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Interview BigML.com
Here is an interview with Charlie Parker, head of large scale online algorithms at http://bigml.com
Ajay- Describe your own personal background in scientific computing, and how you came to be involved with machine learning, cloud computing and BigML.com
Charlie- I am a machine learning Ph.D. from Oregon State University. Francisco Martin (our founder and CEO), Adam Ashenfelter (the lead developer on the tree algorithm), and myself were all studying machine learning at OSU around the same time. We all went our separate ways after that.
Francisco started Strands and turned it into a 100+ million dollar company building recommender systems. Adam worked for CleverSet, a probabilistic modeling company that was eventually sold to Cisco, I believe. I worked for several years in the research labs at Eastman Kodak on data mining, text analysis, and computer vision.
When Francisco left Strands to start BigML, he brought in Justin Donaldson who is a brilliant visualization guy from Indiana, and an ex-Googler named Jose Ortega who is responsible for most of our data infrastructure. They pulled in Adam and I a few months later. We also have Poul Petersen, a former Strands employee, who manages our herd of servers. He is a wizard and makes everyone else's life much easier.
Ajay- You use clojure for the back end of BigML.com .Are there any other languages and packages you are considering? What makes clojure such a good fit for cloud computing ?
Charlie- Clojure is a great language because it offers you all of the benefits of Java (extensive libraries, cross-platform compatibility, easy integration with things like Hadoop, etc.) but has the syntactical elegance of a functional language. This makes our code base small and easy to read as well as powerful.
We've had occasional issues with speed, but that just means writing the occasional function or library in Java. As we build towards processing data at the Terabyte level, we're hoping to create a framework that is language-agnostic to some extent. So if we have some great machine learning code in C, for example, we'll use Clojure to tie everything together, but the code that does the heavy lifting will still be in C. For the API and Web layers, we use Python and Django, and Justin is a huge fan of HaXe for our visualizations.
Ajay- Current support is for Decision Trees. When can we see SVM, K Means Clustering and Logit Regression?
Charlie- Right now we're focused on perfecting our infrastructure and giving you new ways to put data in the system, but expect to see more algorithms appearing in the next few months. We want to make sure they are as beautiful and easy to use as the trees are. Without giving too much away, the first new thing we will probably introduce is an ensemble method of some sort (such as Boosting or Bagging). Clustering is a little further away but we'll get there soon!
Ajay- How can we use the BigML.com API using R and Python.
Charlie- We have a public github repo for the language bindings. https://github.com/bigmlcom/io Right now, there there are only bash scripts but that should change very soon. The python bindings should be there in a matter of days, and the R bindings in probably a week or two. Clojure and Java bindings should follow shortly after that. We'll have a blog post about it each time we release a new language binding. http://blog.bigml.com/
Ajay- How can we predict large numbers of observations using a Model that has been built and pruned (model scoring)?
Charlie- We are in the process of refactoring our backend right now for better support for batch prediction and model evaluation. This is something that is probably only a few weeks away. Keep your eye on our blog for updates!
Ajay- How can we export models built in BigML.com for scoring data locally.
Charlie- This is as simple as a call to our API. https://bigml.com/developers/models The call gives you a JSON object representing the tree that is roughly equivalent to a PMML-style representation.
You can read about Charlie Parker at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charles-parker/11/85b/4b5 and the rest of the BigML team at
Interview: Hjálmar Gíslason, CEO of DataMarket.com
Here is an interview with Hjálmar Gíslason, CEO of Datamarket.com . DataMarket is an active marketplace for structured data and statistics. Through powerful search and visual data exploration, DataMarket connects data seekers with data providers.
HG- DataMarket is my fourth tech start-up since at age 20 in 1996. The previous ones have been in gaming, mobile and web search. I come from a technical background but have been moving more and more to the business side over the years. I can still prototype, but I hope there isn't a single line of my code in production!
Funny you should ask about the 10 things that have surprised me the most on this journey, as I gave a presentation – literally yesterday – titled: "9 things nobody told me about the start-up business"
They are:
* Do NOT generalize – especially not to begin with
* Prioritize – and find a work-flow that works for you
* Meet people – face to face
* You are a sales person – whether you like it or not
* Technology is not a product – it's the entire experience
* Sell the current version – no matter how amazing the next one is
* Learn from mistakes – preferably others'
* Pick the right people – good people is not enough
* Tell a good story – but don't make them up
I obviously elaborate on each of these points in the talk, but the points illustrate roughly some of the things I believe I've learned … so far ;)
Both Amazon and Google have entered the public datasets space. Infochimps has 14,000+ public datasets. The US has http://www.data.gov/
So clearly the space is both competitive and yet the demand for public data repositories is clearly under served still.
How does DataMarket intend to address this market in a unique way to differentiate itself from others.
HG- DataMarket is about delivering business data to decision makers. We help data seekers find the data they need for planning and informed decision making, and data publishers reaching this audience. DataMarket.com is the meeting point, where data seekers can come to find the best available data, and data publishers can make their data available whether for free or for a fee. We've populated the site with a wealth of data from public sources such as the UN, Eurostat, World Bank, IMF and others, but there is also premium data that is only available to those that subscribe to and pay for the access. For example we resell the entire data offering from the EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) (link: http://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=provider:eiu)
DataMarket.com allows all this data to be searched, visualized, compared and downloaded in a single place in a standard, unified manner.
