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GEO354 Geography of Asia
This course examines the physical and cultural geography of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Using case studies, the course focuses on rural and urban landscapes, natural resource distributions, population dynamics, economic development, and natural disasters.
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1. Re: Performed TestsMakmat Jul 15, 2011 4:47 AM (in response to Makmat)
About PSU:
- i've changed power cable
- iv'e changed where does cable attach to the wall
- [ADDED] checked power connections (not for GPU and NIC), all seems ok
Notes through Intel Desktop:
- Voltage given to Processor is equal to 0,809 (near lower limit): is this thanks to intel features technology?
Thermal Notes:
- The only and the most hot device, is the one that Intel Desktop don't monitors, PSU.
General Notes:
- I've opened the case and watch hardware to see if there was any wrong on it's behaviour:
- I've just only noticed that before shutting down (less than a second before), it blinks one time the 'proc hot cr2pr' led (i think it's processor led)
- There's any way to get the logs of the BIOS?
- I think that over the half past 3 hours, after PC finished formatting external HDD and didn't was doing anything, it reached i high temperature; is any component on the Motherboard, that damaged from temperature, reboots continously after using pc for about 20 minutes?
- [ADDED] Does Drivers from NVIDIA change GPU's firmware too ?
On BIOS, i've setted some values:
-> Sata Devices where set for AHCI mode
-> Sata Devices Boot Order where changed
-> All Boot Optimization Options where enabled
-> Virtualization was enabled
2. Re: Performed Tests IIMakmat Jul 15, 2011 6:25 AM (in response to Makmat)
About SATA devices:
- i've desattached SATA cables and Power Cables for SSD and HDD
About OPTICAL device:
- i've desattached SATA and Power cable
About USB devices & Audio (Mouse,Keyboard,Audio):
-i've disattached them
About GPU:
-I've disattached connection to display (VGA)
About NIC:
-I've disattached the three external antennas
[ADDED] About RAM:
-I've tried leaving just 2 RAMs each one on the blue DIMM's, as manual follows
General notes:
-i've noted that before rebooting the number display near CPU (POST code led DS3BU, titled "CPU - DP55WG(B)"), begans to display different codes
- Auxiliary PCI Express graphics power connector it's not used
3. Re: Performed Tests II
did you disconnected all drives? if yes, does motherboard restarts yet after 20 mins? connect only CPU,moniotor and keyboard.
then check to PSU with digi multimeter how much current its impacting and check with another CPU fan.
4. Re: Performed Tests IIMakmat Aug 12, 2011 1:40 PM (in response to shri )
I couldn't do any further intervention because it's under garauntee, so i've passed the problem to the seller company where i boght it.
5. Re: [DP55WG] Loop Reboot issueMakmat Aug 12, 2011 1:42 PM (in response to Makmat)
It was a motherboard issue, things where fixed.

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Ann Noble has over thirty years experience in health facility planning and design. This has been gained from involvement in the Department of Health Hospitals Research and Development Programmes from 1971-1975, as researcher at the Medical Architecture Research Unit (MARU) at the Polytechnic of North London from 1976-1989, and from within her own practice established in 1989 which undertakes both UK and overseas work. She has undertaken short term overseas consultancy assignments for the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Overseas Development Agency (ODA) and the European Economic Community (EEC). She is currently a member of the UK Construction Industry Council Public Sector Procurement Panel, a member of the NHS Estates Building Design Knowledge Group, Patient Environment Steering Group, and Health Care Associated Infection Working Group. She is Chair of Architects for Health, a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) linked society.
Her research work has focused on the functional requirements of health buildings with the principal areas of study being designing to reduce healthcare associated infection, designing for mental health services, acute in-patient wards, accommodation for the elderly, out-patient services and primary care facilities.


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10 Reasons The NBA Will Be Fun To Watch Again After The All Star Break
Fans and players don't usually agree on most things, but there's been a consensus idea about the 2013-14 NBA season so far: It stinks. The injuries, the poor play, and other unforeseen obstacles have turned what could have been one the NBA's best seasons into a true snooze fest, so far. But there are some signs of hope, a few reasons to believe that good pro basketball is right around the corner.


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After a tragic accident that nearly caused her death, Lia loses her memory. She can't remember anything that happened to her before that fatal day; anything except one name. One name she keeps repeating over and over again: Zayn.
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(TIMES247) — Many voters say this presidential election comes down to the economy. Others say they're voting on social issues like abortion, or foreign policy and America's role in the world.
But Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliot believe it's about much more. Economic recovery and foreign policy, they say, are only pieces of a much larger issue at stake: liberty.
"The danger is that 2012 may not only the most important election of our lifetimes, but that it will be the last chance we have to save liberty as Americans have known it since 1776," they write in their recently released book, "Fool Me Twice: Obama's Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed."
In his now-infamous "flexibility" comments to Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year, President Obama revealed that he has a hidden agenda ready to implement after re-election.
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Home > Divisions & Offices > Fire Safety > Bureaus & Offices > Office of Fire Department Preparedness
Office of Fire Department Preparedness
The OFDP will:
- Assist the State Fire Coordinator in the deployment of resources in major incidents or events.
- Provide assistance and support to the County Fire Coordinators prior to and during major incidents or events.
Provide training and education to County Fire Coordinators.
- Collect and disseminate fire service resource information.
- Work on projects that will enhance the response capabilities of the fire service of New Jersey.
- Develop working relationships with federal, state, county and local agencies.
- Assist local fire departments and County Fire Coordinators in developing and refining mutual aid plans.
- Respond to major emergencies throughout the State and region.
- Staff State, County and Local EOC's when requested.
- Research, develop and implement statewide interoperability solutions.
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A cookware store hopes a new premises will be a recipe for success as it moves into an historic building.
After a year of trading from Bakewell's Hebden Court, Bakewell Cookshop has moved to the former Skidmore's building in Matlock Street.
The new store, occupying the Grade II listed building, offers shoppers nearly 1000 square feet of high quality cookware, including Sheffield Made knives, design led gifts and kitchen essentials.
Owners Mark Pilkington and David Kidd started bakewellcookshop.com in 2012 from their offices on Ashford Road.
Since then the business has gone from strength to strength. After opening their first store in Spring 2013, they quickly realised they needed a much larger shop.
"The minute we saw the new premises on Matlock Street up for sale, we were hooked. The quality of the restoration undertaken by the previous owner was remarkable and offered the perfect space for the fantastic products we've already garnered a reputation for selling" said Mark.
"It's been obvious from the response we've had while getting the store ready that we've made the right choice. I'm confident we have one of the best spots in the town," David added. "We are so grateful for the feedback we've received so far from local customers and traders".
Bakewell mayor Paul Morgans formally opened the store on Sunday, and to thank the town for its support, the store donated a percentage of the opening day's takings to Bakewell–based charity Helen's Trust.
For regular updates on Bakewell Cookshop, follow it on Twitter @Hebden_Court. For more information about Helen's Trust, visit helenstrust.org.uk


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Mujahid 9th Conference
Mujahid 9th Conference
Calicut International Airport, also known as Karipur Airport, is an international airport serving the Metropolitan area of Kozhikode and rural Malabar in Kerala, India. It is located in Karipur, about 28 km from Kozhikode and 25 km from Malappuram.
