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Starchase Pursuit Management System Now Commercially Available
The patented Pursuit Management System reduces dangerous high-speed pursuits by providing a mechanism for remotely tagging and tracking the suspect vehicle. The system launches a GPS tracking device from the police vehicle. The GPS tag adheres to the fleeing vehicle, allowing law enforcement officers to pull back while dispatchers track vehicle location and movements via a secure, Web-based mapping application.
"The StarChase Pursuit Management System is a culmination of years of technology development and testing to make sure we designed the most reliable, safe and effective interdiction strategy possible for high-speed chases," said Sean Sawyer, vice president and chief technology officer for StarChase. "Now that we have achieved that goal, we are working to ensure all law enforcement and government agencies are able to benefit from the system's unique capabilities."
AzDPS is the first state agency to utilize the StarChase Pursuit Management System and has used it with success multiple times during incidents where traditional pursuits would have occurred. So far, the use of the StarChase system led to several stolen vehicle recoveries, arrests and the discovery of 10 undocumented immigrants smuggled over the U.S.-Mexican border.
"Our agency has greatly benefited from the Pursuit Management System. Because the smuggling of drugs, guns and humans is so prevalent along Arizona's highways, we at DPS must use all of the tools available to us to apprehend those committing such crimes, especially if the suspects decide to run from our officers. The StarChase system not only helps us track and apprehend fleeing suspects, but it helps us locate them and take them into custody without engaging in pursuits that could jeopardize public safety," said Roger Vanderpool, director of AzDPS.
"AzDPS recent stolen-car recoveries and subsequent arrests, all without having to engage in high-speed pursuits, is proof positive that the Pursuit Management System is a new answer to a serious issue," said Trevor Fischbach, director of sales and business development for StarChase. "Now there is a proven alternative to high-speed chases and other potentially dangerous strategies that will save lives and reduce damage to vehicles and other property."
About StarChase
StarChase LLC (www.starchase.org) is a company specializing in tagging and tracking pursuit management solutions for the law enforcement sector. The privately held company is based in Virginia Beach, Va., and has been in operation since 2001. The StarChase products are patent protected in several countries, including the United States.


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No Prison Time for Teens Who Choked, Robbed Gay Student
The two teens who reportedly choked and robbed a photography student on a London subway train last December were sentenced on May 11, UK newspaper The Evening Standard reported. The two assailants - whose names were not published due to their ages, one of them being 16 and the other 17 - received no prison time, but were ordered to pay a fine and participate for one year in a monitoring program intended to help rehabilitate youthful first-time offenders.
20-year-old Will Mayrick - who was 19 at the time of assault - told the media that he thought "the sentencing was a little on the light side," but also opined that the youths might not have gotten themselves into trouble in the first place had they received education about diversity in school.
"They were so young, Mayrick said, "and I can't help but think that if they had had some sort of LGBT education then the attack might never have happened."
As EDGE reported the week after the attack took place, Mayrick and several friends were riding the London subway on their way to an event when the two teens - at the time both 16 - boarded the train and began harassing Mayrick's group.
"We'd got a bit of glitter on and they obviously didn't like that," Mayrick told the Evening Standard at the time. "They shouted 'fucking gays' and 'fag,' whatever they could think of.
"Then one grabbed hold of me and got my head in a headlock," Mayrick continued. "The other grabbed my phone and tried to make me apologize for being gay." When Mayrick refused, the teen who had him in the headlock began choking Mayrick, forcing him to apologize. News reports also indicated that the youths threatened to stab Mayrick unless he complied.
The teens also reportedly assaulted one of Mayrick's companions when she tried to intervene and stole Mayrick's phone.
But in speaking to the Evening Standard, Mayrick made it clear that he sees no reason to apologize for being who he is.
"I'm proud of the fact that I'm gay," he said. "I would never want to change."
The teens were ordered to pay £150 apiece in restitution. Mayrick said that he would donate the money to charities that combat homophobia in schools.

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Q&A with Senior Midfielder Jessica Wi
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Senior Jessica Wi has been a fixture in the lineup for the UC San Diego Women's Soccer team since her freshman season in 2009 when she was named Co-Freshman of the Year in the CCAA. Since coming to La Jolla, Wi has racked up eight goals and 13 assists while the team has gone 55-12-11 and reached the NCAA Playoffs three times. When it comes to Wi, Head Coach Brian McManus is more impressed with some of the intangibles she brings to his side. "Jess is one of those players you don't really coach, you just let her go at people and do her thing," says McManus. "Her ability to create space and put crosses into the box is incredible. I think she does it better than any player in the conference. And for someone her size she's plays pretty physical-she's not scared to go in and challenge." With three weeks remaining in the regular season and the Tritons sitting on top of the CCAA South Division, the Oakland native, out of Skyline High School, took time to talk about her playing style, this year's UCSD squad and some of her off-the-field interests.
Q-At 5-foot-1, you're likely the shortest player on the field in most games. Do you ever hear about that from opposing players or find that they try to be overly physical in their approach to playing you?
WI-I don't think that they've overtly done or said anything to me, but the fact that I'm going to be one of the smallest players on the field is something I've needed to be aware of in order to be competitive in college soccer. In being recruited for college soccer, size was definitely an issue for some coaches who showed interest in me, so I've tried to do my best not to make it a factor in my playing and use other aspects of my game to make up for my size.
Q-Are there any advantages to being shorter?
WI-I think that sometimes players I go against underestimate me because of my size and that is sometimes an advantage because I can usually hold my own even against players who are a lot bigger than me. This sometimes surprises them, which lets me catch them a bit off guard.
Q-What's the scariest situation you've ever encountered on the soccer field?
WI-The scariest situation I've encountered is probably getting yelled at by Brian (McManus). Even walking up to take a penalty kick against Cal State Dominguez Hills freshman year wasn't quite as scary as that.
