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Voice Search: An Amazon and Google Dust Up
January 26, 2017
I read "Amazon and Google Fight Crucial Battle over Voice Recognition." I like the idea that Amazon and Google are macho brawlers. I think of folks who code as warriors. Hey, just because some programmers wear their Comicon costumes to work in Mountain View and Seattle, some may believe that code masters are wimps. Obviously they are not. The voice focused programmers are tough, tough dudes and dudettes.
I learned from a "real" British newspaper that two Viking-inspired warrior cults are locked in a battle. The fate of the voice search world hangs in the balance. Why is this dust up covered in more depth on Entertainment Tonight or the talking head "real" news television programs.
I learned:
The retail giant has a threatening lead over its rival with the Echo and Alexa, as questions remain over how the search engine can turn voice technology into revenue.
What? If there is a battle, it seems that Amazon has a "threatening lead." How will Google respond? Online advertising? New products like the Pixel which, in some areas, is not available due to production and logistics issues?
No. Here's the scoop from the Fleet Street experts:
The risk to Google is that at the moment, almost everyone starting a general search at home begins at Google's home page on a PC or phone. That leads to a results page topped by text adverts – which help generate about 90% of Google's revenue, and probably more of its profits. But if people begin searching or ordering goods via an Echo, bypassing Google, that ad revenue will fall. And Google has cause to be uncomfortable. The shift from desktop to mobile saw the average number of searches per person fall as people moved to dedicated apps; Google responded by adding more ads to both desktop and search pages, juicing revenues. A shift that cut out the desktop in favor of voice-oriented search, or no search at all, would imperil its lucrative revenue stream.
Do I detect a bit of glee in this passage? Google is responding in what is presented as a somewhat predictable way:
Google's natural reaction is to have its own voice-driven home system, in Home. But that poses a difficulty, illustrated by the problems it claims to solve. At the device's launch, one presenter from the company explained how it could speak the answer to questions such as "how do you get wine stains out of a rug?" Most people would pose that question on a PC or mobile, and the results page would offer a series of paid-for ads. On Home, you just get the answer – without ads.
Hasn't Google read "The Art of War" which advises:
"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
My hunch is that this "real" news write up is designed to poke the soft underbelly of Googzilla. That sounds like a great idea. Try this with your Alexa, "Alexa, how do I hassle Google?"
Stephen E Arnold, January 26, 2017
Some Things Change, Others Do Not: Google and Content
January 20, 2017
After reading Search Engine Journal's, "The Evolution Of Semantic Search And Why Content Is Still King" brings to mind how there RankBrain is changing the way Google ranks search relevancy. The article was written in 2014, but it stresses the importance of semantic search and SEO. With RankBrain, semantic search is more of a daily occurrence than something to strive for anymore.
RankBrain also demonstrates how far search technology has come in three years. When people search, they no longer want to fish out the keywords from their query; instead they enter an entire question and expect the search engine to understand.
This brings up the question: is content still king? Back in 2014, the answer was yes and the answer is a giant YES now. With RankBrain learning the context behind queries, well-written content is what will drive search engine ranking:
What it boils to is search engines and their complex algorithms are trying to recognize quality over fluff. Sure, search engine optimization will make you more visible, but content is what will keep people coming back for more. You can safely say content will become a company asset because a company's primary goal is to give value to their audience.
The article ends with something about natural language and how people want their content to reflect it. The article does not provide anything new, but does restate the value of content over fluff. What will happen when computers learn how to create semantic content, however?
Whitney Grace, January 20, 2016
Indexing: A Cautionary Example
November 17, 2015
i read "Half of World's Museum Specimens Are Wrongly Labeled, Oxford University Finds." Anyone involved in indexing knows the perils of assigning labels, tags, or what the whiz kids call metadata to an object.
Humans make mistakes. According to the write up:
As many as half of all natural history specimens held in the some of the world's greatest institutions are probably wrongly labeled, according to experts at Oxford University and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The confusion has arisen because even accomplished naturalists struggle to tell the difference between similar plants and insects. And with hundreds or thousands of specimens arriving at once, it can be too time-consuming to meticulously research each and guesses have to be made.
Yikes. Only half. I know that human indexers get tired. Now there is just too much work to do. The reaction is typical of busy subject matter experts. Just guess. Close enough for horse shoes.
What about machine indexing? Anyone who has retrained an HP Autonomy system knows that humans get involved as well. If humans make mistakes with bugs and weeds, imagine what happens when a human has to figure out a blog post in a dialect of Korean.
The brutal reality is that indexing is a problem. When dealing with humans, the problems do not go away. When humans interact with automated systems, the automated systems make mistakes, often more rapidly than the sorry human indexing professionals do.
What's the point?
I would sum up the implication as:
Do not believe a human (indexing species or marketer of automated indexing species).
Acceptable indexing with accuracy above 85 percent is very difficult to achieve. Unfortunately the graduates of a taxonomy boot camp or the entrepreneur flogging an automatic indexing system which is powered by artificial intelligence may not be reliable sources of information.
I know that this notion of high error rates is disappointing to those who believe their whizzy new system works like a champ.
Reality is often painful, particularly when indexing is involved.
What are the consequences? Here are three:
- Results of queries are incomplete or just wrong
- Users are unaware of missing information
- Failure to maintain either human, human assisted, or automated systems results in indexing drift. Eventually the indexing is just misleading if not incorrect.
How accurate is your firm's indexing? How accurate is your own indexing?
