US report says Iraq 'rebuilders' died by hundreds

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In the first tally of its kind, a federal investigative agency has calculated that at least 719 people, nearly half of them Americans, were killed working on projects to rebuild Iraq following the U.S. invasion in 2003.

The toll represents an aspect of the Iraq war that is rarely brought to public attention, overshadowed by the much higher number killed in combat as well as the billions of taxpayer dollars squandered on reconstruction.

There is no confirmed total number of Iraq war deaths. The U.S. military lost 4,488 in Iraq, and its allies a little over 300. The number of Iraq deaths has not been established but is thought to exceed 100,000.

Navy Cmdr. Duane G. Wolfe was among the 719. He was not fighting the insurgency, but it was fighting him.

He was among the army of lawyers, engineers, contractors and others who paid a heavy price trying to put a broken Iraq and its shattered economy back together. Their deaths were recorded among the war's combat fatalities, but until now no one has carved out the "rebuilder" deaths as a subset of the overall casualty list.

Wolfe was killed on May 25, 2009, in a roadside bombing while returning to Baghdad after inspecting a waste water treatment plant under construction near Fallujah in Iraq's western province of Anbar. The $100 million project endured long delays and large cost overruns, and a U.S. federal audit last fall concluded that it probably was not worth the cost. The audit said "many" people died getting it built, but it did not say how many.

The 54-year-old Wolfe, a Navy reservist, was running the Army Corps of Engineers' office in Anbar at the time of his death; in civilian life he worked at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Two other U.S. civilians ? Terry Barnich, 56, of the State Department, and Maged Hussein, 43, of the Army Corps ? died in the same bombing.

Wolfe's wife, Cindi, said in a telephone interview last week that he knew the dangers of working in Iraq but made a point of not talking about security or any close calls that he might have had in violent Anbar province.

"He was careful not to worry us with information like that," she said.

The actual number of people killed doing reconstruction work is probably much higher than 719 but cannot be reliably determined, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said in releasing its estimate Friday. The U.S. government has no central database for this category of war casualties, and even within the U.S. military, the records on hundreds of troop deaths are too imprecise to categorize, the report said.

"We know our number is understated," Glenn D. Furbish, the deputy inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, said in an interview.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, called the report a "reminder that attempting to build roads, schools and other infrastructure in the middle of a war zone not only carries with it an increased frequency of fraud and waste, but also a devastating price in human life."

The 719 include U.S. government civilians, private contractors, military members, Iraqi civilian workers and third-country nationals. They were trainers, inspectors, auditors, advisers, interpreters and others whose mission was directly tied to the largely ad hoc reconstruction effort that began early in the war. They helped restore Iraq's dilapidated electrical grid, improve its oil infrastructure, develop a justice system, modernize a banking system, set up town councils and reopen hospitals, training centers and schools.

They also helped recruit and train Iraqi police, and they advised the Iraqi army. These trainers and advisers, mostly U.S. military members,- were considered part of the reconstruction effort if their mission was development of the Iraqi security forces, which had been disbanded by the U.S. occupation authorities in May 2003.

None of the 719 was named in the report, but some of the Americans have been recognized publicly by the government.

Among U.S. adviser casualties was Master Sgt. Anthony Davis, 43, who was shot to death Nov. 25, 2008, by an Iraqi soldier while delivering relief supplies. The shooter was in the battalion that Davis was advising as part of a military transition team. Davis's team also assessed schools' needs and planned renovations and organized deliveries. The special inspector general's report did not calculate how many U.S. troops were victims of insider attacks, a problem that has drawn wider attention in Afghanistan in recent months.

Insurgent attacks posed one of the biggest, and least anticipated, obstacles to the reconstruction effort in Iraq, which cost American taxpayers about $62 billion. Sabotage, waste and fraud took their own toll. The human cost, however, was far greater than foreseen when the invaders swiftly toppled Saddam Hussein.

