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It is finally over! The Knicks have finally won a playoff game. It took an NBA record 13 losses before they could get this victory, but that is now irrelevant. Sunday's thrilling 89-87 Knicks victory over the Miami Heat was just awesome. There's no other way to describe it. Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire led the way, as the tandem scored 61 points. Did the Knicks play a great game? No way. Sure, Miami didn't bring their A game, but I could care less. The Knicks won a playoff game for the first time since 2001 and I couldn't be happier about it.
Here are my notes from the game:
- The Knicks were led by their two superstars today. Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire, 41 points and 20 points respectively, were fantastic today. Lets start with Anthony. The Knick small forward once again started the game with a cold jump shot. However, rather than just keep shooting them he did a really nice job of working his way into the paint. Anthony missed his first two shots, but then cut on his next two possessions and posted up on his fifth shot attempt. He scored on his 3rd and 5th attempts. I think it was nice to see Anthony, along with Mike Woodson, work to diversify his offensive game today. Amar'e Stoudemire was also very good today. Despite the fact that his left hand was wrapped in 700 layers of tape, he was very efficient scoring the basketball. Knowing that he wouldn't be at full dribbling strength, not that he's good at dribbling anyways, Stoudemire did well to operate around the rim. He grabbed 10 rebounds, 5 offensive, and even played good defense at the rim. I analyzed Stoudemire's defensive rotation late in the 4th that proved to be the defensive play of the game for the Knicks. I think today was a really good sign for the Knicks. Obviously it is just one game, but the Knick stars showed that they do have the capability to play together. More impressively than the fact that they both played well was the fact that they played together. This wasn't isolate one of them and move everyone out of the way. We saw glimpses of a two man game between the two stars today which was fun to see. I still stand by my idea that one of them, probably Melo, has to go, but if the Knicks can put together a performance like this in game 5 I may have to change my mind.
- I wish Baron Davis a speedy recovery. His dislocated knee cap was absolutely gruesome to watch and I wish him a speedy recovery. The Knicks are going to miss Davis, mainly because they're incredibly thin at point guard. I guarantee that we see Jeremy Lin in game 5. I don't support throwing him out there, but I think the Knicks are going to do it. Stay tuned…
- Here is video of Baron's injury. Squeamish people, don't watch
- Mike Bibby was captain clutch today. His three pointer with 1:23 left in the 4th was one of the biggest shots of the game. He's not a great defender at his old age, but he has tried to defend. I thought he moved the ball well and gave the Knicks positive minutes in Baron Davis' absence. Bibby has played relatively well this series (by Mike Bibby standards) and he came through in the clutch today.
- Jorts gave the Knicks solid minutes for the second straight game. I really like what Jorts did today. He played hard, tough and did the dirty work. Harrellson isn't a perfect player and had a few defensive breakdowns, but overall I thought he was solid. Unfortunately Jared Jeffries' knee is just not right, but Jorts has compensated somewhat for Jeffries' defensive production. He even played solid defense on LeBron to close the second quarter and forced the Queen into a long jump shot.
- Weirdly, Tyson Chandler didn't play very well. He didn't really impact the game much at the rim and was in foul trouble for most the second half. He also had a horrid foul on LeBron in the waining minute of the game. If there has any Knick this season that has earned the right to have a bad game or two, it is Chandler. However, this is not the time for him to be struggling. He has been New York's most consistent player this season and he has to get back to that level in game 5. If the Knicks are going to make this series interesting, they're going to need more defensive dominance from Chandler.
- Sorry for the late recap, folks! I was so pumped up by Stoudemire's defensive rotation that I wanted to write that first. Then I decided to go hit up the world famous Taco Shop in Tucson for a great Fiesta.


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QFIT said:As has been known for centuries, progression systems and quit points do not work. See Modern Blackjack pages 207-211: www.qfit.com/book/ModernBlackjackPage207.htm
Walter Thomason said:Sooo.... You've read my book? I assume so since you responded to my request. What parts of the book did you find to be critical of card counting?
QFIT said:Sooo.... You've read my post? I assume so since you responded. What parts of the post said that your book is critical of card counting?
QFIT said:Eric, if you want to make money at BJ, it is a big mistake to buy Walter's book. It advises progressions and quit points which are mathematically proved to fail. It is a shame that he has advised you that his strategy can work for you when numerous people have shown him that it is a losing system.
Walter Thomason said:Eric, Seems like Qfit's primary goal in life is to attack me anytime I make a post on any website... Check out the book reviews on Amazon -- most of which are positive, and you'll see his negative review. Check any other online site where I've ever posted and you'll find similar posts from him. It's just the way things are...
PS: Odds are he'll post a response to this post with something else negative to say about me...
QFIT said:Well, you got that right. I have NO review of you on Amazon. You are, simply put, a liar. Not that there is anything wrong with giving your book a bad review -- but why do you lie? Seriously, you have been telling lies like this for ten years. Your own publisher has told you your system doesn't work. And, if you look at Mein Kampf's reviews on Amazon, it has positive reivews too. Does that mean Hitler was right? Walter, expert after expert has told you that your system does not work. Not one expert in ten years has said anything else. You are harming people with your lies. Why do you continue this? At long last, do you have any sense of responsibility whatever?
Walter Thomason said:OK, Don. Don't answer my questions regarding your conversation with my publisher. I understand.
Walter Thomason said:Norm, I'm through with this thread, at least as far as responding to your comments. I pointed out a typo, and you call it a "false accusation". Sorry to hear about your arthritis... I'm told it can be quite painful.
Animus said:I've been playing the hit or stand as practice and was browsing through these forums. I decided to register an account just to post this.
Amazon reviews are useful in seeing a general satisfaction of users with their purchase. They mean absolutely jack shit concerning whether the contents of a book are scientifically accurate. I'm sure there are plenty of books with good reviews about ghosts and bigfoot but that doesn't make it true.
If you have scientific evidence in the form of mathematical studies or computer simulations that show your method gives an advantage, then show it. Otherwise stop peddling your BS.
Walter Thomason said:My book contains both mathematical analysis and the results of computer simulations, but you wouldn't know that because you obviously haven't read it. Keep practicing on the hit or stand game... I'm sure you need it.
QFIT said:What you call "mathematical analysis and the results of computer simulations" is laughable. Simulations by three people in the field with three different simulators ALL come to the same results. Your system fails, exactly as the math says it should. OTOH, no one has ever heard of the simulator you used in the book, you yourself state that it no longer works and you can't get in touch with the guy you paid to write it. It is a shame that you continue to push a failing strategy with such claims and throw churlish insults at critics.
BruceinGa said:I bought Twenty-First Century Blackjace about 7 years ago. To my surprise I haven't posted here since then.
