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Oh, and here I am thinking all this art is for the new Wachowski brother film, Matrix: Retarded. No seriously, the work looks similar.
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Again u f*ckin d*ckhead?? are u retarded or what? dont u see that if the humans loose the machines win and its going to end in the Matrix? All Terminator Movies can be seen als prequels to The Matrix so f*ck u again Minkowski u dumb idiot east ur sh*t and shut the f*ck up man do u have to comment every f*ckin post? get a f*ckin life u geek
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Developed over the last 10 years, the innovative laser cleaning systems combine power and versatility, with the lowest operating cost of all industrial cleaning methods. They offer a safe cleaning method and are environmentally friendly, using no water or chemicals and producing no effluent.
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Operating costs are reduced, through downtime minimization, low running costs and life span extension, with ROI paybacks of fewer than 12 months often achieved. They are easy to automate and can be integrated into existing manufacturing lines, to be used on-line and in-place without damaging equipment or requiring machine dismantling.
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So, unless you've been hiding under a rock the past couple of years (or are merely very adept at avoiding the media), you know about the evil sweetener used in so many US food products that's called "high fructose corn syrup" and which converts to fat much faster than sugar, doesn't stimulate insulin production (which means you don't feel "full" as fast), and also kills small kittens simply by being within a 5-foot radius.
Now, ever since I spent most of 2004 on Weight Watchers, I regularly look at the packaging of what I eat; calories, fat, ingredient listings, and so forth. So while I knew that I don't eat many things that have HFCS as an ingredient, when Butch and Chris mentioned they were cutting it entirely out of their diet I found myself a little curious as to what I still ate that had it these days. (It does help that I'm not a big soda person.) So, I went through the fridge and pantry, because there's a certain appeal in the idea of striking the last bits of HFCS out of my life. (After all, if it's easy to go from "some" to "none" then why not?)
The end result? Only a few things, happily.
- Box of individual Kellogg's cereal servings
- Pepperidge Farm 100% whole wheat bread
- Kudos granola bars
- 100-calorie snack packs
- Gatorade
The nice thing is that all five of those are pretty easily replaced. The other cereals in my house (Kashi Strawberry Fields, and various varieties of Puffins) don't have HFCS and I really eat them more often these days, anyway. Bread is easily switched back over to Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat, which I used to buy anyway but had only hopped brands because I could get the Pepperidge Farm bread at CostCo. The Kudos and 100-calorie snack packs are a little frustrating to go because they were also regular CostCo purchases, but similar alternatives from Trader Joe's are a-ok. And with Gatorade, I switched over to buying the powder (which doesn't have HFCS) and am going to just keep a pitcher in the fridge. Less plastic being used that way, really.
It does help that I shop a lot at Trader Joe's, don't really drink soda (happily my one occasional vice of Jones Soda Cream Soda uses sugar cane), and also enjoy doing some shopping at H-Mart/Han Ah Reum where the products just don't seem to use it.
Do I think I'm going to magically drop weight from eliminating HFCS? Probably not. (Besides, I still have to eat what's left of those snacks. That may take a month or so. But as they run out they aren't getting replaced.) But it is nice to know that it's pretty easy to cut that substance out of my home. It does make me wonder how easy it is for others to do it, too. And I do plan on writing letters to the makers of the products I will miss (Kudos in particular (*sniff*)) to let them know that I'm not buying their stuff anymore and why. Hey, it can't hurt, right?
(And no, I'm also not going to go crazy about this. I know that sometimes you're out and there's nothing you can do to avoid it. I'm not worried about that.)
Just don't tell the corn farmers about this. Between talk about switching ethanol from corn to things like sugar cane or switchgrass, and now this, they might get a little pissy at me. I promise that I'll buy a lot of corn this summer, though. Mmmm, black beans and corn and avocado and tomato… Now I'm getting hungry.


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Missing In Mexico by Stuart Gustafson
Release Date: May 2011
Publisher: Stuart Gustafson Productions, LLC (Smashwords)
Page Count: 322
Source: Partners in Crime book tour
Missing in Mexico is a mystery novel set in Los Cabos, Mexico. Sarah is a 19-year old who wasn't on the return plane trip from a family vacation. Her parents hire Stan, a Private Investigator, to find her. Even with local help and some promising leads, Stan returns to Seattle to tell her parents that he can't find her. Months later he receives a letter from someone who says she can help him find Sarah, and he jumps on the next plane to Los Cabos. Will this be the break that he needs to find her, or will she remain missing — Missing in Mexico?
Review: An only child, Sarah goes on Christmas vacation to with her parents and BFF Mary. Sarah's parents Robert and Tina leave both Sarah and Mary in Mexico for a few more days of vacation as they return home after the New Year. When it's time to board the plane, Sarah tells Mary go ahead without her, she will be right there. However, the plane is forced to take off without Sarah on it. Now it's a race to discovery where Sarah is. With so many questions, and very few answers will Stan be able to locate Sarah and bring her home to her family?
Amazing amount of details, gives the reader the feeling as though they are standing there on the street. Seeing the cobblestone drive, feeling the breeze, and smelling the wonderful food of the area; the reader can get the sense they too are walking the streets with Stan as he searches for missing Sarah.
Flash backs from the present to the past give the reader a glimpse of how young Sarah was raised. Until the past and the present collide; and we move forward.
As Stan does some amazing leg work, following barely there trails; he finds himself getting emotionally involved with this case. As time flies by, Stan feels as though time may just be running out. Until a lead comes through that gets his hopes up.
An amazing story of the love parents have for their children. Of a private investigator willing to go the extra mile, with the help of newly made friends. Filled with plenty of twists and turns, leaving the reader guessing; until the end when you just may need a tissue.
Favorite Quote: "You call your computer a guy?"
"Sure, why not? The stupid thing is slow and it stops working whenever it feels like it. You think I would call it a woman?"
