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United Language Group earns recognition as a John Deere Partner-level Supplier and Hall of Fame Supplier

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木曜日, 4月 25, 2024

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Minneapolis, MN, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United Language Group has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2023 and was inducted into the Supplier Hall of Fame in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program.

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Minneapolis, MN, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United Language Group has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2023 and was inducted into the Supplier Hall of Fame in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program.
Hall of Fame status is given after a supplier attains a Partner-level rating for five consecutive years.
United Language Group is a supplier of innovative marketing translation, curated machine translation, engaged linguists, eLearning localization and translation quality assurance to John Deere’s operation in Mannheim.
“I am very proud of the team and the partnership this award recognizes,” said Nicholas McMahon, CEO United Language Group.

TELUS International Launches Fine-Tune Studio to Deliver High-Quality Datasets that Improve the Performance, Adaptability and Safety of Generative AI Models

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月曜日, 4月 22, 2024

Fine-Tune Studio will be presented during the company’s attendance at the 2024 World Summit AI in Montreal, Canada on April 24-25.

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Fine-Tune Studio will be presented during the company’s attendance at the 2024 World Summit AI in Montreal, Canada on April 24-25.
View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240422616380/en/
Fine-Tune Studio is integrated in TELUS International’s fully-managed AI Data Platform as part of the company’s fully-managed GenAI data services available to LLM builders and adopters.
In addition to generalists, TELUS International’s AI Community includes linguists, researchers, coders and doctors as well as experts from various specialty domains.
TELUS International is a leading provider of comprehensive, end-to-end AI data and digital customer experience solutions with its global AI Community of more than one million crowdsourced contributors from 150 countries.

Millwright Holdings Appoints Ainsley Sheikali Head of Business Development

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火曜日, 4月 16, 2024

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NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Millwright Holdings today announced the appointment of Ainsley Sheikali as Head of Business Development, a newly created role.

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NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Millwright Holdings today announced the appointment of Ainsley Sheikali as Head of Business Development, a newly created role.
"We are thrilled to welcome Ainsley as our Head of Business Development," said Erin Vadala, Group President & CCO.
Joining Millwright after a successful tenure at Edelman, where she spent five years excelling in management and operations, Sheikali has established herself as a leader in product launches, brand strategy development, multichannel creative campaign execution, and business development.
"We are thrilled to welcome Ainsley to Millwright as our Head of Business Development," said Erin Vadala, Group President and Chief Client Officer at Millwright Holdings.

Beyoncé and Dolly Parton’s versions of Jolene represent two sides of southern femininity

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火曜日, 4月 23, 2024

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On her new album, Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé puts a new spin on Dolly Parton’s classic song, Jolene.

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On her new album, Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé puts a new spin on Dolly Parton’s classic song, Jolene.
Some people commenting online were vocal about not liking Beyoncé’s version, often citing its lack of vulnerability when compared to Parton’s version.
There are upwards of 80 covers of Jolene, but Beyoncé’s is a departure from the rest.
The Houston native’s Jolene is decidedly Black, and therein lies the crux of the different reactions towards the song.
It is important to examine the story Dolly Parton tells on Jolene because it, too, is rooted in her racial and gendered identity as much as Beyoncé’s Jolene is.

How is Beyoncé’s story the same but different?

Towards the end of the song, Beyoncé and her partner turn a corner and offer hope against the disruption that Jolene represents.
Beyoncé’s Jolene is introduced by Dolly Parton herself in a short interlude.
Parton makes a clear association between her experience with Jolene and Beyoncé’s experience with “Becky with the good hair” (or “hussy” as Parton says).
But the term has evolved to encompass racially ambiguous women with European or Asian features, lighter skin and loose curls or straight hair.
Why would we expect the song to be the same when these two women are far from?

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Kadian Pow does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Young people in Britain aren’t bad at learning languages – but the school system doesn’t make it easy for them

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火曜日, 4月 23, 2024

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But are the British really bad at learning foreign languages?

