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PMSA & PCF Form Partnership To Work On Sculpture Digitisation Programme
PCF Chairman Charles Gregson (left) and PMSA Chairman, John Lewis OBE (right) have signed a Partnership Agreement between the Public Catalogue Foundation and the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association to collaborate on a project to digitise public sculpture throughout the UK. This project will have huge significance for the protection of the nation's sculptural heritage.
The PMSA will work with the PCF to create one comprehensive, searchable, digital database of sculpture in the UK from the eleventh century onwards, which will be freely available to the public online. The project, entitled 'Your Sculpture', will result in a substantial improvement in public awareness of what is arguably the finest public collection of sculpture in the world.
A key PMSA initiative has been the ground breaking National Recording Project which is searchable on the PMSA web site (www.pmsa.org.uk). In this new partnership, the PMSA will use its NRP expertise to take responsibility for outdoor sculpture in the public realm. While the PCF, which has been immensely successful in producing a digitised record of publicly-owned oil paintings under its 'Your Paintings' project, will have responsibility for indoor sculpture in public museums and public collections. The partnership will enable the PMSA to complete the National Recording Project by providing total UK coverage as well as updating existing geographical areas and also adding new photographs of items.
1. PCF Pilot Photography Project at Borough Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle-under-Lyme (photo:PCF)
In the 'Your Sculpture' project, there will be a heavy emphasis on education and involving schoolchildren and students. The project will also endeavour to attract and engage with new audiences from a wide spectrum of the population. Working together on these areas will allow a more comprehensive approach to the appreciation of sculpture – whether in galleries or in the outdoor realm of public art.
By cataloguing and photographing the nation's public sculpture, the project will bring to people's attention the many works in public collections that are in storage and not ordinarily on view. It will also provide these collections with full high quality photographic records of, and online access to, their sculptural holdings.
2. PCF Pilot Photography Project at Staffordshire Heritage and Arts (photo:PCF)
A joint steering panel of sculpture experts has been in place for almost a year giving substantial support to the partnership and a research project, financed by a grant from the Henry Moore Foundation, has been undertaken to assess the size of the task. Pilots run by the PCF took place at the Borough Museum and Art Gallery at Newcastle-under- Lyme and Staffordshire Heritage and Arts (figs.1 & 2). Both of these collections were thought to be typical of the majority of public collections in the UK because they have a small team dedicated to curating a wide-ranging collection of objects, but have no designated sculpture curator. Also while some of their sculpture is on display, much of it is in store, which poses further problems for the project because it involves additional handling. A pilot also took place in Leeds at Temple Newsam House (fig.3), which tested the challenges of working in an historic house, and at stores in Leeds City Museum, which focused on the challenges arising from handling heavier objects. The pilots enabled the PCF to estimate how many images would be needed per object. It is hoped to produce four views, front, back,left and right sides of most, with less if the sculptures are not easily accessible. The best lighting for different materials was also tested and account taken of the fact that the reflective nature of the surfaces of some sculptures such as bronzes took longer to light. These pilots have enabled a budget to be drawn up based on the projected number of items which could be photographed in a typical day.
3. PCF Pilot Photography Project at Temple Newsam House, Leeds (photo:PCF)
Subject to funding being secured, the digitisation process is expected to take about four years. When the project is completed, everyone will be able to search all sculptural items on the database, view high quality images of each, add personal comments and be directed to other sources of information including films and videos from the archives.
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Student Wins 2015 Poster Presentation of the Year at National Collegiate Honors Council Conference
by Bonnie Butcher
The University of West Georgia's Amelia Bagwell has proven her hard work through her many accomplishments, the most recent being an award for her poster presentation at the National Collegiate Honors Council conference this past November in Chicago. Her research titled, "The 'Me' She Cannot See: Objectification and the Existential Experience of Women" won the award in the Humanities/Diversity category.
Her interest in this topic stemmed from her classes at UWG, during courses in phenomenology and existential psychology. She began considering the nature of being from a gender-specific perspective. Her professors helped guide her with teachings and writings, sparking her own journey of individual study into this very complex topic.
Amelia's research explores the correlation between female sexual objectification and its implications in relation to the existential experience. The focus is on "The Male Gaze," as defined by psychological theory, juxtaposed with "The Gaze of the Other," as construed through the existential writings of Jean-Paul Sartre.
The research argues that there is a negative prospect for women to experience ontological growth as a result of adversarial relations between the psychologically identified "male gaze" and the philosophically ontological gaze of "the Other."
This study presents social norms that make the existential quest for a deeper, more authentic relationship with the self especially difficult for women. Though this is due to a multiplicity of conditions, Amelia chose to focus on the concept of objectification.
Amelia's profound research was deservedly recognized. She won this award over 300 other honors student presentations.
"From the moment I met Amelia Bagwell, I knew she would have great academic success," said Stacey Rowland, UWG manager of undergraduate research. "At the NCHC conference I witnessed her passionate delivery of her research topic and was most impressed with the critical analysis and overall quality of her research. Even one of the judges conveyed that her research is doctoral level quality at the undergraduate level."
Amelia is the president of UWG's Honors Council, a 2015 Ingram Scholar, a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, vice president of Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society, and last year won the award for NCHC's National Honors Student of the Year. She is a tutor, volunteer speaker, and studied abroad this past summer in France.
Though it seems extensive, this list is only a fraction of Amelia's accomplishments. Among her academic endeavors, there is one important thing that is to be noted about Amelia: her success goes beyond titles and awards.
She is what some consider a "non-traditional" student, being a mother of six and splitting her time between her Cartersville home and dorm living in Carrollton.
She is passionate about helping others, and she plans to continue her education in psychology through graduate studies.
"If one other person suffers a little less because of something I learn and/or teach, that is better than any award I will ever receive," Amelia said. "What I am most proud of can never be put on paper; the quiet interactions with struggling students when I tutor or the moments of hope and healing when I am honored with someone sharing their struggles with me."
Amelia is a prime example of living out the phrase, "the sky is the limit." She has masterfully balanced her personal, professional, and academic life in a way that shines beyond expectations. She encourages other UWG students to "take the opportunities provided by our school as well as beyond our campus."
Stacey echoed Amelia's advice to other students in regards to the benefits of research experience.
"Opportunities such as this can lead to new scholarly insights, open doors to graduate level programs, and provide pathways to help students meet their career goals," Stacey said.
Amelia is currently working on finishing her degree in psychology with a minor in history and specialized interest in philosophy. She plans to earn her Ph.D. and continue adding a new voice to education through writing and teaching.

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The 1985 Eric Morecambe Memorial Appeal
Eric watching birds
Joan meets Princess Alexandra
Eric was an avid birdwatcher, and of his many hobbies, this came second only to fishing as his favourite.
In the autumn of 1985, the RSPB set up the Eric Morecambe Memorial fund to raise money to purchase a new bird reserve; Old Hall Marshes in Essex.
The fund raising began with an article in the 1985 spring edition of Birds, the official RSPB magazine, and a 4 page leaflet giving details of the site via a letter from Joan.
The site is a 1,134 acre piece of partly drained marshland on the Blackwater Estuary which, after being purchase the year before for £750,000, was in need of improvement to fully realise its potential as a bird reserve.
The RSPB approached Joan, who was delighted to be able to help, and the fund raising began.
There were many events spanning the appeals 3 year run, including the RSPB/Zeiss National Birdwatch, a balloon release and various galas and garden parties and the funds were growing.
Birds magazine, in the Autumn 1985 edition, kept readers up to date with events and news of a fund raising luncheon at Fortnum & Mason. Amongst the guests were Joanna Lumley and Joan.
More news in 1986 with the fund raising still moving forward, and a Royal Gala Concert was held on 1st November in the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra.
Other events included a sponsored balloon race starting at Morecambe Bay that managed to raise £2000. More balloon antics at a garden party in September improved that to raise £5000.
The final target of £1.5m was reached in the spring of 1988, and stars of screen and theatre celebrated with a gala concert in November.
The Eric Morecambe Statue
A visit to Morecambe would not be complete without saying hello to an old friend.
All About The Birds and The Bees..
How Gordon Beningfield gave up stained glass for birdwatching – and taught Eric Morecambe a thing or two.


