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Template:Infobox AmazingRace The Amazing Race 19 is the nineteenth season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. Applications were due on January 4, 2011. Casting interviews were scheduled in March 2011 and filming was in June/July 2011.
Amani & Marcus Andy & Tommy Bill & Cathi Ernie & Cindy Ethan & Jenna Jeremy & Sandy Justin & Jennifer Kaylani & Lisa Laurence & Zac Liz & Marie Ron & Bill
- Main article: The Amazing Race 19 Teams
The following teams participated in the Race. Placements are listed in finishing order:
|Ernie & Cindy
|Andy & Tommy
|Pro Snowboarders
|Eliminated 8th
|Eliminated 7th
|Father/Son Adventurers
|Eliminated 6th
|Justin & Jennifer
|Eliminated 5th
|Liz & Marie
|Eliminated 4th
|Kaylani & Lisa
|Former Vegas Showgirls
|Eliminated 3rd
|Ethan & Jenna
|Eliminated 1st
|Ron & Bill
|Domestic Partners
|Eliminated 2nd
1: Kaylani performed the Hazard task.
2: Eight of the 11 teams arrived at the Pit Stop without donating all of their money at the 'Aisyiyah Orphanage (see below), and had to go back and donate the rest of their money before being allowed to check in. The initial placements for all teams are as follows (the three boldfaced teams were not turned back): 1st: Ernie & Cindy; 2nd: Liz & Marie; 3rd: Bill & Cathi; 4th: Andy & Tommy; 5th: Jeremy & Sandy; 6th: Justin & Jennifer; 7th: Amani & Marcus; 8th: Laurence & Zac; 9th: Ethan & Jenna; 10th: Kaylani & Lisa; 11th: Ron & Bill
3: Leg 2 was a double-elimination leg. The last two teams to be checked in at the Pit Stop were both eliminated.
4: Laurence & Zac initially arrived 1st, but were issued a 15-minute penalty for using more than the allowed number of buckets at the Grass Fed Detour (see below). During this time, Andy & Tommy checked in for a 1st place finish, dropping Laurence & Zac to 2nd.
5: Leg 5 had two Roadblocks and no Detour. The team member who sat out the first Roadblock was required to perform the second one.
6: Justin & Jennifer and Bill & Cathi initially arrived in 1st and 3rd, respectively, but did not pay the truck drivers who helped them to the Pit Stop. They were required to turn back and pay their drivers, ultimately dropping them to 2nd and 6th, respectively.
7: Ernie & Cindy used the Express Pass to bypass the Detour in Leg 7.
8: Laurence & Zac used their U-Turn power on Amani & Marcus. However, Amani & Marcus had already passed them and were not affected by the U-Turn.
Red = team eliminated.
Orange = non-elimination leg.
Coral = leg number had no mandatory rest period at the Pit Stop and ordered to continue racing.
Purple = team used the Express Pass.
Blue = team who came in last on an elimination leg was saved by the team with the Salvage Pass.
Fuchsia = team used the Salvage Pass to gain a time advantage.
Green ƒ = team won the Fast Forward.
Yellow > = team used Yield • < = team received Yield.
Brown » = team used U-Turn • Brown « = team received U-Turn.
Gold ∪ = team penalized for Automatic U-Turn.
Blue H = team penalized with a Hazard.
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Route Information • Detour • Roadblock • Fast Forward • Yield • Intersection • U-Turn •
Speed Bump • Hazard • Pit Stop
Means of Transportation Required:
Leg 1 - Episode 1 (United States → Taiwan)
Title: "Kindness of Strangers" (Taiwan) - Kaylani
- Starting Line: Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights, California, United States
- Teams had to search through several hundred oil-paper umbrellas for one that had the correct set of letters printed on it ("TAI") that when combined twice with their clue of six other letters ("WANPEI") would reveal the name of their first destination: Taipei, Taiwan. Once they presented Phil with the correct umbrella, he gave them keys to one of 11 Ford Explorers parked outside the temple. The last team to complete the task was penalized with the Hazard. The first eight teams to arrive at the airport were booked on an earlier flight from Los Angeles to Taipei; the remaining three teams were booked on a second flight on another airline that departed 20 minutes later.
- Flight from Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ximending Commercial District, Taipei
- Teams were told to "look up" for their next clue, and were left to figure out that their clue was displayed on an electronic billboard in Chinese: 台北孔廟 (Taipei Confucius Temple).
- Taipei Confucius Temple, Taipei
- One team member had to find a nearby payphone where they had to call a particular phone number. The person on the other end would give the racer one of Confucius's proverbs ("In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure."). Without writing it down, he or she would then have to repeat the proverb verbatim to a temple monk. Once they got the proverb right, they would receive their next clue. If they were incorrect, they had to call the number, again, and make another attempt.
- Core Pacific City Mall, Taipei
- Kaylani & Lisa had to travel to the Core Pacific City Mall, where one of them had to perform an indoor bungee jump before they could receive their next clue. Kaylani performed the Hazard task.
- Daija Riverside Park, Taipei
- Teams joined a dragon boat team. One team member kept pace by beating a drum, while the other team member joined the paddling crew. Once they made it through the course, they would receive their next clue.
- National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine, Taipei
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Leg 2 - Episode 2 (Taiwan → Indonesia)
Title: "The Sprint of Our Life" (Indonesia) - Sandy
- Flight from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taipei to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia
- From Gambir Station, Gambir, Jakarta to Tugu railway station, Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta
- Bukit Indah Restaurant & Hotel, Yogyakarta (Unaired)
- An unaired task required teams to travel to the Bukit Indah Hotel where they would pick up a key. Teams were then split into two groups based on the key that they picked, with one group leaving the hotel twenty minutes later than the other.
- Goa Jomblang, Semanu, Gunung Kidul Regency
- For the Speed Bump, Bill & Cathi had to untangle a rope until they had enough length to reach a karabiner across a field.
- For the Roadblock, one team member had to descend down into Goa Jomblang where they had to search for a traditional Javanese mask and a traditional dagger known as a kris, before returning to the surface to exchange them for their next clue.
- Mal Malioboro, Yogyakarta
- Shake Your Money Maker: Teams had to dress up in costumes with one team member dancing in the streets while the other played a gamelan in order earn Rp 30,000 (US$3.40).
- Be a Ticket Taker: Teams had to work as motorbike parking attendants in order to earn Rp 15,000 (US$1.70) and then turn in their ticket book.
- Aisyiyah Orphanage, Yogyakarta
- Teams traveled to the Aisyiyah Orphanage, home to those orphaned by the 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi, where they had to donate the money they earned during the Detour in exchange for their next clue. A small sign at the orphanage also directed teams to donate all of the money in their possession. Teams that did not donate all of their money were not allowed to check in at the Pit Stop until they doubled back and donated the money.
- After donating their money, teams received a coat of arms from the children and left them to figure out that it belonged to the Sultan and that the Pit Stop was at his palace: the Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat.
- Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, Yogyakarta
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Leg 3 - Episode 3 (Indonesia)
Title: "Don't Lay Down on Me Now!" (Indonesia) - Marcus
- Fort Vredeburg, Yogyakarta
- Teams had to join a series of reenacters of the Dutch colonial era Bicycle Guard and ride omafiets bicycles with their group from the Kraton through the streets of Yogyakarta to Fort Vredeburg in order to receive their next clue.
- Lesehan Restaurant, Salakmalang Village, Kulon Progo Regency
- Rice Field: Teams carried lunch to rice paddy workers, and while the workers ate their lunch, they planted 300 rice seedlings. Once complete, they would be given their next clue by one of the rice field workers.
- Grass Fed: Teams had to fill two bags with freshly cut grass and then pick up two sheep from a shed. After delivering the grass and sheep to a farm, they had to then retrieve six buckets of water from a well to fill a trough for the sheep; teams were only allowed to use two buckets at a time. Once the trough was full and the farmer was satisfied with their work, they would receive their next clue.
- Borobudur, Magelang, Megelang Regency, Central Java
- Before being allowed onto Borobudur, teams had to go to the international entrance where they were given sarongs to put on. They then walked up to the top of the temple, where they would receive their next clue.
