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Whenever I try to use the MikTeK Package Manager, I get the error messages "An
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package repository via the "Packages" part of "MixTeX Options" but I cannot
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Did you select the "Change..." button on the "Packages" tab ?
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|Abnormal rectal motor physiology in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
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|PMID: 15086879 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|A contentious issue is whether irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients have abnormal rectal motor physiology. Our aim was to determine whether IBS patients have abnormal rectal responses to low (urge producing) or high (pain producing) distension pressures. The IBS patients and healthy controls underwent five series of isobaric rectal distensions to examine volume-pressure relationships and rectal accommodation: (i) ascending stepwise distensions terminating upon report of moderate pain, (ii) phasic and (iii) tonic distensions at a single low pressure producing a moderate sensation of urge to defecate (iv) phasic and (v) tonic distensions at a single high pressure producing a moderate pain sensation. The IBS patients demonstrated a lower rectal volume-pressure ratio during repetitive single-pressure phasic distensions, and a slower rate of rectal accommodation during low (but not high) pressure tonic distensions. However, dynamic compliance during ascending stepwise distensions and the change in rectal volume during tonic distension were not significantly different from controls. Rectal abnormality was readily demonstrated by determining the volume-pressure ratio using a small number of repetitive single-pressure distensions, supporting the hypothesis that IBS patients have abnormal rectal motor physiology. We propose that a peripheral neuromuscular substrate may contribute to the pathogenesis of IBS.
|C L Kwan; K D Davis; K Mikula; N E Diamant
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|Created Date: 2004-04-16 Completed Date: 2004-06-03 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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UnDave35 6 years
I found a 3" earthworm in my glass of water over the summer. It may have been a gift from my daughter though.
flyingroo 6 years
For anyone having problems with the chlorine in the water used for cooking, use stale water. Leave your water in an open recipient between 4 hours to 1 day, that will get rid of the remaining chlorine.
momma-tikita 6 years
wow Cally I didn't know that...I wish there was a bubble bursting smiley!
organicsugr 6 years
I've found, that is.
organicsugr 6 years
Our water here in Austin takes suspiciously like limestone and chlorine. I'm not sure how people can stand the taste. In fact, I've the amount of chlorine will kill most baking yeast cultures. It does make some pretty good beer though, if you're willing to put up with slower fermentation because of the chlorination.
cally8980 6 years
Momma, bottled water is not regulated nearly as much as tap water. Furthermore, it really is just tap water from somewhere else (most likely in the country). If you are pouring it at a high flowrate, then the cloudiness probably is just pressure. Yes very small amounts of drugs are in water because it is ridiculously difficult to remove the millions of drugs that are washed down the drain. They are also in bottled water. However, in the US, they usually exist in such small amounts that chances of getting harmed (e.g. cancer or some other problem) are very slight. It really depends on where you are. Drug removal is a big topic in Environmental Engineering right now, so removal should be better soon.
momma-tikita 6 years
My water comes out cloudy and then becomes clear..weird. Someone told me it was the pressure that made little oxygen bubbles inside of it. :shrugs: Either way I dont drink it. I buy Bottled water :oops:
StolzeMama 6 years
My water tastes pretty good. i have taken a tour of our water waste treatment facility and they said that rx drugs of all sorts are found, but they test for any elevated levels that can cause drug interactions. The military tested our water for cocaine and meth and found negligible amounts. I think our city does a great job maintaining our utilities.
StolzeMama 6 years
drugged your drink. Find out what drugs you are taking each time you turn on the tap. — Good
mydiadem 6 years
Our water here in Philly is pretty disgusting, its cloudy when it comes out of the tap. I wish I lived in DC, Bush got their water to be pristine.
Roarman 6 years
Many people believe that hormones in the water from birth control is a majore factor in girls hitting puberty and menstruating earlier. Yes, good for the Unitarians acknowledging what most reasonable people already know. Teens are having sex whether parents like it or not. So let's give them the information necessary to protect themselves.
starangel82 6 years
My water is awful. If I don't use my Brita pitcher, it's disgusting. My cat won't even drink the water if it comes from the tap.
BRANDYNICOLE730 6 years
I know a report came out last year about anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs being found in Arlington's drinking water. Also, earlier this year, my drinking water took a severe turn for the worse. It had a major chlorine taste to the point that it tasted like pool water. They finally came to test it and said it was very high in chlorine and ammonia, and they'd fix it. Ha!
nyaradzom2001 6 years
Joe the plumber??? I'm waiting for Ashtong Kutcher to jump out and scream you've been punked. And as for the sex education prgramme good on them.
Jude-C 6 years
I bet he makes everyone who comes to his house watch all his TV clips.
UnDave35 6 years
I don't know of anyone who is really listening to Joe the almost plumber.
Jude-C 6 years
Good for the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ! Can't Joe the Plumber just go away now? I hope my Brita filter gets some of those drugs out of my water.


