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Indiana Secretary of State Prosecution Assistance Unit helps uncover alleged investment fraud where victims were approached through popular Web site
(Indianapolis) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced the arrest today by the Indiana State Police of Wanda Robertson at her home in Indianapolis. Robertson faces nine separate felony counts in Johnson County involving violations of Indiana's Securities Act. The arrest comes after an investigation conducted by the Indiana State Police with assistance by Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita's Prosecution Assistance Unit (PAU). Charges were filed by Johnson County Prosecutor Brad Cooper. Robertson faces up to eight years in prison for each class C felony and is being held on $72,000 bond.
According to the charges filed, Robertson allegedly solicited investors through the Web site Craig's List, claiming to offer a business opportunity where individuals would be given ownership in her company, Real Estate Paper Chase, but have no control over the running of the business. Robertson's alleged scheme involved using investors' credit histories to apply for loans and credit cards on behalf of the business. Robertson promised to pay any debt incurred under the investor's name and provide a 4 percent return on their investment. She also offered opportunities to become officers in "shelf corporations," and to then invest in real estate through these companies and make even more money.
"During these difficult financial times, it is even more important for Hoosiers to be on alert for alternative investments that might really be fraud," said Secretary Rokita. "This case should serve as a warning to Hoosiers just how far a fraudster will go to reach potential victims. When a perpetrator uses the Internet, it makes it even harder for folks to fully assess the person on the other end of the transaction—the person who is going to receive the investor's hard earned dollars. Hoosiers should gather as much information as possible before investing, and that should always include a face-to-face meeting."
Specific charges against Robertson include six counts of Fraudulent or Deceitful Acts with the Offer, Sale or Purchase of a Security, and three counts of Transacting Business as an Unregistered Broker-Dealer or Agent – all Class C felonies.
Cooper appointed former Johnson County Deputy Prosecutor Stephanie Caraway, now Senior Attorney for Secretary Rokita's Prosecution Assistance Unit, as Special Deputy Prosecutor to try the case against Robertson with assistance from Cooper and his staff.
The charges described are merely an accusation. The defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
For more information on how to avoid becoming a victim of investment fraud, visit http://www.in.gov/sos/securities/2521.htm.
About the Prosecution Assistance Unit
In 2004, Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita created the Prosecution Assistance Unit within the Securities Division of the Secretary of State's Office. Its sole purpose is to assist police and prosecutors in investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of the Indiana Securities Act and the Indiana Loan Brokers Act. The investigators and attorneys in the unit collectively have over 72 years of experience in investigating and prosecuting criminals. Since its inception, the Unit has helped to convict 38 criminals in state and federal courts across Indiana in cases that have resulted in over 310 years of time sentenced. In addition, courts have ordered defendants to pay over $29 million in restitution to crime victims.
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Hundreds of high school students filled the stands at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Los Alamitos High School track and field Tuesday that ended with track and football practices.
This was the first time the teams could practice at the same time, according to Los Alamitos Unified School District Superintendent Sherry Kropp.
"In the history of Los Alamitos high school, we've never been able to have our field sports practice at the same time at their home school," Kropp told the crowd.
The student-athletes in attendance did a lap of the rubberized track after 15 minutes of speeches, circling a facility that administrators said hasn't been in such good condition for years.
"I have been here for 33 years and I want you to know I don't know where all the mud's gone," said legendary football coach John Barnes, for whom the field is named. "We have a facility that was way overdue."
Kropp said the renovations will keep more kids practicing at their home field, giving coaches greater oversight of all levels of competition and kids a better sense of ownership of their field. Thanks to new field lights, soccer, lacrosse, football and track teams can practice and play games at night.
Track coach Nathan Howard said in an interview that the track team will finally be able to host a home match at the school after two years of problems. School board members have mentioned hoping to hold a CIF meet at the field in future.
"It's been a long time that we started the project," Howard told the crowd. "Los Al, this is your field. It's not the track field, it's not the football field, it's Los Al's field. All programs will enjoy the use of this facility, so take care of it."
Barnes said the facility will shine as one of the best in Southern California. "This is a beacon for you to be proud of throughout this community, throughout Orange County and Southern California," he said to the students.
But neighbors living in the area around the field say the lights shine too bright, disrupting their evenings in tests done so far. In meeting after meeting with the district as well as Los Alamitos City Council, they've said the lights were erected without proper consideration of their impact on the neighborhood. Assistant superintendent Patricia Meyer has said the project was exempt from an environmental impact report.
Viki Howard, who protested against the lights at the rally, said she was worried by the district pushing back a prior 8 p.m. lights-out deadline to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
"That's my weekend, to sit out and barbecue, it's going to be embarrassing bringing people here," she said.
Kropp said the hours of operation are a framework and that more shields will be added to the lights to further limit glare on the neighbors' houses, with a calibration test scheduled for Nov. 20. The board has said it will set up a hotline residents can call with concerns about the lights.
Speakers at the school board meeting later on Tuesday spoke to the value the field brings Los Al's sports culture, including Los Alamitos math teacher Amy Weis, a mother of a Los Al graduate she said was jealous of his younger brother on the soccer team.
"He could never play in front of his friends because they all had activities and practices they had to go to at 3 o'clock in the afternoon," Weis said.
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JJJ Book Club Pick for December: 'Falling Kingdoms' by Morgan Rhodes
The JJJ Book Club loves new books that we can get lost in — and that's exactly what we were when we picked up Morgan Rhodes' "Falling Kingdoms."
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power — brutally transforming their subjects' lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined. Cleo, Jonas, Lucia and Magnus are caught in a dizzying world of treacherous betrayals, shocking murders, secret alliances, and unforeseen love.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT: Any type of genre you want to read is in this book. There's mystery, war, action, romance, adventure, magic…everything. From start to finish, Ms. Rhodes takes the reader on a journey in a mythical land and you come out cheering for a victor and gasping for air. If you like "Game of Thrones", you'll love "Falling Kingdoms".