Stephen E Arnold, November 17, 2015
Exclusive Interview: Danny Rogers, Terbium Labs
August 11, 2015
Editor's note: The full text of the exclusive interview with Dr. Daniel J. Rogers, co-founder of Terbium Labs, is available on the Xenky Cyberwizards Speak Web service at www.xenky.com/terbium-labs. The interview was conducted on August 4, 2015.
Significant innovations in information access, despite the hyperbole of marketing and sales professionals, are relatively infrequent. In an exclusive interview, Danny Rogers, one of the founders of Terbium Labs, has developed a way to flip on the lights to make it easy to locate information hidden in the Dark Web.
Web search has been a one-trick pony since the days of Excite, HotBot, and Lycos. For most people, a mobile device takes cues from the user's location and click streams and displays answers. Access to digital information requires more than parlor tricks and pay-to-play advertising. A handful of companies are moving beyond commoditized search, and they are opening important new markets such as secret and high value data theft. Terbium Labs can "illuminate the Dark Web."
In an exclusive interview, Dr. Danny Rogers, one of the founders of Terbium Labs with Michael Moore, explained the company's ability to change how data breaches are located. He said:
Typically, breaches are discovered by third parties such as journalists or law enforcement. In fact, according to Verizon's 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, that was the case in 85% of data breaches. Furthermore, discovery, because it is by accident, often takes months, or may not happen at all when limited personnel resources are already heavily taxed. Estimates put the average breach discovery time between 200 and 230 days, an exceedingly long time for an organization's data to be out of their control. We hope to change that. By using Matchlight, we bring the breach discovery time down to between 30 seconds and 15 minutes from the time stolen data is posted to the web, alerting our clients immediately and automatically. By dramatically reducing the breach discovery time and bringing that discovery into the organization, we're able to reduce damages and open up more effective remediation options.
Terbium's approach, it turns out, can be applied to traditional research into content domains to which most systems are effectively blind. At this time, a very small number of companies are able to index content that is not available to traditional content processing systems. Terbium acquires content from Web sites which require specialized software to access. Terbium's system then processes the content, converting it into the equivalent of an old-fashioned fingerprint. Real-time pattern matching makes it possible for the company's system to locate a client's content, either in textual form, software binaries, or other digital representations.
One of the most significant information access innovations uses systems and methods developed by physicists to deal with the flood of data resulting from research into the behaviors of difficult-to-differentiate sub atomic particles.
One part of the process is for Terbium to acquire (crawl) content and convert it into encrypted 14 byte strings of zeros and ones. A client such as a bank then uses the Terbium content encryption and conversion process to produce representations of the confidential data, computer code, or other data. Terbium's system, in effect, looks for matching digital fingerprints. The task of locating confidential or proprietary data via traditional means is expensive and often a hit and miss affair.
Terbium Labs changes the rules of the game and in the process has created a way to provide its licensees with anti-fraud and anti-theft measures which are unique. In addition, Terbium's digital fingerprints make it possible to find, analyze, and make sense of digital information not previously available. The system has applications for the Clear Web, which millions of people access every minute, to the hidden content residing on the so called Dark Web.
Terbium Labs, a start up located in Baltimore, Maryland, has developed technology that makes use of advanced mathematics—what I call numerical recipes—to perform analyses for the purpose of finding connections. The firm's approach is one that deals with strings of zeros and ones, not the actual words and numbers in a stream of information. By matching these numerical tokens with content such as a data file of classified documents or a record of bank account numbers, Terbium does what strikes many, including myself, as a remarkable achievement.
Terbium's technology can identify highly probable instances of improper use of classified or confidential information. Terbium can pinpoint where the compromised data reside on either the Clear Web, another network, or on the Dark Web. Terbium then alerts the organization about the compromised data and work with the victim of Internet fraud to resolve the matter in a satisfactory manner.
Terbium's breakthrough has attracted considerable attention in the cyber security sector, and applications of the firm's approach are beginning to surface for disciplines from competitive intelligence to health care.
Rogers explained:
We spent a significant amount of time working on both the private data fingerprinting protocol and the infrastructure required to privately index the dark web. We pull in billions of hashes daily, and the systems and technology required to do that in a stable and efficient way are extremely difficult to build. Right now we have over a quarter trillion data fingerprints in our index, and that number is growing by the billions every day.
The idea for the company emerged from a conversation with a colleague who wanted to find out immediately if a high profile client list was ever leaded to the Internet. But, said Rogers, "This individual could not reveal to Terbium the list itself."
How can an organization locate secret information if that information cannot be provided to a system able to search for the confidential information?
The solution Terbium's founders developed relies on novel use of encryption techniques, tokenization, Clear and Dark Web content acquisition and processing, and real time pattern matching methods. The interlocking innovations have been patented (US8,997,256), and Terbium is one of the few, perhaps the only company in the world, able to crack open Dark Web content within regulatory and national security constraints.
Rogers said:
I think I have to say that the adversaries are winning right now. Despite billions being spent on information security, breaches are happening every single day. Currently, the best the industry can do is be reactive. The adversaries have the perpetual advantage of surprise and are constantly coming up with new ways to gain access to sensitive data. Additionally, the legal system has a long way to go to catch up with technology. It really is a free-for-all out there, which limits the ability of governments to respond. So right now, the attackers seem to be winning, though we see Terbium and Matchlight as part of the response that turns that tide.
