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In addition to responding to disasters when they occur, USAID/OFDA helps build local response capacity and reduce risks associated with natural hazards. In January 2012, USAID/OFDA established a sub-regional office in Jakarta to enhance in-country program monitoring, coordination, and information management. The sub-regional office works closely with USAID/Indonesia, Government of Indonesia (GoI) disaster response authorities, and humanitarian partners to prepare for and respond to disasters.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Microsoft announced the launch of the Imagine Cup World Citizenship Competition in Indonesia. The competition asks students aged 16-25 to form teams and create original Microsoft software applications that address development challenges in the fields of education, democracy and governance, and environment. One team in Indonesia will win Rp 50,000,000.
Leaders from approximately 30 districts across Indonesia attended the National Policy Forum on Teacher Deployment to discuss strategies on how to equally distribute teachers based on local schools' needs, teacher qualification, and student-to-teacher ratio. The Forum was hosted by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MOEC) and the U.S. Agency for International Development Prioritizing Reform, Innovation, and Opportunities for Reaching Indonesia's Teachers, Administrators and Students (USAID PRIORITAS) program.
The U.S. Agency for International Development in cooperation with the Government of Indonesia, World Wildlife Fund/Indonesia, Transparency International/Indonesia and the Indonesia Working Group has developed technical guidelines for implementation of Aceh's local forestry protection plan. The guidelines were presented to the provincial government at an event in Banda Aceh, August 25, 2014.
The U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Science Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute have announced awards to 12 research projects in Indonesia. The awards are for collaborative research that advances the scientific and technical capacity of both the United States and Indonesia in critical areas of development. Four of the awards are for research pertaining to health; the other eight are for projects related to environmental conservation, climate change mitigation, and disaster risk mitigation.
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The Las Vegas Elks Lodge #408 will be holding a Mother's Day Breakfast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. Mothers eat free and others pay $5 a plate. The breakfast will be held at 2305 Collins Drive.
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High over the Mojave Desert, the stubby-winged SpaceShipTwo bent itself into a near-right angle shape and plunged nearly straight downward for more than a minute before unfolding and gliding to a runway landing before an excited crowd, The Associated Press reported. The test flight Wednesday marked another milestone in Virgin Galactic's effort to be the first company to carry tourists into space.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's army on Thursday called for cuts in the number of U.S. military personnel inside the country to protest the American commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and threatened to cut cooperation with Washington if it stages more unilateral raids on its territory.
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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is endorsing a federal commission's call to build a national museum devoted to American Latino art, history and culture next to the Capitol as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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The concept of the "No Show Ball" is that invitations are sent out to potential donors, and instead of spending money for fancy clothes and tickets, the invitees relax, stay home and make a generous contribution to CASA so that we can continue advocating for abused and neglected children who are living in foster care.
Shoppers in Las Vegas have a new place to shop for everyday essentials.
Dollar General recently opened a new store at 1008 Mills Avenue and is hosting a grand opening celebration starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 7.
At the grand opening event, customers will enjoy special deals and free prizes. The first 50 shoppers at the store will receive a $10 Dollar General gift card and the first 200 shoppers will receive a Dollar General tote bag, among other giveaways.
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New Mexico Highlands University computer science graduate student Jessica Gurley participated in computer science conferences in Boston and San Francisco in April.
Gurley, a 31-year-old Las Vegas native, was awarded full scholarships to attend the Computer Research Association – Women Grad Cohort 2011 in Boston, and the annual Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference in San Francisco.
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CHARLOTTE, NC - AUGUST 23: Geoff Schwartz #74 of the Carolina Panthers looks on during the NFL preseason game against the Washington Redskins at Bank of America Stadium on August 23, 2008 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images)
Geoff Schwartz is one of only nine Jewish players in the NFL, and he combines with his brother, Mitchell, to comprise 22 percent of the Jewish NFL population. In honor of Passover Tuesday, Schwartz, an offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs, wrote a list of 10 random facts about being a Jewish athlete for Sports Illustrated's Hot Clicks. We'll share two of our favorite items from the list: 5. I carry my personal Menorah and have lit Chanukah candles in the hotel rooms the night before games. Last season when in St. Louis my Jewish coach joined me for the lighting. 7. There is a lack of Jewish groupies. Where are all the tall Jewish blonde women? Schwartz was with the Minnesota Vikings last season, so I'm guessing the coach with whom he celebrated is offensive line coach Jeff Davidson. Which one of them do you think held the chamash candle? As for his question about the Jewish groupies, well, … keep dreaming, buddy. Head over to Hot Clicks to read Schwartz's full list. Related posts: Lions player: Team was undisciplined, Jim Schwartz lost control Jim Schwartz: Lions had miscommunication, didn't intend to go for it Jim Schwartz's family is finally speaking with him again after Lions' terrible season
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A failure mode, effects, and criticality assessment of the ASRG engineering unit identified 51 single-point failures (SPFs). By comparison, the design of the RTG-GPHS (the standard RPS used prior to the MMRTG) has only 17 SPFs. However, a numerical comparison of the number of SPFs does not provide a good understanding of the relative reliability of the two types of devices. The likelihood of the SPFs must also be understood. For example, about 80 percent of the SPFs on the ASRG engineering unit are structural in nature, and the designers believe that the likelihood of these failures has been reduced to very low levels through the use of conservative structural designs. In any case, the issue is not whether an ASRG will be as reliable as historic RTGs; the issue is whether mission managers can be convinced that an ASRG is sufficiently reliable to meet engineering and programmatic requirements for a given mission.
NASA has used fault tree and probabilistic analysis techniques to estimate that system-level reliability is 0.967 for an ASRG at full-power operation over the entire 17-year design life. System electronics (i.e., the electronics required to control and synchronize the ASCs and to convert the electrical output from ac to dc) have been identified as the major contributor to the estimated probability of failure. System-level reliability at half-power operation (that is, the probability that an ASRG will have at least one of its two converters functioning and producing power at the end of the 17-year design life) has been estimated to be 0.984. Extended life tests will provide additional data regarding reliability, but there is not enough time or money to build enough ASRGs and then test them for long enough to determine rigorously what level of reliability they will have over a 17-year lifetime. However, this has been the case for earlier RPSs—and for other critical spacecraft hardware as well. There has never been a numeric reliability requirement specification for an RTG, and NASA does not intend to establish one for the ASRG.
