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ATLANTA -- After a few changes late Tuesday afternoon, the legislation to reduce HOPE Scholarships passed the Georgia Senate, even as about a dozen protestors shouted "Kill the bill" from their seats in the Senate gallery during the Senate debate. They were ejected from the Capitol.
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"This is a business issue," said Sen. Jim Butterworth, a Republican from Cornelia and the governor's floor leader. "Our goal is to save the HOPE scholarship" which is based on Georgia Lottery proceeds.
Those lottery proceeds are no longer enough to pay for 1), the increasing tuitions at Georgia colleges and universities and 2), the rising numbers of students going to Georgia colleges and universities who qualify for, and are receiving, the HOPE money.
The measure passed 35-20 along party lines in the GOP-controlled Senate. It now goes back to the GOP-controlled House, which passed the original version last week.
Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats were held under the Gold Dome ahead of Tuesday afternoon's Senate debate on Gov. Deal's HOPE scholarship plan.
As a result of the negotiations, at least one of the suggested Democratic changes championed by Sen. Jason Carter (D-42) made it into the bill that finally passed the Senate Tuesday afternoon. That change is the one that will allow the top two students at each Georgia high school -- the valedictorian and salutatorian -- to be eligible to receive a full HOPE Scholarship.
11Alive News learned that Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-21), and a House member, Rep. Brooks Coleman (R-97), along with Governor Deal's chief of staff, among other officials, had discussed making some slight adjustments to the governor's plan after negotiating with Democrats.
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Carter had originally proposed that the top 3 percent of graduates in each school get a full ride on HOPE, which would mean they'd be competing academically against their fellow students in their own school, rather than against all students statewide. That idea was later changed to the top two students in each high school, only.
RELATED: Ga. Senate Democrats offer alternative HOPE proposal
One thing that was not up for negotiation is a family income cap -- no HOPE scholarships for children from wealthy families -- which Democrats support. Democrats also expressed concerns over the governor's proposed SAT requirements.
RELATED: HOPE measure passes State House 152-22
The proposed cuts to the HOPE scholarship are different from the proposed cuts to the HOPE pre-kindergarten program.
Butterworth, who is also chairman of the Senate Higher Education Comittee, said the final bill will go to Gov. Deal for his signature "pretty quickly."
The House is expected to take up the bill Thursday. Once the House and Senate formally agree to a final version of the bill and the governor signs it, it would take effect this fall, and would include current and future HOPE recipients.
"It's bad," said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Brown of Macon immediately after the Senate vote, "because it basically robs from the poor and educates the rich."
The plan that Brown and other Democrats support would cost only as much as the lottery takes in every year for HOPE, Brown said.
The scholarships would go first to academically-qualified students who actually need scholarships, based on their family incomes.
The income cap would rise and fall every year based on lottery revenues that year.
"If [lottery proceeds] have enough money to pay for the rich, you pay for the rich," Brown said. "But if you don't have enough money to pay for the rich, you simply keep it focused on those [academically-qualified students] who need it the most."
Brown also spoke of the lottery customers' role in the HOPE scholarships. "The evidence is there," he said, that the poorest Georgians are the biggest lottery customers.
"When you look at who plays the lottery, and you see where that money comes from, and then you see who goes to school on that money... is [that] not robbing from the poor and giving to the rich?.... Simply stop [paying for] those children from families who can pay for their own education, and the HOPE scholarship will be sound. But you don't continue to just take this money from people who are economically deprived -- and that's who plays it -- and give it to people who do not need it."
Butterworth said the lottery is not a tax that people are forced to pay but a game that is voluntary to play; and he said, in effect, that the incomes of people who buy lottery tickets is not the issue.
The lottery provides a scholarship, he said, not an entitlement.
"You have to remember that the goal of HOPE -- "Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally" -- that's the goal of the HOPE scholarship. And so that means attracting the best and brightest to stay here, to not leave the state, but to stay here," and go to college and establish themselves with families and careers in Georgia, "and to make sure that the engine of Georgia's economy continues to run as best as it possibly can."
Brown said he and his fellow Democrats are all but admitting defeat on the HOPE changes they wanted -- this year.
"We may not win it in this General Assembly, but we will bring it back time and time again until we're in a position to get a better bill."
Butterworth said the reason he expects the House and Senate to agree quickly on a final version of the bill for the Republican governor to sign is that GOP leaders from both chambers -- and each chamber has a Republican majority -- have continually worked together crafting the legislation, from the time it was in the House, all the way through the Senate committee and then during Tuesday's floor debate in the full Senate when the Senate debated and voted on several amendments from Republicans and Democrats, rewriting portions of the entire bill during a process that consumed the better part of the day.
So a conference committee, to negotiate a final version, may be not be required except for minor tweaking.
"Those negotiations have been on-going as we have progressed," Butterworth said. "The House leadership has been, for lack of a better term, in the loop as we have proceeded" in the Senate. "I am confident that there will be very little change to what we have gotten to and where we are right now.... We've coordinated with the governor's office, we've coordinated with the House leadership, and we've coordinated with the Senate leadership. We've been very busy."


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East Phillips County Hospital District (EPCHD) board members approved the 2012 proposed budget during their regular meeting Tuesday, Nov. 22.
The final budget reflects a net income of $193,538 for 2012. The hospital expects a gross revenue of $11.68 million with the net revenue of $10.76 million. Total expenses are budgeted at $11.3 million with a net income of $193,538.
John Ayoub, MMH administrator, noted looking at the net revenue and total expenses, one would be confused how the hospital could have a positive bottom line. The difference is non-operational revenue which includes tax dollars, grant money and donations which make up the difference.
"It's a very tight budget," CFO Greg Was said. "I'm very comfortable with it."
Was said the process during budget time has worked very well. He said working with department managers helped a lot.
"It's a realistic but very conservative budget," Was said.
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EPCHD board members will meet Tuesday, Dec. 6 to discuss a master facilities plan proposal.
Representatives from The Neenan Company met with board members Monday, Nov. 21 to discuss a proposal and find out what board members wanted to see in it. The updated plan was presented at last Tuesday's meeting after changes had been made. The board entered executive session for 30 minutes to discuss the proposal.
Following the executive session, a motion to accept the proposal was made by Sheryl Farnsworth but the motion died for lack of a second.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the board decided they still want to do the plan and collect data, so they will meet next Tuesday to discuss and possibly vote on a proposal.
The focus of the board is to look at the data and evaluate where MMH is as a health care system. They also want to look at future expansion possibilities, according to Ayoub.
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Ayoub said he has received some questions from community members about the recent community survey conducted by the hospital.
Results of the survey were presented to EPCHD board members in executive session because quite a bit of money was paid for them and were considered work product. This was so others couldn't request the results because they were presented at an open board meeting and not have to pay to do their own research.
"Having said that, I do think it is important that we kind of close the loop with the community," Ayoub said. Ayoub gave the 30,000 foot point of view of the results.
"We do appreciate them for participating and certainly we do it so we get information from them so we can utilize it to provide the best product and services to the community.
Ayoub said the survey found things are going well. "There's obviously some opportunity for improvement. We can always improve, but we are doing well."
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Ayoub reported on provider recruitment and noted there was an interview scheduled for Dec. 6 with a family nurse practitioner and Dec. 9 with a physician.
The administrator said they continue to have discussions with Rocky Vista University about a potential residency program and also having some medical students rotate at MMH. "We're still developing that relationship and creating these linkages."
