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I think the play count details and date added details were actually there the very first time I opened MM.
But sometime after that the details disappeared on all computers.
Would the fact that I now have a slightly different folder structure make any difference?
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I guess it's safe to say that most flagship 5" smartphones in the market has a "mini" version – the HTC One mini, Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, Sony Xperia Z1f/s (a 4.3" Xperia Z1 for the Japanese market / the rumored international Z1 mini), and it looks like the Asus Padfone Infinity is no exception. Asus will soon be taking the curtains off its Padfone mini, the manufacturer has already sent out an invitation to media in its home country for a Padfone mini launch event.
But we don't have to wait till then to check out how it will look like, thanks to @evleaks, images of the Padfone mini have made their way to the internet ahead of the launch, showing off not only a smaller smartphone, but also a smaller tablet dock. Like most of the "minis" out there, the Padfone mini will come with a 4.3" display and less powerful hardware on the inside such as a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, a lower resolution display and only 3G connectivity instead of LTE. It will work like the existing Asus Padfone but instead of a full-sized 10" tablet, the Padfone mini will have a 7" dock.
Unfortunately though, the invitation is only for Taiwan with no hints of whether it'll get an international launch. If it does, will its new mini size and hopefully a more affordable price tag attract you to the Asus Padfone mini?
(Source: PhoneArena, @evleaks, Engadget)
A set of instructions appearing online appears to instruct users on how to unlock their next generation Xbox One and allow it to run Xbox 360 games. However, following this set of instructions only leads to the console to brick itself. The apparent hack comes from a set of options in the Xbox console which supposedly turns on the developer mode. From there, unsuspecting users are told that this will allow their consoles to become backward compatible.
Instead, the change of settings risks bricking the system. Something that is the exactly opposite of allowing you to play more games.
Reports have it that the prank originates from 4chan, and it wouldn't be too difficult to believe that. After all, they were the ones who came up with the idea that iOS7 makes iPhones waterproof. Another prank that left gullible users without a phone.
Gearbox and Telltale games are working on a new series of Borderlands games. This time, it will use the same episodic formula it used on the Walking Dead series. Development lead by Telltale will see a cast of characters who are not Vault Hunters.
Unlike the two previous Borderlands games, the new series will utilise the heavy storytelling elements that made Telltale famous. The trailer also includes someone who looks suspiciously like Handsome Jack.
There is no other news available, but 2014 will be a very interesting year for the Borderlands.
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Following the arrival of iPad Mini with Retina Display at Apple Malaysia's online store last week, the new tablet is now heading to external retailers this week. According to Mac City, Machines and Switch, the scheduled availability date for the tablet has been set at 12 December which is this coming Thursday.
As usual, the pricing for iPad Mini with Retina Display at these retailers are identical to Apple Malaysia's online store which ranging from RM 1279 for 16GB W-Fi variant to RM 2679 for 128GB 4G model. Just like the equally new iPad Air, customers are able to obtain iPad Mini with Retina Display either in Space Grey or Silver colourway.
So, if you are planning to order an iPad Mini with Retina Display from Apple Malaysia's online store today, don't do that just yet. Instead, head on to your favourite Apple retailers this Thursday to obtain your new iPad right away if possible – rather than waiting for the delivery guy to send it over.
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It's time once again for the festive season; A time where we scratch our heads constantly, making sure we don't leave gift buying to the last minute and end up getting Kinokuniya vouchers for everyone we know. Over the next 2 weeks or so, the Lowyat.NET editorial team will be sharing 5 different gift guides for 5 different types of people. Hopefully by the holidays, we'll have all the bases covered for you!
So in our first week, we tell you what are the ultimate gifts to buy for that photographer in your life. Now, all photographers would love to have more lenses but we all know that unless you're swimming in money, that's not a very practical thing to get for Xmas. Another thing is that unless you're a photographer too, a kit is quite a personal thing and unless you ask the person outright, you're going to most likely get something wrong! Here's a bunch of things that all photographers could use, for any budget!
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The iPad Air may have already been in our Malaysian market for a couple of days now but Celcom and DiGi both just unveiled their iPad Air bundle earlier this morning. If you wish to get the latest full-sized iPad from Apple but do not wish to pay the full price, check out what these 3 telcos have got to offer when you sign up for a contract with them:
*DiGi's iPad Air bundle comes with zero contract but if you port out or change plan before 24 months, the upfront and advance payment you made during purchase will be forfeited.
Visit Celcom, Maxis or DiGi to check out their individual deals.
Today is the 9th of December and if you've been patiently waiting to see what Celcom has got to offer for it's iPad Air bundle, here it is. Celcom is offering the new iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular, from as low as RM1,248 when you sign up for a Celcom First iPad data plan. The telco is offering the device with a 12- or 24-months contract with a monthly commitment from as low as RM50.
Celcom isn't the only one who unveiled their iPad Air bundle, it looks like DiGi too has taken the curtain off their iPad Air deals and as with previous iPad "bundles", DiGi is offering the iPad Air with zero contract but tries to tie you down with attractive rebates.
Unfortunately though, the telco has some pretty limited deals – only 1 variant and 1 tablet plan option – 16GB iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular (Silver) for the price of RM1,453 with an upfront payment of RM576 and advance payment of RM50. The early payment will be rebated back to you on a monthly basis and will be forfeited if you end the contract before 24 months.
Made available in Malaysia just 4 days ago, the iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular is also available with Maxis. For those who prefer to purchase the Wi-Fi only option or do not wish to sign up for a contract, the iPad Air is also available on the Malaysian Apple Online Store, as well as via various Apple resellers like senQ, Switch and more. Check out our recap post for the iPad air and find out where you can land your hands on one today, just in time for Christmas.
