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Five takeaways from the Florida Senate debate
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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Val Demings demonstrated in Tuesday's Florida Senate debate why they're thought-about two of the brightest stars by their respective events.
In a spirited and testy 60-minute debate – the primary and solely of the race – they traded fast barbs, sharp rebukes and pointed solutions, masking a variety of points from abortion and weapons to the financial system and nuclear warfare.
Rubio, a one-time presidential candidate who isn't any stranger to the talk stage, leaned into his legislative achievements and coverage proposals whereas calling his opponent a creature of the political left who hasn't handed any significant payments. Demings, a Home impeachment supervisor throughout former President Donald Trump's first impeachment proceedings, painted Rubio as a politician who will say and do something to get reelected and in contrast his lengthy profession in elected workplace to her time on the police power in Orlando.
The race has largely flown beneath the radar in comparison with different hotly contested matchups that might management the destiny of the evenly divided Senate. And neither celebration had plans going into Tuesday to spend a lot on airtime within the last three weeks. That actuality favors Rubio in a state the place Republicans have constantly held the electoral edge and now outnumber Democrats in registered voters, placing the onus on Demings Tuesday to grab momentum earlier than early voting begins on Monday in lots of counties.
Listed here are 5 takeaways from the talk.
On a day when President Joe Biden moved to recast the midterm election as a referendum on abortion entry, Demings and Rubio tried to pin one another down on the place they'd draw the road in a post-Roe world.
Rubio stated that he's "100% pro-life," together with in instances of rape or incest as a result of "I don't consider that the worth of human life is decided by the circumstances." However he stated he would assist laws with exceptions if it helps get one thing handed. He's one in all 9 Republican co-sponsors of a Senate invoice to ban abortion nationwide at 15 weeks, which Sen. Lindsey Graham filed in response to the US Supreme Courtroom choice in Dobbs earlier this yr.
"We're by no means going to get a vote on a legislation that doesn't have exceptions, as a result of that's the place the vast majority of the American persons are," Rubio stated. "And I respect and perceive that."
Demings in her response invoked her legislation enforcement background (she is a former Orlando police officer and chief of police) for the primary of a number of instances.
"As a police detective who investigated instances of rape and incest, no, Senator, I don't suppose it's okay for a 10-year-old woman to be raped and have to hold the seed of her rapist," Demings stated.
Pushed by Rubio to outline the week she would restrict abortion, Demings stated she would "assist a girl's proper to decide on as much as the time of viability," and would let docs determine when that's. Rubio stated that wasn't ok.
"She helps no limits of any type," he stated. "That's out of the mainstream. That's radical."
In a rustic perpetually rocked by gun violence, Florida nonetheless manages to face out as a state uniquely affected by mass shootings. Rubio served within the Senate for 2 of probably the most notable, which stand as key moments in his political biography. Rubio stated he determined to run for reelection to the Senate after the 2016 Pulse nightclub bloodbath. After the 2018 tragedy at a Parkland highschool, Rubio confronted a crowd at a CNN City Corridor that demanded motion and he promised he would work on options.
In that city corridor occasion, Rubio stated, "I completely consider that on this nation, in case you are 18 years of age, you shouldn't be in a position to purchase a rifle, and I'll assist a legislation that takes that instantly," including, "I feel that's the proper factor to do."
Requested on Tuesday about his vow at that discussion board to think about age restrictions for sure firearms, Rubio stated, "That doesn't work."
"I feel the answer of this downside is to determine these folks which are appearing this fashion and cease them earlier than they act," Rubio stated, pointing to the so-called purple flag invoice he proposed that might give states instruments to implement a course of to take weapons out of the arms of individuals flagged as threats by legislation enforcement. However Rubio voted towards a bipartisan gun security invoice that Biden signed into legislation.
"The basic subject is why are these youngsters, why are these folks going on the market and massacring these folks?" Rubio stated. "As a result of lots of people personal AR-15s and so they don't kill anybody."
To which Demings responded: "People who find themselves households of victims of gun violence simply heard that and so they're asking themselves, 'What within the hell did he simply say?'"
Demings, whose Orlando-based district contains Pulse, stated Rubio has carried out "nothing to assist deal with gun violence and get harmful weapons out of the arms of harmful folks."
Rubio replied that it's not possible to legislate criminals.
"The one folks that comply with these legal guidelines are law-abiding residents," he stated.
Demings responded: "Why don't we simply cease arresting murderers since we are able to't discover all of them?"
Out of the gate, Rubio and Demings have been requested about Hurricane Ian, the huge Class 4 hurricane that pummeled Florida's Southwest coast final month, and what the nation ought to do to organize for future tremendous storms.
Demings wasted no time mentioning local weather change.
"If we don't do one thing about it, we're going to pay a horrible worth for it," Demings stated. "The federal authorities has obtained to be sure that FEMA has the sources that it must adequately reply, however we gotta get severe about local weather change."
Rubio declined to look forward, or focus on local weather change, and as a substitute targeted on emergency response and restoration.
Requested later in regards to the crumbling property insurance coverage within the state, a focus within the wake of Ian, Rubio referred to as it "a state subject."
Demings shot again that if it's a state subject then Rubio had an opportunity to deal with the issue when he was speaker of the Florida Home.
"He's been in elected workplace since 1998 and insurance coverage of Florida has tripled and persons are struggling," Demings stated. "I despatched a letter to Governor (Ron) DeSantis saying, 'Sure, I do know it's a state subject. However how can we work collectively to decrease the prices of property insurance coverage for Floridians as a result of persons are struggling?'"
Rubio stated he did deal with it within the Florida Home.
" who the governor was on the time? Charlie Crist, your gubernatorial candidate," Rubio quipped. "I feel you've endorsed him. So you need to ask him if it didn't work, however we definitely supported it."
Whereas Trump has loomed giant in most of the midterm contests this cycle, he was hardly talked about in a debate in a race that can decide who will symbolize the previous President in Washington.
Demings, actually, by no means talked about Trump in any respect.
Nor did DeSantis, the state's consequential Republican governor, get a lot airtime.
However the different high Republican within the state – Sen. Rick Scott, the top of the Senate GOP marketing campaign arm – was the subject of debate on Social Safety and Medicare.
Rubio was requested about Scott's 11-point "Rescue America" plan, which included a provision to sundown all federal packages each 5 years, together with the favored entitlement packages.
Rubio rapidly dismissed the thought. "That's not my plan."
"It is best to ask him," Rubio stated.
A section targeted on immigration coverage began with the moderator asking Rubio about Biden's new coverage to stem the circulation of Venezuelan migrants by having them apply to reach within the US at ports of entry, not the Mexico-US border.
Rubio summarized it thusly: "Joe Biden simply instituted Trump's 'Return to Mexico' coverage."
"This can not proceed. It needs to be fastened," he added. "That should occur with everybody that's attempting to come back throughout however we're gonna have 10,000 folks a day coming. And we are able to't afford it. No nation on this planet can tolerate that."
