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Weaving and cutting along the twisted lanes that separate Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road, I was in a reverie. So much accumulated experience, all of it hard earned and hard won, settled in a part of the city few outsiders visit. I took a loop through Four Corners and got stuck in traffic on Bowdoin Street. The sidewalks were a hive and a haven abuzz with gossip and little routines, hale greetings, nursed grudges and satisfied smirks. Tourists don't visit these parts, only residents, only citizens, Bostonians, Dorchesterites all.
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Sep 30, 2019
Great course, got to learn and understand good things about developing games in general and particularly in Unity. I highly suggest it for someone who has no experience whatsoever at game development.
Feb 07, 2016
Very great course. The instruction is spot on, allowing me to listen while I work without the need to actually watch the video. Definitely worth it for novices and even intermediate level developers.
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Very great course. The instruction is spot on, allowing me to listen while I work without the need to actually watch the video. Definitely worth it for novices and even intermediate level developers.
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Jun 06, 2019
Great introduction to game development in Unity. This course makes it easy to get your feet wet and learn some of Unity's interface before expecting you to try to dig deeper into topics that are more in depth. I'm glad I took this course and am currently taking the other courses in this specialization. I expect to complete this. It's worth the money if you need direction.
par Vladimir L•
Sep 16, 2019
Very well structured course!
par Mohamamd O•
Sep 16, 2019
it was Excellent Course to enter Game Development world
instructor Brian Winn lectures very helpful and informative
also the projects were really helpful and well constructed to give the student a whole overview on how games are made.
I really enjoyed taking this course and excited to complete next specialization courses.
par Ahmed S•
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great course that gives you enough solid knowledge to help u build a
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Very constructive course, I learned some game dev concepts that I never saw. The homework projects are very complete into the proposed subject for the week, are treated all methodical and consistent. So far, this course is the best that I have invested my time. Certainly I'm going to subscribe in the second course of this program.
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Jul 01, 2019
Was an amazing learning experience!
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I enjoyed the course. Very fun playing with the Unity editor, and the assignments give you some freedom in how you tackle assignments. The class was fairly easy and doesn't need much time commitment.
par Kendry G•
Sep 30, 2019
Great course, got to learn and understand good things about developing games in general and particularly in Unity. I highly suggest it for someone who has no experience whatsoever at game development.
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This game was everything I needed: a very hands-on introduction to Unity 3D, explaining many different tools and techniques and at the same time one introduction to 3D animation, physics engine and other important aspects that make up a game.
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Hello everybody who is reading my review of this great course! If you're interested in making video games and you've never worked with tools like Unity (just like me) I highly recommend to finish this course. And this is because of the following reasons: 1. Brian Winn is a great teacher who explains everything. I don't have any questions about what we've learnt, just want to know more :p 2. Three projects which you'll make in this course. For me they were pretty simple because almost (around 70-80%) every step was just a "copypaste" from Brian Winn's actions but there is great sense in it because you just need to have more experience in working with Unity what this course gains to you; 3. You're free to do whatever you want in each of your projects. For example, you make first level in the project and then the second level is all yours. That's really cool! So that's all! I guess this review helped you. Good luck everyone!
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Dec 29, 2018
It helped me a lot to learn and understand what is the difference between playing games and making games
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Jan 15, 2019
Realy nice course
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Dec 31, 2018
It's my very first course on Game Development, and I was very satisfied with everything that I was able to make: a solar system simulation, a rolling ball game, and a shooter. Can't wait to take the other courses in this specialization!
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Feb 18, 2019
Vart useful
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Feb 23, 2019
I leaned a lot from this program. This program helped me gain basic to advance knowledge on how to built games.
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Feb 24, 2019
Gets feet wet (relatively) to use Unity 3D in a gamedev environment, though quite a bit of handholding for some of the scripting sections. Other than that, perhaps some scripting challenges on creative game mechanics (eg. rock-paper-scissors or interesting game genres like over-the-top shooters and strategy games projects) can also be useful.
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Feb 25, 2019
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Excellent overview of the subject. Awesome instructor. 5 stars!
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Mar 30, 2019
Very good introduction to Unity and its tools. Also very handy set of tools are provided to start it up.
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Amazing course with hand-on projects! It helped me to build my portfolio for game development master and introduce me to the world of game design. Thank you for this amazing course.


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VEDECOM Tech, the European self-driving car company, has chosen Karamba Security, a provider of autonomous cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles, to protect its autonomous vehicles from cyberattacks.
VEDECOM Tech is a commercial subsidiary of VEDECOM Public Foundation, an organization dedicated to fostering innovation in autonomous transportation, and whose members include Renault, Peugeot and Valeo.
It is introducing completely autonomous, self-driving vehicles (SAE Level 5) that will be launched for commercial use in 2017 and 2018 by municipalities in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands. The company is using Karamba's Carwall and Autonomous Security software to protect the cars' electronic control units (ECUs) against risks of hacking.
VEDECOM is using YoGoKo's advanced communications solutions for its connected and cooperative autonomous vehicle. YoGoKo solutions enable vehicles to maintain internet connectivity and exchange data with other vehicles, road and urban infrastructure and cloud apps in a standardized way (ISO, CEN, ETSI standards), combining a diversity of access technologies (urban Wi-Fi, ITS-G5, cellular, LoRa, etc.).
The communications security must be complemented with system-level security. YoGoKo and Karamba work together to harden YoGoKo's externally-connected ECUs and safeguard the vehicles' advanced, connected communications systems against cyberattacks. This software security blocks malware and enforces authentication to provide trust in using self-driving capabilities and enforcing authorization policies that ensure data privacy.
Karamba Security has responded to the challenges with Carwall and Autonomous Security, an approach that hardens the car's ECUs against hackers trying to take control of its safety systems, such as brakes and steering, for malicious purposes.
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After 9/11, when the nation was still in shock over the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, Shannen Rossmiller, a country judge and mother of three in rural Montana, was formulating a plan. Soon she was devouring literature on Islamic culture, teaching herself Arabic, and preparing to infiltrate the central nervous system of global terror: online networks. Her efforts succeeded beyond imagination. Posing as an Islamic terrorist under dozens of screen aliases, she joined forces with the FBI andstarted trolling jihadist chat rooms, striking up conversations at 3am with men as far away as Pakistan, and amassing evidence against an array of suspected terrorists both at home and abroad. Her work laid the foundation for the online searches so crucial to law enforcement's fight against terror today.
