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Алёховщинское сельское поселе́ние — муниципальное образование в составе Лодейнопольского района Ленинградской области.

Глава поселения — Мошникова Татьяна Владимировна, глава администрации — Лопинова Анжелла Изотовна.

Административный центр — село Алёховщина.

Географические данные
Расположено в юго-восточной части района, на востоке граничит с Подпорожским районом, на юге — с Тихвинским, на юго-западе — с Волховским.

По территории поселения проходят автодороги:
  (Лодейное Поле — Чудово)
  (Станция Оять — Плотично)
  (Явшиницы — Ганьково)
  (Люговичи — Яровщина)
  (Тервеничи — Ребовичи)
Расстояние от административного центра поселения до районного центра — 45 км.

История
В середине XIX века в составе Новоладожского уезда Санкт-Петербургской губернии была образована Суббочинская волость с центром в деревне Алёховщина.

23 ноября 1922 года Суббочинская волость полностью отошла к Лодейнопольскому уезду.

В начале 1920-х годов в составе Суббочинской волости был образован Алёховщинский сельсовет.

В августе 1927 года Алёховщинский сельсовет вошёл в состав Шапшинского (с ноября 1927 — Оятского) района Лодейнопольского округа Ленинградской области с центром в деревне Алёховщина.

В ноябре 1928 года в состав Алёховщинского сельсовета вошёл Гонгинский сельсовет, 7 марта 1941 года — Мергинский сельсовет.

По данным 1933 года в состав сельсовета входило 15 населённых пунктов, население — 1627 человек.

14 декабря 1955 года Оятский район был ликвидирован, Алёховщинский сельсовет вошёл в состав Лодейнопольского района.

1 апреля 1960 года в состав Алёховщинского сельсовета вошёл Мустинский сельсовет.

18 января 1994 года постановлением главы администрации Ленинградской области № 10 «Об изменениях административно-территориального устройства районов Ленинградской области» Алёховщинский сельсовет, также как и все другие сельсоветы области, преобразован в Алёховщинскую волость.

1 января 2006 года в соответствии с областным законом № 63-оз от 20 сентября 2004 года «Об установлении границ и наделении соответствующим статусом муниципального образования Лодейнопольский муниципальный район и муниципальных образований в его составе» образовано Алёховщинское сельское поселение, в его состав вошли территории бывших Алёховщинской, Тервенической, Яровщинской волостей и части Имоченской волости.

Население

Состав сельского поселения

Известные уроженцы
Долинов Леонид Иванович (1930—2017) — советский испытатель ракетно-космической техники, Герой Социалистического Труда. Родился в деревне Заозерье.

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Ссылки
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Сельские поселения Ленинградской области
Муниципальные образования Лодейнопольского района

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Rule Of Rose Is Now 10 Years Old And Still Savagely Twisted
I was young when I saw the not-at-all good 1990 adaptation of Lord of the Flies, but the scene where Piggy dies is still etched into my memory. It's the first time I can remember seeing kids kill other kids on screen.
Since then, Battle Royale and The Hunger Games have made the concept much more mainstream. There's something in the mix of innocence and sociopathic brutality that makes the scene with Piggy resonate more for me, though. The murder isn't exactly intentional or premeditated. It just sort of happens, as if the boundaries between right and wrong faded from sight without anyone even noticing.
Rule of Rose is kind of what would happen if the children from Lord of the Flies were never rescued, and instead got their hands on an airship and started exporting their cruelness abroad.
This weekend marks the game's 10th anniversary and it's worth revisiting. Unfortunately, you'll probably never have the chance to actually play it. As something of flop, both because of its clumsy controls and half-baked mechanics, but also perhaps because its demented brand of survival horror was ahead of it's time, copies of the PS2 game are scarce. A used copy will currently cost somewhere in the ballpark of $US200 ($265).
The fact that the game courted so much controversy didn't help. At the time it was a lightning rod for debates about whether video games were corrupting the youth, with legal battles across Europe and here in Australia hamstringing the game's release.
The controversy surrounded the game's cruelty by and toward children, as well the sexualised nature of some of the violence. In Rule of Rose you play as Jennifer, a young woman kidnapped by orphan psychopaths whose forced into service on their pirate airship in the 1930s. Jennifer must make monthly "offerings" to the children in charge or risk punishment, all with the help of a stray dog and an ill child she meets along the way.
Assuming you don't have a cool $US200 ($265) lying around to invest in one of the PS2's more grizzly hidden gems either, you can at least watch Atlus's original trailer for the game and admire its macabre charm from afar.
parrotshake @parrotshake
Holy smokes, I didn't know the game was in such demand nowadays. I got a copy about 8 years ago for around $10. I was a massive fan of Chulip (one of probably about 5) and this was from the same developer so I snapped it up, never mind the fact that it was made by a different team and few or none of the same staff members worked on it. The gameplay really is clunky and fairly shit but the story, atmosphere and soundtrack (Yutaka fuckin Minobe dogg!) are really great.
Jiggle Counter @jiggle_counter
Never played it, but I saw a review on it and instantly fell in love with the soundtrack.
Weresmurf @weresmurf
the not-at-all good 1990 adaptation of Lord of the Flies
We're just gonna have to have a major difference of opinion on that one :)
MrBS @mrbs
I was on board with a preorder for this one after watching the rather disturbing promotional material. The gameplay is relatively garbage but the narrative is something very unique in the video game space.
sarahbubbly @sarahbubbly
I can vaguely remember reading about this game loooong ago, something about a sack? Atleast...I think this is that game.