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PHOENIX – Elmer Lee Defoor, 52, of Phoenix, pleaded guilty on March 12, 2012, to False Claim Upon the United States, in federal district court in Phoenix.
"When an individual submits false tax returns to acquire fraudulent tax refunds, not only is the nation's treasury affected, but the law-abiding taxpayer is also harmed," said Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel. "The United States Attorney's Office will continue to work with our partners at the IRS to prosecute those who engage in fraudulent tax refund schemes."
Dawn Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation said, "Individuals who promote and participate in fraudulent tax refund schemes think they can make money out of thin air. There is no secret formula to get free money. Unfortunately, these schemes only result in law enforcement scrutiny and possible prison time."
In the course of his guilty plea, Defoor admitted that on Feb. 7, 2009, he knowingly filed and presented a claim for payment to the Internal Revenue Service which he knew to be false. The claim was in the form of his 2008 federal income tax return, in which he falsely claimed an income tax refund of $239,274 was due. Defoor also agreed to repay this amount to the United States. In order to assist the Court in determining the appropriate sentence in the case, Defoor also admitted that he knowingly filed two additional fraudulent tax returns on Sept. 27, 2008 for the 2005 and 2006 tax years. In the 2005 tax return, he falsely claimed an income tax refund of $76,233. On his 2006 tax return, Defoor falsely claimed a refund of $182,375. He also filed a fourth fraudulent tax return on Aug. 3, 2010, for the 2009 tax year. In the 2009 tax return, he falsely claimed a refund of $132,752. The false claims in each of the four tax years were primarily based upon claims that money had been withheld by various financial institutions on behalf of Defoor during each tax year and that he was entitled to the withholdings; no such withholdings ever occurred. In support of each claim, Defoor submitted various false Forms 1099 to the Internal Revenue Service.
A conviction for False Claim Upon the United States carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both. Sentencing is set before Judge David G. Campbell for June 18, 2012.
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A St Davids GP has hung up her stethoscope for the final time, having been a family doctor in the area for more than 30 years.
Dr Sara Hamilton started at the surgery in 1979, first working one day a week in St Davids and Solva surgeries, before taking on a full-time role. She has also served as medical officer for the lifeboat crew in St Davids for many years.
She said there had been a lot of changes in her time at the practice, including the expansion of the surgery from the previous surgery building, affectionately known as the "shoe box".
"When I started all the paper records were done on cards, then eventually we got a computer in the 'shoe box' and now we never write anything,"
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Although the number of patients at the surgery had remained at a similar level, Dr Hamilton said there had been big changes in the staffing arrangements.
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"This is a very privileged job as you're very personally involved in people's family life and you get to know people very well."
A special farewell tea party was held in the surgery garden on May 3rd to allow local residents, former colleagues and patients to give their doctor a send-off.
She was presented with the proceeds of a collection, which former district nurse Iona Davies said was "on behalf of the grateful patients of St Davids".
When asked about what she was going to do with her retirement, Dr Hamilton added: "I'm going to do the things I haven't had time to do, spend time in my garden, do some travelling, starting off in Wales.
"Also I've got a kayak I don't use very much and I'm going to see my family more often."
Practice leader Dr Gawain Shelford will be joined by a new GP, Dr Margaret Ferguson. All patients registered with the practice previously under Dr Hamilton, will be automatically transferred to the practice list in the joint names of Dr Shelford and Dr Ferguson.
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This with our next guest he says Republicans should give -- -- the tax cuts for the rich but they should make a demand of their own.
Ed -- this year -- worked with Mitt Romney big capitalist and on many times of -- the author of unintended consequences he say.
-- if you're gonna raise taxes you have to get something back right which is what.
I think that they should make any tax increase who rolling back the bush tax cuts for example.
Conditional upon reaching agreement that stops that from growing as a percent of GDP they can't possibly reach that agreement by the end of the year.
So I think that as part of if they shed.
Agree to.
Retro actively roll back the bush tax cuts if they can reach agreement.
Can't stopping -- but a lot of has I think they've already done enough deficit cut cut and -- excited close to being fuel costs have risen 30%.
You need 900 billion dollars of tax increases or spending cuts.
-- stop debt from growing as a percent of GDP going up the fiscal -- picture about 600 billion a year on the 900 billion he needs the need even more than that.
So where the president who wants to support his spending.
Needs enormous tax increases and public opinion says he can blame those tax increases successfully.
-- Republicans.
If he goes over the -- so his threat to go over the cliff I think is very credible and the I think the Republicans -- a very precarious negotiating position because if they're blame for this.
They could lose the house and if they lose the house.
The be enormous damage done -- the economy right and that's all they have left the Republicans terms control.
Is that house representatives -- help that want to lose that.
-- two years of -- -- your math for second it's a Big Dig into this so you're -- -- -- -- hundred billion give a one point one trillion dollar deficit -- you can -- about two a year -- you -- about 200 billion dollars a year.
So that debt doesn't grow as a percent of GDP it'll grow with 200 billion a year right -- -- -- trillion dollars of debt negro to -- -- we gonna get there are so the number goes up the tables so people know last week from the Democrats.
Just on the entitlements was like 400 deal over ten year over that's forty billion dollars that's something that's nothing and -- it went of the bush tax expire cut tax cuts expire people learning to over 250000.
That's fifty billion dollar to hear this that and raising dividends and capital gains and a state taxes get another fifty billion that's a 100000008800.
Billion dollar more.
The only way to get there is enormous spending cuts.
-- are enormous tax increases but only raise one point one trillion dollars a year of income taxes we need 900 billion dollars.
