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Drug, alcohol use common among commercial truck drivers
On behalf of Padilla Law Group, LLP | May 19, 2020 | Personal Injury
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently created a Commercial Driver's License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse to reduce substance abuse in the industry and protect the motoring public. The clearinghouse tracks violations commercial truckers make with regard to drinking alcohol or using other substances. Early findings suggest that substance abuse is occurring far too much within the industry.
According to American Trucker, the clearinghouse began tracking violations in early 2020. Since then, there have been more than 8,000 positive substance abuse tests among truckers. The administration initiated the clearinghouse as part of its MAP-21 highway funding law, estimating that it should help save as many as 900 lives every year.
Alcohol-related risks
Drunk drivers endanger everyone on the roadway. Drunk truck drivers may be even more of a highway hazard. Alcohol consumption hinders driving ability in many ways, and it often results in slower reaction times and poor judgment.
When truck drivers abuse alcohol, they become less likely to be able to react to emergencies. Alcohol abuse also affects vision, which may make it more difficult for truckers to stay in their own lanes or judge distance.
Drug-related risks
Truckers who use drugs also create threats for everyone on the road. Amphetamine abuse is particularly common among truckers, many of whom use these substances to increase alertness.
Abusing amphetamines leads to dangers. It may make truck drivers feel "invincible," which in turn may lead them to take unnecessary risks behind the wheel. The use of these substances may also cause truckers to experience "crashes" later that lead them to drive while fatigued, which may increase crash risks.
Other clearinghouse objectives
While the clearinghouse gathers information about substance abuse in the trucking industry, it has other purposes, too. Sometimes, truckers who violate substance abuse rules while working for one company fail to disclose their violations to new employers. The clearinghouse gives employers something to reference when making new hires, helping them avoid those who abuse drugs or alcohol.
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Q: .NET Console App How to communicate result via Process object? I am trying to find a robust way to run a console application from a parent process, and have the console app communicate back to the parent process.  So, one way I thought perhaps was to start the console app via a Process object, and have the app modify some property with a result message that could be checked.  I don't know if that is possible, or how you might access a parent process object that instantiated that instance.  Or, if there is a better way to do so.
I am writing in VB.NET Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 3.5.
Certainly I could output a file to the disk containing info, and look for it when the process is done, but that's not as elegant as I would like.

A: Thanks Jon Skeet, this led me to an answer that works.  Here's an example of the code that works:
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That's almost certainly true. Republican lawmakers don't support meaningful health care reform. That's certainly their right, but it's a point that's often overlooked. If White House negotiators were to offer them a compromise today with no public option, no reimbursements for end-of-life counseling, and no taxes on the middle class, Republicans lawmakers will still oppose meaningful health care reform.
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On Death Row–Literary or Women's Fiction?
Posted by c2london in Reading, Uncategorized, Writing on July 6, 2014
I've mentioned my quest to figure out what women's fiction is, most recently in a blog on book covers. I picked up I'd Know You Anywhere at a recent bookswap, thinking it was women's fiction. The title sounded like one my WF writing friends had mentioned. Also, the paperback cover features two pictures of the backs of women in what appear to be raincoats. Not the dead giveaway of flowers or children, but hinting it might be for and about women. The book did receive accolades from the likes of Stephen King, as well as decent reviews.
This cover looks even more representational than the real one due to the glossy nature of the material. I had to use a flash.
A month or so prior to reading the above, the Board of the Friends of the Colorado State Library sponsored a talk by Elizabeth L. Silver. She spoke about her 2013 novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. At least two versions of the cover of this novel include a partial face of a woman. What I take to be the hardback edition features only text, with some of the words crossed out. This, too received good reviews, although I am not able to unearth a review on the NYTimes.
What do these novels have in common? Each has a female protagonist. Both have murderers on death row facing dwindling days to their execution. Laura Lippman's story is told in alternating past and present chapters recounting the story of Eliza's kidnapping, and what she's doing now. A few other points of view are included. Occasional sections are about the mother of the young girl for whose murder Walter is to die. Sections of Noa P. include letters the mother of Noa's victim wrote to her daughter.
How would I categorize these two novels? Are either women's fiction? In a short article, Rebecca's Rules: Defining Women's Fiction (Booklist, March 15, 2013), Rebecca Vnuk suggests that women's fiction deals with emotions and relationships of a female protagonist, and that "the main thrust of the story is that something happens in the life of that woman." She then tries to set romance, women's fiction, and literary fiction apart. One clue, Vnuk says between women's fiction and literary is if you pay more attention to the beauty of the words than the story. She notes that the two can be confusing to distinguish and also says there is nothing wrong with filing a book under "general fiction."
Although a large portion of IKYA is from the male antagonist's point of view, the above definition allows both books to fall into the WF category. Somehow or other, I would never think to call Noa P. a work of women's fiction. Probably IKYA was published as suspense or crime fiction, but to me, a non-expert on WF, it seemed very much like a novel that could be called women's suspense fiction. What marked the difference between these two books and their classification?
Both deal with the aftermath of a murder on both the perpetrator, the families of the victim, others involved in the subsequent legal case, and the death penalty itself. Another clue Vnuk gives to distinguish between women's fiction and literary or general fiction is if the main character can be substituted with a man. Probably this would not work, or would be a completely different story in the case of the Lippman book. In the case of Noa, it might be possible, although it would again make it a much more common story.
The main difference between the two books, and where I would classify them, is in the writing, but not necessarily because I spent more time "admiring the use of language" in Noa than enjoying the story. I didn't much like the character of Noa. I didn't like Eliza, either, but for different reasons. Noa was unpleasant but, as someone with at least psychopathic tendencies, interesting. Eliza was plain dull, a wife, a mother, with few interests or thoughts outside of that role. If Lippman's purpose was to show how being the victim of a crime dulls the senses and impacts the personality, she may have done an excellent job, but it seems to me if that was the intent, there should have been some way to show us that that was what she was doing. Every once in awhile Eliza would know something or show interest in something that seemed to me, as a critical reader, more to advance the story of make a more interesting observation than as something this character would actually say or do or know.
The other characters in the Lippman book–with the exception of Walter whom I felt was well portrayed–were right out of central casting. So many books have a best friend/older sister who feels like every other best friend or sister in every other book in the world. In Eliza's case, the older sister might be described as "lovingly bullying," but possessing all the expected traits: the Golden Girl to Eliza's housewife, the smart one to Eliza's dropping out of her masters program, the single career woman to Eliza's long marriage with the "perfect" children. Noa's only friend, who died in childhood, did not seem like her traits had been purchased in the stock store of characters, although her early demise did not flesh her out.
Eliza's parents were both oh-so-perfect psychiatrists; again, more a role than real characters. Noa's mother is quite awful. Her father is a reformed convict and not much like fathers in other books. Both are believable, but not particularly likeable. Eliza's husband is too good/smart/understanding to be true. I kept expecting him to fail her, to in some way make her perfect life a lie. That would have made the story more complex and interesting, but in the end, he's left home so that the sister can finish out the novel with Eliza.
Noa P. was told in the first person while Eliza's story was all third. Eliza's thoughts and feelings were explained and then explained again, while Noa held back information and lied, making you have to work to figure out what was going on in the dialogue as well as the rest of the story. This telling of emotions very well might be what I most objected to in the Lippman book. This over-explaining with dialogue that seldom rang true was for me what made this a less interesting read. I wonder if this problem might have been fixed if Eliza had told her part of the story in the first person.
