The areas of research undertaken by the Noise, Vibration and Harshness – Sound Quality Research Group are directed towards automotive and computer related NVH issues with a focus toward psychoacoustic, or sound quality, apects of noise control. Consultancy and research activities for product development services are also offered.
"Intake Noise Cancellation Using a Manifold Bridging Technique"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 32 – Number 1, 2004.
"Case Study of Noise Attenuation of Large Automotive Manufacturing Facility"; Novak, C.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 30, 2002.
"Development of a Plastic Manifold Noise Syntheses Technique"; Novak, C., Gaspar, R., Fletcher, S., Daly, P.; The Society of Automotive Engineers; 2001 Transactions Journal of Engines.
"Comparative Investigation of Vibration and Acoustic Measurements of Next Generation Computer Cooling Fans"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; Inter Noise; Abstract Submitted, December 2006.
"Use of Psychoacoustic Metrics for the Analysis of Next Generation Computer Graphics Card Noise"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R., Refai-Ahmed, G.; The American Society of Mechanical Engineers; CDRom, 5, InterPACK '05 Conference; San Fransico, California, July 2005.
"Effect of Next Generation Computer Graphic Card Blower Fan Speed on Thermal Performance and Acoustic Noise with Psychoacoustic Metrics"; Ule, H., Novak, C., Gaspar, G., Panigraphy, A., Refai-Ahmed, G.; The American Society of Mechanical Engineers; CDRom, 5, InterPACK '05 Conference; San Fransico, California, July 2005.
"Future of Thermal Management of High End Video Cards in ATX and BTX"; Refai-Ahmed, G., Novak, C., Tantoush, M.; The American Society of Mechanical Engineers; CDRom, 5, InterPACK '05 Conference; San Fransico, California, July 2005.
"Noise Cancellation Technique for Automotive Intake Noise Using a Manifold Bridging Technique"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; The Society of Automotive Engineers; 2005-01-2368; Novi, Michigan, May 2005.
"Development of a Plastic Manifold Noise Syntheses Technique"; Novak, C., Gaspar, R., Fletcher, S., Daly, P.; The Society of Automotive Engineers; 2001 World Congress; Detroit, Michigan, April 2001.
"Computational Aeroacoustics of Electronics Coolers"; Defoe, J., Novak, C.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Abstract Submitted, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2006.
"A Critial Analysis of Loudness Calculation Methods"; Defoe, J., Novak, C., Ule, H.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Abstract Submitted, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2006.
"Graphics Processing Unit Cooling Solutions"; Nantais, M., Novak, C.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Abstract Submitted, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2006.
"Comparative Study of Noise and Vibration Measurements of Computer Cooling Fans"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Abstract Submitted, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2006.
"Experimental Evaluation of Automotive Cabin Noise Using Various Noise and Vibration Measurement Techniques"; Radic, N., Novak, C., Ule, H.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Abstract Submitted, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2006.
"The Effect of Varying Heat Sink Fin Distances from Cooling Fan Blade Tip on Noise Emissions"; Ule, H., Novak, C., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Abstract Submitted, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2006.
"Effect of Next Generation Computer Cooling Fan Speed on Acoustic Noise Emissions"; Ule, H., Novak, C., Gaspar, R., Wiley, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 33 – Number 3, London, Ontario, October 2005.
"Use of Psychoacoustic Metrics for the Analysis of Next Generation Computer Cooling Fan Noise"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R., Wiley, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 33 – Number 3, London, Ontario, October 2005.
"Comparison of Experimental and Modeled Insertion Loss of a Complex Multi-Chamber Muffler with Temperature and Flow Effects"; Ule, H., Novak, C., Spadafora, T., Ramakrishnan, R., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 32 – Number 3, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2004.
"Use of Sound Quality Metrics for the Analysis of Automotive Intake Noise"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 32 – Number 3, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2004.
"Validation of ISO 9613 Part 2″; Ramakrishnan, R., Novak, C.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 32 – Number 3, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2004.
"Outdoor Noise Propagation"; Ramakrishnan, R., Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 31 – Number 3, Edmonton, Alberta, October 2003.
"Comparison of Experimental and Modelled Insertion Loss of a Complex Multi-Chamber Muffler"; Ule, H., Novak, C., Ramakrishnan, R., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 30 – Number 3, Charlottetown, PEI, October 2002.
"The Effect of Background Noise on Sound Power in Both a Reverberant and Acoustic Environment"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Ramakrishnan, R., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 30 – Number 3, Charlottetown, PEI, October 2002.
"Comparative Investigation Between a Simplified Theoretical and a Complex Computer Simulation Muffler Model"; Novak, C., Ule, H., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 29 – Number 4, Alliston, Ontario, October 2001.
"Experimental Testing of Intake Manifold Noise"; Novak, C., Gaspar, R.; Canadian Acoustical Association; Volume 25 – Number 3, Windsor, Ontario, October 1997.
The NVH-SQ Research Group is affiliated with the University of Windsor.


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I'd recommend sitting down and watching a highlight video which will give you a sense of why rugby is so exciting and dynamic. And then if you can find a local pub that shows some big international games, you can go watch with die-hard fans which is an awesome experience in itself.


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Q: memory used by JBoss using java code i want to made java program in which i need to a code java allows to know the memory used by JBOSS.
how can i know the jboss memory usage using a code java?
please can you help me?
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A: Jboss server offers its system information such as memory usage through JMX. The jboss.system:type=ServerInfo MBean provides several attributes that can be used to monitor the thread and memory usage in a JBoss instance.
Learn more about the JBoss JMX interfaces and MBeans: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/docs/Server_Configuration_Guide/4/html/Additional_Services-Memory_and_Thread_Monitoring.html

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Carlos the Jackal
Carlos the Jackal, pseud. of the revolutionary and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, 1949–, b. Caracas, Venezuela. Son of an affluent Marxist lawyer, he joined the Communist party at 15 and may have had guerrilla warfare training in Cuba; he later attended university in Moscow. A member (1970–75) of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, he acquired the name Carlos ( the Jackal was added later by the press) and committed (1973) his first confirmed terrorist act, a botched assassination attempt in London. Becoming a widely feared terrorist with his own small network of operatives, he allegedly worked during the 1970s and 80s for Muammar al-Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro, for revolutionary groups, and for East European security agencies. He is said to have been responsible for more than 80 deaths as well as hijackings, bombings, and other violent acts. His most notorious exploit occurred in 1975 in Vienna when he held OPEC oil ministers hostage. Captured (1994) in Sudan by French agents, he was tried (1997) in France, convicted of murder in a 1975 case, and sentenced to life in prison. In 2011 he received a second life sentence in a case arising from bombings in 1982–83.
See biography by J. Follain (1998, repr. 2000).
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Book Review: Dear Audience
Just a quickie for this as the book is almost sold out now, but Sophie Ross and Danny Kaan's coffee-table book Dear Audience is such a beautiful book that I'd encourage you to go and purchase one of the few remaining copies. Striving to photographically celebrate the arts industry from a wide range of performers through producers, MDs and writers, it is a nicely high-quality publication that matches that aim.
In the interest of fairness, I can't pick favourites from the many many names featured here, just look at the tags to see the impressive roll-call. What really elevates the book though is the inclusion of heartfelt letters from some of the participants, adding a really personal note to the whole endeavour, reminding us of the personal cost of the pandemic alongside what it has done to the sector as a whole. Track down those last copies now.
It Means Beautiful, for India Covid Relief
Irvine Iqbal has launched a new project called Same Voices Unite, which aims to raise awareness of the impact of Covid-19 in India and to get the message through, he has helmed a star-filled video featuring West End performers as part of its main campaign.