Terbium's product is Matchlight. According to Rogers:
Matchlight is the world's first truly private, truly automated data intelligence system. It uses our data fingerprinting technology to build and maintain a private index of the dark web and other sites where stolen information is most often leaked or traded. While the space on the internet that traffics in that sort of activity isn't intractably large, it's certainly larger than any human analyst can keep up with. We use large-scale automation and big data technologies to provide early indicators of breach in order to make those analysts' jobs more efficient. We also employ a unique data fingerprinting technology that allows us to monitor our clients' information without ever having to see or store their originating data, meaning we don't increase their attack surface and they don't have to trust us with their information.
For more information about Terbium, navigate to the company's Web site. The full text of the interview appears on Stephen E Arnold's Xenky cyberOSINT Web site at http://bit.ly/1TaiSVN.
Stephen E Arnold, August 11, 2015
Watson: Following in the Footsteps of America Online with PR, not CD ROMs
July 31, 2015
I am now getting interested in the marketing efforts of IBM Watson's professionals. I have written about some of the items which my Overflight system snags.
I have gathered a handful of gems from the past week or so. As you peruse these items, remember several facts:
- Watson is Lucene, home brew scripts, and acquired search utilities like Vivisimo's clustering and de-duplicating technology
- IBM said that Watson would be a multi billion dollar business and then dropped that target from 10 or 12 Autonomy scale operations to something more modest. How modest the company won't say.
- IBM has tallied a baker's dozen of quarterly reports with declining revenues
- IBM's reallocation of employee resources continues as IBM is starting to run out of easy ways to trim expenses
- The good old mainframe is still a technology wonder, and it produces something Watson only dreams about: Profits.
Here we go. Remember high school English class and the "willing suspension of disbelief." Keep that in mind, please.
ITEM 1: "IBM Watson to Help Cities Run Smarter." The main assertion, which comes from unicorn land, is: "Purple Forge's "Powered by IBM Watson" solution uses Watson's question answering and natural language processing capabilities to let users ask questions and get evidence-based answers using a website, smartphone or wearable devices such as the Apple Watch, without having to wait for a call agent or a reply to an email." There you go. Better customer service. Aren't government's supposed to serve its citizens? Does the project suggest that city governments are not performing this basic duty? Smarter? Hmm.
ITEM 2: "Why I'm So Excited about Watson, IBM's Answer Man." In this remarkable essay, an "expert" explains that the president of IBM explained to a TV interviewer that IBM was being "reinvented." Here's the quote that I found amusing: "IBM invented almost everything about data," Rometty insisted. "Our research lab was the first one ever in Silicon Valley. Creating Watson made perfect sense for us. Now he's ready to help everyone." Now the author is probably unaware that I was, lo, these many years ago, involved with an IBM Herb Noble who was struggling to make IBM's own and much loved STAIRS III work. I wish to point out that Silicon Valley research did not have its hands on the steering wheel when it came to the STAIRS system. In fact, the job of making this puppy work fell to IBM folks in Germany as I recall.
ITEM 3: "IBM Watson, CVS Deal: How the Smartest Computer on Earth Could Shake Up Health Care for 70m Pharmacy Customers." Now this is an astounding chunk of public relations output. I am confident that the author is confident that "real journalism" was involved. You know: Interviewing, researching, analyzing, using Watson, talking to customers, etc. Here's the passage I highlighted: "One of the most frustrating things for patients can be a lack of access to their health or prescription history and the ability to share it. This is one of the things both IBM and CVS officials have said they hope to solve." Yes, hope. It springs eternal as my mother used to say.
If you find these fact filled romps through the market activating technology of Watson, you may be qualified to become a Watson believer. For me, I am reminded of Charles Bukowski's alleged quip:
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Stephen E Arnold, July 31, 2015
Google Information Retrieval: Not Just Acceptable. Insanely Better
June 12, 2015
Like the TSA's perfect bag, Google's search is the apex of findability, according to "Google Now Has Just Gotten Insanely Better and Very Freaky." What causes such pinnacles of praise? According to the write up:
Google announced at an event in Paris a Location Aware Search feature that can answer a new set of questions, without the user having to ask questions that should include addresses or proper place names. Asking Google Now questions like "what is this museum?" or "when was this building built?" in proximity of the Louvre in Paris will get you answers about the Louvre, as Google will be able to use your location and understand what you meant by "this" or "this building".
How does the feature work when one is looking for information about the location of a Dark Web hidden services server in Ashburn, Virginia? Ah, not so helpful perhaps? What's the value of a targeted message in this insanely better environment? Good question.
Stephen E Arnold, June 12, 2015
CyberOSINT Videos
May 12, 2015
Xenky.com has posted a single page which provides one click access to the three CyberOSINT videos. The videos provide highlight of Stephen E Arnold's new monograph about next generation information access. You can explore the videos which run a total of 30 minutes on the Xenky site. One viewer said, "This has really opened my eyes. Thank you."
Kenny Toth, May 12, 2015
Search Left Out of the Collaborative Economy Honeycomb
May 8, 2015
I must admit that I knew very little about the collaborative economy. I used AirBnB once time and worried about my little test. I survived. I rode in an Uber car one time because my son is an aficionado. I am okay with the subway and walking. I ignore apps which allegedly make my life better, faster, and more expensive.
I saw a post which pointed me to the Chief Digital Officer Summit and that pointed me to this page with the amazing honeycomb shown below. The title is "Collaborative Economy Honeycomb 2: Watch It Grow"
The hexagons are okay, but the bulk of the write up is a listing of companies which manifest the characteristics of a collaborative honeycomb outfit.