I have to continue my search for "real" women's fiction. I hope that some of what, for me, are deficits in the style of writing do not define the "genre."
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That strain again, it had a dying fall.
The overwhelming disadvantage of being ruled by people who have never had a proper job is that they have no concept of the organic nature of a business. Much of the wealth of a business is tied up not in only in the balance-sheet and profit-and-loss accounts, but crucially in the know-how of its people. This does not reside in the contributions of the scientists, engineers and managers, which are all subject to documentation, but rather in the minds of the humble technicians, who know the many inevitable detailed problems and how they may be overcome.
Though we returned to the topic at the start of this year, we originally announced the demise of the British steel industry six years ago (see one sentence in Kamikazeconomics). That it was an unconscionable time a-dying is no surprise, as sucking the life-blood out of a business is a slow process. Yet it still came as a bombshell to our masters: not that they would ever have consulted a site such as this one, but if they had, they would have dismissed the observation as overly cynical. Is it better to be naïve and proved wrong than cynical and proved right? The definition of a cynic by the great Ambrose Bierce is:
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Different variations on this theme of zealot-inspired economic suicide promoted by the enemy within appear throughout the declining West. The watermelon government of the USA, for example, used its democracy-bypass agent, the EPA, to mount a destructive attack on it own coal industry; only to be confounded by the well-established principle that if you artificially make a vital technology too expensive another takes its place.
It is not likely that the believers who have seized control of our major parties will be consumed with guilt over wasting a few billions and blighting the prospects of future generations of their citizens. After all, they are quite content to put lives at risk with their bizarre energy-supply policies on similar junk science grounds. Furthermore in the UK, by launching "Project Fear" in defence of continued EU membership, they betray a belief that Britons have lost not only their ability to reason, but also their nerve.
The present UK Government has largely continued adherence to the Gordon Brown school of economics – it is all right to borrow, tax, spend and waste, as long as you call it "investment". Yes, dressed up with a bit of "austerity", but not so as you would notice. The other Brownian principle they adhere to is that it is OK to be reduced to selling the family silver, provided you describe it as "attracting investment". In the world of spin the illusion is everything; so that hammering at the door is not the bailiffs, but just over-excited, would-be investors.
Carry on milking
Let's face it: we have lost the war against junk science. Not a day goes by without some grotesquely statistically insignificant claim appearing on the front pages. To comment on all of them would be futile, but the establishment media are not going to abandon such a prolific source of fake drama. An alleged risk reduction of 7% is now described as an exciting finding. But how's this for a dramatic headline: Going to church kills cancer, reduces risk of heart disease and makes you live longer. Avid junk collectors will immediately detect that Harvard touch. Yes folks, it's the good old Nurses Health Study, the oldest established crap game in the world. The components of this data dredge must by now be hundreds of activities and circumstance set against hundreds of diseases. There are now probably more combinations of these than the much heralded Trojan Number, the 75,000 participants in the study. If they include data such as church attendance what are they going to omit?
Characteristically, it took the combined efforts of two journalists to turn that Harvard press release into a story, yet exactly the same one made a front page headline on the Telegraph print-version (the online version is often more circumspect). These front page stories, almost without exception, are based on derisory relative risks. Increasingly, however, numerical evaluation of risks and trial sizes are altogether eschewed. The public are being systematically conned on a massive scale. The fact is that scares sell newsprint and, increasingly predominantly, advertising. Meanwhile, the proprietors of the big data dredges and other statistical scams stick to the motto – if you've got it, milk it.
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Farage and Co.
I am not a member of UKIP or, indeed, any political party. I was a highly active member of the Conservative Party for decades, but that all ended on the day Stuntman Dave launched his hug-a-husky spectacular. I am, however, cursed with this unnatural expectation that politics should be conducted honestly. Yet UKIP does have a personal significance for me. My last ever public appearance was an invited presentation to a UKIP gathering. On that occasion my voice just about survived to the end. I simply had to face up to the fact that, having been refused replacement therapy for my immune deficiency by the NHS, I had to avoid humanity altogether.
What charming company they were: welcoming, intelligent, educated and reasonable in argument; so unlike the image of them projected by the establishment polling organisations, who like to portray them as ignorant fascist oafs. They are dismissed as insignificant, yet every peccadillo and disagreement is seized upon with a gusto that is not expended on the major parties. Afterwards, I had the pleasure of taking ale in the company of Nigel Farage and the conversation was most enjoyable and informative.
Has any one individual ever been subjected to such a sustained assault by the entire political and media establishment? Even the "official" Vote Leave campaign has devoted more effort to complaining about Farage's prominence than to its own cause. In this respect Simon Heffer makes short work of the two nonentities, lacking fire in their bellies, who have been appointed to direct the campaign. How can it be a free vote when bureaucrats predetermine who can and who cannot present the case for each side? Is the appointment of such a pair of losers just another example of attempts to rig the referendum, as was Cameron's carefully timed abuse of taxpayers' money to distribute that ghastly pamphlet? Even if it is not a conspiracy, it is exactly the EU-type bureaucracy we are trying to get away from. Forced party alliances, as opposed to people simply coming together in a common cause, are very much an EU concept. It is generally accepted that Vote leave have put up a pretty poor showing. Given that all forecasts are rubbish, it is pure folly to try to match "project fear" with yet more spurious projections.
Number of the month: £350,000,000
This number is the weekly amount that "Vote Leave" claims the UK gives to the EU. It is not just a wrong number; it is a blatantly stupid, counter-productive and campaign-wrecking wrong number. It openly invites the devastating put-down that it has received. Whether its use is an act of treachery or incompetence is unclear, though it is hard to believe that anyone could be that incompetent. The EU bureaucracy has previously exhibited its skill in rigging referendums – "You will keep on voting until you vote the right way: then you will stop!"
The most annoying thing about this one is that the true (net) number of over £160,000,000 (after subtracting the refund and grants) is still large, way beyond reason, and would make the point incontestably.
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A561C polymorphism of E-selectin is associated with ischemic cerebrovascular disease in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia
Hidenori Hattori, Hideki Sato, Daisuke Ito, Norio Tanahashi, Mitsuru Murata, Ikuo Saito, Kiyoaki Watanabe, Norihiro Suzuki
Department of Internal Medicine (Neurology)
E-selectin, which is a member of the selectin superfamily of adhesion molecules, contributes to the leukocyte-endothelial cell attachments and is involved in the pathogenesis of thrombovascular diseases as a consequence. We investigated the A561C mutation in the E-selectin gene in 235 Japanese patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and 301 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Excluding the subjects with diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia, the AC genotype frequencies of patients with ischemic CVD were higher than those of controls: 12.7% vs. 5.8% (P = 0.04). Our results show that E-selectin gene polymorphisms represent an increased risk for ischemic CVD in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia.
E-Selectin
Selectins
Hattori, H., Sato, H., Ito, D., Tanahashi, N., Murata, M., Saito, I., ... Suzuki, N. (2006). A561C polymorphism of E-selectin is associated with ischemic cerebrovascular disease in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia. Brain Research, 1108(1), 221-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.023
A561C polymorphism of E-selectin is associated with ischemic cerebrovascular disease in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia. / Hattori, Hidenori; Sato, Hideki; Ito, Daisuke; Tanahashi, Norio; Murata, Mitsuru; Saito, Ikuo; Watanabe, Kiyoaki; Suzuki, Norihiro.