Q-As a midfielder who's expected to log a lot of yards running up and down the field, how would you describe your role on this year's UCSD team?
WI-I've never considered myself a very vocal or outspoken member of the team so I try to lead by example and work hard during practices and games. As a senior, I've gained a good amount of experience and I try to use that to help teammates in whatever way I can, whether it be on the field in training or off the field in class. I know that it's my job on the field to take players on and get around the defense to try to get crosses in or earn corner kicks.
Q-What do you feel is the most important characteristic needed to perform those tasks well?
WI-I think dedication to the team is really important. There are a lot of things that need to be done in order for the team to be successful and it all comes down to dedication. Dedication helps us push through tough games and keeps us together as a team.
Q-Since your freshman year, where do you feel you've improved the most?
WI-I think I've improved most in my understanding of the game. Thinking back, I feel like my mentality when playing as a freshman was mostly just the basics of passing to your own team and trying to score a goal. Now, I feel like when I come into a game, I know my role in my position and the roles of my teammates and I can use that to play smarter and more efficiently. It helps me play with more confidence too.
Q-You've been on four different UCSD Soccer teams. Assuming that each has its own unique qualities, how would you characterize the 2012 side?
WI-I've felt that the combination of the seniors this year and the girls who graduated last year made up the majority of the team the past three years. In that time, I thought that, since we were such a large core group that were close in age, we were recognized based on how long we had been playing. We were considered a young team at first and an experienced team more recently. This year, since we no longer have that same group, we've been playing with younger players in different positions. That brings a different dynamic to the game and puts girls into the game who have something new to add.
Q-If you could "borrow" skills from some of your teammates to make yourself better, what would some of those be?
WI-I would probably want Cassie's (Callahan) endurance so I could run for hours and not get tired and Ellen's (Wilson) composure to be calm and relaxed on the ball. Also, if height were considered a skill, I would want Gabi's (Hernandez) height.
Q-The team lost a number of key senior players to graduation in the spring of 2012. Where has the leadership come from this fall and as a senior do you feel more responsible to help fill that void?
WI-Our captains have been a huge help in the area of leadership and done a great job stepping up to lead the team. In addition to that, we've tried to find leadership all over the field and have every player contribute to leading the team in some way. There are some players who lead with their playing abilities and others who lead with their attitude and heart.
Q-What's one aspect of playing on the UCSD Women's Soccer team that you think would surprise most people?
WI-We're pretty weird as a group. We all like to have fun and be silly, but probably not in a way that most people would expect. A good instance of that happened when we were in Sonoma this past weekend. We started assigning everyone on the team animal noises, even the coaches (although they were a little more reluctant to join). So, if you ever see us making animal noises as a goal celebration, that's why.
Q-Do you feel you have a different personality on the field and off?
WI-I think everyone has a little bit of a different personality on the field than when they're not playing. For me, I don't think I'm as nice as I am off the field. I think it's because I'm in a competitive atmosphere, but I have also been told I'm very competitive outside of soccer.
Q-Both of your parents also attended UC San Diego. How much did that impact your decision to come to La Jolla and how did that process work?
WI-It's funny because the fact that both my parents had gone to UCSD was why I didn't want to go to UCSD at first. I was interested in some other schools and applied to UCSD because I had some interest there. That ended up being one of the best decisions I ever made. After contacting Brian and meeting the team and touring the campus, I realized that it was a really good fit for me and from that, decided to go to the school.
Q-What are some things you enjoy doing away from the soccer field? What's your most unusual hobby?
WI-I like finding and watching good TV shows that aren't super popular, preferably ones that have been out for a couple of seasons so I don't have to wait a long time for new episodes. Two that I enjoy are Arrested Development and The Wire.
My most unusual hobby would probably be eating ice cream. I'm not sure if this is considered a hobby, but people who really know me probably would consider this one of my hobbies. It would be really hard for me to pick a favorite flavor, I pretty much like them all, it just depends on what kind of mood I'm in. Brownie moose tracks and caramel are pretty good, though.
Q-You're a native of Oakland. How did you like the Oakland A's improbable late season run to the AL West title?
WI-It's always great when your home team does well. My brother is a big baseball and A's fan so he's really happy about it. I'm not the biggest baseball fan, but I like that I can see a team that I watched when I was younger be successful.
Q-You've listed Breakfast at Tiffany's, a 1960's classic, as one of your favorite movies which seems a somewhat atypical preference. What do you like about it and how did you come to see it for the first time?
WI-I saw it for the first time with some of my friends and I liked the fact it was sort of an atypical love story and a bit quirky at times. This may be a silly reason for it to be one of my favorite movies, but in most movies, there's a point in which the plot turns and it makes you cringe because you know it's going to lead to something bad, and Breakfast at Tiffany's didn't have that for me. I felt like it was a movie I could watch multiple times without wishing I could change something the characters were doing.
Q-What do you like the most about playing soccer at UC San Diego?
WI-It's hard to pick one thing. I really enjoy everything about playing. It's always been fun and challenging and really made my experience at UC San Diego amazing. I've loved being part of such an awesome team that I can have fun with but also focus and train hard with.
Q-You're rapidly approaching the final month of your collegiate career? What would make for a perfect ending-personally and as a team?
WI-Winning a national championship. That's always been a goal for our team and coming so close a couple years ago makes me and everyone else on the team hungry to get there again, but finish it off right.
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Recall-plagued Johnson & Johnson is pulling all infant Tylenol off the U.S. market because some parents have had problems with redesigned bottles, introduced three months ago, that the company touted as a big safety improvement to make measuring doses easier.
Instead, 17 parents or caregivers have complained that a protective cover on the top of the bottles didn't work correctly. It's meant to limit how much of the liquid pain and fever reducer can be drawn into a plastic syringe. But when those consumers inserted the plastic syringe, it pushed the protective cover, or flow restrictor, into the bottle.