We see many of these efforts not as competition, but as valuable potential sources of data for our offering, while others may be competing with parts of our proposition, such as easy access to the public data sets.
Ajay- What are your views on data confidentiality and access to data owned by Governments funded by tax payer money.
HG- My views are very simple: Any data that is gathered or created for taxpayers' money should be open and free of charge unless higher priorities such as privacy or national security indicate otherwise.
Reflecting that, any data that is originally open and free of charge is still open and free of charge on DataMarket.com, just easier to find and work with.
HG- The scene is quite vibrant, given the small community. Good teams with promising concepts have been able to get the funding they need to get started and test their footing internationally. When the rapid growth phase is reached outside funding may still be needed.
There are positive and negative things about any location. Among the good things about Iceland from the stand point of a technology start-up are highly skilled tech people and a relatively simple corporate environment. Among the bad things are a tiny local market, lack of skills in international sales and marketing and capital controls that were put in place after the crash of the Icelandic economy in 2008.
I've jokingly said that if a company is hot in the eyes of VCs it would get funding even if it was located in the jungles of Congo, while if they're only lukewarm towards you, they will be looking for any excuse not to invest. Location can certainly be one of them, and in that case being close to the investor communities – physically – can be very important.
We're opening up our sales and marketing offices in Boston as we speak. Not to be close to investors though, but to be close to our market and current customers.
Ajay- Describe your hobbies when you are not founding amazing tech startups.
HG- Most of my time is spent working – which happens to by my number one hobby.
It is still important to step away from it all every now and then to see things in perspective and come back with a clear mind.
I *love* traveling to exotic places. Me and my wife have done quite a lot of traveling in Africa and S-America: safari, scuba diving, skiing, enjoying nature. When at home I try to do some sports activities 3-4 times a week at least, and – recently – play with my now 8 month old son as much as I can.
Hjálmar Gíslason, Founder and CEO: Hjalmar is a successful entrepreneur, founder of three startups in the gaming, mobile and web sectors since 1996. Prior to launching DataMarket, Hjalmar worked on new media and business development for companies in the Skipti Group (owners of Iceland Telecom) after their acquisition of his search startup – Spurl. Hjalmar offers a mix of business, strategy and technical expertise. DataMarket is based largely on his vision of the need for a global exchange for structured data.
To know more, have a quick look at http://datamarket.com/
Interview JJ Allaire Founder, RStudio
Here is an interview with JJ Allaire, founder of RStudio. RStudio is the IDE that has overtaken other IDE within the R Community in terms of ease of usage. On the eve of their latest product launch, JJ talks to DecisionStats on RStudio and more.
Ajay- So what is new in the latest version of RStudio and how exactly is it useful for people?
JJ- The initial release of RStudio as well as the two follow-up releases we did last year were focused on the core elements of using R: editing and running code, getting help, and managing files, history, workspaces, plots, and packages. In the meantime users have also been asking for some bigger features that would improve the overall work-flow of doing analysis with R. In this release (v0.95) we focused on three of these features:
Projects. R developers tend to have several (and often dozens) of working contexts associated with different clients, analyses, data sets, etc. RStudio projects make it easy to keep these contexts well separated (with distinct R sessions, working directories, environments, command histories, and active source documents), switch quickly between project contexts, and even work with multiple projects at once (using multiple running versions of RStudio).
Version Control. The benefits of using version control for collaboration are well known, but we also believe that solo data analysis can achieve significant productivity gains by using version control (this discussion on Stack Overflow talks about why). In this release we introduced integrated support for the two most popular open-source version control systems: Git and Subversion. This includes changelist management, file diffing, and browsing of project history, all right from within RStudio.
Code Navigation. When you look at how programmers work a surprisingly large amount of time is spent simply navigating from one context to another. Modern programming environments for general purpose languages like C++ and Java solve this problem using various forms of code navigation, and in this release we've brought these capabilities to R. The two main features here are the ability to type the name of any file or function in your project and go immediately to it; and the ability to navigate to the definition of any function under your cursor (including the definition of functions within packages) using a keystroke (F2) or mouse gesture (Ctrl+Click).
Ajay- What's the product road map for RStudio? When can we expect the IDE to turn into a full fledged GUI?
JJ- Linus Torvalds has said that "Linux is evolution, not intelligent design." RStudio tries to operate on a similar principle—the world of statistical computing is too deep, diverse, and ever-changing for any one person or vendor to map out in advance what is most important. So, our internal process is to ship a new release every few months, listen to what people are doing with the product (and hope to do with it), and then start from scratch again making the improvements that are considered most important.
Right now some of the things which seem to be top of mind for users are improved support for authoring and reproducible research, various editor enhancements including code folding, and debugging tools.
What you'll see is us do in a given release is to work on a combination of frequently requested features, smaller improvements to usability and work-flow, bug fixes, and finally architectural changes required to support current or future feature requirements.
