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We joined a CSA this year for the first time. When we learned that our share was not quite enough for our family of five, we decided to get another small share of a different CSA. Little did we realize that now we had almost too much produce! The dance to use up our produce before it went bad began. Now, at the end of summer, both CSAs are abundant!
While I have learned new ways to use vegetables, including many I have never seen before such as ramps, I have also learned how to properly freeze many of these veggies. Now, our deep freezer is full of local, organic produce that we can use throughout the winter.
If you subscribe to a CSA or want to take advantage of the low produce prices at the farmer's market, here are some strategies to preserve them in the freezer:
Freeze without Blanching
We love red peppers, but they are astronomically priced in the winter (off-season), so we generally avoid them. However, they are packed with more vitamin C than an orange, so they are a nutritional powerhouse and should be consumed. Luckily, you can simply dice them and freeze them in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Then, when they are frozen, put in a heavy duty freezer bag.
Other fruits and veggies that you can preserve the same way as red peppers include:
- Blueberries
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Grapes (these are best eaten still slightly frozen)
- Bananas (either whole in the skin or sliced)
- Green peppers
- Chives
- Green onions
- Onions
- Zucchini (I shred before freezing. Some recommend blanching, but I have not had a problem even though I don't blanch it)
Freeze after Blanching
Blanching simply means to briefly submerge the vegetable in boiling water for as little as 2 minutes and then to drain them and submerge them in ice cold water to stop the cooking process. This process stops the natural enzymes and optimizes the vegetables' freezer preservation. If you don't blanch these vegetables, they become tough or discolored in the freezer and their flavor is affected.
These vegetables freeze nicely after blanching:
- Corn
- Green beans
- Broccoli
- Peas
- Brussel sprouts
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
(A good source to use to find how long to blanch each vegetable is Missouri Families Food Safety [3] page.)
Vegetables that Do Not Freeze Well
Sadly, not all vegetables can make a trip through the freezer and still come out edible. Here are some vegetables in our CSA basket that you must eat when fresh:
- Lettuce
- Celery
- Radishes
- Cucumbers
- Potatoes (one exception to this is homemade French fries; I cut them in strips, sprinkle with oil and herbs such as Italian seasoning or garlic salt) and cook them for about 15 to 20 minutes until almost cooked through, and then freeze. Simply reheat in the oven when ready to eat.)
Freeze as Frozen Meals
Finally, not all of your excess produce has to be frozen separately to use in the winter. This summer, I made freezer meals with much our excess produce. In fact, we had so many extra veggies that I already have enough freezer meals to feed our family dinner almost every night for 2 months, and we still have 8 weeks left of CSA deliveries!
Here are some of our favorite ways to freeze produce in meals:
- Cabbage—Cabbage and Beef Soup [4]
- Pesto—We make a simple recipe. Just put one bunch of basil in the food processor with ¼ cup oil and chop. Store in ice cube trays. For our family of 5, 4 ice cube blocks of pesto feed us when mixed with cooked pasta and some fresh tomatoes.
- Spinach or Swiss Chard—Italian Wedding Soup [5] (add the pasta when you are reheating, not when you first make it or it will become mushy in the freezer)
- Kale—Chicken Apple Sausage, Kale and Rice Soup [6]
- Beets—Harvard Beets [7] or Beet Pancakes [8] (sounds gross, but they are very tasty with a bit of maple syrup on top)
If you have too much produce, there is no reason to let veggies go bad. Simply freeze them properly or use them in freezer meals and you will be able to eat local produce all year long.
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The social sciences, which include justice studies, are focused on understanding people and their behaviors. The Westminster Justice Studies program treats the ethics of justice as a broad category of social and political issues relating to a critical analysis of crime and justice, intersectionality of gender and ethnicity, economic, environmental, and social justice. Accordingly, students who choose a major in Justice Studies are encouraged to take interdisciplinary coursework that exposes them to alternative and diverse ways of thinking about the philosophical concept of justice. This includes, but is not limited to coursework in fields such as Anthropology, Communication, Economics, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Political Studies, and Psychology that helps students understand the nature of justice and why individuals and governmental institutions may or may not behave in a just manner.
Today, the competitive environment in which law and justice operate requires that persons entering or working in that arena possess a solid foundation in the cultural, ethical, historical, legal, and social aspects of Justice Studies as well as well-developed critical, analytical, and communication skills in order to be an effective law practitioner, researcher, or teacher in our field. Graduates with a Justice Studies degree will be critical analysis thinkers who possess a firm academic foundation in the liberal arts upon which is built a solid knowledge base of how justice, in its many forms (such as race, class, and gender, etc…), meets the needs of American and global societies. The curriculum revisions accepted for this major are an outgrowth of specific issues identified during the process of changes of the Justice Studies (JUST) program. Some of the revisions are intended to strengthen student learning in the specific areas of critical analysis as it pertains among others to ethnicity, race, class, and gender issues. The purpose of these revisions has been to move the Justice Studies program in an even more interdisciplinary direction toward a humanistic inquiry of justice.
Historically, the program had a narrow focus on mainstream criminal justice issues. That narrowly focused program is no longer in existence. Today, instead, the critical analysis of crime and justice will remain only one of the components of the coursework offered to the JUST specific emphasis, where students will study, by using critical analysis, how law enforcement practices affect people in different ways according (among others) to their class, ethnicity, gender, and race.
The implemented revisions have broadened the focus of the program in a number of ways:
Courses like Community Justice, Legislation of Morality, and Restorative Justice examine issues of justice in a critical and analytical form under the specific lenses of ethnicity, race, class, gender etc… This enhanced critical-analytical focus will make the JUST major even more consistent with pedagogical approaches taken in other social science disciplines such as Political Science, Psychology, Economics, and Anthropology.
Through the new emphasis requirement (Intersectionality of ethnicity and gender), the program integrates the JUST curriculum relative to issues of ethnicity and gender with justice-oriented coursework being offered in a variety of disciplines across the campus to elicit answers and solutions for those institutional practices (governmental or private) that victimize our planet and beings that live in it.
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The 2012-13 NBA season has been laden with injuries for the Chicago Bulls, inevitably forcing them to utilize an array of "clutch five" lineups late in games.
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However, in this slideshow, we'll assume that he won't be in action.
Therefore, without a true superstar, which clutch-five bunch can contribute effectively enough to make plays when it really counts?
One thing is for sure: Coach Tom Thibodeau will have his guys ready, and they'll aptly compete against anybody.
At some point, though, talent and timely production must come from the men in uniform. The five listed here are the men who give the Bulls the best chance to grind out wins in the game's final moments.


