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Note: Fedora 13 has not been released yet. This is a draft announcement for community feedback.
Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration.
What's New in Fedora 13?
A universe of new features for end users:
- Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed.
- Desktop enhancements. The Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to provide a enhanced desktop experience out of the box.
- NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager is now a one-stop-shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. Mobile broadband enhancements now show signal strength. Old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth has also been added. And now, you can even use NetworkManager from the command line in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Getting a connection when you need it has never been easier to figure out, whether you're at home, at work, at the local coffee shop, or riding your city's wi-fi enabled public transport.
- Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package.
- Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone models are supported by some of your favorite photo management software, and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice library, so you can work with your content more easily.
- 3D support for ATI cards via Radeon driver In Fedora 12, 3D support for the free and open source Radeon driver was introduced and considered experimental. In this release, the support has moved out of experimental status. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others.
- Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. In this release we are one step closer to having 3D graphics supported on completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. Fedora 12 saw the enabling of a number of ATI cards; this time around, we've added a wide range of NVidia cards to our list of liberated video capabilities. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress.
- DisplayPort support improvements - Fedora 12 added initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems have now have added in this release.
- Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress.
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
- SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl, and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the future, Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers.
- Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development.
- Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora.
- NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification.
And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
- boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images.
- System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. How does this help the sysadmin? This means, for example, users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional.
- Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well.
- Zarafa Open Source edition Groupware - Alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Zarafa Open Source edition is a complete, 100% free and open source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies.
- Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install -- automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous day's filesystem. Fedora 13 has a yum-plugin-fs-snapshot plugin and when installed takes a snapshot of your Btrfs volume before every update allowing you to rollback easily to a previous snapshot and recover out of any update problems more easily. Btrfs is still a experimental filesystem in this release and requires a "btrfs" installation option to enable support for it. In the upcoming releases, we plan to integrate the snapshot functionality into the desktop while working on stabilization of the filesystem in parallel.
- Dogtag Certificate System It is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and open source and now included in Fedora.
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green09 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 118 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Thanks, all, for all the ideas! We have about 4 favorites and will decide tonight and post winner tomorrow.
New restaurant needs logo that will be our face on our website, drive-thru signs, menus, everything. We are looking for a modern, natural-themed logo that conveys our concept: Eating local, all natural, organic meals and juices/smoothies ... with the convenience of a drive through window.
To Go Green Restaurant
OPEN TO IDEAS... Local, Organic, Natural, Delicious, etc.
Desired Color Scheme:
Prefer muted natural green plus another accent color
Desired Style:
natural, modern, a bit detailed
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Our restaurant will be a fast casual concept with a drive-thru window. Featuring traditional fast food, but all natural, and/or organic, and locally-grown whenever possible. Grass-fed, free-range, no hormones/antibiotics, no preservatives, some vegetarian options, etc.
The logo should say To Go Green Restaurant, with the words different colors/placement, etc. to break up the phrase and make the play on words obvious (To Go being what makes us different). The word 'Restaurant' should probably be under 'To Go Green' to make the most use of the space, considering this will be on a large outdoor sign.
Font choice and colors should be more in the natural foods logo realm and not the fast food logo realm, in order to stand out among our competition, the fast food giants.
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Pets and Animal
State Of Hypnosis is A Place Your Pet Animal Right
You question how do i hypnotize my pet?
Consider it, you've your dog animal among the member of the family, just like your personal baby, both of them hear, breath and active, their for which calms you are able to calm your animal… much like energy. Now this is a step-by-step help guide to bond and hypnotize your dog animal.
First look for a comfortable spot for both you and your pet, like a chair, sofa, and bed or anywhere alongside your dog. The their back while you continue stroking their abdomen inside a gentle soothing movements, it is crucial that you simply do it very lightly and slow, especially if you wish to develop a trust between your pet, either if it's your personal varieties. You might remove your hands or keep your gentle massage over your dog's body. Make certain you touch every single a part of your dog lightly to condition these to your touch and movement, then while you breath gradually out and in start to speak softly having a deep soothing voice to maintain your pet inside a condition of trance…
If you think comfortable play and touch their ear having a gentle stroke to produce more deepening, then start speaking just a little faster having a humming dog sounds, (pay attention to dogs cry and dogs laughter and discover the happy seem of the voice then put it on inside the hypnotic suggestions) it will require them much deeper…
PS: For those who have a dog, you will be aware which kind of sounds your dog makes when they're happy or excited, it's similar to speaking for your pet having a baby voice, exactly the same way you talk to a baby. With more experience your dog is going to be trained to your voice using hypnosis to alter their behaviors and also to enhance their health. When prepared to take the pet from trance, hold themselves having a firm mastery and adopted by having an authoritarian voice then switch your dog to take it from the trance. Make certain you praise your dog along with you did great, good so and thus, or good dog.
Please Be Aware: Your dog may be easily distracted from sounds and noises from outdoors, and it is therefore a typical factor that that they'll get out of trance once they've been distracted and go out toward the seem, this can be a natural instinct response….So you shouldn't be frustrated, keep practicing eventually they're not going to respond to sounds or noises after they are much deeper and comfy where thy are inside their minds.
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Do you enjoy creating or adopting your own virtual pet? You might have seen the brand new Webkinz plush toys which have a free virtual pet picture of the plush animal. Many youngsters are starting to collect these pets in addition to taking part in the virtual world. Virtual desktop pets offer advantages, particularly if you have children who are interested to get an active indoor pet. They're completely easy to maintain unlike real pets. If you don't wish to need to bother about the irritation of cleaning after your indoor pets and making certain that they're well taken proper care of, a virtual pet might be what you want.
Additionally towards the easy to maintain facet of getting one, for those who have a young child thinking about adopting a genuine pet, then by letting them experience taking care of an online pet, they'll learn to better take care of a pet overall. They'll gain better responsibility and realize that pets require food, shelter, and love and can't be neglected. Most of the virtual pet games will need the owner feed your pet or go ahead and take pet for any walk to enable them to do most of the same or similar tasks that will have to be achieved having a real pet. The proprietors could possibly get additional points or rewards by performing these tasks or can easily see their pet's health or abilities decline to fail to complete operator.
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If money isn't a factor, but you don't want to cope with house breaking or cleaning following a pet, this may be regarded as a benefit too. Maybe your children have severe allergic reactions and can't accept the ticks and flicks that some creatures may bid farewell to. Well, with virtual pets this isn't an issue. While you start to consider adoption, then you'll observe how convenient they're and how they may do well buddies for those alike. In either case, you won't fail together with your choice.


