The first Algoma University at St. Thomas class is currently busy at the main campus in Sault Ste. Marie getting their introductory taste of a four year Bachelor of Arts program. Meanwhile, finishing touches are being completed on the former Wellington Street Public School in preparation for the return to their home location later in September.
Interior work involved removing gym and office space, adding an elevator, updating heating, electrical, fire safety and IT elements and ramping up Algoma's second floor space with classrooms, student lounge and administrative office. Exterior work was completed to provide future courthouse parking.
Other cities have successfully introduced post-secondary education through off main-campus locations. However, the Algoma University at St. Thomas's Block Format programming will be a first in Ontario. Students will spend approximately three weeks learning intensively and completing work on one course, then move onto the next of five for the year. Although most of the nineteen students enrolled this year are from St. Thomas a few have come from other centres like Sarnia and Waterloo – the Block Format programming feature was a big factor in their choice.
Site Program Coordinator, Donna Rankin, was also attracted to apply for the position, largely because of the Block Format model. She worked for fourteen years at Fanshawe College in St. Thomas as a student advisor and as an employment services counsellor and believes it is "an optimum way to learn" for many students and results in decreased mid-term anxiety. She noted that that enrolment in this year's class includes students from ages seventeen to thirty-three.
Bringing Algoma U to St. Thomas has also been a win for a heritage building. It was important to both Algoma and Andrew Gunn to maintain the heritage attributes of the building and its ambience as a teaching place. Renovations were completed with the goal of retaining the former public school's character, keeping many features such as woodwork, tin ceilings, and the old cloak room intact.
The third floor will be available for possible expansion of Algoma's programming in the future and there are now three spaces on the main floor, leasable through the City of St. Thomas's economic development office.
With so many win-wins for students and the community, there's a definite positive vibe connected to the Algoma U project, one that can't help but benefit the learning process for the nineteen people who will enter the second phase of their school year back in St. Thomas next week.
Find out more about the Algoma University program at http://www.algomau.ca/algoma-u-at-st-thomas/overview.


"Although increasing the use of active learning approaches has been shown to improve motivation and learning, research to date has not supported abandoning the lecture altogether" (p. 1). In their book Dynamic Lecturing (Stylus Publishing, 2017), Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek address the need for research-based guidance on how to lecture effectively. Some of the topics we will discuss in the book group will include the various types of lectures; strategies to increase the effectiveness of lectures; planning the lecture; and evaluating the lecture.
In anticipation of Zakrajsek's visit to Bloomington's campus, there will be a reading group that meets on three occasions to discuss Dynamic Lecturing. The reading group is open to all faculty and AIs of Indiana University but registration is limited to 15. Participants will receive a copy of the book and will meet as a group with Zakrajsek when he visits the Bloomington campus in November as part of the SoTL Speakers Series.
Meetings will be held in the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning in the Wells Library from 9:05-10:30am on Fridays. Meeting dates include: Sept. 7, Oct. 12, and Nov. 9, 2018.
If you are interested in joining the book group and can commit to attending all three of these meetings please fill out the brief application form. If you have questions about the reading group, please contact Shannon Sipes at sotl@indiana.edu.


