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Per the request of Appalachian Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Brenda Weaver, three felony charges have been dropped against Fannin Focus publisher Mark Thomason and his attorney Russell Stookey in a case that has drawn criticism from across the state.
Thomason and Stookey both spent time in jail on June 24th after a Pickens County grand jury indicted them on identity fraud, attempted identity fraud and making false statements.
The charges are the result of a highly convoluted case that dates back to a racial slur that was made in the Fannin County Courthouse and requests for copies of a check through open records and subpoenas.
Thomason said he was being silenced for investigating a judge and for seeking information about public funds. Judge Weaver and Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee claimed Thomason inappropriately presented documents at banks to obtain check records that could have been made available through other channels. Both have maintained that Thomason was not indicted over open records requests, and that they have issue with the way he went about getting the information. Both parties have said they believe there are personal vendettas at play.
In her letter to the district attorney requesting the charges be dismissed, Weaver said she "has many other cases with victims who have been harmed much more, and they need your attention and time. As a citizen and certainly as a Judge, I in no way want to infringe upon the First Amendment Rights…That certainly was never my intent in testifying as a witness before the grand jury in this matter."
The Society of Professional Journalists is "thrilled" the charges were dropped, but said it's not enough in a recent press release.
"SPJ Georgia is continuing to pursue its complaint against Judge Weaver filed with the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Because Weaver is chair of the commission, SPJ Georgia has requested she recuse herself from all matters involving our complaint.


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British sport's biggest stars are at war with the World Anti-Doping Agency over its "barbaric" new sanctions for recreational-drug use.
Elite footballers, rugby players, cricketers and other professional sportsmen and women have instructed lawyers to prevent Wada banning athletes for up to four years for taking cocaine, or even cannabis, amid fears it might lead to devastating consequences.
The Professional Players' Federation, which defends the interests of unions representing more than 15,000 sports professionals across the UK, began legal action last week after Wada reneged on plans to relax its sanctions in its new World Anti-Doping Code.
The PPF is now in a race against time to convince a Swiss court – the only judicial body to which Wada is answerable – to conduct an "urgent review" into the agency's decision ahead of its World Conference on Doping in Sport, which begins in Johannesburg on Nov 12.
The conference is otherwise expected to see the more severe sanctions ratified as part of the new code, which is set to come into force from 2015.
The PPF and others had successfully lobbied for a clause to be inserted into the first two drafts of the code which included a minimum sanction of a reprimand and an emphasis on rehabilitation for first-time recreational-drug offenders, something Wada admitted had "a strong majority of stakeholder" support.
Despite this, clause 10.4.3 was removed from version 3.0 after May's meeting of its foundation board and was omitted again from last month's final draft.
PPF general secretary Simon Taylor told The Daily Telegraph: "Wada's treatment of recreational drugs is still stuck in the 20th century. It is depressing that a group who refuse to even recognise the term 'recreational drugs' is now seeking to undermine the good work that is being developed on mental wellbeing and rehabilitation for sportsmen with problems.
"Recreational drug abuse has no place in professional sport but it would be naive in the extreme to think that it does not exist. Sport and Wada has a 'duty of care' to its players to look after them and provide appropriate support.
"It is barbaric to throw people out of the game for two years or more without any access to treatment and rehabilitation. The worst thing you could do to someone with addiction problems is to have them sacked and then ban them from even training at their sport."
No reasons were given for Wada's about-turn, which came 24 hours after the clause appeared to survive the scrutiny of its executive board. But its 38-strong foundation board includes government ministers and there are some suggestions they were concerned about the message any relaxation of recreational-drug sanctions might send in sport and beyond.
Having lobbied for several years for Wada to change its stance to help prevent the kind of tragedies that can befall sportspeople addicted to a drug such as cocaine, the PPF requested an explanation for the change of heart.
When one was not forthcoming even after the release of the final draft, it instructed a Swiss law firm to challenge the verdict.
Papers were filed with the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority, which received them last week and was considering whether the PPF's case had merit. If so, it must also decide whether it could complete any review before the Wada conference.
The PPF's lawyer, Dr Lucien W Valloni, a partner of the Swiss firm Froriep, will argue Wada has failed to comply with own statutes, which require it to seek the "moral and political commitment" of athletes to follow its recommendations and oblige it to "protect the health of the athletes".
He will also argue it has failed in its requirement for "transparency", having provided no reasons for the removal of clause 10.4.3, despite legal requests.
And he will ask the court to consider whether the foundation board has committed a technical error in over-extending its powers over the executive committee.
Speaking about his attitude to recreational drugs in an interview with The Daily Telegraph last month, Wada president John Fahey said: "There's no such thing. These are illegal, they're not recreational. They are life-threatening, life-taking drugs which, sadly, take out our young people every day of the week somewhere in the world."
Despite this, Wada recently amended its rules on cannabis, raising the threshold for a positive in-competition test from 15 nanograms per millilitre to 150 ng/ml.
It has been shown cannabis can remain in an athlete's system for several days after being taken.
The new Wada code is the culmination of two years of stakeholder consultation and draft revisions.


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The weekly Top Contributors Awards, monthly TechNet Guru Awards and [soon to be monthly, or even bi-weekly] TechNet Ninja Belt Calculator are three projects I am very proud to have conceived, nurtured and been a part of for many years now.
Over the years, I have automated these as much as possible, culminating in the Wiki Council Dojo, which we use to collect all these statistics, and the Ninja Belt Calculator that uses many metrics, including stats from all these incentives. But they are still high maintenance.
My lively and captivating new MVP circles and most exciting personal and professional adventures in IoT mean I cannot maintain these projects as much as I would like.
So for the last six months, I have spend many a night and weekend reshaping some of the tools behind these projects. Updating for easier use, plus copying much of the functionality up to the Dojo (management website), for others in our team to now use.
