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This year I've focused a lot on the systems in my life, what's working and what's totally not working and I've embarked on a new operation. It's the Get Your Life plan that started with forming my very own Mastermind Group and now I'm on to the next phase: getting fit!
You see, I'm a summer baby (July 1 for anyone who would like to send well wishes or a gift!) and I hibernate hard in the winter. When everyone else is making New Year's resolutions and starting new routines, I'm tucked away on my super comfy sofa eating warm apple pie a la mode and watching my favorite TV shows. But in the spring, ahhhh, spring is when I venture back into the land of three dimensional people and get down to the business of improving my life.
Recently, I was browsing my fave fashion blogs and came across Eboni's 30-Day Ab Challenge on The Fashionista Next Door. Bingo! The perfect start for Phase Two of Operation Get Your Life. (Eboni has a whole #GetMyLife blog series going on over there that you should definitely check out!) I even recruited some friends to join me and we're keeping up with each other on the Twitter (@patranila).
The idea is a simple one, start working on your abs and increase difficulty incrementally over 30 days. We're on Day 7 but it's never too late to jump in and reap the rewards of a stronger core!
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I will do a follow up post or two but I will spare us all any before-and-after shots of my belly! I will file that under #ThingsTheWorldDoesntNeed!
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Viscount Bledisloe: My Lords, my Amendments Nos. 112 and 115 are in this group, so perhaps I may speak to them as well as to the amendment spoken to by the Minister.
As the Bill stands, without the government amendment Clause 21 gives an owner the right to serve an exclusion notice closing the land for 28 days. But at present none of those days can be a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday.
A number of noble Lords pointed out in Committee that the world of nature and agriculture does not recognise weekends--that birds do not stop nesting and hatching and sheep do not stop lambing merely because it is Saturday or Sunday. No doubt joined up government will teach birds and sheep to recognise the calendar soon, but for the moment it has not achieved that. Therefore, the concept of a closure that suddenly stops at weekends is curious.
In Committee the Minister opposed any attempt to extend the 28-day period, and in my amendments I totally accept that restriction. However, he recognised that within the 28 days some days could be at weekends. He was, however, worried that if one merely removed the provision relating to Saturdays and Sundays there was a danger that a landowner might use all of his 28 days over, let us say, 14 successive weekends or for the entirety of August, which he rightly pointed out is the main holiday month.
I have therefore sought to spread the 28 days equally over weekends and Bank Holidays and nonesuch days. Eight Saturdays or Sundays in 28 days are a new proportion, and a Bank Holiday makes nine. I confess that nine seemed to me a remarkably silly figure and therefore my amendment suggests that 10 days can be a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday. But if the noble Lord would give me nine, or even eight, I would settle for that. It is just that nine seemed an odd figure. Also, by means of a separate amendment, Amendment No. 107, I have sought to deal with the problem of holidays by saying that no more than 14 of the 28 days can be in August.
My amendment is in no way specifically connected to shooting. The closure could be for any reason. It could be to protect breeding, to allow operations on the land, or whatever one wants.
Amendment No. 117 to which the noble Lord has just spoken, on the other hand, gives only four days out of the 28 which can be either a Saturday or a Sunday. I do not understand how he can say that that is a proper balance unless he has a very curious approach to mathematics. If you have 28 days, and you allow Saturdays and Sundays, that must allow eight days, not four. It leads to the very curious
Birds do not hatch; they sit for more than 19 days. Similarly, an entire flock of sheep does not lamb within 19 days. If the Minister is serious in his desire for proportion, he must allow eight or nine days out of the 28 to be weekends, or bank holidays. I fail to see any form of justification for his four days. Moreover, if one is using this time for shooting, or for a similar activity, I do not see why the days cannot all be Saturdays, with none of them being Sundays. As noble Lords have pointed out, one cannot shoot on a Sunday but a walker can just as well walk on a Sunday as he can on a Saturday. Therefore, I do not see why the landowner cannot have a discretion as to which of the days he uses as Saturdays or Sundays.
My fundamental point is that the Minister has only gone half way and that he has stopped at a wholly illogical mathematical point. If he is to accept what he said he would accept in Committee--namely, that the 28 days should be spread fairly, but not disproportionately--he must allow at least eight or probably nine of the 28 days to be Saturdays, Sundays or weekends. He must not chop it off at a wholly illogical half-point.
Lord Hardy of Wath: My Lords, perhaps I may comment briefly on the noble Viscount's points. Many people wish to spend their holidays in this country rather than take a package holiday to, say, the Costa Brava. Unfortunately, August is the month in England--the Scots are a little wiser--when children are not at school and families have to take their holidays. It would not be at all reasonable for half of August to be devoted to shooting, thus interfering with the family holidays of those who, wisely, prefer to take their vacations in this country. It is a beautiful country and the areas that those families may wish to walk through are similarly beautiful. I would not like to see a proportion of August devoted to that purpose. Indeed, it might encourage people to go abroad. I believe that they would be much healthier and happier in the United Kingdom.
Lord Monson: My Lords, although the noble Earl has not yet spoken to it, perhaps I may express my support for his Amendment No. 114, which seems to me to be an extremely reasonable compromise. I should also like to express regret that the Government have got their Amendment No. 117 wrong, at least as regards Subsection (7)(a). I have no quarrel with the other two subsections.
I can only suppose that the Government and their advisers have been watching too many Merchant Ivory costume dramas set in the closing years of the 19th century or the first decade of the 20th century, in
Admittedly, I have no interest in the sort of land to which Part I of this Bill applies, but I do not suppose that the social patterns there are very different from those in the part of the world in which I live, where virtually all those who shoot are hard-working men, and, increasingly, women, who are fully occupied for at least five days a week and who, therefore, can shoot only on Saturdays. But even if that were not the case, beaters can be secured only on Saturdays because, in general, most of them have jobs from Monday to Friday inclusive. If Amendment No. 114, or something like it, is not accepted, it will be extremely unfair and unreasonable. Indeed, it may present enormous difficulties for many shooters.
Baroness Carnegy of Lour: My Lords, I should like quickly to follow the noble Lord's contribution. My experience relates to Scotland, not England and Wales. I have in mind the farm where I live. I am not the farmer--I have not been for many years--but an increasingly important part of the farm's income is derived from the small syndicate which comes on Saturdays--eight Saturdays this year--to do rough shooting. It has nothing to do with grouse. It takes place from October to the end of January. To ask that farm to undertake shooting only on four Saturdays--it has to take place on a Saturday for the reasons the noble Lord, Lord Monson, has given--would be wrong. The farm I mentioned is not affected by the provisions of the Bill, although it may be affected by other legislation which may be modelled on it. I do not think that it is fair to restrict shooting to only four Saturdays a year. I believe that the amendment of my noble friend Lord Peel would allow shooting on eight Saturdays.