Abstract: The countdown to Horizon Sunrise 7.0 general release has begun, with ten beta libraries helping to ensure product readiness for its release date. New features and enhancements to be part of Horizon Sunrise 7.0 include Z39.50 cataloging, major circulation enhancements such as borrower information check on request, hold suspension and cluster hold capability, Win 2000 client support, Unicode enhancements, day-end optimization, and other important new features.
Provo, Utah�The countdown to Horizon Sunrise 7.0 general release has begun, with ten beta libraries helping to ensure product readiness for its release date. New features and enhancements to be part of Horizon Sunrise 7.0 include Z39.50 cataloging, major circulation enhancements such as borrower information check on request, hold suspension and cluster hold capability, Win 2000 client support, Unicode enhancements, day-end optimization, and other important new features.
According to Gregory Witt, Horizon Sunrise 7.0 Product Manager, "This is a significant new release for epixtech. Our customers, potential customers, and the library community as a whole have a lot to be excited about. Our developers have worked hard along with our beta sites to make sure the most requested enhancements are in this release. The beta sites have been very positive regarding the hold suspension, where hold requests can be suspended for later reactivation, such as when a patron is leaving on vacation and wishes his or her request to be suspended during the time they are away. The Z39.50 cataloging, which gives library staff the ability to search Z39.50 databases and save the local Horizon Sunrise databases, is also a big bonus for customers."
epixtech President and CEO, Lana Porter, was particularly grateful to the beta sites, who have been very cooperative in making this release a success. "We rely heavily on our beta sites to make sure each release includes some of the most requested enhancements, and that these enhancements give the libraries the functionalities they most need. We have been fortunate to have such cooperative, far-sighted and capable beta sites." The beta sites working on Horizon Sunrise 7.0 include a variety of public, K-12 school, academic, special, and international libraries, including Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Iowa State University, Kenton County Public Library (KY), Portage District Library (MI), Eccles Health Sciences Library (UT), Utah Valley State College, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Asbury Theological Seminary (KY) and the Smithsonian Institution.
Ed Szynaka, Director of Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, speaks of his library's willingness to work with epixtech staff on Horizon Sunrise 7.0. "Although it can be time consuming and sometimes even frustrating to be a beta site on a new product, it is also very rewarding to know you're helping shape the future of libraries through the automation available to them. There are some really unique and important enhancements in this release that we have helped drive and shape. We're proud of the work we've done with epixtech. We know the release will serve our library better than any previous release, but we know it will also serve other libraries better."
epixtech is the leading provider of automation technologies, solutions and services for more than 7,600 libraries worldwide. epixtech's award-winning library automation systems, ConnectLib solutions for patron self-services, desktop management and interlibrary loans and its new Web-based solutions and services empower libraries and their patrons. epixtech was formerly Ameritech Library Services, a subsidiary of Ameritech, and became a private corporation in December 1999. epixtech's library automation solutions meet the needs of academic, research, public, corporate, consortia and K-12 school libraries. Headquartered in Utah, epixtech has offices in Evanston, Illinois; Waterloo, Ontario; as well as in Australia, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Taiwan. epixtech, inc. is located at 400 West 5050 North, Provo, Utah 84605; Telephone: 800.288.8020; fax 801.223.5202; and www.epixtech.com.