Representatives with NextGen were at the hospital Nov. 16 to work with staff on moving forward with EMR implementation. Ayoub said they spent over nine hours with staff gathering data to build the record. "We're starting to get more and more tangible stuff," Ayoub said.
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In other business Nov. 22, board members:
—held a 44-minute executive session for a contract negotiation.
—approved credentialing for Brenda Hinze, Doreen Pecar, Kevin Belville, Jeffrey Chain, Harold Chapel, Phillip Cook, Cynthia Gryboski, Robert Kahn, Richard Kaplan, Michael Lahey, Thomas Lininger, Maurice Lyons, James Swinehart and Jodi Olson.
—approved 2012 balanced scorecard.
—approved employee discount policy.
—noted the next regular meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 5:30 p.m.
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I see we only committed one turnover tonight...I like that.
Not a fan of giving up 243 yards on the ground though.
I'm just glad that we are done playing Edelman and Jarvis.
Glad to see the win, hopefully we can run the ball and stop the run....ugly win tonight but ill take it
what's up with the personal fouls?
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what's up with the personal fouls?
Good question. That's gonna beat us one of these games coming up if we don't knock it off.
It may not have been the prettiest, but it is a W. Now the team needs to get ready for the Sqwaks Super Bowl next weekend.
i dont think we are ready for the hawks yet
Hoof hearted
I'll take the W!
on th personal foul, one the radio guys couldn't figure out and another was a housecollar tackle, which is now the same as a face mask. There was also one that was offset by a PF on a Kent state guy.
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i dont think we are ready for the hawks yet
I don't think the Hawks are ready for us. They beat 2 pathetic teams. Not that we played good teams but they sure as heck were better than FIU and Maine.
2-0... is a bowl game possible? we have a weak conf schedule
South Dakota State beat Youngstown State 40-7. "The" Ohio State only beat Youngstown 43-3. I know you cant compare them but I think it says something about SDSU.
Kent State gave a good BC team a game and held them to 21 point.
What does this all mean???
Nothing, but I think we might be a little hard on our guys. We might be a little better then we appear?
Wins are good, but the total yards again bother me. We were outgained. But still my CyCredits get healthy big time.
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I need someone to rep Linden for me from another thread, he's a boss.
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Nice close in the troll thread Linden. You are the Mariano Rivera of CF. We just hit Enter Sandman and Linden comes in takes care of business.
Originally Posted by demoncore1031
i dont think we are ready for the hawks yet
We're more ready then we were last year and that turned out ok.
Originally Posted by gocubs2118
I don't think the Hawks are ready for us. They beat 2 pathetic teams. Not that we played good teams but they sure as heck were better than FIU and Maine.
i know they have beat crap teams but watching them today i think they are the better team. i HATE saying that but i think they are coached better and more disciplined. we CANNOT make stupid personal fouls and other mistakes. the QB (not Christiansen) for iowa looks amazing
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URBANA, Ohio (October 25, 2013) - The public is invited to attend the presentation by Dr. Kirk L. Rowe, sponsored by Urbana University's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences on Friday, November 1, 2013 from 4 - 5 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room on the main level of the Student Center. The program is entitled, "The Psychology of Energy Dependence and Climate Change: Why is this so hard?"
America's enormous energy appetite and the encroachment of climate change are two issues that affect all of us. The presentation will discuss the psychology of America's energy consumption. The psychological processes entailed in changing human behavior in order to move away from fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable and alternative resources to power our planet and our lives more efficiently and respectfully will be presented.
Lt. Col. Kirk L. Rowe is a clinical neuropsychologist and the Clinical Psychology Internship Training Director at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He oversees the training for 6 psychology residents with the assistance of 13 other contract, civilian, and active duty psychologists. In 2006 he co-authored a book on Crisis Negotiations and was also a leader in addressing the obesity epidemic while stationed in Misawa, Japan. For the past 4 years, Lt. Col. Rowe has been an invited guest speaker on the topic of The Psychology of Climate Change and Energy Dependence within the Air Force as well as at numerous universities. He has also spoken on the topic of Men, Relationships, and Suicide as well as the influence of technology on relationships. Finally, he has been an invited guest speaker for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Lt. Col. Rowe is married to Christina Rowe who is also a psychologist and former Captain in the Air Force. They have two children, Meredith 15 and Forrest who is 12.
For more information on this presentation, contact the office for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at 937-484-1374.


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|Extravaganza a success
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
|Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:22
With over $1,100 raised for Heginbotham Library, the annual Holiday Extravaganza was a huge success. Library staff, board and Friends of the Library members partnered for the event, selling homemade gifts and goodies. Librarian Laura Roth said they are working with Friends of the Library on a few projects which the money can go toward, and it's great to know there will be funds for the summer reading programs.
Laura Bittner and Conda McDermed as they browse the gift selection in the beautifully decorated library. Several items were also sold at a silent auction, like the cute cupcake created to accompany a children's book, pictured below.
—Enterprise photos
Holyoke Enterprise December 13, 2012


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Hundreds hold anti-Saudi demos in solidarity with Ethiopians over migrant workers
Newscast Media ADDIS ABABA—Hundreds of people held a protest rally in the city of Dallas to condemn Saudi Arabia's mistreatment of Ethiopian migrant workers. The protest took place on Wednesday in downtown Dallas amid a crackdown on undocumented immigrants including Ethiopian workers in Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this week, Ethiopians held a protest rally outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington to express their anger over Riyadh's crackdown on illegal immigrants in the kingdom.
Similar demonstrations were also staged outside Saudi embassies in Norway, Germany, Britain, and Ethiopia earlier this month.
On November 12, the Saudi police killed three Ethiopian migrant workers in the impoverished neighborhood of Manfuhah in the capital, Riyadh, where thousands of African workers, mostly Ethiopians, were waiting for buses to take them to deportation centers.
The Ethiopian government condemned "the act of killing innocent civilians" in Saudi Arabia, calling for an investigation into the killings.
Moreover, on November 16, a video footage emerged showing Saudi Arabia's security forces beating Ethiopian migrant workers.
The video showed men mercilessly beating and punching Ethiopians on the streets and other undisclosed locations. A person is also shown lying dead on the ground with a bullet mark in the chest.
Saudi authorities launched a visa crackdown on undocumented foreign workers in early November. Several foreign workers have since been killed by the Saudi police and many others imprisoned.
Riyadh has announced plans to create jobs for Saudi nationals by reducing the number of foreign workers, totaling some nine million people. Thousands of foreign workers have already surrendered to Saudi authorities.
Hundreds of thousands of workers have already left Saudi Arabia as a result of tough conditions considered for the immigrants. Foreign workers cannot change jobs or leave Saudi Arabia without the permission of their sponsors, who are often Saudi companies or individuals providing workers to businesses for profit.
Most of the sponsors confiscate the passports of the workers for the duration of their contracts. In late October, rights group Amnesty International censured Saudi authorities for not addressing the "dire human rights situation" in the kingdom.
The group also handed in a paper to the United Nations, which included information regarding a "new wave of repression against civil society, which has taken place over the last two years."
Source: Press TV


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I've been annoyed by the drawing process in CA for elk, antelope and sheep in CA for a while so I decided to finally write a letter to the DFG. Probably wont do any good but it will at least feel good to get it out there. I haven't sent it yet but what do you guys think
To whom it may concern,
I am writing this letter as a California sportsman and lifetime hunting and fishing license holder in regard to the inequities of our current big game tag drawing system and allotments especially when it comes to elk, bighorn sheep, and antelope. I have been putting in for these species for quite a few years without any success I am not surprised by this as there are few tags to go around for many California hunters.