"A completely exact calculation is not possible," the report said, One reason is that the U.S. military's reports on 1,009 casualties were so thin on detail that the type of mission could not be determined. As a result, the investigators could not count any of those in the reconstruction death total.

The 719 killed include 318 Americans, of which 264 were military members and 54 were civilians. The total also includes an estimated 271 Iraqi civilians and 111 third-country nationals, as well as 19 people of unknown nationality. The figures were compiled by combing through a range of documents, including classified data on roadside bomb attacks, according to Craig A. Collier, who directed the project as a senior adviser to the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.

Although the 719 killed represent a relatively small percentage of total war deaths, it far exceeds the 172 U.S. and coalition troops killed in the initial invasion, before President George W. Bush's declaration on May 1, 2003, that combat operations had ended. At that point it was mistakenly thought that the war was largely over.

Another of the 719 was Paul Converse, who died March 24, 2008 of wounds suffered in a rocket attack on the heavily protected International Zone in Baghdad that housed the U.S. Embassy and some Iraqi government offices. Converse, 56, was an auditor with the same office that did the death tally released Friday.

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Robert Burns can be followed on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/robertburnsAP

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-report-says-iraq-rebuilders-died-hundreds-040227456.html

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Where Lawyers and the Internet Meet: You ... - Traverse Legal, PLC

The internet is a very complicated place. There are web hosting companies, affiliate marketers. There are e-commerce agreements, clickwrap agreements. There?s social media defamation. There is any number of issues surrounding the DNS system, the Domain Name Server system. There?s ICANN which is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. There?s the registration of domain names which are controlled by registries and are sold through registrars to registrants.

There are subpoena issues in terms of what kind of digital information can you get from internet service providers or ISPs. If you have to identify anonymous people on the internet there?s a whole piece of technology which a lawyer or an attorney has to understand, even to know where to go.

Welcome to Internet Law Radio where we discuss the hottest topics in Internet law.? If you are facing an Internet law issue, cyber law complaint, web site or e-commerce issue, we have an Internet lawyer ready to help.

The internet is a very complicated place.? There are web hosting companies, affiliate marketers. There are e-commerce agreements, clickwrap agreements. There?s social media defamation.? There is any number of issues surrounding the DNS system, the Domain Name Server system.? There?s ICANN which is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.? There?s the registration of domain names which are controlled by registries and are sold through registrars to registrants.

There are subpoena issues in terms of what kind of digital information can you get from internet service providers or ISPs. If you have to identify anonymous people on the internet there?s a whole piece of technology which a lawyer or an attorney has to understand, even to know where to go.

My name is Internet Law Attorney Enrico Shaefer, and today we?re going to be talking a little bit about this merger between technology and the law.? There used to be, back before the internet, loosely defined technology attorneys, attorneys who understood about software and networks and hardware, and understood enough to be able to lend their legal expertise to clients who existed in those spaces.

But you know what?? The world has changed.? It?s a whole different place, and there?s a lot of business being done on the internet.? The primary calling card for every business is their website, which is a website on a domain name which consumers, and partners, and web visitors go to in order to see who you are and what you do.

So, these assets are incredibly important to virtually every business today. If you?ve got an issue, which somehow deals with your website, your domain name, or with the internet itself, you?re going to need an attorney who not only understands the area of law involved, but perhaps even more importantly understands how the internet works.? A lawyer who does not understand the back-end technology of the internet isn?t going to be able to accomplish results for you as the client.

Attorneys and lawyers today, many of them actually use the internet, right?? They use email.? They get the same spam messages that you do, and they worry about anti-spam laws. But do they really understand how different aspects of the internet and the World Wide Web actually work? The answer is a resoundingly ?no?.? Very few of the older, more experienced lawyers have any experience in internet and technology representation.

