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- Israeli Authorities Ask Jerusalem's Christians to Help Care for Sudanese Refugees
- Is the Church of England Racist?
- Iraqi Church Secures Kidnapped Priest's Release
- PC(USA) Membership in Decline
Israeli Authorities Ask Jerusalem's Christians to Help Care for Sudanese Refugees
According to ASSIST News Service, Israeli humanitarian authorities have brought to the attention of Christians in Israel the urgent need concerning Sudanese refugees entering Israel and have asked for their immediate assistance. Late Thursday evening June 14, a group of 31 Sudanese Christians (17 children, 14 adults) with UN refugee status entered Israel near Eilat with assistance from local Bedouins. They stayed in Bedoiun tents for the weekend. On Sunday, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem was asked by Israeli authorities to assume responsibility over their housing and care for two weeks, until they can be accommodated among several Israeli kibbutzim. "Today, we committed to meeting this request without the funds in hand, out of a sense of compassion for fellow Christians and because the radical Islamic Movement in Israel was also offering to take custody of them," said Malcolm Hedding, Executive Director, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
Is the Church of England Racist?
A report in The Christian Post states that Black and Asian clergy members are unlikely to reach high office in the Church of England and minorities are sometimes marginalized in parish churches. Apparently, that's what an internal review will show, according to the London Sunday Telegraph. The report, commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, says little has been done to confront "institutional racism." The study will be completed ahead of the church's General Synod next month. "Parish clergy are part of the problem," the Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the chair of the committee that produced the report, said. "Whether consciously or unconsciously, they are not encouraging black people who are in their churches to come forward. Our report shows there are some who are aware of the issue and acting to improve the situation, but the church is still a long way from reaching an acceptable level of equality."
Iraqi Church Secures Kidnapped Priest's Release
An Iraqi Chaldean priest kidnapped almost two weeks ago in Baghdad was released Sunday, a church leader said. Father Hani Abdel Ahad was released June 17 at 1:30 p.m. in Baghdad, Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni told Compass Direct News from Baghdad. The bishop declined to comment on whether the church had paid a ransom but confirmed that the motive for the priest's kidnapping was a mix of religious and financial considerations. "They asked for money because we are Christians and we must pay jizya [a tax on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule]," Warduni said.
PC(USA) Membership in Decline
According to The Church Report, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is seeing decreasing numbers in membership. Numbers declined again last year, the denomination reports, and dropped by more than 46,000 in 2006. The number of congregations is falling as well, down 56 to 10,903. Baptisms in the same period also have declined – by 946 for adults to 8,297, and by 234 for children to 30,493. These recent drops in numbers come during a time in which the denomination is divided over interpretations of Scripture. Chief among the conflict is over whether the Bible bars gay relationships.


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There are a few organizations that have put in the effort to try to conserve los Llanos. One of the most prominent is FUDENA which operates in Venezuela. They have for years pushed the government to create National Forests and wild animal reserves. Below is a list of both of these that are present in the Venezuelan side of los Llanos.
FUDENA's current mission is to strengthen the conservation of the biodiversity of the current National Parks and Wild Animal Reserves, and to fight for the future preservation of these areas. It also is focusing in getting private land owners to commit to being environmentally friendly. However, the private sector seems to not be cooperating as much as hoped. Because of this they have recently been heavily focused in giving people of Los Llanos an environmental education so that they can be conscious of their affects on their region, and so that may think of ways of being more sustainable. Thanks to organizations like FUDENA , the future for Los Llanos does not seem that grim. There is hope for change, and I hope that in the future more of the private sector can support FUDENA's cause.

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What's your favorite music video featuring a Chevy?
This post on the HP got me thinking of what my favorite music video featuring a Chevy is, and I like all the choices there, especially Gorillaz and OK Go. But while I realize it's cheating a little, because this car is a Caddy and not technically a Chevy, it's one of my favorite videos ever. Check out the full list on the HP.


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Summer music festivals in Hungary, Croatia and Serbia are the real deal if you want to rock your festival fashion right. Sun and beach are all inclusive and even if you are a bit unlucky to catch a slightly less than perfect hot summer day like I had on Day 1 at Balatonsound last summer, it will be warm enough to run around in tiny summer outfits.
And boy, I did see them around. I spotted a hardly surprising trend of hotpants. As I kept photographing festival goers, I noticed that almost all of the girls were wearing hot pants.
I guess, apart from the obvious aesthetic appeal of hotpants, there is also a practical reason that they are the number one fashion item at festivals, where there is a lot of action, movement, dancing going on. While I was braving running around in one of my trademark bodycon dresses , the girls around me opted for shorts. And they came in all variety: leather, denim, silver, cut-offs, prints, tight, baggy .A fest of hot pants that I am sure they kept everyone happy.
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From humble roots reggae beginnings in 1997 as a covers band with a name inspired by The Wailers' debut album Catch a Fire, to their current status as troubadours of Pacific spirit, Katchafire have refined their craft with their latest offering – a testament to organic Aotearoa reggae. Three magical years in the making, and with a charged sensibility on their new album, Katchafire breathe new life into their reggae odyssey with On the Road Again. It is an album that that rings true to the faithful, holding a flame to the fine balance of classic roots reggae, with a r'n'b and funk rub.
Katchafire are no strangers to success, they are truly 'World Famous in New Zealand' with a double platinum debut album Revival, a platinum follow up Slow Burning, 2003's highest selling single 'Giddy Up' and the critically acclaimed 2007 release Say What You're Thinking. They are also revered throughout the Pacific and are part of the staple diet in the Californian reggae scene.
Katchafire are a band that resonates throughout the nation, spreading the good will of reggae from rural foundations, its members residing throughout the Waikato, Raglan, Waihi, and Hamilton. There is a united spiritual connection between its seven members and the land they come from. Always a band that has stuck true to whanau roots, Katchafire embrace a truly universal sound with their latest offering. It is an omnibus of where, and who, Katchafire are.
Recorded at the familiar hunting grounds of Revolver Studios in Waiuku, Katchafire consists of Grenville Bell (guitar), Haani Totorewa (keyboards, vocals) Tere Ngarua (bass guitar), Logan Bell (guitar, lead vocals), Jordan Bell (drums), Jamey Ferguson (keyboards, sax, lead vocals) and Leon Davey (vocals, percussion). The album is a finely tuned result of brothers with a constant vibe and consciousness of their travels: both physical and spiritual. Logan Bell offers some insight on how the process worked this time round.
