Fastest way to populate full text search index - sql-server
I have a large table with millions of records and this table has one large string column where could be 100k+ symbols. And I'm applying full-text search index to it
Full-text search queries work great but I have problem with indexing. We generate quite a lot of content and place it in this table. And we found ourselves in situation when we generate content faster than SQL Server actually indexes it. and with time we have more and more rows that were not actually indexed
I know there are several ways to configure process of indexing: automatic (based on changes tracking) and using incremental population
So, the question is how would I perform indexing in the most efficient way?
Is there any reasons to believe that incremental population is actually faster than automatic with changes tracking?
How do I find which indexes are being used and what query is using the index?
I am using SQL Server 2008. I have tables on which there are duplicate indexes (basically indexes with same definition). I wanted to know if its possible to find out which queries are using these indexes? I don't know why the duplicate indexes were created in the first place. So before removing them, I want to identify any queries which are using them.
One more question is in above cases, how does SQL Server engine determine which index to use? What's the performance impact of this?
If you have indexes in your database that are exact duplicates, delete them, period. No harm can come from removing the duplicates, but harm CAN come from the duplicates existing.
The fact that SQL Server even allows duplicate indexes to be created in the first place is ridiculous.
Here is an article on how to find unused (and missing) indexes:
If the indexes are truly duplicate, then it shouldn't matter what queries are using them. If you remove one, the query should use the other (unless there is a query hint that specifies an index name, which is rare).
Just make sure the indexes are truly duplicates:
Indexed field order matters. An index on (fname, lname) is not the same as an index on (lname, fname)
An index on (lname) is reduntant if you already have one on (lname, fname,...other fields) (Going from the left only, order matters here, too)
Check included fields. Similar looking indexes might have different included fields to cover different queries (although you could probably still consolidate these by making one index with all included fields)
Other properties of the index might cause one index to behave slightly different than the other (clustered? Unique? Fill Factor? Max degree of parallelism? Filegroup? Auto-recompute stats?) (You still probably wouldn't need 2 different indexes, but worth understanding the differences, anyway)
With the DMV (dynamic management views), you can definitely find out which indices aren't being used - those that haven't been used in a long time could be dropped.
Check out:
Find Indexes not in use
General intro to Dynamic Management Views
One more question is in above cases,
how does SQL Server engine determine
which index to use?
That's a pretty complicated process - the SQL Server query optimizer will use statistics and other methods to figure out which indices would be helpful for a given query. Which one it'll pick when you have two identical ones, is a tricky question.... I don't know, quite honestly.
What's the performance impact of this?
Of having duplicate identical indices? Those need to be maintained on any INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operation that touches on the columns in the index - so you're definitely paying a performance penalty for this.
Table design and performance related to database?
I have a table with 158 columns in SQL Server 2005.
any disdvantage of keeping so many columns.
Also I have to keep those many columns,
how can i improve performance - like using SP's, Indexes?
Wide tables can be quite performant when you usually want all the fields for a particular row. Have you traced your user's usage patterns? If they're usually pulling just one or two fields from multiple rows then your performance will suffer. The main issue is when your total row size hits the 8k page mark. That means SQL has to hit the disk twice for every row (first page + overflow page), and thats not counting any index hits.
The guys at Universal Data Models will have some good ideas for refactoring your table. And Red Gate's SQL Refactor makes splitting a table heaps easier.
There is nothing inherently wrong with wide tables. The main case for normalization is database size, where lots of null columns take up a lot of space.
The more columns you have, the slower your queries will be.
That's just a fact. That isn't to say you aren't justified in having many columns. The above does not give one carte blanche to split one entity's worth of table with many columns into multiple tables with fewer columns. The administrative overhead of such a solution would most probably outweigh any perceived performance gains.
My number one recommendation to you, based off of my experience with abnormally wide tables (denormalized schemas of bulk imported data) is to keep the columns as thin as possible. I had to work with a lot of crazy data and left most of the columns as VARCHAR(255). I recommend against this. Although convenient for development purposes, performance would spiral out of control, especially when working with Perl. Shrinking the columns to their bare minimum (VARCHAR(18) for instance) helped immensely.
Stored procedures are just batches of SQL commands; they don't have any direct on speed other than that regular use of certain types of stored procedures will end up using cached query plans (which is a performance boost).
You can use indexes to speed up certain queries, but there's no hard and fast rule here. Good index design depends entirely on the type of queries you're running. Indexing will, by definition, make your writes slower; they exist only to make your reads faster.
The problem with having that many columns in a table is that finding rows using the clustered primary key can be expensive. If it were possible to change the schema, breaking this up into many normalized tables will be the best way to improve efficiency. I would strongly recommend this course.
If not, then you may be able to use indices to make some SELECT queries faster. If you have queries that only use a small number of the columns, adding indices on those columns could mean that the clustered index will not need to be scanned. Of course, there is always a price to pay with indices, in terms of storage space and INSERT, UPDATE and DELTETE time, so this may not be a good idea for you.
Is a globally partitioned index better (faster) than a non-partitioned index?
I'm interested to find out if there is a performance benefit to partitioning a numeric column that is often the target of a query. Currently I have a materialized view that contains ~50 million records. When using a regular b-tree index and searching by this numeric column I get a cost of 7 and query results in about 0.8 seconds (with non-primed cache). After adding a global hash partition (with 64 partitions) for that column I get a cost of 6 and query results in about 0.2 seconds (again with non-primed cache).
My first reaction is that the partitioned index has improved the performance of my query. However, I realize that this may just be a coincidence and could be totally dependent on the values being searched on, or others I'm not aware of. So my question is: is there a performance benefit to adding a global hash partition to a numeric column on a large table or is the cost of determining which index partitions to scan out-weighed by the cost of just doing a full range scan on a non-indexed partition?
I'm sure this, like many Oracle questions, can be answered with an "it depends." :) I'm interested in learning what factors I should consider to determine the benefits of each approach.
I'm pretty sure you have found this reference in your research - Partitioned Tables and Indexes. However I give a link to it if somebody is interested, this is a very good material about partitioning.
Straight to the point - Partitioned index just decomposes the index into pieces (16 in your situation) and spread the data depending on their hashed partitioning key. When you want to use it, Oracle "calculates" the hash of the key and determine in which section to continue with searching.
Knowing how index searching works, on really huge data I think it is better to choose the partitioned index in order to decrease the index tree you traverse (regular index). It really depends on the data, which is in the table (how regular index tree is composed) and is hashing and direct jump to lower node faster than regular tree traverse from the start node.
Finally, you must be more confident with the test results. If one technique gives better results on your exact data than some other don't worry to implement it.
Database indexes: Only selects!
Good day,
I have about 4GB of data, separated in about 10 different tables. Each table has a lot of columns, and each column can be a search criteria in a query. I'm not a DBA at all, and I don't know much about indexes, but I want to speed up the search as much as possible. The important point is, there won't be any update, insert or delete at any moment (the tables are populated once every 4 months). Is it appropriate to create an index on each and every column? Remember: no insert, update or delete, only selects!
Also, if I can make all of these columns integer instead


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The Rapid Response Facility Contributes to avoiding the ecological isolation of Romania's Retezat Massif
The Retezat Massif has received a Rapid Response Facility (RRF) grant to undertake urgent snow-tracking surveys in response to a road-building threat through the Carpathian Mountains. This protected area is on Romania's World Heritage tentative list, and is known for its plant diversity, endemism and rich fauna, including the Eurasian eagle-owl, the gray wolf and the brown bear.
The site contains Romania's oldest protected area, Retezat National Park, established in 1935. Half of the country's bird species and a third of its plant species have are known to exist here. Over the years, much of the surrounding lands have been converted to agriculture. The only remaining ecological connectivity to surrounding forest lands is through a narrow forested corridor to the north. Maintaining ecological connectivity allows populations of plants and animals to move through a broader landscape, ensuring better genetic health, and increasing overall capacity to adapt to climate change impacts.
A motorway-building project is currently underway and is projected to cut through the corridor, contributing to the Massif's isolation from the wider Carpathian Mountains wilderness. Current environmental mitigation measures proposed for the new motorway are not adequate enough to safeguard wildlife and are projected to contribute to ecological isolation and animal mortality if not improved. Zarand, an NGO local to Retezat, applied for RRF funding and was successful in its proposal to carry out a series of snow-tracking surveys to collect baseline mammal data, which will be fed into a revised environmental mitigation plan for the development.
The RRF noted the timely nature of the proposal with regard to current snow cover, and the fact that snow-tracking is a cost-effective and reliable method of gathering information. Verified records of mammal activity in the Retezat area will be used by the recently established motorway Supervisory Group to design appropriate measures to protect the forest corridor that is so vital for environmental integrity in this area.
