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The 25 Most Active Corporate VCs Can you guess which venture capital firms made the list? A look at the expanding role of corporate VCs in the startup economy.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
It's already been a hot summer for Google Ventures.
Google's venture capital investment arm recently made waves across the Atlantic when it announced the launch of a $100 million startup fund in Europe. In early June, the corporate VC firm and five other institutions invested a total of $1.2 billion in Uber. The funding round elevated the valuation of the shared-car company to an estimated $18.2 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
But before the firm's recent power move in Europe and investment in Uber, it was already dominating corporate VC activity. According to CB Insights, Google Ventures best exemplifies the corporate VC industry's shift from late-stage plays to early-stage investments. Since the first quarter of 2011, it has been the most active early-stage corporate VC, investing in more than 150 companies at the early-stage (followed by Intel Capital at 60 and Qualcomm Ventures at slightly more than 45).
Related: Who Is the Right Investor for You? That Depends on Where You Are Now.
For a more recent snapshot, here is a top 25 ranking of corporate VCs in the U.S. since the start of 2013 to May 30, 2014, based on data from PitchBook. The rise of corporate VCs in the early-stage means that, in addition to tracking traditional venture firms (ranked and listed in our VC 100) and angel investors, startups must keep a closer eye on the most active corporate VCs for funding opportunities.
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Related: Google Ventures Launches $100 Million Startup Fund in Europe


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These plastic storage caddies are handy totes for your markers, calculators, timers, manipulatives, and many more small items that you want to keep within reach. Made from durable plastic and include divided compartments for easy organizing. Each caddy is BPA free and measures 9¼"L x 9"W x 5¼"H with 3 compartments.
Our plastic storage solutions feature on-trend designs and vibrant colors. Mix and match your favorite style of storage bins and caddies to create a color-coordinated classroom that's as beautiful as it is functional.

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I have an iPod Classic from 2007 (Generation 5.5, 80GB hard drive).
Something that I've been noticing happening more and more is that some songs will play just fine but then at some point they'll just stop. The little time counter will jump to where it appears there is two seconds left in the song. And it will just sit there for several seconds and then then proceed to the next song.
And what I've noticed is that it tends to happen consistently with the songs that are problematic.
I've searched all over to figure out what might be causing this but I haven't had much lock, possibly because the symptoms are so vague ("some songs cut off", etc.)
My music collection, which is always pretty much filling the device, is 100% MP3 from a wide variety of sources (ripped, bought from Napster, etc.) and everything plays fine in Winamp on my PC so it doesn't seem as if the files themselves are completely corrupted.
My guess is that there is something about the files that the iPod is choking on but I can't figure out what that might be. If I'm lucky it's some weird tagging quirk (i.e., can be fixed in the individual files) but I really just don't know, and it seems to be happening on an increasing number of files, including files that played just fine before. Sometimes an entire album or artist will consist of files that cut off.
If this is just some known issue, do the latest iPod Classics (Generation 6, 160GB hard drives) still have this issue? I'm almost hoping that this is a sign of a dying iPod so I can upgrade :)


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Sustainable Fun Filled Island Adventure in Langkawi
Langkawi, Kedah (Malaysia) – January 7, 2020 (travelindex.com) – Umgawa Legendary Adventures has gained much love from Mother Earth! Running an eco-adventure business in an authentic manner has brought diverse cultures and believes under one roof. Cultivating the pillars of sustainability for the future generation. Umgawa™ designs and builds an exclusive adventure experience for everyone, whilst providing travellers a window into the true ethos of Malaysia's breath-taking wilderness and culture.
Constantly striving to preserve the ecosystem and contributing to the economic growth of Langkawi, we aim to provide our partner and guests a true legendary experience – filled with wild rides, endemic animals and authenticity of the local culture. We create an intoxicating and unforgettable aerial canopy voyage and nature experience for visitors of all ages.
Our primary practices are safety, service quality and of course our sensitivity levels to the environment and local communities. These are the main factors that drive our business in making it sustainable. We are eco-friendly, with no nail installations and no contact of metallic parts that are inserted into the trees. All elements are completely built from eco-friendly and sustainable top-quality materials made possible with minimal maintenance. The usage of the highest quality tropical timber that is highly resistant to rot, fungi and mildew and wire ropes that are highly resistant to abrasion, this allows us to cultivate renewable resources and nature can harvest without pollution.
Leveraging on the strength of the natural plant eco-system, by using the art belay system and safety equipment. Guests are able to view the local rainforest ecosystem and sight the native wildlife and indigenous species that surrounds the grounds of Umgawa™.
When our guests arrive, our dedicated rangers will provide insights of how to care for the environment not only at our ground but throughout the journey. Global warming has been taken seriously in the past decade, and we thrive to do our part in promoting an environment friendly legendary adventure.
Environmental practices do not limit to the area of Telaga Tujuh (Seven Wells Waterfalls) but extends to the entire island of Langkawi. We take great care in educating all visitors regarding the little environmental practices that they can take-away with them.
Umgawa Legendary Adventures meets the needs of the present without having to compromise the ability of the future generations to achieve the purpose of preservation. Plants at our medicinal herbs garden enable staffs to be enlightened on the benefits of flora and fauna thus making this knowledge eco-system friendly. Engaging in our definition of corporate social responsibility, as we practice ethical methods of being sustainable.
For enquiries, please contact
Nick Shahin, General Manager
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Website :www.umgawa.com
Seven Wells Waterfalls
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Franck Ribery scored twice as an inspired Bayern Munich thrashed Werder Bremen 7-0 on Saturday.
Bayern's 11th successive win in all competitions – which helped extend their league unbeaten run to 40 matches – was set up in the first half as Pep Guardiola's men silenced the Weserstadion crowd.
Playing his first match since cracking a rib for France on international duty last month, Franck Ribery helped Bayern into the lead after 21 minutes when his cross was deflected in by Werder defender Assani Lukimya-Mulongoti.
A towering Daniel van Buyten header doubled their advantage six minutes later before the influential Ribery sealed the result with a composed finish before half-time.
And Mario Mandzukic wrapped up the rout on the hour-mark as Bayern's latest win confirmed they would finish the year at the top of the league, before Thomas Muller, Ribery and Mario Gotze added more polish to the scoreline with late goals.
Ribery, Van Buyten and Muller came in to the Bayern side that beat Augsburg 2-0 in the DFB-Pokal on Wednesday, with Arjen Robben (knee) among the absentees.
There was no sign of captain Philipp Lahm, who continues his recovery from a thigh injury, but it mattered little as the Bavarian giants started brightly.
