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UEFA are investigating Bayern Munich over the conduct of their supporters during Tuesday's Champions League clash with Arsenal.
Reigning champions Bayern progressed to the quarter-finals with a 3-1 aggregate victory, but two banners displayed by home fans at the Allianz Arena could land the club in hot water.
One crudely made banner depicted a man in an Arsenal away strip bent over in front of a cannon and was emblazoned with the words "Gay Gunners", while another read "Say no to racism, say yes to Kosovo" in reference to a campaign to have the territory officially recognised by FIFA.
The European governing body are also looking into the late kick-off of Tuesday's second-leg clash.
In a statement, UEFA said: "Disciplinary proceedings have been opened against FC Bayern Munchen for discriminatory behaviour of their supporters (art. 14 DR), display of an illicit banner (art. 16 (2) (e) DR), and late kick-off (art. 11 (2) (g) DR) at their UEFA Champions League round of 16 match against Arsenal FC (1-1), which was played in Germany on Tuesday.
"The case will be dealt with by the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body on 20 March."
Celtic were fined €50,000 in December for the display of "illicit" banners in their home tie with Milan.
Ajax were also fined €10,000 by UEFA last season for displaying a banner referencing Manchester City's ownership when facing the Premier League club.
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The Kooyang ('eels' in the Gunditjmara family of languages) section of the upcoming First Peoples exhibition will feature an eel trap in a diorama of Western District eel-farming practice. The trap, woven from puung'ort (spear grass) by Gunditjmara woman Jody-Ann Agnew, tells the story of one of the world's oldest aquaculture systems.
And this is what it's all about - eels. This is one of several eels created for the diorama.Image: Benjamin HealleySource: Museum Victoria
Museum designers, curators, photographers and preparators have worked closely with Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Corporation to capture a slice of the Western District, complete with animals, plants and terrain typical of this area. The models and specimens of eels and other wildlife created by Dean Smith and Kym Haines are dazzlingly true-to-life, including a leech that Kym modelled from the little sucker that hunted him down when Jody's mother, senior weaver Aunty Eileen Alberts, took museum staff to Tyrendarra!
Preparator Dean Smith holding models of native fish that he made for the Kooyang diorama. One is an unfinished cast, the other is fully painted.Image: Benjamin HealleySource: Museum Victoria
Steven Sparrey and Brendon Taylor are recreating the volcanic boulders of the Tyrendarra lava flow thrown out by Budj Bim (Mt Eccles) thousands of years ago. Gunditjmara people used these rocks to create an ingenious network of ponds, channels and dams to farm the eels. Aunty Eileen and Jody will oversee the final stages of the diorama construction.
Preparator Brendan Taylor working on replicating the rocky terrain of the Western District.Image: Benjamin HealleySource: Museum Victoria
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Major update
After a poor experience with Clado infestation, I completely re-did the tank and made it a low-tech, no filter setup. Has been very stable.
-Same 9W LED light on timer.
-10W Heater
-No filter/flow
-Automatic feeder
-Fauna - some platys and guppies, ramshorns, and one nerite.
-Flora - Anubias barteri and Anubias barteri nana. Crypt Parva, Java moss, some rotala, small amounts of microswords and java fern emerging up top. Duckweed.
After a massive removal of java moss/rotala/duckweed.
Close up of Top half
Crypt Parva, Check out that Mulm!! about 2-3 inches thick.
I also setup a second Fluval Chi as my high-tech.
-Azoo 13W CF on timer
-Aquatek paintball CO2 on timer
-Hagen Elite Mini Underwater Filter w/o any filter material.
-Small doses of ferts here and there.
-Fauna - Currently just one nerite snail.
-Flora - Dwarf (Japanese) Hairgrass, Rotala. Hope to add some shrimp.
Sorry for the rotated images.
|This would look lovely with some c. balansae growing in the back to cover the cords I think... they have a lovely dark greenish red color with those wrinkled leaves that give such great texture to the tank. Would really compliment the driftwood I think.
So I had a bout of clado, and although it looked kinda nice, it irked me. I took drastic measures by physically removing and excel/H2O2/bleaching everything. The best was the bleach, made clado turn white pretty quickly. Unfortunately the plants as well. So you have to use a diluted soln. and dip for maybe a minute. I also bleached the gravel and excel/H2O2'ed the driftwood. In the end, I just put back the microswords and the crypt parva.
Now, I am snail and clado free (so far). I replaced the driftwood with a local piece of wood I had been soaking. I added a tiny anybias node as well. We shall see how this all recovers. The other salvaged plant species are in a small "creature container" in the other room.
The Chi is doing well and the Beamsworks led light is good. Only gripe is that it is not square shaped so it will give strong light to a strip of area and low/med light in front or back of that strip. A square version would be awesome.
|very nice chi I just bought one too new in box for $10 (it didnt have filter or light) any updates on your tank and how are you liking the beamsworks led
I've been running CO2 at ~1 bps and the growth has generally been great.
However, there are 2 things that are bothering me:
1. I think I may have Cladophora. It's sad, because so far, it has been the only algae problem I've had! And it sucks because it's not even a technical issue!! My lighting, ferts, CO2 seem to all be decent. Any help with this problem would be appreciated. I'm considering doing a drastic H2O2 cleansing.
2. One caveat is that my rotala seem to have some possible deficiency. *See Pic below* What could this be due to?
1/32 tsp of KNO3 per week
1/128 tsp of KH2PO4 per week
~5mL of Flourish Iron per week
A few drops of Flourish Comprehensive per week (I'm not a fan of this product. I'm considering getting new micros)
A) Potassium deficiency?
B) Micros deficiency?
C) Flow or light deficiency? (I redirected the light more toward the front a little while ago)
3. Plans:
- I'm considering either just taking out the Rotala in the back and just doing microswords all around OR adding more colorful stem plants in the back-right (to create a stem plant section in the back). What do you think?