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It's Happening: A Generation Is Crying Out and Heaven Is Responding
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Chapter 1
When He Walked Into The Room
At the sound of Mary 's greeting, Elizabeth 's child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Elizabeth gave a glad cry and exclaimed to Mary ... "When I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy. You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said."
- —Luke 1:41-45
I write down many of the things the Lord has done in our midst, just for the sake of memory. One day as I was writing some things down, the presence of the Lord began to fill the room. I was overwhelmed, and unable to keep my composure as I thought about all I have seen. What is happening in this season is precious. God is giving us a moment, an opportunity, an invitation to experience and encounter Him—to go all in. The Lord wants to do something greater than anything we 've experienced before. Can you imagine what would happen if we gave Him room to do it?
I have been on a search for something nearly my entire life. I grew up in church. I was the kid who played church at home. At first, it was the music that kept me interested because I was a very musical child. I still am very musical. In fact, most people first encountered my ministry through my worship leading. The music was so good at my church that I actually didn 't want to go to children 's church when I was a little kid.In those days children 's church was basically something to keep us occupied until we got old enough for the adult service. That was where it was happening. Back then gospel recording artist Donald Lawrence was our minister of music. If you are familiar with his ministry, then you can see why I wanted to be with the adults.
By the time I was nine or ten years old, it wasn 't only the music that kept my attention. I also stated listening to the messages. I started to feel as if there was more to this church thing than good music. You may wonder how a ten-year-old would think like this, but it was the Holy Spirit planting a seed in my spirit. I had no frame of reference to know there was something more. I just knew there was.
When I was ten years old, my mother went ona business trip to Los Angeles and came back filled with the Holy Spirit. She visited Crenshaw Christian Center and was exposed to things we had never experienced. We were Baptist, and supernatural stuff such as healing, the gifts of the Spirit, and signs and wonders wasn 't really discussed at our church. Now, don 't get me wrong; the gospel was preached, and people were getting saved. But there is more to our spiritual existence, and even at ten years old I was getting hungry for it.
The next time my mother went to California, she took me with her. It was my spring break, and we had a full intinerary—Disneyland, Knott 's Berry Farm, Universal Studios, and some other must-see places. We had great fun. But she also made sure to take me to the church where she had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I saw things I had neven seen before. I heard things I had never heard before. I saw people encounter God and become weak and unable to stand because of the weight of His presence—what some believers call being "slain in the Spirit." On one side of the room people were being prayed for, and on the other side of the room people were falling down because they could feel what was happening on the other side of the room. You can imagine that as a ten-year-old I was scared to death.
I heard people speaking and singing in other languages and in unknown tongues. That scared me too, but I wanted it.
Then someone said, "We 're going to pray for healing, so if you 're sick in your body, come up." At that time I dealt with really bad asthma. I had even been hospitalized once. My mother, who served on the board of the American Lung Association of Southwest Ohio, had been putting all her efforts into finding a cure for it. So she said, "Go up there. Go."
But after all I had seen at the church that day—people falling out for what I thought was no reason—I thought, "No way." Then I saw that she was crying. Through her tears she said, "I believe that if you 'll hust go, you 'll be healed." Literally weeping, she pleaded again, "Please. Go."
Understand that this was happening in the 1980s, before Christian TV was as widespread as it is today, so not many people were exposed to this kind of thing. This was unfamiliar territory for me.
It was a midweek service. I remember going up for prayer, but I don 't actually remeber what happened after that. I do know this: I don 't suffer from asthma anymore. We went back on Sunday, and I had to go to children 's church there because they didn 't allow children in the main service. However, I was filled with the Holy Spirit in their children 's church. After spending one week in California and attending two church services, I had experienced the presence of God in a brand-new way, and I was marked for life. Since that time when I was ten, I have not been the same.
Becoming a God Chaser
Two years later we found ourselves in a church where there was a full-on outpouring of the Holy Spirit. People would stand outside in line for more than an hour in sub-zero temperatures, waiting to get in. Why? Because God was there. But after a while people became comfortable and complacent. If we aren 't intentional, we can easily lose our awe of God and set up camp in the land of comfort. Whenever this happens, whenever we take the move of God for granted, things will change. Eventually our church went back to normal. But the hunger and fire in me continued to burn.
Several years later a pastor and mentor of mine came up to me and said, "Hey, why don 't you read this book?" He was holding a copy of The God Chasers by Tommy Tenney. The message and testimonies in that book moved me from saying, "I want that," to being obsessed with possessing the kingdom. I longed to know and be known by God and to pursue Him until I expereinced Him in a profound and tangible way. He was who I wanted.
I 've had moments in my life when I 've seen God move, but they were fleeting. I 've been in services where His presence was intense, but eventually things returned to normal, as if the amazing service didn 't even happen. I 've been at restaurants where a simple conversation turned into a deep awareness of God 's presence because He sat down in the booth with us. But the people in those restaurants went back to normal, and their fire seemed to be extinguished. I 've been with friends, preparing to eat a meal, and the blessing turned into a God encounter that left us all on the floor before God. As a worship leader, I 've led worship during times when no one knew what to say or do because we all were arrested by the presence of God. I 've also seen moments like those dishonored because something else was on a program.
Have you experienced what I 'm talking about? If so, do you still cry out? Do you still burn for God? Do you still want Him more than anything? I know I do.
I have never lost my cry. We planted our church with this cry. We want to see a move of God. We want to see it grow beyond the seven hundred to eight hundred people who gather together in a corner warehouse. We want to see it spread of our city, state, nation, and world. God is moving powerfully among us. He is moving in you. Do you want more?
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Soprano Sarah Lewis Jones recently completed her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The Ohio State University. Sarah has been a member of the Opera Columbus Education & Outreach program for the past two years. She has most recently been seen as the Witch/Mother in the touring production ofHansel & Gretel. Other recent performances include Clorinda in the Opera Columbus touring production of Cinderella and Giunone in La Calisto with The Ohio State University. She was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Irma M. Cooper Opera Columbus International Vocal Competition, 2007 recipient of the Margaret Speaks award from The Ohio State University, 2007 winner of The Ohio State University Concerto Competition and was awarded second place in the 2001 Junior Division of the Irma M. Cooper Opera Columbus International Vocal Competition.


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jgsketch needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 20 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Our company is looking for a logo design for our new site and non-profit company called RightTrack. This site is aimed at providing financial education to individuals and organizations. Our emphases are teaching people every thing about Credit and Money Management, Prevention of Debt and Financial Literacy.
A One Stop Source for Financial Literacy
Desired Color Scheme:
blues, blacks and silvers
Desired Style:
Web 2.0. Convery trustworthiness, steadiness and simplicity. Modern design.
