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The Fourth of July brings with it conflicting emotions for gamers. On the one hand, the long weekend is a chance to catch up with the great games of the first half of the year, while celebrating with a socially-sanctioned saturnalia of beer, meat, and controlled explosives.
On the other hand, this orgiastic holiday marks the beginning of the summer game drought. The summer game drought typically lasts from late June into September, and is a time when, typically, very few good games get released. True, there may be oases in the dunes (for football fans, the annual early-July release of an NCAA Football game is a holiday in itself, and this year brings Nintendo's Pikmin 3 in early August), but typically summer games are rare and they are bad.
The big, end of July, multiplatform release of 2013 is The Smurfs 2.
What is needed for the drought is a game that can be played over and over, that is addictive, that has the power to make you forget that you've finished The Last of Us and still have two and a half months until Grand Theft Auto 5 washes over the world of gaming like a typhoon.
I am happy to report that this game came out last week, and it is called Rogue Legacy.
Rogue Legacy is a fifteen dollar downloadable Windows game, and if you give it some time, it will keep you very busy indeed. The game defies the usual Game X meets Game Y categorization; it's much easier to tell you how it works. You play as a little cartoon knight, and your task, like all little cartoon knights since Sir Arthur, is to explore a haunted castle swarming with charming Gothic cliches. The catch in Rogue Legacy is that your knight only has one life, and after he dies, the castle reforms randomly, and you apply all that you looted to upgrading your child, who takes on the quest in your memory. In the game's funniest quirk, your children are afflicted with a random series of birth defects and psychological conditions, and so if your knight has ADHD, he moves faster, and if she is colorblind, she sees the haunted castle in a lovely sepia, and if he has hypergonadism, he is more powerful. (And if your character is gay, it changes nothing at all. It seems Cellar Door Games, the Canadian studio behind Rogue Legacy, has a sense of humor.)
Only through repeated death and rebirth can you move deeper into the castle, and it is this cycle that is going to burn through your summer. Happy 4th of July.
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It's easy to see that the Bitcoin market is under stress when there's rising overall activity and tighter oversight. However, it's now so hectic that the Mt. Gox exchange has trouble fulfilling even basic transactions — and the institution is freezing US dollar withdrawals for two weeks to keep things in check. Mt. Gox's team will use the downtime to upgrade its trading system and (hopefully) address the heavy workload. Deposits and transfers in American currency should still be good to go. Let's just hope that Mt. Gox manages smoother transitions in the future — after all, not everyone can afford to leave their money in limbo during a tech refresh.
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Dollar collapse question. When are countries going to realize we dont produce anything other than green paper?
Question by LolWhoGivesA5hitAboutGlobalWarming: Dollar collapse question. When are countries going to realize we dont produce anything other than green paper?
We consume all the worlds resources in the states and produce nothing because of strict regulation on business and outsourcing. When are countries going to catch on the the fraud the federal reserve does? When are the people going to realizes the quantitative easing (printing money out of thin air) is just a way to keep the scam going longer?
Third might sound good, until you see how much we consume. Then you realize we need to be far ahead of even number one to keep a healthy economy.
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The US is the world's third largest exporter.
"The EU [European Union] and the US economies account together for about half the entire world GDP and for nearly a third of world trade flows…
"EU goods imports from the US in 2010: €169.5 billion.
"EU services imports from the US in 2010: €131.0 billion.
"EU investment flows to the US in 2009: €79.2 billion."
"As the world's 3rd biggest exporting nation, America shipped $ 1.291 trillion worth of exports in 2008.
"Principal American exports were capital goods including aircraft, industrial supplies like organic chemicals, consumer goods including automobiles and agricultural products led by soybeans and corn.
"Based on 2008 statistics, America's largest export clients were Canada (20.1%), Mexico (11.7%), China (5.5%), Japan (5.1%), Germany (4.2%) and the United Kingdom (4.1%)."
These ignorant, hysterical questions are typical of those who rant against "The Fed!"
And of those who try to scapegoat "Regulations!" as the cause of President Cheney's Great Recession,
when ,in fact, it was the GOP's ideology of De-Regulation that allowed the Global Plutocratic Cabal's Big Banks to loot working Americans' net worth:
International Monetary Fund's former Chief Economist:
"Our leading bankers looted [the United States], plunged the world into deep recession, [starting Dec, 2007] and cost the United States eight million jobs.
"Now many of them stand by with sharpened knives and enhanced bonuses – willing to suggest how the salaries and jobs of others can be further cut.
"Consider the morality of that.
"Will no one think hard about what this means for our budget and our political system until it is too late?"
By Simon Johnson, former Chief Economist @ the International Monetary Fund.
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate in Econ: The 2000s, the "Decade of Zero": Zero gains for home prices, home equity, workers' median income, employment, & stockmarket.
From 2001 to 2009, for the first time since WW2, the average American's net worth fell, and by a huge 13%.
The 1990s had the largest increase, 44%.
Robert Reich, Sec of Labor under Clinton:
"What's happened in the last 30 years is that worker [in the private sector] has taken a shellacking.
"The US economies' problems lie w/ "fraud, deregulation and vast concentration of wealth.
"For three decades we've cut taxes on the wealthy while real wages stood still."
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The median American male worker earns less today [in 2010] adjusted for inflation, than he did 30 years ago.
