Ok, now you have all you need to start playing, you know how to to stand in front of a snare drum (or pad) and you learnt how to grip your drumsticks. It's time to play, which is exactly what you are going to do in this final lesson of the four introductive ones to the percussion instruments.
a daily routine training to use at least during the first week of study.
Before starting I'd like to remind you that today's lesson, together with the one about the posture and the grip, is very important for the future development of a correct and natural approach to the percussion instruments.
Your sound depends on how you move.
Imagine a basketball player who bounces the ball on the ground. What does it happen? It happens that the player follows through the return movement of the ball, he goes along with the following bounces and he stops the ball only when it's necessary. The same principle can be adopted for the drumstick that bounces on the snare drum.
avoid all useless movements like lifting the drumstick before the stroke. If you return to the starting point, for the moment, it isn't necessary to "lift" anything.
Well, thanks to this experience you now know what a big favor mother nature does to all percussionists: the rebound, actually.
Start counting "one, two, three, four" coordinating your voice with the metronome beats. Force you to count in English even if your pronunciation (like mine) isn't perfect because you will find out that this "Anglo Saxon" system will be very useful also for what you are going to do very soon.
Now, focusing on one hand a time and always counting aloud, start coordinating the base movement we talked before with the metronome beats. Every time you arrive at "four" start again counting from "one" without stopping the strokes. Do this exercise for at least two minutes and then change your hand.
When you finish this first exercise you have to play two strokes for each beat (also this time use one hand at a time) and count in this way: "one-and two-and three-and four-and". This time a stroke will correspond to every number and the following stroke to every "and".
Also for this exercise practice two minutes per hand. You will notice from the first moment that with this second exercise is more difficult to follow the metronome and do a good movement with your weak hand. It's absolutely normal.
To conclude produce four strokes for every beat alternating your hands and counting in this way: One-e-and-ah Two-e-and-ah Three-e-and-ah Four-e-and-ah.
You may have noticed that with this exercise the hand you use first will always be coordinated with the numbers (one, two, three, four) and the four "and" while the other hand will play when you pronounce "e" and "ah".
Ok.. my last sentence is a bit nonsense, read it again and you will understand it!
After two or three minutes start again with the other hand. Keep the movement fluent because in this third exercise you will probably stop the rebound accidentally while being concentrated for the first time on both hands.
Well, you have learned how to move your hands correctly, now we have to make this approach a natural action your body reproduces without thinking about it. In this way you don't have to think about your movement every time you play.
The only way you can teach your body the correct movements for the musical practice is…. the practice itself, actually. And the practice needs time, dedication and commitment (go to the first lesson of this series where I talk about motivation). Every aim you want to reach will be reached only if you'll be able to manage all these three components.
So, because of this lesson's goal requires at least one week practice, here's how I suggest you how to train during these 7 days. And yes, in the study of a musical instrument Sundays AREN'T considered days off.
The work I suggest won't takes you more than 30 minutes per day and it will be done in two sessions of 15 minutes with a break of one hour at least from the first session. In every "training session" work with the three exercises we have just seen and try to keep the coordination between the movements, the metronome and the vocal counting.
Use a timer and for those 15 minutes focus on what you do, shut down your mobile phone, switch off the computer, don't check Facebook, and so on. Watch my video only if you need to see again the correct movements. They will be 15 minutes completely dedicated to the music and to yourself. All the other things can wait.
After about one week doing these routine exercises your body should already has learnt and memorized the correct way to play. If you have the possibility to be followed by a teacher, make sure that he checks your position and movements.
Learning a wrong habit now could ruin a big part of the work you'll do then.
With this video the mini four-lessons series dedicated to who wants to start playing percussion instruments ends. As always I conclude with a final question and I invite you to answer in the comments below. Bye!
Question: have you ever thought about the importance of a well done gesture to learn at the beginning of your study? Leave a comment!


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Fans Furious at Movie Star for Aging Naturally
Posted on July 22, 2017 December 20, 2017 by Stu
By Stuart Swanson
Article IX
79-year-old smooth jazz singer and B-list independent film star Stuart Swanson thought it was okay to continue living a healthy, peaceful life for 79+ years.