The Republican then put Demings on the defensive over the quantity of people that have crossed into america since Biden took workplace whereas additionally making an attempt to look sympathetic to the folks fleeing brutal regimes in South America. Florida is residence to many Latino communities, together with the biggest inhabitants of Venezuelans residing within the US.
"Nobody has carried out extra on the problem of Venezuela than I've," Rubio stated. "And Cuba and Nicaragua."
Demings, too, tried to straddle her celebration's assist for migrants looking for asylum with out showing detached to the issues in regards to the exercise on the Southern border. She stated she supported including border patrol brokers, investing in unspecified expertise and hiring extra folks to course of migrants shifting by the authorized immigration system.
"We're a nation of legal guidelines," Demings stated. "We now have to implement the legislation however we additionally obey the legislation that claims individuals who have been in hassle can search asylum on this nation."
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HomeBacteriologyBismuth Sulfite Agar: Composition, Preparation, Uses and Colony Morphology
Bismuth Sulfite Agar: Composition, Preparation, Uses and Colony Morphology
October 1, 2018 Nisha Rijal Bacteriology, Culture Media used in Microbiology 0
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Bismuth Sulfite Agar (BS) is a selective as well as differential medium for isolation and presumptive identification of Salmonella spp especially Salmonella Typhi. Salmonella spp are the causative agent of various diseases like gastroenteritis, sepsis, enteric fever. Salmonella can be isolated from wide range of clinical, food, sewage and other environmental samples. Bismuth Sulfite Agar is a modification of original Wilson and Blair Medium
Composition and purpose of ingredients used:
Bismuth Sulfite Agar is selective due to the presence of inhibitors, and is differential on the basis of hydrogen sulfide ( H2S) production. The presence of Bismuth sulfite indicator and brilliant green inhibits the growth of Gram-positive bacteria and members of the coliform group, while allowing Salmonella to grow luxuriantly.
Beef extract and peptones provide nitrogen, vitamins and minerals needed for growth of microorganisms.
Dextrose is the carbohydrate present which acts as a source of carbon.
Disodium phosphate is the buffering agent which maintains the osmotic equilibrium.
Bismuth Sulfite Agar
Ferrous sulfate is an indicator for hydrogen sulfide production, which occurs when the H2S produced by Salmonella reacts with the iron salt. This reaction causes a black or green metallic colony and brown or black precipitate whilst the reduction of bismuth ions to metallic bismuth produces a metallic luster around of the colonies. Agar is the solidifying agent.
Ingredients Gm / Litre
Peptone 10
Beef extract 5
Dextrose (Glucose) 5
Disodium phosphate 4
Ferrous sulphate 0.3
Bismuth sulphite indicator 8
Brilliant green 0.025
Final pH ( at 25°C) 7.7±0.2
Note: Composition may vary according to manufacturer. Some use enzymatic digest of casein and enzymatic digest of animal tissue instead of peptone. Glucose may be used as an alternate to dextrose. However, the inclusion purpose of each ingredient and quantity are same.
Procedure for preparation:
Suspend required amount of dry powder (as per manufacturer's instruction) in 1000 ml of distilled water.
Heat gently with frequent agitation until the medium just begins to boil and simmer for 30 seconds to dissolve the agar.
DO NOT OVERHEAT – DO NOT AUTOCLAVE
Cool to 50-55°C, mix well to disperse suspension and pour plates (25 ml medium per plate).
NOTE: The sensitivity of the medium depends largely upon uniform dispersion of precipitated bismuth sulphite in the final medium; therefore the medium should be mixed well in a way that there should be no sedimentation of the indicator.
Allow the medium to solidify, store at 2-8°C until use and dry the prepared plates before use.
Sample processing: Clinical specimens may be directly inoculated in the medium, or if the sample is considered to have low organism load, it can be sub-cultured from an enrichment broth. For environmental samples appropriate dilution or enrichment may be necessary before plating.
Result and interpretation:
The colony morphology of certain bacteria are illustrated as follows
Organism Appearance
Salmonella Typhi Black `rabbit-eye' colonies with a black zone and metallic sheen surrounding the colony after 18 hours. Uniformly black after 48 hours incubation Note: When a heavy inoculum is used, S. Typhi appears light green and could be misinterpreted as negative growth.
Salmonella Paratyphi A and Other Salmonella spp Variable colony appearance after 18 hours, they may be black, green or clear and mucoid. Uniformly black colonies are seen after 48 hours, often with widespread staining of the medium and a pronounced metallic sheen
Other organisms like Coliform bacteria, Serratia, Proteus Usually inhibited but occasional strains give dull green or brown colonies with no metallic sheen or staining of the surrounding medium.
Note: S. typhi and S. arizonae are the only enteric organisms to exhibit typical brown zones in the medium; although, S. arizonae is usually inhibited
1. Autoclaving/over heating the medium should be avoided as it destroys the selectivity of the medium.
2. Due to its selectivity, Shigella species (except S. flexneri and S. sonnei) and certain Salmonella like S. Sendai, S. Berta, S. Gallinarum, S. Abortus are also inhibited.
3. Incubation of Bismuth Sulfite Agar plates at higher temperatures (i.e., 43ºC.) results in small, atypical Salmonella colonies and also reduces sensitivity showing significantly lower recovery.
4. Although, Typical S. Typhi colonies usually develop within 24 hours, a further incubation up to 48 hours is required for growth of all typhoid strains.
5. Prepared Bismuth Sulfite Agar plates should be used within 2 days. After 3 days of storage there is a reduction in selectivity of the media, decreasing the number of Salmonella recovered.
6. Colonies on Bismuth Sulfite Agar may be contaminated with other viable organisms; therefore, isolated colonies should be sub cultured onto a less selective medium (i.e., MacConkey Agar)
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Harold Theodore (Ted) Gaston
Born: March 28, 1937 - Deceased: October 7, 2021
Harold Theodore (Ted) Gaston, 84, of Belleville, IL, was born on Easter Sunday, March 28, 1937, in Salem, IL. He died on Thursday, October 7, 2021 at BJC Memorial Hospital, Belleville, IL. Ted graduated from Salem Community High School in 1955. He earned an Associate Degree in Dental Technology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL in 1959.
Ted moved to Belleville in 1960 and worked at Tade Dental Laboratory for 9 years. He opened Gaston Dental Laboratory in 1969, serving his customers for an additional 37 years. Ted was dedicated to his work and was a member of the Illinois Dental Laboratory Association. After working long hours, he enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. He was a member of Moose Lodge #1221 in Swansea, IL.
Ted was preceded in death by his:
Father, Raymond Gaston
Mother, Ruth Williams, (nee Bryant)
Beloved Aunt and Uncle, Lillian and Earl Bruce
Surviving are his:
Wife of 33 years, Laurel Gaston, (nee Glaze), whom he married on August 13, 1988
Daughter, Angela (John) Kinney of Belleville, IL
Son, Bruce Gaston of Belleville, IL
Grandson, Elliot Kinney of Belleville, IL
Half-brother, Fred Williams
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.
Visitation will be held from 11:00am – 1:00pm on Wednesday, October 13 at Kurrus Funeral Home, Belleville, IL.
Funeral Services will be held at 1:00pm on Wednesday, October 13, at Kurrus Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Patton officiating. Interment will follow at Lake View Memorial Gardens, Fairview Heights, IL.
Robert Calhoun says:
Please accept my condolences on Ted's passing.
Ted was a terrific guy, and a value to have had him as a friend.
Jo Ann. Berry says:
So sorry to hear of the passing of your father. Your Mom mentioned him a lot, so I felt like I knew him. Hope you are all doing well during this sad time.
Pamela Casey-Pavez says:
Angie –
We wish you peace and comfort as you grieve.
Please accept our deepest condolences for your loss.
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Robert Souders says:
I shall ever be grateful to Ted who made the teeth that Dr Titchnel put in for me. He was most generous as was the Doctor.
Nan Carney says:
Laurel, I'm so sorry to have just learned of Ted's passing. I enjoyed his banter and jolly words for the many years I worked at Tim & Joe's. He really was a good guy and he will be missed.