NASA appears currently to be well positioned with regard to key RPS research and development facilities. These facilities are located at GRC and JPL.6 The facilities at greatest immediate risk are those associated with advanced RPS research (e.g., advanced thermoelectric and TPV research facilities). NASA has not yet lost any critical RPS facilities, and the projected budget seems adequate to sustain necessary research and development facilities. However, there are concerns related to other facilities that are necessary for the production of flight systems.
The MMRTG will fly on the Mars Science Laboratory, but this is the only mission that is firmly committed to using the MMRTG. As this work is completed, the industry teams that developed and built the MMRTG are expected to disband, and the industry facilities are expected to be reconfigured for other purposes. It remains to be seen if NASA will sustain work on MMRTGs to keep the MMRTG industrial teams and facilities intact and related infrastructure in place until a final decision is made on what system will power OPF 1. If the ability to manufacture MMRTGs is not sustained at least until (1) the ASRG is demonstrated to be flight ready and (2) NASA commits to using ASRGs (or another comparable RPS) for long-life, deep-space missions, then even with an adequate supply of 238Pu, the United States could lose the ability to manufacture any RPSs, at least for a time.
FINDING. Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. It is important to the national interest to maintain the capability to produce Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, given that proven replacements do not now exist.
RECOMMENDATION. Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. NASA and/or the Department of Energy should maintain the ability to produce Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators.
The next major milestones in the advancement of ASRGs are to freeze the design of the ASRG, to conduct system testing that verifies that all credible life-limiting mechanisms have been identified and assessed, and to demonstrate that ASRGs are ready for flight. However, neither the DOE nor NASA have formal guidance or requirements concerning what constitutes flight readiness for RPSs. In general, RPSs (and other systems) on spacecraft for deep-space missions are flight ready when the project manager for that mission says they are flight ready. Given this situation, ongoing efforts to advance ASRG technology and demonstrate that it is flight ready are being guided by experience with past programs and researchers' best guess about the needs and expectations of project managers for future missions. While this approach has enabled progress, the establishment of formal guidance and processes for flight certification of RPSs in general and ASRGs in particular would facilitate the acceptance of ASRGs as a viable option for deep-space missions and reduce the impact that the limited supply of 238Pu will have on NASA's ability to complete important space missions.
FINDING. Flight Readiness. NASA does not have a broadly accepted set of requirements and processes for demonstrating that new technology is flight ready and for committing to its use.
This section deals with facilities associated with development and fabrication of RPS technologies and RPS converters. DOE 238Pu production and RPS assembly and testing facilities are addressed in Chapter 2.


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She has a strong background in professional development, curriculum development, training, adult education, vocational training, counseling and career coaching. Rachelle is a Globally Certified Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) with more than 15 years of experience in the field. She enjoys working with individuals and organizations to develop their professional and educational goals.
Starting her career as a case manager for women in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, she soon became the manager of vocation/education services, where she developed the Adult Literacy/GED Program, Job Readiness Curriculum, and the DIVA Closet (featured in
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Rachelle earned a Master of Arts degree in Adult Education & Curriculum Development and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, both from Alverno College. She also is a Globally Certified Career Facilitator through the UW-Madison Center for Education & Work. Rachelle is a member of LERN (an association in continuing education and lifelong learning) and ATD (Association for Talent Development).
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Rare 1850 Mormon Half Eagle, XF40 PCGS1850 $5 Mormon Five Dollar XF40 PCGS. K-5, High R.5. The 1850 Mormon Half Eagle differs primarily from the 1849 issue as it has a redesigned obverse with an all-seeing eye, nine stars surrounding it, and a differently styled miter cap. Apparently fewer 1850 coins were issued than 1849 pieces, and they are scarcer today in all grades. Those that have survived tend to show extensive wear. The minters were ordered to alloy the 1850 issue with silver in order to bring up their value relative to the 1849 issue, but this effort failed, and the vast majority of these underweight coins were melted by assayers in the 1850s. Those that survived are of the utmost rarity today. This is a lovely example that has pleasing surfaces and soft greenish-gold patina over each side. Evenly worn, a bit of softness is seen at the bottom of the miter's cap (as always), at 1 o'clock on the obverse, and the clasped hands are somewhat indistinct on the reverse (another typical striking feature of this issue). The only distinguishing marks are a couple of surface gouges between the LI and above the ES of HOLINESS. Some luster is still apparent surrounding the devices. Obviously an original coin with untampered surfaces, and as such very rare. Somewhat scarcer than the 1849 issue.(#10265) (PCGS# 10265)
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Quick Take:I've been talking a lot lately about our distributed future. Depending on your viewpoint, distributed energy resources can be a threat or an opportunity. Now Portland General Electric has launched a demo facility that will test the ability to pull together all the pieces, including renewables, storage and distributed generation. As Green Building Elements put it: "The PGE project will test energy storage, dispatchable standby generation, remotely operated power line switches, demand response, renewable energy integration and transactive control."
(You may recall that I believe every utility MUST learn the word transactive.)
Scan the Green Building Elements article or the press release below. You'll see that this is a demonstration project you should follow closely. And since it is part of the federally funded Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, its findings will be fully accessible to interested parties.- By Jesse Berst
Energy storage tested for Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project
SALEM, Ore. - Research conducted with a large new battery unveiled today in Oregon will help make the Northwest's and the nation's electric system smarter and more efficient, officials said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Portland General Electric's 5-megawatt, lithium-ion energy storage system was shared with the public today at the utility's Salem Smart Power Center in South Salem, Ore. The energy storage facility is part of PGE's contribution to the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Half of PGE's $23-million portion of the regional project was paid for with U.S. Department of Energy funds. The regional demonstration is a five-year, $178-million project that launched in 2010.
"The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is a successful public-private partnership involving 17 organizations across five Northwest states," said Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary for DOE's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, which oversees regional smart grid demonstration projects. "It is a highly innovative project demonstrating transactive energy management, which is a promising, cost-effective way to integrate variable renewable energy, energy storage and demand response at scale. The celebration of the Salem Smart Power Center makes it clear that Oregon is helping to lead the way on energy storage commercialization and grid modernization."
