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Dog in Politics Day (a.k.a. Checkers Day)
THE HOLIDAY: On September 23, 1952, Vice President candidate, Richard Nixon, gave a speech that was call the "Checkers Speech". He had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. Wanting to defend himself as his place on the Republican ticket was in doubt, he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address. It was in this speech that Nixon stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift; a black-and-white dog that had been name Checkers by the Nixon children, thus giving the speech its popular name. More
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January 07, 2010
Where did you come from?
Found in the park. My own little treasure.
A tiny piece of ceramic.
Rounded edge.
Blue and white glaze on both sides.
I wonder what it was?
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The print looks like it could be Vietnamese.ReplyDelete
I don't know but it wins hands down over the plain brown 1 kilo rock that my son adopted as his pet rock on holiday at Christmas. At least yours can be carried home from the family picnic in your pocket!ReplyDelete
Ooooh it's just like being an archaeologist (is that how you spell it?)ReplyDelete
Samian ware.ReplyDelete
(is it bad that a family in-joke as a comment on someone else's blog made me laugh.)
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2010 at 11:21 PM
A broken tile?ReplyDelete
an bit of a picnic plate when picnics involved the whole shebang, plates, cutlery and all...ReplyDelete
ooo I wonder too - it looks pretty though - I like the blue.ReplyDelete
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
Weekend Wanda
Weekend Wanda from Dr. Digi's House of Stamps, the devoted, over-pampered wife of Weekend Walter, has had an exhausting week, the beauty parlor twice, then a bit of shopping, it is so draining looking for just the right shoes to wear with the new dress she ordered. While trying on a dozen different shoes, it nicked her polished toenails so a pedicure was an absolute must and what good is a pedicure without a manicure! Now that the weekend is here, Wanda is ready to kick back but first she must compile a list of chores that Walter absolutely needs to get done before her mother's arrival on Monday!
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FABULOUS! Such a fun image, beautiful colouring and I love your story to go with it!ReplyDelete
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great image Tammy - she does look like she's had a hard week - bless xxReplyDelete
Wow! This is so fun Tammy. Great coloring and great story to go with this super fun image. Are you sure she got a pedicure? I can't even seen her toenails! LOL! Fun, fun, fun card! Hugz!ReplyDelete
What a fab image,love this.xxxReplyDelete
Eek!!! What a little doll she is! Pretty scary but I remember wearing rollers like that in my hair too. Cute card and wonderful coloring!ReplyDelete
Great image, made me LOL! Your coloring is awesome!ReplyDelete
This gave me a good giggle Tammy ,what a fun card and love how you colord the fur!!ReplyDelete
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Firstly Tammy I want to know where you found this picture of me I thought I had burnt it....lol. No seriously your coloring is amazing and I love this fabulously fun image.... Great Card!ReplyDelete
I'm jealous, Tammy! She looks so nice and warm....just got in and it's so damned cold outside. Love your colouring on this one. Hope you had a good weekend.ReplyDelete
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She is fabulous Tammy, great colouring and I love her curlers lolReplyDelete
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Isn't she a sweetheart! I can see she's very fashion conscious and cares greatly about her appearance. That's a lot of work! Brilliant coloring, Tammy, and I loved the story!ReplyDelete
What a fun Card Tammy!ReplyDelete
hee hee, she is fabulous! Love those curlers!! :)ReplyDelete
Lose the rollers and make it iced tea and you have me on any given morning! Fabulously fun, Tammy!ReplyDelete
Girl you aced that fur on the robe and slippers!ReplyDelete
I thought I was the only one who looked like that in the mornings...super cute, Tammy!!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh My Good God!ReplyDelete
Thought I was looking in the mirror for a moment there. I'm sure the Doc is still using me as a model for his awesome range of female digis, the likeness is uncanny.
Your fur colouring is so real :-)


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Bryan has been a resident of Kingston ever since he first moved here in 2000 to attend Queen's University as a graduate student. After obtaining his Master's and PhD in Economics at Queen's, he joined the economics faculty at Royal Military College, where he has worked as an assistant professor since 2006.
Bryan first ran for city council in 2010 in Trillium District, where he lives with his wife Shyla and their two boys Judah and Micah. Bryan has served on city council for the last four years, where he has used his background as an economist to push forward a progressive agenda centred around economic development, quality of life initiatives and the facilitation of more affordable housing in Kingston.
Bryan has served as the chair of the city's planning committee over the last two years, and was also the vice-chair of the Mayor's Task Force on Development, an initiative aimed at streamlining the development approvals process in Kingston. Bryan has also been a member of the KEDCO board over the last four years, actively participating in the development of a new strategic plan to attract new business ventures to the city.
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Today (July 4th) at noon the world will be tuning in to ESPN for one of the biggest food competitions of the year – Nathan's 2010 Hot Dog Eating Contest. And although numerous gluttons will take the podium for punishment there are really only two standouts – Joe Chestnut (USA) and Takeru Kobayashi (Japan). But then again this hot dog eating contest is occurring on any give Sunday. Meaning it could turn into the ultimate dog fight. Here are the Coney Island competitors you should keep an eye on (if you can stomach it).
2009 contest results:
1st: Joey Chestnut - 68 hot dogs and buns (record)
2nd: Takeru Kobayashi - 64 ½
3rd: Pat Bertoletti - 55
4th: Tim Eater X Janus - 53
5th: Bob Shoudt - 41 3/4
6th: Sonya Thomas (Black Widow) - 41
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One Direction set world record !
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It was called One Direction set world record - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
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One Direction have plenty to celebrate after setting a new world record with their music.
The boy band are entering the Guinness World Records book because they are the first act whose first three albums debuted in the top spot in America.
Their records Up All Night and Take Me Home were number ones and they clinched their place in the record books with their latest album Midnight Memories.
Their feat wasn\'t even managed by massive music stars like The Beatles, Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson.
The boys are currently on tour in the States where they were presented with their Guinness Word Records certificate.
During one of their concerts, Niall Horan told fans it was one of their "proudest moments".
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The 2015 Guinness World Records book will be unveiled later in September.
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June 2007 • Volume 1 • Number 1 • PDF version (for best printing)
Now every article is the start of a discussion. If you're a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, you can comment on any of the articles that appear below.
In This Issue…
- Diversity in the Legal Profession: What we can do to open doors?