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Dans le cadre de la Question jurassienne, le plébiscite jurassien (ou les plébiscites jurassiens) est une votation organisé, le , par le gouvernement bernois par lequel le peuple jurassien décide de se séparer du canton de Berne pour former le canton du Jura. Ce plébiscite en découlera deux autres en 1975.

Contexte historique

Le Jura historique appartient à la Principauté épiscopale de Bâle. En 1792, le dernier prince-évêque de Bâle est chassé de sa résidence de Porrentruy par les idées révolutionnaires. Le  est proclamée la République Rauracienne, république « sœur » de la République française. En , elle est annexée de fait par la France, où elle devient un département sous le nom de Mont-Terrible avec pour chef-lieu Porrentruy, puis est regroupé au département du Haut-Rhin en 1800.

Le , par décision du Congrès de Vienne, le Jura est annexé à la Suisse et attribué au canton de Berne, canton germanophone, pour compenser ses pertes, le Canton de Vaud et de l'Argovie. Au , le Jura parvient, malgré la férule bernoise, à préserver sa langue et sa culture. Au sein même du Jura, des tensions apparaissent entre le nord, agricole et catholique, et le Sud, protestant et qui petit à petit s'industrialise. Lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, le fossé linguistique et culturel s'élargit entre Berne et le Jura et, en 1917, plusieurs mouvement séparatistes se forment.

Le , Georges Moeckli, conseiller d'État jurassien francophone, se voit refuser par le parlement bernois, la direction du Département des travaux publics sous prétexte qu'il parle mal le dialecte bernois et que cela engendrerait des problèmes de communication. En conséquence, un Comité d'action pour la défense des droits du Jura, qui sera nommé plus tard « Comité de Moutier », est créé à Delémont le . Il est chargé de réunir les forces politiques des régions jurassiennes et d'en dresser le catalogue de revendications. Dans le même temps, le « Mouvement séparatiste jurassien » est fondé le  par les groupes souhaitant une séparation d'avec le canton de Berne. Le Mouvement séparatiste jurassien devient le Rassemblement jurassien et se constitue officiellement et demande la création d'un  suisse.

Dispositions constitutionnelles relatives au Jura
Le 16 juillet 1968, le Conseil-exécutif bernois crée la « Commission des bons offices », composée de Max Petitpierre, Friedrich Traugott Wahlen, Pierre Graber et Raymond Broger et chargée d'amener les parties à une entente. Elle est mise à mal par les branches extrémistes séparatistes qui refusent catégoriquement d'entrer en contact avec elle. En même temps, le Conseil-exécutif bernois forme une « Commission des Vingt-quatre », chargée de présenter un plan de règlement de la Question jurassienne. Elle présentera son rapport en 1968. De son côté, la Commission des bons offices publie son premier rapport en 1969. Viennent alors deux choix : l'indépendance et la création d'un canton du Jura ou le statut spécial d'autonomie au sein du canton de Berne.

À la suite de ces deux rapports, le Grand conseil bernois accepte, à l'unanimité le 10 décembre 1969, le rapport sur les « Nouvelles dispositions constitutionnelles relatives au Jura » qui prévoit soit l'indépendance, soit un statut spécial d'autonomie. Le Grand conseil bernois débat et c'est finalement le projet d'indépendance qui le remporte. L'additif constitutionnel passe alors en votation populaire cantonale et est accepté le  mars 1970.

Plébiscites en cascade

Organisation
Publié le 10 mars, l'additif détermine les modalités d'une procédure d'autodétermination dans le Jura en trois étapes de votation, appelées : plébiscites jurassiens.

Cette proposition de « vote en cascade », bien que peu contestée lors sa votation, a été par la suite vivement critiquée par les milieux séparatistes, puisqu'elle a provoqué, selon eux, la division du peuple jurassien.

Premier plébiscite

Le premier plébiscite, qui propose la création d'un nouveau canton, est fixé aux 22 et . Les vagues d'intimidation séparatistes et anti-séparatistes sont limitées lors de ce vote. Le 22 juin dans la nuit, Maurice Wicht, un jeune de 23 ans, est abattu par un anti-séparatiste après avoir hissé le drapeau jurassien. Au soir du 23, une majorité se dégage en faveur de la création d'un nouveau canton. Le futur canton se formera donc des sept districts historiques.

Si, dans les trois districts du nord (majoritairement catholiques), Delémont, Porrentruy et les Franches-Montagnes, le oui est largement majoritaire, c'est l'inverse qui se produit dans les trois districts du sud (majoritairement protestants), Moutier, Courtelary et La Neuveville ainsi que le Laufonnais.

Les séparatistes calment le jeu en espérant que les pro-bernois accepteront de travailler à la construction du nouveau canton. Cependant, dès le lendemain, les anti-séparatistes engagent les procédures afin d'organiser, par le biais d'initiatives, le deuxième plébiscite dans les districts méridionaux où le non fut majoritaire (Moutier, Courtelary, La Neuveville et Laufon).

Second plébiscite
Le , l'organisation antiséparatiste Force démocratique dépose les initiatives (avec ) afin organiser le deuxième plébiscite. Ce dernier doit déterminer si les trois districts francophones qui ont voté non restent dans le canton de Berne ou suivent les trois districts du nord pour créer un nouveau canton du Jura. En parallèle, le , la Commission du district de Laufon dépose une initiative (avec ) pour l'organisation d'une votation stipulant : "Voulez-vous que le district de Laufon - sous réserve de rattachement à un canton voisin - continue à faire partie du canton de Berne ?". Le , Force démocratique re-dépose de nouvelles initiatives (avec ) afin organiser le deuxième plébiscite.Une nouvelle vague de violence s'installe lors de la mise en place du deuxième plébiscite, manifestations, rassemblements, attentas, etc. Ces actions séparatistes sont centrées sur des saccages d'appartements et attaques à l'explosif. Lors du plébiscite du , les districts de Moutier, Courtelary, La Neuveville décident de demeurer dans le canton de Berne. Le district de Laufon, lui, votera le  sur l'initiative "Voulez-vous que le district de Laufon - sous réserve de rattachement à un canton voisin - continue à faire partie du canton de Berne ?". Il décidera également de rester dans le canton de Berne afin de mettre en route les démarches à son rattachement à un autre canton.

Dès lors, le canton du Jura ne sera formé que des trois districts du nord de Delémont, Franches-Montagnes et Porrentruy.

Plusieurs manifestations de protestation et incidents entre séparatistes et anti-séparatistes se produisirent après les résultats. Les anti-séparatistes demandent à leurs adversaires de reconnaître les résultats du deuxième plébiscite et d'enterrer la question jurassienne. Cependant, les séparatistes engagent les procédures afin d'organiser, par le biais de référendums, un troisième plébiscite dans les communes se trouvant le long de la future frontière. Le Rassemblement jurassien dépose également des recours contre le deuxième plébiscite, qui seront rejetés par le Conseil fédéral.

Comme prévu, le district de Laufon, lui, décide le 14 septembre 1975 de rester dans le canton de Berne afin de mettre en route les démarches à son rattachement à un autre canton.

Troisième plébiscite
Le troisième plébiscite, concerne les communes se situant à la nouvelle frontière cantonale entre le futur canton du Jura et celui de Berne. Celles-ci, par référendum, peuvent choisir de rester ou non dans le canton de Berne, tandis que les communes des trois districts séparatistes limitrophes du canton de Berne pourront choisir de rester dans le canton de Berne.