HONORABLE MENTIONS: "Burned" by Sara Shepard.
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At this stage of the campaign, we often hear similar claims repeated over and over in stump speeches. As part of our running feature on those repeats, "Groundhog Friday," we note here some of the misleading talking points we heard this week. It is by no means an exhaustive list.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on GOP nominee Donald Trump's comments about wages, Oct. 10 rally in Detroit: "So, if people — if people aren't worried about the fact he pays no income tax and if they're not worried about how he's misled people about where he gets his steel, point out to them that he actually stood on a debate stage during the Republican primaries and said, 'Wages in America are too high.' You know, I love it. He keeps denying these things. And he must forget that we do have video and audio in 2016 and you can actually pull it out again and show people."
This Democratic talking point has been around since at least the Democratic National Convention in July, when we first wrote about it when it was used by Sens. Bob Casey and Kirsten Gillibrand. It has been repeated by others, including Vice President Joe Biden, since then.
Trump did use the phase "wages too high" at a Nov. 10, 2015, GOP debate, as Clinton said. But Trump made his remark when he was asked about raising the federal minimum wage to $15. He said he was opposed to raising the minimum wage; he did not say that the overall wages are currently too high.
"[T]axes too high, wages too high, we're not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is," he said. When he was asked about that "wages too high" comment two days later, he told Fox News: "And they said should we increase the minimum wage? And I'm saying that if we're going to compete with other countries, we can't do that because the wages would be too high. … The question was about the minimum wage. I'm not talking about wages being too high, I'm talking about minimum wage."
"Democratic Convention Day 1," July 26
Clinton on Trump calling the military "a disaster,"Oct. 12 rally in Las Vegas: "He's called our military a 'disaster.' Now, how can you be the commander in chief if you don't respect the men and women who serve in the United States military?"
As her running mate, Tim Kaine, has done, Clinton cherry-picks Trump's words. The Republican nominee did say, in a January primary debate, "Our military is a disaster." But he has made clear on numerous occasions that he's referring to the funding of the military, not the men and women who serve in the armed forces. For instance, here's Trump on Sept. 12 speaking at a National Guard Association Convention: "My plan calls for a major rebuilding of the entire military and the elimination of the defense — and we have to do this so quickly, it's a disaster — of the defense sequester. It is a disaster. Have no choice, it is a disaster. It's called depletion. We have been depleted as a military, we can't let that happen. The greatest men and women on Earth, but we have been depleted by what's taken place," Trump said.
"Kaine Twists Words of GOP Rivals," Sept. 16
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on New York job loss, Oct. 10 rally in Ambridge, Pennsylvania: "And Hillary Clinton doesn't have a clue about how to bring back jobs, that I can tell you, folks. She doesn't have a clue. If she wanted to, she couldn't do it. You know, in New York state, she ran for the Senate. And you know upstate New York is a disaster for jobs. And she said, 'I'm going to bring back 200,000 jobs.' Guess what? Right down the tubes, worse today than ever before."
Trump Booed Leaving New York Times
This is a new twist on an old claim. As we have written before, Trump exaggerated when he claimed last month that New York's job losses during Hillary Clinton's eight years as the state's U.S. senator were "worse than just about any place in the country." This time, Trump is flat-out wrong when he claimed that New York is "worse today than ever before."
It is true, as Trump said, that Clinton in the 2000 campaign promised 200,000 jobs for upstate New York that did not materialize, as documented in an Aug. 7 Washington Post article. But New York is not "worse today than ever before." As of August, New York's unemployment rate stood at 4.8 percent, a tick below the national average and well below what it was in 1976, when it was above 10 percent for the entire year. The August unemployment rate in the upstate areas of Buffalo (4.7 percent), Rochester (4.5 percent) and Albany (4 percent) are all roughly half what they were during the Great Recession.
"Trump's Job Loss Exaggeration," Sept. 14
Trump on Clinton's coal stance,Oct. 10 rally in Ambridge: "[W]eeks before Hillary Clinton made a statement someplace else before going to West Virginia and trying to get their vote, if you can believe this, she said we are going to close the mines and we're going to put the miners out of work. Then she went to West Virginia and she tried to convince them, well, she didn't mean it."
Trump is referring to Clinton's comments at a CNN town hall forum in March in which she said she wants to "move away from coal," but added, "we don't want to forget those people." She promised to bring renewable energy jobs to coal country to replace lost coal jobs.
"GOP Convention, Day 2," July 20
Trump Takes Meetings at His New Jersey Golf Club
Donald Trump on Clinton's emails, Oct. 10 rally in Wilkes-Barre: "33,000 emails … she deletes them, she bleaches them, that nobody does because it's such an expensive process. … After she gets the subpoena, she does that."
This is a two-fer. Let's start with the claim that Clinton "bleached" some of her emails, which Trump went on to describe as unusual and expensive. This frequent line from Trump is wrong on two counts: The software used to delete Clinton's emails is free, and no chemicals were used. The FBI said that Platte River Networks, which set up and maintained Clinton's server, used an open-source software program called BleachBit. BleachBit debunks Trump's claims on its FAQ page: "Actually, it is completely free of charge for everyone in all situations." It also says, "BleachBit is neither a chemical nor a physical device. BleachBit is an anti-forensics software application."