J&J's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit, which has had about 25 product recalls since September 2009, said Friday that it is recalling all 574,000 bottles of grape-flavored, liquid Infants' Tylenol from stores nationwide.
"Today's news about the Infants' Tylenol recall is clearly disappointing after all the progress that McNeil has been making to ensure its products meet the highest level of quality and consumer satisfaction," CEO William Weldon said in a statement.
Last spring, Weldon told shareholders at J&J's annual meeting that the company was simplifying the packaging to "help a mom, dad or caregiver ensure the correct dosing." Weldon told The Associated Press then that he thought the new design would become the industry standard.
Infants' Tylenol is one of the first nonprescription medicines reintroduced after all the recalls and an ongoing factory shutdown have kept most McNeil medicines off the market, some for nearly 2 years. That's cost the company well over $1 billion in lost revenue, plus many millions to rebuild one factory and upgrade others.
McNeil spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs said it was too soon to say when the product will return to the market.
"We are looking at various alternatives for the redesign of the dosing system and will set a timeline ... once we've reviewed all the options," she said.
The company said customers can continue to use the infant Tylenol if the bottle's flow restrictor remains intact. If not, they can request a refund by contacting McNeil at 1-888-222-6036 or www.tylenol.com.
While babies are particularly vulnerable to excessive doses of medicine, J&J said there have been no reports of anyone being harmed.
The new infant Tylenol bottle comes with a plastic syringe that's to be inserted into the flow restrictor at the top to help measure the right dose. The syringe has an opening in the tip but no needle. Consumers are to insert the tip of the syringe into the flow restrictor, turn the bottle upside down and then draw out the right dose using the milliliter markings on the syringe. That's then squirted into the baby's mouth.
McNeil changed the design to make it easier to get the dose right and to limit spillage if the bottle is knocked over, McNeil spokeswoman Barbara Montresor said. The prior version had an open-topped bottle and a dropper with a flexible bulb at the top, similar to a turkey baster.
McNeil is part of the consumer health business segment at J&J, which is based in New Brunswick, N.J. The company's prescription drug and medicial device divisions each have issued at least two recalls in the last couple years.
Reasons for the recalls have included nauseating package odors, small glass or metal particles in liquid medicines and wrong levels of active ingredients.


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Heklina and Drag 'Golden Girls' Close Out 2012
Well, the world didn't come to an end as predicted, and for good reason. San Francisco's beloved theater drag production of "The Golden Girls" television series hasn't finished its very popular Christmas run. "The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes," now in its seventh season, has become a must see for everyone, gay or straight, during the holiday season in the Bay city.
Originated by San Francisco drag legends Heklina (Dorothy) and Cookie Dough (Sophia), with the addition of Matthew Martin (Blanche) and Pollo Del Mar (Rose), the drag stage production captures all the heartfelt comedy of the original series, including the ever-so-cheesy 1970s commercial breaks. Selling out show after show at the historical Victoria Theater, "The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes" is an excellent way to end the year and to bring the seasonal spirit into 2013.
As an actress, BeBe was introduced to film with a lead role in the independent film "Under One Sun" with her character dealing with religious, racial and gender issues. Additionally, she appeared in the campy musical "Devious, Inc" (Australian Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Fest) also adding additional vocals to the musical soundtrack. Both of these performances led to her selection for a lead role in Aisha Media's next short film series, "Con-tin.u.um" to be released in 2012.


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Operation Sports rolled out a six-minute video showing the second quarter of a Sixers-Knicks match-up. Gameplay galore, but the new news is the half-time show, confirmed last week, which you can get a whiff of at the 5:00 mark.
The voice is of San Francisco's KNBR-AM's Damon Bruce, who once awarded me tickets to a San Jose Sabercats game for a particularly insightful call into his evening radio program back in 2006. Being that it was the Sabes, I didn't stay on the line to give the producer my info. Anyway, where was I? Bruce glides through the action, calling out top scorers and the first half context.
This isn't the full half-time show as it's not from the NBA Today mode, which like its MLB Today cousin in MLB 2K10, matches up the real life participants of the day once the season gets going. We'll see more of NBA Today in the coming week.
NBA 2K11 Gameplay Video: Philadelphia 76ers vs. New York Knicks with Halftime Show [Operation Sports]


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An MH370 theory that was simple, compelling and wrong
On Tuesday a "startlingly simple" theory explaining the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet began making the rounds on social media and among journalists interested in the story. According to a fellow named Chris Goodfellow, the plane caught fire, and the pilot headed to a nearby airport to save the craft, eventually crashing into the Indian Ocean.
Goodfellow originally posted his theory on his Google+ page on 14 March, but it picked up steam when it was reposted on the linking site Reddit. On Tuesday Wired magazine edited and ran the post under the headline A Startlingly Simple Theory about the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet.
Goodfellow, whom Wired identifies as having "20 years' experience as a Canadian Class-1 instrumented-rated pilot for multi-engine planes", begins with a dismissive wave toward the aviation experts who have been clogging the news networks.
"There has been a lot of speculation about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370," he writes. "Terrorism, hijacking, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN; it's almost disturbing."
He says that he "tends to look for a simpler explanation".
He then theorises that a fire, possibly electrical or from an overheated tyre on take-off, sent smoke into the cockpit shortly after the crew signs off with Malaysian air traffic controllers.
The pilot executes a sharp left turn and heads for a nearby emergency landing spot, while turning off electronics - such as the transponder - in order to isolate the problem.
"Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a very experienced senior captain with 18,000 hours of flight time," he writes. "We old pilots were drilled to know what is the closest airport of safe harbour while in cruise."
A quick search of Google Earth gives Goodfellow a candidate: Pulau Langkawi.
