JARs and contain the schemas' remote URI to classpath URI mapping.
Example: The spring-context jar contains the following line in its META-INF/spring.schemas file:
It denotes that the local classpath location of the XSD is classpath:org/springframework/context/config/spring-context-4.1.xsd. This mapping from remote resource to the local classpath resource will be stored by the PluggableSchemaResolver.
Part 2: Parsing the XML document
Spring uses DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader to read the above XML document and, consequently, creates instances of BeanDefinition, aka, beans. (A BeanDefinition is just a programmatic description of a Spring bean.)
If you look at the source code of DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader, you will notice that it already has the schema of spring-beans.xsd (the default context) hardcoded into it. However, when it encounters a custom namespaced element, for e.g., context, it will use the appropriate NamespaceHandler for parsing the same. The NamespaceHandler to be used will be decided by the DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver. Brief summary of the steps taken by Spring to parse an XML document:
 - If the XML element belongs to the default namespace (refer XML Namespace Prefix above), DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader parses, and creates the BeanDefinition for the same.
 - Otherwise, for custom namespace elements, the appropriate NamespaceHandler will be used.
 - Which NamespaceHandler to use is determined by DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.
How does DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver work?
If you look at its source code, you will realize that it picks up all the META-INF/spring.handlers files from the classpath. These files are already shipped along with the appropriate spring JARs and contain the schema to handler mapping.
Example: The spring-context jar contains the following line in its META-INF/spring.handlers file:
This signifies that all the elements belonging to the schema will be handled by org.springframework.context.config.ContextNamespaceHandler. This mapping from namespace to NamespaceHandler will be stored by the DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver. The same will be returned when requested by the DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.
Part 3: How are custom namespace elements converted to beans?
As we saw above, the parsing of custom namespace elements, for e.g., or will be handled by the appropriate NamespaceHandler. The handler in turn delegates the parsing to a BeanDefinitionParser for further processing.
Example 1: ContextNamespaceHandler will delegate the parsing job for annotation-config (context:annotation-config) to AnnotationConfigBeanDefinitionParser (click to see why).
Example 2: JmsNamespaceHandler will delegate the parsing job for listener-container (jms:listener-container) to JmsListenerContainerParser (click to see why).
Sample scenario: JmsListenerContainerParser in action
The element will cause a JmsListenerContainerFactory to be set up. But which exact implementation to use? In our sample XML, a DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory will be set up. Why? Because the attribute container-type (of the element listener-container) has a value of default. Refer this for the internals.
But did you notice that we have not even defined this attribute in our sample XML? Then where is it getting this value from? From the XSD! If you were to look at the spring-jms XSD, you would notice that the default value for the attribute container-type is default!
Remote schema XSDs are picked up from the local classpath by using the mapping defined in META-INF/spring.schemas. Custom (non-default) namespaces are handled by the appropriate NamespaceHandler. Which NamespaceHandler to use will be defined in the META-INF/spring.handlers files. NamespaceHandler in turn uses a BeanDefinitionParser.
What can you deduce from the above? You can create your own custom namespaces! Explore more here. 🙂
Java using the command line
With most Java programmers used to coding within the boundaries of an Integrated Development Environment (Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc.), when it comes to executing a simple Java code on a JVM, many falter. Below, we explore how to execute a simple Java program using the CLI.
The Java Code
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We have two classes – AwesomeClass and SuperAwesomeClass; and one resource file – app.config. Note that both the classes are in different packages.
AwesomeClass contains the main method. The main method expects a command line argument, and passes on the same to an instance of SuperAwesomeClass.
Finally, SuperAwesomeClass prints two lines, one containing the argument it received, and the second displays the contents of the app.config resource file.
Step 1 – Compilation
The first step to execute the above code would be compiling it, i.e., converting to Java bytecode. The bytecode can then be run on any JVM.
I have created a new folder in my Desktop (~/Desktop/project/) and copied both the source files ( and into it. The resource file resides in the Desktop (~/Desktop/app.config).
Now, one possible way to generate the bytecode (.class files) is to do the following:
javac -d "." -cp "/Users/rnirvan/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/1.3.2/commons-io-1.3.2.jar" *.java
This command will result in the creation of two.class files. To understand how this happens, lets first understand this command. It consists of three parts:
-d "."
The d option signifies that the generated class files, AwesomeClass.class and SuperAwesomeClass.class (note: extension is .class and not .java), will be placed in the appropriate folder structure with respect to the current directory. The folder structure (which will be created by javac) is determined by the packaging of the Java files.
Therefore, for our two Java files, and, two class files are generated:./com/rudranirvan/cli/package1/AwesomeClass.class and./com/rudranirvan/cli/package2/SuperAwesomeClass.class.
-cp "/Users/rnirvan/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/1.3.2/commons-io-1.3.2.jar"
Using the cp option overrides the system classpath with provided one. We have provided the location of the commons-io jar. This is needed to support the class needed by the SuperAwesomeClass(Try running this command without the "cp" option, and you will encounter a "missing symbol" error.)
This simply tells javac to compile all the files with a .java extension in the current directory. Consequently, and will be compiled.
Step 2 – Execution
In this step, we will run the class files generated in the previous phase on the JVM. We can do this using the following:
java -cp "/Users/rnirvan/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/1.3.2/commons-io-1.3.2.jar:/Users/rnirvan/Desktop/:." com.rudranirvan.cli.package1.AwesomeClass 1234
This commands consists of the following three parts:
Same as with the javac command, the cp option specifies the classpath to use. In unix-like systems, multiple classpath entries are separated by a colon. In Windows, the separator is a semi-colon.
Our classpath consists of three entries:
 - /Users/rnirvan/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/1.3.2/commons-io-1.3.2.jar: As with the previous javac command, the jar entry is included to support the IOUtils class.
 - /Users/rnirvan/Desktop/: Included as this is where the resource file (app.config) is stored. ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(String name) requires this file to be present in the classpath.
 -. (current directory): Inclusion of the current directory ensures that the two class files generated by the javac command get included in our classpath.
This provides the class whose main method needs to be run. (If you provide a class with a missing "main" method, you will encounter a "could not load or find main class" error.)
This is the command line argument which is passed to the main method.
Running this java command will provide an output similar to the following:
I am the output from the app.config file.
At this point, it should now be clear why the classpath is so vital. You should hopefully be able to figure out how adding the commons-io jar to the classpath helps with the compilation process (hint: try listing the jar's contents).
The method described here for executing Java files is just one of the multiple strategies you could apply. There is a lot of room to play around with just these two commands. Here is a fun exercise: try running javac without the option and try to figure out how you could then use the java command.
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Building construction and how this affects moisture levels
Types of sub-floor construction
Taking readings and analysing the results
Practical testing and analysis of readings
Discussion on solutions for floors with high moisture levels
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A joint or limb a division a member a part formed by growth and articulated to or symmetrical with other parts
- 3d pers sing pres of Lie to recline for lieth
- Combining forms fr Gr liqos a stone used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks
- 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.
- A joint or limb; a division; an associate; part formed by development, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
"combined, limb," Old English li
3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.
- (n.) A joint or limb; a division; a part; a component formed by development, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
Of the b and a classes from the earliest period to the 9th century inclusive are numbered 1 to 49; those of the 10th century 50 to 99; for the later centuries numbers of three figures are used, and the choice is made so that the figure in the hundreds' place indicates the century, 1 meaning lith century, meaning 12th century, and so on; to all these numbers the appropriate letter, if it be 5 or a, must be always prefixed, but if it be only when there is any chance of ambiguity.