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Viral Anonymous Brazil Video Asks Protesters To Rally Around '5 Causes'
By Ed Carrasco
2:10 pm July 17, 2013
Posted on... 2:10 pm July 17, 2013
Written By Ed Carrasco
The latest YouTube video from a group claiming to be Anonymous took Brazil by storm last month as the country experienced massive protests over rising public transportation, police brutality and widespread political corruption.
A masked man with a computer-generated voice appears in the video, asking that protestors unite behind causes that were slightly different from the overall scope of the protests.
He tells viewers in Portuguese that they should support these "5 causes":
1) Oppose PEC 37, a proposed law that would give the police instead of prosecutors the power to evaluate and conduct criminal investigations.
2) The immediate resignation of Brazil's Senate President Renan Calheiros, who previously resigned from his position because of accusations of corruption.
3) Demand that Brazil's Federal Police and the District Attorney's office immediately investigate irregularities related to the World Cup.
4) Demand a law that makes corruption by members of Brazil's National Congress a heinous crime.
5) End of the "privileged forum" or courts for politicians because it violates the 5th article of the Brazilian, which states that "all are equal under the law, without distinction of any nature whatsoever."
Since the Anonymous video went viral with more than a million views on YouTube last month, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and the National Congress have supported two of the five demands, including a law that would make corruption a heinous crime and dropping the law that would expand police powers. However, many from both sides of the political spectrum criticized the video for its "cheap populism" and its lack of concrete goals. One blogger sympathetic to the protesters wrote: "Tellingly, none of the 'five causes' makes one cent of difference for someone on minimum wage."
The Los Angeles Times tracked down the man who reportedly made the video, and he told them that he came up with the list by himself early one morning and attributed Anonymous to the video despite not being part of the group. An administrator for Anonymous Brazil told the Times that they had nothing to do with the creator of the "5 Causes" video and said that because of Anonymous' nature, nothing could be considered "official, genuine or original."
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Über den Fußball-Verbandspokal 2021/22 werden die Teilnehmer der 21 Landesverbände des DFB am DFB-Pokal der Frauen 2022/23 ermittelt. Die Sieger der Verbandspokale sind zur Teilnahme an der ersten Runde des DFB-Pokals berechtigt. Zweite und dritte Mannschaften dürfen nicht am DFB-Pokal teilnehmen. Sollte ein Aufsteiger in die 2. Bundesliga den Verbandspokal gewonnen haben, rückt der unterlegene Finalist nach.

Endspielergebnisse
Die Tabelle gibt eine Übersicht über die Verbandspokal-Endspiele der Saison 2021/22. Die Mannschaft, die sich für den DFB-Pokal qualifiziert hat, ist fett dargestellt. Die Abkürzungen hinter den Vereinsnamen stehen für die Spielklassenzuordnung der gleichen Saison: RL = Regionalliga; OL = Oberliga; VL = Verbandsliga; LL = Landesliga; BezL = Bezirksliga. Die folgende römische Zahl gibt die Ligenebene an. Bei der drittklassigen Regionalliga wird darauf verzichtet.

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2021 22 Frauen
Verbandspokal Frauen 2021 22
Frauenfußballwettbewerb für Vereinsmannschaften

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Saint-Martin-Curton (okzitanisch: Sent Martin de Curton) ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Lot-et-Garonne in der Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Nérac und zum 1996 gegründeten Kommunalverband Coteaux et Landes de Gascogne. Die Bewohner nennen sich Curtonnais.

Geografie
Saint-Martin-Curton liegt in der Landschaft Guyenne, 55 Kilometer westnordwestlich der Stadt Agen.
Nachbargemeinden von Saint-Martin-Curton sind Sillas, Cours-les-Bains und Antagnac im Norden, Ruffiac und Poussignac im Nordosten, Beauziac im Osten, Pindères im Süden, Saint-Michel-de-Castelnau im Westen und Südwesten, Goualade im Westen sowie Marions im Nordwesten.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-Martin
 Kirche Saint-Michel in Heulies

Belege

Weblinks

Ort in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Weinbauort in Frankreich


This is quite simply a under-read masterpiece. Boasting equal measures of Hunter s. Thompson full blown Gonzo, and Stephen R Hawking dialects on quantum mechanics and chaos theory. While quantum mechanics may not usually qualify as light reading, throw in about a hundred gallons of tequila, a south-of-the-boarder band of drug running banditos and you get the wildest ride and perhaps the best exploration of just how strange and chaotic the quantum realm of sub-atomic particles really is!
This book is almost unreadable. The excessive footnotes are a monument to the authors egomania. Devoid of plot and packed with trivial details, this book is one endless digression after the other.


Watch Inseparable (2011) : Full Movie on FMovies A troubled young man, Li faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. Chuck, rescues Li from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor. But who is Chuck really?
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I have been working, for many years, with patients who have Borderline Personality Disorder. These individuals are frequently creative, passionate, highly calibrated, resilient – and both loving and loveable. They have also been grossly misunderstood, dismissed as histrionic and manipulative - - and seen by many therapists as hyperbolic, hopeless and unable to sustain treatment. Sadly, the solution to their intolerable agony is often self- medication through substance, eating disorders or self- injurious harm-- or death -- either intended or accidental.
I have learned, over the years, that what lies at the center of successful treatment with them is the very quality of our presence. We become their anchors – steady, predictable, moored -- unflappable and yet also fallible. We are with them in a mutually committed partnership and we are not daunted or deterred by the high-risk behaviors that so often seem for them to be their only refuge for peace. We stand with them – and by them – in an unwavering mission to help them choose and create a life for themselves. We teach them – through concrete skills, compassion, insight – to take the fragmented parts of themselves and their lives and put them slowly and deliberately into a cohesive whole.
It breaks my heart to hear people – both professionals and lay – talk about Borderline Personality Disorder as untreatable. It is both inaccurate and archaic. As a community of clinicians, family members and individuals with BPD, we bear a responsibility to dispel this myth. It is extraordinary that Rosa Nouvini, Roya Nouvini and Paula Tusiani-Eng have turned their experience into direct action by forming Emotions Matter, Inc. I am thrilled to be on board to help in any way I can.
My sister has BPD and I first realized there was something wrong when she developed a pain medication addiction. She was having difficulties at work and wasn't getting better when she became sober. Things were so bad she once attempted suicide twice in 2 weeks.
She was finally diagnosed with BPD in 2006 but it wasn't until I became a psychiatrist years later that we figured out as a family what it really meant. We finally began to understand why she had so many difficulties for such a long time. Her relationships and support have been the most helpful in her recovery. The least helpful to her has been the many doctors that refused to work with her.
My sister's struggle with BPD has inspired me to become a psychiatrist that treats these patients. I love working with them, and it is so rewarding to see them improve with treatment. I want society to know that this is a brain-based disorder. I want to eradicate the belief that these patients don't get better.
There is hope for a better future for those living with BPD. Today, my sister is sober and married with a child and lives a meaningful life. She is one of the best chefs I know. We are close and I am there for her whenever she needs advice.


