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Internet censorship in China is something that we are all aware of. It's not an ideal state of affairs, but that's the way things are and, for the time being, there's little that can be done about it. Search engines that want to operate in China need to abide by strict guidelines set down by the Chinese government. But allegations have started that Bing is also censoring Chinese language searches that are conducted in other countries. Microsoft denies the claims.
Freedom of speech campaigners found that Bing was returning different search results for searches conducted form the US in English, and those conducted in Chinese. It was found that "controversial" terms such as Dalai Lama, FreeGate and June 4 incident -- which is how the Tiananmen Square protests are known -- do not return the types of pages searchers might expect, or want to see, but links to censored sites or those with a pro-Chinese stance.
There were also problems with the site Freeweibo.com -- which allows for uncensored searching of Chinese blogs -- being omitted from search results.
Sites including the Guardian and GreatFire claimed that this was indicative of Chinese censorship outside of China. Speaking to Engadget, Microsoft has denied the claims of censorship, but it down to a series of errors:
"Bing does not apply China's legal requirements to searches conducted outside of China. Due to an error in our system, we triggered an incorrect results removal notification for some searches noted in the report but the results themselves are and were unaltered outside of China," said Bing's Senior Director Stefan Weitz.
He went on to say that: "Second, with regard to the freeweibo.com homepage being absent from Bing search results, our investigation indicates that at some time in the past the page was marked as inappropriate due to low quality or adult content. After review, we have determined the page is acceptable for inclusion in global search results."
Microsoft does not denying complying with Chinese government requests within China ("Microsoft follows a strict set of internal procedures for how we respond to specific demands from governments requiring us to block access to content"), but insists that "we apply these principles carefully and thoughtfully to our Bing version for the People's Republic of China," not elsewhere in the world.


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'Feed the Dawg Inside' and purchase a meal plan
August 17, 2011
Whether you live on or off campus, there's a meal plan just for you. Purchase your plan by Aug. 31 and be entered for a chance to win a $300, $200, or $100 gas card! Check out meal plan options online at www.msstatedining.com, call 662-325-7120, or stop by the Meal Plan Office located next to State Fountain Bakery.

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BLCT 2064 - Structural Components, 4 Credits
Prerequisite(s): BLCT 1024 with D or better
Level: Lower
This course explores a variety of structural components and building practices in frame construction. Major topics include manufactured building materials, span and load bearing requirements, floor systems, roof system, fastening techniques, and estimating, as well as common frame construction techniques. The lab exercises allow the student to practice the layout, assembly, and construction of a variety of structural components with concentration on common rafters and manufactured joists, trusses, and beams.


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SNHU 101 serves as an introduction to college and college level work. It is a course whose outcomes prepare students for academic, personal, and social success through the structured practice of critical thinking and decision-making. Students will engage in collaborative efforts that generate, integrate, and apply knowledge.
An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a cohesive, powerful, and well-designed collection of electronic documents that demonstrate student skills, education and professional development. E-portfolios (websites) allow students to place a great deal of information in a small place.
We want to make your transition to SNHU as easy as possible, so here is all the information you will need between now and your first day at SNHU.
When you arrive in September, you'll work together with your academic advisor to identify your interests, abilities, and goals. From that point on, you'll have access to all the resources available at SNHU to help you be the best you can be. If you feel behind, we'll help you catch up. If you want to challenge yourself, tell us where you want to push yourself and we'll take you there.


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|Cacchione, Peter V., d.1947.
|Papers (1944-1947) of Peter V. Cacchione (d. 1947), an Italian American New York City councilman, contain correspondence; records of his work as councilman; memoranda; and miscellany.
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Peter V. Cacchione (d.1947) was a New York City councilman for the Borough of Brooklyn from 1942-1947. He introduced or supported legislation supporting price ceilings on rent, food, transportation and utilities. Cacchione was a supporter of city employee wage increases and the increase of state aid for New York City, and was opposed to segregation in housing, discrimination in employment, and sales taxes.
The Cacchione, Peter V. collection is available for public research.
The Cacchione, Peter V. collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.
For further information regarding the copyright, please contact the IHRC.
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Stop me if you heard this one before: By the time you are reading this, the new Driveonline.com website should be up and running.
Granted, it's taken a little longer that any of us would have liked, but the new site offers more than we could have imagined. In addition to all of the things you love best about Drive! Magazine like car features, tech stories, shows new products and of course, upcoming show listings, the site will also have a video link where you, the readers (or is it viewers?) can upload video from your favorite show. Or maybe you want to give us a tour of your ride? You can now do it on Driveonline.com.
That's the thing about websites – the need for content is voracious, and as much as we'd like to go to every show, we simply can't be everywhere. Just recently, the Nova Nationals tool place up in Pleasanton, Calif. Being Nova lovers ourselves, we really wanted to get up there. Due to circumstances beyond our control, though, we simply couldn't make it. That's where you, faithful readers, come in. All it would have taken is for someone who had attended the show, or the show promoters themselves, to take a bunch of pictures and write up a little copy and then upload it to the Driveonline.com website and voila! The show would have been seen by thousands of Nova enthusiasts.
To upload content to the site, all that it takes is a push of the "Log In" button. This will allow you to sign up as a member. Once that is done, you will be able to not only browse the various items that we have uploaded, but you can load your own content. It's simple, fun and gives everyone a chance to see your journalistic prowess. You will also have the ability to upload information on your upcoming shows and runs to the calendar section. That way, everyone will know about your show and attend.
As stated, the site will also allow you to upload video content. But as this is a family outfit, keep things clean, OK? We don't need any "costume malfunctions" here. Let's leave that for MTV or some other type of website. And yes, we will be monitoring things.
We will be loading the content from the latest issue of Drive! magazine about a week or two into its run, so you will also have the latest content from the magazine itself.
So there you have it. Let's work together to make Driveonline.com a website that all will enjoy and learn from. As Red Green used to say, "I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together."


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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- As the deadline to register for assistance nears, state and federal officials announce today that more than $8.9 million in disaster aid has been approved for residents suffering damage from the severe storms, flooding and tornado during the period of Sept. 11-24.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said individuals and businesses in Missouri that have suffered damage during this period have until the end of business on Monday to register with FEMA for disaster assistance.? The deadline to apply is Jan. 12, 2009.
The following is a recovery summary as of the close of business Jan. 08, 2009 for the Individual Assistance program in the declared counties of Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Howell, Jefferson, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Montgomery, Osage, Schuyler, St. Charles, St. Louis, Stone, Taney, Texas, and Webster counties and the Independent City of St. Louis.
More than $4 million has been approved in housing assistance to help disaster-affected Missourians with temporary housing and home repairs. Another $1.3 million has been approved for Other Needs Assistance (ONA), which may include the repair or replacement of personal property and disaster-related transportation, moving, medical, dental, and funeral expenses. Missouri provides 25 percent of ONA money provided to applicants.
3,311 individuals have applied for assistance by calling FEMA's toll-free registration number.
2,809 damage inspections have been completed. Those who may be awaiting an inspector are reminded to keep their appointments to speed recovery assistance.
