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Build Muscle With Less: Dorm Room Diet Tips That Work!
With the first semester of college now underway, many of you may find yourself stuck inside a dorm room wondering what this means to your muscle-building potential. You made great gains during the summer but that was when you were living at home and had all the access to food you'd ever need.
Now, not only do you have a crammed schedule, but you have limited storage space for food, not to mention minimal, if any, means of cooking it. You may have a meal plan that comes with the school's residency, but it doesn't take much to realize that many items on the meal plan aren't exactly going to promote lean muscle mass.
The bad news? The major issue you're going to be faced with is temptation day in and day out. With all the people you meet at school regularly making midnight trips down to get grease-filled foods to power them through their all-night study sessions, you're going to have to fight the temptation to join them.
Not only will these foods move you in the backward direction, but staying up all night doesn't do much for your natural growth hormone release and recovery either.
The good news? If you put some time and effort into your planning, it's more than possible to maintain a balanced muscle-building diet, even if you don't have a fridge or oven.
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First things first, you know by now your cooking methods are very limited. In some cases you may have a small fridge cooler in your room that you can keep cold products, but that's a luxury many won't have.
If you don't have a microwave, you should check about policies for getting one. This will dramatically increase the number of options you have for meals and since microwaves are very small and only run on power, there is a chance you could get this into your room.
Food Choices For Breakfast
For breakfast, you really can't beat oatmeal. If you have a microwave, this is easily made right in the microwave, but even if you don't have that, you can also prepare it using a coffee maker (run the water through the coffee maker and then pour it into the oatmeal to cook).
Or, if you don't want to do either of those, have it raw. You may not be able to have milk with it, but many will mix it right into their protein shake and drink it that way.
Alternatively, there are a number of cold cereals that are healthy and calorie dense as well. As long as you keep the sugar content on the lower side, it should be a good choice. Especially look for lower sugar varieties of granola or cereals with nuts because they typically contain a few more calories, which is helpful for muscle building.
On the protein side of things, protein powder will usually be your best option here since it's convenient, easy to store and really fast to take when you're rushed to get to your first class.
If you prefer a solid source of protein, check and see if you can get some eggs prepared without a great deal of butter at the cafeteria as that would be an option as well.
Food Choices For Lunch
Moving on to lunch, canned tuna will make for a really simple protein source that's cost effective and requires little to no prep work. Have it on whole grain bread, or with rice or pasta, which can be cooked in a microwave as well.
For some healthy fat, add in a couple handfuls of your favorite nuts and finish off with a piece of fresh fruit for added antioxidants. Apples will usually keep for weeks at room temperature so these are good for storing in your dorm room.
Food Choices For Dinner
For the dinner meal, canned salmon will prove to be slightly more substantial than canned tuna since it has a higher healthier fat content and will give you a good dose of omega-3 fatty acids.
You can also look at some of the flaked canned chicken breast meat products available as many are high in protein and low in fat as well. Both of these will not require refrigeration so are good for protein sources to store.
Since you should avoid high amounts of fish every single day due to the mercury content found in them, having another canned meat you can choose from is a smart plan.
Alternatively, if you can find a low sodium variety of beef jerky that also can be a good source of protein to have in your room.
Some meal plans will offer a decent source of protein for the dinner meal, so consider checking that out too. Even if it does have a bit more fat naturally, as long as you choose well the rest of the day the impact of this will be minimized.
If you can get a baked potato to have with this meal (either from the cafeteria or you can microwave it yourself), that will also be ideal for a carb source. If not, whole grain bread or oatmeal would work again.
If you're having salmon or a fattier meat, the fat intake of this meal will already be taken care of but if not, consider having more nuts or seeds to help get your calorie intake up higher.
Flaxseeds can also be used for healthy fat and this will work really well if you're going to have oatmeal for dinner (since they mix right into it nicely).
Food Choices For Snacks
Finally, you're also going to want to choose some good, calorie dense snacks to have throughout the day since this will allow you to get the calorie intake needed to build muscle.
Good snack options include bagels smeared with peanut butter, whole grain crackers or soft tortilla shells also with peanut butter, trail mix created with whole grain cereal, pretzels, nuts, and dried fruit, as well as some of the protein bars available.
These all contain a good balance of proteins, carbs, and fats to help keep your day balanced and prevent energy spikes and drops throughout the day.
So be sure you are keeping these tips in mind. It's vital that you maintain some form of diet as you progress through your workouts and you definitely do not have to let being in a dorm room stop you from seeing success.
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This is the Official Site for NATIONAL HUGGING DAYTM which has become an internationally recognized observation that embraces hugging. While some encourage hugging everyone, National Hugging Day always suggests at least asking first.
First published widely in Chase's Annual Events in 1986, it has grown enormously in worldwide popularity leading many to suggest changing the name from "National" to "International." A sample of locales include the United States of America, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Guam, Austrailia, Georgia (the country), England, and Russia.