Shannen's husband, Randy, uncovered her double life after a chat room terrorist wiped out the family computer and reports rolled in that the Rossmillers were being targeted for reprisal. Undeterred, Shannen started working with the FBI on sting operations, involving everything from jihadist cells to weapons caches to bomb plots, and bringing many of her targets to justice, as well as pioneering the digital entrapment tactics that are at the forefront of today's war on terror. This is the story of one woman's unexpected courage and how it changed the face of this global struggle.
Un hechizo se tejió alrededor de su corazón… Chase Wolf, atractivo y fuerte, cuya sangre comanche lo hacía peligroso, estaba acostumbrado a conseguir lo que quería. Así que cuando vio a Franny - un ángel rubio con profundos ojos verdes, rasgos delicados y una dulce sonrisa - se dispuso a hacerla suya. Ella tenía demasiados secretos para dejar que alguien entrara en su mundo, secretos que terminarían con la cordura de cualquier persona. Pero Chase estaba lejos de ser razonable, y a pesar de sus intentos desesperados por alejarlo, él no estaba dispuesto a dejarla destruir su futuro.
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Shannen Rossmiller was a mother of three and a Montana municipal court judge when she assumed the role of online terrorist-hunter after 9/11. Her work led to the founding a new field of espionage known as cyber-counterintelligence, and today she works closely with the FBI to find and prosecute terrorists. She lives in Conrad, MT.
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A crusading, modern-day vigilante goes online to flesh out unsuspecting terrorists.Born on a ranch in bucolic Conrad, Mont., to a wheat farmer and a schoolteacher, Rossmiller blossomed from a plucky, determined "Little Scrapper" to a young woman fascinated with current events, news and history, relating more to her father's brooding interest in the psychology of serial killers rather than her mother's feminine pursuits. After college, she returned to Montana, married childhood friend Randy and began paralegal work, which led to her appointment, at 29, as the youngest female municipal judge in American history, trying mostly drug-offense cases. In 2002, still incensed by the atrocities of 9/11, Rossmiller became desperate for "a way to channel my outrage" and launched a personal War on Terror campaign. She learned Arabic, studied the Koran, educated herself on Middle Eastern geographies and interacted within the same Internet forums and chat rooms that had become communication portals for the stealth terrorists responsible for 9/11. From there, her story speeds off in a dizzying array of events as a result of Rossmiller's creation of 40 false Muslim-radical identities and the tracking of jihadist activity with a spreadsheet. Additionally, the author furtively became an FBI-reporting cyber-sleuth and organized the Seven Seas Global Intelligence Group. She would eventually feel the heat of retribution, betrayal and life-threatening peril alongside the satisfaction of executing successful sting operations busting traitorous National Guardsman Ryan G. Anderson and Alaska pipeline terrorist Michael Reynolds. The author's somewhat stiffly written, steely narrative darkens further once the author reconciles the toll her valiant, fearless career in cyber counterintelligence and the many media-scrutinized court testimonies had taken on her well-being and her family's safety, spurring health woes and the collapse of her marriage.The prose is workmanlike, but Rossmiller's patriotic, risky involvement in righting the wrongs of 9/11 resonates on every page.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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Rossmiller was wife, mother, and judge in a small Montana town when 9/11 hit. She vividly remembered visiting the World Trade Center as an adolescent. Hungry to understand the motivation of the attackers, she joined online talk forums for extremists, learned Arabic to understand and participate in the discussions, and developed several false Arabic identities to infiltrate jihadist movements. Her husband, Randy, pleaded with her to stop, but she persisted, eventually developing such rapport with extremists that she faked being a recruiter of mujahideen and passed on information to the FBI. Working with the FBI on several sting operations, she helped identify jihadists and uncover more than 200 operations plotting bomb attacks. She also helped to develop the digital entrapment tactics that law-enforcement agencies continue to use to fight terrorist attacks on the U.S. This is a thrilling account of how one woman's determination to take action after 9/11 led to new investigative tactics.--Bush, Vanessa Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Emeryville, California (EastBayDaily) — Cytiva Software Inc. (CRX:TSX.V), a leading provider of on-demand talent management software solutions, announced today that world renown Vancouver Aquarium selected SonicRecruit to power its talent acquisition efforts.
Vancouver Aquarium is the fifth largest aquarium in North America, hosting nearly 1 million visitors annually for its 154 aquatic displays.
"Vancouver Aquarium is a prime example of a mid-sized employer whose needs aren't met by less configurable, low end ATS solutions," said Jason Moreau, CEO of Cytiva. "They are one of a growing number of organizations that have selected SonicRecruit for Fortune 500-caliber recruiting solutions and service without the typical huge price."
As a highly visible organization, and a desirable employer in British Columbia, Vancouver Aquarium receives a large number of resumes each month. No longer able to manage the flow of resumes through conventional means, Vancouver Aquarium set out to find technology to automate the sourcing, screening and hiring of great employees.
The 50-plus year old organization looks forward to increasing manager participation in the hiring process and stimulating employee referrals to help their recruiting efforts in a tight labour market. The SonicRecruit deal includes customized Internet and Intranet career sites, manager self-service and automated employee referral program.
"We looked at other systems," says Andrew Martin, vice president of human resources for Vancouver Aquarium. "SonicRecruit was robust, affordable and the company really wanted to partner with us to make the implementation successful."
About Vancouver Aquarium: The Vancouver Aquarium is a self-supporting, non-profit association dedicated to effecting the conservation of aquatic life through display and interpretation, education, research and direct action. Through visionary, responsible growth, the Vancouver Aquarium has become the fifth largest aquarium in North America. Renowned for display and interpretation excellence, its programs are internationally recognized and its research projects extend worldwide. For more information visit http://www.vanaqua.org.
