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There are 4 new algorithms present in this article. The first one is about speed optimization by using integers as array indexes (I'll explain that later). The second one is about concurrent programming (now with multi-core CPUs becoming mainstream in the near future, you can cut the time to find a lot of combinations by half and more). The third and fourth ones deal with finding combinations with repetitions.
In my articles, I place a strong emphasis to explain the techniques as clearly as possible. It is of utmost importance for you, the reader, to understand the explanations. Because once you understand them, you need not know how I do it; you can implement it yourself, even in your favourite computer language. You can implement it yourself, or in an iterative way? Recursive way? Your way? Heck! Your implementation could even be faster than mine, who knows?
For the source code changes, all the classes and functions fall under the stdcomb namespace and they are given a name called "Combination Library" and a version (1.5.0), so that the users know which is the latest version, as there are a few copies of source code floating around the Internet. Always get the latest version, as it contains new features and/or bug-fixes. You can always be sure that CodeProject has the most up-to-date version.
Combination is the way of picking a different unique smaller sequence from a bigger sequence, without regard to the ordering (positions) of the elements (in the smaller sequence). This article teaches you how to find combinations. For every technique presented in this article, I will explain it as well as I can before going on to teach you how to use the source code.
n : n is the larger sequence from which r sequence is picked
r : r is the smaller sequence picked from n sequence.
c : c is the formula for the total number of possible combinations of r picked from n distinct objects : n! / (r! (n-r)! )
The ! postfix means factorial.
I added this section because I realized the explanation in the original article is not easy for the readers to visualise the underlying pattern. Let me explain the new approach now: the shifting technique.
To find combinations, we will use a technique which involves shifting the last combination element from the left to the right.
Let us first find combinations of 1 from a sequence of 5 numbers {0,1,2,3,4}. Please note that the red box is the combination element.
Total 5 combinations are generated.
0 1 2 3 4
For the first example, it is pretty easy, isn't it. Let us go on to find combinations of 2 from a sequence of 5 numbers {0,1,2,3,4}. Please note the red boxes are the combination elements.
Oops, we can't shift the last element anymore. Now we shift the first element and bring back the last element to its right side. Shown below.
For the next 2 combinations, we continue to shift the last element.
Again, we cannot shift anymore and shift the first element and bring the last element to its side.
Shift last element as usual.
Shift the first element and bring the last to its side.
Oops, we can shift neither the first nor last element anymore. This is the end of all the combinations generated.
Total 10 combinations are generated.
01 02 03 04 12 13 14 23 24 34
Let us go on to find combinations of 3 from a sequence of 5 numbers {0,1,2,3,4}. Please note the red boxes are the combination elements. But for this, I will not explain. Observe the pattern.
012 013 014 023 024 034 123 124 134 234
Of course, I can go on to demonstrate finding combinations of 4 elements out of 5 and so on. But I don't. I trust that you can extrapolate the technique for finding different combinations from different sequences.
Let us define the steps for the shifting pattern we used to find all combinations.
Is there any way we can optimise the technique used in next_combination() function? The answer is yes but we have to give up the genericness of the next_combination().
Now, the next_combination() compares the element, which it is going to shift, with other elements in the n sequence to know its current position in the n sequence. Let us see if we can get rid of this finding operation.
Take a look at this combination (Take 2 out of 5):
01234 x x
If the 2 elements in the r sequence are integers which store its index position in n sequence, then the finding is not needed. And with this method, the combination returned is a combination of the indexes in the n sequence, is no longer a combination of objects. The timing of finding combinations from a sequence of any custom objects is the same, O(1), because integer index is used.
The == operator is not needed to be defined for this method to work; next_combination needs it to be defined unless you used the predicate version. Other requirements remain the same. Anyway, finding combinations of objects is actually the same as finding combinations of integers. And integer variables should be faster than class objects because of the object overhead. So we should use this!
This technique is implemented in the CIdxComb class. Here is an example on how to use the CIdxComb class.
#include <iostream> #include <string> #include <vector> #include "IndexCombination.h" using namespace std; using namespace stdcomb; void foo() { CIdxComb cb; cb.SetSizes(5,3); // n sequence vector<string> vsAnimal; vsAnimal.push_back( "Elephant" ); vsAnimal.push_back( "Deer" ); vsAnimal.push_back( "Cat" ); vsAnimal.push_back( "Bear" ); vsAnimal.push_back( "Ape" ); // r sequence vector<unsigned int> vi(3); vi[0] = 0; vi[1] = 1; vi[2] = 2; cout<< vsAnimal[ vi[0] ] << " " << vsAnimal[ vi[1] ] << " " << vsAnimal[ vi[2] ] << "\n"; int Total = 1; while ( cb.GetNextComb( vi ) ) { // Do whatever processing you want // ... cout<< vsAnimal[ vi[0] ] << " " << vsAnimal[ vi[1] ] << " " << vsAnimal[ vi[2] ] << endl; ++Total; } cout<< "\nTotal : " << Total << endl; }
Below is a benchmark result of next_combination() and CIdxComb for finding all the combinations of r sequence of 6 from n sequence of 45, 10 times, using QueryPerformanceCounter(), on a Intel P4 2.66Ghz CPU and 1GB of DDR2 RAM PC.
next_combination - 1925.76 milliseconds CIdxComb - 149.608 milliseconds
This benchmark program is included in the source!
There is a very strange occurrance that CIdxComb runs as slow or slower than next_combination in some benchmarks in debug build. I don't know why. But I think this difference is due to how iterators (which next_combination() used) and array subscript index (which CIdxComb used) are handled in std::vector. The above result is from a release build without any optimization.
Let us consider a case that you need to generate lots of combinations, say 100 billion. You have a dual-core CPU PC, so naturally you would want to maximize the dual core by having some concurrent processing (mult-threading). You can do that, if you can tell the 1st thread to calculate combinations starting from the 1st combination and the 2nd thread start from 50 billionth combination number. Each thread will find 50 billion combinations.
The problem is you do not know what combination is at 50 billionth! Let's say you do not have a dual-core CPU PC or SMP PC, you have 4 computers, so how about this: you could tell the 1st computer to calculate from the 1st 25th billion, the 2nd computer the 2nd 25th billion and so on. The missing link here is a way to calculate a combination based on a position in the total number of combinations so that CIdxComb or next_combination() can continue on finding combination starting from that one.
Fortunately, your hero here, which is me, has figured out a way to do this. The easiest way to explain this method is to walk though a simple example with me.
Let us find out the 92nd combination of 3 out of sequence of 10. Take note in zero-based counting, it would be number 91. In total, there are 120 combinations.
Below are the positions of the combinations which are placed side by side. I am going to show you how I derive the positions later, so right now you take it that they are correct. 1st element is represented by the red box, 2nd the green box and 3rd the blue box.
Let us find the position of the red box first.
Since the one we are going to find is 91st, it falls between 85th and 100th, so the 1st element of the 91st combination is 3.
To find the 2nd element (green box), we must subtract 85 from 91 and the result is 6th combination.
Since 6th falls between 5th and 9th, the second element is 5.
Before we find the 3rd element, we must subtract 5 from 6 whose result is 1st combination.
From the 1st combination above, we can see that the 3rd element is 7.
Now that all the 3 elements have been found, we have the 91st combination shown below
Let us get back to the problem of knowing the position, given a combination whose elements are side by side.
How do I know the second combination shown above is number 36th? Take a look below:
The combination is 36th, because the total number of combinations of 2 out of 9 is 36. Since this is zero-based, the next combination is the 36th. Let me give you another example!
The combination is 64th, because the total number of combinations of 2 out of 8 is 28 and add 28 to 36, you will get 64.
Combinadic is the method I have just described. You may want to read more about it in the Combinadic wiki because you will find that my explanation and method are different from what is written there. There is a reason for this because I rediscovered this method myself and while writing this section, I found out about Combinadic. Rest assured that my method and Combinadic is actually the same method, merely a different way to get the answer.
