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In a new subdivision, a builder has constructed and sold 70 single-family houses. In 50 of the 70 houses, the roofs begin to leak shortly after the owners move in. The leaks cause water to collect behind the walls, which in turn causes mold to grow.
In each affected house, the mold and water have combined to cause significant damage. Each house's roof needs repair, and the affected walls must be demolished and rebuilt. Depending on the extent of the leakage, these repairs will cost between $15,000 and $60,000 per house. Worse still, other damage to furniture, flooring, and personal property ranges from $2,000 to $25,000 per house.
A total of 85 owners occupy the 50 affected houses. (Some houses are owned concurrently—e.g. by tenancy in common.) In varying degrees, each owner has suffered medical problems due to the mold. Some endure only mild sneezing and coughing, while others have developed persistent skin rashes, fevers, and serious coughs. A few of the most severely affected owners have been hospitalized, and many have lost time at work because of their symptoms. In short, owing to these illnesses, the owners have sustained varying degrees of pain, suffering, and mental distress. They have also incurred lost wages and medical bills, ranging from zero to $40,000 per person.
Owner #1 owns one affected house, and Owner #2 owns another. In the appropriate United States district court, the two owners jointly sue the builder for breach of warranty, breach of contract, negligence, and fraud. Assume that the court has personal and subject-matter jurisdiction, and that venue is proper.
The cost of repairs to Owner #1's house is $40,000; Owner #1 has accumulated $800 in medical bills, but no lost wages. The cost of repairs to Owner #2's house is $18,000; Owner #2 has incurred medical bills of $10,000 and lost wages of $6,000. In addition to these compensatory damages, each owner seeks punitive damages of $50,000.
The two homeowners' attorney has been practicing law for almost three years. Six months ago, she established her own law firm, partnering with a law-school classmate. Before then, she worked for two years at a real-estate firm. There, she mostly researched property titles and managed residential closings. At her new firm, she has tried two divorce cases. She has also represented a local restaurant owner in litigation against a franchisor. In that case, she negotiated a settlement of $85,000 in favor of her client.
The two homeowners seek to represent a class consisting of the 85 people who own the 50 affected houses. The attorney has filed a motion to certify this class, which the builder opposes. As is common knowledge, class actions can require large investments of time, extensive staffing, and often expensive financing to support the litigation before trial.
How should the judge rule on the motion to certify the class? Explain, limiting your answer to the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a) (Rule 23(a)) for class certification.


As the number and size of mailing lists at your site become large, you might wish to install a software package that automates list management. We show four of the more mature packages here. Many other packages exist (some good, many immature), and you can find them by searching the Web.
The Majordomo mailing-list management software was originally written by Brent Chapman using the perl(1) language. Its chief features are that it allows users to subscribe to and remove themselves from lists without list manager intervention and that it allows list managers to manage lists remotely. In addition, users can obtain help and list descriptions with simple mail requests. Note that Majordomo aids in managing a list (the list addresses) but does not aid in list moderation (the contents of mail messages). But Majordomo does catch administrative mail erroneously sent to the list as whole. Majordomo is available via anonymous FTP from ftp://FTP.GreatCircle.COM/pub/majordomo/.
The Mailman mailing-list management software was written and is distributed as part of the GNU project. It claims to be fully web-based for ease of management. Even list managers can manage lists entirely over the Web. Mailman is written in Python (with some C code for security). The Mailman package is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html.
The ListProcessor system was written by Tasos Kotsikonas. It is an automated system for managing mailing lists that replaces the aliases file for that use. According to the author, it includes support for "public and private hierarchical archives, moderated lists, peer lists, peer servers, private lists, address aliasing, news connections and gateways, mail queueing, list ownership, owner preferences, crash recovery, and batch processing." The system also accepts Internet connections for "live" processing of requests at port 372 (as assigned by the IANA). The ListProcessor system is available via anonymous ftp from http://www.listserv.net/.
 IANA stands for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
The Listmanager software is available at http://www.listmanager.org/.