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What are two words that sound alike but spelled differently?
HOMONYMS are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Homophones are a type of homonym that also sound alike and have different meanings, but have different spellings.
What are words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same?
A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling. These are homographs that are not homophones.
What word takes 2 hours to say?
Casey Chan. The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you about two hours to mumble through.
Is there a word with 1000 letters?
The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them. And since Titin is the largest protein ever discovered, its name had to be equally as large.
What is the biggest word in?
What is the most common phobia?
There are many things people are fearful of, but here are the ten most common phobias:
Pteromerhanophobia: fear of flying.
Claustrophobia: fear of enclosed spaces.
Entomophobia: fear of insects.
Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes.
Cynophobia: fear of dogs.
Astraphobia: fear of storms.
Trypanophobia: fear of needles.
Is Kakorrhaphiophobia common?
Because of their fear, many patients choose to live in total isolation. Serious kakorrhaphiophobia is rare, but we think it's fair to say that living in today's competitive society can make us a little kakorrhaphiophobic at times.
Is fear of failure a phobia?
What Is Atychiphobia and How Can You Manage Fear of Failure? Phobias are irrational fears related to specific objects or situations. If you experience atychiphobia, you have an irrational and persistent fear of failing. Fear of failure may be part of another mood disorder, anxiety disorder, or eating disorder.
Why are we so afraid to fail?
Fear of failure (or atychiphobia, for those of you who like that kind of stuff) hides in between the things we think we know about ourselves. Psychologist, Guy Winch, explains it as causing people to "unconsciously sabotage their chances of success, in a variety of ways."
Why am I so afraid of failing?
Fear of failure can be linked to many causes. For instance, having critical or unsupportive parents is a cause for some people. Because they were routinely undermined or humiliated in childhood, they carry those negative feelings into adulthood. And you carry that fear even now, years later.
Is fear of failure a weakness?
Fear of weakness, fear of failure, and fear of who you are hold you back from becoming your best. Improving weaknesses doesn't make you great. Investing in your weaknesses is not the path to greatness. Fixing your weaknesses only limits your failure, it doesn't improve your success.
Which word means two or more words that have the same sound but different spellings and meanings?
What are some multiple meaning words?
Homonyms, or multiple-meaning words, are words that have the same spelling and usually sound alike, but have different meanings (e.g. dog bark, tree bark). Beginning in kindergarten, children learn to use context to determine which meaning of a multiple-meaning word is correct in a sentence.
What is a phrase called that has two meanings?
A double-entendre is a phrase or figure of speech that could have two meanings or that could be understood in two different ways.
Which words have opposite meanings?
A contronym, often referred to as a Janus word or auto-antonym, is a word that evokes contradictory or reverse meanings depending on the context. Specifically, a contronym is a word with a homonym (another word with the same spelling but different meaning) that is also an antonym (a word with the opposite meaning).
What is the opposite of apology?
apology. Antonyms: charge, imputation, impeachment, offense, incrimination, injury, accusation, wrong, insult. Synonyms: defense, justification, plea, exculpation, excuse, vindication, acknowledgment, confession.
Is cleave a Contronym?
An auto-antonym or autantonym, also called a contronym, contranym or Janus word, is a word with multiple meanings (senses) of which one is the reverse of another. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together".
Is egregious a Contronym?
In fact, there is a term for words that have meanings that are opposites of one another: contronym or auto-antonym. That page gives a number of examples, although it doesn't include "egregious" (it's not a complete list).
Is peruse a Contronym?
Peruse can mean "to read something in a relaxed way, or skim" and can also mean "to read something carefully or in detail." Peruse is thus a contronym because it has multiple definitions that seem contradict each other.
How do you use the word peruse?
Peruse in a Sentence ?
Peruse the manual to set up your television.
To see what entrées we have to offer this evening, peruse our menu.
Many employers will peruse an employee's Facebook profile to what he/she does online.
I have included reference material in your packet to peruse.
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EMS provides hydro-excavation on certain sites as an alternative to conventional excavation methods. Unlike traditional mechanical excavation, there is little chance of damage or disruption to critical underground utilities when pressure washing and high-power vacuuming are utilized to excavate. Hydro-excavation allows EMS to penetrate various soil conditions, depths, widths and angles, while preserving natural surroundings. Hydro-excavation equipment is directed at the desired excavation point while the soil slurry is vacuumed into a vacuum truck to be contained and/or transported off-site. The entire excavation process requires minimal backfill, labor force, restoration and environmental impact.


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Q: Synchronizing dataset (.xsd file ?) to mySQL With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and MySQL 5.2.40,
How is it possible to get visual c# to update itself after changes have been made in MySQL?
I simply added a column to a table in MySQL ( using the edit Table in the contextual menu ... the Alter Table is not available to me... could that be the problem?) and then I could not get visual studio to update it's dataset, xsd file to "refresh".  If I add myself that column in the xsd and run the simple CRUD to see if that works ... no data are saved in the mySQL database.
No refresh button, no manual addition works.  This should be simple but I am now desperate to find how to do it.
"don't forget to save and forward engineer the mySQL changes" would not be an answer to my problem ... I double checked that.
-- a newbie