- I need shrimp!! RCS, maybe give CRS a shot? I'm leaning toward mail-order. Any insight/tips on deals on this would be cool.
Enjoy the pics!!
So here's my aquatek on a christmas tree stand, hahah.
Doing some minor rescaping/maintenance, so pics of tank will be later. I moved the wood forward to make space for stem plants in the back and adjusted the plants accordingly.
My Victor HPT270B is leak free! It had the wrong gauges and some scratches, so I was worried about it.
I also got a cheap regulator with chrome cga320 nipple & nut and USG gauges for cheap, so I harvested them over to the Victor. Im thinking burkert solenoid with a decent needle valve, and SS parts in between. Estimated total cost should be ~$175. There are some cheap dual stage regs all over. I missed out on one for $20!
I may just sell the dual stage since the aquatek is doing ok for my 5g, but I always dream of bigger tanks...
JasonK, Ridgewood is where I got my microswords and crypt parva. Amazed that a store of that quality is close to me. I hope to get a tank & supplies from them as my career (hopefully) progresses. Most things in there are all quality and priced accordingly, yet fairly.
As for an update,
1. I did a nitrate test and saw it was consistently high, so I stopped dosing ferts and just continued with the Excel daily. So far, its doing ok.
2. I am starting to setup the proper components for pressurized CO2, probably paintball. I got the aquatek regular size with paintball adapter, but am thinking maybe I shouldve just went with the mini/paintball reg. I thought It would be useful in case i upgrade to a 5lb tank for a larger aquarium. But thinking about it now, when I upgrade, Ill just go all out with a dual-stage, and keep the paintball setup for a nano tank. So in hindsight, I shouldve just went paintball mini aquatek. Doh! Also, I bought a Victor hpt 270b on ebay, so ill be working on that when time permits.
3. I hope to stock the tank more:
- Maybe a few more sparkling gourami? I like tiny nano fish, but I want to have shrimp in there, so i'm refraining from the nice pygmy loaches i saw, even the pygmy cories (or are they ok with shrimp??).
- Plants-wise, gonna try the DHG in the front as planned, and i need to do something with those stem plants (rotala) in the back.
|Jason K
If you're in jersey, have you been to ridgewood aquarium? small store, but they had a lot of plant variety the one time I went there.
If you buy RCS from any pet store, you are most likely only going to get females. I know from personal experience that pacific aquarium in NYC chinatown only stocks females (whether they know it or not).
I have two ada mini-S, which are 3.5 gal (true water volume is about 2.5 gal). One currently stocked with 3 cardinal tetras and 3 RCS (only males left, btw), and the other thank with a betta.
Thanks JasonK, Nice to have feedback from someone with a similar setup.
I plan to have DHG as the main carpet in front, but I'm still in the process of getting some. I haven't seen too many pygmy chain swords around, but will keep my eyes open. Any places you know of? Regardless, it may be too tall to be the foreground for this 5g.
Discouraging news for the RCS! I'm leaning toward RCS, so I'll report back the results if I add some. I remember them being very cheap at those chinatown stores, but I may go mail-order. Another possibility are the amano's but they're kinda big and not as decorative.
Can I ask how stocked (and what volume) your tank was?
|Jason K
I like your tank...having a similar pico low tech excel setup going for 3 yrs now, I have a few comments.
Microswords did not grow well for me. Dwarf hairgrass and pygmy chain swords both grew much better.
Dwarf Sag took a long time to take off (3 months or so), but once it did, it grew really quickly.
RCS and other neos were a struggle for me, and most died off in after reaching adult size and usually after molting...i blame excel dosing, but who can be sure. But many people seem to have no problems with excel and shrimp tho.
I used EI dosing 1x a week, and have had no real serious algae problems after initial set up.
1/32tsp KNO3, 1/128tsp KH2PO4 ~Every 2-3 days
A few drops of Flourish Comp. ~Every week
0.5mL Flourish Excel ~Daily
2-3 large flakes of Omega Flakes, crushed given daily
1. Growth of rotala & dwarf sag; Slow growth of microswords, java moss, java fern, crypt parva.
2. Mystery hitchhiking plant in pot seems to be Glosso.
3. Noted some GSA after reducing PO4. Perhaps reduction was too much or too abrupt.
4. Fauna adjusting nicely.
A few things I have learned from reading and observing:
1. I should decide on how to approach this tank's fertilizing/Co2. In a nut shell, high or low tech?
If going high tech (ie. pressurized CO2), E.I. would do well, and in E.I., ratios of ferts are not very important, as long as theres enough of everything.
CO2 and to some degree, lighting, will be key.
If going low tech (Excel), I should focus more on "balance". I should consider lower lighting or smarter lighting placement and smarter scaping (Plant choice and placement).
Minimal ferts and perhaps higher fishload.
And above all, patience. Since everything is in a way, slowed down, It will appear as if the tank is evolving. It will take longer to see growth but also longer to see problems. A different approach to a different animal.
2. Plants really do have certain conditions they love, (but CO2 seems to be a cure-all?)
Most plants have certain light situations in which they seem to work well, and are very particular. But it seems high-tech setups allow plants to do well regardless. Kinda cheating :P
My experience with microswords is this. They would do well in two main situations.
Situation A - medium to low light, preferably indirect light, less to no current.
Situation B - (assumed) high light with CO2, good current.
Anything in between and you're screwed.
If you place them in direct or higher (not even that high!) light in a low-tech tank they do horrible. Too little light or too much current is no good either.
So is this a difficult, moderate, or easy plant? It's very easy tech-wise if you put them in the right situation, but moderate to difficult if you dont know where to put them.
The same seems to go with java moss & crypts in my experience.
Crypts love indirect/lower lighting. I have a tank with no light, not much ambient light either, but with a high bio-load. They do amazing in that tank.
But when i had strong lighting (excel, no CO2) they did just ok at best. I think they got outcompeted for the nutrients required for such high lighting. (The ones in the shade did better)
This is a good lesson if I decide to go low-tech: Smart scaping/plant-choice is more important in low tech.