Trump also twists the facts when he says Clinton deleted emails after she got a subpoena. It is true that 31,830 emails that Clinton's lawyers deemed personal were deleted after Clinton received a subpoena from a Republican-controlled House committee investigating the 2012 deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. But there is no evidence that Clinton knew that the emails were deleted after the subpoena was issued. The Clinton campaign directed a contractor managing Clinton's server to delete the emails in December 2014. But the contractor didn't get around to deleting the emails until late March 2015, after the subpoena was issued. The Clinton campaign says she only learned about the delay in deletions when the FBI released its report on its investigation in September, and we have found no evidence to contradict that.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. — Bruins head coach Claude Julien knows Brad Marchand has a rambunctious reputation, but the bench boss isn't sweating the chance that he might have another Matt Cooke on his hands.
Marchand is now eligible to return to game action from his two-game suspension for last week's elbow to the head of Columbus's R.J. Umberger. The last two days, including today at Ristuccia Arena, Marchand has practiced on a four-man line alongside Mark Recchi, Patrice Bergeron and Michael Ryder. That kind of made it look like Marchand might be in the mix as far as a healthy scratch, which would lead one to believe the coach lost confidence in Marchand's ability to keep his agitating style within the rules of the game.
However, the coach quickly dispelled that notion.
"You have to trust your players that they've learned from those things and that they don't let it happen," said Julien, whose team cannot afford to have a rogue player costing it games with unnecessary penalties and suspensions. "Although there are certain guys that don't seem to be learning."
Julien was obviously making a veiled reference to Cooke, who yesterday added to his resume of infamy with an elbow to the head of New York's Ryan McDonagh. Cooke has an in-person hearing scheduled with the league later today.
While Marchand seems a bit contrite, it wouldn't hurt if he sounded a little more apologetic when talking about the play and how he's going approach the game going forward. Even today, he continued to re-iterate the notion that the elbow on Umberger was just a "hockey play." But as the Zdeno Chara situation proved, you don't get suspended for a hockey play. Maybe Marchand's public comments are more about reassuring himself that he can continue to play on the edge without stepping over than they are about regretting the hit.
"Stuff like that happens in the game of hockey," Marchand said today after practice. "It's always going to be there. There's always plays that happen so quick, sometimes stuff like that happens. I'm not going to change my game. It's what got me here, it's what allowed me to stay here. So I'm just going to keep playing the same way and hopefully it doesn't happen again."
Julien sounded like a coach that's not just relying on his player to learn his lesson. He and his staff are also making sure that Marchand and all the players are keeping within the boundaries that the league has established in terms of body contact to protect everyone in the league.
"Hopefully he learns from it and he's a little bit more careful in regards to those head hits," said Julien. "We don't think there's any need for it in the game, so we all have to be aware of that. And if we're going to clean it up as coaches, you've got to be supportive of it and you've got to be able to help your players work through that."
Regardless of what Marchand says, he's going to have to change his game at least a tiny bit so that he keeps his hits below the neck and stays in the Bruins' lineup without league discipline. If he makes the slight adjustment, Julien and his staff are prepared to utilize him down the stretch.


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The Recruitment/Retention of American Indians into Nursing (RAIN) Program, located within the College of Nursing at the University of North Dakota, is partnering to increase the number of American Indian health professionals in North Dakota.
The RAIN Program is part of a grant awarded to the O'Tanka Tewicahidapi (Treasured Elders) Program at Cankdeska Cikana Community College in Ft. Totten, N.D., at Spirit Lake Nation. The five-year grant - Next Steps: An Empowerment Model for Native People Entering the Health Professions - aims to create a career ladder enabling entry and promoting advancement within the healthcare workforce through a variety of options.
The rungs on the Next Steps ladder range from entry to expert levels: a) quality service providers with certified nursing assistant training, b) licensed practical nurse, c) registered nurse, and d) completion of the bachelor's degree in nursing.
The RAIN Program will incorporate a range of proven, culturally specific recruitment, retention, and mentoring strategies to assist the Next Steps project in meeting its goals. The RAIN Program is recognized as a premiere program for assisting American Indians to access and complete professional nursing education. The retention rate for RAIN nursing students at UND is above 90 percent. Eighty-three percent of RAIN graduates return to work in tribal communities.
There are 32,257 American Indian people in North Dakota, comprising 4.88 percent of the total population. However, there are only 91 American Indian nurses in the state, 78 of which have graduated from the RAIN Program. The number of American Indian nurses is insufficient to serve the state's Indian population.
For more than 20 years, the RAIN Program, under the leadership of Deb Wilson, program coordinator, and Barb Anderson, assistant program coordinator, has been providing support and mentorship services to American Indian students pursuing nursing degrees at UND.
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Excavating Con Moong Cave, archaeologists found tons of shells and a lot of working tools. The most valuable discovery is the remains of prehistoric people in tombs dating back tens of thousands of years ago.
The cave is the "big house" of the ancient Vietnamese. But this is not just a place of residence, but also the burial site. Digging to a depth of 3.6 m, archaeologists discovered the remains of four individuals of the Old Stone Age. Among them, there is a relatively intact tomb. The dead were buried in the lying position, with working tools made of stone.
According to scientists, Con Moong along with Nguoi Xua, Dang, Lai and Moc Long caves form a complex of relics showing the life of a community in a broad valley, with the change in population, location of residence and mode of production and this community contributed to create the Da But culture.
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Enormous retrieval sets are like the weather: people complain, but few do anything about it. There have been some good suggestions for "filtering" output. However, most vendors, librarians and other information specialists are mesmerized by Boolean logic, while computer scientists insist on vain attempts to eliminate human intervention altogether. Lost in the shuffle is a well established technique that empowers searchers and provides sensibly ranked output.
Futurists, commentators, megatrendists, and other darlings of the best-seller lists have been saying for some time that human-kind has entered a new age - the Information Age. . . . Spend a few days in this brave new world, however, and you come away with a markedly different perspective. . . computers have just mired us in the data swamp. They give you access to mountains of data, but in many cases they have not made it easier to glean useful information. . . . Until you can get a handle on all the data available to you, the Information Age will remain little more than a blurb on a dust jacket.
