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Matthew H. Mason 14 June 2018 Reviews
Review: West of Loathing (Switch)
I love West of Loathing because it took what few expectations I had of it, scooped them up and whisked me away to the realization that it is more than the sum of its parts. At first blush it is a Western (as in the theme, not the genre) role-playing game with stick figures and a healthy sense of humor. At second blush… well, it's still all those things, but it's also endearing, clever and quick-witted. It's a game I didn't realize I wanted to play until I played it, and I have an inkling it might charm you as well.
You play as a customizable (well, up to a point, obviously) stick person who sets off from their family farm to strike it rich out West. And… that's kind of it. This isn't some sweeping adventure of derring-do or self-discovery; it's about a bumbling and goofy cowpoke doing what they think they're supposed to because nobody tells them otherwise. West of Loathing focuses on the person-to-person interactions to tell its irreverent story – it's all about the journey and not the destination… and stuff.
So, you meander to various areas and explore admittedly neat locales that all look like they fell out of your high school Trapper Keeper™ – child-like representations of snake-filled canyons and rustic old west towns. The presentation definitely complements the wackiness, and vice versa. The best way to describe your interactions with people, places and things is 'goofy'. There's nary a moment of seriousness to be found, and in this case that's a great thing. The writing is superb and pithy, with your character being able to dish out the jokes as quickly as they become the butt of them. Dialog is an important part of West of Loathing, as you can often earn experience or work your way out of fights with the right comeback.
Speaking of combat, it is of the typical turn-based, "you stand on one side of the screen while the bad guys stand on the other" type, and never veers towards anything I'd call deep. In this day and age there's a lot of new and sometimes complicated systems for gamers to wade through, so something this simple is tantamount to a breath of fresh air. Indeed, it helps to put the focus on other areas of the game – since I knew what I was doing in combat without putting a terrible lot of thought into it, I could focus on the funny parts. Even so, the fights were still fun enough that I usually jumped into battles when given the chance.
The most rewarding aspect of West of Loathing is in the minutia; those moments where you interact with just about everything and get a joke out of it. In the very opening minutes of the game you collect needles in haystacks, find that your mom has a pie safe (to keep the pies safe, obviously!) and a book that teaches you how to "walk stupidly." Which you can actually do if you choose to. Watching a stick figure do the worm across the screen rarely gets old.
If you look at each element of West of Loathing on its own, there's nothing that would necessarily carry an entire game. Put together though, they provide an experience worth having because there's just enough exploration, combat and witty banter to go around, and even hours in it doesn't get stale. So get on your googly-eyed horse (I know you'll pick the googly-eyed horse!) and ride into the sunset, er, eShop and give West of Loathing a go.
West of Loathing is available for PC, Mac, Linux and Switch. We reviewed the Switch version.
Disclosure statement: Review code for West of Loathing was provided by Asymmetric. A Most Agreeable Pastime operates as an independent site, and all opinions expressed are those of the author.
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Matt	 on 14 June 2018 at 1:09 pm
That certainly sounds like an funny game, I will give you that. I did not know of its existence until now.
Henry O	 on 21 June 2018 at 5:25 pm
Googly eyed horse. If those aren't the greatest 3 words that form an even greater sentence, that is awesome & should take over the world, I don't know what is…
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Expanding the footprint of enterprise apps
Posted on 30 November 2009 17 June 2020 by Freeform Dynamics
Many organisations originally invested in ERP and CRM suites to deal with specific problems they were focused on at the time. Whether it was automating or fixing certain processes, or simply replacing existing obsolete systems, the job at hand was clear, and bad things happened if the immediate objectives weren't met.
Sure, the software could often do much more, but who in their right mind would get distracted when the deadline for 'go live' was fixed in stone to fit in with an accounting period changeover, a critical reorganisation, or some compelling regulatory event – particularly when careers were made or broken by the success or failure of such projects.
Wind the clock forward, and the limited scope of those original implementation projects of yesteryear means a lot of packaged applications in place today represent under-utilised assets.
Firstly and most obviously, there is all that functionality embedded within applications that was not enabled during initial implementation but could be activated to deliver incremental value. Whether it is whole new areas of processing, or more horizontal functionality such as reporting and analysis, it is not uncommon for organisations to be paying for capability which could be of benefit but isn't actually being exploited.
Reviewing the scope of packages in use within your organisation and comparing this with the functional scope of the actual installation could open up opportunities to drive out further return on investment.
Beyond unused functionality, there is then the question of the application footprint. Many of the benefits of enterprise applications are dependent on allowing key participants in business processes to interact with the system directly.
Such direct access reduces the need for off-line paper chases and person-to-person communication, which in turn minimises administrative costs, process execution delays, and the occurrence of human error. Yet the limited scope of initial implementations means that many involved in operational activity are still not hooked into systems.
How many employees in your organisation, for example, still receive instructions on paper, fill out forms with information that someone else will 'process' later, or rely on phone calls with dispatchers, or other colleagues with direct systems access to get their jobs done? And when other people are in the loop, shuffling pieces of paper, entering data, or conveying instructions back and forth, are they really adding value to the whole process or are they just 'people buffers'?
The reality is that if you look across many businesses, you will see examples of the inefficiencies we are referring to here in every department and function, from sales and marketing, through manufacturing and logistics, to customer service and support. And it's not just within the organisation that paper chases and other forms of wasteful off-line activity are evident; a lot of interaction with customers, partners and suppliers is equally clunky, time-consuming and resource squandering.
To be fair, however, there have been some practical constraints that have stood in the way of broader access. The way in which software licensing works has often been an impediment, particularly with casual or occasional users, who, unlike their core transaction processing colleagues, are not using the system frequently enough to justify a full licence fee. Providing access to professional workers to enter timesheet or expense information, for example, or to middle managers to deal with basic reviews and approvals, has often been cost prohibitive.
In addition to licensing constraints, there have then been practical issues to extending access such as having to deploy proprietary software onto users' desktops, and train them to navigate through sometimes complex and unfriendly user interfaces and menu structures.
The good news is that the work of software vendors, and indeed industry developments in general, means many of the traditional barriers to broader access have been lowered, or even removed. More flexible role-based or web-based licensing has gone a long way towards dealing with the commercial blocker, and being able to surface application functionality within a familiar portal or desktop office environment has helped to overcome training and motivation issues with casual and occasional users.
Advances in communications have helped too. The widespread availability of broadband, together with secure remote access techniques, has made home working a very practical option. This is one less thing to worry about for organisations having to deal with flexible working regulation, but also allows businesses to tap into otherwise inaccessible talent groups who have difficulty coping with normal 9-to-5 office based working.
If we add modern mobile communications and devices into the mix, flexible working with direct access to systems is now possible across large parts of the workforce; a good win/win for both the business and the employee.