Some of these projects began as a fun night's coding. Several years later, that code starts to break, or is outdated for migration to a web app. Some of my tools have to manually crawl web pages, and pages often change, so crawlers break.
Now that much of this is in the Dojo, I have been able to reach out to some of my community companions for assistance.
In recent months, we now have several well known Wiki ninjas helping spread the work.
Firstly, Peter Geelen now closes the monthly Guru submissions page, and posts the new one.
Carsten Siemens has been scanning our monthly submissions for plagiarism for many years now and works with Peter Geelen to keep the competition clean and fair.
Also in recent months, Ronen Ariely has also been incredibly helpful, across many of these projects. Ronen also pushed for more MVPs to join the Guru Judging teams for each category. The result is a much better quality of article appraisal and higher quality judge comments, back to the competitors.
Most recently Kamlesh Kumar has stepped up and taken the job of selecting and publishing the winner blog for Top Contributors. I still run the crawler every week to collate the changes, but I hope to move that to the cloud this year too. Kamlesh has also taken on the task of keeping the Dojo up to date, so that he can also run and blog the results from the Wiki Ninja Belt calculator.
Finally, other helpful TNW community members, who deserve a mention for recent help with these projects are Syed Shanu, Richard Mueller, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Hezequias Vasconcelos, and of course the Wiki's big daddy, Ed Price.
Amongst the many changes lately, the Dojo and its various satellite sites have had some major fixes and enhancements.
It also looks like I have finally squashed all of the bugs (new and old), from migrating the Guru Vote tool to a new multi-browser HTML version.
I have recently produced several [internal team only] how-to videos. These will hopefully endow all future helpers with the knowledge needed to continue the good work of these blogs, and to keep the wheels of the Dojo and Ninja Belt Calculator turning! 🙂
Thanks to everyone, who has helped us get to where we are today.
I am excited at the possibilities and plans we have for 2017 and onwards!
I should now have some space to enhance the existing competitions, with new features fans have been asking for.
I should also have some real world prizes and recognitions coming this year.
So if you engage in any of these incentives, keep up the scores and you may be surprised! ;D
Recently, Ed very kindly called me the wind in the community's sails.
I'd like to extend that compliment to all of those above, who help keep these projects running, relevant, fair and worthy!
Thanks also, to YOU of course, for reading our blogs! 😀
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"Matthew is one of several from overseas we have signed for 2017," LMC Head Coach Tim Hall said. "Banner Elk and the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains are very appealing to international cyclists, especially with our technical trails and long climbs. We strive to have a diverse roster of riders from different cultures, which we believe provides for a more enriching experience for everyone on the team. I look forward to see the impact Matthew has on our team and campus."
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On a conference call just now, Senator Chuck Schumer confirmed it: Senate Democrats will continue bringing up the Buffett Rule again and again in an effort to put Republicans on the spot, and he vowed Dems would press the issue until Republican opposition cracks.
Tellingly, Schumer also noted that Mitt Romney personally benefits from the current tax code that the Buffett rule would undo — and that this would make it politically harder for GOPers to maintain opposition. This confirms what I'd been saying: The Buffett Rule is partly about forcing Republicans to take a stand on whether the likely GOP nominee — who is worth $250 million — should pay lower tax rates than many middle class taxpayers do.
Sheldon Whitehouse's Buffett Rule proposal is set for a vote on April 16th, but Schumer said this is just the beginning.
"If we come up short of the 60 votes needed, we're going to keep pushing this isue all year," said Schumer, who's also the Dem messaging chief. "It's an emerging contrast with Republicans. We think the very wealthy should share in more of the sacrifice."
Schumer noted that Romney benefits from low tax rates, and predicted Republicans — and Romney — would struggle to defend them.
"Democrats, independents, and Republicans are for implementing the Buffett Rule," Schumer said. "Romney has benefitted from a low tax rate. Republicans will continue with cries of class warfare, but they are falling on deaf ears, because it's the middle cass t's under assault. If and when Romney becomes nominee they're going to have to move in our direction more quickly than people think."
Republicans and conservatives have scoffed at the Buffett Rule, arguing its contribution to deficit reduction would be minimal. But Schumer insisted it would bring in $160 billion over 10 years in the event the Bush tax cuts are extended, and said this is not just about deficit reduction, but about basic fairness.
"The middle class can no longer bear the burden of reducing deficits alone," Schumer said, adding that Republicans are now "on the defensive on their signature issue."
Dems view the Buffett Rule as a good way to make one of their most important arguments: The battle over the deficit is actually one over who should sacrifice to reduce it. Dems like this fight because they're hoping continued GOP opposition to the Buffett Rule will starkly reveal the true nature of GOP priorities on this score to the electorate.
If anything, Schumer's comments — along with the GOP nominee's own wealth and tax rates — confirm yet again how central tax fairness will be to Campaign 2012.


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"Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died…"–C. S. Lewis, "Miracles: A Preliminary Study" (p. 110, 1947 ed.; p. 169, 1960 ed.)
On Friday, November 16th, 2007 after returning home from the incredible all-day ASOR conference, I posted a message to Yahoo's ANE-2 list, letting interested people know I'd be blogging about it & the subsequent SBL conference, which I did in a series of 28 posts herein.
After that first announcement, Eliot Braun expressed dismay over discovering that Robert Deutsch, long-time manager of the Archaeological Center in Israel, had sold LMLK handles–something he's been doing for many years–his business has been operating since 1979, & is one of the most successful & prominent antiquities businesses in The Land. I originally published a link-page advertising this in the Dealers section of LMLK Dotcom on 7-20-2003, so it's not a very well-kept secret!
