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The interview, broadcast during the Kermode and Mayo's Film Review show, spanned eight-and-a-half minutes, and showed the actress Naomi Watts fielding questions about her new Diana film.
Presenter Simon Mayo had interviewed the star several weeks ago, ahead of the film's premiere, talking to her down a line from his studio to her hotel.
At the time, he told fans Watts had "walked out" of the interview, claiming she seemed "a tad uncomfortable" with the questions but saying he had "no idea" what had upset her.
The audio of the interview has now been released, showing Watts answering several questions before telling him she was being told to "wind it up".
Mayo later clarified a technical assistant from the BBC had been in the room with Watts during the interview, alleging she made the decision herself.
The radio presenter had asked her several questions about the Diana film, including why she had decided to play "the most famous woman in the our lifetime" and whether she had spoken with friends who had known the late Princess of Wales.
When asked about the film being granted permission to film outside Kensington Palace, Watts told Mayo she was being instructed to "wind it up".
He pointed out that they had been granted ten minutes to ask questions but had only used eight-and-a-half, adding: "Can we perhaps finish the interview as we started? Otherwise we can't use it."
After broadcasting the interview in full, he told listeners he was still "a little bit baffled as to why she was so uncomfortable".
A representative of film studio Entertainment One last week told a newspaper the account was false, accusing Mayo of acting "unprofessionally".


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Johann Strauss Snr. (1804-1849) composed his Radetzky March, Op. 228 in 1848 and it was dedicated to Field Marshal Radetzky. Strauss was commissioned to compose the piece to celebrate Austria's recent military victory in Italy, led by Radetzky. At early performances of the March, Austrian soldiers would stamp and clap along, and this tradition is continued at the annual New Year's Day concert in Vienna. It remains one of Strauss's most popular compositions, with much of his fame now eclipsed by the music of his son Johann Strauss II.
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In 2016, Up with People hosted our first annual Golf Open as a new way to connect our community of Denver area supporters through a fun game of golf, some friendly competition, and enticing refreshments. More than 40 golfers participated in the inaugural tournament at Park Hill Golf Course in Denver which included nine holes, a silent auction, and brunch.
Building on the first year's success, the 2017 Up with People Open took place on Saturday, August 12 at the Park Hill Golf Course in Denver, beginning with a 1:30p.m. shotgun start. A great addition to the Denver events scene, the tournament expanded to a full 18 holes to give our players a chance to test their mettle, followed by a silent auction and happy hour. Players had the chance to celebrate the day during the awards ceremony, as well as celebrate the important work of Up with People as we seek to unite people and empower youth to make positive change in the world.
All proceeds from this event go to the Up with People Scholarship Fund to support future Denver area cast members.
Thank you to our past Up with People Open Sponsors!
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It's kind of like the living embodiment of the "hang in there" kitty. A cat is enclosed in a glass cubicle and wants to get out. Even with nothing for kitten claws to dig into, this tiny feline perseveres to get to the top, with an unexpected bonus once it gets up there. Turns out this persistent animal is trying to get to its friend, an equally adorable puppy, which also offers a bit of assistance to get its pal to come visit on the other side.
Ladders posted the video today under "Distractions," citing that the kitten "defies the odds and overcomes enormous physical barriers, to escape its limitations." It was also posted by financial commentator Josh Brown.
There could be some animal behavior lessons here about tenacity, or teamwork, or striving to achieve your goals. Or it could just be a cute video displaying an impressive friendship. Either way, it's the Monday after daylight saving time, so you deserve a few minutes' break to watch it as you, too, climb toward the end of your workday.


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Coins 2 Continue S2E3 | South Park: A Few Shades Darker
Make sure you say this week's episode with hard "ER", ok?
Welcome to the third episode of Coins 2 Continue's second season! This week there's a lot of gameplay talk and a whole lot of shade thrown around, but there's also constructive discussion of course.
The last week has been a roller coaster and you all likely have a solid idea of what we'll be talking about beyond the episode's title. Be sure to hit us on Twitter @Coins2Continue and/or us #Coins2 when live-tweeting the episode so we can respond to your thoughts!
- Gameplay Impressions
- Destiny 2
- Dead By Daylight
- Absolver
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MIAMI, Fla. --- Junior Rachel Cutshaw delivered 18 kills and Courtney Weathersbee dished out 49 assists in a pair of matches while the Lees-McRae volleyball team was swept by Southern Conn. St. and Lynn University, respectively, Friday at the Health and Sports Center on the campus of Barry University in Miami, Fla.
Southern Connecticut State 3, Lees-McRae 0
The Owls (3-3) swung better than .420 in two sets while Leanna Jadus led all players with 17 kills. The Bobcats (1-3) had a trio of players with eight or more kills.
Cutshaw (Whitesburg, Tenn.) led the squad with 15 while freshman Logan Slusher (Hayes, Va.) and senior Haylee Leonard (Wallburg, N.C.) chipped in with nine and eight, respectively.
SCSU took a tightly-contested opening set, 30-28, before claiming the final two, 25-22 and 25-19.
LMC held a 19-16 lead following a kill and block assist from freshman Lexi Zangari (Breckenridge, Colo.) and a pair of Slusher kills.
The Owls ripped off an 8-2 run to force set point, 24-21.
Zangari and Cutshaw provided strong play while the Bobcats used a 4-0 mark to take a 26-25 lead.
Both teams exchanged points before consecutive kills from SCSU's Nicole Hauser broke a 28-all tie.
The Owls took an early 12-5 lead in the second and pushed the lead to eight, 16-8, following consecutive attack errors from LMC.
Coach William Tatge's squad mounted an impressive rally and cut the lead to one, 20-19, following a Darian Parsons (Jenks, Okla.) ace and Leonard block.
SCSU staved off the attempt by claiming five of the next eight points.
Cutshaw and Madigan Gonzales (Ruidoso, N.M.) combined for four kills while LMC took a 13-10 lead in the third.
The Owls finished the contest on a 15-6 run.
Weathersbee (Raleigh, N.C.) had 37 assists and six digs.
Lynn 3, Lees-McRae 0
The Fighting Knights (4-1) claimed the win following a 13-kill performance from Cleuza Porto. The Bobcats (1-4) were led defensively by Madison Martin (Goldsboro, N.C.), who had five digs.
Lynn claimed the first two sets by identical scores, 25-15, before winning the third, 25-9.
LMC held a slim 7-6 advantage in the opening set following a Marissa Tandron service error.
Lynn's Nicol Colonna and Lydia West led the offensive charge while the team swung at a .407 clip in the opening frame.
West finished with eight kills.
The second set was tied at 10 thanks to three attack errors from the Fighting Knights and an ace from Parsons.
Lynn turned in a 15-5 run to finish the set.
The Bobcats return to action Saturday, Sep. 10 at 1 and 7 p.m. when they play Valdosta St. and Barry, respectively, in Miami, Fla.


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Lawrence Taylor, one of the best DUI attorneys in the world, shines a bright light on questionable police tactics in his DUI blog. Mr. Taylor documents an Inside Edition segment that documents law enforcement DUI quotas across the country. Law enforcement agencies across the country are afraid of losing highway dollars from the federal government, and are pressured to make DUI arrests as a result. Mr. Taylor documents several instances from the Inside Edition story where innocent people were taken to jail after submitting to roadside field sobriety tests. These individuals had nothing to drink and the charges were later dropped. It is logical to assume Alabama is as concerned about its federal highway money as other states, and its also logical to assume Alabama's law enforcement agencies also have DUI quotas.
After reading Mr. Taylor's blog, the moral of the story is clear: DUI laws and DUI enforcement across the country are insane and unconstitutional, and if you are pulled over anywhere, especially in the State of Alabama and are suspected of a DUI, do not take any test administered by an Alabama police officer or an agent for the police, even if you haven't had anything to drink. If you are charged with a DUI in Alabama you should immediately contact an Alabama DUI lawyer and attorney that focuses his practice on Alabama DUI defense.


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"Inline Discrete Tomography system: application to agricultural product inspection", Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 138, pp. 117–126, 2017.
