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Drowning In A Sea of Photos

I’m finding retirement is a constant battle of what I want to do and what I know I should be doing.  Things I ignored around the house, during the 19 years I worked full time, have filled the void once occupied by work guilt.  I’m not a hoarder…..well, my husband might disagree.  He has NO trouble getting rid of things but I do.  Someone needs to be the keeper of the memories.  What about the family memorabilia ?  Someone has to keep those so they don’t end up in some junky flea market.  To my credit most memories are stored in neatly stacked boxes.

But then there’s the photos…………………….

My relationship with photos began in the 1950’s when I was born.  They were black and white and very small.  They were pictures of different relatives holding me.  It was expensive back then to get pictures developed.  People were choosey about what they took pictures of.  By my first birthday my father had upgraded to a Kodak that took color slides. That’s where the rest of my childhood resides, on slides, in a box.

When my daughter was born we had a nice Cannon that used film.  When our son came along they were offering double prints.  Perfect!  Each child had a photo album for each year of their life and two prints fit the bill.

Then I started working.  The pictures still got taken but writing the information on the back and putting them in the albums didn’t happen.  They got put in a box “to do later”.  Then another box, and another, and another and…….well, you get the picture.

On Saturday, I got brave and got out the boxes.  Yes, I threw some double prints away but mostly I spent time going down memory lane.  I found pictures from when we were first married.  Who were those two young people?  What is a cat doing in our apartment?  Did we almost become cat people?  Why didn’t we keep it when there is proof that it and our puppy got along?

Then panic set in.  Will I ever remember what year these pictures of our children were taken?  Why didn’t the processing put the date on the back?  They put other numbers on them.  Am I missing pictures?  Will I even be able to find a photo album to put these in?  What about the slides that have come unglued?  Is there even a place anymore that can put them back together or will I need to figure out how to do it?

After about 4 hours of going through photos I was a bit overwhelmed so I threw away the doubles and bad shots, consolidated everything into less boxes and put them away until the next time I am photo guilt ridden.

One thing I did learn from my attempt at organization (other that I had an encounter with a pretty black and white cat) is to choose your family photos carefully.  Love doesn’t always last.  Take pictures of just your family.  Then after you’re finished invite the boyfriend from freshman year of college to join you in one.  Take a picture of your son at graduation with his girlfriend then move on to pictures of him and his other friends.  Now that he’s in a serious relationship and almost 30, he probably isn’t that interested in having a bunch of pictures of him and is high school sweetheart.

Divorced?  Your love may not have lasted but your children’s love for both of you has.  If you are both present at an event important to your child take pictures with them and your ex to document it.  The two of you are still their family.  After that you can take a picture of your children and their extended family with the step parents and step and half siblings.  You’ll send a powerful  message that you may not still love each other but you do love them.

A project for another day……figuring out what do to with the pictures stored in the computer. I’m overwhelmed thinking about it!!

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Young Writers and Inventive Spelling

Once upon a not too distant time I had a parent who felt her first grader should be taught only second grade work.  She felt he was way beyond our first grade curriculum and as proof she brought to our conference a paper he had written in kindergarten.  Keep in mind that I had been working with this child for a few weeks and knew his writing style which included, at that point in time, no capitalization or punctuation and sprinkled in were some misspelled words.  What she shows me is this beautifully written story with no mistakes.  There was nothing in his present work to indicate that he had written the story by himself.  It looked as if he had dictated it to someone and they in turn sat by him and told him exactly what to write so it looked like a masterpiece.  It gave a false indication of his level of work and his level of developement. It isn’t the first time I’ve seen this done.

As an early childhood teacher I want my students to love to write just as I want them to love to read.  I want them to be creative.  I want them to enjoy what they are doing.  In my experience, I’ve never had a student that loved to correct and rewrite until they had a perfectly written product.  I’ve seen correcting and rewriting stop them dead in their tracks  and they never finish which made me rethink the way I was teaching writing.

Young writers should first learn to love writing and what they write should be celebrated without question.  This is why I feel inventive spelling is a huge part of creating a writer.  Its a foundation that eventually leads to the more sophisticated writing process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.  Inventive spelling is part of the writing process.  I see it as the foundation.

When a young child is learning to explore creative writing, they need to feel in total control of it.  It needs the same freedom as learning to draw.  Great parents ask their child to tell them about the scribbles and shapes they drew on a piece of paper.  They don’t ask, “What is it?”  The same should apply to something a child has “written” in scribbled lines.  They see you writing grocery lists, reminders, etc.   They want to be just like you so they imitate you.

As a child matures, their drawings mature.  They go from scribbles, to a single crayon of choice person with no neck and arms probably coming out of the head, to a person with arms with fingers.  By the time they are in 1st grade most of them draw people with clothes in detailed color.  Being able to “draw the man” is an indicator of developmental maturity.  On the first and last day of school my students draw me in their journals.  I’m always amazed at the progression of maturity and detail when I look at the first drawing and the last drawing of the year.

That same maturing pattern is true in their writing as well.  Their writing starts out as scribbles, just like their beginning drawings.   Eventually, as they learn the alphabet and start to associate the written symbol to the letter name, the scribbles turn into random letters.  Parents should now be asking them to tell about what they wrote.  Even though the answer might be just their name, the random letters show they are beginning to realize they can put their thoughts on paper.  When they put sounds with the symbols inventive spelling begins.

When inventive spelling starts there are 3 things I want my students to learn before they learn to spell correctly.

* to recall events

* to order the events

* to write in complete sentences because they speak in complete sentences

One of my favorite examples of watching a child to naturally mature in to a writer was a 1st grade girl that entered into my class with very few writing skills.  In late September, after being in school for over a month, it was time to celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s birthday.  We watched the Disney movie, peeled apples using an apple peeler, measured the length of  the apple peels, tasted red, green and yellow apples, and made apple crisp.  Later they wrote about the experience in their journals.

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“We celebrated Johnny Appleseed’s birthday.  My favorite activity was when we tasted the apples.  My favorite was the red apple.”

By looking at her account of the day you can see that she knows how to spell a few words and knows the beginning and some ending sounds of most of the words.  Her inventive spelling tells me I need to work with her hearing and identifying ending sounds.

About three weeks after this was written we began teaching spelling as a subject.  Learning to spell along with rhyming and reading leads to becoming a proficient speller.  Each week I teach the children to rhyme other words with their spelling words.  If the lesson is teaching cat, bat, and hat, rhyming will teach they can also spell fat, mat, pat, rat, sat, vat, flat, plat, etc.  So instead of learning to spell 3 words they now can spell 11 or more. Spelling rhyming words greatly increases their spelling vocabulary.

 By the end of the year we reach the “ou” and “ow” words.  One year I gave my students the assignment to use their “ou” and “ow” words to write a story.  My same little girl that somewhat struggled at the beginning of the year as a writer wrote this:

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It wasn’t edited and as you can see she progressed through out the year to become a excellent first grade speller.  She also learned to love writing and in second grade she won and essay contest.

When she first started her writing journey inventive spelling gave her the luxury of focusing on what to write and not having to focus on how to write it.  The rest came naturally as more was taught.  When we ask a 4, 5 or 6 year old to rewrite their work until it is perfect we are not teaching them to love writing.  They view it as what they wrote is not good enough and rewriting it as a punishment.

So I changed my way of thinking to ease my young student’s writing frustrations. I now feel in the beginning of their writing experience a young child needs to be able to enjoy the content of their writing and not worry about the mechanics.  We shouldn’t stifle creativity for the sake of a perfect finished product.

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What Do You Mean You Don’t Understand?

Sometimes TMI is a good thing especially when it comes to directions. Often important pieces of information are missing for the audience reading or listening to the directions.  I don’t think it’s on purpose.  It’s more a causality of doing something so many times that what was once necessary information, in the beginning of learning something, becomes so routine it goes to your subconscience the more you do it.

Why the interest in thinking I need TMI?  Knitting!  I recently decided to knit a baby sweater for one of my daughter’s friends. I searched Ravelry (if you knit or crochet and aren’t on Ravelry, you should be!) and found a free pattern for a Seamless Yoked Baby Sweater by Carole Barenys.  Seamless….quite appealing to me since my finishing details aren’t very refined….yet.  As I’m reading the directions I had the feeling that something was important was missing.  I got back online to read the comments on Ravelry and found that I wasn’t the only one confused.  The directions told you to cast on 4 stitches under the arm without telling you to place the arm stitches on a holder first….a very important detail, especially for a beginning knitter.  There were some other assumptions in the pattern so as I knitted I wrote down some notes.  As a result of the comments I read on Revelry and my own trial and error I made corrections to the increase rows.  Then followed another knitter’s suggestions to row 43 and finally trusted my own instincts. I’ve actually made this sweater a couple of times and each time I’ve added more corrections to the pattern.  It’s definitely taught me that written directions need to be tested several times!  My version is a work in progress so please let me know if there is something you don’t understand so I can make it better.