"The Most Huggable People of 2014"
The Youth of the World. With hugging gaining in popularity on such a global scale, there is evidence this movement is being supported by the youth of the international community. Its becoming the practice among most teenage youth greet their peers by hugging one another. According to a May 2009 New York Times article, it reported hugging has become the favorite social greeting when teenagers meet or part these days. Search YouTube for hug day and one will find many uploaded videos of youth hugging in celebration of National Hugging Day. Some can be seen below:
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Comment: Of recent concern is the growing number of schools and places of employment banning hugging. There is a fear of sexual harassment at the core of such bans. One of the most recent examples is of 17 year old student, Sam McNair, from Daluth, Georgia. His school reports he violated thier policy of sexual harassment when he hugged a teacher. Would the situation be different if he asked for permission first? Some schools have banned all physical contact, including hugging, which has led to student-led non-violent protests against such bans. Hugging should be open and safe. The problem with restictive hug policies is that hugging is evidence to be good for one's soul, mind and behaviors.
Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, recommends more nurturing at home and school, and less drills to enhance cognitive skills. He notes children who are nurtured young with hugging are better able to cope with life's stressors, focus on and persists on tasks, and have higher high school graduation rate and greater life success.
New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, provides this comment. He notes the power of hugging shapes life courses of young people. He concluded this as a result of burgeoning modern liturature on the topic in economics, psychology, and neuroscience.
Whatever your age, hugging can be fun and is therapeutic!
In 2013, Scott Van Duzer, owner of Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Italian Restaurant in Fort Pierce, Florida won this award. In September 2012, Scott was visited by President Obama at his restaurant. To everyone's suprise, Scott actually picked up the President and began Bear Hugging! No question that daring hug earns this year's top honor!
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2012 winners were...
The founder of www.heavenlyhugangels.com.
and Ellen Degeneres, talk show host and comedian, is seen as a hugger who demonstrates hugging her family, friends and guests (such as Greyson Chance, below).
Nominate "The Most Huggable People" of the Year (2013) HERE-> NOMINATE
2011's Most Huggable People can be found here... LINK
"NATIONAL HUGGING DAY is a different form of sharing. We've got more than our quota of whiners and far too few huggers these days. Most of us have a little person inside who needs human contact in this stainless steel, computerized society where we are kept at arms length. Consider hugging as non-sexual, like a handshake or a high-five. Such personal contact makes you feel good. A good hug warms relationships between people. That's what NATIONAL HUGGING DAY is all about. We're not talking sex here. Part of the problem huggers face is this guarded age where hugs are easily misinterpreted and subject to a leering look or a lawsuit. A hug has a universal meaning of support, concern or just a way of saying, 'I'm here.'" Chris Thompson, former Saginaw News (MI) columnist
(Ref) http://www.easier.com/31293-a-hug-a-day-keeps-the-blues-away.html
We all hug in different ways and the way we hug means a lot. Batchelors Hug in a Mug has identified five different hugs we all use in everyday life - use this simple guide to see how that special person feels about you!
The Back to Front Hug is the perfect way to give support and affection to someone, even if they are busy carrying out a task like the washing up! Receiving a Back to Front Hug shows that you have someone who is always there for you and is a way of expressing love and affection for that person irrespective of what is received in return.
The Bear Hug is one of the hugs that we all consider to be the strongest. By squeezing your hugging partner gently, you can instantly give them reassurance and affection. But people tend to use Bear Hugs when they are excited or when they want to display strong affection. However remember, the best Bear Hugs require moderate squeezing not suffocating!
The Cheek Hug on the other hand is the complete opposite. We use the Cheek Hug when we need to comfort someone or show affection but this type of hug also allows us to keep our distance at the same time. The Cheek Hug may be used by anyone - elderly people who may not be able to hug tightly, people who are seated, colleagues, acquaintances and even friends and family.
The Side to Side Hug is a common sight we all see almost everyday. Most of us have all strolled down the road locked in a Side to Side Hug with someone. This casual hug allows us to demonstrate our affection for one another without being too intimate. It is also a way of conveniently hugging whilst carrying out other tasks such as walking, sitting down next to each other and standing in a queue for example.
The Heart Centred Hug is one we all enjoy. A slow, intimate and well-needed Heart Hug can lift anyone's spirits and is the perfect way to show close family, friends and partners how much you care!
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In a 2006 research study entitled "Does Barbie Make Girls Want to Be Thin? The Effect of Experimental Exposure to Images of Dolls on the Body Image of 5 to 8 Year Old Girls" 162 girls from 5-8 years of age were shown picture book images of either Barbie dolls, Emme dolls (size 16) or no dolls and then asked to complete assessments of body image. Girls shown the story with Barbie as the main character reported lower body esteem and greater desire for a thinner body shape than girls in the other exposure conditions. However, this immediate negative impact of Barbie doll wasn't seen in the oldest girls. The authors state that the findings imply that early exposure to dolls epitomizing an unrealistically thin body may damage girls' body image.