My issue comes from the fact that when I further analyzed some of the statistics on hunts which I applied for even with the modified preference point system there is no reward to hunters who have consistently been applying for these hunts unless they have been applying every year since the points system began. I am not in any of the max point pools and without being in these pools for elk, antelope, and bighorn sheep I am eliminated from being eligible to draw the vast majority of the allotted tags. For example, in 2012 I am eligible to draw one of 90 out of 330 elk tags, one of 53 out of 214 antelope tags, and one of 9 out of 24 bighorn sheep tags. So essentially, I am only eligible for 26.7% of the available tags in California. In addition to this fact, because of the limited amount of tags allotted in California and relatively high number of max points holders there are many hunts where I can never realistically expect to be in the max points pool even if I apply every year for the rest of my life and live to 100 years old (I am 28 now and currently have 6 points for elk and antelope and 4 for sheep). For example, if I were to apply for the Northeastern California elk hunt at current quotas it would take a approximately 76 years to clear the max point holders at current quota levels and my odds of drawing in the random pool would be 1/952. Even though I have been loyally applying I get no reward for this since I am not in the max points pool. An example for antelope would be if I applied for the Lassen period 1 it would take approximately 17 years to clear the first round of max point holders and my real odds of drawing would be approximately 1/273. And lastly, an example for sheep would be if I applied for the San Gorgonio Mountains it would take approximately 157 years to clear the first round of max points holders my real odds of drawing this unit would be approximately 1/584.
It is my firm belief that this system is in need of some drastic changes as there are just not enough tags to make the system work the way it is currently implemented. It is inherently flawed in function the way it is currently operating. There is no reward for applying and building points unless you are in the max points pool which I have demonstrated above is many times nearly impossible to attain unless you have been applying every year since points have been given. There are many simple changes that could be made to this system that would improve it vastly. For example, for these species you could square each hunters points and then draw from that pool much like Nevada so that hunters are still rewarded for loyalty and not just max points and yet still could draw in any year. Another change that could be made is to give an additional point if for example a hunter put in for a given species for 5 consecutive years. A rule could also be made so that you could only apply for one of the three species each year to increase hunter odds. Once in a lifetime rules or significant waiting periods could also be implemented to promote further equality. It is my firm belief that these changes would benefit all California hunters applying for these hunts in addition to new hunters in California who at this juncture can never expect to get into any max point pools for a very long time at best and begin their hunting careers at a disadvantage.


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The Multilingual Systems Group explores software technologies to enable seamless content-creation, storage, search, access, and interaction with multiple languages.
Research Overview
At the Multilingual Systems (MLS) group in Microsoft Research India, we believe that Multilingual Information Access is critical for the acquisition, dissemination, exchange, and understanding of knowledge in the global information society. The accelerated growth in the size, content and reach of Internet, the diversity of user demographics and the skew in the availability of information across languages, all point to the increasingly critical need for Multilingual Information Access. We are an interdisciplinary research group focusing on technologies for Multilingual Information Access such as Cross-language Information Retrieval, Multilingual Information Extraction, and Machine Translation that bridge the gap between available information and the user needs transparently across languages.
To this end, we carry out cutting-edge research on a) several aspects of Cross-language Information Retrieval and Multilingual Information Extraction including query expansion, domain adaptation, automatic alignment of multilingual corpora, multilingual named entity extraction, and machine transliteration b) automated and collaborative creation of parallel corpora for Machine Translation and c) fundamental properties of languages and language phenomena including language acquisition and evolution, structural properties of corpora in the framework of complex networks, and interaction between syntax and prosody.
In addition, we are interested in robust fundamentals, especially, annotation standards, data collection efforts and basic tools for research in Indian languages.More importantly, we would like to enable and be a part ofa strong research eco-system in Multilingual Information Access in India.
CLIR-Cross Lingual Information Retrieval: As the heterogeneity of the data available on the web increases, it is becoming increasingly important to enable the user to access the relevant information available across languages. Cross Lingual Information Retrieval research focuses on data driven approaches tohelpusers in easily organizing and accessingthe information when needed. Parallel data, even though very useful, is expensive to obtainand hence it is not available in sufficient amount. On the other hand comparable corpora, documents talking about sametopic in different languages, are available in abundant. Here we try to exploit both these resources to bridge the language barrier for Cross-lingual applications.
Currently we are experimenting with Hindi to English CLIR task, where the query will be expressed in Hindi and the relevant documents need to be extracted from English document collection. The query in Hindi is translated into English using word by word translation with the help of statistically learnedword alignments. The relevant documents are then retrieved using a Language Modelling based retrieval algorithm. On CLEF 2007 data set we found that the cross lingual system was able to achieve 73.4% of the monolingual IR systems performance.
Along with this we are also working on domain adaptation, cross lingual text modelling , automatic alignment of comparable corpora and machine transliteration
Mining Linguistic Data: In this project area, we attempt to mine the Internet for parallel data. Our mining techniques are statistical in nature, in contrast to the ad-hoc heuristics typically used in mining internet data,.Specifically, we mine multilingual news-wire articleson the same time-scale, to yield specific types of parallel data, namely, Parallel Sentences andSub-sentential Fragmentsand Named Entity TransliterationsOur experiments in many language pairs from different language families (for example, English-Spanish, English-Russian, English-Hindi and English-Kannada), indicated great potential for such approaches, in addition to highlighting the applicability of our methods to many of the world's languages
IL-POST-Indian Language Parts of Speech Tagset: Parts-of-Speech (POS) tagging is an important process for most Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. POS annotations capture the morphosyntactic features of the words from the given context in a text and hence can provide useful information for subsequent stages of processing such as chunking, named entity detection, and parsing.
As a part of this project we have designed IL-POST, a universal Parts-of-Speech tagset framework covering most of the Indian languages (ILs) following a hierarchical and decomposable tagset schema. In spite of significant number of speakers, there is no workable POS tagset and tagger for most ILs, which serve as fundamental building blocks for NLP research. Existing IL POS tagsets are often designed for a specific language; the few that have been designed for multiple languages cover only shallow linguistic features ignoring linguistic richness and the idiosyncrasies. The new framework that is proposed here addresses the question of fine granularity of the tags balanced with user or language specific needs in an efficient and principled manner. We follow a hierarchical schema that enables the framework to be flexible enough to capture rich features of a language/ language family, even while capturing the shared linguistic structures in a methodical way. The proposed common framework further facilitates the sharing and reusability of scarce resources in these languages and ensures cross-linguistic compatibility
This project isa collaborative effort between Linguists, Computational Linguists, and Computer Scientists fromMSRI, AU-KBC, Delhi University, IIT Bombay, Jawaharlal Nehru university, and Tamil University.
Multilingual Systems Group has released POS-tagged data in two Indian languages, namely Hindi and Bangla for the research community. To learn more about IL-POST, and how to obtain the data and related tools, please click here.
Linguistic Corpora Collection-wikiBabel: Language independent methodologies in Computational Linguistics and NLPpave the way for quick adaptation of language technologies across languages.Hence, such approaches might prove to be of great advantage to resource-poor languages, as a generic system may be adopted for many languages, quickly and transparently.While the linguistic data required for training such systems are hand-created by linguists, in several cases, it is possible that such data may be created by those who are fluent in a language. wikiBABEL is a project in the MLS group, as a generic platform for collecting parallel linguistic data from the Internet population.The objective of this project is to induce the Internet population to contribute parallel data which may be used for training the Statistical MT system being developed in MSR.
