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Recurrent Neural Networks for Collaborative Filtering
I've been spending quite some time lately playing around with RNN's for collaborative filtering. RNN's are models that predict a sequence of something. The beauty is that this something can be anything really – as long as you can design an output gate with a proper loss function, you can model essentially anything.
In the case of collaborative filtering, we will predict the next item given the previous items. More specifically, we will predict the next artist, album, or track, given the history of streams. Without loss of generalization, let's assume we want to predict tracks only.
Note that we're not trying to predict ratings or any explicit information – just what track the user chose to play.
The data
We use playlist data or session data, because it has an inherent sequence to it. Removing consecutive duplicates improves performance a lot, since otherwise the network just learns to predict the same item as it just predicted.
In our case we use a few billion playlist/sessions and in total about ten to a hundred billion "words".
The model
Recurrent neural networks have a simple model that tries to predict the next item given all previous ones. After predicting the item, the network gets to "know" what item it was, and incorporates this.
More formally, let's assume we have time steps . The model has a "hidden" internal state . These are generally vectors of some dimension . Every time step, we have two things going on
- Predict the output given the hidden state. We need to model a for this.
- Observe the output and feed it back into the next hidden state . In the most general form, . In practice, is generally some nonlinear function like sigmoid or tanh, whereas , and are usually a simple linear transform. It depends a bit on the structure of the output.
Now, all we need to do is write down the total likelihood and optimize for it!
Wait a minute?
Sorry about the extremely superficial introduction without much detail. Here's a more specific example:
Let's say we want to predict a sequence of daily stock returns. In that case, is a vector of stock returns – maybe containing three values with the daily return for Apple, Google, and Microsoft. To get from the hidden state to let's just use a simple matrix multiplication:
We can assume is a normal distribution because then the log-likelihood of the loss is just the (negative) L2 loss:
We can specify that and that (remember it's still a vector). If we want to be more fancy we could add bias terms and stuff but let's ignore that for the purpose of this example. Our model is now completely specified and we have unknown parameters: , , and .
What are we optimizing?
We want to find , , and that maximizes the log-likelihood over all examples:
The way to maximize the log-likelihood is through back-propagation. This is a well-known method and there's so much resources on line that I'll be a bit superficial about the details.
Anyway, we need to do two passes through each sequence. First propagation. For : Calculate all hidden states . Nothing magic going on here, we're just applying our rule.
Now it's time for backprop. This is essentially just the chain rule taken to the extreme. Remember that the total log-likelihood is the sum of all the individual log-probabilities of observing each output:
We define the derivatives as the partial derivatives of the log-likelihood with respect to the hidden state:
Since each hidden state only influences later hidden states, the 's are just a function of all future .
We can now rewrite as a function of and use some chain rule magic:
We can evaluate this backwards from . Both and are specified by our model, so we just need to plug in the expressions.
For the stock price example, we have the unknown parameters where we can derive the gradients like this:
This looks intimidating but it's really just a lot of chain rule applications and fairly straightforward math. You get similar gradients for . Now that we have the gradients, we can optimize using stochastic gradient descent over lots of example.
How does this relate to Hidden Markov Models?
The nice thing about RNN's is that the relation between and is exact rather than being some probabilistic relationship. This means that the 's are not parameters in themselves, so we don't have to solve for them at all. This is usually the slow part of HMM's since figuring out the hidden values takes some slow iterative process like the Baum-Welch algorithm. For RNN's, we only need two passes through each sequence rather than iterating lots of times until the hidden states converge.
The other thing is that RNN's need some kind of nonlinearity or else they magnitude of the hidden states will explode. This nonlinearity is usually taken to be sigmoid or tanh. I guess in theory HMM's could also use nonlinearities, but I've never heard of this.
Predicting other things
Let's focus on the collaborative filtering example. Given a sequence of watched movies, or tracks that the user has listened to, predict what the next one is going to be. Now is not a scalar, but one out of many items. We need some kind of distribution . The one I've seen being used is the Softmax distribution over all possible outputs. This means we have to learn a vector for each item. The probability is now proportional to :
Notice that the summation part in the denominator is over all items – something that is pretty slow to compute. I'll get back to that.
