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VALPARAISO | A Portage man was sentenced Friday to 84 years behind bars after being found guilty in September on four counts of molesting two young girls.
Scott Nicol will be required to serve 85 percent of the sentence because of the young age of the girls and the nature of the crime, said Porter County Deputy Prosecutor Tammy Gregg.
Nicol, who was sentenced by Porter Superior Court Judge Bill Alexa, was found guilty of molesting the girls during a period of January 2010 to August 2011 in Portage. One girl was 5 and 6 years old during the period and the other was 7 to 9.
The younger girl told jurors during the trial 54-year-old Nicol had taken her into a dark bathroom and made her perform a sex act on him. She also said he touched her inappropriately while she tried to sleep.
The older girl said she did not tell her mother about the abuse because she believed she would wind up in trouble, according to police.
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Best. Flash. Game. Ever.
If you've played any of Super Mario Bros. Crossover for any length of time, you'll come to the same conclusion that I did: Best. Flash. Game. Ever.
The Flash game is a result of Jay Pavlina's desire to make a game, and for his first effort ever at programming something – it's superlative. And now the amazing take on the classic is about to get upgraded with a ninja.
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0fusion_gtx , May 30, 2010 9:52 PMGreat mod. It's crazy to see what some different moves brings to the game. The guys just destroys through everything with the new character.
2phoenix777 , May 30, 2010 9:55 PMvery well made video.
0hairystuff , May 30, 2010 10:12 PMGreat rom hack.
9kikireeki , May 30, 2010 10:23 PM8 bit music, sweet memories, and ultra cool mod.
0xenol , May 31, 2010 12:00 AMI wish they had some of Ryu's other specials
0demosthenes81 , May 31, 2010 1:00 AMwith Contra dude the game is too easy
0ViPr , May 31, 2010 1:00 AMwhy didn't he make it in java? doesn't flash have many limitations?
1JPHD , May 31, 2010 2:28 AMbrilliant!
3dameon51 , May 31, 2010 3:14 AMI wonder how Mario would fair in the ninja gaiden world.....
4stingstang , May 31, 2010 3:27 AMdameon51I wonder how Mario would fair in the ninja gaiden world.....
I'm pretty sure he would get smoked by the first enemy. For realz, what can he do without a mushroom? Jump....
-1pythy , May 31, 2010 4:19 AMVery cool, although might need to change some of the power up items. Why the hell would a ninja need a mushroom and flower when he has a sword and shurikens??
0HappyBB , May 31, 2010 8:42 AMHow cool this is! It's definitely much better to use Ryu's abilities. However, at the same time, will this ruin the balance of the game?
-1Anonymous , May 31, 2010 8:55 AMbrb....
0segio526 , May 31, 2010 2:57 PMpythyVery cool, although might need to change some of the power up items. Why the hell would a ninja need a mushroom and flower when he has a sword and shurikens??
I think he only gets the sword if he has the mushroom and only gets shurikens with the flower.
0gm0n3y , May 31, 2010 4:43 PMWow, I haven't played that (and can't ATM, stupid work), but it look awesome. I guess I'll stray from my addiction to tower defense games (for a few minutes anyways).
0anthropophaginian , May 31, 2010 5:37 PMHere's another mario crossover that was around a while back in case anyone missed it.
1Gin Fushicho , May 31, 2010 11:01 PMThat is EPIC. I'm so gonna play it.
0acadia11 , June 1, 2010 6:41 AMFrucking awesome! 0wn3d!
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Have you tried using it at a lower level? I know that when they first introduced the concept, it was more of a "here's something shadowy-looking for the shadow priests that don't have enough talent points to get shadow form yet".
So, while it may just seem to be *there* at level 80 or 85 or whatever, at level 10 or 20 it might feel entirely different.
Honestly, as a warlock, I'm glad that they made shadow orbs simple, because it was kind of looking like it was just going to be a cooler-looking knock-off of the new soulshard mechanic.
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Besides, you can argue all you want about how much a feature might help at lower levels, what really honestly truly matters is how it performs at level cap.
They don't give priests Shadowform for their specialization because there just wouldn't be enough to do at that level. The 15% Shadow damage buff would feel like a drain, considering you'd have to pop out of form to Smite until MB came off cooldown. Which also brings into account all the extra mana of having to jump back in form... if it would even be worth it for the sake of one spell every 5-8 seconds.
Mind Flay at least gives Shadowpriests another shadow spell to use, plus a snare, to an extent.
I do remember that when shadow orbs was first mentioned it was talking about giving it to lower levels to make them "feel" like a shadow priest, prior to shadowform. I think it would still work nicely for low level spriests, they just wouldn't get the extra buff from Mastery until much later in the game, of course.


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Trick-or-treat hours
Halloween stands as the centerpiece of all the fall celebrations, at least according to the younger members of the community. Combine make-believe, candy and costumes and you have a fool-proof recipe for fall fun.
Below are times and dates for area trick-or-treaters. Watch our website for more trick-or-treat times as they become available.
City of Delafield
Residential: 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Business: 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22
Grand Pumpkin Illumination: 7 pm Oct. 22
Town of Delafield
5 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31
Village of Eagle
4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29
Village of East Troy
5 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31
4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Residential: 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31
Business: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27. Participating businesses are along West Capitol Drive, Cottonwood Avenue/Park Avenue, Cardinal Lane, East Capitol Drive, Church Street, North Avenue, Hartbrook Drive and Merton Avenue
Town of Merton
5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Village of Merton
4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Village of Mukwonago
4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Town of Mukwonago
4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
City of Oconomowoc
Saturday, Oct. 29
Business: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for outlying shopping districts, including Pabst Farms Market Place, Whitman Park, Summit Market Place, K-Mart Plaza/Watertower Center, Prairie Creek Shoppes, Brown Street Market, Oconomowoc Lakes Plaza and Summit Point.
