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Contextual Text Understanding in Distributional Semantic Space
Jianpeng Cheng, Zhongyuan Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen
October 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
The goal of Probase is to make machines "aware" of the mental world of human beings, so that machines can better understand human communication. We do this by giving certain general knowledge or certain common sense to machines.
Our goal is to enable machines to better understand human communication. An important question is, what does the word "understand" mean here? Consider the following example. For human beings, when we see "25 Oct 1881", we recognize it as a date, although most of us do not know what it is about. However, if we are given a little more context, say the date is embedded in the following piece of short text "Pablo Picasso, 25 Oct 1881, Spain", most of us would have guessed (correctly) that the date represents Pablo Picasso's birthday. We are able to do this because we possess certain knowledge, and in this case, "one of the most important dates associated with a person is his birthday."As another example, consider a problem in natural language processing. Humans do not find sentences such as "animals other than dogs such as cats" ambiguous, but machine parsing can lead to two possible understandings: "cats are animals" or "cats are dogs." Common sense tells us that cats cannot be dogs, which renders the second parsing improbable.It turns out what we need in order to act like a human in the above two examples is nothing more than knowledge about concepts (e.g., persons and animals) and the ability to conceptualize (e.g., cats are animals). This is not a coincidence. Psychologist Gregory Murphy began his highly acclaimed book with the statement "Concepts are the glue that holds our mental world together". Nature magazine book review pointed out "Without concepts, there would be no mental world in the first place". Doubtless to say, having concepts and the ability to conceptualize is one of the defining characteristics of humanity. The question is then: How do we pass human concepts to machines, and how do we enable machines to conceptualize?
Knowledge in Probase is harnessed from billions of web pages and years worth of search logs — these are nothing more than the digitized footprints of human communication. In other words, Probase uses the world as its model.Figure 1: A snippet of Probase's core taxonomy
Figure 1 shows what is inside Probase. The knowledgebase consists of concepts (e.g. emerging markets), instances (e.g., China), attributes and values (e.g., China's population is 1.3 billion), and relationships (e.g., emerging markets, as a concept, is closely related to newly industrialized countries), all of which are automatically derived in an unsupervised manner.
But Probase is much more than a traditional ontology/taxonomy. Probase is unique in two aspects. First, Probase has an extremely large concept/category space (2.7 million categories). As these concepts are automatically acquired from web pages authored by millions of users, it is probably true that they cover most concepts in our mental world (about worldly facts). Second, data in Probase, as knowledge in our mind, is not black or white. Probase quantifies the uncertainty. These serve as the priors and likelihoods that become the foundations of probabilistic reasoning in Probase.
Our mental world contains many concepts about worldly facts, and Probase tries to duplicate them. The core taxonomy of Probase alone contains above 2.7 million concepts. Figure 2 shows their distribution. The Y axis is the number of instances each concept contains(logarithmic scale), and on the X axis are the 2.7 million concepts ordered by their size. In contrast, existing knowledge bases have far fewer concepts (Freebase [3] contains no more than 2,000 concepts, and Cyc [7] has about 120,000 concepts), which fall short of modeling our mental world. As we can see in Figure 2, besides popular concepts such as "cities" and "musicians", which are included by almost every general purpose taxonomy, Probase has millions of long tail concepts such as "anti-parkinson treatments", "celebrity wedding dress designers" and "basic watercolor techniques", which cannot be found in Freebase or Cyc. Besides concepts, Probase also has a large data space (each concept contains a set of instances or sub-concepts), a large attribute space (each concept is described by a set of attributes), and a large relationship space (e.g.,"locatedIn", "friendOf", "mayorOf", as well as relationships that are not easily named, such as the relationship between apple and Newton.)Figure 2: Frequency distribution of the 2.7 million conceptsTable 1: Scale of concept dimension
|# of concepts
|< 127,325
|≈ 120,000
We make a bold claim that Probase is a knowledgebase about concepts in our mental world because the concepts in Probase are harnessed from billions of web pages authored by millions of people (see Section 3). With such a rich concept space, Probase has much better chance to understand text in natural language (see Section 4). Indeed, we studied 2 years' worth of Microsoft's Bing search log, and found that 85% of the searches contain concepts and/or instances that exist in Probase. It means Probase can be a powerful tool to interpret user intention behind search.Another feature of Probase is that it is probabilistic, which means every claim in Probase is associated with some probabilities that model the claim's correctness, typicality, ambiguity, and other characteristics. The probabilities are derived from evidences found in web data, search log data, and other existing taxonomies. For example, for typicality (between concepts and instances), Probase contains the following probabilities:
Probase also has typicality scores for concepts and attributes. Another important score in Probase is the similarity between anytwo concepts y1 and y2 (e.g., celebrity and famous politicians). Thus Probase can tell that natural disasters and politicians are very different concepts, endangered species and tropical rainforest plants have certain relationships, while countries and nations are almost the same concepts.These probabilities serve as priors and likelihoods for Bayesian reasoning on top of Probase. In addition, the probabilistic nature of Probase also enables it to incorporate data of varied quality from heterogeneous sources. Probase regards external data as evthese probabilities serve as priors and likelihoods for Bayesian reasoning on top of Probase.
The goal of Probase to enable machines to better understand human communication. For example, in natural language processing and speech analysis, knowledgebases can help reduce the ambiguities in language. As Probase has a knowledgebase as large as the concept space (of wordly facts) in a human mind, it has unique advantages in these applications.Besides, with the probabilistic knowledge provided by Probase, we build several interesting applications, such as topic search, web table search and document understanding, shown in Figure 3.Figure 3: Overview of Probase and Its Applications
This page the data statistics of the taxonomy we build. In addition, proofs of Theorem 1 and 2 in Section 3.6 can be found here, which are related to the taxonomy construction framework.