Earl Peel: My Lords, having heard what my noble friend and the noble Lord, Lord Monson, have said, I now feel obliged to speak to my Amendment No. 114, about which I have some doubts. I have doubts about my Amendment No. 114 and that of the noble Viscount, Lord Bledisloe, and that of my noble friend Lady Byford. Here I have some sympathy with the Government in that if these amendments were accepted one could have in effect eight, 10 or virtually any Saturdays consecutively closed during the various seasons that are mentioned in the various amendments. I can understand that that would be unacceptable to the Government.
Having said that, the points that the noble Lord, Lord Monson, made are valid. I believe that many shoots operate only on Saturday because the people who organise them cannot take any other day of the week off. As the noble Lord said, it may be difficult to get beaters on a week day. From a commercial point of view--my noble friend's amendment specifically refers to this--many people who are prepared to pay for a one-off day's shooting can also do so only on a
I wonder whether we could not reach a compromise whereby we could close the land in question on eight Saturdays--as my amendment suggests--during the season if we were to restrict that to, say, two Saturdays a month. I hope that I may have the noble Lord's attention for a moment. I do not know whether the noble Lord would regard as an acceptable compromise the suggestion to restrict the Saturday closure to two Saturdays a month with a closure of eight in total. As I say, we have a problem here. As noble Lords have said, there is no question about that. I am in two minds about the matter. I sympathise with the Government about not having closure on eight, 10 or 15 consecutive Saturdays. I think that that would be unreasonable. However, we must bear in mind that many people participate in shooting on Saturdays. As the noble Viscount, Lord Bledisloe, said, plenty of other activities also take place on Saturdays and Sundays. Will the Minister consider the compromise I have suggested?
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|Kazukuni Hosoi, Haruo Matsuoka
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|Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
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|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (9), Classifications (8), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to symbol decoding techniques, and more particularly, to a method of decoding a symbol with a low contrast against its background, such as a barcode displayed on an LCD screen when the backlight of the screen is turned off.
Barcodes are universally used in many applications, such as a machine-readable symbols containing desired information. For example, a barcode can be used on a package to provide all kinds of information from the manufacturer regarding the product, or can be used as a digital movie ticket displayed on a mobile phone LCD screen. To contain more information in a small area such as a mobile phone display, a two-dimensional barcode, such as a Data Matrix barcode, is advantageous. Information encoded in a barcode is usually represented by black and white data modules such as bars, squares, etc, and arranged with finders of a specific pattern. The finders need to be located when the barcode is decoded.
As shown in
Another problem of prior systems is that when scanning an image to be decoded, there is usually a fixed threshold above which an area is deemed "light", and below which an area is deemed "dark". In other words, the decision as to whether the part of the symbol being scanned is dark or light is a simple matter of comparing reflected light level with a fixed threshold. When contrast is low however, the appropriate threshold may be only applicable locally, to a particular area of the symbol being read. Hence, the use of a particular optimized fixed threshold in one area of the symbols being scanned does not necessarily mean that the same fixed threshold for distinguishing dark from light will be applicable in another area.
An object of the present invention is therefore to provide a method for finding a barcode or symbol in a dark background in the gray image, e.g., displayed on a dark LCD screen without binarizing the whole image first.
The above objects are realized in accordance with the novel method of the present invention for finding an edge of a finder of the symbol. In particular, the method comprises the steps of: picking up data on a line possibly crossing an edge of a potential finder of said symbol, and calculating a runlength on the line; determining a potential point of said edge on said line where a light level change occurs in said calculated runlength; determining a path extending from said potential point representing said edge according to said known pattern of said finder; and verifying whether said path is actually said edge. Thus, the finder can be located without binarizing the whole image. The entire process of locating the finder can be accomplished in grey scale, before the image is binarized.
Preferably, the path is verified by checking whether each point on said path is of a light level expected from the finder pattern by comparing the data at each point with a threshold. More specifically, the presence and location of a vertical line forming part of the finder pattern may be verified by repeatedly searching for a change in grey scale level along plural horizontal lines, each spaced apart vertically from each other. The presence and location of a horizontal line forming part of the finder pattern may be verified by repeatedly searching for a change in grey scale level along plural vertical lines, each spaced apart horizontally from each other.
Preferably, the threshold is calculated at a point on the path and applied to next points along said path. Preferably, the threshold is reevaluated every several points along the path so as to adjust the threshold when the contrast is not consistent on the image.
In other embodiments, the light level may be one or more light levels of different colors, permitting the methodology to be useful in reading color symbols.
The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will be clearer from reading the detailed description of the preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
To explain the method of the present invention, a Data Matrix barcode is taken as an example in the preferred embodiment. It shall be understood, however, that the present invention is not limited to a specific type of barcode, but can generally be applied to all the symbols, and is preferably used in a system wherein there is a known finder patter.
Reference is now made to
According to the present invention, the system locates the finder pattern without first binarizing the symbol into dark and light portions, as shown in
As explained above, the Data Matrix has two solid edges 11, 12 forming and two teethed edges 13, 14 with alternating dark and light square modules. The two solid edges 11, 12 form an L-shaped finder. Now we take the vertical solid edge 11 as an example to explain how to find edges according to the teachings of the present invention.
To locate the solid edge 11, a horizontal straight line 30 is predetermined which possibly crosses the edge 11. Gray data along the line 30 is picked up. The runlength (line R in
As can be seen in the runlength shown in
Since the edge 11 of the L-shape finder extends vertically or substantially perpendicular to the horizontal straight line 30, a path 32 a, 32 b which runs vertically in both directions from the point 31 is determined (shown as the arrows in
To verify whether said path 32 a, 32 b is actually the finder edge 11, the color at each of the points (square modules) along the path 32 a, 32 b is checked against the threshold whether it is black (or dark). If every point along the path 32 a, 32 b turns out to have the dark color, the path 32 a, 32 b can be verified as the edge 11.
It is possible, however, that the contrast is not consistent in the gray image. Therefore, the threshold is preferably reevaluated at least every several pixel movements while tracing along the path 32 a, 32 b. For example, the threshold calculated at point 31 (i.e., along the line 30) can be used to determine the color of the next five points along the path 32 a, then the threshold is recalculated at the last one of these five points. This recalculated threshold will be applied to the next five points to determine their colors.
To maximize the accuracy in determining the color or light level of the points on the path 32 a, 32 b, the threshold may be recalculated at every point (i.e., every pixel or every few pixels movement along the path). That is, only a local threshold should be used for ascertaining where the line in the finder pattern is located along a specified scan line.
As shown in
If the L-shaped edges 11, 12 are determined, the L-shaped finder of the Data Matrix barcode 10 in the gray image on the screen 21 is successfully found. Then a defined DataMatrix area is binarized and decoding process of the barcode 10 can be tried with the found L-shaped finder by means of well-known algorithms in the art. Preferably, since the location of the finder pattern means that the symbol location, size and shape may be known, the system can, after location of the finder pattern, simply lift the symbol from the gray background and binarize and decode the symbol independently.
At step 130, the path which may be the finder edge is verified. More specifically, a threshold is calculated and the level on the path is checked by comparing the threshold and the gray image data. Preferably, the threshold is recalculated every several pixel movements along the path.
