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- "The two, a Captain Ganig and a Sergeant Stecker, are both inside the station. COMPNOR made each famous after the Battle of Sagma, but since then their casual observation of doctrine had come to light. If they take this station, COMPNOR will again make them heroes."
- ―Mar Barezz
Stecker was a Sergeant in the Imperial Army.
Stecker served in the Imperial Army as a sergeant, where he was decorated by the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order for heroic actions performed during the Battle of Sagma. However, Stecker, alongside Captain Ganig, came to the attention of the Imperial Security Bureau after his apparent casual attitude towards doctrine came to light. In addition, Stecker had contact with a soldier named Linds, who the ISB were confident was an Alliance to Restore the Republic sympathizer. Stecker subsequently served in the Raid on Picutorion, serving in Tensiger's 6th regiment.[2]
During the battle, troops from the regiment, including Stecker and Ganig, breached an Alliance-held tracking station. Stecker was killed during the assault after an ISB officer, Mar Barezz, counselled the mission commanders—Commodore Bevven and High Colonel Theol Drost—to delay starfighter support to their position. Although there was no evidence that Stecker intended to defect, Barezz was certain that COMPNOR would again honor him for his role in the Picutorion operation if he assisted in capturing the tracking station and that, for propaganda purposes, dead heroes were as good as live ones.[2]
- "Picutorion Viewed From the Top"—Imperial Sourcebook (First appearance)
- "Picutorion Viewed From the Top"—Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition (Reprint)
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- ↑ Part Eleven of the Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, establishes that the Kwymar Suppressions take place in 17 BBY.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Picutorion Viewed From the Top"—Imperial Sourcebook

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Sunday, 20 January 2013
Alpha Challenge letter C
Today sees the next letter in The Craft Barn Alpha challenge. The time it's the letter C. There is more inspiration on their blog HERE.
I chose the word calling and let loose
Hope you all have a lovely and creative day, Mr weatherman is telling me more snow here today so I'll be making a flask of coffee and locking myself in the studio with the heater on full!
7 comments:
- Ann B said...
Love this page Neil - I'm I to green myself at the moment. Think I'll have to sort myself out and join in this challenge.
- 20 January 2013 at 11:35
- House of Bears said...
What wonderful colours you've chosen to illustrate a beautiful page. We love Dylusions so this shoots to the tops of our favourites of your work.
- 20 January 2013 at 11:58
- Francesca said...
It is a lovely couple of pages. i've just been for a walk in the snow its pretty cold here by the sea and the snow has been falling steadily not as much as Friday. Now off to my craftroom to creat something... Have a good day Love francesca
- 20 January 2013 at 12:23
- Redanne said...
Really love how you created so many greens on your beautiful pages - love the deer too, especially the added dimension to their backs.
- 20 January 2013 at 14:25
- Helen said...
Beautiful page, Neil, I look forward to following your journey through the alphabet!
- 20 January 2013 at 15:01
- froebelsternchen Susi said...
all your pages are wonderful !
xxx FROEBELSTERNCHEN FROM AUSTRIA
- 20 January 2013 at 16:45
- Elaine said...
Loving your pages and how the branches hanging down make the forest very lush!
- 21 January 2013 at 15:35


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The first snowfall of the season is the greatest. That fall feeling is in the air as the flurries begin to come down from the sky and coat the ground for the first time. The entire town seems to feel different. I find myself watching the radar and checking the weather constantly throughout the day, anxiously watching the snow outside. While some people are inside their homes mourning the potential loss of another season, my mind goes elsewhere. All I can think about is early season skiing. I pace around the house after work and watch the weather go from rain to snow to rain again and snow once more. In Bozeman, the precipitation seems wet and rather lacking. But to anyone who considers themselves a skier, they know that this day-long mix of rain and snow probably means a decent snowstorm at higher elevations. A phone call to a couple friends confirms my ambitions. Tomorrow will be the day.
Each of us with our specific time constraints, we decide that we might as well do this right and go after a good old-fashioned dawn patrol to start the season. So we did just that. As the 5:30am alarm went off, followed by the other 5:30am alarm (you can't be to careful) I woke up, put on my ski gear, made a plate sized pancake and climbed into the car. As I sipped my coffee on the way out of Bozeman and up the canyon it seemed as though we had made a giant mistake. The ground in Bozeman was empty and fairly dry, and the accumulation that we noticed on the way up was hardly more than a dusting. I had to keep telling myself that this would all be worth it but I wasn't quite sure that I believed it. Too late now, we will ski with or without snow.
With rock skis on our backs we took off on foot up the mountain. As the hike progressed and the ascent began to get steeper, the snow got deeper. What started out as a few inches in the parking lot had morphed into a knee-deep posthole with each step. As we neared the top, the clouds began to open up and the snow-covered bangtails showed themselves, it felt good to be back. We clicked into our skis and headed down. The skiing was not amazing, marginal at best. But mixed in with the rocks and grass of early season skiing were a couple great powder turns. And that is all we were looking for today. Somewhere to get out and lay down that first set of tracks. On my bike ride to work in the morning after getting back into town, with a chill still in the air, I realized that I could now relax and enjoy the rest of my fall in Bozeman having logged at least one ski day.
