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Don’t Lie About Your Blog Traffic, You’ll Get Caught

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Everyone knows lying is bad. However, when it comes to selling services the line between fact and fiction gets blurred in trying to paint the best picture. My favorite example of this is the food label, “Fat Free” to imply something is “healthy.”  In the blogging world, often times statistics are padded, publishers advertise their traffic in Page Views rather than Unique Visits often times because advertising is paid per impression. Another way you see padding with social media is by rounding up follower counts, and some even go as far as purchasing fake followers to look more legitimate.

The Alarm Bells

Every now and then, whether it be in an article about a blogger's traffic or in a media kit, you'll see a statistic that doesn't ring right. The times when my alarm bells go off happen when the traffic numbers are high, like 300,000 visitors a month or once I heard 26 million, but they had a low comment count, minimal social media shares on posts, moderate Twitter following. It shows that either the traffic statistic is false, or that the blogger has a transient and unengaged audience.

How The Marketing Industry Double Checks Stats

While there is no absolute way of knowing traffic of another website, it's relatively easy to look at traffic and ranking websites to see if the data makes sense. The Marketing and PR industry often has subscriptions to Cision which offers traffic and contact information. However, there are free sites like Compete, Quantcast, WebsiteLooker, Statshow, and sometimes Google Ad Planner  that offer statistics on traffic. If a site is big enough,  Alexa offers information on rankings, demographics and keywords.  None of these sites paints an exact picture, but it's relatively standard in the industry to research bloggers and look at traffic, and social influence stats before contacting a blogger for a potential marketing campaign.

The same goes for social media. Say a Twitter  account goes from 1,500 to 40,000 seemingly overnight, or if a Twitter profile has a large “following” but they are not known within the industry, nor does their website have any interaction, something is fishy.  Analytic sites like Status People's Fakers and Topsy are both great tools to measure the organic nature (or fakeness) of a Twitter profile. It's only a matter of time before these types of analytics tools come out for other platforms.

Why Telling The Truth Matters

I don't want to write about the virtues of honesty. Sure, not everyone researches, analyzes, or even know how to check stats. Many brands, journalists and even bloggers don't know about the tools out there that can either give your proposals and media kits credibility. However, a growing number are learning and are quite savvy when it comes to social media statistics. These statistics are what go into the reports that are presented in budget meetings, campaign meetings and they do make the difference when being chosen for a campaign. High traffic stats might justify charging higher rates, but if the stats aren't real and the results are lackluster, you won't have a returning client.

Fear of getting caught shouldn't be a reason for telling the truth. Today the chances of our statistics and references being checked are greater than ever. So unless you're prepared to lose your credibility, don't lie about your traffic.

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  1. HauteFrugalista

    Love this article! its true many bloggers claim to have a traffic that its not tangible at all! (likes/comments/shares, etc) yet they get booked for things. thats the awful part, thst even if ppl are buying followers, some companies are all about the “numbers” rather than the quality. I LOVE status people, Im all the time using it to check brands, pr agencies and know if there is really a benefit for me or not!

  2. Magali

    I so agree. As a blogger myself, it’s become easy to spot people who are padding their stats. Though it probably does some short term good, it can only harm you in the long run.

  3. Jenny

    I agree 100%. As a blogger, my honesty and integrity is of the utmost importance to me, and I would never lie about my stats. As you stated Jennine, getting caught is not the only reason to tell the truth, but I can guarantee that you will get caught eventually. It could ruin your entire reputation with brands and your audience. I actually had a well-known brand contact me, tell me how excited they were to partner with me and ask for my stats. Once I shared them, they politely said that the timing wasn’t right and maybe we would work together in the future (I still have yet to hear back from them). I quickly realized it was because they wanted to work with bloggers with much more traffic. For a split second, I thought maybe I should have given them higher numbers, but I quickly realized I had done the right thing. I would never want to do ANYTHING that would jeopardize my integrity as a blogger and as a person.

    xo Jenny

    • jewel

      So great to hear Jenny and you definitely made the right decision. I love your blog and your style.. Def. one of my faves.. Have a great weekend! Xo-Jewel

  4. Bree

    I really cannot imagine lying about my stats, that seems like such a silly thing to do if you care about the integrity of your blog. I haven’t seen many people who’ve done this but perhaps I am just blind to it since I am so upfront about my stats!

  5. Amanda

    I think this is true about everything, including buying Facebook likes and Twitter followers, lying about things you do, buy, etc. If you get caught, you are going to be considered a liar. It’s not worth it!

  6. Nasreen

    hahha love this post!! why lie?! it’ll be so embarassing when you’re caught out. I’m not ashamed of my views, I’ve only started and im still learning and gradually my unique visitors are growing so i aint gon’ lie at all hahah, thanks IFB!!

  7. DressCode:HighFashion

    It`s really fascinating what reveals!

    Just check garancedore and you`ll see that only 34% of her followers are good! So much for “credible & honest” fashion “bloggers”…*roll eyes*

    (If you`d like a comparison, check my account, dchighfashion , and you`ll see that 99% of my followers are good!)

    Thx for sharing all the useful links in the article!

  8. Shevon Miller

    That interesting, I cant believe people buy follower o.o. What is the point? I have like maybe a handful of true readers as my blog is new. Its like I keep saying. i rather have 10 legit readers who engage with me then 100 readers who never care to reply yo my post.

  9. Nina

    Great article and really sheds light on the situation. As a business school graduate, I think that it is important to change the way we measure success. Two years ago “followers” and “likes” were relevant but now that people know how to work the system, quality is what should matter.
    Style insights and fashion business learnings:

  10. Lauren - Slowburn Fastburn

    I would never even think about lying about my site traffic. It is way to easy for others to find out otherwise, and your reputation would suffer. I would rather have a small, but engaged following, over a ton of meaningless followers anyday.

    x lauren

  11. Tali

    Did anyone try to find out their traffic with the tools provided?
    How much do they tell the truth about your traffic?