Business: 2 to 4 p.m. for the downtown district
Halloween parade: 4 p.m.; travels through downtown to Roosevelt Park
Residential: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 29
Village of Palmyra
3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Halloween parade lineup and trick-or-treat at Fire Hall: 3 p.m.
Trick-or-treat: follows parade, until 6:30 p.m.
City of Pewaukee
4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Village of Pewaukee
4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30
Village of Summit
5 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31
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Upon first looks, the Crane Adorable Animal humidifier may seem more like a toy than a home appliance. However, its straightforward, easy-to-use design, quiet operation and ability to nicely humidify a small space makes this machine a winner with experts and consumers alike. These 1-gallon tank humidifiers can regulate the moisture level of a space of around 250 square feet. They're made of BPA-free plastic.
Simple to operate: The Crane Adorable Animal humidifier comes in a wide variety of designs ranging from a penguin to a frog to various cartoon characters. The compact size of this machine paired with the cute design has long made this a favorite pick for children's rooms. The simple, manual controls may be basic, but most reviews say that this machine gets the job done. The quiet humidifier, say reviewers, is easy to clean and easy to use.
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Developers of digital storytelling systems, take note: The call for papers for the Fifth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling is now out. Conference to be held November 12-15, 2012 in Spain.
Developers of digital storytelling systems, take note: The call for papers for the Fifth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling is now out. Conference to be held November 12-15, 2012 in Spain.
Take the natural splendor of Taiwan's beautiful canyon and add side fighting action. Or, just see how Damian Esteves has already done it in yet another Taroko Gorge remix.
Designer Gulch by Brendan Howell is another remix of my oft-remixed poetry generator, Taroko Gorge. This one is installed in the lobby of the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule.
In his just-released "Argot Ogre, OK!" Andrew Plotkin presents mash-ups and remixes of (almost) all the "Taroko Gorge" remixes to date (and of course the original "Taroko Gorge"), producing such poignant lines as "LAWN DARTS linger" along with single-source remixes and some different stanza shapes. Anyone interested in this thread of poetry generation projects should check it out and should certainly "view source." Or don't, if you don't want to discover more about the secret of the monkey.
This, my friends, calls for a recap of the generators of this general sort to date – eleven of them, so far. Note particularly the two generators mentioned only in comments ("Whisper Wire," a third remix with visual elements by J. R. Carpenter and the fanlicious "Takei, George" by Mark Sample, which was released after my post) and two other generators released after my post ("Alone Engaged" by Maria Engberg, made at and perhaps redolent of Georgia Tech, and a generator for the the Harry Potter wizarding world of Weasleycest, "Fred & George" by Flourish Klink). In alphabetical order by title, here is a linked list of all of them so far:
Like my collaborator Noah Wardrip-Fruin, I have come to Brazil for the winter. But not to a nice warm part of Brazil — I'm in Passo Fundo, in the far South, at the 14th Jornada Nacional de Literatura. Here, it has been cold outside, but there has been great excitement about writing and literary art.
I have been correctly identified as a space man as I've shown and discussed interactive fiction, poetry generation, and other forms of electronic literature.
I gave a longer talk this morning about these topics, which was translated into Brazilian Portuguese as I spoke. Tomorrow, I will speak on a panel in the main tent to about 5000 people about certain types of "convergence" in writing and literature. The type I will address is a convergence between authors – collaboration.
Thanks to Carlos León, there is now a Spanish version, "Los Dos," of my simple but (I think) provocative story generator "The Two." The system was previously translated into French as "Les Deux" by Serge Bouchardon.
The reader who takes the time to try to actually understand the output and resolve the pronouns in it will see that often this task is complicated by ambiguity in gender, although syntax and power relations also work to suggest certain ways that pronouns can be resolved. The need to leave the gender of the characters indeterminate in the first line posed particular problems, and slightly different problems, for the French and Spanish translators, who each found a solution.
If you're interested in story generation or Processing, do check out Scott Rettberg's new screencast describing the process he undertook in writing and programming After Parthenope. He goes through the nuts and bolts of the piece and how it rolls out language using a hand-crafted trigram model; he also explains some of the pleasures of authoring a system like this.
I've recently returned from a great trip to Mexico City. I was at the 5th Mexican International Colloquium on Computational Creativity presenting alongside two other foreign guests, Graeme Ritchie and Dan Ventura, and two local researchers, Rafael Pérez y Pérez and Eduardo Peñaloza. There was a productive and lively roundtable on interdisciplinary work and collaboration the day before the talk, too. Rafael Pérez y Pérez, a collaborator of mine, arranged the colloquium and was a very gracious host, making sure that we got to and from the airport, to all of the colloquium events, and to several excellent meals.
I have a few things to mention about the 5th MICCC, but I'd like for this post to be mainly forward-looking rather than backward-looking. That's because ICCC-11, the 2011 International Conference on Computational Creativity, is an event on the same topic as this recent colloquium, and it will be taking place in the same city thanks to the local organizing work of our wonderful host, Rafael. Although the colloquium was intellectually rich and I enjoyed visiting Mexico City for its own sake, I was also very pleased because I was anticipating this larger-scale academic gathering that will be taking place April 27-29. In part, I was reminded of the conference because I and the other organizers, Rafael, Graeme, and Dan, spent a good bit of the time working to make the remaining decisions and to prepare for ICCC-11. But even just walking around the city, I had in mind how much other computational creativity researchers would enjoy coming to México.
