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The start of the Summer League wasn't ideal for San Antonio Spurs big man Aron Baynes. He had a disappointing first game and needed to bounce back in the following games in order to show the improvement he has made this offseason. Baynes did just that by averaging 12 points and 10.5 rebounds per game over his 4 games in Las Vegas. His individual post defense on Toronto Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas, who was touted as the best big man in the Summer League, was better than anyone else who was matched up with him over this week. Baynes effectively established his size inside against other teams' big men. He was a force on the inside and continually crashed the offensive glass. People were finally able to see the full array of offensive moves that Baynes has in his arsenal. When given the chance to work in the post, Baynes showed his ability to finish with both right and left hooks. It's rare to see a big man who is actually comfortable finishing with either hand, especially when being guarded tightly in the post. Baynes showed his ability to step out and shoot the open 15 footer when given space and also showed his aggressiveness by strongly finishing anything around rim. His performance may not translate into an actual NBA game, but Baynes has showed progress. If he can crack the rotation, a steady dose of playing time might make him an effective big off the bench. Baynes showed he has the skill to compete once he became comfortable with his time on the court this summer. If he can show the ability to be effective inside with minimal minutes, that will be the key to staying in the rotation.
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Ridgway wrestling continued its strong march through the season with a 43-17 dual win over Punxsutawney Thursday night at Ridgway Area High School.
Ridgway's middle and upper weight wrestlers continued to pick up winning results, the Elkers won every match from the 145-pound weight class until the 285-pound weight class.
JOHNSONBURG – The Johnsonburg Area School District welcomed newly appointed board member Bill Boylan during Thursday night's board of directors meeting.
District Magistrate Tony King administered the Oath of Office to Boylan and returning board member Shane Launer.
A recent ranking from SchoolDigger.com was a cause for concern during Tuesday night's Ridgway Area School District Board of Directors meeting.
"I was looking at the school rankings [Tuesday] based on the PSSA scores, which I know aren't necessarily an accurate portrayal, but I was a little disturbed and I think I know the reason why," said director Kathy Lampman. "We are ranked at 406 out of 683 and we had dropped 290 places from last year and that's just the difference between the two 11th grade classes."
William F. "Bill" Myers, 70, of 301 High Street, Johnsonburg, died on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 at Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys following a brief illness.
He was born on November 4, 1941 in Ridgway, son of the late Francis and Virginia Riekofsky Myers.
He married his wife of 50 years, Virginia "Ginny" Wenner on May 29, 1961 in Holy Rosary Church in Johnsonburg. She survives.
He resided in Johnsonburg all his life and was a graduate of Johnsonburg High School, Class of 1959.
ST. MARYS – The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader basketball team remains undefeated after picking up a 47-29 victory over the visiting Punxsutawney Lady Chucks on Wednesday evening at ECCHS.
"I thought we played a pretty good basketball game," said ECC coach Ken Pistner. "It wasn't real sloppy, and I had us for 14 or 15 turnovers. I thought Punxsy played really hard, too. It was a good basketball game tonight."
Elk Catholic held a 12-5 lead at the end of the first period, was up 23-13 at the end of the second, and 29-22 at the conclusion of the third.
Ridgway Area School District Superintendent Dr. Michael O'Brien discussed the impact of the Keystone Exams during Tuesday night's board of directors meeting.
The Keystone Exams are part of Pennsylvania's new system of high school graduation requirements and are designed to help school districts guide students toward meeting state standards by assessing their proficiency in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Literature, English, Composition, Biology, Chemistry, U.S. History, World History, and Civics and Government.
The Ridgway Heritage Council is proud to lend its support with a $2,500 donation to the fundraising effort for restoring the Pennsylvania Railroad Station along North Broad Street, initiated with a $50,000 donation by Dennis Heindl, in partnership with Ridgway Borough.
ST. MARYS - The 2nd Annual Elk County Catholic Alumni Spirit Night is set for Friday evening. This year's event is being held in conjunction with the much-anticipated ECC versus St. Marys Area boys' basketball game.
The cross-town rivals will meet at ECC this year and event organizers are encouraging alums to sport their alma mater's colors of maroon and gold to cheer the Crusaders. The junior varsity game is set for 6 p.m., with the varsity matchup tipping off at 7:30 p.m.
James T. "Perch" O'Connell, 58, of 225 Fairies St., Wilcox died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2012 at Bradford Regional Medical Center.
He was born July 21, 1953 in Johnsonburg, son of the late Daniel and Dorothy Heglen O'Connell.
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Johnsonburg wrestling lost 39-29 in a dual meet against Sheffield Monday night at Johnsonburg Area High School.
