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I'm really good at utilizing resources and spotting opportunities, my research skill is excellent. I also have above average communication both in my native tongue-Filipino and English. I can type atleast 60 words per minute, and I can work really well even under pressure, I am reliable, dependable and I'm always ready to work as I am only here at home, ready to make home-based job my main source of income.
My last work was Social Media Marketing/Resort Manager,on a struggling hotel resort here in the Philippines, I opened opportunities to the organization by opening up accounts on different sites like airbnb, traveloka, tripadvisor, trivago etc. I manage all of them together with social media sites like and instagram, I partnered with local travel agencies and offered company outings. I could say that when I took over the organization the booking went up by atleast 300%.
Whilst handing the social media marketing of Jao Ming Company I was in the Administration too. As I was the acting Manager of the Resort Hotel owned by the CEO, so I oversee the renovation, manhandling and the booking reservation of the Hotel. Not to mention I was also in-charge of the CEO's personal travel plans like booking their flights, booking their hotels and the tours etc.
I've worked in a call center for a little over a year, and I learned a lot of things from there, from conversing to writing. And I'm a self-confess book worm, so English is really a strength for me.
I have no formal experience when it comes to writing in the professional or social media world. Not to brag, But, back in the school days I always receive awards for my essays and stories.
My last work experience was Social Media Administrator on Jao Ming Marketing Corporation, for over a year I handled all of the company's Social media accounts, not just facebook. The company, which offers beauty products and 1 resort hotel here in the Philippines, was struggling keeping up with the market. But since they decided to create the social media division, and I entered the picture, the profit went up by atleast 200%. I manage to create and make their social media accounts, into a money making department, not just support and marketing. For the Beauty products, I manage to partner with other local online retailer websites like Lazada, and created a "shop now" button on facebook, which features all of the products they can buy - online shopping. While simultaneously answering, posting, updating and managing all of the social media accounts facebook, instagram, twitter etc. As for the Resort Hotel, I partnered with booking websites like airbnb, trivago, tripadvisor etc. All of this while continuously answering queries on comment sections and messages on facebook page and other social media accounts, creating ads/post/content on facebook, twitter, instagram atleast twice a day. All of the activity led to increasing the booking rate by 300% quarterly.
Advertising through social media has been my work for over a year. Not just social media marketing but through different sites that I believe will help me gain more clients. Like for the beauty product that I marketed it was Lazada-an Alibaba like platform. And for the Resort Hotel it is airbnb, trivago etc. I created contents and posted them on Google Ad which garners clients at zero cost. I have been a fan of "Organic Advertising" meaning no fees paid to facebook etc. It might be a little less effective than the paid, but effective none the less.
My last job allowed me to gain knowledge on customer support, Originally I am the Social media Officer/Moderator, but as a little company I was also in-charge of handling support after the guests booked the dates on the Hotel Resort, there comes the questions in different forms. It is only me who would answer them, thus entailing my job to email support, phone support, tech support, customer support etc.
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NORTH LIBERTY – The Corridor Business Journal (CBJ) is seeking nominations for its 2019 Coolest Places to Work. Honorees will be recognized at an Aug. 27 awards banquet and featured in the Sept. 2 issue of the weekly CBJ. Coolest Places to Work identifies and honors Corridor companies that have created the most engaging and rewarding work environments. Self-nominated companies in Kirkwood's seven- county region will be selected based on the results of a Worker Satisfaction Survey.
The application process is free and open to all companies with a presence in the Corridor. To submit a nomination, visit http://www.bit.ly/2019Coolest. Nominations are due April 4. After the nomination period has closed, the Skywalk Group will email a Worker Satisfaction Survey to employees and management at each company. At least 60 percent of employees must complete the survey to qualify.
Honorees will be ranked in three categories based on total number of employees – small company (1-20 employees), medium company (21-99) and large company (100+). For more information, contact Lisa Guge at (319) 743-9830 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Honorees will be notified in July.
The top 24 companies' rankings will be announced at the Coolest Places to Work event, Aug. 27 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Cedar Rapids Convention Complex. The program will feature videos on each company, and the CEO from the No. 1 Coolest Place to Work will share his or her story. For details, visit www.corridorbusiness.com/events.
About Corridor Business Journal:
The Corridor Media Group Inc. (CMG) is a family-owned media company based in North Liberty, Iowa, and the publisher of the Corridor Business Journal (CBJ), a weekly source of comprehensive business coverage for Iowa's Creative Corridor. CMG also provides custom publishing, digital news, business data, and hosts the region's most popular corporate and awards-based events. For more information or to subscribe, visit www.corridorbusiness.com.
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MagnaChip and YMC Expand Cost-Effective 0.18um Multiple-Time Programmable (MTP) Manufacturing Processes
SEOUL, South Korea and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation ("MagnaChip") (NYSE: MX), a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced today that it has expanded its line of cost effective 0.18 micron multiple-time programmable intellectual property (MTP-IP) devices. Jointly developed with Yield Microelectronics Corporation (YMC) of Taiwan to address the increasing MTP-IP demand for microcontroller (MCU) and touch IC applications, it also enables cost-effective IC designs and high performance non-volatile memory solutions.
The new MTP-IP was developed by using MagnaChip's 0.18 micron mixed signal 5V processes, which significantly reduce the number of mask layers and manufacturing process steps, making it possible to provide cost-competitive MTP solutions. This was accomplished through the use of smaller MTP cells offering diverse memory sizes ranging from low density to high density options. The new MTP-IP is operable at a wider range of voltages from 1.8V~5.5V, making the solution suitable for (MCU) applications.
This newly developed MTP-IP solution also provides high performance and reliability for more stringent customer applications and covers the wide-range of multiple-time programmable memory densities needed in the consumer electronics market. MagnaChip is enhancing its MTP-IP portfolio for customers by adding MTP-IP for 0.18 micron, mixed-signal 5V only processes as well as 0.35 micron BCD processes and 0.18 micron BCD and mixed-signal processes. Beyond current MCU and touch control panel applications, these new MTP-IP solutions are targeting the mid-to-low-tier consumer appliance markets, particularly in China. The jointly developed range of MTP-IP solutions simplifies the engineering process, reduces manufacturing processing time and enhances cost competitiveness.
"The continued collaboration between MagnaChip and YMC has produced greater innovation and variety in the types of MTP solutions being offered to customers," said Daniel Huang, YMC's President. "YMC sees its continued strategic partnership with MagnaChip as a long-term benefit to YMC and MagnaChip customers."
"We are very pleased with our on-going collaboration with YMC, a leading IP solutions provider in Taiwan," said YJ Kim, MagnaChip's Chief Executive Officer. "Our continued partnership allows us to offer cost-effective, high-performance non-volatile memory solutions to meet the increasing application-specific needs of our global foundry customers."
About Yield Microelectronics Corporation
Yield Microelectronics Corporation (YMC), located in Taiwan's Chu-Pei city, is a specialized embedded logic multiple-time non-volatile memory (NVM) IP provider. YMC's innovative NVM MTP-IP products are licensed to design houses and semiconductor foundries, allowing them to integrate crucial non-volatile memory with analog and digital functionality on a single chip. YMC's NVM IP is characterized by its competitive cell and macro size, adopts logic-based architecture and features the scalability and ease of porting for different technologies and processes such as logic, high-voltage, mixed-mode, bipolar-CMOS-DMOS and many others. For more information, please visit www.ymc.com.tw.