Most of the companies were unfamiliar to me. I did recognize the names of a couple of the honeycombers; for example, Khan Academy, Etsy, eBay (ah, delightful eBay), Craigslist, Freelancer, the Crypto currencies (yep, my Dark Web work illuminated this hexagon in the honeycomb for me), and Indiegogo (I met the founder at a function in Manhattan).
But the other 150 companies in the list were news to me.
But what caused me to perk up and pay attention was one factoid:
There were zero search, content processing, or next generation information access companies in the list.
I formed a hypothesis which will probably give indigestion to the individuals and financial services firm pumping money into search and content processing companies. Here it is:
The wave of innovation captured in the wonky honeycomb is moving forward with search as an item on a checklist. The finding functions of these outfits boil down to social media buzz and niche marketing. Information access is application centric, not search centric.
If I am correct, why would honeycomb companies in collaboration mode want to pump money into a proprietary keyword search system? Why not use open source software and put effort into features for the app crowd?
Net net: Generating big money from organic license deals may be very difficult if the honeycomb analysis is on the beam. How hard will it be to sell a high priced search system to the companies identified in this analysis? I think that the task might be difficult and time consuming.
the good news is that the list of companies provides outfits like Attivio, BA Insight, Coveo, Recommind, Smartlogic, and other information retrieval firms with some ducks at which to shoot. How many ducks will fall in a fusillade of marketing?
One hopes that the search sharpshooters prevail.
Stephen E Arnold, May 8, 2015
Did You Know Oracle and WCC Go Beyond Search?
January 10, 2015
I love the phrase "beyond search." Microsoft uses it, working overtime to become the go-to resource for next generation search. I learned that Oracle also finds the phrase ideal for describing the lash up of traditional database technology, the decades old Endeca technology, and the Dutch matching system from WCC Group.
You can read about this beyond search tie up in "Beyond Search in Policing: How Oracle Redefines Real time Policing and Investigation—Complementary Capabilities of Oracle's Endeca Information Discovery and WCC's ELISE."
The white paper explains in 15 pages how intelligence led policing works. I am okay with the assertions, but I wonder if Endeca's computationally intensive approach is suitable for certain content processing tasks. The meshing of matching with Endeca's outputs results in an "integrated policing platform."
The Oracle marketing piece explains ELISE in terms of "Intelligent Fusion." Fusion is quite important in next generation information access. The diagram explaining ELISE is interesting:
Endeca's indexing makes use of the MDex storage engine, which works quite well for certain types of applications; for example, bounded content and point-and-click access. Oracle shows this in terms of Endeca's geographic output as a mash up:
For me, the most interesting part of the marketing piece was this diagram. It shows how two "search" systems integrate to meet the needs of modern police work:
It seems that WCC's technology, also used for matching candidates with jobs, looks for matches and then Endeca adds an interface component once the Endeca system has worked through its computational processes.
For Oracle, ELISE and Endeca provide two legs of Oracle's integrated police case management system.
Next generation information access systems move "beyond search" by integrating automated collection, analytics, and reporting functions. In my new monograph for law enforcement and intelligence professionals, I profile 21 vendors who provide NGIA. Oracle may go "beyond search," but the company has not yet penetrated NGIA, next generation information access. More streamlined methods are required to cope with the type of data flows available to law enforcement and intelligence professionals.
For more information about NGIA, navigate to www.xenky.com/cyberosint.
Stephen E Arnold, January 10, 2015
BA Insight on the Resurrection Trail
September 10, 2014
I read "Artificial Intelligence Is Resurrecting Enterprise Search." The unstated foundation of this write up is that enterprise search is dead. I am not sure I buy into that assumption. Last time I checked ElasticSearch was thriving with its open source approach. In fact, one "expert" pointed out that the decline in the fortunes of certain Brand Name search systems coincided with the rise in ElasticSearch's fortunes. Connection? I don't know, but enterprise search is thriving.
What needs resurrection (either the Phoenix variety or the Henry James's varieties of mystical experience type) is search vendors whose software does not deliver for licensees. In this category are outfits that have just gone out of business; for example, Convera, Delphes, Entopia, Kartoo, Perfect Search, Siderean Software, and others).
Then there are the vendors with aging technology that have sold out to outfits that pack information retrieval into umbrella applications in order to put hurdles for competitors to scale. If lock in won't work, then find a way to build a barricade. Outfits with this approach include Dassault, OpenText, Oracle, TeraText (now Leidos), among others.
Also, there are search vendors up to their ears in hock to venture funding firms. With stakeholders wanting some glimmer of a payout, the pressure is mounting. Companies in this leaky canoe include Attivio, BA Insight, Coveo, and Lucid Imagination, among others.
Another group of vendors are what I call long shots. These range from the quirky French search vendors like Antidot to Sinequa. There are some academic spin outs like Funnelback, which is now a commercial operation with its own unique challenges. And there are some other cats and dogs that live from deal to deal.
Finally, there are the giant companies looking for a way to make as much money as possible from the general ennui associated with proprietary search solutions. IBM is pitching Watson and using open source to get the basic findability function up and running. Microsoft is snagging technology from Jabber and bundling in various bits and pieces to deliver on the SharePoint vision of access to information in an organization. This Delve stuff is sort of smart, but until the product ships and provides access to a range of content types, I think Microsoft has a work in progress, not an enterprise solution upon which one can rely. The giant IHS is leveraging acquired technology into a search business, at least in the planners' spreadsheets. Google offers its Search Appliance, which is one of the most expensive appliance solutions I have encountered. There is one witless mid tier consulting firm that believes a GSA is economical. Okay. And there is the name surfing Schubmehl from IDC who uses other people's work to build a reputation.