Seamless Yoked Baby Sweater

This experience took me back to the classroom. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I have taught a lesson where after the introduction, instruction, practice and wrap up, I asked if there are any questions and not one hand goes up.  Then, as they were doing the follow up, only about 25% of them “got it”.  There weren’t questions but there should have been.  So then I would dig deeper and reteach hoping that I remembered to add a step that would help them grasp the concept.

For some reason we haven’t taught our children to ask questions.  Could it be because we get tired of hearing “why”, “why” and more “why”?  Or when we are at the height of frustration we say, “don’t ask questions, just do it!”.  And then we turn around and tell them that if they don’t understand what the teacher is teaching to ask questions.

We teach children the question words but I think, as teachers, we sometimes forget to teach them how to use them.

How do you go about this?  My suggestion is to start with modeling questions for them to answer.  You probably do it all the time.

        “Do you want milk or juice with your lunch?”

        “Which story do you want to listen to before you go to bed?”

        “Can you find your shoes?”

You can also set up specific situations:

“What do I need to do first to get your bath ready?  Do I need to plug or unplug the tub?   How full should I fill the tub?  Should I use hot or cold water or both?”

“Can you show me how to make chocolate milk?  How much chocolate should I put in it?  Should I stir it?”   Then add, “I don’t understand why I should stir it if the chocolate is already down at the bottom”.  This is a important statement.  It lets your child know that it is OK, when they don’t understand, to tell the person teaching them.

You can also let your child be the teacher:

After reading your child a story let them be the teacher.  They can spin the Question Spinner or choose a Question Word Card and then ask you a question about the story that begins with that word.  In the beginning you will probably have to help them form the questions until they get the hang of it.

Question Words and Spinner

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Other ideas you can try:

Play 20 Questions – perfect for older children needing more practice

Go to a museum and pick out objects for your child to ask you a questions about using two or three different question words.

Look at I Spy books – they are full of objects that could generate questions

Something to keep in mind, while you and your child are having these question and answer sessions, is to be sure you are answering the questions they ask in complete sentences.  Past the age of 4 your child should be answering you in complete sentences.  In the beginning you might have to remind them to answer in a complete sentence, then state your question again and help them find the right words to answer you correctly.  You want them to restate the question in their answer.  If your question was, “Who ate the cookies in the story?”, then their answer should be, ” The mouse ate the cookies in the story”.  If your child can verbally answer your questions in a complete sentences then it will be a breeze for them to answer in complete sentences in their school work……teachers like that and as they go on to higher grades, they expect it.

After all this practice your child will go to school knowing what words are used to ask questions, will feel comfortable asking them and not be this child……..

The visiting fireman asks if there are any questions.  The unexperienced child says, “One time we had a fire and we roasted marshmallows and mine burned”.  Nope, yours will be the child asking……..”What should I do if I see someone playing with matches”?

Do you have any questions about this post?  I do.  Do you have any more suggestions for teaching child how to ask questions?

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Do you believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns or the Tooth Fairy?

My worst nightmare is when a child comes up to me and asks, “Is Santa (Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Leprechauns) real”?

No matter how you answer, the next words out of their mouths are……” Tommy says Santa (Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Leprechaun) isn’t real!”  It is a no win situation, no matter what I say.

I respect your right to tell your child what and what not to believe whether it is for religious reasons or you don’t want to lie to your child. But when it comes to school it is a difficult situation for the classroom teacher.

Last year I had a little girl that has always known the truth about Santa.  I wouldn’t have known if her mother hadn’t told me.  This year I have a boy that immediately, as soon as we started doing seasonal activities, announced on the playground to most of the first grade boys that Santa wasn’t real.  Many, many unhappy parents.

What is the difference?  Jane’s parents, in respect for the other parents, have always told her at each and every holiday to be sure not to tell the other children and she hasn’t.  Samuel, however, hasn’t been reminded. Even though both his mother and I talked to him at Christmas, he has already tried to inform a child that the Easter Bunny isn’t real either.  Luckily it was the first thing in the morning and he said it as the other child was walking away.  I don’t think they heard him but I did.  I was able to speak to him immediately to remind him not to talk about it.  Then I sent out an email to all of my parents to ask them to remind their non believers to not ruin it for the others.  I got several emails back reminding me that Samuel had told the children about Santa…..unhappy parents still not happy.

When its your own child you know when the time is right. I must have really done a great job keeping Santa, Leprechauns, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy real for my children.  One day when my daughter was in 4th grade I picked her up from school.  Thankfully, her little brother was not with me because she immediately asked “Mom, is the Tooth Fairy real”?  Gulp!  I told her no, but not to spoil it for her brother.  She never asked about the others.  I’m sure she figured it out.  Her brother never asked either so I am sure at some point either she or a “Samuel” told him or he matured enough to figure it out on his own.   Or maybe, he was a mini me……….

I personally kept my parents believing that I believed in Santa for a couple of years after I found my Santa present hidden in their closet.  Until Christmas morning I thought it was just a present, but when it was under the tree from Santa, I knew.

Is believing in Santa and other seasonal characters bad? Recently, I  saw an article about believing in Santa and creativity. Believing in Santa is one of the earliest opportunities a child has to imagine.  You can’t believe in Santa and not try to imagine him coming down a chimney or the elves in his workshop.  Or what does the Tooth Fairy do with the tooth?  When you imagine you’re making movies in your head.  If you can make movies in your head, you can comprehend what you are reading.  If you can make movies in your head, you can write about what you are imagining.  Better readers and writers are better students.

So, what do I say when a student asks me if Santa, Leprechauns, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy are real?  I tell them that some children believe and some don’t and if they have questions, they need to talk to their parents.  If they ask me if I believe, I tell them yes, I believe in what they represent and they have never questioned me further.

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Monkey See, Monkey Do

photo-1A few weeks ago I was sitting in the garden behind Notre-Dame in Paris waiting for my daughter to finish climbing to the top of the Cathedral towers.  All was peaceful until two boys decided they were bored and started running around several benches, including mine.  School was still in session in Paris so they must have been waiting for classmates to finish whatever they were doing.  Soon two boys turned into three, three into four and finally there were five of them chasing each other and generally disturbing the serenity of the Square de Jean XXIII.  At no time did the first two boys stop long enough to ask boys 3, 4, and 5 to join them.  They just did.

This happens a lot with young children.  You’d like to think that when they are choosing to follow the behavior of another child, they are being discriminate about what behavior to mimic.  Unfortunately, that is not the case.  They are young children and it is in their nature to be a part of the “monkey see, monkey do” syndrome.  As parents and caregivers, it is up to us to teach them which behaviors are acceptable and not acceptable for them.

Some “not acceptable for them situations” are stickier than others.  Your definition of acceptable behavior might be different than those around you including family, friends and strangers.

These are techniques I’ve used with my own children, with my class or have learned along the way.

The easiest situation is when you are in a public place and you and your child observe inappropriate behavior of another child or group of children from a distance.  If I had been sitting on the park bench with a young child I would have said something like, “I’m glad you are sitting on the bench with me.  I know the people around us appreciate it too. Do you think the boys should be running around?”.  Then you can quietly talk about why they shouldn’t be running around……..it’s noisey and people are trying to read….there’s a lot of people walking around and someone might get hurt…….the list could go on.

Of course the teacher in me was sitting there trying to control the urge to say ” Garçons, s’il vous plait arreter de courir, il vous est perturbateur”.  Yep, I had translator, but didn’t use it to say, “Boys, stop running, you’re being disruptive”……but I wanted to!

What if your child was part of the pack causing the disruptive behavior?  Easy.  You ask them to sit or stand with you.  You tell them why and that when the group has calmed down and changed back to acceptable behavior they can rejoin the activity.

Play dates unfortunately are a little more sensitive especially when it might affect your friendship with the parent.

Sticky Situations:

1. The host child begins to exhibit bad behavior, you watch your child beginning to follow, you hesitate, hoping the host parent will step in, they don’t and it’s time for you to take action!

Actually, before you arrived, you should have been proactive.  You’ve already taught your toddler that “no” means to stop what they are doing and if they don’t there will be consequences.  Why not teach them the equivalent for play dates by having a sign that only the two of you know?  Say their name so they are looking at you and tug on your ear (the comedian Carol Burnett used this after every show to tell her grandmother she loved her).  The key is if you used it, stick to the consequences for not changing behavior.  The play date might end early, but your child will know that you mean what you say and that will serve you well when they are teenagers!

It works in the classroom too.  Let me give you an example.  I have a necklace at school that I can easily take on and off.  If I have a child with difficulty controlling behavior I tell them I’m going to wear my necklace.  If I take it off that means their behavior is not appropriate for the classroom.  When they are back on track I put it back on.  That student and I only know the meaning of what I am doing.