WikiBABEL is available as Alpha in http://translator/WikiBABEL.
Complex Networks and Language: In recent times networks are being extensively used for modeling complex systems. We apply complex network theory to understand the structure and evolution of human languages. We construct word networks based on the distributional hypothesis and study their universal properties. Clustering of these networks further helps in understanding the natural morphosyntactic classes present in a language, which in turn facilitates the design of POS tagsets andcreation of POS taggers and tag dictionaries in an unsupervised manner. We are also studying theself-organization of the consonant inventories within the framework of complex networks.Since linguistic systems as well as many other natural systems can be modeled as bipartite networks, we are investigating the theory behind the structure and growth of certain special kinds of bipartite network.
Indic Machine Translation: This project explores the issues in automatic translation of text between English and Indian Languages, using statistical machine translation technologies. MLS focuses on three different projects in the Indic Machine Translation. The first oneis oncore MT and involves installing the Tree2String translation system developed by MSR-Redmond (Quirk et al. 2005) in MSRI and training it forHindi and other languages of our interest. In other two projects, we focus on specific issues in MTi) morphosyntactic agreements and ii) Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) to develop appropriate models for them. These models will then be integrated with the MT system for better performance.
- Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Haizhou Li, and A Kumaran, Report of NEWS 2015 Machine Transliteration Shared Task, in the ACL/IJCNLP 2015's Named Entity Workshop (NEWS 2015), Beijing, China, ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2015.
- A Kumaran, Melissa Dunsmore, and Shaishav Kumar, Online Gaming for Crowdsourcing Phrase-equivalents, in the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2014.
- Rishiraj Saha Roy, Rahul Katare, Niloy Ganguly, and Monojit Choudhury, Automatic Discovery of Adposition Typology, in Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, Coling 2014, August 2014.
- Rohan Ramanath, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, and Rishiaj Saha Roy, Crowd Prefers the Middle Path: A New IAA Metric for Crowdsourcing Reveals Turker Biases in Query Segmentation, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2013.
- Rishiraj Saha Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Monojit Choudhury, and Srivatsan Laxman, An IR-based Evaluation Framework for Web Search Query Segmentation, in SIGIR 2012, ACM, August 2012.
- A Kumaran, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, and Sumit Basu, Doodling: A Gaming Paradigm for Generating Language Data, in proceedings of the Human Computation Workshop 2012, American Association for Artificial Intelligence , July 2012.
- Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, A Kumaran, and Ming Liu, Report of NEWS 2012 Machine Transliteration Shared Task, in the ACL 2012 Named Entities WorkShop (NEWS-2012), Jeju Island, South Korea, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2012.
- K Saravanan, Monojit Choudhury, Raghavendra Udupa, and A Kumaran, An Empirical Study of the Occurrence and Co-Occurrence of Named Entities in Natural Language Corpora, in In Proceedings of LREC 2012, European Language Resources Association, May 2012.
- Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daume, and Raghavendra Udupa, Incorporating Lexical Priors into Topic Models, in EACL 2012, ACL/SIGPARSE, 2012.
- Santosh Vysyaraju and Raghavendra Udupa, Extracting Advertising Keywords from URL Strings, in WWW 2012, ACM, 2012.
- kumarana, narend, Ashwani Sharma, and Vikram Dendi, WikiBhasha:OurExperiences with Multilingual Content Creation Tool for Wikipedia, in Proceedings of Wikipedia Conference India, Wikimedia Foundation, November 2011.
- Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, kumarana, and Ming Liu, Report of NEWS 2011 Machine Transliteration Shared Task, in Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2011 Named Entities WorkShop (NEWS-2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand, ACL/SIGPARSE, November 2011.
- Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, A Kumaran, and Ming Liu, Report of NEWS 2011 Machine Transliteration Shared Task, in the IJCNLP 2011's Named Entity Workshop (NEWS 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand, ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics, October 2011.
- Shaishav Kumar and Raghavendra Udupa, Learning Hash Functions for Cross-View Similarity Search, in IJCAI-11, IJCAI, 20 July 2011.
- Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Raghavendra Udupa, Hal Daumé III, and Abhijit Bhole, Improving Bilingual Projections via Sparse Covariance Matrices, in EMNLP 2011, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2011.
- Dipak L. Chaudhari, Om P. Damani, and Srivatsan Laxman, Lexical Co-occurrence, Statistical Significance, and Word Association, in Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), Edinburgh, UK, ACL/SIGPARSE, July 2011.
- Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Raghavendra Udupa, and Hal Daumé III, Generalization of CCA via Spectral Embedding, in The Learning Workshop along with AISTATS 2011, AISTATS, July 2011.
- Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daumé III, and Raghavendra Udupa, From Bilingual Dictionaries to Interlingual Document Representations, in ACL HLT 2011, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2011.
- Nitin Dua, Kanika Gupta, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali, Query Completion without Query Logs for Song Search , in Companion of World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2011, March 2011.
- Abhijit Bhole, Goutham Tholpadi, and Raghavendra Udupa, Mining Multi-word NEs from comparable corpora, in NEWS 2011, ACL/SIGPARSE, 2011.
- A Kumaran, Mitesh Khapra, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Compositional Machine Transliteration, in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) Journal , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2011.
- Nikita Mishra, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Srivatsan Laxman, and Monojit Choudhury, Unsupervised query segmentation using only query logs, in Proceedings of the Twentieth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), Companion Volume, Hyderabad, Mar 28-Apr 1, ACM, 2011.
- A Kumaran, Naren Datha, B Ashok, K Saravanan, Anil Ande, Ashwani Sharma, Sridhar Vedantham, Vidya Natampally, Vikram Dendi, and Sandor Maurice, WikiBABEL: A System for Multilingual Wikipedia Content, in in Proceedings of the 'Collaborative Translation: technology, crowdsourcing, and the translator perspective' Workshop (co-located with AMTA 2010 Conference), Denver, Colorado, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 31 October 2010.
- Haizhou Li, A Kumaran, Vladimir Pervouchine, and Min Zhang, Report of NEWS 2010 Machine Transliteration Shared Task, in the ACL 2010 Named Entities WorkShop (NEWS-2010), Uppsala, Sweden, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2010.
- Santosh Vysyaraju, Shaishav Kumar, and Raghavendra Udupa, Suggesting Related Topics in Web Search, in SIGIR 2010, July 2010.
The Multilingual Systems Group at MSR India strives to do world class research that develops a true natural-language-neutral approach in all aspects of language-based computing, and enables adding Indic-language functionalities in Microsoft products.
Researchers work independently or with a team to conduct high-quality academic research in their field. They work to enhance their presence in their field of research outside of Microsoft, through paper publication, conference attendance, and otherwise interacting with an international academic community. As members of the world-wide MSR family of researchers, they collaborate with researchers in all our labs, and with universities around the world. In addition, in Multilingual Systems Group, they need to interface with other public/private research institutions and government agencies, for coordination and standardization activities.


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I know what Cha[r]lie's last name is, which is why I used it correctly in my post (which see). A common error was made as to his name, you made an incorrect* joke about it, and then I deconstructed your joke.
