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About the college Qualifications Schools, departments, centres & institute Community Engagement Research News & events Contact the college
Unisa alum is Oxford-bound
Sarel van Baalen
While working as a civil engineer, Sarel van Baalen completed a BCom (Law) degree through Unisa with a 75% course average. "Following this achievement I look forward to starting a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Oxford in September. Following a rigorous application process in 2018, I was admitted and awarded a scholarship. However, it does not cover all costs and I have therefore designed and developed my own crowdfunding campaign."
On the Unisa experience
Van Baalen says that he had a great experience studying at Unisa. "As I started my career as a civil engineer, I could choose from a wide range of industry relevant degree programmes. The BCom Law degree particularly attracted me as it has general business modules, supplemented with relevant law modules. Studying this degree part-time, while building my career as a civil engineer, helped me develop a good general business acumen. I really enjoyed being able to take modules and be able to immediately apply my new knowledge and skills at work. The flexibility of studying at Unisa is unique - it allows you to study at home, at work or while travelling. I believe Unisa offers a great opportunity for young professionals to further their education."
Entrepreneurial skillset will unlock African opportunities
After five years of working as an engineer in the infrastructure sector, Van Baalen realised that he can have a far larger impact in this field by building and leading enterprises. "The MBA at Oxford presents many unique opportunities and I felt that these are well-aligned with my long-term career vision to build enterprises and help improve access to infrastructure in Africa," he says. "Oxford is known for attracting some of the world's best faculty and students and I have a lot of valuable knowledge, insights and perspectives to gain from them."
Van Baalen says that he looks forward to developing a strong entrepreneurial skillset as well as the confidence to convert that into building and leading infrastructure enterprises across Africa. "At Oxford, I will build a global business network with the current student body and the alumni and I am confident that this network will further assist me in unlocking opportunities across Africa," he says.
Commenting on the future, Van Baalen says that it is well known that Africa faces a major infrastructure gap. "At the same time, it is evident that since Africa's domestic capital is exhausted and that we need foreign investors to help unlock infrastructure opportunities," he says. "However, given the often challenging business environment, policy and political uncertainty and corruption in Africa, attracting and deploying foreign investment can be a challenge. Post-MBA, I want to tackle that challenge by joining one of the leading players in that field such as the African Development Bank, CDC Group or International Finance Corporation."
* By Philip van der Merwe, Editor: Department of Institutional Advancement
Publish date: 2019/06/19


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Q: Reading source code from a webpage in java I am trying to read source code from a webpage. My java code is
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

class Testing{
public static void Connect() throws Exception{

  URL url = new URL("http://excite.com/education");
  URLConnection spoof = url.openConnection();

  spoof.setRequestProperty( "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; H010818)" );
  BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(spoof.getInputStream()));
  String strLine = "";

  while ((strLine = in.readLine()) != null){

   System.out.println(strLine);
  }

  System.out.println("End of page.");
 }

 public static void main(String[] args){

  try{

   Connect();
  }catch(Exception e){

  }
}

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Anyone Please Help.
Thanks in advance.

A: It works for me.
private static String getWebPabeSource(String sURL) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL(sURL);
        URLConnection urlCon = url.openConnection();
        BufferedReader in = null;

        if (urlCon.getHeaderField("Content-Encoding") != null
                && urlCon.getHeaderField("Content-Encoding").equals("gzip")) {
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new GZIPInputStream(
                    urlCon.getInputStream())));
        } else {
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    urlCon.getInputStream()));
        }

        String inputLine;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
            sb.append(inputLine);
        in.close();

        return sb.toString();
}

A: Try reading it this way:
private static String getUrlSource(String url) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL(url);
        URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                urlConn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
        String inputLine;
        StringBuilder a = new StringBuilder();
        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
            a.append(inputLine);
        in.close();

        return a.toString();
    }

and set your encoding according to the web page - notice this line:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                urlConn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));

A: First you have to uncompress the content using GZIPInputStream. Then put the uncompressed stream to Input Stream and read it using BufferedReader
Use Apache HTTP Client 4.1.1
Maven dependency
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
    <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Sample Code to parse gzip content.
package com.gzip.simple;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;

import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

public class GZIPFetcher {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {

            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet("http://excite.com/education");
            getRequest.addHeader("accept", "application/json");

            HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(getRequest);

            if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
                        + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
            }

            InputStream instream = response.getEntity().getContent();

            // Check whether the content-encoding is gzip or not.
            Header contentEncoding = response
                    .getFirstHeader("Content-Encoding");

            if (contentEncoding != null
                    && contentEncoding.getValue().equalsIgnoreCase("gzip")) {
                instream = new GZIPInputStream(instream);
            }

            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    instream));

            String content;
            System.out.println("Output from Server .... \n");
            while ((content = in.readLine()) != null)
                System.out.println(content);

            httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();

        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

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Montivipera bornmuelleri est une espèce de serpents de la famille des Viperidae.

Répartition

Cette espèce se rencontre au Liban, en Israël et en Syrie.

Description
C'est un serpent venimeux et ovovivipare.

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur du botaniste allemand Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller.

Publication originale
 Werner, 1898 : Über einige neue Reptilien und einen neuen Frosch aus dem cilicischen Taurus. Zoologischer Anzeiger, , ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Viperinae
Serpent (nom scientifique)

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Unfortunately, Code Breakers Club will not take place this week Thursday 2nd February due to prior engagements. The club will resume the following week, but on a different day. The club will take place on Tuesdays for the foreseeable future.
Next date for Code Breakers Club will be on Tuesday 6th February 2017. The club will run as normal until 4pm.


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Mamta Tells Left To 'Keep Mum'
Hitting out at the opposition Left Front, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked its leaders to keep mum for 10 years alleging they had wrecked havoc in key sectors like health, sanitation and poverty alleviation during their 34-year rule.
"For 10 years, you should put leukoplast on your mouth, you should not utter a single word," Banerjee said replying to queries at the state assembly. She also charged the LF with keeping beneficial schemes away from the needy on political considerations.
Irked at the LF lawmakers staging a walk out from the House over "not being allowed to put questions", Banerjee said Leader of Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra - health minister for years during the LF regime - should try to compete, not with her, but with Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya.
Attacking Mishra, she asked him to give the number of districts she visited during his tenure, and said the hospitals had then been turned into living hells.
"The only thing they did was politics. Poor people were denied benefits of welfare schemes on political considerations. Is this your theory of haves and have-nots?" she asked.
The chief minister alleged nothing was done to ensure rural sanitation, while the public distribution system was awful.
In contrast, she claimed her government had set up fair price medicine shops which have become a model for other states in the country.
She said her government has confiscated about 77.25 lakhs bogus ration cards in the state.
Responding to Banerjee's allegations, Mishra later told reporters that the government lacked the guts to answer even one question from the opposition.
Earlier, LF members held noisy protests in the assembly alleging questions pertaining to the home department - under Banerjee - were not allowed in the house.
The LF members were back in their seats after Banerjee entered , but walked out after Mishra's questions directed at the chief minister was disallowed.
Interacting with journalists, Mishra said: "This is not the first time she has asked us to put leukoplasts on our mouth and keep mum for ten years. But I would like to tell her that there was more need for leukoplasts in the hospitals, where there is a dearth of such adhesive tapes."
"The state government is talking big about increasing hospital beds. But due to shortage of experts and doctors, these are nothing but death beds," he said.
Mishra alleged that Banerjee was using the assembly like public rallies. "She makes speeches whenever she feels like. She replies to questions put to other ministers, but remains silent when we put questions about the departments under her direct supervision".
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We frequent the Appalachian Mountains, where we hike with our dogs and where I learned about fly-fishing.
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I'm symbolically Rabbit; the silent one, usually sitting at the edge of the meadow, observing.