We also need something linking back the output to the next hidden state. In fact, we will learn another set of vectors – one for each item. With slight abuse of notation, here is how it looks like:
Since we are learning a bunch of vectors, we don't need the matrices and . Our model now becomes:
with some slight abuse of notation since the 's are shared for each item . Again, we want to maximize the total log-likelihood
We now end up with a ton of parameters because we have the unknowns 's and 's for each item.
Let's just pause here and reflect a bit: so far this is essentially a model that works for any sequence of items. There's been some research on how to use this for natural language processing. In particular, check out Tomas Mikolov's work on RNN's (this is the same guy that invented word2vec, so it's pretty cool.
The gnarly details
If you have 10 different items, you can evaluate easily, but not if you have five million items. But do not despair! There's a lot of ways you can attack this:
- Take the right output and sample some random items from the entire "vocabulary". Train the model to classify which one is the right output. This is sort of like a police lineup: one is the right suspect, the remaining people just some random sample.
- Hierarchical softmax: Put all items in a binary tree, and break it up into roughly binary classification problems (where m is the size of the vocabulary).
Instead of messing around with Hamming trees and things recommended in literature, I ended up implementing a much more simple version of hierarchical softmax. Internally, all item are described as integers, so I build the tree implicitly. The root node is a binary classifier for the last bit of the item. The next level classifies the second last bit, and so on.
The idea is that you can calculate as the product of all the probabilities for each individual node on the path from the root to the leaf.
Instead of learning an for every item, we just have to learn one for every node in the tree, in total vectors. It doesn't really matter that much how we build the tree – we don't need to enforce that similar items are close to each other in the tree (however that would probably improve performance a bit).
But in general, this problem pops up in a lot of places and here's some other crazy ideas I've thought about:
- If generating random "negative" samples, one way to better mine random examples would be to sample some items from the 's themselves. Since those values are probably pretty similar, that would force the model to discriminate between more "hard" cases.
- Assume the 's have some kind of distribution like a Normal distribution, and calculate an expectation. This is just a bunch of integrals. We've had some success using this method in other cases.
- Don't use softmax but instead use L2 loss on binary classification problems. All entries would be except the right one which is . You can put more weight on the right one to address the class imbalance. The cool thing is that with L2 loss, everything becomes linear, and you can compute the sum over all items in constant time. This is essentially how Yehuda Koren's 2008 paper on implicit collaborative filtering works
Implementing it
I ended up building everything in C++ because it's fast and I'm pretty comfortable with it. It reads about 10k words per second on a single thread. A multi-threaded version I've built can handle 10x that amount and we can parse 10B "words" in about a day.
A beautiful thing with this model is that there's basically no hyperparameters. The larger number of factors is better – we typically use 40-200. With dropout (see below) overfitting is not a concern. It takes a little trial and error to get the step sizes right though.
As with most latent factor models, you need to initialize your parameter to random noise. Typically small Gaussian noise like works well.
I tried both sigmoid and tanh. Tanh makes more sense to me, because it's symmetric around 0, so you don't have to think too much about the bias term. Looking at some offline benchmarks, it seemed like tanh was slightly better than sigmoid.
I also added dropout to the hidden values since it seemed to help improve the predictions of the model. After the each is calculated, I set half of them to zero. This also seems to help with exploding gradients. What happens is that the matrix will essentially learn how to recombine the features
Gradient clipping
Actually gradient clipping wasn't needed for sigmoid, but for tanh I had to add it. Basically during the backprop I cap the magnitude of the gradient to 1. This also helps equalizing the impact of different examples since otherwise for longer sequences you get bigger gradients.
I use Adagrad on the item vectors but simple learning rate on the shared parameters and the bias terms. Adagrad is fairly simple: in addition to each vector and you just store a single scalar with the sum of the squared magnitudes of the gradients. You then use that to normalize the gradient.
For a vector with gradient , Adagrad can be written as:
is a hyperparameter that should be set to about half the final magnitude these vectors will have. I usually have had success just setting .
Offline results show that the RNN is one of the best performing algorithms for collaborative filtering and A/B tests confirm this.
More resources
I can recommend A tutorial on training recurrent neural networks as another starting point to read more about recurrent neural networks.
