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n enthusiastic audience of Boston-area students, workers and intellectuals both Haitian and non-Haitian welcomed scholar-activist Franck Laraque to Boston, Massachusetts the weekend of April 1011, 2004, at Northeastern University. The occasion was the launching of Haïti: La lutte et lespoir (Haiti: Between Struggle and Hope), a collection of reflections and reminiscences by brothers Franck and Paul Laraque. The cultural forum was sponsored by Boston-based SEDRA (Center for Education and Research on Haiti), the journal Tanbou, and Northeasterns African American Studies Department.
|Paul and Franck Laraque in a reading in New York City, 2003
Following introductions by SEDRAs Jacques Antoine Jean and this writer, Franck Laraque went straight to the main points of the book, notably the parts about conscientisation économique, alternative models of development, and exhortations to build your communities with your own resources. Panelists and audience members participated equally in the lively discussion that followed, which turned mostly on Haitis need for a new model of development, and new perspectives on political change.
Along with brother Paul, Franck Laraque was once an officer in the Haitian army. Franck left the army in August 1957, amid the turmoil following the collapse of the Collegial Government. Soon after, he was exiled to New York City where he went back to school and became a professor of French literature at the City College of New York (CCNY), in high demand as a speaker for his advocacy of socialism and intellectual freedom. His doctoral thesis, Revolt in Sartres Theater, was later published in book form. The key to the charismatic uniqueness of Franck Laraque is the zeal and scrupulously documented expertise he employs in his development of a socio-economic critique of Haitis underdevelopment problematic: he proposes a new way of doing things, a way which validates Haitis tremendous physical, human and intellectual resourcesinstead of the current paradigm of charity and beggary.
Haïti: La lutte et lespoir [Haiti: Between Struggle and Hope] (Éditions CIDIHCA, 2004) has two parts. The first part, which covers Economy, Politics and Literature, is a compilation of essays by Franck Laraque that range from a plea for economic consciousness in Haiti, to the authors memoir of the Jeremie Massacre and ethnic prejudice in Haiti. The core of Franck Laraques critique of the incompetence and corruption of the dominant ruling classes and his advocacy for an alternative political project lies in his view that Haiti has ample resources that only need to be identified, counted, organized and utilized in ways that benefit the development of Haiti and the well-being of the Haitian people, especially the poorest sectors of the population.
The traditional Haitian practice of Koumbita cooperative practice which seeks the voluntary work of everyone in the community to help achieve a successful harvestcould be a useful model in devising mutually beneficial exchanges and strategic commercial collaboration between identified economic forces within Haiti and with other countries. This would benefit not only the powerful economic forces of the wealthy countries, as has been traditionally the case, but also the masses of the peripheral countries who will come to equate the need for higher production with the imperative of a more just society.
In effect, this way of seeing the Haitian problematic, with a perspective toward the long term, would necessitate a paradigmatic shift on two fronts: the intellectual and the practical. On the intellectual front, Haitians must come to the realization that a certain way of doing things has failed, and will continue to cause tragedy if they dont change it. For example, the rebels who took arms during the current Haitian crisisthey came from the Dominican Republic, invaded the Haitian Cap, joined with insurgents in other cities or towns, attacked Port-au-Prince, and almost took powerwere following a typical 19th-century formula during which consecutive, bloody insurgencies and coups followed one after another, until the international community, usually the USA, intervened and so on The recent events were a déjà-vu in many ways. On the practical level, as Franck Laraque emphasized: A realistic development project is understood as capable of taking place with the available human and financial resources, without the preliminary condition of a supposed indispensability of foreign aid.
For, despite all the clichés to the contrary, Haiti has tremendous human, natural and intellectual resources that only need to be recognized, explored, validated, developed and put to the enjoyable use of its people.
In his essays, Franck gives examples of small, local, and self-developed communities like Fondwa, or Pliché, in the southern Cavaillon section of Haiti, or peasant organizations such as the Peasant Movement of Papaye, in the northern region. Laraque does not believe that small community projects in themselves, even cumulatively, would make much of a difference in terms of the overall development of Haiti, which implies structural changes that such projects, however well-intentioned, cannot sustain. Still, small, locally initiated development projects can contribute to the political and economic consciousness process that Franck thinks is indispensable before any national project of development can take shape. It may seem surprising to see Frank Laraque expounding a politico-economic project that doesnt include a preliminary revolutionary change at the political level. But to read Franck Laraques many other essays on the subject, and in private conversations with him, its clear that he strongly believes that the very paradigmatic shift implicit in the prioritizing of the economic imperatives of Haitibe it by small projects or governmental edictswill change Haitis way of doing things very profoundly.
The books first section also features a moving tribute to Franck Laraques late daughter, Marie-Hélène Laraque (19482000). She was an anthropologist by training who became a human right activist, joining the struggle of the Déné Indian communities in the North-West Territories of Canada. Poet in the secrecy of her private moments,, Marie-Hélène wrote the poem To Find a New Land in which she extols the beauty of the Haitian landscape, evoking memories of the home of my ancestors where she enjoyed freedom unchallenged by the endless choices. We should mention also the striking profiles Frank Laraque offers of the great Haitian novelist, Marie Chauvet, who died in New York in 1973; of the poet Jean Brierre; and of his brother Guy, also a poet, assassinated in December 1991 by thugs from the regime that seized power following the September-30, 1991, coup dÉtat against Aristide.
Paul Laraque, Francks brother and co-author, was not present in Boston for the event, but his spirit was represented by Lesly René, Laforèt Petit-Frère and Jacques Antoine Jean who read his poems from the bilingual, English-Creole anthology Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry (Curbstone Press, 2002) which Paul Laraque edited and other volumes (see Boston Haitian Reporter of May 2002). A revolutionary poet, he once corresponded with the celebrated French Surrealist guru André Breton, and was among the entourage of poets and intellectuals (René Depestre, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Théodore Baker, Gérald Bloncourt, Gérard Chenet, Pierre Mabile, etc.) who welcomed Breton in Port-au-Prince during the latters famous visit to Haiti in December 1945. This fateful visit was among the catalytic cultural events that triggered what was called the 1946 Revolution, which brought about the overthrow of Elie Lescot, the autocratic president, favorite of the Americans, who was the first sovereign president after the US 19-year occupation.
Paul Laraque stayed in the Haitian army a few years longer than Franck, reaching the rank of colonel. Although relatively high in the armys hierarchy, he was assigned a desk job, in command of no military unit. He later complained of his powerlessness during the student strikes of 1960; rumor had it that the students had sympathizers in the army, and it was well known that Paul Laraque was one of them. For his part, he said he had friends among the students, and Rossini Pierre-Louis, the parliament leader whom François Duvalier accused of treason, was the uncle of Pauls wife. His sympathy for the strikers was not enough and he wanted to do more to help them, but he was isolated and had no military unit under his commandand those who had were either too coward to confront the tyrant, or very eager to heed his repressive order. Paul resigned, or more precisely was encouraged to resign from the army soon after, exiling to Puerto Rico in November 1960.
The second part of the Laraque brothers book, Culture and Revolution, consists of Paul Laraques reflection on the dialectical rapport between politics and culture in Haiti. He asserts quite forcefully the importance of the Creole language as the language of all Haitians, without any distinctions of social class, economic status, education, religion or color. He believes that the use and the celebration of the richness of the Creole language, due to its ostracism by the French-educated Haitian elites, has become part of Haitis struggle and aspiration for freedom and social justice: The discussions about the Creole will remain academic as long as the Creole remains separated from the class struggle. He quotes Amilcar Cabral who had said, Only societies which preserve their culture are capable of mobilizing the masses and organizing them against foreign domination.
