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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto addresses the media involving plans by New York developers for the 1.2 million square-foot and parking complex for the Allegheny Center Mall, Thursday, May 21, 2015.
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald addresses the media involving plans by New York developers for the 1.2 million square-foot and parking complex for the Allegheny Center Mall, Thursday, May 21, 2015.
The new owners of Allegheny Center want to make the North Side Pittsburgh's next technology hub.
New York-based Faros Properties announced Thursday that it is embarking on a multimillion-dollar plan to transform the 1.2 million-square-foot office and parking complex into a center for innovative startups.
The complex, to be renamed Nova Place, will be renovated with an aim of attracting tech companies that are being crowded out of pricier real estate in Oakland and Bakery Square, managing partner Jeremy Leventhal said.
The project would bring "a failed model of urbanism to the 21st century," Mayor Bill Peduto said, and better serve the surrounding communities. The 1960s-era retail mall has been in a state of decline for decades and is only 50 percent occupied, Leventhal said. It will be redesigned with a contemporary campus-like feel, with upgraded offices, common areas and collaborative work spaces, a fitness center, conference center and lounge and bike storage. Demolition began Thursday and the renovations are expected to be completed by December 2016, said Jeremy Kronman, the property's broker with CBRE.
Faros has office and residential properties in Connecticut, Boston and New York, but has been an active developer in Pittsburgh lately. It acquired Washington Plaza on Centre Avenue in Downtown in November 2012, renaming that property City View Apartments. And last November, it bought Carson Street Commons in the South Side.
The company is keen on the potential of the North Side and, in particular, Allegheny Center because of its proximity to Downtown and cultural institutions. Last year, it purchased Allegheny Center Apartments, a four-building residential complex that was renamed Park View. At the time, the complex was nearly 50 percent vacant, Leventhal said. Today, is it is totally occupied and has a waiting list.
Leventhal said he is confident that Allegheny Center will be fully occupied in the next few years. Innovation Works, which invests in early stage companies, will move next month to the North Side complex from Hazelwood, said Rich Lunak, its president and chief executive. Lunak said he liked the proximity to cultural institutions, the planned upgrades and the potential to have a positive impact on the surrounding community.
Faros will have competition for attracting high-tech tenants. A six-story office building is scheduled to open this fall in East Liberty's Bakery Square 2.0 complex and will be anchored by Internet search giant Google Inc. Developer Walnut Capital wants to open a second building by next year that would add 200,000 square feet of space in close proximity to many of Pittsburgh's universities.
Allegheny Center is farther from the intellectual resources and talent in Oakland, but it could be an affordable option for young companies that need to grow quickly, said Jeff Schultz, managing director of commercial real estate firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. "Allegheny Center has the ability to satisfy the footprint needs, the parking needs and it's going to be priced at a market rate that is less than the premium space at Bakery Square," Schultz said.
Allegheny Center is home to corporate tenants such as PNC Financial Services, Bank of America and AT&T, all of whom have long-term leases and plan to stay, Leventhal said.
PNC has said it hopes to consolidate its scattered workforce Downtown once its new corporate headquarters is completed this fall. A PNC spokeswoman declined Thursday to comment on the renovations at Allegheny Center or the bank's future there.
Peduto supports the project, though no public tax dollars have been committed, Leventhal said.
Peduto said Faros' plans were a testament to how Pittsburgh was becoming an attractive place for companies to invest and grow.
"Pittsburgh is viewed internationally as an innovative hub," Peduto said.


Doghouse Pottery is the creative brainchild of Amanda Schwartz. Amanda lived in Burlington for the first 23 years of her life before venturing to the beautiful island of North Hero, where she and Doghouse Pottery have taken root. Amanda enjoys creating in almost any medium, though working in clay is her real passion.
Amanda discovered ceramics 4 years ago after taking 2 lessons with a local Burlington potter. Shortly thereafter, she began acquiring equipment and tools and creating in the basement of her Burlington apartment. Now, Amanda enjoys her fully equipped home studio and steadily produces new work to share with the world.
Currently, Doghouse Pottery is exploring the versatility of raw, un-glazed clay bodies. Recent works explore mixing clays to create surface designs that depict landscapes reminiscent of desert atmospheres and otherwordly planets. These works are glazed simply, often only where food will interact with the piece.


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This week's free brush is a grainy watercolor brush that has a lot of splattery texture when applied with repeated short strokes. Lift your stylus between each stroke to maintain maximum speckling or maintain contact to clean up the stray ink spots a little.
As always, you can download it from the free Photoshop brush page until the end of this week (June 28) when there will be a new free brush.
If you've ever used a palette knife to spread printer's ink on a palette or a plate of glass this brush may feel familiar to you. Flux Ebber is a tremendously wet, heavily loaded ink brush that quickly covers with opaque ink but can be wiped off and 'squeegied' around as long as you don't lift your stylus which effectively dries the stroke. The brush is lightly weighted to one edge to give it slight directional characteristics.
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Max Tegmark
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific Director, Foundational Questions Institute; President, Future of Life Institute; Author, Life 3.0
Although life as we know it gets a lot of flack, I worry that we don't appreciate it enough and are too complacent about losing it.
As our "Spaceship Earth" blazes though cold and barren space, it both sustains and protects us. It's stocked with major but limited supplies of water, food and fuel. Its atmosphere keeps us warm and shielded from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, and its magnetic field shelters us from lethal cosmic rays. Surely any responsible spaceship captain would make it a top priority to safeguard its future existence by avoiding asteroid collisions, on-board explosions, overheating, ultraviolet shield destruction, and premature depletion of supplies? Yet our spaceship crew hasn't made any of these issues a top priority, devoting (by my estimate) less than a millionth of its resources to them. In fact, our spaceship doesn't even have a captain!
Many have blamed this dismal performance on life as we know it, arguing that since our environment is changing, we humans need to change with it: we need to be technologically enhanced, perhaps with smartphones, smart glasses, brain implants, and ultimately by merging with super-intelligent computers. Does the idea of life as we know it getting replaced by more advanced life sound appealing or appalling to you? That probably depends strongly on the circumstances, and in particular on whether you view the future beings as our descendants or our conquerors.
If parents have a child who's smarter than them, who learns from them, and then goes out and accomplishes what they could only dream of, they'll probably feel happy and proud even if they know they can't live to see it all. Parents of a highly intelligent mass murderer feel differently. We might feel that we have a similar parent-child relationship with future AIs, regarding them as the heirs of our values. It will therefore make a huge difference whether future advanced life retains our most cherished goals.
Another key factor is whether the transition is gradual or abrupt. I suspect that few are disturbed by the prospects of humankind gradually evolving, over thousands of years, to become more intelligent and better adapted to our changing environment, perhaps also modifying its physical appearance in the process. On the other hand, many parents would feel ambivalent about having their dream child if they knew if would cost them their lives. If advanced future technology doesn't replace us abruptly, but rather upgrades and enhances us gradually, eventually merging with us, then this might provide both the goal retention and the gradualism required for us to view future technological life forms as our descendants.
So what will actually happen? This is something we should be really worried about. The industrial revolution has brought us machines that are stronger than us. The information revolution has brought us machines that are smarter than us in certain limited ways, beating us in chess in 2006, in the quiz show "Jeopardy!" in 2011, and at driving in 2012, when a computer was licensed to drive cars in Nevada after being judged safer than a human. Will computers eventually beat us at all tasks, developing superhuman intelligence?
