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Q: Generating fixed length sequence of numbers bounded by k that add up to n Given positive integers l, k and n, I am interested in writing a function f(l, k, n), that returns a randomly generated sequence of length l of integers in -k, -k + 1, ..., -1, 0, 1, ..., k - 1, k that add up to n.
Any ideas how one could achieve this?
EDIT: Repetition is allowed. Ideally the probability distribution would be uniform on the set of solutions, but I'm not very worried about it: I am more interested in getting a unique solutions everytime the function is called.

A: Now that you have clarified your question, I can give you an answer. However, since you still have not shown any work of your own, I'll just give you some ideas and an overall high-level algorithm. If you want more details, first show some of your own work.
As I implied in my comment, it may be that there is no possible desired sequence. For example, it is impossible to get a sequence of 3 numbers from -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 to add up to 7. You should check for that first. Even if there are possible sequences, there may be limitations on the first number in the sequence. If you want a sequence of 3 numbers from -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 to add up to 5, the first number cannot be -2. The minimum for your first number is then 1 and the maximum is 2.
So here is an algorithm, after your initial check that any sequence is possible. Find the minimum and maximum possible values for the first number in the sequence. Choose a random number between those two values--use randint or randrange from the random module. Then subtract that number from your value of n and subtract 1 from k (the count of numbers still needed in your sequence). Iterate this until the sequence is complete (the count of numbers still needed is zero).
This will not choose all such sequences with uniform probability, but each such sequence is possible. You could equalize the probabilities somewhat by doing a shuffle on the sequence at the end. There are some minor optimizations that could be done but the way I explained it is simple.