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But those of us interested (by which I mean barely interested, though compelled to feign curiosity in order to draw a paycheck) in the doings of pop culture's B-listers could ponder just what Chasing Liberty means in the career evolution of one Mandy Moore. Granted, this is a thin idea for fleshing out a full-length review of a movie written in outline form, but bear with me; 'tis the new year, and among my resolutions is taking seriously glib Hollywood product that exists solely to provide its stars all-expenses-paid trips to Prague, Venice and Berlin, among the myriad settings of Chasing Liberty, which appears to have been underwritten by the Travel Channel. I also have made a vow to finish by year's end my science project that proves that if combined into a single person, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Mandy Moore might have some real talent.
Simpson's currently knockin' 'em brain-dead on MTV; she's proof enough that if you attended school for a single day in hopes of striking it rich, you wasted too much time. Aguilera is well on her way to becoming the post-teen-pop Cher, while Spears is, of course, currently touring the country's strip clubs; she brings her own music and copies of Esquire and Rolling Stone, upon whose covers she appears nude, to sign for $20 a pop, table dance included. Moore, on the other hand, is the square in the bunch: Her movies are aimed at the crowd that thought Footloose too heretical; her music, as evidenced by last album's Coverage, is aimed at a nonexistent audience that believes XTC, Joe Jackson, Elton John and Todd Rundgren in the original form were too challenging.
She appeared two years ago in A Walk to Remember, in which she played the good girl (then, the good-and-dead girl) who converted Shane West from Missy Elliott to Jesus; imagine Love Story scored by Petra. Next up for Moore is Saved, in which a girl at a Southern Baptist high school gets pregnant and is ostracized by her pals; says producer Michael Stipe, "It's like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers." Chasing Liberty, directed by a TV guy making his big-screen debut and written by two first-timers, serves as a kind of bridge between her born-again work; think of it as her born-to-be-wild career move, if only because the nineteen-year-old gets drunk, begs Brit Ben Calder (a secret Secret Service agent played by Matthew Goode, who is, actually) to take her virginity and appears topless twice...though she is seen only from behind, which will no doubt frustrate fathers taking their thirteen-year-old daughters to the cineplex. This is what publicists refer to as moving into an actor's "mature phase."
Moore is immensely likable; she certainly seems more flesh-and-blood than her plasticine contemporaries, who appear to have fallen off the same assembly line that made those Chucky dolls. And she has the right intentions: You can't be a teen-pop sensation in your twenties, especially after your audience has started sneaking out of the house to "date" college seniors. Chasing Liberty plays like thinly veiled autobiography. Anna's rich and wants to grow up; Mandy's rich and wants to grow up, but it's really only intriguing if you're writing the Mandy Moore episode of E! True Hollywood Story or if you want to visit glamorous European locales without actually leaving your own zip code. At some point I stopped caring about the Anna-Ben plot and started wondering which screenwriter thought the Italian-American Annabella Sciorra's character should be called "Morales" and whether Jeremy Piven, playing her partner, was going to let his hairpiece loose in the wild, where it could easily fend for itself.
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Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, disagreed. He applauded the school's step in the right direction, while noting that schools still have a long way to go.
About one in three American children are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 1980, obesity prevalence in people ages 2 to 19 has nearly tripled.
While some defenders of chocolate milk have argued that sugary milk is better than no milk at all, experts said the sugary versions shouldn't be an option.
"The more sugar we consume, the more we tend to want," said Katz. "If even milk has added sugar, what doesn't? Part of getting everyone to better eating is getting everyone familiar with more wholesome, less-processed foods. Milk closer to nature is a better choice than milk with added sugar and colorings and flavorings."
Dr. Jana Klauer, a nutrition and metabolism expert in New York, agreed, adding that flavored milks not only increase calories, but also expectations.
"Adding flavorings and sugar to milk offers no nutritional benefit," said Klauer. "The harm of the sweetened dairy products, besides the added calories, is that the palate changes so that the drive for sweetness increases."
Because children spend so much time in school, experts agreed that promoting healthy eating habits in school could easily spread to other aspects of a child's life.
"Every eating occasion is an opportunity to promote health or oppose it," said Katz. "If schools take a lead role in promoting health, there will still be much work to do outside of schools, but school then become an important part of the solution, rather than contributing to the problem. "


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This may be the most useful document ever produced by a government agency:
It's real, it was created at the US National Forest Service in 1972 or 1974, and a copy exists in the National Archives. See here and here for the backstory. (HT: Randy Westgren.)
