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I bet there are things you want to know about members, prospective members, and those who are no longer members. You probably want to know what they like and don't like. Which events are favorites, which are not. Why someone joins, why they stay, and why they leave. The easiest way to find out the answers to these questions is through surveys … but should you even conduct chamber surveys?
How often should you be using surveys at the chamber? Or is survey burnout just too rampant?
Here are the pros, cons and a few alternative ideas.
The Problem with Surveys
The problem with surveys is not in the survey itself (although there are plenty of them that are ridiculously boring).
The problem lies in the number of surveys people receive over the course of a week … often about things people don't care about.
The week I wrote this, I got seven. Not including reminders for the surveys I haven't taken yet. This adds to an already full inbox for most people.
Surveys and their corresponding emails can become a source of irritation.
Chamber Survey Ideas, Solutions and Alternatives
But even if surveys in general are annoying, that still doesn't quench your desire to conduct your own chamber surveys to find out how to offer more favorably personalized offerings to members and soon-to-be members.
If you don't ask them what they want, how will you know?
Inbox surveys can be boring but survey methods needn't be. Here are a few things you can try to creatively get the information you want:
Humor. This gets attention. Consider making a JibJab video to let people know the survey will be in their inbox soon. Make sure the email communication is entertaining as well.
Ping Pong. At your next event, place three large containers at the exits. Label one "awesome", one "what I expected", and one "might be busy washing my hair next time" or some other funny phrases. Then have paper snowflakes, paper leaves, pompoms, ping pong balls, or some other item your attendees can vote with by placing them in the container that corresponds with their feelings about your event.
Bulletin Board or Whiteboard. If you get a lot of foot traffic at your chamber, place a bulletin board or whiteboard in your vestibule and ask a question. Leave a pen so passersby can answer it.
Sticker Surveys. Similar to the idea above, ask your question on posterboard and ask people to vote by applying stickers to the side they agree with. There's something whimsical about stickers and putting your mark on paper is a lot more fun than checking a box.
Mobile Apps. One of the easiest ways to guarantee responses to your survey is to master the timing. Use an app and request participation while people are at your event or meeting. You can use a QR code to direct them there without having to type in a URL.
Table Tents and QR Codes. Use table tents with QR codes at events and in your lobby to help people access your survey quickly and easily when they're already waiting or thinking about you.
Social Media Crowdsourcing. If your survey is to help on something that you could allow for mass voting, consider posting it to social media and asking everyone to participate and share. For instance, if you are choosing between two new events to offer next year, encourage the community to spread the word (and the social media survey post question). Remember, those who help select something are often those who will support it when the time comes because they will feel like they helped get it established.
Quizzes. It's possible to replace a survey with one of those fun quizzes you always see on Facebook. You're still getting the data you want and it's entertaining for the people giving you the answers. For instance, you could create a quiz that asks "What celebrity are you most like?" and then ask questions about the chamber events and their preferences. Based on the choices they select, you can tell them what celebrity or character they are most like. Then give them a short paragraph as to why that is the case.
Ambassadors. Use ambassadors to collect the types of information you're interested in through conversations, not impersonal surveys. The benefit of this is that they can ask more probing questions if necessary. If you decide to go this route, keep the number of questions to a minimum and ask them in a conversational style when it's convenient. Do not task them with marching into the business when it's busy.
Tradition. Create a tradition of an annual survey or Question Wednesday where it becomes an expectation. If you opt for a "one question, once a week format," make sure the questions are not always serious and centered around the chamber. Some weeks should just be for fun. Mixing it up this way will get more people involved.
Focus. If you decide your survey is much too important for any of these fun ideas and you select a traditional survey format, try to have a few questions in there that could be of value to your larger community. That way you can publish the results. If you share things your audience would be interested in, there's a chance you'll get a larger response because a greater number of people will want to see the results.
Things to Keep in Mind If You Do Use Surveys for Your Chamber
Ultimately, there's nothing wrong with trying surveys at your chamber of commerce. But there are a few things you need to keep in mind:
- Keep them short. No one wants to spend twenty minutes answering repetitive questions.
- Don't lead the witness. Give some thought as to how you ask the question and what type of answers you expect (fill in the blank, multiple-choice, ratings). If you lead the recipient, you may end up with skewed results.
- If you get answers, act on them. Don't ask for someone's opinion, only to ignore it. That doesn't mean you should act on every suggestion. But if you keep hearing the same thing over and over consider that a solid takeaway and actionable item. Even if you choose not to act, every response should be analyzed and correlations should be drawn. Maybe you'll discover one demographic prefers this, while another this. You can then use those findings to customize your offerings accordingly.
- Allow them to unsubscribe or pick the way they hear from you.
