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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong's model of crony capitalism is facing increasing pressure. But is it likely to get something better, or find it replaced with China's model of state-capitalism?
Right now, it appears no one is happy with the way the territory is being governed — not Asia's richest tycoon Li Ka-shing, not "Occupy Central" protesters camped out in downtown Hong Kong.
Central to the debate is mainland China: How does Hong Kong find a workable path forward as it integrates ever closer with its giant mainland neighbor?
On the one hand, there is a groundswell of resistance building to the seemingly overpowering influence of the world's most populous nation, due to the sheer volume of visiting tourists and shoppers. On the other hand, there is a realization of mutual economic dependence, as not just mainland China's people, but its currency and companies, increasingly pivot outwards.
It is clear Hong Kong and the mainland need to get along, but on whose terms?
Will Beijing use Hong Kong as a means to integrate into the outside world, or subsume the Special Administrative Region in its own image. Various areas of cross-border integration, including transport infrastructure, currency and — most recently — stock markets, are all proving controversial.
Hong Kong had 50 years of autonomy guaranteed when Britain handed it back to China in 1997, yet this could effectively be circumvented if its government appears to be compliantly following the policy preferences of Beijing. The path to democratic reform promised for 2017 looks set to be bumpy.
There has been considerable attention given to rumors that Asia's wealthiest tycoon, Li Ka-shing, is unhappy with the direction Hong Kong is taking and is ready to invest his money elsewhere.
Last weekend, a mainland Chinese think tank waded in, saying Hong Kong's competitiveness would be damaged if Li were to reduce his investments in the city. This has prompted much speculation as to what is driving this intervention.
The China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in its annual "blue paper," says that if Li and his group frequently sell assets in the latter half of this year, it could affect Hong Kong's overall business competitiveness. They also add that soaring property prices and a lack of innovation are other risks to the city's growth.
These observations are not new but are typically recognized to be connected: The degree of rent-seeking in an economy dominated by large businesses being a direct factor contributing to the limited degree of innovation and high property prices.
Another way of explaining grumbles by Li is that it is more about a businessman lobbying to prevent change in the status quo to a less favorable business environment.
The Economist recently highlighted that Hong Kong tops its global ranking (by a huge margin) in terms of crony capitalism index. If policy change means loosening the grip wielded by Li and other tycoons, it should boost Hong Kong's competitiveness.
But what exactly is the point the CASS is making?
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a mainland Chinese think tank is not championing policy based on free markets. At the moment, China's economic orthodoxy is dominated by large, state-owned monopolistic groups which typically promotes national champions and limits private and foreign entry.
In some ways, Hong Kong has a similarly monopolistic structure in industries like utilities and property, except that ownership is with private families rather than the state.
This might explain why CASS naturally believes there is merit in maintaining large-sized industry groups such as Li's Hutchison and Cheung Kong.
Yet this argument also poses problems for local tycoons. If China were to impose its natural economic structure on Hong Kong, we would expect to see more state ownership of large businesses, rather than bringing in more competitors. Perhaps this will be the end game for Li and other tycoons: They will have to make way for Chinese state interests.
Indeed, there are already some warning signs.
Hong Kong mobile operators have being up in arms by an apparent move by the government to roll out the welcome mat for China Mobile
Another policy that many believe was been enacted at Beijing's behest is the largely unexplained decision to restrict new entrants into the television market, after refusing newcomer HKTV a licence.
For market participants, these issues matter more when they start to impact stock-market performance. It is notable Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Running stock markets is certainly not something Hong Kong wants to take lessons from mainland China in. Ultimately, Hong Kong needs to strike a balance between integrating with China while not losing its private-sector edge where it has one. It should only swap its crony capitalism for something better.
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Real Madrid were in imperious form as they trounced an utterly helpless Athletic Bilbao 5-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu to rack up their fifth consecutive Liga win.
Karim Benzema scored twice, one either side of a Sergio Ramos header, to put los Blancos three goals up within 32 minutes, but a great strike from Ibai Gomez gave Jose Mourinho something to think about at half time.
The hosts were unperturbed after the break, though, and they continued with their dominant attacking display in the second half. Indeed, Mesut Ozil quickly ended hopes of a Basque comeback before Sami Khedira completed the scoring in the 72nd minute.
The signs of a domineering Madrid performance were clear from the opening 10 minutes as Cristiano Ronaldo saw his header deflected narrowly wide before Gorka Iraizoz did well to hold Jose Callejon's powerful shot moments later.
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Bilbao were powerless to resist the rampant Merengues, who narrowly missed out on a second moments later as Gurpegi cleared Callejon's shot off the line.
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Mourinho's side almost netted a fourth when Callejon hit the post on the stroke of half-time but the Bernabeu was stunned as Bilbao countered and found the net. Markel Susaeta was afforded space on the right and his rolled ball into the area was drilled home by Gomez.
The Basque side were unable to gain momentum from the equaliser and 11 minutes after the restart Ozil rounded off a fine move when he fired Benzema's cross home from close range.
Madrid were giving a performance befitting of champions and they remained in the mood for goals. Benzema was only denied his hat-trick moments later as Aurtenetxe got back to clear his clipped shot off the line.
But in the 72nd minute the fifth goal finally came. Coming in from the wing, Alvaro Arbeloa laid the offloaded to Khedira on the corner of the box. The Germany international took a touch before rifling a low shot underneath Iraizoz and into the net.
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Practice 4: Primary Domain Controller (Provide center Authorization and Authentication for directories)
Samba can act as Domain Controller. It will centralize the Authorization and Authentication services.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
workgroup = UbuntuWorkgroup
netbios name = UbuntuZyrex
server string = UbuntuZyrexServer
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.
hosts deny = ALL
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
dns proxy = no
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
obey pam restrictions = yes
domain logons = yes
domain master = auto
wins support = no
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon home = \\%N\%U
logon script = logon.cmd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
path = /home/sharing_data/
comment = Taufan Sharing Folder at Ubuntu
public = yes
encrypt passwords = no
security = share
read only = yes
browseable = yes
directory mask = 0700
create mask = 0600
path = /home/amanda/
comment = Angela Folder at Ubuntu
public = no
read only = no
encrypt passwords = yes
browseable = yes
security = user
valid users = amanda, alice, mark, taufanlubis, nadine
force user = amanda
force group = amanda
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /home/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes
writable = no
share modes = no
comment = Users profiles
path = /home/samba/profiles
guest ok = no
browseable = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
comment = All Printers
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
public = no
writable = no
create mode = 0700
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no
comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
writable = no
locking = no
path = /cdrom
public = yes
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
If you have clients that still use Windows, you have to set the 'encrypt passwords = no' because Windows only can access the plain password from Samba Server. That's why, I put the encrypt password into different share-directories.
If it's accessed by Linux the I set encrypt passwords = yes and it's accessed by Windows Clients then I set encrypt passwords = no.