About MagnaChip Semiconductor
Headquartered in South Korea, MagnaChip Semiconductor is a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications. MagnaChip Semiconductor believes it has one of the broadest and deepest ranges of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor platforms in the industry, supported by its 30-year operating history, a large portfolio of registered and pending patents and extensive engineering and manufacturing process expertise. For more information, please visit www.magnachip.com.
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Premier McGuinty Celebrates New Windsor Health Centre
Anthony P. Toldo Health Education Centre Training New Doctors
WINDSOR -- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty today joined the people of Windsor at a ceremony naming Anthony P. Toldo Health Education Centre, a state-of-the-art facility helping to train new doctors and improve access to health care for local residents.
"It's an honour to join the people of Windsor to celebrate a major milestone in improving access to health care in Windsor," said Premier McGuinty. "You've built something wonderful by working together, and your efforts will contribute to Windsor's quality of life for generations to come."
"Mr. Toldo and all the contributors, faculty, students and community members deserve our congratulations and our thanks."
The health centre is named after a prominent local philanthropist and community leader, Anthony Toldo. It provides space for the Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network, a program that increases access to health care in the Windsor area by allowing over 50 medical students and residents from the University of Western Ontario to complete internships in local communities.
"We need our young doctors to have the best training -- the kind this excellent facility will provide -- so they can deliver quality front-line medical care," said Premier McGuinty. "Access to family physicians remains an important priority for our government."
The Premier emphasized the need to redesign government so that the province can improve health care and other important services.
"Although our province faces a number of challenges, we're tackling them in a way that will allow us to improve the services that Ontarians need and want the most," said Premier McGuinty. "We face some difficult decisions. And the only way to make the right ones is to make these decisions together."


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Ticket #1653 (closed feature: moved)
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The ImgLib2 library has type-agnostic support for numerical data processing. As such, it would be great to have numerical types based on Java's BigInteger and BigDecimal, for arbitrary-precision integer- and real-valued numbers, respectively.
Implementing this feature will first require the types to exist within ImgLib2. Then we will need to write additional converter plugins (for the Image > Type menu) as well as ensure that ImageJ2's core numerical commands are well-tested with the new types. Right now, many plugins "cheat" by operating on doubles, which would defeat the purpose of the new types.
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comment:1 Changed 2013-05-14T14:35:04-05:00 by bdezonia
In order to avoid working in doubles we'll also have to provide methods of calculation of basic math functions (like Math.sin(), Math.exp(), Math.log()). This was part of what the types-experiment branch of imglib2 was investigating.
comment:2 Changed 2013-07-10T12:04:12-05:00 by bdezonia
Some work towards this is done on the data-types branch including Image > Type > Change plugin and BigInteger and BigDecimal backed types (in imagej packages not imglib). See also ticket #1702.
comment:3 Changed 2013-07-12T10:42:40-05:00 by bdezonia
The two "big" DataTypes in the data-types branch have a current limitation that makes them unusable by IJ2. IJ2 expects Datasets to support RealType and NativeType. The two types can fake RealType (through narrowing data manipulations of doubles and longs) but they can't fake NativeType. We need to eliminate the NativeType requirement of Dataset.
comment:4 Changed 2013-07-12T17:13:23-05:00 by bdezonia
Also note as part of merging #1702 to master I commented out the @Plugin annotation to the four as yet unsupportable DataTypes (the two complex types and the two unbounded types). When we are ready to support these classes simply reenable the @Plugin annotation in each of these DataTypes and they will be discovered by NewImage and TypeChanger. Of course we need to make changes to IJ2 to allow Datasets of these types to be constructed.
comment:5 Changed 2013-08-01T10:43:48-05:00 by bdezonia
A BigDecimal backed type cannot be implemented in a naive way. Take an BigDecimal and divide by 3. An exception is thrown due to repeating decimal expansion.
Our "unlimited" decimal precision class will likely need to be a fixed point representation with some number of decimal places supported (i.e. like 50) rather than BigDecimal backed.
This is already true of the implementation for sqrt() and atan2(). And more if we add other floating operations.
comment:6 Changed 2013-08-01T10:52:20-05:00 by curtis
Our "unlimited" decimal precision class will likely need to be a fixed point representation
Indeed. Perhaps we can have ImageJ prompt the user for the number of significant digits of precision, when converting to that type. This would be a great feature.
comment:7 Changed 2013-08-01T13:57:12-05:00 by bdezonia
With commit 331ddf635c0bebe61d51bab1859620bb1fe0ef1e we have a basic fixed point class in place for later use. It needs to be extended to support Imglib's FloatingType when that code is merged to master. Number of decimal places is fixed at 25 places but could be extended to be configurable.
comment:8 Changed 2014-11-25T16:28:23-06:00 by curtis
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Nephaleos, the Greek word for sober, is a Christ-centered 12-step group for those struggling or recovering from substance abuse or alcohol abuse. If you are just thinking about getting sober or if you are in recovery and looking for a Christ-centered 12-step program, come and visit our group. We are a group of men and women who have struggled or are struggling with alcohol and drugs, and who can offer encouragement and hope through Jesus Christ.
We are a closed meeting – meaning we only accept members who are seeking to stay sober. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stay sober.
Nephaleos Meetings are held every Saturday at 4:30 pm at The Fellowship – Cinco Ranch location.
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TV Series Sweet Temptation Seasons 1,2 All Episodes for Download
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Looking for the Sweet Temptation TV Show? Seasons 1,2 are available for downloading in good and high hd quality, select the season number below.
Continuation of the dramatic stories of love and hate, which are intertwined passion, feelings, revenge and long-term ... a lot of money. The main character - Jack Khanzhonkov - to avenge oligarch Alexey Kumacheva for the death of his father sends him to jail. But along with businessman in jail and gets his young wife Inna - former lover Jenny. The young man can not forgive the betrayal of women. In order to save himself and his wife, calico is a deal with a competitor - Semen-hwan. But Jack also trying to negotiate with this powerful oligarchs. Does love revenge win? Will the heroes to find happiness?
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Instacart captured a lot of headlines earlier this month with the news that, for a limited time, it would be cheaper to get one's Whole Foods grocery delivery through them, rather than joining Amazon Prime.
Instacart dropped its delivery fee from $5.99 to $3.99 per order of $35 or more, with the 5 percent service fee and $3.99 default delivery fee still intact. A subscription to Instacart Express has also gone down in price to $99 per year compared to $149, and it offers unlimited free grocery delivery on orders of $35 or more with no service or default delivery fee. Monthly Express membership is $9.99. All orders are promised within two hours.
Amazon Prime offers two-hour delivery of groceries from Whole Foods for free, and one-hour delivery for $7.99 on orders of $35 or more. An Amazon Prime membership costs $119 annually or $12.99 per month.
"We've made grocery delivery more affordable. … Let our personal shoppers take care of your grocery shopping while you save an hour or two," the grocery eCommerce service said in an email.
The comparison, of course, isn't exactly apples to apples. An Instacart subscription offers up grocery delivery, while a Prime subscription is connected to a series of other perks, like free two-day delivery from Amazon and content streaming. If one's interest lies in two-hour grocery delivery, Instacart is making the better price offer.
And the pricing change isn't the only new arrow in the delivery services quiver as it takes on a landscape crowded with large players (like Amazon and Target-owned Shipt) and with other startups like DoorDash. According to the firm, Instacart's delivery service is more accessible, spanning "more than 70 percent of U.S. households," with over 300 retailers and 15,000 locations in all 50 states.
The goal, according to Instacart, is to reach 80 percent of households by the end of next year.
