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- Quickly get to grips with Natural Language Processing – with Text Analysis, Text Mining, and beyond
- Learn how machines and crawlers interpret and process natural languages
- Easily work with huge amounts of data and learn how to handle distributed processing
- Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 272 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : November 2010
Author(s) : Jacob Perkins
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Application Development, Cookbooks, Open Source
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Tokenizing Text and WordNet Basics
Chapter 2: Replacing and Correcting Words
Chapter 3: Creating Custom Corpora
Chapter 4: Part-of-Speech Tagging
Chapter 5: Extracting Chunks
Chapter 6: Transforming Chunks and Trees
Chapter 7: Text Classification
Chapter 8: Distributed Processing and Handling Large Datasets
Chapter 9: Parsing Specific Data
Appendix: Penn Treebank Part-of-Speech Tags
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Errata- 6 submitted: last submission 17 Feb 2014
Errata type: Others | Page number: 29
The WordNetLemmatizer is a thin wrapper around the WordNet corpus, and uses the morphy() function of the WordNetCorpusReader to fnd a lemma. If no lemma is found, or the word itself is a lemma, the word is returned as it is. Unlike with stemming, knowing the part of speech of the word is important. As demonstrated previously, "cooking" does not return a different lemma unless you specify that the part of speech (pos) is a verb. This is because the default part of speech is a noun, and as a noun, "cooking" is its own lemma. "Cookbooks", on the other hand, is a noun, and its lemma is the singular form, "cookbook".
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The replacement string is then used to keep all the matched groups, while discarding the backreference to the second group. So the word "looooove" gets split into
and then recombined as "loooove", discarding the last "o". This continues until only one "o" remains, when repeat_regexp no longer matches the string, and no more characters are removed.
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First line of Code, "wordReplacer" should be "WordReplacer"
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self.max_dist = 2
self.max_dist = max_dist
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NLTK 2.0.4 changed the internal implementation of ConditionalFreqDist, which
requires the RedisConditionalHashFreqDist to be updated:
class RedisConditionalHashFreqDist(ConditionalFreqDist):
def __init__(self, r, name, cond_samples=None):
self._r = r
self._name = name
ConditionalFreqDist.__init__(self, cond_samples)
# initialize self._fdists for all matching keys
for key in self._r.keys(encode_key('%s:*' % name)):
condition = key.split(':')[1]
self[condition] # calls self.__getitem__(condition)
def __contains__(self, condition):
return super(RedisConditionalHashFreqDist,
def __getitem__(self, condition):
if condition not in self:
key = '%s:%s' % (self._name, condition)
self[condition] = RedisHashFreqDist(self._r, key)
return super(RedisConditionalHashFreqDist, self).__getitem__(condition)
def clear(self):
for key, fdist in self.items():
del self[key]
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Learn Text categorization and Topic identification
- Learn Stemming and Lemmatization and how to go beyond the usual spell checker
- Replace negations with antonyms in your text
- Learn to tokenize words into lists of sentences and words, and gain an insight into WordNet
- Transform and manipulate chunks and trees
- Learn advanced features of corpus readers and create your own custom corpora
- Tag different parts of speech by creating, training, and using a part-of-speech tagger
- Improve accuracy by combining multiple part-of-speech taggers
- Learn how to do partial parsing to extract small chunks of text from a part-of-speech tagged sentence
- Produce an alternative canonical form without changing the meaning by normalizing parsed chunks
- Learn how search engines use Natural Language Processing to process text
- Make your site more discoverable by learning how to automatically replace words with more searched equivalents
- Parse dates, times, and HTML
- Train and manipulate different types of classifiers
In Detail
Natural Language Processing is used everywhere – in search engines, spell checkers, mobile phones, computer games – even your washing machine. Python's Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) suite of libraries has rapidly emerged as one of the most efficient tools for Natural Language Processing. You want to employ nothing less than the best techniques in Natural Language Processing – and this book is your answer.
Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook is your handy and illustrative guide, which will walk you through all the Natural Language Processing techniques in a step–by-step manner. It will demystify the advanced features of text analysis and text mining using the comprehensive NLTK suite.
This book cuts short the preamble and you dive right into the science of text processing with a practical hands-on approach.
Get started off with learning tokenization of text. Get an overview of WordNet and how to use it. Learn the basics as well as advanced features of Stemming and Lemmatization. Discover various ways to replace words with simpler and more common (read: more searched) variants. Create your own corpora and learn to create custom corpus readers for JSON files as well as for data stored in MongoDB. Use and manipulate POS taggers. Transform and normalize parsed chunks to produce a canonical form without changing their meaning. Dig into feature extraction and text classification. Learn how to easily handle huge amounts of data without any loss in efficiency or speed.
This book will teach you all that and beyond, in a hands-on learn-by-doing manner. Make yourself an expert in using the NLTK for Natural Language Processing with this handy companion.
The learn-by-doing approach of this book will enable you to dive right into the heart of text processing from the very first page. Each recipe is carefully designed to fulfill your appetite for Natural Language Processing. Packed with numerous illustrative examples and code samples, it will make the task of using the NLTK for Natural Language Processing easy and straightforward.