2.  The play date is at your house………………… the guest child begins to exhibit bad behavior, you watch your child beginning to follow, you fear something will be broken, you hesitate, hoping the guest parent will step in and they don’t.  What do you do?

The experts would tell you to redirect their play.  If they are throwing blocks, then you pick up the blocks and direct them towards another activity.  That should work.

What if it doesn’t, it continues and the guest parent still ignores the situation?  First, make a note to yourself………..don’t invite them back.  Next, and this is entirely my personal opinion, it’s your house and if you have to step in, you should.  If a parent is watching their child be unkind, mean, reckless, poor table manners, etc and they do nothing to stop it, then, frankly, they have no respect for you, your family and your home.  If it was my house, I’d ask the offending child to stop and ask my own child to help me clean up, telling them that I am afraid something is going to be broken and they can play with it again after guest child leaves.  Look at the particular situation facing you.  Be creative in what you say to keep it general and not point fingers.  Take your child out of the situation first and then it seems less offensive when you take the guest child out of it.

Finally,  the most important thing to remember is that you want to stop the situation before your child becomes a follower.  When you acknowledge appropriate play your child then becomes the good host and guest.  As they get older they might take care of the problem before it becomes one………..  “We can’t throw blocks because if we do my mom will make us put them away”………..  Music to a parent’s ears!

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Valentine Bags

Love me some Pinterest!  The other day I was checking out some new pins and I saw some really cute valentine boxes for the classroom.  Being late to the party, or in other words, waiting until the last minute to think about valentine bags, I didn’t have time to collect boxes and cover them in red paper.  I had to improvise with what I had.

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This is what I did.  I used my iPad to take a picture of each child’s face from the shoulders up.  I printed them on card stock.  I cut each of them out.

Our school orders us white 6″x12″ bakery bags.  I folded down the top edge about an inch (it helps if you stretch the bag top out as you fold) and then folded it again.  This keeps the bag open and gives it some stability.

I stapled each head to the back of the bag.  Then I gave each child a set of  valentine arms to cut out.  I had a variety of ethnic tones available.  After the arms were cut out I stapled each one to the back of the bag facing forward.  I creased where the hand would come over to the front of the bag to keep them from pulling the arm too tight across the side of the bag.

Each child glued down a big heart on the front of the bag and then glued down the hands over the heart.

They turned out really cute and the heavier heads has helped them to stay upright instead of toppling over.

I’ve seen many valentine bags torn into like it was Christmas morning.  We make Valentine Memory Books for them to glue their valentines in.  It makes them actually look at who gave it to them.  The book has enough blank white pages in it for each valentine.  If they get a candy, then they just write about it.

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Valentine Memory Book

And that’s a pin!

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Potato Soup

I had a wonderful mother.  She was an excellent cook, especially when it came to comfort food.  One of my favorite things she made was potato soup.

The hardest part of making potato soup in my house is the challenge of keeping my husband from eating the raw potatoes.  Before you judge……we both grew up eating raw potatoes.  As disgusting as that is to some of you, including our children, it’s normal to us.  So, with a few unkind words spoken to him, the soup finally gets made.  It is a combination of my mother’s recipe and my own touches. It’s rich, thick and so delicious!

Potato Soup

1 small onion diced

1/2 cup chopped celery diced

2 tbsp butter

4 cups russet potatoes, pealed and diced into 1 inch pieces

8 cups chicken broth

1 tsp Nature’s seasoning

salt and pepper to taste

1/3 package of tri colored coleslaw mix

2 cups whole milk

1/4 c flour

1 cup heavy cream

Melt the butter in a heavy pot. Add the onion and celery  and cook until the onion is tender but not brown.  Add the potatoes, seasoning and chicken broth.  Cook until the potatoes are fork tender (don’t cook too long or they will get mushy).  With a potato masher break up the cooked potatoes so you still have big pieces and smaller pieces. Thicken the milk (make sure it is whole milk, the others just don’t have the same results in making it thick and rich) with the flour and add to the potato mixture.  Add the cream and coleslaw.  Cook for about 10 minutes over medium heat until soup thickens. I freeze the leftovers, if there are any ,to grab as I go out the door to work.  I let it sit out all morning to thaw and then microwave for about 4 minutes.  It makes a great lunch.

Serves 6

Enjoy. It’s the perfect dinner for a cold winter night!

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Snow Day, Part II

Winter weather hit the south with a vengeance this week.  Snow in the forecast along with low temperatures.  But, for once, the school districts didn’t announce school closures 2 days in advanced.  They actually waited to see what the weather was going to do and waited until the day before.  The problem was that they believed that the weather would follow the predicted path.  Ouch, it didn’t. Unfortunately, it showed up with its ugly brothers, sleet and ice.

Just like all of the children in my class I was wishing for snow.  I love watching it fall.  I love walking in it.  I love how pretty everything is.  But if I can help it, I don’t like making up snow days.  Our head of school doesn’t either so we took advantage of the weather arriving around noon and came to school with an early dismissal.

My coworkers were busy hitting Pinterest to find snow related ideas to make our short day educational but fun.  It was a busy enrichment day for my class so we only concentrated on one theme.

Snowmen: Two activities, one sheet of paper.

The first activity was to label a snowman.  Perfect!  We started off with me giving verbal “how to draw your snowman” directions.  It turned out to be a great listening activity.  Then I gave them the labels which they used their independent reading skills to correctly place them.  They really had a lot of fun doing it because they had an investment in the snowman they were labeling.

After they finished labeling their snowmen I had them turn their papers to the other side and they made a snow picture with a snowman worksheet.  The purpose of this wasn’t the cut and paste snowman but using a horizon in the picture.  We have been talking about drawing pictures with a horizon to give the picture some depth and to correspond with their lesson with the art teacher and vanishing points.

Before we knew it, the weather had change and freezing rain had arrived.  Early dismissal was moved up an hour and we all got home safe and sound before it got really bad.

Then we all waited……..for the snow to come and this is what we got.

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Calling All Turkeys

I’m pretty sure most of the parents hate me on the day we get out for Thanksgiving vacation.  The children love me though, for on that day we finish up our Thanksgiving activities and we make …………………Turkey Callers!

Imagine a rafter of turkeys, both hens and toms, in an uproar all at once, and you have a room full of children with turkey callers.

I honestly can’t remember where I got the idea from but it’s been a staple from the first time I saw it.  Luckily I had a Kindergarten aide that created the pattern for me.

Turkey Caller Pattern

To make one you will need a large plastic cup, a sponge, waxed dental floss and a blunt needle.

Drill two holes in the bottom of the cup.

Cut the sponge into 4 pieces.  They should be approximately 1″x 2″.

This is the tedious part and I always do it ahead of time.  Cut a piece of dental floss that is about 1 1/2′  to 2′ long.  Thread it down through one hole and back up through the other hole.

Tie the floss off onto what is now the top so there is a short end and a long end.  Then take the long end back down into the cup.

Next tie the piece of sponge at the end of the long piece of floss.  To get it tight it helps to have the sponge slightly damp.

Now you are ready to add the turkey features.  I always have the children cut the pieces out and I staple them to the cup.  I fan the feathers out like the NBC Peacock and staple to the back and the body and legs to the front.

To make the turkey talk, slightly wet the sponge and wrap it around the top of the floss.

Pull the sponge in short, jerky movements down the floss and let the noise begin!

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The Interesting World of Potty Training

The first time one of my students came up to me and told me he needed to “go sink the boat” I had no idea of what he was talking about. It took a few seconds but I finally figured out from the jumping up and down while holding his pants and body parts in a death grip that he needed to go to the boy’s bathroom. Yep, when he was being potty trained they put little plastic boats in the toilet and, well, I am sure you get the picture.  They used this approach with sons #1, 2 and 3 and it wasn’t until son #3 that I was an insider on their potty training method.  It obviously worked for them.

Before we go any farther, let me just say…I am not an expert in potty training!  Nope, not going to quote any scientific studies.  But I am going to share with you my own experiences potty training my son and daughter and I am sure they will appreciate that I don’t use their names.

My daughter, the first born, the one where  Infants and Mothers by T. Berry Brazzleton was our guide.  I am sure 31 years later much of the information in the book is out of date (i.e. babies should sleep on their stomachs) but much of what he said was common sense and understandable.  He’s written several newer books on early childhood and parenting that have receive good reviews.

Either from his book or somewhere else, I had in my mind that age 2 was the magical age to start potty training my daughter.  I actually think it had a lot to do with being sick and tired of dealing with and buying diapers but for whatever reason around age 2 we started the journey.

We bought the big girl panties together but still wore a diaper at night.  We sat countless times in the bathroom with her on the little toilet and me on the edge of the bathtub waiting for something to happen. Sometimes there would be a trickle, sometimes there wouldn’t.  We’d leave the bathroom.  She’d have an accident.  I’d do the laundry.  I spent so much time trying to anticipate when she might need to go to the bathroom.  It took the fun out of anything we were doing.