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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
applying for non-missionary positions
wall of the garage, teeth so white
they'd make a dentist blush in her brush-
ing, legs tucked, bust bare as her soul
to sell motor oil - viscosity & thermal
break down are very real problems
you know, but the calendar was old
so it made no sense why it still hung a-
round but---
it was years later we were caught in
"that aisle" at the book store, with cosmos
big book of sexual positions, studying the
diagrams, number 72 looked like it might
hurt or require a Twister board, but 46
well, i am just glad i had my notebook and
plenty of empty pages to fill, when they round
-ed the corner and gave us that look---
which took me right back to the smell of gas
& grit and knowing i was going to be in sheep
dit if, and when they found out, and felt
so i sheepishly walked the aisle, looked up
at the prude and confessed, "it's date night"
and winked as we left, hand in hand
with my wife trying to wait
til the parking lot to laugh
then hurried home, thankful the boys
were staying at gramma's house
all night.
89 comments:
- Pat Hatt said...
hahahahahaha I think I'm laughing a bit to hard to rhyme
As soon as I saw the title that is where my mind went, the prude must have gotten quite the shock.
And thank God for grandma huh?..lol
- June 1, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Corinna said...
Sounds like a great date night!
- June 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Who Is Afraid Of Miss Lovett? No, Mrs.Lovett... said...
Hi! Brian...
No comment!
[However, your words are thought-provoking and your description is very vivid...Because I can just envision the situation in the store.]
Thanks, for sharing!
DeeDee ;-D
- June 1, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Bonnie said...
Yea, who wants to be a missionary!
You're such a scallywag (sp?) Brian and that's only one of the reasons I keep coming back here.
BTW - don't you wonder why all the old prudes seem to end up in that very aisle?
- June 1, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Now my cheeks are blushing as I remember that night! I'm thankful for sleepovers at gramma's too! ;)
- June 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- The Bug said...
LOL - I love it!
- June 1, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- kaykuala said...
My, rekindling the flames of tossing and tumbling shall we say. Blush, blush.. prudes there are! They'll grow out of it!
- June 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- tony said...
Ah #72! Nostalgia!
- June 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- 5thsister said...
You little rascal! Hope you had a wonderful date night!
- June 1, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- lori said...
Too funny :) Why is it being in "that aisle" even with my husband, still makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong? I suppose all those years of "just say no" are still hard to shake in public. Thank goodness for privacy!
- June 1, 2011 at 11:05 AM
- Old Ollie said...
Right on - always have that notebook ready...poems n such.
- June 1, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- Kathy's Klothesline said...
Date night sounds interesting .......
- June 1, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Joanne said...
Oh, Brian! Stellar stuff! The imagery, the story, the love!
- June 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- Eva Gallant said...
Oh that is too cute!
- June 1, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Brian Miller said...
tony, i almost laughed as hard as i did that night...
- June 1, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- daydreamertoo.com said...
Hehehehe....naughty you, in the dirty book aisle. LOL
A very clever write mixed in with a topless calandar on a garage wall too, Brian.
It all made me chuckle.
Thanks for visiting me and the lovely comment.
- June 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Titanium said...
Still laughing too hard to type...
That's awesome.
- June 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Monkey Man said...
Hys. Ter. I. Cal. Know that feeling, boss.
- June 1, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- Sue said...
Well now, you are a frisky little pair, aren't you?
- June 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- Captain Dumbass said...
Back when I used to work in retail books I always liked keeping that section looking good. For the customers, of course.
- June 1, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillow said...
You might not care for a missionary position, but you do a good job here of preaching the gospel of a healthy, wholesome and unhypocritical attitude toward our bodies and the pleasures to be found therein...
- June 1, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- David Allen Waters said...
Ha, this one made me snort my juice out my nose...I love it, romantic....fun and naughty all in one...perfection
- June 1, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- Robin Dalton said...
First, thank you so much for your kind comments on my blog post today.
Secondly, what a fabulous poem. You made me smile and I could almost imagine myself right there with you. You used your excellent grasp of the English language to engage all the senses of the reader. Well done.
I believe you are a remarkable storyteller.
- June 1, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Austin said...
love it bro, so much love it!
- June 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Pastor Sharon said...
The title was great. My mind went first to where the poetry went. Then, I thought, "don't think you know. Brian takes winding roads."
I love date night! Every couple needs that. I am thankful for grandma's who make that possible.
- June 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- thoughtsofapatcheduptraveler said...
I love this! You had me back in boyhood days and with a sharp turn around the bookcase, raised it to an adult level of fun. Grandparents are handy... hee
- June 1, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Katherine said...
Your too funny but a little bit naughty too & that is a wonderful combination. Thanks for the laugh!!
- June 1, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Margie said...
How you entertain!
Loved it and especially your ending ...
then hurried home, thankful the boys
were staying at gramma's house
all night.
Margie :)
- June 1, 2011 at 3:51 PM
- happygirl said...
Hahaha, So glad she's still taking resume's for the position. Hope you rocked her world.
- June 1, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- emmettwheatfall.com said...
Wow! Gorgeous man! From beginning to end. Love the topic and its treatment. It was just a refreshing read from all the other stuff we write. It's real.
- June 1, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Me said...
Hahahaha! Would have loved to have seen the exchange between you and the prude in the store. *Perfect!*
- June 1, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- ayala said...
Laughing...sounds like a great date night :)
- June 1, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- Travel & Dive Girl said...
That's AWESOME!!! I love anything that provides a shock factor to those prudes.
- June 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Nikki Rules said...
Have I ever mentioned how your writing is sweet?
ツ my cyber house rules dot com
- June 1, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- lynnaima said...
:) a dirty jaunt when the boys are away, how could you enjoy that!! lol
I enjoyed the metaphors in the first stanza, gripping :)
- June 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM
- Kate Hanley said...
Too funny. Just great. Hope date night rocked whatever position you decided on...
- June 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Jill from Killeny Glen said...
I absolutely LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Every word!!!!! What fun!
- June 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- Daniel said...
I thought you were telling us about some trouble you got in as a young un, then I read on and a big smile crossed my face. Oh, this was good.
- June 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- ... Paige said...
love it, poor prude thought they would be alone with the book and bam they were busted
- June 1, 2011 at 6:19 PM
- Pheromone Girl said...
That is completely awesome. You get two gold stars.
- June 1, 2011 at 6:52 PM
- Heather said...
ha ha! you gotta love date night!
- June 1, 2011 at 7:15 PM
- hedgewitch said...
