Ms. Tanisha Garrett was born on February 7th, 1991. She was born on February 7th, 1991 in an unspecified location. The document provides the name and date of birth for Ms. Tanisha Garrett.
Whitepaper Home defects that impact energy billsedreeve
This whitepaper discusses common home energy defects found during inspections and simple fixes homeowners can do. Poor attic insulation is a major source of energy loss, and adding more insulation can save 15-25% on bills. Gaps around doors and windows also cause air leaks, costing up to 10% extra. Replacing weather stripping is an easy fix. Air duct leaks should be sealed with duct mastic. Programmable thermostats and replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs further reduce costs. Overall, addressing these typical issues can significantly improve a home's energy efficiency through low-cost repairs and upgrades.
Eliza Gaynor Minden was born in 1959 in Boston and grew up in Connecticut, where she was encouraged to dance by her mother. She earned a B.A. from Yale University and noticed how uncomfortable and painful traditional ballet shoes were. She created hundreds of prototypes to develop a new ballet shoe design using modern materials like elastomeric to provide more comfort and support. Her company, Gaynor Minden, produces the popular pointe shoe that is more shock-absorbent and lasts three to six times longer than other brands.
This inspection report summarizes the inspection of a single family home located at 123 Street, Hometown, USA. The inspector evaluated the structure, exterior, roofing system, and other major systems. Minor issues were found with openings in the exterior mortar and around exterior pipes that could allow water intrusion. Overall the home was found to be in good condition with only routine maintenance needed.
This whitepaper provides home maintenance tips for first-time homebuyers, including maintaining the garage door, clothes washer/dryer, water heater, HVAC system, sinks/tubs, toilets, doors, and windows. Key tips include lubricating garage door parts twice per year, replacing plastic dryer vent hoses, draining water heaters annually, cleaning HVAC vents and installing mid-level filters, using hot water and coat hangers to clean sinks/tubs, and lubricating moving door and window parts. Routine maintenance is recommended to decrease repair costs and maximize home value.
Derek M Allan Photography - Advertising Photographyderek Allan
A short presentation of 'studio' work performed for clients here in Hong Kong. All this photography was actually performed at the clients' offices or warehouse. I transport my equipment to the clients and execute the photography on their premises. This save them the enormous trouble of packing, shipping and insuring their valuable stock, and allow me to present the photography as I shoot it.
CONSTRUCTION PowerPoint Presentation from Derek M Allan Photographyderek Allan
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Whitepaper Home defects that impact energy billsedreeve
This whitepaper discusses common home energy defects found during inspections and simple fixes homeowners can do. Poor attic insulation is a major source of energy loss, and adding more insulation can save 15-25% on bills. Gaps around doors and windows also cause air leaks, costing up to 10% extra. Replacing weather stripping is an easy fix. Air duct leaks should be sealed with duct mastic. Programmable thermostats and replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs further reduce costs. Overall, addressing these typical issues can significantly improve a home's energy efficiency through low-cost repairs and upgrades.
Eliza Gaynor Minden was born in 1959 in Boston and grew up in Connecticut, where she was encouraged to dance by her mother. She earned a B.A. from Yale University and noticed how uncomfortable and painful traditional ballet shoes were. She created hundreds of prototypes to develop a new ballet shoe design using modern materials like elastomeric to provide more comfort and support. Her company, Gaynor Minden, produces the popular pointe shoe that is more shock-absorbent and lasts three to six times longer than other brands.
This inspection report summarizes the inspection of a single family home located at 123 Street, Hometown, USA. The inspector evaluated the structure, exterior, roofing system, and other major systems. Minor issues were found with openings in the exterior mortar and around exterior pipes that could allow water intrusion. Overall the home was found to be in good condition with only routine maintenance needed.
This whitepaper provides home maintenance tips for first-time homebuyers, including maintaining the garage door, clothes washer/dryer, water heater, HVAC system, sinks/tubs, toilets, doors, and windows. Key tips include lubricating garage door parts twice per year, replacing plastic dryer vent hoses, draining water heaters annually, cleaning HVAC vents and installing mid-level filters, using hot water and coat hangers to clean sinks/tubs, and lubricating moving door and window parts. Routine maintenance is recommended to decrease repair costs and maximize home value.