The video will feature a performance of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom Macrae's 'It Means Beautiful', from West End musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie, sung by a cast of more than 30 performers. Audiences of the video will be directed to the One Family charity donation page. Continue reading "It Means Beautiful, for India Covid Relief"
News: West End Live Lounge – The Greats
On Monday 14 June, SMC Productions brings West End Live Lounge to the stage at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. What started off as a one-off concert in 2017, has fast become one of the staple events in the theatrical calendar. This series of concerts showcases an array of talent from the world of theatre, all performing some of the most iconic songs from the world of popular music and beyond.
The past year has been a difficult time for the arts, and now is the time to come back and show just exactly what we do best. 'The Greats' will play host to a stellar line up of talent from shows including; Six, Come From Away, Hamilton, & Juliet, Wicked, Bat Out Of Hell and lots more, all celebrating songs from some of the most iconic and recognisable artists from the world of music. Performing alongside the Live Lounge band, under the musical direction of Sam Coates, this is set to be a night not to miss! Continue reading "News: West End Live Lounge – The Greats"
News: Dear Audience coffee table book announced
If you're still writing your lists for Santa, then Dear Audience could be just what you're looking for. A theatrical coffee table book filled with over 140 pages showcasing the Arts industry, with exclusive imagery, personalised letters to audiences and much more besides.
There's a veritable who's who of stage folk involved, from Sally Ann Triplett, Michael Xavier and Frances Rufelle to Oliver Tompsett, Linzi Hateley and Andy Coxon, and the book has been put together by Sophie Ross and Danny Kaan's Digi Creative. Pre-orders can be made now and are guaranteed for Christmas delivery.
News: Hiba Elchikhe launches Out Of The Darkness, Into The Spotlight
In collaboration with Nimax and The Theatre Café, West End performer Hiba Elchikhe is thrilled to announce a brand-new musical theatre based web series: Out Of The Darkness, Into The Spotlight.
Bringing a little bit of glitter to the grey, this three-episode series hopes to not only entertain, but shine a light on the performers who are keeping the West End alive, even during lockdown. Continue reading "News: Hiba Elchikhe launches Out Of The Darkness, Into The Spotlight"
News: Sunday at the Musicals to return
A new version of Sunday at the Musicals will return to The Actors' Church in London on Sunday 22nd November at 5.30pm and 8.00pm. The concert will feature a large cast of West End singers who will perform songs from popular musicals to raise funds for Acting for Others.
The performances will be hosted by Sarah-Louise Young and the company, subject to availability natch, are: Kelly Agbowu, Kacey Ainsworth, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Charlie Bull, Colin Burnicle, Matthew Croke, Janie Dee, Nicole Raquel Dennis, Sue Devaney, Leanne Garretty, Rebecca Gilliland, Lisa Gorgin, Melissa Jacques , Claudia Kariuki, Natalie Kassanga, Sejal Keshwala, Anna McGarahan, James Meunier, Ceili O'Connor, Rosa O'Reilly, Mira Ormala, Sarah O'Connor, Charlotte O'Rourke, Sara Poyzer, Sophie Reeves, Joshua St Clair, Liam Tobin, Shona White, Pippa Winslow and Benjamin Yates.
Tickets for the new Sunday at the Musicals concert at The Actors' Church can be booked here.
Posted on October 23, 2020 December 22, 2021
News: Friday theatre update from the National Theatre, Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Roles We'll Never Play
Friday theatre news from the National Theatre, Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Roles We'll Never Play
In a canny move, the National Theatre is bringing panto to its main stage as Jude Christian and Cariad Lloyd's hilarious and heartfelt version of Dick Whittington, first staged at Lyric Hammersmith in 2018 and freshly updated for 2020, will open in the socially distanced Olivier theatre on 11th December.
Directed by Ned Bennett, this wild and inventive production explores what it is like to come from a small town and arrive in a big city today, exploring the ideas of community and togetherness. Initial casting includes Dickie Beau, Amy Booth-Steel, Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings, Georgina Onuorah, and Cleve September.
They have also announced the next show to open as part of the Olivier in-the-round season in February 2021 is Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, in a co-production with Fictionhouse. Directed by Dominic Cooke, Kramer's largely autobiographical play about the AIDS crisis in 1980 New York has not been performed professionally in London since its European premiere in 1986. Ben Daniels will perform the role of Ned Weeks, the co-founder of an AIDS advocacy group fighting to change the world around him, with Danny Lee Wynter as Tommy Boatwright, Daniel Monks as Mickey Marcus and Stanley Townsend as Ben Weeks. Vicki Mortimer is Set Designer and Paule Constable is Lighting Designer.
Tickets for The Normal Heart will go on sale from the end of November. Continue reading "News: Friday theatre update from the National Theatre, Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Roles We'll Never Play"
Lockdown treat: The Show Must Go On
This blisteringly good version of 'The Show Must Go On', produced by Shaun McCourt, will get you right there
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Posted on February 21, 2020 January 28, 2021
February news round-up
Lots to catch up on so here's a quick round-up of some upcoming concerts and events that could well be worth your time
If you're looking for the more social side of things to go along with your theatregoing, then have a look here. Getgo Club is like a book club for theatre. Each month they take members to amazing London theatre & host a pre-show mingle, followed by a post-show discussion. The event is curated and hosted by working artists who will ensure that discussions take place in a safe, fun, & open environment. Members also receive extra goodies such as discounts on tickets & drinks. All for £5!
Getgo Club is a great way to join a community of arts lovers, and head to a variety of theatre as a group. It has and The first meet-up is at the end of February and I hear they have very limited spaces left so why not find out more here or even just apply directly for a membership here. Continue reading "February news round-up"
September theatre round-up
A quick round-up of the rest of September's shows
Mary Said What She Said, aka how far I will go for Isabelle Huppert
The Provoked Wife, aka how far I will go for Alexandra Gilbreath
A Doll's House, aka if we must have more Ibsen, at least it is like this
Falsettos, aka finding the right way, for me, to respond
The Comedy Grotto, aka a sneaky peak at Joseph Morpurgo
The Life I Lead, aka something really rather sweet
Blues in the Night, aka all hail Broadway-bound Sharon D Clarke (and Debbie Kurup, and Clive Rowe too)
Everybody's Talking About Jamie, aka well why not go again Continue reading "September theatre round-up"
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After the Steelers 28-7 victory over the Colts, Zach breaks down his winners and losers from the game.
After it appeared that the season was spiraling out of control, the Steelers have now put together two solid consecutive victories and seem to be gathering some momentum as they head into their Week 13 matchup against the Giants.
Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown, & Le'Veon Bell: This doesn't need much explanation. Brown tallied his 10th multi-touchdown performance in the past three seasons (most in the NFL) by coming down with all three of Roethlisberger's touchdown passes. With those three receptions, Brown now leads the NFL with 10 touchdowns on the season. All Bell did was put together his second-consecutive 100-yard rushing game. While his 4 receptions for 22 yards were both a season low, Bell continued to be the workhorse in the Steelers backfield and has been a real difference maker this season.
Oh yeah. Roethlisberger put together another efficient game, going 14/20 for 221 yards and 3 touchdowns. Big Ben doing Big Ben things yet again.
The Offensive Line: Over the past two weeks, the Steelers' offensive line has played with an edge and has been creating plenty of holes for Bell to run through. The line also kept Roethlisberger clean on the night, not giving up a single sack. Special shout out to both Marcus Gilbert and Alejandro Villanueva for having noticeably solid games. Gilbert received the highest offensive grade from Pro Football Focus and it was well deserved. Villanueva has quietly put together an effective season as well. I have been a bit critical of him throughout the first 12 weeks of the season, but he has done well as Roethlisberger's blindside defender. When you don't hear your left tackle's name being called during a game, that is often a good sign.
