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Bread & Wine opened in 2003 as a new home for our bakery and a more informal manner of dining than the first St. John Restaurant in Smithfield. Breakfast and lunch are served seven days a week and supper from Monday to Saturday. The menu, celebrating indigenous, seasonal ingredients changes as the day rolls on and diners can either order a three course meal or share a number of dishes from the courses on offer. As well as selling goods to take home from our bakery, wines by the bottle or the case can be bought from our lists to take home with some delivery available. Bread & Wine has been voted Best British Restaurant by the Evening Standard and named as best value restaurant by The Observer Food Monthly.
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One of the pioneers of "Nose to Tail" dining, St. John Bread & Wine celebrates all things naturally edible.
The menu is exciting and ever-changing. And, if it can be foraged, found, or caught, you will see it pop on St. John's menu with style.
This restaurant has other iterations of itself scattered throughout London and all are set-up in a casual, laid-back fashion.
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Critical Essay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
SOURCE: "Writers and the Cinema—A Symposium," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4267, November 18, 1983, p. 1287.
In the following essay, Jhabvala comments on the reciprocal relationship between writing novels and screenplays.
I suppose my experience with films has been different from that of most other writers because I've always worked with the same team, the director James Ivory and the producer Ismail Merchant. This has protected me in so far as they have stood between me and what I would have found terribly unpleasant: a collaborative effort at what is called the script level; the dreaded story conference. The only sort of story conference we ever seem to have is when Jim says "Oh that's terrible, awful, can't you do better than that", thereby usually echoing my own thoughts.
Ramlal G. Agarwal on Jhabvala's India:
In a broader perspective, Jhabvala belongs to the tradition of the nineteenth-century comic English novelists like Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope. The post-Independence India resembles, in some ways, the nineteenth-century England. When Jhabvala came over to India, the country was passing through a period of unusual buoyancy. The longings of the people, which had been suppressed by centuries of subjection, had suddenly taken wings and started soaring high. The democratic faith that Indians had adopted had enkindled a sense of release and freedom among all sections of society. In the sudden momentum the country had gathered, the old and the new, the rich and the poor, the good and the bad made common cause and marched hand in hand.
Ramlal G. Agarwal, in his Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Story of Her Fiction, Sterling Publishers, 1990.
But besides protecting me from the real world of films, they have also brought it close, in the sense of home, to me. I know what they go through every time they have to raise money for a film—that is, I know about the financiers who draw up solemn contracts and then disappear when cast and crew are already on location and the producer is desperate for money. Once Ismail found a shipping magnate who wanted to be involved in films but one of whose ships sank every time Ismail needed money; another time a rich widow (actually, this happened several times with several rich widows) was already planning her outfit for the première and the village she was going to rent for the festival at Cannes when her accountant advised her against the investment. Then there are the actor's agents who always seem to be more important (or do I mean self-important?) than their clients; and everybody's lawyers whose fees take such a major bite out of a film's budget; and the actors—stars—surely the most comprehensive amalgam of human qualities any writer could hope to meet. All these people have enlarged my world and my landscape; and so have the locations we have used, admitting me into houses, palaces, whole strange cities—what an opportunity for a shy writer who would otherwise be restricted to peering through people's windows at night when the lights are on.
Another kind of advantage that I have gained through films has been in the editing room, where I have learned a whole new method of narration by watching scenes being moved to and fro in various juxtapositions, and time-schemes manipulated through flashbacks and flash-forwards. It has been a two-way traffic for me—what I have learned in films I have put back into my books, and what I have learned about characterization, relationships, happenings, and everything else that goes into writing fiction I've put to use in writing films. I can't think what it would have been like for me to have had one and not the other. I've needed both to keep going—I mean imaginatively as well as financially.
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MARCHINGTON Music Club welcomes the Herron Brothers to The Dog and Partridge pub on Sunday.
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Gwakwani — South Africa is the African continent's most advanced nation - yet an estimated 3 million of its residents live without electricity.
The government says it's working to improve its infrastructure to reach those people - many of them in remote areas - but it is simultaneously struggling to provide enough power for its growing urban population. In a remote South African village - actually called "armpit" in the local language - electricity is available for the first time in 2014.
Wilson Tshitande has lived in the remote village of Gwakwani for as long as he can remember. He boasts that he knows every stick, every rock and every plant in this settlement of less than 100 people.
But one thing the 70-year-old never thought he would see has finally come to this village in South Africa's largely rural Limpopo province: electricity.
In the local Venda language, the name "Gwakwani" literally means "armpit." It's so named because it's wedged under the nearest river and other important landmarks. But perhaps, residents say, the village's modesty has also led to their being overlooked in their request for electricity.
"We have been expecting that there would be electricity, but since we are poor we have nothing. So we've just been hoping that someday something would happen," said Tshitande.
Despite the villagers' appeals to the municipality, the power lines stop at the next village over.
Local ward councilor Rabelani Gadabeni said the power utility and municipality don't have the budget to bring the lines to Gwakwani. Instead, electricity is coming through a private initiative led by the University of Johannesburg.
"We see that that thing, it will take time. So that if we even happen to engage with the University of Johannesburg so that if maybe they can do a solar project, it will help our people faster than when we have to budget for the main line," said Gadabeni.
A team from the university's electrical engineering department recently travelled 800 kilometers to the village to install solar panels donated by a local business.
Engineering lecturer M. Hove helped the university choose the village.
"There are a number of these communities that are needy. But we found this village as the most needy. As I often say, I call it the 'forgotten village,'" said Hove.
The small amount of power generated by the solar panels will initially fuel a water pump that until now has run on diesel fuel. Hove said that is just the start of the project - the next phase will include more improvements.
Godfrey Nefuluphudwe has operated the aging pump for four years. He travels once a month to the nearest town to buy the diesel fuel.