(Edit: fixed some minor errors in the math and a wrong reference to Baum-Welch)


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This compare/contrast D&D and EPT thing is a great idea and something I'd like to read about. Synthetic 75 sounds like something I'd be totally down with as well.ReplyDelete
Remind me to send you some working notes on converting EPT to a more OD&D footing. I converted the percentiles for instance to a 3-18 range.ReplyDelete
I am interested in seeing what you come up with too.ReplyDelete
Ooooooh, sounds cool. As much as I like O-EPT, I realize that introducing it to those familiar with D&D would be difficult. Synthetic 75 might be the means to introduce Tekumel to "new" players who play OD&D, but with not as much of a re-learning curve.ReplyDelete
Off-topic, could I ask you to check the most recent comments under the D1 post at the Expanse? It's going wiki and we'd like to copy your comment across.ReplyDelete
A Holy Grail of captchas!ReplyDelete
@ GGmilk I had considered doing a series of posts going through EPT 75 cover to cover but more in depth comparison of the games might be more edifying. Thanks for the interest.ReplyDelete
@ ckutalik I'd be interested in seeing these notes...
@ Mike D. Thanks for the interest too. Swords of Abandon has actually made this project easier btw so thanks for putting that together.
@ Schoolmaster I never thought of using this for classic Tekumel play; though it seems so obvious...very interesting.
@ Porky...I've looked at the most recent comments on the d1 and the wiki seems like a great idea to me.
Great. Are you happy for your comment to be used and credited? It was absolutely key of course, a cornerstone for what came later.ReplyDelete
Synthetic 75 might be a great way to address those other 700+ worlds that got dropped into their own pocket universes...ReplyDelete
@ Porky Ha ha...yes I'm fine with the comment. Seriously, the original post left me wondering for hours. I would have participated more but I have limited capacity for deep philosophizing. I think I burned out those brain cells reading too much Foucault and Baudrillard back in the 90s...ReplyDelete
@ Netherworks Excellent observation. I've long been curious about those 700 odd worlds.
Sounds like a great idea.ReplyDelete
I always thought that the Professor may have been wrong to not just issue EPT as a series of special D&D supplements - that way a lot more people would have bought them and the setting might have reached the critical mass level of interest which it never came close of attaining in any of its subsequent iterations.ReplyDelete
Having said this the one thing I can't imagine not having is the weird and wonderful spell list from Swords and Glory and Gardasiyal (where every spell name is pure distilled Tekumel) - and every attempt I've ever made to adapt the game to another rule system (Pendragon, RuneQuest, Warhammer FRP, HeroQuest) has always foundered on precisely that point.


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Feed food scraps to your compost, not the landfill.
Composting is generally the best option if you live in a house as they will even break down your garden waste and food scraps.
Households produce an average of 60 to 70% organic waste, mostly food scraps and paper, which will be transported to landfill where it rots without air to form harmful greenhouse gases. Home composting is easy, fun and an important way of reducing the volume of these valuable materials going to landfill, cutting down on the associated greenhouse gases and returning nutrients back into the soil. By increasing the number of households that compost in these neighbourhoods we can reduce our ecological footprint and improve our local environment and community.
Compost works by breaking down food scraps in a container which lets the air through. This process is called aerobic decomposition and creates a small amount of heat. It needs garden materials as well as food scraps.
How do you turn your food and garden scraps into rich, healthy compost?
Worms, fungi, good bacteria, and other tiny creatures do the work for you! The secret of healthy compost is to keep your workers happy.
Set up your compost in a sheltered spot with good drainage and lots of sun.
Balanced diet
Feed your compost a 50/50 mix of food scraps and gardens scraps.
Help your compost to breathe by stirring it every time you feed it.
Add dry materials or water as needed to keep your compost moist, but not too wet.
It's best to avoid food waste in the first place. One way to do this is to plan your weekly meals in advance. This will allow you to save money because you'll only be purchasing the ingredients that you need.
Your compost needs to be located in a convenient spot that you can access easily, is in contact with the earth, and has good drainage.
Step 1
Keep your bin close to your house so it's convenient to empty your scraps. Position away from windows and neighbors. Compost breaks down faster in the sun but requires less stirring in the shade.