The Illinois State Bar Association proudly stood as a co-sponsor of the ABA resolution supporting the creation of a Diversity Pipeline to help guide young minority students to the law. With over 70 official sponsors of the resolution, Illinois stands with 20 state bar associations and numerous county, city and specialty bars, as well as ABA sections, in support of opening doors to offer opportunities to any student who aspires to a career in the law.
- Diversity in the Legal Profession: ISBA's commitment continues
The Illinois State Bar Association has a long-standing and unwavering commitment to diversity in the legal profession and in the Association.
- Chair's column
As chairs of the Standing Committees on Women and the Law and Minority and Women Participation, we are pleased to share with you the diversity outreach and educational efforts that our committees have undertaken during the past year.
- Diversity Roundtable: Pipeline to the future
During the past year, the Standing Committee on Minority and Women Participation has been exploring ways that the Illinois State Bar Association can encourage more minorities traverse the educational pipeline into the legal profession.
- The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism and its mission
The Illinois Supreme Court took a dramatic step forward by creating the Commission on Professionalism.
- Diversity is a yarn, until women of color are woven into the law firm fabric
Regardless how accomplished a woman may be, she cannot climb, much less reach the top of, the leadership ladder unless she spends a certain amount of years in her work environment.
- Articulating the business case for inclusion
Abundant research, practical experience, and media stories support the business case for diversity. Ensuring that diversity is achieved requires committed leadership and rigorous assessment so that change is both measurable and sustainable into the future.
- Summary of the 2006 Diversity Luncheon
On September 18, 2006, the Peoria County Bar Association's Diversity Committee held its third annual Diversity Luncheon and outdid itself again.
- The Chicago Call to Action for Women Attorneys: The right thing to do for law firms
The Call to Action was launched on January 25, 2005 to increase the number of women partners and to enhance leadership opportunities for women attorneys in law firms.
- Diversity news
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association selected the law firm of Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker Levin and Tominberg, Ltd. as the recipient of the Thomas L. Sager Award for the Midwest Region.
- Mission Possible: Black Law Students Association at SIU Initiative
BLSA, which is an organization comprised of a small group of African American and other minority law students, has targeted minority elementary, middle, and high school students, most of whom will come from low income and educationally deprived communities in Illinois and surrounding areas.
- Excellence and strength through diversity: The positive impact on the future of our profession
Increasing diversity within the legal profession not only contributes significantly to the quality of the profession, but also serves to enhance the public's confidence in, and respect for, the legal system. As members of the legal profession, it is our duty and obligation to assume the lead in assuring that there is gender, racial, ethnic and sexual orientation diversity within our ranks.
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Each member hotel of the Hungarian Castle Hotels Association is ambitious to live up to the traditions of the famous Hungarian hospitality. Each of these castles aims to fully satisfy the guests? needs, but in different ways: Our castles are at least three stars hotels. Most of them take pride in the traditional Hungarian cuisine in their elegant restaurants, in which meals characteristic to the region are served.
Our qualitative guidelines:
The member hotel provides the highest possible quality of service within its category and strictly follows the rules of HCHA's "Do's and don'ts" supplement. (HCHA=Hungarian Castle Hotels Association)
The member hotel undertakes the following:
- takes part in the general meeting of HCHA and in the training organized by HCHA at least once a year.
- places HCHA's logo on every printed promotional and communication material
- places HCHA's and HHE's logos on its website, linking to the respective association's own websites.
- places HCHA and HHE pamphlets at the reception and in the rooms.
- informs guests at the reception about the cultural and historical programs of the region.
- takes part in all HCHA programs, which are organized for all member hotels (CastleCard, CastleVoucher, CastleGuide, etc.)
Castle room
The term "Castle room" (or "Castle suite") may only be used for rooms that are situated in an original castle or monument building and not in newly attached or rebuilt parts (like an attic). Rooms situated in buildings or wings younger than 100 years cannot be called "Castle rooms".
Guest room
In its publications (price list, website, etc.), the member hotel separates "Castle rooms" from other types of rooms. These rooms have to be indicated as a different room category (eg. "guest room" or "tourist room"). Guests should be duly informed about the type of room they get.
When giving the total quantity of rooms, two numbers have to be indicated, eg. 14+8. (The first number refers to the number of "Castle rooms", the second for the "Guest rooms" – attic, basement, separate building, separate wing, etc.).
The observance of these rules is regularly controlled by the board. The board can also overrule its previous decision of accepting a new member to the association in case of a change in the service level or a renovation of the member hotel. Significant reconstructions have to be reported in writing to the board. In this case the board checks the observance of the requirements and decides upon an eventual quality advice.
Member admission process
- The leader (owner or manager) of the castle hotel enquiring about membership fills in and signs the "Admission sheet", thereby expressing their intention of joining HCHA. (The "admission sheet" can be demanded at the firstname.lastname@example.com email address)
- A representant of the board visits the castle hotel, then reports to the board in written and makes a proposal about the admission of the member.
- The application fee (from 2012) covers the costs of the admission inspection, and has to be paid by the applicant at the time of application – before the inspection. The application fee is 50,000 HUF + VAT. Furthermore, the applicant bears all eventual lodging and dining costs that should incur during the inspection. Paying an application fee does not guarantee the admission of the member. In case of a successful admission process the net sum is deducted of the entrance fee.
- The board decides about the admission of the member, and eventually determines the necessary changes to be made by the applicant.
- A one-time entrance fee is required to be paid at the time of admission, which is 50% of the annual fee.
- Admission of new members is possible throughout the whole year. If the board decides about the admission of a new member in the first half of the year, the total annual fee is due. Should this decision happen in the second half of the year though, only the monthly proportional part of the annual fee has to be paid (counting from the month of admission until the end of the year).
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Hello, picture book lovers.
With competition high in trade publishing, some passionate creatives take the leap into indie publishing to hone their craft. Just like we did with Meeka.
On this page, we showcase some wonderful indie-published picture books by Australian authors and illustrators.
These books explore a wide range of topics including mindfulness, diversity, engineering, anxiety, music, bedtime, wildlife and sustainability.
Scroll down to browse the books, and meet the makers.
A far cry from stories about storks and magical eggs, RJ Miles' debut picture book One in Many Millions engages children in fascinating facts about assisted reproduction.
Anne Donnelly is an emerging author, illustrator, dance teacher and former scientist. With such a busy life, it's no wonder she had to invent an eight-armed helper.
Discover what it is like to live on the banks of the beautiful Hawkesbury River in the latest picture book by Joanne Karcz.