Sounds harmless, right?
Not anymore, not in 2017 and still not in 2056. While shopping at a local farmers market in Encinitas, California, he was looking older than usual, and was about to find out that was unacceptable to the World's app users.
He knew it was coming eventually. In his last several movies, in particular "Stuart: The Plant Killing Vegan," he could see the signs of aging, but he figured that was okay because we're all human. Still, he knew that people are unforgiving when it comes to physical looks, so he tried his best to just stay indoors, never get tagged in photos, use Ageless Moviestar™ software, and only post pictures online if they were taken several years ago.
It worked for 40 years, but it finally caught up with him on Saturday when he bought his last piece of fruit as a free man. He was enjoying a nice afternoon talking to vendors and walking past people who didn't recognize him from the smash hit "Cat Sitting, part III: Find the Poop." But then he caught someone looking at him too closely.
He knew he was caught. A bored Encinitas police officer had nothing else to do, as usual, and stopped Mr. Swanson as he was trying to sneak away in the parking lot.
"What are you doing?" the officer asked.
Unsure how to answer, Old Man Swanson tried to be silly and just responded "I'm talking to you!"
But the officer wasn't having it.
"No. No you're not. You're being old. Just look at you, you're so… old. I know who you are, and you're disappointing all of your fans. Why are you doing this?"
Again unsure how to answer, Mr. Swanson made one last attempt to fool the officer. He pulled out his wallet and showed him a 40 year old picture of himself, saying "this was taken yesterday."
Unfooled, the officer placed him under arrest and took him to the station, where a decent jail picture of him was then taken and circulated around the internet within 24 hours.
Everyone was furious.
The internet lit up with all kinds of comments, and even though the "Friends? LOL" star didn't officially commit a crime, everyone jumped to conclusions and vilified him based on his appearance alone.
"Geez, what'd ya do, stay alive for 8 decades?" commented one person about the 79-year-old man.
"What's going on with those sideburns?" said another.
"You just lost two fans, one for each part of that double-chin." said 2 people (from one of those shared profiles made up of one woman and half a man.)
His biggest fan wrote him a postcard, simply stating: "Disappointed."
But Old Man Swanson was just glad to hear from anyone.
Seeing his temporary joy, the prison staff took an awful picture of him reading it, then confiscated the postcard and shared both images with the internet. This fueled everyone's anger, and added to his jail time.
And now that we are living in the future, and we've mastered predictions, we know what ultimately happens from here. Stuart Swanson then completed his life sentence, living a healthy prison life for the next 40 years to the crazy age of 119 years. Honestly, he looked good for his age, but when the internet saw the final photo of the world's oldest inmate, all they could talk about was how old he looked.
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Old Babies Discover Parents' Inappropriate Facebook Posts
Article VIII
Nobody likes to get tagged in a bad photo. But we can all agree, while the perpetrator had no right to share a bad picture of you with all of their friends, at least you were notified about it after it was too late.
Imagine living your entire life without realizing that someone shared a terrible picture of you with all of their friends (or the entire world) 8 years ago and never told you about it. You'd be outraged, right?
That's exactly what happened when a bunch of 8 year old kids stole one of their mom's cell phones, unlocked her "1234" password and then started scrolling through her timeline.
At first it was funny.
"Look dude, your mom looks wasted!" exclaimed one little guy.
"Why would she post that?" another asked.
Nobody had answers. They all hovered around the phone while the original thief scrolled through his own mother's private timeline.
As time went by, the pictures looked younger, when finally he started to notice pictures of himself, back when his mom still cared enough to take pictures of him. And oh man, some of these pictures were really embarrassing, especially some of his haircuts and the clothes she dressed him in.
Time quickly passed by as he scrolled through the years, and he noticed his friends were very quiet, but he could tell from his peripheral vision that they were still there, trying not to laugh too loud.
Finally, they burst into laughter as they all saw his first baby picture.
Clearly, his mom was in a hurry to share the first picture before dad had a chance to ruin the moment. By racing to the finish line, the result was a really awful picture of a half-clothed, angry, filthy baby who was now currently looking at himself 8 years later on a cell phone surrounded by his friends who were laughing at him.
