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Roseburg Nights: The ballad of nameless racers
Posted by Shadowtwin on 2 August 2006, 7:11 pm
My wife and I are probably looking forward to seeing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby more than most. Sure, we are well aware that it isn't going to be taking home any oscars and the plot (insofar as there is one) is going to be simply ridiculous, but sometimes it is nice to just go to the theater and laugh at the spectacle.
This movie has gotten me to thinking of my youth, and how close I came to going down the road to calling myself Donnie Joe. It's probably not much of a story, but it is what I am thinking about, and thus it shall be typed.
Roseburg, Oregon doesn't really have much to offer. It has gotten a lot bigger since the time I spent there as a child, but it is still nothing more than a fuel stopover on your way from California to Eugene or Portland. The population began to boom when I was a child, as that was the time when Roseburg Lumber (which is actually located twelve miles away) was the best paying job in the county, and every able-bodied man was taking up a job there. They began to marry off and start families in the Winston and Roseburg areas, and somewhere in the early 1970's the population of children was probably larger than that of the adults.
It was fortunate that there were so many children though, since there really wasn't anything for us to actually do other than play with each other. Since Roseburg Lumber was such a large supplier of forest products, there were train tracks criss-crossing the town that effectively cut it into zones (at least for the children who weren't allowed to cross the tracks without a parent -that being all of us-). Roseburg was actually quite a beautiful town, with many lush parks for the children to play in, all connected by miles upon miles of paved bike paths. All of which were also across tracks, so most children weren't allowed to tread them without an accompanying adult.
When I was around six years old, a rumor began to circulate among the kids that a girl was murdered on the bike trail. I was never able to actually confirm the information through my parents, but the fact that they wouldn't actually deny it either led me to believe that it was probably true. After that point no kids were really allowed on the bike trail without their parents. Not that it was a law or mandate, unless you consider boundaries established by parents to be such. This turned the whole town of Roseburg into no more than one block to me; bordered by railroad tracks to two sides and major (4 lane) streets on the other two.
If I would have been older when I lived there, I would have had access to a car and a little bit more freedom. In that case, I could have seen how big it really was. The town went on in fits and spurts for miles. The names would change as you left the city limits, there were names like Green, Melrose, Winchester, all still part of Roseburg (at least most considered them so), but just on the outskirts. All of them were small, and the citizens were pretty territorial, but we were all part of that wonderful little community. A community that was exactly one block to me.
Roseburg had a drive-in movie theater, as well as a traditional one. Some of my greatest memories involve watching movies there. I watched E.T. at the traditional theater, on opening weekend. It was during a canned food drive, so the entrance fee was literally a can of corn (creamed in my case). I watched a double feature at the drive in with my Mom and Brothers. The movies were Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn, and Beastmaster. I actually watched Beastmaster, but fell asleep during Star Trek. The only thing I remember about that one is the I had nightmares about earwigs (slang for a type of bug) for weeks afterwards. The drive-in has since closed, and was subsequently replaced by a warehouse foods store. The other theater may still be there, but I think it only had two screens, so it probably lost in competition to AMC or Harkins by now.
A trip to the movies was the ultimate night for a kid, but it required extensive planning and willing parents. My parents were willing to go to the theater, of course, but for reasons that I couldn't understand back then, they didn't want to see the same movie 9 times. Roller skating was another popular activity, but it also required willing parents. This one was easier achieved though, since they could just drop us off at the doors and pick us up three hours later. The skating rink was managed in a way that it was not possible to get in without a ticket (exceptions were made for parents), and the doors were locked to keep out any unscrupulous, bike-trail murderers (of course you could get out from the inside, you just couldn't get in. It was effectively a large baby-sitting room for the three hours that we were there).
The only other forms of entertainment were the ones that we created ourselves. Every kid with any sort of a reputation had an obstacle course for bicycles in his back yard. If your yard was too small, you could still be one of the in kids so long as you took the time to build a nice little action figure war zone for the myriad G.I. Joe, He-Man, Transformer, Go-Bots that we all had. As I say, we were all limited to that one block, we really had to reach for entertaining things to do.
Roseburg did have one event that parents as well as children really enjoyed though (and I probably should put fathers and sons, but I don't want to be sexist): Racing. Every Saturday night (I am sure there was actually a racing season, but in my memory it was every Saturday), drivers would flock to the local fairgrounds to battle it out for nothing more than bragging rights. I don't think there was a trophy or a points system, just a bunch of guys who wanted to race and took advantage of the opportunity.
The race track was small, I think it was a quarter mile. The 8 cars would line up to start and the rear cars would be in the final turn. They would go around a lap or two awaiting the green flag, then the engines would roar in the way that only a racecar (or the amplification from the covered grandstands, not sure which) could. The night would disappear in the smoke of the tires and thunder of the engines as the cars tore through the turns at speeds possibly in excess of thirty miles per hour. To the strightaways, where the drivers would again gun the engines hoping to pass the guy in front of them, or stay ahead of the one behind them, before the next turn, which could really only be taken in single file. After some amount of laps (or when the audience got bored), the checkered flag would come out and a victor would emerge. Until the same time next week when it all happened again.
That was the stock cars though. And the stock cars was by far the least exciting event. The stock cars all had logos covering their freshly painted bodies, and many of the drivers were not local boys, we wanted to see the real racers. The real racers (in my eyes) were the ones the competed in the other two events: J-cars and Sprint cars.
The sprint cars were a hell of a lot of fun to watch (if you are unfamiliar with them, you can see what they look like here). Sprint cars really thrive on small tracks like that. They are small and nimble enough that they don't have to lock up their brakes before the turns, and because of that, there was a lot of edge-of-your-seat action as you watched. You would be praying that they made it through the turns without rolling over, but at the same time hoping that they would roll over. The crashes were amazing to watch, as there was never a minor fender-bender with a sprint car, it was pretty horrific if they missed a turn or rolled over. There was one event where we watched one of them miss the corner, crash through the wall, and tumble several times before stopping several hundred yards out of the stadium. Always fun to watch, the sprint cars.
The J-car event was always the local favorite though. I think J-car is supposed to stand for jalopy, and these cars definitely fit that bill. The sprint and stock cars were mostly in actual racing circuits, and Roseburg was small potatoes to them, but the J-cars were all local boys, none of them sponsored, all racing just to race. The cars were as varied as they could be, since anyone with an old Ford Fairlane and a roll cage could sign up. We all had our favorite local driver, and though I have long since forgotten his name, my favorite was the one that drove the 07 car.
The J-cars weren't meant to be a demolition derby, but since the cars were all just beaters with horsepower, and the drivers were a proud bunch, they often became little more than that. The drivers weren't afraid to trade paint (well, primer) in the turns or gently nudge someone (read: push them off the track). The cars didn't go very fast, I don't think they had anything more than the dated stock suspension, but the drivers didn't let that keep them from competing harder than the drivers in the other events. At the end of the race, whoever was ahead (or whichever car was able to finish under its own power) would get kissed by a pretty girl. I really think that was the only award for winning: a kiss and bragging rights.
Something about the J-cars captivated me. I really wanted to be one of the drivers. It had to be a J-car though. The audience would actually boo most of the stock car drivers, and the sprint cars looked like toys (although with adult eyes, I can see that they were easily the fastest and most dangerous of all). The J-car was what I hoped to someday race. When I put a numberboard on the front of my bicycle, it wasn't because of any bicycle or motorcycle racing I had seen, it was to emulate the J-cars. Each time we went to the races, I would patiently wait for the J-cars to come out before starting to cheer like only a child can. That was truly what I hoped to do with my life.