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Teenagers run from arms of Labour, but not to the Tories-Comment-Columnists-TimesOnline
Tony Blair and the Iraq war may have alienated them, but they are not ready to turn to David Cameron. That is the central conclusion of a Populus poll of 16 to 19-year-olds, those who will be able to vote for the first time at an election in 2008-09.....
This group is also highly sceptical about the Blair/Brown approach to taxation and public services. More than three fifths agree that "taxes in Britain are too high and should be cut even if this means less money is available for some areas of government spending". Just a quarter disagree. This finding is at one level surprising, since most of this group do not pay direct taxes and have been at least the intended beneficiaries of the increased spending on education.
89% do not believe Labour is honest and principled.
In other news "Britain's children are the unhappiest in the West, according to a Unicef study of 21 industrialised countries.
Not only do they drink the most, smoke more and have more sex than their peers, they rate their health as the poorest, dislike school more and are among the least satisfied with life. Their relative poverty, the lack of time spent eating meals with their parents and mistrust of classmates mean that Britain languishes at the bottom of the wellbeing league table."
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What Do Jews Think About Halloween?
Halloween is kind of a tough one for Jews. Less openly Christian than, say, Christmas or Valentine's Day, but not as ecumenical as Thanksgiving. There's scary costumes and candy, and a vaguely pagan-y narrative. So how does it play out for Jews?
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Under the headline 'Wage cuts: road to recovery or path to prolonged slump?', the Irish Times today features a debate between IBEC's David Croughan and Paul Sweeney, Economic Advisor to ICTU (and blogger of this parish). You can read both articles here.
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Premieres Story/Time
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Bill T Jones is an acquired taste. I like how he challenges the audience with his art. This performance was no different. It was typical Bill T Jones - wonderfully abstract. His stories are (auto-) biographical and were fascinating to listen to in and of themselves. The movement (a mixture of dance and contact improvisation) and singing around him challenged the audience's preconceived notion of what should accompany the stories. I did not grasp all the references (musical, verbal and otherwise) but his 20 min chat after the performance with the audience elucidated much of his inspiration and the process of developing this work. The only part I disliked were the roughly 4 mins towards the end which used very a loud grating sound as backdrop. I found it to be aural torture. Aside from that, I'm glad I was able to catch this performance for a great price!
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During the 90 minutes experience, Bill present many ideas to me. Don't let it get old, he gave you another one. Loved it!
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The Economist Group publisher Paul Rossi explains how they do it.
The Economist is somewhat of a maverick in the magazine world. Revenue is split 50/50 between circulation and advertising and at a time when many publishers are looking at circulation as an area to cut costs, it keeps investing. Catering to the ŌĆ£global reader,ŌĆØ The Economist also conducts hyper-local marketing drives, including spending a reported $1 million on a push in Chicago and introducing a mobile delivery program in New York.
The Economist Group reported record operating profits of $92 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, up 26 percent over the previous fiscal year. Total revenue rose 17 percent to about $514.2 million. In July, The Economist Group acquired Washington, DC-based Congressional Quarterly from FloridaŌĆÖs Times Publishing Company.
ItŌĆÖs not all roses, though. Ad pages plummeted about 25 percent in the first half of 2009 and the company cut as many as 130 positions, reducing its global workforce to around 1,100. And while The Economist Group wonŌĆÖt comment, many industry observers say the company is shopping CFO (with others saying CFO has seen revenue fall by as much as $20 million, forcing the company to pull it off the block).
Here, publisher Paul Rossi talks about The EconomistŌĆÖs approach, in which ŌĆ£brand investment never fails.ŌĆØ
FOLIO: The Economist has been held up as an example of a magazine that is bucking the trend of print decline experienced by many of your peers. What do you attribute this to?
Rossi: In terms of circulation, which is obviously the driver behind the question (as opposed to advertising, where everything is going downŌĆöweŌĆÖre just going down less quickly), it starts with having a product that people want. Over the last 10 years, particularly in the U.S., weŌĆÖve seen an increasing demand to understand the world. Week in, week out, The Economist delivers opinion and analysis of whatŌĆÖs going on. ThatŌĆÖs coupled with the strategic thought that there was a much bigger opportunity in this market than we previously realized. WeŌĆÖve done a lot of work around market sizing, looking at current readers and how many more were out there. We came to the conclusion that there was a bigger market than we were reaching and that this was a marketing problem rather than a product problem. We aggressively promoted The Economist and spent a lot of time and money building the brand. Partly this is a product whose time is right but also we committed the resources and energy to making it bigger.
FOLIO: Please describe how The Economist has defined its market position relative to its peers.