Then, while my husband was still in Korea, we took a trip to Boston to visit my cousin.  We rode the swan boats, saw the ducks, enjoyed the city and wore her out!  The next morning when I was chaining her diaper I knew she needed to go to the bathroom.  So instead of putting her in her cute, little panties, I put her on the toilet.  I was the coach making all of the grunting noises and she was making them with me.  Plop!  Success!  “Yeah, you just went potty!”  Click!  She made the connection!  Did she ever have an accident again?  Of course she did but very few.  From then on when I asked her if she had to go potty, she knew what I was talking about.  It was just like when she was sitting with her little brother “reading” him a book in the window sill.  She sounded out the word hot and came running to me to ask me if it was the word hot. I told her yes and that was the moment when reading clicked for her.  We were  both thrilled!

On to child two.  My son, the 2nd born, still had the wisdom of Dr. Brazzleton, but not all of my time.  So when it came time to think about potty training I didn’t think about it too long.  I think I had flashbacks doing it 4 years earlier and I wasn’t looking forward to that.  Lucky, for me I had read an article about not starting potty training too early, so I didn’t.  This article also said the child would just naturally potty train on their own but that isn’t practical if you want to send your child to a daycare that requires them to be potty trained.  I didn’t wait for him to potty train himself but I did wait until he was closer to age 3.  He didn’t have “aha moment” on the toilet, but I do remember he was fully potty trained in a week once we started.  Although, if I would have thought of the boat idea, I probably would have introduced it but it would have been boats cut out of toilet or tissue paper.  Seriously, is there a little boy that wouldn’t like to sink the boat?

So, what do I think about potty training?

1. Children need to be physically ready…..the muscles they will use have to be fully developed.

2.  They need to be developmentally ready.  Just like so many tasks they learn in their early years they need to have the mental readiness to understand it.

3.  They need to somehow make the the connection between the word potty and what their body is doing.  How many times do you see a toddler standing, making faces and doing the duty in their diaper?  That would be the opportune time to say to them,  “Yeah, you’re going potty in your diaper”.  Cues like that will help them make the connection later.

4.  Don’t rush it.  If you start the process and it just isn’t clicking, stop.  Wait a few weeks and try again.

5.  Don’t forget to let them flush the toilet.  Those who follow them in the bathroom will appreciate it.

6. Whatever words you chose to call using the bathroom will surface out in public.  It might be cute at 2 but could be the subject of laughs by peers at age 5.

Son #3 of the above mentioned family told me he needed “to make a frog”.  Luckily I was the only one that heard it. I wasn’t caught off guard this time and didn’t need to ask any questions!

These are my thoughts.  What are yours?

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University entrepreneurship — without the university

Across the country, university campuses are in limbo.

The California State University system has committed to online classes in Fall 2020. Northeastern University is reopening as normal. UT Austin is taking a hybrid approach: in-person classes until Thanksgiving break, then online classes during flu season.

This presents a special set of circumstances for university entrepreneurs. The traditional resources and networks are nonoperational. But time and focus, historically the most scarce resources for ambitious students, is now at an all-time high.

It’s often noted that both Facebook and Microsoft were started during Harvard’s Reading Period, a week where classes are cancelled to let students study. This spring has been like one long Reading Period, sometimes with even less responsibility.

Deprioritizing classes

Stanford undergraduate Markie Wagner is taking advantage of the mandatory Pass/Fail policy that the school adopted. Since grades are no longer a consideration, Markie and her friends have free rein to put classes on the back burner to focus on talking to entrepreneurs and experimenting with business ideas.

She told us, “I’m going full hackathon mode this quarter. I’ve been reaching out to lots of founders and VCs to learn from them.” Planning on spending her upcoming senior year building a company, she’s getting a head start on exploration and network building.

If the pandemic forces school closings for the long-run, however, students will have to deal with more than a semester with an easier course load.

There’s near-universal resentment toward the idea of paying full tuition for online classes. Many of the students in Contrary’s network are planning gap years. Or, like Austin Moninger, even skipping senior year altogether. A senior at Rice studying computer science, he originally intended to graduate in spring of 2021. But given the virtual nature moving forward, he decided to accelerate graduation and is currently pursuing full-time software engineering roles. He notes, “We’ve all learned that we’re really paying for the experience and the network at the end of the day, so without it, I might as well take my time and money elsewhere.”

This puts universities in a precarious position: They must choose between letting students take breaks and defer admissions, which risks class size or financial issues (as an example, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business decided against this, refusing to allow students to defer), or pushing forward at full price and risking brand damage.

That said, some students are affected by shutdowns or online classes more than the schools themselves are. Research-focused entrepreneurs working in biotech, hardware or other sectors typically require expensive lab equipment to make progress. Pure software plays like Facebook and Snap usually come to mind first when talking about university entrepreneurship, but such lean operations are certainly not the only ones being built.

It’s also unclear how prolonged closures or online classes will impact education itself and how that will impact founders in the long run. Most founders have completed the majority of their degrees by the time they commit to their companies and attempt to raise money. We have not seen any meaningful skill gap in 2020, nor do we expect to throughout the rest of the year.

Unless building a deep-tech startup, company-building can continue as long as an entrepreneur has enough of a technical or financial foundation to self-educate and learn by doing. Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski is an excellent example of this — he famously started his cybersecurity company as a freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and did the bare minimum required to get C grades in school.

Virtualizing campus

Although seed funding for university entrepreneurs has not slowed down since school closings, company-building has certainly not gotten any easier.

The main challenge for 22-year-old talent is not having energy or being scrappy — it’s usually growing the network needed to recruit the right co-founder and hire an early team. In an on-campus environment, there’s enough serendipity to make this natural. But if school closings persist and virtual offerings don’t fill the vacuum, we’ll likely see a lag in new company formation.

It’s rare that founders embark on the startup journey without having known each other for at least a year. Right now, not enough time has passed to make this a problem. But at campuses where students can’t get to know peers at a deep level, it’s impossible to build bonds over a long time period.

To combat this, at Contrary, for example, we hosted a virtual community of founders this past spring with a simple premise: Put 100 people in a room (or Slack channel, more literally), make sure they spend time together and give them the tools to build.

Over the course of six weeks, 150+ collaborations occurred as people experimented on different ideas and projects. Seventy-five percent of the founders said they’d been more productive since the remote transition occurred, and at the end of the program, nearly 70% of the group planned to continue working on their companies or begin a fresh project.

Perhaps most notable is the diversity of connections made — most interactions between participants were between students enrolled in different schools. Since even the best institutions in the world each matriculate only a single digit percentage of talent nationwide, virtualizing the program made the talent pool far larger.

Successful entrepreneurs like Steve Huffman from Reddit and Paul English from Kayak (and now Lola) gave off-the-record talks, but it turned out that most of the value came from access to a highly curated group of peers that each member wouldn’t otherwise meet. The program forced the serendipity that school closures lost, then combined that with the other necessary ingredient: Tangible opportunities to build rather than talk.

You can treat a university like a bundle of tools: The education, network, credential and social learnings all compose into one holistic experience.

Over the past decade, much of that value-stack has been eaten by other organizations.

To prove that you’re a talented individual, you can try applying for the Thiel Fellowship, or lean on name-brand past internships. Or to learn about venture, you can read Scott Kupor’s book or Paul Graham’s blog.

Until very recently, the university’s main “network effect” was the fact that you had to be there to meet other great individuals. Since COVID-19 has shifted most interactions to the cloud, however, that’s no longer the default path.

Looking forward

Hopefully flattening the curve will soon become extinguishing the curve. But until then, university-based founders will have to focus on the alternative infrastructure that powers funding, networking, credentialing and learning.

Had Contrary, Slack, Y Combinator or free AWS credits not existed prior, the closure of schools may have dealt a death knell to founders. But given the abundance of options now available to plug into the Valley and build, surprisingly little has changed.

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Monthly Archives: July 2013

Golf scorecard for your Smartphone

Do you need to use your smartphone as a golf scorecard, try my Golf scorecard for Smartphones app. It is free and gratis.

For the user
Any smartphone should work (iPhone, Android, Symbian, WP). Please let me know if you have problems with a particular model. All data is stored locally on the phone, and you do not need to be online to use the scorecard (but you need to be online when loading it, as it is a web application). Data is preferably stored in cookies, but if you do not allow cookies it will try to fallback to local storage (which has not been 100% stable for me).

For curious developers
This application is built 100% using DHTMLX Touch framework and JavaScript. The style/layout is 100% default DHTMLX Touch – no CSS editing from my side. Also, no other JavaScript libraries (such as jQuery) has been used.

Inactive SSH Sessions Die

It happens that my SSH connections die after a period of inactivity. Sometimes after very long time, but sometimes quite quickly. I do not know if it has to do with routers, proxies, TCP/IP or the SSH server configuration, but I have found a remedy.

