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The Great Heart of KIPP: The State Board and Charter Authorizing
The Tennessee State Board of Education today used authority granted to it by the General Assembly in 2014 to approve two KIPP charter schools that had previously been rejected by the MNPS Board of Education.
The decision means the State Board has decided which schools will be opened and funded by MNPS rather than that decision being left to the elected School Board.
The authority was given to the State Board because of the Great Hearts Controversy.
Back in 2012, MNPS rejected an application filed by Great Hearts to open a charter school. The State Board heard an appeal from Great Hearts and sent the issue back to the MNPS Board, recommending approval. MNPS refused. Then-education commissioner Kevin Huffman fined MNPS $3.4 million.
And legislators, ever eager to micro-manage public education to the point of absurdity, filed legislation.
As John noted at the time, a significant part of the legislation is:
This might actually be a better financial deal for charter schools. Under this legislation, a charter school authorized by the state would get the full state, local, and federal share of per-pupil dollars, plus a "local match" from the LEA for capital outlay. The latter portion, especially, may be a change from how things currently work when charters are authorized by an LEA.
(d) Funding for charter schools authorized by the state board shall be in accordance with § 49-13-112, except that the LEA in which the charter school operates shall pay to the department one hundred percent (100%) of the per student share of local funding and any federal funding in the custody of the LEA that is due to the charter school. The department shall withhold from the LEA the per student share of state funding that is due to the charter school as well as any federal funding in the custody of the department that is due to the charter school. The department shall then allocate and disburse these funds to the charter school in accordance with procedures developed by the department.
It will be interesting to see how MNPS reacts to this course of action. The State Board has authorized the expenditure of Nashville tax dollars in a very specific manner, directing that those funds go to support the opening and operation of two KIPP charter schools.
It's not like MNPS is averse to charter schools. Many charter schools operate in the district and the Board did approve some charter applications this year.
In fact, in 2014, the Board signed off on a plan to give KIPP an elementary school. As Dr. Register proceeded, this action actually led to the formation of East Nashville United.
At that time, the focus of the possible takeover was Inglewood Elementary. NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia even visited the school to build support for preventing a KIPP takeover there.
Ultimately, KIPP won the right to takeover Kirkpatrick Elementary.
All of this to say: The majority of the MNPS Board has not demonstrated a bias against charter schools or even KIPP.
Some, including Board Member Will Pinkston, have argued for smart growth when it comes to charters. Pinkston noted:
The school board took a fiscally conservative position. With 8,157 seats currently in the charter pipeline — including more than 1,000 yet-to-be-filed seats belonging to KIPP — that's a total future annual cash outlay of $77.5 million.
What KIPP wants to do — expand the pipeline to more than 9,000 seats — would take our future annual cash outlays up to $85.5 million. None of this includes the $73 million in annual cash outlays for charter seats that already exist.
Pinkton's argument and other analysis suggesting that charter schools do place a burden on the MNPS budget prompted Board Member Mary Pierce to respond with a straw man argument about the cost of closing all current metro charter schools.
The fact is, MNPS hasn't been in the business of closing charter schools — they've been approving new charter applications nearly every year and have many more charter seats opening. It seems likely that the KIPP charter schools approved by the State Board today would have ultimately won MNPS Board approval. But today, the State Board of Education decided they knew better than Nashville's School Board when and how many charter schools should be opened in Nashville. They also obligated funds, including local funds, to the opening and operation of these schools.
One final note: The State Board now is accountable for the oversight and monitoring of the two KIPP schools it approved in Nashville:
Except as provided in subdivision (b)(3), oversight and monitoring of
charter schools authorized by the state board of education shall be performed by the state board. As requested, the department of education shall assist the state board with general oversight of any charter school authorized by the state board. (Public Chapter 850, 2014).
What happens next? Stay tuned…
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I would like to test it on my project, but the topics enclosed are too advanced for me and the questions usually hold partial code only.
Looking for a simple working example I could test upon.
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Tom T. Hall Dies: Country Music Hall Of Fame Artist Was 85
Tom T. Hall, a Country Music Hall of Famer who wrote "Harper Valley P.T.A." and was known for such songs as "I LIke Beer," died today at home in Franklin, TN, according to his son. He was 85. No cause of death was given.
A consummate country songwriter, Hall is known for the such classics as "That's How I Got To Memphis" and "Harper Valley P.T.A.," the latter a crossover smash for Jeannie C. Riley in 1968.
Hall entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008, alongside Emmylou Harris, The Statler Brothers and Ernest Stoneman. He was a Grand Ole Opry member since 1971.
During his long career, he wrote 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more reaching the Top 10. Rolling Stone included him on its list of 100 Greatest Songwriters, an apt tribute for a man who earned the nickname"The Storyteller," given him by Tex Ritter.
Born in Olive Hill, Kentucky, Hill got his early start performing in a band that played before movies for a traveling theater. After joining the Army, he performed on Armed Forces Radio and wrote humorous songs about his Army life.
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He returned to civilian life and enrolled in Roanoke College, working as a DJ on several stations in West Virginia and Kentucky in the 1960s.
His songwriting breakthrough came when Jimmy C. Newman recorded "Dj for a Day," which prompted Hall to move to Nashville and begin working as a staff songwriter at Newman's Newkeys Music publishing company. It was there he appended the middle initial "T" to his name.
During his career Hall wrote songs for the likes of Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings and dozens more.
But the big breakthrough came with Jeannie C. Riley, who recorded "Harper Valley PTA" in 1968. The record skyrocketd to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and County Music singles charts, an impressive feat in a rich music era.
The record sold over six million copies and won Grammy and CMA Awards, going on to inspire a motion picture and television show of the same name. Hall used the momentum from that major hit to build his own catalog, including such hits as "A Week in a Country Jail," "I Love," Country Is," and "I Care" the latter a No. 1 hit in 1975.
Hall largely retired from public life in the 1990s, but made his last public appearance in 2011.
No details on survivors or memorial plans were immediately available.
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Q: Java ISBN checksum generator -- infinite loop? I need to build this ISBN checksum generator (for both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13) for my CS class using strings, chars, and a bunch of nested loops and conditional statements. Somewhere in this mess, I think something is triggering an infinite loop because when I am prompted for an input, I give the input and press enter and it just goes to a new line and expects me to enter a bunch more data I guess when instead it should be prompting me again to enter another one after each successful entry and otherwise tell me it's incorrect and then still again ask for another input. And when I type in quit it doesn't end the program and display the checksum results like it's supposed to, instead it exhibits the same behavior as other inputs do. If I type in quit the first time without giving the program any numbers it does end the program properly but of course, the values of the output variables are null.
My code thus far:
/******************************************************************************
 * Program Name:          Lab05A - ISBN
 * Program Description:   Calculate ISBN-10 AND ISBN-13
 * Program Author:        xxxxxxxxx
 * Date Created:          10/10/2018
 * Change#        Change Date      Programmer Name        Description
 * -------        ------------     -------------------    ---------------------
******************************************************************************/
package lab05a;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Lab05A {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Input for s
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); // Create new scanner
        System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: "); // our ever-lasting prompt
        String s = input.next(); // declare string variable "s" and set it equal to next input from user.
        String output10 = null; // Declaring string output10
        String output13 = null; // Declaring string output13
        // main while loop
        while (!"QUIT".equals(s)) { //this will run as long as the program does not receive an input of "QUIT", not case sensitive.
            char checkDigit;
            char checkSum = '0';
            if (s.length() == 9) { //if the length of the inputted string is 9 characters...
                int sum = 0; // initialize sum variable
                for (int i=0; i <= s.length();) {
                    sum = sum + ((s.charAt(i) - '0') * (i + 1));
                }
                if (sum % 11 == 10) {
                    checkDigit = 'X';
                }
                else {
                    checkDigit = (char) ('0' + (sum % 11));
                }
                output10 = output10 + "\n" + s + checkDigit;
                System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
                s = input.next();
            }
            else if  (s.length() == 12) {
               int sum = 0;
                for (int i=0; i <= s.length();) {
                    if (i % 2 == 0) {
                        sum = sum + (s.charAt(i) - '0');
                    }
                    else {
                        sum = sum + (s.charAt(i) - '0') * 3;
                    }
                    checkSum = (char) (10 - sum % 10);
                    if (checkSum == 10) {
                        checkSum = 0;
                    }
                    output13 = "\n" + output13 + checkSum;
                    System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
                    s = input.next();
                }
            }
            else if (!s.toUpperCase().equals("QUIT")) {
                System.out.println(s + " is invalid input.");
                System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
                s = input.next();
            }
        }
        System.out.println("The 10 digit ISBNs are \n" + output10);
        System.out.println("The 13 digit ISBNs are \n" + output13);
    }
}

Instructions
Flowchart as a separate image since it's kinda small in the instructions doc
Thanks for your help.