To sum up, ElasticSearch is doing fine. Lots of other vendors are surviving or selling science fiction.
So what?
The "Artificial Intelligence Is Resurrecting Enterprise Search" is a write up from one of the outfits eager to generate big dollars to keep the venture capitalists happy. Hey, don't take the money, if the recipients can't generate big bucks.
Anyway, the premise of the write up is that enterprise search is dead and Microsoft's Delve will give the software sector new life. The only folks who will get new life are the Microsoft savvy developers who can figure out how to set up, customize, optimize, and keep operational a grab back of software.
Microsoft wants to provide a corporate SharePoint user with a single interface to the content needed to perform work. This is a pretty tough problem. SageMaker, now long gone, failed at this effort. Google asserted that its Search Appliance could pull off this trick. Google failed. Dozens of vendors talk about federated search and generally deliver results that are of the "close but no cigar" variety.
Now what's artificial intelligence got to do with Delve? Well, the system uses personalization and cues to figure out what a business SharePoint user wants and needs. We know how well this works with the predictive services available from Apple, Google, and—Microsoft Phone. Each time I use these services, I remember that they don't work too well. Yep, Google really knows what I want about one out of a 1,000 queries. The other 999 Google generates laughable outputs.
Microsoft will be in the same rubber raft.
The write up does disagree with my viewpoint. Well, that's okay because the BA Insight professional who tackles artificial intelligence is going to need more than inputs from Dave Schubmehl who recycles my information without my permission. If this write up is any indication, something has gone wrong somewhere along the line with regard to artificial intelligence, which is, I believe, an oxymoron.
Delve is, according the the write up, now "turning search on its head." What? I need to find information about a specific topic. How will a SharePoint centric solution know I need that information? Well, that is not a viable scenario. Delve only knows what I have previously done. That's the beauty of smart personalization. The problem is that my queries bounce from Ebola to silencers for tactical shotguns, from meth lab dispersion in Kentucky to the Muslim Brotherhood connections to certain political figures. Yep, Delve is going to be a really big help, right?
The write up asserts:
Companies need to get smarter about how they structure their information by addressing core foundational data layers. Pay attention to corporate taxonomies and introduce automated processes that add additional metadata where it's left out from unstructured data sets. Doing this homework will make enterprise search results more relevant and will allow better results when interacting with enterprise data — whether it's through text, voice or based on social distance. Access to enterprise data through intelligent interfaces is only getting better.
My reaction? My goodness. What the heck does this collection of buzzwords have to do with advanced software methods for information retrieval? Not much. That's what the write is conveying to me.
Hopefully the investors in BA Insight find more to embrace than I do. If I were an investor, I would demand that my money be spent for more impactful essays, not reminders that Microsoft like IBM thrives on services, certification, and customers who may not know how to determine if software is smart.
Stephen E Arnold, September 10, 2014


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Danny Cohen named as new BBC One controller
Danny Cohen has been appointed as the new controller of BBC One.
The 36-year-old has been controller of its sister channel, BBC3, since 2007 and overseen a rise in the digital channel's audience.
Under his leadership BBC3 was twice named Digital Channel of the Year at the Edinburgh TV Festival
Mr Cohen, whose partner is economist and writer Professor Noreena Hertz, is from Edgware in north London, and studied at Oxford University.
Before joining the BBC he was the head of youth channel, E4, where he was credited with commissioning the hit series Skins and The Inbetweeners .
He left after the channel was embroiled in the Jade Goody-Shilpa Shetty race row on Celebrity Big Brother in 2005.
Mr Cohen said: "It's a huge privilege to take charge of Britain's most-watched channel, and I feel honoured to have this opportunity.
"BBC One is one of the nation's great cultural institutions and I'm looking forward to working with a wonderful range of talented people in the coming years."
He praised his predecessor, Jay Hunt, for leaving the channel in "very good shape."
"I hope to build on these very strong foundations. I'm excited by the challenge."
Jana Bennett, the director of BBC Vision, described Mr Cohen as "an innovator and a great creative thinker."
She said: "He is one of the most talented TV executives of his generation."
- Fox TV's awkward Kushner spelling mistake
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Ex-JFS student makes history on Dragons' Den
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Swiss to vote on kosher meat import ban
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Wizo prize is blogger...
- Midlands shul in turmoil
Midlands shul in turmoil

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It's been a huge success – the 26th Annual California Coastal Clean Up Day. Many partook in picking up trash littered around Santa Monica pier and beach last Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. I interviewed some of the people to ask the kind of trash they found scattered along the pier.
Thank you for all those who came out and contributed in cleaning up California coasts. And a big thank you to HealtheBay.org!


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Sweetness in the Belly / By Camilla Gibb
Doubleday Canada, 415 pp, $32.95, hardcover.
Sweetness in the Belly is one of those near-perfect fictions: a sustained flight of imagination backed up by firsthand experience, with a sympathetic but alluringly outré central character and a teeming, colourful supporting cast. That it concerns East African Muslims, both at home in Ethiopia and in exile in London, only adds timeliness to a book that's already brimming over with an irresistible plot and great social significance.
Camilla Gibb, currently being touted by the English press as a young writer to watch, knows the ex-pat's lot. Born in the U.K., she grew up in Toronto, and her inevitable sense of estrangement from home is here embodied by Lilly Abdal, the daughter of two British proto-hippies who die in a Moroccan drug deal gone wrong. With no known relatives, the orphaned child is taken in by Sufis, who feed her on a diet of the Koran and mystical self-denial. Both come in useful when, as a teenager, she finds herself destitute and friendless in Harar, a Muslim enclave in the middle of Christian Ethiopia (and the city where Gibb spent two years pursuing a degree in cultural anthropology). But neither the Koran nor her Sufi training prepared Abdal for a far more dangerous challenge: true love, which shatters her steely composure with an unexpected blast of possibility.