Workdry International Ltd, the ultimate holding company of Selwood Ltd, has acquired Siltbuster and Siltbuster Process Solutions, in a strategic move to consolidate its position as the UK's leading complete water handling provider.
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Shahryar Nashat at Rodeo
Artist: Shahryar Nashat
Venue: Rodeo, London
Exhibition Title: Mean Dream & Shoulder Regime
Date: February 25 – March 25, 2017
Images courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, London. Photos by Plastiques.
partial timeline
An Iranian acquaintance of the family shows Shahryar Nashat a photograph of Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Rome in 1961. He thinks to himself, "Boy, these two are having a good time."
SN turns 17.
At a student show, SN shows his first artwork. Fruit–a Super 8mm film depicting Eric eating a strawberry–is an excuse for the artist to get closer to his friend, on whom he has a crush.
SN moves to Rome for a few months. He eventually meets Luigi Ontani. But Twombly evades him.
On a visit to the Frick Collection in New York, SN lingers over a line in the audioguide describing a Velazquez painting as having been "hung high for dramatic impact."
SN relocates to Berlin.
On a visit to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, SN sees for the first time Paul Thek's Hippopotamus from the "Technological Reliquaries." He grasps the importance of ambivalence.
An unexpected visitor shows up at SN's studio in Los Angeles and inadvertently leans against an unfinished wall work.
Raffi, the artist's fabrication assistant, finalizes the artwork by impressing his sweaty shoulder onto the bare surface of the unwaxed plaster.
"Yea high," says SN to 356 Mission Road's #sweetpreparator, using the installer's shoulder as reference point for the height of the work.
SN and his dealer settle on the dates and ideas for a new exhibition at the gallery.
An impasse: Having embarked upon the idea of making a work in relation to Agnes Martin, SN finds himself dissuaded after reading the following words by Jo Baer on the late artist: "The lyrical is not my meat."
A trigger: In a Twombly catalogue from the year 1987, on loan from an art school library, SN stumbles upon the words "FRUIT FLY," scrawled in blue ink, along the margins by a previous reader.
SN casts Leo, a young Afghan-American teenager, as a stand-in for himself at the age of 17.
SN shoots the footage for Psych Twombly, in which a pillow becomes a prop.
Rather than mark the opening of the exhibition, SN and the dealer decide to host a closing event on March 24th 2017.
"Are you using your biography as a display mechanism?" asks Adam, SN's boyfriend, over the phone.
Mean Dream & Shoulder Regime opens in London.
Link: Shahryar Nashat at Rodeo
Tags: London, Rodeo, Shahryar Nashat, United Kingdom

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Claire McGill MLA is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. She sat in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2007 to 2011, representing West Tyrone as a member of Sinn Féin.

McGill also represented Sinn Féin for the Glenelly Electoral Area on Strabane District Council from 2001 to 2011.

References

External links
 Northern Ireland Assembly official website, members Bio

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from County Tyrone
Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011
Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Sinn Féin MLAs
Sinn Féin councillors in Northern Ireland

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February 2017 (Revised May 2022)
The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the pilot program was to improve the consumer reselling experience and to enhance "diamond equity." Somewhat paradoxically, consumers typically received very low prices when they tried to sell diamonds (5-20% of the original retail price) leaving them reluctant to purchase diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather more information, or convert it into a new standalone business unit. Because De Beers had historically focused on producing rough diamonds (the "upstream" business), yet the new business unit offered an opportunity to enter and enhance the market for polished diamonds (the "downstream" business), the decision was particularly noteworthy.
Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Advertising Industry; Mining Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
Esty, Benjamin C., Daniel P. Gross, and Lauren G. Pickle. "The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity." Harvard Business School Case 717-430, February 2017. (Revised May 2022.)
Benjamin C. Esty
The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds
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The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher


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package ru.sbulygin.models;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

/**
 * Class DoctorTest.
 *
 * @author sbulygin.
 * @since 01.02.2017.
 * @version 1.0.
 */
public class DoctorTest {

    /**
     * The  doctor field.
     */
    private Doctor testDoc;