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Q: Open .mdproj file in VS2010 I recently inherited a set of code that includes a .mdproj file.  After a bit of googling, I was able to determine this is a Mono Development project.  What I wasn't able to resolve was if this is meant to be opened in Visual Studio or not.  All of the other projects in the solution are C# projects.  So:

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*Is it possible to open a Mono Development project in VS2010?

*If not, can I convert it to a C# project?

*Should I use VS2010, or should I use MonoDevelop?

Any insight into this would be much appreciated.  I am not familiar with MonoDevelop.
Edit: Turns out that Xamarin Studio cannot open the file either..back to googling.
Update:
Opening the file in a text editor reveals the following:
"General"
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"SccProjectName" = "\"$/BNT_AVM/CAT/SRC/Enhancement/CATApp/CATAnalysisProject\", BYRCAAAA"
"SccLocalPath" = "."
"SccAuxPath" = ""
"SccProvider" = "MSSCCI:Microsoft Visual SourceSafe"
"ProjectIdGuid" = "{F7615CCA-82F9-41F8-BB04-367601CCBE8A}"
"ShowAllFiles" = "T"
}
"Configurations"
{
    "Debug|Win32"
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"Files"
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Does anyone recognize the format?

A: Since you have pasted its content, then it is clear that this .mdproj file is a model project for Rational XDE. It has nothing to do with MonoDevelop, though it uses .mdproj as file extension.
And the reference of Model1.mdx is a UML model.
Check the reference links and you will see where .mdproj and .mdx are mentioned.
However, IBM no longer develops Rational XDE. So you will have to migrate such projects according to IBM's recommendations,
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/products/xde/

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Understanding the tectonic processes during the development of a continental rift is critical for both scientific pursuits and social demands such as natural resources exploration and hazard assessment. We study the deformation history and associated magmatic and sedimentary records along the Tusas Mountain - Abiquiu Embayment segment, arguably the longest oblique segment, on the west flank of the Rio Grande rift in north-central New Mexico, USA, in order to deepen our knowledge on the initiation and evolution of continental rifts. Based upon field mapping and structural analysis, we identify six stages of structural events in the study area. (1) Discrete normal faults were generated at the onset of the Rio Grande extension along NE-SW direction, by reactivating pre-existing crustal weaknesses. (2) The normal faults propagated vertically and grew laterally, connected with neighboring faults, and established an oblique boundary of the Rio Grande rift by Late Oligocene. Stress field rotated clockwise, and extensional fault-propagation folds, soft-linkages, and hard-linkages were developed under near E-W extension. (3) Syn-kinematic growth strata of the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene age were deposited in the shallow Abiquiu Embayment, tapping the coeval Latir Volcanic Field to the northeast, while the border fault system continued to accommodate extensional strain. (4) The extension migrated basinward, generating distributed, rift-parallel normal faults with small offsets. Basinward tilting of rift strata also occurred. (5) As the Rio Grande rift evolved into a more mature stage, the extensional strain was accommodated predominantly in the major axial basins, while tectonics and deposition in the Abiquiu embayment waned and faults abandoned. (6) The arrival of the Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field loaded a large pile of igneous rocks to the south of the Abiquiu area, causing elastic flexure and brittle faulting in the outskirt area of the Valles caldera. This study portrays the tectonic sequences at the embryonic and young stages of a continental rift, and demonstrates the geological significance of early-stage, shallow platforms that are preserved on the flanks of many rift systems.


This sweet little film looks past the lust and ardor that is supposed to be love and into a little world of true devotion.
Last April Aunt Bee and I celebrated our 20th anniversary and I hope that when we get to whatever place these two folks are at that there will be this much romance in our lives.
As of today Aunt Bee and I have been married for 20 years. There are not enough electrons in the intertubes to allow me to list all the reasons she is my one and only and, truth be told, several of them are none of your business. Suffice it to say that I feel incredibly lucky that she still chooses to hang out with me even if that calls her sanity into question.
To celebrate I offer a dance – the dance of the Red Crowned Crane.
I've been a big fan of Curling for a long time. Even living relatively close to the Canadian border, not alot of Curling is shown on TV except during the Winter Olympics, and even then it's often at odd times of the day or night. Now, I could moan and snark my way through a complaint or three, but the truth is that I'm actually quite fortunate and it's my own damn fault for not getting my fill of the sport.
I live just over a mile from the only dedicated Curling rink on the west coast.
Granite Curling Club has been around since I was a kid (1961 per their website) and is housed in a rather nondescript building a block off Highway 99 in north Seattle. Bounded by a City Light storage yard and miscellaneous light industrial buildings you'd hardly know it was there were it not for the usually-packed parking lot.
The rink has a tightly packed calendar during Curling season, which runs about October to March, and includes leagues and 'Bonspiels' (competitions between curling clubs) as well as private events and open-houses.
Aunt Bee and I have stopped by to watch a few spiels (huddling against a convenient surface; there's a lot going on and we have yet to venture upstairs) and I keep toying with the idea of attending an open house. I'm not sure either them nor I are ready to put me on the ice, but eventually I'll probably work up the courage to grab a broom and throw a rock.
Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game may consist of ten or eight ends.
To learn more about the game that literally rocks the house CurlingBasics.com is a great place to start. It's heavy with Flash animations showing basic shots and strategies as well as rules and club links. To find ice and rink locations around the US check into Kansas City club's Locator map. Their website's worth a browse as well.
And if you can't get enough Curling, you can always play online!
Be sure to check out my previous post on Curling. It includes a How It's Made episode on Curling rocks!
aBowman (Adam Bowman) has been putting together little widgets for webpages and such for years. Simple and clean, his slick little gadgets make time wastage an art form.
It follows the cursor. Left click lets loose a fly.
I'll post a widget every once in a while, and there are plenty to chose from, or you can pop on over to abowman.com if you have a few extra hours to burn.