    As for being honest.. just as with all the other advises given to beginner bloggers – they sound good, but so many of big names who are very successful do exactly the opposite. That’s when you start to wonder and that’s where your consciousness is your only guide.

    • Ana

      My stats differ greatly between Google Analytics and Quantcast (and I’m looking at the lowest number/unique visitors for GA vs. the highest for QC). Hmmm… I have no idea what that means. Is Google making something up? I don’t believe that because I see the thing people are doing and it’s coming from more people than Quantcast says. I’m confused.

  12. Michèle

    I’ve tried it out, to see if the traffic is shown right on the sites you mentioned. But they are far from the truth. They only show about 10% of the visitors I really have in a day :S

  13. Victoria

    I’m a brand new blogger. I’ve been looking for the kind of rank pages provided in this article. I used them to look at my site as well as other sites. It amazes me how many visitors you have to get per month if you expect to make any money in google revenue. I now have a more realistic view. was the best one – just fyi. I would have never attempted to lie about my stats. I’m glad I read this article for the page ranking info, though.

  14. Payal

    I am new to Blogging, but I make sure to choose Good and Real Bloggers in my friends circle. I too have met many bloggers who boost and show off their fake stats, cheques and all. I would never want to be one of them

  15. Pankaj

    Yes..Never lie regarding the traffic to the website..I do this once when I was new in my Blogging field and caught after that I really Feel very shamed about it…

  16. Sonia

    I am new to Blogging, but I make sure to choose Good and Real Bloggers in my friends circle. so i can find real people.

  17. Noemi

    Honesty is important, but not for every blogger. How is it possible that a blog is not even ranked by Alexa and then after few weeks it’s high positioned with very good stats, bounce rate etc? It can’t be possible, that’s why I’m sure lots of people, even the most famous blogger, lie and increase their stats. There’re bloggers who gain 100,000 followers a week and the likes and the comments are the same… It’s sad but blogger world is becoming totally faked. False twitter, fb, instagram, pinterest followers, all for the money.

  18. Bhumika

    This is so true! Buffing up numbers and buying likes is gonna do you no good. I know so many bloggers who have advertised on facebook to increase likes..


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Monthly Archives: December 2013

Twenty Thirteen

I’ll be honest: 2013 ended way better than it started for me.

I began the year living alone in a little apartment, having just gone through a sort-of breakup with Dave. I spent most evenings in January drinking red wine and channeling Bridget Jones.

(Long story short: We got back together in February).

Since I had some free time and an abundance of nervous energy on my hands early in the year, I started running for the first time in my life. I realized that I kind of liked it, so I slowly built up my mileage and started training for a half marathon.

Post-10 miles

Icing my knees after my first 10-mile run.

In February, I took a little mini-vacation and flew out to Colorado for some quality time with my nephew (and my sister and brother-in-law).

zooA couple months later in May, I took an awesome trip to Chicago. It was technically a work trip, but I had a few days free to hang out and explore the city. I love Chicago so much, and can’t wait to go back.

ChicagoShortly after I returned from Chicago, Dave and I said goodbye to our discretionary income and started house hunting.

Despite the slow torture that is house hunting, the month of June was awesome – I ran my first half marathon, and Dave and I took a trip to the San Diego Zoo, where I became obsessed with red pandas.

red-pandaRight before we left on our trip we made an offer on a house, and right when we got back the bank discovered that some dude stole my social security number in 2007 and used it to lease an apartment in Minnesota. Because of course he did.

We finally worked everything out with the bank, and got the keys to our first home at the end of July.

08-01-13-keyAt first we were all, “woo we’re homeowners” and then we found mold under the kitchen floor and the toilet overflowed every time it flushed and the wiring was all messed up in the kitchen and we were like, “OH MY GOD WE ARE IDIOTS.”

08-05-13-outside-2The house needed a lot of cosmetic work, and we’ve spent the last four months turning it into a place that we love.

In October I traveled to Phoenix (again, for work), where I spent almost as much time lounging poolside as I did working. In my defense, would you be able to work with this right outside your room?

20131021-143439November and December were kind of a blur, and I can’t believe that a new year begins tomorrow. I’m looking forward to completing a lot of house projects in 2014 (installing a kitchen backsplash, building a bar into our dining room alcove, landscaping the front and back yards, hopefully painting the exterior, I am getting hives as I type this list) as well as some possible international travel for work. Oh, and I’ll also continue to blog here. WordPress just informed me that in 2013 I wrote 220 posts, uploaded 848 photos, and that my visitors for the year would fill 7 sold-out performances at the Sydney Opera House. Which is weird, because I totally woke up this morning wondering how many performances it would take to host all my readers at the Sydney Opera House. (No I didn’t.)

ANYWAY, thanks for enduring all my posts about cheese and beer and shirtless Chris Hemsworth this year, and I hope you have a fabulous 2014.

Weekend Highlights

– Old Navy is having a huge sale right now (up to 75% off in store!), and I scored this sequined dress for $11 on Saturday. I’m planning to wear it on New Year’s Eve, only we haven’t made plans yet so my evening will most likely consist of wearing a shiny dress while watching movies on the couch with Dave and the cat.

– Dave’s family came over Saturday night and gave us a bunch of really great Christmas presents, including a brand new barbecue and a New Belgium sign for our (soon-to-be-installed) bar. Whiskers was most excited about the wrapping paper:

Cat in Wrapping Paper– A few weeks ago the Fug Girls linked to this post detailing the top wine moments of Alias, which was clearly a sign from the universe that I need to re-watch the entire series. I viewed an embarrassing number of episodes over the weekend while Dave sat nearby and piped up with a science lesson whenever something happened that defies the laws of physics which is, oh, EVERY 10 SECONDS. And I listened patiently to every single one of his interjections. Just kidding, I was all:

So that sums up my weekend … getting out of bed was especially hard this morning after a week off from both work and exercise. Luckily, looking at Jennifer Garner’s abs for 10 hours straight was a great motivator to put down the toffee and get back to the gym this week. I predict that this evening’s run will not be pleasant.

