Let us say, the nature of the word I as it is used in mystical literature: I go to prepare a place for you, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, I was with thee before Abraham was, I in the midst of thee am mighty—when you can understand the meaning of those things, you have arrived at the standpoint of spiritual demonstration and not until then.
All of Scripture is knowing the unknowable, and it is only in proportion as you have a spiritual discernment of the passages of Scripture that you are enabled to demonstrate them. Remember, the moment you come into the inner understanding of a passage, you simultaneously come into the demonstration of it. It is like saying that the minute you learn how to drive an automobile you can drive an automobile. The minute you have the knowledge of driving an automobile you can drive an automobile. So it is with this. The moment you can spiritually discern—let us say, the nature of the word I as it is used in mystical literature: I go to prepare a place for you, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, I was with thee before Abraham was, I in the midst of thee am mighty—when you can understand the meaning of those things, you have arrived at the standpoint of spiritual demonstration and not until then.
And so it is with The Cloud of Unknowing. The whole purpose of that book is to lead a student to where they can meditate without effect of any kind: thought or thing coming into the meditation. We, in The Infinite Way, know this as demonstrating God instead of demonstrating things or demonstrating cause instead of demonstrating effect. That's really the principle of The Cloud of Unknowing; and it is the same principle that is in The Bhagavad-Gita: seek Me. Do whatever you have to do without thought of results or rewards or accomplishments. Seek Me only. Attain Me only, not attain Me for a purpose or not attain something through Me, just seek Me, attain Me; the highest Yoga is in realizing Me. That's the highest Yoga, which means highest spiritual wisdom: knowing Me. That's the essence of it; that's the essence of The Cloud of Unknowing; that's the essence of the Gospel of John: I. There are no other gods before me. Thou seest me, thou seest the Father that sent me.
Can you understand that humanly? No. Only through spiritual discernment can you understand what it means: Thou seest me, thou seest the Father that sent me, for with the human mind, it means that you're looking at me and seeing God; and since I'm a human being, that means that I, a human being, am God. Now isn't that horrible? And isn't it untrue? No human being can be God, and so the statement per se is a lie—intellectually known, but the statement is the highest truth that's known: Thou seest me, thou seest the Father that sent me, for I and the Father are one. Now just think how it ends up: but the Father is greater than I. Now if that isn't a twisted-up statement from every human standpoint, and it is no wonder that so many ministers of the church would like the Gospel of John taken out of the Bible, for in truth, such things read as gibberish to the human mind, which has to have a logical meaning to everything. Spiritual things are the opposite of logic. The things of God are foolishness with man, but the things of man are foolishness with God.
So, unless you have the ability to inwardly discern, you will make the same mistake that people have made in calling most of the oriental teachings paganism. Why paganism? Well, because they so many statues, which seems to be that they have so many different gods. Well, perhaps to the human sense, that's the way it looks, but to me it looks just exactly that same way on going into a Christian church and seeing all the statues there, of the saints and so-called gods. If you're going to look at these in their literal sense, then to have the picture of Jesus Christ around or a statue of Jesus Christ or the Mother Mary or St. John or St. Peter, is paganism, just as much paganism as the so-called saints and gods of some oriental teachings. But, spiritually discerned, you can see that these are but symbolic representations of the divine idea of a creative principle and its spiritual creation, as made manifest in these states of consciousness whom we call saints and seers.
For us, in The Infinite Way—and I'm not speaking now as if all the students who read the books could achieve it or would ever believe it worthwhile to give time or attention to achieving it, but for the few who will ever hear these words on this tape, I will say that it is not only the highest achievement to which you must struggle, towards which you must struggle, but it is the goal which you must attain; and in proportion to your ability to attain it, will your spiritual powers be on earth.
No amount of human knowledge in your brain is going to make a white hair black, nor change sickness into health or sin into purity or lack into abundance, but in the degree that you attain the spiritual discernment which permits you to understand that I am the bread and I have meat the world knows not of, in that degree will you be able to feed the multitudes, the hungry multitudes; and in the degree that you can touch a leper, thereby realizing there is no power in an effect, or that you could speak to a corpse and say, "Come out. Lazarus, come forth," in that degree then, will you be capable of living spiritually and bringing forth the marvels that are embraced in that passage: the destruction of the four temporal kingdoms, for that is what we are doing in our spiritual ministry. We are overcoming the four temporal kingdoms, but we are doing that with a stone that is carved out of the side of a mountain without hands.
Is there anything more mystical than the statement, Leave your nets, if you understand that that statement was addressed to fishermen who were earning their livelihood that way? That, again, would make wonderful material for a koan, to tell a fisherman to "Leave thy nets." How could he leave his nets and still support his family, and how could he be spiritual if he was going to neglect his family and let them starve? Figure that one out spiritually, and you will have discernment.
So I will conclude by saying that the attainment of spiritual consciousness enables you to see that which is invisible, hear that which is inaudible and know that which is unknowable.
November 19th. I am giving you now, a subject for not only this morning's meditation but for contemplation until such time as the answer is revealed to you. This concerns the subject of Bible promises. We read in the Bible that if you go through the waters you will not drown and if you go through the flames they will not kindle upon you and I will not cause your feet to stumble and I will set a table before you in the wilderness and I will never leave you nor forsake you; and I'm sure that you can think of more than 100 such promises. Yet, if you look at this world objectively, you must agree that none of those promises are being kept, none of them are being fulfilled, that the entire race is stumbling or being drowned or being burned or being enslaved—either physically or mentally—and if you happen to pick the wrong country to live in, you can be starved. In some, you're in physical slavery and there are dozens of countries in which the inhabitants are in mental slavery, and so it would appear that these promises are not being kept or fulfilled.
So the question that arises is, first of all, were these promises addressed to the human race? Secondly, if so, were there conditions attached? Third, what are those conditions; and fourth, is it not possible for us to fulfill those conditions or what must we do to fulfill the conditions in order that the promises may be fulfilled, and with the fulfilling of these promises be limited only to those individuals who became aware of the conditions and then set about fulfilling them, or would there be some way in which the reign of harmony, as promised in Scripture, could be brought about for the world by one or more individuals?


Taylor Swift's early efforts to keep unwanted people out of her landmark mansion proved futile, so she's moved on to a backup plan the Prez would approve of -- build a bigger wall.
We broke the story ... Taylor made moves to improve security at her historic Beverly Hills home in late 2017 by putting up 6.5 and 7-foot walls around her property. But, after a man was arrested for trespassing in April, the singer took Swift action to make her place more secure.
According to new building docs, she was granted permission for a new 12-14 foot high wall -- which will go behind the current walls -- "in order to improve security and privacy on the subject property due to multiple attempts by people to enter the property over the existing, lower perimeter wall."
Taylor's new wall will also include landscaping -- box ivy and bushes -- to cover any holes in the wall so no one can see in from the outside.
A special meeting had to be called to grant permission because, as we reported ... her pad was designated a historic landmark.


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Black Jack is a rural locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. In the  Black Jack had a population of 161 people.

It was formerly a mining town which is now abandoned.