At step 140, if no valid edge L-shaped finder pattern is found by verifying step 130, the step 120 will be repeated at another point on the line where a light level change occurs until the L-shaped finder pattern is found.
After the L-shaped finder pattern is found, the binarization of the code is performed and decoding of the Data Matrix barcode is tried at step 150. If the decoding is successful, the result is transmitted at step 170, otherwise it may indicate that the found L-shaped finder pattern was actually wrong and the process will return to step 120 again to start searching for the L-shaped finder from a next potential point on the line.
Even though the above has explained in detail on how to find a finder in a Data Matrix barcode from a gray image displayed on a LCD screen of a mobile phone, it shall be understood that the present invention is not limited to the above exemplary embodiment. In particular, the present invention is not limited to decoding a Data Matrix barcode, but can be applied in any symbols that have known finder patterns, such as QR code, PDF417 code, MaxiCode, Aztec Code, RSS code, Postal Code, OCRs, etc. The path 11 may not be a straight line as in
Moreover, the method of the present invention can be applied in any symbol background, but not necessarily limited to LCD displays with low contracts. An advantage with the present invention is that characterization of the whole image can be omitted until the preprocessing step of finding and identifying the symbol to be decoded is accomplished. Thus, significant processing power may be saved.
Therefore, it shall be understood that numerous variations, adaptations and modifications are available to a person with ordinary skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the invention. The scope of the invention is solely intended to be defined in the accompany claims.
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|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Nov 8, 2004
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Carrie Rentschler is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and an Associate of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Second Wounds: Victims' Rights and the Media in the U.S. (Duke UP, 2011), and co-editor of Girlhood Studies and the Politics of Place (Berghahn Press, 2016). Her current research examines the history of the bystander as an agent of social change, feminist social media responses to sexual violence, campus activism against rape culture, and the role media infrastructures play in social movement activism. She is a member of FemTechNet and FemBot, two feminist collectives whose members collaboratively teach, research and develop new models of open-access teaching and scholarly publication, respectively.
Maureen Engel
Maureen Engel is Assistant Professor and Director of Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, and Director of the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts. Formally trained as a textual scholar, her background is in cultural studies, queer theory, and feminist theory. Her principal research area is the spatial humanities, and the intricate relationships that inhere in and develop from the concepts of space, place, history, and narrative. In addition to her work on EFECT, she is currently developing the SSHRC-funded locative media app Go Queer, and is a co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Between the City and the River digital historical atlas project. She is an active member of HASTAC and FemTechNet.
T.L. Cowan
T.L. Cowan is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures) in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto. Before moving to the University of Toronto, T.L. was a Presidential Visiting Professor in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and Chair of Experimental Pedagogies in the School of Media Studies at The New School. T.L.'s research focuses on cultural and intellectual economies and networks of minoritized digital media and performance practices. This work includes a first monograph on intermedial performance, poetry and digital culture, entitled Poetry's Bastards and a second, on the translocal methods of trans- feminist and queer cabaret in Montreal, Mexico City and New York City, entitled Sliding Scale, both nearing completion.
T.L. is also the Primary Investigator on a collaborative digital research-creation project called the Cabaret Commons: an online archive and anecdotal encyclopedia for trans-feminist and queer artists, audiences and researchers, and is writing a co-authored book entitled Checking In: Feminist Labor in Networked Publics & Privates with Jasmine Rault. Recent publications include articles and chapters in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (2016); Queer Dramaturges: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Palgrave 2015); Transgender Studies Quarterly (2014); ephemera: theory and politics in organization (2014); and Ada: Gender, New Media, and Technology (2014). T.L.'s work on trans- feminist and queer digital pedagogies is forthcoming in "Women Digitizing Revolution: Race, Gender and The Technological Turn" (2017 special issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies edited by Anna Everett and Lisa Nakamura) and the collection MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education (U of Chicago P, 2017 edited by Elizabeth Losh).
T.L.'s scholarly practice moves between page, stage, and screen; recent notable commissions for her creative-critical work include the PlugIn Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg and Queens Museum in New York City.
Maria Belén Ordóñez
Maria Belén Ordóñez is Assistant Professor (Limited Appointment) of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies at OCAD University in Toronto. She is a collaborator in developing and teaching curriculum for FemTechNet (femtechnet.org), an internationally distributed network of feminist artists, scholars, and activists, teaching and doing research in feminist science, media, art, and technology. Through unofficial channels of public pleasure, desire, affect and corporeal politics, M. Belén Ordóñez' research broadly explores alternative sexual citizenships, the destabilization of heteronormativity and the formation of publics. Her ethnographic research has been based in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver where she has engaged with the affective impacts of events in disparate locations such as media headlines, queer identified spaces of pleasure and activism and contested zones of censorship and regulation. Her research has included the investigation and tracking of affect in Canadian legislative challenges dealing with sex, sexuality, censorship, and morality. She uses feminist/queer methodologies and multi-sited ethnography to think and write about the emergence and undoing of public events. Recent publications include, Doing/Writing Queer Research at the Margins. In eds. Richard J. Gilmour and Robin Ganev. We Were Here: Queers Write about their Mentors. Biblioasis 2016 and Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Khan eds. Pavan Kuman Malreddy and Birte Heidemann In Reworking Post Colonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Palgrave, 2015. M. Belén Ordóñez teaches feminist theory, multi-sited and experimental ethnography, popular culture, and body politics.
Kascindra Ida Sadie Shewan
Kascindra Ida Sadie Shewan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She holds a MA in Women's Studies from Western University, and an Honours BA from Western University in Women's Studies and Comparative Literature. Her research interests include feminist theory, art as a means of testimony to trauma, sexualized violence, and theories of citizenship. Her dissertation, titled Traversing the Limits of Discourse of Citizenship in Sexualized Violence Prevention Strategies, investigates how neoliberal discourses of ideal Canadian citizenship work to limit the efficacy of consent-based and 'fighting' approaches to sexualized violence prevention.
Prateeksha Singh
Prateeksha is a multi-disciplinary designer, who is passionate about using art as a medium for public engagement. She draws inspiration from her varied background- personally, she is a black & white photographer, has lived in eight countries and speaks four languages, and professionally has corporate (Certified Public Accountant, U.S), start-up/non-profit/social enterprise, academic and entrepreneurial experiences to draw from. She currently has a design consultancy, mpathy, and attends OCAD University, pursuing a MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation.


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YumSugar member tsharp25 is really loving burrata cheese right now, and shares one of her favorite ways to enjoy it in our Kitchen Goddess cooking group.
When I ran across a photo of a burrata and honey bruschetta, I just had to have it! At the time, I had never heard of burrata cheese, which is similar to a soft mozzarella with a super creamy center. Now, I see it on menus everywhere — from pizzas to appetizers. It has a mild flavor that pairs perfectly with the sweet honey and citrus-infused olive oil. And don't forget the bread! I used a chewy and crunchy baguette from Trader Joe's, and it made a world of difference. If you want the cheese melted, either top the slices with it while still on the grill, or put the finished crostinis in a warm oven. Be sure to make enough, because it's addicting!