Derek M Allan Photography - Advertising Photographyderek Allan
A short presentation of 'studio' work performed for clients here in Hong Kong. All this photography was actually performed at the clients' offices or warehouse. I transport my equipment to the clients and execute the photography on their premises. This save them the enormous trouble of packing, shipping and insuring their valuable stock, and allow me to present the photography as I shoot it.
CONSTRUCTION PowerPoint Presentation from Derek M Allan Photographyderek Allan
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Inspect-It 1st is a property inspection franchise that provides accurate inspections through rigorously trained inspectors. Inspectors are required to have errors and omissions insurance, providing peace of mind. Inspectors will review a proprietary inspection report and answer questions to help clients make confident and informed decisions about their largest investments. The process is stress-free due to customer service and on-time delivery of reports. A variety of inspection services are tailored to meet local needs.
Social media has emerged as a powerful communication channel to promote actions and raise social awareness. Initiatives through social media are being driven by NGOs to increase the scope and effectiveness of their campaigns. In this paper, we describe the DaTactic2 campaign, which is both an offline and online initiative supported by Oxfam Intermón devised to gather activists and NGOs practitioners and create awareness on the importance of the 2014 European Parliament election. We provide details regarding the background of the campaign, as well as the objectives, the strategies that have been implemented and an empirical evaluation of its performance through an analysis of the impact on Twitter. Our findings show the effectiveness of bringing together relevant actors in an offline event and the high value of creating multimedia content in order to increase the scope and virality of the campaign.
Biographical social networks on WikipediaPablo Aragón
It is arguable whether history is made by great men and
women or vice versa, but undoubtably social connections
shape history. Analysing Wikipedia, a global collective mem-
ory place, we aim to understanding how social interactions
are recorded across cultures. We focus on the social networks
of persons with biographical articles on the 15 largest lan-
guage Wikipedias. We detect the most influential historical
characters in these networks and point out culture-related
peculiarities. Moreover, we reveal remarkable similarities
between different groups of language Wikipedias and shared
knowledge about social connections across cultures.
SMMART is a social media marketing analysis tool that uses Solr, Hadoop, and Amazon EC2 to provide large-scale data processing and storage. It crawls social media data using Nutch, parses the content, and indexes it in an Apache Solr index. The tool allows users to discover insights from social media at scale and track the impact of marketing activities. Cierzo Development, located in Spain, created SMMART and provides social media monitoring and reputation management services to its clients.
Graph Visualization Tool for Twittersphere users based on a high-scalable Ext...Pablo Aragón
This document summarizes a graph visualization tool for analyzing Twitter data based on an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) system. The tool uses Hadoop for distributed computation across Amazon EC2 instances and includes modules for crawling Twitter, extracting metadata, indexing data, and visualizing relationships between users as a graph. The tool is demonstrated by analyzing discussions around the Western Sahara conflict and a Basque political leader's social media campaign. Results identified key influencers and discussions. Future work may include expanding the tool to more social networks and enabling real-time and predictive analytics.
Powerpoint presentation Derek M Allan Photographyderek Allan
Derek M Allan has been a professional photographer in Hong Kong since 1981, specializing in industrial, architectural, corporate, construction, and stock photography. He photographs with both digital and film cameras in formats from 135mm to 5x4 inches, and uses various lighting equipment to shoot subjects anywhere, including under restrictions. With over 35 years of experience, he works alone to provide each client with personalized service and high quality photography.
When a Movement Becomes a Party: Computational Assessment of New Forms of Pol...Pablo Aragón
Social media has become a key mechanism for the organization of grassroots movements. In the 2015 Barcelona City Council election, Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots party, was the most voted one. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the Spanish 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop oligarchical leadership structures.
This tension motivates us to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this article we propose a computational framework to analyze the Twitter networks of the parties that ran for this election by measuring their hierarchical structure, small-world phenomenon and coreness. The results of our assessment show that in Barcelona en Comu two well-defined ´ groups co-exist: a cluster dominated by the party leader and the collective accounts, and another cluster formed by the movement activists. While the former group is highly centralized like traditional parties, the latter one stands out for its decentralized, cohesive and resilient structure
Tweeting the campaign: Evaluation of the Strategies performed by Spanish Poli...Pablo Aragón
Social networks have become repositories of Big Data that can be mined and analyzed to gain insights into the activities and preferences of Internet users. The present research relies on a large dataset from Twitter to examine emotional content, activity patterns and interaction networks of political parties and politically active users during the campaign for the Spanish national elections of November 2011.