I have little doubt that that this can happen: our brains are a bunch of particles obeying the laws of physics, and there's no physical law precluding particles from being arranged in ways that can perform even more advanced computations.
But will it happen anytime soon? Many experts are skeptical, while others such as Ray Kurzweil predict it will happen by 2030. What I think is quite clear, however, is that if it happens, the effects will be explosive: as the late Oxford mathematician Irving Good realized in 1965 ("Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine"), machines with superhuman intelligence could rapidly design even better machines. In 1993, mathematician and science fiction author Vernor Vinge called the resulting intelligence explosion "The Singularity", arguing that it was a point beyond which it was impossible for us to make reliable predictions.
After this, life on Earth would never be the same, either objectively or subjectively.
Objectively, whoever or whatever controls this technology would rapidly become the world's wealthiest and most powerful, outsmarting all financial markets, out-inventing and out-patenting all human researchers, and out-manipulating all human leaders. Even if we humans nominally merge with such machines, we might have no guarantees whatsoever about the ultimate outcome, making it feel less like a merger and more like a hostile corporate takeover.
Subjectively, these machines wouldn't feel like we do. Would they feel anything at all? I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed. I therefore think it's likely that they too would feel self-aware, and should be viewed not as mere lifeless machines but as conscious beings like us—but with a consciousness that subjectively feels quite different from ours.
For example, they would probably lack our strong human fear of death: as long as they've backed themselves up, all they stand to lose are the memories they've accumulated since their most recent backup. The ability to readily copy information and software between AIs would probably reduce the strong sense of individuality that's so characteristic of our human consciousness: there would be less of a distinction between you and me if we could trivially share and copy all our memories and abilities, so a group of nearby AIs may feel more like a single organism with a hive mind.
In summary, will there be a singularity within our lifetime? And is this something we should work for or against? On one hand, it could potentially solve most of our problems, even mortality. It could also open up space, the final frontier: unshackled by the limitations of our human bodies, such advanced life could rise up and eventually make much of our observable universe come alive. On the other hand, it could destroy life as we know it and everything we care about.
It's fair to say that we're nowhere near consensus on either of these two questions, but that doesn't mean it's rational for us to do nothing about the issue. It could be the best or worst thing ever to happen to life as we know it, so if there's even a 1% chance that there'll be a singularity in our lifetime, I think a reasonable precaution would be to spend at least 1% of our GDP studying the issue and deciding what to do about it. Yet we largely ignore it, and are curiously complacent about life as we know it getting transformed. What we should be worried about is that we're not worried.
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2018 : WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION?
2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN?
2016 : WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT?
2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?
2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?
2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?
2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?
2010 : HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?
2009 : WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?
2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?
2007 : WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT?
2006 : WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
2005 : WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?
2004 : WHAT'S YOUR LAW?
2003 : WHAT ARE THE PRESSING SCIENTIFIC ISSUES FOR THE NATION AND THE WORLD, AND WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE ON HOW I CAN BEGIN TO DEAL WITH THEM? - GWB
2002 : WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION? ... WHY?
2001 : WHAT NOW?
2001 : WHAT QUESTIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED?
2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY?
1999 : WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTION IN THE PAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS?
1998 : WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF?

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The panel includes Katherine Fichter, MassDOT Assistant Secretary for Policy Coordination; Elizabeth Machek, Community Planner at the USDOT's Technology Innovation and Policy Division and Kris Carter, with the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. Jane Lappin, Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy at the Toyota Research Institute, will moderate the discussion.
Kate Fichter is the Assistant Secretary for Policy Coordination at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, where she has served in various capacities since 2004. Kate is a graduate of the University of Chicago and MIT, and has professional expertise in transportation planning and policy. Prior to her current role, Kate served as the Project Manager for the extension of the MBTA Green Line to Somerville and Medford (2007-2010) and the expansion of Boston South Station (2012-2014). She has also worked for the US Department of Transportation at the Volpe Center, and for the Massachusetts Legislature, where she worked on transportation-related issues. Kate is now responsible for overseeing multiple policy initiatives, and insuring that MassDOT policy priorities are implemented through investments and projects.
Elizabeth (Eli) Machek is a Community Planner in the Technology Innovation and Policy Division of the USDOT Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. Eli joined the Volpe Center in 2003 and has experience in transportation planning and policy analysis, with applications in areas including automation, alternative transportation, parking management, accessibility, and intelligent transportation systems. Currently she is developing an automation research plan for the Federal Transit Administration and conducting foundational research on low-speed automated shuttles for the ITS JPO's Automation Program. Eli holds a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kristopher Carter is the Co-Chair of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. He is a non-practicing engineer, an optimistic urban planner, and a self-taught filmmaker. He has a not so secret love for Boston and working through challenging human-centered urban problems, particularly in the transportation space. Kris has served as a Mayoral advisor, Director of Boston Bikes, and is proud to be an AmeriCorps alum. His work has been nationally recognized by the APA for blending storytelling and urban planning and the Federal Labs Consortium for his innovation in transportation work.
Jane Lappin is Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs for Toyota Research Institute (TRI). TRI is an independent subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, charged with using artificial intelligence to develop automated vehicles, assistive indoor robotics, and materials discovery. Ms. Lappin's is working with elected and appointed officials, state and local transportation authorities, and the transportation community to address shared policy issues related to the future of highly automated vehicles. Prior to joining TRI, Ms. Lappin worked for the USDOT at the Volpe Center, on consumer response to advanced vehicle technologies, and evaluating the impact of advanced technologies on traveler behavior. She is co-founder of the Automated Vehicles Symposium. Ms. Lappin graduated in sociology from Boston University and an MBA from the Simmons College Graduate School of Management.
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A durable Chair Sensor Mat which is connected to the monitor for a person in their chair. If the person rises, the monitor beeper or voice prompt sounds until the alarm is reset. Suitable for falls prevention management at home or Nursing and Care homes using the optional Wireless Pager Kit. Voice Alarm System - The new Voice Alarm System is for people at risk from falls when rising from their bed or chair and features alarm tone or voice message prompting alert.
Voice Alarm provides a reliable, economic solution. A durable bed or chair sensor mat is connected to the monitor to detect a person in their bed or chair. If the person rises, the monitor beeper or voice prompt sounds until the alarm is reset. Suitable for falls prevention management at home or nurse and care homes using the optional Door Open Sensor and Wireless Pager Kit.


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Something Old and White Is New Again? 'Star Wars IX' Has Found a Replacement for Colin Trevorrow
By Dustin Rowles | Star Wars | September 12, 2017 |
A week after Colin Trevorrow was ousted as director of Star Wars: Episode IX because he is an asshole, the film has found a new writer and director by circling back to the writer and director of The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams.
From StarWars.com:
"With The Force Awakens, J.J. delivered everything we could have possibly hoped for, and I am so excited that he is coming back to close out this trilogy," said Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.
Abrams will co-write the script with Chris Terio.
And it's a fine choice, a safe choice, one that will ensure that there are no more hiccups for the foreseeable future, but it's not a particularly interesting choice. The Force Awakens was great, but no franchise is in a better position to truly put a female or a woman of color on the map — could actually make a difference and it did with the casting in Force Awakens and it's somewhat disappointing to see the franchise return to the same middle-aged white guy, which is officially par for the course now for the series (Abrams, Howard, Gareth Edwards, Rian Johnson).