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by Leeann Murphy, South Metropolitan Public Health Unit, Western Australia;
Penny Kordyl, Cultural and Community Services, City of Fremantle, Western Australia;
Marie Thorne, Indigenous elder, Fremantle.
Issue addressed: This paper outlines the evaluation of the Indigenous Youth Arts and Culture Project using appreciative inquiry, an assets-based community development process that enhances positive potential in people and communities.
Methods: Twenty project participants, including six young people, seven family members and seven service providers, participated in a one-day appreciative inquiry workshop consisting of four phases: discover, dream, design and deliver. Appreciative inquiry is an empowering process that enables participants to collectively identify the very best of "what is" and allow for imagination and creativity to flow to determine "what should be".
Results and Conclusion: Using an appreciative inquiry approach to evaluate this project engaged participants and allowed them to identify project, personal and community strengths, assets and aspirations to design a way forward for the project and community. Appreciative inquiry added value to and consolidated the positive impact of the project on the well-being of the community. If sustained, the outcomes of the workshop could have a significant impact on the health and well-being of the individuals, families and community involved.
Key words: Appreciative inquiry, evaluation, Indigenous, youth, assets-based community development
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I'm relatively new to circuit-building, but I'm involved in a school project where I need to build an ECG machine. I found the application article in the website: _URL_ that talks exactly about this. I have access to DrDAQ, which worked well for me. However, I have a few questions about the article:
1. I'd like to test the circuit using a wave generator because of the safety-issues related to the project. I was wondering what changes I would have to make in order to accomplish this.
2. The article says it used RG174 coaxial cables with lemo connectors, but how did they connect these to the electrodes?
3. The block diagram of the circuit shows a putton labeled "pot". I may have overlooked something in the text, but what exactly does that button do?
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Codeswitching in its function as a marker of ethnicity within the same speech community has so far mostly been illustrated with case studies involving closely related codes (e.g. dialect/standard) rather than distinct standard languages. The purpose of this article is to show in how far Afrikaans-English codeswitching reflects in its grammatical forms ethnic divisions within the Afrikaans speech community. In order to answer this question, Muysken's threefold taxonomy of insertions, alternations and congruent lexicalization is used to categorize and quantify forms of Afrikaans-English codeswitching in the informal speech of three age cohorts distributed across seven samples of White and Coloured Afrikaans speakers from South Africa and Namibia. The analysis reveals that codeswitching patterns differ across the ethnic divide not only in terms of relative proportions of insertions, alternations and congruent lexicalization, but also in terms of specific grammatical or syntactic characteristics which these codeswitching types may assume. On the basis of some of these specific characteristics the conclusion is drawn that codeswitching practices remain to some degree conditioned by perceptions of ethnic group membership rather than by histories of language contact or typological distance between Afrikaans and English. KG.
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|Journal||International Journal of the Sociology of Language|
|Publication status||Published - 1 Sep 2009|
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- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language


text: I purchased something at the pet shop called Fancy Duckweed. It really took a bit for me to find what this stuff actually was. I finally found that is is Spirodela polyrhiza. It grows like duckweed and multiplies like it but is much larger. There are a couple of regular size duckweed plants on the far left. The ruler is turned with the metric side toward the plants so those dimensions are in centimeters. The leaves of this plant are several times larger than regular duckweed (Lemna minor) although the specific smaller plant may be a bit different from the regular. It should have been easier to find since at one time the plant was known a Lemna major.


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This document describes principles and tools to control a manufacturing process in accordance with a GPS specification. For this purpose a set of one or more complementary, independent characteristics (size, form, orientation, and location characteristics independent to each other) that correlate to the manufacturing process parameters and to the manufacturing process coordinate system established from the manufacturing datum system are used.
This document describes the concept of decomposition of the macro-geometrical part of the GPS specification. It does not cover the micro-geometry, i.e. surface texture.
The objective of the decomposition presented in this document is to define correction values for manufacturing control or to perform a statistical analysis of the process.