Flight Testing, Volume II: Stability and Control focuses on the development of adequate flight test techniques for the appraisal of stability and control characteristics and flying qualities of airplanes.
This book discusses the flying quality requirements, longitudinal motions, and flight determination of stick-fixed neutral points. The determination of aerodynamic parameters from steady maneuvering, desirable control characteristics in steady flight, and various forms of lateral control surfaces are also elaborated. This publication likewise covers the measurement of maximum lift coefficient, emergency anti-spin devices, and concept of the altitude-Mach number flight envelope.
This volume is recommended for design, development or research engineers, test pilots, and instrumentation personnel interested in airplane stability and control.


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Kathy Tran won election to the House of Delegates in November 2017.
How often does Kathy Tran vote with the party when at least two-thirds of other Democrats take the same position?
VPAP's unity score should not be interpreted as a partisan litmus test. For instance, Republicans who more often split from caucus does not necessarily mean they are less conservative than peers. It could mean they are more conservative. A nuanced reading of bills involved is needed to reach any conclusions.


After a life-changing aromatherapy massage treatment, Hope Gillerman became essential-oils obsessed. It not only taught her how to retrain her muscles, but how to treat her entire body better—from her diet to her beauty routine. Gillerman then went on to form her own integrated practice, in which she continues to heal clients through holistic treatments using essential oils (which she makes and sells herself under H.Gillerman Organics). Her new book, Essential Oils Every Day: Rituals and Remedies for Healing, Happiness, and Beauty comes out this week. This featured excerpt gives you tips on getting calm and focused at work, even after a hectic Memorial Day weekend.
To save you time and get instant relief, inhaling essential oils will be your go-to method throughout your workday. If you're really pressed for time and can't fit in one of these daytime rituals, just apply some oils to your neck, your throat, the tops of your shoulders, and your chest, and let the inhalation begin!
Sit back in your chair, resting your elbows on the chair arms. Place a drop of a single 100 percent essential oil (lavender, peppermint, and/or lemon) into your palms and rub them together. Cup your palms over your face, and do six slow breathing inhalations with your eyes closed.
Keep a wine glass or brandy snifter on your desk and tap a few droplets of your favorite 100 percent single essential oil or oil blend into the glass. (While they sit on your desk, the oils in them evaporate gradually, like a passive diffuser.) Your daytime blend can be whatever puts you in a good mood without slowing you down (use lemon, peppermint, or lavender, or create a perfect daytime blend for you). If you need a slow breathing inhalations break, just breathe in from the glass.
Put a drop of 100 percent essential oil (use frankincense or cedarwood, or for sensitive skin use the perfume oil recipe) on the tip of each index finger. Anoint key acupoints on your face, such as your temples, the inside edges of your eyebrows, and in front of your ears (this is a jaw tension release point). Place your fingertips lightly on each point, not massaging but gently resting there. After five seconds, make very slow, tiny circles to soothe the nervous system. To prolong this mindful moment, sit back, rest the backs of your hands in your lap, and practice slow breathing inhalations, making sure you completely exhale first and watching the movement of your body as the breaths travel in and out. Reapply the oil before the inhalations if needed.
Place a drop of a decongesting 100 percent essential oil (use tea tree, eucalyptus, or niaouli) at the opening of each nostril to clear your breathing passages. Then anoint your sinus-clearing facial acupoints to increase alertness. Put a few drops of a stimulating blend on the back of your neck.
After, sit at the front edge of your chair, clasp your hands together, and cradle the back of your head in your hands. Stretch your neck and your spine by lifting the back of your head with your hands. You will find you are now sitting quite straight but not stiffly, and your abdominal muscles will be tighter and your breathing easier. Use the oils as needed to remind you to breathe and sit well.
On each side of your neck, your shoulders, and your lower back, smooth ¼ teaspoon of a muscle-relaxing dilution oil. Push your chair back from your desk. Sit with your arms folded genie-style and rest them on the front edge of your desk. Elongate your spine as you bend forward to rest your forehead heavily on your forearms. Focus on relaxing your neck as you rest.
I can't tell you how many people I've taught to do this, and how much it helps them to avoid fatigue and back pain while it also aids digestion, facilitates deep breathing, and keeps the mind alert. In short, it's your best option if you can't stand. Once you learn how to sit correctly, it will take a second for your body to adjust. Make sure you don't force anything. Every time I do this, I say to myself, "Hey, you, why didn't you do this sooner? This is so much better." I guarantee, once you begin practicing this posture every day, your body will loosen up without effort. Yay!!!
1. Take your hands off your keyboard and push away from your desk. Adjust the seat of your chair so your hips are above the level of your knees—this will keep your hip muscles from cramping.
2. To adjust your body position, first move to the front edge of your chair, with your feet on the ground, feeling your sitting bones right underneath your ears. Clasp your hands behind your back and squeeeeeeeze your shoulders together to get rid of the rounding in your upper back. Lift your chest if you need to feel more of a stretch. Bring your chin to your chest to stretch the back of your neck.
3. Release your hands and move your keyboard closer to you so that you can touch the keys while keeping your elbows alongside your torso and bent at a 90-degree angle. This may feel much lower and closer than you would think.
4. Adjust your screen so that you are looking slightly down (especially if you are wearing progressive lenses), but beware: most of us sit with our heads pushing toward the screen. Please don't do this. It hurts!
5. Add an essential oil lift: Apply an essential oil dilution (using a pain-relief treatment oil) to your neck and shoulders, clasps your hands, and cradle the back of your neck, right underneath the base of your skull, lifting to stretch your neck and straighten your spine. Stretch your elbows farther apart to open and lift your chest. Ahhh, now you can breathe. If your back gets tired, move your hips all the way back in your chair, put a cushion or folded-up towel behind your upper or lower back, whichever feels more comfortable, and lean your whole back against the chair. This should feel fantastic.
From Essential Oils Every Day: Rituals and Remedies for Healing, Happiness, and Beauty by Hope Gillerman. Copyright ©2016 by Hope Gillerman, published by HarperElixir, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
A few more back-to-work boosts for you: How to ooze confidence on the job, eight ways to conquer job stress, and genius tips from super-successful female entrepreneurs.


