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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Whether it's a fascinator, a fedora or hats of the large-brim variety, one thing's for sure: Hats are all that. It's not just a cure for a bad hair day, it's an extension of your look and another element with which you can experiment.
With Derby parties, outdoor summer events and hanging out at the pool, it's a great time of year to try out your favorite hat looks, not to mention a great way to protect your hair, scalp and face from the sun's rays. Sunblock, hats and shades -- and sun protection in general -- make good fashion and common sense.
To find out how best to decorate a hat for a fun party or spring event like the Kentucky Derby, or parties planned with that theme, here are some give a variety of looks on varying budgets, including some DIY options.
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Target and Gabriel Brothers have great selections of hats ready for some added decor, and most are less than $10. Elder-Beerman have an amazing selection of hats on sale for 50 percent off, and TJ Maxx have several hats, even some Ralph Lauren designs, for less than $20.
Add a bright patterned or floral scarf for some added color and dimension for an easy Derby hat look! For even more flair, grab some ribbon, tulle, feathers, fabric glitter spray, silk flowers or artificial butterflies or birds.
If Carrie Bradshaw can pull off a bird on her head, so can you! Don't be afraid of a glue gun or hat pins. Go easy on the glue or use hat pins so you can remove the "extras" later and reuse the hat for another event.
Fashion confession: I purchased a black sun hat last year for my bridal shower and sprayed it with black fabric glitter, just to give a bit of flair and then added magenta ribbon (pink is my signature color, after all). I tacked the ribbon on in only a couple places. I will be repurposing this hat with different add-ons, maybe butterflies and flowers, for a Derby party May 4.
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To help you (and me) create haute hats, I enlisted some inspiration and support from local hat designer and fashionista Penny Fioravante. In addition to her day job as executive director of the West Virginia Osteopathic Medical Association, Fioravante is a costume designer specializing in millinery and fantasy. She has designed for productions ranging from small stage plays and classical Shakespeare to fully staged operas, films and high-fashion runway shows.
Inspired by the glamour of vintage fashion, Fioravante uses antique or repurposed materials in her designs whenever possible. Her personal style motto: "If all the world's a stage, dress for it. Life is too short to wear ugly clothes."
WVStyleTeam: What is your favorite place to get artistic inspiration for hats?
Fioravante: My artistic inspiration comes from everywhere -- old movies and photos, nature, animals, even household gadgets! I like to think outside the norm and create whimsical things you wear with a smile.
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Fioravante: My favorite "add-ons" are butterflies and birds; they look so lovely and whimsical floating around your head! Depending on your mood or the season, add ribbons, silk flowers, feathers and whatever interesting things you may find ... there are no rules, if you find something you like, make it work!
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Whether you are visiting Bishopsgate Institute for the Library, one of our Courses for Adults or a Cultural Event, or you're just relaxing with friends, Bishopsgate Kitchen is a great place to meet up any time of the day.
If you are attending any of our Courses for Adults or ticketed Cultural Events you can get 10% discount off food and non-alcoholic drinks. Simply show your courses confirmation letter, or your ticket to the staff at Bishopsgate Kitchen.
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4-star family-friendly aparthotel with an indoor pool in Shanghai (Xuhui)
A stay at Rayfont Celebrity Hotel & Apartment Shanghai places you in the heart of Shanghai, convenient to Taikang Road and Jing An Temple.
This 4-star aparthotel is within close proximity of Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts and Sun Yatsen Residence.
Make yourself at home in one of the 418 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Your bed comes with cotton sheets, and all rooms are furnished with sofa beds. High-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge) is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have handheld showerheads and makeup/shaving mirrors.
Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center. This aparthotel also features concierge services, an arcade/game room, and a pool table.
Satisfy your appetite at the aparthotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dining is also available at a coffee shop/café, and 24-hour room service is provided.
Featured amenities include a business center, audiovisual equipment, and a technology helpdesk. Event facilities at this aparthotel consist of conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and banquet facilities. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free parking is available onsite.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Rayfont Celebrity Hotel & Apartment Shanghai provides a sauna and a fitness center. The aparthotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Business amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center, a technology helpdesk, and audiovisual equipment.
Event facilities include conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and banquet facilities. This family-friendly aparthotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, an arcade/game room, and multilingual staff. Complimentary parking is available on site.
Rayfont Celebrity Hotel & Apartment Shanghai is a smoke-free property.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- Breakfast fee: CNY 50 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): CNY 36 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
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Spiritually Surrender to Weight Loss at The Lodge at Woodloch
If the summer has left your jeans a little snug, The Lodge at Woodloch, a destination spa in Hawley, Pennsylvania that's popular with health seekers on the New Yorker to Philadelphia corridor, may have a solution. Spiritual guru Marianne Williamson will be putting in an appearance in early November, to mark the publication of her new book, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever. Four of Williamson's nine books have become New York Times bestsellers, and while I've not cracked its cover, it doesn't take a marketing genius to realize that the title contains words likely to make it very popular indeed.
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"This is a rich waffle recipe based on a Danish batter for aebleskivers. It uses sugar and is wonderful and crisp. We always freeze the extra waffles and the kids heat them during the week. A minute in the microwave and a quick trip into the toaster renews the warmth and crispness anytime."