At the colloquium, I was the only one who didn't discuss a large-scale system that is somehow related to the creative process. (I do have a such a system, Curveship, but I wanted to focus on something else in this talk.) I spoke about creative computing and the relationship that this area has to computational creativity. In creative computing, the computer is seen as a medium and platform for human creative work. There's a strong relationship between this area and computational creativity, but there are some distinctions, too. I spoke about a very short, simple Commodore 64 BASIC program:
This one-line program is the focus of a deep investigation that I am undertaking with nine other authors. We plan for this study to result in a single-voice academic book – not an edited collection, not a "chapter book" with separately authored segments, but something that reads like a single-author book but is written by ten people. We are still in the early stages of writing this book, but it's our hope that 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino, Michael Mateas, C. E. B. Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter will be published by the MIT Press in 2012. (Yes, the book's title is the program itself.) Since the colloquium focused on interdisciplinary work and collaboration, this seemed like a nice project to discuss, even though the ten of us working on this project are not trying to model the creative process using computation. I described how the study of this program shed additional light on the relationship between platform and creativity, and how it suggested that computational creativity models try to take into account that relationship.
The other talks offered some excellent descriptions of and discussions of computational creativity systems: MEXICA, DARCI, and STANDUP (along with its predecessor, JAPE). These systems, and the things that have been done with them, are all great examples of creative computing, by the way, in addition to being computational investigations of creativity! I could do a post this long covering just the new thoughts that have come to me about these projects, each of which I knew about before. For now, I'll refer you to the abstracts and links for more on those projects.
I've been to Mexico City before, but this was my first trip to the city's main square, the Zócalo. This is the area where ICCC-11 will take place. It's an amazing sight. You can see that Mexico City is mind-bogglingly big as you fly in, but the Zócalo is massive in a different way. The plaza and the area is human-scale (designed for pedestrians and very walkable, with many shops and restaurants) while also being tremendous and impressive. On the north is the cathedral; the National Palace, where President Calderón works, is to the east. An enormous Mexican flag flies from the National Palace during the day. To the west are several buildings, including the Best Western Majestic Hotel, which will be offering a discounted rate for ICCC-11. Just off the plaza, between the Cathedral and the National Palace, is where ICCC-11 will be held – at La Casa de la Primera Imprenta. The first printing press in the Americas was installed in 1536 in this building. It now offers a conference facility of just the right size for ICCC-11 presentations and demos, several galleries, and a bookstore.
The Autonomous Metropolitan University, Cuajimalpa is the host institution for ICCC-11, which is also supported by UNAM's postgraduate program in computer science and engineering. The colloquium that UAM-Cuajimalpa put on with UNAM was well-attended by students and faculty who had some good questions for us. I know that we will have great local arrangements for ICCC-11; the participation we had in the colloquium suggests that we will be part of some good conversations (and, no doubt, see some good presentations and demos) from local ICCC-11 attendees.
So, I hope to see you readers who work in computational creativity in Mexico City at the end of April. I'm the publicity chair for ICCC-11, but in addition to publicizing the conference, I'm glad to email with anyone who has questions about the conference or about visiting Mexico City. And, remember that the deadline for submissions (of short papers, long papers, or show-and-tell proposals) is December 13, less than a month away now: The call for papers has the details, and there is more information on other parts of the ICCC-11 site.
The Electronic Literature Organization's conference at Brown University has new concluded – the workshops, performances, screenings, exhibits, and sessions all went very well, as did the coffee breaks and other times for informal conversation. Many thanks to the organizer of ELO_AI (Archive & Innovate), John Cayley!
The conference was a celebration of and for Robert Coover, co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization and major American novelist, whose teaching and promotion of electronic literature has been essential to the field. Robert Coover was toasted and at least lightly roasted, heard papers presented on his work, and did a reading of the "recently renovated Hypertext Hotel" – a famous early project by students which did indeed turn out to have some recent renovations.
ELO_AI began on Thursday with an array of workshops by Damon Loren Baker, John Cayley, Jeremy Douglass, Daniel Howe, and Deena Larsen. Deena Larsen was later part of a great roundtable on archiving with Will Hansen, Marjorie Luesebrink, and Stephanie Strickland; the group discussed Duke University's work with Stephanie Strickland's papers (and digital works), the Deena Larsen Collection at the University of Maryland, and the efforts that the ELO made in the Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination project. On the first day of the conference, Mark Marino organized a great panel with four undergraduate presenters. And, there was an opening reception at the Westminster Street gallery where an excellent show of digital literary work has been put together. While there was an array of work (in the screenings, performances, gallery, and sessions) from people who were presenting at an ELO conference for the first time, I was also glad to see many of the people who were instrumental in creating and publishing literary work on the computer more than a decade ago.
Without trying to enumerate every session of the conference, I'll mention the Sunday 10am plenary to try to get across how wide-ranging the presentations and presenters were. In this session, George Landow, author of the famous Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (1992), told the tragicomical tale of hypertext's use in education at Brown. Angela Chang and Peggy Chi described two interactive projects for very young readers, projects that used my Curveship system and the Open Mind Common Sense project from Henry Lieberman's MIT Media Lab group. Lawrence Giffin used the not-very-democratic framework of the salon to consider the important avant-garde site Ubuweb. And finally, Paola Pizzichini and Mauro Carassai looked into the Italian edition of Michael Joyce's Afternoon and its almost total absence from Italian libraries. Certainly, some sessions were more focused – very focused in the case of the one on William Poundstone's digital writing work; at least with a theme of process intensity, in the case of the session were I presented my work on Adventure in Style. But we had a genuinely diverse group of presenters, and sessions like this one on Sunday revealed this, while also showing that we do have cross-cutting interests and that we can have valuable conversations.
