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By Abigail C. Saguy
Professor of Sociology, UCLA
In late 2017, over 30 women accused Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault or rape. Shortly after—following the lead of actress Alyssa Milano—millions of women began posting "#MeToo" on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook and other social media platforms, effectively "coming out" as victims of sexual harassment, assault or rape. As Milano acknowledges, "Me Too" isn't new: African American activist Tarana Burke first used "Me Too" in 2007 as part of an offline campaign to let sex abuse survivors–especially young women of color—know that they were not alone. Milano says she hopes the social media campaign will shift the focus from Weinstein to victims and "give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem."
The #MeToo movement underscores the power of collective mobilization. It also shows how suddenly the status quo can shift. Despite having studied sexual harassment in the United States and France for almost 30 years – and publishing a book and several articles on the topic[1] – even I did not see this coming.
Recently, I have been studying how people "come out" to resist stigma and mobilize for social change. As I show in a series of articles and a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press titled Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are: Identity Politics in the 21st Century, the concept of coming out—first developed by the gay rights movement in the 1970s—has expanded well beyond lesbians and gay men. The undocumented movement, fat rights movement, and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists—to name a few—all now use "coming out" politics to make real changes to laws, public opinion, interpersonal relationships and to claim their civil rights.
Notably, the #MeToo movement embraces not just the politics of "coming out" as a victim of sexual harassment or assault, but also the "outing" of harassers, assaulters and rapists. "Outing"—another term coined and developed by the gay rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s—originally referred to the act of disclosing a politician or celebrity's homosexuality, typically because they publicly opposed gay rights or promoted heteronormativity (i.e. the idea that everyone is heterosexual) by "passing" as straight.
#MeToo has already led to significant change in the culture around sexual harassment and assault. Many of the men recently "outed" as sexual offenders have lost their jobs and, in some cases, faced criminal prosecution. Some have argued that employers and authors may now take women who claim to have been assaulted or harassed more seriously. The movement may bring real systemic changes to how employers and courts address sexual harassment.
Exactly what will come of the #MeToo movement remains to be seen, but this movement—and the others of which it is both a product and a part—are a reminder that the social life of humans is fluid and deserving of true inquiry by social scientists.
Abigail Saguy is a UCLA Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies and author of What is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne (California, 2003), What's Wrong with Fat (Oxford, 2013), Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are: Identity Politics in the 21st Century, over 30 scientific journal articles and several op-eds published in leading news outlets. You can see more of her work at www.abigailsaguy.com and https://soc.ucla.edu/faculty/abigail-saguy.
[1] Abigail C. Saguy, What Is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press., 2003); "Employment Discrimination or Sexual Violence?: Defining Sexual Harassment in American, and French Law," Law & Society Review 34, no. 4 (2000); "Europeanization or National Specificity? Legal Approaches to Sexual Harassment in France, 2002-2012," Law & Society Review 52, no. 1 (2018).
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Tags: #metoo, assault, collective, coming out, gender, sexual harrassment, social media, sociology, ucla, violence
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Нилмони Пхукан младший (; 10 сентября 1933, Голагхат, Ассам – 19 января 2023, Гувахати) — ассамский и индийский , , , , , доктор наук, академик.

Биография
Окончил в 1961 году Университет Гувахати. С 1964 года — преподаватель колледжа Арья Видьяпит в Гувахати, где проработал до выхода на пенсию в 1992 году.

Скончался 19 января 2023 года.

Творчество
Дебютировал как поэт в начале 1950-х годов. Пишет под влиянием французских символистов

Работы Нилмони Пхукана полны символизма и представляют собой один из жанров ассамской поэзии.

Занимался также переводами японской и европейской поэзии на ассамский язык.

Избранные произведения
 সূৰ্য হেনো নামি আহে এই নদীয়েদি,
 নিৰ্জনতাৰ শব্দ,
 আৰু কি নৈঃশব্দ্য্য,
 জাপানী কবিতা,
 ফুলি থকা সূৰ্যমুখী ফুলটোৰ ফালে,
 কাঁইট গোলাপ আৰু কাঁইট,
 গোলাপী জামুৰ লগ্ন,
 কবিতা,
 গাৰ্থিয়া লৰ্কাৰ কবিতা,
 নৃত্যৰতা পৃথিৱী,
 সাগৰতলিৰ শংখ ,
 চীনা কবিতা,
 অলপ আগতে আমি কি কথা পাতি আছিলোঁ

Награды
 премия Литературной академии Индии (1981)
 Падма Шри (1990)
 Литературная премия Assam Valley Literary Award (1997)
 В 2002 году получил стипендию Sahitya Akademi, высшую литературную награду в Индии, присуждаемую Национальной академией литературы Индии - Сахитья Академией, для «бессмертных литераторов».
 Докторская степень Университета Дибругарха в Ассаме (2019)