In this essay, Paul Laraque also lauds the vodou religion as the most original attribute of the Haitian culture, defining it as not only a popular religion, but also a way of life of the people which permeates what is integral to their work, their suffering, their hope, their struggle, their joy, and finally to the many representations of their collective sensibility as expressed in dance, song, folklores, painting, sculpture, oral and written literature. Karl Marx once said that religion is the opiate of the people, and also the heart of an otherwise heartless world. Paul Laraque agrees: As any other religion, vodou is a form of alienation, meaning that it assigns to the gods and the loas responsibilities which belong to humans, It is an obstacle to the political consciousness, particularly to class consciousness. While it is true, as Laraque asserts, that Vodou could be an escape from a cruel reality and toward an imaginary world created by misery and ignorance, it is also truealthough Paul didnt say itthat in the Haitian historical context, Vodou has been a means of struggle, resistance and affirmative identity. And unlike Hinduism, Judaism, Christianism or Islamism which became dominating theological and cultural dogmas in their respective spheres of influence, Vodou for its part, despite the crucial role it played in Haitian national independence and identity, has never become dominant or dominating in Haitian society (notwithstanding the saying which goes that Haitians are 85% Catholic, 15% Protestant and 100% Vodouisant). Paul Laraque has, in the end, implicitly recognized the magisterial role played by Vodou as factor of conscientisation and resistance when he says: The anti-superstition campaigns [ ] took place just before the expropriations. Separated from their gods, the peasants could easily be dispossessed of their property.
Paul Laraques poetry is like a volcanic lava surrounded by fertile, vivifying lands, a morning dew in hell. He believes that oppression and horror should be fought with all human energies and might. Just like the young, powerless, desk-assigned officer who wrote clandestine, incendiary poems under the pseudonym Jacques Lenoir, Paul Laraque believes that poetry can be both a marvelous dispenser of pleasure and beauty, and a weapon for the struggle to change life, a revolutionary instrument at the hands of the people: My poetry tends to be an explosive mixture of love and liberty, dream and revolution, the cruelty of the present and the hope of the future. I believe that culture cannot be dissociated from history. Since the Spanish conquest with the cross and the sword, our hemisphere has been marked by native resistance against colonialism and genocide, by Black heroism against slavery, by peoples struggles against imperialism, by masses revolt for economic equality and social, political and cultural freedom. [extracted from a speech presented by Paul Laraque on Jan. 19, 2004 at a public meeting of the Haitian Peoples Support Project in Woodstock, NY, and later published in Haïti-Progrès]
Like this writer and many intellectuals of the Haitian left, both Paul and Franck Laraque supported Aristide in the beginning, when he symbolized, as a fiery activist priest at Saint Jean Bosco, the liberation dream of the Haitian people. Both Laraques supported the demand for his return to power to redress the rightist coup dEtat of September 30th, 1991. But they nevertheless opposed the US military intervention and occupation decided by Clinton and Aristide in 1994 to bring about the return. They felt that, having not been freely decided by the people themselves, the foreign imposition of the return was an aberration and perversion of the democratic ideals the Lavalas movement was supposed to represent. During the most recent events in the Haitian crisis, the Laraques position was critical of both Aristides inert and corrupt government, and the Convergence oppositions option zero solution (based on an a priori resignation of Aristide, outside the constitutional regulation). Both Paul and Franck Laraque opposed the Franco-American intervention, the ensuing kidnapping of Aristide and the current de facto government of the country whose agenda is to appease the FRAPH killers, and not the national emergency mission that one would expect from a government in such a dire moment of the countrys history. Both brothers would support the emergence of a real national unity governmentFranck more explicitlyto build the necessary unitary strength to dismantle the occupation regime.
Pauls part of the book is also a tripartite homage to the three pillars of the Haitian progressive literary creed: Jacques Roumain, Anthony Lespès and Jacques Stephen Alexis. The first a novelist, poet and Marxist theoretician, the second a Marxist poet, the third a Marxist novelist turned revolutionary martyr; all three influenced Haitian literature in profound ways. Each, in his own respective way, reassigned the role of literature from the pedestal of elitist dogma and fantasies to the empirical experience of everyday life, encompassing all human emotions, from the tears of loss, horror and despair, to the joy of revolutionary change.
Today in their early eighties, and despite many personal tragedies (notably the passing of their brother Guy; of Pauls wife of 48 years, Marcelle; Francks wife of 54 years Anne-Marie, and Francks daughter Marie-Hélène), both brothers continue to be strong voices for resistance and change. Despite many political vicissitudes that range from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, the overthrow of Aristides first popular government in 1991, Cubas Special Period of 19891994, the friendly US marines occupation of 1994, to the humiliation of recent months, both Paul and Franck continue to believe that the cause of justice, liberty, equality and human dignity is still worth fighting for. Paul concludes his essay on culture and politics with a reminder that both should be part of the same praxis to change life: The defense of our popular culture and its qualitative transformation will be inseparable from the struggle for the Second Independence, for the civil and political liberties, for social equality and economic progress for all, beginning with the landless peasants and the unemployed workers who have nothing to lose but everything to gain from the revolution. A revolution which would bring about not only the satisfaction of the material needs, but also love, art and freedom.
Tontongi, Editor of the journal Tanbou www.tanbou.com
*This article was first published in the May 2004 issue of the monthly Boston Haitian Reporter.


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Christmas Day 2007 - South Point to Kailua-Kona
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South Point is an amazing place not only from the viewpoint of its geographical location but also from its ability to inspire the imagination
It is hard to resist the urge to contact someone at this point and let them know that we are here!
To share the exuberance, I sent a text message to my brother and his family in Detroit, Michigan and to my stepson, Mathieu, in Montreal. I guess they were too busy celebrating Christmas to reply.
Buoyed by the experience of having visited this beautiful place, we headed back the 5 miles to Highway 11 that connects Hilo with Kailua-Kona.
As we drove west along Highway 11 we were almost immediately deep into the throngs of another lava bed that had crossed the highway on its way to the sea.
A look at the map indicated that we were skirting the southern limits of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
The sight of masses of black igneous rock and the total desolation that surrounded us was a reminder of the spectacular volcanic activity that had marked this land in such a monumental way
Certainly it would have been more breathtaking if we had been fortunate enough to be visiting at a time when molten lava made a rare appearance but as they say, it is good to leave some things to the imagination.
To say that this was the most unusual Christmas Day we had ever spent was an understatement.
Well, maybe the previous Christmas (2006) was even more unusual for me since I spent it alone in Prince George while Barbara was back in Montreal visiting with her relatives.
No, it's not that we don't get along; we just have a relationship which is not based on us being joined at the hip and incapable of doing things independently.
As I write this (April 16, 2008), Barbara is off in hinterlands of Northern BC in Fort St. John and Dawson Creek looking after the needs of the visually impaired - a worthy cause to say the least.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I am here in Prince George looking after the needs of a Grade 8 class at a local middle school whose regular teacher is absent for a few days. That keeps me more than busy as the process of just stepping into a classroom as an outsider has its own challenges.
I therefore have my hands full and it hardly leaves me any time to do what I like to do - blog.
On second thought, being in the tropics on Christmas Day 2007 just doesn't cut it. While it may be easy to be pious on Christmas Day in Heiligen Blut, Austria, it is hard to be pious on Christmas Day in the tropics.
The temperature, the swaying palm trees, the sandy beaches, the rolling waves and the rain forests all conspire to muffle whatever Christmas spirit that one may be able to muster.
I did luck out however back at the Border's Book Store in Hilo when I picked up a CD entitled Sacred Works.
