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Appointee Goehring looks to defend his ag post from challenger BoucherFARGO, N.D. — The 2010 race for North Dakota agriculture commissioner pits an incumbent Republican appointee against a Democrat challenger — the minority leader in the state House of Representatives.
By: Mikkel Pates, Agweek
FARGO, N.D. — The 2010 race for North Dakota agriculture commissioner pits an incumbent Republican appointee against a Democrat challenger — the minority leader in the state House of Representatives.
Neither has won a statewide office, but that is likely to change on Nov. 2.
Republican Doug Goehring, 45, has been agriculture commissioner since North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven appointed him to the post April 6, 2009. Goehring replaced Roger Johnson, a Democrat-NPLer who he'd challenged unsuccessfully in 2004 and 2006. Johnson surprised Republicans by leaving the post to become president of the National Farmers Union.
The challenger, Democrat Merle Boucher, 64, has been the minority leader in the North Dakota House of Representatives since 1990. Boucher was a part-time cattleman and educator, but stopped teaching 20 years ago, allowing his legislative duties to grow. He was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor in 2008.
The ag commissioner post is largely regulatory and is the only nonappointed post of its type in the four-state area. The post pays $89,000, and the office-holder has statutory authority to sit on several permanent commissions and boards, most significantly on the North Dakota Industrial Commission and state water commission.
Candidates Goehring and Boucher have met twice for debates. The first was at the North Dakota State Fair in Minot and at the Big Iron XXX ag trade show in West Fargo, N.D. No other debates are planned. Goehring says polling as of early September finds him with a double-digit lead against Boucher. Goehring says the race's budget is about $160,000, as advertising rates have "gone through the roof" since he first ran for the post, six years ago. He says he's put out 3,000 signs.Farming backgrounds
Both candidates tout their farming/ranching credentials.
Goehring is an active crop farmer who lives about 20 miles from Bismarck, N.D., south of Menoken, N.D. He and a son run an 1,850-acre farm that Goehring established in 1990.
The commissioner's parents farmed full-time through his early childhood. His father later was a service manager for a local implement dealership and farmed part time. His family had been active in the left-leaning North Dakota Farmers Union. Trained as a medical technician, Goehring started his own farm by purchasing land through his maternal grandmother. He took over management in 1990 and started farming full time in 1993. Along the way, he bought a Nodak Mutual Insurance Co. insurance policy, which made him a member of the Burleigh County Farm Bureau. Goehring became a full-time farmer in 1993 and ascended to county and then state Farm Bureau roles. He eventually was chairman of the board of Nodak Mutual Insurance Co. and vice president of the North Dakota Farm Bureau. He also was active in soybean association leadership at the state and national levels.
Educated in Bottineau and at Mayville (N.D.) State University, Boucher returned home in 1970 to Rolette, N.D., to teach social studies, coach sports and grazes about 60 of his own stock cows, His 1,100 acres include 600 acres of Conservation Reserve Program land and the rest grazing, including 100 leased cows.
Boucher has been a state representative since 1990, winning four two-year terms and three four-year terms — only challenged once. His District 9 follows the boundaries of North Dakota's Rolette County — the only one like it in the state. Voters there typically go 75 percent for Democratic presidential races. His district has a large percentage Native Americans. He quit teaching in 1990 and was elected floor leader for the Democrats in the 1997 Legislature, a post he's kept since then. His wife, Susan, is a music teacher.
"One of my big frustrations and disappointments is that I've spent my entire career in the minority," Boucher says, although Democratic caucus has slowly grown.
He says the minority leadership's role is to "lead the discussion" and "create the debate" and often see their ideas first voted down, then passing under a majority banner. He says he's been instrumental in property tax reform and water system advocacy. He gave up his legislative post to run for the commissioner job.
Boucher has packaged some of his campaign to specific areas of the state, promising to promote infrastructure improvements such as roads and bridges in the oil patch regions and in the flood-plagued Devils Lake basin.
Environmental rules
With 19 months on the job under his belt, Goehring has a record in the post.
He says he's emphasized agricultural research and the need to develop international trade to find markets for the 15 crops for which North Dakota ranks No. 1.
"By 2050, there's going to be 9 billion people on the face of the earth, and we're going to have to produce 70 percent more food," he says.
Boucher says trade is important, but also emphasizes that the "bulk of ag production is consumed domestically" and says it's important to be more food- and energy-independent.
Goehring's ads say the agricultural industry is "under attack" by federal rules that are unreasonable, covering pesticides, dust and greenhouse gases. He says farmers need time to assess their situation, to budget for changes and sometimes time to construct.
Boucher has characterized this as "finger-pointing" and blame. Largely, Boucher says, Goehring seems too focused on rules and regulations being promulgated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which Goehring says could have "unintended consequences" of putting farmers out of business. Boucher disagrees with Goehring's rhetoric that the EPA is agriculture's "biggest problem," even though Boucher acknowledges it is at times "problematic." The rules, he says, have "come into existence because of problems."
Goehring says his EPA focus started a few days after he was appointed, after a federal district court overturned an EPA ruling that permitted aquatic pesticide applications, specifically exempting them from the Clean Water Act. Subsequently, the EPA issued a ruling on ruling on the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits, affecting pesticides used over water. The court had imposed an enforcement deadline by April 2011.
Goehring says pesticides historically have been regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act jurisdiction, not the Clean Water Act. He says that will have unintended consequences for farmers.
"In certain products, the EPA would require such extreme buffers of 150 to 450 feet around a pothole," he says.
Lacking ag insight?
