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Nonfiction / The Brothers Preston
Of Cannibals and Monsters
By Laura Tiffany
Truth can be stranger than fiction, and both Richard Preston '76 and his brother Douglas Preston '78 have documented those truths in recent nonfiction novels, released this past summer just two weeks apart.
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
, Richard collected and updated seven of his well-known New Yorker articles on subjects like a terrible genetic disease that causes self-cannibalizing and the search for the unknown host of Ebola virus. But perhaps the most thrilling section is the introduction, where he describes his experiences in a failed spacesuit in a Level 4 Ebola lab. "I talk about trying to get inside the minds of the people I write about, including Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax, who's the main figure in
The Hot Zone
," says Richard. Jaax had a breach in Level 4; her spacesuit, horrifyingly, was flooded with Ebola-infected blood. "So in trying to write about her, I wanted to go into Level 4 and see what it really felt like to put on a spacesuit and really come face to face with a hot virus like Ebola," says Richard. "But I got more than I had bargained for."
For Douglas, it was the Italian police, not a virus, that turned his writing experience into an unwelcome adventure. After moving to Italy to write a mystery, he discovered an unsolved double murder—part of a serial- killing spree—that had occurred outside his rented farmhouse. His curiosity piqued, Douglas teamed with journalist Mario Spezi to study the case and eventually write The Monster of Florence. The police contended that the murders, which occurred between 1974 and 1985, were the work of a satanic sect. Douglas and Spezi disagreed.
At one point, Spezi went on Italy's version of
America's Most Wanted
and presented evidence about how off-base the official investigation was. "The chief inspector in charge of the investigation did not take kindly to being made a fool of on national television. So his reaction was to raid Spezi's house," says Douglas, who has also written a dozen thrillers with co-author Lincoln Chiild, as well as several solo books. Spezi saved their in-the-works book by hiding a diskette, but he still was held in jail for 23 days, released only after an international uproar.
Douglas was also hauled in and accused of being an accessory. "Then they pretty much threw me out of Italy. They basically suggested that I'd be indicted for a series of crimes and that if I returned, I'd be arrested," says Douglas, who had already moved back to the U.S.
The Monster of Florence
has so far had great success, spending several weeks on
The New York Times
bestseller list. Douglas says the brothers, who plan on collaborating someday on a childhood memoir, don't have any rivalry when it comes to their books, but jokes about Richard's huge success with
The Hot Zone
, which has sold 2.5 million copies. "I've got a lot of catching up to do here, but that's OK. I'm the younger brother. I've got a little bit of time to catch up to him."
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
On The Beach...
4 comments:
- Tamie said...
This is going to be kind of a weird comment, but bear with me. I was looking at this picture and it made me think about looking at photos of when I was a kid--like, family photos. And then I got to thinking about how when I am looking at those photos, I am more or less thinking about them as photos of MY childhood. Whereas for my Mom, for example, they are photos of HER young adulthood. Like, we are all the main characters of our own story, you know? So when I look at this photo I think about each one of your kids and I think of them looking back at this photo in 20 or 40 years, and thinking of it as the photo of their childhood. Whereas, when I look at this photo, to me it's the photo of my friend's mid-adulthood, the photo of her being a Mom of young kids.
You know?
- March 23, 2014 at 3:03 PM
- Caryn Ouwehand said...
I love this. :-)
- March 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM
- melissa v. said...
I totally know! I think the same thing all the time. Memory is such a funky thing. And I'm so happy to be creating these kinds of memories for my kids :) and me and B :)
- March 27, 2014 at 9:52 PM
- melissa v. said...
Thanks love :)
- March 27, 2014 at 9:52 PM


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|October 1950
|Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:19
MONDAY: Initial reception of WSM-TV, Nashville, Tenn., which began telecasts Saturday, proved "sketchy" in the Glasgow area although better reception from the station is expected later.
TUESDAY: First step in launching a civil defense program for Glasgow, to go into action in the event of a full scale war, was taken Tuesday night by the city council.
WEDNESDAY: The case of Roger Davis, 27, Glasgow, arrested Friday afternoon with 65 half-pints of whiskey in his possession, was continued to Saturday by Magistrate M. H. Bishop in Magistrate's Court Monday.
THURSDAY: Glasgow has been on the firing line of the Korean War this week, even though it has been thousands of miles away. Mopping-up action centered in the Chungju area is near the 37th parallel, which goes almost directly through Glasgow. Thus much of Barren County has been on the "battle line" …..but on the other side of the world.
FRIDAY: Listed as wounded on a casualty list issued Friday by the Army was Sgt. George A Kirn, Jr., Husband of Miss Lula Belle Kirn, Glasgow.
MONDAY: Barren Fiscal Court last week approved a motion that in the future all inmates who die at the county home and are interred in the county cemetery will have a marker erected at the grave bearing the name and date of death. Some of the present graves at county farm will also be marked.
TUESDAY: City police were kept busy over the weekend with the largest number of drunk arrests in the past several months. Ten were nabbed on drunk charges, two of them for drunk driving. The cases were disposed of in the city court Monday.
WEDNESDAY: Rev. Wm. L. Huntsman will be installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church Wednesday evening. Rev. E. N. Rock, Presbytery's executive secretary and stated clerk, Louisville, will preside.
THURSDAY: APPEAL DATE IS INDEFINITE IN TOBACCO ALLOTMENT CASE: According to information received here, no date has yet been set by the Kentucky Court of Appeals on the tobacco allotment suit filed by Richard Garnett and given a favorable ruling by Judge Frank W. Jones.