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=10 ...your normal options

Note, this does not recover a connection lost due to network problems – it just makes sure the connection stays alive, even if you dont use it for a while. There are other tools (Autossh, I think) to make ssh reconnect.

This option is especially useful in combination with the -D flag; that is, when you use SSH as a SOCKS proxy. Then you typically do not use the remote console itself, just the tunnel that comes with it.

Simple JavaScript for old school programmer

Obviously JavaScript is a very relevant language in 2013. I have to admit I am an old school programmer. I know how to write command line programs, GUI programs, and CGI-style web pages (get/post-refresh-style). It is not that JavaScript and Dynamic HTML (as it was called years ago, when XHTML was thought to be the future) are very new technologies, but to an old school programmer it is a bit different from what I am used to. Many things are confusing about JavaScript… for example:

1. It does not really resemble other script languages a lot, and it does not really resemble Java either (less so than C or C#).

2. There are many examples on the web about how to fix cool stuff on web pages with JavaScript, but where to start if you want to understand the language itself and feel comfortable with it?

3. The “script” in the name could imply that it would be simple, perhaps a subset of Java. Wrong. It is not simple and is in many ways more powerful than Java.

4. Where to start if you want to do JavaScript without necessarily creating a web page at the same time?

5. Browser incompabilities and JQuery (and more) – how to know I learn JavaScript, not just some features of JQuery?

Anyway, I decided to do some practical programming with JavaScript, in the most simple way. I wrote simple static web applications with no server side functionality, and as little and simple HTML as possible. Just like simple command line or GUI programs with no I/O, that still do useful stuff. And, to make my applications a little bit more real and relevant, I had mobile targets in mind.

A simple calculator
My first app was a simple calculator. It uses very standard HTML, and JQuery. It is simply too painful to not use JQuery when it is needed. All I wrote is in index.html, just view source. The fascinating thing for an old school programmer is the way (global) variables work:

  1. In old web programming, any kind of state had to be maintained by passing parameters to the reloaded page – it really feels defiant that everything is still there after the user clicked a button.
  2. In old school programming, global variables were embarrassing, but here, just go on like we have not learnt anything since the BASIC era.

From this simple application I learnt how to use JavaScript at all and to use JQuery.

A link list
My second application is a simple list of links. Think bookmarks, but the oldest ones are on top, so you don’t end up wasting your time checking the same blogg twice the same afternoon. With this application I learnt to use cookies (via third party library written by Scott Hamper) to make a persistant list of bookmarks. I also learnt to manipulate HTML through JavaScript. Obviously the HTML design is a little too simple to be appealing, and I can imagine many improvements. But the result is still useful. Again, everything is in the index.html file.

A speed-distance-time calculator
Have you ever tried to calculate how long time it would take to travel 54km in 15m/s. Well, it is not hard math. Anyway, I wrote a little application, especially designed for mobile units with touch screens (but it works well on a computer too). I think my Human-computer-interaction teachers would cry if they saw it, but it works and I think it is a little cool. On the implementation:

  1. Everything is in index.html, again
  2. Uses the DHTMLX Touch framework
  3. Not a single HTML element within <body>, just the JavaScript code

I have tried it on iPhone and Symbian (as well as computers). I hope it works on Android too.

This application has very little to do with web programming, and is essentially a pure JavaScript application (using a library, of course). I think this is a fascinating way of delivering end user programs in the future.

Getting started with JavaScript is very simple (you just need a text editor and a web browser – I have been using Firefox and its standard functions for debugging JavaScript – very old school).

I think it was useful to avoid getting stuck in the normal challenges of Web (back end server, data, content) and focus on building a more traditional application.

I believe my applications (and similar applications) can serve as a base for more advanced JavaScript experimentation. Inevitable, to create something really useful, I need to look more into:

  1. Simple Server side, for persisting/sharing data
  2. Local storage (thinking HTML5)

I can appreciate JavaScript for its very straight forward syntax: you do not waste many bytes when you write JavaScript code.

Without being a LISP expert, I find similarities with LISP. I find myself having as many curly brackets in JavaScript as I had parenthesis in LISP – that might not be a good thing. But there is also no difference between compile time and runtime in the sense that all functions are created as your code is executed, and that functions are just data passed to the function keyword. If you are smart (?) you can write programs that rewrite themselves, kind of, I think 😉

I would say JavaScript is one of the worst possible programming language for beginners. It incorporates all advanced programming concepts imaginable, without making a deal about it at all. Shooting yourself in the foot is very easy, as is being confused by runtime errors. But, perhaps I am just old school – maybe JavaScript is very natural if you are not burdened with prejudice about that programming languages should work like PASCAL, just better.

Scenario to Granfield Branch

I created a few scenarios for Falmouth Branch and Train Simulator 2013 that I have published to Steam Workshop. Then I came up with the not so bright idea to create a scenario for the Granfield Branch, but it can not be published to Steam Workshop because Granfield Branch is not on Steam anymore (I think it was available with a Class 111 a while ago). So I decided to publish it here, as an old Railworks package. I have no idea if you can use it with the UKTS version of Granfield Branch (which you can probably get from UKTS) or if it is only usable with the Steam version.

Scenario: Hall to Granfield

As always feedback on the scenario is appreciated.

Scenarios for other routes
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Bitcoins Are Being Tokenized Faster Than They’re Mined as DeFi Craze Continues

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Aug 15, 2020 at 14:45 UTC

Daily WBTC and BTC issuance since August 9

Since Sunday, 1,043 more bitcoins were tokenized through Wrapped Bitcoin than were actually created by bitcoin miners as the Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) boom shows no signs of abating.

About 900 bitcoins are mined per day, given the current issuance rate of 6.25 bitcoins minted per block and the target 10-minute block time.At last check, nearly 31,000 bitcoins have been tokenized on Ethereum, according to Dune Analytics, 75% of which were minted by Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC).Ethereum’s supply of tokenized bitcoins hovered below 3,000 until mid May when the rate of new tokens shot up.The rate of bitcoin tokenization signals the surging demand to use bitcoin in the burgeoning network of Ethereum-based DeFi applications.“WBTC continues to exhibit strong growth as demand for bitcoin in DeFi has exploded,” said Kyle Davies, co-founder of Three Arrows Capital, in a private message with CoinDesk. “I expect this trend to continue,” he added.
WBTC and BTC issuance since August 9Source: Dune Analytics, Coin Metrics
In July, Three Arrows Capital minted its tokenized bitcoins through BitGo, the company that helped spearhead Wrapped Bitcoin in 2019.Within a year, WBTC will be a “first class asset” in the decentralized finance ecosystem, predicted Three Arrows co-founder Su Zhu, “just as USDC and USDT are now.”

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Our Favorite Dyson Stick Vacuum Is $150 Off Now

Our Favorite Dyson Stick Vacuum Is $150 Off Now

A Dyson stick vacuum is a status item, but unlike a fancy handbag, it’s incredibly useful. These vacs are cordless, light, and maneuverable; I can clean everything, anywhere in my house, from ceiling spiderwebs in the bathroom to the trunk of my car.

Dyson regularly releases new stick vacuums and puts older models and different configurations on sale. The Cyclone V10 is the 2018 version, which WIRED senior editor Michael Calore reviewed. We tested the Absolute, but the cheaper V10 Animal that’s on sale here is almost identical, using the same motor and bin size. It only lacks the Absolute’s soft roller head attachment.

If you’ve been waiting for just the right moment to pick up a powerful, versatile stick vacuum, now is your chance. The cheaper but slightly less powerful V8 Absolute is also on sale exclusively at Dyson’s website. It might make more sense to spend an extra $50 for the V10 with this deal, but if it sells out and you still need a great stick vac, the V8 Absolute will treat you well for years to come. For more information, don’t forget to check our guide to Dyson vacuums.

The V10 Animal Costs $349 ($150 off) at Dyson, Best Buy, Target, and Bed Bath & Beyond

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Is the V10 Right for You?

WIRED: In his review (8/10, WIRED Recommends), WIRED’s Michael Calore says the V10 is lighter and easier to handle than previous Dyson stick vacuums, and most importantly, its suction power is so great there’s “very little the V10 can’t pick up.” Another bonus: It runs quiet! It’s wireless, so you don’t have to drag cords from room to room. The battery’s run time is around an hour. It also has a bigger bin than its predecessors, which means fewer trips to the trash can to empty it.

TIRED: Even on sale, this is a pricey vacuum. Calore also says that despite the push-lever emptying mechanism, you may have to get your hands dirty to thoroughly empty the bin.

