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Catching fireflies retail shop signs lease to open in Ann Arbor's Kerrytown
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The duo signed a lease to open catching fireflies, a "whimsical gift gallery," in the 2,850-square-foot space at 419 Detroit St., across the street from Zingerman's Deli.
"When we saw that building for rent, we were like, 'Wow, what a unique opportunity 15 years later to come full circle and open a store less than a block away from where it all started,' " April said.
As small business owners, the McCrumbs do it all: they operate catching fireflies stores in Berkeley and Rochester, Mich., they sell handmade photo frames and paper goods to more than 400 stores in the U.S., and they run an online store and blog.
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April said because business is going well, it made financial sense to open another store.
"We solely add other locations when our bank account can handle it," she said. "In the last couple years, we opened a store called (Yellow Door Art Market) next to our store in Berkley. It made catching fireflies more successful."
April describes the gift gallery as carrying "a little bit of everything." Decorated in bright colors with unique displays and fixtures, the stores sell accessories, kitchen gadgets, baby gifts, wedding gifts, retro candy, seasonal items, and bath and body products.
"The idea is if you're looking for a gift for anything we hope to fill your needs," she said.
Emerald Dragonfly most recently occupied the building on Detroit Street, which is owned by Treasure Mart owner Elaine Johns. Emerald Dragonfly closed in March after five years in business, and the building was then listed for lease with Swisher Commercial's Mike Giraud and Randy Maas for $19.50 per square foot.
"These shops are absolutely adorable," Johns said. "We just found them to be delightful people; they're very enthusiastic and have lots of cute ideas."
Maas added: "(The McCrumbs) do a lot of marketing, so we feel they'll be successful. They are also very active in the communities where they have stores."
That involvement, April said, includes being active with local charities and being very active on social media.
She hopes to open the store in March, after completing a build-out on the space. Plans include knocking down a wall to make the entire space visible, and painting the building turquoise with purple awnings. April recently submitted a request to Ann Arbor's Historic District Commission to install the awnings.
"We definitely have a lot of personality and we wanted to show that on the outside and inside of our building," she said.
"People will know something different is going on in that space. The building has lots of character which really drew us to it; it fits our personality," she continued.
April plans to hire a small team of employees starting in February.
Lizzy Alfs is a business reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at 734-623-2584 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lizzyalfs.
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I love the store in Berkley, so am thrilled to see it coming to Ann Arbor. I think it will be a great addition to the Kerrytown area.
Mon, Dec 3, 2012 : 4:06 p.m.
I miss The Tree even more than Billy does. Luckily there are three great places in Saline to got to, but not like The Tree.
Mon, Dec 3, 2012 : 2:25 p.m.
Congrats! I'm looking forward to visiting. I've heard great things about "Yellow Door".
Mon, Dec 3, 2012 : 12:32 p.m.
I miss the tree a LOT.....


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Last update in Grand Caravan gallery: 2010-10-29
In the atelier of Speedkore made an Evolution Maskar on the SEMA show, which looks like Dodge Charger from 1970.
Previously Dodge said that the cult American supercar will not receive any receivers.
YouTube channel Cars Evolution has distributed a new video, dedicated to the history of companies and their models.
Dodge is boasting new accessories and details for this year's Durango at the Auto Show held in Chicago.
Many people think that the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk producing 707 hp sounds ridiculous. However, imagine the identical Hellcat engine found in a 3-row Dodge Durango under the hood.
Dodge issued a recall for 1,299 Charger and Challenger Hellcats because they might be prone to a "rapid loss of engine oil".
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You spent big bucks on a CAD system, but you still don't see the gains you expected. Time is money, but your CAD system seems to soak it up. What efficiencies are you missing out on?
Let's look at CAD efficiency for the CAD station user, the systems administrator, the design engineer, the project manager, and the sales person.
For the CAD station user. Tip No. 1: Build it and they will save. Build or buy a library of reusable objects, blocks, and shapes. This library will save you drawing time and reduce rework. You'll have standards-compliance built in. Look at any 5 drawings you have done. Do you see common elements between them? How about drawing borders and title blocks? Other examples include panel schedule layouts, switches, receptacles, data jacks, and ground rods.
Assign block attributes, where applicable. Attributes for equipment include voltage, ampacity, and AIC ratings. You can assign attributes to title blocks: drawing title, project number, scale, and revisions. For text, assign style, height, insertion point, justification, and color. Attributes are easy to edit, and you can manipulate them in a database to provide equipment schedules or other information.
Tip No. 2: Feed your brain. Just as electrical people need a magazine like EC&M, so do CAD people need a CAD magazine. Find one and subscribe. Educators often point out the value of absorbing information in small chunks on a regular basis. This kind of education is exactly what trade magazines provide. Deborah Atherton, a former CAD director for an instrumentation company in Texas, made a practice of distributing photocopies of magazine articles and key pages in CAD books to CAD users in her firm.
Make sure to get permission from the publisher before using this form of "pass along" readership. Most cities have CAD users groups, which are a solid resource for improving your CAD skills.
For the CAD systems administrator. Tip No. 3: Use the right tool for the job. Slow computers mean slow CAD work. CAD drawings, being so math-intensive, hunger for CPU power and RAM. Most purchasers buy a fast CPU, but the system is wimpy because it lacks sufficient RAM. For many types of CAD operations, 128 MB is the bare minimum, with twice that much still considered modest. Are you using a business-grade operating system, such as UNIX or NT? If not, you are losing money. Also consider a multiple hard drive setup with system file distribution (pagefile on one drive, OS on another, program on a third), to boost system speed.
A weak video card means inaccurate and slow redraws, leading to errors, frustrated operators, and less output. Today, a 128-bit/8MB video card is under $90. You'll need a high resolution and a fast refresh rate (typically 75 Hz or higher). Make sure your card can drive that 21-in. monitor (at 75 Hz or more). A 21-in. monitor is now available in a high-performance configuration for under $900.
Tip No. 4: Keep your act together. Defragment and backup often. You can get free disk defragmenters from the Internet. Backup to removable media daily and after each major evolution of a project. If you do not have strict backup policies that require a combination of removable media, you are courting disaster. Hard drives do fail, and new viruses can wipe out NT workstation data. You must make backups in case of employee misconduct, accidental deletion, theft, fire, and natural disasters. If you have remote backup of your system, you can get your drawings to another office and head off a disaster.
For the design engineer. Tip No. 5: Lighten up. Most CAD programs have a "light" version. These programs cost substantially less than the full version of the software. They also require fewer computer resources to operate. A "light" version is the answer when you travel without access to a full-blown CAD station. The "light" file format saves on file size, so you can e-mail or FTP drawings; with reasonable efficiency; between locations. It also has a short learning curve, compared to a full-blown system; you may want to use the "light" version so you can focus on design instead of drawing.
Tip No.6: Set a new standard. Define standards at the start of a project; not after work progresses to the point of needing rework to meet standards. The standards should include text styles, fonts and heights, line types, layer names and colors, title blocks (and borders) and drawing sizes. People invariably find a need for special fonts, hatches, and symbols. You should have a standard policy that all such items go to the CAD manager to maintain standardization. If your company does not have such a policy, you would benefit from making a case for one. The standards provide for drawing uniformity and reduce CAD time.