So, the most important thing that you need to understand as a client when taking a look at law firms and interviewing attorneys in order to understand who?s going to be able to help you with your internet-based client, with your internet-based problem, is that you need to ask both sides of the equation.? You need to ask your attorneys and your prospective lawyers who you?re taking a look at to hire, not only what the legal issue is, but what is going to have to happen on the technology side in order to accomplish a result?

So, let me give you a couple of examples.? Let?s say that you are a small business or start-up company that is trying to secure a domain name that matches your trademark.? So, there are a number of landing pages out there on domain names which are a good match for your trademark and no one appears to be using those web pages. So, a common question you might have is, ?Well, if I go ahead and register my trademark, can I then go get that domain name??

Well, there are special statues and policies and arbitrations which exist in order to resolve trademark and domain name disputes.? You?re going to need a lawyer who not only understands the law, but understands how the domain name system works, how the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy works, and identify for you your options of securing an unused or a lander page domain name that is going to be the one you?re going to want to launch your business on.

Let?s say you?re a small business or internet start-up company and you?re looking for a lawyer, because someone has defamed you on the internet. Let?s say you?ve been in business for about four years now and you?re growing, but one of your competitors has posted a bogus customer review, alleging that you provide poor customer service and that you didn?t honor your warranties.

Well, if that is posted on a third-party website you need an attorney who not only understands defamation law, but understands how web hosts and website operators work, and what their typical policies are with regards to removing third-party user-generated content that?s alleged to be defamation.

Let me give you another example.? Let?s say you?re a nice little e-commerce business doing say $10 million worth of revenue a year and you?ve been growing very quickly. You?re selling ceiling fans online through a variety of different domain names and websites that your company has built over time.

You do all your original artwork and so all of the different graphics and photographs displaying the different ceiling fans that you have on your website are copyright-owned by you and your company. But your competitors or others start using those original pieces of artwork, those original photographs by your company to display product on eBay, on Amazon, on Buy.com, on other e-commerce sites.

What are your options as a potential copyright owner to have those web pages removed, those accounts blocked by eBay and other vendors and potentially to have the photographs taken down? You?re going to need, not only a copyright law attorney to help you out, but that copyright law attorney is going to have to understand the internet and online space. Otherwise, they will not have any idea what results are achievable and who you can assert leverage against with regards to copyright infringement.

Again, there are special statutes which deal with online copyright infringement and user-generated content.? So, these are the types of things that any good technology and internet lawyer will be able to help you with.

So, when you go out and you list all your requirements on Google and you get those search returns and you find an attorney who you think is going to be good, make sure you take a look at what their technology and internet background is in addition to the substantive area of law that may apply to your specific situation. My name is Internet Law Attorney Enrico Shaefer. We?ll see you next time.

You?ve been listening to Internet Law Radio.? Whether you are facing a domain name, intellectual property or a complex litigation issue, we have an Internet law attorney ready to answer your questions.

Source: http://www.traverselegal.com/internet-law/internet-law/where-lawyers-and-the-internet-meet-you-need-a-technology-lawyer-who-understands-the-internet/

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Boxes for Snapshots - Another Set - Family Woodworking

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The box will be glued up as a cube with the top and bottom in place. I will then use an 1/8" kerf blade on the tablesaw to separate the top and bottom along the line represented by the bamboo stick.

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This results in the center upper and lower finger being of equal height. The finger pattern is a mirror image from the centerline out when finished.

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Court documents show off early kickstand iPad, skinny iPhone prototypes

Court documents show off early kickstand iPad, skinny iPhone prototypes

Apple experimented with an iPad with a kickstand, a super-skinny iPhone 4, and several other variants that have, up until now, not seen the light of day. The concepts come via court documents related to Apple and Samsung's ongoing legal dispute, and Bryan Bishop from The Verge has rounded them up for easy viewing.

Of particular note are multiple iterations of the iPad featuring different types of kickstands, what appears to be a 16:9 model with wide handles on either side, and an eight-sided iPhone with diagonal corners. Many of the iPad prototypes also feature "iPod" on the back, perhaps giving insight into Apple's early naming considerations.

