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The Met: Live in HD presents the cinematic premiere of Wagner's Ring Cycle and the behind-the-scenes documentary Wagner's Dream. The two-week event begins today May 7 across the U.S. and Canada. See photos from each of the operas below!
Wagner's Dream, A Documentary by Susan Froemke
U.S./Canada Screenings: Monday, May 7 at 6:30 p.m. local time
Running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes
The stakes could not be higher as visionary director Robert Lepage and the Metropolitan Opera tackle Wagner's Ring cycle. A backstage look at the enormous theatrical and musical challenges of staging opera's most monumental work, the film chronicles the five-year journey to create the most ambitious staging in Met history, featuring a 90,000-pound set nicknamed "The Machine." Soprano Deborah Voigt is torn between excitement and fear as she prepares to take on the role of Brünnhilde for the first time, while unexpected drama arises as a new tenor, Jay Hunter Morris, steps in as the Ring's hero, Siegfried - days before the production's world premiere.
Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
U.S./Canada Screenings: Wednesday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. local time
Running time: 168 minutes; no intermission
Original live transmission: October 9, 2010
In the first opera in the Ring cycle, the evil Alberich steals the gold from the Rhinemaidens and creates an all-powerful ring. Wotan, the ruler of the gods, uses magic to seize the ring to pay for his new palace, Valhalla. Alberich places a curse on the ring and anyone who wears it.
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
U.S. Screenings: Monday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. local time
Canada Screenings: Saturday, May 12 at 10 a.m. local time
Running time: 259 minutes, including 1 intermission
Original live transmission: May 14, 2011
The mysterious hero Siegmund finds shelter in the strangely familiar arms of a lonely woman named Sieglinde. Their forbidden love leads Wotan's daughter, the warrior maiden Brünnhilde, to defy morality and intervene on behalf of Siegmund. As punishment, Wotan strips away Brünnhilde's immortality and places her in a lasting sleep, surrounded by fire.
U.S. Screenings: Wednesday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Canada Screenings: Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Running time: 258, including one intermission
Original live transmission: November 5, 2011
The young hero Siegfried, who grows up in the wilderness, forges the magic sword and captures the ring. To fulfill his destiny, he must overcome one more opponent-Wotan, now disguised as the Wanderer, and cross through the magic fire to awaken his true love, Brünnhilde.
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
U.S. Screenings: Saturday, May 19 at 12 p.m.
Canada Screenings: Saturday, May 19 at 10 a.m.
Running time: 287 minutes, including one intermission
Original live transmission: February 11, 2012
In Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's unwitting betrayal of Brünnhilde leads to his death. Heartbroken, Brünnhilde returns the ring to the Rhinemaidens and throws herself into Siegfried's funeral pyre, causing a global cataclysm and ending the reign of the gods.
Photo credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
A scene from Robert Lepage's "Das Rheingold" by Wagner
Stephanie Blythe as Fricka and Bryn Terfel as Wotan in Wagner's "Das Rheingold"
The Rheinmaidens (Jennifer Johnson, Lisette Oropesa, and Tamara Mumford) in Wagner's "Das Rheingold"
A scene from Wagner's "Das Rheingold"
Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund in Wagner's "Die Walkure"
Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde in Wagner's "Die Walkure"
Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Stephanie Blythe as Fricka in Wagner's "Die Walkure"
Bryn Terfel as Wotan in Wagner's "Die Walkure"
Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde in Wagner's "Die Walkure"
A scene from Act 3 of Wagner's "Die Walkure" with the Valkuries, Marjorie Elinor Dix as Waltraute, Wendy Bryn Harmer as Ortlinde, Molly Fillmore as Helmwige, Kelly Cae Hogan as Gerhilde, Mary Ann McCormick as Grimgerde, Lindsay Ammann as Rossweisse, Eve Gigliotti as Siegrune, and Mary Phillips as Schwertleite. Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde.
Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde in Wagner's "Die Walkure"
Act 3 finale of Wagner's "Die Walkure" with Wotan and the sleeping Brunnhilde
Jay Hunter Morris in Wagner's "Siegfried"
Jay Hunter Morris in Wagner's "Siegfried"
Jay Hunter Morris in Wagner's "Siegfried"
A scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung with Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried, Wendy Bryn Harmer as Gutrune, Iain Paterson as Gunther, and Hans-Peter Konig as Hagen
Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried in Wagner's Gotterdammerung
Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried in Wagner's Gotterdammerung
A scene from Act II of Wagner's Gotterdammerung
Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried in Wagner's Gotterdammerung
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- Hanna-Barbera Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Turner Entertainment
- Animation Studio: Fil-Cartoons, Inc. Mr. Big Productions, Wang Film Production Co. Ltd., Cuckoos Nest Studios
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- Voice Actors: Frank Welker.