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I can tell he thinks of me and picks up on the smallest of details.
If I use the word, 'yo,' tomorrow he will. If I use a big word that he probably has never heard before, he'll use the same word.
If I say something like, "I'm not going to answer this question," to him, he'll say the same thing to someone else.
One thing may be he is intimidated of me, maybe another one is he may like me? Why else would a person even care? I wouldn't.
If a guy doesn't like you why would he pay attention to you?
I can tell he thinks of me and picks up on the smallest of details.
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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualitieshis eternal power and divine naturehave been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:18-20)
It is my contention that all the factors of the African diaspora make it the greatest crime against humanity in this current world's history. I was not merely factoring in cruel and violent physical treatment, nor was I attempting a pissing contest over ethnic suffering. You cannot convince me that group of enslaved people unequivocally received worse physical treatment than a people that had hot iron rods fresh out the fire stuck into the woman's vagina. Pregnant women having the stomach cut open, the fetus removed then stomped to death. The etremities of the Black male tied to horeses then the horses sent off in opposite directions. All of this done in front of an audience of the Black slaves for intimidation and mentally reprogramming, to put it lightly.
To further my point, the Anglo-Saxon white man eventually allowed the Irish a place within their white power structure. After which these same Irish "former slaves" gave Blacks some of the worst treatment in order to cement their place within the greater white supremacy ideology. There are plenty of Black people walking around with surnames like O'Neal, McDougal, Flannigan, Sullivan, McBride etc... obviously from someone Irish that owned their ancestors and treated them like shit.
So for you to compare the treatment of thses 2 people stictly on a "physical" level is only giving the truth most convenient for your point of view. The Black slaves in America not only received grotesque physical treatment, the identity of religion, culture, ancestry, and anything else native to Africa was lost. You still know with a surety that you are an Irish, its not that simple, in many cases impossible, for the Black sons and daughters of slave in America to know where they came from. So if one were to factor in the amount of years, the number of lives affected and lost, a total loss of identity, along with this physical treatment you wish to focus on, there is really no comparison. You cannot compare, nor can you grasp, the all-encompassing damage done to a people that spent 310+ years building the greatest entity this world has ever seen, and are still at bottom of the totem 457 after their work started.
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"the poor white man can't get a job no more cause of the mexicans and immigrants right ?
the white man can't say anything about anyones race but everyone can talk about the white man
white men built the internet and airplanes, so yall dirty mexicans and shit faced niggas should be grateful that we brought yall here"
quoted words from the average redneck who wants the world to feel sorry for him because he can't say nigger anymore without getting jumped on
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The 49ers are winning again. This is a familiar feeling. I grew up with the red and gold. In seventh grade, when it was announced that Joe Montana would be traded, a news team interviewed my friend Brian Fry. They were looking for local color, a fresh young fan to reflect what the Bay Area was feeling. The camera followed Fry into his bedroom, where he cradled a football signed by Montana and openly wept on the evening news: "Don't go, Joe!" At school we mocked Fry for crying on TV. But many of us would have done the same thing.
Nineteen years and nine losing seasons later, the Niners are atop the NFC West again. But the team is utterly changed. New coach, new players, and a brutal running game that could not be further from the high-flying West Coast Offense of the Niners golden age. The San Francisco Chronicle ran an article recently about the difficulty, for many 49ers faithful, of adjusting to a team whose greatest strength is its defense. Is this the same team I rooted for as a boy?
At some point we are all asked to name our favorite team. It's a simple question, but its criteria are impossible to define. I went to high school with a guy who couldn't get behind the San Francisco Giants because he didn't like the way orange and black looked on him. A friend from the Bronx fell in with Green Bay because he considered Brett Favre to be the pinnacle of athletic excellence, and he stuck with Green Bay after Favre moved on. I've never felt more devoted to a team than I did to the Minnesota Twins when I was eight or nine, when my father told me stories of his hometown heroes. Answering the favorite team question requires you to determine what, exactly, the question is asking. It's impossible to take anyone's reply at face value.
Packers fans wear Cheesehead hats. Braves fans do the tomahawk chop. Portland Timbers fans saw a log every time their team scores a goal. The traditions are unique, but the people are roughly the same. In their love of the sport, any team's fans have more in common with their opponents' fans than with people who don't follow sports at all. But while their loyalty is specific to one team, it's so abstract that it tends to outlast any tangible changes to the team itself. There's a paradox attributed to Zeno: if you have a pile of sand, and you start taking sand away, at what point does it cease to be a pile? If you trade the players, replace the coach, redesign the logo, build a new stadium, and move cities, at what point does your team cease to be your team?
For nineteen years I've told myself that devotion to a professional sports team is naïve, passe, illogical, unsophisticated, embarrassing, childish. But as I've moved—San Francisco to San Diego to Boston to New York—the local teams have become a kind of shorthand for my life in that place. The Chargers bolt is shorthand for summers spent on Pacific Beach. A red stocking is shorthand for nights I couldn't cross town because the train was crammed with Sox fans. Blue pinstripes are shorthand for my girlfriend's family, who, despite their many wonderful qualities, back the Yankees.
If allegiance to a team is essentially arbitrary, so is individual life. Casting one's lot with the Phoenix Suns, for example, is analagous to our essentially arbitrary commitment to the life we are born into, and the life that will unfold before us. In a world we can't control (no sports franchise asks us to vote on its decisions) what's marvelous is not the particular team we choose, but the fact that we commit to anything so abstract and uncontrollable in the first place. By siding with a team we take pride in ourselves, even if "ourselves" is a gang of random strangers in face paint. This is the life we are given. What else could we cheer for but this? Who's going to cheer if not us?