"Surprisingly, none of the reporters, officials, or other pilots interviewed have looked at this from the pilot's viewpoint: If something went wrong, where would he go?" he writes. "Thanks to Google Earth I spotted Langkawi in about 30 seconds, zoomed in and saw how long the runway was and I just instinctively knew this pilot knew this airport."
All the pieces fit into place, he writes. The climb to 45,000ft? A last-ditch attempt to put out the fire. Where is the plane now? After the pilots were overcome by smoke, the plane continued on autopilot over Langkawi and headed west into the Indian Ocean, where it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed.
"Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a hero struggling with an impossible situation trying to get that plane to Langkawi," he writes. "There is no doubt in my mind. That's the reason for the turn and direct route."
Goodfellow's theory continued to spread across media, both social and mainstream.
"I buy this new MH370 theory of an onboard fire," tweeted the New York Times's Josh Barro.
The theory "fits the facts" and "makes sense", writes Business Insider's Henry Blodget. "It requires no fantastically brilliant pre-planning or execution or motives."
The Atlantic's James Fallows agrees.
"I think there's doubt about everything concerning this flight. But his explanation makes better sense than anything else I've heard so far," he writes. "It's one of the few that make me think, Yes, I could see things happening that way."
Only it very likely didn't happen that way - as considerable information that was already in the public realm contradicts the story. By Tuesday evening, writers and commentators were picking Goodfellow's post apart.
"Goodfellow's account is emotionally compelling, and it is based on some of the most important facts that have been established so far," writes Jeff Wise in Slate. "And it is simple - to a fault."
"While it's true that MH370 did turn toward Langkawi and wound up overflying it, whoever was at the controls continued to manoeuvre after that point as well, turning sharply right at VAMPI waypoint, then left again at GIVAL," he says. "Such vigorous navigating would have been impossible for unconscious men."
Goodfellow's theory fails further when one remembers the electronic ping detected by the Inmarsat satellite at 8:11 on the morning of March 8. According to analysis provided by the Malaysian and United States governments, the pings narrowed the location of MH370 at that moment to one of two arcs, one in Central Asia and the other in the southern Indian Ocean. As MH370 flew from its original course toward Langkawi, it was headed toward neither. Without human intervention - which would go against Goodfellow's theory - it simply could not have reached the position we know it attained at 8:11 a.m.
There still should have been a distress call, Greg Feith, a former National Transportation Safety Board crash investigator, told NBC News.
"Typically, with an electrical fire, you'll have smoke before you have fire," he said. "You can do some troubleshooting. And if the systems are still up and running, you can get off a mayday call" and pilots can put on an oxygen mask, Feith said.
Nine hours after its first article on the subject Business Insider ran a follow-up, with reaction from pilots.
Michael G Fortune, a retired pilot who flew 777-200ERs like the Malaysia plane, said it was unlikely the crew would have shut off the transponders to deal with the fire.
"The checklist I utilized for smoke and fumes in the B-777-200ER does not specifically address the transponder being turned off," he said.
Another 777 pilot told the website that putting on oxygen masks would have been the first priority for the crew, preventing them from being incapacitated.
As long as there is no definitive word about the fate of MH370, theories - from respected experts and amateurs relying on a hunch and a little help from Google Earth - will continue to bounce around the internet.
Some will catch on and go viral, until they are debunked or overtaken by new facts.


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OAKLAND — Eight people working at a Habitat for Humanity site where former President Jimmy Carter will tour next week were robbed at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon, and one man was shot at and hit in the head with a pistol, police said.
Habitat staff members and AmeriCorps workers were robbed of their cellphones, wallets and other personal property at 1:40 p.m. Tuesday at the Brookfield Court development in the 9500 block of Edes Avenue in East Oakland, police said.
The man who was pistol-whipped was not hit by gunfire and refused medical attention. No one else was physically injured, police said.
Four men walked onto the property and robbed the seven men and one woman, ages 23 to 68, police said. Roughly a dozen other people were also working on the development, where 12 townhomes are under construction, but they were not robbed, said Habitat spokeswoman Krysta Morgenthaler.
The robbers drove away in two cars and police have not yet released full descriptions of the men or their cars. No arrests have been made.
"Everyone is a little shook up," said Morgenthaler. "Our primary concern is for our staff and team members who were there. It's unfortunate. We build in East Oakland, and we've been here a long time." She said the incident was a first at a Habitat site.
The robbery came just days before Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter are scheduled to visit Oakland and San Jose as part of a weeklong campaign highlighting Habitat for Humanity home-building projects. Joining them will be country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.
"We all do this (Habitat) job because we believe in the mission and the Carters believe in the mission, and (they) have made an investment in these projects," Morgenthaler said. "It is terrible what happened, but we are all determined to finish this project and continue to invest in the community."
A security guard is usually posted at the site starting at 5 p.m., but Morgenthaler said the guard is now there round-the-clock. A construction fence gate is also locked at all times, and police have stepped up patrols in the area, she said. The Secret Service and Oakland police are working together to gear up for the Carters' visit on Monday.
"The primary objective is keeping the Carters safe," said Morgenthaler.
Morgenthaler said everyone who was robbed was given crisis counseling Wednesday and the option to take the day off, but some have already returned to work.
Volunteer teams have spent months building 12 two-story townhomes at what was a vacant Edes Avenue lot. The future homeowners, who also helped in the construction, are expected to move in when the homes are completed by next spring.
The development is the latest of more than 100 new homes the nonprofit organization has built in Brookfield Village and the adjacent Sobrante Park neighborhood over the past decade.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's involvement with Habitat for Humanity International began in 1984 when the former president led a work group to New York City to help renovate a six-story building for 19 families in need of decent, affordable shelter. The couple now visits Habitat sites during one week every year. Police and Crime Stoppers are offering up to $25,000 in reward money for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information should call police at 510-238-3326 or a tip line at 510-773-2508
Staff writer Matt O'Brien contributed to this story.