Perhaps I should be thankful that my childhood innocence (at least as far as racing goes) would be stripped from me before it became an obsession. During one of the J-car events, there was a crash. One of the cars smashed into the the tower that the guy with the flag stands in (which is obviously made of reinforced steel) and caught on fire. The driver was knocked unconcious on impact and it took rescue crews a couple of minutes to get him out of the car. I am not sure about the severity of his injuries, but I do know that that was the last time I ever saw his car racing at the fairgrounds (to be fair though, he wouldn't have been able to race that car again anyway). That was the very first time that it ever occurred to me that you could be injured while racing. And that effectively ended my racing career long before it ever got going.
The racing continued after that horrific crash, and following the pattern of racetracks being reactive about safety (as opposed to proactive, which would save a lot of needless injury), the flag tower would be surrounded with a whole bunch of car tires. Think about that. All it would have taken to keep this guy from impacting the tower and getting (possibly) horribly injured was a stack of used car tires, but no one took the time to wonder what would happen if a car hit the reinforced steel tower at full speed. I continued to watch the races, but with far less enthusiasm than I had before I saw what could happen when things go really wrong. So someone else's misfortune probably saved me a great deal of my own.
As we step into the theatre to watch Talladega Nights, I have no doubt that it will bring back memories of those nights spent at the racetrack when I was but a lad. No doubt Will Ferrell will be playing a character that sees racing much as I saw it when I was so youth, and I am sure it will be fun to watch. If it does nothing else, it has already made me recall something that I hadn't thought about in twenty years: a happy memory of time spent with my Father. If you have read many of my posts, you know that I am always trying to come up with examples of those, but they always escape me. This is one of them. Those nights spent at that little racetrack in Roseburg, Oregon. I felt like we were friends, not Father and Son. We would talk about the drivers and the cars while we shared a popcorn and a soda, and basically just left everything else behind. Tomorrow would be different, he would be the Father again, but for that time spent under the grandstands, we were just a couple of guys watching a race. Maybe that is why it is so difficult to think of specific examples of happy memories spent with my father; it's not as though there aren't any, it's just that I found happiness in such mundane activities.
But for the love of God, did we really have to wear matching Goodyear ballcaps when we went? Sure, I did it because I wanted to be like my dad, but imagine the crap he probably got from his friends for sitting with his son -in matching caps- and sharing a popcorn and a soda, instead of drinking beer and hanging out with them. I guess he really did just want to be a good dad sometimes.
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Yeo is on the grind. The days of stopping at the local bottle shop, picking up a few forty ounces wrapped in brown paper bags and heading up to the top of a multi-zone carpark to chill with his Aussie crew are essentially over. Carparks have been a bit of a recurring theme in Yeo's life (you can even find it in his lyrics and videos, see Icarus). He and his friends in music come up from the "DIY Scene", as he puts it – staying at people's houses, doing house shows and gigs where they shouldn't be happening, to sneaking up to the rooftop of one of those carparks to put on a show. Yeo admits, without saying too much, "trespassing can be a bit of fun, but that happens less and less as we're becoming adults with reputations."
Nowadays, when the Melbourne producer and songwriter isn't clocking up the hours of his day job or handling "life admin", as he puts it, the virtuoso turns his focus towards his passion – developing fresh pop music for the world to groove to. Fully committed, Yeo has been on a challenging and trying journey in music that is ever too cliché with the modern musician; yet he continues to push forward with tenacity through adversity and trying times. Yeo is an ever evolving and progressing artist - all while staying unique and true to himself. Breaking down his journey and evolution, it's easy to see how he has gotten to where he is today, and how it's given us his latest album, Ganbaru.
Unbeknownst to most, this isn't Yeo's first try at a full record (he laughingly cringes when he talks about reviewers and media citing that it is). It was reminiscent of Devonté Hynes decade-plus long unknown path towards the critically acclaimed Blood Orange. On Devonté's success, Yeo justly puts it, "He's killing it. He's where he deserves to be these days, and it's a situation that excites and motivates me". A champion of DIY musicians who've risen to have an influential voice, Yeo seems to be unaware that he is one.
For Yeo, it's been more than a decade of music making – starting with the charming first two folk inspired albums, Home and Trouble Being Yourself, which his mates describe as "three chords and the truth". He admits that he's always still learning, and back then he still had so much to still learn and pick up, but he had to start somewhere, and that "The only way you learn is by making mistakes, and you're not going to make mistakes unless you first try." He believes that these days, the artist's goals for their debut album is they want it to be so perfect, they end up not even executing it properly. Citing the scene in The Simpsons where Homer is an aspiring inventor and gets dejected by thinking of all of Thomas Edison's accomplishments, "The progression and eventual evolution as an artist has to be natural. Artists should grow according to their own yardstick. We all have those Homer moments, but we have to remember that we're as good as our next piece of work."
Yeo stuck with the stripped down set and honest lyrics of Home and Trouble Being Yourself for a while, but in the end "missed people dancing, heavy bass, and groove oriented stuff" and started the transition to what we feel in his subsequent works of Sell Out, Come Find Me and now, Ganbaru, but according to Yeo, the core is still the same. It may be a different sound and the production has certainly evolved, but "the essence of pop music is the one constant through the life the music. It's about hooks and lyrics and getting it right, but overall, it's the same line."
Ganbaru is Yeo's tightest and most polished work alongside Girl, and Secret Powers. It's a statement, a nine track declaration of resilience. Yeo asserts he is at odds with the music industry, which is a rough game, and he doesn't play games. The idea of conforming, subscribing to the process of getting record labels to be interested, to booking shows, it's all been a struggle, mainly because he finds it hard to fit in. Ever since he realized what he's doing will always have that problem, he realized, "Fuck it. I'm going to play it as a strength and go against the grain". Ganbaru was born from that.
In its essence, Ganbaru is a philosophy. The Japanese interpret the word as standing firm, enduring adversity without giving in to it. There's a depth to Ganbaru. It's an experiential term that at the end of the day, can define someone's resilience. Yeo writes about these experiences. You won't find music industry bashing lyrics within Ganbaru. What you find is Yeo at his core. You find the music he was born to make, the non-conforming artist out of Melbourne, Australia. He claims, "To me, Ganbaru means – just hang in there. It's not like you're doing anything wrong, just hold on. The people that get it will come – and that extends to the record emotionally across all themes. Things like romance and relationships – you've got to work hard for them."
The album is a tight package. It starts off with Icarus, a poignant aesthetic and conceptual summary of the album as a whole. It's about wanting something so bad that you would destroy everything you already have to get it. In the fiery opener, Yeo stands amongst "so many fallen men in the shadows" and confidently exclaims, "If you see her on your flight, pass on this piece of paper. I'll be waiting on a carpark roof tonight. I'm there to meet my maker". The album moves forward with the same amount of energy and force with Quiet Achiever, a heavy-hitting satirical piece that tackles surviving in a place where you do not belong. Yeo claims that his personal favorite, VCR Play, does the album the most justice. "It's got this dirty, loose vibe that swings real hard, confounding, messy vocals and steady melodies." Yeo defines VCR Play as a message from him to his lover in an attempt to calm the fear of being hurt in a relationship. When you extend the philosophy of Ganbaru across the thematic elements of the album, the message sent is clear: All life demands struggle, but nothing worth having comes easy.
Just like his days growing up with friends and sneaking to the top of the carpark, Yeo's musical journey to the top is the same: with a little bit of trespassing into new territories, experiencing the new and the unexpected, and most of all, taking the risk - he'll get there. It's no revelation that being a musician involves enduring a lot of things. To succeed in a cutthroat environment like the music industry, where adversity is expected, suffering is inevitable, and nothing is promised; perseverance is a requirement. Yeo defines that, he defines Ganbaru, and he is not done with us yet.
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Sisymbrium irio, the London rocket, is a plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is an annual herb exceeding three feet in height with open, slender stem branches. The flowers are small with four pale yellow petals. The basal leaves are broad and often lobed, while the upper leaves are linear in shape and up to four inches long. The fruit is a long narrow cylindrical silique which stays green when ripe. The younger pods overtop the flowers. When dried the fruit has small red oblong seeds.