Table 1: Scale comparison of several open domain taxonomies
|# of concepts
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|≈ 120,000
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We extract 326,110,911 sentences from a corpus containing 1,679,189,480 web pages, after sentence deduplication. To the best of our knowledge, the scale of our corpus is one order of magnitude larger than the previously known largest corpus. We then extract 143,328,997 isA pairs from the sentences, with 9,171,015 distinct super-concept labels and 11,256,733 distinct sub-concept labels.
The inferred taxonomy contains 2,653,872 distinct concepts (down from 9.17 million after the extraction phase), 16,218,369 distinct concept-instance pairs, and 4,539,176 distinct concept-subconcept pairs (20,757,545 pairs in total). The number of concept labels decreases since we have changed all labels to lowercases and flatten the concepts with only one instance (and refer to them as instances).
As comparison, Table 1 shows statistics of several well-known open-domain taxonomies in comparison with Probase. For WordNet, we only count the sub-taxonomy related to nouns in WordNet, and we have converted synsets in WordNet to their lexical form. For Freebase, the statistics are obtained from a version downloaded in early Match, 2010. More than 3,000 topics in this data source are incorrect and cannot be found on the official Freebase website, and are therefore ignored in our analysis. For ResearchCyc, the number of isA pairs shown is in fact the number of all the relationships, since the exact numbers are not reported. For YAGO, the statistics are obtained from its latest version (Dec. 2010), and the number of isA pairs is inferred by summing up the number of SubConceptOf and Type relations reported.
For completeness, in Table 1, we have also included statistics for KnowItAll, TextRunner, OMCS, and NELL. However, these frameworks are not intended to build a taxonomy as we desired, but to extract general facts that may indicate various relationships between concepts or entities. Therefore, it is usually hard to tell concepts from entities, and also hard to tell how many isA pairs are among all the pairs, if not reported.
Given that Probase has many more concepts than any other taxonomies, a reasonable question to ask is how many of these concepts are relevant. This question is akin to the precision measure in information retrieval (IR). Here for the purpose of comparison, we define a concept to be relevant, if it appears at least once in web queries. We analyzed Bing´s query log from a two-year period, sorted the queries in decreasing order of their frequency (i.e., the number of times they are issued through Bing), and computed the number of relevant concepts in Probase and 4 other general-purposed open-domain taxonomies WordNet, WikiTaxonomy, YAGO, and Freebase, with respect to the top 50 million queries. Figure 1 shows the result.
Figure 1: Number of relevant concepts in taxonomies
In total, 664,775 concepts are considered relevant in Probase, compared to 70,656 in YAGO. This reflects the well-known long-tail phenomena of user queries. While a small number of basic concepts (e.g., company, city, country) representing common sense knowledge appear very frequently in user queries, Web users do mention other less well-known concepts. Probase does a better job at capturing these concepts in the long tail and hence has a better chance of understanding these user queries.
We next measure the taxonomy coverage of queries by Probase, which is akin to the recall measure in IR. A query is said to be covered by a taxonomy if the query contains at least one concept or instance within the taxonomy. Figure 2 compares the coverage of queries by Probase taxonomy against the other four aforementioned taxonomies. Probase outperforms all the other taxonomies on the coverage of top 10 million to top 50 million queries. In all, Probase covers 40,517,506 (or, 81.04%) of the top 50 million queries.
Figure 2: Taxonomy coverage of the top 50 million queries
Figure 3: Concept coverage of the top 50 million queries
We further measure concept coverage, which is the number of queries containing at least one concept in the taxonomy. Figure 3 compares the concept coverage by Probase against the other four taxonomies. Again, Probase outperforms all the others. Note that, although Freebase presents comparable taxonomy coverage with Probase in Figure 2, its concept coverage is much smaller.
There are two kinds of isA relationships in Probase: the concept-subconcept relationship which are the edges connecting internal nodes in the hierarchy, and the concept-instance relationship which are the edges connecting a leaf node.
Table 2 compares the concept-subconcept relationship space of Probase with the other taxonomies. The level of a concept is defined to be one plus the length of the longest path from it to a leaf concept (i.e., concept without any subconcepts/children). All leaf concepts thus receive a level of 1. Table 1 shows that even with an order of magnitude larger number of concepts, Probase still has a similar hierachical complexity to the other taxonomies. The exception is Freebase which exhibits trivial values on these measured metrics because it has no isA relationship among its concepts at all.
Table 2: The concept-subconcept relationship space
|# of isA pairs
|Avg # of children
|Avg # of parents
|Avg level
Figure 4: Concept size distributions in Probase and Freebase
We also compare Probase and Freebase on the concept-instance relationships. We choose Freebase since it is the only existing taxonomy with comparable scale on instance space (24,483,434 concept-instance pairs, see Table 1). We define concept size to be the number of instances directly under a concept node. Figure 4 (logarithmic scale on the Y-axis) compares distributions of concept sizes in Probase and Freebase. While Freebase focuses on a few very popular concepts like track and book which include over two million instances, Probase has many more medium to small size concepts. In fact, the top 10 concepts in Freebase contain 17,174,891 concept-instance pairs, or 70% of all the pairs it has. In contrast, the top 10 concepts in Probase only contains 727,136 pairs, or 4.5% of its total. Therefore, Probase provides a much broader coverage on diverse topics, while Freebase is more informative on specific topics. On the other hand, the instances of large concepts in Freebase like book are mostly from specific websites like Amazon, which could be easily merged into Probase using the integration framework we proposed.
Figure 5: Relative size of sample concepts to Freebase
Moreover, due to the transitivity nature of the isA relationship, we can assume that all instances in a subconcept conceptually also belong to its superconcept. Freebase, however, lacks such concept-subconcept information and the pairs it contains are merely concept-instance pairs. So if we propagate all instances up through the taxonomy, the number of instances in each concept becomes much larger. If we take all the distinct classes in Probase which also exist in Freebase and divide them into 7 groups by their Freebase sizes, or the number of instances in each Freebase class, Figure 5 depicts the relative sizes of Probase classes in these 7 groups, which indicates that Probase clearly contains more instances in medium to smaller classes, but slightly less instances for very large and popular classes.