A special area if interest for me, interactive fiction, was represented by Aaron Reed, who did a reading of his Blue Lacuna in which he deftly showed both interactive sessions and the underlying Inform 7 code while a volunteer interactor spoke commands. Aaron Reed also gave a paper on that large-scale piece, explaining his concept of interface and his work on developing a non-player character who ranged across different spaces without being a simple opponent or companion character. In the same performance session and paper session, I got to see and learn more about Fox Harrell's Living Liberia Fabric, a piece produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia, incorporating video testimony, and employing Fox Harrell's GRIOT system for poetic conceptual blending.
We welcomed new ELO board members and officers. Joining the ELO board are Fox Harrell, Caroly Guertin, and Jason Nelson. Dene Grigar took office as vice president, and Joe Tabbi completed his term as president, handing that role over to me.
During the sessions, we heard critical perspectives on many particular electronic literature work and some on the ELO itself, which will help us think about the challenges the Organization faces and how we can better serve readers and writers beyond American universities. The ELO has had ten years of growth and learning by now, and while there will be more of each to do, our four main projects are now well enough established that all of them are past 1.0:
I'm glad to be starting my service as president of the ELO at a time when the organization has just had a very successful conference and has these other effective projects rolling. Thanks to Joe Tabbi and other past presidents and directors of the Organization for bringing us to this point – and, again, to John Cayley for bringing us all together at Brown.
J.R. Carpenter has taken apart and reassembled my poetry generator Taroko Gorge. (The first to appropriate and rework that piece, as far as I know, was Scott Rettberg, who created Tokyo Garage.) J.R.'s piece – one might call it a tract of sorts – is simply called Gorge. (Update: J.R. has a post discussing Gorge, too.) See if you can stomach it, and for how long.
Also, check out J.R.'s project Story Generation(s), which involved reworking two of my 1k Python programs and which launched May 8 at PW10 Performance Writing Weekend. The project includes a JavaScript port of "Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR." This is generally not a bad idea; I wrote Taroko Gorge originally in Python (a programming language I prefer for when I'm thinking) and converted it to JavaScript for easy web viewing.
"Geração sobre a fala" ("My Generation about Talking," Nick Montfort) Tradução para o português, Cicero Inacio da Silva.
"My Generation about Talking," a text generator which I first presented at the Software Studies Workshop on May 21, 2008, is now available in Portuguese translation, thanks to Cicero Inacio da Silva. It was made for use in a presentation, but the program is set up to allow a user to play the entire presentation or to access any of the fifteen individual voices, each of which affirms repeatedly in some way.
The program is in Python and will run from the command line in OS X and on many Linux systems. It will run on Windows after Python for Windows has been installed.
For instance, to run the English version of this program on OS X:
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Mon générateur d'histoires "The Two" est désormais en ligne avec une traduction française, "Les deux" , de Serge Bouchardon. La version anglaise était auparavant disponible en Python. C'était le second de trois générateurs de 1k que j'avais réalisés à la fin de 2008. "Les deux" génère des histoires toutes simples de trois lignes, mais dont l'effet de sens n'est peut-être pas si simple. Les versions anglaise et française sont à présent disponibles en JavaScript et sont ainsi facilement accessibles sur le Web.
My story generator, "The Two," is now online along with a French translation, "Les deux," by Serge Bouchardon. The English version of the story was previously available in Python. It was the second of three 1k story generators that I wrote near the end of 2008. "The Two" generates three-line stories in a straightforward way, although the effect may not be straightforward. Both French and English versions are now available in JavaScript, so they can be run from the Web easily.
Late yesterday, I wrapped up my long (and very fun) day at Digital Arts and Culture 2009 in Irvine by presenting my paper "The ppg256 Series of Minimal Poetry Generators" in the late afternoon cognition and creativity panel and then by being a part of the extraordinary DAC Literary Arts Extravaganza, quickly presenting selections that I called "Five Uneasy Pieces:"
Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR: Previously, Pookie and JR had only ever met at parties. For the first few nights, Pookie and JR keep to their corners. JR changes Pookie's water. Pookie makes a mess of his feeding dish. JR cooks slowly, foraging in this strange kitchen. Tonight's dinner puts one withered leek out of its misery. JR hasn't been sleeping much lately. Pookie keeps his thoughts to himself. To be continued…
J. R. Carpenter, author of Words the Dog Knows, Entre Ville, The Cape, and other fine works of e-lit, print, and xerography, has delightfully repurposed one of my 1k story generators to have it tell stories involving her and a hermit crab named Pookie. The program has grown to about 2k, but it uses the same simple (and surprisingly effective) method as my first generator does: It simply removes all but 5-9 sentences from a sequence, eliding some of what's been written. Sometimes the reader is left to wonder who the hermit is. Here's a direct link to the Python code for the program, and here's the page on Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR.