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- Produced By Joseph Barbera, Don Jurwich, Kay Wright, William Hanna, Paul Sabella, Jack Petrik.
- Animated By Oliver Lefty Callahan, Frank Andrina, John Walker, Brenda Banks, Barry Anderson, Michael V. Bennett, Ernesto Lopez, Kunio Shimamura, Mark Christiansen, Bill Nunes, Moon Choi; more Animators ...
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- Editor: Gil Iverson, Pat Foley, Tim Iverson, Tom Gleason, Terry W. Moore, Larry C. Cowan; more Editors ...
- First Aired on November 03, 1990.
- Originally Aired on FOX TV (USA).
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it works with "nv"-driver and does not work with "nvidia" driver. chances are high that nvidia-driver is causing the problems. can you hint me where to search next?
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[1] http://www.us.kensington.com/html/17534.html
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From what I have been able to find out . The GPU initializers the only DVI in Linux. There are a few similar posts showing up.
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DisplayPort works fine with the NVIDIA binary driver. The other recent reports of problems with DisplayPort don't have sufficient information for us to determine what's really happening.
If you read ubootfanat's original post, you'll see that the problem is that adding a third display with the Kensington USB video adapter doesn't work. The DP connected display does come up. Unfortunately, I don't have one of these USB video adapters to test with.
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CINCINNATI - It's a dream every kid playing football has -- to one day hear your name called in the NFL Draft.
For most it is a dream, but for a select few it becomes a reality. The game they've played since they were a child will now change their life forever.
Rutgers wide receiver Mohamed Sanu, like many of college football's finest, were anxious Thursday night during the first round of the NFL Draft.
When the Cincinnati Bengals were on the clock at number 27 in the first round, Sanu received a phone call. The person on the other end of the phone said they were with the Bengals and that Sanu, 22, was going to be their pick.
Sanu and everyone he was with began celebrating. Mike McCartney, Sanu's agent, even tweeted that his client was the newest member of the Bengals. However, the voice on the other end of the phone was not a member of the Bengals organization, it was a prank call. Moments later NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the Bengals selected Wisconsin guard Kevin Zeitler.
"Very cruel prank call to a Sanu tonight – very sad that someone would do that," McCartney said via Twitter. "My apologies to the twitter world for my tweet." He later tweeted, "Tough night. We all get knocked down in life and we gotta get back up. I believe in Mohamed Sanu as a player and person!"
"This is a great kid, I guarantee you, and someone played a cruel joke on him,'' McCartney told Peter King of Sports Illustrated , who covered the Bengals years ago. "It is unreal that someone would do that, but it happened.''
The second and third rounds of the draft will be held Friday night so it's very likely Sanu, who caught 115 passes for 1,206 yards and seven touchdowns last season, will hear his name called. Ironically, the Bengals are in need of another receiver and who knows, maybe someone from the team actually calls Sanu to tell him "welcome to the NFL."
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Big Data is one of those bands: a side-project made up of Joywave's Daniel Armbruster and the DJ Alan Wilkis. They've tapped into one of my favorite approaches -- it's generally awesome to see two artists with different musical backgrounds come together and share their inspiration.
"The Stroke Of Return" is the first single to be released by the band, and if you're like me, you might find that it has a sound reminiscent of Hot Chip -- particularly where parts of the chorus are concerned. The similarity pretty much stops there, however.
Together, Daniel and Alan have created a song that sounds a lot like Joywave, but with more interesting percussion and mixing. I've only ever listened to Alan Wilkis do remixes (eg, Phantogram's "Mouthful of Diamonds"), but my best guess is that he's responsible for the beats.
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It sounds like he's prepared and not lacking for physical stamina, but perhaps his training regime might be tweaked were he to go again.
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I felt like I was in pretty good shape, both from spending time in the gym and riding, but there's nothing that precisely prepares you for not only wrestling a pig thru the dunes, but also holding yourself against the wind and buffeting of a few hundred miles on the road, and the vibration of a single for hours every day, etc. It's not the big stuff, and it doesn't risk incapacitating you, its not the big muscle groups that necessarily suffer, it's an accumulation of little niggling motions that it is impossible to prepare for. I guess this falls under "Dakar is not easy or comfortable", no matter how well prepared you are.