Luddite lunacy? Someone bashing information science in American Libraries? No, it's Technical Editor Bob Ryan introducing us to "Managing Gigabytes" in a 1991 issue of Byte magazine (volume 16, no. 5).
Astonishingly, librarians and other information specialists have become victims of their own success. For example, many online public-access catalogs (OPACs) now provide keyword Boolean searching. People already comfortable with the AND, OR and NOT logic of online searching appreciate this feature and have come to expect it whether they are searching locally or accessing a library through the Internet.
Unfortunately, neither the vendors, with their virtual hammerlock on online software, nor the designers of OPACs have provided features that allow intermediaries and end-users to cope with large amounts of output. A useful interface has been suggested by Michael Buckland and others that would permit "filtering" by such categories as language and date of publication. However, while reducing the overall size of the retrieval set, this technique does not produce the same kind of output achieved by permitting the searcher to specify each term's perceived importance (its "weight"). With few exceptions (for example, Personal Librarian and Topic Real-Time), software entrepreneurs also have ignored the needs of people who use large databases and catalogs. Interestingly, researchers investigated the "impediments" to enhanced retrieval systems several years ago. Although vendors had lots of excuses, they simply failed to see what was in it for them (as noted by Peter H. Smit and Manfred Kochen in a 1988 article in Information Processing & Management, vol. 24, no. 3).
The problem is this: perfectly good Boolean logic can lead to enormous retrieval sets given the sizes of our research libraries and specialized databases. Ranking output with a well established but still little-known technique called weighted-term searching provides a general and straightforward solution to the problem.
What Is Weighted-Term Search Logic?
It is really just an extension of its famous Boolean counterpart. As such, weighted-term logic can be used with either controlled vocabulary or free-text searching and with inverted or uninverted files. Moreover, it is superior to Boolean logic in that it can rank output in decreasing order of probable relevance. This allows searchers to limit the amount of material they retrieve and, more importantly, to do so in a rational way that complements the original file organization: alphabetical, chronological or other. Weighted-term logic is also appropriate for relational databases and hypertext environments, offering a convenient way to limit the number of links that are generated. In addition, the technique can be used with any standard interface: command- or menu-driven, form-fill or query by example.
The most straightforward of these systems employs whole numbers and simple arithmetic so that it can be used even by people who are not particularly adept at mathematics. Nevertheless, the technique requires a measure of skill and is meant for intermediaries or sophisticated end users.
In its simplest form, weighted-term logic allows the searcher to assign a threshold value that remains constant for each search. This threshold is an integer to which other terms' weights are compared. The searcher then assigns every search term (a character string comprising a subject heading, keyword or phrase - truncated or in its entirety) a number (weight) that is directly proportional to the value that the searcher places on it. The first time the computer finds a term in a given record, it adds the corresponding weight to a cumulative total that eventually becomes the total weight for that document. The total weight is then compared with the threshold value previously chosen by the searcher. If the document weight is equal to or greater than the threshold, then the document or its surrogate is retrieved.
Although they can be more complicated, such systems often use thresholds and weights that are simply non-zero integers - whole numbers other than zero, sometimes within a limited range such as -9 through +9. Searchers are free to choose their own numbers, but these numbers are not entirely arbitrary; the thresholds and term weights are related in a way that reflects the corresponding Boolean logic.
Basic Examples
Imagine three sets of documents indexed under (or containing) the following descriptors: Mars, Geology and Atmosphere. (The system can be programmed to permit coordination on any keywords, subject terms or other descriptors desired.)
Inclusive OR is achieved by assigning every term a value equal to or greater than the threshold, but consider how much more you can get using weighted term logic, even using only two terms. After choosing a threshold of, say, 5, you can assign one term (Mars) a value of 6 and a second (Geology) a value of 5. The computer will look for each term or phrase and provide you with three possible retrieval sets:
Logical AND is achieved by assigning each term a weight so that only the combined weight (the sum of the weights of the terms) equals the threshold: Mars AND Geology AND Atmosphere.
Logical NOT is accomplished by assigning negative weights to undesired terms so that the total is less than the threshold. Remember that the technique always requires assigning weights to individual terms so that the sums of their weights equal or exceed the threshold. For example, if you want the equivalent of Mars NOT Atmosphere, you might use a threshold of, say, 7, and then assign Mars a weight of 7 and Atmosphere a weight of -1. In fact any negative number assigned to Atmosphere would have the same effect. Searchers can also adjust thresholds and small negative numbers simply to reduce the likelihood of retrieving a document with a less desirable term. In other words, the technique is more flexible than the "all or nothing" approach with logical NOT.
More Sophisticated Examples
Consider this Boolean operation:
(Mars AND Geology) NOT Atmosphere.It's really up to you as a searcher. You could choose a threshold of 5, and then assign Mars a weight of 3, Geology a weight of 2 and Atmosphere a weight of -1. The computer would select all those documents with Mars and Geology, adding 3 + 2 and faithfully getting 5, which is equal to the threshold; however, if it found Atmosphere, it would subtract 1, getting 4, which no longer satisfies the requirement. Alternatively, you could assign both Mars and Geology weights of 3 and then assign Atmosphere a weight of -2. Six minus two equals four, which is one less than the threshold of five.
Here is an example that shows the advantage over Boolean logic more clearly:
(Mars AND Geology) OR (Mars AND Atmosphere)One searcher might choose a threshold of 3, assigning a weight of 2 to Mars while assigning Geology and Atmosphere weights of 1 each. Another searcher might choose a threshold of 9, assigning Mars a weight of 8 while assigning Geology and Atmosphere weights of 2 and 1, respectively. Since the requirement is that the individual weights or their sums be greater than or equal to the threshold, these two sets of weights are equivalent as far as the Boolean logic is concerned; however, they have greater discriminating power, as the retrieval sets will consist of easily identifiable subsets. In the first case there will be two sets of retrieved documents with total weights of 4 and 3; in the second case there will be three sets with total weights of 11, 10 and 9.
