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09/29/2008 - Magnetar
A magnetar is a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, the decay of which powers the emission of copious amounts of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma-rays. The theory regarding these objects was formulated by Robert Duncan and Christopher Thompson in 1992, but the first recorded burst of gamma rays thought to have been from a magnetar was on March 5, 1979. During the following decade, the magnetar hypothesis has become widely accepted as a likely explanation for soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars. Little is known about the physical structure of a magnetar, because none are close to Earth. Magnetars are somewhere around 20 kilometres in diameter. Despite this, they are substantially more massive than our Sun. Magnetars are so compressed that a thimbleful of its material is estimated to weigh over 100 million tons. Most magnetars recorded rotate very rapidly, at least several times per second. The active life of a magnetar is short. Their strong magnetic fields decay after about 10,000 years, after which point activity and strong X-ray emission cease. Given the number of magnetars observable today, one estimate puts the number of "dead" magnetars in the Milky Way at 30 million or more. Quakes triggered on the surface of the magnetar cause great volatility in the star and the magnetic field which encompasses it, often leading to extremely powerful gamma ray flare emissions which have been recorded on Earth in 1979, 1998 and 2004. Magnetars are primarily characterized by their extremely powerful magnetic field, which can often reach the order of 10 gigateslas. These magnetic fields are millions of times stronger than any man-made magnet, and quadrillions of times more powerful than the field surrounding Earth. As of 2003, they are the most magnetic objects ever detected in the universe. A magnetic field of 10 gigateslas is enormous. Earth has a geomagnetic field of 30-60 microteslas, and a neodymium based rare earth magnet has a field of about 1 tesla, with a magnetic energy density of 4.0 x 105 J/m3. A 10 gigatesla field, by contrast, has an energy density of 4.0 x 1025 J/m3, with an E/c2 mass density >104 times that of lead. The magnetic field of a magnetar would be lethal even at a distance of 1000 km, tearing tissues due to the diamagnetism of water. It has even been said that at a distance halfway to the moon, a magnetar could strip information from a credit card on Earth. As described in the February 2003 Scientific American cover story, remarkable things happen within a magnetic field of magnetar strength: X-ray photons readily split in two or merge together. The vacuum itself is polarized, becoming strongly birefringent, like a calcite crystal. Atoms are deformed into long cylinders thinner than the quantum-relativistic wavelength of an electron. In a field of about 105 teslas atomic orbitals deform into cigar shapes. At 1010 teslas, a hydrogen atom becomes a spindle 200 times narrower than its normal diameter. Magnetar SGR 1900+14 is in the exact center of the image, which shows a surrounding ring of gas seven light-years across in infrared light, as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The magnetar itself is not visible at this wavelength, but it has been seen in X-ray light. When, in a supernova, a star collapses to a neutron star, its magnetic field increases dramatically in strength (halving a linear dimension increases the magnetic field fourfold). Duncan and Thompson calculated that the magnetic field of a neutron star, normally an already enormous 108 teslas could, through the dynamo mechanism, grow even larger, to more than 1011 teslas (or 1015 gauss). The result is a magnetar. The supernova might lose 10% of its mass in the explosion. In order for such large stars (10 to 30 solar masses) not to collapse straight into a black hole, they have to shed a larger proportion of their mass perhaps another 80%. It is estimated that about 1 in 10 supernova explosions results in a magnetar rather than a more standard neutron star or pulsar. On February 21, 2008 it was announced that NASA and McGill University researchers had discovered a neutron star that temporarily changed from a pulsar to a magnetar. This indicates that magnetars are not merely a rare type of pulsar but may be a (possibly reversible) phase in the lives of at least some pulsars. On September 24, 2008, ESO announced what it believes is the first optically active magnetar-candidate yet discovered, using ESO's Very Large Telescope. The newly discovered object is known as SWIFT J195509+261406 On March 5, 1979, a few months after the successful dropping of satellites into the atmosphere of Venus, the two Soviet spacecraft that were then drifting through the solar system, were hit by a blast of gamma ray radiation at approximately 10:51 EST. This contact raised the radiation readings on both the probes from a normal 100 counts per second to over 200,000 counts a second, in only a fraction of a millisecond. This burst of gamma rays quickly continued to spread. Eleven seconds later, Helios 2, a NASA probe, which was in orbit around the Sun, was saturated by the blast of radiation. It soon hit Venus, and the Pioneer Venus Orbiter's detectors were overcome by the wave. Seconds later, Earth received the wave of radiation, where the powerful output of gamma rays inundated the detectors of three U.S. Department of Defense Vela satellites, the Soviet Prognoz 7 satellite, and the Einstein Observatory. Just before the wave exited the solar system, the blast also hit the International Sun-Earth Explorer. This extremely powerful blast of gamma ray radiation constituted the strongest wave of extra-solar gamma rays ever detected; it was over 100 times more intense than any known previous extra-solar burst. On 27 December, 2004, a burst of gamma rays arrived in our solar system from SGR 1806-20 (artist's conception shown). The burst was so powerful that it had effects on Earth's atmosphere, at a range of over 50,000 light years. As of May 2007, twelve magnetars are known, with three more candidates awaiting confirmation. Examples of known magnetars include: SGR 1806-20, located 50,000 light-years from Earth on the far side of our Milky Way galaxy in the constellation of Sagittarius. SGR 1900+14, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. After a long period of low emissions (significant bursts only in 1979 and 1993) it became active in May-August 1998, and a burst detected on August 27, 1998 was of sufficient power to force NEAR to shut-down to prevent damage and to saturate instruments on BeppoSAX, WIND and RXTE. On May 29, 2008, NASA's Spitzer telescope discovered a ring of matter around this magnetar. It is thought that this ring formed in the 1998 burst. 1E 1048.1-5937, located 9,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina. The original star, from which the magnetar formed, had a mass 30 to 40 times that of the Sun. A full listing is given in the magnetar catalog. As of Sep 2008, ESO reports identification of an object which it has initially identified as a magnetar, SWIFT J195509+261406, originally identified by a gamma-ray burst (GRB 070610) LINK: http://www.wikipedia.org/


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Saturday April 13, 2013: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm -- Downtown Library: Training Center
This tax season, the Ann Arbor District Library is working with the Washtenaw County Asset Building Coalition (WABC) to provide free tax preparation assistance to Washtenaw County low to moderate income-eligible residents. The WABC has trained volunteers who are ready to assist with tax returns and is organized to help individuals increase and protect their financial assets.