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WWW 2011 – Demo March 28–April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India Filtering Microblogging Messages for Social TV ∗ Ovidiu Dan Junlan Feng Brian Davison Lehigh University AT&T Labs Research Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA, USA Florham Park, NJ, USA Bethlehem, PA, USA firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com email@example.com ABSTRACT The popular TV show House is an example that results in low Social TV was named one of the ten most important emerging tech- precision. Searching for the title of the show often yields results un- nologies in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Manufacturers related to the show. Table 1 shows such examples. The word house of set-top boxes and televisions have recently started to integrate has multiple senses depending on the context, including White House, access to social networks into their products. Some of these sys- House of Representatives, building, home, etc. In some cases the tems allow users to read microblogging messages related to the TV query is part of the title of another show, as can be seen in the last program they are currently watching. However, such systems suffer example. Another problem is low recall. Continuing with our ex- from low precision and recall when they use the title of the show as ample for the show House, there are many messages which do not keywords when retrieving messages, without any additional filter- mention the title of the show but make references to users, hashtags, ing. or even actors and characters related to the show. The problem of We propose a bootstrapping approach to collecting microblog- low recall is more severe for shows with long titles. ging messages related to a given TV program. We start with a small Our task is to retrieve microblogging messages relevant to a given set of annotated data, in which, for a given show and a candidate TV show with high precision. Filtering messages from microblog- message, we annotate the pair to be relevant or irrelevant. From this ging websites poses several challenges, including: annotated data set, we train an initial classifier. The features are de- • Microblogging messages are short and often lack context. signed to capture the association between the TV program and the For instance, Twitter messages (tweets) are limited to 140 message. Using our initial classifier and a large dataset of unla- characters and often contain abbreviated expressions such as beled messages we derive broader features for a second classifier hashtags and short URLs. to further improve precision. • Many social media messages lack proper grammatical struc- ture. Also, users of social networks pay little attention to cap- Categories and Subject Descriptors italization and punctuation. This makes it difficult to apply H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Information Search natural language processing technologies to parse the text. and Retrieval—Information Filtering • Many social media websites offer access to their content through General Terms search APIs, but most have rate limits. In order to filter mes- sages we first need to collect them by issuing queries to these Theory, Algorithms, Experimentation services. For each show we require a set of queries which provides the best tradeoff between the need to cover as many Keywords messages about the show as possible, and the need to respect Social TV, Twitter, microblogging, filtering, classification the API rate limits imposed by the social network. Such queries could include the title of the show and other related strings such as hashtags and usernames related to the show. 1. INTRODUCTION Determining which keywords best describe a TV show can This paper tackles the problem of filtering social media messages be a challenge. for use in Social TV applications. The users of such applications, which run on TV sets or set-top boxes, can choose to receive mi- • In the last decade alone, television networks have aired more croblogging messages relevant to a given TV program. The mes- than a thousand new TV shows. Obtaining training data for sages are displayed either alongside the video or overlayed on top every show would be prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, of the image. Current Social TV applications search for these mes- new shows are aired every six months. sages by issuing queries to social networks with the full title of the We propose a bootstrapping approach to automatically classi- TV program. This naive approach can lead to low precision and fying a candidate Twitter message as relevant or irrelevant to a recall. given show. Our robust filtering method can be used for several ap- ∗Parts of this work was performed while the first author was visit- plications, including displaying messages related to particular TV ing AT&T Labs - Research. shows, measuring the popularity of TV programs, displaying ac- counts and hashtags related to a show, and further mining such as Copyright is held by the International World Wide Web Conference Com- sentiment analysis and other aggregate statistics. mittee (IW3C2). Distribution of these papers is limited to classroom use, and personal use by others. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 gives WWW 2011, March 28–April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India. an overview of our bootstrapping approach, Section 3 discusses the ACM 978-1-4503-0637-9/11/03. 