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Evening with the Authors
2014 Authors
Cynthia J. Beeman
Cynthia is the former director of the Texas Historical Commission's History Programs Division, where she oversaw numerous state and federal preservation efforts, including the state historical marker program. She joined the Texas Historical Commission in 1987 as marker inscription writer and was coordinator of the marker program from 1992 until 2001, when she became division director. Beeman now works as an independent public historian, writer, and consultant. Her volunteer work with the Texas Women's History Project in the 1980s and her coordination of statewide efforts to celebrate Women's History Month and promote women's history in Texas led to her being named one of ten Outstanding Women in Texas Government by the Governor's Commission for Women in 1990.
Cynthia grew up in Victoria in South Texas, in a family that always seemed to be surrounded by books, and that traveled around the state every summer. She recalls their annual camping trips "with my parents in the front seat, my two brothers in the back seat, and my sister and me in the way back of the station wagon. Two things would trigger my calling to Dad from the back of the car: I always wanted to stop and pick some sunflowers; and whenever I saw a sign that read "Historical Marker Ahead" I tried to get him to stop so we could read it . Years later, I was fortunate enough to be hired for my dream job—writing historical marker inscriptions at the Texas Historical Commission. I still think that's the most fun job in Texas. "
Sarah Bird
Sarah is the author of eight novels. She has been selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers series; a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship; New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember list; Elle Magazine Reader's Prize; People Magazine's Page Turners; Library Journal's Best Novels; and a National Magazine Award for her columns in Texas Monthly.
Sarah was recently voted Best Austin Author for the fourth time by the readers of the Austin Chronicle, she was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and received the Ilumine Award for Excellence in Fiction from the Austin Library Foundation this year.
She has written screenplays for Paramount, CBS, Warner Bros, National Geographic, ABC, TNT, Hemdale Studio, and several independent producers. Sarah's screen adaptation of her sixth novel, The Flamenco Academy, is currently in development. She has contributed articles to The New York Times, Salon, O Magazine, and is a columnist for Texas Monthly. Her ninth novel, A Princess Lily Girl, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in Spring 2014.
Sarah,who moved all over the world growing up with her air force family, now lives in Austin, TX where she and husband George Jones, (not the dipsomaniacal singer), make their empty nest with not-frequent-enough visits from son Gabriel.
Elizabeth Crook
Elizabeth was born in Houston in 1959. She lived in Nacogdoches and then San Marcos, Texas with her parents and brother and sister until 1966 when the family moved to Washington D.C., where her father was director of VISTA for Lyndon Johnson. Two years later her father was appointed Ambassador to Australia and the family moved to Canberra. When they returned to Texas Elizabeth attended public schools in San Marcos, graduating from San Marcos High School in 1977. She attended Baylor University for two years and graduated from Rice University in 1982.
Her first novel, The Raven's Bride, was the 2006 Texas Reads: One Book One Texas selection. The Night Journal was awarded the 2007 Spur award for Best Long Novel of the West and the 2007 Willa Literary Award for Historical Fiction.
Elizabeth currently lives in Austin with her husband and two children.
Doug Dorst
Texas State University creative writing professor Doug Dorst released his second novel, "S." a collaboration with Hollywood producer, director and writer J.J. Abrams, on Oct. 29 and it currently sits at number 8 on the New York Times Best Sellers List.
Abrams, the producer for the hit television series "Lost" and the summer blockbuster "Star Trek: Into Darkness," approached Dorst in February of 2009 with the outline of an ambitious novel; a love story that unfolds in the margins of a mysterious novel.
Two readers of a library book, "Ship of Theseus," connect and build a relationship as they write notes and leave personal artifacts, such as handwritten letters and postcards, within the novel.
"It's a groundbreaking piece of experimental fiction," said Daniel Lochman, chair of the Department of English at Texas State. "It's an incredible and extremely sophisticated novel." Dorst, who worked many late nights to accommodate a busy teaching schedule and a newborn child, is happy with the results and thankful for the experience of working with Abrams.
Rob Harrell
Born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Rob Harrell created, wrote and drew the syndicated daily comic strip Big Top from 2002 through 2007.
Currently, he writes and draws the long-running daily stripAdam@Home, which appears in more than 140 papers worldwide.
In July 2013, his first graphic novel, Monster on the Hill, was released by Top Shelf Productions. It is a 183-page full-color story about a down on his luck 1800's English monster.
He will sign a deal with Penguin Kids books to write and draw a series of middle grade books which should debut in late 2015. As a freelance illustrator, he has worked with clients including Mad, Simon and Schuster, American Greetings, Time, Inc. and Volkswagen.
His figurative paintings have been shown around the country, including solo shows in San Francisco, Austin and Indianapolis.
He lives with his wife Amber on a hill in Austin, Texas with their two dogs, Cooper and Kasey.
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles is a poet and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the bestselling novels Enemy Women and Stormy Weather. She lives in San Antonio, Texas
I sing in a choir, which I enjoy very much. I am an alto, and so have to carry harmony. Since I am very deficient in reading music, I depend on the person next to me and the basses behind me to find my note. I have Piano For Dummies and a keyboard, but I am not making much headway. Luckily, I have a good ear and am neither sharp nor flat excessively. I envy the sopranos. Especially the lilting voices on the Alleluias—and they get to do the melody. But somebody has to chop wood and carry water. I have necessary work to do here on the ranchito, including feeding and care of two horses and a donkey, fence work, hauling feed and hay, and cleaning stock tanks. Before long there will be grass to mow, and my lawn mower is broken. I write in the mornings; but when the hot weather comes, I will have to shift that to the afternoons, as the cool early morning hours will be the only time to get outside work done. I ride with friends once or twice a week. I don't travel all that much, but when I do, it is usually to Missouri to see family, to San Antonio, Texas, to go to the opera or to have lunch with friends, or to Llano, Texas, to visit with other writer friends.
Varian Johnson
Varian is the author of four novels, including The Great Greene Heist, which has been named a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2014 and LA Times Summer Books Pick of 2014. Kirkus praised the novel in a starred review, stating, "The elaborate bait and switch of this fast-paced, funny caper novel will surprise its readers as much as the victims. They'll want to reread immediately so they can admire the setup." His novels for older readers include My Life as a Rhombus, named to the Texas Library Association Tayshas High School Reading List and the New York Public Library "Stuff for the Teen Age" list, and Saving Maddie, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.
Varian was born in Florence, South Carolina, and attended the University of Oklahoma, where he received a BS in Civil Engineering. He later received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Varian now lives in Round Rock, TX with his family.
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Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and is the recipient of the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She was also honored as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40. In addition to The Giant's House, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award winner, she is the author of several other novels, including Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry; An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and Niagara Falls All Over Again.
She has taught creative writing at Western Michigan University, the University of Oregon, the University of Houston, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas, Austin, and boy are her arms tired.
She is married to the novelist Edward Carey and they have two children.
Dan Utley
A native of Lufkin, Utley received his BA in history from UT and his MA in history from Sam Houston State University. He is currently a faculty member in the public history program at Texas State University-San Marcos, teaching oral history theory and practice. After a long relationship with the Texas Historical Commission, he is also a contract historian/cultural resources manager where he does reports for UT at Austin, Lower Colorado River Authority, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
During his tenure with THC, he was the administrator of the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program and coordinated the Official Texas Historical Marker Program. In 2008 he was named a Fellow of THC and in 2009 was awarded the Thomas L. Charlton Lifetime Achievement Award for his career as an historic preservationist and oral historian.
He is the author of several books, the most recent HISTORY AHEAD; STORIES BEYOND TEXAS ROADSIDE MARKERS (with Cynthia J. Beeman, 2010).
Stephen G. Yanoff
