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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich.
The blueprint by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was headed for all but certain House passage Thursday, mostly along party lines. It faces a demise that is just as sure in the Democratic-run Senate, which plans to ignore it, but the battle remains significant because of the clarity with which it contrasts the two parties' budgetary visions for voters.The Republican budget plan for fiscal 2013 calls for extending the federal pay freeze through 2015, increasing federal retirement contributions and cutting the federal workforce by 10 percent.
Republicans were focused on sharper deficit reduction and starkly less government than Democrats wanted and were proposing to lower income tax rates while erasing many unspecified tax breaks. Obama and Democrats were ready to boost taxes on families making above $250,000 and on oil and gas companies, add spending for roads and schools and cull more modest savings from domestic programs.
"They're choosing the next election over the next generation," Ryan said, deriding Democrats' plans as far too timid. He added, "If we don't tackle these fiscal problems soon, they're going to tackle us as a country."
Democrats said they, too, were eager to stanch deficits that now exceed $1 trillion annually. But they said it needed to be done in a more balanced way, with rich and poor alike sharing the load.
"It's a path to greater prosperity — if you're already wealthy," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), top Democrat on the Budget panel, mocking the "Path to Prosperity" title Ryan has given his document. "Because our Republican colleagues refuse to ask millionaires to contribute one cent to deficit reduction, they hit everyone and everything else."
In a pair of preliminary votes expected Thursday, conservatives were offering their own proposal with deeper spending cuts and far faster deficit-reduction than the GOP plan, claiming to balance the budget in just five years. Democrats were pushing a measure featuring pumped-up spending for education and new tax credits for companies creating jobs and raising wages, while claiming savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, government waste and reductions in farm payments.
Both were destined to be defeated.
Underscoring the prickly partisan gulf over how to tackle the budget's drastic imbalances, the House late Wednesday on a 382-38 vote easily shot down a compromise, bipartisan deficit-cutting plan by moderates of both parties that mingled tax increases with spending cuts.
The measure was modeled roughly on a package produced by Obama's deficit-reduction commission. The commission's plan drew praise from prominent deficit foes but was treated coolly by Obama and congressional leaders of both parties.
The House also voted 414-0 Wednesday to reject Obama's budget, with Democrats accusing the GOP of forcing the vote to embarrass them. Democrats were concerned Republicans would use campaign ads to link Democrats who supported Obama's plan to all of its details, including tax increases and boosts for unpopular programs.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is trying out a new concept for IT acquisition. Rather than paying vendors to build systems according to rigorous government specifications that might, one day, meet the agency's mission, it's offering cash prizes to any vendor who can prove their product successfully integrates with its electronic health records system.
The system, VistA, is used to manage patient records throughout the VA healthcare system and in some private-sector hospitals. In 2011, the department released the entire system into the open source software world, committing that VistA and any improvements VA made to it would be freely available to the public.
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"We really like the prize idea," Baker said. "Because I can picture vendors out there that wonder whether or not they want to get involved with the open source. When you put a $3 million prize out there, it's much easier for, let's say their director of engineering, to come in and say, 'Look, I can make our scheduling package compatible with the open source, the prize will cover a lot of my costs to do it, and then we get to compete to sell them a license to our package for 153 VA facilities, and who knows how big that's going to be.'"
Baker said one firm already has submitted a successful candidate for the prize. Ultimately, he expects more applicants to participate than there are prizes available. It's still unclear how well the prize system will work but, Baker said if it does, the implications are huge for reducing government IT development costs.
"Nobody's done this before inside of government, and we're looking to really see how this works. But the risk reduction here is incredible," he said. "If I know that there are four scheduling packages that already work with VistA, and all I've got to do is figure out how to choose amongst them, I don't have to worry about spending $127 million and getting nothing out of it anymore. That's a dark blot on VA's software development history, but it's a fact. And boy, I want to stay as far away from that as far as I possibly can."
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The prize concept, if it works as intended, could be used for other aspects of the health record system, including the joint VA-DoD effort to build an integrated health record system, Baker said. The idea could eventually get used for other huge IT projects like the Veterans Benefits Management System, the paperless claims system VA is currently rolling out across the country.
"I would ask why I wouldn't eventually make VBMS an open source platform too, and start letting people interface their automated decision tools, for example, and selecting those to run inside VBMS. I think the combination of open source and prizes has some incredible implications for getting government out of the business of bearing the sole risk of development to its requirements, and also getting government out of defining its requirements in such a unique way that nobody else uses them," Baker said.
But for now, VBMS, the claims system, is suffering through some hiccups. The project, which is VA's effort to speed up veterans benefits claims by eliminating the mountains of paper involved in the current claims process, hit a snag in December when the department deployed it to 18 of its regional offices. Users were suddenly confronted with huge performance issues on the system.
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VA plans to have the system deployed in all its claims offices by December. Where it's installed, new veterans claims will be handled completely electronically. Existing claims will be handled and closed out on the old paper system.
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January 26, 04
Vol. 19 , No. 05
Science Stumbles on Design
For thousands of years men and women have looked at the heavens and the earth and wondered whether the marvels of the natural world, especially the great variety and complexity of living things, manifest the conscious design of an omnipotent being or are merely the results of unguided physical processes, of matter in motion following universal laws of nature. In recent years the debate over Intelligent Design has reached fever pitch as some scientists have claimed that the findings of natural science itself provide compelling evidence of design in nature. Unlike "creation scientists," whose beliefs about the origin of the universe derive from a literal reading of Genesis, advocates of Intelligent Design do not rely on religious writings, but on science itself, to support their conclusions about design.