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I was extremely fortunate to grow up in a town which had a thriving youth theatre program which I participated in from the age of 8-18. As a teenager I struggled with depression and this theatre group became increasing important to me.
I recognized that there was a need for a youth theatre in the Cowichan Valley and I wanted to form an organization that would value quality arts education yet also build community. My wish is that all students that participate in a Chalkboard Theatre program feel validated, inspired by the craft and motivated to always give their best to their cast mates, their audience, and the greater community.
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Retired Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher has had a bit of time to adjust to his first summer in decades where he doesn't have to prepare for football in the fall.
Urlacher spoke to NBC 5 from the American Century Championship golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, and doesn't seem to be missing the gridiron too much.
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Urlacher still isn't happy with the way his tenure as a Bear ended. The two sides weren't able to come to an agreement on his contract. He says he still speaks with George McCaskey on occasion, but is not happy with how general manager Phil Emery handled negotiations.
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Urlacher says he will be watching his buddies on the team this year, and still can't help but refer to the team as "we." And what if the Bears were able to win the Super Bowl?
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Creative Commons Mixer is a 'community' site that offers free music, effects, sound loops etc. Check the licence e.g. some require a credit in your video. You should automatically do this anyway, as a matter of recognition and courtesy. WT.
Via the site: "
Hi, I'm Dan-O and I post my original music as free MP3 downloads here on DanoSongs.com. You can listen to the songs online or download the tracks. It's also legal to use the music royalty free in your video, game, film, presentation, slideshow or website.You have my permission to use the songs for personal or commercial use. I use a simple creative commons license that allows you to use the tracks legally. If you are adding the music in your project and you want to use it royalty free, these are the terms:
1. Free with credit to: Music by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com. See the License FAQ for credit options.
2. Without credit donate at least $10 US per track or buy the package: Donating is an easy way to use one of my tracks by giving you more freedom when sharing your project. For donation options click here. The package offers the most publishing flexibility and access to 77+ mp3s on your hard drive. If you have questions see the License FAQ.
Just for listening: Also on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Last.fm and every other major music service. Search danosongs or your favorite song name".
Dexter Britain
Dexter is a 'soundtrack composer'. Most, though not all of Dexter's music is licenced under creative commons, so can be used for free under those same terms, mainly 'attribution', which means you have to credit him and preferably link to his website. Please visit dexterbritain.co.uk/creative-commons/ for more details. Some very cinematic pieces.
Suggested by a comment from Sandra (see comments below). Music is for online/multimedia use, with prices as tar as can be seen, roughly in the €100 to €130 range. Music for TV, broadcast, film and TV advertising have separate rates. The site appears in 8 different languages, so you may need to click on the 'English' symbol to read text in English.
A site where you can search the Web for sound effects.
Via the site: "Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era. These uses vary and are determined by the rights holders themselves (please see our FAQ) who feel that allowing a degree of free cultural access is beneficial not only to their own pursuits, but to our society as a whole. Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won't put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators."
Please visit site for further details.
Free Soundtrack Music
This site provides royalty-free tracks for use in video, film and multimedia projects. Some are paid for tracks, but the free ones are identifiable as 'Free'. Take care to use the correct licence.
Pay once royalty free music. Usually around $20 per piece.
You need to log in to create an account with Jamendo in order to access music that is 'free' i.e. used under 'creative commons' licence. Please make sure that you abide by any creative commons licence agreements. Jamendo has over 400,000 tracks to browse.
"Creative Commons are licenses that enable musicians to give away their music for free while protecting their rights. They are easy to use and compatible with internet standards, and allow rights holders to authorize (or not) certain uses of their music, such as commercial uses and derived works."
"Free music is music that is not managed by performance rights organizations (PRS, ASCAP, SOCAN, BMI, BUMA, JASRAC…). Artists choose to protect their rights through specific non exclusive licenses such as Creative Commons. 'Free music' doesn't necessarily mean free-of-cost or devoid of any rights restrictions, it means "some rights reserved". Artists define what rights they grant on their music through their choice of license."
Incompetech was created by well-known composer Kevin MacLeod and offers a very large selection of free music under a variety of categories.
Visit the FAQ page for further details:
An electronic musician based in Frieburg in Germany.
For more information about the kinds of compositions available in the FSM royalty free production music library, go to theSearch Dramatic Categories, Genres and and Emotions descriptions page.
Josh has over 180 songs which you can use freely, under a 'creative commons' licence, which acknowledges/credits the author. Songs can be downloaded individually or you may wish to support his efforts by purchasing single songs for $1 or the whole collection for $40. Downloaded files are in MP3 format, but purchased files are in lossless FLAC format and include instrumental versions.
Moby have made over 150 of their music tracks available for free.
Via the Mobi Gratis site:
"This site is a resource for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.Moby has made a selection of over 150 tracks from his huge catalog of music available to licence for free, via a simple online application system.To begin just create a new account, browse thecatalog and fill in your application for the tracks you would like to use. You should receive a response to your application within 24 hours."
Royalty free music across many genres for "videos, youtube projects, podcasts, games etc."