To close the -- feel like an 80% across the board tax isn't even realistic certainly isn't even realistic ought to close that entire Japanese have to make of the -- is it realistic at some point you can't wed -- -- heat and well as a percentage of about -- -- happens you know I got to take a step in the right direction and this is a two -- and go cheating strategy on the part of Democrats.
Let's go get fifty to a hundred billion dollars a year.
Out of peep out of the wealthy.
And then -- negotiate on the other 800 billion so -- should recognize that's just the down payment.
And your taxes are going up from there because even if you went off the fiscal -- you still really close to a 7%.
Marginal tax rate actually bring the thing in the balance.
What do you think of this idea even if we do go -- Avoid a fiscal cliff rather.
And the tax cuts happen with Democrats want them do you think that we're still gonna fall into recession because we're not getting meaningful deficit spending cuts.
I think at some point people will grow very fearful about debt continuing to rise of percent of GDP they haven't shown that fear yet.
And that when they come to terms with what needs to get done to stop it from growing.
When the president starts to make real proposals about the kind of spending cuts and tax increases that are needed I think the public's gonna be shot and then we will go.
On the other -- the point we're not seeing any message from the markets yet.
Interest rates are still very tame we're looking at the Dow let's just down thirty points markets -- really been to enough and I guess down down now to consecutive month in a row but.
Nothing worth getting alarmed -- that first one of the bond market is -- more important.
The fact that the yen is up forcing people to make a if they were to shoot up committed itself we -- going getting I'd be careful about -- we have enormous surplus of risk averse capital so interest rates are near zero.
Nobody wants to put that money to work because they're scared that's why the interest rates are low and even though the Dow is that.
-- thirteen that thousand really only had about a fourteen -- -- still it's not that today.
Optimistic about right here and you got -- -- Europe falling apart so that's helping US market encountered.
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MW3 has a cap to 91, and BF3 won't cut it to 120 fps. I want to experience the smoothness everyone is talking about... any game please. ^^ single 1080p monitor 120hz, no 3D.
Bad Company 2? Not being fortunate enough to have the card, I'm not really sure, but it would be worth a shot.
thanks. also your name suits this topic very well... seeing as how I am going for damn smooth gameplay xD also, is fraps the only program to use to see what fps I am at? it messes up some games for me so I tend to avoid it.
Any older game should do this. Try playing Unreal Tournament 2004 at 120fps. Your hardware is massively overpowered and will play it without a single dropped frame! The experience is very well worth it. It's available very cheaply now at www.gog.com (DRM-free) and on Steam. Note that the gog.com version seems to have the ut2004.ini file missing. This is an important configuration file and includes settings like vsync. I don't know why they did this and I don't know where the settings are stored on that version.
I think any game with lower settings can achieve 120FPS on a GTX680 and some even on highest settings so it's really up to you to decide what you want.
thats true and aslong as your machine is optimized, Also another factor is when Frames drop from 120 to 90 suddenly it can cause issues too. anything 60+ is good for any game honestly
+1 to this, any source game would work. L4D, HL2, CSS, TF2, DOTA 2 etc. try Dead Island my FPS in 6870 hits around 100+ FPS at many times without vsync, what more if 680 if you're into NBA then try NBA 2k12. no max limit afaik as I am getting as high as my VGA can. cant think of more games that go 120 easily, will think of more. PS. is there a TruMotion tech in Gaming or in PC??
Yes 60 FPS is I think the max the person can see even at adrenaline times.(30 is normal and 60 is like when you fall off a plane or play intense games) But, I don't know, when watching movies at 120 Hz TruMotion even if the movie itself is 30 FPS, It feels so Damn_Smooth vs watching it on 30 FPS.
Well, then you're just playing other games that aren't that beautiful anyways to achieve 120fps. Sure, play those.. but the games that have very high graphics settings can be turned down to achieve that FPS as well. Why limit yourself?
Beauty isnt everything, if Your Multiplayer Lags like hell and you know your Internet is up to snuf but your PC isnt the best, Smooth is a Must. Ive seen awesome players not use the best graphics settings in games and they couldn't but their games ran smooth as hell
ive detected Microstutter/lagginess over 60 FPS even. a Major dip in Frames from say 120 to 90 you notice it too


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When you pass the Grey Poupon, you're probably not thinking about nature's defense systems. But mustard's kick is not just for seasoning your sandwich, it's a plant's way of biting back. Recent research has found one reason why certain mustard plants carry these chemical compounds: in some environments a spicy taste may deter pests.
Molecular and field biologists from Duke University, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have investigated why two populations of mustard plants from the same species produce distinctly different spicy flavors. They detail their findings in the August 30 issue of Science.
The researchers studied the plant species Boechera stricta, a member of the mustard family. They looked at two populations of B. stricta growing in the Rocky Mountains, one in Montana and another in Colorado. Each population tastes spicy but in a slightly different way, suggesting a regionally distinct chemical composition.
The researchers selected these populations for their pristine natural environment, habitats that have seen little change in 3,000 years. Co-author and Duke University evolutionary geneticist Thomas Mitchell-Olds explains that this kind of environment allows biologists to answer questions about a species's evolution. In this case, it allowed the scientists to both consider the genetic variation of mustard plants and consider the still extant environmental factors that pushed this variation.
The researchers first analyzed specimens from the Colorado and Montana populations in the lab. They identified the chemical compounds that produced the differing mustard plants' spicy flavor. They also discovered how the plants produced these chemicals. Through careful molecular analysis, they pinpointed a single gene, BCMA, that encodes for an enzyme's activity. This enzyme is responsible for beginning the production of the compounds that give each variety of mustard its distinctive taste. Depending on the variant of the BCMA gene, the enzymes will produce the distinct flavor of either a Montana or Colorado mustard plant.