Next week, the Purple Blurb series offers a second special summer talk by a leading researcher in creative text generation. Rafael Pérez y Pérez will speak on …
MEXICA is a computer model that generates plots for short stories about the Mexicas, the old inhabitants of what today is México City, based on the engagement-reflection cognitive account of writing. During engagement MEXICA generates material guided by content and rhetorical constraints, avoiding the use of explicit characters' goals or story-structures. During reflection the system breaks impasses, evaluates the novelty and interestingness of the story in progress and verifies that coherence requirements are satisfied. In this talk I will explain the main characteristics of the system, I will show how emotions are employed to progress a story in a coherent way and generate novel situations, and how the dramatic tension of the story in progress might be employed to evaluate its interestingness. I will present results showing how story generation is affected by various model parameters and I will compare MEXICA with other story-generators programs. Finally, I will mention how we are employing MEXICA as starting point for new research projects.
Pérez y Pérez will speak on Wednesday July 15, 6pm-7pm, at MIT in room 14E-310. This is in the same location as Pablo Gervás's talk in May, and just one more floor up the stairs from the Trope Tank, where other Purple Blurb events were located. The talk is (as with all Purple Blurb presentations) open to the public.
Rafael Pérez y Pérez earned a BSc. in Electronics and Computers at Universidad Iberoamericana in México City, a MSc. in Knowledge Based Systems and a DPhil. in Artificial Intelligence at Sussex University in England. His research has focused on computer models of creativity. He and his students have developed programs that write short stories, compose music, and solve geometry problems, among other things. In 2006 he organised the Mexican Creativity, Cognition and Computers research group (MCCC) which aims to gather together a multidisciplinary group of researchers and students interested in computational creativity. He has published different papers in the area and has participated as a PC member and co-chair in international events related to computational creativity. Currently he is a researcher and lecturer at The Autonomous Metropolitan University (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana or UAM) in México City and an invited Lecturer in the MSc and PhD programs in Computer Science at The National Autonomous University of México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México or UNAM).
Next week, the Purple Blurb series offers a special talk by a leading European researcher in creative text generation.
Pablo Gervás works as associate professor (profesor titular de universidad) at the Departamento de Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the director of the NIL research group and also of the Instituto de Tecnología del Conocimiento.
His research is on processing natural language input, generating natural language output, building resources for related tasks, and generating stories. In the area of creative text generation, he has done work on automatically generating metaphors, formal poetry, and short films.
He will speak on Wednesday May 20, 6pm-7pm, at MIT in room 14E-310. The talk is (as with all Purple Blurb presentations) open to the public, and (as with all Purple Blurb presentations so far) will be in English.


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Here we are, just over one month away from June, and I am willing to bet that at least a few of you have weddings on your mind. Perhaps, you've heard the song about June brides. I first heard it when I watched the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
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Well, the long awaited day has finally arrived! My boyfriend of over two years FINALLY asked me to marry him! It sure took him long enough. We were on vacation and driving through Yellowstone National Park. He asked me on the shore of Yellowstone Lake, and it was perfect!
Planning a wedding can be a very stressful and emotional roller coaster ride for almost everyone involved. There are dozens upon dozens of books and websites that cater to helping the bride and her family prepare for this momentous occasion. As a future mother of the groom, I find myself wondering what role my son and his family will play once the wedding planning process really kicks off.
Not every weekend gets to be filled with an adventure in the KC Weddings Bridal Spectacular, like this last weekend was for me. My fiancé and I are still in the early stages of planning; we have over a year before the special day on Halloween 2014. But, it's never too early to get started on things, right? Right.
Whether you are "tying the knot" for the first time or your third time, you can find some wonderful information and ideas from books at the Library to make your wedding a special day. Look for ideas that make your day a reflection of your personality. Make it special for you!
Chocolates are eaten, roses are given, and love is a stain of red on the cheeks of many young and old hearts alike. On this Valentine's Day, while I stuff my face with sugary goodness, I'm thinking of all the ways that my husband and children are my greatest love story. Though my heart was given to him long ago, at just a tender age of twelve, it wasn't until 2003 that we started our life together. If you're like me, you like to reminisce upon all the love letters and romantic moments you've had with your significant other.
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The head of Square Enix's anime and manga publishing arm, 田口浩司 / Kouji Taguchi, responsible for producing such anime as Saki and Full Metal Alchemist, has given what he sees as the reasons why manga sales in the US are still dwarfed by Japanese sales.
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I read the english translation of the manga in my country, Malaysia. The localized version sucked and are heavily censored even if they're cheap about RM4-Rm7.50 (USD1.30-USD2.50). (I recall a scene in the Dragonball manga... More


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|We are a nationally ranked club rowing team out of West Lafayette, Indiana. We travel around the country and compete against both club and NCAA schools. Interested in joining? Check out our new rowers page to find out what we are all about, or fill out an interest form here.
It's about time to get back into the swing of things! There will be a mandatory kickoff meeting for all current rowers on Sunday, August 24 (That's the last day before classes start).
Be sure to attend to get important information about the 2014-2015 season!
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September 23, 2014
Thanks to all of our members for helping out in the Hunger Hike! We had a lot of fun and raised money for a very good cause. Please check out this great Purdue Review article about the event, written by our very own Paul Pelech. It can be found here.
September 15, 2014
To all incoming novice rowers: We are excited as you are for signing day this week! If you would like to download a copy of the Membership Agreement for your reference, click here.
August 16, 2014
The school year is just around the corner, so here is some information about the callouts that will be happening in the coming weeks. First, if you visit the New Rowers page, you can read a letter from the president and get additional information about the callouts. We will also be present at many BGR events, where you can talk to current rowers and coaches, while learning more about the club. We will also display our racing shells at various points on the campus, so you can take a closer look at what we row with.
Feel free to contact us with the questionnaire, or stop by any of our callouts or booths, so we can help you join and become key members of the 2014 novice class. We look forward to seeing you!