Christmas 2013

I totally meant to post something earlier this week, but it turns out if I have to choose between blogging and eating peanut butter balls until I feel sick, I will choose the peanut butter balls. Anyway, we had a pretty fantastic Christmas. I mean, as fantastic as it can be when you’re crammed into a room with 20 other people opening a mountain of gifts one at a time and you’re not even drinking.
TreeThe five-hour present extravaganza was totally worth it though, because I came away from it with this amazing gift from my parents:

MixerAs well as this handmade picture from my sister:

Cross StitchI also received this beautiful coat from my grandma, an Orla Kiely makeup bag set, pretty stacking rings from Etsy, and a bunch of other great stuff. Including a hot pink gym bag, which I desperately need to put to good use on account of I looked a lot like this when I got dressed this morning:

Seriously. It’s bad.

My Holiday Plans (With a Side of Nutcracker WTFery)

I haven’t used much vacation time this year, so I’m taking the next four days off of work and heading down to my parents’ house for Christmas. I’m pretty excited to spend the next few days eating, watching Christmas movies, eating some more, baking, and eating the stuff we bake. My suitcase is filled with stretchy pants and Tums.

The only thing harshing my holiday buzz right now is the fact that I won’t be spending Christmas with Dave (he doesn’t get to take much time off around the holidays … newspaper life, I do not miss you). He’s staying here and spending his one day off with his family. On the other hand, when I told him that our extended family of about 16 people all come over with their gifts on Christmas morning and open them one at a time his head looked like it was going to explode, so I’m guessing he’s relieved to have dodged that bullet this year.

Speaking of heads exploding, Netflix recently added “The Nutcracker” to the holiday favorites section on “watch it now.” I loved that movie as a kid, so on Sunday morning I was like you know what Netflix, I WILL watch it now, and then I regretted it because it turns out The Nutcracker is CRAZY. The funny thing is that I don’t remember thinking the plot was weird or confusing when I was 10, but when I watched it yesterday I had SO MANY QUESTIONS. Like, what is the deal with all the rats? Why is this considered a holiday favorite? Why does Uncle Drosselmeyer look like he belongs on the Megan’s Law site?

I’m guessing this was under the “holiday” category because it starts out at a Christmas party? Maybe? I don’t know, I was distracted by the fact that the parents at the party seemed to be intent on teaching their kids that it’s cool to interact with guys who look like this as long as they promise to give you toys:

If you think these toys are neat, you should see the ones in the back of my van!

So here’s what I’m sure of: Clara gets a dollhouse and her little bitch brother Fritz gets a rat puppet, and then also this nutcracker ornament falls out of the tree and Clara grabs it, and then Fritz breaks it (told you he was a little bitch), so Uncle Drosselmeyer bandages him up and the party is over. After that, shit gets weird. Clara comes back out to the ballroom to check on the nutcracker, and the rat puppet turns into this:

Rat King

More ballets should feature killer rodents. How much more awesome would “Swan Lake” be if it featured swan-on-rat fight scenes? YOU’RE WELCOME, ABT.

And just when you think ALL IS LOST, the nutcracker comes to life and kills it before disappearing into the dead rat’s clothing and morphing into a prince with seriously questionable facial hair:

Nutcracker Prince

Curses! Foiled again!

And Clara is all:

12.23.13 Clara

Just kidding. She totally digs his Snidely Whipstache and they fake-sail around the world dancing together blah blah some more cool dancing blah blah they are crowned king and queen and then you realize IT WAS ALL A DREAM. And at first you’re all “whew, at least the giant rat king wasn’t real” but then you realize that Uncle Drosselmeyer happened before she fell asleep so it’s still kind of creepy. The end.

I didn’t really mean for that to morph into the worst movie review ever. I think it’s time that I step away from the computer and toward some sugar cookies. Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

December Photo Challenge Day 17: Lock Screen

If you haven’t noticed, I’m basically just doing this December photo challenge when it’s convenient for me and I can’t think of anything else to write about. Today’s photo is of my lock screen (note to my grandma: It’s a thing on smartphones):

Lock Screen

Dave kind of lucked out here – a few days ago, this screen was a picture of him drinking a Miller High Life while wearing a blonde 80s butt rock wig.

I was kind of afraid to put up the tree this year – due to major space constraints, we’ve only had a little 2-foot tree in the past and Dave assured me that Whiskers would make it his mission to destroy a big tree. Turns out, he really enjoys hanging out under there. He did get pretty pissed when I started putting out gifts, but I cleared him a spot in the front and he got over it. Occasionally we’ll catch him trying to eat a sequin off the tree skirt, but after the gray paint incident we kind of stopped giving a shit about any antics that won’t result in major property damage. Pick your battles with cats, is what I’m saying.

My Holiday Home Tour

Calling this a “home tour” is definitely generous, since I pretty much only decorated my living/dining area this year. In the last five years I’ve lived in a studio apartment, a tiny condo, a 2-bedroom apartment, and a 1-bedroom cottage, so until now I haven’t had the need for a ton of decorations. I decided to just put out what I have and call it good (with the exception of the flocked tree, which I bought this year). I might scout out the after-Christmas sales for a few more things, but honestly I’m not one of those over-the-top holiday decorating people. Mostly because I hate having to put it all away once the holidays are over. Even though it’s not much, I’m loving the warm glow from the lights in the evenings and early morning when I drink my coffee on the sofa:

Living Room 1

You can’t tell, but the Wet Bandits just got their asses kicked by a sassy blonde lady on my TV screen.

Living Room 2

Living Room 3

My mom made the pretty wreath on my mirror:

And I added a little tree and pine-scented candle to my coffee table tray to make it a bit more festive:

I got this glittery wire tree at Pier1 last year, but they still have them in stock:

Gold Tree

I didn’t do much with my tree – it’s flocked, pre-lit with white lights, and has little pine cones nestled in it, so it looked pretty festive just on its own. I just added a few sparkly silver and gold ball ornaments and a few tiny birds here and there:

Every year I tell myself I’m going to try one of the creative gift wrapping ideas I’ve seen on Pinterest (like this one), and every year I wind up buying cheap wrapping paper at Walmart. This year I went with a selection of reds, whites, and greens:

The bows looked a lot better before they had been untied by the cat and re-tied by me 15 times.