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Standardized Tests: Still Going Strong?
Joseph M. Demma
The most recent report on annual public school expenditures shows that taxpayers in the United States of America spent $739 billion on the education of 51 million students in FY2017 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). These funds are audited, and student learning is measured using standardized tests administered by states and school districts. And this makes sense, because of that $739 billion, 82.7% comes from state and local taxes (United States Department of Education, 2005). In addition to accountability and learning measurements, standardized tests diagnose student strengths, weaknesses, and learning disabilities. Standardized tests also serve as essential tools for program selection and teacher planning.
And, for their efforts, standardized tests face an endless barrage of attacks and criticism. Dr. W. James Popham, a renowned professor emeritus at the University of California-Los Angeles, uses words like "inane, destructive, absurd, and unsound" (2005) as he advocates for the elimination of standardized tests. For Dr. Popham (1999), these evaluations will "always contain many items that are not aligned" with instruction.
Incendiary rhetoric aside, standardized tests are the only objective way for policymakers and appropriators to audit education expenditures and understand student learning. Moreover, when written correctly and aligned with classroom learning and academic standards, standardized tests provide essential data for students, parents, and teachers.
Benefits of Standardized testing
Criterion-referenced standardized tests have been used for generations to measure student performance (Sutton and Siefert, n.d., p.338). As is the case with any significant public policy initiative, review and refinement have been a part of the standardized test life-cycle. For instance, standardized tests are now primarily tied to content standards such as the Common Core State Standards (2010) and New York State's Next Generation Learning Standards (2017). These standards are sets of uniform academic expectations for grades K-12 and help shape curriculum across public schools.
Planning and Motivation
Data collected from standardized tests are used to diagnose students, teachers, and schools. Not only does information help us understand what a student does or does not know, but they can also help target those populations in need of special attention (Sutton and Siefert, n.d.). Thoughtful classroom teachers will use this data as a baseline for lesson strategies, including technique modification and lesson focus. Naturally, not all teachers are excited about empirical data tied to the effectiveness of their lessons. Furthermore, when put into the high-stakes context of data which may threaten their career status, teachers and administrators are understandably anxious.
However, much of the rhetoric around teacher angst appears to be anecdotal and driven by a vocal minority. Research shows that an overwhelming majority of students, teachers, and schools are motivated by standardized tests to demonstrate their competence, even mastery, of subject material (Phelps, 2003).
Rather than focus on accountability alternatives, opponents of standardized tests use emotionally charged words like 'high stakes' to position themselves as victims of oppression. To be sure, the moment "important consequences" (Sutton and Seifert, n.d., p.339) are tied to the results of these tests; they can have 'high-stakes.' For students, a bad score on a test can affect their placement in a desired program or school. Teachers may find their occupational status in jeopardy if they perform poorly on a PRAXIS exam or through poor student performance on a classroom test.
However, simply because a consequence is tied to an assessment does not merit the discontinuation of that assessment. Individuals who cannot pass a standardized driver license exam, for example, should perhaps not immediately be set loose on public roads. Those seeking to work in healthcare but unable to pass the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) might want to reassess their career interest.
Furthermore, the pressure felt by teachers and students is not theirs alone. For those tasked with appropriating education dollars to schools, their administrative or political careers may be on the line if decisions are not based on reliable data. The only objective way to monitor student learning and track education spending is by using standardized tests.
Standardized Test Criticisms
Those who oppose standardized testing as an evaluation tool have several arguments that they deploy. A common criticism is that they are a poor measurement tool that assesses "only lower-order skills and knowledge" (Goodman and Hambleton, 2005, p.92). Dr. Popham (1999) adds that "standardized achievement tests will always contain many items that are not aligned with instruction." One can quibble with the cavalier use of the word 'always,' but assessment alignment and overall development can be a valid concern if not done well.
Another criticism of standardized tests revolves around time as a prohibitive cost measure. Critics argue that teachers spend too much time 'teaching to the test', and students spend too much time preparing for and taking tests, which distracts from "genuine learning" (Berwick, 2019). And while it is possible, even likely, that poor instruction is occurring in classrooms that misuse time, research shows that "formative assessments, done repeatedly with specific, timely feedback, will drive knowledge and skills" (Johnson, 2016). Research going back decades confirms the effectiveness of repeat testing as support for motivation and self-efficacy (Friedman, 1987).
A primary opponent of standardized testing, the National Education Association (NEA), pulls no punches as it calls for a unified protest of "toxic standardized testing" (2019) by opting out of student participation. Because of their political influence and pro-student reputation, the NEA is influencing parents across the country to exercising civil disobedience through non-participation in standardized tests. For example, the Utah State Board of Education (2020) allows parents to exclude their children from participating in standard
The distrust of standardized tests appears rooted in uneasiness over standards, and it is worth exploring why. For many, these standards are at worst, arbitrary, and, at best, driven by misguided good intentions. It is important to note that uniform standards did not just appear out of nowhere and are modifiable across jurisdictions.
Published in 2010 as a reaction to varying expectations across inconsistent academic standards of each of the states, Common Core State Standards implemented research learned from a yearlong series of workshops involving K-12 teachers, higher education officials, governors (and other state officials), and members of the public (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010). The adoption of these standards was tied to federal funding, yet states could modify these standards to meet the unique needs of their constituency. For instance, New York State adopted its Next Generation Learning Standards (2017) after two years of work involving review committees of educators and parents.
One of the most vocal opponents of standardized tests, Mr. Popham (1999), concedes that "standardized tests do a wonderful job of supplying evidence of student knowledge," yet he remains intent that they not be used to measure the quality of education. However, research going back decades confirms the effectiveness of standardized tests as not only a measure of student learning but also support for education quality metrics like student motivation and self-efficacy (Friedman, 1987). A great example of the effective deployment of in-class standardized testing occurred at North Carolina Central University, where they saw an immediate 6% increase in student pass-rates on the NCLEX-RN exam (Alameida, Prive, Davis, Landry, Renwanz-Boyle, & Dunham, 2011).
Policymakers, either at the state or local level, are tasked with using standardized test results to direct funding for schools. And, while some protocols call for low-performing schools to lose money, this is not a process that happens overnight. Research shows that creative funding strategies that target low-performing schools, especially in low-income school districts, can significantly reduce the achievement gap (Rothstein, Lafortune, & Schanzenback, 2016). Without results from standardized tests, it would be impossible to objectively direct these funds and improve learning opportunities for our most vulnerable student cohort.
Standardized tests are not perfect. Unless they align with standards, standardized tests are everything the critics say they are: ineffective, time-consuming, and unsound. However, standardized test results are the only way for policymakers to measure school performance objectively. These measurements can identify schools that need more resources to support student learning.
Beyond the financial calculations, appropriately crafted assessments that align with thoughtfully developed standards are powerful classroom tools. The alignment of standards and instruction and assessments can demonstrate real cognitive development and assure everyone that 'teaching to the test' is not a pejorative remark, instead precisely how our classrooms ought to be managed.
Alameida, M.D., Prive, A., Davis, H.S., Landry, L., Renwanz-Boyle, A., & Dunham, M. (2011, May). Predicting NCLEX-RN Success in a Diverse Student Population. Journal of Nursing Education, 50 (5), 261-267. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20110228-01
Berwick, C. (2019, October 25). What does the research say about testing? https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-does-research-say-about-testing
Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2010). http://corestandards.org
Friedman, H. (1987). Repeat Examinations in Introductory Statistics Courses. Teaching of Psychology, 14(1), 20–23.
Goodman, D., & Hambleton, R. K. (2005). Some misconceptions about large-scale educational assessments. In Phelps (Ed.), Defending standardized testing (p. 91–110). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Johnson, B. (2016, February 19). Is it wrong to teach to the test? https://www.edutopia.org/blog/it-wrong-teach-test-ben-johnson
Jones, C. (2019, February 4). $81 Million in federal money for Utah schools at risk from standardized test opt-out rates. KUTV-Channel 2. https://kutv.com/news/local/90-million- in-federal-money-for-utah-schools-at-risk-from-standardized-test-opt-out- rates#:~:text=The%20state%20of%20Utah%20gives,they%20object%20to%20the%20te sting.
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National Center for Education Statistics. (2019). The Condition of Education 2019. Public School Expenditures. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmb.asp
National Education Association. (2019). Does Your State or School District Have a Policy on Opt-Outs? – How You Can Advocate for One. http://www.nea.org/home/62527.htm#:~:text=Act%20in%20Solidarity%20with%20Othe r%20Educators%20and%20Your%20Local%20and,that%20serve%20no%20educational %20purpose.
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Popham, W.J. (2005). Standardized Testing Fails the Exam. https://www.edutopia.org/standardized-testing-evaluation-reform
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Captain F.M. Bugge and Engineer J. Marmann Aas found Norsk Radio Tele & Telefon at Lysaker, Norway. Production is concentrated around radio communication equipment for ships; such as transmitters, receivers and direction finding equipment. Some amateur radio equipment is also produced.
1968 - Relocation to new premises in Hokksund. The company is completely reconstructed.
Major overhaul of the company and its product portfolio; focus on R&D, series production, standardization of products and product ranges. During these years a solid fundament for the company is built upon standard ranges of safety isolating transformers, control transformers and halogen lighting transformers.
The hard work pays of - in 1985 Noratel is the market leader on dry insulated transformers in Norway!
2004 – Noratel, privately own for almost 80 years, is purchased by a Norwegian Investment fund, allowing Noratel to further expand its global position within the transformer industry.
2005 – Acquisition of Toroid AB in Sweden.
With the Acquisition of Toroid AB, a major toroidal transformer manufacturer, Noratel gain access to modern production facilities in Sri Lanka and India. The former Toroid sales offices in England, Spain, Germany and Sweden are incorporated in the Noratel Group.


