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Posted by meronpan on February 14, 2009
So WonHobby wasn't quite what I expected, but despite the painful 2 hour (3 hours?) wait… it was worth it to see…
Fate-chan! Oh GAWD she is beautiful. Really amazing to see in person.
Unfortunately I don't have my usual image editing tools here so this bare with me until I get home for better coverage…
The hair! They did such a lovely job with the hair! And it was a pleasure to see the Riot Zamber.
Yoko was also on display…
I must admit I was having some sliiiight doubts when I saw pics of her earlier… but having seen her in person, she's firmly in the must buy bin.
Narika was also on display, and though I have Kotobukiya's version… I think I'm going to have to give in and get Alter's version too ^^;;
Again, forgive the rush job, but here's my pics from the Nendoroid wall… was quite a site to see every single Nendoroid on display.
I believe wcloudxkumo has a bit more in depth coverage of the Nendoroids, so head over there for more nendoroid love.
Ahhhh so many more photos I'd love to post but I gotta go out for dinner ^^;
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February 14, 2009 at 7:23 am
I've been thinking, judging by people's coverages, most hobby fest in Japan aren't about sale but showing off new products and kept us drooling over new / future products. It's kinda annoying to me…
While in my country, all figure events are all about sale and digging for treasure. Do they really sell some nice old rare figures with nice price in the festival?
February 14, 2009 at 9:52 am
Wow you get to go to WonHobby and get on the Internet to show us the photos!
I've read about Fate on someone else's blog (Toys Workz):
… And I kinda wish I haven't read about it, because I seriously do not know how to face it (want to buy but it will seriously rip me a new one in terms of money and SPACE). Argh I really don't know what to do! T_T 囧
And given her huge size, I really have no clue how people can store Fate in a Detolf. The hair and the sword(s) going in different directions surely kill the space, and think about the box size too! o_o
February 14, 2009 at 2:57 pm
So many nendos!!
The Nendoroid invasion! Lol.
February 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Fate is definitely a must get. I hope she's high enough that I can put a few of my 1:8 figures under her hair. That way it would be easier to find a place to display her. :D
February 15, 2009 at 3:43 am
nice nice ^^ you just got there and already scouting hehe ^^
Thx for shots.
nendos invasion is crazy! i mean doh! saw some new ones and here are those i will proly get:
Saber Lily
Zange-chan (kawaiiiiii!)
Prism Arc
Kara No Kyoukai Nendo
Narika from Alter looks great. Only the pantsu are 2 exposed lol -_- oh well I guees I will have to find some special angle to display her ^^; My hopes on Alter now that they release 3rd Beat Blade Subaru >< I want her :3
And there is more ^^;
Well hope you enjoy it there and possibly get us some more shots ^^
February 15, 2009 at 11:16 am
awesome you actually got to see them in person! nice pictures, I'm really anticipating a lot of figures this year, I'm not sure the bank account can handle it all
February 16, 2009 at 12:53 am
Wah! The Great Wall of Nendoroids! Gotta catch'em all! I shall be looking forward to your full Akiba travelogue, *can't wait!!!*
February 24, 2009 at 11:11 pm
[…] it all over again soon (dc, gsc)! In case you would like a quick look at my previous posts… -two more fate pics + yoko, narika & all the nendoroids -stuff i wasn't stuff to […]


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The Grill House
The Grill House is a 2,850-pound structure which houses a table with a grill in the middle. If for some reason you need a secret eating hut in your yard, it may be expensive, but at least it comes with free shipping.
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The Grill House is a 2,850-pound structure which houses a table with a grill in the middle. If for some reason you need a secret eating hut in your yard, it may be expensive, but at least it comes with free shipping.
10 May, 2016
The Mark One Prime Vessyl is a $99 rechargeable cup that links to your phone so you can remember to drink water during the day.
If only your body had a way of internally determining whether or not it needed water, and signaling you when it determined that you need to drink water.
9 May, 2016
No, you probably do need therapy. At least it's not as impractical as this replacement for therapy.
8 May, 2016
Remember back, long ago, in 2014, how Russia invaded Ukraine, seizing control of Crimea, killing ten thousand Ukrainians and displacing millions more? If you think that was really hilarious and cool, then Putin Riding A Bear might be the toy for you, an adult who's into toys, and military-based mass murder. It's even got FAKE ЯЦSSIAИ on the box. How can you go wrong?
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This hat is symbolic of every pallid, limp response the Democrats have to the Republican Party. Instead of changing policy to benefit actual people, they make a Democrat hat to refute the Republican hat, equally false, and equally trivial. The Republicans are fucking us with brooms, and the Democrats brag that they've worked hard to reduce broom-fucking by ten percent over the past seven years. We eat hamburgers, or don't eat hamburgers, for freedom, or to protest freedom. We are all helpless and want and need divine intervention but are only able to conjure men who declare themselves God because their father was rich. Every meaningful social movement is kneecapped by the hyper-wealthy, who laugh as our income declines in real terms, as it has for the past fifteen years.