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By Seth Shostak SPACE.com
(SPACE.com) -- In the crisp early morning of June 21, the privately developed rocket plane, SpaceShipOne, shot itself to the edge of space. Starting from 50,000 feet, the craft took slightly more than a minute to breach the final frontier, 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the saffron sands of California's Mojave Desert.
Space, according to the rules of this game, begins 100 kilometers up. That's obviously an arbitrary definition.
True, there's not much air at that altitude -- indeed, wings become useless. But then again, if you figure that getting into space somehow implies escaping Earth's maternal grasp, then 100 kilometers isn't particularly "spacey." Even the moon, which is 4,000 times farther than this nominal frontier, is obviously a slave to our planet. It is part of Earth (and, given the circumstances of its birth, is also part Earth).
And then there's the matter of which space you're talking about. In the movies, one always refers to "outer space." This implies, somehow, that there's also an "inner space" and maybe a "mid-space."
Leaving aside these ambiguous refinements, I think it would be reasonable to claim that real space begins where Earth's gravity is no longer dominant: maybe halfway to the next planet, which means that the "Now Entering Space" sign should be posted about 13 million miles (21 million kilometers) above your home town.
By this definition, humans have never made it into space, although some of our robotic hardware has. But that's my interpretation, and the facts are that, according to international law, there's no defined point where the atmosphere ends or where space begins.
Irrespective of what you think about the final frontier's exact location, crossing it requires speed. As all rocket jockeys realize, leaving our planet necessitates getting your body or pod up to escape velocity in order to haul it out of Earth's very steep gravity well.
But reaching escape velocity is not trivial. The requisite speed is 7 miles per second, or 25 thousand miles an hour.
If you are content to merely reach low Earth orbit, as the shuttle astronauts are, then the speed requirement is more modest: only 5 miles per second. For SpaceShipOne, which ascended to 62 miles (100 kilometers) and then came right back down, the necessary velocity was 1 mile per second. In other words, per pound of payload, SpaceShipOne's energy requirement was only 4 percent of the space shuttle, and only 2 percent of that necessary to take a pilot to the Moon or beyond.
This isn't to denigrate SpaceShipOne's achievement. On the contrary, the flight was highly significant. It was, after all, a private venture, and the craft was designed and built for a small fraction of the cost of a single shuttle launch.
For years, nozzle nerds have been saying that the only way to make space truly accessible is to encourage private rocketry. These folks point to the history of aviation, and are fond of opining that if airplane development had been left to a government agency, the cost of a contemporary flight from L.A. to New York would be a few million dollars, and the time necessary to refuel and refit the plane at the airport would be months.
That's a nice analogy, but some wonder if it's fair.
Aviation was partially a power problem, yes, but it was mostly an engineering challenge: how to control planes in flight. Rocketry, where wings don't help, inevitably requires an enormous, and difficult, amount of energy. Still, one can't help but note that the Wright Brothers' first successful plane had a 12-horsepower motor. A mere century later, a 747 jet can boast of 60,000 horsepower (that's more than Genghis Khan's hordes).
So maybe the analogy suggesting that SpaceShipOne is the Wright Flyer of spacecraft isn't far off the mark. Maybe it really is the start of something big.
It certainly seems reasonable to expect that the sweet incentive of commerce will eventually lead to cheap access to space. Today it costs roughly $5 thousand per pound to put hardware (or protoplasm) into low Earth orbit. Knock that down by a factor of ten, and there will be a market for launching all sorts of inexpensive, specialized satellites, not to mention well-heeled tourists keen to see the ball of Earth; or, eventually, to stomp their boots in the lunar dust.
All of that is enticing. But there's another lure to cut-rate space transportation.
It would open up possibilities for relatively low-cost, specialized telescopes: for example, an infrared instrument that could search nearby galactic neighborhoods for laser pulses from other societies. Perhaps even radio telescopes on the back side of the Moon where -- shielded from the cacophony of earthly transmissions -- they could make sensitive scans for signals beamed from other worlds.
The inevitable first reaction to SpaceShipOne is excitement over the possibility of lifting humans, ourselves and our children, into space. Still, that enticing door may not be the one hiding the major prize. "Inner space" is a laboratory; one in which we will most surely make profound discoveries.
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Big Island Restaurants in Waimea
Small Town, Big Flavors: In Big Island's little Waimea, it's a short distance from farm (or ranch) to table.
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The most interesting town in Hawaii? Honolulu, of course. But in second place? Waimea on the Big Island. Waimea is a town so interesting it needs two names. In the 19th century, King David Kalākaua suggested renaming it Kamuela, after his friend and the kingdom's one-time foreign minister, Samuel Parker, of the Parker Ranch Parkers.
King or no king, the name never stuck. Sure, the sign on the Post Office reads Kamuela, but all 8,500 people who live there call it Waimea, as it was for centuries before the monarchy.
What does Waimea have going for it? The home of the first paniolo in the Islands, the birthplace of slack key guitar. And that's just for starters.
In addition to the largest ranch in the state and a half-dozen others, the town now has two major observatories, tied by fiber optics to the telescopes atop Mauna Kea. A private boarding school. Three theaters and a significant art gallery, which recently relocated the entire historic Madge Tennant Gallery from Honolulu.
It's surrounded by scores of small farms, growing everything from Cymbidium orchids to organic strawberries.
It's a short distance from farm (or ranch) to table here, which has turned Waimea into something of a culinary mecca, especially for a town that's barely a quarter of the size of Oahu's Kailua.
It's always worth driving to Waimea from the resorts of the Kona and Kohala coasts, just to wind through the green hills, breathe the cool air and take in the soaring vista of Mauna Kea.
