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Pottsville Jr. Betas were also proud of their newly elected officer for the 2013-14 year, Brady Barton. Barton was elected as the State Secretary and will hopefully be able to run for office at the National level in June. In order to be selected, a candidate for office must have a campaign skit and speech prepared for the convention. Brady's skit theme was based on the hit reality show, Duck Dynasty. The theme was Beta Dynasty, Brady Commander…with music and skit designed by Sloan Aulgur, backdrop by Sarah Henderson and several other Jr. Betas with artistic ability. The campaign skit would not be complete without several Jr. Betas participating through costume and dance, which included approximately 20 Betas total. Before long, you have a string of junior high students that made it possible for Barton to stand before the judges and a crowd of 600 plus peers, sponsors and chaperones. Brady Barton was not only elected to office, but she won 1st place for public speaking and the campaign skit was also awarded 1st place.
Between the general sessions of the convention, several competitions took place in both academic, art, crafts, and talent areas. Pottsville Junior High came out with a total of nine 1st place, seven 2nd place, and two 3rd place awards. Here are the awards and the Jr. Beta students who competed:
1st place
Campaign Skit
Public Speaking – Brady Barton
Language Arts – Lauren Fryer
Social Studies – Caleb Hull
Charcoal Sketch – Sarah Henderson
Water Colors – Sloan Aulgur
Sculpture – Shane Andrews
Handmade Jewelry – Lauren Fryer
2nd place
Math – Calvin Heikes
Science – Austin Jones
Pencil Sketch – Emily Brians
Color Photography – Sabrina Jones
Oil/Acrylics – Emily Brians
Digitally Enhanced Photography – Hope Musser
3rd place
Quiz Bowl team – Zane Grant, Zach Ward, Nelson Graves, Will Teeter, and alternate Cannon Cobb
Recyclable Art – Kassie McCoy
Overall, it was another successful trip to the state convention for our local Pottsville Jr. Beta chapter. Each of the students listed above now qualify to compete at the national level in their categories. The local club plans to take as many as possible to Mobile, Alabama as possible, but will have to raise funds to make it possible. If you would like to donate or support to the club to help make this possible, please contact the Jr. Beta sponsor Mrs. Jennifer Hull at Pottsville Junior High School at 479.968.6574 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Arkansas Tech Board of Trustees approved an expenditure of $840,950 during its meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20, that will be used to construct a new home for the theatre program in the Techionery.
The renovated theater will include a performance space with seating for 144 audience members, classroom space, storage areas and space for set creation.
It will be the second phase of a project that began in spring 2012 with the investment of $176,510 in restoring the facility to a safe and acceptable operating condition.
Crews removed 22 tons of debris from the Techionery theater in the first phase of renovation. Construction of the new theater space within the Techionery will take place during the 2012-13 academic year and is scheduled to be complete for the fall 2013 semester.
Once complete, the Techionery theater will represent an investment by Arkansas Tech of more than $1 million to provide students with a safe and appropriate space to study the theatrical arts.
In the meantime, Arkansas Tech will host a production of "Pelleas and Melisande," an 1893 play by Maurice Maeterlinck, during the fall 2012 semester. The production will open at the Doc Bryan Student Services Building Lecture Hall Oct. 18-20. Additional performances are scheduled for Oct. 25-26 at Witherspoon Auditorium. Tickets will be available at the door.
"2012-13 will be a transition year, as the theatre program will be operating initially without construction facilities and with limited staff," said Anthony Caton, head of the Arkansas Tech Department of Speech, Theatre and Journalism. "The upcoming season will consist of small-scale productions of intriguing plays, while the 2013-14 season, in contrast, will show off the new face of the theatre program."
Dr. David Eshelman, assistant professor of speech and interim director of the theatre program at Arkansas Tech, translated "Pelleas and Melisande" from French to English and will serve as director for the production.
"The play has much to offer almost all ages and because the project is a new translation, it brings innovation to the theatre world," said Dr. Micheal Tarver, dean of the Arkansas Tech College of Arts and Humanities.
The vision for the future of the theatre program at Arkansas Tech is known as the Theatre Production Initiative (TPI), which was drafted by Eshelman, Caton and Tarver.
The statement of purpose for the Arkansas Tech Theatre Production Initiative is to "act in concert with the theatre program's academic coursework in order to bring innovative, challenging, and high quality works of dramatic art to the Arkansas River Valley."
According to the document defining the TPI, the initiative will serve three primary constituencies: Arkansas Tech students, the community of the Arkansas River Valley and the wider discipline of the theatrical arts.
"The Theatrical Production Initiative will place a special emphasis on the cultivation of local playwrights, who would otherwise be neglected in the river valley," said Eshelman. "Local dramatists will be primarily students, so playwright development will yield increased opportunities for the Arkansas Tech arts community. Furthermore, local dramatists tend to speak to the concerns of their individual locales, thereby serving Russellville and the surrounding communities. Lastly, local dramatists enlarge the field of theatre by giving voice to their states and specifically to the Arkansas River Valley region. More than any other theatrical projects, plays written by river valley authors have the best chance of influencing theatre on the national scale."
For more information about the study of theatre at Arkansas Tech, call the Department of Speech, Theatre and Journalism at (479) 964-0890.


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It happened suddenly, as these things often do — an explosion near the Boston Marathon finish line in Copley Square, and then another, the twin blasts killing at least three individuals and wounding over a hundred.
It was Patriots' Day in Boston, a commemoration of the first battle of the American Revolution. Throngs of people lined the sidewalks to cheer on their friends and loved ones as they completed the incredible athletic feat of running 26.2 grueling miles through the historic streets of Beantown. Several friends from Savannah were running in that race — people just like you and me, from our fair city, husbands and mothers, sons and daughters. Thousands more just like them, from all over the world, came to Boston to run in the oldest and most famous annual marathon in the world.
And then a terrorist set off a pair of ball-bearing-spiked bombs — devices expressly designed to maim and kill innocent people.
I have seen people whose bodies were blown apart by exploding boilers. I have seen women decapitated in automobile wrecks, men with their skin burnt to a crisp in industrial explosions and construction workers impaled on iron fence spikes after falling from a four-story scaffold. This sort of thing is the nature of my profession. After all, accidents happen.
But this was no accident. It was, instead, premeditated murder.
I do not know what manufactured political or religious agenda will be used to attempt to justify these terroristic acts — and, frankly, I do not care. The reality is that these attacks were the acts of a spineless reprobate. Impotent, smoldering with misplaced rage over some factitious injustice, the person committing this crime doubtlessly thought that this would draw attention to his corrupt ideology, somehow making all Americans wring their hands in worry over what might happen next.
Here's where the idiot got it wrong.
This nation's resolve has been tested before. The United States sprung up from the blood of those very patriots that fought at Lexington and Concord — blood spilled in defense of freedom of choice, sacrifices made to insure that the rights of self-governance were preserved for all eternity.
Using the principles of individual rights delineated by our founding fathers over two centuries ago, we have righted our collective wrongs like no other nation. We have thrown off the evil yoke of slavery and worked diligently to dissipate ignorant prejudices about race, gender, creed, ethnicity or religion that made us turn against each other at times in the past.
We defeated Hitler. We have stood up to bullies time and time again because, despite our differences, at the core, we are all Americans. Challenge galvanizes us. Attack only strengthens our resolve.
So here's a message to the twisted misanthrope who thinks that his "cause" will somehow be helped by the cowardly acts committed in Monday: Do not think for a moment that your crackpot ideology has somehow taken on any new cosmic significance. Here is what you really did: You killed an eight-year-old child. You blew the arms off of one man, the legs off of another. And you did it behind the faceless shield of an explosive device — because you are a coward.