197 WWW 2011 – Demo March 28–April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India Table 1: Example messages for the ambiguous query house **driving back to my house, i really hope @VampireRoland likes his suit, i love this dress i got** @blogcritics White House, Fox News Feud Heats Up Over the Weekend http://bit.ly/mi5tg Someone may be in my house... And im a little scared. Election 2010 House of Representatives 33rd District http://bit.ly/cv0l48 Watching Clean House two datasets we use for training and testing, Section 4 discusses the below. The workers were asked to assign one of three labels to each features for the Initial Classifier, Section 5 describes the features of message: "Yes, the message is relevant to the show", "No, it is not the Improved Classifier, then Section 6 shows a detailed evaluation relevant", and "Not sure / Foreign language". The results of the of the two classifiers and a baseline. We conclude with Previous labeling process are summarized in Table 2. After discarding mes- Work and References. sages which received the third label, we are left with 2,629 labeled messages. 2. OVERVIEW OF OUR BOOTSTRAPPING APPROACH Table 2: Summary of the training/testing dataset Hundreds of new television shows are created each year in the Show Yes No N/A Total usable United States alone. Creating training data for each show individ- DL Fringe 634 227 139 861 ually would be costly and inefficient. Instead, we propose a boot- Heroes 541 321 138 862 strapping method which is built upon 1) a small set of labeled data, Monk 317 589 94 906 2) a large unlabeled dataset, and 3) some domain knowledge, to form a classifier that can generalize to an arbitrary number of TV shows. DL Dataset The bootstrapping method described in Section 2 makes Our approach starts from a list of TV show titles which can be use of a large amount of unlabeled data to improve features used obtained by crawling popular websites such as IMDB1 or TV.com2 . by the Improved Classifier. We will refer to this large corpus as For some shows these websites list several variations of the main DL. The dataset was collected in October 2009 using the Stream- title. We use each title in the list as a query to the search API ing API provided by Twitter. This is a push-style API with different provided by Twitter and retrieve candidate messages for each show. levels of access which constantly delivers a percentage of Twitter Later in the bootstrapping process we can automatically expand messages over a permanent TCP connection. We were granted the the list of keywords for each show by adding relevant hashtags, Gardenhose level access which the company describes as providing user accounts or other keywords which the algorithm determines a "statistically significant sample" of the messages. We collected are related to the show. over 10 million messages, roughly equivalent to 340,000 messages First, we train a binary classifier using a small dataset of man- per day. Apart from its textual content, each message has meta- ually labeled messages (dataset DT ). The input of the classifier data attached to it, which includes the author and the time when the is the new message which needs to be classified, along with the message was originally posted. unique ID of a TV show. It outputs 1 if the message is relevant to the television show, or 0 otherwise. For a new message we can get 4. INITIAL CLASSIFIER a list of possible TV shows by matching the text of the message We developed features which capture the general characteristics with the keywords we use for each show in the first step. We can of messages which discuss television shows. test each of these possible IDs against the new message by using the classifier. The features used by the classifier are described in 4.1 Terms related to TV watching Section 4. While studying TV-related microblogging messages we noticed Second, we run the Initial Classifier on a large corpus of unla- that some of them contain general terms commonly associated with beled Twitter messages (dataset DL). These newly labeled mes- watching TV. Table 3 contains a few examples of such messages. sages are then used to derive more features. The new features are Starting from this observation we developed three features: tv_terms, combined with the features of the Initial Classifier to train an Im- network_terms, and season_episode. proved Classifier. This step can be iterated several times to im- prove the quality of the features. The features of this classifier are described in Section 5. Table 3: Messages containing TV-related terms True Blood 3rd season finale, here I come. If CNN, C-SPAN & Fox News will be at Stewart Sanity/Fear rally, why not NPR? Come on, lighten up. 3. DATASETS S06E07 - Teamwork (watching House via @gomiso) DT Dataset We used workers from Amazon Turk [11] to label the training dataset. We picked three TV shows with ambiguous names: F ringe, Heroes, and M onk. For each of these shows we tv_terms and network_terms are two short lists of keywords com- randomly sampled 1000 messages which contained the title of the piled manually. tv_terms are general terms such as watching, episode, show. The messages were sampled from the DL dataset described hdtv, netflix, etc. The network_terms list contains names of televi- sion networks such as cnn, bbc, pbs, etc. 1 http://www.imdb.com/ Some users post messages which contain the season and episode 2 http://www.tv.com/ number of the TV show they are currently watching. Since Twitter 198 WWW 2011 – Demo March 28–April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India