The most prominent advocate of the design hypothesis in the life sciences is Lehigh University biochemist Michael J. Behe, whose bestselling 1996 book, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, attracted enormous attention by scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Behe argues that in the past half century science has unexpectedly discovered enormous complexity in the cell at the very foundation of life. Molecular machines -literally, machines made of molecules -move supplies around the cell, convert foodstuffs to chemical energy, and perform all the other intricate functions necessary to sustain life. Such complexity, he maintains, is better explained as the product of deliberate intelligent design than as the result of Darwinian processes of random mutation and natural selection.
Michael J. Behe has a B.S. in chemistry from Drexel University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on sickle-cell disease. He has also done postdoctoral work on DNA structure at the National Institutes of Health. He has been at Lehigh University since 1985, where he is currently Professor of Biochemistry. Behe and his wife reside near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with their nine children.
Professor Behe's talk will be the first of three on Intelligent Design. He will be followed on March 2 by Intelligent Design theorist William Dembski, a mathematician and philosopher, and on March 8 by Eugenie Scott, a prominent critic of Intelligent Design.
This series on Intelligent Design is sponsored by Claremont McKenna College's Salvatori Center and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
Integration Denied/Equality Deferred: The Failure of Brown vs. Board
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2004 7:00 p.m. MCKENNA AUDITORIUM
Fifty years have passed since the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education. The ruling was supposed to be the end of the "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896 in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson. But, have we progressed as far as many seem to think in this attempt to provide equal opportunity for all? Noted historian, political theorist, and human rights activist Dr. Manning Marable will address this question in a public lecture sponsored by The Claremont Colleges Dr. Martin Luther King,. Jr. Commemoration Committee.
Manning Marable is one of America's most influential historians and political interpreters of the Black experience. A professor of history and political science at Columbia University in New York City since 1993, Marable also serves as the founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies. Previously he was founding director of Colgate University's Africana and Hispanic Studies Program, and chaired the Black Studies Department of Ohio State University. Widely respected for his insight on the politics of race in America, Manning Marable also champions the struggles of racial minorities, women, lesbian, gay, labor, and social justice groups.
With nearly twenty books and a nationally syndicated column, Manning Marable is one of the most widely read intellectuals in the United States. His books and anthologies include: The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2003); Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal with coeditor Leith Mullings (2000); Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience, editor (2000); Black Leadership (1998); Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997); Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (1996); and Beyond Black and White (1995). Marable's syndicated political affairs commentary series, "Along the Color Line," appears in more than 400 publications throughout the United States and internationally.
In 2002 Marable launched the "Africana Criminal Justice Project," to encourage the development of civic capacity building and leadership training among former prisoners. The Project also proposes fundamental legal reforms within the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex.
Dr. Marable's address begins at 7:00 p.m. in McKenna Auditorium at CMC and is free and open to the public. Reservations for dinner are limited and on a first-come basis. Reservations are not needed to attend just the lecture.
Always Do Right
FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley's "Bombshell Memo" to Director Robert Mueller in May 2002 catapulted her into the media after 21 years of dedicated, and relatively low profile, service to the country. In a 13-page memo Rowley criticized the FBI's response to terrorist activity in the U.S. prior to September 11th, specifically detailing the bureaucracy that discouraged further investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui (the alleged 20th hijacker). Her uneasiness after 9/11 also stemmed from the public statements made by FBI leadership. A woman of solid principles, Rowley wrote, "I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring." Making her criticism constructive, this whistle-blower also offered some blueprints for institutional change within the organization.
Less than a year after her Congressional testimony, Rowley made an attempt to warn Director Mueller and other administration officials about the dangers of launching the war in Iraq. After arguing in vain that the war in Iraq would only encourage more attacks domestically and complicate the "war on terror," Rowley "stepped down" in April 2003 from her legal position as Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel to go back to being a FBI Special Agent. She also began to speak publicly on ethics and ethical decision-making.
Named by Time magazine a 2002 Person of the Year, Coleen Rowley grew up in Iowa and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in French from Wartburg College. She also attended the College of Law at the University of Iowa and graduated with honors in 1980. Since joining the FBI in 1981, her assignments have included working on Organized Crime in New York and serving as an assistant legal attache in Paris and Montreal. She is married and the mother of four children ranging in age from eight to twenty-one.
Please join us for what is sure to be an inspiring and memorable lecture on ethics as Coleen Rowley shares her unique perspective and experience.
Special Agent Rowley's visit to CMC is cosponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
Always do right-this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain
The Year of the Monkey
KAREN HAN, erhu
CECELIA LIU, zither
JERRY CHEN, piano
To me, playing erhu is the best way to express myself, my feelings, my love, my compassion, and my admiration for this world.
-Karen Han
The Athenaeum will usher in the Year of the Wood/ Green Monkey, "Jia Shen," for its 12th annual Lunar New Year celebration-having come full circle on this ancient astrological calendar introduced in 263 BC. According to this ancient perspective on modern life, one should expect a year of sidestepping problems and clever manipulations, backed by intelligence and guile. Bluffs, tricks, ruses, and deceptions abound during Monkey years. Those who enjoy risk and novelty thrive; those who prefer predictability and convention wince. This is also a year to give full rein to your imagination, but also be wary of overoptimism.