Consider standardizing in other ways. For example, linking drawings is a wonderful timesaver. You can generate a floor plan once and then use it in multiple additional drawings. No need to reproduce the same drawing over and over. But what happens if you need to change the basic drawing? With unlinked drawings, you need to make the same change to every drawing based on the floor plan. With a linked drawing, things are different. To add a door or move a wall, do so in the one floor plan drawing. When you initiate an update (usually this happens automatically when you open a drawing) in any drawing linked to that floor plan, that drawing will automatically include the changes made to the floor plan. There is a price to pay: when you send an electronic copy of a drawing, you must also send all drawings that link to it, as well as any special fonts or linetypes.
For the project manager. Tip No.7: Stay on the straight and narrow. One way to keep the main drawing on the server and assign layers to certain. One of those people should be the project manager, who has an annotation or comments layer. The project manager simply opens the drawing as read only, and composes comments off-line. Then, when the comments are ready to add to the drawing, the project manager temporarily locks the drawing for exclusive use, and pastes the comments in place in the pmcomments layer. When a project engineer opens the drawing later, the comments appear. If it's a high activity drawing such that the engineer cannot release it for someone else to lock it out, there is another technique you can use.
You create a linked drawing (see Tip No. 6. Copy an existing project drawing to a new name (you might just append "CP" to the name). Then create new layers for both the critical path parts of the drawing and the comments. Use these layers (with a special color and linetype) to mark the drawing with its critical path information. Work with the team to develop a system that won't interfere with the work. When you've marked everything, delete all layers except the critical path ones. You now have a critical path drawing you can annotate whenever you need to, without touching the engineering drawing. And you can see the engineering drawing whenever you need to update critical path annotation layer.
A third way, if your CAD package allows it, is not to create critical path layers, but just a comments layer. You create a project management copy of the original drawing. Link the project management drawing's comment layer to the original and the original drawing's other layers to the project management one.
Tip No. 8: Foil costly plotting. Using a technique similar to that in Tip No. 7, you can eliminate costly plotting when you must make changes. Create a layer called "change notes" to keep everyone on the project informed. This means no more distributing uncontrolled paper. No more making updates per superceded notices. Make a layer that links, and you have automatic notification. Remind people to turn this layer (and the critical path one) on at the start of each drawing session.
For the sales person. Tip No. 9: Keep the momentum. You know to close a sale when a prospect is "ripe." But, suppose your prospect wants a design preview. In the past, you may have said, "I'll locate a drawing like that and get back to you." Then you waited a week for Engineering to find and plot one for you. You can no longer afford to do that. Today, you keep a database of sample drawings on your laptop. If you do power distribution, you should be able to pull up linked drawings that show plan views, one-lines, bills of materials, and basic Gant charts. This gives the prospect crucial information for understanding the budgetary and scheduling impact of the project. And it puts you in a position of knowledge and power.
Tip No. 10: Get webbed. Don't you hate it when you forget paper materials for a presentation; or your prospect never reads what you leave? You need to go to the next level: walk your prospect through a tour of your Web site. Become familiar with what customer benefits and needs the Web site satisfies. Identify what it does not satisfy, and address those to people responsible for content. Consider drawings online. You may be able to set up a URL just for your prospect, and load in appropriate CAD work. You can password that directory and give your prospect 24-hr exclusive access to you.


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From Shane Claiborne's Irresistible Revolution:
"When we get to heaven, we will be separated into those sheep and goats Jesus talks about in Matthew 25 based on how we cared for the least among us. I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say 'When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me', or, 'When I was naked, you donated clothes to the Salvation Army and they clothed me.' Jesus is not seeking distant acts of charity. He seeks concrete acts of love: "you fed me...you visited me in prison...you welcomed me into your home...you clothed me."
"It is much more comfortable to depersonalize the poor so we don't feel responsible for the catastrophic human failure that results in someone sleeping on the street while people have spare bedrooms in their homes."
"And Jesus did not set up a program but modeled a way of living that incarnated the reign of God, a community in which people are reconciled and our debts are forgiven just as we forgive our debtors (all economic words). That reign did not spread through organizational establishments or structural systems. It spread like disease- through touch, through breath, through life. It spread through people infected by love."
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The Greatest Camera Firmware Hack of the Year! (1080p Video Recording with EOS 50D!)
(Above: Canon EOS 50D with 1080p video recording function!
Credit: http://www.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/201109/01/20110901400_1.htm, Simplified Chinese)
Further to the last year famous and popular firmware hack for the GF1 for unleashing 1080p video (GF1 originally supported only 720p video recording), I have seen recently the greatest firmware hack of the year, also making 1080p video, but for the EOS 50D, which originally had NO video recording but only pure Live View function as designed! :-o
See: http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Unified
(A Chinese Tutorial can be found Here (Google-translated to English))
Well, with this hack, 1080p/30 frames video recorded in a maximum length of 12 minutes is made possible, but there will be no sound - as the 50D has no microphone built-in non there is any mic input, of course.
And some screen captures of the properties of the recorded video:-
(Credit: http://www.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/201109/01/20110901400_2.htm, Simplified Chinese)
Disclaimer: Do anything at YOUR OWN RISK! (Though a number of successful reports have been seen in some forums.)
Wow! I just wonder why there has never been any firmware hack for any Pentax DSLR now?! Even nobody ever knows how to enter the debug mode of the current Pentax DSLRs of K-5 and K-r! Why? No hacker is using any newer Pentax body?? Or the latest Pentax DSLR firmware is so strong and secure that it can never be hacked? ;-p >_<
Btw, if there is one capable hacker in the Pentaxland, would you please hack our K-x and K-r cameras to first have 1080p video and then preferably with some kind of video motion compression codec! Thanks in Advance! ;-D


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How to Use Location Services on iPod Touch
Perhaps nothing is more personal than your physical location. With Location Services on your iPod touch, apps like Maps (and lots of third-party apps like Google Earth, SkyOrb, Eventful, Foursquare, and various travel apps) can grab this physical location information and use it to help you find things closer to you.
For example, the Maps app can find your location on the map, which is very useful for getting directions. The Camera app adds location information to each photo or video you shoot, which is very useful when browsing pictures using the Places icon in the Photos app.
An iPod touch can find itself in the physical world by leveraging the most extensive Wi-Fi reference database in the world. You need to be connected to Wi-Fi to use Location Services on an iPod touch.
You can turn Location Services on or off by choosing Settings→Privacy→Location Services from the Home screen, and then tapping the Off button for Location Services at the top of the screen to turn it on or tapping the On button to turn it off.
The Location Services setting at the top of the screen turns on the services for all apps. You can also decide which apps can use Location Services.
Each app you used that requested your location within the last 24 hours appears in the Location Services screen, showing whether Location Services has been turned on or off for that app. Tap the On button for each app to turn it off for that app.
A purple icon appears next to any app that has recently used your location, or a gray icon appears if the app used your location within the last 24 hours. An outlined icon appears if the app uses geofencing — a virtual perimeter around a location that provides the app (such as Reminders) with a way to notify you when you arrive at or leave the location.
Turn Location Services off if you are not using apps that make use of it, to conserve battery power or maintain privacy about your location. After turning it off, your iPod touch prompts you to turn it back on if you run an app that makes use of Location Services (such as Maps).


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Seeing lower Manhattan without power was a surreal experience. This is traditionally a city that never sleeps. One in which the lights are always on. One that is always bustling with people. When the lights went out it was wholly different. This piece is meant to capture and relay the feeling of what it was like to walk around the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.
