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If there was any doubt about the immediate future of quarterback Mark Sanchez with the New York Jets, all questions should have been answered Wednesday.
Sanchez and his $8.25 million guaranteed salary will remain in New York through the entire 2013 season. Veteran quarterback David Garrard's decision to walk away from the Jets due to a balky knee sealed any possibility of New York releasing Sanchez. New York's quarterback competition has been reduced to four quarterbacks. But in reality, there are only two legitimate options: Sanchez and rookie Geno Smith.
There was some debate of whether Sanchez would last in New York. The Jets would like to get rid of his huge salary but didn't want to take the enormous cap hit. However, Garrard had an opportunity to beat out Sanchez and provide the veteran leadership needed in New York's quarterback room.
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Garrard, 35, would have served as a good person for New York's young quarterbacks to lean on. He also has playoff experience and spent most of his career in a West Coast offense, which gave him an advantage under new Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg. But a balky knee makes it all a moot point at this stage.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Ben Powell on the Economic Freedom of the World Report
Recorded: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell appeared on the "The Roger Hedgecock Radio Show." Powell discusses the Economic Freedom of the World Report, explaining why economic freedom in the U.S. is plummeting.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: RadioIssues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Freedom
Ivan Eland on the Syrian Crisis and White House Leadership
Recorded: Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland appeared on the RT Global News Channel program Crosstalk speaking about the crisis in Syria and President Obama's effectiveness as a world leader.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics
Ivan Eland Joins Discussion on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Recorded: Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ivan Eland interviewed for report on the RT Global News Channel concerning a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Type: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Technology, Terrorism and National Crises
The Challenge of Liberty 2013 | Student Perspectives
Recorded: Wednesday, September 4, 2013
The students of The Challenge of Liberty 2013 Summer Seminars share their thoughts on the program.
Type: TelevisionIssues: Culture/ Society, Education, Free Market Economics
Ivan Eland Discusses Syria on ARNN
Recorded: Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the nationally syndicated "America's Radio News Network" program with Lori Lundin discussing the debate on American intervention in Syria.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland on the Crisis in Syria
Recorded: Thursday, August 22, 2013
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland discusses the use of chemical weapons by the government of Syria and the ongoing civil war there. Originally aired
Aug. 22, 2013 on CTV News Channel.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland Discusses Snowdens Temporary Asylum in Russia
Recorded: Friday, August 2, 2013
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland discusses USRussia relations and Edward Snowden, the NSA whistle blower on CCTV's "BizAsia America" show.
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Reaction to the Conviction of Bradley Manning by Research Fellow Anthony Gregory
Recorded: Thursday, August 1, 2013
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"Phenominal Read"
Exciting, Entertaining, Extraordinary
Wad - he really intrigues you, makes you want to know more, and care for him.
"For my son yet I won't add this to his iPod"
I loved the idea, I was fascinated with wad, I just felt the audience this book was designed for was a very narrow male adolescent audience. With such a scope of well thought out worlds and clever storytelling; the underbelly subjects stole the story from being enjoyed by myself or my son at this time.
If it had been in paperback form I wouldn't have got past the thievery, the breast and sex fascinations of the 13 year old. Which would have been a loss as it had parts to the story I really enjoyed, there is definitely potential. Hopefully the second book Danny's character will mature a bit.
"Great story but I got lost in the technical"
The young mage running away and then going to WalMart.
The Golden Acorn but more adult/
Look out Lightning Theif here come the Norse crew.
"Ok..what's going on in this story?"
I see it has a high rating on other sites and if you're into it, great. But for me, I didn't get the "outer self" etc and before long it just sounded like rambling.
The jacket description sounded interesting, but as I started the story, it sounded as if the characters are not corporeal...but energy?
Too fantasy based for my personal taste.
Love books, reading or listening, wine and quiet evenings by the fire. Mystery's, paranormal, history and biographies.
"Stefan brought me to this book!"
Since I love Stefan Rudnicki's voice, I often look for books he has narrated. While doing that I found this fun coming of age magic user book. I am so glad it did. I also discovered Emily Janice Card - now I watch for books she has read. What a great way to find Authors I have not read before. We live in a very rural area and have no book stores nearby, the closest is 2 hours away. So we depend on our Library and the internet. I have listened to other books by Orson Scott Card since finding this one.
"Amazing Book in Every Way"
The Lost Gate is a spectacular book with a great set of characters and wonderful plot. It has characters who are highly realistic and a protagonist which almost any reader will like. The book's character development is out of this world, which provides a pleasurable balance between characters and plot. It is highly entertaining and the narration is fantastic, particularly the performance of Stefan Rudnicki.