August 6, 2014
Purdue Crew is ready to begin the 2014-2015 season, and we need your help to support the Purdue Crew Parents Club (PCPC). They rely heavily on donations to help support purchasing food, supplies that feeds all athletics, coaches, bus drivers, and parents at each regatta. If you would like to help, please contact Sheryl Williams on the Parent's Club page.
May 12, 2014
Purdue Crew had a steady weekend at the Dad Vails Regatta in Philidelphia. We had numerous teams competing in Grand Finals including: the Lightweight Women's 4+, the Novice Women's 8+, the Novice Men's Lightweight 8+, and the Varsity Men's Lightweight 8+. Both Lightweight mens' crews medaled in their respective events bringing home Bronze medals!
Bronze Medalists: Novice Men's Lightweight 8+
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April 20, 2014
We are back from one of our larger collegiate rowing events, SIRAs and our teams are sporting many new medals from the races this weekend. The weather was lovely down in Oak Ridge, Tennessee while our team was dominating our competition. We are coming home with yet another team points trophy. Congratulations to all!!
April 12, 2014
Purdue Crew had a successful weekend at our debut at the Lubber's Cup in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We had some great racing from both the men's and women's teams. The freshman women's novice 8+ came out with gold medals and a cup for our boathouse. Our team as a whole won the team points trophy over tough teams such as Michigan and Grand Valley.
April 7, 2014
Congratulations to all of the Purdue Crew participants who flew to San Diego, CA to compete in the San Diego Crew Classic! We had some great racing against some top West Coast rowing schools! Boiler Up!!
March 24, 2014
Purdue Crew is back from Spring Break Training in Clemson, SC! The top 8s for the Varsity and Novice travelled to Marietta for the long standing duel between Marietta College and Purdue. We had some great racing and the Men's Varsity 8 defended their victory against Marietta and brought home the Challenge cup.
March 6, 2014
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February 22, 2014
Purdue Crew takes home two brand new ergs from their conquests at the Chicago Indoor Rowing Championships. This indoor rowing championship saw many victories across the board for our team. Purdue Crew took CIRCs by storm and left everyone in the dust. We hope that next year we will see even more competitors from our team to represent Purdue in this erg race.
Crew members Bobby Jones, Ryan Roby, Fred Jorgenson, Drew Stover, Mike Frick, and Mike Reichert with Purdue Crew's ergs won at CIRC
February 17, 2014
A big thanks goes out to our Publicity Directors, Courtney Murphy and Calie Gihl, for making our Semi-formal so great. The Olympic themed decorations were great and the DJ was awesome and everyone had a great time at the beautiful Ross Ade venue.
February 2, 2014
Purdue Crew had a very successful weekend at the Tippecanoe Mall fundraising for Lafayette Urban Ministries at our annual Row-a-thon. In total so far, we have raised a little over $20,000 for this very worthy cause and the donations keep coming in. Congratulations Purdue Crew!
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January 31, 2014
Lots of fun and a nice mental break from winter training came today on the last day of January. It's also the day before our annual Row-a-thon, so our women's team decided to take a shift in terms of practice and instead of doing a traditional workout, that they'd play a game of flag football out in the beautiful snow.
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June 05, 2014
By Torré Brannon-Reese
LAWT Contributing Writer
Imagine being a child, 7, 8, 9 years old. You were born in Belize, Cuba, Trinidad, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Guatemala, or somewhere else in the beautiful Caribbean Islands, or Central America. Suddenly, your mother leaves home, is gone for a year, maybe two or three; finally, she comes back to get you and takes you to this wonderful place called America! America, that far-way land you've heard of, where everybody is free, eternally happy, and rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Well, the reality for hundreds of thousands of "innocent children", many now full grown adults, is a life devoid of true freedom. The reality is that hundreds of thousands of innocent/immigrants live their lives in a state of constant fear of deportation. Deportation from America, back to a land they know nothing about and have no emotional connection to. Hundreds of thousands of "undocumented citizens", many who have been in this country for 20, 30 and 40 years, live in constant fear that one day, they will be stripped away from their children, family, friends and loved ones, and forcibly taken away from the only life they've ever known. Their lives are eerily similar to that of millions of innocent enslaved Africans in America, who lived their lives in this same state of fear and "perceived freedom".
The assumption for the majority of us who are of African descent, is that this is a "Mexican" or "Latino" issue. And many of "us", due to our cultural/historical ignorance, acquired racial prejudice and or social/political apathy, turn a blind eye toward this issue, as if it does not affect us. We need to think again, because, guess what, it affects us (Black people) in more ways than one. If nothing else, our political behavior (I'm generalizing with intelligence) on this issue has helped to define our national image in ways most of us, do not even understand.
As we run scared that the "illegals" (as our ancestors were called) are taking away our jobs, we naturally align ourselves politically with right wing conservatives/segregationist who have never had our best interest at heart, and who use us as political footballs based upon our own prejudices, ignorance and media inspired fears.
As a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, I am proud to know that my historical lineage not only goes back to Africa, yet, my bloodline connects me to the triumphant Haiti people. This due to the influx of Haitians, migrating into New Orleans after their revolution and independence from France in the early 1800's.
Yet, this writing is not so concerned about the "politics", as it is about the "human" side of this issue. As people of color who (should be) knowledgeable and appreciative of our history, I'd think we'd be particularly concerned and actively involved in helping to create meaningful, respectful solutions on this issue. The unfortunate argument that immigrants hurt employment opportunities for low skilled, marginally educated Blacks, has been adopted by right wing conservatives as their mantra, and again, further promotes an image of Black men as helpless, pitiful victims, who in 200 years, have failedto make progress in American society. Sadly, these same so-called, "second class human beings", are tricked into fighting against other low-skilled, marginalized, economically/politically exploited class of persons, or, Latinos.