A month ago I went to a Golden State Warriors game, the second game of the season, at home against the Chicago Bulls, thinking it would be a massacre. The Bulls have the league MVP and had just beaten the Lakers in an instant classic. The stands were full of blue and yellow, the newish retro logo worn by longtime season ticket holders. Girls in Monta Ellis jerseys raised a finger on the Jumbotron: We're #1. The Warriors have never been the #1 anything. But they surprised us all by winning that night. Stephen Curry threw an alley-oop for a late-game dunk, and I knew that feeling.
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There are more than 15 million Ugandans with mobile money accounts and mobile phones than bank accounts or even ATM cards. Since the early deployments of MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money in Uganda, the growth in new roll-outs of Mobile Money and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) throughout has remained strong. Verifone Mobile Money – a Verifone Joint Venture – has partnered with MTN and Airtel groups to offer a complete mobile money solution for mobile money providers in Africa, with Airtel Kenya and Ghana being the first to roll-out of this new mobile money service. In Uganda, MTN Uganda will launch way ahead of Airtel in deploying this solution.
Contactless based payments
The Mobile Money market has lacked a convenient and robust solution for mobile money payment acceptance. Perhaps the most interesting service to be rolled out will be contactless NFC (Near Field Communication) based mobile money payments and mobile-based wallets such as Apple Pay. This is the future of mobile money transactions
With just a tap of your phone at the Mobile Money agent's electronic Point of Sales (ePOS) and Terminals, you can easily pay for goods and carry out other transactions with your existing mobile money account. Verifone Mobile Money has support for multiple identification methods including NFC, NFC Tags, EMV, SmartCard, QR Codes and Beacons (Bluetooth 4.0). Those without NFC capable smartphones will be given NFC stickers that they can be placed at the back of their phones or can place these stickers under the phone's back cover. The company claims that their service offers international bank level security with integrated reporting and SMS support and integrates the existing mobile or online wallets and the Verifone Point of Sale Terminal with ease.
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text: i am looking for someone whose is knowlegeable in Fransico Vargas wax dolls. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in 1825, Francisco Vargas Sr. was a native of Mexico who arrived in the United States by covered wagon in 1864 and found his way to New Orleans several years later. By 1875, he had set up shop on Royal Street, making wax sculptures, a trade he had learned as a boy from a Jesuit priest. Though beeswax sculptures had been produced for centuries by various cultures, Vargas was part of a resurgence in popularity for the art form, which had started in Mexico during the mid-1800s. Instead of focusing on religious images, Vargas embraced a wider variety of subjects and found a niche in creating human figures and animals as well as fruits, vegetables and flowers. Among the most highly prized of his works were lifelike sculptures of American Indians, often shown in vigorous activities such as riding a horse or hunting with bow and arrow. Vargas' original sculptures were known for their complexity and intricate detail, which included such minute features as eyelashes, hair and even beads of perspiration.


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'Ghoulish' homecoming party for Hyde Park bomb suspect John Downey criticised by unionists
Unionists have expressed anger at a planned homecoming party for John Downey who police suspect was involved in the 1982 Hyde Park bomb.
Up to 500 people are expected to attend the event in Donegal, which has been described by some as "ghoulish".
The party is to be held at the Lagoon restaurant in the village of Termon in the north-east of the county.
A fundraising event to pay his legal fees was held at the same pub last June.
Local Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty said a "social event" would take place this Saturday night to "thank the hundreds of people from across the county and further afield" who helped raise funds for Downey's legal defence.
John McCafferty, speaking for the restaurant, confirmed that between 400 and 500 people were expected at the venue.
"It is good to see a bit of business, we accommodate all types," he said.
Downey, who lives in Creeslough, Co Donegal, was to face trial for the murder of four British soldiers in 1982 but an Old Bailey judge stopped the case after it was revealed that the British government had given Downey a letter, saying that he wasn't on any 'wanted' list in the UK.
However, the celebrations have been condemned by victims' groups, with Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kinahan saying he was appalled.
Mr Kinahan was best man at Lt Anthony Daly's wedding a month before he died in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing.
"My reaction to these reports of a homecoming party is one of utter disgust," he said.
"Sinn Fein really is rubbing salt into the emotional wounds of the family and friends of those who died on that terrible day in 1982.
"This man should be on trial in a court of law, not living it up in a pub in Donegal."
Mr Kinahan claimed that the party was akin to dancing on the graves of the Hyde Park victims.
"It is in incredibly bad taste and brings shame on those who are organising the event," he added.
"I really feel these people are demonstrating the worst kind of 'who cares and so what?' attitude that is so often typical of Sinn Fein."
Victims campaigner Kenny Donaldson said: "He (Downey) will have a degree of folklore, no doubt, within the republican constituency. The victims are going to feel totally and absolutely disgusted."
Jim Allister, the leader of Traditional Unionist Voice, said: "This ghoulish celebration will sicken people across Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
"It is a telling reminder of the nature of Sinn Fein and their total insensitivity to victims and their unfitness for government."
Further reading
500 to attend Downey homecoming
Cameron announces full inquiry into IRA suspect on the run letters
McGuinness: Unionist parties knew about republican on the runs deal
Unionists must have known all along, insists Gerry Kelly
Spotlight falls on pardons granted by Queen to IRA men
Queen pardoned on-the-run IRA fugitive Gerry McGeough
Tony Blair aide told of pact on 'comfort letters' in 2008
On the runs: Loyalists were also asked for a list of their fugitives
Bloody Sunday soldiers 'should not face court'
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- On the runs: Loyalists were also asked for a list of their fugitives
- Queen pardoned on-the-run IRA fugitive Gerry McGeough


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The plank is one of the most basic and yet effective core strengthening exercises
It shows up in almost every branch of fitness and many kind of rehabs from, Yoga and Pilates , to calisthenics and gymnastics, and even used by physical therapist and chiropractors. You can expect to see it again and again, so here how to do it .
Your core muscles are one of the most important groups of muscles required for doing almost anything, weather its preforming in a high impact sport, or simply doing your daily activities, The major muscles of the core reside in the area of the belly and the mid and lower back. The plank is the most basic exercise that can be done to work all the muscles of your core.