Pick a side. Buy your hat. Argue with your neighbor over how often you want to be broom-fucked. America is exactly as great as you think it is, and will be.
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This cat-bank is cute…. unless you're a real cat.
5 May, 2016
This will make you feel old. And if it somehow doesn't, this other shirt will definitely do the trick.


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I made these for myself really because I love the ones they sell in my local wholefoods shop and I've never quite been able to recreate the sticky gooeyness of them. This is pretty close and had the added bonus of one of the two children liking them too – hidden dates – hurrah!
225g (8oz) chopped dates
150ml water
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175g (6oz) plain wholemeal flour
175g (6oz) porridge oats
175g (6oz) butter
75g (3oz) demerera sugar
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Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5. Line a 20cm x 30cm swiss roll tin with baking parchment.
Put the dates into a saucepan with the water and heat gently for 5-10 minutes until the dates are mushy. Remove from the heat and mash with a spoon to make a thick purée, looking out for and removing any stray stones. Stir in the vanilla essence. Set aside to cool.
Sift the flour into a bowl, adding also the residue of bran from the sieve and the oats.
Rub in the butter with your fingertips or a fork, then add the sugar and water, and press the mixture together to form a dough.
Press half this mixture into the lined tin, spread the cooled date purée on top, then cover evenly with the remaining oat mixture. Press down gently but firmly.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Locks of Love
And Cora Paige.
I can't remember who linked me with Jess Mac. I just happened upon her blog one day, and three hours and two tissue boxes later, found myself hugging the necks of my children super tight and sending prayers to a family I've never met. Through the past few months, I find myself in awe of Jess' faith. I don't think she realizes the impact she has on so many people, but speaking for myself ... she holds me accountable on a daily basis.
She is surviving. After experiencing my worst nightmare, she wakes up every morning and lives every moment for God. Why should I wallow in my "problems" when they don't even hold a candle to what she has been through ... and yet she is able to let God's light shine through her. She suffers, but she does so with hope knowing that there is MORE. She does so with faith knowing that she is fulfilling a greater purpose. Her words challenge me. Her story inspires me.
You can begin reading her story here ... but you'll want more. And there is more. You'll need more. She just has that ability to pull you in ... or perhaps it's GOD pulling you in through her. Either way, grab some tissues and let me introduce you to Jess and Cora Mac ...
Because of this incredible story, I felt the need to contribute something ... I remember waiting for both of my daughter's hair to grow enough to put their first clippie in, just as Jess did. I used to rub their soft fuzzy duckling heads from my chin to cheek and breathe in their baby shampoo. At the same time, Ryan's grandmother was losing her hair during her battle with breast cancer. We used to put her wigs on Kitty's bald baby head and laugh and laugh. In honor of lil' Cora Paige, Rita "Meme" Barrows and Georgina "Gigi" Tallman (Ryan's grandmother and sister who lost their battles to cancer last year) ... I'm growing my hair for Locks of Love. It's the least I can do.
Well, and continue to pray for the Mac family, as I hope you all will too. Jess Mac, if you happen to read this, please know that God is using you in amazing ways. God Bless You.
And Thank You for sharing a lil' bit of Cora's life with us all.
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- Kelli said...
Wow. What a story. You are so right...reading the blogs of others who have such heart wrenching stories is quite humbling and makes us so much more appreciative of the lives we lead.
Perri had her hair cut for Locks of Love in 3rd grade. :) I was very proud of her for being so giving. I think it's a great way to do something in honor of those whose stories have touched us so deeply.
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Please understand that locks of love is NOT whom you think they are. They do NOT help folks with cancer and in fact use very little of the hair that they receive. MOST of the hair is sold. Please go to pantenes beautiful lengths and consider giving your hair to them. They DO help provide wigs to people with cancer. That is a KNOW fact and if you go to their web site you will NOT see them talking about cancer folks
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Lawmakers Question Salazar On Drilling, Oil Spill
On Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and top officials from the Minerals Management Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told members of the House panel that the Obama administration has been relentless in its response to the blowout.
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And to another hearing on the Gulf spill, this one on Capitol Hill. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told members of a House panel that the Obama administration has been relentless in its response to the blowout. Regarding future oil drilling, Salazar said the administration is trying to move forward with a balanced approach, one that says don't drill everywhere and when you do drill, it must be done in the right places and the right ways.
NPR's Brian Naylor reports.
BRIAN NAYLOR: The hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee was the first of seven this panel alone has scheduled on the explosion. The committee's top Republican, Doc Hastings of Washington, said there was a sense of dissatisfaction among members of both political parties and the public over the continuing gusher in the Gulf.
Representative DOC HASTINGS (Republican, Washington): It has been over a month since oil started leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. Each day that the oil continues to leak is a day where frustration increases. Both BP and the Obama administration have a joint and share a duty to do everything within their power to stop this flow of oil.
NAYLOR: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the Obama administration has spared no effort in the Gulf, deploying 20,000 people, thousands of ships and boats and a body of scientists all working to bring this bill under control and get to the bottom of the story, as he put it. But he said the ultimate responsibility for the spill and the cleanup and the costs lies with BP.