Building the business case
As a primary partner in the project, the Bonneville Power Administration is leading the development of a regional business case for investing in smart grid infrastructure and technologies.
"New, smarter technologies can help us make the most of the region's renewable resources, improve how we operate the power system and bolster its resilience," said Elliot Mainzer, BPA's deputy administrator. "We're looking closely at the benefits and economics so we can tell Northwest electric utilities and ratepayers which 'smart' investments will provide long-term value."
BPA is working to support utilities in the project as they unite to address both regional and utility requirements. Communication and collaboration between utilities is key to making this all work, especially considering that five states are involved, with everything from large investor-owned utilities to smaller publicly-owned utilities. They have varying goals, but are working together to enhance the economics, reliability and integration of renewables for the power system. BPA has taken a lead role in assuring that the utility perspective is addressed as well as the regional perspective so the needs of electricity consumers throughout the Northwest are met.
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The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project was co-funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through DOE, as well as the project's utility and vendor partners.
As part of the project, Battelle leads a collaborative group that includes the Bonneville Power Administration and 11 Northwest-based utilities:
Avista Utilities â€" Spokane, Wash.
Benton PUD â€" Kennewick, Wash.
City of Ellensburg â€" Ellensburg, Wash.
Flathead Electric Cooperative â€" Kalispell, Mont.
Idaho Falls Power â€" Idaho Falls, Idaho
Lower Valley Energy â€" Afton, Wyo.
Milton-Freewater City Light & Power â€" Milton-Freewater, Ore.
NorthWestern Energy â€" Butte, Mont.
Peninsula Light Company â€" Gig Harbor, Wash.
Portland General Electric â€" Portland, Ore.
University of Washington/Seattle City Light â€" Seattle, Wash.
The demonstration project also involves a diverse team of technology providers, including Alstom Grid, IBM/Netezza, 3TIER Inc. and Quality Logic Inc. Washington State University and Central Washington University are also directly involved.
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HENDERSON — Debora Anne "Deb" Matthews Baucom, 64, of 901 Ridge Road, Roxboro, formerly of Chapel Hill, died Monday, July 28, 2014, at Person Memorial Hospital in Roxboro.
Born in Granville County, she was the daughter of Clara Tillotson Matthews of Henderson and the late Thomas Faucette Matthews.
Mrs. Baucom was of the Baptist faith. She was a retired owner and operator of Growing Green Nursery and was a former teacher in the Person County Schools.
A graveside funeral service will be held Thursday, July 31, 2014, at 3 p.m. at Sunset Gardens, conducted by the Rev. Gerald Thomas.
Surviving, in addition to her mother, are two daughters, Mary Katheryn Baucom and Claire Elizabeth Baucom, both of Chapel Hill; and two sisters, Becky I. Matthews of Henderson and Sarah M. Morrow and husband Jim of Roxboro.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Tommy Matthews Jr.
The family will receive friends Thursday, July 31, from 2 to 3 p.m. at Flowers Funeral Home. All other times, they will be at the home of her mother, Clara Matthews, 638 Vance Academy Road, Henderson.
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By Sara Kimberley, campaignlive.co.uk, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 09:47AM
Williams, who came to prominence as an alien in the series Mork & Mindy in the late seventies and early eighties, played an advertising exec in his latest TV role, a series called The Crazy Ones.
The most recent ad Williams starred in was an spot for Apple Air earlier this year featuring genuine iPad Air owners using the tablet in amazing ways, all set to Williams' dialogue from 1989's Dead Poets Society film.
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Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27 OT
Pete Fiutak
- The offense worked, but Georgia Tech simply didn't win. Take that as a step forward.
- It was the defense and special teams that collapsed. The Yellow Jackets had a 14-point lead with seven minutes to play, and with an elite running game, everything should've worked out fine. Instead, the defense couldn't stop the Utes late, blew it on a 4th and 14 play, and Justin Moore missed a game-winning field goal attempt.
- But again, the offense worked even though Utah had weeks to prepare to stop it.
- If there was any sort of MVP race, John White would have to be in the team photo. Jon Hays might have thrown for 193 yards and three scores, but this was John White's win with a grinding 115 yards and the game-winning touchdown.
- Tevin Washington is a special playmaker who deserves the offseason hype he'll receive.
Georgia Tech fans are going to be grouchy about Paul Johnson losing another bowl game, but next year is when it should all come together. All five starters are back on the offensive line, Washington, David Sims, and Orwin Smith are back in the backfield, and several key defenders return. The 2012 ACC will be loaded with veteran teams, and this will be one of them.
- Utah needs Jordan Wynn to return and be as good as expected. The entire receiving corps is back and the secondary should be terrific. The building blocks are there to be sneaky-good in the Pac-12 South. After a rough and rocky season – to go cliché – this really might be the moment when the program is about to make a big move building off the momentum of this comeback.
- I'm sorry about that. Utah will probably take it one game at a time, too.
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Utah sure is a plucky bunch. This is the kind of blue-collar, no-nonsense team that can never be counted out as long as Kyle Whittingham is on the sidelines. He is one of the most underrated head coaches in the entire country.
Where were you all year, Preston Lyons? The Georgia Tech B-back saved the best game of his career for the final game of his career, emerging as an unlikely star on the ground.
With time to prepare, Yellow Jackets defensive coordinator Al Groh called a great game in the Sun Bowl. His kids limited the damage of Utah RB John White, while flooding the pocket with constant pressure.
The Utes desperately need a full recovery from QB Jordan Wynn, who missed most of the season with a bum shoulder, because Jon Hays is just not the answer. He's had enough time to develop, yet still looks like the wide-eyed JUCO transfer who's struggled since getting on the field in October.
Utah NT Star Lotulelei is the best pro prospect in this game—if not the West Coast—that absolutely no one outside of Salt Lake City knows about. He's the kind of 325-pound space-eater in the middle of the line that NFL coaches absolutely crave.
By Matt Zemek
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, with their triple option offense – an offense DESIGNED to protect fourth-quarter leads – led the Utah Utes by 14 points with 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter on Saturday afternoon at the venerable Sun Bowl stadium in El Paso, Texas. They weren't just leading by two touchdowns, either. They led a Utah team that had proven it could not throw the ball down the field. Utah and quarterback Jon Hays enabled the Colorado Buffaloes, after all, to snap a four-year road losing streak on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Utah demonstrated a manifest inability to pitch and catch with any appreciable degree of consistency. Moreover, the fact that a pick-six gave Tech its 14-point bulge only underscored how much of a challenge it was going to be for Utah to make a comeback.