Geography
Black Jack is a triangular-shaped locality. The Great Northern railway line forms the northern boundary of Black Jack. There are two railway stations within the locality, Wellington Yards railway station in the far north-east corner (on the outskirts of the suburban area of Charters Towers) and Southern Cross railway station on its north-west border.

The Flinders Highway passes through the northern part of the locality, while the Diamantina Road forms its eastern boundary.

Black Jack is approximately 350 metres above sea level rising to peaks in its south-west of 450 metres.

History
The Black Jack P. C. mine produced large quantities of gold in 1886 and 1887 (known as the Black Jack Boom) but then produced very little in subsequent years.

Black Jack Provisional School opened on 21 March 1887. It became Black Jack State School on 6 July 1891. It closed in 1949.

In the  Black Jack had a population of 161 people.

References

Further reading

External links

Charters Towers Region
Localities in Queensland
Mining towns in Queensland

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If the federal government were our 8th grade son or daughter, their cell phone would probably be taken away for the rest of the school year.
The government's latest Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) report card, released earlier this month, has six agencies getting worse grades since the last report card in June, 15 staying the same and only three agencies making better grades. The U.S. Agency for International Development was the only one to earn an A.
While we're not talking about algebra and biology here, the results show agencies falling behind in IT modernization. But it could mean an opportunity for tech companies that sell to government.


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Q: Changing column data types using Mutate_at() in R Trying to change multiple CHR type columns to date using mutate_at() in tidyverse.
UPDATE:
Here is the tibble. Note I was able to use a regular mutate with mdy_hm() on a single variable but not multiple in mutate_at()
head(data)
# A tibble: 6 x 52
  CONTACTID Status `Contract Date` `Country of Ori~ `CES Submitted` `Embassy Date` `Hire Date` Agent `ATT Received` `CES Issued Dat~ `CES Ready Revi~ `CES RFR 8 week~ `I-140 Sent` `I-140 Recd.` `I-140 Result D~ `I-140 Status` `CES Status` `Choice of Agen~ Client `Contact Owner`
  <chr>     <chr>  <chr>           <chr>            <chr>           <chr>          <chr>       <chr> <chr>          <chr>            <chr>            <lgl>            <chr>        <chr>         <chr>            <chr>          <chr>        <chr>            <chr>  <chr>
1 zcrm_257~ Finis~ NA              Philippines      NA              NA             6/22/2015   NA    NA             NA               NA               FALSE            NA           NA            NA               NA             NA           NA               Oakbe~ Tyler Richards
2 zcrm_257~ Finis~ 12/15/2015 0:00 England          NA              12/5/2016      2/20/2017   Adev~ NA             NA               NA               FALSE            4/14/2016    6/29/2011     4/25/2016        Approved       NA           5/25/2016        Oakbe~ Eddie Money
3 zcrm_257~ Finis~ 11/9/2015 6:00  Philippines      NA              NA             11/17/2015  Ulti~ NA             NA               NA               FALSE            NA           NA            NA               NA             NA           NA               Oakbe~ Eddie Money
4 zcrm_257~ Finis~ 3/3/2016 21:00  Philippines      NA              NA             3/21/2016   NA    NA             NA               NA               FALSE            NA           NA            NA               NA             NA           NA               Oakbe~ Eddie Money
5 zcrm_257~ Finis~ 8/15/2006 0:00  Philippines      NA              3/21/2016      6/27/2016   IQ    NA             NA               NA               FALSE            3/1/2007     3/2/2007      3/8/2007         Approved       NA           7/10/2007        Oakbe~ alyssa Coleman
6 zcrm_257~ Relea~ 7/20/2016 6:00  Philippines      NA              NA             9/12/2016   Ulti~ NA             NA               NA               FALSE            NA           NA            NA               NA             NA           NA               Oakbe~ Eddie Money
# ... with 32 more variables: `DS260 Completed` <chr>, Elite <lgl>, `Embassy Status` <chr>, `Fee Bill Received` <chr>, `Fee Bill Returned` <chr>, `Hospital Country` <chr>, `Hospital Size` <dbl>, `IELTS Test Date` <chr>, `Initial Ready for Review` <chr>, `Instruction Pkt.
#   Returned` <chr>, `Lead Source` <chr>, `Name of Hospital` <chr>, `NCLEX Pass/Fail` <chr>, `NCLEX Ready 90 days` <lgl>, `NCLEX Review Purchased` <chr>, `NCLEX Review Name` <chr>, `NCLEX Test Date` <chr>, `NVC Completed` <chr>, `Mailing City` <chr>, `Mailing Country` <chr>,
#   `Mailing State` <chr>, `Previous Rcpt Date` <lgl>, `RFE Issue Date` <chr>, Specialty <chr>, `State Board Approved Date` <chr>, `Submittal Date` <chr>, `UTM Source` <chr>, `UTM Medium` <chr>, `UTM Content` <chr>, `Visa Screen Approved` <chr>, `Years as RN` <dbl>,
#   `Termination Date` <chr>

Just using two here as example:
data <- data %>% mutate_at(data,vars(`Contract Date`,`Hire Date`),
                             funs(as_date(mdy_hm())))

Which yields the following error:

Error: `.vars` must be a character/numeric vector or a `vars()` object, not a `tbl_df/tbl/data.frame` object
  Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.

Any help as to how I can avoid this error?

A: Contract Date and Hire Date have different formats. Try :
library(dplyr)
library(lubridate)

data2 %>%
  mutate(`Contract Date` = as_date(mdy_hm(`Contract Date`)),
         `Hire Date` = mdy(`Hire Date`))

We can also use base R to do this :
transform(df, `Contract Date` = as.Date(as.POSIXct(`Contract Date`,
                                format = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M")),
              `Hire Date` = as.Date(`Hire Date`, "%m/%d/%Y"))