See all of Jared's photos here: jaredlevy.me/gallery/hurricane-sandy-lower-manhattan/
Stills / Voice: Jared Levy jaredlevy.me
Timelapse / Music: Michael Marantz michaelmarantz.com
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I am looking through my stuff as I used to work for an Alerton Dealer. The numbers / code ring a bell for me.
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
No. 187
Snow Day! Parks Hosts Fun, Free Winter Snow Activities For Youth
Please see the updated release for info on January 27 snow day.
Date: December 27, 2010
Time and Location
Bronx: Crotona Park (Fulton Avenue and East 172nd Street)/11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Brooklyn: Prospect Park (near the Tennis House)/11:00a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Manhattan: Riverside Park (Riverside Drive at 103rd Street)/11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Queens: Juniper Valley Park (78th Street & Juniper Valley North)/11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Staten Island: Clove Lakes Park (Martling and Slosson Avenues)/11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Event and Photo-op
New York City youth take to the parks for fun, free snowy activities hosted by NYC Parks & Recreation. Snow Day sites (one in each borough, locations listed above) will host FREE, supervised outdoor recreation and winter fun for youth, including sledding, snowman and snow angel contests, friendly snowball fights, music and complimentary hot chocolate. Urban Park Rangers will provide winter walks and nature activities.
This event is free and open to the public. Sleds will be available to borrow.
Due to the extreme weather conditions, all Parks Recreation Centers will close at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 27.


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Obituary: Mary Jane Buckler
Mrs. Mary Jane Buckler, age 83, of Flowery Branch, GA, passed away on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, at Willowwood Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald E. Buckler.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Debbie and Rod Bogey and Donna and Ron Swafford; granddaughters, Terri Spears and husband, Louis Spears and Gillian Buckler; grandsons, Johnny Lee and wife, Catherine Lee, Brian Robinson and wife, Beig Robinson; and Geoffrey Buckler; great grandchildren, Morgan Spears, Chase Spears, Kennedy Spears, Mary Joyce Friends, Isabelle Friends, Ellie and Ray Lee and Bryce Robinson.
Mrs. Buckler was born June 15, 1929, in Macon, GA. She was a retired real estate agent. She was a member of Blackshear Place Baptist Church in Oakwood, GA.
Memorial service will be held on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Ronald Swafford, Sr. officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.


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There are many important gameplay elements in DotA that are not present in League. Items and skills are also far more varied and have more of an impact on gameplay in DotA when compared to League. This coming from someone who has a great understanding of both League and DotA (~1.3k League games played and ~400 DotA games).
I have a lot of friends that I played League with who have been trying out DotA recently and literally ALL of them complain that DotA is far more complex than League. Literally anyone who has played both games for a decent amount of time will tell you that DotA is unquestionably more complex, unless they are lying or have not played both games enough.
Alot of the abilities between LoL and Dota 2 are exactly the same. You could say they both copy eachother but who knows or cares.
The item system in Dota 2 is as complex as the Rune/Mastery systems in LoL, I.E not at all, I.E As complex as going to elitest jerks for WoW talents.
IF you really think the item system that you spend a maximum of 10seconds using during a match of Dota 2 adds complexity to the game then.. whatever floats your boat.
Dota 2 is not hard
LoL is not hard
Yeah the only champion i have really played is juggernaut in Dota 2, The only champions i play in LoL are Nunu and Karthus. I have only lost 1 match in Dota 2 and that was my one and only bot match against expert bots. Juggernaut i build Agility boots and stack battlefuries, I'm unstoppable and carry my team. Karthus/Nunu i build Glass cannon AP builds, I'm unstoppable and carry my team. Both games are easy, both games aren't hard. The complexities of both games take an hour at most to get used to, but then you never really think of them again. Neither are best.
I will say again what they need to fix in Dota 2, Give more rewards to make you want to keep playing, And fix the awful camera. i remember when people used to bash games for their horrible cameras, i don't understand why people don't do it for Dota 2. In LoL the camera distance is perfect and you can see you're entire revealed area around your champion. In Dota 2 all the way zoomed out you can only see like 15 feet around your champion, Example would be someone can gank you without you seeing them even though they are within your revealed fog of war, that is a HUGE game flaw.
They need to fix alot of stuff if they don't want dota 2 to remain a very niche game, they need to show something that they are above LoL and HoN, right now they are just trying to make it as much as the original as possible, you may say this is good and i would agree, but they won't make the money to maintain the game that way. I wan't Dota 2 to be a success.
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wow ow ow ow...
are they really gonna add Rubick?
When is it released
But, i do play other champions i just prefer to faceroll people, I own 29 champs and know all the ins and outs of every champion of the league.
Zefie, he's saying he goes glass cannon Nunu & Karthus and is +1400, therefore being qualified to talk about LoL and DotA2 as if his opinion is important and worth something. Try to not take him so seriously.
Doesn't matter to me at all, I was just curious about it.
Also, Zefie, thanks a lot for the offer on showing me around. I'm actually in the field at the moment with a really crappy connection and not a lot of time, but after summer, when the fieldseason is over (I'm a biologist) I should have more time, and would be thankful if you could show me around a bit =)
As far as the rune discussion goes a while back-
There is definitely some luck involved here, which is why bottle mid with movement skills (qop, weaver, storm) are so popular. The only real way to counter these heroes is to sit on the rune spawn yourself, and if it spawns on the other side, well tough luck. You can't send a side lane to cover the rune 1v1 against a mid, you really can't. You're going to send your CM bot to cover bot rune against a qop at 4 minutes? CM is level 3 and QoP is 5 or 6, CM is going to die, straight up, rune or no rune. And you're not going to send the carry and waste two minutes of his farm just on the offchance he actually gets a rune.
It's not a big enough deal for me to cry about it though. I still consider rune control more skill than RNG. If runes are really that big of a deal to you, you can swap out hard supports for roamers/gankers/carry supports who CAN camp runes with your mid. And that's what it comes down to, pick choices like that that offer you different strengths and weaknesses throughout the match. The more you remove things like rune RNG, the more you remove the need for map control, the closer we get to LoL meta (1 top 1 mid carry/supp bot jungler lewl)
The random gold goes all the way back to RoC DotA from what I remember. It's just a kickback to how gold rewards work in ladder games, and there hasn't been a reason to change it. I guess at this point that makes it more flavor and tradition than anything else. If anyone has a better reason I'd love to hear it, but I'd be pretty skeptical.
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People do do that, but if you're not faster than the other mid hero or he leaves for the rune before you and gets lucky (50/50 chance isn't that lucky either) then you miss the rune. Rune controls aren't as much for the rune anymore as they are for vision on the major gank lane that is the river early game. Most mids will sit on runes as they spawn, unless they picked a hero like QoP who can teleport to them. And if you're against a hero like QoP you HAVE to sit on runes or she's getting every single one of them.
I'm still surprised midweaver has gone out the door, that used to be mega popular. Even with QoP you won't beat 522 movespeed to the runes.
Wait sorry I'm a nub. How do they sit on the rune when it spawns? Is it on a timer or do they forgoe farming the lane and just sit there?
It's every 2 minutes on the dot. You leave your lane at 1:50 or so and you'll be standing on the spawn location at the right time, you don't have to miss more than a creep or two in lane which isn't really a big deal.
Oh shit I didn't know that. Thanks! Starting just after the horn? I'll have to get a timer.