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4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
4 teaspoons baking soda
9 eggs, separated
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 1/2 cups milk
3 tablespoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter, melted
Best waffle recipe! I had to make one change, because I didn't have regular milk, so I used low fat buttermilk for both parts of milk. They were still amazing. This recipe does make 12-16, and for my family, that is a lot. BUT the leftovers can be thrown in the toaster the next morning and they are still so crispy and yummy good. A lot of recipes claim to make great leftovers, well this one really does! These waffles were fluffy and have a slight sweetness. This will definitely be my new waffle recipe to lean on for perfect waffles. Thanks for sharing this tasty recipe with us!
Well... I liked the texture of the waffles, but they were way too egg-y for our tastes. I think I would like to try this recipe again, but I will probably only use 2 eggs. My other waffle recipes use 1 egg for 2 cups of flour. I didn't find them very sweet at all... maybe because the egg taste overpowered everything else.
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This was Wonderful! I didn't feel like making a huge dinner, so I did this instead, needless to say we were all very happy with the end result. I wouldn't change a thing on this! This will be hard to beat with other waffles! Thanks so much!
These were good. I halved the recipe and used my belgian waffle maker. This recipe was a little more time comsuming basically using 3 different bowls because of need to whip the egg whites. I will use this recipe on the weekends or for visiting family and friends.
yah now I have a new favorite. I always made Belgian waffles, but I really love the texture and flavour of these. I scaled the recipe down, but still had loads left so I froze them and they still come out fabulous. Thanks
I was looking for a waffle similiar to what I get at a little coffee house but this recipe was not it. But, it was still good, a very dense, heavy waffle. It was really sweet. I would not make these every time I had waffles since I like my bisquik one's as well. But these are great for special morning breakfasts.
We enjoyed these for a quick dinner. I halved the recipe and it still made a ton! Thank you for sharing this recipe!
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Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades for the Nintendo DS is a decent game if you have 15 or 20 minutes to kill, but if you play for long enough it can start to get uncomfortable and even painful.
The game plays like any other Guitar Hero game with a few differences to make it work on the DS. There is an attachment that slides into the GBA game port on the DS for your fret buttons. In this version, however, there are only four. A guitar pick shaped stylus is used to strum by moving that stylus across a guitar on the touch screen.
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Three years ago, Wall Street complained the company was overspending on factories and capital expansion. But Barrett, a former Stanford engineering professor who became chief executive in March 1998, stuck with his plan. In the end, Barrett had the last word as the investments paved the way for Intel to crank out new notebook and server chips at a time when business was picking up.
Barrett, who has been with Intel since the 1970s, has led the company through some of its best times as well as through some of its worst. In the run-up of the late 1990s, Intel romped to one record-breaking quarter after another.
But Intel then suffered along with the rest of the technology industry after the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the subsequent economic recession. The company was also forced to retreat from money-losing ventures, including the manufacturing of Intel-branded consumer devices such as digital cameras.
Barrett has since navigated the company into new categories, including the creation of chips for digital home devices. Intel is also moving into dual-core processors for upcoming desktop and notebook lines. Dual-core chips can provide far better performance than traditional single-core chips.
With less than a year left to go before turning over the reins to heir-apparent Paul Otellini, Barrett is hardly in a retiring frame of mind. A card-carrying member of the Silicon Valley elite, Barrett is one of the more vocal high-profile technology executives on the subject of offshore outsourcing and the threat to American competitiveness. He recently sat down with a group of editors and reporters from CNET News.com, speaking his mind on topics ranging from the folly of industry alliances to the fecklessness of zigzagging politicians.
You travel the globe a lot. How do you think the United States ranks versus the rest of the world in terms of technology adoption?
The U.S. has a whole series of complacencies about it. It is complacent on its economic development platform. It is complacent on its infrastructure platform. It is complacent on the whole issue of promoting research and development. So you go down the list--education, infrastructure, research and development--and the U.S. is basically complacent.
It is very difficult to go to Washington, D.C., and discuss those three aspects of competitiveness (education, infrastructure, and R&D) with anybody.
What is the reaction when you talk to politicians?
They have other 30-second priorities.
Let's turn to the technology business. Do you see a faster PC upgrade cycle in the future?
You are probably going to see more distributed upgrade cycles. It is not going to be big lumps of stuff happening all at once, but I am sure people will upgrade their (PC) clients in the U.S. Consumption in the emerging economies is growing much faster than the U.S.--and will continue to do so.
Is it a problem for you that Microsoft has not been accelerating its (operating system) delivery schedules?
You should really talk to Microsoft. I would rather see those new features get into the market, but it does not slow us down in any great respect. We do not want to put a whole bunch of stuff out there that we say is 64-bit compliant and perhaps is not because we do not have the software to validate it before it goes out.
There is a lot more conversation and dialogue around the customer being king. What specifically over the last 6 to 12 months has happened that was not happening in the past 20 years?
The customer is king from the standpoint that the customer uses your product. You may either get the customer excited about your product or you do not. And so you start to look around and say, "What are the exciting applications for technology?" Is it something that you perceive as exciting or something that the customer perceives as exciting.
Back in the mid-1990s, Intel thought ProShare was exciting and that the customers would be excited--but we forgot to ask the customers whether they were excited about it or not. If you look around today, the customer speaks very loudly and very rapidly about what their interest is. I do not think it is the last 6 to 12 months. I think it has been a gradual awakening as we move from a technology focus to a use focus.
If you look at the HPs and IBMs, they are trying to come up with terminology--be it utility computing or adaptive computing or what have you--because customers are demanding that the products interoperate. That is what I was talking about.
Well, there is probably nothing better to sensitize you than a recession.