Stephen is a former insurance company executive from Long Island, New York. He worked in Manhattan for over twenty years and became an acknowledged expert in the field of high risk insurance. He is an award-winning playwright and has taught public speaking at several universities.
He is also a proud Aggie, having received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate from the Texas A & M University System. He now lives in Austin, with his wife, two daughters, and two grand-dogs.
About his writing, Stephen says "early on, I realized that to be a successful mystery author I had to accomplish two goals: Offer the reader a unique perspective and tell a story in my own 'voice.'
To accomplish the first goal, I decided to write a series of books based upon my own career in the high risk insurance industry. Consequently, each book involves an actual claim that I encountered, and many of the characters and events are real.
Secondly, I try to inject some humor and history, since both were an intrical part of my job and my life. So far, the results have exceeded my expectations, and I think I know why. Be it fiction or non-fiction, I never write a book that I wouldn't want to read myself!"
CF Yetman
My mother recalls that one day, when I was in the 6th grade, my teacher called her in for a conference and accused her of doing my work for me. At issue was a story I had written about a gang of talking cats, who, if memory serves, were crimefighters of some kind. I had written the story during a hurricane as a way to distract myself from my fear, but my teacher assumed that the work had not all been my own. My mother loves to tell this story and I have worn that tiny badge of honor ever since.
Despite earning a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin, the dream of being a writer myself dared not rear its head for a long time. I wanted to hang out with writers, I wanted to work with them, I wanted to be in that world. But me? Write? Then one day in 2008, I was walking around Lady Bird Lake in Austin and was pondering if I really were to write a novel, what would it be about? And then it hit me: German mother gets job with Monuments Men at the end of the war. Adventure ensues. I still remember where on the trail I was when I had the idea, because I have it again every time I walk past that spot.
Fast-forward five years, and here I am writing this text for the website of my novel. While I was learning to write a novel,the most amazing thing happened. George Clooney decided to make a movie about the Monuments Men. So for the last two years, George and I have been secretly working in tandem, although he doesn't know it, but that's okay. I am grateful that he is helping to promote my book. Thanks, George.
So here we are. What else can I say? I am a mother, a wife, a mediocre cook and an outspoken complainer about Austin traffic. I will watch virtually any World War II program that comes on the Discovery Channel and am a huge fan of the writings of Philip Kerr who is an incontrovertible genius (free plug for him here). I am still at my desk at 4:30 am (most days) but now I am working on things like this and getting ready to write the next book about Anna Klein and the Monuments Men. I have promised my daughter that there will be characters named Harry and Louis in the book, and if you are perchance the parent of a young girl, you will know exactly what this means. But that's all I will say for now. I look forward to finding out what happens next.
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Georgia 4-H'er works to raise funds and awareness of Georgia wildlife with new coloring book
By Merritt Melancon
What has 16 paws, eight hooves and three beaks?
The answer can be found at Athens, Georgia's Bear Hollow Zoo, and it's not a fantastic beast. It's a coloring book featuring some of the zoo's most notable residents.
From Rose and Rocky, the deer, to Yonah and Athena, Athens' favorite bears, this first-of-its-kind "Bear Hollow Coloring Book" brings together some of the zoo's most charismatic wildlife ambassadors.
The zoo is located at Athens-Clarke County's Memorial Park and serves as a home for injured or orphaned wildlife that cannot survive in the wild. The Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail offers a wide range of educational programming that features animals like Eeyore, a great horned owl that is blind in one eye and can't fly because of a wing injury.
A fundraiser for the zoo, 16-year-old Georgia 4-H'er and zoo volunteer Lavendar Harris compiled the coloring book from individual coloring sheets that she created for school groups and families who visit the zoo. Harris is a home-schooled student and Newton County, Georgia, 4-H Club member. The coloring book is the keystone of her Georgia 4-H Leadership in Action project.
"She has realized what an impact the wildlife at Bear Hollow (Zoo) can have on students who visit with school groups or with their families, (students) who might not have the chance to see animals in the wild or spend time in nature," said Newton County University of Georgia Cooperative Extension 4-H agent Terri Fullerton.
Georgia 4-H's Leadership in Action program recognizes 4-H'ers who identify needs in their communities, then plan and conduct a service project, activity or awareness program that they believe will meet those needs. Leadership in Action participants are the driving forces behind their service projects and are ultimately responsible for them. Local Extension staff and fellow 4-H members provide support. Students across Georgia can participate in the Leadership in Action program through their local 4-H clubs.
At the zoo, Harris said, the need was twofold: There's always a need for funds to take care of the animals, and there's always a need to support the zoo's educational mission. The coloring book helps on both counts.
"When people visit the zoo and see the animals, they can purchase a coloring book of the exact animals they saw in the zoo," Harris said. "A lot of zoos sell generic coloring books, but I wanted to make this one personalized and special."
"You can tell a lot of these drawings are portraits," said Zoo Coordinator Clinton Murphy.
Harris started working at Bear Hollow Zoo when she was 14 years old in order to learn more about wildlife biology as a profession. She wants to preserve North American wolf populations after she graduates from college. Bear Hollow Zoo is the closest place to her home where she could gain experience working with wildlife and wildlife education.
Like all volunteers, Harris started with very basic responsibilities, but she quickly became one of the zoo's most indispensable volunteers.
"We don't just throw you the keys to the gator pen and give you an owl," Murphy joked. "We have a very graduated training system … Lavendar really excelled, and she took her responsibilities very seriously. She's an amazing young woman and very dedicated."
Today, Harris leads tours of the zoo; introduces young people to the snakes, lizards and turtles in the reptile house; and is responsible for taking care of the enclosures for the zoo's deer, turkey and bobcat.
Harris' involvement hasn't solely benefitted the zoo's animals and visitors. It's also been eye-opening for the rest of her 4-H club, according to Fullerton.
"It has really inspired a lot of kids to think outside of Covington, (Georgia), in terms of how they can have impact," Fullerton said.
The coloring book, which is now for sale for $8, is available at Bear Hollow Zoo's gift shop. All proceeds go to support the care of the animals.
Harris hopes to start a dual-enrollment program this spring at Georgia State University, where she plans to study biology.
For more information about Bear Hollow Zoo, visit athensclarkecounty.com/2757/Bear-Hollow-Zoo. For more information about Georgia 4-H and the Leadership in Action program, visit georgia4H.org or call 1-800-ASK-UGA1 to find a local 4-H club.
Merritt Melancon
Jason Estep
Percy Hunter Stone inducted into National 4-H Hall of Fame 01/13/23 Josie Smith
Percy Hunter Stone, Georgia's first Black 4-H state leader in the era of segregation, was inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame on Oct. 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Stone led the organization formerly known as the Negro 4-H Club. He was recognized for his unwavering dedication to creating equal opportunities for all 4-H'ers.
Oconee County 4-H wins state Consumer Judging contest, goes on to nationals 01/06/23 Josie Smith
Four Oconee County high school students took home top honors at the 4-H State Cotton Boll and Consumer Judging contest at Rock Eagle in Eatonton, Georgia, in December. Now the team is on to the national contest, happening in January 2024.
Oconee County 4-H'er wins national 4-H poultry judging contest 12/13/22 Josie Smith
Lexi Pritchard, a 12th grade 4-H'er from Oconee County, won first place individual at the National Poultry Judging Contest in Louisville, Kentucky, held Nov. 15-16 as part of the National 4-H Poultry and Egg Conference. Pritchard scored 1350 points out of a possible 1500 and received top honors as an individual competitor.
UGA Extension builds local coalitions through Well Connected Communities 12/06/22 Amanda Budd
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agents throughout the state have been hard at work improving health in their communities through the Well Connected Communities program. A nationwide initiative developed by the Cooperative Extension System and the National 4-H Council, Well Connected Communities is designed to identify and address systemic health inequities at the local level.
4-H Tech Changemakers help adults develop digital literacy skills 11/28/22 Josie Smith
Youth involved with the Georgia 4-H Tech Changemakers program are bridging the digital divide and providing digital literacy education to improve workforce readiness skills in adults. The 2021-22 cohort surpassed previous record impact numbers by reaching 5,488 adults during the program year, working cooperatively to plan, implement and evaluate needs-driven educational programming in their local communities.

