Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) constitute a versatile platform for atomically thin optoelectronics devices and spin–valley memory applications. In monolayer TMDs the optical absorption is strong, but the transition energy cannot be tuned as the neutral exciton has essentially no out-of-plane static electric dipole1,2. In contrast, interlayer exciton transitions in heterobilayers are widely tunable in applied electric fields, but their coupling to light is substantially reduced. In this work, we show tuning over 120 meV of interlayer excitons with a high oscillator strength in bilayer MoS2 due to the quantum-confined Stark effect3. We optically probed the interaction between intra- and interlayer excitons as they were energetically tuned into resonance. Interlayer excitons interact strongly with intralayer B excitons, as demonstrated by a clear avoided crossing, whereas the interaction with intralayer A excitons is substantially weaker. Our observations are supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which include excitonic effects. In MoS2 trilayers, our experiments uncovered two types of interlayer excitons with and without in-built electric dipoles. Highly tunable excitonic transitions with large in-built dipoles and oscillator strengths will result in strong exciton–exciton interactions and therefore hold great promise for non-linear optics with polaritons.
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For your first Female solo Travel India trip to India, I advise you to opt for South India: This part of India is calmer, has less aggressive people, and is rich in natural attractions. The south of the country will allow you to tame India, and build your confidence before going to explore more exotic places. Don’t try to visit too many places on your first trip to India!
If you are nature lovers and looking for a cultural immersion experience, then head to South India! from Tamil Nadu to Kodaikanal via the large tea terraces of Munnar and the backwaters of Kerala you will find what you are looking for. Personally, I suggest to you South India. I find that southern India is less aggressive, and that this region still preserves the ancestral traditions of Indian culture. South Indian people are more warm and simple! You can also go through the seaside resort of Goa, the city of beaches, festivals where an unusual hippie atmosphere reigns.
India is such a vast subcontinent that one often feels lost when it is time to establish one’s itinerary. If you are more of a lover of architecture, historical and cultural monuments, northern India is for you. A tour in the classic golden triangle (Delhi, Agra, Jaipur) will give you a first glimpse for a minimum duration of 15 days. For those who have more time, continue your circuit towards Udaipur, Jodhpur until the desert of Jaisalmer. If you are more attracted to hiking in the mountains, take a trip to the Himalayas in the far north of India. Varanasi in central India will delight those who are fascinated by the spiritual culture of India.
So when is your trip to the country of Ghandi?
One last piece of advice: Listen to your heart and follow your intuition, and you’ll be fine! When you travel with a lot of preconceptions and prejudices, you risk missing out on a lot of beautiful emotions and wonderful encounters in India.

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You cannot decide not to hold a position, if for no other reason that to decide to not hold a position is, in itself, a position, and you are back in the holding mindset again — an example of both an ancient and a post-modern dilemma.
You are in a box. If you take the box apart, it remakes itself as you do so and you are back in it. If you step out of it, you somehow end up back in it, too, like Alice in Through the Looking Glass. If you make an effort to understand it, you are in the world it defines and you are still in it. If you try to ignore it, you live in the world it defines and you never leave. If you try to change it, it restricts your movement and confines you. If you try to rise above it, you find that you are tied to it. If you analyze it, you may work through an intricate maze but the maze leads you right back to where you started from — the box.
The box consumes you. It's all you experience. You want to get out but there is no door, no window, no exit of any kind.
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Start from where you are. You are in the box. Open to the experience of the box as best you can. This is usually the last thing you want to do, but that is all you can do. Don't try to change or control your experience, because that just reinforces the box.
Take care to distinguish between resignation and acceptance. Resignation is a form of ignoring: you remain confined and defined by the box. Acceptance is opening to what you are experiencing without trying to change it.
When you open to the experience of the box, you are usually overwhelmed and fall out of attention. You lose awareness and you are back in the box, and you aren't even aware that you are.
The trick is to open to the experience without being overwhelmed. Open a little, for a short period of time, even just a moment, and then stop. Then do it again, for a moment or two, and stop again. Gradually build capacity.
Two qualities are essential in this practice: resting and looking. Resting is how you stabilize attention. Looking is how you bring out the clarity that enables you to see. You can start with resting or looking, but most people, by far, find it better to start with resting. When you can rest, then look. Learn how to look in the resting. When you can look a bit, then rest in the the looking.
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When you can look and rest in the looking, you can also ask "What looks?" Again, don't try to answer. Just rest in the shift.
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Esteban Rocha is one of the many children of federal employees who are being affected by the shutdown. He is a sophomore VMT creative writing student.