Who this book is for
This book is for Python programmers who want to quickly get to grips with using the NLTK for Natural Language Processing. Familiarity with basic text processing concepts is required. Programmers experienced in the NLTK will also find it useful. Students of linguistics will find it invaluable.


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They are going to come to Columbus.
15th largest city in the United States.
Bigger than 7 existing NBA markets.
Brand new arena.
Lots of large potential corporate sponsors.
And our city government wants it to happen.
Plus we have the fan base to support a team. Proof is in the fact that we still support the Blue Jackets.
The city still supported them for 15 years. Eventually when a team doesn't win within a 15 year period the fans start to loose faith.
Bring in an NBA team to a partially owned arena by the city and everyone will rally around the team.
Look like only around 8000 people want a NBA team in Columbus
Hope they rename the team to something tech nerdy. Seattle Binery's!!
You write, "The Maloofs have been trying to get taxpayers to pay for a new arena in in Sacramento for years to replace the antiquated Sleep Train Arena to no avail."
While I shouldn't express shock that Forbes finds fault in the public rather than the business owners, perhaps you should actually read the ESPN article you link to, which states, "Under the agreement, the Kings and arena operator AEG each agreed to pay about $3.25 million in pre-development costs with the city paying the remaining $6.5 million."
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Here's the link to the thread I originally found out about it, as well as what people have said in terms of personal experiences. Shadow people thread.
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URPro SWCY or Hoya FL-D ?
Posted 25 May 2005 - 04:05 AM
I just have read Alex Mustads on Unterwater Photography Web Magazine
Test of the new UR Pro Shallow Water CY Filter, SWCY.
Its seams that this filter is Perfect for me (I take Photos between 0 - 8 meters)
Now I own a Hoya FL-D nad the question is if I need the filter.
I hope Alex will read this topic becauce I know that he have experince with all the filters.
One more question.
When I have, for the first time, attach the Inon Dome lens unit to the UWL-100.
I have attach the shades off the domelens so that they are vertical.
Later when I have put the Hoya FL-D Filter I see that the shades are not vertical any more. Thats becauce the filter have not a complete thread alignment.
So I have re-align the shades. The Problem is that not every filter have a
Complet alighment so this will continue to be a problem and realign again & again is not a solution ... one day i will flood my Lens :-(
They told me that the beter way is to pop the filter element out of the ring and drop it in the housing. This will be also a better solution optically.
But how I stabilizate the filter inside the Olympus PT15 Housing??
Regards Lambis
Posted 26 May 2005 - 06:21 AM
I have actually re-written this review in a bit more detail for Wetpixel and sent it to Eric a few days ago. So I hope it will be up here soon.
To answer your question the URPRO SWCY does sound like an ideal filter for you. But as I said in the review if you already own a filter that works then I am not sure that the SWCY is worth buying as well.
If you didn't already own a filter I would say get the SWCY. But because you are going away soon (and I am not sure if the SWCY is available yet) I would suggest sticking with your FL-D. Then when you get back you find that the FL-D is too strong at shallow depths then buy a SWCY.
When I have used the Inon WAL I found it was not really that much of a hassle to realign the lens shades for using a filter. It only took a second. I have not flooded the lens myself but I have "fixed" a flooded one and it is not a big job. Afterall you can use the lens without the port anyway.
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
Posted 26 May 2005 - 01:37 PM
I have newer used the FL-D in Waters like in Egypt. I have used FL-D Only in Green Water. I will shoot a freediving record event, Blue Hole -Dahab and I hope that the Hoya FL-D will be enough but on the other hand I think that soon or later I will need this filter becauce, like you know, I shoot only i Available light.
URPro webpage say that...."The URPRO SWCY filters are also designed for use with natural sunlight at depths slightly below the surface, to a maximum of 25 feet/4 meters"???
I think 25 feet is ca 8 meters and not 4
Alex, how deep have you test the filter?
Posted 27 May 2005 - 08:42 PM
Posted 28 May 2005 - 02:58 AM
URPro webpage say that...."The URPRO SWCY filters are also designed for use with natural sunlight at depths slightly below the surface, to a maximum of 25 feet/4 meters"???
I think 25 feet is ca 8 meters and not 4
Alex, how deep have you test the filter?
I'd trust what UR PRO say in terms of feet!
In the user guide that comes with the filter they say 0-8m. Which is what I said in my Wetpixel review "UR Pro's justification for the SW-CY is to provide a filter suited to work between the surface at 8m (25ft), the standard CY filter is designed for an overlapping but deeper range of 3-20m (10-60ft). The two filters look identical, but have quite distinct filtration characteristics."
I did not test the filter deeper than the manufacturer's recommended depth range. I had to give the filter back after testing. But I hope to get my hands on another one to take to the Red Sea next month.
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
Posted 28 May 2005 - 07:37 AM
I have orderd the Filter. Kirk from UrPro was a big help and soon I will recieve one!!
I am happy to test it in Red Sea.
The Hoya FL-D is a great filter to but it is for green waters
As soon As I come back from Egypt I will post some pictures
Posted 28 May 2005 - 07:49 AM
Have a great trip.
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
Posted 28 May 2005 - 08:32 AM
I will do my best to test the filter in Red Sea. The last 6 months I have read mutch about filters, settings & tips & tricks.