"You look at the people who were put into those political positions in the EPA, people like (EPA Administrator) Lisa Jackson, and go through the regions, people who are put in place to oversee, implement and run EPA, and those people do have a different mindset, I believe," Goehring says. "They lack the understanding of agriculture and the impacts" on agriculture. They don't see the unintended consequences of their actions, or their regulations — the unrealistic expectations they're putting on business and agriculture."
Goehring says the state ag department implements and enforces some EPA programs, but others are handled specifically by EPA.
"There are good people who work at the EPA," Goehring says.
This summer, he hosted several EPA people in a North Dakota Grain Growers Association annual tour, with stops including his own farm. There, he says, he showed them the difficulties of imposing buffers around wetlands that are there for a few days, a few months, or are more permanent.
"It's easy to establish rules for something more permanent, but what do you do with the rest of it?" Goehring says.
He says one of his jobs is to encourage ordinary farmers to pay attention to the rules coming out of the agency and to comment about the affect of proposed rules. He also says his own department stays in contact with the agency so that it can make comments.
"Regulations are necessary," he says. "You need to have boundaries and guidelines established so people know exactly what they need to do for the safety of others, for the enhancement and protection of the environment."
First, study mindset
When new regulations with agricultural consequences come out, he says his first job is to understand why.
"If we can understand what they're thinking, maybe we can help them get to their goal in a different manner," he says.
Another example is the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure rule, which will requires that farms have a containment system and plan in place in the event that they may "potentially discharge into the waters of the U.S." Last February, Goehring's ag department found out that the new rules would be enforced starting Nov. 10, 2011.
"We asked them to put together materials," for educating farmers, in a concise, simplified way, and hold educational meetings, Goehring says.
Goehring says he's been told that North Dakota, even under his predecessor, initiated an education program, which now results in 76 percent compliance for EPA rules that his department implements on such things as fertilizer and pesticide programs. If there are violations, typically there is a warning and only fines when violators fail to correct the situation. The EPA says the average for compliance is 30 to 40 percent.
An independent voice?
As with most challengers, Boucher has focused on areas where he'd do things differently than the incumbent.
Boucher says as a member of the Industrial Commission, which includes the governor, attorney general and agriculture commissioner — currently all Republicans — he'd offer a new, independent voice. The commission acts as a board of directors of the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and State Mill and Elevator. The challenger generally suggests that he'd be an independent voice on the commission, suggesting that Goehring might not be.
Goehring acknowledges that he doesn't remember a single vote on the Industrial Commission where he's voted in opposition to the other two Republicans.
"I suppose we share a philosophy that we should provide tools that assist individuals and industry to succeed, probably helps," he says.
He says his style is mostly to ask questions and move policy to a point where resolutions can be unanimous. Besides, he says, "When you have a business plan that works, why change?"
Boucher also talks vaguely about a need to strengthen or enforce the state's anti-corporate farming laws and curb influence of multinational corporations, where ownership of farming interests is "outsourced." Boucher says he'd like to launch a "Next Generation Agriculture Commission," analogous to Roger Johnson's Commission on the Future of Agriculture," to address anti-corporate farming issues.
The challenger points to 2010 priority items by the North Dakota Farm Bureau, which would "allow capital investment by unrelated individuals in the nonfamily member investors in the family-owned farm corporation." He can't point to specific corporate farming threats, except to say that "large supplier companies" extend credit to farmers and get too much power over farm decisions.
Goehring says that though he was vice president of the state Farm Bureau, and shares in the group's philosophy, he doesn't mean always agree with every resolution that members vote for. He says it's not a "priority" for him to advocate any changes in the current corporate farming legislation and isn't aware of any violations. If the law were changed, it could be out of "fear" that anti-corporate farming laws in other states have been challenged in the courts.
That said, Goehring suggests that one of the problems for young or beginning farmers is a lack of availability of capital.
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THE MODERATOR: Jo‑Wilfried is the first Frenchman to win the title here in Canada in tournament history going back to 1881; second career ATP Masters 1000 title, 2008 Paris‑Bercy; also the first player to beat four top 10s in an ATP Masters 1000 since Guillermo Cãnas here in Toronto in 2002.
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Q. Congratulations. How does it feel to win your second Masters title? And how does this compare to the first one that you won in Paris?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: I feel good. You know, I think for the moment, you know, I don't realize really what I achieved this week, but it's a big achievement for me.
It's completely different than before when I won in Paris. In Paris it was the first one, you know, behind my family, all my friends, everybody. I think I did it with my hurt, you know, in Paris. Here I just did it with my level, with my game.
I played well all this week. I beat many good guys. You know, it's a big achievement because I worked really hard to come back from my knee injury last year.
For me, it's just good to be here in front of you and speak about, you know, how I win this tournament. (Smiling.)
Q. You met about 16 times together. This year it's third meeting with Roger. What's the difference between, for example, Australian Open and here, the game?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Between these two matches there is a lot of work from my side, you know. At the Australian I still had problem with my knees, but I was playing pretty good. Roger did just a great match.
But I think, you know, on this tournament, you know, I was stronger. Since couple of weeks now I'm playing better and better. I played pretty good in Roland Garros. Then I played good also in Wimbledon. Today I think I'm a better player.
Q. You have eliminated a lot of top 10 players this week. It looks like you figured out the secret. Can you share the secret to win?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Oh, unfortunately there is no secret. You know, people see that maybe like a one shot, but behind this there is a lot of work, like I said before. I'm waiting for this since couple of months now. I was looking for my best level.
Today I had it and it's great, you know. It's something maybe it came a little bit quick. I didn't expect to be that quick, but it happened and it's good for me.