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Our vision of the logo needs to represent the name of our company, RightTrack. This logo must include an art deco or modern looking train and train tracks under the train and or the title. Both train and the tracks are important, as the word Track is in the title. NO steam or old fashion trains please. While the companys name is RightTrack, the full title to be used is RightTrack Educational Services, with emphasis on RightTrack. "RightTrack" is to be one word and not all upercase. The tag line is A One Stop Source for Financial Literacy but is not mandatory in the logo. We are looking for a perspective drawing of the train and not a flat 2d image, unless its really creative and fits the design. No requirements for fonts at this point except Web 2.0 style fonts.
The President of the company has expressed interest in having the word RightTrack actually be part of the train, written in the train. However, use your best judgment, as this logo will need to be able to scale down (Vector Format) for stationary purposes. As long as the logo is vector based, we do not need specific stationary designs. I would prefer to see not just designs with the words in the train, because we are not sure how it will look and need to see logos without the words in the train.
The logo needs to convey trustworthiness, steadiness and simple with a modern style. We would like to see blues, blacks, silvers and possibly oranges, but mostly we are open to colors. This logo will be on a white background of a website and stationary. The website will be a simple design with a good amount of white space and in Web 2.0 style.
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L'Antic Colonial has once again succeeded in surprising architecture and interior design professionals thanks to its new range of reduced-thickness natural stone laminates, in other words, Airslate.
With a thickness of between 0.2 and 0.4 cm, and depending on natural surface variations and reliefs, L'Antic Colonial has managed to get a light flexible product which makes its 240x120 cm and barely 5kg in weight, and with pieces that are easier to manage as well. Furthermore, this new natural stone laminate increases the traditional covering possibilities greatly, since it can be installed even on curved areas.
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Game One: Farmingdale - 8, Mount Saint Vincent - 0
Game Two: Farmingdale - 17, Mount Saint Vincent - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State Rams swept the Mount Saint Vincent Dolphin's this afternoon in a Skyline Conference doubleheader. Sophomore pitcher Hope Zino (Bayshore, N.Y/Bayshore) and junior pitcher Heather Buckshaw (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) both pitched shutouts for the Rams. Zino pitched six innings with ten strikeouts and three hits, while Buckshaw pitched a one-hitter.
In game one the Rams scored four of their eight runs in the second inning. With one out freshman Jennifer Jarczynski (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) tripled to center field. Freshman Elizabeth Escobar (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) singled up the middle scoring Jarczynski. Sophomore Rebecca Richman (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip) single to left field advancing Escobar to second. Escobar and Richman moved to third and second on a passed ball which put them in scoring position for freshman Maressa Mistretta (Shirley, N.Y./Longwood). Mistretta doubled to left field and both runners scored. The Rams scored their final run when sophomore Kaitlin Keenan (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip) doubled to center field and scored Mistretta to make it 5-0 after two innings.
Farmingdale scored one run in the third, fifth and sixth innings to force the run rule and win 8-0. Zino struck out the side in the third inning and the sixth inning. She improves her record to 4-3.
In the second game, Farmingdale scored four runs in both the first inning and the second inning followed by an explosive third inning where they scored seven runs. Buckshaw, who is now 4-2, pitched her one-hitter in five innings with no walks and four strikeouts. Mistretta went 2-2 with two runs. Keenan went 2-4 with three RBI's and three runs scored. Sophomore Aubrey Walker (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) went 2-3 with two runs scored and two RBI's. The Rams would go on to win the game 17-0.
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Ladies, can we talk about how frustrating it is to shop for a bra? Between the insane lack of standard bra sizing and our breasts naturally changing in size and shape every so often, getting the right fit isn't easy. This graphic offers a few pointers to help.
Lingerie company HerRoom's infographic points out some of the basics of bra sizing, such as measuring for cup and band size. What you might not have known about bras is that the "sister bra sizes"—the sizes surrounding your current bra size—can help you quickly find a bra that fits better when the one you're trying on doesn't run true to size.
If the band fits, for example, but the cup doesn't, change the letter but not the number (e.g., from 36C to 36B or 36D). To change the band size, change both the letter and the number, diagonally (see the graphic below for a clear example, going from 36C to 38B or 34D). And to change both the cup and the band size, adjust the number but not the letter (e.g., 36C to 34C or 38C).
It sounds confusing (as bra shopping can sometimes be), but this could help you save some time selecting a bra that will actually fit.
Here's the full graphic (note that there is an error in the top chart, where cup size C is repeated twice; the first one should be B):
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How Efficiency Can Rev Up the Flagging Truck Industry
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How Efficiency Can Rev Up the Flagging Truck Industry
What does the food in your refrigerator have in common with the clothes in your closet and the computer on your desk? Unless they were produced in your backyard (or in the case of Amory Lovins, in your home's greenhouse!), common items that appear on the shelves of our local stores arrived there by heavy truck.
Arguably one of the core elements of consumer society, trucking is widely regarded as the easiest and quickest means to get everything we need from supplier to seller to you.
However, while critical to our modern economy, the trucking industry is in serious trouble. More and more independent owner operators are going bankrupt, oil prices are increasingly volatile, and nitrogen oxides emissions regulations (the U.S. doesn't yet regulate carbon dioxide emissions) are coming down hard on the industry.
Few improvements have been adopted industry-wide to increase fuel efficiency. In 2008, freight trucking was the second greatest user of petroleum products in the United States. Trucks consume 2.4 million barrels a day, and greenhouse gas emissions from trucks have risen more than 50 percent since 1990. To put this in perspective, emissions from the light-duty vehicle sector have only increased by about 13 percent.
"Historically, emissions regulations have coincidentally encouraged solutions that sacrificed efficiency," says Hiroko Kawai, a principal with Rocky Mountain Institute's Mobility + Vehicle Efficiency (MOVE) Team. "However, efficiency improvements will always reduce vehicle emissions proportionately."
The recent economic downturn mixed with market uncertainty has made it difficult for fleet owners, who already operate on very slim profit margins, to make any investment in technologies that make their trucks more efficient. The industry indeed faces a crisis.
But, according to Kawai, crisis creates opportunity.
"The current economic climate presents a great opportunity for good design and technology to profitably transform the industry by reducing waste and increasing efficiency," she said.
To keep this transformation moving, RMI organized and convened more than 40 trucking industry experts in Denver, Colo., from April 14 to 16, for our Transformational Trucking Charrette. Diverse participants, who ranged from vehicle technology experts (such as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and technology experts) and trucking operations stakeholders to those who work on mitigating environmental impact and implementing policy solutions, spent three days engaged in discussion and analysis. Although it is rare to get this combination of experts in a room together, they all came to work toward the same goal: doubling the efficiency (defined by the amount of energy required to haul freight) of the heavy trucking sector.