Rest assured, we Americans not frightened of you. In fact, we are united together in our repudiation of your evil acts. Terror cannot steal the American birthright of freedom. We will hunt you down, and we will find you. And you will then discover that this senseless act of violence will have accomplished exactly nothing.
Nothing, that is, except guaranteeing you a one-way ticket to Hell.
Mark Murphy, M.D., is a Savannah physician and writer.


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If you or Hal want to be a master of panic and act like the Reds were playing over their heads in April and May and June was a better indicator of their talent level, go for it. You're wrong, but go for it.
They're battling injuries and they went out West and played some good teams and struggled. With all that being said, they're still 4.5 games up on a playoff spot. It's a loooong season. There will be more peaks and more valley's. It's like Plus Plus said, this isn't football. You'd swear it was the first season Reds fans have watched a baseball season before. There's absolutely no reason to panic.
Homer Bailey (07-01-2013)
malcontent (07-01-2013)
I have always enjoyed his articles whether I agreed with them or not.
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Cursh14 (07-02-2013),Tommyjohn25 (07-01-2013)
It doesn't have to do with anything (the back-to-the-batter delivery thing is even a stretch...) and seems very self-serving.
And when you are in the baseball writers hall of fame you shouldn't be writing articles that get published where you come across like a frustrated fan. Those articles are found for free on the internet on Bleacher Report or blogs or facebook statuses.
I think we're talking semantics here in that I think the Reds are a good team, I just wouldn't use the word "very" alongside that....sort of like using a B to grade them instead of an A. And I've felt all along that the Ludwick injury was troubling and the most significant. The difference in the order with and without him is huge on a number of fronts.
We're still in good shape in the wild card hunt despite the injuries and poor overall June performance. And none of these guys on the DL have even been remotely ruled out for the stretch run and into the playoffs.
If we can just get into the playoffs and if we can get to that point relatively healthy, then I'm willing to roll the dice.
Baseball is really, really hard. It's a game where the worse team wins often enough that small stretches don't give you any real information.
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Team will be great in the second half. Book it
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Brisco (07-01-2013),Tommyjohn25 (07-01-2013)
I guess, in fairness, Hal was writing to his audience. If that is what his paper wants, its his reputation.
Personally, I'd rather not write than to write for that audience, or try to educate my audience so they are no longer that audience.
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Lough credits Grifol for approach as pinch-hitter
KANSAS CITY -- Outfielder David Lough had not been very successful as a pinch-hitter until, batting for Justin Maxwell in the sixth inning Monday night, he cracked an RBI single into right field. That gave the Royals their fourth run in what became a 7-1 win against the Indians.
Prior to that, Lough was 0-for-8 in his career as a pinch-hitter, although he had three walks and a sacrifice bunt in his 12 appearances.
"[Hitting coach Pedro Grifol] has been doing a good job of preparing these young guys about pinch-hitting," manager Ned Yost said. "First fastball in the strike zone, you better be ready to hit, and David was last night. First-pitch fastball -- boom, base hit. That's what a good pinch-hitter does."
Grifol did lend assistance, and Lough was ready when reliever Matt Albers delivered a fastball knee-high and inside.
"He gave me a scouting report on the pitcher," Lough said. "I was just trying to look early, be aggressive in that situation. I thought he was going to come right after me, which he did, and gave me a nice pitch, and I was able to put it right through the hole."
Yost said it's difficult for young hitters to be successful at pinch-hitting.
"Because their whole focus is on the result. They don't get a hit and it crushes them," Yost said. "But the whole focus has got to be on the process. You've got to be ready to hit and have a good at-bat, because pinch-hitting, there's no other job like it in the world. You can't call time out and do it again. You've got one shot at being successful, and in this sport, it's the hardest job to do."
Lough's hit made Royals pinch-hitters 12-for-59 (.203) this season with seven RBIs. Maxwell had the only home run in the role, lifting Kansas City to a 12th-inning, 4-3 win against the Mets on Aug. 3 in New York.
Omaha wins Triple-A title behind Ventura's replacement
KANSAS CITY -- Left-hander Chris Dwyer wasn't supposed to pitch in Tuesday night's Triple-A National Championship game, but he made the most of his chance.
Dwyer allowed just one hit in seven scoreless innings and led Omaha to a 2-1 victory against Rays affiliate Durham in Allentown, Pa., for its second national title.
Dwyer, a Pacific Coast League All-Star this season, filled in for teammate Yordano Ventura, who made his Major League debut for the Royals instead. Dwyer retired the first 20 batters before a two-out single in the seventh inning by Tim Beckham spoiled his bid for a perfect game. He struck out the next batter to end the inning and finished with eight strikeouts on the night. Ventura allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings in an eventual 5-3 loss to the Indians at Kauffman Stadium.
Michael Mariot took over in the eighth and allowed the Bulls' lone run on a pinch-hit homer.
The Storm Chasers took an early lead against former teammate Jake Odorizzi with a two-out single by Manny Pina in the second inning. Odorizzi, drafted by the Brewers in 2008 and acquired by the Royals in '10, took the loss after giving up one run on five hits in four innings. Irving Falu knocked in the winning run in the sixth inning off reliever J.D. Martin.
The Storm Chasers finished the season with a 77-75 record, including a 7-1 mark in the postseason. Omaha swept Oklahoma City, the PCL's top team, in three games in the first round, then took three of four from Salt Lake for their second PCL title in three seasons.
It was the Storm Chasers' first appearance in the national championship since they lost to Columbus in 2010. Omaha's first Triple-A Championship came in 1990, when it defeated Rochester in a best-of-seven series.
Paulino optimistic for 2014 after shoulder surgery
KANSAS CITY -- Royals pitcher Felipe Paulino is planning to leave for his Houston home Wednesday after his comeback attempt was ended by shoulder surgery a week ago.
Unexpectedly, Paulino said, the surgeon found a cyst in his shoulder, which was causing him problems as he pitched deeper into games during his Minor League rehab assignments.
"They first tried to decompress the nerve, and when they went inside, they found a big cyst in the back of my shoulder that was pinching my nerve. That's what was causing my weakness and soreness in my shoulder," Paulino said.
"He removed that and everything was good. I'm good right now, because he also cleaned out my rotator cuff, my labrum and everything around it. I expect to be back and playing catch again in two weeks."
Paulino underwent Tommy John surgery in July 2012, but said his right elbow is fine, and with his shoulder problem seemingly solved, he's optimistic about resuming his Major League career after a lost season.
"I know I'm going to be back," he said.
Pena done for year, but KC plans on Duffy returning
KANSAS CITY -- To make room for Yordano Ventura, whose contract was selected from Triple-A Omaha in order to start Tuesday night's 5-3 loss to the Indians, the Royals placed Carlos Pena on the 60-day disabled list.
Pena had an emergency appendectomy on Sept. 14 and will not be eligible for to return season. Pena played just four games since signing with the Royals on Aug. 27.
Even though he said he's feeling fine, left-hander Danny Duffy has been moved to the 15-day disabled list.
"When I told him we're putting him on the DL, he said, 'You know, I'm feeling better,'" manager Ned Yost said. "So we're not going to totally shut him down. We're going to be extremely cautious, too. We're not going to do anything to take any chances."
Yost announced Monday that Duffy would miss his next start in the rotation with a mild flexor strain in his forearm. Duffy has started five games for the Royals since returning from Tommy John surgery. He went 2-0 with a 1.85 ERA in that span. He will be eligible for reinstatement on Sept. 23.
After the changes, the Royals have 33 players on their active roster and 40 on the Major League roster.
