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Coordinate Geometry Notes For Class 10 Chapter 7 Download PDF
Let X'OX and YOY' be two perpendicular straight lines meeting at fixed point 0 then X'OX is called the x—axis and Y'OY is called the axis of y or y axis. Point ‗0' is called the origin. x axis is known as abscissa and y—axis is known as ordinate.
NOTE : The x- axis and y— axis are mutually perpendicular to each,other that is why, this system of coordinates is also called Rectangular cartesian coordinate system.
The coordinate axes X'OX and Y'OY devide the plane into four parts, called quadrants, numbered I, II, III and IV anti-clockwise from OX.
NOTE : The coordinates of a point on the x-axis are of the form (x, 0), and of a point on they— axis are of the from (0,y).
The distance between two points whose co—ordinates are P (x1, y1) and Q (x2, y2) given by the formula √(x2 — x1)2 + (y2 — y1 )2
√(x — 0)2 + (y — 0)2 = √x2 + y2
NOTE : Since, distance is always non-negative (Positive), we take only the positive square root.
The coordinates of the point p (x, y) which divides the line segment joining the points A (x1, y1) and B (x2, y2)
internally in the ratio m1 : m2 are x = m1x2 +m2x1 / m1 + m2
and y = m1y2 +m2y1 / m1 + m2
m1 m2 / A(x1. , yx1) P(x, y) B(x2, y2)
NOTE : If the ratio in which P (x, y) divides AB is K : 1, then the coordinates of the point P
will be
(kx2/k + 1 , ky2 + y1 / k + 1)
(Special case of section formula)
The mid-point of a line segment divides the line segment in the ratio 1 : 1
* The coordinates of the mid-point P of the join of the points A (x1, y1) and B (x2, y2) is
(1.x1 + 1.x2 / 1 + 1 , 1.y1 + 1.y2 / 1 + 1) =
(x1 + x2 / 2 , y1 + y2 / 2)
(using section- formula m1= 1, m2 = 1)
Area of AABC, formed by the points A(x1 , y1), B(x2,y2), C(x3, y3) is given by the numerical value of the expression
1/2 [x1(y2 – y3 + x2(y3 – y1) + x3(y1 – y2)]
(1) Area cannot be negative so, we shall ignore negative sign if it occurs in a problem.
(2) To find the area of quadrilateral we shall divide it into two triangles by joining two opposite vertices, find their areas and add them.
(3) If the area of triangle is zero sq. units then the vertices of triangle are collinear.
The point where the medians of a triangle meet is called the centroid of the triangle. ―If AD is a mediam of the triangle ABC and G is its centroid, then AG/GD = 2/1.‖ The coordinates of the point G are (x1 + x2 + x3 / 3 ,y1 + y2 + y3 / 3)
(I) Four points will form :
(a) a parallelogram if its opposite sides are equal, but diagonals are unequal.
(b) a rectangle if opposite sides are equal and two diagonals are also equal.
(c) a rhombus if all the four sides are equal, but diagonals unequal,
(d) a square if all sides are equal and diagonals are also equal.
(II) Three points will form:
(a) an equilateral triangle if all the three sides are equal.
(b) an isosceles triangle if any two sides are equal.
(c) a right angled triangle if sum of square of any two sides is equal to square of the third side.
(d) a triangle if sum of any two sides (distances) is greater than the third side (distance).
(III) Three points A, B and C are collinear or lie on a line if one of the following holds
(i) AB + BC — AC
(ii) AC + CB AB
(iii) CA + AB CB.
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The 'Brand' Poliedrica was born in 1996, but our experience in design with plexiglass ( methacrylate = PMMA ) began already in 1973 becoming today is a guarantee of quality.
It is mixing wisely important ingredients like high quality materials, passion and experience, that we are able to design and produce our collections of furniture in plexiglass (or Plexiglas or Altuglas, according to different trade names).
Our production of acrylic furniture is composed by a wide range of plexiglass furnishings for interiors: acrylic coffee tables, dining tables, plexiglass consoles, chairs, bookcases, cupboards, showcases etc…
We also realise decorative and artistic objects and accessories in general, all made in acrylic of the highest quality: cast methacrylate, PMMA 100% MADE IN ITALY.
In general, we offer three different main lines of acrylic furniture.
A so-called 'classic' collection, consisting mainly of transparent plexiglas furniture highlighting the brightness, the lightness and the elegance of the material – as well as a line of 'artistic or creative deisgn' where, in order to create our items, we use acrylic of different colors, working like a 3D mosaic.
This is a fairly eclectic line, very colorful and joyful.
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Gel for cleaning the paint-and-lacquer coating
Features of this product are:
1. Gel-like consistency;
2. The concentration of surfactants (surface active substances) is 50 times higher than in ordinary shampoos;
3. pH - 6.5 allows partial removal of metal oxides;
4. Absence of alkali;
5. The water composition during product's dilution does not affect the detergency;
6. Absolutely safe for humans, as well as various engine elements. Has a premium aroma;
7. Ideal for the second phase as well as for the maintenance of any ceramic coating.
The principle of the Future Clean (FC)'s operation:
Application of the formula on a dirty surface creates a dense film, which evenly covers all the impurities on the paint-and-lacquer coating.
The thickness of this film is about 50 microns, which is up to 50 times more than the film of an ordinary shampoo. Because surfactants have a high surface tension force, in the process of mechanical impact on the FC film, an intensified action at the gel- dirt boundary occurs. There is an instant separation of particles of dirt with their subsequent encapsulation (covering) and emulsification (transfer into a suspended state). It should be noted that the thickness of the water film, on the vertical surface, taking into account the impurities, can reach 20 microns. Impurities, having a different nature and adhesion, form a layer from 5 to 15 microns. Few manufacturers as well as consumers take this fact into account, so the results of washing the paint-and-lacquer coating with shampoos are often different.
That is, after cleaning the surface with water to get to 5-15 microns of dirt, surfactants need to overcome 20 microns of water. In the case of the FC gel, it tends to displace water with minimal dissolution, which can be seen when it is diluted with water. By the way, when applying a foamy shampoo (diluted 30-100 times), most of the surfactants (up to 90%) literally run off to the floor due to gravity.