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I strongly think this paper is both timely and useful.
We Won a Book Award
| Nicolai Foss |
It doesn't seem to have made its way to the Austrian blogs, but Peter and I just won the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics/Foundation of Economic Education Award for Best Book in Austrian Economics. Specifically, we received the Award for Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment: A New Approach to the Firm. (Here is Peter and me presenting the book back in 2012). In addition, the book has picked up some cites and has sold quite well. Thus, we can hardly claim that it "fell still-born from the press." Yet, it could be more influential and could sell better. You know what to do.
Entrepreneurship and the Established Firm: A Call to Arms
| Nicolai Foss |
Frequent readers of this blog will know that we (well, some more than others [ahem]) tend to obsess about the proper conceptualization of entrepreneurship, such as whether "opportunity" is a useful construct in the context of entrepreneurship research, and whether this, heavily expanding, research field is best off by thinking of entrepreneurship in terms of "opportunity discovery." In this brief essay, just published in Strategic Organization, Dr. Jacob Lyngsie (Dept of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenahgen Business School) and I discuss how the emphasis on opportunity discovery in the literature is accompanied by a neglect of entrepreneurship in the established firm and a tendency to think of entrepreneurs as individuals (rather than teams) (similar themes are discussed in the recent Foss and Klein volume, Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment). We call for a research effort that systematically deal with how entrepreneurial established firms organize a division of entrepreneurial labor, and on how administrative machinery can be deployed inside firms to foster the motivation, opportunity and ability that drive entrepreneurial behaviors.
The Piketty Code
| Dick Langlois |
I was trying to avoid jumping into the fray about Capital in the Twenty-First Century so as not to participate in the mania, as if throwing one more tiny ember into a wildfire would cause measurable additional damage. But I couldn't resist after seeing an article entitled "How Thomas Piketty Explains American Sports." Written by someone called Kevin Lincoln in a left-wing mag called Pacific Standard, the article discusses the NBA's proposal to raise the minimum roster age from 19 to 20, thus reducing the number of one-and-done college players and depriving John Calipari of his livelihood. (Did I forget to mention that UConn won both men's and women's national championships this year?) Lincoln correctly points out that such a change is in the interest not only of the D-1 colleges, who get to keep their stars longer, but also of the NBA, since it offloads more player development to the colleges. Sounds perfectly reasonable – exactly the kind of analysis you would expect from, say, a free-market public-choice economist. What on earth does this have to do with Piketty?
The concept of "over-accumulation" was coined by economist David Hershey, and with the ascent of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century into bestsellerdom, it's something that anyone with even a passing interest in economics is probably familiar with. In our current economy, actors who have gathered large amounts of capital tend to invest it in the creation of further capital for themselves rather than funneling it back into production. In turn, the economy stagnates, with the world's financial resources concentrating in the hands of the rich with no money left over to raise wages for the working class.
Yes, this scheme will probably raise the wealth (a little) of NBA owners. But it doesn't have anything to do with the accumulation of capital. For both owners and players, the NBA is all about people getting wealthy from entrepreneurial insight and scarce valuable skills — exactly contrary to Piketty's predictions.
The author is obviously economically illiterate — how exactly can people "create further capital for themselves" without somehow "funneling it back into production"? Yet the fact that someone smart enough to write a free-lance article would connect the NBA to Piketty speaks, it seems to me, to what the Piketty phenomenon is all about. In my view, we should not be comparing Piketty with Marx or Keynes. We should be comparing him with Dan Brown. Like the Da Vinci Code, Capital is an otherwise unremarkable book that managed to put together a volatile mix of elements. Both books captured some kind of zeitgeist, of course, but they did so in a remarkably precise way. They rely on similar elements: a theory of how the world works that doesn't stand up to minimal scrutiny but is easy to understand, seems to explain the mysterious and ineffable, and, most importantly, confirms the gut prejudices of its readers. Capital is not as much a conspiracy theory as the Da Vinci Code; it's a nineteenth-century story about aggregate income shares. But it is also an empty-enough vessel into which readers (especially those who haven't actually read it) can pour their own conspiracy theories. The NBA is the Opus Dei of capitalist sports.
While we're on the subject, I also want to mention that, to my mild surprise, the best review of Piketty I have run across is by Larry Summers. He gathers together all the technical criticisms in many other reviews and then adds a few of his own. While he pats Piketty on the back for his wonderful interest in inequality, he leaves the theoretical claims in a tattered pile on the floor.
Friday Fun: The Market Value of Research Topics
[A guest post from Peter St. Onge, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Feng Chia University in Taiwan.]