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Prep wrestling: Oostburg beat Sussex-Hamilton 51-21 on Tuesday.
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The Flying Dutchmen picked up seven pins - two of them in less than a minute - to post a 51-21 win over Sussex-Hamilton on Tuesday and improve to 5-0 in dual meets this season.
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JACKSON, Tenn. – A Humboldt man was arrested after he allegedly offered to pay a teen for sex.
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Do you remember sock hops?I don't mean have you heard about them or seen them on television shows and movies. I mean do you really remember them? I do, and they were a blast. I think sock hops got their name because they were usually held on high school gymnasium floors after Friday night football games, and back in the day gym floors were sacred. A mere mortal would never even think about stepping onto one in his or her street shoes, so as students filed into the dance they would step out of their shoes and line them up along the wall and cut loose in their stocking feet - or sock feet, as the case may be - thus the term sock hop. Of course, I was raised in Newton County and was brought up to believe that lightning would strike you if you stepped on Ronald Bradley's court in street shoes. I think it might have to. I will never forget the day Mrs. Burke, the most feared math teacher in three counties, walked across the floor in her high heels. Coach Bradley immediately accosted her and promised that he would not walk into her math class barefooted if she would not walk on his floor in her high heels. The point is, we didn't dance on our gym floor, shoes or no shoes. Our sock hops were held at the Teen Can, which was located right across Newton Drive from the school. The traditional dances were a lot of fun. The room would be decorated with crepe paper streamers and balloons. There would be a refreshment table, of course, with watered down punch and those little round butter cookies; the ones with a hole in the middle. Traditionally, the music was provided by a record player - if you remember sock hops you remember those old 45s - and a good time was had by all, with very little stress and very little expense. Those were the days. The times were much more innocent. Honesty compels me to admit that I never danced very much at those Teen Can sock hops. I was only in the ninth grade when they quit having them and was much too bashful to ask a girl to dance. But I remember standing along the wall with a half-dozen butter cookies on my finger and a Dixie cup full of weak punch wishing I had the nerve to ask Sheila Bates, who was a senior and homecoming queen, to slow dance when they played "Soldier Boy." For some reason they quit having sock hops in the Teen Can around Christmas of my freshman year. I think it had something to do with integration. It seems like every decision they made back in those days had something to do with integration. At any rate, sock hops faded out, but dances after ball games did not. They just moved to the National Guard Armory. I don't think we had punch and cookies at the National Guard Armory, but we did have live bands. Usually it was the "Changyn Tymes." I am not at all certain that is the correct spelling, but if it's not, Markie Davis will set me straight when this gets to him, and I am pretty sure that Lynyrd Skynyrd got the idea for the funky way they spelled their name from Billy George. I am certain that you could keep your shoes on, too, at the Armory because Linda Evans chastised me more than once for stepping on her toes with my "big clodhoppers" while dancing to "To Love Somebody." Promoter extraordinaire Jack Lord also hosted a few dances out on Washington Street with bands that he brought in from all over the world. Hey! Smyrna is in the world. A lot of those were on Friday nights after basketball games. Members of the basketball team were forbidden to go to those, lest they lose sleep and not be prepared for the Saturday night game. Sometimes we went anyway, and even if all I did was hand a towel to Thad Blankenship during timeouts, I was still a a member of the team and, as such, pretty certain that I wasn't supposed to attend the dances. One night, Linda Hoffman, who was the No. 1 statistician, forgot to give Coach Bradley the folder with the stat sheets and he showed up at the dance, looking for her. Bruce Lynch, Wallace Christian and I dove under the bandstand to hide. He never said anything about it, but I think Coach Bradley knew we were under there, because he stayed for the rest of the dance. Later, the Jaycees built a teen center out on Brown Bridge Road and hosted a few dances out there, but I think I had graduated by then. I told you all that to tell you this. A couple of my history classes at Heritage High have been studying the '50s, and we had a sock hop this week to show them what they had been missing. The guys looked pretty cool in their rolled up jeans and white T-shirts, and the girls were even cuter in their poodle skirts and bobby socks, but when it came time for the teachers from my generation to show them how to rock and roll - well, let's just put it this way: The philosopher who said that youth is wasted on the young wasn't just whistling Dixie! Darrell Huckaby is a local author and educator. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Sir Geoff Hurst signed England photo - 1966 Goal Celebration. Our favourite still,from the monumentous English Victory. We held exclusive rights to Sir Geoffs signature for over seven years and this is an amazing value item at only £12.
Stunning large colourised photo of Sir Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters celebrating England's controversial third goal in the 1966 World Cup final at Wembley, signed by Sir Geoff Hurst himself.
Approximate size: 12 x 16 inches
Signed by: Sir Geoff Hurst
Item code: A4352
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Item DescriptionSir Geoff Hurst enjoyed a 17-year professional career with West Ham, Stoke City and West Bromich Albion but the England striker will forever be remembered for his iconic hat-trick against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final at Wembley.
Born in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1941, Hurst made his England debut in February 1966 and he was included in Sir Alf Ramsey's 22-strong World Cup squad as a back-up to first-choice strikers Jimmy Greaves and Roger Hunt.
Injury to Greaves in England's final group game against France handed the West Ham forward his chance in the quarter-finals and Hurst seized his opportunity with aplomb, his glancing header against Argentina ensuring England's progress to the last four of the competition.
A 2-1 victory over Portugal in the semi-final saw England through and although Greaves had returned to full fitness, Hurst kept his place and he was 120 minutes away from footballing immortality.
West Germany took the lead in the final but Hurst headed England level from Bobby Moore's free kick after 18 minutes. Ramsey's side went 2-1 up courtesy of Martin Peters, but the West Germans equalised late on and the game went into extra time.
Hurst's second was nothing if not controversial. His right-footed shot rattled the cross bar, bounced down and was cleared by the German defence. England claimed the goal, the referee consulted his linesman and to Wembley's delight, the goal was awarded. Four decades later the debate still rages on whether the ball had crossed the line.
He completed his hat-trick in the 120th minute. West Germany surged forward in search of the equaliser but Moore's clearance caught them cold and Hurst settled the contest with a fierce left-footed drive that remains arguably the most iconic moment in the history of the English game.
England were crowned world champions and Hurst remains the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final.
The West Ham striker went on to play in the 1970 World Cup finals but it is his part in England's 1966 triumph for which he is lionised. He was knighted in 1998 and six years later inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
Martin Peters made his England debut a mere two months before the 1966 World Cup finals but his relative international inexperience was quickly forgotten as he forced his way into Sir Alf Ramsey's starting line-up and played a pivotal role in the side's famous victory over West Germany in the final.
The West Ham midfielder did not feature in the opening game of the tournament against Uruguay but he was selected for the second match Mexico and remained in the team for the rest of the competition.
It was Peters' cross in the notoriously violent quarter-final against Argentina that set up Hurst's headed winner but it was in the final at Wembley that the dynamic Hammer was to earn his place in World Cup folklore.
With the matched locked at 1-1 and 12 minutes left on the clock, England won a corner. Alan Ball took it, Hurst could only get a partial contact and the ball fell to Peters, who unleashed an unstoppable half-volley that almost broke the net.
West Germany equalised in the dying seconds of normal time but Hurst's two goals in extra time ensured Peters' effort was not in vain and the West Ham midfielder remains only the second Englishman to score in a World Cup final.
He went on to play 67 times for his country, scoring 20 goals from midfield, and in 2006 he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
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|Radioanalytical studies of fallout 63Ni.
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|Fallout of Nickel-63 (T1/2 = 100 a) produced in small amounts at nuclear weapon tests following the neutron activation of weapon construction material was investigated by studying carpets of lichen collected during 1961 to 1988 at the Lake Rogen district in central Sweden (62.3 degrees N, 12.4 degrees E). The maximal level of 63Ni in the lichen carpet, which occurred in 1964, was about 0.6 Bq kg-1, dry weight, and decreased to 0.1 Bq kg-1 in 1988. The deposition pattern for 63Ni was similar to other fallout radionuclides such as 137Cs, 90Sr and 239 + 240Pu. The concentrations of stable Ni were relatively constant at 0.5 to 1.0 microgram g-1 throughout the years resulting in, for example, a specific activity (63Ni/stable Ni) of 0.5 Bq mg-1 in 1964 and 0.1 Bq mg-1 in 1988. The total area content of 63Ni was estimated to be 1.0 Bq m-2 and the activity ratio 63Ni/60Co was estimated to be 0.03 in 1966. The Chernobyl accident in April 1986 did not significantly increase the levels of 63Ni. For the measurement of these extremely low-levels of 63Ni, 200 g of dry material (about 1 kg fresh) were ashed and leached with aqua regia after hydroxides had been precipitated with ammonia, leaving Ni in the aqueous phase. Nickel was extracted as a dimethylglyoxime complex by chloroform and back-extracted with HCl. Finally, Ni was electroplated onto copper discs from an ammonium sulfate medium at high pH. The radiochemical yield was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry of stable Ni before and after electrodeposition.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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The Tapestry Baby Virtual Book Tour June 2011Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on May 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Join Carole Waterhouse, author of the literary fiction novel, The Tapestry Baby, as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 6 – 30 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
About Carole Waterhouse
A creative writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, Carole Waterhouse is the author of two novels, The Tapestry Baby and Without Wings, and a collection of short stories, The Paradise Ranch.
Her fiction has appeared in Arnazella, Artful Dodge, Baybury Review, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Forum, Half Tones to Jubilee, Massachusetts Review, Minnetonka Review, Oracle: The Brewton-Parker College Review, Parting Gifts, Pointed Circle, Potpourri, Seems, Spout, The Armchair Aesthete, The Griffin, The Styles, Tucumari Literary Review, Turnrow, and X-Connect.
A previous newspaper reporter, she has published essays in an anthology, Horse Crazy: Women and the Horses They Love, and Equus Spirit Magazine. Her book reviews have appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Press, and The New York Times Book Review.
Her latest novel is The Tapestry Baby, a novel depicting a mother who believes her child is born to fulfill some special destiny and discovers her life is intertwined with six other people, raising the question of whether any of us really control our own decisions, and through the process learns that greatness can be defined in the simplest of gestures.
You can visit Carole's website at www.Carolewaterhouse.com. Visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/carolewaterhouse.author!
About The Tapestry Baby
Karin lives in terror that her child will be born a multi-colored version of the mysterious tattooed man she met one night. When Anna is born normal instead, she becomes convinced her daughter is meant to fulfill some special destiny that she herself can't provide. A believer of signs and premonitions, she takes off on a journey with Vonnie, a writer friend who can't complete any stories because the peacefulness of her own life leaves her without inspiration hoping she can make a decision along the way. The choice, however, may not fully be her own. Their lives are randomly connected with six other people. There's Ward, a cross-dresser who chooses his lovers based on their ability to make him look good, and Daria, a photographer who wants to feel emotion with the same level of intensity she can show it in her work. Mrs. Brown is a librarian with a sordid past who masquerades in her own dowdiness and her secret admirer Ned, a music teacher experiencing a nervous breakdown who finds that his images of make-believe women are deteriorating as notes break on his piano. Pivotal are Reggie, a massive tattooed man who despite his best efforts lives in fear of destroying women the same way he once accidentally crushed a bird he held in his hand and Clarissa, a fake fortune-teller who is responsible for bringing them all together. The Tapestry Baby raises the question of whether any of us really has control over our own destinies.
