This document contains a worksheet about national celebrations and festivals from different countries. It includes reading passages about Children's Day in Turkey, the Santa Tecla Festival in Spain, the Saracen Joust in Italy, and Great Union Day in Romania. It also has activities such as matching pictures of clothing to their names, writing a letter describing celebrations, and role playing a costume party. The goal is to teach students about traditions, holidays, and vocabulary related to special events and occasions.
1. Verbs of liking
Adore (đam mê)
Love
Like, enjoy, fancy
Don’t mind
Hate
Detest = hate
2.They liked __________ together when they were kids.
A. hanging B. playing C. doing
2. I fancy _____ out with friends at the weekend.
A. Playing B. eating C. doing
3. ____ DIY brings you a lot of amazing benefits.
A. Eating B. Playing C. Doing
4. My family often get together to __________ board games after dinner.
A. Play B. do C. go
5. If you want to enjoy the outdoors, __________ mountain biking.
A. Hang B. go C. do
3. 3. Write the correct form of the verbs.
Mai enjoys …………(make) crafts, especially bracelets.
People in Britain love ………….………...(watch) TV in their free time.
Do you fancy ….................... (skateboard) in the park this Sunday?
Nick likes …………….....………(learn) Vietnamese.
Ngoc hates …………….. (sit) at the computer for too long.
4. 1. She adores _________ with young children. (work)
2. She likes _______________ English with the new teacher. (learn)
3. They hate ____________ their son texting his friends all day. (see)
4. He doesn’t mind ________ homework. (do)
5. I enjoyed ________ him last week in the library. (meet)
6. We prefer ____________ outdoor games. (play)
5. Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0.good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high) _______ education, and (2. easy) _______ access to (3.good) _______ facilities. Life there is (4.exciting) ______________ and (5.convenient) _________________.
They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6.happy) _________ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7.friendly) ______________ than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) _____ as that in the city and I feel (9.safe) ______. Perhaps the (10.good) _______ place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.
1. Can you speak _______________? My English is not good.
2. After a hard working day, we usually sleep _______________.
3. Nowadays, people dress __________________, so it’s difficult to say which country they are from.
4. It’s not always true that rich people donate __________________ than poor people.
5. If you want to stay slim, you have to eat _______________.
1. Your exam score is low. I am sure you can do __________.
2. We’ll be late for the fair. Can you drive ______?
3. On Sunday, we can get up _______ than usual.
4. The farmers have to work ________ at harvest time.
5. You look tired. Are you feeling ________ than you did this morning?
6. My mother has to get up __________ than us to milk the cows.
4. Read the situations and complete the sentences with suitable forms of the adverbs in brackets.
A horse can run 80km/hr while a camel can only run 12km/hr. (fast)
→ A horse can run ____________________.
According to a survey, 75% of the population in the countryside are happy with their life. This rate in the city is only
1. Verbs of liking
Adore (đam mê)
Love
Like, enjoy, fancy
Don’t mind
Hate
Detest = hate
2.They liked __________ together when they were kids.
A. hanging B. playing C. doing
2. I fancy _____ out with friends at the weekend.
A. Playing B. eating C. doing
3. ____ DIY brings you a lot of amazing benefits.
A. Eating B. Playing C. Doing
4. My family often get together to __________ board games after dinner.
A. Play B. do C. go
5. If you want to enjoy the outdoors, __________ mountain biking.
A. Hang B. go C. do
3. 3. Write the correct form of the verbs.
Mai enjoys …………(make) crafts, especially bracelets.
People in Britain love ………….………...(watch) TV in their free time.
Do you fancy ….................... (skateboard) in the park this Sunday?
Nick likes …………….....………(learn) Vietnamese.
Ngoc hates …………….. (sit) at the computer for too long.
4. 1. She adores _________ with young children. (work)
2. She likes _______________ English with the new teacher. (learn)
3. They hate ____________ their son texting his friends all day. (see)
4. He doesn’t mind ________ homework. (do)
5. I enjoyed ________ him last week in the library. (meet)
6. We prefer ____________ outdoor games. (play)
5. Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0.good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high) _______ education, and (2. easy) _______ access to (3.good) _______ facilities. Life there is (4.exciting) ______________ and (5.convenient) _________________.
They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6.happy) _________ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7.friendly) ______________ than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) _____ as that in the city and I feel (9.safe) ______. Perhaps the (10.good) _______ place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.
1. Can you speak _______________? My English is not good.
2. After a hard working day, we usually sleep _______________.
3. Nowadays, people dress __________________, so it’s difficult to say which country they are from.
4. It’s not always true that rich people donate __________________ than poor people.
5. If you want to stay slim, you have to eat _______________.
1. Your exam score is low. I am sure you can do __________.
2. We’ll be late for the fair. Can you drive ______?
3. On Sunday, we can get up _______ than usual.
4. The farmers have to work ________ at harvest time.
5. You look tired. Are you feeling ________ than you did this morning?
6. My mother has to get up __________ than us to milk the cows.
4. Read the situations and complete the sentences with suitable forms of the adverbs in brackets.
A horse can run 80km/hr while a camel can only run 12km/hr. (fast)
→ A horse can run ____________________.
According to a survey, 75% of the population in the countryside are happy with their life. This rate in the city is only
Data Centers - Striving Within A Narrow Range - Research Report - MCG - May 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) expects to see demand and the changing evolution of supply, facilitated through institutional investment rotation out of offices and into work from home (“WFH”), while the ever-expanding need for data storage as global internet usage expands, with experts predicting 5.3 billion users by 2023. These market factors will be underpinned by technological changes, such as progressing cloud services and edge sites, allowing the industry to see strong expected annual growth of 13% over the next 4 years.
Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
According to M Capital Group: “Specifically, the long-term cost-saving opportunities available from the rise of remote managing will likely aid value growth for the industry. Through margin optimization and further availability of capital for reinvestment, strong players will maintain their competitive foothold, while weaker players exit the market to balance supply and demand.”
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.