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Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs
- 1 Research Scientist - Xerox Research Centre Europe
- 2 15 Research Positions (MT, Parsing, IR/E, Text Analytics, NLP) at CNGL at DCU
- 3 Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics in NAIST (Nara, Japan)
- 4 Researchers - AT&T Labs Research
- 5 Engineer 4, NLP Software Development - Comcast Corporation (Washington DC or Philadelphia PA)
- 6 NLP Research Scientist - Nuance Communications, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA Research Group)
- 7 Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Language Processing
- 8 Research Programmer position - speech and language processing
- 9 One Postdoctoral Position In Statistical Machine Translation - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- 10 Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
- 11 NLP Research Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- 12 Faculty Positions (open rank) in multiple areas, particularly Biomedical NLP / Text Mining, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA)
- 13 Postdoctoral Position in Natural Language Processing in Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
- 14 Two Postdoctoral Positions in Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome
- 15 Engineer with NLP / ML/ IR background - Curata (Cambridge, MA)
- 16 Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen
- 17 Executive Director at University of Maryland
Research Scientist - Xerox Research Centre Europe
- Employer: Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) http://www.xrce.xerox.com/
- Rank or Title: Research Scientist
- Specialty: Statistical Natural Language Processing
- Location: Grenoble, France
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: 14 February 2013
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Position Description
The Parsing & Semantics research area at Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) are currently looking for an experienced researcher in statistical natural language processing (NLP), with a deep understanding of machine learning and/or information extraction (e.g. event extraction). The ideal candidate would also have experience or knowledge of textual entailment, knowledge representation, and combining machine learning with expert knowledge. The applicant should have good coding skills (e.g. Java programming), with the ability to develop research prototypes and pilots.
The successful candidate will be expected to identify challenging problems, develop new solutions, and work with business and development teams to ensure that these solutions have a significant impact. We work together with top academic partners and expect our researchers to publish results in top-tier conferences and journals. We also have multiple open innovation collaborations with academic partners world-wide.
The Parsing & Semantics group concentrates on automatically making sense of electronic documents using semantic analysis. The group focuses on natural language processing methods for robust parsing, semantic analysis, and information discovery, including the role of context in determining meaning. We are particularly interested in theoretical models of communication, language, computation, learning and inference which take into account the context in which these activities occur. The Parsing & Semantics group collaborates closely with the Machine Learning for Services group and the Machine Learning for Document Access and Translation group. We are also interested in applying research results to practical applications and real-world problems. Our general application focus is on converting unstructured text into structured information. The solutions we develop are expected to play a key role in Xerox' next generation document and business process outsourcing services in domains such as customer care, healthcare, and financial services.
See also http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Career-opportunities
* PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics * NLP knowledge and experience * Knowledge or experience in machine learning or information extraction * Object oriented programming skills (e.g. java) * Strong written and oral communications skills in English
Application instructions
The application deadline is March 1, 2013, but applications will be considered beyond this date until the position is filled.
Informal inquiries can be made to firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. To submit an application, please send your CV and cover letter to both firstname.lastname@example.com and to firstname.lastname@example.com. You should also include in your CV at least three referees we can contact for letters of recommendation.
15 Research Positions (MT, Parsing, IR/E, Text Analytics, NLP) at CNGL at DCU
- Employer: CNGL, Dublin City University http://www.cngl.ie
- Rank or Title: PhD, Post-Doc and Research Programmer
- Specialty: Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Parsing, Information Retrieval/Extraction, Text Analytics
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Deadline: February 25, 2013
- Date Posted: January 30, 2013
- Start Date: March, 2013
- Duration: 3 year (PhD), up to 2.5 years (Post-Doc)
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
For More Details
Position Description
CNGL is a €50M+ Academia-Industry partnership, funded jointly by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and our industry partners, and is entering its second cycle of funding. CNGL is looking to fill multiple posts associated with its second phase which will focus on expansion of our work into the challenging areas of social text sources and multimedia content.
CNGL is an active collaboration between researchers at Dublin City University (DCU), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD), University of Limerick (UL), as well as 10 industrial partners, including SMEs, Microsoft, Symantec, Intel, DNP, and Welocalize.
CNGL comprises over 100 researchers across the various institutions developing novel technologies addressing key challenges in the global digital content and services supply chain. CNGL is involved in a large number of European FP7 projects, as well as commercial projects in the areas of language technologies, information retrieval and digital content management. CNGL provides a world class collaborative research infrastructure, including excellent computing facilities, and administrative, management and fully integrated and dedicated on-site commercialisation support.
The successful candidates will become part of the research team based at DCU, joining two leading academic MT/NLP/IR and Translation research groups (www.nclt.dcu.ie/, cttsdcu.wordpress.com/). The team's location at DCU, minutes from Dublin city centre, offers a highly conducive environment for research, collaboration and innovation with a wealth of amenities on campus.
DCU is ranked in the TOP 50 of young universities worldwide (under 50 years old) (QS Ranking) and in the TOP 100 under the Times Higher Education (under 50 years) ranking scheme.
The research is supervised by Dr. Jennifer Foster, Dr. Sharon O'Brien, Dr. Gareth Jones, Prof. Qun Liu and Prof. Josef van Genabith.
PhD Studentships
- Parsing, Analytics and Information Extraction:
- Tuning Text Analytics to User-Generated Content: Parse quality estimation and targeted self-training.
- Extracting Events and Opinions from User-Generated Content: Deep parsing-based methods.