More than $3.5 million has been approved for homeowners and businesses by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Those who have questions about low-interest loans from SBA can call 1-800-659-2955, e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com , or visit SBA's Web site at:www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance.
The SBA Disaster Loan Outreach Center (DLOC) will close at the end of business on Monday, Jan. 12, 2009.? It is located at the Heman Park Centennial Commons Building, 7210 Olive Blvd., University City, Mo. 63130.
The Young Lawyers Section of the Missouri Bar disaster hotline at 1-800-829-4128 is available to assist people in the disaster-affected counties with basic legal questions, such as replacing lost documents, housing/landlord/tenant disputes, mortgage foreclosure information, consumer rights, and insurance questions. Leave a message to receive a call from a legal specialist. There is no charge for the service.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) information on how to claim disaster losses and other information can be found atwww.irs.gov (click on storms, floods, tornadoes and other disasters and then choose Missouri). The IRS toll-free number for general tax questions is 1-800-829-1040. Disaster assistance from FEMA is not taxable.
Register for FEMA's individual assistance by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or TTY 1-800-462-7585 for the speech- or hearing-impaired. Telephone lines are open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will be available until further notice. Applicants can also register online anytime at www.disasterassistance.gov .
FEMA coordinates the federal government's role in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from all dome...


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The Water Bowl: Jen & Justin's Holiday Card Helps Animals
These stories are worth a click:
A holiday card sent by Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux benefits animals. "A donation has been made in your name to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and Best Friends Animal Society," the card reads.–LaineyGossip.com
A 3-year-old female wolf-dog, wearing a collar and chain, was found roaming the streets of East New York Thursday. Animal authorities believe the dog, which may be a cross between a grey wolf and huskie or malamute, was being kept as an exotic pet.–New York Daily News
Leo, a therapy dog who once belonged to Michael Vick, has died from a seizure disorder. The pooch lived with Marthina McClay who took the friendly canine to hospitals to comfort cancer patients.–Care2.com
A new study finds that pigeons are just as good as primates at basic math. After a year of training, pigeons in the study were able to peck numbers on a screen in order from lowest to highest.–NYTimes.com
A good Samaritan in Delaware, Ohio, helped a cat that had an arrow through its entire body. The cat, who is believed to be a stray, is expected to recover.–10tv.com


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Systems and methods that enhance estimate(s) of features (e.g., word associations), via employing a sampling component (e.g., sketches) that facilitates computations of sample contingency tables, and designates occurrences (or absence) of features in data (e.g., words in document lists). The sampling component can further include a contingency table generator and an estimation that employs a likelihood argument (e.g., partial likelihood, maximum likelihood, and the like) to estimate features/word pair(s) associations in the contingency tables.
1. A computer implemented system comprising the following computer executable components:
a sampling component that employs sketches to facilitate generation of contingency tables and forms a sample of data; and
an estimation component that employs a likelihood argument to locate a most likely contingency table for the sample.
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10. A computer implemented method comprising the following computer executable acts:
sampling a collection of data to form a sample space;
computing a contingency table within the sample space for features that require association estimation; and
employing a probabilistic argument on the contingency table to determine a most likely contingency table.
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for sketches K1, K2.
20. A computer implemented system comprising the following computer executable components:
means for non randomly sampling a collection of documents to form a sketch space; and
means for computing a contingency table within the sketch space.
This is an application claiming benefit Under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/717,316 filed on Sep. 15, 2005, entitled, "USING SKETCHES TO ESTIMATE CONTINGENCY TABLES", the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
Memory storage expansion and processing capabilities of computers have enabled massive amounts of data to be accumulated and analyzed by complex and intelligent algorithms. For instance, given an accumulation of data, algorithms can analyze such data and locate patterns therein. Such patterns can then be extrapolated from the data, persisted as content of a data mining model or models, and applied within a desired context. With the evolution of computers from simple number-crunching machines to sophisticated devices, numerous services are supplied for data trending and analysis.
Usage for such data analysis tools has increased dramatically as society has become more dependent on databases and similar digital information storage mediums. Such information is typically analyzed, or "mined," to learn additional information regarding customers, users, products, and the like.
For example, data mining can be employed in searching through large amounts of data to uncover patterns and relationships contained therein. In the data mining world, there are at least two operations that are performed with data indicated by the client. These operations are training (finding patterns in client data) and prediction (applying such patterns to infer new/missing knowledge about client data). Moreover, data mining can be employed to explore large detailed business transactions, such as pairing up items for sale or "associative selling", wherein businesses desire to correlate various product names based upon a particular buyer's buying habits. Such associative process can also be expanded beyond direct product sales. It can be utilized indirectly to enhance search capabilities in conjunction with word queries.
Word associations (e.g., co-occurrences or joint frequencies) have a wide range of applications including: Speech Recognition, Optical Character Recognition and Information Retrieval (IR). Although associations can be readily performed for a small corpus, yet computing plurality of scores for numerous data such as the Web, can become a daunting challenge (e.g., having billion number of web pages and millions of word types.) For example, for a small corpus, one could compute pair-wise (two-way) associations by multiplying the (0/1) term-by-document matrix with its transpose. Yet, such an approach can become infeasible at Web scale. Furthermore, the computation and storage cost can increase exponentially for multi-way associations.
Although deriving associations among data (e.g., word search queries) is extremely advantageous, it is also generally very difficult to actually determine such associations. Typically, the difficulty for deriving such associations is in part due to factors such as: complex computing requirements, complexity in accessing and retrieving the necessary information, and/or long computational calculation times, and the like. In general, a process reviews the data and examines patterns in the data, along with the frequency in which the patterns appear. These patterns, in turn facilitate determining "association rules", which can be further analyzed to identify the likelihood for predicted outcomes—given a particular set of data.
For large amounts of data, the review process to determine association rules often requires searching entire document collections and employing large amounts of memory. It is common for all available memory to be utilized before all of the data has been reviewed. This causes decreased performance in operations of computer systems.
Estimates can provide a suitable approach to mitigate a requirement to examine every document to determine whether two words are strongly associated or not. Web search engines can produce estimates of page hits. For example, hits for two high frequency words "a" and "the" can yield a large number of web pages (D) D=1010 for English documents. Accordingly, one can employ estimated co-occurrences from a small sample to compute the test, statistics, most commonly the Pearson's Chi-squared test, the likelihood ratio test, the Fisher's exact test, as well as some non-statistical metrics such as cosine similarity or resemblance, also widely used in computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval.
The conventional sampling method randomly selects D, documents from a collection of size D and counts the word co-occurrences within the sample. In terms of the term-by-document matrix, which has M rows (M an integer indicating the number of word types) and D columns, the conventional sampling randomly selects a number of documents (D,) columns. As such, typically all words are sampled at a same rate. For example, such sampling rate is not higher for words considered interesting to a user, and lower for words considered less interesting to a user.
Therefore, there is a need to overcome the aforementioned exemplary deficiencies associated with conventional systems and devices.
