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Import duplicate company data to use for testing [AX 2012]
Updated: February 1, 2013
In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the duplicate company feature was used extensively to copy data from one company to another. The feature was also used to build development or test environments, and deployment scenarios that moved data from one environment to another. However, this feature became obsolete in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
We recommend that you use the Microsoft Dynamics AX data export and import feature to support scenarios that previously required the duplicate company feature.
Company, or DataArea, can no longer be used as a data security boundary. Because of changes that were made to the organization model in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, data is no longer related to a company or legal entity in a simple relationship that is defined by setting the SaveDataPerCompany metadata property of a table to Yes. Because data relationships are now defined through the Relations metadata property, it is not easy to duplicate all data that is related to a legal entity. Therefore, it may not make business sense to duplicate the data that is related to a legal entity. For example, we created organizational hierarchies in which legal entities and business units have a complex relationship. There is no parent/child relationship between business units and legal entities. Therefore, the duplication of business units based on legal entities in the system is erroneous.
Follow these steps to use an existing legal entity as a template for other legal entities.
 1. Create a legal entity to use as a template.
 For more information, see Create or modify a legal entity.
 2. Set all configuration data for the legal entity.
 3. Use the Microsoft Dynamics AX data export and import feature to export the legal entity to a.dat file, such as TMP.dat.
 1. Before you export data, you must create a definition group.
 For more information, see Create definition groups for import and export.
 2. To export configuration data, include the following table groups: Reference, Parameter, Group, Framework, and Miscellaneous.
 To export master data, you must also include the tables that are in the Main table group.
 Do not include the tables that are in the Transaction, Transaction header, Transaction line, Worksheet, Worksheet header, and Worksheet line table groups. These tables include transaction data.
 For a detailed list of all the tables in a table group, see Table group reference.
 4. In the new environment, create new legal entities, and then import the.dat file that you created into each entity individually.
 Shared and per-company data is imported. When other legal entities are subsequently imported into the new legal entities, the shared data is merged.
 For more information, see Import data from another instance of Microsoft Dynamics AX.
You can use the Microsoft Dynamics AX data import and export feature to import and modify transaction data. However, it can be difficult to create a duplicate environment for transaction data if the SaveDataPerCompany property of tables is set to No. Instead, we recommend that you use the backup and restore functionality in Microsoft SQL Server to build demo environments in which minor configuration changes can be made to illustrate specific Microsoft Dynamics AX features.
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Dec. 5, 2012 Carp stored in large tubs at Czech Christmas markets align themselves in the north-south direction, suggesting they possess a previously unknown capacity to perceive geomagnetic fields, according to a new study published December 5 in the open access journal PLOS ONE, led Hynek Burda from the University of Life Sciences (Prague), Czech Republic and colleagues from other institutions.
The authors photographed and analyzed the positions of fish in the traditional Czech Christmas market, where carp are stored live in large tubs prior to being sold for the holiday feast.
Their study included over 14,000 fish in 25 markets, and the majority of these fish were found to align themselves along the north-south axis. The fish were accustomed to human onlookers, and street lights and other potential disturbances seemed to have no effect on the orientation of the fish.
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So, what would be the best approach to design relationship in a table when I have this setup:
Let's say I have tblFile that holds file path's to different files. and then I have bundles that can contain any amount of files.
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The proof includes a correctness result for the construction and evaluation of garbled circuits. This is particularly interesting since checking such an implementation by hand would be very tedious and error-prone. Although we stick to the secure two-party-computation of an n-bit AND in this paper, our approach is modular, and we explain how our techniques can be applied to other functions.
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How can I tell whether I should be using Dentro vs. Adentro? I've read that they both mean 'inside' and looked at some examples, but I still can't always figure out which one to use. Are there any good rules to learn the difference, or examples that illustrate this difference particularly well? Also, is the word 'en' sometimes used to mean 'inside' as well?
¿Como puedo saber si debería usar Dentro vs. Adentro? He leído que ambos significan 'inside' y visto algunos ejemplos, pero no siempre tengo claro cual usar. ¿Existen algunas buenas reglas para aprender la diferencia, o ejemplos que ilustren esta diferencia especialmente bien? Además, ¿la palabra 'en' también se usa a veces para decir 'inside'?
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Nice question!! – Alfredo Osorio Dec 7 '11 at 2:27
Tambien vease un ejemplo given by Javi en mi pregunta – Tomas Jan 5 '12 at 23:42
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Both dentro and adentro mean "inside" but the latter is used with verbs of movement. For example:
 1. Nos fuimos adentro. —> (The verb "ir" means "to go"; movement);
 2. El perro está dentro del coche. —> (no movement involved).
You can see the official reference here for dentro and for adentro.
As it is said in the articles, in some parts of America, sometimes "adentro" is used when "dentro" should have been adopted.
"En" can also be used in the same way as "in" is used in English, so you can use "en" (but "dentro" emphasizes it more)
El perro está en el coche.
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Ah. Es similar a "dónde" y "adónde", ¿no? – user682 Apr 25 '12 at 4:18
_USER_ Sí. Lo mismo pasa con "fuera" y "afuera". – Javi Apr 25 '12 at 8:29
Both are adverbs of location and both can be translated as inside, the difference is that dentro is used to express in the interior, inside and adentro goes with verbs indicating movement and it is used to express towards the interior. Some examples:
Dentro de mi corazón (inside my heart).
Lo llevé hacia adentro (I took it inside).
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Is it safe to say it's the same as the difference between in/inside and into? – Flimzy Dec 7 '11 at 2:12
_USER_: I'd say yes at least in the cases I could think of, but I am not a native English speaker, so I wouldn't put my hand in the fire for that "yes". – Gonzalo Medina Dec 7 '11 at 3:28
Can't you also say "Estoy aquí adentro"? – jrdioko Dec 7 '11 at 17:29
_USER_: yes; adentro sometimes is also used as en la parte interior (in the interior), but this use is common in certain regions of Latin America. – Gonzalo Medina Dec 7 '11 at 17:34
In addition to the excellent answers given let me point out that dentro can also be used to denote the end of a period of time as seen from present: llámame dentro de quince minutos. Which is roughly the same as llámame en quince minutos, while there is no such exception for adentro which is always location/movement-based.
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"Dentro" should only be used in the prepositional phrase (frase prepositiva) "dentro de":
La guitarra está dentro de su funda.
(The guitar is inside its case.)
On the other hand, "adentro" should only be used as a standalone adverb:
La guitarra está adentro.
(The guitar is inside.)
In short: "Dentro de " means "inside of ", while "adentro" means simply "inside".
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In addition to the other answers: dentro implies inside in relation to a specific place (stated after the preposition "de" or by context).
El niño está dentro de la casa.
Mi estuche está dentro de la sala.
At least in Chile, adentro de is very uncommon, this "dentro de"/"adentro de" comparison also shows it.
By the way, the rules for dentro/adentro can be used for fuera/afuera.
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A study of Hyperbilirubinic and normal newborns showed that Hyperbilirubinemic newborns had decreased Medial Olivocochlear (MOC) reflex activity. This may be indicative of future problems in speech discrimination and effective hearing in noisy background. Additional long cohort studies are needed to evaluate the clinical importance of MOC reflex measurements in this group.
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After noticing an uptick in ELL and other students with below average reading scores at his school, Skip Johnson, principal at El Crystal Elementary in San Bruno, CA, created a forward-thinking reading program pairing iPods and print books that has helped to successfully boost reading comprehension scores among non proficient readers.