With the chemical and genetic differences identified, Mitchell-Olds and colleagues next went into the field to see how these plants survived in their respective habitats. The researchers planted thousands of Colorado and Montana mustard plants together on field sites in each state. They returned in the spring to count the leaves of each plant and quantify the damage done by hungry insects. As expected, the Colorado and Montana plants produced their distinctive Colorado and Montana spices, regardless of location. What was more intriguing, however, was the way insect populations responded to each.
Montana insects stayed away from Montana plants but devoured the Colorado variety. Their aversion suggests that the Montana mustard's spice is specially formulated to deter local pests. It's possible therefore that many generations ago, a mutation on the BCMA gene created a family of plants with the Montana spice that so successfully deflected bugs that this gene became common in the population.
The Colorado site told a slightly different story. These bugs had a less discerning palate, consuming the local and foreign mustards with similar gusto. The researchers need to investigate further to understand this difference, but they did observe that certain related plants fared better than others, suggesting that there are other heritable defense traits that serve in the Colorado environment as well. It is also possible that the difference reveals something about the Colorado insect population, such as a high spice tolerance. It could also suggest that the environment is more competitive, and ravenous pests must stomach a spice-induced tummy ache or face starvation.


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Thanks for Sharing is a well-meaning, sporadically entertaining and ultimately formulaic look at the struggles of a group of recovering sex addicts.
The characters are mostly likable, and the film takes a compassionate stance toward them. But it seems a glossy, overly neat take on what should be an explosive topic.
Adam (Mark Ruffalo) is a New York professional celebrating five years of sexual sobriety. He has a system to keep his urges under control — the city offers endless temptations — and attends 12-step meetings. One day, his sponsor, Mike (Tim Robbins), suggests that he start dating again. Enter Phoebe (Gwyneth Paltrow), a cancer survivor who is deeply into fitness and meets Adam at a food event.
The hitch: Phoebe has bad memories of an alcoholic ex-boyfriend, so Adam is afraid to tell her about his problem. Mike has issues, too. He's thrown for a loop when his druggie son (Patrick Fugit) returns home and insists he has gone cold turkey. Mike thinks the 12-step way is the only way and doesn't believe the young man, creating a rupture in the family (including Joely Richardson as the mother).
As the Adam-Phoebe relationship starts and stalls, Adam also becomes a sponsor to Neil (Josh Gad), an obnoxious, porn-addicted doctor who will lose his job because of his addiction. The butt of some of the film's rougher humor, Neil isn't serious about the program and needs to change his tune. He gets some help from Dede (singer Pink, credited under her real name, Alecia Moore), a hard-edged young woman who has realized she can relate to men only through sex.
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Elton John Says Madonna's Career Is 'Over,' Compares Her to a 'Stripper': Right On or Dead Wrong?
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Don't expect to hear an Elton John-Madonna mash-up anytime soon. In the latest spat in their long-running feud, Elton John told an interviewer that the queen of pop's career is "over"... and that the iconic pop star kind of looks like a "stripper."
"She's such a nightmare. Her career's over...and she looks like a f***ing fairground stripper. She's been so horrible to Gaga," he said in an interview that aired on Australia's Channel 7 program Sunday Night.
John's pal Lady Gaga happens to be the godmother of his son Zachary with partner David Furnish. Now, it's true that Madonna hasn't exactly been supportive of Gaga -- even implying that she copied one of her tunes -- but we still think Elton John is being pretty harsh. And knowing Madonna, she'll relish the chance to fire back where it hurts. Do you think Elton John is right about Madge?
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BIG BAD JOHN R. 2012/08/06 20:32:05Right On+16Elton John is so right. Madonna is having to use her body to get her name in the media. She is supposed to be a singer not a stripper! It is such a shame she has to stoop that low to get a audience to hear her.
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- FatherLiberty 2012/08/06 21:03:08Dead Wrong+2He and just about everyone else on this poll are the ones who are "dead wrong". Is Madonna still making money? She still performs and makes a lot of money, so OBVIOUSLY her career is not "over". She might be horrible and look like an elderly stripper, but if she is making money her career is not over. Its shocking I always have to explain these simple points to people....
You're absolutely right. I dont even like her, but I can concede that her career is definetly NOT over; she still makes a fortune and still has a huge fan base (she's never done anything for me).
- whateverbabynevermind 2012/08/06 21:02:06Right On+5She came to Vienna for a concert. She was two hours late, didn't apologize, just began singing, then started to complain about how much she hated the city and felt bad because the people were so stupid, and then she had her stupid machine gun show. She used to be great, now she's just clinging to fame with her Gollum arms.
Another reason I can't stand her, she is a stuck up piece of shyte and she thinks everyone should bow to her. If I ever met her I'd laugh on her ugly face.
- L K 2012/08/06 21:00:26Dead WrongNo, Madonna will be around for a long time. She is just getting used to aging in show biz. Once she comes to terms with it she will mellow out a little and get back on her own version of unique and quirky. And how can Elton John say those things? He's about as quirky as they get. He's the last person to criticize her since he's been crazy on stage too. I don't love this new stage the material girl is going through, but she always reinvents herself. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't.
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+1Madonna is finished now,She should just move over and let the younger ones have their tune. She should actually start helping young people make in this industry like some one helped her when she was young. She is over the hill now as far as being in the spot light. She needs to move over now. When older woman try to look young ,they look hard and worn out. She needs to give it a rest and retire from the music industry. She needs to help other now,don't be so selfish Madonna.