PrefaceIn the early 20th century, Kerala witnessed widespread socio-cultural reformation movements in all religious communities. These social changes were pioneered by Chattampi Swamikal (1853-1924) among Namboothiris, Ayyankali (1863- 1941) among Pulayas, Sri Narayana Guru (1855-1928) and Dr. Padmanabhan Palpu (1863–1950) among Ezhavas, Mannath Padmanabhan (1878-1970) among Nair Hindus, and Sanaulla Makti Thangal (1847-1914) among Muslims.
Makti Thangal travelled throughout Kerala urging the illiterate and ignorant Muslims to liberate themselves from the abyss of superstitions and extremism. His religious discourses were enthusiastically attended by believers from other communities too, thus bringing about harmony and cooperation among the people of Kerala. Subsequently, the deviant Muslim sects who were led by traditionalist clerics, started disintegrating one by one. Kerala Muslim Aikya Sangham the first Muslim Organization in Kerala was established by Makti Thangal in 1922. It was the first organization to work with the mission of eemancipating Muslim minority from the clutches of unholy priesthood and appalling educational backwardness. Aikya Sangham strengthened its operations by liberating Muslim students from the dark inner chambers of mosques to the brighter world of modern Madrassa system. In 1924, Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulema (KJU) started functioning in spreading the mission of Muslim Aikya Sangham. Devout scholars like Chalilakath Kunhammed Haji, Vakkom Abdul Qader Moulavi, K M Moulavi, K M Seethi Sahib and many other leaders inspired the reformation movement considerably. Eventually by late 1940s, Amani Moulavi and K.M. Moulavi led the Islahi movement in a more organized way. In 1950, the organizational outfit of the movement was named as Kerala Nadwathul Mujahideen (KNM). Its first meeting was held at Calicut city in 1950. In this first session, an appeal was made for resolving the differences among the Muslim society for creating an atmosphere of unity and co-operation by educating the masses. In 1954, KNM was registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.
Pious scholars like M.K. Haji, E.K. Moulavi, N. V. Abdussalam Moulavi, K. P. Muhammad Moulavi, Shaikh Muhammed Moulavi, A. P. Abdul Qadir Moulavi, A. V. Abdurahman Haji and Dr. Usman Sahib were the erstwhile prominent leaders of the Movement. KNM is now led by T.P. Abdulla Koya Madani (President), Dr Hussain Madavur (Vice President) and P. P. Unneenkutty Moulavi (General Secretary).
KNM has now grown up into a huge organization spreading Allah's Divine Message of Touhid, among the entire Muslim community across the borders of Kerala and to all other parts of India .
Right from its inception, the main objectives of KNM included the following:To infuse Muslim masses with true Islamic faith, life pattern and culture according to the Islamic discipline stipulated in Quran and Sunnah and to safeguard them from superstition, divergences and terrorism.To engage in such activities as are necessary for educational development of all communities in general; and the Muslim communities in particularTo establish a central Arabic institute in Kerala which would serve as a useful Centre for studying Arabic language and literature and in theological subjects.
Now in the wake of incessant blitz of modernization, innovation and sophistication, educational systems are driven to paradigm shifts in campuses. Postmodern campuses are intellectual battlefields, where students have deep convictions about race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. As Michael Shermer wrote in the Scientific American (September 2017), social justice antipathy of modern students toward capitalism, racism, caste feelings, ethic supremacy privilege, misogyny and "cissexist hetero-patriarchy" have been stumbling blocks in the path of realization of human values and morality, which ultimately lead to campus chaos and even violence. Unfortunately this deadly epidemic has percolated into Muslim educational institutions too. So it is strongly felt that KNM should take up leadership and lead the way to an effective and professional educational strategy for spreading the Islamic value system and imparting modern education among Muslims.
KNM's Vision is a blueprint of KNM's strategic planning ranging from its organizational structure to the humanitarian operations. Needless to say, the benefits of strategic planning can be used to formulate and design KNM's vision and mission, values, goals and objectives, priorities, roles and responsibilities, and timelines. The derivative benefits of a accurately framed vision are: profound realization of ethical and moral values upheld by KNM; awareness of environmental issues and close relationship with nature; continuous and sustainable development and creative feedback from the society.
Vision of KNMWorld's pioneer organization for spreading Allah's Divine Message of Al-Touhid
Mission of KNMEmancipation of Muslims from educational, socio-cultural and religious backwardness; guidance to the righteous path of Islam; empowerment of the community with tolerance, harmony and peace,
Core ValuesIslam and its basic teachings of Touhid are the raisons d'être of KNM. They form the basis of KNM's policies, rules and regulations, decisions, actions and goals. The basic tenets of Islam will be the motivating force for KNM to realize its vision. The guiding principles of KNM are:
Ethics – KNM works with IntegrityPeople – Courtesy and respect to the peopleKNM Workers – Important resource persons Excellence – Learning and improvement Teams – Working as team, respecting each otherAccountability – Focus on results
Objectives As true knowledge is derived from steadfast faith in the Creator, Quran and Sunnah; KNM will uncompromisingly work for the propagation of the Divine Message of Allah; Education is a prime mover towards growth of civilization, and no civilization can preserve its glory without dignified ethical foundations. Hence KNM attaches great significance to acquisition of both religious and modern knowledge and its dissemination to the root levels;KNM will lead and contribute to the welfare of the Muslim community and its beloved country by promoting knowledge through innovative teaching & learning, and research;Nurture professional leaders with sound religious knowledge and decorated with impeccable moral values;Since perception and attitude of Muslims about the community around, the environment and the nature is essential for better life here and the life hereafter, KNM will train its followers in skills required to achieve this goal.


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Manteca, CA
Raquel Rankin-Reindel
June 16, 1973 - February 13, 2013
Raquel Rankin-Reindel "Quel" was born in French Camp, CA on June 16, 1973 and departed on February 13, 2013. She was a loving daughter, wife, mother, sister and friend. Survived by her parents, David and Anita Rankin of Stockton; husband, Andrew Jon Reindel of Manteca; sons, David Joseph and Jaysen James and her siblings Eric and Danielle Rankin. She was preceded in death by her maternal and paternal grandparents, her brother James Rankin and several aunts and uncles.
In her young life, she touched many hearts and was well
respected by the community. Quel worked for Kaiser Permanente for over 18 years where she advanced through the company and was currently the Service Unit Manager for the entire Central
Valley Service Area. She and her husband co-founded the Lancer Youth Wrestling Club in Manteca, CA, where she was known as "Mom" to many of the youth. She was often found in a High School Gym taking stats, running tournaments or filming matches during wrestling season. When she wasn't on the mat, Quel was in the stands rooting for the Manteca Jaguars Youth Football Program. She loved fiercely, laughed often and danced like no one was watching. Those who knew her quickly realized that friends became family and she would do anything for her family.
A Funeral Mass will be held on
Wednesday, February 20 at 10:30 am at the Cathedral of the Annunciation with committal following at San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery. To sign the guest book, please visit www.frisbiewarrencarrollmortuary.com


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David A. Booth
7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind, by Anthony Selvaggio. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2011, 126 pages, $11.99.
