Editor's note: This is a guest blog post by Margherita Berti, a doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona, and the creator of the open educational resource website Italian Open Education.
As the awareness about open educational resources, tools, and practices increases, instructors, researchers, and educational technologists are exploring innovative ways to promote language education. This is especially the case for Italian Open Education, a website that offers a collection of openly-licensed and free-to-use 360-degree virtual reality videos for Italian learners and teachers.
As a researcher and language educator, I chose to develop Italian Open Education to support the Open Education Movement and to supplement current foreign language textbooks with innovative and dynamic pedagogical materials. Today's technological advances have made virtual reality extremely accessible, allowing language learners to be immersed in three-dimensional and seemingly real environments generated by the use of special electronic equipment (e.g., smartphones, viewers, headsets, etc.).
To create such resources, I first recorded 360-degree videos in Italian locations that represent everyday environments which students might encounter, however not critically reflect on, in the language textbook. Some examples include a plaza, a street, a coffee shop, a restaurant, a mall, etc. (permission to record the videos was granted by owners of inside spaces). After the recordings took place, I uploaded the videos to YouTube and licensed them under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The Italian Open Education platform was then developed on WordPress, where all the 360-degree virtual reality videos are gathered and can be used freely.
The objective of this project is to offer new cutting-edge pedagogical resources which allow Italian language learners to be virtually placed in various Italian settings that might be inaccessible due to financial or geographical constraints. Since most students are not able to study abroad, the use of openly-licensed 360-degree virtual reality videos in the language classroom gives learners equal access to authentic environments representing the target country.
By sharing free-to-use, high-quality and innovative pedagogical materials with teachers and learners, I advocate for the Open Education Movement and aim to encourage administrators and language educators to implement new and dynamic open educational resources in their own language classrooms.
Margherita Berti is a doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona and holds a master's degree in Linguistics/Teaching English as a Second Language from Indiana State University. She teaches undergraduate Italian courses and has over three years of experience in language teaching at the university level in Italian, Spanish and ESL. Her research specialization resides at the intersection of intercultural competence, educational technology, and curriculum and L2 content development..
When we talk about the importance of open content, there are a few clear advantages that are consistently mentioned including access, cost, and the ability to remix. Often neglected from the discussion is the data created and collected by learners when using online resources. Much in the same way Facebook, Google and Amazon have created business models by providing online resources and then monetizing the data, we should be aware the same model exists in education as well.
This isn't to say that all open content creators are ignorant of the importance of their data. EdX has made the improvement of online education a central part of their mission. However, we should all take this a step further. First we should very publicly guarantee the privacy of all data created by learners using our projects. Anonymized data will only be given to researchers in accordance with their institution's research review process and will not be sold under any circumstance. Second, we should be open about the data we are collecting and encourage researchers in the field to make use of our datasets.
Compared to many other open education resources, The Mixxer is rather small with between 30 and 40,000 active users per month. However, as a social networking site, I do collect significant data on each user to help them find potential language partners, including their native language(s), language(s) they are studying, and optionally their age and country of residence. Connected to this data is site activity including frequency of visits to the site, number of friend requests, and any writing each user has submitted along with corrections they have received or provided. This data can also be used to send targeted surveys to ask users about their language learning. To get a better idea of the type of data that can be collected, see my paper on FLTMag.
I should also mention the kind of data that I cannot or will not provide. For most users, the exchanges themselves happen separately from site via Skype. While they can message each other on the site, I am not willing to provide the texts of these messages for privacy reasons, and they would not provide examples of negotiation of meaning seen in many research studies. I also do not have any reliable information on the level of proficiency of users in their target language. Potential surveys could ask about level of proficiency, but researchers would either need to rely on self-assessment of users or provide a means of assessment.
Anyone interested in potentially using datasets from the Mixxer website or with questions about using the site as part of the course, please feel free to contact me. I can be reached on Twitter @bryantt.
Todd Bryant is the liaison to the foreign language departments for the Academic Technology group at Dickinson College and an adjunct instructor of German. Todd created The Mixxer to help connect language students with native speakers. His interests include the immersive effect of games in service of foreign language learning, such as the use of World of Warcraft to teach German.
Here at COERLL we value the use of technology in the language classroom. As open educators, we believe that educational materials and tools should be open. By "open", we mean: easy to access, customizable, affordable for teachers and students, and created for the greater good of a community of educators. Unfortunately, educational technology and openness do not always go hand in hand.
Openness involves tinkering and experimentation, but technology tools can be rigid in their functionality. Open educators share freely with peers, but technology tools often carry a copyright and may only be available to schools who can afford them. Ideally the flexibility of openness allows for more innovation, but some technology tools perpetuate outdated teaching methods, albeit in a more fancy and upgraded package.
However, we do not like to advocate for or against specific tech tools, preferring to focus on general best practices for using technology to teach language. One of these best practices is researching technology tools before using them to ensure that the tool and its creator align with your pedagogical approach and teaching philosophy.
Who owns the tool? What is the name of the company, the CEO? What are their politics? What does the tool say it does? What does it actually do?
What data are we required to provide in order to use the tool (login, e-mail, birthdate, etc.)? What flexibility do we have to be anonymous, or to protect our data? Where is data housed; who owns the data? What are the implications for in-class use? Will others be able to use/copy/own our work there?
How does this tool act or not act as a mediator for our pedagogies? Does the tool attempt to dictate our pedagogies? How is its design pedagogical? Or exactly not pedagogical? Does the tool offer a way that "learning can most deeply and intimately begin"?
How accessible is the tool? For a blind student? For a hearing-impaired student? For a student with a learning disability? For introverts? For extroverts? Etc. What statements does the company make about accessibility?
Next time you are considering a new tool, try weighing the pedagogical benefits with the above questions. The final choice lies with you, the teacher and ultimate expert.
The above list of questions is excerpted from the article "A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the case against Turnitin", written by Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel, reviewed by Kris Shaffer and Robin Wharton, and published on Hybrid Pedagogy's Digital Pedagogy Lab website under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
COERLL recently made the social reading tool eComma available for users of Learning Management Systems (LMS). In eComma, a group of students can annotate the same text together and share their annotations with each other in the form of comments, tags, and word clouds. Students' natural capacity for socializing online is put to good use with social reading, as they learn from each other, uncover the multiple layers of meaning in a text, and reflect deeply on their reading. But how does a teacher set this process of learning and reflection in motion?
Show how tenses convey meaning: Ask students to label verb tenses to bring their attention to the differences in how the tenses are used.
These are only just a few ways of using eComma, and any of them could be done asynchronously as homework, or synchronously in the classroom, where students can see each other's comments popping up in real time.
We hope you will find a way of using eComma that works best for you and your language class! If you do, we'd love to hear about it in the comments below… your ideas could be valuable for other teachers.
Instructions for installing eComma as an LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) app in your LMS and adding it to an assignment or course content.
From the editor: We recently heard from Bret Chernoff, an independent learner who has been using various Portuguese learning products on COERLL's Brazilpod portal. Bret shows how a flexible language learner can use open educational resources (OER) to fit their needs and their abilities. How a learner or a teacher uses educational materials is just as important as the materials themselves! Here's what Bret shared with us.
Before Portuguese I had the classic "high school Spanish" experience, which taught grammar and test-taking well. I had two University of Washington (UW) quarters of Spanish and then began 8 years of Korean, beginning at the UW and then in South Korea. I am a C1 in Korean and a low A2 in Spanish.
I started Portuguese in April 2014 with popular language programs such as Michel Thomas, Living Language and Assimil. My experience with Spanish facilitated the initial learning of grammar, and a very close Brazilian friend of mine helped with actualizing the grammar in conversations.
In June I found Brazilpod – what a discovery! I jumped right into Tá Falado and beamed in on the pronunciation rules, first within the entire episode, and then isolating the dialogues and shadowing (more on shadowing) them in my car during my commute and on walks around my neighborhood, consciously focusing on the pronunciation highlighted in the episode. I then did the same with the Tá Falado grammar series.
I achieved a Gestalt effect through this method, understanding the flow of the conversation without knowing every phrase or word by heart. By internalizing the melody and rhythm of how Brazilians speak I was able to have more spontaneous interactions with Brazilians I met in my daily life, because I was not thrown off by their cadence and intonation. This is a strong advantage of Brazilpod's material – it is not hermetically sealed in a studio recording, but breathes with authenticity. I was also able to make inferences of meaning in conversations I would have without knowing all the words.
Soon after, Língua da gente became my go-to listening practice during my commute. The commentary on the grammar alone demands multiple listens, and the dialogues are good slices of real Portuguese. I shadowed these as well during my commute and while walking around my neighborhood. I created a playlist of all the dialogues from the elementary and intermediate episodes and shadowed them routinely until I started to memorize them. By doing this I was able to imitate more accurately intonation and pronunciation, and words started to truly sink in.
Nowadays I use ClicaBrasil to great effect, especially in tandem with a native speaker. Brazilpod has such a wealth of material and should be a true cornerstone of Portuguese self-study. That being said, study material can only take one so far, and the true magic of good study material shows itself with a native speaker. Friends like Cassio, Rodrigo, Vitor, Sanchaine, Junha, Pedro, Emmanuel, and my lifelong friend Alessandra, they brought to life the Portuguese language in my life. I can't thank them enough for that. And I guess I can extend the same gratitude to Orlando, Vivian, and everyone at UT Austin for making high quality open-source material ripe for studying. Obrigadão!
Bret Chernoff is an avid language learner and music artist. He is one of the principal songwriters in the Seattle band Colorworks.
Some years ago, we found that our French majors here at NYU were not writing at the level we had hoped for. This led us to reexamine how we incorporated writing throughout our program.
We decided to try Gammes d'écritures (CNDP fr), a French writing software program. Our students made amazing progress, and they truly enjoyed working with the software that allowed them to progress at their own rhythm. However, the texts and interface of this program were outdated. We felt its method of instruction could be modernized into a more comprehensive tutorial format.
We also felt strongly that our program should be an open resource, not only because our language teachers had been benefiting from open resources for years and this was a way to "give back," but also because we knew that our program could provide a model to our university (and others) of how open resource language programs can be inventive and engaging.
At a time when numerous colleges and universities understand open education as merely the process of having lectures videotaped and delivered on line, we envisioned a course that fosters and channels analytical and independent thinking.
This is how Papiers-Mâchés was born.
Although Papiers-Mâchés uses simple tools, its consistent method of detailed annotations and suggestions is efficient for systematizing and extending the work conducted in the classroom. It provides personalized interactive instruction that challenges and encourages students at each step of the writing process – from questions of vocabulary choice and grammatical structure to elements of organization – until they are satisfied by their own response.
We also seized another opportunity: having students collaborating with the material. All through the experimental phase of the program, numerous students of the advanced module offered their best work either as models to accompany certain activities, or as examples now displayed in the third section of the program. Similar to the "knowledge ecosystem" Jonathan Perkins envisions in the context of graduate studies (see Why Foreign Language Grad Programs Should Care About OER), this collaborative element is a fundamental feature of Papiers-Mâchés that allows students to take an active role in creating and perpetuating an online learning community.
We are thrilled to join the OER community with Papiers-Mâchés. We hope that our program will prove to be an exciting addition to upper-intermediate and advanced level French courses. Since it lends itself for both in-class use and individualized homework, teachers will find a variety of ways to incorporate it into their lessons.
Sign up online and try it with your students, adapt it for your classroom, envision it for another language and send us your suggestions so we can continue to make it a better program that serves the needs of the OER community. Today more than ever, facilitating the acquisition of languages other than English will help diversify the linguistic landscape of online education, open the horizon to a greater variety of resources and thus reduce the danger of the imposition of one global language and culture.
Aline Baehler, Senior Language Lecturer, Department of French, NYU. Major Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; second-language acquisition; computer-assisted language learning. Co-creator of Papiers-Mâchés.
John Moran, Clinical Associate Professor of French; Director of Undergraduate Studies & Director of Language Programs, Department of French, NYU. Major Interests: Foreign language methodology and pedagogy; historical linguistics; Old French language and literature; phonetics. Co-creator of Papiers-Mâchés.
Check out Todd's presentation at the New Media Consortium (NMC) summer conference.
You'll see that Todd has utilized a variety of open online language learning materials, including some of COERLL's Spanish and German materials, to create a whole new open resource. This is what remixing and reusing is all about: fueling innovation and ideas to keep creating new learning resources for the public.