Basic Plank
The basic plank is just holding the starting position of a push up. Be sure to maintain proper alinement by keeping a straight line from your head to your feet. One way to make sure your alinement is good, is by using a any kind of straight pole and make sure your body is lined up with the pole from head to feet as demonstrated below.
The Elbow Plank
Start by laying down, placing your elbows directly under your shoulders, lift your body off the floor, and try to maintain a parallel line running from your forearms to your shoulders. again when doing this try to maintain proper alinement, or a straight line from your head to your feet.
Side Plank
The side plank is a great exercise, like the regular and elbow plank it works your entire core, but mainly focus on a muscle called the quadratus lumborum, when you work the quadratus lumborum it reduces your chance of lower back pain.the side plank is typically done placing 1 feet on top of the other and holding your body-weight on 1 hand. to increase the exercise try lifting 1 foot in the air.
have fun experimenting with different variations of planks


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Mobile World Congress also known as the MWC that is held in Barcelona every year is one of the most liked and most awaited technology events in the technology industry especially for people who are crazy for trying out new mobiles and new mobile accessories. It is combination of of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a conference featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, device manufacturers, technology providers, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event is named as the GSM World or more newly as the 3GSM World Congress. The theme for this years' show being held in Barcelona is 'Redefining Mobile' and there are several reasons as to why this one has that theme.
All the major mobile phone manufacturers from around the world are a part of the event and they come up with their flagship devices in this event. All eyes have been set on Nokia, Samsung, Sony, HTC and LG for this years GSM world congress and they did not disappoint a bit.
News from Nokia:
Nokia used this event to promote their Asha and the Lumia series of phones, In fact for Nokia this GSM Congress was all about their Ash and Lumia series. In the Asha series there were three devices launched named the Asha 302, Asha 202 and Asha 203. The Asha 302 runs a GHz processor and a Is built for extensive internet usage.
It bears a 14.4Mbps HSDPA internet connectivity spped and features Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp integration; it also bears a Microsoft Exchange email which indeed is a first for a Nokia feature phone. The lower-end Ashas feature 2.4″ touch screen and come with the Nokia Browser. Both have 2MP cameras. There's also Bluetooth, microSD card slot for cards up to 32GB and FM radio. The Asha 203 bears a dual-sim slot and bears personalized settings for upto 5 different SIM cards.
On the Lumia Series the actors were Lumia 900 and the Lumia 610, the Lumia 900 is the next higher moel of the Lumia series it bears a 16 GB internal storage and 512 MB RAM.and the AMOLED touch screen made of Gorilla Glass, making it a competition to the high end Android smartphones from Samsung. The device bears a 1.4 GHZ monster on the inside with 8 MP snapper 16 GB internal storage and 3G capability. This one however does not have a memory card slot and a FM transmitter so buyers must take a close look at what they want before going for this one.
News from Samsung:
So that is about Nokia as far as Samsung is concerned the company used the GSM congress to promote the Galaxy series in fact the tablet range in the Galaxy series- on promotion were the new version of the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab. There were three main attractions from Samsung in the MWC the Samsung Galaxy Beam being on of the most one catching device at the congress. The beam is another one of the very powerful Galaxy smartphones. It runs the Android Gingerbread on a 1 GHz dual core A9 cortex processor it bears a 5MP primary snapper and 1.3 MP secondary one. It also comes with a 4.0'' capacitive touchscreen and a 2000mAh battery.
The Galaxy Note 10.1 is a phablet format device in fact the big brother of the Samsung Galaxy Note which has made a huge impact on the market already. It runs the Gingerbread on a 1.4 GHz monster and bears a 3.15MP primary snapper along with a 2MP secondary one. With 16/32/64GB internal memory, it also bears 7000mAh battery and can be used as a WIFI hotspot. Samsung Tab2 was another release from Samsung house in this MWC 2012. This one is a total tablet device from the house of Samsung and runs the Ice Cream Sandwich on a dual cortex A( processor. It comes with either 16 or 32 GB internal memory with a 1 GB RAM. It bears a 3.15 snapper on the back and a VGA one in front. IT can used for making video calls and also as a WIFI hotspot.
News from LG:
For LG the MWC 2012 was about the Optimus Series, it announced two amazing devices in Optimus 3D max and Optimus 4X HD. The Optimus 4X HD device shall be one big monster running the Ice Cream sandwich on a quad core 1.5 GHz processor, bearing a 16 GB internal storage and 1 GB RAM along with a 32 GB SD card slot. It bears a 8MP primary snapper along with a 1.3 MP secondary one with all the sensors and a 2140 mAh battery which make it a competition to the Apple iPhone 5 that is expected to release this year.
However, the iPad3 was announced to be released on March 7 this year. The other phone that was qnnounced is a relative Mid range one. It is called the Optimus 3D Max and runs the Gingerbread on a 1.2 GHz processor. This one is a slight upgrade of the Optimus 3D and the 3D feature is simply amazing.
News from HTC:
HTC debuted its 'One' series at the MWC 2012 the devices unveiled were the flagship One X and One XL, the mid-range One S, and the starter One V. The One X is HTC's most powerful smartphone till date it bears 4.7-inch Super LCD 2 display, . A 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip for the global edition of the phone and a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core for the LTE variant coupled with 1GB of RAM will be making sure Android 4.0 Ice Scream Sandwich is running at its best with no apps making it think twice. It bears powerful 8 MP and all the other features to make the other devices really envy this one.
The low end device HTC One V packs a 1 GHz single core processor, 512MB of RAM and a 3.7-inch WVGA LCD display. The One V runs Ice Cream Sandwich, but unlike it's fellow relatives from the One family, which run Sense 4.0, the One V is coated with the older Sense 3.6 and all the other variants are somewhere in between with different features in each.
