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Kickoff next Saturday at 11 AMAugust 26, 2011 · Athletic Communications
COACH BUSTER FAULKNER ON THE QUARTERBACKS: "We are excited to have two quality, experienced quarterbacks in our program. Logan (Kilgore) will take most of the snaps with the first team, and when Murphy is called upon, he's always ready. We are excited about both of them. It's one of the best quarterback battles I've ever been around. They've both played well.
"It's a shame that both can't play, but at the quarterback position, you can only play one. Right now, Logan is our quarterback, we are moving forward with him as our starter. We look forward to continue to get better with him."
COACH WILLIE SIMMONS ON BENNY CUNNINGHAM: "Benny Cunningham has had a phenomenal camp. He brings a workman's attitude every single day, in the meeting rooms, on the field, every day. You can't coach that. He's got something special inside of him. A lot of the guys feed off of him, and I think that is why he is probably our best team leader. He's been just what we expected. He doesn't take a day off; he doesn't take a play off, he doesn't take a rep off. His enthusiasm is contagious, and that is what he brings to the table. He has a great attitude. He enjoys playing the game of football. He actually enjoys practice, and that's pretty rare to get guys who truly enjoy practice. He's not afraid to get in guys' faces and tell them to get going. That's what makes him such a great leader."
COACH WILLIE SIMMONS ON D.D. KYLES: "Right now D.D. Kyles is injured with hamstring and ankle problems. He's a guy that, if he can get back healthy this week, get back in shape, then he could help us at Purdue. His biggest deal is consistency. He is a player who can do things with the football, it's just a matter of getting him in the right position where he can make plays and not let his lack of practice hurt us in certain situations."
COACH WILLIE SIMMONS ON WILLIAM PRATCHER: "He's had a strong camp. He's gained a lot of confidence in himself as well as within the coaching staff. If D.D. (Kyles) can't go, we have a lot of confidence in Pratcher as our Number two back. He has a great attitude and great work ethic. I think a lot of that has to do with Benny (Cunningham), and how those two guys challenge each other."
"Benny, Pratcher and Marquise Branton will all play on special teams. Coach Stockstill has always put the best athletes on special teams. They all know that they have to excel on special teams for us to win."
DT JIMMY STATEN ON ANCHORING THE DEFENSIVE LINE: "It's a lot of responsibility, but I'm ready to go. We are all depending on each other, it's not just me. Omar McLendon is going to be a real big factor on the line at one end. Kendall Dangerfield is going to do a great job this year at tackle. JiaJuan Fennell, a redshirt freshman, has been playing well and could be a starter at the other end."
"Like Minnesota last year, Purdue has a big offensive line, but I think we will be fine if we stay low and play hard. No one can take a play off."
"We can't worry about being "young" or "inexperienced". We've got players who can play. All we can do is play hard. It's time for everybody to step up."
CRAIG ALLEN ON HIS FIRST START: "Am I nervous? I've played football a long time and I'm used to it by now. I'm proud to be starting, and I have worked for this for a long time. I played some last year against Minnesota as a freshman, so it won't be a totally new experience. I'm a lot more prepared this year. I know where I'm supposed to be, whether inside or outside. And I know my teammates better. I'm also playing on all the special teams."
What is the best Halloween costume you ever wore? Dressing up as Freddy Krueger.
What is the craziest thing you did in High School? Knocking on teacher's doors and running.
What is the worst part of pre-season camp? Waiting on the first game.
What is the best part of pre-season camp? Being around my teammates
What is your dream job? Playing in the NFL
What is your hometown, and what is it famous for? Miami, Florida, and its famous for South Beach, and all the pretty people.
What is the best Halloween costume you ever wore? Last year I dressed up as my teammate, Jamar Brown. I had my big red chicken and I was ready to go.
What is the craziest thing you did in high school? It was the era of California music, and it was music that you danced in your car. I was dancing inside my car, and I fell out of my car on the road, and my car kept going. I had to get up and chase my car.
What famous person would you like to have following you on Twitter? Superman. I want him to know what I am doing so he can save me if necessary.
What is the worst part of pre-season camp? Any serious injuries that occur.
What is the best part of pre-season camp? Days like Fan Day, when we get to meet the fans, they get to see us, and we get to interact with them.
What is your dream job? I want to go to the NFL, then be a businessman, open a chain of ice cream restaurants. Everybody loves ice cream.
What is your hometown, and what is it famous for? Lake Elsinore, California. We are famous for a California League baseball team called the Storms. Manny Ramirez played there a little bit when he got in trouble with the Dodgers.
What is the best Halloween costume you ever wore? It was a pirate costume when I was 11.
What is the craziest thing you ever did in High School? I ran around the whole school with just my boxers on.
What famous person would you like to have following you on Twitter? The President of the United States.
What is the worst part of pre-season camp? Getting in the ice tub after practice is over. It is very cold, but it helps you, though.
