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Q: 3Ds MAx Script for Reading Pixels from an image We are trying to read the pixels from an uploaded Bitmap image, yet the line
aBrightness = (0.2126*aPixel[1].red) + (0.7152*aPixel[1].green) + (0.0722*aPixel[1].blue) always gives an error saying "Unknown property: "red" in undefined".
Our current script is:
aBitmap = selectBitMap caption:"Select a Bitmap"
Print(aBitmap.height)
Print(aBitmap.width)
aLength = aBitmap.height
aWidth = aBitmap.width

for i = 0 to (aLength - 10) by 10 do
(
for j = 0 to (aWidth - 10) by 10 do
(
    Print(i)
    Print(j)
    aPixel = getPixels aBitmap [i,j] 1
    aBrightness = (0.2126*aPixel[1].red) + (0.7152*aPixel[1].green) + (0.0722*aPixel[1].blue)
    aBox = box pos:[i,j,0] width:0.1 length:0.1 height:aBrightness
)
)

We would really appreciate any help regarding this script.

A: You have your coordinates wrong. The X value goes first.
It should be
APixels = Getpixels aBitmap [j, i] 1

A: You can check to see if aPixel is undefined before using it.
aPixel = getPixels aBitmap [i,j] 1
if (aPixel == undefined) do ( format "ERROR!!! [%,%]\n" i, j to:listener; continue )

aBrightness = (0.2126*aPixel[1].red) + (0.7152*aPixel[1].green) + (0.0722*aPixel[1].blue)

This might help you figure where the bug is. Often a function will return 'undefined' to a variable so you need to check if it is undefined. In this case, once you fix the bug, you can remove this type of code since you will have eliminated undefined behavior. Notice I used "format" instead of "print", this is much nicer to use for just a tiny extra code.
I see two suspicious things to check.
1) Most indexing in maxscript starts with 1 not 0. Check the documentation.
2) As Rotem pointed out, [x,y], not [y,x]


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WHAT KIND OF NATION: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
James F. Simon, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-84870-9
The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court
The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Civil Liberties in Modern America
The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Franfuter and Civil Liberties in Modern America
Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle over the New Deal
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession and the President's War Powers
Simon (a former Time editor, now a law professor at NYU) examines the decades of conflict between the states' rights views of Thomas Jefferson and the federalist beliefs of John Marshall. In 1801, at the end of Adams's presidency, Marshall accepted the Supreme Court chief justice's position and Jefferson became the nation's third president. That set the stage for years of competition between the two philosophies of government, especially the two visions of the judiciary, represented by the principal antagonists of Simon's history. Simon deftly explains how Jefferson and Marshall maintained a façade of civility in their public pronouncements while unleashing blistering mutual vituperation privately. Ultimately, as Simon demonstrates, Marshall prevailed. His technique was subtlety itself. In his opinion in Marbury v. Madison, Marshall gave an ostensible victory to Madison (Jefferson's vice president) but reached that result by asserting the authority of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. That assertion had far-reaching implications for consolidating the federal government's power. Once the Supreme Court became the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution, the court repeatedly exercised its authority to invalidate state laws and court decisions inconsistent with the federal Constitution. Simon usefully narrows his focus to a handful of key decisions by the Marshall court, showing how the justice's concept of what kind of nation the U.S. should be progressively swept aside Jefferson's belief that state and federal governments were equal sovereigns. Simon's book illuminates the origins of a national political debate that continues today. (Mar.)
Genre: Nonfiction
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Autocamtide-2 Related Inhibitory Peptide II, Cell-permeable, is a specific, potent inhibitor of CaMKII. Contains the Antennapedia transport peptide fused to the amino terminus of AIP-II.
Autocamtide-2 Related Inhibitory Peptide II, Cell-permeable - Calbiochem: Ficha de datos de seguridad (MSDS o SDS), certificado de análisis y de calidad (CoA y CoQ), expedientes, folletos y otros documentos disponibles.
Overview A highly specific, potent, cell-permeable calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) inhibitor that contains the Antennapedia transport peptide sequence fused to the amino terminus of AIP-II (Cat. No. 189484).
References Watterson, D.M., et al. 2001. Neurochem. Int. 39, 459.
Application Autocamtide-2 Related Inhibitory Peptide II, Cell-permeable, is a specific, potent inhibitor of CaMKII. Contains the Antennapedia transport peptide fused to the amino terminus of AIP-II.
Watterson, D.M., et al. 2001. Neurochem. Int. 39, 459.
Description A highly specific, potent, cell-permeable calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) inhibitory peptide that contains the Antennapedia transport peptide sequence fused to the N-terminus of autocamtide inhibitory peptide-II (AIP-II) (Cat. No. 189484). AIP-II is an AIP analog where Ala3 and Val10 are replaced by Lys and Phe residues. AIP-II is reported to be more potent than CaMK-(281-302/Ala286) and KN-93 (Cat. No. 422708). Inhibits by binding to the autophosphorylation site, which is distinct from the exogenous substrate-binding site.


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The battle of the Lomba, 3 October 1987 : a tactical and operational analysis
Scholtz, Leopold
The Battle of the Lomba, which was fought on 3 October 1987, was the final contest between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) during the first phase of Operation Moduler. In this battle, 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (61 Mech; with a Ratel 90 squadron as the battering ram) attacked the vastly superior Angolan 47 Brigade and all but wiped it out. The basic question in this article is why and how this happened? The answer lies in the tactical and operational handling of both forces on a command level. On the one side, from a professional viewpoint, the SADF leadership of 20 SA Brigade and 61 Mech did almost everything correctly, and even lay the foundation of the victory before a single shot was fired. The Angolan commanders did almost everything wrong. The tactical and operational lessons learnt from the battle may provide material for officers' training, and these lessons are discussed as part of the conclusion.
https://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150509/JCH42.v2.3
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Прапор Первомайська затверджений 28 серпня 2009 року рішенням Первомайської міської ради.

Опис
Прямокутне полотнище з співвідношенням сторін 2:3, розділене синім вилоподібним хрестом від кутів біля древка до середини вільного краю. На рівнобічному малиновому древковому трикутнику три білих фортечних зубці; верхня горизонтальна частина блакитна, нижня — жовта.

Значення символів
Трикутник у лівій частині полотнища виконаний в малиновому кольорі, що символізує історичне коріння заснування міста козаками. На малиновому полі полотнища розташовується стилізоване зображення фрагменту фортеці, що поклала в 1676 році початок нинішньому Первомайську. Права нижня частина полотнища виконана в жовто-золотавому кольорі, що символізує належність міста до степової природної зони. Права верхня частина полотнища виконана в блакитному кольорі, що символізує чисте небо, оскільки в природній зоні розташування міста переважають безхмарні дні через дуже низьку середньорічну норму опадів. Також жовто-блакитне поєднання кольорів символізує належність міста до Української держави.

Див. також
 Герб Первомайська Миколаївської області
 Первомайськ

Посилання
 Українська геральдика
 Первомайська міськрада

Первомайськ
Первомайськ (Миколаївська область)