Disclaimer: Dr. Braun asked several questions, & since I didn't address them directly in ANE-2, I'll take the time to do so here. During a cursory web search I did today (after drafting both parts of this blog series), I discovered that Dr. Braun has worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), & is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeology, 2 institutions I have great respect for. The nature of my discussion here is in response to his specific concerns expressed on ANE-2 regarding my collection of LMLK handles (several of which are in storage at the Albright Institute, & many others at the IAA), & should in no way reflect negatively on his own field of research, or on his past employment at the IAA.
Infants, children, pregnant women, nursing mothers, people with chronic heart problems, & people who are not able to stay focused on specific issues (especially people who believe in goo-to-you-thru-the-zoo Evolution), I would strongly urge you to close your browser window now, or visit a website with a more pleasant, non-confrontational topic. Feel free to come back in May. For now, may I recommend the promotional blog for the new "Expelled" movie?
Now that you've been warned, back to Braun:
"Where do they come from and where is he selling them?"
That depends, of course, if they're legitimate. If they are, then they came from the land of Israel; if they're fake, I wouldn't have any idea where they came from (& they're not fake). As for where Robert Deutsch is selling them, I provided links above to his site, which is also based in the land of Israel. Purely a coincidence, I'm sure.
"I wonder about the legality of these transactions."
Wonder all you want. Wonder is wonderful.
"Is this what this list is about, disseminating such information?"
ANE-2 is about disseminating info pertaining to the Ancient Near East (ANE), which ASOR was organized to do over a century ago, & that's what the point of my original post was about. The person who decided to make the subject something else was Eliot Braun. So it seems odd that Dr. Braun would bring up a subject he considers to be out-of-bounds for the list, then ask if that was what the list was about. I would expect a person with legitimate PhD-research credentials (i.e., from a reputable university) to be a little more logical, & do the research first by inquiring with the list's moderators.
Before I had a chance to respond online, Joe Zias chimed in with the same wonderful wonder. Unlike Dr. Braun, Mr. Zias does not possess PhD credentials (legitimate or otherwise), so his misleading comments should not have surprised me; however, I had been under the impression that he had a PhD, as witnessed by my response to him, in which I addressed him respectfully as a doctor. As with Dr. Braun, I will also issue a disclaimer towards Joe Zias, that nothing I'm about to say in these 2 blogs should be interpreted as a lack of respect for his knowledge of Anthropology, nor his contributions to that particular field of study.
One remark he made that I did not address on ANE-2 was: "[I]nscribed materials … are forbidden for export according to the law."
He repeated himself in a later message: "[A]ccording to the law, inscribed material is not allowable for export."
Notice that he stated the law on both occasions without citing a reference. What law?
This is your clue that he's ignorant on this subject. I've broken the law here in America on several occasions in several states, & each time I was caught, the police officer handed me a piece of paper citing a reference to a specific law (e.g., section 8069AP, or 10.32.040MC). If you're going to accuse someone of breaking the law, you should be specific because it's a serious matter, & if you're wrong, it could damage your reputation–especially your academic standing since fields of research demand objectivity & certainty prior to publication.
Challenge #1 of 3: So my first challenge to Mr. Zias would be to either cite the specific law he was quoting, or issue a public apology since I don't appreciate being falsely accused of committing a crime … especially after I've donated half a decade of my spare time, & tens of thousands of dollars making original contributions to our collective knowledge of Ancient Near East history.
Next, Dr. Braun wondered what my contributions were. I gave a general answer, & stated that details would be forthcoming in this blog, where they would not be subject to censorship by ANE-2's biased moderators, who have repeatedly demonstrated anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, & anti-Bible biases in general, & censored/rejected messages I've posted that support Israel's cultural heritage from a Biblical bias. (On ANE-2, if you express a positive Bible bias, it's called "bias"; if you express a negative bias, it's called "objective scholarship".)
Again, it surprised me that someone with research credentials apparently lacks the fundamental ability to do the elementary research needed to answer his own question pertaining to my contributions to LMLKology (i.e., typing my last name & the word "LMLK" in any Internet search engine to find a tangible connection)!
But to make it even easier for Dr.
Brain Braun, I don't mind taking this opportunity on my blog to brag about the accomplishments God has enabled me to make in this esoteric field. (Anything good/useful that can be attributed to me, needs to be credited to God working through me per Hebrews 13:20-1; but anything bad/useless I do is my own fault due to my own negligence.)
I must also preface them by revealing that I prayed to God before I owned a single LMLK handle, & asked God to use me in a way that would bring some modicum of glory to God so that my life would make a slight difference for the better, no matter how small.
Aside from those caveats, my contributions to LMLKology thus far have been:
- The first/only website completely devoted to this subject
- The most accurate set of seal drawings
- The only exhaustive, itemized list of stratified handles
- A photo database of all published impressions (recently exceeding 900)
- The first/only exhaustive book in English on the subject
- A frequently updated corpus of all known specimens
- Photos of over 150 provenanced impressions previously unpublished (from Gibeon, Mizpah, Beth Shemesh, & Beth Zur)
- Numerous corrections to published literature
- An accurate (computer-assisted) paleographical analysis of each seal's letters
- Advanced philatelic research/publishing, 2nd only to someone who had contact with the original workers
Admittedly, not even a blip on the map of all human knowledge, but an original contribution nonetheless. And all because I was able to become the steward (i.e., responsible temporary owner) of artifacts legally exported from Israel. Critics might claim that my research could have been done without the need for my acquisition of the artifacts, but that's bogus because I simply would not have had the interest. Initially, I had no idea of their importance, nor that there was no extensive English book on the subject. God arranged for me to acquire them, & God inspired/enabled me to do the research. If the laws had been different, then God would have had to lead me down another path. And of course, there are plenty of other ways God could've answered that somewhat ambiguous prayer.
So I hope that helps Dr. Braun & Yitzhak Sapir figure out why it would have been "unsuitable" for me to answer this particular question of theirs on ANE-2. They don't allow God, or mere verbal support for God, to exist in their discussions. It has nothing to do with Science; it simply has to do with bias.