I just now got around to reading it and am half way through, trying to keep an open mind.
Name calling and accusations doesn't help either of your positions.
BruceinGa said:I bought Twenty-First Century Blackjace about 7 years ago. To my surprise I haven't posted here since then.
I just now got around to reading it and am half way through, trying to keep an open mind.
Name calling and accusations doesn't help either of your positions.
Walter Thomason said:Bruce, I totally agree. I'll make a serious effort to refrain from responding to his personal and professional attacks. Thanks for your advice.
Also, your opinion of the book would be most appreciated.
QFIT said:You do realize don't you, that that was a personal attack?
Walter Thomason said:No, it was a personal defence.
QFIT said:No, it was one of the numerous personal attacks you have made over the last ten years against anyone that dares review your book. You do not seem to comprehend that reviewers reviewing your work are not making personal attacks when they give a bad review. They are providing honest reviews. And, I see that you have yet again been banned from the "other site" you just mentioned for repeatedly making false statements. For ten years, dozens of people in our business have told you that your book pushes a system that does not work. When they patiently explain why, you bombard them with false statements about what they have said.
Walter Thomason said:In keeping with my new philosophy, no comment. Have a nice day.
QFIT said:Funny. How many times have you claimed no comment? And then you make a comment?
I don't like the word liar. But, I have a problem resisting it in your case. Nine times in the last two months you have claimed that I made statements I never made. Hundreds of times in the last ten years you have posted false statements about your "system." I am certain that you will continue posting bad advice and harming people here. But fortunately, you have again been banned from a site that will not allow constant scam postings - www.blackjackinfo.com. And, no, it isn't my site.
Mike Rosoft said:You don't really need to be a math prodigy to count cards. (The mathematics of counting are in fact quite simple - e.g. in the most well known hi-lo system, cards 2-6 are worth +1 and 10-A -1 point - that's it. [Well, that and being able to estimate how many decks are left to deal.])
If you don't want to bother with card counting, at least learn the basic strategy (at least its simplified version). This will help you to minimize the house edge. (If you want to play the exact basic strategy, make sure that you know the rules of the game - it matters if the dealer hits or stands on soft 17, and whether or not you are allowed to double after split.)
And don't bother with any progression systems. They won't help you to gain an edge over the house; they can just decrease your chance of losing in the short term, at the cost of losing more (or, in the case of such strategies as Martingale, MUCH more) if/when you are unlucky.
Mike Rosoft
BruceinGa said:My wife and I just returned from Harrah's Cherokee. I played their Pot O' Gold machine with very good results.
The rules were single deck, shuffled after each hand, doubling on 9-11, dealer stands on all 17's, no surrender, insurance pays 2 to 1, multiple hits on aces when split, no re splitting, no doubling on splits, bj pays 3/2, and 7 card auto win.
The minimum was $2 and max was $50. I started with $2 and increased to $4 after a win. Next win I increased to $6 but capped it at $8. After a loss I return to the $2 bet. After 4 straight losses I move to another machine or just take a breather. They only have 20 of these machines and it wasn't hard finding an idle one.
I probably played only 2 or 3 hours at a time, maybe 3 times a day, logging all my results.
During one session I believe I had 14-16 winning hands without a loss. As I mentioned before most of these were at the $8 level and 3 or 4 were hands that I either split or doubled. Yesterday I had one session with 10 winning hands that included only one push.
Some may not agree with progressive betting but I find it works for me.
I can't wait for our next visit.
Walter Thomason said:Mike,
I'd like to respectfully question the content of your last paragraph. You state that progressions, "...can decrease your chance of losing in the short term, at the cost of losing more if/when you are unlucky." Question: If you decrease your chance of losing in the short term, don't you increase your chance of winning in the short term? After all, there's only three options -- win, lose, or break even. Also, since the long term is nothing more than lots of short-term sessions, losing less (or winning more) might also apply to the long term. In terms of "luck", almost anything is possible, especially in the short term.
BTW, I agree with you regarding Martingale. Table limits make this strategy almost impossible.
Here's a question for you... How many hands must you play to reach long-term expectation?
Walter Thomason said:As previously stated, I don't respond to posts submitted by Qfit, even if he responded to a post I directed to Mike. But a clarification of my remark about the Martingale progression might be helpful. Martingale is a negative progression betting system that requires that you double your previous bet after each consecutive loss with the goal of eventually winning the original bet in the series. Table limits -- the maximum bet allowed -- would make this system impossible to continue after losing a certain number of hands, because the next bet required would exceed the maximum table limit allowed. For instance, a $5 initial bet would require that the player bet $640 after losing 7 consecutive hands, but this amount exceeds the normal $500 table limit on a $5 minimum bet table, and makes it impossible to maintain the progression. Obviously, table limits DO affect the use of a Martingale system.
Also, not all progression systems have negative EV. Card counting is a progression system. Counters raise (positive progression) or lower (negative progression) their bets based on the count, rather than basing their bet variations on the results of the previous hand played. Consequently, not all progression systems have negative EV. Period.
BruceinGa said:
Some may not agree with progressive betting but I find it works for me.
I can't wait for our next visit.
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Popping a Register from a Stack: QuickPiet Macros
And now for something completely different …
Back in March I went crazy. I spent WAY too many nights hacking in David Morgan-Mar's Piet programming language. Piet programs are bitmaps which are executed as a "pointer" traverses the image. To make matters even worse, the underlying native commands only allow the program to use a single stack for storage. Nothing else. The original goal was to learn enough to put together an interesting and funny presentation for the Esoteric and Useless Languages April Fool's Day meeting of the Lambda Lounge user group here in St. Louis. In the end I think I succeeded but you can be the judge for yourself. My slide deck can be found Prezi.com and a video of my talk can be found on blip.tv (Thanks to Alex Miller for recording it). You can also find some other posts on Piet and the subset language I created QuickPiet here.
The most surprising outcome of all that image editing and eye-crossing stack tracing was a completely inappropriate desire to build more and more complex programs with the very basic tools [Quick]Piet offers. I became consumed with thoughts of how to replicate higher level ideas and abstractions built on top of a single stack. I am sure most of my work could easily be explained and improved upon in any Finite Automata or Language Theory textbook … but I wanted to do it myself.
When you only have a stack to work with, you realize you don't have much. Our ability as software developers to add layers of abstraction is such a powerful tool. Without abstractions the entire complexity of an application has to fit into a developer's head. With only a stack, even small tasks are difficult because the entire state of the application has to be maintained as each command is execute. I quickly realized that I needed a way to have stationary registers or variables that could hold data throughout the life-cycle of a program without me needing to know where they were on the stack constantly.
My solution was to keep track of the size of the stack. Simple no?