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El Tour de Romandia 2016 fou la 70a edició del Tour de Romandia. La cursa es disputà entre el 26 d'abril i l'1 de maig de 2016 sobre un recorregut de 705,6 km per carreteres suïsses, distribuïts en sis etapes. Aquesta era la catorzena prova de l'UCI World Tour 2016.
En ser el Tour de Romandia una cursa de l'UCI World Tour els 18 equip amb categoria World Tour tenen el dret i obligació a prendre-hi part. A banda, l'organitzador va convidar dos equip continental professional, per totalitzar un gran grup amb 20 equips i 160 corredors.
Primera etapa amb format de contrarellotge individual pels carrers de La Chaux-de-Fonds, amb una petita cota de tercera categoria a superar en el quilòmetre 1,63.
Ion Izagirre (Movistar Team) va ser el més ràpid en aquesta curta contrarellotge, amb sis segons sobre Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin). La pluja va afectar a diversos ciclistes, sent Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEDGE), que va caure, el més perjudicat.
1 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team 5' 33"
2 Tom Dumoulin (NED) Giant-Alpecin + 6"
3 Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) Team Sky + 7"
4 Geraint Thomas (GBR) Team Sky + 7"
5 Gorka Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 8"
6 Moreno Moser (ITA) Cannondale + 9"
7 Reto Hollenstein (SUI) IAM Cycling + 11"
8 Louis Vervaeke (BEL) Lotto-Soudal + 11"
9 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team + 11"
10 Martijn Keizer (NED) LottoNL-Jumbo + 12"
1 Marcel Kittel (GER) Etixx-Quick Step 2h 27' 46"
2 Niccolò Bonifazio (ITA) Trek-Segafredo m. t.
3 Michael Albasini (SUI) Orica-GreenEDGE m. t.
4 Tosh Van der Sande (BEL) Lotto-Soudal m. t.
5 Ramūnas Navardauskas (LTU) Cannondale m. t.
6 Davide Cimolai (ITA) Lampre-Merida m. t.
7 Samuel Dumoulin (FRA) AG2R-La Mondiale m. t.
8 Enrico Gasparotto (ITA) Wanty-Groupe Gobert m. t.
9 Kristian Sbaragli (ITA) Dimension Data m. t.
10 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha m. t.
1 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team 2h 33' 19"
3 Geraint Thomas (GBR) Team Sky + 7"
4 Gorka Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 8"
5 Moreno Moser (ITA) Cannondale + 9"
6 Reto Hollenstein (SUI) IAM Cycling + 11"
7 Louis Vervaeke (BEL) Lotto-Soudal + 11"
8 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team + 11"
9 Martijn Keizer (NED) LottoNL-Jumbo + 12"
10 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ + 12"
1 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team 4h 28' 40"
2 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha m. t.
3 Rui Costa (SUI) Lampre-Merida + 26"
4 Rigoberto Urán (COL) Cannondale + 26"
5 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ + 26"
6 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 26"
7 Rafał Majka (POL) Team Tinkoff + 26"
8 Mathias Frank (SUI) IAM Cycling + 26"
9 Pierre Rolland (FRA) Cannondale + 26"
10 Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha + 26"
1 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team 7h 02' 05"
2 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha + 18"
3 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 20"
4 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ + 32"
5 Rui Costa (SUI) Lampre-Merida + 36"
6 Mathias Frank (SUI) IAM Cycling + 37"
7 Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha + 42"
8 Pierre Rolland (FRA) Cannondale + 43"
9 Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek-Segafredo + 44"
10 Rigoberto Urán (COL) Cannondale + 46"
1 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ 20' 21"
2 Tom Dumoulin (NED) Giant-Alpecin + 2"
3 Bob Jungels (LUX) Etixx-Quick Step + 8"
4 Chris Froome (GBR) Team Sky + 9"
5 Jérôme Coppel (FRA) IAM Cycling + 9"
6 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team + 9"
7 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha + 17"
8 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 17"
9 Steve Morabito (SUI) IAM Cycling + 22"
10 Manuele Boaro (ITA) Team Tinkoff + 24"
1 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team 7h 22' 35"
2 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ + 23"
3 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha + 26"
4 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 29"
5 Tom Dumoulin (NED) Giant-Alpecin + 50"
6 Mathias Frank (SUI) IAM Cycling + 1' 06"
7 Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha + 1' 11"
8 Rui Costa (SUI) Lampre-Merida + 1' 12"
9 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team + 1' 22"
10 Rafał Majka (POL) Team Tinkoff + 1' 23"
1 Christopher Froome (GBR) Team Sky 4h 44' 24"
2 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 4"
3 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ + 4"
4 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha + 4"
5 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team + 4"
6 Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek-Segafredo + 4"
7 Rui Costa (SUI) Lampre-Merida + 4"
8 Rigoberto Urán (COL) Cannondale + 4"
9 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team + 4"
10 Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha + 4"
1 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team 12h 07' 03"
2 Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ + 19"
3 Ion Izagirre (ESP) Movistar Team + 23"
4 Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Team Katusha + 26"
5 Tom Dumoulin (NED) Giant-Alpecin + 57"
6 Rui Costa (SUI) Lampre-Merida + 1' 12"
7 Simon Špilak (SLO) Team Katusha + 1' 16"
8 Mathias Frank (SUI) IAM Cycling + 1' 16"
9 Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek-Segafredo + 1' 24"
10 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team + 1' 27"
1 Michael Albasini (SUI) Orica-GreenEDGE 4h 13' 17"
3 Wilco Kelderman (NED) LottoNL-Jumbo m.t.
4 Niccolò Bonifazio (ITA) Trek-Segafredo m.t.
7 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-GreenEDGE m.t.
8 Tom Bohli (SUI) IAM Cycling m.t.
9 Carlos Verona (ESP) Etixx-Quick Step m.t.
10 Jarlinson Pantano (COL) IAM Cycling m.t.
1 Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar Team 16h 20' 20"
1 Pierre Latour (FRA) AG2R-La Mondiale 16h 22' 44"
2 Damien Howson (AUS) Orica-GreenEDGE + 1' 57"
3 Merhawi Kudus (ERI) Dimension Data + 2' 49"
1 Movistar Team Espanya 49h 06' 36"
2 Team Katusha Rússia + 1' 24"
3 Cannondale Estats Units + 10' 49"
El Tour de Romandia atorga punts per l'UCI World Tour 2016 sols als ciclistes dels equips de categoria World Tour.
↑ «2016 » 70th Tour de Romandie (2.UWT) Stage 1 (TTT) » La Chaux-de-Fonds › La Chaux-de-Fonds (3.95k)». procyclingstats.com [Consulta: 27 abril 2016].
↑ EFE «Jon Izagirre gana el prólogo de Romandía». El Mundo Deportivo. EFE, 26-04-2016 [Consulta: 27 abril 2016].
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Q: openGL drawing GL_LINES giving incorrect result I am trying to draw a grid of velocity vectors, I expect the velocity at each grid point to be a line with a slop of 1. A slanting line, but I always end up with a vertical line. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is there something I'm overlooking?
Here is how my vertex buffer looks :
float vel_pos[6*(N+2)*(N+2)];
int index1 = 0;
for (int i=0;i<N+2;i++)
{
    for (int j=0;j<N+2;j++)
    {
        vel_pos[index1] = float(i);
        vel_pos[index1+1] = float(j);
        vel_pos[index1+2] = 0.0f;
        vel_pos[index1+3] = float(i) +0.5f;
        vel_pos[index1+4] = float(j) + 0.5f;
        vel_pos[index1+5] = 0.0f;
        index1 += 6;
    }
}

Here is how I am creating my VBO and VAO :
unsigned int VBO, VAO;
glGenVertexArrays(1, &VAO);
glGenBuffers(1, &VBO);

// Bind vertex array object first and then bind the vertex buffer objects
glBindVertexArray(VAO);

glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, VBO);

glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(vel_pos), vel_pos, GL_STREAM_DRAW);

GLint velAttrib = glGetAttribLocation(ourShader.ID, "aPos");

// iterpreting data from buffer
glVertexAttribPointer(velAttrib, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE,  6 * sizeof(float), (void*)0);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);

Here is my vertex shader :
  out vec4 vertexColor;
  layout (location = 0) in vec3 aPos;
  layout (location = 1) in float densitySource; /* source of density */
  uniform mat4 transform;
  uniform mat4 projection;

  void main()
  {
  gl_Position = projection*transform * vec4(aPos, 1.0);
  vertexColor = vec4(1, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
  }

And here's my drawing code :
  ourShader.use();

    glm::mat4 trans = glm::mat4(1.0f);
    trans = glm::translate(trans, glm::vec3(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f));
    unsigned int transformMatrixLocation = glGetUniformLocation(ourShader.ID, "transform");
    glUniformMatrix4fv(transformMatrixLocation, 1, GL_FALSE, glm::value_ptr(trans));

    glm::mat4 projection = glm::ortho(-10.0f, 110.0f, -1.0f, 110.0f, -1.0f, 100.0f);

    unsigned int projectionMatrixLocation = glGetUniformLocation(ourShader.ID, "projection");
    glUniformMatrix4fv(projectionMatrixLocation, 1, GL_FALSE, glm::value_ptr(projection));

    glBindVertexArray(VAO);
    glLineWidth(1.0f);
    glDrawArrays(GL_LINES,  0, (N+2)*(N+2));

This is the image I get :
resulting image

A: The 5th parameter (stride) of glVertexAttribPointer is the offset between two vertex coordinates and not between to primitives. Since your vertex coordinates have 3 components of type float, the offset has to be 3 * sizeof(float):
glVertexAttribPointer(velAttrib, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE,  3 * sizeof(float), (void*)0);

Because you set an offset of 6 * sizeof(float), you have skipped every 2 coordinate and have drawn lines between the points of the grid.
But note, if stride is 0, the generic vertex attributes are understood to be tightly packed in the array. This is the case, so you ca use an offset of 0:
glVertexAttribPointer(velAttrib, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE,  0, (void*)0);

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The MHS cadets finished 30th out of 59 teams at the event, which was held in Belton. The tournament completed a successful season for Marshall's team, which was making their first appearance at the state tournament.
Cadet Kenny Jones led Marshall with a score of 274, which ranked him 86th out of 541 archers in the High School Boys Division. Jones' score ranked 24th out of 109 seniors at the event.
Cadet Dakota Allen scored 265, which ranked 157th in the high school division and 41st in the seniors division. Allen was also named an Academic Archer. Teammate Samuel Cooper scored 260 and was 199th in the high school division and finished 48th out of 131 juniors at the event and was also named Academic Archer.
Rounding out the top 5 scorers for Marshall were cadet Jonathan Acuna (259, 205th in high school and 52nd in juniors) and cadet Esteban Flores-Guillen (253, 255th in high school and 63rd in seniors).
In the girls division, cadet Corrina Kreuziger led Marshall with a 247, which ranked 229th out of 476 archers and 47th out of 90 seniors. She was named an Academic Archer as well. Brianna Foyt scored a 237, with was 284th in high school girls and 90th among 163 sophomore girls.
Rounding out the top 5 girls for Marshall were Lauren Pritchard (232, 314th high school and 79th junior girls; Cheyenne Page (228, 323rd high school and 108th sophomores) and Kiana Abercrombie (155, 464th high school girls and 157th sophomores).
The Marshall cadets were also given the honor of presenting the colors for the opening ceremonies at the state tournament. Instructor for Marshall TX-20024 is MSgt (Ret) Michael Brian Cumberland.
The National Archery in Schools Program (NASP) is an in-school program aimed at improving educational performance among students in grades 4-12. Through it, students learn focus, self-control, discipline, patience, and the life lessons required to be successful in the classroom and in life.