What is the best part of pre-season camp? Bonding with your teammates, becoming a family
What is your dream job? NFL or working at the Playboy Mansion
What is your hometown, and what is it famous for? Miami, and it's known for a lot of things, beaches, pro teams, talent, the Orange Bowl, a lot of things.
What is the best Halloween costume you ever wore? My power ranger outfit when I was in the 5th grade.
What is the craziest thing you ever did in high school? Performed as the Jabbawockeez in a talent show.
What famous person would you like to have following you on Twitter? Beyonce
What is the worst part of pre-season camp? Being so tired.
What is the best part of pre-season camp? Getting ready for the season.
What is your dream job? To be an architect and design buildings and such.
What is your hometown, and what is it famous for? Chattanooga, and it's famous for the Chattanooga Choo Choo and Lookout Mountain.
FAMILY 4-PACK: When Middle Tennessee opens the 2011 home football season on September 10th against Georgia Tech, families should be well represented among the anticipated sell-out crowd with the debut of the Family-4-Pack. The "Family-4-Pack will consist of four reserved seat tickets, four hot dog vouchers, four Pepsi vouchers and four rally towels. The Family-4-Pack will sell for $100. Family-4-Packs as well as season tickets, and individual game tickets are available by calling 1-888-YES-MTSU or by going online at www.GoBlue Raiders.com/GameDay.
NEXT PRACTICE: The Blue Raiders will practice on Saturday at 11:00 AM. The practice is open to the public.
SEASON TICKETS: 1-888-YES-MTSU OR GoBlueRaiders.com.
Follow the Blue Raiders on Twitter @MTAthletics for continued updates.
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Jul 23, 2014: Blue Raiders participate in C-USA Media Day
Jul 17, 2014: Raiders to have 11 games televised in 2014
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- Mix shortening, water, vanilla, almond extract, and half of the powdered sugar with a mixer for 5-10 minutes. (it's very important to mix this long)
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This recipe had lots of *****, but the experienced cooks gave mixed reviews, so I gave it a try. Didn't change a thing. I have baked and decorated lots of cakes, and although this icing was pretty, and white/white, it was totally tasteless. I even added 2x the vanilla after making it, but it didn't help. I would probably add some butter extract next time. Also, the recipe calls for salt, but doesn't include it in the directions. Piped well. Not a bad recipe if you're looking for that grocery-store no-taste icing. Texture is there. I'll stick to buttercream. I find it is way more flavorful and if you add 3Tbls. of Karo clear syrup to a buttercream, it spreads and smoothes better than this. p.s. Don't overmix the last addition of powdered suger in this recipe or it tends to curdle the satin-smooth consistency a bit. Do just like it says, only mix til blended.
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This is the recipe I have been searching for!! Excellent! I have tried at least 20 other "white icing" recipes-and this one has the best taste, consistency, etc. If you are looking for that "bakery cake" icing for birthday cakes, middle of sandwich cookies, cupcakes, etc.--try this one! Couple of notes--Did taste a little "almondy" first time I made it, so reduced the almond to 1/8th tsp. Be SURE to beat it the first time for at least the 5 minutes--that will get rid of the "shortening" feel. It's a huge recipe-if you aren't frosting and decorating a large sheet cake-you may want to half it. Also--if you don't want it to taste like a "buttercream" icing (which I did not)--do NOT use any butter or butter flavored shortenings. Thanks SOOO much Cherie!!
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I had been looking for the perfect "wedding cake" icing, and this is it! I've made 3 practice cakes using this icing and they've gone over well! I used water from the water cooler instead of tap water, and the first mixing only took 5 minutes. The second time I made this icing, I added 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder to half the batch for a chocolate cake, and it was great. My family has requested to not have a "Bought" cake anymore! Thank YOU for this recipe!
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Air Canada Obesity Class Action Lawsuit Given Green Light By Quebec Judge
A Quebec judge has authorized a class action lawsuit against Air Canada on behalf of obese travellers who had to pay extra because of their disability during a three-year period ending in December 2008.
The Montreal law firm BGA Barristers & Solicitors LLP announced the ruling on Monday. David Bourgoin, a lawyer with the firm, said a similar suit against WestJet was thrown out because of a technicality, but the firm has about 30 days to fix the problem and continue the case against WestJet.
The case against Air Canada is aimed at reclaiming fees the airline charged obese passengers for a second seat or a seat for an attendant before a tribunal and court ruling outlawed the practice.
In January 2008, the Canadian Transportation Agency ruled that Canada's major air carriers � Air Canada and WestJet � must offer a single fare to those with disabilities, including the severely obese, who require two seats to accommodate them. The ruling also said people with disabilities did not have to pay extra for medical attendants who must be seated with them on flights.
The agency estimated the requirement would cost Air Canada about $7 million a year and WestJet about $1.5 million a year.
In November 2008, the Supreme Court rejected an application by the two airlines for permission to appeal the tribunal's ruling, which had the effect of upholding it.
Justice Catherine La Rosa of the Superior Court of Quebec gave the go-ahead to the class action on Oct. 3, BGA said in a news release.