To estimate the correctness of the isA pairs within Probase, we create a benchmark dataset containing 40 concepts in various domains. The concept size varies from 21 instances (for aircraft model) to 85,391 (for company), with a median of 917. Benchmarks with similar number of concepts and domain coverage have also been reported in previous information extraction research. For each concept, we randomly pick up to 50 instances/subconcepts and ask human judge to evaluate their correctness and hence also the precision of the extraction algorithm. Figure 6 shows the result. The average precision of all pairs in benchmark is 92.8%, which outperforms precision frameworks like KnowItAll (64% on average), NELL (74%) and TextRunner (80% on average). It is not fair to directly compare our results with Wikipedia-based frameworks like WikiTaxonomy (86% precision) and YAGO (95% precision), whose data sources are much cleaner. Nevertheless, only YAGO has a better overall precision than Probase.
Figure 6: Precision of extracted pairs
Table 3: Precisions of Probase and KnowItAll
As a detailed case study, since KnowItAll also used Hearst's patterns to extract isA relationships, we compare our precision with that of KnowItAll on actor, city and film, three concepts that are common to both systems. Table 3 shows that Probase has notable advantage in isA extraction precision over KnowItAll.
Figure 7: Consensus score vs. the actual percentage of true claims
We experimented with the simple model in Equation (1) for computing consensus of a claim using the benchmark concepts. We expect that the consensus scores to be approximately equal to the actual percentage of true claims as the number of evidences grows. This is verified in Figure 7. The average consensus scores matches the actual percentage of true claims (checked by human judges) quite well, except when there is only one evidence. Figure 7 has an uneven scale on the x-axis because the frequency distribution of claims in Probase has a long tail.
Figure 8: Typicality evaluation results
Please click the following link to view representative instances/child concepts for classes within the benchmark.
The typicality score a subconcept x of concept c receives is computed with the formula:
Since subconcepts are actually groups of instances of their parent concept, intuitively, if a subconcept contains more representative instances of the parent concept, then its typicality score should be boosted.
We further conduct a user study for this relatively subjective measure. First, we pick 10 concepts, and the top 50 instances for each concept, according to their typicality scores. Then, we invite 4 users to manually score the typicality of the instances (with order shuffled) in their respective concepts, as 3 (very representative), 2 (correct but not very representative), 1 (unknown), and 0 (incorrect).
Figure 9: Similarity evaluation results
We divide the 50 instances of each concept into 5 groups by their typicality score ranks (i.e. top 10 instances from each concept go to Group 1, second 10 instances from each concept go to Group 2, and so on), and then compute the average judge scores assigned to instances within each group. Figure 8 shows that the typicality of the instances in their classes, as perceived by human judges, decreases with computed typicality scores, which means our definition of the typicality score is sensible.
For each concept (which we call host concept) in the benchmark, we pick the five most similar concepts and rank them according to the similarity scores. We thereby form 5 groups of similar concepts in decreasing order of the scores. We then ask the judges to manually rate their proximity to the host concepts on a normalized scale from 0 (least similar) to 1 (most similar). We average these judge scores in each of the 5 groups and present the results in Figure 9, which indicates that the similarity scores match the judges' perceptions.
We have developed a browser that could be used to inspect the taxonomy we built. This page gives some snapshots of it. Example paths within the taxonomy include:
Concept search:
Instance search:
Probase Viewer shows the backbone of our taxonomy, such as class-subclass, class-instance and class-attribute. It also shows the results of incorporating external knowledge bases, such as freebase.
We present a framework that improves web search experiences through the use of Probase. The framework classifies web queries into different patterns according to the concepts and entities in addition to keywords contained in these queries.
We use Probase to help us interpret and understand tables, which unlocks the wealth of information hidden in web table. Then we build a semantic search engine over tables to demonstrate how much valuable information can be found in Web tables, and how structured data can empower information retrieval on the Web.
Probase enables machines to conceptualize from a set of words or short text by performing Bayesian analysis based on the typicality and other probabilities. We develop several applications to show with Probase machines can "thinking" like human beings.
For users who want to try our release data, this interface integrates basic data access functions and conceptualization functions based on Probase release package. Users can easily query our knowledge base and get our results without any programming.
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Manchester United's league revival continued on Boxing Day after a hard-fought victory at Hull City.
It was a classic United display, going two goals behind before rampaging their way back into the game, to then nearly losing the victory at the death.
A magnificent David de Gea save sealed the points for the Red Devils.
There was a marked difference between this United team and the one that lost at home to Newcastle. This United team played "for" David Moyes. They looked like "Moyes' Boys."
They appeared to be a team that wanted to win it for their manager and win it for their supporters.
After a breathtaking match, here are six things we learned from this early kick-off.

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The A650 IS' pictures look great, especially at lower sensitivity levels. The camera's 12-megapixel photos display loads of fine detail, from fine text to pet fur, with a generous dynamic range. Noise starts to become noticeable on computer monitors at ISO 200, and begins to appear on prints at ISO 400 and higher. The noise doesn't become too problematic, however, until ISO 800, where distinct fuzz covers pictures, muddles colors, and obscures details. From ISO 1,600 to the camera's maximum sensitivity of ISO 3,200 (accessible as a scene preset that lowers the resolution to 2 megapixels, rather than through the ISO button), the pictures become downright unusable. Again, these noise levels surprise me very little, as nearly every 12-megapixel camera tested produces similar noise.