Belief in God didn't hinder any of the great men of Science (Bacon, Kepler, Pascal, Boyle, Newton, Priestley, Faraday, Henry, Mendel, to name a few) from making their contributions to it. If anything, maybe their interpretations or misinterpretations of the Bible might have hindered or helped them, but not their devotion &/or prayers to God. Theism & prayer should be encouraged in every school classroom. (Please note that I said "encouraged", not "taught" or "mandated".)
And in anticipation of someone asking, Why would anyone care about these seals?, I would point out the following:
- They are key artifacts for dating strata in Israel.
- They are key artifacts for understanding the evolution of alphabetic scripts.
- They relate directly to what some military historians believe is the most important conflict ever, because if the outcome had been different, the 3 major monotheistic religions would've been different, or might not have come into being at all, & that would've had a domino-effect on the rest of world history (for better or for worse) like no other military event.
- They're mysterious, & everyone loves a good mystery!
Dr. Braun specifically wanted to know, "[I]f such analyses were done what could the data obtained from them be used for[?] Enlighten us, please."
Well, for me, I've used the data obtained from them for demonstrating that 2Chronicles 29-31 may contain a reliable record (& I certainly believe it does based on this scientific evidence). Until I conducted my research (beginning with my unprovenanced specimens), & published my interpretation of the evidence, nobody had made any direct connection between King Hezekiah's worship reformation & specific evidence from the LMLK-sealed jars (only general economic connections to Hezekiah's royal administration by Vaughn's thesis in the 1990s). Not only do they support the Biblical record, but they tie the unique narrative recorded in 2Chronicles to the parallel records in 2Kings & Isaiah. Chronologically, those 2 sources state precisely that the Assyrian attack occurred in the middle of Hezekiah's reign–the 14th year of 29.
My analysis of the unprovenanced seals, combined with my later analysis of the provenanced seals, helped me accomplish this. They were inseparable. Though you can separate them now, you would not have had the seal drawings & totals to work with if the unprovenanced specimens had not been available to me.
Consider yourself officially "enlightened"!
Dr. Braun issued another polemic remark:
"It is generating a market for destruction of cultural patrimony."
That's basically a chicken/egg statement. Did my, or anyone's, interest in these artifacts generate the market, or did the market generate my interest? Well, you'd have to be embarrassingly ignorant to think that I personally generated the market. Though I had seen LMLK seals in BAR magazine years before I bought one, the only reason I bought one is because the market came to me, & generated my interest by making it available. It existed long before I knew it existed, & would've continued to exist even if I had never been born.
Brain Braun is using the kind of ill-logic that would have me feel guilt every time a bank robbery occurs because of my desire to have loads of money! Like as if it's my fault for wanting to accumulate money by putting it into a bank, so people who are lazier & more immoral than me are somehow forced into robbing banks so they can have an economic advantage over me. In essence, that's not a very well-thought-out argument for someone with a PhD.
To his credit, he did not post any additional messages on this subject.
The Bible & everything related to it is fascinating to many people, & that ain't ever gonna change; but I'll tell ya what can & has changed.
Look at what's happened to archeology in Palestinian terrorist-territory, specifically the region just north of Jerusalem at sites such as Jib & Nasbeh. No civil person would dare excavate in/near Ramallah nowadays–even if they could get permission–because of all the uncivilized animals-disguised-as-humans roaming the area. Even Hebron, a bona fide Jewish site with no historical connection to the late foundation of Islam is now unsafe to the point where visitors have to be escorted in bullet-proof tour buses.
Here's my point: If the handles I own had been excavated scientifically, they would never have appeared on the antiquities market. If the government funds used to combat Arab/Palestinian terrorism were freed up, it could be used to sponsor such scientific excavations, or do a better job of protecting The Land.
So a more urgent problem is not the prevention of antiquities sales, but the restoration of the entire country to complete Israeli control, which means killing (because they'll never go away voluntarily) the uncivilized troublemakers who hate Jews & Christians, & teach/train their children to blow themselves up. This would "generate a market" for the continuation & expansion of scientific excavations, & there's a good chance that it would reduce the looting that Braun & Zias are so concerned about, because it would present an opportunity to hire decent, law-abiding Arab/Palestinians.
Challenge #2 of 3: So my 2nd challenge to Zias & Braun (& like-minded individuals) is, Are you going to be as vocal in advocating the killing of Arab/Palestinians who have been caught & convicted of terrorism-related activities as you have been against law-abiding antiquities dealers & collectors?
[End of part 1 … silent pause for gratuitous dramatic effect … stay tuned for part 2 later this week … note that portions of LMLK Dotcom (the root site, not the Research site) will be changing soon.]