The lawyers said the action was launched on behalf of "all persons domiciled in Canada who are disabled or recognized as having a functional disability by reason of their obesity who had to pay additional fees to Air Canada for the seat of an attendant and/or for a seat adapted to their condition on a domestic flight operated by Air Canada or by another carrier on its behalf between December 5, 2005 and December 5, 2008."
Bourgoin said the parallel case against WestJet was thrown out because the plaintiff who represented the class did not qualify as a member of the class. BGA has to find a qualified representative within about 30 days or the case will expire, he added.


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By Kim West
Vechiel Stone is a former trumpeter for the U.S. Marine Corps Band, and in his second year as band director at Tanner High School.
Gary Russell moonlights as a keyboardist and background vocalist for local band Bluewater, and is in his 15th year as the Clements High School band director.
Stone and Russell graduated from the University of North Alabama music program — a feeder for many of the area's band directors and music teachers — and they each lead top-rated band programs.
The Clements and Tanner concert bands both brought back superior performance trophies from the Music Performers Assessment, which is a statewide competition sponsored by the Alabama Bandmasters Association.
Both bands received ones, or superior ratings, by a three-judge panel during the on-stage phase of the competition. The student musicians performed three prepared pieces and were judged on tone, intonation, technique, rhythm, balance and musicianship.


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NORMAN — Fourteen years ago, May 3 began as a sunny day in Oklahoma. Most folks on the way to work that morning were unaware that Monday would go down as one of the most devastating in our state's history. The Storm Prediction Center began the morning issuing a "slight risk" warning for the southern plains, but increased the warning to "moderate" and then "high" later that day. By late afternoon, 12 supercell thunderstorms produced more than 70 tornados in the region that claimed the lives of many Oklahomans.
One supercell developing near Lawton would ultimately spawn a deadly F-5 tornado. Touching down near Chickasha, this F-5 produced over 300 mph winds as it tracked along I-44 destroying the community of Bridge Creek. Residents remember this tornado well, as it cleared a significant path through Moore crossing I-35 and eventually lifting near Midwest City. Thousands of structures were destroyed with an estimated cost of 1 to 1.5 billion. Four years later, May 8 produced a violent F3 which at one point followed an eerily similar path.
Moore, Greensburg, Tuscaloosa and other hard-hit communities offer bleak reminders of the ferocity of these severe weather events and other natural disasters. Coupled with several tornados over the years, Cleveland County also experienced another disaster last fall as a wildfire damaged thousands of acres and destroyed numerous homes. While many residents have excellent plans in place to prepare for and respond to disaster, others who do not should consider having an emergency plan in place.
While many believe they are immune to devastation with the "it won't happen to me" attitude, living in Oklahoma is certainly not the state to have that belief. Fire, ice, floods and other disasters are common in our state and obviously we are well-known for large and violent tornado outbreaks. In Oklahoma it's not a matter of if you will be affected in some way, but when. Because of this, the Cleveland County OSU Extension office will be hosting 3 meetings on how you and your family can prepare for disaster. They will take place in Classroom C located at 601 E. Robinson in Norman beginning March 19th, 2013.
Brenda Hill, Family and Consumer Science Educator will kick off the series with a presentation on how you can prepare your family for a disaster on March 19th. Part two of this series will be held March 26th. This segment will be conducted by Susan Moffat, Director and Community Development Educator and will highlight the ways you can prepare for and protect your business from disaster. I will present the third session on disaster preparedness for landowners, farmers, and ranchers April 2nd and all three seminars will begin at 6:00 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m. If you are interested in attending please RSVP to 405-321-4774.
With storm season only a few months away, now is the time to prepare for severe weather threats. Watch the news, listen to the radio, have an emergency kit and plan, and take warnings seriously. If your area is in a "high risk", talk with your family. Ask that they pay attention to alerts and maintain contact via calls or texts with friends and family. There are survivors in Bridge Creek, Joplin and many other communities who would advise you do so. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension and Oklahoma State University offer their programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, or status as a veteran and are Equal Opportunity Employers.
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The Department of Defense says a southwest Ohio soldier has died in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
The department says 37-year-old Chief Warrant Officer James E. Groves III of Kettering died Saturday in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation.
Groves was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.
An Ohio soldier killed this week in Afghanistan will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
The Department of Defense said 25-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Wesley "Wes" Williams died Monday in Kandahar of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his Army unit with an improvised explosive device.
His wife, Krista Williams, told the Dayton Daily News she was flying this week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to pick up his body, prior to his burial in the national cemetery.
Williams was a 2006 graduate of Tecumseh High School in New Carlisle, near Dayton.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Military officials say they want the remains of three Ohio soldiers killed in Afghanistan flown back into the state together from Delaware's Dover Air Force Base.
Government officials say three U.S. soldiers killed in this week in Afghanistan were from Ohio, as were several others seriously wounded in the bombing.
The Department of Defense has identified the soldiers as: 36-year-old Capt. Nicholas J. Rozanski of Dublin; 45-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey. Rieck of Columbus; and 44-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Hannon of Grove City.