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Tag: now i'm reeeeaallly mad
You don't have to look far these days to find plenty of examples of Karens and Kens throwing their weight around in public. I've even seen them out in the wild, usually after someone confronts them about the lack of a mask in a store where it's required. There is generally some shouting, maybe some throwing of things and then a dramatic-but-hasty departure. Witnesses shake their heads and wonder how it came to this.
I've found myself thinking about how to handle a confrontation over our new normal, especially since a maskless jerk who seemed to think he was funny crowded my mom in the grocery store.
And now I know.
Just a little while ago, I was checking out at the little Giant Eagle store in our neighborhood. The woman running the register is one of my favorite people there, always chatty and friendly while customers unload their carts. I held out my phone so she could scan my loyalty card barcode and then stepped back to the end of the belt to pay with my card.
And there's a guy standing there. Already unloading his stuff. Standing right in front of the card reader. I said, "Sir, could you please back up? I'll pay real quick and be out of your way."
He stepped to the back of the belt, but went no further.
"Sir, could you please back up to the sign on the floor so I can pay?"
He says he doesn't need to back up any further.
I now notice he's not wearing his mask; he's just holding it up over his mouth. And, because my brain works like it does, I also notice that he looks an awful lot like the late pro wrestling manager Bobby Heenan, but with a cut-off t-shirt instead of the satin jacket.
With the exception of the clothes, this is REALLY close.
I am no longer being polite. Or quiet. "Back up. And put on your mask."
The woman checking me out is now no longer behind the register; she's standing next to the guy, asking him to move back. At this point she's the reasonable one, saying if he could just back up for a minute, she'd get him checked out right away.
He says, to her and to me, that he doesn't have to back up. There is now a lot of shouting. He pretends to swing at me once, after I asked him what was so fucking hard about this whole thing. He is red in the face (I probably was too) and telling me he's going to break my jaw.
I made one mistake. I tossed his gallon jug of iced tea back in his cart. It came open, and poured out on the floor. He sensed that this was an opening, because he immediately started to shout about me assaulting him. "He ripped off my mask! He shoved me! Did you see it? Someone call the cops!"
A couple employees show up with mops, and they move his cart back — way back — and begin to clean up the iced tea. Another employee said the police were on their way. He stepped up to me one last time. "You're going to jail, asshole. I guarantee it."
I laughed. "You know the cops are going to ask other people what happened, right? Lying to a cop is a really bad idea."
We're now separated. I paid and moved my cart over to the service desk. The woman who checked me out — she is also the front of house manager — says to me, quietly, "Don't worry, sweetie — I'll tell the police exactly what happened." And I apologized to her, repeatedly, for the scene and for spilling the dude's iced tea on the floor.
He practically sprinted out of the store, still making cartoonish gestures at me, when the police arrived. I thanked the manager one more time for her support and understanding and stepped outside, away from Mr. Heenan. I told one officer what happened while the other officer spoke to the guy. When the second officer came over to me, I learned that the story had apparently changed back to something close to reality — no mentions of assault or vicious mask removal. The second cop made sure I wasn't parked near my friend. Then smiled, shook his head and said to have a nice night.
But I haven't had a nice night. It's nearly two hours later, and the adrenaline is still pumping. I still feel guilty about causing a problem for the people who work in the store — they shouldn't have to be the ones to deal with shit like this. I've gone over — and over and over — the confrontation in my head, and I don't think I'd do anything differently — except for the iced tea thing — if this happens again.
Or, maybe, when it happens again.
That's the thing I don't get. Why did this happen? Did the guy come in the store thinking he was going to pick a fight with someone? Was he just having a bad day? And even if the latter is the case, what is so hard about being respectful? Or even just tolerant? I mean, I was literally 60 seconds away from walking my cart out to the car. I wouldn't think twice about taking a step back to let someone finish up their purchase. I go back to the question in the first paragraph: How did we get here?
And more importantly: Can we please go back?
6. not yet.
I look a little bit demented in this picture, but the happiness on my face is genuine.
Unfortunately, it didn't last.
I took that selfie outside of one of the two shops that worked for more than two weeks to restore my Element to its former glory. It had been pronounced fixed earlier on Friday; I left work a bit early, drove out to the 'burbs to drop off the Charger and pick up my car.
And, man, I was happy to see it.
But there wasn't much time to stand around and admire my 10-year-old, 245,000-miles-on-it Element; I was on the way to Columbus to help out with tomorrow's Minnesota tailgate party. I needed to get some gas and get myself on the Parkway West.
Once on the highway, it still took a while before I noticed anything; as any good yinzer knows, rush-hour traffic in Robinson tends to not rush anywhere. But once I got on I-79, it was easy to tell: the Element wasn't fixed. The moment I accelerated, the check engine light came on and the engine hesitated sharply. It struggled to get up hills. And by the time I got to the Washington County line, I knew I couldn't stick it out all the way to Columbus; I had to turn around and head back home.
And. I. Was. Furious.
There were issues all week with something to do with emissions; the check engine light apparently was persistent all week long. But: It eventually passed its annual emissions inspection and the folks at the body shop said they fixed one final problem emissions problem this morning.
I wonder if anyone at either professional automobile service business bothered to take the car out on the highway. I'm guessing they didn't.
Mrs. Crappy has work stuff to catch up with and I can't leave her without a car for the weekend. So, instead of being in Columbus, helping my folks with the tailgate party and seeing the season's penultimate home game, we're stuck in Pittsburgh. And I am frustrated beyond words.
johnny (part two).
All I really wanted to do on Sunday was cut the grass and haul the summer furniture out of the garage, clean it up and spend the rest of the afternoon lounging on the front porch.
As we discussed yesterday, those plans were changed. I took a day off today to get all those things done; I was hoping to finish the toilet installation today and get some outside work finished in time to grill a pork loin and spend the evening outside.
Instead, the bathroom is in pretty much the same state it was when I started working on it this morning. I still have no idea about my toilet installation skills, because I'm still nowhere near being able to install the toilet, thanks to something in the subfloor that has left me unable to anchor a new flange.
And I am out patience and, because I have to work tomorrow, out of time as well.
I don't have a problem with paying professionals to do these kinds of things. I just wish I hadn't wasted two full days before figuring out that I'd need to do that now.
13. disappointing.
People who aren't who you thought.
Those who don't do the simple things they should.
Not living up to my own expectations.
Feeling isolated.
These aren't new lessons. But they seem to have come up all at once this week.
unforgivable.
Although we have three televisions in the newsroom, I wasn't watching any of them at 10 a.m. on June 28.
We knew the Supreme Court was set to announce its ruling on President Obama's health care law around 10, and I was reading through the rapid posts at the SCOTUSBlog and refreshing the Associated Press feeds so I could be ready to post the first write-through AP moved.