Hattori, H, Sato, H, Ito, D, Tanahashi, N, Murata, M, Saito, I, Watanabe, K & Suzuki, N 2006, 'A561C polymorphism of E-selectin is associated with ischemic cerebrovascular disease in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia', Brain Research, vol. 1108, no. 1, pp. 221-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.023
Hattori H, Sato H, Ito D, Tanahashi N, Murata M, Saito I et al. A561C polymorphism of E-selectin is associated with ischemic cerebrovascular disease in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia. Brain Research. 2006 Sep 7;1108(1):221-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.023
Hattori, Hidenori ; Sato, Hideki ; Ito, Daisuke ; Tanahashi, Norio ; Murata, Mitsuru ; Saito, Ikuo ; Watanabe, Kiyoaki ; Suzuki, Norihiro. / A561C polymorphism of E-selectin is associated with ischemic cerebrovascular disease in the Japanese population without diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia. In: Brain Research. 2006 ; Vol. 1108, No. 1. pp. 221-223.
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The Original Diablo Can Now Be Played In Your Browser
We have come such a long way in terms of technology, where something that required a lot of resources back then don't. Take for example Blizzard's original Diablo game. It was released back in 1996 where it helped popularize the action RPG genre, but fast forward 23 years, you can actually relive the game in your browser.
Yup, you read that right, you can actually play through the original Diablo in your browser. This is thanks to the efforts of GalaXyHaXz, a developer who is part of the Devilution Diablo fan project whose goal was to reconstruct the original Diablo's source code. According to the team, "In order to ensure that everything is preserved, Devilution keeps everything as it was originally designed. This goes as far as bugs and badly written code in the original game. With that it serves as a base for developers to work with, making it much easier than before to update, fix, and port the game to other platforms."
Once the code was reconstructed, a mod group called Rivsoft then made the game playable in your browser. All you'll need to do is head on over to Rivsoft's website, download the source code, and you'll be good to go. However, we should note that this is not the full version of the game, which we imagine will probably result in copyright issues with Blizzard.
Instead, the version available is the shareware version of the game where you'll only get to play the first two parts of the dungeon as the warrior class.
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Tags: Blizzard, diablo, Social Hit
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earworm's top 8 albums of the year
Tired of end-of-year top 10s? Here's the eight best albums earworm reviewed in 2011. Think of it as the eight-track of end-of-year best album lists. 8. R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now [Warner Bros] Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills called it quits in September mere months after delivering Collapse Into Now to a – frankly – […]
Tired of end-of-year top 10s? Here's the eight best albums earworm reviewed in 2011. Think of it as the eight-track of end-of-year best album lists.
8. R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now [Warner Bros]
Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills called it quits in September mere months after delivering Collapse Into Now to a – frankly – indifferent world. Which was a bit of a shame because it was their best album in years.
Finally the oft-claimed R.E.M. "return to form" eventuated after a series of disappointing albums over the last decade. Collapse Into Now is derivative but at least it plunders the band's own back catalogue sounds to deliver a greatest hits-like set featuring new songs.
Album number 15 (fifteen!) was – in retrospect – a good way for R.E.M. to bow out with the likes of Discoverer, All The Best and Mine Smell Like Honey reminding fans why they loved the band so much back in the days. A bonkers Peaches cameo on Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Anitmatter was a welcome bonus.
earworm verdict: '…there's life in the old gods yet…'
7. Death Cab For Cutie – Codes and Keys [Atlantic]
US indie rock popsters Death Cab For Cutie's seventh album released in May seemed to suffer from the law of hipsters' diminishing interest in the old since they prefer to covet the new. No longer the hipsters' new favourite band, Death Cab For Cutie struggled to retain their status as their old favourite band.
To be fair, nothing on Codes and Keys compares to the thumping magnificence of I Will Possess Your Heart from its predecessor, 2008's Narrow Stairs. But not much does.
Repeated listens revealed an unusually optimistic set of songs from frontman Ben Gibbard. Marriage to the object of many indie kids' affections, adorkable Zooey Deschanel, obviously suited him. They announced their divorce in November. So, at least that's material for the next Death Cab For Cutie album sorted out then.
A Codes and Keys remix EP released in November featuring radical makeovers of the album's *ahem* key tracks by Cut Copy, Yeasayer and other superstar DJs is also well worth checking out.
earworm verdict: '…there's still some doom and sweet bitter gloom left for Death Cab For Cutie to mine.'
6. Radiohead – The King of Limbs [self released]
Radiohead were another band that suffered the curse of hipsters' short attention span in 2011. The King of Limbs was suddenly unveiled in February without any pre-release fanfare via internet download before the physical album shipped to shops in March. A lukewarm reception compared to previous Radiohead missives was its fate.
Being consistently brilliant is eventually taken for granted, it would seem.
Radiohead version 3.0* continued their obsession with skittering beats and oblique lyrics ahead of straightforward guitar noodlings on The King of Limbs and that's perhaps why its critical reception was somewhat muted. This was an expansion of Kid A and Amnesiac-era bleep-bloppery and not the next great leap forward for Oxford's finest. Maybe next time. This shouldn't mar the enjoyment (yes, enjoyment) of The King of Limbs' best moments.
Lotus Flower, Little By Little and Separater all haunted the ears long after listening. And the sedate Codex is one of Radiohead's loveliest numbers.
If you think Radiohead is over then you're wrong.
*Radiohead version 1.0 = Pablo Honey, Radiohead version 2.0 = The Bends to OK Computer, Radiohead version 3.0 = Kid A to The King Of Limbs
earworm verdict: '…take the time to relax and let these songs drift away with you'
5. The Black Keys – El Camino [Nonesuch Records]
A very late entrant into the albums of the year list, El Camino is the sound of the Black Keys kicking their Money Maker garage rock machine up a gear with producer Danger Mouse's help to infiltrate the mainstream. Its immediately addictive songs – perfectly encapsulated in lead single Lonely Boy – is the souped-up sound of the summer.
El Camino's longevity is doubtful but "they" do say that about most rock 'n' roll don't "they"?
Detractors will moan that it's a stupid album for stupid listeners but sometimes crunching songs about wanton women, booze and good times are all you need.
earworm verdict: '…young, dumb and full of fun'
4. Real Estate – Days [Domino]
Days by the woefully-monikered Real Estate (seriously, how does the band expect anyone to find them via Google?) is the best kind of album. The kind that worms its way into your listening habits by stealth. It's the definition of an earworm.
Those with a limited attention span may criticise its seeming blandness but underneath its calm exterior these songs have real hooks. It's Real, Out Of Tune and Wonder Years to name but three meld the jingle-jangle pop nous of – to name but three – The Byrds, Teenage Fanclub and Big Star. There's almost no higher praise than that.
Real Estate deliver the sweet, sweet sounds of the New Jersey suburbs to the world.
earworm verdict: '…fans of The Byrds and Teenage Fanclub will find much to soak up and enjoy here'
3. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain [Vice]
Self-declared "flower punks" Black Lips hired uber-producer Mark Ronson to add a little pop sheen to their shambolic garage rock sound for sixth album Arabia Mountain. Major mainstream success may have again eluded the Atlanta band but Ronson's commercial nous made tracks like Family Tree, Modern Art, Mr Driver, New Direction and the surf-rock summer hit that should have been Go Out And Get It crackle and pop.
Hopefully, Black Lips will keep their private party going for a few years yet. You're invited. Jump on board.
earworm verdict: '…scuzzy pop garage rock at its finest.'