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Maupin, OR (ZIP Code 97037) Data
In-depth Statistics and Demographics About 97037
The ZIP Code 97037 is associated with the city of Maupin in Oregon in Wasco County. In this Oregon region, an estimated 19.4% have a bachelor's degree or higher, while the per capita income comes in at about $26,212. Median househould income in this ZIP sits at $47,330, and approximately 1% of the population lives below the poverty line. The median age in ZIP Code 97037 is approximately 50.5 years, and 28.4% of the region's residents are aged 62 years and older. The current population estimate is 975.
Maupin, OR
The 97037 ZIP Code is associated with Maupin, OR in Wasco County.
Today's forecast for 97037: Mostly sunny. High near 45, with temperatures falling to around 41 in the afternoon. West wind around 8 mph.
Approximately 10.1% of adults aged 18 to 64 in ZIP Code 97037 (Maupin, OR) are currently uninsured and do not have health insurance.
In ZIP Code 97037, 94.7% of the population graduated high school, while 19.4% have a bachelor's degree or higher. In this region, 0.0% achieved an education level less than 9th grade, while 7.4% hold a graduate or professional degree. Approximately 29.5% in this Wasco County region reached the highest level of high school graduate (including equivalency).
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Regarding the age of homes in ZIP Code 97037, an estimated 26.6% of homes were built in 1939 or earlier. Additionally, 15.3% of homes in the region were built between 2000 and 2009, while an estimated 0.0% of homes were built in 2014 or later in this Wasco County region.
Residents of ZIP Code 97037 are older than average. The median age of 50.5 years in ZIP Code 97037 is approximately 32.55% higher than the overall median age in the U.S. of 38.1 years. About 81.7% of residents are aged 18 years and older, and 28.4% of residents are 62 years and over. Approximately 20.0% of the population in 97037 falls in the age group 45 to 54 years, while an estimated 14.9% are aged 65 to 74 years. On the low end of the scale, 2.3% of 97037 residents are aged 85 years and over.
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In 97037, 58.6% of the population is in the labor force. Recent estimates place 10.1% as working from home, while the total labor force in the region has a mean travel to time to work of 21.9 minutes. Approximately 27.4% of the employed population 16 years and over in 97037 work in educational services, and health care and social assistance, while an estimated 27.0% work in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining. On the lower end of the scale, just 0.0% of 97037 workers 16 years and over work in manufacturing.
Arts, entertainment, and recreation, and accommodation and food services 13.0%
In ZIP Code 97037, 98.9% of the population lists "English only" as the language spoken in home, while 0.5% of lists Spanish. Additionally, Asian and Pacific Islander languages are spoken in 0.0% of homes, and other Indo-European languages are spoken in 0.0% of homes. Lastly, 0.5% of homes list "other languages" as spoken in the home. All percentages referenced are for the population 5 years and older in this Wasco County region.
The average residential electricity rate in ZIP Code 97037 of 9.56¢/kWh. This rate is about 16.43% less than the average rate in Oregon, and approximately 38.87% less than the average rate in the U.S. as a whole. Regarding solar power potential, ZIP Code 97037 has an average daily solar radiation level of 5.18 kWh/m2/day. This is approximately 25.73% greater than an area in the U.S. with historically low solar radiation levels (WA), and about 21.4% less than an area in the U.S. with historically high solar radiation levels (AZ).
ZIP Code 97037 9.56¢/kWh 9.66¢/kWh 7.39¢/kWh
Oregon 11.44¢/kWh 9.22¢/kWh 6.61¢/kWh
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Our house is very beautiful and located in a residential area of a historical town in Transilvania, Romania: Bisrita. For those who have read the Bram Stocker's novel Dracula, Bistrita is the town where the main character of the novel spends his first night in Transilvania. Actually, the novel starts with the ancient name of the city: Bistriz.
The house we sell is a two floors house with also an unfinished under-the-roof floor and a fully inhabitable half-underground cave ("taverna"). The house's surface is of almost 300 square meters with a garden of 800 m2.The whole surface is 1000m2.
The house complex is composed of a main house and an annex with two rooms (one for the car), and a 10x5 swimming pool. The garden has several fruit trees and flowers bushes. In front of the house there is another garden with trees and flowers.
The house has 3 entrance doors (one in front and two on the backyard) and one main gate. In the backyard, there is a "veranda" with a large grass spot for sunbathing after swimming.
The interior of the house is of outstanding quality. Windows and doors are of massive oak wood. The main hall is paved with marble. It also features a massive wood embedded library (in the living room) and a bar scaffold in the main hall.
The house is composed of 1 main hall, 2 living rooms, 1 dining room, 1 kitchen, 3 bathrooms, 1 washing-machine room and 6 dormitories (one of which with a balcony).
The house is located in a residential area, Unirea at the exit of the city towards the Vatra-Dornei. It does not face the main road, but it is located in an internal street far from the road noise. The area is very quite and elegant, made of several villas like our house.
Bistrita is close and easily reachable from Cluj-Napoca and Tirgu-Mures, both cities have an international airport.
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The Top 10 Ways Companies Can Protect Their Confidential Information and Relationships When an Employee Joins a Competitor
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A long time ago, there was a beardless comedian named David Letterman. He did a nightly show that you couldn't stream, pause, or download. And it always included a Top 10 list.
Through two recent decisions, you could say that the North Carolina Business Court has picked up Dave's mantle of the Top 10 list, albeit far more professionally and subtly than Dave. These decisions have provided a nice Top 10 list of steps that employers can take to better protect their confidential information.
In this post, we will examine those two decisions. We will start with Encompass Services, a case that we discussed last week in the context of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, the North Carolina computer trespass statute, and per se section 75-1.1 violations. In Encompass Services, a former employee allegedly took confidential information to his new employer. We will also look at Mechanical Systems & Services, Inc. v. Howard, another Business Court opinion involving a similar factual situation. The court's analysis in Mechanical Systems is particularly helpful for employers that are drafting (or re-drafting) restrictive covenants to protect their proprietary information and customer relationships.
We will walk through the lessons from each case in a bit, but any good punchline needs a good setup. So we will start with the factual background of each case.
Encompass Services, PLLC v. Maser Consulting P.A.
Encompass Services provides land surveying services for oil and gas transmission pipelines. It finds new business through confidential, competitive bidding. To stay competitive, Encompass has compiled a library of confidential and proprietary documents developed over years to assist in building out the bids.
Encompass took steps to protect the information, such as requiring employees to sign employment agreements that included a confidentiality provision and memorializing those requirements in the company's handbook.
But Encompass had a few holes in its process. Its employees did not receive company-issued cell phones or other external storage devices, so they used personal devices. Encompass also had no policy restricting the use of personal storage devices. The Business Court noted that this "inevitably" led to employees downloading and storing the company's information on personal external storage devices or personal cell phones.
Christopher Hilsman, an Encompass employee, used a personal external storage device and a personal cell phone to access and store the Encompass data. Over time, he built a "massive" repository of the company's data on his personal devices.
Hilsman then accepted a job with a competitor. He notified Encompass that he was resigning and provided his two weeks' notice. That same day, Encompass notified its vendor that Hilsman's access should be revoked effective after the two-week notice period, but the vendor failed to implement this revocation until four months later.
When Hilsman joined the competitor, he brought his Encompass repository with him and continued to access the Encompass system because his access had not been deactivated.
Hilsman used Encompass's information at his new job. He based a bid for his new employer on an Encompass template, and he adjusted a project bid to undercut Encompass's prices.
Encompass sued Hilsman and his new employer, including claims for misappropriation of trade secrets and violation of section 75-1.1 (along with a computer trespass claim that we previously discussed).
Encompass survived summary judgment on its misappropriation of trade secrets and section 75-1.1 claims. But the Business Court cautioned that a jury might ultimately be troubled by the company's failure to implement and properly enforce the confidentiality policies, particularly regarding the personal storage devices.
Mechanical Systems & Services, Inc. v. Howard
Mechanical Systems involved a similar fact pattern. Mechanical Systems sued two former employees and their new employer, including claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of non-solicitation agreements, and section 75-1.1 violations.
Mechanical Systems claimed that the former employees attempted to recruit its employees and solicited its customers in violation of a non-solicitation agreement.
The defendants moved to dismiss. The Business Court allowed several of the claims to proceed, including the misappropriation claim and the related section 75-1.1 claim.
But the Business Court dismissed parts of the non-solicitation claims. Continuing a trend that may worry employers (see other examples here and here), the Business Court held that the customer non-solicitation provision was overbroad and therefore unenforceable.
First, the employee's duties at Mechanical Systems were limited to one area of the business, but the non-solicitation provision would bar him from approaching customers regarding any of the company's business. The non-solicitation provision did limit the scope of customers, such as customers with whom the employee directly worked or from which the employee gained confidential information through his employment.
Second, the non-solicitation provision defined "Company" to include "subsidiaries" and "all other affiliates." This extended the prohibition to subsidiaries and affiliates with whom the employee did not necessarily have any relationship.
Finally, the company's restriction applied in any geographic location where the company was located. This broadened the reach of the provision far beyond where the employee worked.
The Punchline: The Top 10 Things Employers Should Do To Protect Their Confidential Information
Encompass Services and Mechanical Systems provide several helpful pointers for employers to protect their confidential information and relationships.
Offboarding process. Offboarding processes are a critical component of protecting confidential information. Make sure that your organization has a strict offboarding process that includes retrieval of company assets, termination of network access, and a reminder of any ongoing restrictive covenant obligations.
Onboarding process. As we saw in Encompass and Mechanical Systems, the new employers were sued by the former employers. Employers should do everything possible to avoid ending up in a lawsuit brought by their new employees' former employers. Companies should have policies in place that prohibit the use of prior employers' confidential information. Onboarding employees should be aware of this policy and asked to sign an agreement to abide by the policy.
Personal storage devices. External storage devices are convenient, but they frequently lead to problems with confidential information. When an employee who used personal storage devices leaves a company, the employee is often taking the company's confidential data with them (either intentionally or unintentionally). Similarly, when new employees are onboarded and are able to connect a personal external device, they may onboard a former employer's confidential information. Companies can prohibit the use of external storage devices and utilize software that prevents an employee from connecting external storage devices or thumb drives to company property to avoid receiving another company's confidential information.
Bring-your-own-device policies. Many companies have shifted to a bring-your-own-device policy for cell phones rather than maintaining corporate devices. The cost savings are the justification for the shift, but there is a corresponding loss of control over the employer's confidential information when a company requires its employees to use their own devices to complete their work.
Terminating departing employees' access. It seems very basic, but companies frequently forget to deactivate employees' building and server access. Other times, as in Encompass, the company remembers but something goes wrong in implementing the deactivation. This is a critical step to protect your data and to demonstrate to a court later that you were protecting your data. Disable access as soon as employment ends (or even sooner—see No. 1).
Paying out a two-week notice period. The two-week notice period can be a very valuable transition period to allow customers to learn a new contact and to allow an employee to learn the ropes of the departing employee's position. It's also a great time for the departing employee to lift all the information the employee believes may be helpful in the new position. When an employee is going to work for a competitor, the employer should strongly consider paying out the two weeks and cutting access on the day that notice is received.
Consider the protected parties in restrictive covenants. When drafting an agreement designed to protect confidential information, the tendency is to include every possible entity—subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, etc.—that might need protecting. That tendency led Mechanical Systems to include all affiliates and subsidiaries. But courts have invalidated provisions that include such broad language.
Consider the scope of the restrictive covenants. Like with the definition of company, employers will often broaden the restrictive covenant to include all customers (actual, potential, and imaginary), all locations, and all products. But courts have increasingly invalidated such clauses that restrict broadly without sufficient connection to the employee's role, responsibilities, and territory.
Review restrictive covenant obligations. The law continues to change (sometimes rapidly) in this area. Companies can find themselves with limited protections if restrictive covenants have become outdated and may no longer be valid.
Following policies and procedures in place. Make sure the policies and procedures are not platitudes. Follow through on the requirements, both to protect confidential information and to be able to demonstrate to a court that the company has taken those steps consistently.
It turns out that this Top 10 list is considerably less funny than Letterman's Top 10 lists, but hopefully these lessons provide some guidance to employers.
For our next post, we will be dropping watermelons off the side of a building.
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Flexibility: Access to hundreds of functions and variables from the script interface and the ability to compose group types from components allows many different networks to be simulated and many different experiments to be performed without altering the source code.
Customizability: No application ever satisfies all users right out of the box, so Lens was designed with the understanding that advanced users will eventually need to get in and modify the code. The code is therefore structured to allow most modifications to be placed in extension modules, which makes upgrading to a new release of the source code painless.
Lens is written primarily in C. The graphical interfaces and script interpreter were implemented using the Tcl/Tk toolkit version 8.3, involving a combination of Tcl scripts and direct C library commands. Lens runs on most Unix and Windows machines. There are not, at present, plans to port Lens to the Mac because of its various deficiencies.
The simulator currently provides five learning algorithms: steepest descent, momentum descent, "Doug's momentum descent", delta-bar-delta, and quick-prop, as well as a variety of unit and group input-combining and transfer functions. Flexible group types provide a wide array of unit behaviors. New functions can be easily added to extend the standard functions. Because delta-bar-delta and quick-prop require an extra field in the link structure, which can result in a noticeable performance degradation when those fields are unnecessary, special compile flags are used to produce version of Lens that support those algorithms.
Lens supports feed-forward, simple recurrent, recurrent backprop through time, and continuous RBPTT networks as well as deterministic Boltzmann machines and Kohonen networks. A variety of other backprop and non-backprop network types could be added with little trouble.
The Lens shell allows commands to be typed directly to a standard terminal or to a built-in graphical shell window and will interpret scripts written in the Tcl language, which offers more flexibility than most shells, including a variety of control structures and the ability to define new functions and new control structures. In addition to Tcl/Tk procedures, Lens provides over 100 commands for building, training, and analyzing networks.
Graphical interfaces provide convenient shortcuts to the most frequent tasks as well as access to the fields of the network data structures. These values of these fields can also be set and retrieved on the command-line or in scripts. The Unit Viewer displays the current training or testing set along with values associated with each unit, such as its activation or error derivatives. The layout of these units may be customized or generated automatically. The Link Viewer displays the connectivity matrix of the network, showing values associated with each link, such as its weight or error derivative. Finally, any real-valued variable in the network or the output of any command may be graphed over time.
Lens allows multiple networks to be loaded simultaneously. In many simulators, example sets are specific to a particular network. If the same set is to be used by multiple networks, it must be loaded multiple times. In Lens, on the other hand, example sets are independent of networks. Thus, an example set can be loaded once and used as both the the training and testing set of a network or shared by multiple networks. In addition, networks can be destroyed and rebuilt without the need to reload potentially very large example files.
Along with standard uni-processor training, Lens supports batch-level parallel training. Each processor contains its own copy of the network and example files. One processor acts as a server, farming out training batches to client processes. When a client completes a batch, it returns the accumulated link error derivatives to the server, which performs the weight updates and sends the client the new set of weights. This can substantially speed up training in some networks.