Prices seem to average around $19.
Musopen provides access to music whose copyright has expired.Via the Musopen site:
"Musopen (www.musopen.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free."
Small collection of music files sold in packages for between $40 and $100. Excellent production values.
PacDV offer free music and audio effects.
Via the PacDV site:
"You may use these tracks free of charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions. All we ask is that you link back to our siteor mention "Music by www.pacdv.com/sounds/" in your credits. Please, note that you are not allowed re-sell these music tracks to others, post on a web site for download (as downloadable music tracks), or link directly to the individual music tracks on our server".
Partners in Rhyme
Partners in Rhyme offer a mixture of free and paid for music content.
Make sure to check the licence agreement for your chosen track.
Via the site: "Premiumbeat.com provides high quality Royalty Free Music for all new and traditional media, including websites, online videos, slide shows, DVDs and CD-ROMs, television, radio, films, etc.".
This site provides access to music where copyright has expired. As such it tends to be older music tracks e.g. from the early 1900's and is now free. There is some more up-to-date music that is free because of the artists' permission.
"Purple Planet Music is owned by Chris Martyn, Geoff Harvey and Mark Fildes. They work out of Leeds and Manchester in the north of England". The duo have a range of free, royalty free and premium music for download.
All music in their free section can be used for the following:
YouTube & vimeo videos; educational projects; movie trailers; movies; TV productions; backing tracks for musicians; to play along to surround sound; ambient; Blu-Ray discs (www.bluscenes.com).
In exchange you are asked to add a link in the text to your video that credits exactly as follows:
"Music: http://www.purple-planet.com"
SoundBible.com offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format.
Extensive audio repository, so you will have to search for individual songs/music compositions.
A young, (24 years of age), Irish music composer based in Waterford. His services cover compositions for games, films and general media [no longer undertaking student related projects]
The Music Bed, provide a licensing to filmmakers for particular pieces of music, and for any purpose, including 'Internal', 'Streaming' and 'External', as well as quotes for specific ventures.
(As of April 2016) New music site for YouTubers where videographers 'crowdsource' music from musicians, and agree their own terms for licensing royalty-free/originally composed music. The site is still under development.
Vimeo has a large range of tracks for your video, some are free, others are pay-per-use, but vary in price from $2 upwards.
YouTube has an audio library, with over 150 royalty-free music tracks for use with your videos. You need to log in directly to your YouTube account in order to access or browse the library. Sounds can be sorted by genre, mood, instrument and so on. This is a fairly recent development, so the library is not as extensive as other sites – yet!
Sound FX websites:
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- we were established in 1968 and the Debtors Division was started in 1984.
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Janice has found the first must-see movie of 2004: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Janice has found the first must-see movie of 2004: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Ed McCulloch has an interesting link to a site that analyzes movie physics.
I am entertained. The site is brilliant.
I had a dream last night that I met Tony Snow. We conversed and I got his autograph for Janice. It was a cool dream.
I adore Tony Snow.
Read the headline, located by Best of the Web:
Hooters: A Case Study
'This thing has incredible legs,' an early investor said.
I don't think he really got the concept.
I adore Best of the Web and an item from yesterday was particularly brilliant:
Flight Risk
British Airways has suspended all flights to Saudi Arabia until further notice, in response to a specific terrorist threat to its planes in the country," reports the BBC, which offers this anecdote of a frustrated traveler:
Nadia Talpur, 20, a student from Toronto, Canada, who was also flying to Jeddah to see relatives said: "I have been passed round three different people so far and I still don't know what's going on. I'm about ready to explode. . . ."
Which, come to think of it, is exactly what British Airways is afraid of.
The enigmatic E. Nough has a scathing commentary on his blog about the entitlement mentality in the ghettos of France.
Seems like no atrocity on the planet can't be excused by a lack of "hope." Gang rapes, suicide bombings, mass murder — for every worthless scumbag committing some new horror, you can always find some educated progressive to apologetically explain that what the man needed was hope.
The Kevin Schmidt concept is clear enough: he has set a goal of photographing himself with all nine Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Apparently, the Democrats are good sports . . . except John Kerry (who, incidentally, served in Vietnam. Didja know?)
Janice sent me a Jonah Goldberg article about Peter Singer, about whom he says:
Singer is a cocktail-party trickster. He uses intellectual prestidigitation to get you to agree to all sorts of assumptions that sound reasonable and then forces you to remain consistent to those "principles" until you find yourself in favor of killing babies, pulling plugs, and mounting the jolly Rover.
Blech. Icky. Whatever is the Princeton administration thinking? Academics of Singer's ilk irreparably damage the plebeian view of his profession. I completely agree with Goldberg when he says:
When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.
Well put.


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The Mixed Martial Arts
A video showing the progression of this sport, starting with Bruce Lee and the movie inspirations of what martial arts are – then through the early days of the UFC until our current athletes. The whole video was done in Adobe After Effects then pieced together in Sony Vegas. This was my first video where every frame was ran through After Effects. Probably my favorite video right this second and I entered it into the Punch Drunk Gamer HL competition – though I'm not expecting to win; too many great videos!
