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Final Edit: Overall the session today was very informative about the upcoming changes for RSv5. Cisco will be posting a demo for the new format of the exam soon. I'll be posting a recap of this session and others after Cisco Live has concluded at the end of the week.
09:45 PDT – Mobile labs will start to have more seats. It's unlikely that the lab will be delivered at regular Pearson Vue sites.
09:40 PDT – On the new retake policy. It's not yet clear if it's effective retroactively. E.g. if you fail twice now do you have to wait 90 days after August? Bruno said an official announcement will be coming out shortly.
09:20 PDT – On configuration section "more preconfiguration is going to be there." For example IPv4/IPv6 addresses, VLANs, etc. "for example show vlan brief before starting." "The questions are inter-dependent by nature." No visible countdown timer, refer to the proctor's clock. "Most of the time we have obvious explicit requirements and then hidden implicit requirements." "Focus on the technologies and not the topologies."
09:19 PDT – On diagnostic section "All tickets are visible before starting" "no partial grading just like other sections" Format is "still multiple choice but different from the written exam." "for example you could have two scenarios each with three questions" "you're going to be playing the role of a support engineer" Could include design specifications, emails, topology diagrams, console outputs, packet captures.
09:11 PDT – On grading "We are not reloading your rack, we are not reloading your session. We're grading in the exact state that you leave your rack."
09:05 PDT – On troubleshooting section "We're not going to check which solution you used." "Big rumor is we're expecting a special CCIE solution." "It's very much based on output." For example "regardless how you arrive that the route is there we only care that the route is there."
09:00 PDT – On point weighting per section "Scores are visible in each section." "You don't have to get all points in the exam." "If you get stuck move on." "Troubleshooting questions are meant to be independent." "Configuration section is the only one with inter-dependencies."
08:58 PDT – On the new scoring "You still have a chance of passing even if you screwed troubleshooting."
08:56 PDT – On timing of sections "Only diagnostic is fixed to 30 minutes." "If you finish troubleshooting in an hour you get the remaining time automatically credited to your configuration section."
08:50 PDT – On diagnostic module, it's used to "assess that you can come to the conclusion of what the root cause is." "What process did you use to get to the root cause?" "What information do you need to ask the customer for example from the help desk?" "Diagnostic is about assessing practical skills." "It's going to be more difficult for candidates that don't have actual experience. That's what the diagnostic section is about."
08:45 PDT – On delivery "Delivery is web based. There is no more printed workbooks."
08:42 PDT – On IPsec – "We're not testing PKI or dynamic crypto." "Only the most basic IPsec configurations using a pre-shared key."
08:40 PDT – On packet capture – "We can give you a sniffer trace and ask you to do something with it". "It's not collecting the capture it's using the capture." "We're going to be using a web based version of WireShark."
08:37 PDT – IS-IS is in the written but not the lab, because it's relevant for new technologies like FabricPath and OTV. If you haven't heard of OTV before, don't worry, it's just a Fancy GRE Tunnel
08:35 PDT – In case you've been living under a rock for the past 6 months
08:30 PDT – Per Bruno "In configuration the topologies are going to be much bigger". "In v5 it's going to look like an actual network."
08:25 PDT – The session PDF can be found here.
08:15 PDT – Rule #1 – "Know what you don't know"
08:00 PDT – TECCCIE-3000 – CCIE Routing & Switching Version 5 Techtorial is starting now. If you have any questions you want me to ask the CCIE team please comment below.
About Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593, CCDE #2013::13:
Brian McGahan was one of the youngest engineers in the world to obtain the CCIE, having achieved his first CCIE in Routing & Switching at the age of 20 in 2002. Brian has been teaching and developing CCIE training courses for over 10 years, and has assisted thousands of engineers in obtaining their CCIE certification. When not teaching or developing new products Brian consults with large ISPs and enterprise customers in the midwest region of the United States.
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Hi.. Was hoping if more information could be given on the diagnostic section of the lab. Thank you.
Very cool Brian's comments, I see too well at the table behind you . But it was not clear to me if you end the Troubleshooting in 2 hours and 30 min not use the Troubleshooting and not use 30 Min Diagnostic, you will have 1 more hour for configuration? Thank you.
Hi Brian, i think i have heard from another presentation from Bruno, that there will only be Ethernet interfaces involved in the whole lab (no Serial ints). Is this correct?
I understand not using Pearson Centers. Is there any chance they would consider Lab testing at other, large, Cisco offices? The Herndon office for example.
Practical question: Will PUTTY still be the only available telnet/ssh client at the LAB exam?
Or any posibility for SecureCRT?
Did they provide an example on how you can still pass after screwing up troubleshooting? I guess I thought you had to pass a minimum score
Brian, I noticed the terms score visible on page 40 of the presentations docs. Did that mean point values are listed for each questions or there is some sort of new "unofficial" grading as you go happening that displays a sections score?
Hi Brian,
Will there be any labs available in cisco PEC ? Seeing an actual example of exam formatting can be self explanatory and might help …
Thank you,
Hi Brian this sentence was little bit unclear to me:
08:58 PDT – On the new scoring "You still have a chance of passing even if you screwed troubleshooting"
I thought that each section was to be resolved at least at minimum score if you want to pass the whole exam…it is correct?
Hi Brian,
When can we expect to have the existing vol2 workbook integrated under the Workbook v5?
Hello Brian,
May be this is a silly question, but can we suggest cisco to provide Multi-tabbed putty in the CCIE Labs exam ?? I had read that they will provide putty but it doesn't have multi tabs like securecrt and with like 30 routers on topology, it would just fill up the screen and would waste lot of time sorting them out.
Multi-tabbed putty is available for free at –
Hi Brian,
have you asked Cisco about the Major Retake Policy Changes?
we have some questions unanswered
Still fuzzy on the details of how many IOS devices to expect. May not matter much but it does for my brain (That's the only part left bugging me.)
If there is more info I appreciate it.
08:30 PDT "In configuration the topologies are going to be much bigger"
What could "much bigger" mean?
hi Brain
I am little bit confused about Mobile labs !
does it mean I can take the lab exam from my country without travel to where they provide the Exam !?
I'm thinking the level of configuration speed I need to have practised for and reached before exam date will depend on how many devices I will be configuring in each of the mock labs I do.
Hi Brain, regarding the TS session, each ticket has a mini diagram, problem will always be within the mini diagram highlighted by the question?
Please how do you blow up those mini diagram and get to the L2 diagrams
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Armstrong played at Ithaca for two years after spending a year at Clarkson and St. John Fisher for a year each. During his junior and senior years at Ithaca, the catcher started 51 games and led the Bombers to the NCAA New York regional while guiding the pitching staff to a 3.18 ERA in 2011. During his career, Armstrong caught 83 collegiate games. He also spent two summers playing for the Elmira Pioneers of the New York Collegiate Baseball League. He was a 1st team All-County selection during his senior year at Penfield High School
He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Ithaca and a master's degree in higher education from the University of Massachusetts.