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Vonnie said nothing, waiting for the rest. They had been driving less than fifteen minutes, and already her windshield was covered with white halos from Karin's breath. She glanced into the back seat at the baby, saw she was still sleeping.
"The first thing I did was look back at Anna in her car seat, make sure she was all right. Call it a mother's instinct, since there was no reason to think she was in danger. But when I looked at her, it was as though she wasn't even there. I mean, she was. I could still see her. But the shadow from those creatures covered her so completely, it was as though she had become lost in their black. I kept thinking, they're going to absorb her into themselves, then carry her away.
"It wasn't until I turned back and was looking at the road again, searching for a place to pull off, that I realized the shadow couldn't have been there. The snake and bird were long gone. It was as if they had disappeared, but their darkness stayed.
"I kept looking for some other explanation but there simply was none. And then, for no apparent reason, no sudden change in the sky, no grand disbursement of the clouds, I looked back again, and Anna was smiling at me, her face completely bathed in the purest, pinkest light."
Karin stopped talking for a moment and looked around her. Vonnie wondered if she was looking for something to show her, to give some idea of what the "purest pink" looked like.
"I felt at peace for a moment. Then I looked at that light and realized is was just as unnatural in its own way. And that's when I became afraid, truly alarmed. I mean, first the shadow and then this bizarre light—they seemed as ungodly as the snake. And that's when I knew it was something more, that a message was being sent telling me my baby was in danger." Karin looked out the passenger window long enough that Vonnie turned her head, to see what she was staring at. There was a whole field full of longhorn cattle that looked oddly misplaced in the lush Pennsylvania farmland. Karin stared, long after the cattle were gone, then turned her head back.
"That was the first sign, the snake."
Vonnie nodded, remaining noncommittal. She didn't know much about Karin. They said now they had been friends in college, but that wasn't really true. "On the verge of becoming acquaintances" would have been a more accurate description of their relationship back then. Vonnie had taken a couple classes with Karin's roommate, had sat with her a few times in the dining hall. That was about the extent of it.
She had been taken aback when Karin walked up to her a little more than six months ago, hugely pregnant—as it turned out just days away from having her child—and sat next to her in a coffee bar, started talking to her as though the fifteen-plus years that had passed since they'd last seen each other had never occurred. Karin wasn't necessarily what most people would call beautiful, but was striking in her own way, tall and red-headed, with a slightly ruddy look about her, a woman more at home in a Jeep than a Mercedes. Vonnie didn't remember her, even after she explained who she was, but pretended to all through that meeting and a second chance one that took place a few weeks later.
She looked back at the baby again, thinking she wouldn't be sitting there so quietly if she knew what this trip was about. Anna was awake, staring back, and she was struck again by just how much she looked like a caricature instead of a real child—face oval-shaped, not round like most infants'; forehead and chin curving back sharply. Going through one of those stages, was what she said to herself in more tactful moments, but the flat-out truth was that Anna's appearance was almost startling.
She knew it was an awful thing to think but couldn't help it. And she wasn't the only one. She saw the surprised expressions that appeared on other people's faces, the way they would quickly look away and then, when curiosity got the best of them, turn again with a stare they just didn't seem to be able to stop.
Vonnie's foot eased up on the accelerator, an unsettling thought just now occurring to her. If the baby had been born pretty, would Karin still be thinking of giving her away?
"Clarissa calls it all hogwash, but it's a sign. I just know it. There isn't anyone who can tell me otherwise."
Vonnie had no idea who Clarissa was but didn't bother asking. In their few times together, she had come to expect Karin's conversations to be full of unanswered whos and whats. In fact, they knew so little about each other, she wasn't sure why Karin had chosen her, of all people, to accompany her. But she had said yes right away. It was the kind of request you just couldn't turn down.
"I mean, the whole world is communicating with us."
Karin stretched out her arms, swooping them upward in a birdlike motion that practically consumed the entire car. A giant osprey, Vonnie thought, its wings flapping beside me.
"Every creature has its message. It's just a matter of learning how to listen."
Rocks have souls, the changing colors of leaves are a reflection of their personalities and nature creates its own paths, accessible only to those who truly know how to look for them. These were the lessons Karin had to teach, each of which she preceded with the expression "Don't laugh," a sure sign that someone in the past had. Her side of the conversation presented like a series of course descriptions for a community college catalogue, her personality a combination of Stargazing I, Self-Introspection II, III and IV (any instructor worth his salt would be able to tell in five minutes that she was advanced enough to skip I), Basic Floral Design—all that time living in the south had clearly left its mark—and, finally, Changing a Flat, because despite all her whims and flighty ideas, this was a woman who knew how to survive alone.
Most of Vonnie's friends just raised their eyebrows when she described Karin and her assorted topics of conversation. Their lifestyles couldn't have been more different.
The Tapestry Baby Virtual Book Tour Schedule
Monday, June 6
Interviewed at Literarily Speaking
"Most writers are influenced more significantly by what they read than any other factor, and since I fell in love with literary fiction early on and ended up studying it from the bachelor level up through my doctoral work, I suppose it's not surprising that it's what I've wanted to write my entire life."
Tuesday, June 7
Interviewed at Examiner
"If someone this well-known was taking an interest in my writing and thought it had potential, maybe it was time to start believing in myself."
Wednesday, June 8
Interviewed at The Book Connection
"It was that connection with people that made the experience rewarding. Posting comments on blogs and answering questions in cyberspace sounded cold in comparison, an impersonal way of sharing a very essential part of myself—my life as a writer—with people I would never actually meet."
Thursday, June 9
Guest blogging at Literal Exposure
"The crucial conflict in The Tapestry Baby is a woman's concern over whether or not she can do a good job of raising her own child, or if her infant daughter would be better off with relatives who may be able to provide her with a better future. The woman, who is named Karin, sets off on a trip across Pennsylvania, where the other couple is waiting. During her long drive, Karin waits, hoping for a sign along the way that will tell her what to do."
Friday, June 10
Interviewed at Review From Here
"I'm very interested in environmental causes and believe we need to protect our surroundings. Like many people, I have a very close connection with nature."
Tuesday, June 14
Interviewed at The Writer's Life
"I used to be a big figure skating fan and always remember Dick Button saying that a great figure skater was one who in some way moved the sport forward, made a contribution that was unique and redefined what skating could be. That's a pretty lofty goal and I'm not going to suggest that my novel even begin to do anything like that for literature. It is playful, though, and takes some risks, and wants to be a little different from what is already out there."
Wednesday, June 15
Book reviewed at Life in Review
Thursday, June 16
Book reviewed at One Day at a Time
Friday, June 17
Guest blogging at The Book Faerie Reviews
Monday, June 20
Interviewed at Paperback Writer
"Writing is something I've always done. Even when I was too young to read or write, I used to copy words out of books. I began writing stories in elementary school, usually about my pets, and just never stopped. My subjects, obviously, have become more sophisticated, but animals still make their way into my writing quite often. Some people who know my work well tell me that every time they pick up something new I've written, they keep waiting for the place where a horse will show up."
Tuesday, June 21
Interviewed at The Hot Author Report
Wednesday, June 22
Interviewed at As the Pages Turn
Thursday, June 23
Guest participant at Literarily Speaking June 2011 Book Panel
Friday, June 24
Interviewed at Beyond the Books
Monday, June 27
Guest blogging & book giveaway at A Bookish Libraria
Tuesday, June 28
Guest blogging at The Book Bin
Wednesday, June 29
Book reviewed at Good Girl Gone Redneck
Interviewed at Blogcritics
Thursday, June 30
Guest blogging at Island Chick Travels
Chat/Book Giveaway at Pump Up Your Book June 2011 Facebook Party
Carole Waterhouse's THE TAPESTRY BABY VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '10 will officially begin on June 6 and end on June 30 '11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book or click here to use the form. Thank you!
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Many are aware that Anderson University was recently included in a list regarding higher education return on investment compiled by PayScale.com and reported through AOL. The story, which positioned Anderson University near the bottom of the list, is based on a report compiled by PayScale.com. Anderson University is disappointed with this inclusion as it is apparent that PayScale.com arrived at their conclusions through statistically unreliable techniques, outdated sources, and misleading methodology. For example, any individual who completed education beyond their Anderson University degree, worked outside the U.S., or is self employed were excluded from the results. The report uses industry averages for compensation rather than actual salary levels of Anderson University alumni which are not publicly available.
[Photo: Anderson University students benefit from the university's unique position as an institution where academic inquiry is fully embraced in harmony with a Christian faith perspective.]
The following are a few questions and answers about the PayScale.com list: http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value
• What is the source of the salary data from which they derive the ROI?
Salaries are self-reported via an online questionnaire on the PayScale website that is designed to determine "what the individual should be paid." In other words, this data is not randomly compiled from official income sources (e.g., tax records), but rather comes from individuals who are completing the survey because they believe they are either under-paid or under-valued. View the methodology stated by PayScale.com at the following link: http://www.payscale.com/education/compare-college-costs-and-ROI
• How many individuals completed the survey?
There is no way to know if just a few Anderson University alumni responded to the questionnaire or if the list represents a broader cross-section. As stated above, any individual who completed education beyond their Anderson University degree, worked outside the U.S., or is self employed were excluded from the results.
• Is the PayScale list current?
No it is not. Despite calling this a 2012 survey, PayScale calculated ROI using 2008-09 financial aid data.
• How does the questionnaire account for institutional change?
PayScale acknowledges that "if the character of a school's graduates has changed substantially in the last 30 years" their measure of wage inflation may be inaccurate. Anderson University's academic programs have changed significantly during the past 30 years.
• Can Anderson University graduates get good jobs?
Yes. Anderson University has positive placement results: Anderson University's 2011 class had a 96% placement rate (employment and grad school) within 6 months of graduation. This compares to an 85.6% national placement rate as reported by the National Association of Colleges & Employers. Among alumni who pursue graduate studies, 31% pursue graduate arts and sciences, 29% pursue graduate business, 20% pursue medicine, 14% pursue graduate theological/seminary, and 6% pursue education.
The values that Anderson University delivers through more than 65 majors and five graduate programs are well worth the investment. Each year, we graduate servant leaders who are individuals of excellence, integrity, generosity, and responsibility. A truer measure of ROI would take into account not only the financial payoff of a college degree, but the satisfaction one gains from a meaningful life of faith and service. In short, we don't believe that how much money our graduates earn is an accurate indicator of how they impact the world and make it a better place.
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Anderson University is a private Christian university of 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students in central Indiana. Anderson University continues to be recognized as one of America's top colleges by U.S. News and World Report, The Princeton Review, and Forbes. Established in 1917 by the Church of God, Anderson University offers more than 65 undergraduate majors and graduate programs in business, education, music, nursing, and theology.