In addition to a culinary treat, guests at this celebration will also have the good fortune to hear a concert by Karen Han, internationally renowned erhu virtuoso, and ensemble. The erhu is a two-stringed Chinese violin dating back well over a thousand years. The horsehair of the bow runs under the strings, so the bow cannot be separated from the instrument. The youngest person to have acquired both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in performance arts from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, Han has already accumulated more than 20 years professional experience in television, film, and live concerts. Most of us have heard Karen's erhu in the movies The Joy Luck Club (1993) and The Last Emperor (1987), the latter awarded an Oscar for Best Original Music. There, her playing was remarkable, nor only for its intricacy, but also for the emotion it conveyed.
Han's repertory includes not only traditional Chinese music, but also Western classics, a reflection of her desire to get closer to the two great cultural traditions. Karen Han will be joined in the performance by Cecelia Liu, zither, and Jerry Chen, piano. Dinner reservations are for CMC persons only. The concert is open to all.
Unfortunately, rape is an epidemic that is severely misunderstood, especially on college campuses. According to the most in-depth study to date by Mary Koss of the University of Arizona, at least one in six college women will become a victim of rape or attempted rape. According to Koss, only 27 percent of those victimized realized that their sexual assault fell within the legal definition of rape with 46 percent saying they had been victims of "serious miscommunication" rather than rape.
Rebecca Butler will open your eyes with her passionate presentation on the misconceptions of rape and abuse. A victim of date rape herself, she seeks to dispel the common belief that rape can only happen with a masked stranger late at night. Similarly, one would be overlooking the majority of domestic abuse if they believe that it can only occur by physical means. Butler will show you that abuse can come emotionally, verbally, and socially. Most importantly, her presentation will help to alleviate the problem of "serious miscommunication" by fine-tuning your understanding of yes and no. Her program helps people discuss sexual limits without feeling awkward and gives positive, proactive advice about how to practice the appropriate amount of responsibility for sexuality in relationships.
Rebecca Butler has given over 100 presentations for organizations ranging from the Cleveland Browns and Indians to the American College Health Association. Please come and join us at the Athenaeum where you will have the opportunity to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the problem at hand and learn what you can do to keep your relationships stable and full of communication.
Crisis in Africa: A New Pan African Vision
African Americans must become for Africa what Jewish Americans have become for Israel. African Americans should become the advocates, representatives, collaborators and business agents for the nations of Africa and the African Diaspora.
-Bishop Charles Blake, pastor of the Los Angeles-based, 24,000 member West Angeles Church of God in Christ
Darrell Smith, a 1974 graduate of Claremont McKenna College, stepped up to this challenge and walked away from twenty years of success in the corporate world of Procter & Gamble, Helene Curtis, and his own founding business, Smith & Associates, to be named executive director of the nonprofit Pan-African Children's Fund/ Save Africa's Children. This organization was formed in 2001 with a central focus of outreach to the crises in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 12 million AIDS orphans and over a million AIDS/HIV positive children.
In his Athenaeum talk, Smith will explore some real time information about the current orphan situation throughout Africa and his micro analysis will make plain the macro problem, such as the UN AIDS estimate of 40 million orphans in Africa by 2010. Save Africa's Children reports that this is the largest epidemic since the bubonic plague, claiming more than 6 million lives. This dilemma will lead to further complications in the near future as the adult mortality rate continues to drop with 6,000 AIDS deaths a day. Drastic measures must be taken to stem the negative tide of social and financial collapse in many sub-Saharan countries and provide for the estimated need for 50,000 orphanages in Africa in the coming decade.
Smith challenges America and the role it must play in order to insure that there is a future for the children of Africa.
"The devastation is so large and critical, it is very hard to harness what I want to say and give it a title that will tell the story," says Smith. Please come and hear his story.
Challenging Boundaries in Life and in the Media
Legendary writer Norman Corwin and actress Jonelle Allen are making their first visit to Claremont to speak with students in the Athenaeum. Corwin and Allen will describe their work in the Hollywood movie business, and Corwin will also share some of his personal experiences as a radio reporter during World War II and the McCarthy trials. Students will have the opportunity to ask Corwin and Allen questions regarding their work in the film industry.
Corwin is an American director, producer, writer, essayist, and professor of journalism at USC. He has won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and two Peabody awards. He was also nominated for an Oscar for his widely celebrated screenplay Lust for Life (1956). Corwin also wrote the screenplays for The Story of Ruth (1960), The Blue Veil (1951), Forever and a Day (1943), No Place to Hide (1956), and Madison Avenue (1962).
In 1993 Corwin was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame for his successful work on such radio dramas as The Columbia Workshop (1941). One of his most famous radio dramas, On a Note of Triumph (1945), is a celebration of the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. Ray Bradbury has commended Corwin as the finest writer of the century, and has mentioned that Corwin was responsible for his publication of The Martian Chronicles (1950).
The renowned actress Jonelle Allen received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical and won an Outer Critics Circle Award for her role in a Broadway musical, Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593). She also received a Dramalogue Award for her role in the South Bay Civic Light Opera's production of Man of La Mancha (1965).
Allen made her television debut in The Merry Mailman, which also starred Ray Heatherton. Recently, Allen has had major roles on several popular television series, including Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Michael Crichton's ER.
This special evening at the Athenaeum is cosponsored by The Collage, the independent student newspaper of The Claremont Colleges.