RRF funding will help to ensure that the road does not become a barrier for wildlife and that information on wildlife in Retezat is constantly taken into consideration as the impact of the motorway is monitored into the future.
The RRF is an emergency small grant programme that provides rapid support to allow immediate responses to major threats to wildlife conservation, primarily in UNESCO designated natural World Heritage sites as well as for sites on the Tentative list. The RRF is managed jointly by Fauna & Flora International and UNESCO World Heritage Centre and is financially supported by the United Nations Foundation, Halcyon Land & Sea and TripAdvisor. It aims to process emergency funding requests of up to US $30,000 in just eight working days.
*This particular award was financed solely by Halcyon Land & Sea, using the proven RRF model.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Vernacular Name: Salak Kumbar, Sala
Botanical Name: Salacca wallichiana
Specimens From: Myanmar
Rakum palm can be found in Indochina, Malaysia and Sumatra. It is popular in Thailand as it is cultivated over there. But this species is not as common and well-known as the salak, the snake palm. This fruit is also considered as rare elsewhere.
The shape may be almost round, obovoid or slightly longish. The skin may be red, orange, reddish-brown or brown, depending on the various cultivars. It is rough with soft bristers all over the fruit.
The inside of this fruit, consists of three edible lobes, are "creamy yellowish orange" in colour. There is usually a single, dark brown seed in every lobe and the hard seeds are not edible.
The taste is semi-sweet and only mildly acidic. It is slightly juicy and soft if it is fully ripe. Tastes like a cross between a pineapple and a pear. Somewhat different and unusual taste from the common fruits. May need some acquired taste to like it.
How to eat this fruit? No knife needed. Just break off the tip and peel the skin from the top down. The tough, thick-looking skin is deceiving as it peels off quite easily. The skin is misleading as this fruit bruise easily and you can't tell from its external look. The moment you peel it, you may spot those darkened brownish blotches which smells badly and have to cut that part off. Those tough-looking skin won't be able to protect the inside of this fruit.
Fruit: Rakum Palm; salacca wallichiana; Arecaceae.
Other fruits in the same family: Salak, Barhee Date.
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E. Cobham Brewer _PHONE_. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Os Sacrum. (See LUZ.)
A triangular bone situate at the lower part of the vertebral column, of which it is a continuation. Some say that this bone was so called because it was in the part used in sacrifice, or the sacred part; Dr. Nash says it is so called because it is much bigger than any of the vertebræ; but the Jewish rabbins say the bone is called sacred because it resists decay, and will be the germ of the new body at the resurrection. (Hudibras, part iii. canto 2.)


The Meaning of a Spider Sighting
Meaning of a Spider Sighting | California Psychics
Regeneration and Patience
When you think of a spider, do you think of darkness, unpredictability, entrapment, fangs, and venom? Or do you think of creativity, balance, regeneration, patience, and courage? The relationship you share with this creature of both light and dark, may determine how its presence plays out in your life.
If you combine the many different cultural beliefs of the spider, there is a suggested connection to its web and the creation of the world. Native Americans see the spider as perched in the center of its web with everything emanating from its centric position. This position also enables the spider to draw things back into itself, thereby becoming both the creator and the destroyer. When you see a spider's web it is a reminder that you are always weaving the outcome of your own future. It is reminding you to balance each strand that will soon become your past, because a web (future) is only as strong (balanced) as the previous weaves before it.
There is a creative energy inside of you, whether it's expressed in the creative arts, or in other ways, it exists. A spider sighting, particularly in a dream, may be a hint to engage those creative juices to weave something new and beautiful into your life. This could refer to your career, your relationships, or in your home life. Spiders are also quick to recognize when it is time to move locations because their web keeps getting knocked down by a gate or the wind. And if your own creative ideas are in a state of constant tear down, it may be time to move to the other side of the garden the next time you rebuild.
A spider's web is an intricate piece of construction, patiently built by the spider. When you see a spider's web, remember that you are in charge of your own life as a spider is the weaver of it's web. It's a reminder to be careful about the choices that you make. Spider webs also symbolize the ability to positively affect your life through your thoughts and actions.
It may take many nights before a spider will receive any benefit from building a web. If you have put a lot into a project, task, relationship, or a dream, a spider may be reminding you to look back over what you've built and see if there are some threads you've yet to connect. It could also be a reminder to pay closer attention to opportunities you are missing.
The spider has anywhere from two to eight eyes at its disposal, each offering a slightly different viewpoint on the world. A sighting could be a reminder to look at a particularly troublesome situation from a variety of vantage points, including the ones from the people around you.
Consider if the fear of where a decision could take you may be the true source of any darkness you're experiencing. If this is the case, keep in mind that young spiders cast a strand of silk for the wind to carry them to new areas – sometimes they fly only a few feet, other times they can cross entire oceans. The only way to control the distance is to never throw out the entire strand, but that is no different than choosing to remain within the shadow of your true potential.
Infinite Possibilities
Spiders have both eight legs and eight eyes, and the number eight is associated with the concept of infinity. Now, picture yourself in the center of a spider's web, with each strand as a path that you can take in your life. You are standing in the center of infinite possibilities, which can be both frightening and exhilarating. Place your faith (not your fear) within the spider to give you the courage to face the changes that must come as you begin your next journey down one of these paths, for a spider sighting is also a symbol of luck and a sign for change. So, when you see a spider, know that a change, or a time when you'll have to make a decision is coming.
The Spider in a Dream
A spider in a dream can mean several different things, and it's very important to analyze how you are feeling when dealing with the spider at the time. If you are frightened it could mean that you fear you're not living up to your highest potential. If you want to kill the spider in you dream, it means that you need to release some tension in your life.
Not all spider dreams are negative though. If you dream of a spider building a web, it means that you are likely to build something in your life that will lead to your happiness. Spiders are also considered lucky, so if you don't experience any feelings of fear or anxiety during the dream, it could be a good omen.
Don't Panic!
It's not uncommon to be frightened when a spider appears, but don't immediately swat it away. Take a moment to contemplate what the spider may be trying to tell you about your day or a situation you're grappling with. They may have fresh insight for you.
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 Thank you for the insightful information that I receive. It is very helpful to me. I look for signs and meanings throughout my daily life. Xox
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Mitosis detection plays important role in many bio-medical applications such as medical diagnosis and drug development, by providing important information about cell division behaviors. Phase contrast microscopy imaging provides an advantageous tool for real time observation of cells without cell damage caused by staining. Spatial visual information, together with temporal dynamic information captured by continuous microscope imaging, could be used for automatic detection of mitotic events among whole-slide images with computer vision and machine learning techniques.
The aim of this challenge is to provide a common benchmark for the evaluation of the mitosis detection algorithms in a new dataset of whole-slide phase contrast time-lapse microscopy images.
Mitosis detection aims to determine the presence of mitosis in the microscopy image, and then locate the spatial and temporal location of mitotic cells across the whole-slide temporal image sequence. Unlike mitotic detection in static images, mitosis detection in phase contrast image dataset need to take both spatial and temporal information into consideration for more precise detection results.
Mitosis detection in phase contrast time-lapse microscopy image has made great progress in recent years of research. Compared with traditional hand-crafted feature based methods, deep learning based method received extensive attention. Several deep learning based methods have been proposed for mitosis detection task in recent years, and they are commonly evaluated on some popular datasets such as the C3H10 and C2C12 dataset. These datasets contain relatively few annotated mitotic events, which could not adequately address the need for big data in deep learning methods. However, since the acquirement of mitosis annotation takes much expertise, it is expensive to get large scale of annotated dataset. In order to promote the development of mitosis detection algorithms, we propose a competition with a dataset that contains more annotated mitotic events than previous datasets.

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To get your accounting integration set up quickly and easily, go through the following steps.
1. Turn off receivables tracking
Since debtor tracking will mostly likely be done in your accounting software, you should disable tracking invoices in Mews.
 1. Go to Settings > Property > Accounting configuration > Options.
 2. Make sure the Receivable tracking enabled option (highlighted below) is unchecked.
2. Create accounting categories for revenue and payments
Make sure all necessary accounting categories are created, as detailed as needed, and assigned to all services, products, and payments. If you have outlets (restaurants, shops, etc.) that are connected to Mews, they should have their own accounting categories set up.
Learn how to create an accounting category.
3. Assign all accounting categories a Ledger Account Code
This step is crucial for proper communication between Mews and your accounting software and should be done along with your accountant. (This field cannot be filled by Mews employees nor your accounting software.)
The Ledger Account Code can be added during the initial setup of the property and must be done before connecting with the integration.
4. Assign all payment types an accounting category
You've already decided which payment types you want to use and how detailed to have them reported, so ensure that all of them have an accounting category assigned.