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Sophie Gunn shoots down Darters in national netball league
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- July 07, 2014
THE Tassie Spirit has made a mixed start to its Australian Netball League season.
In the opening round at the Silverdome in Launceston, the Spirit was victorious against the Canberra Darters on Saturday night, winning 52-38, before being soundly beaten by 2013 top-four side the Southern Force yesterday 36-58.
Sophie Gunn was on fire with her shooting in both games.
One of three in the squad who play in the Victorian State League, Gunn scored 40 of 48 attempts against the Darters and a perfect 23 out of 23 against the Force.
She was supported by Arrows' Kate Costelloe, who buried 10 and seven in the weekend's two matches, shooting at a high percentage.
The Spirit's shooting was key against the Darters, with the opening two quarters tight.
The Spirit began to move away from the Canberra team in the third, and only allowed five goals in the final quarter to come away with a perfect start to their campaign.
They were brought back down to earth yesterday, with Force goalies Kylie Jarrett and Laura Packard on fire.
Jarrett scored 34 of her 39 attempts, while Packard's 24 of 32 left the Spirit with a win and a loss for the weekend.
The Spirit faces a tough outing next up, going to NSW to take on the Blues and Waratahs on Saturday and Sunday.
In the competition's other matches at the Silverdome as part of its opening weekend, the Force defeated the Queensland Fusion in a 50-48 thriller on Saturday night, while the Fusion consigned the Darters to another defeat yesterday, 67-41.