A bit of trivia here: I was quite upset that I am not the first one who discovered this method till I stopped writing this article for a year. Well, my reason for inventing this algorithm was to find a method to split the work of finding combinations into different work loads so as to speed up the work on many processors. I found two algorithms, Combinadic and Factoradic, but Combinadic was the first one I found. Later, I found out the algorithm can be modified to find permutation, given its position. I also found out that I am not the first one who discovered Factoradic.
You may have noticed the CFindCombByIdx operates on numbers only and the contents of the first combination vector always start from zero and in running numbers. Unlike next_combination() which operates on objects by comparing, CFindCombByIdx operates on zero based running numbers. What you will get from its results are indexes. For example, you get a result of {0,2,1} out of {0,1,2,3,4}, it means the 1st element is index 0 of array (of objects) you originally want to find combination, 2nd element refers to index 2 of the array and 3rd element is index 1 of the array. Finding combinations of numbers is much easier and faster than finding objects. CFindCombByIdx uses a big integer class because this algorithm uses factorials to find the combination and factorials are usually very large numbers. Since it is a templated class and you know the factorials used are not going to exceeded 64 bit, you can use __int64 type instead. The is the output of the above example code.
CFindCombByIdx< CFindTotalComb<BigInteger>, BigInteger > findcomb; const unsigned int nComb = 3; const unsigned int nSet = 10; // Intialize the vector with size nComb vector<unsigned int> vec(nComb); // vector returned by FindCombByIdx is the combination at 91. findcomb.FindCombByIdx( nSet, nComb, 91, vec );
Below is the timing results of next_combination, CIdxComb and CFindCombByIdx finding combinations of 6 out of 20 elements which is 38760 combinations in total.
time taken for next_combination: 5.04 milliseconds time taken for CIdxComb: 0.88 milliseconds time taken for CFindCombByIdx: 5886.43 milliseconds
As you can see, CFindCombByIdx is very slow compared to the other 2 algorithms but we are only going to use CFindCombByIdx to find the nth combination we want and use CIdxComb for finding the rest of the consecutive combinations.
I have included a demo program called TimeCombinations for you to benchmark your PC. It is nice to know how much time has been reduced if you have a dual-core or quad-core PC. The program does not store the combination anywhere and discards them after every computation. If you have a uniprocessor PC, then you have not much use for this benchmark program. Below are the screenshots of the program.
Finding combinations from a set with repeated elements is almost the same as finding combinations from a set with no repeated elements: the shifting technique is used and the set needs to be sorted first before applying this technique. It is just that there are some special situations you need to take care of.
Let me used a example of finding combinations of 3 out of 8 {0,1,2,3,3,3,4,5}, the number 3 is repeated 3 times.
With this combination now, the green box is in the 4th column which is 3.
If you get this next combination, you need to shift the green box to the last 3, which is the 6th column, before returning this combination result so that the next combination would not be repeated and correct.
Another situation to take care of is as below.
If you use the combination shifting technique, the next combination would be as below:
You need to shift the green box and the blue box to the 5th and 6th column respectively so that the next combination would be correct.
There is all you need to know and take care of when finding combinations from a set with repeated elements.
Below is the sample. The name of the class used to find the combinations is called CCombFromRepSet. As the code is straightforward and commented, I shall not explain the working of the code.
#include <vector> #include <iostream> #include "CombFromRepSet.h" using namespace std; using namespace stdcomb; int main() { // Initialize the set vector<unsigned int> svi; svi.push_back(0); // 0 svi.push_back(1); // 1 svi.push_back(2); // 2 svi.push_back(3); // 3 svi.push_back(3); // 4 svi.push_back(3); // 5 svi.push_back(4); // 6 svi.push_back(5); // 7 // Object to find the combinations from set with repeated elements CCombFromRepSet cfrs; cfrs.SetRepeatSetInfo( svi ); // Set the size of Set and number elements of the combination const unsigned int SET = 8; const unsigned int COMB = 3; cfrs.SetSizes( SET, COMB ); // Initialize the first combination vector vector<unsigned int> vi; for( unsigned int j=0; j<COMB; ++j ) vi.push_back( j ); // Set the first combination cfrs.SetFirstComb( vi ); // Display the first combination int Cnt=0; { cout<<Cnt<<")"; ++Cnt; for( unsigned int i=0; i<vi.size(); ++i) { cout<<svi[vi[i]]<<","; } cout<<endl; } // Find and display the subsequent combinations while( cfrs.GetNextComb( vi ) ) { cout<<Cnt<<")"; ++Cnt; for( unsigned int i=0; i<vi.size(); ++i) { cout<<svi[vi[i]]<<","; } cout<<endl; } system( "pause" ); return 0; }
This is the output of the sample code:
0)0,1,2, 1)0,1,3, 2)0,1,4, 3)0,1,5, 4)0,2,3, 5)0,2,4, 6)0,2,5, 7)0,3,3, 8)0,3,4, 9)0,3,5, 10)0,4,5, 11)1,2,3, 12)1,2,4, 13)1,2,5, 14)1,3,3, 15)1,3,4, 16)1,3,5, 17)1,4,5, 18)2,3,3, 19)2,3,4, 20)2,3,5, 21)2,4,5, 22)3,3,3, 23)3,3,4, 24)3,3,5, 25)3,4,5,
Now we have come to the last algorithm in the article: finding repeated combinations from a set with no repeated elements! Let me re-iterate again: Combination is the way of picking a different unique smaller sequence from a bigger sequence, without regard to the ordering (positions) of the elements (in the smaller sequence), meaning {0,0,1}, {0,1,0} and {1,0,0} are actually the same combination because they all contain one 1 and two zeros.
The formula for calculating the total number of repeated combinations: (n + r - 1)!/(r!.(n-1)!)
Let me explain, by finding combinations of 3 out 5 {0,1,2,3,4}:
0,0,0 -> the 1st combination 0,0,1 0,0,2 0,0,3 0,0,4 0,1,1 -> this combination is 0,1,1, not 0,1,0 because we already have 0,0,1. 0,1,2 0,1,3 0,1,4 0,2,2 -> this combination is 0,2,2, not 0,2,0 because we already have 0,0,2. 0,2,3 . . 0,4,4 1,1,1 -> this combination is 1,1,1, not 1,0,0 because we already have 0,0,1. 1,1,2 1,1,3 1,1,4 1,2,2 -> this combination is 1,2,2, not 1,2,0 because we already have 0,1,2. . . 4,4,4 -> Last combination
As a rule of thumb, when we crossover to the next level in the leftmost column (as you may have noticed from the above explanation), the numbers in rightmost columns always follow the crossover column. For example, the next combination of 0,4,4 is 1,1,1, the first column crossover from 0 to 1, the second and third column follows the first column. Let's give you another example, the next combination of 0,0,4 is 0,1,1, the second column crossover from 0 to 1, third column follows the second column. Remember, when crossover, the minimum number in the rightmost columns after the crossover column follows the crossover column.
Below is the sample. The name of the function used to find the combinations is called "CombWithRep". As the code is straightforward and commented, I shall not explain the working of the code.