So there it is … it’s not much, but it’s a little more festive than staring at bare walls like we have been since August. (After Christmas is over, I’m devoting myself to the search for affordable wall art that doesn’t suck.) Have you blogged about your holiday decorations? Leave me a link in the comments if you have – I’m kind of addicted to holiday home tours.

Finish the Sentence With Jake and Holly

Holly (who blogs hilariously here) periodically hosts “finish the sentence” linkups, so I figured I’d finally stop lurking and start participating. The person with the best answers gets a $20 Target card! If you want to participate, click this button:

1. My favorite Christmas was….the year I got a Betsy Wetsy doll.

2. The worst Christmas I had…was the year I got a Betsy Wetsy doll. Watching your cousins gleefully play with their Bop Its while mopping up plastic doll piss from the carpet is NOT FUN.

3. That one gift that made me scratch my head and say, “Hmmmm” was…used earrings. “Did you sterilize this after pulling it out of your body?” is not something you should have to ask when receiving a present.

4. One year I….lit a table on fire with some rum-soaked sugar cubes while performing in a holiday dinner theater production. Just call me BURNadette Peters. I can’t believe I just typed that.

5. I think the worst gift to give is….live plants. Thanks for giving me the gift of another household chore, asshole.

6. At Christmastime I typically….have some sort of cheesy 90s Christmas music playing at all times — Mariah Carey, Home Alone Soundtrack, Amy Grant, etc.

7. Typically, family Christmas….turns me into Bill Murray in “What About Bob.” Baby steps to the liquor cabinet.

8. If I could change one thing about the Holiday season….I would mandate that the toy section of all major retailers be housed in separate buildings so I can buy my vodka and hot dogs without witnessing Vesuvius-level meltdowns about Bubble Guppies. THEY’RE CREEPY PLASTIC MERPEOPLE  KIDS, GET A GRIP.

9. It is so hard to buy for….rich people. “Merry Christmas, I hope this $10 Bath and Body Works candle classes up your $5,000 coffee table.”

10. My favorite Christmas tradition is…eating a shit ton of toast for breakfast on Christmas morning, because carbs covered in butter is the greatest gift of all, amen.

11. Santa, baby, bring me a ….Hemsworth. Either one will do. (But try to get Chris first.)

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F111 Crash on Stron Na Stri – The Island Of Skye 7 Dec 1982.

My thoughts as always with the families of the crew and all those involved in the recovery.

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During the Christmas period I had a quite time socially but met a visitor to the village, Ian Wright he was over with his family for the festive period. He is working in the oil industry in Houston the USA and comes from this great area. We began talking and found we had a love of Scotland and the West Coast especially Skye and the mountains. I told him of my love of the Cullin ridge and especially Coruisk in the back of the Island and either a long walk in or by boat.

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There’s always some new dessert trend on Instagram. But Elena Gnut really elevates the art of baking into… well, real art.

She transforms baked goods into incredible pop culture and fairy references, and remixes them into the most charming cakes ever, like this casual piece of Batman kicking back and reading a book.

Some of them aren’t pop culture works of art, but they are pretty cool and would make a gorgeous bachelorette or birthday cake. She’s not only great at painting, but the jagged edges against the round surface disk is so creative as well.

Or she casually recreates works of art, like this breathtaking black-and-white scene of cherubic angels in the sky. Now this could legitimately be a wedding cake. Are those real flowers or did she craft them with her magical hands as well?

The level of detail in this piece is absolutely amazing. She looks like an antique porcelain doll that’s worth a lot of money, but nope, she’s just made out of cake! We don’t know what monster would ruin this by eating it – look at those ruffles!

While this isn’t the most appetizing cake, it is magnificent and possibly more appropriate for Halloween, due to the whole rabid boar and mossy grass situation.

This looks like a diamond heart on the outside, in the most dazzling hue of millennial pink, but inside that delicate pink shell is a clean white filling and what looks like dried fruits in the middle. So creative.

We’ve seen our fair share of Little Mermaid cakes attempted for kids birthday parties, or adults with Peter Pan syndrome, but this periwinkle shell-encrusted cake with an oyster and pearl on top definitely takes the cake.

If high-end fashion and beauty companies are ever in the market for hiring a cake designer, they should definitely hire Elena, because these Chanel #5 creations are seriously beautiful.

Aw, interspecies romance! While the artist can do some really intricate works of art, we love that she also has a cute and quirky side that blends mediums and dimensions in an innovative way.

From the texture, this looks like a sponge cake, adorned in sparse macarons. This cake looks fluffy enough to lie on, and the coating texture, along with the ombre gradient, is flawless. And that bunny is extremely heart-melting to boot!

For those die-hard carnivores out there, we have something for you too. Not sure how well a blood steak goes with cake, but if that’s just delicious red icing, count us in. To some, disgusting. To others, this is food art at its finest.


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Then Mike Ungerman will present some tools and and uses that he has found for Twitter, including how he has accumulated a following of over 7,000! He will add his links to this discussion.