- One racer had to walk around the top tier of Borobudur in a clockwise direction, counting the statues of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, while also paying attention to the mudra depicted in the statues (only four of the six kinds of statues were involved in the task). The racer would have to give the correct numbers of Buddhas by mudra, including a demonstration of each (17 Amitābhas with the dhyana mudra, 17 Amoghasiddhis with the abhaya mudra, 17 Akshobhyas with the bhumisparsa mudra, and 18 Ratnasambhavas with the vara mudra), in order to receive their next clue.
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Leg 4 - Episode 4 (Indonesia → Thailand)
Title: "This Is Gonna Be a Fine Mess" (Phuket, Thailand) - Bill (of Bill & Cathi)
- Flight from Adisucipto International Airport, Yogyakarta to Phuket International Airport, Phuket, Phuket Province, Thailand
- Nonthasak Marine, Phuket
- Khai Nai Island, Phuket
- Coral Reconstruction: Teams built a coral nursery out of pipes. Once complete, they used a kayak to take the nursery and several coral fragments out to a buoy where they had to set the nursery on the ocean floor, then set the coral fragments into the nursery. Once complete, a marine biologist would give them their next clue.
- Beach Preparation: Teams would have to set up a series of 20 beach chairs and 10 umbrellas marked with a specific symbol given in their clue. Once the chairs and umbrellas were set up to the beach club owner's approval, they would receive their next clue.
- The clue given to teams following the Detour was a compass and medallion; teams were instructed to travel north for 13 minutes until they reached the island as shown on the medallion: Soap Island.
- Soap Island, Phuket
- Koh Yao Noi Island, Koh Yao District
- One team member climbed the island's sheer rock wall until they reached a bird's nest that held their next clue.
- Floating Soccer Field, Koh Panyi Mueang Phang Nga District, Phang Nga Province
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Leg 5 - Episode 5 (Thailand)
Title: "I Feel Like I'm in the Circus" (Bangkok, Thailand) - Jennifer
- Ton Pariwat Wildlife Conservation Area - Anda Adventures, Song Phraek, Phang Nga Province
- To reach their first clue in the Ton Pariwat Wildlife Conservation Area, teams rode on elephants up the Khlong Song Phraek River to the location of the first Roadblock.
- For the Roadblock, one team member searched for a man playing a traditional Thai flute. They then had to search the water around him for a bundle that contained a ceramic carp with their clue inside.
- For the Speed Bump, Liz & Marie had to clean up elephant dung and wash an elephant before they could ride one to the Roadblock.
- After this Roadblock, teams traveled to a nearby store where they had to take apart a traditional spirit house which they then delivered to the Wat Chanathikaram.
- Spirit house shop, Song Phraek
- Wat Chanathikaram, Nop Pring
- The team member that sat out the first Roadblock had to rebuild the spirit house they picked up after the first Roadblock (see task above). Upon assembling it exactly, a monk would give them a bag of food and their next clue.
- From Phuket Bus Terminal, Phuket to New Southern Bus Terminal, Bangkok
- Bangkok Noi Canal at Wat Suwannaram Worawihan, Bangkok Noi District
- Teams had to feed fish at the canal using the food from the second Roadblock before they would receive their next clue.
- M.R. Kukrit Heritage House, Bangkok
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Leg 6 - Episode 6 (Thailand → Malawi)
Title: "We Love Your Country Already; It Is Very Spacious" (Malawi) - Cathi
- Flight from Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok to Lilongwe International Airport, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Limbe Tobacco Warehouse - Gate 7, Lilongwe
- One team member had to put on a workman's uniform and transport ten 200-pound (91 kg) bales of tobacco leaves through the tobacco warehouse to a drop-off zone in another part of the warehouse, using only a hand-cart that could carry one bag at a time. Once complete, teams would receive their next clue.
- Memorial Tower, Lilongwe
- All Sewn Up: Teams went to the White Horse De-Sign Tailor Shop in the old market and picked a customer. They would have to use manual sewing machines to finish the customer's suit in order to receive their next clue.
- Not Grown Up: Teams headed to Lilongwe LEA School where teams had to use provided materials (cardboard boxes, nails, string, and bottle caps) to build toy trucks. Once it was properly constructed, the headmistress would give the truck to a student who tested it out before the team would receive their next clue.
- R-K Furniture Shop, Mchesi, Lilongwe
- Teams had to transport two handcrafted wooden beds to Kumbali Village, and then carry the beds to the Pit Stop mat. They would be allowed to ask the shop owner to call a truck for them. Teams would use these beds for an overnight stay at the village.
- Kumbali Village
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Leg 7 - Episode 7 (Malawi)
Title: "Move Goat" (Malawi) - Marcus
- From Lilongwe Bus Station, Lilongwe to Salima Bus Terminal, Salima
- Salima Bus Terminal, Salima
- For the Speed Bump, Amani & Marcus had to solve a slide puzzle that depicted the 2010 Malawian flag before they could participate in the Roadblock.
- For the Roadblock, one team member used a bicycle taxi known as a kabaza to take a customer carrying fish to one of three different destinations written on a board tied to the fish. After they dropped off their customer to their required address, they headed back to the bus station to trade in their earnings of MK100 (approximately US$0.66) to the kabaza dispatcher for their next clue.
- Lake Malawi
- Dugout: Teams participated in the annual Lake Malawi Dugout Canoe Race, and had to use the traditional canoes to paddle out to some drummers out on the lake and then paddle back to shore to receive their clue from a local fisherman.
- Lugout: Teams had to wade to a ferryboat on the lake and unload passengers and cargo from the ferry by carrying it to shore. They had to unload two boxes of cabbage, two bundles of sugar cane, two bundles of brooms, one chair, one fan, and eight passengers – all of whom expected to stay dry – before they received their clue from the boat's porter.
- Jamaica Shop, Chigumukile Village
- Laurence & Zac tried to U-turn Amani & Marcus who were actually ahead of them, so the Double U-turn had no effect. No one used the other slot of the Double U-Turn.
- Sunbird Livingstonia Beach, Senga Bay, Salima District
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Leg 8 - Episode 8 (Malawi → Denmark)
Title: "Super Shady" (Copenhagen, Denmark) - Cindy
- Flight from Lilongwe Airport, Lilongwe to Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Von Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen
- After climbing to the top of the Vor Frelsers Kirke, teams had to search for two clues on the top of the tower. The first was a flag on the tower that said "Borg Slot" and the other was a banner on a nearby building that said "Frederiks". This would lead teams to their next location: Frederiksborg Slot.
- Frederiksborg Slot, Hillerød, Hillerød Municipality
- One team member had to dress in period costume and learn a complex three-part dance from an instructor. Once the Countess was pleased with their dance, they would receive their next clue.
- Frilandsmuseet, Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality
- All Hopped Up: Teams had to lay out a proper rabbit show jumping course. They then had to pick a rabbit and have each team member run it through the course without knocking over any of the obstacles. Once complete, the animal handler would give them their next clue.
- All Churned Out: Teams had to make six sticks of butter by using a traditional butter churn to churn fresh cream, then stamp out the sticks using a special mold. Once complete, the dairymaid would check their work, then give them their next clue.
- Karlstrup Windmill, Kongens Lyngby
- Ernie & Cindy U-turned Bill & Cathi, while Bill & Cathi U-turned Laurence & Zac.
- Havet Ship, Copenhagen
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Leg 9 - Episode 9 (Denmark → Germany → Belgium)
Title: "It's Speedo Time" (Brussels, Belgium) - Tommy
- Andersens Boulevard - Statue of Hans Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
- One team member had to memorize a poem on the base of the statue of Hans Christian Andersen on Andersens Boulevard (Danish), and then use a map on a provided bicycle's wheel to navigate themselves to the Teatermuseet i Hofteatret (Danish) where they would have to recite the poem verbatim and with dramatic flair in order to receive their next clue.
- Legoland Billund, Billund Municipality, Syddanmark
- Teams had to find the Pirate Carousel (a teacups ride), where they received a box containing a puzzle made of Lego. While on the ride, they had to assemble the puzzle to reveal their next destination: the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof in Hamburg, Germany. Teams could work on the puzzle only while the ride was in motion; they had to raise their hands when the ride stopped.
- Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
- From Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg to Brussels-South railway station, Brussels, Germany
- European Parliament Building, Brussels
- Note: This Leg featured a Detour, but all of the teams chose the task called Bodybuilding Pose; this was changed to an additional task in post-production, leaving the other Detour option unknown to viewers.
- Bodybuilding Pose: Teams made their way to the Concert Noble in Brussels and competed in a bodybuilding competition in honor of Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is famously known as "The Muscles from Brussels". Racers had to put on bikinis, cover their bodies in posing oil, and then learn a series of bodybuilding poses. They then used the poses in a routine that they performed in front of three judges. If the judges gave them a combined score of 12 or better, teams would receive their next clue.
- →→ Parc Elisabeth, Brussels
- Although this leg was a Double-length leg (the rest of the leg is continued below as leg 10), Amani & Marcus still won a trip for two to Panama for placing 1st in this leg.
Leg 10 - Episode 10 (Belgium)
Title: "Release the Brake!" (Brussels, Belgium) - Marcus' driving instructor (non-racer)
- Ford Proving Grounds, Lommel, Limburg
- One team member had to test drive a Ford Mustang. Teams first had to accelerate to 100 mph (160 km/h) and then brake at a designated spot. They then had to go through a slalom course within 16 seconds, and they finished the test drive by performing two victory doughnuts before they received their next clue.
- Burgstraat - Hoofdbrug, Ghent, East Flanders, Flemish Region
- Water: Teams used provided materials (pontoons, rope, and wood) to build a raft to search the Lieve canal (Dutch) for two halves to their next clue.
- Waffle: Teams had to build a waffle stand and then bake and decorate 18 Belgian waffles to the chef's satisfaction before receiving their next clue.
- Muur van Geraardsbergen, Geraardsbergen
- Teams released 100 homing pigeons and then were given an address to chase the pigeons to. Once there, teams would be able to retrieve their next clue from one of the pigeons.
- Atomium, Brussels
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Leg 11 - Episode 11 (Belgium → Netherlands → Panama)
Title: "We Are Charlie Chaplin" (Panama City, Panama) - Tommy
- Stockel/Stokkel metro station - The Adventures of Tintin mural, Brussels
- Before leaving Brussels, teams had to dress up as the two bumbling detective characters from the popular Belgian The Adventures of Tintin comics, and figure out one of the three names ("Thomson and Thompson", "Dupond and Dupont", or "Johnson and Johnston") by which the characters are known in Belgium. Then, using a photo given to them with the clue, teams had to find a man dressed as Tintin standing in front of the Tintin mural at the Stockel/Stokkel metro station and tell him any one of the name variations of the characters they were dressed as in order to receive their next clue.
- From Brussels-South railway station to Schiphol railway station, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Tocumen International Airport, Panama City, Panama
- Puerto El Corotu, Chagres National Park
- Parara Puru, Chagres National Park
- Teams signed up for one of 4 times to receive a temporary tattoo the next morning. The tattoo would give them their next location: the San Francisco Bay Towers in Panama City.
- San Francisco Bay Towers, San Francisco, Panama City
- One team member had to cross a tightrope between the San Francisco Bay Towers, 35 stories tall and 65 feet (20 m) across. The racer would pick up a clue on the other tower, and then make a trip back to the first tower before they could continue.
- After the Roadblock, teams were given a riddle to search for a man underneath the rooster, directing them to the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps in the Plaza de Francia.
- Plaza de Francia - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue, Casco Viejo, Panama City
- Filet: Teams traveled to Panama's largest fish market, El Mercado de Mariscos, where they had to deliver fish to different marked stalls throughout the market, each of which only accepted a certain kind of fish, and only up to a certain weight of that fish. Once they were done with their deliveries, the fishmonger would give them their next clue.
- Sole: Teams traveled to the Salsipuedes Market where they had to find a sandals stall where they had to use one piece of leather each to make the sole and strapping for a pair of sandals for a customer. Once they were done with the sandals and the cobbler was pleased with their work, teams would receive their next clue.
- Cathedral Square, Casco Viejo
- Teams had to find the name or likeness of the Pit Stop in the traditional pollera dresses and necklaces of a group of tamborito dancers in the plaza: Panamá Viejo.
- Panamá Viejo, Casco Viejo
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Leg 12 - Episode 12 (Panama → United States)
Title: "Go Out and Get It Done" (Atlanta, Georgia) - Marcus
- Flight from Tocumen International Airport, Panama City to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- FlightSafety International, Atlanta
- Teams had to pick a flight instructor who would teach them how to operate a Learjet flight simulator. They then had to successfully complete a simulated landing at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport from an altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m) in order to receive the next clue.
- The clue from FlightSafety International instructed teams to go to "the residence formerly known as 'The Dump'", leaving them to figure out that this was a reference to the house of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind.
- Margaret Mitchell House & Museum, Atlanta
- One team member to type out the team's next clue by using a Remington typewriter to duplicate an example message. The duplicate had to be perfectly straight and neat, with no mistakes. Additionally, the typewriters used for the task did not have a key for the number 1; racers were left to figure out that they had to use the key for the lower-case letter l as a substitute.
- Upon completing the final Roadblock, teams had to deduce that a series of three numbers included in the clue were references to Hank Aaron: respectively, his uniform number (44), the number of home runs he hit to break the Major League Baseball home run record (715), and the year in which he broke the record ('74). They were also left to figure out that this meant that their next destination was Turner Field, specifically the location in its parking lot where Aaron's 715th home run is commemorated.
- Turner Field, Atlanta
- Teams had to use a large vertical map and rock climbing gear to map out the Race course from start to finish by looping a rope through a series of carabiners on the map, each representing a specific country (the Netherlands and Germany – through which teams traveled during the race, but did not host tasks or Pit Stops – were not required in the solution). One team member worked on the map while his or her teammate gave help from the ground. Teams were not allowed to use notes while working on the task, and the countries on the map were unlabeled.
- Finish Line: Swan House, Atlanta
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Pitstop Greeters
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Good Situations
Bad Situations
- Ethan & Jenna and Ron & Bill did not pay all of their money to the orphanage becoming victims of the double-elimination leg.
- Laurence & Zac becoming lost searching for a pit stop.
- Andy & Tommy overlooking an important detail and went to the wrong location.
- First time visits to Malawi, Denmark, and Belgium.
- First season to introduce a Hazard.
- First season to have a Double Elimination.
- First season to have tablets used in the U-Turns, removing the usage of the "Courtesy Of" photos.
- Third season to not have a Fast Forward in the race course (after The Amazing Race 14, which the Fast Forward went unaired and The Amazing Race 18, which was not available).
- Fourth season to features all male-female team in the final three after the back-to-back chain from Season 5 until Season 7, coincidentally all the final three teams were involved love relationship among their own team member.
- First season to have U-Turns on back-to-back legs.
- First time visit to Indonesia.
- Third season to have no one eliminated at the pit stop in the first leg (after The Amazing Race 15 and The Amazing Race 18).
- Second season to eliminate multiple teams in the same country (Ethan and Jenna, Ron and Bill & Kaylani and Lisa, all in Indonesia). The first was The Amazing Race 8 were seven teams eliminated in their home country, which was the United States.
- First season since the Season 11: All Stars to have four non-elimination legs (Including the one double length leg between leg 9 and leg 10).
- Only season after Season 18 to have no teams participating again in All-Stars (2014).
- The final four teams dominate the leg wins in this season, (Andy & Tommy with 6 wins, Ernie & Cindy with 3 wins, Amani & Marcus with 2 wins, Jeremy & Sandy with 1 win)
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Discussion in 'Nintendo Gamecube' started by daisyJ27, Apr 18, 2010.
was this game one of the best gc games you played?
No, it was one of the best Dreamcast games I've ever played.
The Chao are endless amounts of fun!
Was Chao too addictive?
They were only the most addictive part of the game. When I sent one of mine away for the first time, I almost cried. XD
I never got a Dark Chao, no matter what I did.
i remember when i had my sonic advance 2 as well to transfer my chaos, omg so addictive that game with the gba and gc
Err...you feed it a dark fruit...
