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File #: Int 1615-2019 Version: * Name: Teacher retention reporting requirement and task force.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Education
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a teacher retention reporting requirement and task force
Sponsors: Mark Treyger, Ben Kallos
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to report data to the Council concerning teacher retention and turnover. This bill would also require DOE to post data on each school's website concerning teacher retention at each school. A task force would then be convened to analyze this data and issue a report with recommendations to address the issue. The task force would dissolve after it issues the report, but the reporting requirement would remain in place indefinitely.
Indexes: Council Appointment Required, Other Appointment Required, Report Required, Sunset Date Applies
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1615, 2. Int. No. 1615, 3. June 18, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-18-19, 5. Minutes of the Recessed Meeting of June 13, 2019 Held on June 18, 2019
12/31/2021 * Mark Treyger City Council Filed (End of Session) Action details Meeting details Not available
6/18/2019 * Mark Treyger City Council Introduced by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
6/18/2019 * Mark Treyger City Council Referred to Comm by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 1615
By Council Members Treyger and Kallos
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a teacher retention reporting requirement and task force
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 27 to read as follows:
Teacher Retention
§ 21-998 Definitions
§ 21-999 Reporting
§ 21-1000 Task force
§ 21-998. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
Career development. The term "career development" means professional development opportunities for teachers provided by the department, including but not limited to the teacher career pathways programs and the graduate scholarship program.
Non-teaching staff member. The term "non-teaching staff member" means a school-based department employee who does not have a teacher title.
School survey. The term "school survey" means the survey administered annually by the department to teachers, students and parents to collect information about each school's ability to support student success.
Teacher. The term "teacher" means a school-based department employee who has a teacher title.
Type of classroom. The term "type of classroom" means the setting in which a teacher is placed, including but not limited to general education, special education, integrated co-teaching classrooms and any other types of classrooms, which may include additional services or supplementary aids.
Unique employee identification. The term "unique employee identification" means a sequentially assigned indicator that represents an individual department employee.
§ 21-999. Reporting. a. Annual report. No later than November 30 of the year following the effective date of this chapter and annually thereafter, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council information for the prior school year pursuant to subdivisions c, d and e of this section. The first report provided pursuant to this section shall include data from the 1999-2000 school year through the most recent completed school year, to the extent practicable.
b. School level reports. Beginning November 30 of the year following the effective date of this section and annually thereafter, the department shall post on each school's website:
1. The information for teachers at such school required by paragraphs 1 through 5 of subdivision c of this section; and
2. Such school's average numbers for paragraphs 4 and 5 of subdivision c of this section.
c. Teacher tenure data. Each row in this dataset shall be an individual teacher and, to the extent practicable, the corresponding columns shall include but not be limited to:
1. Unique employee identification;
2. School year;
3. Date of hire;
4. Length of time teaching in total;
5. Length of time teaching at school for reported school year;
6. Gender identity;
7. Race;
8. Ethnicity;
9. Age;
10. Title;
11. Provisional status;
12. Highest level of education;
13. Area(s) of teaching certification;
14. Any career development the teacher has attained;
15. Salary;
16. School name;
17. School district borough number;
18. Grade(s) taught;
19. Subject(s) taught;
20. Language(s) of instruction;
21. Type of classroom(s);
22. Percentage of white students;
23. Percentage of black students;
24. Percentage of hispanic students;
25. Percentage of asian students;
26. Percentage of students in multiple race categories not otherwise specified;
27. Percentage of students in economic need as determined by the department;
28. Percentage of students with individualized education plans;
29. Percentage of students in temporary housing;
30. Average number of students in classroom;
31. Number of student removals;
32. Number of students sent to principal;
33. Number of students sent to superintendent;
34. Number of students expelled;
35. Number of students with removals or suspensions;
36. Number of students with multiple removals and/or suspensions;
37. Number of students transported by EMS;
38. Number of students with removals or suspensions resulting from incidents involving NYPD;
39. Average student academic grade;
40. Average student personal behaviors grade;
41. Whether teacher experienced emotional trauma while working; and
42. Whether teacher experienced physical trauma while working.
d. School survey data. Each row in this dataset shall be an individual teacher and, to the extent practicable, the corresponding columns shall include but not be limited to the teacher's unique employee identification, school year, school name, school district borough number and the teacher's responses to the school survey questions. If, after the effective date of this subchapter, the survey questions administered to teachers change, the department shall continue to report teacher responses to questions in the areas of effective leadership, safety, program coherence, peer support for academic work and supportive environment. This dataset shall include for each teacher the following school survey responses:
1. Students in class listen carefully when teacher gives directions;
2. Students in class follow the rules in class;
3. Students in class do their work when they are supposed to;
4. Students in class feel it is important to come to school every day;
5. Students in class feel it is important to pay attention in class;
6. Students in class think doing homework is important;
7. Students in class try hard to get good grades;
8. Students are safe outside and around school;
9. Students are safe traveling between home and school;
10. Students are safe in the hallways, bathrooms, locker rooms, and cafeteria of school;
11. Students are safe in class and/or classes;
12. Discipline is applied to students fairly in school;
13. Principal/school leader makes clear to staff expectations for meeting instructional goals;
14. Principal/school leader communicates a clear vision for the school;
15. Principal/school leader understands how children learn;
16. Principal/school leader sets high standards for student learning;
17. Principal/school leader sets clear expectations for teachers about implementing what they have learned in professional development;
18. Principal/school leader carefully tracks student academic progress;
19. Principal/school leader knows what is going on in their classroom;
20. Principal/school leader participates in instructional planning with teams of teachers;
21. When the school starts a new program, there is follow-up to make sure the program is working;
22. It is clear how all of the programs offered are connected to school's instructional vision; and
23. School curriculum, instruction and learning materials are all well-coordinated across different grade levels.
e. Non-teaching staff member data. Each row in the dataset shall be an individual non-teaching staff member and the corresponding columns shall include but not be limited to:
3. School name;
4. School district borough number;
6. Length of time employed in this area in total;
7. Length of time employed at school for reported school year;
10. Ethnicity;
11. Age;
12. Title; and
13. Provisional status.
§ 21-1000. Task force. a. There shall be a task force convened for the purpose of improving retention of department teachers.
b. Composition. The task force shall consist of at least 13 members as follows:
1. The mayor, or the mayor's designee;
2. The speaker of the council, or the speaker's designee;
3. The chancellor, or the chancellor's designee;
4. Five members appointed by the mayor, including one member who is a member of a union representing teachers, one member who is a member of a union representing principals, one member who is an expert in the field of study that examines education and the creation of effective teacher development, one member who is a behavioral scientist who studies learning and assessment and one member who is an expert in assessment, evaluation, testing and other aspects of educational measurement; and
5. Five members appointed by the speaker of the council, including one member who is a member of a union representing teachers, one member who is a member of a union representing principals, one member who is an expert in the field of study that examines education and the creation of effective teacher development, one member who is a behavioral scientist who studies learning and assessment and one member who is an expert in assessment, evaluation, testing and other aspects of educational measurement.
c. Member appointment. All members shall be appointed no later than 30 days after the department submits its first report pursuant to subdivision a of section 21-999. No member shall be removed except for cause by the appointing authority. In the event of a vacancy during the term of an appointed member, a successor shall be selected in the same manner as the original appointment.
d. Terms of membership. Members of the task force shall not be required to take or file oaths of office before serving on the task force. Each member of the task force shall serve without compensation.
e. Task force meeting and hearing requirements. The task force shall meet no later than 45 days after the department submits its first report pursuant to subdivision a of section 21-999. The task force shall meet no less than monthly. The task force shall hold at least one public hearing every quarter to solicit public comment and recommendations about improving retention of department teachers.
f. Report. The task force shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the mayor and the speaker of the council no later than one year after its first meeting. The report shall also be posted to the department's website. The report shall include but not be limited to a review of the datasets submitted pursuant to section 21-999, recommendations to improve teacher retention and suggestions of additional data needed to analyze teacher turnover. The task force shall dissolve upon submission of the report required by this subdivision.
g. This section expires and is deemed repealed after the submission of the report required by subdivision f of this section.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately after it becomes law.
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1992, Comics, Love and Rockets	by Andrew Wickliffe 4 November 2018 1 December 2021
Two stories end in this issue, with Poison River having one more to go. But the issue opens with the finale Wigwam Bam, which Jaime didn't announce last issue, and the last Love and Rockets, which Beto did. Wigwam Bam opens the issue, Love and Rockets finishes it.