A: Yes, you are missing the incrementor in this for loop
for (int i=0; i <= s.length();) {

change to
for (int i=0; i <= s.length(); i++) {

I am sure that you do not want <=, maybe just <
so
for (int i=0; i < s.length(); i++) {

BTW this is easy to solve if you debug your code - an essential skill --
edit
If you have the below code (and s.length == 12)
for (int i=0; i < s.length(); i++) {
    System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
    s = input.next();
}

Then it will execute 12 times. Fix your loop

A: UPDATED CODE since I implemented some of the suggestions here:
package lab05a;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Lab05A {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Input for s
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); // Create new scanner
        System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: "); // our ever-lasting prompt
        String s = input.next(); // declare string variable "s" and set it equal to next input from user.
        String output10 = ""; // Declaring string output10
        String output13 = ""; // Declaring string output13
        // main while loop
        while (!"QUIT".equalsIgnoreCase(s)) { //this will run as long as the program does not receive an input of "QUIT", not case sensitive.
            char checkDigit;
            char checkSum = '0';
            if (s.length() == 9) { //if the length of the inputted string is 9 characters...
                int sum = 0; // initialize sum variable
                for (int i=0; i < s.length(); i++) {
                    sum = sum + ((s.charAt(i) - '0') * (i + 1));
                }
                if (sum % 11 == 10) {
                    checkDigit = 'X';
                }
                else {
                    checkDigit = (char) ('0' + (sum % 11));
                }
                output10 = output10 + "\n" + s + checkDigit;
                System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
                s = input.next();
            }
            else if  (s.length() == 12) {
               int sum = 0;
                for (int i=0; i < s.length(); i++) {
                    if (i % 2 == 0) {
                        sum = sum + (s.charAt(i) - '0');
                    }
                    else {
                        sum = sum + (s.charAt(i) - '0') * 3;
                    }
                    checkSum = (char) (10 - sum % 10);
                    if (checkSum == 10) {
                        checkSum = 0;
                    }
                    output13 = "\n" + output13 + s + checkSum;
                    System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
                    s = input.next();
                }
            }
            else if (!"QUIT".equalsIgnoreCase(s)) {
                System.out.println(s + " is invalid input.");
                System.out.println("Enter the first 9 or 12 digits of an ISBN number. Enter QUIT to exit: ");
                s = input.next();
            }
        }
        System.out.println("The 10 digit ISBNs are \n" + output10);
        System.out.println("The 13 digit ISBNs are \n" + output13);
    }
}


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Southwest Michigan Devil Rays
The Southwest Michigan Devil Rays of Battle Creek, Michigan, played two seasons in the Midwest League. For that short time, they served as a Single-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The team identity began following the 2004 season, when the former Battle Creek Yankees were not able to secure a PDC with their New York parent club, and signed on with Tampa Bay. Using the Yankees' nickname was no longer an option, and the franchise opted to take on another COTOB identity, this time with the Devil Rays.
Since they were already going through with the process of changing their identity, the Midwest League club also changed their place name–pivoting from Battle Creek to a broader Southwest Michigan designation. The double-direction place name is always a mouthful, and this was a particularly curious decision, considering that the SW-Rays played in the same league as the West Michigan Whitecaps. Their uniforms and logos closely mirrored their parent club's of the day, though they flexed some creative muscles on their cap logo. It was an M with the devil ray swimming in front of the letters. At first, it's a headscratcher why it was only the single letter, but upon closer inspection, the initials SW are tucked into the lower left (or "southwest") corner of the M. Despite only two seasons in a lower level of the minors, the Skeeter Barnes-skippered squad fielded a few future major-league fellows. Wade Davis is the standout name, but they also had Jake McGee and noted dreadlock-haver John Jaso.
When a team changes its place name from a city to a region, it's often a signal that they need to expand their reach in an effort to keep the team afloat. The new branding wasn't enough to change their fortunes, though, and the team was sold to an ownership group from Midland, Michigan. In 2007, the Great Lakes Loons took the field in a shiny new ballpark in Midland. Even though the Loons' place name was a much broader regional reach than Southwest Michigan, it wasn't done as an act of desperation. The Loons have been a successful member of the Midwest League ever since.
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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is without question one of the coolest guys in all of pro sports.
The former North Dakota State Bison quarterback is in his second year in the NFL, and I find myself becoming a bigger fan with every game he plays.
The ginger gunslinger represents everything that we love about sports. He's got a blue-collar attitude, he's humble, gutsy and finds ways to win no matter what. He's also a big fan of hunting.
Finally got some mounts up in the house! About time!
Like I said, he's becoming one of the coolest guys in sports.
He lit up the Panthers last night on Thursday night football, and I began wondering if this was his official announcement to the NFL that he plans on taking over the league.
Carson Wentz is playing a beautiful game tonight. On the road facing a lot of pressure defenses he is playing with poise & showing accuracy.
We have so many athletes these days who are all about the flash instead of the substance. We have athletes more focused on their social media presence and name recognition in Hollywood than they are about just winning the game in the trenches.
The NFL needs a lot more players like Wentz.


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BasicX is a free programming language designed specifically for NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller and based on the BASIC programming language. It is used in the design of robotics projects such as the Robodyssey Systems Mouse robot.

Further reading
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External links
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Earlier this past summer, I asked for sunset pictures on my Beach Bar Bums Facebook page. The response was overwhelming but there was one clear winner – Donna Caffo's image of the sunset from penthouse 709 at the Ixchel Beach Hotel on the island of Isla Mujeres. Even with stiff competition from other Isla Mujeres enthusiasts, Donna's image garnered the most likes by far and combined with the pictures from her fellow Isla Mujeres fans, it was a nice reminder of why I never miss a trip to this Caribbean escape in one of the most unlikely spots.
There's no middle ground when it comes to opinions on Cancun – you either love it or you hate it. For those of you who fall into the latter crowd, you may want to give it a second look and consider a stay on Isla Mujeres. It's a world apart from Cancun, giving visitors a chance to experience the laid back Caribbean island lifestyle on a sliver of land just a short ferry ride from the hustle and bustle of Cancun. Cancun's masses often forget there's a Caribbean paradise just a few minutes away but once they step off the ferry and immerse themselves in the culture and life on this island, they won't soon forget it.
Donna Caffo and her husband loved Isla Mujeres so much that they decided to buy a condo on the island. As evidenced in the image above, the sunsets can be some for the ages, to say the least.
"The picture was taken in May 2013 from the penthouse balcony at Ixchel. My husband and I fell in love with Isla Mujeres in 2004 when visiting together for the first time. We were looking for someplace that wasn't so crowded compared to other places we had been going (mostly Cozumel and Playa).
How many times have you visited Isla Mujeres?
What do you love about Isla Mujeres?
Closing note on the Ixchel – its proximity to the beach bars on Playa Norte make it a prime spot for any beach bar bums looking to do a little beach bar "research" while on the island.