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Vietnam: A Television History; Aerial views of route N4 between My Tho and Cai Lay with villages.
Aerial views of route N4 between My Tho and Cai Lay with villages.
Chicago: "Vietnam: A Television History; Aerial views of route N4 between My Tho and Cai Lay with villages.," 12/20/1964, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 17, 2020, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/I_7FAF4E029B4A4D1CB74835A5631190C5.
MLA: "Vietnam: A Television History; Aerial views of route N4 between My Tho and Cai Lay with villages.." 12/20/1964. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. January 17, 2020. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/I_7FAF4E029B4A4D1CB74835A5631190C5>.
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An Ancestor's Atrocity in King Philip's War.
Families like mine with roots in Puritan America invariably had ancestors in direct conflict with the native peoples they supplanted. I have not featured the Abbott branch of the tree in my posts on family history as prominently as those in my mother's line, given the rich trove of primary source material to draw from in the maternal archive. Still, my Abbott kin were original settlers in Andover, Massachusetts where my parents now make their home - returning our particular branch of the Abbott tree to its origins after a 200 year absence - and my ancestors were deeply embroiled in the signature events in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Our association with the 1692 "Witch Hysteria" deserves its own post, so you shall have to wait to learn about my collateral ancestor Benjamin Abbot, an Andover witch accuser who helped send his neighbor Martha Carrier to the gallows, and others in our line who were on the receiving end of such accusations and one (Rebbecca Nurse) who was condemned as a witch and hanged. My interest here is in an earlier slaughter of innocents in which my family also played a shameful part, though sadly just one of many atrocities large and small perpetrated on both sides during King Philip's War.
In 1675, a regional conflict erupted between an alliance of New England tribes under Wampanoag sachem Metacomet (known to the colonists as King Philip) and the Plimoth, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies. Rhode Island, which neither sought nor declared war with Philip, suffered greatly during the conflict, for the Narragansett of Rhode Island offered sanctuary to Wampanoag women and children which the English viewed as a violation of their neutrality. In December 1675, a 1,000 man colonial force, along with 150 Mohegan scouts, marched against the fortified Narragansett settlement deep in in a ceder swamp in present day South Kingston, Rhode Island. Among the soldiers who participated in what became known as The Great Swamp Fight were twelve men from Andover in Captain Gardiner's company, including my 8th great uncle Joseph Abbot(t).
Historian Jill Lepore describes the English attack and its aftermath:
"...a coalition of English soldiers from each of the United Colonies, aided by an Indian guide, entered the Great Swamp...where they found a palisaded fort sheltering hundreds of wigwams and, by some estimates, as many as three or four thousand Narragansetts. Most were women and children hidden in the swamp for protection during the war, along with storehouses of winter supplies. English soldiers first set fire to the wigwams and then waited as the Narragansetts began fleeing over the palisade and through its doors and windows. Then the soldiers ' ran on the very musles of thyr guns, up to the Indeans port holes: & fyred in at them, & leped over thyr brest workes, & run into theyr forte, & beat them out: & slew many of them.' The fury of the English was so great that, rather than preserve the wigwams for their own shelter, or to save the food, they burned everything and were forced to march back out of the swamp all through the night and the next several days, in driving snow, during which many English soldiers froze to death." (Lepore; The Name of War 1998: 88).
Captain Gardiner was killed in the first charge of the gate, and one report lists Joseph Abbot(t) of Andover as wounded. Two hundred of the attackers were killed or wounded, but over 1,000 Narragansett perished, most of whom were noncombatants, and the destruction of 500 wigwams and corn supplies condemned many more to starvation in the winter wilderness. The surviving Narragansett joined the war against the English.
Such slaughter was unprecedented in this war, and it made a deep impression on the English soldiers who participated. The carnage seems to have affected Joseph Abbot(t) and the other Andover men, for during the long journey home they committed an atrocity of their own.
Where the Concord River meets the Merrimack in present day Lowell, Massachusetts, there was a village of Christianized Indians called Wamesit. During the war most of the inhabitants of these "praying towns" were interred under appalling conditions on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. The Wamesits took a different path, nailing the following message to a tree that November before abandoning their town and going "towards the French" in Canada:
"As for the Island, we say there is no safety for us, because many English be not good, and may be they come to us and kill us...we are not sorry for what we leave but we are sorry for the English have driven us from our praying to god and from our teacher." (Lepore 1998: 138)
The long trek north in winter would have been impossible for the old, blind and infirm of the tribe, so these were left behind at Wamesit. And here the returning Andover soldiers found them.
Joseph Abbot(t) and his comrades may have been drunk on cider, or just inflamed by what they had seen and done in the Great Swamp Fight, but when they reached Wamesit they entered the village and burned it to the ground. The Andover men later claimed they did not know the old people were there, but those who had stayed in the village perished in the flames.
It is unclear whether any Wamesits were among the Indians who subsequently attacked Andover two months later on April 18th, 1676. Philip's Nipmuc allies had burned neighboring Chelmsford to the ground several days before, making Andover now the frontier of English settlement in the Merrimack Valley. The Abbot(t) family established a blockhouse for the security of themselves and their neighbors, to which most of the family fled when the Indians approached. Joseph Abbot(t) and his 13 year old brother Timothy, however, had been cutting elder bushes in a swampy field by the Shawsheen River and did not hear the alarm. When the Indians burst from the trees, the Abbot brothers discovered that young Timothy had mistakenly brought a horn not filled with gunpowder but with sand for whetting scythes. Joseph defended his brother with his clubbed musket, killing one of his attackers at least before he was pulled down and slain.
Timothy Abbot(t) was taken as captive to Canada but was returned gaunt and famished that August by an Indian woman, who according to Andover legend had formerly been known to his mother and treated kindly by her. A less romanticized explanation may be that at the close of hostilities, those Algonquin peoples who survived in the Massachusetts Bay and Plimoth Colonies, regardless of what part they might have played during the war, were required to produce either English captives or two heads of other warriors as security for their parole.
It was a brutal time, and many New Englanders interpreted the calamities they faced as evidence that "God had withdrawn his favor, making apparent both his terrible anger at their backsliding and their terrible vulnerability without his protection (Elinor Abbot; Our Company Increases Apace: 2007:130)." A third of the English settlements in Massachusetts were destroyed during King Philip's War and over 600 colonists lost their lives. The Algonquin of southern New England fared far worse, and only 400 Wampanoag survived the war, mostly on Cape Cod and the offshore Islands where these bands had managed to remain neutral.
Joseph Abbot(t) was by contemporary accounts an admirable young man, just 24 years old and involved in a war of survival that threatened the very foundations of his world. He participated in a savage campaign of extermination in the Great Swamp Fight in which his side suffered 20% casualties and his company (the Sixth Massachusetts) lost its Captain, 1st Lieutenant and 5 others killed and 10 wounded. He had done and seen too much to remain unchanged by the experience, and so he committed an atrocity at Wamesit in which the only Indians killed were Christian, non-combatant, old and sick. From this great distance one can see how it happened. There were decent young men like him at My Lai, too.
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Very interesting post. I grew up in Shawsheen village in Andover, but have lived in southern RI for many years now. After recently reading Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower" I have become more interested in the history of early settlers and local native peoples. The Great Swamp Fight is something I had heard about for many years, but never took the time to explore. Imagine my surprise to stumble across your post that links events and people of my old and new homes. It is truly amazing to think that people actually walked those distances in the dead of winter, and sobering to think that they sometimes did so to commit acts of almost unimaginable cruelty.
Posted by: David Kane | November 18, 2009 at 05:26 PM
Hello, Frank. I don't have any close Abbott kin west of New York State, and our branch of this large and extended family of New England origins has stayed relatively close to its roots. I do have a gr-gr-great uncle buried at the Veteran's Home up by Glacier National Park but he's the only one who drifted west that I know of and had no descendants. Most Abbott's in America with puritan roots stem from two unrelated George Abbot(t)s who settled in Andover, MA in the 1640s. Best wishes and good luck in your research. Tim
Posted by: Tim Abbott | June 23, 2008 at 03:20 PM
I am curious, tim if you are/know of/are related to / heard of/ a Tim Abott from Mt. Home ID, that played college basketball in Alaska? My 11th/12th great grandfather John Baker fought in the Great Swamp Fight, and I ran across your name.