While you're being uplifted by the scenery, you might as well have something to eat.
Red Water Café
65-1299 Kawaihae Road, Waimea, (808) 885-9299, Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; dinner nightly 5 to 9 p.m. Free parking, major credit cards.
For a place that's only been open for a couple of months, Red Water Café has a lot of history.
Waimea literally means "red water," and the red water in question used to bubble up from a stream just behind the café.
In the '70s, a group of counterculture entrepreneurs took a roadside blockhouse, cut down trees up on nearby Opelu hillside and dragged the logs down to the site. They spent a year giving the building a handcrafted wood interior.
This original Red Water Café had a reputation as a rowdy cowboy bar, but it was more than that. Its house band was Taj Mahal. Carole King and Cat Stevens played there.
In the '80s, with Merriman's opening more or less across the street, the Red Water ran dry. Its head chef, David Palmer, went on to create Café Pesto, successful in both Kawaihae and Hilo.
The building was home to Hans-Peter Hager's popular Edelweiss restaurant until Hager retired in 2007. Then, for a fleeting moment, it was a restaurant called Fujimama's.
Last year, chef David Abrahamson bought Fujimama's and re-renamed it Red Water Café.
"I had to," says Abrahamson. "My girlfriend, Heidi, practically grew up in the old Red Water. Her father was one of the partners."
Heidi had induced Abrahamson, who was cooking at the Beverley Hills Hotel, to move to Waimea in the first place. He then put in eight years in the kitchen at Merriman's.
Abrahamson debuted Red Water last December, changing Fujimama's Chinese-Japanese fusion cuisine into something a little less definable.
He kept the sushi bar, and he does some mainstream Japanese dishes. For instance, vegetable tempura, which included a whole bok choy leaf, long and wide but thin and fragile. Somehow it came out intact as tempura.
"It's not as hard as it looks," explains Abrahamson. "I used to fry bok choy leaves as garnish, the same way chefs fry basil leaves. This was just the next step."
Then there's some fusion—local beef grilled on Asian vegetables, bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, kabocha. But the vegetables are in a classic European beurre blanc.
Then there's some stuff that's sort of semi-fused.
For instance, Abrahamson serves vichyssoise with uni (sea urchin). You'd expect he'd blend the uni into the vichyssoise.
Instead, the uni floats on top, isolated from the potato-leek soup by a bright-green shiso leaf.
It turned out to be very good uni, mild, creamy, rich. It would have perhaps been brilliant, had it been integrated into the soup.
What gives? I asked Abrahamson. "I used to mix them together, but for every five I sent out, I got back four, with complaints about the uni flavor."
Abrahamson, who loves uni, keeps the soup on the menu in hopes of making converts. He's got a long road ahead of him. My dining companion, a not unsophisticated lady, took one microbite of the uni and shuddered: "Why do you always have to order the most radical thing on the menu?"
Radical me, I also ordered a Thai calamari Caesar salad. That, too, was barely fused. It was OK calamari, an OK salad, but one sat atop the other, and they were barely speaking to one another.
All was forgiven, however, at dessert. The cheesecake, topped with caramelized pineapple, was light as a feather. "How do you do that?" I asked Abrahamson.
"Carefully," he said. "Most people over-whip the cheese. You have to massage it into the egg mixture."
Our dinner for two was $160 with tip, including a bottle of prosecco and a glass of pinot noir to set off the steak.
A quiet fellow played guitar in the corner of the restaurant. Every once in a while it would intrude upon our consciousness that he was playing well indeed. We got up—and realized it was master guitarist Charles Brotman.
You're likely to see Brotman at the Four Seasons. But in a neighborhood eatery? Even if it is his neighborhood, with his Grammy-winning Lava Tracks studio just down the road.
"Charley, good to see you," I said. "What are you doing here?"
"The sushi, it's really good," he said.
We hadn't even sampled. Next time.


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The Allentown Morning Call's John Micek posted a great analysis of the politics of transportation funding on Sunday. He writes:
Here's The Problem Facing Governor Rendell when it comes to finding new state money for roads and bridges.
On the same day that the Democratic governor's barnstorming bus tour rolled into Ellwood City on the Ohio border Friday, a lawmaker from another part of rural western Pennsylvania was holding a golf outing for supporters who paid as much as $2,000 each for the privilege of supporting his re-election campaign and spending a few hours on the links under a blazing August sun.
In other words, Rendell, a lame-duck who leaves office in January, is looking to his legacy.
But the 253-members of the General Assembly who face voters in November are simply looking for another term.
And that means they're unlikely to do anything to screw it up — like casting a vote in favor of the tax and vehicle fee hikes that the governor says are necessary to close a $450 million hole this year and to provide a stable funding source for a roughly $1 billion backlog of road and bridge repairs.
"They're not voting for taxes," said Terry Madonna, a political science professor and pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. "They'd be loath to vote for taxes in a non-election year." …
Rendell will be talking transportation at 9 AM on this morning's WITF Radio Smart Talk.


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Out there, in the vastness of space, there's a billion worlds that look like this at sunset. Ice and water, but full of life under the ocean. However, this alien scene of endless ponds is right here on Earth:
Sunsets started to tease the Arctic horizon as scientists on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy headed south in the Chukchi Sea during the final days collecting ocean data for the 2011 ICESCAPE mission.
The ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," is a NASA shipborne investigation to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. The bulk of the research took place in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in summer 2010 and 2011.
Yes, I want to enroll in NASA not only for the spaceships. [NASA Goddard Flickr]
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The third set today between France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Canada's Milos Raonic featured 257 points, 91 winners, and 45 unforced errors. Tsonga won the third set, 25-23 — the longest in Olympic history. The National Post's Bruce Arthur was there, watching the entire match and becoming more incredulous by the point. Here is his account, preserved for posterity. Enjoy.
