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Q: canvas not adding image from url (base 64) i am working on project where i want to create a min preview for canvas. so when any change happen to canvas eg: user added text to canvas , the canvas will be converted to DataURL, and then i want to add this base64 to another canvas but it is not working
any idea on how can i fix this issue. ?
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An Interview with Yaa Gyasi by Aaron Zimmerman Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, Homegoing, was published June 7 by Knopf and is already one of the most talked-about books of the year. The book has an ambitious scope, beginning in West Africa in the late 1700s and following the bloodlines of two half-sisters until present day….
High school students are encouraged to incorporate sensory details in their writing in "Detailed Memories: Emotions Triggered by an Object or Event." Shelley Savren's lesson plan comes from Poetry Crossing: 50+ Lessons for 50 Years of California Poets in the Schools. Shelley Savren's poetry books are The Common Fire and The Wild Shine of Oranges….


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August 7th, 2006, 07:44 AM #1
Twenty four pages in our last round (here's round one and two), and folks getting snippy... seems like it's about time to start a new chapter.
Please take some time to explain a little bit about the name you're posting, using links where possible. And if you suddenly find it's just you and another player online at the same time posting fast and furious back and forth... take a break and let others have a chance.
And again, no nitpicking unless you contribute the next answer yourself!
David "Davy" Crockett, 19th-century American folk hero usually referred with the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. Congress, served in the Texas revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo.
Have at it.
localgrl
Up in da boonies!!
Michael Crockett - Photographer in UK
http://www.michaelcrockett.com/
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Live for today....tommorow is never promised
George Michael..take your pick of the two!
pzarquon
George Clooney, actor.
Rosemary Clooney - singer in the 1950s; had her own TV show; once married to actor Jose Ferrer; their son Gabriel Ferrer married Debby Boone (daughter of Pat Boone)
Rosemary Odell - Born in Hawaii September 1924, 116 credits according to IMDB!
David Odell, writer and director of some muppety things
www.imdb.com/name/nm0643973/
Ooops! David. I come back. I had bad night.
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Daryl Cagle is the daily editorial cartoonist for the MSNBC.com and is the world's most widely syndicated and reprinted newspaper cartoonist with close to 900 subscribing newspapers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Cagle
Psst, Auntie, where you get Daryl Cagle from? The last one was David Odell
Moving on to David Spade, Comedian and actor
Sam Spade, a hardboiled private detective and the leading character in Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon, most closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart.
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs - '60s musical group; most noted for songs "Wooly Bully" and "Little Red Riding Hood" ("You're everything a big bad wolf could want ........ah-ooooooooo")
Sam Short - a self taught Canadian Photographer who began her career in Los Angeles
http://www.greymattermedia.com/SamShortBiography.html
kimo55
funny as hell comedian
Martin Sheen....president..on TV anyways...No he got cancelled! Actor...Not my fave
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Mary Martin; musical theater singer, dancer, and mother of actor, Larry Hagman. http://www.famoustexans.com/marymartin.htm
Mary Cooper Smith - Artist
http://www.art-wave.com/marysmith/
Gary Cooper!!! They don't make men like that anymore *sigh* ~wish~ Actor,awesome dude!
Jeffrey Cooper - Managing Director of Pacific Rim Music Resources
ASHLEY COOPER - tennis player from Australia during the Ken Rosewall-Lew Hoad era; Wimbledon singles champ; I once had an "Ashley Cooper" autograph tennis racket.
Ashley Lelie, football player from Hawaii, discussed here.
Ashley L. Green - My one & only baby girl!!
Tom GREEN Canadian comedian!! Formerly of MTV! Gotto love Tom Green (:
Tom Cheney (cartoonist): An award-winning cartoonist who writes for The New Yorker and MAD Magazine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cheney
Mary Cheney, daughter of the VP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cheney
Mary Pickford - Canadian born American Actress called America's Sweetheart during the silent-film era. Best known for her portrayals of young, innocent girls. 1893-1979
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (21 August 2019)— Nearly 1 million Rohingya are still waiting for justice and a say about their future, two years after being forced from their homes by mass atrocities in Myanmar, and are struggling for safety and dignity in Bangladesh as refugees. In a joint statement released today, 61 local, national and international NGOs working in the two countries called for human rights for all to be recognized in Rakhine State and for Rohingya refugees to have a role in decision-making about their own lives, including conditions for their return to Myanmar.
The NGOs voiced strong concerns about the safety of affected families in Rakhine State, including Rohingya, as the conflict escalates and humanitarian access remains limited. They urged the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar to ensure that any return process be safe, voluntary and dignified, as news of the possible expedited repatriation of 3,450 Rohingya refugees circulated this week.
For the past two years, NGOs have assisted the Government of Bangladesh and UN agencies to effectively provide life-sustaining support to people living in the world's largest refugee camp. Their collective efforts have stabilized camp conditions, strengthened monsoon preparedness and helped prevent disease outbreaks. But more needs to be done. The agencies called on the international community to increase funding for the humanitarian response in Bangladesh and Myanmar to improve the lives of refugees and host communities, as well as internally displaced persons.
https://reliefweb.int/node/3266358
In Myanmar, some 128,000 displaced Rohingya, and other Muslim communities, have been confined to camps in Rakhine State since 2012, unable to return home.
In Bangladesh, refugee children need access to more robust educational services. More than 25,000 children are out of school. Further, 97 per cent of adolescents aged 15 to 18 years do not attend any type of educational facility.
In Bangladesh, the percentage of host community households living on less than USD60 a month spiked from 10 to 22 percent after the influx in August 2017.
Paola Barioli, Media Relations Officer
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GMailfs, a FUSE-based filesystem that allows you to mount gmail like a network drive. Stolen from someone else's code, but enhanced quite a bit.
My blog on getting an Eye-Fi card working in Linux. I wrote some unofficial software to control the card as well.
Some small patches to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox including a small LD_PRELOAD trick to make it run faster.
Patches to iPXE for passing in arguments directly from the bootloader.
"QuadTile" support in JOSM an OpenStreetMap editor. Lots of minor patches in there, like SlippyMap and Validator improvements.
Scripts to take Garmin-compatible OpenStreetMap files and build maps containing various parts of the US. This saves other Lambertus's servers from having to build these over and over.
I'm trying to make more of an effort to publish some of the scripts that I write.
emailing me automatically with my current SprintPCS cell phone usage.
This one allows me to do automated uploads to Costco's photo site for printing photos from Linux.
I leared about 3 hours after writing this that Costco takes pictures that you email to them, which is just as good. Maybe this will be useful to someone else.
My modified Greylisting attempts to give the benefits of greylisting but not be subject to annoying email delays for new hosts, or be as nasty as outright blacklisting.
I have a decent collection of pictures of the SR-71 Blackbird family of aircraft in here. It also includes a bunch of pictures I've taken myself of various aircraft.


