Drumroll, please..... We're excited to announce that over 500 of you voted in our #ARTicipate mural contest, and the winners are: "Electric West" by Lindsay Huss, "Bees" by Jessica Ritter, and "Grow Where You Are" by Emily Munk!
Join us in Congratulating our local talent!!
Our thanks to Home Depot for donating supplies, and to the volunteers who helped prime the wall, so the artists can get started as soon as all this rain lets up.
Voting was SUPER tight, and we have what might be called a runner-up that we'd like to see go up on a different stretch of wall....
This piece by Jaxsen Layton, is entitled "Synchronicity", and *just* missed third place - by 2 votes! We'd like to see it happen, so we're hosting another GoFundMe to help get it done. Can YOU help?
Coming to O1PLATFORMS... Mark your calendars for May 3 First Friday Art Stroll !
Continuing with our 2019 theme of #ArtWithPurpose, O1ARTS has offered the Ogden-Weber Community Action Partnership the opportunity to mount a show at PLATFORMS, themed and timed to coincide wiht the big Spike 150 celebration.
OWCAP is utilizing the ingenuity and creativity of educators to inspire help from the community to put together panels that showcase how its mission is similar to Ogden’s railroad history in its inspiration for development and growth. This multimedia project will be full of color and multiculturalism with an air of whimsy to represent the young children of Weber County.
We gratefully acknowledge support for this project from Hostler's Model Railroad Club, Weber County RAMP, and Utah Division of Arts & Museums.
O1ARTS and Ziegfeld are partnering up for a fabulous contest!
Follow O1, Ziegfeld, subscribe to O1 Newsletter and tag a friend in the comments. 1 point for each item. You can tag as many friends as you would like, just one per comment.
Contest runs April 3rd - 17th. Ziegfeld will give away 4 sets of 2 tickets for Singin' in the Rain to the winners.
Show runs from April 26th - May 18th.
Good Luck!
ART / CREATIVE CALENDAR
TONIGHT
April 16: PoetFlow at the Lighthouse
LATER
April 19: WSU: BFA Thesis Exhibit opens
April 25 Ogden City Arts: Arts on the Town
April 26: Susan Snyder Watercolor Workshop
April 26: Chamber Orchestra & Imagine Ballet present Secret Garden
May 5: OWCAP @ PLATFORMS
O1ARTS INITIATIVES
A One Hour Translation (OHT) survey finds out how good Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri are in translating some of the most popular phrases of all times
60 well known phrases in English were translated by the three leading assistants into French, Spanish, Chinese and German
Google Assistant scored the best in three out of four language pairs and Amazon Alexa in Chinese
Take the most famous phrase from the Godfather - “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” - or “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” from the inaugural address of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see just how the virtual assistants do in translating them using their newly introduced Neural Machine Translation (NMT) capabilities. One Hour Translation (OHT), the world’s largest online translation service, conducted a study to find out just how accurate these new services are.
OHT used 60 sentences from movies and famous people ranging from the Godfather and Wizard of Oz to Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, US presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy and historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Aesop. The sentences were translated by Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri from English to French, Spanish, Chinese and German and then given to five professional translators for their assessment on a scale of 1-6.
Google Assistant scored highest in three of the four languages surveyed - English to French, English to German and English to Spanish and second in English to Chinese. Amazon’s Alexa, whose translation engine is powered by Microsoft Translator, was tops in the English to Chinese category. Apple’s Siri was second place in English to French and English to Spanish and third place in English to German and English to Chinese. (See chart). All three virtual assistants are compatible with mobile phones.
“The automated assistants’ translation quality was relatively high, which means that assistants are useful for handling simple translations automatically,” says Yaron Kaufman, chief marketing officer and co-founder of OHT. He predicts that “there is no doubt that the use of assistants is growing rapidly, is becoming a part of our lives and will make a huge contribution to the business world.”
A lot will depend on further improvements in NMT technology, which has revolutionized the field of translation over the past two years. All the companies active in the field are investing large sums as part of this effort. “OHT is working with several of the leading NMT providers to improve their engines through the use of its hybrid online translation service that combines NMT and human post-editing,” notes Kaufman. He adds that this will no doubt have a huge impact on the use of assistants for translation purposes.
OHT has made a name for itself in assessing the level of translations by NMT engines. Its ONEs Evaluation Score is a unique human-based assessment of the leading NMT engines conducted on a quarterly basis and used as an industry standard.
About One Hour Translation
One Hour Translation (http://www.onehourtranslation.com/) is the world's largest online translation agency, offering professional translation services to thousands of business customers around the world, at all hours of the day, all year round (24/7/365). One Hour Translation offers professional translations performed by more than 25,000 human translators spread across more than 100 countries, providing services in 98 languages and 3,000 language pairs.