Is academia the epitome of mankind's quest for knowledge? Is it an adjunct to the productive forces that drive us ever-closer to a utopia of plenty? Or is it a self-licking ice cream cone? Here are a few data points.
For each keyword or phrase-in-quotes, the first column measures google searches (average ttm, in thousands, reported 5/15/14 on Google Adwords Keyword Planner). The second column measures academic papers on Google scholar between 2012-2013 (as of 5/15/14). The third column measures the ratio of academic papers divided by monthly searches. And the fourth column gives Google Adwords' "suggested bid" — this suggests what an advertiser might offer for a "click" when somebody enters the search term or phrase, so is roughly the market value of a visitor searching for that term.
These measures are roughly intended to capture popular interest (the quest for knowledge) and market value (adjunct to production) compared to academic interest.
First, some general business terms, with "gender identity" thrown in for fun, ranked by papers-to-search ratios:
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|Google monthly searches (k)
|Papers 12-13 (k)
|Papers/ searches
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|"gender identity"
|"Corporate Strategy"
The highest ratio of academic vs popular interest? Management. Beating even "gender identity." And the lowest? Finance, followed by entrepreneurship. The people demand more finance and entrepreneurship papers. Perhaps because they want to learn how to invest and start businesses, but this is conjecture.
What else jumps out here is the overwhelming interest among the public in finance. Indeed, there are more than 4 times more searches for the word finance than all the other terms together. "Finance" is 20 times more popular than accounting or management, and 15 times more than marketing. Perhaps business schools are misallocating their resources unless their departments aren't at least 80% finance? (more…)


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This one can be summed up in six words - Clay Buchholz simply didn't have it. After having gone 3-0 with a 1.53 ERA in his last 6 starts, Buchholz (pictured) gave up 7 runs on 12 hits and 1 walk in 5.1 innings in a 7-3 Red Sox loss to the Angels at Fenway Park.Angels starting pitcher Jered Weaver held Boston to 2 runs; he scattered 7 hits while striking out 5 over 7 innings.The real lone offensive bright spot for the Red Sox was the 3 hits by Scott Podsednik out of the leadoff position. Ryan Lavarnway and Mike Aviles each had an RBI.The TRUE bright spot of the night - the Jimmy Fund's annual 2-day fundraising effort raised more than $3 million.
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On July 4th, 2014, we held the 1st annual Fantastika conference (Visualizing Fantastika) at Lancaster University. I, along with my commitee members, have the honour of guest editing a special edition of The Luminary journal (the postgraduate and early careers journal produced in the department by Chloe Buckley), with papers based on the Visualizing Fantastika conference.
The theme for the 2nd annual Fantastika conference is Locating Fantastika, to be held on July 8th, 2015 at Lancaster. Abstracts are due April 1st. See http://fantastikaconference.wordpress.com/ for details.
I am also organizing an alternate history conference in partnership with Glyn Morgan at Liverpool University. The conference will be held March 30 and 31st, 2015. Details can be found here: http://sidewaysintime.wordpress.com/
Thesis Outline
My thesis will be examining motifs of time and space in the epic fantasy genre, specifically novels from 1990s and onward. For the purposes of this thesis, the "epic" will be defined by a journey (literal or metaphorical) through which the hero(es) achieves transcendence. By transcendence, I mean the ability to cross boundaries between worlds, and especially that between life and death.
There are several modes of time and space working in epic fantasy. The hero, of his or her own free will, functions as a pawn or avatar for a God, choosing to follow the path (or fate) that the God has set out for him or her. In this way, the hero operates at a crossroads between fixed or fluid time, where time is depicted as closed but the hero must function as if it is open. Either models of time suggest a linear time, but the repetition of events for the hero suggests a cyclical time. Furthermore, the social structure in epic fantasy is motivated by the system of magic present in the novel, a system that is entropic. Accordingly, in order to avoid an apocalyptic ending, there must be a balance between the forces of "good and evil," or, more specifically, between order and chaos. The hero must function as a bridge between both forces, as he or she is a catalyst that brings a new equilibrium (a new order or Eden) to the world by being an agent of change (chaos). The combination of an entropic system with a catalyst that introduces a new equilibrium results in a cyclical model of time. While repetitive patterns in sequels reinforce the idea of this cyclicality, there are enough differences between the patterns to suggest that the cycle is not exact or 'one-directional.' Accordingly, I argue that narrative time operates under a cyclical model that is chaotic. Although chaos theory is usually used to examine sciences, I propose that the theory can also be used to examine the literary system of narrative time in the fantasy genre. The chaotic Lorenzian Waterwheel model can describe the cycle, where the cycle can speed up, slow down, or even reverse itself.