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The moment I take the end of a career from some old fruit is the moment I believe that Odumba wins the next election.
+4So does that mean you're going to end your career next time some "old fruit" tells you to?
Because it's pretty obvious Obama's going to win the next election. He is leading in projected electoral votes by 333-215.
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+1.....So what would you call what John is doing? He's an old guy with a baby, and he dresses up funny and tours and sings.......That's what we usually call "show business."
How is he not "using his body"? Not to mention he had a baby and played Rush Limbug's wedding to get his name in the media.
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What can't take the truth. It is physically impossible for him to have a baby.
Besides why does he need to get involved in the cat fight. Two tramps fighting and then he gets involved. I thought he was better than that. Guess not. -
When did Madonna stop using her body as part of her entertainment? She never started out as Barbara Streisand and likely when or if she turns that route, her career will be over.
- Kigan 2012/08/06 20:28:21
You say Madonna going after Gaga is a desperate antic, but Elton John going after Madonna isn't? B-i-a-s-e-d.
+2Madonna is washed up and knows it. So she does anything she can to try and get attention including attacking Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga is current and very successful.
Elton John has no need of such tactics. He is still well known. Going after Madonna is about Madonna, not him. Madonna going after Lady Gaga is about Madonna, not Lady Gaga.
Big difference.
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Teaching practice is given two hours every week. Students go to the nearby demonstration school(s) to practise teaching and at BTC pupils also come to the college to learn. The number of students is so big that it is not possible to practice teaching more than once during the term.
Students are organised in groups of 10. Each student is given one 30 minutes period to teach throughout the entire three months. Teaching practice is allowed only from std 1 to std 7. Std 8 is an examination class and school authorities are reluctant to let students handle this class for fear of disturbing the pupils.
Tutors give each student a topic in a given subject in a particular Standard to prepare. The student then consults the teacher in charge of that Standard to organise teaching and learning materials such as teachers guides and textbooks. Each group of students visits a classroom and observe their colleagues teach. The tutor responsible for each group is supposed to supervise at most four students in one session of two hours. So at the end of the teaching practice each student will have observed at least nine colleagues teach different subjects in different standards.
At the end of the session each group discusses together with their tutor the strong points and the weak points of each lesson. The tutor awards a grade to each of the students who taught. The assessment instrument uses a traditional form with 25 different skills or aspects of the lesson to mark on a range of 0-4. The marks are then converted into grades A to E, where A is the highest and E is the lowest grade, but most students get high grades mostly above B. Only very few get grades below C-, which is designated as fair.
Teaching practice at the college is fraught with problems. First the schools and college calendars are not synchronized, which cuts the number of weeks available. This means that a student is given a grade from one teaching session only. Sometimes these grades are given by school teachers who are not trained to do so. Tutors agree that this practice is ineffective because there is no micro - teaching or peer teaching to adequately prepare the students for the task. In addition the classes used in the schools are small and have adequate equipment while in reality the students will teach overcrowded classes with a few teaching/learning aids.
The grade given during this teaching practice does not carry much weight towards the final grade of the student. It is only used in the event of a student failing teaching practice during school based training. As a result this activity is not taken seriously and hence some tutors decide to leave the task of supervising to school teachers.
There is one consolation to the whole process. Discussions after each practice session provide opportunity for students to look critically at their own practice. In addition each student observes nine other students teach providing opportunity to learn from others. However the discussions that follow are said to be rather low key with very little participation from most students. Tutors need to be motivated enough to make this exercise worthwhile and get students to realise the importance of discussions after practice. Feedback from students indicate nevertheless that they value these opportunities to teach in a supportive and supervised atmosphere.


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In the on-going effort to make our services easier for our developers to use, we've created 4 new getting started with AlchemyAPI guides. These guides are intended for developers, and walk through the required steps to get up and running with AlchemyAPI. Areas covered include getting a key, downloading an SDK, configuring the SDK, and running example code.
Since all of our text analysis functions are accessed via a web REST API, we're pretty agnostic to your programming language choice. So that's why we've created several guides. Each guide is focused on getting started with a particular programming language, with the four guides covering Python, PHP, Ruby and Node.js. Look for more guides in the future as we create these for the other languages that we support with an SDK.
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The International Biosecurity Intelligence System, or IBIS, is a project that aims to detect and monitor emerging biosecurity issues. The results are primarily used by life scientists studying biosecurity for governments, but can also be used by farmers and other industry professionals to keep updated on biosecurity developments.
The first phase of the system that focuses on aquatic animal health is already live, and you can check it out at: http://aquatic.animalhealth.org/. Since news about threats to aquatic animal health can come from any source, anywhere in the world, the system relies heavily on automation. Everyday it scours the internet for information about emerging aquatic animal diseases, using a combination of RSS feeds, search engines, industry journals and twitter. Then, using AlchemyAPI, it extracts the title, text, author and locations from the content, which are fed into it's decision model to determine if the content is relevant to aquatic animal health. The end result is a list of articles pertaining to aquatic animal biosecurity issues, as shown in the screenshot below.
Emerging Aquatic Animal Health Threats via http://aquatic.animalhealth.org/
This is a great example of how the complex task of analyzing an incredible amount of data can be automated with the help of AlchemyAPI. This project is managed by the University of Melbourne, and like all resource-constrained institutions, manually reviewing all the data would be impossible. So all of us here at AlchemyAPI are proud that our services can help such an important project get off the ground.
GigaOM recently created an article on The Gigaom guide to deep learning: Who's doing it, and why it matters. It's a great article that gives an overview of what deep learning is all about, some common applications, startup companies and industry giants that are using it, and the possibilities for future developments.