The idea for letting struggling readers follow print and iPod audiobooks simultaneously was first sparked when Johnson was browsing the iTunes store trying to spend a $50 iTunes giftcard--a generous gift from a teacher. "I happened to notice audiobooks for sale and I went, 'Hmm, there are a lot of books here that kids want to read," he said.
Johnson then piloted the initiative with a single iPod and just a handful of audiobooks that he introduced to just three students. Now in its fourth year, the program maintains a library brimming with more than 400 audiobooks on 50 devices, and has caught on school wide.
"It was motivating to the kids, and they would be back in a day or two wanting another book," Johnson said. "It was becoming a lot of work for the media aid to load each new book. One of the teachers and I both said 'It's an iPod; you don't buy one song at a time, you make a play list."
With help from his colleagues, Johnson curated hundreds of audiobooks on a sliding scale arranged by lexile level. Students check out books from the library and take them home to read, following along with the audio loaded on school-owned iPods. When students finish, they take a Scholastic Reading Counts quiz to test their comprehension. After passing, they can progress to another book on the playlist, often at a higher level of difficulty.
"We let the kids chose the titles but we control the level of the book," Johnson explained, "and we push them to read them in increasing increments, so we use the tool the way it was intended."
To organize purchases, Johnson set up a spreadsheet that lists a given book's title, author, whether the school had a hardcopy in the library, the link to the audiobook, and what the school paid for it. The process ultimately helped to ensure that the school was only buying materials that they could quiz students on. However, Johnson describes it as a "labor of love," as data was painstakingly pulled from multiple sources like iTunes and Scholastic that do not interface with each other.
As part of the program's expansion, language arts teachers began using the iPods in their reading groups--called lit circles--with students on a broad range of reading levels. Since the school does not have iPods for every student, Johnson purchased a Belkin-made add on, called a RockStar, which lets up to five students listen to the same device on headphones without compromising the fidelity of the sound.
Recently, Johnson created video clips with students to gauge their interest in the program, where he discovered students that were beginning to genuinely enjoy reading for the first time. "Every kid I interviewed said 'I didn't like reading before because it was difficult. Now I have a tool and I like it,'" he said. "If you look a the overall data from our district, which has seven elementary schools, we read more words per year than some of the schools that have more readers."
Lexile scores have also seen improvement. "These non proficient readers are, for the most part, hitting the 100 points that Scholastic says the average reader will grow per year. And we have many kids hitting 200, 300, or even 400" points of growth.
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Duck TrueMotion 1 (TM1) is the first video codec developed by The Duck Corporation. It uses differential pulse code modulation and interframe differencing. The primary application for which Duck TrueMotion 1 was developed is gaming software, typically on PC or Sega Saturn titles.
Underlying Concepts
TM1 operates on bidirectional delta quantization. The mathematical premise of delta coding is simple addition. For example, take the following sequence of numbers:
 82 84 81 80 86 88 85
All of the numbers are reasonably large (on a scale of 0..255 in this example). However, they are quite similar to each other. Using delta coding, only the differences between successive numbers are stored:
 82 +2 -3 -1 +6 +2 -3
The first number is still large but since the remaining numbers are clustered close to each other, the deltas are relatively small. Thus, the deltas require less information to encode.
TM1 takes this concept and extends it to 2 dimensions. A particular pixel is assumed to have a pixel directly above it and a pixel directly to the left (if neither of these pixels exist in the frame, e.g., for the top-left corner pixel, 0 is used in place of the non-existant pixels). The current pixel is decoded as the sum of the up and left pixels, plus a delta from the encoded video bitstream.
 encoded video bitstream:...D5 D6 D7 D8...
 decoded video frame:
 A B C D
 E F G H
In this example, the encoded video bitstream is sitting at delta D5 when it is time to decode pixel E. A is the pixel above E. There is no pixel to the left of E, so 0 is used as the left value. Thus:
 E = A + 0 + D5
In the case of pixel F, both the up and left pixel values (called the vertical and horizontal predictors, respectively) are available:
 F = B + E + D6
That is the general idea behind decoding TM1 data. The actual decoding algorithm is more involved. The TM1 bytestream actually contains a series of indices that point into tables with the delta values to be applied to the vertical and horizontal predictor pixels. These tables only specify small deltas to be added to pixel predictors. When a larger delta is needed because the delta between 2 numbers is too large, then a special bytestream code indicates that the next delta is to be multiplied by 5 before it is applied.
TM1 operates on 4x4 macroblocks of pixels. Each block in a frame can be broken into 4 2x2 blocks, 2 halves (either 4x2 or 2x4), or encoded as a 4x4 block. The block type is encoded in the frame header.
While the TM1 algorithm operates on RGB colorspace data at the input and output level, it borrows some ideas from YUV colorspaces. For more information of RGB and YUV colorspaces, see the References section.
TM1 uses a modified colorspace that embodies luminance (Y) and chrominance (C) information encoded as RGB deltas. Since Y information is more important to the human eye than C information, the Y data must be updated more frequently than the C data (i.e., more Y predictors than C predictors are applied to the image). For a every pixel within a given block in a macroblock, a Y predictor must be applied. However, only one C predictor is applied for each block in the macroblock.
TrueMotion v1 Frame Format and Header
All multi-byte numbers are stored in little endian format.
An encoded intraframe (keyframe) of TM1 data is laid out as:
 header | predictor indices
An encoded interframe is laid out as:
 header | block change bits | predictor indices
The difference between the 2 types of frames is that an interframe has a section of bits that specify which blocks in the frame are unchanged from the previous frame.
A TM1 header is quasi-encrypted with a logical XOR operation. This is probably done to provide some obfuscation of the header and thwart casual inspection of the data format.
An encoded TM1 frame begins with the one byte that indicates the length of the decrypted header, only with a dummy high bit and rotated left by 5. To obtain the actual length from byte B:
 L = ((B >> 5) | (B << 3)) & 0x7F
Then, decrypt the header by starting with byte 1 in the encoded frame (indexing from 0) and XORing each byte with its successive byte. Assuming the header is of length L bytes as computed above, and that the encoded header starts at buffer[1] (buffer[0] had the rotated length), the decode process is:
 for (i = 1; i < L; i++)
 decoded_header[i - 1] = buffer[i] ^ buffer[i + 1];
The decoded header data structure is laid out as follows:
 byte 0 compression method
 byte 1 delta set
 byte 2 vector set
 bytes 3-4 frame height
 bytes 5-6 frame width
 bytes 7-8 checksum
 byte 9 version
 byte 10 header type
 byte 11 flags
 byte 12 control
 bytes 13-14 x offset
 bytes 15-16 y offset
 bytes 17-18 width
 bytes 19-20 height
The compression method field indicates the type of compression used to encode this frame. There are 2 general types: 16-bit and 24-bit. Further, each has 4 block sizes to select from. The valid compression types are
 0, 9, 11, 13, 15: NOP frames; frame is unchanged from previous frame
 1: 16-bit 4x4 (V)
 2: 16-bit 4x4 (H)
 3: 16-bit 4x2 (V)
 4: 16-bit 4x2 (H)
 5: 16-bit 2x4 (V)
 6: 16-bit 2x4 (H)
 7: 16-bit 2x2 (V)
 8: 16-bit 2x2 (H)
 10: 24-bit 4x4 (H)
 12: 24-bit 4x2 (H)
 14: 24-bit 2x4 (H)
 16: 24-bit 2x2 (H)
>16: invalid compression type
The (H) and (V) designations come from the original Duck source code. It is unclear what they mean, except for the common horizontal and vertical designations common in video terminology.