[livevideo id=420A5A1CCD0A4D79B290D04B446E2E7D/732573/hl-the-mixed-martial-arts.aspx]
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. The Beginning is the End is the Beginning – by The Smashing Pumpkins


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Chunk Extraction with NLTK
Chunk extraction is a useful preliminary step to information extraction, that creates parse trees from unstructured text. Once you have a parse tree of a sentence, you can do more specific information extraction, such as named entity recognition and relation extraction.
Chunking is basically a 3 step process:
- Tag a sentence
- Chunk the tagged sentence
- Analyze the parse tree to extract information
I've already written about how to train a part of speech tagger and a chunker, so I'll assume you've already done the training, and now you want to use your tagger and chunker to do something useful.
Tag Chunker
The previously trained chunker is actually a chunk tagger. It's a Tagger that assigns IOB chunk tags to part-of-speech tags. In order to use it for proper chunking, we need some extra code to convert the IOB chunk tags into a parse tree. I've created a wrapper class that complies with the nltk ChunkParserI interface and uses the trained chunk tagger to get IOB tags and convert them to a proper parse tree.
import nltk.chunk import itertools class TagChunker(nltk.chunk.ChunkParserI): def __init__(self, chunk_tagger): self._chunk_tagger = chunk_tagger def parse(self, tokens): # split words and part of speech tags (words, tags) = zip(*tokens) # get IOB chunk tags chunks = self._chunk_tagger.tag(tags) # join words with chunk tags wtc = itertools.izip(words, chunks) # w = word, t = part-of-speech tag, c = chunk tag lines = [' '.join([w, t, c] for (w, (t, c)) in wtc if c] # create tree from conll formatted chunk lines return nltk.chunk.conllstr2tree('\n'.join(lines))
Chunk Extraction
Now that we have a proper chunker, we can use it to extract chunks. Here's a simple example that tags a sentence, chunks the tagged sentence, then prints out each noun phrase.
# sentence should be a list of words tagged = tagger.tag(sentence) tree = chunker.parse(tagged) # for each noun phrase sub tree in the parse tree for subtree in tree.subtrees(filter=lambda t: t.node == 'NP'): # print the noun phrase as a list of part-of-speech tagged words print subtree.leaves()
Each sub tree has a phrase tag, and the leaves of a sub tree are the tagged words that make up that chunk. Since we're training the chunker on IOB tags, NP stands for Noun Phrase. As noted before, the results of this natural language processing are heavily dependent on the training data. If your input text isn't similar to the your training data, then you probably won't be getting many chunks.
How to Train a NLTK Chunker
In NLTK, chunking is the process of extracting short, well-formed phrases, or chunks, from a sentence. This is also known as partial parsing, since a chunker is not required to capture all the words in a sentence, and does not produce a deep parse tree. But this is a good thing because it's very hard to create a complete parse grammar for natural language, and full parsing is usually all or nothing. So chunking allows you to get at the bits you want and ignore the rest.
The general approach to chunking and parsing is to define rules or expressions that are then matched against the input sentence. But this is a very manual, tedious, and error-prone process, likely to get very complicated real fast. The alternative approach is to train a chunker the same way you train a part-of-speech tagger. Except in this case, instead of training on (word, tag) sequences, we train on (tag, iob) sequences, where iob is a chunk tag defined in the the conll2000 corpus. Here's a function that will take a list of chunked sentences (from a chunked corpus like conll2000 or treebank), and return a list of (tag, iob) sequences.
import nltk.chunk def conll_tag_chunks(chunk_sents): tag_sents = [nltk.chunk.tree2conlltags(tree) for tree in chunk_sents] return [[(t, c) for (w, t, c) in chunk_tags] for chunk_tags in tag_sents]
So how accurate is the trained chunker? Here's the rest of the code, followed by a chart of the accuracy results. Note that I'm only using Ngram Taggers. You could additionally use the BrillTagger, but the training takes a ridiculously long time for very minimal gains in accuracy.
import nltk.corpus, nltk.tag def ubt_conll_chunk_accuracy(train_sents, test_sents): train_chunks = conll_tag_chunks(train_sents) test_chunks = conll_tag_chunks(test_sents) u_chunker = nltk.tag.UnigramTagger(train_chunks) print 'u:', nltk.tag.accuracy(u_chunker, test_chunks) ub_chunker = nltk.tag.BigramTagger(train_chunks, backoff=u_chunker) print 'ub:', nltk.tag.accuracy(ub_chunker, test_chunks) ubt_chunker = nltk.tag.TrigramTagger(train_chunks, backoff=ub_chunker) print 'ubt:', nltk.tag.accuracy(ubt_chunker, test_chunks) ut_chunker = nltk.tag.TrigramTagger(train_chunks, backoff=u_chunker) print 'ut:', nltk.tag.accuracy(ut_chunker, test_chunks) utb_chunker = nltk.tag.BigramTagger(train_chunks, backoff=ut_chunker) print 'utb:', nltk.tag.accuracy(utb_chunker, test_chunks) # conll chunking accuracy test conll_train = nltk.corpus.conll2000.chunked_sents('train.txt') conll_test = nltk.corpus.conll2000.chunked_sents('test.txt') ubt_conll_chunk_accuracy(conll_train, conll_test) # treebank chunking accuracy test treebank_sents = nltk.corpus.treebank_chunk.chunked_sents() ubt_conll_chunk_accuracy(treebank_sents[:2000], treebank_sents[2000:])
The ub_chunker and utb_chunker are slight favorites with equal accuracy, so in practice I suggest using the ub_chunker since it takes slightly less time to train.