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But are the British really bad at learning foreign languages?
This comparatively short period of formal language learning is likely to have a substantial impact on language attainment amongst school leavers.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have native languages which are taught both as second languages and through bilingual or immersion schooling.
UK students’ learning of these native languages shows that when given significant exposure to a language, they can achieve fluency.

Choosing to learn

Another factor to consider is why students learn languages, and how this affects their achievement.
There will certainly be young people who feel that language learning is something they have to do, rather than something they want to take part in.
However, other students are motivated to learn languages which they feel a personal connection to or see personal value in.

English has become a global lingua franca, and consequently Anglophones can feel like foreign language skills are less needed.
This also means that English language skills are a useful extra for many people around the world and allow them to get by in many countries – that’s a strong motivation to learn.
Read more:
The UK is poorer without Erasmus – it's time to rejoin the European exchange programme
There is no evidence that British young people have an inability to learn foreign languages.

Abigail Parrish does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Grant Christie Joins Acentra Health as Senior Vice President of Market Strategy and Solutions

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火曜日, 3月 26, 2024

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MCLEAN, Va., March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acentra Health, a Virginia-based technology solutions and clinical services company dedicated to helping government healthcare agencies accelerate better health outcomes, announced the appointment of Grant Christie as Senior Vice President, Market Strategy and Solutions.

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MCLEAN, Va., March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acentra Health, a Virginia-based technology solutions and clinical services company dedicated to helping government healthcare agencies accelerate better health outcomes, announced the appointment of Grant Christie as Senior Vice President, Market Strategy and Solutions.
Christie most recently worked at NTT DATA, where he led the public sector government consulting and advisory division, overseeing 500 consultants in delivering a range of services across more than 20 states.
His work spanned various health and human services programs, including Medicaid, behavioral health, child support services, and eligibility.
"Grant’s deep experience in U.S. healthcare technology combined with his specialized knowledge in Medicaid systems will be invaluable in shaping the innovative solutions and services Acentra Health brings to the market,” said Kelly Loeffler, Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer, Acentra Health.

MITRE Opens New AI Assurance and Discovery Lab

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月曜日, 3月 25, 2024

The new AI Assurance and Discovery Lab will evaluate AI-enabled systems intended for use in consequential applications including national security, healthcare, and transportation.

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The new AI Assurance and Discovery Lab will evaluate AI-enabled systems intended for use in consequential applications including national security, healthcare, and transportation.
“The opening of MITRE’s AI Assurance and Discovery Lab is an exciting development in the most fertile frontier of technological progress—extracting maximum value from AI while mitigating some of its risks,” said Sen. Mark Warner.
“As we seek to embrace AI safely and with the proper guardrails in place, ventures like MITRE’s AI Assurance and Discovery Lab will be invaluable to our efforts across government.
“The grand opening of MITRE’s AI Assurance and Discovery Lab, which will support the secure implementation of advanced AI systems in federal agencies, is another step forward for our region’s leadership in research and applied sciences.”

Language Services Market Report 2024-2032, by Service (Translation Services, Interpretation Services, and Others), Component, Application and Region

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木曜日, 3月 21, 2024

DUBLIN, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Language Services Market Report by Service (Translation Services, Interpretation Services, and Others), Component, Application, and Region 2024-2032" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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DUBLIN, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Language Services Market Report by Service (Translation Services, Interpretation Services, and Others), Component, Application, and Region 2024-2032" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
As globalization continues to drive companies towards international expansion, the market is expanding, providing a significant impetus to the language services market.
Many leading language service providers in Europe leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to offer efficient and scalable language services.
Moreover, companies in the language services market are expanding their localization offerings to cater to the needs of global businesses.

Jorie Koster-Hale Named CEO at Falling Colors Corporation

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火曜日, 3月 12, 2024

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SANTA FE, N.M., March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Data and financial processing company Falling Colors Corporation (FCC) has named Jorie Koster-Hale as its new CEO.