The following presents a simplified summary in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the claimed subject matter. This summary is not an extensive overview. It is not intended to identify key/critical elements or to delineate the scope of the claimed subject matter. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The subject innovation provides for systems and methods that enhance estimate(s) of features (e.g., word associations), via employing a sampling component that facilitates computations of sample contingency tables, and designates occurrences (or absence) of features in data (e.g., words in document list(s)). The sampling component can include a non-random sampling feature to obtain a sketch or representation of data and/or words. Such sketch can then be employed for constructing contingency tables, wherein an estimation component utilizes a likelihood argument (e.g., partial likelihood, maximum likelihood, and the like) to estimate features (e.g., word pair(s) associations) for generated contingency tables. Moreover, stopping rules for sample size selection can be based on such likelihood arguments.
Accordingly, a more general sampling method (e.g., with non-random sampling as opposed to conventional random sampling methods) can be provided, wherein the estimations associated therewith are based on likelihood. The sampling component can also employ a variable rate of sampling depending on search criteria (e.g., rareness or prominence of word usage). Thus, a typical requirement to examine an entire document (or list of documents) to determine whether two words are associated can be mitigated.
In one exemplary aspect, a contingency table in a sketch space is initially computed. Such contingency table can include a plurality of cells that form a matrix of integers, which designate occurrences (or absence) of words within documents. Subsequently, a maximum likelihood argument can be employed to locate the most likely contingency table in the original space, while at the same time considering estimate associations, and the already imposed constraints (e.g., presence or absence of words in a document, number of occurrences, frequency of occurrences, and the like). Therefore, an entire document list need not be examined, and associations between data can be readily determined via the sampling component.
According to a further aspect, the subject innovation constructs sample contingency table(s) (e.g., a matrix of integers) from sketches, thus connecting powerful sketch techniques with conventional statistical methods. As such, conventional statistical techniques (e.g., maximum likelihood estimation—MLE), and large sample theory can be employed to analyze estimation errors (e.g., variances). Therefore, the contingency table construction of the subject innovation also enables statistical hypothesis testing (e.g., X2 test or G2 test, or multiple testing, and the like.)
In a related aspect, to estimate associations between word W1 and word W2, the subject innovation employs a likelihood function that leverages constraints such as: the size of the collection D (e.g., total number of documents in the collection); the margin (length of posting lists) f1=a+b, (wherein "a" is the number of documents that contain both W1 and W2, and "b " is the number of documents that contain W1 but not W2); the margin f2=a+c, (wherein "c" is the number of documents that contain W2 but not W1); and D=a+b+c+d (wherein "d" is the number of documents that contain neither W1 nor W2). Likewise as, bs, cs, ds correspond to a sample contingency table in a sample space s. Various artificial intelligence components can also be employed in conjunction with estimating associations for the word pairs.
According to a further aspect, the subject innovation can employ an enhanced sampling (e.g., non-randomized sampling), in conjunction with maximum likelihood estimation, wherein as=a·s (s being a sampling rate). Hence, in contrast to conventional methods, (e.g., as=a·s2) the subject innovation supplies a more dynamic range on a cell of a contingency table (e.g., a cell with smallest counts.) By enhancing the sampling procedure, the subject innovation can facilitate obtaining a better resolution, even though a more complex estimation can be required (e.g., a likelihood argument.)
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the claimed subject matter are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative of various ways in which the subject matter can be practiced, all of which are intended to be within the scope of the claimed subject matter. Other advantages and novel features may become apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
The various aspects of the subject innovation are now described with reference to the annexed drawings, wherein like numerals refer to like or corresponding elements throughout. It should be understood, however, that the drawings and detailed description relating thereto are not intended to limit the claimed subject matter to the particular form disclosed. Rather, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the claimed subject matter.
As used herein, the terms "component," "system" and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on computer and the computer can be a component. One or more components may reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers. The word "exemplary" is used herein to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any aspect or design described herein as "exemplary" is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects or designs.
Furthermore, the disclosed subject matter may be implemented as a system, method, apparatus, or article of manufacture using standard programming and/or engineering techniques to produce software, firmware, hardware, or any combination thereof to control a computer or processor based device to implement aspects detailed herein. The term computer program as used herein is intended to encompass a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or media. For example, computer readable media can include but are not limited to magnetic storage devices (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic strips . . . ), optical disks (e.g., compact disk (CD), digital versatile disk (DVD) . . . ), smart cards, and flash memory devices (e.g., card, stick). Additionally it should be appreciated that a carrier wave can be employed to carry computer-readable electronic data such as those used in transmitting and receiving electronic mail or in accessing a network such as the Internet or a local area network (LAN). Of course, those skilled in the art will recognize many modifications can be made to this configuration without departing from the scope or spirit of the claimed subject matter.
Turning initially to
Accordingly, a more general sampling method (e.g., with non-random sampling as opposed to conventional random sampling methods) can be provided, wherein the estimations associated therewith are based on likelihood. Thus, a typical requirement to examine an entire document (or list of documents) to determine whether two words are associated can be mitigated. The sample contingency table 130 in a sketch space is initially computed. Such contingency table 130 can include a plurality of cells that form a matrix of integers, which designate occurrences (or absence) of words within documents. Subsequently, a maximum likelihood argument can be employed to locate the most likely contingency table 133 in the original space, while at the same time considering estimate associations, and the already imposed constraints (e.g., presence or absence of words in a document, number of occurrences, frequency of occurrences, and the like). Therefore, associations between data can be readily determined via the sampling component.
Referring now to
In one exemplary aspect, a standard inverted index can be considered. For example for the word W1, a set of postings P1 (P1 being an integer) can exist that contain a set of document IDs, such as one for each document containing W1. Moreover, the size of the posting f1=|P1| can correspond to the margins of the contingency table 240, also known as document frequencies (df) in information retrieval (IR). Such posting lists can be estimated by sketches K. Assuming that document IDs are random (e.g., obtained by random permutations) K1 can then be computed as a random sample of P1, by selecting the first few elements of P1.
As depicted in
In general, sketches are conventionally designed to find duplicate pages for a web crawling application. The similarity of two web pages is typically defined in terms of resemblance (R). In the Broder method, it can be assumed that each document in the corpus of size D is assigned a unique ID between 1 and D. P1, the postings for word W1 is a sorted list of f1 document IDs. Similarly, P2 denotes the postings for word W2. Initially, a random permutation can be performed on the document IDs and the smallest IDs in the postings P1 and P2, (denoted as MIN(P1) and MIN(P2), respectively) recorded. As such, the possibility of MIN(P1)=MIN(P2) can
Therefore, the resemblance of W1 and W2, e.g.,
Accordingly, Broder's original sketch algorithm employs typically only one permutation on the document IDs. After the permutation, the postings P1 can be sorted ascending, and the sketch, K1 is then the first (smallest) k1 document IDs in P1. The Broder method employs MINk(Z) to denote the k smallest elements in the set, Z. Thus, K1=MINk
Using the notation in
Such sketch (miniwise sketch) can be considered as a "sample-with-replacement" version of the original sketch. In {circumflex over (R)}B,r, the additional subscript r indicates "sample-with-replacement."