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So lame. I was 8-1 with BH rocking this sven/drow combo on top lane who died so fast. Then the game just hits a hug lag spike and tells me to download the latest client. Apparantly it downloads the client as your playing and wanted to install but I didn't have the hdd space. It was lame.


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INTERVIEW: Tanger CEO Says Outlet-Mall Giant Eyeing Markets Across Canada
By Karen Johnson
The giants of the outlet-mall world have their eyes on Canada.
One of those giants, North Carolina-based real estate investment trust Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc., already has three locations north of the border and is working on widening its footprint. Next week, Tanger and partner Toronto-based RioCan REIT, Canada's largest retail landlord, will break ground on a new outlet mall near the capital city of Ottawa, and are in the process of expanding an outlet mall purchased two years ago in Cookstown, an hour north of Toronto.
Later this year, they'll also undertake big-scale expansion projects at two outlet malls they own in Quebec. And next year, they hope to break ground on another project near Calgary, Alberta. By the end of the decade, Tanger hopes to have up to 10 shopping centers in Canada.
Tanger President and Chief Executive Steve Tanger to Canada Real Time this week about the allure of the north and the company's plans for the Canadian market.


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Denver chefs compete in Rocky Ford cantaloupe recipe cook-off
Biting into a slice of juicy melon is a great way to start a summer day, but when you're ready to be a little more adventurous, there are countless ways to prepare cantaloupe. A handful of local chefs and restaurants were asked by the Rocky Ford Growers Association to tap their creativity and share samples on a recent lunch hour with passersby on Denver's 16th Street Mall as well as some judges.
The ringer at the judge's table was Michael Long, a chef, restaurateur and host of The Main Course on KEZW 1430 on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Avid home cooks Kristen Kidd and I joined in. We sampled shrimp poboys with cantaloupe relish from J.P. Rouse of Aloft Hotel in Broomfield, cantaloupe "carpaccio" from Gregory Sever of the University of Denver, and an artful assemblage of melon, cheese and greens from Garren Teich and Jonas Halstead of Restaurant 1515.
It was a hard contest to judge, but the best recipes, from Chris Meier, executive chef at Willie G's Seafood & Steaks at 15th & Lawrence, were for a pork tenderloin with cantaloupe "molasses" and "kimchee" and a sea scallop with cantaloupe relish and "caviar." (We swear Meiers' win had nothing to do with the delicious Cantaloupe Fizz Culinary Cocktail that accompanied his dishes).
Here are Chef Meier's recipes.


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New York Invasive Species Awareness Week.
The mission of the New York Invasive Species Awareness Week (ISAW) is to promote knowledge and understanding of invasive species and the harm they can cause by engaging citizens in a wide range of activities across the state, and empowering them to take action to help stop the spread. This annual education campaign is comprised of various outreach initiatives and events led by partner organizations statewide. Activities include interpretive hikes, invasive plant removal, and restoration projects, displays, webinars, radio and television programming, and more.
Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council.
This guide contains a collection of hands-on activities that are easy for teachers to use in the classroom and in the schoolyard. The curriculum is designed for kindergarten through 12th grade and most activities are tied to the Georgia Performance Standards. The guide is available to all formal and non-formal educators online at www.gaeppc.org and through workshops offered in the metro-Atlanta area. Classroom teachers, park naturalists, environmental education specialists, and others can adapt these activities to fit easily into their programs.
New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
Outreach and education is the most effective way to combat the spread of aquatic invasive species. The more people are made aware of the necessity of cleaning and drying boating and fishing equipment before using it in another waterbody, the less likely the aquatic invasive species will be spread to new waters. The following guidance/reminder sign templates are provided for you to download and use at private access points.
University of Vermont. Entomological Research Laboratory.
DEC and DAM Announce Confirmed Finding of Spotted Lanternfly in Albany and Yates Counties: State Agencies Encourage Public to Report Findings of Invasive Pest (Sep 11, 2018)
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New Awareness Campaign Promotes Simple Steps Anyone Can Take to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species While Recreating in the Adirondacks (May 23, 2018) (PDF | 98 KB)
Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program.
The Nature Conservancy's Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) is celebrating its 20th anniversary by launching a new public awareness campaign focused on the simple steps Adirondack residents and visitors can take to prevent invasive species from spreading into the places they love. The "Keep Invasive Species Out" campaign is centered around a new website, KeepInvasiveSpeciesOut.com, that provides an overview of the problem and offers simple, preventive solutions for limiting the likelihood of unintentionally spreading an invasive. Tips are given for specific outdoor activities, including hiking, camping, boating, fishing, hunting, mountain biking, horseback riding, gardening/landscaping, and farming.


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What Imus did was take it a step further by targeting Black girls who are trying their best to stay away from that way of life so as not to be identified with such racist epithets and he insulted their intelligence and appearance in one fell swoop.
It's has become cliché for people to shoot back "how come you don't see Al Sharpton take on rappers� whenever Sharpton goes up against the same people we should be taking on; the white supremacist society and its various elements.
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I mean, do whites even know why they hate Al? If they blame him for Imus, then apparently they don't. Much of the reason Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. weighed in on Don Imus' 4/4 statements about the Rutgers Women's Basketball team was specifically because of his personal involvement in denouncing those rap artists that make denigrating remarks about mostly Black women in the lyrics of many of their songs.
Many of us in the Black community realize that the women the rappers mention pertain to those from their immediate blocks whom they are intimately involved with and live or seek to live a lifestyle similar to them. Women like the Rutgers-10 who attend college or are in the upwardly mobile workforce are not in the sphere of the "gangsta rapâ€? reality.Â
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What do you call a Black female with a college degree? Ask Imus. Sharpton knew that Black rappers who insist on referring to their own women as "bitches� and "Ho's� were only giving whites permission to say it. Imus and his racist radio roundtable were known to have been taking pot shots at Black women who have never bothered them or anyone within Imus' narrow plain of existence other than to better themselves, such as the tennis playing Williams sisters.
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WASHINGTON — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani hasn't been able to gain traction in New Hampshire, despite spending fairly heavily there. So the fact that he's redirecting attention to others states is not that surprising. Still, it's not clear exactly why he's not resonating there. Isn't this moderate, bluish state exactly the kind of place that should be receptive to Giuliani's electability message? If he can't make it there, where can he?
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Earlier this year, independent voters looked out of reach for Republicans in New Hampshire. In the wake of the 2006 drubbing by the Democrats, Republicans in the state were essentially driven underground. A February University of New Hampshire/WMUR survey [PDF] showed that just 32 percent of independents said they were planning to vote in the Republican primary, compared with 68 percent who said they'd pick up the Democratic ballot. But in the latest UNH poll taken in early December [PDF], almost half (46 percent) said they were planning on voting in the Republican primary. Arizona Sen. John McCain and Giuliani were tied among this group of voters, narrowly trailing the front-running Mitt Romney. So why can't Giuliani make the sale with these voters?
Giuliani's policy positions shouldn't be as troublesome for him in New Hampshire, which is more secular and socially moderate than Iowa and South Carolina. But it's personal issues, not policies, that are dragging him down. When pollsters asked New Hampshire Republicans in the December survey which candidate was the most believable or the "most likely to keep the same positions on important issues," Giuliani trailed both Romney and McCain. On the question of which candidate respondents saw as "least likely to act like a typical politician," Giuliani came in last, at just 9 percent (Romney and McCain were tied at 18 percent). Voters may agree with what Giuliani has to say, but they just don't know if they can trust what he's saying.