It took AP just a couple minutes to move its first few paragraphs after Chief Justice Roberts announced the 5-4 ruling; I grabbed the story and a couple pictures, posted them on the paper's site, and then took a look at Twitter to see what the reaction was.
I found some discussion about the opinion, sure, but most of the talk was about how CNN had butchered the announcement. The network had jumped on Roberts' first few words — which said the individual mandate didn't meet the tests necessary to be constitutional under the commerce clause — and reported that the individual mandate had been ruled unconstitutional.
A few paragraphs later, though, Roberts' opinion states that the mandate is, in fact constitutional, but CNN was in enough of a hurry that its on-air folks apparently couldn't wait to get it right.
Hooboy. I checked CNN's site and found the above (the green highlights are mine). CNN continued to bury themselves for minutes, even going as far as letting Wolf Blitzer start consulting with the network's mind-numbing array of talking heads about the impact of the devastating political loss for Obama.
And if that wasn't bad enough, I found out later that CNN's chief rival, Fox News, hadn't fared any better. I didn't see the broadcast, but the screen cap above pretty clearly illustrates that the Fair and Balanced team screwed it up as well.
By themselves, the errors were bad enough. But one of those networks made their mistake infinitely worse later in the day. CNN — which apparently hung with the erroneous report longer than Fox did — issued a correction and an unattributed apology:
CNN regrets that it didn't wait to report out the full and complete opinion regarding the mandate. We made a correction within a few minutes and apologize for the error.
Fox, as it does, took a different tack in addressing its error. Michael Clemente, the network's executive vice president of news, issued this statement:
We gave our viewers the news as it happened. When Justice Roberts said, and we read, that the mandate was not valid under the commerce clause, we reported it. Then when we heard and read that the mandate could be upheld under the government's power to tax, we reported that as well.
That noise you just heard was my head exploding. But we'll get to that in a second.
First, let's talk about the mistakes themselves. I've never worked at an organization anywhere near the size of CNN or Fox News, but the basic principles of journalism are the same whether we're talking about a television news network or a medium-sized newspaper: Be right. And if you can, be first.
Note the order there. If you're in such a hurry that you screw up the facts, it doesn't matter how quickly you got it on the air or on the site. You're wrong. Period.
Working with the paper's website has made me more aware of the importance of timing, but it's also made more aware of the caution necessary when we're rushing. If I can confirm that there's been an accident and that the coroner has been called to the scene, it's safe for me to report THOSE TWO THINGS ONLY. It's a pretty good assumption that someone is dead, but it's still an assumption; I'm not writing that someone is dead until somebody — a cop, the coroner, one of our photographers — tells me there's a body or until I see it myself.
After hearing Roberts say the mandate wasn't valid under the commerce clause, CNN and Fox both made assumptions as well and those assumptions bit them both. If the reporters in Washington had continued listening rather than making those assumptions, I wouldn't be writing this post.
The next thing has to do with a pretty basic tenet of journalism ethics. When you make a factual error, you correct it, and when you make a correction, you do it in a way that is transparent. CNN, to its credit, not only corrected its error but recognized that it was significant enough that it also issued an apology. It's still irritating to me that the network made such an egregious — and avoidable — error in the first place, but once it happened, fixing it and moving on is really the only public course to take (I assume there are things going on behind the scenes to ensure something that stupid will never happen again). CNN swallowed hard and did what it had to do. Good.
Mr. Clemente, on the other hand, comes off looking like a kid whose hand was caught in the cookie jar and then denied it was ever there. Let's repeat that basic tenet of journalism ethics: When you make a factual error, you correct it.
Fox didn't do that. In his statement Clemente said his network reported the facts as they happened. Take one more look at the headline in the above screencap. At no point did anyone connected with the court say the legislation had been ruled unconstitutional, and that makes the headline wrong. Period. If the headline had read that the individual mandate was invalid under the commerce clause, it would have been accurate, maybe — MAYBE — Clemente's stunningly arrogant statement would have been appropriate.
It didn't. And when the executive vice president of Fox News had an opportunity to simply, quietly correct the error his network made and move on, he failed. Badly.
You guys are more than capable of drawing your own conclusions about the ideologies and motivations that drive our cable news networks; that's not the point of this post. But on a day when the two biggest cable networks each made what had to be one of the biggest errors in their histories, only one of them handled the mistake as a serious news organization would.
The other? If I needed a reason to write it off, what it did on June 28 would be it.
What I want to do next Sunday: Run the Pittsburgh Half Marathon.
What I will do instead: Not run the Pittsburgh Half Marathon.
What I'm doing is otherwise known as the Smart Option, but it's definitely not the one I wanted to choose. After I completed my first 5K in December — and screwed around for about a month instead of running regularly — I knew I needed a reason to train. And by January, I knew that reason would be the half.
I was making great progress, and having a blast on a months' worth of Saturday long runs with friends in North Park. But somewhere along the way, I pulled a muscle in my groin — and I didn't really do anything about it. I went ahead and ran 8.5 miles a few Saturdays ago, and even though I complained about my nipples more, the groin hurt like a bitch afterwards; I also went ahead with a 10K in Florida, and my groin was not pleased with that either.
I've tried a few times since, hoping that some rest as I ticked off the days until the half would help.
It didn't. The pain flared a few steps in each time, enough that it was a struggle to finish a mile. I even stopped recording the attempts on Daily Mile, because I didn't want to turn my timeline into an endless stream of grumping, especially when most of my friends there will be running on Sunday.
I've thought about trying anyway, walking and jogging and somehow struggling through 13.1 miles. I could probably make it, but I'm not sure where that would leave me for the rest of the summer. There are other races, and other half marathons out there, and I don't want to chance missing out on those because I'm nursing a six-month-old groin pull.
So I'm going with the Smart Option, a name I chose in hopes of making myself feel better about not running on Sunday. I'm going to sit out for a while, maybe with an eye on walking with the March of Dimes thing in late May before I start jogging again. If that goes well, I will ease back in. I think using a Couch to 10K app would be a good way to make sure I'm ready for the Great Race in September and whatever else comes along.
I am not happy about this. I've come to really enjoy running, and for me, its benefits are too numerous to list. I'm not going to stop, and I will run a half before 2012 is over. But this is discouraging. Depressing. Frustrating. I so wanted to do this, and do it now, this May, and here, in my the city that is solidly my home.
But I will do it, maybe on the Montour Trail, maybe in Columbus. That's still the goal, and I will reach it this year.
If you're running on Sunday, I hope you have a great morning on the streets of our city. I might wander over to the start, to get a feel for everything and to see as many of you as I can before you begin.
I'll see you other places in a few weeks too. North Park. North Shore Trail. In Brighton Heights or Bellevue. I promise.