Des échauffourées se produisent avant et pendant le troisième plébiscite, notamment à Moutier entre séparatistes et forces de l'ordre, (nommées par la suite les « évènements de Moutier ») entre le  et le . Durant ce laps de temps, la ville est littéralement occupée par les séparatistes qui finissent par être délogés de manière musclée par les forces de l'ordre.

Sept communes demandent de pouvoir revoter sur leur appartenance cantonale : Corban, Courchapoix, Châtillon, Rossemaison, Les Genevez, Lajoux, Vellerat. Le vote est fixé au . À cette date, les sept communes votent toutes en faveur de leurs rattachement au canton du Jura. Cependant le Conseil fédéral informent les communes concernées que la votation devra être répétée. Le , les sept même communes, ainsi que celle de Courrendlin, de Mervelier, de Moutier, de Perrefitte, de Grandval, de La Scheulte, de Roches, de Roggenbourg et de Ederswilerdemandent, à nouveau, de pouvoir revoter sur leur appartenance cantonale. Les votations sont organisées le 7 et  et le .

Parmi ces seize communes, deux posent un problème : Vellerat et Ederswiler (la première, possède une population à majorité séparatiste et la deuxième, possède une population à majorité germanophone). Ces deux communes ne se trouvent pas le long de la future frontière cantonale, leur demande ont donc été rejetée. Cependant, ces deux communes décident d'organiser, quand même, une votation non officielle, dite « sauvage ».

Le  : Dix communes votent (à savoir : Châtillon, Corban, Courchapoix, Courrendlin, Les Genevez, Rossemaison, Moutier, Grandval, Perrefitte et Rebévelier).

Le  : trois communes votent (à savoir : Mervelier, Lajoux et La Scheulte) et une commune vote inofficiellement (à savoir : Vellerat).

Le  : une commune vote (à savoir : Roggenbourg).

Le  : une commune vote inofficiellement (à savoir : Ederswiler).Finalement :

 8 communes votent leur rattachement au nouveau canton du Jura en quittant le district de Moutier : Châtillon, Corban, Courchapoix, Courrendlin, Mervelier et Rossemaison rejoignent le district de Delémont; Lajoux et Les Genevez rejoignent le district des Franches-Montagnes ;
 2 communes rejoignent le canton de Berne en quittant le district de Delémont : Rebévelier rejoint le district de Moutier alors que Roggenbourg rejoint le district de Laufon;
 4 communes confirment leur appartenance au canton de Berne : Grandval, Moutier, Perrefitte et La Scheulte restent dans le district de Moutier.
 Les résultats de Vellerat (favorable au rattachement au canton du Jura) et d'Ederswiler (favorable au rattachement au district de Laufon) ne sont pas pris en compte car il s'agit de votations inofficiels, dites «sauvages».

Résultats

Afin d'accueillir un nouveau canton au sein de la Confédération, il faut modifier l'article  de la Constitution fédérale contenant la liste des cantons suisses; de ce fait, un référendum constitutionnel obligatoire, nécessitant l'accord de la majorité du peuple et des cantons suisses, est organisé le 24 septembre 1978. Lors de ce référendum , une majorité de 82,3 % des électeurs de tous les cantons vota en faveur de la création du nouveau canton du Jura et 22 cantons sur 22 (soit 100 %) l'acceptèrent également.

« Acceptez-vous l'arrête fédéral du 9 mars 1978 sur la modification constitutionnelle fédérale sur création d'une République et Canton du Jura ? »

Hommages

Plusieurs communes jurassiennes ont nommées une rue ou une place au nom du plébiscite jurassien. En voici une liste non exhaustive:

 Rue du 23-juin à Alle;
 Rue du 23-juin à Courgenay;
 Rue du 23-juin à Courrendlin;
 Rue du 23-juin à Courroux;
 Rue du 23-juin à Courtedoux;
 Rue du 23-juin à Delémont;
 Rue du 23-juin au Noirmont;
 Rue du 23-juin à Rossemaison;
 Rue du 23-juin à Soyhières;
 Rue du 23-juin à Courroux;
 Rue du 23-juin à Saint-Ursanne;
 Rue du 23-juin à Porrentruy;
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Lead Batteries Likely To Be With Us A Long, Long Time: European Study
John Voelcker December 23, 2014
Lead is terrible stuff: damaging to humans in even small quantities, and persistent if it's improperly disposed of. Nonetheless, it's a central element of technology that has enabled a century of automobiles to be started via ignition keys rather than hand cranks--which occasionally broke the arms of hapless drivers. DON'T MISS: Who Knew? A Car Battery Is the World's Most Recycled Product Now it looks like 12-Volt lead-acid batteries will be sticking around into the 2020s, at least if auto-battery providers and auto companies have anything to say about it. The two industries have joined...
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Electrification is becoming an increasingly important factor in improving the fuel efficiency of vehicles. Cars like the Toyota Prius hybrid made it mainstream, but there are varying degrees to which batteries can be used for saving fuel. MUST SEE: Elio 84-MPG Three-Wheel Prototype: Driven In...
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If it wasn't so important for the future of electric cars, it could almost get tiresome: Just how do you improve batteries for longer life, quicker charging and a greater range? It's a question being investigated by great minds all around the world, and has turned up some surprising and exciting...
Could Hybrids Use Lead-Acid Batteries? Startup Says Yes
It's quite easy to forget that cars have been using batteries for years before hybrids and electric vehicles arrived. The humble lead-acid battery, the planet's most recycled product, has been starting engines and providing power for car electrics ever since such a thing was required. Now, battery...
Antony Ingram December 24, 2012
What's Best For Old Electric-Car Batteries: Reuse Or Recycling?
A common misconception of electric cars and hybrid vehicles is that at the end of a short battery life, the remainder is dumped in landfill and contributes ever more pollution to the Earth. Of course, we know this to be incorrect. Not only are the more common lead acid batteries the world's most...
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Just two months ago, we published an April Fool's piece about a fictional new BP cell research project that would allow battery packs to be refilled at fuel station pumps. Truth is stranger than fiction, truly. Yesterday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology described a nascent research project--a real one--involving a battery that could recharge fully in mere minutes, by pumping out and refilling tanks that contain thick liquids that serve as the cell's electrodes. Liquid electrodes The idea is that the cell's cathode and anode are not solid metallic compounds, as in current battery...
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Widely regarded as our Signature hole, Number 2 is a classic example of strategic design. Players can attempt to carry the pond on the right, leaving them with a short pitch to an elevated green, which is open in front.
Turner's Knoll is an appropriate name for our first one shotter, number three. A large, rolling green requires a mid to high iron to reach, and is protected by bunkers to the right and front left. Beware of going over this green, as its bank drops off severely, making recovery from the bottom of the slope nearly impossible.
Another solid par 4 from the "Strategic Design Standpoint". Carry the left hand fairway bunker, and you are left with a short iron second, or play safe to the right where you will face a longer second to the big, two tiered green. Finding the right level is critical to making birdie.
Number 5 is a close second to Number 2 for signature hole status. A magnificent par 3 where a long iron or fairway wood is needed to reach the tiny green, which is guarded on the left by two deep, steeply faced bunkers.
Another great par four, Number 6, known as Willowdale, can be very testy indeed. Avoiding the trees right, and the fairway bunker to the left, leaves the player with a downhill shot of around 150 -170 yards. An accurate approach is demanded here as the green is the smallest on the golf course, and slopes away from the player.
Number 7, known as Devil's Bend, is a 90 degree dogleg left. Two penal bunkers on the left hand side of the fairway, give the player an idea of where the hole begins to turn. Avoiding them is paramount to scoring well. From the top of the hill, a short to mid iron is all that is needed to reach the severely sloping green.
Number 8 gives the appearance of being easy but does not play that way and is ranked as the #1 handicap hole for that reason. Bunkers and a stream along the right side off the tee can make your second shot even more difficult to the classic Donald Ross green. A par here is considered and excellent score.
Number 9 is known as Black Walnut due to the magnificent specimen which guards the left hand side of the fairway 50 yards from the green. A short but challenging par 5, Black Walnut rises from the tee up to the clubhouse. Players can elect to go for the green in two, but the approach and greenside bunkers must be avoided if birdie is to be made.
Number 10 is a marvelous start to the back nine. A strong straightaway par four, the tee shot needs to find the fairway and avoid the menacing fairway bunker on the left. A long iron is then needed to reach the small green. The approach is open in front, allowing for the bump and run to be played into this green.
Number 11 is a magnificent short par 3. The green complex is one of the finest on the golf course, a great example of the genius that was Donald Ross. A short iron is all that is needed to reach this green, and the marvelous bunkers need to be avoided.
Plateau is a wonderful par four climbing dramatically uphill to a blind green. The left to right slope of the fairway steers the ball towards the menacing fairway bunker, which if found can spell disaster. If the right greenside bunker is found, a step ladder may be needed instead of a sand wedge.
Number 13 is a terrific par 3 playing straight downhill. The creek behind the green rarely comes into play, but it cannot be ignored. A greenside bunker, and out of bounds left, must be avoided to make par. A relatively flat, but tiny green, gives up a lot of putts for birdie, should you find the surface.
A short but difficult par 4 requires a strategically placed tee shot that will give you the best approach angle to an elevated green with unlimited contours. Our 2012 stream renovation makes this hole a beauty to behold from tee to green.
Number 15 is a gentle dogleg right, par 4. Avoiding the trees right and fairway bunker left, leaves you with a short iron to an open, two tiered green. Finding the correct level is essential for birdie.
Hole number 16 will appear as an easy hole form the yardage posted on the scorecard but a difficult tee shot, followed by the need for a well placed 2nd shot to avoid the numerous bunkers more than make up for the short distance. Also important to remember is it's uphill from tee to green.
The longest par four on the golf course is both beauty and beast. A good drive here still leaves the player with a wood or long iron into another large green that slopes severely left to right with the surrounding landscape. Another hole that Ross simply created in harmony with the land, again giving you the feeling that it has always been there.
The final hole is one that will test your stamina as it gently rises towards the clubhouse. The tee shot is a dogleg left guarded by bunkers on the corner. Once you make the turn you have a beautiful view of the clubhouse and it's uphill all the way to a green guarded by bunkers in the front on both sides. What a great finishing hole!