Mike & I will be joined by Stan Wallner in the main meeting in a discussion about browsers for the Internet. Among those discussed here are the links:

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Doctor AI: Interpretable Deep Learning for Modeling Electronic Health Records

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Deep learning recently has been showing superior performance in complex domains such as computer vision, audio processing and natural language processing compared to traditional statistical methods. Naturally, deep learning techniques, combined with large electronic health records (EHR) data generated from healthcare organizations have potential to bring dramatic changes to the healthcare industry. However, typical deep learning models can be seen as highly expressive blackboxes, making them difficult to be adopted in real-world healthcare applications due to lack of interpretability. In order for deep learning methods to be readily adopted by real-world clinical practices, they must be interpretable without sacrificing their prediction accuracy. In this thesis, we propose interpretable and accurate deep learning methods for modeling EHR, specifically focusing on longitudinal EHR data. We will be- gin with a direct application of a well-known deep learning algorithm, recurrent neural networks (RNN), to capture the temporal nature of longitudinal EHR. Then, based on the initial approach we develop interpretable deep learning models by focusing on three aspects of computational healthcare: efficient representation learning of medical concepts, code-level interpretation for sequence predictions, and leveraging domain knowledge into the model. Another important aspect that we will address in this thesis is developing a framework for effectively utilizing multiple data sources (e.g. diagnoses, medications, procedures), which can be extended in the future to incorporate wider data modalities such as lab values and clinical notes.
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Result of the first folk-rnn Composition Competition

The winning piece in the first folk-rnn composition competition is Gwyl Werin for mixed quartet by Derri Joseph Lewis. He used a tune generated by folk-rnn as a basis for both melodic fragments and harmonic construction in his piece. He chose the model trained without the repeat signs, a 9/8 meter, C mixolydian mode, an initialisation of “D E F”, and a temperature of 1.07. This produced the output here.

The judges found Lewis’ piece well balanced using nice contrasts and a variety of textures and motives in its construction. The occasional solo moments in the piece echo aspects of the generated material, though it does not imitate it directly. This piece illustrates a further approach to utilising folkrnn as part of the creative process. (For a recent survey, see Sturm, Ben-Tal, et al., “Machine learning research that matters for music creation: A case study”, J. New Music Research 2018.) We look forward to hearing the piece played by the New Music Players in our upcoming concert in October at the O’Reilly AI conference in London.

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Federal Government Unwittingly Admits Cannabis Kills Cancer

Mike Adams

A group of federal researchers commissioned to prove the government’s claim that marijuana has “no medicinal value” may have unwittingly let some crucial research slip through the cracks, forcing the United States to admit that cannabis can kill cancer.

Although, at first glimpse, the latest claim appears to be a cruel April Fools’ prank from Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), but after careful inspection, it seems that the federal government is actually supporting a recent study which has determined that marijuana has the power to eliminate cancer cells.

The research, which was conducted by a team of scientists at St. George’s University of London, found the two most common cannabinoids in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), weakened the ferocity of cancer cells and made them more susceptible to radiation treatment. The study, which was published last year in the medical journal Molecular Cancer Therapies, details the “dramatic reductions” in fatal variations of brain cancer when these specific cannabinoids were used in conjunction with radiation therapy.

“We’ve shown that cannabinoids could play a role in treating one of the most aggressive cancers in adults,” wrote lead researcher Dr. Wai Liu, in a November 2014 op-ed for The Washington Post. “The results are promising… it could provide a way of breaking through glioma [tumors] and saving more lives.”

While it is not uncommon for research to surface unveiling the truth surrounding marijuana and its high-powered chemistry for treating a wealth of debilitating health conditions, it is, however, a bizarre and extremely rare occurrence for the federal government to get behind any of these claims. Yet, in an updated synopsis on the potency of marijuana as medicine, Uncle Sam’s leading drug addiction watchdog indicated that it might be changing its opinion of marijuana and how the substance can be used to maximize human vitality and strengthen the realm of overall public health.

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not recognized or approved the marijuana plant as medicine,” the report states. “However, scientific study of the chemicals in marijuana, called cannabinoids, has led to two FDA-approved medications that contain cannabinoid chemicals in pill form. Continued research may lead to more medications.”

This is an interesting statement considering that marijuana remains listed as a Schedule I dangerous drug under the Controlled Substances Act, but it may suggest that reform of federal pot laws is on the horizon.

NIDA’s newfound pro-pot position is especially curious on the heels of a recent proposal introduced to both Congress and the House of Representatives in an attempt to legalize medical marijuana on a national level. The bill, which is called the CARERS Act, seeks to downgrade the Schedule I status of marijuana to a Schedule II in order to make the herb more flexible in the eyes of the federal government as an accepted form of medicine. In addition, the bill would also remove cannabidiol, the non-intoxicating compound of the pot plant, from the Controlled Substances Act and allow it to be distributed on a state-to-state basis without violating federal statutes.

However, the truly disheartening aspect of the national medical marijuana debate is that while a legion of lawmakers push to reschedule the plant and leading federal health officials are coming forward in support of the herb as medicine, the process of rescheduling the substance is one that the Obama Administration has the authority to initiate at any time.

Earlier this year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced on national television that “marijuana can be helpful” in the treatment of various medical conditions. Yet, Attorney General Eric Holder has done nothing to force a change to pot policies, leading us to suspect the latest “cannabis kills cancer” revelation by NIDA will unfortunately engender similar results.


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Grades, Schmades

Last week I started to have this funny feeling, a feeling I had never had before. My students were e-mailing each other the first drafts of their Unit 1 Blog Posts, and I was reading with such glee how much this whole literacy-based inquiry had captured their interest. Every Single One of them engaged their personal literacies in the service of some kind of argument about what literacy means or how we teach reading and writing today. Every Single One of them challenged a traditional portrait of literacy that only values alphabetic, academic reading and writing. That is to say, every single on of them did, to some extent, what I asked them to do on their assignment sheet, and what I really wanted them to do. They engaged.

Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance, and a Crashed Crop Duster in the Background

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And for the first time ever I had this crazy little feeling like, I didn’t want to give them grades.

I never had a philosophical problem with grading before. I know grades really motivated me in college to do well. And when my students at Michigan turned papers in, I could see their grades written all over them. Giving grades was easy: somehow in my guts I knew what each paper deserved, give or take a +/-. It’s giving qualitative feedback that’s hard.

But last week–as I told my students, when I discussed this with them, on Thursday–I didn’t want to give anyone a B or a C. Suddenly “shocking them into working harder” didn’t feel like the right approach. They were working hard. We didn’t talk about theses or organization or paragraphs in this unit. We talked about personal literacy. And they wrote about it. They asked questions they hadn’t asked before, in writing. I was, and am, really super proud.