Scheduled appointments are required. Appointments will be held at the 3rd Floor of the Downtown Library between 6:00 and 8:30 pm on Wednesday April 3 & 10 and between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 13.
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U.S. Soccer Announces Three New Full-Time Positions for U.S. Youth Women's National Teams
Following an Initial Recommendation from the Women's Player Development Task Force, U.S. Soccer Will Make U-17 and U-20 Women's National Team Head Coach Positions Full-Time and Hire an Additional Coach to Assist in Overseeing Player Development for Younger Age Groups
Following an Initial Recommendation from the Women's Player Development Task Force, U.S. Soccer Will Make U-17 and U-20 Women's National Team Head Coach Positions Full-Time and Hire an Additional Coach to Assist in Overseeing Player Development for Younger Age Groups
CHICAGO (May 27, 2012) – As part of a continuing investment in women's soccer, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati has announced the formation of three new full-time positions for the Youth Women's National Team program.
Following the FIFA Women's World Cups for the Under-17 and Under-20 age levels this coming fall, the head coaching positions for those teams will become full-time for the first time. In addition, U.S. Soccer will hire another full-time coach whose main focus will be on enhancing the player development environment for young players from coast to coast.
The responsibilities of the development coach will include scouting, running U.S. Soccer's National Training Centers, assisting coaching education opportunities, and liaising with U.S. Soccer's partners and constituents as it relates to developing players at the youngest National Teams. Additionally, this coach will also oversee the U.S. Under-15 Girls' National Team program.
The new hires are the first component of the recommendations from the U.S. Soccer's Women's Player Development Task Force, a group of women's soccer experts – including coaches and administrators – that is led by U.S. Women's National Team legend and current Navy head women's soccer coach Carin Gabarra. The Women's Task Force also includes U.S. Soccer's Women's Technical Director April Heinrichs and Women's Development Director Jill Ellis. As part of the Task Force's recommendations, additional full-time positions and programming elements are being studied for inclusion in 2013.
"With both our Under-17 and Under-20 teams winning their CONCACAF championships this year, we have a strong base for our youth teams and are well-positioned for the future of our Women's National Team, but we know there is still much work to be done†said Gulati. "With more full-time staff members working daily on all facets of development we are able to strengthen our approach in many areas of the youth women's program. We want to create the best environments for our elite female players so they can excel at the highest levels. We're looking forward to continuing the work that April and Jill have started, and ensuring we stay at the forefront of the women's game across the world.â€
The Women's Task Force has been meeting consistently for more than a year to study different initiatives to improve and advance the development of women's soccer in the United States. The hiring of the new full-time positions was identified as a critical initiative moving forward and was eventually fast-tracked as an immediate recommendation. The group will continue to meet and explore other initiatives focusing on every aspect of women's soccer.
"We are in the people development business, and as such, it's critical that we build a team of experts that can further develop players and coaches in line with the tradition of this program as well as the new vision and style of play of the U.S. Women's National Team,†said Heinrichs. "We are looking for coaches that are great player developers and communicators who have the leadership qualities to reach out to our soccer community. These are exciting times for the U.S. Women's National Teams with the Olympics and two youth World Cups on the horizon as we continue to work to reinforce a new style of play.â€
Both the U.S. U-17 and U-20 Women's National Teams have qualified for their FIFA Women's World Cups which will be held in Azerbaijan and Japan, respectively, this fall. The new full-time coaches for these age groups will be responsible for managing everything involved in the usual 18-month cycle leading into FIFA's youth Women's World Cups.
The youth coaches will determine the schedule of training camps and matches, execute physical and technical training plans, utilize sport science tools to improve player performance and handle the expansion of U.S. Soccer's scouting network among youth clubs all over the United States.
"These new hires give April and I more tools to allow us to reach a broader range of coaches and players to help keep our women's program moving forward,†said Ellis. "To move people we need people and having these full-time coaches will allow us to continue to form a great team that is focused on women's soccer on a daily basis.â€
Heinrichs and Ellis will begin identifying candidates for these new positions in the coming weeks, although no timetable has been set on finalizing the new hires.


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«Krasilov aggregate plant» was established in September 1968 as a branch of Kiev's manufacturing association named after Artema by the order of Ministry of aviation industry of former USSR. The main creating aim is providing production for aviation industry.
The years 1968 to 2001 is the period of gradual development of the plant, production increasing and evolution of all frames of reference. The «KAP» satisfied state orders of aviation supply units and aggregates and also produced a wide variety of consumer goods.
In 2000 the plant direction determinate the further vector of company development and create a heating equipment design.
In 2001 first heating device «Volkano» was made.
Our modern production facilities have the capacity to satisfy the needs of even the most demanding partners, and for this reason we are able to deal with customers having high expectations from across Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Kazakhstan.
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DULUTH -- Charges in the March murder of Donald Singer have yet to be filed, while the man accused of stealing his Porsche from the crime scene continues to await a cross-country extradition.
Singer, 57, was found dead inside the garage of his Duluth home on March 28, his body wrapped in a blanket and the overwhelming smell of bleach wafting in the air. Little else has been released about the believed homicide and no suspects have been named.
"I am unaware of any murder charges to this date," Duluth police spokesman Maj. Don Woodruff said Thursday, adding that the case "is still open and under investigation."
Meanwhile, Robert Sandman has been charged in the theft of Singer's 1988 Porsche 944 from the crime scene, but nothing else. Detained April 7 during an alleged drunken bender at a middle-of-nowhere New Mexico casino, he has yet to be extradited back to Gwinnett, Woodruff said.
Sandman has not been implicated in the murder. A former neighbor on Montheath Pass, Sandman was released from a Georgia prison two days before Singer's body was discovered -- he had been serving time on charges stemming from a violent relationship with a former girlfriend who lived down the street from Singer.
Police have denied any direct relationship between Sandman and Singer.