Our results show remarkable differences in political parties according to the diffusion and communication dynamics within the microblogging network. The study of the networks generated by the main parties allows us to identify different strategies depending on the characteristics of the analyzed parties in the offline word. Furthermore, we discuss the adaptation of the political structures of the parties to this new communication and organizational paradigm emerged from Internet and online social networks.
From Citizen Data to the Wisdom of the Crowds: The Case Study of Decide MadridPablo Aragón
In September 2015 the Madrid City Council opened "Decide Madrid", a portal to discuss and decide the city model through debates and proposals. Debates were conceived as discussion threads opened and commented by any citizen. Proposals were designed to allow citizens to publish petitions, receive support from other citizens and finally run a public voting of the entire population.
The present work is the analysis of Decide Madrid conducted within the EU-funded D-CENT project in collaboration with the Area of Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the City Council. The goal of the study is to reveal insights that provide feedback for the refinement of the platform.
First we address the distribution of activity over time and observed peaks of activity. In the first week, users could only debate and, once proposals were available, activity focused on them rather than on debates. This might be explained because citizens were engaged in the possibility of achieving tangible political goals instead of just debating as they daily do in online social networks. When this pattern emerged, the managers indicated that debates would be improved by the participation of political representatives. Our results prove the success of this initiative. We also identify the community structure of the platform through social network analysis techniques. We find a well-connected structure without well-defined clusters of users: users were not strongly clustered around preferences. However, our analysis detects a cluster partially isolated from the main component of the network: a community of trolls mostly focused on goliardic actions. Finally, we assess a computational model to quantify the degree of deliberation given the structure of discussion threads, and present the results in an interactive visualization as a way to better understand how discussion builds Collective Intelligence.
1. AVEDA currently has a narrow market share in the organic products market but enjoys high brand value. The growth of organic product sales has slowed down recently.
2. The document proposes for AVEDA to expand into the larger LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) market by targeting LOHAS consumers and advocating the LOHAS lifestyle.
3. Primary and secondary research is recommended to understand customer attitudes towards LOHAS products and lifestyles, and identify opportunities in the LOHAS market for AVEDA to widen its customer base and strengthen its brand positioning.
Inspect-It 1st is a property inspection franchise that provides accurate inspections through rigorously trained inspectors. Inspectors are required to have errors and omissions insurance, providing peace of mind. Inspectors will review a proprietary inspection report and answer questions to help clients make confident and informed decisions about their largest investments. The process is stress-free due to customer service and on-time delivery of reports. A variety of inspection services are tailored to meet local needs.
Social media has emerged as a powerful communication channel to promote actions and raise social awareness. Initiatives through social media are being driven by NGOs to increase the scope and effectiveness of their campaigns. In this paper, we describe the DaTactic2 campaign, which is both an offline and online initiative supported by Oxfam Intermón devised to gather activists and NGOs practitioners and create awareness on the importance of the 2014 European Parliament election. We provide details regarding the background of the campaign, as well as the objectives, the strategies that have been implemented and an empirical evaluation of its performance through an analysis of the impact on Twitter. Our findings show the effectiveness of bringing together relevant actors in an offline event and the high value of creating multimedia content in order to increase the scope and virality of the campaign.
Biographical social networks on WikipediaPablo Aragón
It is arguable whether history is made by great men and
women or vice versa, but undoubtably social connections
shape history. Analysing Wikipedia, a global collective mem-
ory place, we aim to understanding how social interactions
are recorded across cultures. We focus on the social networks
of persons with biographical articles on the 15 largest lan-
guage Wikipedias. We detect the most influential historical
characters in these networks and point out culture-related
peculiarities. Moreover, we reveal remarkable similarities
between different groups of language Wikipedias and shared
knowledge about social connections across cultures.
SMMART is a social media marketing analysis tool that uses Solr, Hadoop, and Amazon EC2 to provide large-scale data processing and storage. It crawls social media data using Nutch, parses the content, and indexes it in an Apache Solr index. The tool allows users to discover insights from social media at scale and track the impact of marketing activities. Cierzo Development, located in Spain, created SMMART and provides social media monitoring and reputation management services to its clients.