"As good or Better than Enders Game"
Great story; believable characters the start of another great Epic. Nice twist on all the old myths. Instead of same ole we have been getting like Percy, Red Pyramid etc.
"I hope Card continues with this series!"
an enjoyable listen
The Hunger Games has a wild imagination and far out ideas but I think Card does it much better in this book!
Makes it feel like your listening to someone make up a tale and you really get involved
I wasn't able to but I surely would've if I could've
The use of gates can take the story anywhere and do anything...I'm looking forward to the next one in this series.
"Pretty good"
Its a good thing that I "read" this on audio book I am not sure I could pronounce everything. I really think there is a good series coming. The story is fractured but it all makes sense in the end. I liked it. It isn't brain surgery, but it is a good book. I will continue to "read" these as the next book is available on audio book.
"Ender with a fantasy twist"
I am a fan of Orson Scott, his Ender and Shadow of Ender series are some of my favorite books. This book did not disappoint and I will be reading the other books of the series. Similar to Ender, the Lost Gate tells the story of a young, strong character that is learning his past and future as a powerful mage with the ability to link points in time and space. At times the book is slow; however, the author and narrator are able to keep the reader interested because of the two distinct stories that intertwine towards the end. If you like Ender series with a fantasy twist, you will enjoy this novel.


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1860-O $20 AU55 NGC. The mintage of this issue was halted after only 6,600 coins had been struck, meaning it is one of the ...
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Richly Toned 1860-O Double Eagle, Choice AU1860-O $20 AU55 NGC. The mintage of this issue was halted after only 6,600 coins had been struck, meaning it is one of the scarcest of all Type One double eagles. Winter and Crum ranked this coins as the fifth rarest of 43 different issues in the series. They commented that: "The 1860-O is slightly less scarce than the 1859-O. It is most often seen in grades ranging from Very Fine-30 to Extremely Fine-45. An accurately graded About Uncirculated-50 represents above-average quality for this date and any piece in the middle range of AU is very rare."
This example is a coin that will please the connoisseur. The surfaces have deep orange-gold color with considerable green overtones. Both sides exhibit satiny luster with much of the original prooflike surface still evident. While light abrasions have been acquired over nearly a century and a half, the surfaces do not exhibit any of the deep or distracting marks that are almost always a problem for this date. The first four stars at the left obverse are weakly defined as always. The highest elements of the design on the obverse, including much of the hair details, are also poorly defined as usual. We fully expect that this appealing example will bring a strong price in relation to the normal market levels for this date.
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Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars
The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to pull up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?
The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to pull up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?
A 20-year-old satellite that measured the ozone layer is expected to crash back to Earth late next week, but NASA said it still does not know where it will fall.
NASA's humanoid robot has finally awakened in space.
(AP) -- The last space shuttle is headed home.
Space Shuttle Discovery was briefly on public display on Wednesday July 13 as she emerged from the hanger at the Kennedy Space Center where she has been undergoing processing for retirement since her final ...
(AP) -- A somewhat generational battle over NASA's future is escalating even as NASA is about to close the book on the space shuttle era.
(AP) -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis. But it's only a test.
The European Space Agency's Paolo Nespoli took this image of lightning over Brazil as seen from the International Space Station in January 2011.
As the space shuttle program winds down, questions are flying about what's happening and why. The launch countdown began Friday for the second-to-last flight. Some answers about the end of the space shuttle:
(AP) -- President Barack Obama and his family will attend next week's launch of Endeavour, NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight commanded by the husband of critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and ...
The US space agency said it will announce the museums that will host the three retiring space shuttles on Tuesday during an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle launch.
Comic strip artist Brian Basset has created a drawing depicting his characters, Red and Rover, racing alongside the space shuttle as it lands for the final time. After 30 years and more than 130 missions, ...
(AP) -- Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth wearing a wristband for his sister-in-law, the wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
The first humanoid robot ever launched into space is finally free. Astronauts at the International Space Station unpacked Robonaut on Tuesday, 2 1/2 weeks after its arrival via shuttle Discovery. NASA broadcast ...


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Exports your database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, then allows you to save it to your computer.
I just tried this with wordpress 3.8.1. I got it to install fine but then it just produced an empty page when I tried to export the DB. Did not work in Chrome or Firefox or even IE.
