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ICIMCS 2011, The Third International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, Chengdu, China, August 5-7, 2011. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ACM 2011, ISBN 978-1-4503-0918-9
Best paper session
- Haojie Li, Xiaohui Wang, Jinhui Tang, Lei Yi, Liang Xiao:
iSearch: towards precise retrieval of item image. 5-8
- Yi Shen, Jinye Peng, Xiaoyi Feng, Jianping Fan:
Multiple instance learning with missing object tags. 9-12
- Steven Nichols, Kien A. Hua:
Design and implementation of intelligent mesh nodes for wireless video stream sharing. 13-16
- Takumi Takehara, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi:
Three-level privacy control for sensing-based real-world content Digital Diorama. 17-20
Web-scale media search and management
- Shao-Xi Xu, Jing Yang, Sheng Tang, Yong-Dong Zhang:
A pseudo relevance feedback based cross domain video concept detection. 21-25
- Mohammad Rabbath, Philipp Sandhaus, Susanne Boll:
Large scale flexible event-based clustering from photos in social media. 26-29
- Jun Hu, Guangda Li, Zhen Lu, Jun Xiao, Richang Hong:
Videoader: a video advertising system based on intelligent analysis of visual content. 30-33
Web-scale social media data mining
- Jiajia Feng, Fei Xie, Xuegang Hu, Pei-Pei Li, Jie Cao, Xindong Wu:
Keyword extraction based on sequential pattern mining. 34-38
- Zhiyong Cheng, Jing Ren, Jialie Shen, Haiyan Miao:
The effects of heterogeneous information combination on large scale social image search. 39-42
- Simon Jones, Ling Shao:
Action retrieval with relevance feedback on YouTube videos. 42-45
- Xiaojian Zhao, Guangda Li, Meng Wang, Si Li, Xiaoming Chen, Zhoujun Li:
An online video recommendation framework using rich information. 46-50
Multimedia services
- Mercedes Torres, Guoping Qiu:
Picture the past from the present. 51-54
- Qian Lin, Daniel Tretter, Jerry Liu, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain:
Multimedia analysis and composition cloud service. 55-58
- Jiangjiang Wu, Jiangchun Ren, Yong Cheng, Songzhu Mei, Zhiying Wang:
A novel file-level continuous data protection mechanism oriented service application. 59-64
- Yanhao Zhang, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Xianming Liu:
Video stabilization based on saliency driven SIFT matching and discriminative RANSAC. 65-69
- M. Shamim Hossain:
Adaptive media service framework for health monitoring. 70-73
Copyright management and data protection
- Sha Wang, Dong Zheng, Jiying Zhao, Wa James Tam, Filippo Speranza:
Digital watermarking and tree structure based image quality estimation. 74-77
- Qingzhong Liu, Andrew H. Sung, Zhongxue Chen, Xudong Huang:
A JPEG-based statistically invisible steganography. 78-81
- Wenyi Wang, Jiying Zhao, Wa James Tam, Filippo Speranza, Zhou Wang:
Hiding depth map into stereo image in JPEG format using reversible watermarking. 82-85
- Samah Al-Oufi, Heung-Nam Kim, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
Controlling privacy with trust-aware link prediction in online social networks. 86-89
- Yong Cheng, Jiangjiang Wu, Songzhu Mei, Zhiying Wang, Jun Ma, Jiangchun Ren, Ke Yan:
Mailbook: privacy-protecting social networking via email. 90-94
Indexing and search
- Muhammad Ghulam, M. Shamim Hossain:
Robust copy-move image forgery detection using undecimated wavelets and Zernike moments. 95-98
- Houde Yang, Nan Liu, Yao Zhao, Zhenfeng Zhu:
Pruned multi-level successive elimination algorithm for TV commercial recognition. 99-102
- Abu Saleh Md. Mahfujur Rahman, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
Mobile based multimodal retrieval and navigation of learning objects using a 3D car metaphor. 103-107
- Jialie Shen, Meng Wang, Shuicheng Yan, Qi Tian:
Probabilistic indexing of media sequences. 108-111
Annotation and classification
- Tong Liu, Yongquan Liang, Weijian Ni:
A learning strategy for highly imbalanced classification. 116-119
- Xueping Su, Jinye Peng, Xiaoyi Feng, Jun Wu, Jianping Fan:
Linking names and faces by person-based subset clustering. 120-123
- Xibo Wang, Xiaoyi Feng, Jinye Peng:
A novel facial expression database construction method based on web images. 124-127
Feature representation and analysis
- Heyun Huang, Yang Liu, Lou Boves:
Investigation of supervised dimensionality reduction methods for phonetic classification. 128-133
- Xinlei Chen, Xinquan Qu, Zijian Li:
Image analysis with nonlinear adaptive dimension reduction. 134-137
- Xian Wu, Lingli Zhou, Xiang Li, Jian-Huang Lai:
Class-driven correlation learning for chinese document categorization using discriminative features. 142-145
- Sheng-hua Zhong, Yan Liu, Ling Shao, Gangshan Wu:
Unsupervised saliency detection based on 2D Gabor and Curvelets transforms. 146-149
Content and context modeling
- Wei Yu, Hongxun Yao, Xianming Liu, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Pengfei Xu:
Contextual dictionaries for image super resolution. 150-153
- Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Xianming Liu:
A spatiotemporal context phrase description for general dynamic texture. 154-157
- Liang Bai, Songyang Lao, Jinlin Guo:
Video semantic concept detection using ontology. 158-163
- Shiying Li, Gong-Qing Wu, Xuegang Hu:
Hierarchical user interest modeling for Chinese web pages. 164-169
Object tracking
- Yanpeng Lv, Shangfei Wang, Peijia Shen:
A real-time attitude recognition by eye-tracking. 170-173
- Xin Sun, Hongxun Yao, Shengping Zhang:
Robust object tracking via inertial potential based mean shift. 178-181
- Yang Zhang, Jinqiao Wang, Wei Fu, Hanqing Lu, Huazhong Xu:
Specific vehicle detection and tracking in road environment. 182-186
Multimedia streaming and coding
- Mo Gao, Weikai Xie, Chenping Lu, Ruimin Shen:
An Adobe Flash-based screencast solution with customized screen codec. 187-192
- Fenghua Guo, Yan He, Nizar Sakr, Jiying Zhao, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
Haptic data compression based on quadratic curve reconstruction and prediction. 193-196
- Shuqiang Jiang, Qingming Huang, Zhao Zhao:
Content-based intelligent video recorder with its implementation on sports video. 197-202


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A memo sent out in April 2015 outlined a strategy to boost "Pied Piper" Republican candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson in an effort to force the whole slate of presidential hopefuls to "lock themselves into extreme conservative positions," an email hacked from the account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, reveals.