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The statute governing Forfeiture is not criminal, but a civil action, and the government needs only prove, by the lower standard of 'probable cause,' that the money or property was used to facilitate or were proceeds of drug distribution. Once the complaint for Forfeiture is filed, the defendant then has the burden of proving that the property is not forfeitable.
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Although the Commonwealth will typically seek forfeiture of money and property in larger-scale drug cases, such as Drug Trafficking or at least Drug Distribution and/or Possession with Intent to Distribute where those crimes have been indicted to Superior Court, I have seen prosecutors move for forfeiture in drug cases that have been charged in the District Courts.
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\section{Conclusions and Future Work}
\label{sec:discussion}

In this work, motivated by defining metrics for recommendation of cultural content, we developed a method to measure alignment with principles of cultural citizenship that we adapted from the PSM literature.

Our proposed commonality metric emphasizes shared familiarity, by which is intended the simultaneous exposure of users to content from selected categories.  This definition, captured by the joint probability of familiarity events, is worth exploring for both theoretical and pragmatic reasons.  Theoretically, our approach to shared exposure is very conservative, penalizing the metric if even a single user has a low probability of exposure.  That said, this conservativeness attenuates systematic under-exposure to certain categories.  Pragmatically, since the joint probability is often quite small for our evaluated systems, we can encounter numerical stability issues.  This is especially salient if we average commonality across categories, where a single category may have an exponentially larger value and dominate the mean.  However, this may indicate gross and systemic under-performance of existing systems in terms of commonality.

In addition to commonality, we introduce a relatively simple model of familiarity based on recall.  We believe there is opportunity to develop alternative models of familiarity that consider a user's previous experience with the category or other contextual information.  However, the design of a familiarity model should be aligned with the concept of shared experience, meaning that, even if a user has engaged with content from a category in the past, \textit{re-exposing} them may promote commonality at the risk of over-satiating users with niche interests, a topic of recent research \cite{leqi:satiation}.

Our results demonstrate that existing high-utility recommendation algorithms under-perform in terms of commonality.  We believe that exploring the space of commonality-informed recommendation can produce algorithms that perform substantially better in terms of commonality while maintaining high utility.

In summary, our preliminary results indicate a new class of evaluation metrics specifically aimed at measuring the effects of recommendation systems in terms of common exposure to diverse items within a given area of cultural content. Our future work includes assessing important evaluative properties of commonality such as generalizability and robustness. We are also interested in the joint optimization of both personalization and commonality as a new class of algorithm. Future extensions to our commonality metric may also consider the cumulative effects over time of recommender systems attuned to enhancing common experience of diverse content and thereby cultural citizenship.

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:introduction}

Online platforms that host cultural content (e.g. music, movies, and books) often use recommender systems to suggest and distribute items from their catalogs. These algorithmic recommendations are often designed to optimize personalization objectives such as precision or click-through rate \cite{gunawardana:receval-chapter} and, as such, are aligned with user-level metrics like retention and subscriptions.

Academic and industry research on recommender systems has converged on personalization as a paradigm, and while metrics linked to personalization are productive, they do not capture the wider shaping effects of recommender systems in aggregate nor measure the effects of recommender systems across a population of users.  Research demonstrates that recommendations have cumulative effects in shaping the wider cultures and societies within which they are being used \cite{anderson2020}.  That said, these effects and how they inform recommender system evaluation and design remains relatively unexplored \cite{born:cifar}.

We advocate for the design of recommender systems delivering cultural content to be motivated not only by personalization--or associated commercial interests--but also by appropriate normative principles. For guidance we turn to the normative principles underpinning non-profit, public service media (PSM) systems. We identify universality of address and content diversity in the service of strengthening cultural citizenship as particularly relevant for recommender systems delivering cultural content. If personalization attempts to maximize individual user satisfaction with a platform, then these PSM principles aim more to enhance the commonality of diverse cultural experiences across a population, building cultural citizenship. In this way, we contribute to a growing body of scholarship developing `public good' rationales for digital media and machine learning systems~\cite{murdock2005building,andrejevic2013public,van2018public,moe2008dissemination,born:21stcentury,born:ecology,unterberger2021public}

In this light, in this paper we propose and discuss a new evaluation metric that measures the degrees to which a system familiarizes a given user population with a specified category or group of categories of cultural content.  Our proposed commonality metric responds to a set of arguments developed through an interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers in computer science and the social sciences and humanities.