One Hour Translation serves more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, HP, Xerox, Shell, Deloitte, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, IKEA, 3M, McCann, Allianz and many other organizations.
One Hour Translation specializes in translation for various fields of business, including law, technology, marketing, website translation, applications, software and more. The company is the leader in translations for enterprise customers, using hybrid translation based on the leverage of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) technology and human workers performing quality editing and control. One Hour Translation also provides services tailored to the needs of large enterprises through OHT Enterprise.
For further information:
Company Website: http://www.onehourtranslation.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OHT
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OneHourTranslation
ONEs- OHT NMT Evaluation Score - https://www.onehourtranslation.co.il/translation/enterprise/nmt-score
For more information:
Amir Ben Artzi, Meirovitch Public Relations, One Hour Translation PR
Tel. +972-77-212-9988
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A weekly report on education news and commentary you won’t find anywhere else — from the nation’s leading voice on education innovation and opportunity.
ADVANCING OPPORTUNITY. The annual CAO Summit is wrapping up today in Washington, DC. A program of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund whose membership includes public HBCUs, the Center for Advancing Opportunity is focused on solving the problems that prevent opportunity from reaching people in what they call fragile communities. Reforming the prison system, education, AND economic opportunity fueled the discussion among the diverse array of HBCU scholars, college presidents, foundation execs and leaders of color. And not only do those assembled agree that education opportunity is crucial to helping low-income students rise above where they are, but CAO surveys confirm that their families understand its value.
As NC State College of Education Professor Anna Egalite pointed out,
“Families in fragile communities have awareness of their talents and strengths and for those making choices they can make those choices using that data in mind.”
Her research also shows that the attainment effects for students in school choice programs are huge.
CHECK OUT CAO’s just-released exhaustive study on “the state of opportunity in America,” surveying more than 5,700 residents in areas with high proportions of poverty in 47 states.
FACTS MATTER. Another reputable academic institution has proven that education opportunity yields advantages by leaps and bounds for students who have access. A study by the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas looked at differences in cost-effectiveness and ROI between traditional public schools and charters in 8 major cities. Among the findings: charters yield more learning per education dollar — on average 53 percent greater than for their traditional counterparts. Also, each dollar invested in a charter school student student yields 45 percent more in lifetime earnings than traditional students. Take those facts to your next school board meeting — or teacher walkout.
CITY OF ANGELS NEEDS A FEW. An astonishing report shows that less than half of Los Angeles Unified School District seniors have grades that make them eligible for California’s public universities. Since eligibility is not exactly a high bar, requiring completion of college prep courses with Cs or better, this is particularly damning. Cs. In other words, they demonstrate mediocre education, at best. Earth to Governor Newsom — do you really want to stop those charters which retain and graduate more successfully? When will reason prevail?
BI-PARTISAN INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY. We have previously reported and recognized the stand-out support for opportunity demonstrated in the past by Senator Cory Booker. Now it turns out, Texas Congressman and the new, famous Presidential candidate “Beto” O’Rourke also has been supportive. And once again, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is voicing his support for more charter schools in the Empire State. This is a tough trifecta for the “charters are a Republican plot” crowd to get around. But then, as the nation’s oldest and leading authority on education opportunity and innovation whose leadership represents all sides, we knew that.
ONE STOP FOR EDTECH AND EDUCATION INNOVATORS. Did you get a chance to listen to Jeanne Allen’s Reality Check podcasts from the ASU+GSV Summit last week? The summit itself was an amazing three days where over 4,000 attendees - innovators, edtech leaders, educators, investors, and philanthropists explored innovations in education both here and around the world. Jeanne sat down with a dozen of the crème de la crème at the summit to pick their brains. They are power-packed interviews – give a listen.
JANUS? WHO’S JANUS? The language and logic of the “Janus” decision couldn’t have been clearer – public employees can’t be forced to join a union or pay “fair share” dues. But the unions are apparently slow learners. Teachers in California are suing to force teachers unions to stop deducting dues, and unions in New York are erecting a Kafka-esque maze that has to be navigated in order for workers to escape the unions’ tentacles. We wonder what lessons these slow learners – heck, scofflaws – think they are teaching our kids, especially when this newswire makes clear that the status quo isn’t exactly killing it.
That’s it for this week. We hope you enjoy these weekly tidbits, and always welcome suggestions, critiques, ideas ( no matter how wild or off the wall ) to make these better. Drop us a line.
FROM ALL OF US AT CER, BLESSINGS FOR PEACEFUL AND FAITH FILLED HOLY DAYS.
Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform aims to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all Americans — particularly our youth — ensuring that conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom and flexibility throughout U.S. education.