The delta set and vector set fields are used to generate the set of predictor tables that will be used to decode this frame.
The height and width fields should be the same as those specified in the AVI file that contains the data.
The checksum field appears to contain the frame's sequence number modulo 512. The first frame is 0x0000 and the next frame is 0x0001. Frame #511 has a checksum of 0x01FF while frame #512 wraps around to 0x0000.
If the version field is less than 2, then the frame is intracoded (this may indicate that early versions of the coding method was purely intracoded). If the version field is greater than or equal to 2, then if the header type field is 2 or 3, the flags field has bit 4 set (flags & 0x10) to indicate an intraframe; else if the header type field is greater than 3, then the header is invalid; else the frame is intracoded.
The purpose of the control field is unclear.
The x & y offset, width, and height fields apparently pertain to a sprite mode that is not covered in this document.
16-bit Data
Decoding a 16-bit frame requires 2 tables. The tables can change from one frame to the next and must be rebuilt if the header specified a new table. One table contains the C predictors while the other contains the Y predictors.
Each table consists of 1024 32-bit entries. Each group of 4 entries corresponds to a byte index from 0..255. Each entry contains a double pixel predictor shifted left by one. If the very last bit (bit 0) in the 32-bit entry is 0, then there is another predictor for that index. If the last bit is 1, then this predictor is the last one for this list.
For example...
 A B C D...
 E F G H...
 I J K L...
 M N O P...
24-bit Data
The process of decoding a 24-bit frame is similar to that of decoding a 16-bit frame. However, the frame is decoded into 2 separate planes, a Y plane and a C plane, and recombined into a final RGB map at render time.
Duck TrueMotion v1 Tables
Games Using Duck TrueMotion 1
These software titles are known to use the Duck TrueMotion 1 video codec to encode full motion video:


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Leadership Opportunities at Reed
There are many ways for students to pursue leadership opportunities at Reed. Research with faculty, student employment, and community engagement are some of the ways to get involved. We've chosen to highlight the following leadership opportunities within student services departments and through participation in student governance.
- Peer Tutors: One-on-one tutoring is provided by qualified Reed students of advanced standing and is available for most classes.
- Night Owls: Students focus on harm reduction during social events.
- Peer Health Advocates: Students serve as peer role models and support the health and wellness program.
- Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Interns: Students focus on effective consent education.
- InterConnect Program: The InterConnect program seeks to support new international students in their cultural, social, and academic transition to Reed by matching them with a current Reedie.
- Peer Mentor Program: The Peer Mentor Program (PMP) assists first-year and transfer students from underrepresented communities with their college transition by pairing them with a returning student mentor.
- Orientation Week Outdoor Trips: Every August, Reed offers fantastic opportunities to explore the Pacific Northwest via foot, boat, body, and mind through recreational odysseys for incoming students.
- Reed Outing Club: The Reed Outing Club, restarted in 1998 after a long hiatus, assists the Reed community in planning events and trips in the Northwest.
- House Advisors: Students are selected for their skills and interest in helping fellow students and are trained in areas such as peer counseling and conflict mediation.
- Reed offers nine varsity club sports: rugby, soccer, Ultimate Frisbee, basketball, squash, rowing and curling.
- Student Interns and Coordinators: SEEDS brings together students, faculty, staff, and alumni who support community efforts to bring about social change.
- Academic Teams: Students participate in chess, debate, mock trial, and model U.N.
- Conferences: Each summer, Reed sends students to the Leadershape Institute. The college pays all costs associated with this exciting opportunity.
- Consultations: Students can visit the student activities office to see the many types of support available for student groups to be successful in achieving their goals. Groups can discuss topics like establishing a mission, clarifying vision and values, conflict resolution, and maintaining institutional memory.
- Drop-In Sessions: Drop-in, interactive sessions are available throughout the year for students to spend an hour or so learning about a specific issue. No need to RSVP, and snacks are provided.
- Leadership Retreat: Each fall, an overnight retreat allows students to explore a leadership topic more thoroughly. The Leadership Retreat takes place at beautiful Camp Magruder on the Oregon Coast.
- Student Organizations: Reed College student organizations represent a wide variety of interests, ideologies, spiritual practices, cultures, and activities.
- Reed Leadership Academy (RELAY): The mission of RELAY is to support Reed's core academic mission by promoting responsible action, pluralistic thought, and the development of lifelong, practical interpersonal skills. Students engage in experiential learning, personal reflection, and advising relationships.
Honor Council: The Honor Council (HC) is a committee of students, faculty, and staff dedicated to promoting the Honor Principle in the Reed community. Members are organized into subcommittees around the goals of education, mediation, and advocacy for community rights.
Judicial Board: The Reed College Student Judicial Board (J-Board) serves a vital role in a community governed by an Honor Principle. If community members are unable to work out an alleged Honor Principle violation, the J-Board provides formal adjudication.
Student Senate: The student senate plays an influential role on Reed's campus. Senate is the voice of the students: its members fund student organizations, participate in campus policy-making, and work with staff members to improve the quality of student life.
Questions about leadership opportunities? Please e-mail _EMAIL_.


- Accumulator lowers this restriction.
Use Cases :
 - One of the most common uses of accumulator counts the events that occur during job execution for debugging purpose.
 - Meaning count the no. of blank lines from the input file, no. of bad packets from a network during a session, during Olympic data analysis we have to find age where we said (age!= 'NA') in SQL query in short finding bad/corrupted records.
Examples :
scala> val record = spark.read.textFile("/home/hdadmin/wc-data-blanklines.txt")
record: org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset[String] = [value: string]
scala> val emptylines = sc.accumulator(0) warning: there were two deprecation
warnings; re-run with -deprecation for details e
mptylines: org.apache.spark.Accumulator[Int] = 0
scala> val processdata = record.flatMap(x =>
 if(x == "")
 emptylines += 1
 x.split(" ")
processdata: org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset[String] = [value: string]
scala> processdata.collect
16/12/02 20:55:15 WARN SizeEstimator: Failed to check whether UseCompressedOops is set; assuming yes
Output :
res0: Array[String] = Array(DataFlair, provides, training, on, cutting, edge, technologies., "", DataFlair, is, the, leading, training, provider,, we, have, trained, 1000s, of, candidates., Training, focues, on, practical, aspects, which, industy, needs, rather, than, theoretical, knowledge., "", DataFlair, helps, the, organizations, to, solve, BigData, Problems., "", Javadoc, is, a, tool, for, generating, API, documentation, in, HTML, format, from, doc, comments, in, source, code., It, can, be, downloaded, only, as, part, of, the, Java, 2, SDK., To, see, documentation, generated, by, the, Javadoc, tool,, go, to, J2SE, 1.5.0, API, Documentation., "", Javadoc, FAQ, -, This, FAQ, covers, where, to, download, the, Javadoc, tool,, how, to, find, a, list, of, known, bugs, and, feature, reque…
scala> println("No. of Empty Lines : " + emptylines.value)
No. of Empty Lines: 10
28) Explain SparkContext in Apache Spark.