#include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <string> #include "CombWithRep.h" using namespace std; using namespace stdcomb; int main() { const int SET = 5; const int COMB = 3; // Initialize the first combination vector to zeros std::vector<unsigned int> vi( COMB, 0 ); // Display the first combination int Cnt=0; { cout<<Cnt<<")"; ++Cnt; for( int j=0; j<COMB; ++j ) { cout<< vi[j] << ","; } cout<<endl; } // Find and display the subsequent combinations while( CombWithRep( SET, COMB, vi ) ) { cout<<Cnt<<")"; for( int j=0; j<COMB; ++j ) { cout<< vi[j] << ","; } cout<<endl; ++Cnt; } cout<<endl; system( "pause" ); return 0; }
This is the output of the example code:
0)0,0,0, 1)0,0,1, 2)0,0,2, 3)0,0,3, 4)0,0,4, 5)0,1,1, 6)0,1,2, 7)0,1,3, 8)0,1,4, 9)0,2,2, 10)0,2,3, 11)0,2,4, 12)0,3,3, 13)0,3,4, 14)0,4,4, 15)1,1,1, 16)1,1,2, 17)1,1,3, 18)1,1,4, 19)1,2,2, 20)1,2,3, 21)1,2,4, 22)1,3,3, 23)1,3,4, 24)1,4,4, 25)2,2,2, 26)2,2,3, 27)2,2,4, 28)2,3,3, 29)2,3,4, 30)2,4,4, 31)3,3,3, 32)3,3,4, 33)3,4,4, 34)4,4,4,
We have come to the end of the article. We have covered an optimized algorithm to find non-repeated combinations with integers, an algorithm to find non-repeated combinations, given their index so as to split the work into different work tasks for different processors, an optimized algorithm to finding combinations from a set with repeated elements and lastly, finding repeated combinations. I hope you have found my article useful and easy to understand. I love to hear your feedback, good or bad so that I can improve my article! Thanks!
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
public bool FindCombByIdx(uint Set, uint Comb, ulong Num, uint[] vi) { if (Comb > Set || Set == 0 || Comb == 0) return false; if (Num == 0) { uint add = 0; if (m_typeofcomb != eGameType.Standard) { add = 1; for (uint i = 0; i < Comb; ++i) vi[i] = i + add; } else { for (uint i = 0; i < Comb; ++i) vi[i] = 0; } return true; } else if (m_typeofcomb == eGameType.Standard) { string allnumbers = Num.ToString(); char[] arr = allnumbers.ToArray(); int index = 0; foreach (char c in arr) { uint num = uint.Parse(c.ToString()); vi[index] = num; index++; } return true; } // Actual Processing uint RSet = Set - 1; // Remaining Set uint RComb = Comb - 1; // Remaining IdxComb ulong ToFind = Num; ulong Zero = 0; ulong One = 1; for (uint x = 0; x < Comb; ++x) { if (x == Comb - 1) // Last Element { while (true) { if (Zero == ToFind) { vi[x] = Set - RSet - 1; break; } else { ToFind -= One; --RSet; } } } else { CFindTotalComb<long> ftc0 = new CFindTotalComb<long>(); ftc0.eTypeOfComb = m_typeofcomb; ulong ftc = 0; ulong Prev = 0; uint yLoop = RSet - RComb; bool Found = false; uint xPrev = 0; if (x > 0) xPrev = vi[x - 1] + 1; uint y; for (y = 0; y < yLoop; ++y) { ftc0.FindTotalComb(RSet, RComb); ftc = (ulong)ftc0.GetResult(); ftc += Prev; if (ftc > ToFind) // Prev is the found one { ToFind -= Prev; vi[x] = y + xPrev; Found = true; break; } Prev = ftc; --RSet; } if (!Found) { ToFind -= ftc; vi[x] = y + xPrev; } --RSet; --RComb; } } return true; }
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I know this is difficult, as it's a soundtrack, but I LOVE this haunting chant. I would like to know what is being said or maybe even how to pronounce it!
This is a youtube link to the short song-chant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5L4LeO7v8&list=LLddDdkSu04nTzn0vSbLv3Kw...
thank you, and sorry if this is too much to ask for, it's okay. I have searched the internet for Kukui song lyrics but this song seems to elude all translation.
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text: With IT budgets under tight control and the need for efficiency stronger than ever, hotel technologists must ensure that any IT investment can show ROI, but is that easier said than done? In this Q&A exclusive, Hospitality Technology sits down with Scott Gibson, CIO and SVP of Distribution for Best Western International, for a candid perspective on when, where and how hotels can invest for greatest returns on guest satisfaction and on their bottom-line. HT: What lessons can the lodging industry learn from the recession about how to be better hotel companies? SG: The thing that most organizations should have learned is the need to stay very focused on what is actually important in terms of meeting guest expectations, but also what's important organizationally from the standpoint of ensuring your business stays successful. If you look at what the hotel industry has done in the last few decades, we tend to overestimate the pace of adoption of technology. 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HT: Talking about mobility, Best Western has an iPhone app, and in fact was second to market with its app. What was the philosophy there, and how is your iPhone app performing? SG: It's a thing that we did because we do think it's important. Two percent of the market is a big piece of the market. We were able to do it with relative low cost and relatively quickly. If it had been a big expensive undertaking, you'd have to scratch your head and ask, not, "is this something we should do?" but rather, "is this a good time to do it?" So far in 2010, the iPhone business is about 70 percent of all of our mobile business. The pace of adoption on the iPhone is very fast. From a revenue standpoint, it's probably well below 1 percent of total online revenue in 2010. It's not a big piece of revenue yet, but as to shopping activity, the iPhone has the biggest piece of it. Since we launched [in late December 2009] we've had about 8,000 people download it. I think we need to give it some time and see how people use it and what they make of it. HT: What can you offer as a "tech reality check" from the standpoint of where hotels have been focusing that perhaps they shouldn't be? SG: There is a sense that in-room entertainment technology has the potential to become a significant revenue generator for hoteliers. While I wouldn't rule that out, I think that, again, in some cases the pace of adoption isn't going to be nearly as fast as hotels would like it to be because the cost of deploying in-room entertainment technology is going to be very high on a per-room basis. But I also think that very quickly it will become the cost of doing business. People generally don't pay extra for premium channels in hotel rooms. They expect to get premium channels. In the mid-scale market, they don't pay extra for Internet access in hotel rooms, they expect to get it. I think that with some of this other technology it will quickly become commoditized in that people have the expectation that it will be there. HT: Does that mean hotels shouldn't be focused on some of these in-room technologies? Or that they should be seeing it as the cost of doing business as opposed to a revenue stream? SG: Beyond saying "the cost of doing business," it will become necessary to meet guest expectations. That's a revenue generator in the sense that if you don't meet guest expectations, you shouldn't expect to generate very much revenue. We tend to approach these things with the expectation that there is incremental revenue we can generate from every hotel stay from these things. I think that all too often, when there is, it's relatively short-lived and then for most customers it becomes part of their basic set of expectations. However, while you can't generally charge incremental fees for these improvements, it is a mistake to think they don't bring value to the bottom-line. If you don't keep up with guest expectations about what kind of innovation they find in the room, you won't be satisfying your guests and those guests won't return. There's a real bottom-line impact to that! As a brand you have to remain relevant. It's more about what is the pace at which hotels companies should be moving to adopt. HT: If it's a question of pace, what insight can you offer for timing your in-room investments, and how to go about it? SG: They have to fit it to their market. You're already seeing a great many consumer electronic product innovations in the upscale sector and over time it will trickle down into the midscale and eventually even into budget and economy at some level. Any hotelier who wants to raise their game on in-room technology should examine their rooms with an eye towards how the guests will use them. Consider your own family, and look around the room. Are there enough power outlets? Given the number of personal devices, laptops, game consoles, or personal DVD players that travel with families these days, chances are there aren't enough power outlets free to go around. I looked at a survey recently where consumers were responding to the question, "What were their top technology needs in hotel rooms?" The number one technology need in the hotel rooms is, "a power outlet I can plug into." Whenever you talk about technology innovation in hotel rooms, you have to remember where we're starting from. If there's no place to plug in the technology you brought with you, it speaks to the fact that that particular hotel room is not well-prepared to deal with your technology needs. HT: Good point! How is it still the case that hotel rooms are not adequately equipped with enough power outlets to satisfy guests' needs? SG: It's a great question. I think it speaks to how relatively quickly guests' needs in a hotel room have evolved. There are a lot of hotel rooms out there that were not originally built with the idea in mind that guests would arrive with a great many things they needed to plug in. Then you add in that hotels themselves are offering more products and services for guests in the rooms that need to be plugged in. Outlets