On the very first day of the charrette, Kawai extended a challenge. "Everybody needs to get on the truck," she said. "If we don't take urgent action on improving trucking efficiency, goods won't be transported, items will not be available, or we won't be able to afford them. Ultimately, we need to reduce or eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels."
The biggest challenge to transformation in a troubled and fragmented industry is alignment. RMI's MOVE Team believes that in order to accelerate the business case for fuel conservation, stakeholders need to consolidate the multiple, often-competing "visions" of what the future of trucking looks like. However, achieving this is harder than it seems. Here are a few reasons why.
There is No "Silver Bullet"
Like any complex issue, there is no single solution for achieving widespread trucking efficiency gains. Although the technologies that could help a heavy-duty truck achieve doubled efficiency are available, these technologies are not yet widely adopted. Charrette discussion revealed that a wide range of often interconnected barriers is stepping on the brakes.
Efficient trucking faces the classic chicken-and-egg situation. How can a truckmaker with a new technology transform its assembly line and get it into the market successfully without solid projection for demand? On the other side of the coin, why would fleet owners or truck drivers demand technologies that they have little knowledge about, whose success and profitability are unproven?
Along with the technology conundrum are policies and regulations that are often contradictory and inconsistent on a state-to-state basis. There are many state and federal policies that seek to mitigate the environmental impact of the trucking industry. However, many regulations that seek to reduce particulate matter and nitrous oxide emissions do so by sacrificing efficiency.
Such barriers, while pervasive, are definitely not insurmountable. Many truck freight customers have begun to demand climate-friendly supply chains, and market forces are pushing energy efficiency in freight-goods transportation. So the question becomes: is the trucking industry's future bleak or bright?
What's Next?
"In spite of these barriers, the industry's future will be driven forward by true collaboration," noted Kawai on the beginning of day three, which focused on narrowing proposed solutions into actionable efforts. "More positive and simplistic solutions can come." System integration, aligned incentives, and government collaboration: all the proposed solutions came back to a whole-system approach and a common vision.
When asked the question "in ten years, what would you like to accomplish to overcome the barrier of competing policies?," group members were consistent and clear. The industry needs unified, prioritized, and maintained policy with an immediate and equal consideration of efficiency, as well as a way to get technologies into the marketplace and education for consumers on their effectiveness.
Three major initiatives -- all of which seek to perpetuate the collaboration and insight toward application solutions -- emerged at the charrette.
First, "Freight Without Borders" centers on creating an organization that could unify industry and government stakeholders and accelerate doubling freight efficiency while creating jobs in new energy research areas and business. Truckers face a hodgepodge of weight and size rules that vary between states or even counties; harmonization that allows long compound vehicles, as in some jurisdictions, could (with proper design) save lots of fuel while reducing congestion, road wear, and accidents.
Specifically, the initial goal is to convince policy makers that we need a "National Freight Strategy." Crafting such a strategy would allow influential individuals and organizations to understand and compile what knowledge exists, and to accurately inform policy makers as they craft a national strategy.
The second initiative, U.S. Council for Freight Efficiency (USCFE) -- centered on "credible, quantified information on truck technology," as MOVE consultant Mike Simpson put it -- could be an effort to establish an independent body like the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED system (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for green buildings -- except in this case for trucks. A non-profit council could be established to deliver publicly accessible technology data in order to stimulate the adoption of efficient vehicles and vehicle components.
The third initiative centers on an actual truck. The "Transformational Truck Demonstration" will develop, demonstrate, and test a transformational truck that achieves at least twice the efficiency of a traditional truck. The demonstration will be designed to accelerate the development of efficient vehicles, their components and systems, and their profitable commercialization. This project will establish the true efficiency limits for long-haul Class 8 trucks using the above-mentioned USCFE's testing methodologies, which include application-specific, duty-cycle-specific efficiency scenarios. The Transformational Truck Demonstration project will leverage the research and networks from Freight Without Borders and USCFE while providing a test platform that can support the validation of new concepts from each. The project will also assist Freight Without Borders, proving to consumers and policy-makers the feasibility of transforming the trucking industry.
These goals, although ambitious, are not only important but necessary to move the industry toward a profitable and sustainable future. RMI's MOVE Team members continue to rally behind these initiatives, and to collaborate with influential parties in the freight and policy sectors. Their recently published Transformational Trucking Report provides more information on next steps and approaches.
More information on transforming the truck industry is available here.
Kelly Vaughn is an analyst with RMI's Communications Department where she focuses on communications strategy and initiative development. She has her MA in Communications from University of Dubuque and extensive experience in social marketing and PR.
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The American Nurses Association has honored six hospitals with the NDNQI Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality, including Sharp Mesa Vista in San Diego.
The six hospitals, recognized Feb. 7 in Atlanta at the ANA's Nursing Quality Conference, were identified by researchers from among more than 1,900 hospitals that report results to the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators and measure their performance against other NDNQI hospitals regionally, statewide and nationwide.
The six recipients "demonstrated superior results and sustained improvement in patient outcomes that are tied to the quality of nursing services and nurse work environment factors," according to an ANA news release.
A total of 17 clinical process and patient outcome measures were evaluated to determine overall quality. The winners are:
* Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. (in the academic medical center category). The facility reduced its patient falls are by more than 50 percent in a unit for adults with cardiac-related diseases combined with other conditions. Staff performed safety huddles at the beginning of each shift to identify risks, and implemented prevention strategies such as bed alarms and risk mitigation during hourly nursing rounds.
* St. Francis Hospital — The Heart Center, Roslyn, N.Y. (community hospital). St. Francis, which cares for patients with cardiac medical problems and performs cardiac and vascular surgery, decreased the number of patients developing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers soon after surgery by 21 percent over six years.
* Akron Children's Hospital Mahoning Valley, Boardman, Ohio (pediatric hospital). Akron Children's decreased its bloodstream infection rate for very-low-birth-weight infants, a leading cause of disease and death for premature babies, by 30 percent through implementation of evidence-based practices for central venous catheter insertion and maintenance processes across its five neonatal sites.
* Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital, San Diego (psychiatric hospital). Sharp Mesa Vista had no incidences of physical restraints for four consecutive quarters and scored in the top 15 percent in patient satisfaction with nursing among NDNQI-participating hospitals.
* Craig Hospital, Englewood, Colo. (rehabilitation hospital). Craig reduced its patient falls rate by 16 percent by instituting a policy requiring two staff members to transfer patients with traumatic brain injury.