Using small integers will not always permit unique identification of the terms that cause a corresponding hit; however, there are tricks of the programmer's trade that can be employed if such things are wanted. For example, the system can be modified so that it will automatically employ term weights to the base two. H.P. Iker showed as early as 1967 that this method results in completely unambiguous results.
Displaying the Output
When relatively few items are retrieved, the best items (those with the highest total weights) can be identified by visual inspection. This has the virtue of retaining the original file order - for example, by author, title or perhaps by a chronological arrangement. However, with weighting, the computer also can sort by document weights, meaning that the documents with the greatest weights (the ones having the most - or most important - descriptors) will appear first. While there is no guarantee that the documents displayed first will be most relevant, there is a much greater likelihood that they will be. At the very least they will reflect the values of the searcher.
Going Fishing
Searchers don't always know in advance what they want, and one tried and true Boolean technique has been to string together several terms using logical OR. An immediate advantage to using weighted terms should be apparent here: one simply has to choose a suitable threshold, perhaps just "1," and then assign the same weight to all potentially useful terms. Not only will the same documents appear as would have been retrieved by the Boolean search, but they can be sorted by document weight. Value added, indeed! One can imagine an "alphabet" of terms from A to Z, each with a weight of one. The computer could be programmed to sort the resulting retrieval sets, whose combined weights might be (in decreasing order): 26, 25, 24. . . 1. If searchers specified a cut-off number - the maximum number of documents they were willing to examine - then they would be skimming off the top, looking only at those documents most likely to have satisfied the search criteria.
Weighted-term searching provides searchers with a more powerful technique than Boolean logic. The method described has nothing to do with word frequencies in documents, nor does it involve the assignment of values by indexers. It empowers searchers to control their strategies.
Long taken for granted in many technical information centers and special libraries, weighted-term logic is overdue for general use. From a systems standpoint, it is fairly easy to implement and represents a straightforward method for getting ranked output. It can be coupled with term truncation to provide powerful capabilities for database searching and record display currently unavailable through bibliographic utilities, online search services, or typical database management software packages.
Many of the advanced information retrieval methods being explored by computer scientists seek to eliminate the intermediary altogether. Whether such a development would represent an improvement is debatable, since there is as yet no satisfactory alternative to human judgment in most practical matters - particularly those involving the arts and humanities. The method described here can be used profitably in any field by search intermediaries or end users who wish to employ techniques more sophisticated than those afforded by simple Boolean coordination.
Information specialists generally have been good about adopting contemporary techniques, but they have overlooked weighted-term searching, whose strengths were demonstrated over a quarter of a century ago in Ralph H. Sprague, Jr.'s A Comparison of Systems for Selectively Disseminating Information (Bureau of Business Research, Graduate School of Business, Indiana University ). Nor can they expect vendors to implement systems that provide ranked output unless encouragement is provided. Writing about electronic publishing, Richard Bowers observes in Information Today (volume 8, number 6): "The conventional wisdom seems to be that whatever the technology experts decide is sufficient. . . . [However, t]he technology industry is simply trying to protect its self-interests by establishing standards that will enable them to work together to reduce risk and to create profitable products."
If vendors implement state-of-the-art systems only when there is a demand for them, then they should hear from practitioners that there is such a demand. With the innovative freedom implied by client-server retrieval systems, information professionals should consider a new approach that is now at least 30 years old.
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TAMPA — Motorists traveling between Linebaugh and Hillsborough avenues on the Veterans Expressway this weekend might notice something missing: tollbooths.
But that's not to say they are riding for free.
Starting Friday night, the stretch will be a cash-free, tollbooth-free toll road as the Florida Department of Transportation continues with its plans to eliminate tollbooths. Motorists will be charged through SunPass accounts or the toll-by-plate program, which involves photographing license tags of vehicles and sending bills to the registered owners.
The first phase-out of the staffed toll plazas begins at 9 p.m. Friday, said Christa Deason, spokeswoman for the department. Motorists will need either a SunPass or pay the toll through the mail at a higher price, she said.
She urged motorists not to go through toll plaza cash lanes, as they will be closed, and unstaffed lanes will not have change baskets. All motorists are directed to pass through the SunPass lanes, even if they don't have a SunPass transponder in their vehicles, she said. Removal of the toll plaza structures will take several months.
Those without the transponder will get their license tag photographed and mailed a bill, she said.
"You save quite a bit of money with the SunPass," she said. A $2.50 administrative fee is tacked onto every toll that is mailed to vehicle owners, she said.
The goal is to get the Veterans Expressway cash-free before shuttering the toll plazas in Pasco and Hernando counties along the North Suncoast Parkway, the 42-mile parkway portion that runs north of Van Dyke Road to U.S. 98 in Hernando County, Deason said.
"We are putting that off for a couple of years," she said.
As for all those toll takers in their trademark Florida-style shirts, they are being offered positions elsewhere in the state, Deason said. Some have retired, others have moved on.
"They've known about this for two years," she said. "The contractor they work for is finding them placement in other toll plazas."
The work is part of an overall $386 million project that began last year with the widening and destaffing of toll plazas on the Veterans Expressway and will end with electronic toll collections along the entire 57-mile State Road 589 corridor from Tampa to U.S. 98 in Hernando County.
The plans also call for express lanes from just north of Hillsborough Avenue to the Dale Mabry spur.
Later this summer, tollbooth conversions will take place at the Gunn Highway and Hutchison Road ramps, Deason said.