In deep learning, computers learn by creating hierarchical representations using stacked neural network layers. Each new layer creates an abstraction of the layers below to understand more complex ideas. For example, in networks designed to perform facial image recognition, the first layers may detect lines or edges, while later layers are responsible for more abstract reconstructions of shapes, such as eyes or noses. Finally, the last layers put these abstract shapes together to form the face.
At AlchemyAPI, we use these deep learning techniques to power our text analysis and image recognition capabilities. By using massive amounts of data, GPU hardware and deep neural networks, we are able to increase both the number of things we understand and the accuracy of our systems. As the GigaOM article points out we are in good company; Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a growing number of startups including AlchemyAPI, are spending considerable R&D resources on developing deep learning technology.
Read The Gigaom guide to deep learning: Who's doing it, and why it matters.
Back in June of this year, we wrote a blog post about Article Optimizer, a tool created by Zack Proser. Article Optimizer analyzes your content for keyword density and suggests trending keywords and royalty-free images to help you produce more engaging content and get more traffic. A lot goes into the process of writing good content, and this tool aims to help make it easier.
You can check out Article Optimizer for yourself at: http://www.article-optimize.com/
We recently sat down with Zack (virtually of course) and asked him a few questions about Article Optimizer. Zack has been creating content for the web for several years now, and was initially overwhelmed by the number of "checkboxes" you had to hit to create successful content. Things like search demand, keywords, links, additional semantic info and which kinds of images and video to include. However, over time he came to the realization that the most successful content is informative, useful and fun to read.
So Article Optimizer was created as a tool to let the author focus on writing good content, and it will make sure you check all those boxes. In the background, Article Optimizer handles things like keyword density, figuring out the trending keywords, showing you competitive content, etc. Here's a portion of the report that was created for this blog post, and it even creates a shareable link of the report.
Since Article Optimizer does some heavy duty text analysis, Zack went with AlchemyAPI to help power the underlying technology for his app. He had used our API on a few past projects so he knew it would be a great fit for Article Optimizer. In fact, Zack "feels that Alchemy is a great choice whenever you want to imbue your program with a higher level of intelligence regarding the data it is working with."
One place where AlchemyAPI is especially helpful is finding related images. Zack uses our text categorization API to figure out the high level category of the content, and then uses that to find related images. On why this approach is better than just using keywords, Zack said, "I find the text categorization feature to be very accurate at determining what the entire article is about, so using this to search for images returns much better results than when I tried searching on the top keywords parsed from the text."
For the future, Zack is working on more tools to help writers. On the horizon is a fully featured content development environment to make writing high quality content even easier. We're looking forward to using that tool too!
Writing headlines is a sacred journalist art form. Headlines all at once must grab the reader's attention, convey what the article is about, but not give away too much, all in an effort to get the content read. What tricks do journalists use? What sells, good news or bad news? Do negative headlines capture more attention than positive headlines?
It may be that the latter question has been at least partially answered. According to a recent project created by a team of hackers from Dev Boot Camp - Chicago, negative headlines are much more commonly used than positive ones. The team analyzed over 140,000 headlines over several years from major news sites, including: CNN, Fox, MSNBC, HuffPost, Yahoo News and The Onion. They used AlchemyAPI's sentiment analysis API to calculate how positive or negative the headlines were from each source, then made a great visualization tool. Below is a screenshot of their analysis.
The headline sentiment of Fox, HuffPost and Aggregate
From this plot, nearly all of the headlines are on the negative side of the graph, with just a couple of short spikes into the positive range. You can also get some insight into how different news organizations write their headlines. For example, in the screenshot I chose to show two very different news sources, Fox News and the Huffington Post. While both organizations write headlines that are similar to the aggregate, i.e. typically negative, Fox is generally a little bit more negative than the aggregate, while HuffPost is generally a little bit more positive than the aggregate. While this doesn't convey anything about the quality or objectiveness of the writing, it possibly sheds at least a little bit of light on the style of how the headlines are written.
This is a very interesting use of sentiment analysis, and likely a much more in-depth analysis could be done on this data than we have space for here. An interesting addition to this data set would be to correlate this data with keywords or entities to see how each news site writes headlines for specific events or people over time.
If you'd like to view the data yourself, you can check out the project here: http://headlines-and-data.herokuapp.com/
Note taking in school has largely remained the same for hundreds of years. You listen to the lecture and write down the important stuff. Whether that was just on paper or on your laptop, it's pretty much the same. Enter "Know Your Notes," a hack created over the weekend at the recent hackMIT hackathon. It's a note taking application that utilizes AlchemyAPI to extract semantic information about your notes. It reads your notes, and identifies the concepts, entities and keywords, and links to related wikipedia articles where you can add to your understanding of the topics. Here's a screenshot of the application:
This is a great example of how you can use the power of natural language processing to get a more comprehensive understanding of topics you're interested in. Additionally, Know Your Notes has another great trick up its sleeve. It will read your notes, and use the relations extraction API to pull out the Subject -> Action -> Object relations. From these relations, it automatically generates flash cards where it hides one of the parts, as shown below.
This hack was an excellent example of how to utilize AlchemyAPI to enhance your content. Nice work to the team that created this application!