*Jesus is said to have brothers, none of whom use 'Christ' as a 'last name.'


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COVINGTON, Ga. -- Police pinned a vehicle with two robbery suspects on Wednesday afternoon in DeKalb County.
According to the Covington Police Department, a maroon Ford Fusion was involved in a robbery by snatching incident at the Wal-Mart in Covington.
Police said a white male was driving, and a white female was in the passenger seat. The vehicle looped the parking lot twice. At this time, a female shopper was loading groceries into the trunk of her car.
The female leaned out of the passenger seat of the car, in attempt to snatch the victim's purse. Police believe the victim may have been dragged about 300 yards from being entangled in her handbag, which she grabbed when she realized she was being robbed.
Just after the incident, Police were notified. The issued a look out on the maroon Fusion, which was spotted 15 minutes later.
The Fusion, with Wisconsin tag 625LYH was on Almond Road at Interstate 20. Officer Capps checked the registration information, and found that the car was stolen out of Wisconsin.
When Capps tried to stop the car, it fled westbound on I-20 in DeKalb County, and exited onto Martin Luther King Boulevard. At this point, a Georgia State Patrol officer arrived to help.
The officers arrested the suspects, as heavy traffic pinned them in.
The victim, whose name is not yet released is a 51-year-old of Oxford. She was transported to an Atlanta-area hospital, and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Capps also received minor injuries when he made the arrest.
Anyone with information to help police in their investigation is asked to call Captain Ken Malcom at (770) 833-7251.


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'The cavalry is not coming'
Q&A The conservative movement and the GOP, says Kay Coles James, have given up on the black community | Marvin Olasky
Kay Coles James has had many leadership roles in government and nonprofit organizations: She was Virginia's secretary of Health and Human Resources and President George W. Bush's director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and is now president of the Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African-Americans (see "Climbing out of the cradle," Feb. 11, 2012).
Some conservative websites have examined voting patterns in last November's election and charged fraud in those African-American precincts that voted 100 percent for Barack Obama. My sense is those results are real. What's your sense? Real. If you have been a part of an African-American community as I have for all my life, it's no surprise. Conservatives often think people are voting on the basis of policy analysis and if we just told our story better they would vote with us. The vote actually has a lot to do with the journey that African-Americans have been on in this country, and understanding where we are emotionally.
You recently saw the new movie Django Unchained—what did that show you? Django Unchained is about a slave who has the opportunity to be free and become a bounty hunter. He had a license therefore to—as he says—"go kill white people." The movie is extremely violent. For the average person who may be skittish about those things, I would not recommend it. But if you are a culture warrior and want to understand a lot of the dynamics going on in our culture, you should go.
Why? Because when you understand the horror of slavery, and when you see it graphically on a screen in front of you, and when it is settled in your DNA and has been a part of the oral history of your family, you come to understand why large groups of people in this country say, "I don't care if Obama runs the whole dadgum country off the cliff! I don't care if Obamacare screws up the entire American healthcare system! We got a black president and I'm voting for him!" I saw that movie in an all-black theater with people cheering at what I thought were inappropriate times, but we need to understand that.
Do conservative Christians tend to understand that? I am extremely concerned about the inability of the Christian community, the conservative community, and the Republican Party to deal with the browning of America. We tend as conservatives to stay right in our communities, to hold rallies where we get ourselves energized.
I've interviewed white conservatives who say civil rights problems are part of history, but race now is not that big a factor. Is this—white folks talking? It certainly is and I'm glad you said it because I was about to. I was a part of that group that integrated the schools in the South. I had to go past dogs to go to algebra. I know what that's like. Overt racism in America is gone. Thank goodness it is no longer socially acceptable to be a racist. But covert racism is alive and well. I see it every day in subtle ways. To be standing in a line at a cosmetic counter and to be ignored three times while they wait on the person next to you. One of my very dearest, best, closest friends became upset because her daughter was dating a black guy. To be involved in a white church and you're part of a Bible study and everybody in the Bible study goes on vacation together but they didn't invite you.
After last November's election, do you see any new GOP attempts to reach out? I probably had a not-so-pleasant conversation with every conservative and every Republican leader during the 60 days after the election because they have given up on the black community. People were saying "Those precincts were 100 percent, write them off, let's focus on Hispanics and women and maybe youth." Well, I was involved in the Republican and conservative movements because I thought those values and ideals and principles were the ones that I needed to save my community. When they write off those precincts, they have written off my community.
You feel used? They're telling me I was only important and significant to the degree that I could help them stay in power and advance their agenda. When I was no longer useful for that effort, I am no longer useful to them. I believe in self-sufficiency and independence. I believe in principles like "don't spend more than you earn." I believe in limited government because limited government gives you the most freedom. But I met recently with young African-American conservative professionals and said, "I have a newsflash for you: The cavalry is not coming. There is no one coming to save us. The conservative movement, the evangelical movement, and the Republican Party don't care about us anymore." … I am no longer useful. I had better change my name to Maria Sanchez and then maybe I can get some attention. We use people and then spit them out.
So you have white Republicans using you, and when we talked earlier you mentioned the depiction in Django Unchained of the difference between the field workers and the house workers—some African-Americans call you a house worker? Oh, you're being kind but I get it, go ahead.
You don't get respect. Yeah, yeah.
So, where's your community? My community—First, I am a part of the Kingdom of God. I am the daughter of the Most High and I am an ambassador here traveling in a foreign land. Second, they're all my communities. Yes, those of us who are black Republicans like to get together when there are no white folks around and talk about how they use us—but we allowed them to. They only used us because we let them, because we are pro-life and we do care about that issue. We allow them to use us because we do believe in limited government and we want to fight and make sure this country stays economically sound. So our agenda—you can use me as long as you're using me for what I want to be used for.
And you use them ... And I use them, yeah—well, not as effectively as they use me but I'd like to. You can't use me against my will. I am a conservative because I love my people and believe that conservative values will lift and empower my people. They're not as much conservative as they are biblical values. … There's nothing I believe that my grandmother didn't believe: Black conservatives are nothing more than those who have the audacity to believe what their grandmothers taught 'em.
Watch Marvin Olasky's complete interview with Kay Coles James:
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|Making household chores easier
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
From cleaning the bathroom to ironing to dusting, everyone has some household chores he or she dislikes. However, those chores people avoid the most may be different than the ones the neighbor dislikes. Here are some shortcuts and tricks to make the worst household duties easier:
—Dust and clean smarter: Use a lint roller to remove dust on cloth lampshades and drapery. To keep fabrics looking and smelling fresh, use a hand-held steamer or the steam setting on the iron and gently hover over the material. To save time on hard surfaces, use dusting cloths that are infused with cleaner. When it comes to getting rid of stains on walls, use one of those new pads with cleanser built-in. This obviates the need for spray cleaner and sponges.
—Iron faster: Approximately two-thirds of people who iron their clothes do it to save money, according to a recent survey from Panasonic. This still doesn't make it fun. One way to get away with less ironing if one will be wearing a jacket all day, is to only iron a shirt's collar, cuffs and the middle of its front. Reduce ironing time on all items by choosing an iron with a double-pointed and oversized soleplate, whose unique elliptical shape and design cuts ironing time by as much as 25 percent.
—Cut bathroom scrubbing time: Let toilet cleaner soak in the bowl while you wipe down the sink and the outside of the toilet. This loosens dirt and stains in the bowl, cutting scrubbing time. A few times a week, before taking a shower, spray the tub with cleanser, let it stand for up to 10 minutes and then quickly wipe it down before showering.