Ans. A SparkContext is a client of Spark's execution environment and it acts as the master of the Spark application. SparkContext sets up internal services and establishes a connection to a Spark execution environment. You can create RDDs, accumulators and broadcast variables, access Spark services and run jobs (until SparkContext stops) after the creation of SparkContext. Only one SparkContext may be active per JVM. You must stop() the active SparkContext before creating a new one.
In Spark shell, a special interpreter-aware SparkContext is already created for the user, in the variable called sc.
The first step of any Spark driver application is to create a SparkContext. The SparkContext allows the Spark driver application to access the cluster through a resource manager. The resource manager can be YARN, or Spark's Cluster Manager.
Few functionalities which SparkContext offers are:
 1. We can get the current status of a Spark application like configuration, app name.
 2. We can set Configuration like master URL, default logging level.
 3. One can create Distributed Entities like RDDs.
29) Discuss the role of Spark driver in Spark application.
Ans. The spark driver is that the program that defines the transformations and actions on RDDs of knowledge and submits a request to the master. Spark driver is a program that runs on the master node of the machine which declares transformations and actions on knowledge RDDs.
In easy terms, the driver in Spark creates SparkContext, connected to a given Spark Master. It conjointly delivers the RDD graphs to Master, wherever the standalone cluster manager runs.
Also, see How Spark works
30) What role does worker node play in Apache Spark Cluster? And what is the need to register a worker node with the driver program?
Ans. Apache Spark follows a master/slave architecture, with one master or driver process and more than one slave or worker processes
 1. The master is the driver that runs the main() program where the spark context is created. It then interacts with the cluster manager to schedule the job execution and perform the tasks.
 2. The worker consists of processes that can run in parallel to perform the tasks scheduled by the driver program. These processes are called executors.
Whenever a client runs the application code, the driver programs instantiates Spark Context, converts the transformations and actions into logical DAG of execution. This logical DAG is then converted into a physical execution plan, which is then broken down into smaller physical execution units. The driver then interacts with the cluster manager to negotiate the resources required to perform the tasks of the application code. The cluster manager then interacts with each of the worker nodes to understand the number of executors running in each of them.
The role of worker nodes/executors:
 1. Perform the data processing for the application code
 2. Read from and write the data to the external sources
 3. Store the computation results in memory, or disk.
The executors run throughout the lifetime of the Spark application. This is a static allocation of executors. The user can also decide how many numbers of executors are required to run the tasks, depending on the workload. This is a dynamic allocation of executors.
Before the execution of tasks, the executors are registered with the driver program through the cluster manager, so that the driver knows how many numbers of executors are running to perform the scheduled tasks. The executors then start executing the tasks scheduled by the worker nodes through the cluster manager.
Whenever any of the worker nodes fail, the tasks that are required to perform will automatically allocates to any other worker nodes
For information on how Spark works Spark-How it works
31) Discuss the various running mode of Apache Spark.
Ans. We can launch spark application in four modes:
1) Local Mode (local[*],local,local[2]…etc)
-> When you launch spark-shell without control/configuration argument, It will launch in local mode
spark-shell –master local[1]
-> spark-submit –class com.df.SparkWordCount SparkWC.jar local[1]
2) Spark Standalone cluster manger:
-> spark-shell –master spark://hduser:7077
-> spark-submit –class com.df.SparkWordCount SparkWC.jar spark://hduser:7077
3) Yarn mode (Client/Cluster mode):
-> spark-shell –master yarn or
->spark-shell –master yarn –deploy-mode client
Above both commands are same.
To launch spark application in cluster mode, we have to use a spark-submit command. We cannot run yarn-cluster mode via spark-shell because when we run spark application, driver program will be running as part application master container/process. So it is not possible to run cluster mode via spark-shell.
-> spark-submit –class com.df.SparkWordCount SparkWC.jar yarn-client
-> spark-submit –class com.df.SparkWordCount SparkWC.jar yarn-cluster
4) Mesos mode:
-> spark-shell –master mesos://HOST:5050
32) Describe the run-time architecture of Spark.
Ans. There are 3 important components of Runtime architecture of Apache Spark as described below.
 - Client process
 - Driver
 - Executor
Responsibilities of the client process component
The client process starts the driver program.
For example, the client process can be a spark-submit script for running applications, a spark-shell script, or a custom application using Spark API. The client process prepares the classpath and all configuration options for the Spark application.
It also passes application arguments, if any, to the application running on the driver.
Responsibilities of the driver component
The driver orchestrates and monitors the execution of a Spark application. There's always one driver per Spark application.
The driver is like a wrapper around the application. The driver and its subcomponents (the Spark context and scheduler ) are responsible for:
 - requesting memory and CPU resources from cluster managers
 - breaking application logic into stages and tasks
 - sending tasks to executors
 - collecting the results
Responsibilities of the executors
The executors, which is a JVM processes, accept tasks from the driver, execute those tasks, and return the results to the driver. Each executor has several task slots (or CPU cores) for running tasks in parallel.
6. Best Apache Spark Interview Questions and Answers
33) What is the command to start and stop the Spark in an interactive shell?
Ans. Command to start the interactive shell in Scala:
First, go the spark directory i.e.
hdadmin@ubuntu:~$ cd spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6/
hdadmin@ubuntu:~/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6$ bin/spark-shell
Command to stop the interactive shell in Scala:
scala>Press (Ctrl+D)
One can see the following message
scala> Stopping spark context.
34) Describe Spark SQL.
Ans. Spark SQL is a Spark interface to


Deathwatch (2002)
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Factual error: The rifles the British soldiers carried in the film were Lee Enfield rifle No. 4's, these did not go into production until WW2. They should have been using an earlier version of the Lee Enfield rifle.
Factual error: There is, and never has been, for that matter, a Private First Class rank in the British army.
Continuity mistake: The officer is driven quite mad by the psychic attack of the demon and shoots one of his own men in the head. We see the soldier fall to the ground clean, yet in the next shot a lot of brains (poked by Andy Serkis's character, with his pistol) and blood suddenly appear.
Deliberate mistake: The entire time they spend in the trench, before they attack, Quinn has a white sheepskin jacket. It rains throughout the film yet with all the mud about you would think in about a day that this jacket would turn dark brown. It is still fairly white even when Quinn dies.
Plot hole: Towards the end of the film when Private Shakespeare is talking to the wounded soldier, his coat and hair are suddenly dry, strange when the majority of the film is set outdoors in the rain.
Factual error: After the opening attack, when the survivors start trying to find their way back to safety, the commander orders one of his soldiers to "take point." Take point only came into common use during World War 2, among American forces, so would have been unlikely to be used by British soldiers in 1917, though it had been used, to a lesser degree, mostly by Americans prior to this.
Factual error: Captain Jennings is referred to as the CO (Commanding Officer). In the British Army only battalion and regimental commanders are referred to as COs. Company commanders like Jennings are OCs (Officers Commanding). Not a mistake any British soldier is likely to make.
Factual error: Tate refers to McNess as a "plank". The first recorded use of "plank" to mean "idiot" wasn't until 1981.
Factual error: Steel helmets were introduced into the British Army in 1916. After their introduction no soldier would have gone into the front line, and certainly not over the top, in a peaked cap, as several of the soldiers do (the film is set in 1917).
Factual error: One of the soldiers says that it isn't a holiday camp. Holiday camps were not introduced until the 1930s, over a decade after the film was set.
Sgt. David Tate: All right, boys lets get this trench secure.
Pfc. Charlie Shakespeare: Sarge.
