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Sierra Club May Force Automakers to Deepen Cuts in Fuel, Carbon - Bloomberg

rob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:48:19 +0000

July 23 (Bloomberg) — The Sierra Club is on the verge of forcing automakers to raise U.S. vehicle fuel economy 22 percent more than Congress ordered last December. California and 13 other states are set to impose the first U.S. limits on vehicle

Plastic and Metal Moulds (Alt/BT) - Seibertron.com
To date I have no Alternators in my collection having gone for the BT versions of those that I’ve picked up. With renewed releases in the BT line recently I’ve been thinking about the moulds that have so far only seen release in plastic (Rodimus

Allegheny Technologies, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript - Seekingalpha.com
Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Second Quarter 2008 Allegheny Technologies Conference Call. My name is Akiya and I’ll be your operator for today. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. We’ll conduct a question and

UNL officers trading cars for Segways - Lincoln Journal Star

rob — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:37:49 +0000

It won t be long before University of Nebraska-Lincoln police officers are tooling around campus on a new kind of two-wheeled device: Segway Personal Transporters. UNL Police recently purchased four of the gadgets, Capt. Carl Oestmann said

Drivers begin parking their cars - Globe and Mail
Ian Gunn from Minneapolis, United States writes: Having worked in the retail business, comparing month to month sales is silly. You can seasonally adjust all you would like, but there is no comparison like looking at last May to this May. That to me

Power In The Air

rob — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:26:51 +0000

Getting the U.S. to use more wind energy is technologically feasible but politically tricky.

UNL officers trading cars for Segways - Lincoln Journal Star

rob — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:42:06 +0000

Warriors get their big man - Alameda Times-Star
He ain’t Elton Brand, but he’s going to have to do. Ronny Turiaf, the 6-foot-10, 250-pound big man, is officially a Warrior. The Los Angeles Lakers declined to match the four-year, $17 million offer sheet he signed with Golden State last week

The Detroit Festival of Speed and Style to auction commemorative Chevy - Detroit News
DETROIT — The General Motors Corp. is releasing an engine to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chevrolet big block that put the growl in Motor City muscle cars. GM Performance Parts has crafted a modern version of the ZL1, an anniversary

Yahoo vs. Google interactive geosearch

rob — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:50:47 +0000

I wanted to find the trendy-but-good shop I stopped by yesterday: it’s not really a cafe or a coffehouse or a restaurant. They sell sandwiches and savory chicken pie and strawberry shortcake, with cartons of strawberries stacked high in the front. I knew where it was, but not the name, so I compared Yahoo Maps and Google Maps, to learn a little about geosearch.Yahoo maps knew where I live, so it started there, and then just scrolled and zoomed until I found the corner of 51st and Telegraph. (It would have been easier if I’d used the hybrid map & satellite photo, much better for me than plain maps). Then I used the “Find a Business” and typed “pie”. Instantly, Bakesale Betty’s came up, with the word “pie” harvested from a Yahoo user review (5 stars!) in which a customer praised their “pot-pies”. That was about 5 scrolls and 4 clicks and one short search, and successGoogle doesn’t know where I live, so typed in “51st and telegraph, oakland, ca” — and there I was. A couple of clicks to get to the closest street level. Then I clicked on the “Find businesses” link and typed in “pie” and got a display of… 20 results out of 5,645 hits and a much higher view, so they could show me all the other pie matches. Oops. I tried “pies” and that didn’t work, and I couldn’t think of anything else to search on as there area a million sandwich and cookie places. 2 searches (one long), 1 scroll and 4 clicks, but that got me stuck. Then I typed “betty” and of course it was right there, with links to reviews. Just to check, I clicked the Explore this area link, no luck, all about garbage pickup. I tried using the “Street View” and looking at that corner, but in one view the storefront is too dark to see, and in the other there’s a big truck in front of the shop.Why did Google not find me the store when I searched for pie? You may ask, and I have an answer. Because their index and/or their query parsing did not match “pie” with “pot-pies” in one of the customer reviews that Google automatically connected to the business. If they’d used even lightweight pluralization, it would have worked. And zipping me up to the whole Bay Area view was really annoying.Yahoo did a stemmed match and showed it right there, without changing my map level. It wins this comparison.