Ladarius Green: Welcome to the Steelers, Ladarius Green. Now that Green has been fully incorporated into the offense, his impact has been quite apparent. While he isn't eating up a large amount of receptions, he is creating big-play opportunities for the offense, tallying 2 receptions for 67 yards against the Colts. It is this type of deep-threat ability that makes it obvious why the Steelers were so quick to sign him in the offseason.
Javon Hargrave: Week in and week out, Hargrave continuously impresses on the defensive line, demonstrating his amazing first step and get-off off of the ball. Hargrave now has two sacks so far in his rookie season (something both Cam Heyward and Stephon Tuitt were unable to accomplish in their rookie seasons) and has sacks in back-to-back games. Hargrave has seen his role increase due to the season-ending injury to Heyward and to say that he has stepped up to the challenge is an understatement.
Sean Davis: Davis is far from a perfect product at this point in his rookie season, but he has really improved his tackling since the preseason. Davis finished with 5 tackles on the night, with his biggest play coming on the 3rd-and-goal stop of Scott Tolzien, where he beautifully ditched his coverage to step up and make the touchdown-saving tackle. Davis put together some highlight reel tackles during the game and really has began to come into his own in the secondary.
Mike Mitchell: Finally. Mitchell wasn't a loser after a Steelers game. Mitchell put together one of the best performances of his Steelers career against the Colts, finishing the game with 7 tackles, 2 defended passes, and an interception. Unlike previous games this season, there were little to no plays were fans were screaming at their TV's for Mitchell to be released immediately. His 4th-and-goal pass breakup in the closing minutes of the first half was a disastrous hit, as was his 3rd-and-goal stop of Tolzien in the 4th.
Needless to say, it was a great game for the Steelers safeties.
Steelers Goal Line Defense: As I eluded to in the previous two winners, the Steelers goal line defense was fantastic. Although the Colts were playing with their backup quarterback and an injury depleted offense that is weak to begin with, two 4th-and-goal stops are amazing for any team. Had the Steelers given up one or both of those touchdowns, this would have been an entirely different game. This is the type of confidence that the Steelers desperately need on defense moving forward.
Sammie Coates: Yes, Sammie Coates is dealing with a hand injury. Yes, he is still a young (and admittedly raw) receiver. But at some point, at least one of these passes from Roethlisberger needs to be caught by Coates. Over the past three games, Coates has been in the position to make big (and timely) plays but has came up short every time. Coates now has zero receptions in the past four games, which only accentuates the absence of Martavis Bryant even more.
Jesse James: In the past two games since Green's return, James has 5 targets with 1 reception for 5 yards. One of those targets came last night during garbage time late in the 4th quarter. James has developed nicely as a tight end this season but will likely see a reduced role in the passing game with Green being the athletic receiving tight end the Steelers desired. James did a solid job in the run game against the Colts but after being a somewhat important piece in the Steelers pass game earlier in the season, James' reduced role makes him a loser by default.
Danny Smith: To prevent myself from sounding like a broken record, I'll just leave it at this: the Steelers' special teams units, especially their coverage teams, are not good. Period.
Steelers 3rd-Down Defense: While the Steelers showed up in critical goal line moments against the Colts, their 3rd-down defense was far from desirable. The Steelers gave up 8 of their 15 3rd-down situations, good enough for only a 46.7% success rate. As we have seen all season, the Steelers have been unable to make the big stops when they need to and although the scoreboard indicates that they were able to do it against the Colts, they were still unable to get off the field. This is best shown by the Colts 11+ minute drive in the third quarter. You can't have that.


Back in March, Mark Pack reported on a momentous move in the Lib Dems: from the EARS election software to Voter Activation Network, or VAN, which is used by Democrats in the US and the Canadian Liberal Party, amongst others.
EARS has done sterling service for the party over the years. I first used the DOS version of the software in the mid-nineties, when it had already been around for a few years. Younger readers may not have encountered the joys of the paper "Shuttleworths" that were used before EARS: sheet after sheet of knock-up lists, laboriously hand-written onto carbon-copy paper, with names crossed out as numbers came in from the polling stations.
EARS has moved on and is a valuable campaigning tool all-year-round. But, as Mark noted, the other parties have not only caught us up but also overtaken us on the IT front. The Federal Party decided it was time to look at the options, and concluded that VAN was the best option.
I had the chance yesterday to get a good look at the new software, and it's certainly a step forward. As someone who spends a significant portion of my time using EARS as a campaigning tool, VAN seems to me to be a good choice.
On the functionality side, it does pretty much everything that EARS does and a lot more besides, plus it's pretty simple to pick it up. It's web-based software (what isn't these days) so no more fiddling about with the one master copy – log in anywhere, any operating system – you just need a browser and an internet connection (we're assured it will work over slow dial-up connections; and if you lose Internet connectivity on polling day, just find another computer).
For example, all political parties send letters and emails to groups of voters. With EARS we can create a filter to select the group, and then create a list of addresses or emails to feed into something like Word or Outlook. In VAN we can create the emails and letters within the software – and it then records exactly what's been sent to each voter. I can go back in two years time and see every letter and email we've sent to a particular person.
The VAN equivalent of defining delivery walks is simpler too – click on a Google map to select the area of the walk.
There's a great deal more as well, of course.
But, as with all good technology, the real question is not what the software does, but what it allows us to do. Will VAN help us win elections?
I think it will, and the trick will be to figure out what it allows us to do differently.
Take polling day. With VAN, polling numbers can be entered directly onto the software from an iPhone (or from any web browser), so less need to spend time driving around. Knock-up lists can be printed off from anywhere too. That gives us the ability, should we wish to do it, to radically change the way we organise polling days, allowing us to spend more time contacting voters and less time on data entry and driving around.
All being well, the party will have migrated from EARS to VAN in ample time to use the new software in the 2012 local elections, which will mean taking the existing data local parties have stored on EARS and importing it into VAN. That's likely to be the biggest challenge – moving data between the old and new systems – but the plan is to do it centrally so local party officers won't need to get too bogged down in the technical details.
Like any new software, there'll be issues, problems and a learning curve but it certainly looks promising so far.
Read more by Iain Roberts or more about ears or VAN.
I haven't seen this new software – but from what you say, I think even with it it will be a little while until we don't need to drive round collecting sheets from polling stations – I understand the principle, but how many of the people sat at polling stations have or know how to use smart phones? I'd also be a little worried about the risk of hacking – if the password gets into the wrong hands it would presumably be far too easy for another party to put in the numbers of a few voters and us not knock up plenty of people who we are expecting to vote for us.
By all accounts it does sound like a massive leap forward. I'm genuinely excited about the possibilities it opens up.
However, Scott, getting data in from stations without driving round is nothing new- we've been taking the expedient step of phoning our tellers for the numbers for years! Giving them a copy of the electoral roll to look up numbers where the station has taken the polling cars was also a godsend and I can only presume VAN will make this even easier.
So that's it then? Decision taken? How democratic is that? I typed VAN into the libdem and the members' websites; all I got was 'Van Rompuy'! (and vote Yes to Fairer Votes!)Is there somewhere else I should be looking to see the case made for change, the evidence, the options discussed etc? I thought that's how government was supposed to work these days? Just like the NHS proposals!
I suppose local parties might have been consulted to see what deficiencies/strengths we think EARS has, for comparison with VAN. Not that I think EARS was perfect and modern. But I can see lots of work looming with implementation, changeover, training and support. And costs?