2. The Horrors – Skying [XL/Remote Control]
The Horrors arrived straight out of…Southend on Sea in 2007 with shoddy debut album Strange House. A fantastic second album – 2009's Primary Colours – and this year's skyscraping Skying refocused their swirling psychedelic rock template to make The Horrors that rare modern musical beast: a band that's getting better as time goes by.
They're not the first goth(y) band to plough the widescreen rock field and they've inspired a clutch of current copycats headed by S.C.U.M. who've not come anywhere near matching Skying. In fact, those other bands have only illustrated how tricky it is to pull off the melding of 1980s gloom rock with a modern pop sheen sensibility.
Anyone who's ever thrilled to the sounds of The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen or early Simple Minds should check The Horrors out. Still Life, I Can See Through You and Changing The Rain all stand tall amid those band's finest work.
earworm verdict: 'A doom laden country filled with endless "skies", "rivers" and "oceans". And it feels fine.'
1. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake [Universal]
PJ Harvey's Let England Shake is English singer-songwriter Polly Harvey's eighth album and it's her strongest set yet. Previous efforts have featured great songs but Let England Shake — in the modern age of single-track downloads — holds together brilliantly as a cohesive whole and deserves to be heard as such.
Released in February, this is a state-of-the-nation critique that draws on that country's wartime history — mostly during the First World War — to illuminate its gloomy wartime present. It's also a bloody good set of songs. And these songs are literally bloody. From the opening title track to the closing The Colour Of The Earth, Harvey's lyrics vividly depict death on foreign fields and the futility of battle for many of its participants.
Let England Shake won the 2011 Mercury Prize for best British album of the year. The judges got it right. Let England Shake, like the outstanding fourth series of TV show Blackadder, sees pop culture reminding us of the horrors of war. Lest we forget.
earworm verdict: …[PJ Harvey's] most accessible album since 2000's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'


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Some people are altogether too sensitive. While this feeling may show a suspicious disposition, it is by no means favorable to the person possessed of the quality. These people are generally a misery to themselves and try to make all miserable around them. If anything appears in print, in an innuendo form, they take it to themselves, and the innocent writer is subject to their most venomous maledictions, when he, perhaps, had no more thought of them when writing, than he had of "The Story of Hannah." There are others who, when they hear something out of which they thing they can make capital, having been published in a paper, will borrow a paper—these sort of people seldom or never take a paper—and hie themselves to the person or persons whom, they think, are as ignorant as themselves, and in as much of a melodramatic manner as they can assume, read the item: "O, he means you, and I'd go for him!" exclaims this world-be exciter of malice; and nothing better can be expected of the illiterate person, who does not read for himself than to believe all that is told him. As a general thing, newspaper writers do not try to offend anyone; but if there is something said at times, that appears to be personal, the better way is to keep in good humor—"Grin and bear it,"—you will certainly gain nothing by ill will and retaliation. A fakir is hard to beat at his own game. All persons who are prone to take everything that is said in a community, as directed to themselves, have a hard time of it. Better take the world easy and not accredit yourselves with more than you are guilty. Remember this and be wise.
Our little item of last week in regard to church slumber has made a decided hit; we were not aware there were so many guilty ones. We are informed there were six ladies who are high in church affairs, congregated together discussing the item of last week; and they almost simultaneously exclaimed, "It wasn't me!" It was not me, etc!" when one of them quietly remarked: "It certainly was not I, because I was not present."
If the ladies who are given somnolence will take a little cayenne pepper, and when they feel their drowsiness coming on apply a little to the vitreous human, they may find it efficacious in keeping them awake. This is merely a suggestion.
At the town election held on Saturday there were 98 votes polled, and the following commissioners were elected: John H. Davidson, J. J. B. Atkins and G. W. Sharp. Mr. Davidson received 97 of the 98 votes.
C. H. Atkins' hen coop was robbed on Wednesday night of last week of 45 chickens. These fowls were of a fancy variety, and Mr. Atkins estimates his loss at one hundred dollars. The thieves carried their game away in a wagon.
The school at Harbeson was closed again last week on account of diphtheria.
The dwelling house of John Taylor in Cave Neck caught fire early on Saturday morning and was burned to the ground. But little furniture saved.
C. C. Armstrong is suffering with a sprained ankle.
If the first days of March rules the spring month—well, the ground hog knew his business.
Henry P. Webb, infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Webb, died at the home of its parents near Ellendale on Wednesday, aged 1 month and 4 days. Funeral services on Thursday, and interment in the Isaac Webb burial ground, S. J. Wilson & Son, undertakers.
John Sherman, who formerly resided near Harbeson, died at the house of his daughter, Mrs. George Rust in Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred on Thursday, of generally debility. Aged 80 years old. Funeral at Beaver Dam on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Stevens officiating, and interment made in the cemetery adjoining. S. J. Wilson & Son conducted the funeral.
The school at Beaver Dam reopened on Monday.
William Banning died on Sunday at the home of his brother, John Banning, near Oakley, of dropsy, aged 66 years. Funeral was held at Oakley M. P. Church oi Wednesday afternoon and the first interment made in the new cemetery adjoining the church. S. J. Wilson & Son, undertakers.
At the annual meeting of the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church held on Sunday evening a nice program was rendered. Besides the singing there were pieces read by Miss Rena Steelman, Miss Virginia Brockington, Miss Lizzie Bryan, Miss Stella Virden, and Miss Elizabeth Conner. $132.69 was raised during the year for missionary purposes.
Harry Redden is yet very sick with typhoid pneumonia, and the rest of our sick people are better.
The W. C. T. U. held a session on Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. L. M. Fearing.
The M. P. Church has asked for the return of the Rev. H. S. Johnson for another year. At a late meeting John Conaway was elected delegate to attend the annual conference, and B. B. Johnson alternate. Mrs. Florence Johnson was elected visitor to the Home of the Aged at Westminster, Md. The old board of stewards and trustees were re-elected.
The disgraceful conduct that occurred at a house on Mulberry Street on Saturday evening is to be deplored by a decent community. And upon this fiasco is directly the fault of the drunkenness of a young man who had recently married an estimable young girl, the matter is doubly bad.
The parties guilty—mostly of them—left Milton at about 12 o'clock on Sunday night, and when the officers went to look for them on Monday, they were non est.
At a meeting of the Town Council on Saturday evening William Stevens was re-elected president, as was also Charles Davidson re-elected secretary. John Lewis was elected treasurer in the place of R. W. Warren, time expired.


People have a tendency to reduce God's law to something doable. The scribes and Pharisees taught that as long as someone didn't commit murder, then they would not be liable to judgment in regards to the sixth commandment.
but submitting yourself to the spirit of the law.
God views the sin of our heart, in this case anger towards someone, especially a brother, as reprehensible. According to God, having anger against a brother is akin to the sin of murder.
God has not come incarnate to change the mechanics of our life, so that we behave as instructed. Jesus came in order to make us dead to sin, to give us a new heart, to give us a new nature. A heart that is filled with ill-intent, anger and malice is a heart that is filled with sin and not reflective of the heart given to us by God.
The new heart provides new thoughts, motives, desires and will, all of which is like Jesus Christ. It is the heart that leads to actions since every behavior is based on a belief.
Our anger must be against sin and not sinners. We should feel compassion for the sinner.
The biblical term for "fool" is "raca" and may be translated, "worthless fellow." It is an expression that is heartfelt, dismissing a person as a worthless individual.
To murder someone does not only mean to take their life physically. It could mean to kill their reputation, destroy their spirit or to tear down them down in some way.
but to move us towards that which is right.
