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RANGOON — A memorial has been held in downtown Rangoon for two Kachin women found murdered in the northern Shan State village of Kaung Kha earlier this week.
Maran Lu Ra and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin, two young teachers from Myitkyina, were found dead on Tuesday in the room they shared on the grounds of the local Kachin Baptist Church school.
The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Friday that the women had suffered stab wounds and head injuries, and a source from the hospital in Muse where the victims were sent for post-mortem analysis said the pair had been raped—a report yet to be confirmed by an official release of the autopsy results.
According to Amnesty International, soldiers from the 88th Battalion's 503rd Infantry Division were stationed in the village on the night the attack occurred. Kaung Kha villagers have laid blame for the attack at the feet of the Burma Army.
In emotional scenes, about 50 rights activists and members of the Kachin community, dressed in black, gathered at Maha Bandoola Garden Park on Friday morning to lay flowers at the Victory Monument and denounce the murders.
"Over many decades, the Burma Army has committed crimes against humanity through its treatment of ethnic women," Khin Ohmar, the coordinator of Burma Partnership, told mourners. "The Burma Army has their own code of conduct which they need to respect. The people who lead the army need to tell their soldiers to stop raping ethnic women."
Mar Mar Cho, coordination officer of the Women's Organizations Network, echoed Khin Ohmar's comments at the memorial.
"We have asked many times for the government to bring justice to those who rape women, but they never take action against their soldiers."
The Burma Army has denied its soldiers are responsible for the accusations, after sending an investigation team to the area on Wednesday. State media reported on Friday that an investigation into the deaths is ongoing.
"For our government, such a brutal incident is unacceptable," presidential spokesman Ye Htut told The Irrawaddy. "But, it is too early to say who was involved in the crime as we are still investigating."
The Kaung Kha case is the latest incident in which the Burma Army has been scrutinized over allegations of sexual violence. A report released last year by the Women's League of Burma documented 104 cases of sexual violence against women between the 2010 elections and Jan. 2014, the majority of which occurred in tandem with military offensives.
A funeral is being held in Myitkyina today for the two women.
Despite much vaunted economic reforms since 2011, some observers have noted that Myanmar's economy is underperforming. In the lead up to national elections slated for late 2015, economists and business leaders have also voiced concerns that possible political instability could hamper economic progress. Dr. Maung Maung Lay, the vice chairman of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI), spoke with The Irrawaddy's Kyaw Hsu Mon on the prospects for growth in a crucial year ahead.
Question: Last January, President U Thein Sein said the country was targeting 9.1 percent GDP growth for 2014-15. Do you think this is likely?
Answer: President U Thein Sein's statement was optimistic. The facts and figures which he referred to are more favorable than I've seen. [Even] the president's economic advisor U Myint recently said that this economic data might be incorrect. As you know, the government has often politicized data. That's why the government's Central Statistical Organization has now been reconstructed in order to gather quality data. Past data might be incorrect because it was not systematically collected through township offices. If the data collection process is poor, the resultant facts and figures will also be incorrect. We need accurate figures. At the moment, the data collection system is improving and is not so different from that of other organizations like the World Bank or the Asian Development Bank.
Q: When do you expect Myanmar will graduate from least developed country (LDC) status?
A: We can count the countries that have graduated from LDC status. Some observers have indicated that Myanmar has many requirements to fulfill before it can graduate from LDC status, and that will take time. Some expect it may take at least 5-10 years. If we try our best, dreams will come true. But it's not possible to simply move from LDC status at once.
Q: Are factors such as the tax rate, the trade deficit and other aspects of trade policy a major barrier to this?
A: It is due to all these factors. We need to improve across all sectors. We still need to improve on a micro and macroeconomic level in our country to develop the economy.
Q: Is the UMFCCI acting as an independent body?
A: We're now elected by members so it is independent. In the past, we were advocating for the government. Now we not only advocate, we also make claims to the government on what our members want and on the requirements of international standards. We're trying to upgrade our members' capacity and closely follow international economic trends.
Q: How do you collaborate with the different government ministries?
A: The UMFCCI is currently working with all sectors. Collaboration with government ministries is getting better. They're listening to the UMFCCI's input and suggestions in order to help solve problems. We have a good mutual understanding and are working well together.
Q: What do you think of the claim that high tax rates are making it difficult for some businesses to compete with regional competitors?
A: The government has recently decreased some taxes for local businesses to encourage production. According to international guidelines the government shouldn't always protect local businesses, but here, the government is protecting some small businesses. It's true that commercial tax rates are still high. People are criticizing the 5 percent commercial tax rate for consumers and manufacturers. However, the government collects less tax compared to other countries. How will the country's infrastructure improve [without higher taxes]? People need to know the advantages of paying tax to the government.
Q: Why is Myanmar's trade deficit on the increase?
A: Many countries have this kind of trade deficit, but the amount is different. [In Myanmar] imports are higher than exports. We need to negotiate gradually to reduce the trade deficit. But the country is still surviving despite this issue. It's only about a US$2 billion deficit in Myanmar. It's not a serious problem, but some have said so because the country has never reached this level of deficit before.
Q: How will the economy fare this year when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) begins, since there will be more tax-free imported goods flowing into the country?
A: The trade deficit will increase this year. The government needs to encourage local entrepreneurs but not provide trade protections that are against World Trade Organization rules. It's difficult to balance exports and imports. Government ministries will have to work together. The AEC should actually mark the end of the beginning for us. Not the beginning of the end. I've warned that it should not be seen as negative for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). More than 80 percent of our businesses are SMEs. What's needed is good corporate governance. Otherwise, we will be overwhelmed by our competitors. The government should also control the rate of inflation next year. We need comprehensive policies.
Q: Have the UMFCCI and the military-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation collaborated?
A: No we haven't. They are an independent entity. We have invited them for some workshops and business discussions with foreign trading partners, but they rarely attend.
Q: Do you agree that Myanmar's Central Bank is not standing up for local businesses? What is your personal opinion?
A: The Central Bank has been working under the Ministry of Finance for a long time. Now they are trying to emerge from its shadow. The bank's leading officials are good people. We aren't too critical of them. They are relatively independent compared with the past. I hope [the Central Bank] will gradually improve.
Q: Some people are concerned that Myanmar's economy may be impacted by political uncertainty this year. What's your view?
A: I don't think it will be impacted by the political situation. People will be trying to win over voters by campaigning hard but they will be more focused on political rather than business issues. Some will pledge to do more in order to be reelected. Almost all countries in the world tend to move cautiously in election years. Whether or not we're ready for the AEC may become a political issue. The next government may face problems [concerning the AEC]. Some officials have indicated they're prepared for the AEC but it will be hard to implement. Even Thailand is still trying to prepare for it. We will have to do more, practically and mentally.
This interview originally appeared in the Jan. 2015 issue of The Irrawaddy Magazine.
There are lines that one does not cross and words that one does not utter—especially if one is a man of the cloth. I am not going to bemoan: "Oh! What has the world come to? What has become of this noble order?!" This is about one individual—a demagogue running wild and potentially poisoning an entire society. Every age has its rogue characters, and ours is no exception.
The reader, no doubt, knows who this article is about. This is about a well-known Buddhist monk, U Wirathu, and his hateful words regarding a female human rights expert representing the United Nations.
When the words, ethos and collective emotions of masses are left to simmer unchecked for too long, they risk boiling over. Any sane and conscientious society should try to contain potentially harmful sentiments and nip the problem in the bud before it can be harnessed by ill-willed provocateurs. That such preventative measures haven't happened in Burma a symptom of a societal malaise, and our chief rabble-rouser is a mirror held up to present-day Buddhist society.
The image in the mirror is clear, however homely it may be, and each member of this society needs to act thoughtfully and responsibly to change the course.
A man is shamed not by his birthplace or other incidental facts about him, but by his words and deeds. By extension, a society is shamed if it bows to the shameful, letting them run wild among the rest. Several hundred people listened and cheered when this demagogue spoke. There will always be a mob—people who are swayed by emotion and easily led by the nose—but we need to listen past that to the counter-voices of reason and sanity.
Those voices, admittedly, are both faint and scarce. If this disparity continues, the purveyors of poison will prevail.