Tony Shaffer's publisher was all set to release his memoir when the Department of Defense stepped in and demanded that the entire first edition be destroyed. They pulped it.
This action was most unusual in light of the fact that Shaffer, a former US intelligence agent in Afghanistan, had previously obtained all the proper clearances to publish his book. The DOD then proceeded to censor significant portions of it. The book was eventually published in a heavily redacted version. Why is the DOD so worried about what Shaffer has to say?
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WHAT: VFW Post 8867 and Local Jersey Shore Residents to host a Town Hall Meeting focused on education and insight for those looking to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Building professionals, local Leadership, and concerned residents will come together in this open forum for an educational presentation and open discussion about cost-effective solutions and defensive building practices that will enable the residents of the Jersey Shore to rebuild their homes and communities stronger than ever.
During the Town Hall meeting, there will be opportunities for attendees to speak directly to experienced Building Professionals; learn about the rebuilding process and challenges currently being faced by residents across the Tri-State area; and receive engineering and building planning insight comprised of the newest in building technology and defensive building practices.
Kicking of the Town Hall Meeting – "Rebuilding the Jersey Shore" – will be Keynote Speaker, Mr. Steve Conboy, Chief Executive Officer & President of Eco Building Products, Inc. Mr. Conboy is a Long Island (NY) native with over 35 years of experience in the construction framing and lumber industry. Skilled, knowledgeable and well-versed in all matter of things pertaining to residential building and defensive building practices, Mr. Conboy has joined forces with local residents as an ally and advocate for change during this time of uncertainty.
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
A magazine I read regularly is "The Christian Century," a bi-weekly publication that bills itself as "thinking critically, living faithfully." In the February 20th issue, the following headline jumped out at me: "Lutherans warn Vatican against luring their unhappy members."
The story begins: "Lutheran leaders have warned the Vatican that the creation of a structure to lure conservative Lutherans into the Catholic Church would harm dialogue and damage ecumenical relations."
The fact that one denomination singles out disgruntled members of another, then the offended denomination responds with a warning, is indicative of the pressure churches and denominations feel about the need for membership. Anyone deeply involved with their church can understand the pressure of enlisting new members and the sense of loss when members leave.
Alongside this is the growing concern by some denominational leaders about the trend of baptizing children at increasingly younger ages.
Are these children mature enough, or are they too young to grasp the meaning of exercising faith in God? The fear is that this trend is more about numbers than about ministry. It is one thing to grow an organization; it is another to grow a church.
The more institutionalized a church becomes, the more important its numbers become. Growing an institution involves gaining additional members. It's as simple as that.
Soon, however, as the institutional demands increase, the question becomes "How do we keep the need for members from becoming paramount?"
When membership becomes paramount in the church, bad things begin to happen. It becomes too difficult to lose members, and bad attitudes ease their way into our minds.
We unwittingly increase the pressure on prospective new members to join our church. Often, we resort to gimmicks. Ideals that are uniquely Christian become secondary to increasing the enrollment.
In short, rather than maintaining our identity as a church, we become just another institution fighting for its life, striving to grow, and scheming to compete in the marketplace for members.
The more institutionalized the church, the more important it is for the church to understand its identity, its objective and the measures by which it determines success. This is a difficult and ongoing task.
Rather than accepting the challenge of this task, we borrow from the business world and use numerical and monetary growth as our standard of success. This translates into "bigger is better," and so the bigger the enrollment Ñ plus the budget, the staff, and the building Ñ the more successful we feel.
The church is not alone in making this mistake. Educational institutions have done the same.
The truth of the matter is that neither churches nor universities are businesses.
Their objectives are totally different. There is nothing inherently wrong with starting a business, but not all institutions are businesses and, therefore, should not function like businesses.
Resisting the standard for success offered by the business model requires a determined diligence. We are reluctant to reject it because we are so accustomed to the positive feelings of self-worth it offers us.
The truth of the matter is that the moment we adopt the business model, we handicap the church. The nature of a church and its objective are not the same as that of a business.
The purpose of church is to usher the Kingdom of God into this world. If our church experiences growth while honoring that purpose, then so be it. If our church membership declines while honoring that objective, then so be it.
What should be said of a church cannot be said of business: The will to survive ensures death; the will to serve ensures life.
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I cover the business of technology.
It's now been a couple of weeks since Siri debuted as part of Apple's (AAPL) 4S. The response from most people has been very positive.
However, in my opinion, Siri is tremendously under-valued. People see it as it is today, which is already the best voice recognition application in history. But people (including high-priced sell-side Wall Street analysts) fail to see where the puck is going for Siri. Siri will be vastly more improved in as little as 2 years from now. And the boundless number of applications using Siri will explode.
In the way that the January 2007 launch of iPhone set a ripple in the ocean that would eventually overtake Research In Motion (RIMM) in an all-out tsunami, I believe Siri's launch this month spells a future crippling of Google's business (GOOG).