- Minimize all friction in answering. Don't ask for information that isn't necessary. If you don't need to know who voted on what, then don't ask for a name. Don't use multiple clicks to get there. Make participation as easy as possible.
How to Create an Effective Chamber Survey
If you decide to use surveys, and you're ready to keep in mind the above things, then you can start building your chamber survey using these ideas:
- Decide what you want to know and from whom.
- Based on that, figure out the best way to reach them. For example, if you want to reach members and you're having a giant member appreciation dinner coming up, asking them in person may be more effective than sending an email. Perhaps you can use voting software and ask questions as part of the pre-event entertainment, displaying real-time results.
- Ask only what you need to know in the shortest number of questions. This is not a psychological assessment. You don't need to measure the accuracy of answers through redundancies.
- What percentage of your sample size responding will be adequate for your uses? How will you increase that number if you don't get it on your first ask?
- Decide whether multiple answers or votes will be allowed. How will you ensure it's one vote per person if that's what you decide?
- Decide whether you will post the questions to social media and/or have a multi-pronged approach or just send each survey through one source?
- Test your survey among staff or board members before sending it out to your target audience. If you have enough testers, try A/B testing different looks or the way you ask questions to see if that skews results or participation. For truer results, don't tell them it's coming but circle back after a few days to make sure they received it. If they didn't respond, ask them why in person. This group will be more honest with you than your members but their answer will likely reflect some of the same issues.
- If you're sending the survey by email, tell them how many questions it is or how long it will take. People are more apt to fill out short surveys and letting them know it's short ahead of time should increase your response rate. Use a catchy subject line.
- Consider offering an incentive for filling it out. There are plenty of incentives that don't cost you anything like offering a shout-out on social media for completing the survey.
- Consider posting your survey in multiple places including a link to it in your signature or as a pop-up on your site. This should not be done if it is essential that you hear from everyone only once as in the case of a traditional vote.
Whether you ultimately decide to use traditional surveys for your chamber is up to you. If you decide to do so, and you don't receive the response you thought you might, try one of the fun alternatives. Sometimes it's not the ask but how you do it that matters.

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World renowned artist and architect Ron Arad has designed a magical tea house that is straight out of your favorite fantasy. Alice in Wonderland didn't even have anything like this.
The Armadillo Tea Pavilion is designed to be used either indoors or out, in turn providing its inhabitants with an intimate enclosure, shelter or place of reflection. The structure is comprised of five moulded shells, each of which are are mechanically fixed together with exposed fixings and stiffening brackets. One can choose to expand or retract, depending on the number of guests, by adding or taking away shells.
The canopy is in turn designed to be structurally independent and can be installed as a freestanding element, with the possibility of additional anchoring where desired. And depending on the use, you can choose from various finishes for the shells, ranging from durable PVDF-coated timber composite for outdoor use, to oiled hardwood-veneered plywood for indoor use.
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"It's the economy, stupid." That was once of the three messages that Democratic strategist James Carville created for Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential Campaign, and it worked. "It's the economy, stupid," might as well be on Anthony MacDonald's campaign signs because if there's a four word message from our interview, I think that is it. According to the Progressive Conservative candidate, and I quote, "there's nothing more important than the economy." The question is though, will Guelph think that MacDonald is the right man for the job and send him to Queen's Park as its Member of Provincial Parliament?
Professionally, MacDonald is a horse owner, trainer and driver, and it was in that capacity he entered politics. After speaking out at numerous events about the cuts to funding of the horse racing industry in 2012, MacDonald was approached by the PCs to run in Guelph, and as he told me in the podcast, it took them a while to win him over and convince him to run.
Economy talk took up the lion's share of our conversation, but from the perspective of the PCs' One Million Jobs plan and their desire to cut corporate taxes. We also talked about PC leader Tim Hudak and the popularity gap he faces, and why maybe that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. (Interesting side note: the interview was recorded this past Tuesday, shortly before the televised leader's debate.)
You can stream the episode here, or download it from the source here.
The theme music for Guelph Politicast is "Volksing Ferretismico" by Goto80 and the Uwe Schenk Band from Silent Movie Pianos 1 – Action and Marches.
And as with previous podcasts featuring provincial election candidates, there's a video segment. Find out what representing Guelph at Queen's Park means to Anthony MacDonald below:
And as with previous podcasts featuring provincial election candidates, there's a video segment. Find out what representing Guelph at Queen's Park means to Anthony MacDonald here.
The music used in the "What does it mean to you to represent the people of Guelph at Queen's Park?" video segment is "Good to Go" by Josh Woodward from The Simple Life Pt 2 available on freemusicarchive.org.
For more information on Guelph candidates, or to learn how and where to vote, go to Elections Ontario's website wemakevotingeasy.ca.