I will try to put all this info under a 2 weeks test. "weeks of thest and learning.
Off course I know that i will have problems with my Olympus 5050 & RAW
Very slow in writing RAW
I will test autosettings & autobalance but I will test custom white balance with a grey card.
Dont forget that i am a freediver and I dont take mutch photos of fishes and corals
but I am sure that in Red Sea i will:- )
Any tips and suggestions are welcome. I will do my best.
Posted 29 May 2005 - 08:26 AM
Also, in September we are going to do the Guadalupe Shark dive, which I know Eric has done. Would this filter work there? Is there anyway you would use it with a strobe, maybe at low power for close ups?
Posted 29 May 2005 - 08:54 AM
While I do hear rumours of UR Pro working on a filter that is compatible with a fisheye I'm not holding my breath.
For these lenses it is better to use Gel filters and cut them and mount them on the back of the lens. Unfortunately you can't get specialist UW filters (like the UR Pro) in a gel. Although both Colour Compensating (CC) and Colour Temperature filters can be very effective underwater.
All these filters work best in available light - and you wouldn't normally use a strobe. They would work well with the sharks. I would shoot flash to begin with and when you are happy you have got all your shots with flash switch over an experiment with filters. The UR Pro CY would be good there on a 12-24mm.
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
Posted 29 May 2005 - 09:22 AM
I ask this since it quit expensive filter, especially if I need it to more then one lens or I want the 2 filters.
It seems that with the Gel filters I can modified combinations of color and size in a fraction of the cost.
Nikon D200, Ikelite housing, Dual SB105.
Posted 29 May 2005 - 09:22 AM
When I take of the lens I see that it leaves a round mark on the filter. Has anyone else noticed that? Is it anything that can cause problem to my lens Or filter
Posted 29 May 2005 - 09:43 AM
Wratten gels can't be used in the water. They don't react well to seawater. So for compacts where you screw the filter on the outside then UR Pro is the way to go. Also I strongly believe that UR Pro filters work much better with Auto White balance than CC filters. If you shoot RAW this is not really a problem - but if you have an Auto-Everything JPG compact then definitely go for a UR Pro or similar.
The fact that on any camera that a UR Pro produces better colours on Auto WB than a CC filter suggests to me that the camera is doing less processing of the image and that has to be good for the final image quality.
I know a lot of people who swear by UR Pro colours. Although as I tried to show with this picture gels and UR Pro all produced acceptable colours after white balancing:
a) UR PRO SWCY
c) CC40R
I find that before the SWCY I used to use gels in the top 4 metres and then UR Pro CY between 4 and 10/12 m. I think I will get a SWCY at some point and will probably use that in the shallows when I am not shooting fisheye.
It is possible to get something pretty close to a UR Pro filter by combining gels. But it may take some trial and error. To some people this is a lot of the fun of underwater photography!
But remember that gels are not very hard wearing and they get scratched up pretty quickly. In the end they will probably cost as much as a UR Pro!
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (waiting for housing).
Posted 25 June 2005 - 07:48 AM
I didn't have too much time to try the filter since I took the chanse to become not only a freediver but also a scubadiver, and took both open water and advanced open water within a week....My freediver buddys keep telling me that I swiched to the dark side. :-)
I havent time to get trough all my photos but her are some. All with URPro filter.The only thing I've done is to open them in ACW and put white balance settings to auto. I think the filter works great in shallow water but worked fine in deeper water as well. The photo of my dive instructor is at 15 meters. The problem I had with the filter is that it seals so good that sometimes air get traped between the filter and the camera housing. One more thing...not concerning the filter but my setup is that I'm fed up with it...I missed so many excellent shots due to the shutter lag and the very very slow raw writing time. The filter i a great investment, skin coulors are phenomenal (not very important shooting scubadivers, but it would be great on bikini models...) The lesson learnt in my speartime between scuba diving training is that filters are good to have, but more important is a fast camera.


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"Not only do we adhere to that, but we enhance and protect the Second Amendment rights against registration," the Democratic senator said.
"If it (registration) never happened as a misdemeanor, and we double down and make it a felony with 15 years, I think that would deter an ATF agent from doing it."
Manchin came under fire from the NRA, in which he holds a lifetime membership, and the senator responded by saying he understands why its leadership vigorously opposed his bill.
"To the NRA leadership in Washington, this is big business, big money," he said.
"You have their magazines? Losing membership that gives you the ability to sell the advertising? Just look at the magazines. Who's doing all the advertising in the magazines? I understand that. That's just the way of life in America. That's capitalism."
Even with his rebuke by the NRA, Manchin said he expects to maintain his membership, but acknowledged the group might downgrade the A-plus rating he has carried in endorsements.
Manchin said he advised the NRA, "I used to get your magazine and think everything you told me was pretty much the gospel truth. Now, I'm finding it's not."
Moreover, the senator said he challenged the organization to put his bill online and let the rank-and-file vote on it.
"I bet it would pass overwhelmingly, if you put exactly the facts of the bill," Manchin said he advised the group.
Adding that the NRA "won't do that."
Manchin said he expects the proposal to be offered anew soon and hopes it gets a showdown before the August recess.
"It will pass," he predicted, adding that as many as 90 percent of Americans favor it, based on polls by the national media.
