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Santorum camp asking conservatives to pressure Gingrich to drop out - 2 views
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All I know is after spending nearly $10 million here in Ohio, right now its neck and neck and it's going to be close to a tie, and somebody will win, but not by much.
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What we found is, Gingrich did a nice job in his home state, but I don't even think he had a second place anywhere else ... It's time for conservatives to say 'Look, we're going to rally behind one candidate, Rick Santorum."
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We're never going to call on anybody to get out, but what we are calling is on Tea Party supporters and conservatives is to rally behind the only candidate that has demonstrated over and over again that he's the one who can compete against Mitt Romney," Brabender said.
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NBC Politics - Candidates notch wins as Ohio 'too close to call' - 2 views
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NBC News projected Mitt Romney as the winner in Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts
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Why so many tornadoes are striking the US - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazing... - 2 views
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"We've been in a very warm pattern all winter," said meteorologist Mark Rose of the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala. "Because it has been so mild, it increases our chances for severe weather."
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Control AI before it controls us, expert says - Technology & science - Innovation - msn... - 2 views
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doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware.
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One starting solution might trap the artificial intelligence, or AI, inside a "virtual machine" running inside a computer's typical operating system — an existing process that adds security by limiting the AI's access to its host computer's software and hardware.
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"If such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our ability to predict or fully comprehend," Yampolskiy said.
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"It can discover new attack pathways, launch sophisticated social-engineering attacks and re-use existing hardware components in unforeseen ways," Yampolskiy said. "Such software is not limited to infecting computers and networks — it can also attack human psyches, bribe, blackmail and brainwash those who come in contact with it."
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cryptography
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oracle
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but without the sure knowledge that any of the steps would really work.
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That would harness the power of AI as a super-intelligent
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slow down the AI's "thinking"
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mere human-level intelligence could escape from an "AI Box" scenario
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"The Catch-22 is that until we have fully developed superintelligent AI we can't fully test our ideas,
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I have highlighted and sticky-noted this article as an example of how to complete the "Sticky Stories" assignment. You don't have to highlight using special colors, but so you can see an example of each, the blue highlights are for vocabulary, the yellow for main ideas, and the green for my "connections."
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Never send a human to guard a machine
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The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. - 4 views
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age
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Poverty can really never be gone from today's world .. With the price of food and gas on the rise and employer's only want to pay the minium wage . The american dollar dosen't go as far as i did 3 year's ago .. Education dose help but the price of college has rose also in the last few year's . If it wasn't for the injury i got while in the military . I would be working a dead end job and working ton of overtime to make ends meet .. So poverty will never really be wiped out !!
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In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: There are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
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Up to recently we have proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils: lack of education restricting job opportunities; poor housing which stultified home life and suppressed initiative; fragile family relationships which distorted personality development. The logic of this approach suggested that each of these causes be attacked one by one. Hence a housing program to transform living conditions, improved educational facilities to furnish tools for better job opportunities, and family counseling to create better personal adjustments were designed.
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fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.
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n addition to the absence of coordination and sufficiency, the programs of the past all have another common failing -- they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else.
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am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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We have come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. The poor are less often dismissed from our conscience today by being branded as inferior and incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands it does not eliminate all poverty.
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We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes, who have a double disability, will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
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Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life and in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he know that he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts between husband, wife and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on a scale of dollars is eliminated.
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Two conditions are indispensable if we are to ensure that the guaranteed income operates as a consistently progressive measure. First, it must be pegged to the median income of society, not the lowest levels of income. To guarantee an income at the floor would simply perpetuate welfare standards and freeze into the society poverty conditions. Second, the guaranteed income must be dynamic; it must automatically increase as the total social income grows. Were it permitted to remain static under growth conditions, the recipients would suffer a relative decline. If periodic reviews disclose that the whole national income has risen, then the guaranteed income would have to be adjusted upward by the same percentage. Without these safeguards a creeping retrogression would occur, nullifying the gains of security and stability.