We have seen Intel move away from clock speed and talk more about things like processor speeds. Is that going to be the company's future focus?
We are still interested in performance, but you can drive performance in a whole bunch of different ways. We have not lost any enthusiasm toward faster transistors or toward higher performance. We will just be able to get performance using different technology and different techniques.
Do you foresee more alliances like the Sun-Microsoft and Microsoft-Oracle announcements?
The easiest thing in the world is to announce an alliance. You probably can count on one hand all the successful alliances that brought great technology into the market place.
You talked about recessions being a key in driving sensitivity. To what extent is a more educated customer changing the way you have to do business?
I have been here 30 years and have been through about 10 recessions.
Is that how you decided to go to dual core sooner?
Well, you know, Intel is in the business of bringing new technology into the marketplace. Our core business is to innovate and integrate and so you innovate new aspects of technology--whether it is discrete bits of technology--then you integrate it into the core processor. So going back to an integrated dual core or multi-core approach is what people have been talking about for the last 4 or 5 years.
What sort of markets are ripe for digitization? What are the industries you see that are going to need this?
Health sciences is a big one just because it is such a huge piece of the gross domestic product of the established economies and they are such relatively slow adopters of technology. With their basic infrastructure in the back office, the health care industries have been pretty sluggish in terms of computerizing and taking the cost down.
How about the energy field? A few years ago you were talking about alternative energy and people looked at you like you were crazy. Now Stanford says it is one of their top three research areas.
When I ask people what their initiative would be if they were president for a day, most come back with the same answer: something to do with the energy ecosystem.
Going to the moon was the great Sputnik challenge. Today I think the challenges we face are a little bit different, and I would think it would have something to do with the energy environment that we have. It's not surprising to me that a lot of other people are thinking in that same way.
How do you see the convergence game developing when the PC guys want to get into the consumer electronics space?
You guys always want to picture this as a battle. You go to the
CES show and the Sony guy stands up and says the TV is the center of the universe. Then the Intel guy stands up and says the PC is at the center of the universe. And then somebody else from a software company stands up and says no, the software is at the center of the universe. I think that is all kind of hokey thinking.
All this stuff needs to work together. I mean it's common interfaces and common protocols. These things have to be complementary and work together. I do not see it as competition.
But does a company such as Dell get the benefit because it has a great distribution model for what it is, just a commodity now, as opposed to a Sony or a Samsung with huge retail operations and huge R&D efforts.
I do not expect to see any of the major consumer electronics players disappear. I think the Samsungs and the Sonys are going to still be around. I would dare say most of us in our homes have stereo systems. But not everything is from Kenwood or Technics or Sony or Samsung. I have got a hodgepodge in my house. You guys have probably the same thing in yours.
Tejas (a version of the Pentium 4 due out later this year) has been eliminated from the road map and observers believe notebook and desktop processors are going to converge again. So is the Pentium 4 having a shorter lifespan than expected?
You know, we are not magicians. It takes us several years to develop a microprocessor from scratch and as the environment and the ecosystem changes around you. So you adapt to it. You do not just stick to your guns saying, "The hell with the environment. We will do whatever we want to do, independent of what the market wants." Canceling Tejas and the acceleration of the dual core seems to fit right into that general category of using our resources for the best possible returns. I think even Peter Drucker would be happy with that.
Has the corporate culture you had hoped to forge when you became CEO worked out according to your plans, expectations? Were there surprises along the way?
The biggest challenge we have had from a culture standpoint has been in the last three years during a difficult business time. I have been here 30 years and have been through about 10 recessions at various lengths, and the last one was over twice as long as any of the previous ones. I think the structure that we had in place, our salary structure is pretty variable so it accommodates ups and downs in the business cycle and you do not have to surprise people with salary reductions or surprise them with big layoffs and things like those.
I think the culture worked well from that standpoint, but I think every company in the high-tech industry has suffered in the last three years just because there was a long downturn. A lot of employees had never been through a downturn before and people were used to the '90s, which was a good time for all. That was difficult, but we still have the same values that the company operates on. All the internal awards that we give, all the recognition that we give, the annual performance appraisal cycle that we go through--it's all based on performance to Intel values.
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- Even News.com pretty much ignores the problem he brings up about education and moves onto a different topic as fast as possible. I can see how eventually North America will be just one big bastion of comsumers who no longer know how to produce anything. Ouch!
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- Stop blaming education
- Blaming education as the root of all woes is non-sense. Blame the inability of people to apply their education. What is the point of an "education" if you cannot apply it? My first degree was in engineering (robotics) from the University of California. I had to get into computers to stay employed since engineering started it's slide years ago. I keep my "P.E." license up to date but it's only value to me is to joke about it. So I got an MS in computers and I even teach part-time as an adjunct at night.
I work for a Mortgage company. We have a business analyst on staff with a chemical engineering degree! The lesson - quit wasting your time in college unless you want to be a lawyer. A lot of my engineering friends are in law school now so that they can sue their way to riches.
The point is that an education not-applied is a waste of time and money. The U.S. is rapidly rendering education economically unviable - both in the labor market and the uncontrolled cost of a college degree. In retrospect, I should have started a business in my 20's. Now in my 40's I have lots of useless credentials and must chase whatever livelihood I can find.
Don't blame our schools. Blame government policy that renders an education meaningless. I am still considering opening up an automobile detailing shop. Why did I go to school for that? - Like Reply Link Flag
- I'll second that!