Crack me up, man. The Twister board! Hey--we're mammals--we have bodies--we make babies with 'em and even use them to entertain ourselves--get over it. ;_)
- June 1, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- C.M. Jackson said...
sheep dit-you had me at the title-get thee to a publisher man!!
- June 1, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Unknown Mami said...
I love it whenever you mention your wife. Your love is so apparent.
- June 1, 2011 at 9:53 PM
- Stranger said...
tee hee! fun times and good for you!
- June 1, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- ladyfi said...
LOL - nice one!
- June 2, 2011 at 12:03 AM
- Zuzana said...
I love the way you can touch upon any subject with such an ease and make us all nod and smile in recognition.;)
I hope it was a great date night, hehe.;))
I am in for a few hot nights myself in the next few days, driving up north to see my soldier.;)
Have a great weekend dear Brian,
- June 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM
- Valerie said...
Never had those aisles in my day!
- June 2, 2011 at 1:02 AM
- James Rainsford said...
Witty, perceptive and slightly naughty.
What more could one ask for? Great job Brian.
- June 2, 2011 at 1:32 AM
- liangzhangqina said...
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- June 2, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- slommler said...
Do tell she says with a knowing smile on her lips!!!
- June 2, 2011 at 2:38 AM
- Claudia said...
loved it - and being able to laugh together surely qualifies for #46..smiles...off to the book store now...hehe
- June 2, 2011 at 2:57 AM
- Lorraine said...
oh gosh ahahhahhh love it...lol that laughter felt sooo good, thanks my friend, and Happy morning to your wife lol
- June 2, 2011 at 4:13 AM
- darsden said...
:-D cute spin....
- June 2, 2011 at 5:33 AM
- Hilary said...
You so made me laugh.. too cute. :)
- June 2, 2011 at 6:24 AM
- Jess Mistress of Mischief said...
Good night :op :)
- June 2, 2011 at 6:35 AM
- jabblog said...
Love this!
- June 2, 2011 at 7:09 AM
- blueviolet said...
You are SUCH a dirty boy.
- June 2, 2011 at 7:10 AM
- TALON said...
lol! Experimentation is a good thing (as is having a chiropractor on speed dial) ;)
- June 2, 2011 at 7:13 AM
- tracy said...
I cracked up when I saw the title of this poem, Brian, but of course you had me "aw(e)ing" at the end!
- June 2, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- TechnoBabe said...
Thank goodness the prudish mentality did find a permanent home in your psyche. Some people, married people too, spend their lives wondering.....
- June 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- Hope said...
awesome! lol!
- June 2, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- Bossy Betty said...
Love it! I want to hear more about #72 though.....
- June 2, 2011 at 7:45 AM
- Myrna R. said...
Ha. This is really cute Brian. Glad date nights are filled with adventure.
- June 2, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Fred said...
Brian what an entertaining piece. The title alone, but the whole scenario that plays out was so well done. This type of thing happens and we get a good laugh at the moment, I think it's great you were able to capture this from sentiment to scene. Very nice thanks for sharing
- June 2, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- AmyLK said...
That's my kind of date night!
- June 2, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Betsy said...
lol...oh, I love it. The prude was probably rounding the corner to check it out herself...for the umpteenth time.
- June 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Vicki Lane said...
Great title -- hilarious poem. So how's the Twister board thing working for you?
- June 2, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- william said...
lol that was a gas mate :)
- June 2, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Menina said...
Excellent title! I smirked immediately. Great descriptions.
- June 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM
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- June 2, 2011 at 9:18 PM
- Linc said...
Amazing, potent, vivid. I especially love the reference to the old calendar. Shouldn't we all have such a thing in our manly spaces?
- June 3, 2011 at 5:46 AM
- Josh Hoyt said...
Great job on the date night. It is interesting how we are looked at by those who don't know us.
- June 3, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Maggie May said...
That was very good.
Maggie X
Nuts in May
- June 3, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- Helen said...
Blush, grin, blush, grin ~ heck, I'll just do both.
- June 3, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Baino said...
Awww every boy does it. Should have seen the magazines I found under my son's mattress when he was about 10!
- June 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- Baino said...
Awww every boy does it. Should have seen the magazines I found under my son's mattress when he was about 10!
- June 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Deidra said...
Gotta love date night (she said, sheepishly)!
- June 3, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Magpie said...
You shoulda just bought the book!
- June 4, 2011 at 12:35 AM
- Liza Ursu said...
next time, just use Google.
"it's date night"
and winked as we left
Yeah, that's awesome Brian.
This piece reads like a movie or television scene.
Hope you guys had FUN!
- June 4, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Lolamouse said...
Good on ya! This is exactly the kind of behavior that keeps marriages together and I heartily endorse it!
- June 4, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- OJ Gonzalez-Cazares said...
lol - cosmo should be placed in a plastic bag for display! it has some dirty stuff... it is definitively not a PG magazine!
- June 4, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- Syd said...
We got caught at Barnes and Noble too. It was funny.
- June 4, 2011 at 6:32 PM
- PattiKen said...
And those little adventures are why your marriage is so successful.
- June 5, 2011 at 10:45 AM
- The Empress said...
You know, this made me laugh because I felt as guilty as a knocked up teen when I was 43 and pregnant and had older sons.
I felt like I had to hang my head and not ever look up, caught in the act!!
- June 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- slommler said...
Congrats on your POTW Brian
Still made me smile!!
- June 8, 2011 at 3:48 AM
- Out on the prairie said...
A thousand stories came to me from this.i have that calender out at the cabin,it came with it. I wonder where she is now?
- June 8, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Tabor said...
How on earth you are able to "get me" each and every time. I am so glad you do not live next door, or I would have to live on alert! Sweeeet!
- June 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- Cricket said...
Heh, heh. I know, huh? Good one.
There was spmething to be said for the strap-on... I mean, Snap-On tool girls, though.
Belated congrats on your potw.
- June 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM


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February 29th, 2012 | Published in TCS Reviews
By Pete Roche
Larry Keith Lewis went into the doctor's office in October 2010 thinking his physician would send him away with a prescription for his sore throat. Instead, the punk rocker walked out with a diagnosis of Stage IV cancer and a new appreciation for life's small things and precious moments.
Best known for his guitar work in 1970s-80s Cleveland-based groups like The Offbeats, AK-47s, Broncs, Lurid, and New Salem Witch Hunters, Larry "Lair" Matic had several tracks on the influential underground Cleveland Confidential collections and was a permanent fixture in the club scene for years. He'd always been a fighter—an underdog scurrying to get his music heard in an unforgiving market full of vacuous synth-pop and hair metal. So he took to chemotherapy with the tenacity of a challenger stepping into the ring for a prize fight.