About Cytiva Software Inc.: Cytiva Software Inc. (CRX:TSX.V) provides innovative software and services to help mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies hire, manage and maximize their talent. Its flagship talent acquisition product, SonicRecruit, allows corporations to screen applicants, automate their recruiting departments, customize their corporate career sites and hire great people. This premier applicant tracking system improves recruiting effectiveness, speeding up the hiring process and reducing cost per hire. Over 175 organizations use SonicRecruit recruiting software, including Coca Cola Bottlers, Mazda, American Standard, Restoration Hardware, NetFlix and more. For more information, visit http://www.sonicrecruit.com
Contact: Ian Alexander mediarelations @ sonicrecruit.com 510-984-1986
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Forward-looking Statements: This news release contains forward-looking statements related to the future financial condition and results of operations of Cytiva. These statements are based on current expectations and estimates about the human resources markets in which Cytiva operates and management's beliefs and assumptions regarding these markets. These statements are subject to important risks and uncertainties which are difficult to predict and assumptions which may prove to be inaccurate. Some of the factors which could cause results or events to differ materially from current expectations include but are not limited to: general economic conditions, market or business conditions; changing competitive environment; changing regulatory conditions or requirements; changing technology; and success in implementing productivity initiatives. Some of these factors are largely beyond the control of Cytiva. Should any factor impact Cytiva in an unexpected manner, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, the actual results or events may differ materially from the results or events predicted. All of the forward-looking statements made in this document are qualified by these cautionary statements, and there can be no assurance that the results or developments anticipated by Cytiva will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences for Cytiva. Readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Further, Cytiva disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or any other occurrence.
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THE repair of the breach on the Middlewich Branch, it still progressing—but slowly.
Canal & River Trust is hoping to have the repair completed by Christmas, Keith Gudgin tells us.
Very slowly
Work, as can be assumed, is progressing very slowly, with the access road to the breach only just completed, having taken five months.
This means that equipment can be transported to the site allowing work to commence, but according to the trust this will take another five months, it promising that the breach will be repaired by the end of the year.
No such urgency
What a difference with the two breaches on the Llangollen Canal that were very hastily repaired in a matter of weeks, for of course that canal supplies water to the reservoir at Hurleston, but on other canals there is no such urgency as again is being showed.


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"A fiercely reasoned, bently written landmark of psychological science."—Roger Brown
This classic study is still the only comprehensive theory of child language acquisition—one that begins with the infant, proceeds step by step according to explicit learning algorithms, mirrors children's development, and ends up with adult grammatical competence. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author that updates of every section, Language Learnability and Language Development continues to be an indispensible resource in developmental psycholinguistics.
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By definition, visual image representations are organized around spatial properties. However, we know very little about how these representations use information about location, one of the most important spatial properties. Three experiments explored how location information is incorporated into image representations. All of these experiments used a mental rotation task in which the location of the stimulus varied from trial to trial. If images are location-specific, these changes should affect the way images are used. The effects from image representations were separated from those of general spatial attention mechanisms by comparing performance with and without advance knowledge of the stimulus shape. With shape information, subjects could use an image as a template, and they recognized the stimulus more quickly when it was at the same location as the image. Experiment 1 demonstrated that subjects were able to use visual image representations effectively without knowing where the stimulus would appear, but left open the possibility that image location must be adjusted before use. In Experiment 2, distance between the stimulus location and the image location was varied systematically, and response time increased with distance. Therefore image representations appear to be location-specific, though the represented location can be adjusted easily. In Experiment 3, a saccade was introduced between the image cue and the test stimulus, in order to test whether subjects responded more quickly when the test stimulus appeared at the same retinotopic location or same spatiotopic location as the cue. The results suggest that location is coded retinotopically in image representations. This finding has implications not only for visual imagery but also for visual processing in general, because it suggests that there is no spatiotopic transform in the early stages of visual processing.
When it comes to explaining English verbs' patterns of regular and irregular generalization, single-network theories have difficulty with the former, rule-only theories with the latter process. Linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence, based on observation during experiments and simulations in morphological pattern generation, independently call for a hybrid of the two theories.
Children extend regular grammatical patterns to irregular words, resulting in overregularizations like comed, often after a period of correct performance ("U-shaped development"). The errors seem paradigmatic of rule use, hence bear on central issues in the psychology of rules: how creative rule application interacts with memorized exceptions in development, how overgeneral rules are unlearned in the absence of parental feedback, and whether cognitive processes involve explicit rules or parallel distributed processing (connectionist) networks. We remedy the lack of quantitative data on overregularization by analyzing 11,521 irregular past tense utterances in the spontaneous speech of 83 children. Our findings are as follows. (1) Overregularization errors are relatively rare (median 2.5% of irregular past tense forms), suggesting that there is no qualitative defect in children's grammars that must be unlearned. (2) Overregularization occurs at a roughly constant low rate from the 2s into the school-age years, affecting most irregular verbs. (3) Although overregularization errors never predominate, one aspect of their purported U-shaped development was confirmed quantitatively: an extended period of correct performance precedes the first error. (4) Overregularization does not correlate with increases in the number or proportion of regular verbs in parental speech, children's speech, or children's vocabularies. Thus, the traditional account in which memory operates before rules cannot be replaced by a connectionist alternative in which a single network displays rotelike or rulelike behavior in response to changes in input statistics. (5) Overregularizations first appear when children begin to mark regular verbs for tense reliably (i.e., when they stop saying Yesterday I walk). (6) The more often a parent uses an irregular form, the less often the child overregularizes it. (7) Verbs are protected from overregularization by similar-sounding irregulars, but they are not attracted to overregularization by similar-sounding regulars, suggesting that irregular patterns are stored in an associative memory with connectionist properties, but that regulars are not. We propose a simple explanation. Children, like adults, mark tense using memory (for irregulars) and an affixation rule that can generate a regular past tense form for any verb. Retrieval of an irregular blocks the rule, but children's memory traces are not strong enough to guarantee perfect retrieval. When retrieval fails, the rule is applied, and overregularization results.
How do speakers predict the syntax of a verb from its meaning? Traditional theories posit that syntactically relevant information about semantic arguments consists of a list of thematic roles like "agent", "theme", and "goal", which are linked onto a hierarchy of grammatical positions like subject, object and oblique object. For verbs involving motion, the entity caused to move is defined as the "theme" or "patient" and linked to the object. However, this fails for many common verbs, as in fill water into the glass and cover a sheet onto the bed. In more recent theories verbs' meanings are multidimensional structures in which the motions, changes, and other events can be represented in separate but connected substructures; linking rules are sensitive to the position of an argument in a particular configuration. The verb's object would be linked not to the moving entity but to the argument specified as "affected" or caused to change as the main event in the verb's meaning. The change can either be one of location, resulting from motion in a particular manner, or of state, resulting from accommodating or reacting to a substance. For example, pour specifies how a substance moves (downward in a stream), so its substance argument is the object (pour the water/glass); fill specifies how a container changes (from not full to full), so its stationary container argument is the object (fill the glass/water). The newer theory was tested in three experiments. Children aged 3;4-9;4 and adults were taught made-up verbs, presented in a neutral syntactic context (this is mooping), referring to a transfer of items to a surface or container. Subjects were tested on their willingness to encode the moving items or the surface as the verb's object. For verbs where the items moved in a particular manner (e.g., zig-zagging), people were more likely to express the moving items as the object; for verbs where the surface changed state (e.g., shape, color, or fullness), people were more likely to express the surface as the object. This confirms that speakers are not confined to labeling moving entities as "themes" or "patients" and linking them to the grammatical object; when a stationary entity undergoes a state change as the result of a motion, it can be represented as the main affected argument and thereby linked to the grammatical object instead.