Training a chunker this way is much easier than creating manual chunk expressions or rules, it can approach 100% accuracy, and the process is re-usable across data sets. As with part-of-speech tagging, the training set really matters, and should be as similar as possible to the actual text that you want to tag and chunk.
Part of Speech Tagging with NLTK – Part 3
In part 2, I showed how to produce a part-of-speech tagger using Ngram tagging in combination with Affix and Regex tagging, with accuracy approaching 90%. In part 3, I'll use the BrillTagger to get the accuracy up to and over 90%.
Brill Tagging
The BrillTagger is different than the previous taggers. For one, it's not a SequentialBackoffTagger, though it does use an initial tagger, which in our case will be the raubt_tagger from part 2. The BrillTagger uses the initial tagger to produce initial tags, then corrects those tags based on transformational rules. These rules are learned by training with the FastBrillTaggerTrainer and rules templates. Here's an example, with templates copied from the demo() function in nltk.tag.brill.py. Refer to part 1 for the backoff_tagger function and the train_sents, and part 2 for the word_patterns.
import nltk.tag from nltk.tag import brill raubt_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.AffixTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger], backoff=nltk.tag.RegexpTagger(word_patterns)) templates = [ brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateTagsRule, (1,1)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateTagsRule, (2,2)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateTagsRule, (1,2)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateTagsRule, (1,3)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateWordsRule, (1,1)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateWordsRule, (2,2)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateWordsRule, (1,2)), brill.SymmetricProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateWordsRule, (1,3)), brill.ProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateTagsRule, (-1, -1), (1,1)), brill.ProximateTokensTemplate(brill.ProximateWordsRule, (-1, -1), (1,1)) ] trainer = brill.FastBrillTaggerTrainer(raubt_tagger, templates) braubt_tagger = trainer.train(train_sents, max_rules=100, min_score=3)
Brill Tagging Accuracy
So now we have a braubt_tagger. You can tweak the max_rules and min_score params, but be careful, as increasing the values will exponentially increase the training time without significantly increasing accuracy. In fact, I found that increasing the min_score tended to decrease the accuracy by a percent or 2. So here's how the braubt_tagger fares against the other taggers.
There's certainly more you can do for part-of-speech tagging with nltk, but the braubt_tagger should be good enough for many purposes. The most important component of part-of-speech tagging is using the correct training data. If you want your tagger to be accurate, you need to train it on a corpus similar to the text you'll be tagging. The brown, conll2000, and treebank corpora are what they are, and you shouldn't assume that a tagger trained on them will be accurate on a different corpus. For example, a tagger trained on one part of the brown corpus may be 90% accurate on other parts of the brown corpus, but only 50% accurate on the conll2000 corpus. But a tagger trained on the conll2000 corpus will be accurate for the treebank corpus, and vice versa, because conll2000 and treebank are quite similar. So make sure you choose your training data carefully.
Part of Speech Tagging with NLTK – Part 2
Following up on Part of Speech Tagging with NLTK – Part 1, I test the accuracy of adding an AffixTagger and a RegexpTagger to my SequentialBackoffTagger chain.
Affix Tagging
The AffixTagger learns prefix and suffix patterns to determine the part of speech tag for word. I tried inserting the AffixTagger into every possible position of the ubt_tagger to see which method increased accuracy the most. As you'll see in the results, the aubt_tagger had the highest accuracy.
ubta_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger, nltk.tag.AffixTagger]) ubat_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.AffixTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger]) uabt_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.AffixTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger]) aubt_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.AffixTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger])
Regexp Tagging
The RegexpTagger allows you to define your own word patterns for determining the part of speech tag. Some of the patterns defined below were taken from chapter 3 of the NLTK book, others I added myself. Since I had already determined that the aubt_tagger was the most accurate, I only tested the RegexpTagger at the beginning and end of the chain.
word_patterns = [ (r'^-?[0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?$', 'CD'), (r'.*ould$', 'MD'), (r'.*ing$', 'VBG'), (r'.*ed$', 'VBD'), (r'.*ness$', 'NN'), (r'.*ment$', 'NN'), (r'.*ful$', 'JJ'), (r'.*ious$', 'JJ'), (r'.*ble$', 'JJ'), (r'.*ic$', 'JJ'), (r'.*ive$', 'JJ'), (r'.*ic$', 'JJ'), (r'.*est$', 'JJ'), (r'^a$', 'PREP'), ] aubtr_tagger = nltk.tag.RegexpTagger(word_patterns, backoff=aubt_tagger) raubt_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.AffixTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger], backoff=nltk.tag.RegexpTagger(word_patterns))
Affix and Regexp Tagging Accuracy
As you can see, the aubt_tagger provided the most gain over the ubt_tagger, and the raubt_tagger had a slight gain on top of that. In Part 3 I'll discuss the results of using the BrillTagger to push the accuracy even higher.