I fed it, like, 5. .-.
Okay well you know how you can pet chaos right? Constantly pet it with a dark character.
D'oh! That makes sense. I always used Sonic. >,<
It was fun but RE4 was the best gc game.com
How do I get a Hero Chaos chao? I could never get a chaos chao -_-
2-P mode and Chao Garden were the best part of the game ^_^
LOL!:lol: And remember to repeatedly tap the button don't keep it down for a long time.
If you have any questions I made this topic.
The link below is the ultimate Chao site, it will answer all your questions.
Or you could just use Sonic and throw the chao around, beat it up, etc.
Yes but then its less likely that your chao will transform when it dies.
Its amazing how the game came out FEB.15 2002 and to this day people are still talking about it and still playing it
A remake for wii would be good but making GC controller optional and not changing anything but adding wifi guarentee it would be awesome
Chao Garden Online (Go to your friends garden and exchange chao also with wii speak)
VS Mode Online ( racing and battling people online including friends)
What do you guys think?
Super Mario 64 came out in 2000 and people are still playing it, and what about all those NES games?
Super Mario 64 came out SEPT.12 1996 which is even better because it proves how fun it was
Oops!:lol: Well there you go.
sonic adventure came out 1998 anyone still play that?
Moose was once as this game is not very interesting


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Little G is a family affair. George Diacos decided to take his passion for pizza and open right next to his sister Danielle's cafe, Gertrude and Mabel, on Gladstone Road. The Diacos' mother, Sylvia Belessis, also works at the restaurant, while sous chef Alex Ung has followed George to every establishment he's worked since the now-defunct Italo-Greek La Via in Southbank.
Little it is. The pizza shop is slotted into the narrow space of a former coin-operated laundry, so Diacos had to get creative and cut a hole in the wall, air-conditioner-style, to accommodate his oven. Otherwise, the fit-out is straightforward: white walls, breezeblocks and a couple of small benches for customers to dine in. Outside, a series of larger picnic tables line Gladstone Road.
Within a week of opening in 2016, the tiny eatery was set upon by eager locals with Diacos having to double his dough production. Parking can be an issue and it's sometimes hard to grab a table, given Little G doesn't take bookings (hence a focus on takeaway). Customers are welcome to BYO if they sit at one of the picnic tables out front.
The menu sections are simple and concise: Pizza; Not Pizza; Sweet; and Drinks. Classics like the margherita; prosciutto and pear; and pizza e funghi (or "Garlicky Pizza" as Little G likes to call it) join modern and relatively brave creations such as the macaroni and lardo.
Two choices of arancini – mushroom and sage or macaroni – are a welcome addition. Both are rich and perfectly crumbed. The Greek influence shines through with cross-cuisine favourites such as calamari fritti and fried octopus. To finish, the Nutella arancini is a playful variation on the theme – a little over the top, but completely divine.
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Viator expands its mobile service in German
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Finally there is a mobile solution for Viator`s service in German. The tour and activity provider recently launched its mobile website in three European languages: German (de.m.viator.com), Spanish (es.m.viator.com) and French (fr.m.viator.com). The mobile website, which is fully optimized for all smartphone devices, offers its users:
• Research of Viator's 9,000 activities in more than 150 countries
• Access to more than 330,000 traveler reviews and photos
• Latest availability and pricing, even at the last minute
• Click to Book with confirmation and voucher delivery via email
• Call to Book with a Viator agent with flexible email or fax confirmation and voucher delivery, ideal for in-destination bookings
• Check-in for activities with paperless e-vouchers
Whether before a trip or last minute with location based search, users of the mobile website easily find and book an activity from Viator`s portfolio within a few clicks.
Nevertheless, the mobile website exemplifies that transferring a service from one language into another is not as trivial as it may seem. Thus, reading the reviews at de.m.viator.com the user has to struggle with machine-translated texts. Conversely, some of the activity descriptions are only available in English.
Viator`s newly launched mobile website for German users complements its web presence. Additionally, the Australian provider offers mobile solutions for iPhone and iPod touch as well as for iPad users. Those apps are only available in English. Read more about the functions of the "Viator Tours & Activities"app in the Mobile Travel App Guide Edition 2012 powered by ITB.


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Last Thursday kicked off the festivities for Mercedes Benz Spring/Summer 2012 Fashion Week, held in the tents at Lincoln Center. The lobby tent resembles a car dealership more than anything else. The impression is reinforced by the two Mercedes Benz automobiles parked on either side.
In keeping with the new austerity, the sponsors had drastically cut down their offerings. Chambord was no longer. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the loss of the bar and consequent free drinks.
Frappucino was also not to be found. That sat well with moi. I missed the McCafe at Bryant Park, where huge sweet coffee drinks with whipped cream and chocolate sauce kept me going throughout the day. Tresemme' is still there. But instead of shampoo and conditioner, they are offering dry shampoo. Pardon my lack of excitement. The Maybelline stand, formerly generous with its offerings, allowed you to pick one item. I remember two seasons ago running in without my lipstick. The lovely lady there gave me two, one for before and one after 5 pm. No such luck now. However, I did choose the Maybelline Falsies mascara. The two lipsticks offered were coral and fuchsia, the two colors I cannot wear.
Arizona set up large coolers of various tea drinks and the most nauseating virgin pina colada I have ever gagged down. There is never free food (nobody eats at Fashion Week), but there was a café at the perimeter where one could pay ridiculously huge amounts for a salad.
The tone was muted as well. Most of the female attendees wore little black dresses. Only the very young women wore bodycon dresses in garish colors. While waiting online for the Tadashi Shoji show, I noticed a beautiful young woman wearing a 1980s Tadashi blue ruched Qiana dress.
"Pardonnez moi, but is that dress vintage?"
She turned and gave me a condescending look. "You don't know Tadashi's design history, do you?" And turned back.
No, I suppose I don't. Strumpet.
The runway show itself? Terne, terne et morne. I was oft reminded of Laura's dress on Ep. 6 of Project Runway.
Yes, Tadashi was out of his comfort zone. One wishes he'd stayed put. Many dresses were ombre'. As some interstitial idiocy during Project Runway put it, "Ombre' is the new black!"
You know a show is not going well when the photographers' "pit" barely flashes a light, and the audience sits quietly until the end. I would write more but thinking about that show causes my narcolepsy to kick in.


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Warm up your wheels and get your helmet hair ready, the West Beach Parks Skate and BMX is open and free all day and night. Get out the skateboard, skates and BMX bikes and roll down to Africaine Road while staying at the Parks, or head down for a day on wheels.
West Beach Parks Skate and BMX is very popular for skate-boarding, in-line skating and BMX riding and here is what you will find:
Popular skate company Da Klinic operated the kiosk and skate shop at West Beach Skate and BMX. They offer a full range of Skateboard, scooter products and
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Oh no! Classes will be suspended from June 4-14 in my school (DLSU) because there is this one International girl student who brought the scary A(H1N1) Influenza virus to school. I mean, she could have brought to school some lovely souvenirs for her friends and the other people, right? But instead, she brought the globally recognized notorious virus to school! Come on! Honestly, I feel sad for her because she has the virus, but a part of me hates her because now my friends are at risk of carrying the virus as well. I just hope no one else got infected by the virus. *crosses fingers
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Teen Challenge Boys Programs in Lancaster, Pennsylvania . . . Treasure Coast Boys Academy Will Turn Around Your Troubled Boy
Even as you search for Teen Challenge programs for boys in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, would you take a minute to look at a Teen Challenge therapeutic ranch in Florida that provides incredible results?
While not in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Teen Challenge Treasure Coast Boys Academy, located in Vero Beach, Florida, is developed for at-risk boys.
This Teen Challenge Boys Ranch is a non-profit Christian boarding school providing an affordable safe haven for adolescent boys in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and around the nation; teens who have sought to fill a void in their lives through negative peer influences, self-destructive habits, or substance abuse.