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This past week we had some sweet babies to snuggle. Notice how I said babies and not tiny! These were some big boys for their age (we are guessing around 6 weeks when we got them) and they just continued to grow bigger by the day. We aren't sure what they are but we think some sort of a large collie mix. So also very high energy. Unfortunately they had some sort of a tummy bug all week which made things more difficult but they were pretty darn adorable and snuggly regardless!
Nothing better than a lap full of snuggly pups at the end of the day! There was some fierce competition for these guys and apparently some anger and outrage at the rescue we work with as far more people wanted puppies than they had available. The rescue also broke records this weekend with amount of adoptions, breaking over 1,000 for the year already which is awesome! We love this organization and the work they are doing to save dogs and puppies on the euthanasia lists from California. I am very curious who our lucky #50 puppy will be, but we will have to wait and see for a couple more weeks as we are taking a short little break from fostering to dog watch.


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The advertisement's idea is to give brand new parents the ideas about what their babies need. It features seven different ways to calm down a baby and make him/her sleep. It documents the real and creative moms calming their kids with the sound of a hair dryer, microwave, with staring at the eyes, by showing a smartphone and other funny techniques.
Philips Avent is a known brand for parenting and baby products. With this ad Philips motivates to visit its website and share your own techniques of calming down a baby.


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SUMMARY: It's Monday, and I'm short on sleep, and I'm a little tired and cranky. But I'm awake! The day was spent getting comfortable working at home, looking at the environment critically to see if there's a way I can make it more productive. That would save money on Starbucks.
Last night I spent some time working on cleaning up the house and getting it into shape so I could work at home. That consisted of:
Organizing the Main Workstation Area – I brought up a bookshelf, dusted it off, and piled the devices I had there. It's made for a clean desk, which helps make for a clean mind. I also moved a bunch of stuff off back downstairs, where the secondary work area is. I also have storage for various things there, so I put away electronics and stuff like that. The main innovation of this task was to create an odds and ends electronics cables box. I will go to Christmas Tree Shops and see if I can find something nicer to put the cables in.
Creating an Out Tray – This is just an IKEA carrying tray that I put over the garbage can like a lid, then put all the "outgoing stuff" that I had to take care of. That's stuff that requires errands, like mailing things. I hate mailing things. But this way I'll see it more. The garbage can location will likely change, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Right now I'm working in the secondary work area (the "Battle Bridge"), which has fewer distractions and has the advantage of being a standing desk setup for my laptop. The lighting is good, and the wall behind the laptop is covered with my various organizational notes from over the years. It's kind of cool to see it all in one place.
The key to getting the organization done was to shift my mind into a non-thinking state. This is something I've been practicing. I'm not sure if it's like meditation, but the idea is to just turn off my active thought process–maybe this is the "inner voice"–and let the quieter voices have a go at things. These are the easy-going, obedient parts of my brain, I suppose. Looking at stuff, seeing it's untidy, and then doing something about it without complaining or thinking ill thoughts about chores…this is rather novel behavior from me. I find I enjoy the quiet. It helps me just to SEE things. Really see things. I think I'm stuck in my own head a lot of the time, processing things.
I have three ongoing projects for the coming two weeks: web application programming, organizing the printable CEO stuff by type of solution, and streamlining my e-commerce platforms for making listings faster under my own website.
ANYWAY…here's the time log:
0745 to 0830: Wake up, shower, cook breakfast
0830 to 0900: Vacuum, tidy up the kitchen table, wash dishes
0900 to 0930: Scan wunderlist, basecamp, email, calendar to construct today's giant list of things for the week. This gives me an overview of what should be on my mind. Also went through finances and invoice ages. One is at 100 days, the heavily-discounted one. Typical. The others are hitting around net 30. I will want to generate more invoices for the coming month.
0930 to 1330: I actually fell asleep…I guess trying to cheat myself of sleep never works. I can't play games with this.
The day is rapidly degenerating into a non-productive day. I'm at home, and I'm supposed to be focusing on stuff, but there is a lot of distractions along the line of home improvements and tweaks. On the other hand, I may have fixed most of them today.
1330 to 1645: Found my check supply, sorted mail. Also downloading and installing 5 different versions of Linux on this old laptop for a friend of mine, who is computer-challenged. I know…Linux? The problem is she that she keeps running into viruses on Windows XP, as she doesn't keep the machine turned on all the time so it can actually update itself. So far, I've tried Jolicloud (maddeningly slow on this Presario 2700), ubuntu-10.04LTS (buggy display driver) and now I am about to try linux mint 11 LXDE.