In pursuit of that goal, Instacart just announced that its new grocery pickup service will launch in cities across the United States, in many cases alongside Instacart's delivery service. Wegmans, Aldi, Cub Foods, Food Lion, Price Chopper, Publix, Schnucks, Smart & Final, Sprouts and Tops Friendly Markets are all among the 200 retailers with which the pick-up service is launching.
The delivery firm has also been raising funds prodigiously this year, amassing nearly $1 billion, most of it in an $871 million Series F round, bring the firm's valuation to $7.8 billion. Those funds will go toward, among other things, doubling the size of the company's engineering team by the end of 2019.
The push, according to Nilam Ganenthiran, Instacart's chief business officer, comes as Instacart is trying to carve out a new role as the grocery industry ally in staying current in the era of Amazon.
"Quite simply, our grocers want to win, and they want to win in a world where you have competitors like Amazon coming. They look to Instacart to be able to arm them with the latest technology, so they can focus on what they're good at," he said. "We're partnering with them to take advantage of the strength they have: Stores near where customers live that carry what they want to buy, with deep relationships and a level of trust and personal nature that you can't get from a large warehouse operation. The way we see it, we're at the beginning of a big monumental shift in grocery."
And Instacart has been picking up increasing allies in that monumental shift, adding to the number of grocery partners by 50 percent.
That data, notes Ganenthiran, builds the foundation for Instacart's relationship with its partner shops. The goal for the firm is to take the cross-competitor, multi-regional view of consumer data that they alone have, process it along with extra insights, and then feed those insights back to their retailer partners as quickly as possible. Instacart's success rides on the success of its partners, which means it is in their best interest to help those partners make better inventory decisions and offer superior product experience.
"Customers have particular tastes, and they will reward the retailer that responds to that. That will be the expectation going forward in grocery — you have to understand the customer down to the micro-level. That is extremely hard to do, but we are building the technology and the team to do it," said Ganenthiran. "The other expectation is going to be seamless interactions, whether it's delivery or a trip to a store, the grocer will be expected to know the last 10 trips. We want to arm our retailers with information and use the data from in-store environments to inform the online experience, and vice versa."
New PYMNTS Report: Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook – July 2020
Call it the great tug-of-war. Fraudsters are teaming up to form elaborate rings that work in sync to launch account takeovers. Chris Tremont, EVP at Radius Bank, tells PYMNTS that financial institutions (FIs) can beat such highly organized fraudsters at their own game. In the July 2020 Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook, Tremont lays out how.


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day 1 - ARRIVE CHRISTCHURCH
On arrival, seat in coach guests will be met and privately transferred to hotel. Self drive guests will collect a rental car and drive to the hotel.
day 2 - CHRISTCHURCH - GLACIER REGION
Depart Christchurch on the Tranz Alpine Train (seat in coach guests only) and travel over the Southern Alps and into Greymouth. Travel south along the rugged West Coast to arrive at the glacier region of Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. (B)
Christhcurch - Franz Josef: 381km (approx 4hrs,55mins)
Christchurch - Fox Glacier 404km (approx 5hrs,20mins)
day 3 - GLACIER REGION
A full day at leisure to explore this magnificent glacier region. Optional activities include a valley walk to the face of the glacier, a scenic flight or helicopter on to glacier for a guided walk on the ice. Optional activities not included in the tour price. Entry to the Glacier Hot Pools (Franz Josef)
day 4 - GLACIER REGION - WANAKA
Travel down the West Coast past spectacular mountain ranges, native forests and lakes to the Haast Pass, gateway to the World Heritage Westland National Park. Continue around the shores of Lake Hawea to arrive in Wanaka early afternoon. (B)
Franz Josef - Wanaka: 286km (approx 3hrs,45mins)
Fox Glacier - Wanaka: 262km (approx 3hrs,20mins)
day 5 - WANAKA - QUEENTSOTN
This morning you visit Puzzling World, a unique attraction of puzzling eccentricity with its bizarre buildings, puzzle centre and illusion rooms. Continue to Queenstown. (B)
Wanaka - Queenstown: 67km (approx 1hr,10mins)
day 6 - QUEENSTOWN
A free day to explore the endless optional attractions available. Queenstown offers bungy jumping, jetboating, white water rafting, gondola rides and much more. Optional activities not included in the tour price. (B)
day 7 - QUEENSTOWN - MT COOK
Travel south through Central Otago to Twizel before travelling around Lake Pukaki and into Mt Cook National Park. Optional activities at Mt Cook include scenic flights, a glacier boat ride and the Sir Edmund Hillary Centre. (Optional tours not included in the tour price). (B)
Queenstown - Aoraki Mt Cook: 240km (approx 3hrs)
day 8 - MT COOK - CHRISTCHURCH
Depart Mt Cook and stop on the shores of Lake Tekapo to visit the 'Church of the Good Shepherd'. Continue across the fertile Canterbury Plains to arrive in Christchurch. (B)
Aoraki Mt Cook - Christchurch: 333km (approx 4hrs,30mins)
day 9 - DEPARTURE DAY
Your arrangements conclude today with the return of your rental car. We trust you enjoyed your Kiwiway Vacation! (B)
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Chvrches have shared a video for their Every Open Eye track "Empty Threat". Directed by Austin Peters, the "Skins"-reminiscent video features a group of youngsters who swig alcohol from paper bags and lurk around parking lots before hitting up a water park. Check it out below.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has urged Donald Trump to go back to reality TV so "people can finally sleep comfortably again".
The Terminator star and former Republican governor of California hit back after President Trump mocked his replacement as the host of The Celebrity Apprentice in the US.
The president suggested the show had been a "total disaster" since Schwarzenegger took over.
The actor responded in a video clip, saying: "Hey Donald, I have a great idea - why don't we switch jobs?
"You take over TV, because you're such an expert in ratings, and I take over your job, and then people can finally sleep comfortably again, hmm?"
Austrian immigrant Schwarzenegger, who has previously said President Trump's ban on refugees "makes us look stupid", is the latest Hollywood name to lock horns with the new president.
Mr Trump labelled Meryl Streep "over-rated" after she took aim at him during her Golden Globes acceptance speech on January 8.
And a string of stars voiced anger at his controversial refugee ban this weekend at a politically-charged Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
In the UK, scores of public figures from the arts, politics, religious groups and academia have called for an historic protest against President Trump's state visit and urged the Prime Minister to cancel it.
More than 90 signatures have been added to a letter criticising the Government for attempting to "normalise" what they said was the president's divisive agenda.
A second letter says Mr Trump intends to do "ill" with his power, while in a third, dozens of healthcare workers said they were obliged to speak out due to the "jeopardy British people will face under the current transatlantic appeasement spectacle".
The three letters published in The Guardian come after more than 1.8 million people signed a parliamentary petition calling for a state visit to be prevented as it would "cause embarrassment" to the Queen.
One of the letters has been signed by politicians including Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and former Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Mu sicians including Brian Eno, Lily Allen and Paloma Faith, comedian Frankie Boyle, union leaders and researchers have also signed it.
It states: "We are dismayed and shocked by the attempt of the British Government to normalise Trump's agenda.
"People in Britain never voted for this. It is our duty as citizens to speak out.
"We oppose this state visit to the UK and commit ourselves to one of the biggest demonstrations in British history, to make very clear to our Government, and to the world, that this is not in our name."
Theresa May invited Mr Trump to visit Britain later this year during a recent trip to the White House.
Previous presidents have enjoyed banquets at Buckingham Palace, formal and informal audiences with the Queen and senior royals and addressed MPs in Westminster Hall.