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Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Home Page
The Davis-Bacon and related Acts (DBRA) web information service provides public access to Davis-Bacon information and supports the user in filling out the Report of Construction Contractor's Wage Rates (WD-10) Form. The type of information that you will find here includes information about the Schedule of Surveys being conducted to make wage determinations; regional office information; and, help. We also provide a WD-10 Form that you can view.
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Effects of CSS-Based DesignDecember 12, 2002
When one decides to scrap the traditional hacks and kludges in creating an HTML page, and opts to instead format in CSS, the effects can be rather dramatic.
A certain Mr. Z. linked an interesting tool last night, the GetContentSize analysis utility. Stripping all extraneous CSS and Javascript, it will report the signal to noise ratio of your HTML.
mezzoblue, for example, sits at about 45% (which will inevitably change as new articles get posted and old ones removed), while Zeldman is a higher 60%. Both are CSS–only layouts that don't use table hacks. Let's look at a few examples of old–school HTML tabling to compare.
As tipped off in September, Microsoft redesigned using a plethora of FONT tags and insanely poor code which hasn't been changed in the least as of yet. The result is a lofty 8.63% content level which should surprise no one. Seemingly for the benefit of a small handful of 3.x browser users (who view the web as a great big broken mess anyway), presentation code and content are carelessly intertwined, when graceful alternatives exist that were, in fact, developed in part by Microsoft themselves.
Not many of the other big players fare better. Amazon? 11.32%. Yahoo? 15.93%. AOL? 8.0%. IBM? 7.24%.
The question begs itself: so what? Why do these numbers matter? On their own, of course, they mean nothing. But they're telling of an underlying difference in the way these sites are coded.
CSS–based design is intended to work on any browser that supports valid W3C guidelines. When done right, an external file (or two, or more) control the appearance of the entire site. This means that each new page load happens quicker since the display code is cached. A redesign can potentially be done without touching any of the content files which makes for faster turn–around time. The only possible disadvantage is that anything 4.x and back chokes on most CSS beyond simple text formatting. Which means roughly 6 or 7 percent of the market.
And that's the key, that small niche. These sites willingly increase load times, add cost to development time, and use 5 or 6 year old standards to deliver today's web to people who can't or won't upgrade to newer technology. That's why we're seeing ten percent content in their HTML, because someone in marketing has decided that they can't risk losing that share.
This is an issue that won't die soon. Anyone in the development business who understands it willl advocate the use of CSS. In fact, most personal sites and web logs are going this way, and those using the older browsers have been seeing upgrade messages for a while now when they happen to hit these sites. This will only continue, as more and more business and content-based sites come around. Wired was the first major player to move in this direction with its recent redesign. Wired is in an excellent position to do this, since their focus is on the cutting edge. It's a step in the right direction, and now other developers have a mainstream site to reference when making proposals. The revolution has been slow to kick in, but it has started, it's happening, and it will continue.


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Paul McCartney wasn't even on stage for the best part of his recent surprise show at New York's Frank Sinatra School for the Arts. After he finished "Hey Jude," the crowd of teens kept singing the "na-na-na-na" ending.
That's a testament to the power and an endurance of a song that was early into its long run at No. 1 45 years ago this month when many of those students' parents likely weren't born. The sing-along also marked the most inspiring moment yet in McCartney's energetic push for his latest album, "New," which has him turning up, well, here there and everywhere.
He joked around with Jimmy Fallon Monday. Three days later, he played a surprise set in New York's Times Square, just a couple weeks after packing Hollywood Boulevard during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" The title track from "New" is featured in "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2."
We're getting the best of the old and something new with McCartney's promotional campaign and his album, set to officially debut Oct. 15. He's using social media (Twitter chats with fans, online previews of tracks) and old-fashioned live performances to grab an audience that spans generations.
Those of us lucky enough to catch his Times Square gig (announced via a tweet) joined a crowd that ranged from grade schoolers to grandparents. He played a handful of songs from his latest album, including "New," which offers echoes of "Got to Get You Into My Life" and "Penny Lane." He also performed "Queenie Eye," which sounds like the bouncy niece of "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," and "Save Us," which could have sprouted on "Junior's Farm."
But the album, shaping up as McCartney's best since 2005's brilliant "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," is far from a nostalgia trip, spanning styles from ballads to rockers. He's as still adventurous as ever – and part of that means no longer being reluctant to occasionally tap into the spirit of his early work to produce current hits.
The welcome McCartney barrage comes with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in the U.S. barely four months away. That's hard to believe – nearly as much so as McCartney's vibrancy at 71. As he's shown in his latest spate of appearances, he thrives on performing his music for fans of all ages. "I could be home watching the TV. But I'd rather be here," he told the kids at the Sinatra school.
McCartney's music, past and present, still resounds, as evidenced the reaction he's getting from all over. His concert at the Sinatra school is set to be streamed on Yahoo! Monday. In the meantime, check out a clip from his Fallon appearance:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Droneshare.club social marketplace is a Sulcisdrone initiative.
Sulcisdrone started operations in 2014, its innovations DroneShare.club and FlyingNose were among the highlights in Madrid StartupSummit 2014, Milan Expo 2015, ChinaItalyTechnology Transfer2015.
Our R&D department in cooperation with Cagliari University developed the DSC categorization algorithm matching all the categories and professional skills involved in the civilian services with drones.


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Built: Started in 1836, completed in 1849.
Caught fire in 1895
Brooklyn Borough Hall housed the original courtroom of the Appellate Division, Second Department, starting in 1894 and continuing until 1938. The courtroom is ornate and ceremonial, befitting this Greek revival landmark. Brooklyn Borough Hall now contains the office of the Brooklyn Borough President. Architectural highlights include the portico and grand rotunda with their monumental marble columns, the highly ornate beaux arts-style courtroom, and portraits of former mayors of Brooklyn.