Imagine a stack full of values. The only constants of a stack are the top and bottom. If we want to hide some registers inside our stack, it makes sense to keep them at one of the ends. Only one problem: the top is highly volatile and we have no idea where the bottom is. My idea was to keep the current size of the stack as the top most element on the stack at all times. If you always knew the top value was the "size" of the stack, then when you first start your application you could stash a few extra values down in the "negative" and use these values as registers/variables throughout your application. This leads to one big hurdle: how can we keep track of the stack size as we execute our program?
After a lot of soul searching and too many crumpled of pieces of notebook paper to count I conjectured that you could recreate all of the native stack commands that Piet offers as macros that would maintain and update the stack size as you went. A Piet Developer (are there any other than me?) would simply need to work with these macros instead of the native commands and could build out new macros which would leverage that stack size to retrieve and store values from the registers. Abstraction for the win.
Code examples from my proof of concept JavaScript implementation
this.push_ = function(x) { // macro stack-size-aware PUSH command this.push(1); this.add(); // update stack size value this.push(x); // perform actual PUSH this.push(2); this.push(1); this.roll(); // roll new value to below stack size }; this.dup_ = function() { // macro stack-size-aware DUP command this.push(1); this.add(); // update net stack size value this.push(2); this.push(1); this.roll(); // hide stack size value under top stack value this.dup(); // perform actual DUP (creates new duplicate value on top of stack) this.push(3); this.push(2); this.roll(); // roll up stack size value from its hiding place };
Several hours later I had built macros which mimicked all of the more basic commands which would preserve the stack size value (e.g. PUSH, POP, ADD, SUB, etc). Each macro was 5 – 10 native commands depending on the number of stack values changing at a time. The hard part came when I wanted to build a new ROLL command. This command differed from all of the others since the area of the stack effected by executed the command depended on the input values. All of the other commands effected a fixed number of values (e.g. PUSH always nets a single new value on the stack). So while most macro-commands could be built with useful assumptions about how many values were changing, ROLL needed to effect a variable amount of the stack to varying depths. When it was all said and done, my new ROLL command was more than 30 commands!
this.roll_ = function() { // decrement counter // # -> (# - 2) this.push(2); this.sub(); // find roll offset (iterations mod depth) // a b # -> # a (b % a) (b % a) this.push(3); // a b # 3 this.push(1); // a b # 3 1 this.roll(); // # a b this.push(2); // # a b 2 this.push(1); // # a b 2 1 this.roll(); // # b a this.dup(); // # b a a this.push(3); // # b a a 3 this.push(1); // # b a a 3 1 this.roll(); // # a b a this.mod(); // # a (b % a) this.dup(); // # a (b % a) (b % a) // find depth for count (offset + 2 + 1) // o -> (o + 3) this.push(3); // o 3 this.add(); // (o + 3) // roll count to proper depth within roll area // # a b X -> # ...X... a b this.push(4); // # a b X 4 this.push(3); // # a b X 4 3 this.roll(); // a b X # this.push(2); // a b X # 2 this.push(1); // a b X # 2 1 this.roll(); // a b # X this.push(1); // a b # X 1 this.roll(); // # ...X... a b // increase depth by one // a b -> (a + 1) b this.push(2); // a b 2 this.push(1); // a b 2 1 this.roll(); // b a this.push(1); // b a 1 this.add(1); // b (a + 1) this.push(2); // b (a + 1) 2 this.push(1); // b (a + 1) 2 1 this.roll(); // (a + 1) b // roll to finish? this.roll(); };
Since a ROLL command has a variable depth the basic solution is to calculate how deep things are going to end up (iterations mod depth) and hide the stack size value in the middle of the roll's depth and roll to a depth one greater than originally requested. This should leave the stack size value at the top of the stack once again and everything else where it should be.
You can find my implementations of all macros in this gist hacked together in a small html file with JavaScript. I might be crazy, but damn it I did it. With these macros registers are possible (assuming you know how many registers you need at "compile time" — although an infinite amount is theoretically possible). It seems like this is the first big step to a proof of Piet's Turing completeness …. but that is a task for another day.


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I am hearing that we there was another big move of cattle out of the feedlots this week. I am sure there are several ways to look at this, but one could certainly reason through it all the packers have accumulated some significant inventory. If this is true you can almost certainly guarantee production schedules will be trimmed back in the coming weeks ahead. Unless we see beef prices continue to climb on the board the demand for cattle from the packer should be somewhat limited near term. With limited end-user demand you have to believe cash cattle prices will start to weaken.
If you look at the current data it looks as if demand in August will certainly equal that of July, and if we are doing our math correctly, moving forward wholesale beef demand in September will be materially higher than in August. We are assuming that demand should fall back as summer comes to an end forcing the cash cattle market down into the $95-96 range. If for some reason demand continues to stay very strong, you have to believe cash cattle prices will stay in the $98-$100 level with packers continuing to have ample inventory.
With this in mind we will continue to recommend selling the Oct $100 calls, preferable only on days when the market is trading higher in order to increase our premium valuations. On the flip side we will be looking to get long live cattle from $96 in the October contract and around $97.50 in the December contract.
* As you can see from the chart below Cattle has reached some tough resistance at the $100 level. We anticipate a slight pull-back and a consolidation period before this market makes another run higher.


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Now what? After FIU game, players meet on lockout
AP Sports Writer
MIAMI (AP) – Carmelo Anthony fully expects the NBA to cancel some regular-season games soon, and said players around the league have been bracing to hear that grim news.
The way Anthony put it Saturday night, it almost seems inevitable.
"They're going to cancel the first two weeks of the season," Anthony said. "We'll see what happens then. If they want to lock us out, lock us out. We're going to stick together."
The New York Knicks forward played in the South Florida All-Star Classic hosted by Heat stars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Miami, the latest – and most competitive – of the many exhibitions players have participated in during this lockout that reached the 100-day mark Saturday. NBA Commissioner David Stern has said that the first two weeks of the regular season could be canceled as early as Monday if a deal is not struck.
Anthony says it would not be "realistic" for the sides to agree on anything before then.
"I don't think nothing is going to happen between now and Monday," Anthony said. "So we've just got to be prepared for that, be prepared for the lockout for the first two weeks and see where all this is going."
A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Wade called an hourlong meeting with players after his Team Wade pulled out a 141-140 overtime victory over Team LeBron. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because talks were to remain private, saying Wade, Chris Paul and Miami Heat player representative James Jones fielded questions about the status of negotations.
The person also said Wade has taken "a more active role" in talks about a new labor deal of late and that he urged players to be "informed rather than accept any deal."
Before the meeting, Anthony said the lockout is "sad all the way across."