"We've existed in Aotearoa for 10+ years, so since we released Say What You're Thinking in 2007, we've really concentrated on touring in New Zealand, throughout the Pacific, including Hawaii and touching base in California over the last three years. It has been a major focus and influence on this album.
We're about to head off to California for the third time just before the album drops and being there puts us on a truly international stage. It has opened us up to Jamaican dancehall influences and forced us to be tight on stage and also extend our musical vocabulary."
You can hear the generational reggae rub on this album: touches of the 80's, with Aswad's influence apparent, deep synth stabs of Sly & Robbie, and also the ancestral trumpets of Aotearoa dub. All said; this is the most rounded Katchafire album; capturing a diversity of instrumentation, and clarity of sound. Inspired by their travels and their extended families, Katchafire embraced a more sophisticated approach in the studio, due mainly to their veteran status and honed skills.
"Our experience as a live unit, being on tour and knowing the studio set-up better has made us more confident with this album. We always have ideas and sounds in our head and this time round we experimented a bit more to see if we could get them down on tape. The songwriting is a shared process and I think we have grown in confidence individually, and as a band. We lived and breathed this album, staying at Revolver Studios and working all through the night with our engineer and co-producer Nic Mander. It was a classic Katchafire experience, basically a family affair."
Opening with vintage Katchafire, 'On the Road Again' is dedicated to the touring life, place names are rattled off through the greater Pacific. It lays down the manifesto of the hardest working band in the land. Next up is 'Sweet As', reggae pop straight out of the Aswad songbook, followed by 'You're Dreaming', a postcard to Pacific paradise. A plea for role models 'Lead Us' opens with a new wave synth line that is quickly stitched into a hyperactive skank. A soothing and rich sound is evident on 'Irie', a track that opens like a Style Council tune before floating off into a gentle pulse, infused with sweet harmonies.
If the first five songs are 'classic' Katchafire, then 'Groove Again' is a step into slightly new territory with a sultry dancefloor shuffle and dancehall vocal interlude. Logan Bell credits the richer tapestry on this album to their songwriting approach.
"On the Road Again has a far greater sense of collaboration on it. In the past, individuals have brought songs or ideas to the table and then the band flesh it out. On this album we let our guard down and let the strongest ideas be the ones that survived. Like with 'Groove Again', we all wanted to make a song that would make people dance, I think it is also influenced by the American West Coast and the bands we have seen or played with. There is still a signature Katchafire sound; it's just a bit more diverse this time round."
The next track, 'Feels Like' is a slice of slinky reggae, a story of 'bromance', the brotherly love that binds the band together. Aroha is at the core of every Katchafire moment, this song is homage to that sentiment. 'One Stop Shop' is pure reggae pop, full of feel good factor and a dash of vocoder. The second half of the album is a chill pill, as on 'Chances Are', drenched in crisp skanking reggae, where you are invited to let all your problems dissolve and relax into the head nodding spirit. You are lyrically guided to: "take a load off your mind…chances are the stars will align." The tide turns briefly in the next track 'Is This Familiar', a brooding nocturnal song with a narcotic squelches, reminiscent of Sly & Robbie. Truly righteous, 'Seek Ye' is a lullaby to Jah and Te Reo Maori vocals connect the song to Aotearoa. Final track 'Serious' has a distinctly 80s r'n'b vibe to it, a sultry song for lovers that ends with a Hendrix guitar freak out that fades into the distance and finishes the album.
With a diverse palette and natural ability to extend their songwriting skills, Katchafire have made their most accomplished album to date. It stays true to their formula and strays in just the right places to keep things evolving and fresh. On the Road Again is the perfect soundtrack to the summer that is at our door, all that is missing is seven smiling Katchafire faces on stage, spreading aroha and good times throughout the nation. You have been warned, the 'Fire will be blazing through your speakers and through your town' with their fresh new album, just in time, as they hit the road again.
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I enjoy looking through publications in translation. There's just a thing about that next go — that next glance at the language — which gets rid of, by my rough estimate, a thing like 10% of any writer's preciousness (I have hardly ever identified 1 who could not spare that substantially, at minimum) and provides just about every line these a chewy, lived-in come to feel. The movement of the words and phrases by themselves, from 1 tongue to a different — from 1 brain to a different, 1 mouth to a different — alters them basically. The untranslatable idiom, the occasional clumsy little bit of dialog (no doubt ideal in its indigenous tongue) produced so substantially better and much more, I do not know, human in its awkwardness. I cherish it all.
And so we have Anna Kushner translating Leonardo Padura's most recent novel Heretics and committing to the page these fantastically complex feelings, these gorgeously convoluted traces. Like this, an rationalization of someone stating, in essence, I aspiration of being invisible:
"That sentence, the summary of his remarkable will for a submissive evasion, would be the inspiration capable of changing many of his son's attitudes and would press him, much more than the wish for of getting invisibility, to the search to transform himself into someone else."
I know, appropriate? One sentence out of ten thousand. Extra. I do not even know. But all of them are just as beautiful. Just as weirdly sticky. Just as packed with meaning and sculpted with these care. What I'm stating is, translators do not get plenty of enjoy.
And Kushner, operating in this article with 1 of the most beloved writers in fashionable Cuba, is dealing the two with a guy who has a critical way with words and phrases and a huge, sprawling doorway-stopper of a novel that takes 1 of the most exhausted tropes in upper-crust detective fiction (the lacking portray McGuffin), crosses it with a historic fiction (stretching all the way back again to the seventeenth century in destinations), mixes in the tale of a mysterious lacking emo female and, in the course of action, results in a thing that feels like a grungy, wonderful gutter epic. Anything rum-soaked and bloody. Harmful and amusing. Chandler in the tropics, if Chandler experienced a feeling of humor and a PhD in artwork history and Diaspora scientific studies.
Heretics is a story about 1 of Padura's most loved recurring figures, Mario Conde. And Conde is great — a former Cuban police detective turned jack-leg non-public investigator with a powerful taste for rum and a pet named Rubbish II. He is normally broke, perpetually hungry, and as the novel begins he is building his rounds as a down-on-his-luck supplier in next-hand publications (but actually a semi-professional moocher). And then he crosses paths with 1 Elias Kaminsky who seems on his porch 1 night with a story about Cuban Jews, the Holocaust, the tragedy of the S.S. St. Louis (which sailed from Europe in 1939 with in excess of 900 fleeing Jews aboard and was turned back again upon achieving Havana's harbor) and a mysterious Rembrandt portray of Jesus Christ which could (or could not) have been his father's.