Maura Pierlot rediscovered her creativity after more than 25 years in business, and her career as an author and playwright is blossoming.
Celebrate the simple joys of life through Bubbles and Puddles, a picture book of rhyming stories by author Michelle Wanasundera.
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How To Improve Your Steel Shop Drawings Process?
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Steel detailing plays a quintessential and multifaceted role in the AEC industry. Be it any construction project – building, bridges, industrial units, commercial complexes, elevators or air handling units, steel detailing process is a critical step. Because of this very nature, steel shop drawings services should only be handled by expert drafters with hands-on experience, like BluEntCAD. In our KNOWLEDGE SERIES, we will talk about how to make steel shop drawings and designing the process in the most efficient fashion.
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What is the purpose of shop drawings?
In the simplest of terms, steel shop drawings is a planning technique used in construction for designing the building. Steel shop drawings concretely define every step which is involved in assembling different parts to be used during construction. A steel shop drawing is a broad term. It is used in general for varied steel parts and their fabrication.
The benefits of steel shop detailing are diverse. The architects or structural engineers conceive their idea for the project on paper, which reduces wastage of resources and materials. Moreover, the drawings also comprise of various materials required for fabrication of steel members, which give the manufacturers a clear idea of what to design and how to design. This prior knowledge of steel reinforcement will again prevent any financial and resource loss.
Steel Shop Drawings Process
Diverse members of a construction project are involved in the making of steel shop drawings. The first step is when the architect creates the first copy of the blueprint on paper, after which a fabricator analyses every action with steelwork that decides how the shop drawing can be modified. These revisions can be approved by the Architect or rejected after review.
After the drawings have been finalized, a steel detailed works on these to meticulously create detained steel diagrams for every steel piece to be used in the actual manufacturing process. These illustrations include trusses, columns, beams, metal decks, braces, joists and stairs & handrails.
For every diagram, comprehensive individual shop drawings are created. These often include the following specifications:
- Material specification
- Required dimensions
- Size
- Welding
- Bolting
- Color and paint requirements
- Surface setups
- Manufacturing standards
- Fabricating and custom design specifications (if any)
Once the steel members are produced, the detailer again gets to work to create drawings of assembled steel members. These are called Erection Drawings.
How to make Shop Drawings for Steel Fabrication?
There are various techniques to create steel shop drawings, including both manual and with the help of steel shop drawings software.
Let's take a look at these processes:
Manual Drafting: This is the conventional way for shop drawing designs. The architects use pen, paper, pencils and measuring tools for making handmade drawings.
Computer Aided Drafting (CAD): Of late, CAD has replaced manual drafting for creating steel detailing drawings. Designers use software to generate drawings and then print them.
3D Dimensional modeling applications: 3D modeling is another technique which generates a preview of drawings as they will appear in real-life. 3D modeling is quite different from 2D modeling and the project is usually completed in 3D before the shop drawings are produced from the model.
A steel detailer is crucial to steel detailing process. He acts as a bridge amongst various individual contributors including the architect, structural engineer, steel fabricator, general contractor, steel erector, checker and CAD design experts.
Some of his additional roles and duties include:
- Observing drawing parameters and verifying them with industry standards such as AISC – American Institute of Steel Construction and AWS – American Welding Society.
- Presenting his drawings to structural engineers and architect for review and evaluation before eventually releasing them to the fabricator.
- Offering missing information wherever required, under the consent of the structural engineer.
- Cross-checking the drawing with another steel detailer, often referred to as The Fabricator for accuracy, precision and completeness
- Monitoring changes during design creation phase and identifying revisions
Major Challenges faced during the creation of Steel Shop Drawings
While some issues arise because of human error or carelessness; in our experience, others take place because the right information has not been provided. Several times the client cannot envision the building and fails to furnish the required date to process information. This can lead to back and forth of revised and re-revised documents.
Here are some common challenges which take place while during steel shop detailing.
Missing Information Most of the time, the contract documents have incomplete information. This causes the project to temporarily halt until further information is provided. Missing structural members in plan or elevation Maybe the elevation was planned differently earlier and the revised changes were not told, but missing structural components is a common occurrence.
If your drawings appear odd, try finding out if a member is missing. Erroneous project details We all have to agree that the project as conceived in the idea is vastly different than what gets built. However, it is pertinent to keep everyone in loop as the project progresses and changes are done, otherwise, inaccuracy and various specific details will get lost. Specifications and drawings mismatch "My specifications were different." "The drawings should not look like this." We've heard these complaints time and again from our clients.
It is better to get specifications in writing to miss out any important details and waste time and resources in creating the wrong steel shop drawing set. Non-Compliance to Industry Standards Steel Shop Drawing Experts know how important it is to produce drawings which comply with the industry standards.
Barring this, your project might risk being penalized or even get stopped from being constructed at all. Plus, you jeopardize the lives of your workers and inhabitants of your property.
Some other common issues include:
- Steel shop drawings do not match with architectural or mechanical drawings
- Structural dimensions are not specified in the drawings
- Connection requirements or Sequencing is not specified
Now that you the various issues which can render your steel shop drawing ineffective, let's give you some recommendations to improve your steel shop drawing process.
Complete Documents If you read our previous section of challenges, you would have understood that the most common issue is missing information in majority of cases. Ensure that you hand over the right set of documents; complete, revised and updated to your designer.
Industry Standard Compliance Your designer, engineer and architect should be aware of industry and regional standards for constructing buildings and bridges. Some of these include BS Codes, CISC, AISC, AWS etc.
Bid drawings should be verified When the client or architect hands over bid drawings, ensure that they are accompanied with specifications and match the design drawings. Any discrepancies should be immediately brought to notice.
AISC Code Compliance EOR and Architect should strictly follow AISC wherever required.
The structural drawings should be complete Uncommon loads should be specified; with their position and magnitude supplied to joist provider. Moreover, the sequencing should be flexible.
It is always advantageous to utilize the services of experienced shop drawing service providers like BluEntCAD. We have a team of over 30 expert designers with a combined experience of over 80 years. The advantages? Timely turnaround, effective pricing and quality work. Get in touch today to know more!
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California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) on May 9 received approval from the state Office of Administrative Law to adopt an amendment to Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25705, No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for the chemical vinylidene chloride.
The agency announced the adoption of the new NSRL on May 17.
The regulation establishes a No Significant Risk Level of 0.88 micrograms per day for vinylidene chloride for purposes of Proposition 65. A No Significant Risk Level is the is the level at which a chemical would have no observable effect assuming exposure at 1,000 times that level.