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This was Ko's first major title. Her previous best showing had been a runner-up finish at the 2015 Ricoh Women's British Open, when she was still a Korea LPGA member.
South Korea's Park Sung-hyun is currently No. 1 with 7.06 points, and Ko has 5.62 points. The world rankings evaluate a player's performance over a rolling two-year period weighted in favor of the current year, and an extra emphasis is placed on the most recent 13 weeks.
Lee took a step back with a bogey at the seventh, while Kim didn't make up any ground with six consecutive pars to make the turn at six-under. Ko had a birdie at the fifth and a bogey at the eighth to find herself at nine-under through the first nine holes.
Ko, the 2016 KLPGA Player of the Year, had nine career wins on the domestic tour when she claimed her first LPGA victory at the KEB Hana Bank Championship on home soil in October 2017. That gave her exemption for the LPGA Tour for 2018, and Ko won her first official LPGA start in February last year at the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open. She became only the second player in LPGA history to win in her debut.
After handily winning the top rookie honors in 2018, Ko got off to an impressive start in 2019. She finished second in her title defense at the Australian Open. After tying for 29th in Thailand, Ko contended again the following week in Singapore, tying for third at the HSBC Women's World Championship.


I thought it would be a good idea to create a logo, in order to help make myself an identity. This should hopefully help me stand out from the crowd, for potential collaborations with clients.
So here is my logo!


Talcher, Aug 25 (UNI) At least 33 school students and a boatman were rescued while one student was reportedly missing in a boat accident today in Tikira rivulet, a tributory of Brahmni river, about 35 kms from here.
Official sources said 34 students were ferrying in a country boat, from Mandua under Chendipada police station area to Komsala High School, when the mishap took place near Bol village in the mid river.
Villagers, however, immediately swung into action and rescued 33 school children and the boat man but Ajaya Rout(13), a student of class VIII, was washed away in the strong current of the rivulet.


This training is designed for describing the benefits, activities, tasks, skills, and practices required for effective business analysis with an agile mindset which has a constant focus on delivering business value. It also describes how techniques and concepts commonly used in agile approaches can be applied to business analysis practices. This provides practitioners, teams, and organizations a base of knowledge to enable effective agile business analysis in order to generate successful business outcomes that add real business and customer value.
There are a wide variety of techniques, processes, and tools that can be applied to agile business analysis. There is no single approach that should be applied to every context, and part of the skill of the agile business analysis practitioner is to select the most effective techniques for the specific context; the Agile Extension does provide some advice for practitioners on the applicability of different techniques to different contexts.
To help assimilate the tools and techniques learned, there is a mixture of group and team exercises throughout the course. The use of a realistic case study will help reinforce concepts learned. Be prepared for a high level of participation. Each participant will receive a comprehensive student guide complete with examples and workshop solutions.


Penn Manor High School has again been offered an opportunity to participate in the GIANT A+ School Rewards Program. Starting October 4, 2009 through March 13, 2010, Penn Manor High School will have the opportunity to earn CASH through this exciting program.
After you designate the high school, each shopping trip at a participating* GIANT store using your BONUSCARD earns CASH for our school! You can track the amount of points you earn for our school by checking your grocery receipt. Each month, the amount of CASH awarded will be updated on the GIANT website. Our school will receive a check at the end of the program. The money can be used for any of our school's educational needs.
You can designate in a few ways. You can email your BONUSCARD number and last name to krista.cox@pennmanor.net or you can go to the Giant A+ School Rewards website and designate the high school using ID # 02139. In addition, you can call the high school office, send a comment back through the blog, or print a Giant BONUSCARD designation form, fill it out and return it to the high school office. Please be sure to designate Penn Manor High School using ID # 02139 Also, don't forget to encourage your friends and relatives to do the same. It could mean the world to our children!


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- opening the generated xlsx file with the solution they have.
- reporting the result of their tests by dropping me a small note.


In 2016, ISOCARP celebrated an important event in the history of the Society – the 25th anniversary of the Young Planning Professionals' Programme!
A particular focus and commitment of ISOCARP is on young generations through facilitating knowledge for better cities with the youth. The Young Planning Professionals' Programme is a crucial component of ISOCARP's dedication to promote and enhance the planning profession. The objective is to contribute to the knowledge base and improve skills of young professionals, the future leaders of our profession.
Publications, CDs and exhibitions have been important means of YPPs' dissemination strategy. Please visit our Publications section!
News on ISOCARP Young Planning Professionals' Network!
To follow the congress workshop recaps, visit the Cool Planners of Bodo and Cool Planning in New Kristiansand!