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People usually want to stay in their own home as long as possible. This can often be arranged with the help of social services and with care from family, friends, GP, district nurse, and community-based palliative care services. Community nursing and palliative care are usually arranged through the GP, either directly, or after discussion with social services (see 'Care at home: Social Services'). Macmillan Cancer Support funds Macmillan nurses for people with cancer and Marie Curie Cancer Care can provide 24 hour nursing care for people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses at the end of life. Most hospices focus on keeping people at home, and may provide short-term intensive home support.
Almost everyone made positive comments about the medical care and support provided by nurses in the community. For example, a woman who had bowel cancer described the district nurses as 'absolute angels'. After she had left hospital a district nurse came daily to do her dressings.
Thinks the district nurses are absolutely wonderful.
But the district nurses I'll praise. District nurses are absolute angels. I had a lovely one and she used to come everyday to do the dressings at home and quite different [to the hospital nurses]. She had two pieces. She undid a pack, and one she put all the dirties on and one had all the clean and she washed her hands, and she is lovely.
She still comes. She says she loves coming because I'm always cheerful and we have a nice little chat. I don't need her now because I don't have dressings, but she'll come or ring me about every couple of weeks. So the district nurses I think are absolutely wonderful.
A man, also with bowel cancer, mentioned that the district nurse called the day he arrived home from hospital. She was able to reassure him and help him with his colostomy. Another man, who had oesophageal cancer, described the district nurse as 'very supportive'. She found him an inflatable mattress to prevent bedsores.
At first, some people hesitated to invite a hospice nurse, palliative care nurse, Macmillan or Marie Curie nurse into their homes because they associated palliative care and hospice care with death and dying. However, people were always pleasantly surprised by the kindness, help and advice offered by these nurses, and learnt that the role of the palliative care nurse covers more than death and dying.
Explains that the hospice nurse has been very helpful and suggests that people should not be afraid to call on hospice nurses.
She's been so helpful. And I would say to anyone, don't be frightened, just because it's hospice care; don't be frightened to let the person in.
Hospice nurses, palliative care nurses, Macmillan nurses and Marie Curie nurses seemed to be available at any time. One nurse told a man with cancer of the pancreas that if he needed her she would come straight away.
A woman, who had lung cancer, had a fall in the street. Neighbours took her home, where she rang the Iain Renee nursing team at the local hospice. They contacted her nurse, who came at once. Even though she was seriously ill and lived alone, she felt secure because someone was always available who could help her.
A woman who had leukaemia was very glad to have the support of a hospice nurse, who often visited her at home. The nurse could be reached on her mobile phone and could help at any time. The woman said that the nurse made 'wise' comments, such as 'take one day at a time', and passed on useful information. For example, she told her about two firms that could deliver frozen food and hot lunches. She also explained that the local pharmacy would deliver prescriptions.
A nurse from the hospice gave her very useful advice.
And another nurse told me that I could apply for palliative care through my GP. And another nurse told me about Cancerbackup which is a telephone number that you can ring and ask any questions about your form of cancer, and also they send booklets out that are appropriate to you.
So we did apply for palliative care, and in due course a hospice nurse came to see me here in my own home and she explained that she could help with things which weren't entirely to do with my treatment, but they would perhaps help to make life a little bit easier for me in the circumstances that I had found myself in very unexpectedly. For instance, I was in a wheelchair before anybody knew what was wrong with me and fortunately I've managed to get much better now at moving about through the treatment I've had, but at the time I did need quite a lot of help and support of that kind.
Now, the sorts of help that she's been able to give me... At one stage I said to her that because I couldn't stand up and make any meals, my husband was doing it all and she pointed out that there were two things in the neighbourhood that could help with that.
There's a firm that will deliver you two weeks supply of frozen food and there's another one that will supply hot lunches. And we actually have the hot lunches now, even though we always used to have our main meal in the evening, we don't now, we have this hot lunch, which has relieved my husband tremendously, because for a year he did do all the cooking and then, because he likes cooking, but then it got just a bit too much for him, so that's what we do now and this was, you know, a suggestion from the hospice nurse.
Now some of the suggestions are much more sort of to do with medical things - for instance, if I haven't got enough of some particular prescription then she has very close contact with the GPs and she can just get any prescription. And she explained that the local pharmacy will bring... will deliver the prescriptions, which you know, I haven't really known that a person like me could ask for that service.
Macmillan nurses were particularly appreciated because, unlike some other carers visiting people at home, they are willing to help with whatever aspect of practical or emotional support the person needs.
One woman, who had breast cancer, explained that her Macmillan nurse was extremely practical, a 'go-between' who managed to 'get things done'. The nurse helped to fill in forms and obtained useful aids for her husband, who was also ill. For example, she found a commode, and a bathroom stool and walking aids.
A woman with kidney cancer also found the Macmillan nurses 'extremely nice and helpful'. One nurse drew little diagrams to explain the aneurysm in her neck. This woman didn't want the palliative nurses to call on her regularly while she felt reasonably well, partly because she knew that they were busy with other people, and partly because she wanted to think of herself as much as possible as a 'fit' person. However, she was glad that the nurses were there if she needed them.
Palliative care nurses give emotional support as well as physical care. A woman with breast cancer was glad that she could vent her feelings when the Macmillan nurse called to see her. The nurse was sympathetic and supported the whole family in many ways.
The nurse gave the whole family much needed sympathy and emotional support.
The Macmillan nurses and the hospice nurses; we'll do those first; there were sometimes... it was quite stressful at home and still can be sometimes because my family don't want to think about me dying and sometimes I get depressed about it and they don't like me being depressed and particularly my husband, it will set off a row or words spoken. And I can say things there or to my Macmillan nurse and they understand and I can voice my feelings, and vent my feelings about this and there aren't any recriminations and I've been heard and I've listened too and that's the support you know.
I've found it really, really helpful because the family, the children, I mean the boys are twenty three and twenty one now and my daughter's coming up for fifteen, but they are of ages that they've not got the experience of life and they don't want to think about their mum being ill and my husband's much the same. He doesn't want to think about life without me so... But they can listen to those and they've heard a lot of it from other patients and know that it's... you feel well what they sort of say to you,' What you're saying is normal, and what you're going through".
So it's like a reassurance?
You said earlier that when you heard the word Macmillan Nurse you thought well that's for people who are at the very end and you implied that you were kind of a bit put off about contacting them?
Yes, well I remember saying to this doctor who suggested it that, "Oh I thought it was just for those people who were you know, on their last few weeks dying", and she said, 'Well I think it's worth a call, you know, they do more than that'. And I've discovered that's true and they're there for the whole family which is... I mean most of the family haven't really used my Macmillan Nurse. She's met everybody. I think my daughter thinks she's another mum-type figure and so do my sons but you know, they know that she's around.
My husband. I don't think he'll really mind me quoting him, and she came and met him and after she had gone he said, 'She kept asking me how I feel'. I said, 'Well yes, that's her job'. But they know she's there which is nice and she doesn't visit me that often now because she's got a big case load and because I'm going to the day centre, I've got support elsewhere.
Another woman, who had ovarian cancer, said the Macmillan service was 'absolutely brilliant'. She was particularly grateful to one nurse, who helped her find the right words to talk to her mother about her cancer.
The Macmillan nurse helped her communicate with her mother.
Yes, but it was very difficult with my mother. My mother was ninety and she believed that primary cancers can be cured, secondary cancers kill, and because it was advanced then I had a problem on my hands, and I didn't say anything that day or the next, but then large bouquets of flowers arrived so I had to break it to her that they were coming for a reason.
So that is how I got through to talk to my mother, which was very difficult because obviously she would have been the one who would rather have had it than me, but I had a lot of help from my Macmillan Nurse because mum found it difficult to say things to me, so the Macmillan service was brilliant because I could talk to her about what mum could say to me or encourage mum to say things to me rather than just look at me as though I was sort of, not really a freak but, you know, just being lost for words, finding the right words.
So Macmillan was brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and they still are. I still have the same nurse looking after me.