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Nokia's Q2 2012 financials announced: 4 million Lumias sold, $1.01 billion dollar loss
The past three months have not been the finest for Finland's previous world leading. Persistent rumors of Microsoft anticipating the business's collapse haven't been helped by the 3 most significant credit agencies slashing the company's score to "junk," and the Lumia 900's violently slashed rate. Sadly, there's no ray of light to be discovered in these outcomes, which disclose that the business made an operating loss of $ 1.01 billion dollars for the quarter. On the benefit, the business handled to make & euro; 7.5 billion of sales ($ 9.2 billion, down.5 billion because the last quarter), repositioning 4 million Lumia mobile phones in the procedure. In fact, with sales of the mobile approximately increasing each quarter, the business has some reason to validate its optimism.
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EyeRing finger-mounted connected cam captures signs and dollar bills, identifies them with OCR (hands-on)
Ready to swap that diamond for a finger-mounted camera with a built-in trigger and Bluetooth connectivity? If it could help identify otherwise indistinguishable objects, you might just consider it. The MIT Media Lab's EyeRing project was designed with an assistive focus in mind, helping visually disabled persons read signs or identify currency, for example, while also serving to assist children during the tedious process of learning to read. Instead of hunting for a grownup to translate text into speech, a young student could direct EyeRing at words on a page, hit the shutter release, and receive a verbal response from a Bluetooth-connected device, such as a smartphone or tablet. EyeRing could be useful for other individuals as well, serving as an ever-ready imaging device that enables you to capture pictures or documents with ease, transmitting them automatically to a smartphone, then on to a media sharing site or a server.
We peeked at EyeRing during our visit to the MIT Media Lab this week, and while the device is buggy at best in its current state, we can definitely see how it could fit into the lives of people unable to read posted signs, text on a page or the monetary value of a currency note. We had an opportunity to see several iterations of the device, which has come quite a long way in recent months, as you'll notice in the gallery below. The demo, which like many at the Lab includes a Samsung Epic 4G, transmits images from the ring to the smartphone, where text is highlighted and read aloud using a custom app. Snapping the text "ring," it took a dozen or so attempts before the rig correctly read the word aloud, but considering that we've seen much more accurate OCR implementations, it's reasonable to expect a more advanced version of the software to make its way out once the hardware is a bit more polished — at this stage, EyeRing is more about the device itself, which had some issues of its own maintaining a link to the phone. You can get a feel for how the whole package works in the video after the break, which required quite a few takes before we were able to capture an accurate reading.
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Ray's is a great experience to the core. No one aspect of my visit was overlooked.. the folks are friendly (not just the usual smiling-give me your money fakes I am seeing more all the time, but genuine happy to meet you and learn more about you type of people}. I learned that the woman who waited on us is half of the husband & wife team. She was a pleasant gal, who was a big part of what made my trip so different and interesting. She was very involved in every aspect of the place and it showed.
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I'm excited to report that this month I'm trying something new in my writing career. For the rest of August I'll be at a writing and art colony in upstate New York, focusing exclusively on my own writing projects. Some of my goals include finishing the novel editing and starting some new short stories that I've been kicking around my head for a while.
This does mean that posts will be a little slower around Writerly Life for a little while. I'll try to send along updates when I can, but my focus is to really stay off the grid as much as possible for the next few weeks. I have no idea how I'll react to this sort of writing environment — but that's why it's an experiment! I'm very excited to see how my writing proceeds when it's the only thing on my plate.
Have you ever participated in a writer's retreat or artist's colony? If so, what do you recommend to get the most out of it? What are some of the dangers and pitfalls? Share your thoughts in the comments, and stay tuned to hear more thoughts on a writing colony.
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Off to an artists' colony, are you? And in Upstart New York, too.
I'd be very careful if I were you.
I went to such a retreat once & by the 3rd day we'd degenerated to "Lord of the Flies." Everyone ran around in shredded clothes,
war paint on their faces, yelling wild threats at anyone they came across. It was a truly horrifying experience…
No, that didn't really happen. The closest I've come to a retreat is spending three weeks each summer, for about 6 years, at a Zen monastery here in CA. I went as a 'working guest' & lived with the monks-in-training. It was incredibly fun but also intense. Meditate 6 hours a day & you can really go to some strange head spaces.
I think you should just aim to complete editing your novel. That would be HUGE, just that alone. Most of us tend to list 72 hours of chores on our daily 'to do' list. I say, put fewer items on the list & you'll feel better about yourself.
If you DO work in a short story or two, then that's pure gravy!
But the MOST important thing is not to beat yourself up if you don't get lots of writing done at this retreat. As you point out, you've never tried this before. The solitude & atmosphere might drive you nuts. It may not be a place where you feel at all creative, at least where writing is concerned.
You could always try painting a landscape, though. Maybe that is what you'll feel like doing! It's all good.
Be sure to enjoy yourself & the other artists there!
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Sounds like a great experience, Blair. Please keep us up to speed with further posts on life in the colony and the work that you're doing.
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Randy Arroyo Wins Top Honors In Sales And Customer Service At Verizon Wireless President's Cabinet
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Randy Arroyo, Retail Sales Representative in Fresno, earned the Verizon Wireless President's Cabinet award, the company's highest honor for sales and customer service.
The honorees and their guests were recognized in a ceremony hosted by Verizon Wireless President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Mead, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Marni Walden, and other wireless industry leaders.
The President's Cabinet represents the top one percent of sales and service professionals across the country for Verizon, the nation's largest wireless company.
"At Verizon Wireless we strive to provide a world class customer experience," said
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Za'atar which is called hyssop in English is used to make tea, mixed with sesame seeds, sumac and salt and slathered with olive oil on bread, put on top of labane and in my case it is mixed with matzah meal as a coating for red mullet.