And then it happened: Utah came back. Utah threw the ball. Georgia Tech couldn't get one first down with its option offense. Tech played bump-and-run coverage on a game-deciding 4th and 14 play inside the final two minutes. So what if Utah coach Kyle Whittingham punted with 2:55 left in the game on 4th and 3 from his own 25? So what if Whittingham kicked a PAT and very nearly allowed Georgia Tech to win with a field goal at the end of regulation? Georgia Tech persistently found ways to come up short… that's a skill which is supposed to be reserved for the likes of Arizona State, Pittsburgh, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt, but obviously, Georgia Tech can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, too. Paul Johnson worked wonders at Navy. His 2009 ACC title is becoming an increasingly distant memory in Atlanta. Phil Harrison
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- Georgia Tech now has seven straight bowl losses and it is becoming apparent that teams that are given time to prepare for the Jackets attack fair much better. The triple option is much easier to defend when given nearly a month to prepare.
- This was a tale of two different paths both of these teams were in coming to play. Tech started the season out hot--winning its first six, but limped across the finish line. Utah, on the other hand, started a little slow getting its feet wet in the new Pac-12--but got things humming at the end of the year. The team on the upper trajectory won.
- Boise State and TCU have gotten all of the love as the darlings of non-BCS conference football, but Utah should have been in the same discussion. Since the Urban Meyer days, the Utes have had solid seasons on almost a yearly basis, been a serious player in its conference, and won bowl games--even against the likes of Alabama.
- Like Boise State and TCU, we'll now see how playing in a living, breathing BCS conference will affect its win total and perception. So far not bad by making and winning a bowl game--but something tells you that Utah would like to aim higher.
- You get the feeling that the Yellow Jackets will never get over the hump to be an elite type of program under Paul Johnson. The style of play and game planning just don't seem to be consistent as you never know what kind of effort Gtech will come with game to game.
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- This game demonstrates precisely why bowl games exist, and why they will continue to exist – even if the NCAA implements a playoff. This was a well-played game by both sides that could have gone either way.
- Excellent call by Norm Chow to go back to the fade on 4th and 14 with just 1:39 to play. The Utes will miss him calling the plays next season.
- John Hays' performance demonstrates that for all of the statistics that exist to examine QB play, the only one that matters is how he performs with the game on the line.
- Give Kyle Whittingham credit for winning this game. Almost everyone – myself included – thought that he was conceding the game when he called a punt on fourth down with just 2:52 to play because the Yellow Jackets would run the clock out with just one first down. However, Whittingham opted to believe in his defense, and they responded by stopping Tech on three plays to get the ball back.
- Who says the Pac 12 cannot play physical football? The Utes defensive line took over the game in the second half by winning the battle up front. Very few teams were able to do that against Tech's O-line this season.
- All season long, Georgia Tech has dispelled the myth that option teams cannot throw the football. They did so again today, as Jackets burned Utah deep several different times, and managed to use their short passing game during the final minutes of the game to set up a game-winning FG try.


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Tesla has quietly delivered the first Model S to company board member Steve Jurvetson, ahead of its official launch on June 22nd.
Sporting a Signature Red exterior and a customized "TSLA S1" license plate, the limited edition model has an 85 kWh lithium-ion battery which enables the car to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds and hit a top speed of 125 mph (or 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds and a top speed of 130 mph, if this is the performance variant).
The Model S Signature Series is priced from $87,900 while the Signature Performance Series starts at $97,900.
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Indian River trying to buy land for 4th man-made marsh in Oslo area
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — County utilities officials, who already use three man-made marshes to filter nutrients from stormwater on its way to the Indian River Lagoon, are expected to seek bids in the fall for a fourth marsh in the Oslo area.
"Our intent is twofold," county Utilities Director Erik Olson said Wednesday. "We want to remove nutrients — the nitrogen and phosphorus — from the South Relief Canal before it flows into the lagoon."
Native marsh plants would absorb nitrogen and phosphorous that scientists say would otherwise nourish algae into blooms that cloud water and rob fish of oxygen.
Olson said the new project also would provide an area for mixing water from the canal with "brine," the salt-heavy water left after county workers push water from the underground Floridan aquifer through membranes to make drinking water.
In this case, the next-door South County Reverse-Osmosis Facility extracts the drinking water and, so far, has poured the leftover brine into the South Relief Canal.
Olson said the state Department of Environmental Protection wants the county to cease pouring salt-heavy water into surface waters and has approved the idea of mixing it in the new marsh.
In a recent meeting, the County Commission voted to let Olson negotiate the purchase of 13 acres on the east side of the South County plant, on the south side of Fifth Street Southwest in the 1220 block.
The owner, Beale Holdings Inc., has asked for $1.2 million. However, Olson said county staffers have negotiated a preliminary offer of $650,000. He said he'll return to the commission at its Aug. 21 meeting with a final price for approval.
"And hopefully by the fall, we'll have the project ready to go out for bid," he said.
The new project is expected to cost $6 million, he said, including the land plus the pipes and pump station carrying water from the canal and the reverse-osmosis system.
That's a $4 million savings, he added, from a prior plan to build the marsh near the Oslo Convenience Center near First Street Southwest. That property, a former landfill, would have required a mile of piping and also a lining to separate the marsh from the buried waste and work to stabilize the soil.
The new site, zoned residential at six homes per acre, had preliminary approval for a subdivision site plan, county Community Development Director Bob Keating said. That approval expired in January, he said.
"It's not like there are lots sitting there," Keating said.
The proposed Oslo marsh would follow in the wake of other stormwater-cleanup systems: the $5.2 million system of screens between the Main Relief Canal and Airport Boulevard; the $4 million Spoonbill Marsh, north of Grand Harbor; the $6.5 million Egret Marsh, southeast of 74th Avenue and Fourth Street; and the $1.8 million West Regional Wastewater Nature Preserve, southeast of 90th Avenue and Eighth Street.