Still, haste was in order. Lair scrambled to tie loose ends and organize his affairs. He knew music would be his legacy, and when The Cleveland Sound spoke with the ill-but-upbeat Matic last year, he was busy compiling old, unreleased recordings and mixing new studio material. He wasn't leaving this Earth without a fight—or a swan song.
Lair Matic Assembly is that swan song. Released by the Chicago-based (but Cleveland-friendly) Smog Veil, the new 7" is the last will and testament of a musician who knew the gig was over but was determined to take one final curtain call. Limited to 100 7-inch pressings on black vinyl, Assembly is a dichotomy of punk, with exuberant rocker "Out of My Hands" embracing Lair's uppity half, and B-side "To My Friends (It's Okay)" the guitarist's poetic farewell.
Joined by longtime pals Nick Summa (Floydband), Cheese Borger (Pink Holes), and Steve-O (Death of Samantha), Lair dominates the mix with his blessedly old-school guitar sound. Sadly, the disease had ravaged his voice by this time; Matic's verses are intelligible but breathy and strained, and it's apparent the guy struggled with a lot of pain during the sessions. Regardless, the result is an all-too-brief celebration of life and musical camaraderie that serves as fitting tribute to a man who devoted himself to guitar, for better or worse, and gave his all to the scene even when rock and roll fortune had long passed him by. Assembly is the sound of courage—the soundtrack for a private heavyweight championship wherein the proud warrior-contender parries and jabs, keeping his chin up even when Death delivers the final blow.
The disc sells for a suggested $4.00, with Smog Veil profits going to the Hospice of the Western Reserve in Lair's memory. The record includes a digital download card—so even those without a turntable can access both songs in mp3 format and keep the vinyl as a keepsake.
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Criminal Justice Reform Can Help With State Fiscal Woes
SOURCE: AP/Eric Risberg
Across our nation, state governments are mired in red ink that must almost immediately become black. The Great Recession has caused the largest collapse in state revenues on record, and more than 40 states closed billions of dollars in budget shortfalls last year. Unfortunately, many states are being dangerously short-sighted about solutions to their fiscal woes: They are cutting vital spending on public education and infrastructure—which are already of abysmal quality—while actually increasing their prison budgets. States are making such policy decisions despite extensive documentation that indisputably shows alternatives to incarceration are cheaper and better at reducing recidivism.
Overall, more than $70 billion of our collective tax dollars go to our penal system, with over $50 billion paid for by states. Over the past 25 years, state corrections spending grew by 674 percent, outpacing the growth of other government expenditures and becoming the fourth-largest category of state spending. (see Figure 1 below)
This unsustainable spending on prisons is a direct result of the inefficient and ineffective policies implemented in the 1980s and 1990s that overcriminalize behavior and use prison as a one-size-fits-all solution to crime. Skipping a turnstile in the New York subway can land you in jail for a year, and four marijuana counts put you in prison for life in Louisiana. These policies are now causing our prisons to burst at the seams with petty offenders, the mentally ill, the elderly, children charged as adults, those with drug addiction in need of treatment, and poor people unable to pay their bail. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States is now the largest incarcerator in the world—and the racial disparities in our system are abhorrent.
A report released today by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and the American Civil Liberties Union details how a change to the way states evaluate the budgetary effects of proposed laws could help states find better budget solutions while protecting public safety and decreasing our incarceration rate. According to the report, "Improving Budget Analysis of State Criminal Justice Reforms: Strategies for Improving Outcomes and Saving States Money," poorly performed state evaluations of the budgetary consequences of criminal justice legislation are causing some states to spend unnecessarily on prisons while cutting other vital state programs.
Earlier this year, for example, legislators from both sides of the political aisle in Maryland sought to pass a law that would have allowed nonprison sanctions for individuals who commit technical parole violations, such as missing a meeting with their parole officer or failing to complete community service. More than one-third of the people behind bars around our nation are there for similar technical violations, not for new crimes.
This Maryland bill would have allowed the state to put a portion of the $1 billion it spends annually on corrections to better use while keeping the public safe. If implemented, this reform could have started saving the state money within three years, since that's when most people return to prison for technical violations. But a misguided state budget estimate of the bill's impact considered only the up-front costs, ignoring the future savings and thus incorrectly concluding that the program would cost too much. As a result, the bill was scaled back to only three counties. Now, the rest of Maryland will continue to send individuals who violate parole conditions back to prison.
According to the new report released today, Maryland isn't the only state where this is happening. Many state budget analyses tend to focus on the upfront start-up costs of a bill, but fail to examine the later savings these programs will bring—even savings that could be realized in the following year. The upshot: When states examine policies through a cost-only lens, instead of a cost-effectiveness lens, legislators and the public are more likely to reject policies that would actually save money overall.
Amid this mess, however, there is hope. Bipartisan leaders in some states, among them Texas, Mississippi, and Ohio, recognized the short- and long-term benefits of cutting prison spending. Over the last few years, these states implemented reforms to cut their incarceration rates and their costs—all the while protecting public safety and reducing recidivism. Such reforms—like providing effective addiction treatment instead of prison to more people convicted of drug crimes and increasing parole eligibility for elderly prisons who no longer pose safety risks—free up precious state dollars to reallocate to other societal resources such as education, infrastructure, or returning tax dollars back to working families.
Every American who cares about their wallet, their safety, and basic fairness should be asking candidates and lawmakers why our state governments are spending more and more of our hard-earned tax dollars on prisons when there are cheaper and more effective alternatives. State lawmakers would be wise to re-evaluate any short-sighted fiscal practices and implement the best practices recommended in the report. After all, effective and efficient spending defines successful state government policymaking, especially in our current, budget-constrained era.
Inimai Chettiar is a Policy Counsel at the national American Civil Liberties Union, where she serves as legislative counsel to end mass incarceration in states across the country. She has published scholarship on using economic analysis to advance progressive policies, most recently co-authoring Smart Reform is Possible: States Reducing Incarceration Rates and Costs While Protecting Public Safety and Improving Budget Analysis of State Criminal Justice Reforms: Strategies for Improving Outcomes and Saving States Money. She also serves as a Leadership Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Causes: Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are caused by microbial invasion of the urinary tract. By far, the majority of UTIs are caused by bacterial infection. Viral and fungal infections can also cause UTIs, but are extremely rare. Fortunately, most UTIs are easy to cure and to prevent, once cured.