Epic Systems' EpicCare is an electronic medical recording (EMR) solution for large hospitals and healthcare systems, certified for Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2. EpicCare is developed, implemented and supported by an in-house team. Modules include dashboards that combine and display clinical and financial metrics as well as customizable templates.
EpicCare also provides a patient portal and e-prescribing features as part of Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements. The tool also supports telemedicine options that allow doctors to communicate with patients via a video platform and offers mobile and tablet functionality. EpicCare MyChart allows patients to view medical information, message doctors, schedule appointments and manage medical history via a personalized portal.
With EpicCare, clinics can streamline their workflows using personalized screens, dashboards and specialty applications. The application's finance module allows clinics to track payments, bills and invoices. EpicCare is a mobile-ready solution, allowing both doctors and patients to access information on their Apple devices.
It makes clinical care and documentation so much easier, the billers/coders love it, and I can access outside patient records from other institutions that use Epic, so I know I'm not missing anything. Every hospital in the country needs to implement Epic.
The ease of use is perhaps number one for Epic. Having used some of the older EMRs, I am well aware of how an EMR can make or break your day. Epic is the best EMR I have used, and perhaps the best one out there. Its ease of use is second to none, and it's extremely intuitive (so even without a training course, which you're likely get anyway, you can pick up how to use this EMR in perhaps a few hours). The shortcuts that are already built in are great, and you can personalize this EMR to best suit your tastes. I know from a billing standpoint, Epic makes it a breeze, but as a daily user of this software I can guarantee you that the physician staff will appreciate Epic as well. Simply stated, this is the EMR of the future (and present), and the CareEverywhere feature makes continuity of care amazing, and the ability to access outside records makes clinical care a breeze. Epic is the known gold standard for a reason.
Compared to other EMRS, I can't think of anything negative to say.
Overall- I think it helps me deliver safe care to my patients. This platform allows me to accurately chart and organize my day to best serve the population in my hospital.
It allows for safe medication administration- links the drug info. right there with the medication and allows for user friendly charting. Plenty of flowsheets to chose from. Information that isn't helpful can be completed or hidden. Integrates with our devices to pull in vital signs and information about the patient. Also allows for communication between the interdisciplinary team connecting each other through messaging and allowing for contact information. There are a few ways to get to the same spot and I find the navigators are helpful.
Some charting/flowsheets are a bit redundant. Also, sometimes when flowsheets or sections of charting are hidden- it can be hard to find specifically where to reactivate it. I think it takes a while to get the right custom EPIC for your institution in place so there are tons of upgrades and learning curves with new versions.
It would be nice if EPIC had more simplified workflows and cleaned up the appearance of the screens. It would also be nice if EPIC could allow the user to customize the screen appearanc (currently, there is a feature that allows only very limited customization of the screen layout.
Depending on the features that are activated, it can be a robust EHR system. It can handle workflows of many types, including outpatient visits, procedures, and hospital workflows.
It can be difficult to use, even with many years of experience using it. The screen is way too busy with buttons, tabs, active links and data all over the place. There are too many hidden features to remember, and the workflow is often very clunky, requiring multiple mouse clicks and jumps to multiple screens (with delays between loaded screens). The screen includes a multitude of features and buttons/tabs that I never use (are to be used by other disciplines such as discharge planners), making it seem like a one-size-fits-all screen.
I have been using EpicCare EMR for over 2 years not and there isn't much bad i can say about it. Compared to most other EMR software out there it is far ahead of its competition. It's simplistic yet versatile design has made everyday challenges much easier for both healthcare employees and its patients.
Epic is extremely versatile in its ability to provide a lot of functions to its users in the healthcare settings. With its new updates setting up orders for patients have never been easier. From medication reconciliation to appointment scheduling to its organization of encounters and medical history, there isn't much epic cannot due.
Customer support/service is not very receptive to user friendly changes that are requested when it comes to simple tasks that could be made easier by the input of a button or checkbox in certain areas.
Downtime for service is can also be problematic if it needs to be performed during work hours which has happened a few times.
I love patient portal and e-prescribing features which helps us meet the Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements. The tool also supports telemedicine options that allow our doctors to communicate with patients via a video platform and offers mobile and tablet functionality. EpicCare MyChart allows patients to view medical information, message doctors, schedule appointments and manage medical history via a personalized portal.
The health maintenance options could be better, and easier to see and mark as complete. Also out would be easier if when you marked something got a preference it wouldn't add a copy to the main menu. Upgrade to EPIC 2017 is a fight.
Overall, I like Epic and think that it makes ordering and charting things easy when you make them into pre-programmed lists.
I like that you are easily able to chart on patients, you can make preset templates for charting and can preset order sets, and you are able to do everything electronically, including connecting to the PACs system and requesting documentation from other companies. You are also able to switch between inpatient and outpatient settings easily. Dragon is very compatible with this system.
I dislike that the EPIC system can vary depending on different healthcare setups, and can cost a lot. Epic can also take a while to catch on to, depending on how well you know computers. Finally, it can sometimes be hard to find different patients and patient lists on the inpatient systems if your healthcare system is large.
It has been a great system to bring the organization together. The access to see outside medical records, office visits, Ed visits and other testing is helpful in treating the patient as a whole.
The ease of maneuvering throughout the system. With little education the program was self explanatory. When working in the hospital the different aspects, like the banner help to quickly analyze the patient at hand.
Certain features throughout different organizations allow for a very general physical assessment. The option available is no change or normal. Example: a person's normal HR could be a-fib but the option to chose regularly irregular would be considered the normal for the patient. What is needed for any change would be to document the actual sound. Also the charting by exception makes it difficult for other disciplines to know what is really going on.
Overall, I am happy with EPIC. It made my life much easier then when I had to deal with the paper charts.
The organization I work at was one of the first organizations that started using EPIC when It became available. The best part of EPIC is that one can easily find all necessary information about a patient. Everything is there, labs, radiology reports, medical professionals notes, immunizations, referrals, etc. EPIC is easy to navigate, once one learns the navigation process and EPIC features.
There are too many features to remember. Many features and short cuts are hidden and almost impossible to find. When EPIC upgrades come, some of the upgrades are totally useless and unnecessary, like for examples, enhanced colors and little icons. Sometimes there are too many steps and clicks to get form point A to point B.
Being both a builder and a user of several ehrs I do believe that this product is is very user-friendly. I am in a nurse informaticist. And the features and functionality available truly help arcare providers be able to care for and document the care they give.
I do believe there are several kinds and maybe it's just with what has happened within our organization but there is an ability to have too many variations in documentation which leads to discrepancy. Additionally from what I understand from the AC and am there is not a good way to search for these discrepancies in the system once they are built. The AC and am's that are sent to support future go lives as in our instance where we added on 14 new hospitals they did not have the level of experience to support our organization.
EPIC is one of the most popular EMR systems in Cincinnati.
EPIC is the system that the majority of hospitals and healthcare facilities use in our city. This is EXTREMELY beneficial because when we have patients that go to more than one site, the other site can access the patient's medical history and receive very important information. The electronic system allows for providers to communicate with each other without actually being on the phone or in person, and it allows for the providers to access records from multiple sites. This is very important for our organization because our providers serve patients at multiple locations.
This system has made communication easier for administration, providers, and other healthcare professionals so I have no complaints about EPIC.