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Polymeric drug/gene nanocarriers for gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy are designed and synthesized to specifically target cancer cells and control the release of cytotoxic drugs inside the cancer cells for augmenting the effectiveness of anticancer treatment. Several enzyme/prodrug pairs and anticancer drugs have been coupled with polymeric micellar nanoparticles to deliver into cancer cells and showed anticancer activity. To achieve the goal of long blood circulation of drug/gene carriers, CD47- streptavidin fusion protein expressed in bacteria and purified by affinity chromatography is conjugated on biotinylated nanocarriers to explore its anti-phagocytic capability. Results show CD47-tagged nanoparticles can prevent phagocytosis by macrophage to a large extend. For the enhancement of gene delivery efficiency using either viral or nonviral methods, potential of ultrasonic standing wave fields has been demonstrated. Under acoustic exposure, suspended cells move to the pressure nodal planes first and form cell clusters. Then, viruses or DNA complexes circulated between nodal planes use the pre-formed cell clusters as the nucleating sites to attach on. As a result, this system enhances gene delivery efficiency.
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Developing fast and efficient screening technology has its merits of identifying potential drugs against viral diseases that still lack of effective prevention or treatment. Quantum dot, an emerging probe for biological imaging and medical diagnostics, is employed to form complexes with virus and used as fluorescent imaging probes for exploring potential antiviral therapeutics. Ultrasound contrast perfluorocarbon microbubble stabilized with PEG-based fluorosurfactant has been incorporated with nanomaterials to enhance the detecting capability. Perfluorocarbon microbubble can be further used to carry therapeutic drugs or genes to make it as a theranostic agent. Carbon nanotube and gold nanorod functionalized with tumor-specific monoclonal antibodies have been utilized along with near-infrared laser to selectively induce photothermolysis of specific malignant cells from a mixed cell population.
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- Lee, Y-H, Peng, C-A, Nonviral gene transfer of suspension cells in ultrasound standing wave fields, Ultrasound Med Biol 33: 734-742, 2007.
- Peng, C-A, Huang, F, Formation of perfluorocarbon microemulsion using nonionic perfluoroalkylated polyethylene glycol surfactant, J. Dispersion Sci Tech 29: 46-51, 2008.
- Kwon, YJ, Peng, C-A, Differential interaction of retroviral vector with target cell: quantitative effect of cellular receptor, soluble proteoglycan, and cell type on gene delivery efficiency, Tissue Eng Part A 14: 1497-1506, 2008.
- Wang, C-H, Hsu, Y-S, Peng, C-A, Quantum dots encapsulated with amphiphilic alginate as bioprobe for fast screening anti-dengue virus agents, Biosens Bioelectron 24: 1012-1019, 2008.
- Peng, C-A, Analysis of gene transfer rate with immobilized retroviral vectors, Ann NY Acad Sci 1161: 26-33, 2009.
- Wang, C-H, Huang, Y-J, Chang, C-W, Hsu, W-M, Peng, C-A, In vitro photothermal destruction of neuroblastoma cells using carbon nanotubes conjugated with GD2 monoclonal antibody, Nanotechnology 20: 315101-315107, 2009.
- Lee, Y-H, Peng, C-A, Effect of hypotonic stress on retroviral transduction, Biochem Biophy Res Comm 390: 1367-1371, 2009.
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My baby is 6 days old and she sleeps alot she wakes eats and goes back to sleep sometimes i have to wake her up at about 3 to 4 hours to get her to eat and she'll only take about 1 to 2 ounces at the most and go right back to sleep?? This seems like too little to me but nurse said its fine? anyone else's baby not eating alot and but sleeping alot?
6 day old baby sleeps alot and only eats 1 to 2 ounces every 4 hours? Anyone else?
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Does she easily take the bottle, or seem to struggle to drink it? I only ask because my daughter at three months was sleeping through the night, and didn't wake up for feedings. Ped said we were lucky, but 6 months later found out she had a heart condition that was making it hard for her to wake up. She did not take bottles well, though.
Your are technically not supposed to wake a sleeping baby. If your daughter has not lost weight that is concerning to the pediatrician, then I would let her sleep-unless, like I said and she is not waking up for feedings at all.
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is she jaundiced. my DD1 was a bit, its normal, but they said it would make her tired and may have to wake her to feed her. see how things go over the weekend and if shes not doing better call/go in again. make sure she doesnt have a fever.
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babies eat less frequently if you feed them formula because the formula keeps them fuller longer. Breastfed babies eat a lot more frequently.
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is she on the smaller side?
i have small babies (2 iugr babies) and they get so tired just from eating (even pumped bm in a bottle) that they sleep to conserve enery and then they dont gain fast enough, i would just have your baby weighed to see that they are gaining enough, and if they are, let her sleep! and enjoy the time to recover!
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Very normal, especially considering you are feeding formula.
Babies eat different amounts, with my 14 month old, all my friends babies in the august group, breastfed and formula fed, were eating only 1-3 oz every 2-3 or 4 hours. My little man was sleeping 4 hours then eating 5-6 oz of pumped breastmilk or breastfeeding "straight from the tap" as we called it lol.
They all eat differently, formula is thicker and keeps them full longer, its not a huge worry unless she is tiny and losing weight at her first appointment.
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A method is described for identifying related pages among a plurality of pages in a linked database such as the World Wide Web. An initial page is selected from the plurality of pages. Pages linked to the initial page are represented as a graph in a memory. The pages represented in the graph are scored on content, and a set of pages is selected, the selected set of pages having scores greater than a first predetermined threshold. The selected set of pages is scored on connectivity, and a subset of the set of pages that have scores greater than a second predetermined threshold are selected as related pages.
1. A method for identifying related pages from a plurality of pages in a linked database, comprising the steps of:
selecting an initial page from the plurality of pages;
identifying a plurality of pages linked to the initial page;
identifying a plurality of stop URLs, said determination including an analysis of incoming and outgoing links associated with the stop URL, wherein the stop URL is a URL frequency referenced by another plurality of pages, content of a web pages associated with the URL is general in nature and is unrelated to one or more topics of the initial page;
representing the initial page and the plurality of linked pages as a graph of undirected nodes and edges in a memory, the nodes excluding the one or more stop URLs;
repeatedly scoring the initial page and the pages linked to the initial page, where the scoring is based on connectivity of the pages; and
selecting a subset of the pages scored on connectivity that have scores greater than a first predetermined threshold as the related pages of the linked database; and
storing the selected subset of pages in a computerized memory device.