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That is something I am learning from blogging every day. A few days ago, I had a little time in the evening to get a jump start on the next blog post. I sat in front of the computer screen and... Nope... Nothing. But I didn't worry about it. It wasn't time to post. So I went to bed.
The next morning I awakened at "the blogging hour" - 4:30 - and thought, 'It's time to write!"
Then I thought, "Do I have a subject now? ... Hmmm... Not really... Nope... Nothing. But that's OK. The computer isn't on yet."
_A blog reader asked, "How does someone move forward, or set goals to achieve something, while allowing life to unfold according to God's direction? I have often found myself doing nothing, because I am waiting to let God do His work."
With her sweet story-telling and clear metaphysics, guest blogger Kay Olson, CSB illustrates that pausing AND moving forward are both important aspects of achieving our goals!
It was just a little problem. But I figured if God really is a "very present help in trouble" (Psalms 46), He is where I am and helps in matters large and small! The problem? My young son couldn't find his new shoes. I had asked all the children to bring their shoes to the kitchen for polishing in readiness for Sunday School the next day. Where could those shoes be? We decided to look everywhere in the house, but no shoes. It was a sunny Saturday, so I sent him outside where he had been playing barefooted. He came back empty-handed.
This post was published online by the Sentinel and renamed as "Enough with the Griping!" It is available to be read on the JSH online site.