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Step 1: Choose a Program
Just as a great cook knows what people want to eat, the best programs are designed to address people's most important problems. These will be the problems that people are the most motivated to change.
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A program outline (sometimes called a logic model) is very useful when designing a program to build resilience. Much like a meal plan, or menu, it provides you with a map to ensure that program activities create desirable outcomes.
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Every meal starts with a trip to the market or the garden. Once you know which program is needed (Step 1) and have figured out what you want to achieve (Step 2), then you are ready to gather the resources necessary to create your program.
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Great cooks rely on other family and friends to help with meal preparation. Program designers, too, create programs that build resilience by reaching out to other programs and people's natural support systems (e.g., family and friends).
Step 5: Adapt Your Program to the Local Context
Just as great cooks change recipes to suit local tastes, programs that build resilience change to fit the culture and context of their participants.
Step 6: Track Your Success
Empty plates and heaps of praise tell cooks that their food has been appreciated. Program designers also need ways of measuring their success. Regardless of what evidence is produced, the goal is always the same: convince young people, families, communities, and funders that a program that builds resilience has value and is worth the investment of their time and money.
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Sara Al-Gashm manages evaluation projects at the Resilience Research Centre at a national and international level, which integrate both quantitative and quasi-experimental pre and post-test methodology as well as qualitative methods. She brings interdisciplinary and cross-national training and experience to her position, along with an extensive research background in health and wellbeing across the lifespan. Sara received a Master's degree in Global Health from McMaster University and a Bachelor's degree in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University. She was granted the title of Leading First-Class Honours Student and is the recipient of the University Silver Medal from Dalhousie University. Sara holds publications in The Lancet and the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. She is fluent in three languages: English, Arabic and Tagalog. Her interests include monitoring and evaluation, results-based management, participatory research methods, and qualitative research.
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Simone Chia-Kangata joined the CYRRC as Project Manager in May 2017. Simone brings expertise in research and evaluation, project design, implementation and management, business management, knowledge mobilization and marketing. Simone has a Master's degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Concordia University and a Bachelor's degree in International Development Studies from McGill University. She has worked in the public sector and NGO sector in Ottawa, the UK, Kenya, Somaliland and Nova Scotia.
Margherita Cameranesi
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Margherita joined the Resilience Research Centre as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow and the Project Manager for the RYSE project. Following her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), Margherita received her Ph.D. in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (Canada). The overarching goal of Margherita's program of research is to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable, marginalized and underserved children, families and communities nationally and internationally by fostering their resilience to adversity. So far, her research has focused on various vulnerable populations, including families who experience intimate partner violence, Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities. Margherita's research expertise includes both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, as well as mixed methods research approaches.
Paul McGuinness
Paul McGuinness is the Operations Manager for the Resilience Research Centre (RRC). Paul has an extensive corporate background in Information Technology, Administration, Finance and Business Development. Paul provides leadership and operational management of the RRC and is a key interaction point between the RRC and internal and external grant and management programs. The Research Operations Manager works collaboratively with all university departments, building and maintaining strategic working relationships in the administration of internal schemes, as well as maintaining a network of external stakeholders to support national and international competitive and contract research opportunities.
Haorui Wu
Dr. Haorui Wu is Assistant Professor of Social Work and a research fellow in the Resilience Research Center at Dalhousie University. His architecture-based interdisciplinary teaching, research, and emerging practice examine post-disaster reconstruction, recovery, and rehabilitation initiatives through the lens of environmental and social justice. He seeks to employ community-engaged planning and architectural strategies to strengthen built environment social missions, build social capital, enhance overall well-being, and advance community resilience in the context of global climate change, disaster, and other world crises. His research consists of (1) empowering local residents' (especially the vulnerable and marginalized groups) leadership and supporting holistic well-being by advancing non-discriminatory civic engagement in community-based planning and architecture design; and (2) enhancing the humanitarian quality of post-disaster built environment to support community resilience and sustainability.
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Chase combines his creativity and technical skills to produce digestible content for websites, social media and events, while adhering to Resilience Research Center's brand strategy. Chase Kodejs is a communications specialist with a demonstrated history of facilitating projects in the private sector with numerous firms. A keen focus and desire to learn allows Chase to continue to be up to date with latest digital trends and deliver products that are refined for the end user.
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.
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Brandon promotes content, shares stories, and facilitates conversation through audio visuals, event planning, and graphic design. Brandon Mott is a communications specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the policy and research world, most notably at the Resilience Research Centre under the direction of Dr. Michael Ungar. Brandon is known for his knowledge sharing skills; crafting thoughts and ideas into digestible content. His degree in music marks a dedication to refining craft and an emphasized attention on creative detailing. This keen focus helps polish multimedia products, as seen in any of the numerous videos, reports, and websites he has produced.
Rena Vanstone
Rena Vanstone is a research assistant at the Resilience Research Centre. She is currently completing an Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Sociology at Dalhousie, with minors in Psychology and English. Her research interests include youth resilience and wellbeing, as well as arts-based methodology and interventions.
Marlee Jordan
Marlee Jordan has an academic background in Criminology; she received a BA (Honours) and MA from Saint Mary's University with the majority of her work focusing on the forensic mental health population. Her MA thesis was written on experiences in supported housing of people found Not Criminally Responsible in Halifax, N.S. Her other research interests include community-based services for people with mental health issues, addictions, and criminal justice involvement; youth education internationally, and community development. She is currently focused on gaining experience in research and program evaluation, otherwise she can be found hiking with her dogs, reading, or planning her next big trip.
Igor Pekelny
Igor Pekelny is a research associate at the Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University and the Sociology/Criminology Department, Saint Mary's University, with experience in mixed methods project evaluation, online survey design and implementation, and crime prevention program design and management. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology (Magna Cum Laude) and Psychology (Magna Cum Laude) and now pursuing his Master of Arts in Criminology, all from Saint Mary's University.
Chantale Comeau
Chantale Comeau received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Criminology from Saint Mary's University, and has completed a Master of Arts in Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto set to graduate in November 2018. Chantale will be returning to school to pursue a Masters in Public Administration at Dalhousie University in efforts to obtain the skills necessary for a career in justice policy.
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Daniel Blais is a research and evaluation associate with the Resilience Research Centre and Wisdom2Action network. With an interest in cultural sociology and a background in youth care and advocacy, Blais has an interest in program evaluation that applies mixed methods research and evidence-based practices. While completing the written requirement for an MA in Sociology (forthcoming) from York University on the topic of professionalization, Daniel has worked with the RRC-ETI and W2A on projects focusing on youth program evaluation, public policy development, opioid addictions, and youth resilience.
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Kong Tsung-gan / 江松澗
Recent developments, upcoming cases: Prosecutions and lawsuits brought by the Hong Kong government against pro-democracy leaders
…following last week's imprisonment of 16 pro-democracy activists for six to 13 months for the nonviolent offense of unlawful assembly
For the full overview, go to "Overview of prosecutions and lawsuits brought by the Hong Kong government against pro-democracy leaders"
Last week, the Court of Appeal of the High Court issued verdicts in two cases involving 16 pro-democracy activists, 4 of whom are leaders. The HK government had appealed the original sentences (15 to community service, 1 to a suspended three-week sentence to accommodate study abroad) the 16 had received.
