A Knowledge of History Is a Civic NecessityRebekah Wright
It is critical for citizens in a democracy to have knowledge of history for several reasons:
1) History provides context and understanding of laws, policies, and the government which allows citizens to properly participate in the democratic process and understand how their votes will shape the future.
2) Understanding history equips citizens to recognize warning signs and threats to democracy, liberty, and justice in order to stand up against problems in government and society.
3) Having a sense of historical identity and where the country has come from is important for citizens to understand themselves and their rights within the political system. A knowledge of history prevents the repetition of past mistakes and empowers citizens within the democratic process.
The document summarizes an assessment of a client's diet using a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and 3-day diet recall. It finds that while macronutrient intake was similar between the two methods, the FFQ estimated higher fruit and similar vegetable intake compared to the 3-day recall. The client's grain and protein intake was below recommendations in both assessments. Dairy intake was found to meet recommendations.
Este documento ofrece instrucciones sobre cómo realizar una exposición oral efectiva. Define una exposición oral como la presentación de ideas ante un público sobre un tema previamente establecido. Explica que la estructura ideal consta de una introducción, desarrollo con subtemas y conclusiones. También proporciona consejos sobre la organización del equipo, la investigación del tema, la expresión oral y corporal, y el contenido para enganchar al público.
According to the document, 94% of recruiters plan to use social media in their recruitment efforts. It is important for candidates to maintain active, clean, and professional social media profiles that highlight their skills, experience, and industry knowledge in order to improve their chances of getting hired through referrals or company pages. The top social media networks used by recruiters are LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and candidates should post about charity work, awards, and avoid illegal activities or spelling errors online.
Michelle LaPointe is a 79-year-old female experiencing pain due to diabetic neuropathy and osteoarthritis. Her medications include acetaminophen for pain, glyburide and metformin for type 2 diabetes. The simulation focuses on assessing and treating her pain, documenting medication administration, and communicating with the physician using SBAR.
A Knowledge of History Is a Civic NecessityRebekah Wright
It is critical for citizens in a democracy to have knowledge of history for several reasons:
1) History provides context and understanding of laws, policies, and the government which allows citizens to properly participate in the democratic process and understand how their votes will shape the future.
2) Understanding history equips citizens to recognize warning signs and threats to democracy, liberty, and justice in order to stand up against problems in government and society.
3) Having a sense of historical identity and where the country has come from is important for citizens to understand themselves and their rights within the political system. A knowledge of history prevents the repetition of past mistakes and empowers citizens within the democratic process.
The document summarizes an assessment of a client's diet using a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and 3-day diet recall. It finds that while macronutrient intake was similar between the two methods, the FFQ estimated higher fruit and similar vegetable intake compared to the 3-day recall. The client's grain and protein intake was below recommendations in both assessments. Dairy intake was found to meet recommendations.
Este documento ofrece instrucciones sobre cómo realizar una exposición oral efectiva. Define una exposición oral como la presentación de ideas ante un público sobre un tema previamente establecido. Explica que la estructura ideal consta de una introducción, desarrollo con subtemas y conclusiones. También proporciona consejos sobre la organización del equipo, la investigación del tema, la expresión oral y corporal, y el contenido para enganchar al público.
According to the document, 94% of recruiters plan to use social media in their recruitment efforts. It is important for candidates to maintain active, clean, and professional social media profiles that highlight their skills, experience, and industry knowledge in order to improve their chances of getting hired through referrals or company pages. The top social media networks used by recruiters are LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and candidates should post about charity work, awards, and avoid illegal activities or spelling errors online.
Michelle LaPointe is a 79-year-old female experiencing pain due to diabetic neuropathy and osteoarthritis. Her medications include acetaminophen for pain, glyburide and metformin for type 2 diabetes. The simulation focuses on assessing and treating her pain, documenting medication administration, and communicating with the physician using SBAR.
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. Despite his father's wishes that he study medicine, Galileo was drawn to mathematics and teaching. He began teaching privately before obtaining public appointments. Galileo made several important scientific discoveries through his observations with an improved telescope, including mountains and craters on the moon. His promotion of Copernicus' heliocentric model of the solar system led the Catholic Church to sentence him to house arrest for his scientific views.