So for the current tank..
1. I adjusted my ferts solution, so it is now KNO3:KH2PO4, 4:1
I will experiment with the dosage, but I hope the change in ratio will help keep the hair algae back to some degree. (I know its not proven that PO4 causes algae, but it sure doesnt help in a non-CO2 tank to have too much PO4!!)
2. Yesterday, I did a 50% water change and half-dosed using the new 4:1 solution. We'll see how the tank responds.
I did notice that the red tops of my rotala turned greener after the water change. Some food for thought.
So I realized maybe my ferts ratio is to blame for my thread algae bloom.
The KNO3 to KH2PO4 ratio is 1:1, 1/32tsp ~2-3x/wk.
Im not sure why I decided to use that ratio.
So what KNO3 to KH2PO ratio do you guys use?
Do you supplement KSO4?
Pls give me some feedback on how you think I should be dosing. Even guesses are welcome.
Oh and should I do a water change and re-dose?
Thanks Tex, I appreciate the feedback/advice.
1. I gave a half dose of Flourish comprehensive until I get some Iron.
My current dosing regimen is still being adjusted, but right now it's
NPK 1/32tsp 2-3x a wk
Micros half-dose a wk
Excel recommended dose daily.
I feed ~3 crushed grains of Colorbits daily.
2. The thread algae (or spirogyra?) is slowly gaining on me.
I should have done a bleach dip on the plants from the LFS. I know exactly where the thread algae came from, but I didn't think it would cause a problem. :/ I guess I'll try adding an amano shrimp? (not the most aesthetic IMO)
I tried manually removing, but they just come back daily. I hope it isn't spirogyra as it seems like a PITA.
3. Maybe my water is pretty soft?
I was thinking about my high/unreadable GH, and did some digging. Seems like you often don't get a color change on my kit if you have very low hardness. I checked online for my water report and this is what I found:
If I'm reading it correct, I have pretty soft water.
4. After some research, it seems I may have a "true" honey gourami.
They often get mistaken for "dwarf honey/sunset gourami" which are actually larger than the "true" honey gourami (1.5-2" max). It also has a slight black lateral line on it, so it may be a female.
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Thanks for the reply!
1. Im cautious to dose my flourish comprehensive aggresively bc ive had fish get ill after doing so. Perhpas ill get new micros or just some iron. Any recs would be appreciated!
2. I have some thread/ green hair algae here and there but nothing crazy. Ive had BBA on a previous tank. That was the worst! Perhaps ill syringe my usual Excel doses onto the algae.
3. I'll remove the pond snail(s). I also found a lone ramshorn! Quite pretty with "sparkles". Mustve been an egg stuck on somewhere. I guess i should remove that sucker too.
4. Ive had an amano, and RCS before (in my brother's bowl) but thats about it. Would I need to feed (besides colorbits pellets) or supplement CRS something more?
5. I guess we'll find out if these are true pygmies.
Thanks again!
2.) Excel could work. Have you considered a small algae crew for this tank? Like Amano Shrimp, Nerite Snails, and Otocinclus?
3.) Haha don't like snails either! Good choice in my opinion :P
4.) CRS can be really finicky about TDS and temperature so I always keep that in mind.
5.) Good luck!
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A Linkage Between the LIA and Gulf Stream?
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The precise factors underlying the so-called "Little Ice Age" (LIA) have been intensely debated within the scientific community. One key metric in this debate is the spatial pattern of cooling which may provide a 'fingerprint' of the underlying climate change, whether that was externally forced (from solar or volcanic activity) or was part of an intrinsic mode of variability.
Surface temperatures in parts of Europe appear to have have averaged nearly 1°C below the 20th century mean during multidecadal intervals of the late 16th and late 17th century (and with even more extreme coolness for individual years), though most reconstructions indicate less than 0.5°C cooling relative to 20th century mean conditions for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. There is much less data during these time intervals for the Southern Hemisphere, and that severely limits what conclusions can be drawn there. Just what combination of factors could explain this pattern of observations has remained somewhat enigmatic. A new ingredient in this debate comes with a recent paper in Nature by Lund et al.
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Jimmie Johnson is a five-time NASCAR champion. But fellow driver Clint Bowyer has a difficult question to answer each morning: regular, or Honey Nut? "Of course I eat Cheerios," said Bowyer, whose racecar team is sponsored by the General Mills cereal. "Every morning. I like Honey Nut, but I also like regular."
Johnson, Bowyer and the rest of the Top 10 Sprint Cup Series drivers attended the NASCAR Awards Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 3. Johnson was honored for winning his fifth straight Sprint Cup Series championship. He spoke to TFK Kid Reporter Tristan Graney at the awards event.
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Reality Check: Health Care Reform Will Affect People Differently
Obama Expected To Sign Measure Tuesday
MADISON, Wis. - Federal legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system could soon be headed for President Barack Obama's desk, bringing to a conclusion months of bitter partisan battles about the scope and shape of the reform. And yet, how this legislation will affect the public isn't clear yet.
The controversial measure's progress through Congress has been contentious and succeeded in mudding what's exactly in the bill. What is known is that the outcome of the bill won't be the same for everyone. It will depend on whether people have insurance now, how much money they make and the changes won't happen all at once, WISC-TV reported.
First, health insurance coverage is now required for everyone, but the legislation tries to set up a safety net for 32 million Americans who can't afford it or have been denied coverage because of illness. To help pay for the coverage, taxes will go up immediately for high-wage earners, individuals making more than $200,000 and families more than $250,000, in the form of a 1-percent hike in the Medicare payroll tax.
Health care coverage will begin in phases for those who don't have it. First, a high-risk pool will start within six months for those who've been denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Then, in 2014, the government will begin state-run insurance exchanges where citizens can buy coverage. Low-income residents can get subsidies to buy insurance through the exchanges, and families making up to $88,200 will be eligible.