Rossi: This is a difficult market for everybody. We start with the reader first. We have a business model built around the reader first. ItŌĆÖs about positioning products as premium and backing that up with everything you do, and being able to market it. Our newsstand and subscription prices [$6.99 for newsstand, $67.25 for a 25-issue subscription] are clearly different from other magazines in this space.
FOLIO: Talk about the editorial mission of the magazine and how that has adapted. How have you maintained the editorial standard through changes in editorial leadership?
Rossi: We write one edit product for the world. The one in the U.S. is the same as the one in China. WeŌĆÖre still socially liberal, fiscally conservative and live to our mission, which is written in every issue: ŌĆ£To take part in a severe contest between intelligence which presses forward and unworthy, tumid ignorance obstructing progress.ŌĆØ
What that means, in slightly less Victorian English, is we debate what moves the world forward. A lot of people at The Economist think weŌĆÖre caretaking for the next generation who will take over business. This is something with a clear personality.
FOLIO: At a time when most publishers are integrating their print and editorial operations, The Economist maintains separate publishers for print and Economist.com. Why is that?
Rossi: We run online editorial as one group and in commercial terms we run subscription marketing and ad sales for print and digital as one integrated group. But what makes it different is having an online publisher and thatŌĆÖs about how we develop the site and develop the audience. Economist.com is the place people can go for intelligent debate. We do all production out of London. The majority of the business is integrated. The approach is, editorially one and commercially largely one, so as an advertiser you wouldnŌĆÖt know. This idea of how you move that debate online, we build that around one platform. However, technology development is easier to do with one person focused on it.
FOLIO: Please talk about the circulation strategy in the U.S. How are you building your audience? What is the newsstand distribution?
Rossi: It starts with identifying the reader. We do a lot of profiling. Many of our readers lived or worked or were born overseas. There are different ways of reaching these people rather than just buying a list from another magazine. We build a picture that can take us inside other places. For example, The Economist is sold in CostCo. On the face of it, thatŌĆÖs not logical but CostCo is actually one of our better sell-through venues. We donŌĆÖt go into every single CostCo, we go to the ones in zip codes where we are most likely to find our readers. By pushing our understanding of our readers, we can go out and find them.
Innovation is also part of the strategy. With Economist Direct, you can get a text message on Thursday, respond by mobile and get a copy delivered to your doorstep by 9:00 the next morning. ThatŌĆÖs all about pushing out peopleŌĆÖs ability to get their hands on a copy. Layered on top of all that is building the brand. We had relatively low brand awareness in the U.S. 10 years ago and we spent a lot of time and money building a brand. With the city campaigns we saturate a city for six to eight weeks. The investment in brand softens the ground for understanding what they want and need from us.
FOLIO: Explain the structure of the circulation and marketing department. How does this work?
Rossi: We have a marketing team whose job is acquisition and retention and we have a newsstand and retail team as well. We manage the brand completely separately. Brand investment stays the same no matter what happens. We donŌĆÖt manage the brand up and down depending on the business. We invest in the brand year round.┬Ā
FOLIO: Explain the market-focus approach.
Rossi: It says, letŌĆÖs identify cities where we effectively index below where we should be against competitors and our target audience. Sometimes itŌĆÖs about distribution, we may not have enough copies in the market.
A campaign will consist of outdoor, radio and events. We do things you normally wouldnŌĆÖt expect from The Economist because we know thatŌĆÖs where our audience is, such as tie-ins with the Second City comedy troupe around the presidential election. We will go into a region and market heavily for six to eight weeks and measure things like sell rates and copy sales, renewal rates, new business, cancellations.
ItŌĆÖs a process of doing branding and building the business city-by-city, step-by-step, rather than trying to do it all at once with a national campaign.
FOLIO: At a time when publishers are cutting circulation costs, how is it that you keep investing?
Rossi: Because we can. That model allows us to do that. We can look at acquiring a customer as a profitable experience and adding profitable customers is something we can keep doing. ItŌĆÖs self-funding to a certain degree. WeŌĆÖre always testing and there are certain elements that bomb but en masse you hope itŌĆÖs moving forward. We know thereŌĆÖs opportunity, we know we can make money in the long run.
FOLIO: What is the profitability ratio for recruiting a subscriber?
Rossi: IŌĆÖm not going to share the number but we have a point at which someone is profitable and there are ways we can test that. We can look at each channel and say, ŌĆśPeople who come through the Web will pay this or people who come through direct mail or e-mail will pay that.ŌĆÖ Everything has a different point at which itŌĆÖs profitable because the costs are all different. Some might be slightly higher at the front end but those people tend to stay with us longer. You can also look at revenue per customerŌĆöwe have a lot of customers who give gift subscriptions. There are a number of different metrics you can layer in beyond direct mail or e-mail.┬Ā┬Ā
FOLIO: The Economist seems to be focused on what you do well: print, increasingly online. How do ancillaries fit in and what are you doing beyond traditional print and online products?