Horrified, he reminded his bastard friends that they also had moms, and their moms probably also did the same exact thing to them.
All kids are smart, so they all realized that was probably true.
Because their moms were all friends with each other, they all took turns on the phone discovering each of their parents' awful pictures of them. None of them were as bad as the first one, but they were all bad.
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Trusting Face No Longer Good Enough, Says Marketing Team
Posted on July 6, 2017 December 20, 2017 by Stu
Article VII
July 5th, Current Year
Back in the 1960's you could sell cigarettes to the entirety of America just by taking a picture of some random hitchhiker off the side of any road in America, and it was a great photo because everything was beautiful and there were no problems. You'd then sell your photo in New York City and became a millionaire within 24 hours.
Back then, you could even just DRAW a picture. Everybody bought it the next day in the magazine, and you took the money to the bank and retired at age 35.
Not no mo.
Today in 2017, everyone has things figured out.
"People are onto us," said a slick down-to-Earth marketing rep. "America's general population is jaded. You can't just post a picture of a gentle-looking 40 year old boy and expect people to buy your stuff. To sell anything anymore, you need a gimmick and a jingle by Drake."
"Oh no, that's expensive. What about a jingle by not Drake?" Someone asked.
Everyone at the table booed, and that person got fired immediately.
"You need Drake. Ok? The jingle needs to be done by Drake," said a supercool marketing rep who always hides somewhere, never seen by other team members.
"You need the jingle, it needs to be FUNNY, it needs to be SERIOUS, and it needs to be socially acceptable by every person," he or she said from the shadows.
"It needs to be funny, it needs to be serious, and it needs to be socially acceptable by every person,"
he or she said from the shadows.
Marketing Team: Trusting Face No Longer Good Enough
Father of Six Putting Less Effort into Made Up Stories
Article VI
33-year old partially normal person Thomas Smith was looking forward to a much anticipated 4-day weekend, that is until he remembered he has a huge family full of children and babies.
Friday afternoon during his commute home, he heard a funny sound on the radio and it made him laugh, reminding him of that time he laughed in 2008.
His moment of joy was then immediately interrupted by the visual sight of his street. That's when the stress always kicked in. His stupidest child was always laying flat on the road, and it was on a different part of the road each time, so he always had to be on the lookout. That was just the beginning of his troubles at home.
Being such a large family, the Smiths were recently able to buy a house they can't afford, which was great for the kids. Just the kids.
Thomas was a single dad now too, as his wife left him earlier this year. Yeah, immediately after giving birth to her 6th child she voluntarily passed away because she didn't know how else to get out of the relationship or stop having children.
Being the only parent, Mr. Smith had to answer every question thrown at him, and as you can imagine, a house full of unsupervised home-schooled kids have a lot of questions.
Before he even got into the house, his eldest child yelled from the kitchen window, "Hey dad! Can duct tape stop a gas leak?"
The Smith kids were not smart because they got all their information from dad.
As the 4-day weekend dragged on, the constant questions started to wear him down. His answers weren't even making sense because he wasn't answering them in the same order that the kids were asking.
On Day 4, he'd had enough and took the kids to a nearby festivity, where the questions continued. Mr. Smith was undeniably a beaten man, as he was overheard tiredly making up false stories about American history, then also creating false side-stories to support his original stories. Everything he said was now a lie, such as the whopper that he "forgot his wallet at home." But the moment he finally checked out was when he responded to one question with "Go ask your mother," which everyone knew was impossible.
Record Number of "Sorries" Expressed at Canadian Event
Article V
Canadians, often referred to as Earth's Friendliest, are also among the most apologetic citizens in the world.
Just kidding, they're totally the most apologetic. Yes, they are "among" the most apologetic but they also are THE most apologetic, by far. There isn't even a second place.
Without even trying, Canadians solidified their position on Saturday by breaking a world record during just one of the many events dedicated to Canada's 150th Anniversary.
At this particular event, every Canadian was excited to be there, and just like every hockey game and Hip concert, nobody wanted to step on anyone's shoes while finding their seat.
Seat by seat, each instance of a new patron finding their seat required an obligatory Canadian "sorry", one per shoe to be exact, so that's 2 sorries per Canadian, per shoe, per seat.
