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Key Resource: Using group work in your classroom
What group work does
Group work can be a very effective way of motivating pupils to learn by encouraging them to think, communicate, exchange ideas and thoughts, and make decisions. In groups, pupils can both teach others and learn from each other in ways that result in a powerful and active form of learning.
When to do group work
Group work can be used:
- at the start of a lesson or topic, to find out what pupils already know;
- during a lesson, to encourage understanding or to share views and opinions about a topic;
- at the end of a lesson, to help pupils think about their learning and be clear about what they know and what they still need to understand.
Before you start
- Before starting a group session, be clear about what you want to achieve from it. It needs to have a clear purpose or objective. For example: 'By the end of the session we will be able to describe how rain is formed and what it does to our local landscape.'
- Divide the class into manageable groups depending on the size of your class, but don't make them too large – everyone needs to be able to contribute. You may have to move furniture or perhaps have some groups outside.
- Give each individual a job to do in the group. These could include: recorder of what's said; organiser; devil's advocate; peacekeeper; spokesperson; link person with other groups.
- Decide ways in which you will divide pupils into groups. You could use friendship groups, put similar personalities together, different personalities together, similar ability groups, mixed ability groups – or have no category at all. Which one will work best in the situation you are planning?
- Plan enough time for the pupils to reach a conclusion as well as time at the end of the session for each group – and you – to summarise the conclusions.
Introducing the group work
- Once pupils are in their groups, explain that working together to solve a problem or reach a decision is an important part of their learning and personal development. Tell them what you expect of them in terms of behaviour (e.g. respect for each other, listening, making decisions) and individual roles (e.g. spokesperson, recorder).
- Explain the task clearly and have it written on the board as well. Tell the pupils what they have to do and what the outcome of their group work should look like. This is very important because if they do not understand what they have to do, the session will get off to a bad start. Allow pupils to ask questions before you start, and be helpful with your answers.
Managing the group work
Check how the groups are doing. Resist the temptation to get involved too soon. Let them struggle with difficulties for a while. If you give them answers too quickly they will come to rely on you rather than on themselves. If necessary, clarify your instructions. It is important to remember that all learning requires us to struggle with difficulty or uncertainty. So expect a lot from your pupils, telling them how confident you are in them as you go between the groups.
Ending the group work
- End with a whole-class session in which you get, for example, one idea from each group until you meet the original objective, or ask each group to tell you about the most interesting thing they learned. Try to make the final session an exchange of ideas rather than you telling them what they have missed.
- Summarise the work of the groups in a way that makes them feel proud of what they have done. Also, ask them to tell you how well they thought they worked in a group. This gives you a clue about their own response to group work.
- Finally, think about how well you did in managing the group session. Recognise the parts you did well and note those areas where you could have done things differently to make the groups more effective. Use this information to develop your techniques for the next time, and note your own improvement and that of your pupils.


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Listen to Paul Simon's New Take on 'One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor'
Paul Simon has released an update of his '70s-era track "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor" from the upcoming In The Blue Light. Due on Sept. 7 via Sony Legacy, the album finds Simon revisiting moments from throughout his career, and arrives towards the end of his farewell tour.
"This album consists of songs that I thought were almost right, or were odd enough to be overlooked the first time around," Simon, 76, said in a statement confirming the release. "Re-doing arrangements, harmonic structures, and lyrics that didn't make their meaning clear, gave me time to clarify in my own head what I wanted to say, or realize what I was thinking and make it more easily understood."
You can listen to both the new and original version below:
"It's an unusual occurrence for an artist to have the opportunity to revisit earlier works and rethink them; to modify, even completely change parts of the originals," Simon added. "Happily, this opportunity also gave me the gift of playing with an extraordinary group of musicians, most of whom I hadn't recorded with before. I hope the listener will find these new versions of old songs refreshed, like a new coat of paint on the walls of an old family home."
Simon recently announced that his final show would take place on Sept. 22 – not in New York's Central Park, as many fans had expected, but in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. He commented: "It seems more like fate than coincidence that I should do the final show on this final tour at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. I could have ridden my bike from home to the park in about 20 minutes, when I was a kid. ... But this is less a goodbye than a farewell. Thank you all for the ride, I had a great time."
"One Man's Ceiling" originally closed out side one on 1973's There Goes Rhymin' Simon, home to the Top 40 hits "Kodachrome," "Loves Me Like a Rock" and "American Tune."


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See that box FULL of DVD cases? It's going in the basement (in case we ever want to change our system or sell a DVD with the case or something). See that little box of discs? That's all the DVDs in a cute little box that will easily fit on a shelf in our living room- yay! :)
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We know, we know…if you're a film fan, you're being deluged with stuff right about now, be it the year-end new releases hoping for awards love or the just-announced Sundance lineup. And yet it's not too soon to start thinking about March, July, and November of 2013, certainly not as far as Dreamworks Animation is concerned, as their big titles for next year were given a showcase yesterday morning on the company's new home turf: the 20th Century Fox lot. For the next five years, the plan is to do three animated features a year, some of which, we were told, will feature familiar characters (i.e., sequels – but to what? The Madagascar and Shrek storylines are basically wrapped. A penguin spin-off is happening, but what else? More Guardians?) while others will be all-new.
Actually, let me walk back the last comments a tad – "familiar characters" may not always mean sequels. Indeed, the highlight of the presentation was a look at Mr. Peabody & Sherman, a CG adaptation of the Jay Ward characters. Yes, I did say highlight, and sympathize with your suspicions: from the Dave Thomas/Sally Kellerman Boris & Natasha to Brendan Fraser as an unfortunate Mountie, Hollywood hasn't exactly been able to "Do-Right" with Bullwinkle and his animated pals. But with Jay's daughter Tiffany as a consultant, it looks like they might finally have gotten one right.
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For those that don't know – and I have only the sketchiest of knowledge, seeing as how the first generation of Cold War kids are the original fan base – Mr. Peabody is a super-intelligent dog who has adopted a human child named Sherman, and together they travel through time in furtherance of the boy's education. To use a modern pop-cultural reference, Mr. Peabody's personality feels a bit like a less obnoxious Niles Crane (Frasier references aren't obsolete yet, are they?) and fear not, Dreamworks has not watered down his large vocabulary for the sake of the kids. The cast, which includes Stephen Colbert and Mel Brooks, also implies a smart satirical bent.
