One of the best ways to pay for college is to find work that helps pay part of the school fee. Here are four part-time jobs that provide students with extra income.

Library Clerk

This is a part-time position with the Saratoga Springs Library for approximately twenty-three to thirty-one hours per week. You must be able to read and write in English.

SCHEDULES:

Monday 8:30 AM-2:30 PM.

Wednesday 3:15 PM-8:15 PM.

Friday 1:15 PM-6:15 PM.

Saturday 9:45 AM-6:15 PM, half an hour lunch break.

Customer Service Representative

CMG (California Marketing Group) is currently seeking motivated On-Call employees to work from home.

Technical Requirements:

PC running Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Home

High Speed Wired Internet (10 Mbps or more download/10 Mbps or more upload)

Special Requirements:

Must have a quiet space free of background noise while working.

Pay: US$11.00 per hour.

E-mail: CMGroup123@job.com.

Telephone Operator

A Telephone Operator for Waldorf Astoria Hotel is responsible for answering and responding to internal and external calls in the hotel’s continuing effort to deliver outstanding guest service and financial profitability. Specifically, you would be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

Respond to guest inquiries and requests in a timely, friendly and efficient manner.

Provide information about the hotel facilities and services.

We will pay you US$15.00 per hour. Please send e-mails to WAHoffice@123.com.

Please contact the Human Resources Department at 979-3187 if you have any questions.

Executive Assistant

This is a 1099-Independent Contractor position and does not include benefits.

Executive Assistants are available from Monday to Friday, at least 10 hours per week and up to 15 hours per week.

Executive Assistants are available to respond to new messages and requests from their executives within one hour of receiving them during business hours.

Hourly compensation starts at US$22.00 per hour and increases based on your years of relevant experience.

Please send e-mails to Double Company@job hunting.com or call 485-3609 to contact us.

Gladys West, the mathematician, was born in 1930 in Virginia and had to help harvest crops on her family’s farm. The hard work started before daybreak and lasted well into the blistering heat of the afternoon. To get out of there, she was going to get an education.

Her parents tried to save some money to send her to college, but unexpected bills kept hitting the fund. Then a teacher announced that the state was going to give a college scholarship to the two top students from her year. Finally, West got the scholarship, allowing her to attend Virginia State College, a historically black university.

West decided to major in mathematics because it was a well-respected subject. It was largely studied by men, but she didn’t take much notice of them as she knew deep in her heart that nothing was getting in her way. After graduating, she became a teacher. A few years later, she returned to the university and earned a master’s degree in mathematics. Then she was offered a job at a naval base in Dahlgren, Virginia. This made her only the second black woman to be hired to work as a programmer at the base.

Despite her intellectual abilities and career success, West felt she was inferior. It was this feeling, deeply rooted and felt, by many African Americans that drove her to work as hard as she could. West determined to commit herself to her work, hoping that by doing it to the best of her ability, she could get recognition for her work.

West did just that. In 1979, she became project manager for the Seasat project, the first satellite that could monitor the oceans. She programmed an IBM 7030 Stretch computer, providing faster calculations for an accurate Earthmodel. This detailed mathematical model of the shape of the Earth was a building block for what would become the GPS orbit. In 1998, aged 68, she intended to focus on her PhD after retirement. She eventually finished her graduation thesis and gained her PhD in public administration and policy affairs in 2000 at the age of 70.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes, according to research published Wednesday.

Long before a species goes extinct, the population becomes smaller and more scattered, shrinking (使减少) the number of potential mates and therefore genetic mixing. This leaves a species more at risk to future threats such as disease. “A surprising trend was that we saw genetic diversity declining even among many species that aren’t considered at risk,” said co-author Catherine Grueber, a conservation biologist at the University of Sydney.

Researchers examined data for 628 species studied between 1985 and 2019. The greatest losses in genetic variation were seen in birds and mammals. Findings were published in the journal Nature. “When a species has different genetic solutions, it’s better able to deal with changes,” said David Nogués-Bravo at the University of Copenhagen, who was not involved in the study. If a new disease spreads through a population or climate change affects summer rainfall, some individuals will handle better than others, in part because of their genes. Higher genetic diversity also means there’s a greater chance of a species survival.

Conservation efforts to connect separated populations-basically expanding the dating pool for a particular species can help maintain or even restore genetic diversity. Florida panthers (佛罗里达美洲狮) are an endangered species that have steadily lost habitat to freeways and urban expansion. By the mid-1990s, the remaining big cats in southern Florida showed clear signs of breeding between close relatives — with bent tails and low male fertility (生育能力). Biologists brought eight female panthers from Texas to Florida. Twenty years later, the number of Florida panthers in the wild has grown significantly and genetic diversity increased, “Isolated populations suffer,” said Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not part of the research, “The solution is to reconnect them.”