While we do try to base what we work on as closely as possible on direct user-feedback, we also adhere to some core principles concerning the overall philosophy and direction of the product. So for example the answer to the question about the IDE turning into a full-fledged GUI is: never. We believe that textual representations of computations provide fundamental advantages in transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, and re-usability. We believe that writing code is simply the right way to do complex technical work, so we'll always look for ways to make coding better, faster, and easier rather than try to eliminate coding altogether.
Ajay -Describe your journey in science from a high school student to your present work in R. I noticed you have been very successful in making software products that have been mostly proprietary products or sold to companies.
Why did you get into open source products with RStudio? What are your plans for monetizing RStudio further down the line?
JJ- In high school and college my principal areas of study were Political Science and Economics. I also had a very strong parallel interest in both computing and quantitative analysis. My first job out of college was as a financial analyst at a government agency. The tools I used in that job were SAS and Excel. I had a dim notion that there must be a better way to marry computation and data analysis than those tools, but of course no concept of what this would look like.
From there I went more in the direction of general purpose computing, starting a couple of companies where I worked principally on programming languages and authoring tools for the Web. These companies produced proprietary software, which at the time (between 1995 and 2005) was a workable model because it allowed us to build the revenue required to fund development and to promote and distribute the software to a wider audience.
By 2005 it was however becoming clear that proprietary software would ultimately be overtaken by open source software in nearly all domains. The cost of development had shrunken dramatically thanks to both the availability of high-quality open source languages and tools as well as the scale of global collaboration possible on open source projects. The cost of promoting and distributing software had also collapsed thanks to efficiency of both distribution and information diffusion on the Web.
When I heard about R and learned more about it, I become very excited and inspired by what the project had accomplished. A group of extremely talented and dedicated users had created the software they needed for their work and then shared the fruits of that work with everyone. R was a platform that everyone could rally around because it worked so well, was extensible in all the right ways, and most importantly was free (as in speech) so users could depend upon it as a long-term foundation for their work.
So I started RStudio with the aim of making useful contributions to the R community. We started with building an IDE because it seemed like a first-rate development environment for R that was both powerful and easy to use was an unmet need. Being aware that many other companies had built successful businesses around open-source software, we were also convinced that we could make RStudio available under a free and open-source license (the AGPLv3) while still creating a viable business. At this point RStudio is exclusively focused on creating the best IDE for R that we can. As the core product gets where it needs to be over the next couple of years we'll then also begin to sell other products and services related to R and RStudio.
JJ Allaire
JJ Allaire is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has created a wide variety of products including ColdFusion,Windows Live Writer, Lose It!, and RStudio.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Allaire
In 1995 Joseph J. (JJ) Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother Jeremy Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion.[1] In March 2001, Allaire was sold to Macromedia where ColdFusion was integrated into the Macromedia MX product line. Macromedia was subsequently acquired by Adobe Systems, which continues to develop and market ColdFusion.
After the sale of his company, Allaire became frustrated at the difficulty of keeping track of research he was doing using Google. To address this problem, he co-founded Onfolio in 2004 with Adam Berrey, former Allaire co-founder and VP of Marketing at Macromedia.
On March 8, 2006, Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft where many of the features of the original product are being incorporated into the Windows Live Toolbar. On August 13, 2006, Microsoft released the public beta of a new desktop blogging client called Windows Live Writer that was created by Allaire's team at Microsoft.
Starting in 2009, Allaire has been developing a web-based interface to the widely used R technical computing environment. A beta version of RStudio was publicly released on February 28, 2011.
JJ Allaire received his B.A. from Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) in 1991.
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R which works with the standard version of R available from CRAN. Like R, RStudio is available under a free software license. RStudio is designed to be as straightforward and intuitive as possible to provide a friendly environment for new and experienced R users alike. RStudio is also a company, and they plan to sell services (support, training, consulting, hosting) related to the open-source software they distribute.
Interview Markus Schmidberger ,Cloudnumbers.com
Here is an interview with Markus Schmidberger, Senior Community Manager for cloudnumbers.com. Cloudnumbers.com is the exciting new cloud startup for scientific computing. It basically enables transition to a R and other platforms in the cloud and makes it very easy and secure from the traditional desktop/server model of operation.
Ajay- Describe the startup story for setting up Cloudnumbers.com
Markus- In 2010 the company founders Erik Muttersbach (TU München), Markus Fensterer (TU München) and Moritz v. Petersdorff-Campen (WHU Vallendar) started with the development of the cloud computing environment. (more…)
Interview Dan Steinberg Founder Salford Systems
Here is an interview with Dan Steinberg, Founder and President of Salford Systems (http://www.salford-systems.com/ )
Ajay- Describe your journey from academia to technology entrepreneurship. What are the key milestones or turning points that you remember.
Dan- When I was in graduate school studying econometrics at Harvard, a number of distinguished professors at Harvard (and MIT) were actively involved in substantial real world activities. Professors that I interacted with, or studied with, or whose software I used became involved in the creation of such companies as Sun Microsystems, Data Resources, Inc. or were heavily involved in business consulting through their own companies or other influential consultants. Some not involved in private sector consulting took on substantial roles in government such as membership on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. The atmosphere was one that encouraged free movement between academia and the private sector so the idea of forming a consulting and software company was quite natural and did not seem in any way inconsistent with being devoted to the advancement of science.