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Het Kanaal Nieuwpoort-Duinkerke of Veurnevaart is een kanaal dat een verbinding vormt tussen de Belgische kuststad Nieuwpoort en de Franse havenstad Duinkerke. Het kanaal Nieuwpoort-Duinkerke vormt een verlengde van het Kanaal Plassendale-Nieuwpoort, en loopt vrijwel parallel verder aan de kustlijn, op een twee- tot viertal kilometer van de zee.

 Het kanaal begint in Nieuwpoort aan het Veurnesas of Veurnesluis, een onderdeel van de zogenaamde Ganzepoot aan de IJzer, waar het verbinding maakt met de IJzer, de Noordzee en het Kanaal Plassendale-Nieuwpoort.

Het kanaal loopt van Nieuwpoort oostwaarts, voorbij de Koksijdse deelgemeente Wulpen. Daarna buigt het kanaal even af naar het binnenland, naar de stad Veurne, waar het aansluit op de Lovaart. Het kanaal loopt om Veurne, en buigt daarna weer dichter naar de kustlijn toe, langs Adinkerke. Na bijna 19 kilometer op Belgisch grondgebied stroomt het kanaal verder in Frankrijk, langs Bray-Dunes en Zuidkote. In Duinkerke is er opnieuw verbinding met de Noordzee en eindigt het kanaal in aansluitingen met de kanalen Broekburgvaart en Havendijk.

Het kanaal Plassendale-Nieuwpoort-Veurne-Duinkerke werd omstreeks 1630 aangelegd; het sluit aan bij de in dezelfde tijd aangelegde kanalen Gent-Brugge (1613) en Brugge-Oostende (1618).

Geografie van het Noorderdepartement
Nieuwpoort
Nieuwpoort

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You're invited to the KIT List "Friend-working" mixer this Wednesday 10/19!
Hey, summer's not over yet!
The weather is still warm, so come meet friends on the KIT List and use the power of friendship to help each other find great jobs! We had a huge turnout last year, so it's time to do it again!
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Q: How to put a pipe as input for valgrind? I would like to check my program memory using almost automated tools (I'm not good at gdb yet), and so I ended up using valgrind.
However, I would like to put a pipe as the input of valgrind; i.e. I would like to put the following:
 >cat file.h | ./prog

I tried to make a
 >valgrind `cat file.h | ./prog`

without success.
I also tried to make a script file where I put the whole command, and then pass it to valgrind, with no more success.

A: As mentioned in the comments, you should be able to use either of:
cat file.h | valgrind ./prog
valgrind ./prog < file.h

The first one uses a pipe as you specifically requested and could just as easily be the output of any program e.g.
ls -al | valgrind ./prog
ps -axuwww | valgrind ./prog

The latter one is more efficient if you're just trying to grab the contents of a file.
The backtick method you tried is not for what you are doing here. It's for situations where you want the output of one command to be the arguments for another (e.g. ls -al cat namelist to do a long detailed listing of all files named in in a file called nameless).

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Q: Cannot get the current directory in .vbs file I write a Visual Basic Script to execute an Excel Macro. I want to set the location of .xlsm file dynamically. I use FileSystemObject to get the current directory. It returns C:\Windows\System32 but I need the directory where the .vbs file is located.
I tried to get the current directory with FileSystemObject and WScript without success.
' Create a FileSystemObject to get the current directory
Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strPath = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".")
myExcelWorker.DefaultFilePath = strPath

' Open the Workbook specified on the command-line
Dim oWorkBook
Dim strWorkerWB
strWorkerWB = strPath & "\Data center Wattsight long term.xlsm"

Set oWorkBook = myExcelWorker.Workbooks.Open(strWorkerWB)

The expected behaviour is to open the Excel file. But I get an error:

A: You're confusing the current working directory with the location of your script. The two are not identical.
Either of these will give you the current working directory:
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").CurrentDirectory

CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetAbsolutePathName(".")

This will give you the location of the script:
CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)


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Things to Do in San German
104 miles (167km) SW of San Juan, 34 miles (55km) W of Ponce
Only an hour's drive from Ponce and right near the beaches of the southwest coast, and just over 2 hours from San Juan, San Germán, Puerto Rico's second-oldest town, is a little museum piece. It was founded in 1512 and destroyed by the French in 1528. Rebuilt in 1570, it was named after Germain de Foix, the second wife of King Ferdinand of Spain. Once the rival of San Juan, San Germán harbored many pirates who pillaged the ships that sailed off the nearby coastline. Indeed, many of today's residents are descended from the smugglers, poets, priests, and politicians who once lived here.
The pirates and sugar plantations are long gone, but the city retains colorful reminders of its Spanish colonial past. Flowers brighten some of the patios here as they do in Seville. Also, as in a small Spanish town, many of the inhabitants stroll through the historic zone in the early evening. Nicknamed Ciudad de las Lomas (City of the Hills), San Germán boasts verdant scenery that provides a pleasant backdrop to a variety of architectural styles -- Spanish colonial (1850s), criolla (1880s), neoclassical (1910s), Art Deco (1930s), and international (1960s) -- depicted in the gracious old-world buildings lining the streets. So significant are these buildings that San Germán is included in the National Register of Historic Places.
The city's 249 historical treasures are within easy walking distance of one another. Regrettably, you must view most of them from the outside. If some of them are actually open, count yourself fortunate, as they have no phones, keep no regular hours, and are staffed by volunteers who rarely show up. Also, be aware that the signage for the historic buildings can be confusing, and many of the streets in the old town tend to run one-way. Most of the city's architectural treasures lie uphill from the congested main thoroughfare (Calle Luna). We usually try to park on the town's main street (Carretera 102, which changes its name within the borders of San Germán to Calle Luna), and then proceed on foot through the city's commercial core before reaching the architectural highlights described below.
One of the most noteworthy churches in Puerto Rico is Iglesia Porta Coeli (Gate of Heaven) (tel. 787/892-0160), which sits atop a knoll at the eastern end of a cobble-covered square, the Parque de Santo Domingo. Dating from 1606 and built in a style inspired by the Romanesque architecture of northern Spain, this is the oldest church in the New World. Restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, and sheathed in a layer of salmon-colored stucco, it contains a museum of religious art with a collection of ancient santos, the carved figures of saints that have long been a major part of Puerto Rican folk art. Look for the 17th-century portrait of St. Nicholas de Bari, the French Santa Claus. Inside, the original palm-wood ceiling and tough ausobo-wood beams draw the eye upward. Other treasures include early choral books from Santo Domingo, a primitive carving of Jesus, and 19th-century Señora de la Monserrate Black Madonna and Child statues. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and children over 12, free for children12 and under. The church is open Wednesday through Sunday from 8:30am to noon and 1 to 4:30pm.
Less than 100 feet (30m) downhill from Iglesia Porta Coeli, at the bottom of the steps that lead from its front door down to the plaza below, is the Casa Morales (also known as the Tomás Vivoni House, after its architect), San Germán's most photographed and widely recognized house. Designed in the Edwardian style, with wraparound porches, elaborate gables, and elements that might remind you of a Swiss chalet, it was built in 1913, reflecting the region's turn-of-the-20th-century agrarian prosperity. (Note that it is a private residence and can be admired only from the outside.)
The long and narrow, gently sloping plaza that fronts Iglesia Porta Coeli is the Parque de Santo Domingo, one of San Germán's two main plazas. Street signs also identify the plaza as the Calle Ruiz Belvis. Originally a marketplace, the plaza is paved with red and black cobblestones. It is bordered with cast-iron benches and portrait busts of prominent figures in the town's history. This plaza merges gracefully with a second plaza, which street signs and maps identify as the Plaza Francisco Mariano Quiñones, the Calle José Julian Acosta, and the Plaza Principal. Separating the two plazas is the unused (and closed to the public) Viejo Alcaldía (Old Town Hall). Built late in the 19th century, it's awaiting a new vision, perhaps as a museum or public building.
San Germán's most impressive church -- and the most monumental building in the region -- is San Germán de Auxerre (tel. 787/892-1027), which rises majestically above the western end of the Plaza Francisco Mariano Quiñones. Designed in the Spanish baroque style, it was built in 1573 in the form of a simple chapel with a low-slung thatch roof. Its present grandeur is the result of at least five subsequent enlargements and renovations. Much of what you see today is the result of a rebuilding in 1688 and a restoration in 1737 that followed a disastrous earthquake. Inside are three naves, 10 altars, three chapels, and a belfry that was rebuilt in 1939, following an earthquake in 1918. The central chandelier, made from rock crystal and imported from Barcelona in 1866, is the largest in the Caribbean. The pride of the church is the trompe l'oeil ceiling, which was elaborately restored in 1993. A series of stained-glass windows with contemporary designs was inserted during a 1999 restoration. The church can be visited daily from 8 to 11am and 1 to 3pm.
A few lesser sights are located near the town's two main squares. Farmacia Martin, a modern pharmacy, is incongruously set within the shell of a graceful but battered Art Deco building at the edge of the Parque Santo Domingo (Calle Ruiz Belvis 22; tel. 787/892-1122). A cluster of battered and dilapidated clapboard-sided houses line the southern side of the Calle Dr. Ueve, which rambles downhill from its origin at the base of the Iglesia Porta Coeli. The most important house is no. 66, the Casa Acosta y Fores. Also noteworthy is Casa Juán Perichi, a substantial-looking structure at the corner of Calle Dr. Ueve and Parque Santo Domingo, nearly adjacent to the Iglesia Porta Coeli. Both houses were built around 1917, of traditional wood construction, and are viewed as fine examples of Puerto Rican adaptations of Victorian architecture. Regrettably, both are seriously dilapidated, although that might change as San Germán continues the slow course of its historic renovations.
To the side of the Auxerre church is the modern, cement-sided Public Library, Calle José Julia Acosta, where you might be tempted to duck into the air-conditioned interior for a glance through the stacks and periodical collection. It's open Monday through Thursday from 8am to 8:30pm, Friday from 8am to 6pm, and Saturday from 8am to 1pm and 2 to 4:30pm. Behind the Auxerre church is at least one masonry-fronted town house whose design might remind you of southern Spain (Andalusia), especially when the flowers in the window boxes add splashes of color.