Historically, the greatest among us, knowing the power of coalition building and cultural bonding, have consciously reached out to our brothers and sisters of color in the Diaspora; people such as, W.E.B.DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, were all in search of positive and productive relationships amongst people of color; who comprise the majority (not minority) of the human beings on the planet.
I imagine that if Dr. King were still alive, he would fight with all his power against the devilish deportation/slave treatment of innocent, law abiding, tax-paying citizens, whose only crime was being born in Another Country.
Innocent Black Immigrants
And if Malcolm X were here, I am confident that he would point a stern finger at his people; who, in
2014, still have our hands stretched out, begging our former slave masters for hand-outs!
My feeling is that Malcolm would be about the business of focusing our energies/attention on "ownership" and the building of our own economic and political systems and institutions.
What a shameful thing we do to the legacies of our ancestors, when we waste time & talent, hating on other political victims, who, by the way, actually own the spiritual birthright to this land we call America.
My hope and prayer is that we become actively involved in this grand, international struggle for human dignity. Further, and as a realistic/optimist, I do believe that as more of our close friends and family members are affected by this unfortunate phenomenon, we will get involved.
As far as I am concerned, the current Black Immigration reality is not unlike that of our slave era experience. The free, northern born Negroes, enjoying access to education, jobs and opportunity, had a choice, they could stand idly by, and watch our southern born brothers and sisters suffer the indignities of chattel slavery; or they could do as sister Harriet Tubman did, and fight for the freedom of their people. I stand with Harriet, where so you stand?
It is our responsibility, as a people who were formally "forced immigrants", to preserve and honor our legacy. Our legacy is one of compassion, kindness, self-education and courageous action. Let's honor our legacy, get involved.
May 29, 2014
LAWT News Service
On Friday, May 16, more than 750 guests attended the California Science Center's 16th annual Discovery Ball. As part of the festivities, guests experienced an ancient city at the height of the Roman Empire as they previewed the west coast premiere of Pompeii: The Exhibition. From the Science Center they were transported by "chariot" to the entrance of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which was transformed into a lush, Pompeii garden villa where they were treated to an Italian dinner by candlelight. While dining, guests were entertained by a harpist and pan flautist, followed by a small army of gladiators who made a grand entrance and lit the historic Olympic torch.
The annual black-tie gala, a philanthropic event, raised more than $1.35 million to benefit the California Science Center Foundation through table sponsorships, a live auction conducted by NBC4 Fritz Coleman, and a raffle for a Lexus RC F performance coupe. Science Center President, Jeffrey Rudolph noted that, "Proceeds from this fundraiser enable us to continue providing exceptional science learning and education opportunities for our community."
The Science Center's annual gala has been recognized as a "virtual who's who of the Los Angeles business community" by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Among the gala guests were community and business leaders as well as elected officials at local, state and federal levels including: State Controller John Chiang; Congresswoman Maxine Waters; City Council President Herb Wesson; Councilman Curren Price; County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas; Assemblyman Reggie Jones Sawyer; Assemblyman Richard Bloom; and Assemblyman Steve Bradford; former astronaut Daniel Olivas; and celebrities Debbie Allen and her husband, former NBA star Norm Nixon.
Gala co-chairs Anne Shen Smith, past Chairman and CEO of Southern California Gas Company and Robert S. Carter, Senior Vice President – Automotive Operations of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. presided over the program.
Another highlight of the evening was the transformation of the Samuel Oschin Pavilion into an out-of-this-world night club with Space Shuttle Endeavour as the centerpiece. Guests also enjoyed a private screening of the IMAX film "Forces of Nature."
Top donors to the Discovery Ball were Wells Fargo and Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc.
By Joey Matthews
Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times
Eight-year-old Martin Cobb and his 12-year-old sister had a special bond. They were by all accounts inseparable as siblings, best friends and playmates.
"They were never apart," said the Rev. Theodore L. Hughey, the pastor at Abundant Life Church of God in Christ, the family's church. They would ride bikes and big wheelers together, play side by side with children in their South Side neighborhood and brag about their mother's fine down-home cooking, he told the Free Press.
Marty had a special affinity for keys of any type, the pastor added. In a tragic event that has captured the nation's heart, Marty now is being fondly remembered as a courageous hero. Local and national media are telling the heart-rending story of how Marty died May 1, while bravely trying to protect his beloved sister from a sexual predator as they played around noon near railroad tracks behind the family's home in the 200 block of Brandon Road.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with Marty's murder and the attack on his sister, who survived. She is recovering at a local hospital.
Marty died from severe head trauma, police later reported. Neighbors reported the attacker struck Marty in the head with a brick. A few days following his death, about 200 family members, friends, neighbors and other community members somberly gathered outside Abundant Life to honor the endearing child with the small frame, indomitable spirit and warm, loving smile.
Prior to the vigil, loved ones assembled around a sign in Marty's yard that read: "Martin: A real hero lived, fought and died here."
"Little Marty is a hero," stated City Council member Reva M. Trammell, who spoke at the vigil and represents the 8th District where the grieving family lives. "He was there when his sister needed him the most," she added in response to a Free Press query. "Marty's beautiful smile and his love for his sister will always be with us. Marty will always be in our hearts, and he will never, ever be forgotten."