Q. How did you feel when you ran out of challenges in the second set? Were you worried at the time that that could be a problem for you?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: You know, it was not a problem, because, you know, I just ‑‑ you know, I just asked the challenge because I was not sure, and this is the game. That's it.
But then I just decide to be confident in my umpire. I mean, it's in the past now because I won it, and it doesn't change anything.
Q. Your impressive performances this week, do you think they add a little more pressure to you heading into the US Open now?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Not really. Not really. What is achieved is achieved, and I will, you know, just continue on this way, continue to work hard.
This win give me a lot of hope for the rest of the year, of course. But I will continue to do my work like I did last couple of months, and I hope I will continue to win.
Q. A lot of Roger Federer fans out there but also heard a lot of Tsonga fans. Just want to get your thoughts on the crowd today.
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: I mean, when you play Roger, of course you are always the challenger for the people in the crowd, so some of them are for you because they want you to do a good performance, but most of them are for Roger because he's the guy who did the most for tennis since a long time now, and he deserve it and that's it.
Q. What made it click for you this week? Anything in particular? What made a difference this week?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Like I said, you know, it's not only this week, you know. I'm working hard. My motivation came back. You know, I want to win. I want to play my best tennis on the court. And it happened today, but it's a lot of work behind this.
Q. I believe this is your 11th career ATP victory. Where does this one rate for you when you look at your career on the tour?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: I think for me it's gonna be a new motivation because, you know, this last year I always lost against those guys, and it was really frustrating for me.
Then today, you know, a win against them, it's good for me, it's good for my ambition, and, yeah, it's good for my career.
Q. When you were coming back from injury and you were struggling a bit, did you ever doubt that a week like this was possible for you again?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yes, of course. You know, you always have a moment where you doubt. But I think, you know, when you decide to be a tennis player you know that will happen and you know that there is no ‑‑every mountain, you know, can be reached at the top.
So you continue to believe in it. Even if, you know, people around you say you're not able to do it, you believe in it. And when you believe in something, you know, it make it sometimes possible.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday urged the international community to help Palestinian refugees fleeing fighting in camps in Syria to enter the West Bank and Gaza.
"Mahmud Abbas, president of the state of Palestine, requested Wednesday that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the international community enable our people in Syria to enter Palestinian territory," a statement carried on the official WAFA news agency said.
He said help was needed "because of the exposure of Palestinian camps to the bloody conflict in Syria."
Abbas's call came after tens of thousands of Palestinians fled the Yarmuk district of south Damascus, home to one of 12 camps in Syria which host Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
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Abbas and Gaza's Hamas rulers condemned the attack, with the Palestinian president calling for bombing of the camp to stop "immediately."
Hamas, which was once headquartered in Damascus but has gradually broken with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, called the attack a "crime."
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), there are 486,000 Palestine refugees living in nine official and three unofficial camps across Syria.
The Palestinians have tried to remain neutral in the deadly conflict between Assad's regime and rebel forces, a position Abbas emphasised again on Wednesday.
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Venable played in 148 games last season and started 80 games in right. Denorfia appeared in 130 games last season with 60 starts in right.
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The Denver and Tampa studies found no signs of significant adverse effects of consumption of reclaimed water. However, two sets of data drawn from two discrete points in time and conducted at a pilot plant level of effort provide a very limited database from which to extrapolate to other locations and times.
If these data are inadequate, what more should be done? Clearly the approach taken in the Tampa and Denver studies does more to establish safety than other studies have. However, there are several reasons to believe that such testing will always be less than satisfactory.
One critical problem is with the preparation of the water sample to be tested. As long as the sample can be considered less than fully representative of the chemical constituents in the source water, the testing can be criticized as incomplete. As discussed in Chapter 4, organics are concentrated both to increase the effective dose for testing purposes and to separate inorganics that might dehydrate the test organisms. But the processes that concentrate the organics may create reactions that remove or add chemical compounds, thus changing the mixture of chemicals. So far we have no reliable way to verify how well a sample represents the water from which it is derived. As explained in Chapter 2, certain chemical characteristics can be used to describe the nature of the organic chemicals in water. It is possible that a confirmatory procedure could be developed that would (1) verify the consistency of the chemical characteristics of samples produced and (2) verify that the process of concentration did not cause chemical components of the mixture to react and change. Developing such a procedure would require a very significant research effort.
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The camera company made the disclosure in Lagos during the official launch of its presence in the Nigerian digital market.
Managing Director for Nikon, Mr. Takashi Yoshida said although smartphones have features of a camera, it cannot take the place of digital cameras because the demand for digital camera would still be there as most people still need digital cameras for specific and general pictures, even when they have their smartphones.
Nikon, which prides itself as one of the global leaders in the manufacturing of digital cameras, said its products were already in use in the Nigerian market, even though it had not officially established its presence in the market. Blaming the leakage on grey market, Yoshida said "the company is based in Dubai with regional offices in United Arab Emirate (UAE), Europe, America, Kenya and South Africa, without regional presence in Nigeria, yet our products are sold in Nigeria through grey market channels."
He explained that the company decided to establish its presence in Nigeria, through the opening of a regional office in Ikeja, Lagos and the appointment of New Creation Worldwide Link as its distributor partner.
According to him, the presence of Nikon in Nigeria would go a long way in addressing the grey market on its products, and to position Nikon as the number one brand in digital camera in the Nigerian market.
Managing Director, New Creation Worldwide Link, Mrs. Kish Primalani, said she has been in the business of marketing and distribution of digital products for the past 20 years and that she understood the Nigerian market very well, and that the experience would help her increase penetration of the Nikon range of digital cameras in the Nigerian market.