Like many others, he did not anticipate the length of this government shutdown; he assumed it would last a couple of days. Little did he know it would last over a month.
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His life has been affected by the shutdown financially, such as what expenditures he used to have throughout the day.
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Esteban and his family have saved money by cutting the costs of fast food.
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They also cut costs by not spending money on items bought for the enjoyment, he said. He stopped purchasing his iTunes cards that he would purchase frequently and his mother stopped purchasing her nice earrings she would purchase every other week.
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Like many of the federal employees’ children affected by the shutdown, Esteban cannot do much at home to help; his hands are tied.
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If the shutdown continues its path Esteban will have to take on a job to help his parents.
“I will be working in a few months to help out my family if it’s still going on,” he said.
This government shutdown has changed his perspective on the government for the worse he said. It helped him realize the reality and stupidity of the situation especially when it comes to the president.
He said the president is prioritizing his wall over the nation’s federal employees.
“It made me more aware of how much of a complete moron our president is; putting the payment of a wall that literally nobody asked for in front of 800,000 government workers who are currently not getting paid,” he said.
Esteban fears that this shutdown may, in fact, last years at the rate it’s going. The effects of this shutdown would harm his father’s plans for retirement.
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“I also fear that this is not going to go away before my mother and my birthday,” he said.
Personally, Esteban believes this government shutdown will last a few more weeks, though he has no doubt that the president can make it last longer.
“Trump is crazy enough to make it last years,” he said.
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“The news updates make me feel worse because every day it’s just ‘shutdown still going on,” he said. “I hope that will change.”
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The mayor and council, acting as the Union Hotel redevelopment committee, have issued a request for proposals for the redevelopment of the Main Street landmark with a deadline of Sept. 28. After that, the redevelopment committee will evaluate the proposals and pick one.
Under questioning by resident Lois Stewart at the council meeting tonight, Sept. 10, Mayor Erica Edwards said, “We never said we were not going to release any information (before picking a redeveloper). That was a manufactured theory. We never said that. I, in particular, said we had not determined conclusively what information we were going to provide and when. And we’re still considering it.”
Stewart said that at the last council meeting she had asked council to clarify its position, and “I was told, no, there would be no information provided until after the award was made and then we would hear about it.”
“If that’s what you took from it, that is not what was intended,” the mayor replied.
“Are you planning on telling the public who has submitted (a proposal) and what their objective might be?” Stewart asked. She and several other residents are eager to provide input in hopes of influencing council's selection of a redeveloper.
“We continue to discuss the process” and will decide soon how it will be handled, Edwards said.
Watch nj.com for a more detailed article tomorrow.


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The music community continues to await Drake’s official album for the year, Views From The 6.
The album was supposed to be the Canadian rapper’s 4th, before he surprisingly released If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.
Expectations for the album are still high however, and yesterday, Drake increased the hype by showing off a potential collaboration for the album.
Drake posted a picture of singer Willow Smith, alongside the coded caption: “Young muse on all views.”
Willow has been in and out of the music scene since she dropped her debut hit, Whip My Hair, in 201, and it’d be interesting to see if these two actually get on a track together.
What do you think? Should Drake feature her?

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Algorithms will not only drive scores of business processes, but also build other algorithms, much as robots can build other robots. And rather than using apps, future users’ lives will revolve around cloud-based agents enabled by algorithms. Gartner expects that by 2020, smart agents will facilitate 40% of all digital interactions.
While the interests in analytics and resulting benefits are increasing by the day, some businesses are challenged by the complexity and confusion that analytics can generate. Companies can get stuck trying to analyze all that’s possible and all that they could do through analytics, when they should be taking that next step of recognizing what’s important and what they should be doing — for their customers, stakeholders, and employees. Discovering real business opportunities and achieving desired outcomes can be elusive. To overcome this, companies should pursue a constant attempt to re-engineer their analytics strategy to generate insight that leads to real outcomes
The Goods and Services Tax has come into effect on July 1st and is pegged to be one of the most significant economic tax reforms carried out by PM Narendra Modi. While it will usher in greater transparency and create a simplified channel for tracking through data, it has also spawned the need for ERP and data analytics solutions. Other IT solutions include building capabilities such as billing software and payment gateways, thus creating plentiful opportunities across the IT spectrum. Industry experts say there is a $1 billion opportunity for IT vendors over the next two years.
If you devour all things analytics, then you’ll find this blog helpful. Before you can even choose, you need to assess your fit to an analytics role. The following primer will get you started:
The worldwide cyber attack that began last Friday and goes by the name of “WannaCry” has highlighted the need for governments and businesses to strengthen their security infrastructure, in addition to calling attention to the need to mandate security updates and educate lawmakers about the intricacies of cyber security.