Now, let's check our configuration.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo smbclient -L 192.168.0.2
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
When you use smbclient, just don't put 'sudo', it will create an error like above. Now, I repeat the command without 'sudo'. This command is used to check sharing directories in Samba Servers.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ smbclient -L 192.168.0.2
Domain=[UBUNTUWORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.26a]
Sharename Type Comment
——— —- ——-
sharing_data Disk Taufan Sharing Folder at Ubuntu
Amanda Disk Angela Folder at Ubuntu
netlogon Disk Network Logon Service
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
cdrom Disk Samba server's CD-ROM
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (UbuntuZyrexServer)
PDF Printer PDF
LX-1050 Printer LX-1050
Laserjet1320 Printer Laserjet1320
Domain=[UBUNTUWORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.26a]
Server Comment
——— ——-
UBUNTUZYREX UbuntuZyrexServer
Workgroup Master
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What is smbclient?
Smbclient is almost the like ftp program. It's used to access SMB resources on the servers.
Connect to your directory using smbclient
After you are connected, you can browse, add, delete files or directories. Of course, it will be depended on your access level. You can use common Linux command line, such as cp, mv, mkdir, rm, rmdir, ls etc..
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ smbclient -U amanda //192.168.0.2/amanda
Domain=[UBUNTUZYREX] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.26a]
smb: \> ls
. D 0 Mon Oct 22 08:49:20 2007
.. D 0 Mon Oct 22 08:51:01 2007
pictures D 0 Mon Oct 22 08:49:20 2007
.profile H 566 Mon Oct 22 08:48:42 2007
Examples D 0 Sun Apr 15 18:52:21 2007
Tekken.jpg A 61344 Mon Oct 22 08:49:00 2007
.bash_logout H 220 Mon Oct 22 08:48:42 2007
.bashrc H 2298 Mon Oct 22 08:48:42 2007
48209 blocks of size 262144. 15950 blocks available
smb: \> cd pictures/
smb: \pictures\> ls
. D 0 Mon Oct 22 08:49:20 2007
.. D 0 Mon Oct 22 08:49:20 2007
Robot.jpg A 87919 Mon Oct 22 08:49:21 2007
48209 blocks of size 262144. 15950 blocks available
smb: \pictures\> cd ..
smb: \>
smb: \> exit
Well, you've done the 4 practices. Now, we can go further with our lesson.
Firewall and Security
Samba need port 137 and 139 for the connection. If you are using Firewall application (Such as Firestarter, smoothwall or others), please make sure that you enable this port. Usually, every firewall applications block these ports as a default. If you are using Iptables and you want to open this ports, you can see my article about setting ports using Iptables.
Starting Samba when the machine boot
You set the Samba server to run automatically when the system booting. (see my articles about Run Level)
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo update-rc.d samba defaults
Adjust the configuration file to your need
For example, you want to create a directory for training_modules and only 5 persons can access and modify that directory. First you create the training_modules directory, Second add the configuration at smb.conf and restart the Samba Server and the Third, don't forget to add the user to Samba Server User List (Practice 3, part 2).
path = /home/training_modules/
comment = Training_modules directory at Ubuntu
public = no
read only = no
browseable = yes
security = user
valid users = amanda, alice, mark, taufanlubis, nadine
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Police say Keith Henderson, 47, assaulted victim on her birthday
Police in Albuquerque said Monday that a registered sex offender raped an 11-year-old girl on her birthday.
Teresa Henderson said she hasn't had contact with her estranged husband, Keith Henderson, 47, since federal officers arrested him on child pornography charges in 2010. She said word of this new arrest makes her sick.
Keith Henderson was released from prison this summer. His estranged wife found out from police on Friday that he had been arrested again.
"To find out what these new charges are for was absolutely shocking," she said.
According to the criminal complaint, the victim and her family were at Keith Henderson's Albuquerque home. The victim told police she didn't want to play games with him, so they went to another room and sat in a chair.
Police said the victim told them that Keith Henderson put his tongue inside her mouth, at which time she bit his tongue. Police said he also threatened the girl that if she told anyone about what was happening, he would kill her and her family. Police said he then sexually attacked her.
In 2010, investigators arrested Keith Henderson on charges of sending out nearly 4,000 sexually explicit pictures of children, some still in diapers. He got three years in prison and five years' probation. He has been out since the summer.
Teresa Henderson said she had no idea her husband was using their son's computer for child porn.
"I didn't know about it, and the FBI has watched my activities since then, and I feel really, really bad that I didn't know," she said.
Keith Henderson is under arrest on charges of attempted criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13, two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and kidnapping.
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There are many feel-good, fairness-based reasons to hire and invest in women. You're probably familiar with at least a few of them: Women have historically had fewer opportunities in the workplace. They don't get promoted as frequently. They are increasingly the sole or primary breadwinner for their families. Also, women's lib and girl power and something about Half the Sky.
There's an even better reason that is less frequently cited. Women, you see, will make you money.
A new report from the California-based Anita Borg Institute makes the case that profitability, rather than charity or good PR, should convince companies to try harder to cultivate female talent on the payroll and in the C-suite.
Several studies have found, for example, that companies with a greater representation of women on their boards or top management teams tend to perform better. It's not clear what's cause and what's effect here. Research suggests, though, that diversity of any kind — related to gender, race or other demographics — is good for problem-solving and idea generation.
One lab experiment, for example, found little correlation between a team's collective intelligence (measured by performance on group tests such as visual puzzles) and the IQs of the team's individual members. But it did find that having a higher share of women on the team raised collective intelligence.
It's not just in corporate settings that estrogen seems good for business. In an analysis of Hollywood films for FiveThirtyEight.com, Walt Hickey recently argued that "films that feature meaningful interactions between women may in fact have a better return on investment, overall, than films that don't." That may be related to the fact that women represent a major customer base as well as employee pool.
And perhaps the best argument for why hiring women will help your firm's bottom line: They still, amazingly, come at a discount. At least for now.
Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, the symbolic reminder of how far into 2014 women would have to work to catch up to the wages earned by men last year, thanks to the intransigent gender pay gap. Some of the gap is explained by the types of occupations women go into, either by choice or opportunity. But even within occupations, women almost always earn less than their male counterparts. Of all the occupations the Bureau of Labor Statistics published data for last year, only three showed women receiving higher median weekly earnings than their male counterparts: bakers; wholesale and retail buyers; and miscellaneous computer-related occupations. Even controlling for factors such as experience, industry and union status still leaves about 40 percent of the total gender pay gap unexplained.
Whether women earn less than men because of discrimination (deliberate or unconscious) or other factors is debatable. Many have attributed the pay differential to the fact that women don't negotiate as aggressively over their compensation as men do. Women expect to be automatically rewarded for their good work, the story goes, whereas fist-pounding men burst into the boss's office and demand the raise they know is rightfully theirs.
Whatever the reason, the fact that women's pay is lower does mean they're a better deal for employers.
Smart employers will recognize a bargain when they see it and scoop up the undervalued talent. Way back in 1983, Alan Greenspan explained this in an interview about his own hiring preferences: "I always valued men and women equally, and I found that because others did not, good women economists were cheaper than men. Hiring women does two things: It gives us better-quality work for less money, and it raises the market value of women.''
Perhaps these arguments sound beside the point; few are really arguing against hiring women these days. Indeed, law firms, Wall Street banks, tech companies and other big, male-dominated businesses have all sorts of outreach programs to identify and nurture female talent (especially, it seems, when the stuff is about to hit the fan: witness the unfortunate timing of Mary Barra's coronation at General Motors). And yet female representation across these industries and occupations — especially in management positions — is alarmingly low.