A Brief History of Neckties
Following the event held the other week at Dashing Tweeds (4th July 2019) where I felt honoured to talk about the history of neckwear, which leads to neckties as we know it today. Also, unravelling the construction of ties and demonstrating the different knots that you can apply to your style now.
The new collection 'Work of Art: Well Dressed Man' was also showcased to our guests.
View the new collection here.
In the midst of my obsession with creating ties for myself because I couldn't find a tie I liked, which developed into the Shaun Gordon brand. I couldn't help wondering about where ties came from? And why were they worn in the first place?
The earliest discovery of neckwear as we know it was in China. During the reign of the first Emperor Qin Shih Haug-di (259-221 BC), he built 8000 sculptures of Terracotta soldiers in an underground chamber for the purpose of his reign in the after-life. It was noted that each soldier wore a scarf around their neck, which wrapped around once and tucked into their armour.
Another observation was in AD 113 in Rome, Emperor Traianus erected the column of Trajan, which has sculpted relief of 2500 around the circumference. Most of these military men wore neckwear around their neck, which were knotted and left the ends to drapes. It is believed that this is the earliest forefather of the four in hand knot because of the knot's shape and how the ends draped. Interestingly to note, the civilians did not wear neckwear as it was believed to be effeminate or meant you were sick!
However, it is commonly believed that today's tie ancestors stem from King Louis 13th (France) who fought alongside with the Croatian Cavalry Mercenaries against the Hamburg empire for 30 years (Hence the name of the war '30th Year War', 1618-48). The Croatian soldiers wore muslin neckwear, which they called the 'cravat'. This was worn by wrapping the cloth around their neck twice and ended with a simple knot with two short tails. During this time Charles 2nd was exiled in France and 9 years later when he returned to England to claim back his throne, he also inherits the French fashion and wore the cravat. In those times the Monarch was the style influencers and before you know it everyone from the courtiers to civilian wore the cravat. Depending on your social standing would determine what type of material you wore such as a prince would be seen wearing lace and a working class wearing muslin.
During the course of the 18th century, there were various trends and the one that stands out for me was the Macaronis, whose style was eccentricity on steroids! From the voluminous wigs, powered faces, big lapels, bold colour and pattern combinations and wore cravats that wrapped round their neck ten times with a big bow for extra 'punch'.
In contrast to George 'Beau' Brummell who inspires King George 4th during the early 19th century with a style, which speaks inconspicuousness. To paraphrase a quote of his 'If John Bull looks at you, then you are not well-dressed'. The idea behind Brummell style was to be understated and allow the form of clothes to complement your body with perfect balance. Therefore this meant no bold colours or design details that called to attention. The only expression of individuality was through the tying of your cravat. Bearing in mind, that he only wore white until he fled away from England due to being heavily in debt and wore black cravat as it required less washing.
Legends have it that it took Brummell 5 hours to get ready and with the continuous tying of his cravat contributed to this. As tying the cravat meant that it was not allowed to have any creases and the knot itself had to be perfectly placed in the middle. With every wrong attempt, Brummell would discard his linen cravat. And start again with a fresh one. Notice how he uses linen and linen by nature creases! The everyday gentleman with a family did not have time to wake up at 4am in the morning to perfect his cravat before heading out to work in the morning! Therefore, it opened up a market for craftsman and tailors to produce accessible neckwear, which complemented the increasing active lifestyle at that time
By the end of the 19th century there were three reigning neckwear's, which was the Bow-tie, the Ascot and the Necktie (formerly called the four in hand).
Though the necktie was the most popular of the three, it had shortcomings such as due to the tie being cut on the grain (straight), during the course of wear it would loosen and not stay in place. Hence the reason why they wore tie pins or clips. Then the problem was solved by Jesse Langsdorf (N.Y, USA) in 1926 by cutting the tie's fabric on the bias (45 degrees angle) and with three separate pattern pieces: Blade (Front), Neck (Middle) and Tail (Back).
I am presuming he created the patterns into three pieces to save on fabric wastage. The result of this gave the tie elasticity to accommodate the daily knots applied. This also gave the fabric more resilient to creases and allow the tie to drape straight without twisting.
As time went on wearing waistcoat became unfashionable and therefore, the necktie grew longer to meet the trouser's waistband. And there we have the early tie as we know it today.
I can only conclude with and hope that you walk away looking at the humble necktie in a completely different light. It really is an evolutionary work of art or craftsmanship, which I hope will be with us for many more decades to come.
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Immersify is a virtual reality platform consisting of hardware and software whose primary goal is to provide a level of immersion for a user that current platforms do not provide. This is accomplished through the use of accelerometers, an HMD, and an API to allow for simple interfacing.
Some applications of Immersify include the following:
- Compatability with any game that uses a keyboard and mouse for input
- Simulations based on user movement
- Virtual reality games
Further details can be found here.
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What are the odds? How to make the most of forecasting - Supply Management
How to make the most of forecasting
posted by Francis Churchill
27 October 2017
Forecasting is a vital tool for many businesses, but is often poorly understood by stakeholders.
"What does the random number generator say," is a joke forecasters hear too often, according to Ben Brewer, head of forecasting at Heathrow Airport. "And it's not funny."
Speaking at a HPC Supply Chain Innovation Lab conference in London yesterday, Brewer and other experts gave practical advice on how to make sure your business makes the most of forecasting.
Here are some of the top takeaways.
Use probability forecasts where possible
Many people don't understand how probability affects forecasting, according to Paul Goodwin, emeritus professor at the University of Bath.
"Understanding probabilities isn't easy, but if we can help people to understand probabilities then it will make probability forecasting much more usable and available," said Goodwin.
The forecasts most people see are 'point forecasts' indicating the most likely outcome, however behind that is a range of probable outcomes. This is the difference between "it will rain tomorrow" and "there is a 60% chance of rain tomorrow".
Just because the most likely outcome doesn't happen, it doesn't necessarily make the forecast wrong. But it does make people distrust the forecast, said Goodwin. "Certainly probabilities give you a much more realistic idea of what the forecast is about."
Talk assumptions not numbers
When talking about forecasts with stakeholders and business leaders, explaining the assumptions behind the numbers can create consensus and shared ownership, said Daniel Barrett, head of forecasting at Lego.
"Even in statistics assumptions are made, the history that you use, the trend levels, the seasonality patterns, all these are assumptions," said Barrett.
When a business leader asks how you arrive at a forecast, "you can say, 'well the model assumptions are x per cent growth, I've used this history to calculate this'.
"You break it down and talk the assumptions behind the number, not just the number, and then hopefully the leader goes 'great, I understand the model, I trust the forecast'."
Understand your business needs
The success of your forecasting shouldn't be how accurate your numbers are, important as that is. Forecasting should be a tool to reach business outcomes, said Brewer.
"If we're interested in how accurate the BA001 flight is and we're one passenger out, but there's queuing down the line or there weren't enough trollies somewhere, that means we not really understanding how that forecast was being used," he said.
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2. Go to the dropdown menu, and Click Settings.
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4. Click Where You're Logged in. You can view your old or active connections, and view the location, time, and connection devices used.
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Jacket is a complete and transparent system, automatically making memory transfer and execution optimization decisions. Jacket uses a compile on-the-fly system to allow GPU functions to run in MATLAB's interpretive style. Currently, Jacket is built on NVIDIA's CUDA technology.
Jacket also includes the Graphics Toolbox for MATLAB (now available for all operating systems). The Graphics Toolbox integrates the Jacket computational engine with the full OpenGL capabilities of GPUs. This coupling of computation and graphics lets you develop visual computing applications.
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Witch Ladders Knot & Cord Magick
What are Witches Ladders?
A Witches Ladder is a form of Magick that is good for beginners as it doesn't need anything elaborate or any special tools, you just simply use items in your home, garden or out in nature that represents your intent, you then weave your desire or goal into using cords and charms.
You can do this time of Magick at any time, it does not need to be done in a circle or during elaborate rituals. You can however, set the tone however you see fit, with candles and incense etc.
Meditate or concentrate on your intent, visualise yourself already having achieving your goal, this is important because if you visualise yourself wanting your goal it will always be just out of your reach.
To cast a spell using a Witches Ladder, you take three pieces of String, Ribbon, Wool or Strips of cloth ideally colours relevant to your intent.
Focus on your goals and weave (braid) your desire into it, As you braid you can add tokens like feathers, charms, beads & buttons etc. you could have as few as nine, up to the more modern 40.
Once finished you can hang in you home, bury or use it for mediation similar to rosary beads.
Three strands of Cord/Wool/Ribbon (3-9ft) At least nine items relevant to your intent.
How To:
Line up your three strands and tie a knot in the top and make a loop. This binds your intent into your charm here and know that the spell has begun.
Begin weaving and every so often stopping to add a charm and a knot.
As you weave save a charm for the end, add it when you get to the last knot.
Seal the spell by yanking knot tightly with a louder So shall it be done or So mote it be.
Now hang and let it work, if long term goals then tend to it with meditating every so often.
Whilst weaving and concentrating on putting all your intent into the spell there is a very common Witches Ladder Chant which you can find in a lot of books on the subject although its origins are unclear.
By Knot of One
The spell has begun
By Knot of Two
The Magick comes true
By Knot of Three
So it shall be
By Knot of Four
This power is stored
By Knot of Five
My will shall drive
By Knot of Six
This spell I fix
By Knot of Seven
The future I leaven
By Knot of Eight
My will be fate
By Knot of Nine
What is done is mine
You do not have to use this, feel free to make your own personal chant to keep your intent pouring into the weaving, make it repetitive so you can slip into the right state of consciousness without having to think about it.
Colour Correspondences
Red; Love, Sex, Energy, Vitality, Defence, Anger, Blood,
Orange; Business, Authority, Platonic attractions, Persuasion
Yellow; Intellect, Happiness, Wisdom, Confidence, Communication
Green; Fertility, Wealth, Prosperity, Ambition, Success, Gambling
Blue; Intuition, Peace, Healing, Loyalty, compassion, Cleansing.
Purple; Spirituality, royalty, Power, Dreams, Visions, Psychic Abilities.
Pink; Romance, Affection, Love, Innocence, Feminine
Grey; Invisibility, Forgetting, Balance.
Brown; Work efforts, domestic issues, friendships
Silver; Lunar, Goddess energy
Gold; Solar, God Energy
Black; Protection, Banishing, Strength and Hexing.
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Isis the Egyptian goddess is associated with the magick of knots, it was believed she could control the weather by braiding her hair. Also the Greek Goddess of Circe, who is the goddess of agriculture, again controlling the weather by braiding her hair. Control of the weather is one of the more common uses of knot magick, especially for sailors.
Knot magick is most useful when it comes to harnessing power to be used for a later time. A good example of this would be Full moon magick knotted into a cord and released during a spell when the moon is new etc.
Healing ~ tie 9 knots in a piece of thread, tie that around the afflicted body part. wear for awhile to let the cord absorb what ails you, then remove it, untie all the knots and throw the thread into running water.
Money ~ Green cord, make nine equally spaced knots, keep the cord hanging in your home, modify chant to suit.
Releasing Hate or Anger ~ Focus all your hate or anger then tie a knot in your cord, visualise your anger all tied up in the knot, when you undo the knot, release your anger and throw the cord into fire.
You can also Bind and do Love spells which I won't add here as its not for everyone.
After your needs have been met, you can, Burn it, so that the knot can never be undone. Bury it in the Earth. Keep it in a safe place where it wont be disturbed.
To undo knot magick, just untie the knot. Warning~~ this may not always work.