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Mayor Dan Clodfelter spoke during a special ceremony for the LYNX Blue Line Station Capacity project June 9, the latest in the ongoing construction of the CATS light rail system. City Council members David Howard and Patsy Kinsey were also on hand to mark the start of the expansion project.
An $18 million federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER III) grant will fund the projects of several station extensions. The mayor highlighted the importance of governmental cooperation with an emphasis on transportation.
"These achievements can only be accomplished through a shared vision of a balanced transportation system of public transit and roads and the continued support from our local, state and congressional leaders, the Chamber, local businesses and the community as a whole on advancing this vision," said Clodfelter.
The event was at one of the sites of the station expansion, the Lynx Stonewall Station on E. Stonewall Street behind the Westin hotel. With the Blue Line Extension, set to open in 2017, stations will see more riders and will be able to support three-car trains.
The LYNX Rapid Transit Services first began operations in 2007 and has plans for expansion in future years to come, including the Northeast Corridor and CityLYNX Gold Line which are currently under construction. The light rail serves Uptown and South End Charlotte areas and reaches the Pineville city limits at its current southwestern end point.
"The Charlotte region will continue to grow; today we are the 16th largest city in the country and recently were recognized as one of the top ten fastest growing cities in the United States," said Clodfelter. "We need to be prepared to handle this regional growth. Investments like this one today, expanding platforms to accommodate 3-Car Trains, will provide the infrastructure to better manage future growth over the next 50 years."