Примечания

Ссылки
 Nilmani Phookan Jr
 Nilmani Phookan Jr

Ассамские поэты
Ассамские писатели
Доктора наук
Символисты
Поэты-символисты

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In the News: 1/10/2011–1/14/2011
Posted by Scott Gruber on Friday, January 14th 2011
January 11: The Washington Post published a story that while many lives were saved after the Haiti earthquake, one year later, many Haitians remain impoverished. However, USAID's $19 million cash for work program employed 350,000 people after the earthquake.
January 11 : AP and The Seattle Times wrote that the Gates Foundation and USAID have partnered to offer a $2.5 million prize to Haitian cellular operator Digicel, the first company to launch a service for Haitians to do banking by mobile phone. According to USAID's Haiti mission director, "the project already has increased significantly the number of Haitians with access to banking services."
January 11: The LA Weekly blog reported that according to a State Department fact sheet, food security in Haiti has improved due to the work of USAID. Before the earthquake, about 80 percent of the Haitian population was living below the poverty line. But in three months after the earthquake, USAID's emergency food relief found its way to 4 million people.
January 12: AOL News reported that while more than $1 billion has been spent in Haiti since the earthquake, only about 1,000 permanent houses have been built to replace the ones that were destroyed during the quake. Meanwhile, USAID continues to receive emails daily from organizations seeking funding.
January 12: USA Today wrote that the United Nations, USAID and Haiti's government insist progress is being made in Haiti. According to the UN, the number of people left homeless by the earthquake has dropped from 1.5 million to 1 million, although it is not clear whether those who left the tent camps found housing.
January 12: Voice of America published a story noting that USAID has played an instrumental role in Haiti's recovery and reconstruction efforts. Among other initiatives, USAID has employed 350,000 people in cash-for-work programs, which have boosted the Haitian economy.
January 12: All Headline News reported that at a special press briefing, USAID Administrator Shah called the Haiti mission, "the largest humanitarian effort ever mounted," with food distribution reaching 3.5 million people and efforts to get shelter material to 1.5 million people. According to Administrator Shah, the rate of recovery in Haiti is "faster than what we saw in the first two-and-a-half years after the Aceh tragedy in Indonesia."
January 12 Jewish Telegraphic Agency wrote that an interfaith prayer service was held in Washington, D.C. for the release of USAID subcontractor Alan Gross from a Cuban prison. The event was organized by the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
January 13: On NPR's "Talk of the Nation," USAID Administrator Shah was interviewed and discussed the progress being made in Haiti one year after the earthquake. Shah explained that the earthquake "was a disaster of unprecedented proportions" but that much has been accomplished "due to the perseverance of the Haitian people, but with great support from the United States and partners around the world."
January 13: WLKY-TV (Louisville, KY) reported that according to USAID Administrator Shah, "the US has provided more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Haiti," but that the main challenge now lies in "clearing the millions of pieces of rubble that still exist and getting more people out of tents and back into homes." KETV-TV (Omaha, NE) reported that USAID Administrator Shah "believes it'll take three to five years to fully recover from the earthquake…and that he will personally assess the situation in Haiti in a few weeks."
January 13: AP wrote that the American Red Cross, in partnership with USAID, will spend $30 million to build homes in two locations in Haiti.
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Cuomo faces biggest budget deficit, $6B, since taking office
By Bernadette Hogan and Carl Campanile
January 5, 2020 | 6:53pm
Rashid Umar Abbasi
Andrew Cuomo's sad State of the State speech
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NY leaders need to face facts, and start making real cuts
This year will be the biggest budget challenge for Gov. Andrew Cuomo since he took office in 2011.
Exploding costs in New York's popular health-insurance program for the needy is largely fueling the state's projected $6 billion budget deficit for 2020, and Cuomo is already so worried about getting it under control that he didn't even wait for his State of the Speech on Wednesday to take action.
He invoked an emergency order last week calling for a 1 percent reduction in payments to hospitals, nursing homes, doctors and pharmacists who participate in the state's Medicaid program.
The cuts will save $620.4 million through the state's next fiscal year, or April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, the state Health Department said in the order.
But that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what the state will be in debt for during the same period.
The Medicaid shortfall is projected to be as much as $4 billion, and closing it will be a challenge not only for Cuomo but legislators in the Assembly and Senate — all of whom face reelection in 2020 and are wary of raising taxes or cutting spending before facing the voters.
"Dealing with the budget deficit while preserving and enhancing services promises to be the biggest challenge. That affects education, health care and so much more," said Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris (D-Queens).
State Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island), said, "A $6 billion hole is nothing to sneeze at.
"We don't have the money to spend."
During his first year as governor in 2011, Cuomo and legislators took actions to close a $10 billion hole that included cuts to education and other programs and imposed a spending cap, including on Medicaid. The crisis came as the state was still recovering economically from the recession.
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Cuomo was praised by budget watchdogs for controlling spending at the time. But he has come under criticism since then for masking the increased Medicaid costs by delaying payments from one fiscal year to the next, including pushing $1.7 billion in costs from last year's budget to the current one.
The maneuver "made it appear that the [Medicaid] program was staying on budget when, in fact, it was slipping increasingly out of balance," said Bill Hammond, who tracks health-care financing for the nonpartisan Empire Center for Public Policy.
Cuomo's office told The Post that the budget problem is manageable.
"Opinions are relevant when they are based on facts, and we will present actual numbers and options when we do the budget, as otherwise, this is all just speculation," said Cuomo senior adviser Richard Azzopardi.
The current state budget, including federal funds, is $175.5 billion, with health-care and education costs eating up the largest portions. The governor typically releases the next fiscal year's budget in the days after his State of the State.
The state Board of Regents has requested a $2 billion increase in funding for public schools, and some lawmakers are calling for even more — not less — state aid, despite Albany''s budget woes.
"At this point, school districts are owed more money and need more to educate children," said Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Shelley Mayer (D-Westchester). "I'm going to push for that."
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Q: Body height doesn't decrease with the content inside My body height fits the content inside with Javascript, and all my content is in separate iframes that can be exchanged by navigating. My Iframes have different heights, but when the height is lower, the body doesn't shrink to fit the content and remains the height from before if the content is bigger, leaving a gap. Is there any way to fix this?
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Requires semi-colons like this...
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You can also add one to the last item but you don't need to.