Also in 2014, a penalty would start for people who don't have insurance. At first, it will be an annual fine of $95 for individuals or up to 1 percent of their income, whichever is greater. By 2016, that fine goes up to $695 or 2.5 percent of their income.
But what about those who have insurance already through their employers? If employers' plans cost more than 9.5 percent of a worker's income or a family of four makes less than $88,000 a year, the worker or family could switch to an exchange plan.
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The bill also includes changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and new taxes on insurance companies to help pay for the programs.
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Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted for the health care bill along party lines.
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With digitized text from five million books, one is never at a loss for words
Brian Hayes
Books are being blown to bits. New ones are "born digital"; millions of old ones are being assimilated into the mind of the machine.
Some people question the wisdom of this transition to digital reading matter. Paper and ink have served us pretty well for a thousand years or more. Is it prudent to store everything we know in tiny smudges of electric charge we can't see or touch? Critics also worry about who will wind up owning our cultural heritage. And then there are the sentimentalists, who say it's just not the same curling up by the fireside with a good Kindle.
Well, I for one welcome our new computer overlords. And I would like to point out that books are not only for reading. There are other things we (and our computers) can do with the words in books. We can count them, sort them, make comparisons among them, search for patterns in their distribution, classify them, catalog them, analyze them. Yes, these are nerdy, mechanical, reductionist assaults on literature—but they are also methods of extracting meaning from text, just as reading is. And they scale better.
The data-driven approach to language studies got a big boost last winter, when a team from Harvard and Google released a collection of digitized words and phrases culled from more than five million books published over the past 600 years. The text came out of the Google Books project, an industrial-scale scanning operation. Since 2004 Google Books has been digitizing the collections of more than 40 large libraries, as well as books supplied directly by publishers. At last report the Google scanning teams had paged their way through more than 15 million volumes. They estimate that another 115 million books remain to be done.
At the Google Books website, pages of scanned volumes are displayed as images, composed of pixels rather than letters and words. But to make the books searchable—which is, after all, Google's main line of business—it's necessary to extract the textual content as well. This is done by the process known as optical character recognition, or OCR—a computer's closest approximation to reading.
In 2007 Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden of Harvard recognized that the textual corpus derived from the Google Books OCR process might make a useful resource for scholarly research in history, linguistics and cultural studies. There are many other corpora for such purposes, including one based on a Google index of the World Wide Web. But the Google Books database would be special both because of its large size and because of its historical reach. The Web covers only 20 years, but the printed word takes us back to Gutenberg.
Michel and Aiden got in touch with Peter Norvig and Jon Orwant of Google and eventually arranged for access to the data. Because of copyright restrictions, it was not possible to release the full text of books or even substantial excerpts. Instead the text was chopped into "n-grams"—snippets of a few words each. A single word is a 1-gram, a two-word phrase is a 2-gram, and so on. The Harvard-Google database includes 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-grams. For each year in which an n-gram was observed, the database lists the number of books in which it was found, the number of pages within those books on which it appeared and the total number of recorded occurrences.
The n-gram database is drawn from a subset of the full Google Books corpus, consisting of 5,195,769 books, or roughly 4 percent of all the books ever printed. The selected books were those with the highest OCR quality and the most reliable metadata—the information about the book, including the date of publication.
A further winnowing step excluded any n-gram that did not appear at least 40 times in the selected books. This threshold, cutting off the extreme tail of the n-gram distribution, greatly reduced the bulk of the collection. Combining the 40-occurrence threshold with the 4 percent sampling of books, a rough rule of thumb says that an n-gram must appear in print about 1,000 times if it's to have a good chance of showing up in the database.
The final data set covers seven languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish) and counts more than 500 billion occurrences of individual words. The chronological range is from 1520 to 2008 (although Michel and Aiden focus mainly on the interval 1800–2000, where the data are most abundant and consistent).
This past January, Michel, Aiden and a dozen co-authors from Harvard, Google and elsewhere published a research article in Science introducing the new linguistic corpus and presenting some of their early findings. They also announced the Google Books Ngram Viewer, an online tool that allows anyone to query the database. Finally, they made the entire n-gram data set available for download under a Creative Commons license.
Some of the results reported in the Science article show how n-gram data can be used to document changes in the structure of language. One study examines the shifting balance between regular and irregular verbs in English—those that form the past tense with -ed and those that follow older or odder rules. Between 1800 and 2000 six verbs migrated from irregular to regular (burn, chide, smell, spell, spill and thrive) but two others went the opposite way (light and wake). In the case of sneaked vs. snuck, it's too soon to tell.
Michel and Aiden describe their work as culturomics, a word formed on the model of genomics (but not yet to be found in the n-gram data set). In the same way that large-scale collections of DNA sequences can reveal patterns in biology, high-volume linguistic data can aid the analysis of human culture. For example, Michel and Aiden examined changes in the trajectory of fame over the past two centuries by counting occurrences of celebrity names. According to the n-gram analysis, modern celebrities come to public attention at an earlier age, and their fame grows faster, but they fade faster, too. "In the future, everyone will be famous for 7.5 minutes," they remark (attributing the quote to "Whatshisname").
Another study looked at linguistic evidence of censorship and political repression. In English, the frequency of the name Marc Chagall grows steadily throughout the 20th century, but in German texts it disappears almost entirely during the Nazi years, when the artist's work was deemed "degenerate." Similar cases of suppression were found in China, Russia and the United States. (The American victims were the Hollywood 10—writers and directors blacklisted from 1947 until 1960 because of supposed Communist sympathies.)
Having found that known cases of censorship or suppression could be detected in the n-gram data, Michel and Aiden then asked whether new instances could be identified by searching among the millions of time series for those with a telltale pattern. In the case of the Nazi era, the team devised a "suppression index" that compares n-gram frequencies before, during and after the Hitler years. Starting with a list of 56,500 names of people, they found that almost 10 percent showed evidence of suppression in the German-language data, but not in English.