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"It's going to help us a lot. But we need you to come back and electrify all of our houses. Because, without electricity, we live hard. Because we must move from that village to another village to charge even your phone or laptops. We must buy batteries for our radios," said Nefuluphudwe.
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First sales of Heirloom Series homes at Esperanza in Paseo under way
Stock Development has begun closings on the first Heirloom Series of single-family homes in Esperanza, a new neighborhood within Paseo.
"We will have the first seven homes completed this month and three more next month," said Tim Clark, vice president of sales at Paseo. "We are very excited that the first residents have moved into Experanza and the neighborhood is coming to life!"
Esperanza is accessed via a landscaped entry bridge directly across from Paseo's village center. It consists of approximately 100 acres in the northern phase of the community and is completely encircled by the environment of the Six Mile Cypress Slough.
According to Clark, nearly 50 homes have been sold in Esperanza. Six furnished models are open.
The new Heirloom Series homes were designed by Stock Construction. Three plans range from 1,809 to more than 2,000 square feet under air and offer two or three bedrooms and two baths. Designs include a great room with large island-style kitchens, while others offer formal living and dining rooms. All offer pool options on screened and covered lanais with outdoor kitchen options. The homes feature attached two-car garages.
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The Heirloom Series of homes are situated along the Adelio Lane cul-de-sac and feature a combination of lake and nature preserve views. Thiry-seven homes are found within the neighborhood. Prices begin in the $280,000s.
Esperanza is near Paseo's village center which includes a full-service concierge, bistro, ice cream parlor, pub, Internet café, a coffee shop, fitness center, a business center and library, spa services and a 90-seat theater.
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Paseo has furnished models open for viewing in Phase I, including flats, townhomes, casitas and single-family homes. Prices at Paseo begin in the $170,000s.
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Let's say I had superpowers in the real world, to come out public, virtually with would be suicide, every scientist would automatically be on me, not to talk about all the governments which would try to recrute me... As a matter a fact if I had real superpowers probably I wouldn't play the superhero game... I'm not saying not to help people, but I'd have the time of my life knowing no one could stop me!!


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Michael Bisping May Require Surgery to Repair Trapped Nerve In Neck | UFC NEWS
ESPN UK has recently reported that Michael "The Count" Bisping may go under the knife to fix trapped nerve in his neck, just two months before his scheduled bout against Alan "The Talent" Belcher. Bisping elaborated on his condition to ESPN reporters:
"My right arm, and this is the first time I've mentioned this, I have a trapped nerve in my neck and [possibly] need surgery on my neck. The way they've described it is that if you stand on a hosepipe, a lot of the water doesn't get through. The nerves along my right arm aren't getting through."
"All along here (gestures towards his side and pectoral area), you could squeeze my pec, really get your nails into it, and I wouldn't feel a thing. My right arm is so much weaker than my left, it's called atrophy, my muscle is wasting away because nerve signals aren't getting through. I need that taken care of but I've been fighting so much that I haven't had time for the treatment..'"
Later he continued, "The thing is I've got another fight booked already. My hand, I can't even make a fist because I keep going into fight after fight after fight. Really what I need is six months off, but I don't want to take six months off. I like what I do, I like to be kept busy."
The Count hopes to bounce back quickly from his surgery, and get back in the win column, but one has to question if he is taking this injury as seriously as he should. If the doctors are recommending six months and instead Bisping opts to take none and continue in pursuit of a win over Alan Belcher, could he be hurting his future as a contender in the UFC's Middleweight Division. Bisping has already suffered a devastating loss to Vitor Belfort to take him from a possible shot at the title.
Bisping has always expressed that he is not one to make excuses, he always taken the "Suck it up and be a man" approach in his career, but if he doesn't take care of his body while he is in what he believes to be his prime he may see his shelf life as a UFC Middleweight diminish. Injury aside it sounds like we'll still be seeing a great middleweight bout between Bisping and Belcher this April.
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dude its spelled Bisping not Bisbing
My mom went through this same exact thing.. She didnt need surgery though, just months of physical therapy.. Not sure how Bisping even could train with this going on..
"future as a contender…" lol Good to see Mr Mattos writing jokes into his articles.
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groovyghalia on Dec 4, 2010 at 16:12:05
http://www.threadless.com/product/1633/Her_Hair LETS GET THIS REPRINTED PEOPLE
sallyluxe on Nov 30, 2010 at 04:06:05
I love it! I'm a Cure fan so... yeah. Perfect!
Ameeratron on Nov 26, 2010 at 03:14:15
@busdriver_jow, um part of the lyrics is 'I dont care if Mondays blue'. Hence the blue monday.
busdriver_jow on Nov 24, 2010 at 05:37:30
blue monday? that's the only part i understand, lol. but design looks really cool.
groovyghalia on Nov 22, 2010 at 19:01:15
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Arscatarsis on Nov 22, 2010 at 14:41:36
Cute model.
kay833 on Nov 22, 2010 at 13:45:21
I love this! the only diff I'd make was to put a 'Sunday' panel on the back; cos Saturday can wait... but Sunday always comes too late! :)
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BostonSteve on Nov 16, 2010 at 17:18:44
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DonnieM on Nov 13, 2010 at 17:54:22
I can appreciate the idea behind the shirt, but I am not sure about the execution. Why have it seem weathered? Why not reduce the panels to less than four weeks, maybe just a panel or two, there is a lot of overlap in the design. It should be a design that is obvious from a distance, and immediately, and you can see even from the photos, that is not the case. Look at classic arcade games, some of the most beloved games had some of the most simple artwork - like Berzerk vs. Arabian...simple flat colored invaders vs. a fully rendered Disney-esque scene.
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the cure
NicoleSevasti on Nov 6, 2010 at 22:35:39
love this tee!! please reprint!