—Attack the oven and microwave: Once a month on a night when eating out or getting takeout, spray oven cleaner in the oven. After dinner, easily wipe away the grime. Another trick is to heat up a cup of water containing lemon wedges inside the microwave. The steam helps loosen caked-on food, allowing one to effortlessly wipe away dirt and leaves behind a fresh scent.
—Let technology help: Just as technology improved tasks in the workplace, so can it help at home. Use a drop-in toilet cleaner dispenser, so the need to manually clean will be less often. Cut ironing time by choosing an iron that has adjustable steam from all steam holes to tackle large areas without repeated attempts. Use a vacuum cleaner with an integrated HEPA filter so dust isn't recycled into your home.
Above all, clean household messes when they are fresh—before stains set, clutter builds or dirt gets ground-in. This cuts cleaning time in the long run.


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Find out how our trained counsellors could help you if you are finding it hard to come to terms with feelings about sight loss
Our Sight Loss Counselling Team, previously known as the Emotional Support Service, is a small team of telephone counsellors. Our service is accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). We offer confidential telephone support, information and counselling to people who, because of sight loss, are experiencing emotional difficulties.
Find out more by downloading the Emotional Support Service leaflet. Please note, we are currently updating our information with our new name, however our service and contact details are still the same.
We also run telephone support groups facilitated by a counsellor. Groups are formed throughout the year so you can contact us anytime to know when the next one will start. Download more specific information about our "Seeing it through" telephone support groups:
We give you time to talk about your situation and how you are feeling.
We will help you to identify what you need and the best way to get it. This could mean helping you find support in your local area through agencies offering specific services such as counselling, befriending, or support groups.
We can offer one-to-one telephone counselling and "Seeing it through" telephone support groups, so that you can explore your situation further. Counselling offers the opportunity to work through some of your feelings as well as gaining support. It may help you consider new ways of adapting to sight loss. The total number of sessions varies from person to person, but is usually up to a maximum of eight sessions.
Karen, who is 53, was referred to us by another RNIB team. Karen has Multiple Sclerosis and was registered blind many years ago.
At the time of being referred to us, Karen was feeling very low and frustrated, particularly about problems with getting adequate support for her needs. When Karen first spoke to a counsellor she felt very isolated and lacking in confidence. Although she had asked for help in the past, she had had some negative responses and felt very alone.
"At first I wasn't too sure of talking about my feelings but from the first session I was put at ease and I found it really helpful. It was good to be able to talk to someone outside my family who understands about losing your sight but also took everything else that was going on in my life into account. He (the counsellor) understood and believed me when I told him how I was struggling, and I learnt to take things one day at a time."
Karen had ten sessions with a counsellor and used them to talk about how she was feeling, and to explore ways of getting more support in her life. By the time the sessions ended she found that her confidence was growing and that she was feeling more positive.
"Having emotional support has helped me enormously, I was really struggling before. I now go to MS Society meetings every month and that really helps me. I go to computer class as well. It's really difficult, but I have to keep trying. I am more confident and I know I can get help if I need it in the future. I would recommend this kind of help to anyone who is losing their sight."
Our service is confidential. This means that what you say to us will remain within our team and will not be passed on to anyone else without your consent. The only exception would be if we had very serious concerns about your safety or that of others. In such exceptional circumstances we would discuss this with you and encourage you to seek emergency support.
As an Organisational Member of BACP we are bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy, the Ethical Guidelines for Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy (where organisations undertake research) and subject to the Professional Conduct Procedure for the time being in force. We also comply with the Data Protection Act.
Call our Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or email firstname.lastname@example.com and ask to be referred to the Sight Loss Counselling Team. You can contact us through Type Talk in the same way.
We are ready to answer your call Monday to Friday 8.45am to 5.30pm.
Alternatively you can email us at email@example.com. The small size of our service means we cannot offer a direct telephone number.
One of the team will phone you usually within a week (although it may take longer at busy times). If it is not a convenient time to talk we will arrange an appointment with you. The first appointment will be a chance to talk about your situation and to explore what further support could be helpful. Any further sessions will be arranged at mutually convenient times.
There is no charge for sessions or calls.
BACP is the registered Trade Mark of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.
If you are considering counselling and want to help RNIB build a counselling service that specifically meets the needs of blind and partially sighted people, please consider becoming part of our research study. For more information please email your contact details to firstname.lastname@example.com. The service will continue to be completely confidential but the collection of additional data will enable us to find out what specifically helped and additionally what didn't help. Help us build a better future for the provision of counselling and emotional support for those people affected by sight loss.
If you would like more information on how emotional support can help you come to terms with sight loss, and the different emotional support available from both RNIB and other organisations, please see our Emotional support leaflet, which is part of our Starting out series of leaflets.
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Trey Hillman Pregame Media Session: September 5
Injuries Mounting
A list of injured Royals came out this afternoon during manager Trey Hillman's dugout interview. Royals starters Brian Bannister and Gil Meche are out due to sore right shoulders and each will miss at the very least their next scheduled starts, beyond that is yet to be determined at this point. Taking their rotation spots will be LHP Bruce Chen and last night's starter, Robinson Tejeda. Outfielder Jose Guillen has been shut down for the rest of the season to allow him the optimum amount of time needed to recuperate and get healthy for spring training next season. Reliever John Bale is out indefinitely and quite possibly for the rest of the season with a strained hamstring which he aggravated in last night's game against the Angels. Second basemen Alberto Callaspo injured his ankle in last night's affair and is out of the line-up for tonight's game. Lastly, reliever Kyle Farnsworth tweaked his back, also in last night's game, but is probable for the game tonight.
Three New Royals
Well, with so many injured Royals pitchers, who is going to take their place? Let me introduce you to new Royals pitchers, #31 LHP Dusty Hughes, #47 RHP Victor Marte, and #53 RHP Carlos Rosa, all of whom will be contributing in relief. "They have good stuff, we are in need of pitching but that doesn't diminish what they have done, they got here on their own merit. We are going to work with them on their command, location, and being more efficient with not getting behind in the count as much. This is an evaluation process for each one of them, we are excited to see what they can do at this level," says Hillman. For Hughes and Marte, this is their first time in the bigs. Rosa was up for a brief stay last year.


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Orphan rescuer slain in Olivenhain
1 man slain in a field; another arrested by deputies
ENCINITAS An Encinitas filmmaker who gained international notoriety for his crusade to rescue Romania's most vulnerable orphans was killed Thursday in an apparent dispute with another man in rural Olivenhain.
Authorities received a 911 call about 9 a.m. reporting the shooting off Lone Jack Road, near Jackie Lane.
The body of John C. Upton, 56, was found lying on a dirt path between two sprawling homes. The father of three suffered at least one gunshot wound.
"We believe this was the result of a dispute between two adult males," said sheriff's Lt. Jim Bolwerk.
Deputies questioned, then arrested Michael Vilkin, 61, of Encinitas, on suspicion of murder, officials said.
A weapon was also recovered.
"We believe he's involved, but we are not exactly sure what the dispute was and the nature of the dispute that led to this," Bolwerk said.
Vilkin owns a vacant lot near where the shooting occurred, according to property records. Authorities said it was unknown if the victim and Vilkin knew each other before the encounter.
Upton's brother, Michael, said there appeared to have been an ongoing dispute between the men — possibly involving trees.