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SANTA FE, N.M., March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Data and financial processing company Falling Colors Corporation (FCC) has named Jorie Koster-Hale as its new CEO.
Prior to joining Falling Colors, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship (Harvard) and was lead data scientist for an enterprise AI company in Paris.
Co-founder Pamela Koster, stepping down as CEO of FCC, will remain CEO of the Falling Colors Group, which includes the charitable Falling Colors Foundation and FC3 Ltd. Co., currently renovating the historic White Building in Santa Fe.
Koster-Hale's plans include expanding Falling Colors' capacity to support public and behavioral health across the US, continuing to build an ethical and employee-centered governance structure, and ensuring that Falling Colors continues to thrive in the face of an uncertain economic and political environment.

Reports of the death of psychoanalysis are exaggerated, as Adam Phillips’ elegant, elusive writing shows

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水曜日, 4月 3, 2024

Psychoanalytic ideas were dominant in several academic fields, held in esteem by intellectuals, and well known, if notorious, among the general public.

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Psychoanalytic ideas were dominant in several academic fields, held in esteem by intellectuals, and well known, if notorious, among the general public.
Boiled down to its essence, psychoanalysis is an approach to understanding the mind’s dynamics and treating its ailments.
Review: On Giving Up – Adam Phillips (Penguin) But although its influence has shrunk, reports of the death of psychoanalysis are exaggerated.
Almost all are in humanities fields: screen and cultural studies, gender studies, criminology, linguistics and history and philosophy of science.

A celebrated literary figure

The prolific writings of Adam Phillips epitomise this modern day humanistic expression of psychoanalytic thinking.
Phillips, who has worked for many years in England as a psychotherapist, is also a celebrated literary figure.
He has received high praise as “the best living essayist writing in English”, “one of the finest prose stylists in the language” and “our greatest writer in psychology”.
The hallmark of Phillips’s work is taking an idea or phenomenon, often ordinary or obscure, and patiently investigating its hidden complexities.

On Giving Up

On Giving Up is not, in fact, about giving up in any systematic way.
The lead essay inspects the many forms of giving up, from renouncing a vice to abandoning all hope.
Giving up can be a form of “enlightening disillusionment”; failure at one task but success at something else.
There are a few false notes: is suicide really the “only paradigm” for giving up and is it true “no one writes in praise of giving up”?

Hypnotic style

Phillips’s style throughout the book is almost effortlessly fluent and erudite.
The theoretical dimension of his work musters a variety of literary critics and French writers, but always circles back to Freud and his commentators.
For psychoanalytic aficionados, he is especially drawn to the British and French mystics: Wilfred Bion, Jacques Lacan and D.W. Winnicott.
After a while, despite the simple words and the smooth sentences, the experience becomes hypnotic.

Curiosity versus knowledge

Clues to why Phillips’s work is so clever and thoughtful in the reading but also so insubstantial in what it leaves behind can be found in two ideas he presents at each end of the book. In the prologue he cites with approval the psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s distinction between narrow and wide attention and near the conclusion he develops a distinction between curiosity and knowledge.

A related issue arises when Phillips draws a distinction between curiosity and knowledge.
A true psychoanalyst, after all, “is someone who is, above all, curious about curiosity.” It is hard to argue against the value of curiosity, but to place it in opposition to knowledge is odd.
Normally, we might think curiosity drives us towards knowledge and knowledge rewards and reinforces curiosity rather than dulling it.
It is not obvious why psychoanalysis or any other approach to studying the mind could not aspire to be both a form of (widening) curiosity and a form of (narrowing) knowledge.
But in Phillips’s work we see a highly developed psychoanalytic curiosity that abstains from making clear knowledge claims.

Psychology versus psychoanalysis

I’m sure he would agree what he is doing is not psychology in the usual senses.
Psychoanalysis of Phillips’s variety doesn’t aspire to be any kind of science and it sets itself up as a radically different approach to the study of mind and behaviour.
A psychology of giving up, for example, would be less astute in unravelling the inner complexities of self-sacrifice and renunciation than Phillips’s psychoanalytic account.
Such an approach is not inherently preferable to Phillips’s form of psychoanalysis, but it is decidedly different, and not because it is deficient in curiosity.

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council.