Treasure Coast Boys Academy serves 50 teenage boys at our residential boarding school and ranch. Boys from Lancaster, Pennsylvania who enroll in this Teen Challenge program will learn to develop character, integrity, and respect. We show boys a more positive way to live through example, lessons, counsel, mentoring and team exercises. Also, by eliminating distractions and getting away from problematic situations, it helps to open the door to break destructive patterns of behavior.
Boys come to Treasure Coast Boys Academy from around the country, including from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Boys may enroll year-round.
If you want your son to make a change in his life, be aware that Treasure Coast Boys Academy could be precisely what you are looking for.
Counseling at the Teen Challenge Treasure Coast Boys Academy is offered frequently during the day, in all settings, through conversations with mentors during chores or activities. We put great importance on mentorship, providing the boys with positive male role models during their time with us.
A Better Option than Boys Ranches, Boot Camps and Wilderness Programs in Pennsylvania that Don't Have the History of a Acclaimed Teen Challenge Program
At Treasure Coast Boys Academy, we keep boys physically active and challenged. Our recreational and sports facilities include a well-equipped gym and a professional array of weight machines, soccer field, baseball diamond, basketball court, pool, game room, fishing ponds, and horses. We often go fishing on the Florida waterways and out in the ocean. The culmination of the program is an incredible wilderness experience in the mountains of North Carolina during the last month of the boys' residency.
Our on-campus academy is in session year-round to give boys the occasion to catch up on missed credits. We have on-campus teachers who facilitate the boy's education and tutor individual boys. Boys from Lancaster, Pennsylvania quickly catch up on missed coursework or move ahead.
To hear more about how our Teen Challenge boys ranch can offer restoration for your family in Lancaster, PA, we invite you to explore our website.
Thank you for thinking about Treasure Coast Boys Academy as you seek out Teen Challenge programs for boys near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Call us today to see how affordable we are.
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Lancaster is a city located in the heart of "Amish Country" and serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and one of the older non-coastal towns in the United States, (along with Springfield, Massachusetts, Petersburg, Virginia, Schenectady, New York and several other settlements.). With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities. The Lancaster metropolitan area population is 507,766, making it the 101st largest metropolitan area in the US and 2nd largest in the South Central Pennsylvania area.
Lancaster was home to James Buchanan, the nation's 15th president, and to congressman and abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
The city's primary industries include healthcare, tourism, public administration, manufacturing, both professional and semi-professional services, and home of the Park City Center shopping mall, the largest indoor retail facility in the entire south-central Pennsylvania region. Lancaster is known for its innovative adoption of advanced technology and hosts more electronic public CCTV outdoor cameras per capita then any US city.
Locally, Lancaster is pronounced IPA-en Respell, rather than the wider American pronunciation IPA Sc-kast-r. This is most likely due to the British influence over the area.
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Unpopular Opinion: 5 Games I like but everyone else thinks are bad
So next week I'll be doing a double review of DEVIL'S THIRD and LEGEND OF KAY ANNIVERSARY, that means I'll review both in one article. I'll probably get a few things mixed up even, which will be very weird for … Continue reading
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Why the current conversation about guns in the USA is a horrible problem!
There was, of course, another shooting in the U.S. today. Nothing new about that as it happens almost daily. However, I take great offense in how the media and especially social media portray this entire issue – namely totally wrong.
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Dear Nintendo, please get your act together, sincerely: Everyone! Marketing Edition
This is the fifth and final pat of a five part series. Click here to read part 4 Nintendo of Europe announced some great deals during Gamescom this week. Project Zero (Fatal Frame in the US) will be released in … Continue reading


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CISC totally differs from a usual post-Soviet school. Comfortable building, modern interior, variety of colours and creative environment assit the formation of a positive view of the world and create a due basis for a child's free development.
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In our School the educational process is based upon regular change of types and forms of activities, which favours children's adaptability and maximum development of skills.
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"Why are we new suit shopping again?" Daniel looked over at his partner, Jesse, who flipped through the racks at his favorite down town department store.
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"You have loads of purple shirts. You're in one now." Daniel fingered a light blue shirt. He needed something new to impress Rafael when they had dinner. He knew his dominant wanted to discuss something big, but he couldn't even guess what it could be about.
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It's no secret that out-of-control cholesterol levels are a severe health risk and a major cause for heart attack and stroke, which causes many people to search for ways to lower cholesterol levels. Are you looking to lower your cholesterol? Cardiologist Deborah Barbour has developed an eight-step plan to help you lower your cholesterol and maintain healthy levels going forward, hoping that you will incorporate ways to lower cholesterol levels into your daily lifestyle.
To understand the importance of lowering your cholesterol, you should know exactly what cholesterol is and how you can get too much of it.
Cholesterol is a normally occurring waxy, fat-like substance that the body produces to support healthy cell function and hormone production. Like oil and water, however, cholesterol in the blood does not mix or dissolve. To make its way around the body, cholesterol requires two kinds of special lipoprotein carriers — low-density (LDL), or "bad," cholesterol and high-density (HDL), or "good," cholesterol.
Too much LDL in the body can build up in the arteries and cause plaque. As this plaque accumulates arteries become smaller and less blood can squeeze through to the heart and other major organs.
Triglycerides are another component of your cholesterol profile that needs to be monitored. Triglycerides form in the body from the fatty foods we eat and are the most sensitive to diet. If you've had ice cream and pizza the night before your cholesterol is tested, your triglycerides level will give you away. The reverse is also true — a low-fat diet will quickly lower your triglycerides.
Studies show that diet alone can reduce LDL levels by 35 percent in just two weeks. So if you've discovered that your cholesterol is out of control, or if you've been working to get your LDL and HDL in balance, Dr. Barbour's eight-step plan can help you. It may even help you get off of cholesterol-lowering drugs if you are currently taking them, or it may help you avoid them all together. But even with drugs, Dr. Barbour recommends her plan as an important part of healthy cholesterol maintenance.
Before you begin it's a good idea to see your doctor — and to have your cholesterol checked. Dr. Barbour's program is for informational purposes only and should not be substituted for a doctor's medical care.
Know Your Risk
Do you have high blood pressure? Do you have a family history of coronary artery disease before the age of 65? Are you a smoker? Overweight? Do you have coronary artery disease or problems with the arteries in your neck, legs or the aorta? Presence of one or more of these risks makes it even more imperative to monitor cholesterol levels. Even if you are not in the high-risk category it's still important to know your numbers and what they mean.
Talk to Your Doctor
You may not experience any symptoms if you have high cholesterol and most people don't know they have it. That's why it is important to have your blood checked periodically. A blood test called a lipoprotein profile measures the cholesterol levels in your blood and is the recommended test. Find out what your numbers are and talk with your doctor about what they mean. The American Heart Association recommendations for cholesterol levels are:
Total blood cholesterol level (includes HDL, LDL and triglycerides):
Desirable — Less than 200 mg/dL
Borderline high risk — 200-239 mg/dL
High risk — 240 mg/dL and over
How the numbers break out:
HDL — 40 mg/dl or higher
LDL — Less than 100
Triglycerides — Less than 150
Read the Labels
In 1994 the Food and Drug Administration took a hard look at how food manufacturers reported the nutritional value in food and revamped the now famous food label. Those charts on the back of food packages should become your best friend. When considering your cholesterol take note of the section on saturated fat. Saturated fats are usually solid or almost solid at room temperature. All animal fats, such as those in meat, poultry, and dairy products are saturated. Processed and fast foods are also laden with saturated fats. Saturated fats can make your cholesterol levels go through the roof. Reducing saturated fat to less than 10 percent of your caloric intake will help you lower your LDL blood cholesterol. For more on food labeling go to Food Label.
Food manufacturers can also be tricky in how they label their products to grab the attention of the health-conscious consumer. New rules are now in place to guide shoppers. It's important to know what the following terminology means when searching for healthy foods:
Reduced fat: 25% less fat than the same regular brand.
Light: 50% less fat than the same regular product.
Low fat: less than 3 grams of fat per serving.
Reduced or fewer calories: at least 25 percent fewer calories per serving than the reference food.
Fat-free: less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.