Just look at the selection:
1. Exsultate jubilate: Alleluia
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
2. Miserere mei Deus: Miserere mei
Composer Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652)
3. Ave verum corpus in D major
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
4. Ellens Gesang III, Op. 52 no 6 "Ave Maria"
Composer Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
5. Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!,"Hunt Cantata": Schafe k�nnen sicher weiden
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
7. Ave Maria
Composer Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
and perhaps the best
8. Gloria in D major, RV 589
Composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
If that selection doesn't conjure up images of � ersatz � Heiligen Blut, Austria, I don't know what does.
So here we were endlessly playing this "pious" Christmas music, getting into the mood so to speak.
I was greatly enjoying it, all the while hoping that I would not hear those fateful words from the person sitting next to me - "I am tired of this, can I put on my K.D. Lang CD?" - or something like that!
Neither of us is particularly religious, although that is the background in which we are both rooted and therefore the music felt just right.
I also had to reflect on how the works of the great composers pay homage, in a beautiful way, to the roots of Christianity. One may not agree with Christianity but the music has the capacity to reach into the depth of the soul for a moving experience.
As the music tugged on our heart strings, we had plenty of time to reflect on our life, our times and the general state of things.
In the end we considered ourselves to be fortunate to have this opportunity of having this valuable time together to explore Hawaii in such an opportune manner.
Our philosophical interlude was however rudely interrupted at some point along the west coast of Big Island when someone expressed an urgent need for a WC. This led us on a desperate search which ended up with a precipitous descent from Highway 11 to the Pacific Ocean and Hookena Beach Park
It was nevertheless a welcome break from the driving as we strolled along the beautiful beach and observed the locals having their Christmas Day picnics along the waterfront.
The sight of tents again made me regret that mine was safely packed away back home.
Just past Kealakekua Bay we passed the Captain Cook Monument which commemorates the spot on the beach where Captain Cook met his demise.
In November 1778, Cook landed here during the harvest season and was welcomed by some as the god "Lono" incarnate. When he left in February 1779 and was forced to return due to a storm, the aura of "deity incarnate" was shredded and Cook was now viewed as a mere mortal to whom the red carpet was no longer extended.
When a dispute over an allegedly stolen boat arose, Cook and his party became involved in a confrontation with the natives. Captain James Cook was a victim of this armed skirmish on the beach at Kealakekua Bay
While a monument on the beach marks the spot where the famous Captain Cook met his untimely death, it is not accessible by land due to an earthquake which hit the area in October 2006.
Our final stop before the town of Kailua-Kona was perhaps the best known of Hawaii's famous coffee plantations - Royal Kona.
We arrived too late to take a tour of the facility but not too late for a "degustation" of the many coffees available here to be sampled.
The timing was just right as this was late afternoon and therefore it was our normal "coffee time".
We savored the Royal Kona coffee along with the samples of banana bread which had by now become our afternoon Hawaiian staple.
Our arrival in Kailua-Kona also came with the realization that in Hawaii (Big Island) there are only two main towns and commercial centers located at opposite sides of the island - Hilo to the east and Kailua-Kona in the west
Kailua-Kona quickly filled us with a sense of excitement generated by the level of activity along its main drag adjacent to the bay, the beautiful setting of the town on the Kona Coast and the number of colorful shops we looked forward to exploring.
It wasn't long before I found myselt uttering the words "This is the place to be on the Big Island".
I haven't changed my mind on that point. If you have one place to visit, or use as a base on the Big Island, I would choose Kailua-Kona.
On the other hand, the Big Island is, well - "too big" to be explored from one location.
In retrospect, our strategy of splitting our time between the eastside in Hilo and the westside in Kailua-Kona served us well.
Finding accommodations during the Christmas holiday season proved to be difficult as the choice of accommodations even a month previous to the actual trip was limited
As I compare the two hotels, it is apparent that the Kona Seaside is a better hotel because it is newer, closer to the downtown and less "clammy". But then, that's the difference between the windward and leeward sides of the island.
While checking in, we overheard the lamentable story of a middle aged Oriental couple who had rented a PT Cruiser convertible and who lost all their possessions - including money and passports. While they were visiting the beach, thieves were busy slashing the roof of the convertible and helping themselves to the contents.
There is a reason why every rental car has a large yellow sticker glued to the inside of the trunk which reads - Do Not Leave Valuables in the Car.
During all my years of travel I have been a strong believer in using a hidden money belt for valuables and passport. I wear it across the small of my back well out of reach of ambitious and unwelcome hands. It is not fool proof but it is about the best thing one can do while traveling
It has served me well, except for one time in Munich many years ago. I was staying in a "pension" and as is my habit, I hid the money belt under the mattress.
Sure enough, the next day, I was on a train one hour out of Munich when I reached back to check whether I was wearing my money belt. To my dismay, I was not. It was still under the mattress back in the "pension".
I got off the train at the next stop to phone the "pension" about my predicament. This being Germany, there was no problem. They looked under the mattress and they found it. I beat a hasty retreat to retrieve my most valuable possessions super glad to be on my way again.
Getting back to Kailua-Kona, that evening we ate at Tante's Restaurant which specialized in Hawaiian and Filipino cuisine.
It is located on Ally Drive which skirts the beautiful bay in Kailua-Kona. We could look up from our table to see the lights of the cruise ships anchored about a mile off-shore
The prices were very reasonable and we chose a Hawaiian dish which included pork adobo and chicken lau lau with poi made from the taro plant. Poi is the Hawaiian staple that is high in protein. It replaces staples such as rice or potatoes which are common in other parts of the world.
Poi is a gooey, mauve coloured paste that borders on " ". The phrase "acquired taste" also comes to mind.
On our way back to our hotel we strolled through the lobby of the four-star King Kamehamehas Kona Beach Hotel where I took some of the attached photos.
We had paid $110 a night for our accommodations; here it was $330 per night. But then again, for the people I call "decimal movers", that's after all, only $33 per night in their scheme of things - a real bargain.
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BeschreibungThis volume contains all the papers presented at the Ninth International Con- rence on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'98), held at the European education centre Europ¿aisches Bildungszentrum (ebz) Otzenhausen, Germany, October 8{ 10, 1998. The Conference was sponsored by the Japanese Society for Arti cial Intelligence (JSAI) and the University of Kaiserslautern. Thirty-four papers on all aspects of algorithmic learning theory and related areas were submitted, all electronically. Twenty-six papers were accepted by the program committee based on originality, quality, and relevance to the theory of machine learning. Additionally, three invited talks presented by Akira Maruoka of Tohoku University, Arun Sharma of the University of New South Wales, and Stefan Wrobel from GMD, respectively, were featured at the conference. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our invited speakers for sharing with us their insights on new and exciting developments in their areas of research. This conference is the ninth in a series of annual meetings established in 1990. The ALT series focuses on all areas related to algorithmic learning theory including (but not limited to): the theory of machine learning, the design and analysis of learning algorithms, computational logic of/for machine discovery, inductive inference of recursive functions and recursively enumerable languages, learning via queries, learning by arti cial and biological neural networks, pattern recognition, learning by analogy, statistical learning, Bayesian/MDL estimation, inductive logic programming, robotics, application of learning to databases, and gene analyses.