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Let's be honest with one another: London's continued success as a global financial center extends well beyond recent headlines about derivatives and stocks trading.
To really understand it, one should first look into the shimmering glass and metal of the city's contemporary skyline and stroll through the labyrinthine alleys that inhabit its shadows.
There, in the 17th century, unlicensed stockbrokers who quit the Royal Exchange after the number of traders there was limited, sought refuge in neighboring coffeehouses to continue their business. It was here that many of the tools of today's capital markets were invented that enabled the dramatic expansion of the UK's global trading network and eventually led to the creation of the London Stock Exchange.
The city's tradition of innovation and pragmatism means it continues to be at the forefront of the latest areas in financial services. Not even a global pandemic could stop London from setting a record for investments in technical venture capital last year. And there is no evidence that leaving the European Union has hurt the appetites of foreign investors. The UK attracts more technology investment than anywhere else in Europe and more than France, Germany and Sweden combined. This trust is reflected in the fact that London has 43 unicorn companies – increasingly big names such as Transferwise, now Wise, Octopus Energy and Deliveroo – and more than 80 others with the potential to secure similar status here.
This does not mean that we can afford to be complacent. London remains a fantastic place to list with deep and liquid capital pools as well as a group of expertise. However, there is no denying that we need to do more to attract IPOs – especially when it comes to entrepreneurial and fast-growing sectors like technology.
There are several warning signs: the number of UK publicly traded companies has fallen by almost half over this period over the past quarter century, resulting in a net loss of 1,300 companies. The value of new issues has fallen by around two thirds in real terms to around GBP 5 billion a year. and the number of new issues has fallen from over 400 a year at its pre-financial crisis peak to less than 100. We are also seeing a small but significant number of high growth UK companies that are choosing to list in the US rather than London and take advantage of the rise of US special purpose vehicles, or SPACs, to gain faster access to public markets while Hong Kong and Singapore recently changed the rules to attract more IPOs.
Britain must act now to reverse this decline. Even at a time when raising finance through alternative means through private equity or leverage is easier than ever, public market capital continues to matter and offers the opportunity to scale globally when listed through secondary fundraisers.
With this in mind, the UK Listings Review led by Lord Hill and the Kalifa Review of the UK Fintech sector couldn't be more up-to-date.
Now that a new chapter begins outside the EU, now is the time for the UK to once again demonstrate adaptability and consider how we can revitalize our capital markets.
This does not mean that it is seeking comprehensive deregulation, which has sometimes been misleadingly referred to as the "Singapore on Thames" model. Rather, it means further developing our own very successful "London on Thames" offering while maintaining the highest regulatory standards.
There is a lot that can be considered, and where we know, there is joint support between government, businesses and savers – whether it is simplifying the listing regime to make it easier for investors to meet the free float or prospectus requirements modernize, encourage retail participation or embed the environment, incorporate social or governance principles into the listing process to create the infrastructure that fits into a sustainable global financial system.
By taking steps like this to enhance London's IPO appeal – especially when combined with further efforts to create a favorable environment for seed capital, venture capital and growth finance – we are creating the best conditions for the world's most innovative companies to thrive UK to decide to go public to fuel its scaling ambitions. This, in turn, will help companies gain access to the funding they need to grow. This will be an important pillar that underpins our economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
One of the main reasons that London's capital markets remain attractive to investors is of course transparency and high standards. It is therefore important that reforms do not compromise investor protection. But creative solutions to square that circle are possible when it comes to voting rights.
London's position as a global financial center should not be taken for granted. As the patrons of the city's 17th-century coffee houses have demonstrated, success depends on innovation and agile thinking. This has resulted in the UK fintech and green finance scene thriving today.
The brilliant vision we have outlined for the role of London's capital markets calls for the same approach. As the UK begins its new future, now is not the time to rest on our laurels.
If we create the framework today to attract tomorrow's new businesses, it will pave the way for our future prosperity and reinvigorate the spirit of yesterday's innovators as they appeared on Exchange Alley centuries ago.
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Storm head into this year's State of Origin period with a 9-2 record, their best start to a season since 2012.
Monday night's win over the Eels made it five in a row for Craig Bellamy's men.
Each of those wins have come off the back of a resolute defence. Melbourne have conceded less than 8 points per game over that stretch and currently hold the No.1 ranked defence in the competition.
Despite a horrid run of injuries to the Club's outside backs, Storm have so far handled the adversity, much to the satisfaction of their coach.
"The boys have done a great job, our record is 9-2 now and as I keep saying each week the forwards have been magnificent for us this year," Bellamy said.
"We've also had some injuries to our outside backs as everyone knows but the guys who have come in there have done a great job for us.
"We've got guys playing out of position but they just turn up and work really hard, play with some good aggression, good urgency and that is all we can ask of them.
Storm scored four tries to one against Parramatta to move equal top of the NRL ladder after 11 rounds.
The Eels enjoyed their share of possession (51%) but were unable to find a way through the purple wall that established itself across Pirtek Stadium.
"I thought our defence was great tonight, our ball control especially in the first half was really good. Ruthless is a good word, especially the way we defended I thought," Bellamy said.
"I am really proud of the way our guys turned up. To hold them to zero until the 79th minute was a trememdous effort, our defence was really urgent tonight and that obviously lead the way to win the game.
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Following a three-year agreement between Infront Motor Sports and Laguna Seca, the United States Round of the eni FIM World Superbike Championship will take place at the Californian circuit next season and in 2014 and 2015.
The confirmed date for the 2013 event will be 27-29 September, and it marks the return of the championship to the spectacular Monterey circuit for the first time after an eight-year absence. The last World Superbike round was held at Laguna Seca in 2004.
Paolo Flammini, CEO of Infront Motor Sports, declared: "We are absolutely delighted to be returning to Laguna Seca for the US Round for the first time since 2004. Over the ten-year period in which we were last there, we witnessed an extraordinary growth in interest and in overall attendance and we are sure that this event will once again become one of the most prestigious on the calendar. The return of Laguna Seca to the Superbike World Championship, with its six competing manufacturers, will definitely be a boost to the championship's growth in the US market as California has a special tradition and offers significant opportunities for the motorcycle industry, sponsors and media."
"We have a strong history with World Superbike and are thrilled to have them commit to a three-year race schedule," says Gill Campbell, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca CEO/general manager. "Their return to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca solidifies our position as the premier circuit in the U.S. for motorcycle racing."
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Loom knitting patterns are now divide by loom type into the categories below. You'll find freebies sprinkled throughout the pages so browse and have fun.
Knit & Purl Tools and Kiss Looms are separate businesses from mine. But they are both run by trustworthy friends and I think you'll be safe and happy shopping with them.
this category includes all looms with 2 rows of pegs facing one another that may be used for double knitting stitches. Kiss,Cottage, Knifty Knitter long looms and some KB looms may be used. Always check required gauge and peg count to see if a particular pattern will work for you.
this category includes single knitting looms with plastic and nylon pegs such as Knifty Knitters, Cindwood, KB. Cottage Looms may also be used for some of these. Be sure to check peg count and gauge to see if your particular loom will work.
This lace could be repeated across a larger fabric. There are 10 needles involved in the lace but cast on 14 so as to create an edge on each side.
The basic design is to slip stitch 1 in each row, purl stitch 2, knit 10, purl 1, knit 1. But after we begin transferring stitches,some of the center pegs will get slipped in some rows. Where multiple stitches or loops are on a single peg, knit all of them over the next time a row is knitted.
Row 3: slip 1, purl 1, knit 4, slip the 2 empty pegs, knit 4, purl 1, knit 1. Work stitch transfers on pegs 5/6 and pegs 9/10 in the same way as on row 2. This should leave 4 center pegs empty.
Row 4: slip 1, purl 1, knit 3, slip 4, knit 3, purl 1, knit 1. Work transfers on pegs 4/5 and 10/11 using the established method.
Row 5: slip 1, purl 1, knit 2, slip 6, knit 2, purl 1, knit 1. Work transfers on 3/4 and 11/12 using the established method.
Row 5: slip 1, purl 1, knit 1, slip 8, knit 1, purl 1, knit 1.
Row 6: slip 1, purl 1, knit 1, e-wrap the 8 empty needles, knit 1, purl 1, knit 1. Lift the floats that were formed while center needles were being slipped and hang them on pegs 7 and 8. Hang the top float on 7, the next on 8 and keep alternating until all 5 have been hung.
Row 7: slip 1, purl 1, knit 10, purl 1, knit 1. When knitting the center 2 pegs with all of the floats hung, knit over ALL of the yarn loops.
Repeat these 8 rows up the work.
Both of these may be done on looms. Single knitting may be virtually identical to hand knitting on 2 needles. It requires a single row or circle of pegs. Some double knitting boards may be used one board at a time to produce single knitting.
Double knitting is thicker and warmer than single knitting. The gauge tends to be a little bit looser than single knitting if the same yarn is used but it is not see through on account of the 2 layers of fabric. Both faces of double knitted fabric normally look like the knit side of single knitted fabric. This may be altered on purpose with special techniques, but generally, it is true.
Double knitting requires 2 boards that are parallel to each other. The simplest is a purple version by Knifty Knitter. Kiss looms may be used as double knitting boards by removing the pin boards. The KB company made several boards specifically for double knitting. The All-in-One loom by KB may be used for either double or single knitting. Noble Knitter makes some boards that, while mostly designed with double knitting in mind, may be set for single knitting.
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Everyone knows that diet and exercise is the best way to lose weight. However, for some problem areas, that just doesn't cut it. In these situations, liposuction is an effective way to eliminate stubborn fat deposits. It's highly safe and countless patients have enjoyed great results with this procedure in the hips, belly, thighs, and other areas of the body.