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This invention relates generally to computerized information retrieval, and more particularly to identifying related pages in a hyperlinked database environment such as the World Wide Web.
It has become common for users of host computers connected to the World Wide Web (the "Web") to employ Web browsers and search engines to locate Web pages having specific content of interest to users. A search engine, such as Digital Equipment Corporation's Alta Vista search engine, indexes hundreds of millions of Web pages maintained by computers all over the world. The users of the hosts compose queries, and the search engine identifies pages that match the queries, e.g., pages that include key words of the queries. These pages are known as a "result set."
In many cases, particularly when a query is short or not well defined, the result set can be quite large, for example, thousands of pages. The pages in the result set may or may not satisfy the user's actual information needs. Therefore, techniques have been developed to identify a smaller set of related pages.
In one prior art technique used by the Excite search engine, please see "http://www.excite.com," users first form an initial query, using the standard query syntax for the Excite search engine that attempts to specify a topic of interest. After the result set has been returned, the user can use a "Find Similar" option to locate related pages. However, there the finding of the related pages is not fully automatic because the user first is required to form a query, before related pages can be identified. In addition, that technique only works on the Excite search engine and for the specific subset of Web page provides related pages that are indexed by the Excite search engine.
In another prior art technique, an algorithm for connectivity analysis of a neighborhood graph (n-graph) is described by Kleinberg in "AuthoratativeAuthoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment," Proc. 9th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998, and also in IBM Research Report RJ 10076, May 1997, see, "http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/kleinber/auth.ps". The Kleinberg algorithm analyzes the link structure, or connectivity of Web pages "in the vicinity" of the result set to suggest useful pages in the context of the search that was performed.
The vicinity of a Web page is defined by the hyperlinks that connect the page to others. A Web page can point to other pages, and the page can be pointed to by other pages. Close pages are directly linked, farther pages are indirectly linked via intermediate pages. This connectivity can be expressed as a graph where nodes represent the pages, and the directed edges represent the links. The vicinity of all the pages in the result set, up to a certain distance, is called the neighborhood graph.
Specifically, the Kleinberg algorithm attempts to identify "hub" pages and "authority" pages in the neighborhood graph for a user query. Hubs and authorities exhibit a mutually reinforcing relationship.
The Kleinberg paper cited above also describes an algorithm that can be used to determine related pages by starting with a single page. The algorithm works by first finding a set of pages that point to the page, and then running the base algorithm on the resulting graph. However, this algorithm for finding related pages differs from our invention in that it does not deal with popular URLs, with neighborhood graphs containing duplicate pages, or with cases where the computation is totally dominated by a single "hub" page, nor does the algorithm include an analysis of the contents of pages when it is computing the most related pages.
The CLEVER Algorithm is a set of extensions to Kleinberg's algorithm, see S.Chakrabarti et al, "Experiments in Topic Distillation," ACM SIGIR Workshop on Hypertext Information Retrieval on the Web, Melbourne, Australia, 1998. The goal of the CLEVER algorithm is to distill the most important sources of information from a collection of pages about a topic.
In U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/007,635 "Method for Ranking Pages Using Connectivity and Content Analysis" filed by Bharat et al. on Jan. 15, 1998, a method is described that examines both the connectivity and the content of pages to identify useful pages. However, the method is relatively slow because all pages in the neighborhood graph are fetched in order to determine their relevance to the query topic. This is necessary to reduce the effect of non-relevant pages in the subsequent connectivity analysis phase.
In U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/058,577 "Method for Ranking Documents in a Hyperlinked Environment using Connectivity and Selective Content Analysis" filed by Bharat et al. on Apr. 9, 1998, a method is described which performs content analysis on only a small subset of the pages in the neighborhood graph to determine relevance weights, and pages with low relevance weights are pruned from the graph. Then, the pruned graphed is ranked according to a connectivity analysis. This method still requires the result set of a query to form a query topic.
Therefore, there is a need for a method for identifying related pages in a linked database that does not require a query and the fetching of many unrelated pages.
Provided is a method for identifying related pages among a plurality of pages in a linked database such as the World Wide Web. An initial page is selected from the plurality of pages by specifying the URL of the page or clicking on the page using a Web browser in a convenient manner.
Pages linked directly or indirectly to the initial page are represented as a neighborhood graph in a memory. The pages represented in the graph are scored on content using a similarity measurement using a topic extracted from a chosen subset of the represented pages.
A set of pages is selected from the pages in the graph, the selected set of pages having scores greater than a first predetermined threshold and do not belong to a predetermined list of "stop URLs." Stop URLs are highly popular, general purpose sites such as search engines. The selected set of pages is then scored on connectivity, and a subset of the set of pages that have scores greater than a second predetermined threshold are selected as related pages. Finally, during an optional pass, content analysis can be done on highly ranked pages to determine which pages have high content scores.
System Overview
The Web 131 allows the clients 110 to access documents, for example, multi-media Web pages 121 maintained by the servers 120. Typically, this is done with a Web browser application program (B) 114 executing in the client 110. The location of each page 121 is indicated by an associated Universal Resource Locator (URL) 122. Many of the pages include "hyperlinks" 123 to other pages. The hyperlinks are also in the form of URLs.
Although the invention is described with respect to documents that are Web pages, it should be understood that our invention can also be applied to any linked data objects of a database whose content and connectivity can be characterized.
In order to help users locate Web pages of interest, a search engine 140 can maintain an index 141 of Web pages in a memory, for example, disk storage. In response to a query 111 composed by a user using the Web browser (B) 114, the search engine 140 returns a result set 112 which satisfies the terms (key words) of the query 111. Because the search engine 140 stores many millions of pages, the result set 112, particularly when the query 111 is loosely specified, can include a large number of qualifying pages.
These pages may, or may not related to the user's actual information need. Therefore, the order in which the result 112 set is presented to the client 110 is indicative of the usefulness of the search engine 140. A good ranking process will return only "useful" pages before pages that are less so.
We provide an improved ranking method 200 that can be implemented as part of a search engine 140. Alternatively, our method 200 can be implemented by one of the clients 110 as part of the Web browser 114. Our method uses content analysis, as well as connectivity analysis, to improve the ranking of pages in the result set 112 so that just pages related to a particular topic are identified.