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Sight Reading Factory is a fantastic resource to use at home, especially during a potential period of online learning. My school closed on Tuesday and now we are entering day 3 of uncharted territory!
When distance learning becomes necessary, Sight Reading Factory can be super effective. What could be even better than using Sight Reading Factory? USING SIGHT READING FACTORY BEING FREE!
Here is the message send from the co-founders of Sight Reading Factory:
If you're looking for a remote eLearning solution for your music classes while schools in your district are closed due to the COVID-19 virus, Sight Reading Factory is offering free student accounts during the time your school is closed.
If you're not familiar with SightReadingFactory.com, we are a cloud-based application for practicing sight reading. With the assignments feature, students can record themselves performing a teacher-configured sight reading exercise directly through our online platform. Students can then submit their recording to the teacher for grading. SRF works on virtually any modern device – smartphones, tablets, laptops, Chromebooks, etc. With SRF student accounts, teachers can organize students into classes/groups and can also view reports on their students to monitor their usage and track progress.
Our unique composition engine allows you to customize and configure sight reading exactly to the needs of your students and generate a virtually unlimited supply of unique sight reading exercises. Click here to try out a free demo and generate some sight reading exercises.
Check out this page for more information on SRF student accounts and the assignments feature.
If your school will be closed due to the COVID-19 virus and you'd like to take advantage of this offer of free student accounts during the time your school is closed, please write to us at _EMAIL_.
How to Use Sight Reading Factory for distance learning!
Before doing anything I list below, just go to their website and try the demo on their home page; you do not need to give an email or fill anything out. Once you see how easy and effective the program is, you will be sold on the plan below!
This plan will work for you and your students:
- Contact Sight Reading Factory at: _EMAIL_. They will provide you with one code to disseminate to your choir
- Log onto Sight Reading Factory as a teacher and create a class. Just click on CLASS and then create a NEW class. You can create as many classes as you want. I suggest keeping this simple. Perhaps you could have a beginner and advanced class, and have your students self-select into the appropriate class; you could create a class for each chorus that you have.
- Create an assignment(s) – and select a due date. Next, they ask for a key signature, time signature, length (number of measures), tempo, and a few other/less important things. The bottom line is that the options are restrictive enough that you won't get confused. Create as many assignments as you'd like. Each assignment will meet your specific parameters but each student will receive different assignments. It takes well under one minute to create an assignment. The best part about this is that you can just "duplicate" the same assignment over and over again; since every example is brand new, students will receive a different assignment every time, even if your parameters remain exactly the same!
- Send the code out to your students and they can instantly join the class(es) you've set up. They will see the assignments when they join your class!
The purpose of your assignments
Assignments can be as simple or challenging as you wish. I suggest keeping them simple as the goal is to keep our singers positive and engaged through this difficult time.
How assignments work:
Students will click on an assignment and have endless tries before submitting their take to us. (Students can sing directly into any computer mic.) They can even hear the correct notes played alongside their recorded performance. This means, they will have a clear sense of how they did before submitting. While students cannot redo any exercise, they can try over and over again; when they try again, a new exercise will be generate that meets the exact same parameters.
When they submit an assignment, we will know how many times they tried to complete the assignment (how many different assignments they attempted).
How to Grade in this Current Climate:
Our goal is to motivate our students and keep them involved. I would suggest grading on a simple scale. 4 = outstanding, 3 = excellent, 2 = fair (passing), 1 = needs improvement.
Since our students are at different levels, we want to encourage all students to be successful. A score of a "1" is for a student who doesn't submit an assignment or makes little effort. I would recommend a passing score of "2" for any student who makes an effort. A score of "4" is for students who excelled on the exercise and a "3" is for hardworking students who make a serious effort with a decent result or talented sight-singers who don't make the effort to refine their effort.
If put into a 10 point scoring system, it could look like this:
- 10 = outstanding
- 9 = excellent
- 8 = fair
- 5 = needs improvement
One more GREAT Sight-Reading Factory Idea!
This is not only another effective idea, but it is an alternative for students who do not have the same access to a modern computer/chromebook/mic. All they need is access to email and a printer.
On Sight Reading Factory, create an 8-measure exercise that meets your parameters (for example, 4/4 time, key of D major, notes/rests no faster than 1/8 note, range of an octave), and make a PDF of each exercise.
From there, send the PDF assignments out to your students and ask them to label the pitches below the notes (d, r, m, f, etc) and the rhythms above the note (1+2+3+4+). If you have google classroom or another method of submission, have them submit it to you. You can always send a sample 8-measure exercise with an answer key for all students in order to ensure they understand the concept.
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As unpredictable weather conditions continue to become the norm, this adaptive survival clothing project by Jacqueline Nanne could become a practical solution to dressing for the unexpected. Using temperature-sensitive memory wire, she has developed a knitted fabric with pores that open and close according to changes in temperature.
Using the great temperature and moisture regulation properties of wool and our own body as inspiration, fabrics were desiged that adapt to the temperature of the human body and the environment. The focus lies on the context of survival, as clothing plays a big role in staying alive in the wilderness. When on survival, one often adds or removes layers of clothing to keep a comfortable temperature. This design is intended to decrease the number of
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Many thanks to Kai Fechner for inviting me to participate both in the 1995 « Bread, Hearths and Ovens » workshop and in the subsequent publication. Warm thanks to Uaininn O'Meadhra for kindly checking my English and also to Kjell Persson for creating the map-illustration.
1Cereals have been cultivated in Sweden since the Stone Age, i.e. since c. 4000 BC. But with the exception of « blood-porridge » (Arrhenius 1984 ; Arrhenius & Lidén 1988), we can only guess at the form in which cereals were eaten at that time. However, in the later archaeological material we can discern traces of a tradition to combine flour and grain with different animal products to create various dishes, especially grain-pastes which were sometimes leavened. At the same time bread - i.e. grain in prepared form - was also consumed. The majority of surviving Swedish prehistoric bread can be dated to the later part of the Early Medieval Period (which in Sweden incorporates the Migration Period (400 -550 AD), the Vendel Period (550 -800 AD) and the Viking Age (800 -1050 AD).
2A concentration of findings can be noted in eastern central Sweden, while the northernmost find comes from Västbyn, in Frösön in the province of Jämtland. This was analysed by Prof. em. Hakon Hjelmqvist, Lund, who suggested that blood may have been one of the ingredients in the dough, together with hulled barley (Hjelmqvist 1990 :17).
3About 150 charred prehistoric loaves of bread are now known from archaeological excavations.
4The largest concentration, over 64 loaves, of which 33 have been analysed (Hjelmqvist 1984), were found in cremation graves at the cemeteries in Birka - the first prototown in Sweden, situated on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren c. 30 km west of Stockholm and dated c. 750 -975 AD (Fig. 1). Here c. 1000 graves were excavated during the end of the 19 th century. Of these, c. 500 proved to hold cremation burials, and c. 10 % of the cremation graves contained bread loaves. Bread loaves were also found in graves on the island of Björkö outside the prototown of Birka. These graves probably belonged to independent farms contemporary with Birka (Hansson 1997).
5Among the earliest findings of prehistoric bread mention should also be made of those found during the excavations of the cremation graves at Ljunga in the province of Östergötland at the beginning of this century (Schnittger 1912 ; Rosendahl 1912), and during the excavations of the fortified farm of Boberget in the province of Östergötland (Schnittger 1912). These loaves were microscopically analysed soon after discovery, constituting the earliest analyses of bread material in Sweden (Rosendahl 1909 ; Hjelmqvist 1990).
6Approximately 30 bread loaves (20 of which were analysed) were found during the excavations of the migration-viking period farms at Helgö (Holmqvist 1963) (Fig. 1). Like Birka, Helgö is situated on an island in Lake Mälaren, which during this period formed a gulf of the Baltic Sea. Thus there is a remarkable concentration of finds of bread in the Mälar area. The Helgö loaves were found in a longhouse and in a sunken-floor hut. This bread had a somewhat older dating than the loaves from the prototown of Birka (Viklund 1998).
7A further 30 bread loaves have been analysed and published, originating from different sites in central Sweden (Hjelmqvist 1990). In addition there are a number of loaves awaiting publication. Far more loaves than have been recognized were originally deposited as gravegifts. This is especially clear from the re-examination of material from older excavations of cremation graves, which have yielded additional bread finds, as for instance at Birka and in the important chieftain site of earlier date at Vendel, also in eastern central Sweden.
8In Sweden, prehistoric bread only survives in a charred condition. Therefore we do not know if bread originally was deposited also in the inhumation graves.
9Sometimes bread loaves are found in a relatively undamaged condition, whereby it is possible already during excavation to acertain that they indeed constitute bread. But most often, the loaves are fragmented into small, black, charred pieces, where no edge, over - or underside survives to indicate any original morphology. Such pieces cannot with certainty be designated as bread, since they can as well constitute some other cereal -based dish or even a charred faecel concretion. This type of small, black, charred material is also easily passed-over during excavation, being often mistaken for charcoal.
10There are also further organic materials which resemble bread, but do not constitute bread. One example is a bread-like find from a migration period ringfort on Öland, one of Sweden's larger islands in the Baltic Sea. This on microscopic and chemical analysis turned out to be very special : whole seeds of gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sativa) and flax (Linum usitatissimum) were clearly evident. The seeds of these species have a high fat content, which here resulted in the seeds sticking together into a « cake » when accidentally heated. This organic material was probably never baked (Hanson et al. 1993).
11The need to distinguish between bread and other cereal -based dishes on the one hand and other types of organic material on the other hand, demands a definition of prehistoric bread, which can be stated basically as follows :
12Ingredients : consisting mainly of ground food plants, usually cereals, with the addition of a liquid and sometimes a leavening substance.
13Preparation : working -up into a dough, followed by baking in an oven or oven -like construction, or roasting at or on an open fire, on embers or in ashes (Hansson 1994 :8).
14This definition allows plant species other than cereals to be ground into the baking flour, in contrast to later Medieval bread. Most important to remember when distinguishing between bread and for instance porridge and grain -paste, is that bread is baked and the ingredients are ground.
15Microscopic analyses of Swedish prehistoric bread loaves have shown that not only flour from cereals was used, but also flour from peas, vetches, flax, gold of pleasure and fieldweeds. Most of the loaves were baked from finely sieved flour and have not been leavened. Traces of bark of Scots pine have also been found (Hansson 1995a, b). Most notably, one loaf found in a cremation grave at Ljunga was long thought to be bark-bread. Now, however, it is considered that the cells from Scots pine, both bark and wood, are merely a contamination either from the hearth at baking, or from the funeral pyre.
16In Birka, in those cases where it was possible to make a secure classification based on the morphology, we observed a predominance of circular bread with a diameter of less than 5 cm and a thickness of c. 0,5 cm (25 cases in total). With regard to such small dimensions perhaps the term « bun » or « miniature bread » is more accurate than merely « bread ». There are however also other forms, for instance, an oval shape, an indented « clover-leaf » shape, and one small curved piece of bread which was earlier interpreted as a figure -of -eight, but now seems more possibly ring-formed. Rare examples occur of larger loaves, up to a diameter of 17-18 cm. A loaf from the fortified farm of Boberget was semi-spherical, the only early medieval Swedish loaf with this form. Characteristic for grave-bread found in the cemeteries at Birka is that many of them, even the small loaves, had been furnished with metal -strings for suspension.
17At Birka, cremation funerals were carried out by all social groups. An analysis of these cremation graves shows that 42 % of the graves with bread deposits contained rich grave-gifts. Of the total number of cremation graves in Birka, only 20 % contained grave-gifts indicative of wealth. The conclusion must be that this higher -than -average proportion of rich « bread graves » indicates that « bread graves » could mark rich burials. Both men and women, and in one case a child, received bread loaves as funeral deposits. Sex and age seem to be of no importance for the choice of bread as a grave-gift (Hansson 1997).
18That bread, as a cereal -based product, was of symbolic importance is indicated by the metal -strings found in many examples, or by the traces of rust, where the iron-string had disappeared. Why should metal be used for this function? Metal was an expensive material during the Early Medieval Period in the Nordic countries. It would have been more natural to use, for instance, a plant material like bast, an osier, or a string of flax or hemp. Furthermore, loaves were often placed within the grave urn or just beside it,