* Rose Medical Center, Denver (teaching hospital). The facility reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia, the leading cause of death resulting from hospital-acquired infections, from 17 cases in 2008-09 to one case in 2011-12. The staff improved team-based oral care standards and implemented a series of interventions proven to reduce infection rates.
"Nurses recognize that our health care system is becoming more focused on performance standards and patient outcomes," ANA President Karen A. Daley, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, said in a news release. "That's how it should be, that's how nurses approach their work and that's what this award is all about.
"Nurses have the power to influence a patient's hospital experience and, most importantly, their ultimate health outcome through their teamwork, innovation, leadership and dedication. The award winners show they have performed best in that regard."
For more information about NDNQI, visit www.nursingquality.org/.
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Rumors have been flying around Twitter that Dan Gauthier, ONE LIFE TO LIVE's ex-Kevin Buchanan, would be joining the cast of THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. And while the talented actor would be a welcome addition to the cast of any soap, in our opinion, a rep for B&B reports that those rumors are false. Guess B&B has reached its hunk quota for the time being?


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When you encrypt your backups in iTunes
The Encrypt backup feature in iTunes locks and encodes your information. Encrypted iTunes backups can include information that unencrypted iTunes backups don't:
- Your saved passwords
- Wi-Fi settings
- Website history
- Health data
iTunes doesn't encrypt your backups by default. To encrypt a backup in iTunes for the first time, turn on the password-protected Encrypt backup option. iTunes automatically makes encrypted backups for that device from then on.
There is no way to recover your information or turn off Encrypt Backup if you lose or forget the password.
You can also make a backup in iCloud, which automatically encrypts your information every time.
Encrypt your iTunes backups
- Open iTunes. Make sure that you have the latest version.
- Connect your device to your computer with the included USB cable. Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch when it appears in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window. Learn what to do if you don't see the icon.
- On the Summary screen, select "Encrypt [device] backup" in the Backups section.
- When asked, make a password. Create one that you'll remember or write it down and store it safely, because there's no way to use your iTunes backups without this password.
After you confirm your password, iTunes starts backing up and also immediately overwrites and encrypts your previous backups.
When the process completes, make sure that your encrypted backup finished successfully:
- Mac: From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose iTunes > Preferences.
Windows: From the menu bar at the top of the iTunes window, choose Edit > Preferences.
- Click the Devices tab.
- You should see a to the right of your device's name, and the date and time that iTunes created the backup.
- Click OK to close iTunes Preferences.
Check to see if iTunes is already set up to encrypt your backups
If iTunes is set up to encrypt your backups, the Encrypt backup option has a check mark in the Summary pane when you connect your device to iTunes.
You can also see whether a specific iTunes backup is encrypted:
- Mac: From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose iTunes > Preferences.
Windows: From the menu bar at the top of the iTunes window, choose Edit > Preferences.
- Click the Devices tab.
- Look for next to the backup. If you see , the backup is encrypted.
- Click OK to close iTunes Preferences.
If you can't remember the password for your encrypted backup
You can't restore an encrypted backup without its password. With iOS 11 or later, you can make a new encrypted backup of your device by resetting the password. Here's what to do:
- On your iOS device, go to Settings > General > Reset.
- Tap Reset All Settings and enter your iOS passcode.
- Follow the steps to reset your settings. This won't affect your user data or passwords, but it will reset settings like display brightness, Home screen layout, and wallpaper. It also removes your encrypted backup password.
- Connect your device to iTunes again and create a new encrypted backup.
You won't be able to use previous encrypted backups, but you can use iTunes to back up your current data and set a new backup password.
If you have a device with iOS 10 or earlier, you can't reset the password. In this case, try the following:
- If someone else set up your device, ask them for the password.
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To turn off iTunes backup encryption, uncheck the Encrypted backup box in iTunes and enter the password. If you can't remember your password, you have two options:
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Oprah Winfrey Leads Top Highest-Paid Celebrities
(NEW YORK) -- Oprah Winfrey's talk show may have called it quits last year, but her earning power certainly hasn't. The owner of Harpo productions, television network OWN and O Magazine, whose syndicated talk show ended in late May of last year, tops Forbes' Highest-Paid Celebrities list for the fourth year in a row.
Now that her talk show has ended, Winfrey has some close competition on her heels, beating the second highest-paid celebrity by only $5 million, and earning $125 million less than a year ago.
"Although the show ended it was still in reruns, so she still got some money from it," said Forbes' Los Angeles bureau chief, Dorothy Pomerantz.
Most of her money is now coming from the rest of her empire, which includes shows by Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and Rachael Ray, and a lucrative radio deal. Her network has laid off employees as she leads with shows like Oprah's Lifeclass and Oprah's Next Chapter.
"She'll still continue to make a lot of money, but without the syndicated show, she'll take a big hit," Pomerantz said.
Here are the big-earners who round out the rest of the top five highest-paid celebrities:
Michael Bay
Michael Bay's third Transformers film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, earned about $1.1 billion at the box office.
Pomerantz called Bay a "smart director" who made a "fantastic" deal with the film by getting a share of the profits, including a share of the toy sales.
The film director and executive producer is working on a number of other projects with some big money-earning potential, including Pain and Gain with Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Ken Jeong, which is expected to be released next year. The throwback film Ninja Turtles isn't expected to be released until 2014.
Steven Spielberg
With two Oscar-nominated films in theaters last year, War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin, director Steven Spielberg has proven time and time again he still has an eye for critically-acclaimed movie hits.
Forbes reports Spielberg is likely going to return to their list next year with two other films, Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and Robopocolypse, a sci-fi thriller based on the book by Daniel Wilson.
"Spielberg is a 'perennial' toward the top of our list," Pomerantz said.
The director, who receives tens of millions of dollars each year from residuals from his past hit films, also served as a consultant for the Universal Theme Parks, so gets a share of ticket sales.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer made waves last year with the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of Disney's film series and one of the highest-grossing films in 2011, earning $1 billion at the box office. Bruckheimer is expected to reap in millions more with additional sequels, such as Top Gun 2, Bad Boys 3, National Treasure 3, and yes, additional Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Pomerantz calls Bruckheimer another perennially highly paid celebrity.
"The Pirates films are what's keeping his earnings up really high now," Pomerantz said, but Bruckheimer also has a large television empire, which includes the CSI series and The Amazing Race.
Dr. Dre
The only musician in Forbes' top five list, Dr. Dre didn't produce or write a hit song last year, but he did make millions from his line of headphones, Beats by Dre. In August 2011, HTC Corp., Asia's second-largest handset producer by market value, bought a 51-percent stake in Beat Electronics LLC for $300 million.