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Certaldo, the medieval village of the poet Boccaccio
Posted on August 26, 2016 May 29, 2020 by Nicola Bandini
Set in the heart of Tuscany, in the splendid area of Valdelsa, the hamlet of Certaldo is famous to be the birthplace of Giovanni Boccaccio, the Italian writer, and poet of the fourteenth-century author of the 100 novellas of the Decameron. Moreover, Certaldo is a splendid medieval village surrounded by gently rolling hills, vineyards, olive groves and rows of cypress.
Thanks to its position halfway between Florence, San Gimignano and Siena, Certaldo and its surroundings are a nice and strategic base where to stay and explore the "classic Tuscany", but also an easy day trip to take from Florence. It offers a wealth of options for bike lovers and the pilgrimage route of the ancient Via Francigena passes from here.
Certaldo is included in the "Bandiera Arancione" list by Touring Club Italia as one of the best villages in Italy for the touristic offer, art, culture, and respect of the nature (for a list of other 10 villages included in the list click here).
I can't argue with that. The historical centre is perfectly preserved. The alleys and the buildings made in Tuscany tiles, the small restaurants and the Botteghe (little shops), give Certaldo a unique, quiet and magic atmosphere.
A brief history of Certaldo
Certaldo has Etruscan origins, and its name derives from the latin words "Cerrus Altus" which mean upland covered by Turkey oak. Moreover, as many other Tuscan villages, it became important during the Middle Age.
On 1164 Federico Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor, gives the town to the Counts Alberti of Prato but after only 20 years Certaldo moved to the control of curacy of Florence.
Certaldo as you see today has a lower and modern part, and an upper historical part, called Certaldo Alto, that corresponds to the medieval castle and its fortified walls, built and developed between the twelfth and fifteenth century. One of the main feature of the every medieval village was the "Piazza" where all the main buildings were set. Instead, due to the shape of the hill where was built, Certaldo has no a main square, and it's in Via Boccaccio that you find the Palazzo Pretorio (symbol of the political power), the church and the Logge del Mercato as trading place. The spaces that today seem squares in the past were simply vegetable gardens.
The old Logge del Mercato
What to see in Certaldo
We reached Certaldo Alto by car driving along a panoramic and steep road but you can even choose to get the modern funicular departing from Piazza Boccaccio. Then, my suggestion is to stroll around discovering the beauties hidden behind every corner. There is a strange red light all around, probably caused by the rays of light reflected in the red bricks of the old buildings.
Here are the main attractions of Certaldo:
Palazzo Pretorio
Palazzo Pretorio and the church of San Tommaso e Prospero
The most iconic place of Certaldo is with no doubt the Palazzo Pretorio that you find at the highest point of the village at the beginning of Via Boccaccio. In origin, during the twelfth century, it was the dwelling of the Counts Alberti. Later it became the residence of the vicars at the power and their families. The first thing that drew my attention was the view of the many different colored coat of arms on the façade, representing all the Families of the curacies that lived here and ruled the city. It is possible to get in the Palazzo and visit the old prison, the hearing room, some chambers with interesting frescoes, the chapel, the archive, and the private rooms of the vicars. On the first floor, you can find temporary exhibits of modern art and the inner courtyard hosts a nice garden with a Japanese tearoom.
With the same ticket, next to the Palazzo, you can visit also the "church of San Tommaso e Prospero".
During the wintertime the opening time is from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm. In summer every day from 10 am to 7 pm.
Casa di Boccaccio
The central Via Boccaccio with the tower of Casa Boccaccio at the end
A building with tower and loggia overlooking the main Via Boccaccio hosts the house-museum of the famous poet. Historians suppose that Boccaccio was born on 1313, and spent the most of his life till the end of his days here. The house displays furnishing and panels that record the life and the artworks of the novelist. Talking of Decameron, written between 1349 and 1351, a small library in the house safekeeping some precious illustrated editions of this masterpiece of the literature.
Chiesa dei SS. Michele e Jacopo and the Museum of Sacred Art
The Romanesque style church of thirteenth century houses the remains of Giovanni Boccaccio. From the adjoining cloister, you enter the ex-Augustinian monastery that today hosts the museum of sacred art with six rooms dedicated to the paintings, sculpture and sacred vestiges.
To visit these three attractions, you can choose between a ticket that includes the Palazzo Pretorio and the Casa Boccaccio, or another one, which includes also the Museum of Sacred Art.
The nail museum and the small shops of pottery
You find this freak museum into the Palazzo Giannozzi along Via Boccaccio. The entrance fee is only one Euro and you can see dozens of nails of different shape and age, farming tool and wooden sculptures. The building also hosts a nice shop of traditional colored handmade potteries where you can buy some nice souvenirs.
The archery headquarter
Walking around a narrow path of the hamlet, we found by chance the headquarter of the historical archery of Certaldo. We climbed down the stairs that bring underground into a dark gallery full of medieval weapons, colored coat of arms, and an exciting atmosphere of ancient tourneys. Old wooden bows, shields, halberds, and axes decorate the walls, and you can even listen to the stories told by local archers.
Parco Collinare Canonica
Driving a bit out of the walls along the Via delle Mura there is the Parco Collinare Canonica, a big hilly park where locals usually do hiking or running, make picnic with family and friends, or rest in the sun and in the shadow of the cypresses breathing deep the cool breeze of Tuscany.
The Main Events in Certaldo
Artists in Mercantia – Photo Credits: Nove Foto da Firenze
Every July, one of the biggest festivals of street artists in Europe transforms Certaldo Alto in a magical hamlet. This is Mercantia. A lineup full of live shows and performances of street bands, juggler, dancers, musicians, and actors, attracts for five days thousands of visitors all over the country.
In October instead, takes place the Boccaccesca, a tempting food festival to celebrate the local food traditions. Certaldo is famous for the red onion, the white truffles and for an excellent Extra Virgin Olive Oil. At an event like Boccaccesca, you can try and taste them together with other delicacies of the Tuscan gastronomy as the ribollita (bread and vegetable warm soup), pasta with wild boar or hare ragout, or the Bistecca alla Fiorentina. Being in the area of Chianti, here even nice red wines are produced.
An enchanting hamlet that inspire poets, a quiet atmosphere out of the beaten path, amazing panoramas and great food are reasons enough to visit Certaldo? I would say yes, so we wait for you!
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I have a passion for travels and photography, puzzles and Lego, beer and Fiorentina (both bistecca and football team). Always happy when I get a flight ticket on my hand. Proudly Tuscan, one of my desires is to show people the hidden gems of my birthland!
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Bryony Clapperton says:
These pictures make me feel so nostalgic. I love Tuscany, Italy will always be one of my favourite countries to explore. You have captured it so well with this post. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for reading Bryony and appreciating our pictures. Happy you like our country and we hope to see you again soon around Tuscany. 🙂
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The Aga Khan Centre in London's King's Cross is a place for education, knowledge, cultural exchange and insight into Muslim civilisations. The organisations that are located here work together to bridge the gap in understanding about Muslim cultures and to connect the public to global development issues. The Aga Khan Centre hosts a variety of events, exhibitions and talks that are open to the public.
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5 October 2020 – 31 March 2021
AKU-ISMC Presents: Muslims in the UK Online Short Course
12 January – 2 February, 2021
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The Aga Khan Centre is a place of education, knowledge, cultural exchange and insight into Muslim civilisations.
The Aga Khan Centre and nearby Victoria Hall are home to a unique collection of gardens, courtyards and terraces.
The Aga Khan Centre is home to three organisations founded by His Highness the Aga Khan.
The Aga Khan Library, London is a space for study and provides secure archival storage for rare books and manuscripts.
Tours of the Aga Khan Centre are available on Mondays and Thursdays at 3pm.
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The building is located in the heart of the current redevelopment of a 67-acre area at King's Cross.
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So simple yet so cute!
Place the smaller 'vase' inside the larger one.
Then you can add pieces of Matzah (any kind) by sliding, dropping them in between the two glasses.
With adult supervision for older kids or for the adult making the project, use a glue gun to seal the small space in between the glasses.
This will seal the vase.
Then simply add water and flowers!!
My favorite are these ranunculus which are absolutely stunning! I love the layers and the colors!
This is a fun Pesach visual for kids to take home that will surely become a conversation piece!