Jaime gets a lot done in Wigwam Bam. It helps he's finished the Hoppers stories. He's got time to spend a lot of panels on Hopey. Her East coast adventure comes to a very grim conclusion, albeit a grim conclusion arrived at via lots of humor. Meanwhile Izzy is off visiting Maggie's dad and he gives her an old journal. So the story is Izzy reading Maggie's journal and Hopey's awful day.
While Jaime doesn't get into Hopey's interiority much–he more lets her expression or even eyebrow her way through it–it's an excellent Hopey story. Maybe the best Hopey story in Wigwam Bam. Because it's all about her. Jaime sticks with her, doesn't jump away. Instead it feels like he's jumping to her, instead of avoiding her. Very nice.
And the Maggie journal stuff is fantastic. Because it answers open questions, like what happened a dozen plus issues ago when Speedy died, before Jaime did a jump ahead. The journal is mostly about Maggie's first best friend, who appeared a long time ago (also in flashback) before dying suddenly and tragically.
There's also plot, not just everyone in Hoppers having stuff going on so here's ten to sixteen pages. Hopey's awful adventure this issue is fantastic. The best plotting–with the most layers–Jaime's done in a while. He doesn't "save" the story, because Wigwam Bam isn't so much a story as a period in Jaime's Love and Rockets stories.
Otherwise, he probably would've saved the story.
Beto's second-to-last Poison River is outstanding. There's some postscript on the gangsters, then Luba returning home. The grown Luba. Lots of character development for Luba and Ofelia, not much clue as to how Beto's going to finish it. He brings back elements from earlier chapters but everyone's outgrown them in one way or another. Beto's getting the story settled before it ends while reintroducing Luba and Ofelia, with a relationship dynamic much more familiar than Poison had been covering before.
Of course, given how Beto's plotted the story, it could go on another ten chapters without coming to a conclusion. It all depends on where he's going to finish Luba's origin story. Based on the timeline, I don't think it can end with them showing up in Palomar. They're still too early.
Then comes Love and Rockets, which is Beto's simple but not, obvious but not, stone-cold masterpiece. It's way more impressive than it originally appeared–it also echoes things from Poison. The two stories don't exactly complement one another, but Rockets has always felt like Beto doing things he couldn't do in Poison. And then when he started doing more in Poison, he started doing more in Rockets too.
Beto perfects the panel jumping from subplot-to-subplot in Rockets's finale. Along with the characters addressing the reader directly. He goes all over the place, does so much, including a lot with fourth tier supporting cast members. Turns out it was all important.
And it ends on one of Beto's montages, which he hasn't done in a while because he hasn't been ending a story. And the montage perfectly grounds the finish. So much amazing storytelling done so concisely. It's awesome.
Love and Rockets might actually be Beto's most complex narrative. There are just so many characters–so many entirely new characters–so much random interaction… it's really impressive stuff. Particularly because Beto's ambitions on Rockets have been rather muted.
So good. It's the best overall issue in a while.
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Constituency projects, whose projects?
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By josef Omorotionmwan
THERE is a general observation among our clubs and associations. When celebrating their anniversaries, they would buy a bag of rice, a bag of toilet tissues and 10 yam tubers, all costing some N10,000, as gift items meant for an orphanage.
The club would proceed to the television house, where it would be made to pay about N30,000 for coverage of the presentation.
We ask, where is the philanthropic spirit, if you are paying N30, 000 to the TV station to cover your presentation of some abstract items of N10, 000 to the needy? Is it not clear that the club is only interested in the publicity?
A philanthropic spirit would dictate that you present the entire N40,000 to the orphanage without asking for any publicity.
A time will come, when the television station will say to such a club, we refuse to be used for your type of malignant tokenism; as it were, enough of this case of benediction being longer than mass.
But do you know that this is exactly what your representatives in Abuja are providing with the so-called constituency projects?
Who says elections are not good, when, indeed, they are the only devices that are capable of pulling some seemingly docile, deaf and dumb politicians from their shelves?
A man would claim to be representing his people in Abuja and for four long years, he would not make his inaugural speech at the National Assembly.
Really, his people have no way of knowing if the man got to Abuja. What prevents say an Edo State Federal legislator from getting to Osara, pick up a steady job and report to Abuja only occasionally to collect the jumbo thievery, which they call allowances?