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Hey, True Blood fans. I don't get you or the hype about vampires and other things that are not real and will never be real (except if it's a romantic comedy! Love those!) but Blaire, my dear friend and occasional Get Yo' Nails Did columnist, is obsessed. She's way into Buffy and Nightmare Before Christmas and True Blood and a bunch of other nerdy stuff (sorry, Blaire) that I just can't wrap my limited little brain around. I've also never seen those shows or that movie, by the way. I should disclose that. Everything I've said is based on snap judgments I've made because my best friend in fourth grade was into dragons and I thought that was really lame.
ANYWAY! Blaire has figured out a True Blood themed design using all products that you can find pretty much anywhere (no stamps, no decals, no tiny expensive little gems) and in the video above, she'll show you how to do it. Get your Sookie on, I guess. (Do you like that I know that the girl from Fly Away Home's character is named Sookie on the show? I learned that on Twitter.)


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Jamie Jablin had the best prediction at this week's Pace Race and tied for the fastest time on the 3-mile course with his twin brother Michael.
The Pace Race was run Tuesday at American Springs Road in the Jemez Mountains.
Jablin had just a five-second differential between his predicted and actual finish time Tuesday. Meanwhile, he and Michael Jablin came in step-for-step, both finishing with a time of 20:05.
The top female finisher on the 3-mile course Tuesday was Katie Gattiker with her time of 33:41.
On the 1-mile course, Jackie Marr had a 13:42 and Bob Westervelt finished with a 15:16.
Other top predictors this week included Nathan Romero (13 seconds), Duane Marr (24 seconds) and Daniel Romero and Bob Reedy (34 seconds).
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Director's Message We're switching to curbside garbage collection On June 22 the City Council voted to switch to curbside garbage collection. What does this mean to you? If you are already among the 65 percent of city households that participate in the voluntary curbside collection program, nothing will change in the immediate future. If you still have backyard collection, you will get free use of a sturdy, 96-gallon cart for your household garbage. The cart can hold 10 garbage bags – big enough for the great majority of households. If one cart container is not enough, you can request a second or third cart. However, an annual service fee of $40 will be charged for each additional cart. As we have learned through the voluntary curbside collection program, curbside collection is a far more efficient way to collect garbage. It saves money, and it saves the environment because our trucks will spend less time on the road using less fuel and produce fewer emissions. Curbside collection will allow the Sanitation Department to provide better service because collections will be less affected by winter storms. Additionally, our crews will not have to enter your property, with the risk of damaging landscaping or letting a pet escape. It will take some time to deliver carts to all city households. Our goal is to start delivering carts as soon as possible. However, the timetable will depend on the rate at which the manufacturer can deliver carts. We hope to have them all delivered to homes by the end of October. Start using your cart as soon as it is delivered. Households with no one physically able to roll out the cart may request an exemption and continue to receive backyard collection.
Use the cart like any other garbage can. Do not place yard waste, brush, or any construction debris in the cart, nor automotive parts, tires, hazardous waste, hot ashes, corrugated cardboard, or plastic bottles. The carts remain the property of the city. Each has a unique serial number assigned to a specific address. DO NOT write house numbers or put any other markings on the cart. After curbside garbage collection is fully implemented, we may adjust some collection routes to take advantage of the reduced time the curbside collection offers. This may lead to changes in collection days for some residents. If your collection day is going to change, we will mail you a postcard well in advance. If you have questions about curbside collection, see the web page, which also has the exemption application. No exemptions will be granted without a written request.
Call City Link at 727-8000 with questions or to request an exemption application to be mailed to you.
Guidelines for Curbside Collection
Carts should be at the curb by 6 a.m. the day of collection.
Only the carts issued by the city can be used.
The silver lift handle for the truck hoist should be facing the street. The hinge for the lid should be away from the street.
Do not place cart behind parked cars or within three feet of trees and bushes or other carts.
Use only the cart. Retain excess garbage for the next week's collection. (Do not place bags of trash next to the cart.)
Expanded Rollout Recycling Experiment Started
Eleven neighborhoods in Winston-Salem will begin an expanded rollout recycling pilot project the week of July 5. Households in these neighborhoods have been provided with a large, blue 96-gallon roll-out cart for their recyclables that offers greater convenience and saves time. (The 96-gallon carts are the same size as the carts used for yard waste and curbside collection.) The carts offer greater convenience because all recyclables can be put in the cart without any sorting or separation. Even corrugated cardboard can go in, as long as it fits inside the cart. They save time because participants only have to put it out every other week. The cart is large enough to hold two-week's worth of recycling. The city also benefits. Recycling will only have to be collected in these neighborhoods every other week, so the trucks will use less fuel. Also, the automated collection trucks will collect faster than manual collection with the green bins. This means less pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions. The pilot program is being financed through a $100,000 grant from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and will last for up to three years. The pilot program includes at least one neighborhood in each of the city's eight wards. The participating neighborhoods are Angel Oaks, Harrington Village, Pecan Ridge, Morningside, Kings Meadow, Sides Road, Salem Woods, Westmont, Long Creek Village, Fox Hall, and Hope Valley. These neighborhoods all applied for the pilot program and at least 85 percent of the residents agreed to participate. This expanded roll-out recycling pilot project follows an initial pilot project in the Villas and Regents Village (two neighborhoods off Peace Haven Road) using 64-gallon roll-out carts that were collected weekly. This follow-on pilot program will allow the city to better determine citizen interest and the potential cost savings of rollout recycling.
Upcoming Collection Changes
Independence Day: The federal holiday for Independence Day will be observed on Monday, July 5. Garbage and curbside recycling will follow the normal schedule. Yard-waste cart collections will be postponed a day all week: Monday on Tuesday, etc.
Labor Day: Labor Day will be observed Monday, Sept. 6. Garbage collections will follow the normal schedule. Curbside recycling and yard-waste cart collections will be postponed a day all week: Monday on Tuesday, etc.
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The present invention relates generally to computers, and more particularly to systems and methods that facilitate completion of computer forms.
The evolution of computers and networking technologies from high-cost, low performance data processing systems to low cost, high-performance communication, problem solving and entertainment systems has provided a cost-effective and time saving means to lessen the burden of performing every day tasks such as correspondence, bill paying, shopping, budgeting and information gathering. For example, a computing system interfaced to the Internet, via wire or wireless technology, can provide a user with a channel for nearly instantaneous access to a wealth of information from a repository of web sites and servers located around the world, at the user's fingertips.