The scribes and Pharisees only spoke of the law in the negative—you shall not murder. Jesus gives us the positive instruction that shapes us to be more like him. Not only are we to not have anger in our hearts (negative), but we are to have a heart of reconciliation (positive). In this way, the spirit of the law is developing our character to demonstrate the glory of God.
God mandates that we seek to right wronged relationships with others. Allowing an unresolved personal issue to continue is a sin. It makes our kingdom efforts ineffective, it makes our ministry in the church powerless, and it negates our ability to bear witness of Jesus and his nature given to us by the Holy Spirit.


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Volume 17, Number 9/10
MapRank: Geographical Search for Cartographic Materials in Libraries
Markus Oehrli
Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Maps and Panorama Division, Zürich, Switzerland
markus.oehrli@zb.uzh.ch
Petr Přidal
Klokan Technologies GmbH, Baar, Switzerland and Moravian Library, Brno, Czech Republic
petr.pridal@klokantech.com
Susanne Zollinger
ETH-Bibliothek, Map Library, Zürich, Switzerland
susanne.zollinger@library.ethz.ch
Rosi Siber
EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland
rosi.siber@eawag.ch
doi:10.1045/september2011-oehrli
Searches for cartographic materials have previously been carried out using conventional library search systems. However, this kind of search method often proves to be inadequate, as the lack of suitable user interfaces means that queries have to be formulated in words. Furthermore, indexing based on geographical names does not adequately describe the spatial dimension of cartographic material, and geographical names also tend to be ambiguous and inclined to change. A web-based geographical search system (geosearch), which analyzes the geographical coordinates of MARC21 field 034, has been developed for the Swiss research portal for maps. The geosearch enables cartographic material to be found quickly and efficiently on the basis of its location and spatial extent via an intuitively accessible user interface. This is achieved with a cleverly devised ranking algorithm (MapRank®) and an innovative indexing mechanism. The number of search results can also be restricted by applying filters relating to the publication period and map scale.
The geosearch is proving to be a powerful search tool which, in an open-ended search scenario, can be used to find roughly double the amount of relevant cartographic material within a short space of time. The system is intuitive to operate and no previous knowledge is required. It also offers further strengths, such as the ability to search through extremely large quantities of data quickly and independently from the various subject heading systems and thesauri. This makes the geosearch an ideal tool for carrying out map searches in metacatalogs.
Keywords: Cartographic material, geographical coordinates, geographical search, geosearch, map library, map portal, MapRank®, MARC21, mashup, metacatalog, metadata, OPAC, ranking, research portal, spatial indexing, spatial query
Conventional library catalogs (OPAC) are only of limited use for map searches. If bibliographic information such as the title or author is not known at the outset, carrying out a text-based search for cartographic material can be a complicated and time-consuming process. Even the introduction of new filter concepts (faceting) in recent years has done nothing to fundamentally change this unsatisfactory situation.
A typical query contains both topical and geographical terms to establish a spatial reference (e.g. "topography AND St. Petersburg"). The number of search results can then be gradually restricted by applying filters. Completing the steps described, as well as comparing the results of different queries and scanning long lists of hits, requires a disproportionately high amount of time. Judging by our own experience with library patrons over many years, this type of search strategy results in about 20 to 70 percent of the relevant material being found. The percentage depends on the question, previous knowledge and perseverance.
In many respects, the indexing by geographical subject heading (MARC21 field 651) is not particularly suited to making maps easier to find. Geographical names do not always have one distinct meaning. In the German-speaking world, for example, there are at least fifty homonymous places bearing the name of Neustadt. Furthermore, due to their cultural imprint, geographical names are not constant (Buckland et al., 2007). One example of this is the Russian city of Sankt-Peterburg, which was known as Leningrad from 1924 to 1991. Thirdly, geographical names are language-specific: in search queries, the endonym Санкт-Петербург (Sankt-Peterburg) is also used exonymically in variations such as Saint Petersburg, Saint Pétersbourg, Sankt Petersburg, etc. Finally, usually only one to three of the most relevant geographical subject headings are recorded by the library for each document, but this only enables a geographical area to be described in a very generalized way. In the majority of cases, a search for any given place charted in the cartographic material therefore yields no results.
By contrast, geographical coordinates, which specify the location and spatial extent of a map precisely, do not present any of these disadvantages. The geographical coordinates allocated to a particular point on earth are unique and, for the purposes of library systems, constant. Inconsistencies may occur, within an acceptable range of dozens of meters, because the geodetic datum and coordinate reference system on which the document is based are not taken into account when compiling the metadata. The MARC21 standard stipulates fields 034 and 255 for recording geographical coordinates and scale.
Fig. 1: Structure of a MARC21 record: the fields 034 and 255 contain the scale and the geographical coordinates (highlighted in red). Source: Swiss National Library.
Choosing to include geographical coordinates in library records is, according to recent literature, regarded as one of the most important decisions for improving the accessibility of cartographic material (Bidney, 2010). This naturally calls for systems that take geographical coordinates into account in search queries.
Previous geosearch approaches and solutions in libraries
In Switzerland, the idea of making maps easier to find with the help of geographical coordinates has been discussed for decades. As early as 1986, at the instigation of the ETH-Bibliothek, a translated Swiss version of the ISBD(CM) noted that the specification of coordinates would be advisable when using electronic data processing (Katalogisierungsregeln, 1986). The recording of coordinates was made obligatory in 1995, as stated in an internal version of the regulations of the ETH-Bibliothek and Zentralbibliothek Zürich. This rule was retained when the AACR2 was adopted at national level in 1999 even though the AACR2 at the time still referred to the recording of geographical coordinates as an "optional addition" (AACR2, 1998). The ETH-Bibliothek was unable to put detailed plans for a web-based geosearch for single maps and map series into practice in 2004 due to the high licensing and development costs involved (Bühler, 2004).
The successes of Google Maps and Google Earth, as well as the development of new web technologies, the availability of open application programming interfaces (API) and the dynamic progress of the open source movement (Open Source Geospatial Foundation), have transformed the development of web-based user interfaces with map components into a simple and cost-effective process. Moreover, open source components enable the flexible adaption of applications to exploit new technological possibilities (Schüler and Crom, 2008).
The number of geosearch applications for map libraries available on the Internet is growing rapidly. These mostly consist of mashups that use the Google Maps API (e.g. Maps of Australia; Maps of North Carolina; MapFast; Geographische Kartenblattsuche; MapHappy; cf. Johnston and Jensen, 2009). These applications are interesting prototypes, but they are designed purely for handling searches in fairly small collections of data. Furthermore, none of the applications mentioned above locate all of the cartographic material that is contained within a given query region or that touches on or overlaps with it. To reduce the complexity of the projects, searches are often based on points (the central or corner points of a map), although a search by area is preferred.
The installation and configuration of a geosearch for map libraries that is based on open source software was, in addition to the development of other applications, the subject of the OldMapsOnline project, which was conducted during the period from 2008 to 2011 by the Moravian Library in Brno, Czech Republic. This project involved testing applications including TimeMap, GeoNetwork, Lucene and LuceneGeoTemporal Extensions from the DigMap project, PostGIS, Alexandria Digital Library and the proprietary online service Google Geo Search. However, the test results revealed that none of these applications was able to provide an easy-to-operate geosearch interface. In addition, none of the applications offered an adequate ranking system for large collections of data.