We are also reminded that in this digital age, such allowances are automatically credited to their accounts and such sums can be accessed on-line in any part of the world. So, why leave Benin City at all?
Rather, what prevents you from remaining permanently in Archipelago for four years? Nothing, absolutely nothing!
Every election year, legislators, even the "Dundee United" among them rush forward and begin to show-case their achievements in the name of constituency projects. What are constituency projects? Whose projects are they? Clearly, a definition of those amorphous projects is impossible.
All we can do is to attempt some descriptions. They are clearly an aberration. To the extent that they have no basis in law, they remain a bundle of illegalities and unconstitutinalism. It is equally fraudulent for any legislator to claim them as his projects or his personal achievements.
According to the literary theory of our Constitution, the National Assembly as the legislative branch of our national government is to make policy while the executive branch is to administer or execute the policy. Any matter on the interpretation of the Constitution and other laws are to be referred to the courts.
Although these divisions are not made into any watertight compartment, it was never the intention of the Constitution that any branch of government should relinquish its assigned functions to any other branch. At no time did the Constitution intend that the National Assembly should begin to execute the laws it makes.
The doctrine of checks and balances was enshrined in our Constitution to ensure that no particular branch of government has too much powers concentrated in its hands because the concentration of too much powers in any branch would lead to tyranny.
The National Assembly has now boxed the Executive branch to a tight corner where during the annual budgetary process, every legislator is given the opportunity to implant into the document, some flimsy projects, with large budgetary outlays, ostensibly for his constituency.
In adherence to the basic principles of the separation of powers, the best anyone can say is that these are Federal Government projects executed through the National Assembly members.
Putting it mildly, the so-called constituency projects make nonsense of the broad division of responsibilities into the Exclusive and Concurrent lists outlined in the Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution for, a large part of the projects executed with Federal Government funds under the scheme are projects that should be executed by the Community Development Associations (CDAs), not even state and local governments.
This is partly responsible for why the Federal Government is seen as a defective, non-performing entity. Whereas our President can, every week, hop into the plane to go and commission real state projects – airports, massive road projects, state universities, etc, built at a cost of billions of Naira of state funds; the President whose development efforts have been relinquished to the legislators has nothing of his own to commission.
A whole President cannot be seen commissioning bore-holes, cheap school furniture and renovated three-classroom blocks scattered all over the place. And these are the places into which the billions of Naira allocated to constituency projects have evaporated!
Meanwhile, the legislators back home are busy showing coloured photographs of the same projects as their personal achievements.
Evidently, not everyone has been lucky enough to be a legislator. The other day, we saw the aide to a former governor. He is now in the race for the Senate. He has carefully packaged all the development efforts of the defunct administration as his personal achievement. That's his constituency project.
That was when it became clearer that this writer also provided the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja since the initial idea was mooted in his presence. It is really wonderful, what people do in the name of campaign.
Apart from being a drain pipe, the constituency project is an indirect way of the Federal Government abandoning its duty post and usurping the responsibilities meant for other tiers.
Has anyone cared to find out how much of the taxpayers' Naira is flushed down the toilet of the constituency projects? By the time the full story shall be told, it will be seen as a national embarrassment. Any attempt to credit those projects to legislators is the moral equivalence of a kidnap. And they deserve no less punishment than kidnappers.
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Australia is one of the world's most urbanised countries. Almost 90% of our population is urban, and most live within 50km of the coast. So, it's hardly surprising that most urban dwellers are not closely connected to or knowledgeable about grain farming. Even within grain farming itself, larger farms and greater use of labour-saving technologies mean there are fewer people directly engaged in grain farming. Few people can now afford to enter grain farming, unless they are independently wealthy or inheritors a farm business.
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The Graduate Program in Information Science (PGCIN) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) is opening a selection process for master's and doctoral courses with the aim of filling vacancies for the classes of 2023, the year the program completes two decades. The application period will be from September 5 to 25, 2022. Continue reading >>.
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The Dean of Permanent and Student Affairs (Prae) published the decree of the inclusion program in sports activities for the 2022/2 semester. Applications are open until September 6 and must be made through the Prae Registration system. The purpose of the program is to exempt students regularly enrolled in on-site baccalaureate courses in the sports activities extension projects of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) Sports Center (SDF). in UFSC, who comes from a family whose monthly gross family income is up to 1.5 minimum wages per capita. Continue reading >>.