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NYC's Most Exclusive Restaurants (and How to Get a Reservation)
by BCB Property Management | Mar 25, 2019 | New York City
New York City is a global mecca for art, fashion, entertainment, and just about every cultural delight, especially food. It's safe to say no other city in the world has a higher density of eateries than NYC. It's well-known as a foodie's paradise with every sort of dining from pizza shacks to casual eateries to fine luxury dining. Foodies who want to go all out and head to the most exclusive New York restaurants are usually surprised to find that their name may have to remain on a waiting list for months! This list of some of NYC's most elegant restaurants will give you an idea of what to expect from a high-end restaurant in terms of menu, atmosphere — and making reservations.
Le Bernardin – Midtown Manhattan
With a long list of accolades including a four-star rating by the New York Times, this French seafood restaurant originated in Paris, making the entrées truly authentic. The talented French-born chef Eric Ripert is at the helm cooking up fresh and simple seafood cuisine. Feasting on peerless dishes like baked lobster, royal osetra caviar, and geoduck sashimi is the ultimate foodie luxury. The food is the reason for more James Beard awards than any other NYC restaurant and includes Outstanding Restaurant, Outstanding Chef and Outstanding Wine. In 2012, a redesign earned the space numerous design awards.
Le Bernardin accepts reservations online or by phone, beginning on the first day of each month for the following month, and is closed on Sundays. Be prepared for a long wait, but one well worth it.
Rao's – East Harlem
Located in Spanish Harlem, Rao's Italian restaurant has existed since 1896. The food is authentic Italian, of course, and the whole atmosphere is old school New York. It's the red sauce that carries the show: it's considered by many to be the best in the world and is sold on store shelves nationwide. The restaurant itself boasts several wildly delicious entrées like steak pizzaiola and Italian meatloaf, but the huge meatballs are the main draw, and diners can enjoy them in meatball sliders, on top of spaghetti muffins, and served as cocktail meatballs.
It's almost impossible to get a table at Rao's because years ago, as their popularity grew, the owners realized that valued, long-time customers were having difficulty getting reservations. Their answer was to give the regulars first dibs on tables. Consequently, it can take an immeasurable amount of time to swing a spot at Rao's. Start calling your most connected contacts now.
The Chef's Table At Brooklyn Fare – Midtown West
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. Turns out that's true about restaurants, and the Chef's Table proves it. It's a small place in an ordinary looking part of Brooklyn and is in reality, a converted kitchen that only seats 16 people. This scarcity combined with their divine menu of Japanese Food with a French twist puts this restaurant on the hard-to-get-reservations list. Chef Cesar Ramirez is the mastermind behind delicacies like truffle ravioli and brandade, and his talent earned him a James Beard award and a Michelin 3-star rating. Chef Cesar's tasting menu takes over two hours to complete but satisfied patrons will be more than willing to take their time to savor it.
Reservations can be made online or by phone Monday-Friday from 10:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and fill up far in advance. Expect several months of waiting before your seat is available.
Atera – Tribeca
Chef Matt Lightner has brought a taste of the Pacific Northwest to the Big Apple with his buzz-worthy restaurant in Tribeca called Atera. The atmosphere is very inviting, with modern décor and a chill-worthy downstairs lounge area. Still, it's the food that's the main draw. They have a two and a half-hour long tasting menu that's seasonal and evolving and includes fresh, locally sourced produce. Each dish is creatively put together to perfection and will make the taste buds sing for joy.
Make reservations at least six weeks in advance to dine at Atera. They can only be made online.
Looking for world-class eats on a budget? Visit New York's ethnic enclaves in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Jackson Heights, Queens and Arthur Avenue in The Bronx for incredible food that won't require a jacket and tie, just a hearty appetite.