Language and cognition have been explained as the products of a homogeneous associative memory structure or alternatively, of a set of genetically determined computational modules in which rules manipulate symbolic representations. Intensive study of one phenomenon of English grammar and how it is processed and acquired suggest that both theories are partly right. Regular verbs (walk-walked) are computed by a suffixation rule in a neural system for grammatical processing; irregular verbs (run-ran) are retrieved from an associative memory.
How are words represented in the mind and woven into sentences? How do children learn how to use words? Currently there is a tremendous resurgence of interest in lexical semantics. Word meanings have become increasingly important in linguistic theories because syntactic constructions are sensitive to the words they contain. In computational linguistics, new techniques are being applied to analyze words in texts, and machine-readable dictionaries are being used to build lexicons for natural language systems. These technologies provide large amounts of data and powerful data-analysis techniques to theoretical linguists, who can repay the favor to computer science by describing how one efficient lexical system, the human mind, represents word meanings. Lexical semantics provides crucial evidence to psychologists, too, about the innate stuff out of which concepts are made. Finally, it has become central to the study of child language acquisition. Infants are not born knowing a language, but they do have some understanding of the conceptual world that their parents describe in their speech. Since concepts are intimately tied to word meanings, knowledge of semantics might help children break into the rest of the language system. Lexical and Conceptual Semantics offers views from a variety of disciplines of these sophisticated new approaches to understanding the mental dictionary.AVAILABLE AT:AmazonAmazon UKBarnes & Noble
How do people recognize an object in different orientations? One theory is that the visual system describes the object relative to a reference frame centered on the object, resulting in a representation that is invariant across orientations. Chronometric data show that this is true only when an object can be identified uniquely by the arrangement of its parts along a single dimension. When an object can only be distinguished by an arrangement of its parts along more than one dimension, people mentally rotate it to a familiar orientation. This finding suggests that the human visual reference frame is tied to egocentric coordinates.
In a recent paper, Chambers and Reisberg (1985) showed that people cannot reverse classical ambiguous figures in imagery (such as the Necker cube, duck/rabbit, or Schroeder staircase). In three experiments, we refute one kind of explanation for this difficulty: that visual images do not contain information about the geometry of a shape necessary for reinterpreting it or that people cannot apply shape classification procedures to the information in imagery. We show, that given suitable conditions, people can assign novel interpretations to ambiguous images which have been constructed out of parts or mentally transformed. For example, when asked to imagine the letter "D" on its side, affixed to the top of the letter "J", subjects spontaneously report "seeing" an umbrella. We also show that these reinterpretations are not the result of guessing strategies, and that they speak directly to the issue of whether or not mental images of ambiguous figures can be reconstrued. Finally, we show that arguments from the philosophy literature on the relation between images and descriptions are not relevant to the issue of whether images can be reinterpreted, and we suggest possible explanations for why classical ambiguous figures do not spontaneously reverse in imagery.
"A monumental study that sets a new standard for work on learnability."—Ray Jackendoff
In tackling a learnability paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade—how children acquire predicate-argument structures in their language—Steven Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics, and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, the learning, and the development of verb meaning and verb syntax. He describes a new theory that has some surprising implications for the relation between language and thought.
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Does intelligence result from the manipulation of structured symbolic expressions? Or is it the result of the activation of large networks of densely interconnected simple units? Connections and Symbols provides the first systematic analysis of the explosive new field of connectionism that is challenging the basic tenets of cognitive science. These lively discussions by Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Steven Pinker, Alan Prince, Joel Lechter, and Thomas G. Bever raise issues that lie at the core of our understanding of how the mind works: Does connectionism offer a truly new scientific model or does it merely cloak the old notion of associationism as a central doctrine of learning and mental functioning? Which of the new empirical generalizations are sound and which are false? And which of the many ideas such as massively parallel processing, distributed representation, constraint satisfaction, and subsymbolic or microfeatural analyses belong together, and which are logically independent? Now that connectionism has arrived with full-blown models of psychological processes as diverse as Pavlovian conditioning, visual recognition, and language acquisition, the debate is on. Common themes emerge from all the contributors to Connections and Symbols: criticism of connectionist models applied to language or the parts of cognition employing language—like operations; and a focus on what it is about human cognition that supports the traditional physical symbol system hypothesis. While criticizing many aspects of connectionist models, the authors also identify aspects of cognition that could be explained by the connectionist models.AVAILABLE AT:AmazonAmazon UKBarnes & NobleIndieBound


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The Friends of Popodicon have received a $500 grant from The Monarch Alliance to buy plants for the endangered monarch to feed, rest and breed in a butterfly garden on the Popodicon estate.
The Monarch Alliance is a program of the Potomac Valley Audubon Society.
"The aim of The Monarch Alliance is to have as many monarch way stations along the migration route as possible," Elizabeth Staro, the leader of the Popodicon garden restoration project, said in a Shepherd University press release. "As the butterflies are going through their lifecycle and migrating, they go from place to place to be able to feed and rest. It can be just a little portion of your yard where you plant some butterfly weed or something to help and nurture them, so they can make their long journey to Mexico."
Shepherd is one of seven entities to receive grants from the Monarch Project this year. The grant program awards vouchers for up to $1,000 toward the purchase of plants during one of The Monarch Alliance's native plant sales at Sunny Meadows Garden Center in Boonsboro, Maryland.
The historic garden will also gain a sculpture designed by Shepherd student Alyssa Imes, a B.F.A student with a concentration in sculpting. Her four-foot statue includes a monarch and a honeybee, both of which are endangered.