In recent years, there has been a lot of hype around “big” data in the marketing world. Big data is extremely helpful with gathering quantitative information about new trends, behaviors and preferences, so it’s no wonder companies invest a lot of time and money sifting through and analyzing massive sets of data. However, what big data fails to do is explain why we do what we do.
While some predict mass unemployment or all-out war between humans and artificial intelligence, others foresee a less bleak future. A future looks promising, in which humans and intelligent systems are inseparable, bound together in a continual exchange of information and goals, a “symbiotic autonomy.” If you may. It will be hard to distinguish human agency from automated assistance — but neither people nor software will be much use without the other.


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No stranger to philanthropy, Michael Jordan made a big reward in honor of his sixtieth birthday—a $10 million donation to Make-A-Want Basis. The file setting donation is the biggest particular person contribution the group has ever obtained.
Jordan has been supporting the muse since 1989, having donated over $5 million previous to this most up-to-date reward. He’s additionally one of the vital in style celeb want requests that the group receives. In accordance with a press launch by the group, Jordan mentioned he “cannot consider a greater birthday reward than seeing others be part of” him in supporting the muse and that he hopes the donation will permit “each little one” to “expertise the magic of getting their want come true.” Jordan’s donation will create an endowment to offer the funds wanted to make future needs potential for youths with essential diseases.
Per Forbes, Jordan is price some $1.7 billion, together with his web price coming from his possession of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets and his practically $2 billion in lifetime earnings from Nike and different company companions.
Lifetime Philanthropic Presents
Make-A-Want is a trigger close to and expensive to Jordan’s coronary heart, and it’s possible that he wasn’t main motivated by tax causes for his philanthropy. However, how are lifetime philanthropic contributions handled for tax functions? “A lifetime philanthropic contribution made to a professional charitable group can produce revenue tax financial savings for the donor by producing an revenue tax deduction, which reduces the quantity of the donor’s revenue that’s topic to revenue tax,” says Stefanie J. Lipson, companion at Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles. “Nevertheless, the charitable deduction for a person donor isn’t limitless and might’t utterly remove a donor’s revenue tax in a selected 12 months. The utmost potential deduction is capped at 60% of the donor’s adjusted gross revenue – this 60% limitation, although, is relevant to a slender class of contributions (usually, money donated to a public charity) and is non permanent and expires on the finish of 2025, when the utmost potential deduction will revert to 50%.”
Switch At Demise?
Would Jordan have been higher off tax-wise if he as a substitute deliberate for this donation as a switch at dying? “From a pure tax lens, a lifetime contribution to charity has two potential tax advantages, whereas most bequests on dying have one tax profit,” defined Lipson.
To higher illustrate this, Lipson provides the next instance of a beneficiant reward of $1 million to charity:
A present of $1 million to a professional charity at dying creates a $1 million deduction within the decedent’s property, lowering the overall quantity of the decedent’s property that will likely be topic to property tax. As a result of the federal property tax exclusion quantities are presently at historic highs ($12.92 million can go with out federal property tax for a decedent dying in 2023), a decedent should have an property worth in extra of $13 million for the property tax charitable deduction to have worth in lowering property taxes. Not like the revenue tax deduction, the property tax charitable deduction is limitless, and any quantities passing to a professional charity will cut back the quantity of the property topic to property tax. Usually, although, this charitable bequest gained’t produce an revenue tax profit.
In distinction, a lifetime contribution to charity reduces the worth of the donor’s property by the identical $1 million, eradicating these property from the donor’s property so that they aren’t taxed on the donor’s dying. Nevertheless, the lifetime reward additionally creates the chance for a present revenue tax deduction for the donor, lowering the quantity of revenue that the donor would in any other case pay revenue tax on, permitting an added tax profit from the donor’s present philanthropy. This present revenue tax profit usually comes on the “price” of parting methods with the donated property throughout lifetime, which many donors will not be ready to do, however has the non-tax good thing about permitting the donor the chance to see their generosity put to make use of by the charitable group throughout their lifetime.
Within the case of most donations, whether or not yearly supporting a corporation or making a transformative reward, there’s most frequently a trigger or perception that the donor needs to assist and a real philanthropic motivation behind their choice, and tax advantages that could be accessible shouldn’t detract from or distract from the act of generosity. The timing, the format or the quantity of the contribution could also be formed to a point by the tax advantages that may be acknowledged from the contribution, however these are usually secondary components.