The photos aren't entirely without flaws, however. Prominent purple fringing tends to appear on contrasting edges, with higher ISO levels making them look even worse. At the widest position, the A650 IS' lens produces some barrel distortion, as well. You can't readily detect the distortion without a grid, however, and both the distortion and fringing present only minor problems in the camera's pictures. If you shoot at low ISO settings, you can count on generally excellent photos.
With its great picture quality and wealth of features, the Canon PowerShot A650 IS makes a great camera for amateur photographers who either don't want to step up to a digital SLR yet, or who simply want a secondary camera alongside their SLR. Despite its performance and noise issues, the A650 IS presents a fine choice for a flexible, high-resolution, photographer-friendly camera.
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With SFC when you sign in with Facebook the Author/Email/URL forms go away and just the Facebook avatar and comment box/submit button show up.
Is it supposed to work like this with STC also? And if it doesn't (ie, the author/email/url still show up) then what needs modified in the comments.php to make it work right?
Because signing in with STC and those fields are still there confuses the commenter.


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28 reviews | 4.4 out of 5
This balance board is pretty cool, but make sure you wear your shoes! If you use it barefooted or in socks, those little nubbies really hurt! Also, the balance thing on the bottom is made of hard plastic so it slides on tile. Works best on carpet.
I read about a lot of balance boards. This was one of the best-priced. It's strong, it works just like it should, and has a good video of exercises. One caveat: it tends to squirt out from under the foot on either carpet or vinyl flooring. I put it on an exercise mat and it stays put.
It's easy to adjust, I didn't have any trouble with it sliding on carpet, and when bare-foot I found the nubby surface more like a foot massage than uncomfortable.
I'm using this balance board to help re-hab my ankle after surgery. I use it several different ways to help increase my range of motion. It seems sturdy, and the three height settings means I can keep using it as my ankle improves.
The description wasn't clear, but there are three height levels with this board. Without the blue plastic piece that attaches to the bottom, the board is at its lowest and easiest. The blue piece can be attached in two different ways allowing a medium and high level as the fulcrum/center. A gripe is that the center piece is simply plastic that is quite slippery on a smooth surface. You need to place this board on a carpet or something similar. The DVD has several exercises for various parts of the body. My interest was in strengthening the ankle.
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it's sturdy, takes up very little space, and adds a tremendous benefit to exercise routine--you must learn what muscles you use for ordinary balance. very interesting piece of exercise equipment. and good for core isometrics.
It's a great product for the price. It offers 3 levels of workouts. form basic to experienced. It helped my balance alot.
DVD, poster and product are easy to use, easy to follow, and fun to train with.
I use this product for my little son for balancing skills
Overall a great product. I saw "balance boards " for upwards of $300.00...I mean...Really?
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I have only Gold's Gym products including a universal weight bench set-up and they all work well.
The maximum weight capacity of this is 250lbs. Same as my Doorway Pullup Bar. It has 3 different height levels for added difficulty. For the price, this thing is absolutely, as are MOST Gold's Gym products.
Not only is it great for balancing, but you can put it on your head as a sun sheild!
I bought this for my grand daughter. A physical therapist recomended that I buy a core balance board, for doing her physical therapy exersizes at home. It is a great product, for a good price.
Excellent product-well made-excellent instructions.
The DVD described positions & how to use, very well.
If I needed to, I would buy this product again.
not an inflatable. just a flat plastic disk with hard ball below. doesn't give all of the toe and calf muscles the fast twitch reflex workout.
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Without comparing this balance board with any other ones, I say it's a 'good buy', plus, it comes with a CD.
I've used the $200 gym versions. This one is just as good. DO NOT waste money on the expensive ones!
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Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet. Geoffrey was born as circa in 1343 in London. Canterbury Tales was his best work.His work was so good that you can tell thathe could read French, Latin, and Italian.The Canterbury Tales wasn't written until Chaucer was in his early 40's. He was sometimes called the father of English literature.
Made an enormous mark on the language and literature of England. Was among the first Writers to show that English could be a respectable literary language. His work
is known as a cornerstone of English literature. In Chaucer's last two decades he saw his finest literary achievements Troilus and Criseyde and the masterpiece The Canterbury
Summary of The Canterbury Tale
The Canterbury Tales begins with the general Prologue, a detailed introduction and description of each pilgrims journeying to Canterbury to catch sight of the shrine to Sir Thomas a Becket, the martyred saint of Christianity, supposedly buried in the Cathedral of Canterbury since 1170. The pilgrims, a mixture of virtuous and villainous characters from Medieval England, include a knight, his son the squire, the knight's Yeoman, a Prioress, a Second Nun, a Monk, a Friar, a Merchant, a Clerk, a Man of Law, a Franklin, a Weaver, a Dyer, a Carpenter, a Tapestry - Maker, a Haberdasher, a Cook, a Shipman, a Physician, a Parson, a Miller, a Manciple, a Reeve, a Summoner, a Pardoner, the Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. They each bring a slice of England to the trip with their stories of glory, chivalry, Christianity, villainy, disloyalty, cuckoldry, and honor. Some pilgrims are faithful to Christ and his teachings, while others openly disobey the church and its law of faithfulness, honor, and modesty.
3 Characters From The Prologue
The knight- a most distinguished man, who from the day on which he first began to ride abroad had followed chivalry, truth, honor, generousness and courtesy.
The Squire- a fine young Squire, a lover and cadet, a lad of fire with locks as curly as if they had been pressed. Some twenty years of age, he was of moderate length, with wonderful agility and strength.
The Yeoman- an attendant in a noble household. Wore a coat and hood of green, and peacock- feathered arrows, bright and keen and nearly sheathed, hung at his belt the while for he could dress his gear
in yeoman style, his arrows never drooped their feathers low and in his hand he bore a mighty bow. His head was like a nut, his face was brown.
3 Characters From The Pardoner's Tale
Death- kills them all around there, and in a breath he speared him through the heart, he never stirred. Killed a thousand in the present plague.