Firstly, we were shown what seems to be the teaser trailer, beginning with the original 2D cartoon (specifically, Peabody's self-intro in the cartoon above), then pulling back and panning around to reveal that it's on a flatscreen TV, being viewed by the fully 3D Sherman (Max Charles), who wonders what he's watching. Mr. Peabody (Modern Family's Ty Burrell) explains that it's them in the past, and then says they're going to use their time machine ("the WABAC") to go into the future. The future where everyone has Internet in their heads, asks Sherman? No – the future date of November 1st, when their movie comes out.
The movie begins with the duo going back to the French revolution and a meeting with Marie Antoinette, which leads to trouble when Sherman wanders off looking for some cake. We were then shown an unfinished clip of Mr. Peabody being taken to the guillotine, as Sherman looks on in horror and asks what he can do. Mr. P tells him to stare right where he is… as the sun reflects off his glasses in just the right way, and he escapes. Asked how he did it, he goes into Guy-Ritchie-Sherlock-Holmesian detail about how he calculated the spacing of manholes, weakness of the wood and the angle of the sun off Sherman's glasses. Escaping to the sewer, they encounter Robespierre, whom Peabody tricks into dropping his sword, as the surf a sewer current on a manhole.
That's just the intro. Afterward, the plot kicks into gear as we follow Sherman to his first day of school. Here, in history class, he makes a new enemy in the form of bratty blonde Penny Peterson (Ariel Winter), who is duly embarrassed when Sherman announces to the class that the story of George Washington cutting down the cherry tree is "apocryphal."
Sometime after that scene, we are told that Sherman gets into a fight with Penny after she tells him he's a dog because his father's a dog. Called in to the principal's office, Mr. P misunderstands and starts proposing an AP curriculum for his boy, before learning that he bit Penny, and lawsuits may be in the offing, including a call to child protective services about the fact that a dog has a human son.
To make peace, Penny and her family are invited around for dinner, but in a bid to get Penny to stop threatening him, Sherman tries to impress her by showing her the time machine. He doesn't want to let her inside it, but she taunts him by saying that if he always does what people tell him, that makes him a dog.
And that's all the footage we saw – the story really kicks off from there, it seems, as Sherman loses Penny in ancient Egypt. Events which unfold will also take them to the Renaissance and the Trojan War, as it becomes evident that time tampering could affect the fate of the universe.
The animation was mostly unfinished, but didn't necessarily seem like it would be state of the art – nor does it have to be (Jay Ward's original animation was about as primitive as it gets). The key is to keep its humor smart, while simultaneously getting kids interested in history. So far, it looks to be on the right track.
The other two movies being previewed, Turbo and The Croods, seemed like much more typical Dreamworks fare, with the obligatory over-familiar pop song as conspicuous as ever (House of Pain's "Jump Around;" Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"). Both also star Ryan Reynolds. To me, that's a good thing – he's a funny guy whose leading-man looks get in the way of respect, which is not so much of a factor in voice-over.
In Turbo, he's a snail who's obsessed with Formula 1 racing – in keeping with a theme that pervaded all three presentations, the opening of the movie, which we were showed, featured another 2D-to-3D fakeout, as a car race we initially see in vivid detail turns out only to be on TV in the background, and playing VHS tapes no less (I know it takes a long time to make an animated flick, but… VHS tapes?). His brother is played by Paul Giamatti, which likely represents the only time that sentence will ever be written. Needless to say, snails have a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to quickness – there's a sequence where Turbo times himself trying to run the length of a 12-inch ruler, and is overjoyed that he sets a new record of 17 minutes.
Later, he finds his way out into the real world when he falls into traffic, and winds up being on the hood of a car that enters a Fast and Furious-style street race. Accidentally sucked into the engine and near-drowned in nitrous oxide, he finds himself changing at a molecular level, attaining the powers of a race car complete with headlights in the eyes, tail indicator lights and of course super-speed, which comes in handy when he's kidnapped by a taco vendor for use in after-hours snail racing. The other racing snails, whose shells are decked out like sports cars, are voiced by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Snoop Dogg, and Maya Rudolph.
Since snails aren't that expressive as animals, the use of their eye-stalks as "hands" where appropriate is a nice touch. Still, it feels a little formulaic, like Dreamworks saw the merchandising success of the Cars movies and wanted some of that for themselves.
Though The Croods appears to be anchored by Emma Stone, whose presence is always welcome, the main appeal to me (and others, I suspect) is Nicolas Cage as a caveman. Sure, I'd rather see that in live action, but still… Nic Cage as a caveman. Once again, the movie's beginning features 2D becoming 3D, this time via cave paintings that come to life, as Emma Stone's Eep narrates the story of her life in the last caveman family to survive in their valley, the others having all met horrible ends. As such, Cage's patriarch is super-protective and never lets anyone leave the cave except to hunt for food. But when Eep does, she meets Guy (Ryan Reynolds again), an evolving type who has discovered such things as shoes and fire, and who tells her the end of the world is coming. Turns out he's predicting continental drift, and the first warning sign is a massive avalanche that rips the Croods' cave apart and reveals a lush new outside world that feels pretty much like Avatar's planet Pandora. The animals they find there are in a state of evolutionary flux, and tend to be half-and-half type things: whales that walk on land, piranha birds that swirl in tornado formations, mammoths with leopard-skin patterns, a carnivorous version of the exotic bird from Up, etc.
There are what are sure to become some classic new Cage-isms in what we saw – when confronted with fire for the first time and becoming scared of it, for example, he loudly advises his son, "Try hiding it in the tall, dry grass!" Plus there are numerous versions of him making like an ape expressing dominance and simply roaring gibberish, in the manner of Homer Simpson. Visually, though – and I know this has been in the works for nine years, so it may be unfortunate coincidence – the similarity to Avatar of the visuals is a bit much. And "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" on the soundtrack is very unfortunate; in a movie that otherwise seems to lack gratuitously "modern" jokes (e.g. the automatic customer service menu gag with the witch in Brave), a more classic score would be more appealing.
With that said, though, I spoke to a small child afterwards and she told me she loved the looks of Turbo and The Croods more so than Mr. Peabody. This could be because some of the Mr. Peabody animation was rough and unfinished, but I also suspect it's because the other two are more visceral.