On 15 August, the court sentenced 12 activists to 13 months in prison for unlawful assembly in relation to a June 2014 protest at Civic Square against the government's New Territories development plan, while 1 activist received an 8-month sentence. Raphael Wong, vice-chair of League of Social Democrats, was amongst the 12 sentenced to 13 months, becoming the first pro-democracy leader ever in HK's history to receive a lengthy prison term.
Two days later, on 17 August, the court sentenced Alex Chow to 6 months in prison for unlawful assembly, Joshua Wong to 7 months for unlawful assembly, and Nathan Law to 8 months for inciting unlawful assembly, all in relation to the occupation of Civic Square (which had been closed to the public after the June protest) on 26 September 2014. They became the second, third, and fourth pro-democracy leaders sentenced to prison terms.
In all cases, the original sentences of community service had been completed, so the 16 are all serving two sentences for one crime, a case of double jeopardy, though the court said it took completion of the first sentence into account and reduced the amount of time in prison from the amount the defendants otherwise would have received if they had not already served the first sentence.
While the Public Order Ordinance establishes a sentence up to 5 years for this offense, until these cases, prison terms were rarely given for the offense, and the ones that were ranged from three weeks to three months. The 6–13-month sentences are a clear precedent. The court justified them by saying 1) they should act as a deterrent, and 2) the actions in which the protesters were involved included either actual elements of violence or had the risk of resulting in violence. But the 4 were not convicted of a violent offense, nor did the original verdicts make any mention of them being violent or inciting violence. In essence, to the extent that reason #2 is the justification for their unprecedently long sentences, they are being sentenced for a crime they didn't commit.
In all, 26 pro-democracy leaders face 40 different cases.
4 (Raphael Wong, Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Alex Chow) have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 6 to 13 months, 3 for unlawful assembly, 1 for inciting unlawful assembly, all nonviolent protest-related offenses.
16 of the 40 cases have been concluded (not including actual and potential appeals)
Two big cases this week:
On 23 August, 9 activists go on trial for a range of offenses related to the 6 November 2016 protest against the National People's Congress Standing Committee interpretation of the Basic Law on oath-taking which lead to the disqualification of 6 pro-democracy reprenstatives from the Legislative Council. These 9 include 3 leaders, Avery Ng of LSD, Dickson Chau Ka-faat of LSD, and Devon Cheng Pui-lun, former Lingnan U student union president, as well as 2 core members of Demosistō, Derek Lam and Ivan Lam. Ivan Lam was amongst the 12 sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for unlawful assembly.
On 25 August, the Court of Final Appeal of the High Court will announce whether it will hear the appeal of Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching of a High Court decision disqualifying them from Legco over their oath-taking in October 2016. They are 2 of 6 pro-democracy Legco members who have been disqualified.
on-going case:
The High Court is hearing 20 cases of contempt of court related to the 26 November 2014 clearance of the Mong Kok occupation during the Umbrella Movement. Ten (including Lester Shum and Joshua Wong) of those on trial have acknowledged contempt, ten (including Raphael Wong) have not. The trial could result in additional prison sentences for Raphael Wong and Joshua Wong, both sentenced last week.
important upcoming case:
On 19 September, 9 pro-democracy leaders will go on trial on various "inciting public nuisance" charges related to the start of the Umbrella Movement on 28 September 2014. These are Chu Yiu-ming, Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai, Lee Wing-tat, Shiu Ka-chun, Tanya Chan, Raphael Wong, Tommy Cheung, Eason Chung.
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Title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Actors: Hugh Jackman Liev Schreiber Danny Huston Dominic Monaghan Ryan Reynolds
Genre(s): Action Adventure Sci Fi
Official Site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
The last time audiences saw Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), he was stuck in 2006's decidedly meh X-Men: The Last Stand. He's back – having lost the excess baggage of his superheroic former onscreen co-horts – but unfortunately this newest offering in the mutant franchise is basically as mediocre as his last outing. Not terrible, but not really worth all the hoopla surrounding its release.
Chronicling, as the title makes clear, the "origins" of Logan/Wolverine and his long-standing love/hate relationship with his increasingly ferocious brother, Victor "Sabretooth" Creed (Liev Schreiber), the film covers all the mythological bases. How the fellas came to discover their abilities. What they did with them from the 1840s through almost-present day. How they came to know Colonel William Stryker (Danny Huston) and the "Weapon X" program. How one (Wolverine) wound up a good guy, and the other grew ferociously obsessed with the blood lust of the proverbial dark side.
And, most importantly, how Logan went from lumberjack – albeit with "claws" made of bone (eww) that emerge when stressed – in the Canadian Rockies to a rogue outsider with an indestructible metal alloy bonded to his entire skeleton.
Along the way, audiences are introduced (or re-introduced, depending on their level of comic-book savvy) to an array of supplementary mutants, including teleporter Wraith (will.i.am); sword-swinger Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds); hulking Fred "The Blob" Dukes (Kevin Durand); electrically charged Chris "Bolt" Bradley (Dominic Monaghan); and eagle-eyed sharpshooter Agent Zero (Daniel Henney). Oh, and the inexplicably bland Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins), who's Logan's beloved and meant to be the catalyst for much of the action, but who, in my opinion, is exceedingly bland and chemistry-less opposite her leading man.
Laden with lazy writing that drags out clichéd phrase after clichéd phrase – seriously, the line "you don't write, you don't call..." should be permanently retired from screenplays, especially if it's delivered between characters who hate each other – the story kind of plods along, checking off plots points from a list. Which is fine, given the nature of the film and the explanations needed, but it doesn't make for a very compelling cinematic experience. And the whole Wolverine vs. Sabretooth chase/battle/chase/battle loops kind of gets old after a while.
The special effects are decent, but not remarkable, and the seeds are very clearly planted for an entire Wolverine franchise of films to come. Thankfully, this movie's best asset is the one on which the whole empire hangs – Jackman is an engaging screen presence and, if nothing else, Wolverine gives him a chance to strut.
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My boys and I had some friends come over to make mummy cookies and twinkies. This turned into making bats and pumpkins too. It was really fun and I was impressed with how creative the kids could be. My oldest made pirate pumpkins and put "stitches" on the mummies for effect. The recipe below is for the cookies and the frosting we used. The cookies are so soft and delicious. I will often add just a little bit of vanilla to them also, but you don't have to. For this recipe it made about 6-7 dozen cookies. We had to make double the recipe for frosting and I still ran out, so it makes a lot!
Cream the sugar, butter and eggs. Add the baking powder, soda and salt. Then add the milk and slowly start adding the flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Refrigerate for easier rolling. Roll out to 1/4 to 1/2" thick. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes.
Combine cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Add powdered milk until frosting is the consistency you would like. If it gets to thick, add a small amount of milk to thin. Separate into bowls to mix colors.
Love these, and perfect for adults too. Why, tea and biscuits never looked so good!


If you're preparing to launch yourself into the world, one of the biggest questions you may have is, "How much does it cost to move out?" The answer will be different for everyone. Obviously, if you can carry everything you own in a suitcase and are planning to live on a friend's couch, it's going to be a whole lot cheaper than packing up a lifetime of belongings and getting your own apartment in NYC. Instead of giving you a one-size-fits-all answer, we'll break down some of the most common expenses associated with moving in NYC, so you can create your own estimate with a bit more accuracy.
Here in the Big Apple, landlords have the upper hand due to the housing shortage. Most will charge you an application fee of some sort, which goes toward their processing time and a background check, and this can range anywhere from $25-100 for each application you submit.