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text: LINGUIST List: Vol-14-499. Wed Feb 19 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 14.499, Review: Computational Ling: Theune, et al. (2002) Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org> ========================================================================== What follows is a review or discussion note contributed to our Book Discussion Forum. We expect discussions to be informal and interactive; and the author of the book discussed is cordially invited to join in. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, look for books announced on LINGUIST as "available for review." Then contact Simin Karimi at simin at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:36:38 +0000 From: Pablo Ariel Duboue <pablo at cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001 -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:36:38 +0000 From: Pablo Ariel Duboue <pablo at cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001 Theune, Mariët, Anton Nijholt, and Hendri Hondorp, ed. (2002) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001: Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting. Rodopi, viii+207pp, hardback, ISBN 90-420-0943-8, US$50, EUR50, Language and Computers series 45. Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2106.html Pablo A. Duboue, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, USA SYNOPSIS Continuing with their tradition of a second round of submission and reviewing after the CLIN meeting, this year "Computational Linguistics on the Netherlands" offers mostly Dutch-related content. The book contains papers on a wide variety of topics, distributed over 14 papers and the extended abstract of the invited talk. The second round of revisions ensures a high level of quality and the authors profit from the discussions at the meeting before sending their extended versions. DETAILED ANALYSIS I decided to divide the published papers in four sections, to facilitate the discussion. The division into the sections is not clear-cut; it should be taken mostly for expository reasons. These sections are Theory (including psycholinguistically motivated works), Speech (including dialogs), Corpus (including creation and evaluation) and Tools (for Dutch and multilingual). Theory I found four papers in this category, two dealing with particular results and two with psycholinguistic concerns. Their results are mostly language independent, with most papers providing English examples. In "Conservative vs Set-driven Learning Functions for the Classes k-valued" (Christophe COSTA FLORÊNCIO), the author answers an open question set aside by Kanazawa (1998), by means of a constructive proof. The work focuses in Classical Categorical Grammars (CCGs). In "Reference Resolution in Context" (Jan van EIJCK), pronoun reference resolution is analyzed in terms of incremental semantics. The concepts of the paper are exemplified with an implemented Haskell prototype, available from the author's homepage. Finally, two contributions deal with psycholinguistically motivated formalisms: "Incremental Generation of Self-corrections Using Underspecification" (Markus GUHE and Frank SCHILDER), from a generation perspective; and "Performance Grammar: a Declarative Definition" (Gerard KEMPEN and Karin HARBUSCH), from an understanding perspective. Guhe and Schilder's work profits from a psycholinguistically plausible generation architecture to generate self corrections (e.g. "I have two seats... uh no... one seat available"). The authors argue that such self-corrections are required for systems with dynamic input data. Kempen and Harbusch, on the other hand, present a HPSG-motivated grammar formalism, Performance Grammar (PG). PG also captures important psycholinguistic features such as incrementality and late linearization. The authors provide both Dutch and English formalizations. Speech Dutch morphology makes for a particularly challenging environment in Speech Recognition. The number of out-of-vocabulary (OOVs) words can be quite large, as a result of compounding and other word formation rules. Two papers explore solutions to this problem: "Memory-Based Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion" (Bart DECADT, Jacques DUCHATEAU, Walter DAELEMANS, and Patrick WAMBACQ) and "Automated Compounding as a Means for Maximizing Lexical Coverage" (Vincent VANDEGHINSTE). Decadt et al. investigate the automatic guessing of Dutch spelling out of phoneme transcriptions (phoneme-to-grapheme conversion). Their algorithm performs outstandingly well on clean input. However, the authors acknowledge further work is required to accommodate the highly noisy phonetic transcriptions coming from the speech recognition system. Vandeghinste explores a different but related problem: optimization in the use of the bounded memory of the speech recognition system. As only 36,000 words can be stored in that memory, the author combines several readily available lexicons for Dutch to extract roots and "quasi"-roots for Dutch words. He later re-combines the words into more complex ones, using a statistically trained module. His results seem to be ready for practical application and his statistical analysis is very thorough. Dealing with errors in dialogs, "Multi-feature Error Detection in Spoken Dialogue Systems" (Piroska LENDVAI, Antal van den BOSCH, Emiel KRAHMER, and Marc SWERTS) analyses the impact of combination of prosodic and non-prosodic features in automatic error detection. Trying to reproduce available results reported over English spoken corpora, their results over a Dutch corpus provide mixed evidence regarding the importance of prosodic features. In the extended abstract of the invited talk, "Ideas on Multi-layer Dialogue Management for Multi-party, Multi-conversation, Multi-modal Communication" (David R. TRAUM), the challenges behind the complex Mission Rehearsal Exercise are outlined. The MRE is a military training environment where synthetic agents interact with a human trainee, on a Bosnia village setting. The talk strengthens the multiple problems involved during MRE's development. The MRE challenges go well beyond the ones faced on regular dialogue systems. Corpus Corpus creation and evaluation in Dutch is an issue of optimizing existing, limited, resources and maximizing the impact of the resources applications. On those grounds, "The Alpino Dependency Treebank" (Leonoor van der BEEK, Gosse BOUMA, Rob MALOUF, and Gertjan van NOORD) describes the on-going construction of a dependency treebank for Dutch, with the objective of theory-neutrality. Also on the Alpino tree-bank, "Corpus-based Acquisition of Collocational Prepositional Phrases" (Gosse BOUMA and Begon~a VILLADA), investigates the problem of collocational prepositional phrases (CPPs), and experiments with techniques for automated acquisition. While their initial analysis of the linguistics of the CPPs is very thorough (and goes beyond computational linguistics, being of interest for linguists in general), the authors express slight disappointment on their acquisition results. It seems a better definition for the CPPs is required. Working on the PAROLE corpus, "Tagging the Dutch PAROLE Corpus" Jesse de DOES et al. confront themselves with few training data and a large tagset (with syntactically motivated, complex, tags). The authors try to cope with such a challenging situation by using a mixture of different part-of-speech taggers. They also adapted POS-taggers trained on larger corpora with a different tagset, by learning tag-transformation rules. While the authors express regret on their overall results, the constraints on their task render it a very challenging one, indeed. "Creating a Dutch Information Retrieval Test Corpus" (Djoerd HIEMSTRA, David van LEEUWEN) explains