Rossi: WeŌĆÖve got products that fill a reader need. The Economist is available on the Kindle. We have an iPhone app coming out shortly. Then weŌĆÖve got other products within The Economist brand such as the Business Intelligence Unit, which provides data and analysis for companies operating beyond their domestic boundaries. ThatŌĆÖs something very granular and b-to-b; it is largely subscription-driven. That business is not quite as up and down as advertising.
We do a number of things with advertisers, such as EnergyBill, an online simulation we built for Chevron. Using our data you can power a city of the future and make choices about different energy sources. We have events and theyŌĆÖre very much about building the brand, bringing The Economist to life. WeŌĆÖre also testing a new quarterly magazine called Intelligent Life, which has been described as ŌĆ£The Economist in black tie.ŌĆØ ItŌĆÖs much more lifestyle-driven.
Ultimately everything has to be run for profit. Some things will be about broadening the brand and getting the product into peopleŌĆÖs hands. You need to be pushing stuff out, so some things work, some donŌĆÖt (particularly on the events side) but weŌĆÖre trying to bring more people into the brand.
FOLIO: How do the business lines compare in size?
Rossi: The biggest driver is the magazine and thatŌĆÖs equally balanced between advertising and circulation. Online and data businesses are second and third, the others are all quite small.
FOLIO: PIB numbers say youŌĆÖre down 23 percent in ad pages for the first half of 2009. How accurate is that?
Rossi: The PIB numbers are close. WeŌĆÖre not a discounter so the numbers are pretty accurate. ItŌĆÖs a tough market and weŌĆÖre not immune. You have to be clear about what problem youŌĆÖre trying to solve for a marketer. The days of walking in and asking how many pages would you like to buy are gone. TheyŌĆÖre not advertisers, theyŌĆÖre marketers who happen to do advertising and theyŌĆÖre facing the same challenges we are in terms of smaller budgets and ROI. WeŌĆÖre seeing a lot of demands for intergrated programs that move from print to online to white papers and events. We just built a forecasting tool for SAP where people could demonstrate how bullish they were about their industry and compare that to everyone else. ThatŌĆÖs a data solution, itŌĆÖs an advertising solution and itŌĆÖs an online solution.
FOLIO: You just added Congressional Quarterly and youŌĆÖre said to be shopping CFO. WhatŌĆÖs the ideal product mix for The Economist?
Rossi: We are profitable and we have a desire to grow. You should look out for future changes and future acquisitions in The Economist Group. What youŌĆÖre seeing is a move toward subscription-based business. These are good, renewable revenue streams.
The Way of Economist.com
Publisher Ben Edwards reveals new priorities for online.
While Paul Rossi serves as publisher of the print version of The Economist, executive vice president Ben Edwards is publisher of Economist.com, overseeing a group that handles online product development, Web development, design, marketing, production and operation. ŌĆ£We build the platformŌĆöWeb publishing, community and advertising,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£Then we work closely with editorial and the ad sales teams who are integrated into the regional businesses.ŌĆØ
Economist.com uses four distinct sales teams serving the U.S., U.K., Asia and Central Europe. ŌĆ£The approach differs by region and in the U.S. the approach is quite heavily integrated,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£In the U.K., weŌĆÖre less integrated and we may be lagging behind U.S. buying habits by a year or two. But in the past six or nine months, weŌĆÖve been seeing more appetite from European clients for large, integrated purchases.ŌĆØ
Traffic has doubled in the last two years with 4 million unique users and 25 million page views. One-third of the online audience is also a print subscriber while another 15 percent is an occasional newsstand purchaser.
ItŌĆÖs an engaged audience. Economist.com gets 25,000 comments to the Web site every month with an average of 60 comments for every article it publishes, according to Edwards.
Big Changes: New Brand, New Social Media Initiatives
Economist.com is preparing to make significant changes to its brand strategy. ŌĆ£Up to this point weŌĆÖve invested in a separate brand,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre changing that in the next month or two to publish under The Economist brand. That reflects the reality of how people think about us.ŌĆØ
Three years ago, Economist.com embarked on an ambitious, proprietary social media project called Project Red Stripe that basically fizzled in 2007 without a concrete product. At the time, Economist executives said there wasnŌĆÖt a clear need for the product.
Today the brand is investing in developing a sophisticated presence on Facebook (150,000 fans) and Twitter (75,000 followers). ŌĆ£We have a loose embrace of many other unofficial sites,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a very cost-effective way to reach out to people where they live on the Web and give them opportunities to interact with content, events and each other.ŌĆØ
Still, The Economist continues to invest in a social media product as one of its key online initiatives. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre building off of our work with Project Red Stripe,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£Fifteen months ago, we made the decision to move off a proprietary platform to an open source platform, which in our case is Drupal. The principal reason was the richness of the existing Drupal social media features and the ability for us to engage with a relatively small and focused group of designers.ŌĆØ
Economist.com is introducing several new online products in the second half of 2009, including a two-week long debate program featuring experts and guest speakers.