10 Things Businesses can do with Social MediaPhilip Oakley
Slides from a talk to the Chartered Institute of Marketing on practical things that business can do with Social Media. Originally presented at Staffordshire University.
Shan Hussain is applying for a job as an IT Support Technician. He has experience working in a computer shop for 3 years where he learned to repair computers, install software and drivers, and solder components. Currently, Shan is studying Computer System Support at Salford University to develop additional skills. He has strong communication, problem solving, and teamwork abilities. His education includes completing GCSEs and achieving a BTEC L3 National Diploma in Business Administration and Marketing.
Payment terminal fulfillment involves several key aspects: installing necessary software and encryption keys, handling initial orders and modifications, cancellations, returns, maintenance, and dealing with stock shortages. Fulfillment centers must be able to configure terminals for specific payment processors. Merchants may change or cancel orders at different stages, so the fulfillment process must account for orders with resellers, fulfillment centers, in transit, or already shipped. Further details on all fulfillment issues are available on Paylosophy.
Pitman Management Cc is a business, agricultural, and finance advisory practice based in South Africa that has been operating since 2008. It primarily operates in South Africa but also other parts of Africa. The business environment in South Africa and Africa is rapidly changing due to factors like globalization, growing economies, and demographic shifts. Many businesses are struggling to understand and adapt to these changes. Pitman aims to bridge this knowledge gap by providing businesses with additional knowledge, skills, and resources to more efficiently engage opportunities and achieve stable growth, increased profits, and higher business value.
A Scalable Implementation of Deep Learning on Spark (Alexander Ulanov)Alexander Ulanov
Artificial neural networks (ANN) are one of the popular models of machine learning, in particular for deep learning. The models that are used in practice for image classification and speech recognition contain huge number of weights and are trained with big datasets. Training such models is challenging in terms of computation and data processing. We propose a scalable implementation of deep neural networks for Spark. We address the computational challenge by batch operations, using BLAS for vector and matrix computations and reusing the memory for reducing garbage collector activity. Spark provides data parallelism that enables scaling of training. As a result, our implementation is on par with widely used C++ implementations like Caffe on a single machine and scales nicely on a cluster. The developed API makes it easy to configure your own network and to run experiments with different hyper parameters. Our implementation is easily extensible and we invite other developers to contribute new types of neural network functions and layers. Also, optimizations that we applied and our experience with GPU CUDA BLAS might be useful for other machine learning algorithms being developed for Spark.
The slides were presented at Spark SF Friends meetup on December 2, 2015 organized by Alex Khrabrov @Nitro. The content is based on my talk on Spark Summit Europe. However, there are few major updates: update and more details on the parallelism heuristic, experiments with larger cluster, as well as the new slide design.
The document discusses the global offshoring journey of Damco International B.V., a logistics company that is part of the Maersk Group. It describes how Damco has established shared service centers across Asia to perform finance, operations, and business support functions. The centers now employ over 10,000 people across five cities. The document outlines Damco's process for offshoring work, which involves evaluating opportunities, preparing, executing handovers, and continuous improvement. It notes that capturing the full benefits of offshoring is an ongoing journey that requires aligning processes, adding value through improvements, and engaging both onshore and offshore teams. Key lessons learned include the importance of strong leadership support, change management, and balancing
This document summarizes a 18-day cycling trip from Manali to Leh in India along the Manali-Leh Highway in the Himalayas. The route is 500 km long, ranging from 1,900 meters to 5,359 meters in altitude. Riders will cycle for 11 days, passing through small towns and crossing high mountain passes, with support from an Indian crew. The trip benefits riders through physical fitness gains, experiencing local culture, personal challenges and growth, and raising money for charity.
This document provides information about the Isle of Man CC 2014 Cycle Challenge, which includes a one-day sportive on September 27th riding 1, 2, or 3 laps of the 37.7 mile Isle of Man TT motorcycle circuit. New for 2014 is the Isle of Man CC 24 Hour event from September 27-28th where riders complete as many laps as possible in a 24 hour period solo or in teams of up to 12 people. The document provides details on registration costs and categories, refreshments and support provided, and statistics on participation in previous years' events.
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. Despite his father's wishes that he study medicine, Galileo was drawn to mathematics and teaching. He began teaching privately before obtaining public appointments. Galileo made several important scientific discoveries through his observations with an improved telescope, including mountains and craters on the moon. His promotion of Copernicus' heliocentric model of the solar system led the Catholic Church to sentence him to house arrest for his scientific views.