InhaltsverzeichnisTable of Contents Editors'Introduction M.M. Richter, C.H. Smith, R. Wiehagen, and T. Zeugmann Inductive Logic Programming and Data Mining Scalability Issues in Inductive Logic Programming (Invited Lecture) S. Wrobel Inductive Inference Learning to Win Process-Control Games Watching Game-Masters J. Case, M. Ott, A. Sharma, and F. Stephan Closedness Properties in EX-identification of Recursive Functions K. Apsitis, R. Freivalds, R. Simanovskis, and J. Smotrovs Learning via Queries Lower Bounds for the Complexity of Learning Half-Spaces with Membership Queries V.N. Shevchenko, and N.Yu. Zolotykh Cryptographic Limitations on Parallelizing Membership and Equivalence Queries with Applications to Random Self-Reductions M. Fischlin Learning Unary Output Two-Tape Automata from Multiplicity and Equivalence Queries G. Melideo, and S. Varricchio Computational Aspects of Parallel Attribute-Efficient Learning P. Damaschke PAC Learning from Positive Statistical Queries F. Denis Prediction Algorithms Structured Weight-Based Prediction Algorithms (Invited Lecture) A. Maruoka, and E. Takimoto Inductive Logic Programming Learning from Entailment of Logic Programs with Local Variables M.K.R. Krishna Rao, and A. Sattar Logical Aspects of Several Bottom-Up Fittings A. Yamamoto Learnability of Translations from Positive Examples N. Sugimoto Analysis of Case-Based Representability of Boolean Functions by Monotone Theory K. Satoh Learning Formal Languages Locality, Reversibility, and Beyond: Learning Languages from Positive Data T. Head, S. Kobayashi, and T. Yokomori Synthesizing Learners Tolerating Computable Noisy Data J. Case, and S. Jain Characteristic Sets for Unions of Regular Pattern Languages and Compactness M. Sato, Y. Mukouchi, and D. Zheng Finding a One-Variable Pattern from Incomplete Data H. Sakamoto A Fast Algorithm for Discovering Optimal String Patterns in Large Text Databases H. Arimura, A. Wataki, R. Fujino, and S. Arikawa Inductive Inference A Comparison of IdentificationCriteria for Inductive Inference of Recursive Real-Valued Functions E. Hirowatari, and S. Arikawa Predictive Learning Models for Concept Drift J. Case, S. Jain, S. Kaufmann, A. Sharma, and F. Stephan Learning with Refutation S. Jain Comparing the Power of Probabilistic Learning and Oracle Identification under Monotonicity Constraints L. Meyer Learning Algebraic Structures from Text Using Semantical Knowledge F. Stephan and Y. Ventsov Inductive Logic Programming Lime: A System for Learning Relations (Invited Lecture) E. McCreath, and A. Sharma Miscellaneous On the Sample Complexity for Neural Trees M. Schmitt Learning Sub-Classes of Monotone DNF on the Uniform Distribution K. Verbeurgt Using Attribute Grammars for Description of Inductive Inference Search Space U. Sarkans, and J. Barzdins Towards the Validation of Inductive Learning Systems G. Grieser, K.P. Jantke, and S. Lange Consistent Polynomial Identification in the Limit W. Stein Author Index
Untertitel: 9th International Conference, ALT'98, Otzenhausen, Germany, October 8-10, 1998 Proceedings. 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science'. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998. Book. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungsdatum: September 1998
Seitenanzahl: 460 Seiten
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Seven years after its last installment, the Scary Movie franchise is back with a new offering, Scary Movie 5. But unlike aged cheese or beef, time has done nothing to improve the palatability of this gross fest. Even Anna Farris, who had her breakthrough film debut as Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie and went on to star in the next three films, isn't reprising her role.
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Instead the blonde female lead is played by Ashley Tisdale who may be best known for her recurring role in the TV series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody or the High School Musical movies. Like the spoofs Date Movie and Epic Movie that take stabs at romantic comedies and Hollywood hits, the Scary Movie films purport to parody horror films, in this case Mama, The Cabin in the Woods and Paranormal Activity along with a host of other recent releases like The Black Swan, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Inception, Evil Dead and the Madea movies. But what Scary Movie 5 ends up being is little more than an excuse for disgusting depictions of bathroom humor, the comedic portrayal of illegal drug use and ongoing crude sexual content (including Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan wrestling under the sheets, a lesbian encounter involving food items and a vacuum cleaner used as a sexual stimulator for an animal).
Parodies, at least clever ones, require intelligent writing and creative use of the original content. Neither of these is apparent in this script that involves flying excrement and a baby with his head on fire. A spoof also needs audiences to be acquainted with the material it is lampooning. As neither Mama or Evil Dead have released to home video yet, fewer viewers may be familiar with the story lines that dominate this script.
While the first two films in the franchise earned R-ratings, the next three all made it under the PG-13 wire, giving even more young audience members access to them without parental approval. But don't let the lighter rating fool you. Viewers deserve better than jokes about bulimia, water boarding tactics and below-the-belt anatomy. Spewing vomit, spurting blood and implied incest don't make the grade either.
Although the tag line for the first film promised "No mercy. No shame. No sequel", the second film's tagline just read shamelessly, "We lied." . And there is doubtless little future mercy to be expected either. With a production cost of only $20 million dollars, it's a good bet Scary Movie 5 won't be the last in the series. Especially if this production follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, which earned $157 million, $71 million, $110 million and $90 million respectively.
But after sitting through 89 painful minutes of crude, lowbrow jokes, one has to wonder what perverse messages these films send to teens about sexuality, relationships and quality humor. And why a new generation of young people will line up at the box office to see them.
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. Starring Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Ashley Tisdale, Kate Walsh. Running time: 89 minutes. Theatrical release April 12, 2013. Updated May 27, 2016
Get details on profanity, sex and violence in Scary Movie 5 here.
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What appeal does this type of humor have for some audiences? Does some of the humor come from trying to spot the source of the spoof?
What might compel a parent to allow their child to star in this kind of a movie? How did this franchise impact the career of Anna Faris?
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By Chris Stephen
After the failure of the United Nations, the International Criminal Court and the protagonists themselves to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, human rights groups are hoping for a breakthrough with new US legislation that aims to hit the country's warlords where it hurts– in the pocket.
Armed groups in eastern Congo are enriching themselves through the sale of gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten which end up in virtually all the computers and cell phones on the planet. Now, a law passed by the US Congress will force all US publicly traded companies to declare trade in Congo's conflict minerals.
But whether the act delivers peace is a big question, depending on the good will of Congo's warlords and concerted action by the international community, neither of which has been observed during 14 years of war.
An insight into the horrors of these wars is contained in a draft United Nations report leaked in September which catalogues more than 600 atrocities, ranging from massacres, rape, torture and plunder to cannibalism and ritual slaughter.
Most controversial is its report of massacres of Hutus in eastern Congo by the Rwandan army in 1996 which the authors say may amount to genocide, a finding that has triggered an angry reaction in Kigali.
The draft report says the massacres took place after Rwandan forces (the RPF) invaded Congo ostensibly hunting for Hutus blamed for the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda two years earlier.
The RPF targeted both Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congo Hutus, wiping out villages and chasing Hutus into the forests. In the town of Knigi the report says Hutu civilians were gathered in an Adventist church, then butchered by Rwandan troops with machetes, axes and farmer's hoes.
This slaughter was the opening act of the First Congo War, which saw Rwandan and Ugandan forces join with Congo rebels to push west and capture Kinshasa, replacing President Mobuto Sese Seko with rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila.
The Second Congo war broke out in 1998 when Kabila turned on his erstwhile allies, accusing Rwanda of plundering Congo for its minerals. With the aid of armies from Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, he pushed Rwandan and Ugandan forces back across the Congo River.
Sometimes called Africa's World War, this second round of fighting lasted five years and saw carnage reach its peak, with more than 25 ethnic militias taking advantage of the chaos for score settling and land grabs.
Rape and terror were principal weapons, and have led UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, Margot Wallstrom, to label Congo "the rape capital of the world"
The link between Congo's armed groups and the minerals they export was highlighted in 2002 by a UN panel of experts which said that the scramble for Congo's resources was the mainspring of the fighting.
