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Lee Camp: What the Media Isn’t Telling You about Michael Jackson’s Death
July 14th, 2009 |
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Judge H. Lee Sarokin: The “Truthiness” Dilemma
July 14th, 2009 |
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What Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it hardly stems the flood of foreclosures, and whether she knew and failed to complain doesn’t quite equate with directly ordering torture.
Lee Stranahan: WATCH: Ex Speechwriter Announces Sarah Palin 3rd Political Party
July 13th, 2009 |
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We’ve previously featured interview segments with Sarah Palin wordsmith Dan Tubagoo, the heretofore unbeknownst ‘man behind the magic’ of soon to be ex Governor Palin’s…
Ashes live – England v Australia
July 11th, 2009 |
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First Ashes Test, Cardiff, day four:
England v Australia
LIVE TEXT COMMENTARY (all times BST)
By Ben Dirs
606: DEBATEYour thoughts on the action
e-mail tms@bbc.co.uk (with ‘For Ben Dirs’ in the subject), text 81111 (with "CRICKET" as the first word) or use 606. (Not all contributions can be used)
AUSTRALIA FIRST INNINGS
"Poor Michael! If he sends his bank details and $500.00 administration and bank fees then we will gladly help. Paul in Lancs, good to see you are about, Sarahs, where are you"
Miss Ruby, Perth, in the TMS inbox1119 – 498-5 Broad is called for a wide… tennis ball bounce, the ball looped about two feet above Haddin’s lid. Over-pitched from Broad and Haddin laces him through the covers for four. Haddin picks up a single with a carve to point, before Broad goes round the wicket to North. North clips to mid-wicket for one, Australia disappearing serenely into the distance like a ruddy great ocean liner… "Sorry to disappoint you folks, but Freddie isn’t fit to polish Beefy’s boots. Lord Botham could sink 20 pints, steer a pedalo through Sydney Harbour in peak hour and still rip into any of our finest 11 with results. That’s why we respect Beefy, he’s a proper cricketer, a sneering laughable rogue, worthy of an Aussie passport."
Johnny Rocket in the TMS inboxBBC Sport’s Tom Fordyce on Twitter:"Is that Richie Benaud in the Cardiff press box There’s no mistaking that tanned visage – all hail the greatest commentator of all time."1115 – 490-5 Short from Anderson and North rocks backs and tugs him away for a single, before Haddin drops into the off-side for one.
BBC Sport’s Tom Fordyce in Cardiff: "The best-selling item outside the ground this morning Ponchos – plastic ones, not the Peruvian alpaca sort. It might not be raining now, but the locals know a downpour when it’s brewing."
"With the money involved in sport nowadays, I wonder if it would be feasible to use ‘rain-prevention technology’, as in, firing those rockets up to disperse the rainclouds. Even if it’s only for big matches such as these."
Sir_Blitzo on 606
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1110 – 488-5 Broad to bowl from the Cathedral Road End… come on Broady, got to be better than yesterday… leg-side delivery flicked away for four by Haddin… bouncer top-edged for four by Haddin… Broad’s frustration gets the better of him, as he shies for the stumps with Haddin rooted in his crease. Haddin snaps his gum and narrows his eyes… "little boys," you can almost hear him thinking, "little boys…"1104 – 480-5 England skipper Strauss has a big grin on his face as he bounds down the pavilion steps, and it’s Jimmy Anderson to bowl first. Too straight, and Haddin flicks his first ball away for a single. North may be a new name to many, but he’s been around for some time now – 130 first-class matches, 9,247 runs, averages 44.67. Tidy opening over, North playing it cool.1057: Broad could do with a couple more wickets today, he really hasn’t dazzled so far. A yard or two short, he’s been well and truly sorted out by the Aussie batsmen, and we could well see Harmison and Onions coming in at Lord’s. It’s Haddin and North at the crease this morning, and here they come, as Blowers struggles to make himself heard over an ear-quivering Jerusalem.TMS’s Alison Mitchell on Twitter:"Aaaah, watching a touching embrace between TMS’s Jason Gillespie and Brett Lee on the outfield (well, a manly sort of hug)"1048: The early Pub Pontification chat in my office centres on whether Andrew Flintoff is overrated or not. The man next to me thinks he’s a marvellous cricketer, but that the hubbub surrounding him whenever he’s thrown the ball or he comes out to bat seems a bit out of proportion. The man opposite reckons he’s not fit to light Botham’s panatella. Obviously, I have no opinion on the matter.
"If and when England learn to pitch the ball up and only use the short one as a surprise they might get somewhere. It isn’t rocket science – look what happened to Katich and Hussey when Anderson pitched it up."
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Join the debate on 6061037: Michael… have you been fibbing If you email in and can prove to me what these "other valuable things" were, then I’ll wire you the money. As for the cricket, it’s pretty difficult to know what to talk about to be honest – if we were going to get a full day’s play in, then we’d surely be chatting about how long the Aussies should bat for, but the weather forecast is so dirty, I’m not sure how relevant that chat’s going to be. "Interestingly, Michael, who needs a loan, was at a seminar here in Holland yesterday, according to an email I received. Poor lad lost his wallet two days on the trot"
Alex, hoping the rain stays away from his home ground in Leiden, the Netherlands, in the TMS inbox1031: The video scorecard has just been inserted at the top of the page, but you’ll have to manually refresh the page to see it…1028:The weather forecast from Cardiff couldn’t really be much worse:the BBC reckon it’s going to be an out and out wash-out, although they’ve already got it wrong to be fair – they were predicting drizzle from 1000 BST, and we haven’t seen any yet. Anyone got $2,500 they can lend Michael I’ve got his email address in case you’re worried about him not paying it back. "Hello. How are you doing I am sorry that i didn’t inform you about my traveling to England for a Seminar. I need a favor from you as soon as you recieve this e-mail because i misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money,and other valuable things were kept, i will like you to assist me with a loan urgently. I will be needing the sum of $2,500 to sort-out my hotel bills and get myself back home. Your reply will be greatly appreciated."