Our invention is a method that takes an initial single selected Web page 201 as input, and produces a subset of related Web pages 113 as output. Our method works by examining the "neighborhood" surrounding the initial selected page 201 in a Web neighborhood graph and examining the content of the initial selected page and other pages in the neighborhood graph.
Our method relies on the assumption that related pages will tend to be "near" the selected page in the Web neighborhood graph, or that the same keywords will appear as part of the content of related pages. The nearness of a page can be expressed as the number of links (K) that need to be traversed to reach a related page.
Building the Neighborhood Graph
We start with an initial single selected page 201, i.e., the page 201 includes a topic which is of interest to a user. The user can select the page 201 by, for example, giving the URL or "clicking" on the page. It should be noted that the initial selected page can be any type of linked data object, text, video, audio, or just binary data as stated above.
We use the initial page 201 to construct 210 a neighborhood graph (n-graph) 211 in a memory. Nodes 212 in the graph represent the initial selected page 201 as well as other closely linked pages, as described below. The edges 213 denote the hyperlinks between pages. The "size" of the graph is determined by K which can be preset or adjusted dynamically as the graph is constructed. The idea being that the graph needs to represent a meaningful number of page.
During the construction of the neighborhood graph 211, the direction of links is considered as a way of pruning the graph. In the preferred implementation, with K=2, our method only includes nodes at distance 2 that are reachable by going one link backwards ("B"), pages reachable by going one link forwards ("F"), pages reachable by going one link backwards followed by one link forward ("BF") and those reachable by going one link forwards and one link backwards ("FB"). This eliminates nodes that are reachable only by going forward two links ("FF") or backwards two links ("BB").
To eliminate some unrelated nodes from the neighborhood graph 211, our method relies on a list 299 of "stop" URLs. Stop URLs are URLs that are so popular that they are frequently referenced from many, many pages, such as, for instance URLs that refer to popular search engines. An example is "www.altavista.com." These "stop" nodes are very general purpose and so are generally not related to the specific topic of the selected page 201, and consequently serve no purpose in the neighborhood graph. Our method checks each URL against the stop list 299 during the neighborhood graph construction, and eliminates the node and all incoming and outgoing edges if a URL is found on the stop list 299.
In some cases, the neighborhood graph becomes too large. For example, highly popular pages are often pointed to by many thousands of pages and including all such pages in the neighborhood graph is impractical. Similarly, some pages contain thousands of outgoing links, which also cause the graph to become too large. Our method filters the incoming or outgoing edges by choosing only a fixed number M of them. In our preferred implementation, M is 50. In the case that the page was reached by a backwards link L, and the page has more than M outgoing links, our method chooses the M links that surround the link L on the page.
In the case of a page P that has N pages pointing to page P, our method will choose only a subset of M of the pages for inclusion in the neighborhood graph. Our method chooses the subset of M pages from the larger set of N pages pointing to page P by selecting the subset of M pages with the highest in-degree in the graph. The idea being that pages with high in-degree are likely to be of higher quality than those with low in-degree.
In some cases, pages will have identical content, or nearly identical contents. This can happen when pages were copied, for example. In such cases, we want to include only one such page in our neighborhood graph, since the presence of multiple copies of a page will tend to artificially increase the importance of any pages that the copies point to. We collapse duplicate pages to a single node in the neighborhood graph. There are several ways that one could identify duplicate pages.
One way examines the textual content of the pages to see if they are duplicates or near-duplicates, as described by Broder et al. in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/048,653, "Method for clustering closely resembling data objects," file Mar. 26, 1998. Another way that is less computationally expensive and which does not require the content of the page, is to examine the outgoing links of two pages. If there are a significant number of outgoing links and they are mostly identical, these pages are likely to be duplicates. We identify this case by choosing a threshold number of links Q. Pages P1 and P2 are considered near duplicates if both P1 and P2 have more than Q links, and a large fraction of their links are present in both P1 and P2.
Relevancy Scoring of Nodes in the Neighborhood Graph
We next score 220 the content of the pages represented by the graph 211 with respect to a topic 202. We extract the topic 202 from the initial page 201.
Scoring can be done using well known retrieval techniques. For example, in the Salton & Buckley model, the content of the represented pages 211 and the topic 202 can be regarded as vectors in an n-dimensional vector space, where n corresponds to the number of unique terms in the data set.
A vector matching operation based on cosine of the angle between vectors is used to produces scores 203 that measure similarity. Please see, Salton et al., "Term-Weighting Approaches in Automatic Text Retrieval," Information Processing and Management, 24(5), 513-23, 1988. A probabilistic model is described by Croft et al. in "Using Probabilistic Models of Document Retrieval without Relevance Feedback," Documentation, 35(4), 285-94, 1979. For a survey of ranking techniques in Information Retrieval see Frakes et al., "Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms," Chapter 14-'Ranking Algorithms,' Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1992.
Our topic vector can be determined as the term vector of the initial page 201, or as a vector sum of the term vector of the initial selected page and some function of the term vectors of all the pages presented in the neighborhood graph 211. One such function could simply weight the term vectors of each of the pages equally, while another more complex function would give more weight to the term vectors of pages that are at a smaller distance K from the selected page 201. Scoring 220 results in a scored graph 215.
Pruning Nodes in the Scored Neighborhood Graph
After the graph has been scored, the scored graph 215 is "pruned" 230 to produce a pruned graph 216. Here, pruning means removing those nodes and links from the graph that are not "similar." There are a variety of approaches which can be used as the threshold for pruning, including median score, absolute threshold, or a slope-based approach.
In addition, content analysis can be used to guide the neighborhood graph construction process by extending the search out to larger distances of K for pages whose contents are closely related to the original page, and cutting off the neighborhood graph construction at smaller values of K when pages are reached that have very little content in common with the original page.
Connectivity Scoring the Pruned Graph
In step 240, the pruned graph 216 is scored again, this time based on connectivity. This scoring effectively ranks the pages, and pages above a predetermined rank can be presented to the user as the related pages 113.