FRIDAY: Sgt. James R. Garrett, brother of Travis R. Garrett, Glasgow, Route 5, was listed as wounded in action in Korea in a casualty list released Friday by the Department of Defense. Three Southern Kentuckians were shown as wounded and another taken prisoner in the report, the 117th to be issued by the department since the beginning of the Korean War.
MONDAY: Clearing of rights of way for a TVA power line from the station at Summer Shade to Oakland is underway this week. Engineering work on the line has been completed and line stringing crews are expected to start operation soon. The line connecting the Summer Shade and Oakland station will be a 66 KV installation.
TUESDAY: It's not often you can get enough eating out of one potato for a family meal but a sweet potato from the garden of Grover Long of Cave City was presented to the Editor Tuesday and it weighed 8 pounds on Joe Nunn's fish scales. Take off two pounds allowance for Joe's scales and one pound allowance for Dan Taylor's weighing. (They're both fishermen). The necessary deductions leave the Editor with a prize 5 pound sweet potato. That's heaps of trimmin' for fat o'possum.
WEDNESDAY: Mayor Leslie Moran of Moran Motors lost an automobile recently but the missing car was never more than a block from the garage. It was reported to the ploce as stolen. The police were the last ones to move the car but they didn't know it.
THURSDAY: Slightly under the influence of a drink of something other than just water, the well known Glasgowian on his way home bumped into a tree. Tipping his hat and bowing, he said, "I beg your pardon." He stepped aside to permit the tree to pass on down the street, and then continued on his way to his residence.
FRIDAY: A tractor field demonstration will be held by the Ideal Hardware Company Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Glasgow Trading Center, at the intersection of Lewis and Back Streets. Massey-Harris tractors will be used in the demonstration.
MONDAY: Grocers promise a relief from the baking soda shortage which has been so noticeable in local stores for the past two weeks. Merchants have been entirely out of soda on several occasions but the supply will be back to normal soon, soda salesmen claim.
TUESDAY: Workmen were nearing completion this week of the new brick and glass front on the building of the Kentucky Pants Company on North Race Street. Progress has also been noted on two other major building projects in the city with brick work starting on the new telephone building on West Washington Street and foundation forms going up on the Samson Hospital addition.
WEDNESDAY: Terry Doyle, Glasgow chief of police, this week issued a statement calling on local youngsters to be orderly next in their celebration of Halloween. Chief Doyle noted that in general Halloween pranksters in past years have been restrained in their local merrymaking and he asked for the same cooperation this year from youngsters and their parents.
THURSDAY: Construction is moving ahead on the new VFW clubhouse being built on Memorial Park on Cleveland Ave., it was announced this week by William Gabbard, Jr., commander of the local post, with indications pointing to completion in about ten days.
FRIDAY: Another case of petty thievery was reported Friday night when two rear vision mirrors were stripped from George D'Armond's parked car at the Scottie-Elizabethtown football game. Other acts of vandalism and looting have been reported in the same section in recent weeks.


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The invention provides, inter alia, front ends to a database search engine or engines, that process a user query to generate a new search request that will more effectively retrieve information from the database that is relevant to the query of the user. To this end, in one embodiment the systems can be realized as computer programs present to a user interface to a user and which prompt the user to enter one or more key phrases that are representative of a user search request or user query. The user interface can collect the key phrases provided by the user and can analyze these key phrases to identify at least one meaning that can be associated with this user query. The systems can then process the user query and the identified meaning to generate an expanded search request that can be represented as a boolean search strategy. This boolean search strategy can then be processed to create one or more expanded user queries that can be presented to a search engine to collect from a search engine information that is relevant to the interest of the user.
1. A process for aiding a user in developing a search request, comprising
presenting to the user an interface for collecting from the user a keyphrase representative of a user search request,
analyzing said user search request to identify at least one meaning associated with said user search request,
processing said user search request and said at least one meaning to generate an expanded search request represented as a boolean search strategy, wherein the expanded search request includes related terms not defined or chosen by the user, the related terms being amended to the user search request and the one meaning in a weighted string; and
providing said expanded search request to a search engine capable of identifying information associated with said expanded search request.
2. The process according to
3. The process according to
4. The process according to
5. The process according to
6. The process according to
matching a portion of said keyphrase to a linguistic database to identify a list of associated meanings.
7. The process according to
processing said list of associated meanings to generate a display that presents to the user a plurality of meanings associated with said keyphrase to aid the user in disambiguating between said plural meanings.
8. The process according to
9. The process according to
adjusting said user interface as a function of said associated meaning to present to the user a request for information for refining said user search request.
10. The process according to
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12. The process according to
accessing a linguistic knowledgebase having information representative of a list of sense signals, each sense signal being information for describing a linguistic meaning, and a list of words.
13. The process according to
14. The process as claimed in
15. The process as claimed in
16. A system for aiding a user in developing a search request, comprising
a linguistic knowledgebase having information representative of a list of sense signals, each sense signal being information for describing a linguistic meaning, and a list of weighted and unweighted words, wherein weighted words are weighted in relation to a potential query term;
a controller for generating an interface for collecting from the user a keyphrase representative of a user search request, and for employing said keyphrase to access information from said linguistic knowledgebase to generate an expanded search request, and
a query mechanism for processing said expanded search request to generate a set of boolean search requests, each said boolean search request associated with at least one preselected search engine, wherein each of the boolean search requests corresponds to the expanded search request; and for providing each said boolean search request to a respective preselected search engine.
17. The system according to
a controller for adjusting the interface, as a function of information accessed from said linguistic knowledgebase, for guiding the user in disambiguating between meanings for the keyphrase.
18. The system according to
a mechanism for generating a user linguistic database for the user, wherein the user linguistic database is separate from the linguistic knowledgebase, and wherein the user linguistic database is representative of keyphrases and associated user-defined meanings.