Michael in the TMS inbox1014: Hello. It looks as if we’ll be starting on time, which might be a surprise to many of you. However, after lunch Fish and his mob reckon it’s going to rain and rain and rain..
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Cynthia Gordy: Will Obama Set a New Tone in Africa?
July 11th, 2009 |
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Amid the anticipated media narrative, of Ghana excitedly welcoming the first Black President on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, many are also wondering about the substance.
Lee Stranahan: WATCH : Interview With Sarah Palin’s Former Speechwriter
July 10th, 2009 |
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He’s the man behind the magic but now he’s out of a job. Watch our exclusive interview with Palin wordsmith Dan Tubagoo….
Lee Schneider: Money and Power and Swimming with Sharks
July 10th, 2009 |
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I strive, therefore I am. Some sharks are like that — they can’t stop swimming because then they stop breathing.
Looking glass
July 10th, 2009 |
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By Ian Hardy
Click reporter, Silicon Valley
If you want to find something out these days, one of the first things you will do is type words into a box on the webpages of a search engine.
The result will be an avalanche of websites which contain the words you are looking for, hopefully with the most useful ones at the top of the list.
For much of the past two decades, search results have been triggered by straightforward keyword connections.
It has been an adequate solution, but it is far from perfect says Mike Elgan, a columnist at Computerworld.com.
"Human beings view the world in terms of associations – a classic example in the scientific community is when you say the sentence ‘I saw a bird with a telescope’.
"Human beings instantly know it was you not the bird that was using the telescope. But computers don’t know that," he said.
Human understanding
Search engines have never really understood the precise meaning or true intent of questions or phrases – semantic search is a process trying to improve this.
A new generation of web services is in development to offer results for words and picture searches, and attempt to understand users’ questions.
"The idea is for people to be able to scan it and find interesting things more like a magazine"
Anand Rajaraman,
co-founder of Kosmix
Kosmix is one of a new batch of search engines trying to incorporate human understanding into its complex mathematical computations.
Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix, said the site’s goal is to encourage a kind of "serendipity" by displaying information in a visual way.
"The idea is for people to be able to scan it and find interesting things more like a magazine.
"You know how you are scanning a magazine and suddenly something catches your eye serendipitously," he said.
‘Exciting work’
Bing is the latest reincarnation of Windows Live Search and MSN Search which have never been as popular as Yahoo or Google.
To improve it Microsoft bought semantic search company Powerset that uses updated methods to produce their results.
Scott Prevost from Powerset told Click that despite advances, the problems of natural language are not even close to being solved.
"There’s a lot of exciting work that will happen particularly in the next five to 10 years," he said.
Also, increasingly search is moving beyond desktops. One recent survey in the US showed the number of search apps downloaded to mobile phones in the past year has doubled.
While a third more searches are being done on mobile web browsers – many devices have GPS and a constant stream of updated information.
Voice search
A search engine of the future will not just return a list of restaurants, for instance, but it will know you are inside a car, what time of day it is, and the traffic conditions.
So when you get to the restaurant, it will be able to guide you to the nearest parking space, and tell you what specific lunch specials are on the menu that day.
But typing on the go can be dangerous and even illegal in some places, so the physical way we search may change over time.
Scott Prevost, from Powerset said that as speech recognition improves, voice input will start to appear more in mobile phone searches.
"With a mobile device it’s easier to say what you want rather than type some keywords," he said.
"People speak in short simple sentences when they know there is a speech recognizer listening to them," he added.
It is a long way from the search engines of the 1990s which were not smart enough to generalise. Often they could only find something if you knew exactly what you were looking for, sometimes down to the exact filename.
Make connections
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, believes search is still in its infancy and that semantics is key to a more powerful internet.
He said it all comes down to the ability to make connections.
"The thing explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that was put there for one reason and realizes that they can connect it with something else".
He added that, for example, someone could "realise something about global warming because we’ve managed to get all of the data out there."
There is a race going on between the established players and the young startups to take search to the next level.
All are aiming to make it highly personalized, intuitive and more integrated into our lives.
Perhaps one day search engines will deliver the most suitable result you were looking for every time.</p
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Record Investments This Year: Pm Lee
November 12th, 2007 |
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Manufacturing still key focus for Singapore
Hedirman Supian
hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg
Manufacturing will remain a key focus for the Government as it expects
investment commitments for the sector to reach a record high this year.
Speaking at the opening of Global Entrepolis @ Singapore yesterday
evening, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: “The Government is fully
committed to keeping manufacturing a key pillar of the economy.”
“EDB expects to end this year with manufacturing investment commitments in
Singapore reaching a record high,” he added.
The Economic Development Board has forecast fixed asset investments (FAI)
for manufacturing to be between $8.5 million and $9 billion this year.
Last year, the FAI forecast was between $8 billion and $8.5 billion but
actual investments were $8.8 billion.
The best in manufacturing were given due recognition last night with the
Manufacturing Excellence Award (Maxa).
In its second year, Maxa is the only national award benchmarked to global
manufacturing standards.
Tetra Pak Jurong, this year’s big winner, received top marks for
production and operational performance and employee training.
Other winners included Kenwood Electronics Technologies Singapore, 3M
Singapore and Systems on Silicon Manufacturing.