"Intrinsic connectivity reduces in vestibular-related regions after first-time exposure to short-term gravitational alterations", Scientific Reports, vol. 7, issue 3061, 2017. Download paper (3.47 MB)
"Iterative reconstruction for mobile chest tomosynthesis", Dept. of Physics, vol. PhD in Sciences/Physics, 2017. Download thesis (5.77 MB)
"Maximizing precision in PCASL MRI using an optimized sampling strategy", 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine & Biology, Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
"Model-based reconstruction algorithms for dynamic X-ray CT", Dept. of Physics, vol. PhD in Sciences/Physics, 2017. Download thesis (4.65 MB)
"MoVIT: A tomographic reconstruction framework for 4D-CT", Optics Express, vol. 25, issue 16, pp. 19236-19250, 2017.
"Multisensor X-ray inspection of internal defects in horticultural products", Postharvest Biology and Technology, vol. 128, pp. 33–43, June, 2017.
"A nonlocal maximum likelihood estimation method for enhancing magnetic resonance phase maps", Signal Image and Video Processing, vol. 11, issue 5, pp. 913-920, 2017.
"A Novel adaptive PCA Based Denoising Technique for Ultra-High-Rate Computed Tomography", 7th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT 2017), Leuven (Belgium), ndt.net, 02/2017.
Online quality control of fruit and vegetables using X-ray imaging, , vol. Doctor of Bioscience Engineering, 2017.
"Optimal sampling strategy for pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling MRI", 9th Annual Meeting of ISMRM Benelux, 20th January 2017, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2017.
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"Partial Discreteness: a Novel Prior for Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 36, issue 5, pp. 1041 - 1053, 2017. Download paper (3.72 MB)
"Pixel purity vertex component analysis", IEEE IGARSS 2017, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Fort Worth, USA, July 23-28, 2017.
"Product sizing with 3D anthropometry and k-medoids clustering", Computer-Aided Design, vol. 91, pp. 60-74, 2017.
"Registration Based SIRT: A reconstruction algorithm for 4D CT", 7th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography, Leuven, Belgium, 2017. Download paper (2.36 MB)
"A safe, cheap and easy-to-use isotropic diffusion phantom for clinical and multicenter studies", Medical Physics, vol. 44, issue 3, pp. 1063–1070, 2017.
"Screw fixation of simulated scaphoid waist fractures: a biomechanical comparison of two screw lengths.", European Federation of National Associatinos of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT), 18th ANNUAL CONGRESS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 2017.
"Solving the Free Water Elimination Estimation Problem by Incorporating T2 Relaxation Properties", International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2017. Download poster (996.02 KB)
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"Spherical Deconvolution of Non-Spherically Sampled Diffusion MRI Data", International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2017.
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Due to the success of the business, David has enjoyed a large amount of media coverage including press articles, radio and TV work. He has had his own 12-week fitness programme on Tyne Tees Television and is regularly seen on TV and heard on the radio giving advice or highlighting client success stories.
David has his own weekly fitness column in the Newcastle Journal newspaper, he also launched the Great North Fitness Revolution and is the founder and trainer of the hugely successful Fit Factor. He has written over 200 articles many with accompanying videos. These include training schedules for the Great North Run, a series on specific training and nutritional advice, top to toe exercises and the very popular 'fat attack circuits'.


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Chateau du Lude
Visit Lude Castle in Loire Valley
Chateau du Lude date of construction: 13th-18th
Château du Lude is a beautiful château on the banks of the Loir. The original medieval fortress, built to defend Anjou, has been added to over the centuries and now each facade is an example of a different era of French architecture. The chateau is one of the first you come to when arriving at the Loire valley from the north.
During the Hundred Years war Le Lude was occupied by the English but was later liberated by Gilles de Rais, better known as'Bluebeard'.
In 1457 Jehan de Daillon, chamberlain to Louis XI aquired the castle and his descendents employed Italian artists to convert the fortress into a residence. Defensive slit-windows were opened up into sculpted, mullioned windows letting in lots of light.
In 1685 the last member of the Daillon familly died and the castle was bought by Joseph Duvelaer, a member of the East Indian Company. He carried out major restorations and left the property to his niece the Marquise de la Vieuville. She built the West Wing which is a lovely example of Classical French architecture. Upon her death the castle passed to the Talhouet family, whose descendents Count and Countess de Nicolay still live in the castle.
Inside the château there are some very lavishly decorated rooms and there is a 'Cabinet of Paintings', which is an Italian-style studiolo (a type of painted room) which is the only one in a French château and is a treat. The old vaulted kitchens in the basement are very impressive.
Don't miss the gardens here, they really are lovely with a parterre garden on the upper terrace filled with a mass of roses, alliums, nepeta and much more. This overlooks a more formal garden which runs along the edge of the river to a chinese pavillion surrounded by another garden. There is also a large and very impressive kitchen garden.
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Time they say, is money and no woman wants to waste so much time in the kitchen. Cooking skills include being able to cook fast and ending up with a good taste altogether. One serving of black-eyed peas/beans (beans (Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata) contains 70 calories, making it a low-calorie option when served without additional condiments. The majority of calories come from carbohydrate sources (16 grams). Each serving also contains three grams of protein. The beans do not contain any fat or cholesterol. Black-eyed peas provide five of the 8-11 milligrams of zinc that is recommended each day by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institutes of Medicine...Read more>>>
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5. One large bulb of onion (chopped or grounded)
6. One tablespoonful of grounded crayfish
7. Some potatoes
8. Salt to taste
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VIDEO CLIP OF REV. McCARTNEY
The following video was produced by WorldVision Canada as Rev. McCartney does some speaking on their behalf.
Rev. Colin McCartney is the founder of UrbanPromise Toronto and Connect Ministries. Rev. McCartney, has appeared on Canadian television, radio and national newspapers regarding urban issues. He is an author of two best sellers ("The Beautiful Disappointment" and "Red Letter Revolution", Castle Quay Publishers - see resources section), mentor to pastors and business people and is in high demand as a speaker who has spoken to audiences as large as 7,000 people. You can learn more about Colin's book and DVD in the "Resources" section of this website. Colin is devoted to training up young adult leaders to be church planters or to be revivalists of dying urban churches in low - income city neighbourhoods. While doing this work he currently is involved in revitalizing a struggling church in the city of Toronto.
BOOKING REV. McCARTNEY
To ask Colin to speak at your event please scroll down to check out his schedule below to see if he is available on the date of your event. Then download this Word Document, fill it out and email it as an attachment to - firstname.lastname@example.com
PRINTABLE BIO & PICTURES OF REV. COLIN McCARTNEY
COLIN McCARTNEY'S SPEAKING SCHEDULE
To check Colin's speaking schedule to see about his availability for your event please read below:
2018 (Colin is helping revitalize an urban church so his speaking availability will be limited during this year)
1 - 2 - Maskwacis, Alberta
3 - 5 - Private Engagement, Alberta
7 - 8 - Private Engagement, Michigan, USA
9 - Parkway Bible Church, Toronto, ON, 10:30 AM
14 - 16 - Connect Staff Retreat, Niagara Falls
21 - 23 - Private Engagement, Michigan, USA
28 - 30 - Private Engagement, Ohio, USA
4 - 6 - Private Engagement, Michigan, USA
7 - Parkway Bible Church, Toronto, ON, 10:30 AM
9 - 14 - WorldVision in Saskatchewan
19 - 21 - Urban Ana - Baptist Conference, Montreal, Quebec
25 - 26 - Private Engagement, Michigan, USA
16 - 18 - ReLearning Community, Kitchener, ON
25 - Steinman Mennonite Church, Baden, ON - 9:45 AM
2 - Parkway Bible Church, Toronto, ON, 10;30 AM
12, 13 - Speaking for World Vision Canada, Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada
18, 19 - New Leaf Church Planting, Toronto
25 - 31 - Florida - Private Engagement
1 - 8 - Florida - Private Engagement
10 - Speak at Christian Centre Church, Jane Finch, 11:00 AM
17 - Speak at Christian Centre Church, Jane Finch, 11:00 AM
23 - Training, Scarborough, ON
24 - Parkway Bible Church, Toronto, ON, 10;30 AM
2 - 9 - Church Planting Conference, Orlando, USA
20 - Kingsway Lambton United Church, Toronto
24 - Parkway Bible Church, Toronto, ON, 10;30 AM
31 - Speaking at Community Mennonite Fellowship, TBA
17 - 19 - Private Engagement, Saskatchewan, Canada
26 - 27 - Annual Meeting For Mennonites Of Eastern Canada
18 - Training, Scarborough ON
24 - Relearning Community, Kitchener, ON
25 - Inner City Outreach Gala, Jane Finch - 6:30 - 9:00 PM
26 - Relearning Community, Kitchener, ON
27 - 30 - Mennonite Church Canada Conference, Abbotsford B.C.