As is so often the case, true love is doomed. Lilly's suitor, a soulful doctor-turned-political agitator, disappears in the killing madness that swept Ethiopia after Haile Selassie's overthrow in 1974. Triply exiled-from love, from family, and from community-Lilly retreats to the country of her birth, where she recovers all three in the unlikely setting of a London low-income-housing project.
In essence, Sweetness in the Belly is a kind of picaresque romance, but one in which the adventures are more philosophical than bawdy and the tone more sad than swaggering. It's also a welcome twist on the typical coming-of-age story: there are powerful reasons for Lilly's alienation and pain, and through the strength and clarity of Gibb's writing we feel them all-along with the strangeness of exile, the scents and sounds of an unfamiliar country, and the healing balm of friendship. Readers are likely to emerge from its pages feeling bruised but hopeful, and better informed about both Islam and émigrés everywhere.


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Pierre is the main villain of the Popeye Episode, "Popeye and the Pirates"
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain, Pierre. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover. Popeye heads back to the service and fights off Pierre and the pirates. Pierre sails away in fear and he was never seen again.


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No DLC
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It was Thursday, under the sign of Sagittarius. The US president was Barack Obama (Democratic).
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In that special week of December people in US were listening to Empire State Of Mind by Jay-Z.
Avatar, directed by James Cameron, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2009
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Already did. I don't watch ANY news now. At all. Haven't for nearly a year. Not only am I better off for it, my stress level dropped by at LEAST half!
They are all part of the system, and that system gave us Barak Obama. Not goin back to that crap.
I have listened to Rush for many years, off and on. FOX news came to town and I switched to cable only when they became part of the basic service like Direct TV. Hannity and OReilly dominated my TV. My wife came to hate FOX tv, it was always on.
During the debates on whom should be the Republican contender for president, FOX tv decided to marginalize Duncan Hunter. Hannity and OReilly told us they were only mentioning the 3 top prospects. Duncan Hunter was not one of them. Duncan Hunter at the time was one of the 3 prospects with delegates. FOX tv and the GOP dropped him from the debates.
During that time only Glenn Beck gave Duncan Hunter a voice. No one else. Glenn Beck had Duncan Hunter on for a full hour.
If FOX wants me back they will bring on Glenn Beck and Rush. I have had it with weasels like Hannity and OReilly.
The problem with FOX is that they are pandering to people that truly want fair and balanced. We conservatives want the truth. We demand fair and balanced, good or bad. Give us the facts and let us make our decisions.
I agree with all my heart! I just hope and pray that Fox gets what's coming to them, how can they do this to her?
Greta has spent almost her entire show sticking up for Palin the last couple of days. She seems to find Campaign Carl's repetition of petty, snarky rumors without sources rather reprehensible.
O'Reilly on the other hand is just condescendingly reminding his audience that his is a "news" program (except when it's a commentary) and that since Carl is reporting it, it must be "news" and therefore open season. He sort of stood up for Palin in his talking points, and I use "sort of" rather loosely.
Greta is on her way back to Alaska... she just scored the first post-election interview with our Sarah. It will be nice to see what Sarah is *really* like without the McCain handlers/buffoons constraining her...
Well, it looks like I now have a reason to watch Fox News other than Megan Kelly's legs.
I agree with this boycott. I'm sick of FOX parroting liberal propaganda as it always does; more than any other network, it's been in the tank for Hussein since day 1. I'm going to switch to CNN which is at least honest with its viewers.
Link to your Boycott of Fox post in Accuracy in Media (AIM) Column:
At some point, we're going to need a radical overhaul of the Media we have today. When Barack Obama crashes and burns in 2012, and we can have a Conservative President, we're going to have to start giving the media a tax increase every time they say something blatantly untrue. Of course, they'll probably go out of business this way, but it'll at least make them stop pandering to the Left. Best of all, it'll make our taxes go down!
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Hanging out on the patio, watching the ocean waves roll onto the beach; laughing and playing by the pool; and eating really great food - constantly! What more could we have asked for? It was the perfect vacation.
But vacations are really different now. I've had several people comment to me since my return saying things like "oh... you're not too tanned this time..." And all I can say is, vacations are really different now. Gone are the days where hubby and I could lazily lounge on the beach, soaking in the rays for hours on end. Gone are the days where I would sit by the pool and read a book from cover to cover. Gone are the days when sleeping in until noon while on vacay was routine because we'd been up drinking the night before.
This time around, our days were filled with splashing in the pool, making sand mountains on the beach, climbing up and down stairs constantly (seriously K has an obsession with steps these days!) and riding the trolley train around the resort at least once a day!
I didn't even bring a book much less a magazine! There was no lying out in the sun perfecting my vacation tan. Nor was there any sleeping in. We were up at sunrise, all three of us strolling out onto the beach in our PJ's and catching the sun as it rose over the ocean - breathtaking!
At 15 months old, K has grown into such a little charmer. Her little babbles, waves and dancing charmed almost everyone we met there. I know I'm probably biased here, but she was just too cute for words. All the waiters, waitresses and entertainment staff at the resort, and including all the kids at the pool knew Kayla's name by the end of the trip. We were pretty proud parents.