Sighting is a jump from Drawing Ia because students are drawing from life and they will convert a 3-D object into a 2-D object on their paper. They will observe real objects and draw them. Sighting with a viewfinder helps the child by framing the subject, giving it a defined space, rather like the Drawing Ia sheets in which everything is inside a small square. Sighting sticks are useful for comparing objects with each other in the composition.
First you need to make a viewfinder. The image on the right is of our viewfinders.
Use a sturdy piece of card stock that won't curl when it is picked up.
Cut a rectangular hole [the viewfinder window] in the card stock. The hole should measure 3" x 4" if you are using 9" x 12" paper.
If you are using 12"x18" paper, cut the viewfinder window to measure 3" x 4 1/2"
The suggested sizes above indicate that these viewfinders are meant to frame the scene or subject so that the artist knows the edges of the viewfinder window represent the edges of the paper.
After cutting the hole, trim around the hole. Be sure to make the border wide enough to support the missing middle of the viewfinder. Our big viewfinder had enough support with a border that is just over one inch wide. A wider border would have been okay too. I taped around the edges to keep it tidy and to add extra support.
Viewfinder is straight when held up. I found our old viewfinder and took a picture to show you how it should be. There are no kinks or folds of any degree. If a viewfinder is damaged, discard it and make another one.
The student looks through the hole of the viewfinder to sight objects and to block out negative space. For the sake of a lesson, set up a simple still life. This can consist of a single large flower. The image on the left is an image of a viewfinder and a large southern magnolia blossom from our tree.
If you notice, now you have just lines, shapes, and shading to replicate on your paper. The science behind drawing is observation. The artist must notice the little details such as the reflected light along the edges of the lines, the edges and their direction and shape, and the gradated tone of the shadows.
If you can imagine, your viewfinder cannot move nor can you hold it while you draw. The viewfinder has to be attached to something or standing with the help of something. Use what you have around the house. I have big spring clamps and that is what I use. I can clamp the viewfinder to the side of the easel or I can clamp it to something else, or I can add two clamps to the bottom of the viewfinder to serve as "legs." In any event, the viewfinder should be eye level to the artist because the artist can't be stooping and bobbing her head. It needs to be at that perfect height so that when she glances through the viewfinder, her view is the same as the last time she glanced though the viewfinder. See Blind Contour Drawing [when I write it].
Sighting sticks are sort of like a viewfinder, but not really like them at all. The sighting stick has rules.
Rules: The sighting stick should be straight and thin. Ours is pictured to the right.
When holding a sighting stick, it must exist in this imaginary 2d plane in front of you at arms length. That means you can tilt the stick like the angle of clock arms, but like clock arms do not reach out or in, you may not tilt the stick out of its 2d realm.
Sighting sticks are used to measure and compare the parts of your subject. Remember to follow the rules. It is a waste of time if one tilts the stick forward or backward, or bends their arm. Just follow the rules and do it right.
The sighting stick is used for several things.
Start with one or two objects in the still life. Place simple objects such as a ball and a candle as the first subjects. Or do as I did and place one handmade mug as the subject. The mug and resulting drawings are pictured below.
Instructions: Set up your still life. The students are to sight the objects by holding up their sighting sticks in the proper position according to the rules. Tell them they should not tilt their sticks forward or backward. They will use their thumb nail to hold the measurement on the stick when comparing sizes of items.
Their purpose is to discover the shape and direction of the lines of the object by comparing it to the straight line of their sighting stick.
The sighting stick was used in this still life to determine if the cup is taller than it is wide or visa-versa. It was discovered that the cup is almost a square, but not quite. Shading is not to be done in the first few exercises.
Notes: Some children may dislike sighting, [mine never said, "Hey! Let's use a sighting stick for art!"] but if you can encourage them to learn to use the sighting stick properly it should help them. Make each still-life very simple until they get better at the skill of sighting.
If you want your children to shade the objects in the still life, set up a light source. Either place the still life perpendicular to a window or set a lamp near the still life.
If an apple is the smallest thing in the composition, then use it to measure how many apples high or wide a larger object is.
Meanwhile, as your student gets better with using the sighting sticks, add shading to your art lessons. [See Shading] In the still life provide a strong light source such as a desk lamp so that the objects in the still life will have distinct shadows. Practice improves shading.
As your student improves, make the still life more complicated.
Always try to make a pleasing composition with the objects in the still life.
After many lessons, place an item that will be foreshortened when drawn.
Foreshortened is how something looks when it is pointing at you. Foreshortened items are challenging to draw. But not really, the real challenge in drawing a foreshortened item is the challenge to the preconceived notion of what something looks like and its typical representational length. A foreshortened item use much shorter lines.
Feel free to move outside and draw trees or other objects.
Sleeping pets make good models too.
From time to time, have one of the students be a model for the other students to draw.
Break up these sessions with rapid contour drawings [also called gesture drawings]. Allow the students to draw their hand, feet or an object of their choice without using a sighting stick and without glancing at their paper very much. They should study their subject well before beginning the contour drawing, then draw quickly, their pencil following the movement of their eyes as they look at the lines of their subject.
Practice cross hatching. Have your students draw with pen and ink or with pencil. They should use cross hatching to form the shadows in their drawings.
Continue with this until the students have greatly improved from their first attempts.


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Tehran Upgrading Nuclear Enrichment Site -- IAEA Report
The IAEA says that more efficient centrifuges are being installed at Iran's Natanz nuclear site. (file photo)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says in a new report that Iran has begun installing more advanced centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
Tehran says it needs refined uranium to fuel nuclear power plants. Western powers fear it is seeking to produce material for nuclear weapons.
The IAEA report says Iran has so far produced 280 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium, of which around 110 kilograms have been converted into fuel.
Experts say that around 250 kilograms are needed for one bomb, if enriched to a higher degree.
The IAEA report on February 21 comes ahead of talks between Iran and six major powers -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States -- on Tehran's nuclear program.
The February 26 talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan will be the first after a gap of eight months
Based on reporting by Reuters, dpa, and AFP


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New Ryan Adams :: "A Song In The News"
A song in the news indeed — a music magazine to be exact. Take a listen to a snippet of the new Ryan Adams song that he contributed to the Esopus Magazine Spring 2008 sampler CD. My first thought was "wow he is trying to stick a lot of words in here," followed by an immediate, "meh." After that came some vague frustration directed towards a possible lack of trying. But I could just be having a bad day. Your thoughts?
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Possibly the worst Ryan song I have ever heard…I'd like to buy him a beer at Niagra, I'm gettin' tired of sober Ryan.
chris — May 13, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Esopus generally picks a theme and has artists create songs based around that – in some cases songs are based on material submitted by readers of the magazine. For example, the last issue's CD was comprised of songs interpreting/relating reader's dreams.
Having said that, the song is poo.
Payo — May 13, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
Yeah, that's pretty awful. He's never been very good at quality control though
The Stranger — May 13, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
sounds like one of his throw away songs he would have posted on his defunct blog…but i have to say, it's not the worst song of his i've ever heard. and i also think that him being sober is not such a bad thing. instead of being drunk or stoned he throws himself fully into his art, for better or worse. like he said in an interview once, when your mom makes too much meatloaf, you don't complain, you just eat meatloaf sandwiches with the leftovers.
matt cleveland — May 13, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
I agree, total crap. I do like the Langhorne Slim track that precedes it though. If you don't know his stuff, check him out. His new cd just came out and one of the tracks, "Diamonds and Gold" is pretty much my new life anthem.
Love your blog, thanks for all the good phonic suggestions.
ccf — May 13, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
Well, it's only 30 seconds or so at a low bitrate – but I think it could be pretty great. I really like the guitar tone and the way he intones bullllshit. And the fact he uses the word 'misdeliver'. Great word.
Keebs — May 13, 2008 @ 9:51 pm
His recent Warewolph fare is better and I'm no fan of metal. That said, even Michaelangelo painted silly pictures from time to time.
Ben — May 14, 2008 @ 4:44 am
I don't think a high bitrate can make up for bad songwriting. I love Ryan's songs, even the mediocre ones and this one is crap.
jcroach — May 14, 2008 @ 6:48 am
Sounds like a really shitty Lou Reed imitation to me. I'm not sure what's going on with the other songs either. The song after Ryan's is unlistenable, and the one after that is a failed attempt at sounding like Joanna Newsom.
Maloney — May 14, 2008 @ 8:35 am
more website rap!!! less garbage!!!
Maran — May 14, 2008 @ 9:39 am
It's like he's forgotten how to fucking write. This is like 14 year old Ryan finding his way. He's gone full circle.
Anonymous — May 14, 2008 @ 10:12 am
Not sure if this the worst Ryan Adams song as it is not easy to get to the front of that list. Good chance it would finish in the top 3 though.
I agree with ccf – the Langhorne Slim sample is much better. His self-titled album just received an excellent review on Firenote.
Tawriffic — May 14, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
not a great song, but as somebody mentioned – it's just a 30 second snippet at low bitrate. It has that raw demo feel. What worries me a bit is that he is completely out of tune and has no real melody in the vocal melodyline. But I don't think this is something we need to worry about. Easy Tiger and Follow the Ligths showed us that he has some qualitycontrol nowadays.
Stian — May 15, 2008 @ 3:19 am
dude pretty much made it up as he went along. sounds like he wrote out the lyrics in a them and tried to fit all of his lines in to the music. obvious the lyrics were written first. i doubt this was meant to be taken seriously. and with that said…it's shit.
Nick — May 15, 2008 @ 11:01 am
If you're going to do something you should at least make a good job of it. This is a feeble effort.
people! The guy is a human being, not an answer to your problems or a fix for your own lack of effort. If he's no good, then what does that make the rest of us? It's a whole lot o' bad karma to flog a person for disappointing YOUR expectations.