Armstrong's Program Goals include: "First and foremost we want to ensure that our student-athletes have a great experience during their time at Alfred State. It is of the utmost importance that our players are learning on and off the field and developing into outstanding young men, while having an enjoyable experience on the baseball team. Second, it is important for us to establish a process for success now and in the future. We will work very hard establishing and adjusting our process leading to a greater understanding of ourselves and the game of baseball. Through our hard work we will build on the strong culture that already exists to maintain a winning attitude."
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George Valesente, Head Baseball Coach, Ithaca College
"Mike Armstrong has wanted to be a head baseball coach from the time he joined our program and I am very happy for him and Alfred State. You are getting a very serious hard working young man who is committed to the sport and the individuals playing it. He will build upon the tradition at Alfred State and add to it significantly."
Brian Hamm, Head Baseball Coach, Amherst College
"Mike is an outstanding tactician of the game and a true teacher. His knowledge and approach to hitting led our teams to be in the top 10% in many offensive statistics nationally to include breaking NCAA Tournament records during the last four years. But, above all, is his passion for coaching, the respect he shows for the game, and how much he cares for his players are the traits of his that stand out to me. Amherst is losing an outstanding coach, mentor, and friend."
"Mike is incredibly loyal to his players, coaches, and the schools that he has been a part of. He leaves Amherst and our baseball program a better place. No doubt he lived up to the expectations set by the outstanding coaches who have come before him in our storied program's history and he sets the bar high for the next coach who follows in his footsteps."
Jeff McKay: MLB Envoy Coach, former coach at the University of California
"Two things stand out about Mike Armstrong: his infectious enthusiasm and his phenomenal work ethic. Do not be surprised to see the light on in the baseball office at midnight, Mike grinding away with a smile on his face. He is a blue collar coach with a world-class Pedigree–including coaching at the Stanford University Baseball Camp, the Swedish National (Olympic) Baseball Academy, and for the North Adams Steeple Cats of the New England Collegiate League. He is a winner!"
Michael Lindberg: Director of Athletics, Wells College
"Coach Armstrong is an extraordinary talent with his knowledge of the game and understanding of student-athletes. Not only will he coach the fundamentals of the game, but he will teach valuable life lessons that transcends the game."
Overall Record at Alfred State: Two years, 22-57 (22-57 NCAA DIII)
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After a fun and flirty season so far, Castle takes a darker twist tonight with an episode that will find Castle (Nathan Fillion) fighting off murder suspicions after mounting evidence leaves him implicated.
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And Beckett's (Stana Katic) not the only one who will be asking questions. After becoming privy to Beckett and Castle's relationship, Ryan's (Seamus Dever) knowledge of the situation will "affect Ryan's perception of Beckett's performance" during the investigation, says Marlowe, who also hinted that someone else might learn the secret by the hour's end. "There will be some movement in that tonight when there are some broader stakes hanging over the crew," he says. " We'll see a little more about the secret tonight and how folks deal with it. But it's something more people will find out as time goes on."
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Transubstantiation is the process whereby the bread and wine offered up at the communion service has its substance changed to that of the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. Though transubstantiation has to be viewed with the eyes of faith, God occasionally performs miracles to dispel the doubts of Christians and non-Christian alike. Holy Spirit Interactive brings you some of the better-known of these Eucharistic Miracles in this series.
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Setting Up and Customizing Your Pubwich SiteConnor Turnbull on November 28th 2011
We don't live on a single site or write on a single blogging platform any more. Instead, more and more of us are opting to use a range of social networks and services. We post photos to Flickr, blog in WordPress, update our status on Twitter and Facebook, bookmark with del.icio.us, share items in Google Reader, checkin with Gowalla, and more.
It can be a pain to update them all consistently, and even more frustrating to pull all of your online data together. In an effort to remedy this problem, many people spend their time putting together a site and embedding various widgets from each site, but that can take considerable amounts of time and can even be expensive depending on how you do it.
Pubwich is an open-source web application that does that job for you, bring together multiple services into one self-hosted webpage, much like the scenario I previously explained. Just a head's up though – before we get into the review – that this is not a web application per se because it will require you to find a hosting solution yourself. Once you do, though, you'll be up and running in no time.
As I said before, Pubwich is not a regular web application. Instead, you'll need to upload it to your own web host or server and set it up manually, and you'll have to dive into a bit of light PHP editing in order to set up.
You're obviously going to need to grab yourself a copy of Pubwich, decompress it and upload it to your own web host that has an Apache server and PHP 5 (all good ones will have this, so you don't need to worry). Once you've uploaded all the files and sub-folders, you're going to need to edit the file named "config.sample.php" in the /cfg/ folder. It may look daunting, but in fact this is really simple.
Firstly, you're going to need to look for the following line and replace "America/Montreal" with your time zone. Make sure you leave your replacement in apostrophes though.
date_default_timezone_set( 'America/Montreal' );
The next three lines are also very straightforward to setup, replacing the URL with the address of your Pubwich-powered site. You'll likely also want to change the title to your desired heading, also keeping the surrounding apostrophes in tact.
define('PUBWICH_URL', 'http://macintude.net/pubwich/'); define('PUBWICH_THEME', 'default'); define('PUBWICH_TITLE', 'My Pubwich-powered site');
Finally, for each of the services Pubwich supports, you're going to want to put in your own details, whether that is a unique key or just your username. This is fairly straightforward, where you simply put your information into the PHP array, like in the example below for YouTube where my addition is in bold. Other options, like the number of videos/tweets/updates shown are edited in the same way, and are fairly self-explanatory with in-line comments offering some support.
array( 'Youtube', 'youtube', array( 'method' => 'YoutubeVideos', 'username' => 'connorturnbull', 'total' => 4, 'size' => 120, 'title' => 'Youtube', 'description' => 'latest videos' ) ),
Once you repeat this process for each of the services, you'll be all set and your Pubwich site will be up and running. You can opt to just leave it there, with no further customisation, and Pubwich will offer a great location you can send contacts to view all of your activity across all of the services you use. However, we can also opt to theme Pubwich instead.
Customising a Pubwich site is not as simple as merely setting up one, and you're going to need some prior HTML and CSS knowledge in order to manipulate it to your liking. Themes are held in the /themes/ directory, and selected by placing the name of the sub-directory of the active theme in between the apostrophes of this line in your configuration file.
define('PUBWICH_THEME', 'default');
My advice is to simply duplicate the default theme folder and rename that copy to anything you want (and perform the aforementioned step). From there, you can simply manipulate the stylesheet to customise your Pubwich style, throwing in the odd edit the index file should you want to.
However, should you want to create a theme from scratch, it's incredibly easy. Simply code up a new site, making sure you copy in the "functions.php" file and /lib/ directory into your new theme. Then, in order to pull in the Pubwich content, simply make use of these self-explanatory functions.
<?php echo PUBWICH_TITLE?>
<?php echo Pubwich::getLoop()?>
The next one should be placed in your <head> tag and the one below that just above your closing <body> tag.