Moses Maimonides, a philosopher, rabbi and physician who lived in North Africa and Egypt, prescribed za'atar as an antiseptic, a cure for intestinal parasites, a cold remedy, loss of appetite and flatulence. Rubbing the sides of the head with za'atar oil was believed to reduce headaches. There is also a belief that this particular spice mixture makes the mind alert and the body strong.
I like za'atar so much, I am growing it in my new garden. It is also great chopped up and mixed into an omelet or a salad.
350g (3/4lb) small or 4 medium red mullet filets
2 cups matza meal
2 to 3 tablespoons za'atar mix
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
In a plate, mix the matza meal, za'atar mix, salt and peper. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg and water.
Place the fish in the egg mixture and mix until the fish is thoroughly coated and then dip in the matza meal mixture until well coated. Cook the fish in about 25mm (1 inch) of hot oil for approximately two to three minutes on each side or until flaky. Drain on a paper towel and serve immediately.
Here are some beautiful flowers on the way to our village:
These are called bottle brushes because they look like a bottle brush.
These flowers are Anemones in English and Kalanit in Hebrew, which is related to Kala, the Hebrew word for a bride, referring to the flower's beauty. It is mentioned in the Talmudic scriptures and is referred to as Klonita.
The scientific and English name was derived from the Greek mythological word Anemoi, the wind gods. One of whom, the legendary Zephyrus was the west wind and bringer of light spring and early summer breezes. In ancient Greece, wreaths of anemones were used to decorate the altar of the Goddess Venus. Hence, the species name Coronaria.
In Arabic it is called Skaik-a-Na'amann, probably referring to a Canaanite god by that name, and mentioned also as a flower name by the Prophet Isaiah (17:10) "Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants" (In Hebrew "pleasant plants" is Nitei Naamanim).
During the Middle Ages, a wreath of anemone flowers was put on a sick person's neck because it was believed to help cure him.
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I love Za'atar! That fish looks delicious!
Yum! I too am a big fun of za'atar, and what a good idea for putting it to use.
Hey, how is the Pesach menu coming? I'm a bit in denial about how soon it's coming…
I am away on business this week and will be finalizing the menu this weekend. I have so much work to do next week.
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I've used hyssop essential oil before, and it's strong stuff! Although it has all the medicinal properties that you mention, it should not be used by people with high blood pressure or people with epilepsy. Although, I'm guessing that using it as an herb cuts the potency quite a bit. I love the smell of hyssop oil and I have a feeling that your recipes must be delicious!


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It's an exciting time to work at Mallinckrodt. Our corporate culture is driven by five hallmarks: high-performing, competitive, collaborative, engaged and trustworthy. There's a strong sense of purpose, too, as we're all focused on helping patients. Our employees around the world are now driving forward a company working to reveal and relieve disease for a healthier world. Find out how much you'll gain if you're one of them.
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals is pleased to bring Questcor and its entire business into our company.The former Questcor organization will be known as the Autoimmune and Rare Diseases business within Mallinckrodt's Specialty Pharmaceuticals segment. Until January 2015 job opportunities for the Autoimmune and Rare Disease business can be found on another site: Autoimmune and Rare Diseases Careers or Job Listings.
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We're already a global healthcare leader. And we plan to continue expanding internationally too – particularly into emerging markets. So whether you want an inspiring role close to home, or to explore opportunities farther afield, there's a good chance we'll have something to interest you.
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"I am changing it completely from the traditional Zen, because I don't see that the contemporary man can devote twenty or thirty years only to meditation. If Zen remains that hard, it will disappear from the world. It has already disappeared from China, it is disappearing from Japan, and it disappeared from India long ago. It remained in India for only five hundred years after Gautam Buddha. In the sixth century it reached China, remained there for only a few centuries, and moved to Japan. And now it is almost extinct from both China and Japan.
"You will be surprised to know that my books are being taught in the Zen monasteries. Zen masters have written letters to me: 'Perhaps now Zen will exist in India, in its original place. It is disappearing from Japan because people are more interested in technology, in science.'
"That is the situation in India too. Very few people are interested in the inner exploration. Here you can find a few people from every country, but these are so few compared to the five billion human beings on the earth. Ten thousand is not a great number.
"Zen has to be transformed in a way that the contemporary man can be interested in it. It has to be easy, relaxed, it has not to be hard. That old traditional type is no longer possible, nor is it needed. Once it has been explored, once a single man has become enlightened, the path becomes easy. You don't have to discover electricity again and again. Once discovered you start using it – you don't have to be great scientists.
"The man who discovered electricity worked on it for almost twenty years. Three hundred disciples started with him and nobody remained because it took so long; everybody became exhausted. But the original scientist continued. His explanation to his own disciples was, 'The more we are failing in finding the root of electricity, the closer we are going to the very root. Every failure is bringing us closer to the discovery.'
"And finally, one night in the darkness, suddenly the first electric bulb started radiating. And you cannot conceive the joy of the man who had been working for thirty years."
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
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EAU CLAIRE — Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, will speak Feb. 8 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The Forum will present his address — "When Will We Find the Aliens?" — at 7:30 p.m. in Schofield Auditorium.
Shostak participates in the scientific search for intelligent life in the cosmos at the privately run SETI Institute in California, the research organization that runs the world's most sensitive search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The research seeks evidence of life in the universe by looking for some signature of its technology.
Polls routinely show that the majority of the public believes that we are not the only thinking beings in a universe that is both old and enormously vast. In his Forum address Shostak will outline how scientists are trying to find out whether that belief is just a fondness for some cosmic company or a suspicion that can be proven using the sharp and objective tools of science.
