly thin. Some appeared sick. Many with goopy, infected eyes. And a couple appear possibly pregnant. There are obvious signs that someone, at some point, had tried to help… Old makeshift shelters. Empty food dishes long dried up by the sun. But now they’re left alone, sick, hungry and a couple appear possibly pregnant. Priya hurried to get food and water, and they ate and drank with wild desperate hunger and thirst. This is not just a handful of cats. This is an unmanaged colony of approximately 30 fur babies living beside a dollar store, in an empty lot thick with brambles. Unsafe from road traffic, a busy parking lot, predators who roam the area. Trapped in the cruel cycle of kittens having kittens. It’s not a “lovely spot out in the woods”. We have managed many colonies over the years, and coming upon this tragedy never, ever! gets easy. And it never comes at a time when it’s financially or spatially feasible to help them. Because in rescue, perfect timing hardly ever exists. And wasting time and your breath harping about the neglect and cold hearted actions of humans…is well, just that. You just do…because turning your back would only be more of what has already been done to them! And they deserve Help. Food. Vet care. Relief. Love. Home. A Safe Soft place to land. So starting now and over this summer, with your help, we are taking this colony on as a full Rescue and TNR project. The Forgotten Field Project will focus on: • Regularly feeding every cat • Rescuing the adoptable ones/finding homes • Vet care/Treating all the sick and injured ones first! • TNR’ing the feral cats. Hopefully relocating them perhaps into a barn cat program, as releasing them back to this location is not the ideal place for them to be. And/or hopefully, finding homes that are willing to house and work with the feral ones. Some are just more “feral” than others and can be rehabilitated. Honestly, when the fear is handled, so is the “feral” in so many cases. They need a chance to discover what love is! • And most importantly… fixing all of them to STOP this heartbreaking vicious cycle of suffering and reproduction. This will not happen overnight. It’s a huge undertaking.🦾 It will take food, vetting, medication, spay/neuter appointments, recovery space, patience, and an enormous amount of community support. But we cannot turn our backs now that we’ve seen them, we must do. ❣️The six abandoned 4 wk old kittens are already safe with us and, thanks to your help, have their first vet visits on Wednesday, 5/20. Safe and loved, their lives are changed forever. Next up… 🚨 Immediate priority is to get the Momma with the goopy eyes and her 4 little kittens out. Though it appears it might be just infected eyes, it’s imperative that we get her out now, to get vet care. She’s nursing 4 babies, and she needs proper care, nutrition and a proper place to nurse and raise her babies. A mosquito laden, picker weed field, filled with fleas and ticks, in the soon to be sweltering Georgia heat is not that place! Hopefully, $200-$300 might prove to be sufficient for her vet bill, but there will be food to consider. And as the kittens grow, they will need their vetting as well. We expect that this could be at least an ~ $8000 project. Possibly more, depending on illness discovered. But we’ll start with one foot in front of the other. And continue. One cat at a time. One full belly at a time. One life changed at a time. If you can help us help them, we would be endlessly grateful. And THEY will be grateful to know that someone has finally come along who cares about them. Sentient beings know what love is...even if they exist in fear. Love lives here… even in forgotten fields.🫂 There is more in my reply that is informative.
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Introducing… 🐾The Forgotten Field Project🐾 What began as a simple errand to the dollar store last week, became a desperate situation Priya Gandolf’s Legacy Cat Rescue could not walk away from. Movement in the field next door caught Priya’s eye. Six abandoned 4 wk old kittens without their mother. A baby mother herself, barely six months old, with eyes clearly indicating illness, trying to care for 4 tiny two-week-old kittens. Her head sticking out of a makeshift shelter, eyes festering and a pleading look for help. She showed no fear, perhaps too unwell to run, or too weak. Cats running everywhere. Some terribly thin. Some appeared sick. Many with goopy, infected eyes. And a couple appear possibly pregnant. There are obvious signs that someone, at some point, had tried to help… Old makeshift shelters. Empty food dishes long dried up by the sun. But now they’re left alone, sick, hungry and a couple appear possibly pregnant. Priya hurried to get food and water, and they ate and drank with wild desperate hunger and thirst. This is not just a handful of cats. This is an unmanaged colony of approximately 30 fur babies living beside a dollar store, in an empty lot thick with brambles. Unsafe from road traffic, a busy parking lot, predators who roam the area. Trapped in the cruel cycle of kittens having kittens. It’s not a “lovely spot out in the woods”. We have managed many colonies over the years, and coming upon this tragedy never, ever! gets easy. And it never comes at a time when it’s financially or spatially feasible to help them. Because in rescue, perfect timing hardly ever exists. And wasting time and your breath harping about the neglect and cold hearted actions of humans…is well, just that. You just do…because turning your back would only be more of what has already been done to them! And they deserve Help. Food. Vet care. Relief. Love. Home. A Safe Soft place to land. So starting now and over this summer, with your help, we are taking this colony on as a full Rescue and TNR project. The Forgotten Field Project will focus on: • Regularly feeding every cat • Rescuing the adoptable ones/finding homes • Vet care/Treating all the sick and injured ones first! • TNR’ing the feral cats. Hopefully relocating them perhaps into a barn cat program, as releasing them back to this location is not the ideal place for them to be. And/or hopefully, finding homes that are willing to house and work with the feral ones. Some are just more “feral” than others and can be rehabilitated. Honestly, when the fear is handled, so is the “feral” in so many cases. They need a chance to discover what love is! • And most importantly… fixing all of them to STOP this heartbreaking vicious cycle of suffering and reproduction. This will not happen overnight. It’s a huge undertaking.🦾 It will take food, vetting, medication, spay/neuter appointments, recovery space, patience, and an enormous amount of community support. But we cannot turn our backs now that we’ve seen them, we must do. ❣️The six abandoned 4 wk old kittens are already safe with us and, thanks to your help, have their first vet visits on Wednesday, 5/20. Safe and loved, their lives are changed forever. Next up… 🚨 Immediate priority is to get the Momma with the goopy eyes and her 4 little kittens out. Though it appears it might be just infected eyes, it’s imperative that we get her out now, to get vet care. She’s nursing 4 babies, and she needs proper care, nutrition and a proper place to nurse and raise her babies. A mosquito laden, picker weed field, filled with fleas and ticks, in the soon to be sweltering Georgia heat is not that place! Hopefully, $200-$300 might prove to be sufficient for her vet bill, but there will be food to consider. And as the kittens grow, they will need their vetting as well. We expect that this could be at least an ~ $8000 project. Possibly more, depending on illness discovered. But we’ll start with one foot in front of the other. And continue. One cat at a time. One full belly at a time. One life changed at a time. If you can help us help them, we would be endlessly grateful. And THEY will be grateful to know that someone has finally come along who cares about them. Sentient beings know what love is...even if they exist in fear. Love lives here… even in forgotten fields.🫂 There is more in my reply that is informative.

Sherry Miller

16,139 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад