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Editor's note: This article has been condensed from the paper that was awarded third place in the ASIST SIG/III 2002 International Paper Competition. Other papers from this year's contest, including the first and second prize winners, will appear in later issues of the Bulletin.
A Knowledge Network Constructed by Integrating Classification, Thesaurus and Metadata in a Digital Library
Wang Jun is associated with the Information Management Department of Peking University, Beijing, China, and can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
Knowledge management in digital libraries is a universal problem. Keyword-based searching is applied everywhere no matter whether the resources are indexed databases or full-text Web pages. In keyword matching, the valuable content description and indexing of the metadata, such as the subject descriptors and the classification notations, are merely treated as common keywords to be matched with the user query. Without the support of vocabulary control tools, such as classification systems and thesauri, the intelligent labor of content analysis, description and indexing in metadata production are seriously wasted. New retrieval paradigms are needed to exploit the potential of the metadata resources. Could classification and thesauri, which contain the condensed intelligence of generations of librarians, be used in a digital library to organize the networked information, especially metadata, to facilitate their usability and change the digital library into a knowledge management environment?
To examine that question, we designed and implemented a new paradigm that incorporates a classification system, a thesaurus and metadata. The classification and the thesaurus are merged into a concept network, and the metadata are distributed into the nodes of the concept network according to their subjects. The abstract concept node instantiated with the related metadata records becomes a knowledge node. A coherent and consistent knowledge network is thus formed. It is not only a framework for resource organization but also a structure for knowledge navigation, retrieval and learning.
We have built an experimental system based on the Chinese Classification and Thesaurus, which is the most comprehensive and authoritative in China, and we have incorporated more than 5000 bibliographic records in the computing domain from the Peking University Library. The result is encouraging. In this article, we review the tools, the architecture and the implementation of our experimental system, which is called Vision.
The Development of the Chinese Classification and Thesaurus
China has a long tradition of using classification due to her abundant ancient books. Modern Chinese classification was greatly influenced by Dewey although the Dewey Decimal Classification wasn't popular in China. All the classifications now in use were created after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. The Book Classification of Chinese Libraries (BCCL), which was published first in 1975 and has undergone four revisions, is the most developed.
The most famous comprehensive thesaurus in China is the Chinese Thesaurus (CT), compiled between 1974 and 1980 in an effort involving more than 1000 people. It was the biggest thesaurus at that time, containing 91,158 preferred terms and 17,410 non-preferred terms. Influenced by faceted thesauri, a huge project was started in 1986 to combine the BCCL and the CT into the Chinese Classification and Thesaurus (CCT). More than 40 institutions were involved, and it was finished in 1994 and contains 14 million words in six volumes. Currently, it is used in all public libraries and more than 90 percent of non-public libraries and information institutions of China.
The CCT is not designed for the network environment and has seldom been applied there. Its application has several inherent obstacles, most of which, as Zhang Qiyu recently explained ["Discussions of the information retrieval language of 21 Century," Forum of Libraries, 21 (5)], are common to other classifications and thesauri of broad scope. These problems include currency and difficulty in tailoring coverage to specific domains. Moreover, the tools were designed for the organization of information resources and for the management of hard copy documents, not for information retrieval. They are very complex and require that indexers and classifiers have extensive training. Finally, in the case of the CCT the classification and thesaurus are relatively independent of each other and cannot be updated synchronously.
The Knowledge Network
The exceptions, of course, are the online public access systems (OPACs) in Chinese libraries. Their bibliographic data are indexed strictly according to the CCT, and as collections of living materials they contain plenty of new professional terms in their title fields. To overcome the obstacles mentioned above, the classification, the thesaurus and the bibliographic data can be combined to complement each other. The knowledge structure of the classification and thesaurus provides a skeleton for the organization of the bibliographic data; the concrete bibliographic data restore blood and flesh to the skeleton. New terms can be extracted automatically from the bibliographic data to update the classification and thesaurus, which is based on the mapping between the subject descriptions and the titles that they index; while the classification and thesaurus are customized to the specific domains of the OPAC resources. A knowledge network thus formed provides the user with a natural structure for navigation, searching and learning. We will call it a KNICTM (Knowledge Network Integrated of Classification, Thesaurus and Metadata).
In Vision we combined the classification and indexing terms from the computing domain in the CCT with all the bibliographic records for Chinese materials in computer science held by the Peking University Library published between 1990 and 1999, which provided a database of more than 5000 bibliographic records for our Vision system.
A KNICTM is built in three steps:
The Benefits of the KNICTM
The KNICTM provides a number of benefits:
· A framework for the organization of network resources. It is a network of knowledge with substantial data appended rather than a mere abstract concept network. As the instances of the concept, the metadata records inherit all the relationships among the concepts. The metadata records which were isolated from each other become semantically connected now and are woven into an interconnected knowledge network.
· An adaptive concept network based on the applied resources. The classification and thesaurus are the representation of general knowledge and cannot fit a specific information collection perfectly. The KNICTM is an adaptive concept network capable of self-customizing based on the scale and domain of the given collection. The nodes and edges, supported by the metadata instances, prove the usability of the corresponding concepts. If nodes and edges have no metadata instances the corresponding concepts and relationships are unusable and may need updating. Furthermore, statistic and semantic techniques can be applied in mining new terms, concepts and relationships in the metadata collection to enrich the concept network automatically.