God cares about our minds and calls us to "take every thought captive to obey Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5). Yet, while Christ is renewing our minds with his Word, the world is polluting our thinking through words and ideas of its own. What makes these worldly ideas so dangerous is that they are frequently taken for granted. Anthony Selvaggio, an RPCNA minister and visiting professor at Ottawa Theological Hall, wants to put an end to that. He has written this short book to expose the toxic ideas of our culture to the light of God's Word. The seven toxic ideas that he examines are technopoly, neophilia (an inordinate love for what is new and a disregard for history and tradition), egalitarianism, individualism, materialism, consumerism, and relativism.
Selvaggio writes in an engaging manner and peppers the text with apt quotations and illustrations. The book rightly maintains that the root of worldliness is in our minds and emotions:
While external behavior practices do matter, the real battle to avoid worldliness occurs internally, in our hearts and minds. While we have been consumed with external matters, worldliness has gained a foothold in our thought processes. Satan has been very successful in getting us to think like the world. (11)
The chapters on technopoly and consumerism are particularly strong, and all of the topics addressed are worthy of careful consideration. Every congregation would benefit from grappling with the subject matter of this book.
Regretfully this work bears the marks of being hastily written and contains occasional, presumably unintentional, theological lapses. For example, Selvaggio asserts that "our present earthly bodies are not as important as our souls because they have different destinies" (86). By contrast, historic Christianity confesses the resurrection and glorification of the body rather than its disposal and replacement. Our bodies and souls share identical ultimate destinies. This book also reflects an eighth toxic idea which is polluting our minds: the belief that complex subjects can be treated in ever shorter and simpler ways. Trying to address topics like neophilia or egalitarianism in less than ten minutes may comfort the already convinced, but it is unlikely to bring about meaningful change in anyone's thought or behavior. Furthermore, this approach easily moves from simple to simplistic with the result that opposing viewpoints are distorted beyond recognition. For example, Selvaggio asserts that "egalitarians genuflect before the idol of equality. For them, equality is all that matters, even if equality must be enforced by the iron fist of the state" (53–54). While that may describe some egalitarians, it is difficult to imagine prominent Christian egalitarians, such as Gordon Fee, F. F. Bruce, and Roger Nicole, being so sanguine about "the iron fist of the state." Due to these shortcomings, it is difficult to commend this book as one to be handed out or placed on a literature table in the back of the church.
In spite of the above reservations, this book provides an excellent framework to help a minister or elder teach through these well chosen topics. It would be extraordinarily time consuming and utterly unnecessary to prepare a series on these topics from scratch simply because this tool is less than perfect. It would be even worse for a congregation to leave these topics unexamined while waiting for a better book on the subject to come along. The pastor or elder who lightly edits the contents of this book and then supplements that with the Larger Catechism's teaching on the Ten Commandments will bring great blessing to those he teaches.
David A. Booth is an Orthodox Presbyterian minister serving as pastor of Merrimack Valley Presbyterian Church in North Andover, Massachusetts. Ordained Servant Online, April 2013.
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Upgrade to CommentLuv Pro For More Anti-Spam Heuristics
This plugin will add a client side generated checkbox to your comment form asking users to confirm that they are not a spammer.
It is a lot less trouble to click a box than it is to enter a captcha and because the box is genereated via client side javascript that bots cannot see, it should stop 99% of all automated spam bots.
A check is made that the checkbox has been checked before the comment is submitted so there's no chance that a comment will be lost if it's being submitted by legitimate human user.
To combat the new 'learning' bots, this plugin adds dynamically named fields to the comment form so each post has a differently named field and value.
You can set the maximum amount of comments a user can have in the moderation queue to protect you from comment floods (provided you haven't approved any of the spammers comments before)
*new! – prevent spambots from thinking they got links on your site by removing all links from comments that are waiting for moderation
You can get support and see this plugin in action at Growmap
This is provided for free by Andy Bailey
(please remember to delete your cache when you upgrade or change any settings if you are using a cache plugin)
Translations :
French : Frederic
Spanish : Ramon
Dutch : Onno
- You only need to specify which error messages to show when the user forgets to use the checkbox or no checkbox is present.
WordPress : Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.
WordPressMu : Same as above (do not place in mu-plugins)
- Installation Instructions
WordPress : Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.
WordPressMu : Same as above (do not place in mu-plugins)
- Does this plugin add any database tables?
- Will this plugin work with Disqus/Intense Debate/js-kit?
This will only work with the default WordPress comments system.
- The checkbox doesn't appear in my comment form
The checkbox only appears for logged out users.
- I am allowing trackbacks but I am being trackback spammed! what do I do?
You can download any of the number of trackback validation plugins which will check the trackback before allowing it or not.
- After having no spam I am now getting LOTS of spam, what do I do?
Sometimes scripts can semi automate spam and they know what the checkbox name is so they can automatically tick it.
Change the
checkbox namevalue in the settings page to something new (like change the number) so the autmoated systems don't know what the checkbox is called any more
You can also change the secret key value and set the maximum comments in moderation to a lower number.
- everyone is getting the error message
if you have a cache plugin, please clear all caches.
also, you can try saving the settings again to reset all the variables
Good, but does not work with HTTPS
After I switched from the HTTP protocol to HTTPS, this plugin did not work any longer. Commenting was no longer possible, and I could not even configure the plugin via Dashboard. The only way making commenting possible again was to deactivate/delete G.A.S.P. Very disappointing, because it really helped fighting spam.
Only thing that works for me
Akismet was worthless because it doesn't block automated bots and once you're on their lists they bury your site with them. I was up to 1000+ spam comments a day. That dropped to only 40 real comments (a few manually left spam, but easily controlled once the 960+ were blocked).
I do periodically change the random letters, numbers and characters any time I notice any spam coming in and that blocks them out again. Apparently, they can eventually crack that code no matter how long it is. But you can make them start over anytime you choose.
A great plugin that no longer works
I really hate to see this one go. I don't know what has changed but it doesn't block spam at all anymore, and hasn't for months.
I have used GASP for years and it's been great but about 6-8 months ago it just quit blocking spam. I don't know if spammers have gotten smarter (hint, they have. I've seen bot comment spammers for sale that can click "invisible" checkboxes like this easily), or maybe wordpress has updated and broke it. GASP has not been updated in a long time now and I don't know if it will ever be updated again.
I've maxed out the settings and played with everything but no luck. the checkbox is there, the other measures are there, I've changed my codes….but it just won't block the spam. With GASP running I get about 3-4 spam comments an hour on my high traffic sites.
I now use wp-spamshield without any problems. I really hope the creators of GASP bring some new updates in the future, I would love to come back because of the better options.
Works perfectly !!!