"I can't imagine why somebody would want to shoot my brother in the head," Michael Upton, of Clairemont, said Thursday evening as he drove to the site of the slaying.
"He was a good man. He saved a lot of kids," the brother said of John's enormous rescue effort of Romanian orphans. "Here's a guy who went into a communist country and basically didn't allow himself to get bullied by the government and corrupt people over there. And he took these kids who were crippled from birth defects from trying to be aborted, and brought them back to the United States to get medical care and get adopted.
"My brother was a fearless crusader."
The slaying was a double-blow for the family. Upton's mother died just hours earlier Thursday of natural causes.
"To me it's like a bad dream I'm waking up to," Michael said.
Upton was born in Atlantic City, N.J., and moved to San Diego in the 1960s, he told a reporter in a 1991 San Diego Union article. He attended San Diego State University and later opened a health food restaurant in Mission Beach before starting a wholesale clothing business. He got interested in filmmaking when he invested in a small project.
Upton's remarkable efforts in Romania began as a one-man mission. The self-described "poor kid from south Jersey" was sitting in his living room one night in 1990 when he saw a "20/20" television report on the horrors inside a prisonlike orphanage, called The "Institute for the Unsalvagables."
The investigation revealed about 200 children living like animals — naked and wild-eyed — eating mush with their hands and relieving themselves in plastic buckets. They were kept behind caged walls, many suffering from mental or physical disabilities.
One girl in particular captured Upton's heart, he later said. Elena had a leg that jutted out at an obscene angle, and she had to scoot around on her bottom to get around.
Upton left for Romania days later, his primary intent to get Elena out.
ABC News documented Upton's efforts as he navigated the country's red tape. He struggled to find many of the children's birth parents, which was necessary for him to get them out of the country and to new homes in the United States.
Back in Olivenhain, he'd show San Diego couples video footage of his trips to the orphanage, and the hopeful parents would handpick children they'd like to adopt.
Upton succeed in getting dozens of the orphans adopted to U.S. families in the next few years. His efforts got the attention of influential activists, inspiring billionaire philanthropist Richard Branson, actress Jessica Lange and lawmakers to help rescue some 5,000 orphans from Romania.


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You know what's NOT pretty walking down the aisle? You. You with your tan lines… Yeah… Tan lines in your beautiful, expensive wedding dress. Think about it… you probably spent a pile of money on your hair, makeup, personal trainers, facials, etc. so that you would look and feel incredible on your big day and frankly, I find it truly amazing how you can fuck it all up with those hideous tan lines. Seriously, you end up looking like some whore on the walk of shame instead of some bride walking down the aisle on her wedding day.


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IRRT International Librarians' Pre-Conference Committee
Statement of Role, Purpose, and Function
Develops and hosts an annual pre-conference for international attendees.
2015 Pre-conference
2014 Pre-conference
Training the Trainer: keeping up and staying ahead of new trends, standards, services and technologies
The American Library Association IRRT Pre-conference was held at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas on June 27, 2014. The IRRT Pre-conference provides a forum for librarians interested in international librarianship to discuss the current and future state of librarianship.
The library profession is constantly adjusting to new technical developments, standards and innovative new services. Yet the current fiscal climate can make it difficult for librarians and libraries to invest in continuing training and professional development.
This year the IRRT Pre-conference addressed professional development and continuing education initiatives and strategies conducted by librarians for their coworkers, organizations or the profession at large. Of particular interest for this year's pre-conference were case studies of institutional/organizational support and/or staff buy-in, overcoming budgetary constraints, and other successes or educational failures. The following topics were covered.
· RDA: training cataloging and technical service department
· E-book: workshops, support and training for Librarians
· Initiating mobile services (Roving reference, etc.)
· New Librarianship
· Open Access Initiatives/Digital Repository
· Education of future librarians/changes in library school programs
· Marketing
· Fund Raising
· Introducing new standards/services/programs
· International librarian exchanges programs
· Mentor programs
2013 Pre-conference
Innovative Library Services and Programs in Digital Era – An International Perspective- IRRT Pre-conference
8:00 am- 1:00 pm
McCormick Place Convention Center - S401bc
Description: IRRT Pre-conference addressed important issues, trends, and strategies that contribute to the understanding of the transformation of 21st century libraries along with the emerging technology. This year's pre-conference program featured case studies related to digital library development and the preservation of local culture and historical heritages. The panel presentations highlighted the interrelationships among digital preservation, digital resource development and management, as well as their presentation and dissemination to the global community.
- Nancy E. Gwinn & Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Libraries. Creating the Global Biodiversity Heritage Library;
- Anton duPlessis, Texas A&M University; Kent Norsworthy, University of Texas at Austin. Los Primeros Libros: Digital Collaboration to Facilitate New World Patrimony;
- Constantia Constantinou, SUNY Maritime College. Representing Cultural Knowledge and Heritage to the World;
- Leslie McCartney, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Gates of the Arctic National Park Project Jukebox and Gates of the Arctic Research Portal: Case studies of UAF's Approach to Preservation and Access to Local Culture and Oral History;
- Valerie Hill, Texas Woman's University. 3D Virtual Museums and Library Exhibits Promote International Information Literacy; Seangill
- Peter Bae, Columbia University. Resource Sharing Starts from Information Sharing; Use of ShareILL Wiki for International Interlibrary Loan.
2011 Pre-Conference
Theme: Outreach through New Partnership: Strategies and Successes
The IRRT Preconference was held in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference (June 23 - 28 2011) in New Orleans, LA. It was a half-day program from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm with presentations and discussion among participants and presenters. Based on this year's theme, Outreach through New Partnership: Strategies and Successes, the presentations emphasized one or more of the following areas: practical case study, application of unique outreach models, successful implementation of creative programs, and summaries of library strategies and approaches to developing sustainable partnerships with local organizations.
Amed Demirhan, MLIS., MADR, Director, University of Kurdistan Hawler Library -Training Library Staff in Kurdistan, Iraq (ppt)
Jane Kinney Meyers, President - The Lubuto Library Project (ppt)
Binh P. Le, The Pennsylvania State University Abington College- Village Library Collection Development Project (ppt)
Jo Bell, Whitlatch Evergreen Education Foundation - Rural Library Initiatives in China (ppt)
Cristina Vaileanu, IREX Romania, Peter Pearson, Library Strategies, Toni Garvey, Phoenix Public Library - Advocacy in Transylvania (ppt)
Laurie Kutner, I:nformation and Instruction Services Librarian/ Library Associate Professor, University of Vermont
Cindy Dykes, Project Associate, Monteverde Institute Digital Library Project, email@example.com
Stefanie Havelka, Electronic Resources-Web Services Librarian/ Assistant Professor, Lehman College/ CUNY
Creating Collections Through Collaboration: An Innovative Digital Library Project in Monteverde, Costa Rica (ppt)
2010 Pre-Conference
Web 2.0 Tools and Mobile Technology - Building Global Connections
Librarians around the world explored how libraries employ Web 2.0, social networking, and mobile technologies to enhance their services, expose their resources, expand their outreach, and enrich the life of diverse customers in the digital environment.
This year, a diverse group of speakers showcased innovative approaches to employing new technologies within their services and products.
Brandon Badger, Product Manager of Google Books, discussed Google's efforts in digitizing print materials to create digital books that are searchable, social, and mobile.
Christopher Carlson, Supervisor of the Web Services Division at the Library of Congress, talked about LC's web, mobile, and social networking strategies.