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AN invitation to stay up through the night to witness Roy Jones Jr's final boxing match against a guy named Scott Sigmon, live on UFC Fight Pass at 3.30 am (GMT), is one I can't refuse. If I do, if I rip it up, bin it, pretend it never arrived, I'd be undermining the greatness of the man and, moreover, ignoring the fact it was his unrivalled brilliance that both attracted me to boxing in the first place and made the sport seem more than just a case of you-hit-me-and-I'll-hit-you. So what if he's 49 years of age. So what if he's boxing Scott Sigmon.
I'll do it, then, I'll watch him, not because I necessarily want to, but because it feels like the right thing to do.
I watch him cop a big Ruiz right hand in round one, a proper heavyweight punch, and then, rather than run, as many anticipated, stand and give some back. I also delight in seeing him stagger Ruiz in round four with a right cross from hell, a shot that moved George Foreman, the former heavyweight champion of the world, to involuntarily yell "ooooooh". I'd do the same if I hadn't seen it so many times before. And if I wasn't preserving my energy.
This one is an acquired taste, no doubt, and a fight overlooked, but Jones' 2001 light-heavyweight title defence against Mexican Julio Gonzalez remains one of my favourites for a number of reasons.
1) I love every one of the three knockdowns; two via hooks, one via an overhand right. 2) Even with his brittle hands, Jones has rarely thrown the left hook better. 3) Jones' white gloves. 4) Because it was one of the first Jones fights I experienced live – as in watched live on television in the middle of the night – and is subsequently one I can recall front to back and back to front, like a favourite film, as a result of the slightly obsessive taping and re-watching process.
Richard Hall (2000) is next and this is yet another example of the kind of Roy Jones fight I enjoy: one that features an opponent short on skills but big on heart. When the fights are like this, when Jones is confronted by a man unable to do anything but take it to him in blind hope, much fun is had.
Hall, a tough southpaw from Jamaica, didn't win a single exchange in the fight but, such was his bravery, somehow survived two first-round knockdowns, one of which saw him spin right around, to reach the eleventh. Along the way he sampled every shot in the Jones arsenal, including the best right hands to the body he ever threw, and suffered the indignity of having HBO commentators Larry Merchant, George Foreman and Jim Lampley practically beg referee Wayne Kelly to end the thing from around the halfway mark. "The referee ought to be pistol-whipped for allowing that to go on," said Merchant.
In hindsight, three long fights was a bad idea. I'm flagging.
To undo the damage, I sensibly throw on some shorter ones. First, I watch Jones deal with the erratic movement and emotion of Vinny Pazienza (1995), busting him up with his jab, a shot he didn't really use again (or as well) until fighting John Ruiz, and knocking him out in round six.
After that, I watch Jones avenge his loss to Montell Griffin (1997) in a rematch that saw Jones start more aggressively than usual – check the terrified look on Griffin's face after he tastes the first left hook – and rock the Chicagoan's world with a left uppercut thrown from around his knees. Black gloves, shorts and boots, Jones knew what he was doing.
I go right the way back to 1994 and revisit Jones and James Toney trading moves like Fischer and Spassky. Fascinating more than fun, it's arguably Jones' finest win on paper, but shouldn't be studied close to midnight, not when the student intends on staying awake.
It's 2003 and Antonio Tarver is whacking Roy Jones' body and the commentators are aghast. I too am surprised: the last time I looked at the screen James Toney was a picture of frustration and Jones was mimicking a rooster. What happened? It's like going to bed watching your go-to comfort movie and waking up to a late-night horror.
I fell asleep and the playlist continued. I realise this now. Similarly disappointed is Antonio Tarver, who believes he has just been robbed of a huge win. He's laughing but he's hurt.
I'm up now. Properly up. UFC Fight Pass is on the laptop and television and, according to the broadcast, Roy Jones is backstage getting his hands wrapped. We're on. It's time. He wears a Jordan T-shirt with the word 'Relaxed' on the front. He looks relaxed. He also looks 49.
The co-main event is a mixed martial arts fight between lightweights John 'Max' Mustaki and Socrates Pierre. Mustaki tells the watching audience to expect a boxing match with MMA gloves, while Socrates, someone with a Muay-Thai background and a killer d'arce choke, has dyed his hair orange but crucially missed the hairline, meaning a portion of his forehead is also afflicted.
We're told it is standing-room-only at Pensacola's Civic Center, which, I think, is a way of suggesting the venue is packed to the rafters and the punters are desperately fighting for wriggle room. The truth, however, seems to be this: the stands are out of bounds, or simply empty, and the majority of people sit, not stand, at tables. There are white tablecloths. There are bottles of water and cans of Budweiser. These are the facts.
The ring looks big and the canvas, which features not a single sponsor, looks dirty. It's black and the dust shows. Give it a proper sweep, a proper clean, and you'll find the DNA of many a regional talent.
The co-main event starts. Feet are bare and gloves are small.
Tired, I put the kettle on, go for a p*ss and then, mid-p*ss, hear commotion.
I return to the screen to discover Mustaki has stopped Socrates with punches at the 4.18 mark of round one. It's controversial, but it's also early and that is all that matters.
My tea is ready. 'Mad' Max, Pensacola's very own, says he's ready for the UFC.
I already love Nate Campbell.
The Jones vs. Sigmon promo starts. Sigmon is described as "well-travelled", which reminds me of when John Ruiz was announced as "determined" by Jimmy Lennon Jr all those years ago. He shadowboxes against a black backdrop. It's wholly unconvincing.
He talks a bit about Anderson Silva (the former UFC middleweight champion), and for the first time I fear he has underestimated Sigmon, the 30-year-old from Virginia, and is foolishly looking past him.
He adds: "I'm going to do my best to stop him doing all that dancing and spinning his fists and bolo punches because that means he's comfortable in the fight.
Scott Sigmon, 30-11-1, has been stopped five times in his eleven career defeats. I don't believe, to the best of my knowledge, he has broken his ankle in any of those defeats.
Scott Sigmon makes his way to the ring as music better-suited for Halloween starts to play. There are wolves howling. He has his name on his white T-shirt with #DareToBeGreat on the back of it. His shorts are small and black. "It's kind of hard for me to look at this guy and think he's going to beat Roy Jones," says a perceptive Campbell.
Six dancers in hot pants and red 'Y'all Must've Forgot' T-shirts dance on stage. The song to which they shake their hips namechecks Roy Jones – of course it does – and the man of the hour does some nodding along with his eyes closed. His robe is sleeveless and black and white. On the back it reads 'The Legend Roy Jones Jr'. He waits to walk. Someone stands in front of him and takes a selfie.
Nate Campbell is funny; this fight isn't. Nate Campbell, in fact, hasn't been this funny since he showboated against Robbie Peden in 2004.
The MC runs through his announcements as a girl in a bikini holds up the WBU cruiserweight title belt. Humiliated, embarrassed, freaked out by the thing in her hands, it might as well be attached to a Hollywood producer.
"This is it!" shouts the MC.
Sigmon, weighing 193.4lbs, gets booed, whereas Jones, at 199lbs, gets a hero's welcome.
Referee Tommy Kimmons gives both boxers their instructions. Roy Jones looks like he has just woken up.
The first bell rings for the last time in the career of Roy Jones Jr.
Sigmon claims the centre of the ring and they clinch almost immediately. Roy laughs. It's more of a hug than a clinch and Sigmon apparently feels safe here and is happy to stick around.
They finally break with 1.10 left on the clock. With space, Jones, a silhouette of a rooster on his shorts, can go to work. He throws a quick flurry and the crowd go "wooooo".
"Sigmon's fired up," says De Santis.
"He's bloody, too," says Nate.
Sigmon loses his mouthpiece and Jones uses the respite to have a conversation with someone in the crowd. He then blasts Sigmon with an uppercut as the action resumes. Nate Campbell chuckles to himself as if his kid is picking the wings off a butterfly. They hold again.
In a clinch, Roy leans over and talks to Nate.
"Go sit down, please," Nate tells Roy.
More uppercuts land. Sigmon's face starts to swell.
Sigmon disagrees. He rallies over by the ropes, throws both hands, and occasionally touches flesh. Unperturbed, Roy talks to him. Smiles. Tells him to come and get it. There are quick 49-year-old jabs and hurtful-looking left hooks to the body. Jones pokes his tongue out. Sigmon's mouthpiece is displaced by a hook upstairs.
"The seventh round seems like a long way away for Scott Sigmon," says De Santis.
Campbell laughs again as Scott Sigmon tries to beat Roy Jones. "Why would you go inside with a guy who can cut angles better?" he asks nobody in particular.
"I don't think Scott Sigmon knows what to do," says De Santis.
Still fighting at close quarters, Jones lands left hooks and uppercuts. He speaks to Sigmon: "I thought you wanted to fight?" At the bell, he strikes a pose and the crowd eat it up.
Scott Sigmon's mouthpiece tries to escape for a third time. Evidently, even his mouthpiece knows it's time to leave.
Roy continues to smash away at Sigmon's body, especially with the hook.
It's gone four o'clock in the morning here, Nate.
The more Sigmon tries, the more he gets hit. But the more he stands off and doesn't try, the more likely it is he gets knocked out.
Jones, a considerate soul when he wants to be, takes to guiding and advising the man intent on punching him in the face. "Be careful!" he says, not once but twice, as Sigmon marauds forward to no avail.
A left hook to the body, left hook to the head combination from Jones, otherwise known as the reverse Micky Ward, gets through and stops Sigmon in his tracks. Not content with that, Roy then almost slaps his right hand the way of Sigmon's ribs, after which Campbell laughs for a second time.
Stuck in the corner of his own volition, Jones is content to control Sigmon there, landing body shots at will, and occasionally staggers the aggressor when he becomes a little too aggressive. But Sigmon, bless him, is still trying and even stumbles upon something of a breakthrough when he throws a left hook, his best shot of the fight, which catches Roy unawares.
Jones, of course, hooks him back and, right in the nick of time, remembers how to throw the sort of uppercut he used to spark Montell Griffin. He then aims it at Sigmon's face.
The last round. Hopefully the last ever round for Roy Jones.
"It's been a nice ride," says De Santis, coming over all sentimental.
Buoyed by his success in the previous round, Sigmon searches again for the left hook. But, in doing so, he leans in, right over his front foot, and gives Jones ample opportunity to come alive, nail him with uppercuts and hooks of his own, and essentially rattle through a box of tools rusted way past polishing but tools nonetheless. They are thrown slower, but the instincts and variety remain.
Sigmon, meanwhile, once more finds joy with his hook, a personal triumph, and then, just as the audience start to wonder if Roy Jones is letting his opponent have some success to send him home happy, the four-weight world champion explodes – okay, wakes up – into life with two uppercuts in a row and a flurry on the bell.
Fight over, he triumphantly raises his right arm, as he has so many times in the past, and tours the ring.
The decision is unanimous (98-92 across the board) and Roy Jones – IGNORE – is crowned the new WBU cruiserweight champion of the world.
"I want to say this one last time: Pensacola in the house!" he says. "I knew Scott was tough and game and would keep coming. I don't make excuses but last week I tore my bicep in my left arm. But because it was my last fight in Pensacola, I didn't pull out.
'Y'all Must've Forgot', his best-known rap song, plays on the PA system as Roy Jones poses for photographs.
It's over. We can all go to bed now. And, yes, that includes you, Roy.
I finish writing a round-by-round of Roy Jones Jr's last ever boxing match and realise, in keeping with the great man's career, it is much, much too long.