ShayneG on Nov 3, 2010 at 21:28:07
Man, I loved this song when I first heard it. Wish was a great album, even though it came out in the 90's. YUCK. If people dislike emo now, they should have to suffer through the boring angst of grudge. The 80's was such a better period for music--even though 84 was when Marvin Gaye shot by his father. Oh well. This shirt is awesome, and I love that the lyrics to the song are represented so well in each little frame. Good job.
youngsoulrebel on Nov 1, 2010 at 21:50:43
Saturday & Sunday in the song don't provide exciting visuals.
Kempler on Oct 30, 2010 at 21:48:49
PLZ!! reprint! I so need this shirt otherwise I may never find happiness!


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So it's my first time using wordpress and i know how to code websites but i thought rather than jumping the gun and hand code first i thought it would be better to use an exisisting template and then merge my code with pre-written.
Well all started out well until things started messing up and i couldn't locate the specific problem plus the css stylesheet was so poorly written it had dupes with different styles!!!
So my question is how do you guys start a wordpress template, is there something im missing? Do you handcode your website to xhtml/css then start entering in the php.
Do you have a basic, basic template that you use in wordpress before adding your code in?
I was so close to finishing up my template and now i feel i might have to start again and instead code it up normally then import into wordpress.


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I can't get my head around the attitude some people have toward the show in terms of 'replacing this or that' because I've seen it all already. So what? If you don't want to see it again don't buy the HD set. I've seen all the episodes too, but I've never seen them like this and it felt like seeing the show for the first time all over again.
The original effects are beautiful, and they honestly didn't get a chance to truly shine over the last 25 years. Season 3 was the only set I ever bought of the DVD release, so I fired up Sins of the father today and immediately after watched the new HD version. It's like seeing a totally different show.
If someone decides to go and revise all of the effects after all these sets have been released, then so be it, but I want to see the show as it was filmed and in it's original form. No TOSR revisionism thank you. The show is what it is.
If I want to see new effects, I'll find a new show to watch.
Star Trek, a show about humanity exploring strange new worlds and civilisations, the quest to explore something new.
It turns out its fans don't want anything new at all, just the same worlds and civilisations with a bit of polish, neatly packaged.
I don't doubt once all the spinoff series are out then the producers will set to work with a proper (whatever the format by then) CGI (whatever the resolution by that time
) remastering in another attempt to get us to pay a lot of money for the same thing.
My point was I don't see why they didn't do a remastering release in the same way they did with the improved TOS release, you would still get exactly what you're getting now but those who do want something new for their money will get what they want too and CBS will get more sales out of it in the long run.
They'll do it eventually, mark my words, but it won't be a great artistic endeavour just as this isn't a great restoration endeavour, its just yet another way for them to get your money into their pockets, for which they'll do the bare minimum possible.
The not wanting to see anything new smacks of old people being typically hesitant towards change, particularly when a lot of the time what you want to preserve is errors and budget/time constraints getting in the way of the producers and writers TRUE intentions.
The proposed project YOU are talking about would cost twice as much or more to produce. The only reason they did TOS-R that way was because the classic vfx negatives didn't hold up to the HD transfer, and they didn't have the uncomposited masters.
Sorry but those are the facts. Would I like some new fx shots in TNG-R.... YES.... will there be some.... YES.
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In what will perhaps be the most obvious piece of news of the week, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin told Bob Labriola of Steelers Digest that both linebacker Jason Worilds and cornerback Cortez Allen will open up training camp as the starters at their respective positions.
1 more tidbit: Tomlin sez @Cortez_Allen & Jason Worilds (@WorildsGreatest) both arrive at camp as starters on defense. Read the rest on Wed
— Bob Labriola (@BobLabriola) July 23, 2013
Allen will take over for Keenan Lewis, who signed with the New Orleans Saints during the offseason while Worilds will take over at right outside linebacker for James Harrison, who was released prior to the start of the new league year.
The Steelers drafted Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft, but he will have a hard time overtaking Worilds, who is entering the final year of his rookie contract, during training camp.
Worilds recorded 27 total tackles in 2012 to go along with five sacks and two defensed passes.
Allen played a considerable amount of snaps in 2012 as the nickel corner, and is expected to shift inside once again in 2013 when the Steelers utilize their sub package with William Gay entering as the third cornerback.
In the final two games of the 2012 season, The Citadel product recorded two interceptions and three forced fumbles to go along with 15 total tackles.
Labriola will have his pre-camp interview with Tomlin posted Wednesday on steelers.com.
I guess i'm the only one with these two opinions: 1. Cortez can become good but the sample size is too small for everyone to consider him a guaranteed upgrade from Lewis. 2. Jarvis Jones has a good shot to unseat Worilds in training camp. I highly doubt a team this desperate for playmakers won't give him every opportunity to get on the field.
Allen is an upgrade over Lewis, or Lewis would still be here. We could have fit his contract under the sal cap if we wanted to. Being honest, I'm a little more concerned about Gay coming in at the # 2 corner spot when we going into our nickel and dime sub packages. Hopefully, Brown has a Lewis like epiphany and can settle into that role instead of Gay.
Can you elaborate on why you think this is so? It is hard to comment/discuss on blanket statements without an explanation as to why they were given. In other words, it makes it difficult to debate.
Call me crazy, but I'm not on the Jones wagon for this year. Maybe next year if he can put on about 15 lbs below the waist. I got a good look at him in shorts and a t shirt a couple of months ago. He looks more like a safety, than a linebacker. No Joke. I hope he can become a terror on ST units until he fills out a bit.
