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Besides non-credit courses in Russian, Japanese and Chinese that were previously offered, German, French and Spanish have been added.
Although the classes will emphasize business customs and practices in the curriculum, they will also be useful for other travellers, said Maureen Jones, continuing education manager. Most are aimed at beginners and require little or no knowledge of the language.
In addition, the department of continuing education will offer in-house language training as a special service for businesses with specific training needs.
Also new this fall are courses in the following sections:
According to assistant coach Chris Triantafilou, only some "fine tuning" is needed for the team to outdo its first-place finish last year in the Ontario University Athletics conference and its fifth-place rank nationally at the end of the season.
"It was the highest placing ever at UW. It's a pretty darned good team," he added.
The Warriors face their cross-town rivals at the season opener on September 6 at 2 p.m. at University Stadium, and the Hawks are reportedly out to avenge their loss to the Warriors last year.
"WLU is always tough," said Triantafilou, predicting a fierce fray.
Computer support people must not only be knowledgeable about existing systems, but au courant with new computer developments, as well. To that end, FACCUS will offer monthly professional development seminars demonstrating cutting-edge computing technology from a computer support perspective. The group will also provide opportunities for information exchange and problem support.
An inaugural meeting on Thursday, September 11, from 1:30 to 3:00 in DC 1302 will chart the direction for the coming term and present an update on Polaris and UW site-licensed software. To register, email mlmartin@ist; for more information, contact co-chairs Paul Snyder, ext. 3020 or Bob Hicks, ext. 2194.
What could be more fun than a game where the rules keep changing? Actually it is fun, insist players like Jeffrey Morton, a math student who maintains this page and plays the game. "Nomic", as it seems to have been spelt originally, is both a game and a logical exercise to demonstrate "the paradox of self-amendment": it's a game in which changing the rules (in accordance with the rules, of course) is itself a move.
A typical result: at last report, rule 372 said that "If the player whose turn it is is dubbed nothing in particular, that player shall be designated as Gandalf, until the end of that player's turn, whereupon that player will no longer be designated Gandalf. Anyone designated Gandalf is Good for the duration of being designated Gandalf, after which that player is Good if and only if that player was Good immediately before the most recent occurrence of that player's being designated Gandalf."
Huh?
Morton explains:
This page is intended to be an up-to-date summary of the current state of a game of gnomic, which is a self-modifying game. Currently about 15 people are involved in playing the game, although more join all the time, and many people seem to be following the progress of the game even if they don't have time to join in. The page also has links to several other sites related in some way to self-modifying games, which seem to be interesting to a great many people, for some reason.Among the external links on the page is one to a Nomic site maintained by Peter Suber, who invented the game (and wrote The Paradox of Self-Amendment) fifteen years ago.
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