Sydney North Primary Health Network (SNPHN) will report to a national PHN meeting in September about its major project now underway with specialist palliative care provider HammondCare to provide quality end-of-life education and training to residential aged care staff.
The Department of Health has invited all 31 PHNs and palliative care organisations to attend a palliative care in general practice workshop in Melbourne later this month to discuss a national study showing PHNs can play a critical role in promoting best practice palliative care in general practice.
If the Sydney North project is successful – following evaluation by Professor Deborah Parker at University of Technology – it could provide a framework for the other 30 PHNs across Australia to "avoid reinvention of the wheel".
Aged care is one of the six key policy areas for PHNs to address, and Sydney North has extensively researched and analysed the end-of-life needs for its large and growing older population.
"We do palliative care well in cancer services and we need to improve end-of-life in aged care," SNPHN general manager for primary care advancement and integration Cynthia Stanton told Australian Ageing Agenda.
HammondCare's project manager, clinical nurse consultant Kelly Arthurs told AAA that more than one-third of the SHPHN's 135 residential facilities, which vary in size from 30 to 120 beds, had applied for the program.
She said that 20-30 facilities would be chosen to reflect a range of public, private and not-for-profits and a difference in size, resident mix and current staff skills.
"We don't want to disadvantage services that are currently training staff. We hope to change them from good to brilliant, and improve ones with a lower skills base to provide better services by the end of the project," Ms Arthurs said.
Frontline staff including registered nurses and care staff will participate in both in situ and off-site training, in a train-the-trainer approach so that it can be delivered and passed onto other colleagues to develop a facility wide community-of-practice approach.
Two palliative care nurse educators are on board and the training will start next month running until June 2018 with the final report due to be concluded in 12 months.
The project will provide a valuable guide to other PHNs seeking to provide or improve their local end-of-life programs in aged care.
End-of -life activities vary widely between PHNs.
Others in Victoria, such as the North Western Metropolitan and Eastern PHNs have worked closely with the Victorian Palliative Care Regional Consortia and specialist palliative care services in residential aged care.
Elsewhere, Brisbane North PHN has worked since its inception in 2015, and before that as the Medicare local, on palliative care services and training in residential and community care. It also organised an aged care workshop for PHNs and the Department of Health last December.
Palliative Care Australia CEO Liz Callaghan welcomes the increased support of PHNs in end-of-life activities in aged care.
"We view PHNs increased role in palliative care coordination as a positive step, particularly if it supports the building of relationships between primary health care services and specialist palliative care providers, and to assist in identifying where the palliative care system requires additional capacity at the local level," she said.