Gray Zones: The Sonderkommando
On February 1944, just 60 years ago, Primo Levi, a Jewish chemist, was deported from Italy to Auschwitz. Few essays about the Holocaust are more important than the one he wrote about "The Gray Zone," which explores circumstances in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. Levi's account pays particular attention to the Sonderkommando (special squad) that the Germans created in Auschwitz. The prisoners in the Sonderkommando were required to work in the gas chambers and crematoria.
Levi's account suggests that there were many zones and degrees of "gray" during and after the Holocaust. Following his lead, Gray Zones, the inaugural conference (February 5-7) sponsored by the Claremont McKenna College Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, explores a variety of those situations, beginning tonight with an analysis of the circumstances and dilemmas confronted by the Sonderkommando.
The program will open with conference keynote remarks by Michael Berenbaum, a renowned scholar of the Holocaust, who returns to the Athenaeum after serving as CMC's 2003 Podlich Distinguished Visitor. Joseph Russin, a distinguished filmmaker, will present Evidence, an important documentary about the Sonderkommndo. Also featured are Gideon Greif, a historian from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Israel, who is the author of We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz (1999), and a special friend of the Center, Dario Gabbai, who was conscripted into the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. He is one of the very few survivors of that "special squad," whose conception and organization, Primo Levi said, "was National Socialism's most demonic crime."
With presentations by more than twenty internationally known Holocaust scholars, the Gray Zones conference continues on February 6 and 7. The public is cordially invited to attend without charge. Cosponsors of the conference include the Holocaust Educational Foundation and Lessons and Legacies (Skokie, Illinois); the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and the Podlich Distinguished Visitor Program at CMC; and the Department of Sociology at Pomona College.
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30 Nov 2011 11:55 AM #11
@dawesi: Bear in mind that this is the initial version, and to get something rolled out you usually have to prioritize and leave some things out. A lot of what you mentioned (though not all) is already on our road map internally, but please do keep the feedback coming -- very helpful.
@skirtle: Agreed, a distinction there would be good.
@nohuhu: What additional level of integration did you have in mind?
@mankz: +100 -- I've already suggested it myself, haven't yet won the argument
30 Nov 2011 12:16 PM #12
@brian: Show Devs profile, recommendations and endorsements in Market; show Market addons with ratings in Devs etc. That would be the best option to draw peoples' attention to both Market and Devs.
Speaking of Devs, it would be nice if it supported single-person profiles. Having stated 2-10 'employees' makes me feel slightly schizophrenic.
Also regarding Market licensing options, at least add 'GPL+Commercial' to available choices, although if you throw in BSD and MIT it would cover 90% of peoples' needs IMHO.
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perhaps even setup a uservoice.com account (or build something internal) so community members can vote up or down the features they prefer.
Oh also with the voting, I think it's wise to be able to see 'who' voted also (maybe on a poup list window), so that you can properly eval a plugin as people have a habit of voting up their own, or friends stuff sometimes ;-) Maybe limit the amount of votes that you can use per week or something... and then perhaps have a core group of trusted reviewers that can provide a 'professional' evaluation.
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Very happy about this
I am very happy because of you this notice. It means we will have a new step!
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My extension doesn't show up in Sencha Market
I have added a Highcharts extension into Sencha Market but it is not shown up in the chart category. I put the license as 'Artistic' as there is no 'Creative Common' option. Is it because of that?
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Once performed by hand, POS tagging is now done in the context of computational linguistics, using algorithms which associate discrete terms, as well as hidden parts of speech, in accordance with a set of descriptive tags.
"Dogged", on the other hand, can be either an adjective or a past-tense verb. Just which parts of speech a word can represent varies greatly.
Schools commonly teach that there are 8 parts of speech in English: noun, verb, adjective, preposition, pronoun, adverb, conjunction, and interjection. However, there are clearly many more categories and sub-categories. For nouns, plural, possessive, and singular forms can be distinguished. In many languages words are also marked for their "case" (role as subject, object, etc.), grammatical gender, and so on; while verbs are marked for tense, aspect, and other things.
In part-of-speech tagging by computer, it is typical to distinguish from 50 to 150 separate parts of speech for English, for example, NN for singular common nouns, NNS for plural common nouns, NP for singular proper nouns (see the POS tags used in the Brown Corpus). Work on stochastic methods for tagging Koine Greek has used over 1,000 parts of speech, and found that about as many words were ambiguous there as in English. A morphosyntactic descriptor in the case of morphologically rich languages can be expressed like Ncmsan, which means Category=Noun, Type = common, Gender = masculine, Number = singular, Case = accusative, Animate = no.
The Brown Corpus was painstakingly "tagged" with part-of-speech markers over many years. A first approximation was done with a program by Greene and Rubin, which consisted of a huge handmade list of what categories could co-occur at all. For example, article then noun can occur, but article verb (arguably) cannot. The program got about 70% correct. Its results were repeatedly reviewed and corrected by hand, and later users sent in errata, so that by the late 70s the tagging was nearly perfect (allowing for some cases even human speakers might not agree on).
This corpus has been used for innumerable studies of word-frequency and of part-of-speech, and inspired the development of similar "tagged" corpora in many other languages. Statistics derived by analyzing it formed the basis for most later part-of-speech tagging systems, such as CLAWS and VOLSUNGA. However, by this time (2005) it has been superseded by larger corpora such as the 100 million word British National Corpus.
For some time, part-of-speech tagging was considered an inseparable part of natural language processing, because there are certain cases where the correct part of speech cannot be decided without understanding the semantics or even the pragmatics of the context. This is extremely expensive, especially because analyzing the higher levels is much harder when multiple part-of-speech possibilities must be considered for each word.