UTIs start by microorganisms entering the urinary tract via the vulva in females, and the penis sheath in males. UTIs are more common in bitch puppies because when they urinate, they squat near the ground, so are more likely to be exposed to stray bacteria on vegetation or on the ground. Male puppies also get UTIs, but with less frequency than bitch puppies. UTIs in adult males can be caused by transfer of infection during breeding, being housed in insanitary conditions, or waiting too long between potty breaks. Adult bitches often develop UTIs around their heat cycles as hormones fluctuate and urine pH levels change.
Urinary Tract Infections can also be secondary to other, underlying conditions, thus making the UTI a symptom rather than a disease. Dogs which have recurring UTIs should be examined for underlying causes.
Symptoms & Diagnosis: Common symptoms of UTI are dripping or dribbling urine, frequent licking of vulva or penis sheath, increased water intake, and frequent potty breaks, some of which may not produce urine (dog squats or lifts leg, but produces only a few drops).
Diagnosis of UTI typically requires a clean collection from the dog. Your vet will instruct you on how to do this, but a long-handled ladle works well! The specimen should be collected mid-stream (wait until the dog has urinated a little bit, then catch the rest of the urine), and in clean containers. Urine from healthy mammals is sterile, so any presence of bacteria is indicative of UTI. However, using dirty collection equipment can cause a false positive result for bacteria on urinalysis.
The urine will be examined visually for color and clarity, and chemically for presence of protein, blood, pH, and other values which can help your vet come to a diagnosis. A microscope may also be used to check for bacteria or crystals in the urine. For dogs with recurring or intractable (stubborn) infections, a urine culture may be necessary to identify the exact organism that is causing the problem.
Treatment & Management: Bacterial UTIs are treated with antibiotics. Fortunately, this treatment is rather inexpensive. Some UTIs can be caused by virus or fungal organisms, or less-common bacteria. These are usually identified with urine culture (see above section). Treatment for rarer forms of UTI may be somewhat to considerably more expensive than for routine UTI.
Preventing UTIs involves management of the dogs environment. Holding it for long periods of time causes the urine to stagnate in the bladder, creating an environment where any bacteria present can multiply rapidly. Dogs should be aired more frequently, and plentiful water offered to get more frequent, normal urination. Raising the acidity of the urine (lowering the pH) discourages bacterial growth, so giving of fruit juices is sometimes recommended as it can increase acidity of the urine. However, sugar content should be reviewed before giving juices, as the sugar can drive the urine to an alkaline state, which is the opposite of the desired result.


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Great Comic Book Adventure at New Jersey Six Flags May 29th
May 24, 2011 by Brian Pate
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Press Release:
The Great Comic Book Adventure-the first comicon ever held at Six Flags Great Adventure-will be taking place this Sunday, May 29th from 10:30-8:00.
Admission is free with paid admission to the park. Use the following link to get a ticket to both the theme park and safari park for only $28.99.
They'll have dealers with everything from bargain comics to Golden Age keys.
The costume contest has been canceled (Please do NOT come in costume), The events scheduled so far include:
12:00 "Comic Book School" with writer and publisher Buddy Scalera-Find out how a comic book is created from start to finish.
1:00 Chuck Rozanski-the owner of Mile High Comics and largest comic book dealer in the world will tell the incredible story of how he found the most valuable comic book collection ever… followed by a Q&A.
2:00 A "no minimum bid" auction to benefit The Childrens' Miracle Network. Great deals for a great cause.
3:00 Find out what it's like to be the only blind comic book dealer in the world when we interview Adam Cerniglia.
4:00 What's a "Web Comic"? Danielle O'Brien and Bill Ellis, the creators of "All New Issues" will tell you!
Artists including Neal Adams, Irwin Hasen, Sean Chen, Lee Weeks, Daxiong, Doug Baron and Glenn Whitmore will be available at various times throughout the day for signing and sketching. (Additional events including some of these creators may be added during the course of the day as their comfort levels and customer activity allows.)
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Six Flags Great Comic Book Adventure (May 2011)
April 14, 2011 by njcomicbookshows
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|About This Convention
|The first comic book convention ever to be held at Six Flags Great Adventure! Dozens of tables with vendors selling everything from bargain comics to key 1st issues! Fan favorite creators as well. Charity auction to benefit The Childrens Miracle Network at 2:00. Costume contest with prizes, judging at 4:00.
Show hours are 10:30-8:00
Special link for discounted admission to the park for the day at http://www.sixflags.com/greatAdventure/events/CalendarEvents.aspx
|Venue Name and Address
|Six Flags Great Adventure
1 Six Flags Blvd
Jackson, NJ 08527
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|Irwin Hasen, Lee Weeks, Reilly Brown, Fred Hembeck, Doug Baron, Glenn Whitmore, more TBA
The Great Allentown Comic Con! (April 2011)
January 26, 2011 by LVComicCon
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|The Great Allentown Comic Con!
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|Over 600 free spaces for parking, Easy exit from Route 78 ->Lehigh St exit.
We have over 75 Dealer tables available, with comics from the Silver Age to New releases, Action Figures, Cards, and Clothing and Much More!
A fun-filled day for eveyone, with hourly Door Prizes, a No-Minimum Bid Auction at 2pm, and Costume Contests and Prizes!
Additional Guests are being added – Check our website for more information!
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Abrams ComicArts Booth Schedule at NYCC 2010
October 2, 2010 by Colin Solan
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Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of ABRAMS, returns to New York Comic Con to showcase the 2010 line up of high-quality comics related titles.
Some highlights from this year's list that will be featured at New York Comic Con include Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics by N. C. Christopher Couch; Shazam! The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal by Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear; Archie Marries. . . by Michael Uslan, illustrated by Stan Goldberg and Bob Smith; The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger; The Art of Jaime Hernandez by Todd Hignite; The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis by Matt Groening; Art in Time by Dan Nadel; Wacky Packages New New New; and The Horror! The Horror! by Jim Trombetta.
Authors and artists who will be present at New York Comic Con this year include: Jerry Robinson (participating in a panel and signing at the Abrams ComicArts booth), Michael Uslan, Stan Goldberg, Jack Morelli, Bob Smith, Glenn Whitmore, John Goldwater and Victor Gorelick (participating in panels and signings), Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear (signing at the ABRAMS booth), Rick Meyerowitz (author of Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great, signing at the Abrams ComicArts booth. Authors and artists can be made available for interviews in advance or at designated times at the show.
"We are thrilled to return to the New York Comic Con for the fifth year in a row," says Charles Kochman, editorial director of Abrams ComicArts. "Our eagerly anticipated fall titles will make their debut alongside our award-winning list of backlist titles, and many of our authors will be joining us to celebrate. I can't imagine a better publication party than to share our new art books and graphic novels with over 75,000 potential fans."