"It's sad for us as players. It's sad for the whole NBA. It's sad for the fans of the NBA. It's sad for our personal fans. So we want to keep giving back like this," Anthony said.
Virtually all the players in Saturday's game shared a similar sentiment. The game drew a sold-out crowd of 4,000 to Florida International University, where Basketball Hall of Famer – and past NBA players' association president – Isiah Thomas is the Panthers' coach.
Thomas has said often during the lockout that he expects nothing to happen until owners and players agree that neither can succeed without the other.
"The players aren't canceling the game, so they shouldn't take the responsibility, nor should they have the fault of carrying the burden for canceling games," Thomas said Saturday night. "They're willing and ready to play."
Saturday's game at FIU wasn't like many other exhibitions. Defense was played by both sides until the final seconds, players argued for calls and even dove for loose balls. Other games this summer have had little defense, almost no offensive structure and turned into glorified dunk contests.
"You could see from the way we played tonight, we want to play," Golden State's Dorell Wright said. "And the way the fans reacted to us, you could see they want to see us play."
On Friday, word came that a late attempt to get the two sides together broke down when the NBA wouldn't move off a 50-50 revenue split with players. Players were guaranteed 57 percent of basketball-related income under the previous collective bargaining agreement and have proposed lowering it to 53 percent in a new deal, but that remaining 3 percent represents an unbridged gap of about $120 million.
For players and fans, the prospect of no basketball this season – or even a shorter schedule – was difficult to take Saturday.
"The good thing about this whole situation is that the fans are thirsty for basketball, we're thirsty for basketball and we want to play it," said free agent forward Caron Butler. "Everyone needs to understand that we're locked out. We're not on strike. We're locked out. We want to play basketball, so when we're able to play basketball under the right terms, we're ready."
Anthony said he would like to schedule an exhibition in New York for sometime around the middle of November. He's holding off on the planning for one big reason – he'd rather be in training camp with the Knicks soon.
"We'll keep it going," said Anthony, who has been a key part of several exhibitions this offseason, including ones in Baltimore and Philadelphia. "Until they say the lockout is over, we'll keep putting these games on."
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Obama's historic trip to Myanmar today – the first by a sitting US president – is the result of a widespread myth about the reform process in that country. Many campaigners have criticised him for rewarding President Thein Sein's government too soon for its minor set of reforms over the past two years. But the US administration justifies the trip on the grounds of a story we are repeatedly told about what is happening in Myanmar at the moment – that a struggle is taking place with the government between reformists, represented by President Sein, and a shadowy group of conservative hardliners. The story goes that the reform process is on a knife edge and could be reversed at any time.
But what proof do we have of this division within the government? What if that is just a story designed to encourage Western governments to engage quickly, lest the evil conservatives overpower the trusty reformers and send the country back to the days of totalitarian dictatorship? The whole thing is cast in simplistic tones of good and evil, and offers Western governments a chance to play their favourite role – as the saviours of Democracy and Justice, riding in to provide crucial support to the good guys in their time of need. That this also opens the doors for Western businesses to feast on a virginal marketplace is a handy bonus.
Many observers are highly sceptical about this story of hardliners vs reformists. Jan Zalewski, a Burmese-speaking analyst for IHS Global Insight, argues that the entire reform process is a carefully stage-managed production that has been on the drawing board for the past 20 years.
"The reform process has been initiated by the military itself and is very controlled by them," he told me in an interview for a piece I wrote for today's The National. "There is a lot of cohesion within government about where it's moving. There is only disagreement about more nuanced details – how far democratic reforms should go and how quickly. Thein Sein actually represents a kind of status quo. What's coming out of the government would not be happening if [the military] didn't want it."
The military recognised years ago that the economy desperately needed foreign investment and that this required some level of international acceptance for the regime. Paranoid delusions that a Western country might invade at any moment also acted as push towards reconciliation with the world (it's what led them to build their ridiculous new capital inland at Naypyidaw – see my article on the world's emptiest capital here).
The military have done the bare minimum to gain that international acceptance. They released the most important figurehead of reform – Aung San Suu Kyi – along with some other political prisoners, while leaving many more behind bars. They relaxed censorship laws a little, legalised trade unions and allowed Ms Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) to stand for a few seats in parliament in April's by-elections.
But all this came after the military's grip on political power had been firmly established in a new constitution (passed through an outrageously flawed referendum in 2008), followed by massively rigged elections in 2010 in which members of the military junta simply traded in their uniforms for suits in order to claim they were suddenly a civilian government. Only then did the supposedly reformist figure of Thein Sein arrive to tell the world that Myanmar had changed and everything was now lovely, and yes please, we will take that money now. The world happily glossed over the fact that he was a former lieutenant general, henchman to dictator Than Shwe and had cultivated dubious links to drug lords in Wa state during his time overseeing the brutal counter-insurgency in that region. He was considered a front-runner for this year's Nobel peace prize.
The government's much-lauded ceasefires with ethnic rebel groups have done nothing to resolve the fundamental tensions between the Burmese centre and the ethnic provinces, and the government actually restarted the war in the northern Kachin state AFTER the reform process began. The total failure of the authorities to address the brutal persecution of Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine state in recent months is further proof of how attitudes to minorities remain unchanged.
True, now that it's begun, there is a chance that the reform process will build its own momentum and go beyond what the military rulers want. What happens at the next general election in 2015 will be very interesting. With enough support, it is likely that the NLD will press for changes in the constitution to reduce the military's power. That will be the real testing point.
But Ms Suu Kyi and the NLD are politicians – not revolutionaries. They also lack political experience. Already, serious divisions have appeared in the party over how it is run, and the compromises being made by its leaders in order to secure their place in the system. More than 130 members resigned last month in one Irrawaddy region over alleged 'cronyism' in the party's decision-making process.
For now, the reform process has been extremely well managed by President Sein and the military regime that stands behind him. They may well be able to outmaneuver their more democratic opponents and retain the military's powerful position for many years to come, while also benefiting from improved economic and diplomatic relations with the world. Mr Obama's visit is a major step towards that goal.


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Pioneer Electronics Adds New Members to Team Pioneer Competition Team
Pioneer Electronics, the established leader in car audio electronics, expands its elite "Team Pioneer" car audio competition team by adding seven new members. Team Pioneer now has a total of 15 competitors that will contend in many sound competitions around the United States. Pioneer began the program last year to assist in the development of its competition line of car audio products.
1999 proved to be very successful for its number of wins at the International Auto Sound Challenge Association (IASCA) Finals. All Team Pioneer competitors who competed and qualified for this "top gun" event placed in the top five of their respective classes with a big First Place win by Dale Fontenot in the Expert 1-600 class.