the internals of the Dutch section employed in the CLEF (Cross-language Evaluation Forum). CLEF is an European, multilingual, counterpart for the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), focusing on information retrieval (IR). The paper discusses the logistics involved on the construction of the Dutch corpus, together with some CLEF results. A very thorough analysis of the impact of judge subjectivity on the overall IR results is worth mentioning. Tools This very general section captures three remaining papers. "A Named Entity Recognition System for Dutch" (Fien DE MEULDER, Walter DAELEMANS, Véronique HOSTE) presents an interesting approach for rapid development of language technologies tools: a small sample of expected output is hand-tagged and a rule induction machine learning system (RIPPER) is run over it. System developers then analyze the rules and integrate them in a rule-based system. The benefits of this approach are the ability of the human programmer to tell good rules from bad ones, together with the possibility of integrating rules from different runs of the machine learning system. The use of machine learning as an aid for human knowledge acquisition seems to speed up their development process quite a bit and it is a technique easily applicable to other problems or domains. The question of whether stemming (reducing a word to a rough version of its root) is useful or not for text classification is revisited in "Accurate Stemming of Dutch for Text Classification" (Tanja GAUSTAD and Gosse BOUMA). The authors proceed to do an extrinsic evaluation of two stemmers, a complex, very accurate, dictionary-based stemmer and the Dutch version of the Porter stemmer (straight-forward but inaccurate). Their results provide mixed evidence of the utility of stemming and diverge from published English experiments. Finally, "Applying Monte Carlo Techniques to Language Identification" (Arjen POUTSMA) provide an interesting new methodology to perform language identification. While the author argues that the problem of automatically guessing the language of a given document is considered a solved problem, he proposes a novel, more efficient approach. The technique, based on Monte Carlo sampling, requires a small sample of the text in question. It provides results slightly below the state of the art but with an 850% speed up. OVERALL ANALYSIS A quick scan over the list of contributors yields that, out of 31 contributors, only three authors (the US invited speaker and two German authors) are located outside the Netherlands and Flanders areas. Such focus on Dutch processing makes the book of particular interest for researchers working on Dutch or similar languages presenting a complex morphology. Nevertheless, computational linguists focusing on languages spoken by small communities can profit from the experiences reported on the book. It is also worth noting that the new edition is hardcover, compared to last year's paperback. This can motivate purchasing the actual book, as its contents are also available online. REFERENCE Kanazawa, M. (1998) Learnable Classes of Categorical Grammars, CSLI Publications, Stanford University. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Pablo Ariel Duboue is a senior PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Kathleen McKeown at the Natural Language Processing group, Columbia University in the City of New York (USA). His research interest falls in the area of Natural Language Generation, mainly on the automatic construction of content planners from aligned corpora. More information about Pablo is available at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~pablo --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you buy this book please tell the publisher or author that you saw it reviewed on the LINGUIST list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-14-499


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A Rendering of a proposed pedestrian bridge at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. Several views were created for Hardesty & Hanover, LLP and used for presentation in an interview with the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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ॐ सबदही ताला सबदही कुंची सबदही सबद भया उजियाला
कांटा सेती कांटा षुटे कुंची सेती ताला
सिद्ध मिले तो साधिक निपजे, जब घटी होय उजाला
(ॐ is a word. ॐ is a lock. ॐ is the key. This word is divine light. Like the thorn pierced in one's toe is removed using a thorn itself, or as a the lock is opened using a key, the lock of ॐ can be opened by the key of ॐ only. To know how to open such lock, the seeker has to be blessed with the realized master (Guru). Once the lock is opened, then there is no end to the divine light!)
As a researcher of Upanishads, the theory of Brahman (The Absolute) and various approaches to realize it, have always fascinated me. There is no better author philosopher than Gorakh Nath, who simplifies Upanishadic essence for commoners in 'easy to understand' language.
In the Gyan Chalisa of Gorakh Nath, the very first verse delves with the word form of ॐ and beyond as the representation of The Absolute.
ॐ, the Pranav Mantra, is everything. It is the ultimate being which is expressed through the word. 'Pranav' in Sanskrit means to express that loudly which is already there. Amplify something which already exists in the seed form.
In one's spiritual journey, the goal is to reach and experience the ultimate Truth, The Absolute. The goal is to reach the Supreme Being, experience the union with the Supreme Being by shading away the duality. This ultimate being which is the eternal sound of ॐ, for easier understanding is expressed with the word 'AUM'. Hence this ॐ is everything!
Gorakh Nath says, this word itself is the lock and it the key too. When the word is not interpreted well, or the meaning behind it not understood and experienced fully, then it is a mere 'set of letters'. This 'ignorance' to treat ॐ as a set of letters and not understanding it as the representation of the eternal sound 'locks' the treasure of knowledge. So the ignorance about ॐ is like lock.
When the seeker understands the meaning of ॐ, through sadhana, then 'the whole new world' of realization opens for him / her. Practicing of Pranav Mantra during various sadhana options like Japa, Pranayam, Dhyan, etc takes the sadhak on the path of realization. Such persistent, focused sadhana ultimately opens the lock of ignorance and the seeker experiences the Ultimate Truth!
This is the moment of experiencing divine light. In such state, there is no illusion, no misconceptions, no attachments, no suffering, no pain. All that one experiences after such stage of realization is the ultimate brightness of the truth.
Gorakh Nath uses the symbolism of thorn and lock &key. Like thorn is used to remove thorn, or key is used to open the lock, the knowledge of ॐ opens the lock of ignorance and takes one to the truth.
So ॐ, which is ever existing naad, is simply loudly expressed with the sound that unifies with the cosmic sound, the eternal sound. Aum is the reflection of absolute reality. Upanishads say Ometi Brahman! Which means Aum itself is the Brahman, The Supreme Being!
The syllable ॐ is mentioned in all the Upanishads, set forth as the object of profound meditation, the highest spiritual efficacy being attributed not only to the whole word but also to the three sounds a (a-kāra), u (u-kāra), m (ma-kāra), of which it consists. A-kara means form or shape like earth, trees, or any other object. U-kāra means formless or shapeless like water, air or fire. Ma-kāra means neither shape nor shapeless (but still exists) like the dark energy content of the Universe. When we combine all three syllables we get AUM which is a combination of A-kāra, U-kāra, and Ma-kāra.
