Rabbit Bartholomew on the World Tour s finale in Hawaii

North Shore, the second day of the waiting period for the Billabong Pipeline Masters offering unsettled conditions at the famous Banzai Pipeline.

The World Title will go down at Honolua Bay between now and December 20. Three girls remain in mathematical contention; however the prime focus will be the battle between top seeds Sofia Mulanovich and Stephanie Gilmore.

This race has now become a battle of attrition. Whoever out places the other will be crowned ASP World Champion.

Silvana Lima. All three girls surf the place unreal, Stephanie, being raised on the long point breaks of the southern Gold Coast, is a natural for Honolua, Sofia brings a very polished style to this Hawaiian classic and Silvana, when she puts it altogether, is a phenomenally gifted surfer.

There has been plenty of speculation as to the merits of both Sofia and Steph, however one little talked of stat is the fact that, due to varying throwaway results, Stephanie has to actually beat Sofia to take the title.

Sofia wins. This is because Steph is throwing out a low 9th and Sofia a 17th.

The best scenario for fans would be a final shoot-out, and while both will be seeded to meet in the final, there will be plenty of potential spoilers, not the least being Silvana and outgoing 7 times World Champion Layne Beachley.

Pipe itself. This is one of the ultimate sporting arenas on the planet; nowhere can the gallery have such an intimate connection with the action, and for the multitudes viewing on-line, the blow by blow web cast will simply be the best sporting spectacle in December, anywhere.

The first round of competition will feature the ASP Top 45, plus sponsor wildcards TJ Barron, Tiago Pires and former 6 times Vas Triple Crown Champion Sunny Garcia. 2007 World Champion elect Mick Fanning will be looking to round out a perfect year by advancing his Triple Crown claims while defending Pipe Master Andy Irons will be out to end a topsy turvy season on a high note.

World Championship year and like Taj, was right in the mix for a 9th crown until Mick Fanning sealed the deal in Brazil. So he is in great form and although dipping his feet in the Vans Triple Crown for the first time this year, will be sure to put on a show at Pipe. Quiet achiever Bede Durbidge will looking to notch up a victory in the Vans Triple Crown with a big showing at Pipe, so there remains plenty of interest stories in this unfolding drama.

There are a few notable retirees gracing the tour for the last time at the Billabong Pipeline Masters. Mark Occhilupo, at 41 breaking all known records for longevity, is hanging up his boardies after a stellar career, as is likeable fellow Aussie Mick Lowe. Top 45 status is also on the line for Corey Lopez, Bruce Irons and Fred Pattachia, amongst others.

All these guys are Pipe chargers and that will add to the intrigue, especially for guys like Chris Ward and Neco Padaratz, who sit just inside the bubble and will need to repel the challenges of Lopez, Irons and Pattachia to survive.

In Round 2 the 16 local seeds and Pipe specialists enter the field.

Top 45 pro Shane Dorian back in action.

A spot is reserved for the highest placed competitor in the Vans Triple Crown race, his sensational win at Haleiwa puts the rampaging Roy Powers back in the arena he as again qualifies for in 08. Another notable taking major momentum into the Billabong Pipeline Masters is Makuakai Rothman.

Neill World Cup propels Makua into Triple Crown reckoning, and as Roy and he are highly accomplished at Pipeline, this will definitely ratchet up local interest. The final day at Sunset was an extraordinary challenge of watermanship, the elements combining for an extreme challenge.

Speaking with Makua at the recent Vans Charity Golf Day, he reckons it was the toughest Sunset he has ever surfed.

It was also a breakthrough victory, Makuakai has made three recent Pro finals at Sunset, and he won the big one.

It is difficult to comprehend the degrees of difficulty that day. A major kona storm was honing in on the Hawaiian Islands and by the time the Final paddled out the full wrath of this wicked wind had set upon Sunset Beach. To put it in some perspective, this particular wind direction s the bane of all surf spots.

At my home break at Snapper Rocks this is the equivalent of a howling nor-wester, a condition that renders Snapper virtually unsurfable. At J/Bay they refer to it as the devil wind, it roars up the valley creating huge grids that carve up the swell sideways, prohibiting any maneuvers and even for the best surfers it is reduced to a massive trim fest.