1645 to 1830: Started preparing a package to mail to Taiwan, filling out the cumbersome customs declaration and weighing the contents of everything in the package. A DVD, which wouldn't play on my computer, needed to be further tested in different devices. I ripped the contents of the DVD just to be on the safe side, on a machine that could read it. Then, I was about to fix the front screen door, which has been broken for the past eight years, when I discovered I was still missing one small part: a bracket. I know I must have squirreled it away somewhere, but alas, I don't know where it is. I may have to fabricate something, or buy all new screen parts. I now have to measure the door. Sigh. I tried to find a bracket at Home Depot, but the part is specific to this manufacturer (now defunct). I did buy some rubber bumpers, though, for the standing desk; I find that leaning against it helps stabilize it against the wall, so rubber bumpers might help spread that out a bit. The wobbly tabletop is not conducive to drawing or writing.
1830 to 2130: Cooked, ate dinner. Also took another pass at installing Mint 11 LXDE. The user experience of Linux is quite bad, compared even to Windows XP. There are many small instances where feedback is completely lacking, or there are bugs in the installation, or subtle breaks in the way things work. I suppose it's pretty cool that it works 95% of the time, but each installation has a few broken pieces about it unless you're working with the very latest stuff with a late-model computer. Basic things like race conditions aren't anticipated in the install scripts, and custom installation options tend to break. Video driver support is spotty; three different distros of Ubuntu detected my video chipset in 3 ways; only Mint detected it correctly. Very frustrating. I think everyone should just buy iPads, at this point, if they are just using computers and not creating things.
2130 to 2200: I have a long day tomorrow. Going to throw in a load of laundry and hit the sack.
I didn't get anything meaningfully productive done, as far as billable work, marketing, or new products are concerned. It was an "office" day. Minor inefficiencies were eliminated, and the environment was tidied up. I did also start to crack a few of the pain-in-the-ass projects: mailing packages, taking care of bills, doing some household maintenance and cleaning. I thought about how I could proceduralize some of this too. Vacuuming, for example, could be handled with the vacuum plugged in at exactly one location, as the cord is long enough and the house is small enough to reach all three floors from one outlet. Amazing.
Tomorrow I will be working away from home almost all day, but the evening I will be back. I'll probably be too tired to work. Tackling the creative projects at home, and making it easier to start them, will be the emphasis of the coming week.


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How Mature Are We, Really, When It Comes to Language?
By Nataly Kelly
I will never forget the first time I heard the word "transcreation." I was attending a health care conference and a physician friend of mine was explaining how some of his colleagues used a new process that enabled health education materials to provide more culturally relevant information. He explained that, instead of just converting the information from one language to another, transcreation took into account cultural nuances, adapting the format, the images, and much more.
"But we already have a word for that in the translation field," I countered. "It's called localization!" The fact that I was reacting so severely to a word—any word—was a pretty bad sign. After all, anyone with a background in linguistics knows that we should always look at words objectively, with professional interest, but never with disdain. Unfortunately, sometimes even those of us who pride ourselves on our professionalism can forget this momentarily, letting our passion for words run wild. In this case, I could not stop myself from uttering a question to my friend that I have come to despise: "Why do people see the need to invent a new term when we already have one that means the same thing?"
I look back on that incident with embarrassment, for it was clearly a moment of linguistic immaturity on my part. Obviously, people invent new terms because this is the nature of language itself. It is growing and evolving constantly. Would botanists chastise a plant for changing its color to adapt to a new environment, or shake their heads in dismay if a species of bird began to grow fewer feathers in a warmer climate? Surely not. They would take note of it, observe it, and use the information to go about their work. They would not blame the plant or animal. So why do those of us who work in the language field often take things so personally when it comes to language?
In a previous article, I wrote about the fact that as translators and interpreters, we are in a relatively small linguistic group of our own.1 Even the way we define the word "translation" often differs from the way the general public uses this term, and from the way most dictionaries define it. Even though translators and interpreters are language professionals, we often become irate when we hear people use a word in a way that we believe is incorrect. Ironically, most professional codes of ethics specify that we should carry out our work in a way that is free of bias.
Do we really always adhere to that? I would argue that most of us find it difficult, and that viewing language in an unbiased way takes time, practice, and the most critical ingredient—awareness. Let me offer a few common examples.
• Do you believe that one regional version of a language is "better" than another? If so, you have a bias. A linguist would point out that those regional varieties are merely different. The question of which one becomes standard and which ones are viewed as nonstandard is typically linked to economic, political, and societal reasons—not purely linguistic ones.
• Do you believe that language should remain "pure?" There is a term for this in the field of sociolinguistics: "linguistic purism." This mindset attempts to prioritize the language as spoken by one group over others in order to shield it from outside influences. Had the linguistic purists in Shakespeare's day been successful, the English language would never have benefited from the hundreds of new words and phrases he popularized, such as "fashionable," "sanctimonious," "full circle," and many others.2 At that time in history, playwrights were not viewed as intellectuals. They were found at the very bottom of the literary totem pole, like a modern-day version of a celebrity gossip magazine. Tempted to shake your head at the words "cray-cray" and "wackadoo" in the latest headline of the Enquirer? Stop to consider that these are simply an accurate reflection of modern language evolution.