Recent studies have shown that roughly 70 million workers (59% of working adults in the U.S.) regularly complete forms as a part of their job responsibilities. Of the 70 million workers, at least 25% regularly fill out electronic forms (e.g., on a computer), and that percentage grows daily. Thus, data entry into forms displayed on a computer monitor is a very common activity. Form filling can be tedious, time consuming, and highly susceptible to human error. Thus, there is an unmet need in the art for systems and methods that facilitate faster and more accurate form filling.
The following presents a simplified summary of the invention in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the invention. This summary is not an extensive overview of the invention. It is not intended to identify key/critical elements of the invention or to delineate the scope of the invention. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of the invention in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The present invention provides systems and methods that facilitate assisting a user to quickly fill in computer forms via utilizing data that is available in untagged textual format (e.g., text in emails, web pages, and/or other computer-readable format.) According to an aspect of the invention, a user can select untagged text from, for example, an email the user has received. Such untagged text can be displayed to the user in text box in an untagged media graphical user interface (GUI), and can be parsed to identify elements of potential interest to the user in populating fields in a form. For instance, if the email contains items, such as names of persons, cities, states, . . . then such names can be identified as elements of potential interest. Additionally, such names can be placed in their corresponding fields in a form displayed to the user via a form GUI. The form GUI and the untagged media GUI can be displayed to the user concurrently.
According to another aspect of the invention, a user can verify that identified elements are accurately inserted into their corresponding fields in the form. For example, color indications can be employed to indicate a correlation between a particular element and a particular field in the form. For instance, when populating a contact list, untagged text that is recognized to be a first name can be highlighted in blue, and a corresponding "first name" field in the form can be presented to the user in blue. The user can drag and drop the highlighted first name into the first name field, or, more efficiently, the system can automatically insert the first name into its field.
According to a related aspect of the invention, status indicators can be associated with each field in a form in order to alert a user to any potential misplaced information. In this manner, the user can verify that identified elements are properly inserted into the correct fields. For example, an element such as "Lincoln" can be inserted into a "last name" field, but can also be inserted into a "city" field. A status indicator next to the field into which the name "Lincoln" is inserted can alert the user that verification is required as to the correctness of the insertion into the field. Status indicators can additionally employ color to visually alert the user to the status (e.g., the degree of importance of user verification, review, . . . ) of the field information.
According to still another aspect of the invention artificial intelligence techniques and/or feedback/feed-forward information can be employed to facilitate increasing confidence levels of elements that are automatically inserted into form fields. For example, hidden Markov models are a type of probabilistic model that employs both hidden and observed random variables. Such models can be employed to increase the efficiency with which the present systems and methods insert untagged media elements into form fields. In this manner, user involvement can potentially be reduced to merely verifying that information in a form is correct before saving and printing the completed form.
According to yet another aspect of the invention, correction propagation can be employed to facilitate correction of various fields of information based at least in part on correction of a single field by a user. For example, information verified as being correct and/or corrected by a user can be evaluated to facilitate inferences regarding whether other information is correctly assigned to a given field. In this manner, correction of one field entry propagates to other fields.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the invention are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the invention may be employed and the present invention is intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features of the invention may become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
The present invention is now described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It may be evident, however, that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing the present invention.
As used in this application, the term "component" is intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a server and the server can be a computer component. One or more components may reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers. A "thread" is the entity within a process that the operating system kernel schedules for execution. As is well known in the art, each thread has an associated "context" which is the volatile data associated with the execution of the thread. A thread's context includes the contents of system registers and the virtual address belonging to the thread's process. Thus, the actual data comprising a thread's context varies as it executes.
As used herein, the term "inference" refers generally to the process of reasoning about or inferring states of the system, environment, and/or user from a set of observations as captured via events and/or data. Inference can be employed to identify a specific context or action, or can generate a probability distribution over states, for example. The inference can be probabilistic—that is, the computation of a probability distribution over states of interest based on a consideration of data and events. Inference can also refer to techniques employed for composing higher-level events from a set of events and/or data. Such inference results in the construction of new events or actions from a set of observed events and/or stored event data, whether or not the events are correlated in close temporal proximity, and whether the events and data come from one or several event and data sources.
Recent studies have shown that roughly 70 million workers (59% of working adults in the U.S.) regularly complete forms as a part of their job responsibilities. Of the 70 million workers, at least 25% regularly fill out electronic forms (e.g., on a computer), and that percentage grows daily. Thus, data entry into forms displayed on a computer monitor is a very common activity. Form filling can be tedious, time consuming, and highly susceptible to human error. In many cases, data that is employed to populate fields of a form can be readily available in a computer-readable format, such as in a text document, email, and/or web page. Techniques to identify and extract (e.g., parse) relevant information from such data are available, but are largely unreliable, and therefore are not particularly well-suited to directly populating databases or adding metadata. For example, Natural Language Processing techniques and/or other artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can identify specific types of information elements within computer-readable documents, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, etc., but such methods are not immune to error. The present invention permits users to enter data into electronic forms more quickly than can be done via conventional systems and methods. Moreover, the invention allows a user to efficiently enter information when untagged computer readable data is available by permitting the utilization of unreliable parsing technologies and permitting a user to visually verify and correct any errors made by the parser.
The FFI 102 illustrated in
According to a related aspect of the invention, a user can fill in a portion of a form, and the system 100 can search through available untagged computer-readable media, locate potential field-entry candidates, display the located documents and/or elements, and fill in the remaining fields of the form. In this manner, a partial Autofill can be performed.
A user can quickly verify the correctness of the parsing. If the parse has errors, the user can correct them (e.g., by dragging the element from the untagged text and dropping it on the corresponding field in the form, by typing directly into a field, by correcting text in the text box 106, etc). Additionally, parsing protocols can take advantage of side information, such as corrections or additions provided by the user. For example, if the user has entered information into a field or corrected an initial parse, the user can instruct the system to reparse the untagged text and rely on the side information provided by the user (by clicking on a button marked 'Auto Fill' in
Upon this action, the system can automatically move "Charles" into the last name field, reducing the number of user actions required to populate the form while increasing the confidence level for the last name field, based on the fact that the user verified that "Stanley" is the first name of the contact and, therefore, is not the last name of the contact. Such automated post-user-action field filling is an example of correction propagation.