ASP World Tour but had found the perfect match for his extraordinary power attack. This guy was a revelation at Sunset, powering into full blooded roundhouse cutties and ricocheting off massive foam balls with utter contempt.

Daniel Ross was putting on a sight as well. He came into the final day having posted the two highest total heat scores, but still had to secure 5th place to qualify. Dan was magnificent, winning heats in cavalier fashion, blasting huge arcs in the ridged faces. When he paddled out for the final I swear he was floating two feet above the channel.

Neill World Cup perpetual trophy.

Just paddling out at Sunset is an event, and there were four reasonably tired surfers making their way through the heavy water. They appeared to hesitate outside, not keen to paddle into the line-up proper until the hooter blasted. This was all about conserving energy, with the wind whipping and the current dragging it as a case of turning the ship into the teeth of the gale and tacking hard to maintain position.

Makuakai opened his account with a 6.83, then trawled the outside, combing for a bomb.

Brazilian in the box seat.

Neves then joined Fanning and Ross over by Boneyards, while Rothman combed the west peak. Leonardo then scored on an 8 footer that had a civilized taper, allowing him to reel off trademark hacks that netted him an 8.17. The wind picked up several notches and it got real hard out there.

Leonardo was sitting pretty, like a poker player with a pair of aces. Then Makua made a break back to the west peak, overcoming current and wind in ironman fashion to position himself for a beautiful 12 footer that definitely had connectivity.

The Hawaiian got a stand-up barrel followed by carving cutback into the pit.

Page Rank). Today, we talk about how to establish a Web page and a query relevance. Understand these four aspects, and a certain programming based on the reader should be able to write a simple search engine, for example, where you are in the schools or faculties to establish a small search engine.

We still watch back to the example of View on the Application of Atomic Energy page.n

Only 0.7. It only said that the website found a nuclear compared with the equivalent of nine found application match. IDF use, the relevant calculation formula by word frequency on the simple summation into a weighted sum, TF1 * IDF1 + TF2 * IDF2 + ... + * IDFN TFN. In the above example, the web page and the application of atomic energy for the relevance of 0.0161, Atomic Energy contributed 0.0126, and application only contributed to 0.0035. This ratio and our intuition of the more consistent.

TF / IDF (term frequency / inverse document frequency) that the concept of public information retrieval was the most important invention. In the search, document classification and other relevant areas have a wide range of applications. When talking about how TF / IDF history quite interesting. IDF first is the concept of the University of Cambridge Shibake - Jones Note: There are two names she (Karen Sparck Jones) past. Shibake - Jones in 1972 in an article entitled Keywords particularity of Statistics and she explained in the literature retrieval of the papers in the IDF. Unfortunately, she did not explain why theoretically weight IDF is logarithmic function log (D / Dw) (rather than other functions, such as the square root), nor the subject for further study, so in the future many people mentioned in the literature TF / IDF did not quote her papers, the overwhelming majority of people do not even know Shibake - Jones contribution. In Robinson wrote a two-page paper explained that explained it very well. But later the Saerdu Cornell University (Salton) wrote many articles, book discussion TF / IDF in the use of information retrieval, and Saerdu my name (in the world of information retrieval is to award the Saerdu name). Many people have cited Saerdu book, and even thought that the most important information retrieval is the concept he proposed. Of course, the world has not forgotten Shibake - the contribution of Jones, in 2004, in the Journal of Philology commemorate the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Journal reprinted the Shibake - Jones erupted. Robinson in the same period journal articles written by Shannon s information theory to explain IDF, to the interpretation of this is correct, but the article does not write good, very lengthy (fully 18), a simple to the complex issues to engage . In fact, information theory and scholars have found that, in fact IDF concept is a specific condition, the probability distribution of keywords cross-entropy (Kullback-Leibler Divergence) (see the series).n

In this way, information retrieval relevance of the measure, has returned to the information theory.

Now the search engine on the TF / IDF carried out a number of minor optimization, making the correlation of more accurate measurement. Of course, interest in a search engine written in terms of the lovers, the use of TF / IDF would be sufficient. If we combine the website rankings (Page Rank), then given a query, the relevant page summary rankings largely by the relevant product and website ranking decision.

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