Part of Speech Tagging with NLTK – Part 1
An important part of weotta's tag extraction is part of speech tagging, a process of identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech in context. NLTK provides the necessary tools for tagging, but doesn't actually tell you what methods work best, so I decided to find out for myself.
Training and Test Sentences
NLTK has a data package that includes 3 tagged corpora: brown, conll2000, and treebank. I divided each of these corpora into 2 sets, the training set and the testing set. The choice and size of your training set can have a significant effect on the tagging accuracy, so for real world usage, you need to train on a corpus that is very representative of the actual text you want to tag. In particular, the brown corpus has a number of different categories, so choose your categories wisely. I chose these categories primarily because they have a higher occurance of the word food than other categories.
import nltk.corpus, nltk.tag, itertools from nltk.tag import brill # PRESS: REVIEWS brownc_sents = nltk.corpus.brown.tagged_sents(categories="c") # POPULAR LORE brownf_sents = nltk.corpus.brown.tagged_sents(categories="f") # FICTION: ROMANCE brownp_sents = nltk.corpus.brown.tagged_sents(categories="p") brown_train = list(itertools.chain(brownc_sents[:1000], brownf_sents[:1000], brownp_sents[:1000])) brown_test = list(itertools.chain(brownc_sents[1000:2000], brownf_sents[1000:2000], brownp_sents[1000:2000])) conll_sents = nltk.corpus.conll2000.tagged_sents() conll_train = list(conll_sents[:4000]) conll_test = list(conll_sents[4000:8000]) treebank_sents = nltk.corpus.treebank.tagged_sents() treebank_train = list(treebank_sents[:1500]) treebank_test = list(treebank_sents[1500:3000])
Ngram Tagging
I started by testing different combinations of the 3 NgramTaggers: UnigramTagger, BigramTagger, and TrigramTagger. These taggers inherit from SequentialBackoffTagger, which allows them to be chained together for greater accuracy. To save myself a little pain when constructing and training these taggers, I created a utility method for creating a chain of SequentialBackoffTaggers.
def backoff_tagger(tagged_sents, tagger_classes, backoff=None): if not backoff: backoff = tagger_classes[0](tagged_sents) del tagger_classes[0] for cls in tagger_classes: tagger = cls(tagged_sents, backoff=backoff) backoff = tagger return backoff ubt_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger]) utb_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger]) but_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger]) btu_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.TrigramTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger]) tub_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.TrigramTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger]) tbu_tagger = backoff_tagger(train_sents, [nltk.tag.TrigramTagger, nltk.tag.BigramTagger, nltk.tag.UnigramTagger])
Accuracy Testing
To test the accuracy of a tagger, we can compare it to the test sentences using the nltk.tag.accuracy function.
nltk.tag.accuracy(tagger, test_sents)
Ngram Tagging Accuracy
The ubt_tagger and utb_taggers are extremely close to each other, but the ubt_tagger is the slight favorite (note that the backoff sequence is in reverse order, so for the ubt_tagger, the TrigramTagger backsoff to the BigramTagger, which backsoff to the UnigramTagger.)
Update: in Part of Speech Tagging with NLTK – Part 2, I do further testing using the AffixTagger and the RegexpTagger to get the accuracy up past 80%.


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Don't forget, the Dirty South G.I.Joe Mini Show will be taking place at The Uncanny Comic Shop this coming Saturday, September 30th in Clermont, Florida! Come out and enjoy a day of G.I.JOE with some of the best Joe vendors and collectors in the region! This event will bring the best G.I.JOE collectible products and creations, plus there will be cosplayers, collectible vendors, and artists!
How much is the entry fee, you ask? The show will be accepting donations of canned food and/or money to support local charities; Namely the relief efforts in Puerto Rico. $5 Donations will receive a raffle ticket with prizes to be announced as we get closer to the event. Last time the Dirty South Mini Show raised over 400 pounds of canned food for Angels of Mercy! Let's see if we can beat that and help our community! We hope to see you out here for this first of it's kind event! COBRAAAAA!!!
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Robert Geist received his B.A. in 1951, his B.S. in 1952, and his M.D. in 1954, all from the University of Minnesota. He completed a residency in urology at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Minneapolis. Geist spent his career working in private practice in the Twin Cities area.
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Geist first discusses his background, including his education. He then discusses his residency at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. He describes going into private practice, his experiences building his practice, the challenges he faced, and his relationship with the University of Minnesota. He discusses women in his medical school class and in urology, the impact of the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, the concerns over the shortage of doctors in the 1960s, and the increase in the UMN Medical School's class size because of those concerns. He discusses some of his involvement in medical politics since 1973, including his experiences with HMOs after their creation, with the Minnesota Medical Association, and with fee-splitting and referral practices. He reflects on the relationship between St. Paul and Minneapolis physicians and between them and the UMN, including the contentious politics between some St. Paul doctors and the UMN in the 1960s, particularly in relation to the attempt to establish a St. Paul medical school.