<?php echo Pubwich::getHeader() ?>
<?php echo Pubwich::getFooter() ?>
Pubwich is a really useful script if you want to launch a site that aggregates all your social networks, and produces working results that would otherwise take a lot more effort to create yourself. It's not ideal, though, because for some of the most basic users, having to manually edit the configuration file might be a task when rival "portfolio"-style sites will do this through a much simpler interface.
Additionally, Pubwich isn't much to look at before any customization, and the process of styling requires prior knowledge of web design, not just dragging and dropping, or picking out colours. Nonetheless, you can create some pretty nice results with Pubwich.
If you're used to designing your own sites and familiar with some very basic PHP and CSS, you should be okay and Pubwich offers a great service to use for/with your site. However, you also may want to check out Chi.mp, which is not self-hosted and offers some similar functionality, without the need to dive into code.
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Louisiana hosts a large membership of devoted Christians of various denominations. The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) reports Evangelical Protestants were the largest Christian group in Louisiana in 2010, with the most adherents belonging to Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Assemblies of God, and the International Pentecostal Holiness Church reported the largest individual increases in adherents from 2005-2011 in this state. The Catholic faith is also represented in large numbers in Louisiana, with over one million adherents, and over 500 congregations statewide.
Education in Louisiana
Louisiana is home to one of the top-ranking Christian schools in the nation. Louisiana College ranked among the top regional colleges in the South, according to U.S. News and World Report, offers a compendium of traditional and online academic programs in various areas of study, in addition to the many options delivered exclusively through the school's Division of Christian Studies. The state has made focused efforts in recent years to improve higher education and advance overall university enrollment, as part of statewide recovery initiatives since Hurricane Katrina, ultimately reflecting a 33.3% increase in college enrollment in Louisiana between 2005 and 2010.
While only one Louisiana Christian college is gaining national recognition as yet, overall state efforts to prioritize education and rebuild since the widespread devastation of Hurricane Katrina are beginning to pay off.
Working in Louisiana
Employment in Louisiana is diverse and allows for a wide variety of occupations and industry jobs. According to the U.S. Census, the educational services, and health care and social assistance industry, followed by retail trade industry, offered the highest employment rates in the state as of 2011. Over one third of the Louisiana labor force held occupations in management, business, science, and the arts, while nearly a quarter of the remaining workforce held sales and office occupations.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also lists trade, transportation, and utilities, as well as government jobs, respectively, among the top jobs in the state in February of this year.
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The jockey who raced again after reading his own obituary
When National Hunt jockey Declan Murphy suffered a disastrous fall at Haydock Park in 1994, after winning all the major races that season, the Racing Post published his obituary. But as he explains here, a furious determination got him back in the saddle.
I was probably four when I sat on my first pony. Where I was brought up, in a little village in County Limerick, we had access to ponies the same way as kids in other countries have access to bicycles.
I learned to ride bareback and when you fell off nobody picked you up. You had to be courageous. I remember trying a saddle for the first time thinking, "Why do people use these?" It didn't seem natural.
I'd been a leading amateur jockey, but I'd never really wanted to be a professional, the only thing I'd ever wanted to be was a lawyer. I used to read the Jenny Bannister American Diary - about the lives of Irish people who had emigrated to America - in the Irish Independent every Thursday morning before going to school, and I was convinced that that's where I would be as soon as I had graduated.
In fact I did go to study law at the University of California. I was going to become a criminal lawyer and I had this idea in my head that I was going to put everything right in America.
But then I was invited to England to ride for a famous horse trainer called Barney Curley. He was a gambler and had trained to be a Jesuit priest. The man intrigued me. If he had sold carrots I would probably have gone and sold carrots for him, I was that intrigued by him. It was Barney Curley that introduced me to professional racing.
The greatest sensation one can ever get on horseback is to achieve a perfect rhythm with your horse's stride pattern - you're actually at one with half a ton of horse flesh, galloping at 35, 40mph. You get a sense of adrenaline at that speed, calculating the pace exactly to get the horse to finish the race at his strongest. By the end you are completely drained emotionally but you have this feeling of elation - a feeling that carries you, it lifts you.
On that fateful day I was riding the favourite, Arcot, in the last big race of the season. It had been a fantastic year, I had ridden 60 winners.
When Arcot jumped the second last hurdle I was in position to win the race, but suddenly things started to unfold.
Find out more
Listen to Declan Murphy talking to Outlook on the BBC World Service at 12:06 on Thursday 6 April, or catch up afterwards on the BBC iPlayer
About 200m before the final hurdle I sensed that my horse did not have the energy within him to sustain the stride pattern that he was on.
I made a tactical assessment that I needed to shorten his stride to clear the last jump. I had calculated everything in my mind perfectly, but in a moment of madness the horse took off a stride too soon. His pelvis cracked with the hyperextension and he crashed on the hurdle.
Propelled forward by the momentum of his stride pattern, my head collided with his head, knocking me unconscious before I hit the ground. Another horse, galloping up from behind, had no way to avoid me - the jockey did everything he could. They managed to avoid my stricken horse and tried to jump over me, but the horse landed on my head.
My mother had never wanted me to ride horses, but my father loved it and was terribly proud of all my achievements. Both of them were at home watching on TV. Joanna, my girlfriend, was watching on TV too. She had seen me fall many times before and you knew everything was OK when the commentator, Sir Peter O'Sullevan, would say, "And Declan Murphy is up on his feet now."
But the broadcast that day ended with Peter O'Sullevan saying, "We have no news of Declan Murphy. We will bring it to you when we have it."
I was put on a life support machine at Warrington Hospital then taken by ambulance with a police escort to the Walton Centre of Neurology in Liverpool. When Joanna arrived she had to wrestle her way through the paparazzi.
The surgeon who had operated on me told her that I had had a very major trauma to the brain and that there was a chance that I wouldn't survive the next three hours. If I did live for those three hours, I had a 50/50 chance of surviving for the six hours after that, he said. And if I did live after those six hours I would probably be very badly brain damaged.
When they drew back the curtain she says the person she looked at on the bed wasn't me. My head was huge, distended, my eyes were black as soot.
Joanna was told to talk to me to try to get some kind of reaction from me, but there was no reaction.
The doctors came and told her they were going to try to take me off the life support machine, they called it a "sink or swim trial".
Joanna asked them, "What happens if he sinks?"
The first time that they took me off the life support machine she said it was horrific - everybody was shouting at me, trying to get a response out of me, and with a gasp I opened my mouth but I could not breathe, I couldn't get any air. Joanna thought I had died. She says she still has nightmares about it today.
They tried to revive me on three occasions and failed every time. After the third attempt the doctors said, "We think it's time to switch off the life support machine."
At that point the hospital stopped issuing press bulletins about me and the newspapers took that as a sign that I'd died.
My eldest sister, Geraldine, decided it was a parent's prerogative if my life support was to be switched off, but at that moment, my father declared a morbid fear of flying and decided that he and my mother would have to come from Ireland by boat.
So the decision about whether to turn off my life support or not, which could have been made in three hours had they flown, was now not reached for 10 hours since they were coming by sea.
I regained consciousness seven hours later.