"It is really not that quick," Elias claims, "to say you feel your father, whom you normally noticed that way, as a father … could have been the identical individual who slit someone's neck."
And growth. Conde is hooked, just like that. Incredulous, positive. Only half-believing anything that comes out of this guy Elias's mouth. But also, like I reported, broke. And hungry. And out of cigarettes. And practically speechless with enjoyment when he hears that this guy is going to fork out him $a hundred a day to look into what might've happened to his father and that portray in the a long time among 1939 (when it came to Cuba, carried by other Kaminskys, aboard the St. Louis) and now, when it has just re-appeared at a London auction property, valued at someplace north of a million pounds.
What comes upcoming is a romp and a wallow via generations and nations — from Poland in the 1600's to Rembrandt's studio in the 1700's, Jewish Kabbalists in Thessaloniki, punk kids on the streets of Havana in 2007, German pogroms, a weird Blade Runner homage at a seaside celebration that finishes with Conde striding bare into the sea quoting Roy Batty's "Tears in the rain" speech.
And in all of this, the uniting strand is the thought of heresy — of policies damaged that can hardly ever be unbroken, of modernity grinding absent at tradition. The Jewish artwork university student who posed for Rembrandt's Christ portray, the Kaminsky relatives exhibiting it in a in shape of atheistic delight, the kids in Cuba, the "most exceptional idea of the iceberg of a generation of qualified heretics." This is what Padura spends 500 pages chatting about: Heresy as a forgetting of the earlier.
But, actually, what retains anything alongside one another is Conde. His goofy awesome, his self-destruction and generosity, his obsessions and his premonitions. Heretics can drag when Conde is not on the page, but it winks by like sunlight on chrome when he is. And moreover all of Padura's wonderful words and phrases, all individuals attractive sentences loaded down with strangeness and terrible history, it's the waiting for Conde to come slouching and cursing back again on to the page — embodying the hyperlink among earlier and existing, goodness and evil — that is the major joy in Heretics' darkest destinations.
Jason Sheehan is an ex-chef, a former restaurant critic and the current food items editor of Philadelphia magazine. But when no 1 is seeking, he spends his time creating publications about spaceships, aliens, large robots and ray guns. Tales From the Radiation Age is his most current reserve.
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IpSmartHr integrates with IpSensorMan so the heart rate information can be displayed at the same time as another application like IpBike or IpPeloton is also accessing the heart rate data.
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Last week was the warmup with cat trivia. Now that you are getting serious, here's a "Top Ten" Cat Adoption Guide:
1. If you're thinking about adopting a cat, consider taking home two. Cats require exercise, mental stimulation and social interaction. Two cats can provide this for each other. You'll benefit, too. Research shows cats and people are soothed by a cat's purring.
2. Find a cat whose personality meshes with yours. Just as we each have our own personality, so do cats. Some are feisty and playful; others shy and even reclusive; and don't forget the proverbial lap cat who simply wants to chill out on or near you. The HSGS staff are acquainted with our shelter residents and can help you find your cat match.
3. Select a veterinarian ahead of time and schedule a visit within the first few days following the adoption. On your first visit, you'll want to take the medical records you received when you adopted your feline friend. HSGS adoptions include a certificate for a free vet office visit when your appointment is within 10 days of adoption.
4. Make sure everyone in the house is prepared to have a cat. Visiting the shelter should be a family affair. When adopting a new cat (or dog) be sure to let the shelter staff know if you already have a pet at home so the adoption counselor can provide advice on how to make a proper introduction.
5. Budget for the care of your cat. Understand any pet is a responsibility including financially. Cats and kittens adopted from the HSGS are a real bargain, but you should still plan for at least an annual vet visit to include an exam as well as routine tests and vaccinations.
6. Identify needed supplies before your cat arrives. Be prepared so your new cat will feel at home right away. Your cat will need a litter box, cat litter, food and water bowls, food, scratching posts, safe and stimulating toys, a cushy bed, a brush for grooming, a toothbrush and nail clippers. ID tags are also recommended and are available when you adopt at HSGS.
7. Cat-proof your home. A new cat will quickly teach you not to leave things out. Food left on the kitchen counter will serve to teach your new friend to jump on counters for a possible snack. Eliminate or protect items your cat might chew. Electric cords can be fun to kittens, but dangerous.
8. Go slowly when introducing your cat to new friends and family. It can take several weeks for a cat to relax in a new environment. Providing a private cat room for your new addition until he is accustomed to the new surroundings can help. This is particularly important if you have other pets. If you've adopted a kitten, socialization is very important. But remember —take it slow.
9. Include your new pet in the family emergency plan. You should have a plan for getting your family, including pets, to safety in case of an emergency. Add phone numbers for your veterinarian and closest 24-hour animal hospital to your "in-case-of-emergency" call list. If your hurricane evacuation plan requires staying in a hotel or motel, be sure to know pet policies in advance.
10. Considering giving a cat as a gift? Include the recipient as an active participant in the adoption process. Though well-meaning, a surprise kitty gift could result in a personality mismatch. Adoption is a commitment: the average life expectancy of a cat is 12 to 15 years, but cats can live to be 20 years old. Yes, that also means years and years of unconditional love and companionship.
Should "Adopt-a-Shelter Cat" month not be the purr-fect time for you to adopt, consider becoming a foster parent. Or, make a financial contribution to help care for HSGS pets and to keep our adoption fees low.
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About Jen:Born in England, Jen Armitage emigrated to Canada with her parents at the age of 11 settling in Waterdown, Ontario. She accepted Christ has her personal Saviour at a Faith Mission camp and sought to serve God after graduating from high school by joining in for two summer works in 1999 and 2000. Her call to The Faith Mission Bible College came during that time and she moved to Edinburgh to take up college life. Graduating in 2003, Jen began work with The Faith Mission as part of a Mission Team doing work in various districts in England, Scotland and Ireland. She joined the Canadian work in September 2005.


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Mariah Carey responds to YG's claim, About Big Bang and 2NE1 plagiarism issuesposted on 17 Oct 2009 22:07 by angelgd
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Mariah Carey was in Korea this week, and it was revealed that she was informed of what YG had to say about the plagiarism controversy. Regarding the accusation against Big Bang and 2NE1, YG has said:
"...A few days ago, Mariah Carey's new song, "Standing O"', had its teaser released on Youtube. Comparing this song to "In the Club", you get 8 bars of similar parts not just 2. It's not just 5 seconds that are similar, but 24; and when you account for the repetition of the major theme, it's almost an entire minute of similarity. What is Sony ATV's opinion towards this song? I don't know, but I can assure that you can't easily say that Mariah Carey has plagiarized 2NE1's song that was released 3 months ago, although it contains longer and clearer motives from "In the Club"."