Biographical Sketch
Robert Geist was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on May 4, 1928. He attended the University of Minnesota for his undergraduate and medical degrees. He received his BA in 1951, his BS in 1952, and his MD in 1954. He did a one-year residency at the Washington, DC General Hospital and then returned to the Minneapolis Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital to complete his residency in urology. Geist went into private practice in 1960, where he initially worked alone. In 1968, he went into group practice with two other urologists. This group practice grew over the years to six urologists. In 1994, this group practice merged with another practice, became known as Metro Urology, and grew to include more than twenty urologists, including many with subspecialties. Metro Urology's only link with the UMN is through pediatric urology, with which Geist was involved. Geist retired in 1997, but returned to the VA for three years in the urology department because of a shortage of urologists. He also served in the Army after graduating from high school (1946-48).
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Please note, the Museum will be closed all day on Wednesday, December 11 for a private event.
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays (except for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving Day and December 25.
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U.S. and Canadian Veterans & their families with valid ID: $8
Children, Seniors 65+, as well as Teachers & Students with valid IDs: $8
(2 years and younger: FREE)
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Dividend Challengers: 17 Increases Expected In The Next 11 Weeks – Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here) I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again. I have modified the Expected Increase series to reflect a more SA-friendly format by separating the Champions (25 or more years of higher dividends), Contenders (10-24 years), and Challengers (5-9 years) into distinct groupings, so please look for the other articles, which I hope will be published about the same time.
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Poblano and chipotle Airline Chicken Recipe
I tell people that if they want a recipe for a particular dish they had here at the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops or Fiber Art Workshops, to please remind me. Nay, bug me, I tell them. Well, you have nagged me enough and I thank you. I am going write down some of the recipes from this year and publish them on this blog, including the fabulous Nesselrode Pudding. (Yes, there are still places in this century that serve this fabulous dessert and the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops is one of them.) If you don't see a recipe you adore, please continue nagging me and bugging me and I'll get to it. Thanks again for coming to our inn and taking our art classes. You're the best.
4 airline chicken breasts (This is a breast with the wing attached.) I use "skin on" airline breasts.
1/4 cup or honey
1/4 cup of lime juice
4 cloves of garlic (more if you like garlic)
4 poblano pepers
1 chipotle pepper
salt to taste
white pepper to taste
Strip the seeds and the white membrane out of the poblano peppers and cut out any stems. Then, combine all the ingredients in a Cuisinart, using the basic blade attachment, and process until the poblano peppers are minced. Then marinate the airline breaks for at least 2 hours. Make sure the chicken is well covered. Put the chicken onto a greased sheet pan. Spoon the marinade onto the chicken. Bake the chicken at 400F for about one half hour or until the chicken reaches 165F.
Let the chicken rest for 5 to 10 minutes.
I like to serve this dish with sliced beets. Slice one beet per two people and sweat them in a pan with salt and black pepper. Sweat until sweet. I also like to serve green beans with the chicken. Sauté green beans in sesame oil with salt and ground green pepper corns. (If you don't have green pepper corns, use white pepper.) Sauté until you get a deep green color change and the beans are hot. Serve immediately.
Serves 4.
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DENVER (KKTV) - A glimmer of hope in a very dark week.
A bill that would change child abuse laws in the state moved forward Wednesday.
Two of the detectives who supported the bill worked alongside fallen Deputy Micah Flick in the Investigations Unit at the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Less than 48 hours after losing their brother in blue, they drove to the Colorado Capitol to testify with a mission in mind: helping local kids who have no voice.
Sgt. Mark Cristiani remembered one horrifying case.
"They had a window that was boarded up with about 6 inches left of light coming into the house. Just the mere fact that we were unable to physically arrest that person on that day was heartbreaking for us."
It's a story that hits home for Victor Marx, who spoke of the abuse he endured in his testimony Wednesday.
"I was abused for several years and confined from duct tape to Saran wrap to leather straps. I was electrocuted."
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Detectives recalled other horrible cases.
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Detective Patrick Gallagher with EPSO made a passionate plea.
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Opponents argue it's too broad.
"There's the current child abuse statute, which we feel adequately covers this cruel punishment or confinement," said Genevieve Manco with the Colorado Bar Association.
But the bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee easily, 5-0. Detectives told 11 News reporter Katie Pelton it was a small victory in what has been a horrific week for the sheriff's office and our community.
Bill sponsor Sen. Bob Gardner had offered to delay the reading.
"They said, 'No we want to do it because we care about the community," Gardner told Pelton.
And as part of Flick's legacy.
"This is what Micah would want them to do is to follow through with their job in protecting children," Huffor said.
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Although a water workout can feel more like play than exercise, it is an effective way to tone the stomach muscles and burn calories. This is because water provides a resistance that forces the muscles to work harder. In fact, Fitness magazine notes that treading water alone can burn 11 calories per minute. There are several exercises that can be performed in water, many that target and strengthen the abs, which will lead to a more toned belly.