get placed where they'll be used by the services that the room itself is providing, so quite often you can't get to those outlets even if they're there. One of the things you see more often are power strips in rooms that have been done very well. From the standpoint of appeal, I'd hate to see your standard home power strip dangling from a wall for someone to plug into, but there are lots of ways to do it. You see the ones that are in lamps, you see the ones that are mounted in the desks; there are lots of ways to do it that are effective. HT: Let's talk about an area that does make sense for IT investments. The Best Western web site did particularly well in 2009, outpacing the industry average, despite the recession. To what do you attribute this? SG: Over the last three-to-four years we've been very focused on delivering a high-quality consumer experience on the web site (www.bestwestern.com). A big part of that has been a focus on the reliability and usability of the site, and on response time. Between the end of 2006 and now, we've improved the web site average response time by 50 percent; we've reduced system down time from about 300 hours per year, down to about 30 hours per year and we've substantially redesigned the site based on customer input. As a result, we've seen the web site grow from 31 percent of our business in 2006, to more than 50 percent of our business today. And, in 2006 we generated $315 million in revenue through our web site versus more than $450 million in 2009. HT: Those results are impressive. How did you do it? SG: The old fashioned way. We invested a lot of capital, a lot of time and energy in identifying the places in the process where the code and databases were inefficient, where the architecture wasn't right. We spent nine months on an effort of re-architecting the site and re-writing a lot of the code, and redesigning a lot of the processes. We're getting ready to do that again. When we first did it, we were really happy with the results. As in all things, I'm not nearly as happy today as I was when we first did it. I think it can be faster, and we're going to take another run at it and see if it can be improved even further. We did comparable things on the reliability side. We're consistently ranked among the top travel sites in terms of transaction success rate and again it was focusing on the things that didn't work well and fixing them. Now we're in the middle of a lot of performance and reliability-related improvements for the website for the GDS connections. We see that shopping behavior (the number of transactions that we get through our own website, through GDS connections, through our direct-connect with many partners) goes up 50 percent per year, even if the number of resulting reservations doesn't go up. As everyone improves their technology in a way that's meaningful to the consumer, the consumer is being presented with more information. To get that more information, those sites are doing many more transactions. Every year you have to handle more and more transactions to get the same number of reservations. We're on a pretty aggressive cycle of constantly improving the technology and the throughput for all of our electronic distribution to ensure that we can handle the volumes. HT: Are there other major technology priorities for Best Western in 2010? SG: There are a couple of things we've been focused on: the first one is very much around information and credit card security. One of the things we're doing in that area now is really trying to facilitate a better solution for online booking and advanced purchase and payment. Most of the time when people book a hotel room, they guarantee the hotel room to a credit card. What that means is that the hotel will hold onto your credit card until you either show up or don't show up. Nine times out of ten, they're never going to use that information because when you actually come to the hotel you're going to present a credit card. There's an awful lot of added risk in that process because they have to keep the card on file, but most of they time they don't actually need it. We're trying to look at if there's a different model that works for consumers that is similar to the models that the airlines and online travel agencies use. Are consumers interested in getting a discount in return for paying for their stay up-front? If they pay for their stay up front, we don't have to retain a credit card and the associated risk goes away. The consumer gets a discount on their stay, which they want, and the hotel company and the consumer all benefit from the higher security model. What we're trying to do today, and it's a relatively complicated undertaking, is to set up the ability, from our website, in our call center, through our GDS connections, to process a credit card settlement for an advanced purchase and deliver it to a merchant account that belongs to the hotel where the stay is being made. In that case, we're not even collecting the money, the hotel is collecting the money; they're just doing it through our web site. That may sound like a simple thing, but when you have 4,000 hotels in 70 countries and you want to have individual merchant accounts for card processing for every one of those hotels in all of those countries it's a pretty big undertaking. Advance payment reservations are our fastest growing plan in North America, and already in Europe more than 30 percent of all brand business is booked this way. It is another way to meet the customer's needs, keep the customer loyal to your hotel or your brand, and reap the long-term revenue benefits, all powered by technology and integration. RELATED ARTICLES Industry Outlook 2010: Hotel & Restaurant Trends for the Year Ahead The Tech Bandwagon: Three Reasons Why Mgmt is Slow to Jump on Board


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French Embassy Signs MOU with African Ministers Council on Water...Pledges France Support for Water Development in Africa |
Abuja: 21st September 2012 France has pledged continued support to efforts aimed at driving enabling policy for improving access to water and sanitation in Africa. French Ambassador in Nigeria, Jacques Champagne De Labriolle made the pledge Thursday 20th September 2012 while signing a Memorandum of Understanding to assist the activities of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) Secretariat in Abuja. Notes The African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) was formed in 2002 in Abuja Nigeria, primarily to promote cooperation, security, social and economic development and poverty eradication among member states through the management of water resources and provision of water supply services. AMCOW' mission is to provide political leadership, policy direction and advocacy in the provision, use and management of water resources for sustainable social and economic development and maintenance of African ecosystems. AU Heads of State Sharm El Sheikh Declaration on Water and Sanitation Sharm El Sheikh Commitments for Accelerating the Achievement of Water and Sanitation Goals in Africa (Assembly/AU/Decl.1 (XI) was adopted by African Heads of State and Government at its 11th Ordinary session in July 2008 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt mandates AMCOW to develop an implementation strategy and annually report on progress made in the implementation of our commitment on water and sanitation with support from regional partners, and to submit these reports for our consideration; The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI) aims at accelerating access to improved rural water supply and sanitation facilities in Africa, in a sustainable way. The Initiative seeks to help mobilize as well as facilitate the flow of available and potential resources to accelerate investment in Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) in Africa, with goal to reach 80 percent coverage by the year 2015. The Initiative supports the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the reduction of poverty. RWSSI was adopted in 2005 by AfDB's main international development partners and African governments as a common framework, at the first International Conference on the RWSSI held in Paris April 1st, 2005. The African Water Facility (AWF) is an initiative of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW). It is hosted and managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The overall purpose of the Facility is to assist African countries to mobilize and apply resources for the Water and Sanitation sector to help enable them to successfully implement the Africa Water Vision (2025) and meet the MDGs (2015). The AWF began its operations in 2006. |


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The Foster Grandparent Program is an intergenerational program first established in 1965. It connects volunteers age 55 and over with opportunities to provide one-on-one mentoring, nurturing and support to children with special or exceptional needs, or who are at an academic, social or financial disadvantage. Children and youth served by the program often do not have a caring and consistent adult presence in their lives; this void is filled by a Foster Grandparent. In turn, Foster Grandparents derive significant social, emotional and health benefits from their service. The program gives them a strong sense of purpose by giving back to the community and shaping the young leaders of the future.
Foster Grandparents help young children gain skills and confidence to succeed in school. They tutor children, serve as positive role models and assist those in the child welfare system.