Bonus: If you've never read the Guardian's Xan Brooks and his live-blog of Isner/Mahut at Wimbledon 2010, drop what you're doing and go read it. (Even if you've read it before, check it out again. It holds up extremely well.)


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Rodgers brands Suarez critics hypocrites
Brendan Rodgers has leapt to the defence of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez once more, warning other managers that they should control their own players before accusing others of diving.
Suarez, 25, was most recently criticised by David Moyes ahead of last week's Merseyside derby, with the Everton manager claiming that the Uruguayan's antics turn fans away from the game.
But Rodgers believes Suarez has been unjustly used as a scapegoat for a problem that is much bigger than any one player.
"I believe this will be the ongoing debate, and now people will see that diving is an issue which is at every club - it is widespread within the game," Rodgers said. "It is ridiculous to single out one man, because every single club has an issue."
Three Premier League players received bookings for simulation last weekend - Angel Rangel, Phil Neville and Fernando Torres - prompting suggestions from Rodgers that Suarez should no longer be the topic of debate.
"Just look at last weekend, and two players you would deem to be great professionals - Angel Rangel and Neville - almost above criticism," he said. "Rangel was booked against Manchester City for diving but I worked with him for two years at Swansea and he's one of the most honest, genuine people I've come across in my life. But he got booked for diving.
"Neville is 35 and over the years you would consider him to be a really honest guy, an impeccable professional. But then he gets booked for diving after his manager has read the riot act to his players by all accounts. Then you have Fernando Torres booked for diving.
"So managers have made a criticism of Luis, but I can guarantee you they will have players who are criticised for diving. Hopefully people won't continue to vilify Luis just because he was the easy target before, and look beyond themselves and their own players to see it's part of the game.
"Of course we don't like it when it's blatant and personally I believe we must continue to fight to eradicate that. But it is nonsense to suggest it's just a problem with Luis Suarez."
Suarez received close attention from the Everton defence during the 2-2 draw at Goodison Park, but Rodgers insists he will not be recriprocating any mind games forced on by opposition players.
"I honestly don't think you can wind Luis up, by having a go at him for diving or anything else," Rodgers said. "Others have tried to use it as a psychological tool to put him off and affect referees but it makes him stronger.
"Looking at his performance levels, consistency and goals he's scored, they'd be better off saying nothing. He'll always divide opinion. If he's on your team people will love him but if he isn't he'll get a bit of stick, but that's because he's world class.
"When I was at Swansea and we played Liverpool, I told the players: 'This guy is a nuisance but for the right reasons because he's a top player'. He's a real threat in and around the box so you have to be careful. If people criticise him, they are wrong, and I guarantee if they do, the support he gets from me will grow stronger because of how genuine I see he is."


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Garmin just released StreetPilot for iPhone, the newest addition to their mobile line-up of GPS apps. The app boasts a lot of the same features nüvi owners already enjoy. StreetPilot has up to date map support for both the US and Canada. All maps and directions are pulled from Garmin's servers so you can expect the same quality directions as a native GPS unit. Since maps are pulled from the server, the app only takes up around 7 MB of space on your phone. Hit the jump for a few initial impressions, some screens, and a list of features.
I had some time to play with StreetPilot earlier today and found it extremely intuitive and easy to navigate. Not only that, the UI is nicely designed as well. I liked the layout of the weather portion a lot and I'm considering using it for weather too. Voice navigation worked just as you'd expect it to. I also tried out the pedestrian directions as well. It re-routed me on a shorter route that didn't take one way streets into consideration. All in all, it worked well.
One thing I noticed while playing with optional settings was that the iPod controls need some work. I couldn't always get it to add the correct songs to a playlist. And skipping a track didn't always register and you'd have to push the on screen button again.
Holding down on any part of a map will bring up a pop-up menu that allows you to choose that location as a destination, find something nearby, save the location, or display the address. There are little shortcuts throughout the app that seemed pretty well thought out. I'm looking forward to using this app on our next trip. If you've picked this up, let us know what you think. If not, what's your favorite GPS app?
For those of you still debating on GPS apps, here's a list of StreetPilot's main features -
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The UAB Tissue Collection and Banking Facility (TCBF) provides services to the national and international research communities for the collection, processing, storage and distribution of human tissue specimens for research related activities. The TCBF coordinates and manages a number of different human tissue biorepository operations, some of which specialize in prospective procurement while others serve as banks. These include the following:
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MattHunter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 87 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Duke City Home Loans
A mortgage company based in Albuquerque, NM. The name comes from Albuquerque being known as the "Duke City" after the Duke of Alburquerque. The main thing that my company offers compared to other lenders is that if you want to get a loan for a home in Albuquerque, you can come in and talk to someone face-to-face instead of being routed to some call center in Iowa with one of the big banks (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.).
A few other ideas/considerations I have are: I want the tagline "Integrity Matters." to appear whenever the logo appears. Probably best not to include this in the actual logo since it would make it too busy, but it will be in the next project for business cards, stationary, etc.
One of the ideas I like is a mosaic based design, so I attached a scan of some NYC subway system signs I found.
A second idea I like is the image of a handshake, also attached.
I am not 'married' to either of these ideas, so it is not necessary to include both or even one of them in a winning design. They are just some of my initial thoughts.
Key is that the design ties-in to the company being rooted in Albuquerque. Link to the Wikipedia page for Duke City / Albuquerque, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_city might provide some ideas.
One area I would prefer to avoid is the use of Native American symbols, even though they are used on things like the Albuquerque flag. Most of these symbols have religious significance, and I don't have the knowledge to use them respectfully.
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I have a dog and I am thinking about getting a hedgehog. My dog is very nice and has never bitten a living thing. Should I let them interact?