Details of our Easter services, quiz and supper below. Please do join us.
We knitted over 100 angels and placed them out and about in the local community this Christmas. Part of the #xmasangels initiative bringing the message of God's love and light into our community. We received one message saying how finding an angel had made someone's day and a picture of it is on top of her tree!
On Saturday 21st July 2018 Waterloo United Free Church welcomed Revd Linda Hopkins as their Minister. The service was led by Revd Phil Jump, Regional Minister, North Western Baptist Association. During the service Linda was ordained as a Baptist Minister before being inducted into the pastorate at Waterloo.
The Folkus gallery band have their roots in folk music. They lead creative Christian worship, explore faith and spirituality through sacred and secular song and are quite happy entertaining people. We look forward to an evening with them on Friday 29th March.
We had a great evening with the MadUkes ukulele group on Friday 18th January. Nearly a full house, the Madukes brought a wide repertoire of music and entertained with their encouragement to all to sing along.
Join us on Friday 12th October for an evening of historical and contemporary music with local musician Tony Crotty.
Friday 27th July, our next music night. Looking forward to hearing from Chris Lock and Ian Tupling - LocTup Together.
Entries are open for our Photographic Competition. Download application forms below.
Basic Computer Skills workshop - FREE of charge.
We had a great night of jazz with Annie Long and band on Friday 27th April. Look out for further Friday evening music nights coming soon.
Be persistent in prayer, and keep alert as you pray, giving thanks to God.
Tuesday 4th July 10.30am - 12 noon - prayer, chat, coffee at the church. The first of a monthly meeting to come together for prayer.
Sitting in front of each picture after a walk around allowed time to think of my own response.
The pictures are a really powerful way of telling the Easter story up to Good Friday. I loved the style of painting.
Jenny Hawkes' reflections are inspirational and beautifully reflect the paintings, which also leave space for our own thoughts and meditation.
Beause He lives, I can face tomorrow. Thank you for time to reflect. Thank you Jesus that you are the light of the world. I thought the art work was truly inspired.
Good to see these traditional images in a new way and be challenged to follow the journey again. Thank you.
Wonderful exhibition. So much detail. I feel so uplifted. The events of Easter brought to life.
Powerful, striking picture - reflect the messages of our faith. The paintings lead to the fture of faith, hope and love following Our Lord's resurrection.


Idea Cellular is an Aditya Birla Group Company, India's first truly multinational corporation. Idea is a pan-India integrated GSM operator offering 2G and 3G services, and has its own NLD and ILD operations, and ISP license. With revenue in excess of $4 billion; revenue market share of nearly 15%; and subscriber base of over 121 million in FY 2013, Idea is India's 3rd largest mobile operator. Idea ranks among the Top 10 country operators in the world with a traffic of over 1.5 billion minutes a day.


Shore Acres is a residential community situated on the Long Island Sound in the Village of Mamaroneck, NY. Incorporated in 1945, SAPC is comprised of roughly 200 homes located on a peninsula bordered by two salt marshes known as the Guion and Otter Creeks.
The Shore Acres community is known for its leafy residential streets that lead down to shared facilities that stand over the entrance to Mamaroneck Harbor. At this beautiful location, the SAPC clubhouse, pool, beach, and boating facilities are available to SAPC shareholders-members.
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Peace of mind for parents
Flexible parental controls that are right for each child and real-time notifications of each transaction.
Greenlight is the only debit card that lets you choose the exact stores where kids can spend.
Greenlight® empowers parents to teach trade-off decisions, money management and the power of saving with a special Greenlight app experience just for kids.
Chores made easy
With Greenlight Chores, parents manage weekly or one-time chores and motivate kids to get them done.
"My kids volunteer to do more chores without asking since I have signed them up."
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"I love Greenlight. It eases my mind to know that wherever they are or whoever they are with, I can make sure they have the money they need for whatever might come up!"
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One app.
Two experiences.
Kids and parents login to the same Greenlight app, but have two different experiences.
Parents set flexible controls and receive real-time alerts while kids monitor balances, set goals and learn how to manage money.
The tools you need. When you need them.
Automated allowance
Set Greenlight to pay allowances automatically weekly or monthly.
Know when, where and how much is spent anytime the card is used.
Instant transfers
Send instant funds to your child, from wherever you are.
Greenlight Financial Technology Inc, an Atlanta-based producer of a smart debit card, raised $16 million in Series A funding. TTV Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including New Enterprise Associates Inc, Relay Ventures, SunTrust Bank, Ally Financial, nbkc bank, Canapi and the Amazon Alexa Fund.
Michelle Ibbetson, a middle school teacher in Westminster, Calif., said she saw firsthand that children could be careless about cash. At the end of a week, her classroom is often littered with change that students have left behind.
Determined to help her own children be savvy about money, she signed up more than a year ago for an early version of Greenlight. Her children — Dallin, 10, and Adelle, 12 — review their balances themselves, on cellphones that they can check out from their parents periodically.
"Every Monday, they get a deposit if they did their chores the week before," she said.
Melanie Cox McCluskey, a copywriter in Pittsburgh, likes the idea of having more control over her 10-year-old daughter's spending. She's a Greenlight subscriber and initially put $20 on a prepaid card for her daughter, an amount she replenishes as needed. Eventually she expects her daughter will add the money she earns from odd jobs so Ms. McCluskey won't have to add funds as frequently. Ms. McCluskey says she gives her daughter the freedom to make spending choices, but feels more confident knowing she can make certain stores off-limits.
"It's just as much for their benefit to learn about money as it is for my ability to have control over spending," Ms. McCluskey says.
The piggy bank is virtually extinct.
That's not to say that teaching kids the value of a dollar and how to save money over time isn't as worthwhile as ever. Yet you can forget counting coins these days, as most payments are electronic and even kids are joining the noncash majority.
To that end, a growing number of card offerings, including Greenlight, gohenry and Current, are geared specifically toward children and teens. Each allows parents to load funds onto them and monitor their child's spending through an app, rather than using a prepaid card or linking a debit card directly to a checking account.
Greenlight's mission is to help raise financially savvy kids in a cashless world, said Tim Sheehan, the co-founder and chief executive. The company is backed by Amazon and several big banks, including Ally Financial and SunTrust.
The money on the card can be divided into two categories: funds that can be spent anywhere and money that can only be spent in specific spots, such as Chipotle, or types of establishments you've approved in advance, such as restaurants (hence the name "greenlight"). Parents can also receive an alert whenever the card is used, as well as the amount spent.
"I like the training wheels aspect," said Ted Rossman, an industry analyst at CreditCards.com. Plus, "kids growing up nowadays are transacting in a world of apps and plastic, it makes sense to give them that experience," he added.
Companies like Greenlight have released reloadable cards that can be used like debit cards — but only for stores preapproved by the card's primary account holder. Parents can make sure the $500 earmarked for textbooks, for example, is spent only at the campus bookstore, says Greenlight CEO Tim Sheehan. Some companies allow account holders to block categories of purchases, such as alcohol, in addition to individual merchants.
Though it could be nerve-wracking watching your student stumble through adulthood for the first time, methods like these will show if he or she can be financially responsible. "At some point, you're going to have to release the reins and let them go," Sun says. "If you raised them properly, you've got to trust yourself, too."
What sets Greenlight apart from most other debit cards are the parental controls. Using the free Greenlight app, parents can divide their kid's money into two categories. The first category enables your child to use the card anywhere. The second category is restricted to specific retailers (e.g., Starbucks) or specific types of retailers (e.g., restaurants). If a child tries to spend money at a store the parent hasn't approved, the transaction will be declined unless the child has sufficient funds in his or her spend anywhere category.
This is by far and away my favorite feature of Greenlight. We all know that interest rates are at historic lows. Even with online banks such as Ally, a savings account doesn't pay more than about 1.50% APY. The low interest rate can be a hurdle when trying to teach children the importance of saving. Watching a savings account grow is worse than watching paint dry.
With Greenlight, a parent can set the interest rate on their child's account. The interest of course comes out of the parent's account, not from Greenlight. But it can be a great way to teach a child the power of compounding. And since we are typically talking about a relatively small amount of money, even a 10% rate won't wreck the parents' budget.
With Greenlight parents can give their kids debit cards that provide unprecedented control and transparency into how and where they are used. By combining the cards with a mobile app that provides account information as well as transaction data,
For a low monthly fee, parents can instantly transfer cash to their children's cards, get alerts when children make purchases, and set store-level controls around where children can make purchases. It also provides easy ways for parents to automatically fund allowances or freeze cards if they're lost or stolen.
Give a gift with Greenlight
Whether it's birthdays, holidays, or graduations, Greenlight Gift allows friends and family members to send custom gifts to your kids directly through Greenlight.
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Add the perfect picture to your child's Greenlight card. Selfies, sketches, the family pet? Sky's the limit.