Reading about these experiments gave me the itch to try running some of my own. And it turns out that many interesting questions can be investigated with little effort and no cost using the Google Ngram Viewer (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com). The protocol for this service is simple: Type in a comma-separated series of n-grams, and get back a graph showing their frequency as a function of time. The frequencies are normalized to adjust for linguistic inflation—the expansion of the language as more books are published each year. The normalized frequency is the number of occurrences of an n-gram in a given year divided by the sum of all n-gram occurrences recorded in that year.
Shown at right is the Ngram Viewer's output in response to a simple query—a list of six nouns. Interpreted with care, a chart like this one might tell us something about the shifting fortunes of scientific disciplines—but the careful interpretation is crucial. This is a popularity contest among words, not among the concepts they denote. From the graph it would appear that Biology did not exist before about 1840—and that's close to the truth if we're speaking of the word itself. But the science of living things goes back further.
The curves have some curious features that I can't explain, such as synchronized humps in about 1815 and 1875. Was there a real (but short-lived) upsurge in publishing books on the sciences in those years? Or are we seeing some artifact of librarianship or the selection process? The geology curve appears to have a persistent oscillation with a period of roughly 20 years. What, if anything, is that about?
The same query words without the initial capital letters yield somewhat different results. So do the corresponding agent nouns—astronomer, biologist, and so forth.
The Ngram Viewer can become an absorbing (and time-consuming) entertainment. You might even turn it into a party game: One player draws the graph, the others try to guess the query. But less-frivolous applications are also within reach. Here's one possibility: With well-crafted queries, it might be possible to gauge the penetration of various foreign languages into English publications (or vice versa). From a very small sample, I get the impression that the frequency of German words in English text sagged during the World Wars, whereas Russian peaked in the Cold War.
The Viewer is an excellent oracle for the n-gram data, but it answers just one kind of question: How has the frequency of a specific n-gram varied over time? Many other questions cannot be expressed in this form. You might want to know which n-grams are the most common, or how word frequency varies as a function of word length, or which words entered the printed record first. To answer these questions and others like them, you'll have to work a little harder. For starters, you'll have to download the data, which is not a trivial undertaking.
The complete set of English n-grams weighs in at 340 gigabytes of compressed files, which expand to fill 2.5 terabytes of disk space. I have not yet tried to swallow all that data; doing anything interesting with it would require more hardware. I have been working solely with the English 1-gram files, which amount to 10 gigabytes when decompressed. I've been able to manage them on a laptop, although I've needed a refresher course in "external" algorithms—those that manipulate data on disk rather than in main memory. (This was a common practice when memory topped out at 64 kilobytes, but that was a long time ago.)
The 1-gram data are scattered over 10 files, which I merged into one. Then I set about gathering some basic facts and figures. In the English 1-gram data set there are 7,380,256 unique words, which occur a total of 359,675,008,445 times. Thus the mean number of occurrences per word is 48,735—but that's a somewhat misleading number, because the distribution is highly skewed. (The top 100 words account for half of all word occurrences.) A more meaningful statistic is the median, which is 166.
Which are the most common 1-grams? Setting aside a few common marks of punctuation, the highest-frequency words are: the, of, and, to, in, a, is, that, for, was. Another trivia question: What's the longest word in the corpus? I think the longest that's really a word and that wasn't invented just to set records is phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide.
Prowling around in the data with a text editor reveals a multitude of oddities. Choose an entry at random, and it's likely to be a word you've never seen before. Indeed, there's a good chance it's not a word at all in the strict sense, but rather a number or a mixture of letters and digits, or something even more mysterious. For example, my eye fell on this curious "word":
How could such a zany-looking string of letters turn up at least 40 times in published books? As it happens, we have a tool for answering such questions, namely Google Books. Since the Google OCR program produced this string, the Books search engine should be able to find it. And there it is: a row of letters in a word-search game—a game that has apparently been reprinted in dozens of puzzle books.
On looking at the numbers included in the n-gram archive, I was surprised at first by their abundance. Of the 7.4 million unique 1-grams, about 7 percent are numbers or numberlike strings of digits. But the explanation is straightforward: Numbers have higher entropy than words. Only a tiny fraction of all possible sequences of letters make a meaningful word, but almost any combination of digits is a properly formed number. Thus for a given total quantity of numbers, we can expect to find greater variety.
To look more closely at the numeric 1-grams, I had to decide exactly what I would accept as a number. The OCR system allows mixed strings of letters and digits (1Deut, Na2SO4), but I wanted to consider just "pure" numbers, those that denote a definite numeric value or magnitude. I decided to accept any sequence of characters consisting entirely of digits or digits with a single embedded decimal point. The OCR program also accepts numbers preceded by a "$" sign, so I collected those dollar amounts too, but in a separate file.
Many different numerals can represent the same number: 01, 1, 1.0, 1.00 and 1.000 are all listed separately in the 1-gram files, but they all designate the same mathematical magnitude. I consolidated these items under the canonical value 1.0, and merged their yearly occurrence data into a single record. This procedure is not without drawbacks, in that it treats as numbers some items that aren't meant to designate a numeric value, such as Zip codes. But I don't know how to weed out those items.
The number list I compiled has 458,794 unique values. The smallest is necessarily 0, since the OCR process strips away any minus signs. What's the largest entry? It's the number formed by repeating the digit 7 exactly 80 times. When I looked up the origin of this curious value, I discovered images of computer punch cards, with labeled rows of 80 columns.
The first thing I did with the numbers was check to see if they obey Benford's law, which describes the distribution of first digits in most of the numbers we meet in everyday life, such as those in stock-market tables. The law predicts that 1 is the most common leading digit, with higher digit values getting progressively rarer. In the theoretical distribution the frequency of digit d is proportional to log10(1+1/d).
When I tested the 1-gram numbers against the predictions of Benford's law, the result was inconclusive. As expected, smaller first-digit values are more common among the 1-grams, but the preference for 1 is even more exaggerated than the Benford distribution predicts. The first digit should be a 1 about 30 percent of the time, but the actual frequency is 43 percent. Maybe those Zip codes are causing trouble?