Ahead of May's General Election, Flatsharing site Weroom (weroom.co.uk) has released research showing a growing demand for regulation of the UK rental market from voters as renting increasingly becomes the norm. With over 4.5 million renters now in the UK, 55 per cent of 1000 respondents polled by One Poll claimed they would be happy to give up on the dream of home ownership and never buy a property if renting offered secure tenancies and controlled rents that were affordable within their salary bracket.
When asked which of the political parties was best placed to satisfy the needs of 'Generation rent', the research puts Labour policies firmly in the minds of voters, yet the party is still failing to connect, getting little recognition for its policies.
Two of Labour's proposals to solve the UK's housing crisis ranked in the top three policies most people want to see introduced in the UK housing market. Over a third (37 per cent) of respondents would like to see letting agents' fees abolished. Meanwhile, 30 per cent of renters said they would like to see more control over rents with predictable rents set and reviewed on an annual basis.
Despite having the most desired renting policies in the coming election however, Ed Milliband is struggling to make waves with the electorate, with only 19 per cent of people believe the Labour Party is the most dedicated to improving conditions for renters.
The third most popular renting policy came from the Conservatives, with 1 in 4 (25 per cent) wanting the elected party to create 100,000 discounted new homes for first-time buyers.
Proving that the Conservatives might have secured support from young property seekers in the UK, 45 per cent of 18-24 year olds revealed the erection of discounted homes was their top priority when it came to renting policies.
However, the poll revealed that all respondents between the 35-55+ category ranked the Labour party policies on housing as the top three measures they would like to see introduced following the election.
An even lower 7 per cent of respondents think the Conservatives would be the best in improving circumstances through their policy-making.
When looking for a long term solution to promote fairer stability, half of the respondents (50 per cent) said they would like to see the introduction of a dedicated renting minister.
"As the General Election comes into view and the top political parties attempt to win over the nation, the growing population that makes up 'Generation Rent' is wondering – who is going to help make renting more affordable? And it's a fantastic question to ask as Britain becomes less a nation obsessed with purchasing properties, but instead, one that looks to flatsharing as a more long term alternative.
"While the majority of respondents seem to be in support of the Labour Party when it comes to policies within the property sector, those that are affected by the extortionate rental charges rife within the UK are calling out for the party in power to produce a dedicated renting minister.
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Joe Biden is officially the president-elect.
I feel like we knew this…
Au contraire. Yesterday, all 538 of the US's electors gathered in their states to cement last month's election results. 306 cast their votes for Biden and 232 voted for President Trump. While the move is usually a formality, all eyes were on the Electoral College vote this year. Especially as the Trump campaign and other Republicans worked on a last-ditch effort to overturn its results.
Remind me. How exactly does the Electoral College work?
First, all 50 states and DC have to certify their votes and name their electors. Each state gets as many electors as it has members of Congress (plus three for DC). They're typically nominated by political parties in each state before the general election, and can be pretty much anyone, including local elected officials to celebrities. Some names you might recognize this year: Hillary Clinton in NY and Stacey Abrams in GA. The electors convene at their state capitals (and some chose undisclosed locations for safety) to review the election results and sign, seal, and deliver their formal votes.
And then it's done?
Not quite. The votes go to Congress, where they will be counted on Jan 6. VP Mike Pence announces the results. In all states except Maine and Nebraska, electors are expected to vote for the candidate who won their state's popular vote. But there've been a few electors (call them faithless) who've gone rogue in the past. But this summer, the Supreme Court ruled that states can require electors to act in line with their state's popular vote. And everyone seemed to have behaved. Even in key states the Trump campaign tried to overturn with lawsuits – Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin – all voted for Biden.
Does this mean the election drama is over?
We'll see. Lawmakers can still dispute a state's election results when the votes are counted next month. But a member of the House and Senate must sign onto it – something that's apparently unlikely. As for the Trump campaign's lawsuits challenging the election results, 59 have been dismissed by the courts, including most recently in Wisconsin. But their claims were enough to sow distrust in the election results.
Now that the Electoral College has cast its vote, Americans are one step closer to a transition of power. The milestone comes even as millions of Americans continue to disbelieve the results of the election.
Where there are updates…
Sudan. Yesterday, the Trump admin removed it from the US list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Sudan has been on the list since 1993 for supporting acts of terrorism including backing militant groups like Hamas, helping bomb US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in '98, and providing a safe haven for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. But when protesters ousted longtime-dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan's relationship with the US began to change. Earlier this year, it agreed to a few things to get its name off the list (think: normalizing ties with Israel, compensation for victims of terrorist attacks). Now, Sudan can rejoin the international community and get economic help amid skyrocketing inflation. The State Dept called the move "a fundamental change."
Nigeria. On Friday, gunmen attacked an all-boys boarding school in the northwestern part of the country and kidnapped hundreds of students. Some have escaped, but over 300 are still missing. The leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has reportedly claimed responsibility. Gov officials say they're negotiating the release of the boys. It's the latest attack on a Nigerian school. In 2014, Boko Haram also kidnapped 276 girls from a school. Dozens remain missing.
Where the (runoff) race is off…
Georgia. Yesterday, early in-person voting began in the Peach State for two Senate runoff seats that could determine the upper chamber's majority. On the ballot: Incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R) versus Jon Ossoff (D). And Raphael Warnock (D) versus Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R). While lines looked shorter yesterday compared to early voting for the general election, officials say they're still expecting high voter turnout. Over 1.2 million people have already requested absentee ballots. And more than 200,000 of them have been returned. The big day's Jan 5, and until then both Republicans and Democrats are on the edge of their seat.
Crunching the numbers: Right now, Republicans hold a 50-48 majority in the Senate come the new year. But if Dems win both races, VP-elect Kamala Harris would be the tie-breaking vote, giving the Dems control of the Senate for the first time since 2014.
Who's saying 'au revoir'...
AG William Barr. Yesterday, President Trump announced that Barr's stepping down as head of the Justice Dept next week. Throughout the majority of his tenure, Barr's been loyal to the president's "law and order" message. But recently, the two have been at odds over things like voter fraud in the 2020 election. And Trump's been reportedly thinking about firing him. But the relationship still appears cordial, with Barr applauding the president for his "historic" record. Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen will step in as acting AG.
What needed a better vision board...
Pinterest. Yesterday, the company agreed to pay $22.5 million in a gender discrimination settlement – one of the largest ever publicly announced. In August, Former COO Françoise Brougher sued the company, accusing her male colleagues of edging her out of meetings, giving her gendered feedback, and ultimately firing her after she called for equal pay. Pinterest didn't admit liability. But it said it "recognizes the importance" of fostering an inclusive workplace and that it will continue to improve. Good idea. Now time to manifest.
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The Characteristics of Patients who have Undergone Total Vaginal Hysterectomy Procedure at Dr. Sardjito Hospital Yogyakarta
Background: Total Vaginal Hysterectomy (TVH) procedure are recently used as one of surgical procedure in gynecology field to totally remove the uterus. This procedure were recommended by American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to minimize surgical injury, reduce blood loss and costs of the surgery.
Objective: This study aims to determine description of the patients's characteristics who have undergone the Total Vaginal Hysterectomy (TVH) procedure at Dr Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Methods: This research is a descriptive analysis using secondary data obtained from medical records. Three characteristics were taken namely age, parity, and diagnosis.
Results: Within 11 months (November 2018 — September 2019), there were 21 patients that have carried out TVH procedures. There were 2 patients at the age below 65 years old, nineteen patients were 65 years old or older. Based on the parity, there was 1 nulliparous patient, 14 multiparous, and 6 grandemultipara patients. There was no primiparous patient. According to the diagnosis, there was 1 patient with grade 1–2 uterine prolapse, 20 patients with grade 3–4 uterine prolapse. Accompanying diagnosis in patients performed this procedure was 1 patient with grade 1–2 of cystocele, 20 patients with grade 3–4 of cystocele, 3 patients with grade 1–2 of rectocele, and 18 patients with grade 3–4 of rectocele.