As part of the deal, the Taiwanese company passed along $100 million to co-founders Dr. Dre, whose legal name is Andre Romelle Young, and record label Interscope's chairman Jimmy Iovine, who each owned about a third of the company, Forbes said.
After mega-hits like "Still D.R.E." from 2001 and producing for big-name rappers like Eminem and Snoop Dog, Dr. Dre announced he was taking a break from music last November.
Forbes has the full list of the highest-paid celebrities.
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SanDisk to Speak on SSD Products at 2007 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., May 15, 2007 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that the Microsoft Windows Hardware Qualification Lab (WHQL) has certified the new SanDisk 1.8-inch UATA solid state drive (SSD), which is being used as a substitute for hard drives in selected laptop computers. The product also earned a high score on the Windows Experience Index, indicating that it is suited to a variety of Microsoft Windows Vista™ applications.
The announcement was made at the 2007 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC 2007) at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where SanDisk is showcasing its comprehensive line of storage products for use in computing systems. On display at the exhibition are the SanDisk SSD products - which also include the 2.5-inch SATA SSD - as well as USB flash drives, the SD card family, uDOC memory modules and other flash-based storage products.
With WHQL certification, the SanDisk UATA SSD is now compatible with Windows Vista and Windows XP and identified as a product that delivers a high-quality computing experience with Windows operating systems. SanDisk now can use the Works with Windows Vista and Designed for Windows XP logos on its SSD product.
Additionally, the SanDisk UATA SSD scored 5.4 out of 5.9 when tested with the Windows Experience Index utility1, a new feature in Windows Vista. The results indicate that the new Windows Vista operating system will run optimally when installed on the SanDisk SSD.
Using a scale ranging from 1 to 5.9, the Windows Experience Index measures performance capabilities of PCs and their components and calculates a score telling users how well the operating system will run using those components. Products receiving a score of 5.0 or higher are defined by Microsoft as the highest performers in their respective categories.
"Compared to a score of between 3 and 4 for a typical rotating hard disk in the same environment, we scored quite well," said Iri Trashanski, director of business development for the SanDisk Computing Solutions Division. "With results like these and certification from Microsoft, PC manufacturers and consumers will find it even more worthwhile to move away from conventional HDDs in order to enjoy the improved performance, durability and reliability delivered by our SSD product line."
During WinHEC 2007, Trashanski will be leading a session entitled "SSD to Solve the IOPS Bottleneck" in the convention center theater at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 17. He will also participate in an SSD panel discussion at 1:15 p.m.
SanDisk SSD products are available now to computer manufacturers.
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RIM's BBX Phones Won't Look Like Bold, Will Support BES
RIM's new BBX phones may not look like the BlackBerry Bold, but they will support BlackBerry's core enterprise email features, Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development told PCMag.com.
That's because the first phones based on RIM's new OS will have the same screen resolution and aspect ratio as the BlackBerry PlayBook, which has a 16:9 ratio and 1024-by-600 screen. That's a screen resolution we haven't seen before on small mobile-phone screen panels, which are typically 800-by-480, 960-by-540, or now 1280-by-720 with the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus and HTC Rezound.
"Look, if you build [an app] for the PlayBook, then it will run on BBX. We have maintained aspect ratios, BBX also has the ability to upload multiple dimension graphics … [and the standard resolutions] are the same as PlayBook," he said.
This jibes with recent rumors about the "BlackBerry Colt," supposedly RIM's first BBX phone. That device has a large, 16:9 touch screen and no physical keyboard. The mention of "multiple dimension graphics" (which in context referred to sizes, not 3D) also opens up the possibility of different screen sizes in the future, maybe some compatible with a traditional BlackBerry form factor.
Saunders' description of the first BBX phones also agrees with what RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis said at a meeting all the way back in January when we asked him what the then-unnamed, QNX-based phone OS would look like. He held up a PlayBook, and said, "like this."
Saunders also confirmed that BBX phones would have all of the platform features that the PlayBook has when they launch, including native email and BES support. "I think you're seeing an evolution of a platform … you should not expect [BBX] to be behind the PlayBook," he said.
RIM has officially set February 2012 as the launch date for the next version of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS with native e-mail and Android app support, among many other new features. The company has said the first BBX phones will also be coming out early next year.
RIM Invites Nokia Exiles
Saunders came to New York to promote RIM's developer tools and strategy. He said the BlackBerry platform has 70 million subscribers, and there are currently 46,000 apps in BlackBerry App World. BlackBerry developers are making money, too: 13 percent of BlackBerry developers have made more than $100,000, Saunders said.
To attract developers, RIM is pouring on the dev kits. Since the PlayBook is POSIX-compliant, RIM has been porting over as many development environments as it can, including Sencha, Boost, and most notably Qt.
Qt was Nokia's preferred developer framework before the company switched to Windows Phone, and there's a population of disgruntled Symbian developers with Qt skills watching their potential market decline as Nokia switches over to Windows. RIM isn't targeting Symbian developers specifically, but the company is reaching into Nokia's traditional home turf.
"We have folks on the ground in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, China, Asia-Pacific … We're not specifically targeting the Symbian community, but Qt is obviously there," Saunders said.
Gaming will also be a big priority for RIM, Saunders said, with "tons of [high-end games] coming to the store" and the possibility of enhancing gaming by using BlackBerry Messenger as a back channel for multiplayer game data.
The ability to hook into BBMpossibly RIM's most attractive consumer service right nowhas made some apps tremendously successful, Saunders said.
"It's caused a social, viral explosion in app distribution," with 10 percent of the downloads from RIM's App World in any given month being the 200 BBM-connected apps, he said.
Whether they're writing Java apps, native apps, using RIM's WebWorks kit to create HTML5-based apps, repackaging Android apps for the upcoming Android emulator, or using one of the third-party app frameworks, ultimately developers can make money on the BlackBerry platform, and that's going to draw more apps, Saunders said.
"There's a market for BlackBerry software there, if you're a developer. There's a 70-million-strong customer base you can target with your applications," he concluded.


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I've been chipping away at the colossal block of animation which is my senior film (music video). You can see the old pencil tests in the animatic, but here's what I've produced in addition to those. So, I have about the first minute done. YAY!
PENCILDUMP 01 from DrMeloche on Vimeo.


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Librarians work with faculty to help students learn to locate, evaluate, and cite scholarly information in all formats. Librarians also build a well-rounded collection (with extensive input from the community) to support recreational reading and personal exploration.