    /**
     * Information method to test.
     */
    @Before
    public  void infoForTest() {
          testDoc = new Doctor(35, "Pupkin Ivan Ivanovich", "male", "doctor", true, "therapist");
    }

    /**
     * Test method getCategory and setCategory class Profession.
     */

    @Test
    public void whenGetCategoryThenReturnCategory() {
         testDoc.setCategory("therapist");
         String result = testDoc.getCategory();
         String checked = "therapist";
         assertThat(result, is(checked));
    }

    /**
     * Test method diagnosis class Doctor.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenPatientTrueAddThenStringLine() {
         String result = testDoc.diagnosis();
         String checked = "Pupkin Ivan Ivanovich diagnoses patient";
         assertThat(result, is(checked));
    }

    /**
     * Test method healing class Doctor.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenPatientHealingThenStringLine() {
         String result = testDoc.healing();
         String checked = "Pupkin Ivan Ivanovich treats patient";
         assertThat(result, is(checked));
    }
}

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The European Migrant Crisis
Andrea Martin
Written by Rebecca Oldham. Media by Andrea Martin. [divide]
In the past few months, migrants have been fleeing from the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, and have sought to enter Europe. This migrant crisis has become one of the largest since World Ward II, and many of the countries within Europe are unsure of how to deal with the growing migrant population. The population influx has overflown into countries such as Hungary, where they have had to tighten their security when it comes to border control.
Image via dailynewsservice.co.uk
According to CNN's reporters Lucy Pawle and Susannah Cullinane, the largest portions of migrants are those fleeing from the Syrian civil war. At least 613,000 migrants have passed over into Europe by boat. Many of them are smuggled and have never traveled by water before. Over 3,100 migrants have drowned or disappeared during their rough trip aboard the boats. Greece has taken in almost 472,000 people whereas Italy has taken around 137,000 migrants. Most are traveling by foot and are find rides as they go. Lots of these migrants have traveled as far as Germany and beyond. Germany is expecting around 1 million asylum applications, but has already had to backlog 260,000 cases.
Image via hrw.org
Once some have landed in Greece or Italy, they'll try to make it to Germany or Sweden. Many have no knowledge of what awaits them, no way to travel other than walking, and face other harsh realities. Some have brought all that they own, and to an onlooker, it doesn't look like much. In addition to that, they have no money to buy resources they've already run out of and rely upon the simplicity of pitch tents or other means of shelter. It is also surprising at how many teenagers and kids are traveling alone, because they were separated from their families while escaping. Even before then, some families gave up their children as they saw no other option available.
As Border Control continues to tighten blockades in Europe, the migrants are unwavering as they seek other options for refuge. According to CNN reporters Richard Morris and Melissa Gray, Hungary has shut its borders off to Croatia so that the only legal crossing would be restricted to official border crossings. Last month the border crossings were becoming so out of control that Hungarian riot police had to fire tear gas and water cannons into the crowd of migrants in order to push them back from the boarder. Razor wire fencing was then installed to halt another possible rush from the migrants, and threats of incarceration were relayed to them as well.
Europe is producing solutions on how to handle the migrant crisis as it struggles to make room for the thousands who are seeking help and refuge. The problem continues to grow, though, as conflict in the migrants' native countries push them away from animosity and possible death.
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Boeing's "Fix" for a Flying Death Trap
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 17, 2019
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working with Boeing to fast-track a tentatively approved "fix" to the troubled 737 MAX series of aircraft. This is not the "fix" the flying public had in mind. The same Seattle, Washington division of the FAA that initially approved the flying death trap as "airworthy" and "safe to fly" on March 8, 2017 is now working expeditiously to certify Boeing's software "fix" to the MCAS flight safety system.
An excellent six-minute educational video from Vox.com explains why the 737 MAX has engineering flaws that are far beyond the software "fix" offered by Boeing and tentatively approved by the FAA.
The FAA's Fast Track Review of the Modified MCAS System