"Our hope is that the goal of a potential HRC campaign and the DNC would be one-in-the-same: to make whomever the Republicans nominate unpalatable to a majority of the electorate," the email, posted by WikiLeaks, which provided a link to the email on Twitter, shows
The email was sent to Podesta and others involved in the Clinton campaign from the account of firstname.lastname@example.com a possible reference to Marissa Astor, listed on Clinton's campaign outline as a member of her surrogates team, in advance of an upcoming strategy meeting.
The email does not say who wrote the attached memo, which states that most of what was contained in it is "work the DNC is already doing."
The campaign, in the memo, outlines three strategies:
- -Force all Republican candidates to lock themselves into extreme conservative positions that will hurt them in a general election;
- -Undermine any credibility/trust Republican presidential candidates have to make inroads to our coalition or independents;
- -Muddy the waters on any potential attack lodged against HRC.
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Nutty Vegan Baklava
This healthful vegan version of the traditional Mediterranean dessert offers plenty of sweetness without bee-exploiting honey, or dairy. Packed with three different kinds of heart-healthy nuts, shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and thought to add to longevity, Nutty Vegan Baklava is a favorite with dessert-lovers who want good health and freedom from animal cruelty without sacrificing pleasure.
Here's how to make this stellar dessert:
1 1/2 cups finely chopped raw almonds
1 1/2 cups finely chopped raw cashews
1 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 cup non-dairy, no-trans-fats margarine
1/4 cup sunflower or safflower oil
1 pound box filo dough
1 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon zest
2 teaspoons orange zest
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Mix chopped nuts with cinnamon. In a separate bowl, melt margarine and combine with oil.
2. Remove filo dough sheets and unroll, dividing into three stacks. Dip a pastry brush into the margarine-oil mixture and lightly brush it onto a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish.
3. Place the first stack in the baking dish, and lift the sheets to brush with the margarine-oil mixture on every second sheet. Sprinkle with a third of the nut mixture. Take half of the second stack of filo and repeat the procedure until you end up with the last stack of filo. Brush remaining margarine-oil mixture over top.
4. Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 300F and bake for another 30 minutes.
5. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, heat maple syrup, orange juice, lemon juice, and lemon and orange zest, and simmer for 15 minutes.
6. Let baklava cool just enough to cut into 24 pieces. Pour the warm maple syrup mixture over the sliced baklava while still warm. You may serve it slightly warm or at room temperature.
Serves 15 to 20.
Adapted from The Native Foods Restaurant Cookbook, by Tanya Petrovna (Shambhala, 2003). Copyright (c) 2003 by Tanya Petrovna. Reprinted by permission of Shambhala.
Adapted from The Native Foods Restaurant Cookbook, by Tanya Petrovna (Shambhala, 2003).


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The role of the Sales Executive is to exploit the full global commercial exploitation of all sporting rights.
Sales Executive job description
Sales Performance & Reporting Accountability:
• To be responsible for the promotion and sales of the Sports Catalogue.
• Contribute/feed in to the preparation of the territory strategy, business plan and annual forecasts as appropriate.
• To achieve pre-established sales contribution targets, to help prepare an annual forecast and to maintain tight control over the budget.
• To provide sales reports on performance, sales trip reports and ad hoc reports as directed
• Work with the Sales Support to ensure that all clients and prospects receive timely promotional and programming material (e.g. publicity, screeners, EDMs, master tapes, M&E soundtracks, scripts, team lists, sales summaries, competitor details and results).
Client Relationships:
• Build and maintain good relationships with Sport, both in Production and Broadcast directorates and with International Unit in order to facilitate liaison between clients and the unit, for access to live signals.
• Foster and maintain close contacts with the clients - including sports programme buyers, heads of sport, agents and event organisers, sports federations, event producers, ad agencies, corporate and production companies.
• To further build on the key relationships in the territories while maximising revenue and windowing opportunities from the other key and secondary broadcasters.
• To actively seek and forge new relationships with new terrestrial/satellite/cable channels in the free and pay-TV arenas, maximise all digital media opportunities and proactively pitch and sell archives we represent.
Promotional Activity:
• Ensure clients and agents are kept informed of all new sports programme releases, archive content, event coverage and availability. To identify the client need for new events or back catalogue packages and to clear rights to facilitate this, where necessary.