Mandzukic had an offside goal chalked off in the fourth minute and just seconds later Werder goalkeeper Raphael Wolf had to come off his line to deny Gotze.
Eljero Elia shot straight at Neuer at the other end after cutting in from the right, while Aaron Hunt had a fierce left-footed effort deflected wide by Jerome Boateng after more good work from Elia.
That was as close as Werder got to opening the scoring though, as Ribery beat Clemens Fritz and got to the byline before his ball was turned in by Lukimya-Mulongoti.
Van Buyten then rose above Nils Petersen to head home Toni Kroos' clever free-kick and although Ribery and Mandzukic missed chances to score a third, a break down the right led to another Bayern goal.
Released in time and space, Muller centred for Ribery, who took a touch before calmly slotting past Wolf in the 38th minute.
Neuer saved well to deny Hunt just before the break and his opposite number, Wolf, did superbly to keep out Gotze and Mandzukic after half-time.
Mandzukic got Bayern's fourth, though, stabbing home at the far post after another superb Ribery ball, and Muller then scored with a shot on the turn eight minutes later.
There was still time for Ribery to cap a fine performance as he converted a clever David Alaba cut-back in the 83rd minute, with Gotze netting the seventh with a late close-range finish.


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Rights and Accountability 19 January 2016
Human Rights Watch is calling on all corporations to completely end their business activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.
In a report published Tuesday, the New York-based group is also urging governments to withhold aid to Israel.
"Settlement businesses unavoidably contribute to Israeli policies that dispossess and harshly discriminate against Palestinians, while profiting from Israel's theft of Palestinian land and other resources," Arvind Ganesan, director of the business and human rights division at Human Rights Watch, said in a press release.
"The only way for businesses to comply with their own human rights responsibilities is to stop working with and in Israeli settlements," Ganesan added.
The report, "Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel's Violations of Palestinian Rights," will likely enrage Israel.
It will also prove a useful tool for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement to explain to companies why they must end their complicity in Israel's crimes.
This is the case even though Human Rights Watch insists it is "not calling for a consumer boycott of settlement companies, but rather for businesses to comply with their own human rights responsibilities by ceasing settlement-related activities."
According to the report, more than half a million Israelis live in 237 settlements across the occupied West Bank.
The only way is out
With its sweeping new recommendation, Human Rights Watch is departing from its earlier position that firms could "mitigate" the damage of doing business in settlements without necessarily pulling out completely.
Human Rights Watch now concludes that "the context of human rights abuse to which settlement business activity contributes is so pervasive and severe" that companies must end all activities in the settlements, including construction of housing or infrastructure and providing services such as waste disposal.
"They should also stop financing, administering, trading with or otherwise supporting settlements or settlement-related activities and infrastructure," the report states.
The 162-page report examines in detail the ways businesses benefit from and contribute to Israel's grave abuses of Palestinian rights, sometimes amounting to war crimes.
These include: benefitting from Israeli discrimination which allows companies to exploit Palestinian resources and workers; benefitting from and participating in the theft of land from Palestinian individuals and communities; assisting Israel's destruction of the Palestinian economy; and making the settlements more viable by providing them with services and paying taxes to their municipalities.
Crushing Palestinian development
Israel's colonization is also predicated on favoring development in Jewish settlements while actively suppressing Palestinian economic opportunities.
The report provides a strong refutation to frequent Israeli claims that settlement businesses should be tolerated or even celebrated because they provide employment and development for Palestinians.
It cites, for instance, a World Bank estimate that the Palestinian economy could generate an additional $3.4 billion – a 35 percent boost in GDP – if Israel lifted its discriminatory restrictions on Palestinian economic activity.
Similarly, economists have estimated that up to 200,000 jobs would be created if Palestinians were allowed to farm the occupied West Bank's Jordan Valley, most of which Israel has seized for the exclusive use of settlers.
Near the Bethlehem-area village of Beit Fajjar, Human Rights Watch says, Israel has refused to license Palestinian-owned quarries and constantly harasses businesses by confiscating their equipment.
As a result of such policies, jobs are scarce.
Ibrahim, a local worker, told researchers that "If I would find work in Beit Fajjar, I would leave the settlements in the morning."
By contrast, Israel has licensed a dozen Israeli-run quarries on confiscated Palestinian land.
One of them, Nahal Raba, is run by the German company HeidelbergCement, helping Israel violate international law that prohibits the theft of resources from an occupied territory.
Stealing land
In a case study of a 96-unit development in the Ariel settlement, the report cites the role of the US-based global real estate franchise RE/MAX and an Israeli bank in financing, marketing and profiting from the illegal colonization of Palestinian land.
It also describes the devastating impact Ariel and its ever-growing extensions has had on the villages whose land has been stolen for their development.
By supporting such housing developments, the report states, firms like RE/MAX and the Israeli bank "help the illegal settlements in the West Bank to function as viable housing markets, enabling the government to transfer settlers there."
This transfer is a crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Human Rights Watch does not name the bank in its case study, stressing that the companies profiled in the report are examples among hundreds doing business in the settlements.
However the official marketing brochure for Green Ariel, the development mentioned in the report, offers mortgages from Mizrahi Tefahot Bank.
This is one of five big Israeli banks from which several major pension funds have recently divested because of their role in financing settlements.
"I don't sell to Arabs"
Businesses financing, selling and promoting settlements are also active participants in Israel's officially endorsed system of anti-Palestinian racism.
"Given the character of settlements as almost exclusively Jewish and the rules that effectively bar Palestinian residents of the West Bank from living there, agents selling property there effectively contribute to discrimination against Palestinians," Human Rights Watch states.
The report cites Israeli sources confirming that separate and unequal development is the raison d'etre of the settlement enterprise; the government-backed World Zionist Organization Settlement Division has said, for instance, that colonization of the West Bank is aimed at "strengthening Jewish settlement in the country's periphery."
"I don't buy from or sell to Arabs. It's not racism, I just prefer not to deal with [them]," one RE/MAX agent who lists settlement properties in occupied East Jerusalem told Human Rights Watch.
It seems clear that such agents work a discriminatory system both knowingly and willfully.
Exploiting workers
Human Rights Watch also focuses on an Israeli company that produced bed linens for a US retailer in the Barkan Industrial Zone, a West Bank settlement built on land confiscated from Palestinian owners.
It is one of approximately 20 Israeli-run industrial zones in the occupied West Bank where companies can move to avoid environmental regulations.
This company paid Palestinian workers much less than the Israeli minimum wage, taking advantage of the fact that Israel's labor laws have not been enforced for Palestinian workers in the settlements.