Conclusion: The characteristics of patients who have undergone TVH procedures at Dr Sardjito Hospital Yogyakarta almost all of them were the same age as or more than 65 years old, multiparous, and with the underlying diagnosis was grade 3–4 of uterine prolapse.
Keywords: Hysterectomy; Total Vaginal Hysterectomy (TVH); Age; Parity; Uterine Prolapse
Total Vaginal Hysterectomy (TVH) procedure are recently used as one of surgical procedure in gynecology field to totally remove the uterus. Compared to Total Abdominal Hysterectomy (TAH), TVH is more further reduce the risk of genitourinary tract trauma. TVH procedures is recommended by American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to minimize surgical injury, reduce blood loss and costs of the surgery. At Dr Sardjito Hospital, TVH procedures have been carried out as a procedure for uterine prolapse surgery. An evaluation of the patient's background characteristics and a diagnosis that underlies the selection of TVH procedures for these cases is needed.
The subjects in this study were patients who have undergone the TVH procedure within 11 months (November 2018 — September 2019). This research is a descriptive analysis using secondary data obtained from medical records at Dr Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Three characteristics were taken namely age, parity, and diagnosis.
The characteristics of patients who have undergone TVH procedures at Dr Sardjito Hospital Yogyakarta mostly were the same age as or more than 65 years old, multiparous, and with the underlying diagnosis was grade 3–4 of uterine prolapse.
According to the secondary data analysis performed on patients undergoing the TVH procedure within 11 months (November 2018 — September 2019) it was found that there were 21 patients who have undergone the TVH procedure. In Ercan, et al. [1], it is stated that TVH procedures is recommended by American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to minimize surgical injury, blood loss, and cost. The following are the results obtained through the secondary data analysis based on medical records at Dr. Sardjito Hospital (Table 1). There were 2 patients at the age below 65 years old (9.5%), nineteen patients were 65 years old or older (90.5%). Based on the parity, there was 1 nulliparous patient (4.7%), 14 multiparous (66.67%), and 6 grandemultipara patients (28.6%). There was no primiparous patient [2]. According to the diagnosis, there was 1 patient (5%) with grade 1–2 uterine prolapse, 20 patients (95%) with grade 3–4 uterine prolapse. Accompanying diagnosis in patients who have undergone this procedure was 1 patient (5%) with grade 1–2 of cystocele, 20 patients (95%) with grade 3–4 of cystocele, 3 patients (14.3%) with grade 1–2 of rectocele, and 18 patients (85.7%) with grade 3–4 of rectocele [3]. In other words, the characteristics of patients who have undergone TVH procedures at Dr Sardjito Hospital Yogyakarta mostly were the same age as or more than 65 years old, multiparous, and with the underlying diagnosis was grade 3–4 of uterine prolapse.
Table 1: The Result of the Characteristics of Patients who Have undergone TVH Procedure November 2018 — September 2019.
The characteristics of patients who have undergone TVH procedures at Dr Sardjito Hospital Yogyakarta almost all of them were the same age as or more than 65 years old, multiparous, and with the underlying diagnosis was grade 3–4 of uterine prolapse.
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Knicks 109, Pistons 90: "This team is a pleasure to root for"
The Knicks are 4th in the East. In March.
By BennyBuckets71 Mar 1, 2021, 11:56am EST
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The winning continues.
Photo by Chris Schwegler/NBAE via Getty Images
Tom Thibodeau's Knicks don't care about how the franchise has been viewed for the last two decades. Instead, they focus on the task at hand, which last night was the Pistons. Despite being on the second night of a back to back, New York handled Detroit, 109-90, led by another monster effort from All-Star Julius Randle. Things are going well.
The Knicks are now 18-17 on the season, good for fourth place in the Eastern Conference. What's that? Roughly halfway through the season and the Knicks are over .500 and fourth in the East? Ahead of the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors?
The Knicks are 7-3 in their last 10 games. The victory over Detroit improved New York to 9-5 in the month of February. Mike Breen noted on the broadcast that the last time the Knicks had a winning month was November 2017. It's the latest they've been over .500 since 2012-13. The win also represents the third straight victory for the Knicks, marking their fourth three-game winning streak this season.
Three straight. LET'S GO. pic.twitter.com/qtj6ncEsQN
— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) March 1, 2021
This one could have easily slipped away. The Knicks were playing with tired legs, and they were without Taj Gibson, who didn't travel with the team due to a sprained ankle. Meanwhile, they were playing against Dennis Smith Jr., who was clearly out to try and prove that New York erred in failing to use him and then trading him. However, despite his best efforts, a DSJ revenge game this was not.
The Pistons scored the first bucket of the game — a Jerami Grant three-pointer — but Reggie Bullock tied the game less than a minute later, and the Knicks controlled the game for the rest of the night. RJ Barrett continued his resurgence with a strong first quarter (8 points, 2 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block), and six Knicks overall got on the board in the period.
We'll take it! pic.twitter.com/DxjukrCYrH
Yessir Ro! Getting it going from deep early on pic.twitter.com/88ZNG11xDy
As a team, the Knicks were 5-8 from downtown in the first, and New York carried a 25-20 lead heading into the second. In the second quarter, the clamps came down even harder than they had in the first; the Knicks held the Pistons to 17 points in the period on 4-15 from the field (26.7%). New York had 5 blocks and 3 steals in the quarter (including 3 blocks for Nerlens Noel, who had himself an incredible game considering he was the only bonafide center available).
NOEL WREAKING HAVOC DEFENSIVELY pic.twitter.com/u0tAf0skZ0
On the offensive end, the Knicks weren't exactly lights out (10-24 from the field in the quarter, or 41.7%), but they steadily increased their lead thanks to a balanced effort that once again saw six Knicks scoring points (led by Alec Burks, who dropped 7 points in the period).
Burks high off the glass with the left pic.twitter.com/KZt7cDNOGj
At one point, Obi Toppin got to casually practice for the dunk contest, and by halftime, the Knicks were up 48-37.
Slight work with the reverse pic.twitter.com/HZHBRoF9Mv
In the third quarter, Randle did what stars do all the time out there in the vast expanse of the universe, exploding for 12 points on 5-6 shooting.
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Barrett also had a fine little quarter, notching 7 points, 2 boards and 2 assists. He was finishing in traffic with ease. Go ahead and defend him in the lane, it doesn't matter.
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The Pistons shot a little better from the field than they had in half one, but the Knicks once again received points from six different players, winning the quarter 35-27 and bringing an 83-64 advantage into the final quarter.
After six Knicks got on the board in each of the first three quarters, only five Knickerbockers scored in the fourth. But that's okay, because 9 of those points came from 25th overall draft pick Immanuel Quickley, who continued his campaign as one of the best rookies in the NBA.
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The Knicks never let the Pistons get too close, and when all was said and done, the final score was 109-90. The Knicks beat a team they should have beat, even though they were visibility tired. The times they are a'changin.
> Randle finished with 25 points (60% shooting), 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. RJ had 21 points (61.5% shooting), 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 1 block. When both of those dudes are playing well, the Knicks appear to have the ability to compete with anyone.
> Including that dynamic duo, the Knicks had five players score in double figures. Burks had 16 points off the bench, Derrick Rose had 14 points and 5 assists as the starting point guard, and IQ finished with 12.
> As of this second, the Knicks have the second best defensive rating in the NBA, just ahead of the Utah Jazz and behind only the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers.
How Thibs would feel if he read the above sentence.
> Noel deserves his own bullet point. In almost 40 minutes, the center had 8 points, 11 boards, 2 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks. He has done an incredible job filling in for Mitchell Robinson.
NYK is 6-2 since losing Mitchell Robinson to injury. Credit Nerlens Noel for his role in stabilizing things. Since entering starting lineup, Noel's averaging 7 rebs, 1.1 steals & 2.1 blocks in 31 MPG (11 reb, 3 blocks, 3 steals last night). NYK has +2.4 net rating w/Noel on floor
— Ian Begley (@IanBegley) March 1, 2021
> This play was awesome:
Nice little touch pass inside pic.twitter.com/UeQpYhIz7G
> With Elfrid Payton out for the third straight game, Frank Ntilikina once again got a chance to play. The momentum from his previous two efforts did not continue, as Ntilikina missed all four of his shots and didn't do anything of consequence in roughly 12 minutes of action. Please keep playing Frank, though. The Knicks are now 5-2 when he plays this season.
> DSJ wanted to prove a point to his former team, playing aggressive all night and really trying to create for his current team on offense. The Knicks were prepared, though, and made it tough on him all night. DSJ finished with 7 points (3-11 shooting), 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 1 block. Happy he's getting a chance. Happy it's for a team that isn't the Knicks.
RockyRaccoon06 really hit the nail on the head by commenting that "this team is a pleasure to root for."
They sure are, RockyRaccoon. They sure are. The next time we'll get to root for the Knicks is Tuesday, when they play the 17-12 Spurs in San Antonio. It won't be easy, but Thibs will have the Knicks prepared. First four-game win streak of the season? Why not?