In the mid 1980s, researchers in Europe began to use hidden Markov models (HMMs) to disambiguate parts of speech, when working to tag the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus of British English. HMMs involve counting cases (such as from the Brown Corpus), and making a table of the probabilities of certain sequences. For example, once you've seen an article such as 'the', perhaps the next word is a noun 40% of the time, an adjective 40%, and a number 20%. Knowing this, a program can decide that "can" in "the can" is far more likely to be a noun than a verb or a modal. The same method can of course be used to benefit from knowledge about following words.
More advanced ("higher order") HMMs learn the probabilities not only of pairs, but triples or even larger sequences. So, for example, if you've just seen an article and a verb, the next item may be very likely a preposition, article, or noun, but much less likely another verb.
When several ambiguous words occur together, the possibilities multiply. However, it is easy to enumerate every combination and to assign a relative probability to each one, by multiplying together the probabilities of each choice in turn. The combination with highest probability is then chosen. The European group developed CLAWS, a tagging program that did exactly this, and achieved accuracy in the 93-95% range.
It is worth remembering, as Eugene Charniak points out in Statistical techniques for natural language parsing , that merely assigning the most common tag to each known word and the tag "proper noun" to all unknowns, will approach 90% accuracy because many words are unambiguous.
CLAWS pioneered the field of HMM-based part of speech tagging, but was quite expensive since it enumerated all possibilities. It sometimes had to resort to backup methods when there were simply too many (the Brown Corpus contains a case with 17 ambiguous words in a row, and there are words such as "still" that can represent as many as 7 distinct parts of speech).
In 1987, Steve DeRose and Ken Church independently developed dynamic programming algorithms to solve the same problem in vastly less time. Their methods were similar to the Viterbi algorithm known for some time in other fields. DeRose used a table of pairs, while Church used a table of triples and an ingenious method of estimating the values for triples that were rare or nonexistent in the Brown Corpus (actual measurement of triple probabilities would require a much larger corpus). Both methods achieved accuracy over 95%. DeRose's 1990 dissertation at Brown University included analyses of the specific error types, probabilities, and other related data, and replicated his work for Greek, where it proved similarly effective.
These findings were surprisingly disruptive to the field of Natural Language Processing. The accuracy reported was higher than the typical accuracy of very sophisticated algorithms that integrated part of speech choice with many higher levels of linguistic analysis: syntax, morphology, semantics, and so on. CLAWS, DeRose's and Church's methods did fail for some of the known cases where semantics is required, but those proved negligibly rare. This convinced many in the field that part-of-speech tagging could usefully be separated out from the other levels of processing; this in turn simplified the theory and practice of computerized language analysis, and encouraged researchers to find ways to separate out other pieces as well. Markov Models are now the standard method for part-of-speech assignment.
The methods already discussed involve working from a pre-existing corpus to learn tag probabilities. It is, however, also possible to bootstrap using "unsupervised" tagging. Unsupervised tagging techniques use an untagged corpus for their training data and produce the tagset by induction. That is, they observe patterns in word use, and derive part-of-speech categories themselves. For example, statistics readily reveal that "the", "a", and "an" occur in similar contexts, while "eat" occurs in very different ones. With sufficient iteration, similarity classes of words emerge that are remarkably similar to those human linguists would expect; and the differences themselves sometimes suggest valuable new insights.
These two categories can be further subdivided into rule-based, stochastic, and neural approaches. Some current major algorithms for part-of-speech tagging include the Viterbi algorithm, Brill Tagger, Constraint Grammar, and the Baum-Welch algorithm (also known as the forward-backward algorithm). Hidden Markov model and visible Markov model taggers can both be implemented using the Viterbi algorithm.


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Thread: SOTD: Saturday 6th of October
Good morning all.
TF Tobacco Vanille today.
I'm wearing Cool Water, even though it's similar to GIT it's definitely a scent that can hold it's own...water (pun intended)
Narcisse Noir
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical...It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." - Thomas Jefferson
2000 by Lacoste
Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier - Bois de Turquie
decant sales:
Crystal Flacon
L'Homme Sage - Divine
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille - exactly what I need to go along with my increasingly frequent smoke breaks
PVC and Leather. A Chain and a feather
Dior Fahrenheit
My sixth wearing of this juice and i'm actually beginning to like it more than the original , even though i was too quick to dismiss it when i first tested it .
This is good stuff and it's actually an all-year versatile jack of all trades . Loving how intense the woods in this version are .
Hypocrites will always be a thorn in my back....and my middle finger will always be the best remedy.....
Chanel Ēgoïste
SL Douce Amere
***My favourite from my collection***
-------- Amouage Tribute Attar
------ Serge Lutens: Ambre Sultan
-------- Les Exclusifs de Chanel: Sycamore
------ Amouage: Fate Man
-------- Amouage: Epic Man
------ Tom Ford Private Blend: Noir de Noir
-------- Terre D'Hermès Pure Parfum
------ EDP FM: Carnal Flower
-------- Neela Vermire Creations: Trayee
------ Dior: Leather Oud
------- Hermèssence: Ambre Narguilé
Puredistance M
Azzaro pour Homme (vintage)
Wanted: Rochas Macassar
Hello everyone. Been busy this week as a new academic year at university started on 1st October. But I'm here and now today to get us started.
I'm in Frapin Speakeasy, a gorgeous scent. I always appreciated Marc-Antoine Corticchiato for his Parfum d'Empire but now I appreciate his work even more thanks to Speakeasy he created for Frapin.