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Flights to Toronto with a touch of Iceland
Canada doesn't announce itself as loudly as its neighbor to the south - but Toronto is big. And it's important. And it's full of life and vibrancy and lots of global influence, thanks to half its population being born elsewhere. That's an impressive figure, no?
Icelandair offers daily cheap flights to Toronto from Europe and the UK for business or pleasure - come for multiculturalism, food, and festivals, stay for a Niagara Falls excursion.
Before you visit the CN Tower and Niagara, how about viewing some iconic Icelandic waterfalls to set the scene? When you book flights to Toronto with Icelandair you have the opportunity to add a stopover in Iceland at no additional airfare.
Population: 2.8 million (2016)Area: 630.2 km²Transportation: The TTC provides subway, streetcar, and bus services within the City of Toronto.Currency: Canadian DollarTrendy Neighborhoods: Old Town - The Entertainment District - Yorkville - Queen West - Kensington Market
Big numbers, big diversity
To add to the estimated 230 nationalities found in Toronto, know this: the city has 140 official neighborhoods. Your experiences will vary just by walking a few blocks. The big-name sights are downtown - the 1814ft CN Tower is a must, then check out the redeveloped harborfront district and head inland for attractions like the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the castle and gardens of Casa Loma.
A few blocks east, you can take in the Hockey Hall of Fame (all you ever needed to know about Canada's favorite sport, and then some) and delicious flavors at St Lawrence Market. Further east you'll end up at the Distillery District, where stores, studios and theaters have made a home in a huge historic distillery.
Multicultural munching
All that multiculturalism finds expression in outstanding food options, and you can munch your way around the globe without leaving Toronto. Let the neighborhood dictate your choices - there are six (six!) Chinatowns in the Greater Toronto area. Plus: a Koreatown, Little Italy and Corso Italia, Little India and a Greektown (on the Danforth). Plus: Little Jamaica and Little Portugal. You get the idea…
If the city has a signature dish it's the peameal bacon sandwich, made from slices of cornmeal-coated bacon. The best place to try it - and one of the best places for a taste of food culture in the city - is St Lawrence Market. It's been going strong for two centuries, and today houses gourmet food stalls and a weekly farmers market.
Malls, markets and cool neighborhoods
Malls are big business in Toronto (you want somewhere warm when winter hits hard). The Eaton Centre is in the heart of downtown and is home to 250 stores, but that's chicken feed compared to the mall known as Vaughan Mills, about 25 miles north of downtown. This is one of Canada's largest retails spaces, handily placed next to theme park. Inside is a Lego-themed discovery centre, making this a family haven.
If malls aren't your thing, Kensington Market is a neighborhood full of diversity and browsing opportunities, plus ace eats. Queen West and West Queen West are Toronto's coolest 'hoods for shopping and eating, while the city's cashed-up elite live the high life in the Bloor-Yorkville area (it's nicknamed 'the Mink Mile'!).
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We have four guest rooms in our home, all with ensuite bathrooms. Hair-dryers and basic toiletries are provided.
One guest-room is located on the main floor, the other three are on the second floor. The rooms are furnished with antiques and traditional furniture, oriental rugs, and have room air conditioners, bedside tables, reading lamps, and telephones.
Each room is equipped for two people. Our largest room, the King George�can accommodate a child in a small rollaway bed.
At the Turret is a non-smoking property.
An satisfying breakfast is served each morning �We make every effort to accommodate special dietary requirements, with advance notice. Tea, coffee and cookies or granola bars are always available.
Complimentary WIFI is available and we have a tablet and laptop which �guests can borrow to check email, or make reservations.
There is ample parking on the street in front of the house or at the back. Bicycles or motorcycles can be parked at the back of the house, or in the garage.
If you have time during your visit, you may enjoy just sitting on the wrap-around veranda to watch the world go by!
We love dogs �and there is one pet-friendly room which may be available for your four-footed friend, if booked in advance.


Alan Seaman is back with the popular Talk Cinema. The premise is simple. You see a film and meet the following week to talk about it in a lecturer-led discussion. The only entry requirement is a love of cinema and a desire to talk about it!
Sunday Cinema is QUAD's fortnightly film club for people who like movies and like talking about them even more!


This payment processing app allows buyers to pay you directly and permits one time payments only. This app is considered hand-off processing because the buyer will be transferred to the vendors website to make the actual payment. After the payment is made the buyer will be transferred back to Content Shelf for confirmation.
To Integrate the BitPay Payment Processing App click Sell (1) then choose the Payment Processing Apps (2) area.
Find the Bitcoin Gateway (3) drop down box and set it to BitPay.
The following field will need to be populated within information from your BitPay Dashboard as outlined below.
You'll need an account with BitPay.
Upon login click the Payment Tools (5) left navigation link then click on the Legacy API Keys (6) box.
Upon the page refreshing you'll either see the API Key ID (7) or you may have to create a new one by clicking the Add New API Key (8).


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This post is part of the #EdublogsClub – a group of educators and educational technology enthusiasts that blog around a common theme each week. Simply write a post and share it (via social media w/ #edublogsclub or posting a link as a comment to that topic's posting on the Edublogger site) to join in, or sign up to receive email reminders of each new prompt. This is the 20th prompt in the series (if you're counting at home, I skipped #15-19 because I couldn't authentically write a post about the topic at the time) To catch-up I'm going to combine the 16th & 19th prompts into one post.
Prompt: Write a post that tells a story.
Tell a story about a time in your career as an educator that you want to share. It can be a positive memory, a time you wish you could change the outcome, a student you remember, or just a class lesson you want to share.
Prompt: Write a post about social media.
Do you use social media to share with parents or your school community?
How have you used social media in the classroom with students?
How do you use social media to make you a better teacher?
Do you have guidelines that you use with students?
Have you experienced a story related to the use of social media?
What do you think is next for the use of social media in education?
I have been using Hootsuite to help maintain and schedule tweets for the account. One feature which is crucial to my engaging with educators is by creating multiple tabs on the dashboard showing 'Mentions', 'Searched Keywords', & 'Lists'. It is exciting to engage with educators around the globe in a different way, it's almost like switching hats going from my personal account to the ThingLink_EDU account. I have gained inspiration and ideas from seeing how other educators are incorporating ThingLink.


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An update to Remember the Milk is available. Reload now.
What's the story with the message "An update to Remember the Milk is available. Reload now."?
RTM will run fine for fine for a bunch of days or a couple weeks. But periodically I'll start getting the above message *dozens* of times per day. Clicking "reload" doesn't make it stop. Exiting and restarting RTM doesn't make it stop.
I'm mainly asking about the Windows desktop version of RTM, but I've seen the same issue when using the web version with Firefox.
Sorry to hear about this. Our app updates every few weeks with some bug fixes and things, but you shouldn't see those more often or multiple times a day for the most part.
If this happens again or is still happening restarting the app may help. If not, feel free to contact us and we can help track this down too.