A very important feature of the FC gel is that after it is applied, the paint-and-lacquer coating begins to push off the water better, or rather, as it should. Many people are familiar with this aspect which is noticeable on a freshly painted or polished paint-and-lacquer coating. In addition, the cleaned surface has a lower electrostatic voltage and thus accumulates less dust.
The paint-and-lacquer coating cleaned with FC gel begins to "crunch" like a clean plate.
1. Shake the container with FC gel concentrate;
2. Dissolve 200 ml of the formula in 800 ml of water (100 to 600 at 2 phases) shake well until a homogeneous mass is formed;
3. Using pulverizer, evenly apply FC on the surface of a washed car;
4. Wipe the thresholds and rims without applying pressure using a sponge or a microfiber towel. Use them only for these elements of the car;
5. Without pressure, go through the surface of the paint-and-lacquer coating ( detail by detail using a "snake" motion going down from the top) with the help of a professional sponge or a fiber glove;
6. Extrude the gel from the dirty sponge or a fiber glove, or rinse it in water. Move on to the next element;
7. Using water wash the entire car thoroughly so that no water films remain;
8. Dry the car's paint-and-lacquer coating,
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Xodus lands vibration assessment contract from ZADCO
Xodus Group has been awarded a contract for the vibration assessment and analysis on the oil train piping and structures for Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) at Zirku Island, 140km north-west of Abu Dhabi.
The work, valued at over $600,000, will pull in services from Xodus' process, piping, instrumentation and structural teams. The 24-week project will include a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) scope of work.
According to Xodus, Zirku is considered the main industrial base for the processing, storage and export of oil from the Upper Zakum, Umm Al-Dalkh and Satah fields. In recent months, Xodus' vibration engineering team has also won a number of other contracts in the Middle East.
The company secured a three-year contract to deliver rotating machinery condition monitoring services with rotating machinery vibration analysis and risk management. Xodus has also been awarded work to investigate two vibration issues on Sulphur Recovery Units in Abu Dhabi.
The work will be split into two phases: phase one for the site survey vibration investigation and phase two to engineer solutions to eliminate/reduce the vibration concerns once the root cause has been identified.
Steve Hamilton, Xodus Group's Managing Director for Middle East and Asia said: "We have made a strong start to the year with these contract awards. The team deserves a lot of credit as these wins have been built on the excellent feedback from previous projects.
"Xodus' seamless integration of services from exploration through production and development can greatly enhance the quality of what we deliver as well as saving valuable project time and overall costs. Our specialist vibration expertise is ideally suited to the challenges currently facing operators in the region."


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Francis Gary Powers, the Air Force pilot captured by the Russians when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, was posthumously awarded the Silver Star Friday at the Pentagon.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the medal to Powers' grandson, Trey, who was there with his father, Francis Gary Powers Jr., and other family members.
"[A]s a family, for my sister, myself, my wife, my son, my aunts and uncles and my cousins, the Powers family is deeply grateful and deeply appreciative for the awarding of the Silver Star to my father," Powers Jr. said after accepting the medal. "It goes to show it is never too late to set the record straight."
Powers died in a helicopter crash in 1977, while working as a pilot for NBC.
His capture in 1960 was one of the significant events of the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Powers had been an Air Force pilot until 1956, when he separated to join the CIA's U-2 reconnaissance program.
The Soviets held him for more than a year and a half before trading him to the U.S. for a Soviet spy. Powers was seen by many in the U.S. as an embarrassment at the very least and perhaps even a traitor. Though a Senate Armed Services Committee review in the early 1960s concluded that Powers had behaved courageously and honorably throughout his imprisonment, stories continued to circulate that portrayed him in a different light.
"When I was growing up I heard all the misinformation, the disinformation, the rumors and speculation," the younger Powers recalled. "That he had defected, that he landed the plane [deliberately] that he had spilled his guts and told the Soviets everything he knew, and that he hadn't followed orders and committed suicide."
CIA documents declassified in the 1990s bore out what the Senate committee concluded decades earlier. Powers eventually was posthumously awarded the Prisoner of War Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Powers' DFC medal and POW status are noted on his headstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
But the honors and public recognition came too late for Powers to do what he wanted when he was returned by the Soviets, his sisters told Military.com.
He wanted to return to the Air Force, Janice Melvin of Utah said, but commanders denied him even though they and the CIA knew he had done nothing wrong.
"That's why he didn't go back into the service" said Jessica Powers Hileman. "They wouldn't let him -- too much notoriety."
That notoriety "hurt him terribly," she recalled. "People said he should be shot, [that] he should kill himself.'
Powers' son, 47, said he started becoming aware of the stories only after his father died in 1977, when his television news helicopter went down while covering brush fires in California.
Later, as an adult living in Virginia, he began conducting his own research into his father's ill-fated U-2 flight, and would go into area schools to talk about it.
"Nine times out of 10 I'd walk into a classroom to give a lecture on the U-2 incident. I'd get blank stares from the students," he said. "They thought I was there to talk about the U-2 rock band."


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We are a group of young people united in the belief that Brexit is a disaster which can and must be democratically stopped.
In the autumn, a decision will be made as to whether or not the deal to leave the EU - negotiated by Theresa May's government - is good enough for this country or not. At OFOC, we believe the voices of young people should be heard. The outcome will impact us the most: we are losing our rights to live, work and study anywhere in our continent.
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it. I don't say this very often but I am really, really proud of
myself. It was hard. And I never want to have to do it again. So smoke
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That is so WONDERFUL!!! Being sober and not smoking are amazing accomplishments!! You have so much strength!! I am proud of you!!
Emily, sometimes I feel you don't give yourself enough credit for what you do. I am glad you are proud of yourself!!! You are an inspiration to so many people. Thank you!!
Lots of Love!!
So proud of you Em.....Congrats! You have amazing discipline....keep on inspiring - you do it so well. Love ya girl!ReplyDelete
I agree -- Emily, how do you do it? I've never been a smoker, so I don't know exactly what it feels like but I know enough that it is a powerful addiction. How did you just stop?!?ReplyDelete
shame you can't bottle up your strength and sell it...i would be the first in line!ReplyDelete
I'm in the middle of the quitting battle myself and take lots of inspiration from this post, thanks :)ReplyDelete
Wow well done!! I stopped smking 4 years ago and I can tell you it gets easier and easier.
Keep it up!
Hi to all of you,
First I want to apologize to Annette. You were right when you thought that I was drinking. I could feel it too when someone was drinking.