Ajay- What are the latest products by Salford Systems? Any future product plans or modification to work on Big Data analytics, mobile computing and cloud computing.
Dan- Our central set of data mining technologies are CART, MARS, TreeNet, RandomForests, and PRIM, and we have always maintained feature rich logistic regression and linear regression modules. In our latest release scheduled for January 2012 we will be including a new data mining approach to linear and logistic regression allowing for the rapid processing of massive numbers of predictors (e.g., one million columns), with powerful predictor selection and coefficient shrinkage. The new methods allow not only classic techniques such as ridge and lasso regression, but also sub-lasso model sizes. Clear tradeoff diagrams between model complexity (number of predictors) and predictive accuracy allow the modeler to select an ideal balance suitable for their requirements.
The new version of our data mining suite, Salford Predictive Modeler (SPM), also includes two important extensions to the boosted tree technology at the heart of TreeNet. The first, Importance Sampled learning Ensembles (ISLE), is used for the compression of TreeNet tree ensembles. Starting with, say, a 1,000 tree ensemble, the ISLE compression might well reduce this down to 200 reweighted trees. Such compression will be valuable when models need to be executed in real time. The compression rate is always under the modeler's control, meaning that if a deployed model may only contain, say, 30 trees, then the compression will deliver an optimal 30-tree weighted ensemble. Needless to say, compression of tree ensembles should be expected to be lossy and how much accuracy is lost when extreme compression is desired will vary from case to case. Prior to ISLE, practitioners have simply truncated the ensemble to the maximum allowable size. The new methodology will substantially outperform truncation.
The second major advance is RULEFIT, a rule extraction engine that starts with a TreeNet model and decomposes it into the most interesting and predictive rules. RULEFIT is also a tree ensemble post-processor and offers the possibility of improving on the original TreeNet predictive performance. One can think of the rule extraction as an alternative way to explain and interpret an otherwise complex multi-tree model. The rules extracted are similar conceptually to the terminal nodes of a CART tree but the various rules will not refer to mutually exclusive regions of the data.
Ajay- You have led teams that have won multiple data mining competitions. What are some of your favorite techniques or approaches to a data mining problem.
Dan- We only enter competitions involving problems for which our technology is suitable, generally, classification and regression. In these areas, we are partial to TreeNet because it is such a capable and robust learning machine. However, we always find great value in analyzing many aspects of a data set with CART, especially when we require a compact and easy to understand story about the data. CART is exceptionally well suited to the discovery of errors in data, often revealing errors created by the competition organizers themselves. More than once, our reports of data problems have been responsible for the competition organizer's decision to issue a corrected version of the data and we have been the only group to discover the problem.
In general, tackling a data mining competition is no different than tackling any analytical challenge. You must start with a solid conceptual grasp of the problem and the actual objectives, and the nature and limitations of the data. Following that comes feature extraction, the selection of a modeling strategy (or strategies), and then extensive experimentation to learn what works best.
Ajay- I know you have created your own software. But are there other software that you use or liked to use?
Dan- For analytics we frequently test open source software to make sure that our tools will in fact deliver the superior performance we advertise. In general, if a problem clearly requires technology other than that offered by Salford, we advise clients to seek other consultants expert in that other technology.
Ajay- Your software is installed at 3500 sites including 400 universities as per http://www.salford-systems.com/company/aboutus/index.html What is the key to managing and keeping so many customers happy?
Dan- First, we have taken great pains to make our software reliable and we make every effort to avoid problems related to bugs. Our testing procedures are extensive and we have experts dedicated to stress-testing software . Second, our interface is designed to be natural, intuitive, and easy to use, so the challenges to the new user are minimized. Also, clear documentation, help files, and training videos round out how we allow the user to look after themselves. Should a client need to contact us we try to achieve 24-hour turn around on tech support issues and monitor all tech support activity to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and helpfulness of our responses. WebEx/GotoMeeting and other internet based contact permit real time interaction.
Ajay- What do you do to relax and unwind?
Dan- I am in the gym almost every day combining weight and cardio training. No matter how tired I am before the workout I always come out energized so locating a good gym during my extensive travels is a must. I am also actively learning Portuguese so I look to watch a Brazilian TV show or Portuguese dubbed movie when I have time; I almost never watch any form of video unless it is available in Portuguese.
Dan Steinberg, President and Founder of Salford Systems, is a well-respected member of the statistics and econometrics communities. In 1992, he developed the first PC-based implementation of the original CART procedure, working in concert with Leo Breiman, Richard Olshen, Charles Stone and Jerome Friedman. In addition, he has provided consulting services on a number of biomedical and market research projects, which have sparked further innovations in the CART program and methodology.
Dr. Steinberg received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and has given full day presentations on data mining for the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association and the American Statistical Association. After earning a PhD in Econometrics at Harvard Steinberg began his professional career as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, and then as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. A book he co-authored on Classification and Regression Trees was awarded the 1999 Nikkei Quality Control Literature Prize in Japan for excellence in statistical literature promoting the improvement of industrial quality control and management.