18, 19 - The Ana - Baptist Way, TBA
8 - 10 - Re - Learning Community, Cambridge, Ontario
"Colin McCartney is one of the brightest leaders in the new generation of leaders arising in Christendom. A dynamic speaker, visionary and evangelist, Colin has been used by God to inspire many into a deeper discipleship."
—Dr. Kenneth B. Quick, D.Min. Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, Capital Bible Seminary, Washington D.C, USA
"Colin takes life in its rawest forms, examines it through a sociological and theological grid, and translates the bottom line into practical personal and community forms of transformation."
—Dr. John H. Wilkinson, Former Executive Director, Toronto YFC (Youth Unlimited)
"Colin McCartney is a man of character, depth and wisdom who speaks with passion and relevance. As an event planner, I have worked with hundreds of communicators. Colin is a world-class communicator, one of Canada's very best, while also remaining approachable and real. His personal story makes him an overcomer, and his character is evident while on stage, but most importantly off the stage. He draws people to himself, and uses this talent to draw people towards a compelling vision of a better world."
—Darren DeGraaf, Former Arrow Leadership and Director of Youth Ministries, Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec
"I really appreciate your prophetic, yet gentle words. Your presence and your talk the other night was for me personally very challenging, very eye-opening, very humbling and yet very encouraging! Doesn't that kinda sound like the Spirit's work in a nutshell? It's great to see how powerfully God's working through your life."
– Rev. Chris Carter, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Parry Sound, Ontario
"Colin is a passionate and effective communicator of the gospel. We have welcomed him as a keynote speaker for many of our events and both our youth and our leaders speak highly of his engaging style and urgent call to deep commitment to Christ."
— Dr. Bruce Fawcett, President & Vice - Chancellor, Professor of Leadership & Religious Studies, Crandall University. Former Director of Youth and Family Ministries, Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches & Director of the Youth Ministry Program, Acadia Divinity College, Acadia University
"Jesus' deep compassion for children fuels Colin's commitment to making a difference to at - risk kids in the city of Toronto. Colin speaks with passion, integrity and a ton of personal experience. You come away feeling the heartbeat of God for these children."
— Rev. Donald Boyd, Sr. Pastor, Toronto, Ontario
"Colin McCartney is a gifted and passionate speaker who believes deeply in what he speaks on. He speaks with boldness and compassion without compromising God's truth.
— Rev. Dr. Herman Chow, Toronto
"Colin McCartney is the kind of man you can trust behind your microphone. Colin's mix of humour, real - life stories and biblical parallels makes for a very natural and compelling presentation. He is not there to make you comfortable he will, indeed, challenge his audience to choose the road less traveled. His obvious love for Jesus Christ and those whom Jesus loves is, quite frankly, contagious!"
— Paul Simons, former National Network Director, Equipping Evangelists (E2) and former Ontario Regional Director, The Church Army in Canada (Anglican Church)
"We loved the manner in which Colin worked with our camp and the way he gave the message. Many young people responded to the messages Colin gave as a result of him coming all this way. We highly recommend him as a speaker."
—Martin Reurich, Founder and Director, Fitzroy Falls Conference Centre, Australia
"Colin, We've seen each other at various events. Thank you for your gift of words...no matter how you bring it you always touch my heart and this weekend you touched the heart of so many youth. I think you are one of those people who just attract others. I wish we could get to know each other more as every time I hear you speak or even just talk to you briefly one on one...I don't want to stop talking and listening. You are a blessing from God and I look forward to seeing and talking to you again."
- Scott (Attendee at a conference Colin McCartney spoke at)


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Using our Chalkart with the latest Digital technology works a treat. In this case they have 5 LCD digital screens displaying their menus and using our chalkart to create the look of hand drawn artwork. These systems are great for when you need to update your menu on regular basis but they can look a little clinical with all the computer generated art available.
The chalkart softens the menus and creates colour and atmosphere. Blending the hand drawn style artwork with the latest technology.
The picture below shows how the artwork was designed in Photoshop to suit the screens resolution. Once the artwork was approved we just save each menu for their designated screen as JPEG. In this case the screen resolution was
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Below is a picture of the old menus they had on their screens, which as you can see is BORING with a capital B
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Windows 7's security rollups, the most complete of the fixes it pushes out each Patch Tuesday, have relatively multiplied in measure since Microsoft redid the veteran working framework's refresh regimen a year ago.
As indicated by Microsoft's own particular information, what it calls the "Security Quality Monthly Rollup" (rollup from here on) developed by over 70% inside the initial dozen issued refreshes. From its October 2016 commencement, the x86 variant of the refresh expanded from 72MB to 124.4MB, a 73% hop. In the mean time, the constantly bigger 64-bit rendition went from an underlying 119.4MB to 203.2MB 12 refreshes later, speaking to a 70% expansion.
The swelling security refreshes were not, in themselves, an astonishment. A year ago, when Microsoft reported enormous changes to how it overhauled Windows 7, it conceded that rollups would put on pounds as the months pass. "The Rollups will begin little, however we expect that these will develop after some time,' Nathan Mercer, a Microsoft item promoting director, said at the time. Mercer's clarification: "A Monthly Rollup in October will incorporate all updates for October, while November will incorporate October and November updates, et cetera."
After two months, when he was gotten some information about the development issue, Mercer again surrendered that the rollups could get huge. "Inevitably Monthly Rollup will develop to around the 500MB size," Mercer said in mid-October 2016. It would seem that Mercer's gauge may have been on the light side.
At the 12-refresh pace that Windows 7's rollups have built up, the 64-bit variant will tip the scales at around 350MB by October 2018, and a year from that point forward, as Windows 7 nears its termination date, just about 600MB. The last would speak to a 20% lift well beyond Mercer's objective size. Similarly, the x86 release would increment to 216MB and 374MB of every 2018 and 2019, separately, if the 12-refresh development rate proceeds.
"The measure of these is certainly a worry," said Chris Goettl, item administrator with customer security and administration merchant Ivanti. "At the point when the rollups develop to 300MB to 500MB, a few organizations don't have the downtime [to download and introduce refreshes that large], particularly those with a worldwide reach or to remote regions crosswise over moderate associations."
Envision a 500MB refresh hitting the frameworks in a retail shop, Goettl said. "That would be a really huge utilization of the accessible data transfer capacity when the store [and its devices] are running day in and day out."
Undertakings get the opportunity to pick the refresh harm
Microsoft issues two sorts of security refreshes for Windows 7 on the second Tuesday of every month: a rollup and what the organization has named "Security Only Quality Update" (security-just from here). The last incorporates the month's security-related patches and that's it.
Since they contain just that month's patches, they're substantially littler than that month's relating rollup. The 64-bit security-just for July was only 30MB and the 32-bit was a considerably littler 19MB, contrasted with that month's rollups of 194MB and 119MB. The distinctions in December were significantly starker: 900KB and 1.4MB for the 32-and 64-bit security just updates, separately, and 125.1MB and 204.7MB for the rollups.
The rollups are bigger not just in light of the fact that they drag their past with them – each succeeding rollup incorporates that month's patches and additionally all past patches back to October 2016 – but since they likewise incorporate non-security bug fixes. More often than not, however not generally, issued later in every month, the non-security refreshes are packaged with the security patches, adding to the extent of the rollup.