The term "London" in the common name "London rocket" allegedly comes from its abundance after the Great Fire of London in 1666. Plants and seed must have been present in London prior to the fire but generally overlooked until their abundant appearance after the fire; Robert Morison, the physician to King Charles II, attributed their appearance to spontaneous generation when he observed that "these hot bitter plants with four petals and pods were produced spontaneously without seed by the ashes of the fire mixed with salt and lime." [Mabey, Richard. "In Defence of Nature's Most Unloverd Plants." Chapter 10. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2010]

In contrast, Dr E J Salisbury, in his study of the bombsites of London after the Great Fire of 1940, "failed to find a single specimen, nor has any other reliable observer reported it", according to R. S. R. Fitter.

The term "Rocket" in the common name appears to be derived from the old Latin term "eruca" applied to several loosely-related plants in the cabbage family. [Mabey, Richard. "In Defence of Nature's Most Unloverd Plants." Chapter 10. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2010]

This species is considered a weed in the Southwestern United States and other regions where it has been introduced.

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The leaves, seeds, and flowers are edible, with a spicy flavor similar to cultivated rocket. London rocket is used in the Middle East to treat coughs and chest congestion, to relieve rheumatism, to detoxify the liver and spleen, and to reduce swelling and clean wounds. The Bedouin use the leaf of London Rocket as a tobacco substitute. The cured pods can be placed in a basket with live coals and shaken until the pods are parched, then ground into meal and made into soup or stew.

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NBA Awards: Which players will take home the hardware?
Madison Hummer
Kevin Singhel, Staff Writer
The NBA's 82 game regular season has finally drawn to a close, and soon individual player awards will be awarded to the league's best performers. The NBA offers three main individual awards including: Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year, and Most Improved Player. Many of this year's awards are hotly contested, making for some very exciting races.
So, who has the best chance to take home some hardware?
The most important individual award, and probably the most contested as well, is the league's Most Valuable Player Award. Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and James Harden of the Houston Rockets have both had historic seasons, and each have a very strong case to win the award. Antetokounmpo has blossomed into an absolute superstar this season, leading the Bucks to the best record in the league and helping them clinch home court advantage throughout the playoffs.
The Bucks' superstar is averaging an impressive 27.7 points per game, 12.5 rebounds per game, and 5.9 assists per game. Antetokounmpo also finds himself at the top of almost every highlight reel as he seemingly pulls off superhuman dunks and put-back slams just about every night. Perhaps the most impressive thing about "The Greek Freak" is that he is just as effective on the other side of the floor, as he is one of the best defenders in the league. Antetokounmpo is by far the best player on the best team in the league, so it might be hard for voters to argue against him.
As impressive as a season as Antetokounmpo has had, James Harden has been just as impressive if not more. Harden is averaging a blistering 36.1 points per game, by far the league leading average. In addition, Harden is contributing 6.6 rebounds per game and 7.6 assists. Harden's offense prowess is something very rare and harkens back to the days of offensive superstars of past years like Wilt Chamberlain or Kobe Bryant. Harden had a 32-game streak of scoring 30 or more points in a game, the second longest streak in NBA history. Perhaps Harden's most impressive accomplishment is that he has carried the Rockets, a team that has dealt with a massive amount of injuries, firmly into the fourth seed in the Western Conference.
Although the Rockets' record may not be as good as the Bucks', one can argue that Harden has a lot less help and had to deal with a much tougher situation than Antetokounmpo. However, Harden doesn't have the same defensive prowess that Antetokounmpo has, something that some consider to be a major detractor from his game. In the end, both players have strong cases for the award, it will all come down to what the voters value the most.
The Rookie of The Year award seemed to be locked up before the All-Star break, but some don't believe that's the case anymore. Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks electrified the league for the first couple months of the season, looking like he was already a superstar in just his rookie campaign. Doncic is averaging 21.2 points per game, and has been one of the lone bright spots in an otherwise bleak Mavericks' season. The Mavericks acquired Doncic with a draft day trade, and the small-forward has delivered with clutch shots and highlight reel plays ever since.
Ironically enough, the other player in that draft day trade, Trae Young, is Doncic's main competitor for Rookie of the Year. Young was packaged with a future first round draft pick and sent to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Doncic, and at first it seemed like the Mavericks got away with highway robbery. Young struggled in the early parts of the season, all while Doncic was shocking NBA fans around the country.
However, since the All-Star break Young has put up some dazzling offensive displays, and has inserted himself as a serious contender for Rookie of the Year. Young is averaging 19.1 points per game and is also chipping in 8 assists per game, good for 4th in the league. Although Young has been on fire lately, it is probably not going to be enough to sway voters. Doncic has the more consistent body of work and has been a solid contributor throughout the entire season, making it likely that he will walk away with the Rookie of the Year Award.
The NBA's Most Improved Player award is another award that will likely come down to two players. Pascal Siakam of the Toronto Raptors has evolved into a solid two-way player that has given the Raptors a scoring option outside of stars Kawhi Leonard and Kyle Lowry. Siakam is averaging 17 points per game and is also chipping in 6.9 rebounds per game and 3.1 assists. Siakam is just as effective on the defensive end of the floor, as he is a very versatile defender that can guard multiple positions.
The Raptors' stars have been rested a lot this year, meaning that many nights Siakam had to carry the team to victory by himself, something that would've seemed unimaginable just a year ago.
The other main contender for the Most Improved Player award is the Brooklyn Nets' D'Angelo Russell. Russell is averaging 21.1 points per game along with 7 assists per game, as he led the Nets to their first playoff berth since 2015. Russell has always struggled to consistently produce in the NBA, and was even traded to the Nets a few years ago.
However, this year he seems to have reached his full potential, putting the Nets on his back and reaching the playoffs for the first time in his career. Russell was even recognized for his efforts this season by being named an NBA All-Star. While Russell may have had the better overall season than Siakam, it is debatable whether or not his improvement has been just as drastic.
The Nets' star guard had always shown flashes of brilliance, this is just the first year he's been able to do it consistently. It will be interesting to see what the voters value the most, and who they will give the award to.
Kevin Singhel, Asst. Sports Editor
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Zaranie Śląskie (Polish for "Dawn of Silesia") was a Polish quarterly literary magazine devoted to the culture and history of Silesia. It was founded in 1907 by Ernest Farnik and published in Cieszyn.

It focused on the region of Cieszyn Silesia, however since the 1930s gradually left this area of interest and focused more on Upper Silesia. Zaranie Śląskie published historical and folkloristic articles, literary works, folk songs etc. Many well-known regional writers and activists contributed to the magazine, e.g. Ludwik Brożek, Emanuel Grim, Andrzej Hławiczka, Paweł Kubisz, Jan Łysek, Antoni Macoszek, Julian Przyboś, Oskar Zawisza and others.

The publishing of the magazine was resumed after World War II. It was published in Katowice in 1945-1948 and later from 1957. At this stage of its history it hadn't too much common with the region of Cieszyn Silesia. Zaranie Śląskie ceased to exist in 1992.

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 Zaranie Śląskie at Digital Silesian Library

1907 establishments in Austria-Hungary
1992 disestablishments in Poland
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Defunct literary magazines published in Poland
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Magazines disestablished in 1992
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Q: How to grab the filestamp in a nice format? gurus in the Net.
I am having issues trying to output a nice looking format of this batch file :

@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f "tokens=*" %%G in (c:\temp\machine_list.txt) do (
    echo %%G
    echo %%G >> c:\temp\Log.txt
    dir "\\%%G\C$\Logs\filelog.txt" /A >> c:\temp\Log.txt
    )

This batch works, but it is just fast and dirty:
For each machine a lot of useless information are printed :

Machine_id
 Volume in drive \\Machine_001\C$\Logs is System
 Volume Serial Number is 0271-2533

 Directory of \\Machine_001\C$\Logs

14.03.2018  11:33             7'722 filelog.txt
               1 File(s)          7'722 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  347'223'621'632 bytes free

My question is :
there is a way to have a nice log ?
.i.e :
Machine_id1    14.03.2018  11:33             7'722 filelog.txt
Machine_id2    14.03.2018  11:33             7'722 filelog.txt
Machine_id3    14.03.2018  11:33             7'722 filelog.txt

thanks in advance

A: The following batch script should work as you intended it to:
@(For /F "UseBackQ Delims=" %%A In ("C:\temp\machine_list.txt"
) Do @For /F EOL^=^ ^ Delims^= %%B In ('Dir /A "\\%%A\C$\Logs\filelog.txt"'
) Do @Echo %%A    %%B)>"C:\temp\Log.txt"

I won't explain how it all works, but the important part is the nested For loop. It runs the Dir command as intended, but ignores all lines beginning with the character SPACE. This is done by setting the end of line, EOL to that character, using a rather odd looking but effective syntax.
Edit
Perhaps this will achieve the aims of your latest comments:
@Echo Off
For /F "UseBackQ Delims=" %%A In ("C:\temp\machine_list.txt") Do (
    If Exist "\\%%A\C$\Logs\" (
        For /F EOL^=^ ^ Delims^= %%B In ('Dir /A "\\%%A\C$\Logs\filelog.txt"') Do >>"C:\temp\Log.txt"  Echo %%A    %%B
    ) Else >>"C:\temp\Log_error.txt" Echo %%A)