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- updated default number of words in name to 3
- updated url for simple trackback plugin to the new version
- updated : update readme to show compatibility with wp 3.8
- added : Dutch language added (thanks Onno Schuit)
- added : remove all links from a comment if it is in moderation. (prevents autospam bots like scrapebox from thinking they got through with a link)
- updated : compatibility with 3.7
- updated : $count is checked if it has a value before checking if it is greater than max_mod to hopefully elimate the problem of random users being told they have too many comments in moderation
- updated : set checkbox as descendant of label so users can click the label to tick the box (thanks Anthony T)
- updated : added a link back to the post with a query arg to fix pages that were expired and had old form fields on the die message
- updated : change refer check logic
- updated : add error codes to error messages
- updated : allow user to not use secret_key (set as no by default)
- fixed : max_mod kept reverting back to 3 due to get_options not saving version number
- updated : added warning message about clearing the cache if a user upgrades or changes settings and has a cache plugin installed
- updated : set the max_mod value during install if it doesn't exist
- updated : new readme
- updated : max_mod is set at 3 by default
- updated : readme.txt updated
- updated : allow option of using referer check or not in settings
- updated : use dynamic input field name so each post uses a different value and can't be learned for the whole site
- added : allow user to set maximum comments that can be held in moderation before new comments can be added (from CommentLuv Premium)
- added : add a referer check to start of check_comment
- updated : notices about undefined index when debug turned on
- updated : check $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is set and die if not
- updated : improved code for checkbox and label to help with styling (thanks James)
- updated : regex for saving secret key
- added : keep a count of bots caught
- added : ad box below author info
- added : new extra security added with secret_key
- added : insert commentdata as spam before wp_die so spammer can't keep submitting the same comment with new key try
- fixed : bug with gasp_check declaration using == instead of =
- added : keep a track of bot comments and show count in settings page (only bot comments, not forgotten checkboxes)
- fixed : prevent two checkboxes being rendered on some themes (nexus)
- allow blogger to change checkbox name in settings
- First version , commissioned by @phollows via @growmap
- tidied up options page and added field for checkbox label
- changed the hidden div with text type input to hidden input to prevent google toolbar from filling in the text field
- added client side alert if checkbox is not checked. @donnafontenot http://bit.ly/9Uqfxz
- release version
- use different method to identify submitted form for forms that have a submit button with no id or name set (@dragonblogger)
- ignore trackbacks and pingbacks (@basicblogtips)
- let blog owner to choose to allow trackbacks or not (@dragonblogger)
- add ability to specify maximum number of names or urls in content of comment. (@dragonblogger)
- choose where to send comment


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Issue raised by GSIM / DDI mapping work:
What is a non structured data set? Why do we need it?
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A nonstructured dataset is a A Data Set whose structure is not described in a Data Structure. Basically UnitDataSet and DimensionalDataSet require that there is a known structure (Data Structure). You couldn't use those concrete classes in GSIM to model the fact you know a dataset exists but you don't (yet) know its structure. In theory you might know whether it is a Unit data set or a Dimensional data set but you can't describe it formally as one or the other because you don't know its precise structure. (Note that to really define the structure you not just need to know what columns/fields exist but the variable being represented within each column/field.)
I agree the idea of a "nonstructured dataset" sounds odd.
One alternative would be to say that UnitDataSets and DimensionalDataSets can exist without having a (known) DataStructure. I'd be wary of that option, it means knowning there is a UnitDataSet or DimensionalDataSet does not imply it has a (knowable) DataStructure - it makes for a very "loose" model.
Another option might be to call such an object something different to a DataSet. I am not sure what the alternative name would be. That way you can say that by definition - as an abstract class - DataSets have a known structure associated with them.
I don't like the idea of simply saying such an object can't be described. You may wish to be able to say that a Data Resources exists with, eg, UnitDataSets associated with it (with known Structures), DimensionalDataSets associated with it (with known Structures) and some other "sets" of data for which the structure is not (yet) known. If there is no way to talk about other "sets" of data then you can't catalogue everything you know about the (eg external) data resource unless you know absolutely everything about every DataSet. For an external data source you may only wish to invest in investigating certain "sets" of data thoroughly, and understanding their structure, only at the time you have a potential use for them. If you can't even document that you know such sets of data exist, however, you won't know to come back and investigate them more fully later.
Whilst I remain to be convinced either way that we really need this object, perhaps a better term could be "DataPool". This would sort of mirror the approach in the Nordic Metamodel (used for some implementations of PC-Axis) where value sets are drawn from value pools, based on certain criteria. A DataPool could then be defined as a DataResource with an unknown structure. For me, this would logically refer just to unit data, as dimensional data must have at least one dimension, which means that structure is at least implicit.
Another option could be simply to say that a DataResource may or may not have a known structure. The object we are talking about would then be implicit (the UML would need tweaking!)
In both cases, I agree with Al that DataSets could be defined as having a known structure
I am keen not to lose the idea entirely that we can know a (potentially "tappable") resource exists without knowing everything about that resource. If NSIs are going to make more use of existing data resources outside the NSI if/when a new need arises, we're going to need better records of what is out there. The record of what is out there, however, might not always be documented to the level of detail of defined data flows based on defined data structures at first.
After all, when it actually comes time to "tap" that resource we may only want to use a small number of the "fields" from the data which are available. Realistically, I think NSIs will invest effort in defining detailed structures based on what they want to use from the resource, not necessarily "chart in complete detail" the totality of the resource when they first learn it exists.
For me there are strong parallels with natural resource economics. We may not assess every resource in detail as soon as we discover it - we may judge that for the time being the resource is not going to be of economic interest - but we still want to record the resource exists and what we know about it. By analogy, it is when we've established the resource is likely to be an economic asset (eg because demand for that commodfity has increased) that we will assess it to the nth degree of detail (and, as a producer of official statistics, formalise a data structure definition for the portion of the overall resource that is of interest to us).
Maybe this does lead to "scope creep" for Data Resource and Information Resource. More broadly than statistics, however, what is being described are "resources" that are not necessarily yet under management as "assets", but which may make that transition in future.
I agree that we may want to represent some data resource whose structure we don't yet know, at least not in detail, as an information object. Conceptually, it would still be a data resource. And its structure exists, we just haven't yet found out (probably not even tried to find out) what that structure looks like. This is not the same as unstructured data (typically texts) that can be structured for example through tagging, text mining, etc. Therefore I don't like the term Unstructured/Non-structured Dataset for the Data Resource with unknown Data Structure.
Do we really need a new object to represent this? Can we tweak the existing Data Resource to cover the "yet unknown Data Structure" case also?
Not sure I understand why "unknown structure" would imply "unit data". The fact that dimensional data requires at least one dimension doesn't yet tell us the structure of such a dataset, only the type of structure. Also I think that unit data requires at least one (instance) variable - so if we apply the same reasoning, the type of structure would be implicitly clear for unit data also. To summarize: I don't think "unknown structure" provides information about the type of the dataset / its structure.
There is a problem here that needs to be solved. Although it is not explicit in the model a Non Structured Data Set cannot be linked to a Provision Agreement as the Provision Agreement must have a Data Flow which in turn must have a Data Structure. The introduction of a Non Structured Data Set was to cater for those data sets which have no formal structure (i.e. not linked to a Unit or Dimensional structure). As it is modeled the only thing a Non Structured Data Set has is a link to a Data Provider. It is not even a Data Resource as there is no link to it from Data Resource and it has no Data Location. So, in reality it should not be on this diagram.
However, if it is deemed to be a Data Resource (which it arguably is not as it has no formal structure documented) then we need to decide what sort of animal it is. It could be linked to a Data Location and the link between Provision Agreement and Data Provider is constrained to Data Set.