Idaho Falls wins first Pioneer League title as KC affiliate
KANSAS CITY -- Catcher Frank Schwindel had four RBIs, three on a homer, as the short-season Class A Idaho Falls Chukars defeated Milwaukee's Helena affiliate, 6-0, for their first Pioneer League title as an affiliate of the Royals.
Schwindel, the Royals' 18th-round pick from June's First-Year Player Draft, put the Chukars on the board with his two-out homer in the fourth inning and drove in another run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Cody Stubbs knocked in a run on a single to center field, then scored on an RBI single by Elier Hernandez in the seventh inning.
Right-hander Jake Junis, the Royals' 29th-round selection in the 2011 Draft, earned the victory after allowing just three hits in five innings a day after his 21st birthday. He also had two walks and eight strikeouts. Kyle Bartsch added three scoreless innings with just one hit and six strikeouts to set up Glenn Sparkman, who completed the shutout with a scoreless ninth.
This was the first playoff appearance for the Chukars since 2007, which ended the longest playoff drought in the Pioneer League. It was the organization's seventh title, with the last coming as an affiliate of the Padres.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. Kathleen Gier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, celebrating human rights and commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on 10 December 1948, Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published a Statement specifically referring to the role of the Internet for the protection and promotion of human rights:
Today, as in the past, editorial and financial factors – as well as access – determine whether or not protests, and repression of protests, are televised or reported in newspapers around the world. But, wherever it happens, you can now guarantee it will be tweeted on Twitter, posted on Facebook, broadcast on Youtube, and uploaded onto the internet.
That is why I also quote here from her Statement, including, at the end, the reference to the Internet resources used by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
2011 has been an extraordinary year for human rights.
A year when a single word, embodying the thwarted quest of a single impoverished young man in a remote province of Tunisia, struck a chord which swiftly rose to a crescendo.
Within days it had rolled into the capital, Tunis, with such a roar that, in just four weeks it knocked the foundations from under an entrenched and apparently invincible authoritarian regime. This precedent, and its radical revision of the art of the possible, quickly reverberated into the streets and squares of Cairo, followed one after another by towns and cities all across the region, and, ultimately, in different forms, across the world.
That word, that quest, was for "dignity."
In Tunis and Cairo, Benghazi and Dara'a, and later on – albeit in a very different context – in Madrid, New York, London, Santiago and elsewhere, millions of people from all walks of life have mobilized to make their own demands for human dignity. They have dusted off the promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and demanded "freedom from fear and freedom from want," the Declaration's shorthand for all the civil, political, social economic and cultural rights it contains. They have reminded governments and international institutions alike that health care, and education and housing, and access to justice, are not commodities for sale to the few, but rather rights, guaranteed to everyone, everywhere, without discrimination.
In 2011, the very idea of "power" shifted. During the course of this extraordinary year, it was wielded not just by mighty institutions in marble buildings, but increasingly by ordinary men, women, and even children, courageously standing up to demand their rights. In the Middle East and North Africa, many thousands have paid with their lives, and tens of thousands have been injured, besieged, tortured, detained, and threatened, but their newfound determination to demand their rights has meant they are no longer willing to accept injustice…
The message of this unexpected global awakening was carried in the first instance not by the satellites of major media conglomerates, or conferences, or other traditional means – although these all played a role — but by the dynamic and irrepressible surge of social media.
The results have been startling.
By the end of this first year of the global awakening, we have already seen peaceful and successful elections in Tunisia and, earlier this week, in Egypt — where the turn-out for the first truly democratic elections there for decades has exceeded everybody's expectations, despite the shocking upsurge in violence in Tahrir Square.
Today, as in the past, editorial and financial factors – as well as access – determine whether or not protests, and repression of protests, are televised or reported in newspapers around the world. But, wherever it happens, you can now guarantee it will be tweeted on Twitter, posted on Facebook, broadcast on Youtube, and uploaded onto the internet. Governments no longer hold the ability to monopolize the dissemination of information and censor what it says…
On Human Rights Day 2011, I urge everyone, everywhere to join in the internet and social media campaign my office has launched to help more people know, demand and defend their human rights. It is a campaign that should be maintained so long as human rights abuses continue."
Internet resources (accessible by a mouse click on the color-highlighted items):
As part of the campaign, on 10 November an online discussion began on Facebook and Twitter (#CelebrateRights) in English, French and Spanish called "30 Days and 30 Rights." It is also being carried in Chinese on Weibo – 微博 – Pinyin Wēibó. It counts down to Human Rights Day on 10 December with a daily posting about one specific article of the Universal Declaration – 30 in total.
In addition, the High Commissioner for Human Rights is hosting an event at 9:30 EST in New York on the eve of Human Rights Day (i.e. 9 December), when she will answer human rights questions sent in via different social media platforms from all corners of the world. The event will be webcast and streamed live. Stay tuned, and send in your questions, using #AskRights
For more information on the Human Rights Day campaign.
Follow the live tweet of the High Commissioner's press conference on Twitter at #CelebrateRights
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As the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights referred in her Statement to "Tunis and Cairo, Benghazi and Dara'a, and later on – albeit in a very different context – to Madrid, New York, London, Santiago and elsewhere, [where] millions of people from all walks of life have mobilized to make their own demands for human dignity, I add here references to the Arab Spring (Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests).
A link also follows here to activities of people which had started in the USA under the slogan Occupy Wall Street – the leaderless movement of people from many different backgrounds and political persuasions, with the common goal to no longer silently tolerate the greed and corruption they see in the holders of big economic power, with material – as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said – that does not easily make it into news televised or reported in newspapers, but is on the Internet.
It is interesting that in the Occupy Wall Street reporting, there is also a quote from the 1944 State of the Union Address by a republican US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is no surprise that also President Barack Obama recently referred to President Roosevelt's vision of a more just United States of America:
It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
Is this vision not the same for every nation, that the future development of a country cannot be achieved if it is disregarding injustice – "if some fraction of our people – whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth – is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure"?
Which are the fractions in Cambodia – one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth?


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" Brand: Tesco / Subcategory: Bathroom Care / Type: Bathroom & Toilet Cleaner / Category: Cleaning & Disinfectant "
A review on toilet gel you say? I can sense your excitement building already. Or not, but I figured it would be good to let people know how a store brand product holds up against the leading brands in the toilet cleaning industry.
** The product **
The product is toilet gel to clean your toilet. While only the original is presented on DooYoo there are a few others available to choose from, I personally use the citrus one. It wasn't my choice but I am happy enough with the scent. After all it is literally going down the toilet. The bottle states that it cleans, freshens and kills bacteria. Also specifically states that it is not tested on animals and that Tesco fund research into alternative methods. I like to buy products that aren't tested on animals or the brand as a whole doesn't test on animals so this is a plus point to me and another reason I recommend this product.
It comes in a nice enough bottle but packaging doesn't really do much for me anyway.
** Using the Product **
The toilet gel works like any other, squirt it into your toilet. You can scrub it with a toilet brush to ensure your toilet gets a good clean. Easy to use and no different to use than a more expensive brand. The only thing I do notice is that it is a bit thinner than the more expensive counterparts but I don't feel like it cleans my toilet any less effectively, especially if you are keeping up with your toilet cleaning. As I am sure you are.
** Effectiveness **
My toilet looks and smells clean which is all you can really ask for from a toilet cleaner. The scent doesn't seem different to any other brand (not that I spend much time with my nose down toilets, just to clarify).
In terms of how long a bottle lasts I would say that it is the same as any other bottle. I use about the same amount of cleaner as I would any other brand and the same amount of times per week.
** Price and Availability **
You can buy this from most Tesco stores. I'm not sure about the smaller stores but at least in the bigger stores. It is only £0.80 so it is well priced for what it does and how long it lasts. Does just what a more branded item does.
** Overall **
A good item from Tesco. Perhaps not quite the same quality of product in terms of thickness but it does the job. My toilet looks and smells clean and all for a good price. I would definitely recommend trying it the next time you need a toilet cleaner.
This is not the most exciting product that I have bought lately but it is one that I would recommend for the price so I thought I would write a review.
This is a Tesco own brand toilet gel product which is intended to clean your toilet, remove lime scale and kill bacteria to keep your toilet as fresh as possible. I don't want to spend too much on this sort of boring cleaning essential unless I can help it so I decided to try this as it only cost 89p. I have found it effective and it does it's job. I had some lime scale built up in my toilet and this toilet gel managed to remove almost all of it after one use.
The packaging is pretty standard. It just looks like a cleaning product, inoffensive but uninspiring and just standard. However I don't need it to look fancy so I don't care! It does have a safety mechanism to the lid which those with young children may appreciate, as kids would definitely struggle to open this. For an adult it is fine though, just squeeze the sides as you turn the lid. There is a thinnish nozzle to dispense the gel once you get the lid off.
The gel is on the runnier side so it is easy to squirt out but sometimes loads comes out at once. However you jus have to be a bit careful with it and since it's so cheap I don't begrudge using quite a lot! I just put the nozzle under the toilet rim and squirt it liberally all around there, and a bit all over the insides of the toilet. It is bright blue so easy to see where you have put it.
The smell is fairly neutral I would say. I hate strong bleach smells and luckily this does not have that, though I can smell a bit of bleachiness. It doesn't have any real added pleasant scent to it as far as I can detect, but it smells fine.
You are told to leave it for at least two hours before flushing but generally I leave it over night, as is recommended. When I flush it in the morning the toilet looks clean and the gel does work, even if you have got some lime scale already built up it can remove it effectively.
For the low price I would definitely recommend giving it a try.
The toilet in my home gets cleaned every single night when I retire to bed for the evening. I usually give it a proper scrub once or twice a week just to ensure that no limescale builds up but before I retire to bed I get either bleach or toilet gel and run it around the rim of my toilet seat. I then use Dettol spray and toilet tissue to remove any noticeable marks or dirt before leaving the lid of the toilet seat open for the night (I once had a toilet seat that got stained yellow from coloured toilet cleaner) and then in the morning I can just flush my toilet and it is looking sparkly clean and fresh.
This particular toilet gel is 80p per 750ml bottle at present or 2 bottles for £1.50 and despite this being such a small saving (10p per 2 bottles) I decided to take up this offer as a saving is a saving!
This toilet gel comes in a darkish blue plastic bottle with a child proof cap on it. This is the standard cap where you depress two sections and then twist to remove the cap. This cap works very well and is simple to remove. This bottle has an angled neck on it making it simple to place underneath the toilet bowl rim. This isn't an exaggerated neck but the angle is sufficient that it makes the task easier for me. It takes just a few seconds to twist and squeeze this and run the blue liquid down inside my toilet bowl. I do find that I need to go around twice to ensure an even coverage.
This gel is nice and thick without being too clingy and it runs down the toilet bowl easily. The blue colour of the liquid allows me to see any areas that might have been missed which is very handy. Because this isn't completely thick it only takes a couple of minutes to cover the toilet bowl. This is ideal if I am wanting to give my toilet a deep clean as I can apply this, clean the bathroom sink and then come back to scrub the toilet bowl with a toilet brush. This is ideal if I have guests coming over as I know that in just a few minutes I can have a shiny toilet bowl that looks clean and smells fresh.
The actual fragrance of this isn't really an amazing one. It does smell fresh but it has a disinfectant scent to it that isn't too over powering. Obviously because I leave this overnight it does make my whole bathroom smell of the scent but because it does have a nice fresh scent to it I don't mind that you can detect cleaning products as its not over powering and I feel that it lets people know that my home and more importantly my bathroom is kept clean and looked after on a regular basis.
I have no problems with limescale in my toilet thanks to using this and other similar products regularly and I would definitely recommend this. The scent isn't the best I've ever smelled however it is not artificial or nasty and that along with the cleaning power rates this as 5 out of 5 stars from me!
Toilet cleaner is one of those unexciting yet essential purchases that you want to spend as little as possible on, while ensuring you get a product that works. Most of the time I buy supermarket own brand toilet cleaner, although I will always buy Toilet Duck when it's on offer.
The Tesco Active Toilet Gel comes in a few different fragrances, and this review is for the "Fresh" version. I tend to choose this one rather than the more standard Pine fragrance thinking it will make a change from a pine-scented bathroom...then I use it for the first time and realise I buy this type of fragrance more than pine ones. The fragrance isn't one I can readily describe, but it is recognisable from across the spectrum of cleaning products; it is also known by names such as Marine.
Although the name describes this as a gel, it is a normal liquid toilet cleaners, no thicker than any other brand on the market. It is a bright blue in colour, and is easy to pour from the bottle with only a gentle squeeze needed to get it flowing. The cap needs to be squeezed on both sides to get it open, which I assume is a child-proof device. I find it requires a bit of effort to open when the bottle is new, but it does get easier after the first time.
The toilet cleaner is to be squirted around the toilet bowl, and then ideally left to work for a while before being cleaned off. I usually leave it on the toilet bowl for up to an hour, which is long enough for it to do its work but not long enough for it to dry a bit and so become a bit harder to clean off.
I never let the toilet get to the point of being visibly dirty, so I can't comment on the Tesco Toilet Gel's ability to shift built-up grime, but with regular use it does keep the toilet sparkling white. I can't test whether it removes all nasty bacteria either.
I find cleaning the toilet cleaner from the bowl to be very easy. A scrub with the toilet brush, a flush, and another scrub do the job nicely.
So, although I seem to have an in-built belief that Toilet Duck is the best toilet cleaner, there really doesn't seem to be any reason not to choose cheaper versions. At 80p a bottle, Tesco Active Toilet Gel keeps my toilet very clean.
When it comes to cleaning my toilet I have to admit to being rather a fanatic. It isn't the cleanest of places lets face it due to what its used for! This I bought a while ago whilst doing my usual weekly shop in Tesco and it was on offer at the time for 80p a bottle or any two bottles from the range regardless of the fragrance for a pound which I thought was great value so of course got the two.
To be clear though I am not reviewing the 'Go Fresh' version of this and I was told to pop the review here for the original variety so here I am!
The Packaging:
This comes in a dark blue plastic bottle with a red twist and push safety cap to the the top of it and the neck is angled to use under a toilet rim. On the front of the bottle we are told that it is indeed Tesco Active Toilet Gel '100% Limescale Remover, Kills Bacteria, Stain Prevention Technology' then on the back of the bottle other information listed includes being told a bit about the product and directions for use are given, lots of warnings are also given, the size is stated which in this case is 750ml and the only size I have ever seen this to purchase in by the way, ingredients are listed and finally contact details for Tesco are given. Nice enough and informative bottle this.
The Gel Itself:
To use this of course the idea is to use it in a toilet only and the bottle is designed to be easy to direct under a toilet rim and it is able to be used in septic tanks (whatever they are lol).
The gel is very runny in its consistency and dark blue in colour but transparent and it has a sort of bleach aroma to it which is very fresh and clean smelling. I do feel that they have tried to disguise the aroma of this with a sort of sea fresh fragrance but that doesn't work all that well and the main scent of this is bleach however I am happy enough with that considering that the product is used down my toilet after-all.
It is easy to direct under rim with no effort or hardship at all and runs out of the bottle with entire ease. We are told to apply it under the rim and leave it for 30 minutes at least and then to reapply it if need be and leave for a further 15 minutes to ensure that germs are killed and cleaned away.