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Dec. 19, 2012 04:01 AM
Deltek, Inc., the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for professional services firms and government contractors, today announced that Retroscreen Virology ("Retroscreen"), a fast-growing virology healthcare business, has selected Deltek's cloud ERP solution Deltek First to support and enhance its significant growth. Retroscreen will use Deltek's project-centric cloud ERP solution to manage key aspects of its business and improve its overall business performance. Retroscreen is a virology healthcare business that provides clinical services, focused on the Viral Challenge Model ("VCM"), and pre-clinical analytical services, primarily to global pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology organisations. Retroscreen has grown and developed the VCM for evidencing the efficacy of antiviral and viral therapeutics in flu, cold and RSV viruses. 2012 is set to be a transformational year for Retroscreen as the company recently announced a Trading Update indicating revenue growth for 2012 in excess of 200%. With its significant growth, Retroscreen needs a fully integrated multi-dimensional solution to enable it to have the confidence and visibility to scale its growth with a next generation corporate infrastructure, leverage resources and improve utilisation, maximise client engagement margins and profit centre profitability, and accurately forecast future financials. Instead of having different systems to manage core tasks such as resource management, management accounting, financial reporting and project planning, Retroscreen purchased Deltek First so it has one, integrated solution which eliminates the need for further investments and integration of new systems in the future. Based on webservice technology and built with projects at its core, Deltek First will deliver complete information about Retroscreen's business ensuring that it always has a single source of the truth for measuring and forecasting the performance of its business. "We were looking for a scalable solution that could help us improve our margins, forecast our business, leverage our resources and manage our entire project lifecycle better. After evaluating multiple solutions, we truly feel that Deltek First is an ideal and very powerful application, especially because it unites resource management, project accounting, finance accounting, scenario forecasting and dashboard reporting in one integrated multi-dimensional solution. It has been very reassuring working with Deltek throughout the selection process, because the company understands the project-centric nature of our business which is at its heart about people based service delivery. We look forward to working with Deltek as a key business partner in the years to come as we transform our financial and commercial management processes with Deltek First," said Graham Yeatman, Finance Director of Retroscreen. "We are very excited that a high growth company like Retroscreen has chosen Deltek First, our cloud ERP solution that is gaining traction around the world. Our many years of experience in the professional services industry gives us unique sector expertise. We are now deploying through the cloud so professional services firms of any size can access world-class capabilities with the low costs and ease of access. By purchasing Deltek First, Retroscreen has a fully integrated solution on a secure platform to support its impressive growth and future strategy. 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Written by Emily Mullins
For churches with limited budgets, it's not always easy being green – which is something Honolulu's Central Union Church United Church of Christ knows all too well. As it strives to achieve its environmental goals, the congregation is hoping to be the lucky nonprofit group that wins a $25,000 photovoltaic, or solar panel, system that will cut down on its energy use and power its facility with one of Hawaii's most plentiful resources: sunshine.
"Especially in Hawaii, our oceans continue to rise and some of our attractions might end up underwater, so it's really important for us to think about global warming," said Carolynn Bell-Tuttle, member and chair of Central Union's Green Team. "And it just so happens that with all of this retrofitting and changing to clean energy there is an economic advantage that would benefit the church and allow us to continue to do the programming in the community that we do."
The contest, sponsored by Enphase Energy, invited Hawaii-based nonprofits including churches, schools, museums and family service organizations to submit a video explaining why they deserve a solar panel system. The organization with the video that receives the most votes will win. Enphase Energy, a solar energy systems company based in Petaluma, Calif., came up with the giveaway in honor of the installation of its 25,000th solar panel system in Hawaii this summer. Anyone can watch the Central Union video and other entries on the contest website, and vote for their favorite video once a day until the contest ends Sept. 30.
While Central Union hopes to win the system, the church's Green Team has been implementing ways for members to be environmentally responsible since 2008. The congregation focused on energy use and hired a company to conduct a full-scale energy audit a few years ago. The audit resulted in a list of suggested ways the church could make its building more efficient, such as tinting the windows to help keep the building cool, replacing outdated lighting systems, and upgrading the air conditioning unit to provide better airflow throughout the building. The church qualified for a loan from Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation, which offers loans at below-market rates to nonprofit organizations, to pay for some of those improvements.
"The energy audit looked at the lifestyle of the buildings and the church campus and determined how we actually produce the energy that our buildings need," Bell-Tuttle said. "We were able to receive a loan and are in the process of retrofitting. It has been a long process but it's one of the moments where we feel like we are actually on track."
Upon completion of the energy retrofit, Central Union's estimated energy savings will be close to $60,000 per year, Bell-Tuttle said. Winning the photovoltaic system would be a bonus that could add to those savings. With grave concerns for the state of the environment and rising energy costs, Bell-Tuttle feels that the Christian faith is calling everyone to act.
"All across the country different faith groups are looking for ways we can use our resources better," Bell-Tuttle said. "And we are always looking for new revenue sources and ways to service our community."


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Recap: Bulls 96, Magic 94January 2, 2013 |
He's the key that makes the Magic's motor go.
Orlando floor general Jameer Nelson has been an essential cog in the Magic machine this season, not only for his offensive production, but for his leadership and playmaking ability as well. On Wednesday, Orlando's point guard re-emphasized his immense value to the franchise by erupting for a career-high-tying 32 points to go along with six rebounds and four assists. "Jameer was rolling," Bulls Head Coach Tom Thibodeau explained. "He got the ability. He's been hurt, but he's been shooting the ball really well for them. So if you give him any airspace right now, he's knocking that three in." In his first game back from a hip injury, Nelson went a scorching 6-for-9 from long range, while maintaining an efficient 11-for-20 performance from the floor. With the Magic falling into an 18-point second-half deficit, Nelson put the squad on his back, firing off 22 points after halftime. His effort brought the Magic back within striking distance, giving them a chance to tie or even take the lead with 5.2 seconds left. Unfortunately, Mighty Mouse came up short as his bank shot to even the score did not fall. Despite a little contact on the play, Nelson was unable to draw the foul and his squad was dealt another tough loss. "I had a good look, got bumped, but didn't get the call, just missed the shot," he explained. In another difficult defeat, Nelson's positive locker room presence was again reaffirmed. While some groups could fall apart during a seven-game skid, Orlando's point guard is making sure this unit stays intact. "Nobody should hang their heads, it's not like we're going out there and not playing hard," he added. "If we're doing that as a group, I think you'll get more frustrated and that's when finger pointing happens. And one thing we're not doing is pointing fingers and we shouldn't because we are in it together." That's why the Magic, who are 11-12 with Nelson on the court and 1-8 with him off of it, are lucky to still have him around. |
"This is a great experience for us. The best part about tonight was that there was a stretch in the game where Chicago could have broke our spirits and we stayed together. I think that for the most part we stayed poised throughout the night, fought adversity and gave ourselves a chance to win that ball game. I feel bad for my guys. They're playing hard, they're just not equating to wins yet, but we're going to continue to play hard." - Magic Head Coach Jacque Vaughn |
This Statline of the Night goes to the Magic's fourth-quarter defense. After relinquishing 28 points to Chicago in the third, Orlando locked down its interior in the final frame, holding the Bulls to 14 fourth-quarter points. |
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2005 CHUMPY Award
It's time, loyal readers, for the Inaugural SpursDynasty 2005 CHUMP (of the)Y(ear) Award.
Every year, there are athletes, especially NBA players, who are, in a word, chumps.
There are many candidates for the CHUMPY Award, of course, so we're here to let you know just which overpaid, adolescent minded, primadonna clown was the worst team cancer or societal blight in 2005.
So let's go over the candidates and their qualifications, shall we, loyal reader(s)?
* Ron Artest – see post below. He demanded a trade, meaning he has now officially taken his team directly out of title contention two seasons in a row. Of course, not by what happens on court… it's the extracurricular tantrums that makes Ron such a prime non-example of sportsmanship.
* Terrell Owens – need we say more?
* Maurice Clarett. Oh Mo, mo, mo. We all knew you were a chump when Ohio State was arranging for your cars and expenses, while you cut class, fell asleep in finals, and had "an oral exam" to pass African-American studies. We know it was rough when your moronic buddy played tough guy games and got himself waxed – so naturally the Ohio State students should eat the cost of you going to his funeral since you didn't have the money. We know you had to file false police reports and commit insurance fraud since you couldn't wait to get your lifestyle on. Too bad the lawsuits against Ohio State and the NFL both resulted in a litigation beatdown.
But armed robbery? For a *c e l l p h o n e* ?!? Then making the police manhunt you?!? You can get those for $40, Mo. And don't forget since the Broncos cut you, you dropped out of college, and literally can't negotiate an arena ball contract, you'd better go with a public defender. I don't think the Ohio State students want a tuition hike to make your retainer fees once the cops nab you.
* Latrell Sprewell – for about a million reasons.
SPREE! 50 Cent isn't an athlete, Artest technically ruined both seasons by not playing last spring and now the fall of the new season but is only a 2nd tier chump, Clarett committed armed robbery for a cellie technically in 2006 (Jan. 2) and is an unemployed football player, but Spree is the CHUMPY-on. Unemployed clown former basketball player… like a more antisocial and less sadly humorous Rodman.