Furthermore, it's customary that when a Canadian says "sorry" to you, your duty as a fellow Canadian is to say "sorry" back, even though neither of you did anything wrong and nobody was harmed.
Watching this unfold is one of the most entertaining parts of any Canadian event.
Occasionally, if you listen hard enough and with a bit of luck on your side, you'll hear a "quadruple sorry" because one of them will say it twice twice.
In text version, that spells "sorry sorry sorry sorry," just to be clear.
And that's just one Canadian finding his seat. As you can imagine, the number of sorries continued throughout the event. As this venue housed 20,000 Canadians, with an average 27 sorries per Canadian it easily made for a record breaking 540,000 sorries at a single event.
An amazing record.
This record is not expected to be broken anytime soon, and Prime Minister Trudeau has already apologized twice. I'm even kind of sorry to report about this new unbreakable record, but I'm half-Canadian so that totally makes sense.
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Modern Racism Can Be So Hilarious
The story behind the Times's brilliant "Off Color" video series
By Elaine Teng
"I'm Asian American… and I want reparations for yellow fever," says Kristina Wong, one of the four comedians profiled in The New York Times' new video series, Off Color. Launched last Tuesday, the edgy (or very edgy, by Times' standards) segments explore race and ethnicity in ways that traditional reporting cannot, showing how humor is being used to expose the new ways that race often plays out in America today. One of the other featured artists is Issa Rae, creator of the popular web series "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl." Another, Lalo Alcaraz, a second-generation Mexican-American who draws a syndicated comic strip, "La Cucaracha," that often takes aim at racism and anti-immigrant hostility. The New Republic spoke with Tanzina Vega, the Times' race and ethnicity reporter who spearheaded the project, about what's so funny about the sometimes painful and sensitive subjects she covers.
Elaine Teng: Why did you decide to focus on comedy as a way to talk about race?
Tanzina Vega: When you look at situations like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, race comes to the surface pretty quickly. But the other thing that's happening for a lot of people in this country is that racial issues are becoming a lot subtler. And that's when you get into issues like "microaggressions," the things that people say that may not be intentional but which still make the other person feel aggrieved. The more obvious racial commentary gets done, but a lot of the more subtle issues go ignored. Humor was an interesting way to get into those.
ET: How did you choose which comedians were worthy of profiling?
TV: Often times when it comes to racial humor, artists tend to use the stereotypes in their work, and to me that is not very interesting. These folks were doing work that was a lot more edgy and unique. They were really taking on issues that are not often discussed. Like I said in the thing I wrote about Hari Kondabolu, colonialism is not often used as a punchline. But he does it in this really intellectual and really funny way. That was what distinguished these four artists from what I had been seeing out there. They were not playing into the racial stereotype; they were confronting it.
ET: Can you give an example of that?
TV: One that really stayed in my mind was Kristina Wong's work on what is known as yellow fever, which is of course the fetishization of Asian women by white men. Data had come out from this online dating site showing that all men except Asian men were interested in Asian women first. She's really taken a magnifying glass and used humor to get into that subject and poke fun at it. Behind that, there's a really serious issue that she also unpacks.
ET: So what's your favorite joke from the series?
TV: There's one where Hari talks about coming from Queens, the most diverse place in the world, and going to college in Maine, where they were saying, "Oh there's going to be a surge of diversity on campus." And he was the surge, right? There are a lot of people who can laugh at that either because they went to colleges that weren't very diverse, and then there are people who were the diversity. It's an awkward thing to be, but it's also very funny. It's very relatable because people on both sides of that equation can laugh at it. We've all been in that situation or observed it, so it's hilarious.
ET: An increasing number of news outlets have race and ethnicity reporters. Why do you think that's happening now?
TV: It has to do with the innate competitiveness that exists among us. I think it's also reflective of the changing demographics in this country, that now there are more forums to put out this type of work. Before, you were really relegated to a TV spot or an article, but now people are having these conversations that are going beyond that. I wrote two front-page stories about Twitter campaigns [one on black Twitter activism during Ferguson, the other on racial tensions at colleges.] For The New York Times, that's a shift. That's saying that these conversations about race are going beyond what they used to be. Look at Off Color—it's a web project. I don't know if there was any print at all. This was all digital first and web only. A lot of these conversations and beats, including what NPR is doing with Code Switch, are happening on blogs and social media, not so much on traditional media.