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Iceland's solidarity with Palestinians unshaken since independence recognition
Yousef Alhelou
Iceland, which is a NATO member and active in the United Nations, is one of Palestine's biggest supporters in Europe.
A plight that matters. A man walks with flowers in Brussels among pairs of shoes during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians. (AP)
LONDON - The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed each year on November 29. On that day in 1977, the UN General Assembly called for the adoption of resolution 32/40 to support Palestinian rights.
This year's celebration also coincides with the 30th anniversary of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's declaration of independence, in which he declared the establishment of the state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital during the Palestinian National Council in Algeria.
On December 29, 2011, Iceland became the first western European country to recognise Palestine as an independent state in its 1967 borders as well as the right of return of refugees. The recognition came a month after Palestine became a full member of UNESCO.
However, Icelanders' support for Palestine dates back even further. On November 29, 1987, the Icelandic-Palestinian Friendship Association was established, in part to raise awareness of and solidarity for the Palestinian cause.
During a short visit to the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, I met Silja Palmadotti, the vice-president of the association. Palmadotti, who has helped raise awareness of the Palestinian cause since 2012, expressed her happiness and pride in supporting the Palestinian people, who she emphasised have long sought their self-determination, freedom and independence.
"We conduct periodic meetings with members and set plans to organise some educational and heritage events to attract more volunteers, including those interested in human rights issues," said Palmadotti, who added that her own visit to the West Bank deeply impacted her, furthering her interest in the Palestinian cause and the Arabic language. "We sell Palestinian products during the Christmas season, including the Palestinian kufiyeh. We also show some films that shed light on the Palestinian issue and sometimes we invite speakers from inside and outside Palestine."
Palmadotti said the association, which has some 1,000 members, also occasionally sends solidarity activists and human rights activists to the West Bank to better understand what is happening on the ground. The group has also managed to send 500 artificial limbs to Gaza over the last few years through an international medical foundation.
"We are saddened by what is going on in Gaza and we pray for peace," said Palmadotti. "In the past, we organised a demonstration in the capital after the outbreak of the last Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Palestinian flags were raised and a number of officials from the government and various parties participated.
"Another sit-in was organised last May outside the parliament calling for the withdrawal from the next Eurovision contest that will be held in Israel in 2019 in protest against the human rights violations perpetuated by Israel towards the Palestinian nation. In addition, more than 16,000 Icelandic people signed an online petition to call for boycotting the contest," she said.
Iceland, with a population of 350,000, hosts a small Arab community of about 500 people. There are also some 1,000 Muslims in Iceland, mostly from the Balkans. There is a single mosque in the capital — the Grand Mosque of Iceland — in addition to two smaller places of worship.
Iceland 's Palestinian community comprises about 60 people, according to Salman al-Tamimi, a Palestinian who was born in 1955 in the village of Wadi al-Joz in East Jerusalem. In 1971, he became the first Palestinian to settle in Iceland. Today, al-Tamimi, who holds a degree in computer science from the University of Iceland, lives in the country with 15 family members, including his Icelandic wife, children and grandchildren.
"When I came to Iceland I was on my way to the United States and decided to stay here, and at that time the support for Israel was big and Palestine was ignored, because there was not enough awareness of the Palestinian issue," al-Tamimi said. "Over the past years we have made great efforts and I can say that the support for Palestine now is 99%. We held many meetings with representatives of the government and members of the various parties. Occasionally we organise solidarity events involving the small Arab community and conduct various educational activities."
Al-Tamimi stressed that Iceland, which is a NATO member and active in the United Nations, is one of Palestine's biggest supporters in Europe, supporting pro-Palestine resolutions in the UN.
"The Palestinian leadership should take advantage of the Icelandic diplomatic support and benefit from our presence, connections and provide us with the logistical support through organising cultural and heritage exhibitions such as Dabkah performance for example," al-Tamimi said. "We asked our embassy in Oslo to help us translate some of the poems of the great poet Mahmoud Darwish into the Icelandic language and we are waiting for their response."
I was astonished to learn from Palmadotti that there is a poem, "Accidental fire in Palestine," that is taught in Icelandic secondary schools. It tells the story of a Palestinian girl who was accidentally killed by a British soldier that was planning to kill her father during the British mandate for Palestine between 1923 and 1948.
The killing continues in Palestine. But so does the solidarity of the Icelandic people.
Written By Yousef Alhelou
Yousef Alhelou is a Palestinian journalist living in London. You can follow him on Twitter: @YousefAlhelou
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NBA 2016/17: will the Golden State Warriors win back the NBA title this season?
Once the Golden State Warriors persuaded Kevin Durant to sign, the only acceptable result for the 2016-17 season automatically became the title. If winning 73 games in the regular season last campaign and beating Chicago Bulls' long-standing record in the process wasn't enough, the Warriors went a level up by signing a superstar in a team filled with them.
To add to the shooting prowess of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson and the brilliant all-round defensive abilities of Draymond Green, Golden State now have a man who can score from anywhere – be that beyond the arc, with the jump shot inside the three-point line or with the drive.
Questions have obviously been raised over how Steve Kerr will fit all of these superstars in one team and if they get enough minutes; if the ego clashes will come into play; or if the expectations will weight them down, but if they play to even half their respective levels, this regular season is going to be an absolute cruise for them.
After clinching the title in 2015, there were plenty of expectations on the Warriors, and what they went and did was break a record nobody thought would be broken. While they fell short in the finals, thanks to the brilliance of one man who goes by the name of LeBron James, Golden State still had a successful season last year.
However, by adding Durant, even winning 74 games in the regular season will not be enough. Winning the Western Conference title will not do. The Golden State Warriors will need to get to that NBA Finals and, at the end it all, be the team holding up the glinting, golden trophy.
Durant has spoken time and again about how much fun he is having with his new team and how there are no egos, no tensions, and about how it is just about going on the floor and playing some basketball.
All that is fine and well to say during the offseason, after practices, and during preseason games; how Durant feels and Curry feels and Thompson feels and Green feels will be known when the regular season gets into its full swing.
Already there are reports suggesting there is resentment around the league as far as the Golden State Warriors are concerned. Once they signed Durant from the rival Oklahoma City Thunder, they turned into a "man they are fun and let's root for them" team to "no, that was not cool, that was too much" franchise, and that is never an easy situation to deal with.
James and the Miami Heat had to do that when the big three announced their decision to team up in Florida, so how the likes of Curry, Durant, Green, Thompson and the rest of the players cope with the situation will be an interesting subplot of what is going to be a ridiculously-good season.
Let's face it – the Golden State Warriors are going to get to the finals again, and the way the Eastern Conference is shaping up, the defending champions Cleveland Cavaliers are also likely to be there. So, at the end of it all, after all those games, all the talk, all the points scored, all the records broken, all the high-fives, it looks like it will all come down to those two teams again and if the addition of Durant will be enough to stop James from winning another NBA title for his hometown franchise or not, only time will tell.
October 25, 2016 in NBA.