I notice that we talk here about 'Non-Structured' Data Sets. Is there a distinction here from 'Unstructured' information referred to in the explanatory text for DataResource object on page 264?
I see two cases that might require separate treatment. Structured data for which the structure has not been established yet, and inherently unstructured data. The conversion to a data source is different. In case of structured data the data are analysed and probably the owners contacted and the process of producing the data is inspected to establish the data structure. The data itself remain untouched. In case of inherently unstructured data on top of the previous actions, some kind of reduction/aggregation/summary of the data itself has to be performed. This will produce the structure necessary for further use in the statistical process (e.g. counting words, counting the order of words).
The unstructured data become a resource after preprocessing.
Whichever type of unstructured data exists the Data Resource cannot, as it is is currently modeled, support unstructured data. I suspect it is former of the two cases identified by Wim that is the intent of the "unstructured" reference in Data Resource on page 264. In order to support this (and the fact that there could be a data location) there needs to be link from Data Resource to Non Structured Data Set and from Non Structured Data Set to Data Location. Originally the "groups" relationship from Data Resource was attached to Data Location but this was changed in Geneva to link to DataFlow which has a better intuitive feel for how one might navigate the structure (type of data and then the locations of the data rather than locations and then the type). Whichever way this is modeled one gets to the same information,
The right way to model this will need some careful thought because it we just put in the two new relationships as indicated above the way to the Data Location for unstructured data will be via the Non Structured Data Set whereas for Data Set it will be via Data Flow/Provision Agreement. If we move the"groups" relationship from Data Resource back to Data Location then the "navigation" to the Data Set and Non Structured Data Set will be the same, but this will imply that all Non Structured Data Set have a Data Location.
Note that one reason for having a Non Structured Data Set is to link it to a Data Provider even though it may not be a Data Resource (e.g. raw data supplied as a result of a survey or even data derived from a web scraping robot).
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We can say that any dataset has a certain structure. If we don't know anything about its structure then it is not a dataset (at lest not a useful dataset for GSIM). What is the use of a dataset in which we only have, eg: numbers, but don't know what they mean at all?.
I will follow three steps:
- There is a lot more than just data out there. There is knowledge that cannot be represented by numbers (they are not potential datasets), for instance, processing knowledge, methodological knowledge, any other type of referential metainformation. We may know where to find it (eg: someone's brain, post-it notes, ...) or not even that. What we can do is take out of the model all the unknown potential information because of its inner nature it cannot be modeled right away. We can define a unique object or entity to shelter it all, though.
- Let's include in the model everything that can be explained by meaningful objects, as it is the goal of GSIM. We are probably missing a place holder for referential metadata but that is another discussion.
- And finally we create the path from/to which unstructured knowledge (out of the model) flows to/from structured knowledge (in the model). This path will be formed of pretty much the Process Objects, because through some type of processing we should be able to transform unstructured knowledge into structured (get into the model, most common scenario) or move structured knowledge into unstructured knowledge (out of the model).
- We DON'T NEED AN UNSTRUCTURED DATASET IN THE MODEL. If a dataset is in the model then we must assume it has a certain structure.
- WE NEED an object in which we can store all that knowledge that doesn't fit into the model but could be a potential source of information. This Unstructured Knowledge entity or object will be part of the presentation of the model (is linked to the model) though of course will not have to be modeled.
Besides our study of GSIM here at the IMF (See Gareth's GSIM level 2 model), I have used some very useful comments from GSIM Issue 6 discussion group colleagues to support my ideas:
Alistair (March 14):
"Another option might be to call such an object something different to a DataSet. […] That way you can say that by definition - as an abstract class - DataSets have a known structure associated with them."
"For an external data source you may only wish to invest in investigating certain "sets" of data thoroughly, and understanding their structure, only at the time you have a potential use for them. If you can't even document that you know such sets of data exist, however, you won't know to come back and investigate them more fully later."
Alistair (March 26):
"I am keen not to lose the idea entirely that we can know a (potentially "tappable") resource exists without knowing everything about that resource. […] we're going to need better records of what is out there. The record of what is out there, however, might not always be documented to the level of detail of defined data flows based on defined data structures at first."
Michaela (April 9):
"Do we really need a new object to represent this? Can we tweak the existing Data Resource to cover the "yet unknown Data Structure" case also?"
"I don't think "unknown structure" provides information about the type of the dataset / its structure."
Chris (April 9):
"The introduction of a Non Structured Data Set was to cater for those data sets which have no formal structure (i.e. not linked to a Unit or Dimensional structure). As it is modeled the only thing a Non Structured Data Set has is a link to a Data Provider. It is not even a Data Resource as there is no link to it from Data Resource and it has no Data Location. So, in reality it should not be on this diagram."
Wilhelmus (April 9):
"In case of inherently unstructured data on top of the previous actions, some kind of reduction/aggregation/summary of the data itself has to be performed. This will produce the structure necessary for further use in the statistical process"
"The unstructured data become a resource after preprocessing."
Chris (April 9):
"Note that one reason for having a Non Structured Data Set is to link it to a Data Provider even though it may not be a Data Resource"
Discussion 16/7:
- Original use case was organisations who get data in (for example webscraping) that they do not know the structure of. IMF notes that they do webscraping and they do know the structure. So this is maybe not the strongest use case.
- WE NEED an object which is outside GSIM but linked to it in which we can store all that knowledge that doesn't fit into the model but could be a potential source of information.
- We can get in data that has an inherent structure but we don't know what it is. Is it enough to say we have identified a resource out there that we want, once we want to use we can find out the structure? We need to formalise it in some way to be able to use it in the statistical business process.
- Can you describe the structure of the dataset using the data structure component objects in GSIM?
- We could modify the Data Flow object to cater for this structure/unstructured and remove that Unstructured Dataset object.
Action Item: There is something there that needs to be modelled somehow, but how? We need to come up with examples. If we can't find these examples, then we should remove it for the moment (at least until a use case arises). If no use case by end of August, we remove.
Three possible use cases:
1) I am asked to do a metaanalysis of 10 year old data. I am handed a password protected floppy disk. Nobody has the password. The data is useless. I do not need to model it.
2) I identify a potentially interesting data source. I contact them and ask if they can send me data. At this stage I do not know the structure of the data. They say a)yes you can have it, but only if you accept it in our format or maybe b) yes you can have it, what format would you like us to send it in? In either case after a discussion with the data source I then know the (planned) data structure. Of course this may need to be adjusted when I actually get the data.
3) I am a researcher ploughing through old data. I find a paper document with a table containing interesting data for my research. I make a data structure and enter all the data by hand.
Unstructured Data Set
Just to put this topic in the context of the model, it is important that we understand what we mean by "structured" data set. In the model the (structured) Data Set has a mandatory link to a Data Structure (via Provision Agreement and Dataflow). The Data Structure is a collection of Represented Variables described in a logical structure specifying which variables are "Identifiers", which are "Attributes" and which are "Measures". There is no support for the specification of physical structures in GSIM. So, if there is such a thing as an Unstructured Data Set then it must be a collection of Data Points where either or both of the Represented Variables and the role each plays in the data set (Identifier, Attribute, Measure) is unknown.
The Unstructured Data Set in the model is not a Data Resource (it does not even have to be associated to a Data Provider) and so, even if it is a real object, there should be constraint on the association between Data Provider and Provision Agreement as shown below.