The Croods opens March 22nd, Turbo opens July 19th, and Mr. Peabody & Sherman opens Nov. 1st. All three movies will be in 3D.


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December 23rd, 2009
Packard, Maddow and flaming punch
Heads up, drinkbostonians: Josey Packard, one of Boston's best bartenders, will appear tonight on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC (9:00 p.m. EST) to mix up a flaming bowl of Christmas Rum Punch. Go, Josey, go!
Regular viewers know that Maddow often closes her political talk show with a bit on cocktails — I recall Dale DeGroff mixing Irish coffees on the set earlier this year. More recently, Maddow shared with her audience an investigative coup: an actual drink menu from one of the Obamas' regular White House cocktail parties. As you see in the short video segment above, she not only described the cocktails (the Emerson, the Stone Fence and the Frost) but explained some of their ingredients (applejack, maraschino liqueur), named and photographed the bartenders who served them (Derek Brown and Adam Bernbach), pointed out that bartending is an American invention, and signed off with this delicious nugget: "And remember, Martinis do not contain vodka."
Packard, a friend of Maddow's who did guest spots about cocktails on the latter's radio show back in her Air America days, will make a punch recipe adapted from the 1949 edition of Esquire's Handbook for Hosts, about which Paul Clarke writes humorously on Cocktail Chronicles. I got a live preview at a recent Christmas party as Josey did a (not so) dry run of the flaming punch for the assembled guests. It was very cool, what with all the spices and orange oil making sparks as they were tossed into the bowl. Even the sternest Scrooge would be uplifted by this vessel of flaming goodness.
Watch the show, congratulate Josey the next time you're at Drink, and have a merry Christmas!
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Think different. It was more than an advertising slogan. It was a manifesto, and with it, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs upended the computer industry, the music industry and the world of mobile phones. The digital visionary's next plan was to bring radical change to schools and textbook publishers, but he died of cancer before he could do it.
Some of the ideas that may have occurred to Jobs are now on display in the Netherlands. Eleven "Steve Jobs schools" will open in August, with Amsterdam among the cities that will be hosting such a facility. Some 1,000 children aged four to 12 will attend the schools, without notebooks, books or backpacks. Each of them, however, will have his or her own iPad.
There will be no blackboards, chalk or classrooms, homeroom teachers, formal classes, lesson plans, seating charts, pens, teachers teaching from the front of the room, schedules, parent-teacher meetings, grades, recess bells, fixed school days and school vacations. If a child would rather play on his or her iPad instead of learning, it'll be okay. And the children will choose what they wish to learn based on what they happen to be curious about.
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Scientists from IBM have unveiled the first neurosynaptic computer chip to achieve an unprecedented scale of one-million programmable neurons, 256-million programmable synapses and 46-billion synaptic operations per second per watt. At 5.4-billion transistors, this fully functional and production-scale chip is currently one of the largest CMOS chips ever built, yet, while running at biological real time, it consumes a minuscule 70mW—orders of magnitude less power than a modern microprocessor.
A neurosynaptic supercomputer the size of a postage stamp that runs on the energy equivalent of a hearing-aid battery, this technology could transform science, technology, business, government, and society by enabling vision, audition, and multi-sensory applications. The breakthrough, published in Science in collaboration with Cornell Tech, is a significant step towards bringing cognitive computers to society.
There is a huge disparity between the human brain's cognitive capability and ultra-low power consumption when compared to today's computers. To bridge the divide, IBM scientists created something that didn't previously exist—an entirely new neuroscience-inspired scalable and efficient computer architecture that breaks path with the prevailing von Neumann architecture used almost universally since 1946.
Culmination of almost a decade of research
This second generation chip is the culmination of almost a decade of research and development, including the initial single core hardware prototype in 2011 and software ecosystem with a new programming language and chip simulator in 2013.
The new cognitive chip architecture has an on-chip two-dimensional mesh network of 4096 digital, distributed neurosynaptic cores, where each core module integrates memory, computation, and communication, and operates in an event-driven, parallel, and fault-tolerant fashion. To enable system scaling beyond single-chip boundaries, adjacent chips, when tiled, can seamlessly connect to each other—building a foundation for future neurosynaptic supercomputers. To demonstrate scalability, IBM also revealed a 16-chip system with sixteen million programmable neurons and four billion programmable synapses.
"IBM has broken new ground in the field of brain-inspired computers, in terms of a radically new architecture, unprecedented scale, unparalleled power/area/speed efficiency, boundless scalability, and innovative design techniques. We foresee new generations of information technology systems – that complement today's von Neumann machines – powered by an evolving ecosystem of systems, software, and services," said Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing, IBM Research. "These brain-inspired chips could transform mobility, via sensory and intelligent applications that can fit in the palm of your hand but without the need for Wi-Fi. This achievement underscores IBM's leadership role at pivotal transformational moments in the history of computing via long-term investment in organic innovation."
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded the project since 2008 with approximately $53M via Phase 0, Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program. Current collaborators include Cornell Tech and iniLabs, Ltd.
Building the chip
The chip was fabricated using Samsung's 28nm process technology that has a dense on-chip memory and low-leakage transistors.
"It is an astonishing achievement to leverage a process traditionally used for commercially available, low-power mobile devices to deliver a chip that emulates the human brain by processing extreme amounts of sensory information with very little power," said Shawn Han, vice president of Foundry Marketing, Samsung Electronics. "This is a huge architectural breakthrough that is essential as the industry moves toward the next-generation cloud and big-data processing. It's a pleasure to be part of technical progress for next-generation through Samsung's 28nm technology."
The event-driven circuit elements of the chip used the asynchronous design methodology developed at Cornell Tech and refined with IBM since 2008.
"After years of collaboration with IBM, we are now a step closer to building a computer similar to our brain," said Professor Rajit Manohar, Cornell Tech.
The combination of cutting-edge process technology, hybrid asynchronous-synchronous design methodology, and new architecture has led to a power density of 20mW/cm2 which is nearly four orders of magnitude less than today's microprocessors.
Advancing the SyNAPSE ecosystem
The new chip is a component of a complete end-to-end vertically integrated ecosystem spanning a chip simulator, neuroscience data, supercomputing, neuron specification, programming paradigm, algorithms and applications, and prototype design models. The ecosystem supports all aspects of the programming cycle from design through development, debugging, and deployment.