Secretary KEN SALAZAR (Interior Department): We have them by the neck and we will keep them by the neck to do everything that has to be done here, which is right.
NAYLOR: Salazar will deliver a report to President Obama tomorrow on whether further precaution should be taken before allowing continued offshore drilling. Environmental groups want the Obama administration to rescind five permits to allow drilling in Alaska. A small group of protestors held up banners that appeared to have been written in oil, calling for the White House to end Arctic drilling. Salazar gave away little about the administration's plans.
Lawmakers also asked about the Minerals Management Service, the government agency that oversees offshore drilling. A report by the inspector general yesterday outlined a series of abuses at the agency's Lake Charles, Louisiana, office, including rig inspectors accepting football game tickets and meals from oil company officials, along with drug use and other ethics violations.
The abuses outlined occurred prior to 2008, but Salazar said some of those implicated remained on the job. Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes said further actions were planned.
Deputy Secretary DAVID HAYES (Interior Department): We immediately put all of the individuals identified in that report on administrative leave and have started proceedings to determine whether more disciplinary action is appropriate.
NAYLOR: Salazar noted the abuses occurred during the Bush administration, calling MMS then the candy store of the oil kingdom. Democratic Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts went further. MMS, he said, stands for mismanagement, misconduct and spills.
Representative ED MARKEY (Democrat, Massachusetts): Some are now shocked at the gambling with our environment that was going on in the oil and gas industries' offshore casino. They fail to see any connection between their own drill, baby, drill boosterism for offshore drilling and the current spill, baby, spill catastrophe we now face.
NAYLOR: Salazar has proposed reorganizing MMS into three separate agencies. Inspector general Mary Kendall, who prepared the report, suggested another reform to end the revolving door between the agency and the industry.
Ms. MARY KENDALL (Inspector General, Interior Department): An inspector, say, who comes from Shell moves to MMS should not be allowed to inspect a Shell platform or rig for at least two years.
NAYLOR: Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released a memo outlining warnings that occurred on the Deepwater Horizon rig minutes before the blast on April 20th that killed 11 workers. Based on an interim report from BP, the memo says there are key questions about whether proper procedures were followed for critical activities throughout the day.
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The SPPS Office of Multilingual Learning offers English language development to qualifying students in a multi-tiered manner. Instruction of ELs in St. Paul Public Schools is the shared responsibility of many, including EL teachers, classroom or content teachers and specialists, and bilingual educational assistants. The current instructional model has shifted from focusing primarily on reading instruction to an explicit focus on academic language development within content areas. SPPS ELL programs are shaped by the language as action perspective and engage students in well supported, significant, and authentic activity that develop academic autonomy over time. Language as action complements the rigorous expectations laid out in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) (Alvarez et al., 2014, p. 8).
As of July 2013, Saint Paul Public Schools adopted Racial Equity Policy 101.00 based on the work of Pacific Educational Group. The purpose of this policy is to address institutional racism that results in predictably-lower academic achievement for students of color. This policy is the broad umbrella that ensures access to rigorous academic coursework for all students. The SPPS English Learner (EL) programs strive to ensure equity and equal access to grade-level curriculum and standards in order to ensure English learners are able to reach their highest potential.
In SPPS, the work of Dr. Ofelia Garcia, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, frames the mindset shift from limited English-proficient or English language learner to that of emergent bilingual. In the words of Garcia (2008), the label of English learner "devalues other languages and puts the English language in a sole position of legitimacy" (p. 7). SPPS emergent bilingual students bring a wealth of knowledge of languages, cultures, views of the world and ways of learning to our schools. SPPS strives to capitalize on the potential the students and their families bring to the communities rather than their limitations.
In July 2011, Minnesota joined the WIDA Consortium and adopted the WIDA standards, assessments, and guiding principles. WIDA's Can Do Philosophy is based on the belief that all students bring to their learning cultural and linguistic practices, skills, and ways of knowing from their homes and communities.
Content-based English language development instructional programs in SPPS strive to simultaneously promote students' English-language proficiency and mastery of grade-level academic content in an English setting. English learners acquire academic English through participation in age-appropriate, content-based instruction that is aligned to WIDA English Language Development Standards, as well as the Minnesota K-12 Academic Content Standards.
For all students, learning academic content is inseparable from learning the academic language of the content area, but this is especially true for ELL students (Heritage, Silva, & Pierce, 2007; National Research Council, 2001; Schleppegrell, 2001, 2005; Walqui & Heritage, 2012) as cited in Alvarez, Ananda, Walqui, Sato & Rabinowitz (2014)
EL teachers provide supplemental English language development through direct instruction for students at English proficiency levels 1-5. At the elementary level, most ELs receive the greater part of their instruction in the general education classroom. Classroom and EL teachers collaborate to teach language, create accommodations, and differentiate based on the needs of the students in their classrooms. EL service is provided through a co-teaching model and/or small-group instruction designed for EL students. These services are often provided in Reader's, Writer's, and/or Math Workshop. Collaboration allows for planning, teaching, and assessment of content and language objectives for ELs in the mainstream classroom (Echevarria, Vogt, & Short, 2009).