Hopefully Troy will factor in to the nickel and dime packages as well. I know he is a play-maker around the line of scrimmage, but in 3rd and long situations when you know they are going deep help your weakest link in Gay with one of your best play makers in Troy. Blitz Timmons in those situations.
no reason to deny Jones a chance. Allen starting was a forgone conclusion
careful VaDave. "Jon Scott is an upgrade over Max Starks or Starks would still be here". "Jason Worilds is an upgrade over James Harrison or Harrison would still be here"
Again, cortez allen's sample size is a total of what 5 games? Didn't say he can't be a good corner but that's hardly enough to show he's an upgrade, why didn't he beat lewis in camp last year? Jarvis Jones was the most disruptive defensive player in college football last year and not just in regards to rushing the passer, which some people on here claim. He had 20 some tackles for a loss, he's not just gonna be slated as #2 without an interesting camp battle. At the very least he'll be rotated in situationally.
It IS not a small sample. Cortez Allen have displayed plenty as a nickel CB, it wasn't a competition between him and Keenan Lewis; their positions on outside and inside already were set. You don't look toward who beat whom for a spot, you look at development and timing of skillset blossoming, Cortez is technically starting for second year but not as a nickel cornerback anymore.
Jarvis jones on other hand is really good but if you are going to tell me he'll produce sacks like how our LBs usually does, I'll have hard time making a straight face. Worilds already have an NFL body to go with his years of experience. Remember worilds is 260+ lbs who run sub 4.5 on his pro day, Worilds now are in Keenan Lewis' shoes- he will be either making a lot somewhere or getting a reduced salary with us after 2014 and that's not a bashing against his skillset but we found somebody who is more "well-rounded" and could develop much more (Jarvis Jones and Adrian Robinson)
Jon Scott was an upgrade over a Starks that was hurt and could not play. Jason Worlids is not going to be an upgrade over the Harrison of 2008 by any stretch of the imagination, but considering Harrison is 36, playing only parts of the last two seasons, some of which was in a diminished capacity, maybe in the present tense, at best a replacement?
You explained your points well. Is small sample size because nickle or dime cb isnt same as playing every defensiv snap or covering offenses' top receivers all game. But a rookie OLB wont play any snap for LeBeau, though you are right that Jarvis is special a playmaker. Jarvis' knack you dont find at bogus track meet testing days for which everyone had learned to bolt out of the blocks to run fast 40 times.
Oh, he'll get a chance no doubt, and may play some in certain situations. I would not be surprised at that at all. As I said, I got a good look at him. I also got a good up close of Harrison as well. Harrison, while shorter, was much wider, especially from the hips down. This is where he got the power to drive through the OL. No doubt , Jones is a solid athlete, but when you see him padded up, he's going to look more like a David Fulcher type safety that a linebacker. He's is not going to be anywhere near as powerful. He may be as fast, as quick, but there is no way he's going to blow through linemen like Harrison did. JMO.
The reason Lewis not here is because Steeler could not enter a bidding war to outbid every team if the FA's goal is to take highest bid to cash in on his rise in the NFL. Cortez is considered as good or not sigificantly worse than Keenan. Noone said Cortez is better or proved to be better, so I think thats some fandom. Cortez upside though is great unlimited because he's longer/taller than Lewis.
Action speaks louder than words. You are right nobody said Cortez was better than Lewis last offseason. They didn't have too. There was no bidding war, we just weren't going to pay lewis starter pay to sit on the bench.
What WAS said, numerous times by the FO , coaches, and various publications, Allen has a ton of upside that Lewis doesn't have, and expect him to settle in as our number one corner when Ike hangs 'em up.
Its getting weird you keep sticking to your only reason bring that a guy in dress clothes looked thin. This isnt Men's Warehouse, the player has a knack for making big plays.
Vet, Thank you for your sacrifice and service to our country.If it weren't for men like you, we wouldn't be discussing football.
LOL. No, I'm not weird, just posting an observation, and a pretty strong opinion he's not going to have the same impact this year in the NFL. Again, this year. Next year, we will see.
The guy did make some plays last year no doubt…. in college. This site put up GIFs of his 14 sacks from last season a while back, and nowhere to be found was him fighting through a block from an offensive lineman. Getting around the starting tackle from Clemson is one thing, getting around a Joe Thomas, and then finding a halfback that can block is entirely different.
That said, I claim no expertise. He seems like he's a decent kid, and I hope he does well. We need him to do well, because, Worlids, (IMO, not as bad as people suspect), is not the long term answer.
No surprise here…
Cortez Allen's sample size is a helluva lot more than 5 games.
Lets look at it like this. Even if he isn't an upgrade and is just equal this year. We were number 1 against the pass and ill take that. Its also likely based on his performance that he might cause more turnovers which will help of course also right?
Harrison is one of the strongest players in the NFL, not fair to compare them. :P. I agree with everything you said about Jones. I hope he is able to add some solid muscle and contribute on 3rd and long as a pass rushing specialist this season
amen to that one Dave! 😉
Leatherneck! Where'd you get tagged? Helmand?
Agree…nothing new learned…C. Brown is under the gun to keep the nickel job. Not only from Gay…they feel Hawthorne is a player. I think he'll be the other starting CB '14.
Dave i understand your point of "view" literally with Jarvis however, he is already 245. There is no reason for me to not think at his young age, that he cant put on another 10 to 12 lbs.
Lewis…Ike's cap hit is something north of $9 mil for '13…The Steelers have known for sometime that they could not, and were not going to pay 2 CBs prime time money. They knew Allen & Lewis were close heading into last season…Lewis won the job, got the big FA deal. Allen is now the bargain basement starter opposite Ike.
Allen is under-contract for roughly $700k in '14…If Hawthorne looks ready…look for them to cut Ike's final yr ($10 mil '14 contract), redo Allen a yr early at about $3 mil per.
Question for everyone.. If at the end of camp, Jarvis Jones surprises everyone with a stellar preseason and even splits starting reps with Worilds, should the steelers consider going with Jones to start the season?