His consulting experience at Salford Systems has included complex modeling projects for major banks worldwide, including Citibank, Chase, American Express, Credit Suisse, and has included projects in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Korea, Japan and Brazil. Steinberg led the teams that won first place awards in the KDDCup 2000, and the 2002 Duke/TeraData Churn modeling competition, and the teams that won awards in the PAKDD competitions of 2006 and 2007. He has published papers in economics, econometrics, computer science journals, and contributes actively to the ongoing research and development at Salford.
Interview Scott Gidley CTO and Founder, DataFlux
Here is an interview with Scott Gidley, CTO and co-founder of leading data quality ccompany DataFlux . DataFlux is a part of SAS Institute and in 2011 acquired Baseline Consulting besides launching the latest version of their Master Data Management product. (more…)


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More Than Making a Difference: EdNews is Evolving
Wednesday, March 5
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Edutopia - Sr Editor & Head of Community
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PBS Newshour - Managing Editor
With the onslaught of social media- the ability to curate news is more powerful than ever. Educators and consumers are looking to craft their own story about education. So- how are newer education media outlets reacting to this need and trend? Do MSM outlets perpetuate the myth of the "angry teacher?" How does traditional EdNews hold a candle to the bits and bytes of an oversaturated media audience? Join some of the leaders in education media, as we dig into education's evolving media story.
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Against the big, bad Blues, no Blackhawks player was bigger or badder than winger Bryan Bickell.
Bickell delivered a league-leading 35 hits in the Hawks' six-game victory against the Blues, an average of nearly six a game — triple the rate at which he doled out hits during the regular season.
''If I played like this all through the regular season, I would be in the ice tub probably 24 hours,'' Bickell said. ''It's tough hockey, and I want to play it most of the time in the regular season, but it's hard. But playoffs is playoffs, and you do whatever it takes.''
Bickell earned a four-year,
$16 million contract with his breakout playoff performance last spring, in which he had nine goals and eight assists and delivered
85 hits in 23 games. His 2013-14
regular season was a major disappointment, with only 11 goals and four assists in 59 games. But with two goals and an assist in the series against the Blues, as well as all those bone-crushing hits, Bickell is re-establishing himself as a big-time playoff performer.
''It's the playoffs,'' Bickell said. ''Everybody starts at zero; anything can happen. If you have a good playoffs, you can wash away the regular season.''
Coach Joel Quenneville
would like to see this version of Bickell year-round, but better late than never.
''I think every team in the league would love to have that power forward that brings that element to their game,'' Quenneville said. ''Those players are hard to find. So we're happy to have him now, but certainly we'd love that consistency. And I think that's where we're working to get as we go along.''
Trophy talk
As expected, Duncan Keith was named one of three finalists for the Norris Trophy, which is awarded to the NHL's top defenseman. Keith, the 2010 winner, is up against the Bruins' Zdeno Chara and the Predators' Shea Weber.
Keith had six goals and 55 assists (tops among NHL defensemen) in 79 games this season. The winner will be announced at the NHL Awards Show on June 24 in Las Vegas.
''I wouldn't be nominated without having great teammates and a great defense partner in Brent Seabrook,'' Keith said in a statement. ''It's a special feeling to be up for this award.''
Voting by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association was conducted at the end of the regular season, but Keith is coming off what Quenneville called perhaps his best game Sunday in Game 6 against the Blues. Keith had a goal and three assists and twice made difficult saves at the point that led directly to goals.
Net gains
Corey Crawford was hard on himself — as was Quenneville — after he gave up two late goals in losses in Games 1 and 2 against the Blues. He responded with a shutout in Game 3 and was outstanding in Game 6, making
35 saves, including 17 in the second period.
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A shot of Bridgnorth, in Shropshire.......showing some features of both 'Hightown', & 'Lowtown', as they are known........
Immeadiately below the lower bushes runs the River Severn, with the houses built on the steep sides of the valley, connected by steep steps
& narrow side-streets......a fascinating old market town, with lots of 'character', & great to explore....................
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Who, or what, lives in the Middle Ground (green) between the High & Low Towns, Keith?
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Great place, and a great shot of it. Ann
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Not quite as exciting as the other two from here. The houses are interesting, I can imagine getting to bed at the top and wondering if I locked the front door. I have a friend stays in Shropshire and she has a town house, she never goes up or down without thinking, should I be taking something with me. I guess you would unless fanatical about keep fit.
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lovely layered houses. I remember the town well, the fortress ruins are quite impressive
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Wonderful capture Keith, of this very impressive view.
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Beautiful little town, like the combination of white walls, green treetops and the red bricks.
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Interesting how the church and tower to the left dominate from their lofty viewpoint. Quite an architectural contrast to the 'mere mortals' below.