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import cPickle as pickle

from verifiable_log import VerifiableLog
from verifiable_map import VerifiableMap

# Extend this class, override _apply_operation and add your own API to:
# 1. append to log
# 2. read from map
class VerifiableBase:
  def __init__(self, log):
    # The log, such as a VerifiableLog
    self._log = log

    # Internal map that we use.  The mapper is responsible for mutating this
    # when triggered by log changes.
    self._map = VerifiableMap()

    # How many log changes have been processed
    self._ops_processed = 0

    # After we process a log operation, we capture the corresponding map
    # mutation index which may be higher or lower.
    self._log_sth_to_map_sth = {0: 0}

  # Called internally to poll the log and process all updates
  def _update_from_log(self):
    log_size = self._log.get_tree_head()['tree_size']
    ctr = 0
    while log_size > self._ops_processed:
      for entry in self._log.get_entries(self._ops_processed, log_size - 1):
        # Call mapper
        self._apply_operation(self._ops_processed, entry, self._map)
        self._ops_processed += 1
        self._log_sth_to_map_sth[self._ops_processed] = self._map.get_tree_head()['tree_size']

  # Called by the underlying map when new entries are sequenced by the log
  # Override me!
  def _apply_operation(self, idx, entry, map):
    pass

  # Get the value and proof for a key.  Tree size the number of entries in the log
  def get(self, key, tree_size):
    if tree_size > self._ops_processed:
      raise ValueError
    return self._map.get(key, self._log_sth_to_map_sth[tree_size])

  # Return the current tree head, this triggers fetching the latest entries
  # from the log (if needed) and this tree_size should be passed to corresponding
  # get() calls.
  def get_tree_head(self, tree_size=None):
    if tree_size is None or tree_size > self._ops_processed:
      self._update_from_log()
      if tree_size is None:
        tree_size = self._ops_processed
    if tree_size > self._ops_processed:
      raise ValueError
    rv = self._map.get_tree_head(self._log_sth_to_map_sth[tree_size])
    rv['tree_size'] = tree_size # override what the map says
    rv['log_tree_head'] = self._log.get_tree_head(tree_size)
    return rv

  def get_log_entries(self, start, end):
    return self._log.get_entries(start, end)

  def get_log_consistency(self, first, second):
    return self._log.consistency_proof(first, second)

  # Get the value and proof for a key.  Tree size the number of entries in the log
  def debug_dump(self, tree_size):
    return self._map._root.debug_dump(self._log_sth_to_map_sth[self.get_tree_head(tree_size)['tree_size']])

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Samsung is going to launch its Galaxy Tab 10.1 imminently in the US according to a tweet that was published a few days ago on the official Samsung US Twitter account.
The Korean manufacturer already confirmed back on the 4th of May that the tablet will come with Android Honeycomb 3.1 rather than Honeycomb 3.0.
The update was made available for Motorola XOOM users on the 10th of May and comes with a number of improvements such as some major UI tweaks, movie rentals, better speed and stability, the ability to hook up peripherals over USB, the ability to import photos and more.
The new version of the Galaxy Tab was unveiled at CTIA in Florida back in March 2011. It is thinner than the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that was unveiled at Mobile World Congress and comes with a three-megapixel camera instead of an eight-megapixel model.
It comes with a 1280x800 pixel capacitive touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (but no 3G), is 8mm thick and around 600g, has a front facing two-megapixel camera, wireless streaming via Allshare, Samsung's proprietary Media Hub, 1GB RAM and is powered by by Nvidia's Tegra 2 system on chip clocked at 1GHz.
Apart from the Apple iPad 2, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will face the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, the Acer Iconia A500, the Motorola XOOM and the HTC Puccini.


Cosmos the physician and Damian the apothecary were twin brothers born in the third century AD in the Middle East, where they were called anargyroi, "the silverless" or "the unmercenaries" because they treated patients free of charge.
The brothers are approaching their home/practice after being out in the streets (notice the dirty, torn robes). Cosmos (holding the Staff of Aesculapius) offers his hand to an ailing man while Damian offers a medicinal plant. Inside, a bedridden patient can be seen. In the foreground is a lemon tree with a pair of nesting birds (symbolizing marital harmony). The dog symbolizes fidelity and compassion. A caduceus and mortar & pestle motifs are on the porch.
A beehive and bees, planter with aloe, an amphora, grapes, and an owl also symbolize various aspects of healing and wisdom.
Click here to see the Cosmas & Damian Scroll image.