The Fort Washington Golf and Country Club in Fresno, California opened in 1923. "The Fort" is a private club that is owned by its membership, drawing its name from the military installation used by the area's early pioneers and settlers. Today The Fort features a competitive 18-hole golf course with lush fairways and perfectly manicured greens. In addition, it offers 5-star dining and banquet facilities catering to its membership.
The analog surveillance system The Fort had in place for over 15 years consisted of two analog cameras to cover the club's main parking lot and a third analog camera on a pan/tilt mechanism to view the driving range.
The cameras covering the parking lot were installed on the clubhouse to view cars and people entering and exiting club grounds from a distance of approximately 100 yards. Along with the driving range camera, the main function of these cameras was to watch for theft, vandalism, and other incidents.
After growing tired of dealing with their ineffective and outdated video system, The Fort's management and Board of Directors decided to upgrade to a higher-quality IP surveillance system.
"After all the options were laid out, we looked at the pros and cons of each and determined that an IP surveillance system utilizing megapixel cameras would be a much better choice in terms of growth and expansion potential," Ehnes said.
The club began its search with Arecont Vision's megapixel IP cameras. After management saw the cameras in action, the search was over.
The Fort's management team collaborated on the design of the system with Matson Alarm Company, also located in Fresno, California. The system comprises one Arecont Vision® MegaView® AV3226PMIR 3 Megapixel Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) camera, one MegaVideo® Compact AV5115DNv1 5 Megapixel camera with 8-80 mm lens, and three SurroundVideo® AV12186DN 12 Megapixel 180˚ WDR Panoramic IP cameras. With these five cameras, The Fort's personnel are able to view a much larger coverage area with significantly greater detail than with its previous system.
While all of the Arecont Vision® cameras deliver outstanding performance and reliability, The Fort's team was most impressed by the SurroundVideo® IP cameras, which deliver superior wide area coverage.
"Arecont Vision's SurroundVideo® 180˚ cameras deliver wide area coverage with better resolution and lower total cost of ownership versus the poor performance and higher associated costs of deploying several conventional cameras. It's much easier using these panoramic cameras than having to monitor and record multiple cameras and deal with gaps in coverage or overlapping coverage. The Arecont Vision® cameras provide superior performance for reading license plates and for more advanced applications like facial recognition as well," Kiser said.
Video from the Arecont Vision® cameras feeds into an office inside the pro shop for viewing and recording. The video is monitored at all times when the shop is open.
If a problem occurs at night, The Fort's staff can view recorded images to investigate what happened. Not long after the system was installed, the club got a glimpse of how beneficial this capability would be.
The aesthetics of the Arecont Vision® cameras have also been a big hit with Fort Washington management and its members, Ehnes said. "They're small and non-intrusive, so they blend in really well with the clubhouse," he said.
Ehnes said attributing a specific cost savings to the system is difficult because it's impossible to determine how many incidents or crimes it has deterred. However, the return on investment (ROI) that The Fort has realized from having the Arecont Vision® cameras in place has more than justified the up-front equipment and installation costs for the new improved surveillance system.


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It is the digital age. Computer programmers have infiltrated all the aspects of the individuals' lives. They theorise, design as well as develop and make the application of the software along with hardware for programmers' purpose and it is a very important aspect.
You can check the subject table of Computer Science and then search for the Graduate Prospects column. You will find out that Computer Science students hold a decent opportunity to get professional employment or they can continue their further study. For that purpose, you need to check for the higher study courses provided by a large number of Universities.
There is a huge demand for computer scientists in all over the world and their salaries display this fact. Recent graduates belonged to this field can be appointed for various professional roles from which they might earn a big amount per annum. You can also check for the graduate salary data.
All the industries utilize computers and therefore, it is a great opportunity for the computer scientists to get an employment in any of these. Many issues in the fields of science, engineering as well as healthcare along with other areas could be solved by the utilization of computers. To enrol into computer science course in malaysia, you need to collect in-depth information. A highly qualified computer scientist can easily figure out the designing procedure of the software that needs to be applied in a specific solution.
Computer has become a global machine and for that reason, computer science education has become a popular choice. You should check the scopes for overseas study for those courses that enthusiast you. A year abroad is going to give you an in-depth understanding of the work structures of the computers all over the world. It enables you to have a deep experience about other cultures and have significant skills in some language in the particular process.
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Our new kids Anna, Finn, and Sinatra (aka "Frankie") made their first public appearance yesterday. Thanks, Petra, for stepping in and running the event. A hip hip hooray for Sinatra…he went from new kid to new SOAR alumnus yesterday!


Ballet Mink was founded in New York City in 1970 and is known for a synthesis of styles, using traditional ballet and unconventional surprises, including the incorporation of theatrical elements, site-specific work, and video recording. The company currently resides in Las Vegas, NV.
Ballet Mink's choreography balances on the edges of the conceptual and the classical, employing age-old forms deconstructed to create a repertoire of unique evenings of dance.
Ballet Mink's inspiration generates from the array of ideas and issues appropriate for dance works, contemporary and historical. Specific form and content are developed from images and concepts new or long imagined, tempered by the opportunities open at the point in time in which a specific work is to be shaped.
"Emigration Transformation" and "COLLAGE: Quartets and Vignettes," two vastly different full evening works, one abstract and the other based on historical narrative, both premiered in Europe and the US in the 2011-12 season.
Ballet Mink company members are professional dancers whose creative and artistic contributions support the vision of the work. This year, for the first time, the company includes three graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Dance Department where they were trained by Mink Colbert and faculty.
Although it is obvious that electronic creation and performance of dance will continue to increase exponentially, the sensory pleasure of live performance and the enlivening transfer of energy between audience and performer will provide a continuing legacy in the dance art. Ballet Mink presents live performances while including media as part of the scenography.
I hope the legacy of Ballet Mink will be to inspire my audiences, students, and the general public to explore all aspects of the dance art and the joy of creation with the body in flight.


Some are accidental, some are intentional. I can't help but feel bad for all of the photographers, videographers and their cameras in the above video.
The Cotton Carrier is another product that is meant to help you with carrying your cameras around just like the Spider. Designed kind of like a lightweight vest, the advertising for the product will appeal most to wildlife and landscape photographers. However, it may also have some appeal to wedding or sports photographers. I used the Cotton Carrier while shooting in Central Park and while also shooting the recent Yankee parade celebrating their win during the World Series. My findings, after the jump.
In sports and wildlife shooting, it's all about getting that one particular moment that happens within a fraction of a second. Mastering the techniques to shooting sports will be able to help you progress as a photographer as those skills can be used in other forms such as photojournalism, weddings and street candids. My mentor, who has shot NY Knick games, has been kind enough to pass along some of his knowledge to me.
Here are 7 quick tips for those of you wanting to get better at shooting sports and fast action. Hint: You don't need a camera that shoots 8fps like the Canon 7D, but it can help.
After some personal fondling time with the Canon 7D and 100mm F2.8 L Macro Hybrid IS lens at Pepcom, I expect that those who pre-ordered the camera will likely not be disappointed – so long as the image quality lives up to the expectations once we see results from a production model.
Right off the bat, it's clear that the 7D adds a bit of twist in terms of buttons, which may require a bit of a learning curve if you're used to the 5D Mk II and 50D. However, the buttons are all laid out very well and it just takes a bit more memorization.
On the lens front, the 100mm Macro lens takes some very amazing photos and doubles as an excellent portrait lens, albeit a bit long when paired with the 7D's APS-C sensor. How does it stack up against the Nikon D300s, a camera that wasn't too far away from it (as Canon and Nikon always seem to be placed right across from one another at events)? Keep on reading for more of my hands-on report on the Canon 7D.