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Very good foodPosted on 01 / 17 / 2014
I tried 3 veggie restaurants when I was in town, and this was my favorite. Low price for such good food. First they bring you a bowl of soup, then the main plate with 5 or 6 items on it. Very tasty, and they have brown rice. Located in a nice neighborhood with lots of stores and shops around. Just sit down at any available table, and they will bring you the meal of the day. There's no separate menu to order from. Only 5.000 pesos as of March 2010.
Update January 2014... lunch is now 7.000 pesos, and is still great! Such delicious food, and they pay attention to the nutrition factor as well.
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Household Employment from Peak
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On February 9, 2009 @ 3:49 pm In Data Analysis,Employment | Comments Disabled
One final visual look at the Employment situation that's worth looking at: The chart below shows the recession decrease in Employment from the peak of NFP per Household:
Chart Courtesy Spencer England Equity Review (SEER).
Spencer England points out when showing employment in cycles (like the prior few charts) it is preferred to index the numbers to a comparable scale to reflect labor force growth rather than in thousands.
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Originally posted by Valentin Crettaz: I'm sorry I should have chosen better identifiers... In fact, I'll change that right now. Superclass will be A and Subclass B I'll remember that next time... Sorry again [ January 23, 2002: Message edited by: Valentin Crettaz ]
Originally posted by Rob Ross: Another way to think about this issue is that private members are NEVER inherited by a subclass. Since they aren't inherited, they don't "exist" in the subclass. Therefore, they can't be overridden. (You can't override something that's not there to begin with, right?! ) The most you can do is define a new method from scratch that happens to share the same name and signature as a private method in the subclass, but these two methods then have absolutely no realationship with each other. Rob
No No. Don't worry about it. Your example would have made a very good exam question!
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Nokia will release files containing 3D templates, phone case specifications, recommended materials and best practices in a bid to support 3D printing of its phone cases.
The firm claims it will become the first big telecoms company to back the idea of 3D printing. 3D printing is already used in many different fields including the automotive and industrial design industries.
3D printing takes digital input from three-dimensional data files to create a solid 3D model through an additive, layer by layer process.
In a blog post, John Kneeland, a Nokia community and developer marketing manager, explained that the Lumia 820 has removable phone cases and that a 3D printing development kit will help users to make and customise their own cases for the phone.
The documents are already available on Nokia's website, for registered users to access.
Kneeland said that Nokia uses 3D printing internally to help with rapid prototyping, and in the future he hopes for "wildly more modular and customizable phones" by using the technology.
"We could sell some kind of phone template, and entrepreneurs the world over could build a local business on building phones precisely tailored to the needs of his or her local community," he suggested.
"You want a waterproof, glow-in-the-dark phone with a bottle-opener and a solar charger? Someone can build it for you - or you can print it yourself," he added.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669175.post7620330595754043845..comments2015-11-23T22:49:58.678-05:00Comments on Founders Ministries Blog: 8 year old interview with Timothy GeorgeStanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669175.post-72427162139176134072008-03-25T09:50:00.000-04:002008-03-25T09:50:00.000-04:00Rich,My friends occasionally suggest that I act li...Rich,