I was 28 when I had my accident, but when I woke up from my coma I was mentally 12 years old.
I was very unwell. I couldn't walk, I couldn't eat. I was paralysed, tubed-up on a hospital bed. I couldn't do anything.
The surgeons came and asked me questions like, "Who is the taoiseach?"
"Jack Lynch," I answered, because he had been when I was 12. The doctors scratched their heads and walked away thinking something wasn't quite right.
There were many moments that I thought, "I'm not going to make it," but I had this way of fooling my mind by doing everything in little increments. If I could walk 10 yards with sticks or with someone holding me today, tomorrow I'd walk 12.
Belief is self-fulfilling, the more you believe that you can do something, the more you give of yourself to achieve that.
Joanna and I had been in love before the accident, we'd been together for five years. But when they cut open my brain to operate they'd torn out the pages of our love story, and when I woke from my coma I couldn't remember parts of my life - there is a period of four years, six months and four days that is still missing. And I couldn't remember that part of myself.
In my head I was 12 years old and Joanna was like a sister to me, not a lover. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with in my life, to own up to that and walk away.
For quite a long time after my accident people always referred to me in the past tense. "You were so great, you were so good at riding horses, you were so stylish, you were so eloquent."
That really, really disturbed me, because I wanted to be a "now".
There's a very thin line between sanity and insanity, and I walked along it, I ran along it, I danced along it. I tilted to the other side on many occasions. I was losing control of my own mind, and without something to focus on I think would have ended up being taken away by men in white coats.
So in my head I decided I wanted to ride again.
When I first sat on a horse after my accident it was a surreal experience. I just sat on the horse - just to feel its body underneath me, to feel its breath, to feel its muscles, to feel everything about the horse.
The first time I ever had a gallop on a horse after my accident I got off that horse and I walked along next to him, with him nuzzling his head in to my shoulder. I could hear those two sounds, his hoof beat and my heart beat.
And that's when I decided I was going to make a comeback.
When I rode at Chepstow that first time I thought: "I have to do this, I have to prove myself."
I wanted to win and fortunately I rode a good race and I did win.
For the first time since I'd come out of my coma I felt the burden of expectation had been unleashed. I had nothing to prove to anybody any more, least of all to myself. I had that final endorsement that I could still do everything I had ever done. I had placed my flag on my mountain.
When Prof John Miles was interviewed for my book, Centaur, he said that the level of risk that I took in just getting on a horse again was monumental, because had I had any kind of fall, any kind of incident, I would not have survived.
People were amazed that I could get back on a horse and that I could win. And they were surprised that I could then walk away from it as if it had never happened and just get on with my life.
I'm married now and I have a seven-year-old daughter, Sienna. I see my youth in her. I feel very fortunate, having been through what I have but having been able to rebuild my life and reach a state of contentment. That touches my heart.
Declan Murphy's book, Centaur, is published on 27 April
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The term "walking simulator" is a new development in the gaming industry. It is used as a label, a tag, and often times an insult. In this article we're going to examine the origin of this term, how it's used, and why it's misleading.
We cover this subject in our
"biggest myths"
article but quite frankly this deserves its own separate article.
The origin of the term "walking simulator" is intertwined with the game
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Flashback Friday: Game of the Decade - 1990s
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The 1990s was a decade of breakthroughs for video gaming. It is the decade in which serious, immersive games were born thanks to technological advancement. Some of the greatest games of all time were released in the 1990s, especially when it comes to role-playing games (RPGs) which were generally far more advanced and complex back then compared to now. 1998 stands out as one of the best years in gaming history, with a plethora of amazing releases.
In this article we will look at the greatest games of the 1990s (1990-1999 specifically), giving out awards similar to our Game of the Year awards and our previous
Game of the Decade
article. This will be the last Game of the Decade article until the 2010s are over, so you don't want to miss this one! You may notice some awards were excluded, including an overall Game of the Decade award. Some awards were excluded because gaming was very young at this time and some genres were underdeveloped, while an overall Game of the Decade award was not chosen because it's too subjective as there are so many different games belonging to different genres.
Best Sound Effects
Game Title
: Thief: The Dark Project
Release Date
: 1998
Developed By
: Looking Glass Studios
Published By
: Eidos Interactive
: Stealth
Many 1990s PC games had surprisingly advanced sound processing, beyond what most games today have. Our winner is of course one of such games, and that game is
Thief: The Dark Project
(1998) and of course its re-release
Thief Gold
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Horror Redefined - Penumbra
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Published on April 8th, 2016 08:00 AM Number of Views: 3016
The horror video game genre has been revitalized in recent years and it now strongly populates Steam's indie game section. Even mainstream horror games are being released again, such as
The Evil Within
. We all see this, but how many of us wonder why? What caused this horror revolution? These horror games are quite a lot different than the classics like
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
This revolution was sparked by
, a first-person PC exclusive episodic horror game released by Frictional Games in 2007 and 2008, and it is currently within our lists of
top ten horror games of all time
(where it's top 3) and
top ten best stories of all time
. It was the first game from Frictional Games, who later brought us
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
(and no, they did
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
). But Penumbra didn't directly cause this surge of new horror games, it indirectly sparked it. The game that directly resulted in the rebirth of horror video games was
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
, which uses the same formula as Penumbra.
In this article we're going to review Penumbra in its entirety. That includes
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Black Plague
(2008), and
Penumbra: Requiem
(2008). We're going to look at what makes this game so special, why its formula is what revived the genre, and why Amnesia: The Dark Descent was the one that directly sparked this revolution instead of Penumbra. We're also going to score Penumbra relative to how we would have scored it in 2007-2008, although really the only score that is affected is Audio & Visuals since we have new ...
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Flashback Friday: Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete
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Another Friday, another article. Today we're looking back at a very special game,
Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete
, as we approach the ten year anniversary of its original release. This is a collection of a PC exclusive pause-and-play RPG and its three expansions, developed by Obsidian Entertainment, except for the final expansion
Mysteries of Westgate
which was developed by Ossian Studios. Neverwinter Nights 2 was released in 2006, its first expansion
Mask of the Betrayer
in 2007, its second expansion
Storm of Zehir
in 2008, and the aforementioned Mysteries of Westgate in 2009. Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete is available on GOG.com for only $19.99, and it often goes on sale for half that. That's quite the bargain for some of the highest quality RPGs out there with hundreds of hours of content even without mods.
In hindsight, this game seems too good to be true. This isn't entirely because of our lowered standards, which are
the result of industry standards lowering greatly since those times
. Neverwinter Nights 2 was the culmination of traditional video game RPGs. Everything was building up to it. It features nearly every playable race, class, skill, and feat offered by prior D&D RPGs, and then many more on top of that. The amount of content offered by it and its predecessor,
Neverwinter Nights
, was staggering at the time of their release, and even more staggering by today's standards. And that was just the base games, not even including the expansions which added more races, classes, prestige classes, feats/abilities, spells, and more. Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete features
12 races with 17 sub-races
over 300 spells
well over 300 feats
40 different weapon types
(not individual weapons but types like longsword, war axe, shortbow, etc.),
15 base classes
24 prestige classes
, and much more.