Swish-e - Search tools Report Updated
Swish-e, a free open-source Unix search engine, Swish-e is fast at indexing and searching, and quite flexible. It can handle simple authentication, indexes HTML, text, XML, and (via converters), PDF, MS Word, Excel and MP3 ID3 tags, with an emphasis on storing feilds/tags for specifying during search. Resuts can be sorted by relevance, date, size, and other fields. It runs as a CGI to a web server (Apache recommended), and has a fairly active user and developer base. New features include adjustments to the relevance algorithm, “near” operator and “?” single character wildcard operator (in addition to “*”).

DolphinSearch - Search tools Report Updated
DolphinSearch, with an unusual search algorithm based on neural networks and dolphin research, this search appliance is designed for legal research and corporate compliance, and integrates into an enterprise document management system. (May 3)

IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition - new Search tools Report
OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a free search engine based on the open-source Lucene core, is a reasonably full-featured search that can index up to 500,000 pages, making it an interesting competitor to the Google Search Appliance, Autonomy Ultraseek and Solr, as well as lower-end search engines. Features include an automated install package for Windows and Linux, browser administration, a powerful web crawling robot, file system remote crawler, index support for over 400 file types (using the Inside Out system for file reading), query parsing recognizes Internet Query Operators and Boolean operators, provides a spellchecker, synonym and suggestions, and Lucene-based stemming. It indexes and searches Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Searches can be sent via REST, and the results formatted within the admin interface, or sent back as ATOM, HTML with XSLT or XML, and linked to optional local document caching. Enterprise support is available from IBM. There are some first-release glitches, but it’s a well-designed package that’s easy to use interactively, with some powerful automation interfaces ready for those who need more flexibility. Definitely worth a look.

where has Entopia gone?
One of my clients is interested in Entopia, so I was taking a look.I tried to go to the web site and it was replaced by one of those placeholder spam sites which pops up several spammy windows. It seems like the kind of thing that might have viruses, worms or trojans, so I’d suggest against opening the site in IE, or really, at all on a Windows machine.No one answered at one phone number, the other two I found were disconnected.Casualty of the recession? Acquired by someone? It’s a mystery, and I’m curious.ETA: The Wayback Machine (archive.org) has an actual home page as of June 13, 2006 and an empty page as of July 1 of that year. I always thought they were promising more than they could deliver, so this is perhaps confirmation.

partly offline due to injury
I slipped on a stepladder and broke my left leg (tibial plateau fracture) and then chipped my right heel while on crutches. My office is not really wheelchair accessible, nor can I go down my house’s steps without great effort, so I’m working remotely, part-time. I am trying to read email every day and respond in a timely way, so if you’ve left a voice message or sent email that I have not answered, please try again (by email if possible). Apologies for your inconvenience.Avi

Bass Fishing Basics.
Learn to catch more Bass even if you’re a beginner. Bass Fishing Basics. - CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — From Christmas trees to cattle, West Virginia’s agriculture industry is still feeling the impact of last summer’s drought. The baked landscape tested the mettle of the state’s 21,000 farms. Since then, fuel and fertilizer Sowing […]

Search Conferences Listing updated
This list covers all the search and related related conferences I know about. At the Enterprise Search Summit West I will be doing a pre-conference workshop on Critical Success Factors (how search engines work and how to make them better), a presentation on Tuning Search using Analytics and a moderating a panel on Good Practices for Search User Interfaces. At the Web Builder 2.0 conference, I’ll be presenting on Web Site Search and the User Experience. If you are a reader of this web site, please come and say hi, and if you’d like an online presentation to your organization or company, I do those as well. To suggest a conference or the listing, please leave a comment and I’ll add it.

Producer Storch s musical empire falls - Johnson City Press

rob — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:31:55 +0000

MIAMI Just a few years ago, Scott Storch was one of the top producers in pop music, living in a $10.5 million mansion on an exclusive Miami island, driving a phalanx of luxury cars and dating the likes of Paris Hilton and Lil Kim. Nowadays, Scott

FF5000 Mission Specific Design Will Reduce Global Aviation Fuel - Businesswire.com

rob — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:25:17 +0000

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Officials of Freight Feeder Aircraft Corporation (a U.S. private corporation 25% owned by Utilicraft Aerospace Industries, Inc. OTCBB: UITA) reported today that due to the recent news concerning U.S. and