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Colts to honor Peyton Manning by retiring jersey, building statue
ByMike Wells
INDIANAPOLIS -- TheColtsare retiring Peyton Manning's No. 18 jersey and building a statue of the quarterback in front of Lucas Oil Stadium, owner Jim Irsay announced Friday.
"It'll be a destination spot for all of our fans, a destination for cans of Budweiser," Irsay said laughing. "It's not too often you build statues of people. We're really excited about putting this iconic statue outside of Lucas Oil Stadium, where it'll stand many, many years. So deserving."
Manning announced his retirement from the NFL after 18 seasons on March 7, but Irsay wanted to personally honor the quarterback who helped turn the franchise around when the Colts made him the No. 1 overall pick in 1998.
"It was my honor and privilege to play for this organization for 14 years," Manning said. "I'll always be a Colt."
Manning was named league MVP four times and threw for 54,828 yards and 399 touchdowns with Indianapolis. During Manning's time at the helm, the Colts went 141-67 and went to the Super Bowl twice -- winning once -- during 11 playoff appearances.
"It was basketball, basketball, basketball, car racing, car racing, car racing [when I got here]," Manning said. "That's no longer the case. Now this is a football town."
It was Manning's first appearance at the team's facility since a tearful news conference on March 7, 2012, to announce the team was releasing him after 14 seasons. Manning missed the 2011 season with a neck injury.
Manning was emotional at times as he told a wide range of stories about events such as the team receiving a visit from former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight and Manning throwing his first touchdown pass in the 1998 season. Current coach Chuck Pagano, general manager Ryan Grigson and former Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard were among the many people in attendance.
Manning signed with theDenver Broncosin 2012 and led them to two Super Bowl appearances. He threw for17,112 yards, 140 touchdowns and 53 interceptions in his four seasons with Denver.
"It was always strange out there watching 18 without the horseshoe," Irsay said. "I feel like I speak for Colts fans: He's always ours."
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The Early Childhood Special Education Program at TCNJ for undergraduates is a five-year program that prepares students to be teachers of young students with disabilities. It culminates in a master's degree and New Jersey certification in both Special Education and Early Childhood Education (P-3). Graduates of the program meet the state's current requirements for being "highly qualified" teachers and therefore are eligible for employment in New Jersey school districts.
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Graduates of the program meet the state's current requirements for being "highly qualified" teachers and therefore are eligible for employment in New Jersey school districts. Students in the five-year program must also complete a liberal arts major in one of 11 state-approved disciplines. At the end of their fourth year, students earn a bachelor's degree. The Early Childhood Special Education course of study continues the following academic year and culminates in a full-time student teaching experience and a master's degree in Special Education.
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When I graduate, what will I be qualified to teach?
Preschool through grade 3 for students with and without disabilities; Early Intervention
I am currently enrolled in another program at TCNJ; how can I transfer?
Complete a transfer application
Please note. An interview with the undergraduate coordinator is also required.
Why should I choose a five-year program rather than graduating in four?
You will graduate with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. You will also hold two NJ teaching certifications. Separately, such achievement would take almost 7 years. Furthermore, spreading coursework over 5 years allows more flexibility in scheduling and permits enrollment in elective courses.
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22 students.
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The five-year program in Special Education is designed for students who have completed high school and are first-time students and for transfer students from community colleges or other four-year programs who have not yet earned a bachelor's degree.
Does this program enable me to teach students who are deaf/hard-of-hearing?
No, if you are interested in teaching students who are deaf/HOH, the department offers another five-year integrated bachelor's and master's of arts program which culminates in two certifications: one in Education of the Deaf or Hard of Hearing and one in Elementary Education. Visit the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education site.
Can I study abroad?
Yes, the department supports the College's International Student Teaching program. There is room in the five-year program to study abroad. Visit cge.tcnj.edu for details.
I am excited about student teaching. When will I have experience in the classroom?
You will have part-time field experience in your junior and senior years. You will teach full-time during your fourth and fifth years.
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Cracking Antiques is on a myth-busting mission to prove that people can add style and glamour to any type of home by investing in second-hand, vintage and antique furnishings – without breaking the bank.
The prime-time series, coming to BBC Two in Spring 2010, is presented by interior designer Kathryn Rayward and antiques expert Mark Hill.
Kathryn and Mark want to take the pain and shame out of buying old. From town houses to terraced houses, 18th-century French Rococo to shabby chic, they want to show that antiques and vintage furnishings can help create a stylish, fashionable home and are often the better buy.
Cracking Antiques shows that spending wisely on second-hand objects can be a cheaper and unique alternative to much of what the High Street has to offer, and in comparison, antiques are well-made and built to last so are also a much more environmentally sound investment.
The nation loves nothing more than trawling for trinkets and treasures at the thousands of antiques fairs, car boot sales and auction houses up and down the country, and as a result the British antiques industry is highly lucrative. But are people buying the right items, at the right price?
Throughout the series, Kathryn offers interior design ideas and practical suggestions on how to customise and revamp the tired and the distressed to transform them into glamorous and modern pieces. Meanwhile Mark is on hand with his top tips and helpful advice on the items to buy now, that could go up in value in the future.
From furniture to light fittings, curtains to crockery, Cracking Antiques provides the all-important guide to furnishing a home with classic pieces, how to bag a bargain and how to buy an investment piece for the future.
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The Log Goblin
Illustrated by: John Jude Palencar
Edited by: Marco Palmieri
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On a cold winter's night, a goblin is caught stealing firewood. Then things start getting weird.
I was a little sad to take down the huge old beech, a wolf tree three times as large as anything else around. Most likely, it stood there when the woods were fields—a marker between properties or just a spot for the cows to graze out of the sun—and it had remained after the farmers left and the fields gave way to forest once again. It seemed a shame, somehow, to cut it down, but it was dying, and besides, a tree that size was worth more than a cord of firewood.
By the next winter I had it cut, stacked, and dried inside my shed, but it was buried near back, behind three other rows, and it wasn't until January that I'd burned enough of the other wood to actually get at it. That's when a strange thing started happening.
At first, I thought I was imagining it. I'd go out to the shed in the morning, and the stack of wood would look lower, as though someone had come in the night to steal the logs. It seemed crazy: Who would drive a mile down my rutted driveway in the middle of the night just to make off with an armload of firewood? I told myself I was imagining it. But when you rely on wood to cook your food, to keep you warm, to stop the pipes from freezing, you know how high your pile is, almost down to the last log, and someone, I decided after three more days of this, was taking my wood.
I caught him the next night. I stayed up late, waiting inside until full dark, then pulling on my coat and boots to go stand guard. It was cold enough that the snow squeaked. The stars were knife-sharp. I waited with my hands stuffed in my pockets, shivering and feeling foolish. I was about to head inside when I heard him coming, huffing and cursing and muttering as he made his way up out of the woods, struggling through the deep drifts toward my shed.
It was obvious at once that he was a goblin. I'd never seen one, of course. They weren't supposed to be real, but what other creature is greeny-brown, pointy-eared and knobbly-fingered, barely taller than my knee? I watched, amazed, as he hopped up on the stack of wood, dragged a single log off the top, and headed off back into the snow, dragging his spoils behind him. I'd never noticed his tracks, but then, it had been snowing off and on for days, and the wind had been blowing to beat the band.
I'd planned to confront the thief, but instead I found myself following him out into the woods. The moonlight through the pines was bright enough to see by, and it was easy to follow the goblin. The log—almost as big as he was—slowed him down. He carried it on his humped little shoulder, mostly. Sometimes it would slip off and drop into the snow. He'd dig it out, kick at it irritably for a while, then pick it up again, forcing his way deeper into the forest.
The slashes of shadow and moonlight made everything look strange. I lost my bearings for a while, but when we finally started climbing up a gradual hill, all at once I knew exactly where we were. And I knew where we were going.
There, at the crest of the rise, like a round wooden table poking through the snow, was the stump of the great old beech tree. And there, piled in front of it, was my firewood, dozens of split logs arranged in some sort of insane scaffolding. I watched from the woods as the goblin entered the small clearing, approached his hoard of firewood, and, with surprising care, placed the fruits of his latest thievery on top. It was an oddly reverential gesture, after all the kicking and the cursing.
Another night I might have waited longer, watched more, tried to understand what was happening. Despite the long walk, however, I was cold, and tired, and as the goblin turned away from his pile, heading back for another log, I stepped from the shadows.
"Why are you taking my wood?" I asked, somewhat mildly, given that I was the one who had been wronged.
He jumped into the air, then bared his crooked little teeth and glared at me.
"Your wood? Your wood?"
"My wood," I said. "I own this land. I cut down the tree. I bucked it. I hauled it out and split it for the winter. My wood." It was, I thought, an argument that would stand up well in any court of law, but the only judge or jury in the clearing that night was the bright, silent moon, and the goblin just made a sound like a growl in his scrawny throat.
"Killin' a thing," he declared, "don't make it yours."
"It was dying already," I protested.
"So're you!" he said, stabbing a finger at me. "Doesn't mean I come in yer house at night to chop you down."
I frowned, suddenly all turned around by the strange conversation. "Are you claiming that the tree is yours?"
"What I'm claimin' is that the tree matters more to them that's buried beneath it than it ever did ta you."
I blinked. "There's a body . . ."
"Two of 'em," he snapped impatiently. "They courted beneath the beech as kids, made half their babies here, said everything that needed sayin' to each other under the old branches, and they're buried . . ." he stabbed a stick straight down, gouging at the frozen ground, ". . . right here. The tree is theirs, even if it's dead. Even if it's all chopped up. And it ain't your place to go stealin' the fire."
"But they're dead, too," I said, unsettled to discover these unmarked graves in the middle of my land.
"And ya think the dead don't wanna be warm?" He raised the thicket of his brows in disbelief.
I stared at him, then shook my head. "Why do you care?"
He looked at me a while, then back to the pile of wood he'd made. "I liked the way she sang," he muttered, "when she was in the fields. She sang even when she was alone, like she knew I was there. And him." He nodded at the memory. "When he went out with a bucket for berries, he always left a bush unpicked. For the birds, he said, but I figured he meant me."
Then he was quiet for a long time. We both were, just sitting there like we'd known each other all our lives, like I hadn't just caught him stealing from my pile. The ground looked so cold.
"All right," I said finally. "I'll help you haul the rest of the wood."
It took most of the night, and both of us were wiped when we finished. The pile was pretty haphazard, but it was good wood, that old beech, and it was dry. I only had to light one match and it went up like kindling. We sat on the stump—it was wide enough to hold the both of us—and watched the sparks fly up, small as the stars, but hot enough to burn.
"What were their names?" I asked, gazing into the fire.
"Leave the names alone," the goblin snapped.
I turned to him, taken aback. "I thought I might place a gravestone here, now that the tree is gone."
"Whadda they need a gravestone for?" He gestured with a gnarled hand. "They got a fire."
"But a fire . . ." I said, shaking my head. "It's so short."
He looked at me, then held his twiggy hands out to the flame. "But it's warm."
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Art copyright © 2015 by John Jude Palencar
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The chatter over who will run against President Trump in 2020 is starting to intensify, with Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., saying she's mulling the decision over the holidays and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., heading to New Hampshire to test the waters.
Now, Cher, iconic deliverer of such spicy Twitter takes as "Something is amiss with ipad" and "IM NOT YELLING ... IM CHER" is weighing in.
At the top of her ideal ticket is former Vice President Joe Biden, another person with a career spanning over half a century of highs ("Moonstruck" and the Violence Against Women Act respectively) and lows ("Mama Mia: Here We Go Again" and the Anita Hill hearings come to mind).
"I know Joe Biden and I know him to be a really great man," Cher told ITK earlier this week.
But Biden is 76 years old, and much as she might like to, Cher can't turn back time; The next best thing is a younger running mate.
"I would love to see [Biden] with someone young," she said.
But who? The answers lie in California.
"Kamala Harris or — I can't remember what Swalwell's first name is," suggested Cher, referring to the Democratic California Senator, who is 54, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, who is 38.
Swalwell was gracious about the mixed compliment.
"I love Cher's music and am honored she'd consider me for that role," he said. "I also give her a lot of credit for remembering the harder part of my name."
The 2020 race is likely to get ugly fast, but perhaps it's some comfort to Swalwell that Cher really does think he's strong enough.