In some cases, it can be advantageous to allow the user to specify which fields can be used as side information (e.g., information in fields filled and/or corrected by the user, . . . ) and which fields the system is allowed to overwrite (e.g., fields that do not contain side information, . . . ). Such permissions can be facilitated via the status indicators 110, which can indicate that a user has not acted on the field, or has verified, corrected, and/or entered information into the field. The status of each field can be, for example, "unfilled and unverified," "filled automatically but unverified," or "user-or-automatically filled and verified."
For example, a field that is "unfilled and unverified" can have a status indicator 110 of a first color (e.g., red). If the system 100 fills the field (e.g., the field is automatically filled) then the status indicator can be upgraded to a second status indicator color (e.g., yellow) to alert the user that the field has been automatically filled but is unverified. Such an indicator can alert the user to a condition that requires user verification, but not necessarily correction, as in the "Charles Stanley" example, supra. If the user verifies that the information in the field is correct, the status indicator can be upgraded to a third color (e.g., green) to indicate a status of "filled and verified." To further this example, if the user enters information into a field having a red status indicator, then the status indicator can be upgraded directly to green, because the user has filled the field and verified the information to be correct by doing so. Thus the field is now "filled and verified." Furthermore, the confidence of another field(s) can be updated and/or improved via user verification and/or correction of the first field. For instance, in the "Charles Stanley" example, both first name and last name fields can have a yellow status indicator if it is unverified which name is the first name and/or which name is the last name. If the user verifies that "Charles" is the correct first name, then the system 100 can upgrade the status of the first name field to "(user-) filled and verified" (e.g., with a status indicator color of green). Because the user has verified that "Charles" is the first name (and therefore not the last name), the system can retain "Stanley" in the last name field, and thus the confidence indicator for the last name field can be upgraded from yellow to green (e.g., automatically filled and verified) as well.
According to a related aspect of the invention, a color-coded confidence indicator 112 can be associated with a particular field 108 (e.g., a border color of the field, a background color of the field and/or text, etc.). For instance, a field that is difficult for the system 100 to fill with a high confidence factor can be labeled according to a color scheme that can indicate to a user that information in the field is less than a desired confidence threshold. Confidence indicator(s) can represent a value from 0 to 1, in different shades of color. Furthermore, the confidence indicator 112 in this example can be, for instance, a solid indicator, a blinking indicator, an indicator that fades in and out of full brightness, contrast, etc., or any other suitable indicator scheme that can indicate varied levels of confidence regarding the field(s) in question.
According to one example, a piece of information comprising an "@1" or ".com" can be automatically inserted into an "email" field in the form. Similarly, a piece of information having the format (nnn) nnn-nnnn, nnn-nnn-nnnn, nnn-nnnn, etc., where n is an integer, can be automatically inserted into a phone-number field with a high degree of confidence. It is to be appreciated that high-confidence indicia can be associated with other types of information with regard to the field into which such information can be inserted, and that automatic insertion of such information is not limited to email and/or phone number fields.
It will be appreciated that the data stores (e.g., memories) components described herein can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. By way of illustration, and not limitation, nonvolatile memory can include read only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), electrically programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can include random access memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, RAM is available in many forms such as synchronous RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory of the present systems and methods is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.
As used herein, the term "inference" refers generally to the process of reasoning about or inferring states of the system, environment, and/or user from a set of observations as captured via events and/or data. Inference can be employed to identify a specific context or action, or can generate a probability distribution over states, for example. The inference can be probabilistic—that is, the computation of a probability distribution over states of interest based on a consideration of data and events. Inference can also refer to techniques employed for composing higher-level events from a set of events and/or data. Such inference results in the construction of new events or actions from a set of observed events and/or stored event data, whether or not the events are correlated in close temporal proximity, and whether the events and data come from one or several event and data sources. Various classification schemes and/or systems (e.g., support vector machines, neural networks, expert systems, Bayesian belief networks, fuzzy logic, data fusion engines . . . ) can be employed in connection with performing automatic and/or inferred action in connection with the subject invention. Furthermore, inferences can be made by the present invention, based upon, for example, hidden Markov models (HMM), as will be discussed in reference to
According to
According to a similar example, a particular X might have associated with it a condition "5 digits," such that if a Y has seven digits (e.g., 555-1234) then it will register a low probability (e.g., P(Y=555-1234|X)=0.00001) for the particular X in question. Conversely, a Y comprising information such as 12345 will register a high probability (e.g., P(Y=555-1234|X)=0.9989) for the particular X and can be inserted in the associated field in the form. Similarly, the seven-digit Y described above will register a high probability outcome for an X having the condition "7 digits." The present invention can employ any number of suitable variables, or tests, to determine which particular Ys satisfy conditions associated with particular Xs in order to facilitate assisted form filling.
The invention can capitalize on advantages of probabilistic models, such as the HMM described above, which contain hidden and observed random variables, by setting hidden variables (Xs) to states corresponding to labels of particular fields. For example, the Y random variables in the HMM described above are "observed" random variables, where each variable corresponds to one token. A token is a segment of text between token delimiters (e.g., spaces, dashes, commas, etc.). For example, the text string "this-is a, test" would be tokenized as:
Correction propagation can further be achieved back-channeling information from a user interface to the parser. In such a manner, neighboring fields can be populated when a single field is corrected by a user. For example, the invention can employ a rule-based parsing method wherein a simplified version of a rule states "if LastName field is set by the user, then search for the last name in the untagged text and label the word immediately preceding the last name as a first name." There can also corresponding rule for first names. In this manner, correction of the last name "propagates" to the first name. It is to be understood that correction propagation as described herein is not limited to first and last names, but rather can be applied to any and all relevant types of information, text, etc.
Additionally, the invention can employ conditional random fields (CRFs), which are a generalization of both HMMs and maximum entropy models. CRFs allow for the introduction of arbitrary non-local features and capture the dependencies between labels, permitting confidence of the parsed pieces of information to be estimated. In this manner, the present invention can automatically assign a parsed piece of information to a field when the information has a high confidence level, and can flag a piece of information having a low confidence level for user review and/or correction.