Kennametal Names Don Schaaf & Friends, Inc. Advertising Agency of - Forbes

rob — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:08:46 +0000

WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ — Kennametal Inc, a FORTUNE 1000 company with operations in more than 60 countries, has named Washington, DC,-based Don Schaaf & Friends, Inc. (ds+f) as advertising agency of record to create and oversee Kennametal’s

I’m afraid I’m doing the wrong art - Salon
I’m writing with a question that may seem silly given the current state of affairs of the world, but it’s something I think about quite often, and has bearing on my own life. I think I may be in the wrong art. Even writing that, I see there is so

Q&A: Fausto Ibarra Takes SQL Server Reins - VisualStudio Magazine
Fausto Ibarra is the new front man for SQL Server. As reported last week , Ibarra officially took the reins of the SQL Server team as director of product management from Francois Ajenstat, who is now working on Microsoft’s green initiatives. Ibarra

Continental Tire North America Announces More Than $60 Million in New - Forbes
MOUNT VERNON, Ill., July 16 /PRNewswire/ — Continental Tire North America, Inc. (CTNA) today announced more than $60 million in new investments for its Mt. Vernon facility over the next three years. These investments will significantly expand CTNA’s

Movie musicals have pitfalls, but Mamma Mia! still charms - St. Petersburg Times
Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried are candy for the eyes and ears. A s a stage musical, Mamma Mia! is mainly a nostalgia trip for baby boomers with a fondness for Abba, the spandexed Swedish supergroup from the ’70s. The movie has much of the same

Engineering Materials - Design News
Engineering materials is a discussion led by Design News Contributing Materials Editor Doug Smock on important new developments and applications that affect mechanical design. Metals covered include all types of steel and nonferrous metals, in all

Katie Holmes - Chicago Tribune
This Dark Knight is much more than simply Batman 2.0. It’s a re-tooling, a re-load of the franchise Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale revived three summer’s ago. It is crammed with great actors, with a delicious and bittersweet farewell from the

Downtown hardware store is tooling along despite big-box competition - Cleveland Plain Dealer Blog
Thomas Ondrey/The Plain Dealer Tim Peeples of Terrace Construction searches bins for nails at Sutton Industrial Hardware’s old store on St. Clair Avenue downtown. Sutton owner Pete Burke said most of the store’s clients are local commercial

B&W Acquires the Intech Group of Companies - MSN MoneyCentral
McDermott International, Inc. ( McDermott ) MDR announced today that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Company ( B&W ), has purchased the Intech group of companies to expand B&W s capabilities in serving the U.S. commercial

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rob — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:23:23 +0000

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Blu-Ray On Xbox? No Way
Microsoft wants to send you your movies online.

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Week in Review - Sunday, Jul 13 - Delaware Online

rob — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:13:41 +0000

NEW YORK — Among the experiences that make one go “Eek!,” tooling around Manhattan in a rickshaw ranks high, falling somewhere between a cab ride during rush hour and walking through Times Square after the theaters let out.

An eco-friendly way to tour the Big Apple - Delaware Online
NEW YORK — Among the experiences that make one go “Eek!,” tooling around Manhattan in a rickshaw ranks high, falling somewhere between a cab ride during rush hour and walking through Times Square after the theaters let out. Some of the bike-drawn

Rickshaws provide the thrills on a tour of NYC streets - Chicago Tribune
Among the experiences that make one go “Eek!,” tooling around Manhattan in a rickshaw ranks high, falling somewhere between a cab ride during rush hour and walking through Times Square after the theaters let out. Some of the bike-drawn buggies come

Clemson’s talent level puts ACC football championship in sight - Greenville News
For attention-starved members of Clemson Nation, the words Dirty Dozen have never sounded quite so sweet. In this context, it s what the football season holds for them, 12 lesser talented opponents, embellishing the schedule like so many comfort

Gas prices not only reason NASCAR has empty seats - Eagle-Tribune
A photo that ran on the sports front of my paper this week was telling. It showed a whole lot of empty seats at Daytona and Daytona doesn’t normally have a whole lot of empty seats at a NASCAR event. Do we blame it on gas prices? That’s obviously

A-ROD GETS RIBBED - New York Post
TORONTO - There were cheers and jeers for A-Rod yesterday as the Yankee slugger reunited with his delighted 3-year-old daughter Natasha - but was heckled by fans who taunted him about his relationship with Madonna. Alex Rodriguez made his way up to