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Q: AWS Glue Crawler Error: AmazonS3Exception Access Denied I'm going through this tutorial and have hit a roadblock with setting up a Crawler with Glue. I've thoroughly stepped through this AWS document, and reviewed the other posts on Stack Overflow.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Crawler Output
Crawler "x" completed and made the following changes: 0 tables created, 0 tables updated.
See the tables created in database mydatabase.

Error
[XXX] ERROR : Not all read errors will be logged. com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.AmazonS3Exception:
Access Denied (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDenied;
Request ID: XXX; S3 Extended Request ID: XXX Proxy: null), S3 Extended Request ID: XXX

Roles
For the crawler service role, glue-service, I've tried two approaches.

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*AWSGlueServiceRole, AWSGlueConsoleFullAccess, AmazonS3FullAccess

*AdministratorAccess
Both result in the same error. I can copy objects to the bucket using AWS cli and this particular user from my local machine.
S3 Bucket and policies

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*Default bucket creation, default policies and Requester Pays has NOT been turned on.

*Bucket owner is the same as the crawler owner - same AWS account

*No encryption on the bucket, it's disabled

*Can confirm the glue-service can access and copy objects to the bucket from an external source using AWS cli

*The crawler data store include path and Database location are distinct, s3://mygluebucket/data/database1/ and s3://mygluebucket/data/csv_files/table1/
VPC Endpoint Policy
VPC Endpoint Policy is Full Access
{
    "Version": "2008-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": "*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

I also added an explicit wildcard policy to the endpoint, but this had no effect:
        {
            "Sid": "Access-to-specific-bucket-only",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": "s3:PutObject",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::mygluebucket/*"
        }

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Forty years ago, I had dinner at this little two-star (Michelin, of course) restaurant in the tiny Norman village of Orbec where the back room had not yet been cleared of the dishes from the luncheon served Queen Elizabeth II that day.
It was an incredible menu. After the assortment of hors d'ouevres, appetizers (including a terrine that the great boxing writer Vic Ziegel would later call "the best cold meat loaf I ever ate"), a full fish entrée and the rich ducklings for which the restaurant, Aux Canetons, was named, the diner was offered a choice for the final course before the assorted cheese for which Normandy is rightfully famous and desserts. It was either a rack of lamb, or if the appetite was beginning to wane despite between-course samplings of Calvados (apple brandy known as the "Norman hole" because it is used by locals to create more room in the stomach), a thick slab of foie gras with salad.
What reminds me of Orbec was the rich menu boxing fans have luckily been enjoying recently and the foie gras that comes up next weekend, before we get back to the meat and potatoes — and I don't mean Big Macs and French fries.
It's almost like Beethoven's Fourth, a non-pretentious yet elegant symphony that comes between two of the Master's great works, the Eroica and the fateful Fifth. Overshadowed perhaps by the Joe Calzaghe-Mikkel Kessler, Sugar Shane Mosley-Miguel Cotto bouts that precede it, and muffled by the noises to come from Fernando Vargas-Ricardo Mayorga and Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Ricky Hatton, it is like a perfect gem surrounded by the Crown Jewels. Not as big as the Hope Diamond, but probably just as brilliant.
Too bad it's in Atlantic City. Before we ask what's a great fight like Joan Guzman and Humberto Soto doing in a joint like that, let's be thankful it'll be on HBO's Boxing After Dark.
Do not think, by the way, that this WBO 130-pound title bout is strictly for purists. Hell, no. The entertainment value will be as high as a choreographed Rocky movie fight. The skill levels will be a Mayweather shadowboxing session crossed with Barrera-Morales.
No, I don't know the line, but then, I have no idea who will win.
I suspect the undefeated Guzman would be slightly favored with a lot of smart money on the solid Soto, who was the first to defeat Rocky Juarez. That was at featherweight.
Both guys are pushing the envelope a bit at 130. Guzman isn't that far removed from being a dominant 122-pound fighter. The Dominican is one of my favorites, a flashy boxer who throws straight punches from inventive angles. For the last couple of years, I've been openly calling for him to fight Manny Pacquiao or Juan Manuel Marquez. There's no higher company, of course. Soto, though, would be a nice match for either star as well.
But I suspect Soto is more solid, that Guzman can be chipped away and made vulnerable by the sturdy Mexican. Maybe Soto's chips will not find the mark.
This will be Soto's fourth fight of 2007. Guzman hasn't been active since last December. Guzman should take an early lead, but where the fight goes from there I haven't a clue. Guzman has 17 knockouts on his 27-0 ledger, but Soto is the puncher here.
Guzman has won his last six on points; Soto his last six by stoppages - including one of Pacquiao. Except of course, it was Manny's far-less-talented brother Bobby.
Since outpointing Juarez, who just went 12 with one eye against Marquez, Soto has not beaten much. On the other hand, he hasn't lost since early 2002 to Kevin Kelley. Guzman has outpointed such as Javier Juaregui and Jorge Solis recently.
Even up, I guess I'd have to go with the speed and that's Guzman. But Soto is more than just a puncher. He outboxed Juarez. Sometimes, you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Champagne and caviar or champagne and foie gras. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Is anyone pointing a gun to your head? If so, ask him to desist.