In March 2019, the FAA's Flight Standardization Board (FSB)and Seattle-based Aviation Evaluation Group for Transport Aircraft reviewed Boeing's proposed modifications to the MCAS system. On April 16, 2019, the FSB released a draft report that found the MCAS system to be "operationally suitable." The FSB report also recommended additional pilot training to address the MCAS system description, functionality, associated failure conditions, and flight crew alerting.
The FAA shortened the period of time for public comment on the draft FSB Report. Members of the public must deliver their comments to the FAA by the April 30, 2019 deadline. This is the second time the FAA has shortened the period for public comment during this review process.
The draft FSB Report is a public document. I submitted my public comments to the FAA today.
Sadly, the FAA's abbreviated time period for public comment follows a proposed Boeing modification to an airplane that has experienced two crashes and killed a total of 346 passengers and crew members. In the aftermath of these tragic deaths, the FAA's truncated and expedited certification process for the 737 MAX airplane with the modified MCAS system is unconscionable. This FAA action demonstrates that the public agency responsible for flight safety is still captive to Boeing's corporate interests.
Furthermore, the FAA is still placing Boeing's profit interest ahead of passenger safety, even after 346 passengers and crew members died in two 737 MAX airplanes.
The fundament engineering design problem with the 737 MAX aircraft is the size and placement of its two engines. The engine size and placement causes the nose of the airplane to pitch up during a full-throttle takeout.
This is a built-in engineering design flaw. Rather than redesigning the airplane before commercial production began, Boeing tried to fix this flight safety problem by installing the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) system on the airplane. The MCAS software "fix" was the cheapest and least desirable flight safety solution available to Boeing.
Using its army of lobbyists and clout within the FAA, Boeing won certification of an inherently defective passenger aircraft in record time. This feat was relatively easy to achieve in an era of deregulation legislation passed by Congress for FAA certification protocols and flight safety operations.
After new 737 MAX airplanes crashed in October and March, both Boeing and the FAA knew they had a major problem on their hands. The FAA had never before certified a new plane with advance knowledge that the aircraft had a built-in engineering design flaw which jeopardized airworthiness and flight safety. This reckless certification action guaranteed that passengers and crew members on 737 MAX commercial airplanes would die in plane crashes in massive numbers. And, they did -- 346 of them to date.
A Throwback to the Ford Pinto Days (1971-1976)
Boeing, with the FAA's blessing, has made a strategic decision that it is far cheaper to pay death claims from 737 MAX airplane crashes than it is to redesign the airplanes in production at its Renton, Washington manufacturing facility. Americans have seen this kind of short-sighted business approach before.
Ford Motor Company made the same strategic decision in 1971 after the company learned that its new Pinto model car had an exploding gas tank when the vehicle was hit from the rear in a low-to-moderate impact accident. It was a basic design flaw in the car that Ford knew about before the cars hit the market. Approximately 180 deaths and thousands of burn-related injuries occurred as a result of rear-impact-related fuel tank fires in the Pinto.
As was the case with Boeing and the 737 MAX airplane, Ford rushed the Pinto into production to fight imported sub-compact cars from its foreign competitors. From Ford's standpoint, it was cheaper to pay the death claims from Pinto rear-end accidents than it was to redesign the Pinto cars in production.
In September 1978, after a public outcry from consumer groups over the horrific deaths and burn-related injuries, Ford issued a recall for 1.5 million 1971-76 Pinto sedans and Runabouts, plus all similar 1975-76 Mercury Bobcats, for a safety repair. Each car received a new fuel-tank filler neck that extended deeper into the tank and was more resistant to breaking off in a rear-end collision.
The FAA's Action is Not the "Fix" the Public Deserves
Welcome to the age of lobbyist-controlled FAA operations, "bought and paid for" Congress members who deregulated flight safety protocols to the manufacturer, and one greedy and reckless airplane manufacturer that controls 38% of the market. The FAA's tentative approval of the modified MCAS system is not the "fix" we deserve for the 737 MAX airplane.
How many passengers and crew members have to die in 737 MAX airplane crashes before the FAA makes Boeing redesign this defective aircraft to eliminate its built-in design flaw?
Who among us will be on the death-roll from the next 737 MAX crash?
PHOTO: A Boeing 737 MAX airplane taxing from the assembly line to the paint factory in Renton, Washington.
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My Journey to Hell on Earth
© 2020 by Donald V. Watkins, P.C.