"This is not President Obama's bill," he said. "Trust me, they don't like the bill."
Obama, however, appeared before a news briefing with a display of unbridled petulance at the bill's failure. Asked why, Manchin didn't answer the question.
"If it shuts down one person that might create a tragedy, I'm sure they're going to be for it," he said.
Manchin pointed to a YouTube video by an American citizen who is an avowed al-Qaida terrorist, quoting him as saying, "Listen Americans, you can go to a gun show and buy any weapon you want. You don't have to have a background check and most times you don't have to show an ID."
"When you have an al-Qaida terrorist telling and appealing to radicals in our country that this is how you arm yourself, something is wrong," Manchin said.
Manchin said he is now five votes short of the required 60.
Defending the proposal, Manchin said he embarked on it in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., schoolhouse massacre, but didn't want to limit the scope of his anti-violence work to merely firearms purchases. Instead, he said the effort also embraced graphic, blood-soaked video violence open to children through computer games.
Manchin said a number of points overlooked by Second Amendment advocates are the granting of immunity to private gun sellers if firearms cleared by the checks wind up in the commission of crimes and permission to use a conceal-and-carry permit in lieu of the background checks.
Another provision would let a law-abiding citizen to purchase a handgun in another state, he said, emphasizing this now is disallowed in the Brady law.
"This clears that up," he said.
"This has been the No. 1 piece of legislation for the NRA. They've wanted it for 20 years. It's in this bill. And they turned their back on it."
Manchin said most checks could be performed in three to five minutes, "or, if there's a glitch, or this or that, 48 hours."
With the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination, Watergate and Benghazi, many Americans simply distrust the federal government, and Manchin said he understands this. The debate over firearms certainly plays into it, he said.
"There are certain people, because they have a lack of trust in government, believe the Second Amendment gives all-inclusive rights to do anything, anywhere," he said.
"Government should be your partner, and your ally, not your adversary or your enemy."
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"If I have to believe in something / I believe in despair," writes Philip Schultz in one of the poems in his most recent collection "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). While it might be unfair to refer to any writer--much less one so dedicated to the teaching of craft--as our "poet laureate of failure"(as some reviewers and critics have described Schultz), there is no contemporary American poet who has plumbed the depths of loss and self-doubt more thoroughly and unsparingly, and with such little sense of affectation as he has.
Schultz, who delivers the University at Buffalo's 2011 Oscar Silverman Reading at 8 tonight in 250 Baird Hall on UB's North Campus, is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the volumes "Like Wings" (Viking Penguin, 1978), winner of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award, "Deep Within the Ravine" (Viking, 1984), the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, and "Failure" (Harcourt, 2007), for which he shared the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2008.
Earlier this year he published "My Dyslexia" (W.W. Norton), a memoir that relates how being diagnosed with a learning disability at age 58 (largely as a result of his oldest son Eli's diagnosis with the same condition in the second grade) changed his perspective on his own childhood, his early struggles as a reader and writer, and even how he processes information and his own experiences as an award-winning poet and teacher today.
Born in Rochester in 1945, Schultz was the son of immigrant parents -- both his mother and father were Jewish refugees from World War Two era eastern Europe -- and grew up a working-class neighborhood of Rochester in the 1950's. His early family life was difficult, as his father suffered one business failure after another, and died bankrupt of a stress-induced heart attack when Schultz was just 18. After many years of working on a Bildungsroman about that era, Schultz refashioned the material into the 81 poems that appear in his 2004 volume "Living in The Past" (Harcourt Books).
Schultz was the founder of the MFA program in Creative Writing at New York University in 1983, but after four years as its director, he set out on his own to create The Writers Studio, a non-degree granting, private school based in New York City's Greenwich Village in 1987.
Unlike most MFA programs, The Writers Studio features a five-stage curriculum that "emphasizes technique and emotional connection, making writers aware of the distinction between the actual writer and a narrative persona." Currently in its 24th year of operation with Schultz as its executive director, The Writers Studio now features an online program, as well as offering workshops in three U.S. cities -- New York City, San Francisco, and Tucson -- and a new workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The New York City-based school also sponsors a celebrated poetry and fiction reading series.
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NFL Insider: Andy Reid wanted 'no part of Kevin Kolb'
Reid had just been fired by the Philadelphia Eagles after 14 mostly successful seasons, but was looking for another job and the Cardinals seemed like a good fit.
We know how it shook out, however. Reid never made it to Arizona for an interview -- much less a job offer -- and he was hired by the Kansas City Chiefs to run their on-field operation.
So what happened?
Jamie Dukes, a former Cardinal and now an analyst on NFL Network, has a theory on that and shared it Friday with Doug and Wolf on Arizona Sports 620.
"He's already gone, but I would've grabbed Andy Reid in a second," Dukes said in response to a query on whom he'd hire as head coach if he was the Cardinals' general manager. "And the reason I would've grabbed Andy Reid because I knew one of two things -- he's going to bring Donovan McNabb or Michael Vick with him -- because you've got to do something at quarterback. That's what it all boils down to."