Palestinian women received $2 per hour and said they did not receive vacation, sick days or overtime.
Human Rights Watch did not name the company "because it has since relocated from Barkan to Israel."
However, the description provided fits a company called Royalife, which markets its linens through the US retailer Pottery Barn.
Hani, a Palestinian university student from Salfit village, worked at a factory in Barkan making Hanukkah candles.
He told Human Rights Watch that he worked 12-hour shifts with a single 30-minute break.
He received $2 per hour, a third of Israel's minimum wage.
The fact that Palestinian workers are totally dependent on Israeli occupation authorities for work permits makes it all but impossible for Palestinians to effectively challenge these abusive conditions.
Human Rights Watch says the reality belies claims by settlers and their supporters that places like Barkan are models of "coexistence" that build "bridges to peace."
This kind of pro-settlement propaganda is regularly promoted by liberal Zionists in the US, including Jewish Daily Forward editor Jane Eisner.
In defending Sodastream's settlement factory, Eisner's newspaper insisted that the company was providing "well-paying jobs" for Palestinians and was not "profiting from the occupation."
But such "rosy sentiments ignore the deeply discriminatory environment in which settlement businesses operate, and Palestinian workers' vulnerability to abuse," Human Rights Watch states.
Withhold aid to Israel
Among its recommendations, Human Rights Watch urges states to "avoid offsetting the costs of Israeli government expenditures on settlements by withholding funding given to the Israeli government in an amount equivalent to its expenditures on settlements and related infrastructure in the West Bank."
Given the billions it is estimated to spend on settlements, that would all but wipe out aid to Israel.
This call for cutting aid is not likely to please the Obama administration, which regularly boasts that no US administration has been more generous to Israel.
Before he leaves office next January, President Barack Obama hopes to conclude a deal that could see annual US military subsidies to Israel boosted by up to 50 percent.
And while the European Union recently took the minimal step of requiring accurate labeling of settlement goods, the 28-member bloc has continued to generously fund Israel, including its military research and its settlements.
Indeed, staunch Israeli allies, including Greece's left-wing Syriza government, are actively trying to undermine the already weak labeling policy.
Amid such destructive complicity, the call by Human Rights Watch to end all settlement business is a welcome, if belated, move in the right direction.
It provides a clear endorsement and boost for those who have been working for years to bring real and effective pressure on Israel and its accomplices to end their crimes.
- Human Rights Watch
- settlement products
- Israeli settlements
- Arvind Ganesan
- divestment
- economy of the occupation
- World Bank
- jordan valley
- Beit Fajjar
- Nahal Raba quarry
- HeidelbergCement
- Ariel
- Mizrahi Tefahot Bank
- Barkan Industrial Zone
- Pottery Barn
- Jane Eisner
- The Jewish Daily Forward
- Barack Obama
- European Union
- Greece
- Syriza
- US aid to Israel
- Sodastream
I hope Israel's new NGO law
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I hope Israel's new NGO law will limit the presence of hrw in Israel once and for all. What a stupid position to take.
So pleased .....
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So pleased to see that you admit you support neither the Fourth Geneva Convention on Human Rights nor the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. I would expect nothing less of a Zionist, for this is what I presume you are.
You obviously have no concerns for the rights of a persecuted people whose land has been stolen from them, whose homes have been demolished and who are regularly assaulted, imprisoned, tortured and even killed simply because they are Palestinians. I'm so glad you are such a loving, caring person who supports the rights of the oppressor over the oppressed. I pray you will never find yourself in such a position with nobody to care for you ...!
If you were brave enough to identify yourself we would know who you are, but then you're obviously scared of the repercussions.
I am as random an internet
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I am as random an internet person as you are.
And I cannot steal that which is mine.
Don't like us? Go elsewhere.
'Anonymous' no longer. Your
Permalink Caitlin Ni Chonaill replied on
'Anonymous' no longer. Your comments identify you as one of those trolls who serve the Israeli government by promoting its illegal colonising expansionist policies. You're probably sitting in some cosy armchair somewhere, the 'Book of Hasbara' open on your knee, shamelessly indifferent to the fact that you're promoting genocide.
"There is no way to do
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"There is no way to do business in the settlements without participating in Israel's crimes". No truer words. Until all decent people and corporations boycott Israel's settlements and stop aiding in their growth and enrichment there can be no justice for Palestine. Here in America we must boycott all things produced by Israel on Palestine's land and we must refuse to do business with any company who aids and abets the settlements.
It's about time!!
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I agree with Ali. . ."the call by Human Rights Watch to end all settlement business is a welcome, if belated, move in the right direction." Amen to that!! Thank you, Human Rights Watch!!


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Graphics Drivers
Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to be done. For one I am running this on my laptop and while the open source radeon drivers are actually pretty decent they're just not quite good enough when it comes to power management. Thankfully the Linux closed source drivers are up to the job.
After reading through these two sites I was able to install the closed source drivers and get full control over my graphics card. To be perfectly honest I'm not exactly sure what steps got me to this point but I do know it was a mixture of the two sites.
Wireless Networking
After careful consideration I had come to the conclusion thought I had bricked my wireless. Worse yet after following the guide here (even the parts specific to KDE) I just couldn't seem to get it to work. Thankfully I stumbled upon this guide which instructed me to install networking components for KDE. Apparently once I had installed this package all was good.
Flash was actually incredibly easy to install. All I had to do was enter the following command in a root terminal and then restart Firefox.
emerge adobe-flash
Another big install was the official Oracle Java JRE and JDK. To install just the JRE run the command dev-java/sun-jre-bin. If you want the JDK as well then run the command dev-java/sun-jdk. The only weird part about this was that this package is now considered restricted. To work around it simply download the bin file from Oracle and place it in /usr/portage/distfiles before running the command.
More to Come
There is still plenty more to do, like install LibreOffice and figure out why my computer currently can't play audio CDs. I am however thankful that at this point I am at least a bit better off than some other fellow Linux Experiment participants.
My Desktop So Far
The high CPU load was because I had just finished compiling a bunch of stuff 😛


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I'm creating some copy describing new web-app features for a number of different audiences (users, managers of sections of the site, owners of sub-sites which use our platform etc.).
I'm finding myself using 'users' constantly:
"Users will now be able to..."
"...opens up the creation of $feature to users..."
"...excited to see the creative ways our users will..."
I'm getting sick of the word. It feels ugly to me, and a bit jargony, and sort of unfriendly.
Any good alternatives?
In some cases I can replace 'users' with 'you'. But for two of these pieces, I'm addressing audiences who wont be using the features themselves, so the second person wont be appropriate.