A petition in support of Mr Trump's planned state visit has attracted more than 250,000 signatures.


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UCR Applications Jump 17.5 Percent
UCR Applications Jump 17.5 Percent
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Applications for admission to the University of California, Riverside for Fall 2000 hit 17,976, an increase of 17.5 percent over this year, the university reported Thursday. Statewide, University of California individual applications increased 3.5 percent.
Transfer applications reached 2,801, up by 15.6 percent at UCR. They were largely flat across the entire University of California. UCR will continue to accept transfer applications until June 1.
"These figures speak very well for the increasing awareness of the quality of the UCR faculty and the outstanding student experience here," said Chancellor Raymond L. Orbach.
"Each application represents the trust and hope of a young man or woman who sees in UCR an opportunity to achieve their potentials. I am heartened by this belief in our campus. Over the next several months, faculty, current students, alumni and I will be contacting as many of the applicants we admit as possible to make sure they will feel welcome here," Orbach said.
UCR saw significant increases across all under-represented ethnic groups. Campus statistics show that among under-represented freshman applicants; African American applications increased nearly 11 percent to 804; Chicano, 28.3 percent to 2,380; Latino, 21.5 percent to 583; and American Indian, 1.6 percent to 62.
There was an increase among Asian American applicants of 13.8 percent to 6,904; White, 17 percent to 3,314; other, 22.6 percent to 336 and unknown/decline to state, 35.8 percent to 792.
The campus will begin notifying freshman applicants on March 1 about their admission. Those who have been accepted then have until May 1 to return a statement of intent to register.
James Sandoval, associate vice chancellor for enrollment and student services, said that while the application period for transfer students remains open, the large increase in those who have already applied is good news.
"We have been working very hard to encourage students in community colleges to transfer to UCR. We have agreements with all community colleges in our region to help smooth the way for students who can begin at a community college and then transfer and earn their bachelor's degree here at UCR," Sandoval said.
"Providing this link has been a high priority for the last several years and we're seeing it start to pay off for students now," he said. UCR grew to 11,600 students in fall 1999, up from 10,602 the year before. The campus is expecting to grow to 21,000 students by the year 2010.
The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 21,000 students. The campus opened a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion.
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To whoever...
I updated to Win 7 and found out the immoral, crude crash with the older Office 2000 Word or whatever it was.
This was incomprehensible that a company making both the MS Office suite and the operating system would not support their previous versions. This is theft. Legal in the fine print, but immoral and theft. Easy fix was to fork out the money to Microsoft and Word would work again. I respect the good that MS has brought to the world, but the low life greed motive engineered into this approach is abominable.
I searched the internet and found numerous posts, also as enraged or at least disillusioned by the extortion tactics.
Consistent advice was to go with Open Office.
Word now works, the other components work.
This is great...Thank you...
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Quality & Technology
Vintage caravans are loved and often beautiful to see. Buying one is something different; it raises a lot of questions with potential buyers. The condition of the floor and the equipment are often doubted, with reason. At Glaravans, we take care of these concerns.
Each Glaravan is completely renovated and re-build. This means we only keep the frame and outer-shell of the vintage caravan. To offer you the guarantee of a newly bought caravan, we always re-build the floor and renovate the frame where needed. Once the frame is in perfect condition, we add the latest technology you normally only see at the most luxurious models from the well-known brands.
On average, each Glaravan is fitted with an airconditioning and a water-boiler. We adjust or extend these luxury accesories per model. To have a better sight on what kind of accesories are in a specific Glaravan, we recommend you to look at our portfolio page, which describes all the technology and accesories per Glaravan.
To give you a glance on brands and technologies we use:
- Dometic Freshwell 3000 Airconditioning/heating
- Truma Therme Boiler hot Water
- Reich watersystem
- Thetford Fridge
- Can/Dometic stove & sinks
- Fiamma hatches and watertanks
- Alko chassis and parts
- New Electricity system including earth leakage circuit breaker, 12v and 13-pole car-connector. Multiple power outlets and led-lighting across the caravan.
- New gas-system including distributors and pressure regulator build to service all new equipment.
- External outside outlets & Gasconnector for outside use.
At Glaravans, we don't integrate TV-connectors; We prefer to stimulate the social aspect and outdoor living.
Vintage caravans are history wise smaller and lighter in weight. On average, they hardly weigh more than 1000kg and 95% of the caravans we build are under the 900kg. This makes a Glaravan attractive as it fits based on weight, practically behind all cars.
Due we make use of special light-weight materials, we are able to keep the Glaravan within it's current weightrestrictions. In some seldom cases, we re-label the restrictions after inspection by official goverment agencies. This is possible as the chassis can handle often much more weight than shown on paper. We make sure you have plenty 'weight' left for your camping gear.
Each Glaravan gets a fresh coat of paint. This is either in the original color or in a modern color. We re-use the original backlights or replace them with new parts. The chassis of each Glaravan had a technical check and has new parts where needed. Finally, each model gets new tires, including a spare-one if possible.


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6 Steps Half-Day Workshop Money Back Guarantee
When you choose to attend the 6 Steps to a Massively Growing Better Business Workshop, you do so with the knowledge that we at ActionCOACH Guarantee that you will leave the room with insights, learning, and/or strategies that you can apply into your business immediately, and see a positive change in your business.
1. We guarantee that you will get new insights, learning, and strategies.
2. We guarantee that if you don't leave with practical insights, learning, and / or strategies that you can apply into your business immediately, we will refund your workshop fee. No Questions Asked.


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Are you new to the concept of implementing an LMS to manage your training initiatives? If you are, you're probably a bit overwhelmed with the number of systems that are available. Choosing the right one can be difficult; so you'll need to be prepared in advance with exactly what it is you want the LMS to do. That's where LMS use cases come in quite handy.
Generally speaking, you know that you want an LMS to manage your training, and you've probably developed a list of "must have" requirements and a list of "nice to have" requirements; but how do you really know which LMS will best meet your needs? All of your prospective LMS vendors will undoubtedly be happy to provide you with system demonstrations, and this will be the best way for you to narrow your choices. However; you should be prepared in advance with your list of "LMS use cases" so that the vendors can demonstrate their LMS in the context of your requirements. This critical step in the evaluation process will give you the best opportunity to see if the LMS performs the way you need it to.
You may be asking yourself – what's a use case? A use case is a list of scenarios about how your different users will be operating within the system. Use cases go well beyond general LMS features and really focus on your user's tasks and how they will be completed in the LMS.
Here a few simple guidelines to follow when working to develop your use case scenarios.
- Identify your LMS users by role. For example, you may have instructional designers, learners, administrators, managers, instructors or maybe even customers accessing your system.
- Focus on the 80/20 rule. What scenarios will your users be performing 80% of the time they spend in the LMS; and what tasks will be needed to complete their scenarios?
- Once you've identified your users and their associated scenarios and tasks, document your findings so that your prospective vendors have guidelines by which to demonstrate their systems to you.
Just to help you put this concept in perspective, here are several high-level, generic use case scenario examples…
Scenario 1: Our learners must be able to easily navigate the LMS.
User Role and Tasks: Learner
- Log in as a Learner
- Find a learning path
- Launch a course
- See completed courses
- Print certificate of completion, etc.
Scenario 2: We have instructor-led classroom events. Our administrative assistant is responsible for the pre/post logistics for each event.
User Role and Tasks: Administrator
- Log in as Administrator
- Set-up live event
- Assign Instructor to event
- Set-up email notifications for event
- Enroll learners, etc.