Dukes making reference to the importance of the quarterback position is hardly earth-shattering stuff, but the names he threw out are. Vick lost his job in Philadelphia to rookie Nick Foles partly due to injury, and McNabb didn't suit up for any team in 2012 after a less-than-promising one-season stint in Minnesota.
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"I found it telling also that Andy, while he flirted with the idea of coming to Arizona, he didn't want any part of Kevin Kolb," he said. "What that tells me is that until they solve that quarterback issue, it doesn't matter who they bring in."
Kolb, of course, started his career in Philadelphia under Reid, and eventually became the Eagles' starter. In 2010, he lost the job due to a concussion, and Vick played MVP-caliber football in his absence, leading the Eagles to the playoffs. Following the season, Kolb was dealt to Arizona in a trade that sent Pro Bowl cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a second-round draft pick to Philadelphia.
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Kolb has four years remaining on his contract, which he signed in July of 2011.
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In keeping with local support of our underground hip-hop spilling over from this week's cover story, we offer a few picks from some local crews that you can download and bob your head to. All of these artists will be on the bill for Hip-Hop-Palooza 3 at The Boathouse on Dec, 12.
"The Rebirth" by Shamroc-N-DJ QP
We start with the headliners, Myrtle Beach's Godfathers of Hip-Hop. This song says all you need to know about the duo – hard-edge '90's rap style, smooth beat, sing-song hook and Shamroc's funny/biting rhymes. These guys have done it so long, nothing feels amateurish. You can download it for free at www.reverbnation.com/shamrocndjqp.
"Whatchuwant" by Exklusive Musik
No, this isn't a cover of The Beastie Boys' "So What'cha Want." It's three vocalists and a producer of our own. These guys are in their mid-twenties and ready to storm the Grand Strand. All of their recorded music is available for free download at www.exklusivemusik.com. This track has a silky acoustic backdrop, congas mix with the snap of a snare as Benny C, Chandler Ave, and B Cool trade lines about getting frisky. It's a laidback slice of Exklusive skills.
"Birthday Cake" By Young Hood
This is probably the most pop-hip-hop in the bunch – a tongue-in-cheek track where cake is a metaphor for cunnilingus. The hook is so catchy, it's Rihanna-esque. Young Hood's rap is playful and fun. The track and the rest of his mixtape, "Leftover Lyrics," can be found at Datpiff, a Web site which allows underground hip-hop artists to distribute their music. Download it for free at www.datpiff.com/Young-Hood-Leftover-Lyrics-mixtape.352632.html.
"Give 'Em Enough Hope" by Ghani Gautama
The former singer of Pure Irate Souls, a Myrtle Beach rap/rock outfit, his roots are evident as the track moves in a few erratic directions but the constant is Gautama's even and steady vocals. And he's got a mouthful to say. Download this track at www.reverbnation.com/ghanigautama.
"Make it Through the Rain" by U.C. Studios Featuring David Ray
Focus has an early Eminem vocal style, but these lyrics aren't mimicking popular culture or giggling while describing violence, instead they're uplifting. Focus' lyrics cut through David Ray's R&B hook and the production is crisp. U.C.Studios is a sponsor of Hip-Hop-Palooza - download this track at www.reverbnation.com/ucstudios.
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By James Niedzinski
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---- — Caroline Jouhourian, resident physician at Tufts University Medical Center, had just finished working a 12-hour shift at an intensive care unit in Brockton before heading to her South Boston home on Monday.
From there, on her day off, she set off immediately to celebrate a co-worker's birthday and meet up with friends and athletes during the Boston Marathon, an event she attends as regularly as possible.
A competitive runner herself, Dr. Jouhourian, who grew up in Rockport and is a 2001 graduate of Rockport High School, was down Boylston Street watching the race with friends, when two blasts shattered the scene near the race's finish line.
"I saw the second one go off, and it was just mayhem from there," she said in a telephone interview Thursday.
Amid the chaos, she first asked police if she could help on the scene, but instead, soon ran back to work at Tufts, roughly 11/2 miles away.
"The diversity of injuries ranged from perforated eardrums to fractures and second-degree burns," she said.
From there, things did not get better.
"The next thing I know, there's a code black."
That meant a bomb threat had been called in as Jouhourian was arriving. And while it proved to be false, all of the patients had to be taken from the emergency room to the atrium due to the bomb scare, she said.
Jouhourian said she did not perform any procedures herself as patients went directly to the operation room, but she stayed on the job for several hours, helping to prepare patients for surgery and treatment while Tufts had about six operating rooms running at once.
"She doesn't think of herself as a hero, but many people do," Jouhourian's friend and 1997 Rockport High graduate Lindsay Lowell said Thursday. The two had been in touch that morning, and Lowell told Jouhourian she could not get the day off work because she had taken a day off last week to catch the Red Sox home opener.
Lowell said that she had many friends at the race, and her first reaction was 'Where are you, and are you safe?".
Because of the limited cellphone service, Jouhourian put up a Facebook status saying she was OK — and had gone in to work at Tufts, Lowell said.
Jouhourian said she was just doing her job that day, staying at Tufts Medical Center until about 9:30 p.m. and returning to the emergency room next morning.
"I personally don't feel like a hero at all," she said, noting people ran toward the explosions to rescue anyone they could.