The majority in Myanmar society will need to undergo a deep transformation to achieve greater understanding and tolerance for other faiths and ethnicities. The crushing dictatorship that lasted half a century swept those issues under the rug—or rather the bamboo mat. Now that the demons of those long-buried issues have reared their ugly heads, it is clear that containing the damage and handling the legacy of state-fostered intolerance is a far more critical concern than vague dreams of "democratization."
This is where institutional responsibility comes in. Trouble is being fomented by extremists within the Buddhist clergy and the government is doing nothing about it. Even beyond the government's correctional capacity, doesn't the Sangha itself have a mechanism for dealing with rogue behavior? State props won't help if the institution at the core of this controversy has no moral authority.
The state could nonetheless do more. There is a Ministry of Religious Affairs, and there are laws. Unfortunately, the government uses these tools as it likes and the rules are often unevenly applied. But the strongest and furthest-reaching impact that the government could have on this issue would come from political leadership, if it were only willing to speak up. This is an election year, after all, and anything that could cost a vote is assiduously avoided. But I would suggest that even Myanmar's biggest issues, such as armed conflict and chronic poverty, are slighted by the problem of an immense political vacuity right up to the highest levels of governance. Nota bene: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has also been silent.
The office of the UN human rights rapporteur has undergone a sea-change in Myanmar. There was a time when the military's notorious secret police leaned heavily on it, while the democracy movement relied heavily on its support and intelligence. The office and its incumbent now face a new kind of pressure, one that is perhaps even stronger. But among this dismal picture there are still individuals who are not bereft of character and moral courage—for instance, the abbot of Mansu Shan monastery, who sheltered Muslim families when violence shook Lashio. These individuals embody this country's real strength and hope for a promising future.
Khin Zaw Win is the director of the Tampadipa Institute in Rangoon.
The Opening Ceremony of Bogyoke Aung San's Birthday Centennial friendly soccer tournament was held at the Aung San Stadium in Yangon on January 25, 2015. The Soccer match was organized to mark the 100th anniversary of Bogyoke Aung San's birthday. Altogether (8) soccer teams will participate in this tournament. Photos by Tin SUN
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Here are snapshots of the 51th Birthday Party of Zaw Win Htut, Famous Rock Singer, was grandly celebrated on January 21, 2015 at Novotel Hotel in Yangon. Zaw Win Htut is a Burmese rock, country, and blues singer, and the lead vocalist of the band Emperor. Photos by Wai Yan
MANDALAY — More than 100 people set out on a march from Mandalay to Rangoon on Tuesday, as student leaders restarted a dormant campaign to protest the National Education Law.
In November, student groups had called a 60-day moratorium after four days of countrywide protests against the law. In the interim, student groups requested the establishment of a 15-member committee comprising students, government leaders, parliamentarians and the National Network for Education Reform to discuss changes to the law. The moratorium expired on Friday without an official response, leading to students traveling from as far afield as Monywa, Sagaing and Pakokku to join the march.
"We received no responses from the government during those 60 days," said Ei Thinzar Maung, a member of the Mandalay District Student Union. "That's why we have resumed protests, to draw attention of the government to the need to democratically amend the National Educational Law."
The overhaul of the country's education system was passed by Parliament in Sept. 2014, in the face of strong criticism from students and educators.
Student groups have presented a number of demands for the bill's overhaul, including a legislative guarantee for the free establishment of student and teacher unions independent of the government, changes to the exam and entrance systems at the universities, the introduction of ethnic languages, and a modernization of the syllabus at basic education schools and universities.
"The government needs to increase the budget allocation for education to 20 percent, and student activists removed from school need to be allowed to return to the classroom," said Min Thwe Thit, one of the protesting students. "Hopefully the government will listen to us and they will amend the law for the sake of our future education. If not, we will have to continue nationwide protests until our demands are met."
The students say they plan to link up with other protesters during the 650-kilometer (404-mile), 15-day journey to Rangoon. Upon arrival, they intend to establish a protest camp which will urge the government to negotiate with students and teachers over future changes to the law.
RANGOON — President Thein Sein has continued to defer on six-party constitutional reform discussions, handballing the proposal back to the legislature with a statement issued to the Union Parliament on Monday.
Arguing that the six-party proposal lacked detail and a specific framework for how constitutional issues would be discussed, the President's statement also suggested that the six-party proposal represented too narrow a cross-section of Burmese society for meaningful dialogue.
As the political discussions would have a national impact, it was "advisable that other people participate in addition to parliamentary representatives, the government and the military," the statement read.
The six-party proposal was originally tabled last November by lawmaker Myint Tun of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), who urged a meeting between President Thein Sein, Burma Army Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, the speakers of the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament, National League for Democracy (NLD) Leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a member of the ethnic nationality parties to discuss constitutional reforms.
The proposal, unanimously endorsed by the Union Parliament, prompted a call for 12-party talks from the Rangoon Division Parliament, which was subsequently dismissed by the NLD as a stalling tactic, and a request for multi-party talks from the Sagaing Parliament, where lawmakers there hoped to expand local and ethnic representation in constitutional talks.
At the end of last month, over 10,000 people in the northern Shan State township of Naung Cho rallied against the six-party proposal, asking for more ethnic representation in charter discussions. The event was reported prominently in government newspapers, which rarely carry news on public protests.
In Monday's statement, President Thein Sein said he was prepared to abide by the decision of the Union Parliament on constitutional matters, as long as reform was enacted according to the provisions of the 2008 military-drafted Constitution, and provided that lawmakers took the decisions of divisional parliaments and the desires of ethnic minorities into consideration.
NLD spokesman Nyan Win said that the statement showed that the President accepted the idea of six-party talks in principle, which was a sign of progress in establishment of a forum for constitutional discussion.
Political commentator Dr.Yan Myo Thein, on the other hand, told The Irrawaddy it appeared the government was deliberately stalling the proposal by continually requesting details of the framework.
"There are many difficult issues in the country, like amending the 2008 Constitution, negotiating a nationwide ceasefire agreement and ensuring the 2015 elections are free and fair. Each of these issues are difficult enough on their own to warrant [six-party] political dialogue. The government is deliberately postponing this dialogue by asking for more details," he said.
Suu Kyi told media in Naypyidaw before Tuesday's pa
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Posted 18 March 2005 - 05:59 PM
Okay. I think I'm done with my hyperness. I am going to try and describe it some in here but I'm still hyper from it so if I don't make sense or if you want to know more just ask me questions. I'll be going on it numerous times throughout the next week.
First off, Soarin opened before 3pm today and will be open until they decide to stop letting people in or 7pm at the latest.
Soarin' will be open everyday until it officially opens on 05-05-05 (why? read those number backwards 50-50-50). Well almost everyday if it is raining or there are some reasons that they can't open it, it will not be open, but they are going to try and have it open everyday as much as possible. It will be opening at around 3pm everyday so if you are visiting epcot, make sure to check it out. The enterance for soarin is over by the bathroom on the side of imagination. There will be people with Soarin' costumes on about a half hour before they open and they have a rope and a height requirement thingy. So if its open there WILL be people over there.
Anyway the Soarin' in Florida is the exact same one as in DCA. So if you've been in the one in DCA you've been on the one here.
Spolier (if you dont want to know what the ride is about don't read this!)
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The building, part of it is awesome! It has those pictures that look like they move. They have different scenes and trivia. The entire building looks alike an airport. It was based after the orlando airport, chicago o'hare airport, and a france airport. It is just amazing. It looks cool. It is HUGE! its about 900ft of winding space in A/c. they entire thing is just AMAZING! EEH! There are also two concourses. Concourse A is the one I was in. They are still finishing Concourse B according to all the cast members.
Okay. First off you get into rows of about 12 people per row. There are three rows but there are three sections so a lot of people can fit on the ride. You get in your row and you stand there and watch a little pre-show video that has a cute thing about a mickey mouse hat. It also lists some places you'll be 'soarin' over such as monterey bay, san fransisco, los angeles, lake tahoe, and yosmite to name a few!
You go into the room, sit down, and there is a place to store flip flops and packages under your eat. After a couple minutes, you get take off! What happens is it goes dark and the three rows lift up and you go over a huge Imax screen. The ride itself does not move too much once you get in this position. It is one of the biggest Imax screens in the world!
The first row goes up to the top of the screen about 40 ft off of the floor. The second row is in the middle and the third row is at the bottom, only about 4 ft off the ground. The thing starts and all of a sudden you are soarin' through the clouds. The clouds fade away and you are soarin over the san fansisco bridge.