I have another hypothesis: The distortion is caused by the times we live in! High on the list of popular numbers are values that look like years, almost all of which begin with 1. Numbers such as 2000, 1990, 1992 and 1980 are roughly 100 times more frequent than other four-digit numbers. To test my hypothesis I created an altered data set in which all numbers in the range 1800–1999 have their frequency artificially reduced by a factor of 1/100. The result is considerably closer to the Benford distribution, with 1 having a frequency of 34 percent (see illustration at right).
Something else revealed by this collection of numeric data is the extraordinary human fondness for round numbers. The illustration at the top of this page plots the abundance of the first 100 integers. For the most part, frequency decreases with increasing magnitude, but numbers that are "rounder"—divisible by 10, or if not by 10 then by 5—stand out above the crowd. (Also note that the integers 7 and 11, which by some vague measure might be taken as the least round numbers, are curiously depressed.)
Dollar amounts are even more dramatically biased in favor of well-rounded numbers. I had expected the monetary subset to be full of numbers ending in 99. Maybe that will be the case if we ever get an archive of junk mail and supermarket advertising, but in books there's a distinct preference for trailing zeros. The most popular dollar amounts are 1, 100, 2, 5, 10, 1000, 10000.
Michel and Aiden set out to study language and culture, but they have also created a resource for the study of optical character recognition.
Based on a random sample from the 1-gram files, I estimate that 15 percent of the entries are affected in some way by OCR errors or anomalies. This sounds horrendous, but it does not mean that the OCR program made mistakes on 15 percent of the words it read; the word-recognition error rate is probably well under 1 percent. The problem is that there's only one way to read a word correctly, but there are countless ways to go wrong. Suppose the program reads 1,000 words and gets 990 of them right. If it makes a different mistake on each of the remaining 10 words, then the final list has 11 entries, 10 of which are erroneous.
Because of this effect, efforts to tidy up OCR errors would not only improve the accuracy of the data set but would also reduce its bulk. Entries for Rccovery, Reeovery, Reoovery, Rerovery and Revovery could all be merged into Recovery. But making such repairs is a daunting task, especially if you want to preserve other variations and errors, introduced not by the OCR process but by authors and printers.
Consider: bomemaker is probably an OCR error; invertibrate is probably a human error; cerimoniale is probably not English. What about haccalaureate? Is that an OCR error or is it a degree granted by a programming school? A human reader can make judgments in such cases, but hand-grooming multigigabyte files is not an attractive prospect. We need a mechanized solution.
A few special cases look doable. The OCR program has encoded some instances of "fi" and "fl" as ligatures, combining the two letters into a single character, while other instances remain as pairs of letters. For most uses of the data set, it would probably be better to treat all these cases consistently; this seems easy to accomplish.
More challenging but perhaps still within reach is the problem of the "long s" that was part of English orthography through the 18th century as in:
OCR programs (like many human readers) tend to interpret this character as the letter "f," leading to an abundance of comical fricative spellings such as quickfilver and abfceffes. I suspect that an algorithm could successfully correct a large fraction of these misreadings without turning too many flaws into slaws.
The idea is to make a change only when the "s" form of a word is substantially more common than the "f" form and when the "f" version has a strong peak of popularity before 1800. But I have not yet tried implementing this algorithm, so I don't know how many new errors it will introduce.
With other OCR quirks, the chronological clue is lacking, and so we must resort to blunter tools such as a matrix estimating the probability that any one character will be mistaken for another. No doubt much can be accomplished in this way. On the other hand, if these mistakes were easy to fix, they would have been fixed already.
Suppose we had a magically cleansed version of the Harvard-Google database, free of all OCR errors. Would the time-series graphs from the Ngram Viewer look much different? I doubt it. Thus for present purposes the noise introduced by the OCR process is a minor distraction we can safely ignore.
But there are purposes beyond the present ones. Google has announced the grandiose goal of digitizing all the world's books. They may succeed. Some of those books may survive only in digital versions. And someone may even want to read them! If the scanning protocol now in use is the main channel by which we are to transmit 600 years of human culture to future generations, there's reason to worry.
But for the moment I am not inclined to complain. The n-gram collection released by the Harvard-Google team is a marvelous gift. I would much rather have it now than wait for some unattainable level of perfection. And now that it's been made public, it's ours as well as theirs, and we can all help improve it.
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I started a thread several days ago in the main forum about what I suspected was AFB.
I am posting some pictures I took of the symptoms and the burning of the hives. The Holst milk test did not show positive, but I live in Spain and the dry skim milk here is enriched for children and the liquid milk is ultra pasturized - it is not kept refrigerated - so I am not convinced that those factors might not affect the outcome of the test. In any event, Dave Cushman's page that Michael Bush directed me to said that the test is not always correct.
Since the visual symptoms (and smell) were all the classic ones usually described and I could not find refernce to another disease those so closely replicated them, I decide to burn the three affected hives.
I currently have one hive left which for the moment appears to be clear. I decided not to treat since someone posted in another thread that they decided not to treat so as not to merely mask a potential infection. The logic seemed sound - I would rather know now rather than find out later (when I have new colonies nearby) that the remainining hive is in fact infrected.
Thanks to everyone who helped out and gave advice. I am not throwing in the towel - I will look at it as a learning experience. Am looking forward to building about ten swarm traps now and putting them out this week.


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Financiers Without Borders is a recognized, U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on developing the next generation of altruistic, global minded business leaders. They aim to fulfill their mission by opening the doors to international volunteer opportunities in developing nations. Their innovative programs allow volunteers to spend several weeks or months at businesses and NGOs abroad, aiding them with financing, marketing, strategy and economic development. They are looking for interested students to join their volunteer class of 2011-2012! They are recruiting students for this upcoming summer (June-August 2011) as well as for winter break (December2011-January2012).