This is why I ask… if Worilds ends up starting this season and plays anywhere between average to great, history shows that someone will offer him a high end contract.. Would the steelers give Worilds a big contract after JUST using a first round pick on Jones? It would probably mean Jones would be limited to a backup for several years, barring a complete collapse from Woodley. So I tend to think if Worilds has a good season, he's gone. Considering the alternative, where Worilds struggles as a starter this year, Jones will be starting next year anyways. Either scenario, Jones is starting next year anyways. So if he appears to be neck and neck with Worilds throughout training camp, maybe the steelers should just take a risk and start him now…. Just a thought
I saw Jones a ton LY and to be honest…I'm not thinking he will start either…he was a safety early on if memory serves me right…@ USC I think
I agree with your point but he'd be a pretty big S right now. About Von Miller size, slightly bigger actually.
Allen…Playing on the edge vs the slot is different, so sample size does matter. That said, Allen has all the tools to be a starter…technique wise I think he and Lewis were on the same level…Lewis played better in pre-season and that won him the job.
Allen can play bump-n-run, has good change of direction and closing speed…upgrade? No, but I don't expect much drop off either.
Even with a stellar preseason I don't think Jarvis starts unless Worilds is injured, just my opinion. I think the coaching staff truly wants to see what Worilds can do
You pose a big IF…this is just MO. I think Worilds has shown enough to get this chance to start, but he hasn't shown enough to be the heir apparent to the ROLB job.
If Worilds has a great season…more than likely he would be gone, but I don't foresee him getting a huge deal off one season like Lewis did. I don't think Jones is an ILB, but I could be wrong…people forget Timmons was drafted to play OLB also.
Neck & neck…with so much to learn within the scheme, I just don't see how Jones would be able to play at full speed, so I don't see how a neck and neck situation could happen.
Think of how Jack Ham looked when he was drafted or imagine how Jack Lambert looks in shorts. Looks can be deceiving.
Wow Walt, that was a different era. It's hard to compare them. The players were much lighter back then. If you go onto Steelers.com, in the history section, you can find all the players of that era and their measurements when they were drafted. Shoot, back then the heaviest player on the team was Joe Greene at 270lbs. Granted our average player weight plummeted this year with Big Snack ( 360?) Colon ( 340) and Starks (340) not around….( no they're still round, just not here), but still I think some of the sizes back in the 70's may surprise you.
I honestly think Worilds will be solid, but not spectacular. No, we're not going to see the Harrison type splash plays out of him, but at the end of the day he will have a respectable stat line. JMO. That said, if Jones is the real deal like a good many feel, it's going to be a short tenure. Anyway, it's going to be fun to watch him develop.
Yes I remember there were very few lineman over 300 on any team and the Steelers OL were about 250 (without looking). .But I thought we were talking about linebacker. And I still think those 2 guys I mentioned could play in todays era no problem..
We really don't know what Jones will be like as a pro yet…we have a small sampling of Worilds…If Jones' knack for finding the ball follows him to the NFL…he will make more splash plays than Worilds…agree it should be fun to watch.
Does van Dyke have a shot as a starter?
Now that was a good comment. Kudos to you sir, may i purchase tickets to your stand up act? Keep doubting Jones and he'll just pleasantly surprise you
what does Jones have to do with Van dyke. Jones is a LB, while Van Dyke is a CB.
Thought you were being a smart*** and comparing jones' chance to start to van dykes, my bad. I dont think van dyke can start but might see some snaps if he cuts down on stupid mistakes
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Wasn't Zadick wearing a big chest protector pad (that looked like a dinner plate inside his singlet) at the Chicago Cup? Just saying maybe he wasn't 100% then.
Wasn't Zadick wearing a big chest protector pad (that looked like a dinner plate inside his singlet) at the Chicago Cup? Just saying maybe he wasn't 100% then.
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Not very good? I am sure that all of you experts out there no what you are talking about. How many World medals do you have at any level? Until you go out there and get the job done I would keep quiet. I know that you won't though, just keep bashing the Americans. That is what most of you are good at.
He was not very good but, he was able to win the US nationals? I find this very curious.\
Like him or not he is the American guy at 60KG.
Hopefully working with Randy Lewis and some others has helped him iron out his strategy.
RIP Jacob Schlottke; KR1963 and rpayton
Well he definitely didn't help him his iron out his shirts. That Lewboo is a slob.
LOL, Quick.
RIP Jacob Schlottke; KR1963 and rpayton
I've been posting about International stuff for over 5 years and have gained a certain amount of respect from my fellow posters and an even greater respect from the posters who are in fact NCAA champs and World medalists.
They respect me because I follow the sport very closely, know wrestlers inside and out, present good arguments and back them up, show some humor, and most of all have confidence and conviction.
Yet still a lot of times I make calls about wrestlers that some deem unfavorable and there are always people who like to throw out the old "How many NCAA titles do you have?" or "How many World or Olympic Teams did you make?" "None? Oh then until then keep your mouth shut."
I fail to see the relevance in these questions and comments.
The forums are here to state one's opinions about wrestlers. Positive or negative.
The bottom line is that Zadick had a great showing in 2006, but not much aside from that. He failed to qualify his weight in 3 events. Now that it looks like he may be able to compete though the biggest stroke of luck I've seen in a while, we have some predicting Gold. Just doesn't seem logical to me. IMO it is more logical to say that he couldn't qualify our weight on 3 separate occasions and is considered a long shot.
I hope I'm wrong and he comes through with a medal, but I just don't see it happening.
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I love it when the "well you haven't done it, so you can't comment" people come out!
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A new report shows visitors and spending were up last year in national parks across New Mexico.
The analysis released Friday by the National Park Service shows more than 1.5 million people visited the state's 13 national parks in 2013, spending $83.2 million and supporting 1,136 jobs in the state.