To sum the rest of the ride up to go over a golf course, the ocean, the places I mentioned and you see some pretty amazing sites. The ride ends with you at Disneyland at christmas time with Tinkerbell and fireworks. As the final fireworks make you jump backwards you will go soarin back to the ground. It is amazing. The seats you are in just tilt back and forth and fans blow towards you. You go through a forest and you can smell pine. You go over an orange grove then you smell oranges and over the ocean... you smell the ocean. It is AMAZING!
I LOVED this ride. It is my favorite ride at Epcot right now. YAY! IT ROCKS!!!
Spoiler Ended!
Any questions that you have or anything you want to know please just ask. Pictures were not allowed! But it was an amazing experience I'd love to help.
Oh! The only advisory that this ride has if you are afraid of heights you shouldn't ride it. Also it warns you of swoops and whatnot but I didn't feel a thing. It is definately a family-friendly ride if your kids meet the 44 inch height requirement.
Well I think thats it. Enjoy! It's a huge review so that's my trip! :-D[/b]
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Posted 18 March 2005 - 06:19 PM
Posted 18 March 2005 - 06:23 PM
Oh they said that DCA normally has a wait time of about 2 hours but Soarin WILL have a fast pass. So take advantage of that! :-D
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Posted 18 March 2005 - 06:29 PM
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Posted 19 March 2005 - 11:04 AM
Just a few corrections I know of off hand.. height requirement is 40. The first row is 40-50 ft off the ground. 2nd row 30-40. 3rd row 20-30, depending on where you are in the flight. Currently they are only using Concourse 2, Concourse 1 was only used during cast previews.
It is a great flight! I do enjoy it every time. Where did you sit on your flight?
Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:31 PM
And i sat in front and in the middle i'll be stopping by there today.
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Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:38 PM
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Glenn is my hero!!
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hehe red and black black=chase cars, red=hero car (forward, reverse and remote) you'll understand when you see it
Posted 19 March 2005 - 01:53 PM
The Disneyland ending is fitting for the 50th celebration.
However, I really hope they change it to soarin' over the east coast and ending at Epcot. Think of flying over NYC, Central Park, Washington DC..etc...They can even keep the same smells.. pine trees, orange groves.. etc.
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Infectious Melanie Oudin making a splash
Bonnie D. FordWith the dearth of early-blooming U.S. stars, teenage darling Melanie Oudin is finally giving the U.S. Open someone to believe in.
Story | Conversation | September 08, 2009 -
Kim Clijsters stands out amid U.S. Open turmoil
Bonnie D. FordDespite the many breakdowns that have wreaked havoc for the world's top women, Kim Clijsters very much has her act together.
Story | Conversation | September 07, 2009 -
John Isner finally utilizing massive game
Bonnie D. FordJohn Isner hasn't always understood how to maximize his massive attributes. But to the chagrin of his opponents, Isner's inner beast is finally awakening.
Story | Conversation | September 07, 2009 -
Andy Roddick endures another tough loss
Bonnie D. FordAs difficult as it is to swallow, Andy Roddick simply could not fend off the serving bazooka known as John Isner at the U.S. Open on Saturday.
Story | Conversation | September 05, 2009 -
Ford: Midway at the U.S. Open
Bonnie D. FordAmericans Taylor Dent and Melanie Oudin are making hearts go boom. But they aren't the only compelling stories in Week 1 of the U.S. Open.
Story | Conversation | September 05, 2009 -
Nothing random about Melanie Oudin's recent play
Bonnie D. FordMaria Sharapova might own the New York stage, but Melanie Oudin doesn't really give a hoot. Something must give at the U.S. Open.
Story | Conversation | September 04, 2009 -
Sam Querrey and sidekick having sublime summer
Bonnie D. FordSam Querrey is the U.S. Open Series champ, has a devoted following and now Dan the intern. Could life be better?
Story | Conversation | September 03, 2009 -
Todd Martin to help Novak Djokovic reach full potential
Bonnie D. FordOne coach isn't always enough. Just ask Novak Djokovic, who sought outside counsel to help him maximize his talent.
Story | Conversation | September 02, 2009 -
Ana Ivanovic's tribulations continue
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Richard Gasquet happy to be back in the fold
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Don't expect Chase Buchanan to back down at U.S. Open
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Maxine Eskenazi www.cs.cmu.edu/~max
Systems Scientist Tel. 412 268-3858
Technologies Institute Fax
412 268-6298
Carnegie Mellon University first three letters of my first name at three initials of the University
6413 Gates Hillman Complex dot edu
Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
!!! Now available!!! Eskenazi, M., Levow, G., Meng, H., Parent, G., Suendermann, D., 2013, Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing, Wiley.
I am past chair of the SLaTE special interest group (Speech
and Language Technology for Education) of ISCA
(International Speech Communication Association) from 2006 to 2011. I am
Director of the Dialog Research Center. And in
2013, I have been co-chair of SIGDIAL'13.
Understanding the
variability of the speech signal. Creating automatic systems (using spoken
dialogue architectures, automatic speech recognition and synthesis) that
benefit from this knowledge and that in turn provide a real benefit to end
users. This endeavor implies studying groups of speakers, input conditions,
styles of speech and detecting the acoustic and upper-level indices that are
indicative of these variants. End benefits may include language learning and
information giving and gathering.
Learning a foreign language
is not only a question of getting the words and syntax right. You can't be
understood until you can pronounce it well! FLUENCY is designed to let you
speak, then give you feedback as to how you did – what to correct, and how to
correct it. Using state-of-the-art speech recognition technology, SPHINX from
Carnegie Mellon, this interactive software allows you to speak, to get
corrections, to listen to yourself and a native speaker and try again, over and
over, as many times as you want. FLUENCY is patient and can be customized to do
what you want. Practice in the privacy of your PC or phone and then speaker to
others when you're ready!
FLUENCY detects phonetic and
duration errors in speech. IT can be used for English as a second language and
can be adapted to other languages. The user can make it easier or harder to
succeed. Other user-adaptive options to maximize learning also exist. The
software can be used alone or in conjunction with language classes.
I am interested
in the variability of the speech signal – relating its sources to its
manifestations, characterizing groups of speakers, grouping observable
phenomena. Non-native speech is a specific interest within this area, as is
speaking style.
Spoken dialogue systems are one of my areas of interest.
I am less interested in play systems than systems that have real users and
serve a real purpose, such as Let's Go. The Let's Go system has been answering
the phone for the Port Authority of Allegheny County every evening since the
beginning of March 2005. A system with real users provides the ideal platform
to run experiments on spoken dialogue such as timing and lexical
entrainment. When one is lucky enough to be endowed with a system that has
a constant pipeline of real users, one feels compelled to share this treasure
with the research community, freely distributing the data we collect and giving
them access to the system to conduct experiments of their own. This is part of
the mission of the Dialog Research Center.
I am also
interested in how to teach foreign languages effectively, both by a human and
by a computer. This includes curriculum creation and navigation, interface
issues and issues leading to robust learning. Culture underlies all language
and so is also an interest of mine. And of course I am interested in
pinpointing errors in non-native speech (patented!) and then providing
appropriate corrective feedback.
The system I
created to detect and correct foreign speakers' pronunciation errors in English
was called Fluency and the basic algorithms developed in that project were spun
off into the NativeAccentTM product sold by the company I started,
Carnegie SpeechTM. Another use of research results in use in real
life! And the REAP system is also getting into the hands of many students and
I am the past chair of the
ISCA special interest group on Speech
and Language Technology in Education
(SLaTE). Please visit our website for more information (www.sigslate.org).
Fluency – a project to use automatic speech
recognition to detect pronunciation errors and to provide appropriate
correction information – contact me directly for more information.
Let's Go – a project using a spoken
dialogue system to expand access to such systems to the elderly and to
non-native speakers. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/letsgo/
DialRC – a Center that is at the service of
the Spoken Dialog community, providing data, running studies, educating and
running a Spoken Dialog Challenge http://dialrc.org/
LexE – a project on lexical entrainment on
both sides of the dialog with spoken dialog systems, sometimes with non-native
speakers – see publications below
REAP – a project to retrieve appropriate,
individuated texts for students learning to read http://reap.cs.cmu.edu/ which exists in French and Portuguese as
well as in English.