My friends occasionally suggest that I act like I'm 8-years-old, but I was actually 26 when I conducted that interview. :-) It's funny, though. You're the second person to initially read the title that way.

I lost that interview not too long after doing it and a friend just found it again.

Tom,

I appreciate the link to the interview. Like you, I'm very impressed with Timothy George. Great guy.

I don't know if it's been announced here or not, but InterVarsity Press has contracted with Dr. George to be General Editor of "The Reformation Commentary on the Scripture" which will be kind of like companion volumes to the Tom Oden ed. series, "Ancient Christian Commentary on the Scriptures." I think this is going to be a tremendous contribution. Here's the link:

http://www.ivpress.com/rcs/

The volumes start coming out next year, I think.

WymanWyman Richardsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669175.post-49068285050771802612008-03-25T07:55:00.000-04:002008-03-25T07:55:00.000-04:00That's funny, your title made me think that an 8 y...That's funny, your title made me think that an 8 year old child was conducting an interview with Timothy. Ha!Richhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669175.post-57973441938402287202008-03-24T23:07:00.000-04:002008-03-24T23:07:00.000-04:00"How would you define the term "reformed theology"..."How would you define the term "reformed theology" to someone who attends church, but maybe does not possess a great deal of knowledge concerning church history or the nuances of Christian theology?"

That first question is a great one and, of course, answers are as varied as you can imagine.

I also appreciate the notion of explaining to the common man in off the street what we mean when we have a "Reformed & Southern Baptist" church.

They tend to think we're in 2 different denominations or something.

If we can't explain it to a regular Joe or a kid, then we may not have a good grasp ourselves.