To minimize the number of applications you put in, have a packet ready for the landlord which includes things like employment verification, paycheck stubs, tax returns, bank statements, references, and a copy of your ID. You may also be able to sway the landlord to take you by providing him or her with a good faith deposit of a few hundred dollars. Some landlords require this as well, so have it ready regardless. It's also worth noting that if your credit isn't good, you haven't established credit yet, your income is low, or your work history is lacking, you'll likely need to have someone with a stronger track record co-sign on the lease with you.
Once approved, your landlord will expect you to pay the first and last month in advance. We grabbed average NYC apartment prices from Naked Apartments. If you're going solo, the cheapest method is to go for a studio in the Bronx at $1,450 per month, meaning your first and last month will come to $2,900. You may be able to trim costs a bit by going in on a two-bedroom with a friend, in which case the cheapest local is still the Bronx, and your half of the first and last month will be $1,997. If you've got your sights set on Manhattan, which is the most expensive area to live, the least you'll pay is $3,662, based on sharing a two-bedroom with a friend. Bear in mind if you're super cozy with someone and plan to share a bed, you can also theoretically halve the cost of a studio, but given the small footprints of NYC apartments, it can be a challenging situation for even the closest couples.
Landlords collect a security deposit to cover any damage you cause to the property, and the amount is typically equal to a month of rent. You should be able to get this deposit back when you move out if you've taken care of the apartment well, but you may need to document the conditions when you move in and when you move out.
If you're bringing a pet along with you, expect to provide a deposit for damage caused by the animal as well. Something small, such as a cat, will probably require around $75, whereas a larger dog could run well over $200.
Your moving costs will vary depending on the distance between your new place and old place, as well as how much stuff you plan to move. Naturally, a long-distance move will cost much more than a local move.
All Moves: Getting your items packed up and ready to go will require boxes, tape, filler (like bubble wrap or peanuts to protect breakables), and markers adds up. Expect to pay about $50 for packing supplies if you're only moving one room.
DIY Moves: Truck rental companies will lure you in with a $20 offer, but that's just the base rate for the smallest rental truck rental, which is suited for moving one bedroom. They also will charge you $2+ per mile you drive it and you'll have to gas it up, plus you'll probably need to rent tools like a dolly. Moreover, damage to moving trucks is expensive to fix, so you'll probably want insurance. Plan on these things running at least $175, though you'll need to calculate the number of miles you'll drive to get a better estimate. Also, you'll want help moving, which means you'll need to set aside some cash to buy food and drinks for your friends. Set aside $50-75 for this.
Hiring Movers: If you want the process to go smoother or you don't have people to help, hiring residential movers is a great way to go. Bear in mind, these costs will vary based on a number of factors, such as the amount being moved, the items being moved, and how difficult it is to access the new place and the old place. It usually takes 3-4 hours to handle a one-bedroom local move, and you should estimate these costs at $100- 150 per hour.
Repairs aren't always necessary because your landlord should have your space move-in-ready before your arrival. However, if there are things you need to take care of, such as paint, changing out shower heads, or adding security features, these expenses can easily run into the hundreds.
If this is your first time living on your own, you probably only have a bedroom set, meaning you'll need living room furniture, a dining room table, and perhaps other pieces. Even if you're putting together a new place with used furniture off a peer-to-peer marketplace like Craigslist, you can expect to spend a minimum of $250. If you have more refined tastes, check out your favorite catalogue and add up the cost of outfitting communal spaces.
Odds are, you're moving in with nothing in the way of household supplies. Again, you can cut costs by purchasing some things used, such as kitchen gear and a vacuum, but the bare minimum you'll probably spend is about $200.
Things like power, gas, water, cable, and phone service often have one-time connection fees or require deposits if you don't have good credit. These can run anywhere from about $25-150 per service. To get more accurate numbers, contact the companies you hope to work with in advance and find out what their charges are. For estimation purposes, allot $75 in startup fees for each service you plan to use.
"Even if you think your possessions aren't worth very much, it only takes one sink to overflow into your neighbor's apartment to set you back $2,500 to $10,000 or more," says Brick Underground. The monthly cost of a policy will vary based on your coverage, but some go for as little as $125 per year in NYC.
As a general rule of thumb, people should have about three months' worth of expenses set aside in an emergency fund. This will carry you through if you lose your job, become sick, or face another type of financial crisis. Add up what you're paying each month in living expenses and multiply it by three.
How Much Does It Cost to Move Out?
If you're incredibly thrifty and don't have a pet, you're likely looking at a minimum of $4572 to move out in NYC, not including living expenses. Most people will land in the $5,000-6,000 range, though your expenses might be a little less than what's listed here if you're planning to share a one-bedroom with someone.
How'd we get that number?
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Sanders' hard-fought win in the first-in-the-nation primary also exposed his vulnerabilities.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Bernie Sanders dominated the youth vote, consolidated the liberal base, and benefitted from a knife fight among his more moderate rivals.
But the Vermont senator rode to victory in New Hampshire on Democrats' dissatisfaction with the health care system: He won a plurality among those who said health care was their top concern, and six of 10 voters overall backed single-payer, according to exit polls.
It's a powerful position to occupy in a party where voters routinely rank health care as their top issue. But as Sanders' campaign now turns its focus on Nevada, South Carolina and Super Tuesday states, his triumph in the first-in-the-nation primary also illuminated his vulnerabilities.
While he received more support from 18- to 29-year-old voters than all the other 2020 candidates combined, he only won 14 percent of the vote from those over 65. He carried the popular vote by only narrow margins in both New Hampshire and Iowa. And the fact that his signature issue is single-payer health care means that industry lobby will continue to work diligently to stop him.
"If I were in my old job in the industry, I would be freaking out," said Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive who now serves as president of the advocacy group Business for Medicare for All. "It's going to be a huge fight. What we are beginning to see is the mother of all propaganda campaigns because the industry views this as the biggest threat it ever had."
Throughout the campaign, Sanders has held town halls and asked voters to speak about their problems dealing with the health care industry. In the final days before the first-in-the-nation primary, he talked often about the opioid epidemic, a top issue in New Hampshire: One of his applause lines was when he said that drug manufacturers "hired more salespeople" when they realized their product was addictive.
"Even if people are not 100 percent on board with Medicare for All, what they hear in that is that the for-profit system is not working," said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, of Sanders' pitch for single-payer. "Every single working person out there can tell you, whether they have a great union-negotiated plan or they have very poor health insurance to no health insurance, that this health care system is completely broken and not working for us."
New Hampshire resident Maryalice Cookinham said she supported Sanders "because he wants Medicare for All" and "that's my No. 1 issue" — "I know friends who can't get cancer treatments because they don't have enough insurance."
His intense focus on health care was enabled by the fact that his moderate rivals had spent the last week brawling — a stroke of luck that would end if centrists consolidated behind a candidate.
Even so, Sanders faced a significant challenge in the days before the primary. After Pete Buttigieg's strong performance in Iowa's caucuses, the former South Bend, Ind. mayor surged in the polls in New Hampshire. Sanders' team kept a close watch on his rise, and Sanders criticized Buttigieg on the debate stage and trail for having billionaire donors. His campaign even released a negative online video about Buttigieg's fundraising, a rare move for Sanders.