19. The system according to
means for identifying demographic information associated with said user and for employing said demographic information for expanding said user search request.
20. The system according to
means for accessing flag signals from said linguistic knowledgebase, wherein the flag signals are associated with a sense signal and identify a condition of use of words associated with the sense signal in the generation of the expanded search request.
21. The system as claimed in
22. The system as claimed in
a merger module, wherein the merger module processes the search results received from each preselected search engine for presentation to the user, wherein each entry in the search results is weighted based upon the relevance of the entry in relation to the terms of the original expanded search request.
This application claims priority to U.S. Ser. No. 60/140,874, filed 24 Jun., 1999, entitled Search Engine, and naming Jeffrey M. Stibel as inventor, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The invention relates to systems and methods for allowing database users to generate accurate user queries.
The growth rate of the Internet is unmatched by any other medium in history. The number of U.S. Internet users has grown from 49 million in 1996 to over 96 million as of March 1999. These numbers are expected to increase by at least 20% over the next few years. Accordingly, each day thousands of new users, from all over the world, begin accessing the Internet and using the Internet as a communication and data processing tool. Research has shown that both new users and experienced users see the highest value of the Internet to be as a research tool that allows a user to collect information, including information related to commercial transactions, and information related to entertainment. In fact, Internet users rank searching as their most important activity on the Web with over 50% of all Web-active individuals (approximately 50 million) visiting a search engine each month. However, research has also shown that a major frustration for Internet users is the inability to quickly locate information available on the Internet.
To locate information, a user typically employs a search engine, such as the Yahoo™ or Lycos™ search engines, to identify information of interest. These Internet search engines are services that monitor the content of the Internet, typically focusing on the content provided through the World Wide Web Internet service. While monitoring the content, the company builds a database of index terms that can be associated with different sites, or pages of available on the Internet. For example, two of the leading search engines, Excite.™. and Yahoo.™. employ a staff of editors that browse the content of the World Wide Web and manually classify and index the Web pages they review. Other search engines rely on computer programs to search through the content of the Web and to automatically classify and index the Web pages that are visited. In either approach, when the process is completed a datafile is created that includes thousands of index terms, each of which has been associated with a plurality of pages on the Web. When a user accesses a search engine and submits a keyword, or user query to the search engine, it is this index that is searched and it is the pages associated with keywords related to the user query that are returned to the user as the search results.
Although search engines generally work quite well, they require a certain facility on the part of the user to return accurate and useful results. However, as a large portion of Internet users are novices, the conventional search engine fails to provide a large portion of the Internet population with a help full tool for navigating among the countless web sites.
To help make search engines more accessible and effective, most search engines now give users the option of directory or keyword searches. However, neither of these techniques is truly sufficient, and frustration among search engine users is increasing. Some studies have shown that having a keyword search on a particular site is actually less helpful than having people navigate through links. This inability of users to find what they are searching for is one reason why most search engines share much of their audience with the competition. While satisfaction with search engines remains high, it has dropped recently. Moreover, this frustration might also explain why approximately 25% of all people who try the Internet become discouraged and never return.
To address these issues, many search engines are attempting to improve performance by modifying the back end-determining what pages should be catalogued and how. One web search engine uses the popularity of a site to rank its relevance. Another uses a question and answer paradigm to match related queries. Various metacrawlers, which return results from a number of different search engines, take into account the problems of shared audience. However, the interfaces of these search engines differ little beyond the cosmetic.
So far, only a few search engines have tackled the problem of the front-end interface. That is, how to get the user to give more information, so the resultant search query is more directed and effective. One has constructed a paradigm in which people ask a question, then choose among a list of alternative questions. These pre-determined questions have known answers among the sites catalogued by the search sites. Other search engines have users enter the search string in one of a number of different categories (e.g., Jobs, Medicine, and Sports) and then send the query to different search engines.
Neither of these methods is ideal. The search engine market thus needs an interface that allows novice users to produce effective search queries, allow for disambiguating words with multiple meanings, and learn from previous interactions with a client to more quickly focus on the real interests of a user.
The systems and methods described herein include systems that, inter alia, operate as a front end to a database search engine or engines, and act to process a user query to generate a new search request that will more effectively retrieve information from the database that is relevant to the query of the user. To this end, in one embodiment the systems can be realized as computer programs that act as front ends to databases. The front ends may include a user interface that is presented to a user and which may prompt the user to enter one or more key phrases that are representative of a user search request. The user interface may collect the key phrases provided by the user and may analyze these key phrases to identify at least one meaning that may be associated with this user search request. The systems may then process the user search request and the identified meaning to generate an expanded search request that may be represented as a compound search string, such as a boolean search string, or other logical string. This compound search string may then be processed to create one or more expanded user queries that may be presented to a search engine to collect from a search engine information that is relevant to the interest of the user.
More particularly, in one aspect the invention is realized as processes for aiding a user and developing a search query. These processes may comprise the steps of presenting to the user an interface for collecting from the user a key phrase representative of a user search request, or user query. The processes may also include the steps of analyzing the user search request to identify at least one meaning associated with that user search request, and processing that user search request and the at least one meaning to generate an expanded search request that may be represented as a boolean, or other logical, search strategy. In a further step, the process to provide these expanded search requests to one or more search engines each of which is capable of identifying information as associated with this expanded search request. In one particular practice when presenting the user an interface, the process may provide a source of profile data that is representative of information that may be displayed to the user for guiding the user to supply information for refining the user search request. This such profile data may include providing category information that is capable of being selected by the user to identify a topic associated with the user search strategy, and may also include providing profile data that includes providing subcategory information which is capable of being displayed to the user in response to the user's selection of a category and capable of providing information for refining the user's search strategy.