A member of team that promoted Mariah's visit to Korea said "The controversy was explained in detail to Mariah by her management." The explanation included accusations against G Dragon, the trouble between YG and Sony ATV, and YG's official statement including the part where he mentioned Mariah's new song. After receiving this information, Mariah answered "Too complicated" and made a dumbfounded smile, according to the member.


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As you can see above, AQW has crashed for now. Due to today's earlier mishaps with the server, I think either they have really messed up their programming, or someone finally hacked their stupid asses. I'm going to bet it's going to be awhile until they figure their shit out on this one.
So, the discussion.
1. Place your time bets on how long until they fix this shit
2. What was the cause of this?
3. If anyone can keep a watch on twitter and post here when they try and explain their shit.
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The Cougars fell to 6-4 for the year and 4-3 in the American Athletic Conference. The Green Wave moved to 5-6 and 3-4 in conference play.
The Texas Southern Tigers ran over the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions on their way to a 24-10 victory.
The Texas Southern Tigers were throttled by the Southern Jaguars, 33-7, in a SWAC showdown at BBVA Compass Stadium.
If there were any worries that the Cougars (6-3 overall, 4-2 in the American Athletic Conference) would fall back to earth after last week's upset over USF, those thoughts were put to ease quickly as Houston raced to a 21-0 first quarter lead and with the win, became bowl eligible.
The Texas Southern Tigers won their first game of the season with their third-string quarterback Elijah Odum against the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils 38-21, Saturday at Ross-Totten Stadium.
Playing in Tampa, the Cougars snapped their two-game losing streak with a 28-24 win over the Bulls thanks to quarterback D'Eriq King's 20-yad touchdown run with 11 seconds remaining.
The Grambling State Tigers stayed undefeated in conference play, while the Texas Southern Tigers remain winless on the season with a 50-24 blowout.
The Cougars' defense allowed the most points in a single half this season and the Memphis Tigers erased a 24-7 deficit in the second half to cap a 42-38 win over Houston on Thursday night at TDECU Stadium.
The Houston Cougars dropped their first conference game of the season, falling to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in a 45-17 loss on the road Saturday afternoon.
The Texas Southern Tigers remained winless on the season after a 23-16 loss to the Alabama State Hornets on Saturday.
The Cougars had 265-yards of rushing on offense in their 35-22 win over the SMU Mustangs.
The Texas Southern Tigers must get back to the drawing board after a blowout loss to the Kennesaw State Owls, 48-3.
The Texas Southern Tigers comeback fell short in a 24-17 loss to the Alcorn State Braves.
Both the Cougars and the Owls are coming off losses from last week.
The Texas Southern University Tigers were dismantled by the Alabama A&M Bulldogs 30-13.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders delivered second-half knockout blows and staved off a late Kyle Postma-led Houston Cougars rally for a 27-24 win Saturday at TDECU Stadium.
With Houston stitched to both the front and back of their jerseys in tribute to those affected by Hurricane Harvey, the Cougars put on quite a showing for the storm-weary city in their home opener Saturday against crosstown rival Rice, routing the Owls, 38-3.
Texas Southern University's starting running back Brad Woodard was one of the first Dickinson players to play Division I college football after leaving high school under Dickinson head coach John Snelson.
Ball High alum Baine Schoenvogel made the most of a pinch hitting opportunity in the top of the ninth inning of Monday afternoon's NCAA regional contest, blasting a leadoff home run well beyond the left-center wall to give Texas A&M a 4-0 lead, but little did anyone know at the time that it would be a game-saving play.
The Houston Cougars got their clutch on late, coming back from a 3-1 deficit to blow by the Iowa Hawkeyes, 7-5, and into the championship round of the Houston Regional.
Faced with elimination in Game 3 of the NCAA Houston Regional, every Cougar in the starting lineup had a hit and a run scored, as Houston pounced back in a mega way, mauling the Baylor Bears, 17-3.
The top-seeded, hosting Houston Cougars opened up the NCAA regionals throwing its ace, Trey Cumbie, but the Iowa Hawkeyes peppered him with 10 hits and maintained a lead that the Cougars could never overcome, falling 6-3 Friday night at Schroeder Park and sending themselves to the losers' side of the bracket.
In the opening game of the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship's Houston Regional, the Texas A&M Aggies took advantage of a rocky top of the sixth inning from the Baylor Bears to come away with an 8-5 win Friday afternoon at Schroeder Park.
The Galveston College softball team concluded their 2017 season this past Monday while participating in the Region XIV Softball Tournament hosted by Angelina College in Lufkin.
Former Texas and Texas City running back D'Onta Foreman was named the winner of the 2016 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award on Wednesday.
It wasn't long ago that Madison Wadyka and Rachel Duncavage were teammates on Clear Creek's volleyball and track and field teams.
In his first public comments since being named the Houston Cougars interim head coach, Todd Orlando vowed to provide stability to the program while committing to current and future members of the team.
Since his freshman year at La Marque High School, Houston Cougars defensive lineman Aymiel Fleming has made time to visit the residents at Harbourview Care Center in League City.
The University of Houston football program has never had consecutive 10-plus win seasons in its history. That could change Friday if the Cougars are able to beat Memphis and record their 10th victory of the season.
In Thursday night's 36-10 win over Louisville, Houston, a 15-point underdog entering the game, was every bit the team that had previously dominated Florida State and Oklahoma, and then some.
Arguably one of the Houston Cougars' most significant wins last season during Tom Herman's first year as head coach was a Week 2 road win over the Louisville Cardinals.
Houston quarterbacks Greg Ward Jr. and Kyle Postma were both injured in the Cougars' 30-18 win over the Green Wave on Saturday at TDECU Stadium.
The Houston Cougars were in need of a break heading into their bye week before their meeting with Tulane on Saturday.
The students at Blocker Middle School got a heaping portion of excitement during their lunch period Tuesday morning, as current Texas Longhorn football standouts and Texas City alumni D'Onta and Armanti Foreman made a surprise visit to the campus.
Most every morning, Cameron Doubenmier begins his day at 5 a.m. commuting to the University of Houston from his parents' house in League City.
The Houston Cougars overcame a 21-point third-quarter deficit, scoring 28 unanswered points to knock off Central Florida, 31-24, in a turnover-filled game on Saturday at TDECU Stadium.