Pvt. Thomas Quinn: Yes, sergeant.
Pvt. Jack Hawkstone: Yes, sarge.
Pvt. Barry Starinski: Fuckin' hell, sarge.
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Kirkwood, Adrian and Price, Linda
Assessment and Student Learning – a fundamental relationship and the role of information and communication technologies.
Open Learning, 23(1) pp. 5–16.
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This paper reviews the role of assessment in student learning and its relationship with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). There is ample evidence of technology-led innovations failing to achieve the transformations expected by educators. We draw upon existing research to illustrate the links between aspects of student learning, assessment practices and the use of ICT. Assessment influences not only what parts of a course get studied, but also how those parts are studied. While the adoption of ICT does not, in itself, change student behaviours, appropriately designed assessment that exploits the potential of ICT can change students' approaches to learning. We argue that ICT can enable important learning outcomes to be achieved, but these must be underpinned by an assessment strategy that cues students to adopt a suitable approach to learning.
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PPI Claims – Is It Better To Claim By Yourself Or Use A PPI Company?
This article aims to explore whether or not it is better to claim back ppi on your own, for free OR whether or not it is better to claim ppi through a ppi company.
Claiming back ppi through a claims company.
Claiming back through a company will cost you a fee for the services rendered, however this helps with the process three ways:
 1. The level of expertise carried by the claims handlers is useful in the environment that the banks themselves persist in rejecting claims that should be upheld
 2. It largely automates the process of making a claim, taking the pressure away from the customer so that they can focus on other matters
 3. It provides a method of organised application, that aids the PPI claims process as a whole, as many people in the general domain will have no idea how to proceed on a claim.
 4. The claims company will update you on progress throughout the process of the claim, and this is convenient as most of the clients have day to day work and more important matters to deal with other than the processing of a PPI complaint.
Claiming back PPI on your own
 1. It is free, no fees payable to a claims company
 2. The process may be hindered due to a lack of expertise in the field of PPI claims
 3. There is no point of contact to let you know the progress in relation to your claim, and thus you are required to keep chasing for an update on your complaint.
Whichever way you look at this matter, there is always going to be a "for" and "against" argument.
However it is an irrefutable fact that members of the general public are inexperienced in matters of claiming PPI, the banks are systematically making it easier to submit a claim, but they are also making the claims process slower by delaying the process by rejecting these complaints that are later upheld.
The primary disadvantage of claiming with a company is the fact that there is a fee payable on completion, but it could be argued that this fee is justified given the amount of work required to process these particular types of complaints.
Many people have claimed back PPI without the use of a company, however it often takes much longer to achieve payout due to two main factors:
 1. They often have less time to focus on the completion of this claim.
 2. They simply do not know what to do if a reasonable claim is rejected.
In conclusion there will always be merit and disadvantage to claiming with a company and claiming alone, what matters is you make an informed decision based on your needs and your personal circumstances.
It might be worth contacting a finance company to find out their policy and their process on the completion of these complaints to find out if that suits your particular needs.
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Dr. quilop specializes in the following:
Pediatric allergists/immunologists are physicians trained to diagnose and treat disorders of the immune system in children. Pediatric allergists may treat respiratory allergies, asthma or hypersensitivities to certain foods, medications or insect bites. Allergic conditions can be relatively mild, such as seasonal hay fever symptoms or rashes, or acute, such as life-threatening anaphylaxis caused by a reaction to stings, foods or specific medications. In addition to identifying causes of allergic reactions, pediatric allergists/immunologists may suggest a variety of treatments, including avoidance of the allergen, medication or allergy shots (immunotherapy). Allergists who specialize in working with children are well-versed in treatments suited to younger patients and are especially trained in easing them through the examination and treatment process.
Dr. quilop was educated at the following institutions:
Medical School Attended:
university of the philippines
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Dr. quilop received medical licensing as follows:
Received in 1980
State Medical License:
Issued in the state of New York
Dr. quilop accepts insurance from these companies:
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Disciplinary actions are actions taken to punish or restrict physicians who have demonstrated professional misconduct. They are intended to correct the doctor's misconduct. Physicians with disciplinary actions may continue to practice, depending on the board's decision. Physicians who have had a disciplinary action in one state will often move to another state where he/she may have a clean record in that new state. Lifescript's Doctor Finder compiles disciplinary action information from all 50 states, you'll know if a physician has a disciplinary action in more than one state.
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This time I decided to write something, which is not Azure related, yet some people should find it interesting. To make a long story short - when working in a team using a git repository, we often agree on different kind of conventions, which help in keeping it clean and allow for easy integration with other tools(like issue trackers). The downside of such agreement is mainly a need to remember all structures and prefixes. In this post I show you how automate at least part of it - it's not something brand new, still I tried to present something elegant and easy to use.
git has many cool features and hooks are one of them. If you haven't heards about them - those are simple scripts written in shell(though you can use other languages like Python also), which are executed at the specific moment while working with your repository(like opening a commit message window). To make hooks working, they have to have a specific filename and must be stored in '.git/hooks' directory of your repository.
To start working with git hooks the easiest way is to initialize a dummy repository:
$ git init
and then go to '.git/hooks' repository and copy full content of the directory. When you open any file, you should see an example of a hook with some comments. Take your time and read them carefully since most of them provide some useful information.
Modifying a commit message
This time we'd like to modify a commit message. There are a few hooks, which could help here, but I decided to go for prepare-commit-message. I won't go into details here why this particular hooks has been chosen by me - commit-msg would fit here also. Personally I found it the most semantically correct for my purposes.
To modify a commit message you could use following shell script:
BRANCH='git branch | grep '^\*' | cut -d '/' -f 2'
TASK='echo $BRANCH | cut -d '-' -f 1,2'
echo -e "[$TASK] \n$(cat $1)" > $1
This script fetches a branch name, splits it and extracts two values from an array(which in my case are the project identifier and a task number). Let's say you have following branch name:
if you go to your git client and create a commit with a message This is my message!, you'll get following result:
[TIMP-1] This is my message!
How cool is that?
Enabling git hooks
All right, actually I lied a little - having only a script won't make, that a hook works. What you have to do is the following:
- make sure a hook has a correct name(without.sample extension)
- lies _URL_ directory
Using a script from an example your.git folder should contain following file:
Now it should work flawlessly.
git hooks are great way to automate many things related to your daily work with a git repository. I strongly encourage you to dive deeper into this topic and automate as many things as you can.


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Making HAY from Your Forest
Forest owners now can enjoy annual income from their woodlands and still manage for high quality sawlogs and veneer logs. No, there haven't been any new super-growth hormones developed. However, foresters have begun to focus on non-traditional items that nature produces in and around forests every year--potential products that can be marketed for annual income.
Tree & Shrub Pollen
Did you ever think about tree pollen as a product of your forest? Tree and shrub pollens of many species are harvested in hardwood stands beginning in early spring, when flowering starts. Generally, pollens are harvested by "producers" who pick the flowering structures when the pollen is "ripe." They contract in advance with landowners for pollen harvesting rights.
Prices for raw pollen vary from about $1 per gram for the most common species to over $20 per gram for species that produce little pollen or occur in a limited range.
Prices vary from year to year, but pollen processors distribute price lists containing the species they desire to purchase that year and the approximate amount they are willing to pay for material meeting their specifications.