- Information Retrieval:
- Self-Managing Information Retrieval Technologies: Query, search technique and parameter selection in information retrieval applications
- Indexing and Search for Multimodal (Spoken/Visual) Content: Locating relevant content in multimodal sources
- Application of Text Analytics in Information Retrieval: Enhancing information retrieval using features from text analysis
- Investigating Human-Computer Interaction Issues for Search and Discovery with Multimodal (spoken/Visual) Content
- Machine Translation:
- Syntax- and Semantics-Enhanced Machine Learning Based MT
- Domain Adaptation Based on Multi-Dimensional Quality Estimation, Similarity Metrics, Clustering and Search
- Human interaction with MT output: Usability, Acceptability, Post-editing Research
- MT and Multimodal Interaction
- MT for Multimodal Cross Language Information Retrieval
Post-Doctoral Positions
- Parsing, Analytics and Information Extraction:
- Extracting Events and Opinions from User-Generated Content: Parsing-based deep methods (up to 2 year contract)
- Extracting Events and Opinions from UGC: Shallow methods, including unsupervised methods (up to 2.5 year contract)
- Machine Translation:
- User/Human Centric MT (up to 2.5 year contract)
Post-Doctoral Positions
- Research Programmer (up to 2.5 year contract)
For more information please see: http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html
Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics in NAIST (Nara, Japan)
- Employer: Nara Insititute of Science and Technology
- Rank or Title: Assistant Professor
- Specialty: Foundation and/or Application areas of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Web Mining and Grammatical Error Correction/Detection
- Location: Nara, Japan
- Deadline: February 28, 2013
- Date Posted: January 30, 2013
- Start Date: after April, 2013
- Duration: 5 years (reappointment is possible)
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
For Detailed Description
Researchers - AT&T Labs Research
- Employer: AT&T Labs - Research
- Rank or Title: Researchers and Research Software Engineers
- Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning
- Location: NJ
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: 8 January 2013
- Contact email: email@example.com
Position Description
AT&T Research, one of the premier industrial research laboratories in the world, is looking for talented individuals to make a difference in the world of communications. Our researchers and research software engineers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying innovative services. We also explore fundamental research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in research, a collaborative spirit and strong communication and software skills.
Areas of particular interest are
* Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition * Acoustic and language modeling * Robust speech recognition * Signal processing * Text-to-speech synthesis * Natural language understanding and dialog * Machine translation (speech and text) * Speaker biometrics * Voice and multimodal search * Software engineering for speech and language processing
Speech and language positions are based in Bedminster, NJ; New York, NY and Middletown, NJ (note: we are moving from our Florham Park office).
Outstanding PhD-level candidates at all levels of experience and experienced M.S. candidates are encouraged to apply. Interviews will be conducted in early 2013. For more information, visit http://www.research.att.com/ and click on "Working with us", or access the page directly:
Candidates must demonstrate a proven research track record and the ability to identify technical problems and research opportunities. Candidates with strong analytical and programming skills (Python, C, C++) are desired. Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external collaborators across departments, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs - Research is an exciting place to work.
AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications will continue to be considered until positions are filled.
Engineer 4, NLP Software Development - Comcast Corporation (Washington DC or Philadelphia PA)
- Employer: Comcast
- Rank or Title: Engineer 4
- Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Machine Learning
- Location: Washington DC or Philadelphia
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: 6 December 2012
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Position Description
Comcast is the largest cable TV company in the world. We are looking for talented engineers to help us shape the future of content discovery for television.
To help get us there, we are hiring an experienced software engineer to develop new technology and adapt/apply existing technologies to NLP problems for the Comcast Voice Control platform. This position is part of a small team that uses Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding/Processing, Machine Learning along with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene, tf/idf and relevance ranking, to extract contextually correct entity and verb semantics from speech and apply them to real world solutions across millions of connected homes.
About you
- Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
- Field of Study: Computer Science, Engineering
- Extensive experience using Java technologies including J2SE, XML/XSLT, Apache Jakarta components and other open source software.
- Experience with statistical/modeling techniques such as CRF, HMM, SVM, KNN.
- Experience with Topic Classification, Parsing, Narrative Thread analysis, parts of speech tagging, Sphinx, metadata extraction.
- Experience with machine learning and/or algorithms.
- Experience with Hibernate, MySQL and/or NoSQL, preferably Hadoop/HBase.
- Experience with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene and/or recommender systems.
- Experience with and understanding of Unix systems (RHEL) desirable.
- Experience in Agile development methodologies.
- Strong problem solving ability with excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.
If you are interested in this position and you think you might have what it takes, send your resume to email@example.com.
NLP Research Scientist - Nuance Communications, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA Research Group)
- Employer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Rank or Title: NLP Research Scientist
- Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialog Systems
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: November 20th, 2012
- Contact email: email@example.com
General Description
Nuance is the world-wide leader in voice technologies. We are now making substantial research and development investments to add natural language processing capabilities to our speech infrastructure. We are expanding our new Silicon Valley Natural Language Research laboratory. The goal of this group is to develop the next generation of intelligent, conversational agents. We seek research scientists with the following backgrounds:
- Dialog processing
- Discourse and anaphora resolution
- Multimodal generation
- Parsing
- Entity recognition
- Morphology
- Multilingual NLP
- Semantic interpretation
- Ownership of a major component of the conversational system.
- Conduct research on the dialog, generation, or reasoning components, and incorporate the latest advances from major conferences in the field.
- Adapt existing components within Nuance and from previous research in the field to a new problem space and domain.
- Understand the trade-offs between multiple competing approaches, and choose the ones that are likely to have future impact on the company's products.
- Design components in a way that will generalize across domains. Minimize the code change and human effort needed for the system to work in a new domain.
- Collaborate with other scientists and engineers inside and outside of the team.
- Patent or publish experimental results or designs when appropriate.
- Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or another technical field with a focus on natural language processing.
- Solid track record in both projects and publications for natural language processing.
- Solid implementation skills in C++, Java, scripting languages.
- Knowledge of both statistical and rule-based methods for natural language processing.
Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Garvale at email@example.com. For additional information about the technical aspects of the position, feel free to contact Joel Tetreault at email@example.com.
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Language Processing
- Employer: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Rank or Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural Language Processing
- Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
- Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: November 9th, 2012
- Contact email email@example.com
Position and Requirements Are you a recent PhD graduate or getting ready to graduate with a degree in computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence or closely related field? Do you want to apply your computational skills, machine learning and NLP experience to solve real world challenges to help patients by automating the clinical decision making? Do you have excellent command of both written and oral English, and first author peer reviewed journal publications?
If the answers are yes and you would like to join our team of seven dedicated researchers, programmers and annotators then please, send your most recent CV, a brief research statement and three publications in PDF file format to: email@example.com (include "Postdoctoral Fellow - ACL Wiki" in the subject line).
We provide competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We will sponsor H1B visas for qualified candidates as necessary.
About the Institution Cincinnati Children's has over one million physician-patient encounters a year and is the second largest recipient of NIH funding among children hospitals. The hospital has over 12,000 employees. The Division of Biomedical Informatics manages a state-of-the-art 500+ CPU computing cluster. The research of the Solti Lab is funded from institutional and external (NIH) grants.