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How much power does Xiaomi Mi 10 5G have? at first sight…

After dominating the budget smartphone market in the last few years, Xiaomi has finally launched the Mi 10 5G in India, the company’s high-end price offering. From the beginning, Xiaomi has been known to offer premium features on its smartphones in a low price and many times the company launches smartphones, in front of which smartphones launched by giants like Samsung also look dull. Now with the Mi 10 5G, the company seems to be moving ahead with this plan. The biggest feature of the Mi 10 5G is its 108-megapixel camera, which is comparable to the camera of expensive smartphones like Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Ultra, but comes at a much lower price than that.

The 128 GB storage variant of M10 5G is priced at Rs 49,999 and its 256 GB variant is priced at Rs 54,999. Obviously, this is the company’s flagship smartphone, so features also come at a premium. This phone competes with OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro, Realme X50 Pro 5G, iPhone SE (2020), iPhone XR and Samsung Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S10.

The planned launch of this phone was delayed due to the lockdown and this lockdown prevents us from taking the device into hands, but Xiaomi has given Gadgets 360 all the nuances of the Mi 10 5G and also answers all our questions about the smartphone Given, so we can tell you about our initial analysis.

Starting with the first thing we will design the Xiaomi Mi 10 5G. The company has made many improvements in terms of styling and build quality in the smartphone. Being the flagship, the company has tried to make the smartphone as attractive as possible. In the M10 5G we get a 3D curved glass display. It will be available in India in two colors, Signature Coral Green and Twilight Gray.

Talking about the cameras, the most important thing in the included quad rear camera setup is the smartphone’s USP OIS and a 108-megapixel primary camera with a large sensor, which helps users to capture great detail even on long-distance photos. Does. The smartphone is also capable of recording 8K video, although how effective it is in the real world remains to be seen.

Xiaomi has introduced a number of camera features that take advantage of the processing power of larger primary sensors and chipsets, the most interesting of them being the inclusion of phase depth in portrait mode, focus peaking in Pro mode, portrait video, color extraction, AI Exposure and contrast correction, night mode and a completely new vlog mode.

These are all interesting features and show that Xiaomi is thinking not only about the specification, but also about its users. However, we are a bit confused about the other cameras in the back. Other cameras in the rear camera setup include a 13-megapixel wide-angle, 2-megapixel macro, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor, giving it the same feel as a common mid-range smartphone camera nowadays. You will find the same resolution cameras on sub-15,000 smartphone and even the Redmi Note 9 Pro (Review) has a better macro camera. The company told Gadgets 360 that these agreements were necessary to keep costs under control.

The Mi 10 5G comes with a 6.67-inch screen size and has a full-HD + 1080×2340 resolution panel, which cannot be called flagship-level. Xiaomi has included a 90Hz refresh rate, DCI-P3 color gamut coverage and HDR10 + support in this display. The company has also taken care of color accuracy for photographers and designers on smartphones. The company says that people who shop online should know what the product will actually look like.

Xiaomi has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset in the flagship, which we have seen in many premium phones before and we know that it is a very powerful processor. Several temperature sensors and cooling systems have also been provided in the phone to maintain the temperature. You get 5G support, although at the moment this feature is not useful in India, because 5G connective is not available in India at this time. Xiaomi also insisted on including 5G at the end of the name of this model in India.

The Mi 10 5G uses 8 GB LPDDR5 RAM and includes 128 GB and 256 GB storage options with the UFS 3.0 standard. The company has not introduced 12 GB RAM variants in India, although this option is present in other markets. Other features include Wi-Fi 6, 4780 mAh capacity battery, 30W wired as well as 30W wireless charging and 10W reverse wireless charging. The interesting thing is that it does not have a 3.5mm headphone socket and there is no notification LED either.

What impressed us was that Xiaomi has made some changes to its MIUI software, especially for the Mi 10 5G and the company is calling it “Tier 1 Android”. The company has removed many of its core apps, such as phone dialers and message apps. Instead, Google’s stock apps have been used in it. Apart from this, the company has also promised that all advertisements, promotional notifications, bloatware and other methods of revenue generation have also been removed in this software. This phone will be one of the first Xiaomi Smartpone to get MIUI 12.

We are eager to test the performance and Xiaomi claims of this phone, especially its cooling system and display quality. Of course its specifications on the pages are impressive, but in the end the user experience matters the most. Xiaomi also notes some other aspects of this phone, such as a balanced stereo speaker, 180Hz touch sampling rate, good vibration alert, smaller camera cutout than normal. We will do a full review of the Mi 10 5G, which will cover all these aspects. However, we will have to wait for the lockdown to open.

Overall, the Mi 10 5G shows that Xiaomi can do a lot more than just budget phones. Given its features specification, its price can be considered good value, given that it takes an edge over the recently launched OnePlus 8 in some respects. But yes, it is not entirely a flagship device – it lacks an IP rating, the rear cameras are not up to par, and the screen may not be as good as some of the competition offers.

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OnePlus X with Onyx and Ceramic Chassis Priced at $249 and $369 Respectively

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OnePlus lineup till now consisted only of the flagship devices, and all that is set to change as the company has officially diversified its line up with OnePlus X which it boasts as the best affordable mid segment phone money can buy.

The new OnePlus X comes with class leading features and a design that is by no yardstick borrowed from its sibling, and from the looks of it it, seems OnePlus has ensured to the fact that the X looks apart. But specs-wise, it’s dangerously similar to the good old OnePlus One.

The phone will come in two variations – the Onyx and a limited Ceramic edition, and the titles are not just fancy names. They actually represent the material used to build the phone. The OnePlus X is carved out of glass on a metal frame and while many other manufacturers are doing it is still considered a premium build.

The Ceramic finish seems to be the more rugged of the lot as it boasts of scratch-resistant with a hardness of 8.5H on the Mohs Scale, which typically implies that the OnePlus can only be scratched by a Diamond. The Zircon moulds are held together by baking them at 1482 degree Celsius and cooling the, naturally. As it is evident from the pictures both the phones are treated to extensive polishing processes to achieve the final look.

OnePlus has also tossed in an alert slider at the side which will let you slide between notifications and sound profiles, just like we saw on the OnePlus 2. The OnePlus X doesn’t seem too bulky at 140 x 69 x 6.9 mm, in fact the dimensional attributes show off the fact that it is way much more compact than some of the other 5-inch phones. “brushed anodized metal frame etched with 17 elegant microcuts” seems to be the mantra of the design team.

OnePlus has been fitted with an Active Matrix OLED display which as per the company claims is more comfortable for outdoor visibility as it is brighter. The 5-inch FHD display comes with a pixel density of 441ppi which leaves no scope for any complaints.

Processor and Storage

Surprisingly OnePlus went ahead with the Snapdragon 801 SoC which is mighty in its own sense but seems to be slightly dated, considering the current crop of 64-bit chipsetrs in the market. But nonetheless we are sure that it won’t lend a lethargic touch to the X and with the 3GB of RAM we would most likely not be able to notice it in day today use. On the storage front the phone offers 16GB of internal memory along with an microSD card slot, the SIM slot however seems to be a hybrid microSD card slot.

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How to Pick the Right Heating and Cooling Certification Class near Tuscaloosa Alabama

Tuscaloosa Alabama residential air conditioning condensersNow that you have made a decision on a career as a heating and air conditioner technician, the next step is to look for an HVAC trade school near Tuscaloosa AL. But with so many to select from, how do you decide on the best one to receive the training that you need? Many potential students will make their decision based exclusively on the price of tuition or how close the school is to their home. While these are relevant factors to consider, they are not the only ones to take into account. Just some of the other factors that you need to look into are the graduation rates of the HVAC schools, their reputations, and if they are accredited by professional trade organizations. These and other benchmarks will be discussed in more detail later within this article. But before we discuss how to select an HVAC vocational school, let's take a look at what a heating and cooling contractor does to become a licensed skilled tradesman.

Becoming an HVAC Contractor

Tuscaloosa Alabama HVAC Contractor fixing air conditioning condenserHVAC is an acronym that is frequently used in the industry that stands for "Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning". HVAC professionals provide services for the installation, maintenance and repair of air conditioners, furnaces, boilers, hot water heaters and heating systems. As skilled tradesmen, they are typically required to be licensed, though every state and local municipality has its own prerequisites. Acquiring professional certification is not compulsory, but an optional means for Tuscaloosa AL HVAC technicians to demonstrate that they are highly skilled and knowledgeable in their area of expertise. There are many acknowledged certifications within the field that are offered. Below are a few of the important ones.

  • North American Technician Excellence (NATE). NATE is a nationally acknowledged certification for HVAC techs. The certification is attained by passing a competency exam and may be earned in one or more specialties.
  • HVAC Excellence. This certification makes available both a professional and a master specialist credential. 2 years of field experience together with passing a comprehensive exam are required for the professional level certification. Master specialists must have 3 years of experience together with a passing score on the professional level exam. Similar to NATE, certifications are offered in various specialties.
  • EPA Section 608. This certification is required for specialists that handle refrigerants. There are 3 forms of certification offered, one for small appliances, and the other two for low and high pressure refrigerants.