Pioneer's newest team members include veteran competitors in the Expert class such as Scott Buwalda and Bryan Wilkinson as well Pro competitors Scott Campbell, Brian Morris, Steve Cornell, Dwayne Blackwood and last year's IASCA Pro 1-150 National Champion Frank Rougeau. Moving up from his 1st place victory at the IASCA finals last year in Amateur 301-600 and new to Team Pioneer is Chuck Barbosa, filling a slot in the Pro 151-300 division. Team members were chosen for their experience, knowledge and enthusiasm in the car audio arena. "The team enables us to field test prototype products and new ideas in the grueling environment of sound competitions, much like what professional racing does for automotive engine manufacturers," says Todd Goodnight, brand manager, car electronics division.
The team was expanded to maintain even representation throughout the United States in many of the IASCA and USAC competitions. "We should have Team Pioneer representation in most events throughout the year," adds Goodnight. Team members give their feedback on the performance of the products after each event. "Feedback from our competitors give us the ability to refine the products before it's actually released to the general public. It also gives us an indication of how we measure up against our competitors."
Team Pioneer will showcase products from its multi-branded product mix from Pioneer, Premier, ODR (Optical Digital Reference) and TAD (Technical Audio Device).
The team will participate in key car audio events such as regional events and IASCA finals, as well as local events in each competitor's territory.
In all events, Team Pioneer will promote the Pioneer brand, provide tuning assistance to fellow Pioneer competitors and promote friendly competition. At some major IASCA events, Pioneer will provide a "tweak and tune" area where all competitors with Pioneer products can obtain tuning assistance and advice from Team Pioneer.
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., is a leader in optical disc technology and a preeminent manufacturer of audio and video products for the home and car.
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For Hélène Grimaud music has been both a profession and salvation.
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I was reading about James Turrell's epic series of museum shows in The New York Times recently and recalled a moment of my own recollection of his work.
It's simple enough: I follow The Mattress Factory on Twitter. On November 26th, they tweeted an image of a room being painted.
I suppose because they mentioned that the lights were actually on, I assumed it referred to Turrell's pitch black piece, Pleiades (1983). (It does not — as I was told later, but bear with me, I'll account for that discrepancy in the end).
I understood it to be a picture of a James Turrell's Pleiades (1983) installation getting repainted. The image drastically transformed my reaction to the installation. Indeed, I had such a profound reaction to the tiny, banal image, I pulled it off twitter, and put it on my desktop where it has been sitting ever since.
There is no reason that that image should be particularly captivating. It is a familiar enough: gallery walls must constantly be painted and repainted, and if it didn't have anything to do with Turrell, it would hardly be of interest. However, appearing as it did within the context of social media (and all the misunderstandings tweets can lead to) that is exactly why it made my jaw drop: because this tiny image challenged everything I had assumed via sensory experience of Pleiades.
Pleiades, is the first of Turrell's "dark pieces." At The Mattress Factory, as I recall, you go up an elevator and on the designated floor, you go through a doorway, down a pitch black corridor and into a pitch black room. You stop a metal rail. I have visited this room about three or four times over the course of ten years. Each time that one room has baffled me.
I went there first as a Sophomore in college with a group of friends. One friend in particular was an upper classman and seemed to have a better handle on contemporary culture. As such we deferred to his authority; to do so was pleasant; he rattled on about various rumors (and possibly fictions) that seemed to walk a tightrope between gossip, mysticism and art history. As someone with very little contact to contemporary art at the time, I relied on the banter of my peers to overcome whatever sense of alienation I might carry into unfamiliar situations. Standing in a pitch black room for an indefinite period of seemed both provocative and confusing. If I thought about it too much I wouldn't know what I was doing there. Still the narrative of the artist had me intrigued. Stories about Turrell's alleged arrest for helping young men dodge the draft. His Quaker background. His life in California that yielded an interest in minimalism, light, and science. Â As I prepared myself to walk down this very dark corridor in the year 2000, I was told that at the end, in the pitch black (and if I waited long enough) I would begin to see light, like stars (I thought), or a halo. My friend suggested it was the result of a primordial and biological fear of nothingness.
Whatever his prescribed cause, this is what is supposed to happen:
"Pleiades, a work of darkness, utilizes the difference in function between the two types of photoreceptive cells, that is, cones and rods. The cones are suitable for discerning colors at light places. crowding toward the center of the retina. The rods serve to make out delicate shades in dark places, mostly gathering near the periphery of the retina. In the darkness designed by Turrell, the viewer experiences the difference between the two kinds of cells during the period of time when the eyes of adaptation to darkness takes place.â€
According to another visitor, you are supposed to see this:
It never happened to me. I waited in the dark for that thing to take place for about thirty minutes. Or maybe it was an hour. It could have also been 10 minutes that were simply so distilled from movement that they slowed and lengthened my sense of time. As I waited, all of my attention strained toward an event that was supposed to take place within my body and end up projected outwards, as a type of vision. I waited to see a white eye-shape in the dark. I was excited at first, and then defeated, slightly. Nothing happened. I remembered looking at countless Magic Eye posters in dorm rooms; I could never make out the subliminal texts/images in those either, no matter how many times I had been instructed to fuzz out my vision with the image pressed up against my nose.
Subsequent visits to Pleiades were no different. No vision appeared before me in the dark. Because I no longer expected it, however, I had grown more interested in thinking about the darkness that space afforded. I suppose I still waited, in an almost existential way, for something to happen, but the sense of waiting became more interesting than the event I waited for. I realized that the whole project of Pleiades was existential — whether something emerged in the darkness or not. I began to appreciate the feeling of that darkness, the way it seemed to extend endlessly, the slight terror at its unknown breadth. I distinctly recall a very faint breeze which enhanced the dimension of the room, but that too could have been my imagination. I preferred to inhabit the space by myself, perhaps it seemed more noble that way. When strangers came and stood beside me, I was  distracted by my attempts to anticipate their movements and, even, their physical shape. Remember, it's impossible to see anything, even another form. It was more complicated to inhabit an Unknown when others, particularly people you don't know, are trying to do the same. On several occasions, I accidentally stepped on a foot and had to apologize, breaking the spell of silence through my clumsy, miscalculated movement. The moment of contact, my foot on the strangers, the exclamation of paint — it established a common, temporal location in the room, overshadowing the otherwise relentless blankness everywhere else. I stepped back. Held my breath for a moment and settled again into my feet. The room would grow still once more and with it our sense of the darkness grew. At times it felt oppressive, at others benign, certainly it felt ambivalent towards me. It was larger, more constant and self-assured than I was. I sort of enjoyed being intimidated by it — because I began to develop a relationship with that room. I didn't see any lights, but the darkness became "something." I've ever experienced such spatial endlessness. And while I never saw those lights, there was some part of me that enjoyed the incongruity of my own experience; perhaps I felt I had a more "true" experience because it seemed more nihilistic to experience nothing.