At the same time, Joe Biden bashed Buttigieg's lack of experience in a digital spot, while Tom Steyer did the same in TV advertising. Amy Klobuchar also clobbered Buttigieg in the debate. That was enough to throw enough sand in Buttigieg's gears and keep him from completely taking off in New Hampshire. But with 94 percent of precincts reporting, Buttigieg still finished less than 4,000 votes behind Sanders. Klobuchar placed third.
"It's clear he would have lost if the moderate vote had coalesced around one candidate," said Matt Bennett, co-founder of the moderate think tank Third Way, of Sanders.
Democracy for America, a progressive organization, released a statement Tuesday from chairman Charles Chamberlain that acknowledged that Sanders benefitted from the centrist-on-centrist attacks and stressed the need for left-wing unity.
"Progressives should have no illusions about what tonight's victory means," he said. "While the slow-motion implosion of the Biden campaign and the circular firing squad on the party's right has thrown the Wall Street wing into disarray, we fully expect them to try to marginalize this win, pit progressives against each other, and spend millions to stop the growing grassroots movement for progressive change."
The fact that Elizabeth Warren finished in fourth place and with no delegates in New Hampshire is good news for Sanders: It means he theoretically should have an easier time consolidating the progressive vote. But that won't happen automatically, and Warren has signaled that she is in the race for the long haul.
But the attrition from Warren has already started. Part of the reason Sanders was successful Tuesday was because he won over very liberal and young voters by double digits, and Warren did not. When Warren was at the top of the polls last year, she siphoned off progressive and young voters from Sanders.
A Sanders adviser said that his polling went up sharply in New Hampshire around the same time he began airing ads on television. With less competition on air than Iowa, the person said, "we were able to communicate to voters more directly" and "re-established our base."
Sanders' success Tuesday is major vindication for a campaign that had been dismissed for months by political insiders and media. It also represents a turnaround from the dissension and staff upheaval in New Hampshire last year: In September, Sanders reassigned his then-state director and parted ways with his longtime senior adviser in New Hampshire. His steering committee fretted at the time about losing, and some members even eyed Warren.
Rep. Ro Khanna, Sanders' campaign co-chair, said Tuesday that he gives the "most credit" to New Hampshire state director Shannon Jackson, "one of Sanders' most loyal aides" who worked to "make sure the organization was fulfilling Sanders' mission" after he took over the state operation amid the discord.
Sunrise Movement, a group of young climate change activists, also played a key role by campaigning for Sanders in New Hampshire. They reported making 33,000 calls to the state's voters in the last week alone and collecting 12,000 pledge-to-vote cards from young people with the help of the New Hampshire Youth Movement. Sanders was also aided by a grassroots army of volunteers: According to his campaign, they knocked on 850,000 doors in New Hampshire since he jumped into the race.
"From Iowa to New Hampshire, we are showing people all across the country that organizing around the climate crisis and the Green New Deal is a decisive way to win an election," said Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash. "The climate crisis, along with health care, education and inequality, are defining issues for our generation. If we keep this momentum up and sustain historic levels of youth turnout, we will be the generation that steered the Democratic Party away from systemic breakdown and toward a prosperous, safe future."
As the primary moves to more diverse states, Sanders showed other strengths that could come into play: He won over Latino voters in New Hampshire as well as at high-density Latino caucus sites in Iowa, per exit polling and an independent analysis. And along with being the favorite of voters under 45, Sanders also performed best with people without a college degree and those whose household income is less than $50,000 a year — data that his team is pointing to in order to make the case that he is the strongest candidate to take on President Donald Trump.
"We won because Bernie put together the multi-racial, working-class coalition that is going to win the nomination and the general election," said Jeff Weaver, Sanders' senior adviser.
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NewsReader
NewsReader Storyteller
Synerscope
The NewsReader MEANTIME corpus
The ECB+ Corpus
Event and Situation Ontology
SemEval-2015 Task 4: TimeLine
HomeConsortium
VU University Amsterdam (VUA)
The Faculty of Arts at VU University Amsterdam is specialized in the development of complex semantic networks and ontologies and their application in the analysis of text. The relation between conceptual planning, linguistic form and effective communication is the main focus of the faculty. VUA has extensive experience in evaluation of effective communication. The Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab (CLTL) is specialized in WordNets, semantic networks and lexicons, especially in relation to ontologies and semantic natural language processing applications. The group represents the home of the Global Wordnet Association and is directing the research using WordNet-based technologies.
Key staff:
Piek Vossen
Marieke van Erp
Antske Fokkens
Paul Huygen
Anneleen Schoen
Chantal van Son
Agata Cybulska
Filip Ilievski
Roxane Segers
Universidad Del Pais Vasco (EHU)
The IXA Research Group from the University of the Basque Country (UPV in Spanish and EHU in Basque) was created in 1988. Today, it is composed of 30 computer scientists and 14 linguists. The IXA Group was created with the aim of promoting the modernization of Basque by means of developing advanced computational resources and systems for it.
German Rigau
Eneko Agirre
Rodrigo Agerri
Aitor Soroa
Egoitz Laparra
Itziar Aldabe
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Via S.Croce 77 – 38122 Trento – ITALY
Fondazione Bruno Kessler was founded on March 1st 2007. It is a non-profit body with a public interest mission having private law status and inheriting the history of Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC was founded in 1962 by the Autonomous Province of Trento). Scientific excellence and innovation as well as technology transfer to companies and public services are Fondazione Bruno Kessler's main objectives. In its areas of competence, FBK collaborates with the main actors in global research and works in accordance with European Union Programs.
Luciano Serafini
Bernardo Magnini
Marco Rospocher
Alessio Palmero Aprosio
Anne-Lyse Minard
Sara Tonelli
LexisNexis (LN)
Radarweg 29 – 1043 NX Amsterdam – THE NETHERLANDS
LexisNexis, part of Reed Elsevier, an Anglo-Dutch FTSE-100 company, is a world leading provider of professional information and online workflow solutions in the Science, Medical, Legal, Risk Information and Analytics, and Business sectors.
Rutger Kortleven
Pim Stouten
Xavier Simon
Raynald Gérault
ScraperWiki (SCW)
Liverpool Science Park – 146 Brownlow Hill – Liverpool L3 5RF – UNITED KINGDOM
ScraperWiki is a platform for using code to make data do things across the web. They are a hightech startup based in Liverpool in the North-West of England.
Aidan McGuire
Ian Hopkinson
Francis Irving
Steve Maude
Dave 'Dragon' McKee
Synerscope (SYN)
Kastanjelaan 14 – 5268 CA Helvoirt – THE NETHERLANDS
SynerScope provides advanced BI/"Big Data" analysis software that directly allows actual domain experts and analysts to make sense of their "Big Data".
Willem Robert van Hage
Thomas Ploeger
Tessel Bogaard
Affiliated Partners:
Global WordNet Association (GWA)
The Global WordNet Association is a free, public and non-commercial organization that provides a platform for discussing, sharing and connecting wordnets for all languages in the world.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
The CLEF Initiative (CLEF)
The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, formerly known as Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure.
KYOTO project : KYOTO (EC FP7 ICT-211423) makes knowledge sharable between communities of people, culture, languages and computers, by assigning meaning to text and giving text to meaning. The goal of KYOTO is a system that allows people in communities to define the meaning of their words and terms in a shared Wiki platform so that it becomes anchored across languages and cultures but also so that a computer can use this knowledge to detect knowledge and facts in text. Whereas the current Wikipedia uses free text to share knowledge, KYOTO will represent this knowledge so that a computer can understand it. For example, the notion of environmental footprint will become defined in the same way in all these languages but also in such a way that the computer knows what information is necessary to calculate a footprint. With these definitions it will be possible to find information on footprints in documents, websites and reports so that users can directly ask the computer for actual information in their environment, e.g. what is the footprint of their town, their region or their company. NewsReader will use KYOTO as a starting point.