Houston head coach Tom Herman, seeing how devastated his team was in the locker room following the Cougars' 46-40 loss at Navy, wanted to give his players hope.
A grim-faced Tom Herman could hear the whoops and hollers of SMU players as the Houston coached tried to explain a shocking 38-16 loss to the Mustangs on Saturday night.
Houston head coach Tom Herman has learned something about his team, which is in the midst of a grueling stretch of nine straight games to open the season.
Following Houston's 38-31 win over Tulsa on Saturday, running back Dillon Birden was quick to credit the Cougars' offensive line for his three-touchdown performance.
The Houston Cougars returned home Saturday night against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane looking to get back on track after last week's loss to Navy.
With the game tied late, Houston head coach Tom Herman didn't think twice about trusting his defense to come up with a stop against a Tulsa offense it had trouble bottling up all game long.
For just the second time in two seasons under head coach Tom Herman, the Houston Cougars are looking to bounce back from a loss.
When Oregon State's Kendall Hill takes the field on special teams against Utah on Saturday in Corvallis, Ore., he'll be on the lookout for the Utes' Brian Allen.
Houston head coach Tom Herman had one point he wanted to make clear during his weekly news conference Monday after his team lost to Navy, 46-40, over the weekend.
With every Navy touchdown, No. 6 Houston saw its hope of playing for the national championship become a little more distant.
No. 8 Texas A&M outlasted ninth-ranked Tennessee, 45-38, in double overtime Saturday to improve to 6-0 for the first time since 1994 after starting the previous two seasons with five wins before losing.
Baker Mayfield first donned the giant gold cowboy hat — awarded to the winner of the Red River rivalry — then ran around the field with the Oklahoma Sooners flag.


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"Kings and Queens" is available for download on iTunes now, along with companion piece "Hazel Grows". This B-Side fades into hushed guitar work that continues to unfold subtly behind beautiful vocals during the verse. The pleasant and relaxing rhythm builds slowly as it progresses. It eventually grows to an immense climax loaded with affecting instrumentation and a choir like harmony that puts a spectacular cap on the proceedings.
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London-listed Vedanta Resources said Monday it had agreed to acquire a majority stake in energy explorer Cairn India for up to 9.6 billion dollars in cash, adding to its core mining business.
"The proposed acquisition significantly enhances Vedanta's position as a natural resources champion in India," Vedanta's tycoon owner Anil Agarwal said in a statement.
The announcement sent the share prices of Vedanta and Cairn Energy -- the majority-owner of Cairn India -- to the top of London's benchmark FTSE 100 index.
Cairn India is India's fourth-largest oil and gas company, thanks to a massive energy find in the western Indian desert state of Rajasthan.
"Cairn India's Rajasthan asset is world class in terms of scale and cost, delivering strong and growing cash flow," said Agarwal.
"The company has a proven management team and very significant further resource potential. Cairn India will benefit from Vedanta's track record of acquiring and growing world class companies, especially in India."
Vedanta -- which has iron ore, zinc and copper mines -- follows the world's biggest miner BHP Billiton in acquiring oil assets.
John Mcgloin, an analyst for stockbroker Collins Stewart said the deal "allows Vedanta to diversify their production base and provides a hedge against operating cost increases, of which energy prices is a key input".
"Vedanta have a significant growth profile and the acquisition of an oil company may be viewed as distracting for the company in delivering on that growth," he added.
Vedanta said it would buy 51-60 percent of Cairn India for between 8.5 and 9.6 billion dollars (7.5 billion euros).
Scottish exploration group Cairn Energy, which holds 62.4 percent of Cairn India, said the sale would allow it to return cash to shareholders and provide it with funds to push on with its drilling programme in Greenland.
"I am delighted to announce the proposed disposal of a significant shareholding in Cairn India in line with our objective of adding and realising value for shareholders," said Cairn Energy's chief executive Bill Gammell.
Upon acquisition of a majority stake, Vedanta Resources must make an open offer for an additional 20 percent stake under Indian stock exchange rules.
Cairn India owns a 70 percent stake in the Mangala oil field in the prolific Rajasthan block where the rest is held by state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp.
Cairn India estimates the Mangala field can produce up to 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The entire Rajasthan block is estimated to have a potential of up to 240,000 barrels per day.
Cairn Energy began to pump crude from the vast reserves in Rajasthan in August last year. It bought the field in 2002 from Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which had concluded it contained no major reserves. Two years later, Cairn struck oil.
In mid-morning London trade, the share price of Vedanta's share price was up 3.90 percent to 2,134 pence and Cairn Energy jumped 2.35 percent to 478.8 pence. The FTSE 100 was down 0.29 percent to 5,260.15 points.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia—For many Indonesians, the recent spike in goods and services has forced belt tightening.
Zainal, who sells fried rice on the side of a leafy Jakarta's street, said he's struggling to reduce his spending. He has been selling less fried rice as people are cutting back on eating out.
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Lahore, Jun.4 (ANI): Former cricketers, including incumbent coach Waqar Younis, have backed the Pakistan Cricket Board's decision to include fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar in the 15-man squad for the upcoming Asia Cup in Sri Lanka.
Waqar welcomed Akhtar's inclusion and said the controversial speedster would be used in short spells during the June 15-24 quadrangular one-day tournament.
Former chief selector Salahuddin Sallu described the team as a 'balanced' squad, saying that the inclusion of both Akhtar and Shoiab Malik would enhance the prospects of the team in the coming assignment.
Another former chief selector Abdul Qadir also welcomed both Malik and Akhtar's inclusion, The News reports.
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The normal human transition in cognitive ability from birth to maturity is vast and, as yet, without adequate explanation. During the last century, scientific consensus changed from a view that newborns possess virtually no knowledge of the world or of themselves to a view that they actually possess considerable innate bias that guides their interaction with their physical and social environment. The conception of learning mechanisms that might help explain the dramatic development of competence has undergone considerable change as well.
The idea that learning might play a strong role in development from birth to maturity has existed since the earliest of written history. Herodotus (485-425 BP) recorded in 440 BP concern for the role of learning in children's development of language. The primary alternative to learning is usually stated in terms of the maturation of innate ability. While these opposing notions are of ancient origin, they continue their competition in developmental psychology at the present time.
In the past centuries, academic theories of learning were the outgrowth of scientists trying to replace folklore about the experiential role of repetition, effort, and temporal association in the production of such things as abilities, habits, and resilience of memories. The effort was to find objective laws like those being uncovered in physics and chemistry. For psychology, this would mean finding the laws that controlled the way experience changed an individual's capacity and/or propensity to behave.