Personally I would stick with EARS and try to improve it. The people behind EARS are Liberal Democrats. VAN is a US product. I am not clear what will happen if they suddenly decide that they want to change the price. Also are we going to be 'forced' to stop using EARS. The councilors that I have spoken to are not happy with this. Although this article is from a councillor the product is mainly being pushed by party insiders from what I can see.
My suspicion is that most councillors will simply ignore VAN and carry on using EARS as we have already paid for it.
Harvey: The decision was taken by the Federal Executive, on a recommendation by the Federal Finance and Administration Committee after a review of bids from three firms (including EARS) by a panel that included, for example, a representative of ALDC (ie councillors) and the Agents and Organisers Association. Whatever you think of the decision, this is one that's gone through the party's democratic processes.
I hope it's as difficult as possible to make non-obvious mistakes – ie sending stuff out to people you didn't intend to; as that's where the embarrassing errors can come from.
@Scott – No-one will have to sit at a polling station using a smart phone – but that will be one of several options for inputting telling data. It could be done by someone else turning up to pick up the tellers slip and inputting them themselves, or by someone who lives near to the polling station picking them up, taking them home and inputting them.
@Ed – I don't beleive anyone will be 'forced' to stop using EARS. From what I've seen people are very likely to choose to switch quickly.
@Matt W – there is a detailed systme for managing which individuals have access to which data, and what they can do with and to it, based on the usual Data Protection Act rule of thumb that they have to have a need to be able to use the data in line with the party's registrartion.
Good news. I personally will be making the move ASAP. A bit short sighted to just use an Iphone app for the telling operation, Android is now the biggest platform for smart phones and is gaining numbers much quicker than Apple. I hope the customer service is good, it has been a mixed bag with EARS in the past.
@Neil, The Party is asking for an Android version of the app, which should be along soon. You're right – we need both Android and Apple apps.
I can't comment on the customer service, but I do know they have 60 developers working on the software, and that we will have the option of taking on new developments requested by the US Democrats or Canadian Liberals (and if we come up with something good for the VAN people to develop, the Democrats might choose to start using our enhancements).
@David – local parties can use what they like, of course, whether it's EARS, VAN, spreadsheets or bits of paper covered with cryptic notes.
I think this is great news. EARS has more than a few 'limitations' and anything that helps to compete effectively with our opponents should be welcomed. A couple of years ago, everyone was saying 'what can learn from Obama', this is a clear example that we should embrace.
I saw a demonstration of VAN at the ALDC/LGA Conference yesterday. It will help us to target our limited resources more effectively, and record shades of information. It is vital that its available to the 12 cities who have Mayoral referenda next May, we need the ability to record voting intention in that contest alongside other information we will pick up at the doorstep or on the 'phone.
I'm sure some will want to continue with EARS, but I'm afraid I don't find it very user friendly, and it feels like a 'programmer's programme' to me. In recent elections the Labour and Tory parties have had better databases than we have, and in close contests that makes a big difference.
Change is not always easy, as we saw with the switch from PageMaker to PagePlus, but I don't know anyone who wants to go back to the former, and I think the same will be true when we move over to VAN.
I know how to work the shuttleworth system where we put lines through all those who have voted. I'm probably one of very few young people who do!
Only in the Lib Dems would people complain about the myriad problems with EARS, then complain about a top-of-the-line replacement. The other parties use software about a decade ahead of ours, and they managed the retraining. EARS is the equivalent of Internet Explorer 6 – ubiquitous for no better reason than its ubiquity.
I agree, having had the opportunity to see what VAN can do. The biggest advantage for me will be the ability to record exactly what was sent to voters and when, alongside being able to weight the value we put on past canvass data depending on what kind of election it was, how long ago etc.
I have one concern though and it's a fairly big one on which campaigns dept have given me no reassurance, not surprisingly. If the data is held locally we control how much literature, phoning etc goes on in our area and what the message is. If Central Campaigns is going to have access to all that data and use it we need them to work much more closely with us on what goes out. One small example from the data set already held centrally – we signed up someone on the D&P sweep after a European election. Next year we were in the middle of a rather difficult bit of casework for them when someone in Cowley St decided it was a good time to phone all of our members and ask for donation. Getting "no" as the answer there was another phone call the following week and then again. Result – we lost a member. There are anecdotes from parties up and down the country about unsuitable literature, lack of communication to the local party and so on. That must not happen when VAN is up and running or the great potential of the system will be lost as parties stop using it.
The timescale is tight, and there isn't a lot of time to train people up before 2012. I know there is some ill-feeling about changing technologies in the party's councillor base and I hope the new Campaigns teams will do their bit to address this.
Oh dear, it sounds just like another IT disaster about to happen.
Bearing in mind the substantial hidden costs of adopting new software: training, lots of lost activist time; correcting mistakes, lots and lots of time where it happens; new hardware; need to find new people to replace those who think this is all too much and it's time to move on; debugging the software, where it doesn't do what it says on the tin; rolling it out; the cost of writing programs to transfer data from EARS; the loss of data from EARS where the cost of transfer programs is too much; having EARS running in some constituencies, assuming they will continue to support it with new registers where people want to stay; losing EARS support immediately, if the business folds. I would like to see the risk assessment carried out. Bet it was less than a side of A4.
However, what really worries me is the potential fallacies out there that we may have swallowed.
"If you lose Internet connectivity on polling day, just find another computer" – that solution only works if the problem is the computer, not if it is the internet going slow – for example if your system is under attack.
"The VAN equivalent of defining delivery walks is simpler too – click on a Google map to select the area of the walk." Try doing that in a rural area without street names and a postcode that covers two square miles! There's six Scottish seats definitely lost!
Mark, do you really think that our party's democratic process was designed for anything as complex as this? A review of bids by a panel – How about a review of the software by several expert EARS users from a variety of constituencies? A representative of ALDC – How about several? Were any people who have been involved in computer projects in the outside world involved, preferably techno-sceptics as well as technophiles.
A detailed system for security inevitably means someone has got to maintain it. I would prefer a simple system any day. If on the day, the expert is ill and he/she is the only one who can do some aspect, where are we then?
From my viewpoint, it would be essential that we had organised a series of trials, where it was run in several areas for at least one election campaign, so that we can get real feedback on the good, the bad, and the costly bits, before we commit. After that we can then go through the democratic decision making process and can decide whether to go with VAN of stay with EARS.
Good new technology is great, but we are all aware there have been too many IT disasters in the past for this to be rushed. I hope those who have been given the responsibility of managing this process so far have really looked for and obtained good advice (and someone else has checked that they have – sorry, that's the Computer Auditor in me).
If there's an iPhone app and an Android one too, are there plans for a BlackBerry one too?
2012 – there's no elections in Scotland that yearn (how typical of the Federal Party not to notice.) Presumably we'll not have to implement until 2013 Euros then?
Do we have exclusive use of VAN in the UK – i.e. they agree not to sell it to Labour / Greens / SNP etc? I wouldn't want us to be working on an upgrade, spending time and money, to give benefit to our opponents.
Will this be cheaper for Local Parties to run than EARS, including the retraining costs? I suspect this is effectively what it will come down to.
@Don – on your logic we would rarely ever upgrade any software/technology. Yes, there are risks and costs, but they have to be balanced with the risks of not upgrading, which in the case of the campaign software we use is a massive waste of of activists' time and effort.
@KL – what on earth makes you think anyone hasn't noticed that Scotland doesn't have elections in 2013? A comment that the new system should be up and running in time for the local elections in 2012 does not imply that everywhere has them. In fact half of England doesn't – how typical of someone from Scotland not to notice!
I don't know the answer to your other points but I'm pretty sure our opponents won't have it.