Be that as it may, just a few Windows 7 machines are qualified for the littler security-just updates: Those adjusted by WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), or devices, regardless of whether outsider or Microsoft's own particular System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), that depend on WSUS for content. Every other Window 7 gadgets, including ones keep running by purchasers and little organizations, that associate by means of Windows Update or Windows Update for Business, are given rollups. They don't get a decision.
All things considered, the security-just updates issued for Windows 7 of every 2017 were one-6th the measure of that month's rollup. Just 1 of the 11 64-bit security-just updates was bigger than 40MB, for instance, and just 2 of the 32-bit forms broke the 20MB stamp.
As per Goettl, the security-just updates have been about a similar size they would have been if made out of a comparable number of particular patches, similar to those Microsoft conveyed before making the radical move to dump many years of training the previous fall.
In any case, measure was by all account not the only reason, or maybe even the primary reason, why security-just updates were a gift for undertakings. "Security-just gives some adaptability," Goettl stated, discussing the capacity to defer a refresh.
Since the rollups are combined – in that they incorporate all past patches, and also the most recent – it's unrealistic to convey them without introducing each fix since in any event October 2016. On the off chance that a fix breaks something, say a business-basic application or work process, all rollups consequent to that must be put on hold.
Be that as it may, by receiving the security-just updates, an IT staff can at any rate take off, for example, December's adaptation regardless of whether it has needed to hold off on November's a result of a rebel fix. That training is like, in spite of the fact that on a more full scale level, the way individual patches were conveyed or blocked, contingent upon whether they meddled with operations. (The last was what Microsoft restricted by moving a year ago to this comprehensive approach, where the majority of a month's patches are filled one container as are indistinguishable.)
Goettl saw security-just updates as a sop to endeavors, a bone Microsoft tossed to its most imperative clients when it set out the new laws in 2016. "One thing that diminished the blow [of the total refresh announcement] was that they offered the security-just package," Goettl said. "In Windows 10, you don't have that choice."
Like a considerable measure of fix specialists, Goettl has encouraged those qualified for security-just to stay with the littler updates. "It truly appears that a ton of the breakage issues come toward the finish of the month when the non-security fixes turn out," he included, talking of the patches that are incorporated with the next month's rollup. "Things break there. This month, for instance, there were a great deal of non-security fixes [in the rollup]. That is the reason we suggest security-just for customer PCs, particularly [on frameworks with] touchy programming."
Paring refreshes down
Only one out of every odd Windows 7 machine needs to pay the maximum for the undeniably substantial rollups. Some get a markdown.
Undertakings that convey refreshes through WSUS can apply the discretionary "express establishment records" include, which restrains the transfer speed expended on the neighborhood arrange, thusly diminishing refresh related activity inside the border.
That is finished by distinguishing those bytes that change between two forms of a similar document, at that point creating a refresh containing only those distinctions. (This procedure is normally called a "delta" refresh, and is utilized by most programming engineers to disperse refreshes.)
In any case, there's a tradeoff, which Microsoft illuminates in this help record: After empowering the component, the measure of the downloads from Microsoft's servers to the neighborhood WSUS server(s) increments significantly. As indicated by Microsoft, express establishment documents may treble the quantity of bits downloaded to the WSUS server(s).
"When you circulate refreshes by utilizing this technique, it requires an underlying interest in transfer speed," Microsoft expressed. "Express establishment documents are bigger than the updates they are intended to disperse. This is on account of the express establishment document must contain all the conceivable varieties of each record it is intended to refresh.
"Nonetheless, this cost is alleviated by the diminished measure of data transfer capacity required to refresh customer PCs on the corporate system," the report proceeded.
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In an illustration Microsoft featured, a 100MB refresh brought about 300MB downloaded to the WSUS server, however the real sum transmitted over the neighborhood system to every customer may be as meager as 30MB when express establishment records is turned on. With it off, the underlying download to the WSUS server would be 100MB, the extent of the refresh, however then that same 100MB would need to be conveyed to customer PC over the neighborhood arrange.
Different provisos apply to express establishment records in Windows 7, however maybe the most imperative is that it isn't the same as the same-named highlight inside Windows 10.
While the express component has seemingly gotten more consideration in Windows 10 – Microsoft has advertised the new working framework's element a few times – it's not indistinguishable to what's in Windows 7.
For a certain something, Windows 10's express can convey the two updates and the twice-yearly component overhauls, which tip the scales at a few gigabytes. All the more critically, the differential refresh innovation works with WSUS (as does Windows 7's), and with Windows Update and Windows Update for Business.


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9.5.2013Counting Drumbeats: Should our number syllables represent quantity?
Excerpt from Doug Clements "Subitizing: What is it? Why teach it?'
"Three pictures hang in front of a six-month-old child. The first shows two dots, the others show one dot and three dots. The infant hears three drumbeats. Her eyes move to the picture with three dots."IMAGINE: This ability of recognizing syllables, movement, and number is born within us. We have the capacity to recognize a four digit number instantly if it consisted of four syllables. Our language does not facilitate our natural instinct. 4,367 is a ten-syllable number. No wonder our brains get confused! With subQuan and the slight change of two single digit numbers -ro for zero and -ven for seven, we are able to make these larger numerosities accessible to younger children: four three six -ven. Visualizing numbers in their shapes allows yet deeper understanding (as seen below).
We can now discuss numbers in various containers or bases. We don't always package things in tens. The picture below was a fun adventure in Walmart at all the different container sizes we use.
Retrieved from the ning....
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Using games to create engagement in education, business, and government posted 8/5/2011
3D Game Lab continues to bring incredible value to the Dream Realizations effort to help people understand numbers. In Tom Chatfields 7 Ways to Reward the Brain, he leads the viewer through seven key game concepts that when combined in addressing a given issue or problem create engagement!
DR is focused on creating engaging activities around the fundamentals of number sense to ensure that as many people as possible will be motivated to discover for themselves that they can understand and change their lives by increasing their knowledge of numbers. Numbers, in themselves, are boring or scary to most people because they simply haven't had the right foundation for understanding them. It is very difficult to engage people who have already tried to understand numbers via mathematics and ended up thinking that they were not 'bright' enough to get it or that there is any value in their personal lives to tackle this subject. 3D Game Lab is providing a game foundation exhibiting many, if not all, of Chatfields 7 Ways to Reward the Brain discussed in the video. DR's entire staff is currently participating in a three week intensive study of 3d Game Lab.
Please stay in touch to see the exciting results. We hope you will take time to not only view the video but also to visit 3D Game Lab's website.
3D GameLab and teaching subQuan posted 8/3/2011
According to many experts, Jim Gee included, the United States education system has the potential to undergo a dramatic paradigm shift due to the demand of innovation in face of world-wide competition. I have seen the potential for games in education since the mid 1960's and now the day of game-based education is dawning.
As Jim points out in his video, kids want to participate, they want to be engaged. Games are engaging and they require their own levels of knowledge acquisition. Unlike school, games do NOT separate learning from assessment. Games are always assessing. Furthermore, reference material (on-line help, user guides, developer notes) all make sense once one has stated to play the game. The game allows you to play first, then access relevant data once you know that you don't know something. Jim calls this 'language on demand'. I agree with Jim that vocabulary reading and writing develop as students interact with one another and with research material. The language is built as needed. Repeated internet searches on a new topic, say 'subQuan', reinforces not only the spelling of subQuan but also the fundamental concepts since they appear on a search's findings. Also, the language is reinforced by top gamers as they have a high set of standards on who is considered 'top' and using the right vocabulary is an excellent differentiator of expertise. I actually used this understanding of terms to rapidly separate applicants in a Silicon Valley billion dollar firm. There were certain vocabulary terms that were just fundamental to certain levels of expertise.
At Dream Realizations and ItOnlyTakes1, education and games are inseparable. SubQuan is a fundamental concept that the eye 'sees'. It doesn't require learning of a process, once you see, you see! Putting this new concept into a game environment is fundamental to our goals. We are all engaged in Boise State University's beta course on 3D Game Lab this August, 2011. We look forward to teaching and learning with our students. We will be initially using Second Life to accomplish this and, hopefully, 3D Game Lab as our engine.