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Appeal of ROXANA VINUEZA, on behalf of her daughter WENDY, from action of the Board of Education of the Sewanhaka Central High School District regarding residency.
Douglas E. Libby, Esq., attorney for respondent, Bernadette Gallagher-Gaffney, Esq., of counsel
MILLS, Commissioner.--Petitioner appeals the determination of the Board of Education of the Sewanhaka Central High School District ("respondent") that her daughter is not a resident of the district. The appeal must be sustained.
Petitioner registered her daughter to attend respondent"s schools on August 8, 1998, listing her address as 4 First Place, Garden City South, within respondent"s district. On October 2, 2001, respondent notified petitioner that her daughter, a tenth grade student at H. Frank Carey High School, was not a district resident and would be excluded from respondent"s schools effective October 17, 2001. At petitioner"s request, an administrative review hearing was conducted on November 27, 2001. Petitioner testified at the hearing, as did respondent"s investigator who conducted surveillance of petitioner at 46-49 160th Street in Queens. Petitioner testified that she and Wendy sometimes leave the Garden City South address at 6:00 a.m., drive to Queens to have coffee with her older daughter and then drive back to Carey High School. On December 21, 2001, the administrative review officer decided that petitioner"s daughter was not a district resident and would be excluded from respondent"s schools, effective January 25, 2002. A written decision, issued January 16, 2002, found inconsistencies between petitioner"s testimony and affidavit and found persuasive the reports of ten surveillances of petitioner"s Garden City address from September 14, 2001 to November 27, 2001, when neither petitioner nor her daughter were observed exiting that address between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. Petitioner commenced this appeal on January 22, 2002. Petitioner"s request for interim relief was granted on February 1, 2002.
Petitioner contends that she and her daughter have resided at 4 First Place, Garden City South, with her sister, the owner of that property, for four years. Petitioner asserts that she is in the process of moving into her parent"s home on Lincoln Street, Franklin Square, also located within respondent"s district. Petitioner further contends that Wendy"s father resides at 46-49 160th Street in Queens and that Wendy stays with him on Sunday nights and sometimes during the week, and is driven from that address to school by her father or petitioner on those occasions. Petitioner also contends that this arrangement has occurred more often after September 11, 2001 due to her work schedule, causing her to travel more, and that Wendy stays with her father so as not to be left alone and unsupervised. Petitioner seeks a determination that her daughter is a district resident and entitled to attend respondent"s schools tuition free.
Respondent contends that its determination that petitioner and her daughter are not district residents is rational and supported by the record and not arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable. Respondent contends that neither petitioner nor her daughter reside at 4 First Place, Garden City South and that, as of April 17, 2002, petitioner had not moved to her mother"s residence on Lincoln Street, Franklin Square. Respondent contends that a telephone listing in the Queens County directory, along with surveillance, link petitioner and her daughter to the 46-49 160th Street residence in Queens. Respondent also contends that petitioner"s explanation of her morning routine lacks credibility.
Education Law "3202(1) provides, in pertinent part:
The purpose of the statute is to limit the obligation of school districts to provide tuition-free education to students whose parents or legal guardians reside within the district (Appeal of Lapidus, 40 Ed Dept Rep 21, Decision No. 14,408; Appeal of Chan, 39 id. 200, Decision No. 14,214; judgment granted dismissing petition to review, Supreme Court, Albany County, Connor, J., June 7, 2000, n.o.r.; Appeal of Dimbo, 38 id. 233, Decision No. 14,023). For purposes of Education Law "3202, a person can have only one residence. A residence is not lost until it is abandoned and another is established through action and intent (Appeal of Chan, supra; Appeal of Berliner, 38 Ed Dept Rep 181, Decision No. 14,010; Appeal of a Student with a Disability, 36 id. 113, Decision No. 13,674). Residence for purposes of Education Law "3202 is established based on two factors: physical presence as an inhabitant within the district and an intent to remain in the district (Appeal of Gentile, 39 Ed Dept Rep 23, Decision No. 14,161; Appeal of Morgan, 38 id. 207, Decision No. 14,016; Appeal of Daniels, 37 id. 557, Decision No. 13,926).
Based on the record before me, I find that petitioner has not abandoned her residence at 4 First Place, Garden City South, the address indicated in her notarized 1998 school registration form required by respondent, and confirmed in the January 15, 2002 affidavit of petitioner"s sister and owner of the house. Petitioner"s driver"s license, automobile registration and insurance, W-2 income tax form, bank accounts and court papers list this Garden City South address, where petitioner receives her mail. In addition, petitioner has consistently expressed her intent to remain in respondent"s district.
Respondent"s determination is based largely upon testimony regarding the district"s surveillance. That testimony indicates that observers did not see petitioner or her daughter leave the Garden City South house between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on one day in September 2001, between 7:00 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. on four mornings in October 2001 and on four occasions in November 2001 and between 6:00 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. on the morning of the hearing, November 27, 2001, and saw unidentified individuals leave the Queens address on two mornings in November 2001. However, such observations are not conclusive in view of petitioner"s explanation that she left her home between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on some mornings and that her daughter left for school from her father"s residence on the mornings after she stayed with him (c.f., Appeal of Razzano, 38 Ed Dept Rep 782, Decision No. 14,142, where surveillance was conducted on approximately 35 occasions over a four-month period and petitioner failed to provide any reasonable explanation for her complete absence from her alleged residence).
After carefully reviewing the record, I do not find sufficient evidence to support respondent"s determination that Wendy Vinueza is not a district resident (Appeal of Chan, supra).
THE APPEAL IS SUSTAINED.
IT IS ORDERED that respondent allow Wendy Vinueza to attend school in the Sewanhaka Central High School District without the payment of tuition.


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Home > Culture and Science > Sciences & innovation > Outreach > Science Week > Science Week 2018 > [15 Nov.] My Thesis... in a Comic Strip!
Come & discover the laureates' theses of the "My Thesis in 3 Minutes... in French!" competition, turned into comic strips, presented in the café of the Alliance Française Dublin.
My Thesis... in a Comic Strip!
French Festival at Science Week is also part of Fête de la Science à l'International!
We are converting the famous Cocotte café into an exhibition space devoted to comics and science!
Come in, grab a coffee and meet the laureates of the My Thesis in 3 minutes…in French! After having faced the challenge of presenting their thesis in 3 minutes and in French last March, they worked together with comic book artist Orchimy to translate their thesis into a comic strip!
Events organised in partnership by the Alliance Française Dublin and the Embassy of France in Ireland and presented by comic book artist Orchimy and PhD students Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau (DCU), Ellen Howley (DCU) and Luiza Wasiewska (Tyndall Institute) as part of the French Festival at Science Week.