Expelling a monstrous matriarchy: casting Cersei Lannister as abject in A Song of Ice and Fire
Patel, C. 1/10/2014 In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 5, 2, p. 135-147 13 p.
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I grew up in northern New Jersey and believe I have traditional east-coast family values. I spent summer vacations on Cape Cod every year, and it's still one of my favorite places to visit. I love the northeast, especially in summer and fall, and I miss that we really don't have the changes of seasons here. I?m an active guy, but also enjoy just relaxing, too. I enjoy entertaining, backyard BBQ's, going to the beach, hikes in the mountains and bike rides. I like to have fun and experience new things, but I also just like to relax by the pool sometimes with a good book or reading the Sunday paper. In the evenings, I enjoy dining out and going to concerts, movies, and comedy clubs. It's also nice to cook dinner together at home and watch a movie. For a quick weekend getaway, Vegas is fun or a drive up the coast to Santa Barbara and the local wineries, or up to Monterey. I try to balance my work with my family life and make time to spend with my kids. They are growing up fast, and I realize that there are only a few years left before they'll be out on their own. I want to make the most of the time we have together. It's also important to me to have my personal time for working out, reading, relaxing, getting together with friends, and hopefully making time for a special someone in my life. I enjoy a relationship full of romance and mutual affection. I think good communication and compassion for one another are essential. We should be supportive of each other always. In the wintertime, an evening spent in front of a roaring fire in the fireplace with a great glass of wine can be very romantic. But when you're with the right person, anything can be fun! I'm looking for a partner in life who would like to enjoy and embrace life's ups and downs together.
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I like to work out at the gym a few times a week to stay in shape. Spending time with my kids is always fun. I enjoy travel, theatre, boating and waterskiing. I also like flying and have a pilot license, but haven't been active for a while.
I'm currently reading The Element by British author Ken Robinson. I regularly read The Economist, which I believe offers an unbiased, international view of world events, and US News and Entrepreneur. I also keep up with the news online.
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Last year, we brought you the news that Prairie Farms sells Easter-themed dairy beverages: specifically, jellybean milk and Easter egg nog. Now the company has partnered with Just Born, creators of Peeps marshmallow-shaped holiday treats, to sell Peep-flavored milk. Yes, that just means sugar, artificial flavors, and food coloring. That's what Peeps are. [More]
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Quinn Endorses de Blasio for Mayor
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is endorsing her former Democratic foe, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, to be mayor.
Up Close With NYC's Mayoral Candidates: Christine Quinn (D)
NYC Mayoral Candidates File Disclosures
Candidates running to become the next mayor of New York City have filed required campaign finance disclosure forms.
New Poll: Weiner Leads Democrats, But Thompson Would Win Runoff
"Tabloid Twins" Lead in the Polls
Hunting to Redeem Lost Momentum, Quinn Publishes Policy Book
Transient and conflicting polling analytics aside, Christine Quinn — at one time, a clear frontrunner in New York City's mayoral race — has lost the momentum that was once her greatest asset both on the streets and in the press.


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So....my five year plan includes winning the lottery(preferably a jackpot in the $200 mil range). After taking care of my family and a list of charities, I will retire to Turks and Caicos. In my spare time, I'll travel around the world and learn random things like how to speak different languages or how to play guitar. I have already bought Rosetta Stone and a guitar. So until that day, I will continue on as a pharmacist at two local pharmacies outside the city. It consumes a lot of my time but is very rewarding. In general, I am a pretty laid back, caring and positive person. Humor and laughter are very important in life…starting with being able to laugh at yourself! Exercise and being active are essential parts of my life and I typically work out 5 times a week doing a combination of Crossfit, running and occasionally yoga. I have many wide ranging interests and am always up for trying new things. I am always up for going to Phillies' games, the beach, concerts, running, reading, going out to dinner, finding a comfortable spot at a local bar, cooking and traveling. I listen to many types of music but mainly rock(Pearl Jam, Stones, etc.) There are a lot of really random and exotic places I want to eventually visit(thanks to National Geographic). In the summer, I try to get down to the beach as much as possible. I've got a close knit family and group of friends and we are always doing something. One thing that I spend a lot of time doing is cooking. I am constantly in the kitchen or on the grill trying out new dishes. Whether it is ice cream, pasta, or BBQ sauce, I prefer to make it from scratch. Recently, I have started to focus on cooking dishes that are healthier and use vegetables in a unique way. While I sometimes do live a busy life, I work to live rather than live to work and those few moments of zen is what life is all about.