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Compare Cantonese and Quechua alphabets and find out scripts used by Cantonese and Quechua language. Cantonese and Quechua scripts are the methodology and rules for writing. Scripts used by Cantonese and Quechua languages are Chinese Characters and derivatives and Latin respectively. After learning alphabets in Cantonese and Quechua you can also learn useful Cantonese greetings vs Quechua greetings.
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If you are comparing Cantonese and Quechua alphabets then you need to find out Cantonese vowels vs Quechua vowels too. The number of vowels and consonants in Cantonese are 8 and 20 and number of vowels and consonants in Quechua are 5 and 26. Language codes are unique and are two or three letter codes assigned to each language. Check out all the language codes of Cantonese and Quechua language codes.
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Is Cantonese harder than Quechua? No language is hard or easy to learn as it depends on individual interest and efforts for learning that language. When you decide to learn any language, you need to find out time required to learn that language and levels in that language. As mentioned above, while comparing Cantonese and Quechua Alphabets the number of alphabets in any language decides hardness in learning that language.
It's important to know Cantonese and Quechua alphabets because for learning these languages, alphabets are the starting point. The levels in Cantonese language are 10. And time taken to learn Cantonese language is 88 weeks. While there are no levels in Quechua language And time taken to learn Quechua language is 44 weeks.
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There are two sets of credentials you might need when renaming a scheduled task using Rename-ScheduledTask.ps1:
 - The -ConnectionCredential parameter specifies the credentials to use to connect to the schedule service on the computer where the task is stored (either the local computer or a remote computer). If you aren't a member of the Administrators group on the computer hosting the task, you can connect to the schedule service using administrator credentials.
 - The -TaskCredential parameter specifies the credentials for the task itself, if needed. Task credentials are needed only when the task's Run whether user is logged on or not option is selected and the Do not store password option is not selected. If credentials are required and you don't specify the
 -TaskCredential parameter, the script will prompt you for credentials.
Both the -ConnectionCredential and -TaskCredential parameters require a PSCredential object as their argument. A PSCredential object securely stores a username and password for use in security operations. However, there is an important caveat you need to know about: Rename-ScheduledTask.ps1 converts the secure passwords in PSCredential objects to plain text because the scripting object model doesn't support PSCredential objects.
You can easily create PSCredential objects by using the Get-Credential cmdlet. Run the command
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5.6.6 Using Command Files
A command file is a DECTPU source file that can contain procedures, key definitions, and other DECTPU executable statements. You can have any number of command files in your directory. You might want to write one command file that customizes your editor for programming in Pascal, another command file that customizes your editor for text editing, and so on. If you have several command files, give them names that remind you of their contents. If you have one command file that you use most of the time, name it TPU$COMMAND.TPU.
The command to invoke DECTPU with a command file is:
$ EDIT/TPU/COMMAND [[= filespec]]
If you name your command file TPU$COMMAND.TPU and it is in your default directory, DECTPU reads the file by default, without your having to use the /COMMAND qualifier. If you name your file something other than TPU$COMMAND.TPU, or if you put it in a directory other than your default directory, you must use the /COMMAND qualifier explicitly and provide a full file specification after the qualifier.
DECTPU reads a command file, compiles it, and executes any commands that do not contain syntax errors. If there are errors, DECTPU writes an error message to the message area. The command file can customize or extend the application implemented by the section file with which you invoked DECTPU.
Example 5-6 is a sample DECTPU command file that defines a procedure that moves the editing point to the beginning of a segment of text delimited by the characters %(/* at the beginning and */)% at the end.
Example 5-6 Command File for GOTO_TEXT_MARKER
PROCEDURE goto_text_marker
 LOCAL text_marker_pattern,
 text_marker_pattern := '%(/*' + MATCH ('*/)%');
 text_marker_range := SEARCH_QUIETLY (text_marker_pattern,
 GET_INFO (CURRENT_BUFFER, "direction"));
 IF text_marker_range <> 0
 POSITION (text_marker_range);
 MESSAGE ("Text_marker not found");
 RETURN text_marker_range;
If you name the file that contains this procedure TEXT_MARKERS.TPU, you can invoke DECTPU with EVE and your command file with the following command:
$ EDIT/TPU/COMMAND=device:[directory]text_markers.tpu
If you add procedures or statements to the command file TEXT_MARKERS.TPU, place all procedures before any individual statements that are not listed within a procedure (for example, key definitions to move to the next text marker).
Remember to name your variables and procedures so they do not conflict with DECTPU reserved words and predefined identifiers. Compaq recommends that you prefix your variable and procedure names with three letters (your initials, for example) followed by an underscore (_).
5.6.7 Using EVE Initialization Files
An initialization file is a file that contains commands to be executed by an application. Any application layered on DECTPU can support initialization files.
With EVE initialization files, you can do the following:
 - Use EVE commands in a startup file to customize editing sessions
 - Set formats for individual buffers
EVE initialization files contain EVE commands that are executed either when you invoke the editor or when you issue the EVE @ (at sign) command.
To create an EVE initialization file, put in the file the EVE commands you want to use to customize the editor. Use one command on each line and one line for each command. Do not separate the commands with semicolons. If a command in an EVE initialization file is incomplete, EVE prompts you for more information, the same as if you were typing the command during an editing session. Comments in EVE initialization files must be on lines separate from commands and must begin with an exclamation point (!). You cannot nest EVE initialization files. Do not use the DO command in an EVE initialization file.
The following sample initialization file sets left and right margins, establishes overstrike mode, binds the QUIT command to the GOLD/Q key sequence, and enables an EDT-like keypad:
SET KEYPAD EDT Using an EVE Initialization File at Startup
You can cause an initialization file to be executed in any of the following ways when you invoke EVE:
 - Name the file EVE$INIT.EVE. This is the default file name for EVE initialization files.
 - Specify the name of the initialization file as a qualifier to the EDIT/TPU command.
 - Define a logical name, EVE$INIT, to point to your initialization file.
The first and third methods are appropriate if you intend to use one initialization file most of the time to customize your editing sessions. If you name the file EVE$INIT.EVE and do not specify another EVE initialization file on the command line, EVE automatically executes that file when you invoke DECTPU.
Use the second method to control which initialization file EVE executes to customize the editing session. For example, if you have an EVE$INIT file but want to use another initialization file, specify the other file by using the /INITIALIZATION qualifier to EDIT/TPU. To specify an initialization file called MY_INIT.EVE, enter the following command string on the command line:
EVE always executes the initialization file specified on the command line, if such a file is present. If no file is specified on the command line, EVE searches for EVE$INIT.EVE first in the current directory and then in your login area. If EVE finds EVE$INIT.EVE, it executes that file. If the file is not found, the editor checks whether the logical name EVE$INIT has been defined.
If you plan to create several initialization files and to use them equally, you may not want to name one of the files EVE$INIT. For example, if you want one initialization file to set narrow margins and another to set wide margins, create both files and specify the file you want when you invoke EVE. Using an EVE Initialization File During an Editing Session
To execute an EVE initialization file during an editing session, use the @ (at sign) command and specify the file. For example, the following command executes an initialization file called MYEVE.EVE in your current (default) directory.
Command: _USER_
Commands for buffer settings apply to the current buffer. This is effectively the same as typing the commands that the file contains. You may want to create initialization files to execute two or more related commands, such as resetting both margins. How an EVE Initialization File Affects Buffer Settings
Commands in an EVE initialization file that set buffer characteristics (such as margins and tab stops) affect a system buffer named $DEFAULTS$. Buffers created during the editing session have the same settings as $DEFAULTS$. For example, if your initialization file contains the command SET RIGHT MARGIN 65, the value 65 is used as the right margin setting for the main buffer and for any buffers you create during the session with GET FILE or BUFFER commands.
To see the settings for the $DEFAULTS$ buffer, use the EVE command SHOW DEFAULTS BUFFER. For example, if you want to know what the tab settings are for the $DEFAULTS$ buffer, type the following command:
This command causes EVE to show buffer information in a format similar to the format in Example 5-7 (using values that apply to your editing session).
Example 5-7 SHOW DEFAULTS BUFFER Display
 EVE V3.1 1993-08-17 08:47
 Information about buffer $DEFAULTS$
 Not modified Left margin set to: 1
 Mode: Insert Right margin set to: 79
 Paragraph indent: none WPS word wrap indent: none
 Read-only Unmodifiable
 Direction: Forward
 Max lines: no limit
 Tab stops set every 8 columns.
 Word wrap: on
To change the characteristics of the $DEFAULTS$ buffer during an editing session, use the command BUFFER $DEFAULTS$ to put the defaults buffer in a window. This buffer is empty and you cannot add text to it. However, when you change the settings of the $DEFAULTS$ buffer, the changes are saved and used to set the characteristics of any user buffers you create.
Use commands such as SET RIGHT MARGIN, SET LEFT MARGIN, SET TABS, FORWARD, REVERSE, INSERT, or OVERSTRIKE to change the characteristics of the $DEFAULTS$ buffer. The new characteristics are applied to new buffers but not to existing ones. To leave the $DEFAULTS$ buffer and put a different buffer in the window, use the BUFFER command.
5.7 Debugging DECTPU Programs
This section discusses the options you have for debugging DECTPU programs.
To debug DECTPU programs, you can do one of the following:
 - Write your own debugger in the DECTPU language. This is discussed in Section 5.7.1.
 - Use the DECTPU debugger provided in TPU$DEBUG.TPU. This is discussed in Section 5.7.2.
Regardless of which debugger you use, you may find it helpful to enable the display of error line numbers by using SET (LINE_NUMBER, ON) and to enable the display of procedures called when an error occurs by using SET (TRACEBACK, ON).
5.7.1 Using Your Own Debugger
If you write your own debugger, you can invoke it (and bypass the default bugger) by using the /DEBUG qualifier with the EDIT/TPU command. For example, to use a debugger called MY_DEBUGGER.TPU on a file called MIGHT_BE_BUGGY.TPU, type the following:
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Desert Bats Reveal The Secret Of Their Survival
Desert bats reduce water loss by changing the make-up of their skin, allowing them to thrive in some of the world's most inhospitable environments
This is surprising as with large naked wings and the energy they expend in flight, bats are expected to have high rates of water loss by evaporation, say the scientists from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.This may provide significant insight into how bats might respond to a future changing climate.
The researchers are presenting their work at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Prague on Wednesday June 30th, 2010.
The researchers found total water loss in the desert-living Pipistrellus kuhli was just 80% of other non-desert species.
Total water loss is made up of the sum of cutaneous (through the skin) and respiratory (exhaling) water losses, explained lead researcher Dr MuÃ±oz-Garcia.
Desert bats were found to have reduced cutaneous water loss (CWL), the biggest contributor to total water loss, when compared to non-desert species of bats of the same size.
The proposed mechanism of adjusting the lipid (fat) composition of their skin is known in other species of mammals and birds. Dr MuÃ±oz-Garcia and his team were the first to identify this link in other species of bat, and aim to prove it in desert bats.
The scientists believe that these findings provide significant insight into how bats can adapt to major changes in their environment.
"Control of energy expenditure and water loss is crucial for all terrestrial animals to survive and reproduce", explains lead researcher AgustÃ MuÃ±oz-Garcia. "This is particularly important for animals that live in deserts, where ambient temperatures are high, humidity is low and drinking water is scarce"
The next step for Dr MuÃ±oz-Garcia and his team is to examine further species of desert bats to consolidate their findings so far and shed more light on the adaptive mechanism for reducing CWL.
"Our plan is to measure at least 8 species from different environments, so we can start building a database that can allow future comparisons", Dr MuÃ±oz-Garcia explained.
Image Caption: The researchers found total water loss in the desert-living Pipistrellus kuhli was just 80 percent of other nondesert species. Credit: Shai Pilosof
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Research has shown having men of color as role models and mentors greatly improves the social, emotional, and academic progress of all students, especially boys of color. However, boys of color are rarely exposed to men of color in the classroom.
Mario Jovan Shaw and Jason Terrell, the founders of Profound Gentlemen, saw this first hand as middle school teachers in Charlotte. "Relationships between male teachers of color and boys are so important," said Terrell. "Each day, a young man named Jaylen came into my classroom to talk and share. Meanwhile, in my first year, I sought the mentorship of a veteran male teacher of color who helped me understand my purpose in education. Profound Gentlemen creates this environment where more male teachers of color have that critical mentor and can, in turn, impact boys of color."
After launching Profound Gentlemen in 2014, Shaw and Terrell each received the prestigious Echoing Green fellowship that recognizes and supports social entrepreneurs globally.
To become connected to PG, male teachers of color download the Profound Gentlemen App and can communicate with over 500 male educators of color from around the nation. Each member attends bi-monthly on-line gatherings with a small 'impact cohort' and is encouraged to lead a student group. 87% of the Profound Gentlemen educators reported using resources provided from Profound Gentlemen in their practice.
PG has local programming in three cities: Charlotte, Chicago and Memphis, and has a special emphasis on connecting educators in the same feeder school pipeline in these cities.
Now in their third year, Terrell reports "our goal is to increase the number of teachers in our membership, while also making sure each has the support he needs to stay in education."
In 2016, The Belk Foundation invested $50,000 in Profound Gentlemen.