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Best answer: Is French taught in British schools?
Do British schools teach French?
Do British students learn French?
Why do British schools learn French?
Is French compulsory in UK?
Where is France ranked in education?
Should French be taught in schools?
Do British know French?
Which countries learn French in school?
What foreign languages are taught in UK schools?
Is French a level good?
Do American schools teach French?
Is GCSE French important?
Having said that, millions of British students do take French (and/or other languages) for the first three years of secondary school (pre-GCSE), but can drop it (or them) for the final two years, during which they study for their GCSEs. The only GCSEs students must sit are English and maths.
French is offered at around 75% of primary schools, with Spanish at about 25% and German at about 5%, with about 45 minutes per week of language learning per school.
UK students are slowly ditching French and German in favor of Spanish and Chinese. … While French remains the most-studied language among secondary school students in the UK, its popularity is falling dramatically. Spanish is risking along with non-European languages like Chinese and Arabic.
"But the core reason is because pupils know French is difficult to pass, and difficult to get something out of it. … "After the Norman Conquest [in 1066], Norman French became the language of power, although English remained the language of the people.
Languages have not been compulsory in England beyond the age of 14 since 2004. Ofsted has noted the number of entries for GCSEs in modern foreign languages (MFL) has "declined significantly" since that time.
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Teachers like to put on plays in French and involve their students in French-language theatre festivals. Learning French helps children to express themselves and gain self-confidence in front of others. Students also learn French through songs, thanks to the vast repertoire of singers past and present.
French is the most commonly spoken foreign language in the UK – used by 15 per cent of people – followed by just over one-in-20 who can understand German. But almost every other major language such as Mandarin, Arabic and Japanese is alien to the vast majority of English speakers in Britain.
The 10 Best Countries to Learn French
French Guiana. Located just north of South America, Guiana is a small, bustling city with a tasteful blend of French and South American (Brazilian) culture with the perfect balance of cultures from around the world. …
Senegal. …
Canada. …
Morocco. …
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France. …
Most schools teach one or more of French, German and Spanish, but the Government does not promote the teaching of particular languages. In 2015, concerns were raised about the withdrawal of GCSE and A level qualifications in lesser-taught languages such as Arabic, Japanese and Polish.
Studying French at A-Level, not only improves your language skills, but it provides you with insights into France's history and culture. If you do plan on travelling after school, this knowledge will truly enhance your experience. … Many French-speaking countries lie in Africa, which is a burgeoning global marketplace.
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Across the map, Romance languages are taught most often in U.S. high schools, with 46 percent of all foreign language classes focusing on Spanish and another 21 percent on French.
Why should I choose to study French at GCSE level? Studying GCSE French is not just for students who want to go and work in France in the future: Yes, a language GCSE will teach you practical use of a language – which could help you in almost any career and open up opportunities at home and abroad.


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Although modern AI algorithms are pretty good at identifying data patterns, we're still a few years away from losing our jobs to robots and smart voice assistants. Unless you possess unlimited financial resources and tech expertise, building neural networks as a primary business might not be a good idea. However, there are certain types of apps where AI (if used correctly!) can be a real game-changer.
Building a neural network: how do AI algorithms work?
While the goals of general Artificial Intelligence are limited to understanding how certain things – for example, languages, – function, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are task-oriented.
Our brain is made up of billions of biological neural networks. Neurons receive data (input) and transmit electrical signals further to other neurons, glands and muscles. The strength and range of these signals (or weight, as developers call it) may vary. From an early age, these networks help us tell the difference between hot and cold, identify and understand languages and make better decisions based on our past experiences.
As of now, modern AI algorithms can't mimic the human brain, period.
How come IBM Watson is already 40% better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors?
In order to understand how neural networks work, consider the example of a simple employee bonus plan system developed by Pavel Vaskou, Head of iOS Development Unit at R-Style Lab. The system described below is just a prototype of the application we actually employ; however, it will give you a basic understanding of AAN mechanism. Since we use Redmine to track the actual time spent on projects, assign new tasks to employees and monitor employee attendance, we can use the data as input.
Our neural network takes several binary inputs (1 and 0 meaning "yes" or "no", respectively) denoting employee attendance, overtime, task statuses and complexity. For variable data, there's a threshold which enables the network to evaluate an employee's performance and assign values to it;
The data is then sent to the neurons which represent the hidden layer. Here's where the input numbers are multiplied by the weight of each signal and summed up. If an employee worked regular hours (160 man-hours per month), but handled bug fix tasks mostly, he's not entitled to the bonus. His colleague who worked overtime but also spent some time idling will probably be taken off the bonus list, too;
The network's final output is thus determined by several factors. Some of these criteria (like overtime or idle time) overweigh other parameters. The more data you feed to a neural network, the smarter it gets.
Of course, this is the simplest example of an AI algorithm. More complex offerings like IP camera-based Smart Parking solutions use multiple hidden neuron layers to analyze camera output (thousands of images!) and notify dispatchers whether a parking spot is occupied, vacant or taken up by a two-space parker.
How to design a neural network: choosing the right tech stack
Neural networks can be written in different programming languages including Python, C++, C and Java. Provided you address a skilled software developer, it does not really matter what language you'll choose; building a high-performance neural network is all about having "fast code" or "writing code fast".
Python offers multiple libraries including PyBrain (machine learning), SciPy (scientific computing) and NumPy (supports integration with a variety of databases and C/C++ code) to streamline your AI project. According to Pavel Vaskou, Python is one of the most popular programming languages in AI development;
Java enables developers to write clear code with scalability in mind and offers a plethora of useful libraries;
C++ is an excellent choice for time-sensitive AI projects. The language is widely used in embedded systems and game development. For example, neural networks which allow game engines to evaluate the aftermaths of floods and earthquakes in city-building games are primarily created with C++.
Have any questions? Ask our team!
Although there are lots of video tutorials and articles teaching amateur programmers how to design a simple neural network, you shouldn't try to build one yourself – at least if you want to use AI for business purposes.
AI application development is innovative by default. It is carried out by senior software engineers, architects and QA specialists – simply because junior developers do not have the required expertise to train neural networks to a level where 100% accuracy is possible. Considering the fact that AI is now implemented in policy underwriting and fraud prevention, you can't be too serious about neural network reliability.
3 reasons to consider building a software solution powered by neural networks
You want to succeed in the competitive Home Automation market. Although the global Smart Home market will be worth $ 53 billion in five years, the intelligence displayed by most Connected House solutions is limited to pairing gadgets to dedicated mobile apps. If you create a Home Automation system that implements the face recognition technology to identify a house owner's face and adjusts its settings accordingly, you're doomed to commercial success;
You want to create a face swap app. Picture morphing software took the world by storm last year. Some experts identify the new tech as Augmented Reality; others compare it to Instagram filters. Either way, there's more to face swap apps than Snapchat lenses. The r-stylelab.com team, for example, has recently worked on Glamozis – a stylish iOS app designed for a well-known plastic surgeon. The app processes pictures and uses neural networks to enhance certain parts of a face or perform the overall correction showing users what they will look like after a plastic surgery. Glamozis is due for release this August;
You have an idea for a killer chatbot. When Facebook, Kik and Telegram launched their chatbot development platforms last year, IT bloggers were quick to pronounce the inevitable death of mobile applications. In 2017, Facebook had to slow down the bot invasion after two experimental algorithms, Bob and Alice, had invented their own language. Today's bots' natural language processing capabilities are limited to answering simple questions and navigating customers through online catalogs and shopping malls. If you address an experienced vendor who knows how to build a complex neural network and put it to work, your bot can develop a personality and perfectly handle off-topic questions.
Although neural networks are still in their infancy, the technology will have an enormous impact on banking, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and entertainment (and may finally propel IoT adoption in business). Companies that embark on AI projects today gain a competitive advantage over their rivals; you won't miss the opportunity, will you?
August 18, 2017Andrei KlubnikinSenior Content Manager
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Joachim Hoppe (Sehnde, 20 maart 1915 -  ten zuidoosten van IJsland, 28 april 1941), was een Korvettenkapitän bij de Kriegsmarine tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

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Korvkpt. Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen, droeg zijn U-65 over op 25  maart 1941 aan luitenant-ter-zee Joachim Hoppe. Deze was maar pas bij de U-bootdienst gekomen en had de gebruikelijke opleiding gekregen. Op 1 april 1941 werd Hoppe bevorderd tot Kapitänleutnant. Het succes dat zijn adellijke voorganger had met de U-boot zou Joachim Hoppe niet evenaren. De onderzeeboot werd al op Hoppes eerste patrouillereis door een Brits oorlogsschip tot zinken gebracht, ten zuidoosten van IJsland. Joachim Hoppe ging roemloos ten onder. Hij was net 26 jaar toen hij sneuvelde. Hoppe had geen enkel geallieerd schip tot zinken gebracht of schepen beschadigd. Joachim Hoppe werd op 1 mei 1941 geëerd en postuum bevorderd tot Korvettenkapitän.