Over the next few months, Economist.com will also roll out profile pages, organic groups and forums. ŌĆ£We think thereŌĆÖs an opportunity to take the debate product and build a mini debate product around itŌĆöinstant debates our editors can set up on the fly that put a little structure and meaning to the outcome through built-in polls and real-time voting,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£That gives people a sense of what other people think about it, which is important to our audience.ŌĆØ
Economist.com is also launching 11 online channels dealing with different areas (Europe, the U.S.) and topics┬Ā (such as business and finance). Each channel will have full-time dedicated online editor. ŌĆ£Their design is to build this lean-forward, free experienceŌĆØ says Edwards.
The two approaches work together, according to Edwards. ŌĆ£The way I think about how we can build opportunities versus reaching out and embracing interactions among Economist readers is with the former we can offer richer, deeper and more meaningful interactions,ŌĆØ he says.┬Ā ŌĆ£If you look at what goes on through Facebook the interactions tend to be very light. By contrast, weŌĆÖve developed online debates where people are posting 1,000-word essays. These debates generate about a novelŌĆÖs worth of content. The two approaches are complementary. We can build rich connections and we can harness lighter conversations and connections through sites like Facebook to build bridges between different experiences.ŌĆØ
Making Money Online: Balancing Advertising and Paid Content
Revenue for Economist.com grew about 30 percent in 2008 and is up about 20 percent in 2009, according to Edwards.┬Ā ŌĆ£Advertising is performing well and weŌĆÖre growing fairly strong this year in the face of declines in premium display,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£We think the product is high value and we charge a lot of money relative to our peer group.ŌĆØ
Economist.com is also having some success with a paid content model at its site and is looking to extend that approach into other digital venues. ŌĆ£We have a long history of subscription succes and we would like to develop that further,ŌĆØ says Edwards. ŌĆ£Offline, our premium product is the magazine and we characterize that experience as ŌĆślean back.ŌĆÖ In electronic media, itŌĆÖs more about ŌĆślean forward.ŌĆÖ WeŌĆÖve been the number one magazine on Kindle and weŌĆÖre priced at five times that of our competitors on Kindle. WeŌĆÖre pursuing devices and opportunities to deliver that ŌĆślean backŌĆÖ experience electronically and we think thereŌĆÖs an opportunity rising now to deliver that experience online through the browser.ŌĆØ
Sill, advertising accounts for more than 90 percent of Economist.comŌĆÖs revenue and Edwards says the goal is to move toward a more balanced ratio with subscriptions and paid content.
ŌĆ£We believe we can grow both revenue streams,ŌĆØ he adds. ŌĆ£The way we do it is to differentiate between the lean-back experience online and a separate, free, advertiser-supported experience, which is more lean forward because it is social and interactive and looking to include things rather than exclude them. ThatŌĆÖs part of the live Web. YouŌĆÖre linking to other sources and inviting other experts to share opinions.ŌĆØ


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The following is a list of current and past, nonclassified notable artificial intelligence projects.
Specialized projects[edit]
- aHuman, hybrid of latest neurobiology data and Numenta findings aimed to implement human personality by means of computer program, started in 2008 as independent research.
- Blue Brain Project, an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
- HNeT (Holographic Neural Technology), a technology by AND Corporation (Artificial Neural Devices) based on non linear phase coherence/decoherence principles.
- NuPIC, an open source implementation by Numenta of its Cortical Learning Algorithm.
- Recursive Cortical Networks, a technology by Vicarious that uses a probabilistic graphical model inspired by the structure of the neocortex.
- Visual Hierarchical Modular Neural Network, a software technology by TinMan Systems to visually construct a flow of human thought and logic to produce autonomous artificial intelligence.
- A.I.L.E.E.N.N. Artificial Intelligence Logic Electronic Emulation Neural Network, an entire new Cloud based PaaS platform as a service and IaaS Infrastructure for AI represented as a ubiquitous entity based on Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic with universal inputs, outputs and actuators aiming to the democratization and human-like interaction as the ultimate resource planner, decision making process and actuator. By the inventor and founder of TDVision
Cognitive architectures[edit]
- 4CAPS, developed at Carnegie Mellon University under Marcel A. Just
- ACT-R, developed at Carnegie Mellon University under John R. Anderson.
- AIXI, Universal Artificial Intelligence developed by Marcus Hutter at IDSIA and ANU.
- Apex developed under Michael Freed at NASA Ames Research Center.