Vinylidene chloride, also known as 1,1-Dichloroethylene (CAS No. 75-35-4) was listed as a Proposition 65 carcinogen on December 29, 2017. The chemical was listed by the Labor Code listing mechanism with little resistance from industry or individuals.
According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Vinylidene chloride is used as an intermediate for organic chemical synthesis. Vinylidene chloride is also used in the production of polyvinylidene chloride co-polymers such as SARAN and VELON wraps, and for fiber and carpet backing and in piping, coating for steel pipes, and adhesive applications. While the chemical's uses are diverse, potential enforcement actions for this chemical will most likely focus on its use as a food contact material.
OEHHA listed vinylidene chloride as a chemical known to the state of Calfiornia to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65 on December 29, 2017. Previously, on September 22, 2017, OEHHA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to adopt its' proposed amendment to Section 25705, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk, identifying an NSRL of 0.88 micrograms per day (μg/day) for vinylidene chloride under Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25705(b)
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For her solo exhibition at De Nederlandsche Bank, Sarah van Sonsbeeck was invited to pay a visit to the bank's vault that stores the Dutch gold reserve. Fascinated by the main ingredient inside the vault and the fact that it remains hidden and secure from the public, she requested to make a mold of the standard gold bar as the departure point for a new series of works. Although the artist continues to further investigate gold's formal and conceptual qualities through this act, her visit to the vault took an unexpected turn as her eye wandered from the shiny blocks to the shelves on which the bars were stored. Unlike the form of the standard 400 oz gold bar, the form of the shelves was context specific to the architecture of the building. Van Sonsbeeck therefore decided to reproduce the shelves according to the materials she found throughout the building making a direct reference to the particular context in which these universally standardized objects were located.
Almost exactly a century ago, Marcel Duchamp decided to turn a urinal on its side, place it on a pedestal, sign it with "R. Mutt 1917" and name it Fountain. This action proved to have an immense influence on artistic development and is impossible to dismiss when looking at art today. It changed the way we think about authorship and the hand of the artist. Taking the idea of the readymade gold bar as a basis for all of the works in the exhibition Van Sonsbeeck attempts to "translate" a standard form into new visual languages. The shape might change but in essence it remains the same thing, or does it? Melted gold bars populate the interior of the DNB exhibition space, puddles of gold sitting in different corners, some streaming down the stairs as if they were trying to escape the building. Their labeled identity has been evaporated during the melting – artistic – process, except for one bar that is still partly stamped with the name "Degussa". It is the stamp in this puddle of gold that makes me think of R. Mutt and the artist's hand. Essentially, the bar's form is of the least value since it was merely created to have an efficient function, namely to be easily stored and transported. Art, however, is not produced for easy storage and transportation, even though the highly developed art market does provide an infrastructure for it.
By translating the shape of the standard gold bar, Van Sonsbeeck invites us to redefine its value from the commodity of gold to the commodity of art. It's a continuing balancing act between intrinsic value and intellectual value. As Isabelle Graw discusses in High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture (2010), there is a difference between art and other commodities. Art is a special kind of commodity. Its market value is solely justified by its symbolic value. "The specific quality of its symbolic value lies in the fact that it expresses an intellectual surplus value generally attributed to art, an epistemological gain that cannot be smoothly translated into economic categories." The intellectual surplus value of an artwork, associated with ideas, imagination, and perception is in turn linked to a personal value system constituted by the knowledge, interests, desires and memories of its buyer.
When looking at these works the viewer translates the value of the standard gold bar into something more personal that is simultaneously more and less valuable. We cannot use the puddle of gold to go out and buy ourselves a piece of real estate but perhaps it is much more enriching on another level. Its liquid form inspires us to consider flexibility in its meaning. Usually puddles are associated with negative connotations such as dirt, flooding, waste or an accident. In her earlier series Mistakes I've Made, Van Sonsbeeck gave new life to the gold waste that was created whilst gilding other works. She was interested in making something valuable again that was typically regarded as waste. With the puddles she takes this idea one step further by associating the form of a puddle with a valuable material such as gold. In doing so we are forced to question our personal value system that is comprised of both intrinsic and symbolic elements.
Van Sonsbeeck gives us a personal experience with art. Thus, the standard becomes personal and exemplified because it has been created from and for a particular space, namely De Nederlandsche Bank. Once these works leave this space they will always carry with them the aura and surroundings of the vault and the building. If you happen to become one of the lucky owners of a golden puddle please note that they won't adhere directly to your new space, but the work will once again need to be translated into a new personal standard…


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IOC awards 2014 broadcast rights in Australia
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the rights to Ten Network Holdings to broadcast the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
Ten Network Holdings has acquired broadcast rights on all media platforms in Australia.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said: "Sochi 2014 will be the first Olympic Winter Games held in Russia, and sports fans around the world will be tuning in to follow the very best of Olympic winter sport next February. Australia is a sports-loving nation with passionate Olympic fans, and therefore we are very pleased to be able to announce this agreement with Ten to ensure fantastic broadcast coverage of the Olympic Winter Games."
IOC Finance Commission Chairman Richard Carrión, who led the negotiations, said: "Ten is an experienced sports broadcaster with a clear passion for the Olympic Games. The agreement ensures there will be extensive free television coverage of next year's Olympic Winter Games, as well as the very best broadcast coverage on other media platforms, including online and mobile."
Ten Network Holdings Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Hamish McLennan, said: "We are delighted that Ten will be Australia's Olympic network in 2014. The agreement with the IOC delivers on our strategy to increase our investment in premium sport. Australia will field its largest-ever Winter Olympic team at Sochi, and we are confident that some of those 56 athletes will be among the Games' star performers. We are also confident that Australian viewers and advertisers will embrace our coverage of the Sochi Games."
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March on
Here are some snippets of what I got up to in March. April brings trips to Edinburgh, London and Glasgow, hormone tests and a vintage fair. Yipee!
1. I started morning running
I'm a morning person when it comes to getting my butt in the shower and a bit of toast down my throat, but not when it comes to actually doing stuff. I decided to set my alarm 40 minutes early for a week and fit in my run before work to see why people bother.
I grudgingly admit, I prefer it. My actual run is pretty poor compared to those I do at the weekends, but it keeps my diet and water intake in line for the rest of the day, and makes me feel all stretchy and amazing. And because I'm up a bit earlier, I always have time for eggs and smoked salmon when I get back, too. Win win.