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After weeks of turf war, two cybercriminals seem to have found a new way to take control and expand the the infamous Mirai botnet.
The massive cyberattacks that in the last few weeks have crippled several popular services like Twitter and Spotify, the website of a noted security journalist, and many more, may be about to get worse.
Two hackers appear to have created a new powerful zombie army of hacked Internet of Things devices with a modified version of the infamous malware Mirai. The cybercriminals are offering the powerful botnet to anyone who's willing to pay to launch crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattacks.
Last month, unknown attackers intermittently knocked offline several popular websites like Twitter, Spotify and many others using Mirai, a now-widespread type of malware created to automatically scan the internet for easy-to-hack devices and turn them into bots that can launch DDoS attacks. Now, two cybercriminals claim to have improved Mirai to infect new devices—mostly routers. This new variant gives them the ability to potentially harvest hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of new bots, according to security researchers.
One of the two hackers behind this new Mirai variant said they have control over one million hacked devices.
"The original Mirai was easy to take, like candy from this kids," the hacker, who calls himself BestBuy, told Motherboard in an online chat, referring to other competing hackers, who've been fighting in an online turf war to control vulnerable devices in the last few weeks.
The security firm Flashpoint, who's been tracking Mirai since last summer, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that "the new Mirai variant is likely an attempt by one of the existing Mirai botmasters to expand the number of infected devices in their botnet."
"The original Mirai was easy to take, like candy from this kids."
An independent security researcher known as MalwareTech, who's also been monitoring Mirai attacks for weeks, said that the two hackers are now in control of 75 percent (roughly 400,000) of all Mirai devices on the internet. Dale Drew, the chief security officer at Level 3 Communications, a large internet infrastructure provider, said in an email that the Mirai bot count (the number of infected devices that can be used to launch attacks) is as high as 500,000 as of this week, and added that "it's possible" that someone could rent the "full power of the bot."
BestBuy also claimed responsibility for an outage that affected almost one million customers of the German internet service provider Deutsche Telekom over the weekend. The telecommunications company blamed the outage on a failed attempt to hijack routers and enlist them in the Mirai botnet.
"I would like to say sorry to [Deutsche Telekom] customers - it was not our intention," BestBuy said.
BestBuy said that they are offering customers different prices depending on their needs. For as little as $2,000, the hacker said, a customer can rent 20,000 to 25,000 nodes to launch intermittent one-hour long attacks over the span of two weeks, with 15 minutes of "cooldown" time between attacks. For $15,000 or $20,000, customers can get 600,000 bots to launch 2-hour-long attacks with 30 or 15 minutes of "cooldown" time. This costlier package gives customers 700 gbps of traffic or more, according to the hacker.
It's unclear how many nodes BestBuy and Popopret really control, as of now, we have no way of knowing exactly how many devices these hackers have commanded, let alone how many are the ones that were originally infected by Mirai. And it's obviously in their best interest to inflate those numbers. The hackers also declined to provide specifics about how they're infecting new targets, only saying that they're using their own "bigger" botnet they to get to vulnerable devices before other competing hackers.
"Having bigger [botnet] means when device is restarted - we will get it first and lock it," BestBuy said. "Why not make Mirai hunt Mirai?" [...] "Make it kill the original."
"Business is business but there is limit to everything. Some things in the internet you should not hit."
It's possible that the two have found a way to reach an almost-monopoly over other Mirai botnets by scanning for new targets using a recently disclosed flaw, and by being faster at infecting and re-infecting targets, according to security researchers. (Usually devices infected by Mirai can remove the malware simply by rebooting, but they can then be reinfected by Mirai or other malware again).
"Basically that would mean they have more resources than the smaller players, more scan servers, better [command and control] setup," Darren Martyn, a security researcher who's also analyzed Mirai told Motherboard. "The simplest way is just being faster than everyone else [...] when a device becomes uninfected, it's a 'race.'"
The two hackers for now seems to be winning this race, which might be bad news for the internet. BestBuy, however, claim the two have ethical limits, blacklisting certain IPs to prevent their customers from hitting "critical infrastructure of specific companies."
"Business is business but there is limit to everything," BestBuy said. "Some things in the internet you should not hit."