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Berkeley Lab Search
Berkeley Lab COVID-19 related research and additional information.
Cool Colors, Cool Roofs
Feature Story • August 27, 2004
Contact: Allan Chen, [email protected]
Roofs, and the rainbow of colors used in roofing materials, are getting cooler and cooler, thanks to research by Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD). The cooler roofs get, the more energy and money they save. A new program in cool materials will soon result in the first cool shingle for residential roofs becoming available on the market.
Since the mid-1980s, Berkeley Lab researchers have studied the effects of increasing the solar reflectance of roofs. "Cool" roofs, which reflect more of the sun's radiation than conventional roofs, keep houses and other structures cooler, lower their air-conditioning energy use, and reduce the "urban heat island effect," in which air temperatures in urban areas are higher than surrounding rural areas.
Home owners whose houses have pitched roofs prefer darker colors for roofing.
Since dark surfaces are better heat absorbers, traditional cool roofs are white. Berkeley Lab research has demonstrated that raising the solar reflectance of a roof from about 20 percent (dark gray) to about 55 percent (weathered white) can reduce cooling energy use by 20 percent.
Flat-roofed commercial buildings are often fitted with white roofs, but U.S. homeowners typically demand nonwhite roofs. Cool-colored, nonwhite roofs meet that need. It is possible to create a nonwhite cool roof by using colorants or pigments that reflect the invisible, near-infrared radiation that accounts for over half of the energy in sunlight.
"Our research estimates that the potential net energy savings in the U.S. achievable by applying white roofs to commercial buildings and cool-colored roofs to houses is more than $750 million per year," says Hashem Akbari, an EETD researcher and head of the Heat Island Group.
The Heat Island Group's research has shown that, regionally, widespread application of cool roofs can reduce ambient air temperatures and retard smog formation. Cool roofs can also reduce peak electrical demand in the summer, which helps reduce strain on the aging electricity grid when relief is most needed. Lower temperatures on the roofs may also increase the life of a roof, according to preliminary research by the group.
Thanks to the work of Akbari's team, the roofing industry in recent years has adopted voluntary industry standards for measuring the reflectance of roofing materials and has set up the Cool Roof Rating Council to develop labels that inform buyers about the relative coolness of various products used in roofing — that is, their ability to reflect solar energy and release heat through thermal radiation.
The building-materials industry has brought a number of products to the marketplace that help increase the reflectance of roofs, including elastomeric coatings, single-ply membranes, tiles, and metal roofing. And the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program certifies cool roof products with its voluntary labeling; EPA maintains a web-based guide to Energy Star roofing products.
However, technical barriers to getting cool roofs on homes still remain. Existing white and nonwhite cool coatings are fine for the low-slope roofs of commercial and industrial buildings and apartment structures, where white is acceptable. But on the high-slope roofs of single-family homes, which can been seen from the street, the market is dominated by colorful shingles, tiles, metal products, and wood shakes. Most homeowners don't want white roofs. Asphalt shingles account for 47 percent of the roofing market for residences in the western states, according to industry sources.
Cool-colored roofing materials in a variety of styles, resembling those in this digital image by Tom Marlin of Marlin Studios (www.marlinstudios.com), will soon be on the way for the residential market.
To bring cool roofs to the high-slope residential market, research was needed to identify cool color pigments and a different way of manufacturing asphalt shingles. Thanks to a research project funded by the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy, consumers will soon see a variety of new cool-colored roofing products to help them save energy and increase the comfort of their homes.
Berkeley Lab is working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, two pigment manufacturers, and ten roofing manufacturers who collectively produce about 90 percent of the residential roofing products in the United States. The industrial partners are 3M, American Roof Tile Coating, BASF, Custom-Bilt Metals, Elk Manufacturing, Ferro, GAF, Hanson Roof Tile, ISP Minerals, MCA, Monier Lifetile, and Shepherd Color Company.
"Most commercially available roof shingles are optically dark," says Akbari. "Their solar reflectances range from 5 to 25 percent, depending on color. Even the majority of nominally 'white' roof shingles are grayish, and have a solar reflectance of about 25 percent, which is much lower than the 70 percent solar reflectance of white tiles or white metal panels. Since many homeowners prefer nonwhite roofs, we are working to develop cool-colored roof products."
Cooler pigments
Building a cooler color shingle starts with finding cooler pigments. EETD's Hashem Akbari, Paul Berdahl, and Ronnen Levinson have been testing commercially available pigments to measure their solar spectral reflectance — their reflectance versus wavelength over the solar spectrum. For a given color, the ideal pigment is one that reflects as much as possible of the invisible radiation in the near-infrared range.
Cool colors are formulated to reflect more sunlight at near-infrared wavelengths.