Watch Jim Gee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU3pwCD-ey0&feature=player_embedded
subQuan question worth investigating posted 6/20/2011
Is there a proof that there is only one complement that is contained for any shape? I.e. if you have the number 7, the segs complement is 10 -3 (1, -3), the squares complement is 100 -90 -3 (1,-9,-3), the cubes complement is 1000 -900 -90 -3 (1, -9, -9, -3), ... The negative complement or the second segs, squares, cubes, etc complement requires free mode (when the value in any shape(base place) exceeds the base). [NOTE: Please comment if this is partially confusing so that I know what to clarify.]
Subitize is not required for subQuan!!! posted 4/10/2011
Wow! I never expected to discover that the ability to subitize was NOT foundational to the ability to subQuan. I always focused on Stanislaus Dehaene's neuropsychological research on number sense as the explanation for the efficacy and quickness of subQuan. However, both my co-researchers became aware that counting, albeit much slower, was just as effective as subitizing in determining the subQuan of a number. In retrospect, the invention of place-value was not beholden to the methodology of determining the quantity within each place-value. SubQuan continues to reveal very fast and powerful visualization of mathematical structures resulting from its definitional representation of numbers in every base system but it no longer depends on the ability to subitize. This does not mean that Dream Realizations will abandon its efforts to promote subitizing. We still believe assessment of pre-college mathematical abilities should be based on velocity, perhaps even acceleration, rather than distance. [To clarify this last statement, assessment is dominantly based on arriving at a correct answer (distance) rather than the time it takes to derive the answer (velocity).]
Changing the website: what was I thinking? Does this affect our other technology decisions? posted 4/10/2011
Over the last Christmas season we discussed an idea of mine to make the website visually driven rather than text driven so we made some changes. Over the past three months we did not get the results we were hoping for so we are in the process of moving back to the Ning-based website. I am hoping that this adventure into visualization does not deter those who are following us early on. Upon reflecting, I believe traditional web-surfing for 'just the facts' lends itself to text-based web design such as Ning. However, I still firmly believe that when building foundations for knowledge acquisition and social learning relationships that visually driven immersive technologies, such as Second Life, will become more and more dominant and any visualization facilitating this movement will be very successful. Therefore, expect our actual coursework to appear first in our laboratory in Second Life, then in an OpenSim environment for easy transfer of scripts, textures, objects to give access for young dreamers. We will utilize those immersive environments to create machinima (Videos made within an immersive environment) to provide exposure for non-immersive collaborators. Hopefully, we will then translate our findings into the emerging touch technologies of iOS. [Just a reminder, please help however you can. We eagerly accept any and all input and ideas, especially from our young dreamers. No matter how young, get involved. It's your future.]
Four Steps to Polynomial Derivation (steps 3 and 4) posted 12/3/2010
3) Differences: Discover the relationship that differences have with metapatterns.
When we examine the quantities creating one digit metapatterns and then two digit metapatterns, we can discover a simple way to discover the metapatterns from the data by using differences.
In the data associated with these metapatterns, we would have discovered by looking at different metapatterns that the first difference determines the value of the 'seg' and that when that value is removed from the data, the resulting number is the value of the 'remainder'. Having access to these sheets enables very quick discovery of this fact.
4) Polynomial Derivation: Develop an expression for the pattern from differences.
When this examination of metapatterns continues into squares and cubes, the pattern of differences reveals itself in all its glory. A spreadsheet is easily created to automate the differences, determine whether we have a seg, square, cube, seg of cubes, et al., and to determine the coefficient which turns out to be the value within the metapattern. Removing the effect from the data and repeating continues to give us significantly smaller shapes until we get to the remainder. Expanding this metapattern to base x then reveals the equation for the metapattern.
The metapattern 1234 (pronounced one-two-three-four) has the data that generated it placed into the spreadsheet and the equation +1x^3 +2x^2 +3x^1 + 4x^0 is automatically generated. Having established the simple rules of deriving a polynomial from metapatterns, new data that is not conducive to Base Number Sheets, such as positive and negative non-integer coefficients are still derivable by the rules. View-only spreadsheet at http://bit.ly/i8sqfA .
The ability to visualize numbers, SubQuanning, observe the metapatterns, see the importance of differences, and then derive the polynomials lay the foundation for a rich, powerful, and easily understood foundation for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)!!
Four Steps to Polynomial Derivation (steps 1 and 2) posted 12/3/2010
1) SubQuanning & 3-D SubQuanning: Learn how to name quantities in containers.
The foundation of numbers must start with recognition. Traditionally this is taught at the same time as the alphabet. (See 'Teaching Counting') Regardless of where an individual is in their understanding of numbers, the recognition of numbers by SubQuanning is absent due to SubQuanning's recent discovery. In 2008, www.itonlytakes1.org was developed as a prototype to enable number recognition by Subquanning. A visit to this site reveals five discoveries, named Discovery 0 through Discovery 4. For each Discovery there are three buttons: discover, hone, and master.
The discover button reveals what is to be covered. The hone button generates a more varied sample for discovery, and the mastered button is not currently enabled. Briefly, Discovery 0 establishes a base line for an individuals recognition and key-press response times as the numeric symbol is displayed along with a SubQuanned quantity. Discovery 1 allows individuals to discover that they can recognize quantities instantly (This is very close to the concept of subitizing except for the organized layout.). Discovery 2 displays two base A (ten) digits to scale. Discovery 3 displays two digits in a random base, and Discovery 4 displays three normalized base A integers.
Either using physical or immersive manipulatives enables the discovery of a 3-D naming convention: segs, squares, cubes, seg of cubes, square of cubes, cube of cubes, seg of cube of cube, ...
The naming discovery starts with recognizing the cube and square shapes then reducing the dimensionality to one, usually garnering the name 'line' for the first container. However, lines are infinite which leads to the term 'line segment' and when reduced to the monosyllable 'seg'. It is not a big step to recognizing a similar big seg to the left of the cube which is appropriately called a seg of cubes. The smallest unit, which does not fill a container is accurately called 'remainder'.
2) Metapatterns: Observe that different quantities in different sized containers can have the same name.
Perhaps the easiest of all steps is recognizing the same SubQuan in different bases. Although the quantities are different, the same expression of SubQuan can be identical. The SubQuanned metapattern, 56, pronounced five-six, is readily apparent in the following three bases.
Avatar Physical Interaction posted 6/2/2010
I continue to think about how t make avatar interactions more real and personal. I definitely believe that creating a range-of-motion animation where we move the left arm around in a hemisphere and the left arm around in a hemisphere we can identify the ideal animation to engage so that avatar to avatar interactions align. For example a tall and short avatar will interact with different animations than two tall or two short avatars.
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DR @OSU ELC on AdobeConnect posted 5/29/2012
The theory of subQuan - for Emergent Learning Commons
Cooper and I presented on Adobe Connect today. If you would like to peruse the slides, click the link below. I will attach the recorded link once it's been uploaded. Great fun today!!
Subitizing: What is it? Why teach it? (1999) posted 5/28/2012
Excerpts from Douglas H. Clements http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&sour...
Subitizing is "instantly seeing how many." From a Latin word meaning suddenly, subitizing is the direct
In the second half of the century, educators developed several models of subitizing and counting. They
But how is it that people see an eight-dot domino and 'just know" the total number? They are using the
Children use counting and patterning abilities to develop conceptual subitizing. This more advanced ability to
The spatial arrangement of sets influences how difficult they are to subitize. Children usually find
Certain arrangements are easier for specific numbers. Arrangements yielding a better "fit" for a given
If the arrangement does not lend itself to grouping, people of any age have more difficulty with larger sets
Use conceptual subitizing to develop ideas about addition and subtraction. It provides an early basis for
Children can use familiar spatial patterns to develop conceptual subitizing of arithmetic. For example,
"Subitizing is a fundamental skill in the development of students' understanding of number" (Baroody
The Number Line is a Cultural Construct posted 4/28/2012
Michel Paul, from the Math 2.0 discussion group, posted a great article link about research documenting that the number line is not an innate construct, but rather a cultural one. The following is the initial post:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uoc--sft042312.phpOK, this has me curious. Animals other than humans can subitize. Chimps can subitize better than humans. There does seem to be a kind of fundamental number sense that is hardwired into some animals that include us.