Edit 2
This is a futher modified example for hopefully better logging of errors:
@Echo Off
For /F "UseBackQ Delims=" %%A In ("C:\temp\machine_list.txt") Do (
    If Exist "\\%%A\C$\Logs\filelog.txt" (
        (For /F EOL^=^ ^ Delims^= %%B In (
            'Dir /A "\\%%A\C$\Logs\filelog.txt"'
        ) Do Echo %%A %%B)>>"C:\temp\Log.txt") Else ((
            If Not Exist "\\%%A\C$\" Echo %%A    inaccessible
            Echo %%A    missing filelog.txt)>>"C:\temp\ErrLog.txt"))

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It's annual pie party time!
Every year one of my friends here in Milwaukee holds a pie party. You bring a pie and everyone votes for their favorite. This year, in a new twist, there was both a savory AND a sweet category.
Contests like this remind me that there are times in my life when I get competitive. It's rare. After all, I purposefully work in a field that is about as un-competitive as you can get (art education!). But when it happens, watch out.
Happily for my baking ego, I won the sweet category with this doozy of a pie! And my pal who for two years running has gotten first place still won, taking the savory category with a cheddar tomato pie (yum). Everyone wins! Well, okay, two of us win. But you get the picture.
I was a little worried that this tart wouldn't be pie-ish enough for a pie party, so I baked it in a pie pan (that's not cheating, is it?) and threw caution to the wind. Who could turn down something that combines local honey, almond butter, and chocolate ganache? And on top of that is nearly no-bake? Not this girl, that's for sure.
Surprisingly, I'm not the biggest pie person (I tend to go only for apple pie, and that's mainly for the pie dough), and I especially hate mousse-y pies, but this thing… wow. I'm into it.
Which you fold with whipped cream to make it light and fluffy, but still tangy and nutty and sweet. And THEN you top it off with the baking world's best invention, chocolate ganache.
Throw it all in the fridge and you're set. It's a bit ridiculous how easy it is for such an awesome payoff. Easy to make ahead, too!
And, not only is it easy, but now it's award winning. So the next time you need to win a pie contest, you know what recipe to turn to. You're welcome!
I'm back for a post with my very first pie!
I would make this again but next time would definitely invest in the crystallized ginger the recipe calls for, since without it the streusel is pretty lame and not zingy enough. I really liked the addition of a quick lemon curd glaze as a prettier topping, though! Also, the pie dough is rolled out rather thick–about 1/4″–but it's a good choice since the berries have a lot of water in them and the juice will bubble over.
Finally, I'm excited to say that I'm participating in another event at Anthropologie this summer! They're holding events for local women to talk about something they're passionate about and I'm reprising my role as baker-in-residence on August 1 at 6 PM. I hope you'll come join me if you're local! I'll be bringing treats for sure.
Let's make people smile today. Ready?
Get yourself some raspberry preserves. Round up some coconut.
Put them in pretty little jars for an extra added touch. No one but you will know your ingredients were in pretty little jars before they got baked up together, but it'll make them taste better. Trust me.
Stir together butter, flour, a smidge of sugar, a heap of super-shredded coconut and make yourself some shortbread. That's right. I said stir. With a spoon. And some elbow grease. You don't even need your Kitchenaid for this one.
Bake it up, let it cool, spread more than an entire jar of sweet raspberry preserves and sprinkle with a generous helping of more coconut. Bake again and get that coconut all crisp and chewy on top.
Then hand them out. Give them to your friends. Give them to your coworkers. Give them to folks on the street who look like they're having a bummer day.
Give them to the sweet ladies who work at Anthropologie. Give them to all the customers who walked in for a perfect chambray shirt who will then walk out with raspberry coconut crumble on their chins (and a hole in their wallet in the shape of said perfect chambray shirt–not that I'm talking from personal experience or anything).
And watch those smiles come!
Meanwhile, you'll be smiling because the Anthropologie display is, um, the best one yet. Of course, I have a completely biased love of handwriting. This might also explain why I have fallen in love with the Donna Hay Seasons book, which this recipe is from–all the descriptions and comments are handwritten in pretty, looping script. Kim did such a great job emulating the design of the book in this month's display!
Okay, so admittedly this lost a bit of credibility for your life, dear reader, once I veered into Anthropologie territory–I mean, I can't guarantee success if you walked into one of the stores with a panful of crumble and offered it up in the dressing room.
But, like I said: Smiles? Yes. For sure. Definitely. Go break out the coconut.
You might think this is a Valentine's Day post.
After all, there's a lot of pink happening here, and the scones are cut into heart shapes.
But you're WRONG! Wrong, I say. This is not a post about Valentine's day, but it is a post about love… Love for Downton Abbey.
Naturally I had to make scones. And obviously some sort of curd had to go along with them.
I was envisioning lemon curd until I saw the blood oranges at the grocery store. That was it. I love blood oranges. I am not a fan of any other kind of oranges, but I will take sweet, juicy blood oranges any day.
This blood orange curd is super-easy, sweet and just a little bit tart, and goes perfectly with my favorite scone recipe, which is subtle and creamy. Not to mention it is a beautiful pink color.
I don't really think the Crawleys would have been into blood orange curd. It's a little exotic and I'm 99% sure not at all historically accurate. The Countess would surely have turned up her nose, although I bet Lady Sybil would have been on board. But I have a feeling these will be a hit at the luncheon tomorrow, historical accuracy be darned!


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Климовская — деревня в Череповецком районе Вологодской области.

Входит в состав Абакановского сельского поселения, с точки зрения административно-территориального деления — в Абакановский сельсовет.

Расстояние по автодороге до районного центра Череповца — 56 км, до центра муниципального образования Абаканово — 13 км. Ближайшие населённые пункты — Шуклино, Ждановская, Ярцево.

По переписи 2002 года население — 10 человек.

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Nigel Pinchley was a British gentleman who visited Quahog in "One if by Clam, Two if by Sea" and tried to court Peter Griffin's wife Lois. His daughter, Eliza Pinchley made friends, in a way, with Lois' son Stewie. He was also the owner of The Drunken Clam when it was known as The Clam's Head Pub.
At his daughter's birthday party, it was revealed that he burned down his pub for the insurance policy he recently took out, which equaled out to $5,000,000. It was also revealed that both an insurance broker and Demond Wilson of Sanford and Son were living in his house. He was hanged at the gallows for insurance fraud in his native Britain.
He was voiced by Seth MacFarlane, although the role is sometimes falsely attributed to actor Hugh Laurie, who actually played one of the bar patrons in The Clam's Head Pub.