The research team has developed a pigment database with a variety of colors, including browns, blues, purples, greens, and reds, that are highly reflective to near-infrared radiation. When tiles colored with standard pigments were compared with tiles colored with cool pigments, the solar reflectance of the cool pigments was from 15 to almost 40 percent better than color-matched conventional pigments. And with metal roofing panels, while to the eye a cool brown and a standard brown may appear almost the same color, the cool brown is almost 20 percent more solar-reflective than the conventional brown (27 percent versus 8 percent).
In addition to testing materials in the lab, Levinson, Berdahl and Akbari have adapted a mathematical model to describe how pigments scatter and transmit light. They will apply the model to develop more reflective cool-colored roofing materials.
Using the pigment database and the model, the team is now developing design software for the roofing industry dealing with cool-color coatings. The software estimates the reflectance of the coating using the absorption and scattering properties of the pigment as well as coating composition and geometry. It provides recipes for manufacturing pigmented coatings that maximize the solar reflectance for a given color.
Cooler tiles, panels, and shingles
The next step is to figure out how to apply pigments to relatively simple roofing products such as tiles, metal panels, and wood shake. The team has identified a number of cool pigments appropriate for use in coating metal panels and concrete and clay tiles. Tile roofs are a growing preference in more expensive houses of the western and southern states.
Roof tiles made with cool-color pigments are far more reflective than standard tiles in the same colors (top), as are metal tiles coated with cool pigments, like the brown tiles at bottom.
One manufacturer of metal roofing has already switched most of its product line to these cooler pigments, since the cost was about the same, and it added value for their customers. The team's current efforts focus on asphalt shingles, a more challenging technical problem.
Shingles are produced in a multi-step process. Roofing granules (small crushed rocks) are manufactured, and color is applied to them; the granules are then used to coat asphalt-saturated fiberglass sheets.
Cool shingles require cool granules. The Berkeley Lab team and its industrial partners have developed a two-layer system for manufacturing cooler roofing granules. In their process, granules are precoated with an inexpensive pigment that is very reflective at near-infrared wavelengths. In the second step, the cool color pigment is applied. The first pigment helps increase the reflectance of granules — it reflects even more light than the cool color pigment would by itself, reducing the amount of near-infrared light absorbed by the granule's dark surface.
The industrial partners have now manufactured more than 50 prototype cool shingles, 30 tiles and tile coatings, and 20 metal panel prototypes, including a cool black shingle — 18 percent reflective, well above the 4-percent reflectance of conventional black shingles.
Field testing and market acceptance
To test the field performance and durability of these coatings, Berkeley Lab has teamed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Oak Ridge team has set up a steep-slope assembly test apparatus on its grounds in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where they are evaluating a variety of samples from the manufacturing partners. Andre Desjarlais, William Miller and their associates have installed representative cool roofing materials at the Oak Ridge roof testing facility. They are measuring the changes in physical and chemical composition of the samples as a result of ultraviolet light, weathering, and temperature changes.
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cool-color roofing materials are tested with the Envelope Systems Research Apparatus.
The joint Berkeley Lab-Oak Ridge team has also set up weathering panels throughout California to monitor the performance of roofs using test materials from the manufacturing partners. There are seven test sites located throughout the state, in six different climate zones, ranging from mild to severe. Sites are located from the far north of the state, in McArthur, to Meloland at the California-Mexico border. The project team is also collaborating with the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District to measure energy savings and changes in temperature and humidity inside test houses in Sacramento.
A number of the new cool coatings are already available on the market through the manufacturing partners. "Since the start of this research," says Akbari, "the solar reflectance of commercially available clay and metal products has increased from the 5 to 25 percent range to the 30 to 45 percent range. Working with our industrial partners, we hope to produce shingles with a solar reflectance of 25 percent or higher, qualifying for an Energy Star cool-roof label." He adds that "some of the products resulting from this research will also qualify as cool roofs in the California building energy code," the 2005 Title 24 California Building Energy Efficiency Standard.
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Monitoring is an essential tool for successful management of hardwood rangelands. Over time, it allows landowners and managers to measure the impacts of their management activities on the condition of natural resources under their stewardship and then use that information to better manage those resources. As such, monitoring is key to managing livestock and maintaining healthy oak populations.