Cut the ham and mozzarella in small cubes.
Mix them with prepared Knorr Mashed Potato (room temperature).
Season the mixture with some black pepper (no salt; salt will come from the ham).
Put the mixture in a piping bag and squeeze shapes of long cylinders on an oven tray that's covered with baking paper.
Half freeze the cylinders and cut into 5cm pieces.
After coating, let the coating set for half an hour in the fridge.
Bring vegetable oil to 180°C and deep fry the croquettes for about 4 minutes until they are golden.
Make sure they are hot inside so the mozzarella melts out when you break the croquettes.
Place the thinly sliced pancetta on baking paper and put another sheet of baking paper on top.
Place between 2 oven racks to add pressure to the pancetta.
Bake the pancetta in the oven at 170°C for 8 minutes.
Remove the top baking paper and let the pancetta cool.
Mix mayonnaise with the truffle paste.
Squeeze some drops of lemon.
Serve 3 croquettes per portion.
Place the pancetta on top.
Finish with some truffle mayonnaise.


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Soul Hackers 2 Officially Announced, Releasing August 2022
George Yang - February 22, 2022
ATLUS has officially revealed Soul Hackers 2! The highly anticipated sequel will launch on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S on August 25 in Japan, followed the next day by a worldwide release! https://twitter.com/Atlus_West/status/1495731276745170946 The game...
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Announces Summer 2022 Release for North America
Nicholas Friedman - February 19, 2022
Good news, Dragon Ball Super fans, the latest film in the long-running franchise, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, is officially headed to theaters in North America this summer! RELATED: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Film Sets April 22 Premiere in...
Introducing PURE TOKYO, an Original Video Series from Funimation
Funimation - February 17, 2022
TOKYO! This city is pure creativity, pure excitement. Host Patrick Macias takes us through food, fashion, manga, anime and more in PURE TOKYO, a five-episode, original video series exclusively on Funimation's official YouTube channel. Each episode dives deep into a...
Kingdom Season 4 Puts On Its War Face in Main Visual
Liam Dempsey - February 17, 2022
Prepare to welcome the advance party, because this intense main visual shows that Xin, Zheng, Liao, Lei and Ben mean business for Kingdom Season 4! Theme song details for the upcoming season were also revealed: Suiren will be making their...
ATLUS Teases New Soul Hackers Project
ATLUS has just launched a countdown website, teasing a new project for Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers. The countdown is set to end on February 21 at 8 p.m. JST / 6 a.m. EST, presumably with a reveal! There is also...
Demon Slayer Entertainment District Arc English Dub Hits the Town on February 20
Get your makeup and kimonos ready, because we're gonna be painting the town red with the official start of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc's English dub later this week! You'll be able to witness fiery new...
Black Summoner Calls Forth TV Anime Adaptation for 2022
Isekai is all about starting a new life in a new world, but for Black Summoner, which just unveiled a TV anime adaptation for 2022, it's about making new memories as well! A teaser visual for the upcoming fantasy series...
Vampire Romance Anime Call of the Night Drinks to Nazuna in New Visual and Trailer
Japanese vending machines have just about everything, but blood isn't an option for vampire Nazuna Nanakusa, who makes do with a regular beverage in this new visual for upcoming supernatural romance anime Call of the Night! An accompanying mini trailer...
Ya Boy Kongming! Cranks Up its Opening Theme in New Trailer
Anime is a wellspring of banger opening themes, but you've never heard one quite like Ya Boy Kongming's, which was just unveiled in a new trailer for the upcoming music drama anime! https://youtu.be/z_QPSWT0l3Q The trailer previews the plights of its central...
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Season 2 English Dub Announced, Cast & Crew Revealed
What's that clicking sound? It's us reloading Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest, as we're officially ready to fire away the English dub of Season 2! First out of the chamber is the main cast, including familiar favorites from Season...