"My idea was to have a profile of a wing of the monarch butterfly with its vein pattern and on the inside where the spots are, create a honeycomb pattern," Imes said in a press release. "The piece is called 'Winged Forces' because they are both pollinators, and they both flourish the garden itself. The wing will be black, and the spots are going to be that yellowish tint of honey."
The sculpture will be unveiled on Tuesday, April 24, at noon. The event is free and open to the public. Visitors will have a chance to tour Popodicon and its gardens during the Shenandoah-Potomac Garden Council 63rd Annual House and Garden Tour April 28-29.


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This Vette was built by the late Rick Leonard of Special Interest Auto's of Oregon. The car has all late model Vette suspension and an LS1 motor. The interior was designed to enhance the upgraded performance angle as well. Santana hand built the dash, console and bucket seats. Also on the list was to scratch build all the trunk panels and door panels. The interior is covered in MB Tex vinyl and uses German Squareweave carpeting. The top is a production EZ On top made from Haartz Stayfast cloth. Rich had Carl Brouhard custom paint the grab handle coving to match the engine valve covers. Although the dash looks like a stock Vette dash, when placed side by side, there is a huge difference in style. The custom built door panels are also one off items from Santana Interiors. The car also sports a rockin' stereo installed by Santana's.
Re-worked stock seats, custom covered dash pad. Santana armrests with underpulls. Speakers built into kick panels. Trunk covered in trunk lining with false wall. MB Tex vinyl with perforated inserts. Charcoal square weave carpet.
On the inside, nearly four boxes of sound deadening material were used to help keep noise to a minimum. Rich did this interior with a beautiful mix of modern thinking and classic design. Believe it or not the front bench is actually the factory frame with custom padding and covered in German vinyl.View full story at superchevy.com
Ray always wanted to build a car in his youth, and decided there was no better time than the present. So off he went to build a unique and stand out hot rod. Big Bock Ford power, lots of IT, mini tubbed, bagged all four corners, and discs all around. The car has subtle treatments on the outside and the interior matches the theme. Rich started out with stock front seat frames, but made all new foam and built the rear seat to match. Even with a narrowed rear end, Rich was able to get 7 more inches width than the stock rear seat, due to rear panel design and execution. The console also has a stock look, but has been highly modified to house window switches and air system. It also has a storage area under the custom armrest. The material used is MB Tex vinyl and German Squareweave carpet. That same material was used in the trunk as well. Rich had custom machined pieces made for the fuel lid and horn button by Excalibur Machine in Diamond Springs, Ca. The high point of this car for the owners, besides driving the wheels off it, was being invited to the 2008 Fresno Autorama by Blackie Gejian while at the '08 Sacramento Autorama.
This rod features, BMW vinyl covering Santana-built dash, door panels, and rear cargo area. The seats are modified BMW seats.
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The Green Team would like to congratulate all of our little helpers who are keeping the Earth Green and Clean by collecting water bottles and milk jugs. Together with their help, we have collected 300 milk jugs to build our "Chill-Out Reading!" igloo which students will now be able to visit for a little reading time.


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Our night began by a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil the new library remodel. From the pictures below you can see how excited the students were to get in and see! Following that were many science and math based activities around campus. Click on the photos below to see them in full size. More coming soon!
My name is Anne Jarriel and I oversee the SteamWorks lab at Gullett Elementary. I'm blogging about what I see and lead in the STEAM lab which is mostly kids just having a great time!
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You have probably heard the phrase, "Put your money where your mouth is." The phrase means, essentially, that if you believe in something or have a certain value system, where you spend your money should reflect that. Take a moment and reflect right now: are your purchases reflective of your values?
What Do You Spend the Most Money On?
First, take a look at your bank account and analyze your purchases over the past month – what do you spend the most money on? Food? Clothing? Electronics? Are those things that you need? Are they things that you value? Could you cut back? Are you making charitable contributions, too?
Within Your Spending Categories, What Do You Value?
Look at your spending categories again. Now, try to determine whether or not those spending categories have individual value categories within themselves. For example, do you value organic or local food? Products made sans child labor? Sustainable clothing?
Rethink Your Spending
Finally, don't just think about what your purchases say about your values but whether or not your purchases are adding value to your own life.
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.
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Arthur Christmas
Reviewed by David Savage
Starring (Voices): James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Ramona Marquez
Directed by: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook
Certificate: U
Running Time: 93/97 minutes (DVD/Blu-ray)
Format: DVD and Blu-ray
Release Date: 19 November 2012
Arthur Christmas is the story of a present that doesn't get delivered by Santa and the lengths they go to so a little girl is not disappointed on Christmas morning.
It's Christmas Eve and Santa has to deliver presents to all the children of the world. With his army of elf's and military precision from a state of the art control room Santa manages to deliver his presents and get back to the North Pole in time.
But one present has been missed and Arthur, Santa's clumsy son, is devastated that one little girl will be left out. While his older brother, Steve, and Santa say that it is too late to deliver it. Arthur with the help of Grandsanta, a rebellious elf, an old sleigh and some untrained reindeer decide to deliver it themselves and they set out on their hilarious journey to prove that it can be done and that no child will not be disappointed.
Overall, this is a great Christmas film for all the family. I found it to be very funny with jokes for adults and children. The storyline is great and the quality of the animation is excellent. This will appeal to everyone and will make an ideal Christmas present.
A very funny family film, good all round entertainment. The perfect film for Christmas.
I can highly recommend it.
Rating: 5/5
Lauren (Age 7)
I loved it, it's so funny. Especially when Granddad Christmas was riding in the snow in a dustbin with the reindeer pulling him across the snow. When they put the bike under the tree for Gwen he emptied the rubbish bin that he was riding in all over the floor.
Available to buy from 19 November 2012 from Amazon here.


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This upcoming academic year, ChildObesity180, an organization at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy that strives to facilitate research on childhood obesity prevention, will officially debut the New Balance Foundation Billion Mile Race at schools across the United States.
Based on a partnership with the New Balance Foundation and the 100 Mile Club, the initiative seeks to get elementary school students across the nation to collectively run, walk or wheel a billion miles over the next three years, according to Director of Operations and Communications at ChildObesity180 Linda Harelick.
Director of Sustainability at ChildObesity180 Elizabeth Nahar explained that the New Balance Foundation Billion Mile Race is part of ChildObesity180's Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP), which has focused on school-based physical activity for a number of years and looks to unearth and increase the scale of innovative programs.