I am on a shared host with a 60 second script limit so maybe the plugin cannot deal with this.
Support was very responsive and nice, but not helpful. Copied site just did not work. It does not matter whether I updated my permalinks and all the other stuff: Start page showed up, but no other link worked.
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Keyboard Editor enables one to quickly and easily create customized keyboard layouts:
•Assign each key any letter, word, sentence or picture
•Merge cells together to form larger keys
•Create audio recordings
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Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant
|Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant
|Official name
|Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant
|Besham, Shangla, Pakistan
|34°54′19.21″N 072°48′41.55″E / 34.9053361°N 72.8115417°ECoordinates: 34°54′19.21″N 072°48′41.55″E / 34.9053361°N 72.8115417°E
|Construction began
|April 2003 (completed in April 2012)
|Opening date
|14 July 2012
|Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)
|Dam and spillways
|Type of dam
|Khan Khwar River
|46 m (151 ft)
|112 m (367 ft)
|Power station
|2 x 34 MW (46,000 hp) Francis-type, 1 x 4 MW (5,400 hp)
|Installed capacity
|72 MW (97,000 hp)
|Annual generation
|595 million units (GWh)
Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river project located near the town of Besham in Shangla District on the Khan Khwar River, a right bank tributary of Indus River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is approximately 265 km from the federal capital of Islamabad and 350 km from provincial capital of Peshawar in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.[1][2]
The total electricity generation capacity of the Khan Khwar Project is 72 megawatts (97,000 hp).[3] There are two vertical Francis turbine units of 34 MW each and one unit of 4 MW installed at Khan Khwar Hydroelectric Station with the average annual generation capacity of 595 million units (GWh) of cheap electricity.[4] These turbines are manufactured by Dongfang Electric Machinery Co. Ltd.[5] This project is completed by the technical assistance of Chinese corporations (Sinohydro Corporation via a consortium between local and Chinese firms.
Construction of Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant was commenced in April 2003 and the project was completed in April 2012. Power House is in commercial operation since November 2010. The project was officially inaugurated on 14 July 2012 by Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf. The total cost of the project is about PKR 10.73 billion out of which PKR 5.049 billion is accounted for foreign exchange component.[6]
Type: RCC
Length: 112 m.
Height: 46 m.
Design Discharge: 29 Cusecs
Design Head: 244 m.
See also[edit]
- List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
- List of power stations in Pakistan
- Satpara Dam
- Allai Khwar Hydropower Project
- Gomal Zam Dam
- ^ http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-120430-72MW-Khan-Khwar-hydropower-project-inaugurated
- ^ http://www.wapda.gov.pk/htmls/khankpj.html
- ^ http://www.wapda.gov.pk/pdf/khankhawar.pdf
- ^ http://www.wapda.gov.pk/htmls/ongoing-index.html
- ^ http://iopscience.iop.org/1755-1315/15/6/062062/pdf/1755-1315_15_6_062062.pdf
- ^ http://www.aaj.tv/2012/07/72-mw-khan-khwar-hydro-power-project-inaugurated-by-pm/


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An attempt at capturing Tutoring Style in Tutorial Dialog Rohit Kumar Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Introduction & Motivation: Intelligent Tutoring Systems community has accepted the assumption that tutoring is the most effective method of instruction. It is known the expert human tutors are better than less skilled tutors. Expert Human tutors set the benchmark for building Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In order to develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems comparable to Expert Tutors, we need to understand what makes some human tutors better than others. Our group has conducted human tutoring studies using tutorial dialog as the mode of instruction in the thermodynamic cycle domain. We have observed that different human tutors have different learning effects. We want to understand what makes these tutors different from each other. This difference may have the key the understanding what makes human tutoring an effective mode of instruction. In this work, i attribute the difference between different tutors we have observed to their individual tutoring styles which appear as a preference to a particular choice in the conversational dialog. I want to study what characterizes these different tutoring styles of individual human tutors and if these tutors follow the tutoring style consistently. Also, I want to know whether following a characteristic style of an effective human tutor lead to a consistent learning effect. A study of these characteristic styles will give us directions to effective finer strategies to be implemented into Tutorial Dialog Systems. Before we proceed, lets look at some of the human tutoring dialog we have collected for three different human tutors to see if can see a characteristic of the human tutors in their dialog. Observations of two of the human tutors V and M conversing with students about "Material Constraints" in design of Thermodynamic Cycles. Tutor: V <agent="tutor">but you cant inc it forever as it is constrained my material properties</sentence> <agent="tutor">so change the temp now to inc eff</sentence> <agent="student">k</sentence> <agent="tutor">did it inc?