Sue Masica, director of the Park Service's Intermountain Region, says the report confirms that national park tourism is a significant driver in the national economy, returning $10 for every $1 invested in the National Park Service.
New Mexico's 13 national parks include Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, Capulin Volcano, El Malpais, El Morro, Fort Union, Gila Cliff Dwellings, Petroglyph, Salinas Pueblo Missions and White Sands national monuments, and Chaco Culture and Pecos national historical parks.
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A method and system is provided for integrating multiple feature spaces in a k-means clustering algorithm when analyzing data records having multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces. The method assigns different relative weights to these various features spaces. Optimal feature weights are also determined that lead to a clustering that simultaneously minimizes the average intra-cluster dispersion and maximizes the average inter-cluster dispersion along all the feature spaces. Examples are provided that empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of feature weighting in clustering using two different feature domains.
1. A method for evaluating and outputting a final clustering solution for a plurality of multi-dimensional data records, said data records having multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces represented by feature vectors, said method comprising:
defining a distortion between two feature vectors as a weighted sum of distortion measures on components of said feature vectors;
clustering said multi-dimensional data records into k-clusters using a convex programming formulation;
selecting feature weights of said feature vectors, and
minimizing distortion of said k-clusters.
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8. A method for evaluating and outputting a clustering solution for a plurality of multi-dimensional data records, said data records having multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces represented by feature vectors, said method comprising:
defining a distortion between two said feature vectors as a weighted sum of distortion measures on components of said feature vectors;
clustering said multi-dimensional data records into k-clusters using a convex programming formulation of a generalized k-means clustering function; and
selecting optimal feature weights of said feature vectors by an objective function to produce said solution of a final clustering that simultaneously minimizes average intra-cluster dispersion and maximizes average inter-cluster dispersion along all said feature spaces.
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13. A computer system for data mining and outputting a final clustering solution, wherein said system includes a memory for storing a database having a plurality of multi-dimensional data records, each having multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces represented by feature vectors, said system including a processor for executing instructions comprising:
defining a distortion between two feature vectors as a weighted sum of distortion measures on components of said feature vectors;
clustering said multi-dimensional data records into k-clusters using a convex programming formulation; and
selecting feature weights of said feature vectors,
wherein said instruction for selecting said feature weights are optimized by implementing an objective function to produce said solution of a final clustering that simultaneously minimizes average intra-cluster dispersion and maximizes average inter-cluster dispersion along all said feature spaces.
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19. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by said machine to perform a method for evaluating and outputting a final clustering solution from a set of data records having multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces represented as feature vectors, said method comprising:
defining a distortion between two feature vectors as a weighted sum of distortion measures on components of said feature vectors;
clustering said multi-dimensional data records into k-clusters using a convex programming formulation; and
selecting feature weights of said feature vectors,
wherein said selecting of feature weights are optimized by an objective function to produce said solution of a final clustering that simultaneously minimizes average intra-cluster dispersion and maximizes average inter-cluster dispersion along all said feature spaces.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to data clustering and in particular, concerns a method and system for providing a framework for integrating multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces in a k-means clustering algorithm.
2. Description of the Related Art
Clustering, the grouping together of similar data points in a data set, is a widely used procedure for analyzing data for data mining applications. Such applications of clustering include unsupervised classification and taxonomy generation, nearest-neighbor searching, scientific discovery, vector quantization, text analysis and navigation, data reduction and summarization, supermarket database analysis, customer/market segmentation, and time series analysis.
One of the more popular techniques for clustering data of a set of data records includes partitioning operations (also referred to as finding pattern vectors) of the data using a k-means clustering algorithm which generates a minimum variance grouping of data by minimizing the sum of squared Euclidean distances from cluster centroids. The popularity of the k-means clustering algorithm is based on its case of interpretation, simplicity of use, scalability, speed of convergence, parallelizability, adaptability to sparse data, and ease of out-of-core use.
The k-means clustering algorithm functions to reduce data. Initial cluster centers are chosen arbitrarily. Records from the database are then distributed among the chosen cluster domains based on minimum distances. After records are distributed, the cluster centers are updated to reflect the means of all the records in the respective cluster domains. This process is iterated so long as the cluster centers continue to move and converge and remain static. Performance of this algorithm is influenced by the number and location of the initial cluster centers, and by the order in which pattern samples are passed through the program.
Initial use of the k-means clustering algorithm typically requires a user or an external algorithm to define the number of clusters. Second, all the data points within the data set are loaded into the function. Preferably, the data points are indexed according to a numeric field value and a record number. Third, a cluster center is initialized for each of the predefined number of clusters. Each cluster center contains a random normalized value for each field within the cluster. Thus, initial centers are typically randomly defined. Alternatively, initial cluster center values may be predetermined based on equal divisions of the range within a field. In a fourth step, a routine is performed for each of the records in the database. For each record number from one to the current record number, the cluster center closest to the current record is determined. The record is then assigned to that closest cluster by adding the record number to the list of records previously assigned to the cluster. In a fifth step, after all of the records have been assigned to a cluster, the cluster center for each cluster is adjusted to reflect the averages of data values contained in the records assigned to the cluster. The steps of assigning records to clusters and then adjusting the cluster centers is repeated until the cluster centers move less than a predetermined epsilon value. At this point the cluster centers are viewed as being static.
A fundamental starting point for machine learning, multivariate statistics, or data mining, is where a data record can be represented as a high-dimensional feature vector. In many traditional applications, all of the features are essentially of the same type. However, many emerging data sets are often have many different feature spaces, for example:
The invention provides a method and system for integrating multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces in a k-means clustering algorithm. The method of the invention adaptively selects the relative weights assigned to various features spaces, which simultaneously attains good separation along all of the feature spaces.