The relatively recent availability of personal data tracking products such as FitBit or Jawbone, plus a smartphone in nearly everyone's pocket, is making the quantified self a reality. The quantified self is a lifestyle where practically everything you do is recorded and analyzed, like calorie intake, steps walked, hours slept, miles ran, etc. At the recent hackMIT hackathon, a team created a quantified self tracking tool that's based on free-form text input. The user simply enters "I ran 7 miles today" or "I lifted 212 pounds 4 times," and LogYourDay uses AlchemyAPI's keyword extraction API to understand the text. Here's a screenshot of the user interface:
LogYourDay - a quantified self tool based on free form text
Once you've accumulated some data, and AlchemyAPI has extracted the keywords, it's time for the other half of quantified self: analysis. The team created a simple plotting interface where you can grab the keywords you're interested in and plot them over time. This makes it easy to see how many miles you ran each day last week, or the average number of hours you sleep each night.
An example a possible analysis
Pretty impressive, especially considering the team had just 24 hours to create this application. This hack is a great example of how you can take unstructured, free form text and with just a simple API call, turn it into useful data suitable for visualizations. What other ways can you think of to take random strings of text and turn it into helpful graphics?
At the recent hackathon at the University of Michigan, MHacks, there were dozens of applications that were built with the help of AlchemyAPI. One that stood out was Pyre, a website generation app that very quickly builds a basic website. The user simply types in the type of site they would like to build in a free form text box, and Pyre generates the template. Examples include, "build me a marketing website" or "I'd like to start a blog." The user clicks go and automatically has a template designed for their use case.
The Pyre Homepage (Pyre.co )
Pyre is able to translate this unstructured, free form text into an actionable command using AlchemyAPI's keyword extraction API. From the keywords in the text box, Pyre is able to understand what the user is asking for, and can automatically generate the desired site. This is an excellent example of how an application developer will have important information contained within an unstructured object, and as soon as some structure is added it's easy to take action.
Note that Pyre is still a work in progress, and it obviously can't account for every type of website that a user may desire. For example, when we requested Pyre to build "a social media website for dogs," it unfortunately couldn't build that so I just got a default template instead. Alas, maybe nobody could build that anyways.
To try out Pyre yourself, check out Pyre.co , or you can view a short demo video here: http://youtu.be/QsxUmaGrJr4
At the recent hackMIT hackathon, a team created an interesting mashup of data to help determine if people become more negative on Twitter if it's raining outside. With the help of weather data from WeatherUnderground, Tweets from across the country via the Twitter API, and AlchemyAPI's sentiment analysis API, the team was able to create this diagram:
Interesting visualization from http://cond.in/hackmit/
This visualization shows that while a little bit of rain has a mixed effect on Twitter sentiment, lots of rain quickly turns the average Tweet more negative. That makes sense. Here in Colorado where it's very dry we generally welcome the rain. But you can definitely have too much of a good thing, and it does get old if it drags on for more than a couple of days.
This is an example of the interesting analysis possibilities when you mash up quality data sources with AlchemyAPI's power text analysis capabilities. With more and more data becoming available through a multitude of quality APIs, what other interesting insights are waiting to be discovered?
An interactive version of the above plot can be found at: http://cond.in/hackmit/
If you're like most people, after a day of browsing and working on the internet, your Chrome browser can get pretty cluttered with lots of tabs. So many tabs, that you can't even see the page titles, just the favicons. This of course makes it challenging to find the tab and content that you're looking for.
Enter tabbr, a Google Chrome extension created over the weekend at MHacks, the recent hackathon at the University of Michigan that drew over 1,200 hackers from schools across the country. tabbr is a tab management tool that allows the user to quickly find the tab they are looking for. Hit ctrl + T to start a search, and then type in what you're looking for.
The search of course looks at the page names and the URLs, but it also using AlchemyAPI to search the keywords and concepts of each tab. This way, if you don't remember the exact name of the page but know there's a specific piece of content you're interested in, you can easily jump right to it. This is a great example of using AlchemyAPI to tag content for search applications. By utilizing AlchemyAPI to extract the keywords and concepts, tabbr is not only able to make the search much faster since the important keywords are all contained in a convenient data object, but it also allows higher level searching. Since concepts are the high-level themes or ideas expressed in content, and don't necessarily need to be explicitly stated in the text, it makes for a more intuitive search interface for the user.
To try out tabbr for yourself, please refer to the Google Chrome Webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabbr/pnlmkddpdkjapnghefahkniilfnodcol
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Science fiction's mad genius finally gets a fair shake. But will anyone care?
A funny thing happened to Philip K. Dick on the way to posthumously becoming one of Hollywood's most bankable authors: His name became synonymous with straight-faced, big-budget, action-oriented paranoid thrillers like Blade Runner and Minority Report.
Granted, cosmic paranoia permeates just about everything Dick wrote. But ask any Dickhead (as fervent Dick fans call themselves) about the thriller part and he'll tell you that there are few physical heroics or explosions in Dick's fiction. The typical Dick protagonist is a downtrodden schmuck trying to cope with the fact that the universe is falling apart around his ears, and his primary response is to swap a whole lot of crazy bullshit about the situation with other, equally garrulous characters.
Nobody takes a universe apart better than Dick, and Hollywood has been mining his stories for their ontological fireworks but stripping them of most other Dickian attributes, including the metaphysical chat and the absurd technologies that Dick would dream up but never quite fully explain.
For example, the characters in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the novel that inspired Blade Runner) preprogram their daily emotions with an appliance called the Penfield Mood Organ. At one point android-hunting cop Rick Deckard has a fight with his wife over the fact that she's scheduled herself for "a six-hour self-accusatory depression." Deckard suggests that she switch to "the desire to watch TV, no matter what's on," then ends up adjusting her mood to "pleased acknowledgment of husband's superior wisdom in all matters." (Nobody ever called Dick a feminist.)