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Studios try to 'crack the code' on Latino moviegoers
By Breeanna Hare, CNN
Last year saw a rise in Hispanics buying movie tickets, and Hollywood is testing ways to keep the group filling theater seats.
Hollywood searches for ways to attract the second-largest group in the U.S. to the movies
Major studios such as Universal create nuanced marketing for this demographic
Lionsgate has launched a venture to create movies just for Hispanics
One filmmaker opts to make mainstream movies highlighting Latin stars
Hispanic and Latino Issues
(CNN) -- In the same way Hispanics have become an important political voice, so it goes with Hollywood and moviegoing.
Hispanics, now the second-largest group in the U.S., are more likely to go to movies, the Motion Picture Association of America says. Last year, 43 million Hispanics purchased 351 million movie tickets, an MPAA report says, an uptick from the 37 million who bought 300 million tickets the previous year.
And in 2010, when Nielsen examined that coveted group of heavy moviegoers -- people who see on average 16 movies a year and contribute to 63 percent of ticket sales -- it found that Hispanics make up 26 percent of those frequenting theaters.
"In every single dimension that you can think of, you can see that the Hispanic group is a moviegoing group," Nielsen's Claudia Pardo says. "They go in families, they go often, and they account for a larger share of the ticket sales."
For years, Hispanics have been a fast-growing demographic, but while Hollywood studios are well aware a sizable audience is there, the industry is still testing out the best ways to reach it.
Naturally, studios have picked up on the trend, explaining what Fabian Castro, Universal's vice president of multicultural marketing, calls the "boilerplate" of movie marketing these days: "You do your Spanish-language ads on Univision and Telemundo, and more often than not it's a translation of an English ad. You hit your magazines and websites, and you do some sort of grass-roots effort. That's standard."
Yet the reality is not quite that simple. The Hispanic demographic is far from homogenous, consisting of various nationalities, levels of acculturation and language preference, which affect both the development of movies targeting the group as well as the way studios try to market so-called mainstream films.
As a result, Hollywood is trying out a hodgepodge of ways to reach the group: developing more nuanced marketing, finding ways to make mainstream films more inclusive and providing something different from mass-appeal blockbusters by making movies targeted to Hispanics.
Producer Elizabeth Avellan -- whose resume includes "Once Upon a Time In Mexico," "Machete" and the "Spy Kids" franchise (a fourth installment arrives in August) -- says Hollywood is in the midst of trying to "crack the code."
"The problem is that no one has had the patience to crack it. Latinos love tent-pole movies -- they want to go to see 'Spider-Man,' they want to go see 'Predators,' " she says.
To Avellan, the key is to find a way to create those "big, kick-ass" movies and do it in a way that's inclusive.
"If the director and the executive producer are both from Latin countries, that's a huge deal. It already has a Latin stamp; it's going to have a different point of view," she says. "It's just that they're not going around going, 'We're making Latino films'; they're saying, 'We're making awesome films that include our point of view and our flavor and our rhythms and things like that.' "
But, she adds, studios should do it in a way where the movies still look like the big franchises that swoop into theaters each year, noting that filmmakers can do that, on a budget, and still be inclusive of this audience.
"This is the reality about Hollywood: The only color they care about is green," Avellan says. "That's reality. You make some money, they'll make your movie. If it was successful, you get to make your next movie; you get to have a career. Really, part of cracking the code is making them money with your product."
What she makes, she says, are "mainstream movies that people want to go to, big action movies" while being mindful of costs and without pandering.
"We're not saying (to Latinos), this is a movie for you, but you'll find the flavor," she says. "We make iced tea, but we make it passion fruit iced tea. It has that zing to it, (but) it's still iced tea, so the world feels connected to it."
For example, she mentions "Sin City." "It didn't have one Latin character, but you have Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Jessica Alba (cast in the movie). ... That's the beauty of what's going on, and I don't think we're the only ones doing it by the way."
Universal's Castro says the studio also relies on inclusiveness when marketing its slate, which was the case with "Fast Five." The latest installment in the Vin Diesel franchise topped the box office with $86.2 million its opening weekend in April -- the largest opening of the year -- with 33 percent of its grosses coming from Hispanic pockets. Its domestic gross as of July 4 was $208 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.
The film's predecessor, 2009's "Fast and Furious," arrived with Hispanics making up 46 percent of its opening weekend audience. "That became an eye-opener for pretty much all of Hollywood in seeing that there is a Hispanic audience that is very, very important and obviously goes to the movies so it's time to pay attention to that," Castro says.
But he says simply translating an advertisement from English into Spanish won't cut it.
"The natural challenges in reaching the Hispanic market are obviously language and levels of acculturation. You can't homogenize the entire Hispanic audience into one bucket and say, 'Oh, we're going to reach the Hispanic audience by doing one thing.' That's really what had been going on," Castro says. "(Instead) we look at genres that ... we historically have seen have been very successful with that audience: Action, horror, family films do incredibly well. We try to pay as much attention to the nuances and behaviors of the audience and see how that fits into the marketing of the film."
When it came time to market "Fast Five," Universal's team looked for ways to draw out what's culturally relevant in the movie and highlight it -- in this case, the diverse cast and music.
And if a movie doesn't have a diverse cast like "Fast Five," the studio shoots for other ways to find a cultural tie-in. With "Hop," Universal teamed up with singer-actor Jencarlos Canela to do a Spanish version of "I Want Candy."
But Paul Presburger, CEO of Pantelion Films, Lionsgate's studio venture with media outlet Televisa, says he believes there's an audience for English-language pictures targeted to the Hispanic audience -- it's just a matter of developing that market.
"We know there's a market here, but it's a bit of an elusive (one)," Presburger says. "It's one of the big challenges. I'll start with the fact that if you look at television, the Hispanic television business is huge. Univision right now beats the U.S. (broadcast) networks several nights a week. You look at music, and the Latino music business is a huge business. Yet there is no film business for them. The question is why."
Pantelion is answering that question by aiming for four to five English-language releases a year specifically for this audience in addition to opening six to eight Spanish-language movies in more limited runs.
The studio isn't the first to try this strategy, and Presburger says he's aware it's a tough road. "Part of the issue is that in television, they've been watching the same kind of telenovela programming all around Latin America for 50 years, but from a movie perspective, an Argentine film is so different from a Mexican film, which is different from anything else."
At the same time, he says, focus groups in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and Florida revealed that some Hispanics feel underrepresented in cinema.
"Typically, Hispanics are shown in movies as gang members and drug dealers and such as opposed to what they are: an up-and-coming demographic with a middle class," Presburger says.
The idea for now is to create English-language movies that can unite or blur "some of these distinctions of nationality," Presburger says, and do it with enough regularity to develop brand recognition. "We're looking at universal or general themes in our movies as well but with a DNA of Latino flavor in it," he says.
Since Hispanics are already "going to see these big Hollywood movies," it's a matter of offering something different, Presburger says, noting how well Tyler Perry, who's also with Lionsgate, has been able to offer his audience what studios haven't. "I kind of look at it as nobody's quite cracked the nut yet," he says about the Hispanic market.
Regardless of the approach, one thing's for sure, Universal's Castro says: It's not a wise move to ignore this audience.
"Whether you consider (Hispanics) a minority or not, it's too big to ignore," he says. "They embrace the movie campaign; they're great advocates of a product, and that's something that we don't want to dismiss."
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Schmid U, Wrede B, eds. (2022) Explainable AI
It's conference time and with their selection of keynote speakers conferences tend to be seismographs for trends in research. I had a look at a handful of this year's international AI conferences. Here is my selection: a continuing trend seems to be explainable AI with IJCAI featuring even two keynotes in this area: Mihaela van der Schaar bringing our attention to machine learning interpretability in medicine which requires new methods for non-static data and which targets to enable medical scientists to make new discoveries by unraveling the underlying governing equations of medicine from data. However, Tim Miller reminds us to not let the "inmates run the asylum". He argues that machine learning researchers may not bring in the best perspective to develop approaches for explanations that are helpful and understandable for lay persons. He makes a case of rather taking social scientists on board together with experts from human-computer interaction. Indeed, interdisciplinarity research has to be at the core of making AI decisions understandable and tractable for lay persons. At AAAI Cynthia Rudin has shared her experiences on bringing interpretable models into situations with high societal stakes such as decisions in criminal justice, healthcare, financial lending, and beyond, collaborating with people from different fields. It appears that this branch of AI requires new efforts in trans- and interdisciplinary research and I think we can expect highly interesting new insights from this field.
Schmid U, Wrede B, eds. Explainable AI. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz. 2022.
Wrede, B. (2022) AI: Back to the Roots?
During the last years, Explainable AI (XAI) has been established as a new area of research focusing on approaches which allow humans to comprehend and possibly control machine learned (ML) models and other AI-systems whose complexity makes the process which leads to a specific decision intransparent. In the beginning, most approaches were concerned with post-hoc explanations for classification decisions of deep learning architectures, especially for image classification. Furthermore, a growing number of empirical studies addressed effects of explanations on trust in and acceptability of AI/ML systems. Recent work has broadened the perspective of XAI, covering topics such as verbal explanations, explanations by prototypes and contrastive explanations, combining explanations and interactive machine learning, multi-step explanations, explanations in the context of machine teaching, relations between interpretable approaches of machine learning and post-hoc explanations, neuro-symbolic approaches and other hybrid approaches combining reasoning and learning for XAI. Addressing criticism regarding missing adaptivity more interactive accounts have been developed to take individual differences into account. Also, the question of evaluation beyond mere batch testing has come into focus.