Frank Mielke
Posted by: Frank Mielke | June 23, 2008 at 03:14 PM
Tim, thank you very much!
Posted by: Charles Abbott | February 25, 2007 at 05:30 PM
Charles, there is a bit more biographical information about your Benjamin Abbott (1750-1816) and his in-laws at Rootsweb http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2408176&id=I1015 Nothing on his parentage, nor military servcie, though he was in the Revolutionary Generation. If I find more I'll forwadr it along.
Posted by: GreenmanTim | February 25, 2007 at 04:22 PM
I just noticed that I misspelled the maiden name of Benjamin's wife. It should be Hudgens. It seems that they were married March 16,1781 In Rowan County NC. It seems that Benjamin was born in 1750 and Mary Hudgens was born in 1760 and her father was William Hudgens. By the way, thanks for responding to my querry.
Posted by: Charles Abbott | February 25, 2007 at 07:58 AM
Do you have birth or death dates for your Benjamin Abbott? I'm guessing he was alive in the latter part of the 18th century. The Andover Abbotts were in their 4th and 5th generations in this country by then, and there are two, initially unrelated Abbot(t) families that settled there in the 1640s. Abiel Abbot's Genealogical Register of the Abbot Family (1847) does not list any Hudgings in its index of surnames not Abbot, but that does not mean your Benjamin is not to be found within. Lay out what vital stats you have for this couple and I'll see what I can turn up.
Posted by: GreenmanTim | February 25, 2007 at 02:48 AM
I am new to the Abbott Family research and am trying to connect the dots. I have gotten back to great, great, great, great grandfather, Benjamin Abbott who was father of my great (times 3) grandfather Sterling Abbott. My research leads me to believe this Benjamin Abbott was married to Mary Hudging in Rowan County N.C. However, that is where my research becomes sketchy. Can anyone direct me to a more complete source?
Tim, you might also want to check into Francis Ellingwood Abbot about whom I'd blogged
briefly the night I found your site mentioned at Boston 1775. Brian Sullivan of Harvard
University edited a book of Abbot's diary and love letters to his wife Katharine Loring
called "If Ever Two Were One: A Diary of Love Eternal" and it seemed an appropriate
entry for Valentine's Day. He'sa distant cousin of mine through both the Abbot and
Ellingwood lines.
And hello there, Cousin VA!
Posted by: Bill West | February 17, 2007 at 01:44 AM
VA - There were a lot of Abbot(t) progeny, so I guess we should not be surprised to find ourselves distant cousins through the blogosphere! You may have encountered Bailey's Historical Sketches of Andover, one of the big 19th century town histories, in which she reports: "Timothy Abbot, when master of a family, never allowed a child to say he was hungry, saying they did not know the meaning of the word hunger." Sort of akin to saying; "Eat your baked beans! There are Wamesit kids starving in the wilderness who would give anything for Boston Baked Beans!" Many thanks for visiting. You and Mr. West inspire me to focus my attention on blogging the Andover roots of the family. In addition to the witch hysteria, one could imagine posts about The Lexington Alarm, for which the Andover Minutemen got a very late start, and the redoubt on Breeds Hill in which my ancestor Nathaniel Abbot(t) and Frye's Andover Company of Minutemen were right in the thick of things...
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Most people don't take their exotic pets shopping but when they do, they take them to Walmart. We're not sure why... Wally World's pet section stocks neither Chupacabra Chow nor Liger Litter.
In any case, let's meet some of the people & pets you do NOT want to find yourself behind in the checkout line.
Hmm, this dude looks a little old to be a Harry Potter fan. Then again, the first HP flick was released about 15 years ago and for all we know the owl could be both magical and immortal. It'll also probably give you a nasty case of hogwarts.
Bring your pet chipmunk to Walmart? I rodent do that if I were you, unless of course they've rolled back the price on nuts. Seed what I did there?
If you've got a Ring-Tailed Lemur perched upon your shoulder you'd better be Marlin Perkins or John Cleese – neither of whom shop at Walmart (as far as we know). These officially endangered primates are native to Madagascar so what's one doing in a Walmart in Florida?
Speaking of Walmarts in Florida, check out these refugees from the rainforest. Dude's probably on his way to the CD rack in search of a new Jimmy Buffett compilation. Did you know some of Buffett's more devoted fans call themselves "Parrotheads"? That might just explain the photo above.
Would you bring a goat to Walmart? Depends... what I mean is, be sure Billy's wearing Depends before you hit the aisles. At least this good shepherd's showing some consideration and the leash helps too: most folks who get rammed at Walmart have it happen in the parking lot, not inside the store.
If you thought the monkey from The Hangover was badass, you haven't seen this punk primate. See all those skulls on his shirt? That's not a décor theme, it's a body count.
Walmart shopper speak with forked tongue – plus, he hasn't got a leg to stand on nor a pot to python. OK, we're done here and this dude's eerie smirk is getting me rattled.
Either this otherwise wholesome and corn-fed family is taking their pet goose shopping or Walmart's now selling live holiday dinners. Maybe this is a goose that lays golden eggs... or maybe not, and you'd best not step into what it DOES lay.
Don't mind this guy, he's just playin' possum... just pray the menacing marsupial's had his shots. There may be a few more youngins hiding in his beard but I wouldn't check it with YOUR hands.
It's a pity Jim Morrison has left us 'cuz here's his dream date clothed in flannel and lizard-skin. At least the flannel isn't living. I want to believe what she's "wearing" is only an oddly-textured flotation vest (think Marty McFly meets Jurassic Park) but this is Walmart, where all your dreams turn into nightmares.
Thanks and a tip of the cap as well to People of Walmart, the hard-working source of these all-too-real images you only WISH were 'shopped!
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Trump has birthed a dangerous new 'Lost Cause' myth. We must fight it
David Blight
The lie that the election was 'stolen' from Trump is building its monuments in ludicrous stories, and codifying them in laws to make the next elections easier to pilfer
Supporters of Donald Trump displayed a gallows as they gathered outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
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American democracy is in peril and nearly everyone paying attention is trying to find the best way to say so. Should we in the intellectual classes position our warnings in satire, in jeremiads, in social scientific data, in historical analogy, in philosophical wisdom we glean from so many who have instructed us about the violence and authoritarianism of the 20th century? Or should we just scream after our holiday naps?
Some of us pick up our pens and do what we can. We quote wise scribes such as George Orwell on how there may be a latent fascist waiting to emerge in all humans, or Hannah Arendt on how democracies are inherently unstable and susceptible to ruin by aggressive, skilled demagogues. We turn to Alexis de Tocqueville for his stunning insights into American individualism while we love to believe his claims that democracy would create greater equality. And oh! how we love Walt Whitman's fabulously open, infinite democratic spirit. We inhale Whitman's verses and are captured by the hypnotic power of democracy. "O Democracy, for you, for you I am trilling these songs," wrote our most exuberant democrat.
Read enough of the right Whitman and you can believe again that American democracy may yet be "the continent indissoluble … with the life-long love of comrades". But just now we cannot rely on the genius alone of our wise forbears. We have to face our own mess, engage the fight before us, and prepare for the worst.
Our democracy allows a twice-impeached, criminally inclined ex-president, who publicly fomented an attempted coup against his own government, and still operates as a gangster leader of his political party, to peacefully reside in our midst while under investigation for his misdeeds. We believe in rule of law, and therefore await verdicts of our judicial system and legislative inquiry.
Yet Trumpism unleashed on 6 January, and every day before and since over a five-year period, a crusade to slowly poison the American democratic experiment with a movement to overturn decades of pluralism, increased racial and gender equality, and scientific knowledge. To what end? Establishing a hopeless white utopia for the rich and the aggrieved.
On this 6 January anniversary is it time to sing anew with Whitmanesque fervor, or is the only rational response to scream? First the scream.
On 6 January 2021, an American mob, orchestrated by the most powerful man in the land, along with many congressional and media allies, nearly destroyed our indirect electoral democracy. To this day, only Trump's laziness and incompetence may explain why he did not force Vice-President Mike Pence to resign in the two months before the coup attempt, install a genuine lackey like Mark Meadows, and set up the formal disruption of the count of electoral votes. The real coup needed guns, and military brass thankfully made clear they would oppose any attempt at imposing martial law. But the coup endures by failing; it now takes the form of voter suppression laws, virulent states' rights doctrine applied to all manner of legislative action installing Republican loyalists in the electoral system, and a propaganda machine capable of popularizing lies big and small.
The lies have now crept into a Trumpian Lost Cause ideology, building its monuments in ludicrous stories that millions believe, and codifying them in laws to make the next elections easier to pilfer. If you repeat the terms "voter fraud" and "election integrity" enough times on the right networks you have a movement. And "replacement theory" works well alongside a thousand repetitions of "critical race theory", both disembodied of definition or meaning, but both scary. Liberals sometimes invite scorn with their devotion to diversity training and insistence on fighting over words rather than genuine inequality. But it is time to see the real enemy – a long-brewing American-style neo-fascist authoritarianism, beguilingly useful to the grievances of the disaffected, and threatening to steal our microphones midway through our odes to joy.