2. I started decorating
It began with a box of wires. "Hey, you never know when you'll need those!" Mike protested. It lived in the hall, much to my annoyance....until my phone charger stopped working. Mike was practically giddy, as he opened the box and handed me a spare cable. He was equally as smug about the scart lead for the new television, and computer mouse when my laptop's touchpad malfunctioned.
So the box of wires has stayed, but stashed in the attic out of sight. I've cleared out everything else that doesn't have a use and added my own touches. The whole house needs redecorated, but these will do for now.
3. Spring woke me up
I love winter. To my insecure self, summer has always seemed to be for the skinny; In winter, I can hide away in layers. But this year, I was so over winter. I was sick of the sun going down when I was still having my afternoon tea break at work. Do you know how difficult it is to get blog photos done in Scotland during the winter?! Spring is perfect. The weather is cool and sunny and I fell in love with my village again.
4. I realised something wasn't right
My sister was diagnosed with a hormone disorder last year. After years of fighting with the NHS doctors for tests, she decided to go to a clinic in Surrey to have them done privately and confirm what she already knew: her body wasn't working properly.
I've always been 'the healthy one' of the family, but about a year ago, something shifted. After being on the same contraception for about six years, my skin became spotty and painful. I'm really tired all the time, no matter how much I sleep, my body temperature is all over the place and my mood swings are constant. I spoke to the clinic my sister had visited and they suspect I have the same hormone issues. So at the end of April, I'm off for hormone tests too and I really hope they sort me out.
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Best Strategies for Online Reputation Management
If you are an entrepreneur so the reputation of your company is most prominent for you. Therefore, it is really important that you will make good image of your company to attract more customers and to sustain the existing ones. A bad image will impact on your overall sales graph, your employees and above all your overall revenue and budget of the company. There are many companies which really don't bother to build a good image of their company by using online media. They are least bothered how good their company looks in Google searches, and where it ranks and how easily people find them on various search engines.
The main element to protect your brand, as per online reputation management experts is use various online media methods and tricks, to stay proactive, optimizing content, monitor search results regularly, and always be ready to manage and face negative publicity and feedbacks, and always stay realistic with your approach and efforts.
1. Optimize your site with your company name: It is really important that you optimize various pages of your company's website using all relevant and important keywords and phrases-such as your company's name, brand name, product names etc. Optimization of more than one page is really important as it will help your website to remain ahead in searches or near the top of search results. It will give more visibility to your site in search results, it may also help to control and manage traffic.
2. Diversify Your Web Presence: You should target that you proactively own as many places and slots in Google top 10 search results for keywords which rank or important for your website. It will increase your company's visibility for respective keyword. It will also help your company to minimize negative content about your company or its products. It will help you to control your content and make it work for you in positive manner.
3. Make Linked in Profile for Social Media: Presently, to boost your brand value and build your image companies spend lots of time and put lots of efforts on social media. If you just want to focus on one mode of social media than promote your company on LinkedIn, as people are more focused there. It will help your prolife to rank higher as compared to any other social media network. If it is particularly important for B2B companies, as many people search on LinkedIn instead of Google for professional services.
4. Get your site linked with other sites: Anchor text is hyperlinked words or phrases, which will help the visitors to land on the webpage with respective detailed information if they clicked on the hyperlink. It will help you to develop relevancy of the pages being linked. If various pages on authoritative, trustworthy sites link to the text, it will help that particular article to rise in search result ranking for phrases.
5. Manage your search results proactively: To know how good your company is in search results and where it is ranking Google your company's name at least once in a month, or you can do it frequently to identify the search results. Don't just look at the first page of Google results, even as large numbers of visitors don't go further to next pages. You should at least check pages two and three for negative content. Keep a look on the content of the website and even second and third pages of search results to identify the negative content and to improve the ranking of your website.


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Not only does Oprah have three hands in her Vanity Fair photos, but Reese Witherspoon may have three legs. The bizarre photoshop fail went viral this morning after the ladies addressed the issue. Now we get it sometimes things look like other things like Reese's third leg could just be her dress, the chair or a shadow, but Oprah legit has three hands.
Oprah and Reese took to Twitter to address Vanity Fair's hilarious snafu. Reese wrote, "Well… I guess everybody knows now… I have 3 legs. I hope you can still accept me for who I am. (And I will never apologize for snuggling @Oprah. If you get the opportunity, I highly recommend it)." Oprah has had jokes, "I accept your 3d leg. As I know you accept my 3d hand."
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After delay, Jared Polis introduces bill to protect student data
WASHINGTON — Students from kindergarten to high school would get broad new protections for their digital information under a bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and Luke Messer, R-Ind.
The measure, which has been in the works for months, seeks to address growing concerns by parents about the use of technology in U.S. schools and the amount of data collected by education companies.
President Barack Obama called for new such rules in January and the Polis-Messer bill would prohibit the sale of a student's data to third parties, force tech companies to disclose the data they are collecting and grant new enforcement powers to the Federal Trade Commission.
"The status quo surrounding the protection of our student's data is entirely unacceptable," Polis said in a statement. "It's like the wild wild West — there are few regulations protecting student's privacy and parental rights, and the ones that do exist were written in an age before smartphones and tablets."
The bill's introduction hasn't been all smooth.
Polis and Messer were set to drop the measure a month ago but last-minute criticism from parents and privacy advocates compelled the lawmakers to rewrite some sections.
Polis said in a press call that one major change was that tech companies now would be required to tell parents about the type of student information that could be disclosed.
But Polis, who made a fortune in the online world before coming to Congress, said it was critical that the new rules are not too restrictive, as there could be "immense positive benefits" to data collection in schools.
The measure would allow companies to use the information they gather in schools to tweak and improve their own products.


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Students at St. Paul's Lutheran School hope to get a new playground from used toothpaste tubes.
The school is competing in a contest with other schools across the northeast region of the country to win a playground composed of recycled oral care waste container through the "Recycled Playground Challenge" sponsored by TerraCycle, Colgate and ShopRite.
It's a rather large playground with slides, tubes, monkey bars and other fun activities constructed in a composite material made from recycled dental care materials in ShopRite's bright red and yellow colors. The playground is valued at approximately $60,000.
St. Paul's earns playground credits two ways: they earn credit for every empty toothpaste tube, old toothbrush and empty floss container they collect, a well as credits for every on-line vote cast for the school.
TerraCycle publicist Veronica Rajadnya said St. Paul's is on the leaderboard. "They've shipped a rather large shipment of recycled material already," she said.