Wrede, B. AI: Back to the Roots?. Künstl Intell 36, 117–120 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-022-00773-7
Fisher, J.B., Lohmer, V., Kern, F. et al. (2022). Exploring Monological and Dialogical Phases in Naturally Occurring Explanations
Recent approaches to Explainable AI (XAI) promise to satisfy diverse user expectations by allowing them to steer the interaction in order to elicit content relevant to them. However, little is known about how and to what extent the explainee takes part actively in the process of explaining. To tackle this empirical gap, we exploratively examined naturally occurring everyday explanations in doctor–patient interactions (N = 11). Following the social design of XAI, we view explanations as emerging in interactions: first, we identified the verbal behavior of both the explainer and the explainee in the sequential context, which we could assign to phases that were either monological or dialogical; second, we investigated in particular who was responsible for the initiation of the different phases. Finally, we took a closer look at the global conversational structure of explanations by applying a context-sensitive model of organizational jobs, thus adding a third layer of analysis. Results show that in our small sample of conversational explanations, both monological and dialogical phases varied in their length, timing of occurrence (at the early or later stages of the interaction) and their initiation (by the explainer or the explainee). They alternated several times in the course of the interaction. However, we also found some patterns suggesting that all interactions started with a monological phase initiated by the explainer. Both conversational partners contributed to the core organizational job that constitutes an explanation. We interpret the results as an indication for naturally occurring everyday explanations in doctor–patient interactions to be co-constructed on three levels of linguistic description: (1) by switching back and forth between monological to dialogical phases that (2) can be initiated by both partners and (3) by the mutual accomplishment and thus responsibility for an explanation's core job that is crucial for the success of the explanation. Because of the explorative nature of our study, these results need to be investigated (a) with a larger sample and (b) in other contexts. However, our results suggest that future designs of artificial explainable systems should design the explanatory dialogue in such a way that it includes monological and dialogical phases that can be initiated not only by the explainer but also by the explainee, as both contribute to the core job of explicating procedural, clausal, or conceptual relations in explanations.
Fisher, J.B., Lohmer, V., Kern, F. et al. Exploring Monological and Dialogical Phases in Naturally Occurring Explanations. Künstl Intell (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-022-00787-1
Schmid, U., Wrede, B. (2022). What is Missing in XAI So Far? An Interdisciplinary Perspective
With the perspective on applications of AI-technology, especially data intensive deep learning approaches, the need for methods to control and understand such models has been recognized and gave rise to a new research domain labeled explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). In this overview paper we give an interim appraisal of what has been achieved so far and where there are still gaps in the research. We take an interdisciplinary perspective to identify challenges on XAI research and point to open questions with respect to the quality of the explanations regarding faithfulness and consistency of explanations. On the other hand we see a need regarding the interaction between XAI and user to allow for adaptability to specific information needs and explanatory dialog for informed decision making as well as the possibility to correct models and explanations by interaction. This endeavor requires an integrated interdisciplinary perspective and rigorous approaches to empirical evaluation based on psychological, linguistic and even sociological theories.
Schmid, U., Wrede, B. What is Missing in XAI So Far?. Künstl Intell (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-022-00786-2
Sieger, L., et al. (2022). User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents: Increasing Perceived Control and Understanding
Smart home systems contain plenty of features that enhance well-being in everyday life through artificial intelligence (AI). However, many users feel insecure because they do not understand the AI's functionality and do not feel they are in control of it. Combining technical, psychological and philosophical views on AI, we rethink smart homes as interactive systems where users can partake in an intelligent agent's learning. Parallel to the goals of explainable AI (XAI), we explored the possibility of user involvement in supervised learning of the smart home to have a first approach to improve acceptance, support subjective understanding and increase perceived control. In this work, we conducted two studies: In an online pre-study, we asked participants about their attitude towards teaching AI via a questionnaire. In the main study, we performed a Wizard of Oz laboratory experiment with human participants, where partici- pants spent time in a prototypical smart home and taught activity recognition to the intelligent agent through supervised learning based on the user's behaviour. We found that involvement in the AI's learning phase enhanced the users' feeling of control, perceived
understanding and perceived usefulness of AI in general. The participants reported positive attitudes towards training a smart home AI and found the process understandable and controllable. We suggest that involving the user in the learning phase could lead to better personalisation and increased understanding and control by users of intelligent agents for smart home automation.
Sieger, L., Hermann, J., Schomäcker, A., Heindorf, S., Meske, C., Hey, C., and Doğangün, A.. 2022. User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents: Increasing Perceived Control and Understanding. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '22), December 5–8, 2022, Christchurch, New Zealand. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561914
Schütze, C., Groß, A., Wrede, B., & Richter, B. (2022). Enabling Non-Technical Domain Experts to Create Robot-Assisted Therapeutic Scenarios via Visual Programming.
In this paper, we present a visual programming software for enabling non-technical domain experts to create robot-assisted therapy scenarios for multiple robotic platforms. Our new approach is evaluated by comparing it with Choregraphe, the standard visual programming framework for the often used robotics platforms Pepper and NAO. We could show that our approach receives higher usability values and allows users to perform better in some practical tasks, including understanding, changing and creating small robot-assisted therapy scenarios.
Schütze, C., Groß, A., Wrede, B., & Richter, B. (2022). Enabling Non-Technical Domain Experts to Create Robot-Assisted Therapeutic Scenarios via Visual Programming. In R. Tumuluri, N. Sebe, G. Pingali, D. B. Jayagopi, A. Dhall, R. Singh, L. Anthony, et al. (Eds.), ICMI '22 Companion: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION (pp. 166-170). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536220.3558072
Groß A., Schütze C., Wrede B., Richter B. (2022). An Architecture Supporting Configurable Autonomous Multimodal Joint-Attention-Therapy for Various Robotic Systems
In this paper, we present a software-architecture for robot-assisted configurable and autonomous Joint-Attention-Training scenarios to support autism therapy. The focus of the work is the expandability of the architecture for the use of different robots, as well as the maximization of the usability of the interface for the therapeutic user. By evaluating the user-experience, we draw first conclusions about the usability of the system for computer and non-computer scientists. Both groups can solve different tasks without any major issues, and the overall usability of the system was rated as good.
Groß, A., Schütze, C., Wrede, B., & Richter, B. (2022). An Architecture Supporting Configurable Autonomous Multimodal Joint-Attention-Therapy for Various Robotic Systems. In R. Tumuluri, N. Sebe, G. Pingali, D. B. Jayagopi, A. Dhall, R. Singh, L. Anthony, et al. (Eds.), ICMI '22 Companion: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION (pp. 154-159). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536220.3558070
Schulz, C. (2022). A new algorithmic imaginary
The algorithmic imaginary as a theoretical concept has received increasing attention in recent years as it aims at users' appropriation of algorithmic processes operating in opacity. But the concept originally only starts from the users' point of view, while the processes on the platforms' side are largely left out. In contrast, this paper argues that what is true for users is also valid for algorithmic processes and the designers behind. On the one hand, the algorithm imagines users' future behavior via machine learning, which is supposed to predict all their future actions. On the other hand, the designers anticipate different actions that could potentially performed by users with every new implementation of features such as social media feeds. In order to bring into view this permanently reciprocal interplay coupled to the imaginary, in which not only the users are involved, I will argue for a more comprehensive and theoretically precise algorithmic imaginary referring to the theory of Cornelius Castoriadis. In such a perspective, an important contribution can be formulated for a theory of social media platforms that goes beyond praxeocentrism or structural determinism.
Schulz, C. (2022). A new algorithmic imaginary. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221136014
Rohlfing K. J., Vollmer A.-L., Fritsch J. and Wrede B. (2022). Which "motionese" parameters change with children's age? Disentangling attention-getting from action-structuring modifications
Modified action demonstration—dubbed motionese—has been proposed as a way to help children recognize the structure and meaning of actions. However, until now, it has been investigated only in young infants. This brief research report presents findings from a cross-sectional study of parental action demonstrations to three groups of 8–11, 12–23, and 24–30-month-old children that applied seven motionese parameters; a second study investigated the youngest group of participants longitudinally to corroborate the cross-sectional results. Results of both studies suggested that four motionese parameters (Motion Pauses, Pace, Velocity, Acceleration) seem to structure the action by organizing it in motion pauses. Whereas these parameters persist over different ages, three other parameters (Demonstration Length, Roundness, and Range) occur predominantly in the younger group and seem to serve to organize infants' attention on the basis of movement. Results are discussed in terms of facilitative vs. pedagogical learning.
Rohlfing K. J., Vollmer A.-L., Fritsch J. and Wrede B. (2022). Which "motionese" parameters change with children's age? Disentangling attention-getting from action-structuring modifications. Front. Commun. 7:922405. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.922405
Rohlfing K. J. et al. (2022). Social/dialogical roles of social robots in supporting children's learning of language and literacy—A review and analysis of innovative roles