Source: "Survey of Court Facilities in New York State", NYS Office of Court Administration...1981 pg 79.


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Former Gilman first baseman Ryan Ripken will transfer from South Carolina to Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Fla., his father Cal Ripken Jr. confirmed Thursday.
"The last thing you want to do is make a big deal about it, but he decided not to go back to South Carolina," Ripken said Thursday morning before the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation board's annual luncheon. "He's going to get some playing time in. … It's a baseball decision more than anything else."
Ryan Ripken, a 6-foot-6 left-handed first baseman, did not make South Carolina's 35-man roster this spring and redshirted to save a year of eligibility. The Gamecocks' depth, however, still limited Ripken's options heading into next season. South Carolina went 43-20 and fell to North Carolina in the Super Regionals of the NCAA tournament.
Ripken was a 20th-round selection of the Orioles in the 2012 first-year player draft, but he elected to sign with South Carolina instead. Now, Ripken will go the junior college route at Indian River, which finished this season with a 16-25 record.
Indian River had one player taken in the 2013 draft when the Colorado Rockies selected left-hander Alex Rodriguez with 469th overall pick. Since 2000, 31 players have been drafted out of Indian River, including current Orioles outfielder Steve Pearce, who also spent time at South Carolina.
Ripken was named a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association all-star in his senior season at Gilman, when he batted .377 with 25 RBIs and went 4-1 with a 2.30 ERA on the mound. He also led the Greyhounds' basketball team to the MIAA B Conference title his senior year and scored more than 1,000 career points.
Orioles manager Buck Showalter, who appeared with Cal Ripken Jr. and served as the keynote speaker at Thursday's luncheon, supported the younger Ripken's decision. After all, Showalter would know the type of boost junior college could have to a career. Before earning All-America first-team honors at Mississippi State in 1977, Showalter was an All-American at Chipola Junior College in Marianna, Fla.
"Great move," Showalter said. "I went to junior college. Best baseball move, career move I ever made."


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Question: I have always wondered about airline companies' yield management systems. Do airlines track only sales, or do they track inquiries as well to determine the demand in their yield systems? Let's say I'm interested in a round-trip ticket between Los Angeles and Tokyo, so I do the flight search on various airlines' sites and on several travel sites as well. Because I transmit a lot of inquiries about this specific Los Angeles-Tokyo route on a specific day and time, will that show up as increased demand and cause the fare to be adjusted up as the result?
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Answer: Before we get to the answer, let's talk about yield management.
Excuse me, but I can see you are now going to turn the page or, worse, go back to bed because you're thinking, "Do I need a course in Econ 101?" No, you don't. But you do need to know why an airline ticket on Monday is $200 and by the following Monday is $350. The culprit, often, is yield management (although you might also factor in fuel prices).
George Hoffer, who teaches economics at the University of Richmond, explained the basics to me. "Yield management is, in essence, a more sophisticated term for the age-old practice in economics called 'price discrimination,' charging different prices to different people for essentially the same good or service without cost differences justifying the price differential," he told me in an email.


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Context-free grammar with quantifiers
We extend CFG.hs to add quantified noun phrases in the tradition of Montague
class Symantics repr => Quantifier repr whereSource
We extend our earlier fragment with common nouns farmer and donkey, and quantifiers everyone, someone, every farmer, a donkey, etc. Since we added two new categories (CN and QNP), we need to add rules to our CFG to be able to use the categories in derivations.
The numbers 4 and 5 are due to Montague
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Sample sentences (or, CFG derivations) We stress that the inferred type of sen2-sen4 is S. So, these are the derivations of complete sentences.
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The Cowper and Newton Museum
Relive Georgian life by walking through the doors at the Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney, with its historic townhouse, authentic gardens and some of the greatest stories of the Georgian era.
Step back into Georgian life by walking back through Cowper's original home featuring a vast array of personal artefacts and belongings. Discover his comic sense of humour, his poetry and writings, his dark depressions and love of garden and animals – especially his three pet hares. Why he never opened his front door and why he is important figure in our literary heritage.
Experience life on board a slave ship and discover the journey that took Cowper's friend, John Newton, from slave trade captain and slave himself to Olney Parish Curate and inspired him to write the world's most famous hymn 'Amazing Grace' right here in Olney.
Escape the hustle and bustle and enjoy the sensory pleasures of two peaceful and tranquil Georgian gardens – The Walled Flower Garden with its numerous plants, shrubs and flowers dating back to 1800 and The Summer House Garden with its 300 year old garden house, medicinal plants, herbs and heritage fruit and vegetables all maintained organically, encouraging all forms of wild life.
Spend the rest of your visit looking round Olney with its beautiful 13th century church; Georgian architecture and market place; nearby country park at Emberton; unique gift and boutique shopping; and a great choice of restaurants, cafés and pubs for quick stops or leisurely dining.
Step back in history at The Cowper and Newton Museum, 115year old museum in the heart of Buckinghamshire.
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Open from 4 March to 20 December
Mondays: Closed
Tuesday - Saturday: 10.30am - 4.30pm (last admission to museum 3:45pm)
Sunday: Summer time only in June, July and August - 12pm - 4pm
Open Good Friday, Easter Monday, Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Race Day).
Winter Closure: Christmas, New Year, January and February for refurbishment.
Adults £5.00 for an annual pass
Children under 16 - FREE
Parties of 12 people or more: £5.00 per head, £6.00 with pre-booked guided tour Garden only £1.50
Special events: See website for details
Olney is on the A509, 5 miles North of Newport Pagnell and 7 miles from Junction 14 of the M1.
Olney is easily accessible by car from Bedford, Northampton, Wellingborough, Milton Keynes and the M1 motorway.