The Archives, housed in the library, bring together a living collection of materials relating to the history of NMH since its beginning in 1879. Frequent users of the archives include NMH classes, alumni and their families, NMH offices, and outside researchers.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2743-1 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.debian.org/security/ Aurelien Jarno August 27, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : kfreebsd-9 Vulnerability : privilege escalation/information leak Problem type : local/remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2013-3077 CVE-2013-4851 CVE-2013-5209 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-3077 Clement Lecigne from the Google Security Team reported an integer overflow in computing the size of a temporary buffer in the IP multicast code, which can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation. An unprivileged process can read or write pages of memory which belong to the kernel. These may lead to exposure of sensitive information or allow privilege escalation. CVE-2013-4851 Rick Macklem, Christopher Key and Tim Zingelman reported that the FreeBSD kernel incorrectly uses client supplied credentials instead of the one configured in exports(5) when filling out the anonymous credential for a NFS export, when -network or -host restrictions are used at the same time. The remote client may supply privileged credentials (e.g. the root user) when accessing a file under the NFS share, which will bypass the normal access checks. CVE-2013-5209 Julian Seward and Michael Tuexen reported a kernel memory disclosure when initializing the SCTP state cookie being sent in INIT-ACK chunks, a buffer allocated from the kernel stack is not completely initialized. Fragments of kernel memory may be included in SCTP packets and transmitted over the network. For each SCTP session, there are two separate instances in which a 4-byte fragment may be transmitted. This memory might contain sensitive information, such as portions of the file cache or terminal buffers. This information might be directly useful, or it might be leveraged to obtain elevated privileges in some way. For example, a terminal buffer might include an user-entered password. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems has been fixed in version 9.0-10+deb70.3. We recommend that you upgrade your kfreebsd-9 packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: http://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: email@example.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSHEe5AAoJEL97/wQC1SS+LN8IAKs4uay4a4ZbhTaiEgOZVfmZ dgTmYDsNVbddyhMedVjW6RTCOmTVjXnHzre1UTLUrLCjED0NJ52s9lZWyWypVX9S X0zCJ4Ntclizw5nCzALMbzwL3L0sSI47Mu+QJ15ooAvyT1Rkb0SykauDE7IqvMjE oKY54VEGinVYWbpEVCSdOQpke10wwoZzuCLFqcVq2P/eiMrZjS7TvOm2AzDu+L8K R7igD7rjyJJT9RXGUcVJy+3iO0UPHRjWemxUPCXmqUCdKfchWuCNaN7Ybexeo5Aa z7+g2/43gq2x1VV5ttOvASnJKGKP5dYZzou+J1751/q903KSrbRKn+Z3+6jEh88= =8Tu7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to email@example.com with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com Archive: http://email@example.com


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East Texas Man Arrested for Stealing Airplane
NACOGDOCHES — A man accused of stealing a plane from an East Texas airport hangar is jailed in Henderson County and being held without bond. Terry Lynn Boozer is charged with theft and evading arrest after Nacogdoches County deputies acted on a tip from an 8-year-old boy who found the plane at a private airstrip. Deputies recovered the plane and arrested Boozer after a short foot pursuit. The boy compared the numbers on the plane to stories posted online. The Cessna 182 was stolen Jan 28th from Athens Municipal Airport.
'Tall, Dark and Handsome' Bank Robber Captured
HOUSTON — The FBI says a man suspected of being the so-called "tall, dark and handsome" bandit has been caught following a Southeast Texas bank robbery. An FBI spokeswoman says John Stark was arrested Wednesday in Beaumont shortly after a morning robbery at a Prosperity Bank Branch . Nobody was hurt and the suspect fled. Stark had previously been charged with a Jan. 30 heist in Beaumont.
Texas Teacher Gave Student Birth Control
AUSTIN — An Austin high school teacher has been charged after she was accused of giving a "morning-after" birth-control pill to a student. Tracy Lee Steinberg is charged with delivering a dangerous drug. Court records show the 32-year-old physical education teacher at Johnson High School gave the pill to a 16-year-old student last month after seeing the girl crying in class. Steinberg is currently free on $15,000 bond.
Young People Among Most Unemployed
WASHINGTON — The sluggish economy and tight job market has left young Americans especially vulnerable and less likely to be employed than at any time since World War II. An analysis by the Pew Research Center also finds that 41 percent of Americans believe that younger adults have been hit harder than any other group.
Two Nuclear Reactors Possible in Georgia
WASHINGTON — The U.S. could get its first nuclear power plant since 1978. A Georgia-based utility is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to build two nuclear reactors in the eastern part of the state. If the NRC votes yes today, the $14 billion reactors could begin operating as soon as 2016 and 2017.
Additional Groups Set for Hall of Fame Induction
CLEVELAND — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is inducting six additional groups this year, after a committee said they should be honored with their already recognized lead singers. Two of the groups are the Comets and the Miracles, who'll be inducted at an April ceremony in Cleveland. The Comets' Bill Haley and the Miracles' Smokey Robinson were inducted in 1987.
More Women to be Closer to Front Lines
WASHINGTON — Defense officials will ask Congress Thursday to allow military women to serve in more jobs closer to the front lines. The officials say women would be allowed to serve in some jobs at the battalion level, but still not as infantry, armor and special operations forces.
Housewives Caught Trying to Smuggle Guns
SAN ANTONIO — U.S. authorities say young housewives who bought assault rifles from Texas gun dealers are among nearly two dozen charged in an alleged plot to smuggle firearms to drug cartels. The Department of Justice said at a news conference today in San Antonio that more than 200 weapons have been seized that were bound for Mexico.


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The verdict on the A Whale super oil skimmer is not yet in. Fifteen-foot waves in the Gulf are hampering Coast Guard tests of the 10-story-tall, 1,100-foot-long ship that started its journey to the Gulf oil spill as a "lightbulb moment" of inspiration for Taiwanese shipping magnate Nobu Su, its owner.
Though early tests of the ship's oil-collecting ability were inconclusive, spirits are reportedly running high among the 35-member crew maneuvering the A Whale near the Deepwater Horizon spill, where the oil is the thickest. Whether Mr. Su's mega ship gets hired by BP depends on the kind of oil-sucking efficiency the retrofitted iron ore tanker can demonstrate while working on a widely dispersed spill under less-than-ideal conditions.
The A Whale's capacity is said to be 300,000 barrels of oil (12.6 million gallons) collected in a 10-hour period, a 125-fold improvement over the next-largest skimmer working the spill. But that's a best-case scenario, experts say.
IN PICTURES: The Gulf oil spill's impact on nature
During the worst of the weather over the past weekend, the A Whale became the only one of nearly 550 oil skimmers to work the Gulf, highlighting its potential to help contain a spill area that could become even harder to manage if the hurricane season is volatile, as expected. With hurricane Alex last week, the Gulf saw its first June hurricane in 15 years.