You can help St. Paul's by casting votes online for the school at www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/colgateshopriteplaground216 before June 12.
This is the contest's second year. St. Paul's participates in TerraCycles ongoing recycling program to eliminate waste, which automatically made them eligible for the playground contest said Rajadnya.
TerraCycle was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, who was a student at Princeton University. Szaky's mission was to eliminate waste. TerraCycle partners with corporations, schools, and other community organizations in over4 20 countries to collect and repurpose hard to recycle waste.
Church picnic
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church will host its annul picnic and outdoor worship service 10:30 a.m. Sunday on the church grounds, 308 Oak Manor Dr.
For details, call 4410-766-2283.
Pascal Senior Center
The Pascal Senior Center, 125 Dorsey Road, hosts several events this week.
• George Garris and Friends will play country and rock music 12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday.
• Center member Danny Marchetti will lead a sing-along at 12:30 p.m. Friday.
•The Pascal Pacers gather at 9:30 a.m. every Monday and Wednesday for a walk along the Saw Mill Creek trail that borders the Pascal Senior Center. New members welcome.
For details, call the center at 410-222-6680.
• The Pascal Dine Around group will gather 1 p.m. June 10 at Café Mezzanote, 760 Ritchie Highway for lunch and companionship.
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Meet Irish designer Daniel Kearns - the man behind David Beckham's fashion brand
Daniel Kearns' CV would make even those whose dismiss fashion as frivolity green with envy.
At 43, he has achieved more in his 20-year career than most could hope for during their lifetime, including stints at Roberto Cavalli, Ungaro, Alexander McQueen and where he got his start - Dolce & Gabbana.
Before he became one of the premier names in menswear, he was a secondary school student at Gonzaga College in Dublin's Ranelagh, when his art teacher noticed how adept he was at the subject.
"The art teacher I had in school stopped me after class and asked did I want to go to art college. Gonzaga was a very academic school, but I wasn't the best student and I'd found something I was quite good at. So, they sent me projects to do every week, like drawing inanimate objects with different materials for portfolio and by the time I was doing my Leaving Cert, I had a place in the National College of Art & Design (NCAD)," Daniel tells Independent.ie Style.
"My first step was to get into art college and from there, it was during my core foundation year when you're trying out different things that I realised fashion was the thing for me. It was at this time that mt mother would tell stories of me raiding my dad's wardrobe as a child, cutting the crocodiles off his Lacoste shirts and putting them down the legs of trousers. From an early age, I was inspired by music and I went through every phase possible under the sun much to my parents dismay."
His journey from angsty teenager to world renowned creative director was a natural one and he says that he was "always fascinated by subcultures and what clothes meant to people" and during his studies at NCAD, he veered towards menswear largely because there was nobody else doing it.
And fashion runs in the family - his late grandfather owned a mill in Midleton, Co Cork, which supplied woollen fabrics for military uniforms, where his uncle was designing materials. and his mother was an accomplished sketcher. His father Nicholas had chosen law as his profession and was president of the High Court.
"They were delighted to support me in that, they were super happy that I found something I wanted to do and I was pretty okay at doing," he said of the encouragement of his parents.
After NCAD, he moved onto London's prestigious Royal College of Art (RCA), where he earned and MPhil and toyed with the idea of pursuing a PhD, but was instead lured into the professional design world in Milan, where he landed a coveted four month internship at Dolce & Gabbana.
"At the time, Prada and D&G were the big brands in Milan so it was a very exciting time. I've been massively lucky and fortunate to have some of the chances I've had. I'd encourage anyone to just take them and immerse yourself in everything.
By the year 2000, he graduated and was working with Giambattista Valli, who scouted him after his graduate fashion show to work at Ungaro. After that, it was a time at John Galliano, working side by the side with the videsigner, who, before his fall from grace, was one of the most influential people in the industry.
"I worked there for three and a half years; I did 10 shows with him and did his personal dressing for personal exits and Dior," Daniel says.
"It was a very exciting time for fashion in general in Paris then. After that, I moved back to London in 2005 to work as design director for Alexander McQueen, who was an incredible visionary - one of the biggest inspirations I've ever had working with Lee."
After McQueen's death in 2010, the father-of-two moved to Louis Vuitton and then to Zegna, before making to the jump to Kent & Curwan, the menswear brand where David Beckham is a brand parnter.
"After meeting him and seeing his vision for the brand, I knew it was the right thing to do. He has a very clear idea of what he wants to achieve. That's been an incredible experience. From our first conversation on day one, I could see were on the same page. he's incredibly down to earth and it's so easy to work with him," Daniel says.
"He knows what he likes. He's been involved with me, doing the research and going to vintage stores - when we were doing labels and swing tags and discussing the store concept, he was part of it. He knows what he likes and is certain about that - and usually, he's right."
"His personal style speaks for itself. It's effortless and that is such an inspiration. He always looks impeccable and that's really what we're trying to achieve. Most men see him as an icon, both as an international sporting icon but with fashion too."
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The Sparklers
A crèche is available every Sunday morning and all babies and pre-school children are welcome. Our crèche meets in the church for the start of the service at 11:00 before being taken over to the church hall. There are always two adults to care for your little one, but of course, you are welcome to stay with your child if you prefer.
Contact: Tracey Whyte, Tel: 07795 227 099
Patch Praise
PATCH Praise is a special service for babies, toddlers and children up to 5 years old and we encourage all the parents, grandparents and carers to stay with their children. At PATCH Praise, we sing, hear a story from the Bible and do a simple craft. Then to finish off, we all have a snack. Do come along and join us. We're sure that you and your little one will enjoy it. For further information please contact Christine Johnstone.
Contact: Christine Johnstone, Tel: 01505 684875
The Lighthouse
Our young people (Primary 1 – 6) and Bible Class (Primary 6-Secondary 6) meet in the church for the start of the service at 11:00.
They attend the first part of the service with the rest of the congregation before heading over to the church hall. There, they take time to look at the Bible in fun and exciting ways and also enjoy activities, crafts, stories, games.
Why not come around and join us?
Contact: Christine Johnstone, Tel: 01505 684 875
1 Johnstone Boys' Brigade
Our Boy's Brigade offers boys an exciting programme every Thursday evening in the church hall. We would be delighted to welcome you along.