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Savage and Son, Inc.
The Savage Building at 628 South Virginia Street was constructed in 1940, but the history of the business that the Savage family operated there goes back much further, and continues today. Frank Charles Savage partnered with B.J. Genesy to open a…
Bufkin House
The house where Barbet and Jewell Bufkin lived, at 375 Westbrook Lane, dates to approximately 1940 and was likely moved here from its original location sometime in the mid-to-late 1950s. Additional living space was subsequently added to the rear of…
Black Springs in the 1960s
The Black Springs community faced serious challenges in the 1960s as it became the target of campaigns to clean up what the local government and media often labeled "blight" and an "eyesore" while its residents were still…
Townsell House
By Helen Townsell-Parker
In June of 1956, Jeffie and Carrie Townsell and their children were on their way to Seattle where Jeffie's brother, a merchant seaman, was going to help Jeffie find a job, when they stopped in Black Springs to visit Carrie's parents, Ollie…
Carthen House
J.E. Sweatt sold a parcel in Black Springs, now 295 Kennedy Drive, to Cecil G. and Nola Mae Carthen in December of 1956. The couple was from Oklahoma, where Cecil had been working as a mechanic for a lumber company. In Reno, he worked for many…
Chatman House
The house at 265 Kennedy Drive is one of the few from the early years that was constructed on site rather than moved here. It likely dates to the early 1950s. Thurman Carthen remembers it as the prettiest one in the neighborhood when he moved to…
Lobster House
The house at 320 Westbrook Lane was the second home that the Lobster family owned in Black Springs. William (Bill) Lobster was the Fire Chief for the Black Springs Volunteer Fire Department for many years. This house is one of the few in Black…
Westbrook House
Ollie and Helen Westbrook were some of the first residents to purchase property in Black Springs from J.E. Sweatt in the early 1950s. They quickly became community leaders and became known to everyone as "Mama Helen" and "Big…
Black Springs Community Center
Black Springs did not have a community center of its own until 1970, when the neighborhood's youth group, P.O.W.E.R. (People Organized to Work for Equal Recognition) took the lead to establish one. The group had been organized in May of 1969.…
We're still piecing it together, but the story of the First Baptist Church appears to have begun in 1952, when three individuals sought support to establish a church and recreational center at Black Springs to service the African American…
Willie Stevens House (site)
Willie Stevens had the house at 415 Medgar Avenue moved to his lot in Black Springs in late 1957. Before it was moved there by Dario Bevilacqua, the top of the house was removed, as was customary at the time, in order to avoid hitting power lines…
Black Springs Volunteer Fire Department
This modest building was constructed in 1970 to serve the Black Springs Volunteer Fire Department, which had been established in 1956. By the late 1960s, a station in the neighborhood was an absolutely necessity. The Black Springs community had…
Mt. Hope Baptist Church
The Mt. Hope Baptist Church was founded in July of 1959 and was the second church to be built in the community of Black Springs. Residents say that the building was moved here that year from another location and adapted for this use. Started by A.N.…
Fleeter Turner's Stone House
This small house, constructed of field stone, is one of the oldest structures in Black Springs and may date back to the 1920s. Thurman Carthen remembers it standing when he first arrived in 1956, and believed it to be a well house. Others recall it…
Sewell's Market
The brick building at 445 S. Virginia Street opened as Sewell's Market in 1942. The Sewell brothers--Abner, Harvey, and Herb--had opened their first Sewell's Market in Reno in 1922 at 10 W. Commercial Row, two years after opening their…
Lunsford Park
The Lunsford Triangle first appears in an 1891 amended map of the C.C. Powning District after Riverside Drive was constructed. S.O. Hatfield occupied the property as a squatter until 1900, when he transferred the property to Ralph W. Shearer. In…
Riverside Drive
By Debbie Hinman
While only seven blocks long, Riverside Drive is one of the most beloved streets in the city of Reno—and not by accident. Riverside Avenue, as it was first known, was created to be the city's loveliest boulevard. From its origin in the 1880s,…
Earl Wooster High School
By Gail Ewart
Earl Wooster High School was completed in 1962 and opened that fall at 1331 East Plumb Lane. At the time, Reno High School was severely overcrowded, and a new high school was needed to accommodate baby boom kids approaching high school age. Wooster…
Regina Apartments
The Regina Apartments at 260 Island Avenue is a collection of units encased in a lovely brick building designed by Joseph Tognoni. The building's owner, Jean Sigg, was a successful Swiss-born chef who ran the kitchen at a number of downtown…
Silas E. Ross Hall
By Alicia Barber and Jack Hursh
Silas E. Ross Hall opened in June 1957, kicking off a campus construction boom that included the Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture Building, the Sarah Hamilton Fleischmann School of Home Economics, the Jot Travis Student Union Building, and…
First National Bank Tower
Los Angeles architect Robert Langdon designed the First National Bank of Nevada's landmark high-rise office building on the corner of First and N. Virginia Streets. At 16 stories, the building was the tallest in Reno when it opened in 1963. The…
C. Clifton Young Federal Building and Courthouse
The C. Clifton Young Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at 300 Booth Street opened in 1965 across the street from Reno High School. The building typifies the federal effort to incorporate modern design into the government buildings that were being…
Piazzo Building
The Piazzo Building at 354 N. Virginia Street, also known as the St. Francis Hotel, embodies the story of Reno in a way that few others could. Contained in one three-story brick structure are the stories of a hardworking immigrant family, the…
Reno City Hall (former)
As 1960 approached, the city of Reno was reckoning with its rapid growth and the accompanying need for a new city government facility. Since 1907, Reno's City Hall had stood on the southwest corner of Center and First (originally known as Front)…
Santa Fe Hotel
The two-story solid brick building that stands today at 235 Lake Street is not the original Santa Fe Hotel, although it is located on the same site. The building housing the first Santa Fe was constructed there in 1913 for a man named A.J. Clark,…
Osen House
By Donna and Paul Erickson
The Osen family became involved in the automobile trade at an early point. Based in Northern California, the Osen-McFarland Auto Company opened a branch in Reno in 1915, opening a sales room and service station on Commercial Row. In 1921, George A.…
Edward Chism House
The Tudor Revival home at 575 Ridge Street was designed by architect Frederic DeLongchamps and built in 1927. It was the residence of Edward and Clara Chism, who were married in Reno in 1915. Edward Chism was a Washoe County native born on the…
Guy and Emeline Benham House
Architect Frederic DeLongchamps designed this home, which was constructed in 1930 for Guy and Emeline Benham. The couple met in Reno, but were not native to the area. Born on a farm near Cedar Falls, Iowa, Guy Everett Benham moved to Reno in…
Donnels House
This home was designed by Frederic DeLongchamps and built for Albert T. Donnels around 1916. Albert Donnels had been a Reno resident since 1896. He was born in Jamestown, California. As a young man in his early twenties he went to San Francisco;…
Day/Creveling House
The brick bungalow at 571 Ridge Street was built in 1919 for Forrest W. Eccles, who moved here with his wife, Bessie, and their infant son, Forrest Kelly Eccles. The house was next door to the home of Eccles' stepfather and mother, William and Emma…