Later this week the winner of the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year Award will be announced at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow where nine SportsAid athletes will be eagerly awaiting the result alongside some members of the SportsAid team who have been invited to the ceremony as guests of SSE.
Last year's winner was SportsAid athlete Amber Hill who just weeks earlier had received the charity's coveted One-to-Watch Award from Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge, the charity's Patron, at the SportsBall in London.
The tenth young athlete on the shortlist is gymnast Claudia Fragapane.
In contention for the Sports Personality of the Year Award, meanwhile, are four other SportsAid athletes: Adam Peaty (swimming), Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte Evans (para skiing), and Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton).
The winners of both awards will be announced on Sunday evening live on BBC One.


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Geoanalysis is the analysis of data, eg demographic or customer data, by geographical area or other form of spatial referencing.
3D Visual Data Mining
The 3DVDM research group is an interdisciplinary venture at Aalborg University in Denmark that aims to develop ways of mining large databases using virtual reality visualisations. The website contains a large amount of information on the current projects being undertaken within the group.
ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SIG
As a Special Interest Group within the Association for Computing Machinery, the SIGKDD aims to encourage research into new ways of using data and to promote the adoption of standards in data mining activities. The 'Events' page includes downloadable conference papers and other resources.
Australia's Topographical Mapping Agency
Geoscience Australia's National Geographic Information Group is the Australian Government's national mapping agency. It provides authoritative geographic information services and products to enable evidence-based decision making, deliver government policy, assist industry development needs and support community wellbeing.
BBC Radio - Thinking Allowed – Maps and Postcodes
Is there such a thing as a predictive postcode? Can it reveal more about us than our bank account, ethnicity or social class? Laurie Taylor poses the question to Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities at Newcastle University. Also, Mapping Society - Laura Vaughan, Professor of Urban Form and Society at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, examines how maps not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also reveal the ways in which difference and inequality are etched deeply on the surface of our towns, villages and cities.
CASSINI is a consortium of over 20 French academic organisations performing research into GIS and spatial information technology. Among the pieces of work currently being carried out is an investigation into modelling spatial reasoning, which is appropriate to geo-marketers interested in locational analysis etc. The site provides links to the partner institutions' websites.
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London
The web page for the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. It includes the department's working papers and journal publications, on a range of topics including the application of angular analysis to quantify space, the development of cellular models of urban systems and the study of the dynamics of urban areas.
Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA)
The Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA) is a non-profit research unit based at Ryerson University in Canada. The Centre studies private-sector economic activities that deal directly with consumers, including retailing, services, financial institutions, and the developers who create the physical infrastructure of malls and offices. CSCA provides a research focus for members of the retail and development sectors and facilitates the discussion of issues of mutual concern, the exchange of ideas, and the development of a network of professional contacts. It promotes research, innovation, education, and discussion. The Centre has the support of almost seventy private-sector members and associations.
Data Visualisation - A picture paints a thousand words
Graphs and maps are a great way of making statistics memorable and meaningful, visit the ONS website for interactive mapping and data visualisation that allows you to engage with ONS data.
Department of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton
The research performed in the Department of Social Statistics concentrates on sample survey theory, demography and statistical modelling. It covers issues such as the modifiable areal unit problem and the concept of ecological fallacy. The latest working papers produced by the department are available to download from this site.
EUROGI
EUROGI, the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information, aims to promote and support geographic information technology. Their site includes a number of directories of relevant information, ranging from 'GI people' to 'GI Industry'. It also contains a large amount of information on the European Geographic Information Policy Framework.
Geo-Refer
The Geo-Refer project site contains a digital library of learning materials on referencing social science data geographically.
GeoCommons