Plundering Congo for its raw materials is not new: Belgium's King Leopold II took personal control of the country in 1885 with the express purpose of harvesting its rubber and timber. Workers were enslaved and frequently mutilated, provoking international outrage.
Congo's independence from Belgium in 1960 saw fresh battles for resources, with UN troops helping to put down a secessionist rebellion in copper rich Katanga. After Mobutu seized power in 1965, he built a personal fortune estimated in the billions from mineral exports, while allowing the country's infrastructure to fall apart.
The 2002 UN panel named 85 multi-national companies involved in the conflict minerals trade and recommended sanctions, but after lobbying by member states against it, the UN Security Council took no action.
A similar failure to get to grips with the conflict has come from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC began investigating Congo atrocities in 2003, with chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warning that companies could find themselves prosecuted if found to be aiding and abetting war crimes.
No such prosecutions have followed, and in seven years the court has indicted just four individuals in Congo, barely scratching the surface and providing neither justice nor deterrent.
This has not been through any lack of evidence. In 2005 Human Rights Watch accused Britain's AngloGold Ashanti and Switzerland's Metalor of profiting from gold plundered by militias and the Ugandan army in the north-eastern Ituri region.
In one instance, the rights group said Ugandan troops captured a gold mine north of Bunia, enslaving local miners and then instituting a crash program to increase production that led to a mine cave-in causing the deaths of 100 miners.
Rather than sanction corporations, the UN has placed its hopes on a peace process, orchestrating a ceasefire in 2003 and elections three years later. While this has ended the fighting in the west of the country, violence continues unabated in a broad swathe of territory on Congo's eastern border.
Here militia groups, many of them proxy forces for Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, battle each other for control of mining areas, shipping the plundered minerals out through these eastern neighbours.
In Ituri, fighting is dominated by battles between two tribes, the Hema and the Lendu, pitching the Hema-led Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) battling the Lendu-led Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), both blamed for serial atrocities.
Adding to Ituri's instability is the recent arrival in the region of units from Uganda's rebel Lords Resistance Army (LRA), whose leaders are accused by the ICC of atrocities including the mass abduction, rape and mutilation of Ugandan schoolgirls.
Further south, the provinces of North and South Kivu are dominated by another ethnic war, between the Tutsi-led National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), allied with Rwanda, and the Hutu-dominated Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
Both groups have a bloodstained reputation: CNDP leader Bosoco Ntaganda is already indicted by the ICC, while the FDLR is led by Rwandan Hutu Major General Sylvestre Mudacumura, blamed for helping to lead the 1994 genocide.
And rape continues to be a powerful weapon of terror. In August, the UN reported three instances of militia units in the Kivu provinces raping more than 500 women and girls, including 242 rapes over four days at the village of Luvungi, an attack blamed on the FDLR.
The Luvungi attack highlighted yet another failure: that of UN peacekeepers.
The UN peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, has 17,000 troops in Congo but they have proven unable to exert their will. A MONUSCO base sits just 20 miles from Luvungi but peacekeepers made no move to intervene.
The common thread running through the failures of the peacekeepers, the ICC and the UN itself is a lack of will by the international community to take tough action, together with the absence of any reliable force inside Congo that can be trusted to keep the peace.
Into this cauldron has come the US legislation, contained in a 'blink-and-you'll miss it' Amendment, number 1502. At first sight the law looks promising. It was first proposed in 2009 by a group of senators including Republican Sam Brownback and Democrat Russ Feinberg, but failed to make it through the committee stage. This summer Brownback persuaded Senate banking chairman Chris Dodds to fold it into a reform act, and the conflict minerals law was born.
The legislation will compel all publicly listed US companies to declare to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whether their products contain four minerals – gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten – purchased from armed groups in the Congo.
If they do, they are required to produce an independently researched audit trail explaining which armed groups they source from. An "armed group" is defined as one that is committing human rights violations, and the State Department is tasked with deciding which Congo militias qualify.
Meanwhile the Comptroller General is ordered to draw up minimum standards for the independent audit; companies failing to provide such an audit can be fined and sanctioned by the SEC.
The legislation does not ban such trade, but implicit in its wording is that firms will not want the bad publicity from being publicly associated with rapacious warlords.
But problems abound. First, businesses have started complaining that world trade is now too globalised for a computer company in the United States to be able to trace minerals that have passed through the hands of traders, then into smelters, and on to component makers.
Apple's Steve Jobs complained to the New York Times in the summer that, short of some as yet undreamed of chemical analysis, he has no way of knowing which minerals in the computers he make come from Congo and those that originate elsewhere. Not so, says Global Witness, a pressure group that has produced detailed studies of how conflict minerals law might work. It says the bottleneck in the world's supply chains are the smelters, and that giants like Apple and Hewlett Packard have the muscle to ensure they stop processing conflict minerals.
But metals traders warn of a second problem. If such pressure is applied, the easiest route for the smelters will be to stop taking Congo products, a move that could see mining dry up in Congo, threatening the ten million Congolese who Global Witness estimates depend for mining for their livelihood. Global Witness has an answer to that too, saying the US law will give an incentive for US companies to buy minerals from "clean" mines, ignoring those held by armed groups.
But this strikes at a more intractable problem, which is the lack of any "clean" mines in Eastern Congo. As a report by the current UN group of experts points out, "In the Kivu provinces it appears almost every mining deposit is controlled by an armed group"
The harsh reality is that Congo is a dysfunctional country. All the mines are controlled by armed groups, and all groups, be they loyal to the government or rebels, have blood on their hands.
And rather than see the birth of new "clean" mines, the US law might actually make things worse, by being used as a pretext for a power-grab by Kinshasa.
This has already started to happen. Kinshasa, which welcomed the US legislation, has now banned almost all mining in Ituri and the Kivus, a move it hopes will scare US companies into refusing to buy materials smuggled out of the country.
The central government has little control in eastern Congo, so Kinshasa has formed an alliance with the Rwandan proxy militia CNDP, who are now expanding across the Kivus. A law designed to allow free and open mines may unwittingly end up reinforcing the control of a central government every bit as corrupt as its rebel adversaries.
Another obstacle is the attitude of Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda, whose governments are profiting from the trade in smuggled minerals and may not want it to change. All three states are already angry at allegations that their forces were involved in crimes highlighted by the UN war crimes report. Yet their co-operation will be vital if the US is to use this law to build a more comprehensive peace plan to end fighting in eastern Congo.
Also uncertain is how much political force lies behind the US legislation, which is the product not of the Obama administration, but of a handful of energetic congressmen backed by human rights groups. Rights groups hope the Congo law will be matched by legislation from the European Union and, by building on the success of the 2003 Kimberly Process of diamond tracing, create a new paradigm, in which human rights is made a key component of international trade agreements.
It is an ambitious hope. Even if the conflict minerals law as it stands can be made to work, Congo's conflicts will not go away. The struggles between the Hema and Lendu and the Hutu and Tutsi, to name just two, will continue with our without the cash from the control of each other's mines.
The bottom line is that for the US law to be enforced, and finally separate Congo's warring factions from the mining trade that fills their pockets, concerted action will be needed by the US, its allies, Congo itself and its neighbouring states.
It is precisely this lack of will that has doomed efforts of the UN, the ICC and everyone else to stop Congo's wars. And without some new international commitment, the new US law may end up going the same way.
Chris Stephen is the author of Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2005).
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What happens when state law conflicts with federal law? The answer relies on the doctrine known as federal preemption.
The Supremacy Clause is a clause within Article VI of the U.S. Constitution which dictates that federal law is the "supreme law of the land". This means that judges in every state must follow the Constitution, laws, and treatises of the federal government in matters which are directly or indirectly within the government's control. Under the doctrine of preemption, which is based on the Supremacy Clause, federal law preempts state law, even when the laws conflict. Thus, a federal court may require a state to stop certain behavior it believes interferes with, or is in conflict with, federal law.