To put it in perspective, there is more variation, more ways to play Neverwinter Nights 2's Wizard class, than most modern RPGs have in total classes/playstyles! And Wizard is just one of 15 base classes. It sounds like an exaggeration, but it is not, especially when you consider the possible prestige classes that a Wizard can become.
Furthermore, Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete isn't just one game, it is a saga in itself. The base campaign is about 60 hours long, the first expansion 30-40 hours, second expansion 30-40 hours, and final expansion 20-25 hours. Custom campaigns created by modders exist as well, including unofficial remakes of legends like
Baldur's Gate
Icewind Dale
, as well as adaptations of various highly praised pen and paper D&D modules such as
The Temple of Elemental Evil
The Keep on the Borderlands
King's Festival
, and more.
A list of campaigns, both unofficial and official, taken from the main menu. Not shown: many, many others!
All of these factors, along with the quality of its campaigns and its amount of possible role-playing (only rivaled by one game in the 2010s, that being
Fallout: New Vegas
) give just cause to claim that Neverwinter Nights 2 was the last great fantasy RPG, although anyone claiming this must have extremely high RPG standards in order to discredit
Dragon Age: Origins
So in this article we're going to break down this gargantuan that is Neverwinter Nights 2,
including all of its expansions
. Yes, we're going to review all of them, something we wish we had the opportunity to do. Although for what it's worth, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate released about one month after GND-Tech was created. That was when we weren't yet reviewing video games, and we weren't even called GND-Tech yet!
Since we are essentially reviewing four games in one article, we are using a different layout this time around. Gameplay is first and foremost because Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansions obviously share the same basic gameplay. There are some exceptions in each, but those are discussed on the pages for each individual campaign.
At its core, Neverwinter Nights 2 is a tactical stat-based pause-and-play RPG built upon Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 which is its foundation. Most things like attacks in combat (chance to hit), damage given, damage taken, almost everything is determined by a dice roll which happens in the background. Combat is partially turn-based; not fully like the classic
games or
, but more on an individual basis. When characters are engaged in combat, turns are in play just like a tabletop RPG in which players take turn rolling dice. Here in Neverwinter Nights 2 the turn-based mechanic is much more seamless than a full fledge turn-based game, you have no controls over the turns and a turn only lasts mere seconds. It's like
Pillars of Eternity
and the
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
games but slightly slower, although it speeds up as you level up and gain more attacks per round.
Whereas other video game RPGs make up their own simplified stat/rule system, or take what they want from an existing one like D&D, Neverwinter Nights 2 is unique for taking the most from its pen and paper origins. It is like the developers just copied over D&D 3.5 into a video game, and omitted things that don't fit well into a video game (although they also admitted some skills that would've been a nice inclusion).
By having a stat for so many different things, Neverwinter Nights 2 simulates more aspects than other games, making it seem far more realistic and far more logical than other video games. That's the whole point of the original pen and paper Dungeons & Dragons after all; to role-play, to pretend to live a different life, so in order for it to believable it has to be realistic and account for many different things, hence the different attributes, saving throws, abundance of skills, and how they're all tied together. Role-playing games are meant to simulate an actual life to some degree, and both Neverwinter Nights games go farther than any other video game.
Neverwinter Nights 2 essentially integrates a D&D 3.5 handbook into the game. Every single aspect of character creation, every feat, every skill, every spell, every innate ability, every race, every subrace, and much more have complete, detailed descriptions. So, despite its complexity, ...
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The Degeneration of Gaming
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We talk about it often, but now we figured it was time to write an article dedicated to discussing and pointing out the degeneration of gaming. Today, the video game industry is one afraid of innovation, and one that looks to milk consumers like cows. Most modern mainstream games are barely even a shell of the pioneers.
How and why did this happen? The truth is, there were multiple causes that led to the degeneration of the gaming industry. Continue on to the next page to find out why.
In order to understand the video game industry, one needs to understand its origins and follow its timeline. Without getting into an in-depth history lesson, video games were initially created for distraction; to kill time and offer a brief reprieve from boredom. Many games still exist for this same purpose, like virtually every mobile game and many casual games (many sidescrollers and shooters), but they are a bit more complex today than
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Flashback Friday: Game of the Decade - 2000s
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Published on February 19th, 2016 07:00 AM Number of Views: 9060
Time for another Flashback Friday article! You don't want to miss this one. We are just past the half way point for this decade, the 2010s. This article takes from all of our Game of the Year articles, but instead of looking at the best games of one year, we're looking at the best games of the previous decade, the 2000s! More specifically, we're looking at all games from the years 2000-2009.
It was an interesting decade with a lot of experimentation and change, with many changes being for the worse primarily toward the end of the decade. Still, 2007 stands out as one of the best years in gaming history with many great releases.
The awards given out are mostly the same as the ones we use for Game of the Year, although some will be excluded since it's too hard to choose a single game for some of these awards. This includes an overall Game of the Decade award, as this is just too subjective and there are too many games belonging to too many different genres to choose from. Also, expansions and even mods that equate to a whole game (like
Natural Selection
mod or
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
expansion) are now eligible for awards. We're even including a few new awards! These new awards may even be included in future game of the year articles. But for now, go on to the next page to continue reading.
Special thanks to InfaRedd, aka Valkayria for the basic idea behind this article.
Best Sound Effects
Game Title
: BioShock
Release Date
: 2007 (2009 for Mac)
Developed By
: 2k Boston / 2k Australia
Published By
: 2k Games
: PC / Mac / PlayStation 3 / XBOX 360
This award was extremely closely contested.
(2007) takes home the gold. While
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
uses higher quality sound recordings/files for things like object collision, it is the advanced OpenAL sound processing and EAX 5.0 that puts BioShock ahead of perhaps every game. It is one of the absolute best demonstrations of hardware accelerated sound (3D object based sound) and EAX (along with
which came out at around the same time). The reason it wins the award over Penumbra is because Penumbra has no support for subwoofers, outside of integrated 2.1 PC speaker setups. On a 5.1/7.1 surround setup, Penumbra will not use the subwoofer while BioShock will.
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QPAD 8K Review
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Published on February 18th, 2016 06:00 AM
It's been over two years since we last reviewed a QPAD product, and more than 5 years since we reviewed their QPAD 5K as part of our
Gaming Mice Mega Test
where it took home the prize for being the most comfortable mouse! Now we're back with the QPAD 8K which continues with their iconic palm grip design. Available for
the 8K has a laser sensor which a maximum DPI of 8200 and 7 programmable buttons, of which 2 are to change ...
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Flashback Friday - Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
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Published on February 5th, 2016 09:00 AM Number of Views: 2352
Time for another Flashback Friday article. We created these types of articles in order to write about things we never got a chance to before, like our upcoming Game of the Decade article, or reviews of games that were released before GND-Tech was around. In this article we bring you a review of a hidden gem,
Sleep of Reason
. It is a psychological horror game developed by Action Forms, published by 1C Company, Aspyr, and others, and released exclusively for PC in 2009. It was also a nominee for Dark Horse of the Decade in our aforementioned Game of the Decade article, it won Best Sound Effects of the Decade, and it has earned an entry in our
ten best stories in video games article.