David Aguas Lopes, Rui Correira, Minfu Zhang, Pedro Mota
Postdocs: Oscar Saz, Sungjin Lee
Past: Kevin Dela Rosa, Gabriel Parent, Antoine Raux, Jonathan Brown, Jie Hu, Adam Skory, Juan Pino, Michael Heilman, Aleata Hubbard, Elizabeth Harris, Kathrin Probst, Yan Ke, Helene Maynard-Bonneau, Paul-Eric Stern, Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Andrew Fandrianto, Yibin Lin
Eskenazi, M.,
2013, Can
I use crowdsourcing to process my data?, Special workshop on Sharing,
Structuring and Processing Data, NWAV2013. Pittsburgh PA, October 17, 2013.
Dela Rosa, K, Eskenazi, M., 2013, Self-Assessment in the REAP Tutor:
Knowledge, Interest, Motivation, & Learning, International Journal of
Artificial Intelligence in Education, June 2013
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/r8t278x842n3012x/. |
E., Saz, O., Eskenazi, M., 2013, POLLI: a
handheld-based aid for non-native student presentations, Proc. ISCA SLaTE
workshop, Grenoble, p. 43-47.
M., Lin, Y., Saz, O., 2013, Tools
for non-native readers: the case for translation and simplification,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving
Textual Accessibility, NAACL2013, Atlanta, p.20-28
J. Lopes, M. Eskenazi and I. Trancoso, 2013, Automated
Two-Way Entrainment to Improve Spoken Dialog System Performance,
Proceedings ICASSP 2013.
M., Levow, G.A., Meng, H., Parent, G., Suendermann, D., 2013, Crowdsourcing
for Speech Processing, Wiley.
Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi, Recipe
For Building Robust Spoken Dialog State Trackers:
Dialog State Tracking Challenge System Description, Proceedings of SIGDIAL
2013, Metz, France, 2013.
Pellegrini, T., Correia, R., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Eskenazi, M., 2013, ASR-based exercises for
listening comprehension practice in European Portuguese, Computer Speech and
Fandrianto, Maxine Eskenazi, 2012, Prosodic Entrainment in an
Information-Driven Dialog System, Proceedings of Interspeech2012,
Portland, OR, USA
Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi, Exploiting
Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking
Methods, Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2012, Seoul, South Korea, 2012.
Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi, An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: toward
Self-Improving Dialog Systems, Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2012, Seoul, South
Korea, 2012.
Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi, POMDP-Based
Let's Go System for Spoken Dialog Challenge, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE
Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2012), Miami, USA, 2012.
Lee, Maxine Eskenazi,
2012, Incremental Sparse Bayesian Method for Online Dialog
Strategy Learning. J. Sel. Topics
Signal Processing 6(8): 903-916.
J. Lopes, M. Eskenazi and I. Trancoso, 2012, Incorporating
ASR information in Spoken Dialog System confidence score. Proceedings of PROPOR 2012.
Lopes, Andrew Fandrianto, Maxine Eskenazi, Isabel Trancoso, 2012, Can
a spoken dialog system be used as a tool for convergence?, International Symposium on Imitation
and Convergence in Speech, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Rui Correia, Jorge Baptista, Maxine
Eskenazi, Nuno J. Mamede,
Maxine Eskenazi, Automatic
Generation of Cloze Question Stems, In International Conference on
Computational Processing of Portuguese (Propor 2012),
Springer-Verlag, vol. 7243, series Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence, pages 168–178, Coimbra, Portugal, April 2012.
Correia, R., Pellegrini, T, Eskenazi, M., Trancoso, I, Baptisa, J., Mamede, N., 2011, Listening Comprehension Games
for Portuguese: exploring the best features, Proceedings SLaTE 2011.
Dela Rosa, K., Eskenazi, M., 2011, Effect of Word
Complexity on L2 Vocabulary Learning, Proceedings of the 49th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies's 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for
Building Educational Applications (ACL-HLT: BEA 2011). 2011.
Dela Rosa, K., Eskenazi, M.,
2011, Self-Assessment
of Motivation: Explicit and Implicit Indicators in L2 Vocabulary Learning,
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
Education (AIED 2011).
Dela Rosa, K., Eskenazi, M.,
2011, Impact of Word
Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning
Tutors, Proceedings of the 24th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS
J. Lopes, M. Eskenazi and I. Trancoso , 2011 Towards
choosing better primes for Spoken Dialog Systems. Proceedings
Lopes, I Trancoso, R Correia,
T Pellegrini, H Meinedo, N Mamede, M Eskenazi, Multimedia
Learning Materials, In Spoken Language Technology Workshop
(SLT), 2010 IEEE, Berkeley, CA, USA, 24 January 2011
Parent, G., Eskenazi, M., 2011, Sources of variability
and adaptive tasks, Proceedings CHI2011.
Parent, G., Eskenazi, M., 2011, Speaking to the Crowd: looking at past achievements in using crowdsourcing for speech and predicting future challenges, Proceedings Interspeech 2011, special session on crowdsourcing, Florence Italy.
Saz, O., Eskenazi, M., Identifying Confusable
Contests for Automatic Generation of Activities in Second Language Pronunciation
Training, Proceedings SLaTE 2011, Venice.
A., Eskenazi, M., 2011, Generation of
Educational Content through Gameplay, Proc. SLaTE2011, Venice, August 2011.
W Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen
Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud,
Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson,
Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve Young and Maxine Eskenazi, Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010:
Comparison of Live and Control Test Results, Proc. SIGDIAL2011,
Portland, OR.
Rui Correia, Jorge Baptista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso, Maxine Eskenazi, Automatic
Generation of Cloze Question Distractors, In Second Language Studies:
Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology, SLaTE: the ISCA SIG on
Speech and Language Technology in Edu, Waseda
University, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010
Dela Rosa, K., Parent, G. ,Eskenazi, M., 2010, Multimodal learning of words: A study on the use of speech synthesis to reinforce written text in L2 language learning, Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2010)
M., Black, A., 2010, SDC: The Spoken Dialog Challenge, invited short
presentation at SIGDIAL 2010. Slides
Heilman, K. Collins-Thompson, M. Eskenazi, A. Juffs, L. Wilson. 2010. Personalization of Reading
Passages Improves Vocabulary Acquisition. International Journal of Artificial
Intelligence in Education, Vol. 20 (1).
José Lopes, Isabel Trancoso, Rui Correia, Thomas Pellegrini, Hugo Meinedo, Nuno J. Mamede, Maxine Eskenazi, Multimedia
Learning Materials, In IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop,
IEEE, Berkeley, USA, December 2010.
Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. 2010. Clustering dictionary definitions using Amazon Mechanical Turk. In Proc. of the NAACL/HLT workshop on Creating Speech and
Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Parent, G. and Eskenazi, M. 2010. Lexical Entrainment
of Real Users in the Let's Go Spoken Dialog System. In Proceedings of ISCA
Interspeech 2010, Tokyo, Japan
Parent, G., Eskenazi, M. 2010. Toward better
crowdsourced transcription: Transcription of a year of the let's go bus
information system data. In Proc
SLT, Berkeley, CA.
A. and Eskenazi, M. (2010), Predicting Cloze
Quality for Vocabulary Training, Proc.
of NAACL HLT Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications, Los Angeles, California
Skory, A. and Eskenazi, M. (2010), Automatic Selection of Collocations for Instruction, Proc. of SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Tokyo, Japan
A., and Eskenazi, M., "The Spoken Dialogue Challenge" SIGDIAL
2009, Queen Mary University, London. 2009.
Eskenazi, M., 2009, An overview of spoken language technology
for education, Speech Communication, Elsevier, vol 51
issue 10 p. 832-844
J., Black, A., and Eskenazi, M. "Describing Spoken Dialogue Systems Differences"
IWSDS 2009, Irsee, Germany.
Marujo, l., Lopes, J., Mamede, N., Trancoso,
I, Pino, J., Eskenazi, M., Baptista, J., Viana, C., Porting REAP
to European Portuguese, Proceedings ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language
for Education SLaTE2009, Warwickshire England.
Pino, J., Eskenazi, M.,
2009, Semi-Automatic
Generation of Cloze Question Distractors: Effect of Students' L1, Proceedings
ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language for Education SLaTE2009, Warwickshire
Pino, J., Eskenazi, M., 2009, Measuring Hint
Level in Open Cloze Questions, Proceedings FLAIRS09.