At the middle and high school sites, level 1 and 2 Language students receive sheltered classes in English language arts, science, math, and social studies. Similar to Level 1 Language students at elementary sites, Level 1 students at the secondary level also receive intensive oral-language development.
The students at level 3 or higher may be served through a co-teaching model in the content areas. Collaboration allows for planning, teaching and assessment of content and language objectives for ELs in the mainstream classroom. These EL students may have one or more English language development (ELD) classes associated with the co-taught content class. The ELD classes are tightly aligned to both the state standards and the WIDA English Language Development Standards.


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The following U.S. patent applications are filed concurrently herewith and are assigned to the same assignee hereof and contain subject matter related, in certain respect, to the subject matter of the present application. These patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.
Ser. No. 10/286,211 filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING FOUNDERS OF AN INFORMATION AGGREGATE";
Ser. No. 10/286,263, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING THE ACCELERATION OF AN INFORMATION AGGREGATE";
Ser. No. 10/286,262, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING THE RECENCY OF AN INFORMATION AGGREGATE";
Ser. No. 10/286,261, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXAMINING THE AGING OF AN INFORMATION AGGREGATE";
Ser. No. 10/286,212, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INFORMATION AGGREGATES";
Ser. No. 10/286,237, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MEMBERSHIP OF INFORMATION AGGREGATES";
Ser. No. 10/286,508, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING INFORMATION AGGREGATES BY VISUALIZING ASSOCIATED CATEGORIES";
Ser. No. 10/285,799, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED ON ACTIVITY AROUND SHARED VIRTUAL OBJECTS"; and
Ser. No. 10/286,534, filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING USAGE PATTERNS IN INFORMATION AGGREGATES".
1. Technical Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a method and system for analyzing trends in an information aggregate. More particularly, it relates to identifying and visualizing the intersections (or overlaps) between information aggregates.
2. Background Art
Existing systems for knowledge management are focused primarily on individuals and the documents they create. Such systems typically organize documents along two primary dimensions, as follows:
The user interfaces in existing information systems are therefore concerned with displaying information along these two dimensions. Search interfaces, for example, often allow a search to be defined based on both the physical and topical dimensions, and of course are focused on returning documents. This approach is useful, but it fails to account for the fact that most work of consequence happens in teams and not at the level of individuals. There is therefore a need to better align information systems with the way people really work by presenting information in terms of groups (for example, teams or communities).
The Lotus Discovery Server (LDS) is a Knowledge Management (KM) tool that allows users to more rapidly locate the people and information they need to answer their questions. It categorizes information from many different sources (referred to generally as knowledge repositories) and provides a coherent entry point for a user seeking information. Moreover, as users interact with LDS and the knowledge repositories that it manages, LDS can learn what the users of the system consider important by observing how users interact with knowledge resources. Thus, it becomes easier for users to quickly locate relevant information.
The focus of LDS is to provide specific knowledge or answers to localized inquiries; focusing users on the documents, categories, and people who can answer their questions. There is a need, however, to use the information that LDS collects from observing the users to discover and quantify relationships that may exist between arbitrary aggregates of information, such as document collections.
It is, therefore, an object of the invention to provide an improved system and method for evaluating relationships between information aggregates.
A system and method for evaluating an information aggregate by collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a first shared attribute into a first information aggregate; collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a second shared attribute into a second information aggregate; and determining and visualizing intersections of the first and second information aggregates.
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided a computer program product configured to be operable to evaluate information aggregates by determining and visualizing people, usage pattern, and category intersections.
Other features and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
According to the preferred embodiment of the system and method of the invention, an aggregate-oriented way of presenting information is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the amount of overlap between two specified communities is determined and displayed. While this exemplary embodiment focuses on communities, the system and method of the invention can be applied more generally to any set of information aggregates.
The Lotus Discovery Server (LDS) is a Knowledge Management (KM) tool that allows users to more rapidly locate the people and information they need to answer their questions. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the functionality of the Lotus Discovery Server (LDS) is extended to include useful visualizations that identify and quantify relationships between information aggregates.
On its lowest level, LDS manages knowledge resources. A knowledge resources is any form of document that contains knowledge or information. Examples include Lotus WordPro Documents, Microsoft Word Documents, webpages, postings to newsgroups, etc. Knowledge resources are typically stored within knowledge repositories—such as Domino.Doc databases, websites, newsgroups, etc.
When LDS is first installed, an Automated Taxonomy Generator (ATG) subcomponent builds a hierarchy of the knowledge resources stored in the knowledge repositories specified by the user. For instance, documents about working with XML documents in the Java programming language stored in a Domino.Doc database might be grouped into a category named 'Home>Development>Java>XML'. This categorization will not move or modify the document, just record its location in the hierarchy. The hierarchy can be manually adjusted and tweaked as needed once initially created.