The Old Man- very old and poor, made it through many journey's and he will not let death take his life. He also gives good advice to the three wise men.
The Pardoner- reminds the other pilgrims that death may come to them at any time.
3 Characters From Wife of Bath
The Queen- sent summons to the knight at her convenience, and expressed her will.
The Knight- was a lusty liver. Robbed the Maiden.
The Old Lady- Told the king that he had to marry her.
My Life
My name is Derek
Some people mistake it for Eric
It is spelled D E R E K
There is much more I have to say
I am 17 years old
People say I'm very bold
I live in New Castle
Getting to school is a hassle
I play soccer for Delaware United
If you want to come you are invited
I'm about to finish 12th grade
Then I'll have it made
There will be a graduation
so come out for the celebration
My birthday is in the summer
I know I'm not getting a Hummer
I am going to College
Where I will gain some knowledge
This is my story
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Rather than creating two
UIImageViews, it seems logical to simply change the
image of one view. If I do that, is there anyway of having a fade/cross dissolve between the two images rather than an instant switch?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
Rather than creating two
Edit: there is a better solution from @algal below.
Another way to do this is by using predefined CAAnimation transitions:
See the View Transitions example project from Apple: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/ViewTransitions/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007411
It can be much simpler using the new block-based, UIKit animation methods.
Suppose the following code is in the view controller, and the UIImageView you want to cross-dissolve is a subview of self.view addressable via the property self.imageView. Then all you need is:
And to do it in Swift, it's like so:
Yes what you say is absolutely correct and thats the way to do it. I wrote this method & always use this to Fade in my image. I deal with
You could do the opposite for Fade out an image. After it fades out. You just remove it from superview (which is
You could also package the fade-in feature in a subclass, so that you can then use it as a common UIImageView, as in the following example:
A possible implementation follows.
Note: the way you actually implement the fade-in in the
IMMFadeImageView.h :
IMMFadeImageView.m :
The above code relies on a few assumptions (including ARC being enabled in your XCode project), is only intended as a proof of concept, and in the interest of clarity and focus, it stays relevant by omitting important unrelated code. Please don't just copy-paste it blindly.
I needed the transition to repeat indefinitely. It took a LOT of trial and error for this one but I finally got the end-result I was looking for. These are code snippets for adding image animation to a UIImageView in a UITableViewCell.
Here is the relevant code:
This is I think the shortest way of doing it. Create a UIView animation and commit it on your imageView.


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's envoy to the United Nations has confirmed that an American woman held for more than a year will be released.
Iran had earlier announced that one of the three Americans captured by Iran in July 2009 would be released to mark the holidays at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Bak Sahraei, second counselor of the UN mission, confirmed Thursday in an e-mail that Sarah Shourd would be the one set free on Saturday.
Iran claims they illegally crossed the border from Iraq's northern Kurdish region and had threatened to put the three on trial for spying. Their families say they were hiking in the largely peaceful region of Iraq and that if they crossed the border, it was accidental.


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If you're looking for a game that's a little more relaxing and chilled out than Pokémon Go, then Blyss, from developers Dropout Games, could be the very thing you need.
Released tomorrow, Wednesday July 27, Touch Arcade reports that the game is a simpler puzzler with calming music and visuals designed to help you achieve peace of mind.
You play the game by swiping white blocks with dots on them in order to eliminate them and clear the puzzle, all set against a calming backdrop.
Dropout Games promises lots of different game modes, as well as visual themes that come complete with their own soundtrack. It certainly seems as if Blyss hits that sweet spot of a game that is involved enough to keep you guessing, and requires a certain degree of strategic thinking, yet also has a calming vibe that can help you to relax.
Blyss can be downloaded from tomorrow, for $1.99, with no in-app purchases whatsoever.
Source: Beautiful Puzzle Title 'Blyss' Launches on the App Store Tomorrow
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it no longer considers text messages as secure enough when used as part of a two-factor identification method (2FA).
Currently, when you opt to use 2FA on your iPhone or iPad, you can choose to have a code sent to you via SMS. That is set to no longer be the case, however, as NIST is soon to bar its use.
9to5 Mac notes that while NIST's guidelines are not enforceable by law, most companies do usually choose to obey their rulings, so that could mean that Apple will soon drop SMS authentication from its list of options for 2FA, which currently include a phone call to a trusted number, a code sent by SMS to a trusted number, or a code sent to a trusted device such as an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Mac.
Source: Apple & others may soon be barred from using SMS for two-factor authentication
The incredibly successful launch of Pokémon Go around the world marches on, with the game arriving in App Stores in France and Hong Kong over the weekend, with Hong Kong being the first Asian location other than Japan to have the game.
Meanwhile, MacRumors reports that at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, Niantic CEO John Hanke revealed some snippets of information about what new features fans can expect in future updates for the game. It's fair to say that he didn't give all that much away, but he did reveal that we can look forward to new Pokémon, and also the ability to be able to trade Pokémon with other players.
The names of the team leaders for Team Mystic, Team Valor, and Team Instinct were also revealed as Blanche, Candela, and Spark, respectively, along with their pictures rather than the silhouettes that appear in the game (because they weren't finished in time, apparently!). Hanke said that the team leaders will soon be given a more prominent role in the game, communicating with players and offering advice.
Finally, it appears that Nintendo's recent statement that it didn't expect the massive success of Pokémon Go to have much impact on its quarterly earnings as it only has 32% of The Pokémon Company didn't go down very well at all with investors, sending Nintendo stock falling 17% at its lowest point, knocking $6.4 billion off their value, representing Nintendo's biggest decline since October 1990.
Source: Pokémon Go Debuts in France and Hong Kong as Nintendo Shares Dive
AppleInsider has posted two photos that it is claimed were taken by an employee working in Apple's Asian supply chain, and that are said to be of the iPad Pro 2.