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 Offiziersanwärter: 1 april 1933
 Seekadett: 23 september 1933
 Fähnrich zur See: 1 juli 1934
 Oberfähnrich zur See: 1 april 1936
 Leutnant zur See: 1 oktober 1936
 Oberleutnant Zur See: 1 juni 1938
 Kapitänleutnant: 1 april 1941
 Korvettenkapitän: 1 mei 1941 (Postuum)

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I attended David Warlick's afternoon session at the Noble and Greenough conference. The topic was In-Time, Ongoing, Self-Directed Professional Development . David's presentation included many online tools that he suggested educators could use to create their own professional development. Some of the tools he talked about were: wikis, blogs, twitter, TagGalaxy, MrTwitter, Second Life, flickr, netvibes, and RSS. I appreciated his focus on "mining the conversation" – using the tools of the read write web to find ideas, information, and concepts I can use.
Did many educators in the session think he was talking about students using these?
Did they think the tools would be helpful for themselves?
Should students use these tools to create their own learning networks?
I think so, so my next question is, at what grade/age?


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Q: webpack-dev-server: How to open browser with Node.js API? This is my script:
const webpackDevServer = require('webpack-dev-server');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const config = require('./config');
const options = {
  contentBase: './dist',
  hot: true,
  hotOnly: true,
  open: true,
  host: 'localhost'
};

webpackDevServer.addDevServerEntrypoints(config, options);
const compiler = webpack(config);
const server = new webpackDevServer(compiler, options);

server.listen(8080, 'localhost');

The browser didn't open automatically. So how to make happen?

A: I've faced the same issue. As far as I know there are some bugs in webpack 'open' option implementations, which I don't wish to dig deep into. I successfully use a workaround found by gluons
Though, In my case it appeared enough just to add opn(myUrl) to the end of my webpack dev-server.js file. In my case the 'opn' package was preinstalled already, but if you don't have it preinstalled you can add it to dependencies as shown in gluons' solution.
Hope it'll work for you, too.


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I. Introduction: What is a Diaspora?
A migration is not a diaspora if the movement is not forced, if there is no yearning to return to a lost homeland, and if there is no discrimination. The "Great Migration" of English colonists into New England, between 1629 and 1642, was therefore not a diaspora. First, although most left their homes in order to preserve their religion, the colonists were still able to return, and as many as one quarter of them did so. Second, the colonists' image of New England is characterized by John Smith's foundational map of the region from 1616 [1], which depicts the region stripped of all Indian presence and overlain with English place names.
New England The most remarqueable parts thus named
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Two conditions would need to pertain for the Great Migration to have become a diaspora. First, they have to have been exiled from England, which might have been the case had the Puritans not won the English Civil War. Second, had their attempts to settle in New England been successfully rebuffed by the Native Americans, the English Puritans would have had to move still elsewhere. They would then have become a rootless community, unwelcome or barely tolerated wherever they went. In such a situation, the political map of the region might have looked more like an historical reconstruction of New England before colonization [2].
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Middle British Colonies in America
On the other hand, our definition of diaspora may be readily applied to the experiences of many Native American nations. We can trace the manner in which some mid-Atlantic and Northern tribes were squeezed out by European colonists in a unique map from 1755 [3]. This map identified different categories of Native Americans: open lettering represented "Nations extinct" (e.g., the Pequots in eastern Connecticut); shaded lettering represented either the original locations of Indian nations or those nations which were "almost extinct" (e.g., the Nanticokes in Maryland); and, completely black lettering represented "Nations still considerable" (e.g., the several Iroquois nations in New York). Diaspora is in fact a pervasive theme in human history. While this exhibition focuses on the Jewish and African migration experiences, it attempts to illustrate diaspora broadly by exploring population movements and areas of contention resulting from these mass migrations. We hope the exhibition will provide insight on the impact of diasporas on world history.
Lewis Evans (Welsh, ca. 1700-1756)
Philadelphia, 1755


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Should Your Small Business Buy or Lease a Digital Copier?
For businesses with high printing and copying demand and large workgroups, a laser printer (or digital copier) makes sense. These devices come in a range of models. High-end model laser printers/copiers tend to be big in every way: They often take up significant floor space, support a range of paper sizes, deal with high print volumes – and often have a big price tag to match. Machines may range from the low thousands to more than $10,000.
For an individual or a business, that can be a large bite of budget to break off. And the initial investment doesn't include the ongoing costs of a laser printer, such as toner replacements and paper, nor the inevitable maintenance and repairs..
The high price points and ongoing maintenance requirements lead many small businesses to consider leasing their laser printer. In the world of printing technology, leasing is commonly referred to as "managed print services," which includes many products and services beyond the printer itself.
You can lease a printer/copier in the conventional sense, but throughout the last decade, the idea of leasing has morphed into what industry experts refer to as managed print services. Managed print services go beyond simply leasing to take a holistic view of your printer needs. Often, this means the leasing cost is bundled with costs for maintenance and paper and toner so that businesses get an all-in-one package for their lease.
Big data and IoT have taken managed print services even further. Data can track your print usage down to the department level. Depending on the manufacturer or supplier, managed print services might include supplies, preventative maintenance, onsite support, billing and usage tracking, and more. For organizations with limited IT bandwidth, a managed services lease offers a path to streamlined management (and it's just less hassle).
There are two primary types of business equipment leases: operating leases and capital leases.
Operating leases: Most businesses choose operating leases, also called fair market value leases, because they offer lower monthly payments than capital leases. When a business gets an operating lease for a copier or printer, it's essentially renting the equipment, so the asset never gets added to the lessee's balance sheet. When the lease ends, the lessee has the option to buy the copier, but the buyout cost will be calculated by the lessor based on agreement terms, depreciation, wear and tear, new technology, and market demand. In general, operating leases make the most sense for businesses that don't want the hassle of owning a copier or printer, preferring to continually lease recent models instead.
Capital leases: Sometimes called $1 buyout leases, capital leases are the less common choice for businesses. When a business gets a capital lease for a piece of equipment, it's more like a loan on the money than a rental on the equipment, so the interest and principal being paid is going toward the cost of the copier, and the copier goes on the lessee's balance sheet. The monthly rate for a capital lease is higher, because 100 percent of the cost of the equipment is being financed. However, a capital lease does offer an advantage for lessees who plan on eventually buying, because the buyout cost is stipulated in the contract at the point of signing. In general, capital leases make the most sense for businesses that want to purchase and own a printer or copier without making the entire purchase upfront.
Avoiding obsolescence: Leasing equipment is an easy way to avoid obsolescence, which is a major concern for some companies and a nonissue for others. Businesses that only require basic printers and copiers are usually less affected by obsolescence than those that rely on highly specialized printers with specific high-tech features.
Low upfront costs: Leasing not only allows businesses to obtain printers with low upfront costs, it also helps preserve credit. Many small businesses have limited access to credit and want to avoid using it whenever possible; leasing equipment is one way to do that.
No hassle: When a company leases printers, there is no resale or disposal hassle. Leasing is also convenient because most equipment providers offer maintenance plans, which can be included in the lease itself or paid for separately. Companies with limited IT staff often choose leasing for maintenance purposes alone.
More expensive: Equipment leasing wouldn't be a business if it wasn't profitable, and the reason it's profitable is because the lessee pays interest. At the end of a lease term, most lessees will have paid more than the actual value of the copier. Even in rent-to-own scenarios, such as with capital leases, the lessee/eventual purchaser usually ends up paying more than market value for the printer. In addition to paying more for the actual cost of the printer, many businesses overpay for maintenance plans. When a maintenance plan is included in the equipment lease, not obtained separately, the lessee is paying interest on the copier and on the maintenance plan.
Locked into a contract: For small businesses, especially startups, being locked into a printer lease can be a negative. As businesses change and grow, their printing needs evolve. A printer the company leased when it only had 10 employees may not be adequate for a 75-person workplace. Similarly, some small business owners overestimate what they need in a printer or copier and end up stuck with a lease for something unnecessarily expensive.
Less expensive: It is almost always less expensive in the long run to purchase a printer or copier than it is to lease one. Companies that want to minimize the amount they pay in interest for goods and services will usually opt for buying over leasing.
Recoup investment: Even though a printer is a depreciating asset, a used printer can be sold if it's no longer needed, whereas a leased printer cannot.
No contracts: When a company purchases a printer, it's not locked into a contract with a third-party provider.
Flexible maintenance: A leased printer is the property of the lessor, which typically means the lessee is not contractually allowed to perform any type of maintenance. This puts the lessee at the mercy of the lessor when things break. When a company owns equipment outright, the manager or owner can immediately hire the tech of their choice to service company printers without hesitation or outside approval.
Initial expense: The expense of purchasing a printer outright is too much for some small businesses to manage. Businesses that require highly specialized industrial printers and copiers often lease rather than buy, because such machines can cost thousands of dollars and are expensive to repair out of pocket.
Replacement costs: When a purchased printer is outdated or no longer functioning properly, it's up to the company that owns it to replace it. This type of unexpected cost associated with wear and tear (as well as obsolescence) is a major concern for some business owners.
Consistent standards harder to maintain: Companies that have multiple branches sometimes choose to lease equipment because it's easier to maintain the same standards across every location. When purchasing options aren't centralized, different branches can end up with wildly different expenses and levels of technology.
There are tax implications for both buying and leasing printers. Printers are depreciating assets, which can be claimed on taxes, but many equipment leases can also be claimed. Both leased and owned printers fall under Section 179 deduction when companies file taxes, so it's best to consult with your business's accountant before making a final decision on whether to buy or lease.