I do this or sometimes just flush my toilet and give it a wipe and then squirt some of this under the rim and a bit into the toilet bowl overnight and this leaves my toilet sparkling clean and the aroma of the bleach lingers for a good few hours too. I can't vouch for the fact the it kills germs flat dead of course and am no scientist however I am sure that it is does this and it does leave my toilet looking really clean which is the main issue for me.
This did get rid of dark blackish limescale looking stuff and grime from under the toilet rim as well which was there from my flats last tenant and no more has reappeared since using this and all in all I think this is a good value product that I am more than happy to use from now on and the offer that is running at the moment makes this an even better, more economy buy too!
Only available from Tescos.
This review is also posted on Ciao under this same username.
Over the past few months I have been using bleach in our bathroom toilet but I had started to notice it wasn't really cleaning the toilet very well and lime scale seemed to be building up as was some slight discolouration at the bottom of the bowl.
Whilst I was browsing the cleaning products in our local Tesco, I noticed the Tesco toilet cleaner was on offer for £1. It wasn't a huge saving off of the normal price but I'm a sucker for falling for promotions and it was cheaper than most of the other brands on offer.
I got home and excitedly decided to try out the new cleaner. I just left the cleaner to get on with it and then flushed the toilet a couple of hours later. I was impressed that the toilet looked noticeably cleaner already - and that was without any scrubbing with the toilet brush!
However I did notice that the gel was not particularly thick. It did stick to the side of the toilet but it was difficult to get a nice even coverage to cover the whole bowl. Being a blue gel on a white toilet bowl it is quite easy to notice the places where the gel hasn't covered properly. I had to squirt around the rim twice, which did make me wonder if I had purchased a bargain.
The smell was not too overpowering, it was exactly what I expected of a toilet cleaner and smelt a lot better than when I use bleach. It was quite fresh and had a nice clean smell that stayed in the bathroom - after I had flushed the toilet - for a couple of hours.
I am still pleased with this product, although I think it would be better if the gel was thicker and provided a better coverage of the toilet bowl. I would consider buying this toilet cleaner again, especially if they put it in another offer.
In an effort to reduce the cost of my weekly shopping I decided to change from my usual brand of toilet cleaning and give Tesco own brand a go. I went for Pine - for some reason I always go for Pine cleaning products. The first thing I noticed when I used it was that it wasn't as thick as my normal brand and didn't really stick to the bowl like my usual one did. However I left it for a while and then gave the loo a good scrub and the toilet did seem to be clean, which is what you are after so was fairly happy. However, later on I started to noticed a bit of an odd aroma in the loo and finally worked out it was the toilet - it smelt like a public loo! Not something you would really aim for in your own home. Handily the smell went fairly quickly but it did leave me even less inclined to clean the toilet than normal! Probably wont buy this one again although maybe another 'fragrance' might be better.
Trying to reduce the cost of my grocery shop I had decided to try downbranding my cleaning products, thinking there would be little difference and at least taste would not be an issue. So instead of my usual toilet cleaner I chose the Tesco own brand toilet gel, giving me an instant saving of over 50p.
I am rather lazy with my cleaning and don't use an awful lot of cleaning products, I only clean my toilet a few times a week, or when it needs a scrub. I know I should do it every day and it would probably be easier if I did, but I don't, so the cleaning product I use will have to actually work.
This toilet gel, like most others, comes in a plastic bottle with an angled lid so you can direct the gel around the rim of your toilet. The first thing I noticed about this gel is that it is rather more runny the one I'm used to using, so you need more of it and it tends to just gather in the bowl rather than cling to the sides. This obviously isn't good as it won't be cleaning the sides of the toilet very well.
The second thing I noticed is the smell. Obviously toilet cleaner isn't goind to smell pleasant but this not only knocks you over with a strong odour when you are using it but lingers for hours and manages to penetrate your entire home, making it smell rather like a public lavatory.
When getting to work with the toilet brush as usual there are a lot of bubbles so I can't really see what I'm doing. I ususally just give the toilet a throrough scrubbing and flush to reveal sparkling porcelain. However when using this product and scrubbing as usual, I was not left with a sparkling clean toilet. I had to reapply the product and scrub a lot harder, so it obviously does not dissolve the limescale.
I was very dissapointed with this toilet cleaner and have switched back to the branded one which actually works. I won't recommend this, even to people who clean their toilets every day, because of the awful smell it gives off.
As much as it seems like a rather boring and mundane item to review, things like household cleaners and similar items are probably of as much relevance to consumers as food items and more exciting things like books or films. (I like to think so anyway!)
Anyway, I regularly buy the cheapest toilet cleaner available at whatever supermarket I happen to be doing my shopping in. This is often a value product, such as the "Tesco Value" toilet cleaner.
Whilst I was in my local Tesco store recently however, the 'Value' toilet cleaner was out of stock, so much to my annoyance, I had to pick an alternative (and more expensive) cleaner as I had ran out completely, and it is one of those items that I prefer to have in the house at any time.
The cheapest toilet cleaner that I could find was the "Tesco Active Toilet Gel" own branded toilet cleaner. It was a much cheaper option than rival cleaners such as "Toilet Duck" and the like. I think that the bottle cost me in the region of 60 - 70 pence, which is pretty much the maximum amount that I would spend on such a product.
With the bottle of cleaner now almost empty, I feel that I am in a position to comment on this product fairly and write a review about it.
I will start off by saying that the design of the plastic bottle is much superior to that of its "Value" rival. Whereas a huge flaw the 'Value' product has is the poor design of the bottle, this Tesco toilet cleaner has a perfectly angled 'neck' that allows you to dispense enough liquid (by squeezing the bottle) under the rim of the toilet pan, thus giving you the impression that it is a little cleaner and more hygienic by doing so.
The smell of the gel cleaner is very powerful, and is evident as soon as you have squeezed the liquid from the bottle. I find it to be a very over-powering smell, and almost catches in my throat when I am using it, although to be fair I do find that this is the case with all similar toilet cleaners that I use.
The colour of this particular gel cleaner is a bright blue colour, and I find that if I am not careful to scrub the cleaner away properly, it can stain the sides of the toilet bowl. It has not actually stained it permanently, but I have witnessed a few stubborn blue marks from time to time that are rather annoying. I feel sometimes that I need to clean the loo a few times just to remove every trace of the gel cleaner... this makes this product far from perfect, for me at least.
All in all, I do find that the gel cleaner is effective at removing dirt and cleaning my toilet. I find that after several flushes, there is still a faint whiff of the smell of the product which is a trait that I quite like. I also found that this particular bottle of cleaner lasted slightly longer than its 'Value' rival, but this is probably due to me not using as much of it because of the extremely over-powering smell, rather than the product itself being MUCH more effective.
It probably is a little more effective than the 'Value' cleaner, but not so much so that I will continue to buy this gel cleaner in place of the 'Value' one.
All in all I would award it three stars, and cannot recommend it EXTREMELY highly. It is a good stand-by, but nothing more than that, to my mind at least.
Not the worst, but not the best either! :-/
I am compelled to write a really poor review for this toilet cleaner. I have been using it for just over a week and it is staining my toilet. After I used it the first time, I noticed that when I flushed the toilet, not all of the cleaner went. A blue patch remained on one side of the bowl.
I thought that this might be due to the fact that we have a hippo in our toilet cistern to save water and so sometimes the strength of the flush is not that powerful. So I left it but after a few flushes the stain was still there.
I have used the product repeatedly and each time more blue stains appear. Generally they go after a few flushes but the initial stain remains.
I really like the smell of this cleaner but it does not clean well. Other than leaves blue marks, it does not remove any other stains in the bowl.