• To work closely with the Sales Support to ensure that all clients and prospects receive timely promotional and programming material (e.g. publicity, screeners, EDMs, master tapes, M&E soundtracks, and scripts).
Market Knowledge:
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of the global sports television distribution and broadcast industry, including competitor activity and developments in each territory.
• The Sport Sales executive to be well connected within the global sports business sector and to be wholly informed of market trends, media distribution of sporting activities and relevant developments in technology.
• As agreed with the Head Of Sport, to attend and actively participate in the major Sports trade fairs such as Sportel, any local television markets, as well as conduct sales visits to the territory as and when required.
Contractual Expertise:
• To ensure that commercial criteria are rigorously applied to all contracts, thereby maximising revenue and profit.
• To carefully negotiate all deal terms of each agreement, including pricing, license period, delivery terms and payment plan referring to the Head Of Sport as appropriate.
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Back in September 2011 I had the incredible opportunity of taking the stage at TEDx London's Education Revolution– a special event held at the Roundhouse in response to Sir Ken Robinson's influential TED talks, bringing together those who can help to put Sir Ken's ideas into action. I spoke about the importance of vocational education as a route to a career (particularly within the creative industries) and drew upon the industry based experiences I've had working with the Ideas Foundation. My fellow speakers included Sir Ken Robinson, Jude Kelly, Scott Snibbe, Ken Spours, Geoff Stead, Dougald Hine and Dan Roberts – it was an honour to share the stage with such incredible minds.
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'What I Want for the Holidays' - Refinery29, Deputy Editor
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"Normally, I assemble a Pinterest board of clothes and accessories on my wish list and forward it to my sister ahead of holidays and birthdays, but this year, I'm getting a little creative. While there are a few dresses, bags, and baubles I'm coveting, I'm really into the idea of making my home more of an entertaining space this year, so I'm veering toward decor and other get-my-life-in-order goodies, as far as the wish list goes."
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Clients of winning agencies are nearly three times as likely to be completely satisfied.
Detroit, MI, February 19, 2006 – VisionPRO, a subsidiary of Vision Information Technologies, Inc. and leading provider of IT staffing and talent management solutions, announced today they have won Inavero's Best of Staffing® Client Award for providing superior service to their clients. Presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, Inavero's Best of Staffing Client winners have proven to be industry leaders in service quality based completely on the ratings given to them by their clients. On average, clients of winning agencies are nearly three times as likely to be completely satisfied with the services provided compared to those working with non-winning agencies.
Focused on helping companies find the right people for their job openings, VisionPRO received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 83 percent of their clients, significantly higher than the industry's average of 27 percent. Award winners make up less than two percent of all staffing agencies in the U.S. and Canada who earned the Best of Staffing Award for service excellence.
"We are very proud to be recognized by this prestigious award, particularly given it is a reflection of how our clients view VisionPRO as a valued staffing partner," said Christine Rice, President of VisionPRO. "Our team has worked very hard to deliver award-winning customer service and innovative talent solutions to our clients around the globe. It is incredibly gratifying to know our efforts and commitment to delivering the industry's leading staffing services is recognized by our esteemed clients."
"Leaders of growing companies are more committed than ever to staying flexible in this stable yet volatile market, making staffing firms the most viable employment partnership," said Inavero's CEO Eric Gregg. "Finding the best staffing partner with a proven commitment to service excellence can be really tough. BestofStaffing.com is the place to find the winning agencies that place talent with the skills you need in your city or state. We are very proud of the 2016 award winners."
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VisionPRO, a subsidiary of Vision Information Technologies, is a leading provider of IT staffing and talent management solutions to companies worldwide. For nearly 20 years, VisionPRO has specialized in delivering today's most sought-after IT talent to Fortune 500, mid-size organizations and large government agencies on a contract-to-hire, contract and permanent placement basis. Through more than 20 offices across the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, VisionPRO helps clients hire and optimize highly-skilled and specialized IT talent to build an effective workforce strategy that drives business performance and innovation. Harness the power of technology with our database of top IT talent and effective staffing solutions today. To learn more, visit www.visionproteam.com.
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Are Mormons Cult Members?
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Letter to the Editor
A Baptist preacher recently said at a political conference that Mitt Romney wasn't a Christian and the the Mormon church was a cult. The way I see it if Mormons are not Christian and are a cult then Baptists are the same. Both religions are splinter groups that evolved from the Catholic Church which was where the Christian religions started. The degree of coercion and ritual in these two religions is about the same. So if Mormons are a cult the Baptists are a cult too.
The real question voters should be focusing on isn't what the candidates religion is, but what kind of relationship they have with reality. Do candidates understand cause and effect? Do that believe that bad decisions have consequences. Do they respect the concepts of examining facts and evidence? Are you willing to put reality first in making your important decisions? Personally I'm not interested in whether or not your invisible friend is better than some other invisible friend. What I want to know is if you have a vision for the future of America and a plan to take us from where we are to where we need to be.


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My boyfriend Jay and I absolutely love taking short city breaks with each other. One of the best things about living in Europe is the fact that you have so many amazing and very different countries within one or two hours flights away. Back in July we were having dinner out together and spontaneously decided to book ourselves a weekend in Milan. It cost us £175 for flights and an Air bnb from Friday – Sunday.
"One of the best things about living in Europe is the fact that you have so many amazing and very different countries within one or two hours flights away."