Her seasonal snack idea, after the jump.
Adapted From Geode Wines Serves 6.
Grilled Bruschetta With Burrata, Honey, and Citrus Oil
Adapted From Geode Wines
Serves 6.
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No matter how many times the cups are moved, this cat always knows which cup the ball is in.
Over the years, we've seen cats ringing bells for food, playing tag on the street, and even talking with their human before nap-time. Now we've discovered another clever cat in Japan, and this one is amazing everyone with his uncanny ability to play a ball-in-the-cup game, knowing exactly which cup is hiding the ball every time.
The master of the game is a cute cat called Snow, a one-and-a-half-year-old American Curl who is blessed with a unique pattern on his chest that resembles the character Totoro from the Studio Ghibli anime film Spirited Away.
It's been long since this boy showed his tattoo last time🐰. . とにゃりのトトロ🎵トトロ🎼 . #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catofinstagram #catstagram #picneko #topcatphoto #neko_magazine #cutepetclub #catmyboss #catloversclub #anan動物 #americancurl #ペコねこ部 #ふわもこ部 #みんねこ #フェリシモ猫部 #ねこ #ねこ部 #ねこまみれ #ニャンコ #アメリカンカール #スノーくん . #映画ねこあつめの家 【うちの猫: アメリカンカールのスノーくん】
While Snow looks like any other ordinary cat, his hidden abilities come to the fore when his owner brings out a ping pong ball and a set of paper cups. After hiding the ball in one cup, Snow's owner shuffles the cups around and then takes her hands away. See how Snow reacts to the game in the video below!
Originally known as the "Shell Game", this cup-and-ball trick is often played around the world by humans, who sometimes wager money on the cups when playing. With Snow's incredible 100-percent success rate with the game, he'd be one rich cat if he ever decided to play the game for money!
While some commenters have suggested Snow's impressive skills might be due to the heightened ability of felines to hear or see the ball inside the paper cup, the fact that Snow plays the game quite happily over and over again is warming people's hearts everywhere, with the cute cat receiving adoring comments from viewers all around the world.
It's Friday, so we will play #cupandballtrick with Snow! We think this trick is not a big deal for cats, but the most precious thing for us is Snow always knows the essence of this game and likes to interact with us🤗! . 当たるのは猫にとって難しいことではないかも。大事なのは、私達とのコミュニケーションが好きで、スノーがゲームの目的を理解できたことです🤗。 . #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catofinstagram #cats_of_world #catstagram #picneko #catmyboss #catloversclub #pleasantcats #americancurl #ペコねこ部 #ふわもこ部 #ニャンコ #ねこ #ねこ部 #アメリカンカール #スノーくん #猫動画 #pet
To see more of Snow's amazing abilities, check out this cute compilation video on YouTube:
As Snow's owner says, the thing that's so precious about the game is the fact that her cat understands it and likes to play and interact with her. We might not be able to speak the language of cats just yet, but until we can, interactive games like these might just be the next best thing!
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- Directory: DLL
- Company: RealNetworks, Inc.
- Product: Cooker G2 Audio Codec for RealAudio(tm) (32-bit)
- Version: 22.214.171.1249
- Path: Program Files\ACE Mega CoDecS Pack\RealMedia\cook3260.dll
Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 7.0\Support Files\Plug-ins\Standard\Format\MediaIO\Helix\bin\codecs\cook3260.dll
Program Files\K-Lite Codec Pack\Real\Codecs\cook3260.dll
Program Files\Kmplayer Plus\cook3260.dll
- Size: 64KB
- Platform: XP/Vista/Win7/win8/windows10
- Count: 358
- time: 2009/May/Thu
- Description: RealNetworks Cooker G2 Audio Codec
Cooker G2 Audio Codec for RealAudio(tm)
Step1: Download the cook3260.dll error Repair Tool.
Step2: Click "Save File" and follow the on-screen instructions to install the program.
Step3: Click "Click to Start Scan" to scan over your computer.
Step4: Click the "Fix DLL Errors" button to fix file error and speed up computer.
Step5: Click "File Repair" button to enter the file name in the text box, then click on the download button, copy the downloaded file to the program directory.
If that doesn't work, you will have to extract cook3260.dll to your system directory. By default, this is:
C:\Windows\System32 (Windows XP, Vista, 7,8 and 10)
If you use a 64-bit version of Windows, you should also place cook3260.dll in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Make sure overwrite any existing files_old (but make a backup copy of the original file).
Reboot your computer.
If the problem still occurs, try the following:
Open Windows Start menu and select "Run...".
Type CMD and press Enter.
Type regsvr32 cook3260.dll and press Enter.
Once the program have been uninstall from Add or Remove Programs, you should also follow the steps to totally remove its associate files_old from the computer.
Step One: Double click to run My Computer, click Tools menu, go to Folder Options, and then open the View tab.
Step Two: Make sure to select the Show hidden files_old and folders options.
Step Three: Make sure not to select the options for the Hide file extensions for known file types and Hide Protected Operating System files_old (Recommended)options.
Step Four: Click OK to confirm the modification.
Step Five: Go to My Computer, utilize Search utility to search for the associated files_old of the program, and then remove them.
Step Six: Go back to the Windows Desktop, and then type regedit.exe on to the Run box to run Registry Editor.
Step Seven: Find out the associated registry components of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software.
For Windows 7 user:
Step One: Click Start, go to Control Panel, and then click Programs, select Programs and Features.
Step Two: Select the associated program and then click
Uninstall. Follow the uninstall wizard to remove the program.
Step Three: Go back to the Windows Desktop, click Start, and then go to Control Panel.
Step Four: Click Appearance and Personalization, go to Folder Options. Go to View.
Step Five: From Advanced options, locate and select Hidden files_old and folders.
Step Six: Select Show hidden files, folders, and drives radio button under the Hidden files_old and folders list.
Step Seven: Click OK to confirm the modification.
Step Eight: Go to My Computer, utilize Search utility to search for the associated files_old of the program, and then remove them.
Step Nine: Go back to the Windows Desktop, and then type regedit.exe on to the Run box to run Registry Editor.
Step Ten: Find out the associated registry components of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software.


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Holly Springs, NC (PressExposure) April 08, 2009 -- Watching your once active parents or other relative decline into someone who needs constant care is heartbreaking and overwhelming. But with 36 million seniors living in the U.S. and the population projected to double, caring for an elderly loved one is a reality most people will face. Thatâs why Senior Helpers, a leading provider of in home senior care, advises learning the signs your senior relative needs assistance.
âItâs much better to arrange for help for an elderly family member while they can still be part of the process rather than during a crisis because it gives everyone time to make thoughtful decisions,â says Peter Ross, CEO and Co-Founder of Senior Helpers, the nationâs fastest growing franchisor of in-home senior care. âSeniors often believe getting help means being moved out of their house and thatâs where the resistance comes in. But many times in home care is a better option.â
Senior Helpersâ elderly care experts remind people to respect a senior family memberâs pride and dignity when discussing the need for assistance. Approach the topic with respect and understanding and express concern for the family membersâ safety. The warning signs could be indications of many issues. If there is a concern itâs important to contact a doctor.