In our Flashback Friday reviews like this one, we score its graphics quality with regard to its time period in order to make it more fair. So keep this in mind! Continue to the next page for the review.
Art by Hell Site.
Once upon a time, Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason was actually well known. It was marketed heavily by NVIDIA for its use of NVIDIA's PhysX engine (originally AGEIA PhysX before NVIDIA acquired and expanded upon it). It was also promoted heavily by EVGA, a company ...
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Legislation to elect Baton Rouge City Court judges at-large zipped through the Louisiana House Thursday morning.
House Bill 1151 aims to create the potential for a structure of three black judges and two white judges as a federal court judge deliberates on a lawsuit over the current set-up. The current districts' demographics were geared toward electing three white judges and two black judges.
State Rep. Erich Ponti, R-Baton Rouge, spent little time explaining the bill. "This is a local bill, city of Baton Rouge only," he told his colleagues.
The House voted 87-0 in favor of sending the bill to the state Senate for debate.


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Yesterday Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas made the journey to Plug and Play headquarters in Sunnyvale to promote the country's innovative 'e-Resident' initiative. Set to launch this Monday, the program will leverage open-source public-key private-key encryption to allow non-resident non-citizens to obtain a digital identification card issued by Estonia's Government. Said identification cards will be based on the same technology behind the country's famed online voting system.
Located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union as recently as 1991. Despite having a population of only 1.3 million citizens, the country is a breeding ground for entrepreneurship. Estonian citizens are responsible for the development of Skype, and they have been using digital ID cards to power their hi-tech online voting system for the past few years.
During his visit, Prime Minister Rõivas stopped at Stanford, Google, and Plug and Play in addition to a few other noteworthy Silicon Valley locations to pitch the e-Resident program. He believes that the new card could help rapidly expedite the creation of an Estonian company or provide an easy way to digitally sign documents, which is as good as a hand-written signature under Estonian law. Rõivas has stated that the country hopes to sign up 10 million e-residents by the year 2025.
In an interview for Arstechnica.com, Prime Minister Rõivas described this feature:
"If you have a signature that is on your ID card, and you put it to your smart reader combined with your PIN, and this is legally binding, and this is equal to your handwritten signature, you can do anything with that. We have used this for 10 years now and we do believe that there are many things we can do."
Prime Minister Rõivas came to Plug and Play via our International Partners program. Plug and Play International establishes lasting partnerships with government agencies, private corporations, technology incubators, and universities from around the world to source, identify, and accelerate promising high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. Since 2009, Plug and Play has accelerated over 250 startups from over 20 countries through our Startup Acceleration Program.
To find out more about how you can partner with Plug & Play or to sponsor an acceleration program for startups from your country, please contact Jupe Tan or email us.
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MOM Brands began in 1919 when John Campbell won $900 in a poker game. He used his earnings to found the Campbell Cereal Company, later to become the Malt-O-Meal Company, and now MOM Brands, the third largest manufacturer of cereals in the United States. In May of 2015 they became part of Post Holdings, putting them under the umbrella of the largest consumer packaged food companies in the world.
Analyzing sales and performance metrics for such a large brand can be daunting. In 2014, MOM Brands performed over 15,000 individual store audits. They also looked at data by market and by store group. Making sense of this data falls to Ed Alencewicz, Director of Retail Experience.
MOM Brands found themselves drawn to Canvas because it is customizable and flexible, and it also allowed them to create their own smartphone apps for use in the field. Much of their data, however, was stored in other formats. Canvas recommended EnterBridge to assist in translating these differing reports into one useful language.
"We had all sorts of information, but it wasn't in a useful format for reporting. EnterBridge enabled us to use our existing Excel-based reporting to create something that was efficient and effective. The tools that they provided create complete transparency between the data and reporting, and more importantly, between leadership and sales. We all see the same things the same way. EnterBridge understood that the technology is only one aspect of our partnership. They understood the needs of our business and were able to dive deep into the nuances of our reporting," said Alencewicz.


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HIPAA Compliance: The objective behind
Sensitivity in maintaining individual health record of every person is too significant and this is what gets ensured under HIPAA security compliance, which aims at protecting an individual's information to be obtained, created, used and maintained electronically at a specific healthcare unit or hospital. As a result of this rule, the healthcare unit is responsible for taking every measure to keep this information confidential, secure, reliable and free from any electronic interference. But healthcare units usually find it tough to meet the expectations of this security rule & it requires a more technical approach in abiding by the directives of the security rule.
Healthcare unit's responsibility in ensuring HIPAA security compliance
Under HIPAA security compliance, each of the three aspects, namely administrative, technical and physical, has to be adhered to by implementation specifications. These specifications specify the modus operandi for meeting the three aspects. A healthcare unit or hospital has to either implement a security measure to achieve this objective, execute the given implementation specifications or, may not put into practice either one of the two. But as part of HIPAA compliance, the body has to document whichever choice it wants to implement and this document should additionally comprise of basis of the evaluation on which this decision has been arrived at. Outcome of all this can be visibly noticed in the form of a challenge for IT professionals working in health sector.
Shouldering HIPAA compliance responsibility with cloud computing vendor
No surprise, emergence of cloud computing looked like easing the scenario but with enough caution, given that an outside agency in the form of cloud providing associate is involved besides the healthcare unit. Because of this vendor-client partnering, the ultimate responsibility to abide by HIPAA compliance resting with the healthcare unit gets pooled with the vendor, since implementation gets carried out at the vendor end. Thus, there is much room for the sensitive information getting trickled at the remote location where cloud model has been setup. In this situation, the healthcare unit will have to adhere to all the security aspects and implementation specifications as discussed above, so as to satisfy the HIPAA security rule. In the process, the healthcare unit will have to extend its interference and control at the cloud computing associate's location in terms of integrity, encryption, data transfer & management, etc., which this body earlier left up to business associate due to contractual limitations or budget constraints.
Documentation of roles
Obviously, the healthcare unit has an opportunity this way to allot even responsibility to its cloud computing business associate and keep it under the scanner, as if HIPAA compliance is not just the healthcare unit's liability, but is as much an accountability of that vendor. The documented modus operandi of this body can well include the extent to which it has involved vendor and along with, ask the vendor to document its procedures and practices in following the technical requirements and the HIPAA compliance as a whole.
While cloud computing can be the technical answer for healthcare IT professionals to successfully satisfy HIPAA security compliance, the organisations in healthcare can well ensure strict adherence of HIPAA rules by shouldering equal responsibility with their cloud computing business associates.
About emPower eLearning
emPower is a leading provider of comprehensive Healthcare Compliance Solutions through Learning Management System (LMS). Its mission is to provide innovative security solutions to enable compliance with applicable laws and regulations and maximize business performance. empower provides range of courses to manage compliance required by regulatory bodies such as OSHA, HIPAA, Joint commission and Red Flag Rule etc. Apart from this emPower also offers custom demos and tutorials for your website, business process management and software implementation.