Yes, disinformation has to be fought with good information. But it must also be fought with fierce politics, with organization, and if necessary with bodies, non-violently. We have an increasingly dangerous population on the right. Who do you know who really wants to compromise with their ideas? Who on the left will volunteer to be part of a delegation to go discuss the fate of democracy with Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy or the foghorns of Fox News? Who on the right will come to a symposium with 10 of the finest writers on democracy, its history and its philosophy, and help create a blueprint for American renewal? As a culture we are not in the mood for such reason and comity; we are in a fight, and it needs to happen in politics. Otherwise it may be 1861 again in some very new form. Unfortunately it is likely to take events even more shocking than 6 January to move our political culture through and beyond our current crisis.
And if and when it is 1861 again, the new secessionists, namely the Republican party, will have a dysfunctional constitution to exploit. The ridiculously undemocratic US Senate, now 50/50 between the two parties, but where Democrats represent 56.5% of the population and Republicans 43.5%, augurs well for those determined to thwart majoritarian democracy. And, of course, the electoral college – an institution more than two centuries out of date, and which even our first demagogue president, Andrew Jackson, advocated abolishing – offers perennial hope to Republicans who may continue to lose popular votes but win the presidency, as they have in two of the last six elections. Democracy?
And now the song? Well, keep reading. Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World. A political philosopher and historian, Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether people can actually govern themselves. He demonstrates how thin the lines are between success and disaster for democracies, how big wins turn into reactions and big losses, and how the dynamics of even democratic societies can be utterly amoral. Intolerant new ruling classes sometimes replace the tyrants they overthrow.
"Democratic revolts, like democratic elections," Miller writes, "can produce perverse outcomes." History is still waiting for us. But in the end, via examples like Václav Havel in the Czech Republic, Miller reminds us that the "ideal survives". Democracy does require the "best laws", Havel intoned, but it must also manifest as "humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural". Miller does the history to show that democracy is almost always a "riddle, not a recipe". Democracy is much harder than autocracy to sustain. But renew it we must.
Or simply pick up Whitman's Song of Myself, all 51 pages, from the opening line, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself," to his musings on the luck of merely being alive. Keep going to a few pages later when a "runaway slave" enters Whitman's home and the poet gazes into his "revolving eyes", and nurses "the galls of his neck and ankles", and then to his embrace of "primeval", complete democracy midway in the song, where he accepts "nothing which all cannot have". Finally read to the ending, where the poet finds blissful oblivion, bequeathing himself "to the dirt to grow from the grass I love". Whitman's "sign of democracy" is everywhere and in everything. The democratic and the authoritarian instinct are both deep within us, forever at war.
After 6 January, it's time to prepare thee to sing, to scream, and to fight.
David W Blight is sterling professor of American History at Yale and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Leading Organisations Back Global Action Plan, Urge Governments and Partners
to Take Immediate Steps to Achieve Impact
Millions of Children's Lives Can be Saved from Pneumonia and Diarrhoea through Integrated Effort
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London—More than 100 nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs), joined by dozens of leading experts, expressed their support today for the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF's first-ever global plan to simultaneously tackle pneumonia and diarrhoea—diseases that take the lives of almost two million children each year—and urged governments and their partners to make the plan a reality.
The Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) provides the strategies and evidence needed to significantly reduce childhood death and illness from two of the leading killers of children, pneumonia and diarrhoea, that together account for nearly one-third of deaths in children younger than age five. The Global Action Plan calls on national governments and their partners to integrate their approach to fighting these diseases, for which the interventions to protect against, prevent and treat are complementary. Having collected and analysed the most recent evidence on the impact of pneumonia and diarrhoea interventions and country practices, The Lancet series, also released today, provides the scientific underpinning for the GAPPD.
"There is absolutely no reason children today should die from pneumonia and diarrhoea," said William Keenan, executive director, International Pediatric Association. "We have the tools to stop these deaths and we must. By coordinating efforts to tackle two diseases that can be defeated, we have the power to save millions of children's lives."
The world's leading NGOs and CSOs have expressed their commitment to working with countries and their partners to develop country-specific plans designed to achieve the greatest impact. Next steps among key partners must include:
For national governments:
· Prioritising the fight against pneumonia and diarrhoea through integrated policies and increased resource mobilisation;
· Using the GAPPD to determine what specific plans, investments and partners are needed to achieve the greatest health impact in your country;
· Identifying clear roles and responsibilities and establishing transparent governance and accountability structures across ministries, sectors and partners;
· Engaging affected communities, civil society, the private sector, donor agencies and multilateral institutions to assess how the GAPPD can be used to strengthen efforts in your country;
· Focusing on and dedicating resources to reducing inequities; and
· Supporting communities most affected as they implement integrated strategies.
For the private sector:
· Committing to producing quality, affordable treatments and vaccines in child-friendly formulations that are easy-to-administer and to improving distribution to ensure these products reach the most vulnerable children;
· Developing and delivering improved water treatment, sanitation products and clean-cooking technologies and supporting accessible and affordable service delivery for all; and
· Conducting communications campaigns to reach families and health providers about best practices.
For bilateral organisations and donors:
· Providing technical and financial support to countries adopting the GAPPD as part of their national child survival commitments;
· Scaling up investments in and support for governments working toward integration in accordance with internationally recognised principles of aid effectiveness;
· Incentivising integrated approaches to protect, prevent and treat pneumonia and diarrhoea in the way funds are disbursed, results are measured and global and national policies are influenced.
For WHO and UNICEF:
· Harnessing their regional and national program staff to work with member countries on effectively implementing the GAPPD.
"Cambodia has already made progress integrating our programs and policies to improve prevention and treatment of diarrhoea and pneumonia," said Professor Eng Huot, secretary of state, Ministry of Health, Cambodia. "With the release of the Global Action Plan, we have the roadmap needed to make strong gains for all our children."
The launch of the Global Action Plan comes at a critical time, as countries strive to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the 2015 deadline. While tremendous progress has been made and child deaths have plummeted in the last 20 years, too many children are still dying from pneumonia and diarrhoea. Tackling these two leading killers of children together will have the single greatest impact on improving child survival. While stepping up efforts to meet MDG 4—a two-thirds reduction in child deaths, those working on the post-2015 development framework must prioritise integrated approaches to improving child health, like the GAPPD, and set goals for expanding access to health care, safe water and sanitation.
"A world where two million fewer children die from pneumonia and diarrhoea is achievable because we already have the solutions—the vaccines and medicines, clean water and energy, and other key services vital to healthy childhoods," said Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president, World Bank. "The critical challenge is delivery to the children who need these interventions the most. The World Bank is committed to investing in the health of children and in health systems that can sustainably deliver quality, affordable health care to the most vulnerable children."
Key resources:
· NGO and CSO Statement of Support Signed on to by Over 100 Organizations
· Individual Comments and Statements of Support from Key Leaders and Experts
· WHO and UNICEF's GAPPD Report and Related Content (These materials are embargoed until April 12. Please contact Guillermo Meneses for advance access.)
· The Lancet series on Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (Please note: these articles are embargoed until April 12. Please contact Guillermo Meneses for advance access.)
· For a comprehensive suite of resources and materials, please visit: http://www.defeatdd.org/global-action-plan
Partners representing more than 100 organisations from countries around the world stand ready to work with national governments to set priorities, identify challenges and establish integrated approaches to fight pneumonia and diarrhoea.
Diarrhea and malnutrition are inextricably linked