In a further particular practice, when the process analyzes the user search request, the process may determine a plurality of different meanings each of which may be associated with the user search request. In these processes, the process of analyzing the user search request may include matching a portion of the key phrases entered by the user, or otherwise obtained, against a linguistic database to identify a list of associated meanings. Optionally, the list of associated meanings may be processed to generate a display that presents to the user a plurality of meanings associated with the key phrase or key phrases and which aid the user in disambiguating between a plurality of different meanings. For example, in this process the list of associated meanings may generate a menu of choices any one of which, or several of which may be selected by the user to assign at least one of the associated meanings to the key phrase. When analyzing user search request, the processes may adjust the user interface as a function of the associated meaning to present to the user a request for information for refining the user search request. Other such modifications and additions may be made to the present invention without departing from the scope thereof.
In a further optional practice, the processes for the invention may include the act of generating for the user a linguistic database that includes information which is representative of the key phrases and the associated meanings employed by that user. In this practice, the processes of the invention may analyze the user information for building a user database that may include meanings that the user has indicated, among other ways, by previous search requests as relevant to certain terms, words or key phrases. To this end, the systems described herein may include login screens that employ user names, cookies, or other mechanisms for establishing an identity of a user and to identify a database associated with that user, or a group of related users. Additionally, in optional practices, the processes described herein may from time to time, such as once a month, process the personal database of users to determine meanings identified by a user or a group of users as relevant to a term, phrase, date, numeric value, domain space, web site, or other information that may be representative of topic or meaning. Identified meanings may be entered into a system wide knowledgebase for use by the general user population, or selected portions of the general user population. Optionally, analyzing a search request may include accessing demographic information associated with the user for generating the expanded search request.
In a further aspect, the invention may be understood as systems for aiding a user in developing a search request. Such systems may comprise a linguistic knowledge base having information that is representative of a list of sense signals, each sense signal being information for describing a linguistic meaning, and a list of words where systems may further include a controller for generating an interface for collecting from a user a key phrase that is representative of a user search request and for employing the key phrase to access information from the linguistic knowledge base to generate an expanded search request. A query mechanism may further be included for processing the expanded search request to generate a set of logical search requests, each which may be associated with at least one preselected search engine and for providing each boolean search request to a respected preselected one of these search engines. Alternative embodiments of the systems described herein may be realized including those wherein systems further include means for adjusting the user interface as a function of the information accesses from the linguistic database, for guiding the user in disambiguating between the different meanings for the key phrase. In a further optional embodiment, the systems may include a mechanism for generating a linguistic database for the user, wherein the database includes information representative of the key phrases and associated meanings that are employed by the user. Similarly, mechanisms for identifying demographic information associated with the user and for employing that demographic information for expanding the user search request may also be provided.
In a further optional embodiment, the systems described herein may include mechanisms for accessing flag signals from the linguistic knowledge base, wherein the flag signals are representative of control information capable of controlling the type of expanded search requests that may be generated.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention will be appreciated more fully from the following further description thereof, with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein;
To provide an overall understanding of the invention, certain illustrative embodiments will now be described, including a system that acts as a front end that aids a user in creating search queries for extant search engines, such as extant Internet search engines. These systems may collect a query string from the user and process the query string to identify a meaning, or a set of meanings, that may be associated with the user query. Through an interactive process, the user may be allowed to select from a list of choices specific meanings or contexts to be associated with the user query. The systems may employ the selected meanings to amend the user query and to generate an expanded query string that will more accurately collect data from the Internet search engines. In this way, a user that inputs an ambiguous search string into a search engine, such as a search string that comprises one word, having a plurality of different meanings, such as the term "bank", may be aided by the system in developing the original search string into a meaningful search strategy for identifying documents that are on point for the interest of the user. This allows the user to interact with the system to create more meaningful search strategies, and may be employed to create a conversational atmosphere, as if the computer were asking the user to help clarify the meaning of the collected user query. This interaction simulates a more natural discourse style, and leads to improved search results, particularly for less experienced users.
Although the invention will now be described with reference to certain illustrative systems and methods, including such front end search engine systems, it will be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that the systems and methods described herein may be adapted and modified for other suitable applications and that such other additions and modifications will not depart from the scope hereof.
The front end system 10 depicted in
Once the user has either selected or provided a meaning for the user query, the user query and the meaning can be passed to the query engine 14 which may again access the knowledge base 16 and the user profile database 18 to identify a set of words that may be related to the meaning selected by the user. The query engine 14 may then employ the related words and the user query to create an expanded query that is understood to more accurately retrieve information from a search engine about the topic of interest to the user.