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Gardening/Landscaping , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Playing cards , Playing sports , Political interests , Travel/Sightseeing , Watching sports , Wine tasting
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A method and apparatus for customizing content presented to individual users or user segments is provided. There may be three components, a web portal and toolbar component, a modeling component, and a scoring component. The web portal and toolbar component presents content items and collects data. The web portal and toolbar component generates user event data based on the user actions. The user event data is forwarded to the modeling component. The modeling component generates content scoring functions based on user event data and attributes of content items. Content scoring functions may be unique to individual user segments. The content scoring functions based on content features generate probability a content item will be viewed. The scoring component decides which content items are placed in a portal. The scoring component uses the scoring functions generated by the modeling component to rank content items in real time.
1. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform certain steps comprising:
assembling user event data from a plurality of content segments on a portal;
wherein the user event data encodes components of user interaction with first content items within each of the plurality of content segments on the portal;
wherein the encoding of the components of user interaction includes, at least in part, encoding a position of a particular content item of the first content items within the particular content item's corresponding segment on the portal;
for each of a plurality of user segments, generating one or more ranking functions based on the user event data and based on said position of said particular content item within said portal;
selecting a ranking function from the one or more ranking functions based on a first user segment of the plurality of user segments;
for each of a plurality of second content items for which there is no user event data for any user, extracting a set of features for each second content item;
with the selected ranking function, generating a rank for the second content items based on the set of features for each second content item;
providing, based on the rank, at least one of the second content items.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a hard disk drive storing a plurality of modules comprising:
a first module that is operable to assemble user event data from a plurality of content segments on a portal, wherein the user event data encodes components of user interaction with first content items within each of the plurality of content segments on the portal;
wherein the first module is further operable to encode a component of user interaction that is a position of a particular content item of the first content items within the particular content item's corresponding segment on the portal;
a second module that is operable to, for each of a plurality of user segments, generate one or more ranking functions based on the user event data and based on said position of said particular content item within said portal;
a third module that is operable to extract a set of features for each second content item of a plurality of second content items for which there is no user event data for any user;
a fourth module that is operable to generate, based on a first of the ranking functions, a rank for the second content items based on the set of features for each second content item;
a fifth module that is operable to provide, based on the rank, at least one of the second content items.
6. The system of
7. The system of
8. The method of
The present invention relates to predicting a type of content a user might find pertinent based on interactions the user or other users have had with other types of content.
Web portals are massive systems where users come to consume content. Traditionally, web portals treat every visitor in the same manner in which all users are shown the same content. However, every user brings a unique set of preferences to the portal, and is interested in content that might not necessarily reflect the interests of others. Web portals have attempted to customize content for users, some web portals group content per language, other web portals allow customization of a news section so that whenever users visit the portal, the type of news stories users are registered for are shown to each user. Greater degrees of customization of content require more storage and processing power and hence encounter scalability issues. Web portals constantly intake vast quantities of content such as video, news stories, blogs, shopping sites. The content is processed to derive features that characterize it succinctly. Some examples include organizing the content in a hierarchy, describing content using methods from information retrieval. User behavior also varies widely, for example, some users visit a portal once every ten minutes, other users might visit once a day, or once a week, or even once a month. One challenge has been personalizing web content for each user based on the user's historic behavior.
The approaches described in this section are approaches that could be pursued, but not necessarily approaches that have been previously conceived or pursued. Therefore, unless otherwise indicated, it should not be assumed that any of the approaches described in this section qualify as prior art merely by virtue of their inclusion in this section.
The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:
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Techniques are provided for tracking user behavior across multiple sections of a web portal and then predicting based on user behavior on other sections of the portal, the type of content the user might enjoy. Previous approaches to predict and customize the type of content served to users were based on a subscription model. For example one could explicitly subscribe to specific news feeds, such as sports, technology, politics. Such approaches require active participation by users and are inflexible with respect to the type of content items provided. In other services personalization is limited to one particular type of content items.
Section 102 is one of a number of distinct sections 102 of a web portal focused on providing a specific kind of information or a service. Some examples of web portal sections 102 are "real estate", "sports", or "finance". Within each section 102 a user is provided with content items related to the section 102. For example in a "Finance" property, there are tools to look up stock quotes, articles related to the stock market, videos of earnings reports, as well as ads for brokerages or financial services. Distinct sections 102 of a web portal can be hosted on separate servers.