After years of complaining about the dinosaur that is EARS, I'm genuinely excited by this news. VAN may open up more sophisticated targeting possibilities and that's good news in itself, but the real value will be the remote access functionality and what sounds like other more efficient ways of handling the data. EARS was good enough for the 90s and the developers have given us a lot of hard work for which they deserve a lot of thanks. But given the technology available in 2011 (or even in 2005 tbh) EARS results in large amounts of valuable activist time being wasted unnecessarily. Roll on the VAN!
@Liberal Neil – my only links are with the Scottish Party, I don't have anything to do with the Federal Party so have no idea when elections in England are because I don't need to. Likewise, I wouldn't expect the average member in England to know when elections in Scotland are if they don't have any involvement with them. I would expect, though, that the Federal Party would be aware of everything which came within its remit; so it's not unreasonable to expect the Federal Party to know when Scottish elections are and take this into account when implementing this.
It does though give the opportunity for it to be phased in – it's probably too soon for this to be adopted for the 2011 Scottish Elections, so the first time it'll be used here will be in the Euros in 2013, and it'll only get its first test here in 2015. Remember that it will need to cope with four – arguably five – main parties in Scotland.
Will data be migratable from EARS, or will someone have to enter it individually?
@KL – every local authority in Scotland is up for election in May 2012! They should have taken place this year but it was decided to split them from Holyrood elections. VAN needs to be in place this summer for it to be used in next year's elections throughout the UK.
– VAN is mature software that's in use elsewhere. We're getting local customisations (e.g. spellings, address formats) but not wholesale new stuff. In addition, I believe the contract we're having allows us to ask for new functions to be developed. Yes there are risks, but think they're relatively low.
– True, if your system is under attack, or you can't find any computer with internet access, then you can't use VAN. We also have problems with EARS on election day, which is why every committee room should have a full printed copy of the knock-up sheets.
– On delivery walks there are quite a few ways to do everything. I'm guessing a system that's being used by the Liberals in Canada can probably cope with rural areas!
– VAN will probably be slightly more expensive than EARS for local parties. Training will be provided through the usual methods.
– Data will be migrated automatically (or, at least, in an automated batch process). Where local parties have customised EARS with extra fields, there will be a small amount of work to make sure those get carried across correctly to VAN.
I don't think that bit has been thought through then. EARS data is stored in very inconsistent formats – even the basic canvass data has variations of Und LD, Soft/und Con and Lab, won't vote/Not voting etc. There there is the recording of Anti BNP voters who some people record as canvass data, some in another field.
You make it sound like it is a rarity for local parites to customise EARS with extra fields – this has happened with every local parties EARS program I've ever worked with so I would say it is very very common. This will also be the area where a lot of value added data is stored (petition signatories, hard to access flats, remote/postal only houses etc).
This all sounds good – EARS does the job just about but we cannot coast on election after election with the same tired old system. The world has changed.
BTW, KL – The Euro elections (even in Scotland!) are in 2014, not 2013.
I am very nervous about this. It seems that there are a lot of people posting here who don't know what a LAMP server is and I am not sure that they should be driving this through. It would not be a good idea to use 'user experience ' to guide decision making on this. We need buyers who understand the technology in detail and are aware of things that could go wrong. Also this is a key decision and I am not surprised to see that nobody is taking ownership. Nobody has their head on the block over this because it is clear that there is a big chance of this going belly up. Alternatively it may be turn out to be a big win.
On the positive side as far as I can see this software is being used by 'Cowley Street'. Concillors/local parties in the constituencies can forward data which will be converted for use in the system. Therefore those of a nervous disposition can simply ignore this and wait for the early adopters to deal with the teething problems.
I don't doubt that web functionality will be the way forward. In my view we should have tried to improve EARS but that does not look feasible now. The solution therefore is to leave this to the enthusiastic early adopters and wait to see if it works.
There may be cost implications for the party but the key thing is that it will not interfere with our operations in the constituencies.
EARS is too expensive for my local party. For many years I have used Microsoft Access to provide the sort of service provided by EARS, but free of charge. The primary input to any such system must be the Electoral Register, produced annually by the LA, and then followed by subsequent regular updates. These are provided in the form of text (csv) files. This input requires careful validation. I have developed a range of tests to pick out typing errors, format errors, address errors etc to 'clean ' the data. It does not help to have one set of data fields for the initial register and another for the updates. Nor does it help when the LA decides to change its system and suddenly produces another variant of the data. Coping with these changes and trying to preserve the links between the register and our local canvass data is vitally important and very difficult.
Our UK electoral roll system is voluntary, you do not have to register to vote. LA's, or at least my LA, does not have a central database of addresses, certainly not matched to the Post Office database, and therefore the data is compiled by clerks in the electoral registration office and inevitably errors are made . I do not know how the UK system matches with the USA or Canada but I wonder if our electoral registers are anywhere near as accurate as the North American equivalent. Garbage in = garbage out and compared with getting the base data right the pros and cons of the methods for recording votes cast during an election, as discussed on this thread, seem to be of little relevance . I hope the new system is able to cope but I have my doubts, especially when told that 'data will be migrated automatically'. Do you really mean data or should that be garbage?
If the new system is more expensive than EARS then we will be unable to use it. A primary requirement of the system is that, like the NHS, it should be free at the point of use.
Although I am a sleepily-competent EARS trainer, I know its strengths and weaknesses. I also know its total irrelevance for probably half our constituencies now that our Parliamentary leadership has diminished our poll standings so effectively. The most effective ways of getting your vote 'knocked out' in local elections where you are lucky if you have 200 D&P's and a few activists per polling station do not involve committee rooms or computers or manning polling stations at all.
My mind is also totally boggled by the rationale of discussing the nitty gritty of Lib Dem communication in an open forum on a private site.
Most of the objections you raise are also true of EARS. In particular, having recently done a lot of creating new walks in EARS, I am amazed that you appear to be advocating sticking with that as a method of dealing with large rural areas with no street names etc.
I'm sorry Iain, but your reply doesn't fill me with confidence, "The contract allows us to ask for new functions" – what contract doesn't? The questions are "How much will it cost?" and "If it doesn't provide something like Android, why do we think it is that good?" Finally, anyone who believes that any project of this sort involves relatively low risk, without having gone through it all with a fine toothed comb, is I am afraid just deluding themselves and others. If you have done this, great, let us know. If you know it has been done by someone else, let us know that. Never, never, never take something as important as this just on belief.
I would prefer it to have been formally assessed that Canada has an approach and it will work here, rather than just a guess! Perhaps the assessment has been done, but I really would like to know it has been done and by someone really competent.
Andy, you are absolutely right, except in your comment you are amazed I seem to be advocating sticking with EARS. I am not. What I am asking is have we carried out a good enough assessment to confirm that things will be better with VAN. Many constituencies have developed ways with EARS to allow rural areas to be coped with. But if these cannot be ported over automatically, there will be a massive cost in local activist time doing it again. I ask very simply "Was there a representative from a rural constituency involved and did he/she ask for and get a satisfactory answer. If not, it will be the poor back office people who will be wasting there time again.
Let us all be very clear on this, I am not against VAN. It may well be the solution. However, we will be under enough pressure at the next elections and this is too important a change to do solely on the warm feelings that we want something better, when we haven't made it work yet. We have complained for years of Labour's waste of money on database technology – NHS, ID cards, CSA etc etc. A number of pilot trials for 2012 would be a sensible approach. Wholesale change covering more than that is a big, big risk.
It's not the rurality that's the issue with rural walks (and it's pretty rare for really rural walks to be delivered in any way other than posting) – its the fact that all the houses are named (sometimes without a road name) so you can't make any assumptions about what is where. As Canada has been settled more recently then there might be a more structured addressing system.