</sentence> <agent="student">yah</sentence> <agent="tutor">go to the max tem p you can</sentence> <agent="tutor">no no</sentence> <agent="tutor">nice</sentence> Tutor: M <agent="tutor">you can change the value of tmax</sentence> <agent="tutor">to the maximum possible value</sentence> <agent="tutor">for stainless steel</sentence> <agent="tutor">which is 570 c</sentence> <agent="tutor">there is another constraint</sentence> <agent="student">and how do i know the high temperature</sentence> <agent="student">they didnt give me any tables</sentence> <agent="tutor">that is limited by how much temperature the boiler materials can withstand</sentence> <agent="tutor">on page 1</sentence> <agent="tutor">it is specified</sentence> <agent="tutor">that maximum t and p in the cycle are</sentence> <agent="tutor">570 c</sentence> <agent="tutor">and 20000 kpa respectively</sentence> <agent="tutor">did you see it?</sentence> The underlined tutor utterances show the difference in preference of tutor V and M in handling similar situations. While V prefers to say that statement that temperature cannot be changed beyond a maximum level in a negative way, tutor M says it positively. Also, tutor V is more command in conversation whereas tutor M is more collaborative. Let us look at another set of example of difference in preference between three tutors (V, M and E). The tutors are discussing about effect of temperature on the efficiency of a Thermodynamic Cycle. Tutor: V <agent="tutor">note the initial thermal eff then try to improve it</sentence> <agent="tutor">ya plot eff vs tmax</sentence> <agent="tutor">tools and sesitivity</sentence> <agent="tutor">select the state</sentence> <agent="student">which one</sentence> <agent="tutor">temp is maximum after the boiler right</sentence> <agent="tutor">plot is from 300 to 600</sentence> <agent="tutor">see your instructions</sentence> <agent="student">k</sentence> <agent="tutor">do you understand what this means</sentence> <agent="tutor">as the temp inc eff inc</sentence> <agent="student">yah</sentence> Notable stylistic characteristics in Tutor: V's utterances o Authoritative o Didactic Tutoring (Instructive) o Strong and Dominant o Often Negative Tutor: M <agent="tutor">ok now lets g to tools sensitivity</sentence> <agent="tutor">refer page 5</sentence> <agent="tutor">now</sentence> <agent="tutor">lets see what happens to efficiency when we change the heater temperature</sentence> <agent="tutor">do analysis 1</sentence> <agent="tutor">the independent parametrs are filled in already</sentence> <agent="tutor">you just need ti fill in dependent parametrs</sentence> <agent="tutor">i mean you need to fill in independent parametrs</sentence> <agent="tutor">yes</sentence> <agent="tutor">good</sentence> <agent="tutor">select parameter to vary</sentence> <agent="tutor">ok</sentence> <agent="tutor">plot</sentence> <agent="tutor">so what does this plot tell you?</sentence> <agent="student">the higher the temp the higher the eff</sentence> <agent="tutor">which is what we thought</sentence> <agent="tutor">right?</sentence> <agent="student">indeed</sentence> <agent="tutor">higher the steam temperature higher the efficiency</sentence> Notable stylistic characteristics in Tutor: M's utterances o Similar to Tutor V in some ways o More collaborative than Authoritative o Wordier o More and continuous feedback o Rarely Negativ Tutor: E <agent="tutor">no</sentence> <agent="student">?</sentence> <agent="tutor">what max t did you use in your sensitivity analysis?</sentence> <agent="student">ok</sentence> <agent="tutor">no</sentence> <agent="student">not tmax?</sentence> <agent="tutor">no</sentence> <agent="tutor">ok</sentence> <agent="student">it says the temp leaving heater 2 =tmax from optimized simple cycle</sentence> <agent="tutor">ok there's a reason 4 that</sentence> <agent="tutor">we'd see that it needs to be changed</sentence> <agent="student">so then it's not tmax?</sentence> <agent="tutor">please go on</sentence> <agent="student">so i leave it as 575?</sentence> <agent="tutor">yeah</sentence> Notable stylistic characteristics in Tutor: E's utterances o Mostly confused and highly divergent from topic o Often negative o Rare Feedback o Lesser content words & short utterances o Mostly confused and highly divergent from topic We note that tutors have distinctive style of their own and we hypothesize that using the best of stylistic strategies of each tutor can help us in developing better Tutorial Dialog Systems. Also we are motivated to develop tutorial dialog systems which can adopt these stylistic variations with minimal repetition of effort (like re-authoring knowledge sources). What is Tutoring Style ? With this thought in mind, I looked at literature referring to various characterizing features of tutoring styles. A tutoring strategy would correspond with a choice of these features. By tutoring style, we refer to the