However, this article points out the very interesting fact that the number line we consider so fundamental is a cultural construct.
"After confirming the Yupno participants' understanding of numbers with piles of oranges, the researchers gave the number-line task to ..."
OK, so they verified an 'understanding of numbers' before testing the number line concept.
Wouldn't subitizing have a lot to do with how we can, for example, correspond our fingers with groups of objects? So maybe that's why chimps can subitize better than us? They can manipulate their toes as though they were fingers?
-- Michel
And to that is my response:
I noticed that it is the ordinal process that seems to be in
question, not the natives ability to understand quantity. This leads me
to believe that teaching our kids first how to count instead of random
(or in our case organized- subQuan) subitizing leaves them at a
disadvantage with their innate ability to understand number before
symbols are introduced. Is our culture programming over our natural
capabilities? Have we simply jumped too quickly to the abstract in our
educational system and not solidified the correspondence of our fingers
(and toes - heehee) with groups of objects.
I was also quite fascinated by the representation of time (past, present, & future) of the indigenous people. Definitely a cultural thing. Read the article to find out more!! :-)
First sQi3d Sushi Bar Group Presentation posted 4/10/2012
Dream Realizations just finished a guest presentation with Rawlslyn Francis from Florida State College at Jacksonville via Second Life live at the 23rd International Conference on College Teaching and Learning (http://www.teachlearn.org/workshops.html).
We talked about our tools and content, but most importantly, we highlighted our sQi3d Sushi Bar and its capabilities. With a maximum capacity for 42 avatars, we can give synchronous lessons and group presentations. If you would like to schedule a presentation to your institution, now would be a great time!
Come to Boise State EdTech Island to visit our group learning station located at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EdTech/80/89/26
In other news, we have new videos up on YouTube. Check out the DR playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/DreamRealizations/videos?view=1
Thoughtful Ponderings from a Cognitive Engineer posted 3/23/2012
Cooper's post to the Math 2.0 group:
I am not a math professional. I am an engineer by schooling, twice in fact. However, I have a problem right away with the referenced article by Peter Gray.
"The first step in coming to grips with math is to knock it off its pedestal. The real-life problems that are important to us are problems like these: Whom should I marry? Should I marry? Should gays be allowed to marry? What career should I go into and how should I prepare for it? If I invent gizmo X, will people buy it? Should corporations have the same constitutional rights as individuals? What's the best way to unplug the toilet? Math plays little if any role in solving such problems, nor do such problems have clear-cut right or wrong answers, demonstrable by some formula."He advocates knocking math off its pedestal based on his alleged belief that math doesn't address a list of real problems he states. Hmmm, let me apply my engineering eye to these and tell you what I see.
"Whom should I marry? and Should I marry?"
It seems prudent to me, growing up in a family of seven kids and seeing many marriages not only within but without, that by pure observation of those that are successful versus not, certain 'math' concepts come to mind.
1) Compatibility: HOW MANY activities do they agree on (from vacation to cleaning to raising children, etc.)
2) Handling finances: nothing is more MATHEMATICAL than handling money and, I will leave this exercise to the more robust researches in the group, that money problems are one of the top causes of divorce.
"Should gays be allowed to marry?"
Hmmm, sounds like a religious question. Psalm 1 comes to mind. But back to math and more specifically the numbers involved: how many gays want to get married? What is the correlation between married gays and the rest of us? How does this affect our economy? Every single attribute in this debate can be assigned a numeric consequence except the religious view. And for those, I recommend you start with Psalm 1 before you go into the law making business. Just a thought, not a request for a religious discussion in Math 2.0.
"What career should I go into and how should I prepare for it?"
If your still reading, bless you. This is the ultimate statement of ignorance about math and life. Your career should:
1) make you happy (you better have a list of importance on what makes you tick. You should CORRELATE an estimation of your desires with those that your career choice offer. Just taking an exam for determining your fit for a career involves substantial mathematics on analyzing your psychological makeup.
2) provide for you. Again, back to finances. Will you come out positive in life. Nothing could be more 'math' than this!!!
"If I invent gizmo X, will people buy it?"
OMG. I have started six companies and worked for thirteen others. We were always analyzing what it took to get people to 'buy' an idea or product and it was ALL MATH: % of people you could reach, % of people that would be interested once reached, % of people that would watch a presentation, and so on. OMG, how could anyone answer this without math!!!!
"Should corporations have the same constitutional rights as individuals?"
This is getting old but I will persevere. WHAT DO THE NUMBERS SAY? How many conflicts will they have? How will resources change do to this? What is the MAGNITUDE of this resource shift? How will this affect the economy? In otherwords, what is the financial bottom line on every strata of society? Where does the money flow from this decision, because if money doesn't change its flow, then no one will be pushing for it. Hmm, that just might be my opinion, but possible a wise one coming from decades of observing mathematically based solutions versus emotionally based solutions.
"What's the best way to unplug the toilet?"
Obviously asked with the purest ignorance of engineering, and thus math.
Two choices: physical or chemical.
Two concerns: financial and capability to perform the act.
I hope the real math, the engineering of the plunger that eventually leads to common acceptance then to common sense. Or maybe its the size of the toilet outlet, 2 1/2" output toilets clog much, much easier than 3". But what sane person would want to know that math when purchasing a new toilet because they got tired of unplugging their old toilet!!!
"Math plays little if any role in solving such problems, nor do such problems have clear-cut right or wrong answers, demonstrable by some formula."
Well, I guess someone that make statements like these did not get a GOOD math education. Otherwise, they would see math applications in every single thing they say or do. Maybe just not the math they were taught.
Math 2.0 people. You have your work cut out for you. Math is not on a pedestal. Is is under your feet. IT IS THE FOUNDATION of a full and productive life, even if you just want to produce smiles and happiness.
And a selfless plug. Dream Realizations, ItOnlyTakes1, and Cognitive Engineering Laboratories (CERLabs) are dedicated to bringing recent and on-going research, on how easily the brain 'sees' very large numbers, number shapes and algebraic expressions when presented properly, to the masses. Please check out and join us at Dream Realizations.org (don't miss the 's' on the end.)
I believe my intent has been misunderstood. I do not believe that everything SHOULD be viewed through a mathematical lens. I intimated that everything COULD be viewed mathematically and took objection to the article that gave several examples where the author claimed that math was irrelevant and therefore shouldn't be worshiped. I agree it shouldn't be worshiped. Math is not on a pedestal or should ever be, but it is incredibly foundational. Not only to us but apparently to birds and other mammals as they all seem to have developed the ability to recognize and instinctually operate on small numbers. That is the area of my research and my life's recent work. That is what I believe should become the core of mathematics education: recognize numbers, especially their place shapes, observe how numbers can be used,to predict the future, and observe how meta patterns form the basis for polynomials and calculus. What students do after that is up,to them, but they will know that numbers can help them predict the future. (I'm hoping I rattled the hornet's nest again.). Sweet dreams.
DR @VWBPE: The Poster Site, part 3 and more... posted 3/17/2012
In addition we are also running a continuous competition that will go on after the conference, so take a look at our sign to the right of the bar. We would appreciate having you participate.
Special thanks go out to the institutions that have helped house our learning stations: University of Washington Avalumni, Boise State EdTech Island, Oregon State University Pixel Mtn., University of Oregon CLIVE, and ARVEL @CAVE Island. If you or your institution would like to host one of our learning stations, please contact email@example.com.
We also offer individual and group tours and lessons of our material.
DR @VWBPE: The Poster Site, part 2 The sQi3d Controller posted 3/17/2012
The sQi3d Sushi Bar may seem like just a quaint place to sit, but those placemats are not your ordinary placemats. They serve up numbers like you've never seen before.
The sQi3d (subQuan interactive 3d controller) talks with our 3d placemats. Visitors may play with different modes: subQuan, quantity, base, shape, color. The device will speak to a specific placemat (6-A) or multiple mats if base 'x' is chosen.
A look at our menu to the left of the bar will highlight the sQi3d's capability. We welcome you to play and discover patterns.