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USA: Thunder Audio recently deployed a large-scale JBL VTX Series system at Lollapalooza 2016 to power a diverse line-up of high profile artists at the festival's Bud Light stage, including Ellie Goulding, Major Lazer, Lana Del Ray, The 1975, Future, Disclosure, HAIM and many more.
Thunder Audio used the JBL VTX system at Lollapalooza 2015, and selected the system once again for its smooth frequency response, powerful output and ease of deployment. The VTX system's clear and transparent sound quality was especially important, and enabled Thunder Audio to accommodate a wide range of sonic requirements.
"We always set up the system as flat as possible out of the box without a lot of processing or equalisation; the system already sounds great with the JBL voicings," said Greg Snyder, Vice President of Sales at Thunder Audio. "We're handing the FOH engineers a very flat and neutral system that works well for any type of music, so they don't have to do a lot of work to get the sound they want for their artist. This makes it much easier to meet the artists' expectations and everyone had a great time using it."
The system Thunder Audio deployed included two main arrays of 18 x VTX V25-II, two arrays of 8 x VTX V25-II for outfills, 8 x S28 subwoofers flown per side, and 30 x S28 on the ground deployed in 10 clusters of three. The entire system was powered by 72 Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers and Thunder Audio used JBL HiQnet Performance Manager 2.0 software to configure, optimise and monitor the entire system.
"When we built the system, we chose to use Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers for the power," said Snyder. "There's so much power on reserve, and we get clarity out of the full spectrum of the system, whether it be low, mids, highs or subwoofers. If a dynamic drum roll or a downbeat occurs, the power is always there and it's always clean. Last year, we updated our VTX system with new waveguides that made the high frequency even more spectacular and crystal clear. And with the development of Performance Manager 2.0 software and how far it's come, the entire system is bulletproof."
As with last year's festival, the Thunder Audio team faced some significant challenges during deployment. The site received lots of rain in the week before the festival and the area in front of the stage retained a lot of water. Thunder Audio needed to get the system up quickly to avoid tearing up the ground.
"We had to make sure the audience could enjoy where they were standing without getting stuck in the mud, so we needed to build the system quickly while still maintaining the site," said Snyder. "VTX is one of the most user-friendly systems to deploy, since it can easily be flown standing up or laying on its face. Deployment was very quick and within a couple hours we had all the main clusters and out fills up. Then all we had to do was fork down our subwoofers, which we placed on pallets to keep them out of the mud."
The artists performing at the Bud Light stage had drastically different sonic qualities — from intense and bass-heavy electronic sounds to rock and pop. As an early adopter of the VTX Series, Thunder Audio and was initially drawn to the system for its versatility and its ability to produce excellent results with any type of music.
"With today's digital consoles and very diverse frequency requirements, it's important to have a PA that can accurately reproduce the sounds going in to the system," said Snyder. "With VTX, the sound that comes from the system is record quality. We heard Major Lazer, Ellie Goulding and all of the acts as they're truly supposed to sound. Even with 40,000 people in front of the PA, the system still sounds great and gives the artists exactly what they're looking for. In the end, we're trying to make everyone's job easier. VTX is a dynamic product and it becomes one with the artist that's performing."


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Privacy Policy
Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays
Majestic Holidays, Serving the Bahamas Since 1994
The privacy policy covers the collection and use of personal information that may be collected when you contact us, such as when you visit our website, when you request, book, purchase, or when you call us. Please take a moment to read the document below that informs you how Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays collects personal data and what types of data are collected, how and for what purpose this data is used, to whom Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays this data is passed on and how Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays protects your personal information.
Your personal rights have the highest priority, and Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays makes every effort to protect these rights. All further data protection obligations beyond this privacy policy remain unaffected.
For what purpose does Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays collect personal data?
Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays collects and uses your personal information to provide you with exemplary customer service, convenient access to our website, and optimal service provision. But above all, for example, to facilitate your new request, a new booking if you contact us again after a stay or a request. This is also necessary for payment processing.
In addition, your personal information such as email address is used to help keep you up to date with the latest information and updates, special offers and other developments that we think may be of interest to you. If you are not interested in keeping up to date with the latest developments, as well as up-to-date product and service information, you can let us know at any time and simply opt out of our email updates.
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There are a number of situations in which Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays your personal information may help to provide you with a better service. For example, you might be asked for personal information when you start a booking transaction. You will always only be asked for information that is relevant to the respective situation. These include, for example, name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and preferred method of contacting or credit card information. In addition, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays Market research information to help you get to know our customers better and thus offer you a more effective service. Furthermore, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays Data on customer activities on our website. Based on this data, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays Identify what information is really useful to our customers and what areas of our websites and Internet services are of most interest to them.
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Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays takes the protection of your personal rights very seriously. Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays assures you that Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays Does not sell or lend your contact information to other providers. In order to be able to offer you an exemplary service, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays may transfer your personal data to credit card bank processing systems to process your payments, who are obliged to protect this data in accordance with the privacy policy.
We point out that for the purpose of simpler inquiry and booking process and for subsequent contract processing for security and data accuracy items such as cookies, the IP data of the connection owner are stored, as well as name, address and credit card number for proper processing. In addition, for the purpose of contract execution or for reporting purposes, the following data is also stored with us: the data provided by you as necessarily required to fulfill the contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures. Without this data we cannot conclude the contract with you. A transfer of data to third parties does not take place, with the exception of the transmission of the credit card data to the processing bank / payment service provider for the purpose of debiting the room price or the costs incurred during the stay, as well as to fulfill our necessary business tax obligations.
How long is the data stored during operation?
In the case of a request or booking by electronic, telephone or analogue means all data from the form or all specified date at least until the expiry of the tax retention period and multiple years for marketing reasons, for operational reasons to provide best customer service to you as a guest is stored (re-booking, etc.).
How does Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays protect your personal information?
Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays takes precautions, including administrative, electronic and physical procedures, to protect your personal information from loss, theft and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
The website uses industry standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for some purposes. This will ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and credit card information when transacting over the Internet. You too can help us and take appropriate precautions to protect your personal information on the Internet. Change your password frequently. Use a combination of letters and numbers, and be sure to always use a secure web browser.
Integrity of your personal information
Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays has taken protective measures to ensure that your personal information is always accurate, complete and up-to-date for the intended purposes. Of course, you always have the right to access and modify the personal information you provide. You can help us to ensure that your contact information and preferences are correct, complete and up-to-date.