Step 2
Good drainage is best. Place your compost on soil that drains well, sand or even gravel. Avoid sealed surfaces like concrete because this will lead to boggy, smelly compost.
Step 3
To get started, place a 30cm layer of woodchip or mulched dry garden scraps in the base of the bin to help drainage.
Make your compost bin rat-proof by lining it with chicken wire. Place the open base of your bin on top of a piece of chicken wire, bend it up around the outside of the bin and tie in place with rope.
Got a friend with a compost bin? Grab a handful of their readymade compost to give your compost a kick start!
Worms generally find their way into compost bins and improve the soil by aerating it. They also break down nutrients in the soil so that the plants in your garden can absorb these nutrients more directly.
Your compost needs a 50/50 balance of food scraps and garden scraps. For every bucket of food scraps you'll need to add one bucket of garden scraps.
Food scraps
All food and drink scraps, including chili, garlic, citrus, grains, dairy and tiny amounts of meat. Food scraps are wet and high in nitrogen encouraging compost to break down. Substitutes include: manure, fresh grass clippings and seaweed.
Garden scraps
All grass and plant clippings, leaves, mulch and woodchips. Garden scraps are dry and high in carbon so they'll stop your compost smelling. Substitutes include: shredded paper and cardboard, coffee husks and grain husks.
Things to avoid
Avoid adding more than 100g of meat, tofu, dairy, eggs or oils at one time. Avoid more than 500g of carbohydrates or citrus. Avoid: gum leaves or pine needles, wood, inks or vacuum dust with unwanted chemicals, dog or cat poo.
Technically anything organic (once living) can be composted, but in a small backyard compost bin it's best to be careful and follow these guidelines.
Weeds can be composted but you probably don't want their seeds to grow in your garden. Kill the seeds before you compost them by soaking weeds in a tub of water for a month or two. They'll break into a rich sludge that you can use in your compost as a substitute for food scraps.
The key to good composting is as simple as: Food! Stir! Garden!
1. Food!
Keep a large container or bucket in your kitchen to collect food and drink scraps that go to waste. Empty the container into your compost bin every few days.
2. Stir!
Keep your stirrer next to the compost and turn it every time food scraps are added. Sink your stirrer into the top 2/3 of your compost and pull it up several times, 'tossing' the food scraps and letting fresh air in.
3. Garden!
Scatter a bucket of garden scraps or clippings across the top every time. This keeps the top of the compost neat and deters vermin. The garden scraps will be mixed through next time you turn the compost.
This formula is the easiest way to ensure your compost has a balanced diet and gets plenty of air through regular stirring and tossing. This helps to manage the moisture levels in your compost by balancing wet food scraps with dry garden scraps.
Cold composting
The method above is called 'cold' composting. it's the most convenient way to compost your food scraps regularly. The compost does generate heat but because scraps are added gradually it won't get really hot. It will take three-six months for the compost to be ready.
Hot composting
This is when you fill the compost bin in layers all at once and leave it to 'cook', stirring and adding water occasionally. This will create compost in six to ten weeks.
Gardeners sometimes use both methods; establishing a 'hot' compost that is filled to the top and left to cook, as well as a 'cold' compost that they add scraps to regularly.
Composting is very easy and you won't have any problems if you 'Food, Stir, Garden' every time. But in our complex world things don't always go to plan! Here's how to fix any problems that might arise.
Bad smells
If it smells then it probably hasn't been stirred enough and is too wet. Give the whole compost a good stir for aeration and add more garden scraps. If smells are strong, sprinkle ash, dolomite or garden lime on top.
Too slow to break down
It is probably too dry or cold. If the compost is dry, soak it with a hose. Adding more food scraps or moving your compost to a warmer spot will speed things up.
They hide in warm, dry, still patches. Soak your compost with a hose, then 'toss' thoroughly using your stirrer. Only add garden scraps when you 'Food, Stir, Garden' to avoid dry patches forming.
Mice and rats
They could be attracted to your compost if it smells. Avoid adding grains, meat, eggs and dairy. Check the lid is secure and there are no gaps. Rat-proof your bin by lining the base with chicken wire.