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2019 in review: The 10 top stories from our area in the last year
An Austin firefighter directs traffic at the scene of an accident in April. The storm had a massive affect on the area as power was lost in many areas throughout southeast Minnesota and was part of a chain of storms that rocked the Austin area early in 2019. Herald file photo
2019 marked a year of new leadership for Mower County law enforcement.
Chief David McKichon shakes hands with City Administrative Services Director Tom Dankert after being sworn in as the new chief in February. Herald file photo
In early 2018, four-term Mower County Sheriff Terese Amazi announced that she would not seek a fifth term, leaving the sheriff's seat open.
Outgoing Mower County Sheriff Terese Amazi proudly pins a new badge onto her successor, Steve Sandvik, in January. Herald file photo
On Nov. 6, 2018, Mower County Detective Steve Sandvik was elected the new sheriff of Mower County. He was sworn-in on Jan. 7.
Austin Police Chief Brian Krueger also announced that he intended to retire. In January, the Austin City Council appointed Austin Police Capt. David McKichan to be the new chief. He was sworn-in on Feb. 20. McKichan's promotion to chief then opened up the captain's position, which was filled by Austin Police Detective Todd Clennon on April 29.
The Marshall's site, photographed here near completion, was one of several businesses that came to Austin this year. Herald file photo
18th Avenue ups and downs
After some initial losses, 18th Avenue Northwest made some considerable gains in 2019.
After nearly two decades in business, Sears Hometown announced it was closing in January. Hibbett Sports closed without warning on Jan. 14; Wendy's also closed without warning on May 13 after building owner Jeff Mosiman decided not to renew his contract with Wendy's.
The biggest closure on 18th Avenue for 2019 was Shopko, which closed its doors on May 12 after the company announced the closure in February. The closure was one of many in several states, the result of the company having to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But despite the losses, 18th Avenue also saw several openings. Shopko Optical, which remained opened despite the closure of Shopko, moved into the former Hibbett Sports location while Taqueria El Sueno opened a new location in the old Wendy's. The Albert Lea-based pet supply store Pet Authority also opened a new location next to Munch Snack Lab.
The old Target shopping complex saw a revitalization as Hobby Lobby and Ashley HomeStore both opened in the former Target building. Italian restaurant Bella Victoria relocated to that area and the Aldi grocery store in the complex expanded.
But the biggest story for 18th Avenue was the renovation of the old Hy-Vee. Slaby and Associates of Verona, Wisconsin, who purchased the old Hy-Vee from the Port Authority in 2018, poured in $5.4 million to renovate the building for retail use. Once the renovation was complete, the building became the home for Marshalls, Pet Supplies Plus, Shoe Sensation, Five Below, and Maurices, who relocated from across the street.
Lois Riess
In April, Cobblestone Hotels broke ground at the construction site of a new hotel behind the old Hy-Vee building. An opening date has yet to be announced.
Riess conviction and sentencing
Former rural Blooming Prairie resident Lois Riess, 57, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison on Dec. 16 in Lee County, Florida.
In March and April 2018, a nationwide manhunt was held for Riess, who was a suspect in the March 21, 2018, shooting death of her husband, David Riess, 54, who was found dead in their rural Blooming Prairie home. While on the run, Riess murdered and assumed the identity of 59-year-old Pamela Hutchinson of Brandenton, Florida, on April 9, 2018, at a Fort Myers Beach condo.
Federal marshals eventually arrested Riess on April 19, 2018, in South Padre Island, Texas.
The State of Minnesota has begun the extradition process to bring Riess to Dodge County, where she is facing first and second-degree murder charges in the death of David Riess.
Noelani Robinson. Photo provided
Noelani Robinson
On March 15, the body of 2-year-old Noelani Robinson was found along the side of Highway 218 just north of Blooming Prairie four days after her mother, Sierra Robinson, 24, was shot to death in Milwaukee. Law enforcement issued an Amber Alert after the toddler's mother was killed.
Noelani's father, Dariaz L. Higgins, 35, was charged in Milwaukee County Court with first-degree intentional homicide in Sierra Robinson's death.
Police believed Noelani was killed by blunt force trauma; the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension confirmed that was indeed the cause when they released the results of their investigation in September.
It has not yet been determined if Higgins will face charges for the toddler's death
Harsh winter weather
The area experienced more snow than usual this year, with the City of Austin declaring several snow emergencies in the process.
A storm that hit the area on Feb. 23 brought February snow totals to over 30 inches in Mower County. The heavy snow and high winds made travel treacherous, even causing parts of Interstates 90 and 35 to close.
During the weekend storm, numerous motorists had to be rescued by emergency services. Gov. Tim Walz declared a state of emergency and ordered the Minnesota National Guard to provide assistance and emergency relief services for stranded motorists in Freeborn and Steele Counties.
Walz again declared a state of emergency after an April snow and ice storm struck the area, knocking down power lines and causing many to be without power for as long as several days. Austin's National Guard unit assisted law enforcement in setting up barricades on roads where downed power lines posed risks to motorists.
Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services estimated about $3 million in damages occurred during the storm, with roughly 12,000 customers in the rural areas losing power.
Gov. Tim Walz shows off the rooster he shot during the Governor's Pheasant Hunt Opener, posing with Scott Nelson, of Austin. Herald file photo
Governor's Pheasant Hunt
For one weekend this October, Austin and the surrounding area became ground zero for all things hunting.
The Minnesota Governor's Pheasant Hunt Opener drew hundreds of people, including Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, state officials, landowners and of course, hunters to Austin.
The event was a culmination of over a year of planning by a dedicated committee. The banquet, which kicked off the weekend on the Friday before the hunt, drew 457 people and on the snowy day of the hunt, 44 roosters were taken.
Walz himself bagged the first bird by a governor since the event's inception.
"Hats off to the people that helped," MNGPHO Committee Chair Sandy Forstner said as birds were being registered at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center. "There's been a lot of people involved and I think it's gone as well as it could have."
Superintendent Bryan Boysen (right) interacts with Alan Nguyen's Life Skills class at Lyle Public School by discussing various countries and cultures that exist. Lyle passed an operating levy for the school that helps the district continue to offer and sustain its programming for students. Herald file photo
School referendums
In a trend around the state this past year, several Minnesota schools had referendums on the ballot in November and special elections.
And for the most part, these referendums passed, including Lyle Public School's own referendum by a count of 188-142. The vote secured an increase to the operating levy authority to $850 per student. It was an important moment for the school because a vote turning down the referendum would have put the school in a tough spot that could have led to cuts in programming and staffing.
"Lyle has shown another investment in their children," said Lyle Superintendent Bryan Boysen. "They're shaping the future of your town and community. They're joining an educated society and are the fabric of the small town. We've got to keep the place going, and passing this (levy) puts a lot of people at ease."
However, during an April special election, Austin voters turned down $24.888 million school referendum package that would have allowed for 16 new classrooms, a gymnasium, office space, a kitchen and cafeteria remodel and new playground installation at Woodson Kindergarten Center.
The vote came down to 1,692 against and 1,498 for the referendum.
Had the referendum passed then the school could have continued to meet early childhood program needs at the newly renovated school; however, with the referendum failing, the school will continue leasing space at Queen of Angel's Catholic Church.
The newly remodeled medical and surgical care unit is up and fully operational with consolidated services from Mayo Clinic Health System-Austin and Albert Lea, just some of the major work at the hospital this year. Herald file photo
Mayo Clinic Updates
It was a big year for Mayo Clinic Health Systems-Austin as it continued to make renovations to its building in Austin as well as playing host to a newly consolidated birthing unit.
It was made official in June when Mayo Clinic Health Systems-Albert Lea and Austin officially moved the birthing unit to one location in Austin. It was the third step of a process that began in 2017, which included moving of psychiatric services to Albert Lea in 2018.
The rest of the renovations of the hospital include modernized medical/surgical, pediatrics unit on the second floor and continued remodeling of the Family Birth Center on the third floor with expanded rooms for caesarean sections and other surgical needs.
Also ongoing is a linking building project that when completed will link the main entrance of the building to the newly expanded units. It will add about 5,000 square feet of usable space and provide access to the elevators at the front entrance.
The entire project is slated to be completed by late 2020.
A graduate of Pacelli, Trace Fishbaugher was one of those students who took advantage of the Austin Assurance Program in its first year. Herald file photo
Austin Assurance welcomes first class
When it was first announced in 2018, the Austin Assurance Program offered a chance for all high school students in Austin an opportunity to get a free college education and this first year in 2019 showed that students were willing to take the opportunity.
About 110 students from Austin High School and Pacelli Catholic Schools enrolled in Riverland through the Austin Assurance Program, which allows students to enroll at Riverland Community College, free of charge, provided they hit certain criteria, which includes grade-point average and volunteer hours.
"It's both gratifying and satisfying to have this program benefit students and also benefit their families," said Jeff Ettinger, president of The Hormel Foundation, which funds the program. "Our expectations are that enrollment numbers will continue to go up and we will continue outreach at Pacelli and Austin. We recognize that this is just the start."
People came together in September at Gerard Academy to celebrate the academy's 50th anniversary. Herald file photo
Gerard celebrates 50 years
Gerard Academy in Austin has long been helping children by providing psychological, psychiatric and behavioral services. In September they celebrated 50 years.
"It's about the people; it's about the lives impacted, the families, the staff – all working together to make a difference in peoples' lives," said Executive Director Karen Wolf during the festivities.
It gave the sons of Joseph "Doc" and Patrica Endres an opportunity to see first-hand the good the organization has done for children over the years as both Tom Endres and Todd Endres were on hand for the celebration.
Trail Blazing: Nature center purchases new cross country skis