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I recently had the chance to interview Anthony Guajardo. If you have not heard of Anthony before I am sure you would know him if you saw him. He starred as Miguel in an episode titled "Vatos" on this season of The Walking Dead. Keep reading to learn about his experience working on the show and what it is like to be a young star on the verge of a career in Hollywood!
You got your start in commercials at a young age, what made you interested in becoming an actor?
You know it's kind of funny, but acting is the only thing I ever remember wanting to do it as a career. When I was about five I saw "The Mask" with Jim Carrey and his hilarious performance struck a chord with me. It gave me a deep unexplainable feeling of happiness ... I guess it was "love at first sight." Ha ha!
How has your life changed since The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3D?
It was the first time that I had been on the set of a movie, being on Robert's set reassured me that I was meant to be in front of the camera, ... it just felt right. Since then I have been training and improving my skills everyday.
What was it like working with Taylor Lautner and Robert Rodriguez?
Although I was an extra it was an amazing experience, Taylor introduced himself to me one day on set and was one of the coolest actors I had met. Robert was really laid back and really nice, he never made work feel like work.
You starred as Miguel on an episode of this seasons The Walking Dead. How did you enjoy working on a series versus a feature film?
Well up until now the Vatos and Miguel have only been in one episode, though I hope they'll bring us back ... but the idea of working a character on a project that doesn't have a definite start and end point to it when you begin, is exciting because you don't know how or where you will be able to take the character.
There were so many awesome moments of The Walking Dead. Do you have a favorite scene from the scenes you were involved in shooting and from the first season as a whole?
My favorite scene from "Vatos" was the one when Daryl threw the hand at me, because I got a chance to work with all three actors at the same time. They are all extremely talented and easy to work with…plus it was really funny to watch. My favorite scenes through out the season were when T-Dog said "I thought you were being eatin my dogs man!" I LOVE the way Iron E. said that line. My other favorite was when Rick sees his family again for the first time since he woke up, it was an incredibly emotional scene performed perfectly by Andrew.
Even though you were only on one episode, your character was a pivotal character in introducing a group of survivors. Do you know if you plan on being a part of any episode(s) next season?
Having grown up in the business do you feel that you have had to miss out on a lot of the traditional experiences of your friends?
What are some of your favorite types of films and TV shows?
My top favorite TV shows right now are: The Walking Dead, Tosh.O, Family Guy, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, South Park, The B.A.D Revue, Supernatural, and The Boondocks.
My favorite films are:Transformers (all of them), The Soloist, Caveman's Valentine, Across The Universe, Singing in the Rain, any movie with Jim Carrey, Moulin Rouge, Zombieland, and Night of the Living Dead.
If you could choose any actor or director, who would that be and why?
Actor: Jim Carrey or Johnny Depp, because they're both such talented actors! They never fail to give an amazing performance. I would also really like to work Ashley Greene, she's beautiful!
Director: Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino, because I love the style of their movies and they NEVER fail to keep me entertained.
What types of projects do you have coming up in TV or Film?
I am working on a webisode with some acting buddies of mine and we are calling it "The B.A.D. Revue" other than that there's is nothing film related on my plate, just been auditioning for everything I can.
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Is it a good idea if I buy the 13€ Parallel Module (LPT1) and a PCI express DB25 parallel card and LPT cable? would it then work?
Yes, cheap and cheerful. Once upon a time ALL Mach3 was run that way.
Be sure you have 32 bit Windows 7 or XP, the parallel port WILL NOT work on 64 bit, laptops or Windows8 or later.
Best idea is do a fresh OS install and only have enough software just to run Mach and no more. No internet. No anti-virus.
No updates. No nothing....Mach and Mach alone.
I don't have Windows 7 or XP license. Does Mach3 work on Linux? Or anyway I can get it to work on Windows 10?
Yes, it will work in Windows 10. Get a UC100, like most Stepcraft machines use, and plug it into the parallel interface card.
Stepcraft claims their machine at run at max. speed of 50mm/sec=3,000mm/min.
To achieve that Max. Speed, the Windows 7 32bits PC running MACH3 will need at least a CORE-2-Duo 3GHz CPU and running MACH3 kernel speed at 45,000Hz.
I upgraded my old PC from core-2-duo 2.4Ghz (max speed was 1800mm/sec) to Core-2-Duo 3.0Ghz for AUD$9 from ebay and max speed went up to 3,000mm/min and I could surf the INTERNET while machining with no issue.
I also have a new PC with I5 7600 9 3.6GHZ (4cores) and I could reach 4,000/mm with no problems even though my motors are still at 24volts.
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Searching for Siri
on January 21, 2015 January 30, 2015 By melhulm
Mistaken identity, forensic investigation and a CNN scoop—it sounds like the hunt for a criminal mastermind.
It was, in fact, the search to uncover the original voice of Apple's virtual assistant, Siri. And as I posted my Siri-esque voice adventure last week, why not get to the bottom of who Siri really is? It appears this is quite the story…
Love her or hate her, I'm willing to bet at some point you've:
a. left your finger on the home button of your iPhone for too long and that oh too familiar beep has busted you texting in a meeting
b. spent way too much time asking outrageous questions such as what is the meaning of life? Are you single? What are you wearing?
c. used colourful language at her when she has questioned your ability to speak by replying: 'I'm sorry, I didn't get that'
d. done all of the above.
But it was the question 'who are you Siri?' that remained unanswered for two years.
A chance encounter by UK CNN reporter Jessica Ravitz revealed Siri's true identity as voice actor Susan Bennett. She was interviewing Susan for a special project on the world's busiest airport (Susan is the voice of Delta terminals), when, for reasons she can't explain, she blurted out 'hey are you Siri?'
After initially swearing her to secrecy, Susan later agreed to an interview, wanting to set the record straight. An article on synthesised speech led some to believe voice talent Allison Dufty was the virtual assistant. After Allison denied the claim, the search intensified—everyone wanted to meet Siri—so Susan decided to come forward.
Susan's voice acting career began in the 1970s. Today in the US she can be heard on GPS systems, ATMs and on-hold messages. She also features on commercials for McDonalds, Ford, Coca-Cola and Fisher-Price.
She recorded what would eventually become the voice of Siri back in 2005—for four hours a day, every day throughout July (yikes!)—and admitted she had no idea where the recordings would end up.
'The first time I actually heard my voice as Siri was when my friend emailed me and said, "Isn't this you?"' Susan told CNN, 'I went to the Apple site and that's where I heard the voice. I went 'Oh! Hmm. That is me."'
Susan also explained why Siri can have a bit of an attitude:
'There are some people that just can read hour upon hour upon hour, and it's not a problem. For me, I get extremely bored. That's one of the reasons why Siri might sometimes sound like she has a bit of an attitude…Those sounds might have been recorded the last 15 minutes of those four hours.'
But Susan's word was not enough—enter CNN's audio-forensic expert. After studying both voices, it was confirmed 100 per cent that Susan and Siri are one and the same.
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My core expertise is on information integration, including query rewriting under constrains, learning schema mappings, and entity linkage. I have research interests in databases, knowledge representation, semantic web, semantic search, automated planning and learning, scientific workflows, and biomedical informatics.
I'm a member of the USC/ISI Information Integration Research Group and the USC Computer Science Database Group.
The major goals of the PRISMS-DSCIC are (1) to integrate environmental, physiological, and behavioral data produced by the sensor-based health monitoring systems funded under PRISMS and data from relevant external sources, and (2) facilitate access, analysis, and dissemination of such data and software generated by PRISMS program. Program description at NIBIB.
USC News item on PRISMS: USC, UCLA to develop children's asthma prediction app.
The goal of BigDataU is to develop an online education platform that will automatically discover, access, curate, cite, and personalize training materials in biomedical big data.
This project integrates schizophrenia neuroimaging-related data from disparate, heterogeneous databases. This gives you access to multi-site, multi-dimensional, multi-modal data all in one place.
ISI News item on SchizConnect: A Beautiful Find: Facilitating Schizophrenia Research.
This project reads the cancer literature to automatically extract relevant pathway knowledge and causal models.
The Coordinating Center provides data integration and grid computing infrastructure for the investigation, in well-characterized population studies, of genetic variants identified as potentially causally associated with complex diseases in genome-wide association and other genetic studies.
We provide data integration and grid computing infrastructure to support the NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetic Studies of Mental Disorders, which is investigating the inherited (genetic), environmental and physiologic causes of mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and autism.
The goal of this project is to automatically discover related phenotypes across multiple studies. This is a common problem in many biomedical domains, and especially needed in gentics studies, such as those deposited at dbGaP. We use a combination of machine-learning, record-linkage and information retrieval techniques to construct a semantic similarity metric between the definitions of phenotypic variables. This project is funded under NHLBI's pFINDR program.
The major goal of this project is to develop a federated and distributed infrastructure for the storage, retrieval, analysis, and documentation of biomedical data for the NCRR Biomedical Informatics Research Network. My major focus within BIRN is on the developement of the BIRN mediator, a data integration system.
The SC-CSTI CBIS's vision is to create a shared, common informatics infrastructure to serve as the cornerstone for information acquisition, management, integration, and analysis of needs across the CTSI.
Argos focused on automatic web service composition, applied to a transportation planning domain.
The Center for Health Informatics aimed to provide a secure, seamless, global computing platform for creating and exchanging health information between the public, private and academic sectors.
EntityBases developed techniques to extract, link, and integrate massive amounts of data from numerous heterogeneous sources.
CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes): facilitating information integration by learning source models.
Heracles is an interactive data-driven constraint-based hierarchical planner.
SIMS and Ariadne are mediator architectures that integrate information from distributed and heterogeneous data sources.
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Proteus focuses on web service composition and execution.
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Organizing Committee: Jose Luis Ambite, Jim Blythe, Jana Koehler, Sheila McIlraith, Marco Pistore, Biplav Srivastava.
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Mike P. Papazoglou, Biplav Srivastava, and Paolo Traverso.
Mohsen Sayyadiharikandeh, Jonathan Gordon, Jose Luis Ambite, Kristina Lerman.
Wiki Workshop 2019. WWW'19 Companion, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jose Luis Ambite, Jonathan Gordon, Lily Fierro, Gully Burns, Joel Mathew.
Proceedings of the 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI). Honolulu, Hawaii, 2019.
Exploiting spatiotemporal patterns for accurate air quality forecasting using deep learning.
Yijun Lin, Nikhit Mago, Yu Gao, Yaguang Li, Yao-Yi Chiang, Cyrus Shahabi, Jose Luis Ambite.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL). Seattle, WA, USA, 2018.
JD Van Horn, L Fierro, J Kamdar, J Gordon, C Stewart, A Bhattrai, S Abe, X Lei, C O'Driscoll, A Sinha, P Jain, G Burns, K Lerman, and JL Ambite.
Biocomputing 2018, Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium. Kohala Coast, HI, 2018.
Extending Apache Spark with a Mediation Layer.
Dimitris Stripelis, Chrysovalantis Anastasiou, Jose Luis Ambite.
International Semantic Big Data Workshop, SIGMOD Houston, TX, 2018.
Genetic Diversity Turns a New PAGE in Our Understanding of Complex Traits.
G Wojick et al. bioRxiv, 2017.
Ultra-rapid detection of identity-by-descent tracts for biobank-scale inference.
R. Shemirani, G.M. Belbin, E.E. Kenny, C.R. Gignoux, and J.L. Ambite.
67th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. Orlando, FL, 2017.
A neural named entity recognition approach to biological entity identification.
BioCreative VI Challenge and Workshop. Bethesda, MD, 2017.
Mining public datasets for modeling intra-city PM2:5 concentrations at a fine spatial resolution.
Yijun Lin, Fan Pan, Yao-Yi Chiang, Dimitris Stripelis, Jose Luis Ambite, Sandrah P. Eckel, and Rima Habre.
ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Redondo Beach, CA, 2017.
The BD2K training coordinating centers data science education platform.
Jose Luis Ambite, Lily Fierro, Florian Geigl, Jonathan Gordon, Gully A.P.C. Burns, Kristina Lerman, Jeana Kamdar, Crystal Stewart, Avnish Bhattrai, Xiaoyu Lei, Sumiko Abe, and John Darrell Van Horn.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium (System Demonstration). Washington, DC, 2017.
A Scalable Data Integration and Analysis Architecture for Sensor Data of Pediatric Asthma.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). San Diego, CA, 2017. Demonstration Paper.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web. WWW'17 Companion. (The 4th WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data: Towards the Web of Scholars). Perth, Australia, 2017.
Leveraging Linked Data to Discover Semantic Relations within Data Sources.
Proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Kobe, Japan, 2016.
Abstract Meaning Representations as Linked Data.
Proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Kobe, Japan, 2016.
Learning the semantics of structured data sources.
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Volumes 37-38, Pages 152-169. March 2016.
SchizConnect: Virtual Data Integration in Neuroimaging.
Ambite, J.L., Tallis, M., Alpert, K., Keator, D., King, M., Landis, D., Konstantinidis, G., Calhoun, V., Potkin, S., Turner, J., Wang, L.
Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS). 2015.
GEM: The GAAIN Entity Mapper.
Naveen Ashish, Peehoo Dewan, Jose Luis Ambite, Arthur W. Toga.
Terminology Development Towards Harmonizing Multiple Clinical Neuroimaging Research Repositories.
Turner, J., Pasquerello, D., Turner, M., Keator, D., Alpert, K., King, M., Landis, D., Calhoun, V., Potkin, S., Tallis, M., Ambite, J.L., Wang, L.
Optimizing the Chase: Scalable Data Integration under Constraints.
George Konstantinidis and Jose Luis Ambite.
A Scalable Approach to Learn Semantic Models of Structured Sources.
Taheriyan, M.; Knoblock, C. A.; Szekely, P.; and Ambite, J. L.
Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2014.
Pendergrass SA, Brown-Gentry K, Dudek S, Frase A, Torstenson ES, Goodloe R, Ambite JL, Avery CL, Buyske S, Buzcova� P, Deelman E, Fesinmeyer MD, Haiman CA, Heiss G, Hindorff LA, Hsu CN, Jackson RD, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, Lin Y, Matise TC, Monroe KR, Moreland L, Park SL, Reiner A, Wallace R, Wilkens LR, Crawford DC, Ritchie MD.
Aligning Ontologies of Linked Data.
Rahul Parundekar, Craig Knoblock, and Jose Luis Ambite.
In Andreas Harth, Katja hose, and Ralf Schenkel (editors), Linked Data Management: Principles and Techniques, CRC Press, 2014.
A Graph-based Approach to Learn Semantic Descriptions of Data Sources. Taheriyan, M.; Knoblock, C. A.; Szekely, P.; and Ambite, J. L. In Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), 2013.
A Graph-based Approach to Learn Semantic Descriptions of Data Sources.
Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), Sydney, Australia, 2013.
Discovering Concept Coverings in Ontologies of Linked Data Sources.
Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, Massachusetts, 2012.
Rapidly Integrating Services into the Linked Data Cloud.
Mohsen Taheriyan, Craig Knoblock, Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite.
Semi-Automatically Mapping Structured Sources into the Semantic Web.
Craig Knoblock, Pedro Szekely, Jose Luis Ambite, Aman Goel, Shubham Gupta, Kristina Lerman, Parag Mallick, Maria Muslea and Mohsen Taheriyan.
Proceedings of the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 2012.
Optimizing Query Rewriting for Multiple Queries.
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2012). Scottsdale, Arizona, 2012.
Consistent Directions of Effect for Established Type 2 Diabetes Risk Variants Across Populations: The Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Consortium.
Haiman CA, Fesinmeyer MD, Spencer KL, BuzkovC! P, Voruganti VS, Wan P, Haessler J, Franceschini N, Monroe KR, Howard BV, Jackson RD, Florez JC, Kolonel LN, Buyske S, Goodloe RJ, Liu S, Manson JE, Meigs JB, Waters K, Mukamal KJ, Pendergrass SA, Shrader P, Wilkens LR, Hindorff LA, Ambite JL, North KE, Peters U, Crawford DC, Le Marchand L, Pankow JS.
A Phenomics-Based Strategy Identifies Loci on APOC1, BRAP, and PLCG1 Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Phenotype Domains.
Evaluation of the Metabochip Genotyping Array in African Americans and Implications for Fine Mapping of GWAS-Identified Loci: The PAGE Study.
Exploring Label Dependency in Active Learning for Phenotype Mapping.
Shefali Sharma, Leslie Lange, Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, and Chun-Nan Hsu.
Scalable Query Rewriting: A Graph-Based Approach.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2011), Athens, Greece, 2011.
Learning phenotype mapping for integrating large genetic data.
Chun-Nan Hsu, Cheng-Ju Kuo, Congxing Cai, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Marylyn D. Ritchie, and Jose Luis Ambite.
Proceedings of BioNLP 2011 Workshop (BioNLP '11). Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2011.
The use of phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) for exploration of novel genotype-phenotype relationships and pleiotropy discovery.
Pendergrass SA, Brown-Gentry K, Dudek SM, Torstenson ES, Ambite JL, Avery CL, Buyske S, Cai C, Fesinmeyer MD, Haiman C, Heiss G, Hindorff LA, Hsu CN, Jackson RD, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, Lin Y, Matise TC, Moreland L, Monroe K, Reiner AP, Wallace R, Wilkens LR, Crawford DC, Ritchie MD.
The Next PAGE in Understanding Complex Traits: Design for the Analysis of Population Architecture Using Genetics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study.
Enabling collaborative research using the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN).
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association JAMIA 2011;18:416-422, 2011.
Naveen Ashish, Jose Luis Ambite, Maria Muslea and Jessica A. Turner.
Linking and Building Ontologies of Linked Data.
Rahul Parundekar, Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite.
Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010), Shanghai, China, 2010.
Jose Luis Ambite, Sirish Darbha, Aman Goel,Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Rahul Parundekar, and Thomas Russ.
Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington, D.C., 2009.
Zachary G. Ives, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton, Marie Jacob, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Rattapoom Tuchinda, Jose Luis Ambite, Maria Muslea, and Cenk Gazen.
Fourth Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Pacific Grove, CA, January 2009.
Discovering and learning semantic models of online sources for information integration.
Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, Pasadena, CA, 2009.
Exploiting data semantics to discover, extract, and model web sources.
Jose Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Anon Plangprasopchok, Thomas Russ, Cenk Gazen, Steven Minton, and Mark Carman.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'08), 2008.
Craig A. Knoblock, Jose Luis Ambite, Mark Carman,Matthew Michelson, Pedro Szekely and Rattapoom Tuchinda.
AI Magazine, 29(2). Summer 2008.
Jose Luis Ambite and Dipsy Kapoor.
Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2007), Busan, Korea, November 2007.
Snehal Thakkar, Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2007), Seattle, WA, November 2007.
EntityBases: Compiling, organizing and querying massive entity repositories.
Craig A. Knoblock, Jose Luis Ambite, Kavita Ganesan, Maria Muslea, Steven Minton, Greg Barish, Evan Gamble, Claude Nanjo, Kane See, Cyrus Shahabi, , and Ching-Chien Chen.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2007.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2007), Philadelphia, PA, May 2007.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2007), Philadelphia, PA, May 2007.
Jose Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano and Peter Gordon.
Jose Luis Ambite, Dipsy Kapoor, and Mountu Jinwala.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2006), San Diego, California, May 2006.
Jose Luis Ambite, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Richard Fikes, Jessica Jenkins, Sunil Mishra, Maria Muslea, Tomas Uribe, and Guizhen Yang.
Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-2006), Boston, Massachusetts, July 2006.
Snehal Thakkar, Jose Luis Ambite, and Craig A. Knoblock.
The VLDB Journal, 14(3): 330-353, 2005.
Jose Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblock, Maria Muslea, and Steve Minton.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(2), March/April 2005.
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Jose Luis Ambite and Matthew Weathers.
Proceedings of the 6th Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2005), Atlanta, Georgia, May 2005.
IEEE Intelligent Systems., Vol. 19, No. 3, 2004, pp. 72-79.
In Intelligent Techniques for Planning., Ioannis Vlahavas and Dimitris Vrakas Eds., Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2005.
In Proceeding of 2004 ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services , June 2004.
Project Highlight at the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2004), Seattle, Washington, May 2004.
System Demosntration at the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2004), Seattle, Washington, May 2004.
Workshop on Planning for Web Services, The 13th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2003), Trento, Italy, 2003.
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Craig A. Knoblock, Christos Papadopoulos, Cyrus Shahabi, Esam Alwagait, Jose Luis Ambite, Min Cai, Ching-Chien Chen, Parikshit Pol, Rolfe Schmidt, Saihong Song, Snehal Thakkar, and Runfang Zhou.
In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2003.
The Fourteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.
Data integration and access: The Digital Government Research Center's Energy Data Collection (EDC) project.
Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Walter Bourne, Steve Feiner, Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Eduard Hovy, Judith Klavans, Andrew Philpot, Usha Ramachandran, Kenneth Ross, Jay Sandhaus, Deniz Sarioz, Rolfe R. Schmidt, Cyrus Shahabi, Anurag Singla, Surabhan Temiyabutr, and Brian Whitman.
In Advances in Digital Government: Technology, Human Factors, and Policy. William J.McIver and Ahmed K.Elmagarmid, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Workshop on Intelligent Service Integration, The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.
Second National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2002), Redondo Beach, California, May 2002.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 15, pp 207-261, 2001.
The Tenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10), Hong Kong, 2001.
Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Snehal Thakkar, Jose Luis Ambite, and Craig A. Knoblock.
The Ninth ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., November 2001.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (System Demonstration), Rome, Italy, September 2001.
Jose Luis Ambite, Cyrus Shahabi, Rolfe R. Schmidt, and Andrew Philpot.
Proceedings of the First National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2001), Redondo Beach, May 2001.
Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Judith Klavans, Walter Bourne, and Deniz Saroz.
Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, and Judith Klavans.
IEEE Computer 34 (2), Special Issue on Digital Government, February 2001.
Craig A. Knoblock, Jose Luis Ambite, Steven Minton, Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad Kolahdouzan, Maria Muslea, Jean Oh, and Snehal Thakkar.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI), Las Vegas, 2001.
Jose Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblock, Ion Muslea, and Andrew Philpot.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 16(2):149-187, 2001.
Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton, Jose Luis Ambite, Naveen Ashish, Ion Muslea, Andrew G. Philpot, and Sheila Tejada.
International the Journal on Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS) 10 (1-2) Special Issue on Intelligent Information Agents: Theory and Applications, pp 145-169, 2001.
Jose Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblock.
Artificial Intelligence Journal, 118 (1-2), pp 115-161, April 2000.
Jose Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblock, and Steven Minton.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems, Breckenridge, Colorado, 2000.
Ph.D. Thesis. University of Southern California, 1998.
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Madison, Wisconsin, 1998.
Jose Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1998.
Jose Luis Ambite, Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton, Pragnesh J. Modi, Ion Muslea, Andrew Philpot, and Sheila Tejada.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Providence, Rhode Island, 1997.
Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite.
In Software Agents, J. Bradshaw ed., AAAI/MIT Press, Menlo Park, California, 1997.
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and their applications. September/October 1997.
Proceedings of the IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop , Newport Beach, California, 1997.
Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Naveen Ashish, Chin Y. Chee, Chun-Nan Hsu, Craig A. Knoblock Wei-Min Shen, and Sheila Tejada.
University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, December 1997.
Student Abstract in Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Heterogeneous Environments, Palo Alto, California, 1995.
Jose Luis Ambite and Craig Knoblock.
Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (IIA-CIKM'94), NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November, 1994.