It was terrible because I couldn't stop myself. Last night I had my last drink and I feel terrible and ashamed.
I stopped smoking 17 years ago because I wanted to and I am still happy about it.
I wrote to my coach that I was drinking. I wrote a lot to him so I know how it could happen.
Lots of good energy.
GOOD FOR YOU, Em! I became a nonsmoker in 1975--quit cold turkey too...never went back to it for the same reason as you stated: because I did not ever want to have to go through that again, and I knew that I would not be able to smoke and live healthfully! It gets easier and easier to live without it...Love and Hugs!ReplyDelete
Anon 12:15 a.m. - Thank you for the apology and I accept your apology...I've been in your shoes many, many times sweetie, and I know you are struggling and it is hard....but you can do this...I have faith in everyone on here and I have faith in you. Remember, this site doesn't say anywhere that you can't post a comment on this site if you've been drinking. You're not the 1st one to do this and you certainly won't be the last. You are always welcome here and hopefully we'll be discussing your newfound sobriety on here from now on - that would be great!
You mention that you wrote to your coach that you were drinking.....are you currently in a recovery program?...is this coach something like a sponsor? Just trying to get the whole picture.
Good for you for stopping smoking many years ago....what an accomplishment. I have yet to quit that nasty habit, but am waiting for when I'm ready....it'll be here pretty soon I think.
Thanks for being honest and sharing with everyone here. Just do this one day at a time...and there may be instances when you need to do it one hour at a time, or even one minute at a time....that's okay - whatever YOU need to do to keep YOU sober :) And we are always here for you on here - just reach out via a comment and someone, if not many, will respond with their experience, strength and hope.
Lots of good energy back at ya girl....today is a new day - remember that....it's Day 1 of your sobriety....be proud - throw away the guilt and shame and be proud that you are sober today.
Dear Annette,
Thank you so much for your nice and helpful words.
Love & Light
You are very welcome.....here for ya anytime :)ReplyDelete


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text: Amit 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2013 A piece of art is saying "This is life, and this is how I see it". As Ayn Rand said, you don't have to agree with the artist's metaphysical value judgements in order to evaluate his work as good art. However, let's say that you recognize in a movie the theme that Altruism leads to happiness. if you don't agree with this theme, you will unavoidably find inconsistencies in the plot itself. So how can you evaluate the theme of a movie as wrong and still evaluate it as a good art? Where does metaphysical judgement stops and esthetic judgement begins? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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December 17, 2018
|Upcoming Events
|Finals Schedule
|Thank You!
As you may remember, SSHS had a fundraiser for retired teacher, Yvonne Cherbak-Boyd, who lost her home in the recent Woolsey fire. There was a fundraiser at Red's, and individual staff donations for her as well. As a result, the SSHS community raised $1400.00. We would like to thank Red's BBQ and all of the many people who participated in this fundraiser. Mrs. Cherbak-Boyd was sincerely moved by this outpouring of support and care. It's wonderful being a part of the Santa Su Family.
|Science Fair
We are looking for community members or parents who would be interested in being a judge for the science fair. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested.
|Fall Ball
The Fall Ball will be at The Vineyards in Simi Valley. Rescheduled to January 11, 6:00 PM .
Choir Concert
SSHS Vocal Music presents: Revolutionary in the PAC
Interested in earning college credit while in high school? Want to take Moorpark College classes on our campus? Next semester we will be offering:
PSY M08: Abnormal Psych on Tuesday & Thursday 3:15 - 4:30 pm Introduces the scientific study of psychopathology and atypical behaviors, broadly defined. Investigates abnormal behavior from a variety of perspectives including biological, psychological, and sociocultural approaches. Surveys theory and research in abnormal behavior, and intervention and prevention strategies for psychological disorders are also introduced.
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Sometimes, even though you weren't looking for any kind of fruit at all…life hands you lemons. And upon first glance, it may look like there's no sugar lying around to make lemonade.
And as surely as night turns to day, nearly everybody will, throughout the course of a long career, encounter a boss or a colleague who engages in behaviors that psychologists label "toxic."
- Bullying and/or abuse
- Blame-shifting
- Micromanaging
- Withholding critical information
- And more
The question is, what can we do to change the situation when we aren't necessarily in a position of authority over the person who's behaving in a way that prevents us from meeting our needs?
Is there any way to influence the behavior of somebody who is a peer or—heaven forbid—a boss?
Minimizing Exposure to Toxicity
In an excellent and comprehensive resource on handling "toxic people" published by Psychology Today (which is full of actionable advice despite its GLOP-py title), Katherine Schreiber begins with a sound piece of advice for those who are stuck in a workplace environment with somebody whose behavior is draining the energy, productivity, satisfaction, and emotional health from those around him or her.
If you can, work to create some distance between yourself and the source of the toxic behavior.
Limiting exposure to toxic behavior can be achieved first and foremost through limiting actual physical contact and the amount of time you must spend with the person. That's sound advice, and worth following if you feel you are in reasonable a position to do so.
Managing Toxic Behavior through Confrontive and Preventive I-Messages
But sometimes you can't do that. And when you can't, you can try I-Messages.
Let's take a look at how a few might look.
Confrontive I-Messages are useful anytime there is a problem. In terms of the Behavior Window, they are appropriate when the other person's behavior falls into your area of unacceptance. The format for this type of I-Messages is:
___(Description of behavior)___
___(Tangible effect)___
___(Feelings attached to effect)___
- Bullying/abuse: "X, when you raise your voice and swear in meetings, I feel very uncomfortable and I just want to leave the room."
- Blame-shifting: "Z, for the past three quarters I have heard you tell our team the production delays are outside of our control. I'm worried and frustrated because there may be flaws in our processes that could be the true cause, and if we don't look for them, we might keep missing our deadlines and lose the contract that funds my position."
Preventive I-Messages, on the other hand, are assertions of your needs before there is a problem. They are designed to prevent problems in a relationship before they happen. They may be used proactively based on past experiences of behavior as well. In the case of dealing with somebody else's behavior in the workplace that's preventing you from meeting your needs, it may be the only arrow in your quiver. It's at least worth a try.
The format of a preventive I-Messages is:
____(Your need)________ (because) ____(reason for the need or effect on you) _____
- Withholding critical information: "Boss, I need to make sure I have all the pertinent information necessary to write the report that is due on Friday before I start, because I want to be able to take pride in a report that is comprehensive and error-free."