An effective monitoring plan takes time to design—often 6 to 18 months, depending on the scope of the plan's objectives—and external review can be particularly beneficial. Landowners and managers can obtain help designing a monitoring plan from their County UC Cooperative Extension office, local Resource Conservation Districts, the Natural Resource Conservation Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the US Forest Service. Useful textbooks on sampling are also available through California's college and university libraries.
An effective monitoring program begins with explicit goals, which are broad statements of the monitoring project's purpose that indicate clearly how data to be collected will facilitate informed decision-making by the landowner or manager. Ideally, there should be consensus among all participating partners on the specific language of each goal.
From the stated goals, specific questions to be addressed by the monitoring project can be derived. For clarity, each question should focus on one, and only one, parameter to be monitored. A parameter is a measure that describes some characteristic or indicator of interest for purposes of monitoring (e.g. average cover of bare soil). Monitoring is designed to estimate changes in the values of parameters over time. For example, one might examine whether a decrease in the amount of bare soil results in a corresponding decrease in soil erosion. Questions stated in the monitoring plan should be as specific as possible and should include the spatial location and time period of each parameter to be monitored (e.g. What is the total acreage of yellow starthistle in East Pasture in late spring of 2002?).
Because it is usually too costly or otherwise undesirable to take exhaustive measurements, monitoring is often based on sampling. With sampling, measurements are made on a subset rather than a complete census of all units that could possibly be measured. For instance, one would measure height on a sampling of oak trees rather than on each and every oak tree in a large watershed. If a sample is to provide an accurate characterization of the parameter of interest, the sample must be a representative subset of all units that could possibly be measured. This is why statisticians typically recommend selection of a random sample.
In a sample, each unit that contributes to the subset is termed a "sampling unit." Depending upon what parameter is being characterized, a sampling unit may be an individual oak tree, the position of a vegetation quadrat, a cow-calf pair, etc. For example, if one wanted to estimate average girth of valley oak saplings in a watershed, a natural choice of sampling unit would be the individual valley oak sapling.
The monitoring plan's sampling design should provide the following: 1) description of the basic sampling unit (e.g. size and shape of a quadrat); 2) number of sampling units to be included in the sample (i.e., sample size); 3) location in space where sampling will occur (e.g. every 10m along a 100m transect); and 4) time schedule for measurements on each sampling unit. Decisions on these four design features are shaped by the parameter to be estimated and, whenever possible, should be refined through preliminary sampling.
The measurement design describes how measurements are to be made for each sampling unit. In a project designed to monitor maximum water depth in vernal pools through the wet season on a ranch, the sample may consist of a random sampling of vernal pools. While the sampling design describes which pools to include in the sample and when they are to be measured, the measurement design describes how to measure maximum water depth within each selected vernal pool (e.g., with a meter stick). Failure to distinguish the sampling design from the measurement design is commonplace and often renders each muddled and incomplete.
Assignment of personnel is an often overlooked but crucial element in most monitoring plans. Though some small monitoring projects may be managed and implemented by a single person, most monitoring projects are group efforts. For a group effort to be effective, each participant should have clearly defined roles and responsibilities that are specified in the monitoring plan.
Data-management protocols encompass 1) data recording, 2) data-quality control, 3) data storage, and 4) data flows. Clear rules should be established for recording data. These rules can cover issues such as conventions for recording dates, missing values, questionable measurements, miscellaneous observational notes, etc. Data-quality controls are procedures implemented throughout the process of data handling for the purpose of minimizing data loss and error. The monitoring plan should detail quality-control procedures for data collection, data entry, data analysis, and data storage. Quality control is particularly important during data collection because errors made during this stage may not be detectable or correctable later in the process. Finally, a data-flow design shows how data are moved, and by which personnel, from data collection, to data entry and processing, and finally to storage.
The last essential element in monitoring plans is a description of methods of data evaluation. Because most monitoring is based on sampling, most analyses focus on parameter estimation. The plan's questions dictate which parameters are to be estimated. Each estimated parameter should be reported with an estimate of its error. A measure of error provides information about the reliability of the estimates made. Reporting a parameter's estimate without reporting a measure of its error can give the false impression that the estimate is without error. Standard errors are often reported but confidence bounds are more informative because they account for the sampling distribution of the parameter's estimator. The organizations mentioned above may be contacted for more details on monitoring natural resources.