This cleaner is fairly cheap. It is 72 pence for 750ml. But there is not much going for it!
Tesco active toilet gel fresh
It seems I am permanently in the aisles where the cleaning products live- summer holidays and lots more cleaning!
I always like to add some toilet cleaner in the toilet because not only does it make the toilet smell fresh and clean but I think it does actually make it cleaner. Having always used some of the more well known brands, i decided to try out tescos own make, mainly because I seem to spend a lot of time in the shop, and it was there!
The toilet cleaner itself comes in a plastic 750ml blue bottle with a kind of curved spout for easy application to under the rim of the toilet. I unscrew the screw on/off cap (with child safety feature) and find that it does smell very fresh and smells of pine, rather like the pine disinfectant. The product itself is blue and quite thick so the bottle needs a bit of a squeeze as it's been used, but this is good because it means that it just doesn't all pour out and be wasted.
It claims to:
*kill bacteria
*clean the toilet
*help remove limescale
*leave the toilet smelling clean and fresh
Quite simple...remove cap (obviously!) and direct the liquid around the bowl and under the rim- this is easily achieved because of the curved shape. Leave for at least two hours before flushing so that the product can do its stuff.
Obviously, this should be kept out of the reach of children, and there are the usual warnings for this type of product:
* Don't use with bleach or other cleaning products...I find this quite tricky because i like to use it just after I have cleaned the toilet, but have found that it's ok if I clean the toilet then flush it before using the product.
* Use only in the toilet bowl
* If it comes into contact with skin or eyes, wash immediately
* Wash hands after use
*the product has not been tested on animals
*it containsdisinfectant and perfume
* tesco will refund money if not satisfied with the product
Safe for use in septic tanks
Available instore at Tesco or online at www.tesco.com. The product costs 72p for 750ml
The product is easy to use and can be directed wherever needed. Because it's easy to direct I also find that there are no splahes onto me or surrounding surfaces although this could also be due to the fact that it's a thick liquid and so not prone to splashing everywhere.
The toilet cleaner does smell really fresh and clean and fortunately when the toilet is flushed, the liquid flushes away with the water so i am not left with blue streaks down the toilet bowl, and it doesn't require rubbing away.
I'm not really sure about the product as a cleaner because I tend to clean the toilet before using it, and don't think I would like to rely on it as a cleaner although i am sure that it does clean the toilet still further.
For a good toilet cleaner which is reasonably priced, smells fresh and clean and is easy to use, i would recommend this.
Thanks for reading.
Daniela X
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International / Patagonia to Alaska« on: March 09, 2013, 11:39:40 am »
My name is Michael, i'm 28 and from the UK
I'm planning on doing a bit of a bike ride and although in some ways the idea appeals to me, i'd rather not do alone.
I plan to cycle from the southernmost tip of south america all the way up to alaska. depending on the route this will be about 17,000 miles.
i am aiming to leave about the start of december 2013 and it should take anywhere between 6-8 months.
if this appeals to you in any way then send me an e-mail at email@example.com and we can discuss it further. also if you happen to know anybody that may be interesting in such an undertaking then please put them in contact with me.
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Dropping the Third Class Medical: Good Idea?
Is it time to eliminate the Third Class medical requirement? Reader Steve Waechter wrote me last week to remind me that I promised to lend support to this idea. So I'm following up to do just that. But to tell you the truth, I'm not as sure about this as others seem to be. As you may know, Potomac Airfield owner David Wartofsky has petitioned the FAA to consider this proposal. His idea is that for pilots flying aircraft under 6000 pounds, no medical should be required for private-use flying. Here are some details.
The idea here is two-fold. One is that only a small percentage of accidents�under one percent�are the result of pilot impairment and, second, you self-certify between medicals anyway, so what good do the examinations really do? Not much, I'd guess. I have two misgivings. The first is how pilots do the self-certification game, the second has to do with unintended consequences.
Following the SAFE conference in Atlanta two weeks ago, I spent a number of hours poring over NTSB accident reports. According to my sweep, pilot incapacitation or medical issues comes up more often than one percent. "Comes up" means that it's mentioned in the factual, but is not necessarily determinative. Conversely, it could be just as true that some accidents in which incapacitation isn't mentioned may very well have been caused by a medically unfit pilot. I think NTSB investigations just lack the granularity to nail these things down accurately.
Furthermore, pilots don't always do the best job of self-certification. They fly while using medications that either aren't approved or are debilitating, they fly with conditions that wouldn't get past even a Third Class exam and everyone knows a basic survival rule is to never have your family doc and AME be the same guy.
All of this is to say I think pilot incapacitation is a slightly larger safety issue than it's made out to be, but not so large as to justify the large bureaucracy and expense necessary to maintain the Third Class, at least to current standards. Because of the way some�maybe most�pilots self-certify, it's just not clear to me that the Third Class exam makes much difference. You can hide stuff from your AME, but you can't hide it from yourself. And you fly anyway. So what's the point?
But if the Third Class goes away, there will be immediate and substantial impact on the LSA market and that's the unintended consequence. Although the LSA idea was conceived to bring new people into aviation at lower costs, what it is in fact doing is keeping older pilots in the cockpit longer because they don't need to sweat the medical. Nearly every LSA manufacturer we've talked to relies heavily on the "full-circle" older buyer who is cashing out a Bonanza or Skylane and continuing on with an LSA. "If the Third Class is dropped," Frank Woodward at Eastman Aviation told me last month, "we are out of business."
Absurd as it sounds, we have built an entire aviation segment�and not a very strong one, yet�on the fear of FAA medical certification. That just doesn't make sense to me, so I reluctantly conclude that it's time to sunset the Third Class. One way of doing it might be to relax the standards for a few years before eliminating it entirely.
But either way, it's not going to be the free ride some people imagine it to be.


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Tom Atchley, excise tax administrator with the state Department of Finance and Administration, confirmed Tuesday the restaurant owed $32,395.52 in state and local sales tax.
On Monday afternoon, the restaurant was closed and signs were posted alerting the public the business had been closed by the state because of unpaid sales taxes.
Atchley told The Courier on Monday that Old South Inc. was notified of sales tax nonpayment on March 11, and a tax lien against the restaurant was filed at the Pope County Courthouse.
The lien provides a method for the state to claim money owed in the event property is sold by the owner.
"If any property is sold by the owner, it is secured by the state," Atchley said.
The closure process begins when a business owes three months of sales tax receipts within a 24-month period, Atchley said. If the tax liability is paid, the restaurant can reopen.
Old South Restaurant opened April 4, 1947. The diner was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 1999.


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G22.2590 - Natural Language Processing - Spring 2005 Prof. Grishman
Lecture 7 Outline
March 21, 2005
Discuss homework (assignment 4):
- calculating probabilities for animal HMM: probability of generating a sentence is the sum of the probabilities of the different individual paths which generate that string
- calculating probabilities for POS HMM: it is important to take into account 3 probabilities when comparing the assignment of two different POS to a particular word: the probability of the transition in to the state, the probability of emission, and the probability of transition out of that state
Note minor update to ChunkPattern.txt file for Assignment 6.
Term project: discuss
. Proposal due by email, April 4th.
Evaluating chunkers
Our noun/verb group tagger ('chunker') won't be perfect; like our POS tagger, we need to evaluate it by hand-annotating a substantial corpus and then comparing the results of our chunker against this standard.
What metric should we use? We can map a chunk annotation into an assignment of a tag to each word. For example, if we are tagging just noun groups, we can tag the first word of a noun group as B-NG, subsequent words of a noun group as I-NG, and words not in a noun group as O. Then we can measure the accuracy of our tagging (correct tags / total number of words). This can be readily extended to other chunk types, or multiple chunk types.