Research Programmer position - speech and language processing
- Employer: University of Minnesota
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Deadline: open until filled
- Date posted: November 7, 2012
- Duration: Minimum 2 years committment
- Informal inquiries can be sent to Serguei Pakhomov at firstname.lastname@example.com
General Description The College of Pharamcy at the University of Minnesota is seeking a talented, pro-active and innovative individual for a Research Programmer position to work on several projects in Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology (C3N). C3N is engaged in conducting interdisciplinary research focused on cognitive effects of medications and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Computerized assessment is used to measure these cognitive effects. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for a variety of computer-related tasks including creating and maintaining innovative computer-based neuropsychological testing applications that involve spontaneous speech and language collection and analysis. The successful candidate will also be expected to interact with graduate and undergraduate students on specific programming and research projects to meet the needs of the Center.
Skills and characteristics
- Education: Master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Required Skills: Excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Deep understanding and experience with audio and speech processing. Strong application programming skills in C/C++, Java, Python and/or Perl programming languages. Familiarity with speech recognition toolkits and APIs (e.g., HTK, Sphinx, KALDI, SRILM), acoustic analysis tools (e.g., Praat) and good understanding or experience with speech recognition and analysis technology.
- Preferred skills and characteristics: Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and toolkits (e.g., NLTK). Experience with programming applications for mobile devices. Familiarity with computerized or paper-and-pencil neuropsychological testing.
- Other: The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and proactive individual, a good communicator interested in working in an academic environment. Participating in research and experimentation leading to scientific publication are not required but would be highly encouraged and supported.
If you are someone who has the necessary skills and thrives on working in an exciting and dynamic research environment, please send us a letter stating your interest and qualifications, and a resume. Please use this website to apply: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=576008.
One Postdoctoral Position In Statistical Machine Translation - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
- Location: Rome, Italy
- Deadline: 18th October 2012
- Date Posted: 01st October 2012
- Starting date: 1st December 2012
- Duration: 1+1 years
- Salary: 35000-50000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month)..
- Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (firstname.lastname@example.com).
One position of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing is open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, with a specific focus on statistical machine translation for Asian languages. The position is part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant on multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidate will participate in a frontier research project and will work in the stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team comprising 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
- Strong publication record in Statistical Machine Translation. Publication record in lexical semantics is a plus.
- Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
- Fluent English. Proficiency in at least two major Asian languages. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
- Solid programming skills.
Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (email@example.com). Please include the job reference (LCL3-2012) in the subject line.
The Sapienza University of Rome is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at the Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.
The Department of Computer Science is a modern, well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated just beside the main Sapienza University campus and is in easy walking distance of San Lorenzo, a nice lively area with lots of bookshop-cafes, bars and restaurants. Prospective candidates should not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.
Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
- Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
- Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
- Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, in particular dialogue processing
- Location: Ocala, FL
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: September 26th, 2012
- Contact email email@example.com
About Us IHMC (www.ihmc.us) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities. Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them. Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas. IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.
The candidate will be appointed on a new project on dialogue processing, due to start in the coming months and run for one year initially, with extensions expected. The aim of the project is to produce a prototype conversational Companion-in-an-iPad for a brain-damaged patient in a domestic setting. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida's major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.
▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: dialogue applications experience (in NLP not ASR),
▪ Substantial skills in processing corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.
▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics or some equivalent in terms of experience in natural language processing or related areas.
Skills and Experience:
▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, RDF-style data, speech-language interfaces, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.
▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, GATE, Nuance ASR, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.
▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.
Apply to Yorick Wilks at: firstname.lastname@example.com
NLP Research Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
NLP Research Scientist wanted for work impacting National Security Company: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Job ID: 301731 http://www.jobs.pnnl.gov/ Location: PNNL - Richland, WA Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
This position requires significant contributions to the development and evolvement of natural language processing research at PNNL. The incumbent will possess skills in both natural language processing and software design and development. Expertise in natural language processing should include one or more applications including, but not limited to, information extraction, knowledge base population, machine reading, sentiment analysis and social media analytics. Software development skills should include, but are not limited to, object oriented programming and development, data modeling, building demonstrable and functional prototypes, and contributing to deployment-ready software.
In carrying out these duties, the incumbent will be responsible for maintaining strategic alliances with specified clients, managing individual or small team assignments for multiple projects, performing assignments with minimal oversight, working effectively within interdisciplinary development teams, and contributing to proposals, publications and presentations.
Specific responsibilities include: - apply computational linguistics approaches and algorithms - contribute to the translation of client requests and needs into a set of project requirements and tasks - contribute to software design - construct functional applications and prototypes using PHP, Perl, Python and Java - perform algorithmic development and implementation, especially as they pertain to NLP - evaluate natural language processing methods and results - develop client server and database aware applications - design and implement graphical user interfaces - develop on Linux and Windows environments - effectively manage individual tasks, schedule, workload, budget, and deadlines - contribute to technical presentations and demonstrations of designs, prototypes and operational software to existing and potential clients; group, division, and sector managers - contribute to or lead efforts in publishing research - help grow the natural language processing business portfolio through proposal writing and client engagement
Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
This position reports to the Technical Group manager for Knowledge Discovery and Informatics within PNNL's National Security Directorate, and is responsible for work activity as assigned by PNNL project managers for both internal and external clients. The incumbent is expected to develop knowledge of the goals of any projects to which they are assigned and the clients they support. The incumbent is expected to maintain a customer-service focus commensurate with this position.
The incumbent normally receives task instructions from their project managers, which are performed with minimal oversight. The incumbent will work both as task lead, and as a staff member under the direction of project managers and senior software scientists. The incumbent will be expected to attend regular project meetings and KDI group meetings. The incumbent may also be expected to attend offsite team meetings with other team members, clients, and users.
A level II scientist contributes to the completion of project milestones by leading specific tasks of the project to meet scope, schedule and budget. Level II scientists are contributing professionals who are building a professional reputation for their technical expertise in NLP. They are expected to continue to develop their technical expertise and knowledge, and develop new skills. In addition, strong contributions to the technical content of proposals will be made.
A level III scientist will lead small to moderate research projects, contribute to the completion of programs and projects, and mentor other staff members. Level III scientists will be skilled professionals able to apply existing NLP methods to new work and will maintain skills consistent with the state of the art in NLP. Level III scientists will generate ideas for new proposals and lead the development of technical content for small to medium proposals, and will contribute to scoping, scheduling and budgeting for projects. .