Offered a $21,000,000 contract, Spree said it was "Insulting… I have a family to feed." Now there is no contract with the T-Wolves, much less anyone else, he is the laughingstock of the league, and no competitive team will want him.
But I wonder if you can feed a family on unemployment? A lot of Americans have to, especially those in Katrina's wake. It just goes to show you that no matter how much of a primadonna you may be, no matter how spoiled and childish, there is always someone worse than you. And you know Spree had to win the Chumpy Award, having choked a Spurs coach back in the day (as of the balloting, PJ Carlesimo was still an assistant on a world championship team).
Even if Spree becomes a Spur, and hopefully Warm Karl Malone was the last of such potential foolishness, I may eat crow but I won't like the flavor, ever. Chumpalicious.
Happy 2006. Maurice Clarett now leads the pack for Chump of the Year '06, and it's only the 2nd day of January.
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been dominated for its first half century by a hunt for unusual radio signals. But as he prepares for the publication of his new book The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone?, Paul Davies explains why bold new innovations are required if we are ever to hear from our cosmic neighbours.
Writing exclusively in March's Physics World (http://physicsworld.com), Davies, director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University in the US, explains why the search for radio signals is limited and how we might progress.
As Davies writes, "speculation about SETI is bedevilled by the trap of anthropocentrism -- a tendency to use 21st-century human civilisation as a model for what an extraterrestrial civilisation would be like... After 50 years of traditional SETI, the time has come to widen the search from radio signals."
Questioning the idea of an alien civilisation beaming radio signals towards Earth, Davies explains that even if the aliens were, say, 500 light years away (close by SETI standards), the aliens would be communicating with Earth in 1510 -- long before we were equipped to pick up radio signals.
While SETI activity has been concentrated in radio astronomy, from Frank Drake's early telescope to the more recent Allen Telescope Array, astronomers have only ever been met with an (almost) eerie silence.
Davies suggests that there may be more convincing signs of intelligent alien life, either here on Earth in the form of bizarre microorganisms that somehow found their way to Earth, or in space, through spotting the anomalous absence of, for example, energy-generating particles that an alien life form might have harvested.
"Using the full array of scientific methods from genomics to neutrino astrophysics," Davies writes, "we should begin to scrutinise the solar system and our region of the galaxy for any hint of past or present cosmic company."
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There is plenty to see in and around British Columbia and visitors like its temperate climate. Whatever region you are in, each has its own particular attractions. If you fancy a scary afternoon out then the Nightmares Entertainment Inc might be the best place for you. It is located in Victoria's Old Town district and is open seven days a week from ten am to six pm, Thursday, Friday and Saturday it is open until nine pm.
Nightmares Entertainments Inc puts on performances and shows and the admission fee of six dollars is relatively cheap if you like being frightened. The Company also houses a retail outlet which sells make up and scary clothes and masks for fancy dress parties or private performances - or simply as a reminder of the place.
Nightmare Entertainments Inc offers three nightmare performances, "The Hot Seat" "Madame Isabella's " and "The Unknown" if you want to be really scared then buy the special thirteen dollar ticket and watch all three performances, if you can stand being scared that much. You can purchase tickets when you get there or online at Nightmare Entertainments Inc and purchase your tickets. If you are not staying in Victoria itself then you can still visit this attraction because British Columbia has a great inter city bus service and there is also a good train service. Should you want something more romantic then you can always ride the ferry between cities.


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2008-02-04, 06:47 | Link #101 |
Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
Are you serious? You think that it is notably more expensive to do the authoring, pressing and packaging in Japan and then shipping to the USA than it is to do the same thing in the USA and add dubbing? The reason for the price point has nothing to do with expenses and everything to do with matching the Japanese prince to prevent reverse importing.
2008-02-06, 22:59 | Link #102 |
Join Date: May 2007
Gotta say Bandai is rather quick in sniffing the attraction of this series. As the price you guys are talking about, no way in hell I'm gonna buy the US versions. The dubbing actors just suck big (Bleach, Negima, Rozen Maiden...)There are only a handful of series that I found the dubbed is superior to the original Jap anime (FMP, Inuyasha...). Just as someone posted in the 1st page, it's like trying to sell $10 for a gallon of fuel. Unless the fuel increases the mileage by three time (thus may offset the hassle of refueling), nobody is gonna buy.
2008-02-06, 23:36 | Link #105 | |
Ive been MikuCaramellized
What i think would be pretty neat, is if they were EXACTLY the same as the Japanese versions, but coded for R1, with subtitles and obvious menu translations (meaning similar boxart/menu styling. |
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2008-02-17, 15:58 | Link #110 |
Seiza + Katana = Ai-daiyo
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Houston (Clear Lake), TX
Age: 37
Hm.. interesting to see this rate structure in the US... but, as many other people have said, it's baically the R2 structure here in the US ... and for the back importation it makes sense... as for me, I don't know.. I'm an odd ball... when there is a series I really like... I buy the R2 right away and then buy the R1 when it comes out in the US ... but that's if I really like it... like Tsukuyomi or PPD, etc... but when it comes to series that don't really move me in any way, I Don't know if I can justify R1 at R2 prices, much less R2s.
Lately, for me, my consumption of DVDs is down because I want to see HD media ... a lot of my favorite anime are now all produced in full HD... in amazing detail and quality... it just seems wrong to see it in SD (er well DVD is just slighlty above sd .. but anyhow). Besides, there is only ~1 year left of non-digital television (although that doesn't mean there won't be SD, but people will think that and move to HD). It will be really interesting to see how these sell... I might buy Shigofumi ... i enjoy that series.. but thus so far nothing spectacular about True Tears to me. |
2008-03-03, 07:04 | Link #111 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
It might have been already answered, But when are they released in USA? any specific date?
Well as far as the price goes, well its expensive, but still its definitly one of the animes that i want to have. No dubs? Well i dont really listen to the dubs, Usually now days most of the releases have jap/lang with eng/subs. However i do use the dub ( from time to time) as a frame of refrence when i dont undrestand something or want to get a better idea of it ( there is still a limit as how much subs can translate the meaning throughly). So that is definitly a bumer for me .
2008-03-03, 11:29 | Link #112 | |
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2008-03-03, 21:16 | Link #114 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Well if it is dub included then thats another story. It would actually be considered as a fast release. but from the rumors in this thread, i read they were only subs. P.S. Thanks for the date info . The prices will go down. Just wait for the box sets. The prices on Boxsets are actually preaty fair. Thats what i usually do ( excluding few anime such as Deathnote, Full metal panic and few more which i couldnt wait one second to buy them).
2008-03-03, 22:52 | Link #116 | |
Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 34
In terms of the volume count, it'll be on 7 DVDs in all, just like the Japanese release. The first disc has one episode, and the rest have two each. As for why it's like that? Well, basically, because that's the way the Japanese DVDs are, and the reason it's coming out so quickly is that they're more-or-less appropriating the Japanese DVDs, translating them, and releasing them here with subtitles. The price is a similar logic -- it's priced more-or-less the same as the Japanese DVDs (about $5 cheaper/disc MSRP). In terms of extras, it seems like the disc will include a short bonus animation, the textless opening, and a booklet. Sort of standard in terms of Bandai Visual Japan extras go at that price point. (Believe it or not, this is one of the cheaper Japanese pricepoints for a 1-cour show.) In any case, as I probably said before, I'm looking forward to it because I was going to buy the Japanese DVDs anyway. The fact that this is a bit cheaper and with subtitles works out nicely for me. |
2008-03-03, 23:04 | Link #117 |
Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
While this might be a good deal for someone like you who often purchases R2 DVDs, it is very different for people like me who only purchase anime in R1. For me this means I have to spend about twice as much as I'd expect. Even though I don't mind the loss of a dub track, the price point seems unreasonable compared to everything else I might purchase. Most of us would simply have to hope that there will eventually be a thin pack with a more reasonable price tag.