The toolbar 101 is placed on the user's browser and is used to capture data about user behavior outside of the web portal. The toolbar 101 only captures data with the explicit permission of the user, in an embodiment. Therefore, web surfing data for sites outside of the web portal may be available for only a small fraction of users. The toolbar 101 contains a search bar, the information from which is used to build up a user profile and adjust content items. For example, if a user searches for vacation destinations using the toolbar 101, the information can then be used to adjust the content appearing in a portion of the welcome page of the portal, e.g., information regarding travel destinations in the case of the user.
The data highway 105 is a data collection and distribution mechanism. The data highway 105 collects user generated event data from servers that are hosting various sections. Every interaction of a user with a section 102 server generates event data which is collected and transmitted by the data highway 105. The data highway 105 has a corresponding data highway 109 component which distributes the collected data to the warehouse 112, the modeling engine 110, and the RT dashboard 115.
The warehouse 112 stores user registration data, event data and cookie information. The data is processed by the modeling engine 110 offline to derive user content preference models or content ranking functions. The modeling engine 110 uses the live data stream to adjust the content ranking model to quickly react to any changes in user content item consumption preferences. The data highway 109 also pushes the data to a RT dashboard 115 which displays real time statistics, such as the number of users for a certain section, or the click through rate for a certain element or a given section. An element on a section could be a distinct element of a web page and can be any number of entities. For example, an element can be a news story, or an interest rate calculator, or a video. The data warehouse 112 organizes user generated event data in a schema understood by the modeling engine 110.
The data warehouse 110 may also store data that is derived from event data. Efficiency considerations drive what post processed data is stored in the warehouse. The user event data and cookies are subjected to offline analysis. Some of the data that is derived is demographic data, such as what types of users are visiting the site at a certain time during the day. User types can be divided into groups based on age, gender, geographic location. The cookie and event data is also decoded. Event data and cookies use a unique id for every item on a page. The unique id is mapped to the actual content item the unique id represents during the decoding stage. The frequency of user visits to content items are derived from the time information encoded in events.
Utility values 113 component uses data from the warehouse 112 to compute the amount of revenue content items generate in different contexts. Each content item is assigned a utility value which is used as a parameter for the modeling engine 110. For example utility values can be derived using user event data, the utility values 113 component looks at the number of visitors in a certain demographic to a given section of the portal and the number and the type of ads users in that demographic click in that section of the portal. Alternatively utility values can be computed by looking at the trajectory through the portal. A trajectory is a sequence of pages a user might follow as the user traverses content in a portal.
The dashboard 114 provides graphical representation of the long term content item performance within the today module. Various statistics for the click through rate for every content item is shown. The click through rate can be examined based on item position within the site section as well as based on certain user demographics. The dashboard also allows for customized queries of item click through performance in the various sections of the site. Dashboard 114 tracks performance of content items based on the live data stream forwarded by the data highway 109.
The modeling engine 110 takes as an input real time user event stream from the data highway 109, data from the toolbar 101, utility values 113, content item attributes from content data server 108 and derived user attributes from the UPS 106. As an output the modeling engine 110 generates a content scoring function. The content scoring function is stored in the models 111 database. The content scoring function generates a probability with which the content item will be clicked by a user in a given context. In order to derive the scoring function, users are segmented based on the registration and event data. Users are segmented by the modeling engine 110 in a manner which optimizes the prediction accuracy. The modeling engine 110 examines events generated by users who belong to each segment within a specific context such as at a certain time of the day and specific section of the site. The modeling engine 110 then generates a scoring function. The scoring function is tuned for the specific user segment and the specific portal context. A unique scoring function is generated for every user segment.
The user data 106 serves derived user attributes to the modeling engine 110 and the scoring engine 103. Archive 107 stores the derived user attributes. User attributes include but are not limited to time correlated user behavior such as what content the user looked at, at specific times, what searches the user performed, the social networks the user belongs to, age, gender etc. User attributes may be determined by content domain experts and are derived offline.
The content data server 108 is analogous to the user data 106 with respect to content items. The content data server 108 provides content attributes to the modeling engine 110 and the scoring engine 103. The Archive 117 stores the content item attributes. Some examples of content item attributes are heading, keywords, frequency of occurrence of certain words, topic categorization. Content item attributes are derived offline.
Data from the toolbar 101 and the data highway 109 are used by the modeling engine 110 in order to tune the scoring functions to be more responsive to current user preferences. For example, the scoring function should be able to accurately adjust to content items such as news stories. If real time data from the toolbar 101 and data highway 109 was not considered by the modeling engine 110, there can be a large delay between the time the news story issues and the time the news story gets reliably ranked by the modeling engine 110.