Auburn needs a new Edward Little High School but at what expense?
It appears that Auburn voters will be given a choice as to whether to build a new high school but no choice as to the scope and cost of the project they'll be asked to approve in a June 11 referendum.
The Edward Little High School Building Committee decided Tuesday to place only one thumbs-up-or-down question on the ballot rather than giving voters a menu of options and prices.
Not surprisingly, given the binary option of "yes" or "no" to a new school, the straw poll passed by a margin of 197 to 12. If the Building Committee has its way, a similar question will be framed for the referendum on final project approval. Following the March straw poll, School Committee Chair Tom Kendall telegraphed that intention. Tuesday's decision, therefore, was merely a formality.
Kendall, an Auburn School Committee and Building Committee perennial, opined that the ballot question "doesn't need to be broken out. The community is going to support this." His rationale was that the current high school was built in 1961 on a bare-bones budget, making it woefully deficient, and that no one would want to repeat the same mistake.
I doubt most voters recall the 1961 decision, or, even if informed of it, would agree that a structure, which cost only about $2 million, has been in continuous use for nearly 60 years, and is still physically serviceable despite being functionally outdated, was a mistake. But Kendall, along with fellow longtime board member Bonnie Hayes and School Superintendent Katy Grondin, seem to share the monument-building ambitions of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II and are determined get the high school of their dreams. They intend to leave nothing to chance, including the will of the electorate.
What's disturbing is that the Edward Little High School project, like a large Christmas tree, is loaded with ornaments, yet voters won't really have the opportunity or the information to decide which ones they wish to pay for.
The straw poll was preceded by a presentation by the project's architects, followed by a short question-and-answer question session involving the audience. An informational handout featured some attractive exterior and interior renderings of the building, floor plans, a site sketch, and a forecast of the project's local-cost impact on municipal taxes. I found the presentation, question-and-answer session, and handout to be long on hype and short on information. In the end, I didn't cast a vote, because I felt I lacked sufficient data to make an informed decision.
The current Edward Little High School is obsolescent and shabby. The need for a renovated or new building has been evident for at least a decade. No one disputes that. Several committees have worked on plans to replace it, but only in 2016, after the project qualified for state funding, was full-scale planning possible.
I served on the previous ELHS building committee, appointed in 2012, but I resigned in early 2013 when the committee recommended a totally new structure with a potential project price tag I felt would be unacceptable to the community in the absence of state funding. At that time, the cost for a new school on the existing site was estimated at about $62 million, while the alternative, renovation of the existing structure, was forecast to be about $50 million.
After state funding became available, a new committee was appointed, and all thoughts of controlling costs were apparently abandoned. The current project price tag of $126 million is over twice the 2013 estimate of $62 million, well beyond any construction-cost inflation factor.
The most honest way to approach the electorate at referendum would be to break out each locally funded element of project cost into a separate question, adding as many questions and as much information as needed to adequately inform the voters' decision.
The most questionable add-on involving local funding is a 1,200 seat state-of-the-art performing arts center. Clearly the new school should have an auditorium/performing arts center, but the size of the proposed one is mind boggling. It would be about half the size of Boston Symphony Hall and almost two-thirds that of Portland's Merrill Auditorium, both cavernous spaces in populous cities with larger pools of concert and theater goers. A facility that big would be not only expensive to build but to maintain. Think about all those upholstered seats that will need to be repaired or replaced, floor areas cleaned, and sophisticated audio-visual systems serviced. Such facilities aren't for mere intermittent or partial use, which is why local performance spaces only have seating capacities for about 400.
If you ask the School Department how many times each year the auditorium will be utilized at or near capacity for school functions, you won't get an answer. If you ask how many times it will be used for revenue-generating events, the only answer you'll receive is that Westbrook High School's 1,000 seat auditorium, which has been hosting fee-generating events, realized a profit after its first three years of operation. If you ask to see a market study to support the proposed facility, you'll come up empty handed, because none has been done.
The bottom line for me is whether the Auburn is going to take a financially responsible or a "field of dreams" approach towards construction of the new high school.
Since no one else seems to be looking out for their fiscal interests on the high school project, the city's voters will have to look out for themselves. But they can only do so, if they're permitted a real choice on the referendum ballot and provided the hard data to support that choice.