Its Learning Management system (LMS) allows students to retrieve all the courses 24/7/365 by accessing the portal. emPower e-learning training program is an interactive mode of learning that guides students to progress at their own pace.
For additional information, please visit http://www.empowerbpo.com/HIPAA_Compliance_Training.html.


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Fulcrum Global TechnologiesChicago Office | 1 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Fulcrum GT is looking for motivated individuals to participate in Fulcrum Labs' Summer Startup Camp. The program is for students, recent graduates, and young adults looking to gain experience in the ideation, planning, and execution of ambitious technology projects. Whether a designer, business person, or technologist you will work closely with a diverse set of peers to initiate and implement a project that is pitched to, critiqued and approved by Fulcrum's Senior Management team and other executive advisors.
- Identify a project opportunity through market research and opportunity sizing
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Fulcrum GT crafts modern enterprise software for professional service firms to better coordinate, perform, and innovate. Our entire team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time solutions. Founded in 2002, we began with strategic SAP implementations and project turnarounds. In 2007, we committed to the professional services industry to fully understand their processes and develop solutions catered to the problems and opportunities found within the operations. With all of our technologies backed by the largest software platform in the world, we have become the global practice management solution of choice for some of the largest firms in the world. Fulcrum GT's commitment to strategic, digital transformation and client success is unparalleled in the professional services industry.


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Deals Give Philly Law Firms Rocky Mountain HighJune 24, 2013 – In The News
Mark Silow and Rick Rubin were featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal article "Deals Give Philly Law Firms Rocky Mountain High." While the full text can be found in the June 24, 2013, issue of Philadelphia Business Journal, a synopsis is noted below.
Fox Rothschild acquired a 16 attorney team from Lottner Rubin Fishman Saul for the firm's growing Denver office. The team includes 10 partners, five associates and one counsel.
"It's a pretty vibrant economy out there," Mark Silow said. "It's one of the metro areas with the most growth post-recession."
Rick Rubin said joining the Fox team will give the attorneys from Lottner a "national footprint and breadth of experience" to "substantially expand the scope of services we offer to our clients."
"I think the coastal firms have sort of ignored the Rocky Mountain region over the last two decades," Silow said. "They probably saw it as a different economy. But Denver and Salt Lake are now booming places."


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Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they ...
- write too much or not enough
- do not capture the most important ideas
- copy word for word from the text
- do not understand the vocabulary "brief"
- do not know the difference between a retelling and a summary
A summary is a higher level response than a retelling ... in a retell, students retell as much as they can recall from the text but in a summary they have to synthesize the text and condense it so that they only highlight the key points using key words and phrases from the text. The Somebody-Wanted-But-So (SWBS) format is a great scaffold for guiding students to give a summary NOT a retell. In K-2 classrooms we can help our young readers learn how to summarize by using the SBWS strategy.
Since I am not "in the classroom" anymore ... I decided to check out what other teachers are doing to teach summarizing ...particularly with using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So strategy.
The key to success for young readers to grasp summarizing and the SWBS strategy is modeling how to use this strategy. Do this during whole group read aloud lessons and modeled, shared or interactive writing events.
Here is an example of how The First Grade Buddies built a chart over several days during read aloud time.
Here is another example of charting during read aloud time to teach the SBWS strategy from Life in First Grade.
Here is a chart that is ready made and can be used over and over from The Pinspired Teacher.
Here is a chart ready for whole group modeling... the teacher has it all planned out on the little sheet on top of the book and ready to fill it in with the students. She switched the position of the So and Then ... (this is ok if it fits with a particular book) and she added the word Summary at the bottom so that the students could learn the next layer ... writing their thoughts into complete sentences. I would take of the part that says "retell".
This pic was grabbed from Pinterest and there was not a link to the original creator.
Another key to success is making the strategy your own... it is ok to change it up to meet the needs of your students. Some teachers have added the T... "Then" to the framework. I have also seen where the B stood for because ... Somebody-Wanted-Because-So.
This pic was grabbed from Fabulous Fourth Grade
This pic was grabbed from The Brown Bag Teacher
The chart below is a great anchor chart however, I would take off the right hand corner that says to "retell" this is where some confusions may occur when teaching summarizing. Students need to know the difference between the two.
This pic was grabbed from Pinterest and there was not a link to the original creator.
Once we have taken the time to model how to use the strategy during our whole class lessons, we can support our readers by having them apply what they have learned with our support during guided reading and then on their own during work station/center time or independent reading time. Model-Support-Independent = gradual release of responsibility!!!
Here is a foldable activity from A Teacher's Treasure that students can use during centers ... this could be the model ... they can take the precut paper and label it themselves.
Here is a sheet that could be used in guided reading and later at the listening center from One Happy Teacher. Visit her blog and you can grab it free from her TpT store.
Here is a reading flap from Diary of a Not So Whimpy Teacher that can be used at the guided reading table or during independent reading.
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C What is your role at Time Warner?
MD Global Marketing works with Time Warner's biggest clients , and the way we reorganized the group was with ideas and creativity being central to what we do. My job is overseeing the quality of those ideas. We apply insight and what we believe are the world's best media assets against client's problems. People come to us with marketing challenges, or they come to us with great campaigns, and we invent things, we build things. We try to make cool things happen.
C How does your current role compare to agency life?
MD I think I work harder, because we're inventing what we're doing. I get to meet a lot of really smart clients. When you work at an agency, you're working with a dozen clients, say, whereas in this job, it's been fun to meet an awful lot of really smart clients that it would have taken a lifetime, working at a multitude of agencies, to meet.
C From your perspective, how is the business changing?
MD One of the great changes over the last six months is the number of agencies, particularly creative agencies, that are realizing that media is the new creative, for lack of a better cliche. Unless you're interested in how you're getting your messages out there, you're really only part of the value chain.
C How receptive are marketers now to creative media ideas?
MD Clients are desperately in need of creative thinking. Media fragmentation is the greatest thing that could ever happen to creativity. We're rapidly approaching a world where people have the ability to have advertising or not . The burden of doing horrible advertising used to be that you could just make people watch it. But increasingly good advertising is going to become a cost of entry to engaging people's emotions, and the market for doing work that transcends the ordinary is going to be in higher demand. You can't buy your way into people's hearts anymore.
C What does the future hold?
MD Media is going to become a lot more malleable to serve the story. Everyone's trying to tell their story, so the business is going to be dominated by master storytellers who cannot only use the power of film or photography or words, but also the way in which they connect that story to the people they need to connect it to. That's the future for creativity.


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Having successfully delivered facilities for Dorset Emergency Services, Gloucestershire Fire under PFI contracts the team are close to completing eleven new fire stations for Stoke and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Authority. We have also designed and delivered a number of traditionally procured facilities for Manchester, Lancashire and Bedfordshire and Luton Fire and Rescue Services. Calderpeel are currently working on the Derbyshire combined Police and Fire HQ in Ripley.