I think Jenny's examples are quite challenging. However, I still see they all have something in common: you need to figure out those pieces of information before you can do anything with them. I mean, until you somehow identify their potential use they don't enter the statistical industrial process, simply cannot be modeled.
Your examples show something, though, that we can drill down as much as we want and create objects that will explain certain particular behaviors. The problem is that if we don't set the limit somewhere we will end up with a lot of fussy objects, which will not help communicating GSIM.
Maybe the whole problem is with Metadata. There is no clear way to model it and this leads to confusion and to include objects like unstructured dataset. From Chris's diagram, we see:
"Information resource"
"Abstract placeholder for… such as metadata"
"Non structured dataset"
The model would be simpler if we just merged these three entities into 1 object: "structured information" (call it "metadata" if you want).
For instance, from your use case #1: If you are not interested in the data, then anything you do with it will not lead you to a structured version of that data, you may use the information drawn from that dataset (through different processes) to populate structured information in whatever place you need, that is, you are creating metadata, which is not yet fully modeled in GSIM.
I see two cases: 1) structured data, but you do not have the information on the structure. For example archived 1971 Census data, but you lost the structure. In order to use the data, you have to reconstruct the structure by prior analysis. 2) unstructured data. I see this as a provision for all kinds of future developments in the area of big data. The information you have is on how and when the data set was produced. Before you can use the data, a structure should be imposed (for instance by defining separaters and reducing the information by counting the positions between the separaters).
My feeling is that we do not need to create a new object for the first case. An explanatory note might do, saying that the structure should be known. If not, preprocessing is required. I am not so sure whether the same goes for the unstructured data. My guess is that the structuring of unstructured data could become a significant business process step. In case the object would be a place holder for future developments in this domain (GSIM should facilitate future developments). On the other hand, we might also argue that future developments will probably require such an object, but that it can not be fully specified yet.
Discussion 13/ 8:
The group discussed the use cases provided. The view is still leaning towards the dropping this object from the model. Unstructured dataset will always be a process input - they have to go through a process of being structure before they can be used further by the statistical process.
It is recognised that dropping this object would be a missed opportunity for modernisation.Maybe we need to ask would introducing/keeping such an object in the model fit into the 80 or the 20 percent of the users needs?Of course in 5 years time 80% of our business might be in what is less than 20% now, but still :-)
Discussion 2/10:
Action: Remove and make small text explanation that we may need this in the future.


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I know the feeling....always running....ReplyDelete
BTW Carol (& friends) I'm renting a Brittany house for Dec 4-Jan 4 if anyone cares to share. It's the home of Mark Greenside author of 'I'll Never Be French' a friend who was going had to back out. I'm going for research to Merlin's Forest origin of the King Arthur tales. And also to scout around. It'll be chilly...fires will be lit....soups made!
I recently hurt my back and I can't run for a while so this post was fun for me to go for an imaginary run!ReplyDelete
I just ran to the mailbox for you Connie!!Delete
Love the tulle on the ballerinas:)And the cover of les paresseuses!ReplyDelete
Not a runner..even as a young girl..I look very funny running..like when I am dancing..Elaine on Seinfeld.Replies
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Oh wow.. how can you turn down that offer from Rick..:))) You can borrow Annie, our Border collie..to walk, she has to be out front pulling me along. You would love her.. she even stops to check things out along a walk. Perfect for you. :))ReplyDelete
I've only been home a week and I am ready to go right back!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm getting the cold feet comme d'habitude :(
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I love the kitty too- it looks like he's eyeing you in disbelief!
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It would help if I drank coffee but I don't so...
The bike idea in Paris...would be fantastic if it weren't for those damn cars & motos!! But, many do use them, it & seem to be having a blast. Each to his or her own rhythme de vie...Chacun a son rhythme, perhaps one could say, though I don't really know...ReplyDeleteReplies
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Anyone giving lecons?
What accounts for the laid-back attitude of Parisian dogs? I've NEVER had a dog that would willingly mosey beside me, let alone lag behind.ReplyDeleteReplies
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You simply are incapable of picking out a laid-back, spunk-free doggie
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Businessman Darryl Eales will become chairman of Oxford United.
In a statement released today, current chairman Ian Lenagan revealed Mr Eales was a new investor and shareholder at the club.
Each of the Lenagan Family and Mr Eales now has more than 30% of the shares of Oxford United Ltd but both with less than 50%.
A new board of directors has been set up with Mr Eales taking up the position of chairman, Mark Ashton appointed as chief executive and Ian Lenagan taking board responsibility for the stadium development project.
Head coach Gary Waddock has been replaced by Michael Appleton - appointed by Mr Ashton who said he wanted to work with his own man as head coach and had worked with Mr Appleton before.
Appleton has previously managed Portsmouth and Blackburn Rovers.
Mr Lenagan's two sons, Simon and Adrian, have stepped down from the board of directors.
He revealed discussions had been ongoing for the past year but became crucial when the stadium development became "time-critical".
Ian Lenagan said: "Darryl is a football fan and a very successful businessman with, of importance, significant commercial experience.
"Darryl and I share the same personal and business style and have an identical approach to the strategies required for the ongoing success of Oxford United. We also have precisely the same ambitions for the club."
Lenagan, talking about the rival bid from Charlie Methven's consortium, said: "We did finally get a bid from them yesterday, but that was conditional on us having done the deal on the stadium already.
"Darryl is quite prepare to take the risk and move forward.
"Charlie and his group are nice people and they are welcome to come and talk to us if they wish to do so and if they wish to inject further finances to make things go quicker, of course we'd be delighted to speak."
Stewart Donald, the wealthy businessman behind Mr Methven's bid, said: "I am hoping that this will be good news and that Darryl Eales is in it for football rather than making money.
"If their intentions are similar to Charlie Methven's vision then that will be great news but we are going to have to let time tell."
New chairman Mr Eales said he considered himself the "custodian" of the club.
He said: "I would like to add that I have been impressed with everything I have seen at the club over the past months and I am delighted to be involved in conjunction with Ian Lenagan in driving Oxford United even faster along the already-defined strategy to achieve its ambitions.
"I look forward to meeting many of the fans, staff and partners of the club in the immediate future."
Oxfordshire businessman Charlie Methven has said he is disappointed that his alternative bid wasn't successful but said he hopes the U's go from strength to strength.
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A statement from Oxford United Chairman, Ian Lenagan:
There has been much speculation over the past few weeks that the Lenagan family was selling its shares in Oxford United and moving on. That is not the case. What we have been doing is planning ahead for the next stage of development of Oxford United.
The past two years since I took over as chairman on July, 13 2012 have seen many advances including paying off of debts, financial stabilisation, recruitment and bedding in of a highly capable sales and marketing team, the real implementation of a young player development strategy, a better match-day experience and involvement of fans generally, a good relationship with the supporters trust, OxVox, and the development of a much better relationship with Firoz Kassam as owner of the stadium and conference centre.
The board of directors was convinced that an excellent base had been firmly established for the future success of the club.
However, the disappointment of not achieving the play-offs at the end of last season was an indication that even greater investment was perhaps needed to get up into League 1.