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This credibility gap is also showing up in national polling. The most recent Diageo/Hotline poll shows Giuliani with the highest negatives among GOP primary voters of any top Republican contender, at 32 percent. It seems that the baggage Giuliani has been carrying (which many pundits suggested would sink him), is finally starting to take its toll. The longer that Giuliani has remained on top in national polling, the more he has exposed himself to criticism.
So what does this mean for a New Hampshire McComeback? Those most likely to get a bump out of a strong Iowa showing -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson -- just aren't selling in New Hampshire. Still, the quick turnaround from Iowa to New Hampshire means that McCain won't get to spend as much time in the media spotlight as Huckabee has (and will continue to until at least Jan. 3).
Huckabee's time as an Iowa story has paid off. Not only does the Diageo/Hotline poll put him in second place behind Giuliani (17 percent to 21 percent), but he's also seen his favorability rating grow. The front-loaded calendar helps protect Huckabee from enduring weeks of attacks. McCain, meanwhile, could hope to translate a win in New Hampshire to success in another one of his favorite 2000 haunts, Michigan, which holds its primary just a week later.
But if Romney and Giuliani fade as front-runners, can the underfunded and thinly staffed Huckabee or McCain campaigns take advantage of it? They say money follows the candidate with the momentum, but will it be obvious by Jan. 8 where the momentum is going? If not, do folks continue to sit on their wallets? If that's the case, Romney could still find a way to stage a comeback.
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The post-LeBron era Cleveland Cavaliers have been struggling ever since the basketball legend signed to play for Miami, in a highly-publicised, highly televised decesion process. The Cavs have a bit more notoriety again, but for a less than ideal reason—for 24 games running, they've lost.
This is a new low for the team. This time, the Cavs lost to the Portland Trail Blazers, with a final score of 111-105. But it's also an all-time record for the NBA, setting a record for the most consecutive losses.
The Cleveland-based team hasn't won a single game in 2011; their collective season isn't much better, with a total of 34 losses out of 35 games. Seasons that were comprable to this dismal year included the 1981-82 season, combined with losses from 1982-83, the Associated Press reports.
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How do I register?
Register through our website calendar by clicking on the program you have chosen, register by mail with our registration form or by phone at 209-379-2321.
Are there additional forms I need to register for a program?
Yes, every participant is required to complete a liability release form before attending a program. In addition, participants in backpacking trips will require a medical form.
What is included in the fees?
Your fee covers guiding services with a top-notch leader, park entrance fees, campground fees (a value of up to $20 per night where applicable), and backcountry and special use permit fees. They also include use of a bear-proof canister on all backpacking trips. Please check specific adventures for other items covered by your fees. Meals, transportation and equipment are not included unless specifically noted.
What information will I receive once I register?
Within two weeks of registration, you will receive a confirmation via email. Approximately two months prior to the adventure, you will be mailed a complete information packet, which contains your fee waiver pass, detailed schedule, reading and materials list, and park information.
What is the typical program size?
To ensure a quality experience, we limit most adventures to 12-20 participants. Adventures that require a more focused level of attention may be even smaller in size. Conferences, festivals, and other large events are intended to accommodate larger groups of participants.
Where should I stay?
For participants registered in Yosemite Conservancy programs, fees cover the cost of camping (a value of up to $20 per night where applicable) at shared campsites. If you would like to camp, please indicate this clearly on your registration form, or notify us at least 30 days in advance of the start date.
As an alternative to camping a limited number of rooms are available for participants at an additional cost through Yosemite Hospitality, LLC, the concessionaire that manages the park's lodging, food and retail operations. If you choose this option we will provide you with the necessary room reservation form once you have registered (any unused reserved rooms revert to Yosemite Hospitality, LLC 45 days before the program).
Other accommodation options are also available. We will be happy to provide you with a list of options upon request.
How do I get to Yosemite?
Most participants drive to Yosemite since it is some distance from urban areas. Major airports near Yosemite include Fresno, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Reno (in summer). Public transportation arrangements can be made through Amtrak, Greyhound Bus, and YARTS (yarts.com). Please note that not all meeting sites are accessible by public transportation.
What should I expect from the weather?
Expect the unexpected! Weather conditions vary greatly in the Sierra Nevada, so be prepared for all conditions in all seasons. Adventures are conducted rain or shine. For road and weather information call the NPS 24-hour updated recording at 209-372-0200 or visit NPS Weather.
Here are some general weather overviews:
Yosemite Valley: The weather here can shift suddenly. In May for example, days can be warm and sunny one day, and cold, wet and stormy the next. Temperatures range in the 70s, June temperatures are in the 80s. July and August are in the 90s and occasionally they reach 100°. In September the temperature returns to the 80s.
Wawona: May temperatures are in the 60s, June and September they are in the low 70s. July and August they are in the high 70s.
Tuolumne Meadows: Temperatures in mid-summer are usually in the 70s in the daytime and in the 30s at night. Though skies are usually clear, thunderstorms can be a daily occurrence in summer afternoons. Usually developing at higher elevations, thunderstorms form suddenly and can provide intense but brief downpours, lightning, thunder, hail, and gusty winds. Typically, by nightfall skies are clear once again.
How difficult will the hiking be?
Hiking is an integral part of practically every adventure, so you must be in good physical condition to attend. Backpacking programs require an even higher level of fitness, and if you wish to participate you will be required to complete a medical questionnaire before your space in the program can be confirmed. The health and safety of all our participants is our priority, therefore for any program if you are unprepared or appear physically unable to complete the required activities, trip leaders reserve the right and responsibility to ask that you do not take part in the program in order to ensure the safety of the group.
All adventures have been rated according to the difficulty of the hiking. Daily hiking miles are listed in the description of all programs. If you have questions regarding the demands of any program, please call the office and we will be happy to help you decide whether the program is a good fit.
For all Yosemite Conservancy Outdoor Adventures (except backpacking programs):
- Easy: Involves short walks.
- Moderate: (Generally) moderate hiking of less than five miles per day with elevation gain less than 1,000 feet.
- Difficult/Strenuous: (Generally) strenuous hiking with intense physical activity; hikes are over five miles per day with elevation gain over 1,000 feet.
For backpacking programs
- Beginner: For people with no or limited backpacking experience. Hikes (usually) limited to less than six miles per day with daily elevation gain of less than 1,000 feet.
- Intermediate: For people who have prior backpacking experience. Hikes (mostly) between 6-10 miles a day with daily elevation gain of over 1,000 feet.
- Advanced: Participants must have extensive prior backpacking experience. Hikes (generally) over 10 miles a day with daily elevation gain of over 1,000 feet.
Consider the following factors when choosing a course that involves hiking
- Your personal level of fitness.
- The overall elevation of the hiking area: Tuolumne Meadows hikes start at 8,600 feet elevation; Tioga Pass 9,940 feet; Yosemite Valley and Wawona at 4,000 feet.
- Each hike's roundtrip mileage per day.
- The overall elevation gain or loss of a hike: If it is over 1,200 feet, the hike will be demanding.
- Winter adventures can become more challenging than usual when there is a lot of fresh snow.
What if I have to cancel?