- Micromanaging: "Boss, I'd like to set up a time to talk with you about your expectations for this assignment ahead of time so I'll feel completely prepared and confident in giving you exactly what you want."
But What If It Doesn't Work?
In the immediate seconds after delivering an I-Messages, there is always the possibility the receiver will respond with defensiveness or anger. That risk is increased, obviously, when the power dynamic between you and the person you are sending I-Messages is lateral or upward.
So. You've sent your I-Message. The person you sent it to is now staring at you defensively. Or s/he is actively telling you exactly what you can do with your request.
Now what?
You still have options.
- If you feel there is a reasonable chance the discussion may still arrive at a satisfactory resolution if you were to continue, you could try Shifting Gears, which is another way of saying, switch from sending I-Messages to listening.
- If you sense the discussion is over, the road ahead may be long and full of lemons. That doesn't necessarily mean you have to do anything with them. Let the three "P's" be your guide as you continue coping with your daily exposure to toxic behaviors:
a. Be Persistent. I-Messages aren't a one-and-done thing. Keep sending them. You may feel like a proverbial "broken record" (people under 40—ask your elders) but after a while, even those who are most resistant to hearing them will eventually come to anticipate them. When you make your needs known (over and over and over again) in a reasonable, dispassionate, business- and results-focused way, it's going to be difficult for anybody to argue that you're the problem.
b. Be Professional. No matter how stressful and frustrating toxic behavior in the workplace may be, you control your reactions to it. Document instances that violate company policy and/or discuss them to Human Resources or your boss's superiors if you are comfortable with that course of action, but resist the temptation to kvetch with colleagues (see: Gossip).
c. Be Prepared with a Plan B. The era of a job-for-life ended roughly four decades ago, and at the moment, the U.S. economy is strong. Workplaces that tolerate toxic behavior in the long-term are known for high turnover. It would be a pity (for them) if you were one of their statistics, but in the long run, there are plenty of pastures full of green grass—and no lemons. Ultimately, if there are no other options left, it may be best to seek one.


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Surveying the membership of Voice of the Faithful
In 1929, the Protestant theologian H. Richard Niebuhr published a book called The Social Sources of Denominationalism. In it, he traced the divisions that have plagued American Protestant churches—race and region and ethnicity, as well as social class. He pointed to Methodists north and south of the Mason-Dixon line and asked what theological differences justified their division. He pointed to white Baptists and black Baptists and asked the same question, just as he pointed to his own German-language Lutherans and wondered why they couldn't share communion with Lutherans who speak Swedish. He also noted the disturbing regularity with which religious groups that start out as an expression of ordinary working people's concerns eventually become established and comfortable and disdainful of the very people whose discontents begat them. Such, he said, were the "social sources" of denominationalism. People whose lives are shaped by different social realities often find it difficult to remain part of a single religious group.
Fifty years later, my own work on the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) re-visited this question. Here was a denomination that had been born of the very racial and regional forces of division that Niebuhr described. It had been held together for more than a century by a combination of regional solidarity and organizational prowess. But by the late 1970s, it was undergoing tumultuous internal conflicts that would eventually lead to its transformation into a conservative political powerhouse, and to the departure of its progressive wing. While the rhetoric of contention was full of theology (and there were theological differences at stake), it reflected also the real differences in social worlds of the conservatives and moderates.
Many factors spelled the doom of the movement to counter a fundamentalist takeover; one of them was that its adherents did not live in the social world inhabited by the vast mainstream of their denomination. Even where there was substantial theological agreement between the progressives and the mainstream, the progressive movement's leaders had forgotten how to talk to the people who might have become their allies. And even where there was substantial disagreement between the fundamentalists and that same mainstream, fundamentalists understood the social terrain on which the battle was being fought. It is no surprise that fundamentalist activists won the war and got to keep the spoils, while the more progressive wing has retreated into a variety of new organizational homes.
Denominations, of course, are a Protestant phenomenon. One of the remarkable aspects of the Roman Catholic Church has been its ability to hold together immensely varied social worlds. But in 2002, with reports emerging of clergy sexual abuse on a scale few could have imagined, a new force began to strain the fabric of the Church in the United States. It began with a group of Catholics meeting in a church basement in a suburb outside Boston to formulate a lay response to the scandals. Within months, chapters of Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) were forming around the country, often meeting in members' homes. Nationally, VOTF now claims 40,000 members, individuals who have contributed support or simply asked to be included in its mailings and e-mails. (Anecdotal accounts suggest a tapering off of meeting attendance.) Who has joined Voice of the Faithful? From what social world do they come? Is it different from the world of others in the Church who haven't signed on? The answers have much to tell us about the shifting terrain of American Catholicism.
The first thing to be said about members of Voice of the Faithful is that, in all sorts of ways, they are as Catholic as they come. The vast majority (93 percent) were born into the Church. Both parents were baptized Catholics, and these, their children, began life as baptized infants. They have been thoroughly immersed in the Church's culture and institutions for their whole lives. While only 15 percent of American adults went to any sort of religious school, an astonishing 70 percent of VOTF's members and leaders attended Catholic grade schools, and 61 percent continued into Catholic high schools. (Compare those figures with the U.S. lay Catholic population as a whole—of whom 49 percent attended a Catholic grade school and 29 percent attended a Catholic high school.) Today, VOTF members are more likely than the general Catholic population to be registered in a parish (85 percent versus 67 percent) and to attend Mass weekly (65 percent versus 34 percent).
VOTF members are very likely to say that their faith is among the most important aspects of their lives (62 percent)—more than American Catholics overall (44 percent). They pray when they aren't at church—79 percent of them say daily or more, as compared with 62 percent of nonmembers. And nearly half (43 percent) participate in ministries of service, to the sick or the poor, for example, more than once a month.
Among the most important social sources of this movement, then, is the Church itself. VOTF members differ from other Catholics in their high degree of devotion to the Church. But deep formation in the Church is not a sufficient explanation for this movement. There are more mundane social factors at work as well.
To get at these, it is useful to think about the various generations of VOTF members in turn.