According to a second scenario, UIM2, an initial automatic field assignment is assumed, and a user performs a single, randomly chosen correction, based upon which the system can initiate correction propagation. Such can be iterated until all fields are correct.
According to a third scenario, UIM3, an initial automatic field assignment is assumed, and a user performs a correction on the least confident incorrect field. For example, the user can be visually alerted to the fields in order of confidence (e.g., by confidence indicators, . . . ) until an error is found. Correction propagation can be performed in accordance with the correction of the least confident field, and the user can be prompted to correct any remaining errors.
Form filling typically requires perfect accuracy. Thus, benefits can be realized whenever filling time is reduced, cognitive load on a user is reduced, or both. The invention employs an efficiency measure, called the expected number of user actions (ENUA), in addition to other standard performance measures. ENUA is defined as the number of user actions (e.g., clicks, . . . ) required to correctly fill all fields in a form. The ENUA can vary depending on the UIM, as discussed above. To express the ENUA, the notation P(i;j) is used, which is the probability distribution over the number of errors j after i manual corrections. Such distribution is represented by the histogram of
Under UIM1, for example, the ENUA is:
Where P(0;n) is the distribution over the number incorrect fields (see
According to models UIM2 and UIM3, for example, ENUA is:
Where P(0;0) is the probability that all fields are correctly assigned initially and P(1;n) is the distribution over he number of incorrect fields in the form after one field has been corrected. Different distributions can result depending on which UIM is employed. The superscript 1 on ENUA1 indicates that correction propagation has been performed once.
Still referring to
While, for purposes of simplicity of explanation, the one or more methodologies shown herein, e.g., in the form of a flow chart, are shown and described as a series of acts, it is to be understood and appreciated that the present invention is not limited by the order of acts, as some acts may, in accordance with the present invention, occur in a different order and/or concurrently with other acts from that shown and described herein. For example, those skilled in the art will understand and appreciate that a methodology could alternatively be represented as a series of interrelated states or events, such as in a state diagram. Moreover, not all illustrated acts may be required to implement a methodology in accordance with the present invention.
At 608, the user is prompted to verify and/or correct form fields, and particularly form fields exhibiting anything less than, for example, green status (e.g., in the exemplary scenario where green indicates filled and verified status). Then, at 610, a determination is made regarding whether the user has corrected (e.g., altered) any information. According to the present example, if "John" is not the desired entry in field "First Name," then the user can click on "Jane" in the text box and drag "Jane" into the First Name field to correct the entry. Additionally, "Jane" can be selected form a drop down menu already presented in the First Name field. If the user has corrected any information, then the method can proceed to 612 where field(s) can be updated according to user input and untagged text can be reparsed. The method can then revert to 606 for status upgrading and entry of data into form fields, which can occur with regard to user input. If the user does not correct information at 610, then a determination can be made at 614 regarding whether the user has verified field entries. If the user has not verified field entries at 614, then the method can revert to 608 for further prompting of the user to take action on a field entry exhibiting a status other that "filled and verified." If the user verifies accurate information at 614, then other fields and their corresponding status indications can be updated at 616. For example, if "John" is the desired entry for the First Name field, then at 616 an indicator status can be upgraded from yellow to green.
At 914 the user can be prompted to verify and/or correct assignments of elements to fields in the form GUI. Then, at 916 a decision can be made to parse the untagged media again. If such a decision is made, then at 918, user input is added to the side information store, and the system can revert to 906 for reiteration of untagged media parsing and element identification. If it is determined that no additional parsing is required at 916, then at 920, the contents of the form data store can be written into a database or file.
In order to provide additional context for implementing various aspects of the present invention,
As used in this application, the term "component" is intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and a computer. By way of illustration, an application running on a server and/or the server can be a component. In addition, a component may include one or more subcomponents.
With reference to
The system bus 1008 may be any of several types of bus structure including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, and a local bus using any of a variety of conventional bus architectures such as PCI, VESA, Microchannel, ISA, and EISA, to name a few. The system memory 1006 includes read only memory (ROM) 1010 and random access memory (RAM) 1012. A basic input/output system (BIOS) 1014, containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within the computer 1002, such as during start-up, is stored in ROM 1010.
The computer 1002 also may include, for example, a hard disk drive 1016, a magnetic disk drive 1018, e.g., to read from or write to a removable disk 1020, and an optical disk drive 1022, e.g., for reading from or writing to a CD-ROM disk 1024 or other optical media. The hard disk drive 1016, magnetic disk drive 1018, and optical disk drive 1022 are connected to the system bus 1008 by a hard disk drive interface 1026, a magnetic disk drive interface 1028, and an optical drive interface 1030, respectively. The drives 1016-1022 and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of data, data structures, computer-executable instructions, etc. for the computer 1002. Although the description of computer-readable media above refers to a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk and a CD, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other types of media which are readable by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, Bernoulli cartridges, and the like, can also be used in the exemplary operating environment 1000, and further that any such media may contain computer-executable instructions for performing the methods of the present invention.
A number of program modules may be stored in the drives 1016-1022 and RAM 1012, including an operating system 1032, one or more application programs 1034, other program modules 1036, and program data 1038. The operating system 1032 may be any suitable operating system or combination of operating systems. By way of example, the application programs 1034 and program modules 1036 can include facilitating client-based web-crawling in accordance with an aspect of the present invention.
A user can enter commands and information into the computer 1002 through one or more user input devices, such as a keyboard 1040 and a pointing device (e.g., a mouse 1042). Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, a joystick, a game pad, a satellite dish, wireless remote, a scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 1004 through a serial port interface 1044 that is coupled to the system bus 1008, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, a game port or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 1046 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 1008 via an interface, such as a video adapter 1048. In addition to the monitor 1046, the computer 1002 may include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers, printers, etc.