The UFSC Center for Culture and Events hosts the Topography of the Void exhibit
The UFSC Culture and Events Center Exhibition Space will host the Topografia do Vazio exhibit by artist Karine Padilha starting this Tuesday, September 6th. The exhibition will open at 19:00 on the first floor of the Culture and Events Center. Based on the studies of John Cage, the Void topographical series deconstructs the idea of emotional emptiness and seeks to promote contact with emotions. Continue reading >>.
UFSC brings together government agencies and citizens of greater Florianopolis in unprecedented training
The Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) together with the University of São Paulo (USP) developed the first edition of the Ceurs Cidades training, an initiative that is part of the Training and Urban Studies Program for Sustainability (Ceurs). The course started this Saturday, September 3, with forty vacancies intended for appointment by the executive and legislative authorities and public organizations of Greater Florianopolis. The objective is to prepare agents for the municipality of Florianopolis, San José, Biguassu and Palhosa of the 2030 Agenda, signed by the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN), with the goals of dignity and sustainable quality of life for the future. generations from public policy. Continue reading >>.
A note of condolence. technical-administrative server Nasareno Roberto D'Acampora Sucupira died.
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William Philo (17. februar 1882 - 7. juli 1916) var en britisk bokser som deltog i OL 1908 i London.

Philo vandt en bronzemedalje i boksning under OL 1908 i London. Han kom på en tredjeplads i vægtklassen, mellemvægt.

Han blev dræbt i Slaget ved Somme under 1. verdenskrig.

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I'm trying to take advantage of the ISC license for juce_core and porting it to "special" set-top boxes that are Broadcom and uClibc based.
I'm running into a few blocking compilation issues though, which I will PR to help unify the changes needed.
The two macros here don't exist, because there's no locale nor xlocale support.
Next, backtrace is unsupported because there's no exec info on this platform. So you could check if this macro is available, _GLIBCXX_HAVE_EXECINFO_H, but I'm not so sure that's the most generic solution.
And lastly, because of the missing locale/xlocale, and nonexistent C++11 std::stod, this needs a quick patch in juce_CharacterFunctions.h. Obviously I hate this solution as much you do, so am totally open to a proper one.
If multiple people can take a look, that would be appreciated! It would be super fun to get BCM + uClibc support in JUCE.


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Natel-e Restaq Rural District () is a rural district (dehestan) in Chamestan District, Nur County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. As per the 2006 census, its population was 14,067, in 3,557 families. The rural district has 29 villages.

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Film Mixing and Sound design
~ Audio in films, and general mixing tips tricks, techniques.
Bombay Velvet – Effects, Ambience and Foley Mix
Posted by filmmixer in Film Mixing, Mac OSX, Mix Notes, Pro Tools, Techniques
This time I will write about how the Effects, Ambience and foley were mixed. There is nothing fancy or new in this but there are some techniques that I used this time. Before I get to that, I would say that all the premixes that I did were by listening to the Score and Dialogues playing back from the first machine. This helps me to quickly workaround whatever clashes that were there. Also what it helps is to find what scene works with the score and what would need to be based on effects. In such cases I would mix the effects with prominence and then Justin, Kunal and I would figure out the scene. But then that too would change based on what The Director would want. By then we already have an idea of how it would work either ways.
FX Session
The effects were running from a Laptop with 16Gb of Ram and an HDX2 on a thunderbolt chassis with Pro Tools HD V12. We had close to 200 tracks running at 96kHz. These were original source files recorded at 96k by Kunal and Gokul and not upconverted from 48kHz. Preparing the session involved some effort as we needed to know what to compile and how to group them. Earlier in my mixes, I would route separate auxes for elements if needed. This time, I used VCAs. For example, if a session had guns, ricochets, passbys, hits, breakings etc on separate tracks, then rather than creating separate auxes and use Voices, I would send them to common outs and control them via VCA. If they need any common processing then I would use grouped plugins. My session would have masters in the order of FX, Ambience, Foley, Incidentals, FX Objects, Ambience Objects, FX Bed, Ambience Bed and Crowd. If there are guns etc, those would also be grouped. All of this was discussed with the sound editor Gokul. He gave me the sessions in the required split and this also helped in sorting the session to a manageable one. I was using the Avid S3 to do the fader rides and plugin control and this allowed me to create layouts in count of 16 Faders. They were also color coded tracks.