Shostak is keen on interesting the public — especially young people — in science, and he readily translates the most complex discoveries into terms accessible to everyone. He hosts "Are We Alone?" — a weekly hour-long science radio show that spotlights the latest scientific research in cosmology, physics, genetics, paleontology, evolutionary biology and astrobiology. He has published hundreds of popular articles on various topics in astronomy, technology, film and television, as well as more than 60 research papers. A frequent lecturer on his work at the SETI Institute, he is a frequent commentator on radio and television.
In his new book, "Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (National Geographic Books, 2009), Shostak offers an entertaining and expert account of the facts, fantasies and futures of finding intelligence elsewhere in the universe and how real science differs from the Hollywood view of extraterrestrial life. The edgy and amusing memoir reveals the true story of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and discloses what we may soon discover. Contrary to popular opinion, any aliens Shostak anticipates finding would be super-smart post-biological thinking machines, not blobs of protoplasm.
Shostak holds a doctorate in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University. He received the Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2004, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy. In January Shostak was named a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a nonprofit scientific and educational organization that promotes scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education and the use of reason in examining important issues.
The Forum program will be interpreted for the deaf and hard of hearing. Shostak's presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session and an informal reception.
Tickets for The Forum are $8 for the public, $6 for those 62 and older and UW System or Chippewa Valley Technical College faculty and staff, and $4 for those 17 and younger and UW System or CVTC students. Student tickets are half-price ($2) until the day of the event; on the day of the event, students will be required to pay the full student ticket price.
Tickets are available at the Service Center in the east lobby of Davies Center and will be sold at the door. Patrons also may charge their tickets to MasterCard, Visa or Discover when ordering by phone. Call 715-836-3727 or, outside the immediate Eau Claire area, call toll-free 800-949-UWEC. A $3 handling fee will be added to all telephone charge orders.
Wisconsin Public Radio, Community Television and WHYS Radio have contributed generous promotional support for The Forum. The Forum also is funded in part by Visit Eau Claire ... The Unexpected Wisconsin. Best Western Trail Lodge Hotel & Suites (715-838-9989), 3340 Mondovi Road, is The Forum's exclusive accommodations partner.
Funded by the students of UW-Eau Claire, The Forum is administered by the Activities and Programs office.
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"Blues Capital of the World," Chicago swings, grooves, growls and jams with the hottest blues music and most legendary blues artists in the world. Hear the soulful sounds of Chicago blues at Blue Chicago on Clark, Kingston Mines, Buddy Guy's Legends, Lee's Unleaded Blues and BLUES. If you're in town in June, check out the Chicago Blues Festival – the largest free blues festival in the world!
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KENZO is a fashion house created by Kenzo Takada in 1970 in Paris. The same year, the designer showed his first collection at the Galerie Vivienne and opened Jungle Jap, his first boutique. At the forefront of a new generation of designers who refuted the conventions set in place by haute couture, Kenzo showed how fashion can be creative and representative of the masses. Of Japanese origin, Kenzo Takada designed young, fun clothes, mixing a diversity of culture with Parisian elegance. Using strong and exotic prints, the designer blended the Orient with the west through unique designs, such as his reinterpreted kimono: the use of the "flat" Japanese kimono offered a new and original feminine silhouette. Six years later, the brand moved to Place des Victoires in Paris, linking the boutique to the design studio. From that moment on, stores began opening world-wide: New York City in 1983, London in 1985, Milan in 1986 followed by Hong Kong and Tokyo. A new concept collection, entirely dedicated to men's design, was launched in 1983, breaking previously seen masculine fashion codes. In 1988, Kenzo launched his first perfume, Kenzo by KENZO, followed by KENZO for men in 1991, Parfum d'Eté in 1992 and L'Eau de Kenzo in 1996. In 1993, the brand was bought by LVMH. The following year, to celebrate the summer solstice in Paris, KENZO transformed the famous Pont Neuf into a field of multicolored flowers. In October of 1999, the fashion house celebrated the retirement of its designer and founder, as well as its 30th anniversary. In 2000, Gilles Rosier was appointed creative director of women's collections while Roy Krejberg was named creative director of men's collections, both of whom are close acquaintances of Kenzo Takada. That same year, the house launched the fragrance Flower by KENZO, installing fields of red poppies in cities around the world to celebrate the house's love of nature. In 2003, Antonio Marras was named creative director. Staying true to the founders love for art and the mixing of cultures, Antonio Marras began integrating a more theatrical and baroque style to the house. In July of 2011, the ready-to-wear brand appointed another artistic director, and after eight years of collaboration with the Italian designer, LVMH announced the appointments of Humberto Leon and Carol Lim as creative directors. In January of 2011, KENZO appointed Eric Maréchalle as general director. Creative duo Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, founders of the New York City concept store Opening Ceremony, lead New KENZO World in developing its creative and unique spirit and designs.


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There's a ghost in the men's bathroom at the Venice campus Library. I've told people this before. They chuckle. But I think it's a nervous chuckle, because they've heard what I've heard. It doesn't happen all the time, but here's how it goes:
I go in and it appears that I'm alone. When I'm washing my hands I hear someone exiting one of the stalls behind me. I wait to see who it is in the mirror. Like clockwork, no one appears, and I turn to look. I'm alone, as always. Obviously I'm not dealing with any kind of malevolent phantom. Ultimately, I just wanted to document my experience. If my blogs suddenly stop…please check the bathroom. I might have done something to anger him.