Minimum Requirements Level II:
A Bachelor's degree with 2-3 years experience or a Master's degree with 0-2 years experience or a Ph.D. is required. Expected to contribute professionally, building a professional reputation for technical expertise. Fully applying and interpreting standard theories, principles, methods, tools and technologies. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Level III: A Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years experience or a Master's degree with 3 years experience or a Ph.D. with 1-2 years experience is required. Must be a skilled professional who applies a broad basis of existing theories, principles, and concepts to a specialty field. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Qualifications Professional Expertise: Expertise in NLP algorithm development and strong software design and development skills.
Work-related Experience: - Demonstrated ability and willingness to perform as a team member on multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment with high expectations for quality. - Experience leading project teams in research, design and development a plus.
Breadth of Relevant Specialized Knowledge and Skills: - Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including ability to convey complex technical information accurately. - Above-average client interaction skills including the ability to quickly understand a client's business needs and communicate at the proper level of detail - Proficient in the use of Windows, Macintosh, and Linux environments
Preferred Education/Credential A PhD in computational linguistics is preferred.
Level II: PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and 1+ years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years
Level III PREFERRED: PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field and 1-2 years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and + years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years
Equal Employment Opportunity Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States. Other Information This position requires the ability to obtain a federal security clearance in a timely manner. Which requires:
- US Citizenship
- Background Investigation: Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter in accordance 10 CFR 710, Appendix B.
- Drug Testing: All Security Clearance (L or Q) positions will be considered by the Department of Energy to be Testing Designated Positions which means that they are subject to applicant, random, and for cause drug testing. In addition, applicants must be able to demonstrate non-use of illegal drugs for the 12 consecutive months preceding completion of the requisite Questionnaire for National Security Positions (QNSP).
Note: Applicants will be considered ineligible for security clearance processing by the U.S. Department of Energy until non-use of illegal drugs for 12 consecutive months can be demonstrated.
Faculty Positions (open rank) in multiple areas, particularly Biomedical NLP / Text Mining, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA)
- Employer: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
- Rank or Title: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
- Specialty: Multiple openings, including targeted hire in Biomedical Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
- Location: Columbus, OH USA
- Deadline: Review of applications will begin in November and continue until the positions are filled
- Date Posted: August 30, 2012
- Contact email or link to website: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/department/positions.shtml
The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University seeks faculty candidates for multiple tenured or tenure-track appointments at the assistant, associate or full professor level. The department is slated for significant growth as part of a multi-year expansion in size and scope, including targeted faculty hires in core areas as well as in areas that bridge CS with other disciplines. The specific searches being conducted this year include:
- One targeted position, open rank, in the area of big data, broadly defined. These include, but are not limited to, applicants that have core training in databases, systems, data analytics, or cloud computing, with experience in managing and analyzing big data stores.
- One targeted position, open rank, in the area of cybersecurity, broadly defined. We are specifically interested in applicants with research interests in network security, physical layer/information theoretic security, cyberphysical systems, data privacy, cryptography, or programming language security.
- One targeted position, open rank, at the interface of computer science and mathematics broadly defined. We are specifically interested in researchers working in theoretical computer science, scientific computing, or complex systems.
- Multiple targeted positions, open rank, jointly searched with the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Priority consideration will be given to applicants whose research interests lie in the processing of biomedical text (e.g. NLP or text mining) as well as those interested in the multi-scale modeling and visualization of high-throughput and/or high-content molecular or image data. Outstanding applicants in other areas at the intersection of biology, clinical science, informatics, and computer science will also be considered.
- In addition to the above targeted searches the department is conducting a search for an additional position (open rank) that is open to all areas of computer science and engineering.
The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.
To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.
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Gardening With Laurie: Invasion of pesky little bugs
March 17, 2011 at midnight
Updated March 16, 2011 at 10:17 p.m.
By Laurie Garretson
Right now many gardeners are getting bugged, really bugged.
It doesn't take long after our winters for pesky little bugs to find our gardens.
Man thought that most of the bugs would be killed off by the cold temperatures. Unfortunately, our winters just don't have that much impact on the pest population.
It seems that the biggest impact made to the insect world, in regard to our weather, has been the recent warm temperatures. All it takes is a week or two of spring-like days to wake up all the little bad guys. And when they wake up they're real hungry.
If you have planted a vegetable garden, don't put off protecting your veggies from unwanted pests. Being proactive with your pest repellents will really help.
There are safe and natural ways to eradicate, or lessen the populations, of all bad insects.
This season's snail population wasted no time in becoming active. These little guys can be very destructive.
A snail bait is available that is safe to use in your vegetable garden and anywhere else. Chemical snail baits can be very dangerous to use around domestic animals. Be sure you know what type you are getting when you shop.
Most everyone knows what lady bugs are. True lady bugs are very beneficial insects to have in the landscape. But, don't be confused by an imposter.
There are many different types of beetles, and many of these types you don't want to invite into your garden.
Another pest that easily upsets many gardeners is the squash vine borer. The adult squash borer is a really pretty little wasp-like insect that is black and red in color. Mamma squash borer lays brown, flat, oval eggs on the lower stems of squash plants. When the larvae hatch from the eggs they burrow into the stems of the plants and feed on the stems inside tissue for several weeks until the plant wilts and dies.
Putting out beneficial nematodes through out the landscape will help with many pests. Having them in the vegetable garden can also help with squash borers. Another tip to combat squash borers is to grow your squash vertically instead of letting the plants sprawl on the ground. Frequently check the lower stems for eggs or signs of the borer to help head off serious problems.
Growing tomatoes can be a challenge to keep your plants free from pests and diseases. One of those pests can be one of the many types of stink bugs or leaf footed bugs. You'll know you have a problem from these pests when you first notice a tomato that has a callused area on its' skin. When the tomato is cut open you will notice that the callused area is not just superficial.
Young leaf footed bugs are usually first noticed in clusters of small orange and black long legged insects on plants. It doesn't take long for these youngsters to become very destructive adults.
Early aggressive methods to eliminate this pest is always best. Handheld vacuums are great for sucking up the young ones.
Older leaf footed bugs can be harder to eradicate. Keeping fruit dusted with a diatomaceous earth product like Crawling Insect Killer can help along with spraying the bugs with a seaweed, molasses and orange oil mixture. Mixture one third cup of each product in one gallon of water.