The 3d base sheets start on the far left at base six and runs the length of the bamboo bar to base ten (A) on the far right. You can imagine the prim usage, so we had to disable 2d mode in addition to not displaying bases two through five.
Here we have a quartic equation: 5x4 +6x3 -4x2 -2x +8, but don't let me kill your synapses. Come discover for yourself. You can "see" it!
DR @VWBPE: The Poster Site, part 1 posted 3/17/2012
Dream Realizations, in conjunction with ItOnlyTakes1 and CERLabs, participated in VWBPE12 in many ways. With four presentations and a very creative Poster site, we provided the audience with the ability to "see" numbers, how their "new view" applies to Algebra and beyond, and shared the interface on which Cooper Macbeth has been so diligently working.
Notice the sQi3d Sushi Bar (pronounced 'squid') as our backdrop coinciding with this year's Japanese theme: Be Epic! Our subtle and yet powerful programming lay hidden for only the intrepid and curious visitor. Let me give you a tour of our relaxing and "eye-opening" Poster Site.
The first view of our platform is a space for rejuvination and collaboration with our tai chi poseballs and soothing spa-like atmosphere.
In one corner, you will find a small bamboo table with a blue orchid bonsai centered between two incredibly effective artifacts. To the left is what we call The Hands. The Hands is a binary counting tool that teaches color, shape, container (base), and number. This device was offered to all our session attendees on Saturday's 3-hour Workshop. To the right is our standard Base Number Sheet (BNS). This sheet happens to be in base 6 and is controlled by a HUD or a sQi3d Controller. Above the table, on our only media prim, is our Prezi introducing subQuan and our need for it in math education, which can be found at http://prezi.com/_bjmdidoxnxp/subquan-intro/ .
Moving along the back wall, you will find information about our 501(c)(3) Dream Realizations, contact points to follow our developments and get involved with us (http://dreamrealization.ning.com/), and two screens showing our activities around SL.
Don't forget to spend some luxurious time in the spa! But let's turn our attention now to the heart of our undertaking: The sQi3d Sushi Bar.
What is Number Sense? Is it the same as number concept? Posted 2/14/2012
Thanks to Mitzi on the LinkedIn group Math, Math Education, Math Culture for posting this question and a special thank you to Colin McAllister for letting me know about it! Here are a few of the responses for you to peruse:
Colin McAllister • Mitzi,
It seems to me that "number concept" is an abstract or intellectual
understanding, and that "number sense" is a skill that one applies to
perceiving and manipulating numbers, i.e. counting. The simple answer is
that they are not the same. They differ in the same way as the
dictionary definitions of "concept" and "sense" differ. A computer
programmer might use number concept when designing a program algorithm,
and number sense when checking the output of a program for obvious
Henry Schaffer • My favorite example of number sense is http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs261/background/p180-bentley.pdf "The Back of the Envelope".
Lynne Ipina • Perhaps you would be interested in the "strands" of numerical fluency from the report "Adding It Up: Helping Children to Learn Mathematics. See pages 115-117: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9822&page=115
Rebecca Reiniger • Mitzi,
Sounds like you have hit the same problem that I have in investigating
the various definitions of "number sense". I have seen it also as number
instinct and quantity sense. I would love some of your research finds
where they discuss the variances.
Check out the group page if you're interested in more or adding your own comment:
Or feel free to comment here!
CERLabs Learning Environment Prototype Posted 1/18/2012
Now that we are speaking at
CO12, Connecting Online Conference, Cooper has been working tirelessly
on the design and implementation of a learning environment in Second
Life. We currently have eight Universities willing to house these
rotundas where we will also advertise their programs. We hope to
greatly increase the virtual world traffic for the benefit of all
entities. Our first prototype can be found at the University of Washington: Contact us for a tour as it is still under construction.
This first lesson, Place Shape vs. Place Value, will be the main topic of our presentation at CO12. You can see an explanation of this concept during the first part of our Prezi. We continually brainstorm additional lessons that take advantage of the 3D realism in Second Life.
A fascinating thing about 3D lessons is the active involvement of participants in their own learning. These environments are conducive to: 1) teachers wishing to understand the concept of subQuan in order to apply it in their classrooms, 2) college students desiring to have a deeper understanding of why algebra works, or 3) anyone interested in learning how to use a virtual environment to enhance the education process. Avatars participating in the lesson receive a HUD, which allows them to interact with the self-paced lesson. Try your newfound skills and discover the shape of numbers!
If you can join us at CO12, please do: WiZiQ on February 3rd @ 6pm PST. Follow this link to sign up.
If you would like to learn more or get involved in lesson design, please do not hesitate to notify Cooper, Anna-Marie, or me.
subQuan Intro via Prezi Posted 12/14/2011
I've been working on a Prezi introduction for DR and subQuan to give viewers and idea of our direction. It is still in rough form as I need new pictures in accordance with the new BNS updates that Cooper is so diligently working on. It's quite a challenge to get everything up and running after back surgery and a root canal. Ugh! Our prayers are with you, Cooper!!
Anyway, take a peek and give me some feedback about cohesiveness, understandability, and flow. Also, let me know if it induces motion sickness. I will continue to make changes and upgrades and post my revisions here to keep you up to date!
Thank you in advance for your comments!
3D GameLab - The Future of Gaming Posted 8/6/2011
Learn by doing! What a concept! I think kids are interested in producing, not just consuming. I have heard some individuals say that games are only fun for a while then people/children will get bored and want to do some higher-level learning. I think that it all works together: another tool. How boring to do one activity every time, with games the versatility is so broad.
I have often thought that mathematics is one of these heavy textbook driven courses: giving more information than is used at the time of student need. That is why I am feeling called into the mission of changing the paradigm of math education. I believe that by changing the focus of math in the elementary grades, we could, conceivably, have math through Algebra taught before children get to middle school.
Imagine not being required to take 4 years of high school math. Not having math as a stand-alone class except as an elective. Incorporating math into all other disciplines. Imagine students with the ability to grasp estimates and have a great number sense. This is exactly what Dream Realizations is working toward and I believe that gaming is a very large part of it all.
I really like the idea of games that are not just for playing, but also for creating and producing: interaction and emotion. They leave you vulnerable to brainwashing, as David Perry explained here:
So, we need to be careful with content, but to be able to have a deep, emotional pull that substantiates situational, experiential learning is a powerful tool for education. This leads the educator to be careful, thorough, and thoughtful in design of games and tools used in the classroom.
I'm not sure if I want to be involved in something virtual that can be classified as "better than life". I would rather be involved in something that enhances life and makes some of it easier and more rewarding in the internal aspect.
Games and their rewards are motivating for humans and being able to measure all those points of data allows for specified reward system to build and engage learners.
Tom Chatfield – "7 Ways to Reward the Brain"
The power of virtuality
1. Experience bars measuring progress
2. Multiple long- and short-term aims (calibrated slices)
3. Rewards for effort (credit for trying, too)
4. Rapid, frequent, clear feedback (learn the lesson and move on)
5. An element of uncertainty (this lights the brain up – transforms the levels of engagement - Dopamine)
6. Windows of enhanced engagement (memory & confidence)
7. Other people!
Business – recycling and education (real time energy meters)
Education – grand continuity (small tasks and calculated randomness with rewards)
Government – financial rewards to remove obesity and more
ENGAGEMENT – individual & collective
Hello all! Posted 12/3/2010
Welcome to Dream Realizations! We are looking forward to some interesting conversations regarding Math Visualization! I will be posting some research abstracts in the future to talk about and disseminate as to how they relate to subQuanning and I would love your opinions.
Have a blessed day!
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Can some students not learn Algebra? posted 11/26/2011 by Rebecca
Dan Meyer posted an interesting and highly commented on blog post this week: http://bit.ly/sK5VhY .
"Last April, fourteen of Palo Alto High School's twenty math teachers petitioned their school board [pdf] against raising graduation requirements to include Algebra II:
Many of the comments to this blog post talk about the usefulness of Algebra and specifically Algebra II. As it is taught currently, I would tend to agree that's it's abstractness is not necessarily used on a daily basis. I do, though, believe that if algebra were more easily understood, it could be applied in more situations in order to increase successful outcomes.