The invention integrates multiple feature spaces in a k-means clustering algorithm by assigning different relative weights to these various features spaces. Optimal feature weights are also determined that can be incorporated with this algorithm that lead to a clustering that simultaneously minimizes the average intra-cluster dispersion and maximizes the average inter-cluster dispersion along all the feature spaces.
The foregoing will be better understood from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the invention with reference to the drawings, in which:
1. Introduction
While the invention is primarily disclosed as a method, it will be understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art that an apparatus, such as a conventional data processor, including a CPU, memory, I/O, program storage, a connecting bus, and other appropriate components, could be programmed or otherwise designed to facilitate the practice of the method of the invention. Such a processor would include appropriate program means for executing the method of the invention. Also, an article of manufacture, such as a pre-recorded disk or other similar computer program product, for use with a data processing system, could include a storage medium and program means recorded thereon for directing the data processing system to facilitate the practice of the method of the invention. It will be understood that such apparatus and articles of manufacture also fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
The system memory includes read only memory (ROM) 24 and random access memory (RAM) 25. A basic input/output system 26 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that helps to transfer information between elements within the computer 20, such as during start-up, is stored in ROM 24.
The computer 20 further includes a hard disk drive 27 for reading from and writing to a hard disk, not shown, a magnetic disk drive 28 for reading from or writing to a removable magnetic disk 29, and an optical disk drive 30 for reading from or writing to a removable optical disk 31 such as a CD-ROM or other optical media. The hard disk drive 27, magnetic disk drive 28, and optical disk drive 30 are connected to the system bus 23 by a hard disk drive interface 32, a magnetic disk drive interface 33, and an optical drive interface 34, respectively. The drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for the computer 20. Although the exemplary environment described herein employs a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk 29, and a removable optical disk 31, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other types of computer readable media which can store data that is accessible by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, Bernoulli cartridges, random access memories (RAMs), read only memories (ROMs), and the like, may also be used in the exemplary operating environment. Data and program instructions can be in the storage area that is readable by a machine, and that tangibly embodies a program of instructions executable by the machine for performing the method of the present invention described herein for data mining applications.
A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 29, optical disk 31, ROM 24 or RAM 25, including an operating system 35, one or more application programs 36, other program modules 37, and program data 38. A user may enter commands and information into the computer 20 through input devices such as a keyboard 40 and pointing device 42. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 21 through a serial port interface 46 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 47 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 23 via an interface, such as a video adapter 48. In addition to the monitor, personal computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers and printers. The computer 20 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 49. The remote computer 49 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 20, although only a memory storage device 50 has been illustrated in FIG. 1A. The logical connections depicted in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 20 is connected to the local network 51 through a network interface or adapter 53. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 20 typically includes a modem 54 or other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 52, such as the Internet. The modem 54, which may be internal or external, is connected to the system bus 23 via the serial port interface 46. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 20, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
The method of the invention as shown in general form in
The computer system for implementing the method of the invention can be in the form of software, firmware, hardware or any combination or sub-combination thereof, which embody the invention. One skilled in the art of computer science will easily be able to combine the software created as described with appropriate general purpose or special purpose computer hardware to create a computer system and/or computer subcomponents embodying the invention and to create a computer system and/or computer subcomponents for carrying out the method of the invention.
The method of the invention is for clustering data, by establishing a starting point at step 1 as shown in
Feature weighting may be thought of as a generalization of feature selection where the latter restricts attention to weights that are either 1 (retain the feature) or 0 (eliminate the feature), see Wettschereck et al., Artificial Intelligence Review in the article entitled "A review and empirical evaluation of feature weighting methods for a class of lazy learning algorithms," Vol. 11, pps. 273-314, 1997. Feature selection in the context of supervised learning has a long history in machine learning, see, for example, Blum et al., Artificial Intelligence, "Selection of relevant features and examples in machine learning," Vol. 97, pps. 245-271, 1997. Feature selection in the context of unsupervised learning has only recently been systematically studied.
2. Data Model and a Distortion Measure
2.1 Data Model: Assume that a set of data records where each object is a tuple of m component feature vectors are given. A typical data object is written as: x=(F1, F2, . . . Fm), where the l-th component feature vector F1 1<1≦m, is to be thought of as a column vector and lies in some (abstract) feature space F1. The data object x lies on the m-fold product feature space F−F1�F2� . . . Fm. The feature spaces {F1}1=1 m can be dimensionally different and possess different topologies, hence, the data model accommodates heterogeneous types of features. There are two examples of feature spaces that include:
2.2 A Weighted Distortion Measure: Measuring distortion between two given two data records x=(F1, F2, . . . Fm) and {tilde over (x)}=({tilde over (F)}1, {tilde over (F)}2, . . . {tilde over (F)}m). For 1≦l<m, let D1 denote a distortion measure between the corresponding component feature vectors F1 and {tilde over (F)}1. Mathematically, only two needed properties of the distortion function:
3.1. The Problem: Suppose that n-data records are given such that
3.2 Generalized Centroids: Given a partitioning {πu}u=1 k, for each partition πu, write the corresponding generalized centroid as
where the feature weights α=(α1, α2, . . . αm) are fixed. When only one of the weights {α1}l=1 m is nonzero, the maximization problem (3) is known to be NP-complete, meaning no known algorithm exists for solving the problem in polynomial time. K-means is used, which is an efficient and effective data clustering algorithm. Moreover, k-means can be thought of as a gradient ascent method, and, hence, never increases the objective function and eventually converges to a local minima.
The components that perform the clustering require three inputs: the number of clusters K, a set of K initial starting points, and the data records to be clustered. The clustering of data by these components produces a final solution as shown in step 5 as an output. Each of the K clusters of this final solution is represented by its mean (centroid) where each mean has d components equal to the number of attributes of the data records and a fixed feature weight of the m-feature spaces.