That's because lip service isn't enough. Corporate policy matters, too. As long as firms are resistant to changes that will help attract and retain female talent — like more flexible work arrangements, which can actually boost worker productivity — they will be limiting their own potential as well as that of female workers.
Read more on this topic:
Ruth Marcus: Obama's choice of Rice, Power adds key women to Cabinet
Kathleen Parker: Women in the workplace, rewriting the rules
Lilly Ledbetter: The president can do more for equal pay by signing an executive order
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Pop star Taylor Swift cut the ribbon at the opening of her new music school in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday.
The Fifteen hitmaker launched the $4 million US Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
The facility will have an instrument room and classroom to encourage would-be musicians to improve their skills.
Speaking at the launch, Swift says, "I'm really excited about this music education centre and the fact that right now they have three different classes going on today. It's really exciting that we can be here on a day when they're not only unveiling it, but they're starting to actively use it today.
"We've been talking about different programs I can be involved in. I hate to call it a lecture because that sounds like I'm yelling at people, but we could do a Q&A (question and answer session) talking to students here and a songwriters discussion would be really fun to have at some point."
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ABC host Muirhead leaves prison early
Former ABC presenter Andy Muirhead was released from prison last month after his sentence for child pornography offences was cut.
Muirhead was due to serve five months after he was sentenced in the Tasmanian Supreme Court in October for accessing and possessing child exploitation material.
Routine remissions cut a month from that term, Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury reports.
The former Collectors host's sentence was officially 10 months but was cut to five months with backdating and security of a $5000 three-year period of good behaviour.
Muirhead had pleaded guilty to three charges of downloading more than 12,000 pornographic images and videos.
He was arrested in June 2010 and initially pleaded not guilty.
He was stood down from the ABC and his contracts with the broadcaster have since expired.
"What I did was shameful, reckless and stupid," he said in the apology read by his lawyer Kim Baumeler last July.
"The things that I saw on my computer were vile and disgusting."
Beyond Abuse spokesman Steve Fisher said the early release sent the wrong message.
"What reason could they possibly give him to have a month off his sentence?" Mr Fisher said.
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>> Monday, May 31, 2010
I haven't written for a LONG time (again)!
PerutBesi is VERY happy that she has finally completed TWO exams in TWO weeks! I'm done with my Certified Professionals in Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level (CPRE) paper last Friday & I just took my Certified Testers - Foundation Level (CTFL) paper this morning :D *wheee........* Finally, no more exams *keeps fingers crossed* I sure hope to pass BOTH the papers!
Here's to share with all of you one of the many "back-logged" posts :P You have to forgive me for the delay! Hahaha :D Enjoy!
Venue: Black Canyon Restaurant, Putrajaya
Occasion: Movie night!
Overall comment: PerutBesi is satisfied! At last! Some proper & good food at Alamanda Shopping Centre!
Halal: Yes
Total bill = RM42.85 for 3 persons (including service charge + gov tax)
The nearest cinema to our office is at the Alamanda Shopping Mall in Putrajaya. Frankly speaking, there's nothing really interesting to eat at that mall. We often have a hard time deciding on what to have for lunch/dinner, but this time around, we spotted a "new" food outlet at the food court area & decided to give it a try.
Black Canyon Restaurant & Coffee House opened an outlet here in Putrajaya. The other 2 outlets that I am aware of are in Klang & Kuantan. I've heard from Aaron that Black Canyon's food is pretty good (the Kuantan outlet), so I told Alex & Rao that we'll try this place out for a change :)
The place surely looks new & is quite spacious. I'm quite pleased with the ambiance & what's more pleasing is the reasonable price of food (as compared to many other food outlets at Alamanda)
Black Canyon offers a wide variety of fusion food, which are quite interesting. Being a fan of pasta & Thai food at the same time, PerutBesi was just too delighted to be here :)
One of Black Canyon's tag line is "A drink from Paradise...available on Earth". Ah, go figure how great their drinks are. I find it satisfactory, considering the fact that I didn't try their coffee at that time. I reckon they do have pretty good coffee to begin with, since it's a beverage that the outlet boasts.
Rao tried their hot tea, which wasn't much to shout about. The only unique thing Black Canyon offers was the additional mini cup of alphabet biscuits! So cute...hahaha...but who dips biscuits into their tea? :S If it's coffee, I would understand la :P
When you're too lazy to browse through the entire menu thoroughly to pick your desired meal, the best is when the restaurant offers a simple "Set Meal" menu! I'm somehow attracted to such things - it's fast, simple, & it's usually value for money. Each Dinner/Lunch Deal ("Lunch Deal" is applicable throughout the day) comes with a drink/watermelon juice, a main course, & a small bowl of tom yam soup (for "Dinner Deal"), & a set starts from RM9.90 onwards.
By the way, their juice is actually quite delicious. I reckon it's pure watermelon juice (but I may be wrong) :)
The set isn't too bad. For those who prefer rice with a 'Western touch', this could be your pick!
Frankly speaking, I quite like their tom yam. It's not too sour, nor too spicy, with a tinge of sweetness. There's coconut/evaporated milk in the spicy soup, which gives the soup some added thickness, & the added "limau purut" leaves, lemongrass, & other condiments gave the soup a lovely fragrance :)
I think this is the stir-fried spaghetti with chicken ham set. I don't really enjoy the taste as it's alike the "mee goreng mamak". Not that I don't like "mee goreng mamak", but having that sorta taste with spaghetti just doesn't click.
I enjoyed this very much :D It's like the best of pasta has finally met the best of the Thai tom yam! The serving was quite generous & there was quite a good portion of diced chicken meat, mushrooms, & fresh tomatoes. PerutBesi likes :)
By having ALL these in ONE bowl of tom yam pasta, you can bet that the tom yam tastes good :)
Tempted to try this place out whenever you come across one of their outlets? I sure hope all the outlets serve equally satisfying food :)
Do stay tuned with PerutBesi! Since I'm done with my exams, I sure hope to be able to find motivation & time to blog consistently again!!
Black Canyon Restaurant
Lot No.22, Rasa Food Arena
LG 72 & 74, Alamanda Shopping Centre
Precinct 1, 62000 Putrajaya.
Tel: (+603) 8890 2328
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Price: * * * 1/2
Environment: * * * 1/2
Taste: * * * 1/2
Service: * * * 1/2
- Ruth


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El Nino will return and likely will bring a little more rainfall than usual to the Southwest.
But first, the region likely will experience from one year to 18 months of continued dry conditions, says Mark Fox, warning and coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
Fox spoke at the Ag Technology Conference in Commerce, Texas, in early December and said that although "forecasting weather is not the easiest thing to do it's not the hardest either. It requires good observation, good models and common sense."
All those factors point to continuation of La Nina conditions at least into spring and summer," he said.
"Spring and summer likely will be dryer and hotter than normal," Fox said. "But we don't expect next summer to be as hot as it was in 2011."
He said suggestions that drought conditions could persist into 2020 may be overblown. "We don't have data to support that, but the climate for the next one to 1.5 years will be dry."
He said outlook now is similar to the same period a year ago.
"Most models indicate that by the end of 2012, El Nino will take over and conditions will be wetter in 2013 and 2014."