10 WARNING SIGNS A SENIOR RELATIVE NEEDS ASSISTANCE. ⢠The house is cold, the telephone is cut off. ⢠Losing track in a conversation, forgetting the names of children, grandchildren, the day of the week, etc. ⢠The death of a spouse. ⢠The refrigerator and cupboards are half empty even though you know the relative can still get out. ⢠Personal hygiene is poor. ⢠Constantly making excuses when asked to go somewhere or do something, or wanting to be alone. ⢠Sudden weight loss. ⢠Never cleaning or delaying home repairs. ⢠Failure to take prescribed medications. ⢠Behavior changes.
âThe best way to keep track of a senior family members situation is to keep in touch with them and this is one time where being nosy is justified,â says Ross. âVisit or call often and use one of the warning signs as a way to approach the topic if needed.â
For more information about Senior Helpers, please visit: http://www.seniorhelpers.com/


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WWII Rescuer of JFK Shares Story
Tags : JFK, John F. Kennedy, PT-109, PT-118, Ted Robinson
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LISTEN to Ted Robinson on Hometown Heroes
Ted Robinson of Sacramento, CA appears on episode #140 of Hometown Heroes, debuting November 20, 2010. At age 91, Robinson still plays competitive tennis, and he's not shy about telling you about it. An experienced public speaker with a lingering accent true to his Flushing, NY roots, Robinson will captivate you with the details of his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. His interactions with President John F. Kennedy, and his involvement in the then future president's rescue in 1943, are spelled out in Robinson's book, Water in My Veins: The Pauper Who Helped Save a President.
Robinson vividly describes, in sharp detail, the dangerous work carried out by PT Boats early in the Pacific War. Not only did Robinson, while serving on PT-118, witness the ramming of Kennedy's PT-109 in August of 1943, he would eventually be dispatched to rescue JFK after receiving the famous coconut on which the future president carved out his S.O.S. message. The connection between the two Naval officers grew deeper after Robinson was injured in an attack that claimed his boat. He and Kennedy shared a tent for more than a month as they recuperated from their wounds. Earlier this year, Robinson made a Kennedy-related donation to the Smithsonian Institution that garnered media attention.
Our 1-hour show isn't nearly enough to capture all of Ted's experiences in the war, not to mention his adventures in the seven decades since. His book includes the story of how he met his wife, how he came to befriend football legend and Supreme Court justice Byron "Whizzer" White, and of course, more detail about his friendship with President Kennedy.
Enjoy the show, and if you catch Ted on the tennis court or at a speaking engagement, thank him for serving our country.
—Paul Loeffler


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Delhi, India (PressExposure) July 29, 2011 -- Strontium Technology announces the launch of its USB Flash Drive Design Contest on its Facebook Fanpage to celebrate this Diwali with their valuable customers. The contest will offer customers a unique opportunity to design their very own USB Flash Drive on the Diwali theme and win attractive prizes.
Commencing from 26th July 2011, Strontium Technology invites all residents in India to visit http://www.facebook.com/StrontiumIndia and take part in this exciting contest. Strontium Technology wishes to provide their India customers a chance to showcase and enhance their creative abilities by designing a Diwali USB Flash Drive for Strontium. Besides attractive cash prizes, the winners of the contest can look forward to gift their dear ones exclusively Designed USB Flash Drives designed by them on this special occasion of Diwali.
Contest Details
In order to participate in the contest, customers have to visit Strontium India's Facebook and access the application from there. Participants are required to design their entries on the dedicated USB Flash Drives templates, either by downloading and using any design software and tools or the Strontium Design application provided. Designs will be uploaded and participants can share it with their friends in order to garner maximum votes. There will be 2 judging rounds in this contest. On 16th Sept 2011, Featured Diwali Design Prize will be awarded to winning design chosen by Strontium based on 50% creativity and 50% votes and featured as Strontium Diwali USB Flash Drive and distributed nationwide. The contest will continue and designs and votes will still be taken in till 24th Oct 2011 midnight. 2 Most Popular Design Prize, 5 Most Creative Design Prize and 2 Most Special Prize awards will be awarded to the selected designs on 25th Oct 2011. Voters who have voted for the participated designs will also have a chance to win Strontium's weekly lucky voter prize.
Attractive prizes to be won:
1) Featured Diwali Design Prize: Rs.9999 + 5no's 8GB Featured Diwali Design USB Flash Drive
2) 2 Most Popular Design Prize: Rs.2999 + 5no's 8GB Featured Diwali Design USB Flash Drive
3) 5 Most Creative Design Prize: Rs. 999 + 5no's 4GB Featured Diwali Design USB Flash Drive
4) 2 Most Special Design Prizes: (To Be Announced Later)
5) Weekly Lucky Voter Prize: Strontium Gift Pack worth Rs.999
Speaking on the announcement of the contest, Mr. Ajay Kogta, Country Manager, India Sub-continent, Strontium Technology, said, "Strontium is one of the leading memory and flash products suppliers in India. We want to actively engage our customers in exciting and new ways to maintain brand awareness and brand loyalty. In view of Diwali, one of the most celebrated festivals in India, Strontium wants to give its customers more reasons to celebrate on this special occasion with their loved ones. We would like to give every user a lot more with our products and to make the Facebook contest more exciting; Strontium is giving away exciting, useful and few special prizes which will definitely bring smile and happiness to the lucky winners".
To participate in this contest, please go to http://www.facebook.com/StrontiumIndia
About Strontium Technology
Strontium is Singapore's No.1 PC memory maker with revenue exceeding US$210 million in 2010. It specializes in memory products and solutions with a wide range of FLASH and DRAM products. Its operations and businesses are spread in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, India, US and Latin American markets.


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Yiddish Radio Project, Sonic Memorial Project Wins Peabody Awards
Radio Productions Were Featured on NPR's All Things Considered in 2002
WASHINGTON - Two special series featured on NPR's All Things Considered in 2002 received 62nd annual George Foster Peabody Awards, one of broadcasting's most prestigious honors. The Sonic Memorial Project, a national collaboration spearheaded by NPR's Lost & Found Sound and The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), and The Yiddish Radio Project, which was produced by MacArthur Fellow David Isay, musician/historian Henry Sapoznik and Sound Portrait Productions, each received awards for excellence. Barbara Walters will present the awards on May 19 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
The Sonic Memorial Project, presented on NPR's All Things Considered from February to September 2002 and on the Web at SonicMemorial.org, is a collection of radio stories, phone messages and sound that chronicles the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood. Listeners can hear the stories of New York's Radio Row, the Mohawk ironworkers who helped build the Towers; the "Building Stewardesses," construction guides who handled PR for the Trade Center when it was a new development; and more at the SonicMemorial.org Web site or at npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/sonicmemorial. SonicMemorial.org also received Peabody recognition as an "outstanding companion Web site."