Okay, ghost stories aside, the open MIC last Thursday was a HUGE success. Over 30 people and 20 readers (which were all terrific)! It was a great kick-off event for Swamp Scribes. The next one is coming soon, I'll keep you posted.
After the open mic a group of us when out to Chili's. One of our professors joined us. It was great fun, and my stomach still aches from laughing. Sometimes, however, I think students struggle when developing friendships with professors. It reminds me of something from my Army days. My military superiors would often tell me: "Don't take my kindness for a weakness." Yeah,
it sounds harsh, but in reality, it's the best advice a superior can offer. Yes, you can laugh and joke with your professors, inside and outside of class; what's important to remember is that the laughing and joking doesn't transcend into your professor's mind when they see your name in the grade book.
Having a good relationship with a professor doesn't give you an all access pass to free roller coaster riding. And this doesn't mean you can't have a friendship with a processor. In fact, it can often enhance the college experience, and lead to important professional contacts in the future.
In a nutshell—keep it simple, real, and in perspective. Oh yeah, watch out for ghosts too.
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Salt Lamps: For Your Home and Health
A salt lamp naturally cleanses the surrounding indoor air, whether directly or indirectly. This is scientific fact based on properties inherent to this salt. It's important to breathe good air, free of pollution, germs, and the "floaties" like pollen, dander, and dust. Unfortunately, the most polluted air which we are exposed to is usually within an area within our control...indoors. Homes, offices, and businesses both large and small are often neglected in the area of indoor air and environmental quality. Homes are especially important when it comes to air quality because this is where we live and eat and sleep. With all this time we spend breathing in our homes, does it make logical sense to make sure our air, at the very least, not "un-healthy"?
Use a reasonably good air filter and change it monthly. Whenever possible, open up the windows and allow fresh circulation throughout the home. Place a properly-sized warm, glowing salt lamp in every room - this will alter the electrical balance (via negative ions) and remove moisture from the air. Moisture content is crucial for indoor air pollution and microbial life to remain alive and airborne, while at the same time vital for the effect of a salt lamp. A Himalayan salt lamp can actually make your indoor air healthful and better for you
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Our lamps are most effective within a certain radius or area, respective to their size. For example, our mini to small sizes (4-10 lbs) make great nightlights, and would give maximum benefit on a desk, bedside table, or in a small bedroom. For larger bedrooms and living areas, a medium to large-sized (10-22 lbs) would be best; or perhaps several well-placed small ones would do the trick if weight of the lamp is an issue. Restaurants, stores, spas, salons, and offices should use several medium to large salt lamps for clean air and warm atmosphere the customers (& employees) will notice!
Depending on the size (or more importantly, the overall surface area), our lamps provide ionic benefits within a short radius around the salt crystal - generally, the ionic field doesn't extend throughout an entire room due to the short lifespan of negative ions (2-6 minutes). However, the effective area for our salt lamps' coverage is a 3' to 15' radius from the unit - again, based on size, the state of your indoor environment, lamp warmth and surface area. Air circulation, ambient or forced, obvioiusly provides a slightly varied range.
We recommend leaving the lamps turned on as much as possible, the light can positively affect mood and creativity while the consistent warmth of the salt crystal caused by the burning bulb improves the overall efficacy of the lamp. Unlike most, we size the bulbs according to the lamp color and thickness. Our bulbs range from 7W to 40W, depending on the size and color of the salt lamp.
The Impact of a Salt Lamp on Health
In general, negative ion generation produces air similar to the air outside after a rainstorm. If you've experienced a thunderstorm then you have noticed the tension that builds up in the air before a storm - as the positive ions in the air reach a peak. When the storm hits, electrical charges are produced in the atmosphere and rain falls. The resulting air is oxygen-rich and full of negative ions. The sensations of calm and clarity can be felt in the air after a storm.
Hundreds of articles and scientific studies have been published on the positive effects of negative ions. Below is a short list of some of the findings:
- High-density ionic treatments reduced symptoms of seasonal depression for a group in one study.
- Cigarette smoke effects are countered by negative ions, cilia within the lungs were slowed.
- Patients numbering in the hundreds received treatment and relief from asthma and hay fever problems. With only fifteen minutes exposure to negative ions, these people felt much better and didn't want to leave. Within two hours of leaving the non-ionized space, their symptoms and conditions returned.
- Plants show an increased growth rate!
- Depression, asthma, migraines, palpitations and irritability were remarkably reduced; as well as a marked increase in human alertness levels.
- Five hundred patients were treated for five years, hyperthyroid cases were cured with ionization at a rate of nearly 50%.
- Bacteria counts were lowered drastically. Streptococci, klebsiella, escherichia, staphylococci, candida, and pseudomonas counts lowered by fifty percent within six hours and within one day of negative ion exposure, the rate climbs to seventy percent.
- Aerosol-sprayed bacteria cultures in air were virtually eliminated in 60 min. with high negative ion exposure.
- Headaches in office air conditioned computer room reduced by 78%.
- Hospital usage for burn victims. Sealed room with negative ion treatment for severe burn patients reduced pain to zero without the usage of morphine or narcotics in 85% of the cases.
- 57% of post surgical cases experienced significant pain reduction upon negative ion treatment.
Negative ions are remarkable. Asthma and allergy sufferers notice almost immediately the difference in ionized air of a room with these salt lamps turned on and an outside room without one. Breathing becomes easier and airborne allergen levels are significantly reduced. According to many of our customers, migraines can be reduced and often eliminated by plentiful exposure to salt lamps and the ionized "air vitamins" it seems to create.