- Anchors is for P1 to P3 and runs from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
- Juniors is for P4 to P6 and runs from 6:30pm to 8:00pm
- Company is for P7+ and runs from 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Contact: John MacMillan - Boys' Brigade Captain, Tel: 01505 342725.
4 Johnstone Girls' Brigade
The Girls' Brigade offer lots of fun and activities for girls of all ages. We meet on Tuesday evenings in the church hall and we would love to welcome you.
- Explorer is for P1 to P3 and runs from 6:00pm to 7:15pm
- Juniors is for P4 to P7 and runs from 7:15pm to 8:45pm
- Brigaders is for S1 to S6 and runs from 7:15pm to 8:45pm
Contact: Rose Dougan – Girls' Brigade Captain, Tel: 01505 344877.
The Guild
"Whose we are and Whom we serve"
The Guild is a movement for both men and women within the Church of Scotland that invites all to express their faith in worship, prayer and action. We meet fortnightly on Mondays in the church hall at 19:30. Speakers are invited to most meetings to speak on many varied and interesting topics. Why not come along and join us?
Contact: Maureen Mitchell, Tel: 01505 70 54 50 or Christine Berry, Tel: 01505 323487.
Mens' Club
The Men's Club meet from October to March in the church hall.
We meet every Monday from 13:30 to 16:00 where we provide a social afternoon for men, with carpet bowls and fellowship.
Contact: Robert Miller, Tel: 01505 344915.
Prayer Group
James 5:13 "Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms." (NKJV)
Do you need a prayer for yourself, a loved one or a friend?
Whatever may be on your heart, no matter how big or small the burden, we are waiting to support you in prayer.
You can come along to our Prayer Group where we meet up in a member of the congregations' home each Thursday from 19:30. Alternatively, you can call 01505 326 080 and leave a prayer request and our Prayer Group will pray for you.
Contact: Morag Clunas, Tel: 01505 326 080.
Helping Hands
From time to time someone needs a little bit of extra help – maybe after an accident, an illness or some crisis in their lives. Or maybe just to get to church on Sunday.
We are a group of a dozen or so who are happy to help out on a short term basis as and when the need arises.
Do you need some help or know someone who does?
Contact: Morag MacLeod, Tel: 01505 345294.
Praise Band
Our praise band take an active role in worship on a Sunday and are always on the lookout for more talented folks to join up - singer and musician alike.
Rehearsals take place on Monday evenings from 19:30 in the church.
Interested in taking part?
Contact: Raymond Anderson, Tel: 01505 346518 or Sandra Barber, Tel: 01505 382002.
Fancy a chat over a cuppa? Then why not drop in on Mrs Goodfellows Cafè. We run a cafe in the church hall every Saturday from 10:00 until 12:00. We are on all year with the exception on December.
Contact: Marguerite Lennon, Tel: 01505 345 132.
CD Ministry
We create a CD of the Sunday Service for those who would like to take part in worship but are unable to manage to church on a Sunday morning.
Do you know anyone who would like to get a copy? Or could you spare a few minutes each week to deliver a recording of the services?
Contact: Willie Crawford, Tel: 01505 343 855.


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The Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC) is looking for people who are blind or have very low vision to take part in a research project being conducted by Microsoft. The goal of this study is to learn about the ways in which people with visual impairment who use assistive technology work and communicate with others.
To be eligible you must:
1. Have a vision impairment – blindness or low vision
2. Be a working professional
3. Use a screen reader and keyboard at work
4. Be 18 years of age or older
5. Prefer English for reading and writing.
6. Be a member of the Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC) by completing our member form at:
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Participants in this study will be asked to complete a 45-minute survey about their professional work and assistive technology use. The survey questions will be about teamwork, communication, and task management. At the end of participation, each participant will receive a $40 stipend for their time and effort.
The Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC) is a national community of people with all types of disabilities interested in helping make technology more accessible and usable. The AURC is organized and maintained by assistive technology researchers at Shepherd Center.
To learn more about and join the AURC, please visit: www.accessibilityuserresearchcollective.org
Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions.
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Why is adoption speeding up?
It is a commonly held belief that Artificial Intelligence (AI) started with ELIZA. It's not true. Despite the fact that it could (and did!) pass the Turing Test on many occasions, it was never designed to be an AI. Although this article is chockful of information that you need, it may be useful for you to take a couple of moments to use the ELIZA demo above to understand how it works. Since it is psychologist-based, try discussing a real or fictional personal problem with it.
Back already? Interesting, wasn't it? As you can see it's not hard to imagine that people began to believe, it was an actual person speaking to them—the essence of the Turing Test.
The creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, insisted that it was not an AI, and was stunned by how quickly people fell into the idea that this was a real person. He doggedly explained that it was just an algorithm that turned the question around and gave it back to you, the way an interviewing psychologist would. Even his secretary would ask him to leave the room so she could talk privately to her "friend."
It's also said (true or not) that ELIZA spurred on the AI industry. Real scientists saw how readily the emulation worked but sought for something that was greater—something emulating a human—where the computer's speed could be used to process real data, analyzing it faster than a mere person.
Surely this would be the gateway to the future where a "device" could condense and consolidate all human knowledge and answer any question we cared to pose. It would be like creating the Oracle of Delphi—providing vital knowledge just by asking the right question.
Back at the dawn of the computer age that wasn't seen as ambitious. To the thinking person, it just seemed like the way things were headed. Technology was the answer to every problem back then.
Science writers of the day spoke of tremendous technical leaps forward like this one about the incredibly advanced ENIAC computer:
"Where… the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh just 1-1/2 tons."
–Popular Mechanics magazine, March 1949, page 258
It is almost comical in retrospect that we now have computers that are smaller than a grain of sugar, which are as capable as the x86 chips of the 1990s. Here is IBM's latest creation from March of 2018, actually sitting on a small pile of salt. Fitted on a tiny motherboard with a solar cell and a signaling device it could be placed virtually any place you desired—such as the corner of a sheet of paper, making it into "smart paper"—and they cost less than 10¢ to make. Done with your smart paper? Ball it up and throw it away, toss it in the shredder, or just "blank" it and use it over and over again.
With storage getting dot-sized, too, soon we'll have enough space on such a device to sustain a completely independent AI—your personal buddy—presumably with access to all of the World Wide Web, and databases galore. Pretty soon each of us could possess a personal "Jarvis" like Tony Stark/Ironman…and who wouldn't want that?
In the Beginning
Up until now, although computers were blindingly fast and storage was reasonably cheap, we hadn't quite hit the peak of technology required to sustain such complex constructs as Neural Nets (NN), and we'll discuss that below.