ASAP launched a national Physical Activity Innovation Competition to discover and support programs that focused on physical activity in 2012, according to Christina Economos, who is the co-founder and director of ChildObesity180, the New Balance chair in Childhood Nutrition and an assistant professor at the Friedman School.
"Through ASAP, we did a national competition," she said. "First Lady [Michelle Obama] helped us announce it, and it was really a call for innovation. So we asked schools across America to submit a proposal and show us what they were doing in their schools to get kids up and moving."
Economos added that they received 500 applications that were programmatic and/or technology-based. The selected candidates then underwent a robust judging process, according to Nahar.
"It was really a swath of people who care about physical activity across America from different perspectives, and they went through a standardized review process using a rubric, and then a number of programs basically surfaced as being innovative and potentially impactful," Economos said.
The judges then made their final decisions, according to Harelick.
"We narrowed down to nine winners: two national winners and then seven regional winners," she said. "And from there came three very promising programs that we thought that were scalable, they were cost-effective, they had the potential to increase physical activity and they were, probably most importantly, fun for kids."
From the three selected programs — one of which was the 100 Mile Club — 1,000 schools were offered a $1,000 grant to adopt one of the programs during the 2013-2014 school year, according to Harelick. She noted that the the 100 Mile Club was selected by about 70 percent of the schools.
"Over the course of the year, we collected data — and on some schools we collected objective data by having the kids wear accelerometers — and we did interviews of people who were implementing it and site visits," Economos explained, noting that the 100 Mile Club showed the potential to be inclusive within schools and scalable across the nation.
From there, ChildObesity180 looked to scale the program, which aims to get kids to commit to running, walking or wheeling 100 miles within a school year, and expand its reach further across the country, according to Harelick.
"What we realized is that … a walking and running club is just a very simple, cost-effective thing that you can do in a school to increase physical activity, and so based on its popularity, we thought to ourselves, 'Our goal is not 1,000 schools, it's 25,000 schools over the next three years,'" she said.
Harelick explained that the idea for the New Balance Foundation Billion Mile Race was developed based on the realization that if ChildObesity180 wanted to scale the program to 25,000 schools, it would not be possible to give out grants of $1,000 to each school.
"Then we came up with this idea of having a challenge — challenging the country to add up to a billion miles over the next three years and really to drive excitement for implementing a walking and running club," she said. "And then, we also are thinking about doing sort of some healthy competition, whether it's between schools or between school districts, to create excitement and fun around it."
There is a preregistration form available online for schools to sign up for the program for the upcoming year, according to Nahar. She added that the site, which should be fully live by early May, will allow schools to sign up and create their own page in order to log their miles and see how they compare to other schools in their districts, states or across the country.
The actual tracking and logging of miles may vary school by school, but the program looks to establish one or several "champions" who will assume responsibility for making sure students log miles, and then upload the records of those miles to the web platform, according to Nahar.
"School by school, they may take on the 100 Mile Club for a year or multiple years; that really remains to be seen," Economos said. "You need a champion in the school who's going to really lead the way for the kids."
Economos noted that the 100 Mile Club has been operating successfully at schools in southern California for over a decade.
"Once it becomes part of a culture, the kids really want to go [at] it year after year," she said. "There was a real sense of community and sustainability that we saw with the program, which was another reason we chose it as our lead. So we're hoping that schools that take it on will do it for multiple years."
Nahar explained that ChildObesity180 has had a longstanding connection with the New Balance Foundation, which has provided funding for fellowships as well as the chair position at the Friedman School, occupied by Economos.
"Over the last year or two we've continued being in touch with [the New Balance Foundation] about our work, and collectively came up with a collaboration idea where they would provide philanthropic support for the New Balance Foundation Billion Mile Race," she said. "Their foundation is really committed to … child obesity prevention and also, obviously, physical activity, so it was a really nice connection."
The foundation has pledged $2.55 million to the program over the next three years, according to Harelick.
"It will hopefully be this national campaign that gets schools and kids excited about getting up and moving and being consistently physically active," Economos said. "It provides an opportunity for schools to be leaders and appear up on the website on the leaderboard if they're really accruing a lot of miles and celebrate and reward the kids along the path to their 100 miles over the school year."


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Zum Auftakt ins Wochenende erreicht uns ein interessantes Praktikumsangebot in Tokyo.
Flug und Logis werden bezahlt, Praktikanten erhalten ein Taschengeld von 3000 Yen am Tag.
Es besteht die Chance, nach absolviertem Praktikum übernommen zu werden.
Der genaue Wortlaut der Anzeige ist:
Cookpad is the largest recipe sharing service in the world. Over 2.8 million user recipes have been posted on Cookpad to date and 63 million users in Japan visit the site each month. Since 2014, Cookpad has expanded internationally and now operates in over 17 languages, 60 countries, and attracts an additional 35 million users per month outside of Japan.
Job description:
Come and join us and change how the world cooks while honing your skill as a software engineer. Our internship program lasts 1 month where you will join our top-notch development team building a world-class product. This will enable you the opportunity to craft new functionalities that make our users happy. Technical areas that you will be challenged in are server side development, front end development and native mobile application developments for both iOS and Android. This program will develop you as a software professional and help you find the suitable level of work that you are enjoy the most. You will: – be involved in our development team, working closely with an engineer as your mentor. – work as a team to resolve and mend problems that Cookpad is facing. – be assigned in our global team.
Job category:
Android Engineer, iOS Engineer, Ruby Web Developer
Yebisu Garden Place Tower 12th Floor 4-20-3 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-6012 Japan
We'll provide you JPY3,000/ day while you're interning with us. *We have our own kitchen so you can cook if you want. (enough foodstuffs for everyone)
Benefits include: – Transportation allowance(inclu. flight tickets) – Accommodation(hotel or apartment) near our office(utility costs and water bill etc. will be fully covered by the company) -You can use our office kitchen(enough foodstuffs for everyone)
Language skills:
Japanese: Not considered English:Business level Other language:Not considered
Years of studies:
Master in ITCS
Selection process:
If you pass online programming test, you'll have Skype interviews.
*there are possibilities to be hired as full-time after the internship
*Only those who pass each step will be informed of the result.
Deadline = July 13rd


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Do a quick Google search online, and you'll find any number of posts dedicated to the importance and worth of performing a social media cleanse.