• Do you laugh when people pronounce things "wrong?" If you snicker every time someone says "nuc-u-lur" instead of "nu-cle-ar," ask yourself why you believe that millions of people living in the southern part of the U.S. do not have the right to pronounce the word as they see fit. After all, many Brits look down at Americans for
"mispronouncing" the word "aluminum" because we do not say "aluminium" with the extra "i." What is considered standard in one place is not standard in the next, but that does not mean it is incorrect. Obviously, there is such a thing as a language learner or even a native speaker completely botching a pronunciation. Do not be too quick to assume that someone's pronunciation is incorrect, or you might be reflecting a bias on your part.
• Do you cringe when you hear an Anglicism in another language? I have seen many a mournful look cross the faces of translators and interpreters when discussing Anglicisms that are supposedly "contaminating" a language. This view is another version of linguistic purism. Imagine what English would be like if we had tried to ban all of the terms from Latin that entered the language. The reality is that no one can stop people and cultures from coming into contact with each other, and as they do, languages change. This phenomenon is natural and has existed for as long as people and their languages have.
When I worked as an interpreter trainer, I often found that the interpreters in my orientation trainings would complain about how people speak a regional variety of a language. In the case of Spanish, my interpreters from Spain often struggled with Caribbean Spanish. People from some parts of South America would have trouble with Mexican regionalisms. Sometimes, interpreters from an urban setting would complain when they had to interpret for people from a rural area, even if they were all from the same country! I recall one interpreter who told me that whenever someone from Mexico used the word mueble, a regional term for "car," she made sure to "teach" them the proper word, which, according to her, was automóvil. The way she explained it was condescending and judgmental. I quickly pointed her back to the impartiality tenet of the interpreting code of ethics, but she remained convinced that her word was right and theirs was wrong.
My unfortunate outburst with my physician friend was simply another manifestation of the same snare trapping that interpreter—an overly emotional attachment to language. As years went by and I did more research, I was forced to admit to myself that I had been dead wrong. The research proved that transcreation is in fact a very different thing from localization.3 Transcreation is used in several very specific fields, including the video gaming industry, the advertising industry, and in cross-cultural health settings. I learned that instead of being billed on a per-word basis, transcreation services are billed by the hour. I also learned that instead of starting with a source text, transcreation starts with a creative brief. I discovered that instead of having an objective of rendering the same information faithfully, transcreation's goal is to produce a desired outcome, even if it means using completely different words, images, and media. I now know that transcreation is a much more common term in the U.K. than in the U.S., and that many companies even count it as a separate revenue stream from translation. So, as it turned out, I had been dead wrong. Transcreation actually does not have that much in common with localization after all.
Any time we find ourselves judging, especially in a negative way, the way someone else uses words, we are diminishing ourselves as professionals instead of opening our minds to the beauty and diversity of language itself. It is one thing to identify attributes of a word in a detached and neutral way so that we can select the perfect option. It is quite another to react negatively to a newly created term, a nonstandard pronunciation, or a creative use of grammar. After all, if we want our professions to thrive, we need to evolve right along with the ever-changing, ever-growing languages in which we work.
Today, I make a conscious and concerted effort to keep an open mind when it comes to language, not only because of the professional vows we all take to translate and interpret with objectivity and impartiality, but because I believe it is a sign of maturity when it comes to understanding language from various perspectives. I have to work as hard as anyone else to remind myself of the importance of this. And, even though I know it can hurt to hear it, I also feel it is important to remind others of this responsibility.
The point? Even if we find them abrasive initially, terms like "transcreation" and "cray-cray" will never stop popping up and taking us by surprise. We can either adopt an open, accepting approach to language or a fearful and purist one. Which one sounds more mature? Language evolution will never go away, so there is really no point in being emotional about it. If we want to show true professionalism when it comes to language, we must leave linguistic loathing to the amateurs.
1. Kelly, Nataly. "The Words We Use to Describe Ourselves," The ATA Chronicle (October 2012), www.atanet.org/chronicle/feature_article_october2012.php.
2. Vernon, Jennifer. "Shakespeare's Coined Words Now Common Currency," National Geographic News (April 22, 2004), http://bit.ly/nationalgeographic-shakespeare.
3. Ray, Rebecca, et al. "Reaching New Markets through Transcreation," Common Sense Advisory (March 2010), http://bit.ly/commonsenseadvisory-transcreation.


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(MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 2/2/18) – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today called on law enforcement authorities in that state to investigate a possible threat to a Muslim mayoral candidate in Rochester, Minn.