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Home Doors & windows Firm raises £1,200 to support families this Christmas
Firm raises £1,200 to support families this Christmas
STAFF from doors and windows manufacturer CMS Group have raised more than £1,200 in a year-long fundraising campaign for the Christmas appeal of The Cottage Family Centre.
Every December, the Kirkcaldy-based charity undertakes the mammoth operation of mobilising a team of volunteers to deliver crates containing food, children's toys and clothing to over 1,300 children and their families throughout the Kirkcaldy area.
Members of the CMS team, led by its contracts manager John Deacon, volunteer every year to provide hands-on support for this exercise – including the use of its vans for deliveries and a facility at the company's Hayfield site for storage, preparation of the crates and distribution. This year the firm has gone the extra mile by raising money over the past 12 months to enable the Cottage Family Centre to purchase more items for inclusion in the crates.
Pauline Buchan, strategic manager at the Cottage Family Centre, said, "We'd like to say a big thank you to the team at CMS who have always played a big part in helping us get packages to so many families on our Christmas appeal delivery day. The extra donation is so very welcome to help us make sure that no child in our area will go without at Christmas."
Billy Semple, account director at CMS Group, added, "The Cottage Family Centre's work is so important in helping families who are facing some very challenging circumstances, which is why we are dedicated to providing assistance throughout the year and, in particular, for their Christmas appeal. Well done to John Deacon and his colleagues for saving a little bit every week throughout 2020 to add to the overall fund available to buy much-needed food, toys and clothing."
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'Morning, folks. We've just gone ahead and opened up the chat for questions - please submit any you have down below. We'll be kicking off the chat at 3pm EDT, with guests Penny Bishop, Brent Truchon (and one of his students!), and Tech Counts editor Kevin Bushweller.
Hello again, folks. We'll be getting underway with our chat on Technology Counts and using digital tools to personalize learning in just a few minutes. Remember to submit any questions you have down below!
I'm now handing it over our moderator for the day, Katie Ash, who was a staff writer for the latest issue of Technology Counts (http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2011/03/17/index.html). Take it away, Katie!
Welcome everyone to today's chat. We have lots of exciting guests here with us today - Penny Bishop, Brent Truchon, EdWeek's own Kevin Bushweller - as well as a very special guest - Norah, who is a student at Brent's school.
I'd like to start by asking everyone to please introduce yourselves so everyone knows who you are!
Hi there. I'm Penny Bishop and I'm the Director of the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education. I'm a former middle school teacher and work with teachers who are interested in integrating technology into student centered classrooms.
I'm Norah Senftleber. I'm in eight grade and I have been on the Navigator team for two years!
Hello, my name is Brent Truchon and I am a social studies teacher on a 5 person team. We are called the Navigator Team-we have 4 core teachers and 1 special educator. We're are currently in our second year of a 1to1 laptop initiative.
As our panelists are typing up their introductions, I'd like to invite everyone to please submit questions for Norah, too!
I am the executive editor of Education Week Digital Directions, executive project editor of Technology Counts, and an assistant managing editor for Education Week. I oversee all our ed-tech coverage. I am really looking forward to this discussion.
I wanted to start by asking a pretty general question to get started before jumping into specifics.
What exactly does it mean to use technology innovatively? Penny? Brent? Do you want to chime in on this?
I'd be happy to. When I think of "innovative" I immediately think of how technology enables teachers and students to go beyond the walls of the classroom.
Great question, Angel. To me, using technology in an innovative way means being responsive to kids. And integrating it into learning in ways that help them create knowledge, not merely receive it. We like to think of it as helping to close the gap between students' in school and out of school technology lives.
Great. Now that we have the definition out of the way, here's a good one for Brent.
Have any of the panelists deployed 1:1 laptop initatives? And if have they seen any increase in student achivement?
In our two years we've had partnerships with local non-profits, skyped with authors, skyped with a rural school in Uganda, create videos that are used by local non-profits.
Do you think that has helped student comprehension of the topics you've studied in class, Brent?
@ Jerry....Yes, we're in our second year of our 2 year initiative. I do not have concrete DATA that supports a measurable increase in student achievement, but I can say that I have seen a significant increase in student engagement and growth in their problem solving skills.
I have a question for Norah: do your teachers ever need help from students in using technology or computers? Have you ever explained something to Mr. Truchon?
I would like to follow up on that question regarding the link between technology use and student achievement. I think schools, in general, are still struggling to establish that link. But there are initiatives out there, such as Project K-Nect in North Carolina, which are beginning to show connections between technology use and higher student achievement. It is better math scores in the case of Project K-Nect.
Our teachers have a lot of knowledge in the subject of the technology and usually do not have to ask us questions. There have occasionally been times that us as students will tell teachers a quick shortcut but nothing major.
Yes, and I should say, if any of you panelists have anything to add to each other's answers, please feel free to jump in!
How is this going to continue for this 8th grader entering high school? Is the high school ready to support the tech savy learner or will it be like taking too many steps back to where you were in elementary school?
Norah: What have your teachers taught you about how to use technology to learn?
...have my students discuss issues on a blog for homework...this was all done in one day!
Our teachers have given us great programs and websites that we are able to use online.
We certainly try to work with high schools after our initial work in the district middle schools. In other sites, it has expanded into the high school. In this case we're currently working with the high school to make exactly that happen, through grant writing. We should, however, realize that the technology gap is only one of the gaps we should think about with high schools. We need to encourage collaborative learning, personalized learning... in addition to tech use.
What are the essential technology tools to make individualized digital learning meaningfully successful?
Brent and Norah - what tools are available for use in your school?
Would you define what you mean by tools? Hardware? Software? Web 2.0?
Penny: Milton Middle/High School managed to expand it from middle school to high school, as we reported in Technology Counts. How were they able to do that and how has that made it a smoother transition for 8th graders there?
On our team each student has their own laptop to use in classes. Also in the classrooms there are Smartboards that are used daily.
Brent - maybe start by telling our guests what hardware is available in your classroom. And then if you'd like to add some resources, I'm sure our guests would love to know what you're using.
We also have the use of still cameras and video cameras.
Thanks, Kevin, for that question. Yes, Milton has been successful in that largely because it was viewed as so successful at the middle level. Strong leadership, decreasing technology costs and creative and aggressive pursuit of funding all made the difference.
Norah - is there any piece of technology that you currently don't use in school that you think would be helpful in the future?
@ Brent both by all means!
Tools- OK...as Norah suggested, we're very fortunate in that all students have laptops, we have a Smartboard, flipcams, digital cams, an elmo, head phones.
No, I can not currently think of any pieces of technology that would be helpful.
Alina, we also continue to be intrigued by the potential of cell phones and other devices that students may already own and how they may be integrated into daily learning.
Brent: As we reported in Technology Counts, it's not just about the technology. It's about seizing the moment to make things relevant. How does the use of digital tools help you seize the moment? I am thinking of the face-to-face and online discussion you had about Egypt when you were studying the American Revolution.
I have to wonder how many kids have mobile phones in their pockets and why schools aren't tapping into the thousands of dollars of computing power those phones represent (without tapping into school budgets for hardware)?
Norah - do you have a cell phone? Are you allowed to use it in school?
Yes Katie I do have a cell phone. During school students are not allowed to use cell phones.
Bob, we agree. We are still thinking about ways to do that but agree that there is tremendous untapped potential. The emergence of educational gaming raises additional questions about the potential of powerful gaming systems in kids' homes.
....cont - students get work online, submit assignments, and collect graded work. This is an amazing feature because not only do they build a portfolio but, more importantly, they can see growth and refer back to previous assignments for direction.
What technology is recommended for students with learning disabilities?
Penny - is this something you are looking into at all?
Do you suggest that students pick from a list of projects to serve as assessments or should everyone do the same project? And are rubics the best way to access these project based learning assessments?
Roxanne, we certainly are thinking a lot about students with disabilities, particularly in mainstream classrooms. We have found digital storytelling to be a very powerful tool for all students, especially in the teaching of writing and with students with language challenges. Also, many reading tools for visual impairments such as text to speech software. Washington University has done good work on math disabilities as well.
@ Roxanne, a signicant percentage of our students are on 504 or IEPs. We also have 61 different language spoken in our district. I can speak to specific software but I can say that using laptops seems to be a way to meet all learners where they are. Techonology is what kids are comfortable with....by using it in the classroom, it's easier for many to access resources that are appropriate and engaging.
HI Sharon, we're seeking individualized learning opportunities and in many cases it requires students to pose their own questions and ideas of projects rather than choosing from a list. We hope to increase student choice opportunities.