Planting marigolds, chives, onions and milkweed near your tomato plants can also be helpful.
All this said, no action in the garden is more important than your daily inspection of each and every plant. It's what a good gardener does.
Until next time lets try to garden with nature not against it and maybe all our weeds will become wildflowers.
Laurie Garretson is a Victoria gardener and nursery owner. Send your gardening questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or in care of the Advocate, P.O. Box 1518, Victoria, TX 77902.

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This thread is to continue the Hanson & Pfitz discussion we've had in the November and December donuts, so it does not get lost in the shuffle of new threads. Please ask your questions and put your suggestions here. I'll try to copy the previous discussions here later.
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
It's always fucking hot in Miami! (except for 3 days of the year)
I am deciding whether I am ready for Pfitz- I run about 30-40 mpw and have two marathons behind me. I don't seem to be injury prone, just accident-prone, so I'm welcoming any thoughts. My alternative would be a Higdon Intermediate plan. I did Novice 2 for Philly and ran a 3:56 . I'd like to break 3:50 by a significant margin.
13.1: 1:45 | 26.2: 3:55
The major difference between Pfitz and Higdon is all the quality in Pfitz. I think with either plan you'd break 3:50. But personally I think the Higdon plan has less a chance of overtraining you, so I'd lean toward it.
PRs: 21:35 (5K); 1:46:46 (HM); 4:30:46 (FM)
I did Pfitz 18/70 in 2011 and I loved it. I think your base being at 30-40mpw is good for Pfitz 18/55. I have not done Hanson so I have no recommendations on that but my experience with Pfitz has been good. Higdon is too low mileage and if you have not had any injuries in 2012 I would do Pfitz.
I did Pfitz 18/70 in 2011 and I loved it. I think your base being at 30-40mpw is good for Pfitz 18/55. I have not done Hanson so I have no recommendations on that but my experience with Pfitz has been good. Higdon is too low mileage and if you have not had any injuries in 2012 I would do Pfitz.
Anecdotally, I'd second that. I just did Hal Higdon Int II for my second marathon, with a couple of extra miles added here and there (2-4 per week) and felt underprepared for my second marathon. It's easier and less to think about during the training, but I just did my first 20 miler with Pfitz's mult marathon 12 week schedule and felt a LOT stronger than on any of the long runs with Higdon's schedule. I'll let you know how it really goes in 4.5 weeks though.
Three Martini Lunch
Sprinkles, I used a modified HH Int 2 last summer. I added miles to the LR and the easy days to make the base-building weeks around 35-40, and the peak weeks about 55-60. Simple route is the Tuesday and Thursday easy runs, where the plan has 3, 4, and 5 miles, make those 5, 6, and 7. Another option if you want to do a bit of quality and not worry about hitting a particular workout is to use one of the lengthened easy run days and make it a fartlek, hill, or tempo depending on what you feel like. I don't have access to a track and hate treadmills, so I don't usually do intervals.
I have a 13 mile and a 16 mile route that I like a lot, so for the LRs, so my planned LR progression was 13, 13, 10, 16, 16, 13, 16, 18, HM, then followed the plan, subbing 13s for the cutback 12s.
Caveat is that I hurt myself (strained a calf) playing rec league softball, so this worked for the first half of training. I was happy to be able to run for the second half and was simply trusting the base I had built up to get me through the race.
White Lightning
Okay during my run I came up with a question about Hansons during my run this afternoon
Can you replace the speed and strength workout with a hill workout of the same intensity and just run it by HR instead of pace? Reason I ask, my paths have icy patches I really have to watch out for. Today there was a very light mist of snow on top and I had a few oh crap moments and I was just running my MP + :90. I have a couple of really long steep hills around my route, 8% grade ish. I'm not looking to replace every run but if the paths aren't right, don't want to miss the workout. Here its not as easy as just moving a run around, the ice could be on the path for two weeks sometimes
Play the Game Hard!
Thanks everyone for your advice. I liked Higdon but know I can do more. My only injury in 2012 was not really an injury- I ran in the wrong shoes and my calf was sore for months, no overuse related issues. I have also become good at knowing how to back off. I think I will end up doing Pfitz 18/55. 70 is too much for me for sure at this point.
I started Pfitz 18/55 this November with a base that I would call 30-35 mpw. I had done 30-35mpw with pretty good consistency since June and my average for the entire 2ish years I had been logging here on RA was 30mpw. The lifetime average includes a couple of higher mileage marathon/HM training cycles, as well as some really low mileage months when I had injuries.
Overall, I have been pretty durable as a runner. My past injuries have been relatively minor and nothing chronic - first was an ITBS flare up in September/October of 2011, which then caused foot tendinitis from overcompensating for the injury. With about 4 weeks of near total rest, I was back up and running pretty regularly. I have a very crooked gait so the ITBS was an overuse thing from upping the mileage for the marathon - I can keep it in check now with good stretching. I also had a minor bout with PF last January after an ill advised few miles in minimalist shoes, for which I missed a few runs and turned a few more hard runs into easy runs, but it didn't stick around for long.
My body has, thus far, held up remarkably well during the Pfitz schedule. Right before Christmas I had a stretch of three weeks that were 50-54-48 miles, and I thought I would be seriously needing the recovery week that followed, but really I was feeling pretty good at the end of that, even on the 16 mile LR with 12 at MP that was at the end of the third week (though I'm sure, with the stretch I'm about to enter, I'll be glad I had the recovery week).
The only alterations I have made to the plan are to slow down the tempo runs. A 7 mile tempo run, run at my 15k pace, would take me 57 minutes. I doubt that he intends for me to run for that long at that aggressive of a pace, nor am I capable of doing so, so I figured I needed to take one of two tacks - 1) slow down the run a la Daniels, such that I was running a pace that, for my VO2max, was appropriate for a ~1 hour tempo run or 2) run at 15k pace, but cut down the duration to be similar to what a faster runner would spend running at that effort.
I chose to slow them down - thus far, this seems to be working pretty well. My max HR is in the upper 190s (I've seen 194 on my HR monitor in the middle of a 5K) and my HR has hovered at 170-180 for the tempo runs I've been doing.
The next 5 weeks, including this one, are planned to be 55, 52, 52, 50, 52. We will see how I feel in 4 weeks
My wildly inconsistent PRs:
5k: 24:36 (10/20/12)
10k: 52:01 (4/28/12)
Marathon: 4:19:11 (10/2/2011)
Cmb- your running history sounds very similar to mine, right down to the itbs. sounds like I'm in! My base has been 30-35 since may, so I think I'm ready.