ET: Why is it important that the Times, specifically, has someone dedicated to this beat?
TV: We're not the only ones, but once we weigh in on a topic, the story does tend to get picked up. There's a crazy level of responsibility for us to get it right, and with my work, I've tried to make sure we're telling the full story and we're as nuanced as possible. And I think that's been appreciated, including with Off Color. I've heard a lot of people say, "You guys finally got it right." Mainstream media often gets criticized for not doing that. We're trying to tell the stories that aren't as obvious to people and do have a level of nuance that perhaps get lost often, particularly when you're a larger news outlet.
ET: I'm a young, Asian-American reporter, and one of the things that I think people like me struggle with is not wanting to be pigeon-holed into just reporting on identity issues. Do you have any advice for journalists of color who are just starting out?
TV: Young journalists of color shouldn't shy away from reporting about race and ethnicity, but they also shouldn't feel obligated to report about race and ethnicity. The way they do that is by entering into fields that are non-traditional fields of reporting for them, whatever that may be. If you're interested in politics, do it. If you're interested in business, do it. I do think political and business reporting are two areas that have historically had an underrepresentation of journalists of color. That's where there could be some very interesting opportunities.
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All King's College schools offer an array of onsite facilities in order to provide a dynamic learning environment for our pupils.
King's College, The British School of Latvia, is no different and will offer both indoor and outdoor facilities to ensure that our pupils can benefit from every angle that the British curriculum has to offer.
Our Library ensures that pupils have access to the best written materials to inspire and enthuse and the spacious sports hall offers them the opportunities to try their hand at a multitude of different sporting activities.
Like the other schools in King's Group, King's College Latvia comes complete with independent bathrooms for the Early Years classrooms (Nursery & Reception), as well as direct access onto an external play space, so that pupils can make the most of the diverse outdoors that the area has to offer. Both Infant and Senior playgrounds are separated to allow our pupils to enjoy the spaces around them safely.
Every classroom has its own computing provision. Pupils benefit from a range of early years software packages in the Nursery where they begin to develop basic computer skills such as mouse control.
Children then have the opportunity to practice their skills in an interactive and stimulating environment, usually working in pairs with their teacher or learning assistant. Sound, colour and animation all help to captivate a child's interest in computing right from the start of their education.
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Aviva Directory » Computers & Internet » Data Formats & File Extensions » Markdown
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that uses a plain-text format that allows it to be converted to several output formats, although the original Markdown tool supported only HTML.
The language was created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004, who designed it to allow people to write in plain text, both easy-to-read and easy-to-write, which could be converted to valid HTML or XHTML. The chief goal in its design was for it to be readable as it is, without being marked up with tags or formatting instructions.
Markdown has since been reimplemented by others, particularly in open-source environments like GitHub and SourceForge, which use variants of Markdown to facilitate discussions between users.
Several Markdown implementations have been introduced, largely by people who desired additional features, such as tables, footnotes, and so on. Variants of Markdown include MultiMarkdown, GitHub Flavored Markdown, Pandoc, CommonMark, and Markdown Extra.
CommonMark was the result of a standardization effort led by John MacFarlane, Jeff Atwood, and others, beginning in 2012. Originally known simply as Markdown, Gruber objected to the project's use of the name, so it was renamed CommonMark.
In 2017, GitHub released a specification of an implementation of CommonMark that follows the CommonMark specification, except for tables, strikethrough, auto links, and task lists, which the GitHub specification added as extensions. Its implementation is known as GitHub Flavored Markdown.
Based on Markdown implemented in PHP, Python, and Ruby, Markdown Extra is a lightweight markup language that adds features such as markup within HTML blocks, elements with id/class attributes, fenced code blocks, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and abbreviations. Released in 2014, Markdown Extra is supported in content management systems (CMS) like Drupal, MediaWiki, and TYPO3.