Air BnB
We booked this really amazing apartment about 30mins from the Duomo. It was a very spacious two floor apartment that had lots of modern trimmings like a coffee machine and washer. So we had everything we needed. The style of the apartment was very 'bachelor-pad-y' which suited us both fine. The glass floor took a little while to get used to as I felt like I was going to go through the floor at any minute. I would really recommend this Air bnb if you're going to Milan as it's close to some great bars and restaurants along the river too. Check out Massimo's place if you're planning on staying in Milan soon.
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We booked our flights with EasyJet. We've been using them a lot this summer to travel to Berlin, Paris and Croatia. They were around £90 each for a mid September weekend which we didn't think was too bad. Getting into the city from Milan Linate Airport was very easy, you just have to buy a minibus ticket for €5 and it takes about 30 mins to get to the city centre.
Milan in a Nutshell
Milan was a pretty cool city. It was fairly relaxed and very shopping orientated. I would recommend you go here if you're into both luxury and high street shopping. People may have the misconception that Milan is very designer orientated (which there are plenty of!) but there are also very cheap high street options. Plus, the shoe stores there have amazing bargains.
Both Jay and I aren't in a rush to get back to Milan though. There was very little to do in the city except visit the Duomo. The other sights are quite small and are easily do-able in an afternoon after you visit the Duomo in the morning. The nightlife was mediocre in comparison even to British cities like London and Manchester. More over we found the people in the city to be quite rude. It could have been tourists rather than the Milanese but people were pushy, walked over you and didn't speak to others politely. My experience of the people in Milan contradicted the behaviour of people I've met in Sorrento, Capri and Amalfi.
Jay's Take
Milan is, unfortunately, my least favourite travel destination so far. It's not that it was, or is, a bad city; it's just a bit limited and a bit unfriendly. You could tick off most if not all of the sights in one day (not including those surrounding the city, which we didn't visit in our short time there). Although the centre is beautiful and old it doesn't have that old London or Parisian vibe you'd expect from a city of its ilk. Everything outside of the centre seemed to be either very brutalist office blocks or run down estates.
The apartment was amazing – a real lad's pad. A glass mezzanine and really random decorations topped off somewhere special to spend a couple of nights. Even if Abbie did struggle with the stairs after a fishbowl sized Sangria!). I'm not in a hurry to make the trip back to Milan but the rest of Italy is a must for me.
A word of warning – be VERY careful around the central station. Homelessness, conmen and pickpockets are rife in the area and have no problems putting their hands on women.
It was a good trip and I'm glad me and Jay manage to have the best time together wherever we go. But if I was just speaking on Milan itself I would say that we liked it, but we didn't love it.
So, what did we do, where did we eat? That's coming in a later post! Have you been to Milan before? Let me know your thoughts on the city below!
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Tennis has been a happening game. It has been more happening now, as it used to be in the past. Apparently, people have been more into tennis, as compared to other available games. Tennis has evolved from a stage where people used to wait in local parks for playing and practicing tennis in order to have a perfect play to the stage where they would have a single machine to practice their shots in the best manner possible. The tennis ball machine has been a revolution in the present times.
Considerations to buying tennis ball machine
The question may often come to the mind, what you should consider when buying tennis ball machine. Certain aspects should be kept in mind when searching for the right tennis ball machine for your tennis practicing needs.
Check for battery life
An imperative aspect would be to check for battery life. It would be an important aspect when looking forward to purchasing suitable tennis ball machine for your practicing needs. Your options would range from standard electricity to rechargeable batteries. Mostly, people would make use of built in batteries operating up to five hours on single charge.
Check for oscillation capacity
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I am like everyone else
I don't know why no one will trust me
All of your words will hurt me
I hear you make jokes all about me
I get scares every time you say something to me
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I feel all alone
I am like everyone else
Are you trying to kill me?
what happened to our friendship?
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Kipper or Food Brown. Made from 6 azo dyes and sodium chloride and/or sodium sulphate. It is mainly used to give fish flesh a healthy pigment which will not leach or fade during cooking. Typical products include smoked and cured fish, crisps, cooked meats. Banned in Austria, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, USA. All EEC countries except the UK.
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How Does Atomic Force Microscopy Work
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a branch of scanning probe microscopy that includes several dozen ways of scanning the surface of a tiny specimen to create an image.
It can resolve images of objects mere nanometers long, over 1,000 times sharper than the best optical microscopes.
An atomic force microscope uses a cantilever with an incredibly fine silicon tip, or probe, that's usually micrometers long and whose tip has a radius of under ten nanometers. The tip of the cantilever runs over the surface of the sample, making contact or maintaining a tiny distance depending on the settings dictated.
These microscopes can work in several modes that fall into two categories: static and dynamic. The cantilever is physically dragged over the sample's surface in static mode and the contours of the specimen are directly measured.
In dynamic – or tapping – mode, on the other hand, the cantilever is oscillated and the varying forces that result from its interaction with the sample are recorded. The obvious advantage that dynamic mode has over static is that it can be used on 'soft' specimens, where contact might lead to degradation of both the sample and the tip.
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AFM: pros and cons
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a different type of microscopy that deals with samples of a similar size to atomic force microscopy. AFM can boast certain advantages over SEM, but it also has some disadvantages.
AFM can create a 3D profile of the sample, unlike SEM's 2D results and the samples don't require any special coating either. This means specimens that might be changed or damaged by the SEM process (eg micro-organisms) can be studied. AFM can also be used in conjunction with other optical techniques and can yield higher resolutions even in liquid environments.
On the down side, AFM is limited with regard to the size of the sample scan image it can take – around 1,000 times smaller than the area SEM can capture in a single pass. Its scanning speed is slower too and an atomic force microscope can't measure samples with particularly steep topography unless it's specially modified.