Scenario 3: We have a staff of instructional designers that will be using the LMS authoring tool to convert existing materials and to develop new courses.
User Role and Tasks: Builder
- Log in as a Builder
- Upload a PowerPoint presentation
- Create a course using the authoring tool
- Add performance support documentation
- Import video clips
It's fairly easy to see that when used as guidelines during system demonstrations, use cases are a great evaluation tool that will help you to understand how various vendor systems work and to what degree they will meet your needs. Good luck!
Susan Distasio | Marketing SME | ePath Learning, Inc.


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Understanding Existing Processes to Improve Workflow
"Workflow" and "process optimization" are increasingly common terms heard in today's business as companies seek ways to improve and optimize existing business processes. Typically, this search for workflow optimization is prompted by a very real need to improve productivity and operational efficiency — a need that is evident across all business segments and vertical industries. Many organizations, both small and large, have or are putting in place strategic directives or procedural policies for continuous process improvement. Frequently, however, particularly in the case of small businesses, the idea of process optimization is often met with a great deal of apprehension. Employees and managers alike are so busy dealing with the day-to-day tasks of running a business that there is rarely time to truly evaluate current work processes. Most can easily identify areas where improved efficiency is needed, but without a clear understanding of the problem, there is a general reluctance to simply throw time, money, and resources at a solution.
As a consequence, existing business processes put in place years ago have simply become accepted methodology, despite significant changes in the organizational makeup, goals, and IT infrastructure. In many cases, legacy business processes outlive the intended consequences for which they were initially designed.
When it comes to driving real process optimization, companies should begin with two important elements: 1) understand why existing work processes are performed as they are, and 2) identify if and where a break occurs in the system. Let's look at the first element.
Identifying existing processes through workflow assessments
The first step toward improving process efficiency is understanding the existing processes, and this can be done through a complete workflow assessment. Often, companies have legacy processes and procedures in effect; they were put into place before any of the current management or employees were in their roles, or even at a company, and are simply a habitual way of handling things. An assessment of these processes can uncover both strengths and weaknesses in the system but will serve as a baseline for understanding how things are being done.
In some cases, there are still employees involved in the processes who have been with the company and involved in some way since the inception. Involving these employees in the assessment process is a smart move for a couple of reasons: it helps with understanding the processes and also increases employee buy-in, which is essential to the success of any new programs.
The workflow assessment will examine current processes, hardware, software, infrastructure, security, and more. It will map out the flow of information throughout the organization and help identify areas where improvements can be made.
Business process mapping
Business process mapping does just what it says: it creates a map of existing business process, helping visualize the processes that have been identified in the assessment process. Either manually or using software designed for the purpose, business process mapping shows the current flow of operations and the people and tools needed for that flow.
In developing a business process map, two goals can be achieved: a current process can be documented and understood, and a new, improved process can be developed based on that understanding. Sometimes called business process modeling,
Once the assessment has been completed, it is time to identify impediments, breaks and ultimately, opportunities for process improvement. A future blog will examine these areas and the tools and resources they entail.
It is important for businesses to understand that, when it comes to understanding workflow, identifying processes and creating workflow improvements, they are not on their own. In fact, it is highly recommended that organizations find a consultative partner to help guide them through the process. A trusted partner can be an invaluable resource for taking the next step in the process of workflow optimization.
Mark Sinanian
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Behind the Numbers
A sample of public social media posts authored by students was gathered by querying those who self-identify as students using acronyms in their profile (for example, CCHS or BHS '21). These posts are subjected to rigorous pre-processing to remove as many non-student accounts as possible.
Using proprietary and licensed lexicons, these social media posts are aggregated by day and scored for sentiment in four different ways, which correspond to four different emotions: Happiness, Harm, Fear, and Anger.*
Listed student sentiment topics are extracted using a proprietary clustering algorithm developed by Social Sentinel.


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TLC offers competitive rates on FTL service throughout the US and Canada.
On a daily basis our Carrier Sales representatives have access to a variety of equipment to service your specific needs. In addition, TLC offers excellent technical and customer support to ensure that we provide our customers with the best possible service available.
We provide just the right equipment for whatever you're shipping.
- Standard, Over The Road
- Sleeper Team Service
- E Track Logistics Equipment
- Air Ride
- Temperature Controlled
- Dedicated Routes Exclusive Use
Flats and Specialized
- Over Dimensional
- Over Weight
- Trailer On Flat Car "TOFC"
- Stack train "COFC"
Continuous Quality Control
Every carrier in our network has undergone a diligent screening process. Thousands of carriers have been filtered through our system to insure performance and safety standards are met. This process also regulates insurance levels to guarantee that our customers' product is always protected. To maintain quality control our staff is constantly monitoring each and every shipment to insure that your product is delivered within your specified parameters.
With articulated couplings, the stack trains are reported to give a smoother ride than standard Over the Road "spring" trailers
You can rest assured that we monitor everything from pick up through delivery.


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Section 1782 Discovery: Second Circuit Reverses a Section 1782 Order Directing a Law Firm to Produce a Foreign Client's DocumentsSullivan & Cromwell LLP - July 17, 2018
On July 10, 2018, in Kiobel v. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, No. 17-424-cv (2d Cir.), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court order granting a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 directing Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP to produce documents for use in the plaintiff's planned proceeding in The Netherlands against one of that firm's clients, Royal Dutch Shell. Although the reversal limits the circumstances in which Section 1782 may be used to obtain discovery in the United States in aid of a foreign proceeding, the Second Circuit's decision highlights the potential that delivery of materials to counsel in the United States in connection with a request for legal advice could subject the underlying documents to disclosure in litigation either in the United States or abroad.


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Fifa fails to score big at World Cup
Feast of football fails to be matched in sponsorship deals
Fernando Muslera (R) of Uruguay is beaten as France go 2-0 up during the FIFA World Cup 2018 quarter final: negative sentiment Qatar 2020 and the manner in which it won the vote will weigh on sponsors
The World Cup is a feast of football and is also usually a feast of sponsorship with international brands eager to cash in on the global attention and excitement the tournament generates.
Not this year. A long-simmering corruption scandal that exploded in 2015 with a series of dawn raids on Fifa exposed a culture of kickbacks, bribes and criminality. The subsequent charges of several Fifa officials by US prosecutors caused many western brands to rethink their sponsorship of world football's governing body and of its marquee event.
The addition in 2015 by Fifa of a new sponsorship tier for international brands ended in failure when only a handful of companies signed up. Fifa also lost several big sponsors, including Sony and Emirates, when their deals ended at the end of the Brazil World Cup in 2014. They have been replaced by Qatar Airways, Russian energy company Gazprom and Dalian Wanda, the Chinese property and cinema group, but the net effect for Fifa has been three fewer sponsors at the Russia World Cup than it had in Brazil.
This has had a corresponding impact on Fifa's income, with sponsorship revenues for the organisation's 2015-18 tournament cycle £179m lower than in the previous 2011-14 cycle.
The omens for the next four years are similarly bleak unless Fifa takes drastic action, according to Tim Crow, a sports marketing adviser who has worked for a number of Fifa sponsors. "It's a holding pattern at the moment and there isn't much Fifa can do to grow revenues," he said.
Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup and negative sentiment around that tournament and the manner in which it won the vote, when bribes are alleged to have changed hands, will weigh on sponsors, he adds. "The bottom line is Fifa's image...it's seen as a body that will do anything for money and which is not about being for the good of the game."