- It's easy to 'blame' the educational system. Of course that ignores the fact that the interviewer was trying to bring up the subject of OFFSHORING. So what Intel's head is basically saying is "To hell with the American worker. We don't want anyone over college age at all and we're having a hard time filling those slots for YOUNG workers in this country, so we'll go overseas.".
If there were anything that would make me dislike Intel, he just said it. I can see that the complacency reaches high places, too. - Like Reply Link Flag
- A failing economy, and education
- Craig Barrett was correct, but I'll say what he probably would be remiss to address. Current political policies have pretty much trashed the ability of the emerging American entrepreneur to
enter the market place. The scarey part . .if this type of politics continues, we'll begin loosing talent in the work force.
I fear large leveling of the economy, which could possibly even prohibit recovery of certain major industries: steel, road construction, and petroleum, to name a few.
Education is at the core of our national disease. .guns rather than butter. If we had a highly educated American Society, most people would not have allowed the past election results which has sent our economy in a tail spin.
I feel for Arthur Royce. He should be working in his field and not be forced into thinking about taking up a job as an Automotive Detailer. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Standards, usability, and a climate for change
- I agree that the interoperability is essential to future advances, and think the standards still have a ways to go before a decent global model is decided upon. The biggest roadblocks to technology still remain climate for change and usability. There is a general feeling that exists in the US that says, I dont need that in order to complete a task or advance a cause. A lot of this still relates to usability in my opinion, because while the technology inside the box has been advancing by leaps and bounds over the past decades, the interface the user sees and manipulates has changed very little.
After decades of improvements elsewhere, the user is still pecking away at a qwerty keyboard and sliding a mouse around. Practicality remains a big obstacle, and is probably one of the determining factors behind the stagnant level or user growth in the past few years. There simply isnt enough daily benefit for people like my mother, who would rather make lists, balance checkbooks, schedule calendars and organize various data on paper than learn to use the latest OS or software program. Until we can make technology easy enough where the tech-phobic are willing to accept it, we will continue to face a population of downward-sliding capability either until the older generations pass on or until economic fortunes force technology to the forefront. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Apple strides appear to be ignored
- I have read all of Barrett's comments and those of the
responders and have yet to see anyone mentioning Apple
Computer and the impressive strides that they have made in
making computers more useful and exciting.
Apple designs and builds complete computer systems that work
easily with digital music players, cameras, and with each other.
My laptops run cool enough to actually sit on my lap and their
batteries last longer than cross country trips. Simply put, they
make my life easier.
OS X, iPod, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iSync, .Mac and G5
improvements may not have reached my 70 year old mother, but
they are sure turning my wife and daughters into people that
understand why I spend so much time "playing on the
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U.S. 41 between Ringling Boulevard and the John Ringling Causeway in downtown Sarasota will be temporarily closed Tuesday, while Sarasota native and performer Nik Wallenda hirewire "skywalks" over the highway from the bayfront to Marina Tower without wearing a safety harness.
The closure is expected to occur from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m., with the event scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Traffic will remain open to and from St. Armands Circle and the barrier islands.
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Due to a public safety perimeter, public parking near the bayfront will be limited. Spectators are encouraged to walk to the event or park their vehicles in the Palm Ave. Garage. A free trolley also will shuttle spectators roundtrip from the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall parking lot, 777 N. Tamiami Trail, to the event, with a drop-off at the intersection of Cocoanut Avenue and Gulfstream Avenue. The trolley will run from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The City Commission unanimously approved Wallenda's skywalk without a tether during its last regular meeting this past Tuesday, providing Wallenda receives approval from the Florida Department of Transportation which oversees U.S. 41, and offers a statement indemnifying the City of Sarasota. The Commission also waived the special event permits for the skywalk totaling approximately $6,000 to $8,000.
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Im frustrated and annoyed with many of the managers in radio. We manage the most powerful and persuasive medium in the world and we dont use it to market ourselves! When was the last time you heard anything on a newscast about new research outlining radios role in the new media landscape?
Let me answer: Probably never!
And yet, the news of our strength is often important enough for other media to report.
Look at this excerpt from a recent article in USA Today:" The digital revolution may not be as revolutionary as believed according to a Nielsen 360 Music Study that found listeners more in tune with friends' tips and radio, than blogs and social networking. Results indicate that the airwaves remain a dominant influence; 43% discover music most often through radio, while 13% are alerted to new tunes and acts via friends and relatives and 8% by watching YouTube."
If this kind of news is important enough for other media to publish, shouldnt it be important enough for the benefactors of this news, radio, to publish?
And I seldom see or hear any ads on the air about the power of radio advertising.
Yet daily, Ill pass signs and billboards that say something like, " You just proved signs work." I guess its because the outdoor folks have avails and were sold out.
If you search most station websites, you wouldnt believe they sell advertising. Most sites have nothing about advertising, how to use our media, or even who to contact if you want to advertise.
Our SoundADvice marketing tips and our "Winning in the New Media Economy" advertiser seminars are successfully building stations brands and increasing sales in more than 100 markets across North America and the Caribbean, yet hundreds more stations dont use these proven marketing tools.
Ive actually had radio sales managers tell me, "We cant budget for branding or advertiser education. We need immediate, measurable results that branding cant give us."
Then they claim "accountability" by "measuring" and taking credit for a package blitz to known radio advertisers who were already going to buy radio anyway. Seldom do they actually convert non-advertisers to radio.
Based upon what I hear, or should I say, dont hear, on the radio about radio around the country, I can only surmise were all happy with the old system of churning through untrained rookie radio reps as our only means of marketing radio and new business development.