Gorakh Nath says, to open such lock of ॐ, the sadhak has to be blessed with the right Guru, who really is the Siddha - the realized master. Such master, then, instead of involving the sadhak in the meaningless rituals, opens the treasure of knowledge by appropriately and honestly guiding at various stages of sadhana. The ultimate result of such realized Guru's blessings is the experience of bright light of Truth! ॐ
Shubham Bhavatu!
Yogi Arwind
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At some point during last year, I really started to get into bookstagram. In that course of time I've come to refine my process, and I'm actually starting to be really proud of the photos I take.
As the bookstagram community grows, I know a lot of people are starting to wonder HOW you bookstagram. Like blogging, there is no one correct way, but here's my bookstagram process.
Step 1: Come up with the general idea
This is one of the hardest parts for me! I'm not super creative so finding unique ideas is a struggle sometimes. Thankfully I can use blog post and book tags as inspiration! I keep track of all these things, and the books I plan to feature for the associated photos, in an excel spreadsheet (inspired by Comms and Ampersands)
Step 2: Find the props
When I first started bookstagram I didn't use props. But as time goes on, the more I've come to love them! They add depth and texture to the photo and it's amazing how adding or taking a way a few props can really change the outcome. (All the props I use are stolen from my sister's room).
Step 3: Gather the books and arrange the photo
I wing this step a lot. I put things down, move them a bit. Try a few different arrangements and mostly just hope it turns out well.
Step 4: Take the photo
I'm currently using my iPhone 6s to take book photos. I was using a digital camera, but it turns out my phone actually takes the better looking photos, plus it compensates for my super shaky hands. I normally take at least 3 versions of every angle/ photo
Step 5: Repeat this process until you have a collection of about 4-10 photos
Because of uni, I'm really only free to take photos on Sundays. To get a uniform appearance on my feed, I like to try and take photos in the same place with the same props, which are only available at home. I'm also limited to natural lighting. All these reasons mean I always try to take enough photos so I'll have at least a week's worth of posts.
Step 6: Go through and delete the dodgy ones
For every one good photo I take, there are at least two 'meh' ones. I delete the blurry ones, the ones where I cut off an important part, ones where my fingers snuck in, or the ones that didn't turn out how I wanted them.
Step 7: Edit and crop the hell out of them
This is where my photos go from average to actually kind of pretty! All my editing is done in an app called Snapseed (available on iTunes and Google Play). It's free and a bit simpler to use than other apps, but also more customisable than others.
My snapseed process:
- Increase the sharpening
- Add the filter (I use the same filter for all my photos to get them all looking similar overall)
- Tune the individual image until I think it looks the best. Usually I only change the contrast, saturation, shadows, and ambiance
- Depending on the photo, I slightly increase the saturation of the book cover
- Crop the photo so it looks more professional (this step sometimes occurs earlier)
- Save the photo!
I'm not kidding when I say editing is 99% of the reason my photos look decent.
Step 8: Stare at the pretties in your camera roll
Once they're saved I do spend a lot of time looking at them. They look so beautiful next to each other, waiting to be posted.
Step 9: Share the pretty with the world!
Post the beautiful photos on instagram! It is time for everyone to admire them! Don't forget to add ALL THE TAGS AND CAPTION THINGS!! I've recently started writing my captions on Notes on my mac, because it's easier to type and iCloud makes it so easy to share it to my phone.
Step 10: Sit back and watch the notifications roll in
Bookstagramming is complete until the next post or photo session!


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Sean Payton is on a warpath. After releasing kicker Garrett Hartley, the New Orleans Saints coach benched his starting left tackle.
Rookie Terron Armstead will get his first start against one of the best defensive fronts in the NFL on Sunday when the Saints meet the Carolina Panthers with the NFC South on the line.
Armstead will start in place of Charles Brown, who was benched last week after giving up two sacks in a 27-16 loss to the St. Louis Rams.
"I think Terron has improved during the course of the season, taking scout team reps, and it's time to see what he can do," Payton said Wednesday, per the Saints' official website. "I visited with Charles this morning and of course he is disappointed, but I'm sure he'll handle this the right way and respond."
The 6-foot-5, 304-pound Armstead was an NFL Scouting Combine wonder before being selected in the third round by the Saints.
Armstead hasn't played a snap on offense this season, but Payton said he believes the change was "necessary right now for us."
Brees: "On Monday, Payton came in and flat out said 'there are going to be some changes here and some of you aren't going to like them"â
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The Saints' offensive line played well in the Week 14 home win against the Panthers. The group gave up just two sacks, for a loss of nine yards, and allowed quarterback Drew Brees to pick apart the Panthers' secondary.
However, Brown struggled mightily last week against Defensive Player of the Year candidate Robert Quinn and has been wildly inconsistent the entire season. Payton likely didn't want to watch that rerun against the combination of Panthers rushers Greg Hardy and Charles Johnson.
Payton knows his offense can't function if Brees is under siege. The offensive guru believes the rookie blocker represents the team's best chance to win the division against a great pass-rushing team.
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The BMC Racing Team has announced its line up for the Vuelta a España that gets underway on Saturday. The team won the Tour de France this year with Cadel Evans but will have a different approach to the final Grand Tour of the year. According to Directeur Sportif John Lelangue, the team's aim will be towards stage wins and getting into breakaways.
"We don't have the same objective as we had at the Tour de France – like supporting one leader," Lelangue said. "This race is wide open for all the guys."
Greg Van Avermaet will be riding his third Vuelta and is a former stage and points classification winner in the race. He's been on good form of late winning stage six in the Tour of Austria before going on to win a stage and the general classification in the Tour de Wallonie.
"We know he's pretty good on the tough finishes and getting in breakaways," said Lelangue, thus making it clear that he will be one of the riders the team looks to for results.