@Sharon, something like these individualized opportunities beg for more carefully thought out rubrics, that reflect long term learning objectives and outcomes as opposed to project-specific ones.
I am currently involved in developing an action research project to determine the effectiveness of our 1:1 Take It Home Netbook program. Any suggestions for measurement of success (especially in the area of Language Arts)?
Tips for her? How do you determine that a program is effective and rigorous when trying out new, technology-rich forms of instruction?
It depends on your definition of success. Traditional measures of academic performance are probably important to gauging the success of the project but we're equally interested in evaluated often overlooked outcomes such as student engagement. We need to find ways of determining if kids are experiencing learning as engaging.
@ Guest- Differentiating and accomodating continues to be a struggle. I believe that student management systems can/will be helpful in this process. Currently though, EDU, which is our system does not allow this to happen as easily as it could. For example, I had to create 5 different classes today so that I can administer different tests/assignments to different students.
Are the students reading more? And are their reading analysis skills improving?
Are they writing more? And are their writing skills improving?
Are they using the devices to do online research? And what is the quality of their online research?
@ Julia, we are also interested in the effect over time, so we're looking at students' long term school success up through high school completion or non-completion, behavior and test scores.
Just a comment ...I guess while 1:1 initatives my show local student achievement the main measurement/achivement goal would be passing state standardized testing, sadly.
Regarding Jerry's comment, how (Trent and Penny) do you balance innovation with accountability? Seems like a challenge.
Norah - do you feel like technology allows you to explore your personal interests in school more often?
Jerry, I agree that that in our era of high stakes accountability this is a major challenge. We need to also advocate that state testing become more about 21st century skills that are currently reflected. Further, just because state test scores occupy a central place in the dialogue on school quality doesn't mean that high school graduation rates, access to post-secondary education, school climate and other issues don't also end up driving schooling policy.
How can we garantee that technology is not an end in itself inside the classroom? What kind of training does the teacher need in order to work with this vision of technology?
How do we make sure that teachers aren't using "technology for technology's sake"?
@ Kevin and the balance between innovation and technology, an extension may be that accountability is often a moving target and we should expect that people will move beyond test scores as the sole indicator of effectiveness.
Jerry, three years ago our school was identified as a "failing" school. While I can't say for sure that student test scores have improved because of this initiative, I can tell you that many of our students have acknowledged that they are more engaged. While it is true that laptops affort an opportunity for us to escape the confines of the classroom, we still accept that a main job of our is to teach students to read, write, and compute. Academic rigor and expectations have in no way been compromised and, because kids are more engaged in their learning, we are seeing students achieving at levels we haven't previously seen!
Beatriz, in our case we work to emphasize serving the needs of young adolescents. With that as the aim we can continue to challenge teachers to look at the student first and then consider how the technology might meet their cognitive and other developmental needs. Questions we might ask, is it contributing to their personal development? social and emotional?
Norah - How does technology affect your day to day learning?
The simple answer to that question is to always remember that the technology is the tool to get something done. If it helps a student master algebra more effectively than paper-and-pencil methods then it is doing its job. If it does not help, or becomes more of a distraction than a helping hand, then it is not doing its job. It is all about learning the academic content--it is not about the bells and whistles.
Teachers need ongoing training to master this type of teaching. First, they need to be comfortable using the tools, then they need ongoing training in best practices and opportunities to share ideas with colleagues.
Lily, the technology I have been using everyday has given me an opportunity to be more hands on. Also I am able to see live videos relating to what we are studying, and we are often able to work on interactive projects.
This question/comment by Martin seems to piggy back on what you were saying, Kevin.
at the risk of sounding somehwat Luddite, I hope your speakers will address the virtues of digital, as somewhow superior to non-digital, for introducing primary-graders to the 36 symbols needed to go further in literacy and numeracy.
@Kevin's point, the opportunities to share ideas with colleagues is one of the most important aspects of successful teacher education in technology integration. In our newest site, we have found the regular, facilitated sharing to be key to teacher professional development.
I know we are talking more about the upper grades, but it seems important to evaluate all the different instructional methods before automatically opting for the most high-tech.
The technology truly has become the pencil and paper for our students. It's a given. We use it each day because it makes sense. Students are more organized, engaged, and efficient which allows them to spend more time critically thinking about problems that they are presented how to share their solutions in a way that demonstates what they've learned.
What did you put in place with teachers BEFORE laptop distribution to insure that laptops would just not be e-distractors and/or superpencils and calculators?
Martin, Kevin's point about technology being primarily a tool is an important one to keep in mind. Yet we are increasingly convinced that technology contributes to a cultural context that kids live in whether we like it or not. In order to meet kids in that context we have to figure out the ways in which technology can help us reach our goals. There are virtues to non-digital ways of engaging students yet even in the primary grades we should be mindful of the potential disconnect between the way kids are learning in and out of school.
Great question, Deirdre. We have approached this differently with each of the three schools we work with. Key to all has been the opportunity for regular common planning time for teachers, time during which they can share, trouble shoot, and plan. However, prior to the initiative in each case, teachers enrolled in a graduate course focused specifically on the nature of the young adolescent and the potential of technology within that framework.
@Deirdre, we also think that ongoing professional development is essential for moving teachers forward because it's a paradigm shift. It's not about technology. It's about thinking differently about teaching and learning and the teacher's role.
As a student I often use technology out of school. The opportunity to use technology in school too has greatly engaged students.
How does the use of technology in the classroom impact the teacher's role as an educator? How can technology and the teacher work together to create the best learning environment possible?
Norah: What types of things do you use technology for out of school? in school?
Brent has first-hand experience with this.
Kevin, out of school I use my cell phone, my father's computer, my iPod, and I often watch television. In school we are capable of using laptops, smartboards, video cameras, cameras, and the Elmo.
Kevin - do you have anything to add in terms of key elements to creating an ideal learning environment with technology?
Norah - do you or your classmates feel more excited or engaged with learning when you are encouraged to use technology?
I think Rich Tarrant, a former CEO of a high-tech company in Vermont and the founder of the Tarrant Foundation, said put it best in the story I wrote for TC.
He said: "I think the answer to that question is trial and error. And it's really important that the teachers understand the kids. Why is Joey different than Susie?"
Katie, I believe that my classmates and I feel both excited and engaged with learning while we are using the technology we have. It keeps us engaged with real life, hands on projects and it is fun even while learning.
Brent, now that you are in the second year what were some issues you ran into in the first year?
What lessons have you learned from your experiences implementing technology in the classroom? What might you do differently?
Sure, Katie. I'll chime in with a few issues other teachers have faced when starting out. We had substantial netbook reliability issues at one site that resulted in a return of 250 netbooks. In another site we had considerable teacher turn-over. One school faced parental pushback toward a more traditional non-tech curriculum.
Penny - how did those teachers address some of those challenges?
I think everyday there will be a challenge big or small, but we have adapted as students and teachers to deal with these challenges and to continue learning.
Katie, with great tenacity! And clear, unambiguous support from school and district leadership. Leadership has played a key role in this. And in time the critical mass of parent support has fallen in behind the project. Another piece that teachers often face is the assumption that they need to learn everything about a tech tool before they use it in the classroom. We encourage teachers to let go of that and let the students help them find the way.
Great! I think Brent might be wrapping up his last thoughts here, but in the meantime I'd like to thank you all for attending the chat and asking such thoughtful questions!
And thank you so much to our guests - you all have been so informative.
A transcript of the chat will be available here once it is closed.
It's been a pleasure! Thanks for such great questions. I'm happy to talk with anyone who wants to follow up at [email protected].
Thanks for the chat opportunity!
Thanks to our readers for joining us!
Thanks again to Penny, Kevin, Brent and Norah for participating, Katie for doing a great job moderating, and a special thanks to all you viewers out there that joined us today. As Katie mentioned, we'll have a transcript of this chat available on edweek.org by COB today. Cheers, all.
As schools and districts turn to digital tools to personalize teaching and learning based on students' strengths and weaknesses, many are finding that this approach requires quite a bit of trial-and-error to determine what works best. And they say that the more innovative use of digital devices and curricula needs to be balanced by a strong commitment to maintaining academic rigor. Our guests discussed the approaches they are using and how they are working to find that perfect balance between innovation and accountability.
Norah Senftleber, 8th grade student of Brent Truchon, Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, Vt.
Katie Ash, writer, Technology Counts 2011 and staff writer, Education Week, moderated this chat.