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Grad Students Demand COLA
Breanna Allen
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UCSF students at both Parnassus and Mission bay campuses came together on March 4 to rally in solidarity with UC graduate students striking for livable stipends.
UC Santa Cruz is currently facing a cost of living adjustment (COLA) strike by graduate students who held teaching assistant positions in the fall and winter quarters. It began in December 2019, when over 200 UC Santa Cruz students withheld grades from undergraduate courses and demanded an increase in pay of $1,412 per month.
UC Santa Barbara graduate students also withheld grades, and as of February 24th officially joined the COLA strike for an increase in pay of $1,807.51 per month. COLA movements have now been sparked across UC campuses.
These strikes are considered wildcat, which is when union workers engage in a non-sanctioned and therefore not legally protected strike against an employer.
Over 19,000 graduate student instructors, teaching assistants, and tutors across the UCs unionized in 1999 under UAW Local 2865, with the one exception of UCSF. This union maintains 3 goals: negotiate with universities on behalf of student employees, organize to defend public education, and to build community and create solidarity.
In Article 19 of the union agreement with the University of California, it states: "The UAW, on behalf of its officers, agents, and members agrees that there shall be no strikes, stoppages or interruptions of work, or other concerted activities which interfere directly or indirectly with University operations during the life of this agreement or any written extension thereof."
There are two exceptions to this no-strike rule: termination of the contract, or if the union files an unfair labor practice complaint with the California Public Employee Relations Board.
While unions cannot legally support wildcat strikes, UAW Local 2865 filed an unfair labor practice complaint on February 27th regarding the rent burden for graduate students. On March 9th, the union overwhelmingly voted to ratify the Cost of Living Bargaining Demands. It's important to note that UAW Local 2865 represents members of the entire union, meaning that bargaining extends to all unionized members in the UC system.
Why is UCSF the outlier?
The stipend process works much differently here at UCSF because we do not have an undergraduate population, and therefore have limited TA responsibilities. Due to this stark difference in compensation mechanism, we were not involved in the 1999 union discussions.
UCSF graduate students in STEM have the highest stipends across the UCs. According to a UCOP Student affairs report, the UCSF per Capita net stipend in 2017 was $32,778, while UC Santa Cruz by comparison was $19,906 and UC Santa Barbara was $23,629.
Students at other UCs heavily rely on teaching assistant or tutor positions for income. The current UC Santa Cruz graduate studies website states that TAs who work 10 hours per week earn a monthly salary of $1,217.28, and those who work 20 hours earn $2,434.57. At 20 hours per week for only the 9 teaching months of the year, this amounts to $21,906 annually before tax. It is this half-time wage that UC Santa Cruz students are demanding to increase by $1,412 monthly.
How do the COLA strikes relate to the UCSF community?
Students who attended the solidarity rallies across UCSF echoed a consistent sentiment: just because we are not directly affected does not mean we should not support others in need.
Miriam Goldman, a 2nd year Biological and Medical Informatics UCSF graduate student, stated that "UCSF students care about topics other than medical and there are plenty of us that do stand in solidarity with all of the other UCs." She explains that the right to demand housing is a struggle anyone at UCSF can identify with.
The challenge of covering basic needs on a graduate student stipend is a universal struggle. Graduate students work an average of 60 hours or more per week across the US. Even if we had the extra energy and time, we are not allowed to seek outside employment while maintaining status as a full-time student.
The median rent in San Francisco according to the SF-based competitor Apartment List is $2,492 per month. That is about 73% of the latest monthly stipend for the graduate division.
Campus housing is competitive to access, and even the newest addition of Tidelands is an unappealing solution given that an efficiency studio equip with a microwave and two burners still costs over $1,600 per month.
We are not other. We are a part of this ongoing conversation.
There is a larger issue here – not every individual faces the same challenges or resource access. Low compensation for challenging work, especially when balancing the advancement human knowledge with extensive teaching duties at other UCs, makes any individual inequities debilitating.
A concern in our UCSF community is that the majority of the work tackling pressing issues in inclusivity and universal ability to thrive, including cost of living adjustments, is done by a minority of students. Further, these students are most often those directly burdened by inequity.
Carlos Zuazo, a UCSF Student Affairs representative and board member of the Associated Students of the Graduate Division (ASGD), has recognized "a common theme of exploitation and isolation of graduate students—particularly first-generation-to-college graduate students."
He continued: "The one ask I do have of the possibly privileged reader is to break this cycle of apathy and inactivity by realizing their separation from the issue does not exempt them from involvement with the movement: on the contrary, in every conceivable social justice issue, be it abolition or women's suffrage, the most staunch supporters were those who were perched from a place of privilege.
So if you are asking "What can I possibly do?", you are asking the wrong question. Ask instead, "What have I done?" If the answer is "Not nearly enough," as it was for me when I asked it to myself, then please contact me at carlos.zuazo@ucsf.edu and I am happy to put you in touch with the appropriate person or group on campus."
You can also reach out to Rachel DeBarge (rachel.debarge@ucsf.edu), our other student affairs representative.
When asked about the ongoing strikes at UC Santa Cruz, Carlos explained that students have clearly been mistreated and undervalued for years and have reached a breaking point. University of California Policies need to adapt to reflect not only the ever-rising cost of living in Santa Cruz, and other UC locations, but also the changing composition of the student body.
We have seen a rise in students from marginalized groups who were previously excluded from academia, specifically first generation to college and low-income students.
Carlos emphasized this point: "I was only able to come here for grad school because of programs that UCSF offered to help financially support my transition to SF, such as a relocation-allocation supplement (now defunct) and the Cost-of-living supplement (now planned to be phased out). Without these programs, you can guarantee I will not have come here, and I can guarantee you will not see these students in the years to come."
In speaking with students present at the Parnassus solidarity rally, several echoed that while the annual stipend has increased to alleviate financial burden to students living in SF, the relocation-allocation supplement was specifically crucial to their decision to accept their UCSF offer.
Reflecting on the striking UCSC students, Carlos adds that "denying their demands and belittling their grievances perpetuates a culture of inequity in academia by cutting off resources for low-income students, which skews student attrition in favor of those with financial stability."
Beyond the struggle of inequity from underrepresented communities, students with dependents or families also face an inability to thrive. The additional costs of childcare on top of high rent prices break any possibility of financial security.
The Baker ImmunoX initiative here at UCSF has recently launched the maternity support program, which provides recent mothers with technical assistance to maintain scientific progress while on leave.
The UCSF graduate division also provides childcare grants by application, based on financial need. Even with these efforts, members of our community struggle.
These issues of matching worth and compensation for individuals that are essential to university productivity extends beyond just graduate students.
We see employee strikes around the UCSF campuses annually asking for increased compensation to match the bay area cost of living.
In April of 2019, 5,000 academic researchers or junior specialists petitioned to join the UAW local 5810 union, initially established in 2009 to protect PostDocs across all UCs, including UCSF.
Clearly there are several complicated factors surrounding financial compensation and livability while working in academia. The strikes and solidarity rallies across UC campuses are testaments to the fact that unmet needs exist.
Community engagement tackling inequity is directly in line with UCSF's commitment to diversity and inclusion, plastered on colorful banners across shuttles, fences, and building pillars.
The universal ask from those actively tackling these issues is for everyone in our community to educate themselves.
Learn the why, question the status quo, and stand behind those asking for help even if you're not directly affected.
What are your thoughts on this ongoing discussion? What changes do you think are most important to our UCSF community and larger UC family?
Breanna Allen is a 4th year BMS graduate student studying systems cancer immunology in the Spitzer Lab.
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Chairman and CFO of TriView Capital Joins FinCanna Advisory Board
Vancouver, British Columbia, July 19, 2018 - FinCanna Capital Corp. ("FinCanna") (CSE: CALI) (OTCQB: FNNZF) a royalty company for the U.S. licensed medical cannabis industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. John Campbell to its Advisory Board. Mr. Campbell has over 35 years of experience in the investment industry, and currently serves as Chairman and CFO of TriView Capital, one of Canada's largest Exempt Market Dealers.
Mr. Campbell was formerly a Managing Director of private equity firm Second City Capital. He previously founded, and acted as President, CEO and CIO of Camlin Asset Management, a portfolio management firm. He also co-founded CWC Capital, a regional investment banking firm that, raised in excess of $750 million in capital. Mr. Campbell serves as a director of a number of private and public companies, and holds the professional designations of CPA, MBA and CFA.
"We are honoured to have a man with John's depth and breadth of experience join our Advisory Board," said Andriyko Herchak, President and CEO of Fincanna Capital. "We look forward to drawing upon John's extensive knowledge and expertise as we embark on this next phase of growth."
"I am very pleased to be joining the Advisory Board of FinCanna," said Mr. Campbell. "I believe the company is well positioned to capitalize on an exceptional market opportunity and I look forward to contributing to FinCanna's future success."
FinCanna provides financing to top-tier companies in the licensed medical cannabis industry in exchange for a royalty on revenues. FinCanna, led by a team of finance and industry experts, is building its diversified portfolio of royalty investments in scalable, best-in-class projects and companies in U.S. legal states, with a focus on California. For additional information visit www.fincannacapital.com and FinCanna's profile at www.sedar.com.
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Q: Hamachi Gateway under Linux Has anybody successfully gotten Hamachi working on a Linux server working as a gateway? Any help getting that setup?
I'm in a dorm room (so I am pretty much forced to use Hamachi instead of OpenVPN) and I have a router in my room setup with my desktop, a RaspberryPi, and a few network devices (printer and a NAS.) I'd like to setup Hamachi on the Pi to serve as a gateway into my dorm network so I could access the devices elsewhere.
I have Hamachi installed on the Pi (running Debian,) but when I use the Hamachi web site to setup a Gateway network between my RaspberryPi and Laptop, it just doesn't want to work. The Hamachi client on my laptop shows the Pi having address "0.0.0.0" and I can't ping the Pi pr access any of the network resources.
Here are the results of ifconfig on the Pi:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:c8:ce:e0
          inet addr:192.168.1.134  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::ba27:ebff:fec8:cee0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:207635 (202.7 KiB)  TX bytes:121937 (119.0 KiB)