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As usual on many other companies' websites, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays also uses "cookies" and other technologies to gain a better insight into which areas of our websites are particularly popular as our visitors move around the site and how much time they spend in different areas. In addition, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays uses Cookies and other technologies to ensure that our online advertising is effective and that customers are really aware of our products and services. Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays uses cookies and other technologies to analyze the traffic on our website so that we can further improve its design and functionality, and to investigate the efficiency of communication with our customers. Furthermore, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays uses Cookies to better tailor the website to your needs and to offer you even more convenience when navigating with each visit.
Like most websites, we also automatically collect certain information and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses), browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referral / end pages, operating system, date / time stamps, and clickstream data.
In some of our e-mail messages Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays uses a so-called "click-through URL", which is linked to content on our website. If you click in such a URL address, you pass our web server before you reach the actual target web page. Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays Track this "click-through" data to determine interest in specific topics and measure the effectiveness of communicating with our customers. If you want to avoid capturing such data, simply do not click on any text or graphic links in emails.
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As already mentioned, Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays takes the protection of your personal rights very seriously. To ensure the security of your personal information, these policies are shared with all employees and strict safeguards are put into place to protect privacy within the company.
The website contains links to websites of other companies. For the handling of these companies with personality rights Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays not responsible (examples include other local activity businesses such as service providers, transportation and airlines, guides, restaurants, etc.). Majestic Tours and Majestic Holidays recommends that you check with these companies for their privacy policy.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Naturally, Gérôme works for the Goupil enterprise; he paints in order for the painting to be reproduced by photograph and engraved to be sold in thousands of copies. Here the subject is everything and painting is nothing: the reproduction is worth more than the work itself. The whole secret of the trade is to find a sad or happy idea, tickling the flesh or the heart, and then treating this idea in a banal and pretty way that pleases everyone."-- "Our painters at the Champ de Mars" (1867) Émile Zola "In Caesar (1859) Gérôme tried to return to a severer class of work, but the picture failed to interest the public. Phryne Before the Areopagus, Le Roi Candaule[1] and Socrates Finding Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia (1861) gave rise to some scandal by reason of the subjects selected by the painter, and brought down on him the bitter attacks of Paul de Saint-Victor and Maxime Du Camp. At the same Salon he exhibited the Egyptian Chopping Straw, and Rembrandt Biting an Etching, two very minutely finished works."--The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10th edition |
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Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French academic painter and sculptor who resisted the modern art movements of Impressionism begun by Monet and Manet, continuing the development and conservation of French neo-classicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. His work has been criticized in "Does Gerome Belong with Goya and Monet?" (1980) by art critic Hilton Kramer.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme was born at Vesoul (Haute-Saône). He went to Paris in 1840 where he studied under Paul Delaroche, whom he accompanied to Italy (1843–1844). He visited Florence, Rome, the Vatican and Pompeii, but he was more attracted to the world of nature. Taken by a fever, he was forced to return to Paris in 1844. On his return he followed, like many other students of Delaroche, into the atelier of Charles Gleyre and studied there for a brief time. He then attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1846 he tried to enter the prestigious Prix de Rome, but failed in the final stage because his figure drawing was inadequate.
He tried to improve his skills by painting The Cockfight (1846), an academic exercise depicting a nude young man and a lightly draped girl with two fighting cocks and in the background the Bay of Naples. He sent this painting to the Salon of 1847, where it gained him a third-class medal. This work was seen as the epitome of the Neo-Grec movement that had formed out of Gleyre's studio (such as Henri-Pierre Picou (1824–1895) and Jean-Louis Hamon), and was championed by the influential French critic Théophile Gautier.
Gérôme abandoned his dream of winning the Prix de Rome and took advantage of his sudden success. His paintings The Virgin, the Infant Jesus and St John (private collection) and Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France) took a second-class medal in 1848. In 1849 he produced the paintings Michelangelo (also called In his studio) (now in private collection) and A portrait of a Lady (Musée Ingres, Montauban).
In 1851 he decorated a vase, later offered by Emperor Napoleon III of France to Prince Albert, now part of the Royal Collection at St. James's Palace, London. He exhibited Bacchus and Love, Drunk, a Greek Interior and Souvenir d'Italie, in 1851; Paestum (1852); and An Idyll (1853).
In 1852 Gérôme received a commission by Alfred Emilien Comte de Nieuwerkerke, Surintendant des Beaux-Arts to the court of Napoleon III, for the painting of a large historical canvas, the Age of Augustus image of the painting. In this canvas he combines the birth of Christ with conquered nations paying homage to Augustus. Thanks to a considerable down payment, he was able to travel in 1853 to Constantinople, together with the actor Edmond Got. This would be the first of several travels to the East : in 1854 he made another journey to Turkey and the shores of the Danube, where he was present at a concert of Russian conscripts, making music under the threat of a lash.
In 1854 he completed another important commission of decorating the Chapel of St. Jerome in the church of St. Séverin in Paris. His Last communion of St. Jerome in this chapel reflects the influence of the school of Ingres on his religious works.
To the exhibition of 1855 he contributed a Pifferaro, a Shepherd, A Russian Concert, The Age of Augustus and Birth of Christ. The last was somewhat confused in effect, but in recognition of its consummate rendering the State purchased it. However the modest painting, A Russian Concert (also called Recreation in the Camp) was more appreciated than his huge canvases.
In 1856 he visited Egypt for the first time. This would herald the start of many orientalist paintings depicting Arab religion, genre scenes and North African landscapes.
Gérôme's reputation was greatly enhanced at the Salon of 1857 by a collection of works of a more popular kind: the Duel: after the Masked Ball (Musée Condé, Chantilly), Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert, Memnon and Sesostris and Camels Watering, the drawing of which was criticized by Edmond About.
In 1858 he helped to decorate the Paris house of Prince Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte in the Pompeian style. The prince had bought his Greek Interior (1850), a depiction of a brothel also in the Pompeian manner.
In Caesar (1859) Gérôme tried to return to a more severe class of work, the painting of Classical subjects, but the picture failed to interest the public. Phryne before the Areopagus, King Candaules and Socrates finding Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia (1861) gave rise to some scandal by reason of the subjects selected by the painter, and brought down on him the bitter attacks of Paul de Saint-Victor and Maxime Du Camp. At the same Salon he exhibited the Egyptian Chopping Straw, and Rembrandt Biting an Etching, two very minutely finished works.
He married Marie Goupil (1842–1912), the daughter of the international art dealer Adolphe Goupil. They had four daughters and one son. Upon his marriage he moved to a house in the Rue de Bruxelles, close to the music hall Folies Bergère. He expanded it into a grand house with stables with a sculpture studio below and a painting studio on the top floor.