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#IIeX Innovation Insight Competition
At the GreenBook Insight Innovation Exchange (#IIeX) in Philadelphia today the presentation round of the Insight Innovation Challenge was held. Here are brief profiles of the five finalists.
By Jeffrey Henning
The presentation round of the Insight Innovation Competition today in Philadelphia involved 5 minute pitches from a variety of finalists, who then had to answer the judges' questions. The judges will announce the winner tomorrow at 2 pm.
Turning Emotion into Smart Decisions at Scale
Tim Llewellynn of Inviso discussed an online platform for turning emotion into smart decisions. Based on a 12-year research program on improving human-computer interaction, tested with over 1 million subjects worldwide, Inviso can recognize displays of emotion by focusing on the face in real time, passively, using webcams. It combines cultural understanding of facial expressions as well as universals. It successfully processes out data noise introduced by real world issues such as bad lighting and participants touching their faces. The Inviso solution is available on an ad hoc basis and via subscription; Inviso has 20 to 30 global clients and has run in 20 countries worldwide. It is marketed as a tool that integrates with larger research efforts. Their primary competition is the industry's reliance on post-rationalization of emotions though questions. Their sweet spot is serving market research agencies for validating concept work in the early stage of video development.
RetailSenses – Optimizing Digital Signage with Automated In-store Eye Tracking
Sean Copeland of Abacus Data shared a story of a quick serve restaurant owner trying to understand how changing to digital menu boards affected purchases. The system, in prototype form today, is designed to optimize digital signage with automated in-store eye tracking, which measures gaze across multiple screens from 10 to 15 feet away without changing the purchase experience. RetailSenses can optimize the digital menu board to catch customer attention, to make it easier to order and to emphasize specific items. Abacus Data is seeking new funding to work on development, to do an in-store pilot, for server software development, and for marketing and sales. The prototype is currently designed for ad hoc work, but the team would like to develop it as permanent installation, as many digital boards are being changed all the time with new products and new promotions. The output takes the form of heat maps and trail maps, showing where they looked first, second, and third; a full bodied data set combined with time-stamped sales data provides even sharper insights.
The "Pop-Up CLT" for 1:1 Consumer-Product Testing – Andrea Poe from Tastemakers Research Group touted the only offline research innovation in the competition (though it too has an online component). Rather than do Central Location Testing through a fixed location, pop-up crowd intercepts are staged at events. It is "both high touch and high tech, resulting in better, faster and cheaper product testing for companies with all sizes of research budgets." Participants experience a product and then complete a self-administered survey on a laptop (using Qualtrics). The format supports the completion of up to several hundred quantitative consumer surveys per day, with qualitative insights and a topline report available within 24 hours of testing. The format is engaging, with a drop-out rate less than 5% . The service eliminates the overhead of CLT facilities, replacing it with low venue fees. One advantage over online surveys is tighter control of intellectual property, since the product being evaluated is never represented online.
AnswerTap – Zach Simmons and Jim Longo from AnswerTap had noticed that market penetration of online qualitative has not achieved the same results as online quantitative. The main pain points for researchers were that existing methods were too expensive, too slow, and too logistically cumbersome: requiring a lot of 3rd party management and coordination, they could take up to 3 or 4 weeks. AnswerTap provides self-service fulfillment of In Depth Interviews and group interviews — simply define a target market, which recruits respondents from a 9-million member panel to live webcam interviews and video chat sessions, and the system handles scheduling, the event itself and immediately produces audio transcripts (keyword searchable) that are time-synced to the video. A clipping tool makes it easy to share project video with colleagues and clients anywhere, anytime. A project with 10 interviews can be completed in 2 days for $990 using panel, $690 if the client provides the potential people to be interviewed. Rather than competing with existing qualitative vendors, Jim believes AnswerTap will dramatically expand the market for qualitative research by reducing recruiting time, technological barriers and behavioral behaviors.
RawData – Mobile Metering and Surveying – Chad Nuesmeyer from Raw Data provides passive data collection using smart phones. For instance, how many people change the station when a particular radio ad comes on? The audio and ambient data stream collected by Raw Data can be analyzed for events such as this. The technology has been running in a single DMA for ad agencies and broadcasters using a panel of 1,500 consumers who are offered $40 per month towards an unlimited calling plan for their smart phones. The impact of the passive data collection app on battery life is 5-7%, less than the impact of Pandora. The data is being monetized through subscriptions to the passive data stream and for active inquiry. Raw Data has a good relationship with carriers, who are not interested in entering the business itself because of privacy restrictions; Sprint did an audit on Raw Data and began using the service. Raw Data is looking to raise funding for rapid expansion: "We are not satisfied to grow business through single DMA to DMA: we want to grow nationally."
RIWI Nano-Survey Technology — Neil Seeman and Eric Meerkamper offered a new, randomized, fresh, unincented and scalage stream of respondents in every country in the world except North Korea. RIWI (an acronym for Real-time Interactive Worldwide Intelligence) was incubated at the University of Toronto for NGO pandemic detection and has been peer reviewed. "We are profitable and are on a tremendously exciting journey, given that we have only been commercializing for 12 months," said Neal. The randomization comes from leveraging the Internet's architecture, the direct navigation bar, to capturing millions of people on every web enabled device who mistype a URL and end up at a site offering a RIWI survey instead (the company has a patent on the process). RIWI was the only research firm to predict the Egyptian election, using a mobile survey completed by 10,000 Egyptians. Surveys are typically 4 to 9 questions long.
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