messages are limited in length, this is often written in shorthand. For instance, "S06E07", "06x07" and even "6.7" are common Table 5: Examples of messages which mention the titles of sev- ways of referring to the sixth season and the seventh episode of a eral shows If I'm sick call HOUSE, if I'm dead call CSI particular TV show. The feature season_episode is computed with grey's anatomy & supernatural the help of a limited set of regular expressions which can match Lets see - Jericho, Heroes, and now Caprica. such patterns. Don't tell me to watch a series you like. These three features described above are binary with values of If I like it, it'll get the axe for sure :-/ #fb 0 or 1. For example, if a message matches one of the patterns in season_episode, this feature will have the value 1. Otherwise, it will have the value 0. Also, throughout this paper we will assume that all features are normalized when needed. are based on data crawled from TV.com and Wikipedia. For each 4.2 General Positive Rules of the crawled shows, we collected the names of actors which play in the show, and the name of their respective characters. We also The motivation behind the rules_score feature is the fact that crawled their corresponding Wikipedia page. Using the assump- many messages which discuss TV shows follow certain patterns. tions of the vector space model we compute the cosine similarity Table 4 shows such patterns. <start> means the start of the mes- between a new message and the information we crawled about the sage and <show_name> is a placeholder for the real name of the show for each of the three features. show in the current context. When a message contains such a rule, it is more likely to be related to TV shows. 5. IMPROVED CLASSIFIER We applied our Initial Classifier to automatically label the mes- Table 4: Examples of general positive rules sages in DL and derive new features. Two such features, pos_rules_ <start> watching <show_name> score and neg_rules_score are natural extensions of the feature rules_ episode of <show_name> score. Whereas rules_score determined general positive rules, now <show_name> was awesome that we have an Initial classifier we can determine positive and neg- ative rules for each show separately. For instance, for the show House we can now learn positive rules such as episode of house, as We developed an automated way to extract such general rules well as negative rules such as in the house or the white house. and compute their probability of occurrence. We start from a man- Using messages labeled by Classifier #1, we can determine com- ually compiled list of ten unambiguous TV show titles. It contains monly occurring hashtags and users which often talk about a par- titles such as "Mythbusters", "The Simpsons", "Grey's Anatomy", ticular show. We refer to these features as users_score and hash- etc. We searched for these titles in all 10 million messages from tags_score respectively. Furthermore, these features can also help DL. For each message which contained one of these titles, the us expand the set of queries for each show, thus improving the recall algorithm replaced the title of TV shows, hashtags, references to by searching for hashtags and users related to the show, in addition episodes, etc. with general placeholders, then computed the occur- to the title. While we have not tested this hypothesis here, we plan rence of trigrams around the keywords. The result is a set of general to do so in future work. rules such as the ones shown in Section 4. Next, we computed the Lastly, having a large number of messages allows us to create occurrences of these rules in dataset DL to determine which ones one more feature, rush_period. This feature is based on the ob- have a higher chance of occurring. Using these rules we can then servation that users of social media websites often discuss about a give a value between 0 and 1 for the feature rules_score to each show during the time it is on air. We keep a running count of the new message. number of times each show was mentioned in every 10 minute in- 4.3 Features related to show titles terval. When classifying a new message we check how many men- tions of the show there were in the previous window of 10 minutes. Although many social media messages lack proper capitaliza- If the number of mentions is higher than a threshold equal to twice tion, when users do capitalize the titles of the shows this can be the mean of the mentions of all previous 10 minute windows, we used as a feature. Consequently, our classifier has a feature called set the feature to 1. Otherwise we set it to 0. title_case, which is set to 1 if the title of the show is capitalized, otherwise it has the value 0. We consider multi-word titles to be capitalized if at least the first letter of the first word is capitalized. 