I've been reviewing Hansons vs Pfitz book. From what I can gather :
_____________________ Hansons Advanced Pfitz
I can add to the table or modify if you'd like - this is just my point of view
Talking outloud - Galloway got me to 4:18 and Pfitz last year to 4:07. What to do this year ? I dont really need to decide what plan i will officially use until April. I really want to see if any of you transitioned from Pfitz to Hansons for a spring race.
Anyway - hoping to get your feedback ! thanks !
PB's 10K 47:15 (9/13) HM 1:45 (9/13) M 3:57 (10/13)
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Can you compare the Pfitz 18/70 with Hanson? Because it is more similar in miles than the 18/55.
I'm doing a Pfitz 18/70-like program from now until June. I am doing most of the workouts during those weeks that are not marathon weeks nor recovery weeks (weeks post marathon). We'll see how that goes. I just want to keep my 50-55mpw until then.
DTF, there is a lot going on between the two programs, but I'll just throw some food for thought about two things.
1) the quality. One significant difference is the level of intensity each calls for on quality days. Not just VO2 max stuff, but also tempos and mp and LR days. If you look down the paces the Hansons prescribe for, say, 4:00 marathon, you'll feel the paces are very reasonable, even the Speed days. You might even be tempted to run them harder. But you shouldn't. What you got to remember about the Hansons program is that it is meant to keep you running 6 days a week, and fatigue you over time. So those paces are chosen for to achieve those purposes. In Pfitz, a quality day can be intense. So intense it may be necessary to take a rest day following it. Hansons have you running more days, but t hey have you running quality days at lower intensities to allow you to do that.
2) the long run. First you gotta evaluate what the purpose of the long run. In my view, it is to build as much endurance as you can while avoiding injury. What do we know about both? Well, why do we run 20 milers? Because its a round number. In many metric countries, people train around a 20K, which is like 18 miles, but they don't underperform their American counterparts. That's because the 20 miler doesn't do anything special in and of itself. We do know that you deplete your glycogen stores after like 90 minutes of aerobic activity. What do we know about injury? Well, most physiologists say that after 3:00 of continuous exercise the risk of injury spikes. So you want your LR to go beyond 90 minutes but not beyond 3 hours. For many of us, runs of 2:30-3:00 will fall around 16 miles. That number is chosen to maximize endurance-building while minimize injury risk. But just as there is nothing magical about 20 miles, there's nothing magical about 16 either. It just happens to be the number that minimizes injury. Theres also nothing magical about the LR itself. Marathon training is about the total program,about what you do around the LR. So that 16 miler fits into a broader program, and it is the broader program that is getting you ready for the marathon.
Re: mental confidence gained from a 20 miler. If that is essential to someone, if they need to run a 20 miler to feel ready for the real deal, then the choice is made at the outset: go with Pfitz. But there's more to confidence than the feeling of completing 26.2. For example injury. When I'm injured, I don't feel confident. So part of my decision to not run 20 milers is to help boost my confidence. Also. I feel confident about the marathon because I've run one before, and also I've committed to training. If despite all that, a runner NEEDS to run a 20 miler to feel prepared, then its not really a debate--they gotta go with Pfitz.
One more point to add is that the long runs in Hansons are to be done at a moderate pace. It looks like it is around 30 seconds slower than GMP/mile. Which is faster than I would run them otherwise. The easy runs during the week (and every other weekend), are done at 1-2 minutes per mile slower than GMP which is supposed to provide you with enough recovery to hit the paces the rest of the week. Provided I can get through the program - I think all these faster paced miles will definitely benefit me.
I also like that Hansons puts the 5k based speedwork at the beginning of the cycle and then adds strength later, which Pfitz does in reverse. To me it makes more sense to work on your speed, then work on holding that speed.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Tempo" paces. If you are referring to Daniel's tempo pace as a pace you can sustain in a race for one hour, then no, the Hansons tempo workout is not at tempo pace. It is at GMP. That should not be hard to do mid-week. If it is hard, then you have not chosen the proper GMP. The Strength workout is only :10 faster than GMP, so that is also not at "tempo pace." Pfitz however does have "true" tempo runs in his plans. The slower paces of the Hansons' tempo and strength workouts are designed to keep you running 6 days a week.
The time commitment to me is a wash. Yes, you are running 6 days a week. But most of the runs are under 2 hours. In the Pfitz plan, you get that extra day off, but that MLR is very time consuming. Personally, I am able to get out the door for more runs that are shorter. I will also add that running 6 days a week builds endurance in and of itself. It strengthens the legs and builds endurance in a way that is different than spending a lot of time on your feet in a single run.


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>General Running>"Recovery" runs?
Runners run.
Even when I ran for the Marine distance team, we never went over 3 hours...
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Gotta Flee Em All
a section of the Cape Cod rail trail
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Hey, where? I just ran the Woods Hole to Falmouth trail, 4 miles (each way). What a beautiful run!!


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A number of biotech companies are looking to supplement plant-derived fragrances by engineering bacteria and yeast to produce commercial scents, potentially changing how the industry sources its products.
Plant sources can be unreliable: they are often susceptible to the whims of corrupt governments that can make it difficult to acquire the plants or to natural disasters that lead to supply shortages. Although the ability to produce scents in large quantities is still in development, a number of biotech companies including Allylix, Isobionics, and Evolva, are hoping to create plant-derived scents using engineered microbes.
So far, the only microbe-made fragrances available are the citrus molecules that smell like Valencia oranges and grapefruit peel, as well as vanilla. But companies plan to focus on more rare and difficult-to-acquire smells next. "If you have a rare compound that you can only isolate from a particular orchid that grows in the swamps of Florida, then only a handful of people in the world can have access to that," Kalib Kersh, an analyst at consulting firm Lux Research, told Chemical & Engineering News. If such a fragrance could be engineered in the lab, it could be produced at much larger quantities without harvesting the rare plant. (Hat tip to Wired Science.)


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Alumni Recognize Director of Alumni Relations with Award
November 9, 2012
On Saturday, October 20, the National Alumni Association held it's annual meeting prior to the homecoming activities. CUNAA President, Junious Stanton presided over the crowd in the Marcus Foster Student Union and Alumni Center's auditorium. Representatives from the many alumni chapters who were in attendance gave reports that included updates on Chapter members, fundraisers and activities.