First Person Shooter (FPS) video games led the charge for playing games whose online version included the ability to play with several fellow gamers. Among the best implemented was the 1999 game Unreal Tournament, for example.
What do you do if there aren't enough players, however? The games created AI players that behaved in a very human-like manner. These artifices would instantly drop out of the game if a real person came along and requested to join the game. Based on behavior alone AIs were difficult to distinguish from real players except by name.
We Have the Power
Let's imagine an AI Medical Network as an example. Through interviews, self-description of style or technique, demonstrations, or videos of work in progress, an AI could theoretically learn the entire body of knowledge relating to medical practice for one doctor.
If you did that again with two different doctors, you would have three different recordings of vast bodies of knowledge. For a small sample like that, it would be possible to put all that information in one database. At some point, while you are interviewing doctors, that database is going to reach a speed or size limitation where adding more information would be problematic.
So you start a parallel database and keep repeating this every time the database reaches its limit. A single AI may have access to all of that information, but since they are in separate databases, a particular bit of knowledge included in one database is very difficult to relate to another bit of knowledge in a different database because the information is not contiguous and doesn't share the exact same filing system.
Think of it this way: Two of the doctors in database "A" know about mumps and rubella. A doctor over in database "J" knows about a nasal spray that is toxic to a proto-bacterium that creates a vulnerability pathway for several diseases. Without a filing system shared by the databases, we might never learn that in the event of an outbreak you could be completely protected with a single shot of nasal spray. Not good for humanity.
Neural Networks
The goal for early neural networks was to attempt to connect each experience to thousands of other experiences. By finding subtle relationships, and by creating "inferences," it could "learn." It might be a positive, negative, or neutral result, but it was saved as an "experience."
At first, these AIs are going to be very limited and very specific about their collections of knowledge. A successful model was IBM's WATSON computer.
It was a significant step in that direction, being programmed with every scrap of knowledge the development team could muster about the subject matter of Jeopardy questions. Mainly about how the questions were worded with puns, double entendres, or deliberately misleading clues. Its crude NN (only in comparison to what we expect in the future) understood the relationship between the questions and answers.
It took thousands and thousands of hours of programming and testing, along with millions and millions of dollars, but they did create an AI that was capable of beating the best human player. It is the story of BIG BLUE all over again when IBM spared no expense to build a computer that could beat the world chess champion.
The ultimate (gaming) challenge was to build a machine that could win at the ancient game of GO, with thousand more possible "moves" than chess. Google did this with the Alpha GO computer.
What is the difference?
The difference between the three machines was that Big Blue worked on raw computing power, looking at every single move available, plus each consequent move as far ahead as it could calculate. WATSON worked by having all the necessary data programmed in so it would be available instantly upon need. It found relationships based on the words in the question and the ways they related to each other.
Alpha GO, on the other hand, learns on its own via something called Machine Learning (ML), or more specifically, a sub-field called Deep Learning (DL). It doesn't require pre-programming.
If you have ever played a game called MYST, the player is dropped in the middle of an idyllic scene, never meets any other characters, and progresses by figuring out that there are puzzles to solve. There are no fights, guns, or swordplay—just simple, relentless exploring and puzzle-solving—a complete departure from regular computer games. At a
Humans know what a door is, or a path, or a light, and what they are all useful for, so they have an intrinsic advantage. Alpha GO could play that game, and if you left it overnight, playing over and over again, maybe with thousands of instances simultaneously, by the time you got back in the morning, it might well perform better than any human could.
It doesn't rely on rules except to try everything, in every possible variation, and to record events as a success, failure, or neutral. It can then take what it learns that is successful in one situation and investigate to see if the same strategy works elsewhere. The learning curve is exponential once it has isolated a few strategies that are occasionally-to-frequently successful since it will apply those more often.
The Takeaway
Once we hit that peak with the perfect combination of AI using ML to understand the world with DL, the AIs will acquire the ability to use DL to enhance their learning process. (Don't you love letters?)
What that all alphabet soup above boils down to is machines that can teach themselves to learn. And once they turn their full computational power to the problem, they'll be able to teach themselves faster than humans ever could.
All that will remain for us is to connect all the databases we have assembled, all of human knowledge, and let the AI start to integrate it all for us. There's nothing to stop us from continuing to explore and reveal new information.
Meanwhile, the AIs can sort and collate all our information, revealing all the subtler and invisible relationships that we haven't yet discovered. Right now, for example, we may already have the knowledge to build matter transmitters like the "transporters" of Star Trek. The information is just too widely separated, into too many different fields, for us to pull it all together.
Or by combining the knowledge of a botanist, an oceanographer, and a professional Pool Cleaner in Sausalito, create an immortality serum. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if somewhere in the world there is a person, or a field of study, with a tidbit of knowledge that when combined with some well-understood field of science will tell us how to travel faster than the speed of light and visit the stars.
A wise man once said, "Artificial Intelligence is the last thing that humanity will ever have to create." That might very well be true since once it is adept at training itself to learn, it could very well experiment and assimilate data faster than humans.
How else do you expect that self-driving cars will faultlessly depart and arrive at their destinations with no accidents or deaths ever? The biggest danger to future self-driving car users will be the radical human that elects to operate their vehicle in the midst of the syncopation and ballet of AI operated vehicles.
One day you'll be able to pose any question to a general planet-wide AI and receive a definitive answer to any question. Back in 1956, Isaac Asimov revealed what we would all soon experience, with a delightful science fiction short-story called "The Last Question," that is well worth the few minutes it will take to read. Enjoy!


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About Simply Kids
Simply Kids was created by Stephanie Wicker - a child behaviour expert, parenting educator, counsellor and speaker - who has successfully guided families through early childhood for over 15 years. Through her experience with private consultancy, as a preschool teacher and special needs therapist she has worked across many facets of early childhood behaviour.
Simply Kids' evidence-based programs are grounded in behaviour science. Stephanie's passion for Relational Frame Theory (RFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and developmental psychology all play a big role in the programs she develops.
Stephanie's experience covers early intensive behaviour intervention programs for children with special needs and for families newly diagnosed. She hosts live training events all over Australia, where she shares her practical solutions and language techniques, along with providing private, in-home therapy sessions for those seeking more personalised support.
Our goal at Simply Kids is to keep behaviour simple, with family resources such as digital books and educational activities designed to empower parents to guide their children through life's challenges calmly and mindfully.