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I'm back! looking junior companies that has positive cash flow and clean balance sheets!
the high for the day for kshb has been 2.77 and the trades went through at 2.80 what is going on?????????
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KSHB 4/3/17 9:35a 4/3/17 9:50a Buy 1955 $2.80
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Thierry, I do believe do believe last week I won penny contest and weekly contest, I don't believe you increased my scores.
Ora et labora!
Hi Thierry, its been a while since I've been here. Do you still have the chat style room available for real time trading? I dont see it anywhere. Thanks
Happy New Year to all. lets chit chat.
Thierry, thank you, YOU ARE THE GREATEST !!!!!!!!!!!!
Thierry, regarding Dec 4 penny contest. -28 vs -10, isn't -10 higher than -28?
Or has contest changed to the lowest score?
You are right! My brain processed the winner as the person with the biggest number, disregarding the positive/negative part. Thanks!
Thierry, explain to me how -28 vs -10 in this weeks penny contest.
Is the game now to go for the highest low?
Watching $DRAM for the rest of the month
Thierry, thank you for: Double header winner, congratulations geojad! Thierry, you fave me credit for penny contest to 73, but you forgot to give me credit for weekly contest, it should be 39. Thank you for all the efforts you put in week after week running these contest. It is greatly appreciated.
All systems go!
Sorry I picked a penny stock not listed on Yahoo.
Good you left me out for the week.
I think I won the weekly contest, market is closed tomorrow lol
Thierry, I do believe I won both the weekly and penny contests.
Looks like you only won one! Sorry!
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Storks boss Steve Wilkes has resuscitated his will to win after stepping back on to the playing field.
Wilkes has entered a Padiham FC side into the National Veterans Competition, where they'll take on opposition from Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Harrogate and Sheffield.
And he's assembled a squad that includes former Preston North End quartet Lee Ashcroft, Lee Cartwright, Ian Bryson and Graeme Atkinson, one-time Clitheroe FC managerial pair Pete Smith and Kenny Mayers and Bamber Bridge boss Neil Crowe.
After beating Dronfield Vets 5-0 in their opening fixture, Wilkes said: "We've only won twice all season in the Evo-Stik League so it was surreal. I'd forgotten how it felt.
"The last time we tasted victory was on October 25th and we've lost 12 successive league games and a cup tie since then.
"It's been a while, it's been difficult, but I want to get that feeling back as manager of Padiham."
He added: "I realised why I retired at 36. I only played 20 minutes but my groin and knees were in pain.
"It's brilliant and good to see some of the lads again.
"I hadn't played for about six years but it was a nice release from the pressure of management."
Padiham's last victory came 82 days ago against Farsley AFC, who are now chasing a play-off spot in the First Division North.
Jack Phillips' stoppage time equaliser for Prescot Cables in a 3-3 draw against New Mills was a blessing for Wilkes, but he acknowledges that they need to look after themselves as they sit 12 points adrift of safety.
Ahead of the game against Jim Gannon's Northwich Victoria tomorrow, he said: "It's back to reality this weekend with another tough game but we are ready to go again after training hard.
"It was a great result from our point of view with Prescot Cables and New Mills sharing the points but we need to get some points on the board ourselves.
"The result was perfect but we've got to look after number one rather than relying on results elsewhere.
"We need to win as many games as we can.
"I've spoken to a few managers about player availability but there's nothing about.
"We need to go with what we've got.
"Ben Allen picked up a slight knee injury so we're unsure if he'll be fit but Curtis Haley is back.
"The break has done us good. It's given us time to reassess and enabled some of our injured players to return."


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Dough, sauce, cheese.
Is that all it takes to make a great pizza?
Some pie-ophiles will say that the crust is the backbone and, arguably, the most important part of any pizza. Others may crow that a variety of toppings is what makes a pizza most pleasing.
California Pizza Kitchen, a chain started in La La Land by two attorneys, has been perfecting its hearth-baked pies since 1985. The first Delaware location will open at the Christiana Mall on Monday.
The 260-restaurant chain, which calls itself "the home of the original BBQ chicken pizza," offers other toppings that go way beyond sausage and pepperoni.
Flavors range from carne asada to Jamaican jerk chicken to vegetarian with Japanese eggplant. (The pizza above is roasted artichokes and spinach.) The menu also includes pastas, salads, appetizers, soups, sandwiches and desserts.
The new, 5,600 square-foot Christiana Mall restaurant is located next to Macy's.
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This was awesome ! .The profound love that a mother has for her children to sacrifice every and anything inorder to make their life complete was so touching. I would hope i could has half a mother has the women protrayed in the book . I will be a happy woman . Jenny Jones was so unlikable to me , very rough around the edges and blunt in the initial stages of the novel . I grew t love her has the story progressed. I felt her character was soo harsh in the beginning made me initially dislike her but i realized has i read along that her up bringing was awful . She deserved every moment of happiness she got in this book . Her relationship with Graciela was so complicated in the beginning , She felt so resentful towards Jenny (which i understood) but has everything progressed she grew to love her so much . TY was mostly a decent guy , i loved him except maybe the little miscommunication they would have . It all got wrapped up pretty quickly so nothing minor.This wrapped up nicely and everyone got their HEA . The epilogue was profoundly touching for me , it brought tears to my eyes. MY favorite of any book in a long while . This book has many great scenes and i really appreciate and adore every essence of this book .4.5 stars .Such a gem and a really touching encounter
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text: Today's senseless mass shooting in Orlando is yet another painful reminder that gun violence continues to wreak havoc in our country. News reports indicate the shooter specifically targeted members of the LGBT community and also made terroristic statements. We will never give in to hate, and I hope that this tragedy against innocent citizens will finally spur our elected officials to get real about the proliferation of guns in this country. It is far past time for Congress to take action and take weapons of mass destruction off our streets. I cannot fathom the pain and suffering the victims' families and friends are now experiencing and my heart goes out to the citizens of Orlando and to all those affected by this horrific act. I pray for the citizens who lost their lives and hope those who were injured recover swiftly.