Yoshida said: "the company now introduces a new brand statement, aimed at fostering a special sense of affinity with our customers, and the brand statement is to be adopted worldwide along with Nikon's brand symbol."
The new brand name known as 'At the heart of the image', depicts how the new range of Nikon digital camera captures the heart vividly, expressing it in a visible world. Imaging, he said, would show people, the world in a whole new light, which could influence the lives of people. "For Nikon, there is nothing more compelling than the potential of the image to express the riches of human experience and our heart desire is to continue to explore this potential," Yoshida said.
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How these services present AI search results is also very important. Google revolutionized search for the masses partly because of its simple interface, with no ads, no clutter, just a search box. For Powerset and Medstory to capture new searchers, they must help raise expectations with what turns up in the results. Technologies like speech recognition will fuel advances.
An upstart called Riya is part of the trend, too, because its technology is about recognizing more than just nouns, or keywords. Its photo software attempts to string together a sentence with a verb, such as "find a girl who looks like this girl for me on Match.com."
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Imagine uploading a picture to the Web of your favorite ratty couch, and then asking a search engine to find another one like it. The tool wouldn't just produce a similar couch but it might even point to a store where you could buy it.
Right now, most image search engines rely on keywords, or descriptive text that is linked to a photo in order to retrieve a list of results that match a Web surfer's keyword query. That method can be unreliable, however, if photos or images lack sufficient descriptions.
Riya, in contrast, looks inside the photo to extract information about its qualities using AI. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which launched a beta site in March, uses algorithms to calculate the photo's shape densities, patterns and textures--among many characteristics--and extract them into a mathematical representation of the photo, or what Riya's CEO Munjah Shah calls a visual signature. Each photo is represented by 6,000 numbers, Shah said, and the company uses AI to match one visual signature to another.
"All the AI is the technology to extract that information and compare two visual digital signatures," he said, without divulging the secret sauce to the technology. "It's never exact, but it's more like how do you create a fuzzy effect. That's where we've built up a lot of technology to be able to do better than most people."
The field of AI called computer vision, which encompasses facial detection and recognition, is coming of age for several reasons. One is that computing and CPUs are much cheaper and powerful now, Shah said. The dual-core computers that have come out with 8 processors have one-eighth the running cost yet are eight times more powerful, for example.
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For software to merely detect a face in a photo--not to recognize who it is--took enormous expense and time just a few years ago. Riya takes between one second to detect a face within a small photo, about a quarter of a megabyte, and 20 seconds for a photo file as large as 7 megabytes.
"To do this even a few years ago, with a billion photos on the Web just looking for a face, you would have to spend a fortune on computing, an obscene amount of money. Detection takes a lot of computing power and it's just gotten cheap enough," he said.
"The economics of it work but you still have to worry about accuracy," he added.
Recognizing an object or person in a photo is a different problem, but it's faster than detection once the computers calculate a visual signature, Shah said. Riya, for example, can compare one face to 250,000 photos in one second to find relevant matches.
Riya will be able to do many tricks, apart from couch-shopping. A Web surfer, Shah said, will be able to point to a photo of a girl on MySpace.com and ask the search engine to find other girls that look like her on a dating site like Match.com. Similarly, someone could upload a favorite dress pattern and ask the engine to find similar patterns. Riya already offers a service called Myphotos, which lets people upload photos, train the program (e.g. "this is a picture of me and my mom") and ask it to find other photos like it in a set.
Riya, founded in August 2004, has 50 employees, including 14 specialists in computer vision. The company started out strictly in facial recognition, but realized it had a larger opportunity in object recognition. It recently raised $15 million in venture capital, bringing its total funding to $19 million. It plans to make money by selling advertising and collecting fees from merchants that benefit from Riya's visual search engine. For example, it will collect a bounty if someone ends up buying that new couch on eBay.
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- Artifical Intelligence is a meaningless buzz word. A rule based system would be accurate but no where near the emotional context of artifical intelligence. Inference Engine would be just as buzzy but much more accurate. I am sure others could come up with other terms. Maybe you should hold a contest to see who comes up with the best descriptive term. I submit Inference Engine.I hear AI and I instantly think Vapor.
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- Face recognition has great potential
- Forget finding a girl that looks like my last girlfriend and will remind me of that pain. Law enforcement searches will benefit from facial recognition. From matching a missing kid to a kiddie porn image to finding a fellon that changed his/ her identity. For law enforcement it will be an new and invaluable tool, trolling the mug shots and internet in search of possible matches to all kinds of case files.
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- AI is just code word for vapor/hoax ware.
- I agree with other poster, AI is just code word for vapor/hoax ware.
If I had gotten a dollar for each time I heard of AI and then nothing of sort was ever delivered I would be a rich man.
There is no such a thing as AI (Artificial Intelligence) software and there wont be any, because we have no idea of how to emulate complex intelligent thinking in software, there is only good software engineering.
So it is not AI that is going to make a better search engine to Google & Yahoo, it is innovative new search engine ideas which are implemented based on good software engineering work that it is going to do it. And I will tell you about a search engine that is better than Google or Yahoo,
it is called Anoox, and it is better based on these points:
1- It is powered by the Knowledge of the people
2- It is operated in an Open fashion, so NO one company owns/controls it but 100's of different company's from around the world will
It is here in case:
Ah, another reason it is better, it is also not-for-profit.
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- Goolge has pushed the limit of html search
- google has pushed the limit of html search. as long as pages and sites continued to be created in a way and format that does not allow for descprtive classification any real AI will be impssoble
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- True Natural Relevance not AI
- I think AI as a search descriptor is a little oxymoronic as well. The comments here demonstrate how each person has their own contextual relationship to the keyword "AI".