· A structure for knowledge navigation and retrieval. Keyword-based search seriously under-exploits the value of the metadata. The KNICTM provides a conceptual retrieval network and visual navigational ontology. First, the KNICTM can guide a user to clarify the information demand and express a query clearly. Second, because all the metadata have been arranged into the KNICTM, there is no need for the user to dig into the metadata collection by keyword matching. It is only necessary to locate the knowledge node that best matches the query and follow the surrounding edges to reach other nodes to complete the process. Third, now that all the metadata have been arranged into the structure of the KNICTM according to their subjects, the retrieval result is displayed in that structure, already ranked and classified.
· A well-organized knowledge network to support knowledge learning. The knowledge nodes are organized into a discipline-based hierarchy and clustered into topic areas through the links among them. A friendly interface like the Cat-a-Cone developed by Marti Hearst and Chandu Karadi can display the organization of the knowledge nodes. A user facilitated by such an interface can learn the discipline structure of a domain, master the professional terms, understand the relationships among the subjects and pick up the documents to study.
· A digital library of knowledge management. The most essential elements of a library are its information resources and the classification and thesauri, which are its information organization and retrieval tools. In KNICTM, these elements have been integrated into a coherent and consistent knowledge network. And the KNICTM could be easily extended to support other activities of digital libraries, such as collecting and indexing. Thus all the activities of the digital library, including indexing, organization, navigation, retrieval and learning, could center this knowledge network. If it can develop continuously, the KNICTM will bring the digital library from information management to knowledge management.
The Construction of the Knowledge Network
We have completed the first phase of the Vision system. It has a client/server architecture. On the server side the knowledge network is supported by Oracle9i. On the client side is a user interface implemented in Java. We chose Oracle9i for its powerful object-oriented features, such as nested tables and variable arrays, which support our complex objects. Java makes it easy to transfer the system to the Web.
The Ontology Design. There are many objects in our system and their relationships are complex. We therefore used ontology tools such as Ontolingua and Protégé to design it. We then converted this ontology into the database schema. Our ontology consists of seven classes: term, concept, co-concept, category, document, author and publisher. Their names reflect their meanings, but the relationships among them are entangled. Figure 2 depicts these relationships. The numbers indicate the cardinality of the links. We converted the completed ontology into the relational schema of the database system and created the corresponding tables in Oracle.
The Server Side: The Knowledge Network. The original dataset used to build the Vision system included the e-text of the CCT and the bibliographic data of the computing domain. Both of them were provided by the Peking University Library. The characteristics of the original data had considerable influence on the system design and implementation.
There are three steps in building the Vision server:
· The e-text file of the CCT is processed to set up the fundamental structure of the Vision system. A particular tool was developed to serve this purpose. The e-text of the CCT is read in and all the entries (categories and terms) on computer science are processed. According to the structure, layout and notation rules of these entries, the related records are created and appended into four tables respectively: TERM, CONCEPT, CoCONCEPT and CATEGORY. Through this process, we collected 2194 terms, including 1684 preferred terms which became concepts, and 278 non-preferred terms. Some non-computing-domain terms were also captured since they are the related terms.
· The bibliographic data are loaded in the database and organized into the original concept network constructed in the preceding process. The bibliographic data are in CNMARC format. We developed a tool to decode the CNMARC format and extract the required fields (title, subject, author, etc.) to form a new record, which is appended to the table DOCUMENT. In total 5053 document records were created. Others were discarded for various reasons, for example, unrecognized title or two ISBN numbers. Such data processing required a lot of time and energy. After the data was loaded, the records of the DOCUMENT table were connected with the records of the CONCEPT table based on the correspondence. When necessary, a new record was created in CoCONCEPT table. These processes accomplish the task of organizing the metadata into the knowledge network described above.
· New terms are extracted from the DOCUMENT table and added to enhance the knowledge network of the Vision system. Some of the problems have already been mentioned. This process is the focus of the ongoing second phase of the Vision project, so here we just outline roughly what we have done to date.
· Extraction: At present a statistical algorithm is applied to extract terms in titles. First, the title is segmented into basic words and phrases using a general segmentation tool, and then the co-occurrence frequencies of neighboring terms are counted. If the frequency is higher than a given threshold, the combination is selected as a candidate term. Then we look at the distribution of subject categories in the set of documents in which the candidate term occurs. If the distribution of the subject categories is convergent, the new term is accepted.
· Insertion: The convergent point found above helps to determine the position where the new term should be inserted. We are considering applying Lattice Theory or Formal Concept Analysis to this problem.
The Client Side: Knowledge Navigation and Retrieval. We implemented a system in Java to navigate and retrieve the Vision knowledge network. Figure 3 is a snapshot of the user interface. There are four physical areas in the interface: the query dialog, the concept network window, the information window and the document window.
Within the concept window, there are three basic ways to view the concept network: hierarchical tree, alphabetical list and concept family. The hierarchical tree is similar to a faceted thesaurus. All the categories and concepts (identified by the preferred terms) are organized into an expandable conceptual tree. The alphabetic list is an index of all the terms in alphabetical (Chinese Pin Yin) order. The concepts can also be organized into concept families, that is, the term families of the thesaurus, and listed in alphabetical order by the top concepts. There is a fourth option, which is a hybrid of the hierarchical tree and the alphabetic list.
When the user clicks on a concept, its detailed information is displayed in the information window, including its term set, super-concept, sub-concepts, corresponding category and the co-concepts around it. The documents connected with it are displayed in the document window. All the windows trigger each other and act in a chain, and all the objects in the windows are clickable.
Conclusion and Future Work
Centuries of library work have proved that the organization of information is the basis for the sufficient utilization of information resources. It's the fundamental value of library. The same is true for digital libraries. For lack of organization the potential of metadata as one of the most important networked resources is not exploited sufficiently. This article has presented an approach to organizing metadata into an integrated knowledge network and setting up a new paradigm for knowledge management in digital libraries. Our approach is differentiated from other ontology-driven and concept-based systems by its incorporation of concepts and the relevant metadata records into integrated knowledge nodes that form a knowledge network. Our experiment also demonstrates that the traditional resources such as bibliographic data still have indispensable values worth further exploration in spite of the continuous increase in various digital resources.
The Vision system is entering its second phase. We are endeavoring to achieve the following goals:
· A better method to compute the extension and intension of a term and determine its position in the concept network. This is critical if the concept network is to be a self-sufficient system. We are now considering applying a modified version of Formal Concept Analysis to this problem.
· A language for concept query and manipulation that will simplify operations on the concept network and add an automatic query expansion and contraction mechanism.
· A visualization interface such as Cat-a-Cone or Inxight-Star-Tree, which can provide more friendly interaction with the user. A visualization interface that is structurally isomorphic to the concept network will support knowledge learning more powerfully.
When all the aspects of the system have been tested, the system will be translated to the Web and incorporated into the current OPAC system.
To integrate classification, a thesaurus and metadata into a coherent knowledge network has promising applications in digital libraries. It could easily be expanded to support automatic classification and indexing in scientific domains. Enhanced by the bibliographic data, the knowledge network could absorb other metadata, such as the index databases of journals, magazines or newspapers.
The Web community also recognizes the importance of the standardization and organization of the Web information. XML, RDF, Dublin Core and other specifications are preparing the Web for the manageable Web the Semantic Web as envisioned by Berners-Lee (www.w3.org/2000/Talks/1206-xml2k-tbl). But how to construct it? Our paradigm provides one approach.
This research is a portion of my doctoral dissertation at Peking University. I wish particularly to thank Deng Peng, Zhu Xingguo and Zu Yong who assisted me in developing the Vision system, and I'd like to thank Professors Yang Dongqin and Tang Shiwei as well as Dai Longji, president of the Peking University Library, and his staff.
Figure 1. The knowledge network with a knowledge node zoomed in.
Figure 2. The objects and relationships in the Vision system.
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Good Earth Transit's weekday, fixed-route bus schedule from Houma to Thibodaux will be cut back Jan. 1.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Nov 2009 23:45 UTC
Yesterday (today if you're in the US), Sun released the latest version of its virtualisation solution, VirtualBox 3.1. Among speed improvements and other smaller features, the biggest news is that Virtualox 3.1 introduces something called teleportation: you can move running VMs between machines - servers or clients, different architectures, different host operating systems, it doesn't matter to VirtualBox. Coincidentally, this reminded me of an idea I once had about moving running applications between machines.
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This doesn't work. Teleportation requires the VM to be stored in shared storage. Hence, if you teleport your VM to your laptop, you won't be able to use it while on the train since the VM will not be stored on your local disk but on the network (and I doubt you can access your network from the train).


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alicia-m wrote:
I don't think it's moral nor is it ethical to be performing this type of practice. I'd rather not think about Drone Warfare. I am fine with my body.
-Vega- wrote:
I don't need any technology to improve my body. My genetic programming is already turning me into a being that is higher than most of you.
Made my day. ^.^ You haz good humorz.
Stalking you.
Power suites sounds better than Cyborgs
Searching for answers.
Ohh,you mean improvements like super speed, and such?....
Well, those would come in handy....for me at least.
The past is the past, don't let it cloud who you are now.
Our brain is the most advanced technology.
No longer a kid
The world would be crowded if we recieved immortality. It would have many benefits but living forever doesnt really interest me.
If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick.
I think technology is slowly leading up to the idea of cybernetics and the like. Though personally, I think things like pace makers are already an example of technology and the body fusing. Technology recently has begun to skyrocket in its advances, so the idea of that which has been noted isn't that impossible in theory...But it may take time. As for morals and the like? There will always be at least one person or group of people who feel a given subject is morally incorrect and a problem. There may be many, even...But there will also always be many who want to go that extra mile in advancement.
In my personal opinion, I think everything in moderation. It could be an issue if the cybernetics and such were to backfire and cause a catastrophe, but...On the other hand, it would do a lot of good possibly as well, depending on the usage.
Be wary, may strike suddenly.
The human body is more advanced than all of our technology. Our brains are actually quantum computers. If we activate all of our dormant DNA we will become more powerful than any man made technology. We will become like Dr. Manhattan.
I'm all for organ and limb replacement, however I feel that we will never have any type of technology that could interface directly with the brain, which would be useful for so many reasons.
Mainly this is an ethics issue, noone will ever want to have their brain experimented on to develop this technology, hence I would guess that it will be a long time, if ever, that this technology is perfected (for humans anyway, I believe they did do this with a monkey once).
This is something that I have considered, I am ready for the neural chips; the idea of becoming a cyborg may mean that we will need to discard what it is for us to be human (I'm working on what it is that makes humans unique...). When we talk about modification I look forward to turning genes on and off, but again still need to find out what it is that makes us human. I don't know if I would be willing to give that up just yet, there are two things that are preventing me from a full on conversion:
Don't want to turn into this...
and of course the one that will stop the conversion
The continuous work of our life is to build death-Beauvoir
Honestly, I think it's going to happen. There will be people opposing it and it may even be frowned upon when it actually happens, but people will learn to accept the technology eventually. Issues like these are just a part of life and humanity has thrived because of our desire to overcome weakness and survive.
When I trained in China we went to visit some Shaolin monks and this one was RIPPED! He never benched or used a gym in his life and yet his muscles were insane. Technology doesn't get you results because the body is a natural thing.
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I wouldn't mind a liver replacement.
We've been using tech to prolong and improve life for several decades, in small ways, things like pacemakers. Now we have toys than react to the human brain. I think we should embrace technology.
Living life in the Far Far West
Augmentations like in Deus Ex would be pretty cool, allowing you to bring a nearly dead person back to life.
The number of centenarians will be increasing dramatically in the coming decades, so maintenance of the human body will take precedence over improving. Unless we're using those terms synonymously here. Transhumanism might move forward if we can get past the initial uproar of ethics, but if we're talking about cybernetic implants then I don't think we should succumb to that just yet, especially when considering recent feats in biology like stem cell research and genetics. Personally I don't mind mortality.


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George Edward Mackenzie Skues
2 of 2 portraits of George Edward Mackenzie Skues
© National Portrait Gallery, London
George Edward Mackenzie Skues
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1927
Transferred from Central Office of Information, 1974
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- George Edward Mackenzie Skues (1858-1949), Solicitor and writer on angling. Sitter in 2 portraits.
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- Howard Coster (1885-1959), Photographer. Artist associated with 9348 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
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Current affairsThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, acknowledging the full independence of the Irish Free State, led at the time by W.T. Cosgrave, the the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
Art and scienceThe BBC gains its Royal Charter making it a public corporation and a public service broadcaster accountable to its audience. John Reith became the first Director General with the directive to 'inform, educate and entertain.'
InternationalStalin expels Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Communist Party, giving himself greater control of the party and country by ousting opposition elements.
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By being designated as a "Military Friendly School" for 2014 by Victory Media, the "premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life," Niagara's continuing efforts to provide high-quality educational opportunities to veterans will be nationally recognized.
A full story and detailed list of 2014 Military Friendly Schools will be highlighted in the annual Guide to Military Friendly Schools, distributed in print and digital format to hundreds of thousands of active and former military personnel in early October.
"Inclusion on the 2014 list of Military Friendly Schools shows Niagara University's commitment to providing a supportive environment for military students," said Sean Collins, vice president at Victory Media and a nine-year Navy veteran. "The need for education is growing, and our mission is to provide the military community with transparent, world-class resources to assist in their search for schools."
Now in its fifth year, the list of Military Friendly Schools was compiled through extensive research and a data-driven survey of more than 10,000 schools nationwide approved for VA tuition funding. The survey results that comprise the 2014 list were independently tested by Ernst & Young LLP based upon the weightings and methodology established by Victory Media.
"As a retired Air Force veteran, I can say that I'm very proud to be part of an institution that does so much for those who have served in the military," said Robert Healy, Niagara University's veterans services coordinator. "Education is a key component of the transition from military to civilian life, and Niagara University is extremely supportive of these service men and women."
Niagara University has a long history of honoring and supporting military students, veterans and their families. The Catholic and Vincentian university supports a U.S. Army ROTC program, and participates in the Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Program, a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008.
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Stampede Face Lincoln In First Round Of USHL Playoffs
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- The Sioux Falls Stampede will face the Lincoln Stars in the USHL Western Conference Semifinals starting Tuesday in Sioux Falls at 7:05 PM.
Game 2 will be Wednesday in Sioux Falls with Game 3 taking place this Friday, April 19th in Lincoln. If necessary, Game 4 would be played Saturday in Lincoln and Game 5 would be played on Tuesday, April 23rd in Sioux Falls. All three rounds of the Clark Cup Playoffs are best-of-five series.
Tickets for Games 1 and 2 are available now through the Sioux Falls Arena Box Office or any Tickemaster location.
The Stampede finished the regular season with a franchise best record of 45-17-2 while the Stars were 39-22-3.
Sioux Falls is the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference while Lincoln is the fourth seed. The Herd finished the season with a 5-3-0 mark against the Stars. The Stampede and Stars last met in the playoffs in 2009 with Lincoln winning in the first round, three games to one. The two teams also met in 2008 with Lincoln winning a first round series in three games. In 2007, the Stampede swept the Stars in a best-of-seven first round series and the two teams also met in 2006 when the Stampede topped the Stars in four games during the Western Conference Finals.
The other Western Conference Semi-Final series features second seed Fargo against No. 3 Waterloo. Over in the East, the top seeded Dubuque Fighting Saints will face Muskegon while No.2 Green Bay has home-ice advantage over third seed Youngstown.
SIOUX FALLS vs LINCOLN
GAME 1: Tuesday @ Sioux Falls Arena: 7:05 PM
GAME 2: Wednesday @ Sioux Falls Arena: 7:05 PM
GAME 3: Friday @ Lincoln Ice Box: 7:05 PM
* GAME 4: Saturday @ Lincoln Ice Box: 7:05 PM
* GAME 5: Tuesday, April 23 @ Sioux Falls Arena: 7:05 PM
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When Mackenzie Cooler and Abby Roulston traveled to Atlanta for a USA Volleyball tryout in March, neither of them expected much to come of it.
But about two months later, the Bluffton High teammates are preparing for a couple of major opportunities this summer. Cooler, a sophomore setter, was selected to the USA Women's Junior National A2 team. Roulston, a junior middle blocker, earned a spot in the Indoor National Women's Junior A3 program.
"There was a lot of good people there (in Atlanta) and a lot of good competition," Roulston said. "It's the top people in the country, so I was definitely surprised and excited."
Cooler was one of 22 players named to the A2 team, which will train July 19-29 in Des Moines, Iowa. She said the players will be scouted and considered for spots in next year's junior world championships.
In talking with Bluffton coach Al Stern, Cooler said, she went to Atlanta thinking she had a chance to gain entry into one of USA Volleyball's summer camps. But she didn't expect to be selected to the elite national team, especially as a sophomore.
"We were really shocked," she said. "I always wished that it would happen, but never thought that it would."
Roulston will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., for the A3 program July 14-18. She will train with 63 other players at the five-day camp.
Cooler and Roulston are the first Bluffton High players to gain entry into either program. Stern said just two other players in the 16-year history of the Low Country Volleyball Club, on which they both compete, have done so.
"This is big. This was trying out against hundreds of their contemporaries, so it's a very big deal," Stern said. "It should really raise their game up. They're going to see a level of volleyball that they haven't seen before."
The pair helped Bluffton reach the Lower State semifinals last fall, where it lost to state runner-up Myrtle Beach. The Bobcats also won the sixth region title in the program's eight-year history.
Bluffton already owns a pair of Lower State championships and one state championship. Cooler and Roulston said they expect to compete for another title in SCHSL Class AAAA next season.
"Since I've been here, we've gotten pretty far in the state playoffs. We've won our region," Roulston said. "I think this year we have a really good shot, even though we're moving to AAAA."


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Arencibia powers Jays past Tigers
Detroit, MI – J.P. Arencibia's go-ahead, bases-clearing double highlighted a four-run seventh inning in the Toronto Blue Jays' 8-6 win over the Detroit Tigers in the middle test of a three-game set.
Edwin Encarnacion had a pair of doubles and runs scored with an RBI for Toronto, which had dropped three of its last four contests coming in.
Aaron Loup (1-0) spun a scoreless sixth to notch the win.
Miguel Cabrera racked up two hits and a run scored for the Tigers, who had won three of their previous four tilts entering play Wednesday.
The Blue Jays trailed by five runs before pushing across three in the sixth and four in the seventh.
Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista led off the inning with singles before Cabrera scored on Encarnacion's double. Mark DeRosa then lined a double down the left- field line to bring home Bautista and Encarnacion to cut the deficit to 6-4.
Cabrera recorded a one-out single in the seventh before Brayan Villareal (0-1) entered and walked three straight batters. Octavio Dotel then took the mound to face Arencibia, who belted a double into the gap in left-center to put Toronto in front.
Casey Janssen struck out two in a 1-2-3 ninth to pick up his second save of the year.
Earlier, the Tigers plated a run in the first and second to jump ahead. Prince Fielder registered an RBI groundout to shortstop in the first, while Omar Infante's two-out, run-scoring single in the second made it 2-0.
Toronto got a run back in the fifth when Emilio Bonifacio blooped an RBI double into shallow left field, but the Tigers pushed four more across in the home half of the frame.
Torii Hunter scorched a one-out RBI single and a bit later with the bases loaded, Steve Delabar walked Victor Martinez and Andy Dirks to bring home a pair of runs. Jhonny Peralta then smacked an RBI single to right-center to make it 6-1.
Game Notes
Toronto starter Mark Buehrle was charged with six runs -- five earned -- on seven hits and two walks over 4 1/3 innings ... The Blue Jays were 4-for-13 with runners in scoring position.


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Teachers and the Struggle for Democracy in Spain, 1970-1985
Date published:February 2014
This book analyses teachers' social movements during the Spanish transition to democracy, between 1970 and 1985. It shows how ordinary teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship. It explores their organizations, the paths of action they chose and their interaction with the disintegrating autocracy and the emerging democracy. In addition to analyzing the national aspects of their initiatives it follows their grass-roots activities in two local contexts, the fast growing metropolitan city of Madrid and the backward rural province of Salamanca.


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text: This Pike County town is in the southwest corner of the state about 2.5 hours from Little Rock. The area is known for its tremendous geological diversity and is home to Crater of Diamonds State Park, the only diamond site in the nation open to the public. For a small fee, visitors can dig for diamonds and other gemstones at the park and keep what they find. Also nearby are Lake Greeson, the Little Missouri River, and Daisy State Park. The first known inhabitants of the area were Native Americans including the Quapaw and Caddo tribes. The first white men seen by the Indians were European explorers—members of Hernando de Soto's party in the mid 1500's. Markers and a statue commemorate a violent clash the de Soto expedition had with the Tula Indians in Caddo Gap, about twenty-five miles north of town. After Pike County was created in 1833, the area was given the name Zebulon and it was basically still a wilderness. A few years later, the name was changed to Murfreesborough (and later Murfreesboro). The name supposedly came from settlers who named it after their Tennessee hometown. Agriculture was the major source of income for the town. Murfreesboro escaped the major battles of the Civil War, although it served as a winter quarters for the Confederate army. In 1906, John Wesley Huddleston found the first diamonds on his property, which led to Crater of Diamonds State Park. Many are amazed to learn there is a place in Arkansas where they can go and dig for diamonds, which were first mined in India over 2700 years ago. The park is located above an eroded volcanic pipe. The crater, which became a state park in 1972, is a 37 1/2 acre open field that is plowed from time to time to bring diamonds and other gemstones to the surface. Noteworthy finds include the "Uncle Sam" (40.23 carats), the largest diamond ever unearthed in the nation, the "Amarillo Starlight" (16.37 carats) the largest diamond ever unearthed by a visitor, and the "Strawn-Wagner Diamond", which was certified a perfect grade by the American Gem Society. It weighed 3.03 carats in the rough and 1.09 carats cut. A diamond this perfect, and weighing over a carat after cutting it, is estimated to occur around 1 time in a billion. It's even rarer coming from a non-commercial diamond mine such as Crater. Some diamonds from the park are also on display at the Smithsonian's Musuem of National History in Washington, DC. The leading industry in Murfreesboro was the Anthony Lumber Company. John William Anthony moved his family to Murfreesboro in the late 1920s and started a lumber mill, which became one of the leading sawmills in the South. Anthony retired in the 1940s, leaving the mill to be managed by his sons. In 1941, Congress authorized $3 million for the construction of Narrows Dam. The dam was finished by 1951, creating Lake Greeson, now a popular recreational destination. The areas around Narrows Dam and Lake Greeson have continued to grow and are now known for their solid hunting and fishing. The upper waters of the Little Missouri River are excellent for canoeists. The discovery of diamonds is celebrated every June with the Diamond Festival. On a separate date, the park also celebrates John Huddleston Day, honoring the man who discovered the first diamonds in the area.


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Firstly, I am 31 and live in a house share with my husband. I know we are both a bit too old to be house sharing, but are trying to save as much as possible on rent so that we can afford to buy a house in the near future.
We live with 4 other people - a guy (let's call him Dave) a girl, and a couple. The couple is relatively new to the house. The rest of us have been living there since May last year.
The 2 original housemates have never been very friendly - from the day we moved in and introduced ourselves, they looked surprised that we had even bothered to go and introduce ourselves, and gave one word answers when we tried to make conversation. Dave in particular has always been a bit hostile. It mainly boils down to things like disputes over whether we should get a cleaner (we didn't want one because we are clean and tidy and trying to save money). All in all, it hasn't been a friendly house, nobody's been very social (either with us or with each other) but it's been ok for saving money.
Then a new couple moved in who were a lot more friendly. They suggested going out some time, so we then organised where to go and when. That was fine, but then we noticed that Dave was becoming really friendly with them too, along with the other girl, and we got the impression that he was bad-mouthing us to them. Then one evening, we were in our room, and noticed that they all went out to the pub together, including Dave's girlfriend. We were really hurt about this because it seemed like an organised thing with absolutely everybody invited except us. I had even seen some of them, individually, in the kitchen previously, and nobody had mentioned it. I also don't think it was a spontaneous trip out because everyone works different hours and when I saw some them in the kitchen, they had looked more dressed up than usual, as if they were planning on going out later.
Anyway, on advice from my family, we asked them a few days later where they went and that we would have liked to have come. They sort of edged out of it and said sure, next time.
Now it's just been Christmas so people have been away. Then last night, Dave came upstairs and knocked on our door (we live on a floor with just the other couple). We opened it and Dave said 'oh sorry, wrong room'. He then knocked on the other couple's door and started talking about their plans for tomorrow, (he is evidently going out with them somewhere, and he said he has something else planned with them for the evening).
I may be being crazy, but it seems like he did it on purpose. He's knocked on our door, for us, on numerous occasions. There's only 5 rooms in the house, and there's only 2 rooms on our floor. IT's like he wanted us to hear, again, that he's going out with them without us.
I know I shouldn't care about petty housemate things like this, and I plan to move out and move on. I'm also at a different stage of life to these guys and don't like crazy night out and drinking, but it still hurts. Recently when I go to the kitchen to cook, I feel anxious in case they are down there, because it's starting to feel like a kind of gang that we're not in; where they hang out and laugh and joke in the kitchen, but we're never invited in on that.
I just wanted some advice on how to deal with this issue. Either mentally, just focusing on the future and getting out of there, or how to approach things with the flatmates.
We don't have a lot of friends in the area, as we are not from there, so that's accentuating the issue. We would have loved to have had friendly housemates, and we did try, and for some reason we have been kicked out the group. Hopefully we will move out and make friends elsewhere, but how can we get through this temporarily?


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For the right type of space, these old industrial pipes, repurposed by Stella Bleu Designs into shelves, coat racks, pot racks, and lighting fixtures, are versatile and stylish enough to make you want to keep all your storage out in plain sight.
Stella Bleu designer Katie Katzenmeyer refashions heavy iron piping into an array of configurations for everything from a tight corner to a full wall. These edgy designs are at once modern yet historical-looking, like a renovated loft building. Stack your books in fresh and fun arrangements, or go beyond the boring metal garment rack to display all your clothing.
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An animal control officer in Carteret County has received statewide recognition.
The N.C. Animal Rabies Control Association named Tommy Bell as the top animal control officer for 2013. Bell works in the Animal Control division of Carteret County Health Department.
Each year, NCARCA recognizes an animal control officer who demonstrates outstanding field performance, goes beyond the call of duty and promotes the animal care profession.
A reception was held Feb. 7 at the health department to honor Bell.
He is a certified state rabies vaccinator, allowing the health department to provide low-cost vaccination clinics for pet-owners. Through his efforts, the health department was awarded a PetSmart grant resulting in more than 900 cats being spayed and neutered.
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
- Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 12-06-08
- Language: English
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Her estranged sister, Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties.
While Laurel's life seems neatly on track - a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna - everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor, Molly Dufresne. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly, floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable - an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco.
Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.
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- Miss
- 26-04-15
Another brilliant novel
From the beginning you are drawn into the characters' lives. Storytelling at its best. Superb narration by the author too
- 05-08-08
One of the Best books I've purchased
I read a review of this audio book in our local newspaper and was SO glad I purchased it. This was truly the best audio book I've gotten and I've gone on to purchase others by this author.
The narrator was terrific. She really brought the different characters to life. The mystery and plot were actually secondary in my opinion to the lively and descriptive writing here. The characters were finely drawn and it was a joy to listen to. I listen to audio books each day when I walk my dogs and I had a hard time stopping each day.
Highly recommend this audio book.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful
- Barbara
- 12-04-09
great for the long haul!
I listened to this while on a 14 hour car trip to Fla. I found the story very engaging. I believe that the author captured her own limitations as well as her love for her child and husband in an honest way, sometimes painfully so. The relationship with her sister and parents seemed deep and true. I usually shy away from books narrated by an author (rarely have I found an author who can do justice to their own work). Ms. Jackson is an exception to this rule. Her accent is real, as are her descriptions of the south. I highly recommend this and other works by J. Jackson.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful
- Janice
- 13-05-12
Trouble in Stepford
In Joshilyn Jackson's world, families are messy, characters are flawed and mysteries are quirky with unpredictable solutions. So it was unexpected to encounter Laurel and her family in a Stepford community trying to figure out why a young girl drowned, with every effort to prove that it wasn't a simple accident coming up empty. Like Laurel I kept thinking "something's not right", but couldn't puzzle it out. Then I got to the last third of the story where it took all kinds of turns and I thought Ah-ha, now we're getting somewhere. Throughout the early part of the book I felt as frustrated as Laurel, being let into blind alleys regarding the drowning and her marriage, and her family relationships constantly being stirred up by her volatile sister Thalia. Everything was upside down and so difficult to tell who is to be trusted. But once the crucial puzzle pieces fell into place for each of these dilemas, all was satisfyingly clear, but that's when the danger was the greatest. I loved the way it all came together. As always, love of family remains constant in spite of the craziness. Jackson reads her own words flawlessly, making her characters truly alive.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
- Lisa
- 10-11-08
Excellent writing; wonderful narrarator
I am nearing the end of this well-written novel. The author is a terrific reader - listening to this novel has the feel of listening to a full cast production without the jarring sensation that sometimes accompanies listening to a cast with multiple readers. Her tone, timbre and accent changes with each character, yet I never feel as though she is over-acting.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
- Susan
- 12-07-09
Highly Recommend!
I fell in love with Joshilyn Jackson's writing after reading Gods in Alabama. I was worried about this one because I was afraid of being let down. No worries there! This is a great book. I look forward to reading more of her writing and love that she narrated this one and Between Georgia. I think she is the only one who could have brought her characters to life so perfectly.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Bobbie
- 19-09-08
Good good good
I really enjoyed this audio book. It made me want to buy, and I did, her other books in print.