Great interview. Thanks!GUNNYhttp://email@example.com


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Date: 7 December 2010
A team of BU students has taken inspiration for Formula One, aerospace and the theatre to put together their entry for a national hospitality competition.
Four students have created a 10-minute YouTube video based on the topic of 'What and how can hospitality best learn from other industries' for this year's Master Innholders competition.
The aim of the competition is to look at developments in other industries and how hotels can best learn from those innovations. The students are hoping to build on the University's success last year when a group of BU students came second in the contest.
This year's team is made up of final year students Trevor Childs, Fredericos Tsaparas, Rebbeca Cupitt and Steven Driscoll who are studying hospitality in the School of Tourism.
Steven said: "Our video picks ideas from Formula One, theatre, retail, aerospace and securities industries."
The results of the competition will be announced on Friday 17 December and the winners will be invited to attend next year's Master Innholders' conference for industry professionals.
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The avid recycler tries to find a use for just about everything, including bed springs. This is a guide about uses for old bed springs.
Read and rate the best solutions below by giving them a "thumbs up".
I really recycle, and that includes taking old furniture apart so I can use the parts. I like getting the springs out of old box mattresses, couches and easy chairs, because I can use them for several years to protect seedlings in the garden, and/or make trellises. They aren't beautiful, but they are sturdy, and last at least 5 years even in rough weather.
Source: Just was taking some stuff apart for the trash and recycle and realized what a good trellis the springs would make.
By Cornelia M. from OR
If you have a dirt driveway or lane, this tip is for you. Our lane is 1/4 mile long, and it gets worse every year with deep holes. As soon as it gets wet, either from snow and rain, or from the neighbor's irrigation system, it gets soft and we sink into the mud. We were afraid we would have to hire someone to grade it again.
Some friends came out Sunday because we had some banty chickens for some children they know. They took one ride down our lane and offered this suggestion: Tie an old set of bed springs to the back of your pickup. Tie on some cinder blocks to weight it down. Drive up and down the lane until it is smooth. That's it! They once lived in a rental with a whole mile of lane, and their landlady asked them how they kept it so nice! We just happen to have a set of bedsprings.
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It's almost mid-February, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- the undisputed best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing now that Manny Pacquiao has been vanquished -- still doesn't have a dance partner for a scheduled Cinco de Mayo weekend outing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Lots of fighters have been proposed, from Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero to Saul "Canelo" Alvarez to the latest possible entry into the "Money" sweepstakes, Devon Alexander. There have been reported talks, and a mysterious, out-of-the-blue Mayweather tweet identifying Alexander as the guy, but nothing confirmed. Which probably makes Mayweather's assumed promoter, Golden Boy, very nervous 12 weeks shy of go-time.
The clock is ticking, and the longer it takes for Mayweather to choose an opponent, the less of a spectacle the May 4 event could be. Which would damage Mayweather's reputation as a supreme moneymaker, and prove a point that many boxing fans have insisted upon all along: that without Pacquiao, or another "name" opponent in the opposite corner, the buying public doesn't really care about Mayweather.
'Pretty Boy'to 'Money'
Consider that before this generation's resident cash cow, Oscar De La Hoya, hand-picked Mayweather for a May 5, 2007, date, the Las Vegas-via-Grand Rapids, Mich., fighter was more "Pretty Boy" Floyd than "Money" Mayweather.
He was the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing, he was a four-division world champion and one of the most gifted athletes in the sport's history. But he was not a guy who made cash registers hum.
Nine years into his pro career, Mayweather hadn't yet headlined his own pay-per-view show, as successful as he had been. His first pay-per-view outing was on June 25, 2005, when he annihilated Arturo Gatti in six rounds. His follow-up pay-per-view efforts came against Zab Judah and Carlos Baldomir, and the three fights averaged 355,000 pay-per-view purchases, earning an average of $16.5 million -- OK, but not extraordinary.
Then De La Hoya, after a long layoff and a sixth-round mugging of Ricardo Mayorga, challenged Mayweather, the best fighter in the world. The event was dubbed "The World Awaits," and Mayweather did his part by playing the villain. It was a bonanza, earning 2.4 million buys and a whopping $136.6 million.
Since then, Mayweather's fights with Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz and Cotto have all earned at least one million in pay-per-view buys and earned no less than $52 million.
But the question remained: with such a stark disparity in pre- and post-De La Hoya fight numbers, was Mayweather, 43-0 (26 knockouts), truly the pay-per-view king? Or did increased pay-per-view prices, and a flurry of bankable, popular opposition, carry him to the top of the earnings heap?
Truth time
Mayweather's assessment that he is a transcendent star will be put to the test on May 4. Undefeated Alvarez, easily the most marketable (if the least experienced and least deserving) of the proposed trio, is apparently being put on hold until September. Which leaves Guerrero, who is a solid champion, but not well known outside of hard-core boxing circles, and Alexander, who isn't even popular by hard-core standards (though he has the best chance of actually beating the 36-year-old Mayweather).
There's a reason Golden Boy is struggling with a May 4 opponent and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer has quite the promoting job on his hands: without a well-known pay-per-view name like a Pacquiao or Cotto, or even an established, popular champion like Ortiz, Mayweather's pay-per-view numbers could plummet.
Which, to a guy who publicly burns cash, is nicknamed "Money" and a long time ago coronated himself the pay-per-view king, is probably worse than actually losing a fight.
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The Media and Politics world really, really, really is trying hard to put this in front of you today. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and it is up to the President to save us. And he's not doing it. So we need to debate it. Really.
Gas Prices Taking Their Toll on Obama – Politics – The Atlantic Wire.
There's a war of words over energy policy going on right now. It comes down to the taxpayers giving money to big oil or spending more on exploring new technology for renewable energy. We could easily spend a whole post looking at how much hypocrisy is laden in the conservative proponents of the free market railing against the market setting the price for oil and gas and clamoring for the government to intervene to bring gas prices down. And how in 2008, those same conservatives said that the president has no power to control gas prices.
Instead, let's take a look at some charts to see that gas is actually not what's costing Americans the most. It is what they notice the most, because they pay for it at the pumps. But the majority of the money they pay in healthcare is a strange deduction that vanishes from their paycheck almost unseen and is called a benefit by the providers of the insurance and the employer.
here are some relatively recent price graphs of world crude oil, showing this is following a curve of about 30% a year:
ok, now, let's look at the slope of that curve above and compare it to the slope of the curve for health care spending in the U.S. per capita.
Now, why is the price of oil going up? Supply and demand. Yay! Free market! No government intervention! Woohoo! Capitalism!
We are basically at or about peak oil production right now. Any further oil exploration requires massive subsidization to be able to bring it to market at price point where the oil producers can maintain their current profit margins. Tar sands, off shore drilling, all those resources require higher risk to capitalize, so the oil companies go to the government and ask for infrastructure subsidization. The public pays for the infrastructure expense, so companies can profit. How is that free market and small government? Honestly, I don't see it.
And, even more. When we adjust for inflation, it turns out that the price of gas – by the time the average consumer pays for it – is pretty steady.
There's a big piece of information in there. The average household spends 3.4% of their expenses on gas, roughly $2,132 a year.
On the other hand, that same average household spends more than $13,700 a year on their employee share of their health care premium. And even a single payer pays more than twice in healthcare than they do in gas.
And that healthcare portion of household expenses is now more than 16.6% of the bill.
And while we sit here and have talks about jobs and costs to the economy, let's look at how employers are affording their share of the rising costs of health care.
That graph is a little harder to read, but it shows that employers are controlling health care costs by pushing them off to the employee. (Need a second opinion, look here) The worker's contribution to premiums is going up, and at the same time, the copays at the doctor's office is going up. You don't usually feel your healthplan's dedcution after you get used to it being taken from your paycheck — just like a private payroll tax. But you do notice your copays. And you know how frustrating the user experience of trying to get money back from your private healthcare insurance provider is.
But the cost of your private health insurance is absolutely outpacing all other parts of your expenses, and it is growing faster than inflation. It is killing jobs and wiping out small employers. Employers are able to manage their rising percentage increase of employee healthcare cost share by balancing a strategy of managing the size of their workforce and pushing the costs over to the employee. But the healthcare insurance industry is making it coming and going.
An estimated 40 percent of Americans went without treatment last year, because of high costs. Do you think 40 percent of Americans are going to give up their cars this year because of these high gas prices? If they did, we wouldn't really need to worry about the whole energy issue or that climate change problem either. Let's look at that graph one more time.
Don't let the rhetoric and talking points fool you. Healthcare isn't socialized, oil production is. And that's just plain messed up. Especially when Big Oil is making record profits and sitting on huge cash reserves. While the rest of the economy suffers, and more citizens struggle with their healthcare costs and lack of healthcare, let's make sure we give Big Oil our tax dollars. How does it feel to underwrite corporate profits?
Want more information? Check out this report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (pdf) on employer costs for health care. Or you can look at the Kaiser Foundation's reports on health insurance costs for people. Or here's a pdf from UC Berkeley about California health care costs. Or you could just look at this graph that shows how much of your paycheck is going to your health insurance company instead of you:
That's right, one quarter of your pay goes to the health insurance company. ONE QUARTER. But, honestly, it makes me kind of sick to think about that.