The irony is, there are a few stations around the continent that actually do brand and market themselves very successfully. And even though they face increased competition, they do experience growth, and more importantly, maintain profit margins that would be the envy of almost any other business category.
The catch words in marketing today seem to be "accountable" and "measureable."
Consolidation has caused many companies to be measured at the stock market. The stock market often "measures" performance by EBITDA, (Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization), a yardstick that can make a business look good in the short term, even if sales suck. But somewhere down the road, that measure cant continue as the never-ending spiral of cost cutting and sales declines spins out of control.
In our business, the only sustainable "measure" is annual sales and profit margins. Annual sales are a combination of renewal increases and new business development, and sustainable margins can be as much a function of rate integrity as cost control. Its that simple.
And as for "accountable"? Thats what mirrors are for!
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Ajay- Why did you choose Rapid Miner and R? What were the other software alternatives you considered and discarded?
Analyst- We considered most of the other major players in statistics/data mining or enterprise BI. However, we found that the value proposition for an open source solution was too compelling to justify the premium pricing that the commercial solutions would have required. The widespread adoption of R and the variety of packages and algorithms available for it, made it an easy choice. We liked RapidMiner as a way to design structured, repeatable processes, and the ability to optimize learner parameters in a systematic way. It also handled large data sets better than R on 32-bit Windows did. The GUI, particularly when 5.0 was released, made it more usable than R for analysts who weren't experienced programmers.
Ajay- What analytics do you do think Rapid Miner and R are best suited for?
Analyst- We use RM+R mainly for sports analysis so far, rather than for more traditional business applications. It has been quite suitable for that, and I can easily see how it would be used for other types of applications.
Ajay- Any experiences as an enterprise customer? How was the installation process? How good is the enterprise level support?
Analyst- Rapid-I has been one of the most responsive tech companies I've dealt with, either in my current role or with previous employers. They are small enough to be able to respond quickly to requests, and in more than one case, have fixed a problem, or added a small feature we needed within a matter of days. In other cases, we have contracted with them to add larger pieces of specific functionality we needed at reasonable consulting rates. Those features are added to the mainline product, and become fully supported through regular channels. The longer consulting projects have typically had a turnaround of just a few weeks.
Ajay- What challenges if any did you face in executing a pure open source analytics bundle ?
Analyst- As Rapid-I is a smaller company based in Europe, the availability of training and consulting in the USA isn't as extensive as for the major enterprise software players, and the time zone differences sometimes slow down the communications cycle. There were times where we were the first customer to attempt a specific integration point in our technical environment, and with no prior experiences to fall back on, we had to work with Rapid-I to figure out how to do it. Compared to the what traditional software vendors provide, both R and RM tend to have sparse, terse, occasionally incomplete documentation. The situation is getting better, but still lags behind what the traditional enterprise software vendors provide.
Ajay- What are the things you can do in R ,and what are the things you prefer to do in Rapid Miner (comparison for technical synergies)
Analyst- Our experience has been that RM is superior to R at writing and maintaining structured processes, better at handling larger amounts of data, and more flexible at fine-tuning model parameters automatically. The biggest limitation we've had with RM compared to R is that R has a larger library of user-contributed packages for additional data mining algorithms. Sometimes we opted to use R because RM hadn't yet implemented a specific algorithm. The introduction the R extension has allowed us to combine the strengths of both tools in a very logical and productive way.
In particular, extending RapidMiner with R helped address RM's weakness in the breadth of algorithms, because it brings the entire R ecosystem into RM (similar to how Rapid-I implemented much of the Weka library early on in RM's development). Further, because the R user community releases packages that implement new techniques faster than the enterprise vendors can, this helps turn a potential weakness into a potential strength. However, R packages tend to be of varying quality, and are more prone to go stale due to lack of support/bug fixes. This depends heavily on the package's maintainer and its prevalence of use in the R community. So when RapidMiner has a learner with a native implementation, it's usually better to use it than the R equivalent.
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Here is an interview with one of the younger researchers and rock stars of the R Project, John Myles White, co-author of Machine Learning for Hackers.
Ajay- What inspired you guys to write Machine Learning for Hackers. What has been the public response to the book. Are you planning to write a second edition or a next book?
John-We decided to write Machine Learning for Hackers because there were so many people interested in learning more about Machine Learning who found the standard textbooks a little difficult to understand, either because they lacked the mathematical background expected of readers or because it wasn't clear how to translate the mathematical definitions in those books into usable programs. Most Machine Learning books are written for audiences who will not only be using Machine Learning techniques in their applied work, but also actively inventing new Machine Learning algorithms. The amount of information needed to do both can be daunting, because, as one friend pointed out, it's similar to insisting that everyone learn how to build a compiler before they can start to program. For most people, it's better to let them try out programming and get a taste for it before you teach them about the nuts and bolts of compiler design. If they like programming, they can delve into the details later.
Ajay- What are the key things that a potential reader can learn from this book?
John- We cover most of the nuts and bolts of introductory statistics in our book: summary statistics, regression and classification using linear and logistic regression, PCA and k-Nearest Neighbors. We also cover topics that are less well known, but are as important: density plots vs. histograms, regularization, cross-validation, MDS, social network analysis and SVM's. I hope a reader walks away from the book having a feel for what different basic algorithms do and why they work for some problems and not others. I also hope we do just a little to shift a future generation of modeling culture towards regularization and cross-validation.
Ajay- Describe your journey as a science student up till your Phd. What are you current research interests and what initiatives have you done with them?