Of even more importance however was the growing certainty that – with the radical changes likely in the planning landscape for Oxford in the next 12 months and the opportunity which that could present to Oxford United finally to own its own stadium – it was vital at this crucial time to plan ambitiously to take advantage of these opportunities or to lose them.
That meant a further significant investment in financial and management terms;
financially to fund increased running cost and capital investment in a stadium project and, in management terms, to both run the club on a day-to-day basis whilst also devoting dedicated and experienced resource exclusively to the Stadium Project.
It was decided that this was the time to bring additional financial and management resources into the club alongside the Lenagan family in order to ensure this one-time opportunity would not be missed.
Consequently, I am delighted to announce the arrival of a new investor and shareholder in Oxford United, Darryl Eales, to stand alongside the Lenagan Family bringing significant extra financial investment and management skills into Oxford United.
Darryl is a football fan and a very successful businessman with, of importance, significant commercial experience. Until May of this year Darryl was CEO of LDC, the private equity part of Lloyds Banking Group, stepping down following 11 years in the role to concentrate on his own private interests including, particularly, Oxford United.
Darryl and I share the same personal and business style and have an identical approach to the strategies required for the ongoing success of Oxford United. We also have precisely the same ambitions for the club.
Discussions have been in process between the parties for over 12 months but accelerated
two months ago when the stadium development opportunities became time-critical.
Each of the Lenagan Family and Darryl Eales now has more than 30% of the shares of Oxford United Ltd but both with less than 50%.
The Football League has indicated formally no objection to the new shareholdings and acceptability of all persons under the Owners and Directors Test and hence this announcement is unconditional.
A new board of directors is now in place with Darryl taking up the position of chairman, Mark Ashton appointed as chief executive taking over responsibility for day-to-day management of the board's existing strategy and Ian Lenagan taking Board responsibility for the Stadium Development project.
My two sons Simon and Adrian Lenagan step down from the board to concentrate on their own businesses having spent thousands of unpaid hours working on behalf of Oxford United. The board thanks them formally for their contributions to the club.
A change in personnel as a consequence of this new shareholding and management structure is the replacement of Gary Waddock by Michael Appleton since Mark Ashton wishes to have with him his own person as head coach, having worked with Michael Appleton previously.
We would like to thank Gary for his effort and contribution through the past months on behalf of Oxford United and to make it clear that this change does not in any way reflect on his performance or capability as head coach.
I believe strongly that this new shareholding structure with two major investors now involved is an an even stronger position for Oxford United than before and bodes well for the club's future ambitions. I look forward to the start of the new season and the opportunity personally on behalf of the new board to focus on the Stadium Development opportunity.
Statement by new Chairman, Darryl Eales:
Ian Lenagan has explained fully and well the rationale behind my entry into Oxford United.
I would like to add that I have been impressed with everything I have seen at the club over the past months and I am delighted to be involved in conjunction with Ian Lenagan in driving Oxford United even faster along the already-defined strategy to achieve its ambitions.
I look forward to meeting many of the fans, staff and partners of the club in the immediate future.
A lot of people talk about ownership of a football club. I prefer to think of my involvement as that of a custodian of Oxford United with long-term intentions and ambitions which I share with the fans and with Ian.
Mark Ashton takes over all day-to-day activities of the club as chief executive from Monday. I know there has been some disquiet at the possible entry of new people into a settled and positive environment at Oxford United but be assured that we intend to continue in precisely the same way as before. Mark, in particular, is a highly-capable young man who has learned much from his experiences in running other clubs and I ask that he be supported fully and with enthusiasm by Oxford United fans.
Personally, I am so pleased to be involved with Oxford United directly in the management of a football club after years as an active football fan and I look forward to being a major contributor in a strong and successful future for Oxford United.
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Curious about what it takes to choose new colors for a bike? We sat down with our Senior Graphic Designer, Nate Adams, to discuss how he comes up with new colors and designs for all of our bikes.
The first step is wrapping my head around what colorways are going to be in our lineup at the release date of the new project. I use a production colorway plan to see the whole lineup. From there I will start creating mood boards and get some themes going.
If there is not going to be a physical change to the frame and we just want to freshen up the bike then we usually keep the graphics the same and dive straight into color. If we are changing the frame's layup then we go for completely new graphics and color. Lead time from submitting art to our factory and the bikes landing in our warehouse is generally 75 to 120 days.
I pull ideas from many places. Sometimes something will catch my eye from the ski/snowboard industry or I'll see a really cool new truck color. The most fun and rewarding source of inspiration come from travel and the natural world. For instance, when I was in Mexico last week, I caught a mahi-mahi fish and the way the yellow and green blazed in the sun was stunning! I love seeing how different colors play off each other.
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which also happens to be available to everyone else as well haha! I have always been a fan of chartreuse but you can't beat a badass black bike… A Rainbow Trout themed bike could be cool!
It is impossible to foresee what our fellow bike manufacturers are going to come up with due to the lead time in production but we try to avoid similar colorways that are already out in the marketplace. I also try to avoid any colors that may fade or show immature wear.
I have been in love with bicycles since I was about 13. One of my first jobs in high school was powder coating the original Schwinn Homegrown frames here in Colorado. It was so fun slapping all the bass boat metal flake brilliance on their frames and I was able to paint myself some custom bikes to ride and race on as well. From there I continued to race bikes while attending Colorado State University. I graduating with a Bachelors in Graphic Design. When Niner moved to Fort Collins, it seemed like a natural fit for me and the rest is history.
Taste in color is very subjective. One person may see lemon yellow as lemonade while another may be reminded of urine… haha. I guess what I'm trying to say is it's good to have a little tough skin as not everyone will like the colors choices made.
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Market Basket walkout a future case studyBy MIKE LAWRENCE
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July 23. 2014 8:10PM
PORTSMOUTH — The rapidly escalating drama surrounding the Market Basket supermarket chain very likely is a future topic of study unfolding before the public's eyes, a mass communication professor at Boston University says.
"You bet it is," Professor John Carroll said Tuesday. "This is going to be a major case study for decades to come. It is a real textbook case of one side telling its story and establishing a narrative, really vividly, while the other side sits by and watches it happen."
Thousands of Market Basket managers, employees, customers and supporters rallied Monday at the company's corporate headquarters in Tewksbury, Mass., and at individual stores Tuesday and Wednesday, calling for the reinstatement of ousted CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
Managers and employees at many of the company's 71 stores in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts have worked together over the past week to collect signatures, wave signs and ask customers to send emails in support of Demoulas. Walkouts by warehouse staff and delivery truck drivers have left Market Basket shelves, produce bins and dairy coolers empty across the region.
The widely beloved CEO — praised by many for treating employees like family members — was fired last month by a board of directors led by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, after decades of family infighting. The new board and new co-CEOs, Felicia Thornton and James Gooch, have been largely silent as the rallies have grown and the shelves have emptied.
Arthur T.'s picture has hung on many Market Basket windows and doors since last week. Carroll said the nature of the support has been unique.
"You may never again see management and rank-and-file employees working in concert for a particular outcome," said Carroll, who has taught at BU for nine years and is a former executive producer of news programs at WGBH-TV in Boston. "The idea of the two of them joining forces to protest anything — I don't know anybody who can tell me another example of that.