But that is guesswork on my part – just like the above comment!
I can't wait for VAN to be up and working.
EARS means an incredibly inefficient polling day operation with ferrying of data by car/bicycle and the data isn't that timely when distrubtued for knocking up. When canvassing the data can be enterred on the doorstep. Spare 20mins on the way somewhere – canvass for 20mins on the spur of the moment.
VAN will enable real time updating of people who have voted allowing real time updates of those who we want to knock up and importantly real time stopping of knock ups when they've just voted moments ago.
Our knock up operation will require either far fewer people for the same effect allowing more target wards OR working targets much more thoroughly.
EARS served a purpose well for its time but is way out dated. Being hooked in VAN exclusively in the UK means we're now at the cutting edge for such software.
It would seem that my LA does not actually use this database for Electoral Registration purposes. In the initial register I identified 747 address errors, mainly missing, wrong or duplicated postal towns, and there has been at least one and up to 12 such errors in each monthly update since. These are the sort of errors which occur when data is copied from one database to another when fields have not been matched correctly or old data has not been properly removed/over- written. Other errors are symptomatic of operator error – fields begining with a punctuation mark, the letter 'O' used instead of zero in house number, house numbers split over 2 fields etc. In percentage terms they represent a low error rate but, as we well know, elections are lost on a single vote. What assumptions have been made about the quality of data to be fed into VAN? Does VAN use the NLPG database?
I am definitely not happy about this being a web-based system and I, for one, would wish to stick with EARS and improve it. This is yet another example of "doing what the US is doing because they say it's good"!
As Stuart says – we have the Local Council Elections in Scotland next year so this IS a very tight time-frame. I would hope that Local Parties have the choice of which system to use! After all, they pay for it, it is not free!
There are many potential problems, one of which is the party activists who don't have all these fancy iPhones and such (I am one of them) – I am sure that we won't want to be fiddling around on Polling day searching for the information on the internet! You say that lists can be printed from anywhere – where TO exactly? Do you think we are all going to be running around with portable printers & a supply of paper? I don't think so.
You say this decision was made at Federal Executive level – did any of you even consider consulting with the Local Parties' EARS Officers to see what they might think?
Please don't impose this on us! Give us the choice!
All I can say is that I am glad I am no longer the EARS Officer! I hope that the Local Party which I will be helping will choose to stick with EARS!
I'm getting a warm and fluffy feeling over VAN which I suppose is related to me being involved in the web industry.
My worry is that whilst there have been honest attempts to to address a lot of the technical questions, the question of cost has not been answered by anybody involved in this process so far as I can see. This is vital as we can see there are a wide range of needs in the party, with some Local Parties doing without EARS as it's too expensive, a cheaper alternative would at least give some Local Parties a better chance of having a professional system help them.
1. What is the pricing model for VAN (how much will it cost)!?
2. Who will be responsible for hosting VAN? Will it be the Federal Party who will assign access to those Local Parties that wish to receive it? Will it be VAN itself that hosts the software and applies updates as and when it sees fit? Or will Local Parties be required to find their own hosting facilities and be required to update the software themselves?
No this is not an example of doing what the US is doing. Otis an example of a panel of experienced campaigners reprenting key stack holders looking at all the different options and making a deicisssion based on the evidence.
As a constituency computer/EARS officers of many years I have to say VAN is extremely welcome. EARS has served us well over many years but in these ever-more connected and portable days of computing it was just becoming unmanageable to keep a hold on data and make sure people had timely updates. Having it all centralised will be a real step forwards. I we must acknowledge how much good work EARS and all those who have worked on it have done for our party over the years but at the same time accept that it's time to move on. We are, after all, no longer printing shuttleworths on 3-part carbonised paper on dot matrix printers either! The last general election really did show the inadequacies of EARS in today's campaigning climate as things happen so fast with the advent of social media and live TV debates. Having to move data around manually in chunks (even by email) is just not quick enough any more.
I have a minor concern about the iPhone app in that Apple's business practice of control and market lock-in is hardly one I hope we LibDems would wish to associate ourselves with exclusively. I hope that there will also be an Android app available at the same time as, or very soon after the iPhone app. I hope we'll also be looking seriously at apps for tablet devices such as iPads and Android Pads. I think tablets will take the role of laptops over rather soon. Android smart phone sales have now overtaken iPhone sales and it's also the case that developers are moving from iOS to Android in their droves at the moment.
Easily the best news I've read on LDV in a very long time. Despite Iain's diplomatic language, EARS is clunky and limited and its passing will be a mercy to campaigners everywhere.
If it's not too late to influence VAN (or the next iteration of VAN) can the designers please make it updatable from roaming hardware. I sort of infer that from "log in anywhere, any operating system", but I also note Neil Bradbury's concern that it may only (atm) be accessbile to Apple users. It would massively time-saving to be able to update VAN on the go and not have to spend hours in front of the PC inputting data so please make sure that it can be accessed from all mobile devices.
With you absolutely on the quality of LA address data, I had the same problems here in Wales when I tried to make my own database before we coughed up to rejoin EARS. Here we have also English/Welsh (or both) street and town names It really makes things complicated.
I did see a comment from the party managers that the EARS support company was going to be asked to do the data migration to VAN – and presumably annual translation. They certainly have the expertise and local knowledge.
It seems that the high handed way this decision was taken has put paid to that.
Those that try to use VAN next year will find out how good a job that the others have done.
I am not against change – but we should be trialling this first , comparing with the new V9 of EARS.
Its how ordinary users find it to use that is important – not us geeks.
Finally – are you sure no other party has it ?
The SNP used a system with 'Voter Activation' – in this years Scots Parliament elections – Alex Salmond credited it with a large part of his success in a recent Radio 4 program about how they won.
It seems there are a lot of questions, but very few answers. Could you get the person who managed the process to respond and let us know whether these things have been considered, evaluated and a reasoned conclusion reached? Hopefully he/she could give enough detail to really set people's minds at rest, which is what most people need.
It really is too important to be left hanging as a take it or leave it decision.
Goodness, what a lot of hot air!
IanS – sending back the registration form is compulsory in England (I don't know if it differs in other parts of the UK). However, please do not believe that the US has a much better system of electoral registration than we do – they don't! It is state based and often subject to high levels of political meddling.
Those of us who have been around a few years will remember when we had both POLLY and EARS – in fact POLLY was the system favoured by Cowley Street. In addition there were lots of local systems. When i was Hampshire Organiser in the early 90s there were at least 5 different systems in use the county.
Since then most people have migrated to EARS, which continued to be supported and developed. In my opinion, as a campaigner, it is a system that has not kept up with software development and has a lot of flaws. we have had 2 Tory defectors in recent years who were surprised at how backward our system is. That said a lot of people, even Liberals, don't like change and are likely to stay with EARS for the moment. That is not a problem.
Cowley Street can't imposem a system on any local party. They can use it as a measure to judge if a constituency should be a target seat but the real measure of this system will be if it enhances campaigning in the first few seats that take it up. I suspect it will, not least because those seats will have the resources and skills to rapidly implement and test it out live. Some (like us) will probably run EARS in parallel until we are quite happy with VAN.
There will be issues and problems along the way but the prospect of speeding up a lot of processes will be worth it. The advantage for most local parties is that they will be able to take their time coming adopting VAN, just as happended with EARS.
I am not a natural fan of Cowley Street but I agree we need to move forward (in fact we have needed to for some years) and I think they are right to go with a company used to dealing with centre-left/centre political parties and developing a proven system for our needs. If anyone believes that the US is a well organised, homogenous political environment please think again. The system will already need to have multiple adaptations to suit the needs on the ground in different parts of North America. If it works there it can work here.