With a detailed understanding of operational, economic and facility requirements, which differs with each service, we bring years of experience to the process.
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You are Martin Lionsdale, newly wed and new recruit of the US Army. As the story and events unfold, you will come to know his emotions, his relationship with his wife, and the War itself. You will also come to know several other key members of the platoon. As you successfully carry out your missions, you will climb the ranks to become a Lieutenant and be responsible for a full platoon of infantry (up to 30 men) composed of specialist soldiers: (rifleman, sniper, scout, machine gunner, grenadier, engineer, commando...). check the new screens ...


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Diary February 25 1960: I Become a Substance Abuser
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Nothing much today. I had some Saccharin (artificial sugar) and gave a concentrated tablet to both Tina and David T. You should have seen their faces! Then I went to Gilda's with Kathy. We pinned a KISS ME QUICK sign on her back, and watched all the queer looks as she walked unknowing (and quite coquettishly) down the street and into the Drug Store! Then she got some Saccharin for me, and I was so grateful I took the sign off. A+ in my Math test, not much homework for the Vacation. Kathy made up a poem (about Fabian) which is surprisingly good, the words balance out, etc. I'm working on one about Paul. (I found my Social), Kathy doesn't want to go to college. She's getting ideas about Cousin Bob (I've never even seen him).


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Learn each hop, brush, spank, and dig in moves like the Buffalo, the Maxie Ford, the Waltz Clog and the Shirley Temple.
From a single step to the Cincinnati, American Tap Dance challenges you to keep up the rhythm as it demonstrates the steps and combinations of classic tap.
Features the following steps:
- Cramp Roll
- Flap Ball Change
- Buffalo
- Bombershay
- Shuffle Change
- Time Step
- Irish
- Maxi Ford
- Waltz Clog
- Shirley Temple
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Happy Victoria Day!
It's the first long weekend of the season, and whether sunshine or clouds, it's the official kickoff of summer!
Whether you're looking for active recreation or more leisurely activities, the Tri-City area offers some of the finest recreation and leisure facilities available anywhere in British Columbia. from Rocky Point to Lafarge Lake to the PoCo Trail, there really is something for the whole family.
Meanwhile, we are preparing for the summer market, knowing that for families it's important to have the kids in a new home in time for a new school year. In any season – or any market climate – we've got you covered!
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An endocrinologist is a doctor who specializes in hormones. These physicians do work specifically related to human hormones, especially in diagnosing diseases originating from the endocrine system.Continue Reading
The endocrine system is a complex part of the human body, and it encompasses many things related to growth. Metabolism, sexual development, reproduction and even movement are all related to the endocrine system. The way in which the endocrine system works is that hormones are created by various glands in the body. This makes the physician's job of diagnosing a disease incredibly difficult; they have to find out in what part of the endocrine system the disease originates, and how it is affecting the rest of the body.
An endocrinologist's job is to find the cause of any hormonal imbalances in a patient. After finding the cause, the physician finds the best way possible to treat it. There are several common diseases and conditions that endocrinologists deal with, such as diabetes, osteoporosis, menopause and even certain types of cancer.
In most situations, a patient does not immediately go to an endocrinologist. As with most specialists, a patient starts by seeing his own doctor who then refers the patient to an endocrinologist if he suspects something is wrong with the patient's endocrine system.Learn more about Biology


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In this growing age of tech where everything is digitized, PDF format files are the most shared and standardized way of sharing documents in the corporate and everyday life. They are secured and cannot be altered by just any text editor. On one side, it is an excellent way to share confidential documents, but unfortunately, this is also harming you in some situations. Suppose you need to change a PDF form and want to add a signature but sadly, you are not entitled to do so.
The renowned Adobe PDF Reader brings you with basic editing features but being a premium tool; everyone cannot afford it's monthly pricing. That's why Wondershare has come with a solution on how to edit pdf files.
Introduction to Wondershare PDFelement
Deployed from a leading Software Developer Wondershare, PDFelement is an "extra-smart" PDF Reader and Editor that can help you to do various editing stuff with all of your important documents with minimum efforts.
This tool is the best of all PDF Editing software available on the web. With premium features like PDF Creation, Format Conversion, Fully-Fledge Editing Wizard, OCR Functionality and much more, it is a worth buying tool from Wondershare. This professional tool is available for Windows, Mac & iOS devices. Though it is a paid software, Wondershare has provided a trial version for all the users to get a view of all the amazing features that this tool offers.
Download PDFelement for Windows | Download PDFelement for Mac
Wondershare regularly provides free updates for all of its premium tools. The latest changes of the Wondershare PDFelement for Windows & Mac.
Mac 5.6.0 –
Improved Resolution Performance for OCR Functionalities. Also scan selected pages with OCR now. Move objects with arrow keys and added new languages for OCR.
Windows 5.11.0 –
New UI with dynamic tool selection. Spelling Check features for English during editing. Fixed bugs for OCR scanning and downloading. Move objects with arrow keys and more info. Available on the official Wondershare website.
PDF Element has a very professional as well as a laid-back kind of Interface. Within few minutes, you'll be able to recognize the functionality of every tool provided as they are mentioned on the Task Bar for easy access.
Edit scanned documents and PDF files with PDFelement. Also, you can add images and signatures in between the PDF documents with ease. The software provides you with every feature that you need to modify and edit PDF files. The product is crafted for corporate and productive uses. You can use it to make your Ebooks, Documents, and much more.
With this software, you can create, convert PDF files, convert other file extensions into PDF, edit, compress PDF. Also, you can create passwords, add the signature to PDF, add images, watermarks, forms, split and merge pdf files as well. You can also add OCR functionality to this software.
One of the best features about Wondershare's PDFelement is the capability of the software is to scan all the optical character recognized PDF files and converted them to standard Word files in (*Docx, Doc) format and other processing formats like Excel, Text or just modify the PDFs only.
Pricing & Plans
So how much this costs?
Well for starters, the Standard version is available for $69.95 but lacks the OCR functionality. Moreover, the Professional Version is available is for $89.95 along with OCR. The company provides 24×7 premium support for all of its customers and free updates for all the purchased software. All in All, an affordable deal for personal uses.
You can also purchase the Multi PC versions for $ 188.95 that supports up to 5 PCs. You can get more details about the pricing and discounts on the official website of PDF Element.
- Convert to PDF from any document
- Convert any document to PDF
- Edit PDF like a word document
- Digitize the Text with OCR
- Protect your PDF documents with passwords and permissions
- Add watermarks to your documents
- Add pdf form and editing functionality
- Add annotations to PDF
- Merge or Split any PDF
Final Words
So this was my review on Wondershare PDFelement. It is without any doubt the all in one solution for all your PDF related stuff. You can create, edit, merge or split any .pdf file without any hassle. Add various elements like graphics, text, images into your documents.
The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality is like a cherry on top to the software. Use it to scan any PDF file and convert it into editable documents for further uses. All in All, a great choice of tool for both professional as well as for personal uses.
Be sure to comment your opinion below and do try the Trial Version as you can get it for free on the official Wondershare website.


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