ham0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 7a:79:05:0b:32:bc
          inet addr:5.11.50.188  Bcast:5.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: 2620:9b::50b:32bc/96 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::7879:5ff:fe0b:32bc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1404  Metric:1
          RX packets:647 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:85 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
          RX bytes:100175 (97.8 KiB)  TX bytes:11832 (11.5 KiB)

ham1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:c3:0b:32:bc
          inet6 addr: fe80::223:c3ff:fe0b:32bc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1404  Metric:1
          RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
          RX bytes:1320 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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*eth0 is the interface to my network.

*ham0 is the interface Hamachi permanently has connected. This is present before the Pi is a member of any Hamachi network.

*ham1 is the interface that appeared when I created the Hamachi Gateway network.

*lo - Loopback

Here's what's in the routing table:
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
5.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 ham0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Lionel Messi will be tried in Spain for tax fraud, could spend 22 months in jail [AFP]
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Agence France-Presse have dropped a bombshell on Thursday afternoon: FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi will be tried in Spain for tax fraud.
The news has come as a major shock, after it was reported earlier in the week that Messi's tax fraud charges had been dropped.
Messi and his father have been accused of defrauding Spanish authorities of more than €4 million. Prosecutors allege that Jorge Messi avoided paying tax on his son's earnings by using offshore companies in Belize and Uruguay between 2007 and 2009.
#BREAKING Footballer Lionel Messi to be tried in Spain on tax fraud charges: court
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) October 8, 2015
Messi and his representatives have always maintained that the footballer had no idea of any of these tax issues, as Leo was simply focusing on his football at the time.
According to El Pais, Messi could be sentenced to 22 months in prison if found guilty.
The news that Messi's will be tried for tax fraud is just the last setback for the Argentine after he sustained a torn internal collateral ligament in his left knee last Saturday in a match against Las Palmas, and will not play for seven to eight weeks while he recovers.
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Blog Education
Adopted Budget Continues Unequal Access to a Sound Basic Education
According to the New York State Education Department (NYSED) Foundation Aid formula, it will cost school districts in New York State approximately $62.6 billion to provide a sound basic education (SBE) to all students in school year 2020.1 In the aggregate, districts are on track to spend more than $70 billion; yet several districts still will not have enough funding to provide an SBE to their students.
The map below identifies 29 school districts that will not have sufficient funding to provide an SBE despite the last decade's historic State aid increases and an enacted Fiscal Year 2020 Budget that increased total formula-based school aid $961 million. Collectively these 29 districts are underfunded by almost $83 million: If state aid remained flat the shortfall would have only been $23 million larger.2
How Does This Happen?
State aid increases have been significant but poorly targeted. The four wealthiest deciles will receive $4.0 billion of $27.3 billion in formula-based aid and $169 million of the nearly $1 billion growth in school year 2019-2020.
Foundation Aid is the largest component of State education aid—$18.4 billion of a total $27.3 billion in school year 2019-2020—and was created to ensure that all school districts have the resources to provide an SBE after accounting for local wealth and student need. However, the Foundation Aid formula uses outdated poverty measures and does not account adequately for actual local funding; as a result, it overestimates the need for state aid to wealthy districts and results in a warped distribution of aid increases.3 Over time these problems have been exacerbated by a prohibition against decreases—even in cases of declining enrollment—and an artificial limitation on aid growth regardless of change in enrollment or need. Districts that are shortchanged have struggled to catch up while "overfunded" districts continue to get more funding.4 The target amount needed to fund an SBE, which is used in the Foundation Aid formula, is calculated with some of the same limitations.
Other forms of school aid—Library, Textbook, and Software Aids—total $240 million annually and do not take account of district wealth, thereby increasing State aid without regard to ensuring an SBE. In fact, High Tax Aid specifically targets $223 million in additional State aid to wealthy districts.5
Education funding has grown significantly over the past decade. Between school year 2006-2007 and school year 2016-2017, school district revenues increased $20 billion, or 41 percent–twice the rate of inflation. State aid increased 30 percent, or $6.5 billion, and local funding increased 54 percent, or $13.3 billion. New York City local revenues increased 99 percent, while the local funding in the rest of the state increased 30 percent. State aid increases were concentrated in the lower-wealth districts, while local revenues increased somewhat evenly outside of New York City. Federal aid growth was more variable, but it represents a comparatively small share of school district revenues. (See Table 1 and the map above.)
Districts have different per pupil and total revenue growth due to enrollment trends. Per pupil revenue in New York City increased 46 percent; due to enrollment growth, this is less than the 61 percent increase in total revenue. Throughout the rest of the state, aggregate declines in enrollment resulted in a per pupil revenue increase of 39 percent, more than the 28 percent increase in total revenue. Local and State funding increases also reflect this disparity. Per pupil State aid outside New York City increased 39 percent, and local revenues increased 41 percent. However, in New York City per pupil State aid increased 20 percent, which is equal to inflation, while local revenues increased 80 percent. (See Table 2 and the map above.)
Poorly targeted forms of school aid, including High Tax, Library, Textbok, and Software Aids, should be folded into a reformed Foundation Aid formula that uses current data—including actual local funding and student enrollment. The arbitrary floors, ceilings, phase-ins and add-ons to the Foundation Aid formula should be eliminated. Adopting these changes will increase aid to some districts while decreasing aid to others; however, until reforms are implemented, the State will continue failing to provide adequate resources to fund an SBE to thousands of students.
By David Friedfel
Addendum - Methodology
The Foundation Aid formula includes the cost of providing an SBE for all students in each district based on the successful schools model; this is known as the "Foundation Amount."[6] However, this model does not include all costs necessary for a school district to operate. Therefore, other costs (taken from school year 2016-2017 actuals) are added to the SBE costs to arrive at total costs of providing an SBE. The total costs of an SBE are compared to total revenues to determine if districts have sufficient resources to provide an SBE.
Costs for a sound basic education by district are determined by the addition of:
The Foundation Amount in school year 2019-2020 school aid runs and multiplied by number of Total Aidable Foundation Pupil Units (TAFPU); plus
All school district costs that are not for general education, special education, administration, and instructional support (core costs, salaries, and fringe benefits for each general area).[7] These costs were then increased by the State Fiscal Year Composite Consumer Price Index of New York as reported by the New York State Division of the Budget.[8]
Revenues available by district include:
Local revenues:
For districts other than New York City, school year 2016-2017 local revenues increased by average property tax cap.
Since New York City is not subject to the property tax cap, figure from The City of New York Executive Budget Fiscal Year 2019.
Federal aid: Equal to school year 2016-2017 federal aid; assumes no change in federal revenues.
State aid:
Subtracts State Enacted Budget school aid to arrive at current underfunding.
Based on school year 2018-2019 formula-driven aid from school aid runs in base scenario to determine aid increase needed to fund SBE.
Remainder –if any–is the amount of underfunding per district in the coming fiscal year.
David Friedfel, "Funding a Sound Basic Education in 2020," Citizens Budget Commission Blog (March 7, 2019), https://cbcny.org/research/funding-sound-basic-education-2020.
The cost of a sound basic education is generated from the 2019-2020 adopted budget school aid run, which calculates how much is needed to provide a sound basic education for every school district in the state as part of the Foundation Aid formula. The shortfall figures differ slightly from previous calculations provided in David Friedfel, "Funding a Sound Basic Education in 2020," Citizens Budget Commission Blog (March 7, 2019), https://cbcny.org/research/funding-sound-basic-education-2020. The amounts provided in this analysis were calculated using information from NYSED in response to a freedom of information law request. Specifically, NYSED provided the successful school general education calculation methodology and fiscal supplement methodology.
There are 165 districts that collected enough revenues from just local sources to fund an SBE. However, these districts will still receive $2.68 billion of State aid in school year 2019-2020. These districts are identified in the map labeled SBE.
David Friedfel, A Better Foundation Aid Formula (Citizens Budget Commission, December 12, 2016), https://cbcny.org/research/better-foundation-aid-formula.
David Friedfel, "Ripe for Reform," Citizens Budget Commission Blog (January 2, 2018), https://cbcny.org/research/ripe-reform.
New York State Education Department, "Update to the Successful Schools Study" (2012), http://www.oms.nysed.gov/faru/articles.html
New York State Education Department, "Annual Finance Report (Form ST-3) for New York State Public Schools , ST-3 Data for Year Ending June, 2017" (accessed April 2019), https://stateaid.nysed.gov/st3/st3data.htm, and "Fiscal Supplement Methodology with Account Codes" provided on March 7, 2019 in response to a freedom of information law request.
New York State Division of the Budget, FY 2020 Economic and Revenue Report (January 2019), p. 143, www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy20/exec/ero/fy20ero.pdf.
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Thank you so much for joining us! This week on The Kelly Alexander Show we welcome Toronto singer-songwriter Scott Helman. Scott recently released a new song, "PDA," from his latest album, Hôtel de Ville and has hit the road with fellow Canadian artist Ria Mae. Our celebration of the 20th anniversary of Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope album continues with dancer and choreographer Rob Vinson. Rob was an important part of the Velvet Rope tour and he lets us know what it was like to be a part of the process and travelling around the world with Janet. We also have new music from Jonas Blue, Daya and Cheta Codes. Thank you for listening!