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This proposal is not a "civil rights" program, in the sense that that term is currently used. The program would benefit all the poor, including the two-thirds of them who are white. I hope that both Negro and white will act in coalition to effect this change, because their combined strength will be necessary to overcome the fierce opposition we must realistically anticipate.
" Where are we going" MLK - 3 views
" I've Been To The Mountaintop" - 2 views
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Page 2: Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 0 views
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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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Page 2: Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 0 views
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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 4 views
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But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
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Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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I've Been to the Mountaintop -- Encyclopedic Entry - 6 views
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Martin Luther King's Speech: 'I Have a Dream' - The Full Text - ABC News - 2 views
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But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
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We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
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Group items tagged Marge - READ 0880 SP12 | Diigo Groups - 6 views
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dallying
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The people I love the best jump into work head first
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I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.
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want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
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The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
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As i understand with lines. speaker telling us that the work of the world is quietly different because people weren't true to themselves, people will do things just to make them successful in life. like, take advantage with the situation, so the speaker or author saying by using the mud. mud is dirty, botched means poor work. its like people sometimes worked in a wrong way. meaning they don't work religiously.
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To Be Of Use by Marge Piercy | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor - 15 views
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common rhythm
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Greek amphoras
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A vase with 2 handles. It was used to transport the wine and oil the poem was talking about. I also found it is spelled 2 different ways (amphoras and amphorae.)
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Vases could hold anything. Besides wine and oil the vase could hold it also held corn. I don't understand why they would put corn in a vase and put it in a museum. In the poem it states "...Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums...".
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Poem: "To be of use" by Marge Piercy from Circles on the Water. © Alfred A. Knopf. Reprinted with permission To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25128787/READ0880/Spring%202012/Digging.htm - 15 views
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spade sinks into gravelly ground
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So literally he's in an upper floor, writing, looking down on his father, who's outside digging in the ground. But as I read this poem again, I wonder if he's looking down on his father in another sense, feeling superior in some way???
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I find this hard to believe. Later in the poem he praises his father and grandfather for their skills and hard work.
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He could be just watching in wonder or just watching his father because boys always look up at their dad's wanting to be like them so they watch their dad's so they can copy him.
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straining rump among the flowerbeds
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Under my window
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I've no spade to follow men like them.
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coarse boot nestled on the lug
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turf
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Just like his old man.
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My grandfather could cut more turf in a dayThan any other man on Toner's bog.
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I'll dig with it.
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Stooping
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fell to right away
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the grandfather was so deticated to his work he barley took a drink a glass a milk, then continued back to work
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i think the speaker means that he brought some milk to his grandfather so his can be able to quench his thirst and then his grandpacontinue to dig right after that to have a good turf. meaning that by drinking milk it gives him more strength to continue digging the soil
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living roots awaken in my head
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his father and gradfather grew up digging and feels even though they did he doesn't want that life
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living roots are what a family is ment to be. Like farmers, past on from generation to generations, its in their blood.
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yes, i agree... its like his next to the generationbut he don;t have the well, urge, the courage to follow them. his points of view different from what he have grown up with.
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Through living roots awaken in my head.
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By God, the old man could handle a spade, Just like his old man.
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But I've no spade to follow men like them.
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He straightened upTo drink it, then fell to right awayNicking and slicing neatly, heaving sodsOver his shoulder, digging down and downFor the good turf. Digging.
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levered
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old man could handle a spade,Just like his old man.
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He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deepTo scatter new potatoes that we pickedLoving their cool hardness in our hands.
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spade,
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Bends low, comes up twenty years away
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snug as a gun
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But I've no spade to follow men like them .
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He straightened up To drink it, then fell to right away
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I'll dig with it
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comes up twenty years away
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My father, digging
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The cold smell of potato mold,
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But I've no spade to follow men like them.
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I've no spade to follow men like them
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Toner's bog
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I'll dig with it