GeoCommons is a free and public version of FortiusOne's data analysis and visualization technology. GeoCommons is a community in which users can contribute and share open data and easily build shareable maps. All data and maps in the GeoCommons Community are public and can be shared with other public websites and users.
GeoCommunity
The GeoCommunity is a portal for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), CAD, Mapping, and Location-Based industry professionals, enthusiasts, and students. The GeoCommunity also offers a daily SpatialNews Newswire.
Geomatics.org.uk
Geomatics.org.uk is a web-based initiative launched in 2000 to promote geomatics in schools and colleges. Geomatics is the science of the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, especially instrumental data, relating to the earth's surface. The site is supported by the UK land and offshore survey industry.
Geospatial Analysis: Web site, Book & E-Book
Geospatial Analysis is a comprehensive guide to principles, techniques and software tools.
GIS and Remote Sensing Unit at Lancaster University
A list of the reports produced by the NWRRL, (many with online abstracts), and information on ordering copies of the complete documents. Topics covered include the classification of residential districts, the issues of aggregation and the MAUP in the British Census, and the potential for fuzzy classification systems in geodemographic targeting.
Hornsby, Kathleen
Kathleen Hornsby is a postdoctoral research associate at the NCGIA whose work concentrates on spatio-temporal reasoning and spatial data mining. These pages include a list of her publications, some of which can be downloaded from the site.
Illustreets
Website containing a wide range of open data on neighbourhood characteristics with impressive content, design, and interactive functionality.
InSite, from CACI, is a market analysis tool that brings together database, mapping and reporting functionality. It enables users to uncover intelligence in marketing data, from finding trends and opportunities in customer information to understanding locations in terms of people and demographics.
InstantAtlas
InstantAtlas enables geographical and statistical information to be displayed within web browsers, it can be used to create stand-alone, interactive atlases, dashboards, profiles, or key performance indicator reports that allows people to view and explore patterns, monitor key indicators, present trends and support decision-making.
Institute for Geoinformation, TU Vienna
The website of the IoG at the Technical University of Vienna. Research within the Institute includes the analysis of spatial problems, spatial reasoning and the use of geoinformation in a business context. The site includes freely-downloadable papers and publications, many of which are in English.
iShareMaps
iShareMaps are mapping products from Astun Technology. UK Geocoding integrated into your website or on the desktop, and location-based web server for local government.
Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Masaryk University Brno
The LGC is a division of one of the Czech Republic's foremost academic geography departments, and includes among its activities a market analysis service for companies looking to locate in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Manchester Geomatics Ltd
Manchester Geomatics Ltd specialises in the management, presentation and analysis of spatially referenced socio-economic data. They offer geographic information creation, management, visualisation and analysis products including spatial information systems, geocoding tools, data aggregation, and local land and property gazetteer maintenance and storage software.
Mapinfo
MapInfo provides location-based solutions and services that help organisations better understand their customers and markets in order to gain a competitive advantage. MapInfo solutions offer a combination of software and data allowing customers to map, visualise, profile, compare and act upon customer and market information.
MapMechanics
MapMechanics is a supplier of GIS software and data. Its website offers up to date information on the latest uses of digital mapping data including geodemographic data.
Micromarketer Generation3
Micromarketer Generation3 is Experian's suite of powerful geographical analysis software. Available for use either on the desktop or over the web, it is an integrated GIS tool that provides customer profiling, catchment definition, sales territory analysis, data modelling, mapping and visualisation.
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
The NCGIA is an independent organisation dedicated to furthering research in geographic information science. Current areas of research at the centre include the issue of accuracy in spatial data, and the potential for increasing the cognitive abilities of GIS.
ONS Neighbourhood Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has produced a prototype interactive map of estimated local average household incomes as a mash-up with Google Maps and Street View for visualisation of any locality. The maps are defined at the level of Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) for England & Wales only.
Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG)
The QMRG is made up of members of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers with an interest in the progress of quantitative geography in Britain.
Roddick, Professor John F