A category is a collection of knowledge resources and other subcategories of similar content. Categories represent a more abstract re-organization of the contents of physical repositories, without displacing the available knowledge resources. For instance, in the following hierarchy:
Home (Root of the hierarchy)
Knowledge repositories are then grouped into sets, known as communities. A community is a set of repositories primarily utilized by some particular group of people. Communities are only defined by administrative users of the system (unlike categories which can be created by LDS and then modified). If a user interacts with one of the repositories used to define Community A, then he is considered an active participant in that community. Thus, communities represent the physical storage of knowledge resources and provide a mechanism for LDS to observe the activity of a group of people.
As a user interacts with knowledge resources, LDS learns which categories they interact with the most. LDS maintains a score for the user, known as an affinity. An affinity is a rank that numerically captures how often a user interacts with a particular category compared to the level of interaction of other users. Affinities within the system are important in relation to the other affinities. Once a user's affinity reaches a certain threshold, LDS asks the user if he would like to publish that affinity. These affinities can then be made public, so that when other users search on a topic, LDS can identify users who are knowledgeable on that topic.
These affinities are extremely useful in making inferences about the interests of the users of the system, and in understanding the knowledge trends. In accordance with the present invention, affinities are used to reflect when a particular category (or topic of information) becomes more important than others, indicating that the organization is losing or gaining interest in some topic.
LDS maintains a score for the knowledge resources which are utilized to indicate how important they are to the users of the system. For instance, a document that has a lot of activity around it—such as responses, modifications or simply a high access rate—is perceived as more important than documents which are rarely accessed. This is generically referred to as 'document value'.
Another capability of LDS is its search functionality. Instead of returning only the knowledge resources (documents) that a standard web-based search engine might locate, LDS also returns the categories that the topic might be found within and the people that are most knowledge about that topic. LDS takes the users' affinities and the document values it has calculated into account when returning the results of a search. Thus, users with high affinities for a particular topic and documents that are rated with a higher document value are more likely to be returned. The present invention is unrelated to utilizing or extending this kind of localized searching functionality, but rather magnifies the larger trends within the system on a more general level.
The system and method of the preferred embodiments of the invention are built on a framework that collectively integrates data-mining, user-interface, visualization, and server-side technologies. An extensible architecture provides a layered process of transforming data sources into a state that can be interpreted and outputted by visualization components. This architecture is implemented through Java, Servlets, JSP, SQL, XML, and XSLT technology, and essentially adheres to a model-view controller paradigm, where interface and implementation components are separated. This allows effective data management and server side matters such as connection pooling to be independent
In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, information visualization techniques are implemented through the three main elements including bar charts, pie charts, and tables.
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People explorer 100 focuses on social networking, community connection analysis, category leaders, and affinity analysis. The primary visualization component is table listings and associations.
Community explorer 102 focuses on acceleration, associations, affinity analysis, and document analysis for Lotus K-Station communities. The primary visualization components are bar charts and table listings. Features include drill down options to view associated categories, top documents, and top contributors.
System explorer 104 focuses on high level activity views such as authors, searches, accesses, opens, and responses for documents. The primary visualization components are bar charts (grouped and stacked). Features include zooming and scrollable regions.
Category explorer 106 focuses on life span, acceleration, affinity analysis, and document analysis of categories generated by a Lotus Discovery Server's Automated Taxonomy Generator. The primary visualization components are bar charts. Features include drill down options to view subcategories, top documents, top contributors, category founders, and document activity.
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Knowledge management is defined as a discipline to systematically leverage information and expertise to improve organizational responsiveness, innovation, competency, and efficiency. Discovery server 33 (e.g., Lotus Discovery Server) is a knowledge system which may deployed across one or more servers. Discovery server 33 integrates code from several sources (e.g., Domino, DB2, InXight, KeyView and Sametime) to collect, analyze and identify relationships between documents, people, and topics across an organization. Discovery server 33 may store this information in a data store 31 and may present the information for browse/query through a web interface referred to as a knowledge map (e.g., K-map) 30. Discovery server 33 regularly updates knowledge map 30 by tracking data content, user expertise, and user activity which it gathers from various sources (e.g. Lotus Notes databases, web sites, file systems, etc.) using spiders.
Database server 20 includes knowledge map database 30 for storing a hierarchy or directory structure which is generated by automated taxonomy generator 35, and metrics database 32 for storing a collection of attributes of documents stored in documents database 31 which are useful for forming visualizations of information aggregates. The k-map database 30, the documents database 31, and the metrics database are directly linked by a key structure represented by lines 26, 27 and 28. A taxonomy is a generic term used to describe a classification scheme, or a way to organize and present information, Knowledge map 30 is a taxonomy, which is a hierarchical representation of content organized by a suitable builder process (e.g., generator 35).
A spider is a process used by discovery server 33 to extract information from data repositories. A data repository (e.g. database 31) is defined as any source of information that can be spidered by a discovery server 33.