6. EVALUATION Another feature which makes use of our list of titles is titles_match. Some messages contain more than one reference to titles of TV 6.1 Evaluation of Initial Classifier shows. Some examples are listed in Table 5. If any of the titles We conducted a 10-fold cross validation of the Initial Classifier mentioned in the message (apart from the title of the current con- on the DT dataset. We ran our experiments with Rotation Forest text si ) are unambiguous, we can set the value of this feature to 1. (RF) [10], which is a classifier ensemble method. Among the clas- For the purpose of this feature we define unambiguous title to be a sifiers we tested, RF achieved the best overall precision and recall. title which has zero or one hits when searching for it in WordNET It uses Principal Component Analysis to achieve greater accuracy [1]. and diversity by rotating the feature axes. The underlying classifier we used was J48, a variant of the C4.5 [9] available in the Weka ma- 4.4 Features based on domain knowledge crawled chine earning software [2]. To save space, we will refer to labels from online sources "Yes" and "No" as 1 and 0 respectively. The results are shown in One of our assumptions is that messages relevant to a show often Figure 1. Along the X axis we displayed the precision, recall and contain names of actors, characters, or other keywords strongly re- F-Measure of the two labels. Note that in this case by recall we lated to the show. To capture this intuition we developed three fea- mean the recall of the RF classifier we are using, not the recall of tures: cosine_characters, cosine_actors, and cosine_wiki, which the overall system. We also plotted the combined F-Measure of the 199 WWW 2011 – Demo March 28–April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India two labels. The precision and F-measure of label "Yes" are 0.76 7. PREVIOUS WORK and 0.8, respectively. Social networks in general and microblogging websites such as Twitter in particular have attracted much interest from the academic community in the last few years [4, 5, 6]. Social TV projects have Figure 1: Initial Classifier - 10 fold cross validation on DT used audio [8], video [3], and text chat [12] links to test interac- tion between users watching TV in separate rooms. More recently there has been work on combining these two fields by displaying messages from social networks in Social TV interfaces [7]. Unfor- tunately such attemps uses the naive method of simply searching for the title of the TV show. To the best of our knowledge our work is the first to filter and display only the messages relevant to the show currently playing on the screen. 8. SUMMARY We presented a bootstrapping approach for training a classifier which can filter messages for given TV shows. First we trained an initial classifer from a small set of annotated data and domain knowledge. Second, we used the obtained initial classifier to label 6.2 Evaluation of Improved Classifier a large dataset of unlabeled data. Third, we automatically derived Next, we evaluated the Improved Classifier. We first ran the same a broader feature set from the large data set which was automati- evaluation as for the Initial Classifier. Figure 2 shows the results of cally annotated by the Initial Classifer. These expanded features are used to construct the second classifier. Experiments showed that the the 10-fold cross validation on the DT dataset. We can easily see that both precision and recall have improved significantly for label second classifier achieved significantly higher performance, and it Yes. Precision has increased from 0.76 to 0.89, while the F-measure could successfully label messages about television programs which has increased from 0.80 to 0.89. were not in the original training data. 9. REFERENCES Figure 2: Improved Classifier - 10 fold cross validation on DT [1] C. Fellbaum. WordNet: An electronic lexical database. The MIT press, 1998. [2] M. Hall, E. Frank, G. Holmes, B. Pfahringer, P. Reutemann, and I. Witten. The WEKA data mining software: An update. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, 11(1):10–18, 2009. [3] C. Huijnen, W. IJsselsteijn, P. Markopoulos, and B. de Ruyter. Social presence and group attraction: exploring the effects of awareness systems in the home. Cognition, Technology & Work, 6(1):41–44, 2004. [4] A. Java, X. Song, T. Finin, and B. Tseng. Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities. In Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis, pages 56–65. ACM, 2007. [5] B. Krishnamurthy, P. Gill, and M. Arlitt. A few chirps about twitter. In Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks, pages 19–24. ACM, 2008. Previously we argued that one major advantage of this classifier [6] H. Kwak, C. Lee, H. Park, and S. Moon. What is Twitter, a social is that it generalizes to television programs it has not been directly network or a news media? In Proceedings of the 19th international trained on. To test this claim, we ran an experiment by training on conference on World wide web, pages 591–600. ACM, 2010. two of the shows, and testing on the third one, The results are in [7] K. Mitchell, A. Jones, J. Ishmael, and N. Race. Social TV: toward Figure 3. Averaging the result over the three possible combinations content navigation using social awareness. In Proceedings of the 8th yields a precision of 0.84 and an F-measure of 0.85 for label Yes. international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video, pages 283–292. ACM, 2010. [8] L. Oehlberg, N. Ducheneaut, J. Thornton, R. Moore, and E. Nickell. Figure 3: Improved Classifier - leave one show out on DT Social TV: Designing for distributed, sociable television viewing. In Proc. EuroITV, volume 2006, pages 25–26, 2006. [9] J. Quinlan. C4.5: Programs for machine learning. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993. [10] J. Rodriguez, L. Kuncheva, and C. Alonso. 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Fall 2013
An update for the congregation, friends, and supporters of Grace Cathedral