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State A has enacted a law that says "no citizen may sell blue soda pop anywhere in the state".9516225 The federal government, however, has established the "Anti-Blue Sales Discrimination Act", prohibiting actions that discriminate against the color of goods sold. A local food and beverage vendor who sells blue soda pop in vending machines is charged with violating the state law. She may challenge the state law on the basis that it is preempted by federal law, and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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The United States passes a law promising to preserve and to protect Indian tribes. State B wants to tax Indian tribes located within its state. Under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S., State B may not tax a federally recognized Indian tribe since doing so would violate the tribe's political interest in which the U.S. has promised to protect.
Moreover, the federal government has broad powers under the Supremacy Clause to create, regulate, and enforce the laws of the United States. The concept of federalism, or that of federal power, has a long-standing history dating back to the late 1700's, during the time in which the nation's founding fathers signed the U.S. Constitution. Among those powers, the federal government has certain express (or "enumerated") powers which are specifically spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, including the right to regulate commerce, declare war, levy taxes, establish immigration and bankruptcy laws, and so on.
Not only does the federal government have express powers under the U.S. Constitution, it also has implied powers, or powers not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. This was the decision in the landmark Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland. For example, the Constitution does not expressly mention the right to privacy, or the right of people to adopt, or seek an abortion, however, these rights can be inferred by the Constitution itself, or from the later amended Bill of Rights.
Whether express or implied, federal law will almost always prevail when it interferes or conflicts with state law, except in circumstances where the federal law is deemed unconstitutional, or where the Supremacy Clause does not apply.
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30 winemakers under 40 to watch (part one)
While often associated with old men in red trousers, the wine trade is fizzing with young talent.
So much so that we felt compelled to celebrate this fact by rounding up (in alphabetical order) 30 of the brightest winemakers under the age of 40 currently making waves around the world, from Argentina to New Zealand. As you might expect, the lion's share of the list are currently crafting wines in the New World, with the US, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand all well represented. France, unsurprisingly, dominates the Old World entries in the list, with rising stars in Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône and Beaujolais all receiving hat tips, though bright young things in Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK are also helping to shape winemaking trends and push the envelope in their respective countries.
1. Chris & Suzaan Alheit (32 and 31)
Affable husband and wife winemaking duo Chris and Suzaan Alheit work with traditional Cape varieties to make authentic Cape whites. They're passionate about old vines, preferring to let the terroir talk by keeping cellar work simple. Having worked harvests together in California's Napa Valley, St Emilion, the Clare Valley and the Mosel, the jet set pair made a base at Alheit Vineyards high on the Hemel-and-Aarde Ridge in Walker Bay.
Their highly rated debut, Cartology 2011, is intended to be a picture of the Cape as seen through the lens of its mature vineyards. Composed of rare parcels of mature bush vines from Perdeberg, Kasteelberg and Franschhoek, the Chenin Blanc/Semillon blend is naturally fermented and aged in old French oak barrels.


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Railway junction conflict resolution by genetic algorithm
Ho, T.K. & Yeung, T.H. (2000) Railway junction conflict resolution by genetic algorithm. Electronics Letters, 36(8), pp. 771-772.
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In general, simple and traditional methods are applied to resolve traffic conflicts at railway junctions. They are, however, either inefficient or computationally demanding. A simple genetic algorithm is presented to enable a search for a near optimal resolution to be carried out while meeting the constraints on generation evolution and minimising the search time.
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[Video] Kim Hyung Jun Recaps his Japanese Tour
After a successful series of concerts, Kim Hyung Jun revealed a highlight video for fans who weren't able to make it to the performances.
For the entire month of August, Kim Hyung Jun traveled all around Japan, visiting Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, Nagoya, and Sapporo.
Kim Hyung Jun's 2012 2nd Story in Japan concert series was deemed a success with 10,000 fans in the audience and a total of nine concerts.
He was also able to celebrate his birthday with 1,500 fans during his concert in Tokyo on August 3, where they surprised the young singer with a birthday cake and streamers.
Check out the highlights below!
Photo Credit: S-Plus Company
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text: IAA 2013 – Audi Sport quattro Concept Share Comments Audi is going to show a second Sport quattro coupe concept at the Frankfurt Auto Show next week. Whereas the last Coupe quattro concept they did was a lightweight, five-cylinder turbo focused on lightweight performance. This time around the design has changed a bit with a more rounded Aston Martin-looking rear end, longer flowing fender lines and softer overall angles. However this is a big car with a wheelbase longer than the RS5 and nearly the same width as the RS5. Combine the large dimensions with a twin-turbo V8 and hyrid drivetrain and the lightweight performance concept as clearly gone out the window. We're not sure Audi needs another grand coupe and if they were to do a proper Coupe quattro homage, we'd rather see it be focused on hardcore performance. Our sister Audi site, Fourtitude has a lot more detail on this concept with the full Audi AG press release and more photos HERE.


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All the same on top of the Italian Serie A, as the big showdown of the week between AC Milan and Juventus ended with a 1-1 tie.
The two giants, who were fighting for the top seat in the league, split points in a controversial game, where the match officials didn't validate a fair goal for the home side.
It would have been the second goal for the Rossoneri, who had opened the score by a fortunate Nocerino strike at only 15'. AC Milan were the strongest side on the turfs for the whole second half, but Matri equalised at 83' and sealed the tie.
With this result, Milan remain on the lead by one point, but Juventus still have one more match to play.


text: I have a question about trimming out a garage door. What is the best material to trim out the exterior of a new garage door? I know there is the fypon material you can buy, but I just want some simple trim work done that I can do, but should I buy cedar, the new PVC they have, or? What is recommended? I just want to trim it out with 1x6 around the door, maybe a little something across the header trim and a keystone. It will be white or painted white to match the trim.


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I've recently clocked an 84:41 half marathon after a tough years training. My initial focus was on 10K races in the early part of the year where I clocked a 38:40 and then over the summer I switched to a local 5K series where I clocked 18.22! I stepped up my HM training in late summer in preparation for the Leicester HM. Realistically I'm wondering if I follow a similar part from early 2014 going from 5Ks and training up to HM in autumn time if I train well and eat clean can I get close to 80 minutes or is that too much of a jump in such a short space of time?
I'm running anywhere from 80 miles to 130 miles a month mixing fast runs, intervals, hills and tempos up with some longer runs but my intention is to start with lighter training at the start of the year building a base. I'll throw in crossfit and kettlebells plus some strength and core sessions thrown in! Concentrate on fast work and track sessions and then build my pace endurance up over the year.
Any advice from runners out there would be most welcome
Yeah, I think this is very achievable. Your mileage is low at the moment so increasing that will help. Also, your 5K time is much better than your HM so I guess you have to improve your endurance. Join a running club and get out on a decent weekly long run.
Not sure cross fit will bring much to the party, though, and the phrase 'eat clean' makes my skin crawl.
If you made a good improvement in your hm time with that before theres no reason it wont gain you some more time next year .
How much did you improve in hm time last year then ?
just wondering how you fit a long run, tempo, speedwork and hills into 20-30mile weeks!!
I think it is very acheiveable - to long ago to remember but I don't think I had broken 18 minutes for a 5K the first time I ran under 80 minutes (78) I think working on basic speed over the shorter distances will have an impact on other distances - you only have to look back at what Paula Radcliffe, etc achieved in the marathon - she was running world class times from distances from 3000 to 10,000 metres.
As PaulDC said your mileage is actually quite low at the moment so to increase that (carefully) will give you the added stamina you need to maintain close to 6 minute miling for 13 miles. Good luck.