Tommy by Tommy Hilfiger
L'Air du Desert Marocain
Loving TF Urban Musk today.
Yellow Sea by Micallef
Current Top Favorites:
1) Portrait of a Lady original formula (EdP Frédéric Malle)
2) Giorgio for Men vintage/V.I.P. for Men (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
9) Javanese Patchouli (Zegna) - tie
9) Monsieur de Givenchy vintage (Givenchy) - tie
9) Coeur de Vetiver Sacré (L'Artisan) - tie
9) X for Men (Clive Christian) - tie
9) Patou pour Homme Privé (Jean Patou) - tie
9) Oud Shamash (The Different Company) - tie
Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
A layering combo I like to call Oud Wood de Noir.
Nasomatto - Pardon
my current top five (always in transition)
Dior Eau Noire
HdP 1725 Casanova
eau de gloire parfum d'empire
Dia man Amouage
comme des garçons man 2
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"I've been everywhere but the electric chair seen everything but the wind."..
Francesco Smalto PH
Good Morning. Today I am starting my day with a few sprays of Creed Aventus. It is a beautiful, sunny day in New York City.
Seasonal favorites:
1. Xerjoff - Nio
2. Creed - Aventus
3. Tom Ford - Grey Vetiver
4. The Different Company - De Bachmakov
5. Dior - Homme Sport 2008
6. Montale - Aoud Legacy
7. Creed - Virgin Island Water
8. by Kilian - Straight to Heaven
9. Creed - Original Cologne
10. Clive Christian - 1872 for Men
Agatha Brown Imperial Jade Emperor this morning
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
55 degrees for the high in Memphis. Gonna break out my sample of Frapin 1270
Aveda Pure-Formance Men. Great spa-like scent. Good for a busy Saturday around town.
SOTD: APOM pour Homme by Maison Francis Kurkdjian.
SOTE: left side - Rochas Man, right - Jordan Legend, to see which I prefer
Jules by Christian Dior
Annother day for Eau de Rochas Homme!
Creed Aventus
For Sale:Gucci Pour Homme II , Amouage Attar,Lubin Idole http://www.basenotes.net/threads/313...dwide-Shipping
AdG, finally this 5ml sample is almost done
by Penhaligon's
Angel Men (the original). Bought Pure Malt online today and am wearing the original to bide my time until I get PM.
First fragrance free day in a while. Except for the faint smell of Herbaria Bay Rum soap.
Jet Homme by Avon
Creed MI for me.
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Kiehl's Forest Rain.
I'm wearing By Kilian Amber Oud today.
I've trademarked the color bleu
Rocking Cereus # 4, its still hot and sunny out here in San Diego
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First Known Use: 13th century
adverb \ˈnir\
: close to someone or something in distance
: not far away in time
: almost or nearly
Full Definition of NEAR
: at, within, or to a short distance or time <sunset was drawing near>
: in a close or intimate manner : closely <near related>
archaic : in a frugal manner
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Examples of NEAR
- The plant was near dead when I got it.
- <as the campers grew cold, so they gravitated nearer to the campfire>
Origin of NEAR
Middle English ner, partly from ner nearer, from Old English nēar, comparative of nēah nigh; partly from Old Norse nær nearer, comparative of nā- nigh — more at nigh
Related to NEAR
Rhymes with NEAR
: close to (something or someone)
Full Definition of NEAR
: close to <beaches near the city> <seemed to be near death>
Examples of NEAR
- I left the box near the door.
- The cat won't go near fire.
- There are several beaches near here.
- She came home near midnight.
- We feared he was near death.
First Known Use of NEAR
13th century
: located a short distance away
: not far away in time
—used to refer to the side, end, etc., that is closer
Full Definition of NEAR
a : not far distant in time, place, or degree <in the near future>b : almost happening : narrowly missed or avoided <a near win in the primary> <a near midair collision>c : nearly not happening <a near escape>
: closely related or intimately associated <her nearest and dearest friend>
a : being the closer of two <the near side>b : being the left-hand one of a pair <the near wheel of a cart>
a : closely resembling the standard or typical <a near desert>b : approximating the genuine <near silk>
— near·ness noun
Examples of NEAR
- The nearest grocery store is three blocks away.
- The near side headlight is out.
First Known Use of NEAR
14th century
: to come closer in space or time to someone or something
Full Definition of NEAR
: approach
Examples of NEAR
- As the date of the performance neared, we grew more and more anxious.
- He always cheers up when baseball season nears.
- The airplane began to descend as it neared the island.
- He must be nearing 80 years of age.
- The negotiators were nearing a decision.
First Known Use of NEAR
circa 1522
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49 Johntae Gleaves
Major: Psychology
2011 - Redshirt Junior Season
Started in three contests and played in nine for the Tigers...Saw starts against Austin Peay, Tennessee Tech and Eastern Illinois...Caught two passes for 16 yards against Southeast Missouri...Had a reception for one yard in the victory over UT Martin.
2010 - Redshirt Sophomore Season
Appeared in ten games...Tallied eight receptions for 70 yards for an 8.8 average...Recorded one touchdown...Longest reception of the season was 15 yards...Registered one rushing attempt...Managed two kick returns for a total of one yard.
2009 - Redshirt Freshman Season
Started 2-of-9 games played...Tallied one reception for three yards averaging three yards per catch and 0.3 all-purpose yards per game...Recorded first career reception against Alabama A&M (John Merritt Classic - 09/05/09).