Candidate Regina Mustafa reported that an individual self-identified as "Militia Movement" left a comment last night stating "EXECUTE all muslims [sic] in America" on one of her Google Plus postings from June of 2017.
Mustafa told CAIR she has reported the apparent threat to the Rochester Police Department. She believes the threatening comment was prompted by news of her mayoral candidacy.
"We urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this implicit threat of violence targeting a member of a minority community seeking to take part in our nation's political process," said CAIR-MN Executive Director Jaylani Hussein.
First and foremost, we remind our community members and supporters that this is one of many fights for social justice playing out in the federal government this week - while we are focused on the Muslim Ban, we are supportive of those who are advocating for DACA protections and those who are challenging the proposed tax plan.
Today's developments have raised numerous concerns and questions, which we attempt to answer below. Please note that this information is subject to change based on the various legal challenges that may be advanced in court. The interpretations below can change quickly and we will update you should that happen.
Saturday, November 18, 2017 | 1:00 to 3:00 pm @ St. Cloud Public Library
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The Superior International Junior Hockey League announced Tuesday that Ryan Howe of the Red Lake Miners has been named its Rookie of the Year for the 2019-20 season, in voting completed by each of its member clubs.
Young earned league the laurels over fellow nominees, Nikolas Campbell of the Thunder Bay North Stars and Amraj Gill of the Dryden GM Ice Dogs.
A solid initial campaign in the SIJHL saw Howe play at over a point-per-game pace with Red Lake as he accumulated 58 in 55 outings on 20 tallies and 38 assists.
The Caledon, Ont., product, who turned 19 in late January, saw his numbers pace all league rookies and had him finish fifth overall, among all SIJHL skaters, in offensive production.
This marks the second consecutive year a member of the Miners organization has won this award as Howe joins Bryce Young, who accomplished the feat in 2018-19, as a recipient.
The following is the list of the SIJHL's all-time Rookie of the Year award recipients:
2019-20: Ryan Howe, Red Lake Miners
2018-19: Bryce Young, Red Lake Miners
2017-18: Keighan Gerrie, Thunder Bay North Stars
2016-17: Eric Stout, Dryden GM Ice Dogs
2015-16: Cole Tymkin, Fort Frances Lakers
2014-15: Bradley Belisle, Thunder Bay North Stars
2013-14: Lucas DeBenedet, Fort Frances Lakers
2012-13: Jake Larson, Minnesota Wilderness
2011-12: Jordan Larson, Fort Frances Lakers
2010-11: Austin Adduono, Wisconsin Wilderness
2009-10: Jameson Shortreed, Fort Frances Lakers
2008-09: Jay Pelletier, Fort William North Stars
2007-08: Mitch Cain, Fort Frances Jr. Sabres
2006-07: Kale Kerbashian, Fort William North Stars
2005-06: Dustin Fummerton, Fort William North Stars
2004-05: Andrew Fernandez, Fort William North Stars
2003-04: Cody Mosbeck, Dryden Ice Dogs
2002-03: Jamie Silverson, Thunder Bay Bulldogs
2001-02: Kevin Webb, Borderland Thunder
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Table of Content
- Client Overview
- Engagement Situation & Challenges
- Key Engagement Objectives
- Xoriant Solution
- Xoriant Major Contributions
- Tools And Technologies
- Client Benefits
Our client is a leading search company, specializing in executive search, business intelligence and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Our client facilitates corporate recruitment teams and executive search firms to track, map and engage the best talent for senior management, professional and technical positions.
Our client has an established clientele ranging across various industries, including Financial Services, Legal, Engineering, Technology, Life Sciences and Consumer Products. Our client operates in a blended offshore/onshore model to provide the economic benefits of outsourcing to their customers, which are serviced globally from our client's offices in UK, Australia, Singapore and India.
Our client's business requires storing huge amount of candidates' data, which is accessed and referred on an everyday basis. With the increasing number of candidates, it was becoming extremely difficult for our client to store and manage this humungous data.
To facilitate this business critical process, our client had implemented a CRM solution for collecting and storing the entire candidate data. Our client had employed 100+ operators for research, analysis and entry of candidate's data into the CRM solution. Key challenges faced by our client while using CRM solution were:
Low productivity for 100+ operators due to cumbersome workflows
Performance issues, leading to higher time per candidate profile entry
Inflexibility of the solution for any customization
Non-intuitive user interface
Limited availability of management reports for decision cycles
Due to these reasons, despite of storing a massive amount of data, the system was underutilized and MS Excel spreadsheets were used. The data was entered on the Excel sheets which were then fed into the CRM, resulting in twice the effort and time required for the process.
Our client realized that current CRM solution is not adequate for their growth and it was becoming a huge bottleneck in day to day business operations. Our client was looking for a product engineering partner who would be responsible for end-to-end product development including product architecture and quality assurance. Our client was looking for an agile innovative partner who will understand the complex process of recruitment services and their core business requirements.