Fox said under the best of conditions Texas weather is "highly variable." He pointed to last winter as an example. Most audience members responded that the winter of 2011 was colder than usual. In fact, last winter temperatures averaged about 3 degrees higher than normal. Most people recall the extremely cold week in early January, however, when temperatures plunged and snow and sleet covered the area.
"We had one really bad week, but we did not get a lot of winter rain," Fox said. "There is no such thing as a normal winter. We will see wild swings one way or the other."
He said the outlook last winter was for "way above average temperatures. We had about normal average temperatures."
He also said late November and December rainfall may bring false hope to farmers and ranchers. Northeast Texas received as much as 5 inches of rain during that period, but Fox said the area needs a lot more and heavier rains to refill lakes, streams and stock tanks.
He also said computer models suggest a second straight year of La Nina. "Most models say it will be at least next year before we get out of this pattern. In Texas, models show a 40 percent chance of higher than normal temperatures and 50 percent or higher chances of less rainfall.
"I hope we're wrong about that," he said. But he also noted that the El Nino, La Nina phenomenon has been observed for 100s of years and it "affects weather cycles about every one to two years."


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Episode 278 of The CyberJungle is about 35 minutes long. You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Ryan Washington, begins at about the 16min mark. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.
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Gran Turismo 4 is due to arrive in November which, if you're a big GT fan, seems like a very long way away. Fortunately, you don't have to wait that long for your next GT fix; Gran Turismo 4: "Prologue" is an 'Advanced Skills School' designed to give you a tantalising taste of GT4's sublime gameplay, while simultaneously schooling you in the finer points of precision driving.
Prologue's main game mode is 'School' mode, which is made up of a series of increasingly challenging tutorials. School mode is structured rather like a board game; you begin in one corner and work your way around the board one square (Lesson) at a time. Between them, the Lessons are designed to improve every facet of your driving abilities, from the basics of steering, accelerating and braking through to advanced overtaking techniques, conserving fuel and using opponents' slipstreams to get the competitive edge. The Lessons are occasionally interspersed with 'Coffee Breaks', bonus stages that you don't need to complete in order to progress but which further test your control of Prologue's shiny, shiny vehicles.
For each Lesson or Coffee Break, you're given a specific vehicle, but once you've successfully completed the task at hand, that vehicle is added to your garage and you can then race against friends with it in Prologue's Arcade mode. The Arcade mode features five sumptuous tracks taken from the forthcoming Gran Turismo 4, including the visually arresting New York Street course and the new Grand Canyon rally stage.
In addition to the driving masterclass that is School mode and the classic GT Arcade mode, Prologue features a wealth of extras sure to get GT fans' engines running, including a GT4 trailer, a 'Making of GT4' video (housed on a separate disc to the main game) and more besides. As an intense training programme for GT4 and a behind-the-scenes look at what's sure to be one of the year's biggest games, Prologue is an essential addition to the library of any hardcore GT fan. Roll on November...
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Wilson, Angels leave empty-handed against Sale
Lefty allows two runs over seven innings; offense collects three hits
ANAHEIM -- If it's not one thing, it's another.
The Angels received another strong outing from C.J. Wilson, but failed to get any offensive production in a 3-0 loss to the White Sox on Friday night at Angel Stadium.
The loss, the Angels' fifth in the past six games, demonstrated the team's struggles to put together a complete game. When one facet of the team has a strong performance -- as the pitchers did Friday -- another area is almost always unable to match it.
"It's frustrating because I feel like we have games where we don't have all the elements we need," Wilson said. "We'll have good starting pitching, good relief pitching and maybe make a couple errors. Or, we have good hitting and the pitching doesn't show up. That's just kind of how it's been going for us. We haven't been able to get any momentum -- get enough hits in a row or wins in a row."
On Wednesday, starter Barry Enright gave up four runs in just two-plus innings, digging a hole the team was unable to climb out of. Thursday featured the bullpen allowing three eighth-inning runs, after the offense built a 4-2 lead. And a day later, the pitching did its part, but the offense was unable to provide a lead, or even a run.
For the second time this week, White Sox starter Chris Sale stifled the Angels' offense. On Sunday in Chicago, the left-hander took a perfect game into the seventh and limited the Angels to just one hit as he threw a shutout.
On Friday, it was more of the same.
Sale threw 7 2/3 innings, limiting the Angels to three hits while striking out 12 -- his fifth career game with at least 10 strikeouts.
"He pitched a good game," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We haven't gotten anything off him in the two games we've seen him this year. He obviously has good movement, throws the ball hard. Didn't throw as many changeups tonight as he did in Chicago, but in the few opportunities we had, he made the pitches and got out of it."
Against the Angels this week, the left-hander totaled 16 2/3 shutout innings with 19 strikeouts and four hits.
"It's not easy going back-to-back against the same team, especially consecutive starts," Scioscia said. "Sale obviously did a great job, CJ did a terrific job also."
While Sale was great, Wilson was very good.
"You know with us facing C.J. tonight, we knew we probably are not going to score a lot of runs," White Sox first baseman Adam Dunn said. "A low-scoring game. Two really, really competitive, dominant pitchers in the league going after it."
The Angels' left-hander scattered six hits over seven innings of work, but gave up a run in the first and another in the seventh on a night where the margin for error was seemingly less than none.
After retiring the first two batters with relative ease, Wilson had Alex Rios down 0-2, but Rios hit an 89-mph cutter over the left-center-field wall..
"It was a ball," Wilson said. "It's like the second home run I've given up this year on a ball, which is really frustrating. But, if you don't execute your pitch, you don't have anybody to blame but yourself and that's what happened out there. The ball was up, but it wasn't in and he hit it over the fence, so 1-0."
In the seventh, Dayan Viciedo singled and scored on Conor Gillaspie's single to center.
Not only were the Angels shut out, but the club never really presented a scoring threat in the process.
Only two runners reached second base -- Mike Trout stole second in the first and Mark Trumbo doubled in the fourth -- as hitters were flailing at offspeed pitches and when the Angels were able to hit a ball hard, it almost always found a glove.
Garrett Richards gave up a home run to Adam Dunn in the ninth for the final tally.


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F1 2011 roars onto PS Vita bursting at the seams with all the official teams and drivers that started the 62nd FIA Formula One racing season. So, if you fancy reliving the thrill of the race at any of the 19 circuits on which Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel became the youngest ever driver to retain the drivers' championship, F1 2011 is the game for you.
From the gorgeously rendered opening movie, through to the slick and accessible menus, F1 2011 sparkles with high production values. Environments are lovingly recreated, cars come to life in the tiniest detail and the roar of the engine is captured in a finely tuned audio track.
Not only does F1 2011 look and sound the part, it is fully loaded with tips and features to suit your level too – pick it up now if you're a seasoned pro who knows your D.R.S. from your K.E.R.S., or if you simply want to feel the adrenaline rush of racing some of the fastest four-wheeled machines on the planet.
Before you head for the track, check out the Formula One Vault, accessible from the Records section of the main menu, to get the low-down on the circuits, stars and cars of F1 2011, and then take your pick from the huge variety of game modes on offer.