Pino, J., Eskenazi, M., 2009, An
Application of Latent Semantic Analysis to Word Sense Discrimination for Words
with Related and Unrelated Meanings, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on
Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications at NAACL, Boulder
M., Black, A., Raux, A. and Langner,
B., 2008, Let's Go Lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with
real world users, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
M. Heilman, K.
Collins-Thompson, and M. Eskenazi. 2008. An analysis of
statistical models and features for reading difficulty prediction. In Proc. of The 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building
Educational Applications.
M. Heilman, L.
Zhao, J. Pino, and M. Eskenazi. 2008. Retrieval of
reading materials for vocabulary and reading practice. In
Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
M. Heilman and M.
Eskenazi. 2008. Self-assessment
in vocabulary tutoring. In Proc. of the Young Researcher's Track. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
J. Pino, M.
Heilman, and M. Eskenazi. 2008. A selection
strategy to improve cloze question quality. In Proc. of the Workshop on
Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains. Ninth
International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring System.
Raux and M. Eskenazi, 2008, Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken
Dialogue System, SIGdial 2008, Columbus, OH, USA.
A., Langner, B., Black, A. and Eskenazi, M. Building Practical Spoken Dialog
Systems ACL/HLT 2008 Tutorial, Columbus, Ohio. PLEASE SEE
H., Raux, A., Bohus, D.,
Eskenazi, M., and Litman, D., 2007, Comparing Spoken Dialog
Corpora Collected with Recruited Subjects versus Real Users, 8th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp,
Bohus, A. Raux, T. Harris,
M. Eskenazi, and A. Rudnicky, 2007, Olympus: an
open-source framework for conversational spoken language interface research,
HLT-NAACL 2007 workshop on Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research
in Dialog Technology, Rochester, NY, USA.
M. Heilman and M.
Eskenazi. 2007. Application
of automatic thesaurus extraction for computer generation of vocabulary
questions. In Proc. of the SLaTE Workshop on Speech and
Language Technology in Education.
M. Heilman, A.
Juffs, and M. Eskenazi. 2007. Choosing
reading passages for vocabulary learning by topic to increase intrinsic
motivation. In Proc. of AIED.
M. Heilman, K.
Collins-Thompson, J. Callan, and M. Eskenazi. 2007. Combining
lexical and grammatical features to improve readability measures for first and
second language texts. In Proc. NAACL-HLT.
Raux and M. Eskenazi, A Multi-Layer Architecture for
Semi-Synchronous Event-Driven Dialogue Management, ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan.
pdf file
Callan, J., Eskenazi, M., Perfetti, C., 2006,
Progress in Providing Reader-Specific lexical Practice for Improved Reading
Comprehension, presented at IES 2006 research conference, June 15-16 2006,
Washington DC
M., Raux, A., Harris, E., 2006, "Using speech recognition for just-in-time
language learning, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, vol 120, no. 5, pt.2, p.3138.
Heilman, M., Collins-Thompson, K., Callan,
J., Eskenazi, M., 2006, Classroom
Success of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Lexical Practice and Reading
Comprehension, Proc. Interspeech2006, Pittsburgh September 2006.
Heilman, M., Eskenazi, M., 2006, Language Learning: Challenges for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Workshop on Ill-defined Domains in Intelligent Tutoring, Taiwan, June 2006.
Juffs, A., Eskenazi, M.,
Wilson, L., Pelletreau, T., Sanders, J., Callan, J., Brown, J., 2006, Promoting
robust learning of vocabulary through computer assisted language learning,
Proc. Joint conference of AAAL and ACLA/CAAL 2006, Montreal, June 2006.
Raux, A., Bohus,
D., Langner, B., Black, A., Eskenazi, M., 2006, Doing Research on a Deployed
Spoken Dialogue System: One Year of Let's Go! Experience, Proc. Interspeech
2006, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
J. Brown and M. Eskenazi. (2005).
"Student, text and
curriculum modeling for reader-specific document retrieval." In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on
Human-Computer Interaction 2005. Phoenix, AZ.
J. Brown, G. Frishkoff, and M. Eskenazi. (2005). "Automatic question generation for vocabulary assessment."
In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP
2005. Vancouver, B.C.
Eskenazi, M., Black, A., 2001. A
study on speech over the telephone and aging, Proc. Eurospeech01, Aalborg,
Denmark September 2001. html
link 2000 Eskenazi, M., Ke, M.,
Albornoz, J., Probst, K., 2000. Update on the Fluency Pronunciation Trainer,
In: Proceedings of InSTIL 2000, Dundee. Mayfield Tomokiyo, L., Wang, L., Eskenazi, M., 2000,
An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Speech-Recognition-based
Pronunciation Training, Proc. ICSLP 2000, Beijing 1999 Eskenazi, M., (1999) Issues in the use of speech recognition for foreign
language tutors, invited paper: Language Learning and
Technology Journal (online) Vol. 2, No. 2, January 1999, pp. 62-76 1998 Eskenazi,
M., 1998, User Come Back, DARPA Communicator
Compare and Contrast Meeting, June 16-17, 1998. Eskenazi, M., Hansma, S., 1998, The Fluency Pronunciation
Trainer, Proc. STiLL Workshop on Speech Technology in Language Learning,
Marhollmen, May. Eskenazi, M., Hansma, S., Semp, M., Warner, R., 1998, By
ear and by eye - adaptive tutoring for foreign language pronunciation training,
in Proc. STiLL Workshop on Speech Technology in Language Learning Marhollmen. Eskenazi,
M., Hogan, C., Allen, J., Frederking, R., 1998, Issues in database design:
Recording and processing speech from new populations, Proc. LREC Assessment and
Database Workshop, Grenada, Spain. Eskenazi, M., Rudnicky, A., Gregory, K., Constantinides,
P., Brennan, R., Bennett, C., Allen, J., 1998, Data Collection and Processing
in the Carnegie Mellon Communicator, in Proc. ESCA Eurospeech 98. 1997 Placeway, P., Chen, S., Eskenazi, M., Jain, U.,
Parikh, V., Raj, B., Ravishankar, M., Rosenfeld, R., Seymore, K., Siegler, M.,
Stern, R., Thayer, E., 1997, The 1996 HUB-4 Sphinx-3 System, Proc, DARPA Speech
Recognition Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Ravishankar,
M. and Eskenazi, M., 1997, Automatic Generation of Context-dependent Pronunciations,
Proc. Eurospeech '97, Rhodes, Greece, p. 2467 - 2470. Seymore, K., Chen, S., Eskenazi, M., Rosenfeld, R.,
(1997), Language and Pronunciation Modeling in the CMU 1996 HUB-4 Evaluation,
Proc, DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers 1996 M. Eskenazi, 1996, KIDS: A Database
of Children's Speech , in Proc. 3rd joint Meeting: Acoustical Societies of
America and Japan, Honolulu. 1995 Eskenazi,
M., 1995, Hot Topics in Speaking Style Research, in European Studies in
Phonetics and Speech Communication, Bloothooft, Hazan, Huber, Llisterri,
eds., OTS Publications, The Netherlands. P. 58 - 62. 1993 Eskenazi, M. 1993. Trends in Speaking Style Research,
Keynote speech, Proceedings Eurospeech'93, Berlin. Eskenazi, M., Vormes, E., Monguillot, G., Frachet,
B., 1993, A new training and assessment technique for cochlear implants, in Advances in Cochlear Implants, Hochmair-Desoyer and Hochmair eds., International
Science Seminars, Vienna, Austria, p. 572-577. 1992 Eskenazi, M. 1992. Changing speech styles, speakers'
strategies in read speech and careful and casual spontaneous speech.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
Banff. 1991 Eskenazi, M., Lacheret, A., 1991, Exploration of
individual strategies in continuous speech, Speech Communication, vol. 10 no.