 1. Go to Settings > Property > Accounting configuration.
 2. Check that each payment type has an accounting category assigned.
5. Properly configure your accounting editable history window
The accounting editable history window directly affects when a booking entry is sent to accounting software and cannot exceed one day.
Learn more about the editable history window and how it works, then head to Settings > Property > Accounting configuration.
6. Assign all products and services an accounting category
For proper accounting reports with no items appearing in the Unassigned (None) section, each product and service must have an accounting category assigned.
For Stay services:
 1. Go to Settings > Services > Stay > Accounting.
 2. Add the proper Accounting category.
For the other services:
 1. Go to Settings > Services.
 2. Select each service, then assign the appropriate accounting category in their accounting section.
Now, you're ready to connect your accounting software to Mews 😊
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Study in Bangladesh AbroadBangladesh is a country in South Asia located along the Bay of Bengal. It shares borders with India and Myanmar and is separated from Nepal and Bhutan by the narrow Siliguri Corridor. Bangladesh is a Muslim country with Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian influences. Study in Bangladesh and you'll find its dynamic history and shape-shifting makes it a fascinating place to study abroad.
Why Students Would Study in Bangladesh Abroad
Bangladesh is well-known for its natural beauty. It is home to numerous treasured sights like Sundarbans, a large mangrove swamp that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Cox's Bazar—a stunningly beautiful unbroken beach. It has beautiful rivers, mountains, and waterfalls carving through its land and misty lagoons sprawling through gorgeous valleys. Visitors can also find archaeological sites with Buddhist, Hindus, and Muslim artifacts scattered throughout the country. Studying abroad in Bangladesh can allow for a breath-taking journey.
To discover your options for studying abroad in Bangladesh, visit our sponsored listings below. There you'll find program information for various types of programs such as summer-, semester-, and year-long programs. You may also find options for interning or volunteering abroad in Bangladesh. Through most of these options, you can earn academic credit, enhance your resume, and expand your global awareness. Why not study abroad in Bangladesh? This beautiful part of the world awaits your arrival.
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Legislated FCSS Requirements
FCSS Program Requirements
Below are some of the guidelines for FCSS programs. For a full listing of programs, services and approaches that generally meet the FCSS Act, please refer to the FCSS Program Advice Inventory (pdf).
FCSS funded programs must also do one or more of the following:
- Help people to develop independence, strengthen coping skills and become more resistant to crisis.
- Help people to develop awareness of social needs.
- Help people to develop interpersonal and group skills which enhance constructive relationships among people.
- Help people and communities to assume responsibility for decisions and actions which affect them.
- Provide supports that help sustain people as active participants in the community.
FCSS must not fund services that:
- Provide primarily for the recreational needs or leisure time pursuits of individuals,
- Offer direct assistance, including money, food, clothing or shelter, to sustain an individual or family,
- Are rehabilitative in nature (as that is in conflict with "prevention"), or
- Duplicate services that are ordinarily provided by a government or government agency.
As is the case with all funded programs, Red Deer and District FCSS is required to meet outcomes and financial accountability as set by the Province. On a random basis, the Red Deer & District FCSS program is audited directly by provincial FCSS staff with the last audit being in 2013.


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The South Asian countries are gradually diversifying with some inter-country variation in favor of high value commodities, namely fruits, vegetables, livestock and fisheries. Agricultural diversification is strongly influenced by price policy, infrastructure development (especially markets and roads), urbanization and technological improvements. Rainfed areas have benefited more as a result of agricultural diversification in favor of high value crops by substituting inferior coarse cereals. Agricultural diversification is also contributing to employment opportunities in agriculture and increasing exports. The need is to suitably integrate production and marketing of high value commodities through appropriate institutions. Market reforms in developing and strengthening desired institutions through required legal changes would go a long way in boosting agricultural growth, augmenting income of small farm holders and promoting exports.
patterns, determinants, and policy implications
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Time Series of Seasonally Frozen Ground Depth in the Russian Arctic, _PHONE_
This data set consists of seasonally frozen ground depth measurements based on soil temperatures in the Russian Arctic. Seasonal freezing and thawing processes in cold regions play a major role in ecosystem diversity, productivity, and the Arctic hydrological system. Long-term changes in seasonal freeze and thaw depths are also important indicators of climate change.
Investigators collected data from 211 ground-based stations. The record extends from 1930 to 1990 and includes seasonal freeze depths derived from soil temperature data that are averaged yearly. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format and are available via FTP.
The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.
Tingjun Zhang. 2006. Time Series of Seasonally Frozen Ground Depth in the Russian Arctic, _PHONE_. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.


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Horst Samulowitz, Roland Memisevic
We present a novel approach to solving Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) that combines a search-based QBF solver with machine learning techniques. We show how classification methods can be used to predict run-times and to choose optimal heuristics both within a portfolio-based, and within a dynamic, online approach. In the dynamic method variables are set to a truth value according to a scheme that tries to maximize the probability of successfully solving the remaining sub-problem efficiently. Since each variable assignment can drastically change the problem-structure, new heuristics are chosen dynamically, and a classifier is used online to predict the usefulness of each heuristic. Experimental results on a large corpus of example problems show the usefulness of our approach in terms of run-time as well as the ability to solve previously unsolved problem instances.
Subjects: 15.7 Search; 12. Machine Learning and Discovery
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The Trainer Guide is a lesson plan for a specific skill set. The four skill sets that comprise the
Personal Assistant Services Curriculum include:
- Managing Crises
Each lesson plan is divided into five sections:
- Review—Skill set is introduced.
- Overview—Key information about the skill set is presented.
- Presentation—Specific skills are taught.
- Exercise—Trainees' learning is consolidated.
- Summary—Learning experience is reviewed.
The approach to skill training is Direct Skills Teaching. In a classroom setting, trainees learn how to
perform new skills from:
- The information that the trainer imparts to them about the skill.
- Observing examples of the skills being performed.
- Having opportunities to practice the skill.
In the lesson plan the knowledge presented is written as a "Tell," the examples as a "Show," and the
practice opportunities as a "Do."
Preparation is key in training. Trainers are encouraged to read relevant literature about Personal
Assistant Services as well as recovery and rehabilitation prior to the training. Trainers are
encouraged to learn about the people they will be training, their background, their experiences, and
While there is a sample schedule provided with each lesson plan, this is intended as a guide only, and
the trainer will need to give thought to the parameters of the particular training experience as they
plan their training schedule and prepare for the training session.
Training is a process and a trainer's ability to engage and respond to the trainees in the moment and
to modify the lesson plan as needed is key to a successful training experience. (Authors)


Social media has become an essential source of information on the web. In this tutorial, I explain how you can insert social media elements such as tweets or instagram pictures inside a Klynt sequence.
As an example, I use Xcuse my French, a short web-documentary produced by the Klynt team during the SXSW festival. In this project, we integrated tweets in many sequences to give access to additional information on the event.
This tutorial is a walthrough, to help you include tweets, instagram pictures or any embedded social media element from the web.
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Harvard is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1732 and was previously called Groton/Lancaster/Stow. It can be found in Worcester county and is a part of the Worcester registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 13 Ayer Rd., Harvard 01451. On the attached map, Harvard is shown as 17 in Worcester county.
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The Iowa Assessments™ Form E Complete Battery (Iowa Complete) and the Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®) Form 7 measure how students are performing on nationwide standards. The Iowa Complete is a large-scale achievement test that assesses students' skills in reading, language, mathematics, social studies, and science. The test measures both foundation skills and higher-order thinking skills. The CogAT evaluates the development of students' reasoning abilities using verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal cognitive tasks. When the two are taken together, the scores are a valuable tool, relating a student's actual achievement with his or her ability and providing a wealth of information to parents and school staff. The CogAT Form 7 is administered in Levels 2, 5, and 8.
The Iowa Assessments measure what a student knows and can do efficiently. Therefore, the subtests are timed. The times have been established to give a student sufficient time to answer the questions. All questions are in multiple-choice format. Staying within the timed guidelines will give a more accurate test result.
Iowa Assessments are only administered in campus-based schools that use A.C.E. curriculum and have a Ministry Service Agreement. School administrators may download the Planning Guide for paper and online testing. The tests cannot be purchased by individual homeschool families. Students enrolled in Lighthouse Christian Academy, the distance education program of Accelerated Christian Education Ministries, will take these tests at no additional cost.


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Why female fertility specialists are a better choice than male gynecologists?
Almost all women want their check up to be done by female gynecologists. It is because one feels more comfortable when he or she is diagnosed with a doctor of the same sex. That is the reason why an IVF Centre in Punjab takes into consideration the aspect of getting the patient treated with a doctor of the same sex. But when it comes to male infertility, even male candidates sometimes prefer undergoing check-up from female candidates. It is because of the tender nature of females that patients want to get treated from them.