Take this one, for example, which promotes the spiritual benefits of refusing to check social for a week. Or this one, which warns that you might be headed for a Britney-style social media breakdown if you aren't careful.
Or how about this one? It claims social is straight up toxic, and features an eye-accosting banner image of a sad waif staring hopelessly at her computer screen, presumably dead inside due to the poisonous likes of Twitter and Instagram.
And you know what?
I just don't freaking buy it. Whether or not you're facing social media overwhelm, I don't advise doing a cleanse … and here's why.
I know, I know. Social media causes bullying! It encourages suicide! It makes you forget your real friendships, fry your brain and live a life of sloth and falsity!
And it can, that's true. If you're not careful, your social media habits can get mega-unhealthy. I mean, any time you're looking at your phone instead of your children or crying because of something someone said to you on Facebook, you're taking that shiz too seriously.
But I'll give it to you straight: That's a YOU problem. Social didn't do that; you did it to yourself.
My lifestyle and happiness hero Gretchen Rubin likes to say that technology (among other things) is a good servant but a bad master. In other words, if you make it work for you, great. If you're working to serve its needs, notsogreat. But guess who's in charge of choosing how to use those alluring little apps on your phone and desktop?
You are.
So stop thinking social is your enemy, and start figuring out how to use it smart.
The truth is, if you have an unhealthy relationship with your Pinterest profile, your Twitter feed or your Instagram community, a weeklong break is unlikely to fix the problem. I mean, it might give you some much-needed perspective, but once you're back … you're usually back.
Behavior resumed.
Plus, breaks suck. Who wants to be away from the tools that make life and business better for so many?
"Spoken like a true social media addict!" some of you are shouting. "The algorithms have fried your brain! You are completely addicted and THERE IS NO LONGER ANY HOPE OF SAVING YOU!"
Friend, calm down. Think about all the good social media achieves. It enabled the Arab Spring. It enables massive outreach for global charities. It's how I met several of my best friends. Yes, really. Friends with whom I have tons in common, talk all the time and wouldn't be nearly as creatively happy without. I wasn't going to find that in my hometown … I know, because I tried.
So instead of bewailing the evils and just bouncing (only to return later with the same attitude), give up the idea of a cleanse. Be thoughtful. Ask yourself: What is it I really need? Why am I researching social cleanses in the first place? If I were to do one, how would I hope to act when I returned from it?
Your answers will be illuminating. If you can figure out what is causing the ick inside you and change your behavior accordingly, there's no need to ditch social media.
Right now I'm in the middle of some HUGE life changes. I just wrapped up 5 months of major ongoing surgery. I packed my whole beloved house and turned it over to a property management company, and am moving from Portland, Oregon, to Belize in just a few short weeks. My cousin died unexpectedly, wrecking the family. My husband quit his job. And my children are transitioning schools and freaking the eff out because of it.
Not only that, but I recently launched a bunch of courses and have been blogging about writing like crazy. It … is intense.
My response? If you guessed it wasn't a social media cleanse, you were right.
Nope, I'm just taking this super novel and unique approach where I go with the flow.
Yeah. It's a thing. Learn about it.
For instance, I used to dedicate so much time to my Instagram addiction, I was posting three times a day, even when I went on vacation. Sometimes this meant taking two dozen pictures before I left town, then posting them faithfully while I was away. That seems like a lot, I know, but for a long time I enjoyed it. Then the algorithm changed, and I hit the skids in my personal life, and it became less worth it. My attitude about Instagram became, Eh, I'll get to it if I get to it. Now I post sometimes, and sometimes I don't, but I still enjoy interacting with my community.
As for Twitter, I like it. I have a decent following and enjoy engaging when I can. I'm not quitting just because I'm busy, but I refuse to bow to the gods either. My Facebook Group is growing slowly but surely, as is my Pinterest profile. They're not huge, and I don't care, because each day they give me a little bit more.
Folks, social media IS your friend. It has earned me a dedicated following, boosted my creative dreams and given me access to some really, really cool people.
So stop the madness. Stop torturing yourself with the "I'm in! I'm out! I'm in!" rollercoaster.
Instead, just do what's right for you. Ask smart questions, and give thoughtful answers. You and your dreams are totally worth it.
If you want to learn more about how to be a great writer or online creative while staying sane, I encourage you to get access to all the free tools in my resource library to learn more. While they can't cure all social media or entrepreneurial ills, they'll help. Promise, so go check it out.
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here is a little detail, i used a plain canvas, and then a bit of paper collage using some vintage paper - old books painted with watercolour and some old maps, and then stamped the old saying on.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
what are you making?
a few weeks ago over on lobster and swan Jeska did a post on making a pinboard - well the post was inspired by pinks (its a lovely post as always from lobster and swan) anyway she asked the question 'what are you making? i have to say i seem to have a whole host of started but not finished projects on the go - which is making the studio mighty messy and somewhat uninviting! i did however finish this for a special little friends birthday.
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Just love this! Handmade every time....it shows so much more thought and effort has gone into the gift, and it will be unique!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 November 2011 at 13:11
I think handmade things are really special. When I had my 3rd child a friend knitted a beautiful cashmere cardigan for him. It was my favourite gift and I still treasure it, wrapped in tissue paper, even though he is now 5. You make such beautiful things that I think the receiver would always be delighted! Do you have any thoughts on easy Christmas gifts?ReplyDelete
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Day 511: Persistent illegal conduct.