- CALO, a DARPA-funded, 25-institution effort to integrate many artificial intelligence approaches (natural language processing, speech recognition, machine vision, probabilistic logic, planning, reasoning, many forms of machine learning) into an AI assistant that learns to help manage your office environment.
- CHREST, developed under Fernand Gobet at Brunel University and Peter C. Lane at the University of Hertfordshire.
- CLARION the cognitive architecture, developed under Ron Sun at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Missouri.
- CoJACK, an ACT-R inspired extension to the JACK multi-agent system that adds a cognitive architecture to the agents for eliciting more realistic (human-like) behaviors in virtual environments.
- Copycat, by Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell at the Indiana University.
- DUAL, developed at the New Bulgarian University under Boicho Kokinov.
- EPIC, developed under David E. Kieras and David E. Meyer at the University of Michigan.
- The H-Cogaff architecture, which is a special case of the CogAff schema; see Taylor & Sayda, and Sloman refs below.
- FORR developed by Susan L. Epstein at The City University of New York.
- IDA and LIDA, implementing Global Workspace Theory, developed under Stan Franklin at the University of Memphis.
- OpenCog Prime, developed using the OpenCog Framework.
- PreAct, developed under Dr. Norm Geddes at ASI.
- PRODIGY, by Veloso et al.
- Procedural Reasoning System (PRS), developed by Michael Georgeff and Amy L. Lansky at SRI International.
- Psi-Theory developed under Dietrich Dörner at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany.
- R-CAST, developed at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Soar, developed under Allen Newell and John Laird at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan.
- Society of mind and its successor the Emotion machine proposed by Marvin Minsky.
- Subsumption architectures, developed e.g. by Rodney Brooks (though it could be argued whether they are cognitive).
- Chinook, a computer program that plays English draughts; the first to win the world champion title in the competition against humans.
- Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM which beat Garry Kasparov in 1997.
- Stockfish AI, an open source chess engine currently ranked the highest in many computer chess rankings. It is available to play with at http://lichess.org/ for free.
- FreeHAL, a self-learning conversation simulator (chatterbot) which uses semantic nets to organize its knowledge to imitate a very close human behavior within conversations.
- Poki, research into computer poker by the University of Alberta.
- TD-Gammon, a program that learned to play world-class backgammon partly by playing against itself (temporal difference learning with neural networks).
Knowledge and reasoning[edit]
- Cyc, an attempt to assemble an ontology and database of everyday knowledge, enabling human-like reasoning.
- Eurisko, a language by Douglas Lenat for solving problems which consists of heuristics, including some for how to use and change its heuristics.
- Google Now, an intelligent personal assistant with a voice interface in Google's Android and Apple Inc.'s iOS, as well as Google Chrome web browser on personal computers.
- Microsoft Cortana, an intelligent personal assistant with a voice interface in Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1.
- Mycin, an early medical expert system.
- NEIL,[1] an attempt to assemble a common sense knowledge base from processing random images from the internet.
- Open Mind Common Sense, a project based at the MIT Media Lab to build a large common sense knowledge base from online contributions.
- P.A.N., a publicly available text analyzer.
- Questsin, uses Query by Example and features a dictionary, knowledge base, repository, reference, and thesaurus.
- Siri, an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator with a voice-interface in Apple Inc.'s iOS.
- SNePS, a simultaneously a logic-based, frame-based, and network-based knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting system.
- Watson, a question answering system developed by IBM to play the Jeopardy! game show.
- Wolfram Alpha, an online service that answers queries by computing the answer from structured data.
Motion and manipulation[edit]
- Cog, a robot developed by MIT to study theories of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, now discontinued.
- Grand Challenge 5 – Architecture of Brain and Mind, a UK attempt to understand and model natural intelligence at various levels of abstraction, demonstrating results in a succession of increasingly sophisticated working robots.
- AIBO, the first robot pet for the home, grew out of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL). Famed engineer Dr. Toshitada Doi is credited as AIBO's original progenitor: in 1994 he had started work on robots with artificial intelligence expert Masahiro Fujita within CSL of Sony. Doi's, friend, the artist Hajime Sorayama, was enlisted to create the initial designs for the AIBO's body. Those designs are now part of the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution, with later versions of AIBO being used in studies in Carnegie Mellon University. In 2006, AIBO was added into Carnegie Mellon University's "Robot Hall of Fame".
Natural language processing[edit]
- AIML, an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents.
- Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (A.L.I.C.E.), an award-winning natural language processing chatterbot.
- Cleverbot,successor to Jabberwacky, now with 170m lines of conversation, Deep Context, fuzziness and parallel processing.Cleverbot learns from around 2 million user interactions per month.
- ELIZA, a famous 1966 computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which parodied person-centered therapy.
- InfoTame, a text analysis search engine originally developed by the KGB for sorting communications intercepts.
- Jabberwacky, a chatterbot by Rollo Carpenter, aiming to simulate a natural human chat.