We will meet 5:30pm Wednesday in room 117. Food will be provided.
Published by McLing on April 8, 2019 at 2:40 am under Lab Meetings, MCQLL.
At next week's meeting, James will be presenting some preliminary work with Morgan Sonderegger and Jane Stuart-Smith on dialectal & speaker variability in the consonant voicing effect.
The meeting will start 5:30pm Wednesday 3/27 in room 117. Food will be provided.
Published by McLing on March 25, 2019 at 2:40 am under MCQLL.
How do children begin to use language to say things they have never heard before? The origins of linguistic productivity have been a subject of heated debate: Whereas generativist accounts posit that children's early language reflects the presence of syntactic abstractions, constructivist approaches instead emphasize gradual generalization derived from frequently heard forms. In the present research, we developed a Bayesian statistical model that measures the degree of abstraction implicit in children's early use of the determiners "a" and "the." Our work revealed that many previously used corpora are too small to allow researchers to judge between these theoretical positions. However, several data sets, including the Speechome corpus—a new ultra-dense data set for one child—showed evidence of low initial levels of productivity and higher levels later in development. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that children lack rich grammatical knowledge at the outset of language learning but rapidly begin to generalize on the basis of structural regularities in their input.
We will be meeting Wednesday at 5:30pm in room 117.
At next week's MCQLL meeting, Seara Chen will be presenting on computational model for phonotactics. She will present a survey of two of the major types of computational models for phonotactics, which are based on a collection of papers. In addition, she will also give a short explanation of the current experiment they are working in the lab that will be used to compare different automated phonotactic scorer.
The meeting will be Wednesday 2/20 5:30pm in room 117. All are welcome!
It is not required that you all read them, but they are quite short so you are welcome to read ahead of time to make a more interesting discussion. Please click the titles for papers.
We will be meeting Wednesday 5:30pm in room 117.
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At next week's MCQLL lab meeting, Jacob will present on Non-projectivity and mild–context sensitivity. He will be presenting on Marco Kuhlmann's 2010 book "Dependency Structures and Lexicalized Grammars". Word-to-word dependencies have a history in descriptive linstuistics, based on the intuition that the structure of a sentence can be captured by the relationships between the words. Dependency structures can be sorted into different classes depending on the amount and form of crossing dependencies that are allowed. Examining classes of non-projective dependency structures and how they relate to grammar formalisms (starting with projective dependency structures = lexicalized context-free grammars), as well as dependency corpora is a way to investigate what kind of limited context-sensitivity should be used to best deal with the long distance dependencies and free word order in natural languages.
We will meet Wednesday 2/6 5:30pm in room 117.
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Next Wednesday, Amy will present her project on Empirical Learnability and Inference with Minimalist Grammars, which is the second part of the presentation that she did at the end of last semester.
Abstract: This is a draft presentation of some of my current PhD research, intended for a more computationally-oriented audience. It contains collaborative work done over the past year with Eva Portelance (Stanford), Daniel Harasim (EPFL), and Leon Bergen (UCSD). Minimalist Grammars are a lexicalied grammar formalism inspired by Chomsky's (1994) Minimalist Program, and as such are well suited to formalize theories in contemporary syntactic theory. Our work formulate a learning model based on the technique of Variational Bayesian Inference and apply the model to pilot experiments. In this presentation, I focus on giving an introduction to the central issues in syntactic theory and motivating the problems we wish to address. I give an introduction to syntactic theory and formal grammars, and demonstrate why context free grammars are insufficient to adequately characterize natural language. Minimalist Grammars, a lexicalized mildly context-sensitive formalism are introduced as a more linguistically adequate formalism.
The meeting will be Wednesday 5:30pm in room 117.
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At next week's meeting, Amy and Benji will both give a presentation. Amy is going to present her project "Inference and Learnability over Minimalist Grammars" (abstract below). Benji is going to present the paper Parsing as Deduction (Pereira &Warren, 1093) (paper attached).
We will meet Wednesday at 5:30pm in room 117. Food will be provided.
Published by McLing on December 3, 2018 at 2:40 am under MCQLL.
At next week's meeting, Yves will be presenting the family of stochastic processes known as Dirichlet processes.
The Dirichlet distribution, a generalization of the Beta distribution, is a probabilistic distribution over a finite-dimensional categorical distribution. The Dirichlet process can be seen as an infinite-dimensional generalization of this which balances the trade-off between partitioning random observations into fewer or additional categories. I will describe this through the metaphor of the "Chinese restaurant process" and talk about its use in the fragment grammar model of morphological productivity.
We will be meeting at 5:30pm Wednesday November 28th in room 117.
Published by McLing on November 26, 2018 at 2:40 am under MCQLL.
Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore information about the words in which sounds appear. We use a Bayesian model to illustrate how feedback from segmented words might constrain phonetic category learning by providing information about which sounds occur together in words. Simulations demonstrate that word-level information can successfully disambiguate overlapping English vowel categories. Learning patterns in the model are shown to parallel human behavior from artificial language learning tasks. These findings point to a central role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition and provide a framework for incorporating top-down constraints into models of category learning.
We will be meeting Wednesday November 21 at 5:00pm in room 117. Food will be provided. See you then!
Published by McLing on November 19, 2018 at 2:40 am under MCQLL.
In this project, we attempt to quantitatively demonstrate the the inverse relation between size of inflectional classes and word frequency. I will go over the background behind productivity in inflections and word frequency, the stages in quantitatively demonstrating the relationship between word frequency and size of inflectional class. Then finally the next step of the project moving forward.
The meeting will be next Wednesday from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at room 117.
Published by McLing on October 22, 2018 at 2:40 am under Lab Meetings, MCQLL.
A central problem in grounded language acquisition is learning the correspondences between a rich world state and a stream of text which references that world state. To deal with the high de- gree of ambiguity present in this setting, we present a generative model that simultaneously segments the text into utterances and maps each utterance to a meaning representation grounded in the world state. We show that our model generalizes across three domains of increasing difficulty—Robocup sportscasting, weather forecasts (a new domain), and NFL recaps.
Meeting will be Wednesday Oct 17 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at room 117.
Published by McLing on October 15, 2018 at 2:40 am under Lab Meetings, MCQLL.
For this week's MQLL meeting, James Tanner will present new data of individual speaker variability in the Tokyo Japanese voicing contrast. The meeting will be Wednesday Oct 10 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in room 117.
Published by McLing on October 9, 2018 at 2:40 am under MCQLL.
This week, MCQLL meeting will be meeting Wednesday from 5:30pm to 7:30 in room 117. Greg Theos will present about his work in analyzing data from lexical decision tasks.
Published by McLing on October 1, 2018 at 2:40 am under MCQLL.