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To target the abs and tone the belly while swimming, try the "K-Tread." While treading in deep water, cup your hands and make small circles with them to help you keep afloat. Lift your right leg up, holding it straight in front of you at hip level. Keep the toes of your left foot pointed toward the bottom of the pool. After holding this position for five seconds, quickly switch to holding your left leg up and your right leg down. Hold for five more seconds. Keep alternating legs, continuing the exercise for 30 seconds. Be sure to keep both legs straight throughout the exercise.
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Press your back against the side of the pool, resting your arms along the side edges. Bring your knees to your chest, then extend your legs straight out in front of you. Swing your legs out to your left, right, then back to the center of your body. Be sure to exhale as you draw your legs back to the front of your body and up to your chest. Repeat this exercise 10 times.
Strengthen With a Kickboard
A kickboard can provide the resistance needed to target your belly in the swimming pool. Stand in the water, keeping your legs apart, holding a kickboard with one hand on each end. One side of the kickboard should be facing the bottom of the pool and the other should be facing the sky. Tighten your abdominals and reach out your right arm, shifting the kickboard to the right. Keep your left elbow close to the side of your body as it continues holding the kickboard. Slowly move the kickboard to the middle of your body. Return the kickboard to the right side of your body again. Repeat the exercise about 15 times or until your arm is too tired to continue. Switch arms and continue the exercise with the left arm.
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The otter roll can be done with the help of a beach ball. Fitness Magazine suggests holding a beach ball to your chest while floating on your back. Extend your legs, keeping your feet together. Drive your shoulder and hip into the water, rolling to the left over the ball. Use all of your body, including the core muscles of your abdomen, to revolve completely around the ball. Breathe deeply and continue rolling for 30 seconds, switching directions for each roll.
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Higher vitamin D dietary intake is associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
We have a long list of articles on the ARR describing how bright light improved Dotty's mood and demeanor.
Early on in my caregiving effort I noticed that Dotty tended to get dull and moody around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. This often led to challenging and negative behavior.
Once I started taking Dotty out into the bright light this phenomena disappeared. Or lets say, it was eradicated. Needless to say, the eradication of this dullness and negative behavior improved both of our lives.
Two new research studies indicate that women with low levels of vitamin D are at a greater risk for Alzheimer's and cognitive decline.
One study based its findings on a population of 6,257 women. The other studied 498 women.
One of the findings that really stood out showed that women who had high weekly intakes of vitamin D showed no dementia at all.
Alzheimer's and dementia patients often have problems eating or poor diets. So it is unlikely that they are getting enough vitamin D from their diet. Studies on Alzheimer's patients show that they have very low levels of vitamin D2.
Vitamin D is sometimes referred to as the "sun vitamin". One big advantage we have is we live in Florida (closer to the Equator) so we have the sun high in the sky all year round. We have many sunny days, so this made it easier for me to get Dotty into the bright light.
Studies indicate that more than half of persons over 60 live with low levels of vitamin D. This happens because when we age we have more difficulty absorbing vitamin D from foods and supplements. So the sun can be a difference maker, or a potential solution to the problem.
At age 80 there is about a one in three chance of suffering from some type of dementia. About 24 percent of the readers of the ARR are over 55. So you might want to start thinking about increasing your level of vitamin D.
How Bright Light and Our Daily Routine Improved Dotty's Behavior and Vision
You can read a short synopsis of the two research studies I mentioned below.
In the meantime, I think I'll go take a ten minute walk out in the sun and get my daily injection of vitamin D.
Vitamin D Tied to Women's Cognitive Performance
Two new studies appearing in the Journals of Gerontology show that vitamin D may be a vital component for the cognitive health of women as they age.
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Higher vitamin D dietary intake is associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to research conducted by a team led by Cedric Annweiler, MD, PhD, at the Angers University Hospital in France.
Similarly, investigators led by Yelena Slinin, MD, MS, at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis found that low vitamin D levels among older women are associated with higher odds of global cognitive impairment and a higher risk of global cognitive decline.
Slinin's group based its analysis on 6,257 community-dwelling older women who had vitamin D levels measured during the Study of Osteopathic Fractures and whose cognitive function was tested by the Mini-Mental State Examination and/or Trail Making Test Part B.
Very low levels of vitamin D (less than 10 nanograms per milliliter of blood serum) among older women were associated with higher odds of global cognitive impairment at baseline, and low vitamin D levels (less than 20 nanograms per milliliter) among cognitively-impaired women were associated with a higher risk of incident global cognitive decline, as measured by performance on the Mini-Mental State Examination.
Annweieler's team's findings were based on data from 498 community-dwelling women who participated in the Toulouse cohort of the Epidemiology of Osteoporosis study.
Among this population, women who developed Alzheimer's disease had lower baseline vitamin D intakes (an average of 50.3 micrograms per week) than those who developed other dementias (an average of 63.6 micrograms per week) or no dementia at all (an average of 59.0 micrograms per week).
These reports follow an article published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A earlier this year that found that both men and women who don't get enough vitamin D — either from diet, supplements, or sun exposure — may be at increased risk of developing mobility limitations and disability.
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is the nation's oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. The principal mission of the Society — and its 5,400+ members — is to advance the study of aging and disseminate information among scientists, decision makers, and the general public.
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