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never been to Shropshire, I like the two tiered effect here and all the greenery separating the tiers
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Hi Jack (strokebloke)....The valley sides are 'terraced', so the houses are built on the flat 'stepped' bit, with either very small back gardens, or the house
backs against the vertical bit with no backgarden !.....so the greenery you see in the pic. is either shrubbery in the gardens, or creepers such as ivy
growing up or over the vertical sandstone 'cliffs' between the terraces !!.......the views from the top show how steep & crowded these valley-sides
really are !!........at least on this side of the river.....the opposite side (where I was stood) is much more level & open !!...............
Hope that explains your thoughts ?....regards....Keith.
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Thanks Keith.
Next time I'm NW, with a little time to spare, I'll go and look at Bridgenorth
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I really like the layers of Buildings and time here Keith, great stuff.
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Love it !
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The assistant director for Joshua Liner Gallery, Tim Strazza, was recently diagnosed with MS. A group of artists have come together and donated work to be auctioned off to help cover his medical costs. Tonight, July 28th from 7-10 pm at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC, head over and donate and get some great pieces for a great cause.
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Ron English x Absolut Vodka Limited BottleJuxtapoz // Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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HOUSTON, May 6 -- The Gulf of Mexico oil service sector is experiencing the signs of an upturn, analysts with Simmons & Co. International, UBS Warburg LLC, and RBC Dain Rauscher Inc. all noted in recent reports.
"It is reasonable to expect that the premium Gulf of Mexico jack up rigs [capable of drilling in water depths greater than 250 ft] are on the verge of meaningful day rate increases. This, in turn, should provide a catalyst to eventually pull up day rates of the lower-end GOM jack ups," the Houston-based investment banking house Simmons & Co. said.
Kurt Hallead, an Austin analyst with RBC Dain Rauscher, agreed that Gulf of Mexico rig utilization and day rate pricing are rising because of higher natural gas prices, improved drilling economics, and increased exploration and production spending.
"For 2002, we foresee 350 ft jack ups rising by 9% to $36,000/day from $33,000/day, 300 ft up by 12.5% to $27,000 from $24,000, and 250 ft increasing by 16% to $22,000 from $19,000," Hallead said of Gulf of Mexico jack up day rates.
"For 2003, we foresee 350 ft jack ups rising by 15% to $45,000/day from $39,000/day, 300 ft up by 23% to $38,000 from $31,000, and 250 ft increasing by 8% to $27,000 from $25,000, Hallead said of a recently revised RBC Dain Rauscher forecast.
UBS Warburg analyst James Stone of New York said his firm's third edition of its monthly Patchwork Survey "indicates an upturn is around the corner. North American operators are finally responding to commodity price signals and preparing to increase spending and activity levels."
The survey compiles responses from oil and gas operating personnel, who are polled monthly as to their expectations of price and activity level (OGJ, Apr. 15, 2002, p. 7).
Signs of improvement
Jack up rig utilization bottomed in mid-December and has been steadily rising as a result of greater drilling activity and the migration of rigs out of the Gulf of Mexico to other markets, Simmons said.
The number of contracted jack ups has increased from 76 for the week ended Dec. 14, 2001, to 94 for the week ended Apr. 12.
Total rig utilization has been flat year-to-date, with jack up activity increasing while floater activity decreased. Overall Gulf of Mexico rig utilization has been at 59-62% since late last year.
Meanwhile, overall Gulf of Mexico jack up utilization "has masked the significant activity of the premium-end jack ups," Simmons & Co. said. Jack up utilization rose from 51% for the week ended Dec. 14 to 65% for the week ended Apr. 12.
This included a sharp increase in the utilization of premium jack ups, which comprise 35% of the total Gulf of Mexico jack up market.
Growing demand for deep natural gas drilling is driving drilling activity in the Gulf of Mexico, Simmons said. Jack ups that can drill in 350 ft of water have experienced the most substantial revival so far, the firm's analysts said.
Current utilization of the premium jack up fleet is 94%. "Historically, this is a utilization level that supports day rate increases," they said, noting recent contracts in which premium jack ups brought day rates of up to $5,000 higher than previous contracts.
Lower-end jack up day rates
"The near-term day rate direction for the lower-end jack up rigs is less certain," Simmons & Co. said. "Current utilization is well short of the 85-90% mark associated with improved pricing power."
Consolidation within the industry sector also is likely to have an impact. Transocean Sedco Forex Inc. and Pride International Inc., both of Houston, own a combined 52% of the lower-end jack ups and hold 75% of the current idled jack up capacity, Simmons noted.
The fundamentals of the oil service cycle are experiencing subtle changes, Simmons concluded. "However, the turn and the ride up will likely not be a smooth one, as pockets of activity softness can occur from time to time?We remain optimistic on the industry up-cycle that lies ahead," the firm's analysts said.
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The May 3 PatchWork Survey showed survey respondents' budgets are based on an average oil price of $20.65/bbl and an average natural gas price of $2.70/Mcf. In response to commodity price signals, operators are preparing to increase exploration and production spending.
"Only 4% of North American operators plan to reduce spending in the next 60 days, while 53% plan no change, and 43% plan an increase," Stone said.
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Pitt: Athletic director Steve Pederson has been relieved of his duties at Pittsburgh. Read more here.
West Virginia: Athletics director Oliver Luck is leaving the school to take a position with the NCAA, according to Mike Casazza of the Charleston Daily Mail. Read more here.