VOTF members belonging to the oldest generation of Catholics, those born before 1941 and shaped in the pre–Vatican II Church, are remarkable in a number of ways. First, there are so many of them. Forty-one percent of VOTF's membership is over the age of 65, compared with just 17 percent of the U.S. Catholic population. Sometimes called the "Greatest Generation," this cohort has consistently invested in lifelong organizational membership and leadership, within the Church and outside it. Their habit was to join institutions and work their way up. Their commitment to building organizations has been critical in sustaining churches and volunteer organizations of all sorts. Today, many are retired and have free time and reasonable resources of health and money. We should not be surprised to find a disproportionate number of older Catholics lending their energies to a new organizational effort in the Church.
But these are not typical retired Catholics. They are the best-educated and most experienced leaders of their generation. While only about 12 percent of Catholics over 65 graduated from college, 87 percent of older VOTF members have at least a bachelor's degree. In fact, nearly half of these members have a Catholic college degree. In the years surrounding World War II, they were surely in the vanguard of Catholics moving up into the American middle class. In all the ways that higher education shapes a life, they have experienced broadened horizons and opportunities, enjoyed diverse neighbors and friends, and acquired a greater willingness to question authority. For several decades, this group of American Catholics, now among the Church's senior citizens, have lived in a very different social world from that inhabited by most of their generation, whose horizons typically were shaped by neighborhood and ethnicity, family and parish.
The older VOTF members long have occupied key positions within the Church. They were the natural leaders who sat on school boards (24 percent of them claim this experience), finance committees (21 percent), parish councils (41 percent), and other Church committees (60 percent). Over half (54 percent) have taught the next generation of their parish's children in CCD or PSR (Parish School of Religion), and nearly that portion have been lectors (47 percent) or Eucharistic ministers (44 percent). They have been willing to serve, and they have had the skills to do so.
Following behind them, chronologically anyway, is the Vatican II generation (the boomers, more or less, born between 1941 and 1970), those Catholics who came of age in the midst of the changes brought by the Second Vatican Council. Almost half the members of VOTF and a full 60 percent of the founders fall in this generation, compared with only 41 percent of the adult U.S. Catholic population. They are the movement's generational center of gravity. Boomer VOTF Catholics are very similar to older members in their trajectory through Catholic homes, Catholic schools, and Catholic colleges (and also Catholic marriages). When they were growing up, weekly Mass attendance was still normative and parish schools were still plentiful. Even if they lived in the suburbs, the Church played an important part in their childhood and adolescent years.
Then they went off to college. Like their older VOTF colleagues, boomer VOTF members are also considerably more likely to be college graduates than the average lay Catholic of their generation (88 percent versus 23 percent). Indeed, across all the generations, VOTF members are disproportionately likely to have attended college, and a Catholic college at that. Fully 27 percent of all VOTF members were in Catholic colleges in the years surrounding the Second Vatican Council, a time of both cultural and religious revolution. Being at a Catholic college in the 1960s and 1970s was a considerably different experience from being there in the 1940s or early 1950s. In the thick of movements for change, many things seemed possible that hadn't before.
The sociologist William D'Antonio and theologian Anthony Pogorelc, SS, who surveyed VOTF's membership in 2004, and whose data and interviews I cite throughout much of this article, quote a VOTF member as saying, "We are the 'over the hill gang' in love with the changes promised in the Vatican II documents only to find that our hierarchy 'deep-sixed' them and hoped we would forget." I heard a similar sentiment from a sixtyish woman recently. She proudly told of a young reporter who visited her VOTF group and was astonished to find mostly old people. This woman said, "We're old people who are still revolutionaries!" The members of her generation have been formed by the revolutions they were a part of, and distinctively formed by experiencing those revolutions in a deeply Catholic environment.
In this way, boomer Catholic progressives parallel their Southern Baptist counterparts. The leaders of the SBC's progressive wing were also more likely to have attended a college of their faith than were conservatives. Many of them cut their revolutionary teeth in the civil rights movement. From within a deeply Baptist environment, they learned to work for and expect change. In the 1960s and 1970s, some of the revolutionary fervor in American society was fueled by commitments nourished on the campuses of religious colleges, where solid religious roots supported active social engagement.
Both the pre-boomer and the boomer VOTF generations left their Catholic college campuses as exceptionally knowledgeable, active, and loyal Catholics. They are likely to have read at least some of the Vatican II documents (63 percent) and to have taken a theology class (36 percent), and they stay informed through reading Catholic periodicals. What they have never done in any great numbers is join the traditional Catholic men's and women's societies.
Except for the 33 percent of VOTF members who are in the Knights of Columbus and the 10 percent who are in the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Catholics of VOTF have not been found in the ethnic and social groups that mark the Catholic experience for many. New forms of assembly—whether organized movements like Cursillo, RENEW, and Marriage Encounter, or small Christian communities—that cropped up in the years following Vatican II are another matter. In groups such as these, the faithful of VOTF have been exercising their voices for some time.
The absence of ties to traditional gender-based Catholic organizations is a hint that gender may occupy a different place in the social world of VOTF members. And in fact, 60 percent of the leaders of the VOTF movement are women, primarily of the Vatican II generation. Highly educated, boomer-generation women were the pioneers in second-wave feminism—more interested in forming women's support groups than in joining ladies' societies, and more committed, within the Church, to using their leadership skills than to meekly doing whatever the priest asked them to do. Over the last 40 years, many Catholics of both genders have come to understand that "feminist Catholic" is not an oxymoron.
In Voice of the Faithful, men and women across the generations are equally Catholic, equally knowledgeable and active, and equally well educated. For a Church in which women and men have historically had very different experiences and privileges, this uniformity is striking. There are small, lingering differences within the oldest generation in education, work experience, and parish roles, but otherwise the men and the women in the movement are remarkably similar. The one exception to this pattern is that VOTF women are more liberal politically (42 percent) than VOTF men (15 percent). Apparently one can be a politically conservative man in VOTF (31 percent of male members say they are), but it's highly unlikely that a politically conservative woman will find a home there (not one female member surveyed defined herself as such). That difference aside, VOTF men and women seem to share very similar backgrounds and similar levels of engagement—and to be equally unhappy with the way the Church is being run.