Friday, October 8
3:00 – 4:00 Signing – Jerry Robinson signing Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics
at Abrams ComicArts booth #2327
3:15 – 4:15 Panel – Archie Means Business (room 1A14)
Michael Uslan, Stan Goldberg, Jack Morelli, Bob Smith, Glenn Whitmore, Victor Gorelick, and John Goldwater
4:30 – 5:30 Signing – Archie Group signing Archie Marries. . . at Autograph Alley
Michael Uslan, Stan Goldberg, Jack Morelli, Bob Smith, Glenn Whitmore, Victor Gorelick, and John Goldwater
8:15 – 9:15 Panel – A Conversation with Chip Kidd and Dash Shaw (room 1A14)
Saturday, October 9
11:00 – 12:00 Signing – Rick Meyerowitz – signing Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great
at Abrams ComicArts booth #2327
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1:15 – 2:15 Panel – Jerry Robinson and Al Jaffee Gold & Silver Age of Comics Living Legends (room 1A14)
2:30 – 3:30 Signing – Jerry Robinson signing Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics
at Abrams ComicArts booth #2327
Sunday, October 10
10:30 – 11:30 Signing – Michael Uslan and Stan Goldberg signing Archie Marries. . .
at Abrams ComicArts booth #2327
12:00 – 1:00 Panel – Archie Creators Tell All (room 1A14)
Stan Goldberg and others
1:00 – 2:00 Signing – Laura Lee Gulledge signing galleys of her upcoming young-adult book Page by Paige at Abrams ComicArts booth #2327
Glenn Whitmore Guest for September 26th East Hanover NJ Expo
September 22, 2010 by Brian Pate
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Artist Glenn Whitmore has just been added to the guest list for the September 26th East Hanover, NJ Comic Book Expo.
GLENN WHITMORE's comic book ambitions began at age ten when he first attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. Glenn graduated in 1987. A year later he began an eleven-year-run as colorist on the Superman titles for DC Comics, which included landmark storylines of the hero's engagement, death, return, and marriage to Lois Lane. For over twenty years Glenn has also provided color to popular comic book titles such as The Power of Shazam, Justice Society, Nexus, and most recently, Archie.
Glenn also self-publishes the retro sci-fi comic, Captain Clockwork, in which four heroes can manipulate time and are sworn to protect the course of history from the evil that threatens to change it. Copies of Captain Clockwork will be available at the show.
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Nov 3, 2014
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Nov 3, 2014
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Nov 3, 2014
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Tutorial 6: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing: Theory and Practice
Xiaodong He (Microsoft Research, USA)
Jianfeng Gao(Microsoft Research, USA)
Li Deng (Microsoft Research, USA)
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dlnlp/
Tutorial 1: Crowdsourcing in Information and Knowledge Management
Abstract: As a novel computation paradigm, crowdsourcing is being actively pursued in diverse academic disciplines. Within computer science, many sub-fields have embraced the concept of crowdsourcing with open arms and applied the concept to solve many challenging problems. Communities relevant to the CIKM conference such as Database, Information Retrieval, and Data Mining are no exception to this phenomenon and there have been many exciting new results using crowdsourcing appearing in recent literature. This tutorial, after gentle introduction on the history and concept of crowdsourcing, provides the overall landscape of crowdsourcing research in CIKM communities, with the particular focus on some of latest crowdsourcing research in Database field.
Presenter 1: Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China (email@example.com)
Lei Chen received the BS degree in computer science and engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1994, the MA degree from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1997, and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include crowdsourcing over social media, social media analysis, probabilistic and uncertain databases, and privacy-preserved data publishing. So far, he published over 200 conference and journal papers. He got the best paper awards in DASFAA 2009 and 2010. He is PC Track chairs for SIGMOD 2014, VLDB 2014, ICDE 2012, CIKM 2012, SIGMM 2011. He has served as PC members for SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGMM, and WWW. Currently, he serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering and Distribute and Parallel Databases. He is a member of the ACM and the chairman of ACM SIGMOD China Chapter.
Presenter 2: Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dongwon Lee is currently an associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (a.k.a. iSchool) of the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2002. From 1995 to 1997, he has also worked as a programmer at AT&T Bell Labs. Working mostly on the issues arising in the management and mining of diverse forms of data (e.g., relational records, documents, XML, and social media), he has (co-)authored over 130+ scholarly articles in selective publication outlets in Databases and Data Mining. He has also served as a PC member for major venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, CIKM, KDD, SDM, WWW, IJCAI, WSDM, and JCDL. Further details of his research can be found at: http://pike.psu.edu/
Presenter 3: Meihui Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore (email@example.com)
Meihui Zhang is currently a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore and will join Singapore University of Technology and Design as an Assistant Professor in August. She did her Ph.D. in Computer Science at National University of Singapore and obtained her B.E. in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her research interests mainly focus on database issues. Her Ph.D. thesis was on database exploration and schema extraction. She also works on crowdsourcing, massive data integration and spatio-temporal databases.
Tutorial 2: Learning Non-IID Big Data
Abstract: Learning from big data is increasingly becoming a major challenge and opportunity for big business and innovative learning theories and tools. Two of the most critical challenges of learning from big data are the uncovering of the explicit and implicit coupling relationships embedded in mixed heterogeneous data from multiple sources. The coupling and heterogeneity of the non-IIDness aspects form the essence of big data and most real-world applications, namely the data is not independent and identically distributed (IIDness). However, most classic theoretical systems and tools in statistics, data mining, database, knowledge management and machine learning assume the independence and identical distribution of underlying objects, attributes and values. For this, non-IIDness learning in big data emerges as a critical theoretical problem and is recently focused, which considers the couplings and heterogeneity between entities, properties, interactions and contexts. In this tutorial, we present a comprehensive overview of the non-IIDness learning, and introduce general frameworks and algorithms for non-IID classification, clustering, ensemble clustering, text mining, and recommender systems, and their challenges and prospects.
Presenter: Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Longbing Cao is a professor of information technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is the Founding Director of the Advanced Analytics Institute at UTS, which dedicates to data science and big data analytics research, education and development. He is also the Research Leader of the Data Mining Program at the Australian Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, SMC Society and Computer Society. He serves as associate editor and guest editor on many journals, as conference co-chair of KDD2015, PAKDD13 and ADMA13, and program co-chair or vice-chair of PAKDD11, ICDM10, IAT11, ADMA10 etc., and program committee member on around 100 conferences including KDD, ICDM and AAMAS. His primary research interests include data science and data mining, machine learning, behavior informatics, and open complex intelligent systems.