Jouhourian said she cannot watch the news reports of the Marathon bombings anymore. She was, however, among the medical professionals and patients invited to the interfaith Mass at the Cathederal of the Holy Cross in Boston, joining Boston Mayor Tom Menino, Gov. Deval Patrick and President Barack Obama.
"They really said the right things, the energy in the room was just amazing; at the same time, very sad," Jouhourian said. "For me, I felt personally attacked as a Bostonian, an American and as a runner."
Karine Jouhourian, Caroline's sister, recalled Thursday that, even from a young age, Caroline was set to follow in her father's footsteps. Their father, Dr. Zaven Jouhourian, practices at Gloucester's Addison Gilbert Hospital.
As to her Monday response, Caroline said Thursday that her work with patients in the bombing's aftermath wasn't a one-sided relationship; she said she got a lot out of helping the victims, too.
"It was my therapy," she said. "Sitting and home and doing nothing is not going to be beneficial to me."
She said she has never raced in a full length marathon, and isn't ready to start now, though she has run half marathons before. She added that, with her career, she will not be running next year's Boston Marathon, noting the training and dedication it takes to run a more than 26 miles.
But she will not, in any way, be deterred by Monday's attacks.
"I will be at the finish line watching it," she said.
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We are reporting live from Ilio DiPaolo's, the annual site of the Connolly Cup banquet.
This year's award is expected to be announced shortly after 2 p.m.
It is the 41st award presented by the Connolly Cup Committe. The award is named for John R. Connolly, an ardent supporter of youth athletics up until his passing in 1971; the Riverside Athletic Club started the award in his name. Check out more history, as well as previous winners and finalists, at connollycup.com.
This year's finalists are:
Corey Barczykowski, Alden senior RB/DB
James Chambers, Lockport senior RB/DB
Maurice Howie, South Park junior QB/DB
Austin Mietz, Akron senior QB/DB
Ilo Noble, St. Joe's senior RB/DB
Qadree Ollison, Canisius junior RB/DB
Andy Smigiera, West Seneca East senior QB/DB/K
Mike Torrillo, Sweet Home senior QB
Nick Vallone, St. Mary's junior RB/DB
Mitch Wilson, Orchard Park senior RB
Last year's winner was Chad Kelly of St. Joe's, who was also The Buffalo News Player of the Year.
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2:15 p.m. Jehuu Caulcrick, former star at Clymer, Michigan State and a former National Football League player, is the guest speaker.
He gets a big laugh from telling the story that after winning the award in 2002, he drove around with the trophy seatbelted to the front seat of his car!
He told the players to thank all the people that helped get them to this point.
He is telling the story about how, in his youth, he and his mother fled Liberia after his father was assassinated during wartime; then how he lived and growing up in Findley Lake and the Clymer community. Clymer coach Howard McMullin always stressed to him, "get that sheepskin," meaning to get his college degree.
"Don't let anyone tell you that you can do something," Caulcrick told the finalists. "Because you can do whatever you put your mind to.
"Do the best you can with football -- and school. ... Keep a close group of people around you that are there for you. Surround yourself with good people."
2:27 p.m. Connolly Cup chairman Dennis Sarow is at the podium. Thanking many people (including Prep Talk :-) ) and explaining how the committee saw over 70 schools this season.
"It's a tough decision," Sarow said of the award and weekly awards. "Sometimes it gets a little heated."
The final award is done via secret ballot.
2:32 p.m. The introduction of the 10 finalists has begun by WGRZ's Stu Boyar.
2:41 p.m. The winner of this year's Connolly Cup is Alden senior Corey Barczykowski.
3:14 p.m. That's it from here -- heading to One News Plaza to do a story on Barczykowski for Sunday's paper.
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The Connolly Cup selection will be among the many things to discuss during our post-All-Western New York edition of PrepTalkTV Sunday.
The show, which starts tomorrow night at 8:30 here at buffalonews.com, will feature a live chat throughout as Dick Gallagher, Lauren Mariacher and myself field questions about The News' All-Western New York team and our Player of the Year Award.
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NEWBURYPORT — A Harley Davidson rider driving down Green Street toward the waterfront escaped serious injury yesterday around 10 a.m. when his motorcycle was struck by an SUV.
Newburyport police Sgt. Howard Adams said it appears the female driver of the Volkswagon Touareg didn't see the motorcyclist as she took a left-hand turn onto Green Street from Washington Street near Immaculate Conception Church.
The motorcycle rider, whose name wasn't released by police, was transported to Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport for what Adams called minor injuries. The SUV sustained minor damage to the front passenger side, while the motorcycle appeared to be intact as it was rolled onto the back of a flatbed tow truck.
A police officer was heard telling the middle-aged operator of the SUV that the person she struck wasn't seriously injured.
Adams said the SUV driver was issued a written warning for failing to stop at a stop sign.
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So I've been having a little trouble redoing my Jawas design to make it look better on a tee.
Original Version
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I'm not liking the way that the jawa is cut off on the bottom, but am having trouble fixing the problem. Also not really sure what colors teefury uses, do they have a lighter brown?
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I'm not liking the way that the jawa is cut off on the bottom, but am having trouble fixing the problem. Also not really sure what colors teefury uses, do they have a lighter brown?
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I think the first design works well without the text or black border outside of the white edge.