Redshirted during the 2008 season.
Gallatin HS
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Peermont bets on new name in lights for Rio Casino Resort!
Tusk Rio Casino Resort will now be known and re-branded as Rio Casino Resort together with a major expansion plan.
July 2008
Peermont bets on new name in lights for Rio Casino Resort!
Tusk Rio Casino Resort will now be known and re-branded as Rio Casino Resort, as of 25 July 2008. The re-branding results from the acquisition of Tusk Resorts by Peermont in 2006, and Peermont's brand strategy of improving the product experience whilst uniquely theming each of its casino resorts to suit the location in which they reside. Rio Casino Resort offers a vibrant, fun and exciting entertainment experience for customers!
Anthony Puttergill, Peermont Chief Executive Officer commented, "Tusk Rio Casino Resort was purchased by Peermont Hotels, Casinos and Resorts in December 2005 as part of its acquisition of the Tusk Resorts group consisting of five casinos in South Africa. The stated objective at the time was to achieve significant growth in casino gaming and optimize hotel developments on sites where Peermont owned casino licenses.
"Rio Casino Resort provides Peermont with a wonderful opportunity to develop this project into a multi-faceted resort, which will give the Mathlosana region a substantial boost in attracting conference, business and leisure visitors." Puttergill added.
The new sign upon which the Rio brand name is proudly displayed is computerized, 10 meters by 7.5 meters in size, and was built using state of the art technology at a cost of R700,000. The sign is environmentally friendly, and energy efficient. The low watt LED globes have a life span of 50,000 hours or 5-7 years, and uses on average 70% less energy than a conventional sign.
Rio Expansion and Improvement Plans
In addition to the new name and new sign, Rio has commenced construction on a new Metcourt hotel and a convention centre, at an estimated cost of R80 million. The new Rio Hotel Casino and Convention Resort will include a 70 key Metcourt hotel, a 300 seat conference centre (which can be divided into two smaller break away meeting rooms), and a much bigger kitchen facility to serve the increased requirements of the resort. In addition, a Go-cart Track will be added to the entertainment offering. Already in October, Rio will also introduce a new coinless gaming system to significantly enhance the slots gaming experience at Rio, in conjunction with the launch of Peermont's ever-popular Winners Circle gaming loyalty programme.
The hotel is scheduled to open 1 March 2009, and will compliment the other six Peermont Metcourt hotels located in South Africa and Botswana. The Metcourt hotels are popular, modern, contemporary designed, comfortable select-services 3 star hotels that offer refreshing value for money. Current Peermont Metcourt hotels include the Metcourt Laurel at Emperors Palace, O.R. Tambo Airport, Johannesburg; the Metcourt hotel at Khoroni, Thohoyandou, Limpopo; the Metcourt at Frontier Inn, Bethlehem, Free State; the Metcourt at The Grand Palm, Gaborone and the Metcourt in Francistown, Botswana. Another Peermont Metcourt hotel is scheduled to open in early 2009 at Emperors Palace, next to O.R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.
Puttergill adds, "Construction of the new facilities is well on track to meet our deadlines with the Metcourt Hotel and Convention Centre being launched in March 2009.
Peermont strives for setting new standards for hotels and resorts that continuously exceed guests' expectations, whilst giving back to the communities in which they are located." Peermont has made a point of using local contractors wherever possible which has created employment opportunities for just over 100 people. In addition, 300 more jobs have been created during the construction phase.
"Once the entire process is complete, this one-stop entertainment resort will bear the unmistakable Peermont stamp of exceptional service, décor and ambience, all delivering a distinctly African experience, under the overarching umbrella of quality, style and value for money," concluded Puttergill.
Background information on Peermont
Peermont is South Africa's most empowered hospitality and gaming company. Peermont has an excellent track record in the design, development, management, ownership and operation of multi-faceted integrated resorts. This includes hotels, casinos, convention centres, retail outlets, restaurants, bars and other sport and entertainment facilities.
Peermont has a strong market position in South Africa and Botswana, where it owns and manages Emperors Palace Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort in Johannesburg, Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club in Secunda, the Mondazur Resort Estate Hotel at San Lameer, KwaZulu-Natal, the Frontier Inn & Casino in Bethlehem, the Tusk Umfolozi Casino Resort in Empangeni, Rio Casino and Convention Resort in Klerksdorp, Khoroni Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort in Thohoyandou, and Tusk Mmabatho Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort in Mafikeng.. In Botswana, Peermont owns and manages The Grand Palm Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort and the Mondior hotel in Gaborone, the Metcourt hotel as well as the Sedibeng Casino in Francistown and Syringa Casino in Selebi Phikwe.
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Ware, MA (September 26, 2013) Whether checking for a broken bone or a dislocation, arthritis, an infection such as pneumonia, or some types of cancer, x-ray imaging has led to improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous conditions in children and adults. Each year, an estimated 7 out of 10 Americans will have an x-ray taken; and at Baystate Mary Hospital, technologists will perform more than 15,000 exams.
The technology of conventional x- rays has changed dramatically over time and in the last 10 years digital technology has become widely used, adding to the clarity and quality of images taken. At the same time, the amount of radiation needed to produce an x-ray image has been reduced. Just as with photography, the flexibility offered by digital imaging, plus the reduction in film use and associated disposal costs, have been additional gains. The way images are now taken, viewed and stored is more efficient and effective all the way around.