10 Things Businesses can do with Social MediaPhilip Oakley
Slides from a talk to the Chartered Institute of Marketing on practical things that business can do with Social Media. Originally presented at Staffordshire University.
Shan Hussain is applying for a job as an IT Support Technician. He has experience working in a computer shop for 3 years where he learned to repair computers, install software and drivers, and solder components. Currently, Shan is studying Computer System Support at Salford University to develop additional skills. He has strong communication, problem solving, and teamwork abilities. His education includes completing GCSEs and achieving a BTEC L3 National Diploma in Business Administration and Marketing.
Payment terminal fulfillment involves several key aspects: installing necessary software and encryption keys, handling initial orders and modifications, cancellations, returns, maintenance, and dealing with stock shortages. Fulfillment centers must be able to configure terminals for specific payment processors. Merchants may change or cancel orders at different stages, so the fulfillment process must account for orders with resellers, fulfillment centers, in transit, or already shipped. Further details on all fulfillment issues are available on Paylosophy.
Pitman Management Cc is a business, agricultural, and finance advisory practice based in South Africa that has been operating since 2008. It primarily operates in South Africa but also other parts of Africa. The business environment in South Africa and Africa is rapidly changing due to factors like globalization, growing economies, and demographic shifts. Many businesses are struggling to understand and adapt to these changes. Pitman aims to bridge this knowledge gap by providing businesses with additional knowledge, skills, and resources to more efficiently engage opportunities and achieve stable growth, increased profits, and higher business value.
A Scalable Implementation of Deep Learning on Spark (Alexander Ulanov)Alexander Ulanov
Artificial neural networks (ANN) are one of the popular models of machine learning, in particular for deep learning. The models that are used in practice for image classification and speech recognition contain huge number of weights and are trained with big datasets. Training such models is challenging in terms of computation and data processing. We propose a scalable implementation of deep neural networks for Spark. We address the computational challenge by batch operations, using BLAS for vector and matrix computations and reusing the memory for reducing garbage collector activity. Spark provides data parallelism that enables scaling of training. As a result, our implementation is on par with widely used C++ implementations like Caffe on a single machine and scales nicely on a cluster. The developed API makes it easy to configure your own network and to run experiments with different hyper parameters. Our implementation is easily extensible and we invite other developers to contribute new types of neural network functions and layers. Also, optimizations that we applied and our experience with GPU CUDA BLAS might be useful for other machine learning algorithms being developed for Spark.
The slides were presented at Spark SF Friends meetup on December 2, 2015 organized by Alex Khrabrov @Nitro. The content is based on my talk on Spark Summit Europe. However, there are few major updates: update and more details on the parallelism heuristic, experiments with larger cluster, as well as the new slide design.
The document discusses the global offshoring journey of Damco International B.V., a logistics company that is part of the Maersk Group. It describes how Damco has established shared service centers across Asia to perform finance, operations, and business support functions. The centers now employ over 10,000 people across five cities. The document outlines Damco's process for offshoring work, which involves evaluating opportunities, preparing, executing handovers, and continuous improvement. It notes that capturing the full benefits of offshoring is an ongoing journey that requires aligning processes, adding value through improvements, and engaging both onshore and offshore teams. Key lessons learned include the importance of strong leadership support, change management, and balancing
This document summarizes a 18-day cycling trip from Manali to Leh in India along the Manali-Leh Highway in the Himalayas. The route is 500 km long, ranging from 1,900 meters to 5,359 meters in altitude. Riders will cycle for 11 days, passing through small towns and crossing high mountain passes, with support from an Indian crew. The trip benefits riders through physical fitness gains, experiencing local culture, personal challenges and growth, and raising money for charity.
This document provides information about the Isle of Man CC 2014 Cycle Challenge, which includes a one-day sportive on September 27th riding 1, 2, or 3 laps of the 37.7 mile Isle of Man TT motorcycle circuit. New for 2014 is the Isle of Man CC 24 Hour event from September 27-28th where riders complete as many laps as possible in a 24 hour period solo or in teams of up to 12 people. The document provides details on registration costs and categories, refreshments and support provided, and statistics on participation in previous years' events.