So on Thursday I suggested that I only give my students qualitative feedback, no letter grades, until the end of the term.  I’m giving them til Tuesday to decide.

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance because my beau is into motorcycles and we spend a lot of time riding around on them together. So imagine my surprise when I got to the middle of that book a few summers ago and discovered that it is not only about zen and motorcycles but also about teaching first-year composition. In the book, the narrator recounts teaching FYC (in the midst, it might be added, of a nervous breakdown) without giving his students regular letter grades. With their consent or not, he is on a mission to discover “quality,” to figure out what quality is, and to try to get them to recognize quality on their own, without the imprimatur of his authoritative A.

Phaedrus’s little non-consentual experiment had some interesting results, which I remember quite clearly. The good students, he said, the students who would have earned A’s anyway, never quite believed they were doing well. They were always striving and striving to meet his every criticism, so that by the end of the term they had grown and excelled to a tremendous degree.

The less motivated students, however, Phaedrus reports, didn’t do so well. Without the slipping numerals of the B-, the C+, and the C, these less attentive students seemed never to realize they were increasingly in danger of failing. Looking back, the narrator of ZATAOMM suggests that while gradeless feedback pushed the good students to new heights, it extinguished a necessary flame under those students who needed it (to indulge a weird metaphor) to keep their motivational balloons full of hot air.

So, that is one thing I am worried about: that less motivated students might not notice, without the clear-cut numericism of grades, if they’re doing poorly. Luckily I have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, so I can keep my eye out for that phenomenon. But that raises this interesting question of, How do we tell students they’re not succeeding without using a letter grade? In all kinds of feedback, I am thinking grading without grades will put new pressure on my specificity of language. Even though giving out grades is hard, and makes a teacher feel like an asshole, I’m seeing now that giving a paper a C frees you to spend your letter praising its meager virtues. Without that C, you really have to say what’s wrong. Explicitly. Similarly, a letter on an A paper can be spent criticising, pushing the writer to go further. Now I might have to be clear that yes, actually it’s pretty good.

I’m already noticing other things, too. Like, my students blog posts are due at 5pm. We had a long talk in class about, could it please be due at midnight. I said no. Suddenly, it doesn’t matter. How am I going to penalize them? I can’t. They can edit it up to the day I grade and really I can’t do anything until the end of the semester, at which point I’d probably be inclined to reward them for being so invested in improving their work.

I’m also seeing how giving out A’s lowers the bar. Suddenly, without grades, its up to them to set the curve. When I send them out on their own research projects, when I start giving them more freedom to create their own homework assignments and track their own research and writing, who knows what they’ll do in pursuit of some invisible A. Probably, for some of them, way more than I’d ever actually assign. (Again I worry about the other kids. What will they do? Way less?)

Already I’m feeling how grades police a classroom. Do this, due then. Do what I told you, no less and no more, turn it in how I told you, and then kindly turn away.

I’m a scared and excited by this loosening of the reins. I feel as though I have less control, less busy work, but more real work. I need to carefully tend to each of them, my little freshman flock. An A or a C will no longer suffice as information about how they stand. Like them, I’ll have to use my words. I’ll have to clearly, responsibly articulate my claims about their performance, and back it up with evidence. Oh, how terrifying. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

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Ozy Fest 2018

This July, Ozy fest 2018 is coming to Central Park in NYC!  Ozy Fest features today’s hottest music, laugh out loud comedy, global business leaders, best selling authors, cultural influencers, and award winning chefs who are ahead of their time and worthy of yours.

The New York Times describes it as “part music festival, part TED talk, part food fair,” and CNBC as “New York’s answer to SXSW.” Furthermore, Townsquare says, “Join the conversation. Hear from leading politicians, best-selling authors and outspoken activists as they debate some of the most profound challenges of our time, and predict where the world is headed.”

On Saturday, July 21st, doors open at 11a.m. and the show runs until 10p.m. The lineup includes: Young the Giant, Common, Hillary Clinton, Laurene Powell Jobs, Hasan Minhaj, Martha Stewart, Marcus Samuelsson, Salman Rushdie, Alex Rodriguez, Tony Gonzalez, Roxane Gay, Tim Brown, Tom Perez, Steven Pinker, Rep. Mark Sanford, Rose McGowan, Isaac Mizrahi, Christian Siriano, Grover Norquist, Ruth Zukerman, Robert Herjavec.

On Sunday, July 22nd, doors also open at 11a.m. The show runs until 6p.m. The lineup includes: Passion Pit, Grouplove, Chelsea Handler, Michelle Wolf, Malcolm Gladwell, Laverne Cox, Jemele Hill. In addition, Roy Choi, Sanaa Lathan, Tom Steyer, Scott Rogowsky, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will be in attendance.

OZY FEST is something you experience — not something you just attend,” the Ozy Fest organizer says. “Experience show stopping performances from your favorite musicians and comedians. Taste global cuisines curated by celebrity chefs.”

The event takes place on July 21 and July 22. Doors open at 11 a.m. on both days, and consist of back to back entertainment.

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The Problem With Hyde

The Problem With Hyde

One of the greatest reads in my entire life was Robert Louis Stevenson’s 19th century novella “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde“.  In this, Stevenson tells the story of an attorney who is investigating the evil acts of a man who calls himself Edward Hyde.  The investigation leads him to find that Hyde is actually an alternate personality of his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll.  Since the publishing of this story, the Jekyll/Hyde concept is one of the most celebrated and imitated in all of literature.  This is because it is, in my opinion, the most relevant piece of fiction in all of sociology, psychology and criminology.  Ever. Without exception. Continue reading

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How to Start a Craftsman Platinum

The Craftsman Platinum series is comprised of walk-behind, power-propelled rotary lawn mowers. "Platinum" refers to a series of Briggs & Stratton engines that are manufactured for Craftsman lawn mowers. Platinum engines are equipped with or without engine primer bulbs that make starting the lawn mower engine easier in cold weather. The rubber primer bulb pushes fuel through the carburetor into the combustion chamber to help the engine start easier. Platinum lawnmower models without a primer are more difficult -- but not impossible -- to start.