Part from these there were some really cool tehnology upgrades that were launched in the 2012 the best amongst them was the launch of the customer preview of the Windows 8 and the Skype Windows Phone Beta went live.
So there it is guys hope you liked the post, stay tuned to us for more updates from the MWC 2012.


text: Antique Walnut Fiona 3pc High Round Table with Ladder Back Stool. The set comes with Round High Table perfect addition to your kitchen or game room. Matching Ladder Back Stool is 29" Seat Height. Constructed from solid wood and finish in Antique Walnut. Ready to assemble.Measures 33.66" x 33.66" x 39


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GIVEN all the ramped-up hysteria and emotion associated with The X Factor, its live incarnation was a curiously lacklustre affair, eliciting only dutiful screams from the willing audience.
X Factor Live
The Hydro, Glasgow
* * * The failure to invest in a live band was a mistake, leaving mostly inexperienced performers struggling to spark off a backing track while ostensibly making all the right moves.
Demonstrating again how the classiest singers often lose the X Factor popularity poll, the soulful Hannah Barrett generated little heat in the crowd despite wiping the floor with her vocal competition.
Eager teenager Nicholas McDonald was out of his depth but buoyed up by his home crowd, R&B trio Rough Copy were a man down with no explanation and had to work hard to maintain the energy levels while vanilla Sam Callahan, the whipping boy of the contest, appeared utterly bereft of vocal talent and stage presence.
There were a couple of glimpses of potential in the two-hour show: Tamera Foster, the show's wannabe Beyoncé, gave a convincing rendition of Ain't Nobody, while likeable Luke Friend, the most appealing all-rounder of the group, delivered Bon Iver's Skinny Love with a rare ring of authenticity.
Winner Sam Bailey possesses some powerful pipes which she let loose on a succession of old-fashioned power ballads, including the ridiculously ostentatious And I Am Telling You, with all the aplomb of a holiday camp hostess. But whose issue is that? With The X Factor, the audience get what they voted for.


text: I've been getting a lot of audio dropouts this afternoon and evening on my recordings of ESPN. With so many components (Sat trans, dish aim [although no pix issues, so I think 'aim is true'], DVR issues, A/V receiver problems just rewired so stuff, but has never been issue before]) in the line, it's hard to tell if it's something on my end or something in the broadcast. Anyone else having audio dropouts?


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|( 13 upvotes )
|I've tried transparency background but it appears black on the site, so I still have to find a way around (if there is). This is grey background, yes. I did it with Ph**oshop. Try it out.
|Is this an application of transparency (your experiment I believe) or grey background for the poster?
|Yes I got a few. But this I made this one just I could experiment to get what you are seeing now. I wasn't really aiming to make a god poster
|If I may say so - you are a little nit addicted to narcissism... I think I've seen at least 5 posters on this topic, from you. No complaints though, they're all good. 5Ls
|Glad you liked it. I might do it again when I have the time lol
|you did it ain't ya... I like it ;)
|( 30 upvotes )
|Yep and may I suggest you use "colours" when you spell Canada, come on what's that all aboot?
|Hmmmmm... "neighbourhood" suggests this poster originated in C - eh,n - eh d - eh. Just saying...
|( 19 upvotes )
|Not like they ever did
|My corpus callosum just shut down. Now my creative and intellectual sides are not talking.
|Verily the poltroon hath dared to use the Queen's English! Off with his head!
|Spell it "colour", go to Gaol.
|Now I'm scared...both my brains teamed together and got it right!
|( 73 upvotes )
|"Nope, he has a p****, he can't love his child." said the foaming at the mouth feminist.
|I wonder if she wants to participate in this.
|I haven't met the man, but anyone who cares that much about his child has to be a good person!
|Great inspirational poster. 5Ls for sure
|Father of the CENTURY!!! My 6yr old daughter has severe Cerebral Palsy also so I rate this spectacular poster an inspiring 5L
|( 12 upvotes )
|Actually looks more like Lincoln Logs and and Erector Set.
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The World Wide Web contains billions of pages of freely available information, such as airplane arrival times, baseball statistics, and product descriptions. However, much of that information is embedded in running prose intended for reading by humans. A human is best equipped, for example, for locating the information on a Web page, giving it a data type (whether "1938" is a calendar year, the price of a product, or an airline flight number), and relating it to other data ("this picture located here depicts that product located there"). This manual process is time-intensive and error-prone.
There are current two ways to extract data automatically from a Web page, a process which is called "Web scraping". First, every Web page contains hidden mark-ups for formatting, such as boldface and italics. Theoretically, these mark-ups can help a computer algorithm locate information on a page. Unfortunately, every Web site has a different look and feel, so each Web page needs its own custom algorithm. Writing a custom algorithm is time-intensive, but possible on a small scale, such as a price comparison website which gathers product information from a dozen sources. But there is no efficient way to scale this approach up to thousands or millions of Web sites, which would require thousands or millions of custom algorithms to be written.
The second method requires the owner and developer of each Web site to add hidden mark-ups that specifically designate information and its data type. The preferred technology for this is XML. Unfortunately, nearly all Web sites are not built this way, and there are no standardized terms for XML usage. It is a little like saying that if only everyone would speak Esperanto, there would be no translation problems. This is true in theory, but hopelessly impractical.
Once data has been collected, there are no good mechanisms for disseminating it. Every Web site that publishes information stands alone. Each publisher writes its own content, sells its own ads, and manages its own online community. Web publishers such as Amazon.com that include others' book reviews, and such as The Boston Globe that include others' newswire stories, require their partner's active participation to integrate their databases together. This function is also quite difficult to scale up to millions of potential partners and the trillions of possible bilateral partnerships between those potential partners. The matter becomes even more complicated when advertisements, which can come from thousands of sources, need to be associated with data and presented to the end-users who read the publisher's Web site. Finally, there is currently no easy way for the online communities of various Web sites to profit from each other's knowledge, forming a "meta-community" which could, for example, automatically share movie reviews and ratings across thousands of movie fan Web communities.