As a case study in the application of these normative principles and their goal of enhancing cultural citizenship across a population, we consider movie recommendations. We empirically compare the performance of more than twenty recommendation algorithms using the proposed commonality metric with existing utility, diversity, novelty, and fairness metrics. We analyze how our commonality metric complements previous metrics and discuss how it is aligned with the intended purpose. Our aim with this work is to measure commonality in the consumption of diverse categories of movies that are generally under-represented by existing recommender systems. To date, criticisms of recommender systems and machine learning systems for their capacity to reproduce forms of bias and discrimination have been met by interventions designed to redress such biases at the level of individual users. However, it is also important to identify means of counteracting biases and enhancing diversity as common experiences across a population of users – by developing recommender systems that promote diversity through counteracting racism, sexism, and the neglect of non-Western content as common experiences. Only in this way can the wider cultural changes called for by anti-racist and feminist critics as well as those sympathetic to these criticisms from the RecSys community be delivered.

\section{Experiments}
\label{sec:experimetns}

The goal of these experiments is to empirically compare commonality with existing metrics when ranking different recommender systems. Using movies as a case study, we focus on analyzing how commonality complements previous metrics in the consumption of diverse categories of movies that are generally under-represented by existing recommender systems. We then discuss how commonality is aligned with the intended purpose of promoting a shared plurality of cultural content in the service of strengthening cultural citizenship.

\underline{Data}:
We use the movielens-1m dataset, which contains 1,000,209 ratings of ~3,900 movies from 6,040 users from the movielens platform. Using a separate dataset\footnote{https://www.themoviedb.org/}, we augmented the movielens movies with metadata including country of production, gender of the director, original language, and keywords collected from the movie's description.  For this dataset, we used rankings from multiple recommendation systems prepared by \citet{valcarce2018}. Following the method described by the authors we converted to binary relevance labels considering ratings of 4 and 5 as relevant.

\underline{Categories}:
We selected categories of movies that are typically under-represented by movie
recommender systems. Specifically, we consider female directors (under-representation by gender); independent film (under-representation by industry sector); and several sources of non-Western film (under-representation by geographical and linguistic inequality).  We use categorical gender data, acknowledging the limitations of this framing \cite{hoffmann:fairness-failure}.  For geographic categories, we use the country of production for the following regions of the world:
South America, Central America, North Africa, South Africa, West Africa, Mid Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Central Asia and East Asia.
We consider, broadly, non-English language movies as a separate category.
And, finally, we use keywords to create categories with selected movies whose categories contain ``independent films'', ``LGBT'', and ``transgender''. We manually checked whether these keywords can be trusted to represent specific identities.

\underline{Baseline Metrics}:
We compare commonality against three classes of metrics: utility metrics, diversity metrics, and fairness metrics \cite{canamares:offline-recsys-eval}.  For utility, we consider normalized discounted cumulative gain (NDCG) and reciprocal rank (RR).  For diversity, we consider $\alpha$-NDCG and intent-aware expected reciprocal rank (ERR-IA). For fairness, we use ranking-based statistical parity (RSP)  and ranking-based equal-opportunity (REO) \cite{zhu2020measuring}.

\section{Measuring Commonality}
\label{sec:commonality}
Recall that we are interested in measuring the extent to which users will gain a shared familiarity with a set of promoted categories. The promoted categories, we suggest, will be identified and curated by experts in a relevant field (here, movies) seeking to promote a plurality of cultural content in the service of strengthening cultural citizenship.  We contrast this with \citeauthor{mehrotra:fair-marketplace}'s purely statistical method for selecting under-represented categories \cite{mehrotra:fair-marketplace}, which may surface under-represented content misaligned  with our twin goals of boosting a diversity of cultural experience across a user population, and at the same time enhancing their common experience of that diversity. An expert may opt to promote, for example, movies by female directors as well as those produced for non-Western markets.

The  \textit{commonality} of a system captures the probability that \textit{every} user simultaneously gains familiarity with the editorially-selected categories. Let $\users$ be the set of system users where $\numusers=|\users|$ and $\catalog$ the catalog of items where $\numitems=|\catalog|$.  Given a user $\user\in\users$,  a system produces a ranking $\ranking_\user$ of items in $\catalog$; we will use $\ranking$ to refer to the set of all rankings.  We are interested in measuring the degree to which the system supports the normative value of commonality.  Given a set of editorially-selected categories $\categories$, we can compute the commonality of a system with respect to a single category $\category\in\categories$ as the probability that every user has become familiar with $\category$ under the system's ranking,
\begin{align}
    \commonality_\category(\rankings)&=p(\familiarity_{1,\category},\ldots,\familiarity_{\numusers,\category}|\rankings)\nonumber\\
    &=\prod_{\user\in\users}p(\familiarity_{\user,\category}|\ranking_\user)
\end{align}
where $\familiarity_{\user,\category}$ is a binary random variable indicating the familiarity that user $\user$ has with category $\category$.

In order to estimate $p(\familiarity_{\user,\category}|\ranking_\user)$, the familiarity of a user with a category after the recommender intervention, we adopt a standard browsing model from existing evaluation metrics.  Specifically, we are interested in the comprehensiveness of a user's exposure to items from $\category$ after browsing the ranking,
\begin{align}
    p(\familiarity_{\user,\category}|\ranking_\user)&=\sum_{i=1}^{\numitems}p(i)\recall(\ranking_\user,i,\category)
\end{align}
where $p(i)$ is the probability that the user stops at rank $i$ and $\recall(\ranking,k,\category)$ is the recall of items with category $\category$ in $\ranking$ at rank cutoff $k$.  For our experiments, we adopt an exponential discount, $p(i)=(1-\gamma)\gamma^{i-1}$ based on the rank-biased precision browsing model \cite{moffat:rbp}.
For a set of categories, we measure commonality using the mean commonality, $\commonality_\categories\left(\rankings\right)=\mathbb{E}_{\category\in\categories}\left[\commonality_\category(\rankings)\right]$.