2008-03-04, 01:14 | Link #118 | |
Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 34
I guess, in the end, it's about budget and priorities. If this pricing scheme were to become the norm, people would really only be able to afford their absolute favourites, as opposed to right now where you can almost buy entire series on a whim. That being said, even given how "cheap" it is in general at the moment, a lot of people are still saying it isn't cheap enough, and it still doesn't seem to be selling very well. So... who knows... it's complicated... |
2008-03-04, 01:38 | Link #119 |
Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
Complicated indeed. I am very interested to see how Bandai Visual's experiment turns out. I can't wait to find out if they get sales. If they do get sales, this will have a big effect on how other anime producers decide to market their works in R1.
2008-03-04, 06:40 | Link #120 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Near Cincinnati, OH, but actually in Kentucky
Age: 29
I'm all about buying R1 DVD's, even when I have fansubs sitting on the hard drive, but this just feels like price-gouging to me. |
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Shen Yiwen, Composer & Pianist
Welcome to the site of Composer & Pianist Shen Yiwen!
Recent News:
Yiwen was commissioned by the National Ballet of China to compose a full-length ballet to be premiered in September 2015 in Beijing.
Yiwen's new string quartet, Four Chinese Brush Paintings, commissioned as the result of winning the Gena Raps String Quartet Prize, was premiered by the Aeolus Quartet at Alice Tully Hall on April 15th, 2015.
Yiwen was selected as one of the recipients of the 2015 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award. For more information, please visit http://www.ascap.com/press/2015/03-27-ascap-foundation-names-martin%20gould-recipients.aspx
Yiwen's hour-long ballet, Hamlet, commissioned by the National Ballet of China, was premiered on April 25th and 26th, 2014 in Beijing. For more information, please visit http://www.ballet.org.cn/news_detail/newsId=47.html
The performance of Yiwen's Reminiscence and Oblivion by the Juilliard Orchestra was broadcasted by WQXR. Click here to listen to it online.
Yiwen was invited to be in resident at the artist colony Yaddo in March 2014.
Yiwen's Reminiscence and Oblivion, for orchestra, received Juilliard's the Arthur Friedman Award for outstanding orchestral composition this year and was premiered by the Juilliard Orchestra under Maestr Jeffrey Milarsky at 8pm on Feb. 14, 2014, in Alice Tully Hall. For more information, please visit http://www.juilliard.edu/about/newsroom/2013-14/conductor-jeffrey-milarsky-leads-juilliard-orchestra-annual-evening-world
Yiwen's Clarinet Concerto received the 1st Place of the SCI/ASCAP 2012 Student Commission Competition National Winners. For more information, please visit http://www.societyofcomposers.org/students/ascap.html
Yiwen was selected as one of two composers for the Staunton Music Festival's Emerging Composers program. He is commissioned to write some songs to be premiered there during the week of August 17-25, 2012. For more information, please visit http://stauntonmusicfestival.com/events_ss.shtml
Yiwen's The Sorrowful Song of Drunken Exaltation, for soprano and orchestra, comissioned by the Bard Conservatory of Music for its first international to China in June, received its premieres in Tianjin on June 19th, in Guangzhou on June 21st, and inWuhan on June 22nd, 2012. For more information, please visit http://conservatory.bard.edu/conservatory/chinatour/
Yiwen's First Orchestral Essay (2010), for full orchestra, was chosen from a pool of 153 candidates as one of six winning compositions, by the Minnesota Orchestra for its annual Composer Institute. The piece received its world premiere by the orchestra under Maestro Osmo Vänskä on January 6th, 2012. For more information, please visit http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/about/news_story.cfm?id_news=31152116
Yiwen was selected as one of four composers to participate in Carnegie Hall's Professional Training Workshop, directed by soprano Dawn Upshaw and composer Donnacha Dennehy. His commissioned piece Taking Leave of a Friend (2011) was premiered at Carnegie's Zankel Hall at 7:30pm on April 17th, 2011. According to The New York Times, "Mr. Shen set six poems by Li Po with a lucid, economical lyricism handed down by Barber and Rorem." For more information, please visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/Event.aspx?id=2400 and http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/arts/music/dawn-upshaw-and-students-at-zankel-hall-review.html?_r=1&ref=arts
Yiwen's First Orchestral Essay (2010), for full orchestra, was selected as one of three winning compositions by the Albany Symphony Orchestra for its Second Annual Young Composer Competition. The piece was read in May 2011 by Maestro David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestra as part of the orchestral's annual American Music Festival.
Yiwen was commissioned by the Beijing Modern Music Festival and Beijing Symphony Orchestra for a clarinet concerto. The piece received its world premiere on May 25th, 2011 in Beijing Concert Hall, China.
Yiwen's Three Songs of Emily Dickinson (2011), co-commissioned by Dawn Upshaw and Vocal Arts Program of Bard College Conservatory of Music, was performed on March 17th, 2011 at Morgan Library, New York. The piece was reviewed by The New York Times as "a vibrant setting of three poems." For more information, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/arts/music/bard-college-graduate-students-at-morgan-library-museum.html?ref=music
Yiwen's composition Quintet (2008) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, was performed by Da Capo Chamber Players on January 24th, 2011 and was reviewed by The New York Times as "a jaunty, vibrantly scored canvas." For more information, please visithttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/music/26capo.html?_r=2&ref=music
Excerpt from Clarinet Concerto (2011)
Clarinetist Wang Tao, Maestro Lin Daye, Beijing Symphony Orchestra


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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
Dems Press GOPers To Repeal Their Own Benefits Along With Health Care Law
Moments before Dems introduced the motion, the DCCC blasted out to reporters a list of the 14 House Republicans who have opted out of their federal benefits. You can see the full list below. Many of those members made that decision after Dems pulled a similar trick, and pressed Republicans to announce publicly if they'd be accepting those benefits.
· Representative Nan Hayworth (NY-19), [Star Gazette, 1/6/11];· Representative Paul Gosar (AZ-01), [Prescott Daily Courier, 1/06/11];
· Representative Bobby Schilling (IL-17), [ABC News, 11/17/10];
· Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03), [Think Progress, 11/18/10];
· Representative Joe Walsh (IL-08), [The Hill, 12/26/10];
· Representative Bill Johnson (OH-06), [Plain Dealer, 1/19/11] ;
· Representative Daniel Webster (FL-8), [Orlando Sentinel, 11/26/10];
· Representative Sandy Adams (FL-24), [Orlando Sentinel, 11/26/10];
· Representative Frank Guinta (NH-01), [Think Progress, 1/6/11];
· Representative Rich Nugent (FL-5), [POLITICO, 1/6/11];
· Representative David McKinley (WV-1), [Parkersburg News and Sentinel, 1/8/11];
· Representative Scott Rigell (VA-2), [Daily Press, 1/6/11];
· Representative Bob Dold (IL-10), [The Hill, 1/19/11];
· Representative Chris Gibson (NY-20), [Star Gazette, 1/6/11].


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AAJA is happy to announce the 2013 William Woo Print and Online Internship Grant. We encourage all college students who have secured a 2013 summer internship to apply for the grant to help defray living costs. The William Woo Internship Grant will award one student $1,000.
1. Applicants must be committed to AAJA's mission.
2. Applicants must have a serious interest in pursuing a career in print or online journalism.
3. Applicants must be full-time college students or recent college graduates.
4. Applicants must have already secured a 2013 summer internship at a print or online news outlet before applying for this internship grant.
Start by clicking on the AAJA log-in page to create your an account. You don't have to be an AAJA member or Asian American to apply.
Once you've created a profile, scroll down and find the "Awards and Competitions" header on the right side.
Then click "View Open Competitions" and select the 2013 William Woo Print and Online Internship Grant application.
DEADLINE: Friday, May 31, 2013
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William F. Woo was the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor of Professional Journalism at Stanford University from the fall of 1996 until his death on April 12, 2006. He also was a visiting professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong from 1999 through 2006. From 1996 to 2003, he was a lecturer in ethics at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Woo was the first Asian American to edit a major American newspaper. He retired as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in August 1996, after holding the position for 10 years. In his 34 years at the paper he served as editor of the editorial page, Washington-based columnist, feature writer, special projects reporter and editorial writer.