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Twitter plans to limit the visibility of copied-and-pasted spam tweets
Copypasta tweets have been used for spreading political propaganda and spam.
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Twitter announced from its @TwitterComms account today that it may begin limiting the visibility of tweets that use phrases copied from other accounts. The social network frequently sees floods of accounts re-posting the same messages in order to spread political propaganda or hateful messages targeted at a particular user and sway public opinion.
Surely conservatives will use this chance to further claim that Twitter is censoring them. The company says it doesn't block or reduce the distribution of tweets based on an individual's views, but it does take action against behavior deemed spammy. Copying and pasting the same exact tweets repeatedly is spam.
Disinformation campaigns — The NBA was recently forced to cancel games after teams walked out en masse in order to strike against racism. A deluge of tweets directed at an ESPN journalist repeated the phrase, "I'm done with NBA. It's turned into an extension of the far left. Won't watch. Don't care. Used to enjoy games. Enough is enough." It's unclear whether many or all of the accounts tweeting the phrase were bots, but investigations often find coordinated networks are behind such activity. The aim is to influence people by making it appear as if the sentiment is leaning in one particular direction even though it's often only a handful of people directing many accounts.
Twitter says it "may" limit the visibility of copy-and-pasted tweets, but doesn't specify more than that, like what limited visibility might look like. The company already limits some violating tweets by hiding them behind a warning message that users must click through to see the tweet. Users have responded to Twitter's latest statement by replying to it with the same exact message, because apparently all Twitter users are 6-year-olds.
Twitter has been trying to clean up its network and introduced a new metric in 2018 called "healthy conversation" to measure the civility of conversations on its platform. Behavior like spam and bullying creates a toxic environment that leads many people to ditch the network in the interest of their mental health.


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Upgraded to Outlook 2010 and now my wife's Palm won't sync. Have given up on that, but after much work cannot find any PDA that will work with Outlook 2010 (especially calendaring functions) without an exchange server. Help?
Any phone running Windows 6.5 will do it as it has Outlook mobile included - Windows 7 phones don't however so if a sales person says they do, ignore them. I use an HTC HD2 and it's a great bit of kit as both a phone and a pda. I have also seen Android phones syncing with Outlook using a 3rd party app, but it isn't as seamless as Win6.5.
Thanks Johnr, this is very helpful. We will explore.
Jonr, two more quick questions: first, are you sure 6.5 works with Outlook 2010? We are finding a lot of "noise" that it worked with prior versions of Outlook, but not 2010. Second, should we be considered that 6.5 will soon become "obsolete" like the Palm software did? Any thoughts (even speculation) you have on the latter point would be useful since you seem to know your stuff in this area. Thanks.
As far as I know the problem only occurs with 64bit Outlook. 32bit will sync with Windows Mobile Device Centre (and so Win mobile 6.5). 32bit Outlook is the default install and works fine on 64bit Windows.
From what I can gather, MS don't seem to want to include outlook syncing with Windows mobile 7 at all - I haven't had any responses from Microsoft when I've emailed them and other commentators seem to have drawn a blank as well - Microsoft's stock answer is to change to Hotmail accounts - essentially Cloud-based, for want of a better description.
Long-term I'm almost certainly going to look at Android with one of the apps that do the syncing - luckily there are a lot of developers out there who can write good stuff for Android.