Subsequent are the major points of why patients prefer going to female fertility specialists.
 - Comfort Zone
It is like females that they feel more comfortable deliberating about their reproductive health to another woman. This is because the session with the gynecologists does not only involve the dialogue about the problem. It may take place that the gynecologists or obstetricians may need to physically or manually examine your reproductive parts. The females are generally uncomfortable in exposing their intimate parts to a male gynecologist or obstetrician.
The deliberation session also includes the dialogue bout sex and sex-positions. The female may feel shy or embarrassed while discussing so. Consequently, she will not be able to deliver the required information to the doctor
 - Understanding Level
It is quite obvious being a female, a female gynecologist will be able to address the problem of female patients by understanding its impact on the physical as well as the mental health of the woman. Once in a while, it takes place that the female is not able to tell the problem in a precise way. If a female gynecologist is inspecting that patient then she would be able to guess the problem because of the same-sex understanding characteristic. Moreover, it is relevant to mention here that no matter the patient is taking consultation from a same-sex doctor or an opposite-sex doctor, it takes at least 2 to 3 visits for the patient to open completely and build up an understanding level.
What are the main factors which make one consider that choice of a female gynecologist for reproductive problems is the best?
 - Refer to specialists
Once in a while, patients do consider this fact while choosing a gynecologist. Patients are likely to pick the choice of female gynecologists because they tend to refer the case of the patient to a specialized doctor as compared to the male gynecologist.
 - Miscarriage and Abortion
Female doctors are more likely to handle the cases of miscarriages and abortion with tenderness. These are the most critical times in the lives of women. It's quite obvious that female candidates are more likely to be better handled by female specialists.
 - Prescription of Medications
Female fertility experts tend not to prescribe the medication at the early stage than male gynecologists.
Final Thoughts
Not every time, a woman feels comfortable with the female specialist. Once in a while, it happens that female patients feel more comfortable with a particular male fertility specialist.


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Fighter Planes: P-51 Mustang
The most famous and beloved warbird
by David Noland
Airplane buffs call historic military aircraft "warbirds." The most famous and beloved warbird of them all is the North American P-51 Mustang, the sleek U.S. WW II fighter plane that dominated the wartime skies of Europe.
P-51s were the nemesis of the Luftwaffe, shooting down 4,950 enemy aircraft while achieving a kill ratio of 11:1. It's said that when Hermann Goering learned that long-range P-51Ds were beginning to escort Eighth Air Force B-17s on bombing runs over Berlin in 1944, he told his staff, "The war is over."
Formidable and Full of Grace
In addition to its heroic war record, the P-51's graceful lines are a big part of its lasting appeal. The Mustang's long slim nose, teardrop canopy, and unique belly air scoop combine in a particularly aesthetic way. The Mustang has long been a favorite of aviation artists.
The P-51's legacy has also been kept alive by the presence of more than 150 surviving aircraft in flying condition. Millions of people have watched P-51s streak overhead and heard the unique growl of their Rolls Royce Merlin engines at air shows and the famed Reno Air Races. No other warbird still exists in such numbers.
The P-51 actually began as a project for the British. Unable to buy Curtiss P-40s, Britain signed a deal with North American Aviation in 1940 for a new long-range fighter to defend its skies against the Luftwaffe.
The first prototype Mustang, the NA-73, flew five months later. It had the Allison V-1710 engine of the P-40, but much better performance. A big reason was its "laminar flow" wing, which had less drag. The wing was shaped in such a way that the airflow over it remained smooth, or laminar, to a greater degree than standard wings.
After delivery of the first Mustangs to the British, the U.S. Army ordered its own version, the P-51A. When the U.S. entered the war, production went into full swing.
Almost immediately, the P-51A got a big upgrade: the legendary Rolls Royce Merlin supercharged V-12 engine that had powered the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters during the Battle of Britain. The Merlin, manufactured in the U.S. by Packard, gave the P-51B much better performance, especially at high altitude. It entered the war late in 1943.
The P-51D model was the first to have the teardrop canopy in place of the original greenhouse. Some 8,000 P-51Ds were built, and it has become the classic version of the Mustang, as well as its aesthetic pinnacle. The last model, the P-51H, was faster and lighter, but also uglier. It came too late to see any WWII action.
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Atsina, also called Gros Ventres of the Prairie, self-name A'aninin, North American Indian tribe related to the Algonquian-speaking Arapaho, from which they may have separated as early as 1700. The variant name Gros Ventres (French: "Big Bellies") was a misinterpretation by French trappers of Plains Indian sign language. The Blackfoot called the Atsina the "Belly People," and the sign for that name was similar to one referring to the chest tattooing practiced by a neighbouring subgroup of unrelated Hidatsa, also known as the Gros Ventres de la Riviere ("of the River"). The Atsina were thereafter distinguished from the Hidatsa with the addition of "des Plaines" ("of the Prairie") to their misnomer. Their self-name means "White Clay People."
The Atsina were living in what is now northern Montana and adjacent regions of Canada in late prehistoric times and were culturally similar to other Plains Indians. They spoke an Algonquian language unusual in having different pronunciations for men and women. The Atsina were mentioned in the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–06). In the late 1800s they were relocated to Fort Belknap Reservation in northern Montana, which they shared with the Assiniboin. Atsina descendants numbered more than 6,000 in the early 21st century.
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A Republic tugboat uses its tractor beam to guide another starship
A tractor beam was a projected force field that manipulated gravitational forces to push or pull objects.[1] Such devices were employed on some vessels, creating an energy field that allowed them to lock onto and move other vessels or objects.[2]
Vessels employing tractor beams included the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer,[3] the MC80 Star Cruiser,[4] the Confederacy of Independent Systems's Recusant-class warship,[5] and the TUG-314 Republic tugboat.[2] The Death Star also contained tractor beams and was able to draw the Millennium Falcon into one of the battlestation's hangar bays.[6]
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Interactive Java Tutorials
Refractive Index Determination
Oblique illumination is sometimes utilized as an alternative to the Becke line test to determine whether the refractive index of a specimen is higher or lower than that of the surrounding medium. This interactive tutorial explores how variations in the refractive index of a specimen and its surrounding medium alter visibility in the microscope when utilizing oblique illumination techniques.
The tutorial initializes with a specimen having a refractive index of 1.15 positioned in a surrounding medium of refractive index 1.33 (representing water or lightly buffered aqueous saline solution), and being illuminated with off-axis light rays originating from the lower left-hand side of the tutorial window. In order to operate the tutorial, translate the Specimen (refractive index value) slider between values of 1.0 and 1.5. As the slider is moved from right to left, the specimen appearance is altered in the Eyepiece View window. To change the refractive index of the surrounding medium, move the Surround (refractive index value) slider to the right or left (this slider also has a range of refractive indices between 1.0 and 1.5). Translating the Surround slider will also affect specimen appearance and visibility, as discussed below. The two sliders are interactive and positioning of one slider will affect the range of motion of the other.
In situations where the specimen is mounted in a medium of lower refractive index, shading that results from the anaxial illumination will appear on the side opposite to that from which the light enters the specimen, and vice versa, as illustrated in Figure 1. For both diagrams presented in Figure 1, two equal sized oblique light rays are depicted entering the specimen through the surrounding medium at the same angle of incidence. At point A on the left-hand diagram, the light is spread over a larger area of the specimen than at point B, so that the area near point A on the specimen appears darker than the area near point B. Under these conditions, one side of the specimen will appear shaded or somewhat darker than the other side when viewed through the microscope eyepieces (represented by points A' and B' in the upper left portion of Figure 1). This is the case when the specimen refractive index is higher than that of the surrounding medium.
The opposite effect occurs when the specimen has a lower refractive index than that of the surrounding medium (see the right-hand side of Figure 1). In this case, the shaded or darker side of the specimen will be on the side that is nearest to the oblique light sector stop. When the specimen and the surrounding medium have identical refractive indices, then the specimen will be transparent (or invisible) and will have no refractive effects on the oblique illumination.
The sensitivity of this refractive index determination technique is highly dependent on the condenser focal length, the iris diaphragm position, and the geometry of sector stops (if employed). In general, the best results are obtained when the condenser is carefully focused and an even field of illumination is achieved.
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How to be a good Grid'5000 citizen ?
The Grid'5000 platform is intended to support research in all areas of computer science related to grid computing. You should use Grid'5000 in the perspective of large scale experiments (at least 3 sites and 1000 CPUs).
You should NOT use Grid'5000 as a production platform. Any usage of Grid'5000 should make progress in Computer Science. You may generate useful results for other communities, as long as the community of computer science researchers learn something from your experiments.