A key requirement was also to ensure that the huge data residing on the legacy system is converted into a useful format and is migrated to the new system without any data loss.
Some of the key engagement objectives of the proposed engagement were:
Migrating about 200 GB of data from the existing legacy system to the new solution with no data loss.
Providing a dashboard view for the senior management to provide them with a summary view of the current open positions and the resource performance.
Designing and developing an ad-hoc reporting mechanism to support varied customer requirements.
The system was required to be available throughout with zero downtime and providing quick response time.
Product was required to be launched within 3 months of the engagement inception.
Xoriant has extensive experience in product engineering and has executed several successful end-to-end product development engagements right from product architecting, development, testing, technical support and quality assurance. Additionally Xoriant provides recruitment services for number of IT companies in the US for their niche resource requirements, thus it has complete knowledge of the recruitment domain. Due to these reasons, Xoriant proved a right match for our client's requirement.
Xoriant formed a core development team of technical architect and domain expert who conducted several meetings with the client personnel to get an in-depth understanding of the client processes and business requirements. An engagement roadmap was charted out with clear milestones and deliverables defined to ensure meeting the stringent release schedules.
Xoriant team proposed a solution with n-tier architecture with the (presentation, service, business, data access and infrastructure layer) for a loosely coupled design so as to enable incorporating changes easily without affecting the other components. (Reusability)
Xoriant team brainstormed with our client representatives and decided to develop the system using nHibernate (Object relational mapper), Spring and Microsoft .Net components to design and develop loosely coupled objects to ensure extensibility and scalability.
This was a critical system with a high volume of inbound requests and outbound data, which was required to consistently provide desired peak output without impacting the performance and with no downtime. Hence, we implemented failover clusters ensuring high availability.
Xoriant team decided to adopt test driven development methodology during component development. NUnit was used to create test cases for extensible solution. Xoriant team decided to develop an automated tool to ensure error free migration of the huge data from the legacy system. The automated tool would also provide the system user the flexibility to import data multiple times without the risk of corrupting the existing data.
We also provided a functionality wherein emails were automatically triggered to a configurable set of users on completion of different events or milestones like adding a new client to the system, closure of any requirements, any client escalations, etc. This was implemented using Quartz.Net.
Some of our key contributions in this assignment were:
Designed and developed a custom component, which retrieves data from multiple Excel sheets, performs data sanitization, data validations and establishes entity relationships within the master tables of SQL database before importing into the new system.
Designed and developed a scheduler, which schedules the custom component for data import to run as a nightly job. The scheduler generates a log of records failing the import using Log4Net and triggers an email to the back office administrator for further action.
Used JQ grid to design a hierarchical view dashboard, which provides summary of resource performances in real time. A color coded view allows senior management to drill down to lowest work effort on open position or resource performance and facilitates decision making.
Designed and developed an ad-hoc reporting tool using JQueryUI & custom SQL backend engine. Several filters were provided to enable generation of various reports in both tabular and graphical format, which could be exported and saved as an MS Excel and pdf documents.
Implemented a load-balanced server farm failover safety design of IIS web servers & SQL servers to ensure high availability and improved performance.
. Net Framework 3.5
MS SQL Server 2008 R2
NHibernate (Object Relational Mapper)
Spring.Net (IOC container for object management)
Log4Net (For Logs)
NUnit (For Automated testing)
JQuery (JavaScript library for client side processing)
AJAX Toolkit (for processing AJAX requests)
IIS Server 6.0+ Web Server
Reduced the end user workflow (processing) time by more than 30% leading to improved operator productivity.
Facilitated quick decision making by the management by providing a reporting dashboard indicating major performance parameters and statistics.
Reduced running cost by upwards of 30% by migrating from legacy systems and adopting several open source software for developing the new system.
Improved the performance by 20% due to reduced errors resulting from erroneous data spread across different database in the legacy system.
Client Testimonials
I would like to give a special acknowledgement to the Xoriant team for all their hard work and dedication on this project. Although the workflows within the product were quite complex in nature, the team has done a wonderful job to understand and implement it. We are very happy with the level of commitment shown by every team member of Xoriant towards achieving the aggressive timelines in delivering the product. We look forward to making them our technology partner and work with them on many more engagements.
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The role of contract administrators and project managers
Contract administrators, project managers and contractors play a key role in construction contracts.
The project manager
A Project Manager (PM) is the person who manages a construction project; they'll have overall responsibility for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of a project. They must have a combination of skills, including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflicts, as well as more general management skills required in construction management.
The main tasks of a PM are:
- To mobilise and coordinate all parties involved
- To enter into contracts on behalf of the developer
- To arrange the entire process of construction as authorised by the developer
- To perform all activities necessary to put the development into operation
The contract administrator
In the construction industry, the Contract Administrator (CA) is the individual responsible for administering the construction standard contracts. The CA could be a project architect or a construction manager or any consultant assigned by the client.