\if false
\begin{align*}
p(u \text{ familiar with }c) &= \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} p(u\text{ familiar with }c, u \text{ stops at }i) \\
&= \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} p(f, i) \\
&= \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} \sum_{j=0}^{m} p(f, i, u \text{ sees } j  \text{ category items})\\
&= \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} \sum_{j=0}^{m} p(f|i, u \text{ sees } j  \text{ category items})p(u \text{ sees } j  \text{ category items}|i)p(i)\\
&= \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} p(i) \sum_{j=0}^{m} p(f|u \text{ sees } j  \text{ category items})p(u \text{ sees } j  \text{ category items}|i)\\
&= \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} p(i) p(f|m_{\pi_{[1,i]}})\\
\end{align*}
\fi

\if false
\begin{align*}
log( \prod_\user \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} p(i) p(f|m_{\pi_{[1,i]}}) &= \sum_\user log( \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} p(i) p(f|m_{\pi_{[1,i]}}))\\
&= \sum_\user log( \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} exp( log(p(i) p(f|m_{\pi_{[1,i]}})))) \\
&= \sum_\user log( \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} exp( a_i)) \\
&= \sum_\user log( \sum_{i=1}^{|\catalog|} exp( a_i - b_u)) + b_u \\
\end{align*}
\fi

\section{Background}\label{sec:motivation}

Recommender systems have become the dominant means of curating cultural content in the digital era. Curation – or the selection and promotion of content to be distributed to consumers – is, however, a historical constant: consumers have always encountered the cultural content they wish to consume via some type of curation. Today, when cultural curation supplied by recommender systems is multiplied across billions of recommendations presented to users by online platforms, they significantly influence the nature of individual cultural experiences \cite{tomlein2021audit}. But this influence is also magnified and multiplied across time and across populations, regions, and cultures. In the short term, recommender systems influence individual cultural consumption and taste. In the medium and long terms, by employing data on consumer behavior and influencing consumer choices, they can shape cultural literacies as well as population-wide trends in consumption and taste \cite{born:cifar}. As a result, unlike previous means of distribution, there is a high degree of automatized intervention in the way people and communities encounter and experience cultural content. Despite their personalized address, recommender systems therefore have cumulative effects in shaping the wider cultures and societies within which they are being used. These effects have been relatively unexplored as a focus of research in the RecSys community.

Academic and industrial research on recommender systems has converged on personalization as a paradigm. While metrics linked to personalization and `user relevance' are productive (e.g., NDCG, precision, recall), they do not capture the wider, aggregate shaping effects of recommender systems on patterns of cultural consumption, taste and literacy as described above.  That is, they do not measure the effects of recommender systems' use across populations of users.

Although concerned with and sensitive to the broader social role of cultural content, existing diversity and fairness evaluations of recommender systems do not adequately support the rich set of goals system designers might have. Typically, diversity metrics are limited to the goal of capturing the variety of content offered \textit{within} a recommendation list; they may consider categorizations of the content, distances in a latent space, or simply how many different items are recommended \cite{schedl2015, Yucheng2018, anderson2020, Han2017ASO}. Aligned with the goals of personalization, the formulation of these diversity metrics sometimes optionally considers the relevance of the content for users, assuming that what a user consumed in the past indicates what they are still interested in, so recommendations should be limited to such categories. While related novelty metrics measure the newness of items or categories of recommendations, they are still individualized and agnostic about \textit{what type} of content is new to the user. The work on fairness addresses specific topics of increasing biases and under-representation of particular groups \cite{Ekstrand2022}.  \textit{Provider fairness} metrics typically consider how many different groups of content providers appear in recommendations and assume a given distribution that it is desired to match. \textit{Consumer fairness} considers disparate treatments of the system to different groups of consumers.  Recent research proposed more general \textit{multi-stakeholder fairness}, acknowledging the impact recommender systems have for the different groups of individuals \cite{milano2021ethical,burke2016towards,sonboli2022}.

We suggest that it is timely for the design of recommender systems delivering cultural content to be motivated not only by individualized interests but by appropriate normative principles oriented to furthering the democratic development of contemporary societies. By normative we refer to principles considered to provide models of morally, ethically and/or politically right or just action or behavior in the interests of democratic societies as well as individuals. In this way we contribute to growing scholarship developing `public good' rationales for digital media and ML systems~\cite{murdock2005building,andrejevic2013public,van2018public,moe2008dissemination,born:21stcentury,born:ecology,unterberger2021public}, advocating `a computational politics wedded to emancipation and human flourishing'~\cite{stark2018algorithmic}. For guidance we turn to the principles underpinning non-profit, public service media (PSM) systems, proposing that `a public service rationale is as pertinent as ever in the digital era'~\cite{andrejevic2013public}. The normative ideas underpinning public service media developed over the last century in the context of democratic states committed to enhancing democratic and representative channels of communication.