The most recent generation of Catholics, born after 1970—I'll call them post–Vatican II Catholics—is considerably underrepresented in the ranks of VOTF. Still, the younger members whom one does find have a story that varies only slightly from that of their older compatriots. They are just as likely to be cradle Catholics, but less likely to have gone to Catholic schools (56 percent attended Catholic grade school versus 72 percent of the older two cohorts), and even less likely to be sending their own children to Catholic schools (32 percent versus 50 percent). Compared to the older members, they are less of a presence at Mass—38 percent versus 68 percent say they attend at least weekly, but that is still ahead of post–Vatican II lay Catholics in general (who attend at the rate of 26 percent). The strong Catholic culture that enveloped the earlier generations has been less in evidence for this one.
Given their stage in life, it is probably not surprising that these younger VOTF members are less active in some forms of parish leadership and in VOTF itself. Preoccupied with family formation and establishing a career, they appear, for now at least, to have consigned volunteer commitments of all kinds to a back seat. They have also not been especially active in RENEW, Call to Action, Cursillo, and the like. They are simply not as organizationally invested as the older generations.
Like their older colleagues, the small number of post–Vatican II Catholics who have joined VOTF are there in large measure because they are unhappy with priests and bishops who abused their trust and failed to protect children from the sexual misconduct of clergy. One interviewee linked the decision to participate in VOTF to "my outrage at the bishops' behavior; they failed the laity." Another said, "I've had enough of people who are out of touch making decisions that impact me without so much as lending an ear to hear if I had anything to say about it." Eighty-five percent of VOTF members strongly believe that the Church hierarchy is "out of touch," compared with 19 percent of the U.S. laity overall. VOTF members are far more likely than the average parishioner to be unhappy with the way they are treated by priests (44 percent versus 17 percent).
The solutions called for by Voice of the Faithful have largely revolved around introducing greater lay involvement in decision-making at every level of the Church. Said one interviewee, "The faith experience of all the People of God should be equally valued in decision-making in the Church. The elevated clerical power must go." Here, however, VOTF members are not especially distinctive. Ninety-seven percent of American Catholics think that the laity ought to have at least some role in making decisions about parish finances, for instance, and 14 percent think the laity should have the final say. There is broad national support for lay participation at the diocesan level, as well. Eighty-four percent of the VOTF membership and 71 percent of all U.S. Catholic laypeople believe the laity should have a say in selecting priests. While the average lay Catholic may not be as intensely disillusioned with official Church leadership, VOTF is not out of the mainstream in its call for laypeople to take more responsibility in Church life. Nor is there any significant difference among VOTF members on these issues. To the extent that this is a movement about lay participation, the movement's message is unanimously supported by its members. And the ranks of possible recruits are legion.
So why aren't more lay Catholics joining VOTF? My hunch is that the problem is not the message, but the social world of the messengers. With respect to age and gender and education and ethnicity, VOTF represents a different world from the mainstream of the American Catholic Church. Age matters because young Catholics scarcely see themselves reflected in VOTF's membership. Gender matters because most of the Church would find the world of well-educated feminist Catholics to be unlike their own. Education matters because the rarified world of high-power business, the professions, and graduate degrees is not the world of most American Catholic adults (only 32 percent of whom have graduated from college). And ethnicity matters, not because there are ethnic divisions within the ranks of VOTF, but because there aren't. VOTF's members have formed a strong and cohesive social movement out of the social world they share, and they are overwhelmingly white. The rest of the nation's Catholics aren't joining because were they to walk into a VOTF meeting, they wouldn't find anyone who looks or sounds like them.
Here, perhaps, a brief cautionary tale from the Baptist Battles may be in order. As I watched progressive Baptist leaders attempt to mobilize a movement to oppose the conservative takeover, I was struck by how different the two sides looked. The progressives (in the 1980s) were likely to be in tweeds and button-down collars, and they were more apt to be carrying briefcases than Bibles (although there might well be a Bible in the briefcase). The people who ended up following the conservatives, on the other hand, often carried very big and very visible Bibles, and the women sometimes carried theirs in what a friend of mine calls a "Bible cozy." They loved it when the music leaned in the direction of country, and their clothes trended to polyester. Now, there is nothing theological about any of this, but somewhere along the way, progressives had learned to think of Bible cozies as tacky and country music as lowbrow. It's little wonder that they had a hard time making a convincing argument that they were the real Baptists, even with their sterling Baptist credentials.
Like those progressive Baptist leaders, VOTF's members and leaders have formidable religious and cultural capital to expend on their movement. They can draw on their comfortable incomes, extensive education, and relatively high status in American society. They can also draw, to rhetorical advantage, on their deep Catholic upbringing and schooling to establish their legitimacy within the Church. Given the enormous investment VOTF members have made in Catholicism and the impressive credentials they bring to the table, they might plausibly claim to be the "real Catholics."
The only problem with that claim is that it will inevitably bump up against other ways in which the world of VOTF is not the world of the rest of the Church. Theirs is not a voice that speaks for the Church's growing immigrant population, or for Catholics who are less educated. Nor, at least not yet, is it a voice for the younger generation. And it is probably not a voice for Catholics who thus far have opted not to invest their energy in shaping the future of the Church.
Diversity within the Church is, of course, nothing new. The existence of a dissenting movement also is not new. This is where the "social sources" argument reaches its limit. While age, education, and upbringing help us to understand where the Voice of the Faithful movement has come from and who is likely to join, these factors do not tell us how the movement is likely to progress. Unlike Baptists, even the most disgruntled Catholics can't vote out their leaders. Indeed, in the Catholic Church the most crucial faithful voice is not a lay voice at all. The irony for VOTF is that it is dependent on the very authority it opposes to grant what it desires.
When progressive Baptists were finally forced out of the SBC, they grieved, but they fairly easily moved toward starting new Baptist groups. They assumed that they had the option to go out on their own. That is not the Catholic pattern. While more VOTF members are willing to consider leaving the Church than are ordinary Catholics (23 percent versus 14 percent), the numbers for both groups are quite low. The years ahead will bring new challenges as this lay organization continues to explore both what it means to have a voice and what it means to be faithful.
Nancy T. Ammerman is a professor of sociology of religion at Boston University and the author of Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners (2005). Her article is adapted from a paper delivered at Boston College in fall 2005, part of a symposium introducing the results of a two-year study of the Voice of the Faithful movement conducted by Catholic University's William D'Antonio and Anthony Pogorelc, SS. (Comparisons to the general U.S. Catholic population in Ammerman's article are drawn from a 2005 Gallup survey and the University of Chicago's General Social Survey.) The symposium was sponsored by BC's Church in the 21st Century Center. In 2007, the presentations and papers became a book entitled Voices of the Faithful: Loyal Catholics Striving for Change, edited by D'Antonio and Pogorelc and published by the center.