The past is lowered like a theatre set.
and nuts in the Nag's Head, now refurbished.
a through becomes a cul-de-sac, frozen since spring.
still promotes Famous Grouse for Father's Day.
in a box of overflowing ash, un-emptied since closure.
our journeys stiff with redirected traffic.
on the other side, like stones skipped on rivers.
and have this road, remade to leisure, for a time.
"The collection has the three dimensions of a nice, neat, narrow focus – London, black cabs, the poet's own immediate heritage; then he, himself, growing up instead to work 'in the light of a desk lamp' ('Blood') – but it also probes deeper into the foundations of what shapes us, including before our lifetimes. In so doing, it maps out a whole recent-history of England, as poem after poem chronicles and celebrates, for instance, 'the country's near forgotten maze of beta roads'. […] Above all, I think I found this an affectionate collection – one born out of a passionate preoccupation with all that surrounds and passes him."
" there's a snappy directness to Challis' writing; a lack of circumvention that shuns excess sentimentality and unnecessary detail ("My age is unimportant."). The style points to a precision of thought whose destination is always on the horizon. [...] Challis is cautious about creating dead-end alleyways when it comes to interpretation, even in the poems that do park themselves firmly inside the taxi theme. Like the "London's maps in more than three dimensions" in 'The Knowledge', there are several dimensions to be discovered, and most readily is the social commentary. The poems are highly attuned to class disparity, winding down the windows on fast-food wastelands one minute, then ferrying the decision-makers from Canary Wharf to Porticullus House the next. The pleasure of navigating this pamphlet is found precisely here; the all-encompassing freedom of movement that flits us from one person's life experience to another."
Jade Cuttle. "Blog Reviews". Magma Poetry (September 2018).
"In all of Challis's poems his interest in making the words work is evident: the metaphors and similes, the careful use of formal structure in many poems, and the sheer pleasure of bundling sounds up to give impact. [...] they have a dark, laconic power when read slowly and carefully, looming into the silence, giving pause for thought. They worked in my accent and I suspect they would in any. Which I mention, particularly, as what underpins this very good first pamphlet collection is the relationship between the father and the son, their accent (in the broadest sense) and manners."
Jonathan Davidson. "Whispering Aloud". Under the Radar 21 (Summer 2018): 77-78.