Gérôme was elected, on his fifth attempt, a member of the Institut de France in 1865. Already a knight in the Légion d'honneur, he was promoted to an officer in 1867. In 1869 he was elected an honorary member of the British Royal Academy. The King of Prussia Wilhelm I awarded him the Grand Order of the Red Eagle, Third Class. His fame had become such that he was invited, along with the most eminent French artists, to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
The theme of his Death of Caesar (1867) was repeated in his historical canvas Death of Marshall Ney, that was exhibited at the Salon of 1867, despite official pressure to withdraw it as it raised painful memories. He returned successfully to the Salon in 1874 with his painting Eminence grise (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). In 1896 he painted Truth Rising from her Well, an attempt to describe the transparency of an illusion. He therefore welcomed the rise of photography as an alternative to his photographic painting. In 1902 he said "Thanks to photography, Truth has as last left her well".
Jean-Léon Gérôme died in his atelier on 10 January 1904. He was found in front of a portrait of Rembrandt and close to his own painting "The Truth". At his own request, he was given a simple burial service without flowers. But the Requiem Mass given in his memory was attended by a former president of the Republic, most prominent politicians, and many painters and writers. He was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in front of the statue Sorrow that he had cast for his son Jean who had died in 1891.
He was the father-in-law of the painter Aimé Morot.
In 1853 Gérôme moved to the Boîte à Thé, a group of studios in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris. This would become a meeting place for other artists, writers and actors. George Sand entertained in the small theatre of the studio the great artists of her time such as the composers Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms and Gioachino Rossini and the novelists Théophile Gautier and Ivan Turgenev.
He started an independent atelier at his house in the Rue de Bruxelles between 1860 and 1862.
He was appointed as one of the three professors at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He started with sixteen students, most who had come over from his own studio. His influence became extensive and he was a regular guest of Empress Eugénie at the Imperial Court in Compiègne.
When he started to protest and show a public hostility to "decadent fashion" of Impressionism, his influence started to wane and he became unfashionable. But after the exhibition of Manet in the Ecole in 1884, he eventually admitted that "it was not so bad as I thought".
Selected works
Gérôme's best paintings are of Eastern subjects; among these may be named:
- Turkish Prisoner and Turkish Butcher (1863)
- Prayer (1865)
- The Slave Market (1867)
- Excursion of the Harem (1869)
- Louis XIV and Molière (1863) – Historical theme
- The Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors at Fontainebleau (1865)
- Death of Marshal Ney (1868)
Gérôme was also successful as a sculptor. His first work was a large bronze statue of a gladiator holding his foot on his victim, shown to the public at the Exposition Universelle of 1878. This bronze was based on the main theme of his painting Pollice verso (1872). The same year he exhibited a marble statue at the Salon of 1878, based on his early painting Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid (1848).
Aware of contemporary experiments of tinting marble (such as by John Gibson) he produced Dancer with Three Masks (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen ), combining movement with colour (exhibited in 1902). His tinted group Pygmalion and Galatea provided his inspiration for several paintings in which he depicted himself as the sculptor who could turn marble into flesh; one example is Pygmalion and Galatea (1890) (Metropolitan Museum, New York).
Among his other works are Omphale (1887), and the statue of the duc d'Aumale which stands in front of the château of Chantilly (1899).
He started experimenting with mixed ingredients, using for his statues tinted marble, bronze and ivory, inlaid with precious stones and paste. His Dancer was exhibited in 1891. His lifesize statue Bellona (1892), in ivory, bronze, and gemstones, attracted great attention at the exhibition in the Royal Academy of London.
The artist then began a series of Conquerors, wrought in gold, silver and gems: Bonaparte entering Cairo (1897); Tamerlane (1898); and Frederick the Great (1899).
His students included:
- Dagnan-Bouveret
- Georges Ferdinand Bigot
- Frank Boggs
- Frederick Arthur Bridgman
- Dennis Miller Bunker
- Kenyon Cox
- William DeLeftwich Dodge
- Wynford Dewhurst, R.B.A.
- Lecomte du Nouy
- Thomas Eakins
- Wyatt Eaton
- Delphin Enjolras
- Herbert Cyrus Farnum
- Alexander Harrison
- Robert Lee MacCameron
- Siddons Mowbray
- Aloysius O'Kelly
- Lawton Parker
- Paul Peel
- Harper Pennington
- William Picknell
- Théodore Ralli
- Julius Stewart
- Abbott Handerson Thayer
- Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
- Douglas Volk
- J. Alden Weir
List of works
- Phryne before the Areopagus (1861)
- Grand bath at Bursa (1885)
- Pollice verso
- Purchase of a Slave[2]
- Diogenes[3]
- Cleopatra and Caesar[4] (1866)
- Bathseba[5]
- Death of Caesar[6]
- Femmes aux bains[7]
- The Snake Charmer[8]
- Solomon's Wall, Jerusalem[9]
- Cave Canem[10]
- Greek Interior, Le Gynécée[11]
- King Candaules[12]
- Painting Breathes Life into Sculpture[13]
- Quaerens Quem Devoret[14]
- The Slave Market[15]
- Selling Slaves in Rome[16]
- Jeunes Grecs Faisant battre des coqus[17]
- Police Verso[18]
- Duel After a Masquerade Ball[19]
- Bonaparte Before the Sphinx[20]
- Slave Market in Rome[21] (ca. 1884)
- Pygmalion and Galatea[22][23]
- Bath[24]
- Moorish bath[25][26]
- Consummatum est[27]
- The Christian Martyrs Last Prayer[28]
- The Hookah Lighter, c. 1898[29]
- Working in Marble[30]
- Pool in a Harem[31]
- Alcibiades in the house of Aspasia[32], (1861)
- Nu sur sa toile d'origine avec griffures[33]


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Vioxx, the trade name of the generic drug rofecoxib, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 1999, for the treatment of osteoarthritis, menstrual pain and the management of acute pain in adults. On September 30, 2004 the manufacturer of Vioxx, Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck) announced that it was voluntarily withdrawing Vioxx from the market worldwide, due to increased risks of cardiovascular problems (including heart attack and stroke) in users of the drug.
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Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.
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Newton: Endorsement games
Over the past few weeks, the race for mayor of Los Angeles has been less a contest of ideas and leadership than it's been an endorsement roulette, with Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilman Eric Garcetti trotting out their latest pledges of support as evidence of their fitness for the city's top job.
But does anybody other than the candidates really care? Are there large numbers of voters who will vote for Greuel because Houston Mayor Annise Parker endorsed her or for Garcetti because former Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez spoke up for him? I doubt it.