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We have an amazing Chinese restaurant not so far from our house which we go to whenever we want a treat. Everything which they make is gorgeous, but both mine and my husbands particular favourite are the satay skewers. The satay sauce is the best I have ever tasted and I think I may just have created a dupe! It is not perfect, but it is a good 9 out of 10, even if I do say so myself!
I make the base of the sauce, blitz it and then I pour it over precooked mushrooms and peppers (although you can choose any veg or meat replacer of your choice!). Then comes the bit that makes this (and my local restaurants) satay sauce stand out from the others, I add pineapple. In all honesty I do not really like fruit in my savoury food, but the pineapple in this sauce goes perfectly. It really adds that extra dimension! Whenever I want to order myself a take out as a treat for a hard day or when I want something really good for my dinner, this is the go to in our house! The best bit, it is really easy and quick to make and you can even freeze the sauce. There is nothing about this satay sauce which is not winning!
So without more ado, this is the best recipe I have ever created…….
1 x onion, finely chopped
1 x clove garlic, crushed
1 x red chilli, finely chopped
1 x teaspoon chilli flakes
1 x tablespoon demerara sugar
4 x tablespoons peanut butter
2 x tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 x can coconut milk
1 x small can pineapple, chopped into bite sized pieces (I buy the pineapple in juice as I add it all in to the sauce)
Fry the onion, garlic, chilli and chilli flakes until the onion is soft.
Add the demerara sugar and cook it until it dissolves.
Add the peanut butter and soy sauce and stir until well combined.
Add the coconut milk and again stir until combined.
Remove from the heat and allow it to cool, then blitz the sauce. If you want to freeze the sauce, do so at this stage.
While the sauce is cooling prep and cook your chosen vegetables or meat alternative for adding to the sauce. As mentioned above I make mine with mushrooms and peppers. I just fry enough to feed two people for around 5 minutes.
Then add the blended sauce and pineapple (including most of their juice) to the cooked mushrooms.
Leave to cook together for a further 3-5 mintues.
Serve immediately, I serve with rice.
If you give the recipe a go, let me know what you think. Oh and if like me you batch cook, cook up extra sauce (I do 4 x the above to last the month) and then freeze after it is blended. Then simply defrost and add to whatever veg you want and then add in the pineapple.


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Extract from an early draft of Darion's 'History of Janspar'. To date, this work has not been completed. Its reverent religious tone suggests this section to have been written before the Abandonment. It was found among documents dating from Ar1648.
The scholars of the past most typically divide Janspar's history into five eras. These are as follows: the Antesermal Age, the Age of Revelation, the Age of Contact, the Age of Withdrawal, and the Age of Mortality. These eras are based upon Mortality's knowledge of the Peak Pantheon through their Aeskhonan intercedents. Of necessity, no clear specific dates can be applied for all lands, as the civilizing light of the Peak did not reach Mortality all at once. Yet to discuss these matters more easily we measure the eras of history thusly:
In the common practice of historians, dates are calculated from Divinity's first revelation to the Aeskhonae. Little is known of the dim past previous to this event, over a millennium and a half before the current day; events further in the past than this are considered to belong to the Antesermal Age.
The Age of Revelation was the period during which Divinity communed with the Aeskhonae and raised them to knowledge of their truth. This period lasted for approximately three hundred years, in which time the Gods taught their followers of many and diverse arts to aid them in their Great Work. Crafted their language, learned of theology. This age ended when the first tutve sailed to carry the Gods' words to the rest of Mortality.
The Age of Contact took place over the following three hundred years, as the Aeskhonae sailed and journeyed to all parts of Janspar carrying the revelations of the Peak. The Aeskhonae consider this to be their Great Work.
This was followed by the Age of Withdrawal, two hundred years in which the many of the tutve ceased interacting with the rest of Mortality and returned to Aeskhona.
In the age of Mortality, these past eight centuries, the nations and tribes of Mortality, including those tutve still abroad in Janspar, have continued to bear the light of Civilization and the glory of the Peak.
Though every nation of Mortality possesses its own means of reckoning the passage of ages, scholars and those educated in the Aeskhonic tongue calculate use the Aeskhonic calendar, dating from the first revelation of the Peak. Dates are written thus: 'The Sins of Amuhlin took place in Ar1332', Ar being a shortened form of 'Aeskhonic reckoning'.
We may consider each era to belong to the following years. The Antesermal Age is all time before Ar0; the Age of Revelation spans Ar0 until Ar300; the Age of Contact spans Ar300 until Ar600; the Age of Withdrawal spans Ar600 until Ar800; and the modern Age of Mortality begins in Ar800 and endures to the present day.


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Chelsea have rekindled their interest in AC Milan defender Alessio Romagnoli ahead of a potential bid in the summer, according to Italian newspaper Leggo - via Football Italia.
The defender could reportedly seek an exit if I Rossoneri fail to qualify for the UEFA Champions League this season.
Leggo claim that a number of clubs, including Chelsea, are monitoring Romagnoli. The Blues have sent scouts to watch the centre back in recent weeks.
Antonio Conte is reportedly searching for a new defender having been unconvinced by some of his current options.
Gary Cahill, Andreas Christensen, Antonio Rudiger and David Luiz are all at the club; although the latter has fallen out of favour this campaign.
Chelsea have lost four of their last five games in the Premier League, conceding ten goals during that period.
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Romagnoli has been identified as a potential remedy to this season's defensive woes, but it remains to be seen whether he will be interested in a switch to Stamford Bridge.
Milan are reportedly keen to reward his impressive performances with a new contract. The club's management will, according to Calciomercato.com, meet with Romagnoli's agent Sergio Berti at the end of this month to begin negotiations.
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A month ago a very special soul went to heaven. His name was Rene and he was my uncle. Durning the Viewing they held a Mass, where some of my cousins went up to speak about Tito Rene. I was outside and wasn't there for that part of the viewing, and I wish I was. I have so much to say about my Uncle and how much he affected my life, and gave Camille, his only daughter and I the best childhood a girl could ask for.