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Brisbane Apartment: SouthPoint Coming Soon?
Will the SouthPoint apartment and hotel development at SouthBank ever get started? Reported to start later this year. (But they have said that before!) It is a project of the Anthony John Group. Designed by Jackson Teece.


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Fly Punch Boom!
Anime. Elvis. Skeletons. All that and more, plus you can kill your friends with skyscrapers.
Written by: Cory Galliher | July 9, 2020
Platform: PC, Switch
Publisher: Jollypunch Games
ESRB Rating: E10+
Nostalgia makes for good business. We've got a natural inclination toward entertainment from simpler, happier times, after all. If a marketer can push that button, you better believe they're going to hammer on it as hard as they can. That doesn't mean that every attempt at nostalgia's going to work out, though, as for every Cave Story that feels just like the games you loved, there's ten no-name indie pixel platformers that feels just like the aftermath of a bad plate of sushi.
Fly Punch Boom! would very much like to sell you on nostalgia – it's all about the classic anime battles you loved as a kid. Y'know, punching enemies through mountains, smashing through entire cities, intense power-up scenes followed by world-ending super attacks, that kind of thing. This isn't a licensed game, of course, so don't expect to see any Saiyans here, but it's clear what the inspiration was. Rather than Goku and co., you've got a goofy cast of characters ranging from a snake that devours its opponents to an Elvis-impersonating bird. It's nuts, but it works.
As for what exactly you're doing, well…it's anime combat. Power up and go slam into your opponent at top speed! Once you make contact, though, Fly Punch Boom! has more in common with Rock-Paper-Scissors than FighterZ. Each player can choose to attack, dodge or throw, with attacks beating throws, throws beating dodges and dodges beating attacks. The player with the upper hand gets to send their opponent flying (or counterattack with the same result) and, ideally, the poor sap on the receiving end will sail into one of the many deathtraps surrounding each stage. If they fail a timed button press, they're toast – and that's on top of potential death from running out of life.
This is all pretty wild stuff, but it's a fair amount more cerebral than you'd think. You'll have the best time playing Fly Punch Boom! with people you know, since that'll give you an idea about the kind of actions they'll prefer to use. On top of this, there's power-ups to collect, super moves to use ranging from mega-speed to shooting annoying projectiles everywhere, and no shortage of new deathtraps to try. On the other hand, you'll have the worst time trying to play it alone; there's a single-player option with cute unlockables and all, but it's definitely not all that fulfilling compared to yelling at each other over Discord.
Fly Punch Boom! is a great time for players who appreciate the style it's going for and who have friends they can enlist for battles. It's also got a pretty neat idea in allowing players with the demo and full game to play together, ensuring that enlisting those friends is going to be pretty easy. It definitely merits a look – especially since, with workshop support, it's only a matter of time until you can play as Goku…
About the Author: Cory Galliher
Journalist, writer, and gamer extraordinaire, Senior Games Editor Cory aims to be king of the universe and all he surveys. His credits include AOL, The Cumberland Times-News, and The Well-Read Mage.
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Intellectual Property Lawyers > News > Intellectual Property > Is an Innovation Patent the right choice for you?
An Innovation Patent, a construct unique to Australia, may be the answer to your cash flow challenges, still achieving your Intellectual Property (IP) protection requirements.
IP protection is a non-negotiable for any aspiring company with vision and belief in its products and services.
The two types of patents granted in Australia are the 'standard' patent and the 'innovation' patent.
When you think patent, it is typically the 'standard' patent you're thinking of, found not only in Australia but globally. A patent gives you the legally enforceable right to commercially exploit an invention for the life of the patent, a right that is granted for any device, substance, method or process that is new, inventive and useful.
A patent gives you the most comprehensive protection over your invention for a period of 20 years (25 for pharmaceutical inventions). However, the application process can take up to several years and its costs are significant.
In comparison, an innovation patent is relatively inexpensive but it only lasts up to 8 years. The Innovation Patent is a construct that provides protection for new developments where the invention may be for relatively minor improvements or variations on what has previously been known. It is designed to protect inventions that do not meet the inventive threshold required for standard patents.
In order to make an informed decision you must understand the different choices and the level of protection that is achievable and right for your particular circumstances. To compare the two kinds of patents, follow the below guiding principles.
Your invention must be: New, useful and involve an inventive step, something previously unknown. New, useful and involve an innovative step e.g. relatively minor improvements or variations on what has previously been known.
The process will take: Approximately six months, to several years Approximately one month for grant. Six months for examination if you make a request.
The application should include: A title, description, any number of claims, drawings (if applicable), an abstract and forms. A title, description, up to five claims, drawings (if applicable), an abstract and forms.
A patent is granted if: The application is examined and found to satisfy the relevant requirements of the Patents Act 1990. The application satisfies formality requirements.
(note: a 'granted' innovation patent cannot be enforced unless examined).
Examination is: Mandatory. The relevant requirements of the Patents Act 1990 must be met before a patent is granted. It can only be requested by the applicant. Optional. Examination can be requested by you or anyone else.
Certification: N/A Is given if the innovation patent complies with the relevant requirements of the Patents Act 1990 in examination. Only after certification can the patent be enforced.
Publication in the Australian Official Journal of Patents: 18 months from earliest priority date and again at acceptance. At grant and again at certification.
Protection period: Up to 20 years if annual fees are paid (or up to 25 years for pharmaceuticals). Up to eight years if annual fees are paid.
How much does it cost? Visit IP Australia's website for more information. If you engage a patent attorney, ask about the patent attorney's fees first. Compared to a standard patent, it is relatively inexpensive.
Visit IP Australia's website for more information. If you engage a patent attorney, ask about the patent attorney's fees first.
After the patent is granted, can the patent owner enforce the patent against infringers? Yes. No. If the owner of an innovation patent seeks to enforce it against an infringer, the patent first has to be examined (i.e. investigated to ensure that it meets all the requirements for a patent).
When would a patent applicant consider this type of patent? When the product, process or invention had a longer product life cycle of up to 20 years.
When you seek an investor to invest in your innovation, who requires robust patent protection. When the product, process or invention had a short product life cycle of up to 8 years.
When the invention does not meet the inventive step requirement, but does meet the innovative step requirement.
What are the drawbacks to this type of patent? The process of applying for and having a standard patent examined can take two to six years, or sometimes longer. As this type of patent is not usually examined, it is not as valuable as a standard patent. Its value may be improved by requesting examination, but as the duration of the patent is 8 years instead of 20, it will always have a lesser value.
Confused? Well, it is not an easy decision and the choices you make will have an immediate impact not only on the level of protection granted to your patent but e.g. the value you are creating for your business. Never consider IP protection as a mere expense to business! Any level of protection, any intellectual property right granted is to be considered an asset to your business that creates value.
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African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
New Threats to Africa's Peace and Security: the Role of Youth in Preventing Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace
Golda Keng·
Today, more than 600 million young people globally live in fragile and conflict-affected areas, a large proportion of them in…
Interfaith Dialogue on Violent Extremism: Putting Youth in the Driver's Seat!
Amr Abdalla·
Since 2000, the issue of violent extremism has risen to the highest levels of national, regional, and global concern. While…
Obstacles to, and Prospects for Youth Mobilization and Emancipation in Africa
Daniel Lumonya·
As the group with least control over the means of production, and who, on account of their age have the…
A Call for Constructive Engagement: Youth, Violence, and Peacebuilding in the Mano River Basin Area
Ibrahim Bangura·
For the last six decades, political elites have disadvantaged, marginalized, and infantilized young people in the Mano River Basin, a…
Transforming Youth Anti-Crime Networks into Job Opportunities in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rosette Sifa Vuninga·
The dangers associated with the youth unemployment crisis in Africa have often been linked to political violence and civil unrest,…
Kenya's 2017 Presidential Election
Imagining Canaan: Singing Opposition Party NASA's Vision in Kenya's 2017 Elections
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Music and songs have been deployed in variegated contexts and for diverse concerns. However, the focus of this article is…
Not Yet Uhuru: Is This the Making of Kenya's First One-Term President?
Duncan Omanga·
In his 2017 New Year message, President Uhuru Kenyatta expressed confidence at being reelected. Indeed, polls showed him likely to…
The Land Question in Kenya's 2017 General Election: A Historical Review
Eliud Biegon·
All major violent conflicts in Kenya have had a connection to land. Presently, villagers have vacated large swathes of land…
The Bankruptcy of Peace, and of the Constitution, in Kenya's 2017 Elections
Muema Wambua·
The 2010 Constitution of Kenya is transformative, to say the least. It is, however, bankrupt on peace; so is the…
The Ethnicity Factor and Risk of Conflict in the 2017 Kenyan Elections
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Kenya has held elections every five years since it obtained independence in 1963. The August 8, 2017, elections will be…