I had LFE sent through the Pro Subharmonic that gave me beautiful options for different frequency bands that were automated. My go to EQ here was the Fabfilter Pro Q2. This had frequency bands upto 30kHz which was very useful in a 96kHz project. The R2 from Exponential Audio was my reverb. It is a very cool plugin that is absolutely remarkable for non musical real elements like Foley and effects. On the foley I used the RA for a bit more body on the footsteps. Spanner was on all of the Master surround busses that I used.
The Routing involved the SDDS technique I have explained here. The object tracks were placed just below the last track of each section eg Foley will be followed by its Object, then FX and Ambience. One thing to note about the Dolby Atmos system as of now is that you cannot have a gap between object numbers. So if you have FX objects from 20 to 40 and Ambience from 45 to 55, the numbers from 41 to 44 cannot be left blank. There has to be a dummy object or instead of starting from 45, shift those to 41. In our case, we literally had no spare objects and ended up using all the 118 object tracks. This was also because the SDDS technique by itself uses objects for the pan.
Spanner to Object
The above figure shows how I used the Spanner to Object app in my session. Basically the beds would be rotated using spanner where needed. Once done, I would take the individual element like a wind or cutlery in a room (if the camera pans across) and put that on a track that is routed to an output that I called FX_Object_Pan. This bus has its separate elements to object outputs. So, the Subpath L would be in 95, C in 96, R in 97 etc. Each of these auxes will have the Dolby atmos panner with the pan position as L, C, R, Lss, Rss, Lsr, Rsr, respectively. Then by running the app I mentioned above, the automation would be copied into the dolby plugin. Simple! A 2 minute job in less than 10 seconds!
EQ and Compression
I generally cut off the Highs and Lows in a foley track but this time, the production recording was so good that I used most of that and ended up using foley only where it was absolutely needed. The truth is we dont hear every footstep, tap or shuffle. So, there was a lot of rides on the footsteps to make them sound natural and also on the taps. In fact we took off most of them so that it makes the film more natural rather than forced. My major use of the objects was for panning within the field and not for the overheads. One thing we had decided in this movie was to make the mix grow as the film does. So, this is where the accuracy of atmos helped. Very little compression was used in the effects as they were extremely dynamic in nature going from barely heard levels to good ones. We made sure the mids were controlled so that we were able to create loudness without the pain of it. There were sequences that were really difficult to do as it had to be big yet not hurt. I always managed to push it even further by controlling the upper frequencies. One subtle thing this does is it gives a very rounded tone with the attack where needed so that the mind makes up for the missing frequencies.
If you read my previous dialog post, you would have noticed that I like to have things in the Center Channel. basically my thought is if there are speakers on the stage, use them to reproduce the sound and not rely on the phantom center. This is also why I like to have ambiences panned through the center and never leave it on Left and Right Channel. I am also not a big fan of using Divergence as it means we are simply sending the same signal across channels and not really using the space to be created. Instead its like having a big Mono. So, what I generally do is rely on the Pan Law or use a separate part of the same signal (eg crickets or night ambience) in the surrounds. This gives a bigger separation to the space that is created. A lot of the effects that were MS recorded were also decoded as I had mentioned in the dialog blog post. Another thing that I used was to use the innet Left Center and Right center speaker for the low elements and the LCR for attack and brighter elements. This gave a lot of separation in the sounds and the Atmos Renderer took care of rendering it back to a 5.1 or 7.1 track.
Invert EQ
This is one that I used with Nugen Seq-S on the Crowd tracks. What I did was to get a feed of the dialogue recorded, get the Tonal spectrum and use the invert on the crowd with automation on the depth of the EQ cut so that it is not felt that the crowds have a dip while the dialogues can clearly push through without boosting it or lowering the crowds.
Ghost Signals
I didnt know what to call this technique so I named it this way. Basically the idea is to open a signal triggered by another. Of course I could have used a gate, but I wanted the smoothness of a compressor's attack and release in this. The requirement was in a certain sequence where the crowd sounds would be heard by the character only when he was hit. It would vary based on the intensity of the hit and also the duration of it. I came up with this weird way of achieving it. I used the Pro Compressor with the settings as in the figure.