In the area of data science, he started the relevant work in 2005, and created the first data science lab in Australia in 2007 which was probably one of the very first labs globally. He founded the Advanced Analytics Institute, a university research institute at the University of Technology Sydney. AAI is now widely recognized as the first Australian research group designed and dedicated to data science and big data analytics, and was the only group specially mentioned in the first Australian government whitepaper on big data. AAI and he were invited to talk about big data at the Australian Broadcasting Cooperation (ABC) TV. Since 2002, he has led teams working with many federal, state, private and international partner organisations, including Microsoft, SAS, Teradata, Australian Taxation Office, Department of Human Services, Department of Financial Services, Insurance Australian Group, and Westpac. He and his team's work on big data analytics has led to estimated millions of dollars savings for the relevant organisation every year.
Tutorial 3: Data Analytics in Healthcare: Problems, Challenges and Future Directions
Abstract: Health informatics refers to the process of leveraging information technologies to improve the quality of healthcare delivery. In recent years, the application of data analytics technologies into healthcare has aroused considerable interests in both data analysis and medical communities. In this tutorial, we will introduce the healthcare data, popular analytic problems, point out challenges and future research directions.
Presenter 1: Fei Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA (email@example.com)
Dr. Fei Wang is now a Research Staff Member in healthcare analytics research group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He got his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University in 2008. After that, he spent one year in School of Computing and Information Science, Florida International University as a posdoc and another year in Department of Statistical Science, Cornell University as a postdoc. His research interests include data mining, machine learning and their applications in healthcare data analytics. He has published over 100 papers on the leading conferences like SIGKDD, SIGIR, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, SDM, ICDM. He also serves as a referee for many distinguished journals including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, DMKD, ACM TKDD and program committee member for many international conferences including KDD, ICDM and SDM. For more details, one can refer to his personal homepage athttps://sites.google.com/site/feiwang03/.
Presenter 2: Xiang Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA (email@example.com)
Dr. Xiang Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Healthcare Analytics Research Group. He is broadly interested in data mining, machine learning, and their applications to real-world problems, in particular healthcare informatics. He received PhD in Computer Science (2013) from University of California at Davis, advised by Professor Ian Davidson. Before that, He received Master of Software Engineering (2008) and BS in Mathematics (2004), both from Tsinghua University. He has published around 20 papers on top venues in data mining such as KDD, ICDM, SDM and he won the best research paper runner-up award in SDM 2013.
Abstract: In this tutorial, we will present an in-depth discussion on personalization in the realm of e-commerce platforms with a focus on the scale of data and the consequent challenges. We will describe use cases in large online marketplaces like eBay. The discussion will also highlight why dimensions like location, device, and social contexts matter, in addition to traditional user preferences and historical profiles. Some of the challenges in effective personalization are due to the scale (variety, volume, and velocity) of data. Specifically an effective personalization approach would need to combine signals from multiple data sources (variety), deal with billions of events (volume), and negotiate real-time stream processing (velocity). We will highlight the use of some of the latest techniques - machine learning, data mining, cloud/Hadoop computing, and describe approaches that can benefit from both real time as well as offline processes while respecting industry-level latency considerations. The talk will also present recent research work from the web community to highlight the gap and opportunities between dealing with these scales at real time with real data.
Presenter 1: Elizabeth F. Churchill, eBay Research Labs, USA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Elizabeth Churchill joined eBay in 2012 as a Director leading HCI (Human Computer Interaction) research. A psychologist by training, Elizabeth has a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining eBay, Elizabeth led HCI research at Yahoo labs, PARC (the Palo Alto Research Center) and FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox's lab in Palo Alto.
Elizabeth is an active member of the Human Computer Interaction research community. She is the current Executive Vice President of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SigCHI). In her 20 year career, she has published at all the top tier HCI conferences, in numerous HCI related journals, has co-edited 5 HCI related texts, and is a regular columnist for the ACM's interactions magazine, a publication dedicated to user-centered design and the study of human-computer interaction. In 2010, she was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Media X, the industry affiliate program to Stanford's H-STAR Institute.
Presenter 2: Atish Das Sarma, eBay Research Labs, USA (email@example.com)
Atish Das Sarma is currently a Staff Research Scientist at eBay Research Labs. Prior to his current position, Atish was a Research Scientist at Google Research. Atish received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech. and undergraduate from IIT-Bombay, all in computer science. Atish has published over 40 research papers and filed around 10 patents. Atish received the Best Paper Award at PODS-2008, a Facebook award in 2009 for work done that was named a top-50 fbFund Finalist for most promising upcoming start-up ideas, and a Google awards for excellent paper in structured data and best paper in information retrieval.
Atish's work has been featured in Techcrunch, Huffington Post, The Verge, BBC, New Scientist, NPR, MIT Technology Review, Time, and several other outlets. Atish serves on numerous international program committees (such as KDD, WWW, WSDM, VLDB, SIGMOD, CIKM, ICWSM, and others) and has given several invited talks and tutorials.
Presenter 3: Ranjan Sinha, eBay Research Labs, USA (email@example.com)
Ranjan Sinha is currently the lead scientist for Personalization at eBay Inc. He has over a decade of experience leading innovative projects in industry and academia. He has led several site-impacting projects that significantly enhanced shopping experience in eBay and led to multiple incremental business lifts. He received his award-winning Ph.D. degree in computer science from RMIT University under the supervision of Prof. Justin Zobel. He has over 25 research publications, including in top tier outlets such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB journal, and Bioinformatics journal. Prior to joining eBay, Ranjan was an ARC Research Fellow and Chief Investigator at the University of Melbourne. He has taught courses, consulted for industry, reviewed papers for journals and conferences, mentored interns/colleagues in industry and supervised honors/PhD students in academia. He has given several invited talks at venues including Google and Bell Labs.
Ranjan was awarded the Sort Benchmark medals for both JouleSort and PennySort in 2009. He was amongst the Top 12 Asia-Pacific Young Inventors and appeared on a center-spread article on Cutting-Edge Crusaders in the Wall Street Journal. He is currently a co-organizer of the popular Bay Area Search Meetup that has over 1,300 members.