PRINCETON, N.J.–Distracted drivers, like those who text behind the wheel, are a danger to themselves and to others. Even a brief, momentary glance away from the road can result in life-threatening consequences.
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Explainable AI in Practice
Multistakeholder Approaches to Explainable Machine Learning
McKane Andrus, Alice Xiang, Umang Bhatt
How might we widen the net on Explainable Machine Learning?
In February of this year, the Partnership on AI (PAI) hosted a one-day, in-person workshop around the deployment of "explainable artificial intelligence" (XAI) in service of transparency and accountability goals.
Our paper detailing the takeaways from this workshop has been accepted as a poster at the 2020 ICML Workshop on Extending Explainable AI Beyond Deep Models and Classifiers (XXAI) and as a spotlight at the Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning (WHI).
Explainability Day with The Partnership On AI
PAI's XAI workshop stemmed from an interview project PAI conducted last year, which found that the majority of XAI deployments are not for end-users affected by the model but rather for machine learning (ML) engineers to debug the model itself. This is a gap between commonly perceived theory and practice, as explainability is often proposed as a way of increasing public transparency, but explanations currently primarily serve internal stakeholders (i.e., ML engineers) rather than external affected groups and decision-makers. The workshop aimed to leverage PAI's multi-stakeholder convening capacity to bring together a diverse group of ML developers/researchers, designers, policymakers, and legal experts to explore this gap and outline paths forward for using model explanations for a wider variety of stakeholders.
The day was split into two parts: first, collaboratively defining what explainability should entail across disciplines and domains, and second, exploring domain-specific use cases, stakeholders, challenges, and potential solutions for XAI. For the first part of the day, participants were split into interdisciplinary discussion groups of 5-6 individuals facilitated by a member of PAI staff, and for the latter part of the day, participants were split into similarly sized and facilitated groups focused on healthcare, finance, media, and social services with diverse representation from academia, industry, and law/policy in each group.
Defining Explainability
"Explainability lets humans interact with ML models to make better decisions than either could alone." – XAI Workshop Participant
Despite there being a multitude of groups each with their own sets of definitions, there was a notable amount of consistency in the focus of the definitions.
Most explainability definitions shared included reference to:
context: the scenario in which the model is deployed,
stakeholders: those affected by the model and those with a vested interest in the explanatory nature of the model,
interaction: the goal the model and its explanation serve, and
summary: the notion that "an explanation should compress the model into digestible chunks."
This exercise reinforced recent scholarship advocating for situated and contextualized explanations because abstracted explainability metrics are seen as unlikely to succeed on their own.
Designing and Deploying Explainability
Building on the contextual understandings of explainability from the first part of the day, the domain-specific conversations delved into how to tailor explanations to specific settings and how explanations might be better used in practice. Some of the salient themes include:
1. Evaluation of Explanations
Explanations should, in most cases, help a stakeholder accomplish some goal. Without the knowledge of who the stakeholders are and what their goals might be, evaluating explanations can be problematic. One example of this from the media domain is how explanations alongside automated labels of mis-/dis-information can further entrench users' prior beliefs about the veracity of information, rather than achieving the explanation's purpose of better informing stakeholders.
2. Stakeholder Education
As the example above suggests, explanations are unlikely to have the desired effect if they are developed and deployed without stakeholders being informed and involved in the process. Those implementing machine learning systems need to be made aware of what potential XAI has for actually enabling transparency. The people who would be interacting with an XAI-based solution need to understand the limitations of the technology and its potential to mislead. And finally, those who are having decisions made about them by XAI need room to understand when and how those decisions are being made and how they can make subsequent interventions.
3. Uncertainty Alongside Explanations
As part of being clear about XAI's limitations, providing uncertainty measures alongside an explanation can temper stakeholders' expectations and make it clearer when an intervention is required. Quantifying and effectively communicating model uncertainty can be challenging in practice, however, so more work is required in this area before such metrics can be reliably provided and understood.
4. Explainability over Time
Once an XAI system has been deployed, it should be expected that the explanations will affect stakeholder behavior and that the underlying distributions the ML system was meant to model will very likely change. While these changes might be framed as stakeholders "gaming" the system, it is precisely this type of actionability that explanations are oftentimes meant to enable. Designing and deploying XAI systems alongside external stakeholders can help to ensure that responses to the explanations are positive for these stakeholders and that the system will not simply break down as the population changes.
For greater detail on these and other themes surfaced by the workshop, be sure to check out the full paper.
Future Work on Explainability at The Partnership On AI
While incorporating these themes into XAI is a daunting task, we have already seen this work begin around our partner community. Part of our goal at PAI is to make responsible AI recommendations practical, and we will be working with our partners and other stakeholders to make responsible XAI a reality.
Building off our workshop findings, PAI's Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Research team is spearheading a collaborative project around the quantification and communication of predictive uncertainty to supplement model explanations.
The first step will be to review the state of the art uncertainty measures and to see how they map onto existing communication strategies from statistics, data science, and human computer-interaction. We will then build off these findings in follow-on research to develop concrete recommendations for the use of explanations to serve a range of stakeholders.
Safety Critical AI/Explainable AI in Practice
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Ana Lucic Jun 14, 2022
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Explainable AI in Practice Falls Short of Transparency Goals


Dubai: Babar Azam became the quickest batsman to attain 1,000 Twenty20 runs as Pakistan whitewashed New Zealand 3-zero with a secure 47-run win within the 1/3 and very last match in Dubai on Sunday.
The 24-year-antique -- ranked primary in Twenty20s -- hit a punishing 58-ball 79 with seven boundaries and sixes while Mohammad Hafeez hit a 34-ball 53 no longer out with sixes and 4 barriers to lift Pakistan to 166-3 at Dubai stadium.
Pakistan spinners Shadab Khan (three-30) and Imad Wasim (2-28) then hastened New Zealand's demise to 119 all out in sixteen.
.5 overs as the Kiwis misplaced their final eight wickets for just 23 runs.
This additionally will become Pakistan's 2nd series whitewash after romping past Australia 3-0 final Sunday.
Kane Williamson top-scored for new Zealand with a 38-ball 60, with 8 boundaries and two sixes, at the same time as opener Glenn Phillips made 26.
Azam, while on 48, completed 1,000 runs in Twenty20 internationals in just 26 innings, improving India's Virat Kohli's file of reaching the mark in 27 innings.
Azam's rise has matched Pakistan's elevation to the world number one ranking in Twenty20 internationals due to the fact that making his debut in opposition to England at vintage Trafford in 2016, while Sarfraz Ahmed took rate as captain.
given that then Pakistan have received 29 of their 33 Twenty20 internationals with only four defeats, taking their tally this yr to 17 wins in 19 suits with defeats.
Sunday also represented Pakistan's 9th T20 win in succession due to the fact that losing to Australia at Harare in July this 12 months.
Williamson and Phillips brought 83 for the 0.33 wicket after New Zealand lost huge-hitting Colin Munro for two and Colin de Grandhomme for six.
however as soon as both were dismissed inside the identical Shadab over, the innings fell aside, with best Ish Sodhi achieving double figures with eleven.
Ross Taylor (seven), Mark Chapman () and Tim Seifert (nought) also fell in brief succession with debutant birthday boy Waqas Maqsood also chipping in with 2-21.
"every other outstanding crew attempt from us. We wished 160-plus, and our batsmen did it," stated Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed.
"in the course of the collection we've taken wickets with the brand new ball, and we've achieved nicely with the bat too and created such a lot of records."
Shadab additionally became the best wicket-taker in Twenty20 cricket this 12 months with 28 in 19 games.
New Zealand skipper Williamson rued his group's magnificent collapse after being properly set on the run-chase.
"at the halfway degree, on that floor, that changed into a excellent total from Pakistan but we lost our way after being properly set," said Williamson.
"It's a tough pill to swallow, however we've were given to put that at the back of us and look in advance to the only-day series."
the two groups start a three-fit one-day series with the first healthy in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
in advance, Azam and Hafeez set the tone for Pakistan's big overall when they won the toss, adding ninety four runs for the second wicket after Fakhar Zaman fell for 11.
Hafeez smashed sixes off leg-spinner Sodhi's 11th over of the innings while Azam smacked two sixes off Munro to finish 100 runs inside the fifteenth over.
Azam registered his 8th fifty in Twenty20 cricket even as Hafeez's half century was his tenth in the shortest format.
Shoaib Malik a made 9-ball 19 with three obstacles.
Pakistan received the primary suit through two runs in Abu Dhabi and the second by means of six wickets in Dubai.