I do however agree that search as a science is in its infancy and that current cpu/storage efficiencies now make it possible to deliver an events-based (usage) search architecture connected to individual users, instead of the current link-topology-connected-to-no-one system weve all learned to love and hate.
Were also not ready to throw the keywordese out the door. We believe there is a lot of natural intelligence in keyword associations (i.e, John Battelles data base of intentions) that can provide an order-of-magnitude better relevance if they can be properly distilled whether its applied to search, feeds, or media. We think the key is making it implicit (no explicit tagging or rating) and to make sure you have 100% participation every user is both an information consumer and an information provider for every other user in the system.
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- Its time to roll on the next generation Search Engine
- The popularity of the internet is that it offers a variety of content not available in any other medium. A search engine assists users to locate the information.
The Internet is supposed to be for fun not serious business.
And that is why most people use research tools and offline content to achieve their results. Internet search is the last place a true researcher would go to find top rated content. Only after all other options are closed.
What if the internet offered this as the very first option and people could be sure that all the information that the internet and internet search throws up is Top rated quality stuff and it is available free/subscribed/paid. I am myself a researcher and would love to have such a tool in my hands instead of having to spend a huge amount on buying proprietary research content.
Once I finished using the content, I need not pay for it. There are many websites such as Janes.com which provide this sort of quality info.
Present Internet Search is neither intelligent nor smart. Cluster search engines such as Vivisimo and clusty.com help to some extent but stull trash out the same stuff.
In this respect, I admire the efforts of NetAlter which is bringing a radical new search engine that would offer quality content and meta information. According to NetAlter, their search engine would offer a variety of pre-search and post search tools that enable sorting, comparing and analyzing of search results and also offer a single click ecommerce connection.
Check out the NetAlter search whitepaper and presentation.
http://www.netalter.com/Solutions/search.pdf
http://www.netalter.com/Solutions/Search.pps
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- new search required
- 3D search idea by Micosoft is the one i find quite useful and it invloves user interaction as well... currently many search engine do give anonymous links to increase the number of pages but only some r useful.
Himanshu joshi
http://montoojoshi.googlepages.com/onlinecompiler
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- AI is already being added to search engines
- People need to start following the AI bouncing ball at Google and other search innovators. The integration of the CYC taxonomy, for example, appears to be well under way with available frameworks that allow natural language and human logic to prevail over "keywordism" in the very near future.
http://www.cyc.com/cyc/cycrandd/areasofrandd_dir/distributedai
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JUST IN: Member of New Black Panther Party Watches Philadelphia Polling Place
This picture, taken outside a Philadelphia polling site this morning, calls to mind the scene four years ago, where two members of the New Black Panther Party were accused of trying to intimidate voters.
The group says it plans to send out members to monitor the vote today, as it did four years ago.
Later on Fox News, Rev. Jesse Jackson weighed in, saying this is not much of an issue unless the man is doing something illegal.
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Benq R53
SpecificationsNotebook: Benq R53
Processor: Intel Pentium M 750
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X600 64 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: euro
Average of 3 scores (from 6 reviews)
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Rating: performance: 80% features: 68% display: 56% mobility: 64%
ATI Mobility Radeon X600: PCI-E version of the Mobility 9700. Was considerable slower than a X700 and replaced by the x1400. There also was a much slower X600 SE version.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Pentium M: With Intel chip set (855 or 915) and Intel WLAN also available with the name Centrino (name for the package).
In the comparison very fast per megahertz and very modest with weaknesses in floating point operations.
It is also available as a low voltage version with very small current consumption.
750: » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. Nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.7 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
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Working with Vermiculite
Hi everyone, I have a question about the ratio of vermiculite to portland cement that will be poured on top of the hearth. The forno bravo site recommends 5 parts Vermiculite to 1 part Portland cement. Does this ratio go by weight or simply by volume? For instance for every 1lbs of cement do I have to weigh 5 lbs of vermiculte, or does it mean for ever bag of cement, I simply refill the empty cement bag 5 times with vermiculite and mix that? I assume it's by weight but that would mean a hell of a lot of vermiculite!
I'm planning to build my vermiculite layer 68 inches long by 65 inches wide by 3.5 inches high. How much vermiculite and cement would that represent?
Can someone help me with this?
Re: Working with Vermiculite
I did 7/1 vermiculite and portland. Some have indicated a 50/50 mix of perlite and vermiculite give a more workable material but I have not used this mix.
I dampened the vermiculite with a garden mister on the end of the garden hose till damp but not wet - mixing with a shovel to dampen overall, and made a slurry from the portland and water in a 5 gal pail, to pour over the vermiculite and mixed in a wheel burrow with a shovel.
You do not want to use a concrete mixer it must be mixed by hand.
Re: Working with Vermiculite
I use pearlite as it is cheaper out here in Northern California and readily available in 2 cu. ft. bags at HD.
As mentioned, I measure by Volume and I have switched to a 3:1 ratio (3 parts Pearlite to 1 part Cement) to get a little more strength out of the mix.
I dry mix with a hoe in a wheelbarrow and then slowly add water, it is a very different (very dry looking) mix compared to grout, but it does harden.
Re: Working with Vermiculite
3/1 mix will not provide much insulation value, at 3.5 inches I have 2.5 inches of 7/1 vermicrete and 2 inches of FB ceramic board on top of that, and I know I still lose heat into the slab. Wish I had another 2 inches of Vermicrete or FB Board.