Requirements for a modern geosearch application
In 2008, the opportunity arose in Switzerland to develop a national research portal for maps (Kartenportal.CH) as part of the Swiss electronic library collaborative project e-lib.ch (Klöti and Schmid, 2011). The following institutions were involved in the project: the ETH-Bibliothek, the WSL and EAWAG-EMPA research institutions, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, the Swiss National Library, the University of Bern library, and the Institute of Cartography at ETH Zürich. The most important and most challenging sub-project was the implementation of a geosearch.
In parallel to the national map portal — and also within the scope of the e-lib.ch project — the swissbib metacatalog was established. Swissbib covers approximately 15.3 million documents from 730 Swiss libraries and archives under a single interface, including approximately 130,000 records of cartographic material (as of July 2011). This presented major advantages for the planned geosearch: the laborious process of harvesting and deduplicating the MARC21 metadata would no longer be required, as the map portal would access the processed metadata via an OAI-PMH interface directly from the metacatalog. In addition, it would be possible to display the detailed metadata and holding records of search results from the geosearch via a link back to the metacatalog.
Fig. 2: Data flow (from left to right): metadata are captured by the libraries and managed in the local catalogs. The metadata are collected and deduplicated in the national metacatalog. From here the records are transferred into the MapRank geosearch. The geosearch interface runs in the user's web browser (red arrows). Detailed metadata from the metacatalog are displayed; the user is referred back to the local catalogs to order the document (blue arrows). Diagram: authors.
All in all, the complexity of the geosearch sub-project was reduced to such an extent that it could be implemented using the resources available.
The following key requirements were defined for the planned geosearch:
The user interface must be user-friendly.
The transfer of coordinates to the search system must be carried out intuitively by defining a rectangle in a reference map from an online map service (hereafter "search map").
The search map must cover the entire world with a sufficient level of detail.
The search results must cover all maps contained within the search rectangle as well as those that overlap with this area (area search).
It must be possible to restrict the number of search results by applying optional filters relating to the publication period and scale.
It must also be possible to search through very large collections of data, containing up to 500,000 records, without any loss of speed.
The system must offer quick response times and therefore a high interaction speed.
An integrated text-based search is considered to be of secondary importance.
If possible, open source components must be used.
The fact that a complete list of search results for each place on earth covers a range extending from large-scale maps up to all world maps meant that it was essential for the ranking of the results to prioritize relevant documents.
As none of the existing applications was capable of fulfilling all these requirements, a public invitation to tender was issued and the company Klokan Technologies was subsequently commissioned to develop an innovative solution.
Current technologies for processing spatial queries
The problem of searching by geographical data (geodata) is a well-known issue from programming geographic information systems (GIS). Spatial databases such as PostGIS, SpatiaLite or Oracle with extensions offer functionality for handling spatial queries. The records are usually indexed with variations of an R-tree or a Quadtree. The algorithms are able to efficiently answer queries such as: "Which points are located within the query region?" or "Which polygons overlap with a given query region?".
In geodata catalogs, searches are carried out for data that are represented by bounding boxes. One example of this is GeoNetwork. However, these systems are also often designed for searching in relatively small collections of data and they frequently generate very long lists of search results that are not sorted according to relevance. Users must apply filters to limit the number of displayed documents. The remaining results have to be scanned by the user, record by record, to find relevant information. It is possible to enhance these systems with a ranking function that works on the basis of a spatial similarity function, such as the Hausdorff distance or the ratio between the size of the intersection area and the query region. Such a similarity function is used to sort the results from the spatial query before they are displayed to the user. However, this kind of method is not quick enough for searching large databases, as the number of records is too high for a real-time ranking calculation.
Another approach is to use a form of indexing that is commonly found in full text databases: an inverted index. This allows existing full text search engines, such as Lucene, to be used to index geographical records. This method — excluding the ranking element — is described under the name of C-squares (Rees, 2003). If this indexing system is applied, the same grid (sometimes known as the Spherical Mercator) can be used as in Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and other well known map services (Přidal, 2008). Lucene has its own extension for spatiotemporal searching (LGTE), but it offers limited potential because the records are represented as points and the ranking relies only on simple distances.
As an alternative to encoding geographical coordinates and implementing a simple geosearch, some search systems use GeoHash or a variation of this. GeoHash encodes pairs of longitudes and latitudes as a string of characters that feature interesting characteristics: places located close to each other have similar prefixes. Characters can be cut from the end of the string, thus making the string shorter, but also less precise. The same principle can also be applied to encoding regions using bounding boxes. GeoHash uses interleaved bits for encoding a traversing path in the Euclidean space. However, the algorithm fails in edge cases, which is why workarounds have been created. This type of text string, together with the alphabetical sorting system that is implemented in every database, can be used for a simple geographical proximity search.
To summarize, the review of the current technologies exposed some shortcomings that called for enhancements to be developed.
Technical implementation using MapRank
Klokan Technologies developed a new ranking algorithm known as MapRank®. MapRank is based on an extended spatial similarity function, i.e. a function that comprises two regions: the region covered by the cartographic material and the region covered by the user's search query. These two regions are typically linked by one of the following spatial relationships: equals, overlaps, contains, is contained by, disjoined (Larson and Frontiera, 2004).
Fig. 3: Principle of the spatial query: some records (red) are taken into account as search results for the query (black); one record (blue) is not considered. Diagram: authors.
The result of the similarity function is combined with additional user input (filters relating to publication period and scale, and full text search) to generate the final ranking, with the most relevant document placed at the top of the list of results. This is therefore in line with the probability ranking principle, whereby the documents are sorted in descending order according to their assumed probability of relevance for the user (Robertson, 1977).
MapRank is based on the idea of creating an algorithmic description of what is intuitively regarded as a spatial similarity in terms of size, shape and position. The system performs a coverage similarity function, which answers the following question: "which document covers a similar area to the user query defined in the search map?".
Another important element of the geosearch with MapRank is the new type of indexing involved. As has already been mentioned, conventional indexing with an R-tree does not perform well. MapRank, however, uses an index that already contains part of the precalculated ranking of the documents. The precalculation is carried out when the records are imported into the system. This therefore makes the system faster and more scalable, as the speed with which the list of results is generated is not significantly affected by the number of indexed records.
The search interface was written in JavaScript, using Google's Closure Library. The search map and the directory of places are integrated via the Google Maps API. If required, this can be substituted with OpenStreetMap components. The server-side element of the geosearch consists of a FastCGI module, written in C/C++, that runs on a Linux system using a lighttpd web server. The web server supplies the data in JSON format, with the search parameters in line with the OpenSearch standard wherever possible. With the exception of the MapRank algorithm, open source components are used throughout.
Functionality of the MapRank geosearch
The first MapRank geosearch version was activated in September 2010. The geosearch interface runs in a standard web browser and does not require any additional software on the client side. It is divided into three parts:
Fig. 4: MapRank geosearch user interface: the most relevant search result is highlighted in red in the results list and on the search map. Source: Klokan Technologies with map data from Google Maps.
The most eye-catching feature is the search map from Google Maps. The standard Google Maps zoom and drag function is familiar to users and adds to the convenience of using the geosearch. Alternatively, a geographical name can also be entered and the search map is then centered on this name. The location and spatial extent of a search result is shown on the search map in the form of a red rectangle.
Optional filters are included below the search map. The feature that stands out here is the timeline for specifying the publication period, which is displayed on a scale from the year 1000 to 2010. The time range that is most frequently used in searches, 1950 to 2010, is set as default. If necessary, users can set a different time range using two scroll bars or a selection list. The filter for the map scale can be activated via a selection list. The default setting ranges from 1:1 to 1:100,000,000, which covers all of the cartographic material which may be detected in a search.