Volunteerships can vary between 2 weeks and 2 months. Some projects require a minimum stay. They look to have a minimum of 2 volunteers per trip with up to as many as 6. Trips with over 4 volunteers will have a project leader for part or the entire trip. Some projects require certain qualifications, such as an MBA or specific previous professional experience.
Applicants must have an interest in business. Volunteerships will be matched with your professional and academic experience. Please do not apply if you cannot fully commit at least 2 weeks to volunteer during the summer or winter break.
There are no fees associated with Financiers Without Borders, however volunteers are responsible for their own expenses. Financiers Without Borders provide various tools to help volunteers fundraise for themselves. All (100%) fund raised by the volunteer will go directly to finance their trip. As a recipient of the Google Grant, Financiers Without Borders does not have any financial or transactions fees associated with donations. All contributions are 100% tax-deductable under IRS code 501(c)(3).
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Cover letter MUST include your top TWO choices from the projects below. If you are interested in volunteering in a country where they are still building partnerships, please note that in your cover letter. Applications received without placement preference will not be considered.
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Roots & Shoots is a global, youth-based environmental and humanitarian program of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). Shanghai Roots & Shoots is a legally-registered, foreign-affiliated environmental and humanitarian non-profit organization in China. Their mission is to inspire passion for the environment and humanity in the children and future leaders of China through sustainable educational programs and hands-on community service projects. All of their programs are sustainably managed— from concept to resource capital procurement to implementation—through use of successful management techniques to ensure that the objectives of each program are effectively executed. Adopting the grassroots spirit, Shanghai Roots & Shoots programs operate at the local level and work with schools, corporations, government, and Shanghai's citizens to effect progressive changes within their communities.
Shanghai Roots & Shoots is seeking volunteers for the analysis and evaluation of their programming and social impact measurement, for which the approach will be based on the Impact Value Chain.
An organization's social impact assessment goal should also include the development a tool that could look holistically across the organization, build measures, and identify the gaps between the organization's mission/values and its operational plan. The goal of an organizational analysis and development process is to define organizational alignment, make deliberate decisions, and design the organization, agency, or program to achieve strategically optimal outcomes.
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Avesthagen is a leading life science company pioneering the convergence between Food, Pharmaceutical and Population Genetics leading to Predictive Preventive Personalized Healthcare. The business model of Avesthagen is to combine intellectual property & product development through in-house research and collaborations. Avesthagen has built and continues to build an integrated, systems biology approach of capabilities, products, infrastructure and technology that allows for and facilitates cross talk between numerous disciplines, leading to unique and innovative solutions. Avesthagen employs 450 people worldwide and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.
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The mission of Change Fusion Institute (CF) is to foster innovative solutions to increasingly complex social and environmental challenges through the creative use of new technologies, emerging perspectives and innovation networks. CF executes its mission by providing social innovation design and investment services with a specific focus on catalyzing high-impact, scalable and sustainable social innovations and social enterprises. CF provides its services to non-profit organizations, corporations, governments, international development organizations and philanthropists.
Change Fusion is seeking volunteers to assist them in Finance and Incubation. First, volunteers will design appropriate financial instrument to finance such initiative such as through grant, loan, equity or their combination for Social Enterprises which are ready for real implementation and scaling up. Then, as the social innovation initiative is financed, volunteers will aid in designing appropriate monitoring, reporting and evaluation mechanism as well as providing mentorship and oversight support with specific focus on sustainability and growth both for the innovation project or social enterprise.
Yunus Center at AIT is a collaboration between Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. The Center provides an independent and open platform for addressing development challenges faced by poor people in Asia. It provides as a forum for discussion between people from the public, private, academic and grass roots sectors to exchange ideas on poverty alleviation and social business. The Center aims to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development by promoting, developing and implementing social business ideas and projects.
The Center is seeking volunteers to aid Thai Social Entrepreneurs as they work alongside academics in Southern Thailand focusing on energy projects while also looking to partner with other social enterprise organizations.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (10 week minimum commitment in summer, 4 week in winter)
Leopard Capital manages investment funds in frontier economies. Leopard hunts ahead of the herd, tracking down undiscovered opportunities in Virgin Markets, their term for fast-growth low-income countries shunned by mainstream investors.
In 2008 Leopard launched Cambodia's first private equity fund, targeting market leaders in basic industries propelled by the country's rapid development. Leopard Cambodia Fund has since made nine investments (with one full and one partial exit) in Cambodia and Laos, spanning the following sectors: mobile telecoms, renewable energy, power transmission, banking, microfinance, beer brewing, seafood processing, rice production, and housing.
We are looking to place volunteers in one of Leopard's portfolio companies, Kingdom Brewery. Kingdom's state-of-the-art brewing facilities reside on the banks of Phnom Penh's Tonle Sap River. Here, the marriage of craft and passion weaves the exotic flavors and aromas of our remarkably tasty, premium beers.
Kingdom is seeking volunteers to explore marketing techniques and strategy for expanding distribution into hundreds of outlets (pubs, restaurants, hotels, stores) and to launch a draft beer and additional bottled beers.
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Genesis Analytics turns economics into advice. Rather than an academic think tank, Genesis is a client-focused strategic and research resource. Working with clients, its purpose is to improve lives, businesses and economies through the application of economic logic and experience.
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Airborne Consulting offers an extensive consulting service aimed at improving companies' business performance. Their expertise lies in the ICT and Financial sectors, although sound business principles cover all industries and domains.
Airborne is currently seeking volunteers to use their skills in research and financial modeling to help value their envisaged new products and to assist them in understanding global pricing and potential business models for their products and consulting offerings.
We are also in the process of building partnerships and volunteer opportunities in the following countries: Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Argentina and Brazil.
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I like a company that is prepared to test the quality of their product and post it on YouTube like these folks have done (see below). And, I like this iPad case. I've had several iPad cases aimed specifically at the toddler market come through my hands. Some I've written about, others I haven't. Usually I don't because it is an offering for all those commenters who want to say "Why would you give your toddler a turn on an expensive device like that anyway" an easy opportunity. (If you are one of those, feel free to head to the comment section now.)