Artificial intelligence (AI ) has been increasingly good at fooling people. A series of photos showing former US president Donald Trump being aggressively arrested by police have caught people’s attention. They were fake but very convincing.

Created by the AI program Midjourney, the photos were highly realistic, from the characters’ movements to the surroundings. However, many details can give away the fact that they are made by AI. The Washington Post’s technology writer Shira Ovide shared her tips. The main idea is to spot the problems anything that would look strange in a photo.

AI software has a history of generating human hands incorrectly. It sometimes can create hands with more than five fingers. This is because AI isn’t sure what a “hand” exactly is, according to Popular Science. The data AI uses to learn often show hands and fingers in various gestures, which can be very confusing for AI.

AI-generated images also usually contain details that are against reality. To spot this, focus on items like accessories. For example, people in an image may be missing earrings or one part of their sunglasses. If there’s text in an image, such as a newspaper or poster, it’s usually garbled (篡改), even though the text may look realistic from a distance.

Another thing AI is terrible at handling is the background. If there’s a crowd in the image, people’s faces in the background are usually blurry - or they don’t have faces at all!

The development of AI-generated art also raises alarm bells about how these fake images could be used to spread misinformation. “I think misinformation is going to hit an all-time high,” Jamie Cohen, a digital culture and AI expert in the US, told New York Post. Generating an AI artwork is to “create reality”, Cohen argued, adding that, being able to tell whether the work is real or not requires high media literacy(素养) skills. “The world may not be ready for how realistic the images have become,” Shane Kittelson, a US researcher, told The Washington Post.

Does gardening leave you feeling happy and relaxed? Your brain might be telling you something! 【小题1】 With all the digging, lifting, watering, planting and moving, it is clear how gardening can have many physical benefits. But research shows that these benefits can also affect our minds as well!

In Japan, there is a growing trend called forest bathing, where people immerse themselves in the outdoors as a way to relax and improve concentration. Why has this caught on? 【小题2】 Studies have shown that forest bathing forces people to disconnect from distractions and be more mindful of their immediate surroundings. This can also happen while gardening. If you’ve ever weeded a garden bed, you will know that it requires a high degree of focus in order to identify unwanted plants. 【小题3】

Another important aspect of gardening is getting your hands dirty, and research show that this can improve your mental health. Scientists have discovered that the mycobacterium (分枝杆菌) found in soil can improve brain function. The micro bacteria found in the soil increases serotonin produced in the brain (also known as the “happy” chemical). 【小题4】

There’s also the sentimental (情感的) attachment to your garden. Gardening takes effort and because of this, a natural responsibility for the survival of your plants starts to rise with you. Sometimes you see them from seed to plant. Other times you forget to water them and they die. 【小题5】 In addition, the hard work will provide you with delicious little vegetables.

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

As we live through life, we tend to get caught up in our individual world, our problems — our life. When we ________ our world to include others in a meaningful way, by making a positive difference in their life, we increase our experience at the same time.

Think back on a time when someone made a difference in your life.

Here is one of mine: I was going to college, working part-time, and just ________ getting by financially. Standing in line at a local supermarket, I observed a woman in the same line, thinking that she was not very attractive. As I was ________, I discovered that I did not have enough money to pay; without ________, that same woman I had been judging offered to make up the difference. It wasn’t ________, but what that person did made a lasting impression on me. She was a beautiful, caring soul who was willing to help a stranger in a (an) ________ situation. That happened over forty years ago and I remember it as ________ as if it was yesterday.

Other examples are the numerous times I have had people smile at me, which ________ my day. I’ve often wondered if it was because I was smiling, which I ________ to do all the time, or because they were smiling to be ________, which encouraged me to smile as well. It has probably been some of both. In ________ case, that simple gesture (a smile) makes a difference in my day.

There are ________ ways to make a significant difference in another’s life. The question is: Are we doing it? It does not ________ anything, but it does require some effort on our part. I have found that as I do this consistently, the returns go far beyond the energy required to do the deed. Looking for ways to brighten another person’s day raises our vibration (共鸣), and when we act on it, we assist the other person to raise their vibration as well — it is ________ to each other.

Make a difference in someone’s life today, and ________ doing so every day. Today is a perfect time to start! If you are already doing so, bravo!