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The user interface 12 depicted in
The query engine 14 depicted in
The knowledge base 16 may be a software module executing as a computer process on a server platform, such as the server platform that supports the query engine 14 and the web server communicating with the client browser supporting the user interface 12. In one embodiment, the knowledge base 16 is a semantic knowledge base system that stores a lexical reference system that allows for key phrases to be mapped to conceptual abstractions, these abstractions being associated with a plurality of different words and phrases. For example, in one embodiment the knowledge base 16 is a lexical database that divides the lexicon of a language into a plurality of different categories. For example in one embodiment the knowledge base 16 divides the lexicon from the English language into five categories, wherein these categories include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and function words. One such lexical database is the WordNet lexical database described among other places in Miller et al., Introduction to WordNet: An Online Lexical Database, August 1993; Miller, G. A. 1985. 'Wordnet: A Dictionary Browser' in Information in Data, Proceedings of the First Conference of the UW Centre for the New Oxford Dictionary. Waterloo, Canada: University of Waterloo; Miller, G. A. 1986; and Beckwith, R., Fellbaum, C., Gross, D., and Miller, G. A. (in press). 'WordNet: A Lexical Database Organized on Psycholinguistic Principles' in Zernik, U. (ed.). Using On-line Resources to Build a Lexicon. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Other sources of information relevant to the lexical database include: 'Dictionaries in the Mind.' Language and Cognitive Processes 1: 171–185. Miller, G. A. (in press). 'Lexical Echoes of Perceptual Structure' in The Perception of Structure, in honor of W. R. Garner. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Miller, G. A., and Charles, W. (in press). 'Contextual Correlates of Semantic Similarity.' Language and Cognitive Processes. Miller, G. A., and Fellbaum, C. (submitted). 'Semantic Networks of English.' Cognition. Miller, G. A., and Gildea, P. M. 1987. 'How Children Learn Words.' Scientific American 257: No. 3: 94–99, the teachings of which are herein incorporated by reference. Such a knowledge base 16 allows for the organization of lexical information in terms of word meanings, rather than word forms. By allowing the key phrases within the user query to be used as entry points into the knowledge base 16, a set of meanings, or senses, may be retrieved from the knowledge base 16.
More particularly, the knowledge base 16 in one embodiment is a relational database that stores a plurality of word meanings and a plurality of word forms wherein the association between word forms and word meanings and maintains a relationship between the word meanings and the word forms. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that to reduce ambiguity, the term word form is being employed herein to refer to the physical utterance or inscription of a word and the term word meaning is being employed to refer to the lexicalized concept that a form can be used to express. A word form can include a word, numeric value, graphic, sound, domain name, web site, or any other symbol or device for representing information. Similarly, a word meaning can represent a topic, action, category, web site, domain name, quantity, or any other similar lexicalized concept. Moreover, it will be understood that the knowldegebase 16 can include information in different languages, such as English, German, and French, to allow a user to identify foreign language terms that may be relevant to a particular user query. Both word forms and word meanings can be presented in a plurality of such different languages. This can be particularly helpful for novice Internet users that have limited English Language skills.
Table 1 provides one example of a lexical matrix.
Specifically as shown in that Table 1 word forms, Fn are presented as headings for the columns in the table and word meanings are presented as headings for the rows in the table. An entry in a cell of the matrix implies that the form in that column may be employed, in an appropriate context, to express the meaning in that row. Thus, for example, the entry E1,1 implies that the form F1 can be used to express word meaning M1. If there are two entries in the same column, the word form is deemed polysemous; if there are two entries in the same row, the word forms are synonymous. From a review of Table 1 it can be seen that the knowledge base provides a mapping between word forms and word meanings that is many to many. For example, the word form "java" can be associated with a plurality of different word meanings, M1, M2 . . . Mm such as coffee, programming languages, and Pacific Islands. In other practices, the word meanings can include domain names possibly associated with the user query, such as Sun.Java.Com, or HotJava.com. In still other practices, foreign language terms, as well as locations, and landmarks, can be provided that have been identified as associated with the word form Java. Accordingly, the word form java which could be associated with a row heading Fjava, would have multiple entries within the column beneath the word form heading Fjava. Each of these entries would correspond with one of the associated word meanings, such as coffee, programming languages and South Pacific Islands.
In one particular embodiment, the knowledge base 16 comprises two types of entities, Senses and Words. The knowledge base 16 can store a Sense as a data structure that has associated with it five items.
A Word may be stored as a data structure having two meanings. The first meaning may be Senses which provides the list of Senses that corresponds to the different meanings for this word, and spellings which may be a list of different spellings for this word. The different spelling could include English verses American spellings, common misspellings, abbreviations, different tenses, and different forms of a root verb, such as the gerund or the infinitive.
An abstract depiction of a word structure that includes a Senses element and a Spelling element is depicted in
In implementation, the depicted databases 16 and 18 may be realized as any suitable database system, including a system built on a commercially available database system such as the Microsoft Access database, and may be a local or distributed database system. The design and development of suitable database systems are described in McGovern et al., A Guide To Sybase and SQL Server, Addison-Wesley (1993). The databases 16 and 18 may be supported by any suitable persistent data memory, such as a hard disk drive, RAID system, tape drive system, floppy diskette, or any other suitable system.
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The controller 20 may act as an HTML page generator that may process the set of words provided from the knowledge base 16 and create therefrom a modified HTML search page that may be presented to the user as a new user interface 12. For example turning to
In either embodiment, after the user has selected a meaning to be associated with the user query the Query engine 14 may then build an expanded search query by employing the related terms, depicted in
These related words provide additional keyphrases that may be added, such as by boolean logic operators or by other logical operators, to the keyphrases of the user query. For example, the original user query "java", can now be expanded to java+coffee+espresso(W1)+beverage(W2)+(NOT)programming. As expanded, the query now includes terms that are selected to increase the likelihood that an Internet search engine will return a meaningful hit list. To this end, the user query has been given new terms, including the word that represents the selected meaning, as well as a pari of additional words, expresso and beverage, each of which is weighted, W1 and W2 respectively. The weighting can be employed to indicate how significant the word is to the search, as well as for sorting through the returned hits, to rank the returned search results. Additionally, it can be seen that the search string includes a NOT operator that indicates that the word "programming" should not appear within the documents returned by the search. Thus, these related words may also be used to prioritize the results, or alternatively eliminate irrelevant, or less relevant hits. This enables the system 10 to bring the more relevant hits to the first pages of search results that will be returned to the user, while still allowing users to navigate through to the less relevant hits. This can be accomplished without additional effort on the part of the user, and the resulting expanded query is a complex query that may be invisible to the user.