Here's why:
1. Siri works. Voice recognition has been the next big thing for 15 – 20 years. We still have these frustrating experiences when we call into check the balance of our bank account and have to shout in the phone 5 times in a row, because the application doesn't recognize us. Siri is the best voice rec app ever — and it's still in "beta."
2. Siri has personality. Not only does Siri accurately recognize our voices but it has a personality to boot. It's that personality which makes the app addictive because we start to feel over time that we truly have a personal assistant who is our friend.
3. Siri is hard to copy. For anyone who doesn't understand voice applications, it's easy to think that Siri will be easy to copy. It won't. There are 2 parts to making a successful voice app: the voice rec technology which has improved a lot but is basically a commodity and the app itself, which is a combination of art and artificial intelligence. It's that 2nd part that's so tough to replicate and that's why Apple bought Siri last year. It's true Google has experience in the voice rec space and doing some simple voice apps but they do not have the personality and AI of Siri and that will be very difficult to copy — especially for a company that doesn't sit at the intersection of the humanities and technology.
4. Siri helps own the customer experience for Apple. Dan Frommer and others have been talking about this for a long time. Siri is a new interface for customers wanting to get information. It used to be text-based input to their desktops. Then, it was thumbing it in to their mobile devices. Now, Apple is attempting to make it voice-based. They previously were attempting to Balkanize your data needs by training for you to do specialist searches for the information within apps on your iPhone. Now, they're training you to rely for doing any task by leaning on Siri to do it for you. At the moment, most of us still rely on Google for getting at the info we want. But Siri has a foot in the door and it's trusting that it will win your confidence over time to do basic info gathering. Siri can be potentially leveraged in other devices that Apple ships in the future like TV to become the primary way you interface with info you need.
5. Siri will vastly improve in the next 2 years based on all the data it's amassing. This game is about where the puck is going, not where it is today. Many people only look at Siri as the application as it works today. Yet, the biggest advantage over any other voice application out there today, and the apps still to be developed, is the massive data Siri is now and will continue to collect in the next 2 years. We know after the first weekend alone, there were 4 million Siri-enabled devices out there probably collecting 1 – 2 utterances a day worth of data — all being stored in Apple's massive North Carolina data center. All that data will allow Siri to get better and better. Think Siri has awesomely funny answers to your crazy questions now? Just wait two years. She'll be even more your friend then, knowing you perhaps better that you know yourself in some situations. Gary Morganthaler – who was an early investor in Nuance (NUAN) and Siri — explains this in the video below:
You missed something really important. Speech recognition is basically a commodity. Google may be ahead of Apple here. Doesn't matter.
As Morganthaler said, the hard part is what you do with the speech you recognize. The Siri technology has been worked on and carefully refined for about 15 years now, first at SRI's AI Center, then at Siri (pre-acq) and now at Apple. This functionality is devilishly hard to replicate and Apple's got most of the underlying IP safely locked up.
It is going to be the difference between a phone and an iPhone for a number of years, and all of the Androids will be "just a phone". Siri will drive customers away from other devices to Apple, just like the ipod's ease of use continues to drive customers away from other music devices.
Maybe not a killer, but definitely a crippler.
Denial, pure and simple. Wake up.
One more thing. Apple's been 'doing' voice recognition since Google was a pipe dream. Newton had flaws, but that was in 1993.
David, you fundamentally do not understand the technology behind Siri. It employs natural language speech recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) among other things. While on the surface, what Google is doing may seem similar, it is not.
I believe that Google uses a rules-based system behind its offering, which is relatively quick to deploy. But a rules-based system does not learn – it must be programmed to add new understanding and functionality.
A system based on AI, on the other hand DOES LEARN. Every query or command fed to Siri teaches, trains and tunes it. The more queries and commands fed to Siri, the more accurate it will become. A rules-based system simply cannot match that.
This is a fundamental and important difference between the two.
The reason why Rubin said what he did to diss Siri is simple: fear. I have no doubt that in Mountain View and Redmond, that teams are working feverishly to develop competing solutions. Microsoft's acquisition of TellMe Networks is an indication of their serious intent, and both Microsoft and Google have many Ph.Ds surely working on this. It's very complex.
Within two years, expect to see Siri far more advanced, and Google as well as Microsoft will likely be hot on their heels. Make no mistake: this is a fundamental shift in how people will seek answers and interact with computers, phones, TVs and other devices, all connected to vast server farms via the wireless Internet.
But please, do not make fanboy comments without first checking your facts – it makes you look, well, stupid. Sorry. But it's true.
Actually, Apple has been doing speech recognition since the early 90s. In fact, Apple has provided built-on speech recognition with its Mac computers for command and control purposes since 1993 when it introduced PlainTalk. Google is "a little" behind in that area!
Also, Android is far from outselling iOS devices. It's the other way around. Keep in mind that iOS powers iPhone, iPod touch, Apple TV, and iPad devices. In fact, according to the latest data released by Google and Apple, the installed base of Android is 190 million devices vs. iOS's installed base of 250 million.