One of the many purposes for which social robots are designed is education, and there have been many attempts to systematize their potential in this field. What these attempts have in common is the recognition that learning can be supported in a variety of ways because a learner can be engaged in different activities that foster learning. Up to now, three roles have been proposed when designing these activities for robots: as a teacher or tutor, a learning peer, or a novice. Current research proposes that deciding in favor of one role over another depends on the content or preferred pedagogical form. However, the design of activities changes not only the content of learning, but also the nature of a human–robot social relationship. This is particularly important in language acquisition, which has been recognized as a social endeavor. The following review aims to specify the differences in human–robot social relationships when children learn language through interacting with a social robot. After proposing categories for comparing these different relationships, we review established and more specific, innovative roles that a robot can play in language-learning scenarios. This follows Mead's (1946) theoretical approach proposing that social roles are performed in interactive acts. These acts are crucial for learning, because not only can they shape the social environment of learning but also engage the learner to different degrees. We specify the degree of engagement by referring to Chi's (2009) progression of learning activities that range from active, constructive, toward interactive with the latter fostering deeper learning. Taken together, this approach enables us to compare and evaluate different human–robot social relationships that arise when applying a robot in a particular social role.
Rohlfing K. J., Altvater-Mackensen N., Caruana N., van den Berghe R., Bruno B., Tolksdorf N. F. and Hanulíková A. (2022) Social/dialogical roles of social robots in supporting children's learning of language and literacy—A review and analysis of innovative roles. Front. Robot. AI 9:971749. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2022.971749
Wachsmuth, H., & Alshomary, M. (2022). "Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand": A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations
As AI is more and more pervasive in everyday life, humans have an increasing demand to understand its behavior and decisions. Most research on explainable AI builds on the premise that there is one ideal explanation to be found. In fact, however, everyday explanations are co-constructed in a dialogue between the person explaining (the explainer) and the specific person being explained to (the explainee). In this paper, we introduce a first corpus of dialogical explanations to enable NLP research on how humans explain as well as on how AI can learn to imitate this process. The corpus consists of 65 transcribed English dialogues from the Wired video series 5 Levels, explaining 13 topics to five explainees of different proficiency. All 1550 dialogue turns have been manually labeled by five independent professionals for the topic discussed as well as for the dialogue act and the explanation move performed. We analyze linguistic patterns of explainers and explainees, and we explore differences across proficiency levels. BERT-based baseline results indicate that sequence information helps predicting topics, acts, and moves effectively.
Wachsmuth, H., & Alshomary, M. (2022). "Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand'': A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2209.02508
Battefeld, D., & Kopp, S. (2022). Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning
This paper presents preliminary work on the formalization of three prominent cognitive biases in the diagnostic reasoning process over epileptic seizures, psychogenic seizures and syncopes. Diagnostic reasoning is understood as iterative exploration of medical evidence. This exploration is represented as a partially observable Markov decision process where the state (i.e., the correct diagnosis) is uncertain. Observation likelihoods and belief updates are computed using a Bayesian network which defines the interrelation between medical risk factors, diagnoses and potential findings. The decision problem is solved via partially observable upper confidence bounds for trees in Monte-Carlo planning. We compute a biased diagnostic exploration policy by altering the generated state transition, observation and reward during look ahead simulations. The resulting diagnostic policies reproduce reasoning errors which have only been described informally in the medical literature. We plan to use this formal representation in the future to inversely detect and classify biased reasoning in actual diagnostic trajectories obtained from physicians.
Battefeld, D., & Kopp, S. (2022). Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning. Presented at the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR), Trier. Link: https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2964809
Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Hammer, B., Hüllermeier E. (2022). Agnostic Explanation of Model Change based on Feature Importance
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has mainly focused on static learning tasks so far. In this paper, we consider XAI in the context of online learning in dynamic environments, such as learning from real-time data streams, where models are learned incrementally and continuously adapted over the course of time. More specifically, we motivate the problem of explaining model change, i.e. explaining the difference between models before and after adaptation, instead of the models themselves. In this regard, we provide the first efficient model-agnostic approach to dynamically detecting, quantifying, and explaining significant model changes. Our approach is based on an adaptation of the well-known Permutation Feature Importance (PFI) measure. It includes two hyperparameters that control the sensitivity and directly influence explanation frequency, so that a human user can adjust the method to individual requirements and application needs. We assess and validate our method's efficacy on illustrative synthetic data streams with three popular model classes.
Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Hammer, B., Hüllermeier E. (2022). Agnostic Explanation of Model Change based on Feature Importance. Künstl Intell. doi: 10.1007/s13218-022-00766-6
Finke, J., Horwath, I., Matzner, T., Schulz, C. (2022). (De)Coding Social Practice in the Field of XAI: Towards a Co-constructive Framework of Explanations and Understanding Between Lay Users and Algorithmic Systems
Advances in the development of AI and its application in many areas of society have given rise to an ever-increasing need for society's members to understand at least to a certain degree how these technologies work. Where users are concerned, most approaches in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) assume a rather narrow view on the social process of explaining and show an undifferentiated assessment of explainees' understanding, which mostly are considered passive recipients of information. The actual knowledge, motives, needs and challenges of (lay)users in algorithmic environments remain mostly missing. We argue for the consideration of explanation as a social practice in which explainer and explainee co-construct understanding jointly. Therefore, we seek to enable lay users to document, evaluate, and reflect on distinct AI interactions and correspondingly on how explainable AI actually is in their daily lives. With this contribution we want to discuss our methodological approach that enhances the documentary method by the implementation of 'digital diaries' via the mobile instant messaging app WhatsApp – the most used instant messaging service worldwide. Furthermore, from a theoretical stance, we examine the socio-cultural patterns of orientation that guide users' interactions with AI and their imaginaries of the technologies – a sphere that is mostly obscured and hard to access for researchers. Finally, we complete our paper with empirical insights by referring to previous studies that point out the relevance of perspectives on explaining and understanding as a co-constructive social practice.
Finke, J., Horwath, I., Matzner, T., Schulz, C. (2022). (De)Coding Social Practice in the Field of XAI: Towards a Co-constructive Framework of Explanations and Understanding Between Lay Users and Algorithmic Systems. In: Degen, H., Ntoa, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in HCI. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13336. Springer, Cham. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05643-7_10
Buschmeier H., et al. (2022). Modeling Feedback in Interaction With Conversational Agents - A Review
Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure that its communicative acts have the intended consequences. At the same time, the human interacting with the agent will also seek feedback, in order to ensure that her communicative acts have the intended consequences. In this review article, we give an overview of past and current research on how intelligent agents should be able to both give meaningful feedback toward humans, as well as understanding feedback given by the users. The review covers feedback across different modalities (e.g., speech, head gestures, gaze, and facial expression), different forms of feedback (e.g., backchannels, clarification requests), and models for allowing the agent to assess the user's level of understanding and adapt its behavior accordingly. Finally, we analyse some shortcomings of current approaches to modeling feedback, and identify important directions for future research. Full article
Axelsson A., Buschmeier H. and Skantze G. (2022) Modeling Feedback in Interaction With Conversational Agents - A Review. Front. Comput. Sci. 4:744574. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.744574
Rohlfing, K. J., Cimiano, et al. (2021). Explanation as a social practice: Toward a conceptual framework for the social design of AI systems
The recent surge of interest in explainability in artificial intelligence (XAI) is propelled by not only technological advancements in machine learning but also by regulatory initiatives to foster transparency in algorithmic decision making. In this article, we revise the current concept of explainability and identify three limitations: passive explainee, narrow view on the social process, and undifferentiated assessment of explainee's understanding. In order to overcome these limitations, we present explanation as a social practice in which explainer and explainee co-construct understanding on the microlevel. We view the co-construction on a microlevel as embedded into a macrolevel, yielding expectations concerning, e.g., social roles or partner models: typically, the role of the explainer is to provide an explanation and to adapt it to the current level of explainee's understanding; the explainee, in turn, is expected to provide cues that direct the explainer. Building on explanations being a social practice, we present a conceptual framework that aims to guide future research in XAI. The framework relies on the key concepts of monitoring and scaffolding to capture the development of interaction. We relate our conceptual framework and our new perspective on explaining to transparency and autonomy as objectives considered for XAI.
Rohlfing, K. J., Cimiano, P., Scharlau, I., Matzner, T., Buhl, H. M., Buschmeier, H., Esposito, E, Grimminger, A, Hammer, B., Häb-Umbach, R., Horwath, I., Hüllermeier, E., Kern, F., Kopp, S., Thommes, K., Ngonga Ngomo, A., Schulte, C., Wachsmuth, H., Wagner, P. & Wrede, B. (2021). Explanation as a social practice: Toward a conceptual framework for the social design of AI systems. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 13(3), 717-728. doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2020.3044366