S-S learning
In 1927, when Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) published his classic work on the 'conditioned reflex,' it was seen to be exactly what had been hoped for. The loose notion of experience was replaced with defined categories of stimulus (S) and response (R), and further sub-categorical distinctions relating to the learning process, termed 'conditioning.' Thus, a law of learning was provided whereby systematic manipulation of stimuli would lead to a predictable change in an individual's propensity to produce a particular response under specified conditions. Adding to the majesty of Pavlov's laws of learning was the fact that timing of the manipulation of stimuli was very important, just as is so in the laws of physics and chemistry.
In the simplest terms, Pavlov uncovered a law for giving power to a stimulus that previously had little or none. The change in power was evidenced by the change in the conditioned individual's response to the conditioned stimulus (CS). For example, as illustrated in Table 1, prior to applying the law of conditioning to a naive dog, the stimulus sound of a bell has no power to elicit salivation. However, after a number of pairings of this stimulus (the CS) just shortly prior to the presentation of meat (an unconditioned stimulus, UCS, that already possessed the power to cause salivation), the bell acquires the power to elicit salivation.
Pavlov's experiment demonstrates how animals are sensitive to the temporal contingency between events. The dog experienced a series of trials in which presentation of meat was contingent on the bell having just sounded. The conditioning is dramatically weakened if the temporal contingency is reversed so that the meat precedes the bell. Pavlov investigated the lawful effects of varying the trial conditions and varying the timing between stimuli. Experiments of this kind are commonly referred to as 'S-S learning' and they continue to be investigated in many labs to this day. Renewed interest in this type of learning in humans has recently occurred in conjunction with techniques of brain imaging in studies of brain structure and function. For example, monitoring brain activity with event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (efMRI) during classical conditioning of an angry face (CS) with an aversive sound (UCS) supports speculation of the special involvement of the amygdala in this form of learning (Morris, Buchel, & Dolan, 2001).
Table 1. S-S contingency learning: passing pre-existing power by classical conditioning.
Time Learning progression
t1 Sound of bell has no power to cause dog's salivation.
Meat has power to cause dog's salivation.
t2 Dog exposed to meat contingent on prior sound of bell for some number of conditioning trials.
t3 Sound of bell now has power to cause salivation.
John Broadus Watson (1878-1958) was probably the most eloquent promulgator of Pavlov's laws as these might apply to development, particularly human development. He appeared to believe that S-S learning could account for virtually all of the variation in human ability and self-control. It was in relation to the latter, and his conditioning and extinguishing of fear in infants, that he gained a broad non-academic following for practical advice on child rearing during the 1920s and 1930s. Watson viewed his successful conditioning of fear as a blueprint for properly understanding the origins of the many irrational fears and emotional maladjustments that were often being treated by psychoanalysis at that time. An experiment by one of his students, Mary Cover Jones (1896-1987), extinguishing fear in an infant by presenting the fearful CS in association with naturally pleasant stimulation (UCS), has been acknowledged as the first experiment in therapeutic behavior modification, a clinical field begun in the 1950s with extensions of Pavlov's findings by Joseph Wolpe (1915-1997).
Watson's influence on the academic field of psychology and its effort to account for human development is arguably as great as and longer lived than his popular writings on child rearing. Pavlov's laws of conditioning were perfect examples of the power of objectifying variables in the laws of psychology. Philosophically, Watson had been championing the virtue of behaviorism as a replacement for the subjective introspective methodology that psychology had relied on in its first steps as a science in the 19th century. One could, he argued, remove any reference to an individual's subjective mental state when constructing laws that would adequately explain human behavior and development. Stimuli associated in specifiable patterns of temporal contingency would provide a sufficient causal reference in a philosophically sound science of psychology.
R-S and S-(R-S) learning
In the mid-thirties, Burrhus Fredric Skinner (19041990) introduced a behavioristic formalization of what was commonly viewed as goal-oriented or instrumental learning. It was a refinement and further objectification of what Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949) had termed the 'law of effect.' In contrast to Pavlov's focus on the contingency between experiencing CS and UCS, Skinner's focus was on the contingency between an unconditioned behavior, termed an operant response (R), and a subsequent unconditioned stimulus termed a reinforcer (Sre). He reframed the everyday notions of working for incentives and goals from their reference to anticipated future events which he found unacceptable. Skinner proposed instead a reliance solely on past contingency between behaviors and reinforcers that had followed them and stimuli that had marked these occasions of contingency. He believed that these basic categories of experience are sufficient to explain the development of even that most complex of human behaviors, language.
Table 2. S-(R-S) contingency learning: making new power by discriminative operant conditioning.
Time Learning progression
t1 Sound of bell has no power to cause dog to sit. Food has no power to cause dog to sit.
t2 Dog receives food contingent on sitting within five seconds of sound of bell for some number of learning trials.
t3 Sound of bell now has power to cause dog to sit.
We noted that S-S learning might be viewed as a method of passing power from one stimulus to another in terms of the power to elicit some specific behavior. In Pavlovian learning, however, the power that can be given to an initially powerless stimulus is limited to the set of available powers existing in unconditioned stimuli. In R-S learning theory, by contrast, power can be constructed in the absence of an available UCS for the target behavior. How this is done is termed discriminative learning (S-[R-S]). As summarized in Table 2, when the target behavior occurs, it is reinforced. This R-S contingency is itself made contingent on the presence of another stimulus. This new stimulus is called a discriminative stimulus (Sd) because it provides a basis to discriminate occasions in which the target behavior has been reinforced. After some number of trials in which the Sd is present and others in which it is absent, the individual will begin to emit the target behavior in response to the occurrence of the Sd. Thus, the trials have constructed an eliciting power for the Sd without a need for a UCS that possessed such eliciting power beforehand.
This expansion of learning theory to provide a behavioristic account of what is commonly called purposive or goal-oriented behavior was joined by a number of other notable theorists. Clark Hull (1884-1952) developed a set of inter-related lawful formulations that, like the laws of mechanics in physics, were intended to account for not only the occurrence but also the strength of learned behavior. Unlike Skinner, Hull and his student Kenneth Wartinbee Spence (1907-1967) tried to account for the power of some stimuli to function as rewards (or reinforcers in Skinner's terminology) by appealing to a notion of biological needs that set up motivating 'drives' in the individual. Edward Chace Tolman (1886-1959) offered another significant variant of learning theory that explicitly tried to account for the philosophical notion that purposive behavior involves an individual possessing some cognitive representation of the goal being pursued. This shift from radical behaviorism to what was called purposive behaviorism opened the door for more recent theorizing about how maturation of memory and information processing capacities might alter learning and its effect on subsequent development.