This is brilliant. Thanks for all your comments.
PaulDC - I'll rephrase eat clean with trying not to be too naughty lol. I drink every now and again but other than that my diet is pretty sensible. The cross fit training is more kettlebells than anything else and it offers me a slight break from my training. I also enjoy the social element and I feel I have a much stronger core as a result. It might be the pyschological effect though?
Leslie H - I've not run a HM for three years as I tore my medial ligaments in my right knee. The 84:41 was nearly 5 minutes faster than my previous PB so obviously I've made a big gain which is why I raised the question of whether I could shave off another 4-5 minutes. Apologies my initial posting wasn't particularly clear.
Stevie G - I tend to only do two of the specific based training sessions at the moment but ensure that I cover all four over a two-week basis. It works for me and I've seen some gains but I've only really starting running again this year. The 80 miles a month reflects my 5K training and the 130 miles more my HM as I stepped up my endurance work albeit I feel I left that a little late this year. My training structure is something that I really need to get a handle on. I note that you run 10/11 time a week which is fantastic. I probably only do half that amount and many of the runs are light workouts. I need to find a balance.
Grendal3 - definitely agree with your comments. I feel that I've benefitted a lot by dropping down to 5Ks this year. All I used to run was HMs but the benefits of doing track work have built up my confidence. Clearly I need to up my miles next year.
5 minutes pb id say its working well so why change it except for maybe increase weekly milegae a bit as said.
Sorry, I shouldn't be so down on Cross Fit.
Some elements of it can be very beneficial but I think you have to be careful as doing cross fit several times a week can mean you are too tired to run your quality sessions hard. The other thing for me is that Cross Fit can be somewhat random from one session to the next but for running I think you need to stick to a schedule.
Good luck with the sub-80. I would like to do the same next year. My PB is 81.50 at the moment but I think I have already had the big improvements that come from upping mileage. You have that to come.
Thanks Leslie
Totally agree Paul - cross fit sessions can be mixed and I tend to do more of these in the winter when I rest a little from hard running training. When my running training is hard the cross fit training is the first thing to go,
Your PB is excellent and I'm still nearly three minutes off that. best of luck with achieving sub-80 too


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A few weeks back I harvested my first hive of unwanted bees.
This was I thought the only way to get free bees it took me most the day and when I went back the next day to fill in the hole, there were a ton more bees so I had a small bucket and the bee brush and kind of swept them into the bucket and figered I would let the rest there an try an get them next year. Now this bucket had at least 5" of bees in it and when I got back here with them I dumped them infront of the hive boxes I have set up with all the others, seems they just walked into that box and I watched from my truck.
Well later that day as I was watching from the front door I swore I see a few of them take off with something large on them, so I moved closer and sure nuff two more one behind the other took off carrying another bee.
Now this is into a full week and today I watched and they done the same thing............. WTHeck is going on????? I took allmost all the hive from that old house an put some into the hive boxes and the most part I figered they would harvest again if it were right in front of them. Yes all the comb and honey I took has been reharvested but looking into the hive today it is close to empty, even the 4 frames I put in there from one of the other hives I have.
Thanks for any an all input JBees


text: I found this bike recently and picked it up for the sole reason that I liked the 1964 Bozeman liscense plate. Nothing too complicated here just going to break it down, blast/paint, clean/polish, add an updated saddle and grips, and throw it back together. Anybody got any thoughts on what it is? It is a 24 inch bike with no numbers on it. No headbadge but the holes for one are 3 1/4 " apart.


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Groundbreaking News: Alex Rodriguez Is Not Retiring From Baseball
ESPN – A message to the New York Yankees and their fans from Alex Rodriguez: I'm not going anywhere. "Alex has no plans at all to retire," one source with close, personal ties to the embattled third baseman told ESPNNewYork.com on Thursday. Another source, authorized by Rodriguez to speak on his behalf, passed this along: "Alex says he's working diligently on his rehabilitation and is looking forward to getting back on the field as soon as possible." Since the disclosure this week of the presence of Rodriguez's name in the records of Anthony Bosch, a "nutritionist" whose Miami-area anti-aging clinic is suspected of supplying human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes, speculation has run rampant that perhaps Rodriguez never would play another game for the Yankees. One report even went so far as to suggest that Rodriguez might retire from baseball, leaving behind the remaining money on his contract. But the word coming out of Miami, where Rodriguez has been rehabbing since undergoing hip surgery earlier this month, tells a different story. Both sources paint a picture of a player who, although stung by what he believes is a campaign by the Yankees to rid themselves of his onerous contract, is working hard to return to action sometime after the All-Star break. Earlier this week, ESPNewYork.com reported, citing sources, that the Yankees would explore multiple options to void Rodriguez's contract, which was extended for 10 years after his MVP season in 2007.
Uhh, no fucking kidding. The guy has about 120 million guaranteed dollars coming his way over the next 5 years. No amount of injuries or suspensions is gonna stop that guy from riding this out. The Yankees are not going to be able to void his contract. They're not gonna be able to move that contract. They gave him a 10 year extension into his early 40s like a bunch of assholes and now they have to deal with it. Their best bet is to help him do more HGH without getting caught. Get someone with half a fucking brain to do that shit secretively rather than have his goddam name all over the place at a steroids lab.
On another note how awkward is it when your team is openly, vigorously trying to void your contract? All reports indicate the Yankees are flat out desperate to get rid of him. And inevitably when they can't do it they're just gonna flip the script and start encouraging Alex and saying how they have confidence in him. So fucking stupid. I guess everyone has a job to do and everyone has to handle the media properly but its just absurd how phony everyone is in this situation. The Yankees resent Arod now and he probably hates the fact they're trying to screw him out of his money. The next 5 years are going to be brutal and downright confrontational. Lets just cal it what it is.


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High Point Market in High Point, North Carolina, is like the New York Fashion Week for interior design and home furnishings. Designers, retailers and media descend on the small town with big furniture clout, to the tune of nearly 80,000 from across the globe, to be the first to see the new goods and purchase them. The fact that this upcoming fall market has a huge fashion focus makes the anticipation for Oct all that much greater!
Decor Mentor is such a huge fan of market that we collaborate with High Point on several initiatives with a purpose of elevating our peers.
Pre market: Tues September 11, 2012 at 6pm ET we are kicking off the market countdown by sharing a preview of favorite items of some of our Decor Mentor team [ Kati Curtis, Erica Islas, Elaine Williamson, Jennifer Brouwer and Lisa Kahn ]. Join us for the Market Preview Twitter Chat and use #HPmkt hashtag to be in the know!
Saturday October 13
- Saturday at market: Long time market attendee Lisa Kahn and I will lead the Designer Orientation Seminar. A must attend for the inside scoop on how to work market and what not to miss! Saturday October 13, 2012 11-11:45 am at High Point Theatre, in the Transportation Terminal
- Saturday at market: The Mutual Mentorship Model: Peer Sharing for a Collective Win Seminar. A unique way to exchange tips, tools, and ideas with other designers and retailers through peer mentoring. Decor Mentor design pros Kati Curtis, Jennifer Brouwer, and Lisa Kahn will share best practices and case studies, showcasing how working with your competition can actually elevate your business. Saturday October 13, 2012 12-1:30 pm at High Point Theatre, in the Transportation Terminal
- Saturday at market: Elevate your Business Workshop. Our team of mentors have over 100 years of combined experience and will offer proven, yet fresh, tips and tools to elevate your design business. This intensive workshop for design pros will show you how to work through top "pain points". [ Panel Lisa Ferguson, Elaine Williamson, Kati Curtis,Jennifer Brouwer and Lisa Kahn ] Pre-register email@example.com. Saturday October 13, 2012 4-4:45pm at 22o Elm building in the Innovation Showroom Suite 300
- Saturday at market: Elevate Wall Kick off Party We will kick off the interactive and educational installation titled ELEVATE. ELEVATE will allow design pros to post their business cards and take cards left by others in an exchange of expertise, encouragement, and inspiration. Saturday October 13, 2012 4:45-6pm at 220 Elm 3rd floor . The wall will be up through all six days of Market, Oct. 13-18
And some of the great brands and people we work with came through with $18,500 worth of prizes. Most to help designers elevate their businesses!