The column on the right-hand side shows the search results in text form. This comprises brief bibliographic information, including the title, subtitle, year of publication, publisher, place of publication and scale. The most relevant results are shown at the top of the list and highlighted in red, corresponding with the red rectangle on the search map. By simply hovering over the search results list with the mouse, it is possible to highlight another result in the list and, in parallel, on the search map. This helps to avoid numerous visualization problems (Janée, 2006).
All that is required for a search query is to center the search map on the desired location and select a zoom level that displays the targeted region with the greatest possible accuracy. Each modification of the search map or the filters immediately triggers a recalculation of the results list. Clicking on the title in the list that is highlighted in red opens a new window displaying the complete bibliographic metadata contained in the metacatalog, which also indicates and provides links to the holding records.
Fig. 5: Metacatalog user interface: when the search result marked in red or the red rectangle is clicked in the MapRank geosearch, the metacatalog user interface is opened in a new window for the purpose of displaying the detailed metadata. The maps that have been found can now be ordered, if the user wishes, from one of the local catalogs. Source: swissbib.
When searching for old maps, the time range for the search must be adjusted on the timeline so that only maps with relevant years of publication (MARC21 field 008) are shown. Alternatively, and with another purpose in mind, one can also consider the analysis of chronological subject headings (MARC21 field 648). However, this feature has not been implemented in the current geosearch installation.
The scale filter is required when searching for a map series should those sheets not have been recorded individually in the metacatalog. The MapRank algorithm specifically prioritizes search results that have approximately the same spatial extent as the specified region on the search map in accordance with the concept of coverage similarity. Preference is therefore given to single maps, while large map series are moved much further down the results list. The scale filter can be adjusted to ensure that map series are displayed.
Initial experiences
The initial experiences of using the geosearch have been consistently positive. Users are generally surprised to be shown search results right from the start, even though they have not knowingly prompted any action. The navigation system in the widely used Google Maps search map is familiar to many users. Every action carried out by the user on the search map immediately gives rise to visible changes in the ranking of the hits in the search results display and thus quickly achieves a successful outcome. The timeline, which users have found to be easier to operate than the new filter concepts used in conventional OPACs (faceting), met with an enthusiastic response.
The geosearch has proven to be very suitable for search scenarios where users cannot provide any bibliographic data for the cartographical material they are searching for or where the search is very open-ended. A considerable amount of time can be saved in these cases. However, if the precise bibliographic data are known, a text-based search in a conventional OPAC is more efficient and therefore remains the preferred option. Judging by our experience, in the case of open-ended searches, the new search strategy enables users to find 70 to 95 percent of the relevant cartographic material within a short space of time and without any previous knowledge. This also includes documents that have incomplete or, from the user's point of view, unexpected indexing, making them unlikely to be found in a text-based OPAC. This percentage estimate is based on the assumption that the metadata of all map materials of the library includes coordinates and map scale.
The geosearch fully demonstrates its strengths when it comes to searching data in a metacatalog. While word-based search queries in metacatalogs often produce incomplete lists of results when different indexing systems and thesauri clash with each other, the results generated by the geosearch are complete and comprehensible.
However, many records occurred multiple times in the geosearch because they had not been identified as duplicates in the metacatalog. To ensure that records are deduplicated, it is absolutely essential that the libraries involved, as authors of the records, interpret and apply the cataloging rules (in this case, AARC2) and the metadata format (in this case, MARC21) thoroughly and consistently.
From a cartographic perspective, the results display of world maps in the search map is not yet perfected. The search for cartographic material in polar regions has also proven to be unsatisfactory, because, for reasons of projection, Google Maps cannot offer a normal view of the globe. The name search used by Google Maps, which still seems to offer scope for development with regard to homonyms and exonyms, is beyond the sphere of influence of the geosearch project.
Plans are being made to optimize the list of search results. This would involve displaying different editions of the same cartographic material, which currently appear in various places in the results list, chronologically and in a condensed format. Furthermore, the intention is for records to be loaded from the metacatalog periodically in future via OAI-PMH interfaces.
The first geosearch version, released in September 2010, contained approximately 68,500 records with correctly documented geographical coordinates. Approximately 56,400 further records did not include any geographical coordinates, or only contained deficient coordinates. Over the next two years, the libraries involved in the project will be focusing on rectifying these deficiencies and retrospectively recording the geographical coordinates. Among other material, this affects maps published before 1800, as until now the documenting of geographical coordinates for old maps was still optional. However, the geosearch is particularly useful when it comes to searching for old maps, which, due to drastic changes in political borders and a frequent lack of bibliographic information, are often very difficult to find.
The ETH-Bibliothek Map Library is planning to import around 250,000 records of sheets from map series into the regular library catalog, which have been recorded in the proprietary local application Toporama up to now. In so doing these records will become available, and therefore easy to find, in the geosearch like the records of single maps.
In future, it should be possible to only display cartographic material from selected libraries by applying an additional filter. Implementing this filter function enables the geosearch to be integrated into the website of each of the libraries involved in the project, to carry out searches exclusively in its own holdings. Moreover, it would be possible to implement filters to enable searches to be performed specifically for atlases or remote sensing images, for example, or with a text search for certain authors or publishers. The second MapRank geosearch version that has been set up since June 2011 for the David Rumsey Map Collection shows the possibility of integrating a text search and thumbnails, as does the third MapRank geosearch version for the Moll Collection of the Moravian Library.
It would be possible to make all library holdings having spatial extent accessible in the geosearch as long as the metadata had been supplemented with geographical coordinates, which is not currently envisaged by any of the known sets of cataloging rules. This would offer tremendous potential, including for publications such as artistic works (e.g. Vue de la chute du Rhin), travel guides (e.g. Baedeker's Switzerland), nonfiction books (e.g. The Battle of Stalingrad), works of fiction (e.g. Hamlet), movies (e.g. An American in Paris), and sound recordings (e.g. Il barbiere di Siviglia), etc. In the long term, the geosearch would take its place alongside the text-based OPAC as an equally useful solution for conducting searches in library holdings of all kinds.
The MapRank geosearch presented here is proving to be a powerful search tool. Used to supplement the text-based OPAC, it makes it considerably easier to find cartographic material in libraries as well as saving a significant amount of time. The MapRank geosearch fully demonstrates its strengths when it is used to search metacatalogs, such as its ability to perform an efficient search in extremely large quantities of data, its robustness in handling data from different origins and its independence from any indexing systems. The recording of geographical coordinates has gradually become an established practice in Switzerland since 1986 and this is considered a key factor in the success of the geosearch in the national map portal.
The authors would like to thank Jost Schmid, Walter Raaflaub and Vaclav Klusák. This paper has been translated with funds provided by various institutions.
[1] AACR2: Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1998 revision. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1998.
[2] Bidney, Marcy M.: Can Geographic Coordinates in the Catalog Record Be Useful? In: Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 6, 2 (2010) pp. 140—150. Online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15420353.2010.492304.
[3] Buckland, Michael … [et al.]: Geographic Search: Catalogs, Gazetteers, and Maps. In: College & Research Libraries 68, 5 (2007) pp. 376—387. Online: http://crl.acrl.org/content/68/5/376.