It is to be appreciated that the computer 1002 can operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers 1060. The remote computer 1060 may be a workstation, a server computer, a router, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described relative to the computer 1002, although, for purposes of brevity, only a memory storage device 1062 is illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, for example, the computer 1002 is connected to the local network 1064 through a network interface or adapter 1068. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 1002 typically includes a modem (e.g., telephone, DSL, cable, . . . ) 1070, or is connected to a communications server on the LAN, or has other means for establishing communications over the WAN 1066, such as the Internet. The modem 1070, which can be internal or external relative to the computer 1002, is connected to the system bus 1008 via the serial port interface 1044. In a networked environment, program modules (including application programs 1034) and/or program data 1038 can be stored in the remote memory storage device 1062. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means (e.g., wired or wireless) of establishing a communications link between the computers 1002 and 1060 can be used when carrying out an aspect of the present invention.
In accordance with the practices of persons skilled in the art of computer programming, the present invention has been described with reference to acts and symbolic representations of operations that are performed by a computer, such as the computer 1002 or remote computer 1060, unless otherwise indicated. Such acts and operations are sometimes referred to as being computer-executed. It will be appreciated that the acts and symbolically represented operations include the manipulation by the processing unit 1004 of electrical signals representing data bits which causes a resulting transformation or reduction of the electrical signal representation, and the maintenance of data bits at memory locations in the memory system (including the system memory 1006, hard drive 1016, floppy disks 1020, CD-ROM 1024, and remote memory 1062) to thereby reconfigure or otherwise alter the computer system's operation, as well as other processing of signals. The memory locations where such data bits are maintained are physical locations that have particular electrical, magnetic, or optical properties corresponding to the data bits.
In one instance of the present invention, a data packet transmitted between two or more computer components that facilitate web-crawling, the data packet is comprised of, at least in part, information relating to web-crawling that utilizes, at least in part, a distributed system for web-crawling.
In another instance of the present invention, a computer readable medium storing computer executable components of a system for facilitating web-crawling is comprised of, at least in part, a web-crawling system that determines, at least in part, information pertaining to web pages compiled by a distributed system for web-crawling.
It is to be appreciated that the systems and/or methods of the present invention can be utilized in web-crawling systems facilitating computer components and non-computer related components alike. Further, those skilled in the art will recognize that the systems and/or methods of the present invention are employable in a vast array of electronic related technologies, including, but not limited to, computers, servers and/or handheld electronic devices and the like which can be wired and/or wireless and the like.
One skilled in the art will also appreciate that the present invention can be utilized not only for server to client based crawling systems but also for peer-to-peer crawling systems. It is also possible that a client can perform tasking typically associated with "server" behavior and thus transfer some characteristics associated with the server to the client in some instances of the present invention. An example of one instance of the present invention is a client that performs "sub-crawls" to other clients to ascertain and/or retrieve information to send to a server. This instance can be beneficial, for example, in networks that have bottlenecks between certain clients and a server. Data can be transferred to a client with the best access to the server. In other instances of the present invention, a client can exhibit server behavior by initiating sub-crawls in an intranet system, thus reporting out information to a server from only a single and/or substantially reduced number of clients present on the intranet. In this manner a search server can initiate multiple sub-crawls in clients to expand its crawling resources.
What has been described above includes examples of the present invention. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the present invention, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the present invention are possible. Accordingly, the present invention is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Furthermore, to the extent that the term "includes" is used in either the detailed description or the claims, such term is intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term "comprising" as "comprising" is interpreted when employed as a transitional word in a claim.
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Amateur winemakers offer their best to judges in Camarillo
When the vineyard started growing in Dave Lustig's backyard, he knew the hobby had become all-consuming.
"I've been making wine since the '90s," said Lustig, a Pasadena resident and member of Cellar Masters, Los Angeles, an amateur winemaking group. "I made 100 cases or so this year and for the first time bought some pinot noir grapes from the Santa Rita Hills. I paid more for grapes than I've ever paid before to get those," he said.
Lustig was one of more than 30 judges recently at Cellar Masters' 38th Annual Amateur Winemaking Competition at Camarillo Custom Crush on Lewis Road in Camarillo.
"We've got a wide collection of people who make wine with us," said Robert Crudup, president of Cellar Masters and a Newbury Park resident. "We've got people here from Los Angeles, Pasadena, Antelope Valley, everywhere around," he said. "It's not really the awards that winemakers want, though that's certainly fun. They want feedback on their wines."
Using a scoring sheet with nine categories, more than 40 subcategories and a comments section, 11 panels of four to six judges tasted 15 to 25 wines. Overall 262 wines were judged.
"Each bottle is judged and awarded either bronze, silver or gold or perhaps no award," Crudup said. "The gold-medal winners go on to the best of show competition."
He said that after he moved into Dos Vientos in Newbury Park, his neighbors invited him over to show him something they were making.
"They took me into their bathroom, he said. "I was wondering what was going on, and they were making wine, storing it in carboys in the bathtub. I didn't know you could make your own wine, but I was excited, and I got started."
Crudup said his first five wines got medals and that he was hooked. "It's the coolest thing ever."
Jennifer Swank of Thousand Oaks was a judge at the tasting. "I was in the wine program at South Seattle Community College," Swank said. "I was an analytical chemist by trade, and I used my science background to start making wine."
Swank, along with Nancy Scott of Pasadena and Matt Lester of Woodland Hills were tasting fruit wines such as sour cherry and lemon.
"They're a little different," Scott said. "But I'm a fan of fruit wines, and when they're done well, they're quite good," she said as she swirled a glass of lemon wine, preparing to judge it.
With entries from 15 states, judges handed out 59 gold medals, 82 silver medals and 75 bronze medals. The best in show was a 2009 cabernet sauvignon made by Mark Jurgens of Angels Camp, in Calaveras County. Best in show for white wine went to Richard Vermette of Seekonk, Mass., for his 2010 vidal blanc.
"In my 25 years of judging, I have never tasted so many wines deserving of gold," said judge Jess Stevenson. "I issued a gold on the first flight, and that set the tone for the day."
The event took place at Camarillo Custom Crush, a winery that caters to home and amateur winemakers, letting them use the facilities to make and bottle wine or in some cases providing winemaking services.
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Effective transfer pricing rules can enable developing countries collect the right amount of tax from multinational enterprises, counter cross-border profit shifting and create a predictable investment climate. A programme of capacity building is underway in Colombia, Ethopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Zambia along with support to regional organisations such as ATAF. These country initiatives are delivered in partnership with the EU and World Bank, and involve working closely with other international assistance. New tools are helping all stakeholders do their work more effectively:
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BACOLOD City Mayor Monico Puentevella said on Friday the City Government is seriously considering a takeover of the operations of its slaughterhouse in Barangay Handumanan from private operator AVM Bernardo Engineering.