Java Database Connectivity API (JDBC) 37 is used by servlet 34 to issue Structured Query Language (SQL) queries against databases 30, 31, 32 to extract data that is relevant to a users request 23 as specified in a request parameter which is used to filter data. Documents database 31 is a storage of documents in, for example, a Domino database or DB2 relational database.
The automated taxonomy generator (ATG) 35 is a program that implements an expectation maximization algorithm to construct a hierarchy of documents in knowledge map (K-map) metrics database 32, and receives SQL queries on link 21 from web application server 22, which includes servlet 34. Servlet 34 receives HTTP requests on line 23 from client 24, queries database server 20 on line 21, and provides HTTP responses, HTML and chart applets back to client 24 on line 25.
Discovery server 33, database server 20 and related components are further described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10,044,914 filed 15 Jan. 2002 for System and Method for Implementing a Metrics Engine for Tracking Relationships Over Time.
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In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, visualizations are constructed from data sources 32 that contain the metrics produced by a Lotus Discovery Server. The data source 32, which may be stored in an IBM DB2 database, is extracted through tightly coupled Java and XML processing.
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The <queryDescriptor> element 112 represents the root of the XML document and provides an alias attribute to describe the context of the query. This <queryDescriptor> element 112 is derived from http request 23 by request handler 40 and fed to query engine 42 as is represented by line 41.
The <defineParameter> element 114 defines the necessary parameters needed to construct dynamic SQL queries 21 to perform conditional logic on metrics database 32. The parameters are set through its attributes (localname, requestParameter, and defaultValue). The actual parameter to be looked up is requestParameter. The localname represents the local alias that refers to the value of requestParameter. The defaultValue is the default parameter value.
QRML structure 116 includes <query> element 116 containing the query definition. There can be one or more <query> elements 116 depending on the need for multiple query executions. A<data> child node element is used to wrap the actual query through its corresponding child nodes. The three essential child nodes of <data> are <queryComponent>, <useParameter>, and <queryAsFullyQualified>. The <queryComponent> element wraps the main segment of the SQL query. The <useParameter> element allows parameters to be plugged into the query as described in <defineParameter>. The <queryAsFullyQualified> element is used in the case where the SQL query 21 needs to return an unfiltered set of data.
When a user at client browser 24 selects a metric to visualize, the name of an XML document is passed as a parameter in HTTP request 23 to servlet 34 as follows:
<input type=hidden name="queryAlias"value="AffinityPerCategory">
In some cases, there is a need to utilize another method for extracting data from the data source 32 through the use of a generator Java bean. The name of this generator bean is passed as a parameter in HTTP request 23 to servlet 34 as follows:
<input type=hidden name="queryAlias"value="PeopleInCommonByCommGenerator">
Once servlet 34 receives the XML document name or the appropriate generator bean reference at request handler 40, query engine 42 filters, processes, and executes query 21. Once query 21 is executed, data returned from metrics database 32 on line 21 is normalized by query engine 42 into an XML format 43 that can be intelligently processed by an XSL style sheet 52 further on in the process.
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The <visualization> element 122 represents the root of the XML document 43 and provides an alias attribute to describe the tool used for visualization, such as a chart applet, for response 25.
The <datasets> element 124 wraps one or more <dataset> collections depending on whether multiple query executions are used.
The <dataset> element 126 is composed of a child node <member> that contains an attribute to index each row of returned data. To wrap the raw data itself, the <member> element has a child node <elem> to correspond to column data.
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For a visualization to occur at client 24, a specific set of parameters needs to be passed to the chart applet provided by, for example, Visual Mining's Netcharts solution. XSL transformation 52 generates the necessary Chart Definition Language (CDLs) parameters, a format used to specify data parameters and chart properties. Other visualizations may involve only HTML (for example, as when a table of information is displayed).
An XSL style sheet (or transform) 52 is used to translate the QRML document on line 43 into the specific CDL format shown above on line 25.
This process of data retrieval, binding, and translation all occur within a JSP page 50. An XSLT Bean opens an XSL file 52 and applies it to the XML 43 that represents the results of the SQL query. (This XML is retrieved by calling queryResp.getDocumentElement( )). The final result of executing this JSP 50 is that a HTML page 25 is sent to browser 24. This HTML page will include, if necessary, a tag that runs a charting applet (and provides that applet with the parameters and data it needs to display correctly). In simple cases, the HTML page includes only HTML tags (for example, as in the case where a simple table is displayed at browser 24). This use of XSL and XML within a JSP is a well-known Java development practice.
Ser. No. 10/286,211 filed 31 Oct. 2002 for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING FOUNDERS OF AN INFORMATION AGGREGATE", Table 1 illustrates an example of XML structure 110; Table 2 illustrates an example of the normalized XML, or QRML, structure; Table 3 illustrates an example of CDL defined parameters fed to client 24 on line 25 from visualization engine 44; Table 4 illustrates an example of how an XSL style sheet 52 defines translation; and Table 5 is script illustrating how pre-packaged document node 43 is retrieved and how an XSL transformation 52 is called to generate the visualization parameters.