The Yiddish Radio Project was presented on NPR's All Things Considered in 10 installments from March 19 to May 21, 2002, offering an unprecedented window into Jewish immigrant culture in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. The series explores the Yiddish and English language dramas, music, news programs, advice and game shows, man-on-the-street interviews and even commercials that were stalwarts of Yiddish radio. Web visitors can experience the Yiddish Radio Project at yiddishradio.org or at npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/Yiddish.
"We knew-and listeners told us-that these radio programs were winners from the start," said Jay Kernis, NPR's senior vice president for programming. "The Yiddish Radio and Sonic Memorial projects are extraordinary segments that demonstrate the art of what radio can be, and what only public radio can do-satisfy the mind and the heart. When these stories were on the air, you couldn't turn your radio off. They're both outstanding examples of the essential contributions independent radio producers make to NPR."
NPR, renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting news, information and cultural programming, serves a growing audience of nearly 20 million Americans each week via more than 680 public radio stations. NPR Online at www.npr.org brings hourly newscasts, news features, commentaries and live events to Internet users through original online reports, audio streaming and other multimedia elements. NPR also distributes programming to listeners in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa via NPR Worldwide, to military installations overseas via American Forces Network and throughout Japan via cable.


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Reading the menu vs. eating it
Transitory Gaslamp means you have to straddle tastes
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continued By law, clients must be 18 or older. For many of them, the Arc is the next step after special-education programs in the public schools. The association provides a prevocational process and graduates clients to the workshop. The final transition is working outside in the community. Schneider adds, "We have a separate division [on Market Street] that places people in the community."
Schneider discusses the changing definition of the term "mental retardation." "Parents would like to have their children diagnosed specifically -- a syndrome of some kind, and there's 750 different ideologies for mental retardation. Some are specific like Down's syndrome...Prader-Willi syndrome, Williams syndrome, Tourette syndrome -- there's literally hundreds. The most important thing is to put the person first. We don't say 'him' or 'they'; we talk directly about the person -- an individual with mental retardation."
The American Association on Mental Retardation defines "mental retardation" as "substantial limitations in present functioning, characterized by significantly subaverage intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with related limitations in two or more of the following areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, and work." There are four levels of functional limitiations: intermittent, limited, extensive, and pervasive. Schneider adds, "Mild, moderate, severe, and profound were terms used until 1992 by this organization -- they're still used in general. That's when they released this new definition, and it took them six or seven years to develop it. The new definition is more focused on the functional deficits of the person as opposed to some IQ measurement. It used to be measured strictly by IQ.
"Now in the schools, mild and moderate retardation is fading away. Those people may not be eligible for services. The learning disabled are another group that's come into the picture. They usually have IQs that are higher than people classified with mental retardation. To qualify for services, you have to be classified as mentally retarded and that means an IQ below 75. That's still the definition and what the government uses."
The term client -- those who are trained and work at the Arc -- is also modifying to "consumer." But Schneider prefers his own terms. "That change is the result of rewriting some of the federal regulations. That was when the 'client' was an individual who required someone else to do something for them. A 'consumer' is actually an individual with the capacity to make decisions. The consumer is consuming the service, so the federal government said, 'Okay, we're going to empower people, so part of that is making them the consumer.' In reality, I like to call the individuals in the work training program 'trainees' -- because that's what they are. And individuals who are in programs where they're not acquiring the skill at the level where they would be considered a trainee are participating -- they're 'participants.'"
Schneider is constantly interrupted by his trainees. A young man named Andy keeps saying, "Hi, Dave!" and Schneider patiently greets him and asks what he's doing in his class. Throughout the morning, several people will talk to Schneider, who knows them all by name and situation. He asks each person specific questions about their progress.
In discussing his path to Arc, Schneider reflects on his past employment. "One of my jobs was to form an insurance company; in doing that, I had to get involved in rehabilitation, because in 1974 the State of California was bringing on board the concept of vocational rehabilitation for helping people who had been injured. I believe the most important thing a person has is their ability to work. Vocational rehabilitation interested me, so in 1984 I retired from the insurance industry and started working with a firm that had vocational rehabilitation clients. Eventually, I became president of that company and then I went to school and got a degree in rehabilitation counseling and as part of that process saw people at work in the Arc of Fresno. I said, 'This is phenomenal!'
"Studies show that people with vocational rehabilitation -- individuals who are injured at work -- can't complete their healing process until they get a settlement.... Medically, they're healed; they're ready to go back to work, but psychologically, they can't survive in the workplace until they get that award. It's chronic pain syndrome, it's secondary gains -- it's a variety of things, but it's real. Then you go to a place like Arc, where people are severely disabled, and they just want a chance. They're just happy to have a chance to be part of the community. Talk about rewarding! Come out here on payday when everyone walks by and shows you their paycheck."
After working at the Arc of Stanislaus, Schneider eventually became executive director. His current position in San Diego opened up four years ago.
"Each person in here has a written plan that identifies the goals they want to move toward. Our job is to help them find the path to help build on that."
But desire to change isn't all that's required. "The biggest barrier we have is transportation. We can train people to work in the community, and there's a job available but no transportation. Public transportation in San Diego is very poor. I talked to a guy yesterday who was an hour late because he missed the trolley. Would you spend one and a half hours on the bus to get to a training facility or to work?"


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Northwesterners more accustomed to rain and cooler climate sought refuge from a heat wave Wednesday, as Seattle recorded the hottest temperature in its history and Portland fell just 1 degree short of its own record-breaker.
The National Weather Service in Seattle recorded 103 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, breaking a previous record of 100 degrees, set in downtown Seattle in 1941 and repeated at the airport in 1994.
Jay Albrecht, a Seattle meteorologist with the service, said it's the hottest it has been in Seattle since records dating to 1891.
In Oregon, heat records were set in cities across the western half of the state, with Portland topping out at 106 degrees, breaking the old record of 100 for the day but falling 1 degree shy of its all-time record of 107. Portland most recently hit the 107 mark in 1981.
Oregon weather data goes back to the 1850s, although meteorologist Charles Dalton said the 107-degree mark, recorded at the Portland airport, reflects records kept at that site since 1941.
Meteorologist Doug McDonnal in Seattle said the stretch of hot weather has lasted longer than usual. Wednesday was the fifth consecutive day above 85 degrees for Seattle, he said.
Throughout the region, shade, icy treats, ice-cold water, air conditioning units and fans were in high demand.
Geno Garcia, 40, a Boeing machinist, headed straight for Sears in Seattle early Wednesday when the family's air-conditioning unit broke down.
"We could have lived without it, but it would have been uncomfortable," he said, as he stood in line with about 100 others who bought air conditioners.
Garcia said his family plans to keep cool by hunkering down in the one bedroom that's air-conditioned. They've already moved their TV, games and other necessities into that room, and have been eating meals there.
Darren Wilson, 38, a concrete finisher from Puyallup, Wash., started his Seattle street paving job at 5:30 a.m., three hours earlier than usual, to beat the heat.
"I'm drinking lots of water," he said. "When I get off work, I'm going to my buddy's house and jump in his pool."