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Archimedes Screw - History of Archimedes Screw
The Archimedes screw is a machine that can raise water with much less effort than lifting buckets. It was invented by the Greek scientist Archimedes, though the year is not known. Archimedes lived in Syracuse, Sicily (now part of Italy) between the years 287 B.C. and 212 B.C. The Archimedes screw is an ancient invention that continues to be important in the modern world.
This tool had many historical uses. It was used to empty water out of leaking ships and flooded mines. Fields of crops were watered by using the screw to pull water from lakes and rivers. It was also used to reclaim flooded land, for instance in Holland where much of the land lies below sea level.
- There are a few different designs of the Archimedes screw, but the key feature is the angled spiral around a center shaft (the typical screw shape). The screw can sit in a half pipe (trough) or a full pipe.
- To use the Archimedes screw to lift water, the pipe must sit on an angle with one end in a body of water. Then, the screw must be turned with a hand crank or motor. As the bottom of the screw turns, it will scoop up water. The shape of the screw will trap it, the water will be carried up to the top of the pipe, and it spill out.
- Today, there are many other uses for the Archimedes screw. Things like grain, sand, and sawdust flow in a similar way to water, and so the Archimedes screw can be used to move them as well.
- Archimedes screws appear in many unexpected places. Power drills, snow blowers, augers, crop harvesters, and many other machines operate using the principle of movement of these devices.