- KAR-Talk, a chatterbot by I.-A.Industrie.
- KAR Intelligent Computer, an artificial intelligence software included in the CEPC 230 KAR's computer from Continental Edison.
- PARRY, another early famous chatterbot, written in 1972 by Kenneth Colby, attempting to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic.
- Proverb, a system that can solve crossword puzzles better than most humans.[2]
- BOTICUS, a language structure analysis program used to generate new sentence structures developed in 2012.
- SHRDLU, an early natural language processing computer program developed by Terry Winograd at MIT from 1968 to 1970.
- START, the world's first web-based question answering system, developed at the MIT CSAIL.
- SYSTRAN, a machine translation technology by a company of the same name, used by Yahoo!, AltaVista and Google, among others.
- Texai, an open source project to create artificial intelligence, starting with a bootstrap English dialog system that intelligently acquires knowledge and behaviors.
- O-Plan, a project to provide a modular and flexible planning and control system using AI, at Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI), University of Edinburgh.
- Kreator, an optimization problem solving software by Intelligentics that uses A.I. techniques.
- OpenAIR, a routing and communication protocol based on a publish-subscribe architecture, built especially for A.I. research.
- Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS), a model of the real world used by Homeland security and the United States Department of Defense that uses simulation and AI to predict and evaluate future events and courses of action.[3]
- iPrecinct, a voter data platform created by iPrecinct LLC that uses A.I. techniques and architecture.
- Entropica, a software developed by Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross based on his paper on causal entropic forces[4][5]
Multipurpose projects[edit]
Software packages[edit]
- Apache Mahout, a library of scalable machine learning algorithms.
- CILib,[6] a library of different computational intelligence algorithms and supporting APIs, supporting different paradigms: Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Game Playing (developed by the Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG@UP) Department of Computer Science University of Pretoria South Africa).
- dANN,[7] a freely available AI library implemented in Java, implementing graph theory, ANN, GA, Markov Chains, graphical models (bayesian networks, HMM), etc.
- Deeplearning4j, an open-source, distributed deep learning framework written for the JVM. It integrates with Hadoop/YARN and GPUs, and also spins up a standalone distributed system. DL4J implements deep-belief nets, deep autoencoders, convolutional nets, word2vec and recursive neural tensor networks.
- ELKI,[8] a research project and software framework with many data mining algorithms (in particular cluster analysis and outlier detection) and index structures by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- FRDCSA,[9] an attempt to package and integrate all FOSS AI systems for GNU+Linux-based systems.
- I-X, a systems integration architecture project for the creation of intelligent systems at Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI), University of Edinburgh.
- OpenNN, an open source library for neural networks written in C++, developed by Intelnics.
- Pogamut,[10] a free platform for Java AI development in games, developed by the Charles University in Prague
- T-World, an open-source, cross programming language Web platform for Artificial Intelligence research and education based on the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, developed by the National University of San Luis (Argentina).
- Encog, a neural network and artificial intelligence framework available for Java, .Net, and Silverlight.
- Neural Designer,[11] a desktop application for discovering complex relationships, recognizing unknown patterns and predicting actual trends from data sets, developed by Intelnics.
- Neuroph, a Java neural network framework.
- The Neu Framework, a BSD-licensed C++ 11 framework featuring Meta Concepts: A Knowledge-Based Code Generation System, high performance neural networks using LLVM/JIT, an extensible functional programming language system, and more.
- OpenCog, a GPL-licensed framework for machine learning, genetic programming, probabilistic reasoning, natural language processing and virtual world embodiment, written in C++, Python and Scheme.
- RapidMiner, an environment for machine learning and data mining, developed by the Dortmund University of Technology.
- Weka, a free implementation of many machine learning algorithms in Java.
Cloud services[edit]
- Data Applied, a web based data mining environment.
- Grok, a service that ingests data streams and creates actionable predictions in real time.
- Watson, a pilot service by IBM to uncover and share data-driven insights, and to spur cognitive applications.
See also[edit]
- Comparison of cognitive architectures
- Applications of artificial intelligence
- Progress in artificial intelligence
- ^ Proverb: The probabilistic cruciverbalist (AAAI–99 Outstanding Paper Award). By Greg A. Keim, Noam Shazeer, Michael L. Littman, Sushant Agarwal, Catherine M. Cheves, Joseph Fitzgerald, Jason Grosland, Fan Jiang, Shannon Pollard, and Karl Weinmeister. 1999. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 710-717. Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press.
- ^ The Register article Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale published 23 June 2007
- ^ http://phys.org/news/2013-04-emergence-complex-behaviors-causal-entropic.html
- ^ https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_for_intelligence
- ^ CILib
- ^ dANN
- ^ Pogamut
- ^ Neural Designer
External links[edit]
- AI projects on GitHub
- AI projects on SourceForge
- mloss - machine learning open source software