Dive straight into Quick Race to get an instant taste of life in the fast lane – pick your driver, select a circuit, tweak the race settings and you're good to go. Whilst you're in the driving seat, a quick tap of the PS Vita system's touchscreen switches between the range of cockpit views, putting you even closer to the action.
Once you've clocked up some races and found the right settings to suit your level, hone your speed in Time Trial or put your skills to the test in Grand Prix, Career and Championship modes.
Choose Grand Prix to get your first taste of the big time as you play through a full weekend of action, or criss-cross the globe as you take on a full season in Championship mode. For the ultimate test, plunge into Career mode and rise through the ranks over three seasons to try and become the FIA Formula One World Drivers Champion.
Whichever mode you choose, make time to keep your eyes on the track map to get an idea of where the rest of the field is and listen out for instructions from your pit crew. As well as spurring you on with the latest information on your speed and lap times, they'll let you know if you've incurred the wrath of the stewards and need to head into the pits to serve a drive-through penalty. Failure to do so could result in crucial seconds being added to your time at the end of the race.
As well as these traditional single player racing modes, F1 2011 includes a series of Challenges which will test your skills behind the wheel. With a total of 60 challenges to unlock, will you have what it takes to beat them all?
You can compete against up to three other racers in a variety of local and online multiplayer modes: Race, Time Trial and Constructor Face-Off. You can either join an existing game or choose to host one; if you go for the latter, then it'll be up to you to choose which multiplayer mode you play, define the race settings and the circuit to be raced.
It's winner takes all in Race mode: choose your driver, pick from any of the 19 circuits in the game and jostle your way to the front of the pack as you try to make it first to the finish line ahead of your rivals. Speed freaks can get their kicks in Time Trial where the name of the game is posting the fastest time on a specific circuit before the time runs out.
The third mode, Constructor Face-Off , is perhaps the closest you'll get to real-life racing with a teammate by your side as four cars from two constructors compete in a set of races and try and get the highest amount of points that they can for their team.
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If you have a loved one who is in their 60s or older, you may wonder whether they should be seeing a geriatrician. Geriatricians specialize in caring for people with multiple chronic medical conditions whose physical and mental symptoms make day-to-day living a challenge. However, not all elderly adults deal with these types of issues. When choosing a doctor for your elder, it may not be clear whether they're in need of a geriatrician or a traditional primary care provider.
According to the American Geriatrics Society, about 30% of adults over the age of 65 require a geriatrician. For these individuals, working with someone who specializes in geriatrics can be a huge help.
Geriatricians are more likely to pick up on warning signs other doctors may overlook. They also have a better understanding of how different medications are metabolized in older individuals' bodies. These specialists are trained to not only consider the medical requirements of each patient, but also their needs as a whole in order to make the best decisions for their overall well-being.
Here are a few signs the right doctor for your elder is a geriatrician:
Whether you think your loved one could benefit from meeting with a geriatrician or a primary care physician, the next step is to find the right fit for their needs. These days, there are many ways to "shop" for a doctor.
For a smoother experience, try combining multiple methods to ensure you're making an appointment with an individual who has a solid record with seniors.
Here are some suggestions to help you get started:
These suggestions will help you identify a number of doctors in your loved one's local area who could meet their needs. The final step is to narrow that list down to a single doctor who will establish a trusted relationship with your loved one and help them stay healthy for the long run.
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With his caregiver Helen, Angell's humor, his sense of fun, his innate frankness shone. She blessed his life.
With his caregiver Helen, Angell's humor, his sense of fun, his innate frankness shone. She blessed his life.


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Car Priorities
Out of everything in your car, what would you say is the most important? Maybe it's having a fresh oil change from a Scott's Automotive & Transmission shop. Maybe it's having a full tank before you hit the road – but one thing that's generally overlooked until it's too late is your brakes. Without them, where would we be? Probably still rolling. Every car needs brakes, it's inevitable that they'll need replacement eventually, and it's better to do it ahead of time before brake failure.


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The other day, we finally purchased our plane tickets for our trip to China and Mongolia. We've been planning this trip for a while, but recent life events led us to actually settle on some specific dates for our trip. However, like any good traveler (and anyone who wants to save money), we've been monitoring the prices of tickets for quite some time in hopes to get the best bang for our buck. This ended up being a waste of time, because on many of the popular airline booking sites, the price they give you when you're about to buy a ticket can be much different than the price you're shown at the beginning of the process.
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Blood contamination claims at center of Connecticut lawsuit
BRIDGEPORT >> A former employee has testified in a lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital that she was pressured to resign after she discovered contaminated blood vials.
The Connecticut Post reports that Isabel Modaffari told a state Superior Court jury on Tuesday that Greenwich Hospital forced her to quit in January 2012 after she talked to the FBI about contaminated vials she said that she discovered.
The 44-year-old Bridgeport woman says her supervisors yelled at her constantly to the point where she couldn't take it anymore.
Modaffari was a phlebotomist, someone who collects blood samples.
The hospital's lawyer, David Poppick, characterized Modaffari as a disgruntled worker who had poor performance reports and didn't easily adapt to new technology.
He said no problems were found after investigations by the FBI and U.S. Food and Drug Administration.


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Nine Gloucester players pen new contracts
ESPN Staff
April 2, 2013
Nick Wood has signed a new Gloucester contract © Getty Images
Gloucester have received a boost ahead of Thursday's Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final against Biarritz with the news that nine of their players have re-signed with the club.
The Aviva Premiership side announced earlier this season hat Jonny May and Tom Savage have opted to extend their stay at Kingsholm while they have confirmed that James Hudson and Matt Kvesic will join the club ahead of next term. And alongside May and Savage, a host of players have also decided to re-sign.
Gloucester stalwart Andy Hazell, who made his debut for the club back in the 1997-98 season, has penned a new deal while veteran second-row Will James and front-row Nick Wood have also extended their contracts. And fellow front-rowers Koree Britton, Dan Murphy and Yann Thomas have all re-signed.
They are joined by Gareth Evans, Dan Robson and Shane Monahan in committing their respective futures to Gloucester. And Cherry and Whites boss Nigel Davies was delighted with the news. "I'm very pleased with the way that the squad is shaping up for next season," Davies said. "The players named today are a real mixture of those with potential for the future, and a number with considerable first team experience.
"They've all played a part for Gloucester so far this season, and each and every one is the kind of individual we want at the club. They've all bought into what we're hoping to achieve here at Gloucester, and it's good to know that they'll be with us next season.
"We've created a real sense of unity and purpose at the club over the past few months. There will be a lot of continuity in the squad from this season to next, and that can only help in the development of this group of players."
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RWE Innogy bought 20.22% of the development company from two of its shareholders, Belgian investment companies Socofe and Ecotech Finance, which both retain interests in Thornton Bank. It acquired another 6.5% of the shares from the other members of the consortium, French utility EDF Energies Nouvelles, electricity infrastructure investment vehicle Nuhma and Belgium's Dredging, Environmental & Marine Engineering, which helped with the foundations and cables. EDF now owns 18% of the project, with the four Belgian investors holding a combined 55% in almost equal shares.