It is a shared tool, used by many people with different and varying needs. The administrators pursue the following objectives, the main one being the first of this list:
 1. Make the tool available to experiments involving a significant number of nodes (in the 1000's). To make this possible, reservation fragmentation must be avoided as much as possible. Never using more than a single cluster for experiments will lead to investigations (using your user report) and could lead to account cancellation as this behaviour limits the availability of Grid'5000 for large scale experiments.
 3. Allow for experiments to run while administrators are available because platform availability is still greatly dependant on the administrators solving day to day issues.
 4. Increase the platform's machines usage as much as possible, as long as this usage doesn't interfere with the first three objectives.
Good usage rules (All users)
 1. Please try to plan large scale experiments during nighttime or during week-ends
 2. Tuesday is the only day where you should feel authorized to use all the machines of a cluster during work hours. On the other days, please leave a few nodes for people developing or preparing an experiment. Between 9am and 6pm you should not use more than the equivalent of 2 hours on all the nodes of a cluster (ie 4 hours on half the cluster or 8h on a quarter, etc..)
 3. If you want to use machines on a Tuesday, please do not reserve them before 13:00pm on the preceding Monday if is not a large scale experiment.
 4. You should probably not have more than 2 reservations in advance, because it kills good resource usage. Please submit jobs instead
 5. You should not be submitting jobs or making reservations if your experiment is not described in your User report
 6. You must mention Grid'5000 in all publications presenting results or content obtained or derived from the usage of Grid'5000.
Good usage rules (Local users)
Some sites have opened accounts on a local branch of LDAP. Users on these branches only have access to the local cluster. In addition to the above rules, they should
 1. Not have more than one reservation in advance
 3. Limit the size of their jobs to reasonable proportions such as those locally defined by the local site they have access to. The size of a job can by defined by the product of the number of machines by the time the cluster is used (e.g. In Rennes, this would be around 640h).
Platform usage is actively monitored by Grid'5000 staff. In case of unconform use, your account will be locked. Unconform use includes users whose user report is unsufficiently filled with regard to their usage of the resources.


One of the major hurdles to being more zen is the inability to notice when getting caught up in things around us. Whether it's positive or negative, our propensity to get over-excited is hard to manage, since it's often difficult to notice this reaction until after it's already finished.
This app was built to fix that problem, to help people become better at both realizing that they're overreacting, and de-stressing when needed.
What it does
Zenotify uses your wearable of choice to gather heart rate data, and signals you when your heart rate reflects higher stress levels than normal. It detects for an increased heart rate pattern, but with minimal accelerometer movement of the wearable or mobile device.
The notification also prompts the user to enter the app, and begin playing the de-stressing mini game. It is a very simple game, designed to both distract the user through continued exposure to new brain stimuli, as well as create an uplifting state for the stressed our or panicked user.
After playing the game, users see how the game effected their heart rate, and how much money they earned for taking the opportunity to calm down when needed. This would be a simple monetary incentive for users to step back every time they de-stress, which is beneficial for their insurance providers, whose best interest is in keeping the user alive as long as possible (they would pay out the reward to the user through discounts on premiums for the year or a similar effect).
Finally, users can track their progress and see how well and often they respond to these pings, so they can see the long-term benefits of their improvements.
How we built it
This app was built on iOS using core graphics and animations for the game, and other basic frameworks for the rest of the app. It interacts with a server instance on azure which can give it current heart rate information (to spoof a heart rate monitor, which we didn't have access to).
Challenges we ran into
Unfortunately we realized early that none of the hardware provided would give us the heart rate data we needed, so we decided to build a model which could effectively re-create a heart beat dataset, which could then be used to test the app.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We had an idea that had a lot of real world merit, but didn't fit our circumstances (no heart rate monitor). Instead of abandoning it for a second tier idea, we put even more work than we would have, and created an even more compelling prototype.
What we learned
We learned about the importance of the visual elements used in an app that helps you de-stress. Colours, sounds, and the overall experience should be finely tuned to match the expected needs of the user, to both encourage repeat usage and maximize results during use.
What's next for Zenotify
We're hoping to acquire wearables which can sense this heart rate data, so we can build a fully functional version of the app and launch to the app-store.
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Counting By Tens
Source: Babycenter Community
Ages: 6-8+ years
Instructions:To practice counting by tens and grouping by tens, count out 100 beans but don't let your child know how many there are. Get 10 paper cups or yogurt containers and ask you child to count out ten beans for each cup. Explain that if your child counts by tens, he or she can find out how many beans there are altogether. Let him or her try it. Then, suppose you moved five cups aside---how many beans are in the remaining cups? Maybe your child will want to group the cups in different ways and continue to count by tens to see how many beans there are.
Similar activities:The Counting Game, Counting Sticks, Counting Cards, Bubble Count, Counting a Silly Walk, Counting Beans, Kwanzaa Counting Game, Heart Counting Game, Lollipop Advent Christmas Calendar Count Down Tree, Finger Puppets You Can Count On!, Shamrock Counting, Make a Counting Book, Counting: Snowmen Song, Count Down Toast, Turkey Feather Counting
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reported by Krzysztof Bielawski on November 11, 2016
UNIT: Krzysztof Bielawski, Senior Programmer, Programming Dpt.
TO: Arma 3 Users
OPSUM: Introducing the latest AI path-following improvements for wheeled vehicles.
Over the course of many years of development, Artificial Intelligence in the Arma series has grown into a very sophisticated system. For example, computing a route and following it on any terrain - be it a vanilla or a modded one - is, generally, something the AI manages to pull off on a daily basis. They are able to control multiple types of vehicle, be aware of enemies and dangerous areas, and navigate on roads and across bridges - all while avoiding collisions - but not always in the most effective manner.
As the number of options for the AI grew, the number of issues, edge cases, rare configurations and parameters rose as well. Plus, with the Apex expansion and its terrain, Tanoa, having unique bridges, the amount of the tweaks necessary for smooth gameplay increased drastically. Thus, it was finally time to re-address our AI path-finding. In Update 1.64, we introduced a revamped, refactored and vastly improved AI driving overhaul of wheeled vehicles. Below, we take a closer look at where we've ended up, how we planned our route there, and what still lies ahead.
As part of the research phase, we looked at player's feedback from the forums, internal bug reports, Feedback Tracker Issues and analyses made by our designers. We concluded that not only did the immediate behavior of drivers need some improvement, but also our platform goals (such as being more open, friendly to modding, and clearly configurable for the scenario makers) had to be met, too. Technically speaking, we wanted to make this part of code cleaner and easier to configure, expand, and maintain.
We also wanted an understandable separation of config definitions. Ultimately, some functions and parameters would be editable by scripts; both developers and players would have more options to modify AI behavior. That said, the player experience needed an improvement as well. Making AI the drivers more fluent and confident became a priority. We hoped to succeed by improving the survivability of vehicles, precision of their driving along the selected path, and, ultimately, their behavior in formations.
As a first step, we made use of one of the features the Real Virtuality engine provides: components. A component, simply put, is an object wrapping certain functionality, which can be attached to an entity (e.g. vehicle, person, weapon or tree). We moved the whole old driving system into a new AICarSteeringComponent. This approach allows us to set up sophisticated objects from smaller elements, making systems more flexible and configurable. The refactoring itself was painfully long, but resulted in more configuration flexibility. The definition of a vehicle can now include feature-specific parameters, encapsulated in the Component class. This solution is also fully backwards compatible, so creating a vehicle config without the new component means the engine will revert to the AI's old method of driving instead.
Encapsulation of the feature allowed us to refactor some key functions. We started with the act of steering: controlling the steering wheel, acceleration and brake pedals. We used a new controlling method and reconfigured it from scratch using the old vehicle data. We aimed to make the AI more aware of the shape of its path in the front of the car, and use PID controllers for tuning the steering vector and pedals input. The system turned out to be reactive to input parameters and can adapt to different cases, which, in the end, helps with the precision of path-following.
We also made another iteration to formation behavior, making cars behave more naturally in convoy situations. The new formation logic uses old routines to determine the formation position for each vehicle, but also makes sure that cars are following each other properly. We made better use of the position of the leading vehicle. In short, the leader now creates a path for the next vehicle based on the historical position of the front one.
Scenario creators can now also use new commands to tweak the behavior (e.g. setConvoySeparation - to set a specific distance between vehicles in convoy). Some of our designers already took advantage of the new features and, based on community reactions, scenario creators are having fun with AI drivers, too. Our next step aims to convert the existing driving component from wheeled to tracked vehicles. We may see some interesting new convoy missions appear soon!