Abilene Christian: Three administrators have been promoted within the athletic department. Cory Driskill has been promoted from associate director of athletics for operations to senior associate director of athletics, director of broadcast and sales Grant Boone has been elevated to assistant director of athletics for external operations, and Ray Garvin is moving from director of compliance to assistant director of athletics for compliance.
DePaul: Kathryn Statz has been promoted to senior associate AD. Statz is in her 13th year with the DePaul athletic department, and has overseen varsity sports, compliance, and contractual matters within the athletic department.
Tuesday December 16, 2014
Arizona State: ASU has announced that they are switching from Nike to Adidas and the deal is reportedly worth $33.8 million over the next eight years.
Drexel: Title IX coordinator and senior women's administrator Laura White has been promoted to senior associate AD, and Bryan Ford, who had been serving as the interim director of recreation, has been promoted to the full-time post.
Monday December 15, 2014
Florida A&M: Kellen Winslow has resigned from the AD position. Nelson Townsend has been named interim athletic director in his place.
Thursday December 11, 2014
St. Bonaventure: Dr. Ron Zwierlein has been named interim athletic director at St. Bonaventure. Zwierlein originally retired back in 2007 and will officially start is second tour as AD on December 29.
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Ah, yet another weather app. There are so many, but Weather Neue is free, and rather than having a thousand features, maps, and animations, it does what it is does in a very clean, minimalistic way.
When you start the app, it grabs your location. Then it spins up your current conditions and a four-day forecast. That's it. No radar, choice of multiple cities, cloud maps, front depictions, or fancy background graphics. You get your temperature, sky conditions, humidity, wind speed and direction, plus the prediciton.
It uses an attractive Helvetica font, and the only settings are metric or US, and a choice of 4 background colors.
After using the app for a few days I've grown to like it. It's to the point and gives me what I need in a quick glance. I have other apps that will warn me of imminent storms, flooding and other weather woes, but Weather Neue does the basic job in elegant style.
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The Department for Education (DfE) has released a new Governors' Handbook for September 2014. This is the fourth edition of the Handbook that was first published last year. Annex A (page 117) summarises the changes since the previous edition.
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I've written a lot about how fostering a high-trust work environment can create more joy on the job—and, in turn, help boost a company's financial health through higher levels of productivity and innovation.
But can a more trusting workplace also help improve the health of individual employees?
A neuroscience study that I recently conducted at a large midwestern manufacturing company shows that the answer is yes.
To understand how a culture of trust affects work and health, my team and I designed work-relevant tasks for employees to do and put sensors on participants' torsos and hands to measure their cardiac activity, vagal tone (a measure of relaxation), and stress responses. We took blood samples, as well.


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Wizards hand Cavaliers 3rd straight loss, 91-78
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Thomas, Days lift Georgia Tech past Virginia 35-10
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The dreams of the Maryland baseball team came to a crushing end on Monday night in Charlottesville, as UVA beat the Terps 11-2.
Virginia beats Maryland 7-3 to tie NCAA super regional
Kenny Towns had three hits, Artie Lewicki pitched 3 1/3 innings of solid relief and Virginia beat Maryland 7-3 Sunday to force a deciding game 3 of the NCAA Charlottesville super regional. Game 3 is Monday.
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It's the first-ever appearance for Maryland.
No. 6 Virginia holds off Pittsburgh 51-48 in ACCs
Anthony Gill hit two free throws with 8.5 seconds left to help Virginia hold off Pittsburgh 51-48 in Saturday's semifinals, sending the Cavaliers to their first championship game in 20 years.
Maryland stuns No. 5 Virginia 75-69 in OT in ACC finale
Maryland closed out its 61st and final Atlantic Coast Conference regular season in stunning fashion, outlasting No. 5 Virginia 75-69 in overtime Sunday to end the Cavaliers' 13-game winning streak.
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Bradley Beal scored 26 points and Nene added 24, leading the Wizards to a 98-91 win on Wednesday night as Cleveland's comeback from a 27-point deficit fell short.
Irving's 41 lead Cavs to 103-96 OT win vs Wizards
Kyrie Irving scored nine of his 41 points in overtime to help the Cleveland Cavaliers snap a three-game skid with a 103-96 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.
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Kevin Parks ran 13 yards for a touchdown with 2:36 to play Saturday night and Virginia beat BYU 19-16 in a wild, rain-drenched season-opener that had a 2-hour weather delay.
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Virginia's stingy defense wasn't up to form - and it didn't matter. Joe Harris scored 22 points, and the Cavaliers showed their flexibility with an uncharacteristic lights-out shooting performance in an 80-69 victory over Maryland on Sunday.
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Vietnam Airlines Renews Contract With Unisys For Customer Loyalty Solution Supporting Golden Lotus Plus Frequent Flyer Program
BLUE BELL, Pa., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) announced today that it has been awarded a contract with Vietnam Airlines to upgrade to the latest version of the Unisys Customer Loyalty Solution (CLS). The upgrade will provide a range of enhanced customer services to support the airline's rapidly growing Golden Lotus Plus frequent flyer program.