He said that is probably the direction they will take once the legal, technical, operational and sanitation aspect of a takeover is in place.
"We will take over or take another option of opening such service to (another) private operator either through a public bidding or a negotiated one," the mayor said.
He added: "Do we want to sell cheaper meat products to the people of Bacolod? If the takeover will push through, we will look for ways and means to ensure that meat products are supplied and sold reasonably cheaper."
Puentevella said that since the main business of AVM Bernardo is based in Manila, their income in Bacolod is also being sent to Manila.
He noted that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is questioning their operation as they reportedly earn P30 million a year, but they only paid the city P30,000 a month instead of P68,000.
"We called their attention about the increase of payment but they have not acted on it immediately. Just recently, they tried to pay P68,000 but we already refused it because the violation is too much," the mayor said.
He added that the city will have a solid and strong action against AVM Bernardo in the coming weeks.
AVM Bernardo has been unfair and unjust to the city, Puentevella said, adding that their operation is disadvantageous to the city because they are not complying with what has been agreed in the contract.
If a private firm will take over the operation, all problems created by AVM Bernardo must be addressed, he said.
On April 26, Acting City Legal Officer Rolando Villamor issued a memorandum to AVM Bernardo denying their request for a 120-day extension to comply and correct their violations.
"The city believes that the original period of time to correct the violations given to AVM Bernardo is more than ample," Villamor stated in his letter addressed to proprietor Engr. Antonio Valeriano M. Bernardo
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Fast-paced and action packed, GMA Network's latest offering, Love and Lies is the first suspenserye on Primetime television. In an exclusive interview with Joey de Leon and Ricky Lo of Startalk TX last April 6, the cast of Love and Lies shared their experiences on set.
Top-billed by Richard Gutierrez, who plays the role of Philippine Navy officer, Edward, the story revolves around Edward's search for his wife, Cathy (played by Michelle Madrigal), who gets kidnapped. In his quest to rescue her, he finds an unlikely ally in a street-smart, pole dancer named Denise (played by Bela Padilla) who is trying to clear the name of her brother who is suspected of the kidnapping.
When asked how it was to work with Richard Gutierrez for the first time, Bela Padilla had this to say: "Si Richard kasi, napapanood ko sa Mulawin, sa Sugo, so ngayon nakaka-eksena ko na siya kaya it's very surreal for me. Medyo may kaunting wow factor ako pagdating ko sa set pero okay naman, it went fine naman."
Paolo Contis, who plays the role of Manny, an officer from the National Bureau of Investigation, explained the preparations involved. "Nag-ensayo po kaming lahat, [natuto kami] kung paano bumaril, lahat, [pati] tactical movements and training, kasama lahat 'yan. Nais po namin pasalamatan ang Philippine Navy…sa suportang binibigay nila para sa Love and Lies. Salamat po sa inyong lahat for lending us everything. All-out sila sa amin," stated Paolo.
Playing the role of Edward's best friend, Gabby in the series is Sid Lucero. He shared that he is very inspired to take on this new project because of his baby. He also stated that he is very excited to see his baby soon. "Four months na lang," he exclaimed.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Attorney General's office Wednesday charged defeated U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth with six counts of perjury and six counts of filing false documents related to election campaign laws, Attorney General Marty Jackley said.
"The election complaints received by the Secretary of State involve conduct that is serious, deliberate, and must be addressed in order to preserve the integrity of our elections," Jackley said in a statement. "Because this is a federal elected office, I have and will continue to discuss the investigation with federal authorities."
The arrest warrant was served a day after Bosworth lost the Republican primary with just six percent of the vote. Jackley said the 42-year-old Bosworth was given notice of the warrant Wednesday morning and turned herself in to the Minnehaha County Jail.
She was released and scheduled a 3 p.m. news conference to respond to the charges.
Former Gov. Mike Rounds captured the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Tim Johnson with more than 55 percent of the vote.
Jackley in May announced that he would investigate several nominating petitions submitted by U.S. Senate candidates, including that of Bosworth, after a liberal blogger and a conservative state lawmaker raised some concerns about the legitimacy of some petitions.
A complaint was also filed against Clayton Walker, an independent who did not make the November ballot, accusing him of perjury and filing false documents. A telephone message left at Walker's home was not immediately returned.
State Division of Criminal Investigation agent Bryan Gortmaker said in an arrest affidavit that Bosworth attested to personally gathering signatures in January when she was serving on a publicized medical mission trip in the Philippines. She also attested to gathering signatures on some Hutterite colonies, but residents interviewed said the documents were not signed in front of Bosworth, Gortmaker said.
"The Colony had been contacted by phone by Dr. Bosworth and one nominating petition came to them by mail, asking that the petition be signed and she would take care of the rest," Gortmaker wrote, referring to a petition sent to the Millerdale Colony in Miller.
Bosworth founded the mission-based health care nonprofit Preventive Health Strategies in 2011 and opened a private practice medical clinic in Sioux Falls called Meaningful Medicine.
The political newcomer raised $1.7 million dollars during her campaign but spent most of what she raised on out-of-state fundraising efforts, according to her Federal Election Commission reports. The campaign has been using Base Connect, a direct mail fundraising company that helps conservative candidates, organizations and political action committees.
Her campaign fund was in the red as of her last filing on May 14, reporting $99,000 in cash offset by debts of more than $150,000.
Bosworth has also faced accusations from several former employees, who said she has failed to pay promised wages.
One week before the primary, Bosworth staged an "adults only" press conference to highlight the hateful and hurtful phrases hurled at her by random Internet commenters during the campaign. Bosworth gave volunteers spray paint cans and had them produce a graffiti-laden backdrop of profane words and insults to make her point.
A day later she announced that she was sponsoring a last-minute Senate candidate forum to be posted on YouTube. The forum, which was also attended by two other candidates, was not open to the public.
Bosworth said she learned of her election night loss while doing a live television shot on Fox News Tuesday night with anchor Megyn Kelly.
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