Eat More Fish
Some fish — such as salmon, tuna, sardines, mackerel and herring — contain a type of fish oil called omega-3. Studies have found that omega-3 not only helps lower cholesterol, but also helps to reduce the chance of blood clot formation and protects against irregular heartbeats, which can cause heart attack and sudden cardiac death. The American Heart Association recommends about 3 ounces of fish at least two times a week or more. Fish oil supplements are also an option.
Try Some New Recipes
Be adventurous. Just because it's healthy doesn't mean it won't taste good. Use soy products as a substitute for meat. Substitute egg whites or egg substitute for whole eggs, skim milk for whole and use olive or canola oil when cooking. Do like the Italians do and use olive oil instead of butter on bread. Bake or broil instead of frying and remove chicken skin before cooking. The American Heart Association online cookbook is a good source for "heart healthy" recipes.
Nothing new here. Getting off the couch is one of the best things you can do for your overall health. Thirty to 45 minutes of moderate intensity workouts most days of the week is the recommendation. Try thinking of exercise as your recreation time by walking, swimming, dancing or bicycling. For more on how to incorporate exercise into daily life check out, "How do I increase my exercise?".
Monitor Your Cholesterol
Everyone over the age of 20 should have a lipoprotein profile performed at least every five years. If your cholesterol was found to be high or borderline at your last physical, begin Dr. Barbour's eight-step plan and get your cholesterol checked again four to six months after you have made these lifestyle changes. This will give your doctor a good indication whether dietary and activity changes are enough to lower your cholesterol or if medication may be required. If cholesterol-reducing medication becomes necessary your doctor will tell you which ones are best and how often you should have your cholesterol checked.
Maintain a Healthy Weight
Shed those extra pounds. Being overweight is not only associated with an increase in cholesterol, but the extra pounds can increase your blood pressure and your risk for diabetes and certain types of cancer.
5 ways cholesterol can affect your sex life is important to be aware about. Learn all about cholesterol affecting your sex life from Discovery Health.


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Call for papers for the workshop 'Expertise and Democratic Accountability in Courts and Public Administration' in May 2016. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 March.
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Call for papers for the workshop 'Expertise and Democratic Accountability in Courts and Public Administration' in May 2016. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 March.
Call for papers for the panel 'Was Plato Right? Should the Experts Rule?' at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2016 in Pisa. Deadline for paper proposals: 1 December 2015.
They claim to know European women's experiences and needs. Some argue that more expert power makes EU gender equality policies less democratic. Researchers have studied what kind of expertise is involved.
ARENA contributed extensively to two workshops under the Nordic Political Science Congress in August. The themes discussed were the EU in the world and expert rule, respectively.
The EPISTO project is co-organizing the workshop 'Deliberation after consensus: Democracy, epistemic quality and public discourse', which will take place in Paris on 20-21 November 2014.
John Moodie in this EUROPP blog post argues that while there are legitimate concerns over the use of Commission expert groups, there are adequate checks and balances in place to provide democratic safeguards.
The EPISTO project staged its kick-off conference in Oslo on 4-5 April 2013. Around 60 participants contributed to a real kick-start of the project, which is lead by Cathrine Holst at ARENA.
Cathrine Holst assesses whether modern society's dependence on expertise ensures that we must now redefine what democracy means at LSE's EUROPP-blog.
Cathrine Holst has been awarded the Burgen Scholarship from the Academia Europaea.
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The Web, databases, and other digitized information storehouses contain a growing volume of audio content. Sources include newscasts, sporting events, telephone conversations, recordings of meetings, Webcasts, documentary archives such as the Visual History Foundation's interviews with Holocaust survivors (http://www.vhf.org), and media files in libraries.
Users want to make the most of this material by searching and indexing the digitized audio content. In the past, companies had to create and manually analyze written transcripts of audio content because using computers to recognize, interpret, and analyze digitized speech was difficult. However, the development of faster microprocessors, larger storage capacities, and better speech-recognition algorithms has made audio mining easier.
Now, the technology is on the verge of becoming a powerful tool that could help many organizations. For example, companies could use audio mining to analyze customer-service and help-desk conversations or even voice mail. Law enforcement and intelligence organizations could use the technology to analyze intercepted phone conversations. Public relations firms could use it to analyze news broadcasts to find coverage of clients.
"Audio mining could change how we treat voice and text," said William Meisel, president of TMA Associates, a speech-industry market-research firm. "For example, instead of deleting old voice mails, we might save them if we could easily search them later."
Audio mining may also help the media significantly reduce costs by indexing material or synchronizing closed captioning with video without human intervention, said Jackie Fenn, a vice president and research fellow for market research firm Gartner Inc.
Broadcast companies like CNN and Radio Free Asia are already using audio mining to quickly retrieve important background information from previous broadcasts when new stories break. And a US prison is using ScanSoft's (http://www.scansoft.com) audio mining product to analyze recordings of prisoners' phone calls to identify illegal activity. Developing technology that can accurately search, analyze, and mine audio is challenging because the quality and nature of sound from different sources vary widely. This makes it difficult for a single system to process all types of audio. Audio mining's accuracy levels are still relatively low, and some products are expensive, with some high-end software packages costing more than $100,000 for a full-scale deployment.
Nonetheless, several companies such as BBN Technologies (http://www.bbn.com), Fast-Talk Communications (http://www.fast-talk.com), IBM, and ScanSoft have released audio mining software, and industry observers expect the number of products to increase during the next few years.
Audio mining, also called audio searching, takes a text-based query and locates the search term or phrase in an audio file. This helps users by, for example, letting them quickly get to specific places in a recorded conversation or determine when a company is mentioned in a newscast.
Audio indexing, on the other hand, uses speech recognition to analyze an entire file and produce a searchable index of content-bearing words and their locations. This capability is critical because audio content is in a binary format that is otherwise not readily searchable, explained Robert Weideman, ScanSoft's chief marketing officer.
Indexing audio content thus enables searching, said Jeff Karnes, a group product manager for Virage, a software developer that embeds audio mining technology into its commercial media-management platform.
There are two main approaches to audio mining.
Text-based indexing. Text-based indexing, also known as large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR), converts speech to text and then identifies words in a dictionary that can contain up to several hundred thousand entries. If a word or name is not in the dictionary, the LVCSR system will choose the most similar word it can find.
The system uses language understanding to create a confidence level for its findings. For findings with less than a 100 percent confidence level, the system offers other possible word matches, said Professor Dan Ellis, who leads Columbia University's Laboratory for Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio (http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu).
Thus, an LVCSR system can enhance its accuracy level by storing words that sound much like other words, although this approach also generates some wrong results.
Phoneme-based indexing. Phoneme-based indexing doesn't convert speech to text but instead works only with sounds.
The system first analyzes and identifies sounds in a piece of audio content to create a phonetic-based index. It then uses a dictionary of several dozen phonemes to convert a user's search term to the correct phoneme string. (Phonemes are the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one utterance from another. For example, "ai", "eigh", and "ey" are the long "a" phoneme. Each language has a finite set of phonemes, and all words are sets of phonemes.) Finally, the system looks for the search terms in the index.
"A phonetic system requires a more proprietary search tool because it must phoneticize the query term, then try to match it with the existing phonetic-string output," Weideman said. This is considerably more complex than using one of the many existing text-based search tools.
Phoneme-based searches can result in more false matches than the text-based approach, particularly for short search terms, because many words sound alike or sound like parts of other words. For example, Weideman explained, a search for the word "ray" might get a match from within the word "trading."
According to Ellis, it's difficult for a phonetic system to accurately classify a phoneme except by recognizing the entire word that it is part of or by understanding that a language permits only certain phoneme sequences.
However, he added, phonetic indexing can still be useful if the analyzed material contains important words that are likely to be missing from a text system's dictionary, such as foreign terms and names of people and places.
Text- and phoneme-based systems operate in much the same way, except that the former uses a text-based dictionary and the latter uses a phonetic dictionary.
The most important and complex component technology for audio mining is speech recognition. In these systems, explained University of Texas Assistant Professor Latifur R. Khan, "A speech recognizer converts the observed acoustic signal into the corresponding [written] representation of the spoken [words]."