Far from shore
From C-Power, CEO Filip Martens describes RWE as an experienced partner for the construction and further development of Thornton Bank. Socofe and Ecotech between them retain 20% of the shares in the project and intend to use the proceeds from the sale to help fund the second phase. At 30 kilometres off Zeebrugge, Thornton Bank is the first wind project anywhere to be located so far from shore. The six Repower 5 MW turbines were installed in 2008 and connected to the grid from the end of last year.
"We are now negotiating for the next 24-turbine stage of the project. We want to reach financial close within this year," says Martens. Only six months ago, the future of the project looked uncertain as banks were unwilling to extend the credit needed for the next phase. But an additional equity owner and a EUR 10 million cash injection from EU economic recovery funds (page 42) have freed up finance for the remaining 270 MW.
According to Martens, finance is to be provided by a syndication of four banks: Dexia, Rabobank, KBC and Société Générale. With strong backers that include Belgian investment and engineering companies as well as two major European utilities, plus a "winning team" of finance providers, Martens comments: "If we cannot raise the finance, no offshore developer can."
Fritz Vahrenholt, CEO of RWE Innogy and former CEO of Repower, says Thornton Bank is one of the first offshore wind farms to be built in waters of up to 28 metres as well as so far from land. "This is why the investment provides us with an excellent opportunity to not only contribute, but also extend our experience significantly in the offshore sector. This will benefit our ambitious development aims." RWE is already involved with over 4 GW of offshore wind projects in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.
Thornton Bank is supported under Belgium's renewables certificate system. Utilities have to meet a proportion of their energy mix from renewables, either by owning the generating facilities or through the purchase of certificates from renewable energy generators. Prices are based on supply and demand, but there are lower limits depending on technology. Offshore wind certificates have a minimum price of EUR 107/MWh for the first 216 MW and EUR 90/MWh for additional capacity.
The next 24 Repower turbines, totalling 120 MW, are to go up in 2010-11 and the final phase, 24 Repower 6 MW units, in 2012-2013, says Martens. The plant will generate about 1 TWh a year, meeting nearly 20% of Belgium's 2010 target for green power consumption under the EU renewables law and around 5% of its 2020 goal.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — New Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said Tuesday that markets should expect the central bank to continue to follow the low-interest-rate path laid out by her predecessor Ben Bernanke.
"Let me emphasize that I expect a great deal of continuity in the Federal Open Market Committee's approach to monetary policy," Yellen said in remarks prepared for a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
"I served on the Federal Open Market Committee as we formulated our current policy strategy and I strongly support that strategy," Yellen said.
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Indeed, Yellen's remarks closely tracked the language of the Fed's last policy statement. She said that the central bank would taper the pace of its asset purchases at future meetings if the economy continued to improve as expected, although the pullback was not on a preset course. The Fed's decisions about the pace of tapering are data dependent, she added.
She added the Fed plans to hold short-term interest rates at zero "well past" the time the jobless rate falls below 6.5%.
U.S. stocks
"Chairman Yellen's first semi-annual monetary policy testimony is about as bland as one could imagine. And that is no doubt by design, as she has no reason to say anything that would upset the current market consensus," said Stephen Stanley of Pierpont Securities in an emailed comment.
Economists widely expect the Fed to continue to taper its asset purchase program at its next meeting in mid-March. The Fed has already cut its bond-purchases by $10 billion in December and $10 billion in January and is now buying $65 billion of assets each month
Yellen said the economic outlook would have to take a notable turn for the worse before the Fed would consider pausing its ongoing reduction of bond purchases.
"I think what would cause the committee to consider a pause is a notable change in the outlook," Yellen said.
The new Fed chairwoman said she was surprised by the two disappointing jobs reports in December and January.
"But we have to be very careful not to jump to conclusions in interpreting what those reports mean," she said.
The Fed will meet to consider monetary policy on March 18-19.
She said the Fed expects the economy and employment will expand at a "moderate pace" in 2014 and that inflation will move back toward the Fed's 2% target.
The Fed's favorite inflation measure, the index for personal consumption expenditures, has been running closer to 1% over the past year.
Some of this softness is due to factors that are likely to be transitory, Yellen said, including falling prices for crude oil and declines in non-oil import prices.
Yellen stressed that too many Americans remain unemployed and the labor market recovery "is far from complete."
She downplayed the importance of the unemployment rate as a gauge of the health of the labor market. That rate has fallen steadily and is now at 6.6%.
Yellen said that workers out of a job for more than six months continue to make up an "unusually large" fraction of the unemployed and that many people working part time would prefer full-time jobs.
"These observations underscore the importance of considering more than the unemployment rate when evaluating the conditions of the U.S. labor market," Yellen said.
Many economists expect the Fed to move away from using the unemployment rate as a threshold for rate hikes at coming meetings.
Yellen said the Fed was on the lookout for asset bubbles but doesn't see any threats at the moment.
"Broadly speaking we haven't seen leverage, credit growth, asset prices built to the point where generally I would say that they were at worrisome levels," Yellen said.
"There are a few areas where we do have concerns but nothing broadly speaking," she said.
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Vail Resorts wants avalanche lawsuit dismissed
BROOMFIELD – Vail Resorts asked a judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit, saying Taft Conlin's death was tragic but that his parents' lawsuit fails as a matter of law under Colorado's Ski Safety Act.
Conlin's parents, Louise Ingalls and Stephen Conlin, sued the ski company about a month and a half ago. Their son, Taft, died because the company's negligence created an "avalanche trap" that killed him, they said in the lawsuit.
The ski company filed its response late Thursday afternoon in Broomfield County District Court, saying the lawsuit should be dismissed "because the incident resulted from 'inherent dangers and risks' of skiing," and that the company is protected because it did not violate Colorado's Ski Safety Act.
Conlin's parents' attorney, Jim Heckbert, called the ski company's assertion "frivolous."
"They want to claim that an avalanche is an inherent risk of skiing," Heckbert said.
Conlin and five friends entered Prima Cornice through an open gate on the lower part of the run, following the tracks of several others who had skied through that gate that day, according to a report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
"The ski safety act says if you want to close a trail you must close all entrances to that trail. That second gate was left open, and that violates the Ski Safety Act," Heckbert said. "If they violated any part of that statute, and they did, they are in violation of that act."
"They left the door open to a place they claim was dangerous. It's like having a lion in a cage and leaving the door open, then saying it's not your fault when someone gets hurt," Heckbert said.
Heckbert called the ski company's response "standard procedure."
"Defense lawyers get paid by the hour. The more paperwork they generate, the more fees they create," he said.
Conlin's parents are both local veterinarians, and the lawsuit is not about money, Heckbert said.
Colorado law caps wrongful death awards at $250,000 for children, Heckbert said.
"The object is to keep other parents from having to go through this," Ingalls said when the lawsuit was filed last summer.
Vail Resorts' position
In its response, Vail Resorts asked a Broomfield District Court judge to dismiss the lawsuit, citing the Ski Safety Act.
"The avalanche that occurred here was tragic. However, based on the provisions of the Ski Safety Act and the claims alleged in the complaint, plaintiffs' claims must be dismissed," the ski company said in its lawsuit.
Vail Resorts based its request on four assertions:
1. Conlin's death resulted from an avalanche, which is one of the "inherent dangers and risks of skiing," and such dangers and risks are not actionable under Colorado's Ski Safety Act.