1/ The New York State attorney general sued Trump and his three eldest children for "persistent illegal conduct" at the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The lawsuit alleges that Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit, violating campaign finance laws, engaging in self-dealing to decorate one of his golf clubs, and illegally coordinating with his presidential campaign to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway during a 2016 campaign event. The state asked to dissolve the foundation and distribute its remaining $1 million in assets to other charities, and force Trump to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties. Trump attacked the lawsuit on Twitter, calling it an attempt by the "sleazy New York Democrats" to damage him. He vowed not to settle the case. (New York Times / Washington Post)
The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won't settle this case!...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018
....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018
2/ The Inspector General Report: James Comey "deviated" from FBI and Justice Department procedures while investigating Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server. The report concluded that Comey's decisions were not "the result of political bias," but that his "decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice." Trump has argued that FBI agents tried to rig the Clinton investigation to help her win the presidency. The report also concludes that the text messages exchanged by FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page did not improperly affect the investigation, but "the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation." (Bloomberg / New York Times)
Comey Responds: I was wrong, but disagree with some of the conclusions. (New York Times)
I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG's people for hard work.— James Comey (@Comey) June 14, 2018
Comey used a personal Gmail account to conduct official FBI business while serving as the agency's director, which was "inconsistent" with a policy by the Justice Department. (CNBC)
But my emails. https://t.co/G7TIWDEG0p— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 14, 2018
3/ Sarah Huckabee Sanders and deputy press secretary Raj Shah are planning to leave the White House,according to a CBS News report. Sanders plans to leave by the end of the year, while Shah hasn't settled on an exact date. Sanders denied the report, tweeting: "Does @CBSNews know something I don't about my plans and my future? I was at my daughter's year-end Kindergarten event and they ran a story about my 'plans to leave the WH' without even talking to me. I love my job and am honored to work for @POTUS." (CBS News)
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Marc Short, the White House's top liaison to Capitol Hill, will leave his job this summer citing "diminishing returns" of pushing Trump's agenda. (Wall Street Journal)
4/ Jeff Sessions cited the Bible in his defense of the Trump administration's policy of separating undocumented immigrant children from their families. Sessions invoked the Apostle Paul for his "clear and wise command" to say people should "obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes." Sarah Huckabee Sanders also defended separating parents from their children, saying it's "very biblical to enforce the law." She then proceeded to blame on Democrats for refusing to "close the immigration loophole." (NBC News / Talking Points Memo / Axios / CNBC)
Jeff Sessions: Enforcing Family Separation Policy is Supported by the Bible (VIDEO). #paul #sufferthechildren pic.twitter.com/ppBNpSHaMx— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 14, 2018
Remarkable discussion of how the Bible supports family separation policy, according to Jeff Sessions and Sarah Sanders. pic.twitter.com/1SJsLOF8YS— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 14, 2018
5/ White House Counsel Don McGahn recused his entire staff from Robert Mueller's investigation last summer because many staffers "had been significant participants" in the firings of Michael Flynn and James Comey. Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said McGahn's recusal was a key reason why he was hired last summer to manage Trump's response to the Russia investigation. (Politico)
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John Kelly revoked Rudy Giuliani's son's West Wing access after Trump ordered Andrew Giuliani be promoted to special assistant to the president. (Axios)
The New York Court Appeals denied Trump's motion to dismiss Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit against him. This is the third time Trump has tried and failed to get the case tossed or delayed. (ABC News / Vox)
The Justice Department will not stop the AT&T-Time Warner merger, clearing the way for the deal to be completed as soon as Friday. (CNBC / Reuters)
Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea is Russian because everyone who lives there speaks Russian. In 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea from Ukraine, leading to international condemnation and sanctions, and directly leading to Russia being kicked out of the then-G8. (BuzzFeed News)
Mike Pompeo said sanctions on North Korea will remain until the country has completely denuclearized. The statement contradicts North Korean state media reports that Kim and Trump agreed to a plan of "step-by-step and simultaneous action" to achieve peace and denuclearization on the Korean peninsula. (Reuters)
Representative Darrell Issa is a candidate to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The California Republican would replace Mick Mulvaney, the agency's interim leader. (Bloomberg)
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The British Computer Society awards its Lovelace Medal to "individuals who have made a contribution which is of major significance in the advancement of Information Systems or which adds significantly to the understanding of Information Systems". The award is announced at a lecture given by the previous year's medallist. This year's event was a little different.
Karen Spärck Jones, the 2007 Lovelace medallist, died shortly after the award was announced. She was a pioneering researcher in computational linguistics, and received many awards through a long and distinguished career which started, continued and ended at Cambridge University. If you use a search engine, thesaurus-driven retrieval, automatic summarisation, relevance weighting, the Semantic Web, or any technology which depends on language analysis, you owe a debt to her work.
The 2008 Lovelace lecture was given in her memory by Dr. Ann Copestake, Cambridge's Reader in Computational Linguistics. The lecture itself was a tour de force, ranging across the areas in which Prof. Spärck Jones so often led the way right up to the time of her death. Dr. Copestake educated us, but never baffled us. The logic and algebraic formalisms which she shared were not to be understood, but to illustrate how complex a field of study this is; when she needed us to understand a principle, she used a simple English sentence or, at one point, a Sudoku puzzle.
But, additionally, we were treated to glimpses of Karen Spärck Jones the person, and of her long partnership – academic as well as personal – with her husband Prof. Roger Needham. Fittingly, the vote of thanks was given by Dr. Andrew Herbert, who was closely associated with Prof. Needham in Cambridge research and succeeded him at the head of Microsoft's Cambridge research lab. In his short speech, and in tributes from Prof. Wendy Hall and Prof. David Hartley, we learned also of the enormous range of charitable activities supported by the Roger Needham Trust and the depth of their joint contribution to Cambridge University and civic life.
Her work has touched my own career more than once: most directly in the 1980s when I managed thesaurus-driven databases and wrote an internal research paper on the then vogue issue of natural language database interfaces. But to my surprise I learned that, through Andrew Herbert, she also directly influenced a completely unrelated field which I was involved in: architectures for wide area distributed systems, developed through the ANSA project into an ISO standard. It was through this project that I met Andrew, who was its technical director. Conversation with Prof. Spärck Jones guided Andrew to one of the principles of that work, that of under-determination (essentially, working with the partial knowledge you do have) which is one of the foundations of modern computational linguistics. In Dr Copestake's lecture, this is where the Sudoku came in!
Prof. Spärck Jones knew that she would not be able to receive the medal in person; Andrew's comments brought home to us how much it genuinely meant to her. Surprisingly for a medal named for the first woman in IT, Prof. Spärck Jones was the first woman to receive it; this gave her great pleasure. Computing, as she once said, is too important to be left to men!
Links (follow these links not only for Dr Copestake's lecture but also for a video lecture recorded by Prof. Spärck Jones herself as an acknowledgement for the Lovelace medal and for the ACM Athena Award which she received at the same time):
• 2008 Lovelace Lecture: A tribute to Karen Spärck Jones British Computer Society (Dr. Copestake's presentation will be accesible via this page)
• Obituary: Karen Spärck Jones University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
• Natural Language and the Information Layer Prof. Karen Spärck Jones, March 2007 (video lecture, 30 minutes)
• Ann Copestake University of Cambridge
• Dr Andrew Herbert Microsoft, Cambridge
• ANSA project, 1985-1998 official record online


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