Scientists cannot predict exactly when earthquakes will occur, but they can anticipate their effects. The relationship between the level of damage to buildings and the number of deaths recently recorded in Italy, Haiti and Chile was determined by a range of factors, chiefly the distance from the epicentre of the earthquake and the vulnerability of structures exposed to earth tremors. A worrying number of seismic vulnerability class I buildings have been identified across Europe, some of which have been labelled a danger to the public. Even though work is being carried out to strengthen many of these buildings, the process is long and difficult, especially because people do not realise that they are at risk and many refuse to cooperate with the authorities while restoration work is underway.
What steps will the Commission take to provide more public information on earthquakes and their devastating effects?
The European Union has financed the development of Eurocodes, the European standards for the design of buildings and civil infrastructures, including Eurocode 8, which addresses seismic design and retrofit. The Commission supports Member States and engineering professionals in the implementation and use of Eurocodes through workshops and training courses, and disseminates training and education material(1).
EU-funded research contributes to the further improvement of the European standards and guidelines, for example the recent guidelines on pre-cast structures and on seismic strengthening of existing buildings. Funding for earthquake damage mitigation measures can be included under the Structural Funds (risk prevention priority).
The Commission supports Member States in their risk awareness, communication and education activities in order to enhance the ability of communities to cope and recover from disaster situations. For example, some prevention and preparedness projects financed by the Union Civil Protection Mechanism are specifically aimed at improving risk communication and hence risk awareness and structured knowledge in local communities, with particular attention to vulnerable individuals; examples include 'Raising earthquake Awareness and Coping with Children's Emotions' (RACCE, 2010), 'Awareness of Disaster Prevention for vulnerable groups' (ADAPT, 2014) and 'Know your city reduce your seismic risk through non-structural elements' (KnowRISK, 2015)(2).