Since the "miniwise" sketch is a binomial sample and the "original" sketch is a hypergeometric sample, the associated variances can be written as:
When k is not too large and in terms of accuracy, the difference between the two sketch constructions can be very small, given the same sketch size. Once the resemblance R is estimated, one could estimate the original contingency table in
As explained earlier,
Thus, the subject innovation enables an enhanced sampling (e.g., non-randomized sampling), in conjunction with maximum likelihood estimation, wherein as=a·s (s being a sampling rate). Hence, in contrast to conventional methods, (e.g., as=a·s2) the subject innovation supplies a more dynamic range on a cell of a contingency table (e.g., a cell with smallest counts.) Moreover, by enhancing the sampling procedure, the subject innovation can facilitate obtaining a better resolution, even though a more complex estimation can be required (e.g., a likelihood argument.)
Such procedure takes advantage of the fact that the document IDs span the integers from 1 to D with no gaps. When the two sketches that include all documents IDs smaller than or equal to Ds are compared, one has effectively looked at Ds documents in the original collection.
When sketches are constructed off-line for all words in a corpus, it is possible that Ds is not known in advance. Moreover, it can be desirable to effectively vary Ds for different word pairs. For on-line sketch construction, it is also much easier to sample according to the postings sampling rate
Accordingly, a different sketch construction that does not require knowing Ds in advance is illustrated in
Put differently, by employing the same corpus as in
Although both Procedure 1 (in
Assuming "sample-with-replacement," one can have a slightly simpler cubic MLE equation as indicated by:
Instead of solving a cubic equation, one can also use an accurate closed-form approximation of:
As will be described in detail infra, eq. 10 will be derived in detail in conjunction with an analysis of the estimation errors, (which is directly related to the variance of the estimator) and the following variance formulas (conditional on Ds):
And an approximate unconditional variance, useful for choosing sketch sizes:
Based on statistical large sample theory, such variance formulas are accurate when the sketch sizes are reasonable (e.g., ≧20-50).
In one exemplary aspect, the subject innovation estimates the contingency table from the samples, the margins, and D. The most probable a, which maximizes the (full) likelihood (probability mass function, PMF) (as, bs, cs, ds; a) is desired. Even though, the exact expression for P(as, bs, cs, ds; a) is not known, the conditional (partial) probability P(as, bs, cs, ds|Ds; a) is known. Such is the PMF of a two-way sample contingency table, based on the sketch construction Procedure 2 in
Since a strong dependency of Ds on a (as illustrated in
Conditional on Ds, the partial likelihood can be represented by:
Let âMLE be the value of a that maximizes the partial likelihood (eq. 14), (or equivalently, maximizes the log likelihood,) then log P(as, bs, cs, ds|Ds; a) can be described as:
Since the second derivative,
Since it is known that the MLE exists and is unique, it suffices to find the a from g(a)=1,
One can solve for q(a)=0 iteratively using the Newton's method,
As explained above,
Likewise, under the "sample-with-replacement" assumption, the likelihood function is slightly simpler as:
Setting the first derivative of the log likelihood to be zero yields a cubic equation:
In a related aspect of the subject innovation, a less accurate margin-free base line can be provided instead of solving a cubic equation for the exact MLE. Accordingly, a convenient closed-form approximation to the exact MLE is described below.
The "sample-with-replacement" can be assumed and as can be identified from K1 without the knowledge of K2. Put differently, it can be assumed that:
Setting the first derivative of the logarithm of (eq. 22) to be zero, the following can be obtained
The second root can be ignored because it is always out of range:
Referring now
Initially, and at 910 the word pairs are sampled for estimating associations. Subsequently and at 920, contingency tables are computed for the word pairs. A likelihood argument (e.g., maximum likelihood) can then be applied to the contingency tables, at 930. The most likely contingency table can then be located in the original space at 940, given the sketch and constraints. Subsequently, and at 950 the contingency tables can be summarized and employed in desired applications (e.g., word associations).
The subject innovation (e.g., in connection with estimating associations for word pairs) can employ various artificial intelligence based schemes for carrying out various aspects thereof. For example, a process for learning explicitly or implicitly when a contingency table should be generated can be facilitated via an automatic classification system and process. As used herein, the term "inference" refers generally to the process of reasoning about or inferring states of the system, environment, and/or user from a set of observations as captured via events and/or data. Inference can be employed to identify a specific context or action, or can generate a probability distribution over states, for example. The inference can be probabilistic-that is, the computation of a probability distribution over states of interest based on a consideration of data and events. Inference can also refer to techniques employed for composing higher-level events from a set of events and/or data. Such inference results in the construction of new events or actions from a set of observed events and/or stored event data, whether or not the events are correlated in close temporal proximity, and whether the events and data come from one or several event and data sources.
Classification can employ a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis (e.g., factoring into the analysis utilities and costs) to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed. For example, a support vector machine (SVM) classifier can be employed. Other classification approaches include Bayesian networks, decision trees, and probabilistic classification models providing different patterns of independence can be employed. Classification as used herein also is inclusive of statistical regression that is utilized to develop models of priority.
As will be readily appreciated from the subject specification, the subject innovation can employ classifiers that are explicitly trained (e.g., via a generic training data) as well as implicitly trained (e.g., via observing user behavior, receiving extrinsic information) so that the classifier is used to automatically determine according to a predetermined criteria which answer to return to a question. For example, SVM's are configured via a learning or training phase within a classifier constructor and feature selection module. A classifier is a function that maps an input attribute vector, x=(x1, x2, x3, x4, xn), to a confidence that the input belongs to a class—that is, f(x)=confidence(class).
In order to provide a context for the various aspects of the disclosed subject matter,
With reference to
The system bus 1018 can be any of several types of bus structure(s) including the memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus or external bus, and/or a local bus using any variety of available bus architectures including, but not limited to, 11-bit bus, Industrial Standard Architecture (ISA), Micro-Channel Architecture (MSA), Extended ISA (EISA), Intelligent Drive Electronics (IDE), VESA Local Bus (VLB), Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), Universal Serial Bus (USB), Advanced Graphics Port (AGP), Personal Computer Memory Card International Association bus (PCMCIA), and Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI).
The system memory 1016 includes volatile memory 1020 and nonvolatile memory 1022. The basic input/output system (BIOS), containing the basic routines to transfer information between elements within the computer 1012, such as during start-up, is stored in nonvolatile memory 1022. By way of illustration, and not limitation, nonvolatile memory 1022 can include read only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), electrically programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory 1020 includes random access memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, RAM is available in many forms such as synchronous RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM).
Computer 1012 also includes removable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer storage media.
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A user enters commands or information into the computer 1012 through input device(s) 1036. Input devices 1036 include, but are not limited to, a pointing device such as a mouse, trackball, stylus, touch pad, keyboard, microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, TV tuner card, digital camera, digital video camera, web camera, and the like. These and other input devices connect to the processing unit 1014 through the system bus 1018 via interface port(s) 1038. Interface port(s) 1038 include, for example, a serial port, a parallel port, a game port, and a universal serial bus (USB). Output device(s) 1040 use some of the same type of ports as input device(s) 1036. Thus, for example, a USB port may be used to provide input to computer 1012, and to output information from computer 1012 to an output device 1040. Output adapter 1042 is provided to illustrate that there are some output devices 1040 like monitors, speakers, and printers, among other output devices 1040 that require special adapters. The output adapters 1042 include, by way of illustration and not limitation, video and sound cards that provide a means of connection between the output device 1040 and the system bus 1018. It should be noted that other devices and/or systems of devices provide both input and output capabilities such as remote computer(s) 1044.