Tutorial 5: Learning to Hash with its Application to Big Data Retrieval and Mining
Abstract: There has been increasing interest in nearest neighbor (NN) search in massive (large-scale) data sets in this big data era. In many real applications, it's not necessary for an algorithm to return the exact nearest neighbors for every possible query. Hence, in recent years approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms with improved speed and memory saving have received more and more attention from researchers. Due to its low storage cost and fast query speed, hashing has been widely adopted for ANN search in large-scale datasets. The essential idea of hashing is to map the data points from the original feature space into binary codes in the hashcode space with similarities between pairs of data points preserved. Recently, most hashing methods adopt machine learning models to learn effective hashing functions from data, which results in a new research topic called Learning to Hash. Because NN search plays a fundamental role in many information retrieval and data mining models, learning to hash has recently become a very hot research topic with wide applications in many big data areas. This tutorial will provide a systematic introduction of learning to hash, including the motivation, models, learning algorithms, and applications in big data retrieval and mining.
Presenter 1: Wu-Jun Li, Nanjing University, China (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dr. Wu-Jun Li is currently an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University, P. R. China. From 2010 to 2013, he was a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010. Before that, he received his M.Eng. degree and B.Sc. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University in 2006 and 2003, respectively. His main research interests include machine learning and pattern recognition, especially in statistical relational learning and big data machine learning (big learning). In these areas he has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers including leading journals such as TKDE and top conferences such as AAAI, AISTATS, CVPR, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS, SIGIR. He has served as the PC member of ICML'14, IJCAI'13/'11, NIPS'14, SDM'14, UAI'14, etc.
Abstract: Deep learning techniques have enjoyed tremendous success in the speech and language processing community in recent years, establishing new state-of-the-art performance in speech recognition, language modeling, and some natural language processing tasks. The focus of this tutorial is on deep learning approaches to problems in language or text processing, with particular emphasis on important applications including information retrieval, language understanding, knowledge representation, question answering, machine translation, and semantic modeling.
In this tutorial, we first survey the latest deep learning technology, presenting both theoretical and practical perspectives that are most relevant to our topic. We plan to cover common methods of deep neural networks and more advanced methods of recurrent, recursive, stacking, and convolutional networks. Next, we review general problems and tasks in text/language processing, and underline the distinct properties that differentiate language processing from other tasks such as speech and image object recognition. More importantly, we highlight the general issues of language processing, and elaborate on how new deep learning technologies are proposed and fundamentally address these issues. We then place particular emphasis on several important applications: 1) information retrieval from text 2) language understanding/semantic parsing, 3) question answering, 4) machine translation. For each of the tasks we discuss what particular architectures of deep learning models are suitable given the nature of the task, and how learning can be performed efficiently and effectively using end-to-end optimization strategies. Beyond providing a systematic tutorial of the general theory, we also present hands-on experience in building state-of-the-art IR/LU/QA/MT systems. In the tutorial, we will share our practice with concrete examples drawn from our first-hand experience in major research benchmarks and some industrial scale applications which we have been working on extensively in recent years.
Presenter 1: Xiaodong He, Microsoft Research, USA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Xiaodong He is a Researcher of Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. His research interests include deep learning, information retrieval, natural language understanding, machine translation, and speech recognition. Dr. He has published a book and more than 60 technical papers in these areas, and has given tutorials at several international conferences in these fields. In benchmark evaluations, he and his colleagues have developed entries that obtained No. 1 place in the 2008 NIST Machine Translation Evaluation (NIST MT) and the 2011 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation Evaluation (IWSLT), both in Chinese-English translation, respectively. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and as Guest Editor of several IEEE journals. He served in the organizing committee of ICASSP2013 as the Chair of Special Sessions, and general Co-Chair of the Workshop on Speech and Language at NIPS 2008. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACL.
Presenter 2: Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research, USA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Jianfeng Gao is a Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. His research interests include Web search and mining, information retrieval, natural language processing and statistical machine learning. Dr. Gao has published more than 100 technical papers in these areas. He gave a tutorial on statistical translations and web search at 2011 ACL/SIGIR Summer School. In benchmark evaluations, he and his colleagues have developed entries that obtained No. 1 place in the 2008 NIST Machine Translation Evaluation (NIST MT) in Chinese-English translation. He was Associate Editor of ACM Trans on Asian Language Information Processing, (2007 to 2010), and was Member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics (2006 – 2008). He also served as tutorial co-chair for CIKM2013, and area chairs for ACL2012, EMNLP 2010, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, etc.
Presenter 3: Li Deng, Microsoft Research, USA (email@example.com)
Li Deng is a Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. In the general areas of audio/speech/language technology and science, machine learning, signal/information processing, and computer science, he has published over 300 refereed papers in leading journals and conferences and 4 books. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2008-2010). More recently, he served as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2009-2011), which earned the highest impact factor in 2010 and 2011 among all IEEE publications and for which he received the 2012 IEEE SPS Meritorious Service Award. He recently served as General Chair of the IEEE ICASSP-2013, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. In 2009, in collaboration with Geoff Hinton, he initiated deep learning research at Microsoft. Since then, his technical work on and the leadership in industry-scale deep learning with colleagues and academic collaborators have created significant impact in speech recognition and in other areas of signal/information processing including text processing.


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The 2014 class of the General McLane Athletic Hall of Fame was announced this week, including Hayden Harrison, Matt Seth Jr., Julie Wagner-Hughes and Bria Handran-Main.
The four will be honored at halftime of Friday's game between Fort LeBoeuf and General McLane at Linden Field. The four also will take part in the Hall's golf tournament Sept. 6 at Culbertson Hills Golf Resort before the induction ceremony and banquet that evening at 7.
Harrison, who graduated in 2004, was a standout wrestler and long distance runner for the Lancers. He had a school-record 135 wins on the mat and set school records in pins, takedowns and match points. He was a district and regional wrestling champion and finished fifth in his final PIAA meet. Between wrestling and cross country, Harrison finished with 13 District 10 championships, eight school records and three state medals and he is now a naval aviator in the U.S. Navy.
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There is nothing easy about vocalese, but the quartet Clockwork will put any jazz fan completely at ease. The San Francisco-area group - including a Maui girl - produces music to curl up in, but don't get too comfortable. The group can blow you away, artistically and sonically.
Webster's defines vocalese as "a form of jazz singing in which lyrics are composed for and sung to the music taken from already existing instrumental jazz recordings." What's missing from that definition are Clockwork's harmonies, chords that are at once familiar and surprising.
Soprano Angie Doctor, alto Juliet Green, tenor John Paddock and bass Dave Durban are an ensemble of singers who obviously love the music, enjoy each other's company and delight in performing.
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Clockwork came to Maui basically because Seabury Hall graduate Juliet Green wanted to honor her musician-composer-arranger father Pat Green who died Nov. 4. For decades, Pat Green was an integral part of the Maui music scene, playing piano with all sorts of notables, arranging and conducting choral works and ministering to abused pianos.
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