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A 44-year-old mother and her 12-year-old son were in stable condition Wednesday afternoon in intensive care after being burned in a fire that gutted their Elmira apartment.
The fire in the upstairs apartment at 361 W. Second St. was called in at 2:47 a.m., Elmira Deputy Fire Chief Daniel Sincock said.
The fire started in the second-floor apartment that is part of a series of row houses running from 359 to 367 W. Second St. that contain about 13 or 14 apartment units, Fire Chief Patrick Bermingham said. ...


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Win Back Your Wife–Best Ways to Win Your Wife Back
Are you operating under the belief that it would be easier to win the lottery than to win your wife back?
I am here to tell you that with the best techniques and the right strategy, you can save your marriage and win back your wife in less time than it would take to say "thank goodness."
If you have been thinking that you would like to win your wife back and that there really is just no other woman like her or if your skin crawls at the thought of cuddling up in bed at night with someone other than her, these are definitely signs that perhaps you should put effort into winning your wife back.
Here are the best methods for saving your marriage and to win back your wife:
Win Back Your Wife – Find Out Why She Left You
When you know the true reasons that she left you, you will know specifically what to improve and which particular issues you need to work on now that you plan to seriously win back your wife.
Win Back Your Wife – Reclaim Your Self Esteem
At the moment as you make attempts to win back your wife, the last thing you need to portray is to look someone who is pathetically needy. From what I gathered from my own vast experience, girls are allergic to needy people. This can cause her to lose respect for you. On the other hand, be careful not to overdo this one as she may think you are ecstatic without her.
Win Back Your Wife – There is No Such Thing as a Quick Fix
When it comes to win back your wife, nothing worthwhile can be rushed. No matter how much you are tempted to abruptly fix what went wrong between you, you may need to take things slowly, let time heal your emotional wounds and settle things in slowly rather than speedily.
Win Back Your Wife – Space is Important
After the break up, there needs to be NO communication between you. When it comes to trying to win your wife back, this might seem easier said than done but this is beneficial for both of you. This way, you will have more time to reflect and think instead of having contact that is immediate.
Win Back Your Wife – Meeting Up
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Empirical Methods in Information Extraction
Cardie, Claire, AI Magazine
Most corpus-based methods in natural language processing (NLP) were developed to provide an arbitrary text-understanding application with one or more general-purpose linguistic capabilities, as evidenced by the articles in this issue of AI Magazine. Author Eugene Charniak and coauthors Ng Hwee Tou and John Zelle, for example, describe techniques for part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and word-sense disambiguation. These techniques were created with no specific domain or high-level language-processing task in mind. In contrast, my article surveys the use of empirical methods for a particular natural language-understanding task that is inherently domain specific. The task is information extraction. Generally, an information-extraction system takes as input an unrestricted text and "summarizes" the text with respect to a prespecified topic or domain of interest: It finds useful information about the domain and encodes the information in a structured form, suitable for populating databases. In contrast to in-depth natural language-understanding tasks, information-extraction systems effectively skim a text to find relevant sections and then focus only on these sections in subsequent processing. The information-extraction system in figure 1, for example, summarizes stories about natural disasters, extracting for each such event the type of disaster, the date and time that it occurred, and data on any property damage or human injury caused by the event.
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Information extraction has figured prominently in the field of empirical NLP: The first large-scale, head-to-head evaluations of NLP systems on the same text-understanding tasks were the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-sponsored Message-Understanding Conference (MUC) performance evaluations of information-extraction systems (Chinchor, Hirschman, and Lewis 1993; Lehnert and Sundheim 1991). Prior to each evaluation, all participating sites receive a corpus of texts from a predefined domain as well as the corresponding answer keys to use for system development. The answer keys are manually encoded templates--much like that of figure 1--that capture all information from the corresponding source text that is relevant to the domain, as specified in a set of written guidelines. After a short development phase,(1) the NLP systems are evaluated by comparing the summaries each produces with the summaries generated by human experts for the same test set of previously unseen texts. The comparison is performed using an automated scoring program that rates each system according to measures of recall and precision. Recall measures the amount of the relevant information that the NLP system correctly extracts from the test collection; precision measures the reliability of the information extracted:
recall = (# correct slot fillers in
output templates) / (# slot
fillers in answer keys)
precision = (# correct slot fillers in
output templates) / (# slot
fillers in output templates)
As a result of MUC and other information-extraction efforts, information extraction has become an increasingly viable technology for real-world text-processing applications. For example, there are currently information extraction systems that (1) support underwriters in analyzing life insurance applications (Glasgow et al. 1997); (2) summarize medical patient records by extracting diagnoses, symptoms, physical findings, test results, and therapeutic treatments to assist health-care providers or support insurance processing (Soderland, Aronow, et al. 1995); (3) analyze news wires and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts to find and summarize descriptions of terrorist activities (MUC-4 1992; MUC-3 1991); (4) monitor technical articles describing microelectronic chip fabrication to capture information on chip sales, manufacturing advances, and the development or use of chip-processing technologies (MUC-5 1994); (5) analyze newspaper articles with the goal of finding and summarizing business joint ventures (MUC-5 1994); and (6) support the automatic classification of legal documents (Holowczak and Adam 1997). …