Perhaps to your surprise, one thing that hasn't changed - at least on a technical level - is the actual 'path-finding' itself. When ordered to move, each AI driver will first calculate the path to a destination point and then follow it. The first part of the algorithm is called 'path-finding', the second 'path-following'. The scope of our changes was mostly limited to the latter, and we avoided making changes (apart from small tweaks) to the path-finding algorithm. The reason for that is that those methods are shared between all different classes of objects in game. Specific parameters of vehicle types, like information on how costly it is to cross particular piece of terrain by particular class of vehicle, were tweaked only for wheeled vehicles.
Making major changes to such systems produces a large amount of issues. During development, we encountered a large number of bugs. The mix of low-level refactoring, addition of components, and config changes made the feature more difficult to clean and finish. To provide an example of how changing one class affects the other: tweaking values for Ifrits made Tempest trucks drift around or hit every single road sign along the way in a convoy formation. We set up around 30 different test cases: on different roads, with different vehicles, setups, waypoints, parameters of waypoints, and many more. Of course, all of them had to be retested after most iterations.
After a long and bumpy road the new AI driving released in Update 1.64, we definitely feel it improved both engine capabilities and the sandbox gameplay experience. We managed to clean up a long-standing feature and refactor it in a way that makes it still backward-compatible, but also modernized and more configurable. Playing existing scenarios should be more fun, especially those which utilize convoys of wheeled vehicles. Better handling hopefully means that there will be more scenarios using AI-controlled vehicles - we hope to see fresh ideas emerging and to inspire awesome new game modes, too.
A big thank you to all of the users who shared their thoughts and feedback on the forums. Many players joined the effort and reported problems in specific situations or vehicles, and many gave their opinion on the state of the moment. It was both captivating to read and motivating to iterate; sometimes even surprising to discover how many ways you can test the game. You can still come there and post your own experiences; we are constantly monitoring the feedback. You can check the progress there or join in the discussion - tell us how you want to use AI in your latest, greatest custom scenario!
Krzysztof Bielawski
Senior Programmer, Programming Dept.


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Hyperparameter Ensembles for Robustness and Uncertainty Quantification
Florian Wenzel · Jasper Snoek · Dustin Tran · Rodolphe Jenatton
Ensembles over neural network weights trained from different random initialization, known as deep ensembles, achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and calibration. The recently introduced batch ensembles provide a drop-in replacement that is more parameter efficient. In this paper, we design ensembles not only over weights, but over hyperparameters to improve the state of the art in both settings. For best performance independent of budget, we propose hyper-deep ensembles, a simple procedure that involves a random search over different hyperparameters, themselves stratified across multiple random initializations. Its strong performance highlights the benefit of combining models with both weight and hyperparameter diversity. We further propose a parameter efficient version, hyper-batch ensembles, which builds on the layer structure of batch ensembles and self-tuning networks. The computational and memory costs of our method are notably lower than typical ensembles. On image classification tasks, with MLP, LeNet, ResNet 20 and Wide ResNet 28-10 architectures, we improve upon both deep and batch ensembles.
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Shape in Picture: Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-Level Images
Final rept., 7-11 Sep 1992
NATO C3 AGENCY THE HAGUE (NETHERLANDS)
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The fields of image analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence all make use of descriptions of shape in grey-level images. Most existing algorithms for the automatic recognition and classification of particular shapes have been developed for specific purposes, with the result that these methods are often restricted in their application. The use of advanced and theoretically well-founded mathematical methods should lead to the construction of robust shape descriptors having more general application. Shape description can be regarded as a meeting point of vision research, mathematics, computing science, and the application fields of image analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop Shape in Picture was organized with a twofold objective first, it should provide all participants with an overview of relevant developments in these different disciplines second, it should stimulate researchers to exchange original results and ideas across the boundaries of these disciplines. This book comprises a widely drawn selection of papers presented at the workshop, and many contributions have been revised to reflect further progress in the field. The focus of this collection is on mathematical approaches to the construction of shape descriptions from grey-level images.
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The students brief was to select a health based organisation, visit its website, research that organisation (core values, purpose, service to community, research etc) and then plan how they could portray that organisation in a short 1 minute iMovie Trailer.
Organisations included the Cancer Council, Heart Foundation, Beyond Blue, Sun Smart, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) among others.
Students used the following planning tool (the example pictured is the first page only). To access downloadable PDF versions of all the planning tools for iMovie trailers go to the blog Learning in Hand by Tony Vincent. Students can even type into these documents.
My students had to work in pairs to achieve this task and provide me with a completed planning document before they could move on and create their trailer. Students had to demonstrate the following before creating their trailer:
- A clear message was required that represented the organisation they had chosen. It had to be simple and easy to understand.
- The images needed to be high quality. We discussed how to use the Search Filter in Google images to search by Large Image for better quality pictures.
- Images need to match the text and support the message being conveyed by the students.
- Spelling and grammar needed to be correct.
One of the major aims of the videos was to promote the health organisation to the community. To complete this aim the videos will be playing in the community library to promote those organisations to a wider audience.
I have included two student Trailers and was impressed by the efforts of all my students to meet the criteria for this task.


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Cultural Transmission in Mexican American Families: Considering Youth's Active Role in their Cultural Development
The adaptation and integration of the mainstream and ethnic culture are important processes to understand as they have been associated with immigrant and minority youth's adjustment and family dynamics. However, few studies focusing on youth's cultural experiences have explored youth's active role in their own cultural development, and even less have explored youth's role in influencing parents' cultural development. In the current dissertation, two studies addressed these issues by using a within-family longitudinal design to explore 246 Mexican American youth's role in their own and their families' cultural development. The first study examined the reciprocal associations in parents' and two offspring's cultural values to examine developmental differences in parent-youth socialization processes. Overall, the importance of mothers' values was highlighted as a significant predictor of increases in youths' values, five years later. In addition, Study 1 highlighted situations where youth play an active role in their parents' cultural development as youths' lower endorsement of respect for elders values was associated with increases in fathers' value endorsement, five years later. The second study explored the associations between youth's imitation and de-identification from parents and parent-youth incongruence in Mexican and Anglo cultural orientations. Youths' active role in their cultural development was underscored, as youths' reports of de-identifying from parents were linked to more incongruence in parent-youth Anglo orientations. Further, important family characteristics (i.e., parent-youth warmth and demographic similarities) were shown to predict youths' more imitation and less de-identification from parents.


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How to Look On Top of the World, When You're Actually Crashing
Groom to Win
Looking like a winner when you feel down and out is essential for survival. Perception is reality and success depends on how that perception is crafted. Here are some tips to make it appear that business is booming:
- Show success in the face of adversity. Create a newsworthy story that shows how business is transcending economic challenges. Instead of relying on a hard luck story, excite consumers with a relevant story of how the company is thriving, growing and trend setting;
- Have a consistent message. In a sound-bite world, sales people and staff must convey the same upbeat message and tone quickly and effectively. Create talking points for everyone in the company to follow. Locate and accentuate the positives of the business and the corresponding benefits they bring. Then, construct the story that will establish that message to clients in unison. This simple act of consistency may seem simple but the wrong information in the right hands can spell disaster. The right story, being told simultaneously, can create a wave of momentum;
- Demonstrate your impact. When a magic trick is performed, it's hard to dispute what was just seen, regardless of jaded beliefs. Anytime a product or service can be demonstrated or shown to be effective, it's a win. Collect and use testimonials of customer results as a backbone to build image and credibility. Also, using case studies dispels "smoke and mirrors" criticism, fueling much needed self-belief and public trust.
Looking like you are on top of the world when you're actually crashing is vital to inspire consumer buying, maintain cash flow, drive company morale and increase profit. Not to mention, feeling like a superstar never hurt anyone.
This article was written by Ryan Prucker, an image specialist and award-winning marketing executive and national media contributor. He is also the author of the book and audio program "The Image to Succeed."
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Introduction: The Zippaphone
A few weeks ago I made an instructable called "The zipper alarm". I integrated an Arduino in my pants so that an alarm would go off every time I left my zipper undone. Unfortunatly, there was a downside to this alarm: it only made one noise. BORING! That's why I used my zipper-electronics knowledge to make a melody playing zipper.
A zipper synthesizer, our as I call it: THE ZIPPAPHONE!
Step 1: Parts
- Arduino Uno,
- a jacket with a metal zipper,
- conductive sewing yarn,
- normal sewing yarn,
- press buttons,
- plastic boxes for housing the electronics,
- on/of tumble switch,
- connecting push switch,
- piezo speaker,
- 220 ohm resistors,
- male header pins,
- electric wire,
- XLR wire,
- XLR female and male connectors,
- 9 volt battery,
- battery clip,
- small nuts and bolts,
- soldering iron,
- hot glue gun,
- sewing needle,
- Maybe a Dremel.