Refunds will be given for cancellation requests received no later than 30 days before the starting date. A $25 cancellation fee will be retained for each registration. For cancellations made after the 30 day deadline, we cannot issue refunds for any reason. No exceptions can be made to this policy. We understand that unforeseen or emergency circumstances may arise, but our non-profit organization operates on a limited budget. We strongly urge you to obtain trip cancellation insurance through your local travel agent.
If Yosemite Conservancy cancels a trip, we will refund your fees fully, but cannot be responsible for the costs of any other travel or lodging you've arranged.
Where do I find more information on camping?
Yosemite Conservancy Shared Sites: Program descriptions indicate whether the registration fee includes a site at the Yosemite Conservancy shared campsites. If you would like to bring a guest or family members you must make your own additional campsite reservations by calling 877-444-6777.
Camping on Your Own: To make campground reservations on your own for an additional fee, call 877-444-6777. National Park Service campgrounds have cold running water and flush toilets, but there are no showers or electricity. Showers may be purchased through the concessionaire in most park locations. Pets are not allowed on programs or in Yosemite Conservancy reserved campsites.
Where do I find more information on lodging?
Yosemite Conservancy Reserved Rooms: Program descriptions will indicate when a room with bath (and a few without) is available for participants for an additional cost at Yosemite Valley Lodge, Curry Village, the Wawona Hotel or elsewhere. See the specific program description for lodging location.
Yosemite Hospitality, LLC requires our participants use a specific room reservation form to secure these bookings. We will send this form to registrants. Once you receive the form please complete and return with the first night's deposit to the return address on the form as soon as possible. Unused rooms are dropped 45 days in advance of the program starting date.
Reserving a Room on Your Own: If you would like to reserve a room on your own please call 801-559-4911 or check yosemitepark.com for reservations. In addition, there are other accommodations outside Yosemite. Please call Yosemite Conservancy for more information at 209-379-2317 x 10.
Are meals included in the program?
Participants provide their own meals unless specified in the program description.
Are there bears in Yosemite?
Yes! Black bears have called Yosemite home for centuries. They are an essential part of the park ecosystem and it is very important that we do not interfere with their natural state. To preserve bears and keep visitors safe we need to keep bears wild.
Bears that are encouraged to interact with humans through feeding can cause damage to automobiles and personal property by trying to access human food. To prevent this please be sure to follow federal requirements for food storage while visiting the park campgrounds or room accommodations. Never store food in your car. Each visitor plays an important role in keeping human food away from bears!
What's involved in backpacking trips?
The most important first step in your backpacking program is that you are well prepared. If you are backpacking for the first time we highly recommend that you read a backpacking book and/or find some informational videos online in advance. You should be very comfortable with all aspect of backpacking, from basic first aid to training needed to prepare for a hike.
Participants provide all their own food and equipment, other than a bear-proof canister, which are mandatory and are provided. (You will receive a complete information packet, which contains your fee waiver pass, detailed schedule, reading and materials list and park information after registration.)
Backpacking trips are planned for all levels of skill ranging from introductory programs for beginners who are physically fit (or for those wanting to refresh their skills) to advanced hikers who are in excellent physical condition and have previous multi-day backpacking experience.
Even introductory trips involve hiking at high elevations and are very physically demanding. Each participant must be in excellent physical condition and prepared with proper gear in order to attend.
The health and safety of all our participants is our priority, therefore for any program if you are unprepared or appear physically unable to complete the required activities, trip leaders reserve the right and responsibility to ask that you do not participate in the program in order to ensure the safety of the group.
Can Yosemite Conservancy Outdoor Adventures arrange a special guided hike for my group?
We love doing this! We regularly plan and lead custom adventures for corporate groups, travel and tour companies, churches, universities, friends and families who come as a group. Call the program coordinator at 209-379-2321 if you would like us to arrange a special adventure for your group with one of our experienced naturalists.
There are size limits depending upon where the program takes place.
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The similarity.pl program provides a command-line interface to the relatedness modules.
Usage: similarity.pl [{--type TYPE [--config CONFIGFILE] [--allsenses] [--offsets] [--trace] [--wnpath PATH] [--simpath SIMPATH] {--interact --file FILENAME | WORD1 WORD2} |--help |--version }]
Displays the semantic similarity between the base forms of WORD1 and WORD2 using various similarity measures described in Budanitsky Hirst (2001). The parts of speech of WORD1 and/or WORD2 can be restricted by appending the part of speech (n, v, a, r) to the word. (For eg. car#n will consider only the noun forms of the word 'car' and walk#nv will consider the verb and noun forms of 'walk'). Individual senses of can also be given as input, in the form of word#pos#sense strings (For eg., car#n#1 represents the first sense of the noun 'car').
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Switch to select the type of similarity measure to be used while calculating the semantic relatedness. The following strings are defined.
L<WordNet::Similarity::path> Simple node-counts (inverted). L<WordNet::Similarity::wup> The Wu Palmer measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::lch> The Leacock Chodorow measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::jcn> The Jiang Conrath measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::res> The Resnik measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::lin> The Lin measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::hso> The Hirst St-Onge measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::lesk> Extended gloss overlap measure. L<WordNet::Similarity::vector> Gloss Vector measure. LWordNet::Similarity::vector_pairs> Gloss Vector measure (pairwise). L<WordNet::Similarity::random> A random-number "measure".
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Module-specific configuration file CONFIGFILE. This file contains the configuration that is used by the WordNet::Similarity modules during initialization. The format of this file is specific to each modules and is specified in the module man pages and in the documentation of the WordNet::Similarity package. See config.pod for more details.
- --allsenses
Displays the relatedness between every sense pair of the two input words WORD1 and WORD2.
- --offsets
Displays all synsets (in the output, including traces) as synset offsets and part of speech, instead of the word#partOfSpeech#senseNumber format used by QueryData. With this option any WordNet synset is displayed as word#partOfSpeech#synsetOffset in the output.
- --trace
Switches on 'Trace' mode. Displays as output on STDOUT, the various stages of the processing. This option overrides the trace option in the module configuration file (if specified).
- --interact
Starts the interactive mode. Useful for demoes, debugging, and generally messing around with the measures.
- --file
Allows the user to specify an input file FILENAME containing pairs of word whose semantic similarity needs to be measured. The file is assumed to be a plain text file with pairs of words separated by newlines, and the words of each pair separated by a space.
- --wnpath
Option to specify the path of the WordNet data files as PATH. (Defaults to /usr/local/WordNet-2.0/dict on Unix systems and C:\WordNet\2.0\dict on Windows systems)
- --simpath
If the relatedness module to be used, is locally installed, then SIMPATH can be used to indicate the location of the local install of the measure.
- --help
Displays this help screen.
- --version
Displays version information.
NOTE: The environment variables WNHOME and WNSEARCHDIR, if present, are used to determine the location of the WordNet data files. Use '--wnpath' to override this.
ANOTHER NOTE: For the information-content based measures, similarity.pl without the '--config' option invokes the relatedness modules using the default information content file generated during installation of the modules. If, however, the version of WordNet being used has changed since that time, or for some reason the modules are unable to locate the default information content files, then alternate information content files can be specified only via the configuration file. Utilities to generate information content files have been provided in the package. For the WordNet::Similarity::vector_pairs measure, it is mandatory to provide the location of a word vector data file and this can be only done by using the '--config' option. In short, the '--config' option is REQUIRED for the WordNet::Similarity::vector_pairs measure.