THE Mir'o retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum here has all the earmarks of an Old Master exhibition. It is distinguished, authoritative, and no longer capable of shocking our sensibilities. That's the way it probably will appear, at any rate, to anyone even the slightest bit interested in modernism, its masters and its accomplishments. Not only will many of the 150 paintings, collages, objects, ceramics, and other works on view be familiar, a number will be recognized immediately as 20th-century masterpieces.
Rather surprisingly, this show informs us that Mir'o already belongs to art history. His stylistic influence, which was so crucial and far-reaching for so long (where, for instance, would Abstract Expressionism have been without his ideas and forms?), is, for all intents and purposes, coming to an end.
His creations, on the other hand, remain as alive and radiant as ever and as capable of charming and delighting viewers as when they were first produced.
For proof, we need only wend our way down the Guggenheim's ramp and follow the artist's evolution from promising young painter in 1915 to modern master a few years before his death in 1983.
From start to finish, his was an exceptional career, and while one might wish that a few more of his sculptures and drawings had been included, no one can reasonably deny that he has been well and fairly treated by this retrospective.
Its success is due in no small part to Jacques Dupin, the noted Mir'o scholar, who curated it for the Kunsthaus Zurich (where it opened originally); the St"adtische Kunsthalle D"usseldorf, West Germany; and the Guggenheim. The New York installation was supervised by Diane Waldman with the assistance of Susan B. Hirschfeld. Works were borrowed from the artist's family, the Mir'o Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, and several public and private collections in the United States and abroad, including the Guggenheim Museum here and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Even if this exhibition had no other qualities, that in itself would be sufficient reason to recommend it. Anything that can dispel the notion that Mir'o was a painterly magician who conjured up delightfully imaginative forms and images out of thin air - and who thus needn't be taken very seriously - is profoundly welcome. And so is anything that can help viewers realize how deeply rooted, complex, and original his art really is, and how close it often comes to the most difficult kind of high-wire gymnastics.
The Guggenheim, of course, is ideally suited for a retrospective of this sort. Its spiral ramp permits the viewer to follow Mir'o's creative evolution without interruption and without violating his career's chronology. One begins at the beginning - with a number of his complex, precisely detailed representational paintings, moves on to the pictures that represent his first attempts at substituting ``abstract'' signs for literal descriptions, and ends up with a sequence of the radiant, freely-brushed creations that characterize his later years.
The process is pleasant, logical, and illuminating, with a good balance of large and small, bold and delicate, images along the way to sustain one's interest, and with the occasional, hitherto unknown gem or minor masterpiece to remind one of how startingly simple and delightful his work often appears at first viewing.
Most important, one gets a clear indication of how much thought and care went into Mir'o's art, and how serious and dedicated an artist he was. The transition from such complex ``realistic'' works as ``Montroig, the Church and the Village'' (1919) and ``The Farm'' (1921-22), through the ruthlessly simplified ``The Carbide Lamp'' (1922-23), to the almost totally abstract ``Bather'' of 1924-25, is particularly revealing. And yet it represents only one of the several dramatic shifts and turns his art took over his roughly 70-year career.
Throughout that career, Mir'o experimented with a broad range of media, and achieved particular mastery in etching and lithography and in ceramics. His fame as a printmaker, in fact, almost equals his reputation as a painter, while his work in clay is unmatched in quality and quantity by that of any other 20th-century artist - with the possible exception of Picasso.
Space, unfortunately, limited the number of ceramic pieces that could be included in this show, but those that are on view are among his wittiest and best. None of his prints, on the other hand, are on display.
That's understandable, however, considering the nature of this retrospective, and the fact that its primary focus is on Mir'o's paintings and works on paper. As such, it's an excellent exhibition, both for what it includes in the way of art, and for the creative insights it provides.
At the Guggenheim Museum through Aug. 23.


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The welding program covers all of the common welding processes including stick, MIG, TIG and flux cored welding. In addition to hands on welding training you will have in classroom learning about welding codes, weld testing and blueprint reading. Pipe welding, plate welding and metal cutting processes will be covered also. You can view a full list of welding classes here.
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I do not have a lot of information about this welding school but it looks like they caver all of the basics. You may want to read the article Tips For Choosing A Welding school before you commit to any school.
The boilermakers and the iron workers Union both offer apprenticeships to people with no experience at all. This is a great way to earn while you learn a new skill. While they do not offer welding only apprenticeships you will definitely become a welder since both unions rely heavily on certified welder's.
Apprenticeships generally last 4 to 5 years and you will earn anywhere between $16 and $25 an hour during your apprenticeship. After completing your apprenticeship program you'll be what is called a journeyman and will be earning a full wage that can go beyond $30 an hour depending on what geographical location you work from.
The apprenticeship will consist of in classroom and on-the-job training. You will learn many skills including welding, rigging, pipefitting, crane signals in many other unique and important skills.


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A huge amount of information flows through enterprise documents; thus, it is imperative to develop efficient information extraction techniques to extract and use this information productively. While documents comprise multiple components such as text, tables, figures etc.; tables are the most commonly used structural representation that organize the information into rows and columns. It captures structural and geometrical relationships between different elements and attributes in the data. Moreover, important facts/numbers are often presented in tables instead of verbose paragraphs. For instance, tables in financial domain are a good example where different financial metrics such as ``revenue", ``income" etc. are presented for different quarters/years. Extracting the content of a table into a structured format (csv or JSON) \cite{gao2019icdar}, \cite{gobel2013icdar}, \cite{jimeno2021icdar} is a key step in many information extraction pipelines.

Unlike traditional machine learning problems where the output is a class (classification) or number (regression), the outcome of a table parsing algorithm is always a structure. There needs to be a way to compare one structure against another structure and define some measure of ``similarity/distance" to evaluate different methods. A number of metrics quantifying this ``distance" have been proposed in literature and multiple competitions. Existing metrics evaluates the performance of table parsing algorithms using the structural and textual information. This paper presents the limitation of existing metrics based on their dependence on the textual information. We emphasize that textual information introduces additional dependency on the OCR (text detection/recognition), which is a separate area in itself and should not be included in evaluating how good is the detected table structure. This paper presents a ``true" metric which is agnostic to the textual details and accounts only for the layout of cells in terms of its row number/column number and bounding box.

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\section{Existing Metrics in Table Parsing}
Two of the existing metrics are adjacency relation set-based F1 scores with different definitions of the set. They break and linearize the table structure into two dimensions, one along the row and one along the column. Adjacency Relation (Text) \cite{gobel2013icdar} computes pair-wise relations between non-empty adjacent cells and the relation is considered correct only if the direction (horizontal/vertical) and text of both the participating cells match. It does not take into account empty cells and multi-hop cell alignment. Adjacency Relation (IOU) \cite{gao2019icdar} is a text-independent metric where original non-empty cells are mapped to predicted cells by leveraging (multiple) IOU thresholds and then adjacency relations are calculated. This metric takes a weighted average of the computed F1-scores at different IOU thresholds \{0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9\}. Finally, the predicted relations are compared to the ground truth relations and precision/recall/F1 scores are computed.

The third metric considers the structure as a HTML encoding of the table. In this representation, the table is viewed as a tree with the rows being the children of the root $<table>$ node, and cells being the children (represented by $<td>[text]</td>$) of the individual rows. A Tree edit-distance (TEDS) metric \cite{zhong2020image} is proposed which compares  two trees and reports a single number summarizing the similarity.

While there are other metrics used in literature such as BLEU-4 \cite{li2019tablebank} (which is more language based), this paper only considers the above three most widely used metrics for evaluating the performance of table structure recognition.

\section{Proposed Metric}
This paper highlights the limitations of the previous metrics and also proposes a new metric, Tree-Edit-Distance Based Similarity with IOU \textit{(TEDS-IOU)}, for evaluating table structure recognition algorithms. The paper also demonstrates how \textit{TEDS-IOU} addresses the limitations of existing metrics.

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  \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{example.png}
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  \caption{Original table and an example prediction for the same. For Adjacency relation (Text), the characters can be considered as representing the text inside cells. For Adjacency relation (IOU), characters can be considered as labels representing cells.}
  \label{fig:digitalization}
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Table \ref{tab1} describes the limitations of the commonly used metrics in table structure recognition literature. For example, in figure \ref{fig:digitalization}, even though the predicted table missed one entire row and $4$ empty cells, in terms of adjacency relations, the only extra relation in the predicted table is the \{C, A, Horizontal\}, where `Horizontal' is the direction of relation. This only affects precision but the recall is still $100$\% which clearly should have been penalised. Also, in the case of the IOU based metric, lets assume label mapping, i.e. cell represented by ``C" in ground truth is a mapped to the ``C" cell in predicted table using IOU thresholds. We still have that same extra relation \{``C", ``A", Horizontal\}, where `Horizontal' is the direction, which demonstrates the inability to capture empty cells and mis-alignments. We should note that metric is still better then the text-based version, since it does not rely on comparing text. Accurately detecting and recognizing text (OCR) is a separate field in itself, while in table structure recognition, we are primarily interested in localizing the cell boundaries and assign text to them.

\begin{table}[t]
\caption{ Existing metrics in literature and their limitations}\label{tab1}
\begin{tabular}{p{0.32\textwidth}|p{0.66\textwidth}}
\hline
\textbf{Metric} & \textbf{Limitations}\\
\hline
{Adjacency Relation (Text)} & {Doesn't handle empty cells, misalignment of cells beyond immediate neighbours \& text dependent}\\
{Adjacency Relation (IOU)} & {Doesn't handle empty cells, misalignment of cells beyond immediate neighbours}\\
{TEDS (Text)} & {Text dependent but less strict due to Levenshtein distance}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
TEDS (Text) metric solved the shortcomings of previous metrics with regard to empty cells and multi-hop mis-alignments \cite{zhong2020image}. In TEDS, all cells, with or without text are considered, thereby also including empty cells as part of computation. So, TEDS (text) will penalise the absence of a row and all the alignment mismatches when comparing ground truth table against predicted table in figure \ref{fig:digitalization}. But it computes the edit distance between cells' texts as compared to the exact match in Adjacency Relation (Text).