The images show an iPad with an unknown device identification number (MH1C2CD/F), but one that does follow Apple's device numbering protocol.
The anonymous source who sent the images to AppleInsider claims to have obtained them from a Chinese supplier who is currently working on an iPad Pro model that will enter production in late September 2016.
The images don't give much away about the finished product at this early stage; for example, the iPad Pro pictured only has 12 gigabytes of storage, which suggests that it is some sort of prototype or pre-production testing device.
AppleInsider says that it cannot vouch for whether or not the photos are genuine, although it does believe that Apple is planning to launch a refresh of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro sometime this fall.
Source: First photos of alleged 'iPad Pro 2' surface in China
Polish indie developer Bulbware's 2D point-and-click horror adventure game Bulb Boy has arrived in the App Store! The game already has a great reputation and following on Steam, and has won many awards, including the prestigious Best Character Design award at the 2015 Intel Level Up contest.
Bulb Boy is the adorable star of the game; when he wakes up from a terrifying nightmare on a gloomy night, he finds that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family are gone, and there are scary monsters lurking in the shadows. It's up to you to help Bulb Boy use his glass head to save all those he loves.
The game's style, which has received many plaudits from the industry, was inspired by classics such as Machinarium and Gobliiins, with gameplay including puzzle-solving and fighting wicked monsters.
Bulb Boy is set in the mysterious bulbhouse, which is infested with dangerous creatures that you must defeat in a bid to restore light to Bulb Boy's world, as well as save his Grandparaffin and Mothdog.
While Bulb Boy faces many challenges in the game, he has a lot of advantages on his side, including the fact that his head lights up, so that you can survive electric shocks, and which can also be unscrewed to use in some strange places. The further you progress in the game you'll also be able to play as other family members as you relive your childhood memories and uncover more about the back story.
If you love classic 2D gaming with a horror twist, this is the game for you, it really is fantastic!
Click here to download for $2.99: Bulb Boy on the App Store
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Jim Dalrymple of The Loop reports that Apple has told him that Pokémon Go has smashed the record for more downloads in its first week than any other app in App Store history. Apple also revealed that it had paid out $50 billion to developers overall.
Dalrymple says that Phil Schiller told him back in June that Apple is not content to rest on its laurels as far as the massive success of the App Store is concerned, with Schiller telling him that his team had already made changes to make the App Store even better, and that more improvements were on the way.
Both big and small developers are saying that engagement with their apps is growing over time, according to Dalrymple, meaning that users are spending more and more time in apps, with the time spent in apps since Q2 2014 having almost doubled.
Growing categories in the App Store include video and music streaming and in particular apps such as Netflix. With this in mind, Apple is planning to roll out an expanded subscription model, according to Schiller.
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Upstate Senators Want a Divorce From Downstate
Just another tiff in the state's ongoing marriage woes.
A band of renegade upstate state senators, peeved that everyone who has any power in this state is from the city or Long Island, are proposing a bill that would hold a referendum on whether to split New York into two separate states. In an ironic illustration of their grievances, Sheldon Silver and Malcolm Smith will likely never let the legislation onto the floor for a vote. But it doesn't matter anyway. This is simply the latest walkout threat in the state's perpetually acrimonious web of relationships. In 1969 Norman Mailer's platform for mayor included the secession of the city from the state, an idea that city councilman Peter Vallone has revived repeatedly in recent years. Suffolk County's comptroller, and this guy, have crusaded for Long Island to become its own state. Meanwhile, a Staten Island senator wants his borough to cut ties with the city (in 1993 Staten Islanders voted two to one to do just that).
But New York's various regions are truly interdependent. Upstate, face it downstate, though bossy, keeps you running with its tax revenue. City, you need upstate's farms, electricity, water, and scenic getaways. And Long Island, your association with the city provides you some much-needed street cred; plus you would be the most despised state in the country if you went it alone. That's why, in a marriage fraught with strife, where everyone somehow claims to be getting the short end of the bargain, the union has still managed to tough it out all these years: In the end, we're still better together, flaws and all.
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Bruh you used to rock denim jackets and team jordans. Stop pretending you a gawd.This is a legit supreme piece... of course none of you would know this...Can anyone tell me what this is? Bought it from a local skate boutique today.
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Great news for Kirby fans, not only can you look forward to Kirby Wii before the end of the year, but you can also enjoy Kirby: Mass Attack on the Nintendo DS this September.
That's right folks, Kirby: Mass Attack will be available across the US on the 19th of September for $29.99.
This side-scrolling real-time strategy game promises to deliver a "new twist on a pink hero." After Kirby is split into 10 pieces by the holder of a magical cane, he sets out on a journey to return to his original form.
Players will use the stylus on the touch screen to control a swarm of up to 10 Kirby characters at once to defeat enemies and find treasure. The number of Kirby characters under your control is important as certain challenges require specific numbers of Kirbys to be solved, with players gaining an advantage when the number of Kirbys is increased.
Each Kirby character can be controlled in a variety of ways, for example you can launch Kirby into the air by flicking the stylus, make the swarm of Kirbys dash by tapping on a specified spot multiple times, or swipe the screen to launch them in a mass attack against enemies and then tap the enemies into submission. Players will also be able to unlock additional mini-games by collecting hidden medals throughout the stages.
No news from Nintendo of Europe yet about whether Kirby: Mass Attack will be available in PAL regions.
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You did a fantastic job. You should be very have with the outcome. I can't wait to make try my hand at making one. God bless.
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I carry a PPQ in 9mm and it has been flawless.
Clean and lubricate the gun and try using some new ammo (if you can find it).
This is a discussion on First shots Walther PPQ 40 dissapointing within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Took my new Walther PPQ 40 out for the first time and was disappointed by many FTF's. The nose of the rounds would just stop ...