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Opinion	| July 7, 2017, 6:21 AM
California Joins Forces With Communist Regime Against U.S.
Under the guise of fighting alleged man-made global warming, California Governor Jerry Brown (shown) is defying the elected government of the United States and forming an unconstitutional alliance with the mass-murdering communist regime enslaving mainland China. Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to kill the illegal United Nations Paris Accord on "climate change," Brown and his radical allies were foaming at the mouth, vowing to join forces with others to "resist" while calling the president "insane." By contrast, Brown and his allies were busy praising the murderous dictatorship in Beijing as a heroic and progressive "leader" for "the world" in the supposed fight to save humanity from the gas of life known as carbon dioxide.
Critics were perplexed by the California governor's bizarre behavior. Some prominent analysts referred to Brown's actions as illegal, pointing to the Logan Act that bans U.S. citizens from negotiating policy with foreign powers without specific authorization from the U.S. government. Others even invoked the "T" word, referring to Brown's actions as "treason" against the United States. Either way, the significance of the developments would be hard to overstate. In essence, an array of state and local officials are defying the law, the Constitution, and common sense by forming alliances with hostile totalitarian governments to undermine U.S. foreign and domestic policy.
In a statement released before his trip to Beijing last month, Governor Brown, a Democrat, outlined his positions. "Donald Trump has absolutely chosen the wrong course," Brown argued. "He's wrong on the facts. America's economy is boosted by following the Paris Agreement. He's wrong on the science. Totally wrong. California will resist this misguided and insane course of action. Trump is AWOL but California is on the field, ready for battle." Also "on the field, ready for battle" is the regime ruling mainland China, which has murdered more human beings than any other government in human history. Before becoming president, Trump said the man-made global-warming theory was a "hoax" concocted by the Chinese regime to undermine the U.S. economy.
Ahead of Brown's meeting with Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tiananmen Square, where the People's Liberation Army massacred student protesters in 1989, the California governor became increasingly extreme. "China is emerging as the leader on climate change for the world," Brown was quoted as saying by the Bay Area News Group before leaving for his trip to meet the dictator and solidify ties between the two governments. Blasting Trump for supposedly being "AWOL," Brown painted a dire picture of looming climate apocalypse. "We can't wait. This is an existential threat," claimed Brown, sometimes ridiculed as Governor Moonbeam. "The ice is melting, the temperature is rising, the habitat is being destroyed. We have to make a turn, as humanity, if we want to survive."
As Brown was attacking the president of the United States, who was elected by the American people, as some sort of enemy, the rogue governor was simultaneously using secessionist rhetoric while touting the brutal dictatorship in China as a source of inspiration and leadership. "It is a little bold to talk about the China-California partnership as though we were a separate nation, but we are a separate nation," Brown said, adding that California was a "real nation-state." "We're going in the opposite direction of Donald Trump," Brown added, referring to his government and the Chinese regime. Brown even signed an agreement with the dictatorship vowing closer cooperation on "climate change." More than a few analysts spoke of Brown's illegal alliance with the murderous dictatorship and other governments as a "confederacy" uniting against the American people.
Brown is hardly alone. Compounding the problem, a number of radical globalists and statists in the United States — including dozens of far-left mayors and alarmist governors — are following Brown's lead in joining forces with murderous and hostile regimes against the duly elected U.S. government to uphold the illegal UN pseudo-treaty on "climate" negotiated in Paris. Among the extremist state governments working to form unconstitutional alliances with hostile foreign powers and each other are Washington State, New York State, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and more. Also joining the bandwagon are numerous mayors of American cities.
Other far-left governors also boasted of their unconstitutional activities. "The White House's reckless decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement has devastating repercussions not only for the United States, but for our planet," declared New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in an official statement announcing the "Climate Alliance" with the leaders of California and other states. "New York State is committed to meeting the standards set forth in the Paris Accord regardless of Washington's irresponsible actions." The bizarre declaration was translated into Chinese, Russian, and French for good measure.
Of course, all of it is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. In Article 1, Section 10, for instance, the U.S. Constitution very clearly prohibits the very actions Brown and his allies have been boasting about. "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation," it says. As if that was not clear enough, Article 1, Section 10 also says: "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, … enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power." Separately, multiple federal laws, including the Logan Act, are also apparently being violated by the rogue mayors and governors plotting to undermine the elected government of the United States through unconstitutional actions.
Katy Grimes, an investigative journalist and a Senior Media Fellow with the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, was among the prominent voices to level charges of treason. "Brown should be investigated for colluding with a known foreign enemy upon his return to the United States — a federal republic of 50 states of which he is but one governor," she wrote, blasting Brown's "treasonous" trip to China. "It is unconstitutional for a state to supplant federal powers and act on its own when dealing with other nations. Brown's latest trip to China to enter into a treaty as a sovereign nation is unconstitutional on several levels, and violates the Logan Act."
Grimes also noted that this is not Brown's "first dip into the treason pool." Citing various illegal alliances Brown has formed with foreign governments and other states, she suggested it was time for the federal government to intervene. "Gov. Jerry Brown's trip of treason should be a real trigger warning for the U.S. Department of Justice," Grimes said, echoing the concerns of other analysts and experts. Brown, meanwhile, was boasting that he runs a "powerful state government" and that there are "nine other states that agree with us." Grimes pointed to the extremist financiers of the "treasonous" scheming, too: billionaire globalists and crony capitalists such as Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, the Rockefellers, and George Soros.
Another prominent analyst to invoke the specter of treason was Daniel Greenfield of FrontPage Magazine. "States cannot and are not allowed to unilaterally choose to uphold a treaty rejected by the President," wrote Greenfield, adding that the Paris pseudo-treaty had never even been ratified by the U.S. Senate as required by the Constitution for all treaties. "Their leaders are certainly not allowed to travel to enemy nations to inform foreign powers of their treasonous designs and to solicit their aid against the policies of the United States government."
"This is all the more treasonous at a time when the United States is on a collision course with the People's Republic of China over North Korea's nuclear weapons and trade agreements," he continued. "Like the slaveowner class, leftist elites are letting the arrogance of their wealth lead them into treason…. This is a treasonous situation that is more troubling in some ways than the original Civil War because it involves states making open alliance with enemy powers such as China and welcoming them in. State governments are undermining the united front of the national government in the face of the enemy."
Blasting Democrats and the "treasonous Democrat media" for cheering the betrayal while "waving their arms" over Trump's alleged connections to Russia, Greenfield also called for the feds to crack down on the treasonous behavior before it spirals further out of control. "Their actions are in violation of the United States Constitution. And all this is another dark step on the road to another civil war," he warned, citing the blatant violation of the Logan Act as well. "If the climate confederacy is not held accountable for its treason, the crisis will only grow."
Even radical left-wing publications that buy into the increasingly discredited man-made warming theory have noticed what appears to be happening. "States and cities are forming a kind of parallel national government around climate change," explained global-warming theorist and far-left activist David Roberts in a July 1 article at Vox, a prominent globalist-leftist online journal. "A coalition is forming, a Blue America, and at least on climate change, it is going beyond mere resistance to a more proactive role, negotiating with the international community on its own behalf, like a separate nation."
Of course, there is a place for state governments to defy the feds. If the federal government is engaged in unconstitutional behavior, states have not just a right, but a duty to resist. In fact, some of America's most important Founding Fathers declared that nullification of unconstitutional usurpations by the U.S. government was the "right remedy." However, in this case, the opposite is happening. The coalition of rogue governors and mayors are brazenly violating the Constitution — all in an effort to support an unconstitutionalpseudo-treaty based on debunked pseudo-science that is rejected by most Americans. The Trump administration should make clear that such lawless behavior will not be tolerated.
Reprinted with permission from The New American
Author: Alex Newman Alex Newman is CEO & Executive Editor of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc. since August 2007 Manage the small consulting firm which provides information campaigns and services, analysis, research, media advice, writing, editing, content and press services to a range of clients including political campaigns, non-profit organizations and businesses. Includes selling, writing, consulting. He is a correspondent for The New American magazine since June 2007
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