Live Memories : Live Memories project (PAT): In the digital age, our records of past and present are growing at an unprecedented pace. Huge efforts are under way in order to digitize data now on analogical support; at the same time, low-cost devices to create records in the form of e.g. images, videos, and text are now widespread, such as digital cameras or mobile phones. This wealth of data, when combined with new technologies for sharing data through platforms such as Flickr, Facebook, or the blogs, open up completely new, huge opportunities of access to memory and of communal participation to its experience. The KnowledgeStore developed in the LiveMemories project will be the starting point for the KnowledgeStore in the NewsReader project.
Poseidon: The Poseidon project rises to the challenge to discover new ways on how to build advanced systems of systems, and therefore on how to allow for flexibility, adaptability and evolvability in systems of systems while ensuring reliability – a crucial requirement, not only in the domain of maritime safety systems that provides Poseidon's exemplary application and the industrial laboratory needed for its success.
PESCaDO: PESCaDO aims to meet this need for environmental service orchestration. It will offer an interconnected multipurpose environmental user-oriented service for a federated community of citizens, public services (such as tourist offices and environmental institutions), public administrations, and entrepreneurs active in sectors sensitive to environmental conditions.
BiographyNet: The Biography Portal of the Netherlands links a wide variety of Dutch online reference works and data sets, written in different times and from different perspectives, through a limited number of metadata. This project will build a semantic layer on top of the current Biography portal in order to enrich our sources and analytical tools for history writing.
"Can we handle the news" – winning project of the EYR contest: this project will use big data for the analysis of large quantities of news releases in the project 'Recording history in large news streams'. Participants competed for a 2-years access to data storage, computing facilities, and visualisation infrastructure provided by SURFsara, for advanced network connections provided by SURFnet, and for support in the mapping of research solutions onto these e-infrastructure services by the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC). The winners also received a cash prize of EUR 20,000.
Casemap Wikipedia: At its core, CaseMap is a database connecting two spheres of information: facts and objects. The facts spreadsheet is used to generate a time-line of undisputed facts for a case. The objects spreadsheet functions as a parent directory for multiple child-spreadsheets; each child-spreadsheet indexes a sphere of data relevant to a case (i.e. persons, places, pleadings, physical evidence, etc.).
Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction: the goal of the XLike project is to develop technology to monitor and aggregate knowledge that is currently spread across mainstream and social media, and to enable cross-lingual services for publishers, media monitoring and business intelligence.
An online encyclopedia that writes itself.
OpeNER: OpeNER's main goal is to provide a set of ready to use tools to perform some natural language processing tasks, free and easy to adapt for SMEs to integrate them in their workflow. More precisely, OpeNER aims to be able to detect and disambiguate entity mentions and perform sentiment analysis and opinion detection on the texts, to be able for example, to extract the sentiment and the opinion of customers about certain resource (e.g. hotels and accommodations) in Web reviews.
Boilerpipe: boilerpipe provides algorithms to detect and remove the surplus "clutter" (boilerplate, templates) around the main textual content of a web page.
CONCISUS Corpus: The CONCISUS Corpus is an annotated dataset of comparable Spanish and English event summaries in four application domains.
Chronolines: The problematic of our project is the generation of innovating interfaces for viewing information according to temporal criteria. The manipulated objects, called « Event-based Chronologies », prepared from semi-automated position-finding of events and of datative temporal expressions in essentially "breaking news" type texts (written in French and in English), will be associated with visualisation (multimedia) widgets enabling to visualise events associated with a "mediatic event" in chronological order; wherein said event acts somehow as the "trigger" for information search so that said event is presented relative to a context forming the collection of events which may be associated therewith.
Clusteredition: Top news updated every 10 minutes, 24 hours per day.
Eventedition: Events Detection updated every 10 minutes, 24 hours per day.
Tarsqi Toolkit: The Tarsqi Toolkit (TTK) provides one-stop shopping for all your temporal needs (or, hopefully, at least some of your needs). It integrates extraction of events and time expressions with creation of temporal links, using a set of mostly independent modules, while ensuring consistency with a constraint propagation component. The glue that keeps all the modules together is the TimeML language.
Conversation clouds of the Economist.
NewsMills: Newsmills is an attempt to make sense out of news text. It aims finance news and tries to dig out key piece of information finance analysts and stock consultants are interested at (NewsMills beta).
Rumor Mill 2.0: aim of this project is assessing the truthfulness of information that goes viral on social media.
SKATeR: this project will develop content enabling systems that will provide deep semantic capabilities to process large quantities of multilingual data. SKATeR will process documents in English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician.
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Putin's Ally On How To Force West To Negotiate — Position Hypersonic Missiles To Hit US In 5 Minutes
As Russian troops continue military operations in the then more-than-four-month-old war against Ukraine, tempers were flying high. Andrei Gurulyov, a crony of President Vladimir Putin and a Duma member, reportedly told Rossiya-1, that Russia should look to recreate the Cuban missile crisis. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 saw the U.S. and the now-defunct Soviet Union prepping for nuclear missile attacks, the former positioning them in Italy and Turkey and the latter in Cuba. Also Read: Putin's
Cindy Williams, who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 1980s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the beloved sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," has died. Williams died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released on Monday through family spokeswoman Liza Cranis. "The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed," the statement said.
The Princess of Wales Broke the Queen's "Golden Rule" By Revealing This Private Detail
It makes sense why Her late Majesty wanted to keep this close to the vest.
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The official trailer for the upcoming comedy Joshy has been released, with the track "Back Into It" of the indie rock band Islands in the background.
The American production, written and directed by Jeff Baena, centers around Joshy, a young man who is about to get married and organizes a bachelor party to reconnect with his friends.
Shown in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the movie stars Thomas Middleditch, Adam Pally, Alex Ross Perry, Nick Kroll, Brett Gelman, Jenny Slate and Lauren Graham, and is scheduled to be released this summer, on August 12.


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Twins make deals with Suzuki, Pelfrey official
By Rhett Bollinger
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins officially announced on Monday that they've signed catcher Kurt Suzuki and Mike Pelfrey to one- and two-year deals, respectively. In a corresponding move, Darin Mastroianni was outrighted to Triple-A Rochester.
Suzuki will make $2.75 million next season, while Pelfrey's deal is for $11 million.
The addition of Suzuki means Minnesota has found a veteran catcher to replace Joe Mauer, who will be moving to first base next year.
After inking Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes this offseason, the Twins were able to strenghten their rotation by re-signing Pelfrey, who posted a 5.19 ERA in 29 starts with the Twins last season after joining the club on a one-year deal worth $4 million.
Pelfrey was better in the second half of the season with a 3.25 ERA in five June starts and a 3.60 ERA in six August starts, but he faltered in September with a 7.45 ERA in four outings.
Suzuki, 30, gives the Twins a veteran backstop who can help mentor rookie Josmil Pinto, who shined in his first taste of the Majors in September. The Twins were in the market for a catcher this offseason with Mauer moving away from the position because of a season-ending concussion suffered while catching on Aug. 19.