Berries and Fruits
Blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, huckleberries, wild strawberries, wild grapes or mulberries grow under a forest canopy. Landowners might allow people to pick wild berries for a fee or pick them themselves and sell the fruit to individuals or local businesses for further processing.
Persimmons, pawpaws, chokecherries and crab apples are used for specialty jams and jellies, confections and baked goods. May apples and crab apples are used in jellies and preserves as well as medicinal compounds. People are growing natural varieties of pawpaw, sometimes called the "Ozark banana," for more consistent fruit production, larger fruit size and smaller seeds. The pulp of the fruit is high in vitamin C. The twigs and leaves contain compounds used as natural pesticides and anti-cancer medicines.
AgriMissouri Buyers Guide, a publication of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, lists many processors and canners and markets for a wide variety of wild crafted products. This publication is as an excellent reference for landowners attempting to find existing markets for many special forest products in their local area.
If you have access to the Internet, visit to see what a variety of gourmet products can be produced almost entirely from wild harvested fruits and nuts.
Black walnuts have been the major nut crop in Missouri for many years, thanks to Hammons Products Company of Stockton, the world's largest processor of


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 The Social Security Disability Insurance or SSDI program offers much-needed financial relief to workers who have become unable to return to work due to physical or mental impairments, whether caused by illness or injury. Some workers, however, may receive an initial denial of benefits, which requires them to immediately appeal the denial and fight for the benefits for which they have worked. A LaFourche Parish SSDI lawyer can help you navigate after a denial of benefits and work towards a successful appeal.
 The appeals process for SSDI benefits can be complicated and require you to compile substantial amounts of medical evidence. An experienced personal injury lawyer may be able to help review and accumulate this evidence to build the most persuasive case possible on your behalf. This can be a crucial step toward protecting your right to receive SSDI benefits when you have become disabled and unable to work.
 Eligibility Requirements for Social Security Benefits in LaFourche Parish
 The eligibility requirements for SSDI are both financial and medical. First, individuals must prove that they have earned enough Social Security credits based on their age. The number of credits that individuals have acquired and the amount of their earnings help determine the amount of SSDI benefits to which individuals may be entitled.
 If individuals meet the earnings criteria for SSDI benefits eligibility, they then must offer proof that their medical conditions prevent or limit them from engaging in substantial gainful activity, which the Social Security Administration defines as the ability to generate a specific amount of earnings per month. To qualify for benefits, medical professionals must expect an individual's impairments to last for at least 12 months or to result in death. Since meeting these eligibility requirements can require a great deal of evidence, the assistance of a LaFourche Parish SSDI lawyer can be essential for individuals to provide the proof that they need to maintain a successful claim for benefits.
 Criteria and Conditions for SSDI
 The Social Security Administration maintains a listing of specific impairments or disabling conditions and the criteria that claimants must meet to be recover benefits. However, even if the impairments of the applicants do not meet or equate to one of the listings, they still may be able to establish eligibility for SSDI benefits.
 Individuals still could qualify for SSDI benefits without meeting one or more impairment based on their residual functional capacities, or RFC. This assessment measures the impact that medical conditions have on the ability of individuals to do basic work-related tasks. Medical evidence and in some cases, an independent medical examination by a doctor furnished by SSA can provide proof of RFC.
 Obtaining medical records can be instrumental in establishing eligibility for SSD benefits. The results of diagnostic tests, physician's notes, and examination results by specialists all can help support a successful claim for SSDI benefits. With the assistance of a LaFourche Parish SSDI attorney, individuals may have a better chance of qualifying for benefits without going through all levels of the often-lengthy appeal process.
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 Accumulating sufficient medical evidence to support a valid claim for SSDI benefits can be a difficult task. A LaFourche Parish SSDI lawyer can make this process much more manageable and help reduce stress.
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Creator: Gwynn, Stacy Roddy
Description: Posttraumatic growth, defined as positive psychological changes in the aftermath of adversity and suffering, is a relatively recent focus in psychological research. The addition of this concept to the literature has provided a new, more resiliency-based framework through which to view survivors of various forms of trauma. Despite estimates that over half of all sexual assaults are not reported to the authorities, current crime statistics indicate that 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted in their lifetime (Campbell & Wasco, 2005). Given the large percentage of the population that is impacted by sexual assault, it is essential that professionals better understand the factors that influence the successful healing and growth that can occur post-trauma. The purpose of this study was to further expand the literature on posttraumatic growth in sexual assault survivors by considering this phenomenon through the lens of attachment theory. Specifically, this study tested a proposed model of the inter-relationships among subjective and objective perceptions of threat during the sexual assault, adult romantic attachment, and posttraumatic growth. It was hypothesized that adult romantic attachment and parent-child attachment would mediate the relationship between subjective, or perceived threat, defined as the victim's perception of life threat, and objective threat, defined...
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Portugal has ancient traditions in the field of higher education: one of the oldest universities in Europe is located in Portugal, at the same time, there are business schools and advanced polytechnic universities. The Ministry of Education of Portugal pays much attention to the development of the higher education, allocating money for equipping research laboratories, and also financially supporting students. Thus, in this sunny country will be good for those who dream about education in Europe for the same money as at home.
The advantages of studying in Portugal:
- Comfortable conditions. Located along the ocean coast, Portugal is famous for its mild climate, picturesque mountains and sandy beaches. Small distances between cities and a convenient schedule of university studies (students mostly study only in the first half of the day) allow you to combine hard work with pleasant rest and travel. In Portuguese universities, as in the country as a whole, there is a benevolent friendly atmosphere, which facilitates the rapid adaptation of foreign students to the new environment.
- Low prices for goods and services. Renting a lodging, dining in a restaurant, buying a movie or concert ticket in Portugal will be much cheaper than in other European countries. On the shelves of stores are mainly domestic goods of excellent quality (wine, fruit, clothing, shoes), which are sold at democratic prices. The cost of living in student accommodation of Portuguese universities is much lower than in most European countries. For example, life in Lisbon - the capital of Portugal and the most expensive city in the country - will cost only € 500 per month, taking into account absolutely all expenses. This is even slightly less than the cost of a comfortable life in Moscow. Accordingly, the decision to move to Portugal for a long time does not threaten with significant expenses, and this often attracts foreigners.
- Loyal attitude towards foreign students. Portugal is less inclined to formalities than other European countries. In particular, for admission to most of the country's universities, it is not required to present even a certificate of knowledge of the Portuguese language. To assess the possession of vocabulary and grammar, students only have to pass an interview. In some cases, universities accept applicants, even with an initial level of language, obliged to pass linguistic courses at the university simultaneously with attending basic classes.
Many teachers understand the problems of foreign-speaking students with understanding, at first closing their eyes to their linguistic errors. During the education process, much attention is paid to the creative work of students, and not at all to a thorough knowledge of the subject. As a rule, people who have proven themselves in school or in research work are provided with all kinds of assistance, for example, in finding a job. Thus, studying in Portugal will not do unnecessary worries and stress.
Institutions of this level in Portugal are divided into two areas: academic universities and higher polytechnic institutes. In the most universities, there are entrance examinations (in the form of tests, interviews). The annual cost of education in public universities is considered small (600 - 1000 euros). In private universities, the cost of education is higher.
Classical universities give general higher education for various fields of culture. Polytechnic institutes are focused on educating the engineers, researchers. Most state universities work on the Bologna system.
The vast majority of Portuguese universities are concentrated in Lisbon. Private universities in Portugal are required to pass the state accreditation.