Charles Willis, executive director of the Citizens Against Crime group that has helped lead vigils for more than 20 years in the city, said the turnout reflects a caring community.
"Even though a crisis of this nature happens, this shows the strength of not only the city, but of the community," Mr. Willis said. "When trouble comes to any community, we will respond in a positive fashion."
He described Marty's mother, Sharain Spruill, as "very, very, very upset as well as hurt and trying to wrap her mind aroundwhy this happened her son."
Major Steve Drew, who directs Support Services with the Richmond Police Department, praised neighborhood residents for providing information that resulted in the quick arrest.
"The community really came together to seek justice for little Marty, the hero," he said. Police said Marty's sister first reported the attacker to be a White male, but later recanted and identified a black, 16-year-old neighbor as the attacker. She told police the teenager had threatened to hurt her if she told on him.
It has been reported the suspect's name is Mariese Washington. He has a history of violent behavior that includes a 2010 attack in the Mosby Court housing community on a 3-year-old boy. He hit the boy in the back of the head with a hammer.
The attack required the child to receive 100 staples and a metal plate in his head. The boy has spent four years in recovery, according to his family. The alleged killer of Marty was to make his first appearance in Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on Monday in front of Judge Ashley K. Tunner.
Authorities have declined to identify the suspect because he's a minor. Prosecutor Mary Langer stated in response to a Free Press query that she and Chris Bullard of the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office are trying the case. She said the 16 year-old suspect will be tried as an adult for first degree murder, but will not face the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the execution of juveniles violates the Constitution.
"A murder charge against a juvenile who is 14 years or older is subject to automatic certification treatment (as an adult)," Ms. Langer stated. "There is no discretion or choice for the judge."
Those in the tight-knit South Side neighborhood where Marty's family lives are determined to make sure his heroic actions are remembered. They have organized an online petition directed to the White House to have Marty recognized by President Obama for his heroic act.
A fund for the family has been established at Wells Fargo bank called the "Keys for Marty Foundation." Donations can be made at any Wells Fargo branch.
Marty's funeral was held May 9 at Mimms Funeral Home in Richmond.
"This young child has awakened a nation that has turned their back on the children!" the Rev. Hughey declared at the funeral of the young hero. "We need to end the war on our most precious gifts, our children…This young man, this little child, this giant that God put in this time has brought us together to say to him, 'Martin, we will honor your memory now.'"
May 22, 2014
City News Service
The Los Angeles City Council signed off this week on a package of revisions to the mayor's $8.1 billion budget proposal that includes $10 million in additional funding for the fire department. The City Council is expected to vote next week on the revised 2014-15 fiscal year spending plan, which would then be forwarded to the mayor for his signature. Together with Mayor Eric Garcetti's own proposal to hire 140 more firefighters and rebuild the fire department, the extra $10 million approved by council brings the LAFD's budget to $22 million above the previous year.
The added fire spending, which would be funded using short-term reserves and higher revenue projections, includes $3.65 million to replace fire safety equipment, $3.5 million to hold an extra firefighter recruit training class, and $3.34 million to keep 11 more ambulances on the streets for another six months. Eight city attorneys would be hired for nine months under another change proposed by the council. The added $622,424 would pay salaries for five attorneys to work in the neighborhood prosecutor program and three to handle enforcement of Proposition D, the voter-approved measure restricting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles.
The council also added $5 million for bulky-item pick up service, $2.1 million to maintaining medians and $1 million for graffiti abatement. The council nixed Garcetti's proposal to hire 50 part-time traffic officers using $915,750. The mayor's office estimated the officers would issue traffic citations that would bring in $3 million in revenue, but the council decided instead to spend $207,207 to hire five full-time officers to provide traffic control at congested intersections.
The city would still be hiring 17 more already budgeted part-time officers to issue citations that, according to council estimates, would bring in $2.29 million for the city. Garcetti's budget proposal includes $20 million for sidewalk repairs, expanded library hours and spending $14.8 million to keep police ranks at 10,000. His spending plan, released in April, proposes to bridge a projected shortfall of $242 million in fiscal year 2014-15 with the help of better-than-expected returns from taxes; savings on employee pensions and benefits; the elimination of vacant positions that equal 46 full-time jobs; grants and surplus funds; and the city's reserves.
The budget also assumes city employees will agree to no raises and paying 10 percent of their health-care premiums, but negotiations with city employees are still ongoing.
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A Two-Country NATREX Model for the Euro/Dollar
AbstractThis paper develops a NATREX (NATural Real EXchange rate) model for two large economies, the Eurozone and the United States. The NATREX approach has already been adopted to explain the medium-long term dynamics of the real exchange rate in a number of industrial countries. So far, however, it has been applied to a one-country framework where the "rest of the world" is treated as given. In this paper, we build a NATREX model where the two economies are fully specified and allowed to interact. Our theoretical model offers the basis for empirical estimation of the euro/dollar equilibrium exchange rate that will be carried out in future research. JEL classification: F31; F36; F47
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- Belloc, Marianna & Federici, Daniela, 2010. "A two-country NATREX model for the euro/dollar," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 29(2), pages 315-335, March.
- Marianna Belloc & Daniela Federici, 2008. "A Two-Country NATREX Model for the Euro/Dollar," CESifo Working Paper Series 2290, CESifo Group Munich.
- F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies
- F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
- F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
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- Nikolaos Giannellis & Minoas Koukouritakis, 2011.
"Behavioural equilibrium exchange rate and total misalignment: evidence from the euro exchange rate,"
Springer, vol. 38(4), pages 555-578, November.
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