To bring forth this fundamentally different technological capability to society, IBM has designed a novel teaching curriculum for universities, customers, partners, and IBM employees.
Applications and vision
This ecosystem signals a shift in moving computation closer to the data, taking in vastly varied kinds of sensory data, analyzing and integrating real-time information in a context-dependent way, and dealing with the ambiguity found in complex, real-world environments.
Looking to the future, IBM is working on integrating multi-sensory neurosynaptic processing into mobile devices constrained by power, volume and speed; integrating novel event-driven sensors with the chip; real-time multimedia cloud services accelerated by neurosynaptic systems; and neurosynaptic supercomputers by tiling multiple chips on a board, creating systems that would eventually scale to one hundred trillion synapses and beyond.
Building on previously demonstrated neurosynaptic cores with on-chip, online learning, IBM envisions building learning systems that adapt in real world settings. While today's hardware is fabricated using a modern CMOS process, the underlying architecture is poised to exploit advances in future memory, 3D integration, logic, and sensor technologies to deliver even lower power, denser package, and faster speed.


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Sunday, October 31, 2010
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
It's great to be a homeschooler.
What My Child is Reading - A Journey Into American History
This year though, after enjoying a little pre-Columbus Day foray into the voyages of the Vikings. I'm hoping to cover more with the children, than the usual Plymouth fare.
I'm thinking conquistadors, and early Indian slave trade (Squanto couldn't have been the only one captured, and taken off to Europe), and some of the non-English colonies, early in the country's forming.
Finding good books for children, on this time period, has proved challenging. I have a few ordered in at the library, but for the most part, the choices were dismal, and disheartening. I did happen onto a radio interview of Tony Horwitz, on YouTube, discussing his book A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. It is not written for children, but it does seem to cover exactly what I was looking for.
So, it's become our family read-aloud for the month. So far, we've made it through the prologue in which Mr. Horwitz promises to take us on a journey through some of the lesser studied parts of the American past, and the first two chapters, about the Vikings, and Columbus.
It's part travelogue, part history book, and written in a very accessible, conversational style, that so far, has kept the entire family engaged (as long as the little ones have coloring sheets). It is not written for children however, and the language from time to time, is colorful - but nothing that the careful reader can't sidestep. So, while it's not one I'd give to the children to read alone, it has made for some interesting, and entertaining evenings, together.
Find out what other families are reading, at this week's What My Child is Reading blog-hop, hosted by Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Crochet Pilgrim Finger Puppet Preview
Pilgrim and Indian Windowsill Egghead Planters
Friday, October 29, 2010
Our Flock of Thankful Turkeys
Thursday, October 28, 2010
A Runaway Pumpkin Craft
It turns out to be a craft/science/toy project book - just the type we really love around here. So, I pulled it out today, when the little ones started begging for a craft. Admittedly, most of the 52 projects are aimed at the middle elementary school set. But, I saw one I thought we could modify a bit, to go along with a pre-naptime story, for my youngest two.
I gave the girls each a paper plate, and set them to painting the backsides orange, while I did a quick Internet search for a runaway pumpkin themed story. The older children had all headed off to the library, but reported back, that all the pumpkin books had been checked out. Happily, I found Kevin Lewis' The Runaway Pumpkin being read here, on teachertube.com.
I should mention, that this story takes place on Halloween, and does have children in costumes, and Jack-O-Lanerns, but it's really about the great big, runaway pumpkin, and what becomes of it, more than anything else.
I played it for the girls, while their plates dried, and then I hot glued a rock near the inside edge of one of the plates. The rock needs to be secured pretty well - even with hot glue, our rock eventually broke loose, and had to be re-glued.
Finally, I hot glued the plates together, to make our runaway pumpkin (the girls added a bit of tissue paper for a stem too, because they thought it looked too plain). The idea, is to roll the pumpkin (wheel-like), and watch its silly, runaway path, as it swerves, and curves, because of the weight of the rock.
Lopshire's book does not call for hot glue, but I was in a hurry, because nap time was approaching, and the girls were anxious to give it a try. So, I didn't want to wait for school glue to dry.
I rushed them out onto the driveway, pumpkin, and camera in hand, to try to capture a video, explanation of what it's meant to do. However, my camera only allows for about two minutes of video, before the memory is used up, and rolling glued together, paper plates proved to be a bit tricky for my four and five year old. Of course it didn't help, that while videoing, my communication skills sink to the level of the museum curator from Night at the Museu...(am I making myself clear?).
The girls did however, manage to get one good, runaway, roll in, before the camera stopped filming. So, for your viewing pleasure, I present - "A Runaway Pumpkin Craft, and a Tiny Slice of the Homeschool Life in Montana".
It's great to be a homeschooler.
Zucchini for Breakfast
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Pepper's Ghost in a Box for Kids
I hadn't actually planned on doing any "ghost" projects with the children this season, and I really hadn't intended on mentioning another book in this series, so soon. But, when it arrived in at the library, last night, and I flipped through the experiments in the back, I nearly nerded out with excitement to see a simple, "Pepper's ghost" in a box project.
I've been looking for a project like this - though I'd been searching for "holograms for kids", since we watched The Magic School Bus Gets a Bright Idea (you can find that episode, here, on gamequarium.org). Torrey not only has easy to follow instructions for making one, and a short Doyle and Fossey story to go with it, but a child-friendly history lesson about Professor John Henry Pepper, the 19th century scientist, who created the "holographic", stage ghost illusion, which is still known today as "Pepper's ghost".
All that we needed to build our own holographic machine, was an old (and somewhat decorated) cardboard box, a piece of Plexiglas (I have an one, taken from a poster picture frame, that I keep around for experiments), some black construction paper, a flash light, some scissors, and a couple toys (we used Lego men, and a sheep finger puppet).
I won't give you a step by step on building the project, because Torrey's instructions seem to be unique, but the idea behind the illusion is to reflect an lit image, not seen by the audience, through a piece of glass (or in our case Plexiglas)...
...to make it appear on stage, as a ghost.
The kids had a great time moving the toys around, and creating "ghostly" hands, grabbing at them.
And, in the process, they got a lesson in optics, history, and the theater. I am now officially in love with this series of books.