Mess with an original design too much and the eyes start to detect something is off.
I played around in my paint program trying to fix the redone version and the key missing elements appeared to be the white rectangle behind the JAWAS text and the white border frame. Just adding these two visual cues greatly reduced the "there's something not right" feeling.
Hope you don't have to spend too many more hours finesseing. It's time well spent but it's also a chore until you get to the final version.
Good luck :)
livesintheboonies158 weeks agoTry #2
Instant recognition.
Still my eye kept telling me the Jawa looked underground, so after about 10 minutes of mixing up the ground colours I realised the bottom portion of your Redone version pasted into the Try#2 version looked best. In my opinion at least.
Try#2 + ground from Redone.
See what others think.
livesintheboonies158 weeks ago#3
Thanks Chuffy :)
sllew158 weeks agoit looks great as the try#2 pic shows, i hope teefury picks it i want 1
Gir15158 weeks agoI like #2 the most. #1 seems too crowded to me with all of the lettering. The other two are more subtle but still identifiable.
Ok, absolutely last suggestion. Please feel free to ignore it entirely, I may well be wrong.
Added sand colored image with ripples like you see on sand dunes. Because they radiate wider near the Jawa and closer near 3PO, they give an illusion of depth.
Of course working in a sand color with the limited palette may be tricky without using halftones.
wrongheaven157 weeks agoJust a heads up - someone has a similar idea/design out there that was posted on Furious Fanboys today http://furiousfanboys.com/2011/07/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe/
I like yours better though!
beware1984156 weeks agoI've seen multiple versions of this idea now including one with numerous jawas swimming like fish. After what happened to swissarmyshark you may want to give it some thought before you start selling it.
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Despite the birth of a lot of new business in Merrimack (think 100 stores at the Merrimack Premium Outlets, Darlene's Bath & Body Lounge and Center Stage Pole Dance & Fitness, among several more) it saw others, like Out of the Woods Cafe and, more recently, Olympic Video shuttering this year. This got us thinking: Which Merrimack business do you miss most?
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By TOM MAY
Local columnist
When I was younger, they called it "back to the basics." It was usually used regarding efforts in education and spoke about teaching the fundamentals rather than extracurriculars or very specialized subjects.
Google the phrase today and you will find among other things a book teaching around-the-house fix-it skills, a weekend getaway for motorcycle riders, a refresher course for Alcoholics Anonymous and a CD by Christina Aguilera.
Today the idea is captured by simply the word "simply." There is a website called "simply hired," which boasts the Internet's largest search engine for jobs. The refrigerated shelves at the grocery store are stocked with juices sporting the word "simply" — emphasizing the pure, organic nature of the product. There is an entire line of natural skin-care and beauty products which utilizes the phrase "simply pure."
What qualifies for the "simply" label?
Webster uses three phrases to define the word simply: without ambiguity; without embellishment; solely. When something has no ambiguity it is stated clearly and concisely. There can be no confusion about what is intended.
When something is not embellished, it has no extras or frills which take away from its primary purpose or state. When something is done solely it is done completely and intently.
Would our lives be better if somehow we could remove the clutter and busyness that has clogged the arteries of life? Could we accomplish that by focusing on simply life for just a bit?
The importance of that possibility was driven home to me this past weekend. Our new tradition for viewing Thunder Over Louisville is to do so from the friendly confines of Slugger Field. We have a great view of the air show, perfect seats for most of the fireworks and we get to enjoy Triple A baseball and our Louisville Bats.
On Saturday, the Bats were playing the Indianapolis Indians and I became fascinated with what was taking place in the Indians' bullpen about an hour before game time. One of the coaches was working one-on-one with one of the catchers. The coach would throw pitch after pitch and the catcher would spring from his squatted position, body turned, arm cocked, ready to throw the ball to second base.
After about 20 minutes, the coach got on the pitcher's mound and threw pitch after pitch into the dirt. The catcher had to maneuver his body into a blocking position, with the goal of keeping the errant ball in front of him. At the end of this exercise, the catcher had been banged, bumped and bruised in about every way possible.
As I sat mesmerized, I kept thinking these are basic things that a catcher is taught in the sixth grade. Why is this professional ballplayer going over two simple tasks for 40 minutes before a game?
My curiosity got the better of me, so when I got home I looked up the player on the Internet. Seems he wasn't the everyday catcher for the Indians but was called into duty while the other catcher was nursing an injury. He also wasn't always a catcher — he had originally been signed as a shortstop. The basics weren't natural to him. The repetition was to produce a habit of good, simple reactions to make him simply a better catcher.
I wonder how much more effective and efficient I would be at work if every now and then I cut out all the extras and did my job simply. Would it produce a better marriage if I set my sights for a while on the things that drew us together, the things that we shared before life became complicated? Would I be a better parent if I stopped trying to be everything to my children and started focusing on being someone who mentored them and prepared them for the world ahead?
Over the next few weeks, we will look at some characteristics that need to be developed without ambiguity, without embellishment. They can be applied to areas of life that when someone looks at us, they are prompted to say, "Well done. You've simply done a great job!"
— Tom May is the Minister of Discipleship at Eastside Christian Church in Jeffersonville. He is an adjunct instructor in the Communications Department at Indiana University Southeast.