They went after A.J. Pierzynski and Jarrod Saltalamacchia in free agency, but failed to sign them, as Pierzynski went to the Red Sox and Saltalamacchia signed with the Marlins.
Suzuki hit .232/.290/.337 with five homers, 13 doubles and two stolen bases in 94 games split between the Nationals and A's. He's a career .253/.309/.375 hitter in 840 games with the A's and Nationals in a seven-year career.
Suzuki is generally regarded as a strong defensive catcher, but struggled with attempting basestealers last season, as he only threw out eight of 65 potential basestealers. It was a drop from his career norm, as has a caught stealing percentage of 26 percent for his career, but was at just 12 percent last season.
Suzuki, who is represented by agent Dan Lozano, was originally selected by the A's in the second round of the 2004 First-Year Player Draft out of Cal State Fullerton.
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.
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November 06, 2012 Special/Signature Issues » Abe Goes Hollywood
Extra Terrestrial
The otherworldly experience of bringing history to life as a background player.
By Jason Roop
On a break from shooting near Capitol Square, the writer, second from left, with fellow extras Sean Burke, Tim Blackwood, Mark Gibson and Michael Marunde.
It is Jan. 31, 1865. The 13th Amendment is about to pass the House of Representatives. Slavery soon will be abolished. "This is the big moment — this is it," Steven Spielberg explains to a small group of us sitting in a balcony of the State Capitol. It's everything the film — and Abraham Lincoln — have been building to. For this, the director himself takes control of the camera trained on us. In a minute he'll call for action.
Panic sets in. What will I do? Say? I have no lines. I am background. An extra. Beside me are men and women who represent the first black Americans allowed in the gallery of the U.S. Capitol. "I want you to react however you feel," Spielberg tells us. But how can someone like me, living in an era of Twitter and hybrid cars and the first black president, possibly help bring this moment to life?
When I turned 9 in 1982, the same month Style Weekly published its first issue, my birthday included a trip from Luray to Harrisonburg to see "E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial." I was stunned by the story. It was my first encounter with Spielberg.
Several years later I arrived at Fort A.P. Hill for the National Boy Scout Jamboree. The third "Indiana Jones" is out. Spielberg had just helped create the cinematography merit badge, and he was directing the opening and closing productions of the event for more than 30,000 Scouts and thousands of onlookers. My role as a "hometown news ambassador" included standing with a group of Scouts while we watched Spielberg arrive by helicopter in a field for our news conference.
This month — 30 years after "E.T." — I'll sit in a darkened theater again. I'll watch another story that stuns, a film about one of the country's most difficult and triumphant periods. And I'll have a personal reminder of my 13-day, up-close experience watching modern men and women interpret a nearly 150-year-old chapter in America's history.
In the balcony of Virginia's House of Delegates, which doubles as the chamber of U.S. Congress, the writer — several rows from left — joins extras playing onlookers who celebrate the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Some of these men and women are around me on this balcony. Spielberg calls for action. We hear the final vote announced. Slavery is abolished. And suddenly feelings flood through me, us. Cheers. Celebration in stunned silence. Black men and white men crossing aisles to embrace. And while we all realize how far we have come — perhaps in some cases, how far we must go — tears run down cheeks and it all feels genuine. Maybe connecting with the past starts with thinking about the present.
"Either you all are the best actors in the world," Spielberg tells us, "or you really believe that just happened."
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Movie Review: "Lincoln"
Rated PG-13 - Drama
Rated PG-13 · 150 min. · 2012
Official Site: www.thelincolnmovie.com
Writer: Tony Kushnerr and Doris Kearns Goodwin
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Jackie Earle Haley, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jared Harris, James Spader, Lee Pace, David Strathairn and John Hawkes
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Ben Jardine says Roxanne Pallett would have CHEATED with him if she'd remained on Celebrity Big Brother
The evicted reality star told Dan Wootton on his talkRADIO show that the disgraced actress was poised to betray her fiance Lee Walton
By Joe Kasper, TV Reporter
Updated: 9 Sep 2018, 21:42
CELEBRITY Big Brother's Ben Jardine insists Roxanne Pallett would've cheated on her fiancé with him in the house.
The Married At First Sight star and former Emmerdale actress got close during their stints on the Channel 5 show when he loved her and even kissed her on the neck.
The reality star and property developer was seen flirting with Roxanne in the house
Ben said the disgraced actress would have cheated with him if she'd remained
Now Ben says she was willing to go further and it was actually him that put a stop to their antics.
Earlier today he told the Sun's Executive Editor Dan Wootton on his talkRADIO show: "I ain't going to be that guy. I'll be honest, single? Yes that would've happened.
"But I had to stop myself and I was the one who walked away from that. All I can say is eyes don't lie.
"I know I need to get myself back to Specsavers but eyes don't lie and if someone's there for ten seconds they ain't there for their health."
Shortly before appearing on the Channel 5 show Roxanne announced her engagement to steelworker Lee Walton after just six days.
Celebrity Big Brother's Ben Jardine finally watches clip of Roxanne Pallett and Ryan Thomas's 'altercation'
Roxanne pulled out of the house after a public backlash when she accused Ryan Thomas of punching her 'like a boxer'Credit: Channel 5
She is engaged to Lee Walton, who she was pictured posing in wedding outfits withCredit: Splash News
Ben, who is going through a divorce with wife Stephanie after meeting on Married At First Sight and is set to be a father with a mystery woman, says Lee needs to look their relationship.
He spoke about his previous 13-year relationship before finding fame.Asked by Dan if he felt bad that he and Roxanne were still together since she left the show, Ben said: "No — I don't want to be that guy.
"At the same time he needs to do what I had to do after 13 years, he needs to re-evaluate the situation."
Ben said he and Roxanne would have initiated a romance despite her relationship outside of the house
The pair were captured flirtatiously play-fighting while in the house
Roxanne left the Channel 5 show in disgrace on September 1 after accusing Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas of assaulting her during a play fight.
Her false claims were the biggest talking points of this summer's series and resulted in her career going down the pan.
After receiving a lot of criticism, Ben has now jumped to her defence telling the mob to leave her alone.
He said: "When I looked into the lady's eyes, I saw a lost soul. I believe eyes don't lie. When I looked into Ryan's eyes, I knew he was telling the truth."
Ben added: "I think she's suffered her enough. Let it be. Let her speak to her family, let her speak to her family, her loved ones. Hopefully she's got a good support group around her."
Roxanne Pallett apologises to Ryan Thomas and his family after Celebrity Big Brother altercation
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Here's February's instalment of Birthday Club! This month I chose to focus on the Birthday Girls preference for happy colours and pretty papery things.
I made this card Using the take three summer stamps from Papertrey ink and to be honest a whole hodge podge of little flowers and leaves, whatever took my fancy really, from various assorted sets when I stamped the flower posies.
I decided to make her a little set of gift cards. I often find myself caught out and just wishing I had a pretty little something to write a note on or to accompany a gift for someone. I do hope its something she will be able to use.
I used stamps and dies from the Papertrey Ink love lives here set and used a stampin Up sentiment. I converted some simple glassine bags into translucent envelopes by cutting one end with a scalloped circular die. I left one side intact with the scalloped circle to form the flap and then trimmed off the other side of the scalloped circle on the back of the bag. Each envelope is secured with a little coloured bakers twine for a sweet whimsical touch.
Wow Tammy they are gorgeous!