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Semantic search
Search engines are finally learning how real users think. While popularity-based engines (such as Google) work well, there’s more potential in engines that go beyond link analysis to parsing the meaning of pages. Powerset is one of the most anticipated upcoming semantic search engines, but you can see semantic search at work, on a much smaller scale, in smaller projects such as the wine-aficionado site Snooth; it speaks only wine lingo, but it “understands” wine terms to correctly match “big” with “fruity,” for example.
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As a coeliac myself I am always collecting info to help educate myself and others. Below a list of bakeries and suppliers that may help with that ever ellusive quest of… just get me some good tasting gluten-free bread, damn it!
Sunnybrook Health Store
553A North Road, Ormond – Phone: 03 9578 6400
www.sunnybrookonline.com.au
SillyYaks Bakery Cafe
105 High Street, Northcote – Phone:03 9480 1333
www.sillyyak.com.au
Tangelo Fine Foods
531 Malvern Road, Toorak – Phone: 03 9826 1297
Semilla’s Kitchen- Warrandyte Market – Phone: 0401 911 398
email: semillaskitchen@gmail.com
Gippsland Gluten Free Foods
35 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale – Phone: 5152 3611
www.gippslandglutenfree.com.au
The Swiss Bakehouse
35 Hamilton Place, Mt Waverley – Phone: 03 9807 0699
www.swissbake.com.au
Abunda Gluten Free
432 Sturt Street, Ballarat – Phone: 5333 5344
www.abundaglutenfree.com.au
Gluten Free Foods Mornington
Shop 7, 55 Barkly Street, Mornington – Phone: 5973 6466
www.glutenfreefoods.com.au
Swiss Cakes and Bread
Shop 28, Mountain Gate Shopping Centre, Ferntree Gully
Phone: 03 9728 0288
www.swisscakesandbread.com.au
Absolutely Gluten Free
34A Synnot Street, Werribee – Phone:03 9741 0633
www.absolutelyglutenfree.com.au
Allergy Block
Shop 220 Elgin Street, Carlton – Phone: 03 9348 2066
www.allergyblock.com.au
Mandi’s Kitchen
Email: puddings@mandiskitchen.com or Phone: 03 9578 3418
www.mandiskitchen.com
Gluten Free Life
Phone: 1300 794 170
www.glutenfreelife.com.au
Also one of my fav pursuits is gluten-free multi-grain bread at Vic Markets!!
In conjunction with the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) Crossing Cultures taking place in Melbourne in 2008, the Cunningham Dax Collection invites you to attend a forum titled:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION: ART, CREATIVITY AND EDUCATION IN MENTAL HEALTH
Date: Wednesday 16 January, 2008
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Cunningham Dax Collection, 35 Poplar Road, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 3052
Cost to public: Free
Program
2 pm A guided tour of the current exhibition, Creative Contexts
3 pm Afternoon Tea
3.15pm Art and Mental Health: A Conversation with Eugen Koh, Director of the Dax Collection
and Anthony White, Lecturer in Art History, The University of Melbourne.
Moderator: Felicity Harley
3.45pm Questions and Discussion
4pm Finish
RSVP: (03) 9342 2394, Bookings essential
The Cunningham Dax Collection consists of over 12,000 works by people who have experienced mental illness and/or trauma. Its mission is to promote widely a greater understanding of people who experience mental illness and/or psychological trauma, and to foster an appreciation of their creativity through the preservation and ethical presentation of their original works.
The Cunningham Dax Collection Gallery hours
Wed – Fri, 10am – 4pm and Sat 1-5pm.
LOS ANGELES — Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.
Trying to duplicate the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, children’s entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children. Media conglomerates in particular think these sites — part online role-playing game and part social scene — can deliver quick growth, help keep movie franchises alive and instill brand loyalty in a generation of new customers.
Second Life and other virtual worlds for grown-ups have enjoyed intense media attention in the last year but fallen far short of breathless expectations. The children’s versions are proving much more popular, to the dismay of some parents and child advocacy groups. Now the likes of the Walt Disney Company, which owns Club Penguin, are working at warp speed to pump out sister sites.
“Get ready for total inundation,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at the research firm eMarketer, who estimates that 20 million children will be members of a virtual world by 2011, up from 8.2 million today.
Worlds like Webkinz, where children care for stuffed animals that come to life, have become some of the Web’s fastest-growing businesses. More than six million unique visitors logged on to Webkinz in November, up 342 percent from November 2006, according to ComScore Media Metrix, a research firm.
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