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The E-Type that turned heads at the 1961 Scottish Motor Show has been brought back to its former glory by world-leading restorers Classic Motor Cars (CMC).
Chassis No. 15 was the fifteenth right hand drive fixed head coupe E-Type to leave Jaguar's production line in 1961 and was used as a press car at the Scottish Motor Show held at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, in November that year.The car then moved on to private ownership and went missing for decades until CMC discovered it in Cernay, France, in late 2013. Exactly 2,956hrs were spent restoring every nut and bolt of this E-Type at CMC's modern workshops in Bridgnorth, saving as much of the original car as possible and bringing back its show-stopping condition.
Tim Leese, Managing Director of Classic Motor Cars, said: "We found Chassis No. 15 in Cernay, a French town close to the border with Germany. It had been owned by the same person since 1976, who dismantled it probably some twenty years ago and that is as far as he got. "The car was underneath some covers in a garden, very rusty and corroded – there was even a bird's nest in the rear quarter! We carried out a full nut and bolt restoration, which proved to be quite a challenge due to the sorry state in which it was found."
However, CMC is known to never back down from a challenging restoration and has a reputation for having restored some of the most historic E-Types, including Lofty England's Chassis No. 4, the Lindner-Nöcker Lightweight and 1VHP, the first right hand drive fixed head coupe off the production line.
Tim said: "No detail was too small and extensive work has been carried out in the paint and trim shops so that the car can now boast its original colour combination of pearl grey exterior and light blue interior, being the only one produced in those colours in 1961.
"This was one of the six E-Types on display at the 1961 Scottish Motor Show. After restoring it to its former glory, we thought it was only fitting that the car returned to the centre stage 55 years later and what could be better than the London Classic Car Show."
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As she's started to meet more Lompoc Health patients, Dr. Angie Song has been pleasantly surprised by the "really sweet" patients she's seen.
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As one of Lompoc Health's new otolaryngologists, or Ear, Nose and Throat physicians, Dr. Song is a recent transplant from the Seattle area, along with her husband, Dr. Richard Rooney, a Lompoc Health orthopedic surgeon.
"The patients seem to be in such good physical shape," she says, nothing that patients in their mid-60s seem more than a decade younger.
"People here are genuinely good people," she observed. "They're not living in some big city. They're not trying to pretend to be something they're not. It's 'Oh, I live in Lompoc and it's great.'"
Dr. Song has a fair amount of experience living in different locales. She was born in South Korea, and her family immigrated to the U.S. when she was 5 years old, in 1973. Her father worked as a mechanic on Navy ships, and the family settled in Maryland. Her father enlisted in the U.S. Army and the family then moved to Germany, and then Tacoma, Washington.
Though most of her family are entrepreneurial rather than in the medical field, she had a deep interest in science and considered a research career. She ultimately learned she liked more human interaction and turned to medicine. She earned her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
"I always felt the head and neck area was the most interesting and challenging as far as anatomy," she says of her specialty. "There are lots of crevices. It's not as straight forward as opening up a belly. It's very individualized by person. The face and the contours are a little bit different. Our face is what we present. I remember being told by a plastic surgeon that it doesn't matter how old a person is, they still want to look good."
To help with medical school tuition, Dr. Song joined the U.S. Army, where she eventually met her husband. They've been married 21 years and have two teenage sons, ages 17 and 14.
"Being in the military is sort of a community within a community," says the now retired Army Major. "When you're a young physician or surgeon, it's nice to have that cohesive entity that you work for. No matter when you get transferred around, you're familiar with the system and there's a certain patient population. You learn early on the way to treat a patient for their own good, vs. being monetarily motivated."
Many civilian new physicians have the stress of trying to pay off school loans and pay for overhead at medical practices.
"When you don't have all those stressors, and you're able to just practice medicine, you really just practice pure medicine," she says. "And I feel that my values and morals about being a physician is all from that – the early on experiences I had straight out of residency."
Since she's been in Lompoc, Dr. Song has seen patients for ailments such as dizziness, sinus problems, nasal congestion, voice changes and more. She has appreciates being in a smaller community.
"You come to a point in life where all the lights and glitz of the big city wears you out," she admits. "You want to do something you're passionate about, where you can make a community impact, to do well and do good for the community and serve the patient. We both felt that this community would be a great place to be."
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Nora Wallace was hired as LVMC's Public Relations Coordinator in October 2014. She previously was employed as a newspaper reporter for 25 years at the Santa Barbara News-Press, primarily covering North County news. At LVMC, Nora is also responsible for the management of the Blue Coat hospital volunteers. She is a graduate of Santa Barbara City College and earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree in journalism from San Francisco State University.
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A lot. Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at delivering flexible web page layouts to provide optimal viewing across a wide range of devices. RWD allows for easy reading and navigation on a variety of different-sized devices – from oversized desktop monitors to mobile phone screens – with a minimal amount of resizing and scrolling. Instead of building multiple sites for multiple device types, RWD allows designers to create one site that responds to each type of device that accesses it and delivers the appropriate output.
Since the creation of the web, users with low vision have sought ways to resize text without adding horizontal scrolling to the page. Additionally, fixed, non-fluid sizes cause overlapping or cutoff text when a web page's text is resized. Similarly, tables and non-fluid pages used to lay out content cause reading order issues for users of screen readers. One size fits all sites do not fit the needs of users with disabilities. Responsive design principles, including fluid layouts, benefit users with disabilities on desktops as well as on mobile devices.
Effective RWD uses responsive (multiple fluid grid layouts) rather than adaptive (multiple fixed width layouts) design. Responsive web design targets the width of each user's web browser to determine how much space is available and how it should display the website. Resolution breakpoints are set up to target ranges that define specific types of displays. For example, one set of CSS is used when the screen width is more or less than a certain size.
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In a December 2012 post on RWD, the Internet news blog Mashable called 2013 "The Year of Responsive Web Design," in large part due to the increasing sales of devices such as tablet and smartphones causing a major shift in how consumers are viewing websites such as theirs. Mashable projected that by the end of 2013, in excess of 50% of their website's traffic will come from mobile devices. Users with disabilities have also been flocking to mobile devices such as Apples iPhone and iPad, as well as Google-powered Android smartphones and tablets. These mobile platforms contain accessible browsers and support accessible features and assistive technology. Recent laws in the U.S. (such as the CVAA) help to ensure access is available to advanced communication services (ACS) on mobile devices.
With literally thousands of different devices accessing the Internet, designing native apps to work on all of those platforms is not always feasible. In addition, many users simply prefer to use a browser instead of an app. According to a study on the future of mobile news by the Pew Research Center published in October 2012, roughly 60% of tablet and smartphone users prefer to use their browsers to access news on their devices. Similarly, users with disabilities do not want separate sites in order to access content. Well-designed websites can be responsive to a user's device as well as to a user's needs. For example, the related techniques such as progressive enhancement and progressive disclosure are common on mobile devices and benefit users with disability.
There are four key components to the heart of responsive web design:
Media queries and media query listeners – helps a device decide how to view the website depending on screen size
Flexible grid-based layout – uses relative sizing, allowing content to resize and rearrange as the percentage-based width of a webpage grid expands or contracts
Flexible images and media, through dynamic resizing or CSS
Establishing the viewport
Each one of the above components can have an impact on accessibility.
Media queries can be used to provide different CSS based on device properties. There is a CSS media type for "aural" as well as "braille". These two media types, however, are not well supported by browsers and assistive technology. In general, though adapting the site to the device size by using breakpoints will help users who require magnification and reduce the amount of zooming required. Additionally, customizing the amount of content on the site based on the device width will ensure a more focused view of the content for users with cognitive disabilities.
Fluid design promotes reflow of content when it is resized and helps to ensure a correct reading order. Fluid layouts tend to render content in the order it appears within the document object model (DOM). This is the same order that screen readers render content to users who are blind or visually impaired. Fluid layouts also call for relative sizing of content and containers allowing text and content to enlarge and automatically shift other content down the page. Most modern desktop browsers zoom feature magnifies the entire page (not just text) and forces scroll bars and not just text. While this provides access it promulgates a lot of horizontal scrolling. More effective magnification requires a relative unit based fluid layout. Users with low vision can benefit from this by instructing their desktop browser to "resize only text" when a zoom command is performed. In theory media listener may be used to detect changes in a device and update the layout. Currently this is used to change the layout of a site when the user changes from portrait to landscape mode on a mobile device but the concept could be applied to checking for user scale checking on mobile devices.
Flexible image use will allow images to resize to the area that is available to them. This allows images to take up more room if it's available and to not overlap other content if less room is available.
Establishing and correctly setting the viewport is important. It may be necessary to specify a viewport on mobile sites to ensure the site is displayed to the correct device size. Unfortunately, many RWD sites restrict whether the viewport can be changed by the user and may limit the scale level. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2 Level AA success criteria 1.4.4 requires that sites be scalable without assistive technology up to 200%. This means that in the case of the mobile browser the browser's pinch zoom feature must allow for zooming up to 200% without using the assistive technology zoom on the mobile device.
In the code example below the meta tag is set properly to allow the user can scale the page and it sets a maximum scale of 2.0 allowing the user to zoom to 200%.
Considerations for RWD and Accessibility
On Desktop Browsers
Scroll bars must appear when content does not fit on the screen. Preventing scroll bars by hiding overflow without a means to access content when it is resized is a accessibility violation.
Pages must respond correctly to custom CSS and removal of CSS. Enabling high contrast mode in browsers such as Internet Explorer will turn off background images to ensure the proper contrast level of text.
The page must still be understandable without CSS Background-images.
The page must still be readable without specified colors.
When a background color is specified, a foreground color must also be specified, and vice versa.
Position and reading order of content must remain correct.
Using CSS to hide content in different contexts may not always provide the desired results with assistive technology. Manipulation of the DOM to add or remove page content should be used (e.g appendChild).
On Mobile Devices
The viewport must allow users to pinch zoom (scale) up to 200%.
The minimum level of contrast between foreground and background colors may need to be greater when displayed on a mobile device. For example, the luminosity of standard text must be a ratio of 4.5:1 for WCAG Level AA conformance. On a mobile device the contrast needs will likely be more, for example a luminosity ratio of 7:1 indicated by WCAG 2 Level AAA criteria.
Developers must still consider accessibility guidelines and standards such as WCAG 2 when developing mobile websites. For example, it's a common misconception that focus order (AKA tab order) is not important on touch screen devices. Focus order is still important to users of assistive technology and alternative input devices. For example, the swipe gesture with a mobile screen reader will move to the next content unit such as a link, form field, or text based on the DOM order. Users with mobility impairments may likely use an external keyboard or device that simulates a keyboard to access a tablet.
Ideally the concept of responsive web design will be extended past device widths to device capabilities and users' needs. For example, a truly responsive site could know the users' preferences, automatically turn on closed captions for multimedia, zoom the page automatically to 200%, or present content with larger line spacing based on user preferences.
Progressive enhancement techniques prescribe a basic implementation that works across multiple devices and with a wide range of assistive technologies and platform accessibility features. Rich interactivity is added automatically when supported by the device allowing users with capable devices or in the case of accessibility capable assistive technology to benefit from enhanced web content.
Progressive Disclosure
Progressive disclosure is a user interface principle aimed at removing clutter on sites focusing users to a given task. Sites with less focused content can help users with cognitive disabilities stay focused and can alleviate navigation issues that users who are blind or have mobility impairments find common on complex sites. In the past users of assistive technology often visited mobile sites with their desktop browser as they were more accessible and less cluttered when mobile versions of sites were first introduced before acceptance of RWD. It may still be useful to allow the user to switch between mobile and desktop versions of a site even when RWD is used. For example, some users with disabilities may use special browsers on specialized AT with no screen and thus may not accurate reflect the screen width – but the user may want or need access to the mobile site.