Carrie Gits, Assistant Director of Reference, Nova Southeastern University, shared her library's experiences in developing a simple mobile-friendly library web portal.
Milena Dobreva, Senior Researcher, Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde, discussed a usability study aimied at enhancing the digital library site, Europeana, with Web 2.0 and other features.
Tao Yang, East Asian Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries, described how the website FOREASt (Free Open Resources for East Asian Studies) utilizes blogs, Google Apps, social bookmarking, tag cloud, and twitter to promote open access in the context of international and area studies.
Attendees were encouraged to participate in dialogue and discussion as these practices are described. What model might work well for your library? What are your success stories? How can we encourage more libraries and librarians to integrate these tools in their service? How can we keep up with the changes of technology?
An additional component of the Pre-Conference was an overview of ALA's new 2015 International Strategic Plan by Beverly Lynch, Chair of ALA International Relations Committee.
The 2010 IRRT Pre-Conference will be held in conjunction with ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (plan to stay until 3pm), June 25, 2010 in the Renaissance Washington - Congressional Hall A. The $75 registration includes light refreshments and lunch.
- To register online, please visit the ALA Annual Conference site.
- To register by email or fax, please print the Preconference Registration form (Word document) and return by fax or email to email@example.com / 312-280-4392.
2009 Pre-Conference
Digitization in Developing Countries
Description: Digitization of scholarly information, research materials and cultural heritage achieved a global scale, or did it? Aiming to preserve, document, and provide access to legacy collections; digitization efforts require significant fiscal outlay for infrastructure and technology, as well as human resources. A lot has been written about digitization projects in industrial nations but do we know how (and if) developing countries grapple with the challenges of implementing digitization projects? How are potential partners/funding agencies being identified? What are considerations in selecting material for digitization?
John Van Oudenaren, Sr. Advisor for the World Digital Library at the Library of Congress presented the World Digital Library Project (PowerPoint)
Huang Chen, Director of the Digital Library R & D Center, Zhejiang University Libraries, China, presented the Collection and Service of the CADAL Project (PowerPoint)
Bukky O. Omotayo, Deputy University Librarian, K.O. Jagboro, Systems Librarian, Wahab A. Aboyade, Digitization Librarian, Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Ile-Ife, Nigeria presented Digitization of Library Collections in Developing Countires: the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library's Experience (PowerPoint)
Chunzhi, Xie, Vice Director/Assoicate Researcher, Wuhan University Library, China, presented Digitization in China's Academic Libraries: taking the Yangtze River Repository as an Example (PowerPoint)
Krystyna K. Matusiak, Digital Collections Librarian, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMyagmar Munkhmandakh, Director, Press Institute of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, presented Undertaking a Newspaper Digitization Project in Mongolia (PowerPoint)
Bogdan Trifunovic, Information Manager, Digitization Center, Public Library Cacak, Serbia, presented Digitization Projects among Public Libraries in Serbia: Problems, Obstacles and Success Stories (PowerPoint)
Dr. ShuYong Jiang (Co-Chair, July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Main Library, Urbana, IL 61801-3607
Work Phone: (217) 244-3669
Fax: (217) 333-2214
Email: shyjiang[@illinois.edu
Dr. Muzhgan Israfil Nazarova (Co-Chair, July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016) -
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Camille L. Callison (Member, July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016) - firstname.lastname@example.com Work Phone: (204) 480-1054
University of ManitobaElizabeth Dafoe Library,Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 CANADA
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Running the outlook connector on Windows 7 Pro 64bit and office 2010 32bit with the 32bit outlook connector. Zimbra server is offsite at a datacenter.
1) how can i disable error reporting emails that are titled "Local Failure Notice" from appearing to users? I would prefer that it either just appear in a log on the server or emailed to the server admin.
2) it seems that a lot of integration options arent showing in Outlook. No zimbra share options when right clicking on a calendar or contacts list, etc.
3) probably more a migration issue, but many imported calendar items just say Busy and no longer say the the subject of the actual event.
4) Ever noticed that the outlook zimbra connector takes up a lot of bandwidth even way after the imports have been completed? I am not 100% on this, but the small offices internet appears to be extremely slow (almost unusable at times) the same day i switched them to zimbra from imap/pop3.
Thanks for your time, I sincerely appreciate any ideas/solutions.


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I stumbled across this wiki article and am thinking this is a good idea:
Server Live sync - Zimbra :: Wiki
I just upgraded to version 8 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It is a physical server and I decided to spin up a VM with similar specs and try to follow the wiki. I do have few questions on how I might go about this. I plan to put this server on the same subnet. Should I different hostname or use the same hostname? Does that even matter? I am using a Comodo SSL cert that I would like to apply to this server as well if at all possible that is really the reason I am concerned with the hostname.
Internally I have Windows DNS that I could alter to reflect the new server IP in the event of a failover. Externally, I would just alter the NAT on the firewall.
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Botanical name: Sesamum indicum L.
Sesame seeds come from the tropical, herbaceous, annual Sesamum indicum, a member of the Pedaliaceae family. The plant reaches up to six feet in height, and the leaves have tiny hairs on both sides. Its foxglove-like flowers are purple to whitish. The seeds, which are found in the fruit capsule of the plant, take 80 to 180 days to mature, at which time the pod pops open. The pods are then hung and dried until the ripe seeds-- tiny, flat, oval and beige or creamy white-- fall out.
Most of the four million pounds produced each year are converted to oil. Middle Eastern and Asian recipes often include sesame seeds for flavor and texture. Other culinary uses of sesame seeds include sesame cooking oil, tahini (a paste made from the seeds) the spread, hummus and the Turkish confection, halvah.
When it comes to longevity, it's hard to beat sesame: before creating the world, the gods drank sesame wine, at least according to Assyrian legend. One of the first plants used for its seeds, the ancient Egyptians made a flour from it; a tomb drawing of 4000 years ago shows a baker adding sesame seeds to dough. Ancient Greek soldiers also ate sesame seeds to boost their energy, while the Romans made a food similar to hummus, using sesame and cumin. Both sprinkled sesame seeds on breads and ground it into paste. The Brahmins considered sesame a symbol of good luck and immortality. In the tale of Ali Baba in The Thousand and One Nights, the magical command "Open sesame" (a reference to the pod's popping open when ripe) opens the door to the robber's den.
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Widely enjoyed in Middle Eastern and Asian cooking, sesame seeds have a nutty, earthy aroma and taste-- which is enhanced by roasting. The seeds are often sprinkled over cakes and breads. In Syria and Lebanon, they're mixed with thyme and sumac to make a condiment called zatar. And in the Mediterranean, a tahini paste is made from the seeds. Sesame seeds are also an important ingredient in halvah (a Jewish sweet). In India the seeds are ground and used for flavor and thickening in spiced dishes. In China they're popular in stir-fries and oils. Try sesame seeds sprinkled on grains and steamed vegetables, and stir them into bread batters. Gomasio-- a delicious condiment to be sprinkled on dishes before serving-- is also made with roasted sesame seeds. To make your own, simply grind together roasted sesame seeds and natural sea salt (in whatever proportions suit your taste).
By the way... Sesame seeds are a good source of calcium and other nutrients. You can buy the seeds whole, unhulled, and hulled. Storage: These seeds have a high oil content, and although the oil is relatively stable while the seed is intact, refrigeration will slow the oxidation process and prolong the life of the seed.
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