However, accuracy can be a deceptive measure for less frequent annotations. If we are scoring verb group annotations, and 80% of words are not part of a verb group (i.e., get tag O), then a tagger which can't find any verb groups at all would get an 80% accuracy score.
So for annotations which can span one or more words we typically use recall and precision measures. In comparing the key and system response, we count the total number of annotations in the key, the total number in the response, and the number of correct annotations (annotations in the response which exactly match one in the key (same starting and ending word)). We then compute (J&M p. 578)
recall = number correct / number in key
precision = number correct / number in response
F = geometric mean of recall and precision = 1 / (1 / recall + 1 / precision)
To assist in evaluating chunkers and other similar annotators, Jet provides the capability to
annotate entire documents
and the ability to
score the output
for precision and recall.
Named Entity Tagging
As we have noted before, identifying names is an important part of many natural language processing applications. Names are very common in most types of text, and -- unlike general vocabulary -- cannot be looked up in a dictionary.
The simple
set for Jet treats any sequence of capitalized words as a name. This is very crude ... it doesn't handle names at the beginning of sentences or names with some lower-case words, such as "University of Pennsylvania" or "City of New York". It doesn't work for headlines, and such a strategy would not work for many languages with no case information (Chinese, Japanese) or where other nouns are capitalized (German). Furthermore, it doesn't classify names (people vs. companies, for example), although that is essential for almost any real application.
Fortunately, name identification has become a widely-studied task over the last decade, so there are now many corpora annotated with name information, in many languages. The 'standard set', introduced at
Message Understanding Conference - 6
in 1995, recognizes three types of names -- people, organizations, and locations -- as well as four other types of expressions -- dates, times, percentages, and monetary amounts. These corpora have been used to develop both detailed hand-coded rules and statistical models.
Some names are simply memorized -- for example, the names of well known companies (IBM, Ford). Other names can be identified and classified based on both internal and external evidence. Examples of internal evidence are common first names ("Fred Kumquat") or corporate suffixes ("Blightly
Associates", "Zippo Corp."); examples of external evidence are titles ("President Huber") and verbs which take human subjects ("Zenca died"). Such evidence can be used by both hand-coded and corpus-trained models.
Many different statistical models have been used for named entity tagging; HMMs were one of the first and remain one of the most popular (see
Nymble: a High-Performance Learning Name-finder
and the
Advanced NLP notes on NE
). The simplest HMM has one state for each type of name, plus one state for "other". However, such a model does not capture any context information. To include context information and a bit of internal structure, Jet uses a more elaborate HMM, with 6 states for each name type. Other HMMs for name recognition condition the transition and emission probabilities on the prior word.
The name tagger for Jet is run with the command "
". The parameter "
" specifies the HMM to be used for name tagging. Jet includes the "
" file, an HMM trained on the MUC-7 name corpus. The tagger produces annotations of type
for names and type
for dates and times.
Sentence Level Patterns and Semantic Grammars (J&M 15.5)
We can couple together the annotators we have considered so far ... a POS tagger, a name annotator, and a chunk annotator ... to give us information on the low-level constituents of a sentence, quickly and with reasonable accuracy. Can we keep goiing now and write patterns for larger constituents, such as noun phrases and sentences?
Unfortunately, for larger constituents the problem of ambiguity becomes much greater, as we have discussed before. Syntactic patterns are not sufficient to produce accurate, unambiguous analyses. We need to include semantic constraints, and maybe more.
Capturing semantic constraints in general is a difficult problem. However, if we focus on a narrow domain, such as weather reports, car repair reports, (specific types of ) medical reports, or some types of financial reports, the problem gets easier. For such a sublanguage, we can identify
semantic word classes
: form classes of nouns (the types of 'entities' in the domain) and classify verbs in terms of the types of nouns they take as arguments. The
semantic co-occurrence constraints (selectional constraints)
can then be captured either
by a separate grammar component which checks these constraints whenever the parses completes a clause constituent, or
by a context-free grammar stated in terms of these semantic word classes -- a
semantic grammar
(J&M p. 575-577).
We will initially (for our Jet implementation) use semantic grammar patterns. Semantic grammars
provide a simple approach to limited sublanguages (because they capture both syntactic and semantic constraints in a single component)
- in particular, they are convenient for constructs which fall outside general language syntax (constructs which appear only with specific semantic classes)
but they lose power of syntactic generalization … each semantic pattern must appear in each of its syntactic forms (active, passive, question, …), and so are cumbersome for broad-coverage systems.


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We are looking for a talented, passionate, and highly-motivated web application developer. As a member of our core development team, you will help us develop applications and enhancements for our online content distribution platform and other systems. You will also contribute to the R&D and build-out of future systems as well as help us refine our software development process.
2+ years developing highly interactive web applications preferably using Java, Ruby, and Ruby-on-Rails
1+ years mobile application development using Android and iOS
Expertise in CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, web services, and code level HTML
BS or MS in Computer Science preferred
Proficient with Web technologies generally
Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and concepts
C++ experience desirable
Comfortable using developer tools and code repositories including but not limited to Eclipse, Firebug, and Git or Subversion
Experience with audio editing and digital signal processing, MMO gaming and game programming, and network packet structures and packet analysis desirable
Strong verbal, written, and team-oriented communication skills
Ability to work under pressure, with passion and interest in learning new technologies
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Proven ability to work within ambiguous design constraints
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Happysin wrote:
what i want to do, how i want to do it!
...which, as we have demonstrated, is not a function of Windows 8, but of your relationship with your IT department.
my IT department has absolutely zero bearing on microsoft's demented machinations. that was a tangent regarding how IT people love windows because it makes their lives easier (while making everyone else's more annoying).


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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
Mark Wilson began the day with a 2 stroke lead in the frost delayed Waste Management
Open over fellow FootJoy player Jason Dufner. Dufner (FJ Sport) birdied the
famed par 3 16th and the drivable par 4 17th to force a playoff with
Wilson. After exchanging pars on the first playoff hole, Wilson laid back with his tee shot and struck a smooth 7 iron approach that set up a 9 footer for the win. Wilson, trusting FJ Icon Style # 52354 and a
SciFlex glove emerged
from the playoff to win the Waste Management Open for his second victory in
only three starts this season. "I'm just enjoying the ride here and that's just kind of the way I'm
going to look at the year here, just ride this train as long as I can,"
Wilson said of the victory.
Mark Wilson (FJ ICON #52308, SciFlex glove) went bogey-free over the final 36 holes Sunday en route to capturing the Sony Open by two shots over fellow FJ players Tim Clark (DryJoys Tour style #53767) and Steve Marino (FJ Sport style #53102, SciFlex). Wilson shot a 5-under 65 in the morning to take a one-shot lead into the afternoon round. Despite only six minutes between rounds, he closed with a 3-under 67 for his third career victory.The win came with some anxious moments, courtesy of Marino and Clark. Marino was 13 under and needed an eagle on 18, which looked improbable when his drive splashed out of the bunker and onto the side of a hill.With his feet in the sand, and the ball about chest-high on the hill, Marino lashed at it with a fairway metal and watched it hook onto the front of the green and stop 40 feet away."I saw the ball, and I thought, 'OK, eagle is going to be pretty tough for him to make.' It was one incredible shot," Wilson said.Marino's eagle putt narrowly missed, and Wilson pitched to 4 feet and made a birdie he didn't need. He finished at 16-under 264.The big move of the day came from Clark, and he was on the other side of the course.Because of the 36-hole final -- forced by a washout in the first round Thursday -- players did not change groups for the afternoon. Clark started the day six shots out of the lead, shot 66 in the morning and made his move on the front nine -- his last nine holes. His birdie on No. 6 took him to 12 under, then he nearly made an ace on the par-3 seventh for a tap-in birdie and gave himself two good looks at the end.With this win, Wilson earns his second trip to Augusta for the Masters. His first came in 2001 as a spectator. Wilson won the Honda Classic in 2007, but a month later Augusta National changed its criteria to invite most PGA TOUR winners. He won in Mexico two years later, but that doesn't count toward the Masters because it is an opposite-field tournament.Wilson finally returns to Augusta as a player, and he can only hope his celebration ends by April."From what I've learned over the years is the more you succeed out here, the more people expect of you," Wilson said. "But I'm going to enjoy this like crazy."