Computer 1012 can operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as remote computer(s) 1044. The remote computer(s) 1044 can be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a workstation, a microprocessor based appliance, a peer device or other common network node and the like, and typically includes many or all of the elements described relative to computer 1012. For purposes of brevity, only a memory storage device 1046 is illustrated with remote computer(s) 1044. Remote computer(s) 1044 is logically connected to computer 1012 through a network interface 1048 and then physically connected via communication connection 1050. Network interface 1048 encompasses communication networks such as local-area networks (LAN) and wide-area networks (WAN). LAN technologies include Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI), Ethernet/IEEE 802.3, Token Ring/IEEE 802.5 and the like. WAN technologies include, but are not limited to, point-to-point links, circuit switching networks like Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN) and variations thereon, packet switching networks, and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL).
Communication connection(s) 1050 refers to the hardware/software employed to connect the network interface 1048 to the bus 1018. While communication connection 1050 is shown for illustrative clarity inside computer 1012, it can also be external to computer 1012. The hardware/software necessary for connection to the network interface 1048 includes, for exemplary purposes only, internal and external technologies such as, modems including regular telephone grade modems, cable modems and DSL modems, ISDN adapters, and Ethernet cards.
What has been described above includes various exemplary aspects. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing these aspects, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations are possible. For example, the subject innovation can be extended over two way associations to encompass multi-way associations. Accordingly, the aspects described herein are intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Furthermore, to the extent that the term "includes" is used in either the detailed description or the claims, such term is intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term "comprising" as "comprising" is interpreted when employed as a transitional word in a claim.
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Today marks the release of ChAIR Entertainment's long-awaited ClashMob update for its hit iOS game, Infinity Blade 2. Once players download it, they'll be able to team with other gamers and take part in massively social challenges to earn rare pieces of loot. That is, if they combine forces to take down new characters to the franchise, namely giant behemoths that'll probably squash most brave warriors into bloody pancakes.
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"What I like about Angry Birds is that it has a traditional videogame [feel] to it, but also a very creative side. And you can really feel that they're having fun developing the game. That's what I like about it."
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by Joyce Peterson / Photography by Ned Johnston
What if you were diagnosed with a rare kind of cancer, one that was also lying in wait for other members of your family?
And what if you had the opportunity to advance research in that very same cancer?
Wait, one more thing: You're a high school student.
In the winter of 2006, Alex Royce was a sophomore at Mount Desert Island High School, the closest secondary school to The Jackson Laboratory. When he and his classmates were assigned to find a day's job shadow in a research facility, Alex picked the Laboratory because, he says, "I thought the Lab looked pretty cool and wanted to know what was going on inside it." Alex also had an interest in science, especially engineering.
Alex is a tall, soft-spoken boy with a British accent and a friendly, easygoing demeanor. His family, originally from England, moved to Bar Harbor from Holland in 2005 to explore new opportunities for his stepfather's 12th generation mussel-farming business.
Greg Cox, Ph.D., volunteered to host Alex on his job-share day. Dr. Cox studies neuromuscular disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and muscular dystrophies. He's also well known as a fun dad of three young boys and a caring mentor to the postdocs and technicians in his laboratory.
"That first day in the lab was a blast," Alex recalls."I had imagined the scientists would all be the serious type like in the movies: grumpy, no sense of humor, just concentrating on doing work and getting results. And yes, they were working, but they were also having a lot of fun and joking around."
Dr. Cox, his office shelves decorated with a miniature Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and other goofy toys, says that Alex fit in with his lab group right away. "At the end of the job-shadow day, I invited him to join the lab as an academic-year intern for the next school year, and he agreed."
A turning point
Soon after Alex started his internship in fall 2007, he and Dr. Cox began considering what his research project would be. But if life is what happens when you're making other plans, as John Lennon used to say, life—at its most unpleasant—happened.
An avid runner, Alex noticed he was sweating excessively when out for a run and, more disturbingly, could hear his own heart beating too loudly. A series of medical tests revealed a large tumor around his aorta, the major artery leading from the heart. Surgery to remove the tumor was scheduled right away.
Subsequent genetic testing of Alex, as well as three other family members, revealed that they all have a rare, dominant genetic mutation that causes a cancer called familial paraganglioma (FP). This diagnosis means they are likely to develop tumors around the head, neck, heart and abdomen. FP patients must have frequent scans to detect tumors as early as possible, but even then tumors may develop where they are difficult or impossible to remove, or become malignant.
Through Alex's medical ordeals, Dr. Cox stayed in close contact with him and his family. "Alex was already part of our lab group and we felt connected to him," Dr. Cox says. "Not surprisingly, they had a lot of questions about the cancer: how is it inherited, and what are the ramifications for the other members of the family? And even though FP is outside of my primary area of research, as a genetics investigator I was able to do a lot of background research in the disease much more easily than a non-scientist."
After looking through the literature and reviewing the research that had been done on the cancer, Dr. Cox was struck by an important detail: "There were no mouse models available to study familial paraganglioma."
How to make a new research model
At The Jackson Laboratory, Dr. Cox and many of his colleagues routinely develop new mouse models for a wide variety of genetic diseases. "So I realized that we could certainly make a mouse model for FP, and that this would be a perfect research project for Alex's internship." At this time Alex was still in the hospital, recovering from surgery, so Dr. Cox relayed this idea to him through his mother, and received an excited "yes" in return.
The human and mouse genome projects of the early 2000s confirmed that people and mice share the vast majority of their genes, and that virtually every mouse gene has a human counterpart. So, mice get the same genetic diseases as humans, for the same reasons. It's also possible to introduce a specific genetic alteration into a mouse that mimics a gene mutation responsible for a human disease. In the case of FP, the genetic mutation was known to be located in a gene called SDHB, so the new mouse model would target the analogous mouse gene.
"Mouse models can be used for a number of different purposes," Dr. Cox explains. "They help us understand the basic biology that underlies a particular disease—the inheritance patterns, how they're transmitted from one generation to the next. They also help us understand the basic molecular mechanisms of what actually causes the disease, and where we might be able to intervene pharmaceutically."
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The prospect of working with Dr. Cox on a research project that could potentially help his own family and thousands of people worldwide who carry SDHB mutations accelerated Alex's recovery from surgery. "He's incredibly enthusiastic," Dr. Cox says, chuckling. "Most of the time we have to rein him in a little because his enthusiasm often gets ahead of where his knowledge base is." To bring him up to speed, Alex says, "Greg got me a grant, three Internet windows and a dictionary." He says the entire lab group was "incredibly helpful and supportive."
Alex is now a high school senior and enjoying life symptom-free. "For college I'm definitely going to pursue something in science," he says. "I want to thank everyone at The Jackson Laboratory for giving me this opportunity. I've lived in three countries, but I've never before heard of high school students interning at a world-class facility, and being able to do their own research projects."