By the way, how many people still use the Windows 3.1 operating system? Why? Because that is the era that EARS comes from.
I do hope that Cowley St have buttoned down the financial cost of any system changes which can't be made at a Constituency level. Having dealt with COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) IT systems for a number of years, you nearly always end up paying through the nose for even the slightest change. I also assume VAN will be able to accept the LA source data regerdless of its format.
VAN may well be the way to go, but as Don rightly says, there seem to be more questions than answers, which is worrying for a change as largescale as this.
I'm the new Head of Campaign Development.
I will try to answer questions about VAN and the move in the Members Forum. I've started a new thread to discuss it.
I doubt we'll be using VAN here in May 2012 – but if all goes well with it we will in 2013.
I have brought in software projects on time so I know it can be done – but never one with hundreds of customer organisations, many with unskilled people and without much in the way of training facilities. If VAN and the Party can get a UK system delivered, with users trained and confident with the system, to support just some target and a few brave "Beta" local parties by next May, they'll be doing well. My guess is it will take a year from when the system is ready to be used by SOME Local Parties before it's in use by nearly ALL – and that's assuming it does meet all our needs.
I hope the Party is allowing for this in its plans and budgets.
My other BIG concern is the apparent dependence on continuous web access. We CAN NOT guarantee 100% web access for election day – even if the servers etc. are rated and tested for the unusually high load, what if something beyond our control happens that day? For example, a serious attack on the company hosting our servers, or even a simply mistake there? Or the infamous back-hoe digging up and cutting a cable? Or BT or Virgin or whoever having an outage in a town – whose Local Party can't rerun the election later when the break is fixed! (BT and Virgin guarantee 2 days response time if you lose net access – some other companies take much longer).
In case anyone claims this can't happen – I used to work with a (normally) very competent company which provided the UK network for a big supermarket chain. I was told that one day a technician was making approved and planned changes to the network, but by mistake changed the wrong systems. It took hours for them to find what had happened and restore things – during which time that supermarket could not operate any of its checkout tills. I imagine compensation was paid – but that wouldn't help much on the day if we lost key elections.
I understand that EARS v9 will have a distributed database, which can be accessed remotely, but the committee room PC will have a full copy of the data it needs, so a net failure would still allow normal Committee Room operation, just delay updated via the net, (and if it's a long delay, we can still send runners!). IMHO it is essential that VAN allows local caching and use of local data so network failure is an inconvenience not a disaster.
Meanwhile – why is remote access only on iPhone? My Nokia phone can access the web; if VAN is web-based why can't I use its browser to list houses to knock up or enter polling numbers?
The party hasn't chosen this system because 'the US says so' but because of the leap forward in functionality it will bring.
For me moving to a web based system that can be updated live is a no-brainer.
And yes, it is a tight timescale, but there are elections in large parts of the UK every year so whichever year it was introduced it would be tight to that extent.
@ Don – yes we will have to invest in a lot of training (and re-training) but one of the good things about VAN is that it is much more user friendly for a new user to pick up than EARS, and many aspects of it, like the virtual phone bank, won't require knowledge of how the rest of it works. Personally, and based on my experience in recent years, I think that a raft of re-training would be no bad thing anyway.
@Peter Hayes There are still a lot of questions at this stage because it hasn't all been signed and sealed yet. The party went through a careful process to decide in a preferred supplier and been negotiating with them since. There is a lot of work to do converting a US system to fit the UK system, to agree what functionality we need and to identify areas for development. Surely this is the right approach to making sure we get a system that works for us?
The thread is now up an running in the member's forum and I would encourage anyone with specific questions to head there and ask them. Jake Holland, who heads this up in the party, is responding to them.
1. Should we be proudly announcing what our new system can do, and what our concerns are about it, on a public website which anyone can read? I suppose it's a bit too late now.
2. I am no big fan of EARS and its highly idiosyncratic interface and seemingly arbitrary operational restrictions. The lack of web and mobile interfaces is also a glaring omission, and in my view it is indeed time that we moved forward.
3. I do share some of the concerns of some people on here, about how much risk there is in rolling this out 'en masse' without (or seemingly without?) any piloting. In data transfer terms, we in our area do have some significant differences in the way that wards record the 'non standard' canvass data, such as BNP, Not Voting, Possibles. We don't even record Greens, and any Greens we come across get marked in the Comments field. I suspect that given the huge spread of practices across the country, there is going to have to be either a lot of manual translation, or else we will have to accept some data loss.
4. The remote working will be excellent, but it will need to be carefully managed. If everyone has access to the same data, then they might all turn up in the same street to do some canvassing! I presume this will be dealt with by the software.
5. Does the new system allow for fully-integrated emailing and SMS messaging of filtered groups? That would be very powerful, albeit obviously there would be a cost for SMSing. At present the EARS system is extremely clunky in this regard.
I'm all for bringing campaigning into the 21st century with updated software, but with local party council losses across the region, there is concern that many local parties willl not be ready to shift to new software, through cost and training issues in 2012, let alone this year.
While Iphone accessibility is also an asset, I still work with local volunteers who don't check their emails every day. Unless we recruit new and technologically aware members to take their places, we will suffer as a result before the process is fully reconciled.
I am sure those computer geeks who think that loads of extra knobs and whistles are what it's all about are confident that VAN will deliver. As a user of EARS for over 30 years, I would add a large caution to those rushing to change our election software. EARS has been run by Liberal Democrats for Liberal Democrats. VAN is a company run for its owners/shareholders. If in the middle of an election campaign I suddenly find a glitch, will I still get the Lib Dem on the phone who will talk me through the problem and find a solution? This isn't idle speculation. It has happened to me more than once and it got sorted immediately. I simply don't believe we will get the same certainty from VAN.
In addition I have some experience of changing software and transferring data and it's complex and riddled with problems. It will not go smoothly, it never does. When my local council changed software under my watch, it lost some of the functionality of the old system in return for some new features. If we are to be forced to change systems the timescale suggested is ludicrously short. Retrain all the EARS users in time for the 2012 elections that many are already working on? Even if it can be done, it's a huge distraction from campaigning. Far better to bring any changes in for 2013 when there are far fewer elections.
I should add, I want the data on my PC, not floating around in the web. EARS works when the internet is slow or when phone lines are not working. It seems that VAN won't if it is web based.


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So does ownership solve the problem of externalities? Is Coase's First Theorem a decisive argument in favor of capitalism?
Well, no. The Theorem has two provisos - markets need to be competitive and deals need to be easy to make - both of which are serious caveats. When markets are not competitive, market adjustments may be less than smooth, and perfect and efficient outcomes may not come about. Another important obstacle is the cost of transacting, the so-called transaction costs:
Transaction costs are the costs of doing business in a market.
These costs include the costs that people incur before they are able to make deals. Think of the costs of going to the shop or the costs of searching for the best price in town. They furthermore include the costs of assigning and enforcing property rights. Think of the costs of registering and checking clams to ownership (of land, houses, patents, etc) as well as the costs of the courts, the police and lawyers that get involved whenever property rights are disputed or violated.
Coase was in particular struck by the obstacle of transaction costs. Pondering their impact he came to his Second Theorem:
Coase's Second Theorem states that when deals are difficult and costly (high transaction costs) the assignment of property rights does matter for efficiency; further research is needed to determine which assignment is best on efficiency grounds.
Gone is the magical world of Coase's First Theorem when efficiency was guaranteed no matter how property rights are distributed. We are back to the real world where hard work is required to achieve the most efficient outcomes.