A substantial body of research in media and political theory has identified the normative principles informing PSM systems, among them universality, citizenship, and diversity~\cite{scannell1989public,raboy1996public,born:21stcentury,born:ecology,born-prosser:psm-principles,born:2006digitilizing}. We consider this triad – universality (or commonality) of address, citizenship, and diversity of content – as particularly relevant for recommender systems delivering cultural content, since together they answer calls for digital media systems to enhance cultural citizenship~\cite{born:2006digitilizing}. The concept of cultural citizenship has become foundational for democratic political theories in the last two decades. It responds to recognition of the challenges posed by globalization, migration, the growing heterogeneity of the populations of nation states, and the intensification of identity politics among subaltern and marginalized groups~\cite{rosaldo1994cultural,miller2001introducing}. It draws attention to a `new domain of cultural rights [involving] the right to symbolic presence, dignifying representation', and `the maintenance and propagation of distinct cultural identities'~\cite{pakulski1997cultural}. In this light, PSM – and other democratic distribution and curation media – should promote cultural citizenship by curating and disseminating a plurality of cultural content stimulating intercultural dialogue and `acceptance of, and respect for, cultural diversity'. In this way PSM and other democratic media can act both as a force `for social cohesion and integration' and as a forum for pluralistic cultural experience among groups and communities coexisting in democratic societies~\cite{jakubowicz2007public}. Both universality or commonality--the provision of common cultural experiences--and diversity of content are therefore essential to the strengthening of cultural citizenship: `mutual cultural recognition and the expansion of cultural referents… are dynamics essential to the well-being of pluralist societies. But this does not obviate the need also for integration--for the provision of common [cultural] experience and the fostering of common identities'~\cite{born:2006digitilizing}. Scholarship on these matters emphasizes that implementing principles like universality (commonality), citizenship, and diversity require `alternative success metrics… focused on PSM's impact on democracy and the public sphere' which address users `as citizens and not just… as consumers'~\cite{unterberger2021public}. Such metrics will enable democratic media to adapt to the present by advancing `cultural citizenship and the needs of the digital society'~\cite{jakubowicz2007public}.

As a case study we take diversity in movie recommendation, with the aim of measuring commonality in the consumption of diverse categories of movies that are as yet under-represented in existing recommender systems. Current recommender systems are criticized for a tendency to reproduce or exacerbate wider forms of cultural and social discrimination~\cite{olteanu2019,ekstrand2018}. Previous works show that movie recommender systems may generate feedback loops between recommendation and consumption. As a result, they amplify popularity bias, promote narrow options in terms of cultural content, and homogenize users' identity profiles, with a stronger effect on gender minorities\cite{mansoury2020feedback}. In movie and music domains, commercial popular content may be privileged for users in dominant groups according to age and gender~\cite{ekstrand2018all}. From the provider side in the music domain, female and non-binary artists can be under-represented in recommendations, reflecting industry gender biases and reducing the diversity of content being recommended which may affect users' future streams~\cite{epps2020artist, ferraro2021break}. These provider biases shown by under-representation of cultural content with respect to gender, race, class, and region correspond to `core-periphery dynamics and geographical inequality' in the cultural industries~\cite{tofalvy2021splendid,camposinequalities,verhoeven2019re}. Recommender systems often mirror these inequalities, promoting Western-centric popular cultural content in the English language, released by major producers~\cite{tofalvy2021splendid,voit2021bias}. Generally, criticisms of recommender systems and machine learning systems for reproducing such forms of bias and discrimination have been met by personalized recommender systems interventions aimed at redressing bias at the level of individual users. In light of our discussion of culture, we contend that it is also important to identify means of counteracting bias and enhancing the diversity of content offered across a population of users. The proposed commonality metric achieves this by measuring common experiences of diversity at the aggregate level. Assuming a democratic media environment, the metric provides a way of assessing whether recommender systems are contributing to the strengthening of cultural citizenship by systematically promoting diversity within a given type of cultural content (here, movies). At the same time, it has the potential to assist in counteracting racism, sexism, and the neglect of non-Western and non-mainstream content across a user population (via commonality). In this way, the metric is a means of measuring the extent of the kinds of wider cultural changes called for by anti-racist and feminist critics as well as by those sympathetic to criticisms of existing recommender systems.

\section{Results}\label{sec:results}

We were first interested in understanding the redundancy between commonality and existing metrics. To this end, we measured Kendall's $\tau$ between system rankings according to commonality with system rankings according to our baseline metrics.
We present the results of this analysis in Table \ref{tag:metric-correlation}.  As expected, the correlation between commonality and utility metrics (NDCG, RR) is negative and significant, indicating that we would tradeoff commonality and utility (personalization) if selecting from existing systems.  Moreover, this suggests that, for existing systems, if we select the higher utility systems during model development, it will compromise our goals of commonality and cultural citizenship.  We observed a similar negative correlation with existing diversity metrics, largely due to the utility-orientation of the metrics.  Finally, we did not find evidence of correlation between commonality and fairness metrics.  Collectively, these results suggest that commonality measures properties of a set of recommendations not present in existing metrics.

\begin{table}
  \caption{Correlation between commonality with existing metrics.  Kendall's $\tau$ between rankings of runs. **~indicates p<0.05.}\label{tag:metric-correlation}
  \centering
          \centering
          \begin{tabular}{cc|cc|cc}
            \hline

            NDCG&
            RR&
$\alpha$-NDCG &
ERR-IA &
REO &
RSP \\
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              -0.4476** &
              -0.5048** &
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              -0.5143** &

              0.2316&
              0.1053 \\

\hline
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\end{table}

In order to explore the relationship between commonality and utility, we plotted the NDCG and commonality values for our twenty runs in Figure  \ref{fig:ncdg-comm}.   The run with the highest NDCG, Bayesian personalized ranking matrix factorization (BPRMF), also exhibited a very low average commonality across categories, relative to other runs; we contrast this with the run with the lowest NDCG, random, that exhibited comparatively much higher average commonality across categories.  The run with the highest average commonality, SVD, on the other hand, generated lower-utility rankings.