"The store managers at Walmart are not going to go out and rally for health benefits with the workers at Walmart," Carroll continued.
Jerry Paquette, assistant manager of Market Basket's store on Woodbury Avenue in Portsmouth, said Tuesday that he and his staff had collected at least 500 petition signatures since Monday.
"We're not surprised by how fast word is getting around — not by a long shot," Paquette said. "The amount of customers we have, and the loyal customer base — a lot of people are very concerned with what's going on."
Paquette said social media such as Facebook and websites such as wearemarketbasket.com had been "helping tremendously" to rally support.
Carroll said the message has resonated with the public.
"They have a largely sympathetic mainstream media that is broadcasting and amplifying their side of the dispute, and they have a very smart use of social media to sort of mobilize and energize both the workers and the faithful customers," he said. "They've got a lot going for them, and they've got a good, compelling story."
Market Basket's new management published an open letter as a full-page ad in Saturday's Boston Globe. The letter apologized to customers for the turmoil and said some employees had "lost sight of their top priority — taking care of you."
Carroll called the ad "a complete dodge" and said it didn't truly address the situation with Arthur T.
"I think the board and the new co-CEOS have really sort of abdicated their responsibility here, to go out and defend themselves and their actions," Carroll said. "There is no counter-narrative to the story that the workers have presented. There is nothing for people to sort of weigh."
People have been able to weigh the new management's firing of at least eight longtime executives Sunday. Some of the executives, including a nephew of Arthur T., were notified of their dismissal by courier message.
"I can't remember something as ham-handed as that — they totally miscalculated the effect of that on the workers and the effect of that on public opinion," Carroll said.
"If they thought that that was going to frighten those workers back into the stores… that was a massive miscalculation, because all it did was galvanize them."
Carroll noted that the one-sided nature of Market Basket news has kept potentially valuable details from the public.
"The general public doesn't know Arthur T. from Arthur S. — they don't know the particulars of this thing," he said. "They just know what's in front of them."
That's enough for Greenland resident Brooke Conlin, who held signs Monday in front of the Market Basket on Route 1 in Portsmouth.
"I trust in the fact that the employees are risking everything," Conlin said of supporting Arthur T. despite hearing only limited information. "I trust that they know what's going on."
Londonderry resident Steve Paulenka, one of the eight employees fired over the weekend, told workers at Monday's rally to "shut it down," referring to Market Basket stores. Carroll said language such as that, including calls to bring corporate management "to its knees," risked crossing a fine line between a quest for justice and a quest for vengeance.
"That could lose (workers) some of the public sympathy," he said.
Carroll said one course of action for the new management could be to "reinstate the workers they fired and just come out and say, 'We were wrong,' and then try to reach some accommodation with Arthur T., so it seems that they've made some kind of concession."
He added that, "They're not going to reinstall him to where he was before, but it seems to me there might be some middle ground they could find."
The new CEOs also need a message and a messenger, he said.
"They need to put a human face on their side of the story," Carroll said. "They need somebody out there who will appear authentic and credible to the public."
He said as the Market Basket situation continues to unfold with "a whole lot of moving parts," it could create very teachable lessons in damage control, image presentation, labor relations and more.
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In Russia, unlike in Europe where Google spadrodeggia with various regional suffixes (.com / .fr / .es / .de and so on – ed) Google.ru is not the first search engine, but it is Yandex.ru (Яндекс).
For those who want to export to Russia (to do export – ed) with an e-commerce site in Russian Yandex it is the main "front door."
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The turnover of Ozon could reach by the end of 2014 a billion dollars.
The trading system of Russia off-line, in 2012, generated a turnover of 670 billion dollars, while the online, only 1.9%.
In China and Brazil, e-commerce accounted for, again in 2012, 5% of all transactions of the respective countries.
Russia, with regard to e-commerce, it is back to nine years than the U.S.A. and seven years than in Britain,
Both the U.S.A. that Britain, in 2003 and 2005, had registered the same volume e-commerce in Russia.
And this means that the Russian consumer model is similar to those in Europe and America, so the Russian model, could replicate that of the U.S.A. and Britain, according to the Morgan Stanley analysts.
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It is a file sharing service that lets you download and share videos and music files without any limitations.
– Odnoklassniki (148 million registered users)
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much more common than both Facebook.
The Russian market is growing strongly for several years, but the language used (the Cyrillic alphabet) is a barrier for many Europeans and even Americans.
The Cyrillic characters, for us Europeans, representing "an alien writing", to say the least incomprehensible!
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It is the only outlet to the east of Europe, the crisis that has hit many European countries.
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2015, e-commerce in Russia will grow and is expected to increase from the current 12 billion dollars to at least 36 billion dollars.
This would represent the real boom for e-commerce sites in Russia.
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Russia is the first country in Europe to many users, 71% of the population (87 million people) has access to internet.
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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Sentencing has been delayed by more than a month for an Iraqi immigrant convicted of the beating death of his wife in what police initially believed was a hate crime.
A San Diego Superior Court judge rescheduled sentencing Thursday for Kassim Alhimidi (ahl-huh-MEE'-dee) until June 23.
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Seabrook mother accused of trying to kill kids may plead insanityBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
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November 04. 2013 9:58PM
BRENTWOOD — A Seabrook mother facing attempted murder charges for allegedly force-feeding bleach to her two young children may claim she was insane as part of her defense, according to her lawyer.
Wendy Wright, 33, notified a judge that an insanity defense may be used in her attempted murder trial in Rockingham County Superior Court.
"If she acted as alleged in the indictments, she was not criminally responsible for such conduct because she was suffering from mental illness," Public Defender Anthony Naro said in court papers.
Wright is accused of feeding bleach to her 7-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son on June 18. She allegedly told the children they were taking medicine but later told police she was trying to "save" them, according to police.
The insanity claim is one of two notices provided to a judge about Wright's possible defenses. Naro also said in court papers that his client may rely on a "renunciation" defense because Wright's actions had no "criminal purpose."
Court documents say that Wright is currently free on $25,000 bail. The bail change was made after public defenders submitted sealed documents regarding Wright's bail status in late September.
Wright is also facing two counts of attempted first-degree assault.
Indictments say Wright took "a substantial step" toward committing murder by instructing her children to drink the bleach.
If Wright formally enters an insanity plea, then the burden will be on prosecutors to prove that she was sane at the time of the offense.
Medical personnel found Wright unconscious at her home but she later told a police officer that she wanted to end her own life and "save" her children, according to a police affidavit.
"I don't want to live. I really love my kids but I wanted to save them from everyone else," Wright allegedly told a police officer who responded to her home.
A neighbor, Matthew Wooley, told police that Wright's daughter "barged in (the) back door asking if her and her brother can stay here for an hour while (their) mother is sick," according to court documents.
The girl told Wooley that her mother was "taking medicine" and made her and her brother ingest the medicine too, police said.
"I called the police when my wife and I smelled bleach, and the girl admitted her eyes burned because (her) mother made them take bleach," Wooley told police.
The first-degree assault charges are class A felonies, punishable by up to 7½ to 15 years in state prison. An attempted-murder conviction could send Wright to prison for life. Wright is scheduled to go on trial next Sept. 15.