Table structure recognition algorithms aim at predicting the location (bounding boxes) of cells and their logical relation with one another, irrespective of the text in the cell. Therefore, the evaluation metric should not penalize an algorithm for inaccuracies in text. With this observation, this paper propose TEDS (IOU) which replaces the string edit distance between cells' text with the IOU distance between their bounding boxes. This effectively, removes dependency on text or OCR, while also preserving the benefits of the original TEDS (text) metric. Specifically, we compute TEDS (IOU) as follows: cost of insertion \& deletion operations is 1 unit; while substituting a node $n_s$ with $n_t$ - cost of edit is 1 unit if either $n_s$ or $n_t$ is not $<td>$, cost of edit is 1 unit if both $n_s$ \& $n_t$ is $<td>$ and the column span or row span of $n_s$ \& $n_t$ is different, otherwise, cost of edit is $1 - IOU(n_s.bbox,  n_t.bbox)$. Finally,
  \begin{equation}
  TEDS\_IOU(T_a, T_b) = 1 - \frac{EditDistIOU(T_a, T_b)}{max(|T_a|, |T_b|)}
  \end{equation}
TEDS (IOU) $\in [0,1]$, the higher the better. $|.|$ denotes cardinality. IOU distance $(IOU_d = 1 - IOU)$ being a Jaccard index \cite{kosub2019note}, is a metric as it satisfies:
\begin{enumerate}
\item $IOU_d(A, B) = 0 \iff A = B  \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \; \;$ $Identity$
\item $IOU_d(A, B) = IOU_d(B, A) \qquad  \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \; \; \; \; \; \;$ $Symmetry$
\item $IOU_d(A, C) <= IOU_d(A, B) + IOU_d(B, C) \qquad \qquad \; \,$ $Triangle\;Inequality$
\end{enumerate}

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{test_table.png}
   \vspace{-10pt}
  \caption{(a) is a table from PubTabNet dataset. In (b), red lines denote the predicted structure and blue lines depict the true structure.}
  \label{test}
  \vspace{-16pt}
 \end{center}
\end{figure}

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed TEDS (IOU) metric, we compute the all four metrics for the predicted table in figure \ref{test}(b). In the example above, we had known OCR issues where it was unable to recognize the $\pm$ symbol (it got recognized as +) and all the cells with``NA" were detected as empty. Adjacency Relation (Text) got a very poor score of $13.7$ F1 due to the exact text match constraint. Adjacency Relation (IOU), being text independent, is more robust and achieves a Weighted Avg. F1 of $59.8$. TEDS (text) matches text through edit distances, therefore, for it, only the ``NA" cells gave high edit distance (of 1) and it scores $71.6$ on this table. TEDS (IOU) being text independent and computing the IOU distance between cells, assigns a higher score of $80.6$ which seems to be the most representative one of the prediction.