The vermiculite will compress but it will be based on the type, it is available from fine to coarse and I used medium grade. Mine compressed about 30% but buying more than you need should not be a problem because you will want more loose fiil for over the dome and you can easily take back an unopened bag of portland but 1-90 Pound bag should be more than enough for the insulating slab.
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Chips right on, you should at least 5-1, 7-1 would be better, more insulation is on of the top ranked if I could do it over statement
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Volume Two: The Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
The Soviet Study of War" series examines the lessons Soviet military theorists and commanders learned from the study of their own military experience. These are translations of Soviet documents....
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Battle for the Ukraine
The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation
Series: Soviet (Russian) Military Experience
A comprehensive guide to the battle for the Ukraine from the Soviet perspective during the winter of 1943-1944. This volume is an unexpurgated translation of the originally classified Soviet General Staff Study No.14....
Published June 5th 2007 by Routledge
The Battle for Kursk, 1943
The Soviet General Staff Study
Series: Soviet (Russian) Study of War
This volume offers detailed information about the Red Army's preparation for and conduct of the Battle of Kursk, the nature of the war on the German Eastern Front, and on the range of horrors that have characterized warfare in the 20th century....
Published September 29th 1999 by Routledge
The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, 1927-1991
The Documentary Basis: Volume 1 (Operational Art 1927-1964)
Series: Soviet (Russian) Study of War
This collection of texts has been taken from formerly classified material in the official Red Army General Staff journal 'Military Thought'. The results are two volumes of great scope based on archival evidence. They stand as a compulsory reference point for anyone with an interest in the...
Published August 1st 1995 by Routledge
The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, 1927-1991
The Documentary Basis: Volume 2 (1965-1991)
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The Soviet military concept of operational art and the associated theories such as "war of annihilations", "deep battle", and "deep operations" have been observed by the West since World War II. The Soviet government hid their military-theoretical work behind a veil of secrecy. Here, the Soviet...
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What Type of Coolant???
My 06Mazda3 overflow tank is low and i dont know what type to use to top it off...
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Re: What Type of Coolant???
It is called FL22.
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F1 Driver
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Laguna Hills, Southern California
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Re: What Type of Coolant???
I compiled this with a little searching:
[size=12pt]Coolant FAQ:[/size]
What does Mazda say about FL22?
To enhance service life, reduce waste material, and lower maintenance costs, a new long-life pre-mixed FL22
engine coolant is recommended for your Mazda3.
It is recommended that FL22 coolant continue to be used for models originally filled with FL22 coolant from the
CAUTION: FL22 coolant is pre-mixed and must be added to the cooling system as is. DO NOT ADD
WATER TO FL22 COOLANT. Adding water will dilute the solution and lessen the effectiveness of
the coolant.
If coolant replacement becomes necessary for prior Mazda models (not originally filled with FL22 coolant), FL22
coolant can be used. If FL22 coolant is used for prior models, be sure to place the FL22 sticker on the reserve
tank or degas bottle to indicate FL22 coolant is being used.
In the case of prior models, the coolant replacement interval is every five (5) years or 60,000 miles
(96,000 km).
Six (6) FL22 stickers are included with each case of coolant.
What does FL22 say on the bottle?
Ethylene glycol based
55/45 mixture recommended
Developed to provide corrosion and rust protection
Boiling point 270 degrees
Freezing point -47 degrees
Ethylene Glycol (107-21-1)
Water (7732-18-5)
Diethylene Glycol (111-46-6)
Potassium Hydroxide (1310-58-3)
Proprietary Inhibitors (NJTSRN 217).
"DO NOT USE coolants containing: Alcohol, methanol, borate, or silicates"
What does the manual say about coolant replacement?
FL22 120,000miles or 10 years
Others 60,000miles or 4 years
Who really makes FL22?
Old World Industries (the makers of Peak, Sierra, and other antifreeze brands) state that FL-22 is a Motorcraft extended life coolant and that either Peak Global Lifetime or Peak LongLife Antifreeze can be added to FL-22 without issue. Both of those are silicate free, and LongLife is also phosphate free.
What coolant do I need for my Mazda3?
Any modern coolant that is silicate/phosphate free which is a majority of the green coolants on the market. When you view the ingredients of FL22, there's nothing special. Just make sure you do not exceed 60% antifreeze as a part of your solution. (Per the service manual)
How much coolant do I need if I drain the radiator and fill it up myself?
About 1 Gallon of premix, or half gallon of antifreeze + half gallon of distilled water (If you mix your own).
What will my FL22 coolant probably look like after 30K miles?
Why not go to the dealer for a flush, How much will it cost?
If you get your cars cooling system flushed at a dealer or mechanic, they will flush all of the coolant. My Irvine Mazda dealer quoted $110, but that was with a coupon. So it could be higher or lower depending on your dealer. I believe this dealer flush should be done before 60k miles. I might get mine done at 40k miles... Now Mazda may state to change the coolant at 100k miles or the coolant may be a special long life formula, but I'd feel much safer changing the coolant every 2 years or so. The main reason is because of the metals in the cooling system that "erode" into the coolant. (Erosion, Electrolysis, corrosion, rust, etc).
I decided to use ZEREX by Valvoline G-05 coolant (A Ford and Chrysler coolant). The color of this coolant is still green, though a lighter almost yellowish green color. Since this coolant appears to be compatible with FL22 (Just like Peak Global Extended Life), I decided to buy it for like $11. You can pay extra for those extended life coolants, though I would still want to flush the coolant every 2 years or so. It's a small price to pay compared to fixing damages done by erosion and corrosion.
Is there a DIY coolant flush walk through?