Coase's argument for his second theorem is again relatively simple. Say the right to the air is awarded to the neighbors of the factory. So the neighbor could charge the factory for pollution. But what if the neighbors cannot agree on the proper charge? One possible outcome may be that a coalition of angry neighbors elects a hard-nosed city council which decides to forbid any pollution whatsoever. The factory has to close, harming consumers and workers alike. Alternatively, if the factory got the rights then the citizens have to get together to determine what to pay the factory to reduce its pollution. Getting people to agree to pay may be even a more cumbersome and costly affair than getting agreement to have another pay. They may fail to reach agreement, duping those who are really bothered by the pollution.
This is the moment to call in researcher economists to determine which case would produce the most efficient outcome.
Paul: So why not have the government regulate the amount of pollution?
McCloskey: That's what usually gets done. Coase's Theorems, however, alert us to the importance of markets. It's best to let the markets work to determine how much cereal gets produced and how clean the air will be.
Paul: Not when transaction costs are high.
Ziliak: I agree to a large extent with Deirdre. That's still no reason to think that governments do better. Do you really think that governments can figure out all effects of its regulations? Surely not. There are too many bad and stupid regulations around to show you that governments can produce terrible outcomes. It's best to let the markets do their job when possible.
Klamer: The alternative is to improve the government. A better government with better people will not allow stupid regulations and will abolish them when they are on the books.
McCloskey: You try.
Ziliak: This is not to say that markets are a bad idea. On several occasions governments have set up markets in which they put up for sale rights to pollute. The highest bidders gained the right to pollute to a certain amount. These cases show that we need a strong and inventive government. . . .
McCloskey: I agree. We need a good government to determine and enforce property rights. One reason why Russia has such trouble adjusting to a market economy was the uncertainty about property rights. People were not sure whether they owned their property afraid that the government would step in any moment to assign their property to someone else. Such uncertainty is terrible for business.
Ziliak: But look at the history. When George Bush, Sr. signed into the law the Clean Air Act he enabled for the first time in United States history the formal auction of rights to pollute sulfur dioxide-a major negative byproduct of burning coal. The three or four largest offenders of sulfur dioxide pollution-steel companies in the Midwest-bought up more than 90% of the shares! Initially, after the Clean Air Act, total emissions increased.
Klamer: A pity. But not unexpected by anyone thinking carefully about incentives.
Property rights during the California Gold Rush
In the early days of the California Gold Rush it was impossible to keep people in the gold fields as policemen and judges. The government would send such people to the fields and they would promptly resign to become miners. They made more money mining than policing. How then were the property rights of the Forty-Niners enforced? By an elaborate system of private courts, set up by the miners themselves. The miners made up property law as they went along and enforced it with rapid justice, administered by the miners themselves in democratic councils and backed up by their collective gun power. One might as well call the miner's council a "government." It fulfilled the basic duty of government - the protection of the commonwealth, that is, of the property of its citizens.
High transaction costs can account for the many avoidances of markets in a modern market economy. As Coase pointed out, they can explain the existence of firms. If transaction costs were to be zero all around, there would be no firms at all. People would be hired on a daily basis in open markets. Secretaries, marketing managers, cleaners, and supervisors would be selling their services to the highest bidders. In reality the costs of doing so would be prohibitive. Recruitment of personnel is costly. That's why it is more efficient to work with contracts and to organize a variety of transactions to circumvent market-type deals. That's why there are bosses telling employees what to do, instead of markets that let things work out in a voluntarily interplay of demand and supply forces. Surely, when producers of cars want to speed up the production process they could raise wages and salaries to get more efficient workers and managers on the market place. In practice it has proven more efficient to have such organizational and legal arrangements that producers can simply order managers in workers to change their ways to be more productive.
Maria: If transaction costs are high, why have markets at all?
Ziliak: Transaction costs are often quite low. It does not take too much for you to satisfy your hunger tonight. All you need to do is go to some kind of market place and buy yourself some food. There's no need for some authority to arrange our meals for us. Voluntary transactions work better.
Rodney: I'm glad it's arranged for me in my dorm. No market deals there. You just eat what they serve!
Ziliak: Yet you chose to stay in the dorm. But you're right, choosing to stay in the dorm is choosing to avoid some market-type of interactions that you would have to engage in if you were to live on your own. Ever realized that the dorm replicates in this respect the situation at home? There, too, you were protected from the market.
Maria: So why not avoid markets altogether?
McCloskey: The thought alone makes me shudder. It would be a terrible idea if only because with the markets you throw out a magnificent information system.
Maria: How so?
McCloskey: Let's explain.
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Q: Update millions of database row using Spring Data JPA I'm wondering on which is the best for this
Here is my Entity:
@Entity
@Data
public class User {
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;
    private String firstName;
    private String middleName;
    private String lastName;
    private Status status;
    private String statusRemarks;
}

Option 1 Direct bulk update in UserRepository:
Does this will affect my database performance if the users to be update will reach to millions in number?
public interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Long> {

    @Query("UPDATE u FROM User u set u.status=:status, u.statusRemarks=:statusRemarks where u.status in :statuses")
    void bulkUpdateByStatuses(Status status,String statusRemarks,Status... statuses);
}

Option 2 will fetch the users by status and will update it one by one like this:
I'm pretty sure this will affect the performance of the MS due to the memory usage
public void bulkUpdateUserByStatuses(final UserBulkUpdateDto userbulkUpdateDto){
        List<User> toUpdateUsers = userRepository.findByStatuses(userbulkUpdateDto.getStatuses())
        for(final User user: toUpdateUsers){
            user.setStatus(userbulkUpdateDto.getNewStatus());
            user.setStatusRemarks(userbulkUpdateDto.getStatusRemarks());

        userRepository.save(user);
        }
    }
}

A: Absolutely option 1.
Both options read the affected data, modify it and write it back.
The option 2 on top of that reads and writes the data across the network and turns it into java objects.
So it will be slower and probably even put a higher load on the database.
If the load still becomes to high for the database you should consider breaking the update in smaller ones, for example by limiting to a range of ids at a time.


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This study proposes a data fusion method for multiradar systems to enable measurement of the respiration of multiple people located at arbitrary positions. Using the proposed method, the individual respiration rates of multiple people can be measured, even when echoes from some of these people cannot be received by one of the radar systems because of shadowing. In addition, the proposed method does not require information about the positions and orientations of the radar systems used because the method can estimate the layout of these radar systems by identifying multiple human targets that can be measured from different angles using multiple radar systems. When a single target person can be measured using multiple radar systems simultaneously, the proposed method selects an accurate signal from among the multiple signals based on the spectral characteristics. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we performed experiments based on two scenarios with different layouts that involved seven participants and two radar systems. Through these experiments, the proposed method was demonstrated to be capable of measuring the respiration of all seven people by overcoming the shadowing issue. In the two scenarios, the average errors of the proposed method in estimating the respiration rates were 0.33 and 1.24 respirations per minute (rpm), respectively, thus demonstrating accurate and simultaneous respiratory measurements of multiple people using the multiradar system.
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Football is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is a team sport played with a spherical ball and played by two teams of 11 players. The game has 250 million participants in over 200 countries. The rules of the game are relatively simple. A team may be composed of two players, while an individual can be anywhere from one to seven people. There are several variations of the game, with different rules for different teams.
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The first Laws of the Game were drawn up in 1863 by representatives of Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, and Shrewsbury schools. In the 1850s, many clubs formed, and different versions of the game were developed. The Sheffield Football Club, which was founded by former pupils of Harrow, became one of the first professional football teams. In 1862, John Charles Thring, a football coach at Uppingham School, wrote an influential set of rules.
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