YET ANOTHER NOTE: During any given session, only one of three modes of input can be specified to the program -- command-line input (WORD1 WORD2), file input (--file option) or the interactive input (--interact option). If more than one mode of input is invoked at a given time, only one of those modes will work, according to the following levels of priority: interactive mode (--interact option) has highest priority. file input (--file option) has medium priority. command-line input (WORD1 WORD2) has lowest priority.
Compound words may also be given as input to similarity.pl. They may be specified using underscores for spaces (as in WordNet) or may be enclosed within double quotes.
For example:
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::jcn school private_school
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::lch "interest rate" bank
Here 'private school' and 'interest rate' are the compound words intended in the two examples, respectively.
ANOTHER NOTE: Using the '--file' option however, does not allow us to use both methods of entering compound words in the input file. The compound words in the input file may be entered only using underscores for spaces (the double quotes option is not available for input via the input file).
The part of speech of the input word(s) may be restricted to one or more parts of speech by appending '#' followed by a combination of one or more of 'n', 'v', 'a' or 'r' (for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) to the one or both words.
A particular sense of a particular word may also be specified as input in the word#pos#sense format. Here 'pos' is exactly one of 'n', 'v', 'a' or 'r'.
For example:
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::jcn school#n child#n
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::lesk "interest rate#n" bank#nv
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::hso telephone talk#v
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::vector_pairs word#n#2 newspaper#v
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::random chat#n#1 talk#v#2
- Interpreting the output
In the simplest case interpreting the output is rather straightforward. This is the case when just the semantic relatedness of two words has been requested. The output, in this case, consists of the two words and the relatedness value. However, when the '--allsenses' option or the '--trace' option is specified, the program needs to display in the output, WordNet synsets. In order to do this, we decided to adopt the convention introduced by Jason Rennie in the WordNet::QueryData module to represent the WordNet synsets.According to this convention a synset is represented by
- (1)
a representative word from that synset
- (2)
its part of speech and
- (3)
a number specifying the sense number of the word (in this synset)
For example, consider the synset (teacher, instructor) from the noun data file of WordNet. Here the words 'teacher' as well as 'instructor' are each in their first sense. Using the above convention this synset may be represented by 'teacher#n#1' or by 'instructor#n#1'.
Besides this, if '--offsets' command-line option is used, a small variation of the above convention is used that displays the offset of the synset (in the WordNet data file) instead of the sense number. The above synset could then be represented by 'teacher#n#8562747' or 'instructor#n#8562747', since 8562747 if the offset of this synset in the noun data file of WordNet 1.7.
The first convention was adopted as the default, since synset offsets vary between different versions of WordNet, while sense numbers of words would more or less remain constant.
Typical usage examples
- (1)
Suppose you wanted to find the measure of relatedness between 'car' and 'bicycle', using the Jiang-Conrath measure.
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::jcn car bicycle
- (2)
Suppose you need to find the relatedness of the noun forms of 'comb' and 'hair' using the Leacock-Chodorow measure and also your WordNet database files happen to be located at /WordNet-2.0/dict, then you would have
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::lch --wnpath /WordNet-2.0/dict comb#n hair#n
If the --wnpath option is not given, the program looks for the path to the data files in the WNHOME and the WNSEARCHDIR environment variables. If these have also not been specified, then by default the program assumes that the WordNet data files reside in the directory /usr/local/WordNet-2.0/dict on a Unix machine and in C:\WordNet\2.0\dict on a Windows machine.
- (3)
An example using a data file as input to the program (using the Jiang-Conrath measure for this example)
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::jcn --file testfile
- (4)
Displaying relatedness between all senses of the two words along with traces.
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::lch --allsenses --trace paper pencil
- (5)
Displaying the relatedness between the verb form of 'talk' and all parts of speech of 'speaker', with traces using the extended gloss overlap measure.
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::lesk --trace speaker talk#v
- (6)
Using a configuration file "/home/sid/lesk.conf" to specify the configuration options to the WordNet::Similarity::lesk module.
similarity.pl --type WordNet::Similarity::lesk --config /home/sid/lesk.conf duck fowl
- (7)
To display version information.
similarity.pl --version
- (8)
To display detailed help.
similarity.pl --help
Information content programs
Three of the measures provided within the package require information content values of concepts (WordNet synsets) for computing the semantic relatedness of concepts. We provide these measures with frequency counts of WordNet synsets computed from large corpora of text, in files called information content files. A number of programs have been provided in the '/utils' subdirectory to generate information content files from various different corpora of text available.
L<BNCFreq.pl> -- from the BNC corpus.
L<brownFreq.pl> -- from the Brown corpus.
L<semCorFreq.pl> -- from SemCor X.X (using the sense tags).
L<semCorRawFreq.pl> -- from SemCor X.X (ignoring the sense tags).
L<treebankFreq.pl> -- from the Treebank corpus.
L<rawtextFreq.pl> -- from raw text.
All the six have a similar interface, however there are slight differences in the way the programs are called on the command-line due to the differences in the organization and format of the various corpora. But the following sub-sections give the typical usage and examples of all these programs. Please use the '--help' switch of each of the programs for the exact usage and help.
<utility> [{--outfile OUTFILE
[--stopfile STOPFILE] [--wnpath WNPATH]
[--resnik] [--smooth SCHEME] PATH
| --help
| --version }]
Here <utility> is one of the Perl programs provided, that generates an information content file from a large corpus of text. This program computes the information content of concepts, by counting the frequency of their occurrence in a corpus. PATH specifies the files of the corpus or the root of the directory tree containing the text of the corpus. Each utility has a different way in which the input files may be specified to it. Please use
<utility> --help
to get the <utility>-specific idiosyncrasies.
- --outfile
Specifies the output file OUTFILE.
- --stopfile
STOPFILE is a list of stop listed words that will not be considered in the frequency count.
- --wnpath
Option to specify WNPATH as the location of WordNet data files. If this option is not specified, the program tries to determine the path to the WordNet data files using the WNHOME environment variable.
- --resnik
To enable the counting of frequencies using the method described by Resnik [3]. This was the method of counting originally used. We implemented a different scheme of counting described in our publication (Patwardhan, Banerjee and Pedersen [9]).
- --smooth
Specifies the smoothing to be used on the probabilities computed. SCHEME specifies the type of smoothing to perform. It is a string, which can be only be 'ADD1' as of now. Other smoothing schemes will be added in future releases.
- --help
Displays this help screen.
- --version
Displays version information.