"Even given the conditions, this ship has been an incredible warrior," says Frank Maisano, a spokesman for Su's company, TMT Shipping Offshore, in a phone interview. "Our sense is that there's a need that is not being fulfilled in the deeper water with skimming, and we can address that need."
Retrofitting of the A Whale cost TMT millions, and it's not clear what the company would seek in compensation if the Coast Guard deems it a viable oil-slick attacker.
But Su insists that the A Whale isn't simply a business opportunity. "This is an opportunity to do something that no one else can do and about having the wherewithal to put your idea into action," Mr. Maisano says.
The potential to make an impact on America's biggest oil spill appears to be exciting for the crew of A Whale, which is accustomed to shipping iron ore around the globe. Described by Maisano as "a fun and interesting" bunch, the crew members, all from India, have displayed Bollywood jollity in front of TV cameras and impressed visitors with the quality of the food on board the ship.
At work, the crew is making technical tweaks in a bid to improve the ship's oil collection in rough seas. Though the A Whale's huge dimensions allow it to ride out rough waters, its size could also be a detriment as the super-skimmer vies for a spot on the response team. Oil from the spill is widely dispersed, and so those in charge of the response are ramping up the numbers – not necessarily the size – of vessels, aiming to put 750 skimming vessels to work by mid-July.
To date, skimmers have collected more than 671,000 barrels (28.2 million gallons) of oil and water mix from the Gulf. Between 2 million and 4 million barrels of crude are believed to have leaked into the Gulf already.
Whether or not it succeeds in the Gulf, the A Whale shows that a host of new ideas are emerging to try to contain major deepwater spills, says Dennis Bryant, a former Coast Guard officer and now a maritime consultant in Gainesville, Fla.
"The increased focus on research and development in oil-spill response is long overdue," says Mr. Bryant. "The other thing that's going to happen is that the amount of response resouces that are kept stockpiled in the United States will increase. Right after the Exxon Valdez accident [in Alaska in 1989], the response capability of this country ramped up rapidly and then slowly dropped over time because we weren't having big spills. Now we have a big spill and we've discovered that we don't have the necessary boom and skimmers."
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"From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment. 'Spirit. are they yours?' Scrooge could say no more. 'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom."
Ignorance and Want, the two ghastly children from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, are the offspring of man. More accurately, they are the offspring of a society that shows too little concern for what it is breeding. Dickens warned us about the spread of Want and Ignorance in 1843. Perhaps it is time he should warn us again.
At a time of year when we are all getting swept up in the holiday spirit. When you and I are busy with Christmas shopping, holiday planning, and family visits, perhaps we should make time to consider what we have done in the last year. Perhaps we should make a little more time to plan so we might do better next year.
I certainly think the people in our nation's capital should take a little time to do this. After all, Congress has done so very little this year they should certainly have some free time. I think the officials in Indianapolis should take a little time too. If this past legislative session is any indication, they should set aside a lot of time to reflect on what they could improve.
It seems the spread of Want is a popular campaign plank these days. In our bizarro world of American politics, the spread of Want is being actively promoted by some candidates. They wear their disdain for their fellow citizens as a badge of honor. "Take a bath and get a job!" is a common refrain. It is also a stupid one that plays only to our basilar instincts. Rather than actually doing some serious intellectual work and finding a way to improve our economy, some people, who are actively campaigning to be leader of the free world, reduce themselves to shouting third grade insults. When there are 4.6 unemployed people for every job opening, it requires a plan slightly more complex than "Take a bath!"
The proliferation of Want is not entirely the fault of one political party either. As one party campaigns to increase Want as quickly as humanly possible, the other seeks to compromise with that ghastly thought. The other party thinks it's a winning strategy to simply halve the increase in Want promoted by its opponent. As if having 100 million Americans in need is the best plan available simply because it is slightly better than having 200 million Americans in need. The rationalization of such idiotic public policy is mind-boggling. It reads like a headline from The Onion, only these policies aren't intentionally hilarious.
In a time when people need jobs, better pay, homes, food and other basic necessities, our leaders have weeks worth of debate over the astonishingly absurd. One party says they think they saw one instance of a person buying a steak with a food stamp, so the entire program must go. The other party says "well, we'll compromise with you and cut half the program". Then, they go on television to announce to the entire thinking world that bipartisanship is alive and well. Let me be the first to say "WELL, THANK GOD FOR THAT!!!!" It brings to mind the great Strother Martin line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, "Morons. I've got morons on my team".
As maddening as politics in Washington DC has become, it is perhaps even worse in our state's capitol. In Indianapolis, they actively seek to spread both Want and Ignorance, and they tell us it is a good thing. They write their editorial pieces and they even do "listening tours" so they can explain to us through porcelain smiles how laws that lower wages and reduce workplace safety are actually good for us, as if we're all gullible enough to buy it. Driving down wages will improve your quality of life! It's good for business! Of course, they're in the increasing Want business. And brother, business is good!
More disturbingly, the jolly folks in our state's capitol try to sell us on the spread of Ignorance. They tell us that pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars from our schools here in Perry County is a good thing. They tell us that obtaining a basic education should be a little more exclusive. If you happen to be a child of some means who lives near a private or "charter" school, you have every right to the best education money can buy. If you are of lesser means and live in a rural county like Perry County, well, life's just not fair sometimes. Next time, you should be born in Carmel. Perhaps you could get one of those wonderful minimum wage service jobs when you grow up. They'll be plentiful when we have Right to Work! What's that you say? College? Oh no, sorry, college is going to be reserved for those with the right breeding.
If our state's leaders are serious about improving Indiana's economy and retaining educated people, education is the first and best place to start. Does anyone really think businesses will want to locate in Indiana, unions or not, if Indiana's population becomes one of the least educated populations in the nation?
And retaining educated people? Forget about that. Why would educated people stay in any community that doesn't value education? And when families with children are considering a move to a community, they might look at property tax rates, but I guarantee you they look at the schools. If the schools are a mess and underfunded, the lowest property taxes in the world won't matter. It didn't for my family. I'm quite positive it won't for others. If you don't have kids, do you want to live in a state surrounded by uneducated minimum wage earners who have absolutely no hope to improve themselves? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Charles Dickens warned us of the danger posed by Want and Ignorance. He warned us especially where Ignorance would lead. That was 168 years ago. I don't think we listened all that well. I don't think we heeded the warning. Our leaders certainly haven't. Well, one day very soon Want and Ignorance are going to grow up. When they knock on our collective door, I hope we have better answers for them than "Take a Bath!" and "Compromise".
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