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Vertical Assembly Building
The Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) is a large facility where the Space Shuttle Orbiter was joined to the Solid Rocket Boosters and the External Tank, and where, in the 1960s and 70s, Saturn V components were assembled.
One of the largest buildings in the world, the 52-storey, 160-m (525 ft) tall VAB occupies a ground area of 3.25 ha (8 acres) and has an internal volume of 3,665,013 cu m (129,428,000 cu ft). Designed to withstand winds of 200 km/h, it has a foundation that rests on more than 4,225 steel pilings, each 40 cm in diameter that goes to a depth of 49 m through bedrock.
The VAB Bays
The Vertical Assembly Building contains four High Bays (making up the four corner regions of the tall block in the photo) and one Low Bay (the smaller block jutting out back). High Bays 1 and 3 were used for integrating and stacking the complete Space Shuttle vehicle. High Bay 2 was used for External Tank (ET) checkout and storage and as a contingency storage area for orbiters. High Bay 4 was also used for ET checkout and storage, as well as for payload canister operations and Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) contingency handling. The Low Bay area contained Space Shuttle main engine maintenance and overhaul shops, and served as a holding area for SRB forward assemblies and aft skirts.
Space Shuttle assembly
During Space shuttle build-up operations inside the VAB, integrated SRB segments were transferred from nearby SRB assembly and checkout facilities, hoisted onto a Mobile Launcher Platform in High Bays 1 or 3 and mated together to form two complete SRBs. The External Tank, after arrival by barge, was inspected and checked out in High Bays 2 or 4 and then transferred to High Bay's 1 or 3 to be attached to the SRBs already in place. The orbiter was then towed over from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the VAB transfer aisle, raised to a vertical position, lowered onto the Mobile Launcher Platform and then mated to the rest of the stack. When assembly and checkout is complete, the crawler-transporter entered the High Bay, picked up the platform, and assembled shuttle vehicle and carried them to the launch pad.


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The truth about Khan al-Ahmar
Posted on 7 October 2018 by anneinpt
The airwaves and media are full of news, actually fake news and misinformation, about the fate of the Khan al-Ahmar illegal settlement – yes I shall call it what it is. Rather than using that epithet to describe perfectly legal Israeli villages, I shall use it for what is truly represented by those words.
The propaganda being bandied about concerning Khan al-Ahmar is reminiscent of the polemics surrounding the resettling of the Negev Bedouin under the Prawer plan back in 2103. That plan too, despite being proposed by the most human-rights oriented and leftist courts in the land, was roundly condemned by the usual alphabet-soup of the EU, UN and other NGOs.
So here we are in 2018 and nothing seems to ahve changed. Whatever Israel decides to do inside its own territory becomes the business of every busybody in the world – as long, of course, as it's Arabs being turfed out of their homes. I note that we didn't hear a whisper of protest when Amona, Migron and Netiv Ha'avot were destroyed for no good reason at all.
The latest chapter in this saga occurred when the Europeans (who else?) protested Israel's planned resettlement of the Bedouin camping out at the illegal settlement of Khan al-Ahmar. The plan has wended its way through the entire Israeli judicial system, right up to the Supreme Court which rarely rules in Israel's favour. Much to the surprise of all concerned, the Supreme Court ruled that the Israeli government is in the right, and Khan al-Ahmar needs to be evacuated as planned.
Cue righteous indignation from the usual suspects.
Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman slammed the Europeans for interfering in Israel's internal affairs after rumours abounded that German Chancellor Angela Merkel conditioned her visit to Israel last week upon Israel's cancelling the plan.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sent a letter to eight European ambassadors in Israel criticizing them for their "flagrant interference in Israel's sovereign affairs" after their respective governments signed a joint statement at the UN calling on Jerusalem to reverse its decision to demolish a Palestinian village in the West Bank.
Liberman's memo was sent earlier this week to the ambassadors of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, and the Netherlands, the French daily Le Monde reported Saturday.
The defense minister chided the eight countries, who in their joint September statement warned that the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar "would be very serious and would severely threaten the viability of the two-state solution and undermine prospects for peace."
The defense minister argued that Khan al-Ahmar is an "internal" Israeli matter and that other countries have no right to intervene after the High Court of Justice deemed legitimate, last May, the state's desire to raze the hamlet built without the necessary permits.
In addition to the lack of authorization from Israeli authorities, the state says the structures, mostly makeshift shacks and tents, pose a threat to the village residents because of their proximity to a highway.
"Israel expects to be treated with the same measure of dignity and respect for its judicial institutions and internal affairs as each of your governments rightly expects for its own," Liberman wrote.
"We regard anything less as an expression of injustice and discrimination, unworthy of our friendly bilateral relations and of accepted norms governing the conduct of ties between sovereign nations."
But Liberman rejected the implication in his letter to the European ambassadors. "The idea that moving a group of some 100 people within a five kilometer radius will prevent a resolution to such a complex historical conflict is hysterical nonsense," he wrote.
Of course we have to wait and see if the evacuation order will actually be implemented. I am not holding my breath because we have been let down so many times before as our "brave" leaders chicken out of difficult decisions.
Meanwhile it is worthwhile watching this short video by Regavim about the decision to evacuate the village. Naomi Kahn, Director of the International Division of Regavim, clearly explains the legal situation surrounding the village, the incitement and provocation of the Palestinian Authority aided and abettted by the Europeans.
And watch this short video too in order to understand the full background of Khan al-Ahmar. It is in Hebrew so make sure to click on the little square (3rd from right at the bottom) to activate closed captions (English subtitles).
Stay tuned for more drama because I'm sure this issue isn't going to go away. If nothing else the NGOs funded by the EU will make sure it stays on top of the diplomatic agenda.
This entry was posted in Defence and Military, indigenous rights, Israel news, Lawfare and Delegitimization and tagged Bedouin, E-1, EU, illegal construction, indigenous rights, Khan al-Ahmar, Maaleh Adumim, Negev, NGOs, Palestinian Authority, Regavim. Bookmark the permalink.
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The alphabet soup of UN /EU/PA etc are building illegally on ISRAELI land,land which when said alphabet soup groups "divided"the land into areas which are PA controlled or "owned" and Israeli controlled and owned,suddenly decided they have a perfect way of getting rid of the Israelis by builing illegally on their land,and "shaming"us into relinquishing it.Enough!If our leadership gives in,there will be hell to pay next time peace now or whatever (in)humanitarian group decides that yet another house is built on "illegal"(read disputed)land.Let all these amazingly righteous countries look after their own backyard.For once it's high time we stood up to them.
Regarding this as an obstacle for peace?I agree!I don't want "peace"with these crooks and liars!
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Jean-Antoine Gleizes né à Dourgne dans le Tarn le  et mort à Mazères le , est un écrivain et un philosophe français précurseur du végétarisme en France.