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[6] Johnston, Lisa R.; Jensen, Kristi L.: MapHappy: A User-Centered Interface to Library Map Collections Via a Google Maps "Mashup". In: Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 5, 2 (2009) pp. 114—130. Online: http://purl.umn.edu/92083.
[7] Katalogisierungsregeln: internationale standardisierte bibliographische Beschreibung für Kartenmaterialien: deutsche Fassung der englischen Originalausgabe, IFLA 1977 […] 2., überarbeitete Aufl. Bern: Vereinigung Schweizerischer Bibliothekare, 1986. (Katalogisierungsregeln; Fasz. BE).
[8] Klöti, Thomas; Schmid, Jost: Suche nach gedruckten und digitalen Karten mit Kartenportal.CH. In: Arbido 3 (2011) [in print].
[9] Larson, Ray R.; Frontiera, Patricia: Spatial Ranking Methods for Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) in Digital Libraries. In: Heery, Rachel … [et al.] (eds.): Research and advanced technology for digital libraries: 8th European conference: proceedings ECDL 2004, Bath, UK, September 12—17, 2004. Berlin: Springer, 2004. (Lecture notes in computer science; 3232). pp. 45—56. Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30230-8_5.
[10] Přidal, Petr: Tiles à la Google Maps: Coordinates, Tile Bounds and Projection. 2008. Online: http://www.maptiler.org/google-maps-coordinates-tile-bounds-projection/.
[11] Rees, Tony: "C-Squares": a New Spatial Indexing System and its Applicability to the Description of Oceanographic Datasets. In: Oceanography 16, 1 (2003) pp. 11—19. Online: http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/16_1/16.1_rees.pdf.
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A video demonstrating the MapRank geosearch is online at http://www.klokantech.com/mapranksearch/.
Bounding box: a model for specifying the geographical coordinates in the metadata for cartographic material. According to AACR2, this should comprise the most westerly and most easterly longitudes and the most northerly and most southerly latitudes of the displayed region.
Map series: cartographic document containing multiple sheets, covering an area that is too large to be displayed on a single map sheet of the same scale.
MapRank®: an algorithm for ranking cartographic material in the geosearch. MapRank concentrates on analyzing the geographical coordinates in the metadata. Produced by Klokan Technologies in Baar, Switzerland.
R-tree: a data structure that enables searches to be carried out for large, multidimensional items, such as points and polygons in a two-dimensional space.
Markus Oehrli is a cartographer and map librarian. He started his professional cartography training at the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. Since 2003, he has been the rare maps and map series cataloger at the Maps and Panorama Division of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland. Markus served for almost ten years on the board of editors of Cartographica Helvetica, the German-speaking journal on the history of cartography.
Petr Přidal is a software engineer. Since 2008 he has been working on the OldMapsOnline.org and TEMAP research projects at the Moravian Library in Brno, Czech Republic. This resulted in the improvement of several open source software tools (such as IIPImage JPEG2000, MapTiler, OpenLayers Zoomify, and GeoTools). Within these projects, he has prepared an open-source-based workflow for processing and the online publishing of scanned maps in public libraries. Petr is the founder and CEO of Klokan Technologies in Baar, Switzerland. The company's innovative software tools for libraries and cultural heritage institutions include MapRank geosearch, Georeferencer, and Geoparser.
Susanne Zollinger is a geographer and GIS specialist. She works in the map collection of the ETH-Bibliothek in Zürich, Switzerland. Susanne is responsible for the introduction of new methods and technologies that improve access to printed and digital maps.
Rosi Siber is a GIS specialist and biologist. She started her work at EAWAG (the aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain, Zürich, Switzerland) in 2002. She is responsible for the GIS support and the geodata management. Rosi was the project manager for the geosearch described here.
Copyright © 2011 Markus Oehrli, Petr Přidal, Susanne Zollinger and Rosi Siber


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November 25, 2019 1:36PM CST
MASON CITY — Forecasters say a storm system will move into the state Tuesday, with the potential for rain, freezing rain and high winds and well over half a foot of snow in some areas.
Kenny Podrazik, a meteorologist based at the National Weather Service office in Johnston, says a winter storm watch has been issued for the northwest quadrant of the state. "That's in effect from Tuesday night into mid-day Wednesday and right now we're looking at a good swatch of three-to-eight inches," Podrazik says. "Even further west along the Missouri River there, could see up to nine inches. The Sioux City and Sheldon could see up to around nine inches."
The National Weather Service is predicting near-blizzard conditions in north central and parts of northwest Iowa due to the strong winds associated with this storm on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Podrazik says advises finding an alternate route if you're planning to drive when the storm hits in that area.
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The storm's timing, though, may provide a window for Iowans making shorter trips for Thanksgiving.
"The good 'silver lining' part of it is it's going to happen on Tuesday into Wednesday, so there's still some time for road crews to kind of clear off the roads," he says.
Another low pressure system will move into the area as early as Thursday afternoon.
"It will really cause just some periods of rain, snow, wintry mix," Podrazik says. "The period that we're really kind of concerned about it the Friday night into Saturday time frame…Even traveling back from where you're going on Thanksgiving could be a little bit dicey as well, so stay tuned to that."
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Die Cercomonadidae sind eine Gruppe heterotropher Flagellaten und werden den Cercozoa zugeordnet.

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Die Cercomonadidae sind freilebende Amöboflagellaten mit variabler Körperform, sie bilden Pseudopodien verschiedener Form. Sie bewegen sich gleitend fort und besitzen zwei Geißeln, wobei die hintere Geißel am Körper anliegt. Ihre Extrusomen sind eine von drei Formen: osmiophile Körper, Mikrotoxicysten und Trichozysten. Häufig besitzen sie einen komplexen Lebenszyklus. Der komplette Zyklus, wie er bei einigen Arten von Cercomonas auftritt, umfasst folgende Stadien: Flagellaten, diese wandeln sich in Amöben, die jedoch die Geißeln beibehalten. Amöben können wieder zu Flagellaten werden oder sich zu Plasmodien zusammenschließen, die vielkernig und vielgeißelig sind. Ein Plasmodium kann sich nur in einkernige Flagellaten verwandeln durch Fragmentierung. Die Flagellaten können als Dauerstadien Zysten bilden, die dann wieder zu Flagellaten auskeimen.

Elektronenmikroskopisch sind alle untersuchten Arten durch das Vorhandensein eines Mikrotubuli-Kegel gekennzeichnet: Von einem oder beiden Basalkörper(n) der Geißeln zieht sich eine fibrilläre Wurzel zum Zellkern und endet am Zellkern in einem Körnchen. Von diesem ziehen Mikrotubuli entlang der Zellkernhülle und bilden so eine kegelartige Struktur.

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Zu den Cercomonadidae zählen heute vier Gattungen:

 Cercomonas
 Helkesimastix
 Eocercomonas
 Paracercomonas

Die Gattungen Dimastigamoeba, Prismatomonas, Reptomonas, Cercomastix, Cercobodo  und Dimorpha werden heute alle zu Cercomonas gestellt.

Ein Synonym für die Gruppe ist Cercobodonidae Hollande, 1942.

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Literatur
 Sina M. Adl et al.: The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists. In: The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. Bd. 52, Nr. 5, 2005, S. 399–451. .
 Alexander P. Myl'nikov, Serguei A. Karpov: Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads. In: Protistology. Bd. 3, Nr. 4, 2004, , S. 201–217, online (PDF; 249 kB).

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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed a decision on the future of HS2 will be made next month, with an announcement "weeks rather than months" away.
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