May 14, 1988 was when two families became one. Tito Rene just married my Aunt after meeting her through my mom! He was my uncle through marriage but blood doesn't mean family. Tito Rene always had a smile on his face, and really was the life of the party. Growing up I remember him being with all the other uncles outside smoking a cigarette and having everyone around him laughing.
One of the best parts of growing up is that Camille and I are practically the same age, and since Tito Rene was an epic dad who encouraged his kids to live life to the fullest, he supported our teen girl band boy craze and took us to our first show to see O-Town at the Brea Mall.
At one point in our childhood we all lived under one roof. Camille and her family, My dad, and my dads other sister. It was AMAZING! I wasn't living there but I would stay with my dad on the weekends and that was the best! I was practically living with my best friend! Tito Rene would take us to the arcade and take us walking everywhere. My dad wasn't the outdoorsy going out type, so it was cool that I was able to experience that life as a kid thanks to my uncle.
The best part of Tito Rene was that he was apart of this beautiful family, The Infante's! To this day I will always have so much respect for the Infante Family. Not only was Tito Rene my uncle through marriage but his Brother my Tito Danny is also my God Father. My mom was very close with the Infante's so it really gave me a chance to integrate with his family. I remember one time when we were young I told Camille, that Patricia her cousin from her dad's side was my God-Sister and Camille cried so much that her mom told me to tell her that I was her God-Sister too!
Camilles aunts would buy me matching gifts that they would also buy Camille. Once her aunt gave me a bag with a J and Camille had a C! stuff like that I will never forget.
When I moved to the Philippines at the age of 14, away from my family, I went with my Tito Rene's parents on the airplane.
So its safe to say that the Infante family had a big affect on my life and childhood, and what a family to really look up to. Tito Rene's family had such a tight bond and they always had each others back through thick and thin. It's truly a beautiful sight to see. I would be lying if I said I wasn't jealous of Camille and Gabe's Dad side of the family, but really how could I cause they always welcomed me into their family with open arms.
A few years ago when my dads health got really bad and my siblings and I felt isolated from the family, Tito Rene was one of the first of the uncles who really made an effort to talk to my siblings and check up on us during a time when we felt like we lost our family. I was locked out of dads apartment and Tito Rene would always tell me to sleep there at their house. Which was already a second home to me!
At Tito Rene's Funeral and Viewing I was put in a situation where I was surround by some people who played a big role in me feeling of isolation from the family. It was hard and difficult for me to see them, a few days prior to the funeral I had anxiety and all the memories of that time in my life came back. But no matter what I knew that I was gonna have to face my fears and go. Because its Tito Rene! I wasn't gonna let anyone stop me from being there for him, his family and siblings. Just the way they have always been there for me, and when I hugged Camille while tears ran down her face. Nothing else mattered. All my fear and anxiety went away.
Life is full of crazy, stupid things. We all get bullied, we all put money over morals, people lie, spread rumors, we fight, people who we love will betray us, and when your down in the dirt some people will just look at you and not help you up because they don't want to get dirty. But its up to us on how we use that energy and transmute it to something beautiful. Tito really knew how to lighten up a heart that was full of anger and pain.
I want to Thank Tito Rene for sharing his life with us, and for teaching me, even after his return to heaven that family is everything, that life is short, and that even though we have to battle with our demons everyday, we still have to harness love of the people around us to fuel our hearts, have smile on our face and to truly live life to the fullest.
Tito Rene, you will forever be one of the coolest uncles I ever had.


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I've been involved with tax for 25 years, and find it endlessly fascinating. Did you know that every number on your tax return represents a legal conclusion about your income and deductions? As a lawyer, I'll help you form the right legal conclusions about the numbers on your tax returns at a reasonable price.
I do your returns myself, and complete them in a way that minimizes your taxes, and the risk of future outreach by the IRS. To help prevent audits, I include explanation and documentation with your tax return that answer questions before the IRS can ask them. I spoke about this audit prevention technique in my presentation for Maryland volunteer Lawyers Services, Audits of Individuals and Small Businesses in September 2018.
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Guangzhou Metro Museum
Play games to experience how the metro is operated
Do you know what happens after the last metro train finishes its shift every day? After work, where do the trains park? What is a shield tunneling machine? You can find the answers to these questions at Guangzhou Metro Museum.
Guangzhou Metro Museum opened its doors to the public last December, revealing splendid views and fantastic stories of the city's metro system. It covers about 4,400 square meters, with 3600-square-meter exhibition area. It is the first metro museum in south China and the second one in China.
The exhibition area is located on three floors. The basement floor shows the geological condition in Guangzhou and the construction process of Guangzhou Metro. The first floor displays the development history of rail transit and Guangzhou metro. Between the basement and first floors, a shield tunneling machine of one-to-one scale is inlaid. Visitors can go into the machine to play games or watch videos to find out how the machine works.
The second floor is experience area for metro operation safety. Visitors can learn about the development history of Guangzhou metro through VR devices. Once you wear the VR helmet, you will find yourself in a time gallery, walking through the development of Line one to Line 13.
At this floor, there is a high-quality metro train model of dozens of meters long with four carriages. The first carriage is a simulated cab where participants can experience how to operate and stop the metro train.
In the second carriage, participants can slide the screen on the wall to scan the train body, so as to learn about how the train runs.
In the third carriage, visitors can get to know about the metro signal system, play the part of metro signal engineer, and learn to write signal system instruction to make sure the train arrives at the terminal safely.
The fourth carriage is an emergency exercise site where participants can learn how to cope with emergency and save oneself.
On the second floor, visitors can also find a "metro staff role play" area for children. They can also make emoji images.
There is a shopping mall next to the museum where you can find clothing stores, IMAX cinemas, supermarkets and restaurants. Before or after visiting the museum, you can go to the shopping mall for entertainment and receive discounts as well.
Admission: Free. On-line reservation is needed. Please follow the official WeChat account of Guangzhou Metro Museum (广州地铁博物馆) and make a reservation.
Add.: Tower C, Podium, Wansheng Square, No. 1228 Xingang East Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou (广州市海珠区新港东路1228号万胜广场C塔裙楼)
Opening hours: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Tuesday to Friday (tickets won't be distributed after 3:00 pm); 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday ((tickets won't be distributed after 4:00 pm)
Nearby metro station: Exit A, Wanshengwei Station, Line 4 or 8
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