The Class of 1955 had a special report to make when CUNAA Board Member Dr. Oscar Hankinson invited Cheyney University Director of Alumni Relations, Gregory Benjamin, '81, to the floor. Benjamin, already busy attending to the many homecoming activities, had to be called into the meeting. Upon arrival, he was surprised to be recognized by the Class of 1955 with a special commendation and plaque in recognition of "his never ending and unselfish efforts to promote a positive relationship with the university and the alumni".
In presenting the award, Hankinson said, "We have depended on Greg for information, guidance and support. We see him as someone with a lot of information at his fingertips and who has a feel for what Cheyney graduates were looking for. This event seemed to be the right time to recognize him for all the good work he has done on behalf of our alma mater."
Benjamin, touched by the unexpected gesture, was speechless and truly touched by the award. "This was a complete surprise for me. It is an honor to assist all the alumni and their chapters with their work. The Cheyney University administration and I are most appreciative of all they do for their alma mater."


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SPEW Love Notes
(see how well I copy/paste!)
How It Works
- All SPEWers can reply to this thread with up to six (6) prompts and pairings. The number of prompts must match the number of pairings. If you give four prompts, you must also give four pairings. Two prompts, two pairings.
- Prompts should be kept very simple. They are not personal story requests. Nothing multi-faceted or complicated. They should be limited to a quote, a phrase, a word, a circumstance, a theme, etc; (For an example of prompts, take a look at last year's list).
- Prompts do not go hand in hand with pairings. If your prompts are written they are likely to feature an entirely different pairing. Therefore, prompts should not be limited to or hint at certain pairings.
- Do not post a pairing that someone else has already posted.
- Also, all characters must be HP-Verse characters. No real people, original characters, or characters from any other fandom.
- This is a romance-themed activity. So, all stories will have some sort of romance element. While you don't need to limit your prompts to be obviously romance related, try to avoid prompts that will be overly difficult to work with.
- You do not have to write a story to post prompts.
- Once the thread is closed all the prompts and pairings, I will compile the list into one post for everyone to choose from.
- For stories, you may choose one prompt and one pairing. Each prompt and pairing will only be written once. Therefore, it's first come, first serve.
- In order to make a claim, simply PM me with your choices. I will respond giving you the go ahead, and from that point, you have one week to turn in the story. If you fail to turn in the story at that point, than the prompt and pairing will both be made available to anyone else who may have requested it after you. You will need to request it again.
- I will not accept multiple timed-out claims from the same member. If you twice fail to write a claim on time, you will not be given any more.
- Once a story is turned in, the pairing and prompt used will be marked as completed and no longer available for claim.
- Once you have completed a story, you may make another claim. The tentative limit on stories is three. That may change depending on participation. The more prompts we have and the more variety in the authors, the more stories you will be allowed claim.
Story Rules & Guidelines
- Both drabbles and one-shots are acceptable. The minimum word count is 200 words.
- Stories should be well formatted and clear of technical errors.
- Stories should be marked with all applicable warnings and given an appropriate rating. For consistency sake, please use the MNFF rating scale, and also refer to MNFF warnings.
- Subject matter should also be MNFF appropriate, meaning they should not include any content forbidden by MNFF (incest, bestiality) or exceed a Professors rating. Nothing NC-17, ie any sort of explicit violence or sexuality.
- While it is a romance theme, you can interpret that in many ways. You can write fluffy romance, or you can write heartbreak, unrequited love, loss of a loved one, etc; The only real requirement is that the pairing be at the centre of the fic and at least one of the characters should have some sort of romantic feeling for the other.
- If you wish, you may send me the completed story as soon as it is done, and send the beta'd version later. As long as I know the fic is done, I can remove it from the available list.
- Please make sure all you include HTML formatting tags.
- Please include the following header (with tags) with your story
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<b>Word Count:</b>Posting
- Posting will begin at SpewSwap on February 14th, and will be done sporadically depending on how many stories get written.
- At this point, I will accept claims up until February 7th. If I recieve a significant number of stories before that point, I will extend the deadline. I just want to make sure that we have stories in on time to begin posting.
You may begin posting prompts now. The thread will be closed on January 11th.
This thread is for prompts only. Please PM me with any other questions you have.
If you'd like to have a look at last year's stories, click here.


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Spring isn't what it used to be. Here, for example, is Robert Browning in 1841:
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven—
All's right with the world!
In the context of Pippa Passes, within which these lines appear, the conclusion ("All's right with the world!") is somewhat ironic. But later generations took Browning's poetry as a perfect expression of Victorian naïveté. The moderns inclined toward a darker view of the season:
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Today, we still seem stuck in T.S. Eliot's moral universe. This despite the fact that we are now, in 2011, further in time from "The Waste Land" (1922) than Eliot's poem was from Pippa Passes. Yet gloomy fatalism remains avant-garde even after many changings of the guard.
Maybe that's why our response to the Arab Spring has been so grudging. We recall that many springs fail to come to fruition. We've been taught that disappointment is inevitable. And so predicting failure seems more worldly, more knowing, than working for success.
Still, the Arab Spring deserves to be greeted with enthusiasm and support. It's been clear at least since September 11, 2001, that decades of "stability" in the Middle East had produced a waste land of brutal authoritarianism, Islamic extremism, and corrosive anti-Americanism. President Bush set out to change that, but it seemed for a while that the Middle East would be impervious to change. Some sophisticates rationalized that the status quo was better than any likely alternative—after all, the thinking went, at least the Arab "Winter kept us warm, covering / Earth in forgetful snow, feeding / A little life with dried tubers."
No more. The Arab winter is over. The men and women of the Greater Middle East are no longer satisfied by "a little life."
Now it's of course possible that this will turn out to be a false spring. But surely it's not beyond the capacity of the United States and its allies to help reformers in the Arab world achieve mostly successful outcomes—in Iraq, where we need to be sure that we don't fritter away the extraordinary gains that have been made in the last four years, and in Egypt and Tunisia. In Libya, halfway competent Obama administration policies should enable the Libyan people to get rid of Muammar Qaddafi. Regime change in Syria looks possible, and would surely be more likely with our aid and encouragement, and without our saying that nation's hereditary thug ruler, Bashar al-Assad, is a "reformer." And if at some point the House of Saud totters—well, goodbye to them too, and good riddance.