Any idea what Brummfidel means in English, as in the phrase "Brummfidel, Pestilenz und Weltuntergang." I've checked about 20 online dictionaries. No luck.
Never heard of the term, but did find it here, and wondering if related to quietschfidel?
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/sachbuch/sei-ein-frosch-1671062.html - implying something like happily bumbling and buzzing?


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Larry's Original Mexican Restaurant
Bernadine's
Tacos A Go-Go
Downtown/ Midtown
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Bocca Deli
7515 Navigation Blvd.
Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Serving: Breakfast, Brunch
Alcohol: No Alcohol
Reservations: Reservations Not Accepted
This East End spot is a dried beef factory first and foremost, with a tiny wisp of a restaurant attached. Despite what you'd think, though, both the food and the service are outstanding. Los Corrales is most popular at breakfast, when people crowd in to get machacado con huevo - made with its signature product or breakfast tacos made with its own fresh tortillas. At lunch, you can find old Tex-Mex classics like entomatadas and aporreado.
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Natural language processing (NLP) is the ability of a computer program to understand human language as it is spoken and written -- referred to as natural language.
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What is natural language processing?
Natural language processing (NLP) is the ability of a computer program to understand human language as it is spoken and written -- referred to as natural language. It is a component of artificial intelligence (AI).
NLP has existed for more than 50 years and has roots in the field of linguistics. It has a variety of real-world applications in a number of fields, including medical research, search engines and business intelligence.
How does natural language processing work?
NLP enables computers to understand natural language as humans do. Whether the language is spoken or written, natural language processing uses artificial intelligence to take real-world input, process it, and make sense of it in a way a computer can understand. Just as humans have different sensors -- such as ears to hear and eyes to see -- computers have programs to read and microphones to collect audio. And just as humans have a brain to process that input, computers have a program to process their respective inputs. At some point in processing, the input is converted to code that the computer can understand.
There are two main phases to natural language processing: data preprocessing and algorithm development.
Data preprocessing involves preparing and "cleaning" text data for machines to be able to analyze it. preprocessing puts data in workable form and highlights features in the text that an algorithm can work with. There are several ways this can be done, including:
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Tokenization. This is when text is broken down into smaller units to work with.
Stop word removal. This is when common words are removed from text so unique words that offer the most information about the text remain.
Lemmatization and stemming. This is when words are reduced to their root forms to process.
Part-of-speech tagging. This is when words are marked based on the part-of speech they are -- such as nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Once the data has been preprocessed, an algorithm is developed to process it. There are many different natural language processing algorithms, but two main types are commonly used:
Rules-based system. This system uses carefully designed linguistic rules. This approach was used early on in the development of natural language processing, and is still used.
Machine learning-based system. Machine learning algorithms use statistical methods. They learn to perform tasks based on training data they are fed, and adjust their methods as more data is processed. Using a combination of machine learning, deep learning and neural networks, natural language processing algorithms hone their own rules through repeated processing and learning.
Why is natural language processing important?
Businesses use massive quantities of unstructured, text-heavy data and need a way to efficiently process it. A lot of the information created online and stored in databases is natural human language, and until recently, businesses could not effectively analyze this data. This is where natural language processing is useful.
The advantage of natural language processing can be seen when considering the following two statements: "Cloud computing insurance should be part of every service-level agreement," and, "A good SLA ensures an easier night's sleep -- even in the cloud." If a user relies on natural language processing for search, the program will recognize that cloud computing is an entity, that cloud is an abbreviated form of cloud computing and that SLA is an industry acronym for service-level agreement.
These are some of the key areas in which a business can use natural language processing (NLP).
These are the types of vague elements that frequently appear in human language and that machine learning algorithms have historically been bad at interpreting. Now, with improvements in deep learning and machine learning methods, algorithms can effectively interpret them. These improvements expand the breadth and depth of data that can be analyzed.
Techniques and methods of natural language processing
Syntax and semantic analysis are two main techniques used with natural language processing.
Syntax is the arrangement of words in a sentence to make grammatical sense. NLP uses syntax to assess meaning from a language based on grammatical rules. Syntax techniques include:
Parsing. This is the grammatical analysis of a sentence. Example: A natural language processing algorithm is fed the sentence, "The dog barked." Parsing involves breaking this sentence into parts of speech -- i.e., dog = noun, barked = verb. This is useful for more complex downstream processing tasks.
Word segmentation. This is the act of taking a string of text and deriving word forms from it. Example: A person scans a handwritten document into a computer. The algorithm would be able to analyze the page and recognize that the words are divided by white spaces.
Sentence breaking. This places sentence boundaries in large texts. Example: A natural language processing algorithm is fed the text, "The dog barked. I woke up." The algorithm can recognize the period that splits up the sentences using sentence breaking.
Morphological segmentation. This divides words into smaller parts called morphemes. Example: The word untestably would be broken into [[un[[test]able]]ly], where the algorithm recognizes "un," "test," "able" and "ly" as morphemes. This is especially useful in machine translation and speech recognition.
Stemming. This divides words with inflection in them to root forms. Example: In the sentence, "The dog barked," the algorithm would be able to recognize the root of the word "barked" is "bark." This would be useful if a user was analyzing a text for all instances of the word bark, as well as all of its conjugations. The algorithm can see that they are essentially the same word even though the letters are different.
Semantics involves the use of and meaning behind words. Natural language processing applies algorithms to understand the meaning and structure of sentences. Semantics techniques include:
Word sense disambiguation. This derives the meaning of a word based on context. Example: Consider the sentence, "The pig is in the pen." The word pen has different meanings. An algorithm using this method can understand that the use of the word pen here refers to a fenced-in area, not a writing implement.
Named entity recognition. This determines words that can be categorized into groups. Example: An algorithm using this method could analyze a news article and identify all mentions of a certain company or product. Using the semantics of the text, it would be able to differentiate between entities that are visually the same. For instance, in the sentence, "Daniel McDonald's son went to McDonald's and ordered a Happy Meal," the algorithm could recognize the two instances of "McDonald's" as two separate entities -- one a restaurant and one a person.
Natural language generation. This uses a database to determine semantics behind words and generate new text. Example: An algorithm could automatically write a summary of findings from a business intelligence platform, mapping certain words and phrases to features of the data in the BI platform. Another example would be automatically generating news articles or tweets based on a certain body of text used for training.
Current approaches to natural language processing are based on deep learning, a type of AI that examines and uses patterns in data to improve a program's understanding. Deep learning models require massive amounts of labeled data for the natural language processing algorithm to train on and identify relevant correlations, and assembling this kind of big data set is one of the main hurdles to natural language processing.
Earlier approaches to natural language processing involved a more rules-based approach, where simpler machine learning algorithms were told what words and phrases to look for in text and given specific responses when those phrases appeared. But deep learning is a more flexible, intuitive approach in which algorithms learn to identify speakers' intent from many examples -- almost like how a child would learn human language.
Three tools used commonly for natural language processing include Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Gensim and Intel natural language processing Architect. NLTK is an open source Python module with data sets and tutorials. Gensim is a Python library for topic modeling and document indexing. Intel NLP Architect is another Python library for deep learning topologies and techniques.
What is natural language processing used for?
Some of the main functions that natural language processing algorithms perform are:
Text classification. This involves assigning tags to texts to put them in categories. This can be useful for sentiment analysis, which helps the natural language processing algorithm determine the sentiment, or emotion behind a text. For example, when brand A is mentioned in X number of texts, the algorithm can determine how many of those mentions were positive and how many were negative. It can also be useful for intent detection, which helps predict what the speaker or writer may do based on the text they are producing.
Text extraction. This involves automatically summarizing text and finding important pieces of data. One example of this is keyword extraction, which pulls the most important words from the text, which can be useful for search engine optimization. Doing this with natural language processing requires some programming -- it is not completely automated. However, there are plenty of simple keyword extraction tools that automate most of the process -- the user just has to set parameters within the program. For example, a tool might pull out the most frequently used words in the text. Another example is named entity recognition, which extracts the names of people, places and other entities from text.
Machine translation. This is the process by which a computer translates text from one language, such as English, to another language, such as French, without human intervention.
Natural language generation. This involves using natural language processing algorithms to analyze unstructured data and automatically produce content based on that data. One example of this is in language models such as GPT3, which are able to analyze an unstructured text and then generate believable articles based on the text.
The functions listed above are used in a variety of real-world applications, including:
customer feedback analysis -- where AI analyzes social media reviews;
customer service automation -- where voice assistants on the other end of a customer service phone line are able to use speech recognition to understand what the customer is saying, so that it can direct the call correctly;
automatic translation -- using tools such as Google Translate, Bing Translator and Translate Me;
academic research and analysis -- where AI is able to analyze huge amounts of academic material and research papers not just based on the metadata of the text, but the text itself;
analysis and categorization of medical records -- where AI uses insights to predict, and ideally prevent, disease;
word processors used for plagiarism and proofreading -- using tools such as Grammarly and Microsoft Word;
stock forecasting and insights into financial trading -- using AI to analyze market history and 10-K documents, which contain comprehensive summaries about a company's financial performance;
talent recruitment in human resources; and
automation of routine litigation tasks -- one example is the artificially intelligent attorney.
Research being done on natural language processing revolves around search, especially Enterprise search. This involves having users query data sets in the form of a question that they might pose to another person. The machine interprets the important elements of the human language sentence, which correspond to specific features in a data set, and returns an answer.
NLP can be used to interpret free, unstructured text and make it analyzable. There is a tremendous amount of information stored in free text files, such as patients' medical records. Before deep learning-based NLP models, this information was inaccessible to computer-assisted analysis and could not be analyzed in any systematic way. With NLP analysts can sift through massive amounts of free text to find relevant information.
Sentiment analysis is another primary use case for NLP. Using sentiment analysis, data scientists can assess comments on social media to see how their business's brand is performing, or review notes from customer service teams to identify areas where people want the business to perform better.
Benefits of natural language processing
The main benefit of NLP is that it improves the way humans and computers communicate with each other. The most direct way to manipulate a computer is through code -- the computer's language. By enabling computers to understand human language, interacting with computers becomes much more intuitive for humans.
Other benefits include:
improved accuracy and efficiency of documentation;
ability to automatically make a readable summary of a larger, more complex original text;
useful for personal assistants such as Alexa, by enabling it to understand spoken word;
enables an organization to use chatbots for customer support;
easier to perform sentiment analysis; and
provides advanced insights from analytics that were previously unreachable due to data volume.
Challenges of natural language processing
There are a number of challenges of natural language processing and most of them boil down to the fact that natural language is ever-evolving and always somewhat ambiguous. They include:
Precision. Computers traditionally require humans to "speak" to them in a programming language that is precise, unambiguous and highly structured -- or through a limited number of clearly enunciated voice commands. Human speech, however, is not always precise; it is often ambiguous and the linguistic structure can depend on many complex variables, including slang, regional dialects and social context.
Tone of voice and inflection. Natural language processing has not yet been perfected. For example, semantic analysis can still be a challenge. Other difficulties include the fact that the abstract use of language is typically tricky for programs to understand. For instance, natural language processing does not pick up sarcasm easily. These topics usually require understanding the words being used and their context in a conversation. As another example, a sentence can change meaning depending on which word or syllable the speaker puts stress on. NLP algorithms may miss the subtle, but important, tone changes in a person's voice when performing speech recognition. The tone and inflection of speech may also vary between different accents, which can be challenging for an algorithm to parse.
Evolving use of language. Natural language processing is also challenged by the fact that language -- and the way people use it -- is continually changing. Although there are rules to language, none are written in stone, and they are subject to change over time. Hard computational rules that work now may become obsolete as the characteristics of real-world language change over time.
The evolution of natural language processing
NLP draws from a variety of disciplines, including computer science and computational linguistics developments dating back to the mid-20th century. Its evolution included the following major milestones:
1950s. Natural language processing has its roots in this decade, when Alan Turing developed the Turing Test to determine whether or not a computer is truly intelligent. The test involves automated interpretation and the generation of natural language as criterion of intelligence.
1950s-1990s. NLP was largely rules-based, using handcrafted rules developed by linguists to determine how computers would process language.
1990s. The top-down, language-first approach to natural language processing was replaced with a more statistical approach, because advancements in computing made this a more efficient way of developing NLP technology. Computers were becoming faster and could be used to develop rules based on linguistic statistics without a linguist creating all of the rules. Data-driven natural language processing became mainstream during this decade. Natural language processing shifted from a linguist-based approach to an engineer-based approach, drawing on a wider variety of scientific disciplines instead of delving into linguistics.
2000-2020s. Natural language processing saw dramatic growth in popularity as a term. With advances in computing power, natural language processing has also gained numerous real-world applications. Today, approaches to NLP involve a combination of classical linguistics and statistical methods.
Natural language processing plays a vital part in technology and the way humans interact with it. It is used in many real-world applications in both the business and consumer spheres, including chatbots, cybersecurity, search engines and big data analytics. Though not without its challenges, NLP is expected to continue to be an important part of both industry and everyday life.
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The figure includes 130,000 new jobs, he said, adding that 80 per cent of the jobs would require trained employees.
In the first quarter of the year, the city will need 90,000 workers for jobs in marketing, sales, market research, advertising, logistics, tourism services, restaurants-hotels, packaging, electricians, housekeeping, and security.
For the second and third quarter, the city will need 155,000 additional workers and another 75,000 for the fourth quarter.
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