Biographie
Jean-Antoine Gleize est le fils de Denis Gleize, avocat et de Marie-Anne Faucos. Il fait ses études  au collège de Sorèze puis il suit les cours de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier. Il répugne à suivre les cours de dissection, renonce à étudier la médecine et se consacre à l'écriture.

En 1794, il épouse Aglaé Angliviel de La Beaumelle, fille de Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle qui fut lors de l'Affaire Calas un des premiers défenseur de la famille Calas. La famille s'installe au château de La Nogarede où Gleizes élabore une théorie d'harmonie avec la nature qui exclut la consommation de la viande et devient végétarien. Il fait interdire la chasse sur ses terres. Il restera jusqu'à sa mort fidèle à ce régime alimentaire végétal qu'il juge naturel et conforme à la morale. L'auteur romantique Alphonse Esquiros dira de lui:

Il meurt au château de La Nogarede d'une attaque d'apoplexie à l'âge de soixante-dix ans.

Œuvres
 Les nuits élyséennes, éd. Pierre Didot l'Ainé, Paris, 1801.
 Les Agrestes, éd. Fuchs, Paris, 1804.
 Le Christianisme expliqué, ou le Véritable esprit de ce culte méconnu jusqu'à ce jour, éd. Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1837.
 Séléna, ou la famille Samanéenne, éd. Des Forges, 1838
 Thalysie; ou, La nouvelle existence, éd.	L. Desessart, 1841

Références

Sources
Revue des deux Mondes, Alfred Esquiros, Monsieur Gleizes et le régime des herbes, Paris, .
Jacques de Marquette, J.A. Gleizes et son influence sur le mouvement naturiste, éd. du Trait D'Union, Paris 1928.
L.G. Michaud, Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne : ou, Histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes, vol. 16, , éd.C.Desplaces, 1856
N. Joly, J.A. Gleizes et le régime des herbes : Étude biographique, littéraire et physiologique, éd.  A. Chauvin, Toulouse, 1856
Reinhold Grimm et Jost Hermand, Re-reading Wagner, University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, .
 Iacobbo et Iacobbo, Vegetarian America: A History, Praeger, 2004, .
 Colin Spencer, Vegetarianism: A History, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002, .
Howard Williams et Carol J. Adams, The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating, University of Illinois Press, 2003, .
Jon Wynne-Tyson (comp.), The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought, Centaur Press, London, 2009, .
 Patrick Cabanel, « Gleizès, Jean-Antoine », in Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours, tome 2 : D-G, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2020,

Liens externes

Article extrait du Journal Alliance Végétarienne n° 72 - Eté 2003
Biography and excerpts: Howard Williams, The Ethics of Diet – Gleizes

Références

Écrivain français du XIXe siècle
Bien-être animal
Personnalité végétarienne
Naissance en décembre 1773
Naissance dans le Tarn
Décès en juin 1843
Décès à Mazères (Ariège)
Décès à 69 ans

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Q: not able to delete the index from the array and make it available again for new inputs

 My To-do List

        <form>

         <input type="text" id="inputUser" placeholder="Type your task here - minimum four characters"
                class="textfield">

        <button type= "button"  id ="addBtn" title = "Add Task"></button>
        <button type= "button"  id ="removeBtn"></button>

        </form>

Here is my html file

 $(function () {
 var myTaskArray = [];

     $("#addBtn").click(function () {
         var newItem = $('#inputUser').val();
         myTaskArray.push(newItem);

         if (myTaskArray.length > 10) {
             alert("Your Schedule for today is now full!");
             $('#inputUser').val('');
             return;

         } else if (newItem.trim() == "" || newItem.length < 3) {
             alert("You need to write a task");

         } else {

             $("#list").append("
<input type = 'checkbox' id = 'checkbox'>" + "  " + newItem + "
");

             $("input:checkbox").click(function () {
                 var $this = $(this);
                 if (this.checked) {
                     $this.parent().addClass('completed');

                 } else {
                     $this.parent().removeClass('completed');
                 }
             });
         }
         $('#inputUser').val('');
     });

     //remove item on the list
     $("#removeBtn").click(function () {
         $('#list').children().filter(function () {
             return this.firstChild.checked;
         }).remove();
     });

 });

Here is my js file. I put a limit up to max 10 inputs from the users and It works as it is but when I remove som values through remove button, the index of that values doesn't remove from the array and make it available again for inputs. Is there anyway I can fix this?

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*You are not limiting the list to 10 items, but to 11 items. Use the <= operator (<= 10) or < 11 to limit it to 10 items.

*You are adding items to your array, even if the text is empty or the list is already full. Move myTaskArray.push() to the else statement.

*You are never updating your myTaskArray array when deleting a todo list item. See my code example for how to do this using Array.prototype.filter().

(For demonstration purposes, I limited the list to 3 items and added logging of the underlying array when adding or removing a list item)

$(function() {
  var myTaskArray = [];

  $("#addBtn").click(function() {
    var newItem = $('#inputUser').val();

    if (myTaskArray.length >= 3) {
      alert("Your Schedule for today is now full!");
      $('#inputUser').val('');
      return;

    } else if (newItem.trim() == "" || newItem.length < 3) {
      alert("You need to write a task");

    } else {
      myTaskArray.push(newItem);
      console.clear();
      console.log("myTaskArray:", myTaskArray);
      $("#list").append("
<input type = 'checkbox' id = 'checkbox'>" + "  " + newItem + "
");

      $("input:checkbox").click(function() {
        var $this = $(this);
        if (this.checked) {
          $this.parent().addClass('completed');

        } else {
          $this.parent().removeClass('completed');
        }
      });
    }
    $('#inputUser').val('');
  });

  //remove item on the list
  $("#removeBtn").click(function() {
    let itemsToRemove = [];
    $('#list').children().filter(function(index) {
      let removeThis = this.firstChild.checked;
      if (removeThis) {
        itemsToRemove.push(index);
      }
      return removeThis;
    }).remove();
    myTaskArray = myTaskArray.filter(function(value, index) {
      return !itemsToRemove.includes(index)
    });
    console.clear();
    console.log("myTaskArray:", myTaskArray);
  });

});

 My To-do List

<form>

    <input type="text" id="inputUser" placeholder="Type your task here - minimum four characters" class="textfield">

    <button type="button" id="addBtn" title="Add Task">+</button>
    <button type="button" id="removeBtn">x</button>

</form>

Some followup thoughts:

*

*Usability: Allow adding an item using the enter key in the input (currently that submits the form)

*Usability: Disable the input field when the list is full, displaying an info message or at least changing the input placeholder text instead of allowing the user to type, but showing the error message upon input and erasing the user's input completely

*Maybe use a reactive framework like Vue.js that uses the underlying array for rendering the list instead of having to update both data and representation manually.