The team has had its first successful milestone: the birth of several litters of mice that are confirmed to carry the mutation that matches the one in Alex's family. According to Dr. Cox, the next step is simply to wait and see whether these mice develop the same kinds of tumors that occur in people with FP. Some FP patients develop tumors at a very young age, as Alex did, but others can live 60 or 70 years before tumors appear. That would compare to a typical mouse age of two years.
"Sometimes you get exactly the same disease symptoms in patients and in the relevant mouse model," Dr. Cox says, "and sometimes they can be quite different. So until we "age" these animals and study the disease process in them, we won't know whether we've got a good model for this particular cancer, even if we know it carries the same genetic mutation that patients carry."
If the team does find a good model for FP, they will try to get drug companies interested in testing compounds on it, in order to identify potential therapies for people at risk of developing the cancer.
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Nugent celebrates 'Ted, White & Blue'Written by Vicki L. Kroll | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Ted Nugent has a message for Americans as they gather to pay tribute to their country and the freedoms they enjoy on the Fourth of July.
"The real job of we, the people, in this experiment of self-government is to raise hell," he said. "Have a good time, work hard, enjoy life, but you must raise hell when you see stupidity, indecency, crime, slovenliness …"
Uncle Ted loves to raise hell. The outspoken, conservative singer-guitarist will offer advice on how to fix America's problems in his book, "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto," due in August.
"The 'Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto' is an enormous crowbar of logic upside the head of pimps and whores and welfare brats and the Obamas and the Hillarys that think those are legitimate job descriptions. Any questions? It's pretty [expletive] simple," Nugent said from a tour stop in Bakersfield, Calif. "The book goes on and on — again I wrote 'Wango Tango' and I mean it — I'm having fun here. Nobody is having more fun than I am. But my fun doesn't involve drinking and driving or drooling or taking meth or buying meth or growing meth or smoking dope or hurting innocent people."
That fun does include music and screen appearances. He just released a live CD and DVD, "Sweden Rocks," and in August he'll make his feature film debut in "Beer for My Horses," which stars Toby Keith and Willie Nelson.
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"I'm a forever Michiganiac blood brother, I love my Michigan roots, I'm still the Motor City Madman, I love Detroit," Nugent said. "I'd like to think after all these years I'm continuing what Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels taught me and that's to play with authenticity, authority and with sincerity, with all the energy you can create."
The Nuge's energy level was surging when he answered a few questions for Toledo Free Press.
TFP: You offer ways the country can face its problems in "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto." Can you share an example?
TN: I'm celebrating that I'm just a guitar player but I'm the president of my home, and all the serious problems that plague America do not exist in my home. I can fix everything about America if we were tough enough and honest enough to control America and discipline America the way I do my home.
For example, I have no invaders — nobody is going to invade my home. The message has been sent clear: If you try to invade my home, I'll kill you. And a lot of people go, well, that's extreme — whatever. I live in Texas; nobody invades homes in Texas because they know they'll get shot. Well, they invade America because they know they're going to get a check or they'll get their teeth fixed. I don't have any crime in my home — none. I don't tolerate it — zero crime. The welfare check has never showed up at my home; I wouldn't allow it. We're offended that someone would think we are so inept and feeble that somehow we need someone to take care of ourselves. We don't need anyone, thank you.
And we don't need more money thrown at us for education because when someone misspeaks or misspells or makes a mistake, we correct them. We educate each other and make up for the failure of the education system that just keeps burning money and not producing results. And gun control — we don't need any gun control. We have perfect gun control — we control our guns.
And environmental issues — we plant thousands of trees every spring. Do you know anyone else that does? I'm just a guitar player, but I figured it out in 1969. And we recycle — we've been recycling since then. We don't buy things and throw them away. We live within our means. We don't put priorities on bling-bling and then claim we can't pay for prescription drugs but we can buy cigarettes.
TFP: Are you thinking about running for governor of Michigan in 2010?
TN: Well, good God almighty, it's got that bad, has it? I'm an activist, I'm a we-the-people politician from the not-so-mean streets of this great country, and I have been very successful at galvanizing like-minded good people to speak up. We've been slowly but surely, incrementally chipping away at stupid policy, counterproductive regulations, the reward system for bloodsuckers and the punishment for the most productive entrepreneurs in the country, so I raise as much hell as I possibly can before I go to bed at night. And I've been prodded quite a bit in Michigan to run for governor and surprisingly I've been prodded to run for governor in New Mexico as well. I will let my campaign manager, Mrs. Nugent, make that decision.
I'm going to be 60 years old; I do have a lot of stuff on my plate — I love producing our "Spirit of the Wild" TV show; I love doing the things I do like "Beer for My Horses" and the Anthony Bourdain "No Reservations" Travel Channel show; I love shooting Criss Angel through the chest with my arrow on his A&E show; I love the different charity work that I do with the children in the military; I love my music; I really enjoy writing my articles for almost 40 publications on a monthly basis and my weekly column in the Waco Tribune, the new book — I love doing all this stuff, and I think I'm making genuine progress from the we-the-people bully pulpit. Whether I run for governor or political office is going to be up to Mrs. Nugent because I would welcome the conflict it would generate, but she — and your normal person — doesn't appreciate the vicious, hateful attacks from the left — I get a kick out of them; I think Michael Moore is precious.
God sent Michael Moore to literally embody what my critic looks, sounds and smells like, so I enjoy that. But my family doesn't deserve the attacks, and I don't know if they would want to put up with them or not.
TFP: "Beer for My Horses" is due out Aug. 8 in select theaters. Talk a bit about your character in the movie.
TN: My character is me. Toby Keith and I bonded very spiritually on different escapades in Afghanistan and Iraq and Kosovo; I think we're two men who love their country and put their heart and soul into being the best they can be in their musical careers. When you salute as many flag-draped coffins as we did and spent as much heart and soul genuine time with the soldiers in the military on the ground like we did, our friendship is very special.
And when Toby and Rodney Carrington went to write this "Beer for My Horses" on a song — I provided nothing else, just a lot of laughter. If I don't make you laugh, you're weird. I'm a fun guy to be around, and I think Toby and I had a good time, and he saw that I'd be fun on screen. So they created this Skunk Tarver character around me, and he's basically a sheriff's deputy who loves his rock 'n' roll, carries way too many guns, has this sheriff's badge tattooed to his chest and loves to shoot [drug-runners] in the ass with flaming arrows. Now I don't know what's more entertaining than that.
On the web visit www.tednugent.com and click on links for more.
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The following is a list of professional and educational technology services and tools provided by the University of Minnesota.