Soldier fly larvae
Often confused with maggots, larvae are: bigger, browner and more segmented. They help break down compost faster and aren't a problem. There's no easy way to remove them. Just stir more often, add more garden scraps, and they'll leave in a few weeks.
Keeping your microbial workers happy is the secret to composting. If you have a problem, think about what might be imbalanced in terms of their Home, Diet, Air and Moisture.
Remember there are some 'things to avoid' feeding your compost:
Your compost is ready to harvest if it looks like dark, rich soil and smells earthy. This normally takes three-six months. Spread the compost around plants or mix it with soil to create your own potting mix. Always cover soil and compost with a layer of mulch to keep it alive and thriving.
Harvest from the bottom
The newer food scraps on the top may not have broken down, so harvest your compost from the bottom of the bin. Any scraps that haven't broken down can be thrown back in.
Getting the compost out
If your bin has a trap door – open it and scrape the compost out with a shovel. No door? Tilt the bin to one side and scrape it out with a shovel.
Emptying the whole bin
Lift the whole bin off the pile and use the harvested compost on your garden. Any scraps that have not broken down can be thrown back in to kick start your new compost.
Your backyard compost is unlikely to get hot enough to kill seeds. If plants like tomatoes and pumpkins sprout where you don't want them, just pull them out and throw them back into the compost or replant them in a veggie garden.
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Connexion '13 had been in the planning stages since last fall. The people at Central UMC in Concord, NC were told that they would never get a crowd out on a Thursday for a seminar on internet topics. All the nay-sayers were proven wrong on October 10th.
They sold out every seat over a month before the event using only internet based tools and word of mouth. There were participants from all over the Western North Carolina Conference including laity and clergy of all ages. The average age was certainly lower than the average age of an annual conference session, but it was obvious that older participants saw the need.
Andy Langford, the senior pastor at Central UMC, welcomed the group. He is admittedly not comfortable with new media, but he understands the need. "All but one visitor in the last two years at Central participated with us online before physically coming in our doors. We are living in a new world, and we need to be prepared for it."
They seminar featured two keynote speakers from Nashville, TN. Gavin Richardson, who has been working with social media within the denomination for many years (and most recently with the new online United Methodist Reporter) and Sophia Agtarap of Rethink Church at UM Communications. They challenged the group to recognize the major shifts happening in the world from "Gutenbergers to Googlers".
Agtarap made clear that "the web is the new front door of the church and we need to provide access points that bridge faith and culture in our world."
Richardson shared stories of his experiences working in social media that proved that online relationships are real and involve real people and faces. "Technology should be an extension of who we are in real life. Even with technology, we still need to be a church that knows how to hug."
Following the keynote, participants broke in half to hear a variety of presentations. There was a beginner's track that learned the basics of social media from Scott Smith, the husband of a United Methodist pastor who runs IT for a county school system. More advanced topics were discussed using a "TED talk" format of 8-10 minute presentations in the sanctuary. The topics included ReThink Church, Webpages, New Media, Constant Contact, EPublishing, Blogging and Tweeting, Constant Contact and Cautions About New Media.
As a part of those presentations, Andy Langford and Daniel Wilson presented the concept of Central Online, the new online congregation that is being developed through Central UMC. Wilson is thought to be the very first United Methodist clergy to be appointed to be appointed to an online congregation. Langford notes, "Central is committed to sharing the Good News in new ways. Every other institution in our society now operates 24/7 while most congregations are open only on Sunday mornings. The new media age offers every faith community new challenges and opportunities. Let's journey boldly into new lands."
Mark King, a United Methodist from Western North Carolina serving on staff at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York, presented about E-Giving for the entire group at lunch, and then about financial thinking from a new paradigm after lunch.
The afternoon session included more talks on topics ranging from Missions Online, Ethics and Technology and Teaching Online. Amy Coles, the Superintendent of the Smoky Mountain District, shared her thoughts on new media and technology from a DS's perspective that envisioned a future where the many boxes of forms and reports that are produced each year at Charge Conferences could be done completely online and stored there.