In Figure \ref{fig:comm-cats}, we further disaggregate the metric for three runs: BPRMF, random, and popularity. We observed that popularity-based ranking offers the highest commonality for the ``female'' and ``north africa'' categories while random ranking offers a the best commonality for all categories except ``south america''.  In general, personalization-based recommendation had low commonality across all categories.

\begin{figure*}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.43\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{results/graphics/metrics.pdf}
   \caption{utility vs commonality}
   \Description[commonality vs ndcg]{Commonality compared with ndcg for multiple recommender systems shows a negative correlation.}
    \label{fig:ncdg-comm}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.58\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.98\textwidth]{results/graphics/compare2.pdf}
    \caption{disaggregated commonality}
    \Description[disaggregated commonality]{Differences in commonality per category for recommendations based on random, popularity, and BPRMF models compared to the mean values. Pop recommender gives higher commonality for female director films while giving lower overall performance for commonality.}
    \label{fig:comm-cats}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Behavior of commonality.  \ref{fig:ncdg-comm} Scatterplot of mean NDCG versus mean commonality across categories.  Each point is a single recommender system run.  \ref{fig:comm-cats} Per-category commonality values for recommendations based on  random, popularity, and BPRMF models.  Horizontal lines indicate the mean commonality across categories.   }

\end{figure*}

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Q: passing variable to json file while matching response in karate I'm validating my response from a GET call through a .json file
match response == read('match_response.json')
Now I want to reuse this file for various other features as only one field in the .json varies. Let's say this param in the json file is "varyingField"
I'm trying to pass this field every time I am matching the response but not able to

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*def varyingField = 'VARIATION1'

match response == read('match_response.json') {'varyingField' : '#(varyingField)'}}
In the json file I have
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A: You are trying to use an argument to read for a JSON file ? Sorry such a thing is not supported in Karate, please read the docs.
Use this pattern:

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*create a JSON file that has all your "happy path" values set

*use the read() syntax to load the file (which means this is re-usable across multiple tests)

*use the set keyword to update only the field for your scenario or negative test

For more details, refer this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51896522/143475


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Gellas Diner & Lb. Brewing Co.s brewmaster, Gerald Wyman, second from left, celebrates being named the Small Brewpub and Small Brewpub Brewer of the Year at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Wyman is shown with his wife, Janet, and Gellas Diner & Lb. Brewing Co.s front of house manger, Brendan Arnold, and Liz Arnold. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
HAYS — Gella's Diner & Lb. Brewing Co. and its brewmaster Gerald Wyman, obtained the title of Small Brewpub and Small Brewpub Brewer Of The Year, Oct. 12 at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), the largest commercial beer competition in the world. This is the first such achievement for a Kansas brewery in the 27 years of the GABF competition. In addition, Gella's Diner & Lb. Brewing Co. received gold and silver medals for their American Hefeweizen and American Wheat at this year's competition.
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"Being named Small Brewpub and Small Brewpub Brewer of the Year is certainly a lifetime achievement," said Wyman. "GABF medals are the highest recognition of a brewer's talents and quality of their beers. It's such an intense competition, and it's difficult to win a medal for any brewery."
After the weekend of sampling by 49,000 attendees and a successful finish, Gella's Diner & Lb. Brewing Co. will begin to see craft beer fans from across the country at their downtown Hays microbrewery and diner.
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In discussion with other mappers about my last ticket 4375 I found out, P2 can also create ways with only 1 node.
Now I will try to reproduce it: -You have a way "line 1"
-line 1 contains a node "point A"
-You start to draw a new closed way "line 2" from point A, ending in point A -Remove all nodes of line 2, except point A -At uploading Potlatch creates the "line 2" with the only one node "point A"
This is actually a duplicate of #2501; the problem has been known for a long time. However, I can confirm that the procedure outlined above actually "works" and reproduces the error.
Ok, after investigating the code, the cause is straightforward: there are basically no checks in any of the places that way nodes get deleted. There's also some code cruft I'd like to clean up, like the existence of both RemoveNodeByIndexAction? and RemoveNodeFromWayAction? - which do almost identical things, but are implemented independently.
Fixing some of this isn't totally trivial, because single-issue undoable actions (like RemoveNodeFromWayAction?) can't readily handle occasional side-effects like deleting the way as well. But I'm on it.
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When the file "RemoveNodeByIndexAction?.as" disappears, the patch is in. I think.
Slightly more detailed steps to reproduce. Add a node to an existing way. Draw new way from this node, making a way with two nodes. Press escape to exit draw way. new way is selected. Click the end node you just added, so enter draw way again. Press escape to leave draw way and just the end node selected. Press delete. This as far as I can make out calls deleteNode in selectedWayNode.as, but can't work out where the code is that firstSelected.Remove is calling at the moment. These notes to help me continue hunt later if it isn't solved in the meantime. Edit: OK, worked out that RemoveNodeFromWayAction? is called. Investigating as time permits.