A refinement of feature weights in step 4 below produces better clustering from the data records to be clustered using the methodology of the invention. A most favorable refined starting point produced using a good approximation of an initial starting point is discussed below that would move the set of starting points that are closer to the modes of the data distribution.
At Step 1: An initial point with an arbitrary partitioning of the data records of the data records to be evaluated is provided, wherein, {πu (o)}u=1 k. Let {cu (o)}u=1 k denote the generalized centroids associated with the given partitioning. Set the index of iteration i=0. A choice of the initial partitioning is quite crucial to finding a good local minima; to achieve this, see a method for doing this technique as taught in U.S. Pat. No. 6,115,708 hereby incorporated by reference.
At Step 2: For each data record xi, 1≦i≦n, find the generalized centroid that is closest to xi. Now, for 1<u<k, compute the new partitioning {πu (i+1)}u=1 k induced by the old generalized centroids:
Step 3: Compute the new generalized centroids {cu (i+1)}u=1 k πu †=πu (i+1) corresponding to the partitioning computed in equation (4) by using equations (1)-(2) where instead of πu, the following is used: πu (i+1).
Step 4: Optionally refine the features weights and store in memory using the method discussed in Section 4 below.
Step 5: If some stopping criterion is met, then set cu †=cu (i+1) for 1<u<k, and exit at step 5 as the final clustering solution. Otherwise, increment i by 1, and go to step 2 above and repeat the process. An example of a stopping criterion is: Stop if the change in the objective function as defined in equation (6) below, between two successive iterations, is less than a specified threshold, for example the generalized centroids do not move and being less than a small floating point number.
To meaningfully define precision/recall, conversion of the clusterings into classification using the following simple rule is made by identifying each cluster with the class that has the largest overlap with the cluster, and assign every element in that cluster to the found class. The rule allows multiple clusters to be assigned to a single class, but never assigns a single cluster to multiple classes. Suppose there are c classes {ωl}l=1 c in the ground truth classification. For a given clustering, by using the above rule, let a1 denote the number of data records that are correctly assigned to the class w1, and let b1 denote the data records that are incorrectly rejected from the class ωt, let b1 denote the data records that are incorrectly rejected from the class ωt. Precision and recall are defined as:
6.1 Data Model: Suppose a data set with both numerical and categorical features is given. By linearly scaling each numerical feature, that is, subtracting the mean and divide by the square-root of the variance. All linearly scaled numerical features into one feature space are clubbed, and, for this feature vector, the squared-Euclidean distance is used, by representing each q-ary categorical feature using a 1-in-q representation, and all of the categorical features are clubbed into a single feature space. Assuming no missing values, all the categorical feature vector have the same norm, by only retaining the direction of the categorical feature vectors, that is, normalizing each categorical feature vector to have an unit Euclidean norm, and use the cosine distance. Essentially, each data object x is represented as a m-tuple, m=2, of feature vectors (F1, F2).
6.2 HEART and ADULT Data Sets:
The HEART data set consists of n=270 instances, and can be obtained from the STATLOG repository. Every instance consists of 7 numerical and 6 categorical features. The data set has two classes: absence and presence of heart disease; 55.56% (resp. 44.44%) instances were in the former (resp. later) class. The ADULT data set consists of n=32561 instances that were extracted from the 1994 Census database. Every instance consists of 6 numerical and 8 categorical features. The data set has two classes: those with income less than or equal to $50,000 and those with income more than $50,000; 75.22% (resp. 24.78%) instances were in the former (resp. later) class.
6.3 The Optimal Weights: In this case, the set of feasible weights is
For the HEART (resp. ADULT) data,
For the HEART (resp. ADULT) data,
7. Second Example of Using the Method of Clustering Text Data using Words and Phrases as the Feature Spaces
7.1. Phrases in Information Retrieval: Vector space models, represent each document as a vector of certain (possibly weighted and normalized) term frequencies. Typically, terms are single words. However, to capture word ordering, it is intuitive to also include multi-word sequences, namely, phrases, as terms. The use of phrases as terms in vector space models has been well studied. In the example as follows, the phrases along with the words in a single vector space model are not a club. For information retrieval, when single words are also simultaneously used, it is known that natural language phrases do not perform significantly better than statistical phrases. Hence, the focus is on statistical phrases which are simpler to extract, see, for example, see Agrawal et al. in "Mining sequential patterns," Proc. Int. Conf. Data Eng., (1995). Also, see Mladenic et al., "Word sequences as features in text-learning" in Proc. 7th Electrotech Computer Science Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pages 145-148, (1998) found that while adding 2- and 3-word phrases improved the classifier performance, longer phrases did not. Hence, the example illustrates single words, 2-word phrases and 3-word phrases.
7.2 Data Model:
7.3 Newsgroups Data: Picked out of the following 10 newsgroups from the "Newsgroups data" from a newspaper to illustrate the invention: misc.forsale
7.4 The Optimal Weights:
As discussed above, it has been assumed that the number of clusters k is given; however, an important problem that the invention can be used for is to automatically determine the number of clusters in an adaptive or data-driven fashion using information-theoretic criteria such as the MDL principle. A computationally efficient gradient descent procedure for computing the optimal parameter tuple α† can be used. This entails combining the optimization problems in equation (6) and in equation (3) into a single problem that can be solved using iterative gradient descent heuristics for the squared-Euclidean distance. In the method of the invention, the new weighted distortion measure Dα has been used in the k-means algorithm; it may also be possible to use this weighted distortion with a graph-based algorithm such as the complete link method or with hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms.
In summary, the invention provides a method for obtaining good data clustering by integrating multiple, heterogeneous feature spaces in the k-means clustering algorithm by adaptively selecting relative weights assigned to various features spaces while simultaneously attaining good separation along all the feature spaces.
While the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been illustrated in detail, it should be apparent that modifications and adaptations to that embodiment may occur to one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention as set forth in the following claims.
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