Because licensing may be required in your location, and you may also wish to obtain certification, it's essential that you enroll in an HVAC trade school that will prepare you for both. And since you will most likely be handling refrigerants, make sure that the school you decide on prepares you for passing the EPA Section 608 examinations.

HVAC Degree Schools

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There are several options available for HVAC training in a technical or vocational school. You can earn a certificate, an Associate Degree, or a Bachelor's Degree. Acquiring a certificate will take the minimum amount of time, usually accomplished in as little as 6 months, however some courses are longer. A certificate will train you for most HVAC positions, particularly if you are licensed and have certification applicable to the position. The degree programs can provide a competitive edge in the job market and will provide more extensive training than the certificate programs. Below is a short summary of each credential offered near Tuscaloosa AL.

  • Certificate. Usually requiring a high school diploma, certificate programs are preferred among beginning commercial or residential HVAC technicians. They furnish a solid foundation of skills for employment within the industry.
  • Associate Degree. The Associate Degree in HVAC program supplies a more extensive knowledge of heating and a/c systems than the certificate program. Typically requiring 2 years to complete, a number of degrees include an internship or work-study program.
  • Bachelor's Degree. The Bachelor's Degree in HVAC is geared more towards a career in management or even business ownership. Some programs require an Associate Degree, while others are a conventional four year program. In addition to learning how to service and maintain heating and air conditioning systems, you will also study how to design them.

Choosing the ideal credential program will be based on what your long term career objectives are, as well as the time and financial resources that you have to commit. One possibility is to start with a certificate or perhaps an Associate Degree program, and after getting some experience in the field in Tuscaloosa AL, later returning to earn a Bachelor's Degree. If this is your strategy, be sure to ask the HVAC tech school you are considering about how their returning student program works.

HVAC Courses Online

Choosing an HVAC program online is one option in attaining your training and receiving a certificate or degree. Nearly all schools will require some attendance on campus to take part in hands on training. Some also provide internship or work-study programs in addition to or as an alternative to practical lab work. But since the remainder of the classes can be attended online, this alternative may be a more accessible solution for many Tuscaloosa AL students that are short on time. And many online degree programs are more economical than other on campus alternatives. Even commuting expenses from Tuscaloosa and study materials may be lessened, helping to make schooling more affordable. And a large number of online schools are fully accredited (more on this later). So if your career or family responsibilities have left you with limited time to attend classes, perhaps an HVAC online training program will make it less complicated to fit school into your active lifestyle.

Questions to Ask HVAC Schools

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Once you have selected the type of degree or certificate that you want to acquire, either on campus or online, you can begin to narrow down your list of schools. As you are certainly aware, there are many HVAC technical schools in the Tuscaloosa AL area and throughout the USA to select from. That's why it is extremely important to have a checklist of key qualifications when making school evaluations. As previously stated in our opening paragraph, tuition and location will most likely be the first two aspects you will look at. Following are some additional ones that you will want to investigate before enrolling in your school of choice.

Accreditation.  A large number of HVAC vocational programs in the Tuscaloosa AL area have acquired either a regional or a national accreditation. They can receive Institutional Accreditation, which involves the school's programs as a whole, or Programmatic Accreditation, which relates to a specific program, for instance HVAC technology. Verify that the school and program are accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized accrediting agency, for instance the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. In addition to helping guarantee that you acquire an excellent education, it may assist in obtaining financial assistance or student loans, which are in many cases unavailable for non-accredited schools. Also, many states mandate that the HVAC training program be accredited for it to qualify for licensing.

High Completion Rates.  Ask the HVAC schools you are considering what their completion rates are. The completion rate is the percentage or portion of students who enroll in and finish the course. A lower completion rate could suggest that students were dissatisfied with the course and dropped out. It could also suggest that the teachers were not qualified to train the students. It's similarly essential that the schools have high job placement rates. Older and/or more reputable schools may have a broader list of alumni, which may mean more contacts for the school to employ for their apprenticeship and job placement programs. A high job placement rate can not only confirm that the school has a good reputation within the field, but additionally that it has the network of Tuscaloosa AL HVAC employers to assist students obtain apprenticeships or jobs.

Apprenticeship Programs.  Most HVAC training programs are taught in conjunction with an apprenticeship or an internship program. Those participating vocational and technical schools will help place you in an apprenticeship program inside their network of Heating and Cooling contractors or labor unions. Check if the schools you are reviewing have referring partnerships with local Tuscaloosa AL HVAC specialists. An apprenticeship not only provides a valuable experience by providing hands-on training, but it also furnishes job opportunities and helps to establish relationships in the area HVAC professional community.

Modern Facilities.  Confirm that the school facilities and the tools that you will be instructed on are state-of-the-art and what you will be working with in the field. If you are presently in an internship or an apprenticeship, talk to the HVAC specialist you are working with concerning what you should be expecting. Otherwise, ask a local Tuscaloosa AL HVAC company if they can provide some pointers. Additionally keep in mind that unless you are willing to relocate, the school must be within driving distance of your Tuscaloosa AL residence. Take note that if you decide to enroll in an out-of-state school, in addition to relocation costs there can be higher tuition charges compared to in-state residents.

Smaller Classes.   It's important that you get as much personalized training as possible, which can be difficult in bigger classes. Ask if you can sit in on a couple of the classes so that you can see how large they are and experience the interaction between instructors and students. Speak with a few of the students and get their feedback regarding class sizes and instruction. Finally, speak with some of the instructors and find out what their level of expertise is and what degrees or certifications they have earned.

Flexible Scheduling.  Make sure that the class schedules for the programs you are evaluating are flexible enough to fulfill your needs. If you are only able to go to classes at night or on weekends near Tuscaloosa AL, verify that the programs you are comparing offer those choices. If you can only attend on a part-time basis, make sure that the school you select allows part-time enrollment. Finally, check out what the protocol is to make-up classes should you miss any because of work, illness or family responsibilities.

Learn More About Tuscaloosa Heating and Cooling Courses Near You

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Picking the right HVAC school program is a crucial beginning toward a gratifying career in the heating and air conditioning industry. As we have covered in this article, you should pick a Heating and Cooling training program and a degree or certificate program that are both accredited and have exceptional reputations within the HVAC profession. Other factors to search for are ample practical training and state-of-the-art facilities. You need to visit each of the schools in person that you are most interested in to tour the campus and speak with both the faculty and current students. Try to get a feel for the quality of the training and the interaction between them. Additionally, ask about scheduling choices and if evening or weekend classes are offered if needed. And remember to ask about financial aid and student loan options also. If you ask the proper questions as we have detailed in our checklist for assessing schools, you'll be able to filter your options so that you can make an educated decision. With the right training, hard work and commitment, you can eventually become a licensed HVAC contractor in Tuscaloosa AL.


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Why am I writing about the Great American Wimp? There are numerous authors discussing toughness and grit, and how this serves our youth. Yet, much of this valuable advice is not helpful to those families who find toughness and grit to be repulsive, and so they ignore these messages.

For these parents, it would appear that more value is put on raising the Great American Wimp. In an effort to be reaching all audiences, I am offering this set of structured (tongue in cheek) lessons for those parents. So, if you want to make sure you kids evolve into the wimpiest of the wimpy…then keep reading. These key lessons in parenting will certainly get you there.

Keys to Raising the Wimp

Invest in Lots and Lots of Words…Require No Action.

One key to ensuring your child evolves into the wimpiest of all, is to place inordinate value upon words and talk. In other words, make sure you have daily word battles, or at least repeated discussions, over some type of false expectation. For example, pick something simple like putting their shoes away. Rather than require action, engage is daily dialogue over the shoes left lying around. Scream and yell a bit until your child starts to scream and yell back (this will come will time…just be patient.) The secret then, after a few years, is to just give up. (this happens in middle school…or sometimes high school).

You see the magic here: You engaged in many, many word battles but no action plan was required.

The result is that the mouth muscle is worked a bit, but not any other muscle. When this is happening every day, you are surely on the path to building a true American wimp.

Fill Their Child Brains with Ego-inflating Labels & Traits

Here’s how you do this:

• “Oh sweetheart, you are so smart.”
• “Wow. You are just brilliant. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
• “Just beautiful. The most beautiful of all.”
• “You sing like an angel.”
• “You are a natural. You don’t have to work at it.”

The key is to start early, and repeatedly tell your child how smart and beautiful they are. You do this so that they begin to believe it. When you have the moment, imply that real work or effort is beneath them somehow. In this way, they learn to believe that they are special, smarter, prettier and that things should come easy to them. In essence, everyone should like them because they are smart and beautiful.

Now, of course, their peers may be jealous of the wimp and may not show affection toward them. For example, peers may value effort, kindness, playfulness or happiness over wimpiness. Those children are on a different path. So do not let this dismay you. Instead, intensify your message…so your child clings to these labels despite what the world says to them. To be a successful, life-long wimp, they will need to learn early to ignore the input of the outside world and stay isolated in their inner sanctuary of wimpiness.