Heres how I did the drain and refill (keep in mind, this should be in the factory shop manual, but I did not find it in the user manual)
1. Take off black plastic skid plate that you normally remove when doing an oil change.
2. Make sure the engine is COOL so the radiator is not under high pressure.
3. Unscrew the cap from the pressurized plastic coolant reservoir on the left side of the engine bay. If the engine is still slightly warm, you might hear a hiss of pressurized gas escape. Unscrewing this cap allows air into the system for coolant to drain at the drain plug.
4. Locate the black plastic drain plug on the bottom of the radiator, and unscrew it using a short wide flathead screw driver (Or short, wide head Phillips screw driver). Try not to strip the threads of the plastic drain plug.
5. Once its unscrewed, theres still a portion of the drain plug preventing fluid from draining, You have to pry at the plug a little and pull it straight out enough so that the fluid drains.
6. Cold or warm coolant should then be coming out of the radiator drain plug. Catch this in a container that can hold more than a gallon.
7. As the coolant drains you will see your coolant reservoir level drop (Located on the left upper area of the engine bay). This is where you fill re-fill your car with new coolant. (Do not confuse windshield washer fluid for coolant)
8. Once coolant is drained, retighten drain plug snug by hand (firm, dont over tighten or strip the plastic head)
9. I used a 50/50 distilled water to anti-freeze ratio.
10. Total coolant drained was exactly 36,900 ml in my car. Or 3.7 liters (0.98 gallons) This may vary depending on how full your reservoir is at the time you drain your coolant. I know I didnt let ALL of the coolant drain from the radiator, though I did let a majority of the coolant drain.
11. What I did next was then fill up one 0.5L (1 pint) water bottle with distilled water, and another bottle with coolant. Then I poured these into the reservoir. I repeated this process until it was about a gallon (same amount of coolant removed).
12. For disposal, depending on local laws, you might be able to dump it in your sanitary sewer system (toilet), or you may have to take it to a nearby hazardous waste collection facility. (1-800-cleanup). Just dont dump it into the gutter.
For replacing MORE coolant, simply repeat the process after making sure coolant has cycled throughout the engine (Enging reached operating temperature by driving it around for like 5 minutes/etc).
DISCLAIMER - I take no responsibility if you forget something, there's a coolant leak, and you blow an engine etc... Work on your car at your own risk.
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Location: Antelope Valley SoCal
Posts: 2,816
Re: What Type of Coolant???
^^^^ :shock:
Le Mans: GT Class
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WI, usa
Posts: 579
Re: What Type of Coolant???
i found it easier to unscrew the drain plug before opening the reservoir tank. The pressure in the system pushes the plug out rather than having to pry it out. Just be warned that the coolant is hot !!! doesn't hurt to have a leather glove on
also, the total system is about 8 litres. Draining the rad does give the 4 litres you mention. If you add plain distilled water to top up the rad, run around the block for 5 minutes, drain again, and repeat 2 or 3 times, you'll flush everything.
then just add straight coolant....no dilution required. after a few miles the entire system will be back to 50:50
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Location: Chicagoland
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Re: What Type of Coolant???
OK...my manual states that if the cap states FL22 then it is FL22. My cap says nothing and looks like regular green. I am planning on using the good old green stuff and changing it about once a year.
F1 Driver
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Laguna Hills, Southern California
Posts: 3,160
Re: What Type of Coolant???
Yeah, if it's not FL22, then it's the regular green stuff and you should replace it sooner.
I wouldn't recommend working on a car that's hot, especially the cooling system. I can only imagine that somebody could get burned by hot steam/water if they undid the drain plug while the engine was hot.
F1 Driver
Re: What Type of Coolant???
Wow... never knew we needed special fluid for the radiator. Another 30K for me to go to change them.
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White Post, Virginia: Dinosaur LandClassic dinosaur park featuring over two dozen colorfully-painted, old-style brutes -- including a prehistoric crawl-in shark and a photo-op King Kong.
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The thrill of Dinosaur Land has proven to be quite romantic. When I was a kid I loved the many creatures that "live" there, so as a young adult it was a no-brainer to bring my boyfriend back for the Dinosaur Land experience. As we ran around the park, there were many photo ops where Ben could save me from the brutal beasts. The park has an ageless effect on its visitors, where kids and adults become equals in the attempts to bring their newfound creatures to life. I have many fond memories there, but what will always stay with me is my time with King Kong. The ape of all apes was no match for us, but in the end we made a truce.
I would like to thank Dinosaur Land for bringing America a piece of '60s childhood wonder, that "children" of all generations can enjoy.[Joy, 08/19/2008]
Dinosaur Land - Squirrels
A couple times while I was walking through Dinosaur Land, I heard skittering noises above me and looked up to see a squirrel poking its head out of a dinosaur's jaws.
I suppose the squirrels there have figured out the defense mechanism of scaring off enemies by hiding inside what appears to be a fearsome predator.[Dean Jeffrey, 11/29/2007]
Dinosaurland - now called "Dinosaurland Inc." - has repainted all its animals (with variable results; for example, while the giant Octopus looks better than ever, the giant shark looks like it's been tagged by a street gang). By the way, when visiting Dinosaurland, be sure to visit Mr. B's BBQ, just north of Dinosaurland on 340.)[Willie Zaza, 04/30/2004]
Dinosaur Land
I visited Dinosaur Land with my father recently, who first took me there in 1972. In the 30 years since I last visited the attraction, I can honestly say not much has changed, at least that I remember. The two big dinosaurs out front are still there with plenty of guardrail protecting their legs.
A brief chat with the lady that runs the cash register provided some updates: King Kong has his airplane back in his right hand after it was stolen some time ago by vandals. And a retired man "a couple towns over" has been repairing the dinos and will be building new dinos for the park in the very near future - two are nearly complete!