Podcast Ep. 4 – Simplify Your Life by Organizing!
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FFF-Finnish Forest Frequencies is a 5 channel sound installation for 5 glass screens. Each glass screen has its own frequency. The frequencies are the top 5 most heard frequencies in a Finnish forest in Vesilahti, Finland. Coded with SuperCollider from location recordings.
The FFF installation was designed for the Northern World Mandate seminar and was placed in the entrance lobby glass wall screens at School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University on May 24-26, 2012.


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Tips for the Academic Teacher Working with Nonnative Speakers of English
Sue Lee
The international student population in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds; our need for teachers who specialize in English as a Second Language, therefore, also grows with each passing day. But everyone cannot be an ESL specialist, right? What we must also, consider is the fact that many of our students who speak a language other than English as their native language are actually born here in the United States. Surprising? Not really when we consider that the demographic composition of major urban areas today consists significantly of families whose parents and grandparents come from different cultures and who still do not speak ( or read or write) English in any way. As educators, we must prepare ourselves for the influx of nonnative speakers of English (NNS) who will come into our classroom and who expect and deserve the education that all people do. As difficult as this preparation may sound, there are some things that non-ESL specialists academic teachers-can do to ready themselves for this-change in classroom environment. The following list is divided into three main categories: 1) helping the NNS adjust to the environment of the class and to classmates; 2) helping the NNS with the content or subject matter of the class; 3) using the community outside the classroom to facilitate learning for the NNS. These tips are by no means exhaustive, and content-teachers would be well-advised to ponder them and to expand and modify them when the need arises.
Co-author Frank Bramlett's name was misspelled in the published version of this article.
Lee, Sue and Bramlett, Frank, "Tips for the Academic Teacher Working with Nonnative Speakers of English" (1996). English Faculty Publications. 51.


TWO former Australian Champions dominated the major V8 Dirt Modified events over the Australia Day long weekend at Castrol Edge Lismore Speedway.
The Saturday and Sunday night fixtures were highlighted with the running of the NSW Championship, which was won by David Clarke, while the following night it was Scott Cannon who took out the 50-lap Golden Jubilee V8 Dirt Modified feature race.
Clarke was followed to the chequered flag in the state title by former NSW number one Andrew Pezzutti, while Jai Stephenson was third.
Runner-up in the Golden Jubilee event, which celebrated a half century of continuous speedway racing at the Lismore Showground, was West Australian Travis Kennedy while the consistent Stephenson was again on the podium with another main event third placing. It was a particularly good night for Kennedy who was fastest in qualifying time trials with a 14.019 second lap and a speed of 102.718 km/h.
Meanwhile, Thomas Vickery was the winner of the Sunday night Northern Rivers Classic for the AMCA Sedans, while Matt Hardy was second and Nathan Tomkins third.
The Golden Jubilee event was one of the longest races of the season for V8 Dirt Modifieds and as the race settled down it was Pezzutti and Mitch Randall who battled for the front running in the field. Cannon also was in contention as was pole sitter Trent Scofield.
This pattern continued until nearing mid- distance when Pezzutti and Randall got caught up with a lapped car and brought on the yellow lights after a coming together. Pezzutti sustained front end damage and was sidelined, along with Randall whose car sustained flat tyre in the incident.
The charge for the top three in the remaining laps was a highlight as Kennedy and Stephenson, with Scofield also involved, battled for the minor placings.
The race followed a similar pattern to the previous night's state title which feature a thrilling contest at the head of the field between ultimate winner Clarke and runner-up Pezzutti.
The AMCA Northern Rivers Classic was dominated by Vickery. The leading group of cars featuring Vickery, Hardy, Tomkins, Daniel Brooks and Tim Reidy made this a keenly fought event.
Vickery, who started out of position one, ultimately got the job done with a dominant performance throughout the race and took the chequered flag ahead of Hardy and Tomkins.
Other Sunday night main even winners were: Connor Reeves (Junior Sedans), Chris Besseling (Production Sedans), Jamie Usher (Wingless Sprints).
The Saturday night feature race victors were: Brock Youngberry (Junior Sedans), Mark Quirk (Production Sedans) and Bradley Claridge (Wingless Sprints) - DENNIS NEWLYN.


So this is it, as a Zeon fan, I've been wanted to get for a while now... though initially I intend to get the green colored mass produce version but this one is basically the same, only different in color.
Ever since I worked on HGUC Nu Gundam, it seems that I always got those from the same serie (Char's Counter Attack), prior to this Geara Doga Rezin Custom (Rezin Schnyder is the full name), I worked on the HGUC Sazabi.
Probably I will also get the green HGUC Geara Doga mass production type.
This Geara Doga is basically the advanced Zaku after several years of R&D by the Neo Zeon.
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A mass-produced frontline mobile suit used by Neo Zeon during the Second Neo Zeon War, the AMS-119 Geara Doga could be considered a distant descendant of the old Principality of Zeon's original mainstay unit, MS-06 Zaku II. Although not exactly a high-performance model, the Geara Doga was sturdy, dependable, and inexpensive to mass-produce. Typically armed with one of two different beam machine guns - a larger type mounting an optional grenade launcher, and a slightly smaller type equipped with a removable heat bayonet - a shield carrying four rocket-propelled grenades and four sturm faust weapons, and a beam sword-axe, the Geara Doga was well-enough equipped for a typical grunt soldier. Though typically painted in olive drab-on-dark green colors, a handful of squad leaders and ace pilots were allowed to paint their units in custom colors and attach a squad leader's antenna to the head, such as the blue-on-dark blue Geara Doga operated by ace pilot Rezin Schnyder.
Just 7 runners but mostly are big size part... much easier than the 00-Raiser set.
Managed to finished this in just 3 hours and it was fun to work on a Zeon GunPla..
Size comparison with the old Zaku II and the Rick Dom. This Geara Doga is slightly taller.


