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TORONTO Darius Leonard Womens Jersey , March 13 (Xinhua) -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will have some serious competition as Olivia Chow officially launches her campaign Thursday to join a list of other high-profile candidates in the upcoming mayoral race on Oct. 27.


Chow, the widow of the late federal New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton, promised to take the city in a new direction from the "failed" leadership of Ford, who admitted to using crack cocaine last year and has been repeatedly criticized for his alcoholic binges.


"The current Mayor is failing at his job and he is no role model for our children," she said in her announcement speech. "We deserve better. It's time for a change."


Chow launched her campaign a day after she resigned her seat from the Parliament.


Besides the embattled Ford Quenton Nelson Womens Jersey , the former Toronto school trustee, city councilor and Member of Parliament (MP) will also be up against some strong contenders, including former Toronto budget chief and businessman David Soknacki, former Toronto Transit Commission chair and councilor Karen Stintz and talk show host and former head of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party John Tory.


As a struggling Chinese immigrant family from Hong Kong, Chow said she has learned to save "for rainy days" and to "invest wisely." She said those were the lessons she learned as a child and will be what guides her if she becomes the city's new mayor.


"It doesn't matter where we came from or where we live - we all want a better future for our children T.Y. Hilton Womens Jersey , and that's my core belief," Chow said.


She pointed to Ford's "disappointing leadership" without mentioning his many scandals. She said that Ford "has failed to make the critical investments our city needs to stay competitive."


Over the next few weeks, Chow said she'll be revealing her plans for the city, which will put a focus on children, jobs Andrew Luck Womens Jersey , and transit.


"We will do these things while minding the public purse responsibly," she said, though right-wing contender Tory was quick to criticize her fiscal track record.


"With respect to Ms. Chow, she's never met a public dollar she couldn't spend," John Tory's campaign said in a statement Khari Willis Womens Jersey , criticizing Chow for sending out taxpayer-funded flyers from her MP office last week.


Chow moved to Toronto from Hong Kong in 1970 when she was 13. As the first Asian woman, she was elected to the former Metro Council of Toronto in 1991 and in 2006, Olivia was elected as an MP.


Chow married Jack Layton in 1998. In 2011, Layton died at age of 61 after struggle with cancer. Chow's personal memoir, titled My Journey Bobby Okereke Womens Jersey , was published this January.


It is easily forgotten just how much the Internet has revolutionised certain processes. There are web sites that can only exist due to the Internet, whereas there are some other everyday tasks that have been modified beyond recognition due completely to the Internet.


An example of something new would be E-bay, that has brought buyers and sellers together in a manner that was not possible to do before; an example of a revolutionised process would be in conducting surveys.


There are very few people who would ever argue against the benefits of a survey when they are used to determine the level of customer or employee satisfaction, gauge public opinion or provide market research.


However, historically the reason that surveys and questionnaires were used sparingly was that the effort required to create the survey in the first place was cumbersome Parris Campbell Womens Jersey , and the effort and cost needed to distribute the questionnaire, gather the results and then analyse the results were rarely insignificant.


For a lot of people, the results, irrespective of how helpful they proved to be, were often tinged with a ‘not again’ feeling having experienced the amount of effort that was required.


Then along came the Internet to revolutionise the whole process.


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Though a word processor holds untold advantages over pen and paper for basic writing and correspondence Ben Banogu Womens Jersey , in the case of something specific like preparing and designing a survey it’s to some degree as sensible as using a moist fish.


It can be accomplished, in the same way as a hammer can be used with a screw, it’s far from perfect. Word processors are good for documentation, correspondence and basic writing; spreadsheets are perfect for dealing with numbers and online survey websites are perfect for preparing Online Questionnaire Websites questionnaires.


With an internet survey web site surveys and questionnaires can be created, designed and easily modified using any browser by way of the use of fast and simple interfaces. All of the difficult formatting is taken care of as Rock Ya-Sin Womens Jersey , unlike a word processor, the survey software knows all there’s to know about surveys and questionnaires.


Dissemination


The Internet is the most effective form of global communication known to man. Gone are the days of having to print hardcopy surveys, stuffing them into envelopes and mailing them, all costly and time consuming. With the net survey once created they’re good to go usually by sending the link to the survey in an email or by establishing a link to the survey on an internet site; processes that are both rapid and just about free.


Collating


Where as previously completed surveys had to be posted back and then collated by entering the information into a database either manually or by using some type of optical reader, online surveys update the database in real-time.