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Fast Food Worker Strike in 150 Cities Successful
Posted byvalseiu September 4, 2014 Posted inUnion ActivitiesTags:front recent
Across the country, thousands of workers in 150 cities from walked off their fast food jobs to show that they can't wait any longer for companies like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC to raise their pay.
In cities including Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Miami, fast-food workers were joined by home care workers who are joining the Fight for $15 movement. Since the global fast food strike in May 2014, the movement has continued to spread, with workers walking off their jobs for the first time in Tucson, Ariz.; Minneapolis, Minn., Rochester, N.Y., and Little Rock, Ark.
Local 1991 members were among the many who showed up to support workers striking in Miami. Six fast food workers were arrested in Miami after more than a hundred people blocked a portion of 168 Street in North Miami Beach, at the intersection between a McDonald's and a Burger King. Read the Miami Herald story here. Check out photos from the event here.
Nationwide, thousands of cooks and cashiers walked off their jobs from more than 1,000 stores, chanting "We Believe That We Will Win," and vowing to do whatever it takes to secure higher wages and union rights. In Miami six fast-food workers were arrested after blocking North Miami Beach's busy 168th street in front of both a McDonald's and Burger King for a half hour. Workers were also arrested in New York CIty, Detroit, Chicago, Little Rock and Las Vegas. All of the Miami workers were released by the late afternoon.
"I am tired of people having our hours cut, being afraid to speak out and being disrespected. I am speaking out because it is time for a change." said Shontavia Myers, a Fort Lauderdale McDonald's worker who was arrested. She said she found the experience rewarding. "It was wonderful for me to experience something like this after struggling as much as I have. My story is gonna be heard. Even the officer that arrested me told me that I was doing the right thing and to keep up the good work. After I was arrested I had a message from my manager. I was supposed to be suspended for two weeks, but my manager called me back to work for 11am on Wednesday next week. Our struggle is already starting to pay off."
Miami native Laura Rollins, 62, who was also arrested, said, "We do a lot of work. I do the work of two or three people when I work. But the money that they pay us for the work that we do is not fair. I am speaking up for my co-workers who are breaking their backs every day but are afraid to step up. I am afraid too. But It just isn't fair."
Workers went on strike in every region of the country at major fast-food restaurants including McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC. Across Florida the movement continues to spread, with workers walking off their jobs in Miami, Tampa, and Orlando.
Inspired by fast-food workers, other kinds of low-wage workers are beginning to join the movement to boost pay in fast-growing service sector jobs. In Florida, airport, hotel and hospital workers, union and non-union alike, have waged massive campaigns that have achieved hard fought victories for better pay, improved conditions and the right to organize.
Retiree Club Meeting, Sept. 17
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Q: NULL value from NSDateFormatter from XML This was working fine before compiling with iOS4.0 and I can't figure out what's wrong.
Here's the problem. I send my app scores from my database with a date/time on it. My goal is to store that in CoreData. When I use the code below I get a null value for the date.
Code:
     NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        NSLocale *locale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"US"];
        [dateFormatter setLocale:locale];
        [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZZ"];
        currentDownloadedScore.dateEntered = [dateFormatter dateFromString:self.currentValue];
        NSLog(@"Date CV: %@",self.currentValue);
        NSLog(@"Date: %@",[currentDownloadedScore.dateEntered description]);
        [locale release];
        [dateFormatter release];
Here's the result in the debugger:
2010-07-16 08:15:35.741 MyApp[75003:207] Date CV: 07/16/2010 04:21:00 +00:00
2010-07-16 08:15:35.742 MyApp[75003:207] Date: (null)
2010-07-16 08:15:35.745 MyApp[75003:207] Date CV: 07/16/2010 01:09:26 +00:00
2010-07-16 08:15:35.749 MyApp[75003:207] Date: (null)

Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

A: I found the issue. It seems like the ZZZ part of the formating NO LONGER accepts the colon : in the time.
Works: 07/16/2010 04:21:00 +0000
Doesn't work: 07/16/2010 04:21:00 +00:00
To support the current apps that are out, all I did was search for the +00:00 part in the string and replace it with +0000. TADA! It works!

A: NSDateFormatter has gotten very picky in iOS4. This other SO question had the same problem and has a couple different solutions.

A: I had the same problem. For me, the problem was that I had a line break in my XML feed for the date, so this code fixed it for me:
[currentDate replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@"" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:NSMakeRange(0,[currentDate length])];