Speech recognition software contains acoustic models of the way in which all phonemes are represented. Also, TMA's Meisel said, there is a statistical language model that indicates how likely words are to follow each other in a specific language. By using these capabilities, as well as complex probability analysis, the technology can take a speech signal of unknown content and convert it to a series of words from the program's dictionary.
Khan noted that this process is more difficult with highly inflected languages, such as Chinese, in which tonality changes the meaning of a word.
Some audio mining dictionaries are domain specific, for use by professionals in different fields, such as law or medicine. In any event, users can update dictionaries, usually manually but sometimes automatically by scanning Web sites or other sources into an audio mining product.
Some products, such as ScanSoft's AudioMining Development System, use XML's ability to tag data so that it can be read by other XML-capable systems, ScanSoft's Weideman noted. This lets the product export speech index information to other systems, he said.
By working with powerful host-system processors, large memories, and efficient algorithms, most audio mining technology provides high performance levels.
For example, Fast-Talk says its newest technology can index a one-hour audio file in five minutes, and can process 30 hours of content per second in response to a specific, 10-phoneme search query in a host system running a 2.53-GHz Pentium CPU.
Demand for multilingual audio mining systems is slowly growing, particularly for those that work with Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, US and UK English, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
BBN Technologies' BBN Audio Indexer plug-in produces indexed, searchable transcriptions of any audio source in Arabic, Chinese, English, or Spanish in real time on a standard PC.
Porting a product to a new language or a significantly different dialect is time consuming and expensive because developers must collect and transcribe acoustic data for the language or dialect, and then train and evaluate new acoustic models.
A major challenge for speech recognition tools has been recognizing the speech of different users in different environments. With this in mind, BBN, IBM, Fast-Talk, and ScanSoft have designed their audio mining technology to be largely speaker independent. For example, Fast-Talk's acoustic models are trained to recognize numerous speakers via exposure to audio data from males and females representing various ages, dialects, and speaking styles, explained Mark A. Clements, the company's cofounder and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Communications.
Some audio mining technology uses acoustic models tuned to understand speech from different environments-such as telephony (which can be difficult to pick up because of background noise and/or microphone quality), TV, or radio.
Meanwhile, Clements said, researchers have had to make other improvements to audio mining technology, such as designing filters to reduce the background noise that can interfere with accurate speech recognition, creating efficient data structures for representing content, and developing algorithms that quickly work through the data structures during indexing and searching.
Although audio mining developers have overcome numerous challenges, several important hurdles remain.
For example, precision is improving but is still a key issue impeding the technology's widespread adoption, particularly in such accuracy-critical applications as court reporting and medical dictation.
According to Virage's Karnes, audio mining error rates vary widely depending on such factors as the technology vendor, whether the company developed domain-specific products, background noise, and cross talk. He said that Virage's internal testing indicates a 5 to 20 percent error rate for processing news broadcasts and a 30 to 60 percent error rate for processing other content types.
Processing conversational speech can be particularly difficult because of such factors as overlapping words and background noise, noted Professor Howard D. Wactlar, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Informedia Digital Video Library Project.
Breakthroughs in natural language understanding will eventually lead to big improvements, but until then, Clements said, audio mining will get better only incrementally.
Meanwhile, demand for audio mining products is not overwhelming but is slowly growing. "It goes back to the accuracy of the systems," Wactlar said. "Most users have high expectations and unless these are met, they'll be frustrated with the products and won't use them. Error rates still need to improve."
Another factor inhibiting rapid growth and widespread adoption is cost. Prices of audio mining systems start at about $5,000 per product and can exceed $100,000, because the relatively new systems are still expensive to develop and market, particularly with today's low demand. Volume sales, Karnes said, will eventually bring prices down but this probably won't be a factor for at least another 12 to 18 months.
Also, Wactlar said, the market doesn't have any killer apps that would rapidly spur organizations to buy today's products.
Meisel speculated that an important market opportunity for the technology lies in call centers that must monitor conversations for employee compliance with company policy. Call-center managers could also use the technology to locate calls about certain subjects and thereby detect customer trends early.
In addition, said Clements, "As users increasingly use Web conferencing for important meetings and education, they create a large corpus of valuable information that could be [analyzed]. Searchable libraries of Web meetings are thus a likely killer application."
Like many nascent technologies, audio mining shows great promise but won't realize its full potential until accuracy and affordability improve. According to Gartner's Fenn, the technology will most likely find interest in niche markets-such as technical-support centers, help desks, and call centers-during the next three to five years because most companies today don't work extensively with multimedia data.
"The technology is just beginning to emerge as a tool that is sufficiently robust," Columbia University's Ellis stated. "I see a period of big changes as these techniques open up a wide range of unanticipated applications."
ScanSoft's Weideman concluded, "Audio mining is an extremely exciting technology that could add tremendous value to knowledge-sharing, intelligence, and productivity applications. But it's not ready for mass adoption yet. It's currently a 'nice to have,' not quite yet a 'need to have.' "
Serious audio mining research began in the late 1970s. Research has been ongoing at a number of major schools, including Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas.
However, products have been available for only about four years. And it is only in the past 12 to 18 months that the technology has begun to offer acceptable performance and accuracy levels for commercial use, said Jeff Karnes, a group product manager for Virage, an audio mining vendor.
Audio mining products generally have been integrated into larger systems because, Karnes explained, "the ability to search and replay content is most valuable as part of a [product] that manages large archives of information, such as a media- or content-management system."
Neal Leavitt is president of Leavitt Communications, an international marketing communications firm with affiliate offices in Paris; Hamburg, Germany; Beijing; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. He writes frequently about technology. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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If you're interested in cascading parameters and Power BI custom connectors is an option for your project, you should give a try to Navigation Tables. Which soon enough could make their way into M standard library. If this is not an option, you might find your solution in the next few scrips tangled between functional programming concepts. You will also learn about:
- Where to set the allowed values for function parameters
- How to build a function inception with higher order functions
- How to access a variable outside its scope
- And finally get to a result which mimics cascading selections
Documenting the parameters
Weirdly enough, there isn't much documentation on how to document your functions. Except Chris' and Imke's blogs this information is scattered across various forums and Q&A sites. [*]
For the purpose of our exercise, we'll need to know how to decorate a function parameter with a list of allowed values. This list is stored as a metadata tag on the parameter data type within the function type (of the function).
Here is an illustrative diagram on how to interpret the previous statement:
The best way to add the AllowedValues list to a function is by building the chain above and assigning it to an already defined function by means of Value.ReplaceType. I will be using the following function (setParameters) that does just that.
Higher order function
In Power Query a function can return another function as a value. This is called a Higher Order Function (HOF). We've already seen an example of a HOF in the previous paragraph — Value.ReplaceType. Although sometimes you can get to an unusual notation when you deal with HOF (see below), they come very handy when you need to decorate a function definition dynamically. Or in our case dependent on user selection.
Lets start with a function fn, which returns the value of the parameter x.
Say we want the allowed values for parameter x to be the digits 1 to 9. Because we can't modify the function definition of fn from within its scope, we'll have to create a HOF that returns a copy of fn with decorated parameter x. Call it makeClosure.
If you've rushed and invoked makeClosure with a parameter selection, you must have noticed that the parameter values were indeed {1..9}, however not much cascading is going on as the execution of this function returned only your selection.
To get to the double-hop of the cascading functionality we'll have to wrap the call in makeClosure into another HOF, that takes as a parameter the selection of x from the previous call and returns again a copy of the original function fn but with a filtered down list for the allowed values of x.
This time around, when making a selection on makeClosure and clicking invoke, you'll be presented with another dialog with already preferred values for x. Cascading in action!
Another important feature of cascading parameters is making a final invocation dependent on both of the previous selections. This functionality can be achieved by means of closures.
Functions in Power Query have access to at least two environments, the global environment visible via #shared and the local environment, which is the union of parameters and local variables. When you define a function inside another function, the enclosed function can access the variables of the outer function. A HOF in which the returned function references the variables of the HOF local environment is called a closure.
Closures turn out to be a great way to remember environments that existed at the time they were created. Lets follow an example:
addTo is a HOF that returns the function (y) => y+x . Although this function doesn't have a local variable x, on invocation it will read it from the environment of addTo. Thus addToFive is nothing but the original addTo function with stored environment [x=5].