Returning now to
The flag submember 136 can include information representative of flag values that are to be added by the different actions and can be interpreted by the query processors for the different search engines 24, 28 and 30. Typically, flags are employed to provide information that indicates the reason as to why a term was added, for example, the type of action. The ordering subelement 138 can include information that is representative of a numeric value that can be employed for ordering the phrases before presenting them to the interface of a search engine. The priority submember 140 can include information that is representative of an estimate of the importance of this phrase to the query. The numeric value of this datum can range from, in one embodiment, 1.0, indicating a phrase that must be present, and down to 0.0 to represent a phrase that can be ignored. Optionally, it can be capable of providing negative indicators representing the fact that a word or phrase should not appear within information, such as a web page that is to be retrieved by the search engine.
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As can be seen from the above, the invention in one aspect includes a front-end user interface that allows users to search the Internet in a fast and efficient manner. To achieve this, the front end user interface incorporates three interfaces: an interactive search option with interactive query disambiguation, a search option with multiple fields, and a category profile search option with automatic query expansion. The interactive search form provides an efficient way to narrow a search without placing extra demands on the user. The alternative systems incorporate multiple text entry fields to encourage the user to enter more information than would be entered through a traditional interface.
It will be understood that although
The systems and processes described above may be realized as software components operating on a conventional data processing system such as a Unix workstation. The components may be implemented as a C language computer program, or a computer program written in any high level language including C++, Fortran, Java or Basic. In an embodiment where microcontrollers or DSPs are employed, the components may be realized as a computer program written in microcode or written in a high level language and compiled down to microcode that may be executed on the platform employed. The development of such programs follows from principles known in the art, including general techniques for high level programming, such as those set forth in, for example, Stephen G. Kochan, Programming in C, Hayden Publishing (1983).
Those skilled in the art will know or be able to ascertain using no more than routine experimentation, many equivalents to the embodiments and practices described herein. For example, the systems and processes described herein can be employed with intranets, and standalone systems such as kiosks used to provide information. The front end systems can be employed with any type of database wherein information is retrieved in response to a query. The invention can be realized as software components that can be added to existing systems, as well as newly created systems with the front end integrated into the system. The systems can also be used as stand alone systems that generate terms and strings that a user can be given directly, so that the user has the option of providing the expanded search query to a database system. Accordingly, it will be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the embodiments disclosed herein, but is to be understood from the following claims, which are to be interpreted as broadly as allowed under the law.
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RIT Players was formed in the fall of 1995, but had been producing shows for two years before that. The creator of the RIT Players was faculty member Roger Freeman. The current faculty adviser is Jerry Argetsinger, who teaches in the theater department at the National Techincal Institute for the Deaf.
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Why do plants need water?
Plants need water to maintain turgor pressure.
Turgor pressure helps to keep the plant erect and is accomplished
when the plasma membrane pushes against the cell wall.
Plants combine water with carbon dioxide to make glucose.
Water is also used to cool down the plant through evaporation.
Where does the water come from that a plant uses?
Most of the water comes from the soil and must be moved up the plant.
How is water transported into and up through a plant?
The overall movement of water can be determined
by the sum of osmotic potential and hydrostatic pressure.
Water potential is a parameter that indicates the
tendency of water to go from one place to the next.
Water moves from a high osmotic potential to a low osmotic potential
(or a high water potential to a low water potential).
There are two phases in which water moves:
(1) from soil to root and (2) from root to leaf.
Solutes are moved through plants in three ways:
(1) Active transport (carriers and pumps)
(2) convection (solutes can move along with water as bulk flow)
(3) diffusion.
Water movement from soil to root is largely due to
osmotic potential where the solute concentration in the root
is higher than the solute concentration in the soil.
In order to create and maintain this concentration
difference, active pumping of the solute is required.
ATP will be needed for this maintenance.
In most plant cells, the H+ ATPase is primary active transport.
The hydrogen ion gradient is used by co-transporters and exchangers.
Active pumping leads to an increased solute concentration.
Because of this, there is a greater tendency for water to flow to the vascular bundle.
Water movement from the root to the leaf is largely
due to the evaporation-tension-cohesion mechanism.
Water evaporates at the leaves, thereby decreasing pressure.
Away from the leaves there is a higher pressure gradient.
This drives the water up, to the lower pressure, thus equalizing things.
ATP is not needed for this process.
On a smaller scale, root pressure due to osmotic potential drives
water from the root to the leaf.
In the root there is a high concentration of solute.
When water comes into the root, the pressure builds.
Water is driven up the plant as a result.
Evidence of this can be found in guttation.
Guttation is when water is extruded out through the leaf due to root pressure.
Water is transported by either apoplastic transportation
or symplastic transportation.
Apoplastic transport is when water is transported between cells up to the endodermis.
Symplastic transport is when water is transported
through the plasma membrane and cytoplasm.
Water following this route may take longer to transport and require ATP.
Symplastic transport can pass through the endodermis whereas apoplastic transport cannot.
Material and water must be transported through the endodermis
Both of these pathways are needed to transport
water and dissolved substances to the vascular bundle.
To transport water and material across the endodermis,
symplastic transport is needed (because the endodermis is relatively impermeable).
Once transported across the endodermis and to the stele,
materials must then move from the symplastic area to the apoplastic area (the xylem).
These two pathways work in conjunction with one another.
Cross-Section of a Root:
After water is brought into the vascular bundle, where does it go?
Transfer cells take the material from the cell cytoplasm and transport
it to the xylem
(movement is from the symplastic cytoplasm to the apoplastic xylem).