Professor John Roddick's site at Flinders University. Among his research interests he lists spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and his publications pages include numerous downloadable papers and articles produced by his research group.
Spatial Data Handling Division, University of Zurich
This page outlines the research taking place within the SDHD into socio-economic applications of geographic information processing. The page provides contact information for the academics working in the Division.
Spatial Data Mining at LMU Muenchen
The homepage of a research group at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, headed by Professor Hans-Peter Kriegel. The site includes a list of the group's publications, some of which can be downloaded in full.
The Town Centres Project
This UK Government funded project aims to develop a nationally consistent system of retail data collection including areas of town centre activity, floorspace, employment and retail sales turnover. A pilot study covering the London area has been completed and the project is now extending to the rest of England and Wales.
Thrall, Professor Grant
Professor Grant Thrall's pages at the University of Florida. His research concentrates on business geography and geodemographics, incorporating market analysis and retail location. The site includes reprints of nine papers he has written, and also an 'Internet Tour' of business geography, interesting despite the inevitable American bias in its content.
Tranmer, Dr Mark
The home page of Dr Mark Tranmer, based at Manchester University. His research interests include the ecological fallacy, the modifiable areal unit problem and Census data analysis. His site includes links to downloadable versions of some of his publications, including one on the use of Census data in investigating the causes of the ecological fallacy.
Tsuvo StatDSS
StatDSS is a data surveillance system that provides web-based analytics anyone can use. Combine all the data you need into a powerful dashboard. Interactive visualizations and a smart querying system allow you to highlight and filter live data for real-time visual analysis.
UK travel flows now available from Nomis
18 June - Travel to work data from the 2001 Census can now be viewed and downloaded free of charge. Tables show daily flows of workers from residence to place of work for all local authorities and wards in Great Britain, and parliamentary constituencies and wards in Northern Ireland. They also include breakdowns of the characteristics of the people in the flows.
UPTAP: Understanding Population Trends and Processes
The primary aims of the UPTAP initiative are to: build capacity in secondary data analysis;promote the use of large-scale social science data sets, and improve our understanding of demographic trends and processes which affect society and the population.
Varenius - NCGIA's Project to Advance Geographical Science
Varenius is a project fostered at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, the goal of which is to define the science upon which GIS and GIS-related subjects is based by advancing research into a selection of topics chosen for their relevance to today's IT-centric world.
Wendover Group, The
The Wendover Group provide geographical modelling, analytics and mapping services for commercial and public sector organisations. Services include travel time accessibility modelling, site location planning, branch network optimisation, sales territory planning, customer profiling, bureau maps and demographic reports as well as the supply of digital datasets.
Williamson, Dr Paul
Dr Paul Williamson's homepage at the University of Liverpool. His research concentrates on small area population microdata and the use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in geographical analysis. The page includes links to the products of his latest research, including the website of a project aiming to create a national set of validated small area population microdata.


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package com.amazonaws.test.retry;

import com.amazonaws.util.ValidationUtils;
import org.junit.rules.TestRule;
import org.junit.runner.Description;
import org.junit.runners.model.Statement;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class RetryRule implements TestRule {

    private int maxRetryAttempts;
    private long delay;
    private TimeUnit timeUnit;

    public RetryRule(int maxRetryAttempts) {
        this(maxRetryAttempts, 0, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }

    public RetryRule(int maxRetryAttempts, long delay, TimeUnit timeUnit) {
        this.maxRetryAttempts = maxRetryAttempts;
        this.delay = delay;
        this.timeUnit = ValidationUtils.assertNotNull(timeUnit, "timeUnit");
    }

    @Override
    public Statement apply(final Statement base, Description description) {
        return new Statement() {
            @Override
            public void evaluate() throws Throwable {
                retry(base, 1);
            }

            public void retry(final Statement base, int attempts) throws Throwable {
                    try {
                        base.evaluate();
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                        if(attempts > maxRetryAttempts) {
                            throw e;
                        }
                        System.out.println("Test failed. Retrying with delay of: " + delay + " " + timeUnit);
                        timeUnit.sleep(delay);
                        retry(base, ++attempts);
                    }
                }
        };
    }
}