Never Value Growth, Learning or Doing Your Best

These values suggest that life is a process, an evolution of constant growth and learning that naturally unfolds from doing one’s best. Productivity, responsibility and happiness all stem from applying ourselves to life fully…and giving it all we can.

Let’s be clear: This sounds like effort…perhaps even real work. And…it is!

Such values are toxic to the wimp, and any one of them could undermine years of wimp training very quickly. So stay away!

And here is how you do it (pay close attention): If you child learns quickly, let them get by with the least effort early on. They will still get good grades. Let this be enough, and praise them for being so smart…so brilliant.

If you child doesn’t learn so quickly, show them that you will do the work for them. Remember: Use lots of words, explain it over and over…but in the end, do not require them to work hard. You do it for them. You must teach them that you will work harder at their life than they do. Now, this leads us to the final lesson.

Always Allow Them to Have an Excuse and Give Up Easily

Regardless of the situation, be interested in their excuses of how hard it is, or how someone else was mean or cheated them. Engage and discuss their excuses, and then let them give up. Require no staying power or real effort. This is always in your mind, so you must believe their excuses and let them off the hook.

Sure, it means you might have to do things for them, and this will increase with age, but that’s a small price to pay for a building a real American Wimp. If you are truly successful, your son or daughter will be living in your basement at 28, and while you are working hard, they are still out partying till 3 am and sleeping till noon. Even then, do not require more. Just a lecture, a few good yelling sessions…and let them storm off crying about how mean and unfair it is. Forget about the whole thing the next day, and let life continue. If you reach this pinnacle someday, you may find the Great American Wimp is alive and well in your home…and of course, it’s not your responsibility…or is it?


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Records: [TGM][TAP] Secret Grade

Thread in 'Competition' started by Kitaru, 2 Oct 2007.

  1. That would rock! Thanks man :)
  2. I just realised I never tried doing this before.

    not too bad for a first try :p
    I need to learn how to make the line go to the left mid-screen
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    very first try.
  4. Failure:

    ...and Retribution!:

    TAP Secret GM @ 1:56.31
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  5. Nice job Kitaru! Don't forget to update the first post too :)
  6. lol nice
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  7. I was playing around with Secret Grade stuff on TAP and managed to get an S7 @2:59:73 on Level 158.

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  9. I finally have a secret grade I'm reasonably happy with
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    done with more luck than skill :D
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  11. cool
  12. Had a few tries at secret grade today, it went pretty well. I blew an s9, I had the left hand side all set up, I just couldn't get the right hand side. It resulted in an s7 though.

  13. i'll keep aiming for the GM, meanwhile i got my first s9 on 9/3/17. at 2:10 PM (UTC -3:00)

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  15. I finally updated with the scores on this page. ~_~ I forgot I owned this one. Sorry for the extended wait!

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Concerning separation

03 Dec 2014

This a quick response to Ben’s tweet from this week:

Edit: Ben seems to have deleted the tweet since this was published — I’m not sure why.

His issue is the mix of logic and template. We’ve all heard it: your templates should exist in their own files, referenced by some kind of view. The logic is defined somewhere else.

Separating the two is meant to lead to more simple templates, a single place to find logic, maintainabile code and perhaps even code reuse.

Ben’s view is that embedding the template in the React component loses those desirable properties. I hope I’m not putting word in his mouth.

You’ve probably guessed that I disagree.

View logic is tied to a component (or application’s) state — good examples are toggling attributes, selectively including parts of the template, and reusing other templates or whole components. When the connection between the presentation and related logic isn’t intuitive or obvious, split-brain maintainability problems occur because the presentation changes incurred by a logical change are not clear. This leads to bugs.

There are always going to be pieces of logic that are dedicated to presentation, which meansthey are inextricably tied to the template itself. In the traditional model they are needlessly kept apart, and separating them actually complicates maintenance.

The traditional pattern also allows reuse of a template without reuse of associated logic, leading to a combinatorial problem where changes made for one use of the template can accidentally (and negatively) affect other uses — again without an explicit connection between the two.

My position is that logic dedicated solely to presentation should be physically, line-of-code close to its use in a template because they are in fact the same concern. Changes in logic are immediately linked to changes in presentation due to proximity and so the implications of a change are intuitively clear.

In the literature, this property is called cohesion — the separate-template approach has low cohesion; the alternative has high cohesion, and is more desirable for it.

React’s way of doing things has high cohesion and a good measure of intuitive maintainability. I like it.


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Medibio Appoints Mental Healthcare Advocate and Former Congressman, Patrick Kennedy, to Board of Directors

SYDNEY, Australia and MINNEAPOLIS, July 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Australian Stock Exchange listed medical technology company Medibio Limited (MEB or the Company) is pleased to announce the appointment of The Honourable Patrick J. Kennedy to the Board of Directors.

Patrick J. Kennedy is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-R.I.) and the nation’s leading political voice on mental illness, addiction, and other brain diseases.  During his 16-year career representing Rhode Island in Congress, he fought a national battle to end medical and societal discrimination against these illnesses, highlighted by his lead sponsorship of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.  As a chief sponsor of one of the major pieces of legislation of 2008, the Mental Health Parity Act, a bill requiring most group health plans to provide coverage for the treatment of mental illnesses that is comparable to what they provide for physical illnesses. Mr. Kennedy was also recently appointed to President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.  His political career and his brave openness about his own health challenges provide unique expertise to Medibio.

“Medibio’s technology is truly groundbreaking, and has the potential to fundamentally change the mental health system for the better. That’s why I am proud to be part of this team,” said Kennedy. “This is a company that is truly on the cutting edge, and their diagnostic and analytic tools will give clinicians the power to treat patients more effectively, using better data, and with a focus on better outcomes.”

Medibio Managing Director and CEO, Jack Cosentino, said, “Patrick is a significant addition to the Medibio Board! His wealth of experience gained from serving in the U.S. Congress along with his advocacy for Mental Health will open doors and heighten awareness for Medibio’s technology.  He has proved successful in tackling Mental Health as one of the greatest challenges in healthcare today.  His knowledge, both through personal experience and legislative accomplishments, will help guide us in laying the strategic foundations for large-scale operations and the necessary payment and reimbursement coverage of our innovative, new technology. We welcome Patrick to the board of Medibio and value his leadership and passion to serve people with mental health conditions.”

Following his 8th term serving in the U.S. Congress, Kennedy has become a leading advocate for increased Mental Health & Addiction treatment coverage in the United States.  He is a co-founder of One Mind for Research, which seeks to increase resources and collaboration in brain research and founder of the Kennedy Forum which advances a roadmap to transform mental health and addiction care.

Mr. Kennedy served three terms in the Rhode Island State legislature before he was elected as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2011.  Kennedy served on the Armed Services Committee and the Appropriations committee, where he served on the subcommittee on Veterans Affairs and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and the NIH. While in Congress, he was a vocal advocate for healthcare reform and the chief sponsor of the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

Medibio Board Chair Chris Indermaur said, Mr. Kennedy is a true win for Medibio.  His vast experience and credentials both with the government as well as his current appointment serving on the White House commission will align well with the challenges affecting those struggling with addiction and mental illness.  We are pleased to have him join our esteemed board.”

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Medibio (ASX:MEB) (OTCQB:MDBIF), headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with US headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an evidence-based medical technology company that has developed an objective test to assist in the diagnosis and management of depression, chronic stress and other mental health disorders. Based on research conducted over 15 years at the University of Western Australia, this test utilizes a panel of patented (and patent pending) circadian, sleep and autonomic system biomarkers to objectively quantify and characterize mental state.  Medibio’s depression diagnostic is being validated in clinical studies undertaken by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The University of Ottawa, among others. The clinical trials will support Medibio’s application to become the first FDA approved, objective, and evidence based approach to the diagnosis of mental health disorders. Medibio’s technology also provides an objective method for the assessment of stress and mental wellbeing that can be translated to the workplace stress/wellbeing market, wearable technology and App market. Medibio is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and trades on the OTCQB Venture Market for early stage and developing U.S. and international companies. Investors can find Real-Time quotes and market information for the company on and

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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide bomb attack on clerics sees 55 killed.

(Kabul)  Yesterday the Islamic world celebrated the birthday of their founder, Mohammed when he came out of hos cave, declared his love for a 6 year old child and set forth onto the world a culture of murder, death kill. Which is why in Afghanistan somebody decided to carry out a suicide bombing

on a gathering of religious scholars in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing 55 people.

The attack at the Uranus Wedding Hall, a business complex that was hosting both the gathering and a wedding, occurred at around 1820hrs local time when a suicide bomber walked into the gathering and blew himself up during a reading of the Koran. On top of the 55 dead another 83 people were injured.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack.


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