Under the contract, Unisys will upgrade the Customer Loyalty Solution from version 4.1 to version 4.3 and provide support for three years. The renewal builds on a 12-year relationship between Unisys and Vietnam Airlines.
Vietnam Airlines is Vietnam's flagship airline with routes spanning 20 cities throughout the nation and 26 international destinations in the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. The airline is part of SkyTeam, the world's second largest global airline alliance.
Unisys has provided Vietnam Airlines with its customer loyalty solution since the airline launched its Golden Lotus Plus frequent flyer program in 1999. In the program's first year, 5,000 travellers became Golden Lotus Plus members. Today there are more than 500,000 Golden Lotus Plus members with membership continuing to grow."Unisys continues to provide us with a strong and unique mix of industry experience and technical expertise," said Mr. Trinh Ngoc Thanh, Senior Vice President, Vietnam Airlines. "With version 4.3 of the Unisys Customer Loyalty Solution, we can offer our frequent flyers new services and conveniences to enhance their travel experience, such as being able to redeem their miles online for award flights." Unisys CLS 4.3 offers a number of enhancements reflecting the evolution of airline loyalty programs including the addition of non-airline merchant partners such as hotels, car hire and financial services. "Using CLS 4.3 we aim to engage a new breed of program partners, features and innovations that we believe will broaden the appeal of the Golden Lotus Plus program to our growing membership base," said Mr. Trinh Ngoc Thanh. Sue Carter, vice president and general manager, Technology Consulting Integration Services, Unisys Asia Pacific, said that technology plays an increasingly key role in linking airline operational performance to the customer experience. "In Asia Pacific's competitive aviation industry, airlines recognize that providing a personalized customer experience is an essential part of building customer loyalty," said Ms. Carter. "Unisys CLS 4.3 provides Vietnam Airlines with the tools to manage their loyalty program and to target selected services to the growing number of high value passengers."
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IKEA plans to incorporate geothermal technology into the heating and cooling system of its future Kansas City-area store under construction in Merriam, Kan.
Related drilling and underground work should be complete by winter, with the system ultimately operational when IKEA Merriam opens Fall 2014 as the second US IKEA store tapping geothermal. The Denver-area IKEA Centennial opened with geothermal in 2011.
This closed-loop ground source heat pump system involves drilling 180 boreholes – six inches in diameter and 600 feet deep – into the earth across part of the 19-acre IKEA parcel. Pipes placed into these boreholes will form an underground network of loops for circulating 36,000 gallons of heat-transferring liquid (a water-based, anti-freeze solution) connected to 64 forced-air heat pumps to cool and heat the store. This system also includes five hot-water heat pumps to provide potable hot water needed for the store's lavatory and restaurant operations.
Consistent with the company's goal of being energy independent by 2020, IKEA globally has installed more than 300,000 solar panels, owns/operates about 137 wind turbines in Europe, and has geothermal systems at about 50 locations.
For the development, design and installation of the Merriam store's geothermal project, IKEA contracted with Colorado-based Major Geothermal, an integrator of geothermal heat pump system design and installation.
IKEA US is also installing electric vehicle charging stations at 17 locations and has solar arrays atop 90 percent of its locations; the Merriam store also is being evaluated for solar potential.
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There are few wine regions of the world with as much influence or fame as that of Champagne in France. The sparkling wines from this special area have long been associated with excellence and magnificent flavors, and much of their success has been down to the careful blending of fine grape varietals in order to achieve spectacular results. Most commonly, Champagne wines use both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir varietal grapes in more or less equal measures, often boosted by a small quantity of Pinot Meunier for extra bite. The Chardonnay varietal grapes offer their acidity and flavor to the bottle, and help with the dryness associated with quality in this type of wine. The Pinot Noir, on the other hand, gives strength to the wine, and gives Champagne its distinctive 'length' of character.
As one of the most important wine regions in Spain, and indeed in Europe, Catalunya has been producing fine wines for an astonishing length of time. Indeed, there is much archaeological evidence to suggest that grapevines were being cultivated in ancient Catalan vineyards in pre-Roman times, and possibly even before the Pheonician traders first set out to plant vines in many western European countries. Whilst Catalunya is possibly best known for its famous sparkling Cava wines, the two hundred or so wineries in the region actually produce a wide range of red and white still wines, made from plenty of different imported and native grape varietals. As such, Catalunya is a fascinating region for any wine lover, with plenty of enticing, quintessentially Spanish flavors and aromas to discover.
For over two thousand years, Spain has been responsible for much of Europe's wine production, making the very best of native grape varietals, and more recently experimenting with and perfecting wines made from imported grapes. Of course, the region of La Rioja is renowned world-wide for the quality and characteristics of its wines, which benefit greatly from the warm, dry continental climate of the area, and the fertile soils of the Ebro river basin. However, there is far more to Spanish produce than the complex, aromatic and earthy red wine of this region, as a result of the vast range of wine making traditions and practices, and terrains and climatic conditions found across the country. The region Castilla y Leon produces some of Europe's finest white wines, and the sparkling wines of Cava and the sherries of Jerez are firm favorites for wine lovers around the world.


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