If you're looking for more fun with science, well, stick around. We usually have some experiment, or other coming down the pike. Or, if it's history, or even geography you're interestied in, then click on over to this week's History and Geography link-up, at Children Grow, Children Explore, Children Learn.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Ezekiel and the Dry Bones - X-ray Craft
Here's a very quick x-ray/skeleton craft we did last night, to go along with reading Ezekiel 37. You know the passage..."Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones." In fact, I couldn't resist playing the Wiggles singing that song for the children (you can find it here, on YouTube), before we read the passage.
Then, we made our craft...
...and watched The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles, which you can find, here, on gamequarium.org.
I have to say thanks to Ticia at Adventures in Mommydom, for getting me thinking about skeletons, which led me to singing the song, which reminded me of the passage in Ezekiel, because it is a fun passage - prophecy, skeletons, analogy, and some really cool special effects!
If you want to show your children an actual x-ray image of a hand, we found a good one, here.
Or, for more Bible themed crafts, and fun, head over to this week's Bible Alive! Tuesday, hosted by The Fantastic Five.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Candy Corn Math
For the Math Monday link-up, hosted by Joyful Learner, we enjoyed some candy corn themed, math. Shocking, I know.
First, as a nod to Patricia Reilly Giff's The Candy Corn Contest (click here, to see our review of the book), we had an estimation contest of our own, last night.
A estimated there were 100 candy corn in the jar.
C guessed 5.
G guessed 200.
T guessed 300.
D guessed 50.
And, E guessed 200, causing G to register a complaint of cheating.
The actual number, was 221. I made the children count them, to be certain. Luckily, commercially manufactured candy corn are not nearly as tasty as the homemade kind, slowing down the sampling.
Then today, I dumped a bag of Harvest Mix, candy corn, and pumpkins, into a bowl for the younger girls to sort.
Meet Doyle and Fossey - Science Detectives
The Case of the Terrible T.rex, is the sixth book in the series, aimed at 7-11 year olds. You can find a video preview for it, as well as a nifty give away, of the two latest books in the series, and a set of test tubes, on the author's website.
The story, which is actually 4 short stories, revolves around the scientific, detecting adventures of two 5th graders. Each story has a corresponding experiment, for children to try themselves, as well as additional Internet links, and information on using the scientific method, and setting up your own laboratory.
The stories are quirky, and fun, if a little unrealistic. My children questioned some of the science the two detectives used, and whether the events depicted in the book could really happen. That was perfect though, because it sent us scampering for more information about fumaroles, trilobites, and radio waves - which I think is the point of the series.
My only caution is the story dealing with the dinosaur fossil is written entirely from an evolutionary standpoint. As young earth creationists, we took some exception there - but that is not unusual when dealing with dinosaur stories.
Also, I might suggest to the author, that the experiments at the back of the book could be made a little more accessible for families at home. One experiment, for instance, called for a evening gown sized dry cleaning bag, and a cold, but windless day. Another, required water from a creek. And, another needed a fish tank, and a bag of play sand. These are not things we generally have on hand, and so probably not experiments we will try.
However, the final experiment involved the Morse code, and included wonderful follow-up links, as well as a history lesson on ham radio, and Morse code.
So, we found fun stories, the children enjoyed reading, some science, some history, and enough questions to get us researching. Not too bad. I've already put several books, from the series, on hold at the library.
Now, just to be clear - I did receive a free copy of the book, but the opinions written here are mine. I'm sure, sooner or later, we would have bumped into this series at the library, and fallen in love with it, on our own.
It's great to be a homeschooler.


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Most of our humanities subjects can be studied as joint honours as well as single honours. Joint honours programmes give you the opportunity to combine two subjects, which complement your interests or career goals. You will usually concentrate on both subjects equally. It can be possible to transfer between single and joint honours options, usually during your first or second year, and advice will be available from your personal academic tutor.
This joint degree covers:
Literature: using a wide range of authors and texts, from classic to contemporary, explores literature in a global context, looking in depth at language and literary history.
Criminology: the changing nature of crime and the social, political, historical and individual forces behind these changes.
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The United States Code is the official, subject matter order, compilation of the Federal laws of a general and permanent nature that are currently in force. In accordance with section 285b of title 2 of the U.S. Code, the Code is compiled by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives. The Code is divided into 50 titles by subject matter. Each title is divided into sections. Sections within a title may be grouped together as subtitles, chapters, subchapters, parts, subparts, or divisions. Titles may also have appendices which may be divided into sections, rules and/or forms.
The subjects covered by the 50 titles of the U.S. Code are:
Previous to Flag Day, June 14, 1923 there were no federal or state regulations governing display of the United States Flag. It was on this date that the National Flag Code was adopted by the National Flag Conference which was attended by representatives of the Army and Navy which had evolved their own procedures, and some 66 other national groups. This purpose of providing guidance based on the Army and Navy procedures relating to display and associated questions about the U. S. Flag was adopted by all organizations in attendance.
A few minor changes were made a year later during the Flag Day 1924 Conference, It was not until June 22, 1942 that Congress passed a joint resolution which was amended on December 22, 1942 to become Public Law 829; Chapter 806, 77th Congress, 2nd session. Exact rules for use and display of the flag (36 U.S.C. 173-178) as well as associated sections (36 U.S.C. 171) Conduct during Playing of the National Anthem, (36 U.S.C. 172) the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, and Manner of Delivery were included.
This code is the guide for all handling and display of the Stars and Stripes. It does not impose penalties for misuse of the United States Flag. That is left to the states and to the federal government for the District of Columbia. Each state has its own flag law.
Criminal penalties for certain acts of desecration to the flag were contained in Title 18 of the United States Code prior to 1989. The Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson; June 21, 1989, held the statute unconstitutional. This statute was amended when the Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Oct. 28, 1989) imposed a fine and/or up to I year in prison for knowingly mutilating, defacing, physically defiling, maintaining on the floor or trampling upon any flag of the United States. The Flag Protection Act of 1989 was struck down by the Supreme Court decision, United States vs. Eichman, decided on June 11, 1990.