A sample COMPFILE containing the list of compounds in WordNet 2.0 is present is the '/samples' subdirectory. A utility called compounds.pl has been provided in the '/utils' subdirectory. This utility generates a list of compounds present in your version of WordNet and can be used to generate a file containing the list of compounds in WordNet as follows:
compounds.pl > compounds.dat
In this case compounds.pl detects the location of the WordNet data files using the WNHOME environment variable. If the WNHOME environment variable has not been set up it tries default locations (C:\Program Files\WordNet\2.0 on Windows and /usr/local/WordNet-2.0 on a Unix system). Another way to specify the location of the WordNet data files is by using the '--wnpath' option in compounds.pl, like so
compounds.pl --wnpath /usr/local/WordNet-2.0 > compounds.dat
- The utility-specific idiosyncrasies
- (a)
BNCFreq.pl -- This utility creates the information content file from the word frequencies counted from the British National Corpus. The data files in the BNC are XML tagged files present in a 2-level directory structure. In a typical BNC install, the data files of the BNC reside in /BNC-world/Texts subpath of the BNC installation. This is the path that needs to be specified to BNCFreq.pl to count the frequency of words:
BNCFreq.pl [OPTIONS] /home/sid/BNC-world/Texts
- (b)
brownFreq.pl -- The version of the Brown corpus that we used contained the data files in the BROWN1 and BROWN2 subdirectories of the Brown corpus installation. Both directories contain the same data formatted a little differently. These files are provided to the brownFreq.pl utility as a list of files (commonly specified by wildcards, as follows):
brownFreq.pl [OPTIONS] /home/sid/Brown/BROWN1/*.TXT
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semCorRawFreq.pl -- These information content files are computed using SemCor, but ignore the sense tags. SemCor X.X was downloaded from Dr. Rada Mihalcea's website http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/software.html and is a sense tagged subset of the Brown Corpus and the Red Badge of Courage. The tagged data files are present in the /brown1/tagfiles subdirectory of the extracted package. These files are provided to the semCorRawFreq.pl utility as a list of files (using wildcards):
semCorRawFreq.pl [OPTIONS] /home/sid/semcorXX/brown1/tagfiles/*
where XX is the the version of semCor appropriate for the version of WordNet being used.
- (d)
semCorFreq.pl -- These information content files are computed from SemCor X.X (using the sense tags). The word frequencies for these have already been computed and are distributed as a part of the standard distribution of WordNet. Thus only the location of the WordNet data files need be specified for this utility (using the WNHOME environment variable or the '--wnpath' option).
semCorFreq.pl [OPTIONS]
- (e)
treebankFreq.pl -- This utility computes the information content files from the Treebank corpus (only the Wall Street Journal articles). The Wall Street Journal articles are usually present in the /raw/wsj subdirectory of the Treebank installation. Only this needs to be specified when using this utility:
treebankFreq.pl [OPTIONS] /home/sid/treebank/raw/wsj
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rawtextFreq.pl -- To compute the information content files from raw text, only the raw text file(s) need to be specified as the input. A good source of raw text files is the Gutenberg Project: http://www.gutenberg.org
Some typical examples
- (1)
In order to generate the information content file from the BNC, we type the command:
BNCFreq.pl --outfile infoBNC.dat /home/sid/BNC-world/Texts
Here '/home/sid/BNC-world/Texts' is the path containing the BNC. Ouptut information content file is infoBNC.dat.
- (2)
Frequency counts generated from the Brown corpus, using a stop-list.
brownFreq.pl --outfile infoBrown.dat --stopfile stop.txt /home/sid/Brown/*
Uses the file 'stop.txt' containing stop words -- words that are ignored while counting the frequencies.
- (3)
Frequency counts generated from a raw text file, using Resnik counting.
rawtextFreq.pl --outfile infoRawText.dat --resnik /home/sid/Texts/WorldWar.txt
WorldWar.txt is the raw text file. infoRawText.dat is the output information content file.
- (4)
Using a the Treebank corpus (WSJ articles) to generate an information content file with the option for Add-1 smoothing.
treebankFreq.pl --outfile tbInfo.dat --smooth ADD1 /home/sid/treebank/raw/wsj
'tbInfo.dat' is the output file. '/home/sid/treebank/raw/wsj' is the path to the Wall Street Journal articles of the Treebank corpus. The '--smooth ADD1' requests the program to use Add-1 smoothing of the frequency counts. It adds 1 to all frequency counts to prevent any 0 frequency values.
The WordNet::Similarity::vector_pairs module requires a file containing co-occurrence vectors for all the words in the WordNet glosses. The utility wordVectors.pl has been provided to generate such a database file. This utility generates co-occurrence vectors from the WordNet glosses themselves. Utilities to generate these from other corpora will be provided in future releases of this software.
Usage: wordVectors.pl [{ [--stopfile STOPLIST]
[--wnpath WNPATH] [--noexamples] [--cutoff VALUE]
[--rhigh RHIGH] [--rlow RLOW] [--chigh CHIGH]
[--clow CLOW] DBFILE
| --help
| --version }]
This program writes out word vectors computed from WordNet glosses in a database file specified by filename DBFILE.
- --stopfile
Option specifying a list of stopwords to not be considered while counting.
- --wnpath
WNPATH specifies the path of the WordNet data files. Ordinarily, this path is determined from the $WNHOME environment variable. But this option overides this behavior.
- --noexamples
Removes examples from the glosses before processing.
- --cutoff
Option used to restrict the dimensions of the word vectors with an tf/idf cutoff. VALUE is the cutoff above which is an acceptable tf/idf value of a word.
- --rhigh
RHIGH is the upper frequency cutoff of the words selected to have a word-vector entry in the database.
- --rlow
RLOW is the lower frequency cutoff of the words selected to have a word-vector entry in the database.
- --chigh
CHIGH is the upper frequency cutoff of words that form the dimensions of the word-vectors.
- --clow
CLOW is the lower frequency cutoff of words that form the dimensions of the word-vectors.
- --help
Displays help screen.
- --version
Displays version information.
A useful utility called 'readDB.pl' has been included in the package, so as to be able to view the word vectors formed and stored in the database.
The lch and wup measures both need files that contain certain types of information about the WordNet taxonomies. The wup measure needs a file that lists the depth of every synset in its taxonomy(-ies), and the lch measure needs a file that lists the maximum depth of each taxonomy. The wnDepths.pl program can generate both of these files.
Usage: wnDepths.pl [[--wnpath=PATH] [--outfile=FILE] [--depthfile=FILE]
[--wps] [--verbose]]
| --help | --version]
- --wnpath=PATH
PATH is the path to WordNet. The default is /usr/local/WordNet-2.0/dict on Unix and C:\WordNet\2.0\dict on Windows
- --outfile=FILE
File to which the maximum depths of the taxonomies should be output.
- --depthfile=FILE
File to which the depth of every synset should be output
- --wps
output is in 'word#part_of_speech#sense format instead of offset format
- --verbose
be verbose
- --help
show this help message
- --version
show version information
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu
Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah
sidd at cs.utah.edu
Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie-Mellon University
banerjee+ at cs.cmu.edu
Jason Michelizzi
Copyright (c) 2005 - 2008, Ted Pedersen, Siddharth Patwardhan, Satanjeev Banerjee, and Jason Michelizzi
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Helmeted Bicyclist Symbol
I don't know when they started, but the diamond bicycle lane markings are being blackened out and replaced with helmeted bicyclist symbols. I use that phrase "helmeted bicyclist symbol" because that's what p.809 of the "MUTCD" or "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices," December, 2009 edition, calls it. Before I wrote this blog post, that phrase wasn't found anywhere else except in that document by Google. Which makes me wonder how uniform the manual is. I like him (he looks like a male to me, like bathroom guy on a bike. You may have a different view).His helmet looks a little like a wok to me, though. I rode into work before the sun came up, and came home long after it had set. These are the type of posts you get on days like that. Get up. Go ride.
Posted by John Romeo Alpha at 9:37 PM
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he looks Chinese to me.ReplyDelete
I've been thinking about doing some uh, adjustments on the biker lane dude.ReplyDelete
Maybe adding some facial features, or a visor on his hat.
The lanes around here have just been repaved so they are ripe for "modification."
I mean with chalk, don't you know.ReplyDelete
Even outlined in bright red or orange (chalk) would brighten him up a bit I think. Maybe with an aero time trials helmet mod.ReplyDelete
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