1 John 1:8-9 (NLT) - “If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.”

Matthew 6:14-15 (Message) - “In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God’s part.”

“Now God was opening my eyes to a new and better strategy - seeking reconciliation. I could not bring justice for other people. As a Christian, my responsibility was to seek to be reconciled. Then out of that reconciliation, justice would flow.

“Affirmative action, integration, and so might be useful, but they alone were not justice. Real justice would never be achieved by passing laws or going to court. ‘Many seek the ruler’s favor, but justice for man comes from the Lord’ (Prov. 29:26). True justice could come only as people’s hearts were made right with God and God’s love motivated them to be reconciled to each other.

“Now that God had enabled me to forgive the many whites who had wronged me, I found myself able to truly love them. I wanted to return good for evil. In my own life God had cleansed away bitterness and hatred and replaced it with love. If He could do that in my life, He could do it in other people too - whether black or white” (John M. Perkins, With Justice For All, p.111).

1 John 1:9 says that if we get real with our sin to God, God is faithful and just to forgive us and change us. We all need forgiveness, even the most broken among us. God in His mercy and tender love is so willing to welcome us back and walk with us through this. He always wants things to be right and vibrant with Him and with one another. “Come back to God” in the depths of His forgiveness.

These next 24 hours, let forgiveness be central to your heart and relationship with the Lord and His people. Ponder the depths of God’s forgiving love for you, search your heart for the unresolved anger and bitterness from past hurts or disappointments. Ask the Holy Spirit to search out the pride, prejudice, and preferences that have slipped under the radar or become so tightly weaved into our lives that we can’t recognize it. And ask the Lord for His mercy and forgiveness. Reconciling love is on the move; let us be touched by God’s forgiveness so we can move with this wonderful message of reconciling love.  Holy Spirit come and accomplish this deep and much needed work of forgiveness and new beginnings in us!

-TR

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Dissertation Proposal

Dealing with Dubious Facts
in Knowledge Graphs

Ankur Padia

1:00-3:00pm Wednesday, 30 November 2016, ITE 325b, UMBC

Knowledge graphs are structured representations of facts where nodes are real-world entities or events and edges are the associations among the pair of entities. Knowledge graphs can be constructed using automatic or manual techniques. Manual techniques construct high quality knowledge graphs but are expensive, time consuming and not scalable. Hence, automatic information extraction techniques are used to create scalable knowledge graphs but the extracted information can be of poor quality due to the presence of dubious facts.

An extracted fact is dubious if it is incorrect, inexact or correct but lacks evidence. A fact might be dubious because of the errors made by NLP extraction techniques, improper design consideration of the internal components of the system, choice of learning techniques (semi-supervised or unsupervised), relatively poor quality of heuristics or the syntactic complexity of underlying text. A preliminary analysis of several knowledge extraction systems (CMU’s NELL and JHU’s KELVIN) and observations from the literature suggest that dubious facts can be identified, diagnosed and managed. In this dissertation, I will explore approaches to identify and repair such dubious facts from a knowledge graph using several complementary approaches, including linguistic analysis, common sense reasoning, and entity linking.

Committee: Drs. Tim Finin (Chair), Anupam Joshi, Tim Oates, Paul McNamee (JHU), Partha Talukdar (IISc, India)

Sierra- Cedar, Inc. -Case Study: NAU Transforms Student Services with CRM and Sierra-Cedar

December 8^th, 2016, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

To join, please register by December 7^th, 2016

Description:

Institutions recognize the importance of providing quality student services, an effort that is becoming front and center in an increasingly competitive environment. In an effort to improve student services, Northern Arizona University (NAU) worked with Sierra-Cedar to create its Student Service Center, a physical one-stop shop with staff representation from a variety of service areas on NAU’s campus. Learn how NAU leveraged its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to capture student interactions and key data to help meet its current business goals. This session will highlight the University’s planning and decisions that led to transformative initiatives that will ultimately fulfill its vision for the future. A live demonstration and Q&A session will also be included.

**Targeted Audience…Admissions Officers, Enrollment Officials, Athletics Officials, IT Management, Student Affairs Officers, Registrars                                                                         

Presenters:

Vince Salvato, Vice President, Salesforce Practice, Sierra-Cedar

Kara McIntyre, Salesforce Consultant, Sierra-Cedar

April Tuomi, ITS Team Lead, Northern Arizona University

ATTAIN-Moving to the Cloud to Breakdown Silos: Cut Cost, Increase ROI and Improve Effectiveness

December  7^th, 2016, 10:00 am to 11:00 am

Please  register  by December 6^th, 2016

Description:

During this session, we will explore how Maryland higher education institutions are using Workday to break down silos, engage with constituents, increase revenue and reduce costs across the organization.

**Targeted Audience… MEEC Members

Presenters:

Steve Elder, Workday Program Manager, Attain