The most famous in Europe are such universities in Portugal: Coimbra, Lisbon New, Catholic (the oldest non-state university in the country), the Higher School of Management (Porto), Aveiro. Now the main university in Portugal is Lisbon University. The number of students in it reaches twenty thousand. Three thousand teachers teach at the university.
The top universities in Portugal:
- University of Aveiro
- University of Coimbra
- University of Lisbon
- University of Porto
- University of Algarve
For admission to higher education in Portugal, it is usually necessary to have a completed secondary education (12 years). Enrollment of applicants to universities is carried out within the framework of a nationwide competition - following the results of nationwide entrance examinations in writing for those disciplines that are necessary for admission to a particular (chosen) specialty. To pass through the competition of the university, the exams need to get an assessment no lower than the one established by him (analog of the passing score).
In addition, each university establishes its own requirements, which should be met by academic preparation of entrants, and has the right, if it deems it necessary, to conduct additional special examinations, the organization of which in this case falls on it.
Ability to work while studying in Portugal
Foreign students studying in Portugal are allowed to work 20 hours a week (during the holidays - unlimitedly). It should, however, be taken into account that hourly payment in this state is one of the lowest in Europe: at least € 3. The high unemployment in Portugal (up to 15% of the adult population) also hinders the search for work. Thus, the option to cover part of the costs, already being in Portugal, is available to very few people.
Help is provided by student help centers, which can offer positions on campus and beyond. An important advantage is the knowledge of Russian and English. In this case, students can count on the positions of consultants in the shops and travel companies, hotel administrators, tutors or translators. Students who are actively engaged in research work have a chance to obtain an official contract in the university laboratory.
During the holidays, students can find a job on the Portuguese beaches to combine rest and work, or to travel to neighboring European countries for a better-paying job.
Prospects for graduates and employment opportunities
In Portuguese universities, students get both theoretical and practical knowledge, which allows graduates to enter the European labor market without any problems. In addition, studies at Portuguese universities allow studying the Portuguese language, which is spoken by a total of 230 million people on 4 continents. Knowledge of this language is appreciated in many companies and firms. An additional bonus: by knowing Portuguese, you can easily learn the Spanish language that is close to it, the second most common in the world.
In Portugal: graduates who have received a master degree from a Portuguese university can extend the validity of a student visa for another 6 months to pursue a job search. This is a rather complicated process due to the high unemployment rate in the country. Nevertheless, graduates of computer science faculties, specialists in the field of technology, construction, engineering disciplines, medicine and the sciences have good chances to get a job in high-paying positions. After undergraduate studies, it is difficult in Portugal to find work for students of humanitarian faculties.
In Europe: the diplomas of Portuguese universities are recognized by all the employers in Europe. However, the priority, in this case, is unbroken assessments, but the recommendations of the supervisor and a well-written resume reflecting the skills of the applicant. Important advantages are participation in international scientific projects, publications in academic publications, studies or internships/work in other European countries. Other things are being equal, Portuguese can be an advantage.
In the CIS: Thanks to the traditional ties between CIS and Portugal, as well as the increased importance of relations with Brazil, which is one of the BRICS countries, there is a steady demand for specialists with knowledge of the Portuguese language in Russia and other CIS countries. At the same time, Russian universities are preparing them in insufficient quantities (according to the 2010 census the number of people who know the Portuguese language in Russia was about 11 thousand people), therefore, graduates of Portuguese universities can count on career growth in various fields of the national economy. They can take an important place in foreign economic structures, heads of imports and exports, head tourism firms (Madeira and the Azores continue to attract specialists from CIS). Experts with knowledge of the Portuguese language are extremely in demand in Russian-Brazilian projects - from processing agricultural products to developing nuclear and alternative energy.


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Hyper-productivity is becoming a new workplace phenomenon due to working from home for long periods of time under uncertain conditions. Covid19 is leading people to panic work, says Dr. Ali Fenwick, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Hult International Business School in Dubai.
Covid19 creates a lot of uncertainty and poses a threat towards one's livelihood and health. The different coping strategies that people use to deal with the current situation lead to a similar state of mind, resulting in panic working.
According to Dr. Fenwick there are four reasons why people panic work when working from home:
1. The Ostrich Effect:
When situations are uncertain and fear kicks in, home-working employees can choose to cope with a perceived threat by ignoring it. This is called the ostrich effect. Sticking you head in the sand and pretending it is business as usual, while you know there is something wrong. The more one ignores reality, the harder one works, which leads to panic working.
2. Busy Bee Syndrome:
This coping strategy is common among people working from home. A need to always appear busy. When you are working from home you might feel the pressure to show other people you are busy by sending emails the whole day, making yourself constantly available, or finding other ways to prove how productive you are. Missing workplace cues of validation, acknowledgement, and feedback can lead to panic working.
3. Working to Survive:
The fear of losing one's job or even the fear of death can spur some employees to go into hyperdrive. Survival mode kicks in. This defence mindset is driven mainly through emotions and triggers employees to work harder as a way of acting out their need to survive.
4. Working to Regain Control:
Feelings of confinement and insecurity can make employees feel powerless. When this happens, it is normal for employees to want to regain control over their surroundings. Panic working is a way that employees can exert their control in a meaningful way which leads to excessive working as a way to feel safe and more secure.
According Dr. Fenwick,
In summary, people have different ways of dealing with the Covid19 situation. Be it working to survive, regain control, act busy, or ignore reality, many employees will react in a similar way by panic working. Employers can easily mistake busyness for productivity and overlook the negative consequences of hyper-productivity to employee well-being and organizational performance.
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What are you committed to? Have you taken a stand that demonstrates this commitment? Do you speak to others about what you are committed to and ask them about their goals and commitments? Once we know what we are committed to, it is time to take action.
Use a Conversation for Action when:
- You have agreed to a goal and are ready to move forward.
- You are ready to create momentum.
- You see the next step that needs to be completed and realize others may not.
- You need to identify the next actions that need to be done to move forward.
Make a list of 100 experiences, things and conversations you want to have. Making this list is a profound experience in having your own stand. You begin to see patterns and realize what you want that was not clear before writing out the list. Knowing what you want to create leads to a confidence that is palpable. Creating my own list required me to break through my own glass ceiling on what I thought I deserved for myself. Since creating the list, I've learned the impact of having an on-going list, I've also added to the list the conversations I want to create with specific people in my life and new people I want to meet. This has prompted me to reach out and introduce myself to people I might not have met otherwise.
The items on this list are possibilities that can become projects or goals. One of my favorite questions when working on a project was one I learned from David Allen author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity. The magic question is: "What is the next action needed?" Asking this is so powerful because it enables us to clearly see the next step and then move into action. This is a conversation worth having once each week while looking at your whole project list of all the things, conversations, and experiences you want to create.
If you do not know the answer to the question, "What is the next action?" then ask, "Who would be able to guide me to see the next action to reach this goal?"
Phrases and Questions to Start a Conversation for Action:
- What would I enjoy doing?
- What is the next action needed to move this forward?
- What will you do next?
- Then what? Then what?
- What is the priority now?
- What is the next step?
- Imagine that failure was not an option. In other words if you will not fail, what would you do next?
- What is one step we could take that would move us forward?


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the feed stays fresh.
If possible, use of a waterproof, seal-able container to store your feed. The container should be able to keep pests such as mice and insects from enjoying an "All You Can Eat Buffet" on your dime. A waterproof container will insure the feed stays dry if there is unexpected water leakage into the area.