Portlanders were trying to stay cool every which way. Public fountains were clogged with children. Libraries swelled with people trying to stay out of the sun. And cooling centers for seniors were open late.
Shirley Markstaller, 71, parked herself in front of a fan and read the morning paper at a cooling center in downtown Portland.
She doesn't have an air conditioner at home, so she's been coming to the center every day for the past week or so. "I just thought, 'Where's the coolest place?'" she said.
The weather throughout Oregon's Willamette Valley was roasting.
The temperature climbed to 106 at the Oregon capital in Salem, and Eugene hit 105, beating a record 101 for the calendar day in both cities. In southern Oregon, Medford inched past its record of 108 to reach 109 on Wednesday. Dalton said that too was a record for the day. The previous records for all those cities were from 2003.
An excessive heat warning was in effect for much of western Washington through Friday, but meteorologists in both states said forecasts called for gradual cooling.
In Olympia, a group of visitors were hoping to cool off at the popular Heritage Park Fountain, but were disappointed to find that the water had been turned off for regular weekly maintenance.
"We were expecting it to be working," said Lucina Hernandez, 24, of Barcelona, Venezuela. "This is very bad."
At the Tails-A-Wagging doggie day care in Bellingham, Wash., owner Angi Lenz and her staff kept dogs comfortable with special cooling fans, air conditioning, ice toys and water slides. "We have a waiting list to get in this week because of the heat," Lenz said.
Bellingham hit 96, an all-time record, breaking the old mark of 94, set in 1960. Records there date back to the 1930s.
Not everyone was avoiding the outdoors. Enes Parker, manager of the Lacey Senior Center, said she found indoor air conditioning too cold. Lacey is in Washington, near Olympia.
"I'm one of the few who like the heat," Parker said. "I go outside every so often to warm up. I love the heat. It's always too cold here."
Associated Press Writer Rachel La Corte contributed to this report from Olympia, Wash. Ryan Kost contributed from Portland, Ore.


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I bought a cheap pasta maker($22) I wanted one that attaches to my Kitchen Aid mixer, but at well over $100 I figured starting out small was the best way to go.
The pasta maker was very simple to use, not too time consuming and the pasta tasted pretty good. I used just regular unbleached flour for my first try and made the noodles on the thickest setting. This is very much a learning process, but I will be trying Whole Wheat flour next time and making the noodles much thinner. Our son had some issues with the texture of the noodles, otherwise he is fine with pasta as it is one of his favorite things to eat.


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Ottawa Falls 4-1 to Canucks - Recap
Ryan Kesler scored twice to lead the Canucks over Ottawa 4-1 on Saturday at Scotiabank Place.
The Canucks were a -170 favorite in the win. The combined score dipped UNDER the total, which closed at 5.5.
Vancouver got goals from Ryan Kesler (2), Alexander Edler, and Dale Weise in the victory. Edler opened the scoring at 1:10 of the first period.
Roberto Luongo turned in a 24-save effort for the Canucks.
Colin Greening scored for the Senators, finding the net behind Roberto Luongo.
Craig Anderson stopped 24 of 28 shots for the Senators, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.
Vancouver scored 2 times on 5 chances on the power play, while Ottawa went 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
Ottawa lost the shots on goal battle to Vancouver by a margin of 28-25.
Next game, Vancouver takes its act on the road to face Columbus looking for another win. For Ottawa, they head on the road to face Buffalo.


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As a life-long fan of Gloria Jean's (did you miss my post on how I became a fan?), I can tell you that their coffee is outstanding. When it's time for seasonal blends I get really excited and my favorite lately is the Pumpkin Spice blend. The pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg flavors mix to make a real holiday treat!
If you can, get the whole bean and grind it yourself at home…so fresh! If not, you can still get it your way: auto drip, k-cup, espresso, even decaf. Some of the other seasonal / holiday flavors include Caramel Apple Nut, Caramel Pecan Roll, Holiday Cheer, and more. My local Gloria Jean's has a huge selection of holiday gift sets in store but you can also buy online!
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Efficient Preprocessing and Patterns Identification Approach for Text Mining
Due to the rapid expansion of digital data, knowledge discovery and data mining have attracted significant amount of attention for turning such data into helpful information and knowledge. Text categorization is continuing to become the most researched NLP problems on account of the ever-increasing levels of electronic documents and digital libraries. The authors present a novel text categorization method that puts together the decision on multiple attributes. Since the most of existing text mining methods adopted term-based approaches, all of these are affected by the difficulties of polysemy and synonymy.
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text: This is in response to numerous topics about many Companies who refuse to accomadate customers wishes.Such as customers who rescheudling, a call before you come, picking up kids toys, dog poop, waiting 24 hours to mow becuase of chemical applications. We complain about others not accomadating OUR schedules becuase "we have 30 other accounts that relly on us" when a old lady wants a reschedule or Chemlawn wants us to wait 24 hours. Is that what serperates us from scrubs? At least that what we swear to left and right. We are profesionals and offer service NOT JUST A MOW. Someone might as well go with a scrub because they are not getting that GOOD PERSONAL SERVICE alot claim to offer. Charging before you arrive, is not what they pay extra for? They pay extra to get your personal touch like calling ahead of time. I heard many response that people would drop an account if they had to call ahead of time. It just does not seem so unreasonable. But im not as big as some of you all. But i am willing togive the time and Personal service of a professional.


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The Federal Government of Nigeria has extended the expiry period of driver's licence to five years from the original three year period. The decision was taken by the Joint Tax Board at its 134th meeting held recent in Kano.
The corps marshal said rather than drivers' licence expiring in three years, drivers now have the option of settling for either three or five years licence.
This, however, comes with different price tags. Drivers who want the three years licence are to pay N6,000, while those who opt for the five years licence would pay N10,000.
encomium.ng on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, carried out a survey on peoples reaction on the extension of drivers' licence validity date from 3 years to 5 years.
I am happy about the new development. It will give me enough time but other countries driving licence is 10 years but Nigeria will want drivers to come back after every 3 years or five years so they can have their own share. God help this country.
I am not happy about it. Nigerian leaders can never do anything to benefits the masses, why will they have to put different price tag with different years. If they want 5 years, they should just make it a standby law and they should stop deceiving us.
It is not a good idea. Other countries driving licence is 10 years but Nigeria will want drivers to come and spend their money so that they can have their own share. This is indirect stealing.
This people are thieves, all they do is find a way to extort money from us. Same thing they did with the international passport which is 5 years instead of 10 years like other countries.
I don't see it as a good idea, the fact that they introduce 5 years validity for driving licence is a perfect motive but having two options to go for is absurd. The three years validity should be stopped, and they should let all driving licence validity remains 5 years.
Having two options is like suggesting ways for fraud. People will fall victim for fake licence.
The idea is welcome, I think it will reduce the rate at which driving licence will be renewed. 5 years is a perfect period of time after which you can renew your licence. But I just hope the 5 years will work as they say.