- $10,000 Strategic Sessions & Communication Analysis Package from All Strategy's founder Carla Wood www.allstrategy.net @allstrategy
- $5000 Custom logo package from Joel Clements at Brainstorm Studios www.brainstormstudio.ca @brainstorm411
- $1500 worth of Gelaskins gift cards [ they made our fabulous ELEVATE iphone and ipad cases ] www.gelaskins.com @gelaskins
- $750 Social Media Consulting package from Social North's founder, Julia Rosien www.socialnorth.com @SocialNorth
- $500 Innovation Set of 3 Grid Tables with solid wood tops with mocha maple finish and silky black metal legs [ showing at 220 Elm ] www.innovationliving.com
- $500 Staffing Coaching Package from Architect and Design Recruiter, Karen L Fisher [ 2 hours ] @KarenLFisher
- $250 Photography Consulting Package from professional photographer Stacey Van Berkel [ 1.5 hours ] on either "How to get your work published" or give you styling critique for your portfolio. www.StaceyVanBerkel.com @StaceyVanBerkel
- 100 Elevate iphone and ipad cases made by Gelaskins
And you thought market was just about new product! Wondering what other seminars we will be attending? Here is a peak at our seminar calendar:
- Saturday Oct 13
- Saturday Oct 13 10-11:30am Seminar: Design Dollars: Mobile and Social Commerce: Prepare To Win with Leslie Carothers–at Market Square – Antique & Design Center- Lecture Room on Mezzanine Level . We really wish we could attend this one, but alas havent perfect the art of being in two places at once!
- Sunday Oct 14
- Sunday Oct 14 7:30-9am Withit Breakfast with Kathy Ireland and Angelo Surmelis- Bootstrapping Your Brand in a Challenged Economy– at IHFC – Green Wing, 11th Floor, Ballroom A
- Sunday Oct 14 12-1:30pm Seminar: Using Social Media to Define and Establish your Presence as a Designer with the lovely Traci Zeller at 741 W. Ward Ave. – ZAAR Design Center
- Sunday Oct 14 2-4pm Seminar: Profit Mystery Solved: Simple Solutions to Reclaim Your Value and Your Money at High Point Theatre at the Transportation Terminal [ geared towards designers ]
- Sunday October 14 4-6pm Celebration of Sanctuary Party- The Lisa Kahn Collection for Chelsea House at 200 N. Hamilton St. – Chelsea House, Suite 104
- Monday Oct 15
- Monday October 15 11-12pm Seminar: Partnering With Interior Designers to Increase Volume & Profit with Mary Knackstedt at 414 North Wrenn – McKinley Leather Showroom
- Monday October 15 12-1:30pm Seminar: What Your Clients Want with VP of Marketing for Houzz at High Point Theatre, at the Transportation Terminal
- Monday October 15 2-3pm Seminar: Business Development and the Business of Interior Design with Mary Knackstedt at 415 W. High Ave. – Red Egg Showroom
High Point Market is from October 13-18, 2012 and is open to media, retailers and designers.


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About Mei am looking for just about any modeling work i am open to most stills and or video i am looking to get my name out there and want to go as far as i can in the industry plus i want to prove to myself that bigger girls can do modeling work plus it will help me get into better shape and make me less self concious and give me better self esteem i have done numerous jobs so far but want to go as far as i can go. cat aka miss kitty
THIS IS MY JOB, SO PAYING WORK TAKES PRIORITY...i sometimes do tf work..but unfortunately, at this time i have more than enough pictures waiting to be put up and cannot accept ANY trade work. I am wiling to negotiate my rates though, so, let's talk.
GENERAL RATES (subject to negotiation)
For Photos Only( 2 hour minimum!!):
*75/hr for glamour/lingerie
*100/hr semi nudes
*125/hr nudes
*300- half day rate(8 to 12hrs)
*500- full day rate (plus a meal :-) ) no time limit)
these are rates with in a 2 hr drive and shoot must be 2hr minimum
anything that requires extensive travel driving to over 4hrs the will be a $50 travel expense also supply room if needed to stay over night. anything over 4 hrs away you will be responsible for airfare and lodging but i dont disappoint and can get references to prove it i will always i repeat always travel with an escort and i will take care of their expenses.
video work starts at $100/hr.
my rates *may* go up and down from there, depending, on what else may be included, length of time, what the material is being used for, etc..
please let me know what you are looking for and i will let you know if the rate goes up and what it will be i am negotiable but at the same time you have to understand this is my job also i repeat again i repeat i will not take a shoot unescorted unless we have worked together before i dont care how well your references are its for my safety the first time we work together.
*I do NOT accept any type of deferred payment~!!*
**if we shoot and we agree it is a paid shoot i expect payment after shoot is done and before any releases and or contracts are signed.
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Underground Heat: Ro James
Ro James
This week we're going for the R&B vibes of Ro James, the smooth crooner who's been steadily building a fanbase over the last few years through a trilogy of EP's. Now that he's managed to cultivate a strong underground base of fans, we're hearing word that he's gearing up for a full length release with RCA Records, and we're confident in including him in our Underground Heat Series.
James is the son of a pastor who cultivated his love for music through his travels and in the pew. It's clear from his tracks that his past has vastly influenced him. From living in Hawaii to New York, each track showcases a different side of the young singer; he's rawer than the likes of Chris Brown, and refreshing relatable compared to the intently dark styles of The Weeknd. He simultaneously manages to bring it back to the basics while still working to be unique and have a stronghold in the mainstream and underground market. It's a tightrope walk for sure, but somehow he's killing it.
In the past he's worked with a diverse range of artists, including Blended Babies and Brenmar, proving that he's as innovative in his production choices as he is in his lyricism. James can sing, but he doesn't let this talent alone do all of the talking, and this is what makes him incredibly special. In terms of vocal collaborations, he's worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Asher Roth, among others, proving yet again he's able to hold his own in varying musical groups.
We're getting to hear bits and pieces of his abum slowly roll out, with "New Religion" and "Permission" both hitting the internet. The tracks indicate that there may be a certain style being showcased in the upcoming album, and if it is, we're absolutely excited for what's to come.
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I have a Windows 7 computer, with 3 hard drives. I have lost all the data on my 1.5TB drive, which has all of my pictures, movies and music on it. Can someone tell me how to recover my data?
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If you could explain what "I have lost all the data..." means. What indication do you have? What is the condition of the drive? Have you tried to read it on another computer? Internal or external drive? More detail, please. If the drive is physically damages forensic methods are quite expensive.
One other question is what were you doing when you lost all data?
What is the error message if any you are getting or is your system just not recognizing the drive?
i am curious myself how to do data recovery. i have a few external hard drives that seem to not want to either start or what but the computer will not recognize them at all and they sit there and click. i tried doing the whole taking out of case and trying it that way to see if it would work but it still wouldnt come to life. any ideas or suggestions on what i could do to either get them to work or get the information off of them. i have a 2 western digital external jump drives and 1 seagate 1.5 TB external hard drive that needs a power source and they all do the same thing.
nrsanders09, you might want to start a new thread for your question for better assistance.
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