Another sweet - hard earned victory. Gold medal champions AGAIN at Sarnia Silverstick Tournament. Our entire Midget Girls team and coaching staff should be extremely proud of themselves...bringing home some hardware - gold medals, trophy and banner to display and hang at our barn - name proudly to be engraved on a plaque and the opportunity to pose with the SILVER STICK!


GLENDALE, Calif. - April 15, 2019 - EntSun -- On Thursday, April 11th, multi award-winning filmmaker Dustin Ferguson's action, sci-fi thriller Robowoman had its much anticipated world premiere at the Laemmle Glendale at 207 N Maryland Ave, Glendale. The film was presented as a late-nite "Grindhouse Experience," complete with actual retro Grindhouse movie trailers and bumpers from the 1970s and 80s as well as an informative Q and A after the film. This film was produced by SoCal Cinema Studios.


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The 1903 season in Swedish football, starting January 1903 and ending December 1903:

Honours

Official titles

Competitions

Promotions, relegations and qualifications

Promotions

Relegations

Domestic results

Svenska Bollspelsförbundets serie klass 1 1903

Title-deciding match

Svenska Bollspelsförbundets serie klass 2 1903

Svenska Mästerskapet 1903
Final

Kamratmästerskapen 1903
Final

Svenska Fotbollpokalen 1903 I

Final

Svenska Fotbollpokalen 1903 II

Final

Notes

References
Print

Online

Seasons in Swedish football


The W&L Law American Constitution Society (ACS) chapter was recently recognized by the national ACS organization as "Chapter of the Week," and this honor is certainly well-deserved. It may be only October, but our chapter has already sponsored a number of extremely successful campus events with even more slated for the coming weeks.
Last Friday, the group sponsored two events including a drug policy panel discussion entitled, "Drugs: Science, Reality and Legality." As part of the discussion, Dr. Stuart Finkelstein, M.D., a leading addiction specialist in the United States, explained the science and reality of drugs and addiction, and Washington and Lee Law Professor Erik Luna presented the legal aspects of drug policy. The speakers also contrasted the current legal and medical responses to drugs in the United States with approaches in the rest of the developed world. Later that evening, on a slightly more lighthearted note, the group hosted a Trivia Night at a downtown Lexington eatery that was open to all members of the W&L Law community.
Lastly, the group will be sponsoring two events next week that will allow W&L Law students to explore the relevance of story-telling to the effective practice of law. Next Wednesday, November 4th, noted storyteller, Noa Baum, an internationally known, professional storyteller who was born and raised in Jerusalem during the turmoil of the '60s and '70s, will tell the story of the friendship she developed with a Palestinian woman while living in America, a narrative entitled, "A Land Twice Promised." In this one-woman theater production, Ms. Baum will weave together the story of their developing friendship and the experiences of their mothers–two generations of women living on opposite sides of a long-standing struggle.
The following day, Ms. Baum will lead a workshop, "Creative Lawyering – Storytelling to Develop Innovative Thinking" in which participating law students will have an opportunity to enhance their ability to hear and tell the stories of their clients, explore and expand their creative self-expression and thinking, examine the process of storytelling and its relation to facts and develop collaboration and team building skills.
We would like to congratulate our ACS chapter on its recent accolades. For a listing, as well as detailed descriptions, of our many student organizations, click here. If you are a prospective student who is interested in learning more about what our many student organizations have planned for the coming year, click here.
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Does a steepling pile of marking like this loom large in your nightmares?
The effect of good quality written feedback is one of those few constants that most teachers can agree has a positive impact on our students' learning. With this universal truth acknowledged, we create assessment policies and armies of teachers scratch away in the books of their students, filling their waking hours with marking and feedback. Too often, our tough 9 to 5 is then followed by an evening stuffed with marking from 5 to 9. Is all this effort having the impact we desire? Is feedback indeed the gleaming holy grail of our practice it promises to be?
As an experienced teacher of over a decade, with some years in the bank as a subject leader of English who has conducted ample work scrutinies, I have seen my fair share of written feedback. I have seen teachers produce ample swathes of rich detail about what the student has done, and needs to do, in books and in folders. Spelling errors, praise, targets to improve. Time after time. Hour after hour of teacher time is ploughed into this worthy activity, but the issue is that too often the effort isn't matched by the impact on learning.
One flaw in the whole feedback edifice is that the onus is too often on the teacher and not the student. What is masquerading as formative assessment, to help enlighten our students on how to get better, is rather an attempt to prove we are doing our job for school leaders weilding stringent accountability measures, or under the shadow of the dreaded OFSTED visit. Whole school policies that demand weekly or fortnightly feedback for every student attempt to beat students over the head with self-improvement, regardless of the actual needs of the student (or the wellbeing of the teacher). As David Didau has explored, sometimes feedback shouldn't be given so that students improve (see David's excellent blog post 'Force-fed feedback – Is less More?'). Certainly, for feedback to be timely and purposeful, setting arbitrary weekly or fortnightly deadlines is frankly a dumb notion.
We need to reframe the flawed view of written feedback as something that should fill the time of teachers into something that should fill the time of our students. I have written before about DIRT (Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time) – see here. The kernel of genius in DIRT is something ultimately very simple. We need to give students lots of time to respond to feedback. We also need to put the onus on them to makes changes and to engage in a feedback dialogue. Of course, if that dialogue is verbal, in the thick of their learning, then all the better.
In short, they should spend more time responding to feedback than we spend writing the feedback. We need to be precise and give students actions to respond to their feedback. If their vocabulary in English lacks punch, then circle their weak modal verbs and adjectives (note the specificity of the feedback) and then get them to use more effective synonyms, using a thesaurus or other apt DIRT tools. Give them time to do it and make feedback something that genuinely feeds forward.
The concept of 'feeding forward' is so crucial. So what do I mean by 'feed forward'? If our feedback is a one off event that is never revisited then it is unlikely that the effort of giving the feedback will see the impact we desire on our students' learning.
Use symbols rather than comments. If half the class has made the same error then you are wasting time writing out comments, as you will have to address this issue in lesson time. Instead, preempt common issues and skim over some work to decide upon some general codes. A $, for example, can indicate that they lack evidence in an essay. It is a tiny time saver, but they all add up. Students are forced to interpret the symbols and really think about their feedback. Precious time is won.
Do a 'Dot Round'. Do some quick and quality feedback in class. As they are working independently circulate the room and check their work. If they have made any mistakes or have got an answer wrong then simply mark it with a dot. This helps direct them to make improvements and reflect upon their work – really engaging rather than passively receiving an answer.
Assess in colour. Another way to avoid lengthy comments and to encourage self-assessment and real reflection is to colour code feedback. For example, rather than the typical comment based feedback, simply code their work into red, amber and green. Put their best elements into green boxes and work they need to improve into red boxes etc. They can work out why in DIRT time and make appropriate improvements.
Self-assessment then teacher assessment. Students can complain about self-assessment. It is seen as some sort of teacher cheat. We need to explain why it has learning value, but also be clever about using it. By getting students to fully self-assess their work, using the assessment criteria (which they clearly understand from your scaffolding), with you then assessing their assessment, you can halve your job. Writing a short comment in response to their detailed summative comment can make for precise and effective feedback. If they fully understand the assessment, they are better placed to move forward with that knowledge.
One-to-one time in class. Written feedback is seen as the gold standard, but we should ensure that students understand that oral feedback is just as effective, if not more so. If you collect in a set of coursework for example, plan a lesson where students can work largely independently, allowing you to have one-to-one feedback sessions. Get them to make notes so that the details are recorded. With one-to-one feedback you can iron out the misunderstandings that sometimes attend written feedback and you can ensure that they are fully engaging with their instructions to feed forward.
Effective written feedback is timely and students are given ample time to take the feedback forward. It is an active process and it is an on-going dialogue in writing. Indeed – good oral feedback it just as effective, if not more so. The best feedback puts the onus on students and gives them precise guidance to act effectively, in the present and in future. Effective written feedback is revisited like a good friend who imparts sage advice.
I have written extensively on written feedback, so take a look at my collection – see here.
Tom Sherrington has written an enduringly good post on feedback and 'closing the gap' – see here.
David Didau has written extensively on the topic of feedback, with a keen critical eye – see here.
Joe Kirby has written an excellent account of AfL that is really useful – see here.
Dan Brinton has written an excellent blog entitled 'fast feedback' which focuses upon time-effective feedback strategies – see here.
Seems to me most of the strategies here would be far more effective using technology. Pupils submit work with self or peer assessment. Teacher logs in, the system says "There is new work from these pupils". Teacher looks at the work and the self-assessments and either approves it or changes it and justifies the change. If the comment is the same or very similar for all pupils in the group, cut and paste and adjust comments. (or append to all) When the pupil logs back in, reads the feedback and takes appropriate action. Nothing to stop the comment being a sound sample really. No books to carry around, complete audit trail of all interactions. HOD can be alerted by e-mail if a department member has masses of unprocessed work stacking up. Easy to make links to point pupils in the right direction to find out more. All the facilities to do this exist now for free. With decent access devices for pupils now around £50 and likely to keep falling in cost, you will save that on file paper and books over a few years at the most. And when they leave school, how many are going to ever submit an extensive handwritten report on paper for someone else to respond in coloured pens and symbols? The way I'm providing feedback on this blog is a hint to why schools need to change and stop buying technology as a fashion accessory and actually use it improve efficiency and effectiveness in obvious day to day scenarios.
Did not wholly agree with your text book ideas but do agree on these provoking ideas. Good job.