There exists a need for a low-cost, highly-automated method for "scraping" information from the World Wide Web, forming partnerships to trade this data, and presenting it to readers alongside advertisements from any source.
Briefly, the present invention provides a system for automatically locating and data-typing information from thousands of Web pages, and then collecting that information in a central database. The database is then made available via an online data marketplace which allows users from thousands of different organizations to buy and sell related data, associated advertisements, and access to the communities of end-users who may also view advertisements and make purchases. These innovations may be used together or separately.
Web pages contain running text, in English or some other language, which is designed to be read by humans. Thus, extracting the data embedded in that text, data type information and context would seem to be a difficult problem for a computer algorithm. However, some automation is possible because many Web pages can be grouped as similar in appearance and format. For example, every book description Web page on Amazon.com looks the same as every other. If a human locates and types information on one Amazon.com Web page, then a computer may be able to locate and type data on all of the millions of similar-looking Web pages on Amazon.com. The challenges are then
(a) what is the best user interface for a human to identify for a computer which element of a Web page contains the desired information, and the information's data type and relation to other data?
(b) What is the most flexible way to store and communicate this knowledge?
(c) How can a computer generalize from one Web page to extracing information from millions of similar looking Web pages, even if they do not a match precisely?
(d) In what ways can the need for human involvement be minimized, and probable errors be identified automatically for review?
(e) What is the best user interface to report errors to a human and have them step in to fix the situation?
(f) What modifications are required to target specific vertical markets?
These problems are solved with a method according to a preferred embodiment of the invention in the following way:
(a) Using the mouse and a Web browser, a human interacts with a program (such as running on an application server) and highlights information on a page and right-clicks to bring up a dynamically-generated menu to permit the user to select the data type.
(b) Information as to data type is then stored directly into a copy of the Web page by the server.
(c) Web pages typically include not only prose but also text formatting markup tags (such as <b> that cause text to be displayed in boldface). The server can match an element on a template to an element on a source Web page to another by defining a set of "contextual clues" that characterize an element's location in the context of its Web page. Then the server makes a map of these features, which can be used later to navigate around the Web page.
(d) Natural language algorithms using word frequency statistics can also be used to characterize extracted data, and thus provide suggestions to the human user for rapid information location and data typing. These word frequency statistics can also be used to evaluate the result of automated extraction for likely correctness.
(e) An interface similar to the debuggers used for computer programming languages can be used to report the results of data typing.
(f) For specific vertical markets, the data may be extracted as lines of text that require further processing (e.g. extracting the time-of-day from a text string such as "Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, except Holidays"). Specially written parsing algorithms can be used, because the vocabulary in such a domain is limited (e.g., to determining time-of-day ranges).
Once data has been collected, a further mechanism can be employed so that the data can be freely traded and published. A database suitable for storing information scraped from Web sites, in one emobidment, differs from standard databases in several ways:
(a) the Web page that is the source for the data may change regularly, requiring a moderator to configure an information flow rather than store static data 1006
(b) data may be sourced from numerous Web pages, which should be assembled 506;
(c) users of the database, e.g., a publisher of a Web site, may have a community that will contribute numeric ratings, and prose commentary and the like to the data 1004; managing this centrally so that the opinions of differing communities can be shared is another desirable feature 1006;
(d) publishers of Web information may often want to associate advertisements with the data, in as targeted a way as possible, to achieve the highest level of accuracy. Targeting advertisements towards information scraped from Web sites may require special algorithms 1010; and finally
(e) Web scraping algorithms may occasionally gather the wrong information, requiring a technique to automatically identify and reject this information 507.
The foregoing and other features, and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views.
The foregoing will be apparent from the following more particular description of example embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views. The drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating embodiments of the present invention.
A description of preferred embodiments of the invention follows.
This preferred embodiment is in the arts & entertainment industry. Arts and entertainment events are typically listed across thousands of Web sites. Gathering, trading, and publishing this information is of substantial value to Web Publishers 111, Advertisers 108, and the Online Community 112 for each of the published Web sites.
The extracted information is stored in a Database 104. This Database 104 feeds data into a Publishing System 110 which can be used by each of several Web Publishers 111 to provide information to their own Online Community 112, of which there is one for every Web publisher. The Database 104 is itself fed by an Online Data Market 105, which allows Buyers 106 and Sellers 107 to freely trade primary and auxiliary information relating to data flows that come from Web site, effectively creating a meta-community from potentially thousands of different online communities. An Ad System 109 allows Advertisers 108 to register advertisements with the system, which are matched with information in the Online Data Market 105. This matching presents advertisements to the Online Community 112 that are relevant to their interests and thus more likely to stimulate Advertisers 108 to spend money.
Setting Up a Web Page to be "Scraped"
Because the data domain is Arts and Entertainment event listings, the Set Up Expert 100 characterizes this data domain by creating a Data Schema 113. A typical way to do this would be using the database language SQL, or as class definitions in Java.
Each Web site can have dozens, thousands, or potentially millions of Web pages. Each Web page with a unique look and feel requires a template to be manually set up. However, most Web pages belong to a group of similar-looking Web pages. A group like this requires only one representative Web page to be manually set up as a template. In this example, the Set Up Expert 100 identifies the Bayside Expo Center as a major venue for conferences in the Boston, Mass. area. The Bayside Expo Center has a website at a well known .com address. One Web page on that website is a calendar of activities happening at the Bayside Expo Center.
In step 301, The Set Up Expert 100 directs the Set Up System 101 to make a copy of the calendar of events of the Bayside Expo Center, resulting in a Copy of Web Page With Data 300. The Copy of Web Page With Data 300 is simply a copy of the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) of the original Web page.