Some German top Air Force brass want to expand their use of unmanned drones – and arm them in the future. Plans for European drone development are gaining support from those who want more independence from US military technology.
Currently, Germany uses three unarmed drones for reconnaissance purposes in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountain range, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Monday.
But despite a continuing ethical debate over whether or not to use armed drones – as the US military does in its anti-terrorism campaign – there is support in Germany to move in that direction.
The Commander of the German Air Force, or Luftwaffe maintained in a recent paper called "Air Power 2030" that there should be no question over Germany's use of the capabilities of unmanned aircraft in "all areas," including the use of weapons, the newspaper said.
But where Germany will get those future drones remains an open question. The country has a leasing contract for Israeli-built Heron 1 drones that expires at the end of 2014.
Defence Minister Thomas De Maizière and most specialists in the ruling coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU), Free Democrats (FDP), and the Christian Social Union (CSU), as well as some members of the opposition Social Democrats (SPD), want a long-term and multinational collaboration to develop European "unmanned aerial vehicles," the paper reports.
France and Germany already have signed a corresponding letter of intent.
The Air Force's Commander, Lieutenant General Karl Müllner, supports a purchase of the US Predator B drones, because they are regularly available, are a proven quantity, and are used by many NATO partners, the Süddeutsche Zeitung said.
But some politicians broth both the CDU and SPD argue that the purchase of US drones would deter development of a European drone, which they hope will reduce German dependence on US technology. The Defence Ministry has allotted €660 million over the next four years for the development of European unmanned aerial vehicles.
The parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces Helmut Königshaus voiced his strong support for armed drones to the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
"If our soldiers had the availability of armed drones, they would no longer have to look on helplessly when our own people are being threatened, but instead could attack and drive out their opponents without harming their own units," he said.


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So the feud between Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton and City Council members, primarily former Police Chief Bernard Parks, continues. Council members claim that Bratton insulted them, and they are demanding an apology. Last I read, the crime rate in Los Angeles was decreasing. Who cares about the hurt feelings of some so-called leaders?
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I'm at a weird place in adulthood. All my sisters, friends, and coworkers are having babies, and I'm still marveling over the fact that I remember to pay my credit card bill on time most months. Needless to say, I'm not ready to be a mommy. I am thrilled for all my friends who are ready, though, and I have way too much fun shopping for wee little shoes and onesies. But my favorite gift to shop for? Books. A lot of my friends don't have books on their baby registries, and surprisingly, I haven't been to a shower that suggests bringing a book instead of a card. While they may already have a library started from their own childhood collections, there are some real gems out there that were published long after Corduroy, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Rainbow Fish (which are all amazing, by the way).
In July, Jennie shared a great blog post on how to help a new mom by bringing food to sleep-deprived parents. Today, I'm sharing how to give new moms a hand by helping them build up their library. Here are three children's books published in the last five years to get for expecting moms.
I first learned about this book at a surprise baby shower for my boss who was expecting her second child. Everyone brought a book, and not a single one was a repeat of each other, or a repeat of a book she already had at home. The title The Wonderful Things You Will Be may remind you of the Dr. Seuss classic Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and it definitely has that same feel. This book explores all the things little ones can grow up to be, from the fantastical to the practical, all in a beautifully illustrated package. It's a sweet story with gorgeous illustrations that mom and baby will be sure to love.
Okay, confession, I also heard about this book from my boss. This is her first baby's favorite book, and she's read it to him so much she has it memorized. The Christmas after I heard about this book, I bought a copy for my nephew, and as far as I know, it's his favorite, too! Like Goodnight, Moon, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site says goodnight to all the things around, but instead of a house, it's—you guessed it—a construction site! The book rhymes, the illustrations are bold and fun, and who can resist tucking in a bulldozer at night?
If you haven't seen these books before take a peek at Target or Barnes & Noble's children's book sections the next time you get a baby shower invite. Or take a look for another new classic to add to a new mom's library.
What other children's books have you bought for your family or friends who are expecting? Share below!
Madisen graduated in 2011 from Ball State University where she was a member of the Gamma Eta Chapter. Today, she works as the marketing manager for Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation and lives in Indianapolis. Learn more on her personal blog, EXPeriencing Stories.
Love this, because guess what gift I always give at showers? My favorites are Each, Peach, Pear, Plum; Moo, Baa, La, La, La; and A Good Day.
I haven't heard of those before! I'll definitely have to look into them before my next baby shower!
I like to buy new babies older books too so that they begin that stage of a library. My favorite gift for a new baby is the full set of Chronicles of Narnia and a check to help with their college fund.
Love that, Jennie! What a great way to build a library through multiple stages of life!


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Heritage Trail Location 1
This building began life as a flatpack, transported to Woodhall Spa railway station and erected somewhere else! It is a corrugated iron building, made by Boulton and Paul of Norwich, who went on to manufacture aeroplanes. In 1887, "the bungalow" was transferred from the moor, which became the Hotchkin Golf Course, to its present site, which was next to the railway line. It became the home of Mr. Thomas Wield, who worked at the Spa Baths and began making donkey and hand drawn bathchairs. These were used to transport patients to the Baths for treatments and also for pleasure trips around the Spa.
Mr. Johnny Wield continued his father`s bathchair business but he did much else besides. Notably, he was a photographer and most of the old photographs in the museum were taken by him on glass plates, which he developed in his dark room in the back garden of the bungalow.
The property has been altered over the years and has accommodated an amazing number of people as the Wield family increased. (Johnny married Asenath Dickinson, sister of the cycle and motor engineer in the village.) At one time the family even took in lodgers!
The bungalow became the property of the Cottage Museum in 1987. Since then, thousands of visitors, both local and from far away, have seen exhibits and photographs and felt the ambience of this unusual property, which was inhabited by the Wield family for over 70 years.
The Cottage Museum and co-resident Tourist Information Centre can be found just off The Broadway. The Museum opened to the public in May 1987 as a community museum run by the Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum Trust.. Its purpose is to preserve the community history of Woodhall Spa and district. There is a wide variety of exhibits which are regularly changed ensuring that no visitor will be disappointed by a visit to this charming collection.They include a wide range of photographs (largely based on the Wield collection) and memorabilia featuring the activities and development of the Spa.
Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum re-opened its doors to the public on the 3rd of May 2013 following a substantial winter refurbishment funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
The Tourist Information Centre provides comprehensive assistance to visitors to the area. A gift shop and 'What's on' display are included.
Heritage Trail locations
The trail can be started at any location, but we suggest you also visit the Cottage Museum to see the photographs taken by John Wield during the heyday of the Spa and items associated with this unique Victorian Spa town.
The Trail is just one of several projects in the hands of the Woodhall Spa Parish Council sponsored Heritage Committee. Click here if you are interested in the committee or their projects.
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