3. Lamel,
L., Gauvain, JL., Eskenazi, M., 1991,
BREF, a Large Vocabulary Spoken Corpus for French, in Proc. EUROSPEECH-91 1990 AFNOR,
1990, norme experimentale S 31-115, Evaluation de systemes de traitement
automatique de la parole Partie 1: Definitions et methode d'evaluation de
systemes de reconnaissance automatique de la parole - systemes de
reconnaissance globale. * Speech class: 11-752 Production, Prosody
and Synthesis taught with Alan Black 11-752 course description * Language Technologies: 11-717 Language
Technologies for Computer-Assisted Language Learning taught with Lori Levin and
Teruko Mitamura 11-717 course description A
book chapter on the material in 11-717: Eskenazi,
M., Brown, J., 2006, Teaching the Creation of Software that Uses Speech
Recognition, in Teacher Education
in CALL, P. Hubbard and M. Levy Eds., Language Learning and Language
Teaching series, John Benjamins Publishing. Here
is an informal course I teach on how to write a scientific paper. Session 1 Here
are some things that may be of interest to you. 1. GRAPHEME_TO-PHONEME DICTIONARY:
I am one of the people who has worked on CMUDICT a large grapheme-to-phoneme
dictionary containing over 130,000 entries. CMUDICT can be used for a variety
of applications and research topics. It is distributed as open source software
and can be found at: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
One of the most promising directions that I know of for language learning is
the one that started with D. Pisoni, A. Bradlow (Northwestern) and R. Yamada
(ATR). They create pairs of sounds (R and L for Japanese learners of English)
and acoustically "pull them apart" until the student can hear the difference
between them. Students for whom this training works often can pronounce a new
sound without having pronunciation training on it. 3. FAUX AMIS: I compiled a list of words (click here) that appear to be the same,
but have very different meanings in French and English. The list is available
here and if you find other entries or would like to suggest modifications or
corrections, please download and let me know. I will be glad to post your
comments and make changes to the list for all to use. Eventually I will add the


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Is Rand Paul's current position on Russia radically wrong?
Submitted by ockhamsliberty on Tue, 03/18/2014 - 16:46Vladimir Putin just made what perhaps will go down as a historic speech. It included some scathing critiques of US foreign policy. I openly admit, that I think he raises a number of interesting questions and makes some valid critiques.
Only place I could find a translation is here (not yet completed though):
Look at this excerpt for example:
"...what do we hear from our colleagues in Western Europe and North America? They say we are violating norms of international law. Firstly, it's a good thing that they at least remember that there exists such a thing as international law – better late than never."
Or consider this one:
"Our western partners, led by the United States of America, prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right. They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle "If you are not with us, you are against us." To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organisations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall."
Ouch again...
It actually is a very interesting question, I think, if the Ukraine referendum is in accordance to international law. There seem to be stronger argument, in terms of international law which both sides are referencing, that is was legal. I have not looked into enough... nevertheless, the US has some explaining how they justify other similar cases as "legal".
That brings me to Rand Paul.
First of all, I am certainly not a "Rand Paul hater." I feel, on the whole, that Rand has exceeded expectations in many areas. He has been impressive as a senator. A senator, however, can become very different person if they reach the White House. They can go back on their promises, or for example not have the backbone to stand up to the military industrial complex.
I have written in the past how I feel Rand as president has real risks for the liberty movement. We should not just ignore what appear to be character warning signs. Critiquing Rand's stated position does not mean one has "Rand Paul blinders on". If someone supports Rand without thinking for themselves, then it is they who are perhaps wearing blinders. Furthermore, it would be a shame if libertarians throw out reason just to support the motto "I stand with Rand."
The whole philosophy, as Mises makes clear, is intimately connected with the free exercise of our reason.
You can see a comment I made last year about it here with subject "Maybe Rand Paul in the White House"
Nevertheless, I remain reluctant to be persuaded that Rand in the White House would be wonderful for the liberty movement. My doubts became stronger after reading his Times piece, "Sen. Rand Paul: U.S. Must Take Strong Action Against Putin's Aggression"
Thus the question, is Rand Paul radically wrong about his current position on Russia? How is Rand Paul's position not entirely contradictory to a fundamental tenet of libertarianism?
I am not giddy to to critique Rand... far from it... however, some of his statements are concerning to say the least.
Consider Rand's opening two quotes in his piece:
"Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. His continuing occupation of Ukraine is completely unacceptable, and Russia's President should be isolated for his actions."
"It is America's duty to condemn these actions in no uncertain terms. It is our role as a global leader to be the strongest nation in opposing Russia's latest aggression."
He ends the piece with:
"The real problem is that Russia's President is not currently fearful or threatened in any way by America's President, despite his country's blatant aggression.
But let me be clear: If I were President, I wouldn't let Vladimir Putin get away with it."
So Rand, the real problem here is that Putin simply does not feel currently fearful or threatened by our president? What other leaders do we need to make sure feels the fear and threat of our president? What exactly would you do, Rand, so that Putin would not "get away with it"? And if your initial plan did not work, then what would you do to ENSURE Russia was punished?
Or, concerning markets:
"I would do everything in my power to aggressively market and export America's vast natural gas resources to Europe."
What does the office of the president have to do with marketing a product? Certainly they can use their influence to push for free market principles, but that is not solely what Rand's wording suggests. Is it a president's role to do "everything in their power" to market a product? What does that entail?
I am not going to dispute that this piece just increased his chances of a shot at the white house. It certainly might have to a great degree. It perhaps the most political move I have seen Rand take. My concern, however, is just that, i.e., that we have another politician on our hands. His piece sounds very close to exactly the point that both democrats and republicans agree on in terms of foreign policy... the point that is contradictory to the whole Libertarian philosophy.
Some folks will want to mention that this is part of the reality of what it takes to achieve political victory. Well, his father, even with commitment to principle changed the face of politics in this country, and beyond. That was even with him presenting a philosophy which was very much at that time against the status quo... and those same ideas are still spreading. So it's hard for me, for a number of reasons, to take this "political reality" justification too seriously. Besides, talk of war is hardly something ever to take lightly.
If someone has a way of justifying Rand Paul's position regarding Russia, as written in his recent piece, then please comment.
Specifically, however, I am interested in hearing a libertarian justification for his position not merely a political justification, which is not hard to see. Some fundamental aspects of his presentation appear to fly in the face of Misean style libertarianism. For starters, the principle of "non-intervention".
Any thoughts from the community?
After writing this, I just read Ron Paul's piece in USA Today (it has it's own post):
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The man has Ron Paul's ear
At this point I don't care what differences in opinion I might have with Rand Paul, he still has the ear and mind of Ron Paul to consult at a moment's notice.
If you ever felt like Ron Paul was speaking for you, just imagine your own son being president and the wealth of knowledge and advice you could offer him.
With Rand Paul as president, Ron Paul is our direct voice. That alone is reason enough to prefer a Rand Paul presidency.
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I have been looking into the situation
I have been watching Vice documentaries about Crimea recently. At first I was watching the protest footage from Kiev, and it was pretty intense. I have to say, the Ukrainian protesters seem like they're far more rational and tolerant than the Russians in Crimea. The Russian protesters seriously look like jack booted thugs. They recently killed two Ukrainian protesters in a disgusting incident. I think Putin and Russia are acting like a bunch of thugs, but it isn't really any of our business. I hope the best for the Ukraine in their dispute with Russia, but I don't support using our military or tax payer money to support it.
Here is the link to the rest of Vice's coverage
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To: Ghostbuster----a few suggestions
To use the word "thug" is a word I've heard the neocons use on TV, so right there you are revealing your true thoughts.
My suggestion is this-----READ----if you have the time----
the Russian Populist by Matthew Johnson, PhD.
He is an expert historian whose book was recommended on Lew Rockwell's website. He talks about Putin's ideas on the economy, how he envisions Russia, what his ideas on humanity are, and the history and relationship of Russia & Ukraine.
It was an eye-opening book, and I highly recommend everyone read it. You will begin to understand why Putin has an approval rating of about 75-85% consistently over the past 4 years.
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Did you SEE what the neocons were talking about?
Did you see the THUGS? Or did you just hear nwocons talking about it but didn't bother to see what they were talking about because they are neocons and it's not what you actually see, but what you hear?
What I saw was what looked like the Russian prison population of hardened criminals hanging out in neighborhoods in black and threatening people because they knew the people did not have the arms to protect themselves. It was bullying. If you were a Ukrainian and said "Long Live the Ukraine", they would beat you. That's what I saw.. abnd then I saw Putin put the military on the border and the Russians laugh.
Putin's approval rating is because of the UN treaties of communication and the RT and Press TV on the internet that pound BAD AMERICA BAD ISRAEL.. GOOD Russia GOOD Iran.. neither Iran or Russia are GOOD by WESTERN CULTURE.. I'm western culture. I like western culture. Many Americans are war tired and blaming America so America has an inner struggle.. but I would say, and I hope I'm wrong, but I would say with the economic collapse will come a new government, and maybe it will be Putin who will represent Americans, because Putins nation building and invasions, arming dictators like Assad who has purged his population and murdered 200K of his people.. what's not to like eh? All for ports.