This is not to say Fifa does not have opportunities to innovate. The introduction of video assistant referees in Russia has been a surprise hit with viewers and provides Fifa with a potentially new and lucrative stream of advertising revenue.
World Cup matches have been paused for video assistant referee replays, when the team of assistant referees study controversial incidents. Now that VAR has been proven to be a success these moments could easily attract a title sponsor at future tournaments, said Mr Crow - much as they would in US sports, such as American football.
"Fifa put VAR out to pitch [WITH SPONSORS] before the World Cup and no one wanted it," he said. "But now that it's been proven to work expect to see a sponsor go for it. It's time in the game that you can't ignore." – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2018


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Omran appoints Peter Walichnowski as new CEO
Oman Tourism Development Company SAOC (Omran) has announced the appointment of Peter Walichnowski as its new chief executive officer
Oman Tourism Development Company SAOC (Omran) has announced the appointment of Peter Walichnowski as its new chief executive officer.
Walichnowski will lead the company on its state-level mandate as the Sultanate's leading executive arm and master developer of tourism destinations and urban communities, aimed at contributing towards the country's fast growing tourism industry.
Peter Walichnowski joins Omran with more than 35 years of experience in tourism, real estate and mixed-use developments. His experience includes leading development companies across Australia, Europe and the GCC including Majid Al Futtaim Properties in Dubai, Lend Lease in Australia and Land Securities in London, one of the largest publicly listed real estate companies in Australia and Europe respectively.
In a statement by Omran's board of directors, the board welcomed Peter Walichnowski to his new position as Omran CEO: 'In line with its responsible tourism strategy, the Sultanate has witnessed a consistent and steady growth in the industry over the past years.
"Omran's current business plan aims to help boost the country's ambitious national tourism strategy and achieve on its mandate in delivering sustainable social and economic returns to the Sultanate. We wish Peter and entire Omran team the very best in accomplishing their goals and embarking a purposeful journey of further growth and success."


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Hike on the GR 41 through Loir-et-Cher and Cher from Selles-sur-Cher to Charost via Chabris, Gievres, Mennetou sur Cher, La Beuvriere (Saint Hilaire de Court), Vierzon, Vouzeron, Mehun sur Yevre, Villeneuve sur Cher and Plou. Guest House, Bed and Breakfast, Hotel, Camping, Inn.
Distance: 145,71km, Elevation maximum: 185m, Elevation minimum: 73m, Elevation gain uphill: 610m
IGN Maps: Chabris (2123E). Vierzon (2223E). Mennetou-sur-Cher (2223O). Charost (2224E). Foecy (2323O). Mehun-sur-Yevre (2324O).
Guest House, Bed and Breakfast, Hotel, Camping, Refuge, Hostel, Tourist Office, Shops, Hiking Travel Agency on or near a GR ® listed on www.gr-infos.com, you can appear for 10€/year (12 months)/GR by completing the registration form
GR41 From Tours (Indre-et-Loire) to Evaux-les-Bains (Creuse) (Full itinerary)
From Tours (Indre-et-Loire) à Selles-sur-Cher (Loir-et-Cher)
From Selles-sur-Cher (Loir-et-Cher) to Charost (Cher)
From Charost (Cher) to St Desire (Allier)
From St Desire (Allier) to Evaux-les-Bains (Creuse)
It is advisable to follow the beacons all along your hike and to bring you the FFRandonnee topo-guide. You will also find information on MonGR.fr.
GR®, PR®, GRP®, and the corresponding signs of markings (white / red, yellow and yellow / red) are trademarks of the French Federation of Hiking. They may not be reproduced without permission. The French Federation of Hiking, state-approved, includes organizations that create and maintain hiking routes on GR®, PR® and GRP®. It publishes guides these topo hiking routes.
Old romantic Hotel, L'Etoile Guest-House is a mountain retreat in the South of France. With a beautiful park along the Allier River, L'Etoile Guesthouse is located in La Bastide-Puylaurent between Lozere, Ardeche and Cevennes. Many hiking trails like GR7, GR70 Stevenson trail, GR72, GR700 Regordane way, Cevenol, GR470 Allier river trail, Margeride, Gevaudan, Ardechoise. Many hiking loops around L'Etoile Guesthouse. The right place to relax.
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Anti-Corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations: Event Study Evidence from China
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Consistent with reduced expected corruption adding value overall, Chinese shares rise sharply on the December 4th 2012 launch of major anti-corruption reforms, which started by curtailing extravagant spending by or for Party cadres. SOEs gain broadly, consistent with the reform cutting their top managers' (all Party cadres) spending on private benefits. NonSOEs gain in more liberalized provinces, consistent with reduced expected bribes to officials (also Party cadres) for getting business done. NonSOEs lose in provinces where market institutions remain weak, consistent with bribes for "greasing bureaucratic gears" still being a key resource allocation mechanism there. Firm level regressions reveal more productive nonSOEs in more growth potential and external finance-dependent industries gaining more in more liberalized provinces, consistent with investors expecting reduced corruption to complement and perhaps intensify the development of market institutions.
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September 03, 2015
Pekanbaru, Ekuatorial – Riau still shrouded by smog from forest and land fires residue. Dense smog back on last three days. Therefore, Education Department of Pekanbaru to dismiss the whole school activities. "Previously only level of kindergarten and elementary school, but now up to high school," said Head of Education Department of Pekanbaru, Zulfadil, Wednesday (2/9).
Nurul, a student from SMPN 22 Pekanbaru, said since 10:00 teachers sent home all students. "We came home early because of smog."
Based on the observation of Ekuatorial, there are many masks sellers on the streets. Very thick smog causes eye irritation.
Meanwhile, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) of Riau Province said that on September 2, 2015, limited visibility in Pekanbaru is 600 meters. The weather was cloudy due to the thick smog, flight activity at Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in Pekanbaru disturbed. Four departing flights canceled.
Head of BKMG Data and Information, Slamet Riyadi said that the wind moving from the southeast to the south, so the smog collected in Riau region. "Not only the smog that comes from the neighboring province such as Jambi and South Sumatra, smog at this time exacerbated by a growing number of hotspots in Riau," said Slamet.
In last three days, the hotspots are spread throughout southern Riau, like Pelalawan (46 points) and Indragiri Hilir (29 points). Tera and Aqua satellite observations to monitor 559 hotspots in Sumatra. A total of 220 points is in South Sumatra, 169 points in Jambi, 134 points in Riau, 26 points in Bangka Belitung, six points in West Sumatra and four points in Lampung.
For Riau, hotspots are scattered in Pelalawan (46 points), Kampar (13 points), Kuantan Singingi (11 points), Indragiri Hilir (29 points), Indragiri Hulu (21 points), Siak (4 points), Rokan Hulu (3 points), Rokan Hilir (2 points), Bengkalis (3 points), Dumai (1 point), and Meranti (1 point). Winahyu Dwi Utami


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Advantages and disadvantages of photovoltaic systems
Advantages of photovoltaic systems
1. High reliability
Photovoltaic systems are still highly reliable even under harsh conditions. Photovoltaic arrays ensure continuous, uninterrupted operation of critical power supplies.
2. Strong persistence
Most modules in a PV system have a warranty period of up to 25 years and remain operational even after many years.
3. Low maintenance costs
Photovoltaic systems require only regular inspections and occasional repairs, which are extremely low cost compared to conventional fuel systems.
4. Zero fuel consumption
Photovoltaic systems do not require fuel and can eliminate associated procurement, storage and transportation costs.
5. Noise pollution is small
The photovoltaic system can operate quietly with minimal mechanical movement.