You can imagine then, what shock that tiny jpeg. of boys painting a room would give me. It looks like they could be in a closet! I was so shocked at the thought that I had misunderstood the room, I instantly believed it to be true. The vague confirmation provided by the tweet-conversation I had with The Mattress Factory seemed to confirm my sense, which was so exuberant as to lack self-consciousness, that everything I assumed to be true about that dark room was wrong in so far as it could have existed in a tiny-tiny-tiny room. I realized that even though I did not see "the light" I was still projecting dimension and psychology into Turrell's darkness. It was affecting me. I was affecting myself through the medium of darkness provided by Pleiades.
As I said, I since learned this is not Pleiades itself, but rather an image of the elevator landing on the Turrell floor of the Mattress Factory. While the true dimensionality of that room remains a mystery, I am all the more certain of the evocative uncertainty it yields.
Pleiades is a Dark Piece where the realm of night vision touches the realm of eyes-closed vision, where the space generated is substantially different than the physical confines and is not dependent upon it, where the seeing that comes from 'out there' merges with the seeing that comes from 'in here,' where the seeing develops over and through dark adaptation but continues beyond it. It is the first piece in a series of works. While it relates to the last piece of the Mendota Stoppages, 1969-70, in that it develops over time, it is definitely a departure in that after the seeing develops, it is no longer static. The thing that gave me the idea to do this was the fact that I needed to work with very low levels of light for the night seeing in the crater piece. The last time that I had really worked in that arena was with the Mendota Stoppages where I had some very dark pieces that took a long time of dark adaptation, sometimes as much as fifteen minutes. When you actually had that seeing, though, the space that was generated was a static space – you saw it and could walk in it, but it didn't change. In this work, what is generated in you and what is actually out there become a little more equal. – James Turrell, The Mattress Factory
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RTÉ today announced John Wilson as Principal Conductor Designate of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. One of the most exciting conductors and arrangers on the scene, Wilson has been the RTÉ CO's Principal Guest Conductor since 2009. He will succeed David Brophy as RTÉ CO Principal Conductor in January 2014.
Born in Gateshead on Tyneside in 1972, Wilson studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, where he won all the major conducting prizes and the coveted Tagore Gold Medal for the most outstanding student. He has since established an enviable reputation as a conductor, arranger and scholar, and is recognised internationally as an expert in the fields of light music, jazz and music for screen.
He arranged and conducted the music for Kevin Spacey's film Beyond the Sea, orchestrated and conducted several of Paul McCartney's compositions with the London Symphony Orchestra, and his arrangements and orchestrations have been played by the Chicago Symphony, Boston Pops and Cleveland orchestras.
As well as his role as Principal Guest Conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Wilson is Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia and also works regularly with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the CBSO, the Philharmonia and the BBC orchestras, with a focus on symphonic orchestral music as well as the repertoire for which he is so well known.
His performances with his own John Wilson Orchestra, a handpicked collection of leading players from orchestras across the UK and Ireland, have introduced him to the widest audiences with their immensely popular televised appearances at the BBC Proms. His 2009 Prom celebrating 75 years of MGM musicals was a sensation. Televised live on BBC Two and watched by 3.5 million viewers, it generated so much public demand that it was repeated three times, released on DVD and led directly to an exclusive recording contract with his eponymous orchestra on EMI (now Warner Music Group). Since then, the annual visit of the John Wilson Orchestra has become one of the hottest tickets of the BBC Proms, with Hollywood Rhapsody the most recent to sell out the Royal Albert Hall in August.
Wilson's dedication to this repertoire is evidenced by his painstaking, bar-by-bar reconstruction of 'lost' orchestral scores of MGM musicals. Engaged by MGM to reconstruct the orchestrations of all their major musicals, including High Society and Singin' in the Rain, he gave the first European performances of the restored score of The Wizard of Oz synchronised with the film. Irish audiences have seen him conduct the RTÉ CO in a series of highly successful Wizard of Oz screenings, as well as in screenings of classic song-and-dance routines, Gotta Dance!
Another hugely popular strand of his Dublin appearances has focused on the great musicals of stage and screen, performed in their original arrangements and featuring internationally renowned guest vocalists such as Kim Criswell, Anna-Jane Casey, Rodney Earl Clarke, Matt Ford, Annalene Beechey, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Julian Ovenden and Clare Teal.
Other highlights of John Wilson's four years as RTÉ CO Principal Guest Conductor give an indication of his range: La Sheridan – A Gala Operatic Tribute to Margaret Burke Sheridan with Orla Boylan, Anne Marie Gibbons and Alfie Boe (April 2009), The John Lennon Songbook with Mark McGann, Curtis Stigers and Claire Martin (August 2009), The Great American Songbook with Richard Rodney Bennett and Claire Martin (May 2010), My Fair Lady with Anthony Andrews (August 2010), A Gilbert & Sullivan Extravaganza with Richard Suart and Sarah Fox (October 2011), an evening of American classics featuring Gershwin's Piano Concerto with Artur Pizarro (February 2012), and a Spanish-themed night Boléro featuring Morgan Szymanski in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (April 2013).
This evening, 5 September, he conducts the RTÉ CO in Essential Classics, followed by Essential Opera on Thursday 19 September, and in October he returns for two concert performances of South Pacific, all taking place at the National Concert Hall.
Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Interim Executive Director, RTÉ Orchestras, Quartet & Choirs, commented: 'A versatile and progressive group of musicians like the RTÉ Concert Orchestra needs a conductor who is adaptable, communicative, unifying and clear, so that he can shape and express the sound of the ensemble. I have had the privilege of watching John working with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in recent times and of hearing him conduct his own orchestra during BBC Proms concerts a couple of years ago. His enthusiasm is infectious – for musicians and audience alike. I welcome John to the role of Principal Conductor and look forward to hearing him bring that enthusiasm to Irish audiences through our many platforms on RTÉ.'
Anthony Long, General Manager of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, welcomed the appointment, saying: 'The appointment of John Wilson as Principal Conductor to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra is another milestone in the orchestra's evolution as the country's premier provider of high-quality popular orchestral music. It is a real coup for RTÉ and underscores our commitment to the arts in Ireland. John is rare among conductors in valuing good music equally whether it is Mozart or Mancini, making him a perfect fit for the RTE Concert Orchestra. I look forward to working closely with him to deliver the best music in the best performances at the best value, in the true spirit of public service of which RTÉ is rightly proud.'
John Wilson commented: 'I am thrilled to be appointed as Principal Conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. I have tremendous respect and admiration for this incredibly versatile and accomplished group of musicians.'