Making his debut will be the much-talked about neo pro Taylor Phinney. His first year in the professional ranks didn't start as smoothly as he'd hoped when knee injuries and an accident in training hampered his racing schedule. The under 23 time trial champion has however looked a different rider for the second half of the year, last week winning the opening prologue in the Eneco Tour.
He will be supporting Van Avermaet in the sprints and is likely to play a major role on Saturday, as the race starts with a team time trial.
"I'm looking forward to this race and I'm really excited to see what we can accomplish as a group," Phinney said. "We have the potential to have a good Vuelta and I hope to be able to contribute to that. I think this will be a good experience for me. Looking forward to the worlds, this is the best preparation that I can think of."
In recent days Phinney made it clear that he was hoping to take a medal at the Elite time trial championships there.
The experience of veteran professional and Tour de France stage winner Karsten Kroon will be counted on, while there is a chance that Mathias Frank, Ivan Santaromita and Johann Tschopp could do well in the general classification, depending on how these climbers handle the race's six mountain top finishes.
BMC Racing Team Vuelta a España Roster (Aug. 20-Sept. 11):
Mathias Frank (SUI), Martin Kohler (SUI), Karsten Kroon (NED), Taylor Phinney (USA), Manuel Quinziato (ITA), Mauro Santambrogio (ITA), Ivan Santaromita (ITA), Johann Tschopp (SUI), Greg Van Avermaet (BEL).


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We at the PF have been inspired by the network news and the recent explosion of election-themed "truth-o-meters" and "fact checks" (our favorite scale runs from "true" to "liar, liar, pants on fire" – really!). This month, we are proud to introduce a new feature: "Myth-Busting" (a little like Ghostbusters, but with no giant marshmallow man or green slime). We'll do our best to share some of the rumors we've heard on the street and rate them as "Myth," "True," or somewhere in between. We've enabled the blog feature on this post, so feel free to submit something you've heard about the major or careers that you're not quite sure about. Just keep it clean, please…
Statement: You need to take MATH 260 (Introductory Statistics) not COMM SCI 205 (Social Science Statistics) because graduate schools will only accept the math course – it is the only "real" statistics class.
Verdict: Myth!!!
Explanation: This is a triple exclamation myth that came as a particular shock to Drs. Burns and Wilson-Doenges who had believed all along that they were teaching a very real statistics class! We think some of the confusion here may come from the names of the courses (e.g., students may read in grad school materials that they need an "introductory statistics" course and then believe the math course is the only one that fits that bill). In fact, both of these courses are introductory statistics classes, and we actually recommend that students take COMM SCI 205. MATH 260 is a fine course, but COMM SCI 205 includes more social science examples that will help you in your later courses (e.g., Experimental Psychology or Foundations for Social Research). Perhaps even more important, COMM SCI 205 is the only course that involves learning SPSS, a computer statistical package that is used in Experimental Psychology and other classes. Knowing how to use SPSS is actually a marketable skill that graduate schools will likely value in applicants!
Statement: You can't get a job with a bachelor's degree in Human Development or Psychology.
Verdict: Myth!!! (We're tempted to pull out the "liar, liar, pants on fire" here)
Explanation: Both Human Development and Psychology are great liberal arts majors that can help students pursue careers in a variety of different fields. Although it's true you need a graduate degree to become a psychologist or to practice formal counseling, students with bachelor's degrees in HUD and PSYCH get jobs in paraprofessional helping fields (e.g., crisis centers, group homes), business (e.g., insurance, customer service, sales), daycares and preschools, and much more. Each year, Career Services produces a list of graduates' first jobs and lists them by major on-line. Visit their website to see what some of our graduates decided to do with their bachelor's degrees! http://www.uwgb.edu/careers/Graduate_Survey_Main.htm#Results
Statement: All the HUD and PSYCH faculty get together before the beginning of the semester and plot to have their tests and paper deadlines at the same time.
Verdict: Misleading
Explanation: Really, this is a myth. We might seem more powerful and sinister (and gain a little more street cred) if we were to keep this one going, but there is no bi-annual meeting to plot to increase your pain by syncing our test and paper due dates. It is true, however, that most of us give three or four exams per semester, and if all of us are trying to divide the semester into thirds or fourths, we probably will end up with some similar exam dates. It's great preparation for the multi-tasking that awaits you in your career, though (yeah, you had to know we'd say something like that!).


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The tuberculin tine test is used to determine whether someone has been exposed to Tuberculosis.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about in vitro fertilization.
IVF is not easy. It's not fun. And oh my, the invasion of privacy! But the desire to bear a child is unbelievably powerful, as first-time author Kohl testifies in this high-pitched, very personal narrative. She and her husband, like other infertile couples, devoted vast amounts of energy to scoping out fertility clinics by gut reaction, word of mouth and advertised success rates. No regulatory agencies set rules for this process. Because of federal prohibitions against embryo research, fertility clinics in America are private enterprises whose "research" consists mostly of learning by doing. After a woman has been hormonally primed to generate multiple ova ripe for removal and fertilization by her partner's or a donor's semen, the eggs are incubated. After a few days, those that look healthiest are inserted into the woman's uterus, where it is hoped one or more will implant and develop to term. Since there is no way to predict which will implant, IVF often leads to multiple births. In Kohl's case, her first baby was a single, and she subsequently bore twin girls. All are healthy, but the author rightly notes that multiple births pose risks to both mothers and offspring. She goes on to discuss ethical and religious attitudes towards IVF, egg and sperm donors and surrogates. She also addresses the particularly thorny subject of frozen embryos, already the source of bitter courtroom battles involving knotty legal issues. Good liberal and believer in stem-cell research that she is, the author confesses she's not so sure she wants to give up her frozen spare embryos; after her experiences with IVF, she can't help but see them as all-too-real potential sibs for her girls.
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UPDATE: I don't love you any more after discovering you follow Cheryl Cole on Twitter!
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