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All You Need To Know About The Deadly Nipah Virus
The Nipah virus first broke out in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998. It appeared first in domestic pigs, and was then later found in other domestic animals including dogs, cats, goats, horses, and sheep. The Nipah virus gets its name from the village in Malaysia where the first person to die from the disease was from.
Nipah spreads through fruit bats or 'flying foxes', who also spread the Hendra virus. The virus is found in bat urine, feces, saliva, and birthing fluids.
While the spread has been limited to from animal contact in Singapore and Malaysia, in Bangladesh and India there have been reports of human-to-human transmission of the disease. There is no specific treatment for the virus- the primary treatment is simply intensive support care.
Three people have now died in Kozhikode in Kerala as a result of the disease. The Central Government has sent a team to Kerala to address the potential outbreak.
Two of the victims were brothers, and the third one was a relative who had come to visit them in hospital. The highly contagious power of the disease has forced medical staff into taking extreme precautions while dealing with patients.
Eight other individuals, several of whom who had contact with the diseased, have been quarantined in a special ward at the Kozhikode Medical College.
Symptoms of the Nipah virus include breathing trouble, inflammation of the brain, fever, headache, drowsiness, disorientation, and delirium. A patient may slip into a coma within 48 hours of infection.
The mortality rate of the virus lies at a deadly 70 percent, which means that in every case, prevention is far more desirable than treatment.
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Medionidus walkeri é uma espécie de bivalve da família Unionidae.

É endémica dos Estados Unidos da América.

Referências
  Bogan, A.E. 1996.  Medionidus walkeri.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.   Dados de 7 de Agosto de 2007.

Medionidus
Espécies descritas em 1897


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In archaeology, a tranchet flake is a characteristic type of flake removed by a flintknapper during lithic reduction. Known as one of the major categories in core-trimming flakes, the making of a tranchet flake involves removing a flake parallel to the final intended cutting edge of the tool which creates a single straight edge as wide as the tool itself. A large flint artifact with a chisel-end, the tranchet flake has a cutting edge that is sharp and straight. The cutting edge is unmodified in most cases; sometimes, it is polished for increased durability and/or sharpness.

To make a tranchet flake, a flintknapper can hold the core from which the tranchet flake is to be removed in two ways: freehand or with it supported against the leg. Knapping freehand allows for greater control while supporting the core against the leg makes the work easier.

The technique used to make the tranchet flake was used in the making of other tools as well, including tranchet axes (characterized by their trapezoidal or triangular shape) adzes, and even tranchet arrowheads. Unlike chisel arrowheads, tranchet arrowheads are transverse: this means they are knapped sideways, along the width of the flake versus the length of a flake like in the making of a chisel arrowhead. Also different is that tranchet arrowheads are made from a blade struck off a core versus being made from debitage like chisel arrowheads. The edge of the flake could be sharpened again by removing another flake from it.

Known as the tranchet technique that makes the tranchet flake, this term can be defined in two ways: first, it is the forming of a straight edge used to cut from the edge of the tranchet flake by taking off a large flat flake from the tip. Second, it can be defined as the method one uses to resharpen or form the cutting edge of either an ax or an adze.

Evidence of the technique of the tranchet flake was first discovered in sites of the Acheulean age, and the flake is a corresponding technology to the Upper Paleolithic era. It is found in some Acheulean assemblages, and handaxes created using the method are called tranchet axes. They can be identified by the damaged edge (damaged from use) on their back side.

Tranchet flakes were used to form other tools or weapons which would vary in shape and size. For this reason, the size and shape of tranchet flakes varies widely as well.

In later Neolithic times, the tranchet flake seems to have been replaced by something known as edge-abrasion. Abrasion apparently was not as damaging as the tranchet flake technique (it kept more of the original tool or weapon intact) and tools were less likely to break with edge-abrasion than with a tranchet flake.

At the Acheulean site of Boxgrove, West Sussex, England, the area containing Lower Paleolithic deposits on site is one of the largest in Europe. Included in the site are tranchet flakes; the site is deemed to be a place that was continually used for flintknapping.

An experiment concerning this site was conducted that would replicate the tranchet axes found in Boxgrove (a total of 314 tranchet axes were found at the site). Using seven people who were right-handed and able to flintknap, the experiment showed that hand preference did not restrict which side was used during the tranchet flake removal. Four of the knappers produced flakes using both directions (right-struck and left-struck). Three knappers used the same direction all the time. The study also revealed that when the flintknapper had become skilled enough to be able to produce a tranchet flake, the range of flake types knappers can produce increases.

Proving that hand preference did not restrict which side was used to remove flakes allowed those excavating the Boxgrove site to see that the knappers there preferred to remove tranchet flakes from the left side. However, it was noted habit could have come into play here: the knappers may have had a routine habit in making the tranchet flakes. However, the difference between handheld and supported against the leg knapping may also play a role: though handheld allows more control, supporting the core could allow for the production of what is deemed as the more difficult tranchet flake for right handers -the ones made from being struck from the left side.

Another reason why the results between the experiment and real-life may be different is also the techniques and methods of making tranchet flakes. For example, the use of an antler hammer was similar between the two. But things like the postures flintknappers have while knapping and how they used both of their hands (the various positioning while knapping) of those past people of the Boxgrove site cannot be known.

The experiment did show that a huge variety of holding positions exist, though the holding constraints did not affect how tranchet flakes were produced.

References
Darvill, T (ed.) (2003). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
Bergman, C.A. and M.B. Roberts. (1998) Flaking Technology at the Acheulean Site of Boxgrove, West Sussex (England). "Revue Archeologique de Picardie", Volume 1. Issue 1–2. pp. 105–113.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/pica_0752-5656_1988_num_1_1_1581

Beaune, Sophie A. de; etc. (2009) "Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution", Cambridge University Press.
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