The precision, passionate musicianship and pure verve that John Wilson brings to all genres of music matches the RTÉ CO's own commitment to achieving the highest quality across the eclectic range of its output. In Wilson's own words, 'It's all music and we have to play The Band Wagon with as much care, attention and style as we do a Beethoven symphony.'


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What should I avoid while taking Glycotuss-DM (dextromethorphan and guaifenesin)?This medication can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be awake and alert. Avoid drinking alcohol. It can increase some of the side effects of this medication.
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After Friday's high-speed chase through Los Angeles ended in a major crash and the death of a Corvette driver who was speeding through city streets, the LAPD is coming under question as to whether officers should have shot the man – especially since he might have been schizophrenic.
NBC4 in Los Angeles spoke to Gilbert Vasquez, a longtime friend of 51-year-old Brian Beaird who said he was outraged that LAPD officers would shoot an unarmed man, especially considering Beaird's mental illness. He added:
"He heard voices so he probably saw the helicopter lights, the lights of the cops pursuing him. It scared the hell out of him."
Beaird led police on a chase for about an hour on Friday night before crashing into a car at a South LA intersection and coming to rest. Video showed him getting out of the Corvette before being shot by police.
The LAPD hasn't released many details about the incident, including whether or not a bean bag was fired first. Chief Charlie Beck said he's holding off comment until the investigation is complete.


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SP-Sem-MRL 2012 : ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically-Rich Languages
|Link: http://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/
Call For Papers
** Apologies for multiple postings **
Last CALL FOR PAPERS
ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing
of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGPARSE and the EU's PASCAL Network of Excellence
!!! New Update !!!
Keynote speaker confirmed: Mark Steedman will be giving a talk !
Keynote speaker 2 also confirmed: Ivan Titov will be giving a talk !
We are pleased to announce student financial support in workshop registration fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL members and students with accepted papers, but everyone is encouraged to apply.
To apply, email email@example.com with exactly the following subject line (without the quotation marks): "SP-SEM-MRL 2012 student support".
Application deadline for financial support: June 10, 2012
Acceptance notifications for financial support: June 17, 2012
Registration deadline: see ACL 2012 conference guidelines. Registration is done via the ACL 2012 conference registration web site.
Long paper submission deadline: Apr 18, 2012
Submission deadline (Short papers -- syntactic parsing): April 22, 2012
Submission deadline (Short papers -- semantic processing and syntax-semantics interface):
- initial abstract: April 23, 2012
- entire short paper: April 28, 2012
Notification to authors: May 5, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: May 20, 2012
Workshop dates: TBD, during the ACL-2012 workshop period (Jul 12-14, 2012)
Note for Short papers -- semantic processing and syntax-semantics interface:
Authors who wish to take advantage of this extension for new submissions are requested to submit an abstract draft by Tuesday (April 23), to help us assign reviewers in this tight schedule. The abstract should be extended to a short paper format by April 28. All semantic processing track short paper submissions -- both previously submitted short and newly submitted abstracts -- may be updated and resubmitted online until the new extended deadline (April 28).
Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs) are languages in which
grammatical relations such as Subject, Predicate, Object, etc., are
indicated morphologically (e.g. through inflection) instead of
positionally (as in, e.g. English), and the position of words and
phrases in the sentence may vary substantially. The tight connection
between the morphology of words and the grammatical relations between
them, and the looser connection between the position and grouping of
words to their syntactic roles, pose serious challenges for syntactic
and semantic processing. Furthermore, since grammatical relations
provide the interface to compositional semantics, morphosyntactic
phenomena may significantly complicate processing the syntax-semantics
interface. In statistical parsing, which has been a cornerstone of
research in NLP and had seen great advances due to the widespread
availability of syntactically annotated corpora, English parsing
performance has reached a high plateau in certain genres, which is
however not always indicative of parsing performance in MRLs,
dependency-based and constituency-based alike. Semantic processing of
natural language has similarly seen much progress in recent years.
However, as in parsing, the bulk of the work has concentrated on
English, and MRLs may present processing challenges that the community
is as of yet unaware of, and which current semantic processing
technologies may have difficulty coping with. These challenges may
lurk in areas where parses may be used as input, such as semantic role
labeling, distributional semantics, paraphrasing and textual
entailment, or where inadequate pre-processing of morphological
variation hurts parsing and semantic tasks alike.
This joint workshop aims to build upon the first and second SPMRL
workshops (at NAACL-HLT 2010 and IWPT 2011, respectively) while
extending the overall scope to include semantic processing where MRLs
pose challenges for algorithms or models initially designed to process
English. In particular, we seek to explore the use of newly available
syntactically and/or semantically annotated corpora, or data sets for
semantic evaluation that can contribute to our understanding of the
difficulty that such phenomena pose. One goal of this workshop is to
encourage cross-fertilization among researchers working on different
languages and among those working on different levels of processing.
Of particular interest is work addressing the lexical sparseness and
out-of-vocabulary issues that occur in both syntactic and semantic
The workshop will be organised around three broad themes:
- Syntactic Models: Models and architectures that explicitly integrate
morphological analysis and parsing; Cross-language and cross-model
comparison of strengths and weaknesses regarding particular linguistic
- Semantic Models: State-of-the-art semantic analysis and generation
methods for MRLs, including semantic similarity and entailment
criteria and their task-specific instantiation, and suitable
representations for semantic tasks in MRLs.
- Joint Modeling Aspects: Improving lexical coverage and handling of
out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words by utilising lexical knowledge or
unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques; The role of parsing
in semantic analysis for MRLs; Preprocessing issues that jointly
affect parsing and semantic analysis; Syntax-Semantics interfaces for
monolingual or multilingual systems.
The areas of interest for this joint workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:
--Syntactic Parsing of MRLs
* parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate
morphological analysis and parsing
* parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage
and the handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic
knowledge or through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning
* Cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strengths
and weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena (e.g.
morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom)
* Comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various
parsing models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic)
phenomena with respect to variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and
additional data transformations
--Semantic Processing of MRLs
* Semantic distance and entailment criteria in the MRL space (e.g.,
with respect to inflection, derivation, root, pattern, lemma, tense,
and/or aspect, etc.); possibly task-specific criteria
* Lexical resources and morphological analysis tools facilitating
semantic distance measures and semantic relation detection
* Methods and models for semantic similarity/distance calculation,
clustering and paraphrasing relying on MRL properties, and using:
probability, vector/graph representation, data-driven and/or
linguistic rules, pivoting/SMT, machine-learning, etc.