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1. Re: Rogue Systems - How are they detected?Attila Polinger Dec 6, 2010 7:59 AM (in response to Skoeben)
RSD sensor is, as you surely know, monitoring network traffic on the machine it is installed (which can be an everyday computer or a DHCP server in which case monitoring is somewhat different), by looking into network packets and gathering info from there. In the case of a DHCP it monitors DHCP requests, too.
As for the unusual IP, I suppose that could come from a manipulated network packet, sent by something on that computer. Or just the IP could not be revealed fully.
You did not write where you have installed your RSD sensor and how many there are and if the same LAN or in the WAN, or on the DHCP.
I'm not a network expert at all, but could n ot you find the trace of the computer that you mention by its MAC address (supposing that's not spoofed) in either of the many network device you have ?
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New Year diet: Eat for energyPosted on: 06 January 2012 by Gareth Hargreaves
It's time to lose that Christmas pudding feeling and give your liver some TLC with a non-tox rather than de-tox.
It's the morning after the month before. The cold light of a January dawn brings the consequences of over consumption of pudding, cake, mince pies, alcohol and money whilst the waistband, liver and the bank balance are all somewhat strained to say the least!
So it's time to lose that Christmas pudding feeling and give your liver some TLC. A week or two of gentle detox should help you back on track and establish good eating patterns to keep you in good shape through 2012. During the festive season the liver works overtime. Its job description includes metabolising the alcohol you drink, and sugary, fatty foods make it harder for it to work well.
The following programme emphasises non-tox rather than de-tox, helping you to avoid food and drink that increase the liver's workload, and include foods that nourish your organs of elimination, all of which should help put a spring in your step and help you lose a few pounds too!
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- Alcohol
- Processed food
- Sugar
- Red meat
- Caffeinated drinks
- Wheat and dairy foods
Things To Include:
- Plenty of water and herbal teas
- Lots of vegetables (except potatoes and squash)
- Fruit
- Regular modest meals - don't skip any!
- Good lean protein: fish, eggs chicken, tofu, goat's cheese
- If you can buy organic foods, so much the better
Example Diet Plan
Breakfast: A small bowl of porridge made with water, add blueberries (frozen are fine), walnuts and some plain live organic (soy) yoghurt, or a poached egg and cooked tomatoes on a slice of rye toast, with a small glass of pommegranate or purple grape juice.
Lunch: Make a salad with a colourful array of vegetables (including broccoli, watercress, some avocado and spinach leaves to support organs of elimination). Add protein: some fish (tinned sardines or salmon are fine), an egg or some Cauldron organic tofu. Dress with some olive oil and lemon juice. Finish with an apple.
Dinner: Grilled chicken or fish, lots of steamed vegetables (think of a plate filled with rainbow colours to maximise nutrient content) and a helping of sweet potato, mashed celeriac or Puy lentils. Finish with a few Brazil nuts. Nibble fruit and a few nuts if you need a snack.
A Basic Supplement Programme
A good multivitamin, Omega 3 fish oil, and a 'good bacteria'-booster such as a Probiotic. Champneys Detox and Cleanse formula may help to further support the liver.
Here's to a healthy and vibrant 2012!
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: a theory in physics: electrons can combine into pairs (called Cooper pairs) at low temperatures in order to travel through superconductors without resistance However, electrons normally repel each other, and some intermediary is required to induce them to pair. In the BCS theory the intermediary is a phonon, a vibration or ripple in the lattice of the crystal. — D. E. Thomsen, Science News, 28 Mar. 1987
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from the initials of John Bardeen †1991, Leon Neil Cooper born 1930 and John Robert Schrieffer born 1931 U.S. physicists who developed it ◆The theory was first described by the three physicists as "Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity," in the "Letters to the Editor" section of Physical Review, vol. 106, Issue 1 (April, 1957), pp. 162-64.
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- Cooled Driver Seat
- Cruise Control
- Daytime Running Lights
- Driver Air Bag
- Driver Illuminated Vanity Mirror
- Driver Lumbar
- Driver Vanity Mirror
- Dual Zone A/c
- Electrochromic Rearview Mirror
- Electronic Stability Control
- Fog Lamps
- Front Floor Mats
- Gasoline Fuel
- Heated Driver Seat
- Heated Mirrors
- Hid Headlights
- Intermittent Wipers
- Ipod/mp3 Input
- Keyless Entry
- Leather Seats
- Leather Wrapped Steering Wheel
- Mp3 Player
- Navigation
- Onboard Communications System
- Panoramic Roof
- Pass-through Rear Seat
- Passenger Air Bag
- Passenger Illuminated Visor Mirror
- Passenger Lumbar
- Passenger Vanity Mirror
- Power Door Locks
- Power Driver Mirror
- Power Driver Seat
- Power Passenger Seat
- Power Steering
- Power Windows
- Premium Sound System
- Rain Sensing Wipers
- Rear Body Air Bag
- Rear Defrost
- Rear Head Air Bag
- Remote Engine Start
- Remote Trunk Release
- Satellite Radio
- Seat Memory
- Side Head Air Bag
- Steering Wheel Controls
- Sunroof
- Tire Pressure Monitoring System
- Tires - Front Performance
- Tires - Rear Performance
- Universal Garage Door Opener
- V6 Cylinder Engine
- Variable Speed Intermittent Wipers
- Vehicle Anti-theft System
- Woodgrain Interior Trim
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The Cadillac CTS offers a range of vehicles to suit any lifestyle. The amazing CTS Coupe, Sport Wagon, and the respected, award winning Sedan all offer optional all-wheel-drive, an impressively finished interior and a large dose of style. For 2013 the manual transmission and the base trim have been dropped from the sedan. Depending on model, the CTS is available in Base, Luxury, Performance, and Premium trims. The 2013 CTS comes standard with either 17- or 18-inch alloy wheels and 19-inch polished alloy wheels are optional. The standard engine is a four-cam, 3.0-liter V6 with direct injection and variable valve-timing generating 270 horsepower. A direct injected 3.6-liter V6, now with 318 horsepower, is available. The transmission is a six-speed automatic, and a variable-torque full-time all-wheel-drive system can be added to either engine. With seating for four the CTS Coupe includes the 3.6 liter engine as standard equipment. The Sedan and Sport Wagon include seating for five. Feature highlights include a standard Bose audio system with XM Satellite radio, eight speakers and auxiliary input jack. A power sunroof, keyless access, rear camera, and an upgraded radio with DVD-Audio, Bose 5.1 Cabin Surround Sound, 40 gB Hard Drive, and a USB port are available. For 2013, the CTS models are carried over from 2012.