John-As an undergraduate I studied math and neuroscience. I then took some time off and came back to do a Ph.D. in psychology, focusing on mathematical modeling of both the brain and behavior. There's a rich tradition of machine learning and statistics in psychology, so I got increasingly interested in ML methods during my years as a grad student. I'm about to finish my Ph.D. this year. My research interests all fall under one heading: decision theory. I want to understand both how people make decisions (which is what psychology teaches us) and how they should make decisions (which is what statistics and ML teach us). My thesis is focused on how people make decisions when there are both short-term and long-term consequences to be considered. For non-psychologists, the classic example is probably the explore-exploit dilemma. I've been working to import more of the main ideas from stats and ML into psychology for modeling how real people handle that trade-off. For psychologists, the classic example is the Marshmallow experiment. Most of my research work has focused on the latter: what makes us patient and how can we measure patience?
Ajay- How can academia and private sector solve the shortage of trained data scientists (assuming there is one)?
John- There's definitely a shortage of trained data scientists: most companies are finding it difficult to hire someone with the real chops needed to do useful work with Big Data. The skill set required to be useful at a company like Facebook or Twitter is much more advanced than many people realize, so I think it will be some time until there are undergraduates coming out with the right stuff. But there's huge demand, so I'm sure the market will clear sooner or later.
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Interview James G Kobielus IBM Big Data
Here is an interview with James G Kobielus, who is the Senior Program Director, Product Marketing, Big Data Analytics Solutions at IBM. Special thanks to Payal Patel Cudia of IBM's communication team,for helping with the logistics for this.
Ajay -What are the specific parts of the IBM Platform that deal with the three layers of Big Data -variety, velocity and volume
James-Well first of all, let's talk about the IBM Information Management portfolio. Our big data platform addresses the three layers of big data to varying degrees either together in a product , or two out of the three or even one of the three aspects. We don't have separate products for the variety, velocity and volume separately.
Let us define these three layers-Volume refers to the hundreds of terabytes and petabytes of stored data inside organizations today. Velocity refers to the whole continuum from batch to real time continuous and streaming data.
Variety refers to multi-structure data from structured to unstructured files, managed and stored in a common platform analyzed through common tooling.
For Volume-IBM has a highly scalable Big Data platform. This includes Netezza and Infosphere groups of products, and Watson-like technologies that can support petabytes volume of data for analytics. But really the support of volume ranges across IBM's Information Management portfolio both on the database side and the advanced analytics side.
For real time Velocity, we have real time data acquisition. We have a product called IBM Infosphere, part of our Big Data platform, that is specifically built for streaming real time data acquisition and delivery through complex event processing. We have a very rich range of offerings that help clients build a Hadoop environment that can scale.
Our Hadoop platform is the most real time capable of all in the industry. We are differentiated by our sheer breadth, sophistication and functional depth and tooling integrated in our Hadoop platform. We are differentiated by our streaming offering integrated into the Hadoop platform. We also offer a great range of modeling and analysis tools, pretty much more than any other offering in the Big Data space.
Attached- Jim's slides from Hadoop World
Ajay- Any plans for Mahout for Hadoop
Jim- I cant speak about product plans. We have plans but I cant tell you anything more. We do have a feature in Big Insights called System ML, a library for machine learning.
Ajay- How integral are acquisitions for IBM in the Big Data space (Netezza,Cognos,SPSS etc). Is it true that everything that you have in Big Data is acquired or is the famous IBM R and D contributing here . (see a partial list of IBM acquisitions at at http://www.ibm.com/investor/strategy/acquisitions.wss )
Jim- We have developed a lot on our own. We have the deepest R and D of anybody in the industry in all things Big Data.
For example – Watson has Big Insights Hadoop at its core. Apache Hadoop is the heart and soul of Big Data (see http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/hadoop/ ). A great deal that makes Big Insights so differentiated is that not everything that has been built has been built by the Hadoop community.
We have built additions out of the necessity for security, modeling, monitoring, and governance capabilities into BigInsights to make it truly enterprise ready. That is one example of where we have leveraged open source and we have built our own tools and technologies and layered them on top of the open source code.
Yes of course we have done many strategic acquisitions over the last several years related to Big Data Management and we continue to do so. This quarter we have done 3 acquisitions with strong relevance to Big Data. One of them is Vivisimo (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/37491.wss ).
Vivisimo provides federated Big Data discovery, search and profiling capabilities to help you figure out what data is out there,what is relevance of that data to your data science project- to help you answer the question which data should you bring in your Hadoop Cluster.
We also did Varicent , which is more performance management and we did TeaLeaf , which is a customer experience solution provider where customer experience management and optimization is one of the hot killer apps for Hadoop in the cloud. We have done great many acquisitions that have a clear relevance to Big Data.
Netezza already had a massively parallel analytics database product with an embedded library of models called Netezza Analytics, and in-database capabilties to massively parallelize Map Reduce and other analytics management functions inside the database. In many ways, Netezza provided capabilities similar to that IBM had provided for many years under the Smart Analytics Platform (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/what-is-advanced-analytics/ ) .
There is a differential between Netezza and ISAS.
ISAS was built predominantly in-house over several years . If you go back a decade ago IBM acquired Ascential Software , a product portfolio that was the heart and soul of IBM InfoSphere Information Manager that is core to our big Data platform. In addition to Netezza, IBM bought SPSS two years back. We already had data mining tools and predictive modeling in the InfoSphere portfolio, but we realized we needed to have the best of breed, SPSS provided that and so IBM acquired them.