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My Aluminium chassi is electrified!
When I have my Macbook Pro connected to the charger, the chassi become electrified. I do not know how many volts och amperes there is, probably not many. But when you drag the fingers over the computer, you get a humming feeling in your fingers. When standing on a chair, the humming becomes less. If standing bare foot on the floor you feel it very clearly, and if you holding something that is earthed at the same time as you touch the computer, it will hum so much in the fingers, that it hurts.
How can I fix or repair this problem?
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It turns on and runs?


text: It Starts... 06/07/2016 My last week in the Army was as chaotic as one might think. Between trying to get all the paperwork filled out, approved, signed, redone, reapproved, resigned while also trying to pack everything at home and hang out with friends I won't see for a while is, in a word, a nightmare. Not to mention getting some sort of food poisoning or stomach flu right in the middle of the week, which made everything slightly more inefficient. But this time there was a light at the end of the tunnel, I had


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Just recently we announced the release of our Server Metrics agent. A feature that makes it possible to gather internal data from your server.
To get started with Server Metrics, please check out this tutorial that will guide you through the installation and setup process.
When Load Impact runs a test, the test server will collect a wide array of externally measured data. By measuring the load target from our end, we can quite easily pick up and store data about clients active, response time, transactions per second - just to name a few. We present this data to you in our web UI online, exported in CSV file or via our API for further analysis.
But there are a lot of other measurements that most of our users need to have to be able to do a better analysis of the performance and that is exactly what Load Impact Server Metrics tries to solve.
Fig 1. Memory and CPU usage of the target system
By installing the Server Metrics Agent on one or more target systems, our load testing server can pick up some internal measurements during the test and add those to the same data set. Load Impact supports collecting data from several different target machines during a test, so it's possible to get internal measurements from a fairly complex setup as well. The advantage of this is quite obvious.
Even if it would be possible to log this data separately on the target machines, you would end up with the task of trying to synchronize the time stamps of the internally generated data series with the data from Load Impact. Even if that's of course possible to do, it's going to be a bit of a hassle that you can easily avoid.
Technically, the Server Metric Agent software is a Python based script that will run as a service/daemon on your target systems. It will require Python 2.6 and a fairly common library called psutil. Both Python 2.6 and psutil are open source and will run on pretty much every operating system we know of. We offer installers for 32 and 64 bit Debian based Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, as well as for 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012. For other systems, we offer the Python source code for download. Also note that in order to connect a Server Metric Agent installation to your, and only your, Load Impact account, you are required to generate a Server Metric token on your account settings page.


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Islamic Fascism?
This post was written by marc on August 30, 2006
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Posted Under: Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
The new Republican buzz phrase this week is "Islamic Fascism" saying that anyone who questions the Iraq war is immoral and is the kind of person who would have appeased Hitler. Excuse me? Who was it that decided to lie our way into a war with Iraq? Who was it that decided torturing people was OK? Who supports kidnapping people off the street and rendering them to countries where they are tortured and killed? We do have a problem with a new kind of fascism. Rumsfield is the fascist and he is the one who is emulating Hitler. If not for the Republicans we could actually deal with real Islamic terrorists rather than fighting fake wars against the wrong enemies.


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Machiasport's Gates House to host 34th Annual Lobster Lunch Aug. 26
Machiasport Historical Society will be serving their 34th Annual Lobster Lunch, Saturday, Aug. 26, 11:30 a.m. -2:30 p.m., behind the Gates House by the river. Bucks Harbor's best lobsters and Carolyn Johnson's famous fish chowder will be served along with corn on the cob, salad, rolls, blueberry cake and beverages. Proceeds from this key fundraiser will go to maintain the two museum buildings & their collections. (344 Port Rd (Rt 92)) 255-8461, 255-8860 or 271-0682.


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Lillet Blanc
Lillet is a range of refreshing aperitifs with a smooth, fruity taste. The main grape variety in Lillet Blanc is sémillon, which gives it a full, fleshy structure. Golden in colour with a flowery nose and aromas of candied oranges, honey, pine resin and exotic fruits. Full and fleshy on the palate with a lovely long lingering finish.
- Type: Vermouth, Aperitifs / Bitters
- Country: France
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The Nobel Prize
The Nobel prize is the first international award given out every year since 1901. Physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace are the five prizes to be won. In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank, The Bank of Sweden, instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. In the beginning, more than three prize winners could share a Nobel Prize, although this was never practiced. In 1968, the number of prize winners was restricted to three.
When someone wins the Nobel prize, they are awarded with a diploma, a medal, and a cash prize which varies every year. In the years 2001 and 2002, the Nobel prize winners were awarded $10,000,000. The medals that the winners are awarded look like this:
The medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature were modeled by the Swedish sculptor and engraver Erik Lindberg and the Peace medal by sculptor Gustav Vigeland.