* Paraphrase and textual entailment detection or generation,
specific to MRLs (e.g., task-specific issues of inclusion or exclusion
of certain paraphrase and textual entailment patterns differing in
* Use of morphological analysis for semantic calculation aimed at
reducing sparsity / OOV rate, preferably without losing information
due to mere lemmatization
* Semantic role labeling (SRL) for MRLs; verbal/nominalized
selectional preferences
--The Syntax-Semantics Interface:
* Parsing-based semantic processing tasks, e.g., semantic role
labeling (SRL)
* Processing of compounds and multi-morphemic words: optimal
level(s) of tokenization, representation, and morphological analysis
for either/both tasks
* Syntax-aware semantic distance measures, paraphrasing and textual
* Semantic classes and/or relations as input to syntactic parsing
In addition to the standard (oral or poster) presentations in the
sessions, the SP-Sem-MRL workshop will feature a panel of commentators
for a selection of the talks, allowing for an extended discussion
period. This new feature is introduced in order to foster in-depth
discussions and to nurture interactions among researchers. It is our
hope that these interactions will help to bring ideas (and solutions)
to the fore and promote a more rapid advance of the state-of-the-art
in the field.
There will be no shared task on MRLs this year. However, we will take
this opportunity to disclose, during a special session of SP-Sem-MRL,
the data sets and evaluation procedures for the cross-linguistic
cross-framework shared task which was discussed at previous SPMRL
panels, and which is planned for SPMRL 2013 at IWPT 2013. Researchers
who are interested in participating in the shared task or teams that
wish to add their data sets or extrinsic evaluation procedures to the
task are encouraged to attend the session and contribute to the
Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 10 pages + any number
of reference pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages + any number of
reference page). Long papers should describe unpublished, substantial
and completed research. Short papers should be position papers, papers
describing work in progress or short, focused contributions.
Long papers may be submitted until April 18, 2012, and short papers
until April 22, 2012, in PDF format via the START system:
Submitted papers must follow the styles and the formatting guidelines
available from the current ACL recommendations
(http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp). As the reviewing will be
blind, the papers must not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements
will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your
submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.
Authors must imperatly specify wether their paper has been submitted
elsewhere (e.g emnlp).
We are pleased to announce student financial support in workshop registration fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL members and students with accepted papers, but everyone is encouraged to apply.
To apply, email email@example.com with exactly the following subject line (without the quotation marks): "SP-SEM-MRL 2012 student support".
Application deadline for financial support: June 10, 2012
Acceptance notifications for financial support: June 17, 2012
Registration deadline: see ACL 2012 conference guidelines. Registration is done via the ACL 2012 conference registration web site.
General chairs:
Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US)
Djamé Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Shared session chairs:
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin, US)
Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Peter Turney (National Research Council, Canada)
Yannick Versley (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Bernd Bohnet (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, US)
Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, US)
Grzegorz Chrupala (Saarland University, Germany)
Benoit Crabbé (University of Paris 7, France)
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yoav Goldberg (Google Research NY, US)
Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, NJ)
Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Aurélien Max (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Sebastian Pado (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, US)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies, US)
Idan Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
Benoit Sagot (INRIA Rocquencourt, France)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Tim Van de Cruys (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Deniz Yuret (Koc University Istanbul, Turkey)
Zdenek Zabokrtsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Shiqi Zhao (Baidu Inc., China)
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The beakvase or"duckling" receives it's name from the shape on its top, resembling a duck's beak.
Though I didn't like them much at first -and i missed buying all of them pretty cheaply when I started collecting Holmegaard-I know find they are lovely vases.
Theregular ones -the ones I've got- came in three sizes: around 25, 18 and 15 cm) but Lütken created a lot of them in different sizes -the biggest one I've seen stands 43 cm. tall- and shapes -there's a few "fat ducklings" around. As for colours, they came in clear, akva and gray, but also in green, safir blue and oliven.


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What is it with parents who get mad at me when I tell them their kids are well? Now "well'' is a relative term and I don't doubt that junior had a runny nose or a temp of 99.8 which of course for him is really high as his normal temperature is 97, and that he even may have vomited once or been in the woods two days ago where the neighbor found a huge swarm of ticks or brown recluse spiders or fungus or spores or molds or some kind of funny smelling goo, but he's not ED sick. I can always tell when this news will be met with incredulity and I always try to ''hang the crepe'' before my diagnosis... "Well Ma'am, GOOD NEWS! Junior appears to be just fine... He probably has a viral illness which should pass in a few days... Be sure to follow up with his doctor should you have any further concerns."
"What? You aren't going to do anything for him?!?"
"Like what?"
"Like give him some antibiotics!"
"Ma'am I don't find anything to treat with antibiotics and they will probably do nothing but give him diarrhea."
Mutter, mumble, snarl.
One of these days I may have to try this...
"Ma'am, you were right, your child is deathly ill with African Sleeping Sickness and the Grippe which he no doubt contracted from wearing wet clothes in a drafty room, or perhaps from a curse... Do you have any enemies who know Voodoo? He will need to be leeched and flagellated until we he can't walk, only then will he be well."
Sunday, April 30, 2006
What do You Mean My Child is not Sick?
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|System: Xbox 360*, PS3, PC
|Dev: Crytek
|Pub: EA
|Release: February 19, 2013
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Strong Language, Violence
The other fundamentals are sound here as well. The controls are what you've come to expect from a modern FPS, the sound effects are immersive, the voice acting is competent, and the music manages to get your heart pumping at all the right moments.
Once you've finished with the campaign, you might want to turn to Crysis 3's multiplayer options, which are delivered through a reasonably fast matchmaking system. The nanosuit makes multiplayer fun, and there are plenty of options, but most of it isn't anything new. You've got your standard deathmatch and team deathmatch, and a variety of modes where you fight to accomplish objectives (capture the flag, secure data, etc.).
There are two new modes, however. One is Hunter, an asymmetrical mode in which some players have cloaks and bows and others are C.E.L.L. operatives from three different classes. This is easily the highlight of multiplayer—it uses the Nanosuit to create a whole new style of play. The other is Spears, in which players simply fight to control nodes ("alien spears").
There's certainly a case to be made that Crysis 3 is mediocre in numerous ways. Most players will finish the campaign after five hours or so, the attempt to add vehicles doesn't work well, and the intense focus on graphics can make the gameplay feel like an afterthought. But it's hard to deny that the visuals are beautiful, and that the franchise's sandbox approach to tactics has always worked well. In the end, it's different from other first-person shooters in ways that are more than just skin deep, and it's a ton of fun.
Crytek has always managed to work wonders with the basic "alien-shooting FPS" template, and Crysis 3 is no exception. Years from now, Crysis 3 will serve as a fond memory of what video games were capable of in 2013, technologically and, to a lesser degree, otherwise.
Robert VerBruggen
Contributing Writer
Date: February 20, 2013
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