I have one painting in LAX/JFK at Spoke Art NYC curated by Thinkspace Gallery.
Opening June 10th, I'll have 5 new paintings as part of the group show Summer Exhibition at Galleri Ramfjord in Oslo, Norway.
Opening June 30th, I'll have paintings in the group show LAX/DTW curated by Thinkspace Gallery at Inner State Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Opening May 12, 2017 at The Mesa Contemporary Museum of Art, I'll have paintings in the group show Flourish: A Survey of the New Contemporary Movement curated by Thinkspace Gallery.
Opening June 22nd, I'll have paintings in the group show Sweet n Low curated by Juxtapoz Magazine at Bedford Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
I'll have a new painting in POW! WOW! Hawaii this February.
I'm very happy to have a painting in the show RISING presented by The Urban Nation Collectors Committee.
I'll be in the show LAX/LHR curated by Thinkspace Gallery at Stolen Space Gallery in London this September.
The group show Tiny Trifecta at Cotton Candy Machine Gallery opens Saturday June 6th.
The group show LAX/DTW at Inner State Gallery in Detroit Michigan curated by Thinkspace Gallery opens Saturday June 6th.
The group show THEY LIVE: Exhibited Works is on display at Cotton Candy Machine Gallery May 8 – May 31.
Curated by Thinkspace – Presented by POW! WOW!


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There have been a couple of hiccups along the way, but Swan Hellenic has been an institution in British cruising for almost 60 years. Its loyal passengers will be delighted to hear that its future should be secure until at least 2021.
The company was launched by the Swan family in 1954, with the colourful Sir Mortimer Wheeler (whose BBC television appearances were in black and white) as a figurehead. It was taken over by P&O in 1983 and later absorbed into the Carnival Corporation, but was threatened with closure almost six years ago.
Rescued by former P&O chairman Lord Sterling, it is now part of the All Leisure Group, who also operate Voyages of Discovery and Hebridean Island Cruises.
All Leisure reported on its 2012 performance this week, blaming the Costa Concordia tragedy, the Euro crisis and political events such as unrest in Egypt for driving profits below £1 million, compared with £5.7 million in 2011.
Minerva (above) , the ship operating under the Swan Hellenic brand, was given a substantial upgrade 12 months ago, including the construction of a new observation lounge and the addition of extra balcony cabins – which bring in higher fares.
All Leisure confirmed in its annual report that the lease of the ship has been extended until 2021. Swans who may have been concerned about the future of their favourite vessel can breathe easily.
Chairman Roger Allard believes the future for his cruise operations is promising. Voyager, introduced to the Voyages of Discovery brand in December, had sold 83 per cent of its capacity even before it was christened by TV presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff. The ship is commanding fares 20 per cent higher than those achieved by its predecessor, Discovery, which next week begins a new career as part of a joint venture with Cruise & Maritime Voyages.
Roger will no doubt be keeping his fingers crossed that The Queen will want to charter Hebridean Princess for a summer holiday in 2013. She celebrated her 80th birthday on the ship in 2006, and returned for a two-week family holiday in the summer of 2010.
By John Honeywell| 2017-06-15T15:59:38+00:00 19 February 2013|Cruise News|0 Comments


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Q: kill all ongoing XHR requests kill all ongoing XHR requests

$('#search-box').keyup(function() { // bind the search data
        var input = $('.search-input').val();
 $.getJSON({ // get JSON data
        url: 'example/query.php?keyword=' + input,
        //pre-load
        beforeSend: function() {
            $(".search-lists").html("");
        },
        success: function(data) {
            if (input.length >= 3) { // limit keyword to >=3
                var output = "
"; //output search data list
                $.each(data, function(key, val) {
                    output += '
';
                    output += '' + val.term + '';
                    output += '
';