For the UK, the difference between a CA and a PM is that the CA is used in Joint Contract Tribunal (JCT) contracts while PM is the term used in New Engineering Contracts (NEC).
The contractors and sub-contractors
A contractor is an individual or organisation involved in carrying out construction works from the beginning to the end. However, the contractor may engage other groups of contractors (sub-contractors) to carry out different portions of the assigned work.
Contractors may vary from main contractor, prime contractors, management contractors depending on the type of construction project.
Your task
If you were a client and would like to engage a contractor for a project, what characteristics would you seek from the person? Share your answer in the comments area and explain your reasoning.
Further reading
If you'd like to learn more about construction management, you may want to read the following publication:
Lam, P. and Chen, A. (1994) Construction Management as a Procurement Method: A New Direction, CIBI.
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Writer: Julie M. Hughes, 575-646-1953, firstname.lastname@example.com
New Mexico State Universitys College of Education will host a Discovery Night from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, at the El Paso Community College Administrative Services Building, 9050 Viscount Blvd. The event will highlight graduate programs that use a distance-delivery model.
This is a chance to share opportunities with employees at El Paso Community College, alumni in the area and anyone who might be interested in pursing a graduate degree, said Adelina Rodriguez, a student program coordinator for the college. We will particularly focus on distance-delivery models to earn a masters or doctoral degree for those who want to advance their education, but cannot leave their positions to pursue a more traditionally delivered graduate program.
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For the third consecutive year, NMSU was recently ranked as one of the Best Online Education Programs according to U.S. News & World Report, including ranking 157th in Best Online Graduate Education Programs.
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My partner lynne and I are visiting Crete again for the 3rd time. We like to see what the world has to offer but Crete and Greece in general never disappoints us.
In 2007 we toured the white mountains on a Africa Twin from Georges Motos, whilst based in Hersonissos and we didn't get that far west, so this time we are staying in Platanes whilst on leave from our jobs in education and the city council.
So if anyone has any tips for tracking down moto-bike hire in this region or any other information for this stunning island we will catch up with in the forum pages.
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Well hey everyone just finished up my conversation with my Mum & Dad hadn't spoke to them in about i dunno 4 months or something properly so just had a lovely 4hours and 30mins skype conversation with them and i gotta say one thing "I HATE FRICKEN SKYPE!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!??!" I mean seriously how long has the program been active and yet they still can't get a nice smooth conversation with video!, our video's kept stopping and starting and the actual sound from both sides kept cutting out i mean it makes it extreamly fricken difficult to have a good conversation when you miss out every second word due to Skype lag... So im now putting my hatred not only towards people but towards stupid PC applications!!!! DAMN YOU SKYPE, BURN IN HELL!
On the plus side it was great to speak to them again, i speak to them alot via Facebook chat etc but it's really not the same thing now is it, and i have to admit i kinda miss them alot.. Normally we go over there once a year or my parents come out here to Sweden to visit us but unfortunatly due to money it's just not been possible for either of us to do it this year, us mainly for the fact we have Kaiser and it costs alot of money when you don't know anyone to put him into what basically is a doggy daycare type thing.
But all in all i really enjoyed it, my dad never ever changes no matter how long you don't speak you can go back to him a year later and he's still his silly amazing self.. Although i could have swung for him with a 2x4 when he decided that he would give the kids candy......... Yea candy over a PC Application, everyone knows this is not possible so his way was here kids have this peice of candy oh wait you can't touch it or eat not to worry i'll eat it for you i mean seriously! that's just evil!!!
My mum well she's my mum lovely in everyway but always trying to keep my dad undercontrol although i think she finds it a bit hard since when him and the kiddies get together it's like a competition in who can be the most retarded, and in all honesty it's very hard to determine who's the winner out of them 3 lol. He is pretty much as bad as the kids are!
Unfortunalty my sister wasn't around until the very end of the conversation so didn't get much time to talk to her, but she will probably just harass me on Facebook like she normally does so it's all good there i think ;) She will no doubt go nuts at me saying harass and have a massive rage at me lol!!! :P
Anyways i think that is me for today, had a pretty decent day today and got quite a bit done and as i said above a really great chat with my folks! But yea hopefully tomorrow i can get everything i need done quite quickly ingame and then i get a few days off with just hanging around and chilling with the kids..
I'll leave my Blog for tonight off with this article from the BBC News that my partner found, just reading it made me want to piss myself laughing and thinking about what sort of religion i could come up with, i mean i always think im a GOD so why not make up my own religion so i am one!!!! haha.
Anyways enjoy the article and i will post some more tomorrow :)
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