Enter specific keywords in filter results to find the tools most useful for you.
|Active Directory
|Active Directory enables faculty and staff in departments who have signed up for the service to access centralized network file storage that complies with University security standards and is backed up systematically.
|Astra Online Event Calendar
|Astra is an integrated software package for scheduling rooms and events. Depending on venue and event type selected, the information entered may be displayed on the Campus Events Calendar and the Morris campus website.
|News managements system capable of generating RSS feeds.
|Data Warehouse
|We provide a reporting environment for the University's enterprise systems through two methods to help faculty and staff with operational and management decision making: UM Reports and the Data Warehouse. The Data Warehouse is a centralized repository for enterprise data that enables users to extract data for their own specific needs.
|Enterprise Financial System (EFS)
|The Enterprise Financial System is the gateway to all financial processes at the University. The new PeopleSoft system replaces and integrates virtually all financial systems on all campuses: CUFS, Financial Forms Nirvana, Electronic Grants Management System internal (EGMSi), JD Edwards, and others. Financial reporting and data currently provided by the Data Warehouse, UM Reports, and Financial Reports on the web will also be replaced.
|GoldPASS is the University's online database to help connect students and alumni with employers, volunteer organizations, and internships across the country.
|Google Apps
|Through a partnership with Google, University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff can access a suite of Google-powered communication and collaboration tools including email, calendar, document sharing, instant messaging, and website publishing tools.
|We provide document imaging services through Perceptive Software's ImageNow product to any department or business unit at the University. Documents can be scanned or captured in their native format such as Microsoft Office files, linked with records and routed automatically or manually, and retrieved by launching the application.
|Information Services
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|Library Databases
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|Lyris ListManager is the University's mass email distribution system used for both internal and external mass emailings. Mass email is any message that is sent to a group of people for the purpose of communicating official University business. It must be sent as a multipart (HTML and text) or text only message.
|Media Mill
|Media Mill is designed to make it easy to get audio and video content online, and to share it with anyone in the world.
|Microsoft Work-at-Home option
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|Moodle is a course management system (CMS) equipped with a variety of built-in communication, collaboration, assessment, and evaluation tools used for online or web-enhanced course delivery, group forums, internal training, sharing of resources, and more.
|myUMM is a web portal accessible through the Internet. Students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University use it to access University information and applications personalized for them based on their role at the University. It includes communication and collaboration tools and areas users can customize themselves.
|The NetFiles service is a secure online file storage and collaboration solution available to all faculty, staff, students, and business units at the University that is accessible using a web browser or, for faculty and staff only, a desktop client.
|Briggs Library's online catalog/discovery tool helps locate 230,000+ print items and even more online resources.
|UMConnect enables University faculty, staff, and eligible graduate students to create on-demand web presentations and to communicate and collaborate through web conferences and webcasts. Students can use UMConnect to view content and participate in web conferences and webcasts. We also provide onsite technical support for webcasts for a fee.
|UMM Digital Collections
|Offers access to digitized photographs from the archives of American Indian boarding school, West Central School of Agriculture, and the University of Minnesota, Morris.
|UMM Digital Well
|Provides access to campus governance and conference documents, as well as intellectual, scholarly and creative works of the UMM community
|We provide a reporting environment for the University's enterprise systems through two methods to help faculty and staff with operational and management decision making: UM Reports and the Data Warehouse. UM Reports contains pre-built reports to serve common needs.
|UMSurvey is an academic online survey tool centrally managed by Office of Information Technology which is available to current students, staff, and faculty at the University of Minnesota.
|UMWebStats uses Urchin Software from Google to analyze traffic to your website and provides reports on visitor traffic, volume, and referral information.
|A wiki is a website that enables users to directly and collaboratively create and edit content quickly and easily using a web browser. UMWiki is a service offered to faculty, staff, and students that makes it easy to create web pages, embed images, documents, and web links. Built-in revision tracking shows when changes were made, and by whom.
|UThink blogs are available to the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota, and are intended to support teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and individual expression for the University community.
|Virtual Private Network (VPN)
|The University of Minnesota Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the centrally managed Office of Information Technology service that allows a computer to connect to the University network without using an Ethernet connection. A VPN connection appears as though you are inside the University network and allows access to its internal resources.


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Real Housewives of Atlanta
NeNe Leakes Defends Her Marriage (and Divorce) in Twitter Rant
Viewers of The Real Housewives of Atlanta have been wondering throughout Season 4 whether or not NeNe Leakes would actually divorce her husband Gregg.
While we exclusively confirmed that NeNe revealed she was divorced during the Season 4 reunion, pictures of NeNe and Gregg together have recently surfaced, leading many to wonder if the couple has gotten back together, or if they never split in the first place.
Well, it seems that NeNe has had enough of this gossip about her marriage (or lack thereof), so yesterday she decided to set her twitter followers straight once and for all.
Insisting she and Gregg were in fact divorced, NeNe tweeted, "Y is it so hard 4 people 2 believe that a couple can divorce & still remain friends, family & co-parents?"
NeNe also called out those claiming she's lying about the divorce, tweeting, "Y would some1 pretend to get divorced after 15 years of marriage, love & children?"
"4 ur f***in nosey information, I never lie on the show! U know y? Because I don't hav 2! It is what it is," she continued.
OK, we get it, you're divorced!


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PlayStation Memory
My PS2 Slim w/ Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories DVD
As of February 20 and in regards to [tonight's] PlayStation meeting (PS4 rumors being the big topic everyone has in mind), there was a Twitter hashtag currently trending simply called #PlayStationMemory (not that any of that matters for non-Twitter and some Twitter peeps). Apparently I had a hard time coming up with my own beside the few I tweeted earlier this morning. You can say I'm a late bloomer in the PlayStation brand.
Much like the majority of the gaming populace during the 90s, I was very aware of the PS1 but never did I have an interest in wanting one. Yes, it left me with a good impression whenever I visited one of my childhood friends during that time and enjoyed the games he had. It broke me out of that Nintendo bubble, temporarily, given back then I was a Nintendo loyalist; and probably the main reason why I decided against the console back in Christmas of 1998. (That and Superman 64 which I never knew why I originally wanted this prior to its lackluster reviews.)
Anyway, it wasn't until 2004 that I stopped being a loyalist of Nintendo, and being a loyalist to anything in general. It started off with the Xbox that Christmas, and in spring 2005 is when I started to absorb myself (or as Jack Tretton said in E3 '12, "soaking up the fans" or something like that) of the PlayStation brand. Starting with PSP.
However, prior to that, I played some games from a cousin's PS2 back in the early 2000s. My uncle gave them the console (out of their request) and for a few weeks asked me to hold on to their then-received gift for whatever reasons I can't seem to remember. Within that short time I played a handful of games, both from their library or via rental, and really enjoyed the console. Especially Jak and Daxter (but having replayed it again via PSN, umm yeah…). Again, I decided against it because of (dare I repeat myself?) my then mild mentality on all-things Nintendo.
Anyway, I received the PS2 Slim (by request) from that same uncle back in 2006. I will say that Okami and Shadow of the Colossus were the titles that convinced me to get it in full. That and my friends' PS2/games during our respected lass summer session in Upward Bound leading to college the year before.
In 2009, I bought the PS3 Slim for three reasons: LittleBigPlanet, Demon's Souls, and (still in limbo) The Last Guardian. I don't have much to say other than the fact it's my favorite console of the 7th generation. (Same can be said for PS2 ala 6th gen given the Gamecube originally took that spot.)
As far as memories go (since I want to stay on subject), I really don't have that many due to my late blooming toward PlayStation in general.