When director Richard Linklater (Slacker, The School of Rock) undertook the adaptation of A Scanner Darkly for the screen, he promised Dick's two daughters (who control their father's estate) that he would be scrupulously faithful to the book, and he has indeed delivered a film that's miraculously true to the novel's nightmarish vibe.
Scanner, which Dick based on his own experiences as a speed freak in Marin County, California, in the early '70s, is set in a near future where addiction to a new drug called Substance D is pandemic. Dick's protagonist, played with suitable blankness by Keanu Reeves, is an undercover narcotics officer named Fred posing as a doper named Bob Arctor. For purposes of security (and Dickian absurdity), Fred's own superiors do not know that Fred is Arctor, and so order him to carry out electronic surveillance on himself. But as Fred's investigation into Arctor's life progresses, so does the damage that Substance D is doing to his brain, to the point that he eventually no longer knows that he's Arctor.
From a Dickhead's perspective, Linklater has done everything right. The overlay of rotoscope animation that Linklater previously used in Waking Life serves the hallucinatory atmosphere of Scanner but never tips over into psychedelic tedium. Linklater's screenplay preserves and in some cases even improves upon the novel's stoned, maddeningly circular dialogue. And for once a flaky Dickian technology has made it to the screen in the form of the "scramble suit," a computerized membrane upon whose surface flicker randomized combinations of millions of people's facial and bodily features. The suit supposedly enables narcs like Fred to conceal their identities whenever they need to break cover, though of course its real purpose is to metaphorically paraphrase Dick's obsession with the instability of human identity.
Unfortunately, it looks like a mass audience for uncut Dick might not exist. Dickheads have been predicting an imminent groundswell of popularity for their favorite author since the early '70s, but the only place Dick has ever managed to transcend cult status is France, where he's worshipped as a literary god. And the critical response to Linklater's excellent film has been largely negative, with most complaints relating to the very things that make it a true translation of Dick's idiosyncratic vision, i.e., it's too talky and doesn't make much sense.
It'll be a shame if the film doesn't find an audience, because cinematic integrity of this kind is too often its own reward. But at least Linklater can count on it doing well in France.
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We are getting our first look tonight at the volunteer who was killed at Project Survival Cat Haven in the Sierra foothills.
CBS47 has learned the victim is 24-year-old Dianna Hanson from Seattle.
She was mauled to death by a lion.
The lion was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy.
The victim's body was removed from the site Wednesday evening.
Dianna Hanson's family said she dreamed of being a zoo keeper. Her Facebook page features photos with some of the exotic cats at Project Survival Cat Haven.
Hanson had started a six month internship at the sanctuary in January.
Her father drove her to California. He spoke by phone from Washington state.
"I got to meet the lion Cous Cous. He was immediately her favorite, that and the tiger," said Dianna's father, Paul Hanson.
We took video of Cous Cous inside the lion enclosure at the Cat Haven when we visited a year ago.
Authorities say Dianna Hanson was inside the enclosure when Cous Cous attacked. Another employee tried to get the lion away from her, but with no success.
Staff called 9-1-1 and a sheriff's deputy shot and killed the lion.
Hanson died at the scene.
Dale Anderson, the found of the Cat Haven, raised Cous Cous by hand since the lion was 8 weeks old.
He read a statement expressing his sympathy to Hanson's family.
"We are deeply saddened by the events of today. Our hearts go out to the families and friends of our volunteer as they deal with this loss," Anderson said.
California has some of the toughest regulations in the country when it comes to exotic animals.
And the Cat Haven has an excellent safety record.
In 2011, we saw the security features at the facility. Each enclosure is surrounded by a reinforced fence. Employees have to pass through two gates to get to the animals. And each cage is padlocked.
Hanson's father said she wanted to be close to the animals.
"That place said you couldn't go into the cage. I remember she was pretty disappointed they wouldn't let her go into the cage with the lion and the tiger. But she went into the cage with all the other animals," Paul Hanson said.
We don't know yet why Dianna was in the lion enclosure.
The lion's body has been taken to a state facility for examination. Authorities want to see if there is any medical reason the lion may have attacked.
The Fresno Sheriff's Department, California Department of Fish and Game, CAL OSHA, and the USDA are all looking into the incident.
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Oxford United victory so sweet for Potter (From The Oxford Times)
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Oxford United victory so sweet for Potter
9:20am Monday 9th September 2013 in Sport By David Pritchard, Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458
ALFIE Potter admitted Oxford United's 2-0 win at Burton Albion was even sweeter after suffering a hammering in the same fixture last season.
The winger broke the deadlock with a superb individual goal, before Danny Rose added a second late on to finally kill off the Brewers, who played for nearly an hour with ten men.
It stretched United's unbeaten start to the season to six games, while inflicting a first defeat of the campaign on Burton.
It also means that the U's have won all three league games on the road this season.
Potter was thrilled with the result, particularly as it came almost exactly a year on from a 4-0 defeat at the Pirelli Stadium.
"The boys were talking about it before," he said.
"That was probably the most disappointing game I've ever played in and we weren't going to let it happen again.
"We have a very experienced team and you can see how close everyone is on the pitch.
"Everyone works so hard for each other and if we ever get beaten like we did here last year this season, I'd be very disappointed with the squad we've got."
He added: "The boys who were here last year know they were hard times when we went on a losing streak and there's no way we'll let it happen again."
Potter's third goal of the season bore a striking resemblance to his effort at Burton two seasons ago after a mazy dribble and finish.
He said: "It's crazy, like a carbon copy. I'm delighted to score again.
"All the boys are saying the finish two years ago was better, but I'd take any goal.
"The gaffer wants me to be positive and that was in my mind. Fortunately I beat my man and got my shot away and it went in."
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