While the Code empowers the President of the United States to alter, modify, repeal or prescribe additional rules regarding the Flag, no federal agency has the authority to issue 'official' rulings legally binding on civilians or civilian groups. Consequently, different interpretations of various provisions of the Code may continue to be made. The Flag Code may be fairly tested: 'No disrespect should be shown to the Flag of the United States of America.' Therefore, actions not specifically included in the Code may be deemed acceptable as long as proper respect is shown.
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The U.S. Code is also available on CD-ROM from the Goverment Printing Office. The U.S. Code CD-ROM with the laws in effect as of January 2, 1992, (stock number 052-001-00438-8) is available for $34. The U.S. Code CD-ROM with the laws in effect as of January 4, 1993, (stock number 052-001-00389-6) will be available (January 17, 1995) for $36. The U.S. Code CD-ROM with the laws in effect as of January 24, 1994, is scheduled to be available March 31, 1995.
Source of document below: CD-ROM prepared and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives. It contains the laws in force on January 4, 1993.
It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.
The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, except when an all weather flag is displayed.
The flag should be displayed on all days, especially on New Year's Day, January 1; Inauguration Day, January 20; Lincoln's Birthday, February 12; Washington's Birthday, third Monday in February; Easter Sunday (variable); Mother's Day, second Sunday in May; Armed Forces Day, third Saturday in May; Memorial Day (half-staff until noon), the last Monday in May; Flag Day, June 14; Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, first Monday in September; Constitution Day, September 17; Columbus Day, second Monday in October; Navy Day, October 27; Veterans Day, November 11; Thanksgiving Day, fourth Thursday in November; Christmas Day, December 25; and such other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States; the birthdays of States (date of admission); and on State holidays.
The flag should be displayed daily on or near the main administration building of every public institution.
The flag should be displayed in or near every polling place on election days.
The flag should be displayed during school days in or near every schoolhouse.
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Senator Bob Graham is the former two–term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This is combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature for a total of 38 years of public service. Graham retired from public service in January 2005, following his Presidential campaign in 2004. Senator Graham is recognized for his leadership on issues ranging from education, economic development, healthcare, environmental preservation and his service on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — including eighteen months as chairman in 2001–2002. After retiring from public life, Graham served for a year as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
In May of 2010, Senator Graham was appointed by the President to serve as Co-Chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. This followed his service as a Commissioner on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and as the Chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. Currently he serves as chairman of the WMD Center, a 501c3 not for profit research organization which continues the work of the Commission. Senator Graham also serves as a member of the CIA External Advisory Board, as a member of the board of directors of several companies and as the chair of the Board of Overseers of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University Florida.
Senator Graham is also the author of several books including "America: The Owner's Manual," which teaches the skills of civic participation, and "Keys to the Kingdom," a novel of suspense which draws upon his background in government and intelligence.


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How to re-create a DVD from one or more VOB files on my hard drive
In this article we start from one or more VOB files that were recovered with IsoBuster from a Movie DVD. Only the VOB files are usable as input files, IFO and BUP files can be discarded.
This article is mainly based on and inspired by an article on the videohelp.com website. To be able to do the task we need two free third party tools, IfoEdit and VobEdit, that can be downloaded from the internet.
The resulting DVD will contain one large Video sequence, no chapters nor menus, skipping can be done per 5 minutes.
As example we use the VOB files that were found based on their signature. See the last example of the first article in this series:
After checking and removing the first (smaller) VOB file (see mentioned article to understand why) we have 5 VOB files left. To be able to use Vobedit properly we need to rename the extracted VOB files like this: VTS_01_001.VOB, etc. It's very important for this tool that the file ends with double zero and then a consecutive number starting with 1, so _001.VOB, _002.VOB, _003.VOB and so on.
Now start up VobEdit.
- Click the Open button and open the first VOB file (VTS_01_001.VOB).
- Next, click Edit and select Join Clips.
- Next choose or create a new folder and preferably name it VIDEO_TS.
- Use the proposed name of VTS_01_1.VOB.
- In the next dialog box, check that the number is 1 and next click OK.
VobEdit will now convert the renamed (_001,...) VOB files to VTS_01_1.VOB etc. The resulting VOB file(s) may be combined in one file, the sizes can be altered or there can be more files, it all depends.
After this process you end up with one or more new VOB files in a VIDEO_TS folder, which are also already named correctly, so that they can be used later on to produce a new Movie DVD.
Now it's time to start up IfoEdit.
- Click the Create IFOs button.
- Open the first VTS_01_1.VOB file which was produced by VobEdit.
- Make sure that the Same as source checkbox is checked!
- Click OK.
IfoEdit will now create the IFO and BUP files:
After the process is done you will see two lines in the top pane of IfoEdit:
VIDEO_TS.IFO and VTS_01.0.IFO.
- Click the first line. Content will be displayed in the second (bottom) pane.
- In the bottom pane, click the line that says VTS_1 Audio..., this triggers a popup dialog.
- In the dialog, change the Language to English.
- Click the OK button on the dialog.
- Save and confirm when asked to overwrite.
Repeat the same process again, but this time for the second line:
- Click the second line. Content will be displayed in the second (bottom) pane.
- In the bottom pane,double click the line that says Audio 1:... which triggers a dialog to popup.
- In the dialog, change the Language to English.
- Click the OK button on the dialog.
- Save and confirm when asked to overwrite.
As a last step:
- Click the button Get VTS sectors.
- Select Yes to process all IFO files when prompted.
You can now close IfoEdit. The result is a full set of IFO, BUP and VOB files in a VIDEO_TS folder on your HD. This set of files is (or should be) suitable to be burned with a standard write application, such as Nero for instance.
If you want to burn this set of files to a DVD with the intention to create a playable VIDEO DVD, then read this article:
You may always share your own expertise and experience to help improve these articles!


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Stories From Dec 2016
How to Prepare Your Own Eggnog
Ever wonder how to make your own egg nog at home? NC State University's Dr. Ben Chapman has a few tips for how to safely prepare this holiday staple on your own.
JC Raulston Arboretum's New Grand Entrance Open Every Day of the Year
Fun for people of all ages and free to the public, NC State's JC Raulston Arboretum is ready to debut its unique new pedestrian gate.
December Graduates' Reflections
We caught up with a few CALS students on graduation day to hear about their time in the college and their hopes for the future.
Esbenshade Tapped as FSLI Director
Dr. Ken Esbenshade has been named director of the Food Systems Leadership Institute, a national executive leadership program.