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Location: Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior LaboratoryTitle: Attraction of agrilus planipennis fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) to a volatile pheromone: effects of release rate, host volatile and trap placement Author
|Ryall, Krista
|Silk, Peter
|Mayo, Peter
|Crook, Damon
|Khrimian, Ashot
|Cosse, Allard
|Sweeney, Jon
|Scarr, Taylor
Submitted to: Environmental Entomology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/20/2012
Publication Date: 6/30/2012
Citation: Ryall, K.L., Silk, P.J., Mayo, P., Crook, D., Khrimian, A., Cosse, A.A., Sweeney, J., Scarr, T. 2012. Attraction of agrilus planipennis fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) to a volatile pheromone: effects of release rate, host volatile and trap placement. Environmental Entomology. 41(3):648-656. Interpretive Summary: Insect pests cause a significant damage to crops and forest, and monitoring their populations aids greatly to reducing the pesticide use and biological control. Monitoring the exact whereabouts of the invasive emerald ash borer beetle, currently destroying millions of ash trees in fifteen US states and two Canadian provinces, is difficult due to the large infested area, the relative tall trees, and smallness of the beetle. Attractant-baited traps have been used to monitor insect pest populations for a wide range of insect species, both in agricultural as well as in forestry settings. In the present study, we use field trapping as a technique to further investigate the behavioral responses of the emerald ash borer to the sex pheromone of this insect, alone and in combination with a volatile compound identified from the ash foliage. The results demonstrated that this combination of attractants can be used as a sensitive tool for detecting the presence of the emeralds ash borer in forests and urban wood lots. As such, the developed attractant might help in the control of this very destructive ash pest insect. The results of this study are of interest to entomologists and chemists involved in the research of potential pest control compounds, and to State and Federal agencies involved in monitoring and controlling emerald ash borer.
Technical Abstract: Attraction of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, to a volatile pheromone was demonstrated in three field experiments using baited green sticky traps. A dose-response curve was generated for male A. planipennis to increasing release rates of (3Z)-dodecen-12-olide, (3Z)-lactone, in combination with the green leaf volatile, (3Z)-hexenol. Only the lowest release rate (<2.50 µg/day) of (3Z)-lactone significantly increased captures of male A. planipennis. Effect of trap height, (3Z)-lactone, and (3Z)-hexenol and their interactions on the trap capture of A. planipennis was determined in a factorial experiment. Number of males per trap was significantly and positively affected by (3Z)-lactone, (3Z)-hexenol, and trap height whereas number of females per trap was affected by trap height only; none of the interactions were significant. As predicted, the greatest mean catch of males was in traps baited with (3Z)-lactone and (3Z)-hexenol placed high in the canopy. Electroantennogram tests on the bark volatile, 7-epi-sesquithujene, demonstrated the ability of male and female A. planipennis antennae to detect and respond to this compound, particularly the (+)-7-epi-sesquithujene isomer. Results from an olfactometer bioassay and field testing did not demonstrate attraction of either males or females to (+)-7-epi-sesquithujene but the field trapping experiment confirmed attraction of male A. planipennis to (3Z)-lactone. These data increase our understanding of the pheromone ecology of the invasive emerald ash borer, provide further confirmation of the behavioral activity of the female-produced lactone pheromone, and should increase the ability to detect A. planipennis infestations where they are present


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Long Beach City College faculty member David Morse was recently elected as vice president of the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges.
A member of the ASCCC Executive Committee since 2009, Morse served as Academic Senate Secretary from 2011 to 2013.
Morse was a member of the LBCC Academic Senate from 2001 to 2012, and served as Academic Senate President from 2005 to 2007. As Senate President, he co-chaired numerous college committees, including the Enrollment Management Oversight Committee, the Educational Master Planning Committee, Academic Council and Hiring Priorities.
He has also served as a member of various other college committees, including Budget Advisory, and was a co-chair for Standard 10 of the LBCC Accreditation Self-Study in 2002. He served as co-chair of various task forces to revise LBCC's planning structure and its program review process.
Morse began teaching at LBCC as an hourly instructor in 1991 and returned to the college as a member of the full-time faculty in 1998. He holds a bachelor's degree in English and history from the from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in English from the University of Kansas, and a doctorate in English from the University of Southern California.


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TSA previously has offered support services and traction motors from its Wiener Neudorf, Austria headquarters; its U.S. main office is in Somerville, N.J., headed by President Bill Umbenhaur.
U.S. customers have included New Jersey Transit, Austin, Tex.'s Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Denton County Transportation Authority (also in Texas), Phoenix Valley Metro, and Seattle's Sound Transit .
Traction Systems, Inc. will allow the TSA to provide rail vehicles manufacturers with state-of-the-art designs and technology, while meeting Buy America requirements, the company said.


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Helping police officers struck by the Moore tornado
We are thankful to Flying Cross, Blauer, Rocky Boots, Safariland, and many others for helping us help these first responders in need
I was in a class yesterday when an officer told me that "Moore had been leveled."
It took a few minutes for me to fully register what I'd just been told.
You see, Moore (Okla.) was struck by a devastating F5 tornado in 1999 that killed 41 people. It was hard for me to imagine anything like that happening again. But it has.
Since that 1999 tornado, I've been involved in a Disaster Relief Team with a Ministry called Ten-Four Ministries. In the last few years, we've partnered with my good friend Scott Barthelmass and his organization, the Missouri Law Enforcement Funeral Assistance Team , when devastation hits areas around us.
We were in Joplin and Alabama two years ago (see our efforts here, and here, and here) and we learned that many of the basic needs of the first responders were not always met when disaster hits.
It became apparent that these heroes in the rubble took care of everyone else while sometimes their own families needed that same help.
I walked out of class yesterday afternoon and my phone was full with messages. After seeing the identical images I had seen a few years ago in other cities, I knew it was time to do something. I knew Scott would be calling. He did.
It is early and the "fog" of the situation makes it a little bit unclear what the specific needs will be.
We do know that one Moore officer has lost his home and vehicles and we also know that many more will be affected as additional information comes to us.
We want to help as much as possible.
Monetary donations can be sent here.
Donations are tax-deductible and, as we did in Joplin and Alabama, we will take the proceeds directly to the first responders in need.
Many think that insurance companies or organizations set up tents and hand out money to those in need. That is simply not what we found in the weeks after other devastating events.
We found the need great in those locations, and being able to hand a first responder who has lost everything funds to help them with a hotel or groceries can go a long way.
We are also working with several great companies in providing BDUs, boots, rain gear, safety vests, and gloves to the first responders.
This will help them do their job and we are thankful to Flying Cross, Blauer, Rocky Boots, Safariland, and many others for helping us help these first responders in need.
We also know that we will need much more in the days to come. If you would like to send boots, gloves, or BDUs to those in need please ship them to the following address:
Special OPS Uniforms
C/O Mr. Mitch McIntire
2921 NW 10th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73107
Phone #405-946-3504
I'm thankful to be in a profession that takes care of our own and I am grateful to play just a small part in that. Thank you for your prayers and generosity for this horrible event in my home state.
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