Check out their gallery to see the assortment, then come back and let us know which are your favorites -- good, bad, and ugly.

Source: The Verge

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Cosmic ray haul for 'space LHC'

The largest-ever experiment in space has reported the collection of some 18 billion "cosmic ray" events that may help unravel the Universe's mysteries.

The data haul is far greater than the total number of cosmic rays recorded in a full century of looking to date.

Run from a centre at Cern, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aims to spot dark matter and exotic antimatter.

The astronauts who installed it on the space station in 2011 are in Geneva to see an update on how it is performing.

Mission commander Mark Kelly told reporters that AMS was "the pinnacle of the science that the ISS will do".

The huge number of events seen by the experiment includes some of the highest-energy particles from the cosmos that we have ever seen.

Kelly's flight - the STS-134 mission - was the last for the shuttle Endeavour before it was retired from the Nasa fleet.

The crew visited the Payload and Operations Control Centre at Cern on Wednesday, where a shift of six scientists is watching what is whizzing through the AMS 24 hours a day.

Seven-tonne giant

AMS deputy spokesman Roberto Battiston told BBC News that seeing the astronauts back in town was "a great joy".

"We are really thankful of these astronauts because we should never forget they put their lives at stake to do something that for us is pure fun - that is our interest, our curiosity," he said.

"They have high expectations that the AMS will find something interesting, because they put a lot of effort into it. They feel part of the family."

At the heart of the seven-tonne, $2bn machine is a giant, specially designed magnet which bends the paths of extraordinarily high-energy charged particles called cosmic rays onto a series of detectors, giving hints of what the particles are.

A series of ever-larger particle accelerators built here on Earth aim to drive particles to ever-higher energies, smashing them into one another to simulate the same processes that create them elsewhere in the cosmos.

But no Earth-bound experiment can match nature's power as a particle accelerator - and Earth's atmosphere absorbs incoming cosmic rays - so the AMS will catch some of these high-energy particles "from the source", as a kind of complement to the likes of the Large Hadron Collider.

In scientific terms, the stakes could not be higher. The AMS should be able to spot the results of collisions of the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the mass of our Universe, catch completely new forms of matter that include the aptly named "strange" quark, or resolve why the Universe we see is made mostly of matter rather than antimatter.

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THE ALPHA MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER (AMS-02)

Transition Radiation Detector determines highest-energy particle velocities

Silicon Trackers follow particle paths; how they bend reveals their charge

Permanent Magnet is core component of AMS and makes particles curve

Time-of-flight Counters determine lowest-energy particle velocities

Star Trackers scan star fields to establish AMS's orientation in space

Cerenkov Detector makes accurate velocity measurements of fast particles

Electromagnetic Calorimeter measures energy of impacting particles

Anti-coincidence Counter filters signal from unwanted side particles

"It took more than 35 missions to build the International Space Station - very complicated space shuttle flights - to construct this incredible laboratory in space," said Captain Kelly.

"When we installed AMS, that was the last piece of the ISS, then the space station was complete. This is really the pinnacle of the science that ISS will do, in my opinion the most significant experiment we have on board."

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Dark energy and dark matter mysteries

  • Gravity acting across vast distances does not seem to explain what astronomers see
  • Galaxies, for example, should fly apart; some other mass must be there holding them together
  • Astrophysicists have thus postulated "dark matter" - invisible to us but clearly acting on galactic scales
  • At the greatest distances, the Universe's expansion is accelerating
  • Thus we have also "dark energy" which acts to drive the expansion, in opposition to gravity
  • The current theory holds that 73% of the Universe is dark energy, 23% is dark matter, and just 4% the kind of matter we know well

In its 14 months of operation, the AMS has logged some 18 billion cosmic rays - more than collected in a century of looking before now.