Far from Being Futile, Resistance is This Tree Breeder's Goal
At the Mountain Research Station in Waynesville, postdoctoral researcher Ben Smith patiently tends thousands of evergreen seedlings. His goal: to find at least a few that will tolerate two tiny but troublesome pests.
Maturing South Atlantic Hop Industry is Topic for March Conference
When it comes to producing hops the South Atlantic is maturing – so much so that an annual conference focused on the industry will be much more "homegrown" than ever.
Scientists Crack the Genetic Code Determining Leaf Shape in Cotton
The discovery opens the door to producing cotton varieties ideally suited for agriculture, says Dr. Vasu Kuraparthy of NC State's Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
New Class Covers Regulatory Affairs for Biotech, Crop Protection
To introduce students to the complex world of state, national and international regulations governing agricultural biotechnology, pesticides and biological products, NC State offered a one-of-a-kind course this fall.
An Extraordinary Year
The past year has been a big one for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Join us as we bid farewell to 2016 with a top-10 list of the year's highlights.
FarmHer Episode Live For Extension's Newest TV Star
April Shaeffer's North Carolina Leadership and Cattle Handling for Women Producers program garnered national attention this year from FarmHer, an RFD TV program focusing on the contributions of women in agriculture. Clips from the show are now available online.


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These dye blocks are so easy to use! No prior knowledge about using dyes in making candles is necessary. Just drop them in your wax for large batches, or they are easily cut or shaved for smaller candle batches. You can make several colors and shades with the same block just by varying the volume of wax with a single dye block.
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There's a saying in business, "You can go broke making a profit." And another, "Cash is king. Profit is theory.
As you know only too well, you don't pay rent, meet payroll or pay your bills with profit.
You pay them with cash.
A business can make a lot of sales, have a book full of orders, have delighted customers and clients, have a great reputation, be growing, and yet still go broke.
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A month on and 63 games later, the 2018 World Cup reaches its climax on Sunday as a young France side spearheaded by Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann look to win the trophy for the second time when they take on Croatia in Moscow.
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It is just the second time that none of Brazil, Germany, Italy or Argentina have made the final, after Spain's win over the Netherlands in 2010.
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Rfc | 1456 |
Title | Conventions for Encoding the Vietnamese Language VISCII: VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange VIQR: VIetnamese Quoted-Readable Specification |
Author | Vietnamese Standardization Working Group |
Date | May 1993 |
Format: | TXT, HTML |
Status: | INFORMATIONAL |
Network Working Group Vietnamese Standardization Working Group Request for Comments: 1456 May 1993
Conventions for Encoding the Vietnamese Language VISCII: VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange VIQR: VIetnamese Quoted-Readable Specification Revision 1.1
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
This document provides information to the Internet community on the currently used conventions for encoding Vietnamese characters into 7-bit US ASCII and in an 8-bit form. These conventions are widely used by the overseas Vietnamese who are on the Internet and are active in USENET. This document only provides information and specifies no level of standard.
1. Introduction
In this paper we describe two conventions for representing Vietnamese characters. VISCII (pronounced "visky") is an 8-bit character encoding that is similar to that used with ISO-8859. VIQR (pronounced "vicker") is a mnemonic encoding of Vietnamese characters into US ASCII for use on 7-bit systems. There is substantial existing online freely distributable software that implements these conventions for UNIX and personal computers. These encodings enable Vietnamese-language users to take full advantage of powerful tools already developed for the English-speaking world, eliminating unnecessary reinvention. This paper describes these conventions in part so that MIME-compliant software might also support the Vietnamese language.
NOTE: The accented Vietnamese letters are herein represented by their VIQR equivalents, offset by enclosing angle brackets. For example, the single letter "a acute" is written as <a'>, where the apostrophe is the mnemonic symbol for the acute.
As a romanized language, Vietnamese appears to lend itself readily to integration into existing English-based systems. To cite a simple
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example, consider implementing support for French in such systems. One can allocate code positions in the 8-bit space necessary for accented letters such as <e^> or <e'>, then provide a means for users to access these codes through the keyboard. The required number of "extra" code positions is small (see, e.g., ISO-8859/Latin-1 [1]), and the relatively low frequency of occurrence of accented letters does not place heavy demand on efficient keyboard input schemes. The same things cannot be said for Vietnamese, where both the number and occurrence frequency of accented letters are large. Apart from the alphabetics already available in ASCII, Vietnamese requires an additional 134 combinations of a letter and diacritical symbols.
Note that one can resort to a composite encoding scheme to reduce this requirement, but that would mean giving up on integration into today's computing platforms which for the most part do not support such schemes. In addition, the heavy use of diacritical marks in Vietnamese text calls for a keyboard input scheme that does not require extra keystrokes such as a special "compose" key to generate accented letters. Because of the large number of possible combinations, the scheme should also be easily learned and memorized.
Finally, to integrate Vietnamese into current electronic mail systems which are still limited to 7 bits, there should be a representation for Vietnamese text that is readily readable in its 7-bit form.
The Viet-Std group, an electronic standardization roundtable, has worked over the past few years to draft proposals addressing these issues. This has culminated in the conventions to be described briefly in the next two sections. The detailed technical considerations have been reported elsewhere [2]. In this memo we give a brief outline of the working standards and describe supporting software availability.
VISCII stands for VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange, an 8-bit encoding specification. Its salient features are:
1. Encoding of all Vietnamese letters as single units rather than separating base vowels and diacritical marks.
2. Retention of the complete ASCII graphics repertoire in order to facilitate integration.
3. Encoding the 6 least-often-used upper-case letters into 6 least problematic C0 (control) characters.
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4. Character placement have been designed with consideration for Unix/X integration, ISO-8859/Latin-1 compatibility, coexistence with a wide array of existing software, including provisions for single- and double-line drawing characters in the IBM graphic character set.
The 8-bit VISCII encoding is shown below. Because of the limitations of the 7-bit US ASCII character set, here we use the mnemonic form to represent Vietnamese glyphs. See the VIQR specification below for clarification of how diacritical marks are applied. The online PostScript version of reference [2] may also be useful as it does display each character correctly.