The psychological effects of Himalayan salt lamps are well-noted as well. Reportedly, doctors throughout Europe and Asia are recommending salt lamps as a tool in the treatment of depression, attention-deficit disorder, anxiety, and other mind maladies. Salt lamps are very popular tools for color therapy, light therapy, speleotherapy, and halotherapy; in addition to alternative, natural healing practices like reiki and other forms of light-working.
Health Benefits of Himalayan Salt Begin at Home
Himalayan salt lamps should be used where people spend the most time. Around the home, that could be next to the computer or in the bedroom or in the den or living room - or all of the above. Indoor air quality is a top environmental hazards these days; asthma and allergies are on the rise; our dwellings can make us sick too with mold, paint, synthetic carpets, and more. By improving the air we breathe in our living and sleeping spaces, we take a large step in improving overall well-being. Further steps might also include making the switch from refined table salt or lesser sea salt to natural, gourmet-quality Himalayan crystal salt; or, soaking in a warm bath with a pound or two of mineral-rich Himalayan bath salt dissolved to ease aching muscles and joints, condition the skin, and rejuvenate the body.
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Professor Stephen Boyd has a nice summary of Crimes Against Matrices. Are you guilty of one?
Crimes Against Matrices
23 Sunday Sep 2012
Posted Data Mining, Vector Space Modelsin
23 Sunday Sep 2012
Posted Data Mining, Vector Space Modelsin
Professor Stephen Boyd has a nice summary of Crimes Against Matrices. Are you guilty of one?
10 Thursday Feb 2011
Posted Newsletters, Vector Space Modelsin
Back to blogging. I've been very busy putting together a paper on a weighting model and answering feedback received from colleagues on it.
So this might explain why the January IRW newsletter is delayed. It should arrive subscribers inboxes during the day. The February issue will be out in about one week. These are back to back issues on Statistical Analysis of N-Grams.
Part 1:N-Grams & Contingency Tables
Part 2: N-Grams & Association Measures
On other matters, a PhD student published few years ago an excellent application of the Vector Space Model applied to Protein Analysis. You can revisit the post at http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/vector-space-model-and-protein-retrieval/ .
If others have other applications of VSM in other disciplines, let me know. I'm interested in multidisciplinary stuff.
01 Tuesday Dec 2009
Posted Data Mining, Machine Learning, Programming, Queries, Vector Space Modelsin
Now that I'm out of school, I am doing what I love the most: programming and testing IR systems.
I'm currently testing a ranking algorithm for an IR system built over the last years. The answer set is based on a simple matching (SM) search strategy.
Mistake not a simple matching strategy for a simple or basic search approach as it can evolve into the most complex one.
Unlike classic boolean searches (i.e., AND, OR, XOR), SM is suitable for constructing answer sets and subsets based on coordination levels. Add a supporting scoring function (tf-IDF derivatives, RSJ-PM, BM25, etc) and… TA DA: a customizable clustering algorithm for retrieving and ranking search results.
Proper fine tuning allows presenting end-users with answer sets wherein AND results are accumulated at the top of the search results. As users move down the search results, they are presented with OR results and the search experience is perceived as if the system expands the answer set by switching query modes.
I've also added a query reduction mechanism for discoverying related searches. Brazilian Wax, nice!
In preliminary tests, results compare favorably with answer sets from search engines that claim to do search expansion/reduction, query mode switching, or clustering.
Next step is to check if with a large corpus and a thesaurus, results compare favorably with results from search engines that claim to use semantics.
So far, my one is cost effective and does not require of extra libraries.
PS: I forget to mention that my ranking algorithm is not based on computing vectors or cosine similarities, so any overhead from a Vector Space Model is avoided. That's the icing on the cake!
03 Monday Aug 2009
Posted Latent Semantic Indexing, Miscellaneous, Vector Space Modelsin
1. The current issue of IR Watch will be out over the weekend–a bit delayed due to getting ready for school, preparing lessons and research projects. If things go as expected, my academic schedule will be a bit busy between teaching and research at two different universities.
2. I'm researching for a manuscript that deals with affine transformations applied to several IR problems. It expands on Vector Space Theory and allows one to think out of the "term-document" box. Great stuff.
3. Here is a great grad project in ppt format: Semantically Motivated Information Retrieval. I thank its author for referencing my SVD Fast Track Tutorial.
4. Talking about semantically motivated, sentiment analysis, spam, etc… Funny how some folks in the SEO world like to damage the reputation of others without presenting any evidence. This time the trolls took on Kim Krause Berge ( http://cre8pc.com/archives/1489 ). I always admire Kim's work, consider her an usability icon, and had the privilege of meeting her back in 2005. I was surprised to see these folks having a field day at her expense at Rand's site. Kim, I feel your pain. However, more than one SEO forum/blog had lose credibility by allowing these folks, most of which think they can be socially "ranked" by attacking whoever is at the "top". The fact is that most trolls are paper tigers that go hidding at the first Cease & Desist or defamation lawsuit.
15 Wednesday Jul 2009
Posted Vector Space Modelsin
It is surprising how even serious information retrieval researchers and journals quote papers that were never written!