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Trying to brush up on some geometric and algebraic topology, I got a little confused about the following:
Suppose we have the standard unit sphere $S^2$, but we remove its north and south poles. Is this topological space homeomorphic or homotopic to $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}$? I would think that they are not homotopic since I don't think both spaces are deformation retracts, are they? Now I do know that the stereographic projection is a map from $S^2$ to the plane, but that just involves the removal of either the north or the south pole, correct?
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If you know that $S^2$ minus one pole is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^2$, then $S^2$ minus two poles is homeomorphic to...? – Qiaochu Yuan Mar 31 '12 at 18:04
$S^1 \times \mathbb{R}$ is a cylinder. Put the sphere inside the cylinder (north and south pole on the axis of the cylinder) and project from the center of the sphere minus north and south-pole onto that cylinder using straight lines. – t.b. Mar 31 '12 at 18:06
It makes it a straight line homeomorphism, if such a term exists :) A straight line homotopy is usually understood to be a homotopy $H$ between two functions $f,g: X \to \mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $H(x,t) = (1-t)f(x) + tg(x)$. See here for example. – t.b. Mar 31 '12 at 18:15
If $Y$ is homeomorphic to $X$ it's clearly also homotopy equivalent. Just use the homeomorphism and a constant homotopy. – user20266 Mar 31 '12 at 18:16
Linguistic nitpick: maps are homotopic. Spaces are homotopy equivalent. – Neal Mar 31 '12 at 18:57
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The two spaces are homeomorphic. $S^2$ minus one point is identified by stereographic projection with $\mathbb{R}^2$, so $S^2$ minus two points is homeomorphic with say $\mathbb{R}^2 \backslash \{0\}$. Identifying $\mathbb{R}^2$ with $\mathbb{C}$ and $S^1$ with $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$, the homeomorphism
$\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}\cong \mathbb{C} \backslash \{0\}$
is given by $(r,\theta)\mapsto e^re^{2\pi i\theta}$.
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This style of residential architecture incorporates the details and ideals from the overall history of spanish architecture. California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida are all regions where Spanish Eclectic house designs and architecture are common. This style immediately followed the closely related Mission style architecture. During the 1920's and early 1930's, the Spanish Eclectic design style enjoyed great popularity that soon fell from favor during the early 1940's.
Design features include a low pitch roof (with little or no eave overhang), tile roof (red being the common color), one or more archways placed above the front door and/or principle windows, stucco exterior finish, and a normally asymmetrical floor plan design. Doors are usually embellished with dramatic carvings and are made to be a focal point by adding adjacent spiral columns, pilasters, patterned tile work, or some sort of stone work.
The example photo above delivers on the substance of Spanish eclectic architectural styling; however, the overhangs are slightly larger than normal giving this a subtle blend of the Italian Renaissance architecture.


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A pun is a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings.
Humorous effects created by puns depend upon the ambiguities words entail. The ambiguities arise mostly in homophones and homonyms. For instance, in a sentence "A happy life depends on a liver", liver can refer to the organ liver or simply the person who lives. Similarly, in a famous saying "Atheism is a non-prophet institution" the word "prophet" is used instead of "profit" to produce a humorous effect.
Common Pun Examples
In everyday life, pun examples are found intentionally or accidentally used in jokes and witty remarks. Such as:
- The life of a patient of hypertension is always at steak.
- Why do we still have troops in Germany? To keep the Russians in Czech.
- A horse is a very stable animal.
- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- An elephant's opinion carries a lot of weight.
- What is the difference between a conductor and a teacher? The conductor minds the train and a teacher trains the mind.
Examples of Pun in Literature
In literature, puns have been used by famous writers in their literary works.
In constructing puns, William Shakespeare was a master craftsman. We find many examples of puns in his plays. Let us have a look at some of them:
- "It is the unkindest tied that ever any man tied."(Richard III)
- "winter of our discontent…made glorious summer by this Son of York."(Richard III)
- Romeo: "Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead" (Romeo and Juliet)
- Claudius: "…But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son…" Hamlet: [aside] "A little more than kin, and less than kind. (Kindred)" (Hamlet)
John Donne's "A Hymn to God the Father" has several examples of pun. Read the following lines:
"When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done for I have more.
That at my death Thy Son / Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore
And having done that, Thou hast done;
I fear no more."
He is playing with his name Donne and with the name of his wife Anne More. Besides, he uses Son, referring to the Christ, instead of sun.
Oscar Wilde employs puns in his play "Importance of being Earnest". Jack Earnest tells Aunt Augusta in Act III:
"On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest"
Similarly, in Act III we see Jack puns his family name again:
"I always told you, Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn't I? Well, it is Ernest after all. I mean it naturally is Ernest."
Here Jack discovers his father name which makes him truly earnest.
Charles Dickens plays around with words in his novel "Great Expectations". In his opening chapter "Pip" says:
"They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation to me, every now and then, and stick the point into me"
Note the pun in the use of the word "point". We see another interesting example in Chapter 2:
"Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame."
The writer puns the word "tickle".
We notice a unique use of multilingual puns in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". For example, the name of a character "Humbert" is a pun in two languages. In French it means "Shadow" and in Spanish it means "man". Similarly, "Lolita" changing her name to "Dolores" which means pain in Latin and her nick name "Dolly" refers to a toy in English.
Function of Pun
Apart from being witty and humorous, puns add profound meanings to texts and shape the way in which the text is interpreted by the readers. By playing with the words, the writers reveal their cleverness and the cleverness of their characters. Besides, puns in a literary works act as a source of comic relief or an intentional effort on the part of the writer to show his/her creative ability in using language.


Apply to U.S. Colleges as an International Student-Athlete
Respond to coaches' phone calls and emails to convey interest as a prospective U.S. student-athlete.
Avoid making simple mistakes that could hurt your chances of becoming an international student-athlete at a U.S. university.
Avoid making simple mistakes that could hurt your chances of becoming a student-athlete at a U.S. university.
The U.S. system for collegiate sports lacks an international counterpart. Where else can you receive a world-class education tailored around a 20-plus hours per week training schedule?
However, the competition for spots is extremely tough across the board and many prospective international student-athletes never make it all the way, often because of trivial mistakes. The following are three important steps student-athletes should take when applying to U.S. schools.
[Apply to college as an international student.]
1. Impress your future coach: While regular students simply seek academic admission, your primary contact will be with the coaches of your sport. Most international athletes need scholarships to finance tuition and living expenses, and athletic scholarships are often decided by the coaching staff alone.
Keep in mind that coaches receive interest from dozens – sometimes hundreds – of young aspiring Olympians each season. To get one of those precious scholarships you have to be extremely eager, driven and on top of things.
When making initial contact you should send a brief letter of introduction that clearly highlights your athletic achievements and future potential. You should express a desire to work extremely hard, to challenge and be challenged and to pursue an academic degree in the meantime.
You should answer every email in a timely manner, always pick up the phone when the coach calls and send required documents the day before you're asked for them. Think about it from the coach's perspective: If you can't even remember to pick up the phone or email a signed form, how are you going to make it through college in a foreign country?
2. Mind your academics: The fact that "student" comes before "athlete" is not just because it sounds better that way. It indicates that you are primarily a student and secondarily an athlete. Your balance of academic abilities and work ethic is crucial.
If you can't produce the SAT or TOEFL scores required, schools won't grant you admission, regardless of whether you have a whole box of Olympic medals stuffed under your bed.
Second, if your grades slip, you lose your eligibility to compete for your team. Poor academic performance can also be enough for your coach to lower your athletic scholarship, if you have one, or even kick you off the team.
[Learn ways to improve scores on the TOEFL.]
3. Take available majors into consideration: Given the demands that you perform in the classroom, you should carefully take into account the offered majors at the colleges you are considering. This may sound like a self-evident thing to do, but to many young internationals chasing athletic excellence, academics often place very low on the list of priorities.
Being a student-athlete is extremely demanding and getting stuck in classes that exceed your academic capabilities or interests – or both – can very easily throw you off and eat into your precious nightly recovery time.
[Avoid the mistakes new international students make.]
4. Understand the geography: So you want to go to college in Florida or California? You are far from alone.
Make sure not to limit yourself to colleges in one given region or state. Many remotely located colleges have produced world-class student-athletes. Failing to realize this may severely impact your ability to land a sizeable athletic scholarship.
Anders Melin, from Sweden, is a former collegiate swimmer for Limestone College and the University of Missouri, where he earned an undergraduate degree in finance. He is now pursuing a master's degree in journalism at New York University.


text: Localization of a mobile robot is a very important issue for robot's navigation. However, localization method with conventional wheel odometry has limits in case the wheel faces slippery conditions. As an alternative way, visual odometry has been researched continuously. However, this method alone has also difficulty for robust localization because wrong depth measurement can frequently occur and the error is accumulated continuously. Even though localization can be improved by using particle filter, this method is dependent on the accuracy of the reference map. For improving these drawbacks, this research utilized variable uncertainty useful for denoting accuracy of motion model from video information. Consequently, localization in the environments represented by inaccurate maps was improved compared to the conventional method.