Step 2: The Circuit
The circuit is inspired on the keyboard instrument you can build with the arduino starter kit. It's a very easy arduino project that uses a resistor ladder. This is a way to read a number of switches. The switches are connected to power through a resistor. When you press each button, a different voltage level will pass to the input pin of the Arduino and the Arduino translates this value in a tone.
I made a double resistor ladder because I wanted the jacket to play 8 notes. When I made a 8-step resistor ladder the voltage difference between the last 2 switches was to low to get a good reading. The instrument kept on playing the wrong notes... And that is something only the musician is allowed to do!
I wanted to play a specific song on the jacket so the notes I programmed in the arduino are the 8 notes I needed for that song. The frequencies of the notes I found here.
Step 3: Making It Happen
Translating the circuit into something you can put in a jacket was a different thing. The electronics have to be removable so the vest can be washed. Musicians sweat a lot under the hot stage lights, especially when they are wearing a jacket!
I've put all electronics in black plastic casings and they connect to the jacket with press buttons. The buttons also conduct the electric current to all the different components. The buttons are sewed to the boxes and I used some hot glue to fix them firmly because any movement would damage the soldering. The resistor ladders are in the two little black boxes on the right (in the last picture). The arduino is in the bigger one on the left. The little one on the left holds the button and the piezo speaker.
All connections between the boxes are made with conductive sewing yarn except for the piezo speaker in the little box and the XLR cable. I use an XLR cable because the XLR connectors snap together, making it a reliable connection and because a XLR cable has 3 wires. I needed 3 wires. Two signal wires (to A0 and A1 of the Arduino) and one ground wire.
In the two sketches I tried to draw the arrangement of the resistors, the boxes, the switches and the stitches. More about the sewing in the next step.
Step 4: The Sewing
And then there was some sewing. O boy, did I sew!
Every position of the two resistor ladders had to connected to the right "switch". These "switches" are 8 steps on the zipper. In each step I made both sides of the zipper conductive with the yarn. I soldered a little piece of metal on the zipperhead (I don't think this the right name... does it have a name? If it doesn't, "zipperhead" it shall be!). So when the zipper passes a position both sides of the zipper are connected (by the piece of metal) and the switch is closed. Than the Arduino plays the note dedicated to that position of the zipper.
Be careful when soldering the little connecting piece of metal to the zipperhead (I'm really digging this word), mask the zipper and the fabric of the vest with some tape. I also made the surface a little more rough with my Dremel to make sure that the solder would stick.
Step 5: Play That Funky Music!
When all the sewing is done, the boxes are connected to the jacket with the press buttons (and a little duct tap, to be sure) and you are ready to play! The Zippaphone is played by sliding the zipper up and down and pressing the switch on the little box when the zipper is in the right position. The current only flows when this switch is pushed, because otherwise every single note would be played when the zipper slides up or down. By pressing the button at the right time you play the right note... almost every time.
Hey, it's not a professional instrument but I had a lot of fun playing around and making this racket jacket!
At the end of the video you can see me playing a song on the Zippaphone.


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The flagship book in the Keepers of the Earth series, this environmental classic teaches children respect and stewardship for the Earth and all living things. Joseph Bruchac's lyrical retellings set the stage for Michael Caduto's abundance of related activities.
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Finance, Technology and Multinationals from the Periphery: An analysis of the Latin American experience
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This article analyses the emergence of Latin American multinational corporations (MNCs), with a particular emphasis on the roles of finance and technology. It is established that the need to acquire foreign technology and finance has played a key role in the emergence of Latin MNCs. However, in respect to technology at least, the internationalisation process is also increasingly predicated upon the exploitation of domestically generated assets.


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The event was co-organised by the New York Humanitarian Science Council and the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
The festival brought visitors back in time to early days in the history of the Vietnamese nation when Au Co, a mountain fairy got married to a dragon, Lac Long Quan, and gave birth to a sac containing 100 eggs. The eggs hatched 100 children who were the ancestors of the Vietnamese. They then travelled through tales about the uprising led by the Trung sisters against northern aggressors and legendary hero Thanh Giong's victory against An aggressors and learnt about the nation's traditions and customs, also through stories that have been passed down many Vietnamese generations.
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Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: 1. (Transitive) To ignite an actual or emotional fire; to light up as though on fire, as the sun might kindle a resplendent dawn across the horizon. 2. (Intransitive) To become ignited or aroused.
Notes: Exactly what motivated the marketers at Amazon.com to name its new e-book reader the Kindle may never be known. Perhaps they hoped reading books in electronic form would kindle something in us that reading the printed page would not. The frumpy personal noun kindler has been used a time or two. The other noun, kindling "small pieces of wood for starting a fire", is more appealing but not often used in modern times. The derivative most frequently used today is by far rekindle, as an attempt to rekindle an old love affair.
In Play: We don't use this word in its literal meaning much these days, though it is much lovelier than all the synonymous alternatives: "The highlight of the Christmas season for Burney Wood was the moment he kindled the fire in his hearth on which he would later lay the Yule log." We are much more likely to use the figurative sense these days: "Epiphany Wright was the spark that kindled Michael Angelo's creativity and launched him from the boredom of his early life into his successful career as an artist."
Word History: Today's Good Word is another gift of the Vikings, the ancestors of the Danes and Norwegians of today. They began raiding the coasts of England toward the end of the 9th century and then began settling there. Old Norse kindill "candle, torch", from kynda "to kindle", was adopted by the English, probably to refer to kindling, since kindling in those days was often used as torches. The same root that gave Old Norse kindill emerged in Latin as candere "to shine" and candela "a light, torch". English, of course, borrowed the latter as candle plus several other Latin words with the same root, like incandescent. (We are very grateful that Diane Cobb-Cichowski kindled our interest in today's loveliest of Good Words for starting a fire.)
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NDC replies Bawumia with 60 achievements of Mahama
The main opposition National Democratic Congress says they are ready for the comparison of achievements challenge being advanced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The Vice President in a Facebook post Tuesday published what he says are 50 achievements of President Akufo-Addo which put him ahead of former President John Mahama in the upcoming polls.
The NDC in a counter statement Wednesday outlined what they say are 60 deliverables of the former President making him the better candidate for Ghanaians as they head for the polls in December.
Below is the NDC's list of Mahama's achievements
60 Credible Achievement of John Dramani Mahama government
 1. He deployed emergency plants and speed up the completion of ongoing plants resulted in the addition of more than 800 megawatts (MW) of power within 18-months.
 2. In addition to the Energy Sector Levy and ongoing works to restructure the legacy debt of the power utilities, which helped to stabilise the power situation.
Water and sanitation
On water, President Mahama increased investments in the provision of clean drinking water and cited the provision of boreholes, small town water systems and major urban water treatment projects as some initiatives that had significantly increased access to clean drinking water.
 1. The Teshie desalination plant,
 2. The Kpong water expansion project
 3. The ATMA project have expanded access to urban water supply in the capital, Accra.
 4. The Wa water supply project
 5. The 3Ks project, covering Kumawu, Konongo and Kwahu,
Roads and transport
John Mahama's tenure of office had some of the most massive investments in the road sector in the history of the country. Some of the road projects include;
 1. Achimota-Ofankor
 2. Awoshie-Pokuase
 3. Sofoline
 4. Tetteh Quarshie-Adenta.
Other projects include;
 1. The Kwame Nkrumah Interchange,
 2. The Kasoa overhead bridge
 3. The Airport Hills/Burma Camp network of roads,
15 The 37-El Wak-Trade Fair road.
 1. The NDC government invested more resources in continuing the Eastern corridor roads
 2. Asphalt overlay of roads in regional and district capitals
 3. Cocoa roads across the country
Other ongoing projects before leaving office includes;
 1. The Tema Motorway Roundabout decongestion project.
 2. New bridge from Flower Pot Roundabout on the Spintex Road over the Accra-Tema Motorway to East Legon.
Projects ready to commence, such as
 1. The Obetsebi-Lamptey interchange
 2. The Pokuase Interchange
 3. The Motorway expansion project.
 4. The TarkwaBogoso- Anyanfuri road
 5. Some Projects include;
Expansion of the Takoradi and Tema Harbours
Construction of Terminal(T3) of Kotoka International Airport
Sekondi -TakoradiKojokrom railway line
Central Markets in Kumasi and CapeCoast
 1. John Mahama's government inherited an economy that was running a high deficit, with increasing inflation and interest rates characterised by a rapidly depreciating currency.
He recalled the forum at Senchi and said it was an attempt to forge a consensus for a home-grown fiscal consolidation programme, noting that the outcome eventually became the basis for the International Monitory Fund (IMF) Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme that the country was implementing.
 1. During his tenure in office, a large number of health professionals trained under his administration to improve the healthcare delivery system of the country.