Grace Notes Grace Cathedral fall 2013 E x p e r i e n c e w o r s h i p, a r t s , education and service this fall at San Francisco's Cathedral for All DEAN'S MESSAGE Dear Friends, We look forward to welcoming you to our full schedule of worship and events this fall, details of which you can find in this issue of Grace Notes. Highlights include the culmination of our Year of Music. We hope you will join us for a superb concert on October 23 when we will be premiering a work by composer Paul Haas, a former Grace Cathedral chorister, to the backdrop of our Resident Artist Anne Patterson's stunning visuals. This year also sees the appearance of the worldrenowned British choral group, the Tallis Scholars, on December 4. Enjoy our fall season of The Forum with guests such as author Richard Rodriguez and Founder and President of CREDO/Working Assets, Michael Kieschnick. Participate in our season of remembering those we love but see no longer in early November, by worshipping with us when the Choir of Men and Boys sings Duruflé's Requiem on November 10, and by helping to make our Day of the Dead altars, which will be on display in the cathedral for two weeks. As we pursue excellence in the arts as a part of our mission, I am delighted to announce the ArtsMatch funding campaign: a generous donor will match up to $200,000 in gifts to expand our program substantially. We hope you will join us in supporting the arts in this way. Details are on the back cover. This fall we also welcome our new Canon for Congregational Life, the Rev. Canon Dr. Randal Gardner, and our new Canon for Operations, the Rev. Canon Lesley Hay; we gather for our annual meeting on September 29; and we draw together the threads of our strategic plan to bring it to completion. It's an exciting time in the life of Grace Cathedral, and we are glad you are a part of it. With warmest wishes, The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw G r ac e C at h e d r a l B oa r d o f T r u st e e s The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, President 2 | GRACE NOTES FALL 2013 Robert Taylor Gabriela Strand Bruce Lee McEnany Caraher Dorena Chan Jane A. Cook Donald W. Derheim Valerie Crane Dorfman Lokelani Devone Zane O. Gresham Samuel Hocking Steven H. Holland Judith Droz Keyes Peggy Lo Mary Ryan McCarthy Charles L. Moore Meridee Moore Lori Ogden Moore John Oxaal James Pannell Bob Peck Garrett A. H. Price III L. Gregory Scott Michael Sippey Anna Deavere Smith Trevor Traina Mary Vargas Susan von Herrmann David W. Walker Mrs. Diane B. Wilsey The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw, Vice President Patrick S. Thompson, Chair Eliza Brown, Vice Chair Anne Casscells, Treasurer Jane Shaw Carpenter, Secretary FALL HIGHLIGHTS Additional Event Information: gracecathedral.org/events Seeing the Voice: State of Grace: October 23, 7 p.m. The Choir Sings at AT&T Park: September 10, 7:15 p.m. Support the Choir of Men and Boys as they sing the national anthem before the San Francisco Giants face the Colorado Rockies. Tickets: sfgiants.com Annual Meeting: September 29, 9 a.m. 2013 Artist in Residence Anne Patterson collaborates with acclaimed composer and conductor (and former Grace Cathedral chorister) Paul Haas for a spectacular evening of visual art and music. Information: gracecathedral.org/concerts Julie Harris Niall Battson Eric Richmond Join the 68th Annual Meeting of the Grace Cathedral Congregation. Over breakfast, Bishop Marc Andrus, Dean Jane Shaw and other cathedral leaders talk about this year's progress and our future growth. Information: gracecathedral.org/annualmeeting The Tallis Scholars: December 4, 7:30 p.m. The world-renowned Tallis Scholars present sacred works, including Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, in this very special concert. See page 7. Christmas Concerts & Händel's Messiah : December 11–22 Sing with Haiti: October 2, 7 p.m. This benefit concert celebrates the spirit and future of Haiti, and raises visibility for the ongoing work and needs of the Holy Trinity Music School in Port-au-Prince. Information: gracecathedral.org/haiti Enjoy sacred choral music sung by the Choir of Men and Boys, revel in music by the Bay Area's finest brass musicians and catch the American Bach Soloists as they return for their stellar performance of Händel's Messiah. See page 7. S AVE THE DATE CARNIVALE : FE B RUARY 2 7, 2 0 1 4 Don't miss the fourth annual gala inside Grace Cathedral, benefitting cathedral life, as we launch the year with a focus on the environment. Tickets and information: gracecathedral.org/carnivale GRACE NOTES FALL 2013 | 3 music & Worship Our regular worship schedule includes four services on Sundays –— 8:30 a.m. Eucharist; 11 a.m. Choral Eucharist; 3 p.m. Choral Evensong and 6 p.m. Eucharist on the labyrinth — as well as Choral Evensong sung by our Choir of Men and Boys on Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. SPECIAL EVENTS IN WORSHIP On Sunday, October 6 we mark St. Francis Day, celebrating the patron saint of San Francisco, servant to the poor and lover of all creation. Bring your pet to be blessed at the 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. or 6 p.m. Eucharist services. On Sunday, November 10, at 11 a.m., come to remember those you love and yet see no longer at a special All Souls' Requiem Service. The Choir of Men and Boys will sing Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, composed in 1947 in memory of Duruflé's father. Also on Sunday, November 10, at 3 p.m., join us for the Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance, which commemorates those who have died in armed conflict. During this service, thousands of poppies fall from the heights of the cathedral arches onto the