Baystate Mary Lane Hospital has a wide variety of medical imaging technologies in its Radiology Department. Thanks in part to a recent pledge of $100,000 from Country Bank, BMLH recently made significant upgrades to the general radiography unit. The new equipment provides superior x–ray images, stores them electronically, and allows for easy sharing of electronic files.
Chair of Radiology at BMLH, Dr. Steve Allen, noted that, "This new technology provides higher resolution pictures which we are able to view on the computer in the department, store electronically, and share with our medical colleagues – through the electronic medical record – so that we can quickly work together to make a diagnosis and determine the best course of treatment. This technology also increases the time staff spend interacting directly with their patients instead of going back and forth the between offices with images. So, it benefits patients in many ways."
"We are grateful for the continuing support of Country Bank," said Chuck Gijanto, president of BMLH, "and recognize the impact which the bank's long history of support has had on our ability to fulfill our mission. Country Bank has long been a trusted friend and supporter of Baystate Mary Lane Hospital and over the past years has donated more than $700,000 to the hospital for various projects and campaigns. They are also a gold/presenting sponsor of the Annual Walk of Champions to raise funds for cancer services provided at the hospital," said Gijanto. "In addition to the bank's financial support, Country Bank employees volunteer countless hours participating in hospital events, working closely with our Community Benefit Advisory Committee."


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Honoring the fundamental role of microbes in the natural history of our planet
CONTACT: Courtenay S. Brown
WASHINGTON, DC – May 30, 2012 – Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, a new book from ASM Press, Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw celebrates Charles Darwin and his landmark publication On the Origin of Species. The editors compiled 40 first-person essays, written by microbiologists with a passion for evolutionary biology, to illuminate how each scientist's thinking and career paths in science were influenced by Darwin's seminal work.
Intended for a general audience, Microbes and Evolution explores how the evidence of microbial evolution deeply and personally affected each scientist. Readers can expect to be surprised and delighted with these intimate viewpoints on the importance of evolutionary principles in the study of a variety of aspects of life science, from taxonomy, speciation, adaptation, social structure, and symbiosis to antibiotic resistance, genetics, and genomics.
"Despite the political rhetoric about evolution, microbes provide compelling examples of natural selection—examples that affect all of our lives every day. We thought the best way to tell these stories was to ask scientists who work in this field to share their discoveries in a way that explains why they find microbial evolution exciting and important. And along the way, they provide interesting insights into how they think about science, revealing personalities that are as diverse as the microbes they study," say Roberto Kolter of Harvard Medical School who co-edited the book with Stanley Maloy of San Diego State University.
"To celebrate the anniversary of both Darwin's birth and the publication of On the Origin of Species, a select group of microbiologists met in the Galapagos Islands, bent on reconciling modern microbiology with classical evolutionary theory. Their essays, born of this historic gathering, appear here, each written in an erudite yet highly personal style. Consequently, this book is not only highly informative, but a great deal of fun to read. About half of them had something to say about Darwin; the other half, what Darwin would have said about them," says Moselio Schaechter, distinguished professor emeritus, Tufts University School of Medicine; adjunct professor emeritus, Department of Biology, San Diego State University; and, visiting scholar, University of California at San Diego.
Richard Losick, Maria Moors Cabot Professor, at Harvard University, describes Microbes and Evolution as "A breathtaking range of topics are woven together under a common theme that takes the reader from the origin of microbial life to its diversity, from mutualism and competition to efforts to recapitulate evolution, from the diversity of bacterial viruses to 'the smallest and most abundant microorganism in the ocean.'"
"This book is an excellent collection of articles and should be read by everyone working with bacteria (and others as well) or thinking of doing so," says Charles Yanofsky, professor emeritus, Department of Biology, Stanford University.
Roberto Kolter did his academic training at Carnegie-Mellon University, UC San Diego, and Stanford. Since 1983 he has been a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. A fanatic of food and wine, he enjoys burning those calories off in early morning runs along the Charles River in Boston.
Stanley Maloy obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine. He went on to do postdoctoral research at the University of Utah. He was on the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign for many years, and moved to San Diego State University in 2002. His favorite activity is thinking about science, but he also enjoys traveling and soaking his head in the ocean.
Microbes and Evolution has a list price of $14.95 and can be purchased through ASM Press online at http://bit.ly/asm053012.
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ASM Press is the book publishing arm of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. The ASM's mission is to promote research in the microbiological sciences and to assist communication between scientists, policy makers, and the public to improve health and foster economic well-being.


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After a new courthouse was built in Lunenburg County in 2006, Circuit Court Clerk Gordon Erby asked the Library of Virginia's Local Records staff to help identify what remained in the record room of the old courthouse.
I found this broadside − advertising a game between the Maroon Wave of Victoria High School and the team from Courtland High School − while processing the papers left there by John L. Yates, who served as clerk for 56 years, from 1878 to 1934. The year is not specified but, judging from the month and day, the game probably took place between the early 1900's and 1930's. Victoria, which grew up around the railroad, is one of two larger towns within Lunenburg County, the other being Kenbridge. Courtland High School may have been located in the town of Courtland in nearby Southampton County.
Yates left desks and drawers in the old courthouse stuffed with correspondence, personal financial records, and other pieces of ephemera. He or someone in his office used the backside of this poster as scratch paper for a running total of figures written in pencil. His papers comprise nearly 4.5 cubic feet and are open to the public. A portion are processed but most remain unprocessed.
Lunenburg County had several high schools before consolidation in 1969 and its students are now served by Central … read more »