Coles reflected after the event, "I found ConneXion 2013 to be an extremely worthwhile event which offered participants important tools to continue to increase the health and vitality of their local church. The wide variety of topics covered enabled both the novice and the expert the opportunity to hear new ideas for reaching out to their community in this new media era. I am proud to serve with churches like Central UMC in Concord, who not only coordinated this conference but has also generously offered to continue sharing resources with others across the Conference."
Another superintendent, John Boggs of the Blue Ridge District commented, "I am so grateful for my participation in the ConneXion event today! It was a strange experience of feeling inspired, overwhelmed, motivated, challenged and inadequate all at the same time."
Daniel Wilson, who was the point person from Central UMC for the event offered this reflection: "Looking back on Connexion13, it was beautiful to see so many churches working together to better understand new media and how it relates to ministry. I really saw our "connectional" system at work!"
There was a positive feeling coming from everyone at Connexion. It may be summed up by a young clergy person who was overheard walking down the hall, "As I look around at who's here, I have greater hope for the church."
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Central UMC is making all of the presentations and video of the conference available at: http://wncconnexion.org . They also have ongoing discussion and updates at: https://www.facebook.com/wncconnexion. Twitter conversations can be found at #connexion13 and #wncconnexion.


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Watford City's boys varsity golf team wrapped up its regular season action this past week competing at the Washburn Invitational on Saturday and the NW Conference Meet on Monday in Mohall.
The Wolves will be competing on Friday at the Region Tournament in Mohall.
Washburn Invitational
May 9th
Nick Liebel and Chris Larsen shot rounds of 80 and 83, respectively at the Washburn Invitational to help lead the Wolves to a third place finish. Liebel finished in third place individually, while Larsen finished in eighth place.
Hazen won the meet with a score of 329 followed by Washburn with a 335 and Watford City with a 341.
Rounding out the scoring for Watford City was Seth Dougherty, 86; Jesse Weber, 92; Skyler Rogness, 94; and Ryan Monsen, 104.
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Nick Liebel and Seth Dougherty qualified individually for the State Golf Tournament during the NW Conference Meet with Liebel firing a 70, while Dougherty carded a 75.
The Wolves finished in fifth place with a team score of 319.
Stanley won the meet with a score of 290 followed by MLS with a 306. Lewis & Clark-Berthold finished in third place with a score of 315 and New Town-Parshall was fourth with a score of 316.
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Some Foreigners Prefer Marrying Filipinas
the other lass in other countries if not beyond compare. Their smile will indeed lighten up your day as if they put you in clouds with a very light feeling, dismantling your worries for a great while, could...
- The
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- The
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The Philippines is certainly a dot in the world but teems with enormous and seem infinite treasures. With her majestic rolling mountains, hills and volcanoes, rainforests that is embellished with wonderful...
- The
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What is elementary life without sports? Probably boring and lifeless as it is. Sports is vital in the very young lives of your kids for it gives them a lot of things to learn about life aside from...
- The
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(This is a tribute to the planet we call home since she will be celebrating her birthday in the days to come and this is actually first of two parts.) The Philippines is indeed a haven for wonderful animals...
- How
to Pass the Board Licensure Examination
(The original contents of this hub was accidentally deleted, hayz, I dont have an idea why it was deleted maybe I could be the culprit or someone deleted it when I forgot to sign out, still this is a blessing...
- Aquariums
for Freshwater Fishes
Aquarium fishes whether tropical or saltwater are indeed a nice sight to see. Exhibiting unusual behaviors, flashing different colors, coming in a wide array of different shapes and sizes aquarium fishes are...
- The
Causes and Effects of Climate Change in our Planet
Just a month ago, a powerful typhoon the worst ever perhaps in my province literally took us by the storm. Wow, the typhoon was so destructive and devastating that the tremendous damage it had made will...
- How
to be a Sports Editor or a Sports Writer
(Editor's Note: This Hub contains a brief story and insights on how to be a sports editor or sports writer). Sports writing has its own distinct identity, very interesting and yet enjoying. It has dimensions...
- How
to Make Real Friends and be a Great Friend
An enduring friendship is truly essential to the human spirit as food and water are to our body. Whether we are rich or poor, we all need friends, our companions that will pull us through thick and thin....