Finally, iOS 5 includes over 200 improvements. Very few of them were inspired by Android.
he's actually right – Android has supported similar technology for quite some time, and has had years to refine it.
While much of what you say could technically be true, a lot of it is simply buzzwords… For example, your use of the term "AI" is excruciatingly vague. Indeed, Firefox or Chrome could be said to use AI in order to "learn" and autocomplete the user's frequently visited websites.
This is analogous to Siri's "AI".
It is not exactly complex… and not exactly advanced.
Oops, that was meant to be a reply to groupeone's hyperbolic post above. Sorry!
Again, Apple is praised as an innovator. On what basis? What about IBM's Watson project? What about Google's efforts? Of course, Siri is fun. Again, the team at Apple did a great marketing job, when it was about guessing people's behavior….so they came with a great set of answers to a great set of stupid and funny question, that we were all asking for the first day or two..so Siri has a great "personality" and everybody loves the witty answers (My End User License Agreement does not cover marriage..) That's what Apple is great at – it gives consumers endless possibilities to have fun..gaming (yes, most of the time people do use the iPhone and iPod for that); listening to music, watching videos (not reading, because people use the Kindle for that) and so on. But when it comes to tools that make your daily life easier and products that increase your productivity..Google, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon (and many others) come into place. Who do you think will take speech recognition solutions into Healthcare, Customer Service, Banking and so on. Apple? :) Don't think so. Apple is the grand master of entertainment. Apple is Cirque du Soleil! That's the company that makes you smile and we all love to talk about Apple (over a beer)…but then we go back to work using the "boring", but extremely useful solutions which the other "dull" companies develop for us. Apple has never been or will be the company that changes lives, but it will always be the best at communicating and presenting complex products to us, the broader public, in eloquent, engaging, but simple terms.
I'll tell you what I tell every iOS fanboy. Apple has stooped to the point of blatantly ripping off Android features. For instance, their "Incredible, Wonderful, Completely-Unique-and-Not-At-All-Stolen Notification Center", aka the Android notification bar. If you really think that is an Apple original, allow me to direct you to the G1, one of the earliest Android phones, dating back to 2008.
If you were laughing at the fact that Google has speech recognition, go install Chrome, go to Google's homepage, and try out the voice search.
If you were laughing at the numbers, you have more problems than just supporting the inferior OS.


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The exhibition features the work of two Peruvian artists: Sandra Cannock Graña and Alejandra Iturrizaga. The Peruvian Paso and Arabian horse breeds are highlighted, each photograph exposing the features and differences between the two.
The Norman Arts Council worked with Mocy Munoz (of Mocy Productions) and Honorary Consulate of Peru in the State of Oklahoma Enrique Villar Gambetta to arrange the exhibit's debut in Oklahoma, which aims to travel across the country in hopes of promoting the cultural values of Peru.
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With the increasing number of Linux programming books on the market, the new Linux coder is left in a bit of a muddle.
Information about Linux is spreading—a good thing in terms of the open-source model and the community that supports it. The influx of new Linux authors also tends to decrease the odds of finding literacy and technical expertise in the same place. Numerous would-be writers ride the popularity wave of "Penguin Power!", resulting in increasing numbers of Linux "bibles", most of which are just as difficult to follow as the original and not nearly as imaginative. In either case, the context is most often distorted, if presented at all. Then again, there are exceptions.
Professional Linux Programming is a huge credit to both its authors and publishers. It's clearly written, highly informative and, with the exception of one or two topics, exhaustive in scope. Its intended audience is intermediate programmers, but the book is written in sufficiently clear and plain language as to be quite easily understood by the novice programmer.
The book's main "theme" is a project designed for a DVD rental store, taking into account both general and user requirements for a design specification. These specifications are followed up in subsequent chapters, which discuss various elements. The vast majority of the chapters in the book go back to this project and approach the subject matter from that context. Occasionally, the authors sprinkle in "take a break" chapters. These are related to a variety of programming issues in general. The project, however, is the meat of the book.
This approach provides not only a context, but a flow of information from one topic to the next. As a result, the reader learns a vast quantity of subjects easily because they're all connected to each other—an approach more conducive to increasing a coder's knowledge and skill than the "bits and pieces" approach so prevalent among technical works.
The majority of programming books, even Linux programming books, are negligent about providing sane information regarding application design according to general (and user) specifications. Given that the first step of writing an application is to define its use and user-base, design is too often overlooked or, if mentioned, relegated to the back of the book. This is the first topic of discussion in Professional Linux Programming and gives the reader a taste of rationally approaching software development.
Having read several Linux programming books, all of which ignore (by intent or accident) the increasing popularity of CVS (concurrent version system), I was overjoyed to find an entire chapter detailing this marvelous tool, both in collaborative and individual contexts. Common CVS terminology (check-out, commit, repository, etc.) is delineated, as are commands and the growing number of CVS resources available on the Internet.