Getting back to our original example, in order to call the function fn with a previous selection, we'll have to convert it to a closure. For the sake of simplicity I assume the final operation is multiplication.
Subsequently, the only additional change to the function that triggers the cascading selection (makeClosure), is to pass the first selection of x as a parameter to fn. This way we are modifying the definition of fn with a filtered selection of x, and also are passing it as part of the calling environment.
Final notes
Although the examples that I followed in this post are trivial and involve only filtering digits and perform multiplication, the solution can easily be adapted to perform database calls and/or web requests. And of course more than one parameter cascading.
You can read the original discussion that inspired this solution here.
* [Update] While browsing through Data Connectors repository found this useful documentation as well: Adding Function Documentation


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Competitive Balance in Women's Basketball: The Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference and Missouri Valley Conference Merger
Perline, Martin M., Stoldt, G. Clayton, Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal
The purpose of this paper was to measure the change in competitive balance for women's basketball as a conference merges and changes its membership. Specifically, we surveyed the changes in competitive balance as the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference was merged into the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). While competitive balance may not have been the primary reason for the merger, it tended to increase fan interest and was, therefore, considered desirable by member institutions. Three measures of competitive balance were used, producing mixed results. However, there was arguably a more competitive balance after the merger, because there tended to be more predictably perennial winners and losers in the Gateway than the MVC.
In competitive sports, it is considered mandatory that the outcome of any game or match needs to contain some degree of uncertainty. If this were not so, it is believed fans would lose interest (Depken & Wilson, 2005; El Hodiri & Quirk, 1971; Kesenne, 2006; Quirk & Fort, 1992; Sanderson & Siegfried, 2003), and, thus, there would be significantly lower attendance, empty arenas and stadiums, and, consequently, lower revenues. Stated somewhat differently, it is of vital importance that for any sports league or conference there must be some degree of competitive balance among the various teams.
At the college level, measures such as scholarship limits and prohibitions against extra benefits offered to student athletes have attempted to promote competitive balance (Rhoads, 2004). These regulations are commonly enforced by a national governing body (e.g., National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics). However, college athletic conferences also play roles in promoting competitive balance. Indeed, Rhoads (2004) has argued that conference realignments are at least partially driven by competitive disparity among institutions.
The purpose of this paper was an attempt to measure the change in competitive balance as a conference merges and changes its membership. To shed light on this question, we surveyed the changes in competitive balance as the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference was merged into the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). In this instance, a women's athletic conference was merged into a men's conference; some institutions were dropped and others added as the merger was completed.
In pursuing our goal, we measured competitive balance in women's basketball before and after the merger. More specifically, we measured the results from the 9 years the Gateway was in existence (1983-84 and 1991-92) and measured the first 9 years the MVC had a constant membership (1994-95 and 2002-03). Basketball is arguably the premier women's sport at many colleges; it was a particularly important consideration in the Gateway-MVC merger, as the Gateway's women's basketball championships had unprecedented success at the time of the change (Gateway Presidents Council, 1992).
Historical Background
The Gateway was established in 1982 as a women's sports-only league (Missouri Valley Conference, 2007a). The members of the Gateway were Bradley University (BU), Drake University (DU), Eastern Illinois University (EIU), Illinois State University (ILSU), Indiana State University (INSU), Southern Illinois University (SIU), Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU) now known as Missouri State University (MSU), the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), Western Illinois University (WIU), and Wichita State University (WSU). The conference sponsored championship competition in 10 sports, including basketball.
The Gateway ceased operations of its women's sports programs in July 1992, when its membership realigned with two other conferences (Gateway Presidents Council, 1991; Richardson, 2006). At that time, EIU and WIU shifted to the Mid-Continent Conference. The other Gateway members moved to the MVC, where they joined Creighton University (CU), Tulsa University, and the University of Evansville (UE). …


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UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital is a 126-bed community hospital. We employ more than 800 full-and-part-time employees. Finley Hospital is a not-for-profit, locally owned, regional healthcare facility part of the UnityPoint Health system. Finley Hospital is committed to bringing the best medical care to the tri-state area. We offer comprehensive, full service health care that is coordinated around our patients. We have consistently been recognized as a leader in health care.
This is a PRN position, work hours will be on an as needed basis and not guaranteed. As a PRN employee you will be required to work (1) 8 or 12 hour shift per month, (2) weekends per year and (1) holiday per year. This position is located in the Clinic Float pool which means you will work at different clinics each time you work. They float into our Urgent Care settings, Family Practice Clinics, Cardiology Clinics and Urology Clinics.
The Clinical Concierge Radiologic Technologist is responsible for performing radiologic procedures. Assist provider and other clinical staff with obtaining basic vital information, preparing patient for clinical examination, treatment, and minor surgical procedures. Administer medication, other treatments, and injections as ordered by provider. Tracking and follow-up on patient testing related to disease process management, schedule referrals, answer phone calls and take appropriate messages, and appropriate documentation in electronic medical record. Perform phlebotomy and lab testing as needed. Assist and perform other procedures, including EKG.
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I think I just need to give up on trying to blog until DS and his GF leave, and I either pass or fail the citizenship test next week. There are simply too many draws on my time and stuff is slipping thru the cracks. I once again forgot to add the actual download link to the horizontal calendar cards – I have added it to the post now and sorry to be such a tease. Thankfully a commenter mentioned page two was missing (because I had only added the first page image as a sample and the last page to show the blank journaling cards) and I went back to check, thinking had omitted page 2 from the download, NOT that I had omitted the download entirely. DOH!
I was still slightly annoyed by the position of the doily on a couple of months.
It's a little thing but it was bugging me. I noticed after I uploaded the PDF but now I had the chance to shift it and re-upload before adding the actual link. So every cloud…. And if you want that calendar, the original post now has the download link. Really, I need a new tag for my posts called IDIOCY, I think….
GF and I worked from noon till about 11pm last night on her mini-book, with a break for dinner, a walk, and frisbee in the park. It is really coming along, nearly done in fact. If I can just keep myself from trying to take over and push her towards certain design decisions it'll be good. Lovely to see her sense of wonder over something as small as the Big Shot, or Distress ink, or heat embossing. The time it is taking is more down to her wanting to try lots of stuff before deciding on something, and not a lack of skill. And she is a natural stamper, much more careful and competent than I am. Now I need to tidy up a bit so we can finish up today as she goes tomorrow, with DS to follow next Saturday. Sorry again for the mix up.


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Smartphones are big business, and the success of high-end flagship phones can make or break a company's yearly financials. So when two of the world's biggest electronics megacorporations announce their latest and greatest phones to the world on the same day, live-streamed to the world, you can bet they want to pull out all the stops.
So why was LG just so bad at it? Regardless what you may think of the LG G5 in comparison to the Galaxy S7, the organization, presentation, and showmanship of their big conference events were as different as night and day.
This story, "LG's G5 vs. Samsung's Galaxy S7: A tale of two press conferences" was originally published by Greenbot.


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Why separate learning from play?
Here was a neat little impromptu climbing adventure on the way home from our adventure. The trees along our river are quite large and old. Seems one of them had gotten struck by lightning recently and had been started to be taken away. Clearly only a several-day job; we had to experience it now, if we ever..haha..wood.
The kids first wanted to get out and play on it, just because it was something to climb on. The first thought of an education session might be 'see these annual rings?' I wasn't sure they would be all that interested in that yet, and we can see annual rings whever…there's lots of stumps. We soon discovered we were able to see what the inside of a tree looks like while it's growing.
They are riddled with bug holes throughout, giant pieces of bark were finally available for them to pry off a try because it was dead now anyway.
But it was more just about climbing today
The kids quickly learned when sitting atop a stump that it only looks like something that they could slide right off them. Instead of telling them that, I let the sensitive skin of their back upper thighs teach them THAT lesson.
They climbed up and jumped off more stumps, and then we continued home…I still had a 6km unicycle ride ahead of me. We got home tired and more educated, and with photos to look through in more detail after the fact.


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