6. There is photovoltaic supervision
In order to improve energy efficiency, photovoltaic systems may need to add some modules.
7. Strong security
Photovoltaic systems do not require fuel and can be safely operated after proper design and installation.
8. Strong independence
The reason for adopting this new technology in many residential areas is that photovoltaic systems maintain the independence of energy production and are therefore unaffected by utilities.
Disadvantages of photovoltaic systems
1. High startup cost
Each PV installation should be economically evaluated and compared to existing alternatives. At present, the construction cost of photovoltaic systems is relatively high, but with the reduction of photovoltaic system construction costs and the rise of traditional energy prices, photovoltaic systems will have strong economic competitiveness.
2. Available solar radiation instability
For any solar system, weather changes will greatly affect the amount of electrical energy output. Therefore, the system design needs to be adjusted according to changes in climate and location.
3. Have energy storage requirements
Some photovoltaic systems use batteries as energy storage devices. This increases the footprint, cost and complexity of the system.
4. Efficiency needs to be improved
In order for PV systems to reflect cost-effectiveness, we need to use an efficient method to distribute the energy generated during use. However, they are now often used to power alternative inefficient appliances.
5. Lack of knowledge and skills
Photovoltaic technology is an emerging technology. The lack of relevant information limits the development of its markets and technologies.


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The Go Code Colorado data team would like to tell you about quality public data. On this page, you'll find information about how public data is different from private data and slightly different from open data, and also the key factors of quality data and standards for file naming.
Aside from being free to use, public data is different from private data in two major ways. The first is that public data does not include any personally identifiable information (pii) whereas private data sometimes does. The second is that public data is always secondary data, meaning it is collected by the government for the purposes of government operations (primary data), but when it is re-purposed by data consumers it becomes secondary data. This means that, quite often, data consumers are limited in their capacity to request changes to the data that meet their needs. In some scenarios, there is an open feedback loop (much like the one created by Go Code Colorado!) in which data consumers can request enhancements to the formatting or content of the data.
There is a lot of variety in the way that different government agencies manage their data. State to state, city to city there are differences, and within states there are a wide variety of organizational structures. In some cases, the state will aggregate some of the local data to produce a data product designed to measure patterns across the municipal jurisdictions that collect the data. Quite often for these aggregate datasets, the data at the local level retains a greater level of detail. To determine if a dataset is managed at a state or local level, think about yourself as a citizen to find clues about how data is collected about us. Where you go when you need to renew your driver's license versus where you pay your property taxes, is an easy example.
Public Data, Open Data and Private Data
The main difference between public data and open data is that public data is derived from the government and open data can have a variety of sources. Thus, there are three distinct categories of available data from the perspective of a data consumer using data to create a commercially available product: Public, Open and Private. These categories are determined by their types of licenses and allowable use cases. Open Data is created for the people by the people. Meaning that a collaborative organization builds the data through a group of volunteers responsible for housing the data and carrying the burden of gathering, collating, cleaning and otherwise curating the data to make it available. Open Data is essentially crowd sourced data, and like all crowd sourced data, there are issues with versioning and currency. Examples in this category are Open Street Map, OpenAddresses.io, OpenAerialMap and Mapillary providing Open Street View — all three represent open data that is created by public contribution with limited restrictions on the data's use (essentially, share any improvements made to the data back to the community), regardless if the user is producing a free or for sale product. Public data could also be considered "open government data", in the sense that it can also be used freely without constraint in a commercial product because of its Public Domain use license. There are government datasets that are not public, and thus the term "public data" is formally designated to refer to "open government data". In this way, public data is more "open" than open data, because the Public Use License has the least restrictions on use. Private datasets are expected to be the cleanest, most reliable (accurate, kept up to date, etc.), and best documented datasets available for data consumers. This of course comes with a price of a restricted use agreement and the associated monetary cost of use.
There are three key factors to quality data
- Is the data accurate?
- Is it up-to-date?
- Can it be combined easily with other data for analysis?
Use the tag word "gocodecolorado" on the Colorado Information Marketplace (CIM) to find datasets curated for the Go Code Colorado competition.
Data Curation is the process of transforming data from its original build and native management into a series of datasets that are easily discoverable by and formatted to the needs of the data consumer.
As a reminder, all datasets on CIM can be accessed through the portal's application programming interface (API).
—Indications Data Has Been Curated—
In order of importance to the consumer. Certainly it could be debated if "Machine Readable" or "Fresh" is of greater paramount.
Machine Readable
Machine Readable means that the data can easily be loaded into any analytical or statistical processing system in order to look for patterns and trends in the data. Other use cases include the creation of a product or tool that utilizes frequently changing data to power a data accessibility application or otherwise combines data to create a product of value based on the accessibility of the available data. There are countless reasons why government agencies do not give public access to production databases, and thus the process of making public data machine readable involves architecting data migration pathways and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes.
Look for indications that distinct effort has gone into ensuring the data is presented in the appropriate size and scale. This means that tables are built to present a meaningful collection of fields, so as to minimize the number of different API calls required to convey a story or produce an app with the data. Different tables should be selected and combined to produce a final product based on the breakdown of the database's internal themes and maximized for interpretation by the user. This size of each resulting table is determined in the publishing process by a data architect who knows the right way to balance the breakdown of tables between groups that encourage theme discoverability and groups that are so segmented that they become inefficient.
The complexity of a database (schema) determines the number of tables that are produced and published for public consumption. In some cases, information is duplicated on different tables to provide the necessary context for that table. A good example of this is two datasets that each have a County FIPS Code field and also have the associated County Name (as opposed to having the name in a lookup table). For datasets exported from a single source, a key field (two associated UniqueID fields in two related tables) will allow them to be joined together. In other cases, similar datasets have columns with common attributes can be finessed to create a unique ID for each record s these tables can then also be joined.
The Related Datasets section of the metadata has other datasets that could be joined (come from the same source) or have a similar theme (come from a different source at the same agency, or a similar source at different agencies). All of the CDLE datasets provide a good example, as the two Occupational Projections datasets are related. Additionally, the Labor Market Information system (LMI) of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) is a large database of more than 70 tables. The portion of the dataset that is public has been through the ETL (extract, transform and load) process from the LMI database and loaded onto the CIM as five separate tables:
- Employment by Industry
- Income Data by County
- Employment and Unemployment Estimates
- Occupational Employment Statistics
- Current Employment Statistics
What does it mean to have Fresh data?
Sometimes it means maintaining a temporal record, which requires publishing new data instead of updating existing datasets. Other times it means maintaining a connection that keeps the data true with the source database on a daily basis. Turns out, there's lots of different ways that government agencies can (and do!) manage their data.
Thus — "Fresh Data" is defined by the distance in time (or lack thereof) between the "last updated date" and the "expected update date" –>> utilize the statistics page for each dataset as a way to show how many times each dataset has been updated.
Static vs Dynamic Data
Static data is data that is not updated. Static data often is a snapshot of a particular time period, or could be a report/analysis.
Dynamic data is subject to updates and changes. Dynamic datasets are often updated on a scheduled basis to keep them current.
Why do some datasets have a date in the title and some don't?
Datasets on CIM sometimes have a date in their title. This is most commonly due to the dataset only containing data for the date specified in the title. For example, traffic datasets on CIM are given by the data provider as an annual dataset. These datasets as static, by-year data. A 2016 dataset is not updated with 2017 data, instead a new 2017-only dataset is created.