Databases are, for many programmers, the singularly least interesting subject and the one that is most easily overlooked. Matthew and Stones not only give a foundation in database requirements and functions, but offer an in-depth comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL. An interesting addition was a brief contrast between libpq and ecpg as ways of calling PostgreSQL from C. Later in the book, as application construction confronts the area of connectivity, PHP is detailed as well.
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Chapter 12 deals with secure programming (including a reference to Ken Thompson's "trojan" that appeared in every release of the UNIX compiler). This chapter does not, however, simply leave the reader with a simple alert; it details how permissions work, some useful cryptography tools and some environment variables, all of which can assist in the production of secure code. It ends with a discussion of security features/impediments that come with some of the more common programming languages.
I personally have to give an extra round of applause to anyone who can take the complexities of Beowulf clusters and turn them into very comprehensible English (I am currently scrounging a bunch of 386s with which to construct my own Beowulf cluster—or should that be Bayou-Wolf?).
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Jonathan Polin has underlined his faith Ashcourt Rowan can overcome its recent reputational damage by buying by nearly £50,000 worth of shares in the firm.
An announcement posted on the London Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon revealed the wealth firm's chief executive had bought 31,645 shares at 158p each. The move lifts his total interest to 231,645 shares, worth £366,000, and accounting for a little less than 1% of the firm.
Polin told Wealth Manager: 'Today is the first opportunity I have had, now we are out of our closed period, demonstrated a good set of interim results and cleaned up some of legacy issues to demonstrate my huge belief in the unparalleled opportunity Ashcourt Rowan has in the sector. I am a believer in investing in what we are doing and re-stating that belief with my own money.'
The trade came on the same day Ashcourt was hit with a £412,000 fine from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for legacy issues relating to Savoy Investment Management before it was brought under the Ashcourt umbrella.
The regulator said it had found some 23% of portfolios run out of the division to be at 'high risk' of unsuitability. 'Savoy allowed its managers a high degree of discretion to advise its wealth management clients in their investment portfolios. It had limited front office controls and its other processes failed to ensure the suitability of its advice and portfolio management,' the FSA said.
In an exclusive interview with Wealth Manager in reaction to the fine Polin, who was appointed chief executive of Ashcourt 14 months ago, revealed the penalty was in relation to a section 166 order which he admitted he only found out about a couple of days into the job.
Polin made it clear he was addressing the issue. 'The world has moved on and I have taken pretty hard remedial action on that business. It was key for me to clean up that business. We have made significant changes.'
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In the quickening darkness, black nets, stretched across gravel paths, melted into the night while overhead plane engines roared as they throttled back for touchdown at the Indianapolis International Airport's runways.
"Got a second one," Candace Naughton, an Indiana State University senior, said as she walked up the path to the table and camp chairs that marked the center of the night's operations. "It's a northern."
She carefully clipped the mesh bag, with the northern long-eared bat inside, to the scale. After figuring for the weight of the bag, the female bat weighed in at 6 grams, or about six paperclips.
"You're so tiny," Naughton said as she began her inspection of the bat. "You're so chill."
As Naughton checked the bat's wings and body, she discovered a small band clamped around the bat's forearm. "IN ISU A05504," she read off. "The number sounds familiar. We may have caught her last week."
Each bat caught during a night of netting gets banded. The band number and bat's information goes into a database that researchers can reference in the future.
After the last measurements, Naughton released the bat and it fluttered back into the night.
"Where there are northern, there may also be Indiana bats," said Joy O'Keefe, Indiana State assistant professor of biology. "They like the same habitat."
The Indiana bat, a federally endangered species since 1967, set in motion mitigation efforts by the Indianapolis Airport Authority and brought the Indiana State University research team to Plainfield. When the airport began to expand about two decades ago, federal officials required the authority to mitigate for the bats' habitat loss. Now, southwest of Indianapolis International Airport sits a pocket of green space, hundreds of acres through which the East Fork of White Lick Creek wanders and which is surrounded by a growing suburbia. Indiana bats call this green space their summer home.
In the bats' home sits a park named for the Indiana bat: the Sodalis Nature Park. The Indiana bat's Latin name is Myotis sodalis: Myotis because it's a mouse-eared bat and sodalis because it's a social bat living in large colonies. By day, people walk and jog the park's paths or fish in its pond. But at night, the park becomes the bat's hunting zone as it swoops around the trees along the paths.
On one of the park's trails, O'Keefe and the students set up mist nets. For 10 years, students with Indiana State and the Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation have netted the bats to see what species use the area and to outfit Indiana bats with transmitters. Students then track the transmittered bats to see where they're eating at night and roosting during the day. While Indiana bats prefer to roost under the bark of dead trees, they also roost in bat boxes attached to trees. At dusk, students watch the trees and boxes and count the number of bats leaving for a night of foraging. One night students counted 163 Indiana bats leaving one tree.
"It's really critical for students to get out and do research so that they can understand ecological concepts," O'Keefe said. "Field work takes the classroom concepts and makes them more relevant."