Graph Visualization Tool for Twittersphere users based on a high-scalable Ext...Pablo Aragón
This document summarizes a graph visualization tool for analyzing Twitter data based on an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) system. The tool uses Hadoop for distributed computation across Amazon EC2 instances and includes modules for crawling Twitter, extracting metadata, indexing data, and visualizing relationships between users as a graph. The tool is demonstrated by analyzing discussions around the Western Sahara conflict and a Basque political leader's social media campaign. Results identified key influencers and discussions. Future work may include expanding the tool to more social networks and enabling real-time and predictive analytics.
Powerpoint presentation Derek M Allan Photographyderek Allan
Derek M Allan has been a professional photographer in Hong Kong since 1981, specializing in industrial, architectural, corporate, construction, and stock photography. He photographs with both digital and film cameras in formats from 135mm to 5x4 inches, and uses various lighting equipment to shoot subjects anywhere, including under restrictions. With over 35 years of experience, he works alone to provide each client with personalized service and high quality photography.
When a Movement Becomes a Party: Computational Assessment of New Forms of Pol...Pablo Aragón
Social media has become a key mechanism for the organization of grassroots movements. In the 2015 Barcelona City Council election, Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots party, was the most voted one. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the Spanish 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop oligarchical leadership structures.
This tension motivates us to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this article we propose a computational framework to analyze the Twitter networks of the parties that ran for this election by measuring their hierarchical structure, small-world phenomenon and coreness. The results of our assessment show that in Barcelona en Comu two well-defined ´ groups co-exist: a cluster dominated by the party leader and the collective accounts, and another cluster formed by the movement activists. While the former group is highly centralized like traditional parties, the latter one stands out for its decentralized, cohesive and resilient structure
Tweeting the campaign: Evaluation of the Strategies performed by Spanish Poli...Pablo Aragón
Social networks have become repositories of Big Data that can be mined and analyzed to gain insights into the activities and preferences of Internet users. The present research relies on a large dataset from Twitter to examine emotional content, activity patterns and interaction networks of political parties and politically active users during the campaign for the Spanish national elections of November 2011.
Our results show remarkable differences in political parties according to the diffusion and communication dynamics within the microblogging network. The study of the networks generated by the main parties allows us to identify different strategies depending on the characteristics of the analyzed parties in the offline word. Furthermore, we discuss the adaptation of the political structures of the parties to this new communication and organizational paradigm emerged from Internet and online social networks.
From Citizen Data to the Wisdom of the Crowds: The Case Study of Decide MadridPablo Aragón
In September 2015 the Madrid City Council opened "Decide Madrid", a portal to discuss and decide the city model through debates and proposals. Debates were conceived as discussion threads opened and commented by any citizen. Proposals were designed to allow citizens to publish petitions, receive support from other citizens and finally run a public voting of the entire population.
The present work is the analysis of Decide Madrid conducted within the EU-funded D-CENT project in collaboration with the Area of Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the City Council. The goal of the study is to reveal insights that provide feedback for the refinement of the platform.
First we address the distribution of activity over time and observed peaks of activity. In the first week, users could only debate and, once proposals were available, activity focused on them rather than on debates. This might be explained because citizens were engaged in the possibility of achieving tangible political goals instead of just debating as they daily do in online social networks. When this pattern emerged, the managers indicated that debates would be improved by the participation of political representatives. Our results prove the success of this initiative. We also identify the community structure of the platform through social network analysis techniques. We find a well-connected structure without well-defined clusters of users: users were not strongly clustered around preferences. However, our analysis detects a cluster partially isolated from the main component of the network: a community of trolls mostly focused on goliardic actions. Finally, we assess a computational model to quantify the degree of deliberation given the structure of discussion threads, and present the results in an interactive visualization as a way to better understand how discussion builds Collective Intelligence.
1. AVEDA currently has a narrow market share in the organic products market but enjoys high brand value. The growth of organic product sales has slowed down recently.
2. The document proposes for AVEDA to expand into the larger LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) market by targeting LOHAS consumers and advocating the LOHAS lifestyle.
3. Primary and secondary research is recommended to understand customer attitudes towards LOHAS products and lifestyles, and identify opportunities in the LOHAS market for AVEDA to widen its customer base and strengthen its brand positioning.