There is an hourly Arriva bus service no.1 linking Bletchley, Milton Keynes Central Station, Newport Pagnell and Olney. Olney can also be reached from Northampton and Bedford using Stagecoach East bus service 41.
Additional info
Shop, Gallery, Museum and Walled Gardens
All parking in Olney is free.
Coach parties are welcome by prior arrangement. Please contact the House Manager on 01234 711516/ firstname.lastname@example.com.
There is regrettably there is no wheelchair access to the Museum. The garden and shop can be accessed and three rooms in Cowper's house are accessible via two or three steps.
The building is a three-storey townhouse with a staircase between each floor. There are handrails on the staircase and visitor seating in every room. A ground-level adapted toilet is available and there is parking for blue badge holders nearby.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Science and Technology, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- William Cowper - The famous 18th century poet, letter-writer and classical scholar.
- Rev. John Newton - Cowper's spiritual mentor, author of "Amazing Grace"
- Lacemaking - The local history of the industry.
Getting there
Olney is on the A509, 5 miles North of Newport Pagnell and 7 miles from Junction 14 of the M1.
Olney is easily accessible by car from Bedford, Northampton, Wellingborough, Milton Keynes and the M1 motorway.
There is an hourly Arriva bus service no.1 linking Bletchley, Milton Keynes Central Station, Newport Pagnell and Olney. Olney can also be reached from Northampton and Bedford using Stagecoach East bus service 41.
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SUV Deals: September 2012
Shoppers interested in a new SUV before winter comes along will find several great incentives available throughout September. We've listed special SUV deals on some of our favorite new models, arming buyers with good information before they set out in pursuit of a brand new vehicle in September.
Ford Flex
Ford's boldly styled 2012 Flex SUV is available with several incentives throughout September, since an updated 2013 model has already debuted. According to Ford, shoppers interested in buying a 2012 Flex outright can get up to $4,500 cash back on any version of the crossover, while buyers looking to finance can get zero percent interest for up to 60 months and $2,000 cash back. For those who would rather have the new and improved 2013 Flex, Ford is offering up to $2,500 back for buyers paying in full or 0.9 percent interest for 36 months plus $1,000 back for qualified shoppers looking to finance the 7-passenger crossover.
Honda Pilot
The midsize Honda Pilot is available with several impressive lease deals in September. The first, a 36-month deal available on the base-level Pilot LX, touts monthly payments of $289 after $1,999 at lease signing, an offer with jumps to $350 per month for shoppers interested in putting nothing down. Lease customers who would prefer a luxurious Pilot EX will also get a deal, with Honda advertising monthly payments as low as $349 per month after $2,699 at lease signing, or $420 per month with nothing down. For those looking to buy a new Pilot, the popular SUV is also available with interest rates as low as 0.9 percent for up to 60 months.
Hyundai Santa Fe
Hyundai is trying its best to clear out remaining inventory of 2012 Santa Fe models before a fully-redesigned version arrives in 2013. Throughout September, qualified buyers interested in financing the midsize SUV can get interest rates as low as zero percent for 36 months or 0.9 percent for 48 months plus up to $500 cash back. Shoppers who would prefer to lease the SUV will also get a great deal, with Hyundai advertising a 36-month incentive with payments as low as $269 after $2,999 at lease signing. Hyundai is also offering several cash back deals, including $1,000 for returning Hyundai owners or buyers trading in a vehicle from a competitive automaker.
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Jeep Wrangler
SUV shoppers might be surprised to learn Jeep is offering several deals on remaining 2012 Wrangler model throughout September. According to the automaker, buyers interested in financing a 2012 Wrangler can get zero percent interest for up to 36 months--a rare incentive designed to clear out remaining inventory of both traditional 2-door models and 4-door Wrangler Unlimited variants. The automaker is also offering 39-month lease deals on the traditional Wrangler that start at $309 per month after $2,499 down, while the Wrangler Unlimited starts at $429 per month with the same down payment. Unfortunately for buyers looking to pay in full, Jeep isn't offering any cash back incentives in September.
Toyota RAV4
With a new model on the horizon, Toyota is beginning to increase incentives on its compact RAV4 SUV. In September, that's good news for shoppers, regardless of whether they're looking to lease or buy. According to the automaker, buyers interested in financing the SUV can get interest rates as low as zero percent for up to 60 months, while shoppers paying in full can get up to $750 cash back. Lease customers will also get a good deal this month, as Toyota is advertising attractive 36-month terms with monthly payments as low as $189 after $2,599 at signing.
What it means to you: With the SUV deals available in September, you don't have to consider a used model to get a great price on an SUV.


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He might be hobbled by a foot injury right now, but Gregory Campbell was healthy enough to play his best last week when the Bruins were compiling a 2-2-0 record.
Campbell didn't put up big numbers, but Bruins fans appreciated his efforts enough to vote him the Bruin of the Week.
Who should be the Bruin of the Week?
- Gregory Campbell (32%, 40 Votes)
- Joe Corvo (29%, 36 Votes)
- Tuukka Rask (26%, 33 Votes)
- Milan Lucic (13%, 16 Votes)
Total Voters: 125
Campbell recorded one goal and one assist. More important to the Bruins' efforts were his faceoff percentage, his solid defense and his willingness to skate to Tim Thomas' defense when the goaltender was run into in Pittsburgh. Penguins forward Joe Vitale found out from Campbell what the consequences of that action are.
Even the way Campbell got injured was a testament to the type of player he is. He blocked a shot that hobbled him in the first period, but he played through the pain the rest of the game.
Campbell now has 2-6-8 totals a plus-5 rating on the season.
The Bruins wouldn't have won the Stanley Cup without the efforts of their fourth line centered by Campbell and flanked by Daniel Paille and Shawn Thornton. They won't be able to defend their title without a similar effort. Recently, they've definitely been getting what they need from Campbell.


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