The front side of the three "Swedish" medals (Physics and Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature) is the same, featuring a portrait of Alfred Nobel and the years of his birth and death in Latin which is written as: NAT-MDCCC XXXIII OB-MDCCC XCVI. Alfred's face on the Peace and economics medal has a different design. The back of the three Swedish medals all have the same words engraved; "Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes." The Peace medal has the inscription "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium" and the Economics medal has no quotation at all on the reverse. Up to 1980, the three Swedish medals were made with 23 k gold and weighed approximately 200g. Now they are made of 18 k green gold plated with 24 k gold.
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen was the winner of the Nobel Economics prize in 1998.


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|Backpackers in Phnom Penh + Basil George "Wannabe"?*
Please click on the link; switch on your speakers, and sing along!
I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.
Linking life and times of Northumberland with Cambodia, Saint Helena and the developing world
|Backpackers in Phnom Penh + Basil George "Wannabe"?*
Please click on the link; switch on your speakers, and sing along!
|The main part of the Buddhist Funeral with Monks
Foreword: Mr Erik W Davis has published a book "Deathpower: Imagining Religion in Contemporary Cambodia" that featured in this weekend's Phnom Penh Post. It describes local funeral arrangements and prompted me to write up my observations. Mr Davis no doubt elaborates on these.
Housing in the UK - out with the new, in with the old?
Refurbished terrace house in Ashington, Northumberland, that once boasted the longest rows of such houses in the country, the homes of the once proud and mighty coalminers.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-32329797.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhorn
Glasgow demolition of tallest blocks of flats (apartments) in Europe
|Sage advice in a Ludlow Pub.
|Outdated? "Children should be seen but not heard?"
My school reunion Alnwick Garden May 2014(Photograph credit - George Skipper <email@example.com>)
|A slide from the first "Good Governance" training in Cambodia 1998*
(For more on that programme - see End Notes below)
Kan Srey Oun, like many children in Cambodia proudly entrusted with looking after her family's cow.
The Kouprey © WWF / Helmut Diller


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This is one of the best approaches to skills assessment and custom training that we have seen. It's called Knowledge Trax and it combines best practice for assessment, online & class based training and service delivery.
Knowledge Trax breaks this process down into 6 simple steps:
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Discovery begins with a kick-off meeting where we help you identify technology, workflow, and organizational structure, along with staff roles and responsibilities.
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In this step, we will analyze your assessment results and build an education plan that combines instructor-led classroom training, instructor-led online training, and pre-recorded self-paced online training. We will then deliver and review this plan with you.
In the Execution phase, the Knowledge Trax team delivers the training based on the approved education plan. And because these plans are based on the unique needs of your company's staff and roles, your team may be involved in instructor-led classroom training at one of our facilities or online training.
In this phase, we conduct an initial post assessment which will identify areas for ongoing training needs, ongoing refresher training, or gap training. Based on your staff's individual needs, we'll deliver the training in the method that best fits them.
Take a look at this video which tells you more about the Knowledge Trax process.
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Alright buoys and gulls, I got a hankerin' that can only by filled by frying some shit birds. So let's do this!
Yes, the Orioles and the little general are in town, and they're bringing with them their king shitheel, Manny Machado, who is appealing the four-game suspension that was handed down to him this afternoon by the unserious dopes at MLB for his role in this weeks fricassee against meat clown Yordano Ventura and his Kansas City Royals.
That sucks in one way, because Machado is really, really fucking good. And it… well… I think it sucks in all ways for us, most likely. I was going to say it's kinda good because we'll get to see him be a damn boss on the baseball field, but we have enough of those guys to watch ourselves (not that you would have known it most games this year — Josh Donaldson's superhuman performance yesterday afternoon in Detroit not withstanding).
We certainly don't seem to fear the Orioles the way we do the Red Sox around here, which is probably mostly because they're trash and can't pitch. But that's probably a folly on our part, because what they do do well — hittinz — they do… uh… really well. Spectacularly well.
Davis is going to hit a flat Stroman fastball to the goddamn moon, is what I'm saying.
And yet the Jays got to the Red Sox for two straight series wins in recent weeks, so why the hell not do it here too? It's not like the Jays couldn't use clawing the Orioles back to the pack a bit. And it's not like they're as bad at hitting baseballs as they looked in their first two games in Detroit (or, y'know, on far too many nights so far this year). Plus, Jays-O's? That's always must-watch stuff. Even with Darren O'Day on the disabled list and so not available to get owned again by Jose Bautista. I'm sure someone will step up in his absence though!
Go Jays!
You want hot draft takes? Because Drew's got hot draft takes!
Draft opinion: I hope my team picks [the guy that looks best with the benefit of hindsight]
— Drew F (@DrewGROF) June 9, 2016
Be sure to read my Draft Primer Primer, by the way!
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I have spent way too much energy in my life trying to convince people to stop caring about the pitcher's win. Fine. Care. But if you do, why not use a better win system. Introducing: The Tango.
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Must be going around again… was reading this earlier: http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2014/5/19/5723968/chicago-white-sox-chris-sale-wpa-major-league-baseball-pitcher-effectiveness
Wonder how it stacks up?
Apr 3 – Doolittle .258 (Pomeranz win)
Apr 9 – Chavez .262 (Otero with the blown save and win)
Apr 14 – Gregerson .185 (save)
Apr 20 – Chavez .238 (Chavez 1-0)
Apr 25 – Gregerson .104 (Gregerson win)
Apr 30 – Chavez .119 (Chavez 2-0)
May 6 – Chavez -0.195 (Chavez 2-1)
Johnson had a -0.147 WPA
May 12 Doolittle .295 (Chavez 3-1)
May 18 Chavez .089 (Chavez 4-1)
So by Tango, Chavez was 7-0, and both WPA and win he is 4-1 but in different games for 3 of the 4 wins.