\section{Discussion \& Future Work}

We proposed a new metric for table structure recognition and demonstrated its benefits against existing metrics. As future steps, we plan to compare these metrics across different datasets and models. A possible extension of this work can be to introduce different thresholds for the IOU as in Adjacency Relation (IOU), instead of using absolute numbers.
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WHAT IF I TOLD YOU
Spotify Reveals 'Legendary' Top Love Song Ahead of Valentine's Day
With more than 1.1 billion streams on Spotify to date, John Legend's hit song, "All of Me" may just be the ultimate romantic legend. Streaming has shown that it's the top song for lovers on Spotify, just in time for Valentine's Day.
"I hear from so many people that they've used it to propose, to walk down the aisle, and to celebrate milestones," Legend told For the Record. "Thank you all for making me a part of your most memorable moments."
So, how do we define the top love song on Spotify? By the listeners, of course. Check out the data that shows the mind-blowing popularity of this track:
"All of Me" is the most-added song in love-themed playlists. Spotify listeners have created more than 75 million playlists with the word love in the title.
The track is also the top song choice for both men and women on playlists titled "Valentine's Day."
"All of Me" has been added to more than 29 million playlists.
Since its release in 2013, streams of the track have spiked by at least 50% every year on Valentine's Day (the most notable spike was in 2017 with an 85% increase in streams).
"The impact of 'All of Me' continues to amaze and inspire me," Legend said. "I'm so honored to know we created something that has meant so much to so many people. I wrote this song to express how I felt to the woman I love as we were about to commit to a lifetime together. But often the best songs are able to express something in a way that is both personal and universal. I'm grateful to know that lovers around the world have connected with this song and made it their own."
Spotify fans simply can't get enough of People's 2019 "Sexiest Man Alive" and his new single, "Conversations in the Dark," which has already seen more than 10 million streams on Spotify since its release last month. And according to John, the track has wife Chrissy Teigen's stamp of approval: "Chrissy has even said it's her favorite song of mine since 'All of Me,' and that's pretty high praise from her!"
"'Conversations' is about those little intimate, magical moments that loved ones share and the commitment to protect each other's heart," Legend added. "I'm excited to see the journey that this song will take. It has only been out for a few weeks, but I've already seen so many passionate, emotional reactions to 'Conversations in the Dark.'"
And clearly music makes for the best romantic gift on Valentine's Day. We've seen a growing trend with listeners choosing to share their Valentine's Day playlists with their special someone on Spotify. Last year, Valentine's Day playlists were gifted (aka shared) almost twice as much on February 14 compared to 2018.
As for what John and Chrissy have planned this February 14, Legend has something special in the works. "Chrissy and I do have Valentine's Day plans," Legend said. "We'll get away from the kids for a night, go up to Napa Valley and visit one of our favorite restaurants. I'm looking forward to it!"
If you need inspiration for what to add to your romantic playlist, look no further than Legend's catalog on Spotify: This Is John Legend. Also check out Love Pop, Spotify's most-followed playlist of love songs.
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ashala wolf
March 21, 2014 by jason nahrung
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf: a spirited first novel
In the future portrayed in The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (Walker Books, 2012) by Ambelin Kwaymullina, a new order arises: the world reduced to one continent, the people decimated past the point of racism. The new order follows a decree of Balance, handed down by a Noah-like figure, Hoffman, and a series of decrees are implemented to attempt to avoid such global catastrophe again. Technology is restricted, for instance; no nuclear power of genetic modification, few cars, a limited number of laser-like weapons for the security force. The full extent of just what tech is available to whom is is sketchily drawn, with just enough details provided to allow the story to unfold.
Several hundred years after the Reckoning, humanity has found its own genetic modification – the development of powers, restricted one per person, a little like the X-Men: one chap can move air to cause effects such as flight and telekinesis; a girl can interfere with memories; our titular heroine can sleepwalk into a dream state where the rules of physics do not apply, but the results are enacted in the real world. It's exciting stuff, especially when one adds in sentient trees and telepathic dinosaurs, and creation spirits who have helped breathe new life into the devastated planet.
These powers are the source of conflict for the story, with government enforcers testing children for special abilities and decreeing them either useful or detrimental to society. Using those powers is not without its risks, which helps to make them more convincing, and offers balance to what can be a simplistic 'technology=bad nature=good' argument.
Ashala heads a band of child runaways who live in the sentient forest, hunted and feared by society at large, but not without supporters: there is a rebel movement of families tired of giving up their talented children, of free thinkers who don't like to see the gifted persecuted and locked away.
The story opens with Ashala a prisoner, her Mengele-like persecutors seeking to identify an imminent threat to their program, and Ashala harbouring more secrets than even they, or she, might suspect.
This is a story of community, of mutual care and understanding, as well as a plea to respect the planet and the beliefs that have formed it.
While ill-defined 'advanced technology' is seen as the key cause of the end of the world, and spirit the tool of the natural world's rebirth, it is not technology alone that is to blame, but rather, as Hoffman is quoted as saying, 'advances in technology could never compensate for failures in empathy'. Reading current headlines, it's a point worth making.
In this action story with its underlying and competently drawn romance subplot, the theme of the strength of the pack – of mutual care and concern – gives the book its heart. There are echoes of the colonial devastation of Indigenous Australia subtly vibrating through the story as Ashala draws strength from the memory and inspiration of her friends.
The ending is perhaps too neat, but love will out, and the story is wrapped up so that one is left wondering where to from here, given this is the first of The Tribe series. The answer lies in the synopsis for book 2, The Disappearance of Ember Crow , which came out in November last year, and begins a new plot set in the same world, with a new challenge for Ashala to overcome. No doubt this will see further exploration of intriguing elements of the world to come, such as the totem animals the children of the Firstwood embrace, and the structure of the broader world with its delicate balance of nature and technology.
Western Australian Kwaymullina, of the Palyku people, has written several picture books, with this her first novel; it's a quick and engaging read with clear appeal for young adult readers.
This is the second of my reviews in the Australian Women Writers Challenge.
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Test flame still burns for Kane Richardson
Australian Twenty20 paceman Kane Richardson says he has no plans to abandon his Test ambitions despite being pigeon-holed as a white-ball specialist.
England legspinner Adil Rashid this week made the shock decision to opt out of playing for county side Yorkshire in 2018, preferring to focus his attentions on white-ball cricket.
Rashid's decision was particularly surprising given the uncertainty around whether Moeen Ali can reclaim his mantle as England's first-choice Test spinner after a horror Ashes series.
It also raised questions about whether others might follow suit given the demands of playing in three formats and the opportunity to make big money in domestic T20 leagues.
A highly-effective short-form bowler who has been consistently overlooked for Test selection, Richardson would seem a prime candidate to fall into that category.
But speaking after Australia's T20 tri-series win over New Zealand in Auckland, the South Australian said he hadn't given up hope of one day earning a baggy green.
"For (Rashid), he's played Test cricket so it's easier knowing that you've tried it, you've tasted it, you've done it," Richardson said.
"I want to perform in an arena I haven't performed in, and that's four-day cricket into five-day cricket.
Wes Agar dismisses Glenn Maxwell
Maxwell out for just 19.
6 hours ago 00:21
Qais Ahmad dismisses Shaun Marsh
Shaun Marsh out for 56.
a day ago 00:24
India win series despite Smith ton
Steve Smith hit his first ODI century in three years, but India won the series-deciding match over Australia.
"I'd probably regret making that call, especially now. I'm only 27, (so) maybe in a couple of years but we'll hopefully get there one day."
Richardson's commitment to red-ball cricket was emphasised when he opted out of this year's IPL auction to focus on playing for the Redbacks in the Sheffield Shield.
Australia will host the World T20 in two years' time with Richardson determined not to miss out.
"For me, I can't just say I want to be a T20 bowler. I want to play everything I can and take as many wickets I can in all the forms," Richardson said.
"That T20 World Cup is a massive one, I want to be in a World Cup, whether or not I play in it, I want to be around it.
"I don't know if missing Shield cricket will help that goal. You've got to keep playing and performing. Maybe after that, we'll have a look at it."
New Zealand cricket fan makes classic one-handed crowd catch to win $50,000 at T20 International
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On Thursday 7th May Privett Montessori went to the Planetarium in Winchester to see the "Secret of the Cardboard Rocket Show" We learnt so much about the planets in our Solar System and we agree with Heidi who says she likes our planet earth best!
After the show we went into the Science Centre, where we all enjoyed the huge range of hands on exhibits.
Here are some photographs of the day!
On Thursday 22nd May Privett Village Hall was in use for polling so we took our bears (and children) on a visit to the Watercress line.
had somehow managed to mislay her picnic.
We organised a search party and soon discovered her sandwiches and cake in all sorts of odd places and her flask, which was high up on a lamp post!
Unfortunately it had begun to rain quite heavily, so we decided to picnic indoors. After lunch most of us went for a walk to the meadow and we got very wet!
It was soon time to get back on the train and Mrs Bear waved us off on the next part of our journey to Alton. There was just enough time to buy some cups of much needed coffee for the Mums and Dads as well as a few treats before we were off on our way home back to Alresford.
It was a lovely day out despite the weather and Mrs Bear was a great hit!
In September we welcomed 13 new children and their parents to the Nursery for our busiest September in some time. Zuzie, Charlotte and Megan also joined us to help manage our increased numbers and they, like the children, have settled into life at Privett Montessori beautifully.
We based our project work for the term on some of the mammals found in Africa and we and the children learnt many interesting facts about them. For example; giraffe give birth standing up (what a long drop!), rhinos are host to the tick bird which feeds off parasites on their skin, hippos sleep in the water and feed on land during the night and elephants are still illegally hunted and killed for their ivory. We also acquired some silk worms and after feeding them copious quantities of privet, they duly spun themselves inside cocoons. After a long wait and some time spent in Maggie's airing cupboard, several very large and attractive moths emerged.
In November when the village hall was in use as a polling station, we all went to Marwell Zoo. Many of the children and their parents attended a workshop in which the children were told a story about Sally the stick insect. They then met the biggest stick insect I have ever seen and stroked a friendly rat! The children loved seeing the animals in the park, especially the giraffe, one of which is named after Samuel's sister, Isabella and the penguins entertained us for such a long time with their swimming and diving antics.
We were visited by Heidi a dentist and ex Nursery parent and Charlotte a hygienist who came and talked to the children about caring for their teeth and the sugar content of food and drinks. The children were all able to practise correct tooth brushing on a model and sorted food and drinks into "good" or "bad" for teeth groups. George later told his parents about the sugar in ketchup and one of our children told her parents that she needed to brush her teeth twice a day not just once as she had been used to doing!
We held a coffee and cake morning on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Care and thanks to everyone who attended, baked and bought cakes, we raised just over £100.00. It was a fun and very sociable way to raise funds for a very worthy cause.
We have worked hard to fulfil the requirements of the revised Early Years Foundation Stage. This has involved the implementation of written progress checks for 2 year olds, regular sharing of information with 2nd providers and updating our Home-School Booklets. We have also adopted new Policies regarding the use of mobile phones, cameras and videos in Nursery and a policy on Social Networking. These Policies as with all our Policies are available for parents to read in Nursery and on our website. Christina has recently up-dated her First Aid Qualification and also attended an excellent course on Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour. This course was led by Portage who also offer support and guidance to parents of Nursery age children. Kate and Maggie have both been to the Montessori Centre in London for a course that looked at the implications of the revised EYFS on Montessori Practice and Maggie also attended Special Educational Needs training there. Roessa has continued to teach Yoga once a week and the children are working hard to learn new poses and to develop concentration and control. Annaliese has been coming into Nursery to help us learn the songs for the Nativity but also to give the children the benefit of her skills as a very gifted music and movement teacher. Rachel joined us recently and will be coming back next term for some work experience before going on to do a teaching degree.
We continue to support the village hall committee in their efforts to raise funds for renovating the hall and are delighted that one of our parents has volunteered his time and expertise to act as auctioneer for a fundraising Auction that is being planned for later this year.
In the meantime, we would like to wish you all a very Happy and Successful Year and we look forward to another busy term with less rain please!


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