Naughton has worked netting bats, counting bats as they emerged from roosting trees and tracking bats to their roosts during the day. A class with O'Keefe opened the biology student to studying bats.
"It is really neat to get to experience what a biologist really does out in the field because I really had no idea before I got out here," she said. "I am a very hands-on person so I love catching bats and doing that kind of thing…This is my office. I don't have to sit in a room all day at a computer. This, definitely, is the best job I've ever had."
Devin Howard, a junior information technology major from Newport, has spent two summers working on the airport project.
"I just love animals honestly and just getting the experience in doing something different outside of my field as well," he said. "Learning outside the classroom is just a lot more hands on and I learn a lot better that way."
Zach Kaiser, a graduate student in biology, became interested in studying bats while doing work with the wind energy industry. Wind turbines that generate electricity also are decimating populations of migratory bats.
"Bat populations are struggling, especially out east, so I felt like should put my efforts toward conserving these animals and at the same time I find bats really intriguing 'cause there is not a whole lot known about certain species," he said. "They're nocturnal. It's an animal that is often overlooked. People don't see it so it is kind of shrouded in mystery."
To help unveil some of the mystery, Kaiser has been setting out acoustic detectors that record bats' echolocation calls as they use the East Fork of White Lick Creek as a highway.
"We are trying to create a statistical model that could be used to determine if the federally endangered Indiana bat is present," he said about expanding to areas where it is unknown if the Indiana bat lives. "It is important because acoustics is an up-and-coming technique for studying bats. It's a lot more hands off so you can deploy these detectors out in the field and take part in several other field techniques and still collect data even though you are not present. At the same time, it just gives us a lot of information about species, their relative abundance, where they are going, what they are doing in these areas and that can help us make inferences about habitat quality, what these bats need in order to survive."
As researchers have learned more about bats they have discovered the importance of habitat. O'Keefe said several factors led to the Indiana bats becoming endangered, such as disturbances in the caves where bats hibernate. Indiana bats, being social, hibernate with hundreds to thousands of its brethren in caves.
"Indiana bats have a pretty narrow temperature range that they like to hibernate in," O'Keefe said.
Humans by entering caves or altering air flow through caves or by building structures that block cave entrances have had a devastating impact on the bat population. People prejudiced against bats and who have persecuted them have also helped lead to their decline.
"Ultimately, now what we think is just as critical is habitat loss," O'Keefe said, noting that the bats return year after year to the same forests (and sometimes the same trees) and caves. "These bats rely on caves in the winter and then they rely on the forests in the summer. Of course, with increasing human population and urbanization, we're losing some of our forested landscape and so we're losing some of the critical habitat for species."
Habitat has become even more important since the 2007 discovery of white nose syndrome, which has decimated bat populations in the northeast. A cold-loving white fungus called Geomyces destructans eats away bats' wing tissue and causes the bats to wake during hibernation. The bats burn through their fat reserves and are forced into fruitless ventures onto the barren, winter landscape in search of meals. Millions of bats have died from the disease, which has spread north into Canada, south into Alabama and as far west as Iowa.
White nose syndrome reached Indiana in 2011 and has been found in nine counties.
"We haven't seen a major decline in the number of bats that are hibernating in our caves, but it can take a few years for that decline to be evident," O'Keefe said.
So far scientists have been unable to find a solution to stopping the spread of White Nose Syndrome, but one thing remains true to help bats: habitat.
"By providing them with a good habitat, that allows them to build up their energy reserves so that when fall rolls around and they go into hibernation, they have a good base to build off for winter," O'Keefe said. "Actually what the airport authority has done here is really important, just setting aside habitat for bats. Even though White Nose Syndrome has killed millions of bats, still the greatest threat to bats is habitat loss and that's the greatest threat to any wildlife on this planet."
Scott Bergeson, a doctoral student in biology, has set a goal for himself of figuring out what habitat Indiana bats need.
"Just what specifically do they need to succeed in an area? With that information, I hope to help managers identify potential habitat and secure that habitat for the future," he said.
The future of bats is important to Bergeson, who finds bats "awesome" and grows animated in discussing why he likes them.
"Bats are really unique because they are the only true flying mammals. There are some flying squirrels, quote unquote, but they got nothing on bats," he said. "Bats are the only ones that can actually produce lift. The cool thing that I absolutely love about bats is that they have wings but all the bones in their arms are exactly the same as ours. If we just elongated our fingers and had some skin here, we could fly, too."
He also pointed out the ecological benefit of bats eating insects. O'Keefe noted that a bat can eat its weight in insects each night.
"That is great because a whole colony of bats can consume thousands of pounds of insects in the summer and so bats are really great to have around," O'Keefe said. "In fact, we know that bats eat a lot of moths and beetles, and moths and beetles tend to be our crop and forest pests."
Bergeson protested against the notion that bats are "rats with wings." Bats can live up to 30 years and have only one or two pups per year. Plus, there are other differences.
"They fly around. They eat nasty bugs, and I think they are actually pretty adorable," he said.


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