preference to a choice of these features. Different tutors may follow different strategies when put in different contexts due to their characteristic preferences. Modeling the Tutoring style would involve modeling the tutor's preference to choice of strategy in given context. If we can predict and follow the optimal strategy dynamically as the dialog proceeds by modeling the best of strategies, we can create human like Tutorial dialog systems. Literature Review In order to review characterizing features of tutoring strategies referred by the intelligent tutoring community, I looked at available literature. [1] provides a list of tutor turn actions studied from several human tutoring corpora. In particular types of feedback and types of responses are listed. [2] also lists types of feedback in a different dimension. Most of the literature [2][3][4] describes cross comparison between conditions involving different types of each features and the effect of each type is mentioned. The idea that some particular features may be both positive and negative effect depending on the context is not pursued. [1] refers to corpus analysis with contextual feature which include turn types of previous student turn and previous tutor turn. [5] talk about use of different basic unit considered for content analysis. I will be working with features motivated by this literature review such that the features can be retrieved automatically using linguistic analysis tools. The context I use is similar to context referred by [1]. Also, I have done data analysis with different basic units including dialog, topics and utterances. Corpus The corpus I am working with for this project is collected for during our No. of experiments with Tutoring about Thermodynamic Cycles by Human tutors. 3 Tutor Students different tutors tutored 17 students in all. The distribution of students to tutors is shown in table 1. V 5 M 9 The tutoring task involved tutoring undergraduate mechanical engineering students over an Instant Messenger while the students work with simulation of E 3 thermodynamic cycle to achieve maximum efficiency. The students were given a set of 3 thermodynamic cycles to setup, analyze and optimize in CyclePad [6] environment. First Analysis: Significance of Shallow Linguistic Features In line another piece of investigation we were working on, we decided to you Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) [7] dimensions as features for the tutoring conversation. Tutor utterances over every tutoring session were extracted and LIWC Dimension for each conversation was calculated. Note that unit of corpus analysis here is a conversation session as we are not splitting it further for this analysis. We observed that of all the LIWC dimensions, the dimension for Cognitive processes (referred to as CogMech) was closely correlated with student learning. CogMech along with PreTest are highly predictive of PostTest (R-Sq=83.8%). Also by using couple of other LIWC dimensions we were able to make R- Sq=97.9%. We continue to investigate further for CogMech. CogMech (4.42) was slightly better predictor of PostTest than PreTest (T=4.01). Student tutored with high CogMech dimension in the tutor utterances had a significant learning effect (1.577 Standard Deviations) over students with low CogMech dimension. We also observed that High CogMech consistently characterized Tutor V who was also the most effective tutor among the 3. A pairwise comparison on CogMech showed the Tutor V was significantly high on CogMech than Tutor M and Tutor E. Tutor M was slightly better than Tutor E. These observation on CogMech were in line with our observation of effectiveness of each tutor. These results give us reason to believe that LIWC Dimensions like CogMech may be suitable features to characterize tutors. I decided to proceed with the next analysis with CogMech, Negative Response, Optimism and Question dimensions as the features of tutor utterances. In the second set of analysis, were intended to give an insight into how individual tutor employ cognitive processes by triggering word for creating their characteristic effect. Also we want to know how consistently tutors really follow a style in a principled way. We want to pick up the best of style aspects that lead to higher learning effects. Inventory Building For the second set of analysis, I chose to use tutor utterance as the basic unit of analysis. Each tutor utterance were tagged with 4 LIWC features indicating presence of CogMech words, Optimism, Negative Feedback and Question. Along with these, context was every utterance which included 4 features of the previous tutor utterance and 4 of the previous student utterance. These features sets were grouped by tutors and by high/low learning gain for several analyses performed in the next step. Note that unit of analysis here is an utterance. Modeling Tutor Style I tried modeling tutor style using Unpruned Decision Trees (based on ID3 algorithm). A decision tree was built to predict each of the four features of a tutor utterance. This sets of 4 decision trees was built for each tutor and for each group of learning gain (high/low). Train Test-> V M E V Accuracy 40.9574 37.2745 47.7941 Kappa 0.0186 0.012 -0.0309 M Accuracy 39.8936 42.6854 56.6176 Kappa 0.001 -0.0047 0.011 E Accuracy 38.2979 41.483 53.6765 Kappa -0.0219 -0.026 0.0177 Table 1: Prediction accuracies of Decision tree based model of CogMech for each Tutor The results were marked by consistently low values of Kappa and erratic prediction accuracies as shown in Table 1 above. Reflecting back on why these analyses did not present any interesting numbers, I figure that is because we are looking at a very fine unit of analysis and the corpus is having a lot of noise to be modeled properly. Also I am compelled to think that it may be a shortcoming of the modeling approach and the context features used for this case. In order to see whether tutors were doing following a principled style in any sense, I decide to cluster the tutor feature along with the context using Simple k-means clustering into K cluster such that K is equal to the number of possible values for each feature. For example Optimism can have 2 values: Yes or No. The clustering was marked by high classification errors as shown in table 2. CogMech Negation Optimism Question Tutor n Error n Error n Error n Error V 6 63.298 2 19.681 2 14.894 2 13.83 M 6 76.754 2 49.098 2 44.89 2 40.681 E 6 63.971 2 36.765 2 38.971 2 38.235 Learning High 6 68.354 2 46.835 2 48.734 2 39.241 Low 6 71.714 2 24.571 2 22.857 2 33.429 Table 2: Clustering accuracies for each class of tutor utterances for each feature Topic as basic unit of analysis As a final set of analysis, I used a the Thermodynamic corpus with utterance divided into topics. The unit of analysis here is coarser than utterance and finer than dialog. The dialog utterances were grouped into 15 different topics. We found that the number of times and the order in which the topics were covered is characteristic to each tutor. Regression tree based on topic distribution in each dialog classified the dialog according to the tutor with an accuracy of 82.35% (kappa=0.7167). There were 3 incorrect classifications associated with the intermediate tutor (Tutor M) whose characteristics matched the other tutors (V and E) in several ways. This result seems to be promising and the choice of unit of analysis seems to have significant effect on the results. As work in progress, I plan to further investigate by modeling transitions between topics as tutor characteristics. Conclusions & Future Work We observed that LIWC are good predictors of learning when we do content analysis with Dialog unit. My attempts at fine grain modeling of tutor behavior failed which i attribute to lack to improper choice of modeling technique, insufficient and incorrect feature. Use of Topic as the unit of analysis as shown a promise in characterizing a tutor and I wish to include that as a contextual feature for further analysis. References: [1]. Natalie K. Person, Arthur C. Grassaer, "Fourteen Facts about Human Tutoring: Food for Thought for ITS Developers," AIED2003 Supplementary Proceeding, Sydney Australia, July 2003 [2]. Lepper et. al. "Self Perception… [3]. B. Di Eugenio, X. Lu, T. C. Kershaw, A. Corrigan-Halpern, S. Ohlsson, "Positive and negative verbal feedback for Intelligent Tutoring Systems." AIED 2005, the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005 [4]. C. P. Rosé, J. D. Moore, K. VanLehn, D. Allbritton, "A Comparative Evaluation of Socratic versus Didactic Tutoring," Proceedings of Cognitive Sciences Society [5]. B. De Wever, T. Schellens, M. Valcke, H. van Keer, "Content analysis schemes to analyze transcripts of online asynchronous discussion groups: A review", Computers & Education, 2005 [6]. CyclePad Reference [7]. LIWC Reference [8]. Weka Reference
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This generous selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes sixty-three poems from his famous sonnet sequence "The School of Eloquence" and the remarkable long poem 'v', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard, written during the miners' strike, which created such a stir when it was broadcast on television in the late 1980s.
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Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937 and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. His collections of poetry include The Loiners, Continuous, v, A Cold Coming, Laureate's Block and most recently Under the Clock - published as a Pocket Penguin for Penguin's 70th birthday in May 2005. Recognized as Britain's leading theatre and film poet, Harrison has written extensively for the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the BBC and Channel 4. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Royal Television Society Award, the European Poetry Translation Prize and the Prix Italia.


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Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer. The story of their quest swerves and veers, takes off into philosophical riffs, occasionally stops to tell a side story, and references a treasure trove of 1970's and 1980's pop culture.
"Sock" is a surprising, intense, fascinating piece of work.
Penn Jillette has been the larger, louder half of the performing team Penn & Teller since 1975. Penn's articles has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy and other publications. This is his first novel. He lives in Las Vegas, NV.