The article I link provided wpa for starters over their careers. So was just curious and joe provided the framework. I knew the limits, but curious.
I think I'm ok with the pitcher win provided we use the context. I know it is not saying much about pitcher value and treat it as such.
WPA is not all that useful for evaluating starting pitchers. It's better than W-L record, but it has a lot of flaws.
Here's Tom Tango at his best, explaining why:
I was about to say we should just use the Schmutter rule: In a win, give the pitcher with the best WPA the win. In a loss, give the pitcher with the worst WPA the loss. Period.
Why Tom Tango refuses to reveal his true identity? Does he works for the CIA on the side or something?
He's really Joe Biden. He has a carefully cultivated buffoonish reputation to uphold.
WPA for starters will depend on the game state – a great game where your team scores 4 in the first inning and then nothing else is worth much less by WPA than the same game where the runs came in the ninth (I'm assuming a starter throwing a CG SO).
Wins give the starter extra credit for their offense scoring runs. WPA for starters gives them extra credit for the offense not scoring runs. In both cases, those are nuisance factors when evaluating a start, no features. Game scores attempt to avoid both
Excellent work JOe (and Tom). Might I point out one error in your stats at the beginning of your article Joe. If you go back to 1900 I am pretty sure that teams who gave up 0 runs do not have a 1.000 winning percentage. They do have a 1.000 non-losing percentage, but those two things are not precisely the same.
Anticipating a post about how Joe counted Rapper's Delight's ha's. (And probably the relative proportion of nonsense in songs with nonsense syllables).
I'm sure I'm not the first person to suggest this, but why not create a simulated, offense independent, park adjusted W-L based on the number of runs allowed and innings pitched. If a pitcher pitches a complete game one run game in average park conditions, that pitcher would get .889 wins and .111 losses (based on the table on Joe's article). Lets say that's one run over 6 innings, or 1.5 runs per 9 innings, which say for convenience's sake, would yield a winning pct. of .800. The pitcher would get .53 wins (80 percent of 6/9, and .13 losses (20 percent of 6/9). You could adjust for park factors by dividing the number of runs allowed by the park factor. The pitcher would have exactly as many decisions as imnings pitched divided by 9. It's fairly complicated to compute, but the end result would be familiar, a W-L record.
I use annual ERA+ and earned runs allowed to get at this by plugging into negative binomial distribution — which simulates the behavior of run scoring pretty well.
This was done in (I believe) Baseball Between the Numbers. They have a pretty good chapter on what's wrong with ERA and W as pitcher evaluations. I don't think they included the loss component—they just credited the pitcher in your example with .889 of a win for that game, although it's of course been a while since I've thumbed through that book.
It will never make sense to me how a man alive in this century can care this much about the pitcher win and so little about what super heroes to draft in his fantasy league
Okay, it has to be conceded the win is a lousy stat: It doesn't measure what it purports to measure; it gives credit (and blame) to the wrong people, sometimes comically so; and it creates the mistaken impression that pitchers do something that everyone knows they don't (and can't) do. And it's especially terrible as a metric for determining the Cy Young or other awards, as run support and bullpen help are so crucial for determining single-season W totals. Whether the stat doesn't tell you anything, or (which I think is more correct) it tells you far too many things all at once, it's obviously a limited stat that can be replaced by a couple dozen other measures.
But its failings are of a sort that disguise the trees behind the forest, or if you prefer, it's a stat for people who like Impressionist paintings. Given a broad enough timeline—and here I'm thinking of the length of a typical long career—it's actually a medium adequate stat. If you look at the lifetime records of an assortment of unnamed pitchers, you can actually get a pretty good idea of who the guys are. Just compare the guy who's 324-292 to the guy who's 251-174—you know exactly who's better, and why. Or a guy who goes 101-60—you can't tell exactly what story is behind that record, but you can narrow it down to maybe three stories; either he pitched well but got hurt young and hung 'em up, or maybe he moved to the 'pen and played mostly for pretty good teams. A guy who's 224-175, you not only know his career—great pitcher who managed a fine career but played for his share of mediocre teams—but you also know he's a lefty.
Again, within a single season it's a lousy stat, and within a single game it's absurd. But if all you get to sum up a career on plaque is W-L and ERA… hey, it's not as revelatory as WAR and ERA+. But it's good enough to talk about what's after all just a game.
Actually, the "Win" isn't a bad overall stat for starting pitchers. When you use statistical methodology (actual mathematical analysis, and not just creating a formula based on "stats" that gives you a result that you like), you will find that the Win correlates very strongly with other measures of a pitcher's effectiveness like WHIP and ERA+
I admit my quick and dirty analysis could have problems (I probably should have gone with Won-Loss percentage rather than just Wins, for example). If someone better than me at statistical analysis would like to have a go at it, I'd welcome it.
I just love that we may end up using "Tango" as a statistic, for example: "Who got the Tango last night?" or "The pitcher with the best Tango record won the Cy Young once again"
I wonder if fantasy leagues recognize it as a statistic. I am emailing my league to switch to the Tango for next season.
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Antike is a challenging strategy game about evolution and competition among ancient civilizations. Ancient nations create cities, build temples, sail the seas, and discover new principles of science and technology. Their legions and galleys open new settlements and defend their people against attacks from their enemies. Two scenarios can be chosen as the game board is two-sided. Players choose from Greeks, Romans, and Germanic tribes and Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, and Babylonians.
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