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Renaming Posh Spice
She looks more like Scary Spice in these photos. She is leaving a photoshoot where they clearly had a ton of makeup on Victoria Beckham. They may have also used an entire bottle of hair spray on her. Did they inject her lips as well? She looks so much better not all done up.
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Lord Cheeto obviously over-estimated the value of Steve Bannon when he placed him on the National Security Council. Being too stupid to realize that Bannon's experience as editor-in-chief of Breitbart was good for very little in the real world, the giant Oompa Loompa allowed him to sit in a room full of people who actually matter for nearly three months.
Now that his reign of derp is over, Bannon has been wandering aimlessly around the West Wing waiting for his new assignment. After much consideration, word has finally come down about his future in the Butternut Bigot administration.
It was a tough decision. After all, what do you do with a man who believes he's the perfect specimen of a master race with no experience in anything other than propaganda? He was vetted for every job in the executive branch. He proved worthless at actually advising Trump and his failures as a speechwriter have been obvious from the inaugural address on down.
Since his removal from the NSC, he's been considered and tested for a plethora of positions with little success. It turns out he's better at clogging toilets than fixing them and the interns are currently circulating several different versions of a "how many Bannons does it take to screw in a lightbulb" joke. He can't sort mail nearly as efficiently as a 20-year-old college student and when asked to take inventory and order office supplies, he threw a fit and broke a plate glass window after learning that Post-It Notes don't come in white.
The only thing that was left was for Trump to create a position specifically suited to what Steve Bannon is good at. He will now serve in an official capacity as Chief Supervisor of Chips and Dip to the President and Keeper of the Oval Office Remote. The position will require him to make sure POTUS has an ample selection of bagged snacks and no less than a dozen dips on hand to choose from at all times. He will also control which of the Fox news stations is on the TV in the big orange traffic cone's office and make sure the batteries in the presidential remote are fresh and ready to switch to Celebrity Apprentice at a moment's notice.
Bannon was a little disturbed at first, having been given more responsibility than he's used to, but he seems to be settling into the job fairly well. His salary was increased to $235K per year, since chips and dip are far more important to Trump than any national security advice ever could be.
It's good to see the administration chugging away exactly how those of us with an IQ over 70 expected.
This post is marked "political satire" for a reason. It means we know it isn't real. If you feel the need to go to the Facebook page to tell us it isn't real, we will point at you and engage in much mockery, most likely comparing you to a Trump supporter. Let's face it…nobody wants that.


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Domino's Test Runs Drone Delivery in New Zealand
Pizza lovers in New Zealand are in for a treat as their pizzas will soon be dropping from the skies. Domino's recently demonstrated that it is possible to use drones with camera for food delivery. And with the success of the test run, the company plans to start doing actual deliveries from next month. According to Scott Bush, general manager at Domino's Pizza Enterprises, "There is a massive traffic congestion in Auckland, so it makes perfect sense to do our deliveries via the airways."
This is how it works; after a Domino's customer has made a request for drone delivery, they will get a notification to let them know the delivery is approaching. They then need to go outside and hit a button on their smartphone, the drone lowers the pizza via a tether and once the package has been delivered, the tether is pulled back up and the drone flies back to base.
Drone delivery could attract an extra charge initially, but the company hopes to do free pizza deliveries in the long term. According to Bush, there will be test deliveries to actual customers which starts on the 26th September from one of the stores in Auckland. Powered by the American drone company, Flirtey, the drone flights will be automated, with a human on standby nearby to supervise the process. Due to the existing drone laws in New Zealand, there are limits with regards to the distance Domino's can deliver to. The drone law in New Zealand stipulates that a drone cannot fly farther than the operator of the drone can see. However, the company is liaising with the authorities to remove such barriers.
Customers in the U.S who are hoping for a pizza delivery via a DronesGlobe drone should not get too excited because the New Zealand Domino's operates as a separate entity from the U.S. chain. The company hopes to be able to expand its drone delivery in New Zealand in early 2017, including providing nighttime deliveries. There are also plans to expand into other countries such as Australia, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.


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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Altia Systems Finds $10.5M For Panoramic Video Cameras
Cupertino-based Altia Systems, a maker of panoramic videocameras used for high definition video streaming, has raised $10.5M in a funding round. The funding was led by Intel Capital. Altia's panoramic video cameras are used to give a wider field of view for the video conferencing and web collaboration market, and works with Cisco WEbEx, Citrix GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Lync, and other products. The company is led by Aurangzeb Khan. More information »