However, there was one in 2011 (or was it 2012, can't remember) when I played a co-op session in Portal 2 with Matt (aka co-host of the since-then defunct 3DScussions podcast). Mainly because I witnessed his earning the Platinum trophy in-session.
Then there are the small things like Symphony of the Night which I purchased a few years after my PS2 investment. Having to glance at every detail of Richter Belmont by Ayami Kojima from the manual for ten minutes straight was satisfying (this before I actually started the game shortly after).
That and learning the PS2 version of Deux Ex can be played using the keyboard and mouse, which strangely enough the packaging failed to mention any of this.
And of course having to buy Demon's Souls over in Canada (where I can logically see from my house, lol) because all the stores in my local residence didn't have it in stock (and this was prior to using Amazon).
And so on and so on…
I guess I do have much to say about my PlayStation memories, and if I come up with any more, I'll update them here. (Nah, not really. I'll have Twitter do that for me, heh.)
As far as the [upcoming] live briefing [tonight], I don't know what to expect. Possibly PS4. Possibly more enthusiasm and motivation towards Vita. Possibly more Riiiidge Racer (and maybe another $599 fiasco if PS4 is officially announced). I don't know. Wait and see I guess.
Until next time.


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Add to EJ Playlist John Whitney's demo reel of work created with his analog computer/film camera magic machine he built from a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight. Also Whitney and the techniques he developed with this machine were what inspired Douglas Trumbull (special fx wizard) to use the slit scan technique on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Add to EJ Playlist Visual Music by Demons featuring the infamous Zac Davis on guitar. Live at the Panic in Hamtramck fest 08/31/07. Full length is 30 minutes.
Available on DVD from AA RECORDS http://www.wolf eyes.net/aainde x.html
Add to EJ Playlist John Whitney is considered by many to be the "Father of Computer Graphics". He started in the 1940s building clockwork mechanisms with lights to draw directly on film. Later, he bought WW2 surplus analog ballistics computers and eventually started using digital computers. I believe this one was rendered using a vector display.
Incidentally, his son John Whitney, Jr. owned the company that did graphics for "The Last Starfighter".
Add to EJ Playlist "In PERMUTATIONS, each point moves at a different speed and moves in a direction independent according to natural laws' quite as valid as those of Pythagoras, while moving in their circular field. Their action produces a phenomenon more or less equivalent to the musical harmonies. When the points reach certain relationships (harmonic) numerical to other parameters of the equation, they form elementary figures."- John Whitney
Add to EJ Playlist Lapis - James Whitney (1966)
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Add to EJ Playlist Fasten your seatbelts ! This is a psychedelic animation that presents an explosion of colors and shapes. The animation graphics used in this presentation were originally created for the production of a series of advanced lenticular art display images. These images were produced by Sara Cook and Robert A. Munn of the Depthography Group between 1995-2006. All visual art is copyright The Depthography Group. www.depthograph y.com. The imagery is set to music which was performed The Pretty Things, AKA The Pink Fairies, AKA The Electric Banana. The Song is entitled "Alexander", 1967. This video is dedicated to them with much love. To see more work by these artists, go to http://www.dept hography.com
Add to EJ Playlist graphics programming by Dean Anschultz
music by Terry Riley
Add to EJ Playlist This is a movie of John Whitney displaying the Mutascope. In a sense, this device is like a large flipbook. This particular one contains 1,440 drawings (one minute of animation - 24 frames/second) which were generated by a computer.
Add to EJ Playlist No. 5: Circular Tensions, Homage to Oskar Fischinger (1950)
No. 7: Color Study (1952)
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Behind the scenes look at the making of the video for "The RIght".....
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Add to EJ Playlist Heres a show i co wrote and directed a while back wanted to send a shot out to all my peeps that helped and this is the real cut not the one that floated around on the internet for years.....flash back peeps haha
Add to EJ Playlist Was found at the beginning of "High Noon" (2009).
Add to EJ Playlist first Mixtape, Shut Up, Dude
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7. Shorty Said (Gordon Voidwell Remix)
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Music is "Civilization" from the new album from Justice. Buy it now on iTunes!
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Add to EJ Playlist Interview with director, Aaron J. Salgado at the world premiere of "Magic City Memoirs" at the 2011 Miami International Film Festival. Courtesy of Star Watch Media LLC.
Producer: Brett Waltemath
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Idéale pour tous les jours, cette tunique de la collection Annalee + Hope, qui comprend des manches chauve-souris et une encolure bateau, pourra facilement s'agencer avec vos pantalons moulants et vos leggings préférés durant la saison plus froide.
• Matériel : 95% polyester, 5% élasthanne
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Awesome Dress!!!
Par Robin
de Toronto, Ontario
After reading the reviews for this dress, I was a little hesitant to purchase it, however, I really loved the image and decided to go for it. I'm so happy I did! Because the style of the sleaves make them very large and open on the sides, all I did was wear a long black tank top underneath which covered everything just fine. I wore this on Christmas Day for a large dinner we were hosting and not only was it comfortable for all the cooking I had to do, it was also extremely flattering and I got tons of compliments. I can't wait to wear it again! I'm normally a size medium/large, but I ordered a medium because I know the style is baggy, and I'm glad I did because it fit perfectly. Would look great with heals or a great pair of black boots.
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Stylish but not practical
Par Angeliz
de Toronto
Very stylish but not practical wearing without a long chemise. Good price but need alteration to make it wearable with confidence.
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I meant "overpriced"
Par cam
de ajax
Overprized and inconsistent
Overprized and inconsistent. Fabric is thinner than expected. Cannot wear it as a dress, I am completely exposed when I move my arms. I want to wear it, I like the dolman concept, I'm not sure, though, if it favors my frame. I will keep it, and try it in combination with different outfits. I am tempted to alter it, in order to make it more practical.
Fashionable, slightly funky!
Par Marian
de Ontario
I'm a new fan of Annalee & Hope. I purchased this dress in red and it's a good fit for my small frame; I will be wearing it with a loose belt.I agree the sleeves can expose too much if you raise your arms too high however I intend to wear the dress with a body suit. The dress was styled this way to allow the sleeves to drape a certain way. I think one way to address the issue of the wide sleeve is to lay the dress flat and just where the sleeve meets the rest of the dress at the side tack the front and back together with a couple of stitches just above the black band. I really think this dress is stylish with an easy fit. My only suggestion would be for the manufacturer to line the inside of the sleeve with matching fabric -- this would add to the cost but certainly give the dress a very high end look.
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flawed design, agree with first reviewer
Par steel
de san pedro pareo, mexico
the only way to wear this lovely dress is with your arms firmly glued to your sides - otherwise your whole torso is exposed by the sleeves; i cannot imagine how an item with this design flaw got to the retail stage. i would appreciate feedback from the designers.
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I will be returning this dress.
Par Phoenix
de Ottawa
This dress is gorgeous... except the sleeve openings are huge and reveal from below your panty line up your whole side to your whole bra. You could not wear this without a full body suit underneath. I even tried it on a second time to try to find a way to wear it... to no avail. It is really a design flaw.