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Sevenoaks Town Council awards grants to local voluntary organisations
Sevenoaks Town Council continues to financially assist local community groups and, through its Youth Services and Finance and General Purposes Committees, has awarded the following grants:
Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival:
Contribution towards first prize in Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year competition 2021.
Grant Approved for £600
PS Breastfeeding CIC:
Provision of Babywearing Peer Supporter training for 10 existing volunteers and 5 new local parents.
Grant Approved for £1000
Sevenoaks Counselling:
To supplement bursary fund which assists clients who cannot afford full cost of counselling.
In addition, recognising the significance of the Vine Cricket ground to the heritage and landscape of the town and its key role as a recreational space for residents, particularly during the recent Covid-19 Lockdown, The Town Council has awarded a grant to Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Club to assist in restoring the outfield to a usable and sustainable condition for playing cricket at all levels.
Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Club:
Works necessary to return the Vine outfield to usable and sustainable condition for all levels of cricket.
Grant Approved for up-to £16,000


Leguminosae. Zones 8-11. Red, orange and yellow blooms with long red stamens somewhat resemble orchids floating at the terminal ends of the branches in summer and into fall in South Florida. A somewhat tender shrub, usually killed back by frost in climates colder than zone 10, but reliably returns in the spring. Blooms on new wood so no bloom is lost. Can reach eight to ten feet tall and become woody in South Florida. Can easily be grown as an indoor container specimen in a bright window, greenhouse or sunroom. Enjoys full sun, well-drained soil, and is moderately drought tolerant.


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Q: operations with BitmapData we have a square movie clip with some clild movie clips on it. Consider a diagonal of a squere. I want to make the following transformation with bimap data of a movie clip: the triangle located upper then diagonal should remain unchanged, the lower triangle should be replaced with simetric reflection of upper triangle.
Is there a simple way to do that?

A: Exactly, the way is to take a snapshot of the movie, then mirror it, take another snapshot and combine these two snapshots.
Note, that the content you will get will be "static", so this way you can't copy the movieclip's animated parts.
//store the movie's graphical content in a bitmapdata
var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(movie.width, movie.height);
bmd.draw(movie);

//then create a temporary movie in which you will do the mirroring
var temp:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
temp.addChild(new Bitmap(bmd));

//create the diagonal mask
var _mask:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
with(_mask.graphics) beginFill(0xff0000), lineTo(movie.width, 0), lineTo(movie.width, movie.height), lineTo(0, 0), endFill();
temp.addChild(_mask);
temp.mask = _mask;
//this is the mirroring part
temp.scaleX = temp.scaleY = -1;
addChild(temp);

//then create another bitmapdata for storing the so called "upper-triangle"
//important, that this bitmapdata should be transparent, "true" sets this
var bmd1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(temp.width, temp.height, true, 0x00);
//then do another mirroring transformation
var matrix:Matrix = new Matrix(-1, 0, 0, -1);
matrix.tx = temp.width;
matrix.ty = temp.height;
//draw the visual content on the bitmapdata
bmd1.draw(temp, matrix);

//and finally, on the original bitmapdata, draw the mirrored part
bmd.draw(bmd1);

//and add it to the top layer of the original movie, or whatever you want to do with it
movie.addChild(new Bitmap(bmd));

A: The simplest way I can think of is rotating the movieclip 45º and draw the upper rectangle into the lower rectangle inversed, and then rotate the bitmapdata back 45º. You can use a Matrix (2nd argument in the BitmapData.draw method) to draw it rotated and not actually rotate anything.