Took my new Walther PPQ 40 out for the first time and was disappointed by many FTF's. The nose of the rounds would just stop against the feed ramp. After a while I found if I hit the
bottom of the mag with the palm of my hand that would be enough to jolt it and it would cycle in. I only put 100 rounds through it and would estimate that it failed to feed at least 8 times.
Also there were many times when it would hesitate while cycling. Like it would hang up momentarily then finish. This was very annoying when attempting to double tap and seeing the slide hesitate
I would have to hesitate myself before firing the next round. I was shooting some 12 to 14 year old ammo I had from the last time I had a 40. They were Speer Lawman 180 grain FMJ and Winchester
155 grain silvertips. Had issues with both.
Other observations were that accuracy was very good. If I took my time hits were good if I went a little faster then I was hitting low and left a bit. I'm sure that was all me. I have never shot
a striker type gun before and only 1911's for the last 12+ years. I think I would be ok with the trigger after more practice and if the gun cycled correctly all the time. It released well but the take up
will take some getting used to. I was also surprised at how snappy the recoil was. Again after only shooting my 45's for so long I guess I was expecting softer than that. I can't be sure until I remedy the feeding issue and shoot it more but I would guess that I would be able to run 8 rounds much quicker and more accurately with my 1911's than with the PPQ. The PPQ is very comfortable in my hand and points naturally which is why I bought it. That and because I wanted to have something with a little more capacity in my inventory.
I am wondering if any of you have had similar experiences with this gun or have any thoughts as to what might be going on. Is it possible that I just need to run more through it to break it in? Could it be that it is just finicky on ammo, what have you found works best. Other than a used Kimber that only needed a new extractor to make good I have never had a problem with a gun I have purchased.
I am questioning whether I made the right choice. Don't tell me I should have bought a Glock they just don't point well for me and they are ugly. Just my opinion no offense intended.
I carry a PPQ in 9mm and it has been flawless.
Clean and lubricate the gun and try using some new ammo (if you can find it).
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My first guess is a magazine problem. From your description, the nose of the top bullet in the mag may be aimed at too shallow an angle toward the feed ramp, but a smack on the butt of the gun makes it jump into place. Do you have additional magazines you can use to see if the problem is isolated to just one mag?
Another possibility is that due to newness the slide may be binding up a bit and not running smoothly on its rails, which could inhibit full slide velocity and travel. While I'm sure you broke the gun down and cleaned it before you shot it, I would repeat that drill. Put the slide on the gun without the barrel or recoil spring, and check for binding or excessive friction over the full range of slide travel. If the slide runs smoothly, then I'd focus on the mags.
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I 1,000% agree with the above posts.....
I feed mine Hornady, and maybe ran 150rds through it?
Not a missfeed/jamb..nothing but good.
Of course, trigger is different, and if you're used to a normal trigger action,
that MIGHT be contributing?
My opinion....great gun!
No problems with the 9MM version and Lawman ammo. Keep working it and I am sure it will work out.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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Clean gun..work the slide ..change ammo and magazine...call me in the morning..lol. I have the same gun in 9mm and I always..clean and work the slide on a new gun before taking it for a ride. Good luck..don't give up on it yet..that is an awesome gun.
Good advice so far. This is the first thread I've seen of a ppq, or any walther, not running flawlessly.
The stupidity of some people NEVER ceases to amaze me.
You think the Glock is ugly so you got the PPQ which is the slightly better looking cousin of the Hi-Point?
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Thanks for the feedback. I only have the 2 magazines that came with the gun both new from factory. It did seem that getting the loaded mags to seat was difficult and now I am wondering
if maybe they weren't quite seating all the way. Is it possible to have them seat well enough to not fall out but not far enough in to allow for correct feeding? I should have spent more time working
with it but I was in a hurry needed to get home.
When I said I thought the Glock was ugly I was not implying that the PPQ was gorgeous just not as ugly. I prefer the look of my Kimbers.
Try removing a round from the mag... when mag springs are new they can be a bit finicky sometimes.
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Your points are shallow... my points are Hollow....
Apparently when I ran it yesterday I loaded with the slide back because I would have noticed that. There is no way I can seat the loaded mag
all the way in with slide forward. I took one round out then no problem. This does not seem like the way it should be. If the gun comes with 12 round
mags I would expect to be able to use them with 12 rounds.
While this is a problem it does not explain everything I had FTF's and hesitations with mag half empty.
I did clean the gun before first use and the slide seemed to function fine with gun empty. Today after cleaning again last night I cycled several rounds
in from full mags starting with slide back and they went in fine. Of course this is not much of a test I need to get back out and run some rounds through
it again. Unfortunately warmer weather today means I can not get back into the land that I shoot on too sloppy.
Try polishing the feed ramp,I use grease on the slide rails and run the slide by hand to in case it's a wittle too tight
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I would not judge the performance of any semi-auto based on how it FTF with one brand of ammunition. Before you try anything else I would shop for a different brand of ammo that featured a different bullet nose configuration. Sometimes that is all that it takes.
Also remember that sometimes when it LOOKS like a bullet nose is getting hung up on the ramp the problem is in reality that the rear of the cartridge case is having trouble moving up into the extractor.
When the rear of the case cannot move up the bullet nose is unable to chamber.
Many semi-autos leave the factory with an extractor that is on the tight side so you could have a problem that will correct itself if you just shoot it a bit more.
Also you might want to use a very low friction lube on your slide/frame rails. That will give you a bit more slide energy that will help get those stubborn rounds chambered.
Jardine's Extreme would be a great lube to use.
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US carbon dioxide emissions generated from energy consumption and production fell 3.8 percent in 2012 to 5,290 million metric tons, reaching their lowest level since 1994, according to a report from the Energy Information Administration.
Annual energy-related emissions were 5,498 million metric tons in 2011, the EIA says in its report.
Energy intensity — the energy measured in Btu per dollar of GDP — fell by 5.1 percent, driving the decline in emissions even as the US economy grew 2.8 in 2012. Half of the overall energy decline was from the residential sector, which needed less heating due to a warm first quarter of the year.