An exemplary embodiment of the system and method of the invention may be built using the Java programming language on the Jakarta Tomcat platform (v3.2.3) using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) (also known as Model 2) architecture to separate the data model from the view mechanism.
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In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, the amount of overlap between two specified communities is determined and displayed. A community is a specific type of aggregate, and the present invention applies to any type of information aggregate.
A knowledge resource is an entity, either physical or virtual, from which knowledge may be acquired, learned, derived or otherwise obtained by a person or set of persons. Examples include (but are not limited to) a text document, a QuickPlace, a multimedia presentation, a website, a newsgroup, a public email or memo.
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In step 432, the membership of the community is determined. The collection of knowledge resources resulting from step 430 is taken as representative of a group of people (a community). The membership of the community is determined by looking at user activity around the knowledge resources over a specified time period. The membership of the community is then the union of people who have, over the specified time period authored a knowledge resource, accessed a knowledge resource (e.g. read or opened it), modified a knowledge resource, responded to a knowledge resource (e.g. in a threaded discussion), forwarded a knowledge resource (e.g. through e-mail), bookmarked a knowledge resource, or created a new knowledge resource that contains a link (or reference) to a knowledge resource in the collection.
Steps 430 and 432 may be repeated for each of a plurality of communities, or other information aggregates. In step 434, the overlap between these communities or information aggregates is determined.
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Community overlap views may be implemented in the context of the Lotus Discovery Server. The Lotus Discovery Server is a system that supports the collection of documents into information aggregates. The aggregates supported by the Discovery Server are categories and communities. A category is a collection of documents that are concerned with the same topic and can be organized hierarchically. A community is modeled as a collection of documents that are of interest to a particular group of people. The Discovery Server allows a community to be defined based on the information repositories used by the community.
It is an advantage of the invention that there is provided an improved system and method for evaluating relationships between information aggregates.
It is a further advantage of the invention that there is provided a system and method for determining and visualizing intersections of information aggregates.
It will be appreciated that, although specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In particular, it is within the scope of the invention to provide a computer program product or program element, or a program storage or memory device such as a solid or fluid transmission medium, magnetic or optical wire, tape or disc, or the like, for storing signals readable by a machine, for controlling the operation of a computer according to the method of the invention and/or to structure its components in accordance with the system of the invention.
Further, each step of the method may be executed on any general computer, such as IBM Systems designated as zSeries, iSeries, xSeries, and pSeries, or the like and pursuant to one or more, or a part of one or more, program elements, modules or objects generated from any programming language, such as C++, Java, Pl/1, Fortran or the like. And still further, each said step, or a file or object or the like implementing each said step, may be executed by special purpose hardware or a circuit module designed for that purpose.
Accordingly, the scope of protection of this invention is limited only by the following claims and their equivalents.
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Proving grounds are an extremely efficient means of qualifying the durability of vehicle components. They accelerate damage accumulation rates so failures are detectable in a very short period of time. It is important that proving ground damage is correlated with target customer usage. It is also important to determine the most efficient use of the proving ground in order to meet project targets and minimize overall development costs. This paper describes the latest techniques for proving ground correlation and optimization. Acceleration, strain, wheel force and other types of data are collected on a vehicle as it traverses different proving ground surfaces. Comparable data are also collected from instrumented 'customer' vehicles. The objective of the analysis is to determine which mixture of proving ground surfaces offers the best representation of customer usage while minimizing the total test time. Prior to the optimization stage, time series data must be characterized and reduced to an efficient format. Techniques such as rainflow cycle counting and level crossing are discussed and recommendations are made on the merits of each approach. A new technique based on a damage-weighted frequency spectrum is introduced. This offers significant improvements in damage-based optimization when used with acceleration measurements. The proving ground schedule will tend to be more severely damaging in some components than others. The paper discusses the choice of measurement location in optimizing overall vehicle damage. It also describes how to establish which components are under-tested (i.e. not expected to fail) and which are over-tested (i.e. fail early) in the proving ground schedule. © 2011 SAE International.
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Structural integrity in terms of automotive durability is a detailed process that incorporates many technical areas. The current durability process for automotive applications involves understanding operational load inputs, the stresses and strains caused and the response of the material, performing fatigue tests, calculating fatigue life and interpreting results. There are many variations on this process depending on the application, materials, available information, methods, etc. This paper presents a general approach for the durability process in automotive applications and highlights a number of new advancements. These advancements include understanding the service operating load conditions through improved usage based monitoring, characterizing new materials together with their associated damage models, enhancing and automating data manipulation through straightforward, consistent and rapid process based analysis, creating test profiles for random loading and accelerating CAE based durability analysis. The impact and importance of the advancements is illustrated by reference to each part of the durability process as well as the process itself. Copyright © 2010 Tech Science Press.


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Reber, 40, of Spring Township, said the only thing that might prevent him from running will be signatures. If he can muster the minimum 1,000 signatures needed by tomorrow, Reber said, he is in the race.