- Which
is Better Private School or Public School
School is an institution where our kids well learn a lot of things that could help them become more responsible and productive citizens in our society. It is the place where education is given importance as...
- Fast
Index Your Blogs or Hubs
Your blogs or hubs may take a month or perhaps longer before it will be indexed in various search engines (Yahoo, Google, Bing etc.), and this may keep your write-up(s) at bay. Instead of waiting for the time...
- Foods
that Should Not be Offered to Pets (Rabbits,
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I already produced a hub about foods that shouldnt be eaten by dogs, titled, The Foods Your Dogs Shall Not Eat, and this article endeavor to tackle more foods that are not good to your pets such as birds...
- 10 World's
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- How to Save our
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- How
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- The
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- How to
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- A List of Unusual
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- Compilation of
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- Lucban Quezon
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- Meet
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- Compilation
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.... reward but for self-fulfillment and doing things that are ought to be done. Teaching is not just a profession, it should be utilized as a powerful way of touching the lives of the children, always...
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- http://hubpages.com/hub/Alcohol-Treatments-Hangover-Remedies-and-Tips
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- Worst Floods
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An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines annually. Some of these typhoons ignited soil erosion and deadly raging flashfloods, which resulted to tragedies in the country that killed numerous people and...
- The
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(Author's Note: This Hub is a certified HubNugget and will focus on Pahiyas Festival of Quezon, Strawberry Festival of La Trinidad, Dagupan City's Bangus Festival, Panagbenga Festival of Baguio City, Pintados...
- Who
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- Caramoan,
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Thanks for the information about this site. I've never heard of this one before.
More earnings from a lot of effort. Sounds great. Thanks for sharing his.
Thanks for the list. How about the modes of payment? Will they pay through paypal or check?
Yep Great hub, I love Webanswers. I talk about it in my "Top 3 Adsense Revenue Generating sites" Great hub keep up the good work.
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Love to learn a new thing and I think this site is one I am going to like .. thanks for sharing this. . Ill let you know how I make out! Big thumbs up . .:)
sounds interesting. Seems like a good mixture between Yahoo Answers and forum. I wonder if anyone can earn by asking questions as well.
thanks.. informatif
I joined this a while ago, but found there are a lot of really silly questions on there - I got annoyed trying to find sensible ones to answer.
If you post links to your Hubs in your answers, are they do follow?
Well I have been doing the webanswer thing for about 1 week now and things are looking good...thanks again
this is very interesting, GH! i remember i have an account with xomba..
It sounds good, if an intelligence can make you earn money so, there's nothing to worry about it..... Thank for this great information!!
Hello General!
I will add you to our official team hub later this evening.
Also check out our private forum 60dc.hubsacademy.com, read through our 60dc hubs a little closer as you are missing alot of the benefits of the team effort w/o certain additions to your pages
Hey General! You brought to my attention a couple that I didn't know about. Thanks alot.
It will be guiding torch to me.
good one GH, I saw this before and it is good to know that there are sites like this! Maita
Thanks for sharing helpful and thoughtful hubs! =)
thx 4 the info ! :)
Umm, the web is becoming very what would you call it, predictable.. there has to be a way to make good money here and maybe put in some work, but not too difficult. Maybe I should start learning programming...
very interesting and I will be reviewing this site when I am done with my daily reading...Glad I read this one :)
Hadn't heard about this one before, definitely need to check it out! Thanks, general:)


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Craving murdering oneself is excruciating. Pondering until the sun comes up, planning the right moment and place, crying while harming oneself. It's a disease, a repugnant virus I've been ashamed of for as long as I can remember.
Weakness is the quickest and the most undemanding path. Showing to be strong, bulletproof, requires an imparalleled effort. I cannot give up, that's my true ending.
Wanting to murder oneself is still murdering oneself. Of course, besides my several flaws, I've got plenty of good qualities and I'm talentous. I can feel the Revolution flowing within me, I'm aware of my value and this rarely comes off my mind. I've got boundless plans and I find amusement in shaping my future, just as if then I won't change my mind or as if life will follow my instructions.
When I carved my body, when I saw bruises on my legs, when my tears ran down 'til my breasts, a part of me was to die.
I'll never get over my grief, it's a part of who I am.