Some endorsements matter, particularly when they surprise or lend heft to a candidate's arguments. But many do not, in part because they are the result of relationships and connections rather than philosophical or ideological appreciation. Indeed, they often say more about the endorser than the endorsed.
ENDORSEMENTS: Los Angeles City Elections 2013
Take Bill Clinton's endorsement of Greuel. It's possible that Clinton has carefully scrutinized the issues confronting Los Angeles, sized up the relative merits of the two candidates and concluded that Greuel is notably better equipped than Garcetti to handle those challenges. But it's more likely that the former president is simply thanking Greuel for having backed Hillary Rodham Clinton in her presidential campaign and for Greuel's role in the Clinton administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development.
And is it possible that Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, regards Garcetti as qualitatively the superior candidate? Sure, but I'm betting that endorsement is more about personal connections and political back-scratching too.
One significant endorsement won't be coming for either candidate, much to Garcetti's disappointment. As an early and enthusiastic supporter of then-Sen. Barack Obama at a time when Greuel was backing Hillary Clinton, Garcetti had hoped for a nod from the president. But last week, a White House aide announced that Obama would not pick a favorite, in keeping with his past practice of steering clear of local races between Democrats.
PHOTOS: A rogues' gallery of L.A. mayors
Maybe that was Obama's entire reason for not endorsing. But staying out of the fray also allowed the president not to have to cross a few of his better-connected supporters: DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg — who are backing Greuel, a former DreamWorks executive. As Parke Skelton, one of California's most shrewd and successful political consultants, told me last week, that could have "put enough cross-pressure" on Obama to persuade him to sit this one out.
Organizational endorsements are sometimes subject to similar pressures, though again, some are more valued than others. Newspaper support, for instance, can help reach moderate undecideds, especially in races where voters don't have a great deal of information. Skelton pointed to the strong finish of Ron Galperin in the controller's race and last year's election of Jackie Lacey as district attorney as examples of campaigns that benefited from newspaper endorsements (both were Skelton clients). In this race, The Times and La Opinion have backed Garcetti, while the Los Angeles Daily News has endorsed Greuel.
As the mayoral campaign continues, three groups are especially in play: African American, Latinos and Republicans. This weekend, Garcetti announced the endorsements of Council President Herb Wesson and former councilmembers Nate Holden and Rita Walters, all of whom are black and join councilmembers Jan Perry and Bernard C. Parks in the Garcetti effort. Greuel has County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Magic Johnson in her camp.
In the contest for Latinos, Garcetti has Councilman Richard Alarcon and Councilman Ed Reyes, while Greuel has Councilman Jose Huizar. Garcetti, as noted, is backed by La Opinion, but Greuel has the support of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and its powerful, respected leader, Maria Elena Durazo.
Republicans are similarly split: Former Mayor Richard Riordan, who Skelton noted is popular with Los Angeles voters, supports Greuel, while Kevin James, a Republican who garnered 16% of the mayoral vote in the
first round, supports Garcetti. That split is particularly confusing because Riordan supported James as long as he was in contention. As they say, politics makes strange bedfellows.
There are two conspicuously big-name Los Angeles politicians who have yet to name their favorites, and whose endorsements, if they are forthcoming, could still make a difference. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters has long been influential, especially among African Americans, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is, of course, the first Latino elected to that job in modern times. Both have held their fire so far, and they could still have influence, at least within the demographic groups where they are most popular.
But no matter how they come down, Skelton warns that they may not tilt the ultimate outcome: "Endorsements," he said, "can be important, but they're usually not determinative."
Jim Newton's column appears Mondays. His latest book is "Eisenhower: The White House Years." Reach him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @newton_jim.
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LDA will have a substantial impact on corpus based natural language processing; since it opens up for easy creation of semantic models based on machine learning.
Motivation for topic models
With the Internet we have large amount of text available. Having the text categorized into topics make text search much more precise and makes it possible to find similar documents.
Text categorization is not an easy problem:
- Texts usually deals with more than one topic
- There is no clear standard for categorization
- Doing it by hand is infeasible
There is actually good material available, but finding all the pieces takes some work. Most things you need are available online for free. Here is a chronological account for what I did to understanding LDA and start implementing it.
Need for more sophisticated hierarchical topic models
In 2009 I needed a fine grained classification of text, using unsupervised or semi supervised training. I spend a little time thinking about it, and had some idea about making bootstrapped training in a 2 layered hierarchy. It was hackish, complex and I was not sure how numerically stable it was. I never got around to implement it.
David Blei
I went to 4 Annual Machine Learning Symposium in 2009 and asked around for solutions to my problem. Several attendees told me to look at David Blei work. I did but he has written a lot of math heavy articles, so I did not know were to start.
I was lucky to see David Blei give a presentation on LDA first at the 5 Annual Machine Learning Symposium. David Blei works at Princeton and just exudes brilliance. He gave a lucid entertaining description of the LDA with examples. It wa really shocking to see the LDA algorithm find scientific topics on its own with no human intervention.
I saw him give the same talk at the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, and luckily that was videotaped here are part 1 and part 2. I watched these videos a few times. This gave me a good intuition for the algorithm.
I looked through his articles and found a good beginner articles BleiLafferty2009. I read through that several time, but I could not understand it.
I went out and bought the text book that David Blei recommended: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop. After reading the introduction chapter, I read BleiLafferty2009 again and was able to understand it. On page 10 the essence of the algorithm is described in a small text box.
Software implementation of LDA
lda-c in C by David Blei is an implementation in old school C. The code is readable, concise and clean.
lda for R package by Jonathan Chang. Implementing many models with extensive documentation.
Online LDA in Python by Matt Hoffman. Short code, but not too much documentation.
LDA Apache Mahout in Java. Active development community works with Hadoop / MapReduce.
Practical software considerations
All the implementations looked good. But if you want to use LDA software then robustness, scalability and extendibility are big issues. First you just want the algorithm to run for simple text input. Next day you want the following options:
- Better word tokenizer
- Bigrams and collocation
- Words stemmer
- LDA on structured text
- Read from database
Programming language choice for LDA
C is an elegant, simple system programming language.
C is not my first choice of a language for text processing.
C++ is a very powerful but also complex language.
R is a fantastic language for statistics, but not so great for low level text processing.
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The R implementation of LDA looks great; I think that it is common to do all the preprocessing in another language say Perl. And then do all the rest of the work in R.
Different versions of LDA
There are now a lot of different LDA models geared towards different domains. Let me just mention a couple:
Online LDA
Online means that: you do learning of the models in small batches; instead of on all the documents. This is useful for a continuously running system.