Typically, the first quarter of the year marks the high point for CO2 emissions.
This year, a combination of a warm winter that reduced heating demand, a sharp decline in the amount of total electricity generated from burning coal and lower gasoline use pushed emissions in the first quarter to the lowest in two decades from any January-March period. By the end of March, cumulative heating degree days were about 19 percent below the 10-year normal and 22 percent below 2011, the EIA says.
Energy-related emissions have fallen in five of the past seven years and dropped in 2012 despite a 0.7 percent increase in population, the EIA says.
An EIA report released in May 2013 found CO2 emissions from energy rose in 18 states and fell in 32 between 2000 and 2010. Texas had the greatest absolute decline of 58.8 million metric tons.
Despite the 8.3 percent drop in emissions, Texas still led the US states in CO2 emissions from energy with 663 million metric tons in 2010, followed by California and Pennsylvania. Nearly half of Texas' emissions came from petroleum fuels in 2010, according to the EIA data.
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Director: Robert McCallum
Company: Western Visuals
Cast: Julian St. Jox, Hercules, Jeannie Pepper, Coco (I), Jordan McNight, Tony Everready, Jake Steed, Janet Jackme
Critical Rating: AA 1/2
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Janet Jackme is her usual Joe Cocker-like spastically sexual self, but she can't carry the entire vid no matter how pretty the visuals are. Wet & Slippery
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-JK: sorry/ voice
-JK: inaudible mumbles
-GQ: Distracting ad libs
-JK: choppy mixcut fast flow drop
-GQ: pussy/mirror
-GQ: outros are awesome
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Gasmasq ftw
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Joey killed his own flow in the second. I agree with it sounding out of place.
Gas had better flow, better straight up punches.
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Definitely Gasmasq. Joey had a nice flow at first, but his raspy voice was difficult for me to understand in places. He had some nice disses, but then he pulled out his fast rapping, which I am not a fan of. Gasmasq had a smoother flow, some good flips, and, not that it counts in the voting, but a funny outro.
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At this moment in the 2004 presidential race, the early hints of Mr. Dean's rise were first being detected. His strong anti-war sentiment was appealing to Democratic activists in Iowa, New Hampshire and across the country. And through low-cost fundraising on the Internet, his contributions in the second quarter of 2003 nearly tripled from the first…
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This past week was again busy for the Appling Christian baseball team. The week began with a road loss to First Presbyterian in Hinesville. The hits were few and the pitching was not as sharp as it needed to be.
Friday would see the Eagles face region opponent Open Bible Baptist from Valdosta. This was a tiebreaker game to determine the number one seed in the region. The Eagles had faced the Warriors of Open Bible twice this season splitting with one win apiece. Bryce Livingston started on the mound for the Eagles. Livingston pitched seven strong innings allowing no runs and yielding only four hits. Livingston struck out four and walked only one.
The Eagles had runners in scoring position in four of the first seven innings but failed to score. At the end of the seventh inning the score showed an old fashion stalemate 0-0.
As the Eagles moved into extra innings Andrew Phillips would move from behind the plate to the pitcher's mound. Phillips would pitch for the last five innings for the Eagles giving up only one hit while striking out four and walking three.
The Eagle offense struggled with three up and three down in the first three extra innings. In the eighth inning Appling Christian would see five batters come to the plate with Andrew Phillips being able to advance all the way to third after drawing a lead off walk. The Eagles again would fail to score.
The game would finally end in the bottom of the twelfth inning. Dallas Johnson would reach in the first at bat on a Warrior fielding error. Dylan Colson would then enter the game to run for Johnson. Corey Reagin would reach next on an infield single. In the third at bat of the inning Rex Cox would hit in a fielder's choice that would erase Reagin at second base and would see Colson advance to third. Bryce Livingston worked the Warrior pitching to draw a walk loading the bases with Eagle runners with only one out. Andrew Phillips would take his turn in the order looking at the first two pitches, both balls, before getting a pitch to handle. The third pitch of Phillips' at bat would set the Eagles of Appling Christian Academy as the Region 2 Georgia Christian Athletic Association Champions for 2012. Phillips hit the pitch hard down the left field line for a single scoring Colson from third and finally ending the game with a walk off 1-0 victory.
Saturday the Eagles would face the Warriors of Skipstone Academy from Griffin at home on Eagle Field. The contest was to be a double header, however, the second game was rained out after only one full innings of play.
Brandon Horton was the starting pitcher for the Eagles in game one. Horton pitched a complete seventh inning game and picked up his first win of the year. Over the seven innings Horton gave up four runs on six hits striking out 9 Warrior batters and walking seven.
The Eagle offense would score ten times to best the Warriors with a 10-4 final score.
The Eagles close their regular season with a 13-3 overall and 6-1 region record. The Eagles will face the Shiloh Hills' Crusaders, of Kennesaw, this Monday for the first round of the GCAA Conference playoffs.
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Study the past if you would divine the future.
The cautious seldom err.
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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Russian Court Authorizes Detention of Two Anti-Putin Protesters
A Moscow court ordered the detention of two participants in a protest against President Vladimir Putin while investigators probe them on charges that carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Businessman Maxim Luzyanin and Andrei Barabanov, an unemployed man, are suspected of taking part in mass disturbances and using violence against police officers, the Investigative Committee said in a statement on its website. Moscow's Basmannyi district court late yesterday ordered the two men to be detained until July 6, a court spokeswoman Ekaterina Korotova said by phone today.
An 18-year-old woman was placed under house arrest after a May 29 court order for "violent activity" at the same rally. Police detained hundreds of demonstrators after the May 6 violence, a day before Putin was inaugurated for his third term in the Kremlin. Dozens of protesters and about 30 officers were injured, according to estimates from both sides.
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