In this example, The Copy of Web Page With Data 300 contains information about the event, including its name, "The World of Wheels" 319, its time span, "January 6-January 8" 320, and its organizer, "Championship Auto Shows" 321. We also know that the event takes place at the Venue for this website, The Bayside Expo Center. The Set Up Expert 100 wants to teach the system how to automatically scrape this information from the page and all other Web pages in the group of similar-looking pages, which comprise the entire calendar of the Bayside Expo Center.
In step 301, The Copy of Web Page With Data 300 is displayed in a Web browser on which is running a Java applet. As shown in
This time the drop-down menu 312, which is dynamically generated, makes some guesses about the data type that is most appropriate for the element that was just highlighted. Since the page itself is a Venue 201, and the Data Schema for Arts & Entertainment Event Listings 200 says that every Activity 202 has a Venue 201, one of the elements of the drop-down menu will be Activity 316, which the user selects. In this way the dynamically generated drop-down menu 312 is making it simpler and faster for the user to identify data types, by automatically suggesting what seems most relevant. Word frequency statistics can be used in the creation of such suggestions. For example, if the user highlights a 10 digit number with dashes that is most likely a phone number, the drop-down menu would place "Phone Number" at the top of the dynamically generated drop-down menu.
In step 302, the Set Up Expert 100 highlights "World of Wheels" 319. Then in step 303, the user right-clicks, again bringing up a dynamic drop-down menu. According to the Data Schema for Arts and Entertainment Event Listings 200, each Activity 202 is associated with a name, hours of operation, organizers, and other data. These possibilities are listed in the dynamically created drop-down menu, and the user selects "name" 322. Then in step 304, the computer then places special annotations into the Copy of Web Page With Data 300 to record these facts.
Similarly, in step 305, the Set Up Expert 100 associates "January 6-January 8" 320 as the time span for the event, and "Championship Auto Shows" 321 as an organizer 326 (see
The drop-down menu 312 includes the item "anchor", which allows the user to indicate that the highlighted text on the Web page should never change. This annotation would also be stored as an embedded tag in The Copy of Web Page With Data 300.
The drop-down menu 312 also includes the item "link", which allows the user to indicate that a link on the Web page is important. Any link the user clicks on is automatically read as important, as well. The intention is that during the Web scraping phase, if a Web page being read contains a link, the Web page being linked to will also be scraped, using the appropriate template.
Finally, the user may also indicate that some text region of the Web page is a list of blocks, and each block is treated as if it were a separate Web page with its own template. For example, the calendar of events at the Bayside Expo Center is one big list of identically formatted event summaries, each of which links through to an identically formatted event details page. A template from one of the event detail pages will thus suffice to read information from the rest.
"Web Scraping": Gathering Data from Web Sites
Once the Set Up Expert 100 has marked up several or possibly thousands of Web sites,
Web scraping is run as a batch job on Daily Web Scraping 103 that can be repeated monthly, daily, hourly, or more frequently. Different data domains will tend to change more or less frequently, requiring more or less frequent Web scraping. An event calendar, for example, may be updated daily, but a Web page with stock market fluctuations may change every minute.
The starting point in Step 500 is to gather all the templates from the Database 104 that are associated with a permanent URL. A permanent URL, for example, would be the home page of the Bayside Expo Center events calendar, which resides at a known URL and will never be located elsewhere. Other templates, those without a permanent URL, are accessed through the user-identified links on Web pages already being processed.
Then in Step 501, all the templates with permanent URLs are sent for processing, Step 502. The first step in processing, Step 503, is to use the URL to fetch a source Web page in real-time from the Internet. This source page is fully up-to-date with whatever information the Web publisher owning that Web page has got currently posted on their website. Then the server applies the template to the source Web page, matching the elements of the template to the elements of the Web page, and extracting the desired information, its data type, and its inter-relationship to other data. Exactly how this is done is described in the next section. For example, the Bayside Expo Center events page would be loaded and compared with the appropriate template. The big list of events would be discovered.
Then in Step 504, if the source Web page contains any lists, those lists are now processed. For example, a list 530 was found on the event calendar page of the Bayside Expo Center in
The last step in processing a template against a URL is Step 505, to handle any links that were discovered in the list. Each of the blocks 509 on the Bayside Expo Center event calendar list has a link, as noted in the previous paragraph. Each link is associated with the template for scraping the Web page that is linked to. As one example, there is a link 550 to the "Boston Home Show" event page. The Web Scraper 103 proceeds to load the page linked to, the "World of Wheels" page. The template 307 derived from the "World of Wheels" event page 307 is compared against the "Boston Home Show" event page, a comparison is made, and data is extracted 560. The extracted data is as then stored with their data types (Venue 201, Activity 202, etc.).
To summarize, the entire Web site can be read when the Set Up Expert 100 has only set up two pages, the Bayside Expo Center events calendar page and the World of Wheels event details page. From this rapid manual labor, the Daily Web Scraping 103 can now proceed automatically and read every events page on the entire website, both that day and every day in the future.
Finally, after all the pages and the pages they link to have been read and processed, in Step 506, the data that has been gathered is post-processed to connect data together, resolve conflicts, and report possible errors. Then in Step 507, using the Set Up System 101, the Set Up Expert 100 corrects any remaining errors and resolves any remaining conflicts. The resulting data may resemble A Visual Representation of Web Scraping in Action 508.
How Information is Located on the Web Page
Given a template, such as Template: A Copy of Web Page With Data Marked Up, 307, and a page to read, such as the "Boston Home Show" page on the Bayside Expo Center (see
Every location has contextual clues, such as which tag surrounds or precedes it, as shown in Contextual Clues Helping Specify a Location 601. In addition, two adjacent locations will have a relationship to each other, as illustrated in Adjacency Relationships In-Between Neighboring Elements 602. This information helps identify matches between elements on the template and elements on the source Web page, even though we cannot rely on the source Web pages associated with a template to have identical formats today and for all time. The text is likely to vary significantly, and the tags and general structure of the source Web page may change slightly too.