But the AMS is a one-of-a-kind machine, so it has taken some time just to understand what it is seeing hundreds of times per second - and the team has only analysed a few percent of the data.

Nobel laureate Sam Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has led the project since its inception some 17 years ago, through a number of setbacks and budget concerns that nearly saw the project shelved altogether - until an act of the US Congress and an unscheduled shuttle mission put it in space.

The team has already noted an excess of extremely high-energy positrons - the antimatter equivalent of electrons - and atomic nuclei at 9 teraelectronvolts (TeV) - higher even than the LHC can produce.

But Prof Ting is interested most of all in careful, methodical work, and is in no hurry to formally announce any findings.

"I have told my collaborators that in the next 40-50 years it is very unlikely people will be so foolish as to repeat this experiment, given the difficulty I ran into," Prof Ting told BBC News.

"Therefore it's extremely important when we publish a result, we publish it correctly, because otherwise you'll certainly mislead physics and there's no way to check us."

Looking for answers

Mission specialist on STS-134 Greg Chamitoff told BBC News that it was "great to be able to celebrate together" with the AMS team.

"If they discover an antimatter particle - even one - that''ll be phenomenal, because they'll also know which direction it came from and they might be able to say 'that galaxy over there is an animtatter galaxy'," he said.

"What we learn from what it discovers could really transform our understanding of what's in the Universe."

The astronauts were accompanied by their wives, including STS-134 mission commander Mark Kelly's wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The trip to Cern is her first international journey since recovering from a gun attack in her home state just a few months before the mission.

Cern's director of research Sergio Bertolucci welcomed the visitors, saying "it is a clear sign that we'll not find our answers in only one place".

"The fact that AMS is addressing some of the same questions (as the LHC) is in my opinion a nice way in which we see that in this field we cannot get too specialised because probably the answer we're looking for... needs more, different inputs," he told BBC News.

"After all, we're trying to explain this small thing: why the Universe is like it is."

Prof Ting stubbornly refuses to be drawn on what he expects, or even hopes, to find as the team catches up with its glut of data.

Instead he imagines that perhaps we cannot conceive of what is to come.

"Look at particle physics in the last half century," he said.

"In the 60s, the largest accelerators were at Cern and Brookhaven, to study nuclear forces. At Cern, they discovered neutral currents; at Brookhaven they found two kinds of neutrinos, CP violation and the J particle. All three were given Nobel prizes. At Fermilab, the original purpose was to study neutrino physics, what was discovered was the 5th and 6th quarks.

"When you build something new, you ask the best expert what could be discovered, but what you discover with a precision instrument normally has nothing to do with the original purpose."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18928177#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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Are you comfortable in your own skin? - The Louisiana Weekly

16th July 2012 ????? 0 Comments

By Fr. Jerome LeDoux
Contributing Columnist

When Newsweek editor Tina Brown saw the outrageous Time magazine cover of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old, she laughed out loud and shouted, ?Let the games begin!? Therewith, she gave marching orders to her staff that was champing at the bit.

With one-upmanship in mind, the staff cooked up an idea even more preposterous than competitor Time magazine?s cover. In support of gay marriage, their cover features an image of President Obama sporting a brilliant rainbow halo over his head, with the presumptuous headline blaring unashamedly, ?The First Gay President.?

The comparison is made, of course, with Black author Toni Morrison?s satiric reference to President Bill Clinton as ?the first Black President,? because, during the Whitewater investigation, so many treated him as if he were Black. ?After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald?s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.?

Regardless of what others think and say about marriage, are you comfortable in your own skin, shoes, lot, condition, circumstances and cultural/religious beliefs? Does it make a difference to you what various enclaves of people think about marriage?

There is a message for us humans in the monogamous unions of animals such as albatrosses, swans, brolga cranes, anglefish, gibbons monkeys, termites, turtle doves, crows, kookaburras, shingleback skinks, wolf eels, black vultures, bald eagles, golden eagles, condors, sandhill cranes, pigeons, red-tailed hawks, ospreys and prairie voles.