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és una autora de còmic estatunidenca, coneguda pels seus còmics de manga. És creadora de sèries limitades i fou part de l'equip de l'antologia d'historietes Methaus abans de col·laborar amb Brian Wood el 2003 al llibre Channel Zero: Jennie One. Des d'aleshores, va començar a produir més obres, la més coneguda és una sèrie de 12 volums amb el títol Demo, del 2004, també en col·laboració amb Wood.

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A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks (2003)
by W Cohen, P Ravikumar, S Fienberg
Venue: In IIWeb
Semi-Markov conditional random fields for information extraction
by Sunita Sarawagi, William W. Cohen - In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17 , 2004
"... We describe semi-Markov conditional random fields (semi-CRFs), a conditionally trained version of semi-Markov chains. Intuitively, a semi-CRF on an input sequence x outputs a "segmentation " of x, in which labels are assigned to segments (i.e., subsequences) of x rather than to individual elements x ..."
We describe semi-Markov conditional random fields (semi-CRFs), a conditionally trained version of semi-Markov chains. Intuitively, a semi-CRF on an input sequence x outputs a "segmentation " of x, in which labels are assigned to segments (i.e., subsequences) of x rather than to individual elements xi of x. Importantly, features for semi-CRFs can measure properties of segments, and transitions within a segment can be non-Markovian. In spite of this additional power, exact learning and inference algorithms for semi-CRFs are polynomial-time—often only a small constant factor slower than conventional CRFs. In experiments on five named entity recognition problems, semi-CRFs generally outperform conventional CRFs. 1
...traction task) to 57% (for the person-name task). We used three different similarity metrics (Jaccard, TFIDF, and JaroWinkler) which are known to work well for name-matching in data integration tasks =-=[5]. -=-All of the distance metrics are non-Markovian—i.e., the distance-based segment features cannot be decomposed into sums of local features. More detail on the distance metrics, feature sets, and datas...
Collective entity resolution in relational data
by Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor - ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD , 2006
"... Many databases contain uncertain and imprecise references to real-world entities. The absence of identifiers for the underlying entities often results in a database which contains multiple references to the same entity. This can lead not only to data redundancy, but also inaccuracies in query proces ..."
Many databases contain uncertain and imprecise references to real-world entities. The absence of identifiers for the underlying entities often results in a database which contains multiple references to the same entity. This can lead not only to data redundancy, but also inaccuracies in query processing and knowledge extraction. These problems can be alleviated through the use of entity resolution. Entity resolution involves discovering the underlying entities and mapping each database reference to these entities. Traditionally, entities are resolved using pairwise similarity over the attributes of references. However, there is often additional relational information in the data. Specifically, references to different entities may cooccur. In these cases, collective entity resolution, in which entities for cooccurring references are determined jointly rather than independently, can improve entity resolution accuracy. We propose a novel relational clustering algorithm that uses both attribute and relational information for determining the underlying domain entities, and we give an efficient implementation. We investigate the impact that different relational similarity measures have on entity resolution quality. We evaluate our collective entity resolution algorithm on multiple real-world databases. We show that it improves entity resolution performance over both attribute-based baselines and over algorithms that consider relational information but do not resolve entities collectively. In addition, we perform detailed experiments on synthetically generated data to identify data characteristics that favor collective relational resolution over purely attribute-based algorithms.
Overview of record linkage and current research directions
by William E Winkler - BUREAU OF THE CENSUS , 2006
"... This paper provides background on record linkage methods that can be used in combining data from a variety of sources such as person lists business lists. It also gives some areas of current research. ..."
This paper provides background on record linkage methods that can be used in combining data from a variety of sources such as person lists business lists. It also gives some areas of current research.
...resses, most of the advances in record linkage methods have been in the computer science literature. In particular, methods of string comparison for accounting for typographical error (Winkler 1990a, =-=Cohen et al. 2003-=-a,b), methods of parsing names and addresses into components that correspond and can be more readily compared (e.g., Winkler 1995, Borkar et al. 2001, Christen et al. 2002, Churches et al. 2002), and ...
Data integration: The teenage years
by Alon Halevy, et al. - IN VLDB , 2006
A Comparison of String Metrics for Matching Names and Records
by William W. Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar, Stephen E. Fienberg - KDD WORKSHOP ON DATA CLEANING AND OBJECT CONSOLIDATION , 2003
"... We describe an open-source Java toolkit of methods for matching names and records. We summarize results obtained from using various string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. These metrics include distance functions proposed by several different communities, such as edit-dist ..."
We describe an open-source Java toolkit of methods for matching names and records. We summarize results obtained from using various string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. These metrics include distance functions proposed by several different communities, such as edit-distance metrics, fast heuristic string comparators, token-based distance metrics, and hybrid methods. We then describe an extension to the toolkit which allows records to be compared. We discuss
A Latent Dirichlet Model for Unsupervised Entity Resolution
by Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor - SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING , 2006
"... Entity resolution has received considerable attention in recent years. Given many references to underlying entities, the goal is to predict which references correspond to the same entity. We show how to extend the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model for this task and propose a probabilistic model for ..."
Entity resolution has received considerable attention in recent years. Given many references to underlying entities, the goal is to predict which references correspond to the same entity. We show how to extend the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model for this task and propose a probabilistic model for collective entity resolution for relational domains where references are connected to each other. Our approach differs from other recently proposed entity resolution approaches in that it is a) generative, b) does not make pair-wise decisions and c) captures relations between entities through a hidden group variable. We propose a novel sampling algorithm for collective entity resolution which is unsupervised and also takes entity relations into account. Additionally, we do not assume the domain of entities to be known and show how to infer the number of entities from the data. We demonstrate the utility and practicality of our relational entity resolution approach for author resolution in two real-world bibliographic datasets. In addition, we present preliminary results on characterizing conditions under which relational information is useful.
... linkage, and co-reference detection. The traditional approach to entity resolution considers similarity of textual attributes. There has been extensive work on approximate string matching algorithms =-=[26, 8]-=- and adaptive algorithms that learn string similarity measures [4, 9, 33]. Beyond applying standard machine learning techniques, other approaches use active learning [32]. In addition, data integratio...
Exploiting dictionaries in named entity extraction: Combining semi-markov extraction processes and data integration method