Here, early in the twenty-first century, the Arabs seem to be rising to the occasion. The question is, will we?
Perhaps. And perhaps especially if we recall the achievements of Winston Churchill, which suggest that fashionable fatalism is too, well, fatalistic.
Churchill wasn't a waste land type. He was in important respects a Victorian, or a neo-Victorian. On February 7, 1952, speaking to the British nation after the death of King George VI, as Queen Elizabeth II was ascending the throne, Churchill memorably closed his broadcast: "I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged, and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel a thrill in invoking, once more, the prayer and the anthem 'God Save the Queen.' "
Obviously, as Churchill knew well, the august, unchallenged, and tranquil glories of the Victorian era will not return (if they ever really existed). But is it too much to ask that we regain some of that Victorian confidence about the future? We can't make all right with the world. But we can make some things in the world a little better. It's certainly worth the effort to improve the Middle East.
And who knows? Helping the Arab Spring through to fruition might contribute to an American Spring, one of renewed pride in our country and confidence in the cause of liberty.
The Foreign Policy Initiative seeks to promote an active U.S. foreign policy committed to robust support for democratic allies, human rights, a strong American military equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century, and strengthening America's global economic competitiveness.
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esthetically pleasing manner), which is horrible.
Closer together integral signs could also be used but now we are talking
about rather more LaTeX, and things are horrible again (but invisible).
Krizalid do you know how to make a double contour integral?
This is how CaptainBlank does it,
Code:\skew{57} {\skew{15}\subset \supset} \iint \mbox{ }
The old command was either \ooint or \oiint
But they do not work now.
What command did you use to create your avatar on AoPs?


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Temafloor 400 - Solvent-free epoxy varnish
|A two-component solvent-free epoxy varnish.
|Used as a binder for Temafloor 4000 grinding screed and epoxy concrete. Used also as a topcoat on top of Temafloor coatings and screeds.
|Recommended uses
|Suitable for dust binding and priming of new and old concrete floors under Temafloor coatings. Filled with sand also suitable for patching of concrete floors.
|Fire classification according to standard EN 13501 is BFL-s1.
|Gloss groups
Coverage on concrete floors is on the average:
Primer 5 - 8 m2/l
Topcoat 6 - 10 m2/l
Practical coverage depends on the porosity and evenness of the substrate and on the application method.
|Mixing ratio
|Base 3 parts by volume 008 4403
Hardener 1 part by volume 008 4408
|Application method
|Rubber trowel and roller.
|Pot-life (+23°C)
|Approx. 30 minutes after mixing, on substrate.
|Drying time at 23°C and 50% relative air humidity
Dust dry after 6 hours
Recoatable after 16 - 24 hoursFully cured 7 days
|Solids volume
|approx. 100 volume %
|1.1 kg / litre (mixture)
|Product code
|Base paint 008 4403, hardener 008 4408.
|Application conditions
|The relative humidity of the concrete should not exceed 97%. The temperature of the ambient air, surface or coating should not fall below +15ºC during application or drying. Relative humidity of air should not exceed 80%.
Note! There is a natural tendency of epoxy coatings to chalk and discolor on exterior exposure.
|New concrete
Remove laitance by power grinding, vacuum grit blasting or hydrochloric acid etching. Choose the method best suited for the premises. After grinding remove dust carefully with a vacuum cleaner. Hydrochloric acid etching is carried out with diluted hydrochloric acid (1 part concentrated hydrochloric acid, 4 parts water). Rinse with plenty of water. Dry the floor.
Old concrete
Remove all grease, oil, chemicals and other impurities by MAALIPESU detergent. Remove old peeling paint layer by grinding or vacuum grit blasting. Choose the method best suited for the premises. Clean out pot-holes removing all loose friable material. Open cracks with e.g. an abrasive tool. Remove loose material and dust.
Cementitious levelling screed
Check compatibility with the levelling screed manufacturer.
|Prime using about 30% thinned Temafloor 400 epoxy varnish. Pour the varnish onto the floor and apply as much as is needed to impregnate the concrete surface. If necessary, repeat the priming to get a non-porous surface. Subsequent treatment can be carried out after 2 hours using "wet-on-wet" technique.
|Patch pot-holes and cracks with a mixture of unthinned Temafloor 400 epoxy varnish and dry, clean sand. Mixing ratio e.g. 1 part by volume of epoxy mixture and 1-2 parts by volume of sand of grain size 0.5-1.2 mm.
|Overcoating should be done within 16–24 hrs after priming. If the primed surface is not overcoated within 24 hrs, it should be abraded. Use 20–30% thinned Temafloor 400 varnish as a topcoat. Pour the varnish mixture onto the floor, spread with a rubber or a steel trowel and level with a roller. Suitable roller is e.g. felt or nylon roller which "distributes" the varnish well. Length of the fluff is approx. 5–14 mm.
|Mixing of components
|Mix the correct proportions of base and hardener thoroughly (approx. 2 minutes) by using a low speed hand drill with a paddle. The amount of mixture depends on the area to be coated and on the pot life of the mixture. Insufficient mixing or incorrect mixing ratio will result in uneven drying of the surface, weaken the properties of the coating and risk the success of the application.
|Cleaning of tools
|Thinner 006 1029.
|EU VOC 2004/42/EC-limit value
|VOC 2004/42/EC (cat A/j) 500 g/l (2010)
Temafloor 400: max. VOC < 500 g/l
according to Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008
|Containers are provided with safety labels, which should be observed. Further information about hazardous influences and protection are detailed in individual health and safety data sheets. A health and safety data sheet is available on request from Tikkurila Oyj.
|Safety data sheet
|Temafloor 400
|Thinner safety data sheet
|Temafloor 400
|Hardener safety data sheet
|Temafloor 400
|Declaration of Performance EN13813 Declaration of Performance EN1504-2
|The European harmonized productstandard EN 13813:2002 defines the requirements for Screed materials and floor screeds, including synthetic resin screeds.
This product is tested and CE-labelled in accordance with the tables ZA.1.5 and ZA.3.3 in the appendix ZA.3.
|The European harmonized productstandard EN 1504-2 defines the requirements for surface protection systems for concrete.
This product is tested and CE-labelled in accordance with the tables 1d, 1f and 1g in the
appendix ZA.