Headphones are stuck to your head. The sound reaching your eardrums doesn't change as you turn your head or move around.
Sound pressure from headphones is not reflected and filtered by the head, torso, and outer ear like free-field sound from loudspeakers.
Headphones don't interact with the room. Sound from loudspeakers is colored by reflections off the walls and by room modes.
The "problem" with headphone listening is that it short circuits the psychoacoustic system that helps us localize sound sources. Headphone listening produces unnatural sound conditions: if a sound is panned 100% left, we would hear all of the sound in our left ear and no sound in the right ear. This has no correspondence to the real life scenario where a physical sound source is on our left side. We hear some sound in our right ear (but still clearly perceive the sound to be on the left). Common headphone complaints are that the sound seems to come from inside the head, and the sound is harsh/fatiguing.
We can simulate crosstalk and the effect of the outer ear by convolving the signal with a head-related impulse response (HRIR). However, what we are simulating here is positioning the sound source at 1 meter away (depending on how the HRIR was generated) in an anechoic environment. This only gets us half way (to be generous) toward creating a free-field listening experience over headphones. To round out the effect we can convolve our signal with a BRIR (binaural room impulse response) to obtain a complete coloration - one that includes the effects of the head and outer ear, as well as the reflections and reverberant effects of a typical room.
When switching rapidly between headphones and loudspeakers, room coloration becomes evident. Room resonance puts peaks and valleys in the frequency response curve. Early reflections become apparent and they are usually not pleasant like some long-tail reverb in a gothic cathedral. The sound becomes, in a word, convoluted. Yet, open-air listening is most often preferable to headphone listening. Most would say because it sounds "more open," "spacious," and "less fatiguing," but what are the acoustic differences that explain this phenomenon? I would assert that those attributes like room modes and early reflections and the filtering of the outer ear are actually favorable effects because they provide interactivity that headphones do not. As we move around, the peaks and valleys shift, the filtering of the pinna changes. The room resonance and pinna filtering provide dynamic feedback that dramatically enhances the perception of space and distance.
In my opinion, this is the major shortcoming of HRTF filtering. While HRTF and BRIR convolution can simulate a source at an arbitrary point in space, they do not (without head tracking) put the listener in a dynamic sound environment that responds to his physical movement.
I have chosen to highlight video game music for HRTF and BRIR filtering because of its clean, persistent signal quality (free from reverb, chorus, flange, and other mastering processes) and pronounced stereo separation. These qualities make the difference after HRTF/BRIR processing clear.
Block diagram for binauralization of stereo audio.
original: the unfiltered 2-channel source audio.
CIPIC: filtered with CIPIC HRTF 137. Left channel mapped to virtual source at 0� elevation, -45� azimuth; right channel mapped to 0� elevation 45� azimuth.
OFFICE: filtered with University of Oldenburg binaural room impulse responses for Office I. Left channel mapped to virtual source at 0� elevation, -45� azimuth; right channel mapped to 0� elevation 45� azimuth, distance of 1 meter.
COURTYARD: filtered with University of Oldenburg BRIR for Courtyard. Left channel mapped to loudspeaker position D; right channel mapped to loudspeaker position A.


To develop shop drawings, the team examined every building element that tied back into the structural frame. From the layout of the roof condensers to the thickness of gypcrete and the gauge sizes of screws, they left no stone unturned. MEP coordination efforts were equally meticulous, helping ensure ductwork, plumbing drain lines and every single building system fit into the structural framework like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
Epitomizing lean thinking, the team also began planning installation of the Osprey's prefabricated components more than 12 months before they were scheduled to arrive on-site. The team discovered that by pre-stocking select building components, they could accelerate the dry-in process, fully capitalize on work available and create a safer working environment for trade partners.
As the Osprey team gears up for Prescient's arrival on-site in early 2019, they remain committed to the ambitious goal with which they started the project: becoming a model of off-site execution from design to delivery and a catalyst for transforming the traditional construction value chain. United by a strong plan and clear purpose, this team is well on its way.


It will be a great opportunity to learn about Malaysian batik and bring back home a piece of batik masterpiece.
Arrive at meeting point and we will explain the batik process and some batik demonstration.
Sketch design with pencil and use special tool to draw hot wax on the fabric.