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Hope you all had a fantastic and restful Christmas. I really enjoyed getting to see Drew and I's families and eat lots of great food. The only disappointment I encountered was The Hobbit Part 3.
Anyway, this rice dish is great. It's vegan and absolutely bursting with different flavors and textures. The walnuts and grapes are so good. And this is pretty healthy…so try it if you'd like to increase your veggie and whole grains intake after eating lots of indulgent holiday food.
Roasted Broccoli and Aromatic Brown Rice is a flavorful vegan meal for two.
Preheat the oven to 425º. Toss the broccoli with garlic and a little olive oil and spread it out on a greased baking sheet.
Heat a 12-in skillet with olive oil over medium heat. Once the oil is hot, add the diced onion, carrot, celery, rice, and thyme to the skillet and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the vegetable broth to the pan and bring to a simmer. Cover the skillet, reduce the heat to low, and cook for for 25 minutes.
Place the baking sheet in the oven and cook the broccoli for 10 minutes.
Check and see if the rice is done. If it seems a little dry, give it an additional ¼ cup of water and cook for a few more minutes.
Stir the grapes and walnuts into the finished rice mixture. Mound it on two plates and top with the roasted garlic broccoli.


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Ginseng refers to several species of plants in the genus Panax, family Araliaceae. Ginseng is a perennial, herbaceous plant, with compound leaves that grow from a starchy root. The natural habitat of ginseng is the understory of mature angiosperm forest in the temperate zones of east Asia and eastern North America.
The root of ginseng is highly valued as having many therapeutic properties by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, who regard it as a tonic, stimulant, aphrodisiac, and cure for some diseases. Oriental ginseng (Panax ginseng) is the original ginseng upon which this medicinal usage was based. Because of the insatiable demand for its roots, this Asian species has been overharvested from its natural habitat of hardwood forest in eastern Asia, and is now endangered in the wild. Although Oriental ginseng is now cultivated as a medicinal crop, it is widely believed that wild plants are of much better medicinal quality than cultivated ginseng. Consequently, virtually any wild ginseng plants that are found are harvested, because they are so valuable.
Soon after the colonization by the French of parts of eastern North America in the sixteenth century, it was realized that there was a large and profitable market in China for the roots of American ginseng (Panax quinquifolium), which grew abundantly in the temperate angiosperm forests of that region. These wild plants were initially collected in southern Quebec, and then anywhere else that ginseng could be found. For a while, ginseng root was one of the most important commodities being exported from North America. Inevitably, however, the once abundant natural resource of wild ginseng was quickly exhausted, and today these plants are extremely rare in the wild in North America. American ginseng is now considered an endangered species in the wild. Another, much smaller species known as dwarf ginseng (P. trifolium) was not over-collected, and is more common.
An agricultural system has been developed for the cultivation of ginseng, and it is now grown as a valuable cash crop in various places in North America. The plants are started from seed, which are collected from mature plants and stored in moist sand for one year, so that they will scarify and be capable of germinating. It can take as long as five to seven years for cultivated ginseng plants to reach their prime maturity for harvesting. However, the plants are sometimes harvested when smaller, and less valuable, because of the risk that a longer period of growth might allow a fungal infection to develop. Such an infection can ruin an entire crop, and devastate the result of years of patient work and investment. Agricultural ginseng is grown under a shading, plastic or wood-lattice canopy, because this species is a plant of the forest understory and does not tolerate full sunlight.
Once harvested, the largest, best-quality ginseng roots are dried, and are mostly exported to China, Korea, and Japan to be sold in traditional-medicine stores. Customers purchase their carefully selected roots, and then watch as the ginseng is prepared. Poorer-quality, thinner, cracked roots may b processed into ginseng tea and other bulk preparations.
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A simple question, how do I copy a pedal from one patch to the other?
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Intel Corporation Puts Out Long-Term Spending Target
By Ashraf Eassa Fool.com
At Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) meeting for financial analysts back in February, the company declined to give a long-term goal with respect to its operating expenses as a percentage of its revenue.
"When you think about putting a profitability versus a growth, or a margin in an existing business, you run the risk of limiting investment," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich explained to investors in February.
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However, just two months later, on Intel's late-April earnings call, management provided investors with just such an operating-expense target.
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"We are establishing a spending target of approximately 30% of revenue, which we expect to reach no later than 2020," CFO Robert Swan told investors.
Why the 180-degree turn? Let's take a closer look.
Appeasing the investment community
At the end of the day, Intel's job -- as is the case for every publicly traded company -- is to try to deliver value for its stockholders. That means boosting revenue, driving profits up, and ultimately driving the stock price up.
After Intel refused to set out an operating-margin target during its analyst day, the company received a downgrade from "outperform" to "neutral" from Credit Suisse analyst John Pitzer -- who had been very bullish on the stock for years.
Here was the rationale behind his downgrade:
I don't think Pitzer's view is unique, either -- it likely reflects what many investors have been thinking for some time.
By putting out that operating-expense target of 30% of revenue by 2020 (notice that the target is several years out), Intel is trying to show investors the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.
How Intel plans to get there
Krzanich said on that earnings call that this 30% target assumes mid-single-digit revenue growth over the next several years (a target that Intel put out at its investor meeting) with "cost reduction and efficiencies" serving to get Intel where it aims to go.
To place this target into perspective, for 2017, Intel projects revenue of $60 billion and operating expenses of $20.5 billion, putting its expected operating expenses as a percentage of revenue at 34.2%. This means that by 2020, the company expects to reduce its operating expenses as a percentage of revenue by 420 basis points.
If we assume that Intel grows revenue at a 5% compounded annual growth rate through 2020 (Intel's goal is "mid-single digit" growth, and 5% is the midpoint of that range), then Intel should be bringing in about $70 billion in revenue in 2020.
Thirty percent of $70 billion works out to $21 billion. So, what Intel is really saying is that it doesn't expect to grow its operating expenses by much over the next several years -- that is, the company is fully invested in its current long-term vision -- but it does expect to see enough revenue growth to bring down its operating expenses as a percentage of revenue.
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Are you a High Risk Merchant Account?
While many credit repair company owners start out wondering if they can afford card swipe equipment, merchant service fees, and other charges associate with accepting credit card payments for your debt consolidation company, the real question is: can you afford not to make these transactions? In almost every case, the answer is no!
Benefit from add-on sales and impulse buys!
Improve customer retention on membership and subscription services!
Provide convenient service to your clients!
Credit cards are convenient. More and more, people are carrying only limited amounts of cash, if they carry any at all. Almost every place to shop or eat accepts credit cards, and if you are the only brick and mortar business around that does not, you are practically guaranteed to lose sales to your more convenient and accessible competitors. People will expect you to accept plastic, and when they find out you don't, they may not bother to return to make their purchase at a later date – especially if the product is something they can find elsewhere just as easily.
Similarly, having to pay by check or cash is very limiting for your customers. One huge benefit of having a credit card is that you can spend money you do not currently have in your bank account, and can even pay it off in small increments over time. Someone may really want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in your store, but if you expect him or her to have that kind of money immediately accessible, you are going to lose out on a lot of business. Instead, they may only purchase a $50 item with the cash they have on hand – or less if they carry no cash at all.
Accepting credit cards can also help to reduce cash-counting errors and employee theft, allowing your operation to be as profitable as possible.
Another reason to accept plastic is if you plan on doing any sort of mail order transactions. People are impatient, and expecting them to send in a check and order form, wait ten days for the check to clear, and then wait another 5-7 days for the product to pass through shipping is simply off-putting. Unless you have such an extremely special and unique item that you are selling, most people will choose not to wait all that time for something they really want to own. Instead, they will find a business selling the same thing and buy it with credit or debit.
Also, if you are in an industry that bills customers at regular intervals for a product or service, being able to accept credit cards is hugely important for customer retention. Rather than sending out frequent invoices and waiting for payment, you can set up automatic billing or renewals so that he or she is charged as often as needed without requiring any additional information or effort. Not only does this guarantee that you will be getting the money you are counting on, when you need it, but it also that your customers will be less likely to back out of any agreements or plans for which they've signed up.
Ultimately, credit cards are the lifeblood of most businesses today, and choosing not to accept them puts a company at great risk. In order to maximize your financial success, you absolutely must consider a merchant account with a reputable bank or overseas processor.