Dinh Dang Dinh's family is concerned he is being denied access to proper treatment while dying of cancer.
Members of the group say they were targeted for promoting human rights.
They demand a multiparty system to balance political power.
Police detain him overnight for questioning on his return home from abroad.
Nguyen Lan Than is detained at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport.
They want authorities to abolish a penal code provision used to try him.
The duo had been held without trial for four months.
Cu Huy Ha Vu is protesting 'violations of his basic rights' in prison.
They are released after being detained for up to two days.
Le Quoc Quan tells them his verdict is unfair and he should have been acquitted.
The independence hero had led stunning defeats of French colonial and American forces.
Scores are killed in Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries.


Here is a guide to all of the terms used to describe natural stone flooring. This should help to make choosing your perfect tile as easy as possible. Our knowledgeable staff are always available to help with any questions you may have.
Tiles have had a gloss finish applied to give them a shiny, reflective surface.
The stone has been finished to a smooth, matt finish.
A finishing method used to remove softer parts of the stone and give it a worn appearance providing subtle surface texture. The stone is wet-brushed with a coarse rotary-type abrasive brush to give it a worn surface which is textured and smooth in parts.
A finish that replicates distressed textures of an old worn stone. Produced through mechanical or chemical means to simulate the naturally occurring effects of the aging process.
A process that leaves the stone with a softly, rounded edge and textured surface to achieve a worn appearance.
A finish achieved by splitting across natural layers in the stone to give an uneven, textured surface.
Highly textured, small cut sections of stone are pieced together in this contemporary finish which exposes the stones natural textures. Often used for mosaics and as a feature.
Often mistaken as a crack in a tile a fissure is a naturally occurring, mineral vein which is noticeable as it is normally differs in color to the stone itself.
Natural occurring pits and voids in the stone are left unfilled. These pits can be left unfilled for a more rustic look or filled with grout during the installation process.
Usually referring to a travertine tile with natural pitting that is filled with grout or resin at source. Once filled the stone can be finished to a honed or polished surface depending on the required look. A filled material may require occasional maintenance to refill original filled areas, an easy process with a travertine repair kit.
Specific to travertine, tiles are cut following the direction of the natural vein of the stone.
These tiles have been machine cut to the same tile thickness.
Similar to a square edge but with subtle imperfections.
A term used to describe the edge of a tile cut at a slight angle on the edges to create what is also known as a chamfer. A bevel is most commonly used for mirror edges but can establish a more distinctive grout line when tiling.
Tile edges have been distressed to give a chiseled look and then brushed to make them softer to touch. This style edge provides a rustic appearance and results in feature grout lines.
Edges of the tiles have been hand-finished for a distressed appearance showing evidence of craftsmanship.
A clean cut, straight finish to the tile edges.
This is a pattern which is available in some of our tiles. It means that the widths of the tiles are consistent, but the lengths of the tiles vary. This gives a more random layout to the floor.
A large format tile usually used to create the look of a traditional stone floor, usually suitable for use inside and outside.
One of several laying patterns which uses at least three different sized tiles for a random appearance. This pattern repeats across the floor in a set pattern and can break up large areas or contribute to a more rustic finish.
A larger format version of the Opus Pattern which gives a random look using at least three different sized tiles in a set pattern. The grand opus pattern is often used in larger areas where the opus pattern may look too busy.
A process of applying a liquid form of sealant to protect tiles from staining.


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A place for breaking news and commentary by Greenpeace.
Federal Parliament votes on climate emergency
Following a wave of climate action, a Federal climate emergency motion was tabled and voted on by the Greens on Tuesday 15th October. It was narrowly defeated, blocked by the coal-loving Coalition. That it is even being debated at the national level shows how far we've come. The defeat is not the end. Just three Liberal MPs need to cross the floor to get the climate emergency legislation voted through. We will keep pushing.
"Equinor, you are not welcome in our whale country": Bunna Lawrie, Mirning Elder
Oil company Equinor is pushing for approval to drill in the Great Australian Bight. We need as many people as possible to stand with me in this fight for our country.
South Australia to vote on climate emergency
With the South Australian State Parliament set to vote today on whether to declare a climate emergency, there is a short window to call on Members to vote for climate action.
Week of action calls Taylor out on climate inaction
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Have you heard of Angus Taylor? If not, let us share a quick overview of his CV...
We were stranded for a week. Then something beautiful happened.
In 2015 I experienced extreme weather first-hand while living in Gillieston Heights, Maitland. With a two-month-old, and two other children, our suburb was turned into a virtual island following days of torrential rain.
This is the last thing I imagined myself doing
This is honestly the last thing I ever imagined myself doing. I've always taken politics seriously, I've always carefully considered my vote, but I have never been politically active. But things have never been this desperate. And there's only one antidote to despair. Action.
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Who am I? I'm nobody special. I'm a designer and choir leader from beautiful Scotland Island in the Northern Beaches Council area. I've always been 'green' and I try to do my bit, but I've never taken action before.
Amazon fires: a vicious and preventable cycle
The Amazon is burning as the world looks on in horror. But who and what is really to blame?
Something stopped me in my tracks
At the end of last year something happened that stopped me in my tracks. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released, and its message was stark: we had less than twelve years to drastically reduce our greenhouse emissions or face irreversible, catastrophic consequences.
"I knew I wasn't alone." - Simone's Break Free story
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Q: Does TCP kills dead idle connection after keepalive packet is sent My understandings for TCP keepalive:
This keepalive does not really "keeping connection alive". Instead, "detectAlive" may be a more proper word: Tcp levels exchange heartbeat packet to detect whether an idle conneciton dead or alive.
Here are my questions:

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*After TCP knows that the connection is dead, does the TCP level automatically closes the connection?

*After TCP knows that the connection is dead, how does application level know that infomation? By knowing that infomation it thus close the socket and release the resource

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After TCP knows that the connection is dead, does the TCP level automatically closes the connection?

TCP is a protocol. It "knows" nothing. The specific implementation in the OS though will detect if the TCP connection can no longer exchange data with or without payload (i.e. keep alive) and will close the local state of the connection. It will not do the normal TCP connection close which involves sending FIN etc, because it can be assumed that the connection is broken.

After TCP knows that the connection is dead, how does application level know that information? By knowing that infomation it thus close the socket and release the resource

This depends on the application. The application needs to somehow monitor the state of the socket, i.e. doing a write, read, select or similar. These functions will then no longer block and the broken state of the connection can be determined for example based on error code in read/write or similar. If the application instead does not care about the socket for some time it will only realize the problem once it starts caring again.


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The workshop will allow participants to learn in detail about the best practices of lean production. It will be hosted by two companies (Dimol and Pavlyk) that already have successful experience of cost-effective production and are ready to share it.
an individual plan for implementing cost-effective production in a particular company.
More detailed addresses will be provided at a later date.


New for 2019 - Unleash your inner bunny!
Playful Benjamin Bunny has hidden from his friends in Mr McGregor's garden – join Peter Rabbit and Lily Bobtail as they explore the garden and solve puzzles to try to uncover his hiding place! Unleash your inner bunny on the Peter RabbitTM Hippity Hop ride and hop high into the sky to see if you can find Benjamin from the top!


Educating students involves everyone. This includes parents and families, past students, community business partners. Family and community involvements foster partnerships among schools, family and community groups. These partnerships result in sharing and maximizing resources while effectively helping our students to Gallop to Greatness.
Please contact Amanda Dedrick our Volunteer and Business Partner Coordinator for more information on how you can get involved in our Stallion Community.


The Gertie Marx Combined Spinal Epidural sets combine two precise needles to provide effective, quick and successful pain relief for patients during labor as well as delivery. The Gertie Marx Epidural Needle and Spinal Needle together ensure physicians see extremely high rates of success when penetrating the subarachnoid space.
The Indiana School of Medicine conducted a study of a Gertie Marx CSE set and a Weiss epidural needle with a Whitacre spinal needle. The Gertie Marx needles resulted in just a 3% rate of dry tap while the other two needles saw a 24.5% failure rate.
To read more on the study conducted on the Gertie Marx, Weiss and Whitacre needles, click here.


Razili is a partner with McKinsey's Healthcare System & Services Practice, where she focuses primarily on healthcare cost and value strategies for private payers and state agencies.
As a founding member of McKinsey's Medicaid group, Razili has worked with leading health insurers, health systems, and several states in America to redesign the way care is financed and delivered for low-income and special-needs populations. She leads McKinsey's research and client service related to behavioral health, focused on improving care delivery for mental health and substance use disorder. She is also a leader of McKinsey's Opioids Insights, a group which helps clients and society combat the opioid crisis by providing insights, expertise, analytics, and technology.


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