Reber joins Berks Republicans James P. Troutman, county clerk of courts who declared his candidacy before [Michael O'Pake] pulled out, and state Rep. James Gallen, R-128th, who at 64 years old had announced his plan to retire but jumped into the fray for [Gus Yatron]'s congressional seat after O'Pake announced he wouldn't run.


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Hotel Taj Gateway Marks 'World Environment Day'
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another". – Mahatma Gandhi
Mangaluru: World environment day is also known as the Environment Day, Eco Day or short form WED. It has been one of the great annual events for years which is being celebrated worldwide by the people aiming to protect the unique and life nurturing Nature on every 5th June. World Environment Day 2016 is celebrated by the people all across the world on 5th of June, but the Hotel Taj Gateway-Mangaluru and Government ITI for Women-Kadri Hills, Mangaluru celebrated a day earlier on 4 June at ITI premises.
Each year celebration of the World Environment Day is based on the particular theme decided by the United Nations to make the celebration more effective by encouraging mass people worldwide to hugely take part in addressing environmental issues on global scale. The theme of WED 2016 is "Join the race to make the world a better place". On this day, an awareness programme on the importance of sustainability and conservation of water resources, for the students of this I.T.I.through power point presentation was conducted; Slogan Competition on WED was also conducted for the students of this Institute; few saplings were also planted in the ITI campus. This was also Initiated as an undertaking from the students of this Institute for a personal challenge aimed at formulating a new habit towards creating a greener planet.
World Environment Day (also called as WED) has been started celebrating as an annual event on every 5th of June since 1973 in order to raise the global awareness about the importance of the healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the environmental issues by implementing some positive environmental actions as well as to make aware common public worldwide that everyone is responsible for saving his environment and not only somebody, government or organizations working for it. World environment day annual celebration campaign was started to address the huge environmental issues like wastage and losses of food, deforestation, increasing global warming and so many. Every year celebration is planned according to the particular theme and slogan of the year to bring effectiveness in the campaign all through the world.
The programme began with invoking God's blessings through a prayer song rendered by a student of the ITI institute, followed by welcome address and introduction of the guests by Compere Lokesh of ITI- The programme was inaugurated by lighting the traditional lamp by Peter Nirmal- General Manager of Hotel Taj Gateway, along with other dignitaries on the dais namely Roopa D Bangera- Area Ward MCC Corporator; Madhu S. Manohar Environmental Engineer Mangaluru City Corporation; Balakrishna -Principal and Shivakumar- Senior Faculty at Government I.T.I (Women), Mangaluru; and Vynatheya Bhagavan,Manager – Human Resources-Hotel Taj Gateway.
Peter Nirmal-GM of Taj Gateway addressing the audience said, " WED is celebrated to make aware the common public about the environmental issues. Encourage common people from different society and communities to actively participate in the celebration as well as become an active agent in developing environmental safety measures. Let them know that community people are very essential to inhibit negative changes towards the environmental issues. Encourage people to make their nearby surroundings safe and clean to enjoy safer, cleaner and more prosperous future. We should see that our surroundings are polluted free, and we should also spread awareness about having a green environment and make our city clean and green"
Madhu S Manohar- Environmental Engineer at MCC stressing on "Every Drop of Water Counts" advised the students on "water conservation" and importance of sustainability through a power-point presentation. He said, "Water conservation encompasses the policies, strategies and activities to manage fresh water as a sustainable resource, to protect the water environment, and to meet current and future human demand. Population, household size and growth and affluence all affect how much water is used. Factors such as climate change will increase pressures on natural water resources especially in manufacturing and agricultural irrigation. The goals of water conservation efforts include: To ensure availability for future generations, the withdrawal of fresh water from an ecosystem should not exceed its natural replacement rate". Various tips as to how one can conserve water was presented through this power-point presentation.
Addressing the students, Principal Balakrishna said, " It's nice to note that our institute partner Taj Hotel Group has come up this year with a unique project. In the past we have conducted projects like beautifying park, cleanliness drive- Swachh Bharath, and many other projects. I like to bring to your notice that you students are not keeping cleanliness in the campus-I see used chewing gum, chocolate and snacks wrappers, drink bottles etc littered every where in the campus. Effective today, you need to take a oath that you will not throw garbage in the campus. If you make up your you can do it and keep our campus clean. Let's make our PM Modi's dream of "Swachh Bharath" a reality with our active participation". Corporator Roopa D Bangera and Vynatheya Bhagavan also spoke on water conservation, and urged the students not to waste water, but use it only when it is necessary.
In conclusion, it is nice to note that World Environment Day (WED) which is United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment is supported by organizations like Hotel Taj Gateway and Govt. ITI for Women. By observing WED, it will like a 'people's day' for doing something positive for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet.
The WED campaign is aimed at the well-being of humanity, the environment, and the functioning of the economy, ultimately depend upon the responsible management of the planet's natural resources. Every Action Counts- WED is the opportunity for everyone to realize the responsibility to care for the Earth and to become agents of change. Let's do it for the betterment of environment.


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