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At the beginning of the end of time, she was there… One of acclaimed author Nicholas Ponticello's earliest works, The Misshapen originally appeared online in 2006, one of two short stories describing the dark relationship between humans and the world they've created. Nearly a decade later—and for the first time in e-book format—this revised edition offers readers a rare glimpse into the future.
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At the beginning of the end of time, she was there…
One of acclaimed author Nicholas Ponticello's earliest works, The Misshapen originally appeared online in 2006, one of two short stories describing the dark relationship between humans and the world they've created. Nearly a decade later—and for the first time in e-book format—this revised edition offers readers a rare glimpse into Ponticello's psyche in the years preceding the publication of his recent hit novel: Do Not Resuscitate.
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Nicholas Ponticello – January 5, 2016
A dark look at the future of genetic engineering.
Nicholas Ponticello is a high school mathematics teacher and STEAM coordinator at Flintridge Preparatory School in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Ponticello graduated from University of California, Berkeley with degrees in mathematics and astrophysics, and is currently completing a sustainability certificate through the UCLA Extension program. He is interested in exploring the intersection of science, sustainability, business, and education, and hopes to encourage more systems thinking and sustainability-themed curricula at the secondary school level.
Mr. Ponticello grew up in Northern California and began his career as the operations manager at KOMENAR Publishing in Oakland, CA. He is a longtime runner, and has coached champion cross-country and track & field teams at the high school level. Mr. Ponticello is also the author of Do Not Resuscitate, a fictional biography that considers transhumanism and the intersection of technology and sustainability. He has studied writing under Kim Krizan (Before Sunrise, Zombie Tales 2061) and Bruce Miller (Eureka, Medium, ER). Do Not Resuscitate received honorable mention at the 2015 Green Book Festival, which spotlights "books that contribute to greater understanding, respect for and positive action on the changing worldwide environment," and is a semi-finalist in the 2015 Kindle Book Awards for Literary Fiction.
Mr. Ponticello resides in Los Angeles with art historian, Nico Machida, and their five freshwater fish.
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The English and Foreign Languages has introduced and brought into force Sensitisation, Prevention and Redressal of Sexual Harassment (SPARSH) through Ordinance 30. The Ordinance is based on the Government of India's policy against Sexual Harassment. It seeks to maintain and create an academic and work environment free of sexual harassment of women associated with the EFL U as students, teaching and non-teaching staff members.
SPARSH operates through an Apex body (ABS) and a University Complaints Committee (UCC). The ABS aims to sensitise and work to prevent sexual harassment in the University. The UCC will receive complaints regarding sexual harassment, conduct enquiries and recommend suitable action.
Any student, resident, faculty member or non-teaching staff may lodge a complaint against any student, faculty, non-teaching staff member, resident or outsider either to a UCC member or directly to the Vice Chancellor.
Complaints will be treated as strictly confidential.
Prof. Roopa Suzana is the Chairperson of the Apex body of Sensitisation, Prevention and redressal of Sexual Harassment (AB-SPARSH).
•	Bond of good behaviour.
Any information about sexual harassment of any woman student, faculty member, non-teaching staff, contractual employee of the University within or outside the campus should be immediately brought to the notice of the members of the UCC or any other administrative authority of the University either verbally or in writing so that appropriate action may be taken without delay.


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