by William W. Cohen, Sunita Sarawagi - In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference , 2004
"... We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries—more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER systems by incorporating information about the similarity of extracted entities to entities in an external dictionary. This is d ..."
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries—more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER systems by incorporating information about the similarity of extracted entities to entities in an external dictionary. This is difficult because most high-performance named entity recognition systems operate by sequentially classifying words as to whether or not they participate in an entity name; however, the most useful similarity measures score entire candidate names. To correct this mismatch we formalize a semi-Markov extraction process which relaxes the usual Markov assumptions. This process is based on sequentially classifying segments of several adjacent words, rather than single words. In addition to allowing a natural way of coupling NER and high-performance record linkage methods, this formalism also allows the direct use of other useful entity-level features, and provides a more natural formulation of the NER problem than sequential word classification. Experiments in multiple domains show that the new model can substantially improve extraction performance, relative to previously published methods for using external dictionaries in NER.
...he surface form of a name in free text can vary substantially from its dictionary version, leading to issues analogous to the those that arise in linking or "de-duping" heterogeneous database records =-=[10, 32]-=-. This problem is compounded in extracting from text which is informal or otherwise prone to noise and errors, such as the email corpus and the address corpus we consider in the experiments in this pa...
AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering system as an interface to the Semantic Web
by Vanessa Lopez, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Michele Pasin
"... The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup will become widely available. The availability of semantic markup on the web opens the way to novel, sophisticated forms of question answering. AquaLog is a portable question-answering system which takes queries expressed i ..."
The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup will become widely available. The availability of semantic markup on the web opens the way to novel, sophisticated forms of question answering. AquaLog is a portable question-answering system which takes queries expressed in natural language and an ontology as input, and returns answers drawn from one or more knowledge bases (KBs). We say that AquaLog is portable because the configuration time required to customize the system for a particular ontology is negligible. AquaLog presents an elegant solution in which different strategies are combined together in a novel way. It makes use of the GATE NLP platform, string metric algorithms, WordNet and a novel ontology-based relation similarity service to make sense of user queries with respect to the target KB. Moreover it also includes a learning component, which ensures that the performance of the system improves over the time, in response to the particular community jargon used by end users.
Iterative Record Linkage for Cleaning and Integration
by Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor , 2004
"... Record linkage, the problem of determining when two records refer to the same entity, has applications for both data cleaning (deduplication) and for integrating data from multiple sources. Traditional approaches use a similarity measure that compares tuples ' attribute values; tuples with similarit ..."
Record linkage, the problem of determining when two records refer to the same entity, has applications for both data cleaning (deduplication) and for integrating data from multiple sources. Traditional approaches use a similarity measure that compares tuples ' attribute values; tuples with similarity scores above a certain threshold are declared to be matches. While this method can perform quite well in many domains, particularly domains where there is not a large amount of noise in the data, in some domains looking only at tuple values is not enough. By also examining the context of the tuple, i.e. the other tuples to which it is linked, we can come up with a more accurate linkage decision. But this additional accuracy comes at a price. In order to correctly find all duplicates, we may need to make multiple passes over the data; as linkages are discovered, they may in turn
Bootstrapping Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems In
by Anish Das Sarma , Xin Dong , Alon Halevy - SIGMOD, , 2008
"... ABSTRACT Data integration systems offer a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Despite recent progress, setting up and maintaining a data integration application still requires significant upfront effort of creating a mediated schema and semantic mappings from the data sources to the mediate ..."
ABSTRACT Data integration systems offer a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Despite recent progress, setting up and maintaining a data integration application still requires significant upfront effort of creating a mediated schema and semantic mappings from the data sources to the mediated schema. Many application contexts involving multiple data sources (e.g., the web, personal information management, enterprise intranets) do not require full integration in order to provide useful services, motivating a pay-as-you-go approach to integration. With that approach, a system starts with very few (or inaccurate) semantic mappings and these mappings are improved over time as deemed necessary. This paper describes the first completely self-configuring data integration system. The goal of our work is to investigate how advanced of a starting point we can provide a pay-as-you-go system. Our system is based on the new concept of a probabilistic mediated schema that is automatically created from the data sources. We automatically create probabilistic schema mappings between the sources and the mediated schema. We describe experiments in multiple domains, including 50-800 data sources, and show that our system is able to produce high-quality answers with no human intervention.
...le table. For each given query, UDI transforms it into a set of queries on the data sources according to the probabilistic schema mappings, retrieves answers from individual data sources, and then combines the answers assuming that the data sources are independent (as we described in Section 2). For the purposes of our evaluation, it suffices to store each source as a single table in a database, rather than access data sources at query time. We used MySQL for storing the data, and implemented the query processor in Java. We used the SecondString tool [2] to compute the Jaro Winkler similarity [27] of attribute names in pairwise attribute comparison. We used Knitro [1] to solve the entropy maximization problem in p-mapping construction. We conducted 868 Table 1: Number of tables in each domain and keywords that identify the domain. Each domain contains 50 to 800 data sources. Domain #Src Keywords Movie 161 movie and year Car 817 make and model name, one of job and title, and one ofPeople 49 organization, company and employer one of course and class, Course 647 one of instructor, teacher and lecturer, and one of subject, department and title author, title, year, andBib 649 one of journal...


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Q: How can i checkout new code to server with git With every deployment, I want to checkout the latest code in the master branch from the remote.
It is possible that people have changed the code on the server before the deployment, so I want the result of a deployment to only be the contents of the current tip of the master branch.
Currently, I use this:
git stash && git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/master

Which works, but if I use git status then it says I am in the middle of a rebase. I'm unsure why it says this.
Rather than the above, is there any way I can git checkout origin/master every time I deploy so that no matter if there are any changes on the server, it just goes to HEAD of master every time?


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