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author: CHILDREN'S BOOKS
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. "AUNT FANNY'S DAUGHTER"
The Sock Stories
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1863. Four volumes of the six in the series, comprising the following: Red, White and Blue Socks (with three hand-colored plates); German Socks (with three hand-colored plates); Neighbor Nellie Socks; Funny Big Socks. All are in publisher's cloth and in excellent condition.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN
The Shoes of Fortune and Other Stories
New York: John R. Anderson & Co., 1880. A remarkable, brilliant copy in publisher's cloth; gilt illustrated spine.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. ANONYMOUS
Bilderbuch fur Kinder
New York: American Tract Society [imprint in German], n.d. First Edition (apparently). C. 1870. 64 pages; text in German with an illustration on every page; publisher's cloth decorated in gilt (the front board illustrates a boy reading). Aside from a tiny marginal tear in the final printed leaf, a fine..... More
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, n.d. [late 1860s to 1871]. Edition unknown, but with the firm's 30 Beekman Street address. Publisher's pictorial wrappers; 8 pages with hand-colored illustrations; splitting along the spine; pencil 1871 gift inscription inside the front cover; nearly fine.	More
Denslow's Mary Had A Little Lamb
New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1903. First Edition with Denslow's colorful illustrations and designs. Publisher's wrappers; an excellent example, with only very slight rubbing.	More
Freddy's Dogs
Boston: D. Lothrop, n.d. [after 1877]. 16mo.; publisher's pictorial cloth with the title as "Teddy's Dogs," the back cover advertising "Wee Stories." Color (chromolithograph) frontispiece; 14 pages, although the text is paginated 99-110. Some staining; very good.	More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1854. First Edition. Publisher's cloth; minor page spotting and foxing; nearly a fine copy. Illustrated with large engravings as well as vignettes.	More
Hieroglyphic Bible
Boston: Munroe and Francis, n.d. [ca. 1840-1850]. Probably a later edition. Wrappers; spine crudely re-sewn; spotting, soiling and wear; on the shabbier side of good.	More
Indian Children and Their Pets and Other Stories
Akron: The Werner Company, 1899. First Edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth; depicting an Indian motif based on the title story. The other stories concern General Grant, European travel, the Pope, etc. Very good.	More
The Pretty Alphabet for Good Children
Boston: Phillips & Sampson, n.d. [c. 1846]. Edition undetermined, but the publication year is estimated by the appearance of the book as well as by a dated pencil gift inscription; publisher's printed and illustrated wrappers; no. 4 in Aunt Mary's Library for Little Folks; minor spotting and wear; very good..... More
Uncle John's Panorama of America
Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson Co., 1854. First Edition. Publisher's paper-covered boards, featuring a hand-colored plate of a North American Indian (repeated as the first plate of the panorama); some rubbing; very good. Consisting of 24 hand-colored plates: 3 of American Indians, 3 of Mexican Indians, one of Haytians [sic], one of..... More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. BRIDGMAN, BETTY
Lullaby for Eggs. Pictures by Elizabeth Orton Jones
New York: Macmillan, 1955. First Edition. Small ink name; near fine in a price clipped dust jacket with minor interior tape mends.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. BURTON, VIRGINIA LEE
Katy and the Big Snow
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1943. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with an internal archival repair in the front panel.	More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1943. First Edition. Very good to fine in a very good dust jacket with numerous chips and tears. Presentation copy; warmly inscribed by Burton and signed with her full name.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. COLESWORTHY, D.C
Juvenile Story Book
Portland [Maine]: S.H. Colesworthy, 1834. First Edition. Publisher's muslin with a paper title label on the front cover; some foxing; corner of one leaf lacking (far from affecting any text); 1836 gift inscription on the first blank; very good. Illustrated with woodcuts.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. COOLIDGE, SUSAN
The Rule of Three
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1904. First Edition? Publisher's pictorial cloth; offsetting on endpapers, else fine in a very good dust jacket lacking the front flap.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. COONEY, BARBARA
A Little Prayer
New York: Hastings House, 1967. First Edition. Nearly fine; inscribed by Cooney.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. CORBIN, MARIE OVERTON AND CHARLES BUXTON GOING
Urchins at the Pole. Drawing by F.I. Bennett
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1901. First Edition. Sea urchins, polar bears and seals at play. Publisher's illustrated cloth; a bit shaken; very good.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. COTE, PHYLLIS
Original Drawing for Tibby's Venture (1943)
The pencil drawing is attached at the top onto a larger mount, approximately 6 x 8 1/2," noted on the bottom margin "Chapter 7." The bottom edge of the mat is penciled "from Tibby's Venture by Phyllis Cote." The verso of the mount is inscribed in crayon "Please return to..... More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. CROWNINSHIELD, ETHEL
Songs and Stories About Animals
Boston: Boston Music Company, 1947. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Fittingly illustrated by kindergarteners.	More
Stories That Sing
Boston: Boston Music Company, 1945. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Charmingly illustrated by kindergarteners.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. DALGLIESH, ALICE
The Thanksgiving Story. Illustrated by Helen Sewell
New York: Scribner's, 1954. First Edition. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with light wear.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. DARWIN, BERNARD AND ELINOR
The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo
London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [presumably 1925]. First Edition (presumably). Publishers's paper-covered boards with a relief medallion-like title on the front board; 1928 gift inscription; very good. [With] Tootleoo Two. London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [ca. 1925 or later]. First Edition (presumably). Publisher's paper-covered boards; owner's initials on the front free endpaper;..... More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. DAVIS, MARY GOULD
Randolph Caldecott: 1846-1886: An Appreciation
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1946. First Edition. Foxed; very good in a good dust jacket with chips and tears.	More
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. DE BRUNHOFF, LAURENT
Babar's Picnic
New York: Random House, 1949. First American Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some interior tape mends.	More


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Charlie Wilson's War Booksigning
2003-11-15T17:54:06-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/BookTV_default-image.jpgScenes from the Texas Book Festival of George Crile and former Representative Charles Wilson signing copies of Mr. Crile's book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, published by Atlantic Monthly Press.
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George Crile Producer CBS->60 Minutes
Charles Wilson U.S. Representative (Former) [D] Texas
History Bookshelf
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The Face of Texas
Texas A & M University Press
The Bookstore of Last Resort
George W. Bush and Karl Rove Panel
Texas Book Festival Booksigning
Texas Book Festival Interview
Jan 31, 2004 | 8:50am EST | C-SPAN 2
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Mr. Crile talked about his book, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in…
Maria Shriver Booksigning
California first lady Maria Shriver was shown signing copies of her book, And One More Thing Before You Go.
Gore Vidal Booksigning
Mr. Vidal signed copies of his book The Golden Age at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
BookExpo America Booksigning
Mr. Wolf was shown talking to people as he signed copies of his book I Am Charlotte Simmons.


There are three of us behind ExtremaduraBirding - William, Juan Pablo, and Ana.
25 years living in England teaching Spanish to demanding students still hasn't dented her patience and enthusiasm. Born in León in North-West Spain (over 6 hours drive away from Orellana!) she studied Geography and History. Within ExtremaduraBirding she looks after the logistical side of the visits and is able to provide input on the culture and history of Extremadura.


I did not receive the coins I bought .
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Watercolour and ink on paper, 21 x 29 cm (8.2 by 11.4 in). Signed.
The artists was well known as a landscape and animal painter of the so-called Dresdner School. As student of Ludwig Richter, since 1837 at the Dresden Academy. 1841 he appears already as an established artists.
Charming Watercolour in beautiful original condition and with very decorative old frame.
Further details and price on request.


Here is this week's recipe from the Magpie Cafe in Whitby for you to try at home.
Heat the oil in a deep pan and then add the carrot, onion, celery and garlic.
Cook over a moderate heat and cook until the vegetables have turned golden in colour, add the chicken stock, bay leaves and the thyme. Gently simmer for around one hour to fully infuse the stock.
After an hour, strain the vegetables and herbs out of the stock and place the stock back onto the heat, rinse the pearl barley well in cold water then add the pearl barley to the stock, over a low heat simmer for around 30 minutes.
After 10 minutes add the sliced leeks, stir through and cover with a lid. After a further 10 minutes add the cod pieces and gently simmer for a further 10 minutes or until the pearl barley is tender and the fish is cooked. Season with salt and pepper to taste, then divide the soup between four bowls, sprinkle with the sliced prunes and serve with lots of fresh bread.


Radiator maintenance is crucial but gets ignored by most of the car owner. You know, when your car radiator blown, it not only cost you for a new radiator replacement, but also the engine overhaul which eat up the biggest portion of the money you pay for repair.
I learnt the lesson. Therefore I make sure I check my car radiator every week end or before I go for long distance journey. I quickly replace the radiator if I found it is out of shape.
There are many type of radiator available in the market, from China made no brand to branded radiator. Sometime the specification also quite confusing, it varies from years of manufacturing, like Ford Taurus Radiator. There are so many type of radiator specification from year 1986 to 2006 models and you may need expert advice from Radiator.com if you come into such situation.
I only ask for good quality one. I don't mind to pay a little more to ensure my car never breakdown due to radiator failure.


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