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Q: Easily add script tags to nuxtjs Basically I need to add the script to the head of my index.html,
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://a.optmnstr.com/app/js/api.min.js" data-account="XXXXX" data-user="XXXXX" async></script>

so what I've tried is...
in my nuxt.config.js
head: {
    script: [
        {
           type: 'text/javascript',
           src: 'https://a.optmnstr.com/app/js/api.min.js',
           data-account: 'XXXXX',
           data-user: 'XXXXX',
           async: true
        }
    ]
}

now obviously this isn't working since data-account and data-user is not valid, so how can I make this work??
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks

A: You can also just enclose the data attributes in single quotes like this:
head: {
    script: [
        {
            type: 'text/javascript',
            src: 'https://a.optmnstr.com/app/js/api.min.js',
            'data-account': 'XXXXX',
            'data-user': 'XXXXX',
            async: true
        }
    ]
}

A: This could help you

export default {
  data () {
    return {
      message: '',
      head: {
        type: Object,
        default: function () {
          return {
            title: ' Default Home page  ',
            meta: [
              {
                'hid': 'description',
                'name': ' description',
                'content': ' Home page  content '
              }
            ],
            script: [
              {
                innerHTML: {
                  'url': 'https://www.example.com',
                  'logo': 'https://www.example.com/icon/logo.png',
                  'parentOrganization': {
                    'name': 'The X Company Inc',
                    'url': 'https://example.io',
                    'logo': 'https://example.io/logo-est.png',
                    '@type': 'Organization'
                  },
                  'foundingLocation': {
                    'address': {
                      'addressLocality': 'Dakar',
                      'addressRegion': 'Selegal',
                      '@type': 'PostalAddress'
                    },
                    '@type': 'Place'
                  },
                  'sameAs': ['https://www.facebook.com/example', 'https://www.twitter.com/example'],
                  '@context': 'http://schema.org',
                  '@type': 'Organization'
                },
                type: 'application/ld+json'
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>

A: This was pointed out be @Andrew1325
In nuxt.js you can create a app.html file and add scripts to it, so in my case the app.html file looks like this
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html {{ HTML_ATTRS }}>
  <head>
    {{ HEAD }}
  </head>
  <body {{ BODY_ATTRS }}>
    {{ APP }}
  </body>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://a.optmnstr.com/app/js/api.min.js" data-account="XXXX" data-user="XXXX" async></script>
</html>

IMO this is a very easy way to include difficult scripts into your project
NOTE
You will need to restart your project to see the app.html changes
For more information you can go nuxtjs - app template


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I'm sure the girls will love to prance around the party and play dress up at home later with these beautiful wings atop her shoulders.
Each little girl will get to take home a personalized name plaque for her room with Tinkerbell watching over her each night.
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Our little Fairy Princess is going to have kisses with her name and "Tasha's 7th Birthday" on them. Plus pictures of Tinkerbell, for a total of 4 different designs.
If you want to make your own favor boxes, you can easily do so out of cute scrapbook paper.
Take a piece of cute paper...I have this Glitter Stock Set and I use it for ALOT of projects.
I cut it down to run through my printer and printed off a box template on the white side of the paper.
JersGirl's templates. I've always been happy with hers and she has a HUGE selection, so check her out.
You can get this votive holder template HERE.
Cut it out around the outside lines and score on the insides.
Fold along the score lines and glue together for a cute box.
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Know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is 'the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.' Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
"The author of The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis lived to the age of 92.
Of the 63 years he lived as a monk, 58 were spent as an ordained priest.
In his Chronicle of Mount St Agnes he relates two miracles of the Holy Eucharist.
choir with a joyful heart.
the sick in soul and in body."
Sta Agnes, ora pro nobis!
Procop, the Governor's son, became very angry when she refused him. He had tried to win her for his wife with rich gifts and promises, but the beautiful young girl kept saying, "I am already promised to the Lord of the Universe. He is more splendid than the sun and the stars, and He has said He will never leave me!" In great anger, Procop accused her of being a Christian and brought her to his father, the Governor. The Governor promised Agnes wonderful gifts if she would only deny God, but Agnes refused. He tried to change her mind by putting her in chains, but her lovely face shone with joy. Next he sent her to a place of sin, but an Angel protected her. At last, she was condemned to death. Even the pagans cried to see such a young and beautiful girl going to death. Yet, Agnes was as happy as a bride on her wedding day. She did not pay attention to those who begged her to save herself. "I would offend my Spouse," she said, "if I were to try to please you. He chose me first and He shall have me!" Then she prayed and bowed her head for the death-stroke of the sword.
For the Lord is gracious and merciful and prefers the conversion of a sinner rather than his death. Patient and generous in his mercy, he does not give in to human impatience but is willing to wait a long time for our repentance.
For Christ teaches that only those who become again as it were little children, and by the simplicity of that age cut off the inordinate affections of vice, can enter the kingdom of heaven. These follow and obey their father, love their mother; are strangers to covetousness, ill-will, hatred, arrogance, and lying, and are inclined easily to believe what they hear. This disposition of affections opens the way to heaven. We must therefore return to the simplicity of little children, in which we shall bear some resemblance to our Lord's humility.
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Turn yourself round like a piece of clay and say to the Lord: I am clay, and you, Lord, the potter. Make of me what you will.
Hence we must say that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs divine help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act. But he does not need a new light added to his natural light, in order to know the truth in all things, but only in some that surpasses his natural knowledge.
I have never sacrificed, nor do sacrifice to any other than to one God, and to our Lord Jesus Christ, his Son, who was born and suffered for us.
45 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Beth-sa'ida, while he dismissed the crowd.
The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes - yes, it truly includes - includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins, and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows. There is absolutely no kind of human beings, my dearly beloved, who need to despair of their vocation; Christ suffered for all. It was very truly written about him: who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the acknowledgement of the truth.
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I will I go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where the true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God himself.
God accepts our desires as though they were of great value. He longs ardently for us to desire and love him. He accepts our petitions for benefits as though we were doing him a favor. His joy in giving is greater than ours in receiving. So let us not be apathetic in our asking, nor set too narrow bounds to our requests; nor ask for frivolous things unworthy of God's greatness.


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