Table 1. VISCII 8-bit Encoding Table (v1.1) *=======================================================================* | | 0x 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x | 8x 9x Ax Bx Cx Dx Ex Fx | |====|==================================================================| | x0 | nul dle sp 0 @ P ` p | A. O^` O~ o^` A` DD a` dd | | x1 | soh dc1 ! 1 A Q a q | A(' O^? a(' o^? A' u+' a' u+. | | x2 | A(? dc2 " 2 B R b r | A(` O^~ a(` o^~ A^ O` a^ o` | | x3 | etx dc3 # 3 C S c s | A(. O^. a(. O+~ A~ O' a~ o' | | x4 | eot Y? $ 4 D T d t | A^' O+. a^' O+ A? O^ a? o^ | | x5 | A(~ nak % 5 E U e u | A^` O+' a^` o^. A( a. a( o~ | | x6 | A^~ syn & 6 F V f v | A^? O+` a^? o+` a(? y? u+~ o? | | x7 | bel etb ' 7 G W g w | A^. O+? a^. o+? a(~ u+` a^~ o. | | x8 | bs can ( 8 H X h x | E~ I. e~ i. E` u+? e` u. | | x9 | ht Y~ ) 9 I Y i y | E. O? e. U+. E' U` e' u` | | xA | lf sub * : J Z j z | E^' O. e^' U+' E^ U' e^ u' | | xB | vt esc + ; K [ k { | E^` I? e^` U+` E? y~ e? u~ | | xC | ff fs , < L \ l | | E^? U? e^? U+? I` y. i` u? | | xD | cr gs - = M ] m } | E^~ U~ e^~ o+ I' Y' i' y' | | xE | so Y. . > N ^ n ~ | E^. U. e^. o+' I~ o+~ i~ o+. | | xF | si us / ? O _ o DEL| O^' Y` o^' U+ y` u+ i? U+~ | *=======================================================================*
VIQR, VIetnamese Quoted-Readable specification, is not an encoding convention but is rather a convention for typing, reading, and transferring Vietnamese data using only the 7-bit ASCII character set. With VIQR, accented Vietnamese letters are represented by the vowel followed by ASCII characters whose appearances resemble those of the corresponding Vietnamese diacritical marks. For example, the phrase "N<u+><o+'>c Vi<e^.>t Nam" is represented in 7-bits by "Nu+o+'c Vie^.t Nam". The complete list of diacritical mark equivalents is given in Table 2. There is also provision in the VIQR specification to prevent undesirable composition, for example, to
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avoid getting "How are you?" composed into "How are yo<u?>". For details, please see [2]. VIQR therefore serves the following purposes:
1. It provides for a mnemonic, readable representation of Vietnamese in 7-bit form, which makes it easy to transfer Vietnamese electronic mail without special conversion. The originator and recipient can communicate in Vietnamese without the need for an 8-bit environment at any point in the data chain.
2. It provides a bridge for translation between 7- and 8-bit environments. In this context, typing in both 7-bit and 8-bit systems requires exactly the same keystrokes, the only difference is that the 8-bit user gets to see actual Vietnamese on-screen, whereas the 7-bit user sees a mnemonic representation thereof. The same options are available for the 7-bit and 8-bit recipients of Vietnamese text.
Because of its mnemonic nature, the VIQR typing method is easy to learn and remember. In pure 8-bit environments, special-purpose software developers may wish to devise more efficient input schemes, but the intent is for all Vietnamese keyboard software to support the basic VIQR method to minimize learning time for Vietnamese who will already be familiar with the mnemonic method described here.
Table 2. VIQR Mnemonics for Vietnamese Diacritics *=====================================================* | Diacritic | Char | ASCII Code | D<a^'>u | |=====================================================| | breve | ( | 0x28, left paren | tr<a(>ng | | circumflex | ^ | 0x5E, caret | m<u~> | | horn | + | 0x2B, plus sign | m<o'>c | |-------------+------+--------------------+-----------| | acute | ' | 0x27, apostrophe | s<a('>c | | grave | ` | 0x60, backquote | huy<e^`>n | | hook above | ? | 0x3F, question | h<o?>i | | tilde | ~ | 0x7E, tilde | ng<a~> | | dot below | . | 0x2E, period | n<a(.>ng | |-------------+------+--------------------+-----------| | d bar | dd | (repeated d) | <dd> | | D bar | DD | (repeated D) | <DD> | *=====================================================*
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VISCII & VIQR have been successfully implemented on various platforms. The work has been carried out primarily by the TriChlor software group, a non-profit spin-off from Viet-Std. Software by other individuals and groups have also been developed. In addition, commercial software entities have indicated that they would support the standards in the form of VISCII-compliant keyboards and fonts.
The current software selection from the TriChlor group enables users to use Vietnamese on existing Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows systems, including such operations as Vietnamese file naming, Vietnamese keyboarding within any application, electronic mail and news filters for Unix, printing to various printer languages, incorporating Vietnamese in such document preparation systems as TeX, Word for Windows, WordPerfect, using Vietnamese in databases (e.g., Paradox) and spreadsheets (e.g., SC on Unix or Excel in Windows). Vietnamese-specific applications are also available and include a large song lyric database, several poetry collections in hypertext format, a Windows-based fortune teller, a text-based multiple-choice test program in Vietnamese, etc. In short, software exists that supports thorough integration of Vietnamese into existing platforms, allowing Vietnamese users to take advantage of all the powerful tools already available in English-only environments.
Translation between 8-bit VISCII 1.1 and other character sets, particularly ISO-10646/Unicode 1.1, has been included in the Plan 9 operating systems' tcs utility that has been made available by Andrew Hume of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
For use with MIME-compliant software, the value "VISCII" has been registered as a charset with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for the VISCII encoding convention described above, and the value "VIQR" has been registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority as a charset for the VIQR mnemonic encoding convention described above. Implementation of support for these two MIME character set types is not mandatory to comply with RFC-1341. If the encoding conventions described above are used in MIME email or news, the appropriate MIME character set type value should be used to label the body-part containing such text.
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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[1] International Organization for Standardization. ISO 8859/x: 8- bit International Code Sets. ISO, 1977.
[2] Viet-Std, "A Unified Framework for Vietnamese Information Processing-v1.1," published on the Internet, available for FTP from Sonygate.Sony.COM:tin/viet-std, September 1992.
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