Cognos- We had some BI reporting capabilities in the InfoSphere portfolio that we had built ourselves and also acquired for various degrees from prior acquisitions. But clearly Cognos was one of the best BI vendors , and we were lacking such a rich tool set in our product in visualization and cubing and so for that reason we acquired Cognos.
There is also Unica – which is a marketing campaign optimization which in many ways is a killer app for Hadoop. Projects like that are driving many enterprises.
Ajay- How would you rank order these acquisitions in terms of strategic importance rather than data of acquisition or price paid.
Jim-Think of Big Data as an ecosystem that has components that are fitted to particular functions for data analytics and data management. Is the database the core, or the modeling tool the core, or the governance tools the core, or is the hardware platform the core. Everything is critically important. We would love to hear from you what you think have been most important. Each acquisition has helped play a critical role to build the deepest and broadest solution offering in Big Data. We offer the hardware, software, professional services, the hosting service. I don't think there is any validity to a rank order system.
Ajay-What are the initiatives regarding open source that Big Data group have done or are planning?
Jim- What we are doing now- We are very much involved with the Apache Hadoop community. We continue to evolve the open source code that everyone leverages.. We have built BigInsights on Apache Hadoop. We have the closest, most up to date in terms of version number to Apache Hadoop ( Hbase,HDFS, Pig etc) of all commercial distributions with our BigInsights 1.4 .
We have an R library integrated with BigInsights . We have a R library integrated with Netezza Analytics. There is support for R Models within the SPSS portfolio. We already have a fair amount of support for R across the portfolio.
Ajay- What are some of the concerns (privacy,security,regulation) that you think can dampen the promise of Big Data.
Jim- There are no showstoppers, there is really a strong momentum. Some of the concerns within the Hadoop space are immaturity of the technology, the immaturity of some of the commercial offerings out there that implement Hadoop, the lack of standardization for formal sense for Hadoop.
There is no Open Standards Body that declares, ratifies the latest version of Mahout, Map Reduce, HDFS etc. There is no industry consensus reference framework for layering these different sub projects. There are no open APIs. There are no certifications or interoperability standards or organizations to certify different vendors interoperability around a common API or framework.
The lack of standardization is troubling in this whole market. That creates risks for users because users are adopting multiple Hadoop products. There are lots of Hadoop deployments in the corporate world built around Apache Hadoop (purely open source). There may be no assurance that these multiple platforms will interoperate seamlessly. That's a huge issue in terms of just magnifying the risk. And it increases the need for the end user to develop their own custom integrated code if they want to move data between platforms, or move map-reduce jobs between multiple distributions.
Also governance is a consideration. Right now Hadoop is used for high volume ETL on multi structured and unstructured data sources, or Hadoop is used for exploratory sand boxes for data scientists. These are important applications that are a majority of the Hadoop deployments . Some Hadoop deployments are stand alone unstructured data marts for specific applications like sentiment analysis like.
Hadoop is not yet ready for data warehousing. We don't see a lot of Hadoop being used as an alternative to data warehouses for managing the single version of truth of system or record data. That day will come but there needs to be out there in the marketplace a broader range of data governance mechanisms , master data management, data profiling products that are mature that enterprises can use to make sure their data inside their Hadoop clusters is clean and is the single version of truth. That day has not arrived yet.
One of the great things about IBM's acquisition of Vivisimo is that a piece of that overall governance picture is discovery and profiling for unstructured data , and that is done very well by Vivisimo for several years.
What we will see is vendors such as IBM will continue to evolve security features inside of our Hadoop platform. We will beef up our data governance capabilities for this new world of Hadoop as the core of Big Data, and we will continue to build up our ability to integrate multiple databases in our Hadoop platform so that customers can use data from a bit of Hadoop,some data from a bit of traditional relational data warehouse, maybe some noSQL technology for different roles within a very complex Big Data environment.
That latter hybrid deployment model is becoming standard across many enterprises for Big Data. A cause for concern is when your Big Data deployment has a bit of Hadoop, bit of noSQL, bit of EDW, bit of in-memory , there are no open standards or frameworks for putting it all together for a unified framework not just for interoperability but also for deployment.
There needs to be a virtualization or abstraction layer for unified access to all these different Big Data platforms by the users/developers writing the queries, by administrators so they can manage data and resources and jobs across all these disparate platforms in a seamless unified way with visual tooling. That grand scenario, the virtualization layer is not there yet in any standard way across the big data market. It will evolve, it may take 5-10 years to evolve but it will evolve.
So, that's the concern that can dampen some of the enthusiasm for Big Data Analytics.
You can read more about Jim at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-kobielus/6/ab2/8b0 or
follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jameskobielus
You can read more about IBM Big Data at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/
Anonymous grows up and matures…Anonanalytics.com
I liked the design, user interfaces and the conceptual ideas behind the latest Anonymous hactivist websites (much better than the shabby graphic design of Wikileaks, or Friends of Wikileaks, though I guess they have been busy what with Julian's escapades and Syrian emails)
I disagree (and let us agree to disagree some of the time)
with the complete lack of respect for Graphical User Interfaces for tools. If dDOS really took off due to LOIC, why not build a GUI for SQL Injection (or atleats the top 25 vulnerability testing as by this list http://www.sans.org/top25-software-errors/
Shouldnt Tor be embedded within the next generation of Loic.