One algorithm which performs this scoring is the Kleinberg algorithm mentioned previously. This algorithm works by iteratively computing two scores for each node in the graph: a hub score (HS) 241 and an authority score 242. The hub score 241 estimates good hub pages, for example, a page such as a directory that points to many other relevant pages. The authority score 242 estimates good authority pages, for example, a page that has relevant information.
The intuition behind Kleinberg's algorithm is that a good hub is one that points to many documents and a good authority is one that is pointed to by many documents. Transitively, an even better hub is one that points to many good authorities, and an even better authority is one that is pointed to by many good hubs.
Bharat et al., cited above, have come up with several improved algorithms that provide more accurate results than Kleinberg's algorithm, and any of these could be used as in step 240.
If a single node has dominated the computation as a hub node, that is, exerted "undue influence", then it is sometimes beneficial to remove that node from the neighborhood graph in optional step 250, and repeat the scoring phase 240 on the graph with the node removed. One way of detecting when this undue influence has been exerted is when a single node has a large fraction of the total hub scores of all the nodes (e.g., more than 95% of the total hub scores is attributed to a single node). Another means determines if the node with the highest hub score has more than three times the hub score of the next highest hub score. Other means of determining undue influence are possible.
Differences with the Prior Art
Our method differs from prior art in the graph building and pruning steps. A simple prior art building method treated the n-graph as an undirected graph and used any page within a distance K to construct the graph. Refinements to this method considered the graph as directed and allowed a certain number of backward hyperlink traversals as part of the, neighborhood graph construction. Notice, this refinement required backwards connectivity information that is not directly present in the Web pages themselves.
This information can be provided by a server 150, such as a connectivity server or a search engine database, see U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/037,350 "Connectivity Server" filed by Broder et al. on Mar. 10, 1998. Typical values of K can be 2 or 3. Alternatively, K can be determined dynamically, depending on the size of the neighborhood graph, for example, first try to build a graph for K=2, and if this graph is not considered large enough, use a larger value for K.
There are two differences in our method. First, we start with a single Web page as input, rather than the result set produced by a search engine query. The second difference deals with how the initial neighborhood graph 211 is constructed. Kleinberg includes all pages that have a directed path of length K from or to the initial set.
In contrast, we look at the Web graph as an undirected graph and include all pages that are K undirected links away from our initial selected page. This has the benefit of including pages that can be reached by an "up-down" path traversals of the graph, such as pages that are both indexed by the same directory page, but which are not reachable from each other using just a directed path. In some cases we choose to specify the type of paths allowed explicitly, e.g., only F, B, FB, BF as described above.
In the presence of useful hub pages, pages that point to many related pages, our approach will include all of the related pages referenced by the hub which might be similar to the selected page 201 in our neighborhood graph.
Our method differs from the Kleinberg method because there no pruning of the neighborhood graph was performed. Bharat et al. improved the Kleinberg method by pruning the graph to leave a subset of pages which are fed to the ranking step to yield more accurate results.
However, because we start with a single Web page, rather than with a results from a query, we do not have an initial query against which to measure the relevance of the related pages. Instead, we use the content of the initial page, and optionally the content of other pages in the neighborhood graph to arrive at a topic vector.
Our method differs from Kleinberg's algorithm in the scoring phase in that we detect cases where a node has exerted "undue influence" on the computation of hub scores. In this case, we remove the node from the graph and repeat the scoring computation without this node in the graph. This change tends to produce a more desirable ordering of related pages where highly rated pages are referred to by more than one page. Kleinberg's algorithm does not include any such handling of nodes with undue influence.
Advantages and Applications
Our invention enables automatic identification of Web pages related to a single Web page. Thus, if a user locates just one page including an interesting topic, then other pages related to the topic are easily located. According to the invention, the relationship is established through the use of connectivity and content analysis of the page and nearby pages in the Web neighborhood.
By omitting the content analysis steps of our method, the method is able to identify related URLs for the selected page 201 solely through connectivity information. Since this information can be quickly provided by means of a connectivity server 150, the set of related pages can be identified without fetching any pages or examining the contents of any pages.
One application of this invention allows a Web browsers in a client computer to provide a "Related Pages" option, whereby users can quickly be taken to any of the related pages. Another application is in a server computer that implements a Web search engine. There, a similar option allows a user to list just related pages, instead of the entire result set of a search.
It is understood that the above-described embodiments are simply illustrative of the principles of the invention. Various other modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art which will embody the principles of the invention and fall within the spirit and scope thereof.
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Spicy Hot Stuffed Green Peppers
|Lean ground beef
|1 Pound
|1 Clove (5 gm), minced
|1 Medium, chopped
|7 Ounce (Half Of A 14-Ounce Bottle)
|Tomato sauce
|4 Ounce (Half Of An 8-Ounce Can)
|Worcestershire sauce
|1 Tablespoon
|1 Teaspoon (Scant)
|Ground black pepper
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Cooked white rice
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Green bell peppers
|4 Medium
|Shredded sharp cheddar cheese
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Cooking oil spray
|Celery leaves
|4 (For Garnish)
In a deep skillet over medium heat, brown 1 pound ground beef with 1 clove of minced garlic, and 1 chopped onion. Cook and stir, until ground beef is done, and the garlic and onion are tender and clear. Drain, if there is excess fat. Stir in 1/2 of a 14-oz. bottle of ketchup, 1/2 of an 8-oz. can tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, a scant teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper. Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. In the meantime, prepare 2 cups cooked white rice. To do this, place 1 cup white rice into 2 cups of boiling water. Bring to a boil. Cover with a lid that fits, reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes. While the rice is cooking, you can prepare your green bell peppers. Cut off tops of peppers. Remove seeds and membranes. Cook peppers in boiling water 5 minutes. Drain upside-down on paper towels. When rice is done, combine cooked ground beef mixture with 2 cups cooked rice. Spoon into peppers. Place stuffed peppers in a baking dish that has been sprayed with cooking oil spray. Cover with a lid that fits (or aluminum foil, if necessary), and bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Sprinkle the top of each stuffed pepper with a generous amount of shredded sharp Cheddar cheese. Return to oven and bake, uncovered, for an additional 3 minutes. You may want to turn your oven to "broil" for the last minute, to brown up the cheese. Arrange peppers on a nice serving platter, and garnish with celery leaves if desired. I hope you enjoy this hearty dish! --Betty :)
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