In step 804, we choose the highest confidence match is chosen and in step 805 this becomes an anchor point, splitting the START-to-END region into two regions: START-to-ANCHOR, and ANCHOR-to-END. This transforms the problem into smaller regions where all of the neighboring locations to ANCHOR can now be located by returning to step 801.
Although this would seem to be a slow algorithm, since it involves all combinations of E and F, in practice there are typically several unique or very high confidence matches which can be located immediately, dividing the problem into small fragments. One complexity is that since things may be added or deleted from a Web page over time, a separate weighted least squares algorithm evaluates the possibility that one of the elements of the template simply does not exist in the source Web page, or exists but something additional has been added.
Online Market for Data Scraped from Web Sites
Historically, online marketplaces have been created for buying and selling antiques or trading stock over the Web. However, trading the data scraped from Web sites presents new features. Referring to
What is happening is similar to podcasting. Audio broadcasts have traditionally been expensive and complex to produce, and were dominated by large corporations through radio stations. The Internet made it possible for hobbyists to inexpensively produce their own audio shows, leading to a boom in creativity and content. In a similar way, although online communities have existed for over a decade, for the first time, through the Online Data Market 1000, an entire community can act together to "broadcast" information to other communities. Online communities become lightweight and inexpensively created and managed. This paradigm explicitly includes a commercial buy and sell model, fostering incentives and creating one huge meta-community for any data domain.
In previous sections of this description of a preferred embodiment, a regular daily scraping of thousands of arts & entertainment Web sites has been set up, creating an ever-changing data flow of arts & entertainment activity listings.
Now, in Step 1005, a Web Publisher 1001 configure this stream of activities, choosing which portion of the whole will appear on his or her Web site for his or her Online Community 1002. The first way this can be done is through performing a query to the Database 104 and saving that under a name. This query is then optimized so that updates are selected as new information is added to the Database 104 by the Daily Web Scraping 103. This query may be based on keywords, or on category tags. A category tag is text word such as "Over-18", "Handicapped-Access", or "Free" that can be applied to an event explicitly in an attempt to categorize it. A statistical matching algorithm is used to automatically apply category tags based on the text of a source Web page, starting from a seed of user-applied tags.
In Step 1005, Web Publisher 1001 has now configured a personalized Web page on the Publishing System 110 which can be accessed from his or her own Web site by link or by including it as a frame or table inside one of the Web Publisher's 1005 own Web pages.
Then, in Step 1004, the Online Community 1002 adds content such as reviews, photographs, interviews, and ratings. This content may be free or it may be compensated for by the Web Publisher 1005.
Then, in Step 1006, the Web Publisher 1001 configures rules for how the content created in Step 1004 by the Online Community 1002 is to be sold, if at all. The community's reviews in plain text, and photographs with captions can be bought and sold.
The key problem of selling content created by a community is that the overall quality of volunteers is usually amateurish and not very good. However, in Step 1007, the Online Data Market 1000 can help the Web Publisher 1001 moderate the content and separate the good from the bad by assigning a utility score to the content that members of the Online Community 1002 are contributing. Based on these utility scores, the Web Publisher 1001 can approve content for sale through the Online Data Market 1000, or manually intervene to remove accidentally or maliciously erroneous content.
In Step 1007, different types of content require different utility scoring algorithms. The quality of the submission can be automatically judged based on (a) statistics involving the words in the plain text and photograph captions; (b) how often a Web visitor clicks on the content; (c) how long a Web visitor spends looking at the content; and (d) explicit ratings given by Web visitors. Some users may be trusted and have immediate permission to sell information into the Online Data Market 105 on behalf of the online community.
Then in Step 1008, a different Web Publisher 1003 wants to draw information from the Online Data Market 1000 for its own Web Community 1004. This may be a selling—the Web Publisher 1003 may charge to publish any listing. Or, the data may be valuable enough that the Web Publisher 1003 is buying it from Web Publisher 1001. Web Publisher 1003 configures the system to determine which communities information will be drawn from, what prices are reasonable to pay, and whether content will be sparse or deeply filled in. Web Publisher 1003 can also outsource the entire moderation of the event stream through the Online Data Market 1000. This would be similar to one DJ selling a playlist of music to another DJ every day.
Based on demand and that configuration, in Step 1009 the Online Data Market 1000 determines the appropriate prices and handles the transition of money. In this case, instead of trading purely for money, Web publishers 1001, 1003 accrue "points", similar to how airlines use "air miles". Although these points can be redeemed for cash, they can also be used to provide services for an online community. For example, if Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse has an advertisement with a coupon good for $15 off a meal, the publisher 1001 may spend points to purchase 250 of these coupons and present them to his or her online community. Creating incentives for the community to provide content, the Web publisher can take a cut and then finance the original incentives by sales into the Online Data Market 1000.
Additionally, in Step 1010, algorithms can select and suggest content for the end-user based on their explicit tastes (ratings) and their implicit tastes as demonstrated by their browsing history and the community they have chosen to join. These algorithms can select for the most relevant content and serve to sort lists of events with the ones most likely to be of interest on the top. Additionally, advertisements can be selected by an algorithm that matches ads with the end-users most likely to click on them.
Finally, in Step 1011, Ratings that are contributed by the Online Community 1006 need to be combined with the ratings from other communities. This is done using a weighted scoring system that is balanced from what the end-users tastes seem to be, as recorded by the history of browsing events.
In addition to this, a Publishing System 110 allows any Web publisher to manage the online community, and annotate events and activities with additional expert content, such as reviews, ratings, and photography. An Advertising System 109 allows advertisers to post their own ads and configure the system with hints about which events and category tags would be most relevant to the ad. This information is then used when determining which ads to show to end-users.
While this invention has been particularly shown and described with references to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention encompassed by the appended claims.
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