Check the lawnmower engine oil before starting the engine to prevent damage to the internal rotating engine parts. Twist the engine oil fill tube cap; pull the engine oil dipstick that is attached to the oil fill cap from the engine oil fill tube. Add 30-W engine oil until the oil reaches the full mark on the dipstick.

Twist the gas cap from the fuel filler tube located on the fuel tank. Fill the fuel tank with unleaded gasoline until the fuel level reaches just under the fuel filler tube. Do not overfill the fuel tank or you risk an engine fire or damage to engine components.

Push the rubber primer bulb in on the side of the lawnmower engine carburetor five times by hand to start a cold engine. A cold engine is simply one that hasn't been started or operated recently, not one left out in cold weather. The rubber primer bulb pushes fuel through the carburetor into the combustion chamber to help the engine start easier. This step is not necessary when starting a engine that that is still warm from previous operation. Skip this step if your Platinum mower doesn't have a primer bulb.

Stand behind the lawnmower push handle with your feet spread shoulder length apart and square with the outside of your shoulders.

Pull the operator control bar up to the lawnmower handle with one hand and hold. The operator control bar shuts the engine off when released and will not allow the engine to start until the control bar is again placed against the lawnmower handle.

Grip the lawnmower engine starter pull rope handle firmly in your free hand. Pull the engine starter rope quickly to start the lawnmower engine. Allow the rope to gently recoil into the starter-rope handle bracket. Do not allow the rope to snap back harshly when starting; this can result in damage to the engine starter rope and recoil assembly. Repeat this step until the lawnmower engine starts.

Things You Will Need

  • 30-W engine oil
  • Gasoline

  • Avoid the use of alcohol based fuels such as ethanol or methanol in Craftsman Platinum lawnmower engines. These fuels can damage fuel system components such as the carburetor and rubber fuel hoses.
  • Avoid overpriming the lawnmower engine in warm weather because this can flood the engine, making it more difficult to start the mower. If you accidentally flood the engine, allow the engine to rest for about 15 minutes before attempting to start the engine.

About the Author

A former cake decorator and competitive horticulturist, Amelia Allonsy is most at home in the kitchen or with her hands in the dirt. She received her Bachelor's degree from West Virginia University. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and on other websites.

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'Hot' tradies vying to win hearts on this year's MAFS

By Reid Butler

It's often said "tradies get the ladies".

But for the four single Aussie trade workers on this year’s Married at First Sight, it hasn't been easy finding a soul mate.

"Ladies want the tradies is an absolute myth as far as I'm concerned." Mat Lockett from Melbourne told A Current Affair.

The plumber is one of a record four tradies tying the knot in this season of MAFS - you might know him as the late groom who eventually won everyone’s hearts.

He says it's difficult to find a partner, because there isn't a whole lot of women on the work site. "You just don't meet as many women as you would in an office." he said.

Mat and his new wife, Alycia, seem to be getting on like a house on fire - thanks to a helping hand from the MAFS psychologist. And he’s not the only tradie off to a good start.

On the first show, we watched as mechanical fitter Telv said "I do" to Sarah, during the action-packed premiere of the hit show.

He says he learned a lot from the experience, claiming it was like “Tinder on steroids”.

Ryan Gallagher is a metal manufacturer who's also taking part in this year's experiment.

"I've never been called a 'hot' tradie. It's always been terrible tradie, late tradie, or shocking tradie" he joked to ACA.

Sparky Shaun Thompson rounds out the roll call of handy men hoping to meet the woman of their dreams.

"It's been an emotional roller coaster, absolutely." he said.

Let’s hope these tradies keep their ladies.

Married at First Sight airs tonight on the Nine Network at 7:30pm.

For more on Married At First Sight, including behind-the-scenes clips, head to 9Now. Catch up on exclusive interviews at 9TheFIX. MAFS obsessed? Tune into 9Honey's weekly chat show, Talking Married, where you'll get the inside scoop on every episode.


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COMES THE DARK By Patrick D’Orazio Comes the Dark is the first novel in a planned trilogy from talented zombie author Patrick D’Orazio. Fans of zombie and horror may recognize Mr. D’Oraizio’s unique last name from one of the many critically acclaimed stories he has placed in independent anthologies over the course of the past two years. In that time …

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Politico: Say, remember when Hillary promised to “do a lot more press”?

Ed Morrissey Posted at 2:41 pm on August 21, 2015

Well, Politico’s Dylan Byers has to give Hillary Clinton credit for trying. She did try holding a presser after her Las Vegas campaign event, but it turned out badly — even apart from the all-orange wardrobe choice, given the circumstances:

Is it any wonder that the campaign has not allowed reporters the opportunity to joust with Hillary Clinton, despite her promise in June to be “doing a lot more press” by this point?

In her first and only national interview, more than six weeks ago, Clinton told CNN’s Brianna Keilar: “Obviously I’ll be doing a lot more press.” The only reason she’d been waiting so long, she said, was because she had pledged to spent the first 90 days of her campaign listening to American voters. At the time, a Clinton aide also told the On Media blog that the candidate “looks forward to doing more” national interviews.

The Clinton listening tour officially ended on July 12, and since then the national media has been forced to endure 40 days and 40 nights without the promised interviews. The fast has only contributed to longstanding press frustrations with Clinton’s limited availability. Despite the occasional scrum or press conference, the candidate’s refusal to answer questions from reporters has been a theme of her campaign.

“Clinton has done one national interview since her shift to national interviews. It was over six weeks ago,” Maggie Haberman, the New York Times political reporter, tweeted late Thursday night.

Actually, there have been two interviews with national outlets, as Team Hillary spokesman Brian Fallon pointed out on Twitter. The second took place earlier this month with Univision, which didn’t get much notice from the national press. Univision’s Maria Elena Salinas barely touched on the e-mail scandal, only pressing Hillary on polling that showed voters want it investigated, and never mentions Libya or Benghazi at all. Besides, two interviews in 40 days is hardly “doing a lot more press” with national outlets.