Easy to follow and enough twists and turns to keep it interesting.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Elizabeth
- 24-07-11
I think I had higher hopes from this book, after listening to Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints. On the bottom of the curve for me, with Joshilyn Jackson, but still high compared with other writers.
I love her narration and wish she would do other books, (other than her own)
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Marjorie
- 23-03-14
It's a Good "Who Dun' It?" Novel for Women
I like Joshilyn Jackson novels and I like this one well enough too. She is a brilliant narrator and a very good author. This Jackson novel was a Southern mystery novel solved by the women of the family. I did not think the book was as good or as interesting as some of the other Jackson novels that I read but it was good and, if you are a fan of Jackson, you will most likely like this book also. The relationships between the women of this family were well developed and mostly believable. The question of who did it hung on until almost the end which kept me interested and curious to keep listening.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Lisa
- 30-01-11
Thalia Steals the Show!
I liked this book. It was fast-paced, kept you guessing, and had great dialogue. But, Laurel, the narrator of the book, definitely gets backseated by her smart-mouthed, roguish sister, Thalia. I didn't find Laurel to be a sympathetic character. But, then again, that probably was what the author intended. In the end, Laurel is to find out the reasons for her mother's, and ultimately her own, reasons for always turning a blind eye to the bad things in life. But, you get the feeling that unless she keeps Thalia around to be her moral compass, she'll always revert back. I didn't trust the backbone that she was supposedly was to have gotten in the end.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- sandra
- 23-07-11
I think this has been my favorite Joshilyn Jackson book to date. It had everything! True mystery, spirits, relationships, humor - I'm hooked, I hope she never stops writing AND narrating!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful


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True legacy of voter ID law remains unwritten
By Steve Boggs
The new voter identification law in Arkansas will be fully implemented by the next major election cycle. As is the case with any piece of legislation, it may or may not live up to its intended purpose. The devil is in the details, and we got our first look at some of those details last week.
The Republican-controlled Arkansas General Assembly passed, and subsequently overrode Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of, SB 2 this past spring that makes showing a government=issued photo identification card mandatory in order to vote. Arkansas is one of several states to pass such a measure. It is intended to be a safeguard against voter fraud.
Last week, the Board of Election Commissions adopted a set of rules on how to implement the new legislation after extensive discussions. It was reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi's famous "we have to pass it to see what's in it" line. Now that it's law, where do we go from here?
There is legitimate concern that larger segments of the elderly, low-income and minority voting public do not have driver's licenses, or any other sort of government-issued photo ID. In today's society, it is increasingly difficult to function without a photo ID, but some feel these segments could be denied access to the voting process next year. The state said it would purchase 98 voter ID machines, and distribute them throughout the state. That way, anyone who needed a photo ID could get one at no cost.
As the voter ID law moves from the drawing board to the precinct, we will get a chance to "see what's in it." For instance:
Will precinct workers turn away voters they've known for 20 or 30 years just because they don't present a photo ID card? Will there be fisticuffs at the ballot box? Under current law, voters do not have to show anything to get their ballot. If their names are on the rolls, they sign in and go vote. Local precinct workers aren't likely going keep their next door neighbor from voting just because he forgot his wallet, are they?
How will people know how to get one of these new voter ID cards? Will the law be implemented without a public education campaign? Arkansas has roughly 1.5 million registered voters. If, say, 10 percent of those don't have a photo ID, that means up to 150,000 registered voters need to get one over the next 14 months (and counting). When can they start? Where do they go? What do they need to bring as verification? (Hopefully a photo ID is not required!)
Can people who already have a driver's license also obtain a new voter ID card? In today's world of identity theft, proof of self is becoming a higher hurdle to jump each and every day. Two government-issued photo IDs would be nice to have, especially if it's free.
How will this new law affect voter turnout, and will anyone be tracking voter turnout based on demographics? Voter turnout in Arkansas was 34 percent in the 2008 election. It was 40 percent in Saline County. Aside from those who forget the driver's license or voter ID card on their way to vote, how many will just throw up their hands and call it "too much hassle"?
Isn't it time to revisit voter registration procedures? For years government has tried to increase the number of registered voters in this country, including making the process easier than ever. Is it too easy now? How difficult will it be for registered voters to get the new ID card? For that matter, since it is a government-issued ID, it becomes a legitimate asset for some. If the leap from being registered to having the new photo ID card is easy, then the registration process needs a second look.
What happens (or doesn't) from this point on will determine the true legacy of the state's new voter ID law. It will either become an additional safeguard against voter fraud, or a legal means to suppress voter turnout.
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Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center in Comstock conducts research to document rock art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Shumla also maintain an active public outreach program that has served more than 30,000 students and adults.
Texas State University's Ancient Southwest Texas Project is a long-term research program focused on the region's prehistoric human record and sharing findings with the public.
The Rock Art Foundation, based in San Antonio, promotes the study and preservation of Native American rock art in the Lower Pecos region of Southwest Texas.
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