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From Openwaterpediaextreme swimmer from Cape Town, South Africa. Palframan was a member of the successful Patagonia Extreme Cold Water Challenge which was a series of three extreme cold-water swims at the tip of South Africa by five South African men: Ryan Stramrood (37 years), Kieron Palframan (36), Toks Viviers (47), Ram Barkai (53) and Andrew Chin (41). Their efforts were nominated for the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.
Stramrood, Palframan, Viviers, Barkai and Chin are all members of the International Ice Swimming Association and were inspired by Lynne Cox's book, Swimming to Antarctica. During the Patagonia Extreme Cold Water Challenge, they successfully completed three extremely ice swims in 12 days: 2 kilometers in the Beagle Channel, 2.5 kilometer double crossing of the Strait of Magellan (4°C) and 2.5 kilometers around Cape Horn.
All the swims were done in rough water, against strong currents and in water less than 8°C.
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Palframan will also be a member of the Bering Strait Swim, a 53-mile (86 km) relay swim attempt from Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka, Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, USA among a team of experienced extreme swimmers.
1. Yuri Tsiganchuk, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
2. Yuri Myagkikh, Russia
3. Vladimir Chegorin, Russia
4. Maria Chizhova, Novosibirsk, Russia
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6. Kieron Palframan, Cape Town, South Africa
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Security experts are urging consumers to change their Web passwords after the recent disclosure of a vulnerability touching wide swaths of the Internet, even as Google, Facebook and large banks said they weren't affected.
The flaw to OpenSSL, an open-source software that runs on as many as two-thirds of all active websites, was reported on April 7, by researchers who pushed out a fix. Dubbed Heartbleed, the bug could have allowed hackers to access encrypted e-mail messages, banking information, user names and passwords.
"The one saving grace with this flaw is that it was relatively simple to spot and as a result very simple to fix," Zully Ramzan, chief technology officer of Elastica, a cyber- security firm, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. "That said, OpenSSL is incredibly widespread. It's literally the most popular implementation of SSL on the planet. So any compromise in its security has far reaching implications."
The Heartbleed revelation comes at a time of mounting concern about hackers' capabilities following consumer data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus and the spying scandal involving the National Security Agency. The flaw involving a two-year-old programming mistake was discovered by researchers from Google and Codenomicon, a security firm based in Finland, and reported to OpenSSL, according to a blog post from Codenomicon.
It isn't known whether malicious hackers knew about the bug and were exploiting it, the researchers wrote. Google and Facebook said they addressed the problem before it was made public and saw no signs of vulnerabilities, while Yahoo! Inc. made the requisite fixes.
"A vulnerability, called Heartbleed, was recently identified impacting many platforms that use OpenSSL, including ours," Yahoo said in an e-mailed statement. "Our team has successfully made the appropriate corrections across the main Yahoo properties," such as the homepage, e-mail, finance and sports sites, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said.
OpenSSL is used by Internet companies to secure traffic flowing between servers and users' computers. SSL refers to an encryption protocol known as Secure Sockets Layer and its use is indicated by a closed padlock appearing on browsers next to a website's address.
Before Yahoo issued its fix, security researcher Mark Loman from the Netherlands demonstrated Tuesday on Twitter that he was able to force the site to leak usernames and passwords.
"It wasn't Yahoo's fault, yet they're very slow at installing the critical fix," Loman wrote on his Twitter Inc. account. "Bug disclosure was flawed too."
Many large consumer sites running OpenSSL aren't vulnerable to being exploited because they use specialized encryption equipment and software, the researchers wrote. A test site allows website administrators to check whether their properties are affected.
"The security of our users' information is a top priority," Google said in a statement yesterday. "We proactively look for vulnerabilities and encourage others to report them precisely so that we are able to fix them before they are exploited. We have assessed the SSL vulnerability and applied patches to key Google services."
In a statement, Facebook said it "added protections for Facebook's implementations of OpenSSL before this issue was publicly disclosed, and we haven't detected any signs of suspicious activity on people's accounts."
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest U.S. bank, doesn't use the vulnerable software and user information has not been exposed, the New York-based company said in a statement.
Tests on the home pages of other large technology, e- commerce and banking companies including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Bank of America indicated they weren't vulnerable.
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Three times within a week, 34-year-old Michael Granillo went to the emergency room at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles because of intense back pain. Each time, Granillo, who didn't have insurance, stayed for less than an hour before leaving without being seen by a doctor.
Malaysians wonder 'Why us?' after second loss of airline jet
It was all too familiar. Grieving families rushing to airport. The flashing television graphics of a plane's last radar appearance. The uncomfortable officials before a heavy thicket of microphones.
For many Malaysians, the disappearance of Flight 370 in March has been a long trauma from which the nation has not yet recovered.
A quarter of the world's most educated people live in the 100 largest cities
College graduates are increasingly sorting themselves into high-cost, high-amenity cities such as Washington, New York, Boston and San Francisco, a phenomenon that threatens to segregate us across the country by education.
Facebook tests button to let people shop from its website
Members on desktop computers or mobile devices can click a "buy" button to make purchases through advertisements or other posts on the world's largest social network, the Menlo Park, California-based company said Thursday in a blog post.
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