Although Skinner did not receive the degree of attention that Watson did in the area of popular guidance for child rearing, Skinner's theoretical perspective has had deep and lasting influence in the USA in the areas of special education and classroom management of children in primary school grades. This may be due to the relative clarity and simplicity of his prescriptions for modifying behavior. It may also be due in part to Skinner's novel Walden Two (1948), which was, in effect, a treatise on his view of ideal rearing conditions. That topic was widely read in undergraduate courses of humanities and social philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century.
The radical behaviorism that Watson and Skinner espoused greatly influenced academic psychology in the United States until the mid 1950s. This was less true in Europe and within the sub-field of developmental psychology where Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the cognitive developmental theory of Jean Piaget (1896-1980), and various bio-maturational theories maintained many adherents regarding how maturation and early experience affect human development. In the USA, there was a productive tension in the lingering theoretical struggle between learning theory and psychoanalytic theory that resulted in the collaborative collection and analysis of cross-cultural data in an archive known as the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University (now accessible on the Internet). Initially, cultural anthropologists and developmental psychologists compiled observations of the variation in child rearing as this could be discerned across a variety of reasonably independent cultures (now more than ninety) accounted for by the HRAF. The ethnographic observations made were in part guided by the goal of testing differences in the developmental predictions that would follow from the theoretical frameworks of learning theory and Freudian theory. Overall, learning theory has tended to fair better in this contest.
Social learning theory
Albert Bandura (1925- ) and others loosened the grip of behaviorism on learning theory. This occurred in three important respects. Initially, it was on the basis of a specific concern for the process of imitation or observational learning. Bandura and his colleagues pointed out that when a child changed a propensity to behave in a certain way simply by observing another person perform that behavior, the learning (i.e., the change in propensity) should be viewed as occurring in the absence of a learning trial. That is, imitation appeared to be unlike the simple laws of Pavlovian S-S learning or Skinnerian R-S learning, wherein the conditioning of the individual involved some number of trials in which the focal behavior occurred – as elicited by the UCS in the case of Pavlovian learning or as emitted and reinforced in the case of Skinnerian learning. By contrast, imitation involved only the observation of another individual enacting the target behavior. Bandura highlighted the uniqueness of this by labeling it 'no-trial learning.' In addition, the fact that the ease and strength of imitation was found to vary in relation to social characteristics of the model was a serious barrier to any concerted effort to classify stimuli in strictly physical terms as was the preference of radical behaviorism.
The third issue raised by Bandura's work, and that of others, was the effect of the individual's attribution of control to the model. Imitation is more likely if the observer evaluates the model's behavior as truly causing the apparent consequences. However, the research of Andrew Meltzoff with newborns indicates that imitation can proceed without such contextual evaluation in the beginning. On the other hand, a recent study suggests that imitation by 14-month-olds depends in part on whether the model's behavior is perceived as rational under the circumstances in which the behavior is modeled (Gergely, Bekkering, & Kiraly, 2002). The preceding findings and related work with animals (e.g., Michael Tomasello's work with chimpanzees) has lead to debate regarding the possibility that imitation develops from a response with no inference, to a response based on a rational and eventually an intentional stance. Some extension of this debate may come from brain imaging research such as that of Jean Decety and his colleagues who have recently used positron emission tomography (PET) to distinguish the neural mechanisms underlying acts of imitation and the perception of being imitated.
Table 3. Four ways to perceive contingency of event E2 on event El.
Basis of perception
Mechanism involved
Detection of short time span between instances of E1 and E2
Computation of co-variation in time of instances of E1 and E2
Conditional probability
Computation of probability of E2 in time following instances of E1 and probability of E1 in time preceding instances of E2
Logical implication
Deduction of contingency by combining evidence of truth for each of the following relations: E1 implies E2, E1 implies not-E2, not-E1 implies E2, and not-E1 implies not-E2
New forms of learning theory
The learning process, as conceived by the radical behaviorists, was meant to stand objectively independent of the learner. We have noted above that later theorizing has seriously eroded the independence of learning from the subjective/cognitive processes of the learner. The effectiveness of a contingency in S-S learning, R-S learning, or even in learning by imitation, now appears to become soon dependent on the cognitive-perceptual activity of the individual. Learning depends on contingency, but on contingency as perceived by the learner. When put in this perspective, it becomes important to consider just how a contingency (be it between stimuli or between behavior and stimuli) might be perceived.
Contingency perception
As outlined in Table 3, there have been at least four theoretical proposals for how contingency might be perceived: contiguity, correlation, conditional probability, and logic. Contiguity was favored by the radical behaviorists. It had the appeal of simple dependence on temporal separation. The greater the time between events, the less likely the learning. The generality of this 'law of contiguity was seriously undermined in the 1960s by John Garcia who found food aversion learning in which strong S-S learning occurred despite extensive delay between a novel food CS and a subsequent noxious UCS. It was further undermined by findings of'learned helplessness' wherein R-S learning fails to occur despite short delay between behavior and normally reinforcing stimuli that previously were experienced as being non-contingent or independent of behavior (Peterson, Maier, & Seligman, 1993).
The proposals of contingency being perceived in terms of correlation, conditional probability, or logic each carry a computational assumption regarding the learner's capacity to evaluate the experience of a contingency. These three potential indices of contingency respectively make reference to progressively more details in the representation of the contingency. Correlation centers on a single index of co-variation between, say, events E1 and E2. Conditional probability introduces two indices, the prospective probability of E2 occurring given E1 has occurred, and the retrospective probability of E1 having occurred given E2 occurs. Logical inference, as proposed by Thomas G. R. Bower, involves evidence in relation to four possible connections: E1 implies E2, E1 implies not-E2, not-E1 implies E2, and not-E1 implies not-E2. Most work to date has been framed in terms of either contiguity or conditional probability.