Health Projects
 2. The expansion in the utilisation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In 2015, the out-patient utilisation of NHIS stood at 29 million, up from nine million in 2008.
The NHIS on the whole had also been improved under his administration to ensure that people, including the vulnerable, had access to quality healthcare.
Second phase of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Expansion Project
 1. Regional Hospitals: 420-bed Ridge Hospital Expansion Project, Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, 250-bed Ashanti Regional Hospital at Sewua-Kumasi
160-bed Upper West Regional Hospital
 1. Institutional Hospitals:
- 500-bed Military Hospital Project in Kumasi
- 104-bed Police Hospital Project, Accra
- 130-bed Maritime Hospital, Tema
 1. Polyclinics
Five polyclinics (Phase III) in the Brong Ahafo Region at Nkrankwanta, Wamfie, Kwatire, Techimantia and Bomaa.
 1. Health Centres
 1. CHPS Compounds
Out of 2,948 functional CHPS zones, 1,260 have been constructed.
 1. Eye Care Centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Social protection
 1. His administration helped cushioned the poor and vulnerable, many social protection programmes were introduced.
 2. The number of people benefitting from schemes such as the School Feeding Programme, the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) and the Eban card, had been expanded to cover majority of the poor and vulnerable population in the country.
 1. The John Mahama government continued to support the provision of free textbooks and uniforms to pupils in public schools, and it has restructured and enlarged the school feeding program.
 2. The provision of 10,000 free sandals to eligible pupils. This was his initiatives to follow through on raising the quality and inclusiveness of education for everyone in Ghana.
 3. The school shift system, through which pupils run shifts due to lack of adequate classrooms, has now been eliminated in many of our communities. In Wa, Sunyani, Tarkwa, Dansoman, Krachi Nchumuru in the Oti Region and many other areas, school children can no longer skip school to play truant in the name of the school shift system.
 4. In the area of Accelerated ICT Education, his administration improve upon ICT at the basic level, 81,000 basic school teachers were trained to enable them acquire the requisite skills in the use of ICT in teaching and learning.
A total of 54,500 laptops were procured and distributed to basic school teachers and 60,000 laptop computers were distributed to public schools across the country.
 1. A bills passed in his administration which includes Technical University Act, Act, 2016 (Act 992). This made some of the polytechnics changed to Technical Universities.
University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD),
The Chartered Institute of Taxation Act, 2016,
The National Commission for Tertiary Education Bill,
National Accreditation and Qualification Authority Bills, 2015,
Ghana Book Development Council Bill and The Chartered Institute of Bankers Bill, 2015.
 1. To facilitate the management of education delivery the Mahama led administration procured and distributed 500 vehicles to the educational institutions-senior high schools, universities, colleges of education and polytechnics.
 2. In terms of School Infrastructure – A total of 1,856 out of 2,578 basic school projects have been completed under the Schools Under Trees programme. The remaining was due for completion. A number of teachers bungalows, education offices, sanitation blocks and 203 out of 232 classroom blocks includes the SHS E block have been completed.
Under the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), the Mahama led administration rehabilitated 345 KG classrooms, constructed 1,347 KG blocks and provision of 1,875 KG tables and chairs.
Job creation must also be supported by the expansion of opportunities in the agricultural sector. There is the need to secure sufficient supplies of food at affordable prices. Following our strong commitment to the modernisation of agriculture;
 1. The government of Mahama increased the number of rice maize, yam harvesters. Additional emphasis has been put on grain storage facilities and the creation of bore holes for agricultural purposes.
 2. Agricultural mechanisation service centres was established.
 3. His achievements includes reviving cotton farming in the Northern Ghana.
 4. Between 2009 and 2011, the government also rehabilitated several irrigation dams in the Greater Accra, Volta, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions.
 5. Ghana produced more than 1m tonnes of cocoa in 2011, a significant increase over the output in 2008, which stood at about 680,000 tonnes.
In line with Government's determination to develop sports infrastructure,
 1. The 15,000 seater capacity Cape Coast Stadium.
 2. Progressive prominence of Ghanaian sportswomen and men at the African Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana in 2014, the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China in 2014, the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia, Samoa in 2015, and the All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo in 2015.
 2. Keta Sea Defence Resettlement Housing Scheme.
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Movement speed (MS) is an attribute that controls the action cost of moving.
Movement speed can't be adjusted during character generation, and is not affected by other attributes, such as agility. The player and most other characters begin with a default movement speed of 100.
Overview[edit | edit source]
How fast a character moves is determined by a combination of quickness (QN) and movement speed (MS).
 - Quickness determines how fast a character is overall. It affects all actions, including moving, attacking, using items, and just about anything else a character can do. For that reason, if you have a choice between increasing your quickness or your movement speed, it is generally preferable to increase your quickness.
 - Movement speed is a more specialized attribute that affects only movement actions. Improving your movement speed can allow your character to move multiple spaces in a single turn (or, more commonly, to move one extra space during the course of a few turns), helping you to outrun enemies, escape dangerous situations, or keep your distance as you fight an enemy with a ranged weapon.
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
Characters generate a certain number of action points each turn equal to ten times their quickness (QN) value, or QN x 10. Each time a character moves, the character expends some or all of those action points, depending on their movement speed.
Moving consumes a number of action points equal to 100000 ÷ MS.
If your movement speed and your quickness are both equal to 100, this means that you can move exactly once per turn.
Action points generated per turn
QN × 10
Action cost of a single movement
Total movements per turn
QN × MS10,000
Increases in movement speed follows a simple logic based on how much greater it is than the base movespeed of 100. 150 movespeed means that you will move 1.5 times faster than normal. For example, with 100 quickness, you will see the following behavior as your movement speed increases:
 - 100 MS - You move 1 time each turn
 - 120 MS - You move 1.2 times each turn (6 times every 5 turns)
 - 150 MS - You move 1.5 times each turn
 - 180 MS - You move 1.8 times each turn
 - 190 MS - You move 1.9 times each turn
 - 200 MS - You move 2 times each turn
Because of this, negative decreases will have more significant impacts to how often you can move. 50 movespeed means moving 0.5 times a turn, half that of the base movespeed; However, +50 is moving 1.5 times instead of double the movespeed.
Modifying Movement Speed[edit | edit source]
These things directly modify a character's movement speed, changing the action cost of a single movement, and thus the number of movements the character may take per turn.
Name Type Movement Effect
Bounding boots.pngbounding boots equipment +15 movement speed while worn, along with increased sprint speed.
Dazed effect -10 temporary movement speed.
Dismembered (feet) effect -20 movement speed as long as the feet are dismembered. (penalty may vary depending on number of feet)
Greased equipment modifier -5 movement speed while worn.
Heavy Weapons without Tank type of equipment -25 movement speed while equipped.
Hobbled (short sword skill) effect -50% temporary movement speed for 16-20 rounds.
Hyper-elastic ankle tendons cybernetic implant +6 movement speed while implanted.
Interdictor.pnginterdictor enemy -10 temporary movement speed for each interdiction beam focused on the character.
Ironshank disease -8 to -80 movement speed. This penalty worsens the longer the character is infected.
Lovesick effect -5 temporary movement speed.
Magnetized boots.pngmagnetized boots equipment -5 movement speed while worn.
Motorized treads.pngmotorized treads cybernetic implant +150 permanent movement speed.
Multiple Legs physical mutation +8 to +53 permanent movement speed, depending on mutation level.
Nocturnal apex.pngnocturnal apex cybernetic implant +10 temporary movement speed while activated.
Prone effect -80 temporary movement speed until you stand up.
Rocket skates.pngrocket skates equipment +5 movement speed while worn.
Sandals of the riverwives.pngsandals of the river-wives equipment +5 movement speed while worn.
Skulk injector.pngskulk injector (in darkness) effect +25% or +40% temporary movement speed while active, depending on whether the user is a mutant or a True Kin.
Skulk injector.pngskulk injector (in daylight) effect -20% temporary movement speed while active.
Spring-loaded equipment modifier +5 to +10 movement speed while worn.
Ultra-elastic ankle tendons cybernetic implant +10 movement speed while implanted.
Yeshyrskin slippers.pngyeshyrskin slippers equipment +20 movement speed while worn.
Swimming in pools of 2000+ drams effect -50% when active
Wading in pools of _PHONE_ drams effect -20% when active
Additional Types of Movement[edit | edit source]
Beyond your movement speed attribute, there are many additional ways to change the speed at which you move, or cause you to move around without directly modifying your movement speed.
Some common examples include:
Modding[edit | edit source]
In XML and the game code, movespeed is stored as a penalty to the base movespeed. This means that it increases when negative numbers are added to the stat. Wishing for stat:MoveSpeed:0 will set the movespeed to the base 100. Setting movespeed to 0 requires wishing it to 100.