Anti-war has become not anti-war, but anti-America.
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Thank you!
If people actually took the time to see what's really going on in Ukraine, they would not be praising Putin.
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They are acting like a bunch of thugs.
The Ukrainians ousted their pro-Russian president. Then Russia tried to take Crimea. Now, the former rioters are joining the military to defend themselves from Russia. It definitely looks like Russia is the bad guy here. And I'm not sure how you could defend Putin's economic views. He's an even bigger socialist than Obama and Bush combined. And please don't compare me to neocons. I actually took the time to research this subject. I'm not just repeating partisan talking points.
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Where does Governor Ventura stand on Russia & Ukraine
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You prefer the pristine Rand Paul who could never be president
to the Rand Paul who might actually one day be president. Fair enough
You may be forgetting that the choice will not be Rand or Ron. It will be Rand or Hillary. Or perhaps Rand or Chris. Or maybe Rand or Jeb.
So when you say, "I remain reluctant to be persuaded that Rand in the White House would be wonderful for the liberty movement", I wonder if that means you think Hillary or Chris or Jeb would be better?
I think he is trying to win. I know that just bothers the hell out of many of you.
The world will not end over a few symbolic sanctions on Russian. Nor will it end if Rand plays the political game a bit.
He is ahead in the polls by the way. He might actually be able to DO something for the movement one of these days... as opposed to just emitting more hot air.
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Ron Paul did not "win",
Ron Paul did not "win", however, just about everyone would agree that he was great for the liberty movement. How do you account for that?
The whole political landscape changed in this country, even though he did not "win". Getting those ideas out in the public space as a competing alternative changed people's minds on a whole range of issues... is that not DOING something? Ideas of non-interventionism certainly was a major factor that literally kept this country out of another war.
The political landscape is changing all the time, to such an extend that Ron Paul can genuinely and accurately say, that the people are coming our way on these issues.
Where the political balance on this question I suppose is a decision everyone must make for themselves. Though, we also should keep in mind that a large part of the strength of conservative libertarianism is in the consistency of its message. It's principals would not be consistent if, for example, interventionism was dropped as one of it fundamental tenets.
Leaving aside the question of what is the right balance between sticking to principals and playing the "political game", can you nevertheless tell me how to make Rand's statements consistent with the libertarian principle of non-interventionism?
By the way, if his position here can not be made consistent does not mean I would not vote for him. That in the end will have to be a judgement call. Regardless, should I not be free to critique what appears to be an inconsistent position of his?
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Sadly, Politics in America is an Incremental Game of Deception
Agenda's must be pushed over decades. The masses must be moved with subtly and intrigue... not persuasion.
I have no doubt that the power elite was what I would consider facist in 1970. But they didn't run as facist.... at least not in name. They use opportunism and obfuscation and bureaucracy and deception and ignorance and "education" and conditioning and media to implement a plan. It was all very singleminded and ruthless and tireless. It was anything but honest and forthright. And politics was the major consideration all along.
You don't have to approve of dishonesty to understand that had they declared themselves fascists, from the outset, on the hope that "the people" would come around to their way of thinking... then they would never have won a single election.
Ron Paul persuaded most of the people who have been truly paying attention and truly understand and love freedom. That got him approximately 10%. Don't for a moment suppose that it will be easy to go from that 10% to a majority of this electorate. A good portion of that 41% needed are more likely to radicalize to the left in the coming years of misery. People in dispair will not radicalize towards freedom, but away from it. The oppressed unaware will not radicalize from Government, but towards it.
I wish it were not so, but in this arena, change must happen from the top down. We cannot simply rely on the power of ideas. We cannot continue a strategy of "crying in the wilderness". If we try that, we may maintain our purity, our integrity, our philosophical consistency, but we will lose everything else.
Do you honestly think the majority will take to reading Austrian Economics instead of watching the boob tube?
And the elite? They like winners and they respect power. They can be persuaded... but only by the winner. They will give their treasure, but only to the powerful.
No my good friend. The time has come to take power The time has come to put one of our own in the White House. Have your misgivings. Lament the inconsistencies. Fret over the apparent betrayals. But in the end, have the good sense to recognize that we need power. The only way to get it is craftiness.
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Thank-you, sincerely, for
Thank-you, sincerely, for your comment and your strong points which are well taken.
Though, I ask that you to re-consider a few things as it certainly is not a position without real risks.
First, it seems you are very close to equating the battle of ideas with that of historical political battles. Because someone tries separate the two does not mean they are necessarily ignorant of the reality of politics. I have seen some of it firsthand. I believe Ron Paul saw clearly the distinction. That is why it is that much more impressive that he chose, nevertheless, to take the battle of ideas directly to Washington (mess and all).
Some aspect of your position reminds me of an assertion made by Marx:
"Hitherto, philosophers have sought to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it."
Or, if we consider Mises's summary:
"The essence of Marxian philosophy is this: We are right because we are the spokesmen of the rising proletarian class. Discursive reasoning cannot invalidate our teachings, for they are inspired by the supreme power that determines the destiny of mankind. Our adversaries are wrong because they lack the intuition that guides our minds. It is, of course, not their fault that on account of their class affiliation they are not equipped with the genuine proletarian logic and are blinded by ideologies. The unfathomable decrees of history that have elected us have doomed them. The future is ours."
Personally, I have more hope in a pristine 10% that is gaining momentum then a 51% in two years that euphorically jumps on an ideology bandwagon which has a blatant contradiction. Non-intervention is hardly a principle that we can feel comfortable diminishing. Even talk of war is not something to take lightly.
There is nothing perhaps inherently wrong with political craftiness. Though, in the end, we should have the good sense to recognize the difference between truth and untruth.
"Logical thinking and real life are not two separate orbits. Logic is for man the only means to master the problems of reality. What is contradictory in theory, is no less contradictory in reality. No ideological inconsistency can provide a satisfactory, i.e., working, solution for the problems offered by the facts of the world. The only effect of contradictory ideologies is to conceal the real problems and thus to prevent people from finding in time an appropriate policy for solving them.... Man has only one tool to fight error: reason." Ludwig Von Mises discussingthe role of ideas:
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It's as if there is no choice.......
Wait.....isn't that the same as the last 30 years? No change in policies? No change to the Polit Bureau? Slaves to the FED and the Empire?
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."--Mark Twain
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If we can't elect a pristine Rand Paul, What's the point?
If we can only elect a neocon Rand Paul, we have failed. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
Leges sine moribus vanae
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Channeling Reagan....
Rand Paul has been making many references to Ronald Reagan in recent weeks because I believe he correctly senses that there is still a vast reservoir of legacy support among Republicans for Reagan that Paul can tap into. Reagan is best known for taking on and bringing down the Soviet Union without firing a shot. It makes sense at a time like this that Rand Paul would respond to the Ukraine/Crimea crisis by talking tough with Russia. However, to see him being a mouthpiece for the neocon agenda is very dispiriting and disturbing. Reagan was not a neocon. I hope Rand Paul comes to his senses before he goes any further down this path and I hope he finds a way to start back tracking from this dangerous foreign policy posturing.
Ed Rombach
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I don't think it's that difficult.
Of course I am not an American but it sounds to me like Rand supports the Empire. That is what Ron hates and what he spent his entire political life, and afterwards, opposing.
The End the Fed movement has faded into oblivion and that was critical. The Audit the Fed action is going nowhere and even it became law there is no guarantee it would be acted on honestly.
The critical policy for me was the End the Empire one, to close the overseas bases and dismantle the entire ugly structure of military aggression. That the President CAN do and if Ron had been elected that is what he would have done.
I am sorry to be blunt but Rand does not understand foreign affairs. He is an average American who still accepts the American Dream is alive and well and it is his country right or wrong.
If his statements about Russia are just political to gain votes then he is untrustworthy and not worth voting for. If he means them then he is not worth voting for, if one is a non-interventionist who wants to dismantle the Empire.
There are those who support Rand and believe that what he is doing is to gain support in the Republican Party, win the nomination and the Presidency, then turn into another Ron Paul. If that is the case then they are deceiving themselves. I have seen people do this time after time and I have done it myself with other politicians. It's not worth lying to oneself.