                });
                output += '
';
                $('.search-results').html(output);
                console.log('load ajax');
            } // end if

           else {
                console.log('kill ajax');
           }
        }

    }); // JSON request

}); // data bind

A: You have to do checking first, only than do filtering. Also I suggest using setTimeout to reduce server calls:

     <form class="search-field">
         <input id="search" class="search-input" type="text"  value="Hello, I'm looking for..." />
     </form>

var timer;

$('#search-box').keyup(function() { // bind the search data
    clearTimeout(timer);

    var input = $('.search-input').val();

    if (input.length < 3) {
        return;
    }

    timer = setTimeout(function () {
        $.getJSON({ // get JSON data
            url: 'http://test.sonsuzdongu.com/query.php?keyword=' + input,
            //pre-load
            beforeSend: function() {
                $(".search-lists").html("");
            },
            success: function(data) {
                var output = "
"; //output search data list

                $.each(data, function(key, val) {
                    output += '
' + val.term + '
';
                });

                output += '
';
                $('.search-results').html(output);
                console.log('load ajax');
            }
        }); // JSON request
    }, 300); //setTimeout
}); // data bind

To kill all request - you can try reloading page (requests will be terminated than). Or simply add some flag that indicates if you need to process further outputs or not.
success: function (data) {
     if (!data.isEmptyObject()) {
         // do processing.
     }
}

A: There is an abort method for cancelling the xhr request. You could use that as per your requirements.

A: just store the request like this, and then you can abort  the request whenever you want.
var request = null;

 ....
 ....

 function fetchJSON (){
    if(request != null) {
        request.abort();
    }
    request = $.getJSON({ // get JSON data
            url: 'example/query.php?keyword=' + input,
            //pre-load
            beforeSend: function() {
                $(".search-lists").html("");
            },
            success: function(data) {
                request = null;
                if (input.length >= 3) { // limit keyword to >=3
                    var output = "
"; //output search data list
                    $.each(data, function(key, val) {
                        output += '
';
                        output += '' + val.term + '';
                        output += '
';

                    });
                    output += '
';
                    $('.search-results').html(output);
                    console.log('load ajax');
                } // end if

               else {
                    console.log('kill ajax');
               }
            }

        }); // JSON request

    }); // data bind
 }


The creative artistry of fused glass bowls makes them unique accents for a home. As a decorative feature on a table in a living room, a colorful bowl is unlike any other artistic creation. Displaying art is a mark of distinction in any home, reflecting well on the knowledge and sophistication of the owner. Art has functional purposes as well, and fused glass bowls incorporate them as magnificent containers for food.
The elegance of displaying art in a home captures the essence of originality, with each piece conveying the uniqueness created by the artist. The singular beauty of fused glass bowls inspires the owner to make them the focus of attention. An elegant and artistic object needs to sit in a place of honor, and putting it to use as a container makes it appropriate for everyday use. Putting a beautiful object away and out of view is a waste of an opportunity to share its beauty.
As a container for delicate daffodils or hyacinths, fused glass bowls securely support the tall stems by providing space for moss and pebbles. Attracting the attention of friends and family, a fresh flower arrangement brings nature's influence into a room for a refreshing dash of color. For a lower profile, a terrarium is fashionably housed in a bowl. A collection of succulent plants that needs little care can accent a table or a window sill while creating an interesting combination of textures and colors.
In the front entry hall, a bowl on a small table makes an ideal collector of loose change. Any charity is sure to welcome a gift of change that adds up surprisingly quickly. In the bathroom, a colorful bowl can store an extra roll of toilet paper or small bars of hand soap for guests. At the dinner hour, fused glass bowls are excellent containers. For snacks at cocktail hour, they can hold chips and salsa or tidy, little paper napkins.
Bread seems tastier when it is served in a bowl that has appealing colors, and it is easy to pass to each diner. A salad is sure to appeal as well. For a classic end to a meal, a trifle that fills a bowl provides a dramatic flair that is memorable. Artistic fused glass bowls are appropriate almost everywhere in a home except hidden away and out of sight.


An award-winning promo site for a unique high class hotel in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Site visitors are provided an equivalently elegant and unique online experience.
What if the hotel was displayed like a child's doll house where anyone can observe any room and become fascinated with the exquisite interiors and handmade furniture? What if each piece was highlighted and described in detail?
The site also contains pages about the history of the building and invites users to virtually visit the most significant places in the neighborhood.
The building was constructed by tailor Pan Zawojski but has been occupied by a bank for many years. After being completely restored and renovated in 2009, it is now showcased on the site's main page.
Users can observe the building from any side by switching between front and back views.
The hotel has just 10 suites, but all of them are different, yet equally elegant: one- and two-room suites, and spacious luxury family suites are available. All rooms are shown in a cutaway — reminiscent of a child's doll house.
A cutaway of the building shows all the rooms and even reveals a secret floor.
Each room has its own page containing an interactive floor plan. The user can choose any point of view to observe the room with the help of 360° panoramas and close-up photos.
Variety of different floor plans.
Each room is equipped by a flatscreen tv. We decided to add some life to the rooms' panoramas and incorporated short classic movies in them. All clips fit well with the original art-deco interior and created an effect of presence.
Some of short classic movies that were incorporated in the panoramas.
3D view of the hotel is used for navigation between the rooms.
To celebrate the nomination for the Red Dot Design Award we held a photo session of the team. Unfortunately some teammates were missing.
In the category "Online Communication" for the highest design quality, expressing aesthetics, innovation and precision in an outstanding manner.
Felix Zawojski is a luxurious yet cozy hotel in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The website shows the magnificence of the place with its irresistible advantages.


Anyone who ever sat in class and doodled little cartoons at the bottom of their notebook that came to life while flipping pages, will find something inspiring about the animation here. Hertzfeldt is an animator whose style is simple and yet unlike any other filmmaker. His cult classic Rejected shorts are hilarious and strange. His trademark animation is done in simple stick figures, and it's framed in such a way that it looks as though we're spying through a looking glass.
The story follows Bill, a man with a strange condition after suffering a brain injury. Nothing comes easy for Bill. He struggles to hold onto his mind, his thoughts, and his life. We see his world, the way he sees it, with all the strange things go on around him that neither we nor Bill can make much sense of. Herzfeldt takes us through Bill's family history, nearly all of whom deal with their own mental degradation, diseases, and death. The way all life will inevitably grow old and pass away.
Bill's condition, allows him time to wonder about the inner workings of his own mind, and what manner of life he's living. These thoughts stumble upon the occasional beautiful epiphany that are sure to leave us thinking. He thinks about everything from the mundane to the existential. He thinks about how his life is wasted spending time doing everyday things. His story makes us think about identity, family, illnesses, the meaning of life, and our place in the universe. It's broken up into 3 chapters of Bill's life as he tries to understand the world around him. As his understanding grows progressively peculiar, it opens the door for more, and more experimental visuals. Herzfeldt's characters always remain stick figures on a white background, but more and more live action footage, and in-camera special effects keep the visuals fresh and at times dazzling.
Hertzfeldt himself handled the narration duties. He tells the story in a soft, earnest tone, not monotone, but also never embellishing an emotional state. The narration is often humorous, always clever, yet poignant and oddly affecting. It explores deeper thoughts and emotions in increasingly inventive ways. It's a tale of life. Taking us through family life, pain, sickness, love, and what it means to live and die.
He has a cult style familiar to anyone who's laughed at his strangely hilarious previous short films, but here he takes his subject matter far more seriously. Hersfeldt is a daring, eccentric artist making a debut feature film that proves he can make beautiful art out of his simple hand drawn stick figures. There's nothing here that resembles a mainstream animated feature, and yet that's part of what makes this a beautiful piece of artwork.