That still didn’t prevent Fallon from picking a fight with Byers on Twitter:

There’s more, so just open the thread and follow along.

There are a few reasons why Hillary would refrain from doing more press. One is that she doesn’t have any real competition for the Democratic nomination; if a real threat emerged, she’d have no choice. Under the current circumstances, why take the risk? Another is that she’s, well, pretty poor at handling the press. Her UN presser in March turned into a fiasco of arrogance and deceit, and this past one was even worse, especially with its hasty retreat under questioning. She does passably well on the stump, at least when refraining from stand-up comedy, but in any kind of neutral or hostile questioning quickly becomes unlikable.

There’s one more reason, too. Her defenses keep changing on the e-mail server story when pressed for explanations, and the investigation creates a risk that these public statements might be used to magnify her legal problems. Under normal circumstances, people linked to a probe of this potential damage would be well advised to keep their mouths shut, but that’s impractical for a presidential aspirant. The next best option is to tightly control the public messaging — and that means reporters won’t get much time with Hillary for the foreseeable future.

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That’s great for Ellen DeGeneres, but DeGeneres isn’t “press” — she’s entertainment.

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Any time you wake up, consuming an eight ounce glass of water that has a few tablespoons of lemon juice additional can help you loose fat. The lemon juice aids flush harmful toxins out of your entire body and has properties which were proven to acquire your metabolic process going. Receiving during the habit of consuming water from the morning delivers a strong basis to aid you continue to keep creating balanced possibilities all day.

When seeking to slim down, never generally think meals marked "light" or "low-fat." Even though they could have decreased calories or extra fat when when compared to the typical edition in the identical foods, they can be frequently nonetheless quite unhealthy. The sole strategy to make sure an item is inside of your diet program would be to go through the nutrition facts around the label.

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Effective Study Techniques for University Students

Updated on January 16, 2014

The amount of information you must remember at University is often overwhelming. There are lectures, long textbook chapters and sometimes additional articles which you must read and understand in very limited time. In this article I’ve compiled a list of study techniques that will help you learn & remember information better, while keeping your study time short.

Do your readings!
Do your readings!

Cover relevant readings before going to the lecture

If you know what the lecturer will be talking about the next time you go to class, it’s a good idea to do some background reading on the topic before attending their lecture, especially if the topic is something you know little about. What’s the point? Covering relevant readings before going to the lecture is often the difference between understanding what the lecturer is talking about & having no clue whatsoever.

Doing so will also let you take meaningful notes rather than writing down everything the lecturer has said. Going to the lecture after you’ve done your readings will also reinforce what you’ve just read & make it easier to remember when you come to take your test or exam.

Review material & notes after the lecture

After the lecture, spend 10-15 minutes going over your notes and any ideas presented in the lecture that you didn't quite understand. It’s important if you don’t understand something, you do something about it as quickly as you can. If you don’t, you’ll find you have a lot of holes in your notes when it comes to revision for a test or exam. Assume you didn’t understand an idea the lecturer was talking about in class, here are a few ways you can deal with it:

- Talk to the lecturer after class if they are is still available

- Try to find the idea in your textbook

- Arrange a time to meet with your lecturer

- Send an email to your lecturer

- Ask a friend to explain

- Use Google/Wikipedia to find your answer

Study in a similar environment where you’ll take your test or exam

You are more likely to remember information in a test or exam if you study it in the same environment as where the test or exam will be held. Find a quiet place at University or at home where you can concentrate & study in peace.

Plan short study sessions with regular breaks

Concentration fades quickly with time, so it’s best to focus on your studies for a short period of time, & then taking a quick break before studying again. An example could be studying for 50 minutes then taking a 10 minute break before jumping into another 50 minute session. During the break you can make yourself a quick snack or go outside to do some exercises & stretch off your body before jumping into another 50 minute study session. In the 50 minutes that you study, make a goal to cover a whole topic, or complete a practice paper.

Reward yourself for your efforts

Studying is hard work so it’s important to reward yourself at the end of the day! It also provides you an extra incentive for studying other than getting good grades. Words of caution however, don’t try and do this the other way around or you will lose the incentive & the motivation to study later.

Study a little everyday

Probably the most important study technique is to study for a short period of time every day. This can include the first two techniques presented in this article, i.e. reading before going to the lecture & reviewing the material and your notes after the lecture.

As a guide, try to get at 1-2 hours of study outside of the lectures every day. If you apply the first two techniques, this should be very easily achievable and makes a huge difference when it comes to revision for a test or an exam because you’ve constantly reinforced what you’ve already learnt.

Do not memorize everything

At first this seems counter-intuitive. Isn’t the whole point of study is to memorize everything you’ve been taught in lectures or read in the textbook? Short answer: No. The point of study is to the understand material, rather than repeating the same stuff in your head until it begins to hurt. Make no mistake, you will memorize a phone number by repeating it in your head half a dozen times, but only if you keep repeating it.

Your brain is more likely to hold information for longer periods of time if it’s meaningful. To your brain, a bunch of numbers doesn’t mean a damn thing and as soon as you stop repeating them, it’s going straight to the recycle bin. To make the material that you’re studying meaningful you need to relate this new information to existing information that you already know. The more connections you can make, the more likely it will stick around in your head and the more cues you will have to retrieve it.

What about study groups?

Studying with your friends can be a fun and an effective way to study for a test or exam but everyone needs to come prepared. Here are some tips how to help you organize a successful study group...

- Invite no more than 5 friends

- Invite friends who actually want to study

- Make sure everyone comes prepared to their own study

- Make sure everyone knows where and when to meet

The one thing you need the most!

No matter how much you study, when or where you study, make sure to drink lots of water. Keeping your body well hydrated is essential to keep your brain functioning. It also prevents headaches which can make study extremely difficult. Of course, always remember to take a water bottle to your test or exam.

If you know any study techniques you found useful while you were at school or University, feel free to share them in the comments below!

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