Face the truth about Rand. On the really BIG issues he is just another politician. He does not understand, as his father does, that all these things are inextricably connected. It is impossible to oppose the Surveillance State, support the Empire and go softly on the Fed. They are all one and the same. THAT is what Ron Paul understood and his son does not.
"Jesus answered them: 'Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.'" (John 8:34-36)
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Rand on foreign policy.
Rand's done himself no good here. Should it be party-line policy he's echoing, then with the able assistance of Cruz and Rubio, he's firmly placed himself in the knee-jerk reacting, neo-con camp. The only thing missing from the rhetoric, reminisent of the Bush era, is the reference to WMD's. And if that is the case, the Repulicans have simply shown themselves, once again, as the other side of the same coin.
Should Rand be adopting his own policy on Russia's actions in Crimea, then he's totally jumped the gun, misinterpreted reality and failed to assess public perception. Obviously he's not learned a thing from the Syrian debacle and is in fact supporting the administration stance, only claiming 'he'd get the job done'.
A wiser man would have let the dust settle and taken a more informed stance. Should he actually believe his own rhetoric, then he's simply shot himself in the foot.
"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here" (Shakespeare)
RP 2012~ Intellectual Revolution.
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I Agree.....
Rand was prematurely shooting from the hip and only succeeded in shooting his foot. I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt that if he had a chance to do it over, he would be much more cautious and circumspect. He has some explaining to do.
Ed Rombach
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What is radically wrong
is a system and a electorate that pretty much puts good folks like Rand in a situation that he has to take a position to appeal to a bunch of brain dead voters to advance our cause...THAT is what is radically wrong. Exactly what ISN'T radically wrong in this country right now anyway?
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams
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I will tell you this
if Rand gets in The White House, which I will do everything I can to help him achieve such, if he totally goes against everything we think he is, then I will know we are screwed, and I will drop out of the system completely. Rand comes from Ron, we all for the most part agree with Ron, so if his son ends up being a neocon, do you all think we have anything left? We won't. That is how I feel about it, I will give Rand all the room he needs and all the moves he needs to make and will not hold him to any fire, and this will be my last hurrah to see if we have a chance at saving this place by voting. Thats my two cents. We certainly have bigger fish to scrutinize at this time.
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This, this and more this
I'll do my best to help Rand get elected. If he fucks us, well we were fucked anyway, nothing changed. Maybe, just maybe he won't, but he is my last effort at the voting booth.
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You won't have to wait that long..to know..
You will not have to even wait that long to determine whether Rand Paul will become, or already is, a "neocon" (or at least neocon-lite).
People never evaluate politicians correctly, because they're too busy paying attention to what a politician says in public speeches (and other theatrics).
But you always judge a politician by two important factors:
1. Policy Votes:
If they vote for Sanctions, support CIA Covert Criminal activity, conflate "being tough" with Military violence, etc. --- then this is exactly the kind of tyranny you will get when they get to the White House as well.
2. Who are their inner circle of advisors, and assistants?
If any of their advisors are Neocons, then count them as a Neocon as well.
Garbage in....Garbage out!
It's that simple.
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As it should be.tog.
Rand isn't his father but for people to think for a second he landed THAT far away from the tree is absurd. He grew up watching his father. He knows what works and what doesn't work...cut the guy some slack people and let him play his game of Chess. Think any of you could do better in the environment he is in ? I think not..His father sure didn't. You cant achieve change if you cant get anybody in the position to bring it...
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams
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I Question Rand on this One
I am not so sure Rand made the right move on this one, especially since it almost a opposite stance from what Ron Paul has been saying.
I really don't know if in his careful treading of the waters to play the game, he accidently overstepped on this one or was given bad advice. I really can't see Rand being on the side of the fence that he finds himself on on this one.
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I agree... I am not sure
I agree... I am not sure either.
However, it is clear that this piece is related with the White House in mind... just look at the last two sentences:
"The real problem is that Russia's President is not currently fearful or threatened in any way by America's President, despite his country's blatant aggression.
But let me be clear: If I were President, I wouldn't let Vladimir Putin get away with it."
It looks to me that he must have gotten a huge amount of flak, from somewhere, for his original interview regarding Russia. Which he even seems close to a non-interventionist stance.
You can see that short interview here:
He seems here to be relaxed and saying what he thinks... apparently, however, there were folks who really did not like hearing Rand speak about Russia in that way.
The piece he wrote, almost seems to suggest that he thought a lot was on the line in terms of chances for the nomination... but who knows.
Either way, there is a problem here... what happens if he is in the White House and certain powerful lobbyist groups can pressure him, in a similar way, into starting a war? What if he did it then without congressional authority?
Well, if that happens, I imagine the folks over at the Weekly Standard will all happily be signing their names under "In Liberty".
I want someone to convince me how that is not a real risk for the liberty movement.
It takes a tremendous amount of character to stand on principle in the face of that kind of pressure... and the pressure it could even be much greater than we know. I actually think Ron had a good chance of withstanding that pressure... he proved that he could handle a great deal of it and still stand on principle.
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They wouldn't let
Ron near the WH, let alone Tampa Convention. The voting neo-cons still don't want to hear that message.
If Rand were to win, he could then set the tone and bring Taft roots back to the people who voted him in. At that point the "R" wins and the voters will be happy.
"What if the American people learn the truth" - Ron Paul
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GREAT POST! Rand is
Rand is disappointing me more and more every week that goes by...
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FACTS & STATS: Site: Convocation Center (9,500) -- Athens, Ohio. Television: TWC, ESPN3.com. Home Record: Miami 5-3, Ohio 10-3. Away Record: Miami 4-8, Ohio 6-3. Neutral Record: Miami 0-0, Ohio 0-0. Conference Record: Miami 5-4, Ohio 6-3. Series Record: Ohio leads, 100-91.
GAME NOTES: The Ohio University Bobcats will have a chance to gain some separation from the middle of the congested Mid-American Conference standings on Saturday, as they take on the Miami-Ohio RedHawks at the Convocation Center.
Ohio was defeated by Western Michigan on Wednesday, 90-74, with the loss bringing dropping it into a three-way tie with the Broncos and Buffalo for third place in the MAC standings. The Bobcats, who are still just a game out of first place, are 16-6 overall, including its 6-3 league mark. Next up they will visit Toledo and Buffalo in two important bouts.
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Ohio swept the season series with the RedHawks for the second straight year in 2012-13. As a result, the Bobcats lead the all-time series by a count of 100-91.
Joshua Oswald scored 10 points as the only player in double figures for Miami as it was defeated 53-41 by Northern Illinois on Wednesday. The RedHawks had only 15 field goals in the contest, during which they shot 30 percent from the floor, including a woeful 1-of-15 effort from 3-point range.
Miami is prone to shortcomings at the offensive end. The RedHawks are only netting 65.8 ppg, while shooting at a 43.9 percent clip from the field. Will Felder (14.2 ppg, 7.2 rpg) does his best to keep the team afloat, leading in scoring and rebounding, while finishing on 53.8 percent of his attempts from the floor. However, Felder gets very little help, with Geovonie McKnight (9.8 ppg) and Will Sullivan (9.2 ppg) the next best scoring threats. None of the three had much luck against Northern Illinois, as they combined to score 16 points.
There was quite a bit more offense in Ohio's tilt with Western Michigan. However, the Bobcats lost despite shooting 51.9 percent from the floor, which included an 11-of-23 showing from beyond the arc. Ball control hurt Ohio in the setback, as it was outscored 24-7 off of turnovers.
Maurice Ndour (15.5 ppg, 7.9 rpg) is one of two double-digit scorers for the Bobcats, who rank third in the MAC in both scoring (71.9 ppg) and field goal percentage (.448). Ndour, who also leads the team in rebounds, finished with 20 points and six boards in the loss to Western Michigan. He has now scored at least 20 points in three straight games, following a seven-point performance against Eastern Michigan. Nick Kellogg (14.5 ppg) is the other half of Ohio's top scoring duo. He tacked on 13 points and five assists against WMU, but he only sank 6-of-14 shots from the field.
There may be more balance on offense for Miami, but there is more substance for the Bobcats. Expect Ohio to bounce back rather easily in this matchup.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Ohio University 73, Miami-Ohio 64