To our embarrassment, some of these animals are more faithful in their mate relationships than many of us humans, even to the extent that black vultures attack individuals that dare to try running around on their partner. Also, the above-mentioned relationships are male to female, although there are rare animal lone homosexual cases.

With even irrational animals being part of the parade, humans ? also known as rational animals ? displayed permanent male-to-female relationships as early as human beings began to farm and herd cattle circa 9000 B.C. Before then, our ancestors were hunters-gatherers with no time or means for anything but tribal group sexual unions.

Even after the advent of farming and herding, millennia passed before any kind of legal documentation was demanded from those couples who decided to form a permanent union. It is safe to say that same-sex unions were not even in the conceptual phase then.

Western society traces some aspects of modern family relationships and customs to ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia where ideas such as the wedding, marriage, and divorce began. Innumerable legal documents from the Sumerian to the Seleucid period show the individual as father, son, brother, or husband. All these relationships started with a proposal, followed by the marriage contract and finally the wedding.

Marriage as we know it has drawn heavily from the Old Testament. Jesus sternly quoted Genesis 2:24 in Matthew 19:4-5, ?Have you not heard that from the beginning the Creator ?made them male and female? and said, ?For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh???

No paragons of virtue, the ancient Greeks and Romans nevertheless held marriage in high esteem, viewing it as a fundamental social institution. The great lawgiver Solon even contemplated making marriage compulsory. Under the guidelines of Pericles in Athens, bachelors were excluded from certain important public positions.

In puzzling contradictions, Sparta encouraged sexual relationships between men, even pederasty?sex with adolescent boys?yet insisted that men marry and produce children. No matter what their sexual orientation, single and childless men were treated with scorn. Clearly, no thought was given to same-sex legal unions, let alone marriage.

Political problems begin when some individuals are determined to modify all the above-referenced aspects of marriage to include the third sex?the gay world?who plead that they should have their equal time in the sun since they were born as they are. That, of course, bleeds over into semantics and reduces this dialogue to an exercise in semantics.

The main driving motives for desiring same-sex marriage are, of course, respect, public acknowledgement and the dignity of not being considered evil or second-rate.

This article was originally published in the July 16, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper

Source: http://www.louisianaweekly.com/are-you-comfortable-in-your-own-skin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-you-comfortable-in-your-own-skin

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Apple's iPod line: A $7.5 billion business that gets no respect - Apple ...

Q3 2012 data points are estimates. iPod touch ests. from Piper Jaffray

FORTUNE -- You might think that after tracking them for nearly a dozen years, the analysts who follow Apple (AAPL)?would have a better handle on the company's?quarterly iPod sales.?But Apple analysts tend to focus on the product lines that are still growing like gangbusters -- chiefly the iPad and the iPhone -- and they offer iPod estimates almost as an afterthought.

That may explain the wide discrepancy in iPod unit sales numbers submitted by our panel of 62 analysts -- 28 from Wall Street and 34 independents. The estimates ranged from a low of 5 million from Janney Capital Market's Bill Choi, to a high of 7.5 million from Bullish Cross' Andy Zaky.

There was no particular pattern to distinguish the pros from the independents. Both groups -- as you can see from the table below the fold -- were all over the lot.

There was, however, something of a consensus. The average estimate among the professionals was 6.38 million units, and the average among the indies was nearly the same: 6.36 million.

Because Apple doesn't break out sales numbers for the original iPods versus the iPod touch (except to say that the touch these days represents more than half of iPod sales), we've relied in the chart above on Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who estimates the split to be approaching 64/36 in favor of the iPod touch.

Below the fold:?The analysts' individual estimates, with the pros in blue and the amateurs in green.?We'll find out who was closest to the mark when Apple reports its earnings a week from today (Tuesday, July 24).

Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/17/apples-ipod-line-a-7-5-billion-business-that-gets-no-respect/

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Airport Express and iPhone Wireless Hotspot

Hi Guys,

I've been searching for days trying to find a definitive answer; is it possible to make an AirPort Express repeat the wifi signal from the iPhones Wireless Hotspot.

My problem is that my iphone is my primary source of internet (Since I have cancelled my broadband connection, as it was actually worse than the internet I get through my iPhone).

I have approximately 8 devices that all require internet at some point, and I have to manually reconfigure most of them when I leave and return with my iphone. If it was possible to connect everything to an AirPort Express then only reconfigure that as required, it would save me my sanity, plus means I have greater control over the security of sharing my internet connection out.

I've seen a youtube video of someone who seems to have done this, but he makes no suggestion on how it was possible; I'm guessing there would be some kind of repeater mode which would take the signal from the iphone and repeat it without any problems.

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1404507&goto=newpost

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OUR VIEW ? Energy plan on hold while power plant decision is unresolved

The Holland City Council and Holland Board of Public Works took their first significant step in implementing the far-reaching Community Energy Plan last week, but the city won?t get far as long as the key question of how the BPW will generate electricity in the future remains up in the air.

The approval Wednesday of a steering committee and six implementation teams marks the most significant step taken on the Community Energy Plan since it was presented by the consulting firm Garforth International in September. Garforth offered an ambitious, innovative and multifaceted plan for increasing energy efficiency in Holland, but it sketched out a general framework rather than a detailed course of action. Major questions about cost and feasibility still must be answered. How much are homeowners willing to pay up front to retrofit their homes for energy conservation, and how much aid could the BPW provide? How willing are institutions such as Hope College, Holland Hospital and the Holland school district to participate in cooperative district heating programs? And what will it all mean for the cost of electricity in Holland?

No one can really answer those questions until teams get together to develop concrete plans with real dollar figures attached. That?s what?s needed to give the community a firm basis on which to judge where we go from here.

These task forces can?t go very far, though, with the future of electric generation in Holland unresolved. The BPW once projected a decision in January 2012 on the expansion or replacement of the DeYoung power plant, but has delayed the choice several times. The utility has asked the state Department of Environmental Quality for an extension on its permit to build a 78-megawatt solid fuel-burning generator while at the same time it awaits the results of two studies, one on the direct cost of new electric-generating options and a second on the broader community impacts of those alternatives. We appreciate the BPW?s willingness to collect solid data and analyze this important decision carefully, but the repeated delays have put the BPW?s credibility at risk. And while the BPW waits for its latest consultant reports, almost every other energy-related decision is on hold. Will power still be generated on the Lake Macatawa waterfront? If not, what does that mean for downtown?s snowmelt system and district heating plans? Will the BPW sink $330 million into a power plant that burns coal and other solid fuels or opt for a natural gas generator at half the cost, freeing money for other uses? Almost every element of the Community Energy Plan depends on a decision on that question.

BPW officials said Wednesday that they have data from their consultant in hand and are starting to analyze it. We hope the BPW expedites that analysis, shares the data with the public and initiates a true community discussion as soon as possible. All our future choices on energy use in Holland depend on making the power generation decision first.

Source: http://www.hollandsentinel.com/opinions/x1871994471/OUR-VIEW-Energy-plan-on-hold-while-power-plant-decision-is-unresolved

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LG selected to develop 60-inch flexible OLED by 2017

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While regular consumers are still wait for the first big screen OLED display to make it to big box stores, Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy has chosen LG to lead the a consortium charged with developing a 60-inch flexible OLED by 2017. Part of the Future Flagship Program, its goal is to generate exports and create jobs by promoting next-generation technologies. The idea is that these flexible displays could be used in windows displaying information say at a bus stations or other public places like a store. So while it appears the focus is currently on commercial applications, we for one have our hopes that we'll one day be able to roll down a giant OLED screen where most might expect the screen for a projector.

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