Constraints on learning
In recent decades, as learning theory has become more cognitive, it has also become increasingly integrated with evolutionary theory. The earlier hopes of finding universal laws of learning that would account for development similarly across species were strained by the reports of species-specific imprinting uncovered by ethologists as well as by the species variation of food aversion learning reported by Garcia and others. Likewise, the attempt to encompass the complexity of language acquisition in laws of R-S contingencies by Skinner and others lost favor to the seemingly more adequate account provided by Noam Chomsky and his students that incorporated an assumption that humans are innately equipped with an abstract learning mechanism containing the primitive categories of language structure. Language learning was thus a very constrained matter of discriminating sound patterns that fit the preset linguistic categories. Of note was the apparent fact that language learning progressed without the need for reward and in a manner that seemed self-guided, as evidenced in such phenomena as the English-speaking child's errors of over-regularization of the past tense suffix '-ed' for previously mastered cases of irregular verbs (e.g., "mommy goed out"). Such special constraints on general learning laws suggest that learning mechanisms are part of the evolved equipment each species has obtained in its adaptation to environmental pressure.
John Bowlby (1907-1990) was influenced by the findings of ethology and the growth of cognitive learning theory in his construction of a new theory of early socio-emotional development called attachment theory. Bowlby replaced Freud's speculations (basically Pavlovian in form) about the role of stimulus associations in children's development of emotional attachment to their parents. He emphasized instead the interplay of proximity control signals that have evolved in humans. In this view, children clearly must learn who to love and how to manage their emotional states. However, rather than building this learning through associations of people and stimulus events that reduce somatic tension as claimed by Freud, Bowlby proposed a central role for a restricted sub-set of stimulus events that were part of an evolved system of infant and parental behaviors that would help them maintain spatial proximity. The system served to protect immature members of our species from predation, especially in the prehistoric environments of our ancestors or what Bowlby called the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness."
Contingency as a stimulus
The idea that the contingencies of learning need to be perceived in order to be effective undermines the prospect of finding laws of learning that can be formulated without concern for the mental processes of the learner. It also introduces a new option for the potential effects of contingency experience. As an object of perception, contingency experience can be viewed as a stimulus in its own right. From this perspective, the infant controlling the mobile in Figure 1 by movement on pressure-sensitive pillows is not only perceiving the mobile turn, but the contingency of its turning as well. A responsive mother can display her attention to her baby by any number of auditory, tactile, or visual reactions to any number of actions on the part of her infant. The baby's perception that her reactions are contingent on his behavior may have a psychological impact that is separate from and far more important than the stimulus impact of her behavior itself. In this manner, contingency experience has been proposed to have unconditioned eliciting power in human infants in their early phases of social development. In this view, part of what initially defines the mother is her characteristic level of contingency as perceived by the infant. Moreover, this view allows that contingency may be misperceived and certain forms of misperception may have predictable developmental consequences (Watson, 2001).
Figure 1. Infant learning to control mobile movement using pressure-sensitive pillows.
Probability learning
Studies examining the sensitivity of infants and young children to the contingency structure of their environment have increased in recent years. These range from testing how contingent responsiveness of a mobile affects subsequent reactions to it to how inter-stimulus contingency level may be used to segregate words in speech. The latter work is an interesting challenge to one aspect of Chomsky's proposed abstract linguistic categories.
Chomsky and his students have argued that linguistic structure had such variable distribution in the continuous stream of natural speech that it was not decipherable without some prior knowledge. This argument for an inborn guidance to language development (or so-called 'language acquisition device') has been weakened by the discovery that the transitional probability structure of the phonemic sequences in natural speech can reveal at least some of its underlying linguistic structure. Moreover, researchers have shown that 8-month-old infants are sensitive to conditional probability structure in continuous streams of an artificial language (Aslin, Saffran, & Newport, 1998). Thus, it would seem that some of the presumably innate grounding of language development may really be provided by the human infant's capacity for probability learning.
Neural-net models and new views of learning and maturation
Since the early 1990s, the elaboration of cognitive learning models has been spurred on by techniques of computer simulation of neural-net learning. Despite the seminal work of Donald O. Hebb (1904-1985), the most influential learning theories of the past century did not speculate as to how their learning laws were supported by an animal's neurophysiological structure. The picture is quite the opposite today. Neural-net modeling, for example, is an explicit attempt to approximate the mechanics of neurological adaptation to experience. These models have just primitive features, such as neuronal nodes, their activation, their synaptic-like inter-connection, their inter-node conductivity (termed 'weights'), and their form of inter-connection across layers of nodes. The neural-net simulations have been applied to a wide variety of classic developmental issues. Although neural nets embody no use of symbolic representation, they have managed to learn to perform tasks that had previously been assumed to require symbolic thought. For example, James L. McClelland and his colleagues have shown that neural nets can do quite well in simulating the developmental progression in solving various conservation tasks that were highlighted in the classic work on human cognitive development by Piaget.
Neural-net modeling of learning has spawned ideas about how maturation and learning maybe viewed as cooperative in the explanation of development. Jeffrey L. Elman found that a neural net was incapable of mastering an artificial language even though the net had a theoretically sufficient amount of memory capacity as provided by feedback connections between layers. The net could master the language if the linguistic examples were initially simple and then later of full complexity. However, real world learning does not occur with sequential exposure to partial then full language structure. So Elman arranged to have the net begin with a limited memory followed by a maturational shift to full memory. In this case, the net succeeded (Elman, 1993). It seems reasonable to expect that evolution may have worked out a cooperation between maturation and learning for many recurrent environmental challenges.
Table 4. Potential developmental consequences of contingency experience.
S-S contingencies
R-S and S-(R-S) contingencies
Extend range of stimuli that cause behavioral reactions (e.g., learn to fear fire).
Increase strength and likelihood of behavioral reactions and create new causal classes of stimuli for discriminative control of those behaviors (e.g., learn to squeeze toy to hear squeak).
Learn categories of S-S contingency structure in sequential stimuli (e.g., learn the word segmentation of linguistic utterances).
Learn categories of responsive objects (e.g., learn mom is person who is especially responsive to cry).
Learn causal powers of environmental objects (e.g., learn that only certain objects will float).
Learn extent of personal efficacy (e.g., learn where, when, and what things can be caused by one's own behavior).
Learn association of feelings and sights of own action (e.g., learn hand motion sequence to assist imitation of mom's clapping of hands).
Learn social signals that mark change in responsiveness of others (e.g., learn the face and body confirmations that display the mood, emotional states, and intentions of another person)
The past century has seen a dramatic shift in theorizing about the role of learning in development. Dominance has shifted from a preference for formulating laws of contiguity between external stimuli and behavior to a preference for formulating models with various degrees of biologically based computational activity and novel assumptions of evolved bias in guiding adaptation to the contingency structure of the physical and social environment (Table 4). In addition, recent advances in brain imaging and neural-net simulation techniques hold some promise for further insights into the biological substrate of learning mechanisms and their evolved constraints.


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