Most casings and covers designed to protect devices from young children seem to focus on hard cases that are robust and strong and protect using the strength of the material. Clumsy Case by Studio Proper protects using soft foam. It protects using the way the material can handle any impact through absorption. Of course, it isn't perfect: any case for a touchscreen device needs to give you access to the touchscreen and it can still get grubby with squashed banana or exposed to a place where a toddler could throw the screen into the corner of a table. But, ultimately, Clumsy Case is a favorite at my house now. Continue Reading "A Toddler-Proof Pac-Man Ghost iPad Case" »


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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Head volleyball coach Jason Corwin announced that Lauren Garlie has signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Oregon Tech beginning this fall.
Garlie (Challis, Idaho) most recently competed at NCAA II Northwest Nazarene University, earning GNAC all-academic honors in 2012.
At Challis High School the 6-2 outside hitter led the Vikings to state championships in 2007 and 2010 with runner-up finishes in 2009 and 2010. Garlie was also named the Snake River Conference Player of the Year during the 2010-11 basketball season, while earning Challis High School Female Athlete of the Year honors.
Lauren joins sister, Madisen Garlie, when the Owls open up the 2014 season on August 21st in Angwin, Calif. at the Pacific Union College tournament.
"Lauren is a very versatile athlete that will bring a lot of experience to our program," said Corwin. "She is a five-tool athlete with six rotation ability. We love her energy and her personality has been a great fit with our program." Corwin continued. "She works extremely hard and is dedicated to improving every day. We are very blessed to be adding Lauren to our volleyball program."
Lauren is the daughter of Todd and Carmen Garlie and plans to major in applied psychology beginning at Oregon Tech this fall.


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Moore selected to Texas vs Nation all-star game
MISSOULA, Mont. - Over the past several seasons many former Montana grizzly football players have found post-college homes for teams in the NFL.
This winter Dan Moore has been training in California with hopes that his name would be the next among the list.
This morning the recent Montana alum received a phone call that held with it an opportunity that would greatly increase his chances of achieving that professional goal.
"My agent called me and told me there was a spot open for the Texas vs. Nation game," said Moore today. "Kind of a chaotic day with my shoulder pads and everything in Montana. They're going to end up sending my stuff overnight down there and I've got practice tomorrow at 3:00."
The Texas vs. Nation game is one of the biggest college all-star events that any football player can compete in. Players from across the country come in hoping to get an opportunity to impress NFL scouts and get a chance at the next level.
"This is not a Mickey Mouse game," said Griz Head Coach Mick Delaney. "It's a good game and nation-wide game so this is a great opportunity for Dan."
Moore came out of high school as one of the top fullback recruits in the country. He played mostly runningback this past season due to the spread offense system that the Grizzlies had in place. He's looking forward to getting back to fullback for this game and he knows that's where his opportunity lies in the NFL.
"You know i haven't played fullback in a while and that's primarily what the nfl wants to see me as. so it's a huge opportunity. i want to get in there and show them that i can block and show them that i can catch the ball out of the backfield."
"Well they're going to find out that Dan is just a tremendously strong young man," said Delaney. "He's faster than most people think. The other advantage that Dan has is he has good hands out of the backfield. I think that if he's given the opportunity in that game he'll surprise a lot of people."
No matter what his football future holds, Moore says he's excited to be representing the University of Montana on a national stage.
"I'm the only grizzly that's going to be out there from what I understand. I'm sure everyone in Montana would love to see a Griz helmet on ESPN again. I'm going to do it for everyone up there and do it for myself."


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Chong, Doryun. "Ana Mendieta." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Born to a prominent Cuban family in Havana, Ana Mendieta moved to the United States with her sister at age thirteen, where she lived and worked in Iowa until relocating to New York in 1978. In her best-known works, the Silueta and Fetish series created in the open air and preserved in photographic documentation, Mendieta made impressions and reliefs of the contours of her body in the ground with both arms raised as if in prayer like an orant figure; these later developed into more fully sculptural effigies. The series had clear ties to the Earth goddess spirituality that feminists of the 1970s embraced as a critique of phallocentric, patriarchal religious ideologies and social structures. At the same time, the works arose from the artist's particular interest in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santería, likely driven by her own ethnic and cultural identification.
Mendieta was greatly concerned with the marking of the body with various categories of classification, such as gender and ethnicity. In the 1970s, the field of visual art was opened up by diverse new praxes, which took it in various directions—away from commodification and conventions of display, off the grid, and out into open lands. With her body serving as a potent medium interacting with the earth and by relinquishing her art-making to the natural forces of entropy, she uniquely combined contemporary concerns that were unfolding in Conceptual Art, Earth Art, and Body Art.
Even before her "return to nature," however, the body was at the center of Mendieta's artistic production. In the series of performative works she created in 1972 as her MFA project at the University of Iowa, she submitted her (often nude) body to simulations of violation and mutation: transferring shaved-off facial hair of a male collaborator onto her face (Facial Hair Transplant, 1972); pressing sheets of glass on her face, breasts, and buttocks to flatten and twist them out of shape (Glass on Body, 1972); and perhaps most disturbingly, staging scenes of sexual violence complete with fake blood (Rape Piece, 1972). In Untitled (Facial Cosmetic Variations) (1972/1997), two series of self-portraits in the Walker Art Center's collection, she deploys a host of rather simple devices—hosiery, makeup, wigs—to disguise and distort her facial features. As much as her face is "made up" to be ugly approaching on repugnant, it is also "unmade" beyond recognition. In her resolute exploration of transformative possibilities that lie in altering the body, Mendieta was in historical league with the likes of Eleanor Antin, Adrian Piper, and Hannah Wilke, among others, and laid the groundwork for such artists as Cindy Sherman.
Chong, Doryun. "Ana Mendieta." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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