2. Conlin's parents and Heckbert attempt to bring common law claims that are preempted by the Ski Safety Act. The Ski Safety Act allows for recovery only for specified violations of the Act. Since their lawsuit does not allege any such violations, it should be dismissed, the ski company said in its response.
3. The ski company says it complied with the terms of the Ski Safety Act in marking Upper Prima Cornice as closed – where Conlin was killed – and therefore should not be found negligent.
4. Vail Resorts attorneys claim that Colorado does not recognize a cause of action for "wanton and willful conduct," as alleged in Conlin's parents' lawsuit.
Conlin's parents filed their lawsuit in Broomfield District Court because that's where Vail Resorts' corporate offices are located. Their response to the ski company's request should be filed in the next week or two, Heckbert said.
Line in the snow?
A Colorado Avalanche Information Center report says that on Jan. 22, around 1 p.m., Conlin was on his telemark skis when he and five young skiers passed through an open gate in the Lower Prima Cornice area looking for fresh snow. Several others had already skied into the area that day, after one of last winter's rare storms dropped new snow, the report said.
A rope blocked the gate at the top of the Prima Cornice run.
Three of those skiers sidestepped about 120 feet up the hill and to the south.
Vail Resorts has insisted the run was closed, but does not say where the skiers crossed from the open area to the closed area.
When the avalanche released, two skiers made it to safety, skiing down to the bottom of the Northwoods Express to get help, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center report said.
But the avalanche caught Conlin and carried him through a spruce forest until he came to rest against a tree, upside down.
Coroner Kara Bettis ruled that Conlin was killed by blunt force trauma – blows to his chest. He did not suffocate, she said.
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- General Questions
- Questions about Significance Testing
- What is Fisher's exact test?
- What is a left sided, right sided, and two sided Fisher's exact test?
- Why do you recommend the use of a left sided Fisher's exact test?
- Why don't the log likelihood tests (ll.pm) and Pearson's test (x2.pm) report the significance values associated with their raw scores?
- How do I decide which of the tests your provide is the one I should use?
- How do I interpret the values of these test scores?
- Fisher's left sided test seems to rank a lot of bigrams first! Why?
- Questions about stop lists and removing non-tokens
- Questions about rank.pl
- Questions about kocos.pl
Ngram Statistics Package (NSP) FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about the Ngram Statistics Package.
This FAQ is very much a work in progress, and is written somewhat informally. Please take the information contained herein in that light. I'd be happy to elaborate on any point raised here that isn't clear. Also, if you spot errors or have suggestions I'd be happy to hear about those!
Please send your questions to me (firstname.lastname@example.com) or the NSP mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ngram/.
General Questions
How can I cite NSP in a paper?
There is one published paper about NSP that you could cite:
author = {Banerjee, S. and Pedersen, T.},
title = {The Design, Implementation, and Use of the
{N}gram {S}tatistic {P}ackage},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth International
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and
Computational Linguistics},
year = {2003},
month ={February},
pages = {370--381},
address = {Mexico City}}
You can get a copy of this paper at:
If you would rather cite a URL, the official home page of NSP is
What is in the future for NSP?
Many things! See our Todo list (Todo.txt) for a fairly complete accounting of our future plans.
Why is NSP so slow on large files of text?
As of version 0.61 (and before) NSP does all counting using a Perl hash. In other words, each Ngram is an element in a hash, and a counter is kept for that Ngram. This works very nicely, but if you start to deal with millions of words of text it can result in a very large hash that consumes quite a bit of memory.
Remember, the crucial constraint is not how many words in the corpus, but how many unique Ngrams you have in the text. As N gets larger, the number of hash elements grows larger and larger. However, if you are dealing with unigrams NSP can process extremely large files (50 million words) quite efficiently.
To start with I would recommend that you gradually increase the value of N and the amount of text you try to process with NSP, just to get a sense of how long things take on your system. Start with processing unigrams in a 1,000,000 word corpus, then try bigrams. Then move up to 5,000,000 words with unigrams, and so forth.
Questions about Significance Testing
What is Fisher's exact test?
Fisher's exact test is a significance test that is considered to be more appropriate for sparse and skewed samples of data than statistics such as the log likelihood ratio (G^2) or Pearson's Chi-Squared test (X^2).
The paper "Fishing for Exactness" gives a fairly detailed description of Fisher's exact test relative to these other tests. Find it with the 1996 entries at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/pubs.html It is also available at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9608010
What is a left sided, right sided, and two sided Fisher's exact test?
Fisher's exact test is computed by fixing the marginal totals of a 2x2 table and then determining the probability of each of the possible tables that could result in those marginal totals. The different sided tests vary in how these individual probabilities are summed into the final value produced by the test.
The left sided test is recommended (see 3) since it results in a value that is easy to interpret as a measure of association between words. Rather loosely speaking, it is the probability of randomly sampling a 2x2 table where a bigram occurs less frequently than was observed in the corpus you are working with. So, a high left sided probability indicates that you are very unlikely to observe the bigram more frequently than you already have (if you took a random sample from a similar population). This suggests that the bigram is a "special" pair of words that may merit further attention.
The paper "Fishing for Exactness" gives a fairly detailed description of computing left, right and two sided values. Find it with the 1996 entries at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/pubs.html It is also available at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9608010
Why do you recommend the use of a left sided Fisher's exact test?
The main advantage of the left sided test it is interpreted much like the other tests that we provide. The larger the value the stronger the association between the words in the bigram. This is the same property as mutual information (tmi.pm), the Dice Coefficient (dice.pm), Loglikelihood ratio (ll.pm), and Pearson's test (x2.pm). Rankings that are done by these measures can all be compared directly, where rank 1 is assigned to the most strongly associated bigram/s.
A right sided test is symmetric with the left sided test, so larger values indicate weaker association between the words. There is nothing wrong with this approach, except that you can not directly compare the rankings of a right sided test with, for example, mutual information.
A two sided test doesn't seem to have a very natural mapping to explaining bigram data. (TDP?)
Why don't the log likelihood tests (ll.pm) and Pearson's test (x2.pm) report the significance values associated with their raw scores?
We don't assign significance values to these tests since setting the p-values seems to be a fairly arbitrary choice. It isn't clear that p should be .01, .05, or something else. This strikes us as an important limitation of significance tests. Rather than setting an arbitrary cutoff on these values, we recommend looking at the raw scores from these tests in order to establish cutoffs.
Having said all this, it is very likely that future versions of NSP will have this capability.
How do I decide which of the tests your provide is the one I should use?
The tests provided here can be divided into three classes:
1) Power Divergence Family:
Log Likelihood ratio (ll.pm)
Pearson's Chi Squared test (x2.pm)
2) Exact test of statistical significance
Fisher's exact test (leftFisher.pm and rightFisher.pm)
3) Information theoretic measures
Mutual Information (tmi.pm)
Dice Coefficient (dice.pm)
If you would like to use a significance test with a predefined p-value then Fisher's exact test is your choice. We have tried to implement this as efficiently as possible, and it seems to run fairly quickly even with large sample sizes.