Automated testing tools are used by companies like Adobe (and others)… so why not create simple GUI for the existing tools.., I may be completely offtrack here.. but I think hacker education has been a critical misstep[ that has undermined Western Democracies preparedness for Cyber tactics by hostile regimes)…. how to create the next generation of hackers by easy tutorials (see codeacademy and build appropriate modules)
-A slick website to be funded by Bitcoins (Money can buy everything including Mastercard and Visa, but Bitcoins are an innovative step towards an internet economy currency)
-A collobrative wiki
Seriously dude, why not make this a part of Wikipedia- (i know Jimmy Wales got shifty eyes, but can you trust some1 )
-Analytics for Anonymous (sighs! I should have thought about this earlier)
http://anonanalytics.com/ (can be used to play and bill both sides of corporate espionage and be cyber private investigators)
What We Do
We provide the public with investigative reports exposing corrupt companies. Our team includes analysts, forensic accountants, statisticians, computer experts, and lawyers from various jurisdictions and backgrounds. All information presented in our reports is acquired through legal channels, fact-checked, and vetted thoroughly before release. This is both for the protection of our associates as well as groups/individuals who rely on our work.
_and lastly creative content for Pinterest.com and Public Relations ( what next-? Tom Cruise to play Julian Assange in the new Movie ?)
http://www.par-anoia.net/ />Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence AgencyInformation is and will be free. Expect it. ~ Anonymous
Links of interest
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You are right. For some teams it is not a myth see South Carolinas schedule this year or LSUs schedule this year and next year. Other teams in the SEC ride the coattails of the week in/week out theory that other teams are playing and act like they do the same.
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Stolen from Master_Shake off of Geaux247 ...
Here is a look at the 2013 schedules of the 3 favorites in the SEC West. If you want to see why the "dynasty" that is Bama always seems to have a cakewalk of a schedule compared to other SEC teams then read this. It has also came to light across message boards across the nation that the SEC schedule delegater is a Bama graduate. So if you feel Bama has had an easy path to the title game the last few years then you are correct considering a graduate of the institution has a lot of power in the scheduling room. They will be in here to deny it and rabble rabble rabble but facts speak for themselves see Bama 2009 ... This line stuck out to the me most because its true ... "the last time bama played a schedule like LSUs was 2009. they went 9-3. since then the SEC has coddled them, and suddenly they're a "dynasty".
Okay, a look ahead to 2013 and why the myth will continue to grow ...
LSU's Schedule: TCU (in Dallas) UAB Kent State Auburn at Georgia at Mississippi State Florida at Ole Miss Furman Open at bama Open Texas A&M Arkansas
Bamas schedule: Virginia Tech (in Atlanta) at Texas A&M Ole Miss Georgia State at Kentucky Arkansas Tennessee Open LSU Mississippi State Chattanooga at Auburn
A&Ms schedule: Rice Sam Houston State Alabama SMU at Arkansas Open at Ole Miss Auburn Vanderbilt Open Mississippi State New Mexico at LSU at Missouri
if youre point shaving in basketball, youre not just gonna steal the ball from your teammate and kick it into the stands. it takes a little subtlety. same way with stacking the deck for bama. they cant just hand them the SEC trophy, but they can make life easy for them and hard for us.
1. the obvious: LSU will play from the East division Florida and at UGA (both in the current top 7), Bama will go east and play Tenn and UK (a combined 1-15 in the SEC this year). As TigerNE said, bama was supposed to play UGA this year and next, but that just sorta disappeared.
2. for the third year in a row, we play twice as many high end SEC teams as Bama. LSU gets Bama, Texas AM, UGA, Florida, they get LSU and Texas AM. so LSU is twice as likely to lose, as was the case this year.
3. like Arkansas under Petrino, Texas AM has a complex passing game that gets better as the year goes on. When Ark was good, they were always the third or fourth game on bamas schedule. now they suck, and, magically, Texas AM has moved into that early big game slot (from the 10th game this year to the second game next year).
4. this year, bama played LSU and A&M back to back. they barely beat LSU, lost to A&M (perhaps because they were beat up and tired from LSU). next year those two games, the only two tough games they play, are 6 weeks apart.
this year LSU played A&M and bama back to back (after playing South Carolina and Florida, meaning 4 top 10 teams in a row), but unlike bama, LSUs schedule only changed a little. we play bama, then a bye, then A&M. this works in our favor but also in bamas favor. even if we play well we could already have 2 losses at this point and be out of it, but us beating A&M could make life easier for bama.
5. after playing Texas AM, bama starts a 7 week stretch where they play Ole Miss and Georgia State at home, then at Kentucky, then Arkansas and Tenn at home, then a bye, then us. Ole Miss will be a challenge. Other than that, its 1 road game in seven weeks, 1 FCS school, 4 of the worst teams in the SEC, and a bye leading up to us. should be nice and rested.
LSU on the other hand play at UGA, at Miss State, Florida, at Ole Miss, then Furman and a bye. those last two are nothing of course but we could easily have two losses by then. we have three road games in a month, playing 2 good teams and two really good teams.
people seem to forget or ignore that playing good teams is harder than playing easy teams. it beats you up, it wears you down, and if you lose one its depressing. bama learned that playing LSU and A&M back to back, and that sh*t got changed in a hurry.
the saying "football is a game if inches" is 100 percent true, and these are just a few of the little things that add up to stack the deck for bama, and its been happening for years now. the last time bama played a schedule like LSUs was 2009. they went 9-3. since then the SEC has coddled them, and suddenly they're a "dynasty".
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