Plants in Dry Environments
In dry environments, plants keep their stomata closed to limit
water loss
yet they must open their stomata to exchange gases with the environment.
In dry environments, there is a also a physical increase in
Plants heat up faster and need to open their stomata to cool off.
Plants deal with a dry environment in the following ways:
·Time their growth season to match the rainy season.
·Accumulate solutes in the cell (by changing their osmotic potential).
This way a plant improves its ability to pull water from the ground/soil.
·Develop a waxy cuticle
·Regulate stomata openings so that they open at night
(These plants are called CAM plants).
·Temporarily reduce the surface area of their leaves
Corn plants do this. This reduces the rate of evaporation.
·Only produce leaves during periods of heavy rain.
·Change leaf orientation to reduce evaporation.
·Store water succulents.
*Also, different root systems enable a plant to adapt to dry environments.
Deep tap roots are useful for collecting lots of water deep in the earth.
A dense, shallow root system is useful when there is heavy competition among plants.
Plants in Wet Environments
A wet environment is disadvantageous for
a plant because moisture can lead to rotting.
Wet environments can also prevent transpiration and alter
important processes such as photosynthesis and gas exchange.
In very wet conditions, plants have a can have a difficult time
The concentration of oxygen in air far exceeds concentration of
oxygen in water, yet plants need oxygen to break down
glucose and perform cellular respiration.
Plants adapt to wet environments in several ways:
·The development of pneumatophores (roots that come out of the water)
·A shallow root system
·Aerenchyma cells provide large open spaces that can
be filled with air and allow for its easy transport.
·Some plants actually metabolize anaerobically
·By better supporting themselves plants can prevent being completely submerged in water.
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Members of the Assembly budget committee skewered New Jersey's higher education secretary at a hearing Wednesday, arguing that they can't judge a proposal to overhaul the state university system without knowing the cost.
Secretary Rochelle Hendricks said "world-class" financial experts were reviewing the proposal, which would merge Rutgers-Camden into Rowan University in Glassboro and combine parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with Rutgers' main campus in New Brunswick. Hendricks expects to have a cost analysis in the next few weeks.
For some, that wasn't good enough, especially when Republican Gov. Christie wanted the plan approved by July 1.
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I really enjoyed this book and sent it to several of my friends (golfers all) to read. They all enjoyed as much as I did.
It's written in the same basic style as "The Official Rules of Golf", but they use rules that you and I play by. The scary thing is that I have seen every rule in this book actually applied on the golf course! Not by myself, of course, but by others.
If you enjoy golf, and have ever wanted to play a ball that you found in the rough that was "close enough" to the one you couldn't find, you'll get a kick out of this book.
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This book takes everything you do with your friends that breaks the rules of golf and makes it hilariously legal. Written just like the USGA's manual and in golf legalese its a must have for anyone that enjoys golf. It includes such highlights as the Agreement to Re-tee or "Mass Mulligan", Temporary Insanity or "John Daly", and other such rules as Nonchalant Putts or "Tap-tap-tap-in and Mittsie". If you want a book that will make you laugh about golf, this is it!!!
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I love Golf. It's the Rules I don't get. I mean none of us are Tiger Woods ... After 8 strokes just pick the ball up. Who cares who closest to the hole , Just putt the ball. That said ,The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf is a book made for the way I play golf. If more people follow these rules maybe I could get a round in in less than 3 hours!
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As I write this column it looks like another curtain is falling on Downtown Toledo. Or, looked at another way, a page is turning on downtown Toledo. The Nicholas Building — known by most Toledoans as the former Fifth Third Bank building, or to older Toledoans as the First National Bank building — is closing for the most ignominious of reasons: The landlord didn't pay the electric bill.
"We received notice from Toledo Edison that power would be turned off if payment is not received" the building's assistant manager told me. "And payment will not be received."
The tallest building in Ohio when it was constructed in 1906, this feature on the Toledo skyline will be empty by the time most of you read this column. It's happening that fast. There was little notice for the tenants to make the move. Fifth Third Bank, which has (had) its main Downtown branch on the ground floor of the Nicholas Building, sent out a news release that it was closing that branch exactly 24 hours and 39 minutes before they locked the doors for good. For the rest of the tenants, it was like scrambling for lifeboats on a sinking ship. Some tenants filed court motions to keep the power on through the weekend so they could get their belongings out. Commercial realtors were getting panicked calls from tenants on the top three floors who needed to move and move fast before power to the elevators was cut off.
The owner/landlord is the Ergur Real Estate Group out of San Francisco. It bought the Nicholas Building in January 2008 for the relatively paltry sum of $313,600 — that's 17 floors of Toledo history for less than you'd pay for a single-family residence in Stone Oak. Before you jump to the conclusion that this is just another absentee landlord scarfing up cheap Toledo real estate and milking it for all the cash they could, consider what Ergur Group's plans were: A $200 million renovation of the Nicholas Building and the adjacent 10-story Spitzer Building, also owned by Ergur.
Those were the plans. But then came the credit meltdown. The banks quit lending on commercial real estate projects and that financing was the lynchpin to the redevelopment of the two buildings. Owning two renovated, classy buildings on adjacent corners a couple hundred feet from the main entrance to the new arena would have been a real gold mine. But owning two old buildings with less than 50 percent occupancy and no bank financing for renovation is dead weight.
"The Nicholas Building is only 10 percent occupied," said Bill Thomas, Ergur Real Estate Group's Toledo manager. "That's not enough [rent] to cover our daily needs." Nor, apparently, enough to cover the FirstEnergy bill.
With the banks refusing to lend, the Ergur Group started months ago looking for private financing near and far, including the Middle East. "You look at these private equity groups" said Thomas, "… they hold all the cards." And the private investors weren't playing.