This is where DR comes in! We are needed now more than ever.
Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas posted 6/10/2011 by Rebecca
I read a fantastic NYTimes article this week:
It talks about how our intuition is underused and that the human eye can recognize patterns quickly in our subconscious even before we understand it ourselves: perceptual training. Quoted studies include:
1) Matching equations to graphs (quickly)
2) Liking a better deck of cards when gambling
3) Distinguishing painting styles [I like this one the best!]*
4) Fraction building (quickly - repetition)
5) Slime-mold for global warming experiment
Patterns, patterns, patterns....they are what life is all about. It is so nice to find research that is, yet again, substantiating the direction of Dream Realizations.
*3) Distinguishing painting styles [I like this one the best!] Seeing multiple painting styles instead of just concentrating on one artist alone allows the eye to pick up the pattern naturally. I relate this to base systems: if we teach all base systems, then the eye can pick up the patterns for itself and focus is off the single painter (base 10). The world has opened up with possibilities!!
Definitely worth the read!
DR is developing a public grant to bring subQuan to the iPad posted 4/9/2011 by Cooper
I believe the touch interface will enable the creation of an intuitive and very real graphical user interface (GUI). This GUI allows us to build seamless transitions in the user input screen based on the level of knowledge and special needs of the user. This is ideal for young students learning numerical values, words, and symbols. I also believe this might provide a solution to a problem dyslexics have with numbers.
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Math Visualization posted 12/4/2010 by Rebecca
What does "math visualization" conjure up in your mind? Is it only physical manipulatives? Or is it drawing out a word problem into pictures? We regularly step back from math and try to visualize its usage, but have we stepped back far enough to see the patterns? Just a few random thoughts to start off a Saturday morning. Happy weekending, all!
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Brains vs. Computers posted 12/4/2012 by Rebecca
The brain can be compared to computer hardware. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become more widely useful in computer and video processing. "Using GPUs … gives the computer a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size" (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1563044/supercomputer-gpu-... , paragraph 2). The vector (3D) graphics implementation in computer hardware has increased capacity and facilitated a greater speed in computing. "GPUs are redefining high performance computing," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "With the Tianhe-1A, GPUs now power two of the top three fastest computers in the world today. These GPU supercomputers are essential tools for scientists looking to turbocharge their rate of discovery" (http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyi/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F5... , paragraph 7). Designers are finding in the computer industry that graphics give computers a stronger foundation for processing.
Dehaene (Jossey-Bass, 2008) describes a major upheaval in the mental arithmetic system during the preschool years when "progressing in math means storing a wealth of numerical knowledge in memory" (p. 281). This storage of numbers in the brain is different than the storage of vocabulary. Verbal memory can be powerful with its cohesiveness and connectedness. Humans possess associative brains; we can open a memory from a vague recollection, something computers have yet to master, which makes learning vocabulary easier than learning the multiplication table. Each calculation within the multiplication table hangs independent of the other multiples when memorizing and that's where the brain's associative nature fumbles and numbers jumble inside our head, resulting in mistaken memories, which correlates to wrong answers. So, why are we still relying on this outdated practice of memorization?
Jossey-Bass, I. (2008). The Jossey-Bass reader on the brain and learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Virtual Worlds and Mathematics posted 12/4/2010 by Rebecca
How can we incorporate what has been done in the past with virtual worlds, how the brain learns, and using this 3-D environment to tap into the instincts with which individuals were born and see mathematics as we have never seen it before: patterns unrecognizable without the advancement of technology?
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The weekend is here! And even though I wish it were a tad bit warmer, it's a perfect day for baking. Low 60 degrees is optimum baking weather, in my opinion. So bakers start your ovens!
Continuing with my cookie obsession lately, I have yet another recipe to pass along. I know I tend to make lots of chocolate treats, but I'm a true chocoholic. I can't help it. So, in the spirit of balance, I'm doing something different today.
Snickerdoodles are a loved childhood staple. And they also are good because they avoid worries like nut allergies or chocolate. It's basically a cinnamon sugar cookie. And these are loaded with mini cinnamon chips for extra yumminess! Of course I made them extra large for fun, but you can adjust the size to your own liking. Just decrease the baking time and watch them carefully.
They are super simple to whip up, but don't skip the chilling step. It makes a big difference. Also the addition of cream of tartar is important to keep them soft inside. I hope you give these a try. And BTW, have a fantastic Saturday. You deserve it ♥
Supersized Cinnamon Chip Snickerdoodles
1 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pkg cinnamon chips
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Divorce can be extremely traumatic for children. Aside from confusion about why their parents are not living in the same house anymore, feelings of guilt, shame, and embarrassment can leave a lasting imprint, especially when seeming to have to choose between parents.
In Connecticut family law courts, the best interests of the children are a primary consideration. Therefore, parents owe it to themselves to work with a New Haven family law attorney who can help them advocate for their child and work toward child custody or visitation arrangements that are truly in their child's best interests. Since there is no set standard or exact science which determines child custody, it is important to have an attorney help you through the legal process for the best possible outcome for your child. En Español.
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As with many other aspects of family law, child custody is not a straightforward issue. There are a number of things in considering custody, including where the child lives, if both parents are involved, if other family members are involved, how the child is doing in school, and how they are doing medically.
In most cases, parents will share physical custody to some degree. Physical custody refers to a child's primary residence, meaning who the child will reside with more than 50% of the time. In some cases, however, awarding sole physical custody may be more appropriate, with the other parent entitled to supervised visitation.
Legal custody is another crucial component to consider. Legal custody basically means the ability to make decisions that would be called joint legal custody. Joint legal custody is when both people have the right to make decisions concerning the child, and also have legal right to records, such as medical records or school records. This determines the parents' rights to make important decisions on behalf of their children, like their schooling, their health care, or even their religion.
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Married v. Not Married
In Connecticut, there are two aspects of child custody when there is a divorce. There is the custody case where people are married, and then there is a custody case where people were never married. When people are not married, it will usually be handled in the magistrate court, although it can also be handled in family court.
A custody-only case deals with only the custody, visitation, and child support, and there are a number of factors that go into determining who gets custody. These factors would be the same for the other type of custody case, which is part and parcel to a divorce case where the parties are getting a divorce and there are kids involved.
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In terms of what goes into child custody, it is a totality of the circumstances. The circumstances include the age of the child, how they are doing, or if there are any types of aggravating circumstances regarding the custody, such as police involvement, Department of Children and Family involvement, or any kinds of allegations of dues.
Usually, custody is ultimately determined by what is in the best interest of the child.
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There are several different parties that are involved in a custody determination and who can have influence on the custody of the child. In some cases, there are potential guardian ad litems, which are attorneys that represent the interest of the child. There are also attorneys for the minor child who would represent the child overall. These are standard relations by the Department of Children and Family.
Some of the interests of the parties may not be aligned, so having an attorney help you navigate all of these different people. By doing so, it works toward the end goal of allowing the parents to ultimately decide where the custody lies with their child, rather than the decision be made a third party that does not know the family.
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The most important thing is, unless all communication has broken down between the parties, the parents should sit down and talk about the case and about what they are going to do. The best situation for a child is if the parents have open lines of communication.
Open communication is what is best for a child, and that is overall what a custody case is all about. The case is not about the parents, and if a volatile custody battle occurs, it will invariably boil over into the child.
Maintaining an understanding is crucial. The parties must maintain an understanding that, at the end of the day, is about doing what is in the best interest of the child.
Making Modifications
You can modify custody and visitation arrangements either by mutual consent of the parties, or by motion, at which point you would have a hearing in court. Oftentimes, when there is a big modification in custody, there will be other attorneys involved, such as a guardian ad litem, who will do what is called a family study. Family relations can also do a family study, in which they examine every single part of your life and they will make the recommendation to court about what is in the best interest of the child.
Custody determinations can be modified after there is an agreement. It is very difficult because both people sign on to that, but if there is mutual consent, then it is much easier.
If there is a court order and two people decide to deviate from that court order, though, a side agreement means nothing until there is actually a court order with that modification. You therefore need to go to court to have a true modification.