Dynamic LDA
Good for handling text that stretches over a long time interval say 100 years.
Hierarchical LDA
This will handle topics are organized in hierarchies.
Gray box approach to LDA
The math needed for LDA is advanced. If you do not succeed in understand it I still think that you can learn to use the code, if you are willing to take something on faith and get your hands dirty.


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Lately, Passion Pit has been showing up a lot on the blog! That's because we are very excited about the brilliant response the group's debut album, Manners, has been getting from both critics and fans alike! In February, Fader Magazine posted a video of our time in the studio recording supporting vocals for the album. We loved Fader's footage, and now we present ours, courtesy of Miss Lisa. This really gives insight into what a really amazing person lead singer and songwriter Michael Angelakos is. Below is the video footage. For pictures and a thorough write-up of the day click here.
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1) The kids meet Michael Angelakos who notes the Passion Pit/PS22 Chorus combo is "a perfect pairing"
2) Michael gives us direction
3) Giuseppe gets fired....
4) The chorus make donations to Passion Pit..... while recording.
5) The kids let their love grow tall.
6) Screamfest on The Reeling!
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Michael Angelakos cheers up Eric. What a cool guy! Mike definitely has an alternate career to fall back on..... not that it's looking like he'll need one any time soon!
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1) The kids are at first a little taken aback by my passing the reigns to Michael for this song. I found that kind of sweet actually..... They got over it quick, once they realized they were in excellent hands!
2) Vocal calisthenics with Michael Angelakos!
3) A million degrees in the studio, and the kids are THIRSTY!
4) Mr. B gets a brilliant idea.....
5) Mrs. Johnson gums up the works.
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Are YOU smarter than a fifth grader? Elijah astounds both Michael AND his music teacher with his highly impressive movie trivia skillz. Another example of just how cultured the kids in the PS22 Chorus really are! :)
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1) An awesome thank you to the chorus from Michael Angelakos for their help in making his vision complete. It was a really special moment.
2) The studio is a bit... ripe....
3) Michael hangs with the kids, who learn he's most definitely NOT from Smelly-ville NJ. Although they may have wanted to consider giving that name to Gigantic Sudios after we left......
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1) A little bit of an acoustic version of "Little Secrets"
2) Goodbyes....
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Michael Angelakos and the chorus do a spontaneous acoustic version of their breakout hit, "Sleepyhead" just for fun!


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Central Garden & Pet Company to Announce First Quarter 2015 Financial Results
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Central Garden & Pet Company (NASDAQ:CENT)(NASDAQ:CENTA), a leading innovator, marketer and producer of quality branded products for the lawn & garden and pet supplies markets, will announce results for its first quarter ended December 27, 2014 on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 after the close of trading. The Company will not be hosting a conference call.
About Central Garden & Pet
Central Garden & Pet Company is a leading innovator, marketer and producer of quality branded products for the lawn & garden and pet supplies markets. Committed to new product innovation, our products are sold to specialty independent and mass retailers. Participating categories in Lawn & Garden include: Grass seed and the brands PENNINGTON®, SMART SEED® and THE REBELS®; wild bird feed and the brand PENNINGTON®; weed and insect control and the brands AMDRO®, SEVIN®, IRONITE® and OVER-N-OUT®; and decorative outdoor patio products under the PENNINGTON ® brand. We also provide a host of other regional and application-specific garden brands and supplies. Participating categories in Pet include: Animal health and the brands ADAMS™ and ZODIAC®; aquatics and reptile and the brands OCEANIC SYSTEMS®, AQUEON® and ZILLA®; bird & small animal and the brands KAYTEE®, SUPER PET® and CRITTER TRAIL®; dog & cat and the brands TFH™, NYLABONE®, FOUR PAWS®, PINNACLE® and AVODERM®; and equine and the brands FARNAM®, BRONCO® and SUPER MASK®. We also provide a host of other application-specific pet brands and supplies. Central Garden & Pet Company is based in Walnut Creek, California, and has approximately 3,300 employees, primarily in North America. For additional information on Central Garden & Pet Company, including access to the Company's SEC filings, please visit the Company's website at www.central.com.
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It was only yesterday that, according to BBC 6Music, Led Zeppelin were going to tour and record again. Today, however, they're not. We know this because Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch told us.
So how did such a contradiction come about? Allow us to show you via a timeline of every critical, crucial and some minor events leading up to what someone just labelled as "Zep-gate." Or "Led-fence", perhaps…
7 January 2009
9:00am GMT
The MusicRadar office - despite Arctic commuting conditions - opens for business as usual.
An interview with Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch pops up on BBC 6Music. Apparently Led Zeppelin will tour and record a new album without original frontman Robert Plant.
Someone with an eager eye notices that the article in question was published on 7 January 2008. This fact is dismissed as irrelevant. Perhaps the millennium bug is finally catching up with the BBC's web operations.
Our man in New Jersey, Joe Bosso, puts in a call to Led Zep's people. He wants a word with Peter Mensch. A Plantless Led Zep is, after all, big news.
The news spreads like wildfire, with the NME, MTV and Rolling Stone (to name but a few) quoting the BBC interview.
Joe Bosso finally makes it through a barrage of ice-tongued receptionists to the offices of Peter Mensch. The conversation went something like this:
JB: "Hey Pete, nice interview with the BBC, who's replacing Robert Plant, then?"
PM: "What interview? I haven't spoke to those guys for like four months or something."
JB: "So Led Zeppelin are not going to tour and record?"
PM: "No chance."
Realisation hits that the BBC - and everything else on the interweb - has been quoting old news. Perhaps the previously dismissed and ridiculous 'millennium bug' theory was, in fact, not so ridiculous. Or perhaps it was a slow news day and that four-month-old 'I'll-get-around-to-writing-it-up-later' interview with Peter Mensch suddenly seemed like a good idea.
The real story is posted on MusicRadar: "Led Zeppelin are over."
8 January 2009
Norwegian newspapers, New York City's 'premier rock station' Q104.3, Kerrang! Radio and Rolling Stone discover the contradiction.
The BBC and NME are contacted with the updated news. The NME removes the old article from the homepage. The BBC agrees to check its facts.
Still no retraction from the BBC.
9 January 2009
Overnight, the rest of the internet is, quite rightly, rather confused. MusicRadar's exclusive hits the mainstream including The Guardian, LA Times, Teletext's Planet Sound, XFM, Undercover News, Blabbermouth, Gibson and Idolator, to name but a few.
The NME adds a brand new story, acknowledging the latest interview on MusicRadar.
Still no retraction from the BBC.
MTV see the light.
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