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Synthesis and Characterization of Hydroxyapatite/Fullerenol Nanocomposites
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Fullerenols are polyhydroxylated, water soluble derivatives of fullerene C60, with potential application in medicine as diagnostic agents, antioxidants or nano drug carriers. This paper describes synthesis and physical characterization of a new nanocomposite hydroxyapatite/fullerenol. Surface of the nanocomposite hydroxyapatite/fullerenol is inhomogeneous with the diameter of the particles in the range from 100 nm to 350 nm. The zeta potential of this nanocomposite is ten times lower when compared to hydroxyapatite. Surface phosphate groups of hydroxyapatite are prone to forming hydrogen bonds, when in close contact with hydroxyl groups, which could lead to formation of hydrogen bonds between hydroxyapatite and hydroxyl groups of fullerenol. The surface of hydroxyapatite particles (−2.5 mV) was modified by fullerenol particles, as confirmed by the obtained zeta potential value of the nanocomposite biomaterial hydroxyapatite/fullerenol (−25.0 mV).


Is there a way to determine an appropriate thermostat damping factor given a timestep size and a numerical integration method?
I am computing a set of simulations in LAMMPS, using ReaxFF, tracking the path of a single (~4 atom) gas molecule as it interacts with a (~600 atom) surface.
Two thermostats are imposed on the system, one for the surface, one for the molecule.
fix surfaceFix surface temp/csvr ${surfTemp} ${surfTemp} ${surfaceDampingFactor}
fix moleculeFix molecule temp/csvr ${molTemp} ${molTemp} ${moleculeDampingFactor}
Question: How do I empirically determine a damping factor for the thermostats of the surface and the molecule?
I know intuitively that the surface temperature should be more tightly regulated than the temperature of the molecule, since the molecule trajectory is a dependent variable in the experiment. Yet I don't have a way of determining the value of each damping factor.
For instance with the molecule, errors are introduced in the limit of both small and large damping factors:
 - In the case of weak thermostatting, the force calculations can diverge and we introduce an error due to the precision limits of numerical integration.
 - In the case of strong thermostatting, we introduce an error in the energy transferred between the molecule and the surface.
Both of these errors could cause the effect of "hopping": where the molecule is provided with a non-physical velocity that causes it to jump into or out of locations that would otherwise be impossible.
There must be a connection between the timestep size + integration method, and the damping factor needed to correct for the deviation in forces that these produce. Naturally the damping required would also depend on the mechanics of the thermostat, and its effect on different degrees of freedom, but an answer addressing any thermostat is of interest.
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 $\begingroup$ For a start, I'd strongly suggest not using Berendsen thermostats and barostats for production runs, because they don't sample rigourously from the Boltzmann distribution. I'd say it's best to use Langevin dynamics for that, and if you really need continuous/"deterministic" trajectories, then I'd use Nosé-Hoover chains instead. $\endgroup$ – Godzilla Sep 8 '20 at 23:22
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Thanks. I hadn't updated the question, but for the molecule, I have since planned to substitute the berendsen thermostat out for temp/csvr instead, after reading this _URL_.1063/_PHONE_. As I understand it, temp/csvr addresses canonical resampling, but should also provide deterministic trajectories since it won't change c.o.m motion in the molecule. I'll compare this against the Nosé-Hoover chain, and consider using a different thermostat for the surface. $\endgroup$ – geo Sep 9 '20 at 8:21
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ how are we doing with this question? Has the user provided sufficient information for the question to be answered by somebody? Geo: have you done the comparison against the Nosé-Hoover chain as you said in the last comment? I'd really like to get this question out of the unanswered queue if possible, since if that queue gets too big, no one will see the other unanswered questions. Are you aware of the LAMMPS chat room? chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/109805/lammps Enter and say "hello" at least once so that we remember you if anything useful for you comes up! $\endgroup$ – Nike Dattani Oct 18 '20 at 18:32
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Well I think this is one of those questions that we need a follow-up on, I am getting a déjà vu here :) $\endgroup$ – Godzilla Oct 20 '20 at 16:03
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 $\begingroup$ Related: mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/q/4245/5 $\endgroup$ – Nike Dattani Mar 10 at 16:36
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Convert a string to ASCII in c
Program to convert string into ASCII values in c programming language:
int main(){
 char str[100];
 int i=0;
 printf("Enter any string: ");
 printf("ASCII values of each characters of given string: ");
 printf("%d ",str[i++]);
 return 0;
Sample Output:
Enter any string:
ASCII values of each characters of given string: 99 113 117 101 115 116 105 111 110 98 97 110 107 46 98 108 111 103 115 112 111 116 46 99 111 109
3. Write a c program to delete the all consonants from given string.
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Write a program that takes a string as input and generates an encoded string as output. Each letter of the input string is encoded by a given rule. Numerical value (1 for A, 2 for B, 10 for J and so on) of the letters are used to define the rules for encoding. The rules for generating codes are as follows:
A – E
Add 3 in its numerical value.
U -- Z
Find the largest integer factor of its numerical value less than the value itself. Multiply it by 12.
For Z, numerical value is 26, largest integer factor of 26 is 13 so, (13*12) is 156 which wraps around all the alphabets 6 full times and ends on Z.
For B,Y, encoded value will be E, H.
this question is of encryption can anyone solve this?
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I'm a complete beginner but I wanted to share my try at this program.
for(int x; (x = getchar())!= EOF; printf("%d ", x));
I just thought this would be worth sharing since the program in the post seems pretty long for something so simple.
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Weird, it cut out certain parts... Here's a link then:
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please give a method to store the ascii value in another array as i have to use the ascii value further in program
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DO PARTNERS CARE ABOUT THEIR MUTUAL LOCATION? Spatial awareness in virtual environments.
This paper reports on four experimental studies concerning regard to how people use space so as to solve problems collaboratively in virtual environments. Prior to presenting the results, it summarizes the wide range of literature concerning social uses of spatiality in human interactions. The experiments we conducted revealed that virtual space modifies and improves collaborative processes such as division of labor, grounding, communication, coordination, as well as the performance to the task. It concludes by proposing Computer Supported Collaborative Work practitioners? ideas about how to use these results in order to design more effective and more adapted environments.


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Musicians Boycott North Carolina Over Bathroom Law
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
 - celebrity: a famous person
 - boycott: to refuse to attend, use, or buy as a form of protest
 - high-profile: well-known, powerful
 - controversial: causing a lot of debate
 - correspond: to match
 - LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
 - violate: to not respect a rule, law, or space
 - NBA: National Basketball Association (US)
Celebrities Boycott North Carolina Over Bathroom Law
Several high-profile, including Bruce Springsteen, Demi Lovato, and Pearl Jam have canceled concerts in North Carolina recently to protest the state's controversial new bathroom. The new state law (HB2) bans individuals from using public that do not correspond to their birth gender. Some companies and organizations, including PayPal and the NBA, have also taken to show support for the LGBT community. Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice filed a suit against the state, saying that the bill violates.
Comprehension Questions
 1. What did Bruce Springsteen recently do and why?
 2. Why does the report mention PayPal?
 3. What did the US Department of Justice do?
Discussion Questions: Do you agree with singer Elton John who called North Carolina's bathroom bill "discriminatory" and "dangerous"? Why or why not?
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GPS infrastructures that have been established in Malaysia are mainly served as a ground control stations for cadastral and mapping purposes. Another element that has not been utilised is the height component due to its low accuracy. Conventional levelling is still the preferred method by the land surveyors to determine the stations orthometric height (H) with a proven accuracy. Therefore, Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (DSMM) has embarked the Airborne Gravity Survey, with one of the objectives is to compute the local precise geoid for Malaysia within centimeter level of accuracy. With the availability of the precise geoid, the "missing" element of GPS system is solved.


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Sometimes it would be better to review changes based on the raw text instead of the formatted text.
Example: Someone puts some XML code into the text, which disappears in the resulting formatted text. Someone else proposes to format the XML as code. As a reviewer I can't see if the change only makes invisible text visible or if the author actually changed or added the text. I may go to the post and open it in the editor to see the original raw text - which is cumbersome.
So it would be nice to have a raw view for reviewers.
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While it may not be entirely clear (the icon isn't very suggestive, and the text isn't monospace like you get in the normal 'view source' or edit areas), the second button on the left shows the raw version of the edit.
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Wow, didn't know this. I should change the feature request to "make the feature more visible" :-) – Stefan Steinegger Feb 28 '11 at 12:01
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