Woo was born in Shanghai in 1936 and spent the first 10 years of his life there. He graduated from the University of Kansas, with honors in English literature. He was a reporter for the Kansas City Star before joining the Post-Dispatch. Woo was a longtime member of the National Advisory Board of the George Foster Peabody Awards for broadcast journalism and the Board of Visitors of the John F. Knight Fellowships at Stanford. He frequently served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and was a three-time finalist himself. He was a director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the American Press Institute for many years. From 1995 to 2001, he was a commissioner of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. In 1996-97, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Woo received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Asian American Journalists Association in 1990 and the Gold Medal Honor Award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1991. He authored many articles on journalism in such publications as the Nieman Reports, the Columbia Journalism Review and the American Studies Quarterly, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From June to August 1997, he and his wife, Martha Shirk, also a journalist, were Knight International Press Fellows in Hong Kong, where they monitored press freedom as Chinese rule was restored. Beginning in 1999, he made regular trips to Asia to lecture on journalism.
Following his death, the University of Missouri Press published "Letters from the Editor," a collection of his letters to his journalism students at Stanford, with an introduction by Philip Meyer and a foreword by James Steele. All profits from the book are donated to the Asian American Journalists Association for the internship grant in Woo's name.
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WASHINGTON – One day after leading CUA to its first appearance in the Landmark Conference championship game, Cardinals Head Coach Matt Donohue will appear on D3Hoops.com's Hoopsville on Thursday evening. Donohue is scheduled to speak with host Dave McHugh at 8:15 p.m.
Hoopsville is D3Hoops.com's bi-weekly internet talk show that centers on Division III men's and women's basketball. Fans can listen to Donohue's interview here.
CUA defeated Scranton 47-40 on Wednesday evening in the semifinals of the Landmark Conference Tournament. The win tied the school record for single season victories with 21 and propelled the Cardinals into their first conference championship game. CUA also became the first team in Landmark history to win a road playoff game.
Donohue and the Cardinals will look for their first conference championship on Saturday afternoon when they head to Huntingdon, Pa. to face the Juniata Eagles. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
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Jeff Baxter has joined Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, one of the nation's largest mortgage companies, as a sales manager serving the Delaware/Maryland area.
Based in Rehoboth Beach, Fairway is a full-service mortgage company that provides a wide range of residential mortgage loans, including conventional loans, refinancing, VA loans, FHA loans, reverse mortgages and more. The company was ranked as the 14th largest mortgage company in the nation, based on volume, by The Scotsman Guide in 2012.
Baxter has 10 years of mortgage industry experience as a loan officer. Prior to joining Fairway, he worked as a sales manager for Prosperity Home Mortgage. Baxter has proven to be an invaluable resource to borrowers looking to buy or refinance a home.
"Our fantastic team is the reason behind our success, and we've been fortunate to work with some of the best and brightest professionals in the mortgage industry," said Steve Jacobson, CEO of Fairway. "Baxter certainly belongs in this category, as demonstrated by his accomplishments and dedication serving homebuyers in the Rehoboth Beach area. We are thrilled to welcome Baxter to the Fairway family and believe he will serve a valuable role in our continued success."
"It is my great pleasure to join an amazing organization such as Fairway Independent Mortgage and be able to help individuals in the Delaware/Maryland beach resorts with their home mortgage and refinancing needs," Baxter said.
Baxter can be reached via email at email@example.com or by phone at 302-260-7089. Go to www.FairwayIndependentMC.com.


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Sometimes the quotes media outlets get from celebrities are so random. Today, we found out that when no one is looking Kelly Clarkson likes to hang around her house naked and that she isn't a lesbian.
What about info on your upcoming tour?! LOL!
"I've always hated clothes. I mean, I'm not naked all the time but if I'm in my house, hell yeah! Why not?I live in Texas and I'm not that interesting – despite walking around naked."
She had to know that would make its round online. It's almost like a bloggers dream of coming across that quote. 🙂
Check out the above video of Kelly singing her newest single, My Life Would Suck Without You in concert in the Bahamas.


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Shall monitor and manage the e-Governance Applications and various Projects in the State
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Visit IMAX 3D Theater and discover new Planet Earth at Science City
Inculcate & nurture scientific temper among people
Building brighter bio technology future in Gujarat
Promote and facilitate satellite broadcasting network & Geo-informatics System
Dedicated to seismological research in Gujarat for Earthquake & GPS Monitoring
Department of Science & Technology ( DST) has been constituted vide General Administration Department G.R. No. DST/2002/398/ITD dated 21st June, 2002 and it has been operational since 01.04.2003. This department mainly looks after the growth and development of new & emerging technology areas and is responsible for formulation and implementation of key policies in this sector in the State of Gujarat. As of now DST has been looking after the following areas of technology in the State.


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My secret santa sent me 7 awesome looking versions of the movie posters printed on METAL. Not only that, but also a metal version of the poster for A Very Potter Musical, the hilarious Harry Potter parody musical that I am completely obsessed with. Thank you Santa!!!!!! :D :D :D
A Very Potter Musical, assembled
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Murray Gold's music from the fifth series of Doctor Who has been reported as being released on CD by Silva Screen on the 8th November 2010, the same day as the series is released on DVD/Blu-ray by BBC Worldwide/2Entertain.
This CD quickly follows the release of the Specials set a couple of months before on 20th September.
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Nissan develops 'smart rearview mirror'Nissan Motor Company has announced the development of the Smart rearview mirror, the world's first LCD monitor that provides clear rearward visibility under various conditions. It also enables the driver to switch between th More… |
Samsung unveils new notebook Series 9Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media, unveiled the second generation of the Samsung Notebook Series 9 at the recent International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The new Series 9 features the world's thinnest More… |
Samsung to expand 'transparent' marketSamsung Electronics Company has announced that it will expand the transparent display market with the production of a 46-inch transparent LCD panel, beginning this month. Younghwan Park, senior vice president of LCD marketing, device solu More… |
Toshiba to make LCD panels for Apple iPhoneToshiba Corp will spend about 100 billion yen ($1.19 billion) to build a factory to make small LCD panels, mainly to supply to Apple for use in iPhones, Japanese business daily Nikkei said on Tuesday. Its subsidiary Toshiba Mobile Display More… |


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I have a parallax scrolling single-page site that I am working on, and for some reason, when you scroll down to the section called "services" or below (3rd and 4th sections), the page has a constant flash effect occurring. The contact section has even more pronounced "flashing".
I have no idea what is causing the flashing effect, nor any idea what to modify to get the site to stop flashing.
The site is under development on my local machine and can be accessed at
By clicking on "SERVICES" in the navbar, the page scrolls down to the specific section and then the flashing begins.
It is a simple HTML file with jQuery and a few jQuery plugins.
I would copy code here, but I don't even know what to copy and I don't want to bore everyone with the entire code.
If someone can point me in the right direction as to what I should copy here, I'll add it. Otherwise, if someone has any idea what the problem is and how I can solve it, I'd really appreciate it.
FYI, using Firebug in Firefox and Web Inspector in Chrome and Safari, I was unable to find the problem. There are no errors or conflicts that I can find. The CSS is pre-processed using LESS and compiles without errors. The CSS is not minified and has debugging comments if that helps.
The plugins being used are:
Also using 3 web fonts (extensions not included in the list for simplicity of reading):BEBASfontawesomeLeague_Gothic
I uploaded a short screencast showing what I mean.
If you pause the video and advance frame by frame, you will notice that (around the 5s mark) there is a flash and it seems that the contents of the viewport gets momentarily hidden revealing the logo and company name from the very top of the page on a white background (but since the text is white, you can't read the text).
I moved the site onto a remote host which should have better response times than my local machine.
I don't get any flashing in my browsers (on a Mac). It's not clear from the video what is causing the flash. What are you doing at the point where it flashes?


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