It is a very good development only if their officers will comply with the prices listed here. The last time I renewed my driving licence, it was done for N13,000 for three years. I just hope they won't make this five years own N25,000 by the time new applicants start to request for it.
– GLORY OSIGWE and OLUWAFEMI SOEWU for encomium.ng


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I am a newbie here and with CJ. I have ever added a site into my cj account and then deleted it. Now I am trying to add another website but nothing happened in my web site setting page. Anyone encountered that weird problem?
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I remember being confused by this (or something very similar).
After you add the site, check the 'Select Web site' drop-down list on the 'Web Site Settings' page. The site was being added to the bottom of this list!
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I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at New York Partners (New York, NY) in July 2010.
After applying for the position advertised on Craigslist, I was emailed and invited to attend a one-on-one interview, which was a basic question and answer about me professionally - my strengths, where I had been and what I was looking for next.
I was called back for a second interview to attend an 'observation day' which turned out to be going out to the 'field' to observe one of the 'Training Coordinators' in action... essentially this was a very well disguised sales role, a 'cold', office-to-office sales job, pitching one of a few different campaigns... office supplies, phone contracts, credit cards, etc.... all under the guise of a 'management training program'.
And the real catch is they take you all the way out to Queens, or the Bronx or wherever it might be for the day before they unveil the full nature of the job, which I found to be quite deceitful. Particularly since it was such a contradiction to the job description that was advertised.
As a sales role, working for the company would have been fine. And from a client's perspective, NY Partners would be a perfectly feasible part of the marketing mix as a way of building face-to-face relations with prospective customers. However, I found the method of hiring and interviewing utterly deceptive, and was really displeased with how time-wasting the process was.
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The transit authority planners and managers who work on Metrobus can be very pushy. Seems like they always want to know what riders are thinking about the service.
A set of public hearings this week is just the latest and most formal example of how the managers and planners invite customers to communicate. For the past few years, Metrobus officials have routinely engaged riders and communities in plans to redesign service on individual lines where the buses are too crowded or get thrown off their schedules because of traffic congestion.
Change for the better doesn't come fast enough in any part of the transit system. But when it comes to involving customers in service plans, why can't Metrorail be more like Metrobus?
Your first thought is probably that the Metrobus part of our transit service is a lot more amenable to customer engagement. The buses run on rubber. As long as there are roads, they can be shifted around to accommodate changing needs.
Before shifting a route, changing the schedule or adding and subtracting buses, it makes a lot of sense for the managers and planners to get out and talk to the people who are riding those routes.
Many rail service issues were settled when the tracks were laid. Making significant changes can be a ponderous process, involving decades of planning and budgets in the billions.
Still, the willingness to engage with the public that's evident in Metrobus outreach could work for Metrorail as well.
Metrorail's current version of outreach tends to be tied to the budget cycle. If fares are going up or service cuts are under consideration, Metro holds the required hearings in the spring. People sign up to speak. They say they oppose fare hikes and service cuts.
It's more like a show trial than an environment in which interested parties ask questions of each other and try to work out plans.
The upcoming bus hearings are different. They are not part of the budget process. Instead, Metro puts out a list of proposed changes on bus lines and says, in effect, "Here's what we're thinking. Tell us what you think."
Riders will tell Metro what they use the buses for and how the service changes would affect their trips.
Smaller Metrobus forums have been held to engage riders of the 16th Street Line or the 30s Line, among many others, in conversations that resulted in more sophisticated service patterns, often shortening some trips while adding a limited-stop option on longer trips.
For Metrorail, the topics would be different. There might be opportunities for discussion about the condition of a platform, the possibility of adding a stairway, the placement of information signs in a station, better ways of communicating with riders or solving some of the problems created by the weekend rebuilding program.
But in this case, the style of communication may be as important as the substance. Today's Metrorail is just too big for many of its customers to approach. And the transit authority rarely invites face-to-face contact aimed at identifying and solving problems.
A customer-service phone line, comment cards, a Twitter feed and information posters attached to broken escalators all have their place in a communications system. But that's a long-distance relationship.
People need a chance to talk and ask questions about each line, even each station.
Talk doesn't solve everything. The D.C. region takes transit very personally, and not every personal problem can be fixed. Jim Hamre, the Metrobus planner who listens to riders and responds to their concerns in countless forums, notes that you can't ignore the "mass" part of mass transit.
Yet rail managers and rail customers could benefit from the routine, low-key, small-scale interactions often available to bus riders.
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Delta Airlines ….and Saudi Arabia Airlines ban Jews from flying ----
By now most of us know about the issue with Delta Airlines deciding to partner with Saudi Arabia 's airline whose anti-Semitic policy bans Jews and Israelis from flying their airline.
Flyers will have to show passports and to prove that they are not Jewish.
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We have taken this step due to the change in the British climate.
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Mercury records has announced it will debut the forthcoming single from rock band Def Leppard as a downloadable track for music game Guitar Hero III.
'Nine Lives' will be made available, alongside previously released tracks from the group, on April 24 on Xbox Live and on May 8 on the PS3 Store.
It's the first time the band, which first formed in 1977, have become involved in launching a single using a digital method.
"I know from personal experience how much more you get into the music by playing the game, which is why we were keen to explore this opportunity," said Joe Elliott, lead singer of Def Leppard.
"Guitar Hero is extremely popular with all kinds of music heads, which includes a lot of our fans, and we think releasing 'Nine Lives' this way first is just fantastic!"


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VATICAN CITY — A priest who was consecrated as a bishop in China by the state-sanctioned Catholic Church without Pope Benedict XVI's consent could face excommunication, the Vatican said Tuesday.
The Vatican's move follows a ceremony last Friday in which Rev. Joseph Yue Fusheng was ordained bishop of Harbin, the capital of the northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, by a Catholic association endorsed by the Chinese government.
Yue's ordination is the latest dispute between the Vatican and China, which have repeatedly clashed over who has the right to regulate the affairs of the Catholic clergy in China.
"Ordained without pontifical mandate and, hence, illicitly," Yue "has automatically incurred the sanctions" laid down by canon law, the Vatican said in a statement.
Yue had been warned repeatedly by the Holy See not to accept the appointment by the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, the Vatican statement added.
"The bishops who took part in the illicit episcopal ordination and have exposed themselves to the sanctions laid down by the law of the church, must give an account to the Holy See of their participation in that religious ceremony," the statement said.
The Vatican praised those priests and other members of the Chinese Catholic community "who prayed and fasted for a change of heart in the Reverend Yue Fusheng, for the holiness of the bishops and for the unity of the church in China," it added.
In contrast, the Vatican said it welcomed the ordination on Saturday of another priest, Thaddeus Ma Daqin, as auxiliary bishop of Shanghai — suggesting the appointment had taken place with Benedict's blessing.Comment on this story
An estimated 5 million Chinese belong to the Catholic Patriotic Association, according to official statistics. However, there are more than 10 million members of an underground Catholic church.
Catholics in the underground church often face harassment from Chinese authorities. Many underground clerics have been placed under house arrest or imprisoned.
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