There are implementations of Markdown for more than a dozen programming languages, as well as for every major blogging platform.
The original implementation of Markdown, as well as any subsequent implementations, are appropriate for this category, as well as any websites whose topics are focused on Markdown.
CommonMark is an implementation of Markdown, which had been created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004. As the original Markdown does not specify the syntax unambiguously, several divergent implementations were created over a ten-year period, and CommonMark was designed to serve as an unambiguous standard for Markdown languages. Its origins are put forth, including acknowledgments of those who took part in it and links to other CommonMark resources.
https://commonmark.org/
Daring Fireball Company: Markdown
Available under a BSD-style open-source license, Markdown is free software. The text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers allows users to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain-text format, which is then converted to structurally valid HTML or XHTML. The people who have contributed significantly to the creation of Markdown are acknowledged, and basic instructions, as well as the syntax of the language, are described on John Gruber's site, along with sponsorships.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Licensed as free and open source under the MIT License, Dillinger is a browser-based HTML5 Markdown editor that is cloud-enabled and mobile-ready, providing offline storage of projects. When the user types some Markdown in the left column, the corresponding HTML appears in the right, offering immediate feedback. Files may also be imported from GitHub, DropBox, or Google Drive, as well as dragged and dropped into Dillinger, then exported as Markdown, HTML, or PDF.
https://dillinger.io/
GitHub: CommonMark.NET
Hosted on GitHub, and available as a free download, CommonMark.NET is an implementation of the CommonMark specification in C# designed for converting Markdown documents to HTML. The current version of the library is also available on NuGet. Its usage, installation, and compatibilities are put forth. Comparisons with other implementations are made, along with reliability, and references. Contributors to the repository are acknowledged, and files may be cloned or downloaded.
https://github.com/Knagis/CommonMark.NET/
Markdown Guide
The free and open-source reference guide describes how to use Markdown, the simple-to-use markup language that can be used to format nearly any document. Featured is a guide to getting started with Markdown, instructions on Markdown syntax, as well as an extended syntax guide to creating tables, fenced code blocks, automatic links, and other features. A Markdown cheat sheet includes a quick overview of all of the elements of Markdown syntax, basic and extended.
https://www.markdownguide.org/
Markdown Here
Created for the purpose of using Markdown to write an email, Markdown Here is available for free as an open-source project, with extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird, and Postbox. Users can write an email in Markdown, then click a button or context menu item to render the email into fully-formatted HTML text. A sandbox is available to allow viewers to test it out in their browser. It may also be downloaded or installed for free. A features page and instructions are included.
https://markdown-here.com/
Markdown Pad
MP is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows that includes LivePreview, which shows the user exactly what a document will look like every time they press a key. Fonts, color schemes, layouts, and stylesheets are 100% customizable, and Markdown formatting can be applied or removed with handy keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons. Users may also use custom stylesheets to change the look of HTML documents, using a built-in CSS editor. The editor may be purchased online.
http://www.markdownpad.com/
Markdown Tutorial
Markdown is a way of writing content for the web, which can be easily shared between computers, mobile phones, and people. The online tutorial is interactive, in that it uses a browser playground, allowing users to complete lessons online, beginning with the easiest lessons and progressing to more complicated instructions. Upon the successful completion of one lesson, the user progresses to the next. Likewise, basic concept sections progress to advanced sections.
https://www.markdowntutorial.com/
Python CommonMark
CommonMark.py is a pure Python port of Jgm's CommonMark.js, an operating system-independent Markdown parser, and renderer for the CommonMark specification that uses only the native modules. Project description and release history are published, and the files are available for download through the BSD License. The authors and maintainers are identified, along with installation instructions, information on usage, running tests, and code examples are put forth.
https://pypi.org/project/commonmark/
R Markdown
Created by R Studio Connect, R Markdown allows users to create fully reproducible documents, using a productive notebook interface to combine narrative text and code to produce correctly formatted output. Supporting dozens of static and dynamic output formats, including HTML, PDF, MS Word, Beamer, Tufte-style handouts, books, dashboards, scientific articles, websites, and others. Users can publish and schedule reports, enable self-service customization and distribute emails.
https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
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