I'm alone. I'm alone with myself and that's horrific. I think of shocking thoughts, I imagine ridiculous pictures. They're scandalous and I'm freezed and I think: have I really just given birth to this abomination?
My scream for help is quiet, it's a monitored cry which I believe I can always sigh out.
The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
– David Foster Wallace
I've never felt so alive.
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Best of my latest photo shoots posted!
Hello fellow photographers!
Just wanted to let you know that the "Film Noir" photo shoot of October 29th and the warm up to it on October 28th that I did in the fire escape of Veith Street Gallery have finally been posted on my Portraits By Chris section. It didn't turn out the way I anticipated and I learned a lot about being prepared for anything as the story below will relate.
It all started out to be a Gangster film noir shoot, then as delays and time went on, I kept adding more themes to the shoot to give more variety to the models. Unfortunately, I did not anticipate the absence of two main players who were to provide the guns needed for the Gangster portion of the shoot and so I had to abandon most of my planned shots and substitute knives for guns in some scenes that called for it. This was my first theme shoot and I was floored and unprepared to deal with the change in plan, but I managed to find inspiration in some books I had brought over the previous day to substitute for some of the scenes I had to abandon. I had assistance by CSE (Creative Spirit East) members Aura-Lee Mahoney (modelling as Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn & Grace Kelly) and Dean Morton (model and lighting assistant) as well as the curator of the Gallery until a representative (and friend of mine) of Vegas Entertainment took over from him in assisting with the models and aiding with the lighting.
Among the things I learned from the two shoots is to never schedule more than one person at a time to be at a shoot, always schedule your models into separate time slots, or you will feel pressure regarding the time given to each if you don't schedule them separately. Also, make sure you have access (or buy) props that are relevant to your shoot and pick out and note the order of each shot for each model. I intend to follow these guidelines from now on!
However, after all was said and done, (and I relaxed a bit) I did manage to get some nice portraits of the models who came, which include: Fallen "Kittie" Matthews, Amanda Plowman, accompanied by Sophie Lavery Grant (taking separate shots) and my friend " Mr. Vegas " representing Vegas Entertainment, who modelled as Alan Ladd and Humphrey Bogart in some shots with Aura-Lee Mahoney as Ingrid Bergman and Veronica Lake).
Hello Everyone!
You may have noticed that my website looks a bit different nowadays, this is mainly due to the advice I've gotten recently from an entreprenuer coach I've been consulting about my website recently. Most of the changes are detailed in my new Home page under "What's New?"
Most of the announcement you saw in this blog will now be featured on that page, so, unless something major happens, like having one of my pictures from the Alice In Wonderland picnic I took pictures for published this past week in Independant Living Nova Scotia's "The Mainsail" newsletter, most of my less relevant news will be published on my home page.
Recently, I've been doing some "film noir" type shoots at Veith Street Gallery (October 28th and 29th) trying to get good material for my portfolio and an upcoming show in April at Veith Street Gallery, which I plan to be a showcase of all the types of photography I've done recently and I have already posted most of them on Facebook but will also a selection of the best from both sessions for your viewing pleasure!
Thanks to all who have viewed my site since I started it and please continue to come back. Don't be afraid to leave comments on the comments section of my Home page, I'd love to know what you think of it!


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Mania or Obsessive love
Mania love is a type of love that leads a partner into a type of madness and obsessiveness. It occurs when there is an imbalance between eros and ludus. To those who experience mania, love itself is a means of rescuing themselves; a reinforcement of their own value as the sufferer of poor self-esteem. This person wants to love and be loved to find a sense of self-value. Because of this, they can become possessive and jealous lovers, feeling as though they desperately "need" their partners.


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3rd Thursdays Participating Merchants Map
Download and print the 3rd Thursdays Participating Merchants Map »
Look for the Participating Merchant Stickers
Each Participating Merchant of 3rd Thursdays displays a sticker in their window, indicating they are part of the program. Look for the stickers and enjoy the art, refreshments, food and free entertainment in Downtown Pleasanton.
October Poster Design for Pleasanton's Art Walk
This month's design comes from TrefethenStudios.com. If you'd like a shot at designing the next poster please let us know by sending us an email.


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