If I was you I wouldn't. Maybe you could see if your dog goes after the hedgehog or not. To introduce them you could hold your hedgehog and let your dog sniff him/her. But never leave your hedgehog alone with your dog no matter how much you trust your dog. And if I was you... I would post this in the New Owner Questions or General Topics......
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I wouldn't let them interact either. Even a playful little nip could serious injure or kill a hedgehog. Also, consider that hedgehogs are prey animals. Every instinct is telling them "argh! that thing is going to eat me!" I wouldn't want to stress out my little ones like that.
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You have to know your pets. 1 dog I don't let near the small animals. If she got spined by a hedgehog she'd probably snap at it. She'd bark and bounce on to cats if they whacked her so we can't have cats because we don't have the space to keep them separate. The other dog I just let her learn her lesson because I raised her to be very gentle with small animals. She has helped raise orphan kittens, guinea pigs, and rabbits. If she deems something dangerous she looks to me to see if she should get rid of it or leave it alone. So when I had Loki out she came up to sniff him, he balled up and popped upward, she got her nose whacked, I told her to leave hedgehogs alone, and I don't have to worry about her touching the hedgehogs again. She won't go within 3' of the containers we put them in while cleaning their cages.
I think each dog is different. I do let my dogs interact with my rats, chins, hedgie and glider. Two of my dogs just ignore the small critters and my lab/chow loves everything as if they were her babies. If I ever had a reason to worry, I wouldnt chance it though!
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When I was still with my parents, we had two dogs and two cats, and I had my hedgie, many mice, and a bird. Although I never left my hedgehog out of his cage alone with any other pets, I didn't kick my dogs or cats out of the room to play with him, clean his cage, ext. My cats were almost never in my basement, and my dogs were very well trained. But I don't think it was my dogs training that kept them from bothering Ppunk, I think Ppunk kept my dogs at bay himself! My hyper yellow Lab was almost afraid of him because she didn't like getting pricked in the nose, and ever since has kept a wide distance from him. My Australian Shepherd mix is interested in him, but also never gets too close. They're both rather intimidated by his huffing and puffing, despite their large size.
Now he stays in my boyfriends basement while I'm at school away from home. His Shih Tzu wouldn't even come down the stairs for a few days because he was so afraid of my hedgehog! He's happily lived here for a year now and every time he's out, his dog either goes upstairs or watches him carefully... from behind someone else.
That being said, every dog is different. My dogs and my boyfriend's dog are really just big babies. But I don't think either one would hesitate to go after one of my mice. You have to know your dog really well to make that decision, and even after you've made it, I wouldn't let them become best friends and trust them alone or anything.
I have a dog who is fabulous with my ferrets, but would eat my hamster in a second if I let him.
He knows he can play pretty rough with the ferrets (he's a Pomeranian), but he goes into complete prey drive and I can tell he just wants to kill my hamster when he sees him.
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Last week, 5-hour Energy came under fire after the New York Times reported the Food and Drug Administration received 13 reports of deaths possibly linked to the energy drink. The claims add to the five deaths reported to the agency linked to Monster Energy, raising concerns about the safety of the beverages.
How could the energy drinks, whose main ingredient is caffeine, be connected to the deaths? Andrea Giancoli, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, answer some questions worried consumers are asking about the beverages.
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What are some of the adverse effects of caffeine?
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How much caffeine is too much?
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Giancoli says people can become accustomed to high amounts of caffeine over time, so the effect in enhancing alertness and improving energy may dwindle in heavy and frequent consumers compared with those who rarely drink caffeinated beverages.
Why are the amounts of caffeine in energy drinks unlabeled?
The FDA currently does not require caffeine amounts to be listed on food labels. Caffeine is not considered a nutrient and therefore only needs to be listed as an ingredient. The FDA does not regulate energy drinks because they are sold as dietary supplements. If the FDA did regulate them, most would have levels of caffeine higher than what the agency deems safe.
The agency currently allows sodas to contain 71 mg of caffeine per 355 ml. According to the FDA, energy drinks contain from 160 to 500 mg of caffeine per serving. A recent Consumer Reports test of 27 best-selling energy drinks found that 11 do not list caffeine content, and among those that do, the tested amount was on average 20% higher than what's listed.
Is it possible to die from caffeine?
Overdoing caffeine alone is actually pretty difficult to do, says Jacobson. "It's highly unlikely. Someone would really have to make an effort to consume 40 or so 200-mg caffeine tablets."
Is it only the caffeine found in energy drinks that are the main concern, or are other ingredients playing a role?
"There just hasn't been enough studies done on the other ingredients," says Giancoli. "The problem comes when there is a massive amount of caffeine. Some of these drinks are very concentrated with caffeine for a very small amount of liquid. It would be easy to drink many of these in a row." She says some teenagers drink a large amount of high-energy beverages to get a buzz and also mix the drinks with alcohol.
"It's the excessive intake that we are concerned about," says Giancoli. "There is a part of the population that has underlying heart conditions that cannot handle that amount of caffeine. We want to be really careful with that group of people. They would not do so well on that dose of caffeine. But if anybody has 40 cups of coffee you will be in trouble."
From a nutritional standpoint, should we be curbing our caffeine consumption?
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For most people, caffeine in moderation is safe. Some sources of caffeine like coffee may also have additional health perks like lowering inflammation, which can contribute to heart disease, so safe amounts could be beneficial.
"For coffee drinkers, the real issue we are concerned about is, Do you have trouble sleeping? If you do, maybe you do need to cut down on your caffeine. Are you agitated? Do you have stress that might be related to being jumpy from caffeine? If you do have symptoms that could be related to caffeine, then maybe you need to be tapering down. As far as avoiding it altogether, that's not necessarily something we need to be doing if we can tolerate it. If we enjoy that cup of coffee there is no reason we shouldn't drink it," says Giancoli.
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