The scoring engine 103 component uses models derived by the modeling engine 110 to rank content items for specific users. The scoring engine 103 component takes as an input derived user attributes, derived content attributes, and the scoring function from the Mirror 104 database. The models 111 database pushes models generated by the modeling engine 110 to the mirror 104 database.
Modeling is a combination of real-time and offline computation. The modeling engine 110 re-computes the scoring functions at regular intervals, for example, every 20 minutes. On the other hand, the scoring engine 103 component performs computation of clicking probability in real time as the content items are served to the users.
Computer system 400 may be coupled via bus 402 to a display 412, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), for displaying information to a computer user. An input device 414, including alphanumeric and other keys, is coupled to bus 402 for communicating information and command selections to processor 404. Another type of user input device is cursor control 416, such as a mouse, a trackball, or cursor direction keys for communicating direction information and command selections to processor 404 and for controlling cursor movement on display 412. This input device typically has two degrees of freedom in two axes, a first axis (e.g., x) and a second axis (e.g., y), that allows the device to specify positions in a plane.
The invention is related to the use of computer system 400 for implementing the techniques described herein. According to one embodiment of the invention, those techniques are performed by computer system 400 in response to processor 404 executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions contained in main memory 406. Such instructions may be read into main memory 406 from another machine-readable medium, such as storage device 410. Execution of the sequences of instructions contained in main memory 406 causes processor 404 to perform the process steps described herein. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the invention. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
The term "machine-readable medium" as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing data that causes a machine to operation in a specific fashion. In an embodiment implemented using computer system 400, various machine-readable media are involved, for example, in providing instructions to processor 404 for execution. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to storage media and transmission media. Storage media includes both non-volatile media and volatile media. Non-volatile media includes, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as storage device 410. Volatile media includes dynamic memory, such as main memory 406. Transmission media includes coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise bus 402. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic or light waves, such as those generated during radio-wave and infra-red data communications. All such media must be tangible to enable the instructions carried by the media to be detected by a physical mechanism that reads the instructions into a machine.
Common forms of machine-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, or any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, any other optical medium, punchcards, papertape, any other physical medium with patterns of holes, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave as described hereinafter, or any other medium from which a computer can read.
Various forms of machine-readable media may be involved in carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions to processor 404 for execution. For example, the instructions may initially be carried on a magnetic disk of a remote computer. The remote computer can load the instructions into its dynamic memory and send the instructions over a telephone line using a modem. A modem local to computer system 400 can receive the data on the telephone line and use an infra-red transmitter to convert the data to an infra-red signal. An infra-red detector can receive the data carried in the infra-red signal and appropriate circuitry can place the data on bus 402. Bus 402 carries the data to main memory 406, from which processor 404 retrieves and executes the instructions. The instructions received by main memory 406 may optionally be stored on storage device 410 either before or after execution by processor 404.
Computer system 400 also includes a communication interface 418 coupled to bus 402. Communication interface 418 provides a two-way data communication coupling to a network link 420 that is connected to a local network 422. For example, communication interface 418 may be an integrated services digital network (ISDN) card or a modem to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line. As another example, communication interface 418 may be a local area network (LAN) card to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN. Wireless links may also be implemented. In any such implementation, communication interface 418 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information.
Network link 420 typically provides data communication through one or more networks to other data devices. For example, network link 420 may provide a connection through local network 422 to a host computer 424 or to data equipment operated by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) 426. ISP 426 in turn provides data communication services through the world wide packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the "Internet" 428. Local network 422 and Internet 428 both use electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams. The signals through the various networks and the signals on network link 420 and through communication interface 418, which carry the digital data to and from computer system 400, are exemplary forms of carrier waves transporting the information.
Computer system 400 can send messages and receive data, including program code, through the network(s), network link 420 and communication interface 418. In the Internet example, a server 430 might transmit a requested code for an application program through Internet 428, ISP 426, local network 422 and communication interface 418.
The received code may be executed by processor 404 as it is received, and/or stored in storage device 410, or other non-volatile storage for later execution. In this manner, computer system 400 may obtain application code in the form of a carrier wave.
In the foregoing specification, embodiments of the invention have been described with reference to numerous specific details that may vary from implementation to implementation. Thus, the sole and exclusive indicator of what is the invention, and is intended by the applicants to be the invention, is the set of claims that issue from this application, in the specific form in which such claims issue, including any subsequent correction. Any definitions expressly set forth herein for terms contained in such claims shall govern the meaning of such terms as used in the claims. Hence, no limitation, element, property, feature, advantage or attribute that is not expressly recited in a claim should limit the scope of such claim in any way. The specification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense.
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You are so getting front page.
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