This is the thesis of David Dubin's 2004 great article
The Most Influential Paper Gerard Salton Never Wrote
Dubin wrote:
"In giving credit to Salton for the vector model, a number of authors cite an overview paper titled "A Vector Space Model for Information Retrieval," which some show as published in the JASIS in 1975 and others as published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) in 1975. In fact, no such article was ever published, and citations to it usually represent a confusion of two 1975 articles (Salton, Wong, & Yang, 1975; Salton, Yang, & Yu, 1975), neither of which were overviews of the VSM as it is generally understood (see section 5 below). Some of Salton's own colleagues have been guilty of this mistake: both Cardie et al. and Singhal cite the CACM version, for example (Singhal, 2001; Cardie, Ng, Pierce, & Buckley, 2000). The paper is even cited in a few of the very last articles on which Salton is listed as a coauthor (Singhal, Salton, Mitra, & Buckley, 1996; Singhal & Salton, 1995). These papers were published close to or shortly after the time of his death, and so the errors cannot be blamed on Salton (remembered by his colleagues as a very careful and meticulous writer)."
Somehow far too many IRs misquote Salton's 1975 paper titled "A vector space model for automatic indexing". This causes digital libraries to create a spurious record attached to many cross-referenced articles.
I searched Google for "a vector space model for information retrieval" + salton and indeed there are many reputed publications and researchers citing a paper that was never published! What a shame.
That says a lot about researchers, editors, and reviewers that were lazy enough to never bother about the accuracy of the references.
27 Wednesday May 2009
Posted SEO Myths, Vector Space Modelsin
I'm putting together a piece on several local term weight models. It should be ready in few weeks.
It is a research paper that can be used as a tutorial. It describes a systematic approach for the derivation of any kind of local term weighting model. Students can use it as a recipe for proposing their own candidate models.
The article touches on some aspects of the problem of trusting models that lack of attenuation. Here is one snippet on the subject:
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"It should be stressed that term repetition not necessarily satisfies users' queries nor is evidence of:
Pertinence (P); e.g., that a term repeated x times is x times more pertinent to the document.
Aboutness (A); e.g., that the document is x times more about the term.
Importance (I); i.e., that there is a term-document relationship of pertinence and aboutness.
Relevance (R);i..e., that a document repeating a term x times is x times more relevant.
Accordingly, fulfilling such 'PAIR criteria' on a regular basis is hard to accomplish with any model that lacks of attenuation."
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03 Friday Apr 2009
Posted Latent Semantic Indexing, Vector Space Modelsin
source: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiNgJordan2003.pdf
There is a kind of buzz about Probabilistic Latent Semantics Indexing, so this post goes.
From VSM to LSI
Prior to 1988 the prevalent IR model was Salton's Vector Space Model (VSM). This model treats documents and queries as vectors in a multidimensional space. In this space a query is treated just as another document. In this term space, it is not possible to assign a position to terms simply because these are the dimensions of the space. Coordinate values assigned to document and query vectors are given by terms weights computed using a particular weighting scheme.
VSM and its many variants are based on matching query terms to terms found in documents. These models assume term independence. However, we know this assumption is not necessarily correct since terms can be dependent via (a) synonymity and (b) polysemy.
In 1988, Dumais and co-workers at Bellcore (now Telcordia) published two papers in which they applied Golub and Kahan's 1965 SVD algorithm to "documents" exhibiting (a) and (b) and called that Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI).
LSI became an improvement over the simplistic point of view of term matching, accounting for term dependencies. The "documents" were not HTML Web documents (there were no Web documents back then), but just abstracts and memos from specific knowledge domains (HCI, scientific, med). As expected these consisted of synonyms and related terms used in these domains. Thus, clusters of these were obtained.
It was immediately claimed that LSI could be used to model aspects of basic linguistic -like synonymy and polysemy- and how the human mind associates words to concepts and concepts to meaning.
Moving twenty years forward, SEOs misread such outdated research and the synonym-stuffing myth was born.
There is now a crew of SEOs claiming that they can design documents "LSI-friendly" by making these rich in synonyms and related terms. We have demonstrated via our SVD and LSI tutorial series why this is not possible. These marketers are simply inventing out of thin air LSI Myths in order to market better whatever they sell or promote (often their own image as "experts"). Same goes for those that claim "PLSI-SEO" strategies.
Research findings suggest that what makes LSI works is first and higher-order co-occurrence paths hidden in the term-term LSI matrix. These paths are responsible for how and why of the redistribution of term weights in a truncated term-document matrix. Altering terms (even a single term) of this matrix provokes a redistribution of term weights across the entire matrix, whose outcome cannot be predicted. This is why "LSI-friendly" documents is plain SEO Snakeoil. Again, the same goes for those that claim "PLSI-SEO" strategies. Keep reading.
Enters Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI) model
In 1998 LSI was put into question. Given a generative model of text: why adopt LSI when one could use Bayesian or maximum likelihood methods and fit the model to data?
In 1999, Thomas Hofmann presented the Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI) model, also known as the Aspect Model, as an alternative to LSI. PLSI (or PLSA) models each word in a document as a sample from a mixture model. The mixture components are multinomial random variables viewed as representations of topics.
Each word is generated from a single topic, and different words in a document can be generated from different topics. In this model each document is represented as a list of mixing proportions for these mixture components. Thus, documents are reduced to a probability distribution over a set of topics, which is the expected "reduced description" associated with the document.
But there is a problem.
Enters Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model (LDA)
By 2003 Hofman's PLSI model was put into question, this time by David Blei, Andrew Ng and Michael Jordan, who proposed that year the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model (LDA). As noted by Blei, et al. (and quote) PLSI "is incomplete in that it provides no probabilistic model at the level of documents. In pLSI, each document is represented as a list of numbers (the mixing proportions for topics), and there is no generative probabilistic model for these numbers. "
Blei and co-workers then stated that this leads to two problems:
1. the number of parameter in the model grows linearly with the size of the corpus, which leads to serious problems with over fitting
2. it is not clear how to assign probability to a document outside of the training set.