It might be tough to see a silver lining in such a debacle, but let's try. In the short-term, there's an instant increase in demand for Downtown office space as Nicholas Building tenants are racing to relocate. One week ago, the suggestion that there would be a spike in demand for space Downtown would have been answered by a nervous laugh and maybe a recommendation to see a psychologist.
I caught up with Nancy Lehman, vice president of CB Richard Ellis commercial real estate brokerage, after she spent Wednesday afternoon showing a Nicholas Building tenant five places where they could relocate. All Downtown.
The good news is those businesses will be, or are trying to stay Downtown. The bad news is that this is a case of musical chairs. The same number of Downtown workers in fewer buildings and another landmark emptied out.
Refilling it will take time. Perhaps, a lot of time.
"Its gonna be a year minimum," said Germano Bressan of Signature Associates, a commercial real estate firm. "That's an expensive building to run. Somebody's going to buy it for nothing, so they can make money with just a handful of tenants."
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The Clos LaChance trademark - a hummingbird among the grapevines - is the primary feature on our label. The hummingbird was chosen not only for its grace and style, but also for its strength. The hummingbird is a welcome addition into vineyards for its "energetic" efforts in keeping other birds away. View all Clos LaChance Wines
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Called gold country since the mid-1800's, the Sierra Foothills, located between Sacramento and the Nevada border, was a hot spot for those seeking a gold rush fortune. Some of these settlers brought some European vines with them and somewhere in that mix was the Zinfandel grape.
Notable FactsZinfandel remains the grape of choice here, followed by Rhone Blends. Volcanic rock & granite-based soils give their wines a robustness that make them unique, and highly sought after, particularly from the two best-known counties, Amador and El Dorado. Zinfandels here are spicy and structures, with brambly fruit and excellent backbone. Once a well-kept secret, wine from the Sierra Foothills is now on the national wine map.
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The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


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How is the Fire Department affected by budget cuts? Chief Brian Cummings of the Los Angeles Fire Department talks to the community about budget cuts and response time.
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Rob Cunningham – Chief Executive Officer - Rob was an original founding member of Relic Entertainment and was art director for Relic's sci-fi award winning cult classics Homeworld and Homeworld 2. After THQ's acquisition of Relic in 2004, Rob continued to direct premium properties for the studio including the Dawn of War and Company of Heroes franchises, but his real passion was for emerging market opportunities. After leaving Relic in 2007, Rob established the eatART Foundation then turned his attention towards forming a new game studio with familiar faces.
Yossarian King – Chief Technical Officer - Yossarian has over 20 years of software engineering experience with 16 years in video games. He was previously the technical director of the central tools group at EA Canada, where he helped ship almost every major sports title from the studio since 1995 including the hugely successful FIFA, NHL and NBA sport franchises. He has a Master's degree in computer vision from the University of British Columbia, wrote several articles for the Game Programming Gems series, and blogs at AltDevBlogADay. When not coding, he enjoys unicycling, ultimate, kayaking, and spending time with his wife and kids.
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Professor Jane Schacter spoke with Julian Rayfield of the Guardian about the specifics of the Prop 8 ruling and why the decision may only have implications for California.Now that a Ninth Circuit panel has ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, it seems inevitable that the ruling on Proposition 8 will eventually be appealed to the Supreme Court. But whether the Supreme Court agrees to hear it is another story. At this point, proponents of Prop 8 have fourteen days to decide whether to petition for a rehearing. If granted, an eleven-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit will hear the case, which could take another six months to a year. If the initiative's supporters choose to go straight to the Supreme Court, four of the nine justices would have to vote in favor of hearing the case for it to be taken up. ... Professor Jane Schacter at Stanford Law School told TPM that "the big question" is whether or not the Supreme Court will agree to hear the case, and though at this point it's "guesswork," the narrowness of the opinion makes it less likely that they will. "It's much more grounded in the specifics of the California ruling," she said. For one thing, Schacter said, the Ninth Circuit's opinion emphasizes that the right of same-sex couples to marry had been first granted, then eliminated. For another, unlike most other states, California already essentially granted all of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples, just under a different name than "marriage." This means that Prop 8 was simply about the designation of same-sex unions as "marriages." "Those two things are somewhat peculiar to California," Schacter said, meaning that the opinion doesn't necessarily provide the basis for a nationally recognized right for same-sex couples to marry. "Because of that, the Supreme Court may feel the stakes are limited, and it's not as necessary for them to get involved," she said. On the other hand, because this case is very high-profile and California is an influential state that "tends to set trends," the Supreme Court "may decide to take it," Schacter added. And should the Court decide to take it, there is reason to believe that the language of the opinion will hold particular appeal to one specific Justice. "This decision was written by Judge Reinhardt more or less for Justice Kennedy," Schacter said.


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Honestly, don't bother. You're already saying it…your shoddy performance, slack attendance, and general carelessness as of late speaks loud and clear (if not to you, to EVERYONE at work) that your heart simply isn't in it. They get it – you are unhappy at your job. But passive aggressiveness will get you nowhere. Whether the answer is to find another job or simply work with the one you have, here are three clues it's time for you to make a change:
It's obvious you no longer care.
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You've taken 38 sick days this year.
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You've gotten a bad evaluation, or worse, a formal warning.
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Can you work hard to turn it around? Sure – this may be just the wake up call you needed. Just know that now you not only have to fix your issues, but also perceptions developed through watching your poor past performance. With dedication and focus, you could become your manager's favorite success story. At worst, you start giving it your all TODAY and are able to leave with your head held high and a recommendation. Next time, hopefully, you'll be smart enough not to make the same mistakes.
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