If you would prefer to have a score that provides you with a measure of the divergence of the observed from the expected values (given an assumption of independence between the words in the bigram) then the power divergence family is a fine choice. Note that Ll.pm and X2.pm should provide the same results if the data is such that no asymptotic assumptions are being violated. If you observe difference values for the same bigram from these tests, then one of them is flawed! You can't be sure which one it is either. There is some very fine background material on the issue of the likelihood ratio (G^2) versus Pearson's test (X^2) in the following:
author={Read, T. and Cressie, N.},
title={Goodness of fit Statistics for Discrete Multivariate Data},
year = {1988},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}}
If you are interested in Mutual information, then you have it, and you have the closely related alternative measure the Dice Coefficient.
How do I interpret the values of these test scores?
Carefully. Subjectively. Creatively.
For all of the tests, a higher score means a stronger measure of association among the words in the bigram.
In general, we prefer to make comparisons among the tests based on the different rankings they assign rather than the absolute scores they return. However, you can directly compare the scores from the likelihood ratio (Ll.pm) and Pearson's test (X2.pm). Otherwise, you should not think of comparing these scores because they are apples and oranges. The rank program (rank.pl) ranks the bigrams as scored by any two given measures and will produce a table and rank correlation coefficient showing how they compare. Please note however that you should not include a right sided or two sided Fisher's test in such comparisons since they do not follow the convention that a higher score means that there is greater association between the bigrams. These tests should not be compared to others with the rank.pl program!
Fisher's left sided test seems to rank a lot of bigrams first! Why?
As sample sizes get larger, the hypergeometric probabilities associated with each possible 2x2 table of bigram data (given fixed marginal totals) tend to approach 1. Consider setting the precision of the test relatively high (10 or 15 digits) in order to observe this. When the default setting is used (4 digits) there tends to be quite a lot of rounding to 1.0000.
The paper "Fishing for Exactness" shows how these hypergeometric probabilities are computed. Find it with the 1996 entries at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/pubs.html It is also available at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9608010
Questions about stop lists and removing non-tokens
How does the stop list option (--stop) work?
[Revised for version 0.53]
A stop list is a list of words that you don't want count.pl to count. These words (or the Ngrams that they form) are not counted and do not figure into the overall sample size.
Rather than specifying a list of words in a stoplist, as of version 0.53 you can specify Perl regular expressions.
There are two modes in which stop lists can be used. In the "AND" mode, every word that makes up an N-gram must be found in the stoplist for that N-gram to be eliminated. In the "OR" mode, any N-gram that includes at least one word from the stoplist will be eliminated.
Your stop list should be a plain text file that has one Perl regular expression per line.
For example, suppose your stop list consisted of:
[Note that \b indicates a word boundary in a Perl regex.]
Any N-gram that contains 'the', 'and', or 'of' would be excluded.
A note on counting. Suppose that the bigram "of the" occurred 700 times in a text and was excluded by an AND mode stop list. Let's suppose for this example that it is the only bigram excluded. The total sample size reported by count.pl would be 700 less than without the stop list. The frequency count for "of" occurring as the first component of a bigram would be reduced by 700, as would the frequency count for "the" occurring as the second component of a bigram. Note that the counts for "of" as the second component and "the" as the first component will not be affected by the stoplist. Note that without the stop list it will typically be the case that the first and second position counts for a word will be the same.
Can I have modifiers in my stoplist regular expressions?
No. :)
The documentation suggests that given a list of regular expressions such as:
NSP actually checks each regular expression one by one. Unfortunately if the list of regex's is very long, this becomes too slow computationally, and so instead we actually concatenate all the regular expressions to form one big regex, which is then used to do the matching. For example given the regexes above, they will be combined into a single regex, like so:
and then this regex is used to do the matching. Observe of course that this produces exactly the same effect as if we had done the comparisons one after another, and runs much faster. However the price we pay is that you can't use modifiers (things outside the / /'s) while defining the regex, since then we wouldn't be able to concatenate them together like we are doing now.
SB, with minor additions by TDP 01/09/03
Why is there a --stop and a --nontoken option for count.pl?
The stop option allows you to specify a stop list that eliminates Ngrams if they are completely made up of stop words (AND mode) or if one of the words in the Ngram is a stop word (OR mode). The effect of the stop option is to remove Ngrams from the sample.
The nontoken option allows you to eliminate words from the text prior to the formation of Ngrams. This processing occurs well before the stop option, which is carried out after Ngrams have been formed.
How can I disregard n-grams that cross sentence boundaries or other punctuation marks?
For example, in :
I am here today. Where are you?
I do not want to consider "today Where are" as a 3-gram.
There is a built-in option (--newline) to disregard Ngrams across the newline (\n), but there is not one to do the same across punctuation marks at this time. But you can use the existing functionality to accomplish the same!
Replace punctuation marks with new line characters and then use the option --newLine. This will disregard Ngrams that cross newline boundaries and thereby (in this case) cross punctuation marks.
For example, assume file "sentence.txt" is as follows:
this is a sentence. this is a sentence.
Then the following command-line script:
perl -e "while(<>){s/[.]/\n/g; print}" sentence.txt > sentence.tmp
would create the following in file "sentence.tmp": this is a sentence this is a sentence
(To use more punctuation marks, you'd want to put them inside the [square brackets])
And then if you run the following:
count.pl --token token_file.txt --newLine sentence.cnt sentence.tmp
the following is produced in file "sentence.cnt":
a<>sentence<>2 2 2
this<>is<>2 2 2
is<>a<>2 2 2
Of course, there'd be other ways of replacing punctuation marks with newlines. Programs like sed would probably do the trick too...
There's one problem in this approach though. Assume the following is your original "sentence.txt" file:
this is a sentence. this is a sentence.
Replacing '.' with \n would produce the following:
this is a sentence this is a sentence
And then if you use --newLine, you'd not be able to catch the second "is<>a" bigram.
To avoid this I would suggest the following:
1. First replace all new lines with spaces
2. Then replace punctuations with new lines.
The following command-line script seems to work:
perl -e "while(<>){chomp; s/[.]/\n/g; print}" sentence.txt > sentence.tmp
Be warned though that very long lines can lead to very slow processing.
SB, with minor additions by TDP
Questions about rank.pl
In rank.pl you use Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Why not use Kendall's tau or some other correlation measure?
The reason we use Spearman's measure is that it is geared towards correlation among ranked items. Kendall's tau can be used with the actual values of the ranked items. However, when comparing different kinds of tests of association such direct comparisons may not be meaningful. For example, the Dice Coefficient and the Log-likelihood ratio produce values that are on different scales, and you can't compare them directly. This is why we focus on comparing ranked values, which is why we use Spearman's.
Questions about kocos.pl
What is a kth order co-occurrence?
Two words are 2nd order co-occurrences if they occur with words that occur with a particular word. For example, suppose that we observe the following bigrams in a corpus of text:
telephone line
busy line
telephone operator
These are first order co-occurrences.
"telephone" and "busy" are said to be second order co-occurrences of each other since they both occur with "line". (Both are first order co-occurrences of "line"). Then "operator" is said to be a second order co-occurrence of "line" since it occurs with "telephone" which is a first order co-occurrence of "line".
These relationships can be visualized as graphs or chains.
line -> telephone -> operator
kocos.pl finds such kth order relationships among words.
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Satanjeev Banerjee email@example.com SB
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