Last Update Date(s)
The "Updated Date" at the top right (and top left of the "About This Dataset" section) of every dataset page is a created field and changes depending on what was last updated. There are quite a few dates that are captured in the metadata. Here is an overview:
Data Last Updated – When an update or replace was run for the data of the dataset
Metadata Last Updated – When a change to the title, description, or various other metadata pieces was made
Date Created – When the dataset was published on data.colorado.gov
Date of initial Dataset Creation – When the dataset was created by the data curator/provider.
Expected Update Frequency
In the "About" section of a dataset on CIM, or if you click on "Show More" on the "Primer" page, additional metadata information will be displayed. There are a few important fields under "Data Updates" and "Data Quality" – each with at least one example provided.
Expected Update Frequency – The general frequency – "annual, monthly, quarterly, daily"
Update Schedule – The expected update schedule for this dataset – "Daily to CIM"
Update Method – The update method – "Automated by Socrata Scheduler"
Update Type – Distinguishes between manually or automatic updates – "Automated – Daily"
Source Update Schedule – The expected update schedule at the data source – "monthly, quarterly"
Metadata and Description are Clear and Succinct
All metadata has been created from interviewing the data providers and data stewards in order to characterize the data as thoroughly as possible in relation to the needs of the data user, and presented on this website in a way that is designed to enhance the creative process of designing an entry for the Go Code Colorado competition. This summary largely under-represents the associated level of effort that goes in to the discovery process with the data provider to better understand how it is made and currently maintained, changes the data has gone through over the years, and other textural components that can help ensure the secondary use of the data is appropriate to the application its being used for,
Go Code Colorado datasets employ a standard naming convention, in addition to a standard format for the "brief description" that immediately follows the dataset title in the CIM catalog.
Title formatting for a good first impression:
[3 word desc] + [data type] + [geography]
- Airport Locations for Colorado
- Business Entities for Colorado
- Bike Lane Routes for Denver
Description formatting for Improved Catalog Browsing
- Maximum 30 words
- First 15 'show' in CIM catalog
- What's in it?
- Who is the data provider?
- What is the time frame?
- How is it maintained?
- How was it created?
good governance
Best practices for open data programs include:
- Thorough documentation on the technical data publishing process.
- Published open data strategic plan and progress toward publishing goals.
- Published documentation on the organizational steps in the data provider process.
- Good documentation on what the metadata is and why it's valuable.
- Meaningful metadata.
- Metrics and dashboards showing various data update schedules.
- Use of standards and naming conventions.
- Quality keywords and enhanced searching.
- Successful apps built off the data, e.g. SF, Chicago.
- Run interesting programs around the data, e.g. NYC.
- Control over catalog populating and ensuring authoritative sources.
- Smart regulation of public publishing and crowd sourced data.
Collectively these indicators can all be used to gauge the quality of the data.


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Web-based tech can help companies in a variety of ways: agile information sharing, tighter integration and better productivity. It can also save time, improve collaboration and even lead to greater transparency.
For IT, DevOps and business professionals, the ROI from enterprise social software often comes from the analytics capabilities, which can uncover actionable data that's both accessible and easily integrated into corporate systems.
Microsoft SharePoint, Atlassian Confluence, IBM Connections and Microsoft Yammer all fit the bill in some ways. But is one better than the others?
At IT Central Station, users who have evaluated and shared feedback on enterprise social software discuss how the solutions they use deliver these requirements.
On the whole, are real-world users satisfied with the information sharing and analytics that their enterprise social tools provide?
Microsoft SharePoint
Wissam H., Manager of Business Process & Lean Management at a financial services firm, describes how SharePoint has helped his organization:
"It helped us manage our documents and records effectively and at a reasonable cost. The TAT [turnaround time] for process/document review, approval and publication cycles have significantly improved from maximum of three months for each document down to two weeks."
Erwin F., IT & PMO Manager at a retail company, specifies one difficulty that he's had using SharePoint:
Erwin explains that at his organization, SharePoint is used "for all intensive document sharing business units and especially for document versioning control (quality control area in manufacturing)." With that, he notes, the "cloud-local file synchronization application (OneDrive for Business)" could use improvement and/or be made simpler.
Read more Sharepoint reviews by real users at IT Central Station.
Atlassian Confluence
A Senior Development Manager at a financial services firm describes what he benefits from the most in Atlassian Confluence:
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing of information. The ability to crowdsource the gathering of information and have anyone edit and correct it instantly. Quite simply, information is king. We have been able to share effectively and reduce our reliance on the usual Word docs and shared drives."
Anthony D., Program Manager at a government agency, suggests certain improvements be made to Atlassian Confluence:
"The basic improvement needed from my perspective (and it may be more to do with how Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has allowed certain features of Confluence to be used) is the ability to move multiple attachments at a time.
I would like to be able to copy a set of pages in Confluence as a template. It would be nice to have better business collaboration examples."
Read more Atlassian Confluence reviews by real users at IT Central Station.
IBM Connections
Rajesh R., Senior Messaging & Mobility Analyst at a construction company, shares what he values most in IBM Connections:
"Communities and activities are very useful for team collaboration and project level communication. This prevents breakdowns and keeps all the information in a centralized location."
A Web Development Manager at a financial services firm discusses improvements that he would like to see made to IBM Connections:
"I would love for the communities to be more row-based, where you could have more of a community, so that you could set up the email alerts to be mandatory for some of the communities and to be standard for the others; those kinds of functionalities."
Read more IBM Connections reviews by real users at IT Central Station.
Microsoft Yammer
Jeff E., Web and Intranet Content Management Advisor at a tech services company, shares how and why his organization benefits from using Yammer:
"Ease of use and the ability to join networks outside of the organization. These are valuable to drive adoption and to collaborate, be informed of events, and developments in related organizations.
We have set Yammer up inside iFrames that appear on our intranet home page, most content pages, and in all-team sites. This has enabled us to cater to large and very small audiences where they interact and don't require a separate application or login."
An IT Director at a financial services firm suggests how Yammer could further improve its software offering:
"Yammer can improve the effectiveness of its usage by addressing the metrics that measure user trust and perception. It measures the sentiments of posts using analytics and increases the ease of use."
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I use to joke with a friend of mine about him being a tea snob. I knew I was on my way to being one also after he and his wife got me started on Montana Tea & Spice Trading Company teas. I recently informed them that I am now officially a tea snob as well.
Now, about coffee snobishness…..I used to wonder what it was about coffee that people loved so much. I liked coffee. Well, I liked the sugar and cream that you get to put in coffee. However in recent years a true appreciation for the actual coffee has been growing in me. I started to be able to tell the difference between burnt coffee at church and Starbucks (I know, that seems obvious but with so much cream and sugar…it was hard to tell)
I came across this great website that explains the true meaning of tea/coffee snob. Being a tea snob or a coffee snob doesn't mean you think you're better than other people because you know more about something than they do but it's that you have a passion for something.
Well that sounds kind of pathetic to have a passion for a hot beverage but some of you know what I'm talking about.
This site tells you how to be an expert coffee cupper (or coffee taster) and tells you all about different kinds of coffee and tea. It is very fun for those of us who are a little obsessed. Coffee snobishness, here I come!
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Behind the Music Interview
August 1st, 2018
Nerd Reactor: Also receiving acclaim is the score by veteran composer Kurt Oldman. With some of the episodes having different themes, Kurt has been able to explore a wide variety of genres and tones such as classic horror sounds in the Halloween special along with '70s and '80s vibes for the upcoming Summer Vacation special. We wanted to talk with him about the process for creating these melodies along with the Summer Vacation special airing August 16. Read the interview with Kurt below.