The location that the feed bin or container is kept is also important. If you have a designated feed room or area in your facility, check to see that it is not exposed to unnecessary moisture such as a leak in the roof or sweating pipes overhead. Elevating the bin off the floor will help keep feed dry should there be rain-in or minor flooding. Also, check to see if your feed bin is sitting in the hottest part of your barn or shed. For metal sided buildings, this could be the South or West wall which receive the strongest of the sun's rays and tend to hold heat longer. Relocating the bin to a cooler or dryer area will go a long way in keeping your feed fresh.
Whenever possible, try to practice inventory management of feed in the form of FIFO; an acronym which stands for First In First Out. FIFO is a method to manage the freshness of perishable goods such as produce, baked goods or dairy products. The premise can also be applied to feed, where feed already in the bin is fed prior to the feed that was just purchased. Also, between feed rotations, periodically wash and thoroughly dry the container to help get rid of build-up at the bottom. Using this method can ensure that the feed you are scooping has not aged beyond its ideal shelf life.
Taking some time to check these few steps will go a long way in keeping your horse feed fresh. Stay tuned for a future post regarding factors that impact the shelf life of your feed! Until then, happy riding!


class on $S \times S^{[n]}$ and use results of Ellingsrud-Goettsche-Lehn (building on work of Nakajima) which describe the intersection theory on $S^{[n]}$.
REMARK: I just got aware of the fact, that V. Schende who coauthored the above paper is actually asking the question. So he probably knows about this application.
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+1 for the remark :-) – Kevin H. Lin Oct 19 '10 at 6:47
If I understand things right, the Hilbert scheme of points in $\mathbb{A}^2$ is hyperkahler manifold and the $n^\textrm{th}$ Calogero-Moser $CM_n$ space can be obtained by deforming the complex structure. The disjoint union of the $CM_n$ parametrizes isomorphism classes of (right) ideals in the first Weyl algebra (polynomial differential operators in 1 variable). This classification is related to Hyugen's principle in differential equations.
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One context in which Hilbert schemes provide a useful conceptual picture is in the Fourier expansion of partition functions that are associated to certain Siegel modular forms of genus 2.
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, then jump into the overlay manager, providing the address of the real routine and an indication of which segment that address is in. Here we use a pointer, but an index into the segtab array would work as well.
Figure 9: Idealized glue code for x86
At runtime, the system loads in the root segment and starts it. At each downward call, the glue code calls the overlay manager. The manager checks the target segment's status. If the segment is present, the manager just jumps to the real routine. If the segment is not present, the manager loads the target segment and any unloaded preceding segments in the path, marks any conflicting segments as not present, marks the newly loaded segments as present, and jumps.
Overlays originated the important technique of "wrapping" call instructions in the linker to turn a simple procedure call into one that did more work, in this case, loading the required overlay. Linkers have used wrapping in a variety of ways. The most important is dynamic linking, which we cover in chapter 10, to link to a called routine in a library that may not have been loaded yet. Wrapping is also useful for testing and debugging, to insert checking or validation code in front of a suspect routine without changing or recompiling the source file.
In the overlay example, assume that dick and dot each call both edgar and fran, but dick and dot don't call each other. Restructure the overlay so that dick and dot share the same space, and adjust the structure so that the call tree still works. How much space does the overlaid program take now?
In the overlay segment table, there's no explicit marking of conflicting segments. When the overlay manager loads a segment and the segment's path, how does the manager determine what segments to mark as not present?
In an overlaid program with no exclusive calls, is it possible that a series of calls could end up jumping to unloaded code anyway? In the example above, what happens if rob calls bill, which calls aaron, which calls chris, then the routines all return? How hard would it be for the linker or overlay manager to detect or prevent that problem?
Project 8-1: Add a feature to the linker to "wrap" routines. Create a linker switch
that wraps the given routine. Change all references in the program to the named routine to be references to wrap_name. (Be sure not to miss internal references within the segment in which the name is defined.) Change the name of the routine to real_name. This lets the programmer write a wrapper routine called wrap_name that can call the original routine as real_name.
Project 8-2: Starting the linker skeleton from chapter 3, write a tool that modifies an object file to wrap a name. That is, references to name turn into external references to wrap_name, and the existing routine is renamed real_name. Why would one want to use such a program rather than building the feature into the linker. (Hint: consider the case where you're not the author or maintainer of the linker.)
Project 8-3: Add support to the linker to produce executables with position-independent code We add a few new four-byte relocation types:
loc seg ref GA4
loc seg ref GP4
loc seg ref GR4
loc seg ref ER4
The types are:
In your linker's first pass, look for GP4 relocation entries, build a GOT segment with all the required pointers, and allocate the GOT segment just before the data and BSS segments. In the second pass, handle the GA4, GP4, and GR4 entries. In the output file, create ER4 relocation entries for any data that would have to be relocated if the output file were loaded at other than its nominal address. This would include anything marked by an A4 or AS4 relocation entry in the input. (Hint: Don't forget the GOT.)


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A pilot project gets underway soon to test whether mobile phones can be used to help educate the poor. It's estimated three quarters of the world's poor have access to mobile phones.
More and more people are downloading application software – better known as apps – to their mobile phones. They can be used to play games, navigate, surf the web, shop and much, much more. Now, a project announced at the recent World Economic Forum will use an app to help alleviate poverty and improve education.
It's called AppBridge. The idea is to link software developers with communities and non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. The pilot project is led by a World Economic Forum community called Young Global Leaders. It's made up of about 700 people under age 40 from business, civil society, government and academia.
AppBridge Founder and Young Global Leader Margo Drakos
"There's an incredible opportunity to be able to deliver simple educational or job skill training tools to those who already have phones and are most in need. There's an incredible opportunity to help educate and reach them with something they already have in their hands," said Margo Drakos, founder of AppBridge.
Phones don't have to be smart
AppBridge will be initially aimed at those who own feature phones. These not smartphones like the Apple iPhone. Nevertheless, they still have features that put them a level above a standard mobile phone that only can make and receive calls.
"This is really about providing simple tools to those individuals who have feature phones through SMS and to be able to accelerate penetration to smartphones or 3G access," she said.
SMS, or Short Message Service, is for text messaging. 3G, or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications, allows the user to access the access the Internet, text message, make video calls and much more.
"So we started this concept of creating an online platform that would really allow local organizations and local partners on the ground to identify specific community needs and/or submit local content that they need to get out to individuals. And then to pair the local organizations on the ground with a global community of mobile app developers in tandem with universities," she said.
How to apps
The early apps are expected to provide skills training.
"In some cases," Drakos said, "these are going to be very much technically oriented skills, like learning simple automotive or simple electrical or simple plumbing. To get the app through their phone and to know that it's not spam and it's not going to be costing them additional funds or so forth. So, there'll be a distribution way for them to access this in tandem with local partners on the ground.
Apps could also be used to link entrepreneurs with micro-credit lenders or with markets.
"In some cases, women are not able to go and sell their goods from their home unless they know that the store is open and the stores don't open at a consistent time. So, something as simple and basic as having an alert when the store is open for them to be able to leave their home and go sell their goods," she said.
Drakos wasn't always a technology entrepreneur. She used to make her living as a cellist, performing at concerts around the world.
AppBridge is working with telecommunication companies, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. Early versions of some of its apps could be available in March.