I paid the $5 to check out the back lot and I'm glad I did. The dinos, for the most part, look great. The trail was a bit muddy after recent rains, but I think it added a touch of reality.[Greg Brown, 06/07/2003]
We just went to Dinosaur Land in White Post, VA. The photo-op room is now locked up and you can only go in if you rent the now dinosaur-muraled walls for a BIRTHDAY PARTY. Lame. I was really looking forward to a shot with that Frankenstein thing. . . They still should win the best postcard in America contest.[Beth, 08/03/1998]
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- I-81 exit 307, then east on Hwy 277 for five miles. Or I-66 exit 6, then north on US 340/522 for seven miles.
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Show Just One Calendar At A Time On Your Mac [OS X Tips]
Like many modern human beings, I keep electronic calendars. I use Google calendar for many of them, but I also have a couple on my Mac, a couple on my iPhone, and the like. I have a calendar for each of my three jobs, for family events, I have shared calendars for groups I belong to, and, of course, Birthday calendars. My Calendar app is a many-colored thing.
But what happens when you just want to see one of these calendars at any given moment? Just birthdays, for example, without cluttering it up with a bunch of job-related stuff? If you use the built-in Mac OS X Calendar app, this is pretty simple. Here's how to do it.


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State of Search brings you the news on what has happened in search last week. A quick wrap up!
--Foursquare In Discussions With "Everyone" To Enhance Search With Its Data--
According to the Telegraph Foursquare is said to be in talks with Google, Yahoo and Bing to supply its check-in data as a search-enhancer. With this they follow the path of Twitter who struck a deal with the search engines last year.
In the US Bing already offers some use of Foursquare in their Maps applications. But as we all know Bing is not yet integrated in Europe like it is in the US.
--Google trying to lift Buzz with opening up Firehose--
In an attempt to get Buzz in the attention of developers more Google made a move which we have been waiting for with Twitter for a while now: they opened up the firehose.
--Google Images redesigns--
A week after the Google news redesign, Google redesigned their Google Images look and feel. It now looks a lot more like... Bing Images.
Google Images now has features like Instant scrolling between pages, Larger thumbnail previews , hovers, a new landing page and more images shown after a search.
Go check it out and see for yourself if you feel it looks like Bing Images
--Facebook Maps Out User Stories With Bing--
Speaking of Bing, Their platform is part of a new roll out Facebook did last week. They launched a new application highlighting shared stories about people who have leveraged Facebook to reconnect.
Facebook's intent with the Facebook Stories application is to celebrate all these types of stories and to help you share your story with people around the world.
Facebook is providing location context via a Bing Map
--Yahoo! Begins Testing with Microsoft--
Yahoo announced on their blog that they've started testing organic and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25 percent of Yahoo! Search traffic in the U.S.
Yahoo expects that in the U.S. and Canada organic search listings in both desktop and mobile experiences will be fully powered by the Microsoft platform beginning in the August/September timeframe, and paid search in October.
--Financial Quarterly numbers Search Engines--
Yahoo announced their Second Quarter Results for 2010. Revenue was 1601 Million Dollars for the 2nd quarter, an increase of 2% compared to a year earlier.
Microsoft and Google also gave out numbers. Google's revenue was up 24% to $6.82 billion where Microsoft saw a rise of 22% to $16.04 billion.
--Google Russian Revenues Reaches $69 Million in 2009--
News came out also that Google made 69 million dollars in Russia last year. Google 'only' holds 22% of the search share there, with Yandex being the biggest with 66%. The revenues of Google were said to be four times less than revenues of Yandex and twice as less as revenues of Mail.
--Bing Webmaster Tools update--
Webmasters pay attention! Bing last week announced a updated Bing Webmaster Tools. The new Webmaster Tools are simplified and have a focus on three key areas: crawl, index and traffic.
New features are for example Index Explorer and Submit URLs. With Index Explorer you can browse through the Bing index in order to verify which of your directories and pages have been included.
Existing Webmaster Center accounts have been automatically upgraded to the new tools.
--Times loses loads of traffic due to paywall--
Newspapers are having a hard time surviving now that 'news' has mainly become free accessible on the web. Reason for Rupert Murdoch to start thinking about payrolls. The English newspaper the Times was one of the first to actually get the paywall.
Figures by Hitwise show that the paywall in the first weeks does not seem to be working. The Times saw a dramatic fall in visits when people were asked to register.
That was before there was even charging involved. After the Times started charging the visits fell to 33 per cent of The Times' pre-registration level. The Guardian even stated that the Times lost almost 90% of their online readership.
The loss seems huge. But Murdoch actually expected worse so it was said. His expectation was that they would be losing a lot more traffic, but the Hitwise numbers show the website is still ranked higher than the Financial Times in terms of market share of visits and visitors are still spending an average of around three minutes per visit on the website, indicating that they are happy to pay for the content and not disappearing to alternative sites for news, says HitWise.
--Google mixes up Holland and Germany--
We end with a funny mistake Google made. And no this has nothing to do with the World Cup. A reader of the Dutch website Websonic noticed that when he was looking at the Dutch place Rijssen in Google Streetview some images were not of the Dutch town but off a German town 127 kilometers away.
The images are now removed. Google claimed it was a mistake in the geo-coding.
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Volunteers put 'giving' in holiday
On Thanksgiving, nonprofits dish up hundreds of homemade meals
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Having grown up in a family of 16 children, Peggy Osler knows how to make a meal, and Thanksgiving may be her specialty.
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black fairview grid button front shirt
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