main altar. On Sunday, December 1 at 3 p.m., begin your preparations for Christmas as the season of Advent starts with the Advent Procession, a special service of music and Scripture sung by our Choir of Men and Boys, followed by a tea in the Dining Room. All Advent activities: gracecathedral.org/advent Julie Harris 4 | GRACE NOTES FALL 2013 Julie Harris Visit gracecathedral.org/stewardship Thank you! m a k e a s t e wa r d s h i p p l e d g e f o r c o n g r e g at i o n a l l i f e . Organ Recital Series Selected Sundays, 4 P.M. Concerts by accomplished musicians playing one of America's finest organs, a 7,466 pipe Æolian-Skinner. Suggested donation: $10. October 6 November 3 James Welch, Organist of Santa Clara University and of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, will perform a recital of the organ works of Richard Purvis, who was Grace Cathedral's legendary Organist and Master of the Choristers from 1947 to 1971. This recital celebrates Purvis' centennial year. Jonathan Dimmock, a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and Yale School of Music, was the first American to hold the prestigious position of Organ Scholar of Westminster Abbey. He now serves as Organist of St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and Organist for the San Francisco Symphony. Esteban Allard Valdivieso CATHEDRAL LIFE Anne Patterson, Artist in Residence This summer, Anne Patterson added several miles of pink and red ribbon to her dazzling cathedral installation, Graced With Light, which is on view now. For her second major installation, she will collaborate with acclaimed composer and conductor Paul Haas for Seeing the Voice: State of Grace, a spectacular evening of art and music on October 23 at 7 p.m. Information and tickets: gracecathedral.org/concerts Later in October, Anne will teach three interactive ofrendas Workshops: workshops about spirituality and art. Attendees will create a October 14, 5:30–7:30 p.m. small art piece that will be displayed in the cathedral as part October 15, 7:30–9 p.m. of a larger Ofrendas installation. These Ofrendas, or Day of the October 19, 3–5 p.m. Dead altars, will be on display from October 31 until Suggested donation: $10. November 11. More information: gracecathedral.org/ofrendas N e w C l e r gy The Rev. Canon Dr. Randal Gardner is our Canon for Congregational Life at Grace Cathedral. Randal has been rector of several parishes, most recently in San Diego. He is a Trustee of the Church Divinity School in Berkeley, where he trained for ordained ministry. The Rev. Canon Lesley Hay is Grace Cathedral's new Canon for Operations. She brings a unique perspective to Grace Cathedral, with experience as a priest in the Episcopal Church for the past six years, and, prior to that, wide experience in the private sector in strategy, organizational development, management and operational effectiveness. The Rev. Doe Yates serves as a liturgical deacon at Grace Cathedral on Sundays, and part-time with the Seniors Program. She was confirmed at the cathedral in 1962, and worshipped here for many years before training at The School for Deacons in Berkeley. Abby McKee GRACE NOTES FALL 2013 | 5 CONNECTING MIND & SPIRIT 2 0 1 3 Fa l l F o r u m Sunday mornings from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m., Gresham Hall. Hosted by the Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw, Grace Cathedral's flagship conversation continues. Free and open to all. There will be no Forum on September 29. Information: gracecathedral.org/forum September 15 Diana Butler Bass, Author Christianity After Religion September 22 O c to b e r 6 David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley Religion in the 1960s Richard Rodriguez, Author Darling: A Spiritual Biography O c to b e r 1 3 Lori Starr, Executive Director of the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Anne Patterson, Artist in Residence Beyond Belief: Art and Spirituality O c to b e r 2 0 Paul Haas, Composer and Anne Patterson, Artist in Residence Seeing the Voice: State of Grace O c to b e r 2 7 The Very Rev. Dr. David Ison, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral Cathedrals: A Vision for the Future N ov e m b e r 3 The Rev. Frannie Kieschnick, Episcopal Priest and Michael Kieschnick, President and Founder of CREDO Mobile Faith and Action N ov e m b e r 1 0 Professor Tom Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley Remembering the Dead N ov e m b e r 1 7 The Very Rev. Dr. Alan Jones, Dean Emeritus, Grace Cathedral The Forum series is sponsored by Barbro and Bernard Osher. Help Us Go Green: Help us reduce our use of paper and lower the costs of this publication by signing up for electronic delivery of Grace Notes. Just send an email to email@example.com with "Go Green" in the subject line. 6 | GRACE NOTES FALL 2013 CHRISTMAS AT GRACE CATHEDRAL Julie Harris More information: gracecathedral.org/Christmas c h r i s t m a s Co n c e r ts Tickets on sale September 12: www.cityboxoffice.com or (415) 392-4400 The Tallis Scholars December 4 at 7:30 p.m. — Sponsored by the Cockayne Fund C h r i st m as S e rv i c e s Free and open to all. Christmas Eve Tuesday, December 24 11 a.m. The world-renowned Tallis Scholars present sacred works in this very special concert. Händel's Messiah December 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. The Bishop's Christmas Pageant for Children* 4 p.m. American Bach Soloists return for their stellar performance of Händel's Messiah. 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