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2016-10-15: Paper about Matching Web Tables To DBpedia - A Feature Utility Study has been accepted at the EDBT'17 conference in Venice, Italy.
2016-02-01: Poster about A Large Public Corpus of Web Tables containing Time and Context Metadata (poster) has been accepted as poster at the WWW'16 conference in Montréal, Canada.
2015-12-01: Added context information described in the WDC Web Table Corpus 2015 Extraction to the Entity-level Gold Standard of the T2D Gold Standard.
2015-02-25: Dresden Web Table Corpus published containing 125 million data tables extracted from the July 2014 version of the Common Crawl.
2014-10-27: Tables corpus is used by Mannheim Search Join Engine which wins prize at Semantic Web Challenge 2014.
2014-03-05: WDC Web Table Corpus 2012 released consisting of 147 million relational Web tables extracted from the August 2012 Common Crawl.
The Web contains vast amounts of HTML tables. Most of these tables are used for layout purposes, but a small subset of the tables is relational, meaning that they contain structured data describing a set of entities. The Web Data Commons project extracts relational Web tables from the Common Crawl, the largest and most up-to-data Web corpus that is currently available to the public. The resulting Web table corpora are provided for public download. In addition, we calculate statistics about the structure and content of the tables.
extracted from the July 2015 Common Crawl containing 1.78 billion HTML pages originating from 15 million pay-level domains.
the corpus contains 233 million Web tables which are classified into the categories: relational, entity, and matrix.
the corpus contains context information for the table such as the title of the HTML page, the caption of the table, the text before and after the table, and timestamps from the page.
extracted from the 2012 Common Crawl containing 3.5 billion HTML pages originating from 40 million pay-level domains.
the corpus contains 147 million Web tables.
the corpus does not contain metadata about table orientation, header rows, and key columns, as well as no table context data.
This Section gives an overview of existing research on employing Web tables within various application domains as well as empirical studies about the amount and content of relational tables on the Web. The first step towards understanding Web tables is to detect relational tables [Wang2002]. Initial studies by Cafarella et al. [Cafarella2008] showed that out of 14 billion HTML tables in the Google crawl, 154 million tables contained relational data (1.1%). In [Crestan2011], the authors provide a fine-grained classification of the different types of HTML tables that are found on the Web based on the Bing Web crawl. [Hassanzadeh2015] identifies the topical distribution of Web table data by matching tables to different cross-domain knowledge bases.
Data Search: A user that is in need for some data is likely to find a table containing the desired data somewhere on the Web. [Cafarella2009], [Venetis2011], and [Pimplikar2012] propose methods for finding matching tables given a set of keywords describing the information need. An example of a table search service is Google Table Search which allows users to search for Web tables as well as public Google Fusion Tables [Balakrishnan2015]. [Tam2015] formalize the requirements for Web table search and present algorithms to solve the connected problems.
Table Extension/Completion: [Cafarella2009], [Yakout2012], [Bhagavatula2013], [DasSarma2012], [Bizer2014], [Lehmberg2014] and [Lehmberg2015] propose methods for extending a local table with additional columns based on the corpus of tables that are published on the Web. A user having a local table describing countries could for instance use these methods to have columns containing the population, area total, and the capital of each country added to his table. [Ahmadov2015] try to fill missing values in existing tables.
Knowledge Base Construction: The data contained in Web tables can also be used to construct or extend general-purpose knowledge bases such as DBpedia, Freebase or YAGO. [Zhang2013] propose a method for extending the DBpedia knowledge base with data from Web tables. [Sekhavat2014] introduce a probabilistic approach for extending YAGO by exploiting natural language patterns. [Wang2012] propose a method for building a comprehensive knowledge base using linguistic patters to extract a probabilistic taxonomy of classes and entities from Web texts and add facts about the attributes of the entities using Web tables afterwards. Biperpedia [Gupta2014] has been created by exploiting query stream and applying the learnt extractors. The Knowledge Vault [Dong2014] extends Freebase using Web tables data amongst other types of Web data. An overview of knowledge base construction approaches using Web sources is given by Weikum and Theobald [Weikum2010].
Table Matching: For most applications, the matching of Web tables plays an important role and is discussed in different works. [Limaye2010], [Mulwad2010] propose frameworks to annotate the Web tables with entities, properties and types from knowledge bases. [Ritze2015] introduce an simultaneous schema- and instance matching approach to annotate rows with entities, columns with properties and tables with types. Other methods further exploit the context [Wang2015], [Braunschweig2015] as well as timestamps [Zhang2013]. In addition to fully automatic approaches, crowdsourcing can support the matching process [Fan2014], [Chu2015].
NLP Tasks: The table corpus could also be useful for various natural language processing tasks as the things that appear in the same column are often closely related to each other, which for example can be exploited for disambiguation.
This Section describes the methodology that was used to extract the July 2015 Web Table Corpus and links to pages containing detailed statistics about the corpus as well as download instructions. The July 2015 Common Crawl corpus contains 1.78 billion HTML documents from over 15 million pay-level domains.
We employ the DWTC framework from the Database Technology Group at the University of Dresden to extract HTML tables from the crawl and to distinguish between different types of Web tables, e.g. relational and layout tables. The table type assignment works in two steps: filtering and classification.
First, the framework filters out all HTML tables that are not innermost tables, i.e., that contain tables in their cells, and all tables contain less than 2 columns or 3 rows. Further, the framework looks at other criteria such as sparseness of the table, average attribute size, number of links etc. This step discards most of the HTML tables that we consider as non-genuine. Altogether, we parsed 1.78 billion HTML pages from the Common Crawl July 2015 Web corpus. In these pages we found a total of 10.24 billion innermost tables, i.e., an average of 5.75 innermost tables per page. After the filtering step, 233 million tables remain. A content-based deduplication is not performed.
Second, the framework parses the tables and classifies them as Relational, Entity, Matrix and Layout [Eberius2015]. Figure 1 shows examples of the first three table types. Relational tables (1.a) describe a set of similar entities (here: lakes) with one or more attributes (area). The name of the entity, also called key, is contained in the table. In contrast, entity tables (1.b) only describe one entity with one or more attributes. The name of this entity is usually not contained in the table but may be found in the table context. A common example of entity tables are tables containing product details (but not the product name) on shopping websites. The third table type matrix (1.c) is most often used for results of statistical evaluations.
The classification into the different types uses a mixture of global and local features, see [Braunschweig2015a] for more details. The global features include average and standard deviation of the column and row count as well as the average cell length. Additionally, it computes content ratios (image, alphabetical and digit) and cumulative content type length consistencies of the rows and columns [Crestan2011, Wang2002]. The local features are local average length, local length variance and local content ratio of cells. Table 1 shows the distribution of the resulting table types. Altogether, 90,266,223 tables were classified as relational tables (0.9%) which is in line with the results by Cafarella et al. [Cafarella2008] (1.1%) and the results of our previous extraction (1.3%).
On top of the DWTC framework, we implemented methods to determine the orientation of a table, i.e., Horizontal or Vertical, the header row, the key column (if existant), as well as methods to extract context data from the page content around the Web table.
Table Orientation: In horizontal tables, the attributes are represented in the columns while in vertical tables the attributes are described in rows, e.g. as shown in Figure 1a. The determination of the table orientation bases on the idea that for horizontal tables, the cells in one column have a similar length because they belong to the same attribute. In contrast, the opposite holds for vertical tables where cells in one row typically have a similar length. We determine the orientation of a table by computing the standard deviation (STD) of the cell length for each row and column. If the average STD for columns is smaller than the average STD for rows, we define the table as horizontal and otherwise as vertical.
Header Row Detection: For the description of our header row detection, we always assume to have a horizontal table but of course can also be applied on vertical tables. We define a header row as the row containing the attribute names, e.g. the first row in Figure 1a with the attribute names 'Lake' and 'Area'. Our header detection bases on the idea that a header row shows a different characteristic than the following rows. Therefore, we analyze the rows by building a content pattern for each cell in a row. A cell content pattern is a strining together of the following classes: alphabetical (A), digit (D), punctuation (P) and special character (S). For example, a cell with the content "area" has the content pattern "AAAA" while a cell with the content "5.69m" is described by the pattern "DPDDA". Based on these patterns, we can determine the different characteristics of rows and thus we can conclude which row contains the names of the attributes and is in turn considered as the header row.
Key Column Detection: Similar to the header row detection, we assume to have a horizontal table for the key column detection. The key column of a table is said to be the column which contains the names of the entities, e.g. the second column of the table in Figure 1a with the attribute name 'Lake'. Our key column detection bases on the idea that a key column contains a certain amount of unique cell values because it contains the names of different entities. Thus, our main assumption is that the key column covers a high amount of unique cell values. Besides the requirement of having at least 50% unique values, it must be a column mainly consisting of string values and have an average length greater than 3.5 and lower than 200.
Context Data: In order to understand the content of Web tables [Yakout2012] as well as for determining the timeliness of the content, it is beneficial to know the text that appears on the HTML page around the Web table. We thus also extract context related data from the HTML page: HTML page title, table caption, 200 words before as well as after the table, the last modified date in the HTTP header, and sentences in surrounding paragraphs containing timestamps.
This Section describes the methodology that was applied to extract the August 2012 Web Table Corpus from the Common Crawl Web corpus and links to pages containing detailed statistics about the corpus as well as download instructions. The 2012 Common Crawl corpus contains 3.5 billion HTML documents which originate from over 40 million pay-level domains.
[Cafarella2008], [Crestan2011], and [Wang2002] propose classification methods for distinguishing between relational Web tables and other HTML tables. Based on the features proposed in these papers, we implemented a classifier for detecting relational Web tables. The classifier works in two steps. First, it filters out all HTML tables that are not innermost tables, i.e., that contain tables in their cells, and that contain less than 5 cells or 3 rows. This step discards already around 90% of all HTML tables. Second, we parse the remaining tables and classify them as relational or not relational using a mixture of layout and content features. The layout features include the average and the standard deviation of the column count, row count and cell length. Additionally we compute the length consistency of the rows and columns. Content features are the percentages of link, form, image, empty, digit, and text cells. We also compute the content type consistency for rows and columns.
Altogether, we parsed 3,301,089,681 HTML pages from the Common Crawl 2012 Web corpus. In these pages we found a total of 11,245,583,889 innermost tables, i.e., an average of 3.4 innermost tables per page. Out of these tables, 147,636,113 were classified as relational tables (1.3%). The tables originate from 101,177,544 different pages. A further classification into entity tables has not been performed.
In order not to miss relational tables, we tuned our classifier for recall at the cost of precision. An evaluation on a test set of several thousand tables showed that only around 60% of the tables classified as relational are actually relational tables (compared to the 80% precision reported in [Cafarella2008]).
The source code of the extraction framework which has been used for the creation of the July 2015 Web Table Corpus is publicly available. The code builds on the DWTC framework from the Database Technology Group at the University of Dresden which again is partly based on the code that we used to extract the 2012 Web Table Corpus.
The code can be used under the terms of the Apache software license.
General information about the Web Data Commons project is found here.
The extraction of the Web Table Corpus was supported by an Amazon Web Services in Education Grant award.
Dresden Web Table Corpus containing 125 million data tables extracted from the July 2014 version of the Common Crawl.
DBpedia as Tables: Tabular representation of the DBpedia knowledge base containing Wikipedia infobox data. The instances of each of the 530 classes in the knowledge base are provided as a seperate table. Altogether the tables cover 4 million entities.
WikiTables: Corpus consisting of 15 million non-infobox tables extracted from Wikipedia.
WebDataCommons RDFa, Microdata and Microformat Data Set: RDF data set consisting of 7 billion triples RDFa, Microdata and Microformat which originate from 40 million different websites and have been extracted from the 2012 version of the common crawl. The data can be easily translated into tables (one table per class and website).
Billion Triples Challenge 2012 Data Set: Corpus consisting of 1.4 billion Linked Data triples that were crawled from around 1000 different Linked Data sources on the Web. The data can be easily translated into tables (one table per class and data source).
publicdata.eu: Data portal containing references to 46,000 government data sets which are mostly tabular.
data.gov: Data portal containing 85,000 data sets provided by the US government. The data sets are mostly tabular.
Oliver Lehmberg, Dominique Ritze, Robert Meusel, Christian Bizer: A Large Public Corpus of Web Tables containing Time and Context Metadata. WWW 2016.
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[Bhagavatula2013] Chandra Sekhar Bhagavatula, Thanapon Noraset, and Doug Downey: Methods for exploring and mining tables on Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA '13), 2013.
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[DasSarma2012] Anish Das Sarma, Lujun Fang, Nitin Gupta, Alon Halevy, Hongrae Lee, Fei Wu, Reynold Xin, and Cong Yu: Finding related tables. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '12), 2012.
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Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia certainly has a reputation for numerous reasons, including being one of the most haunted places to visit. Frankly, it was my favorite place in Savannah and I loved stumbling upon "Little Gracie Watson". Gracie Watson, an only child, was born in 1838. Her father was manager of Savannah's Pulaski House Hotel. Two days before Easter she died of pneumonia at the age of six. In 1890, John Walz, moved to Savannah and carved from a photography the life size statue of Gracie. John Walz created many other beautiful monuments in Bonaventure. Ironically, he is buried there, without a headstone.
Visitors leave toys for Gracie to play with, and some claim she will cry tears of blood if her playthings are removed. Some believe that if you place a quarter in Gracie's hand and circle the statue three times, the coin will disappear. Sadly, the statue now has a black wrought iron fence around it do to vandalism.
I've always wanted to go to this cemetery!