Thus, it is not true that PLSI is the preferred model to work with in IR, as some have claimed. In addition, the model has non-trivial theoretical flaws and limitations.
In Salton Term Vector Model as in the LSI and PLSI models word order does not matter. Documents are simply considered a "bag of words". However, common sense dictates that this is not a valid assumption since word semantics is sensitive to word ordering. This explains why searches in Google for college junior or junior college produce far different results.
To underscore the importance of word ordering consider this: applying a similarity measure like a Jaccard Coefficient computed from a term-term matrix to the above two queries produces identical results, but again the computed similarity scores are disconnected from word semantics.
Blei and co-workers have argued that if we want to consider exchangeable representations (ordering) for documents and words, we need to consider mixture models that capture the exchangeability of both words and documents. This is why they proposed their LDA model.
In LDA documents are represented as random mixtures over latent topics, and each topic is characterized by a distribution over words.
I believe we are moving toward a Unified IR Theory where Co-Occurrence, Probability and Geometry will converge. In this unified framework there is no room for the idea of term independence or of documents as mere "bags of words". The former is IR's Original Sin and the later is its copycat.
The image above gives me a flash back on research work I conducted in the late '80s on sequential simplex optimization methods.
20 Friday Mar 2009
Posted IR Tutorials, SEO Myths, Vector Space Modelsin
In SEOs and their IDF Myths, we covered how many are mistaking the measure of term specificity known as Inverse Document Frequency (IDF).
In SEOs and their IDF Myths: Part 2, we exposed some of these folks.
In Understanding TFIDF, we wrote a rebuttal.
We are still seeing so many bloggers mistaking IDF for something that is not. We have to conclude these pseudo-teachers either are just trying to sell something or they don't really understand what term specificity stands for. They should know that IDF is a small pixel section within the bigger picture of the Robertson-Sparck Jones Probabilistic Model for information retrieval.
Thus, we are writing a tutorial on RSJ-PM to kill for good their intentionally misleading efforts. Hopefully, the tutorial will be ready before the month ends. It will be a great way of putting to rest all the false information flying around from the usual agents of misinformation (mostly SEOs). CS students interested in knowing about the pros and cons of probability models in IR will find it useful.
17 Tuesday Mar 2009
Posted Data Mining, Machine Learning, Vector Space Modelsin
I'm reading with great interest the paper
Efficient Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis Using a Case-Based Experience Sharing System, by Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Erik Olsson, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, and presented at the 20th International Congress and Exhibition on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics Engineering Management, p 305-314, COMADEM 2007, Faro, Portugal,
I'm happy to read they referenced our Tutorial on Cosine Similarity Measures. Their CBR-based search system combines a tf*IDF term vector scoring scheme and ontologies.
Their abstract follows:
In a dynamic industrial environment changes occur more and more rapidly, new machines, new staff when scaling up production and reduced staff when scaling down during a recession, staff with varying experience etc. This puts a high focus on experience reuse and sharing; much experience is lost during down-scaling and tied up in knowledge transfer/teaching during up-scaling. This is recognised as very costly for industry and reduces productivity and competitiveness. Condition Monitoring and diagnostics is such an area where lack on knowledge and mistakes can have severe consequences for a company's long term existence. Maintenance staffs, technicians and engineers also gain much experience during their every day work, often during many years, but there are rarely any good processes for experience sharing and reuse inside the organisations. In this paper we present an experience sharing system based on case-based reasoning and limited natural language processing. The system is a tool for maintenance staff and engineers and enables efficient experience collection, reuse and sharing. The implemented prototype is web-based to promote access from any location and may be local or global enabling experience sharing openly or in clusters of collaborating companies. Case based reasoning has proven to be an efficient method to identify and reuse experience if the application domain has cases. Our target application domain has these features and there are plenty of cases valuable to reuse. We have validated this in close collaboration with maintenance engineers through field studies. The prototype developed shows promising features and will be tested in real industrial environments during 2007 and 2008.
13 Friday Mar 2009
Posted Vector Space Modelsin
I received yesterday the following email from a reader (name removed). I am reproducing it since the discussion might be of value to others with similar questions.
Hello Dr. Garcia,
I've seen your tutorial "PCA and SPCA Tutorial" while I was trying to
find out something about PCA. So I decided to ask this to you. I'll be
happy if you answer.
My feature matrix contains 30 feature vectors and I want to reduce
this dimension using 95% of variance explained. Ranges of some feature vectors have great differences. For example, one feature vector's range is about [0,10], while some others is [-10^10,10^10]. So when I directly subtract the mean and calculate covariance matrix, one of the eigenvalues suppresses the others.
Is it a proper way to scale data (z=(x-mean)/std_dev) firstly and then subtract mean of the scaled version and calculate covariance matrix?
When I try this procedure eigenvalues seem to be correct but I cannot be sure if this is a correct way or not.
Do you think that this is correct? If not, what is the correct way
using covariance matrix rather than correlation matrix?
Thanks in advance.
My answer follows.
The purpose of centering data (transforming data to z-scores) is to remove undesirable fluctuations. This is particular useful when there is a common source of error; e.g. as in a time series. Assuming this is your case, then you are doing the right thing.
An advantage of data centering is that it is part of the PCA solution of minimizing the sum of squared errors (SSE). Overall, the goal is to find the best affine linear subspace.
Centering the data has other advantages. It allows us to make cosine angles equal to Pearson's Correlation Coeffficients so that similarity information can be explored. Also, once in a z-score form, the data can be checked to see whether it follows a normal distribution.
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I hope this helps.


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