If you look above you can see there is a key signal called CrowdSC and what I did was to switch the speaker icon on. (the icon is just to the right of smart RMS AVG PEAK FAST setting).
How this works is like this. Whenever there is a sidechain the compressor would compress. What this speaker icon would do is play the compression or gain reduction signal rather the compressed signal. It is actually there to know what you are compressing. So this was put on the design crowd track and whenever there was a hit, that came through the CrowdSC, this would play the compression. Adjusting the attack and release gave me the option for a smooth open and close and the Ration gave me gain reduction based on the input signal. So a harder hit had more level of the crowd. This was then sent to a reverb so that it tailed out in the ear of the character. So the effect in words is as he is hit he hears the crowd open and die out for that one moment with reverb. It sounds very surreal but is actually something that would happen in a fight.
Apart from this, it didnt really change what I did in my earlier notes except in the mix where some more things were tried out. Some of the scenes like a moving car would have a mondomod process on the car sound to give the sense of vibration to the sound as you would have in a car. A lot of the effects were done to match the music which is why I used the score while premixing. I got a rough sense of the tempo and used that to set my pre delay on reverbs for musical scenes so that the effects and the space feel part of the score. It was also easy for me to fit the effect within the space with minimal rides in this case as it blends more easily. There were places where we treated the effects and blended them into the score so morphing the transition from score to effects to score. The LFE I mentioned was not present in the BGM while Justin mixed it and it was left to the Effects to compliment that.
Next time notes on the Final mix. Till then enjoy and take care!
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Q: Inserting Multiple Rows In SQL SERVER I am making an audit for a form which takes into account the available fields.
I have the columns, session_id (the id of that current form created) ,fieldname, old value, new value. The old value is only populated if the user decides to change a value in the form and saves it.
So ideally when a user fills out a form first time and saves it, it should create new rows (3 rows in this example as there's only 3 fields) with the given details.

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| 123 | LastName  |           |   Smith   |
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That audit is from one form with 3 fields. Is there a way to do this in one sql request? Populate the table with all the fieldnames available in the form.
An example of if I was to update a field.

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| ID  | Fieldname | Old Value | New Value |
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| 123 |  Title    |           |   Mr      |
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| 123 | FirstName |    Bob    |   Tim     |
|_________________________________________|
| 123 | LastName  |           |   Smith   |
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The Internet of Things has grown drastically over the last few years and will only get bigger. As gatekeepers of company data, management accountants should learn how to connect the data and use it to their company's advantage.
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As we retrieve more data from connected devices (including ourselves with wearable tech), how should management accountants and finance functions handle setting expectations, costs, and information? Our role as safekeepers of corporate assets doesn't stop at the border of an information technology silo. We need to be an integrated part of the team that ensures data assets are kept safe by our IT governance and security. We have a duty to apply cost-benefit analysis in project decision making and have the financial analysis background to assist the organization in using the data that flows from these devices and their interrelatedness.
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REFRIGERATOR Adjust the temperature, ensure the components are continuously running properly, and be alerted if someone leaves the door open.
GARAGE DOOR Open and close the door from your smartphone, control the interior and exterior lights, and get alerts when you forget to close the door.
THERMOSTAT These thermostats check the weather to adjust the house temperature automatically, or you can adjust the temperature remotely.
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Christopher Mishler, CMA, CIA, CISA, is the global subject matter expert on User-Developed Application Risk at Experis. He also is chair of IMA's TS&P Committee and a member of IMA's Ann Arbor Chapter. You can reach Chris at christopher.mishler@experis.com.


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Cubs' Rookie Javier Assad Has Not Given Up a Run in Two Career Starts
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Rookie pitcher Javier Assad tossed another five scoreless innings for the Chicago Cubs Monday night in Toronto. In his second career start, Assad gave up just four hits and two walks against the Blue Jays. The Cubs blew a 4-0 lead after manager David Ross' call to the pen.
Chicago Cubs' rookie pitcher Javier Assad pitched five scoreless frames for his team on the road in Toronto Monday night.
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Assad has been in the Cubs' farm system since 2015, when the organization signed him as an international free agent from Mexico.
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With 2022 Opening Day starter Kyle Hendricks out for the season and pitchers Keegan Thompson, Wade Miley and Steven Brault all on the Injured List, Assad should see a nice opportunity down the stretch to audition for the Cubs' 2023 pitching rotation.
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