The Nigerian government has shut down a major TV station, after it broadcast a report Tuesday that President Umaru Yar'Adua would resign for health reasons.
Government officials angrily denied the report, calling it rumor and fabrication. And Wednesday, it took action against first media outlet to broadcast it.
VOA reporter Chinedu Offor is following the story. From Umuahia, the capital city of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria, he spoke to English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua about the crackdown.
"The government is really serious about this report. It has shut down one of the main private TV/radio stations in Nigeria. It is called Channels TV. And not only that, the government also descended on the station with plainclothes security people, who chased out all the staff and sealed up the station. Information Minister John Odey was very, very angry at the station, saying the station reported the supposed resignation of President Umaru Yar'Adua without confirming the story," he says.
The source of the story is in question. Offor says, "The story supposedly originated from the News Agency of Nigeria (and was) e-mailed to several news organizations, saying the president had resigned. But the News Agency of Nigeria said that it was not the source of that report. As a result, authorities have clamped down on the TV station and there are plans to also shut down several others."
The government has described the resignation report as "rumor, fabrication" and "deliberate sabotage in an attempt to cause chaos in the country." Offor was asked when the last time the Nigerian government shutdown a major media outlet. He says, "You can trace that back to the last military administration. And that is about nine years now. That's gotten a lot of people here worried. They're saying are we back to the days of military dictatorship when the government can shut down private radio, TV stations or even newspapers."
Offor says it's unclear where the powers to shut down the station come from, or whether President Yar'Adua actually ordered the station closed himself.
Civil society is criticizing the move, questioning the government's pledge to a free and open press.


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Ultra Fusionfall Forum > Forum > General Boards > General Discussion > Misc FusionFall Boards > Spotlighted Forum > Silver Kid's Birthday Party!!!
Re: Silver Kid's Birthday Party!!!
Sorry man, I forgot it was yesterday. Happy (late) Birthday, though.
It's fine. Saturday is the party, so it's fine if you forgot.
Oh. I'm not going to be able to go. Sorry.
It's my birthday on Friday. I can't really do a "Fusion Fall Party" or whatever (Stupid computer), but if there are any ways that any of you wanna talk either here, Xbox, Skype, Tiny Chat, or whatever, I'd be happy to talk.
If I don't have to work late, I can chat here or on skype. Have a good bday!
Thanks. I can probably set it up tonight or anytime until Friday.
Wish I could, but I can't. But have an awesome B-day Silver!
Birthday was yesterday. So locking. If anyone wants to chat, hit me up. Me and Mr. Dubstep did. It was awesome.


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